San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-07
TELEGkAPHIC.
LATE DISPATCHES BRIBFED AND
BILLED DOWN.
General Summary OF the Happenings Of
The Day, in SSth Foreign and
Domestic Circles

oedl SO1ltulSslOneT fOSleT TtluTuS,
but declines to discuss his trip.
Montgomery, Ala, has a smallpox
epidemic with $50 cases on hand.
Forest fires are devastating Perry
county, Ark.
Salisbury will make his bimetallist
reply in October.
Patrick Draker, of Lewisdale. S. c.,
shoots his wife and her paramour.
Annual school of instruction for the
A. F. & A. NJ in the territory is in ses-
sion. 4
Mrs. Ochs, insane, saturates her
clothes with kerosene and burns her
self to death at Texarkana.
An old Lamar county Populist dies
as he tells his bretheren ''in the mid
die of the road
A decline of about Is cents an ounce
in silver bullion is seriously felt in
Colorado.
The silver in an American dollar is
now worth 43% cents.
Ontario and Daily silver mines in
Utah close down on account of the low
price of silver.
Woman in Tennessee shoots her hus-
band who threatens her life in case
she got the warrant she had applied
for.
Congressman Bailey declines to say
whether he will run for the U. S. Sem
ate or not.
More fool canards are afioat as to
Texas federal appointments. None re-
liable.
New York Republicans will not NOM
mate for Greater New York officers
| until September 2Sth.
Williamson county Pops are holding
camp meeting near Georgetown.
Bailey will take the stump in Hol-
mans old Indiana district against the
Populist nominee.
Mills is talking to the old settlers
this year, he will talk politics next
year.
Light and tickle winds render the
New York yacht races uncertain and
uninteresting.
Michigan miners are watching a
| Jail in which a murderer and rapist are
| confined.
Half nude body of an unknown man
found in the Trinity at Dallas.
Negro hung in Barbour county, Ala,
within a few hours of his attempted
outrage of his boss daughter.
Man lynched near Brush Creek, KY,
for raping a deaf mute.
| Wall street bears make Intellectual
effect to force down the market.
Two houses blown down at Sherman
and several negroes hurt.
Queens speech is read in Commons.
She reports the empire peaceful.
| Southern dentists reorganize at the
Newport News meeting.
The strike in the Atlanta cotton mill
reported yesterday is still on.
| International tennis tournament
| opens at Nicaragua on the 24th.
| Another detachment of 100 mounted
| Canadian police sent to Klondike.
Russia will prohibit the expectation
of wheat until the harvest is deter
mined. 1t looks bad.
England SCOTS at the claim of France
to the New Foundland treaty shore.
| New Thesslian boundary gives the
| Turks immense advantage. Greece is
at her mercy.
France is discussing tariffs that can
be made injurious to the United States.
| One of Andree's pigeons is said to
have been captured at Austro-Hun-
gary. ',~p-:
Russia Is in gala dress to receive the
| Emperor and Empress of Germany.
Trouble is breaking out between
Turkey and Persia.
Britannia wines the Cowes cup
| against Aurora.
West Virginia miners ask so cents
short ton or will jump their jobs.
Joliet rolling mill men give one days
pay, over $1,000 to the strikers.
Eighteen hundred cars of wheat are
on side tracks in Kansas.
Sherman returns to Washington.
Has no intention of resigning his, post.
Bradstreet reports a heavy increase
of trade from distribution centres.
Failures for July were less than eight
million. the smallest record since 1892.
1892