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BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM.
WI LSOX, X. C, APltl L 10, 1896.
Still : Harping ot
i Oolonel John A. Cockerill a Victim
OF-
Lowest Prices lor the
DMefc Undersell, One Pric
Oolonel John A. Oockerill a Victim
of Apoplexy. I V
DIED SUDDENLY AT GAIEO, EGYPT
Best Goods.
to All.
Are cutting the prices on all lines of Dry Goods which even
in these hard times must keep the store thronged with eager
bargain hunters and economical house keepers.
We don't want to make the impression that we are doing
business for fun and your special benefit. " We are working
for a living and expect by square dealing, courteous atten
tion and giving the best values possible for the money.
Thi WppI we are offering extra values in Holland
1 lib Vv CCli Shades, Lace Curtains and Dra
peries. We have a good Holland Shade, with spring roller
for 25c. Lace Curtains, 24 yards long, for 50c. Tinsel
Drapery for I3c, sold elsewhere for 25c.
You can only appreciate the
in these goods by seeing
A Newspaper Writer Who Has Held Leading-
Positions on Many of the Most Prom
inent Newspapers in the Country, antl Was
Ilecently Decorated by Japan's Ruler..
New York, April 11 A. special cable
rram from-Cairo, Egypt, says: Colonel
John A. Cockerill, the well known news
paper correspondent, died last night of ap
oplexy in Shepheard's hotel. Mr. Cock
erill was acting as special correspondent
of the New York Herald.
Today's Herald, says: "We have the
painful duty this morning to announce the
sudden death in Cairo laet night of Col
onel John A. Cockerill. Colonel Cockerill
leaves a record as one of the most brilliant
of American journalists. Before he took
service on The Herald he had'a reputation
that. - extended throughout the United
States, and since then, by his admirable
work, in Japan for JThe Herald, his name
became throughout Europe and th,e Orient
synonymous with the high&st achieve
ments in diplomacy in connection with
journalism." :
John A. Cockerill -was born at Locust
Grove, Adams county, O., in 1845. His
value
H.H. Holmes Writes Calmly of His
. Many Grimes.
i A VERY IMPEOBABLE STATEMENT.
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Cor. Nash and Goldsboro Streets.
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The Spaniards Again Angry.
Madri d, April 13. The press here evinces
ill humor because American juries have
acquitted i.ho captains of notorious fili
buster vessels intended for Cuba. : The
EpocaiU claret that in the event of a con
flict between Spain and America over
Cuba Spanish diplomacy would speedily
make the matter a European question,
and it Insinuates that Spain is sure of
European aid in such an event.
Killed by Footpads.
'HazlkYox, Pa., April 13. Andrew
Murnar uiedvU his home . in Jeddo yester
day, tlie result of treatment received at
the hands of footpads last Monday. While
coming homo that night he was attacked
by two unknown men. who, after beating
and robbing him, threw him into a mine
bole, v.iiere he was found by friends the
next mormag. There is still no clew to
tbo identity uf his assailants.
Committed. Suicide.
, 4Vpril 11 S. B.
note
Oiruiai Denials from Turkey.
Coxstaxtintoi'I.E. Anril 11. An official
hi'iMi issued by the Turkish gov-"
emiaenr categorically denying that Rev.
worge P. Knapp, the American mission-'
rywiio is'..'.'viriitiar'. tho v'ah of Bitlis. is
miprlsniied ti:
c-ve, as. has been reported.
"o note also states t.har. tho reported ex
pulsion of "other missionaries from Asia
-uu.or is devoid of foundation.
.Narrowly Escaped Death.
Clkvklaxi), April 13. A fire which
started at ; o'clock in '.the morning in a
tree story tenement' house at the corner
w Muirson niul Oregon streets caused a
'?lu..H and put the lives of the
nier.ibers oi fifteen families in peril for a
nef Priori. Miss Mary Cox, a 20-year-'-W
Ionian, jumped from: a third story
window. Charles Wesley and Louis Treaves
saved her life by catching her as she fell.
a slle 'leaped with a broken arm. :
Murdered Five, Then
PENTWATER, .., Mich
Minchali, a local insurance agent, yester
day shot William O. Sands, president of
the Maxwell Lumber company, while Mr.
