The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-25
TELEGRAPHIC FLASHES.

Five deaths occurred among the Am
erican troops Mt Ponce yestcrda.
The train bearing the American feace
Commissioners has reached London
Theodore Roosevelt declines to accept
any nomination offered by the 1ndepeh-
dents.
The Spanish soldiers in Manznnillo are
said to he IN dire distress, having neither
food nor credit.
Heavy storms of wind, hail and rain
doing grcat damage to property, are re-
ported from Ohio.
Eight companies Of the First flofldn
volunteers, now Mt liunlavlllr' nave Heh
ordered mustered out,
Indiana Democrats opened ~" cam
pnign yealcrdny with speeches by some
OF their best speakers.
Bert lieiinc. Of Memphis, Tenn won
the frat prize or $3.50 Ia an lShour
bicycle rnco Ia Baltimore
Agcr reached Allnuln yesterday, nhd
wna driven out fo Fort MCPHERSON,
where he inspected The hospital
The French cnhiuot bns decided +"
postpone ita decision ns ~ The revision
Of the hroyrUs fhab Hhiil MmhHt,
The condition ~ tigvptuGr Taylor
of Tennessee. who has bpeu ~ for some
time, Ia now snid to be- affirming,
General tlomes tHphHli"tllf drii@s
that he hna presented his resignation aa
commander iu-phipf ~ tlp i'Himt Ittng.
The hoantih ~ Fort Mei'befson 81
perhaps, tlie only onp iH ibe r"fTi"r
about which no complaint has b"'h
made.
AZ Admissions tbe. Aigef bary were
shown over Camp Ship, nhd Colonel
Frank, in command Of The camp was
compimcntcd OH It's henllhfulueea.
The steamship Australia smiled yrstcr
day from san francisco for IIouollIn.
She carried important dispatches for the
American commander at Honolulu.
The President has instructed the com.
mission at IIayauu to domnnd that III"
evacuation by The Spnnnrds begin not
later than October ~ and that II b"
completed by December 81 next
A Norfolk and Western freight broke
i'm 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 house in Chicago, Policeman
Holm 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 unfounded.
One of the most beautiful souvenirs
of the battle of July 3rd. off Santiago,
is 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 EX-
ecutive Committee have unanimously de-
cided to sustain the action of the dis
trict convention in renominating Hon.
q. w. Taylor for Congress in the First
district, Hon. Hannis Taylor aquieScing
in the action.
Word was received ut Pittsburg yes
terday from General J. r. s. Goblin,
grand marshal of the Knights Tenn
plar parade on October 18th that Major
General Joseph Wheeler has accepted
the appointment of commander of the
mounted division.
Il
in violence, and it is feared that it will
assume the proportions of that of 1872.
The people of Macon, Ga, turned out
in great force yesterday to welcome the
First Georgia regiment ordered there to
be mustered out
The Nebraska Conference of the
Methodist church has found Rev. G. NJ.
Ellinwood, late chancellor of the Ne
braska Wesleyan University. guilty of
misappropriating $4,000 of the Univer-
sity funds, and has declared him de-
posed from the ministry and expelled
The Alabama Steel and Supply Com
pany. which is erecting million dollar
steel plant at Ensley City, yesterday let
contracts for A inch blooming mill, a
gas producer building and ten open
hearth furnaces, aggregating about $780,
600. The contract for the iron work Of
the ten open hearth funaces is the largest
in the world. Pittsburg concerns secured
the contract