tSjje imitfjfiflft Jlrralil ~ price one dollar per tear. "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD. single copies three cents. VOL. 20. SMITIIFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1901. NO. 8. STATE NEWS. Sbort Items of interest Culled From our State Exchanges. Hickory is to have an ice iac tory, which will be in operation in time for the suminer's business. Governor Aycock has appoint ed M. H. Justice, of Rutherford ton, judge of the newly formed fourteenth judicial district. A movement is on foot to build a $100,000 cotton factory in North Winston on the install ment and co-operative plan. The fourth class postoffices at Maxton and Clinton have been advanced to the Presidential grade as third-class offices. Tuesday's election in Rocky Mount resulted in an overwhelm ing majority in favor of electric lights, sewerage and graded schools for the town. Col. W. H. Cheek died suddenly at Henderson, his home, Satur day afternoon. During the civil war he commanded the First North Carolina Cavalry. Governor Aycock has appoint ed Dr. Albert Anderson, of YViison and Dr. W. C. Aden, of Asheville, Majors and Assistant Surgeons General in the State Guard. A negro named Will Morrison was jailed at Newton Monday, charged with attempting to com mit an assault on Mrs. Lutheran Killion last Saturday evening. A company with large capital has been chartered at Fayette- \ ville to operate an electric rail-1 way in and around Fayetteville and to operate a steamboat line to Wilmington from Fayetteville. The town of Creedmoore, Gran- j ville county, 14 miles east of Ox ford, suffered greatly from a cyclone last Monday night. Paul Canaday, a prominent planter, was killed and much damage done to the western portion of the county. The Fayett ??ville Cotton and Woollen M ills has been chartered Incorporators are E. W. Cook, New York; W. L. Holt and W. j M. Morgan, Fayetteville; It. P. Gray, Guilford county. Each one of the incorporators takes $25,000 stock. Mrs. Polly Inscore, aged 72 j years, of Forsyth county, is a woman exceptionally well pre served for her years and is not onl y able to do a hard day's work, but delights in hunting. A few days ago she shouldered her gun j and was successful in bagging two squirrels. The Blackwell Durham Tobacco j Company was sold at public auc tion Saturday to the American Tobacco Company, of New York, for $4,000,000. The purchase} includes everything in connection with the company. The sale was made to M r. Junius Parker, agent lor the company. The postottice at lied Springs was robbed early Wednesday morning. The safe was blown open with dynamite and quite a sum of money and stamps ex tracted. An attempt was made to rob this same office about a month ago but the robbers were frightened off. There is no clue. The Secretary of State issued a charter last week to the Broad oaks Sanatorium Company, at Morganton. The incorporators are Isaac M. Taylor, Felix M. Scroggs and John McCampbell. The capital stock is $5,000. The purpose of the corporation is to establish an invalid's home at or near Morganton. One of the saddest things that ever occurred in this section was at Block Chapel yesterday near Godwin. Miss Oliver, the teacher, was drilling the students for com mencement and in one of the plavs a pistol was used. Rhodes Mc lel. The cases have been under submission in the Court of Appeals since last fall and it is said the court has been consider-1 ing the cases for a week. Camden, N. J., March 25.? Mavor Hatch awarded acontract to-^ay for shirt waists for the Camden police force and nearly a hundred policemen were measured for them. The material is to be madras and of a color described as French blue. The shoulders are to be Raglan cut, the sleeves flowing to the elbow, a bit closer from the elbow to the wrist and fastened at the wrists by elastic ! bands. '1 he bosom is to be of plated white linen. Down the front will be a row of six brass i buttons and around the neck is to be a rolling collar. The star is to be placed on the left breast. A Kansas fanner who had a peck of lima beans on exhibition at the Paris Kxposition has just received the following letter from a Frenchman, who evidently doesn't know much about the vegetable in question: "My Dear Sir?I bought the peck of l>eans which you had on exhibition here, and they are excellent. Can you send me a small package of the seed? I wish to see if they will grow in France. DIE IN A TORNADO. Awful Storm of Wind and Rain Sweeps Through Birming ham, Alabama. Full Ex tent of the Damage not yet Known. Birmingham, Ala., March 25.? A cyclone that for intensity and