The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-05-14
NEWS OF THE DAY
'TERSELY RELATED.
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Cream Of Late Dispatches From The
Four Quarters of the Globe.

Mr.. Witte. Finance Minister Of
Russia, has resigned.
subscriptions to the TransvaaI
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-Ohwang, 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.
;ian pressure. The weakness of the
Chinese foreign Office excites pity.
In letter over his signature Mr..
Cleveland says be is not DESTROYS OF
the presidential nomination.
Chief of Police Sylvester of Wash.
lngton, will attend the Convention
Of Police Chiefs at New Orleans.
Thirteen christians were killed
md nineteen wounded iE the dis
;ur bance at Monastir.
# Colomb fails to ratify the ca.
sal treaty Panama will seek annex
ltion to the United States.
The Lamorie dam in Rapides par
sh, La, has beer destroyed by ex-
2losives, 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-
Used Andrew Carnegie's profit
sharing plan.
Rear Admiral Cotton has been in
tructed tc take the United States
European squadron. now at Vile
rancEe, tc Kiel.
The Pekin correspondent OF the
Associated Press says that the
alarming stories eminating from GER
lain quarters to the effect that a
massacre of foreigners by Chinese
S contemplated are untrue.
The German Government regards
he Turku-Bulgarla situation as
being grave, but responsible Off
:ials say that if a collision can be
,taved off thr ough the summer more
ober counsels can get hearing in
The winter when military action is
impossible.
The opinion prevails in London
that an Anglo-Japanese- American
:oIn bination is the only thing that
Will prevent the dismem berment of
The Celestial Empire.
The Pope through Mgr. Bisleti,
he Master of the Cham Der, has for
varded to the Rev. Francis J. Van
Antwerp, of Detroit, Mich, an au-
ograph letter addressed to Presi-
ieEt Roosevelt, thanking him for
ais jubilee present.
The Shreveport and Red River
Valley Railroad has been reorgan-
zed under the name of the Louis
ana Railway and Navigation Con-
2any, with a capital stock of $12..
700, 600. The line will be immedi-
ltely extended to New Orleans.
A resolution was introduced in
he Southern Baptist Convention at
Savannah. Ca, by George Hilly, of
Atlanta. Ga, to change the name of
The body to the Baptist Convention
If the United States. Under the
Jules the resolution will be acted
lpon next year.
The State Department has re-
,sived from Minister Conger coz
irmation of the dispatches to the
Associated Press from Pekin. that
he Russians re-entered New Chwang
md then retired.
Great interest is manifested in
The coming republican convention
a Ohio. A bitter fight IS promised