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ARS Of the ollars In—Pe. The VOL. II. ELM CITY, N. C., OCTOBEB 24, 1902. NO 11 ecuently the pr, the cause in the body ui-? seriously cold. Dis. ler and dlges- tly the wsuit spent on j to cure he true cause ".'UJ be uo >e is of no ‘■li is the e treated. 2 derange- ! digestive or any of I? nyo nt- .Jj2,340,00» leathnri, Heyt’* 3A60. ars I casb. j fOi- 1 ana I p»y WM- tbo«* I a MUipl* .>11 mir opil WINTHROP’S DEFEAT HTE UJDLUNt JEAN [COPUiaKT. Eosxbx . CHAPTER IX. iCTsn-pmrtiptPs; -ana Tjg THE OUTCOM*. j that wUich he could not tell this wora- Vlec a said that the Golden Gate on. He could not meet her eloquent jpen to them pleaaairt lands; ??ycs and tell her, even softening It anj, although ehe could not kno\r Rs he would, that there Could be but %vhat the future held in store, yet their two courses for this disease, but one friends, and old, said that fate two for him. Insanity or—death! vr.s specially good to Harold Graham, Her husband’s brain had been orer- ta’il that he was joint heir with Midas lax^d; his mind heavily shocked; his cf old. for everything he touched Kensitive nature sorely wounded. The seemed to turn to gold. , cliange of air and scene had somewhat Certaialy. in a worldly sense, he was benefited him, but the end must be v,oriderfully prospered. Part of Ale- one of these two. fias diamonds had been advanta- I Still, he only told her very learnedly g^ously disposed of, and their circum- ber husband's heavily taxed mind grances were comfortable from the the necessity of perfect and im- 6t:u't. Little of luxury, indeed—and mediate rest and freedom from care, llai'old Graham demanded luxury for j I'egnlar hours an^* cheerful company lisppint'ss—but they wanted for noth- j the abandonment of all business iu" vcally essential. j nt once. Xorertlieless, Graham was not the | quick to note the «^hangej r> ;n TO bo satisfied with this. He i ^oice or face, and there was some- cn:uo to build up his fallen fortunes, ]„> told her many times as excuse for liis speculations; and build them he ■\T,'.uia In that he was also prospered. Tjey chose Pn’i Frj»noisv> at first in •P-1-- ’ . . :n itiiicd a charming ... I a quiet street, but as Harold «rew more and more successful in bis Tcntures ho grew equally more restless and dissatisticcl. And after a resi- of four months in the city they i('ft their new home and a pleasant cir cle of friends which Alecia drew about her ly hei- graciousness and beauty, find -vvliom her husband attracted liy bis hriliifince and success. From San Francisco they traveled tlsroii'-h California, north and south, iu I'lr.ces charming to see and good to i;vt> in: among stretches of almond i'.i'd orauge orchards and vineyards r.'val wuh wealth, and slopes alive AvUh sheep: hospitable people every- i.hero. and wonderful life; even the fi V.- poor romuaats of the old Mexican tauiilies left iu the rich land.«t o£ the {^0111 h, in tlieir tiny homes among the liiils. cpsued tbeir doors to the beautl- l\il American woman, though no oth- tis of her countrywomen wer« wel- ct-n.?d: anci it v.-as a wonderful life to Akcla, sad wiili the sorrow of a dying rpu;n;',ui of a gv(?at race, but sweet to l;llo^v that they eared to have her go inr.oiiir ihein, and would tell her t o:ic of the oliTgay life before the ■Miieric.ans came aud they were iii’.^hrd cr driven cut. Kvtn hyr husband for a time re- ' utJ 1 s cUl spirit and geniality, but t 1 tl e lirst, the old wound, un- 1 t d loiigiit added restlessness and 1 t. iK . aud he would be satisfied > rli L aiiig; and from one place to Mioiher, from ranch to town and vil lage and back to the city .again; and hiill fortune smiled upon them, and ^ lill Harold Graham could not b^ at ivst or find peace. la their old home they had lived l:visLiy; there had been nothing v.ciutlng that a luxurious taste could ikmand: but in the new home money fiisily jL'aiued v,-as as easily and reck lessly spent, until it became a prov- eio among their friends that Graham’s Vi’ealth ebbed and flowed like the ocean's tide. He seemed never to think of the fu- tv.re or of the past. The wealth Ale cia had hoped .would be gained to !uc?t the demand against her husband hi the old home city he spent as quick ly as it came to him, yet ever renewed it. No wish of hers that she uttered so lightly but he granted—save her cue great v*'ish to return to New Voik and her friends there, and to clear every claim against her hus band. This wish was shut in her heart and he hoard no word of her ^'.esire, for she would not ever place her v.