San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-06
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LATE DISPATCHES BRIEFBD AND
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General Summary of the Happenings Of
The Day, in Both Foreign and
Domestic Circles.

over 100000 pay admission to the
Nashville exposition. have been regis
| tered
The Atlanta mill withdraws the ne
gro women employed and the white
women resume work ~
| Bishop Potter returns home. Was
not asked to arbitrate the strike.
Tennessee defeats the proposition to
call constitutional convention.
Henry Rucker, the new Atlanta coll
| lector, colored, takes possession of the
| office.
Railroad commission furnishes the
| attorney general with 1853 cases of rail-
| way violation of law.
Monument to Kirby Smith unveiled
| at Suwanee university.
Construction of railway from Pan
| handle City to Llano is commenced.
American arrested in Germany for
resisting the police is liberated and
| leaves the country.
Yellow fever suspect caught off the
| coast of Florida.
7. P. Converse is appointed post
The suspected burglar in the Kings
ton, N. Y, Jail, turns out to be a crazy
| divinity student.
Japan wants Belgium to acs as ar
bitrator between her and Hawaii.
Chinese labor win be excluded from
Hawaii and negroes employed instead.
Weyler reports victory over the in
surgents.
Kentucky does not come into the
Chicago distillers' agreement.
Huntsville, Ark, is looking for a
| lynching bee with Norman Sweetin
and ]. f. Spradling as the principals.
Jesse Perryman hanged for rape in
Missippi, committed in May.
Seven men killed by an explosion at
an elevator fire in Chicago. Three
| were firemen.
Letter mail once a month will be es-
| tablished to the Klondike.
Populists abandon their plans for a
camp in Milan county three days of
| this month.
Indiana Democrats meet next month
| to nominate a state ticket.
Abundant rains fall all over North
Texas.
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| held the chair of classic philology.
Mexican exchange at the national
capital goes to 1872.
1t will be some time yet before any
thing definite as to bimetallist con-
| ference will be known.
Provisions in Mexico are going way
up on account of the declined in sill
yer.
The strike does not seem to make the
| progress in West Virginia, but Goa
| production is cut.
| Indiana miners in large numbers are
| joining the strikers.
Coal men in Cleveland are getting
| alarmed over the outlook, as stocks
are running low.
Reading iron works resume work al
the figures proposed by the company
Preacher near Washington, Ind,
shoots a little child, firing into a crowd
| of toughs who came to egg HIM
One Union Pacific engine makes a
run of 995 miles in "a consecutive
hours.
Small cyclone tears it's way through
Bastrop county, but no one is hurt.
Private citizens capture a young
rapist near Washington who had elud-
ed the police week.
Lloyd Williams of Dallas, badly hurt
| in the L. A. w. meet at Lawrence, KS.
England does not join the movement
| to exclude the Turkish fleet from
Crete.
Three commissioners will be appoint
| ed by the Powers to supervise Greek
finances.
Cretans are now ready for autonomy
and so notify the Powers.
Turkey says her fleet was not going
| to Crete, but elsewhere.
British government denies that 1900
rioters were killed in the Indian riot
| near Calcutta.
Turkey wants money and is ready
to hurry up the settlement with Greece.
Hungary would join a commercial
alliance with Europe against the Unit
ed States.
The late floods in Russia drowned
3S persons at one bridge collapse at
Kerlet.
Roumahia is being importuned to
join the Servia-Bulgaria alliance.
All three of the amendments to the
state constitution have been lost.
Reunion of the veterans of the 18th
Texas cavalry is being held at Den
ton.
The L. A. w. meet in Philadelphia
draws over 1900 wheelmen there.