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A IB CM she vi zee VOLUME.XIV. NO. 97. ASHEVILLE. N. C, MONDAY EVENING AUGUST 29, 1898. PRICE 3 CENTS e j4l Boss Biscuits Thusf who have been so fortu nate as to use these are fully . ..nvinceJ of their estimable lualities. We have a FRESH lot . f .ithr crackers in tins. Snider's 6 Court Square. Bon Marche Special Sale on Towels, Table Linens, Crashes. A purt- linen towel, 42x19'. for 15c.. t JI.Til a dozen. l;.lh sides selvedged, good towels, for 10c. or $1.00 dozen. White Itama.sk. all linen, 44x22, knot s' ! fringe, for 25c. or $2.90 dozen. Heavy linen lluck Towel, 47x21, 25c. i.r tl.int dozen. Very heavy unbleached Turkish Towel, 51x21, 25c. or $2.90 dozen. White cotton crash, 3c. r.n.nn Linen Crash, special, 5c. "rushes, 8c, 10c.. 12VaC to finest lluck .it Sac. White Terry cloth, 25c. 10-inch fine table linen, was 95c, for this ecial only 75c. 70-inch half bleach, cheap at 65c. only 50c. iKjilies from 25c. dozen to finest Nap kins for 75c Don't miss this special linen sale. Bon Marche, 15 SOUTH MAIN ST. ur x x x r wf jtxvix i iiS iii 55555i5ii555)iij()ii()it5i j';1 j?; S?;!5 "SMS ,jmx if !5 MIX StS I5M 5t55S ;si5 2?5 2f 5. Six Six SiiJiJ liiijli 5iiiS CADETS 5J Each and every one of you are Invited to make this store your headquarters for to bacco, cigars and cig arettes. You will find a fresh and up-to-date stock all the time. xixSix' gg33 BERKELEY 1H sgSa'ClQAR STORE. Ill Sis;s . . Six Six Si xuumS, xi xix First-class livery rear Hotel Berke ley, at reasonable prices. Good moun tain hack: well matched teams. T. C. HARE. MGR. 'Phone 25. ...FVuit Jars... We bought a lot of Mason's self-seal-Ins fruit Jars early In January when they were cheap. We will sell them ac cordingly. No firm in Asheville can undersell us. Get our prices and you will want the jars. 8. H. CHEDESTER ITnTTTtt tir'' rfl rrfrfT j Penniman & Kelly I C0NTRACT08S F02 WATER, 5? GAS AND SEWER WORK. 5f Estimates furnished. Correspon- 5S endence solicited. Plumbing; and 3E repair work an Important feature 3 of our business. "Phone IS. if Office 2, Legal Building. Shoes The finishing touch to woman's dress, as to comfort, is her shoes. Tou owe It to yourself and those around you to 1M "stand in" all the comfort you can. B. C. Burt Co. and 'Sorosis" suit fas tidious people. J. Spangenberg, COURT SQUARE. THE ASHEVILLE STEAM LAUNDRY WASHES CLOTHES CLEAN. 43 COLLEGE STREET. "PHONE 5. Jaunts Over Hills and Vales.... CAN. BY THE USE OF A KOO.nK, GIVE YOU A PICTURESQUE ME MENTO OF YOUR SUMMER OUT ING. WHEN YOU HAVE RETURN KD HOME. THE PICTURES WILL KKING FOND RECOLLECTIONS OF MANY A HAPPY HOUR SPENT AMONG THESE BEAUTIFUL MOUN TAINS. WE SELL KODAKS. B. H. COSBY, 27 Patton Avenue. Our 4 Endless Chain You no doubt have heard of them. Did you ever see one? If not you can by coming to our store to see the ENDLESS CHAIN OF PLEASED CUS TOMERS WHO USE OUR Dining; Car Coffee 35C. POUND. 3 POUNDS FOR $1.00. GREER, Fine Groceries. FOR SHAVING, FOR FLESH. FOR HAIR. FOR TEETH. FOR SHOES. FOR NAILS. FOR CLOTHES. FOR HAND. ETC. We have them. Some are high priced, some medium, some cheap all are good for the price asked EXAMPLES: . Tooth Brushes. 5c. to 50c. Shaving Brushes. 10c. to 75c. Nail Brushes. I5c. to 50c. Hand Brushes. S5c. Hair Brushes, 25c. to $2.50. EXAMINE THEM, Way's Pharmacy, Cor College and Ct. Square. Your Initial Letter We have a nice lot of Fiae Writ ing; Paper with Initial letter stamped on it. Die stamped. , , ' We hare some more Southern Gray now. MORQAN'S, NO. I WEST COURT SQUARE. DRIES GENERAL MERRITT IS TO MARRY And Then Possibly Will go to Paris. This is the Talk in Washing ton Today. THE GENERAL CAN GO AND COME AS HE PLEASES AS COMMANDER. WASHINGTON. Aug. 29. Up to this moment no orders have been sent to Merritt at Manila to leave his post. It is said, however, that the General be ing in command of the military forces of the Philippines is at liberty to leave and go where he sees fit within his own discretion. It is suggested by some of ficials here that the purpose of his visit to this country at the present moment is to get married. It is entirely possible, and in fact probable, that being in the United States and well acquainted with the situation in the Philippines, General Merritt may be designated to proceed to Paris astechnical adviser to the peace commission. This is presuming the commission will continue in session for several weeks at least, for other wise it would not be possible for Mer ritt to make the long trip from the Philippines to San