North Carolina Newspapers

?ljr jsmitt)firli> Heralii, price one dollar per year. "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD. # single copies three cents. VOL. 20. SMITH FIELD, X. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1001. NO. 38. ?LUXURY AT THE CAPITOL Magnificent New Furnishings for the House of Repre sentatives. LOUNGING CHAIRS IN LOBBY. New Carpets Laid and Imposing: Chairs, Working: on Ball Bear ing^, Provided tor the Use ot MAnhers. A Washington special to the Philadelphia Record says that the incoming members of Con giess are amazed at the luxury and mugnificence of the new fur nishings of the House of Repre sentatives. Not only has the chamber itself been completely refurnished, but every committee room, the corridors and lobbies have been newly decorated. The old desks in the chamber have been removed, and in their places are solid mahogany desks of rich design. These desks are arranged in semicircles. From the galleries the chamber resem bles an amphitheatre, with the desks and chairs rising tier upon tier. The desks in the rear are elevated several feet higher than ever before. The carpet has been changed from a dark red to a vivid green, with yellow figures. All the ugly benches in the gal lery have been removed and hand some opera chairs substituted i ^ - i - L . 1 l a Vj'cicii CII tin irs iiumuercu, tinu upon occasions when admission is only by card seats will be re served. in the past it was first come, fin-tserved. The members' lobby, at the rearof thechamber, has been newly decorated, and lounging chairs have been placed here and there, with tables for writing and luxurious sofas. The Committee on Appropria tions, of which Representative Cannon, of Illinois, is chairman, has moved to the room formerly occupied by the Rivers and Har bors Committee, Mahogany desks, tables, chairs, book cases, shelving and furnishings have taken the place of the oldtoak furniture. New carpets have been laid. The Rivers and Harbors Committee has moved to one of the new committee rooms, where the Congressional Library form erly was. It, too, has fine furni ture, etc. The chairs in the House are very* handsome. Instead of the old plain, cane-backed and seated cane affairs, mahogany chairs working 011 ball bearings and matching, the desks have been put in On the Senate side many new Conveniences have been installed. The SupremeCourt room is being rebuilt. The Senate library lias been fitted out with steel shelving, and now is one of the most valu able reference libraries in the United Stat* s The rotunda of the Capitol is now filled with packing cases, chairs, desks, etc., and a large force of men is workingnight and day to get things in readinessfor the opening of Congress. Banner Wheat Crop in Kansas. Toptka, Kan., Nov. 23.?The winter wheat vin Knnsasthis year was DO,045.314- bushels,: valued at *50,47b,570. This breaks last \ wir's State record by 13.450,070 bushels. The area now sown in winter wheat is nearly (5 000,000 acres, which,; with favorable weather, will yield more than 100,000,000 bushels The corn crop in Kansas this year \v is only 42,005,(572 bushels but the \alue of the combined, wheat an'l corn crops was but 11.3 per ceiii. 1 ss than that of the sa j no cro"s jn 15)00. Church Raises $50,000 in a Day. New York, Nov. 21 ?Grace M. Iv Church, of this city, to-dav started a movement to clear off a oior-paptc of *<">0,000. Bishop j (k II. l-owler preached at the morning service, and $30,130 was subscribed. At Sunday school in the afternoon this was increased by $3,130. At the evening services the re maining sum necessary to make Up $50,000 was suhscrilred. FORECAST OF THE MESSAGE. Salient Features Which, it is Said, it Will Emhftice. A special Washington dispatch to the Baltimore Sun, say s: From reliable sources intorma tion was obtained to-day which indicate the position to bo as sumed by President Roosevelt in his forthcoming message011 seve ral important matters of legisla tion. The message is now ready for submission. It was read for the last time bytheCabinetTuesday. It is now thought probable that it will be sent to Congress next Tuesday instead of Monday, the opetiing day of the session, when Presidential messages are usually submitted. It is probable that both Senate and ilouse will ad journ out of respect to the mem ory of President McKiuley imme diately upon convening Monday morning, so that their business sessions w ill not begin until Tues day. It is stated that the President will introduce his message by reference to the death of Presi dent McKinley. As far as can be learned these recommendations are expected to be covered 111 the message: That the new Hay-Pauncefote Treaty be ratified. That a bill authorizing the con st ruction of the Xicaraguan canal be passed. 