\shc& before lus. But he knew that the thought was ''ith her; he could not know iier as knew her v/ithout being perfectly nssiureil that her heart must long for ihe old familiar faces and voices and He loved her deeply, intensely; IS SETTLED AT LAST After a Loof aod Bitter Stroffle the Coal Mioers Will Resame Work MINERS VOTE FOR ARBITRATION Official and Satisfactory Endins oi the Greatest Battir Ever Waged Between Labor and Capital. lovt ijut even so, he felt that she must Jieed the love cf those who gave her I'-je before he crossed lier way. Ke spyko of it no more than she; subject fell by degrees into silence )2twcen them—for he even came to •iver that ha had no interest iu tha lioaie-letiors; and she lived this inneri life alone. It wore upon her, of wurso. The old color v;as something fainter and th« light o£ the eyes less tlear, though alvrays quite steady. Her »in:lo, loo, v.as less frequent, though, tnll very beautiful whenever it- '-■rossed her lins. • Her husband's genial nature olianged percoptibly as the days went •Jy. He was always courteous to her; Nothing eame near her that could an- noy or give her pain, so far as lay in Ws power to prevent; but he grew ir- jitable as hi.s restlessness increased. Trifling things annoyed him. Some times his eyes frightened her with their feverish brilliancy, and a habit had grown upon him of raising hifi land to his head half mechanically as taough In pain when he was ever so sliglitiy troubisd or annoyed, ^eeia^notad this as she noted aing relating to his' welfarerbut she never dared speak of it to him. She waited and w^tchei and as this habit giew alarmingly, sne went privately ; 0 a physician and questioned him as the cause and possible danger, ie listened in silence to ner story.' told it very simply, but his quick ™Ption grasped much that was left iHit perfectly courteous, somewhat reticent. He under-. thoroughly as was acquaintance with ttei-efore Ihing under this man's quiet words that increased her fear. ' The days passed into weeks—three weeks—full of anxiety for Alecia. Witli her fears wakened by the physi cian's woi-ds, she watcheii Haruld un observed. She forced herself to be light of heart and brilliant as of old; she sang to him when he desired; or read as he lay upon a couch, or was silent. She had always been true to him and loving; but there came now some deeper sens? of danger that made her irresistible. Her husband watched her often in wonder. For she saw—even love could not blind her —that her husband was failing. Not rapidly; not with any horrible disease, but growing weaker and moi-e Irritable and exacting; never at rest anywhere; his black eyes, always fev erishly bright now, sometimes fast ened upon her face with a half-vacant stare that made her heart sink, and sick. Until one Cay when three' weeks were gone, Harold Graham knew lit tle and cared less for what was pass ing aroimd him as he lay iu a stupor born of the fever in his brain. He had no strength to resist this fever, the physician said, when summoned to at tend him. They were back iu San Francisco and had the best physicians in the city. For three days and nights Harold knew no one, lying in a stupor most of the time. Complete prostration the physicians said, and they scarcely had need to say It. Then—came the end. To every one save Alecia this end had been expected; to her it came like a blow. They told her that her 1ms- band was very ill at the beginning; but when they told her that there was no longer hope of his recovery, that she must prepare herself for the worst, not a word did she utter, not a cry crossed lier lips; but with her eyes lifted to them in a terror that was the cbncenti-ation of weary weeks of fear aud vratching, she sank at their feet in an unconscionsness as ut ter almost as that aiipr«achins silence in the room above.., AVith the tenderest pity they raised her and restored her to consciousness, but it was long before she was able to go to her husband. Her eyes were steady and sweet as they met his in stantly upon entering the room. Her face was pale, but the smile that lighted it for him was the old radiant smile that had come to him like the thought of an angel across tha wild waste of waters when' the demon struggled in his heart. He thought of it, meeting her eyes, for he was thor oughly conscious, and his -mind strangely clear. He thought of it, but it brought no pain; for pain seemed to have .gone utterly from his life, and only an unaccountable peace to have come to him. Still too weak for independent movement, he tried to stretch bis hand to hers, a slow, faint glimmer of smil ing answering hers; and going to him, not a quiver of her face or voice, she knelt beside the bed, and taking one of his hands in hers, laid the other ten derly about him, her face upon the pillow close to his. Harold, dearest,” she said, very bweetly, very low, “you arc better now? It is good to see you yourself knd know