The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-27
TELEGRAPHIC FLASHES.

Manzanillo will be evacuated by Octo-
ber Z.
Ii is said that Lillian Langtry is CONF
ing to California to live.
General Sir Herbert Kitchener has
| been elevated to the peerage.
MatanZas will be the first post at which
relief supplies will be landed.
Fannie Davenport, the actress, died
at Danbury, Mass, last night
Even among the immune regiments at
Santiago much sickness is reported.
/ The Spanish authorities have conceded
that the Comal may land her relief sup
plies in Cuba free of duty.
j General Wheeler left Camp Wikoff
for good yesterday. He wil soon start
/ for Huntsville to take charge of the
cavalry.
1t is stated the Spanish Peace Com
mission has started for Paris and will
arrive there about the time our own com
mission does.
A special to the London Globe from
HOng-Kong says that France has promia-
ed to recognize the Filipino Republic.
This will probably be denied Tomorrow.
Yesterday the official eXhumation of
the remains of Columbus took place in
the cathedral of Havana. The monu-
mcnt and moUsoeum will be taken to
Spain
The Navy Department has decided to
send the cruiser Buffalo, now at New
York, to the Pacific station. She will
probably go to Honolulu, and if needed
to reinforce Dcwey's fleet, can receive
her orders ut that place by a dispatch
boat
There is extreme distress among the
thousand wish to return to Cuba to work,
but their destitution prevents. \ com
mission has reached Key West from
Gomez asking for assistance, and stating
that his army is literally starving
As approved by the Acting Secretary
of the Navy, and prepared for trans
mission to Congress through the Treas
ury Department, the naval estimate in
clUdes the following items for new works
in the navy. yards: For Norfolk, 81,
0OO000; for Port Royal $. c., S145,00O;
for Key West, $112,520.
Sells Brothers and Forepaugh's circus
train was wrecked at Wilsondale on the
Norfolk and Western Railroad. James
Doyle, of Philadelphia, and Harrison =
Kipps, Of Virginia, were fatally injured.
Pat Forepaugh was seriously hurt. n
car with elephants rolled down an en-
bankment and the animals were injured,
but none were killed.
Otto II. Barnard of 30 Broad street,
New York, was yesterday appointed re-
ceiver of the New England Loan and
Trust Company by Judge Shipman Of
the United tSateS Supreme Court, on
suit brought by the Real Estate Trust
Company of Philadelphia and SahillolH
$. Allen, of st. Adams, VT. The receiv-
er's bond was fixed ut $4,000.
An official dispatch to Paris from st.
Louis, Senegal. French West africa
says force Of Soudancse sharpshooters
in the French service, commanded by
Lieutenant Woofel, has defeated an an
my of Sofas, capturing 5000 men and
sezing 300 Gras rifles and quantities
of ammunition. 1t is added that the
French force had one sharp-shuoter
wounded.
The Junta Patriotica of Matanzas will
address letter to President Mckinley
setting forth that San immense major
ity of the people of this island adhere
strictly to the government constituted
by the revolution, as being the only
ideal of the Cuban people" Commit
tees have been appointed for the purpose
Of securing signatures to this document
in every city and village of Cuba.