havoc wrought surpassed any thing in the history of Birming ham, visited the city this morn ing. Not only Birminham, but every town within a radius of t wenty miles east and west was devastated and hundreds of peo ple to-night mourn the ruin that was created by it. The storm came from the south west. The path of the cyclone in Birmingham was 150 feet wide and through the lower portion of the city. The majority of the victims were negroes who inhab ited one-story frame structures. To-night the names of twenty persons known to have been killed have been ascertained and it is certain twenty-five are dead. The property loss in Birming ham alone is in the neighborhood; of $250,000. There are 200 homes in this city which are without roofs, and fifteen bodies are at the morgue. Jnadditionto this fifty patients are in the hospitals suffering from the wounds received. The village of Irondale was absolute ly wiped out. Among the dead are Dr. G. C. Chapman of the firm of Tally & Chapman, who conduct a pri-1 vate infirmary in this city, and the wife and infant child of Itobt. J. Lowe, chairman of the Demo cratic State Executive Commit- i tee. The storm struck the city in the extreme southwestern corner and plowed its way through east-1 ward, leaving a path 150 feet wide, through theentire southern section, extending from Green Srings to Avondale, and contin- j ued its course until its fury was spent in the mountains beyond Irondale, a small town six miles east of the city. The morning dawned clouuy and sultry. Shortly after 9 o'clock charp lighning flashed from the southwest. 1 he air be came heavy and stifling. The! velocity of the wind suddenly be gan to increase and from out of the overcast sky the dreaded funnel-shaped cloud made its ap pearance. Hugging close the earth, it passed through the city by leaps and bounds. The alti-1 tude of the cyclone was not more than seventy-five feet. Almost a clean sweep was made of the district lying between 18th and 20th streets and Avenues H j and 1, two blocks. Here the; scene is one of complete demoli tion. The frame cottages were reduced to flattened piles of de bris. Every tree, large or small, was either crushed down or up rooted, together with fallen tele phone poles and tangled wires. The negro shanties and cot tages in the lowlands were the principal sufferers. The larger residences on the higher grounds suffered but slightly. The large; trees on the hillside of St. Vin- j cent's hospital were torn up by j the roots and large masses of stone were twisted out of the ground and broken and scattered all over the driveways. In 11th street a house owned by John Hayes wua leveled to the ground. Skimming close to earth the storm swept through a small Eine grove, tearing the trees up v the roots and hurling them through the air like arrows. Beyond the grove the storm cloud swooped down upon a negro settlement and the frail cabins were crushed, not one being left. Eastward the storm swept, cut ting its way through another strip of woods, demolishing the Second Presbyterian church at Avenue H and 15th street. The pews were piled on top of the debris, a small oak table, which was used in the rostrum, being deposited on the topmost point of the wreckage. East of the church, in another negro settlement, much havoc was wrought among the frail shacks, seven of which weie swept away. LEGISLATURE APPROPRIATIONS. For Our Charitable and Educational Institutions. The amounts appropriated by the I legislature for the charita ble and educational institutions of the .State are as follows ileaf and Dumb, Morganton? Annual appropriation, $40,000; for waterworks, tire dumb, fire escapes and equipping for better protection against loss by fire, annuallv for two years, $3,500; I total, tUI,500. Cullowhee High School?An-1 nunl appropriation, $2,000; new building (all property to be con- j veyed to the State,) $5,000; to-1 tal, $7,000. Deaf, Dumb and Blind, Ital-; eigh?A n n u a 1 appropriation, j $40,000; annual for two years, $15,000; annual for library, $50 annual to pay deficit and to fur | nish dining hall, repairs, plumb-1 ; ing and basement, fix artesian well, gymnasium, electric light plant, paving and macadamiz ing, re-cover kitchen and laun dry, $10,000; total, $05,000. Y University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, annual appropria tion, $25.000?Annual increase, $12,500; total $37,500. State Normal and Industrial College, Greensboro?Annual ap propriation, $25,000; to pay in debtedness of $25,000, build practice and observation school and additional dormitory and recitation rooms, annually for four years, $15,000. North