The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-17
WAITS FROM THE WIRES.
Some of the Days Events Set Forth
in short Stories

- 1hoEA etOrleA.
London. March ls-The American loan
opened to-day al per cent. premium.
Columbia S. c. March I6.-AIayor W.
day.
cairo March l6.-slatin Bey. whose es-
cape from Ondurnan was recently .report-
ed, has arrived safely at Assouan.
Devine, Tex, March 16.-Ten buildings
In the business portion Of this town was
burned yesterday. The loss is $4,000.
Columbia. S. G. March ia special
from hlngstree says that it is rumored
tnat the hingstree dispensary is $500 short
City Of Mexico. March l6-Nothing Is
known here about the reported arrest in
Mexico Of defaulting State Sreasurer Tay-
Tor Of South Dakota.
Cleveland. o.. March 16-The entire
Cleveland Base Ball Club left for At
lanta, Ga, to-day. The players have all
signed contracts and are in first-class
physical condition.
Washington March 1.-THE contract
Tor the interior finish of the public build
ing at Charleston. S c.. was today
awarded TO L. L. Leach & Son OF Chi
cago, ILL.,, at SEQ 1856.
San Francisco, March I6.-Judge Slack
this morning decided to allow the execu-
tors of the estate of ex-senator Fair TO
ME certified copy of the will in place
OF the lost document.
Boston. March 16.-John L. Sullivan
says he has decided to challenge the
winner of the Steve O'Donnell-Kilrain
match Monday night. He declines, how
ever, to box in Boston.
Panama, March 1.-the Star and Her
aid learns from Buena Ventura to-day
that the government troops under Gen
Mateus have defeated the rebel forces,
5000 strong, near Soatao.
Indianapolis. Ind, March 16-Ex-Presi-
dent Harrison has so far recovered as
to be able to sit up. His improvement has
been steady ever since his daughter and
his grandchildren arrived at his house.
London. March ia dispatch to the
Times, from Madrid says that Admiral
Beranger and most of the other naval
experts are strongly inclined to the opin-
ion that the cruiser Relna Regente has
not been lost.
Pittsburg. Pa. March 1.-THE oliver
Coke and Furnace Company to-day no
titled their employees of a general ad-
vance in wages amounting to about Is
per cent. The action affects several
thousand men.
London, March 16.-Lord Kimberley,
minister Of foreign affairs, has refused to
receive a deputation which called upon
him TO enlist his sympathy with move
ment to inquire into the treatment of
prisoners in Turkish jails.
Mobile, Ala. March 16-The schooner
Jennie 3. Woods, which went ashore on
Sand Island Thursday night in a fog has
bilged and is fun Of water and SAND.
She was being stripped to-day and will
probably prove a total loss.
Dover, Del. March 16.-There was no
change in the contest for United States
fp-dax IA fob Ra1
lot was taken as noon and resulted: Hig-
gins, rep, s; Addicks, rep, s. Massey,
rep, 4; Wolcott, dem. 6; Tunnel, dem,
3. Absent 5.
New York. March 1.-THE Georgia
Railroad Company reports for February
gross earnings of $S9,05G a decrease of
S35, 924, and net $12,356, a decrease of S2s-
265; and from July 1 to Feb % gross
1891, 1888, a decrease of s66, 295. and net $685.
AIS, a decrease of Sill, 737.
Richmond. Va. March 16.-George B.
Terry, charged with being implicated with
Brunley Taylor in utterlng forged court
orders of the commonwealth, was before
the Hastings court this morning on a writ
of habeas corpus. and was admitted to
bail in the sum of $1,000
New York. March 16.-District Attor-
ney Fellows this afternoon. when seen
about the decision in the Wiman case,
case to the court of appeals. Mr.. Wiman
is now at liberty. he having furnished
bail in the sum of $4,000
Lynchburg. Va. March 16.-Walker c.
Hammer, the defaulting teller of the First
National Bank of this city, who embez-
zled $4,000 Of the funds of the bank, plead
ed guilty in the United States district
court this morning and was sentenced to
confinement in the Albany penitentiary
for seven years.
Haverill, Mass. March 16-J H. Win
chen & Co., in whose factory trouble has
existed since the opening of the big strike
notified their 200 employees last night that
after this week wages in every depart
ment would be increased per cent. per
case. This increase will make this firm
pay the highest wages of any local shoe
manufacturers.
Berlin. March 16.-The council of state
to-day adopted the resolution of the sill
yer advocates indorsing Chancellor Ho-
henlohe's monetary statement in the
Reichstag, and Immediately afterward re-
jected the proposal of a gold advocate that
the guarantee of the present currency
continue unaltered 1t is learned that
France has informed Germany of her will
lingness to cooperate in settling the cur
rency question.
New York. March 16.-The failure of l.
B. Newcombe was announced on the
stock exchange this morning shortly after
10 o'clock. He was admitted to member
ship in May. 1869.
Mr.. Newcombe says: MY failure is
the result of the dry rot which has pre-
vailed in the market and the inability of
people who owe me money to make good
their accounts. l have no outstanding
liabilities on the stock exchange.
Injunction Suit of the SeabOard.