The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-09-06
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San Francisco is guarding against the
threatened invasion of cholera from ia
pan and Honolulu.
Mrs. Frances E. Hackley, of New
York, gave $4,000 to the Young Mems
Christian Association of Scranton, Pa.
There is now a probability that the
three light draft gun boats, which are
being constructed at Newport News, will
not be launched until some time in Octo-
Der.
Abraham Baer, of Cambridge, was
arrested at Cumberland, Md, charged
with the murder Of Louis Sindler, VINO
mysteriously disappeared about six
weeks ago.
Rev. Robert Fulton, S. j., died of
apoplexy at Santa Clara College, Gal,
yesterday, aged seventy years. The de-
ceased was a distinguished member of
the Jesuit order.
What are believed to be the charred
remains OF FIVE human beings were
found in the rui1s of barn, near Nor
ristown, Pa, which was destroyed by
fire night before last.
At York, Pa, VIM. Beavers on, shot
and instantly killed his wife and fired
bullet into his own head, dying few
moments later. He was heavy drinker
and accused his wife of infdelity.
The first candidates to pass all exami
nations, mental and physical, and be
admitted at Annapolis as naval cadets,
are: .. @. Block, Kentucky; O B. Hatch,
Jr., Illinois, and f, M. Osterhout, at
large.
At the session of the National Associ-
alton Of Letter Carriers, in Philadelphia,
the tenure of Office bill was brought up
for discussion, and the legislative com
mittee was urged to do their utmost for
the passage of the bill.
At Ashland, Va, Judge William
Josiah Leake, was married to Mrs. / S.
Beirne, widow of the late Richard F.
Beirne, for many years editor of the
Richmond Evening State, and the hero
of the famous Elan Beirne duel
George Lavigne, known as the "Sagi-
nav Kid, and Young Critic have ar
Der 25th, before the Empire Athletic
Club of Long Island, which will offer a
purse of 5000 They are to box twenty
rounds at 1913 pounds.
A dispatch has been received at the
State Department from D. Lynch Prin-
gle, charge p affaires at Guatemala,
announcing the discharge by the au.
thorities of Robert J. Breckenridge and
G. c. Golf, both citizens of the United
States, arrested on suspicion of being
implicated in the murder of P. 0. D.
Brooks.
San Francisco's Chinatown is in tur-
MOL The Chinese Six Companies,
which, for so mqry years, have con-
tr0lled mate a the Cllcse quarters,
no longer WJlk in baTmyaY aud will
probably never again be united. The
quarrel has Spread all over the country
among Chinese frcIn there to New York.
Fred " job, the Hawaiian Corsul in
Chic 90, is very much worked up over
the discovery Of what 1e thinks Is a wen
organized regiment Of fiitusters, who
are oLly waiting the word to go to
Hawaii fol- the purpose of fomenting
another uprising which shall have for its
purpose the Ie establishment Of Queen
Liluokalani or the throne.
The idea Of attempting TO dock the
battieship Indiana in the United States,
preliminary to her speed trial, has been
abal doned and Mr. Cramp is now about
to arrange for docking the snip at Hall
fax. 1t is a matter of regret to the
Navy Department that this, the first of
our big battleships, must be sent away
from the United States to be put into
shape for service, but in viewof the con-
dition of our docks there is no help
for it.
A member of the firm of Hornblower,
Byrne and Taylor was seen by an Asso-
ciated Press reporter regarding the state
ment made in Chicago dispatch that
the reported sale to Kuhn. Loeb & Co.,
of New York, of 500, 900 of city of Chi
cago warrants had fallen through. He
said 1.-THE sale of the warrants in
question is off, as Messrs. Kuhn, Loeb &
Co, who had made the purchase subject
to conditions, were advised by counsel
that the city of Chicago had no authority
in law to issue time warrants"
Twenty of the biggest manufacturers
of plug and fine cut tobacco in the Uni
ted States decided at a conference in
New York, that they would go into the
business of making cigarettes. Mr..
Drummord said: 81 wish you would
make it plain that this is no fight against
the American Tobacco Company, who
are in the business Of making cigarettes
and making good money at it too. We
make no fight with the trust. They are
making money and we expect to make
money in the same field "