San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-04
TELEGRAPHIC.
LATE DISPATCHES BRIBFED AND
BOILED DOWN.
General Summary of the Happenings Of
The Day, in Both Foreign and
Domestic Circles.

Highwaymen beat and rob a section
hand near Clay station, Brennan coun-
ty
Two residences in Decatur burned;
loss $4,000.
Mercury rises to 1913 at Mobile, Ala.
Young men of Paris are organizing
a company to go to Klondike, with a
pot of $4,000.
Reagan joins the innumerable cara
van of Texans who move on the u. S.
Senate.
Jester is judiciously nursing his boom
for governor.
An American protectorate over Ha-
wall is likely to be announced at any
time.
Dental associations of the United
States are seeking a formal union.
Cotton growers association in Calves
ton adjourns, only four states repre-
scented.
Large numbers of Dearmitt's men
join the strikers.
Strikers are growing more hopeful
and think they will win if order is
preserved
Tilden mine at Bessemer, Mich, clos
es, no sales of ore. .
Sultan orders part of his fleet to
Crete. Trouble will follow.
Japan is in deep water financially,
her treasury empty, living too fast.
Irrigation amendment to the consti-
tuition lost. Amendment authorizing
bonds to railways lost. Amendment
validating school bonds In doubt.
Governors Guard are rendered
magnificent reception at Austin.
Affairs are very grave in Portugal
and the country is on the eve of re-
volt.
Maher and Sharkey deposit $1,000 of
the $40, 900 forfeit for their big fight.
Minister Terrell returns to his home
in Austin. Says nothing, but that he
is out of politics.
Dallas county assessments are $685.
S51 below last years values.
Cattle in Roberts county are quaran-
tined until October.
Travellers Insurance company, Hart
ford, bars travel to Klondike on its
policies. Risk too great.
CleveIand's order, barring Mexican
veterans of the revenue marine SER
vice who served in the U. S. navy from
pensions on the ground that they were
in civil service, is rescinded.
There is a heavy decrease in the
quantity of goods held in the bonded
warehouses.
Anti-Toxine for lockjaw successfully
applied at the emergency hospital,
Washington.
Calf skins are hides and must pay
full duty, so says the treasury de-
partment.
| Powderly is sworn in as commission
| er of immigration.
Stenographers day at Nashville ex-
position is well attended by the
scratchers.
Consul General Crittehden and Vice
Consul Shaefer of Vera Cruz leave
Mexico for home.
Tennessee votes tomorrow on the
proposition of a constitutional conven-
ton for that state.
OF the four prisoners who escaped
from the Carrizo Jail, three escaped in
to Mexico and one was shot.
Jay Owens is given life sentence
at Georgetown for outraging his
daughter, aged IL.
A bunch of steers brought into Arr
iona from Mexico pay s1,29S duty more
than under the Wilson bill.
The Dauntless is being closely
watched, as she is suspected of having
another job on hand.
Louisville continues hot and scores
of prostrations are recorded.
Tramps in Nebraska are SELLING
trains and terrorizing small towns.
Philadelphia G. A. r. invite Pickett's
division of Confeds to visit them.
A private citizen of Honolulu lays
claim to Palmyra island, seized by
the British. r-
Body of a fioater found in the Quad
alupe near New Braunfels, Suicide
probably.