The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-16
TELEGRiPHlG CULINARY.

Augusta, Ga, has another fire.
Our troops continue to defeat bands
of Fflipinos.
Wages Of factory operatives at Pitts
field, Mass, will be Increased.
About 1000 persons attend a pro-
Boer meeting in Philadelphia
At Knoxville, Tenn, a SWede muir
ders his wife, then commits suicide.
There is no alarm at the State unives-
sity over the one coSe of smallpox.
The trouble between France and
Santo Domingo has been settled.
General Wood will appoint a COM
mission to report on taxation in Cuba.
The American cargo on the Dutch
vessel Maria is released by the Brit
ish.
British troops secure a, position on the
Beers left flank in the COlesberg sec
ton.
w. L. Wardnel, cashier of the Bank
of Adei, Ga, is missing. His accounts
are all right.
The EdenmOor has been abandoned
by her crew who were taken off by the
steamer Hirunde.
The Italian government insists that
the lynehers of the Italians in Louis
lana shall be punished.
After all the wrangle about the mat
ter, the Georgia scalp lock is found to
be on the Hilton trophy.
The chamber of commerce of Hem
derson, by resolution endorses the Sea-
board Air Line consolidation.
There are wild demonstrations of en-
thusiasm in London over the departure
of volunteers for South Africa.
George Dixon and Coffee Cooler
Bob Armstrong call at tine White house
The president excuses himself.
Secretary Root viii begin sweeping
reforms in the judicial system of Cuba,
beginning with the criminal.
General Joe Wheeler says most of the
cotton used in the Manila mills is
brought from the United States.
On board the battleship Massachu-
settS the ladies Of South Carolina pre-
sent medal to Lieutenant Blue.
The southern weavers who went to
LonSdale do not care to go to work
since they have learned of the strike.
Germany presents a second and urg-
ent protest to England against the de-
tention of the steamship Bundesrath.
A New England man, owner of orch
ards in Georgia says negro labor is as
cheap and efficient as white labor at
the north.
The two proprietors of The Evening
Post, of Denver, are shot by a lawyer
of that city. Neither is very badly
wounded.
The senate committee on elections
hears more testimony on the charge
against Senator Clark Of buying his
seaSN in the senate.
The political feeling in Kentucky
grows more intense. There is danger
OF ser 0us strife no matter which way
the contests are decided.
There was rumor in London last
night that Butler had suffered another
defeat The war office said the rumOr
as not worthy OF credence.
u A Pretoria dispatch by way of Brus-
sells says the Beers have stormed all
the heights around Ladysmith and the
surrender of the town is hourly ex-
pected.
George Could puts $3.50, 900 and an
other northern capitalist $3.50, 600 in the
new cotton mill recently organized at
Gastonia, ". G. The capital stock viii.
probably be raised to s., 100000
The name OF the steamer wrecked in
St. Mary's bay is yet unknown, the
weather being too severe for anyone to
board her. No wreckage or bodies
have yet been secured.
Hanna says the republicans issues
in the campaign will be the prosperity
of the working man and retention of
dhe Philippines. He wants money 70
met democratic agitation among the
iabOring class.