1 hat Congress authorize the laying of a Pacific cable. That the necessary action to jfromote reciprocity be taken. Thatcertain reductions be made in the war revenue tariff rates. That the navy be enlarged. That some measure be adopted to encourage the growth of the American merchant marine. Details of these recommenda tions are, of course, lacking. The message will also refer to the fact that the Government has maintained the Monroe Doc trine and it will treat briefly of conditions existing 111 the Philip pines. It is stated that the President will assume a stand upon recip rocity at variance with views held by leading Republicans who, in expressing their opinions in the newspapers, have held that the part y will not indorse any treaty having as its objecttlieestablish ment of liberal reciprocal trade relations with foreign nations. In regard to war revenue reduc tions it is stated the President will point out several features of the present law which impose higher duties than are actually required. It is not thought, how ever, that Mr. Roosevelt will favor action looking to a general tariff iVvision. The Size of Texas. Texas, the large-t State in the Union, has the proportions of an empire, and it is only by com parisons that one can gain an adequate idea of her size and of the magnificent distances between her boundaries. To say that the area of the State is 20.",780 ?1 . Cxll square miles Conveys nine meaii injjj, but when one considers that its width is more than one-half ilmt of the Southern border of t he Tnited St ales, that it is larger 1 ha i the whole of New England, with.New York. !'? '.vlvania. New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia i ho ova in; ' hat it i? larger t han even tiermanv or Prance. and that if the whole.populateat of the United States was placed within its borders it-would be no more thickly settled than is east ern Massachusetts to-day?then one begins to realise the vasti ess of this great southwestern do main. In traveling across Texas from Texarkana oji the eastern border to 1.1 Paso in the extreme west, one journeys nearly, the distance.from New York Co Phi capo; nod in passing from the pan handledistrict in the north? a strip of Texas in which the en tire territory embraced in the New England S -;tes would L1' lost?to the Gulf coast, one finds almost every variety of climate and soil represented in any part of thecountry.?Pearson's Maga zine. I.* (i GENERAL NEWS. A Partial LiM of the Week's Hap penings Throughout th Country. * After a long climb up a steep cliff American soldiers last week captured a Filipiiro forton Bohol island. Thesteamer Alerfn, bound from Olangapo for Manila with 200 persons cn board, is believed to be lost. % The Government has bought San Juan battlefield, near San tiago, Cuba, and will establish a park there. Four girls were burned todeatli in Pittsburg Monday by an ex plosion of kerosene oil used in kindling a tire. William Hossman, a maniac, smashed 1411 windows of houses on the main street of Easton, Ohio Sunday. A new contagious disease. | known as '.'Philippine measles,"; has made its appearance in war ren county, New Jersey. At 2:?40 o'clock P.M. Monday President Roosevelt will touch a button which will start the machinery iu the Charleston Ex | position. Army officers in the Philippines, have sent General and Mrs. Henry I C. Corbin as a wedding present a massive silver punchbowl, weigh ing about 50 pounds. 4 he recent storm on the const of Delaware, New Jersey and New York caused about a million dol lars'damage. Five sailors were drowned at Long Branch. Four teen lives are reported lost in the gale. The statement of in ernal reve nue collectors for October. 1901, shows the receipts from all sour ces amounted to $24,.'lob,DOT. which is a decrease as compared with October, 1900, of $3,104, (572. Eight miles from Shreveporr, La.. Saturday night a negro man shot and killed a negro boy in a dispute over 30 cents. The man was arrested but a mob of 200 negroes and five or six white men took him from the officer and hanged him. The official count for Nebraska of the November election, corn corn nleted last week, shows that Sedgwick. Republican can didate for Supreme Judge, has a plurality over Hollonbeck, Fusion, of 12.6.r,9 and a majority over all of 6,751. Hon. Isidor Ravner, who represented Admiral Schlevbefore the court of inquiry, refused to accept a, cent for his services. The admiral accordingly presen ted Mr. Ravner with a handsome gold watcha.nd Mrs. Ravner with a diamond brooch. nev. l >r Daniel .1. Hauer. of Hanover.I'm., the oldest preacher in tlie United States, is critically ill Or. Hauer is 90 years of aire and was one pf the founders of of the Lutheran Church in Ameri ca. He was ordained to the ministry 111 182.". He was ac quainted with many of the patri ots of the Revolution and was a friend of LaFayette. With a stick of dynamitehnder him. Jadey M. A. Rodpers. of ? Denver, formerly of the Supreme Court of Colorado and one of th? ablest lawyers of the State, laid himself down to die Sunday. Liplitinir a cipar. he fired the fuse from it and calmly smoked until the shock of the explosion ended his life. Ti n act was committed anion"- some willows near Rear River, just insidethe town limits. The total postal revenues for the vear from all sources were 8111 .(531 .193. beinsr $3,923,727 less th in.tile expenditure-, This is exclusive of thb cost of trans porting the mails over the sub sidized Pacific railsonds that have not yet settled their bonded accounts with the Government. The t rtal valueofstamjied paper and stamp books issued dunnp the year was $104,783,987. There were <5.