Sands Avas '-walking in (the street here.
Thinking he had killed his man, Min
cliall rushed to his own home. When of
ficers went to arrest him! it was found that
he had killed his wifij arid 18-year-old
daughter, and two younger children, and
had then committed suicide. Mr. Sands
died last night from. his. wounds. The
cause of the shooting is! as yet shrouded
in mystery. I .
A Youthful Cyclone Victim.
Colorado City Tex.J April" 13 A cy
clone of limited dimension struck a por
tion fit Colorado Saturday night at. 10
o'clock. The storm struck the four room
building occupied by J. M. Solomon. The
house was literally splintered and scat
tered all ; over the : block. Mr. Solo
mon, his wife and five children had re
tired, and! it is retnarkable that any ot
them escaped alive. James, the 2-year-old
son, was struck in tho back of the head by
a portion of tho timbers anclhis skull
fractured, resulting in death.
V JOHN A. COCKEKILJU :
father was . an attorney and commanded
the Seventh Ohio volunteers at Shiloh,
where John accompanied ' him as a drum-;
mer boy. He v fciso a correspondent in
the legislature in after years !; while his
father was a member of that body.
After the war was concluded young
Cockerill became a printer, and afterward
was appointed a clerk, of the senate. He
next became a partner of Clement L. Val--landingham
in the publication of the Day
ton Empire, at that time the organ -of the
Montgomery county (O.) DemocracyJ
Lifvter he was a reporter on a paper id
Hamilton, where he attracted the atten
tion of J. B. McCallagh, editor tf the Cin
cinnati Enquirer who offered him -y posij
tion on that paper, and, ho afterward her
came managing editor. He subsequently
edited the Washington Post, iBaitimore
Gazette, St. Louis Po ;t-Dispatch, 2s qj
York World and New York : 'Mo1 ruing A(l
vertiser. AYhile editing The I Post Dis
patch at St. Louis Judge Slayjbaclc came
into the editorial rooms to assault hi in,
and Cockerill killed Slay back, fin self de
fense. A year ago he went to' Japan as
special correspondent of the New Yoroi
Herald, and was recently nonored with :a
decoration by the Japanese emperor.
Steamer Bermuda at
Philadelphia.
11. -The steam-
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Miieu in a
Uilford, Pa., April
-"'11 V(
Sawmill.
13 William Ful-
roars rilfl Inch hie lifo of fho caw-
-'SI i- U Brown & Son, on Vandor
lant creek, on Saturday. He had at-
tt-ii adjust
a bait to a grindstone,
riod through the machinery. His skull
tih i Crv!Shca' 118 was also his breast. Every
m his body was broken. He lived and
coucious for half an hour. j
Baron Von Kotze's Victim Dead.
VonDiAM' Prussia April 13. Baron
the p' c iltler master of ceremonies at
the r rUf court died on Saturday as
dii !? c-f tne wounds received in the
on Kotze, tho ex-court cham-
u Silveriteg Lead in Alabama.
tornT?QMERY' Aprl1 13 The latest
John f m Satutday's primaries give
t ernoT free silver candidate for gov-.
'ah ' votes out of a possible 504 in the
.convention
Philadelphia, April;
ship Bermuda, which recently landed an
armed party of filibusters in Cuba, ar
rived here last night with a; cargo of ba
nanas, and anchored out in the river.
Newspaper representatives who went out
to the Bermuda in a skiff were not allowed
to board her, and information was refused.
This was in consequence of orders issued
as soon as she was reported at the Break-:
water. "She was docked early this morning.
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The Death of Nevada's Governor.