Francisco, thence to New York by rail and then by boat to Paris. It is regarded essential by the State Department that the American com missioners have with them some per son thoroughly advised as to the mili tary and civil situation at Manila to assist in reaching a sound conclusion. It was the intention of the President to avail himself of Dewey's services it this matter, but after a cable consulta tion with that officer, it was believed to be better to allow the Admiral to re main at Manila where the experience he has acquired will be of great value m the days following the decision of the peace commission as to the future of the Philippines. TO INSURE PEACE. The Czar of Russia Wants Steps lanen Loosing to inn ana. ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 28. By or der of Emperor Nicholas, Count Mura vieff. the foreign minister, on the 24th inst.. handed to the foreign diplomats at St. Petersburg a note declaring that the maintenance of peace and the re duction of the excessive armaments now crushing all nations is the ideal for which all governments ought to strive. The czar considers the present moment favorable for the inauguration of a movement looking to this end and invited the powers to take part in an international conference as a means of thus insuring real and lasting peace and terminating the progressive in crease of armament. MAY PRODUCE A SENSATION. LONDON, Aug. 28. The czar s prop osition for an international conference for the purpose of securing real and lasting peace among the powers and termination of the progressive increase in armaments as conveyed in a note by Count MuraviefT, the Russian for eign minister, to the foreign diplomats . st Petershure. is likely to produce a sensation throughout Europe and coming from such a quarter and with such evident sincerity of purpose, it is likely to have important eneci. CONDITIONS AT MADRID. The Various Parties Lining Us for a Fight. MADRID, Aug. 29. The conservative members of the Cortes will meet Sat urday next to arrange the course of action during the coming session. It is understood they will not support a campaign against the government, but will maintain the attitude which they assumed during the last session. Se nor Robledo, however, as the leader of the Dissident Conservatives, pro poses to employ every legitimate means -reinsure debate upon all ques tions of war or peace. The attitude of the Carlists and Re publicans is not announced, but they can be depended upon to violently op pose the administration. If the French ambassador at Wash ington. M. Cambon, forwards in time the list of American peace commission ers, the cabinet ministers at a meeting to be held here tonight will deal with the Spanish commission. Ministers declare the only instruc tions sent to the Cuban and Porto Ri can commissions were to obtain the best and most advantageous terms pos sible for Spain. WASHINGTON VERY DULL. The Leaving of the President Kil'ed Activity. WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. The White House was almost deserted today. The absence of the President kept away prominent callers whose visits have marked the daily routine of the Presi dent's life in the past few weeks and even the number of sightseers that got through the public portions of the mansion was less than usual. The go ing away of the President has put a quietus on the usual activity in Wash ington and coincident with the McKin. leys' departure some others of the cab inet, headed by Secretary Day. now at home in Ohio, have takn a leave of ab sence for a short whole. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, who left Saturday night for his home in Iowa, left word to be telegraphed home at the coming of the President and most of the other administration offi cers will return about the time he does. Killed In Switzerland. BERNE, Swttierland. Aug. 29. Dr. John Hopkinsoo. an English electrical engineer, son and two daughters, were killed while ascending Dent's Devislvl. a canyon of the Valias mountains, which are among the highest in Europe and I are exposed to furious torrents and dstrucUveVvalanches. The party had gone op the perilous trip without the assistance of a guide. Speaking anal Melona- A watermelon feast and public "Peak ing will be the big event for tpper Juno, in Leicester precinct No. a, Thursday. September 1. at 1 P- m. Locke Craig, esq., and all of the Dem ocratic county candidates are Invited aad will speak. The management in- . nmimt In nmrticlnate. There will be plenty of melons for all who attend. AL FIELD REMINISCENT. How Ha Travel 21 Days With Zebuion B. Vance- AL G. Field, the big proprietor of the minstrel aggregation bearing his name, was found in a reminiscent mood by The Citizen as he stood at the base of the Vance monument this forenoon, having walked over to view the monu ment while his band was giving a con cert on the square. . "I was just taking a look." Mr. Field said, "at the. monument erected to the memory of my old friend, the late Sen ator Vance. I have very pleasant rec ollections of the Senator. I first met him in 1876, when he was making a canvass in the Vance-Settle campaign. 