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Hj)je Smitljficlii Herald ' pkice one dollar per tear. "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD.'' single corns thru cents VOL. 20. SMITHFIELD, X. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1901. NO. 80. STATE NEWS. snort Items of interest Clipped and Culled From our State Exchanges. At the anuul meeting of ths State Literary unci Historical Society during State Fail week this month, Governor Aycock, Graham Daves and some others will deliver addresses. Crenshaw, the Mecklenburg man who shot and killed a negro in his watermelon patch, was found guilty of manslaughter, lie was sentenced last week to six months in jail. The case was appealed. The Sanford Expri sssays until recently there were about (!(1 negro postmasters in North Caro lina. The number has been re duced to 12 and it is said that by the close of this year there will not be over (!. Fire in east Durham Friday night destroyed five houses owned by W. R. liarbee. The loss is estimated at $2,500. Two per sons who wereasleep in the build ings came near being burned to death before they could be aroused. 11' . T T 1,. IT i AiiBH iidum IA'IIII^ , -+.i vftir.s ui age, a sister of Capt. J. M. Lemly, Judge-Advocate of the Navy, was burned to deatti at tier home in Salem, X. (J., Monday. Her clothing caught from a kitchen stove and she was so badly burned tnat death resulted in tour hours. The Seaboard Air Line's Florida and Metropolitan Limited, north bound, was wrecked at 1:22 o'clock Friday morning about a mile south of Cameron, in Moore county. Theengineand five cars were derailed and six persons were more or less seriously in jured. State Auditor Dixon, who has been in charge of pension mat ters, says it is found* that there will be something over 9,000 pen sioners this year, or about .'5.000 more than last year. He says he expected the number would be 10,000 at least. The lists are not quite ready to be given out. At Chailotte Thursday, John Hish, colored, was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment at hard labor for criminal assault upon a nine-year-old colored girl there lq^t August. Judge Hoke said he was morally certain Hish was guilty of the crime, but certain legal doubts restrained him from pronouncing theextreme penalty. 1 he report of the finance com mittee of the penitentiary direc tors was made public Thursday. It shows that the Day adminis tration cost $ 16,079 a month, that the present board has been running the pen at an expense of only $10,390 a month; that where Day claimed a surplus in earnings of $34,450, there is really a deficit of $35,495?or in other words, that in his annual report there was a shifting of about $70,000 to the wrong side of the ledgeV. J. A. Johnston, the English millionaire, who purchased through Sheriff Jordan a 12, 000-acre tract of land in Cumber land and Harnett counties some months ago, is converting the land into a large hunting pre serve and will build a costly residence. Mr. Johnston, whose health is poor, was attracted to North Carolina by the climate, and will spend a portion of each year on his property in this State. Nfr. Johnston's father, who is at the head of one of the big trans Atlantic steamship lines, is rated at $40,000,000. The registration of students at Chapel Hill this year is 70 more than at the same time last year, the present registration being 537. In the freshman class the oldest member is 30 and the youngest 15. There are more students from < (range?38?than from any other county. Meck lenburg follows suit with 85; New Hanover 23; Forsyth 19; Buncombe 10: Guilford 10; Wayne 14; Wake 11. There are 144 in the freshman class, 100 sophomores, 70 juniors, 54 seniors, and 10 graduate stu dents. There are 59 medical stu dents and 27 jiharmacy students. THE SCHLEY COURT OF INQUIRY. A Briet Summary of the Progress ot the Investigation During the Past Week. Washington Post. J hiring the brief session of the Schley court of inquiry Thursday it wuh developed tnatCapt. Wise, commanding the pouting ship Yale, who "tiruily re Sieved" that the Spanish squadron was in Santiago harbor, did not notify Commodore Schley of that fact, although there were frequent communications by signal be tween the Yaleand the Brooklyn. Lieut. Spencer S. Woods, who commanded the Dupont,testified his ship took thirty tons of coal on board