The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-01

Washington. July 30.-The Agricultural
Department today took It's first acton
under the amended food act OF July J.,
1903. by requesting authority from the
Treasury Department to take samples and
make a chemical analysis OF certain food
products shipped to this country from
abroad The permission asked Tor mas
been granted and an official examination
of these products vii he made to deter
mine whether their use is deliterious to-
health.
Port of Spain, Island of Trinidad, July
30-Passengers who have just arrived
from Caracas say that in consequence of
the incident which occurred last Monday
at La Guiara, where as a result of fric-
ton between the Spanish consul and the
local authorities the exequatur of the
consul was withdrawn, the diplomatic
corps at Caracas met and decided to send
a joint note of protest They took this
action, it is said, not for the purpose of
assisting the Spanish claims before the
mixed tribunal, but because of the pre-
eedent which would be established thereby.
Trenton, ~ j., July 3O.--A summons
was served in Newark today on former
United States Senator James Smith, re
ceiYer for the United States Ship building
Company in proceedings instituted in
Maine by the Mercantile Trust Company
of New York, to, foreclose a sixteen mil
lion dollar mortgage on the shipbuilding
property The suit is similar to n suit
instituted in Maine. and is designed toI
reach the company's property in that
State. The summons is returnable Sep
TENDER 18th.
London, July 31.-The Times this morn
ing prints a Toxic dispatch, which says
that Korea contemplates re-purchaslng
the lands privately acquired by the Rus
slams at Yongampho and afterwards leas-
ing them to Russian holders, thus legallz-
ing their tenure. said to have been origi-
nally obtained in defiance OF treaties. This
display of Korea's tendency to condono
Russian aggression, adds the correspond
ent is commented on in Japan, where the
Russian settlement at Yongampho is re-
garded as a second Port Arthur in embryo.
Washington. July 3O-King Menelik, CT
Abyssinia, is to have his own mint, which
will be in full operation at his capital.
Adds Ababa, by the first of the coming
States consul at Alden in a report to the
Department of Commerce and Labor.
Hitherto, King Menelik has had a limited
silver coinage, the mintage being done in
France. For some time the King has
been putting aside bullion for coinage pur
pose, and now it is understood that he
has over .230 pounds of gold bullion on
hand Decides a large amount of silver.
Roanoke, Va, July 30.-Every wheel on
the Norfolk and Western Railway system
stool still for ten minutes this morning
from 10:45 to 1885 o'clock during the fun
eral hour at Philadelphia of F. ]. Kim
ball, late president of the Norfolk and
Western. All departments of the road
ceased work and in Roanoke all the city
offices and most of the business houses
were closed from TO- 80 until H. 80. Similar
marks of respect were shown the deceased
throughout this section of Virginia.
Washington, July 30.-Secretek.~ Cortel- |
you has decided to select a limited mum
Der of women from eligible lists furnished
by the Civil Service Commission for APP
pointment matrons In the immigration |
service to board incoming vessels and as
gers. A three months trial of tins plan
last spring led to its abandonment.
New York, July 30.-AnnouncementsI
is made that the New York Daily News,
plant and good will will be sold at auction
in this city on August 81. The Daily
News has been published by the New
York News Publishing Company, of which
Frank A. Munsey is the principal stock
holder.
London, July 3O.-It is understood that
the members of the House interested lii
the arbitration question will return the
visit of the French arbitration group that
the visit to Paris will be made in Noveni-
her, and that Premier Balfour and Sn
Henry Campbell Bannerman will accom-
pany the members of the Commons.
Richmond. Va, July 30.-J. H. II. Girls
r2cnd, the missing county clerk OF Spott- |
sylvania has been heard from in Mexico
IN letter received by the equity judge |
VIII has not given out its contents.
Vienna, July 30.-The Allgemcine lei
tung asserts that British mediation at |
Toxic and French mediation at st. Peters |
burg for the moment has averted the dan
ger of war if it has not opened the way to
a Russo Japanese understanding
Washington, July 30.-At the Russian
Embassy today it was said that nothing |
whatever is known regarding the pub
hshed report that Count Cassini was |
about to resign his post in Washington.
On the contrary he is fully expected to
return in September.
Washington, July 30.-The Postmaster
General has ordered the establishment of
free delivery postal service on November
l, next, at Yazoo City. Miss