NEWS OF THE WIRES,
Happenings of the Past Week told
in Short Paragraphs. .
SOME NEWS OF IMPORTANCE.
Foreign, Domestic and State Squibs
are Included, Which Makes it
Interesting.
TUESDAY.
Natal is now free of Boer tioops.
General Brobant gains a victory
oyer the Boers. x
President McKinley still -favois
free trade for Porto Rico..
Edward Flanagan, the famous
Atlanta murderer, is dead.
Many women who are good shots
are found among the .Boer prisoners.
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Tha spnate agrees to the confer-
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ence report on the financial bill.
The Kentucky house tables a bill
to repeal the Goebel election law
Thf national convention of the
snoml democratic nartv convenes in
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Indianapolis.
The scenes on the recent battle
fields between Ladysinith and Colen-
so are most horrible.
PAPPiit. "British victories have a
very quieting effect on the rebe
Dutch of Cape Coioay.
Alfred Harmer, of Pennsylvania,
who was elected to every congress
save one, since 1870, died today.
.Near Baxley, Ga., twenegroes kill,
a white man. Taey also mortally
wounded his wife and kill 3ais
infant.
The preliminary trial of Harlan
Whittaker, charged with the murder
of Governor Goebel, was begun
today.
j seph G. Metcalfe, of .New York,
a real estate broker, is arrested on
charge of being a fugitive from jug-,
tice from North Carolina.
On account of bad health Admiral
Watson will give up command of
thf Asiatic squadron and he will be
succeed by Admiral Remey.
In West Virginia 100 or more
miners -are entombed by an explosion.
Many wounded and fifty dead bodies
have been brought out.
WEDNESDAY.
Newport "Nfcws plumbers go
on
strike.
A British force ha3 entered Trans
vaal from Zululand.
There are no Boers within twenty
nrles of lady smith
Philadelphia has a $700,000 fire in
the retail dry goods district.
Cornell's base ball schedule incln
des t wo games in this state.
There is a supposed case of bu
bonic plague in Chinatown, in, San
Francisco.
A British steamship libels the Ola
Domin on steamship Jamestown for
$3,500.
Grover Cleveland passes through
Charlotte going to Florida. He is in
good health.
By a flank movement General
Roberts drives the Boers from their
position in his front.
Ratifications of the Samoan arbi
tration treaty are exchanged between
the three powers.
Four negroes supposed to be the
murderers of Dan Minis, in Georgia
have been arrested. ''
In Hinds county, Mississippi,
there is se terrible epidemic of small
pox. Nearly 100 deaths have oc
curred in one section in the last six
weeks.
THURSDAY. .
Secretary of War Root reaches
Havana.
The condition of affairs at Mife-
kinsr are becominer horrible, estill
there is no talk of surrendreicg.
Another batch of Kentucky demo
crats are indicted in the federal
court for attempting to intimidate
voters.
A Russian, said to De an American
citizen, hae been sentenced to! imH
prisonment at Kimberly for signaling
to the besiegers. . '. -
Senator Bacon in trodujes an
amendment to the Porto : Rican bill
providing for fret : trade between
Porto Rico and the United States
Secretary Hester shows'-that up to
the close of -February .the r cotton
brought into ; sight; was 1,754,524
bales less - thkn If or same time last
year. -
t Three " battalions of troops -who
have been the longest time in the
Philippines are tD be returned and
recruits are to be sent out to take
their places. "
A Filipino society in Manila has
i aised a fund from which to reward
the slayers of prominent Americans
The man who killed General Lawton
got $25,000. V ;
FRIDAY.
Both British and Boers are pre
paring for the seige of Pretoria.
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When General Roberts reaches the
Transvaal frontier he wiH have 70,-'
000 troops. ; ;
There is a general impression in
England that the South. African war
is nearing its end. ' : :
Baltimore firm has brought suit
to recover money paid as duties on
tobacco from Porto Rico. l
Two towns in Luzon garrisonedby
our troops are beseiged Ly Filipinos
under a Chinese general. :
The Boers say Johannesburg will
be razed to the ground before the
British will be. allowed to occupy it;
Debs and Harriman is the national
ticket of the amalgamated social
democratic and socialist labor parties.
General Bates in South Luzon
attacks ' 2,000 Filipinos. He thor
oughly scouts the provinces and,
leaver garrisons in many towns.
The Boer forces in front of Rob
erts are completely disorganized.
The latter is continuing his advance
and expected to reach Bloe.mfbntein
in tw; oi three davs.
The Kentucky sepate reconsiders
its vote on the state guard bill and
then passes it. Governor Tciylor
had, ttie 'night before, shipped the
list of the rifl-s and other state
guard property to London.
Warrants charging complicity in
the Goebel murder have been issued
for Secretary of State Powers, ex
Secretary of Stare Fmley, John T
'Powers, brother of the Secretary of
State: Jno. W. Davis, capitol police
man, and W. J, Coultou, clerk in the
office of i be State Auditor.. The last
named only has been arrested.
Filipinos' kill sixty-eight China
men and forty Spaniards.
SATTJRDAY. , - .
General Oth is goiug ahead in oi
ganizing municipal governments in
the Philippines.
Queen Viccoria leaves London The
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route through the city was lined
with cheering crowds.
In Mississippi a negro is iyi:ehe3
by negroes because of a crimina
assan It of a 10-year old girl.
In South Carolina cotton mills
with capital amounting to $3,775,-
000 have been organized within the
year.
The growing hatred between the
oeople of France and England
causes anxiety to the forme: govern
ment. The circuit court of Kentucky de
cides that the legislature is the sole
judge of the election ot a governor
of that state. .
A bill is introduced in congress to
relieve General La tou's estate of v a
charge for rent of camp grounds at
Huntsville, Ala; y j ,;
:The commissioner of internal j re
venue will enforce. 4 the law exclud
ing gifts or orders for them from
packages of tobacco and cigarettes.
Six" New cotton mill companies
are projected in Georgia; one at
Columbus, with 20,000 spindles will
manufacture only a highT class ot
goods;
The troops at Lexington, Ky., are
ordered to Frankfort, by Taylor, but
a body of democratic soldiers guard
the armory and will not let the arms
be taken out. " :.....:'
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There are sixteen portraits of the
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Tne readers of this paper will be
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If ,the political weather vane in
Washington is safe to predict frolm
Wm. J. BryaD and Win. McKinley
I will be rival candidates for the oaes-
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idency in 1&00. ;The courtesy of
choosing their ,vice-prasidential
candidates is a ew phase of politi
cal ethics that marks a long step
from the earlist days in the country
when the vice-presiden was a form
idable rival for executive honors.
New" ideas prevail in political
procedure as in fashions. 'The
National Magazine" for March.
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March 3rd 1900. , ;
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