~>9,<514,800 postal I cards issued. ? FREE DELIVERY NOW PAYS. Increase in the Income?Mr. John son's Recommendations Washington, Nov. 20.?First Assistant Postmaster-iieueral \Y. >i. Johnson in his annual report says the yearly increase in the postal revenues has resulted in free delivery service becoming self sustaining. . Of i lie gross postal revenues of the United States for the last fiscal yeai $74,25)5,304 came from 800 free delivery cities The remaining .'liiOO Presidential post offices yielded 110,003,252. while fhe 72.47(1 fourth-class post offices produced $18.5)13, 515). Mr. Johnson says the fact that the postal service in the largest cities is practically per feet is theexplanation of why the annual per ^rentage of increase in the revenues of the free delivery post-offices should be f lirt e times greater than in the smaller cities and five times as large as that of the fourth-class offices. Among Mr. Johnson's recom mendations are: A reduction of money order fees so as to make t he maximum 25cents, instead of 30 cents; reclassification of clerks ai first-class and second class post-offices; an appropria tion of $20,000 for postmasters' salaries; the appointment of a fourth assistant superintendent of city delivery service, to have charge of the Southern field, and that all the larger post offices a '?supervisor of carriers ' be ap pointed, to have exclusive charge of the force of letter carriers. Thanksgiving Dav in a Nutshell. Some hae meat that canna eat. And some would eat that want it; But we hae meat, and we ean eat, Sae let the Lord be thankit. Robert Burns. WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES. Items ot Interest From the Nation's Capital. It is believed the House Repub lican caucus 011 Saturday will vote to continue the so-called "Heed rules." The annual report of the Secre tary 01 W ar discloses a ocheme tor maintaining a tiign educa tional standard 111 the army. A delegation of Cubans saw the l'resident Monday 111 the interest of a reduction 111 the tariff 011 cerlairfproducts of ttiat island. Secretary (iage has received from an unknown person through the Collector of customs at -New York a conscience contrioution 01 IS. It is said certain Republicans in Congress who oppose the reconinieii iations the l'resident will make will begin early to try to forestall their adoption. i. 1:..... 4-: : i. ? 1.. . I IKJlUill iUUft lIUUUplV LlJrl L I lie whisky distillers intend tu make a tremendous effort this winter to have their tax reduced from ?tfl.lt) per gallon to 70 cents. The stake for which they are pla\ wig amounts to about -tftio, 000.000. The distillers at pres ent have in bond in this country 148.074,400 gallons of whisky, according to Commissioner of Internal Ilevenuc Verkes. This for the time of year is an unusu ally Urge amount of liquor in bond An impression has been 'treated that the first message of Presi thnr UooseveU i 11 ? e one oi the hunt est sen' to Congress and that it Would tie not less than 28,000 words, oi 7,000 words longer than the longest mess aire submitteil by President -Mckin ley. A Cabinet officer and a lending Senator, both of whom have read fhedocument. say that it will not exn cd 15,000 words, and in this respeet will be about the average, or shorter than t hose prepared by President Mc kinley. President- Clevel aid's free trade message during his tirst administration holds the record for beingone of the short est, and treated of only one ; subject?the tariff. STATE NEWS. Short Items ot Interest Clipped and Lulled From Our State Exchanges The famous Uattis-Kilgo trial is in progress at < fxford this week. The Baptist State Convention will be in session at Winston next week. The North Carolina M Iv Con fer nee will convene at Fuvette ville next week. The Summit hotel at Carthage was burned Friday. The loss is estimated at #10,000 with lssur ance of #5,000. The Express says a negro countryman waslnSanford a few days ago with a "two horse wagon load of dogs," whiclfhe .offered for sale, but he found few purchasers. Col. (I. E. Webb and Mr. II. W. Kronheimer have bought the Southern Tobacco Journal, of Winston, from Mr. H. E. Hurman. Mr. Kronheimer, who has for some time edited the paper, will continue in that capacity and Col. Webb will be the business managei. In the case of John Miller, the negro tried for murder in the Superior Court at Asheville, the jury Friday rendered a verdict of guilty in the first degree. The fact came to light that the jury, after standing 18 hours, six for ' murder in in the first, and six in J the second, degree, juggled with the man's life to determine the degree of guilt. Two pieces of paper were put in the hat, one marked "first" and the other "second." The first degree was drawn. The verdict was set aside and a verdict of murder in the second degree was allowed. The prisoner was sentenced to ?'