Carolina College of Agri culture and Mechanic Aits, Ital eigli?Annual appropriation, $10,000; annually for 2 years to pay debts, $10,200.82; annually for 2 years to build textile build ing, $10,000; total, $30,200.81. Colored Agricultural and Me chanical College, Greensboro, an nual appropriation, $7,500; an nual increase, $5,000; total $12, 500. State Hospital, Kaleigh?An nual appropriation, If71,500; an nually for 2 years for iron stair ways and repairiag, $1,250; an nually for 2 years to pay indebt ed lies, $5,000; total, $77,750. State Hospital, Morganton. annual appropriation, $100,000; annually for 2 years to pay in debtedness, $10,000; annually 1 for 2 years, to complete pre < nt buildings and erect new ones, : $55,000; total, $165,000. 1 State Hospital, (Joldsboro, an- ' nual appropiation (1001), $17-,11 500; (for 1002 increased to $50,-;1 000); annually for 2 years, to I' erect new buildings, $25,000; to- 1 tal, $72,500. Provision. None but indigent ' insane to be admitted to hoepit-1' als free. All others to pay as di rected by Board of Di- 1 rectors. Officials violating act 1 guilty of a misdemeanor. Provision. Money to be used exactly as appropriated. No j1 buildings to be commenced that would require more money to , complete tnem than is appropri ated, the Board of Directors to i determine this. Provision. Unlawful for any governing official to incur any debt except as provided by law, unless in extreme emergency and authorized by Council of State. An Attempt to Blow up the Czar. Ix>ndon, March 26.?An at tempt was made to blow up the palace of Emperor Nicholas at Tzarskee Rels, 17 miles south of St. Petersburg. A mine filled with the highest explosives was accidentally unearthed. Had the mine been exploded the palace would have been blown to atoms and everv one including the Em peror killed. Several officials and notabilities are implicated in the plot to assassinate his Majesty. Arrests of important personages are exjiected to-day. The Bus- ( sian press has been forbidden to , publish the news of the discoverv ! of the plot. An Evening World special ca ble says that the Czar is broken down under the strain of facing possible assassination and is a physical wreck. The doctors want him to go away and leave the Empire in the hands of the Imperial Council. It adds that the gravest events are impending and that all Europe is trembling. The War on Illiteracy. Atlanta Journal. It is wonderful how the move ment to bar illiterates from the ballot boxisgrowiug. Within the last Ave years Louisiana, Mississippi and both the Carolinas have embodied its principle in their organic laws. The Maryland legislature has ordered the submission of an amendment on the same line, but it differs in one important essen tial from the amendments which the other States named have adopted. While they have dis franchised illiterate blacks they leave the way open for illiterate whites to vote By the provision that their amendment shall not apply to persons or their deseud- \ ante who were qualified to vote on January 1, 18(17. Theproposed Maryland amend ment makes no distinction be tween whites and blacks. It is estimated that the amendment would disfranchise 18,000 white men and 03.000 negroes. The indications are that both Alabama and Tennessee will soon establish a literate qualification for the suffrage. Virginia may also do so at her forthcoming constitutional convention. At a recent caucus of the Democratic members of the Tennessee legislature a resolu tion in favor of a call for a cou stitutional convention was adop ted by a large majority. The convention will certainly be called, and it is likely that it j will embody in its constitution the Louisiana plan of negro dis franchisement. The demandforsimilarrestrict ions is very strong in both Alab-1 ama and Virginia. We believe that t his movement will finally | extend to all t he states and! include both white and negro illiterates. In t he opinion of many of our people Connecticut has the best \ franchise law in the country. It not only leqnires that every voter shall be able to read and write, but he shall he able to do so in the English language.. Safe Breakers Foiled. Iialeigh, N. C., March 25.?The safe of theSouthern Kx [tress Com pany was blown open to-night shortly before 11 o clock by safe crackers. The concussion was ?o great that it knocked out a plate glass window and foiled the robbers in their efforts to get money and valuables. The office af the company is on the princi pal street aud the report of the explosion brought a large crowd to the office at once. The safe crackers, of whom there were