The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-01-09
YHE NEWS THIS MORNING.

HDREIGk--A movement on loot IN
London to bring about establishment
.of q permanent board of arbitration
DR.. Jameson narrowly escaped being
alot by enraged Boers.-Emperor
William sends a letter to the Gar of
Russia bearing on the Transvaal trou-
bIs.-Gen. Campos will probably be
succeeded in Cuba by Gen. Polavieja
OF Gen. Weyler.-The insurgents re-
poyoed routed in q battle near Havana
with heavy loss.-The greatest excite
meHt still prevails in Venezuela over
the position of the United States on
the boundary questionable Trans
yaai government demands the banish-
meHt of Cecil Rhodes, ex-Premier of
Cape Colony and DR.. Jameson.--Paui
Verlaine, the poet, is dead.-About GOO
poIitical arrests have been made in
Venezuela, and it is believed that the
rebels are being furnished with Brit
ish gold.
DOMESTIC-Th Secretary of the
Navy recommends the building of at
least l. new torpedo boats.-Former
master at West Williamsfield, Ohio,
a prominent Republican, has been
arrested and put in Jail for putting up
the sign "post~office' in front of his
store after he had been turned out of
postmaster at West Williamsheld, Ohio,
office.-The gold reserve reduced TO
S57,sls, ,042.-The Fayette Bank at Toll
edo, Ohio. entered by burglars and
robbed of 81, 7,750.-Senator Hale's Elec-
ton Bill approved by the anti-Demo-
Gratis in the Virginia legislature Bat
tleship Oregon soon to be ready for
sea.-No formal bids for the new issue
of bonds have vet been received
James Leggett, Canada's best known
boot, shoe and rubber jubber assigns.
Liabilities $50, ,000.-Two of the fa-
NOUS postoffice thieves who escaped
Ludlow jail on July 4, arrested in New
York.--Cruiser Minneapolis sent 70
Smyrna.--Annual Banquet of Busi-
ness Mems Democratic Association of
New York. Secretary Herbert speaks
o finances Day" celebrat-
ed at Philadelphia. Secretary Hoke
Smith speaks.-Louisiana Populist
State convention meets and organizes.
Indication are that they will not fuse
with publicans.-Meeting of South
ern States Passenger Association at
st. Louis.-Eigenbroi Brewing Compa-
nv, of Baltimore. burned out.-Inhu
man treatment of Georgia conyicts to
he thoroughly investigated Feb. 10 by
Gov Atkinson.-Morrgage Bondhold-
ers in Philadelphia and Reading rail-
road obtain an injunction against re-
organization.-A white man named
Hathorn and negro named Thomp-
son publicly hanged at Augusta, Miss,
for murder of Hathorn's wife.-An old
kentucky farmer robbed of S4,S15 by
three men, Abill providing for re-or-
Qanization of Norfolk and Western
railroad introduced in Virginia legis-
Iature.-Annual meeting in New York
of Society of War of 1912. Rev. Morgan
Dix reelected president. John
r.. Towns, of Nevada, seriously i'll IN
San Francisco.-Hon. Lloyd Lowndes
inaugurated as Governor of Maryland.
Oklahoma Statehood convention
opened and the prospects for q merry
war are good.-A 100000 fire on
Broadway New York.-Another street
car strike in Philadelphia threatened.
OEGRESS-Senator Wolcott, of
Col. sworn in.--Butler offers two a.
mendments to the Bond bill substi-
tute.--A bill favorably reported in the
Senate for increasing number of men
in the Nayy.-House Committees on
Claims and Commerce organized by
eleetlng w. ID. Williams, OF PennsyI-
vania, and J. III. Kelford, of Iowa, res
pectiyely, clerks.-A resolution intro
sluced in the House providing for the
annexation of Hawaiian Islands.--Re-
publican Senatorial caucus decides TO
recommend the passage of the House
Revenue Bill-Anti-silyer Senators be-
lievc they will be able to defeat the
free-coinage substitute to the bond
bill.-House Ways and Means commit
tee investigating the present system
of appraising imports with view 10
amending the present tariff law
First meeting of the Foreign ReIa-
tions Committee. The Venezuelan,
Cuban and Armenian questions to be
discussed at special meeting Saturday
Free seed distribution by Congress
men discussed by the Agricultural
Committee. Secretary Morton will be
heard on the question.