San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-19
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
LATEST OFF THE WIRES FROM
OVER THE WORLD.
A Complete EpitOme of the Days Happen
ings, Briefed and Boiled Down, up
to Time of Going to Press.

Claim agent Of the Arkansas Cotton
Belt road jailed at st. Louis, charged
with $4,000 fraud.
Greece continues to claim all OF
Crete, but her flags are lowered on the
island.
The Greek commander of the forces
in Crete is occupying strategic points
and terrifying.
Great Britain vetOes the PROPOSE
ton to blockade the port Of Athens.
Austrian irOnclad and torpedo boats
have left for Crete.
King George, of Greece, is to take
command in person of the army pre-
ferring death in battle to exile.
Fighting continues and reports Of
both Mussulsmans and Christians
killed are received.
Greece refuses 10 withdraw her
forces so long as Canea is not tran
gull.
Scores of vessels visit the Texas
battleship, thronged with sight-seers.
Gov. CulbersOn and staff reach Gal
weston on special train.
Transportation association at Chi
cagO asks eQualized rates for shippers.
Lieut.. JudsOn, of the Galveston en-
gineer corps, is transferred to Will
let's Point, n. Y.
Congressman Bailey, of Texas, is
out for the nomination of the Demo
cratic caucus as speaker.
kVln * ra-plpctn1 Snnatnp from
South Dakota after long and stub
born fight.
Texas Grant calls on Hanna about
Inauguration matters, so he says.
International association of ticket
agents hold session in San Antonio
March 10th.
POstottice issues special order as to
mail destined for Mexico.
Gen. Gomez is again between Wey-
Ter and Havana.
Reported assassination of traitor DIR.
Zertucha is denied.
Six persons murdered on a ranch in
North Dakota, near WinOna. Indians
are suspected.
Harris trial as a tilibuster continue
at Philadelphia.
Groom on his bridal trip taken for
a revenue officer at Paducah, KY. by
the mOOnshiners, captured with his
wife and only rescued after a deter
mined fight by the citizens.
Annual banquet of the Charleston
chamber of commerce is splendid
affair, at which Secretary Herbert, Of
the navy, responds to a toast.
Landsman Creelman, of the Steamer
Maine, is presented with the govern
ment gold metal for gallant services
in attempting the rescue Of sailors in
a storm.
Anaconda, Montana, has a jail de-
livery, hold up and two murders in
one day.
Kyle says that he was elected to
the Senate to humiliate Pettigrew.
COlOred boy killed in a pugilistic eX-
hibitiOn in Cincinnati and all concern
ed arrested.
Report circulated that Corbett had
been bitten on the hand by a dog is
not true.
Barnes and Malone are matched at
Dallas for a three night pool game.
That New York committee is still
compelling the agent Of the rubber
trust 10 stretch truth.
President Diaz will welcome the ed
itOrs in person TO his capital.
Cubans in Mexico will celebrate
the second anniversary of the break
ing out of the war.
Galveston editors take run 10 the
jetties in a Mallory steamer.
Secretary of the Navy Herbert is at
Charleston with party.
Sam HOuStOn'S son will nrpSpnt A
souvenir to the battleship Texas,
silver cup made out of the coins paid
Houston as pension.
Transvaafs claims against Great
Britain are II ,G11 1888.
The horror in India grows rather
than diminishes. In whole provinces
One-third of the population is receiv-
ing relief.
Spain is threatened with a Carlist
rising in the Basque provinces and in
Catalonia.
-ChicOra Pa Herald" Richard