The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-08-04

| learned went to their homes with IN
| iuries which we're considered too slight TO
| record.
Telegraphic Briefs.
Senator Cullom, who spent yesterday
| with the President, says he does not look
for any general tariff revision.
James Kirby and Robert Lee were
hanged at st. Augustine, Fla, yesterday
for the murder of julius F.. Skew last
May.
George w. Ranck, one of the best
| known literary men of Kentucky, was
| killed by Louisville and Nashville train
| yesterday.
All was quiet at Carrolton, Miss, yes
terday and last night. There were ru-
mors of additional lynchings, but the re-
ports were without foundation.
| The Columbia and independence will
race today over a triangular course in
/ the second contest of the series OF the
/ Newport Yacht Racing Association.
| A telegram from New Orleans says that
! a mob from Carrollton, Miss, was chasing
| SaIlie Sutton. a sister of Belfield McCray,
! yesterday, but had been unable to catch
her.
Within ten days the property selected
by the board which located the naval
station at Charleston. S. c., will have
passed into the ownership of the United
States.
| When Thomas B. Reed was informed
that he had been mentioned as possible
candidate for mayor of New York, he
smiled at what he called the absurdity
of the proposition.
Robert S. Mcclellan, one of the detec-
| tives employed by the Society of Proven
| ton of Crime was attacked and injured
| yesterday in an alleged pool room in the
| rear of TIA Broadway, New York.
| At the Colorado quarto- centennial cele-
| bration at Colorado Springs yesterday
! Theodore Roosevelt, Vice president of the
| United States, spoke on THE Growth of
| the West During the Last Quarter Of a
| Century
David L. Short and Morris l.. Meyers,
| jointly indicted with Albert T. Patrick, in
| connection with the alleged forgery OF a
| will of William Marsh Rice, were re-
leased from the Tombs on deposit of $15.-
600 cash bail. '2i
Word has reached Seattle, Washn.,
| from Victoria of the alleged defalcation
of auartermaster's clerk, John McCaull.
| and his disappearance from the United
| States transport Egbert, on which he
was assigned to duty.
With a rope around his neck and death
| before him. Charley Bentley, negro, con-
| fessed to the murder of Jim Vann, allas
| Williams a white man, and was hanged
| by mob near Leeds, Ala, in st. CAR
| county. at noon yesterday The body was
| riddled with bullets.
| A report on corundum by the geological
! survey saws that its mining mas been
| confined to northeastern Georgia ana
| southwestern North Carolina and that
during the past few years North Caro-
lima is the only State that has produced
| any.
George C. Thomas, broker and a
| member of the consolidated exchange OF
| New York. was arraigned before United
| States Commissioner Shields charged with
! violating the war revenue act In railing
| to place revenue stamps on sales OF
| stocks He waived examination and was
held in $1,000 bail for examination.
| The Beers who are invading portuguese
territory number 1,500. They crossed the
line near Manetzi and are now going
northward toward Komatipoort A SWISS
| farmer reports that his farm buildings
have been burned and his stock have
been driven off and that his wife and
servants are missing
| The Congress of Nicaragua assembled
last night when President Zelaya read
message advocating the Monroe Doctrine,
welcoming the assistance OF the united
States against European colonization IN
the Americas and setting forth that
Nicaragua is anxious for the construction
/, of the canal ny the United States.
-,
Suit is to be filed by the Attorney Gen
| eral of Texas to cancel the permit OF the
Waters Pierce Oil Company, of Missouri,
to do business in Texas. Under the anti
trust law, 81 1893 corporations are required
| to file an affidavit each year, stating IN
effect that they have not been guilty OF
restraint of trade. This the Waters
Pearce Oil Company has failed to 60.
| In the British House of Commons last
night a motion was made to reduce the
salary of the Colonial Secretary, Joseph
Chamberlain, and his policy OF devasta-
ton in South Africa was savagely at
tackled Chamberlain defended himself
with vigor, declaring the Government
| would carry on the war until the Beers
were completely subdued. The motion
to reduce his salary was lost.
| Phillips to Resume Business.
(By the Associated Press)
Chicago, ILL.,, Aug. George E. Phil-