The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-14
NEWS OF The DAY
TERSELY RELATED.
Doings of a Great Busy World Told
in Terse Paragraphs.
WAVES FROM THE MAGIC WIRES
Condensed and Served While Hot To
Our Readers in Labor Saving Slices....
Cream of Late Dispatches From The
Four Quarters of the Globe.


subscriptions to the T~ransvaaI
loan have closed in London.
King Edwards prestige at home
has been strengthened by his trip
abroad.
A mosque at Kinpriul, Turkey,
was blown up with dynamite by
Macedonians.
Russian troops have been with
drawn from New-Chwang, Man
churia.
A number of Christians and Turks
were killed during the recent riot
at Monastir.
Cardinal Vaugan's condition is so
serious that he has received the last
sacrament.
China is giving way before Rus.
sian pressure. The weakness of the
Chinese foreign Office excites pity.
In a letter over his signature Mr..
Cleveland says he is not DESTROYS of
the presidential nomination.
Chief of Police Sylvester of Wash
ington, will attend the Convention
Of Police Chiefs at New Orleans.
Thirteen christians we're killed
and nineteen wounded liz the dis.
turbance at Morastir.
If Colon bia fails to ratify the ca
ral treaty Panama will seek annex
alton to the United States.
The Lamorle dam in Rapides par
ish, La, has beer destroyed by ex.
plosives, presumably by persons
living about the dyke.
The conductors and trainmen en-
ployed by the Mobile and Ohio Rail.
road went out on a strike for an in.
crease in wages.
The Duke of Devorshire, in a
speech in London, severely criti.
cised Andrew Carnegie's profit
sharing plan.
Rear Admiral Cotton has been in.
structed tc take the United States
European squadron, now at Vile.
fIancEe, tC Kiel.
The Pekin correspondent OF the
Associated Press says that the
alarming stories eminating from cer.
tain quarters to the effect that q
massacre of foreigners by Chinese
is contemplated are untrue.
The German Government regards
the Turku-Bulgarla situation as
being grave, but responsible Off.
Gals say that if. a collision can be
STAYED off thr ougk the summer more
sober counsels can get a hearing in
the winter when military action is
impossible.
The opinion prevails In London
that an Anglo-Japanese-America
combination is the only thing that
will prevent the dismem berment of
the Celestial Empire.
The Pope through Mgr. Bisleti,
the Master of the Chamber. has for
warded to the Rev. Francis J. Van
Antwerp, nf Detroit, Mich, an au.
tograph letter addressed to Presi-
dert Roosevelt, thanking him for
his jubilee present.
The Shreveport and Red River
Valley Railroad has been reorgan-
lied under the name of the Louis.
lana Railway and Navigation Com
pany, with a capital stock of $12..
900 600. The line will be immedi.
ately extended to New Orleans.
A resolution was introduced in
the Southern Baptist Convention at
Savannah. Ca, by George Hilly, OF
Atlanta, Ca, to change the name of
the body to the Baptist Convention
of the United States. Under the
rules the resolution will be acted
upon next year.
The State Department has re.
ceived from Minister Conger cor.
frmation of the dispatches to the
Associated Press from Pekin that
the Russians re-entered New Chwang
and then retired.
Great interest is manifested in
the coming republican convention
in Ohio. A bitter fight IS promised
between the Hanna and Foraker
factions over a resolution ~irdorsing
president Roosevelt for renomina-
tior.