while off Cienfuegos. It was also developed that although t lie M arbleliead was in port at Key West when the Dupont left with dispatches from Admiral Sampson to Commodore Schley ' at Cienfuegos, Sampson said nothing about the code of sig nals which had been established by Capt. McCalla, of the Marble head, with the insurgents on j shore. In the Schley court of inquiry Friday, Mr. W. H. Stayton, for merly a naval lieutenant, pre-1 sen ted a letter from Admiral Sampson requesting that he be permitted to represent that of ficer as counsel. The request was | refused 011 the ground that Ad miral Sampson is not a party to the case now before the court. Lieut. Spencer S. Wood, form erly commander of the Dupont, flatly contradicted Capt. Har ber's testimony that there were J no picket vesels on duty at Cien fuegos while Schley was off that | harbor. Lieut. John Hood, formerly commander of the Hawk, testi fied that he carried dispatches from Admiral Sampson to Com modore Schley which led the lat ter officer to display perplexity and embarrassment. Capt. Bowman II. McCalla, who commanded the Marblehead, testified that he informed Capt. Chadwick. Sampson's chief of staff, of the secret code of signals established with the insurgents at Cienfuegos. This code was not communicated to Commodore Schley at Cienfuegos, although the I hi pout, Hawk, and Marble head carried dispatches from Sampson to Schley after Chad wick had been informed. In the Schley court of inquiry Saturday, ('apt. McCalla, of 'the Marblehead. claimed the credit for originating the phrase, "There is glory enough for all." It was shown that if ('apt. McCalla had obeyed orders and left the Eagle at Cienfuegos, Commodore Schley would have been given important information upon his arrival there with the flying squadron, and delay would have been . avoided. Capt. McCalla also tes tified that he informed Capt. jChadwick, Sampson's chief of staff, of the secret code establish ed with the insurgents at Cienfue gos, in the expectation that the information would be communi cated to Admiral Sampson. Al ' though he passed the Flying ' squadron on its way to Cienfue gos, he did not give the code to Schley. He also testified that at ' a conference of commanders on board the Brooklyn, off Santia go, before Sampson's arrival, a plan of battle was arranged in anticipation of the appearanceof the enemy's fleet. Lieut Commander W. II. H. Southerland related a lengthy megaphone message which he gave to Scorpion for Schley, sto 1 ting that tne Spanish fleet was not in Cienfuegos harbor. No rec ord of this message could be ? found on the log book of the ? Scorpion, which quoted Souther ? land as saying, "No news," nor in the log nook of the Eagle. Lieut. Barnes, of the Bureau of Navigation, testified that the translation of Schley's "disobe dience of orders" dispatch ngeed with the cipher as filed in the ca > ble office at Kingston, Jamaica. This was to relieve the Navv De partment from the imputation of altering dispatches. No further request was submit- i ted for the appearance of counsel for Admiral Sampson. Rear Admiral Itobley I). Evans, formerly commander of the bat tle-ship Iowa, testified before the Schley court of inquiry Monday, that he saw the signal lights on the night of the 22d of May at Cienfuegos and knew what they meant, the secret code having been given him by ('apt. Chad wick, Sampson's chief of staff, but that neither on the 22d nor the 2.'1.1 nor the 2-1 th, while the Flying Squadron remained at Cienfuegos, did he inform Com modore Schley of the code nor of its meaning. 11 is explanation was that he supposed Schley knew all about it, although it was shown on cross-examination that Schley had signaled to the squadron his belief that the Spanish fleet was in Cienfuegos harbor. Admiral Evans also testified that from 8 o'clock on the morning of May 25 until the morning of May 2<i, while the squadron wasen route from Cien fuegos to Santiago, it was im possible to coal the vessels; that at the time of the bombardment of the Colon the only shot from the Iowa that reached near that vessel was fired at a range of 11, 500 yards; that the squadron, while on blockade, was a little farther out from the shore at night than during the day, al though the difference in distance was not material, and that, du ring the loop the Brooklyn was "dangerously close-' to the Tex lipino* n.hnnt 1(H) v?.rr1? ?