that you recognize Alecia tgain. I have been so very lonely urithout you!” An ineffable tenderness came upon kis face. It was as though life, fad ing, proved why life ■was given and ^aken—its pathos and trials and sweet ness crowded into one moment’s space. He was intensely weak, but his mind was clear. When he spoke his voice was so indistinct that she nestled her cheek softly and tenderly closer to his, that she might not lose the words. The mad beating and rebellion of her heart he did not know. “Poor little girl!” he said, faintly. "What a good, ti'ue, brave wife you Lave been to me when many women would have been—different! How can I leave you, my dearest—here in a ptrange city, with no one but strang- frs to comfortr you! For I am not de- fceiyed. AJecia. This strange clear- tiess of mind and the absence of pain are the end- My life might have been braver, more true, perhaps; but soma way everything Is falling into peace. I can wish nothing save that I might have left you among those who love fou. It is hard to die-who knows? I suffer no pain. Your courage gives me courage and hope. But—presently -you will go home, dearest, and there will come—this peace also to you— and the old wounds will heal His voice died out, but still tender ly and steadfastly her fingers held his. low tcarce whiter than the lighted face; ' “It was cruel to keep you here,” he kdded presently, his voice scarcely a ■whisper, with the fading life. “I knew that you—longed—for the old home faces, darling. Now—you will go to them. God bless you aud be With you—always! And if—in that infinite world ” And then came silence unbroken; fend Alecia Graham was alone with a breaking heart, too stunned to realize What had fallen upon her. CHAPTER X. “and aptbb:” The light of life dying from Harold Graham’a face as the lilac sunset fad ed from the heavens, left upon th'-i face of his wife the leaden pallor that Is worse than death. For a half hour she remained kneeling beside tlie bed, unable to believe that never any more would her husband's voice or Fmihi stir her heart; never any more would his eyes seek hers for comfort; never any more would he reach out weary arms to comfort her. Never any more! She bent above her husband, stand ing at the bedside, and searched the still face. With one trembline, teu- 'der hand she brushed f>ack the blacS hair from his forehead, stil] holding her breatth as though she could not believe that be were dead. “Harold!” she said steadily, scarce ly .ihovi! :i whisper, -Harold, dearest!” Buf. he ditl not answer—she knew now that he could not answer—and all the pent-up sorrow and pain were for one in.stant concentrated in lier face, her .seif-commaud j;one, a bitter cry upon iicr lips as she clasped her hands convulsively, driviag herself away from him. “Then,” she -ried, sobbingly. though tliere were no tc*:.rs in the lifted eyes; “bear witness for me that it i.s .fchn Wintljrop, iu lus pride and arrogance, has brought this sorrow upon me.” Tlien, v/itii a swift, bitter gesture of tile hands, as though she .would sweep away this wealiuess, and begin her loi^ly Hfe '^ith the ol«l proud lenco, she turned avay steadily, her face calm and cold, aud passed out at the door, the tcidf *if her :;own trail ing. aliout her, ami rho ^i«^.ers at her belt crushed and failing like lier hope.=. Perfectl.v seif-cojit allied, i>erfectly calm, steady of voice and niiinuer as 'she rejoined her wajting fiiecd.s In the rooms below—ut» tears upoa iier la^lics, no grief upon her fate. “She does not cam!” whispore'l some' among her friends, eyein.g her askance^ ••Perbap;^; it is true that lier husb.-jid did noi make her so iiappy as he ehonld.” But the physicians, wiser in Iheir science than her friends :n their love, without the question being settled. At said that this calm was wocss iLau .a a,few moments before adjournment, storm of tears, .ind unlsss she were however, a partial Eoluticn was reach- rous»>d. shei, too, wouid tile. - ! when a delegate in the farther cor- Some dayis previously the phj-vidan^ I fr**' ^ ^ ^ ^ lem be left m the hands of the three 'Wilkesbarre, Pa., Special.