San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-05
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
LATEST OFF THE WIRES FROM
OVER THE WORLD.
A Complete EpitOme Of the Days Happen
ings, Briefsd and Boiled Down, up
to Time Of Going to Press.


eral in Eastern Ohio.
Railroads want time extended in
which air brakes are to be supplied.
a Civilian board will aid the naval
board in examining armOr plates.
Congress is in session today.
Debate over Pacific railroad refund
ing bill will be long and acrimiuous.
Chapman, broker, in Jail, who refuS-
ed to answer questions in sugar trust
Investigations, applies for habeaS cor
pus.
Francis reVerseS the ruling as to
humesteaders, made by Hoke Smith,
as to Oklahoma entries from Indian
Territory.
Cullom, of committee on foreign res
olutionS, thinks the Cuban resolu-
tons might be defeated by delay
EX-Chief Kirkhoffer, of the bureau
of accounts at Washington, is indicted
for $4,000 shortage.
The negroes on 2,214 acres of LAM
in Houston county will be dispOssess-
ed by force. Titles not good.
1t will be several months before r.
wing returns to the stage.
Emmett Rifles escort negro from
Beaumont to WOOdville for trial. to
save him from lynching.
Dallas merchants charge the COrsi-
cana house of 4. & n. Kahn with
| swindling.
William Hansen. bound over at Gal
weston to await investigation into
| cause of Martins death.
Train wreckerS suspects jailed at
| Birmingham confess to plot to wreck
Il g.,
Testimony in the Lady Scott libel
case is favorable to the earl.
Zulus are again on the war path
and are repulsed with heavy loss.
Six days bike race for women opens
| in Cleveland.
Trolley cars collide in Kansas City,
and five persons hurt, none fatally.
Fred. McNichols fills the uneNpired
term of Tax Collector Workman, dead.
at Galveston.
Olney orders Consul General Lee to
visit Delgado.
Havana reports Senator Sherman
as an expected visitor at that port.
Money, of Mississippi, reached Ha-
| vana and disappeared, on a still hunt,
| returns and is silent.
Madrid papers, prosecuted by the
| government, withdraw their cores
pOndents from Cuba.
SegaSta and CanovaS oppose cOali-
/ ton ministry to settle the cuban
1 question.
| Harry Delgado will die if n Surgi-
/ cal operation is not performed.
Prof. De Boon, Frenchman, arrested
| in Cuba, jailed and released after
| four DAYS without explanation.
All United States consulS i'll Cuba
| will report to Gen. Lee.
Defeat of rebels in PHILIPPINE Islands
| with GO dead, reported.
K The Germania National of st. PAU,
| Mimi, fails and two others close their
l doors.
Heavy withdrawal Of deposits caus-
| ed the st. Paul bank failure. 225,OOO
going out in nine days. Bank Will
resume.
Bank failures reported in Mason
City. Iowa, and in Devils Lake, N.
d.
Land slide in province Of Modena,
Italy, renders hundreds homeless;
1S2 buildings collapsing.
Gen. Jose Aguirre, reported dead by
Weyler. whips n column Of Spanish
troops.
Bryan prophesies a continuance of
hard times.
Delaware hard money Democrats
defeat silver caucus in the legislature.
Senator Perkins of California. is In
the race for reelection against the
| field.
Caucus tonight will probably settle
| the nnamaker-Penrose contest for
| United States senator from Pennsyl-
| vania.
| Tobacco men before the ways and
| means committee are not decided.
Congressman Robinson returned
| from Cuba says no news Is reliable;
| Cubans have no political rights.
Fearful storm has swept the north
western states and all trains are of
| time.
Rivers in Arkansas and Missouri
| threaten damage.
Bob Fitzsimmons signs for the Cor
| bett fight. Jim is jubilant.
Duffy, the Boston pugilist is dead;
| due to cerebral hemorrhage caused by
| a blow.
| Bryan will lecture in Texas sure,
| so he says.
Claus Spreckles' daughter is secret
| " married to an Englishman at San
l Francisco.