San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-07
TELEGRAPHIC.
LATE DISPATCHES BRIEFED AND
BOILED DOWN.
General Summary of the Happenings of
The Day, in Both Foreign and
Domestic Circles.

tant General Mabry.
McFadden Bros. cotton brokers, es-
tablished headquarters in Houston.
Consulate at New Laredo is to be
moved to Monterey.
Secretary of war will oppose no work
done at Sabine Pass that is up the riv-
er beyond the government line.
Annual meeting of the board of for
eign missions M. E. church, South,
held at Nashville.
Wisconsin forests are ablaze and
much damage is being done.
Forest fires are raging in the noun
tains in Eastern Kentucky.
Chipley leads Call one ballot in the
Florida legislative election.
There is no perceptible change in
Senator Coke's condition.
Transvaal state attorney resigns, be-
cause his caustic reply to Chamberlain
is rejected.
All Paris theatres. are closed tomor-
row out of respect to the victims of
the late fire.
Lord Salisbury makes a speech be-
fore the Primrose club on the Eastern
question.
Queen is congratulated by the Prim-
rose league on her long reign and the
peace in her dominion.
The Transvaal immigration law is
repealed by it's Legislature as a sop to
England.
Disorder reigns in the lower Austrian
assembly over a motion to impeach
the ministers.
The reserves in Natal are ordered out
to patrol the border and report suspic-
ious movements.
Brazilian Congress opens, the presi-
dent asks the reorganization of the
army.
The triple alliance is renewed for
six years, Germany persuading Italy
not to withdraw.
Spaniards capture four lighters that
had Just landed munitions of war in
Mosquito river.
The German officers in Turkish COM
mand are loud in praising the Turkish
troops.
Austria and Germany join the other
powers in proposing mediation between
Greece and Turkey.
Greeks at Pharsalia are obliged to
retreat before Turkish advance, large
ly outnumbered.
Italian arrested at Athens for in
flaming the Dopulace against the
king.
Edhem Pasha wires the Porte that
the Turks have won a great victory.
The retreat of the Greeks follows the
division OF their forces by Edhem
Pasha.
The Greeks fought stubbornly at
Pharsalia but were driven back by the
largely superior forces.
Athens is in despair at the evacua-
ton of Pharsalia and the retreat of
the armg.
Another road from Chicago to the
Gulf of Mexico via Kansas City is pro-
jected.
National municipal league continues
session at Louisville.
Christian Endeavorers continue their
meeting at Houston.
Andrew Foster, aged Il, dies of blood
poisoning at Dallas, from thorn in the
foot.
Chicago records it's first case of sun
stroke. mercury so.
There is an airship on exhibition at
Nashville that sails against the wind.
Editorial staff of a paper in the City
of Mexico, Ell Continente Americana,
arrested for insulting Spain.
National Turnerbund opens in st.
Louis with a large attendance.
Two Mexicans jailed at Alice for kill
ling yearling belonging to ]. NJ. Gar
cha.
Jim Williamson. the third of the
Crocker murderers, on trial at Whar-
ton, condemned to hang.
c. H. Springer who shot the negro
hired to kill him at Dallas, is released
by order of Judge Clint.
Lee Shirley, for the killing of Charles
Morehead two years ago gets % years
at Houston.
Tampa, Fla, is selected for holding
the next session of the Grain and
Trade congress, which has just closed
sessions at Kansas City.
Mrs. Stoddard, of Dallas, is reelected
president of the Texas w. T. c. U.
Two small sons of Bud Holden at
Llano seriously MANNED by the explo-
sion of a dynamite cap.
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