1 was traveling with Sella Brothers' circus then, and Vance was with us for 21 days. We pitched tents at Mil ton, Danbury, Lenoir, Bakersville. and other towns the names of which I can not recall. The great North Carolin ian had dates in some instances identi cal with ours, and in other cases they were changed to suit, so the people were given a double attraction, as Vance frequently spoke in our tent di rectly after the performance. And he was about as big an attraction as the circus was. Yes, we spent many pleas ant moments together." At the time referred to, Mr. Field was with the circus in the capacity of black-face artist in the concert "and we had a small-sized minstrel show in the concerts those days," he comment ed. When Mr. Field started out with the Sells show he pocketed a weekly salary of $15. When he left the tent life 12 years later he wore a high title and received J60 a week. "I have been at the head of my own show for 14 years," Mr. Field said, "and tonight's performance will make my twelfth in Asheville." COMING HOME. Sergeant Bean Writes. From Santi ago da Cuba. Samuel I. Bean has a letter from his brother, Sergeant Robert R. Bean, of Co. D, Seventeenth U. S. infantry, dated Santiago de Cuba, August 9. After telling of the landing of IT. S. troops at Baiquiri the writer continues: "There was quite a difference in the smell of the atmosphere the day after the landing. The next day it com menced to rain as we took up the march to Santiago, and from the rank growth of vegetation, continually growing and decaying, there came a scent that was very sickening. But there is some of the most beautiful and picturesque scenery human being ever saw .... The once thriving farms and public roads are hardly discernible. The roads along our line of march were nothing more than narrow trails or paths, arched over with the continu ous growth of shrubbery and small thorn bushes .... The order to rein force the firing line at the time the Rough Riders were attacked was exe cuted as quickly as possible for men in a terrible blistering sun. each one car rying on his back a shelter tent, blank et, rubber poncho, two suits of under wear, three days' rations in his haver sack, with his gun. belt and 100 rounds of ammunition .... My first initia tion into war was by seeing nine dead soldiers alongside our path. "We will sail, most likely, this week for some point in the United States." AT LOOKOUT PARK. Miss Bessie Osborns'a First Para chute Leap. It is estimated that between 700 and 800 people went to Lookout park yester day to witness the balloon ascension. The exhibition was an unusually good one. It was especially notable because of the fact that Miss Bes sie Osborne, who had never had ex perience in aerona'utics, was the heroine of the aerial feat. Through it all the young woman appeared cool and col lected. After its release the big balloon was blown some distance in a northwester ly direction and ascended quickly to such a great height that its occupant could not at first hear the signal pistol shot. After the pistol had been fired several times Miss Osborne cut loose the parachute and gracefully made the descent. While the descent was made success fully, the downward trip was far from being a tame and uninteresting one. The parachute fell into the top of a tall tree. Miss Osborne was suspended in midair and could reach neither tree nor ground. A driving rein was se cured after a time and thrown to her, and with this she was drawn to where she could reach the tree. ENTHUSIASTIC. Dr. DuBosa Writes in Praise of Asheville. Rev. Dr. H. M. DuBoee of Nashville, editor of the Epworth Era, and general secretary of the Epworth Leagues of Southern Methodism, who attended the district conference recently held in Asheville, has published a "Land of the Sky" edition of the Era. The publica tion contains five half-tone cuts of scenes along the French Broad, and Biltmore House, and is altogether a most