Slje Smitijficli Herald pbice one dollar per tear "true to ourselves, our country and our god" r=============== - ? ' SINGLE COPIES FIVE CENTS. VOL. 24. SMITH FIELD. N. C.. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER !(>, 190ft. N08? BLOODY WAVE j: ROLLING BACK, The Shaine of Russia. Stories Come of Horrors Almost Un thinkable. At Temskthe Popula tion ar.d Military Stand by and Watch 600 People Die In a Blazing Theatre. St. Peterburg, Nov. 8.?(2:00 p. m.)?The revolutionary wave continues to subside except in the Caucause. As details of what happened throughout European Russia during the upheaval arrive the story grows more revolting. In the Baltic provinces murder, riot and incendiarism prevail. In Poland even the clergy, Catholic and Protestant, par ticipated in the manifestations in favor of the autonomy of the j ancient kingdom. In south western Russia hardly a city or town escaped Jewish massacres. At Tomsk, Siberia, according to the latest reports received here, the whole population of 40,000 and the military stood by while six hundred men, women and children were burned in a theatre. The court house at Tomsk and the mayor's resi dence, where the students and revolutionists took refuge from the mob were burned and those who tried tolly were killed in the streets. In Moscow the Social revolu tionist and t.he Black Hundred and the Cossacks and police force fought bloody battles. The decent of the butchers of Moscow with their knives and axes upon the students, was one of the most horrible chapters but not as pitiful., however, as1 the attack of the Black Hundred on a procession of school children carrying red hags. When the I school children sought to escape, a cordon of police barred the way and the youthful martyrs were beaten into insensibillity and in some cases actually torn to pieces. In the Alexander Gardeu at Moscow, Cossacks lay in ambush in the shrubbery and set upon their victims with whips. Many were beaten to death and others were hardly able to crawl away. The reports from theCaucaus show there is no immediate pros pect of suppressing the present state of anarchy. Battles be tween Tartars and Armenians continue, and the distruction of the railroads and lack of troops make it impossible for the auth orities to cope with thesituatiou. Count W'it.te is continuing negotiations with the Zetnsto Constitutionalist party with brighter prospects of at least partial success. He makes no concealment of the fact that he regards their support as being almost vital to the achievement of the task which he is under taking. The court is now hold ing a series of conferences with Priuce Eugene Troubetsoy, brother of the late I'riuce Sergi us Troubetskoy and the idol of the party whom theCount wishes to take the portfolio of education, and with Prince Polgoroukoff, i Prof. Miliukoff and M. Stakovich who were summoned from Mos cow and M. Struve, editor of the Osvohojdenie, the organ of "emancipation," published in I Paris, who arrived here last! night after four years exile in the cause of freedom. The conservative wing of the ( party Is becoming less intrau sigeant in its attitude toward Count Witte, although demand ing the fulfillment of certain con-, ditious before givin" im open sunnort. The n ii.w. primarily on the removal of the j "wolves" of the old regime as J they term the governors and | police officials of many provin-i ces and cities who are not in sympathy with the new order of things and who are charged v?itii( deliberately inciting the worst elements of the population with the full connivance of the police ( aud troops under their control to make attacks upon the "in tellectuals" and Jews which have filled the country with tales of horrow and bloodshed for the last ten days. This condition, ( Count Witte is anxious personal- j ly to meet, as he fully realizes that the obnoxious officials are obstacles in his own path. With : the Count's promise to support a demand for a constituent as sembly when the national asseru-! bly meets in, January some are content, and a distinct dispo sition is manifested on the part! of certain leaders to hold up j Count Witte's hands and work with him in the introduction of the new regime. Odessa, Nov. 8.?Outward calm has returned here but the tension is still great. Reports that the Jews are preparing for terrible vengeance on the Christians are being industriously circulated among the lowest and most ignorant classes, and it is feared they may lead to a recrudescence of anarchy. These reports de clare that the Jews intend to blow up the churches and distri bute poisoned food stuffs to the Christians. Prefect Niedhardt to whom much of the responsibility of last week's occurrences is attributed is still in office despite urgent de-, mands for his removal. Appre- j hensive of fresh outbreaks the city council has secured the promise of the governor general to place military guards at all places where numbers of Jews recently rendered homeless are now being sheltered. Stopped the Fakirs. Sheriff B. A. Home gave a rep resentative of Van Amburg Show, which exhibited at Mon roe Tuesday, some straight