SAN Fr.AXClSGo. April 11. Governor
John E. ' Jones, uf Nevada, died at the
Palace notel in this city last evening. Gov
ernor Jones has been ill for several months,
and came . to this, city for medical treajt-
ment. l: ' ) ' ' ' ' '
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Bishop Kyan Dead. -
r BUFFALO, April'll. Right Rev. Stephen
Vincent Ryan, bishop of the Roman Cath
olic diocese of Buffalo, died : yesterday,
aged 68. Ho had been ailing for some
time, and his death was not unexpected.
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A.Texas Tornado.; f
Dallas, April 13 All that part 'of the
state west, southwest and northwest was
visited by a severe wind storth Saturday
night. The .wind came from the west,
and in many localities approached -the dig-
. nity of a tornado At Fort Worth a sash,
door and blind factory and the grand
stand at the baseball park were wrecked.
At Cresson, a small town below Fort
Worth, the Fort Worth and Rio Grande
railway depot, the Methodist: church and
nine business houses rand residences were
demolished. At Anneta, Parker county,
one store and all of its contents was blown
away and a nnmber of residences crushed.
At Bates, Denton county, the Methodist
church was destroyed.
The Condemned Man Evidently Determined
to Pose as a Greater Scoundrel Than He
! Really Is His Story of the Pitezel Fam-
ily aiurders.
j Philadelphia, April 13. The published
"confession." of Herman Mudgett, alias
H. H. Holmes, who-is to be hanged in
this city on May 7 for tho murder of Ben-
i jamin F. Pitezel, is not geuerally cred
jited. But the" statement arouses great in
! terest from the misterly manner in which
it is written, and th3 calm, cruel delibera-
tion in which ho explains how he took the
lives of twenty-seven people, and was
only pravented from carrying out six other
murders because his plans were interfered
with. He admits the murder of Pitezel
and the three Pirezel children, of Minnie
and Nannie Williams, and of Mrs. Julia
Connor and her little daughter Pearl, and
then details at length thj killing of nine
teen other people. The names of some of
his victims, he claim?, he cannot remem
ber, which makes it evident that the arch
criminal has-been romancing for the bene
fit of the newspaper syndicate which has
paid a small f ortun3 for the alleged con
fession. Regarding the murder of Pitezel,
for which he is to stiff er the death penalty,
he says: ' '
J 'I went to the house, quietly unlocked
the door and stole noiselessly within and
to the second soory room, where I found
him insensibly drunk, as I had expected.
It was nectary for ma to kill him iu
such a manner that no struggle or move
ment of his bo ly should occur, otherwise
his clothing being in any way displaced
it would have bien impossible to. again
'nut them in a normal condition. I over
came this difficulty by first binding him
hand and foot, and having done this
proceeded to burn him alive by saturating
his clothing aa I his fa-ie with benzine and
igaitiug it with a match.
"Soi horrible xwas this torture that in
writting of it I have been tempted to at
tribute his death to some more humane
means not with a wi-.h to spare myself,
but because I fear that it will not be be
lieved that one could, be so heartless and
depraved, but such a course would be use
less, for th3 authorities have determined
that his death could only have occurred in
-'this 'iiianber;: no blows or bruises upon his
body and no drug administered, save
chloroform, which was not placed in his
stomach until at least thirty minutes af ter
his death, and to now make a misstate
ment of the facts would only serve to draw
out additional criticism from them.
"The least I can do is to spare my
reader a recital of the victim's cries for
mercy, his prayers and fmally'his plea for
a more speedy termination of his suffer
ings, all of which upon me had no effect.
Finally, when he wai dead I removed the.
straps and rope3 that had bound him and
extinguished the flames and a little later
poured into his stomach one and one-half
ounces of chloroform." " ,
The monster details the murder at Ir
vington, Ind., . of, little Howard - Pitezel,
whom he killed by poison, which he gave
the boy as medicine, ana says:
"As soon as he had ceased to breathe I
cut his.body into pieces .that would pass
through the door of the stove, and by the
combined use of gas and corncobs pro
ceeded to burn it with as little feeling as
though it had been some inanimate object.