creditable work. The introduc tory paragraph says: "We are not un familiar with all the more pictureeque regions ot our great country, and in deed the whole North American cont nent. We have lived for years in sight of the Sierra Nevadas. traveled leagues and leagues through the Rock ies, gazed on the Cascades, the Siskiy ous and the Sierra Madres, and sum mered under the protecting spell of the Adirondacks and the Catskills, and we have now .to say that no where between the seas is there to be found a region which so thoroughly meets all the conditions of sublimity and picturesqueness as that part of the Southland known as 'The Land of the Sky." " SURVEYORS' GUIDE. True North and South Line Soon to be Established. The stone that Is to define the true north and south line for Buncombe will soon be fixed, the location being at the eate at Riverside cemetery. This is done by the United States Geological survey, the County Commissioners having appropriated $25 toward the ex pense. About 30 of these guides for surveyors have Deen esiaonsuru u vr . v. p.-.hh Thv are nf the ereat- .1.(1 L 1 1 V. Cll V'll hi.. est value to surveyors, as they stand always a true mark ty wnicn civu en gineers may adjust their compasses. Surveyors know that the north and south line is not as it was even seven snH that It is markedly dif ferent from what it was 90 years ago. but with tne new arranucunrui i. need be no further confusion on this account. Want a Divorce. LEXINGTON. Ky., Aug. 27. There i .nrrttRt -British many here be lieve, that Cassius M. Clay has filed at Richmond, Ky., a petition ior u from his child wife, Dora Richardson. At Richmond and at the home of Mr. Clay the story cannot be verified, in asmuch as all concerned are, non-committal on the subject. Or- Wiloos Haa Fevar. ELKIN, Aug. 27. Dr. Joseph Orren Wilcox, the Republican candidate for Congress in "de ate." is prostrated at his home in Ashe county with typhoid fever. His temperature is 106, and his condition is critical. It is feared that he will be unable to make a canvass with Linney this fall. Charlotte Observer. SOLDIERS KILLED IN A .WRECK It Occurs on the Louisville and Nashville. Two Men Dead and Others Will Die. ABOUT TWENTY -FIVE ARE IN HOSPITAL FROM BRUISES AND SHOCKS. BIRMINGHAM. Aug. 29. Total deaths from last night's accident on the Louisville & Nashville road, in which a train bearing six companies of the Sixty-ninth New York, was wrecked, remains two privates, Peter Farley and Quartermaster Sergeant Frank Glen- nan, both of Company G. Sergeant J. J. Manning, Company E is suffering from a compound fracture of the spine and is likely to die. -Hone of the others are thought to be seriously hurt although about 25 pri vates are at the hospital suffering from bruises, shocks and other minor Injur ies. The train left Fernandina, Fla., at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon, three or four hours after the time set for its de- Iarture. It was going at a high rate of speed. The tender jumped the track, derailing five cars, which rolled down a steep embankment. The soldiers claim the train was running too fast around the curve. The injured were brought here and are being given every attention in the infirmary. EMPHATIC RESOLUTIONS. Adapted by the Republicans of San dy Mush. A mass meeting of the Republicans of Sandy Mush township met on the 20th of August and organized a club with 50 members. The following reso lutions were adopted: "1. We resolve to support no man who is in favor of the school law and its present conditions. "2. That each and every candidate shall let his views be known on the present system of school law if they expect our support in the coming cam paign. "We as Republicans believe in the majority ruling, but such is not the case in our public schools." A. E. Wells was chosen chairman and W. E. Waldrop secretary of the meet ing. SUFFERING IN RUSSIA. Feeding Thatches of Cottages to Preserve Stock. , ST- PETERSBURG, Aug. 29. Owing to the failure of the harvest in, seven districts the government has adopted measures to relieve the suf ferers. The distress is becoming more acute every day. The peasants are de nuding the thatches of their cottages in order to feed their stock. In spite of all that is done cattle and horses are dying in great numbers. Governmeni officials are very slow in getting relief measures into effect. Peasants are ex hausted for the lack of food and unless promised supplies are speedily sent the suffering will be terrible. WHITE MAY NOT ACCEPT. If Ha Declines Lodge Likely to be