The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-01-08
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FDREIGN-Deau Il. Mason. Vice
Consul General of the United States
at Vienna is dead.-Not believed that
Havana will be attacked though the
number of insurgents about the city
is being increased.-Popular feeling
against DR.. jameson for his Transvaal
campaign runs high in London.-A
war correspondent imprisoned by the
Beers as a spy.-Germany refuses to
recognize Great Britain's suzerainty
over Transvaal.-Fight near Havana
Sir Julian Golsmid, the Hebrew phil
anthropist, dies in London.-Mrs. Cor
nelia Seibeles, of Brookhaven, Miss,
who was found wandering in the
streets of London in demented con-
tiition, has recovered sufficiently to
talk nationally and wants to return to
the United States.-Sentimen in Mex
leo fayoring the reelection of Presi-
dent Diaz growing.
DOMESTIC-The Treasury yester-
day lost So, 1853, 900 in gold bars and
81, ,0s6, 900 in gold coin.-The Battieship
Indiana makes her III maidenvoyage, from
League Island to Newport. --Padan,
Bros, dS Co., manufacturers of ladies'
shoes at Portsmouth, Ohio, have as
igned.-Three white tramps killed by
a freight train plunging through an
open draw.-Good demand for the
new issue of bonds.-Five people in
iured at st. Louis by an electric car
running into carriage.-Destructive
prairie fires raging in kansas.-Ihe
schooner Billow runs ashore at Ducks
island mad is burned.-Mayor Strong
opposes the excise law in his annual
message to the New York Aldermen
A bill in the Virginia Legislature to
put the State Library under control
of Ave trustees. Also bills to create
railroad and fish commissions.-Nice
President Stevenson expected to at
tend the annual banquet of Young
Mems Democratic Association at Phil
adeiphia tonight. Attorney General
Harmon and Secretary Smith will also
be present-Thomas Thompson, a
clerk, burned to death in his store at
Charlottesville, Na.--The British tank
steamer, Wildfower, believed to have
gone down with thirty men on Decem-
Der 14.-New York Excise Board in
creases fee for hotel, saloon and store
keepers licenses s per cent.-Albert
DeffendorfeT, son of a wealthy mer-
chant in Pennsylvania, attends a
PRAYER netting in California and con-
fesses that he is a fugitive from justice
under sentence for burglary Mrs.
Davidson tells the story of her life and
DR.. Browns intimacy with Miss Over
man at the preliminary trial in San
Francisco.-S00 stone cutters out on a
strike in Chicago. The trouble is over
planning machines.-Kentucky Ieg1s-
lature organized by Republicans elect
ing officers in the House and Demo
crats in the Senate.--Mississipp Leg
isIature onyened.-Louisiana Popu-
lists hold State convention to-day to
consider fusion with Republicans
Three men hurt by falling building
at Winterset, @.
CONGRESS- Short session Of the
House.-Utah's representative sworn
in.-The new rules to be discussed in
the House Senator Vest makes
one of his characteristic speeches in
the Senatc.--Senator Chandler pro-
poses q popular loan through postal
savings banks Serious charge against
the New York World. Meeting of the
three Elections committees.--Th
Revenue bill discussed in caucus of
6cpuUi1cdH ioiJDoSi
i'll and financial legislation discussed
at cabinet meeting.
yTATE.-A dark crime unearthed in
Caldwell county. An unfaithful wife
poisons her husband and marrics her
paramour who had poisoned his wife.
Monroe responds TO the appeal for
help from the Cumnock sufferers
Great preparations at Newbern for
the next Fish, Game and Oyster Fair.
Representative Settle has introduced
bills to establish military post near
Raleigh and erect a public building at
Durham City mining prop
erty purchased by North Carolina
and Michigan syndicate.-The Liberty
bell to stop at Charlotte and Green's
boro on it's return TO Philadelphia
A man frozen to death near Newton
Senator Pritchard to introduce a bill
restoring the Mckinley duty on GER
tain articles.-Part of the business
portion of Wake Forest destroyed by
fire.-Trial of the Bonner murderers
at Washington, ". c.