The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-09-29
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


WHEELER IN A SCRAP.
Manila, Sept. 2s.-General MacAr-
thur entered Porac today after an
hours fighting. The American loss
is slight and the insurgent loss is
not known. Enemy fled northward.
The attacking party moved on Por-
&C in two columns. The Ninth In
fantry with two guns from Santa
Rita, commanded by General
Wheeler and the Thirty-sixth in
fantry under Colonel Bell, with one
gun, accompanied General MacAr-
thur from San Antonio.
WILL FIGHT THE TRUST.
New York, Sept. 2S.-The Henry
Clay and Box company which is the
owner of more than half the cigar
factories in Havana, has declined to
enter the great tobacco syndicate or
ganized by Wall street capitalists for
the control CT the Havana cigar in
dustry.
CANUCKs WILL FIGHT.
Halifax, Y. s., Sept. 2S.-Sir
Charles Tupper, leader of the Cana
dian parliamentary opposition,
/ speaking at the maritime fair to an
audience of several thousand people,
referred 70 the present Transvaal
crisis He said that if Great Britain
became involved in war the Cana
/ dian government should send a regi-
ment of troops TO England fully
/ equipped ard place them at the dis
posal of the imperial government.
This statement provoked great en-
thusiam
FORMAL WELCOME.
New York, Sept. 2S.-Admiral
Dewey and the officers and men of
the Olympia were formally welcomed
to the state of New York this after
noon by Gov. Roosevelt and the
chief officers of the national guard
of thestate.
LISTENING FOR FIRST SHOT.
Capetown, Sept. 2s.-Today peace
seems only a shadow of possibility,
and everyone is listening for the first
shots. Many wild rumors are afloat.
UNITED STATES SHUT OUT.
Hong Kong, Sept. 2s.-The Fill
pino proclamation was issued here
today declaring all ports of the Phil
ippines open to all nations except
the United States.
ALLEN TO SUCCEED REED.
Portland, Me-, Sept. %. The re-
publican district convention this
morning nominated as Reeds sue
cessor his former private secretary
Hon. Amos L. Allen.
SMALLPOX AMONG AMERICANS.
San Francisco, Sept. 2s.-There
are now ten cases of smallpox in the
Thirty regiment quarantined al
Angel Island. In addition twenty
men are i'll with typhoid fever.
DREYFUS GOING TO ENGLAND.
Southampton, Sept 2s.-A quaint
/ ity of baggage from Catpentras
France, labeled "Dreyfus," arrived
here this morning to be transferred
to London.
NO RE>FECTFR OF PERSONS.
Brussels, Sept. 2S-King Leopold
} yatch, Alberta, has been seized a
Belgrade, Belgium, for damaging 1
bridge.
TRANsVAAL TENSION INTENSE.
London, Sept. 2S.-The last stage
of the Transvaal crisis is at hanC
and the issue excites the gravest
anxiety. A Pretoria dispatch say:
Kruger's reply to Chamberlain's last
dispatch was handed to Conynghan
Greene, British diplomatic agent al
Pretoria, today. Tomorrow the
British cabinet meets for final action
on the situation. That Kruger will
back down is not regarded as even &
remote possibility.
WORK OF AN INSANE MOTHER.
Detroit, Mich, Sept. 2s. F. After
numbering two children an attempt
ing unsuccessfully to kill the third
Mrs. Theodore Reiner, last night
failed in an attempt to commit sui
eide by slashing her wrists She i:
in a critical condition.
Blotches and excrescences, which
so often annoy people are simply eff
forts to throw off impediments to the
proper performance of her duties
Herbine will aid and assist nature il
her work, and ensure skin cleal
and beautiful, entirely free from al
= imperfections. Price so cts. City
Drug Store, w. B. Frame.