Appointed. WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. There is still a possibility of a change in the person nel of the American membership of the peace commission. Up to this moment it is not definitely and absolutely known whether Justice White will ac cept the appointment if tendered him, and efforts are making by the Presi dent to learn his intentions in the mat ter. It is suggested that Senator Lodge of Massachusetts is being considered to till the vacancy should it occur. TWO MEN KILLED. One a Deputy Sheriff, the Other a Bystander. MIDDLESBORO, Ky., Aug. 29. Ben Johnson of Middlesboro shot and killed Nathaniel Cloud, depty sheriff of Clai borne county, Tenn., as the latter was attempting to arrest Johnson at Taze well. Tenn. John Cadle. a bystander, was shot and killed. Charles Burch, a friend of Johnson, is suspected of having fired the shot which killed Ca dle. Cloud was a brother of the mem ber of the legislature who was killed at the same place a year or two ago. A Just Sentence- CAMP MEADE. Middletown, Pa., Aug. 28. The court martial in the case of Dr. Duncan of the Twenty-second Kansas found him guilty of desecrat ing the grave of a Confederate officer at the Bull Run battlefield, and he was sentenced Saturday evening to an im prisonment of five years. Ordered Mustered Out. WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. The fol lowing troops were ordered mustered out today: Ninth Massachusetts, Sev enth Illinois, First Illinois, Fifth Illi nois, Sixty-fifth New York. Fifth Ohio, infantry. First Wisconsin, Third U. S. V. cavalry (Grigsby's), Fourth Texas. Mother and Sister Insane. MARIETTA. O., Aug. 28. The moth er and two sisters of Okey P. Eddy of the Eighth Ohio, who, it is reported. died of starvation on a transport while coming home from Cuba, have becomt insane through horror and grief at the death of the young man and the man ner in which it occurred. Want and Distress in Cuba. HAVANA. Aug. 28. Miss' Clara Bar ton of the Red Cross returned Satur day morning from Matanzas. .She re ports great want and distress- there. Miss Barton will probably leave again tomorrow or the purpose of distribut ing relief in Matanzas. Could Net Hear From Her Son. BERLIN. Aug. 28. Prau Dannelberg, a talented portrait painter, has com mitted suicide, because, it is alleged, she could get no news of her son, who fought with thetAmerican army In Cuba. A $17,000 Pursa. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 28. The Na tional Athletic club of this city- has made an offer for a 20-round contest between Bob Fitisimmons and "Tom Sharkey to take place In December. The inducement is a purse of $17,000. -, Cotton Futarea. - NEW YORK. Aug, 29 Futures open ed quiet; August. o.:0: September. 5.51; October, 6.57; November, 5X9; Decem- fber. 5.2: January. 5.S6; February.-5. 70 March, 6.74; April 6.7? ; May, 5.83; June. 6.8ft. AS TO CUBA AND PORTO RICO INSTRUCTIONS SENT THE MIL ITARY COMMISSIONS, WASHINGTON. Aug. 29. Instruc tions to the Cuban and Porto Rlcan military commissions were drawn up and approved by the President before he left Washington, and are now ready to be delivered to the president of each before he leaves. The instructions will not be made public but the general terms are known to be the same as the Instruc tions sent Shafter regarding the gov ernment of Santiago and Merritt re garding the Philippines. This will mean that the military commission will take control of Cuba and Porto the same as the military governor now controls that portion of Cuba surren dered to the United States after the Santiago campaign. Many minor details relative to the evacuation of the island are left to the commissions who will report any dif Acuity or disputed points to Washing ton. There never has been a doubt that the United States would take full con trol of Porto Rico but that the instruc tions to the Cuban military commission settles any question regarding that isl and that means for the present at least that the United States will assume the government and control of the re mainder of the Island as has been the case in Santiago. . CAMP THOMAS- General Condition of Things is Much Improved. CHICK AM AUG A, Aug. 29 The work of removing the First army corps from Chickamauga has been completed and army officials are now directing at tention of the Third corps. No regiments of this latter corps left today but two, the Third Tennessee and First Mississippi are expected to leave for Anniston tomorrow. Others will leave as rapidly as transportation can be provided for them. The