The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-14
TELEGRAPHTC BRIEFS.

! One new case of fever at Mississippi
City.
Fourth reunion of the Tyler family
in Richmond yesterday.
The bark Trojan given mp as lost is
at San Juan de Porto Rico.
Repent of the wiping out of Foureau-
Gamy mission said to be a canard.
First meeting of the new American
Baseball Association next Sunday and
Monday.
Abraham Greenewald, formerly one of
Richmond's most prominent merchants,
/ Is dead, aged 80 years.
kilograms from different points show
no abatement in the agitation to boy
colt the Paris Exposition.
Morong. on Laguna de Bay has been
abandoned by the American troops be-
cause of its unhealthiness.
The funeral of Cornelius Vanderbilt
will be held mt 10 o'clock tomorrow at
ST. Bartholomew church, New York.
A mother and her two sons We're MUIR
dered by three unknown men with
hatchets, near Pleasanton, Texas, yes
terday.
The Poe Memorial Association of the
University of Virginia, on the seventh
Of October will unyeil Zolnay's bust of
the poet.
The new White Star steamship
Oceanic, the largest vessel afioat, reach
ed New York yesterday, coming from
Queenstown.
National Council of Red Men decide
to care for orphans and widows of their
members through a per capita tax of 5
cents a year on members.
Yesterday Senator Platt's son, asked
by the Mazet Investigating Committee
how much, stock he held in the New
York City Trust Company, replied: 1T
is none of your business"
The Secretary of the Treasury has
decided in view of the money stringency
in New York to anticipate the October
interest. This will amount to $685.,
526, and is due on the four per cents of
1907.
First authentic news of the disaster
to the Jessie party Of ii persons who
persisted in Alaska in June, 1898, has
been received at ST. Michaels. 1t is
stated that they were not murdered, as
was supposed.
The War Department mas been in
formed that the steamer Tartar which
is returning to the United States from
Manila with large number of sol
diers on board, has been detained at
Hong Kong by the local authorities
because she is overloaded. The matter
had been referred to Ambassador
Choate. The contention of the War De
partment is that Notwithstanding the
Tartar flies the British flag, being
chartered by the United States Govern
ment, the assumption of British author
ity over her is unauthorized
A dispatch from London states that it |
was not the intention of the British |
Government to tie the Transvaal down
to time limit of forty-eight hours In |
which to answer England's last note. |
The only part which is at ali aggressive |
is the reiterated declination of the Brit |
ish Government to discuss the matter |
of sovereignty in any shape or form. 1t /
is reported that the Transvaal has an |
offer from New York of 10000 Irish |
men to volunteer in case of war. The |
Irish of the Rad have formed to help |
Kruger. The President and the Exc
cutive Council have met to consider |
Great Britain's note
A woman who has been abroad many |
times is never popular with women who |
haven't been abroad at ALL
The lack of money is the root of a
great many evils.
Those who read us like a book are
generally holding it upside down.
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