The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-24
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The house passes the naval appro-
priation bill.
Three industrial companies secure
charters from this state
There has been a sudden outbreak OF
bubonic plague in Manila
MCKINLEY attends the Cuban orphan
age society festival in New York.
Twenty-Five or thirty lives have
been lost in the forest fires raging In
Manitoba.
It is said 400 people are suffering for
want of food on account OF the Strike
in Chicago.
Colonel CoIson is acquitted Of the
murder Of Lieutenant Scott and L. ID.
DemaTee.
II is expected that fall of water in
the flooded districts OF Mississippi will
begin today.
The free silver republicans change
the name of their party 10 Lincoln
republicans"
There were no demonstrations of any
kind at the scene of the Croton water
works strike Saturday.
Many of the prisoners captured by
the British in South Africa turnout
to be women in mems clothing
Southern railway wires between Raj
eieh and Selma are repaired. TWO
wires were cut Saturday morning.
Chairman Simmons declines, for rea-
sons given in his letter of reply. to en-
ter into a joint canvass with the pop
ulists.
Secretary of War Root says that ex-
ira allowances have been made for
certain army officers doing civil duty
in Cuba
There is much excitement on st.
Helena island, caused by the mysteri-
Gus maneuyers of a French warShlp
nearby.
Several of the railroads entering
New Orleans are now able to run trains
into that city as result of the subsiding
of the floods.
The Ecuminical Conference on For
egn Missions assemblies in New York,
of the world.
Coast Line of South Carolina meet at
Charleston and approve the consolida-
ton of the system.
The heavy rains cause much damage
in South Carolina; a freight train is
wrecked near Spartanburg and other
trains are delayed.
Colonel Howe, of the FOrty-seventh
regiment reports the eruption of the
volcano Mayon, near Legaspi, Luzon,
Isl
On May 18th 100000 machinists in
New York and other cities will go on
strike if their demands for a nine
hour day is not granted.
The estimated loss from the flood in
southern and central Mississippi is
$4,000, ,000 not counting the damage
sustained by the railroads.
The house committee on labor agrees
upon a bill prohibiting any govern
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more than eight hours a day.
At Landersen, Fla, Earnest E.
Pons is shot and killed in an alterca-
tion with Richard and James Ahwan
as the result of an old feud.
Near Minden, La, negro, after a
quarrel with a white man, shoots the
latter from behind then runs to his
cabin and takes his own life.
The friends of Governor Taylor say
they have no knowledge of his being
indicted in the Goebel case, but if in
dicted he will return to Kentucky.
The Paris exposition, while opened
to the public during the day, is closed
at 6 o'clock p m. when work on COM
pleting the exhibitions is carried on
Republicans of the senate claim that
the president as cOmmader-ln-chle1
of the army has powers far beyond
what congress may confer upon him
as president
Spencer Wilkinson says the Boer
tactics consist in forcing the British
to attack and to make eXhaustlng
marches across a barren and road
less country to do so.
The New York World says Governor
Taylor, of Kentucky, is in that city
in consequence of the finding of bill
for murder against him in Kentucky
and that he has appealed to Governor
Roosevelt not to surrender him on re-
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