—With a shout that fairly shook the convention building the representatives of the 147,000 mine workers who have been on strike since last May, officially de clared off at noon Tuesday the greatest contest ever waged betweer capital and labor, and placed all the questions in volved in the struggle into the hands of the arbitration commission appoint ed by the President of the United States. . When tl?e news was flashed to the towns and villages down in the valleys and on the mountains of the coal re gions, the Btrike-affected inhabitants heaved a sigh of relief. Many days have gone by since more welcome news was received. Everyliody there was rejoicing and in many places the end of the strike was the signal for im promptu celebrations. The anthracite coal regions from its largest city— Scranton—down to the lowliest coal patch, has suffered by the conflict, and every one now looks for better times. While the large army of mine workers and their families, numbering approxi mately half-million persons, are grate ful that work is to be resumed on Thursday, the strikers have still to learn what their reward will be. Pres ident Roosevelt having taken prompt action in calling the arbitrators to gether for their first meeting on Fri- iay, the miners hope they will know by Thanksgiving Day what practical gain they have made. The vote to resume coal mining was a unanimous one, and was reached snly after a warm debate. The princi pal objection to accepting the arbitra tion proposition was that no proposi tion was containad in the scheme to lake care of those men who would fail to get back their old positions or would be unable to get any work at all. The engineers and pumpmen get better- pay ;han other classes of mine workers, and they did not care to run the risk of losing altogether their old places and t)o compelled to dig coal for a living. The question came up yesterday and was argued right up to the time the vote was taken. No one had a definite plan to offer to overcome the objection and the report of the committee on res- 3lutions. recommending that the strike be declared off and that all issues be placed in the hands of the arbitration ommission for decision was adopted 12th, addressed to John Mitchsll, presi dent of the United Mine Workers of America, which reads as follows: ‘I have appointed as commissioners Brig adier General John H, Wilson, B. W. Parker, Judge Qeorge Gfay, B. E. Clark, Thomas H. Wafter, Bishop J. L. Spalding with Carroll D. Wright JU r«- corder. These names are accepted b) the operators and I cow earnestly ask and urge that the miners likewise ac- c^t this commission. It is a matter of Vital concern to ail uur .people and es pecially to those iaour great cities who arc least v.'tU off ihat the mining oi coal should be resumed without a mo- inent’s uii.ibcessarv delay.’ We havf decided to accept the proposition there embodied and submit ail questions at issue between the operators and mine workers of the anthracite region foe adjustment.to the commission which you have named. In p'ji*suance of that decision we shall report for work on Thursday morning, October 23, in positions and working places occupied by us prior to the inauguration of the strike. We have asked John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers of America, with such assistants as he may select, to represent us in all hear ings liefore the committee. “JOHN SlITCHELL, “Chairman of Convention. “W. B. WILSON. “Secretary of Convention.” President Mitchell put the question of the adoption of the report after a motion to close debate had been adopt ed and asked in a short speech that the vote be unanimous. A resolution was adopted recommending to State Legis latures that no person under 21 years of age be employed in or about the mines for more than eight hours a day. Envelopes addressed to President Mitchell at Wilkesbarre were distribut ed among the delegates with instruc tions that all pay envelopes, due bills, statements of wages and anything that may help the miners in tbelr case be fore the arbitration commission be scut to him. There being no further busi ness before the convention, a delegate arose and suggested that before ad journment the delegates should sing, “My Country, ’Tis of Thee,” just to show that we are law-abiding citizen.=3. This was done and the mine workers’ convention came to an end with threo cheers for John Mitchell. A MOB’S EXECUTION Two Haisfed After HaYiBf Been Put 00 Trial TAKEN FROM COURT AND STRUNG UP After Trial, Conviction and SeoUsc^ Mob Takes Two Negroes From the Court and tfangs TJiem. warned her I'riends tq notify her rela tives iu the East of the appioacUiug Bon-ow til a I wonld Xall upon her. :jn«l to urge theu, if ito sihlo. to come at once to her. PolloT. ing this advio.