The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-08
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES

| BERLIN. Aug. 1.-The Berlinsr Taee- olatt announces that Wilhelm Never bach. its correspondent with the Boers. mas been arrested by the British on a charge of espionage. LONDON. Aug. S.-It was officially an- nounced today that the tour of the Duke ana Duchess of Cornwall and York will not be curtailed.
 WASHINGTON. Aug. 7.-Presidcnt Mo- Kfniey has commuted the sentence of Pri- | vate Frederick Morris. Company K 49th volunteers to life imprisonment Morris | was convicted of murder by court mar | tial at TEguagararao, LuZJn, and gen. | fenced to death.
 LONDON. Aug. S.-The Gazette an- | nounces that the Court of St. James will assume full mourning for the Dowager Empress of Germany Aug. 8.
 LONDON. Aug. 7.-The Exchange Tele- graph Company says that Andrew Car | negie has been invited to become Lord
 Rector of the University of Aberdeen in succession to Lord Strathcona and Mount | Royal.
 CAMBRIDGE. Mass, Aug. IA ,tele- | gram has been received at the Harvard College Observatory from Professor H. C.
 Wilson at Northfield. stating that be ob- served Enck's comet Aug. 5. | INDIANAPOLIS. Aug 7-rhe National | Convention of Window Trimmers losed its work tonight. after selecting Milwau- kee for the next convention. c. w. Nor | ton. Sacramento, Cal, was elected presi- dent.
 MANILA. Aug. 1.-The United Statec | cruiser Brooklyn, flying the flag of Rear Admiral Remey, has arrived here from Australia. where the vessel took part in the celebrations attending the opening of the first Australian Parliament.
 COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo. Aug. r. The Western Negro Press Association to- day adopted resolutions condemning Sem ator Tillman of South Carolina for his recent utterance on the race question and denounces white people who have burned negroes at the stake.
 MEMPHIS. Aug. 1.-The disturbed con- ditions at the plant of the Southern Car where 100 men walked out yesterday, is about settled. great number returned to work and 1t Is understood that the men will resume operations tomorrow The others were dissatisfied with changes in payday.
 MEMPHIS. Aug, IA trolly car be- longing to the Memphis Street Railway Company was derailed while crossing a bridge over bayou at Second and Hill Streets just before o'clock today and five persons were injured more or less seri- ously. The injured will recover.
 VAN BUREN Ark. Aug. 1.-The largest mortgage ever recorded here was that filed with Ciruit Clerk Saddler today, be- ing for ss5,0OO,OOO. It was given by the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad com pany in favor of the Morton Trust Com pany of New York City. The mortgage Is payable Tn gold in 1851 and bears interest not to exceed per cent. War revenue ct in ba nf Sl2 at. tached.
 WASHINGTON. Aug. 7.-There are evil dences in case the negotiations for the resumption of work on the Joint High Commission prove successful, the British Government may consider the adVisabil- ity of naming Lord PauncefOte to sue ceed the late Lord Hereschel as head Ofg the delegation representing British and Canadian interests.
 CoEBURN. Va. Aug. John Fugate, colored. the condemned man under sem tence to hang on the 23rd inst. and who escaped with two other prisoners from the county jail at Wise Monday. was caught last night by the Sherin near Wise He was in the woods and thought he had crossed the line into Kentucky.
 RICHMOND Va. Aug. At the ses- sion of the Virginia Bar Association at White Sulphur Springs today MT. Massie read q pdner on the Torrens system of recording real estate transfers, which was discussed f..VOrably by several members. Officers were elected anI a committee was app1, nted to appear before the Con stitutiofal Convention and present the merits of the Torrens system
 BERLIN. Aug. 7.-Emporor William, re- cinrocating the recent courtesy of the Sul- tan of Morocco has presented to Abdul Fl Asiz for the new geological garden at Fez q lion d Bengal tiger, leopards. bears, stags and Indian and Japanese cranes anu parrots all purchased through a Ger man dealer.
 BOSTON Aug. T.-The cighty-fifth an- nuai report of tho Congregational Edua- ton Society, made public today, states that greater sums have been raised in the West than before and that the society has given considerably more to academies and missions than last year. has paid all outstanding claims. is clear of debt and has d small working balance.
 HAVANA, Aug. At today's meeting of the Constitutional Convention Senor Cisnerc.s presented a resolution that Senor Giberga be called upon to explain what he meant in his recent declaration that Narti was the evil genius of Cuba or to withdraw from the convention. The con- vention adopted modification of the res olution. expressing sympathy with the attitude of Senor Cisneros and disapprov- ing the conduct Of Senor GiAerga but