The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-11

uprising of negroes feared.
"A contract was made yesterday for
machinery for n new cotton mill to be
built Mt Lauriuburg, y. c.
The long standing accounts between
the State of Tennessee and the United
States are said to be in a fair way OF
settlement at last.
The President has nominated Henry L..
Howison. Albert KautZ, George c. Rem
ey and Norman II. .Farquhar to be Rear
Admirals in the navy.
William j.. Wilson, President of the
University of Virginia, is Ell route To
Nriznna. where he will spend the winter
in the hope of finding relief from pull
monary troubles.
At Frankfort. Indiana. manufacturers
Of gun stocks have received rush order
from the Transvaal for 125,000 gun
stocks, to be shipped via New York to
South Africa. The factory is also get
ting out 100000 gun stocks for the Ger
man Government.
Miss Cecilia Sherman AIiles( daughter
OF the general commanding the army.
and Captain Samuel Reber. L. s. A.,
were married ut Washington yesterday
and left ON Southern tour. The we'd
ding was an ultra fashionable Cne.
Representative Mann. of Illinois intro
duced in the House a bill appropriating
$3.50 to improve the plot OF ground
owned by the United States and known
as Confederate Mound in Oakwood
Cemetery, Chicago. in which are buried
twelve Uniom and 4.039 Confederate sol
diers who died at Camp Douglas during
the Civil War.
Two six inch bronze Spanish cannon.
formerly a part of the defenses at Fort
San Felipe. Manila, and captured by Ad-
miral Dewey at the battle of Manila Bay
have been presented to the city of AT
lanta to be used at the base of the mon
ument which will be erected to the MEM
ory eff the late Lieutenant Brumby by the
people of Georgia
Lieutenant r. O. Crisp. Assistant In
-
in his report to the Department on the
stranding and wreck of the British steam
er "Anieoto'' near Ocracoke. \. c., sec
tion on December oath last. fully exon
crates the life saving crew from all
blame. He says that the loss of the Il
lives was largely due to misjudgment on
the part of the unfortunate sailors themr
selves in abandoning their ship before all
I, hoJ Il
On the unusual charge of dealing in
Confederate States money, s. NJ. Da-
Wis, who conducts general mail order
business on Monroe street. Chicago, was
arrested by G0vernment officers and
held to the Federal Grand Jury by
United States Commissioners Humphrey.
If an indictment results, the case will be
made test case in the United States
District Court, and if a conviction Is
returned, all persons dealing in C0nfed-
crate money even as curios will be liza
BILE to prosecution.
Captain Charles III. Hill, now III At
lanta, who was an officer ON the Brazil
ian revolutionary cruiser Nlehteroy mad
received a letter from Lieutenant Nc
Donald Craven, who was on the Nlchte-
roy with him Offering him command OF
a converted yacht armed with two 40
inch guns which had been equipped by the
Beer Government to prey upon British
commerce o1l the Atlantic coast. Il. A.
Steyn was named as the Transyaal agent.
with headquarters in Savannah. who had
arranged for the expedition which was
to start from the Bahamas. Steyn went
to- Atlanta, it is stated, to induce Hill to
join the expedition hut Hill refused. In
vestigation in Savannah fails to disclose
any clue to Steyn or any one answering
to his description.
At Norfolk, Va, yesterday Charles III.
Parker, four years old, who was badly
injured by heavy sign falling on him