*-*-> v * " " "? " .7 ' He also repudiated the Navv De partment's official chart of the positions of the ships, which shows the nearest distance to have been about half a mile. He denied ever having told Commo dore Schley in the letter's cabin that he thought it was the Texas which executed the loop. Not withstanding t he distance of the Iowa from the Colon, he said that two shots from the Zocapa battery on shore fell near the Iowa. Commander Miller, who com manded the collier Merrimac, testified that while he could have coaled the battle-ships, it would not have been a comfortable proceeding, and that he would not have done so unless directly ordered, the weather being "nas ty." He described the breaking down of the Merrimac's engines off Santiago, which delayed the coaling process there. Capt. Jewell, of the Minneapolis, one of the scouting vessels off Santiago, testified that although he had the Navy Department's information that the Spanish fleet was within that harbor, he did not communicate it to Com modore Schley when he met the Flying Squadron upon its arriv al from Cienfuegos. Capt. Sigsbee, formerly of the Maine end afterward of thescout ing-ship, St. Paul, was the prin cipal witness in the Schley court of inquiry Tuesday. He testified that his first positive knowledge of the presence of the Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor was on the morning of the 29th of May, 1 SS)8, twenty minutes after the Colon had been sighted in the harbor by Schley's sqadron, although he had been cruising off the harbor since the 29th of May. He did not give Schley on the 29th, vyhen he first met that officer upon the arrival of the squadron, any definite informa tion of the whereabouts of the Spanish fleet, although he report ed to him certain events which he thought ought to have indi cated that the fleet was inside the harbor. He reports, how ever, that on the 29th he chased some steamers, which he thought were the Spaniards approaching Santiago. Admiral Sampson, in a report to the Xavy 1 >epartmen t, apparently quoted Capt. Sigsbee as saying that Schley was block ading twenty-five miles from the harbor of Santiago, ('apt. Sigs bee positively denied ever having made such a statement. Chief Yeoman (iustav E. Becker, who was ship's writer on Samp son's flagship, "recollected'' that certain dispute V's were sent by Sampson to Schley on the Iowa and lfupont, al hongh there was no record of thaf fact on the ship's journal. I'pon cross-ex aniination he admitted that he had not reeolleeted about the dispatches until the 18th of last month, when he was provided with a position in the Navy.yard. Hear Admiral Kvans' continued cross-examination failed to elicit any new important points. Thomas W. Dieuaide, a cor respoudent of the Xew York Sun, testified to the nearness of the Brooklyn to the Texas while the loop was being executed. lb said it was "a close shave." The Schley court of inquiry Wed nesday announced, after formal consultation, that all questions as to the blockade off Santiago harbor must be confined to the time prior to the arrival of Ad miral Sampson. This will pre vent the counsel for Admiral Schley from showing that the blockade which Schley instituted was continued by Admiral Samp son as bt ing satisfactory. Lieut. Commander Sharp, for merly commander of the Vixen, testified that at the time of the Brooklyn's loop he saw the Tex as lying apparently dead in the water. He would not vouch for the accuracy of the notes of the battle taken by Lieut. Harlow, of the Vixen. When asked if he remembered ^ being ordered by 1 Commodore feehley to report to Admiral Sampson that from smoke in the harbor it looked as if the Spanish fleet intended to come outv he said that he could not remember the occurrence, al though it might be possible. He testilied, also, that the New York arrived an nour ana nrteen min utes after the Colon had surren dered The Colon was the last Spanish ship to strike her colors. Capt. Sigshee again positively testified that he never received or communicated to Commodore Schley the department's dispatch of May 20, saying that the Span ish fleet arrived in Santiago har bor on May 19. Lieut. James G. Doyle was the first of the Brooklyn's officers to appear as a witness, and wa s called for both sides. He testified that changes in the Brooklyn's log, as to the turn made at the time