The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-29
TELEGRAP' .ilC SUMMARY.

The plague is raging in New Cadedo-
MIA.
An adder man of Milwaukee commits
suicide.
The LAwton home fund now amounts
to $31,1A4
Nes Tees threaten to burn the town Of
Fort. White, Fla
TAodges & Co, bankers and brokers
tf Boston suspend.
At Brandon, Manitoba, a woman is
hanged for murder.
This state has chartered thirty-one
cotton mills this year.
Each juror in the Molineux case is
spotted by a detective.
A northern syndicate will sink Oil
webs in east Tennessee.
w. c. Stoy is arrested in Augusta,
Ga, on a charge of arson.
Transports reach Manila with two
more regiments OF troops.
Two new blast furnaces are to be
erected at Hartman, Tenn.
John T. Reid and Mrs. Julia NJ. Sta
ton are married at Tarboro.
General Roberts and Kitchener meet
at Gibraltar and sail for Cape Town.
No one knows how senator's stand On
the question of seating Senator quay.
General Otis issues a decree author
izing civil marriages in the Phllpplnes.
Two German warships, used as naval
cadet training ships arrive at havana.
The torpedo boat Stockton is launch
ed ait the Trigg Shipyard Richmond,
Va,
AT Deposit, Ala, two men are killed
and one mortally wounded In a street
fight.
Colonel Lockett routes body of
strongly entrenched FilipinoS near san
Mateo.
THE coffee from the plage infected
steamer j. w. Taylor will be landed IN
Brooklyn.
Two negroes and one white man are
killed in a race riot in Buford county,
South Carolina.
The Southern Educational Assoc1a-
tion convenes i'll Memphis with over 700
delegates present.
President Mckinley writes letter of
coincidence to the mother of the late
Lieutenant Brumby.
AN officer of the Clan-Na-Gael tells
What the order is going to do IN the
way of invading Canada.
Queen Victoria issues proclamation
enemy i'm South Africa.
Judge SimonIton renders an important
decision as to revenue stamps on pay
orders of mill operatives.
The Dukes of Durham, N. c., buy
$4,000 acres of land in Florida Whlch
they Will plant in tobacco.
There are again rumors of prepara-
tbonss OF war between the powers trying
to secure supremacy in China
Near Anderson, S. c., five persons
are caught on a rtreStle by traGn. one
is killed and the others injured
The train with the bodies OF tina
Maine victims arrives and they are
taken to the Arlington cemetery
The stockholders of the Florida Cen
trial and Peninsula railroad vote to CON-
ssoUidate with the South Bound road.
J. G.. Schuman, Of the Philippine COM
mission writes for The Independent an
article ON "Our Duty to the Phlllp-
pines"
HINDU astrologers attribute famine
plague and British revrses i'm South
Africa to the peculiar conjunction or
tine planets.
Our Ambassador to England has not
ves received amy instructions regard
ing seizure of American flour in vessels
near Dedagoa bay.
Governor Taylor appoints w. H.
NacKoy, anti-Goebel democrat, and A
n. ]. Cochran, republican, state elec-
tfSn commissioners.
The number Of new textile mlllS IN
TIM country for the year Is 299 against
es7 asst year. Ths south is head
the north, and North Carolina Rads
aMoug the states.
Tine retirement OF General Carpenter
creates a vacancy in a second brlga.
aSersfip. These and Major General
Iawson's successor Will be appointed
an eoon as congress assemblies.
A Chsweley dispatch OF the 25th and
one from Cape Town OF the 26th say no
changes have occurred at the former
OF at Nethuen's position. The latter
has received some refnforcements.
The Beers have enlisting agency an
New York Many men are sent to the
Trans,vaal There is a general move
rnent among the Irish of Philadelphla
to aid the Beers with a relief fund
Stalte chairman Danforth, or New
York, after tour through the west
and south, thinks Chicago will not get
the democratic convention, and hnds
"a strong inclination to move headquar-
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