The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-12-31
7~xLEGRArnlC SUMMARY
THE STATE

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The convention OF the State Associa-
ton OF Academies adjourned yesterday:
various committees were appointed and
the old officers were re-elected.-The
State Association OF City Schools. In ses-
sion in Greensboro. adjourned yesterday.
The new railway commission met yes
terday. DR.. Abbott sitting with the 9TH
ers: fifteen small cases as to over
charges were disposed Of, the application
Of the Western Union Telegraph Compa-
ny for time to file a reply In its case vas
denied; the commission adopts a resolu-
ton giving al railroads notice that the
law as to free passes will be strictly en-
forced: annual passes sent the commits
sioners by one road In the state were
ordered returned by the clerk.
DOMESTIC.
At Brunswick. Ga. yesterday the Mer-
chants and Traders bank closed its doors
and the agent of the Southern Express
Company skipped out with $4,000 of the
company's funds-Detectives are hunt
ing for Henry Oliver Goldsmith. a Wall
street man who is indicted for larceny
for appropriating checks: his swindiings
amount to about 500. GA deputation
of klondike miners who viii visit Otta-
wa, say there is no danger OF starvation
at Dawson this winter.-Brady posts
$500 to bind a fight between Corbett and
Fitzsimmons and Dan Stuart will go
west TO get the two men TO sign arti-
cles: he thinks he can succeed: he also
wants 10 get up a fight between Mccoy
and Choynski-Articles are signed for
ice skating races between Arthur Chase
and Earle Reynoids-The remaining as
sets of the Mavrick bank at Boston are
/ sold at auction. they were notes. etc,
amounting to $1.o@5 $40 and brought $40.
Indications are against a strike at
Fall River-During 1897 there were built
in the United States 1855 miles of rail-
roads.-A British syndicate secures con-
troll Of the Trinidad Asphalt Company.
| -Corbett writes a challenge to Fftz-
simmons.-A man in New York calls
a policeman to take his body to the
morgue, then shoots himself through the
brain.-The city of Cleveland, Ohio.
millions of dollars worth OF real estate
along the lake front.-Fourteen OF the
most prominent contractors OF the United
states Sta 81 go ,s to Mica Sieara g to view the sur,
whether or not to form a company to bid
on the contract.-The rapid movements
in the far east are the absorbing topic in
diplomatic circles in Washington City:
there is M further talk of the United
States as a factor in the contest among
European nations over China: Chinese.
Japanese and German diplomats in the
city express their views on the situa-
ton and generally agree that the gravity
of the situation has been exaggerated.
FOREIGN.
The officials of the Cuban autonomist
| government will take office on January
1st.-At Port au Prince, Hayti, fire on
Tuesday night destroyed 500 houses. rem
dering 5000 people homeless; yesterday
a severe earthquake shock was felt
There is a fresh outbreak of the plague
in 1ndia.-The embargo on expectation
of tobacco from Havana is to be rails
ed.-The Argentine chamber Of deputies
rejects the governments bill for an in.
crease of duty on American yellow pine.
The Brazilian government will re-
move the discriminating exactions
against American shipowners which will
cause our resumption of our flour trade
with that country.-England makes re-
QUESTION On the Canadian Pacific Rail,
way Company for three steamers
France seizes one Of ,China's islands.