San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-02
TELEGRAPHIC.
LATE DISPATCHES BRIEPED AND
BOILED DOWN.
General Summary of the Happenings Of
The Day, in Both Foreign and
Domestic Circles.

The Powers are considering the
blockade of the Gulf of Athens.
Greece will declare war against
Turkey if the Gulf of Athens is block
AIDED.
Vassos is victualled for three
months, but the Cretaus are starving.
Irish members in Commons cheer
the announcement that the Turks had
fired on a flag of truce. 49,
Italians returned from Athens to
Rome declare Greece has no intention
of fighting Turkey. .-
VaSsos offers to surrender Turkish
officers and soldiers if they are taken
out of Crete
Greek sailing vessels carrying pro-
visions to the starving Cretans cap
tured by the British.
Ramsay has his sentence shortened
to four months from January 18th.
Sugars are advanced by the trusts,
for the third time in a week.
Red river in North Dakota is BOOM
ing two feet above danger line.
The deadlock in the Kentucky Leg
lSldluIe COuIluueS, anu is llhely W ldSl
this week out.
Hunter will only withdraw from the
caucus when a majority request him
to do so.
Walker. livestock dealer of Gamer
on. arrested for forgery of $500.
Fight with officers and outlaws re-
ported without particulars from Ard
more.
President again refuses to interfere
in the cases of the New Mexico muir
derers.
Escaped convict from Arkansas
shot by the sheriff of Wharton cOun,
ty resisting arrest.
Philadelphia warship ordered to
Honolulu. Trouble reported with the
japanese there.
There will be sliding scale rates
adopted by the railroads to the Nash
vile centennial.
New York Chamber of Commerce
demonstrates the high tariff sched-
ules of Dingley bill.
Danger above Memphis is leSSened
and Arkansas is under water.
Helena is not out of danger and
Vicksburg is in greater danger than
ever.
Heavy rains threaten the rise of the
river in spite of the breaks.
Heavy rains demOralize St Louis
traffic and the town is waterlogged.
The Iron Mountain road is the only
one running trains into Memphis from
the west.
st. Louis is growing uneasy over the
rising of the river.
All along the river front and the
railroads in the valleys the tension
is terrible. Levees are being
strengthened and railroad tracks rails
ed.
Rivers in North and South Dakota
and in Tennessee are rising.
Weyler reports glorious victories"
in Havana province.
Spanish steamer chases the Bermu-
da, but cannot catch her.
Consul General Lees family have
sailed for New York
There is no disposition in any quar-
ter to inaugurate rate war.
First National bank of Comanche,
Tex, fails.
Fire at Cambridge Springs. Pa,
causes loss of one life and 100000.
Rear Admiral Russell, of the U. S.
navy, retired. dies at Washington.
Many members of the House of
Representatives call on Mckinley.
President will dine the members of
the Ways and Means committee to-
night.
Deaths at Chandler Overstated. On
~ fourteen known to have lost their,
lives. =.
Freight train on the Central Georgia
runs into a washOut and falls so feet.
Brakeman killed.
Kansas business men join in asking
Congress for strong reciprocity trade
agreements.
Mexican Congress is in session and
settles down to work.