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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
l<ellan, about 14 years old. was
to point it at his sister, Miss
Maggie, and when he fired, to the
utter surprise, one chamber of
the pistol was loaded, which put
a ball through her neck, killing
her in a few minutes. Miss Mag
gie was between 1(5 and 17 years
old. The whole section was
shocked at the sad accident.?
Dunn Cor. Wil. Messenger.
The State Printing Commis
sion met Monday and awarded
the contract to Edwards &
Broughton and E. M. llzzell, of
Raleigh. Governor Aycock says
the contract would save the State
| at least $.'1,8(K) a year over the J
previous contract.
Tom Jones, 40 years old, re
pute l one of the most desperate
white criminals in Polk county, I
was beaten to death with a dou
ble-barreled shot-gun Tuesday,
near Mill Springs, by twin broth
ers, Ed and Oscar Wilkerson.
They had quarreled over who
should have first shot at three
negroes.
A sad accident occurred in
upper Cumberland last week. At
black's School House the stu
dents were practicing for a public
exhibition. It was the part of
Rhodes McClellan to point a pis
tol at his sister and fire a blank
cartridge. That chamber of the
pisi ol was loaded and his sister, |
Maggie, fell with a ball in her
throat and died in a few minutes.
The Secretary of State has char
tered the Favetteville and Wil
mington Steamboat Company,
with $250,000 capital. The ob
ject is to own and operate a
steamboat line from Eayetteville
to the mouth of the Cape Fear
river and coastwise as far as New
York. The company is also al
lowed to construct and operate a
street car system, electric lights, i
etc.
While attempting to work a
gold brick scheme on Paul Gar
ret, of Weldon, at Greensboro,
Friday afternoon, Frank Thomp
son, H. 1). Hawley and Gomez
Bono were arrested. Garret saw j
through the scheme when pre- [
sented to him and notified thej
officers to follow him and Thomp- |
son to a place in the woods where
Bono, disguised as an Indian,
had two gold bricks concealed.
The Governor appoints mem
bers of the Text-Book sub-Com
mission, which is to decide upon
the list of books to be adopted in
public schools as follows: Prof.
J. Y. Joyner, Greensboro; J. I).
Hodges, Augusta; Hon. John C.
Scarborough. Murfreesboro;
Prof. C C. Wright, Straw; J. B.
Butler, Statesville; Rev. C. G.
Vardell, Red Springs; Prof. J. I.
Foust, Goldsboro; Prof. W. L.
Carmichael, Brevard; Prof. J. L. I
Kesler, Raleigh The sub-com
mission met Tuesday to consider i
bids and books, and will report
back April 23rd to the commis
sion as to the merits of the vari
ous books, and the contract will
be awarded as soon thereafter as
possible.
Frankfort, Ky., March 25?It;
is rumored here to-day that
decision will be handed down by
the Court of Appeals to-morrow
reversing both of the cases of
Caleb Powers, under life sentence,
and Jim Howard, sentenced to
death for the murder of William
(?oet>el. 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.