If I could now recall one circumstance, a.
dollar of money to be gained, a disagree
able act or word upon his part, in justifi
cation of this horrid crime, it would be a
satisfaction to me; but to think that I
committed this and other crimes for the
pleasure of killing "my fellow beings, to
hear their cries for mercy and pleas to be
allowed even sufficient time to pray and
prepare for deathr-all this is now too hor
rible for even me, hardened criminal that
I am, to again live over without a shud
der." ' ' ';.
Regarding the murder of Alice and'Nel
lie Piiezel, at Toronto, he writes:
"I. now, with much reluctance, come to
the discussion of the twenty-sixth and
twenty-seventh murders. The victims
were Alice and Nellie Pitezel, whose,
deaths will seem to many to be the sad
dest of all, both on account of the terribly
heartless manner .in which it was accom
plished, and because in one instance, that
of Alice, the eldest of these children, her
death was the least of the wrongs suffered
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particle oi covering save the cold eartn,
which I heaped upon them with fiendish
delight. Consider what; an awful act this
Was! These lit.le innocent and helpless
children, the oldest txjing only 13 years, of
age, a puny and sickly childf who to look
at one would believe much younger; con
sider' that for eight - yeari before their
j death I had leen almost as much a father
as though they had been my own children,
; thus giving them a right to look to me
for care and protection, and in your right
eous judgment let your bitterest curses
fall upon me,"
In conclusion Holmes writes: "It would
now seem a very fitting time for me to ex
press regret or remorse in this, which I
intend to be my last public utterance, for
these irreparable shortcomings. To do so
with the expectation of even one person
who has read this confession to the end,
believing that in my depraved nature there
is room for such feelings is, I fear, to ex
pect more than would be granted. I re
frain from calling forth such a criticism
by openly inviting it."
What makes the "confession" more im
probable is the statement made by tho
condemned man that in Chicago he had a
regular sale for his victims' dead bodies. '
COUNT YAMAGATA WITH US.
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Guest of Xewi
.The Japanese4 Conqueror a
i York, State.
Buffalo, April 13. The man who led!
the victorious land forces of Japan' in the,
recent war with China, whose strategy;
and stkill have placed him upon the level
of great generals of countries of 'a higher1
grade of civilization; : arrived in Buffalo,'
yesterday. He is Count Yamagata, the
present secretary of war of the mikado of
Japan, a . warrior and a diplomat.'" His
iCuropean -made clothes, the absence of
display in. his personal, appearance and
that of his small retinue, and his unos
tentatious bearing would mke him un
observed were it not for his parchment
like skin and other personal characteris
tics of the Japanese race, j .
It had been expected that the visitor
Would stop at Niagara Falls, and arrange
ments had been made to receive him there,
a but Adjutant j&eneral McAlpin, who was
I i here as the personal representative of, the
governor, was advised that he would come
straight .through to Buffalo. When the
guest of the state of New York as he wiM
be for the next few days alighted he was
met by the adjutant general and Governor
Morton's staff, all in full uniform. After
greetings had been exchanged the "party
was driven to the Iroquois hotel, where a
large crowd of persons Welcomed5 the
guests. The entire party left here f this
forenoon. The first stop" will be at Al
bany, where the party will drive to the
capitol and'meet Governor Morton in the
executive rham er. j . .
exhausted, sick
ion, can be cured
cents.
Ship Capsized, Six Drowned.
