The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-24
TELEGRAPHIG SUMMARY.

General Symons has been promoted.
Smallpox has broken out in Richland,
Ga.
paign.
F. T. Neeley, the New York publish
er, goes into bankruptcy.
There is one new case Of yellow fever
at Jackson. Miss.
w. j. Bryan made over fifty speeches
in Kentucky and Ohio last week.
Four second class British cruisers are
ordered into commission.
The British gained another victory
over the Beers Saturday
Captain Ca1iter's 11abeas corpus case
VIII be take Ion appeal.
New Orleans reports two new cases
Of yellow fever.
Vice President Hobert is quite SICK
at hts home in New Jersey.
william w. Astor gives $4,000 to the
Z British Red Cross Society.
The committee has secured the house
for the Dewey home in Washington
The committe of the gold democrats
of maryland will vote the republican
ticket this fall
The war department offers Funston
a brigadiership if he wifi return to the
Philippines.
Rev. AlIard Barnwdll Episcopal
minister of Atlanta, dies of consump-
ton.
Near Wilson, n. C.,tChe dead body of
an old negro man is found in his hog
pen.
University of North Carolina, defeats
Davidson at foot ball by a score OF III
to 0.
The Vanderbilt railway syndicate
gains control of the Norfolk and South
AeTn railroad.
Admiral Dewey, under the advice of
his physician, cancels all engagements
to visit cities of the country.
Seven new cases of yellow fever are
reported at Miami and the situation
there is considered serious.
There is no force in the cry of Anglo
American friendship so long as the
Alaskan boundary dispute is unsettled
The Central Railroad of Georgia
makes discrimination in cotton freight
rates against the mills in the Carolinas'
At a circus in Albany, Ga, small
boy" twists the tail of a lion and
loses part of his scalp in consequence
Another negro implicated in the
Gambrel murder has been captured
and Iynched. Two others have been
captured.
There is much uneasiness about the
transport Senator, now On her way
from Manila, with the Fifty-first Iowa
regiment on board.
The passengers of the American
Liner ST. Louis cheer the Co'ldstream
guards as they leave London for South
Africa.
Complaint IS made to the state de-
partment that an American has been
captured and is held a prisoner by the
Beers.
Russian officials lay England's bold
attitude in Transvaal matters to the
support she is receiving from the Ger
man government.
Congressman Livingston ftelegraphs
the Atlanta committee that Dewey
will not go and Schley cannot go to
that city next week.
At Montgomery, Ala, the white
labor unions decline to take part in
fair parade because no provision is
made for the negro labor unions.
The AguinaldO peace commissioners
Will not be allowed to enter Manila
and if received will not be recognized
in any official capacity.
AT the battle of Glencoe England had
two colonels three captains and five
lfeutenants killed and one colonel
three majors six captains and ten lieu
tenants wounded, besides General Sy
mons.
Flanagan, the DeKalb (Ga.) county
murderer breaks from his cell With the
jailors babe clasped in his left arm and
brandishing a huge knife in his right
hand he dasheS through the Jail. He
is intercepted by the jailor and his
wife and captured.