The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-01-07
Sparks

1 Sparks
| Charles II. Byrne. who was prs%sssis.rst
| of the Brooklyn Base Ball Ciuh. died
| at his residence in that city Tsies,iay-
! DIR. Robert l.. Dab,ney. one or tsrc
most prominent educators OF the south.
| died at his home in KnoxvilL., Tenn.
| Tuesday.
The senate confirms the nomifalTtm
Of Hezeksah y. Gudge~. OF North Car
| olina, to be United States consul -s,srt-
| eral at Panama, Colombia
| Congressman Groesvenor, OF OhSn,
| who arrived in Washington Westns s-
| day expressed the opinion that Senator
| Hanna would be re-el2cuyd.
| The case of North Carolina against
| James w. Wilson, state railrJai cum
| missioner, was docketed in the Unite-d
| States supreme court Tuesday.
| The British steamer kanDwha. Cap
| tain Maxwell, which sailed from I,oal-
| don December cath for Newport News.
| has returned with machinery disoIder-
ed
| Three men were killed at the Avon
| dale (Fa-) mine Of the Delaware, Lack
| awanna and Western Coal CJmpany
| Wednesday by terrific explosion of
| gas.
! The steamer Vigilanc "a arrives at
| New York from Havana with 1.SoO
| bags. 594, 90 pounds, of sugar. THIS .s
| the first shipment of sugar from Crla
| in many months.
| Senator Butler, OF North Carolina.
| introduces a resolution in the ssnatc.
| providing for THE election OF United
| States senators by direct vote cf the
| people.
! Orrin H. Lumbert. former presAiant
| of the Syracuse On. W In lustriai Ben
! eft Association, is sentenced to three
| years and seven months in AUFyuTn
| prison for grand larceny.
The cane fields beronging to Simon
Milan, at the colony OF Pafenque, near
| Guines, province OF Havana. have
| been burned. 1t is believed the fire
| was of incendiary origin.
| Governor Tyler. of Virginia, has re
spited for ninety days John jackson,
of Bristol who was sentenced To Ire
hanged at Abingdon ON Saturday for
the murder of Waiter =. Leonard
Representative Overstrcet. Of Lndi-
ana, viii introduce the currency re
| form bill of the indianapolis Tmpne
| taTy commission and IT Will be refer
| red to the committee on banking and
| currency.
/
rived at Hong Kong and the British
cruiser Grafton has sailed northward.
| The bulk of the Briti-l fleet Is report
| ed to be at Chusan, near Nfng-Po.
The announcements is made that Hon
| IgnatiuS Donnelly will, II six weeks
| marry Miss Marian Hansen, who iraf,
been a stenographer in the office of hrs
| newspaper. He is sc and she 20 years
| old
The death of Louis Ranger. a prou6-
nent member of the New York cotton
exchange, was announced Wednesday.
| He was also a member OF the coffee.
| produce and corn exchange. He war,
| 60 years old.
Argument on the application for a
| certificate OF reasonable doubt OF TIRE
| legality of the conviction OF Actor I'd
ward j. Radcliffe for wife beatfng WAS
/ on again Wednesday before Justice
| DiclHey, in the supreme court. BroOk-
lyn.
| Mrs. Julia Le.ard. white woman.
was murdered by a Seminole Insiian
| Wednesday evening, four angies east ~
Maud, Oklahoma territory. THE Grim.
was committed in the presence OF csse
wmans children The Indian es-
capped.
! | Attorneys for f. J. Ratclfffe's wife
receive a cablegTam from their LON
don representative, stating that ne Was
/ mailing to them an official cnE,y Of
| the marriage certificate of Edward y.
, | Ratclffe TO Caroline RavenShft, On
: | August 19, 1883.
At san Francisco, in tire United
| States circuit court "Wednesday. Jufrzxs
! Morrow and De Haven denied Dur
| rants application for a writ Of hahexA<.
| corpus and also refused 10 grant his
, | attorneys leave to appeal from tfrfz
, | decision.
: Reports received from the weasasex
r | bureau officials in Florida fnsftute
that uhe freeze OF January End ard
3rd, 1893, while doing considerable
damage. did not approach in severity
or destructiveness the freezes in ra,k
winter of 1894 and 1895.
James B. Kellogg. reputed fosndez
| OF the defunct E. s. Dean Company
has SURRENDERED himself TO tire New
: | York police and is held I'm 81, 900 tsai
. for examination on the charge OF ''con-
spiracy to dafrald."
AT Mt Carmel. Pa, the commerchl
completely Destroyed by fire eaE1y
n Tuesday morning and the thirty -sever
: guests in the house barely escaped Win
D | their lives.
o The executive committee OF I'm
:. League OF American Wheelmen 1sas de-
. | cided to accept the Invitation 0f o.
: clubs in that state to hold tl,e axuu
J meet at Indianapolis.