San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-08
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King of Corea proclaims himself
emperor.
Cotton gin on the San Gabriel, north
of RockdaIe, burned. Loss $4,000.
John Mcnamara Iibels the steamer
springwell at Galveston for $4,000
damages. Broken leg and injured
spine.
Fleet of six vessels expected within
a few days at San Francisco from
Alaska.
Miss Cisneros saws her way out Of
prison in Havana.
Washington is disappointed that the
Spanish cortes is not Immediately
convened.
Weyler reports the capture of large
stores of insurgent ammunition.
WOodford's note was not an ulti-
matum, only asked when Cuba would
be pacified so says Madrid.
Spains reply to Washington will be
rather pert, so it is said.
Spanish cabinet is unanimously of
opinion that barbarism in Cuba must
cease.
Sagasta favors the dissolution of the
cortes and the recall of Weyler.
August trade balances were in our
favor.
All is quiet among the Choctaws and
the progressive party is on top.
That sealing conference is a little
indefinite on account of British backing
down.
Improved commercial relations with
Spain under Sagasta ministry are ex-
pected.
Cabinet of Uruguay completely re-
organized as the result of the revo-
luton.
Yellow Fever Expert Guiteras says
yellow fever germs are not transmit
ted in the mails.
Not a trace of a yellow fever germ
so far detected by the expert investi-
cation at Galveston.
Texas r. r. c. issues orders as to
agricultural implements in less than
car load lots.
Debs is in New York, but promises
to keep out of it's politics.
Archie McMillin, who was to have
been hung at Conroe today goes to the
pen for life instead.
Emmett Gibson, the most foremost
bogus check and hotel swindler in the
country, is arrested in New York.
Luetgert trial proceeds. Defense
witnesses impeached.
Three prominent North Carolina citi-
zens in the tolls for fraudulent bank
ing.
Sheriff of New York doses the prls-
oners to make them confess.
Rockford, Ill, man shoots his wife
and her parents, because the wife had
gone home under their instegation.
Union county bank of Kentucky rob-
bed of $1,000 at dinner time.
Queen Victoria is sorry that the
American republic is not more stable.
Wolcott will not get his answer from
Salisbury for another fortnight.
President Crespo. of Venezuela, is
very i'll.
About 100000 has been collected
for the India sufferers In Great Britain.
Fifteen people killed in Kansas City
by the falling of a platform.
The tonnage of the American mer-
chant fleet is larger than for several
years.
J. b. Wells is still meditating over
that offered judgeship, down on the
Rio Grande.
The cotton worm knocks out all pros.
pect of a top crop around Waco.
All the south is suffering from a Sc.
we're drouth.
Marsh and forest fires in Wisconsin
and Michigan have exhausted thu
farmers fighting them.
Fires in forest and prairie in Indiana
are sweeping everything in some sec
tiOns.
Tennessee is complaining of a droutl
that is drying up the river at Chatta
noOga.
Congress Of Southern Commercial
clubs is in session in Nashville.
Jimmy Michael, paced, wheels
mile at Philadelphia in 1876.
Yellow fever situation shows i'm
provement and there is a better feel
ing.
Mack Stewart, who shot a pOlicema
in Chihuahua is sentenced to be sho
1t was a cold blooded murder.
That Baptist conference that TEMPT
did not want goes to Waco.
Northern cotton mills complain tina
the southern mills rob them of the
profits.
ccR0FuLA in its worst for