The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-11
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

| Influenza Is widespread IN IeflnanS'
The Atha Illingsworth Steel Works
| at Harrison, y. !. are burning. Inc
loss will be heavy.
4 great coal strike is on and extend
! inc in Germany. Large factories are clos
| ing for lack Of coal.
William Henry Green, head of the
| Theological Seminary, at Princeton, y.
j., died yesterday, aged 70.
Seven thousand workingmen who have
| been engaged on buildings in course OF
construction at Chicago quit work yester
day.
The Roichstag debate on the Naval Bill
and the question as to whether Y will
pass overShadow everything else just
now.
General Ludlow, Military Governor of
Havana. sailed yesterday from that city
for New York. on leave of absence of
ten days.
The steamship Gate City. of the Ocean
Steamship Company. is still fast on the
beach at East Moriches, l.. L.. where
she went ashore in the fog on Thursday
night.
At Boston yesterday f. III. Miles, the
English player. defeated Quincy y.
Shaw, Jr.. of that city.l in a match for
the racquet championship of the United
States.
Five hundred miners at the Bryson
Coal and Coke mines near Tazewell,
Tenn, walked ont yesterday after days
notice of a demand for a ten per cent. in
crease in wages.
The libel suit brought at Norfolk, Va.
against the British steamer Nenetia to re-
cover $1,000 alleged to be due the tug
Stella for salvage has been compromised
by paying $4,000. The $4,000 claim
of Clark and Company against the
Venetia is still pending.
1t is said in French official circles that
the Hay-PauncefOte convention with re-
gard to the construction of the lsthman
Canal is regarded with much satisfaction
in France, as it is not believed there that
French interests will not be injured, but
ON the contrary subserved.
General Joe Wheeler, writing to The
Chairman and members of the River
and Harbor Committee. from Panipuc'
Island of IIuzon, under date of January
9th, asks their active efforts in securing
an appropriation for the Tennessee River
below Chattanooga. General Wheeler
SAYS the death of General Lawton has
delayed his departure for home.
The Jeffries- Corbett fight will rake
place before the Seaside Athletic Club,
Coney Island. W. A. Brady, represent
ing Jeffries, and George Considine repre-
senting C0rbett, met yesterday and took
this decisive action. The National n.
c. of San Francisco failed to deposit the
$1,000 forfeit with a New York stake
holder within the required time.
The Spanish steamer Niceto. which
came 10 Lambert'S Point. Va, yesterday
for coal, reported sighting, $50 miles off
Charleston the gasolene yacht Ida Belle
Launds, of New York. lost in the fog.
Three men were aboard and were out of
oil. Captain Uribarr, of the Niceto of
fered to take the crew aboard his ship
but they declined He gave them four
gallons of oil They intended To try and
make Charleston.
At Cherry Station. Tenn. today. jim
Gordon. Il negro farm hand, enraged be-
cause Mrs George Rollins. a white far
mer's wife refused to give him some
money. savagely attacked her and cut
her throat with Il butcher knife. Her
screams were heard by her husband who
shot the negro twice and beat ont his
brains with the gun butt. Mrs. Rollins
died in Il few minutes.
Ex-Governor Roger Wolcott Of Massa-
chusetts. has wired the President his in
ability to accept a position on the new
Philippine Commission. The three conn
missioners already selected are Judge
Taft Professor Worcester and Colonel
Charles DENLY. the last two having soi'v-
ed ON the other commission. 1t is altos
gether probable that the President Will
select one member from the South and
presumably Il Democrat