*, a hiessage was s’nt, startling theni in deed, for Alecia ^lad not mesiliouetl her husband's illce :>s—with licr usual tiioughtfulness of i hem—lest it cause them unhappiuei^s to learn that other gricJ had come. But Alecia, mov&ig quietly amnng her friends, knew nothing oCs this message, and her heart v.as heavy with longing for some deftv hoiae face and voice and touch. For Low could she know tlmt a W'cistv.ard- speediug train ^tis bringing to her two from Imme'/ Her mother and Beatrice! All home faces were very dear, but these two from among th?m holding wannest place in iier heart. And wlien preparations were com pleted for ctmveying the body home, and the wido^v in her heaxy crape— Btill more a woman of marble by con- |trast—showed no sign of softness or jgrief, then into the midst of the friends gathered for farewell came these two ttear faces; and Alec*ia, with sudtJen revulsion of feeling was sobbing iu her mother's arms; and Bcatnce, mouminir above her sister, woul^not be comforted in the tenderness and Wannth of her young heart ; “Poor little 'Lecia! Poor little ’Le- fia!” she kept sobbing. ! But the mother never said a word. Her heart went otit to the sad heart lof her daughter—both widows—and What could words utter more than the loving arms, and tender, silent car esses? ' So they took her home—al sad home coming—and every tenderness that love could devise was gathered around the Woman who had made sxmshine for ko many that in her time of need was ireflected back upon her; and the days Ragged by; and never any hour the less or more because of her grief; nev- ier the shadow of one star or one sun ■because her life was darkened; never tone instant’s pause in the world about ber because love lay dead in her iheart. ■' “We will cw to Europe,” said Mrs. iField. one day, as they sat In ccnver- sation in the breakfast room, when "the service was removed and they iwere alone. “The girls are not satie- !fied with their trip last fall, and it will ibe excellent for you, Alecia, dear. We inan remain away as long as you de- jsire, and take in the East. Yen need iutter change, my dear.” ! “Where are we to go, mamma?” jasked Marlon. : (To be continued) PROWNENT PEOPLE. Arthur Gardiner, cycling champion of 1897, is ent«'ing the automobile business. Oxfonl University has conferred the degree of doctor of civil law on Ambas sador White. Emi>eror William lias bestowed a decoration on Captain Sverdruii, tlie Arctic explorer. .Sir Conan Doyle lias declined to stand as a Libera 1-Uniun candidate in Central Edinburgli. Dr. Joseph Parkor. Iho famous preacher, lias Imjou oi’deied to give up ail work for six months. J.Ir. Kruger, former President of the Hempstead.'Tex., Special.—After be ing tried with legal torm and proceed- ure for criminal assault and murder, and given the death penalty in each case, Jim Wesley and Reddick Barton, negroes, were late Tuesday afternoon taken from the authorities and lynch ed in th? public square by an infuria ted mob. The district judge asked the Govfs- nor for troops to accompany the n«* groes here from the jail at Houston, where they were safe. At the request of a large number of citizena of Hemp stead, who signed a written promise tr» aid the authorities in preventing any mob law, it is said Judge Thompson countermanded his request and the troops did not accompany the negroes. Barton was first tried. He pleaded guilty of criminal atnsault and then to the murder of Mrs. Susan Lewis, aged 63, Sunday, October 12. The juries in each case, on which were several ne groes, promptly returned verdicts as sessing the death penalty. During the afternoon Wesley was put on trial. He pleaded guilty to both charges, and while the second trial was going on a mob broke into the court house and at tempted to take him, learning the sheriff had psked for troops. The mob was dispersed and the trial proceeded, the State putting through its testimony hurriedly In corroboration of the pleas of guilty. Both juries assessed the death penalty. The officers of the court sat about the room awaiting the coming of the troops, when there was a movement on (he part of several men in the room, the sheriff was overpowered and Wes ley was taken poasession of by the mob and hurried away. Another portion of the mob attacked the jail and :^rtoa was surrendered to them without i struggle. The two prisoners were bus tied to the public sq^jire and there executed by hanging. Neither of them had been sentenced, and District Judge Thompson had posi tiveiy refused to permit them to waive the thirty days of grace allowed them by law. It was the general desire that they die quickly. They are hanging tonight to the arm of a telephone pole, r.