of the loop, were inserted to correct palpable errors, and were made at the suggestion of Lieut. Sharp, of the Vixen. The Cotton Crop. Kaleiifh News and Observer. The cotton crop in North Caro lina is going to be very short. One of the best posted cotton buyers in the city of Raleigh said yesterday that the crop in Wake county would not exceed 50 per cent. It is believed that the Wake crop is an average, being much better than that in Anson and not so good as that in Pitt county. The Cleveland Star says I of the crop in that section: "The cotton crop is going to be alarmingly short, if present indications count for anything. Cotton is slow in opening and the hulls of the bolls are thick and the lint small, the result of the long continued wet weather. Cot tou ought to bring ten cents if governed by the crop outlook in this section. The large cotton plants have deceived many who think the crop will be large because the rain made rank growth. When tiie mistake finds its way into official reports, it will probably be seen that the shortness of the crop warrants an increase in price. In Mecklenburg, as in most other sections of the State, there will be no ton crop this year. The Charlotte News says: "Mr. K. G. Graham informs the News that the recent cold weath er has played havoc with the top j crop cotton. The bolls look blistered and are dropping off. 'You can say,' remarked Mr. Graham, 'that our people will make no top crop cotton. " The late President McKinley's will was read Monday. It leaves his entire property to his wife for life subject to* an annuity of .*1,000 to his mother. The estate is valued at fr . #22.",000 to #230,000, inclu- ur #07,000 life I insurance. GENERAL NEWS. A Partial List of the Week's Hap penings Throughout the Country. The tvacht Columbia defeated the yacht Shamrock 11 Saturday by 1 minute and 20 seconds. Seventeen men were killed by the explosion and fire in the mine near Victoria, It. ('., Tuesday. Governor Odell has received t wo letters asking t hat.Czolgosz's sentence be commuted to impris onment for life. The net profits of the I'nited ! States Steel Corporation for the six months ending September HO, were $54,945,872. The Greater New York Democ racy, of which .John ( '. Sbeehan is the leader, held its city conven tion Tuesday and nominated the fusion ticket, headed by Seth i Low for mayor. It is understood Allegheny j county (Pa.) leather manufactu rers will form acombine intended eventually to embrace all patent , leather concerns, with a capital ' : of about $80,000,000. The city committee of Tam many Hall, at a meeting held Wednesday night, decided on ! i Edwin M. Shepard, of Brooklyn, | as the Democratic candidate for i , mayor of Greater New York. , Resolutions condemning the 1 ship subsidy bill and calling upon 1 Congress to kill the measure were passed by the convention of 1 | the Spinners' Association of ! America in its sessional Boston Wednesday. .ludge Bruce, of Montgomery. , Federal judge for the middle (lis- j trict of Alabama, died Tuesday, ?ludge Bruce was a native of Scotland, and seventy years old. He was appointed by 1'resident \ Grant in 187"). ! John Most, who was arested j September 22nd at Corona, E. I., 11 on the charge of violating the i the law relating to unlawful assemblages, has been discharged ' fiom custody. There was no j i ' evidence against him. James Edward Brady, the man ! who assaulted Ida I'ugsley, five \ years old, in Helena, Montana. Tuesday, was about ten o'clock ( Wednesday taken from the jail , by a mob and hanged to a tele- ( graph pole in the Haymarket square, about three blocks from | the jail. Jimbo Fields, aged 10, and 1 | Clarence Garnett. aged 18, both j colored, were lynched at Shelby ville. Ky., Wednesday morning, for the alleged murder of Will C. Hart, a printer, who was stoned to death on Saturday night, Sep- , tember 21. The boys were taken from the Jail and swung from the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad trestle within five hundred yards < of the jail. 1 i "The Last Days of I 'residentj 1 McKinley," by Walter Wellman, in the Review of Reviews for Oc tober, is the most comprehensive account of the Buffalo tragedy that has appeared in print. All things considered, it is a remark- c able journalistic achievement. It should be read and presered as a complete record of a great his- j torical event. I Students at Wake