The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-09
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

| Madrid, April San official denial has
| been issued of the report that Il revolt
| against the Spanish government had
| broken out in the island of Porto Rico.
City of Mexico, April S.-A number of
tobacco plantations at Mesa tlanta, State
! of Veracruz, have been invaded by a des-
tructive insect which has devoured the
! crop.
Athens, April S.-The royal yacht
| Sphakterin has sailed for Volo with the
chief of the Red Gross Society. A
squadron of iron-clads has left Skinthos
| for OreO, and Euboea.
Washington, April S.-Secretary Long
| to-day christened torpedo boat No. ,,
now building at the Union Iron works,
| The Foote,' to perpetuate the memory
of one of the fighting naval commanders
| of the civil war.
Havana, April S-General Ruiz Rivera
| still remains at San Cristobal. He is re-
| covering from his wounds. In the event
of a summary trial it is not likely that he
| will be sentenced but he will be held as
| a prisoner of war.
Annapolis. Nd, April S.-The Court of
| Appeals to-day rendered a decision which
| practically abolishes the school board APP
pointed by Mayor Hooper, of Baltimore,
and re-instates the members of the board
| who were removed by the Mayor.
London, April S.-The Earl of Kim
| berly, leader of the liberal party in the
| House of Lords, speaking at a liberal
| banquet this evening in London, urged
the withdrawal of the Turkish troops as
| the first step in the pacitication of Crete.
| Washington, April S.-The Z. S. Dean
| brokerage concern, whose suspension of
| operations at New York and elsewhere
| already has gained general notice. has
| been formally barred from the mails by
| fraud orders just issued by the Postmas-
| ter General.
Canea. April S--Turkish Gendarmes
entered the house of the Greek Consul at
| Halepa and seized several rifles and am
munition which had been left there by
| the villagers 1t is alleged that the sub
| governor of the island sent the Gendar-
mes to earch the house.
| Rome, April S.-The Italian Senate
to-day approved a reply to the speech
from the throne, expressing the hopes that
| the government would succeed in main
| tanning its present accord with the other
powers and would insure peace by rem
dering justice to the people of Greece and
| Crete.
| Philadelphia, Pa, April S.-John Rob
inson, alias VIM. Buckner, Of Pocomoke
| City, Virginia, who was arrested in this
| city last night, ON suspicion of having
shot and killed Lewis Moore during a
fight January 13, last at POcomoke, has
been held to await the arrival of requisi-
ton papers from the Governor of Vir-
ginia.
Cape Town, April S.-A dispatch from
Vryburg, says that in an encounter with
the Bechuanaland insurgents on Tues
day near Thurman, the Cape volunteers
lost five men killed and had six men
wounded. A later dispatch from Nry-
burg says that the volunteers have cap
tured and burned the insurgents strong
hold at Gamssepe. Lieut.. Harris was
among the killed.
Canton, Ohio, April S.-Tyndale Pal
mer, was yesterday given a verdict by a
jury in the court of common pleas for
$3.50 in libel suit against the Evening
Repository The suit is one of the last OF
the many similar ones brought by Palmer
against papers using a press dispatch in
regard to a land deal. The petition asked
for $4,000. President Mckinley is one
of the stockholders of the paper.
London, April S.-A dispatch to the
Times from Cape Town says that ad-
vices received there from Delagoa Bay
announce that the country bordering on
and across the Limpopo river, forming
for many miles the northwest and north
ern limit of the Transyaal, is in open
revolt. 1t is added that the situation is
serious. Troops are leaving for Delasoa
Bay by the steamer Carnarvon. A fur
ther rising is expected in Maputaland.