-here only last month a negro murdcr- 1 er had been strung up by a mcb. ! The town i3 quiet. Sheriff Lipscomb I was badly hurt about the bf-ck by the I rough treatment of the mob. Darin? , t'ae first rush a shot was accidently South Afrlrau Itcpublie. has jn&t i fired and Sheriff Sparks, of Lee county. pi'ofessionally aud being , oblige to judge upon gen-' bee cbjesk j2j:&S9ej} pU- Caudid Confesaion. i “I confess to being a very poor judge jof oratory.” said the mild-mannered 'person. I “Can’t you recogn.ize fiuent speaking when you hear it?” "No. It depends on my personal feelings. If a friend is making a speech it is eloquence. If it is not a friend it i« mere garrulity.” . executive boards for solution and hiii suggestion was adopted. The principal speech of the day was made by National Secretary-Treasurer W. B. W’ilson, who practically spoke for President Mitchell and the national organization. In a strong argument, he counseled the men to accept arbitra tion, the plan of the strikere them selves, return to work and trust to the President’s tribunal to do them jus tice. The question of taking care of all men who will fail to get work immedi ately will be a serious one for the union. There is no doubt the executive boards will take care of the engineers, firemen and pumpmen, but there are thousands of other classes of mine workers who will have to be looked aft(^. In somp places hundreds will not be able to get work for weeks, and in Other localities, where the mines are in very bad condition there will be no em ployment for many workmen for some months. Hundreds of men, needed to repair the mines and otherwise' place them in condition for operation, -.vill be at work tomorroy morning, the convention having decided that thi^ was impera tive in order to get the men at work quickly and satisfactorily and supply the country’s demand for coal. All the “locals” will hold meetings tomorrow, at which instructions will be given the members regarding their application for work. President Mitchell received many congratulatulatory telegrams from all over the country after the news spread that the strike was ended. On his re turn to headquarters of hJs views on the action of the convention, and in reply he said: “I am v/ell pleased wit’i tho action of the anthracite mine work ers in deciding to submit the issues which culminated in the strike to the commission selected by the President of the United Ltates. The strike itself has demonstrated the power and dig nity of labor. ConservativeT Inlelligent trade unionism has received an impe tus, the effect of which cannot be.meas- ured. I earnestly hope and firmly be lieve that both labor and capital have 1e.arned lessons from the miners’ strike which will enable them to adopt peace ful. human and business methods of adjusting wage differences in tho fu ture.” After Mr. Mitchell had sint the mes sage to President Roosevelt he sent out the announcement through the press that the strike was off. It was address ed to all miners and mine owners in the anthracite region and contained a / caution to those resuming ■work to ex ercise more than usual care in order that accidents to limb and life may be averted, owing to the condiAcfci of the uilces after long dlsuBe. TjJe question of ending tie strike came up In the convention in the form of a report of the committee on resolutions as fol lows ; -We. the committee on resolutions, beg leave to recommend that the fol lowing communication be adopted and forwarded lo President Roosevelt: “Wilkesbarre, Pa., Oct 21. “I!cn. Theodore Roosevelt, Washing ton, D. C. ‘ Dear Sir: We, the representatives of the employes of the various companiet engaged in operating mines in the an thracite coal fields of Pennsylvania, in lonvention assembled, having under cunsideration your telegram of October passed his seventy-scventh birthil.ny. King Christian nt Denmar’is has gazetted Anton Ilegner, the American ’(•ellist, a Knight of the Danebrog Or der. Dr. N. C. Morse. President of the Iowa Association of It.-nlway Surcf'ons, is tho heaviest physician in -\mcr’ca, weighing 325 pound?. Count Tolstoi is said to be wwting another book in his old ago. It will deal witli bis impre.ssion.s ot the mili tary revolt J*- the Caucasus, ‘ \ ISoO. Andrew Carnegie lias given ?.50,000 to lS|isttM>nme, Sussex, for the estab lishment of a library, for wlii«h the Duke of Devonshire has given the site. Bernard Moses, of California, a mem ber of the Philippine Commissiou, will retire on January 1, and wiil make a tour of Europe, afterward shaping his Affairs so that he will be able to take up his. college work in the University of California. Rear-Admiral Thomas O. Selfridge Is the oldest living olOcer of the Navy. The records show that he enten'd the Navy as a midshipman on January 1, 1818, at which time he must have iieen at lest fifteen years old. He is, there fore, probably ninety-nine. His eldest son, Rear-Admiral Thomas O. Sclf- ridge, Jr., is sixty-six years- old. • wae wnunded in the stomach, though not seriously hurt. The Governor v/as informed of the lynching, but has yet had nothing to say. LABOR WORLD. Germany has 9i^,000 trade union* Ists. Warren, R. I., carpenters have or ganized. Toronto (Can.) lilkographers will form a union. Plans are on foot to build a labor temple at Topeka. Kan. Fleetwood, T.^igland, carpcntcrs have {struck against piecework. Marine engineers on the Gre.'it Lakes liavc adopted last year’s scale of wages for next year. 