The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-01-17
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN Election returns III
Winnepeg show a complete victory for
Greenway supporters.--An official ca
blegram from Madrid says General
Gomez has been defeated and the In
surgents under him disbanded.
DONESTIC.-A thousand coal min
ers strike in Ohio because one was dis
charged.-The Irish-American bank at
Minneapolis uspends.-Perllins and
Welsh, sugar importers, of New York,
fail, with liabilities of half million
Benedict Paper Company of Kansas
City assigns Liabilities. Offs
Kahn, Schoenbrun & Company, whole
sale clothiers, Chicago, fail with heavy
.-Seidenberg, Steifel d Com
pany, cigar makers, New York, assign.
The Senatorial deadlock in the
MARYLAND legislature continues.-One
man killed and another seriously hurt
in a railroad wreck at Steubensville,
Ohio.-Gen. Edward Il. Fowler, audi
tor of the Commercial Company,
Brooklyn, dead.-Eleyen Italian coun-
terfeiters arrested in New York.--A
man in prison in New York kills
himself by turning on the gas.-School
ship Saratoga leaves Philadelphia on
her mid-winter cruise with Is young
tars on board.-Reporter Boykin
apologies in the Virginia legislature
for his fight with Representative
Diggs.-Now almost certain that the
Venezuelan dispute will not be settled
by the Commission, but will be arbi-
trated by third party.-The National
Committee of the Peoples Party meet
at ST. Louis to-day to decide where and
when the National Convention will be
held.-The administration exerting
itself to make the popular loan a sue
cess. A circular letter from Comp
troller Eckels-The trial of Rosa
Smith, charged with poisoning her
husband with croton oil, begun at
Charlottesville, Na.-The w. &. I. Y.
choose San Francisco as place of meet
ing of next National Convention, 0c-
tober, 1S96.--Giilam, the cartoonist,
dying at najoharie, Il. I.--Republi-
can Editorial Association of New York
adopt resolutions endorsing Governor
Morton for President Confirmation
of Gen. Coppinger as Brigadier Gen
eral of the United States Army is being
fought by the A. +. A.-The Democrat
ic National Committee choose Chicago
as the place and July as the time for
meeting of next National Convention.
A non-partisan silver conference at
Lansing, Marriage at Norfolk
of Mr.. Henry Watkins Seabury to Miss
Martha Prince Arnold.-The Central
Labor Union challenges Chief Arthur,
of the Engineers Brotherhood to meet
Debs i'm debate. Bill Doolin, the noto-
rious train robber and outlaw, cap
tured at Oklahoma
CONGRESS continues his
speech on the financial question: For
eign questions receive considerable at
tention in the Senate.-General discus
sion of the pension bill closed in the
House. The vote to be taken to-day
Mr.. Grow and Mr.. Bartlett arise to
questions of personal priyilege.-Mr.
Skinner introduces bill to reduce sal
aries of public officers 50 1-3 per cent
First meeting and organization Of
House Coinage Committee.-The Conn
mittee on Agriculture reports back a
resointion directing the purchase and
free distribution of seed by the Secre-
targ of Agriculture.
STATE Much comment in Durham
over the action OF the grand jury in
not finding n true bill against Il. II.
Martin and a. A. Latta, charged with
arson-Death of Mr.. ". j.. Franklin,
one of Winston's leading merchants
Fourth day of the Bonner murder
trial.--A Raleigh wholesale liquor
dealer skips, owing several thousand
dollars.--An attempt 10 assassinate
Secretary Parker, of Cumberland Cot
ton Mills, by shooting him through
the window.--close of the Grand Lodge
which has been in session at Raleigh.
-Fire at Greenyiile destroys records
Of Memorial Baptist Church.