The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-16
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.
Admiral Schley ON his flagship Chicago
arrived at Bahia, Brazil, yesterday
At Albany, Ca. w. J. Glazer was
hanged for the murder of his wife III
August last
The distress in the ADMINISTRATION
districts Of India is becoming acute.
About 2.250oo0 persons have received
relief
Emperor William has withdrawn Ma
jor Baron Won Suesskind, military at
tache AT Paris The Dreyfus affair
was the cause of withdrawal.
General Leonard Wood. the new Gov
ernor General of Cuba accompanied by
his wife arrived i'm New York from
Washington yesterday. lie will sail for
Cuba today.
The officers OF the National Woman's
Christian Temperance Union have deci-
ded on Washington, ~ c., as the loca-
ton for the convention, which will open
November Both, 1900.
Mr.. Henry c. Landis Secretary of
the Baltimore Board of Trade and one
of the most prominent insurance men
Of that city. committed suicide YES
terday in a fit of insanity.
Assistant Secretary Allen. of the Navy
Department has gone South TO inspect
the Port Royal naval station in company
with Admiral Rodgers, the president n
the Inspection Board.
--
L w. Leary, of Chattanooga, Tenn,
has been appointed General Manager of
the Southern Express Company to sue.
coed NJ. j. O'Rrien, who was promoted
to the Presidency upon the death of Mr..
III. b. Plant.
At Boston. Mass. yesterday John 2.
Squire and Company, engaged IN the
meat and provision and meat packing
business assigned to Lawyer Herman
w. Chaplin The liabilities are esti-
mated at S3,000.000; and assets at Sd
100000
Charles f. Macrqrn. late United States
Consul at Pretoria will leave for New
York Saturday, December Moth. Mr.. w
Stanley Hollis. the United States Consul
at Lourenzo Marques will assume the
duties of Mr.. Macrum's Office until the
arrival of THE latter's successor.
The steamer Ragusa and Roman
Prince which have been detained AT
New York city quarantine because of
the presence of bubonic plague at San
tos. their port Of departure. have been
ordered to Robins Reef anchorage In
the upper bay, where they viii discharge
the coffee cargoes into lighters
At Rome. Ga, ]. r. Eaton, a seventh
Day Adventist, was convicted of cult
waiting a truck garden on Sunday. On
trial he stated that the Scriptures make
it sinful to labor OH what is usually
known as Saturday" Eaton challenged
amy one TO prove that the legal Sabbath
is Sunday Sentence was suspended un-
iii January. and Eaton was permitted to
give bond.
At Detroit. Mich. yesterday a resolu-
ton recommending members of labor
bodies To use their election ballots inde-
pendently of the predominating political
parties was adopted by the American
Federation of Labor. Among the other
resolutions adopted was one asking the
introduction of bills in Southern Legis-
latures by enactment of which convict
labor would no longer be subject to lease
United States Consul General Gum
Us.f lodi tha
Department here that the Moorish au-
thorities have just arrested Thomas j..
Hunter, who is wanted in Atlanta, Ga,
on the charge Of defaulting in his ac-
counts as auditor of "a railroad. There
is no extradition treaty between the
United States and Morocco, but the
Government Of Morocco has consented
to surrender the man nevertheless.
Speaker Little. Of the Georgia House
of Representatives, presented a resolu-
tion which was unanimously adopted
requesting the Georgia Senators and
Congressman TO urge upon Congress the
Importance of improving the Chattahoo-
chez, Flint and Apalachicola rivers and
Apalachicola Bay. Georgia's Repre-
sentatiyes will be aided III securing an
appropriation by the congressman and
Senators from Alabama and Florida.
At Key West an effort will be made
by the committee in charge of the under
taking to have the monument in memory
of the Maine sailors which is in course
Of erection there. unveiled at a time
when the battleship Texas with CAPTAIN
Sigsbee commanding can be present. II
is proposed to have the battlesfip touch
at that port on her return from Havana
to Fortress Monroe with the bodies Of
the Maine victims, aboard, and the Navy
Department will be asked to grant this
request.
Senator Lambert's House Burned.
Marion, n. G.. Dec. 15.-6special)-A