'fherc are 223,412 masters and men employed in the merchant marine of Great Britain. In ti:o past, twenty years in only one- fifth of tiio cosl strikes Iiavc the men secnrert tlieir demands. Messongcrs oZ tho Amorlc.-in Kxpiefs Company iiavo rco'-ived .i voluHtsiry increase in salary of ten per cent. Female factory employes at Flint, Mich., average uineiy-oue cents a day, and one-half are employed by the i*Icce. Glas.s beveiers nt Ntvr York City liavc struck to enforc; demand for a nine-hour day and a uev/ scale of wages. bay laborers are in great demand at St. Louie, Mo., and wages have ad vanced ten per cent, in 4he past two ipoattif. A q^oveipent lias been inaugurated Umong the Nortl^amberland, England, njluQirs tov a geoeral elrike as a protest against the coal tax. Every member of the Cigarmakers’ Union at JacksonTiiie, Fla., ^ntributea twenty-five cents a week toward adver.. Using their union label. In Great Britain there are l,905,Q(n trade unioniats, and but 1.000,000 in the United States and Canad* for about twice the population. There taa;re be« nearly 700 attlkes In Great Britain daring the pint twelve months, aixty-dgkt per cent of which hare.ibeen aettled In favor of the men. Mark Twain Want.% Fuel. Washington. Special.—The follow ing letter was received at the Treas ury Department Tuesday: “New York City, Oct. 3, “To the Honorable, the Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D. D.; “Sir: Prices fo rthe customary kinds of winter fuel having reached an altitude which puts them out cf ^he reach of literary persons in straight ened circumstances. I desire to place with you the following order: Porty- five tons best old dry government bonds, suitable for furnance. gold 7 per cents, 1864 preferred 12 tons early greenbacks, range size, suitable for cooking; eight barrels seasoned 25 and 50 cent postal currency, vint age of 1S66, eligible for kindlings. Please deliver with all convenient dis patch at my house in Riverdale at lowest rates for spot cash and send bill to. Your obliged servant, “MARK TWAIN, Who will be very grateful aivd will vote right.” Burned to Death in Ch=ca^o Fire. Chicago, 8pecial.—By a fire whicli broke out shortly before midnight la the plant of the GlJcose Sugar Re finery, situated at Taylor street an.l Chicago river, that factory was almost entirely destroyed and it is said that 29 men lost their lives, "rhe number of dead has not been established as yet, but it Is known that the men were la the building, and all were working on the seventh floor. The flames spread so rapidy that a man who was»work- ing on the third floor had barely time to escape with his life, and it is not thought by the emi»oyes of the con cern or by the firemen that those ?n the upper story could have avoided death. At midnight two bodies had been taken from the ruins, but the fire was burning so rapidly that it was im possible to make further search. ^ Denies Killing Rclntives. Syracuse, N. Y., Special.—Maud Kiehl, the 13-year-old widow, who is in jail at Corteland, under suspicion of causing the death of her brother- in-law, Adam Klchl, by strlchnine talked of the case today for the first time. She denied the chargp. declaresi she was in love with her husband and cared nothing .for Adam, and that she liked hte brother, Henry, much bettCT. The attorney then made her stop talk ing. Mr. Klehl’s mother arrived at Corteland with the former’s IS-months- (OA baby, which the mother will be permitted to keep with her in ja:.. Coroner Santea reported that hefDunj Adam Kiehl’B death due to strychnms administered in tea by Mrs. JiaaJ KJebl. FIRE AT HAMLET One Bnmed to Death — $aoo,ooo tiM Propertp Loss. Hamlet. Special.—Plre which hrok* out at the cotton compress here at noon Sunday destroyed property valu ed at |200,0C« to f25,0(Ki and caused tlM death of Mr. J. M. WilsQn, of ClarU- villc, Ga.. lK>ok-keeper at the compress. »nd a nephew of Mr. Geo. E. Wilson, of Charlotte. The cotton compress, which was tho property of the Seaboard Air Line Railway and was leased by C, K. Johnson, bf Raleigh, together with the ice plant one of the largest in the Stete, and 2,400 bales of cotton, a vaat quantity of burlape and bagging, waa Lntlrely consumed. The railroad authorities succeeded in saving the car-shed, a short distance away, with engines and a bucket brig ade, and many cars on the sidc-tracka near the press were saved, but six empty cars alongside the press plat form were burned. • When the fire started, from a cauje as yet undetermined. Watchman Gib son, of Hamlet, was on duty in the middle of the building and says she threw on ituckets of water, placed close by and all around the building for safety, while Mr-. Wilson, the