The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-09-29
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The Mora indemnity fund has beer
transferred from London to New York
through Drexel, Morgan q Co.
The Valley Hotel, Big Stone Sap va.
was burned yesterday, and with 1t thF
banking house Of r. A. Ayres & Co.
The Valhalla sailed from Newport.
r. l., for England yteterday with Lord
Dunrayen On board as the own@r's guest
The plant of the River Spinning Com
pany, Woonsocket, r. l., was partially
destroyed by fire. L'ss, $3.50 600; insug
anoe, $475,000.
The executive committee of the South
ern Educational Association selected H0
Springs over Atlanta as the place Is
hold the next annual meeting, which
will be ia January.
Frank G. Bigelow, of Milwaukee, and
Z iward W. McHenry, of st. Paul, wert
appointed by Judge Jenkins to succeed
Henry @. Payne, Thomas f. Oakes anG
Henry @. Rouse, as receivers of ths
Northern Pacific Railway Company.
The New York Republican State com
mittee organized yesterday, electiDg the
following officers: Chairman, Chas. W.
Hackett; secretary, John S. Kenyon,
chairman of the executive committee
Benjamin B. Odell, Jr.; treasurer, len
T. A. McAlpin. Charles A. Berrian was
elected member at large.
United States Minister DENLY tele.
graphed the State Department from Pc
kin yesterday that as a result of the
French investigation of the Cheng TU
massacre an imperial edict will issue
in few days punlshing the officiat
concerned and degrading Liu, the vic
eroy.
Major Armes, who was arrested ia
Washington upon the orders of Gen
Schofeld, Acting Secretary of War.
| charged with insubordination, waS
brought before Justice Bradley yester-
day, and was released on his persona
recognizance. Major Armes criticised
Gen, Schofeld's conduct.
DR.. Andrew Stewart, young Wash
ington physician, shot and killed negro
| burglar at his residence at 14th and G
streets yesterday morning. There were
three of the marauGers, but two of them
managed to escape while the doctor was
! firing at them with a Winchester rife
The nan brought down was cornered il
he bath room and received two bullets
IN the head.
Theodore Durrant yesterday expressed
his disgust at the witnesses WHO had
testified for the prosecution. 81 wonder
The fate OF Ananias and Sapphira has
not ogertaken some of them" be said,
''It is strange to me that they have not
been struck dead for what they have
said against me on the stand" Durrant
expresses confidence in his ultimate ae-
buittal.
To day Lieutenant General John N.
8cnotield retires FROM active service a
goes on the retired list, after an eventfO5
career in times of war and peace. Fcf
more than seven years he has been in
command of the United States Army,
and since February 8h last he has held
the exalted rank of Lieutenant G Ganeral,
by special act Of Congress. General
Nelson Miles becomes General in Chief
Of the United States ARM.
Col. John @. New, who managed ex
President HarrisoG's campaign for the
nomination for the presidency, aud was
Consul General of the United States at
London during the Harrison administra-
tion, in an interview with the Associated
Press yesterday, said: "Gen. Harrison
does not desire to run for the presidency,
and is in no sense a candidate, and the
stories that he has Withdrawn in the in
terest OF anyone are without foundation
" fat. Were his advice solicited, he
would select neither Mr.. Mckinley noi
Mr.. Reed as the Republican candidate
for President