The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-09-27
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Secretary Algcr was royalty enter
tanned ut Atlanta.
Five deaths occurred among the Am
erican troops at Ponce yesterda.
The train bearing the American Peace
commissioners has reached london.
Theodore Roosevelt declines to accept
any nomination offered by the lndepen-
dents.
The Spanish soldiers in Manzanillo are
said to be in dire distress, having neither
food nor credit.
Heavy storms Of wind. hail and rain,
doing great damage to property, are re-
ported from Ohio.
Eight companies of the First Florida
volunteers. now at Huntsville, have been
ordered mustered out.
Indiana Democrats opened the cam
paign yesterday With speeches by some
of their best speakers.
Bert Repine. Of Memphis. Tenn. won
the first prize of 500 III an lS-hour
bicycle race III Baltimore.
.Alger reached Atlanta yesterday. and
was driven out to Fort Mcpherson,
where he inspected the hospital.
The French cabinet has decided to
postpone its decision as to the revision
of the Drcyfus case until Monday.
The condition of Governor Taylor.
of Tennessee, who has been i'll for some
time. is now said to be alarming.
General Gomez emphaticllly denies
that he has presented his resignation as
commander-in-chief Of the Cuban army.
The hospital at Fort Mcpherson rs
perhaps, the only one in the service
about which no complaint has been
made.
Major John G.. Martin. who made
statements rejecting upon the purity Of
the drinking water ut Camp Thomas,
has made 4 public retraction.
At Admission the Alger party We're
shown over Camp Ship. and Colonel
Frank, i'll command Of the camp, was
co~mplimcntcd on its healthfulness.
The steamship Australia sailed ycster-
day from San Francisco for Honolulu.
She carried important dispatches for the
american commander at Honolulu.
The President has instructed the com
mission at Havana to demand that the
| evacuation by the Spaniards begin not
later than October - and that it b."
completed by December 81 next.
\ Norfolk and Western freight broke
in two at Franklin Furnace. Va, the two
sections crashing together and
ditching the train. Two men were killed
outright and another fatally injured.
While attempting to arrest Clarence
and Frank Ryan. caught in the act of
robbing Il house in Chicago. Policeman
John Shuford was shot and fatally
wounded by Ryan. Both robbers were
captured.
With regard to the complaint Of Rep
rcScntative Sherman. of New York. that
the troops in Honolulu were without
proper food. General Merriam, who has
made an investigation, declared the
charge unfoundcd.
One of the most beautiful souvenirs
of the battle of July 3rd. off Santiago.
is q bronze bust of Columbus. taken
from the Christobal Colon. The Navy
Department will put it in charge of the
Smithsonian Museum.
The Alabama State Democratic En-
ecutive Committee have unanimously do
cided to sustain the action of the dis
trict convention in r~enominating Hon.
G.. w. Taylor for Congress in the First
district. Hon. Hannis Taylor aquiescin-
III the action.
Word was received at Pittsburc yes
terday from General J.. p. S. Goblin.
grand marshal Of the knights Ten
plar parade on October 18th that Major
General Joseph Wheeler has accented
the appointment of commander of the
mounted division.
The eruption Of Nesuvius is increasing
III violence. and it is feared that it will
assume the proportions Of that Of 1872.
The people Of Macon, Ga. turned out
III great force yesterday to welcome the
FIRST Georgia regiment ordered there to
/ be mustered ont.
The Nebraska Conference Of the
Methodist church has found Rev. c. N.
late chancellor OF the Ne
hrasha Wesleyan University. guilty of
disappointing $4,000 of the Tniyer-
slty funds, and has declared him de-
posed from the ministry and expelled.
The Alabama Steel and Supply Com
pany. which is erecting Il million dollar
steel plant at Ensley City. yesterday let
contracts for a II inch blooming mill. a
gas producer building and ten omen
hearth furnaces, a~ggregating about 5000
900. The contract for the iron work Of
the ten open hearth furnaces is the largest
III the world. Pittsburg concerns secured
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