rail roads are now in excellent shape to di. hauling. The Sixth regiment U. S. V., will re main here some time. The Eighth New York is being mustered out and will probably leave for home tomor row. Conditions at the hospital are rapidly improving. At least half of the sick have been sent away and ar rangements are being made to send hundreds of others. The surgeons and nurses are now able to give good at tention to all here and a decided change for the better is noticeable. SOUTHERN INDUSTRIES. North Carolina Comes in for Her Full Share. CHATTANOOGA. Tenn.. Aug. 28. The more Important of the new Indus tries reported to the Tradesman during the week- ending August 27, Include a $100,000 brewery at New Orleans, a canning factory in Virginia, chemical works at Atlanta, a $50,000 cotton mill in North Carolina, cotton seed oil mills at points in Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas, and a 115,- 000 electric power plant in middle Geor gia. A fertiliser factory and two flour ing mills are reported from North Car olina and two from Tennessee, and a foundry and machine works from Ken tucky. Tennessee also reprost a new company to work a gold mine in North Carolina, a planing mill, a local tele phone system, and a $150,000 snuff fac tory: new local telephone companies are under way also in Florida and Ken tucky; two saw mills are reported from Georgia and Texas, and a sash and blind factory in Mississippi. HOUSEHOLD OF .RUTH. First Triennial Session Held in Washington. WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. The fifth general meeting and first triennial ses sion of the grand household of Ruth of the Grand United Order of Odd Fel lows in America has closed its sessions here. Almost every State in the Union was represented by a grand representative. The following grand officers were elected for the next three years: Super intendent, Mrs. R. L. Barnes, Savan nah, Ga.; superintendent, J. W. Grant, Nashville, Tenn.; rector, Charles n. Brooks, Paducah, Ky.; prelate, Mrs. Agnes Moody, Chicago; treasurer, L. F. Forester, Richmond, Va, SOLDIERS COMPLAIN. Of tha Treatment They Received at camp i nomas. NEW YORK, Aug. 29. A hospital train arrived at Jersey City today over the Pennsylvanian road carrying 40 sick soldiers of the Fourteenth New Vf.rlr volunteers on furlough from Camp Thomas. Relatives and friends were waiting to receive tnem. ine men, who were well enough to talk, comnlained bitterly of the treatment they received at Camp Thomas. Tha Solace Arrives. BOSTON, Aug. 29. The United States hospital ship Solace, having on board 74 sick soldiers and marines, has ar rived from Santiago. Santiago Postal Service. SANTIAGO. Aug. 28. The American postal system is soon to be introduced here, and house-to-house deliveries ana letter boxes are to be established. FROM THE TELEGRAPH. Anarchy prevails in the country dis tricts of Porto Rico, where the Amer icans are not in control. Miss Winnie Oavis. daughter of the Confederate President, is seriously ill at Narragansett Pier, R. I. Prominent Chicago Republicans have organized a, club to boom Theodore Roosevelt for President in 1904. T Manila rorreanondent of the London Times says 15.000 prisoners have been surrendered to the Ameri cans there. DwulflAnt Xf nVl 1 1 0 XT .TRM-tR tn be in Jacksonville. Fla.. on September 15 and . . . i . - - . 1 C.rintli review me soiuiens ui luct ... corps, Gen. Lee's command. General Lawton. who is now in com mand at Santiago, win reiax me siern t General Shaf ter and will afford facilities for resum ing business. r-. TTmitoVt Gtst and Canadian ar bitration commissioners met again at Quebec and declared that indications point to the settlement of all questions at issue. Ti.. onnrtnre of Admiral Sampson for Cuba will make no change in his command. He will still command the North Atlantic squadron. Commodore Phillip will be in charge of the repair ing of the ships at New York. The Prince of Wales - made his first landing from his royal yacht Os borne in a month on Saturday, going ashore at Mount Edgcumbe Devenport. after elaborate preparations - amid a flurry of excitement among the vil lagers. . The conference of silver men held in Albany. New York, Saturday, resolved to fight for the recognition of free sil ver by the Democratic state convention at Syracuse In' September and to ad vocate the nomination of .candidates at that convention who were known to be free silver men in 1S96. THE CONDITIONS AT CAMP WIKOFF More Than Two Thousand Men in the Hospitals. One Hundred and Fifteen Cases! or