The Charlotte Democrat., 1897-03-18

HT6slU6uG mCAlnl0Y UO HcF lips, she
kissed it. President Mckinley said
nothing, but smiled.
By means of contesting seats OF
Senators the silver men hope to pre-
vent the organization of the Ken
lucky Legislature.
Tramps attacked train On the
Seaboard Air Line road near Kilby,
Va, and Conductor J. c. Judkins
was shot in the arm and Walter
Blackwell, tramp, mortally wound
ed.
A Havana dispatch says: "In the
month of May Spain's sinews of war
will be exhausted, and the Spanish
Government confronted by two
threatening revolutions at home
one by the Carlists and the other by
the Republicans-will be obliged to
give up the struggle in in Cuba,
abandoning the island to the insur-
gents"
General Arolas, of Captain Gen
eral Weyler's army in Cuba, is en-
gagged to marry Miss Eliza Tobin, an
American lady.
A French force under white Off
GERS has occupied the town of
Boussa, in British territory, on the
west coast of Africa, and the British
Niger Company threatens to repel
the invasion by force.
Senator Harris, of Tennessee, who
has been dangerously i'll, expects to
90 South next week, and will prob
ably remain there during the extra
session of Congress.
President Mckinley will first
make an effort to promote inter-
national bimetallism through our
diplomatic representatives abroad.
| The Southern States Freight AS
sociation, the one organization in the
South which controls the railroads
passing through the territory south
of the Potomac and east of the Mis-
sissippi, is on the eve of reorganiza-
ton.
Eleven people, including Metho-
dist minister, sitting up with the re-
mains Of Joshua 0. Kelly promi-
merit planter and nurseryman, who
died from poisoning Monday at Jeff,
Ala, become violently i'll and show
ed symptoms of poisoning. This
makes twenty-one who have been
poisoned by one dose of arsenic.
The international convention OF
the Young Mems Christian Associa'
ton of North America will be held
in Mobile April 21st to 25th.
A spool cotton thread trust has
been formed embracing the New
England Thread Company, the
, Rudy Thread Company, the Will
,, limantic Linen Company, the War
: ren Thread Company, the Williaml
; Clark Company, the Barstow Thread
Company, Alexander King & Co,
: the E. j. Morse Thread Company
the Hadley Thread Company, Gardi
ner Hall, Jr., 4 Co., the Nationa
Thread Company, the Kerr Thread
Company, the Summit Thread Com
pany and the Merrick Threat Com
pany. eeThls is to fight the rival trus
= = of J. & P Coats Company.
= Dispatches from Rio de JaneiI'
l says the outbreak in Bahia, Brazil
J. is becoming more serious.
! 1t is reported in Havana that Sec
- retary Sherman requested Lee t.
i continue as consul-general. Th
l correspondent Of the Associated
Press at Havana says no such mes
y sage has been received by Genera
Lee.
> The Revolutionary movements il
" Brazil and Uruguay appear to b
gaining in strength. Martial lay
{ has been declared in Bahia, Brazil.
- The beleaguered Turks at Cada
IL mo, in the Island of Crete, hav
been rescued with difficulty by force
a from the foreign warships.
6 Queen Victoria, accompanied b
: Princess Beatrice, has gone to Cimiez
}. near Nice, France.
II Chassagne, a Partisan inventor
y has devised process for photo
e graphing in colors.
: The Washington correspondent Q
le the New York Sun says: "Signs c
'e unrest were manifested today owe
d the delay in making appointment
: and in the consideration of the hui
3 dreds of applications brought ,
:, Washington from Canton. Son
l. few murmurs of discomfort wei
heard, but tuese came mainly frol
re the small fry who can always /
! looked upon to growl when the p'
D. litical pap bowl is not prompt
Is handed to them -
a A vicious bull dog was turne
N loose by tough upon Policema
ps Erickson, in Chicago, Ill, and tt
officer was terribly mangled.
90 President Harper, of the Chicag
at University, has issued an order pr
If hibiting girl students from prae
ticing fencing.
as James Thomas, under arrest f,
IN robbing a church in st. Louis, Nc
re was married to Miss Alice Blum
Of and then returned to his cell.
It. The refined sugar markets ha
to been more active within a day
ce two, and prices have advanced. II
Od stimulus to demand has come fro
IS the talk of higher duties.
he The Cuban insurgents attacke
e. the important town of Guines,
on the province of Havana, burnir
twenty-five houses, ransacking 6
de the stores, and taking $4,000 fro
IL the municipal safe. Bejucal, anoth
go important town of this province, b
ne also been attacked by the Cuban
on and with equal success. Two trail
n have been blown up with dynami
ge by the insurgents at Facotaco al
ds on the Santa Clara line. In bo