The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-01
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

has had Its hnal session ft InS fidgde.
LIE Soir, of Paris, announces that Col
onel Du Patty de Clam was liberated
yesterday.
The Nebraska volunteers say they
have had enough of fighting and are glad
to get home.
Baltimore has quarantined against
Newport News, Hampton and Old
Point Comfort
A clash between Dreyfusitcs ami Ma
tionalists has occurred in the streets of
Rennes, France.
q health officer of New York sees
little danger of the fever reaching that
port. No quarantine has been estab-
Iished.
The fire at Upper Lake New YORK,
Sunday morning destroyed t69 buildings
ard nearly wiped out the town. loss
S150,000.
Southern leaders say that the Demo
cratic party will maintain Its individu-
ality and will sever its relations With
Populism.
1t is officially announced that Sir
Julian Pauncefote, British Ambassador
TO the United States has been elevated
to the peerage.
The House of Commons ut Ottawa
has adopted Il resolution expressing
Canada's sympathy with the Uitlanders
of the Transvaal.
General Merritt is making arrange
ments to transfer the garrison al frt
Monroe to Battery Point at the mouth
of the Delaware.
In view of the yellow fever outbreak
at the Hampton Soldiers Home. Rich
mond has quarantined against Old
Point and Hampton.
Mr.. Root has notified Secretary Alger
that he will be in Washington and ready
to assume control of the War Depart
ment at II o'clock today.
1t is said in Santo Domingo that Sen
eral Gomez. the Cuban leader, rsay BE
offered the Presidency if the revolution
which is imminent succeeds.
Rev. Dr. James 4. Duncan, OF the
Holston Conference and located It
Knoxville. Tenn. has been elected Presi-
dent of Randolph-Macon College, Nir-
ginia.
Admiral Dewey would neither deny
nor affirm the reported interview i'll
which he is said to have asserted tfat
the next war of the United States would
be with Germany.
Chancellor Thomas FL. Smith has APP
pointed james *. Glennon, of Mobile,
receiver of the New York National
Building and Loan Association for Ill its
assets in Alabama.
The situation Sunday at San Domingo
was critical The Government was un-
der arms, momentarily expecting an up
rising. An attempt was made by the
assassins' party to seize the body of Heu-
leaux, but it did not succeed.
IN Cleveland despite the presence Of
the military Sunday, many of the cars
ran empty, the people being afraid to
patronize them. General Axline says this
state of things is likely to continue for
some time unless martial law is declared.
With Secretary Ayers retirement
from the War Department ii is said Gtn-
eral Miles position viii he greatly IN
proved. Both President Mckinley AID
Mr.. Root, the new Secretary, desire
harmonious relations with Gereral'
Miles.
The first bale OF Texas cotton was
auctioned off in front Of the New York
cotton exchange yesterday for the bene-
fit of the flood sufferers, bringing $4,000
1t was re-donated to the exchange, and
will be sent to Boston to be aucticncd
off there.
The Nebraska regiment anti the Utah
light artillery landed frem the transport
Hancock at San Francisco yesterday
and marched to the Preesidio, where
they went into camp preparatory to be-
ing mustered out. An immense crowd OF
people lined the streets and enthusiast
cally cheered the war veterans.
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague, wife of a
former Governor of Rhode Island and
the daughter of the late Salmon T.
Cnase, Governor of Ohio. United States
Senator and Chief Justice of the SUI
preme court of the United States, died
at her home "Edgewood" in Washing
tons suburbs yesterday. She was fifty
nine years old.
Near White Cloud, Mich, yesterday
shortly after a threshing crew mad start
ed to work the boiler exploded, killing
Charles Haight Alfred Haight, Charles
Crabtree, Bert Salter, Cecil Priest and
Raymond Howe Instantly. George Over
ly was so badly injured that he cannot
recover. Oscar Evans had his leg bro.