Forest Col- i lege engaged in some hazing and i disorderly conduct last week and i the faculty dealt with them with an iron hand. Three were ex- < jielled and 55 were given the i privilege of signing a paper ex pressing regret for their conduct i and promising not to engage in it again, or to leave the college. They all signed. The champion mail carrier of the State lives in Jonesville. His | name is Frank Day an he is 54 | years old, has but one arm, hav ing lost his right arm in the machinery in the cotton factory here when he was a boy. He has been in the mail service as car rier since 1870, abo. !1 years and in that time hoc traveled 00,320 miles, mo o nen half of i that distance beinu made on foot. ^ WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES. Items ot General Interest From the Nation's Capital City. Admiral Soli lev (jailed at the Executive Mansion Monday and paid lus respects to the Presi dent. Government receipts for Sep tember were .*44,4o4,422 and the expenditures '510,730, leaving a surplus for the month of ?11,128,(586. ? F. Abreu, a wealtv Filipino ' planter, called at the \\ hite Monday and presented to the President a gold-headed Palas san wood cane. The head bore a design emblematic of Justice and Power done in the highest skill of the Filipino engraver's art. The official estimates for the fiscal year beginning -I uly 1,1002, which Postmaster-General Chas. Emery "Smith will submit to Con gress at the opening of the ses sion. call for an aggregate of SO,250,000 for rural free delivery service throughout the country. I his is an increase of if2,750,000 over the expense of that rapidly growing service for the current year. The Navy Department has been informtd of the arrival of Rear Adtniral Kempff, aboard bis flag ship, the Kerttucky, at Taku from Chefoo. The battleship In diana, which recently was as signed to duty as a training ship 'or landsmen, will leave New York >11 Oct. 15 for a cruise through West Indian waters. The Inui tna will stop at I'ort of Spain, Santa Lucia, Guantanamo, Kingston, Havana, San Juan, Port an Prince, Trinidad and Pensacola, and is due to arrive it Hampton Rhodes on the 20th ;>f April next. There a re about 400 vacancies in the line of the army in the grades of first and second lieutenant, and a number of candidates are ?loon to be designated by the President to appear before ex amining boards at San Francis jo and other large posts with a view to the appointment to till these vacancies. A sufficient number of candidates had pre ciously been designated to till ill the vacancies in t he line of the army, but over 100 of these de clined appointment and a num ber of vacancies were, of course, caused from time to time by re tirements and deaths and conse quent promotions. The talk regarding the forma tion of a cavalry organization, to be known as the "President's l)wn," is assuming definite form, and it is said the troop will soon be organized. t It is proposed that it shall be connected with the Dis trict National Guard, and com posed of men representing the ? younger business element of Washington. The idea developed from a plan proposed shortly after President Roosevelt was elected to the Vice-Presidencv, when it was intended to make the organization a company of in fantry, to be called the Roosevelt Rifles. Since Mr Roosevelt has become President, the project has broadened, and it is now intended to mount thecommaud and make it one of the crack cavalry troops of the country. The monthly statement- of the public debt, issued Tuesday, shows that at the close of busi ness September 30, 1901, the debt, less cash in the Treasury, amounted to $1,031,521,365, a decrease for the month of $4, 825,401. The debt is recapitu lated as follows: Interest-Waring debt, $966,966,120; debt on which interest has ceased, $1, 343,560; debt bearing no inter est, $383,206,564; total.$1.351, 516,244. This amount, however, does not include $788,032,089 in certificates and Treasury notes outstanding, which are offset by an equal amount of cash on hand held for their redemption. The cash in the Treasury is classified as follows: Gold reserve, $150, 000,000; trust funds, $788,032, 089; in national bank deposita ries, $259,295,386; total, $1, 197,327,475; against which there are demand liabilities outstand ing amounting to $877,407,595, which leaves a fetish balance on hand of $319,919,879.