The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-20
TELEGRap1lG SUMMARY.

the British authorities.
The king and queen OF Sweden and
Norway have arrived in London
The Russian minister of foreign af-
fairs goes to Moscow to join the czar.
The democratic candidate for gov
ernor carried every parish in Louisiana
The democratic state candidates will
speak at Wilson on evening of May 1st.
The damage from the floods through
out Mississippi is greater than first
estimated.
At Baltimore a steamer is taking on
8,7Oo steel rails for the Russian railroad
in Siberia
Senator Chandler introduces a bill
prohibiting any state from disfranchfs-
ing the negro.
Southern railway officials are pre-
pairing for terminals and steamship
connections at Mobile.
Pat Singleton, an escaped convict
from the North Carolina penitentiary,
is captured in Norfolk.
War between Russia and Japan is in
evitable and indications point to its
early commencement.
The president appoints F. w Hack
EFT, of New Hampshire, to be assist
ant secretary of the navy.
Nearly half the men of the Chicago
dHlDuIdHCS COIPS, Oh TedClllS ITSlOi Id,
Joined the TranSvaal army.
The flood situation at Meridian, Miss,
is unchanged. Laurel, a town near by,
is reported entirely submerged.
The bubonic plague has broken cut
along the Red sea. The death rate in
India has somewhat decreased.
At Dutch Greek mines, near Sails
bury, NJ c., ]. j. Newman commits
suicide by blowing up his office.
Secretary of State Powers will ask
that he be arraigned Immediately on
the charge of participation in the Goe-
bel murder.
The Transvaal government offers to
loan Portugal the s5,000,000 the latter
is adjudged to pay under the Delagoa
bay award.
The trial has begun at Frankfort,
KY, of Colonel Colson for the killing
of Lieutenant Scott and L. w. De-
maree in the Capitol hotel
Now that it is known Roberts has
censured Butler and Warren, the Brit
ish press come out in scathing de-
nunciations of these officers.
General H. V. Boynton will deliver
ground anniversary. General Joe
Wheeler will also he present.
w. " Powell, of the Order of Rail-
way Telegraphers, sues the Southern
Railroad Company for libel, placing
damages at $4,000.
Both Tuscaloosa, Ala, and Meridian,
Miss. are cut off from the outside
world, except by telegraph, by the
heavy floods.
A bill is introduced in the house to.
allow Generals Lee, Wheeler and Jas.
H. Wilson to be retired as hrigadier
generals of the regular army
- ripcy
Generals Butler and Warren, received
by the war office February 18th, have
just been given to the press
Twelve hundred Tagalogs attack
Cagayan, occupied by a battalion of
the Fortieth regiment. Sharp fighting
lasts for a while. when the FilipiElos
are repulSed.
The democrats carry Louisiana by
majority somewhere between $4,000
and $4,000. It was the first election
under the negro disfranchisement law.
The emperors of Germany and Aus
tria are to make arrangements for oc-.
cupation of A1biana, European Tur-
key by troops of the latter emperor.
The president sends to the senate
more official documents of Philippine
officers, tending to show the hostile
attitude of the Filipinos to America
On Tuesday night burglars blew open
the postoffice safe at Chapel Hill and
secured it's contents. The postmaster
had taken charge only the day before.
Serious seismic disturbances Continue
in Bohemia, where the recent land
slides occurred. The mountains are
moving and many houses have col
lapSed.
The diplomatic relations between
Turkey and the United tates are in a
critical state, growing out of the sui
tan's bad faith regarding the indem-
nifty for missionary property destroyed.
The grand jury of Franklin county.
Kentucky, finds indictments against
ten men for completely in the GOebel
murder, five as principals and five as
accessories before the fact.
On Wednesday all the telegraphers
save one, on the Mount Airy division
of the Southern and all the agents of
the Northern Alabama Joined the
strikers
The large number of foreigners now
reaching Pretoria are to be formed into
a special legion with European off,
GERS. 1t rs said the French general de
Negrier, will be its commander.
Colonel j. S. Petit, of the Thirty-firs
volunteers. in command at Zamboan-
ga, has been court-martialed for
handing a prisoner of war over to a
native chief who killed him without
trial.
Memorial exercises in hoEor of the
late General Villebois Mareuil, killed
in the South African war, are held in
Notre Dame cathedral, Paris Anti
British demonstrations in the streets
follow.
Senator Buffers draft of the platform
for the state populist convention points
out what he regards as dangerous fea-
Of ha rrxonOC0f
amendment, but recommends that ey-
cry voter be left to his individual ac-
tion.
Ex-President Cleveland writes let
ter expressing regrets at being unable
to attend the Jefferson banquet Of the
BROOKLYN Democratic Club Wednes-
day night He urges the party to ad-
here to the 'time-honored democratic
principles"
w. w. Mayhew, Merton. Wis, says:
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