The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-30
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

President Steyn arrived in Pretoria on
the 26.h and was received with enthu-
Siasm.
The ports Of Rio ,Janeiro and Santos
have been officially declared free from
the bubonic plague.
Captain 4Abercrombie has submitted
his report on the Copper river explora-
ton expedition in Alaska.
Lord Pauncefote, the British .imbaS
sador, it is expected, will withdraw from
service IN this country III April.
Emperor William Of Germany confer
red many decorations and promotions III
honor of his birthday anniversary.
The testimony has all been sub1rAltted
in the Goebel- Taylor contest IN ken-
lucky. Arguments will begin today.
The Senate decided yesterday by vote
Of q TO IS not to reconsider the vote by
which the Samoan treaty was ratified.
The election Of 90 French Senators re-
suited in rout for the Nataonalists,
who elected but three Of their 80 can
didates.
Yale Law School has decided TO try
the Southern plan OF placing students
ON their honor in examination instead
Of watching them.
The Queens speech at the opening Of
the British Parliament today will show
plainly that England intends to prose
cute the war until her ends are attained.
The protest against seating Senator
Scott. OF West Virginia, places the fs>
publicans in the role Of States rights
advocates Of the most pronounced type
Republican members of Congress will
beside this week whether a River and
Harbor Appropriation bin is to De in
troduCed tbis session.
Many Republican members Of the
House ROW deplore that Representative
Lacey's amendment to the ma jority re-
,ort on the Roberts case was not adopt
ed
President Mckinley has reiegated the
Philippine church property question--one
that may be considered embarrassing on
the eve Of a presidential election-to his
commission for settlement.
House elections committee numhor :,
Yesterday in the case OF White VS.. BonI-
ing contested election case IF kenfurny,
agreed upon q report favorable to Mir.
Boering Rep.), to sitting member.
Senator William +. Mason, OF Chicago,
has been asked by the Old Tippecanos.
Club. Of that city, TO resign his seat III
the Senate on account Of being out of
Harmony with the administration.
+. J. Martinez. Spaniard, has made
statement in New York, under oath,
supported by documents. that a Spanish
officer superintendent the planting and
explosion of the mine which wrecked
the baftleship Maine.
In suit al, Pittsburg OF the Mercan-
tile Trust Company against the Pitts
burg and Western Railway Company
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
many is charged with Improperly maIAs
eng the pittsbu~g Railway.
NJ. f. ingalls,. President of the Chesa
peake and Ohio Railroad Company has
announced that on February first next
he will retire from that office and that
he will be succeeded by George w.
Stevens, at present the general manager
Of the road.
The Lisbon correspondent of the
Standard says it is stated
that the indemnity 10 be
awarded Great Britain in the elagoa
Bay arbitration Will be so large that
Portugal viii be obliged to make over
the railway and the port OF Lorenzo
Marues to the British Government.
Advices from Nicaragua say Italy wlll
join Norway in sending warsnips T.
BuefieIds to collect claims for damages
10 her subjects. The itutan Gaze "a
that OF the owner OF steamboats, OIL
San Juan River whose property Was
seized and used as transports. y rAvo-
luton against ZaIaya is expected to
break out within a month.
Before Judge Call in he Circuit
court at jacksonville, Fla, in the case
of the Florida Railroad Commission
against the Plant System ana he
Florida Central and Peninsular Railway
to enforce a ruling of the :oDl,ni1slon
for three cents per mile rate, ,:nfn
f. Hartridge. of counsel for tie Pant
System, announced that his client w"uld
submit to the ruling of the COMMISSION
without further contention.
w. NJ. bridges, who was convicted
of appropiiating $5.745 OF tie school
funds of Floyd county, Ga, whom he
was ScEcol Commissioner and -'n-
fenced 10 FIVE years Imprisonment u the
penitcntiary will arrive at Rome Ga,
today to surrender himself TO the sheriff,
ing an appeal OF his case TO he Supreme
court. Bridges was for some ,i;ae
Baptist preacher.
In the United States Supreme court
yesterday two decisions were handed
down by Justice Harlan in eases involv-
ing the question Of the right OF pref.l-
ence over the mortgage holders If IN
solvent railroads by the creditors of such
roads whose debts ar, contracted N
| connection with the current conduct 81
the roads. The first Of these ca>c>
was that of the Southern Railr, II Con
pany VS.. The Carnegie Steel Company.
| This suit involved ~ Indebtedness, con-
tracted by the Richmond III Damrie
Railroad Company whose property was
| subsequently, absorbed by the Southern,
to the Carnegie Company. for two pur-
chases of steel rails made by the rail
road company within a "nar PRIOR 70
the appointments Of q rec eiyer Of the
Danville Company. The Carnegie Com