talk that was needed and which did a whole lot of good. When the representative of the show called on Sheriff Home to pay State j and county tax, he told the offi cer that there were seine "little | trix" with the show, but that the officers were always fixed about those things and that it would be all right. Sheriff Home theu proceeded to make a few broken remarks. He told the showman that he bad heard of his "little trix" and that information had reached him of certain gambling ' and fake concerns along with the show. "Now, see here," said the sheriff. "I have a number of deputies out yonder at the show grounds and if there is any | gambling, skin games or faking carried on out there, the whole push goes to the jug " The show man promised to be good. There has gone up a great hue and cry from some other places where this show has been, about peo ple being fleeced by fakirs around the show, but there was none of that kind of business here. Doubtless the few and pointed remarks of the officer is responsi ble for this state of affairs while the show was here. There were a number of regular and special officers out at the giounds last Tuesday itching to arrest a fakir.?Monroe Enquirer. Found Dead In Bed. Wilmington, N. C., Nov. 7.? J Felix Hoyle Kluttz, aged 27 yearn, a Dative of Albemarle, j Stanley county, wan fouud dead in his bed over the Hall drug store this morning. The coroner! viewed the body, but deemed an I inquest unnecessary. Death was attributed to an attack of acute heart disease. The body was taken charge of by the Elks ? j Raleigh Times. A Disastrous Calamity. It is a disastrous calamity, when you lose your health, be cause indigestion and constipa tion have sapped It r.way. Prmmnl relief can be had in Dr. King s Ni v Life Pills. They build up your digestive organs, and cure headache, dizziness, colic, constipation, etc. Guaran teed at flood Bros, drug store; 25c. I RELIEF FOR ODESSA VICTIMS. Eight Hundred Families Ruined and Wealthy Merchants Bankrupt. Odessa, Nov. 7.?Odessa con tinues quiet. Railroad traffic is. entirely restored. The town council and the newspapers have opened collec tions in behalf of the victims of laet week's slaughter- The mun icipality headed the list with f12,500, and has established temporary refuges and food kitchens. The losses total many millions, i and no less than 800 families are ruined. Some wealthy mer chants have been reduced to poverty. The newspapers inconsequence of the governor's warning, ap peared to-day without a word of reference to the greatest disaster which has visited Odessa since its foundation. 1 he Archbishop 01 Odessa has published an appeal to the Christians, denouncing the mas sacres and invoking peace. The reactionary mayor, Kryz hanovsky; Chief of Police Golo vin, and Curator of educational Institutions Solsky have re signed. Four hundred and four Jews, victims of the massacres of last week, were buried today. A majority of theshops wereclosed, including to Christians. The scenes of grief were heartrending and almost indescribable as the bodies were placed in trenches, each trench containing seventy. Similar funerals will continue for three days. Some 240 of the bodies were in such a condition that they could not be recog-; ni?ed. On each grave wreaths were placed, bearing the inscription: "Martyrs to the Faith.?Victims j of the Autocracy." A Boy and His Sweet Heart. Many years ago one of the best i of mothers fell "asleep at the gates of light." All of her chil dren, of course, revered her memory; but one of them was the babe of war time birth, and owiug to the anxieties and ex citements of the period, and the\ continued absence of the father, j extraordinary affection and de votion was, doubtless, lavished upon him. Perhaps it was because of this that after the mother's death, and for many years, this boy never retired for the night with out placing at his bedside a chair, under the childish impression that his mother would occupy it and watch him to sleep. When other boys would write in sand or carve on trees the names of sweethearts dear, this lad would trace with knife or stick the name of his sweet heart ?his mother's name. When but a boy he chose his sweet heart's name as one to be given to his own daughter; and when in later years he wrote some tales of love and life, his heroine, good and true, bore with signal honor and renown the name he loved so well. So, through boyhood's days this precious memory was enshrined within his heart; the purity, the devotion, the sacrifices, the sor rows of this patient, God loving and God serving woman wasever before him, often deterring him from evil and sometimes inspir ing hiui for good. "Happy he with such a mother! Faith in womankind beats witu his blood, and trust in all things I high comes easy to him."