The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-02
WAITS FROM THE WIRES.
Some of the Days Events Set Forth
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New York, May 1-Gen. John Newton,
president of the Panama railroad, died
to-day.
London. May 1.-The queen arrived at
windsor this forenoon. She is in excel
lent health.
Washington, May LII. Z. Quillan was
to-day appointed postmaster at Arp,
Banks county, Georgia, vice w. S. Mize.
Paris May 1.-The strike of the match
workers in the government factories has
collapsed and the men will return to work
forthwith.
frog says half of the town of Dubno. in
the government of Nolhynia, has been
destroyed by fire.
London, May 1.-Llewelyn Malcon
Wynne, the absconding head of the bank
rupt firm of Wynne & Son, solicitors, has
been arrested at Capetown.
Albany. N. Y, May 1.-The Gray racing
bill has been defeated in the Senate on
final passage by a vote of IL yeas to noes,
seventeen votes being necessary to pass
the bill.
Madrid. May 1.-The Imparcials Havana
correspondent says: 'SThe Spanish troops
have defeated the insurgent force led by
Maceo killing thirty and wounding many
more"
Berlin, May lit is stated that the
members OF the Reichs party in the
Reichstag decided yesterday to vote
against the anti-reVolution bill, as draft
ed by the committee.
Knoxville. Tenn. May AIRS. billiard
Graham, wife of a well-known merchant
at Pennington Lee county, Va, com
mitted suicide this morning by drowning.
Ill health was the cause.
Dover. Del, May 1.-The one ballot
taken to-day for United States senator
resulted: Higgins, rep, s; Addicks, rep,
s. Massey, rep, 6; Penniwell, rep, l.;
Ridgley, dem. 3; Tunnel. dem, l.
Knoxville, Tenn, May 1.-The Appa-
lachian Bank at Big Stone Gap, va, has
closed its doors. II was organized five
years ago with $4,000 capital. 1t is stated
that all claims VIII be paid in full
ST. Petersburg, May LIN consequence
of the attitude of England in Asia, the
government has decided, by the cars
command, to extend the trans-Caspian
railway from Samarkand to Marghilan, In
Asiatic Russia
New York, May 1-Mayor Strong may
appoint his new police commissioners any
day. Col. f. d. Grant, Andrew y. Parker
and Theodore Roosevelt are going into the
police board. John Monks will be a new
dock commissioner.
Charlotte. N. c.. May 1.-The man ar
rested here yesterday answering to the
description of Shaner, the murderer of
James T. Wallace, at Danville Va, turned
| out to be Gus Say of Gastonia, n. c., and
he was to-day released.
New York. May 1.-Austin E. Ford was
to-day appointed fire commissioner by
Mayor Strong, to succeed s. Rowland
Robbins. Edwin Einstein, the lately APP
| pointed dock commissioner, was reap
pointed by the mayor to-day.
Paris, May 1.-The Autorite SAYS seven
teen soldiers have died in the hospital at
Wire from the effects of eating tainted
firm, and that thirty-four others are Sc
riously i'll from the same cause.
Stockholm. May 1.-The upper chamber
of the Rigsdag to-day decided to give
notice of the termination of the COM
mercial treaty between Norway and
| Sweden. The lower chamber passed a
resolution to modify the treaty.
| partment has contracted with the North
| German Lloyds and Hamburg American
| Steamship Companies for the construction
| of ten ocean liners, which shall become
armed auxiliary cruisers in the event of
war.
! Lynchburg, Va, May l.-J. r. Clark.
aged l5, prominent tobacconist of this
about $3.50 O'clock. Mr.. Clark was on the
| street this morning apparently in good
health. Heart trouble was the cause of
death. q
Knoxville Tenn, May 1.-The miners
/ and opera tors of the Jellico district have
been in session since Monday discussing
! the wage schedule for next year. They
have practically reached an agreement
| and the old scale will be adopted with only
/ few slight changes.
/ Cleveland. May chairman J. T. Mi
4 chener of the democratic central commit
! tee of Stark county, and a prominent at
| torney of Canton, was bound over to the
October term of the federal court to-day
| by Commissioner Williams on the charge
| of counterfeitng. Bail was fixed at 1900.
Melbourne, Aus, May 1.-The labor dele
! gates uniting with the opposition in the
! legislative assembly have carried by a
majority of five bill to abolish the sys-
| TEN of plural voting in municipal cleo
| tions. The government opposed the bill
but will not resign because of their de-
feat.
London, May William Saunders. NJ. P.
Tor the Walworth division of New
ington, died at $50 o'clock this morning
Mr.. Saunders was born in 1923. He pursued
the professional of journalist many years
and was the founder of the Western Morn
ing News and Eastern Morning News and