Typhoid. FIVE HUNDRED SICK SOLDIERS ARE STILL SLEEPING ON THE FLOOR. NEW YORK. Aug. 29. Today's ar rivals at Camp Wikoff included the First battalion District of Columbia volunteers, one battalion United States engineers, attached to the Fifth army corps. Troops A. C, D and F. Second cavalry, men who operated the balloon at Santiago, and 95 men of the Third Michigan volunteers. - There are 1600 patients in the general hospital at Camp Wikoff, 115 of whom are down with typhoid fever. This dis ease is on the decrease. The deaths re ported are those of Wm. Hohle, battery F, Second artillery; Timothy Donovan, Troop F, Second artillery, from mala rial fever, and Fred Miller, Co. A. Twenty-first regular, dysentery. There are 630 men in the detention hospital. Bj tomorrow the hospital will be enlarged to accommodate 750 more. While the condition in the hos pitals has been somewhat 4mprove"d. 500 sick soldiers are still sleeping on the floor. FISH AND OYSTERS A Mammoth Combine Formed to Control tha Business. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 28. The Republic this morning says: Arrangements have been completed for the formation of a gigantic combi nation with millions of dollars of cap ital for the purpose of controlling the fish and oyster business of the United States and Canada, The combination was affected in London, England, by the reorganization of a stock company with a capital of $5,000,000 of which $2,600,000 will be eight per cent, non- cumulative preferred and the balance in order shares of common stock. AFTER TWENTY YEARS. Wealthy Broker Found His Daugh ter at Hot Springs, Ark. HOT SPRINGS, Ark., Aug. 28. A Hughes, a wealthy retired broker of New York, while passing through the Arlington hotel dining hall, discovered his own daughter, who had been lost to him 20 years. Hughes' wife deserted him years ago, taking with her their only child, a little girl. The wife de serted the baby in Chicago and it was reared by strangers. She was employ ed as a waitress in the Arlington hotel when accidentally discovered by her wealthy father. GET IN LINE, LADIES, AND WEAR ONE OF OUR Army and Navy Belt Buckles..... ARTHUR M. FIELD, LEADING JEWELER, ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA. r7rFrPY Chocolate Is one of the favorite soda drinks at our fountain. It is especially fine with ice cream-. The reason that our choco- late is so popular is because we buy a brand that U espe cially prepared for fountain use, and then we are lavish in the quantity used. No wishy-washy chocolate for us or our customers. PARAGON PHARMACY, CORNER HAYWOOD AND PATTON A5 Kiirrnr The Hancock Disc Plow. HAS- MADE " A REVOLUTION IN PIyWING. Turns from 8 " to 14" wide and from 6 to 12" deep. Thoroughly pulverizes the soil, and doesthe work of plow and barrow combined. Warrant ed to work in any soil and under any conditions. Write for circular. T. Sr MORRISON, Agent tor Western North Carolina. 31 Make Your Home Beautiful Is not your house showing the marks of time ? You can paint it now with much less paint than will be re quired in another year or two; and this warm weather wiien the folks live out of doors in the day and there is plenty of ventila tion at night, is the time to have the work done call then and let us have a talk to you about paints, col ors and prices we think we can interest you at Dr. T. C. Smith's Drug Store on Monument Square. THE CLtUB S3 S. MAIN ST, The leading saloon In Ashe ville, I carry a complete line of the leading brands of Liquors, Wines, Ales and Cigars, import ed and domestic. Agent for the Augusta Brewing Co. Beer and liquor sold by wholesale and re taiL Free delivery. 'Phone 218. P. O. Box 337. Paf Mr.Ffi.-vrA Prnn IIIWIUIIIWJ 1 1UU K THE YOUTHS COMPANION SENT For three months to any girl or boy who will use 125 PeriodicaF Tickets A number are now receiving f ho panion In this way. There Is no limit as to age some of the tww . v.-. enjoy their paper are more than sixty The tickets are furnished von fro n you have to do is to leave them with me money wnen making purchases. Call for books at Office No. 33. Third Floor, Temple Court, Patton Ave. BOARDING. Private family near the Square; rea- sonable terms. MRS. L. V. COLE, 69 Spruce Street. Have Yoor STOVES and RANGES Re- . paired By J. P. BABINQTON 2G COLLEGE STREET. Asheville, N. C. No Charge For Examination. WANTED ! Fresh cows. Will give full value for cows milking- not less thn three and a half gallons per day, and which must be able to stand veterinarian's examination, Apply Biltmore Dairy ' 'PHONE 68.