?Rich ard L. Metcalfe. "I Thank the Lord!" cried Hannah Plant, of Little liock, Ark., "for the relief I got from Bucklen's Arnica Salve. It cured mv fearful running sores, which nothing else would heal, and from which I had suffered for 5 years." It is a marvelous} healer for cuts, burns and: wounds. Guaranteed at Hood j Bros. Tlnu' ' re- orir>. ELECTION SUMMARY.! McClellan Re-elected .Mayor of New York * . William Travers Jerome Is Still District Attorney of New York 1 ?Democrats Carry Ohio?Re form Party Wins in Phlla d e I p h I a?Amendment Lost In Maryland. New York? McClellan. Demo crat, was re elected mayor by a small plurality. Hearst the Municipal Ownership League Candidate, running him a close race. Tammany's candidate for District Attorney, Osborn was defeated by .Jerome, whose inde pendent campaign has been one of the most remarkable features of the election. Results of the voting were in great doubt until after midnight Maryland?The proposed con stitutional amendment for the disfranchisement of certain clases of citizens, was defeated by a majority that, will i.kelv reach 20,000. The it publican nominee for comptroller was probably elected. Chief Judge Harlan, Democrat, was re-elected. The political complexion of the next Legislature is uncertain. Ohio?Democrats are claiming the election of I'attison, their nominee for Governor and the entire Democratic ticket by sub stantial plurarities. Republicans do not concede the claim. Re publican Leader Cox announces his retirement from active poli tical service. Virginia?Democratic plurality j over the Republican vote will stand about 20,000. Vote in j the state was light. Republican I gain in the Legislature will be slight. Chicago?With one exception! the Republicans elected all their | candidates. Kentucky? Raul G. Barth,! Democrat, was elected mayor of Louisville. Democrats wiil have a working majority in the Legis lature to choose a successor to Senator Blackburn. Rhode Island?Republican nominee for Governor, George II. Utter, wins out by at least 3, 000 plurality over the Demo cratic candidate, Lucius F. C. Garvin. Republicans made gains in each branch of the Legislature. M assachusetts ? Lieutenant Governor Guild, Republican nominee, elected governor by 29.435 plurality over General Charles VV. Bartlett. For Lieu tenant Gvoernortbe Republicans also elected their nominee, Draper's plurality over Whitney being 3,942 Republicans elect their usual large majority in both branches of the Legislature. New Jersey?The election in creases the Republican hold upon the Legislature and makes it certain that the successor to Senator Dryden will be a Repub lican. Salt Lake City?The election of the an ti-Mormon candidate for mayor, Ezra Thompson, seems certain. San Francisco-Eugene Schmitz, the union-laborcandidate elected mayor by at least 15,000 ma jority over the joint nominee of the Republican and Democratic parties Indianapolis?Republican no minee for mayor elected by plurality of 1,568. Pennsylvania?The election of Rerry, Democrat, forState Treas urer is certain, his plurality reaching from 75,000 to 100, 000. The City Party had ft sweeping victory in Philadelphia, the reform ticket, headed by Mayor Weaver, claiming at least 70,000 plurality. Extraordinary Republican losses were shown in every polling place.?Wilming ton Messenger. Wednesda v The Durhain MerchandiseCom pary with #25,000 authorized and #3,100 subscribed capital slock was chartered yesterday. The incorporators are: T. R. Tally, A. \ Cox and C. L. How ird, all of Durham. j HENDERSON COLE LEAVES US Accepts Position As General Mana ger of the Wilmington Furni ture Company. Mr Henderson Cole took his final leave of our town for Wil mington, his new home, last Sun day. We regret to lose Mr. Cole from our midst. For several years he has been a citizen of Smithfield, during which tine- he has ranked as one of our leading bu-iness men. He has been iden tifled with manv of the town's enterprises, leading in some of them. Mr. Cole is, and has been for quite a while, secretary and treasurer of the Chamber of Com merce; secretarv and treasurer of The J. H. Edgerton Co., Presi dent of the Johnston County Fair Association; an Executive man of the North Carolina Agri cultural Society; and S. W. Fel lowship Lodge No. 84 A. F. & A. M. if- n. i t_ i w mm i.ur. ooie nas maae a suc cess of everything he has under taken, he reached the climax as owner and manager of theSmith field Furniture Company. His furniture business increased by leaps and bounds until it became one of the leading furniture houses in Eastern North Caro lina. He shipped (juantities of goods along the Wilmington & Weldon railroad and into Wil-) mington, as far south as Dillon, j S. C., and as far west as Durham and Henderson. He kept him self thoroughly posted as to j every feature and detail of the | furniture business. He is con sidered a very good judge of furniture and has always been re garded by the manufacturers as one of the cleverest buyers visit ing the makets. Air. Cole was the first president of the North Carolina Retail Furniture Dealers Association, and was one of theleadingspirits in its organization. He goes to Wilmington to be come Secretary and Treasurer and General Manager of the Wil mington Furniture Co. His familiarity of goods, hissagacity as a buyer, his inhereut propen sity to sell cheap, are bound to bring him success in his new Held. He carries with him the confi dence. the