The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-12
TELtGRAPHiC SUMMARY.

critically lf.
The state charters several more in
dustrial companies.
Princess Aribert, Of Anhault, pays
visit TO the White house.
Wake county democrats nominate
y. B. Broughton for senator.
The Colorado prohibition convention
nominates full state ticket.
The Filipino general Pho del Pillar
was captured by native police.
Two squadrons OF the Third cavalry
are ordered to the Philippines
AT Traverse City, Mich, three men
are killed by a boiler explosion.
Right Rev. Henry Moeller is ap-
pointed bishop of Columbus, Ohio.
The battIeships Indiana and Massa-
chusetts arrive at Hampton Roads.
Judge PurneH will hold all the
courts of the western district until fall.
England is confronted with an in
ternational crisis in the China situa-
tion.
Eight men are now supposed to have
been killed in the mine explosion in
Ohio.
Mayor VanWyck is put on the stand
and testifies as to his transactions in
Ice Trust stock.
At Columbus, Ga, a negro is lynch
ed He was caught in the bed room
of two white girls.
Three men are killed and eight in
jured by a boiler explosion at brick
works near Admission, Ala.
A Chinese royal edict censures Gen
eral Nieh ST ChOng for having killed
some of the Boxers in battle.
The receiver found the Southern
National Building and Loan Associa-
ton, of Atlanta, hopelessly involvent.
The schooner Lucy Porter runs on
shoals twelve miles north of Hatteras,
but is gotten off by lifesaving crews.
P. Llorillard's houseboat Caiman,
costing 100000, has been entirely de-
Stroyed by fire in one Of the Florida
rivers.
General Otis arrived at Rochester,
N Y, says it will take years TO estab-
lish a stable government in the Phil
ippines.
The French consul at Yum Nan Sen
is officially notified that the Chinese
authorities are powerless TO protect
foreigners.
In Baldwinsville, KY, Mrs. James
Small shoots and kills Mrs. Lou Os-
trander as the result of jealousy over
the formers son.
The jury in the case of Rev. ]. E.
r. Riddick on trial for the murder OF
Il
Saturday night.
The creditors of Jacobs Brothers,
1.-The six little tailors" are considering
a proposition for a settlement at 90
cents on the dollar.
The sheriff of St. Louis asked the
governor TO call out the state troops
to suppress the riots. The governor
has yet taken no action.
A town thirteen miles from Pekin
has been burned by the Boxers and
twenty native Christians murdered.
The Boxers movement isNspreadins-
The American missionary at Tung
Chow, China, urgently request Minis
ter Conger to send them a guard to
escort fifteen women and children to
Pekin.
The Nashville, in place of the Hele-
ma, is on her way to Taku- We nave
several other warships at Shangnal
available for reinforcing the Newark
in case of their need
Flowers from North Carolina. South
Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky
were Yesterday strewn upon the graves
of confederate dead in burying ground
at Camp Chase, Columbus. Ohio
The legislature will not adjourn
sine die so long as the supreme court
remains in session. The latter has al
ready extended its session beyond all
precedent and is filing opinions more
slowly since arguments ceased tnan
before.
The destruction of Russian chapel
nv the Boxers gives Russian the de-
sired pretext to land more troops, wnlch
she clearly intimateS she Will do unless
the allied powers are not very agSres-
sive The American mission at Eel
Tang Chow has been burned Ihe
Boxers movement is spreading raplsly'