The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-04
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.


Winston Churchill has been appointed
a squadron leader in the South African
horse
Williams Waldorf Aytor has contribut-
ed 1000 pounds sterling to the Prince of
Wales Hospital Fund.
1T is reported at Durham that the Gao
tltrod German steamer Bundesrath had
ON board five big guns, 30 tons of shells
and $50 trained artillerymen.
Until all danger of a spread of the
plague now prevalent in Honolulu is past.
transports from San Francisco to the
Philippines will not stop there.
The schooner Eva ID. Rose, from Nor
folk, for Camden. \. j., which Went
ashore Tuesday at Cold Spring harbor
\. j.. remains in the same position.
Governor Roosevelt i'll his message to
the Legislature, recommends the repeal
of the Horton Boxing Law, permitting
prize fighting in the State of New York.
At Vallejo. Cal. yesterday Commodore
Farragut's flagship. the Hartford, was
floated out Of dry docks, where she has
been for the past three months under
going repairs.
The schooner s. T. Hitchcock from
Brunswic Ga, for Both, Maine. loaded
with lumber, went ashore at Moriches,
Long Island, some time during Tuesday
night. The vessel lies easy
At Adairsyille. Ky. yesterday, III an
alteration which occurred IN DIR. Gays
office DIR. NJ T. Gays Shot and killed
Ed 0. Griffey, then shot himself through
the heart. Both died instantly
Some Macon negroes are taking steps
to see if the operations OF the National
Ex-Slave Mutual Relief Bounty and
Pension Association Of the United States
of America cannot be stopped by law.
At Tampa. Fla. a Cuban club. Ell Ma
cional, has been organized with large
membership to work for Cuban indie
pendence. It's purpose is said to be
10 cooperate with Cuban leaders in
Havana.
Yesterday General Wood issued an inn
portant order giving freedom to forty
men III the province Of Santa Clara
Some Of them had been detained without
trial and others We're suffering eXces-
sive punishment.
emperor Nicholas has assured the Brit
fish Ambassador at st. Petersburg, (Sir
4 I l,-st ,,.A4
fear intervention or amy sort of diff
Guilty from Russia in the present South
African complications.
Captain Carl Reichmann, of the Seven
teenth infantry, and assistant adjutant
general of volunteers. has been detailed
by the Secretary of War to accompany
the Boer army for the purpose of Oh
serving and reporting upon military OPP
erations in the war in South Africa.
Near Fort Valley, Ga. lives Aunt
Polly Jordan, a negro woman, 1OI years
of age Some years ago she lost both
sight and hearing and her mind became
deranged. Recently hearing and sight
have both returned and her mental bad
ance is completely restored.
The formal opening of the Armstrong
Slater Memorial Trades Building ut tine
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Insti-
tute, WEI take place january 10th. This
building has been erected and equipped
at cost of $50. 900 and is the largest
and most complete structure on the
grounds.
An encounter took place yesterday
among the hills of Coosa county, Ala
ibama, between "a posse of six revenue
officers, and band of lawless mountain.
GERS, among them mo0nshiners. against
whom warrants are pending. Three or
four of the mountaineers We're shot, and
the officers have arrested the others
/ want to let the people vino suffer
from rheuma tism and sciatica know that
Chamberlain Pain Balm relieved me
after a number of other medicines and
ment | have ever known of. a.
Dodgen, Alpharetta, Ga. Thousands
have been cured of rheumatism by this
remedy. One application relieves tile
pain. For sale everywhere. Bohhitt
w nIle Drug 10. Huu II. Il. EIitNS, I)fuH-
gists. Raleigh.
The United States quartermaSter tug
Resolute. Captain George Loring, was
sunk in Boston harbor early last night
in a collision with the steel ocean tug
Swatara, of the Philadelphia and Read
ing Coal Company's fleet. An on board
are believed ITO have been saved except
Engineer Henry Cutchine, who had not
been found at late hour last night.
j. j. Bevry, Loganton, Pa, writes, Il
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of One Minute Cough Cure after doctors
failed. 1t also cured my children of
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