three, were frightened away, though a large sum of money was within easy reach, ft was the most daring attempt at robbery ever made here. Bloodhounds from the peniten tiary farms have been sent for. The manager of the company left the office about forty minutes before the explosion occurred. A Great State. North Carolina is a great State. It is long, too. From Currituck to Cherokee is 500 miles. Take a cord and put one end at Curri tuck county and the other end at Cherokee, and holding thumb on string at the former and turning the string directly northward it j will put vou in Lake Ohamplain, New York. It has 48,580square miles of land and 3.670 water area?total 52,250 square miles. It has some fifty rivers and with its numerous sounds and lakes it is as well watered a State as anv in the u don. Robeson county is largest with 1,043 acres ; Bladen second, 1.013; Cumberland third. 1,008; New Hanover has but 100 square miles. Clay has 185, and Chowan is smallest with 161. Camden is very small also with 258. The 70 counties average something o ver 500 square miles. ?Wilmington Messenger. The State department views with unkindness Russia's posi tion in Corea on account ol Amer ica's interests at stake there. It also opposes Russia's attitude towara China and majr demand that Russia ease down in regard to the Manchuria affair. GENERAL NEWS. A Partial List of the Week's Hap penings Throughout the Country. Robbers took $10,000 from the Rank of Columbus, O., yes terday. A full ticket of women has been nominated by the Prohibitionists of Denver, Col. After blindness of 28 years, Valentine Batts, of Baltimore, Md., had his sight restored. Andrew Carnegie's fortune is estimated at $.'100,000,000 with an annual income of $ 15,000,000. A dispatch from Havana, 22d inst., says Cuba will accent the demands made by the I nited States. The opening of the l'an-Amer ican Exposition at Buffalo, N. Y., has been deferred from May 1 to May 20. The Minnesota Legislature has passed a bill prohibiting the man ufacture, sale or giving away of cigarettes in that State. (Jrover Cleveland is leading a movement to endow a chair in Washington A Lee University in honor of William I.. Wilson. After saturating lior clothing with coal oil, Viss Eliza Buitus, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., commit ted suicide by setting her clothing on fire. Gen. Funston has gone to Isabella province with 10 men and a company of native scouts on a daring attempt to capture Aguinaldo. f The worst blizzard in yearn pre- , vailed over Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming Tuesday. Trains are snow bound in Wisconsin and eastern Nebraska. Michigan lawmakers want their salaries raised to $1,000 a term, and will submit to the voters a constitutional amendment to sanction the increase. Two hundred and eighty-four convicts in tl:e Kansas peniten tiary mine, near Leavenworth, Kan., mutined and are holding their guards as hostages. Last Saturday the " Korea," one of the largest ships in the world was launched at Newport News. She will ply on the Pacific between San Francisco and Hong Kong. The Maryland Legislature has passed the new election bill, hav ing for its object the practical disfranchisement of most of the illiterate 50,000 illiterate voters of the State. Millions of dollars worth of oranges in California are rotting in the packing houses and on the fgrounds of the groves because of ack of transportation facilities to move the enormous crop. One hundred girls in the plug department of Lorillard's to bacco factory in Jersey City, which is controlled by the Conti nental Tobacco Company, quit work rather than submit to a cut in wages. Mrs. Carrie Nation has dis solved partnership with Nick Chiles, her colored publisher She will hereafter endeavor to edit and have printed her paper, the Smasher's Mail, without his assistance. The trouble grew out of the suppression by Chiles of an editorial written 'by Mrs. Nation, scoring District Judge Hazen, before whom she has ap peared a number of times. In the lower Houseof the Penn sylvania Legislature Representa tive Roth has introduced a bill to encourage early marriage. The bill provides that a male 1 citizen of Pennsylvania over 40 irears of age making application or a marriage license shall pay to the clerk of courts a license fee ; of $100, which is to be turned into the State treasury for the | purpose of maintaining homes for old ladies over 40 years of age who have not had suitable opportunity or offer of marriage. Any bachelor over 40 years who shall go outside of the State for a wife shall pay #100 to the State treasury.