Ijook- keeper, attached a hose and played oa the fire, but so rapidly did the fianfes spread that the watchman cried: “We can do nothing; run for your life.” The fire was coming on so fast that the watchman ran through the office and jumped through a raised window, but Wilson was caught in the fiamea and burned beyond recognition. Hit body was found in the afternoon about 5 o’clock within a few feet of the rear entrance to the building. His head, limbs and shoulders «had been consum ed and only a charred mass remained. He was identified by his watch, keys and his belt buckle. Mr. Wilson was a son of the late James Wilson, of Clarksville. Ga.. and was a grandson of thp late Harvey Wilson, of Charlotte, and a nepnew of Mr. Geo. E. Wilson, of Charlotte. He had only been in Hamlet this season, but in his short stay had by his quiet, ■ •dignified and gentle bearing endeared himself to our people. Hii uncle, Mr. Chas. E. .Tohnson, of Raleigh, will ar rive tonight Until then I do not know what disposition will be made of hia remains. The compress covered five acres of land and in season did a large business It furnished emplojTnent to about 75 people, most of whom own homes here. It is not known whether the compress will be rebuilt. Bad Wreck on Seaboard. Rockingham, Special.—This towa was excited Sunday morning by a rumbling noise which was soon discov ered to l»e a collision of three trains on the Seaboard Air Line, resulting in the death of Flagman Holland and the probable fatal injury of Engineer Jim Roberson and a colored brakeman named Crump. As the vestibule train came in from Hamlet it ran into an open switch and struck a freight engine and one car. This engine in turn struck another engine which had a number of freight cars liehind It, and badly damaged it. The engine of the vesti bule is doubtless dafliaged beyond re pair while the first engine it struck la not quite so bad, but the tender is torn to pieces. The mail car on the vestibule waa reduced to splinters. The white passenger car was not damaged very much. The mail clerk saw the danger - and jumped, and only received a few flesh wounds. Herliert Holland, of San ford, flagman on the extra freight wa* killed, and Charley Crump, a colored brakeman on the same train, was dan gerously hurt. T^hese two men were asleop in their cab. Jim Roberson, engineer on the vestibule, was' alto badly hurt, and it is not thought eitSifi he or the negro will live. The fireman on the vestibule saw what was going to happen and climbed out the window, while the engine went down a space of 2S feet on a fill. No passenger on the vestibule was seriously hurt but aeveral were bruised and liadly shaken up. This was the worst wreck the people of this community ever witoessed and many have visited the scene. « - German Catholics Proteat Nfew York, Special.—0%-er 400 Ger man Catholics, representing 50 German Catholic organizations in the German Catholic Statesveroand of the State of Nev.' York met in the Church of our I^dy of Sorrow, and endorsed resoln- tloas of protest against the public schools of the United States and the exclusicn of the friars from the Philip pines. He wte plants tnOt tnm count upon the firaft D^ath of Prominent Tennesseean. Dresden, Tenn., Special.—Emerson Etherridge died after a !lngeriug ill ness. Mr. Ethcrrldgo had a long and honorable carcer. He was clected to Congress as a Whig in lea3 and again two years later. He cervcd as clerk of the House from 1861 to 1863. He then returned to Tennessee, where ne fmrther distinguished himself in State affairs. He v.as the last Whig member of the House. N?gro Evangelization. Omaha, Neb., Special.—At Sunday’i Ecssion of the national convention of the Disciplcs of Christ the report on negro evangelization and education was delivered by C. C. Siaith of Cin- r-innatl, chairman for the woman’s botird in the south. His report ahowed that 110.527 had been expended in thia v,&rk daring the year just ended and that the board now owned property valued at $48,87S. the reault of tha year’s labor with the colored peop*'. ■vn addreE? on “The White Maa'a Bnr- flen" in America by Prof. P- Bourne tf Kentucky university, alao tovcbed upon the subject of uegro evangelisa tion. To Restrict DrunkeaocM. , Vienna, By Cable.—The bill for the purpose of combatting drnnkenneas, which is being prepared by the Aus trian government is the first measure 0 fits kind in the history of Austria. It Is an outcome of the strong pressure of public opinion and eflorta of the temperance party. It provldee for the imprisonment of persons found Intox icated in a public place over a cerUia number -of times within six ■OMM, and restricts the sale of bottled aplrltn.
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