$() years in the pen at hard labor. McKinley's Personal Estate. Canton, Ohio, Nov. 2(5.?The appraisers have filed their report of the appraisement of the estate of the late President McKinley. The report shows 4 hat the de cease I died, possessed of personal goods and chattels to the value of $2,65">.89; of securities, bank deposits and life insurance, $133,105.15; moneys $129.15. Total persol estate, $135,890 18; of which $(>0,132.19 was life in surance. The real estate was not ap praised, as u^der the will it goes to Mrs. McKinley for life and at her death to his family. It is be lieved to be worth from $60,000 to $75,000. * A Condemned Burglar Acted as Judge. Asheville Dispatch, 30th. Two negroes were sentenced by the Superior Court to-day for as sault under peculiar circum stances They beat another ne gro in the large cell of the jail. In defence, they said Iheyweie ordered to do so "by the court " Kvidence showed that the prison piv ho I nP(riifii7od n onurt rtf '??" 'in I V?l ?? I/.' \l Itl ? V/HI 1 > '/I which a burglar, sentenced to death, was judge. Other prison ers were solicitor, attorneys and j u rv. These negroes were ''slit-riff" mid "deputy", find said "the court" ordered them to heat the "prisoner," who hud been convicted by it. it was shown that this was true a yd that the* "officers" had inflicted severe punishment without any personal hiding towards the "prisoner." The solicitor asked the judge to break up all such courts both in and out of j vil. The sentence was four And eight months each, in addition to previous sentences. HJREIGN NEWS IIEPIS. According to a dispatch to the London Standard tram Odessa, 180 persons perished in the r?> ccnt earthquakes at Kr? ?routii. Numerous churcte s in theprov inCesof Spain havebeen destroyed during the last few days by in cendiary tires. Thus far the police hare no clews to the cut i prits. I.ouis Grunnoti, an accomplice of Bresci, the assassin of King 11 uinU'i t, has Ireen sentenced to life i in prison ment at the Assizes, at Milan Ittil.v. He isan anarch ist front Peterson, X. J. The launch of the first iron steamer constructed in Chile oc curred at Valparaiso Sunday, and was a great success. The ceremony was attended by the President, the Federal authorities and a large assemblage of people. Amu uncement has been made that the Hank of Liverpool had been victimized by a trusted book keeper for a large sum. What the losses amount to is not yet exactly known, but an official statement issued by the bank says that through the dishonesty and betting transactions of a bookkeeper the institution mav lose V170,(?( )0(about$85< ),<><>()).'' During his recent visit to San tiago de Cuba General Wood bought for the Government the principal portion of the San Juan battlefield, including Sun Juan Hill, the site of the block-house and bloody bend. Thetract com prises 20D acres, and cost $15, 000. It will be considered a Uni ted States reservation, and the Government intends to lay out a beautiful park on the battlefield. POLENTA NEWS. Miss Lillie Koonce, of Raleigh, spent Saturday and Sunday visit ing Miss May Young, of Polenta. Miss Ward, of Rocky Mount, spent several days recently visit ing the Misses Tomlinson, of Preston. Miss Lizzie Tomlinson, of Pres ton, after a short visit to friends in Italeigh, returned to her home last week. Mr. Willi* Smith, of Smithfleld, was out in attendance upon di vine services at Oakland Sunday morning. As usual Rev. Mr.Hines preached a strong and logical sermpn at Oakland last Sunday morning. Owing to indisposition he did nob preach at night. Mr. Jeff Byrd, of Harnett, was in this section Tuesday on busi ness. lie reports the crops in his county as being miserably poor. That's the cry from everv section. Messrs. Adams and I (road well, of Smithfield, again paid their respects to this community last Sunday. They are clever gentle men, and are always cordially re ceived by our people. "Sol" is still skipping around, possibly effecting arrangements for that "little affair" he said was to take place in December. Well, December is nearly here, so "Sol" will have to hurry up or allow his prophecy to fail. Misses Mary Dunn and fiertie iSeallings, of Turlington Insti tute, iu company with Ava Yel vington. came out Friday even-* ing and spent two days at the hospitable home of Mr. .1 W. Yelvington, Miss Ava's father. The little child of Mr. William Coats, who lives in Pleasant Grove township, whilst playmg around the tire on Monday mora ins; caught on tire, and was so badly burned that the little suf ferer died that night. The re mains of the child were laid to rest Wednesday in 'lie family burying plot. Several little girls in tli - tion art/working with a great detil of earnestness for "Muck's Junior Cook Stove," offered by the enterprising "Holt Hardware and Muggy Co," for the li tie girl under 14 years who cuts the largest numb r of MuckStovead vertisonients out 11 Ths Hki; \li? by the 24th of Dtcember. It is likely that t he public school at Polenta Academy will Itegia on Monday ; lie !?th of Decern' r. Miss Mabel W Cnlbteth.oi ?.< -- burg, will be tbe teacher. si.?? comes highlv recommending:;# being a t^acjer of iarastiibi.it v, and will doubtless prove act . ar able tothe patro is of thes.- 104.1. She will receive a warm welcome to our community. Tyco.