The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-06
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
Fshpinos reoccupy Porac.

AT Montgomery, Mo-, a grc-Un ard
bride are murdered by a disappointed
lover, who then commits suicide.
The Carter habeas corpus case is ar
gued and the judge reserves his decis-
ION.
The Seaboard system secures a char
ter for a new road from Charleston, S.
c., to Elberton, Ga, via Augusta
The annual conference Of church
workers among he cOlored people is in
session in New York.
The insurgents are driven out of Ora
III and the Urdantta is taken to Cavite
Otis cables accounts Of several aggres-
sive movements by the Fflipinos.
New contracts are to be made for
the Savannah and Cumberland sound
harbOr improvements.
The transport St. Paul reaches Ma
Mia with troops aboard.
The enlistments now amount to 49,
515 men.
The courts set aside the Ballou will,
thus putting on the market a most vail
uable. piece of iron mine property in
this state.
The special committee of the Episco-
pad church appointed to draft canon
on divorce meets in New York.
The president orders more war-ships
to the PHILIPPINES.
President Eckert, of the Western
Union replies to the letter Of the New
Orleans cotton exchange regarding the
bogus Liverpool cotton reports of Fri
day
Both sides are confident of winning
the yacht race today. t.
Lffton says the Shamrock cost as
much as six Valkyries.
Admiral Dewey has been formally
detached from the Olympia and has
been given authority by the navy de-
par'tment ito do as he pleases."
The Gulf Coast Lumber Company
advances the price of lumber $1.5O
per 1000 feet.
President Spencer denies tlhat the
Southern has secured the Cincinnati
Southern railroad.
The finance bill to be introduced in
the senate in December will declare
emphaticaGly for the gold standard.
The court declines ito bail Miss Nor
rison, the actress who shot Manager
Leidenheimer.
There was one new case of yellow
fever alt Jackson, Miss, yesterday.
Two men are killed by the explosion
of a saw mill boiler in Virginia.
A steamer makes the trip from New
York to Savannah in SIXTY three. hours.
The chancellor of THE British ex-
chequer sanctions the expenditure or
G3,0O0,0O0 for preparations for the
TransvaaQ war.
Key West reportls twenty-seven new
cases of yellow fever
THE schooner Edna and Emma, from
Wilmington, N. c., has been flowed into
st. Pier1re New FoundIand, bottom up
Mr. and Mrs Mckinley and the en-
tire cabinet, excep Gage, go to the
northwest for "a two months trip.
The Transvaal Government seizes
gold in the mint ito the amount OF 6SO0,
0eO
Three persons die from asphyxiatior
ait Rochester, N. Y.
New Orleans REPORTS five new cases
of yellow fever.
s. e. Converse, founder of the Con
verse college at Spartaniburg, S. c., Is
dead
Schley Us made commander of tht
Royal Legion of New York.
Severa French army officers are tt
be arrested for treason.
The Beers are moving toward the
Natal frontier.
Two transports sail from PORTLAND
for Manila, carrying the Thirty -httf
regiment.
The Leon Flanagan prize fight end:
IN a draw
Eddie Duffee makes his ten miles OF
a wheel in Is minutes, 1874 seconds.
At Des Moines aeronauIt is killed by
his parachute failing to Open
Filipincs make a night attack OF
Paranaque.
General Jou'bert is on the Transvaa
frontier.
Ait Knoxville, Tenn, burglars raid {
house by using chloroforun.
At Owensvile, KY, a man is acquit
ted on the charge of murder commit
ted twenty-five years ago.
Z. j. Ferguson, drummer of Wilson
N. c., commits suicide at Kinston.
The Dewey sword presentation yes
terday at Washington was a magnifi
cent pageant.
The government cancels one of tn
big contracts for harbor improvement
made by Captain Carter.
Attorneys of the Savannah exchang
declare that the telegraph company i
liable for the errors in the market re
ports Of last Friday.
Frauds in the dispensary business a
Columbia, S. c., are shown.
The Georgia and Florida mills put VI
the price of lumber.
At Thomasville, Ca, A. L. Halves,
lawyer, is fatally shot by son of w
H. Hammond, also lawyer.
New Orleans yesterday reported on
case of yellow fever and two deaths.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany will take all the cotton bought OF
its fake Liverpool reports of last Fri
day.
Jackson, Miss, reported one new cas-
of yellow fever yesterday.
Quarantine in Alabama north of tn
thirty-fourth parallel is to be remove
after the 9Th instant.
The yacht race yesterday was declar
ed off because neither boat made tn
distance in the time allowance, thougl
the Shamrock was ahead when tn
time was up.
New Orleans cotton exchange take
vigorous action in regard to the falls
Liverpool cotton reports Of last Friday
Tho baheaa cornI1s writ in rsonto;,