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Newspaper
Wilson News
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1899
Page
8
Dispatches from Ladysmith and surrounding towns report Boer forces strengthening positions between Colenso and Ladysmith for a potential stand. A new gun named Franchise shells the town as British ammunition dwindles and rations grow scarce. Reports also note tensions over leadership and prisoner claims of Boer general division.
British officers in New Orleans received orders to buy 9 000 to 10 000 more American mules for the army in South Africa. The purchase is said to support sending three extra divisions of ten thousand men each from England to the South African theater.
The sixty third session of the North Carolina Conference meets in Washington with 180 preachers and many lay members. Bishop Eugene R. Hendrix presides. Edenton Street Raleigh and Trinity Durham will see major pastor changes. Plans include a $65000 to $100000 Twentieth Century Fund for education and support for a new Raleigh Orphanage. Methodists rose from about 20000 in 1845 to 137000 this year.
Durham reports the death of Walter H. Guthrie in the Philippines from blood poisoning. He was a member of the Twelfth regiment United States regulars and is the brother of Major W. A. Guthrie. His body arrived in San Francisco aboard a transport.
The United States District Court opened in Raleigh North Carolina today under Judge Thomas R Purnell with a large crowd present. The docket already shows 285 cases and only one case out of 146 on the warrant docket comes from Wilson County.
Edgar Burns confessed to shooting Agent Fallows of Scarsdale in the back of the head after walking from the station. He dragged the victim into bushes, took one hundred dollars, then rode to New York and spent time at a bicycle show where he was later arrested.
Filipino leaders in Hong Kong report Aguinaldo ready to surrender and seek counsel General Wildman to receive him now that Admiral Dewey is away.
Notices posted in the Lonsdale Company mills at Lonsdale Berkeley Ashton Blackstone and the Pawtucket Valley announce a ten percent wage increase for operatives effective next Monday The raise will be generalized across Rhode Island with similar notices in Robert Knight mills statewide.
Paris dispatch reports orders to Admiral Tournier to guide the Mediterranean squadron to Sebastapool where it will meet the Russian Black Sea squadron. The announcement came from New York with Paris attribution.
Early this morning a snow storm tied up nearly every line of the Buffalo Railway Company and left Mrs. Martin unconscious on the street. Reports from Washington note Rep Grosvenor introduced a bill for a Chickamauga battlefield memorial arch costing up to 300000 dollars. In Santa Fe fifteen shepherds were killed in a blizzard last week with five bodies recovered. Paschall's Market advertises pork sausage dressed turkeys and beef.
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