Sau Francisco, April 10. The British
ship Blairmore, at anchor in Mission bay,
in the southern part of the city, capsized
yesterday. The ship, which was in ballast,
turned completely over. The first officer
and five of the crew were drowned. The
drowned pre: Thomas Laid wig, first 'of
ficer ; G. Reinbaum, sailmaker; H. S. lDis
trand and Henry F, Clark, able seamen;
Roland Amil Sieel, ship's apprentice,
aged 19; Samuel Kerry, steward. The
latter was shipped here, and i3 a native of
Brooklyn, N. Y. ' j :
Engle & Lund will open their j gal
lery over Penny & CoV store May
ist. Wait for them. '
am tempted
by without
at my hands. Here again I
to either pass the matter
speaking of it, or to altogether deny it.but
to what purpose? jit is publicly known,
and was freely : commented upon at my
trial, and to deny it now would only serve
the double purpose of breaking my reso
lution to hold nothing in reserve, and of
causing many who are somewhat familiar
with the details of the different cases to
disbelieve me In other matters."
Then the murderer explains with a
nicety of detail how he induced the chil
dren to enter a j big trunk, through: the
cover of which he had male a small qpen
ing. After he had put the children in the
trunk, he says. he. went to Mn. Pitezel's
hotel and aided her in leaving Toronto
for Ogdensburg,, N. .Y. He proceeds:
"I again returned to the house where
the children were imprisoned, and ended
their lives by connecting the gas with the
trunk. Then came the opening of the
trunk and the viewing of their little black
ened and distorted faces, then the digging
ot their shallow graves in the basement of
the house, the ruthless stripping off of
their clothing and the .burial without a
Sunday Mnrder in Connecticut.
. D anbury, Conn , April 13. Early yes- i
terday morning Frank Ketchum, a hat j
maker. Willie Tomlinson, Charles Young - !
and Thomas Marastow, all young men, !
attempted to gain 'admittance to a well i
known resort on Main street, .occupied by, j
a Mrs. Fisher. They made so much noise !
that William Flitchraft, a boarder, went to !
the door and told' them that they could j
not be admitted.- The men started to .
break in the door and Flitchraft, after
vainly warning them to desist, picked up I
a gun he had with him and fired. .All four
fled; but two of the men fell a shrt dis- i
tance away. Ketchum died almost in- I
stantly, and Tomlinson was carried to the
hospital in a precarious condition. f
; Chinese Soldiers Hlown to Bits. ' i
Vaxcouver,B.C , April 10. The steamer j
Empress of Japan, which has just arrived j
from the Orient, brings news of a terrific i
explosion, in which a large number of t
Chinese soldiers were killed, at Kiang Gin. i
TwoTegiments revolted, and at a signal ' i
irom their leader they seized the guns of i
the forts an d proceeded to kill off all of-
fleers and a hew regiment of soldiers re
cently arrived. In the midst of the mas
sacre a magazine exploded, and all hands
were blown to , pieces. Two battalions ;.
must have been wiped out of existence, as
not a soldier lived to tell if the magazino !
went off by accident or designedly. t
: Xiagara's- Power in New Yorlc. i
Albany,5 April 10. Power from the
dynamos of the Niagara Power Company
will be transmitted into' New York city,
over 4(53 miles of wire, on May 5. The
wires for the transmission f 111 be fur
nished by the Western Union company on
one of its heaviest cables. The longest dis
tance that electrical power has ever been
carried is HO miles, and that in Europe.
The current will not be a heavy one, but
will demonstrate that, j by : Nicola Tesla's
new system, it can be conveyed almo3tany
distance. It will be the first practical test
of the system, and its projectors seem to
fear no failure..
Senator Ouay Still a Candidate. " t
Philadelphia, April-10. Senator Quay, i
through his son, Richard Quay, yesterday
made an emphatic denial of the published i
statement that he intended to withdraw I
from the contest for the Republican nomi- i
nation. A message was received from i
Richard Quay, dated at Pittsburg, in
which two prominent senators, one a re- !
ceptive and the other an active candidate, 5
were told that Mr. Quay, just before he i
left for Florida, had stated that he would
under no circumstances withdraw from
the contest for the Republican nomina
tion.. ' ' - ; . - - ; ; -
Henry Ward Beecher once informed
a man who came to him compiaing of .
gloomy and despondent feelings, thej
what he most needed was a good ca
thartic, meaning, of course such a med
icine as Ayer's Cathartic Pills, evtry
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