The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-23
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that he paid $4,000 to cable Hoar's
sneech to Aguinaldo, he said
the F~flipinos did not need the speech
hut thai the American people olo' ane
that he would gladly contribute none
lto omo the circulation or IL a.
home.
The Roers are now feeding 14.oc
british subjects
A report from London is that the fret
State men are tired or the war, ane
they will soon stop. But wait and sex
how this IS -.
Fftz Lee in Cuba communicated VIII
"a telephone man.. This happened:
"Lee-FTtzhugh Lee was h re
lsponse.
spell il. please.
".F-i-t-z-h-u-g-h Lee
Thank you. Plague take these
Cinnamon"
Ipendous sum OF nine and one-half bill
lions of dollars And yet so innocen
and so fair.
The congress should bear in mind
that for the first six months OF the cur
rent fiscal year there was a surplus
of $21, 000, 900.
Senator Wellington, republican OF
Maryland, made a vigorous speech in
Opposition to the Mckinley scheme OF
conquest and addition. A good sign.
1t is gratifying to know that Louisi-
lana's Senator McEnery will handle
Jeter p and his little abbreviated, at
ltenuated resolution to put North Caro-
lima whites under federal officers and
trob the state of it's lights.
Why should 40, 900 working men in
Pennsylvania mines strike, when prices
lof the product are so very high. and
lowners are wallowing in wealth?
Roberts and his three wives and
twelve children will have TO go back to
their Utah homes. He will not take his
seat. a minority report favors seating
him n then expelling. But the COM
mittee is unanimous as to the exact
status of the poIygamist.
German can not stand Bryan, and
Is, 800, 900 of Bryan supporters can net
stand German. See!
Tho Christian Science humbugs in
1.-THE north have bought UP all of MARI
ITwain's funny paper on Eddyism. Nc
IClure should issue another edition of
100, 900 copies.
Do you see any appropriateness in
the following from the New York Even
ing Post? Mrs. Langtry is playing in
'"The Degenerates'' in that city. The
I%critic writes:
Mrs. Langtry appears as a woman
of dubious antecedents, who is recalled
to a sense of her responsibilities, and
INSPIRED to re-establish her lost position
lin society,""
Rich people in the north have raised
s42. 600 for destitute Cuban children.
Governor Shaw, of Iowa, in his in
Iaugural address denounces roundly the
great trusts. He said:
u have yet to find the first man who
mas n word to say in extenuation or de-
lfense of monopolies. Gentlemen of the
general assembly, let it be our duty to
crush every one within reach"
Beveridge revealed tina 1.-THE move
ment in the Philippines was purely sor-
did and mean.
Strange to say that the name of
Moody is dropped from the school man
agement committees at Mortified.
IStrange that.
Rev. J.. ]. Axtell proposed to engage
in boxing" for charity fund. He is
dismissed. A dispatch from Detroit,
Mich, says:
"AXtelTs fight cost him a house to
live in, his position as pastor, and final
" his means of earning a livelihood.
he is not cast down, however. He
thinks there may be an opening for him
IN The v2udevilles as an exponent of
the manly art a la Fitz, Mccoy and
!other noted pugilists.
Colonel organs grandmother lives in
Indiana and is ninety-eight years old
Her first husband, Louis II. Bryan, was
a soldier in the war of 1912 and in the
Mexican war.