The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-20
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.

In a fight before Mafeking 300 Beers
and eighteen British soldiers are killed.
The Beers have a fierce fight with an
armored train. They attack and blow
up a dynamite train.
The council of Scottish Rite Masons
transacts only routine business, except
to decide to bear the entire remaining
expense of the Albert Pike monument
The Patria, a newspaper of Manila,
has been suppressed and its editor
placed under arrest for seditious pubE-
cations.
American troops again drive the Fill
pinOs out of Porac, killing number OF
the enemy
The state supreme court renders de-
cisions in a number of cases.
The Alabama and Georgia Iron Com
pany with capital Of $k300000, is in
corporated
Miami has another case of yellow
fever.
The Federal supreme court will hear
the Texas-Louisiana case next Mon
day.
Dewey and Brumby will be in At
lanta next Tuesday.
The president will appoint five colo
nels brigadier general, one after the
pointed, leaving a vacancy to be filed
on the active list in place of General
Shafter.
Secretary Hay is preparing the tenn
porary agreement for the Alaska
boundary.
A German editor is sent TO prison for
criticising thes emperor.
Norfolk oyster shuckers (colored)
strike because the packers will not en-
pToy union laborers
The presidential party turns east
ward.
About 100000 feet of lumber at Mil
ton, Fla, belonging to Chaffin & Co.,
is burned. The origin was incendiary.
New Orleans reports no new cases of
yellow fever and no deaths.
The average of estimates of the cot
ton crop by fifty-five Savannah eX-
change men is 1O,264, 103 bales.
Governors of the southern states are
invited to meet Dewey at Atlanta.
Dan Creedon knocks out Pat Raedy
in the eighth round.
There were some lively scenes at the
meeting of the penitentiary board yes
terday. 1t adjourned until today for
reports from Superintendent Day.
The Shamrock has her topmast car
ried away soon after the race begins
and she has to give up the race.
Bryan continues his campaign in
Kentucky.
Lieutenant Victor Blue and Miss
Ellen Foote Stuart are married.
The Jeffries-S -Sharkey fight has been
postponed to November 3rd.
Key West reports seventeen new
cases of yellow fever
At Port Said a German steamer is
unloading a cargo of ammunition con-
signed to the TransvaaI, to avoid seiz-
ure in the Red sea by British cruisers
that are shadowing the steamer.
The British steamers Leleham, from
Pensacola and Pembridge, from Savan-
nah are posted at Lloyd's as missing.
The Christian church continues it's
Jubilee conference in Cincinnat&
Mrs. Jane Lindsay finishes her eight
hundred-mile bicycle ride in 81 hours
and As minutes.
General Otis has communication
purportingto be from General Rio del
Pinar Offering for a sum of money to
sell out Aguinaldo and his army to the
Americans
At Clinton, N. c., Arch Sauls is con-
victed of murder in the first degree and
John Staub of highway robbery.
Ten Spanish officers in Filipino army
offer to surrender their guns. The plot
is discovered and seven of them are
executed, the others escaping.
Brooklyn defeats Philadelphia in the
second of the series of exhibition
games.
j. Sterling Morton presides over the
anti-imperialist convention.
Aguinaldo gives out to the foreign
consulS at Manila a book containing
his correspondence with American Off
ciaIls 1t causes a sensation.
The democrats have big rally at
Louisville.
AT Norfolk Dr. F. M Morgan is ac-
quilted of the charge of malpractice
The French officers who lead a meet
ing in the London are shot by their own
men.
Key West reports ten new cases of
yellow fever and one death.
Ait Cordele, Ga, w. H. Cochran
kills H. A Dukes, witnesses say in self
defense.
A. J. Pittman, of Summerville, S. c.,
in aaquarrel kills his brother, N. F.
Pittman, of Gourdens.
New Orleans reports one new case
of yellow fever.
MIdnn pIOlCSI dSdiISl lLSH
town being quarantined.
The penitentiary board decides that
there was no cruelty in Farm Superin-
tendent Summerell sending convicts to
work in such intensely cold weather
that it resulted in serious damage to
some, but was an unintentfonal mis-
take
The State Truckers Association is
formed in Raleigh.
The Cotton Growers hold a conven-
tion in Raleigh and organizes.
The Confederate veterans hold their
regular annual meeting in Raleigh.
At Gainesville j. w. n. Beard COM
mits suicide ON his wife's grave.
Alabama will soon have two more
iron manufactures in operation.
The British government asks parla-
ment for 91O,0OO,OOO more and $4,000
more troops.
The Southern Homeopathic Medical
Association is in session in Ashev1lle.