San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-22
TELEGRAPHIC.
LATE DISPATCHES BRIBFED AND
BOILED DOWN.
General Summary of the Happenings Of
The Day, in Both Foreign and
Domestic Circles.


have caused a sharp fall in the water
at that point.
Cold weather and the solidity of the
ice gorges prevent rise in the upper
Mississippi.
Nashville is largely out of all present
danger and the Cumberland is falling
foot a day.
Rivers in Wisconsin are recedlng,
except the Milwaukee.
River rises two feet at Quincy and
river is out of banks and lowlands
damaged.
Gorges in the Missouri are firm at
Yankton, but the whole northwest is
water bound.
Trains over the western and middle
states are all in bad shape owing to
high water.
All Greece protests against the
blockade Of Crete, and the elements
seem to join in.
Greeks fire on the Turks at Perman-
da and a general engagement is avoid
ed with difficulty.
Crete sits and folds her hands and
wonders what the mischief is coming
next.
The admirals of the combined fleet
wink at the landing of provisions in
Crete.
A secret society has been discover
ed among the Albanian body guard of
the Sultan.
Order issues throughout the German
empire for the wearing Of Williamist
medals by the army.
Italian elections result in favor of
the ministerialists.
The fee bill will be feebly dealt with
this week in the state Legislature.
There are two fee bills before the
House. Waylands bill, which has
passed the Senate, and the Carpenter
bill.
1t will be a hot fight that will pass
the appropriation bills in less than
month.
Bowser gives his reasons for not ia
yoring Oleomargarine legislation. They
are sound.
The attempt to create a secret SER
vice for Texas will be watched with
interest.
Bowser delivers himself on trusts
and thinks that the fight must be in
the states.
Gov. Leedy, of Kansas, is in Texas
and spent the Sunday in Galveston.
Convict Guard Milburn murdered at
Luling by Frank Houston, negro.
Greencastle people refuse the ashes
of Jackson a place in the cemetery
there.
Dave Adkins shoots Tom Harding
at KnickerbOcker, and escapes. 1t was
a cold blooded murder.
Bill Jacobs, wanted at Pearsall, for
murder, has been brought back by the
sheriff.
B. Rainwater, Missouri farmer, kills
his family, wife, mother-in-law and
brother-in-law and stepson and then
finishes himself.
Gonzales negro kills his wife and
mutilates her body.
w. H. Stitson, travelling man, held
up at Deep Water, near Houston, and
robbed of $1,000.
John Biddulph Martin, husband of
VivtOria Clafiin Woodruff, Is dead.
Families in submerged lands in
Michigan and Iowa are moving to
higher attitudes.
Heavy hailstorm, breaking windows
and doing other damage reported at
Palestine.
Trial of the gun boat Wilmington
postponed on account of bad weather.
River at Omaha is reported at regu-
lar flow and ice running freely.
Fires causing heavy damage in bus
mess section of Ottumwa, Iowa, and
Peoria, ILL.,, are reported.
Tariff debate in the National House
of Representatives opens today.
Anglo-American treaty will be con-
Sidered in Senate this week.
Cleveland finishes his duck hunt and
reports to his wife at Princeton.
Weyler is suffering with an ulcerat-
ed sore throat and is out of the field
at present.
Investigation into the causes of DR..
Ruiz death are soon to commence.
Bradley, of Kentucky, will resign
his office as governor with the end of
the special session.
Locomotive boiler eXplodes killing
engineer and fireman, near Engle-
wood, Ill. Train was under Roadway
at the time, but no cars left the track.
Z. s. Minister Terrell has an inter
view with the Sultan.
Railwey wharf of the Mexican Cen
trail burned at Tampico.