The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-03-21
TELEGRAf'HIC SUMMARY.

At Aberdeen. Miss, the head of
man being hung Is severed by tbs
pope.
Congressman Payne introduces the
bill for establishing reciprocity with
Cuba.
Argument of appeals from the
Seventh district is concluded in the
supreme court
The C. P Huntington estate, now
being inventoried, will amount to
about s29, 200.
James r. Garfield. SON OF the late
president, will be appointed civil SER
vice commissioner.
General Macarthur is assigned to
the Department of the Lakes, with
headquarters ill Chicago.
Turkey fatty refuses the demand
of our government for repayment o:
the ransom of Miss Stone
In Concordia parish, Louisiana, a
negro who had enticed a white man to
his house and killed him is lynched.
The steamer Ell Alba, New York for
New Orleans reports passing a wreck
ed schooner in latitude 1923 north
Many citizens, charged with con-
spring against the Haytian govern
ment are arrested in Port au Prince.
w. ]. Bryan moves to his farm ana
will live in the barn until a handsome
residence he is building is completed.
Thomas =. Howard, a Knoxville
policeman, is killed by two men who
shoot him from the street through a
window.
The battleship Kaiser Wilhelm II,
with the emperor and Prince Henry
aboard reached Kiel at $50 o'clock last
evening.
1t is not yet known how many peo-
pie perished in the Hoboken dock fire
and it is thought the number never
will be known.
The president will reappoint De-
veaux, the negro collector of customs
of Savannah. despite the opposition o.
the white republicans.
1t is held by the government legal
advisers that the extradition treaty
with Canada covers the case of Greene
and Gaynor.
No civilians were engaged in the
fatal row near Fort Morgan, Alabama.
Sunday. Lynching of the slayer of the
soldier was threatened.
President Williams. of the Seaboard
Air Line cont-adicts the report that
his company has bought the Virginis
and Southwestern road.
Senator Morgan presents the ma
jority and minority reports of his com
mittee on the validity of title OF the
new Panama Canal Company.
Three speeches were made in the
Wilcox-Cropsey murder case yester-
day Each side will close today and
the case go to the jury tomorrow
Representatives from the Carolinas
and several other southern states meet
at Charleston and form the Southern
Independent Telephone Association.
1t is said there were a number Of
boxes of cartridges for the Beers
among the freight burned on the
wharves at Hoboken Tuesday night
Our consul general at Guayaquil.
Ecuador. will come to Washington to
confer with officials relative TO our
troubles with he former government.
Edmund J. Pemberton. OF Fayette-
Vile. a student Of the state uni
versity. died Yesterday afternoon OF
pneumonia after an illness of only a
few hours.
The Official Messenger. Of st. Peters
burg. publishes the teFt OF the con-
joint ~Russo-Frcnch declaration to the
other powers Es TO their attitude In far
eastern matters.
The California supreme court de-
clares invalid the. trust clause as to
personality OF the viii Of the late Jas
G. Fair and orders its distribution
among his children
: The house democratic caucus de-
cides to use every means to force the
committee to make reports on the
the Beers. The Crumpacker resolu-
ton wa not taken nm i -