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

Major Spencer captured an uncom-
pleted Filipino stronghold in the Tassan
district.
1t is reported that General Alexan-
drino has surrendered to General Mac
Arthur
Lieutenant Brumby, lying i'll in Wash
ington, is worse. He is threatened with
hemorrhages.
Yesterday an Ohio woman sent $780,
600 toward the endowment fund Of
Tuskeegee Institute.
Seven firernen We're injured by am ex-
plosion of gasoline i'm fruit store at
Montgomery, Ala, yesterday.
1t is stated that the Richmond, Va.
Locomotive Works have received orders
for ninety -one locomotives in the past
week.
The State Department authorizes a
contradiction of the report that the Gov
eminent of Denmark has offered the
Danish West India Islands for sale.
In the Reichstag yesterday Prince
Hohenlohe spoke of the need Of a
larger navy for Germany and intimated
that estimates for doubling the number
of warships would be submitted.
The United States Supreme court yes
~. Al,
of Claims in the case of the Los Abra
Silver Mining Company against the Re
Republic of Mexico, holding that claim
to be fraudulent and unfounded. The
claim was for about $4,000,000.
The Roberts investigation committee
was not in session yesterday. having adj
journed today when Mr. Roberts will
be heard further. A member of the
committee stated that there was little
further doubt subcommittee and pos
dbly the full committee would have to
visit Utah and take testimony.
Osmer w. Roper, of Newark, New
Jersey, has been jailed, charged with
operating a swindling game through the
mails. Roper was the head and foot
of several loan and trust firms, which.
unlike the Franklin Syndicate, scooped
In the shekels of the unwary without
amy oltgo of interest even. They took
in the money as fees 10 negotiate loans
that never were negotiated.
The United States Supreme court has
decided in the naval prize money case
q ~ -
ish steamer Buena Ventura during the
Spanish war with Spain that the con-
demnation Of the vessel was contrary to
the terms of the Presidents proclama
tion and ordered the proceeds Of til"
sale Of the vessel be turned ever to the
owners. In the cases of the vessels
Pedro and Guido also owned by Span
iards the condemnation was affirmed.
Repre- sentative Bellamy, of North
Carolina, has introduced a bill, repeating
clause 1893, schedule M, pulps, papers and
hooks, of the tariff law of 1897 and pro
viding that no import duty shall be lew
led on mechanically ground wood pulp.
Another section amends clause 396 and
fixes the rates of duty on printing paper
at tllree-twentieths UP to eight-twenl-
tieths of one per cent per pound accord
ing to value and ~ per cert ad valorem
when valued above five cents per pound.
Roland b. Molineax was ,iSilly per.
ttrbed yesta day morning when The
PROSECUTION calcG % the witness chair
Mamie Melanlo formerly to"en oman
in the Newark pains factory nf which
Molineux WAS vice president. sue VAS
questioned concerning the note paper kept
by Molinellx I'M his rooms at the factory
and testified that this paper was Of rob
bins egg blue, with crest OF three
silver crescents interlaced. This same
paper was used in a certain discriminating
letter whose authorship Molineuy de-
mics.
At Savannah, Ga, the grand jury of
the United States court have indicted S.
+. Shotter, j. +. G. Meyers, G.. j..
Deloach and w. j. L'Engle, naval
stores buyers, for violation of section
10, Of the interstate commerce law. Ii
is alleged that they shipped certain tank
cars of spirits turpentine to Berry Bros,
Of Detroit Mich. which contained more
Than 1900 pounds Of spirits, while the
marked capacity Of the ears was $1,000
pounds. The maximum penalty for yio-
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