San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-13
TELEGRAPHIC.
LATE DISPATCHES BRIEFED AND
BOILED DOWN.
General Summary of the Happenings of
The Day, in Both Foreign and
Domestic Circles.

Science association.
Harold, 15-year-old son of Division
Superintendent of the KS. c. p. Il c. |
r. r. murdered by Mexicans near his
fathers ranch in bona Anna county, !
n. Nj.
Imported hides from China cause
sudden death to those who handle
them in Pennsylvania tannery.
Hon. Pope Brown elected president
of the Georgia State Agricultural So
ciety.
Confidence is expressed in Wash
ington of a sweeping Republican vic
tory in Ohio this fall.
Virginia Democrats finish nominat-
ing their ticket and adjourn.
No truth in the establishment of a
line between Boston and Galveston
as reported.
Receiver Of the Union Pacific is or
dered by the court TO repair W. U.
telegraph along the road.
Shelan, eX-treaSurer OF the railway
trainmen is arrested for shortage.
Chinese calender will be remodelied
to suit the United States system.
Japan is dismantlng the old forts in
Wei Hal Wei and converting them
into gardens.
Bryan is in Idaho.
Mayfeld withdraws from the sena-
torial contest in South Cagolina in IA
vOr of McLaurin.
Governor Evans and McLaurin are
| very bitter against each other. The
lie is out between them.
Insurgents hang Spanish spy.
The Dauntless is not guarded by a
United States officer on board as wired
yesterday.
Spain issues orders allowing Amer
| lean merchants to move their tobacco
| in Cuba.
Five waterspOuts are seen out in
Lake Erie by the citizens of Cleve-
| land.
Judge Gray of Dallas refuses man
| damus compelling the city judge to
recognize the county attorney as reg
ular prosecutor before the municipal
court
Hanna's yacht is slightly damaged
by running on a rock in Lake Super
Tor, but not seriously.
| John Schneider caught in a gin at
\ Lexington and fatally injured.
Courts shut down on the miners in
Pennsylvania and forbid their turn
ing to induce De Armitt's men to quit
| work.
Miners at Corinth, w. va, are in an
ugly mood and threaten the life of
their superintendent.
All miners in Ine Panhandle district
of West Virginia are on the strike.
Illinois strikers are marching from
| mine 10 mine with the American flag
] flying.
| The strikers all over the mining dis
tricts are under great excitement.
Canovas' widow objects to her hus-
| bands remains being exposed to pub
lie gaze.
Canovas' will gives 5000 volumes to
the National library, many of them
rare works,
Ten Eyck, who won the diamond
SOULS at Henly will not row today on
the Schuylkili. He is out of condi-.
ton.
| Hoyt of Massachusetts, compare
lively unknown, distances all the
cracks at the Wilkesbarre bike races.
Good rains are reported in the Llano
country, just as stock water was get
ting scarce.
Heavy cloudburst in Schenectady, n.
Y, does much damage.
| Galveston asks the railway commits
sion to abolish the differential, as the
| the late cut on cotton by the Southern
Pacific cuts that city off.
There was not in Dallas a coffin
large enough to hold the body of Miss
May Zou, recently deceased and a case
was ordered from New Orleans.
Austria and Bulgaria are at outs
and diplomatic intercourse partially
suspended.
Ecuador is on the eve of another at
tempt to overthrow the government. /.
British press continue to defame
| Secretary Sherman.