good will and the| friendship of our people. The Bosses Will Not Forget. I was certain that the people would not back up tne attempt; of the bosses to force me from i office. Coming as it does straight j from the hands of the people, in spite of the opposition of bosses ( and machines, my election is peculiarly gratifying. The dis- j trict attorney's uilice will goon for four years more uuder my di-| rection, uuder the same system j that has prevailed forfouryears. I There is nothing more to be' said, save that it was a test oft strength between corrupt bosses on one side and an aroused pub lic opinion on the other. There | is no trifling with the people \ when they have been roused, and my election is a lesson that the bosses will not soon forget.? Statement by William Travers Jerome, Tuesday uight. Jefferson Davis Monument. Richmond, Va. Nov. 7.? Ground was broken here today for the monument for Jefferaon Davis to be erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy at a cost of $50,000. Mrs. S. T. McCullough, of Staunton, Va., chairman of the monument com mittee, presided which were simple in the extreme and were1 witnessed practically by the, members of the building com mittee only. The unveiling cere monies are fixed for 1007 aud are expected to be highly elabo rate, the whole South partici pating through prominent repre sentatives. The i?euhi.?High School Company, of Dut ..i. ounty, has been incojporated with $5,000 authorize] and $100 paid in capital stock was chartered to day. The incorporators are: H. S Thomas, G. W. Kennedy, S.1 W. Gusham and others. Hearst to Contest. New York, Nov. 8.?That a bitter tight will be waged in the courts to decide whether George B. McGlellan or William Ran dolph Hearst is to be mayor of New York for the next four years is now assured. The complete returns give McClellan a plurality of 3,485 votes, the smallest ever recorded for a successful mayoral ty, candidate and a result which might readily be reversed by a recount of the baBote, ^ Mr. Hearst today announced his intention to take an immedi ate appeal to the Supreme Court, his managers having declared that they had secured evidence of illegal acts against 1,000 in spectors of election, and that 30,000 Hearst men, who went to the polis to vote for Mr. Hearst had found that their names had already been voted. Most of this fraudulent voting is said to have been done in East side assembly districts, especially in the eighteenth, Charles F. Murphy's home district, and in the sixth of which Timothy I>. Sullivan is the leader. Mr. Hearst's proposed action met with warm approval in many quarters, even among those who opposed his election, and he re ceived many assurances of sup port. District Attorney Jerome expressed himself in terms of strong approval of Mr. Hearst's program and declared that he would immediately institute a searching investigation of the alleged Democratic frauds. He also ordered the returns from the eighteenth and sixth districts to be carefully guarded. Ira (i. Darrin, the newly elected district attorney of Queens coun try on the Republican ticket made a similar statement. Wil liam M. Ivins, the defeated Re publican candidate for mayor, also commended Mr. Hearst's action, and expressed the belief that a re-count would show that Mr. Hearst had been elected. After a secret session of the executive committee of Tam many Hall, held this afternoon, the following statement was issued: "The executive committee of the Democratic organization pro tests against the outrageous published threat of the defeated candidate of the Municipal Own ership League to overthrow the will of the people, as expressed by the vote cast on election day, and directs, the committee to exert its efforts and take such steps and institute such proceed ings as will safeguard theelection of George B McClellan as mayor of New York. "We also call on the commis sioner of police and thecustodian of the baliot, to preserve the same intact from all interference by any one from any unauthoriz ed source." Home of the leaders, after the meeting expressed the opiuion that the returns showed censure of Mr. Murphy's leadership aud that he should, as a result, step down and out, and make room for a man against whom nothing could be charged. They thought that it was time for George B. McClellan to assume the leader ship himself.?Associated Dress. Vote In New York. New York, Nov. 8.?The city of New York, completed, but un official, tfivee Median 3,485 plurality over Hearet The total vote wae McClellau 228. (>51; Hearet, 220 166; Ivine, 137,049. The vo.e for mavor, by boroughs, wae aa follow*: Mcdellan?Manhattan a n d Bronx, 140,682; Brooklvn, OH . 655; Queeue, 13,193; Richmond, 6,121; Total, 228,651. Hearet-Manhattan and Bronx, 123 920; Brookl vn, 84,003; Queen*. 13,077; Richmond, 2, 900; total, 225,160. I \ 11 ? Manhattan and Bronx, 64 88; B 1 k Iv u, 01,095; Queen*. 7.365; Richmond, 4,501, total, 137,049. The railroade do not care who frame* the bill re^ulaticR them provided they are allowed to tack ?n tf c i, ,,,;admente.

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