The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-05
TELEGaAPHIG SUMMARY.

England wi1 not take possession OF
Delagoa bay.
Admiral Watson reports the dcatn
of Commander Carlin.
The actress Minnie Seligman Cutting
brings suit for divorce.
]. A. Marshall has fifty witnesses
before the federal court.
The schooner g. P. Hitchcock mas
stranded on Long Island.
6. r. Knott, new manager of the
Plant system, takes charge
Germany has not yet filed a formal
protest In the BundeSrath case
The senate finance committee pro-
pose two amendments to their bill
Hon p 6. Wilkes, an ex-confedeTate
congressman, dies at Stockton, Col.
Sea,board Air Line trains now cross
WaAsTee river on the new shortcut
The French treason trials have clos
ed with the conviction Of only three
Ex-Governor Bradley is the republ-
can candidate for senator in Kentucky
The steamer Buena Ventura is. libel-
ed for damaging the schooner Lock-
wood.
Captain Carl Reichman, of the Sew
enteenrh regiment, will accompany the
Boer army
A steamer, with a party of sports Or
board, is caught in an ice gorge IN Ten
nessee river.
In Coosa county, Georgia, revenue
officers have a pitched battle with
mOOnShiners.
The United States quartermaster's
tug ReSolute is sunk by collision, IN
Boston harbOr.
THE governments December crop re-
ch "
good condition.
Russia assures England that the lat:
tea. need fear no interference from her
i'm South Africa.
1t is said General French, who is CALL
ing for reimforcements, is not in hVe
miles of Colesberg.
A witness in the MolineuX case tes-
titles that any chemist could make the
poison sent to Cornish.
a commission merchant Of Baltimore
Is arrested in Atlanta on charge Cf vio-
lating the postal laws.
Transports from San Francisco to
Manila will not stop at Honolulu while
the plague exists there.
Government engineers estimate the
cost CT the proposed improvements III
James river at 1924, 943.
The short term :, aatoTial contest in
Mississippi IS getting hotter. Sullivan's S
friends reduce their claims.
The Consolidated Gas CO npany, of
New York, acquires maj ity OF the
lighting interests of that city.
An aged negro woman in Georgia
who had lost her mind, hearing and
. sight has all three to return-
The Venezuelan government has con-
fer-si the order of BUST of Bolivar"
on { eral of our naval officers.
Senator Chandler offers an amend
1nent TO the senate financial bill, pro-
vidirg for bimetallic standard.
Governor McLaurin's message to the
legislature deals strongly with the
Mormon question in Mississippi.
There are fears for the safety of the
transport Victoria, seventy-eight days
out from San Francisco for Manila
Mark Hanna will not be chairman Of
the national committee nor one or the
delegates at large to the NATIONAL con-
Vention.
Owners of the British steacmship
Bennett libel the Austrian steamship
Ragusa for $4,000 for towing her to
Norfolk.
The government case against Greene
and the Gaynors is taken up in New
York and the mysterious woman
again appears.
Ambassador Choate lays his protest
before the British premier against seiz-
ure of American cargoes. The premier
is not yet ready to reply.
Negroes of Macon, Ga, take steps to
put a stop to the eX-SQave pension
scheme for getting money out of them
by appealing to the courts.
England has not yet replied to Ger
many regarding the seizure Of the Bum
dersr-ath. Anti-British sentiment is
rapidly growing in Germany.
There are three supposed case Of bu-
bonie plague in Manila. The matter
Of handling the disease there has b9en
turned over to the marine hospital ser
vice.
Senator Pethgrew introduces reso-
luton OF inquiry from the secretary Of
war as to whether Aguinaldo, the day
after the first fight, made proposals for
cessation of the war which We're refus-
3D.
The republican state COMMITTEES will
try, by injunction, to prevent the Au-
gust election being held under the pres-
ent election law. They will also contest
the oonstitutionality of the amendment