North Carolina Newspapers

-.. . ' vJ-.--v-. "a , it II "... . "V" ' VOL IV: NO. 193. ASHEVILLE, N. C, FBIDAY HOENING, SEPTEMBEE 22, 1899. I' V PEICE 5 CENTS. r " 7 M. The Best Minnesota Flour on the face of the earth is ! 6ERES0TA 8S8SSSe3x You'll find it at v : GREER'S. I Patton A ve m m Wholesale and Retail. m DRUGS. NO KNIFE Dr. C. M. CASE, OSTEO Graduate American School at Kirkville. Mo. Office closed every Thursday afternoon Telephone 525, 18 Church Street, eiish Treatment for: NERVOUS. RHBU- MATIC AND OTHER DISEASES. Special: THURE BRANDT MAS SAGE for Female Diseaflee; also Face PROF. EDW. GRUNER, (Graduate of Chemnitz College, Germany. Formerly with Oak land HeiglirtJi Sanitarium.) K SOUTH MAIN ST. PHONE 206. Home or office treatment. c. 1 A lot of the famous 5 German Soap, f No. 4711 White Rose Glycerine, 15c Per Cake. 1 GRAHT'S PHARMACY, I I 24 S, Main! Street. Asheville North Carolina S 53 M mum President of Orange State ays Transvaal Was Decoyed. The Republic Considering Its Attitude in the Ap proaching Crisis. Afrikanders Desirous of Pre venting a Eesort to Arms, Transvaal Forces Said to be Ready to Eaid Natal on Unfavorable Reply from Chamberlain Bloemfontein, Sept. 21. The volks- raad of the Orange Free State met to day. The president in a speech eaid that ihe regretted the disturbed rela tions between England and the Trans- vaaf. He accused the British diDlomat- ic agent at Prettoria of decoying the Transvaal and implied that England was guilty of a breach of faith. He was disposed to advise t'he Transviaal to accept the latest British demands. The position was critical, he said, but there was nothing that would warrant war. The Free State was bound by treaty to help the Transvaal and the volksraad must decide the attitude -f the republic. He concluded by saying that he prayed God would strengthen the members to pass resolutions con ducive to peace and prosperity. The volksraad went into secret session. WANT TO AVERT WAR Capetown, Sept. 21. At a meeting1 of the Africander members of parliament the following telegram -was despatched to Kruger: "We, Africander members of parliament . thoroughly sympathize with. Ajca White appreciating the concessions al ready made in the interest of peace. we beg to urge the expediency of doing the utmost to avert the (horrors of war. While agreeing that the joint inquiry proposed by Chamberlain cannot be asked as a matter of right, we believe such a commission will provide a way out of the difficulties which are fast approaching a crisis. We beg you to lay these w'ords privately before the executive and volksraad." The message, which is signed by 53 mem"bers, brought the following reply: I wish you and other sympathizers wiM notice, as you have doubtless al ready seen hy the reply of the imperial government, we1 have considered the matter and accepted the invitation to a Joint commission. I wish to thank yo" and other friends from mv heart for the manner in which you have aid ed the efforts for a pacific and satis factory solution. Finally I express the hope that your work and ours will not be fruitless." The meeting also adopted a resolu tion to the effect that it heard with satisfaction that the executi-"- the Transvaal' accepted the invitation of a joint inquiry and trusted the accept ance would render an outbreak of hos tilities practically impossible. The speech of Sir William Vernon Harcount, former liberal leader, to 'ms constituents at New Tredegar, and the mwfl of the Capetown Africander members of parliament to President KpiTwr. rvroved red raers to the war any twice" panty. Cape papers declare the action or tne members of parliament amounts almost to treason and the same terms are ap died to Harcourt's remarks by Engiisn anti-Boer papers. The latest report of Boer activity emanates from New Castle. Natal, saying the Transvaal farces are encamped at Zandsprint and i-ntonri to maid the Natal imimeaiateiy after they understand mr. tnarauer w y ,1 ij.ln'a ireolnr is not satisfactory. The British army nursing service sails from Southampton tomorrow and nivrKBrafi. "Ev-AnKh sa-ils .Saturday. The Standard and Digger News oi Johannesburg- say returns from field comets of the Transvaal aunu wiuusc Free State show 52,000 Burghers reaoy to take the field at snort notice, van Ity Fair, frequently well informed re iiPaine DoliticaU secrets, today em: phatlcaily reiiterates the assertion that there will be no war. It says: "Pres ident Kruger is 'an old man tout is no A4nr&- He would, like to get his way but not at the dost of defeat. Climb drywn. Ihe will. We maintain the belief that there will be no war." ADIRONDACK TIMBER BURNING Albany, Sept. Sl.-Col)onef William) F. rvi-t state superintendent of foreste, says there are about 1,200 men in the North Woods engaged m ngmms j.u est fires which lately Waye been burn- r.c fiowrfv In many districts. . re celved word today of a dangerous state f affair at Brant uaKe, in ae wwu of Horicon, Warren county, where two wr fi are Working toward eaca ThA fires are beyond control, and among the result already known are the burning or xour eoub iirtaide the village of iJHorison. The Sires are destroying good., timber a , drenonms ram w ANTI-TRUST CONFERENCE CONCLUDED AND ADJOURNED The Resolutiens Eavor Radical State Legislation. St. Louis, Sept. 21. At the morning session of the anti-trust conference to day Governor McMi'llan, chairman of the committee on resolutions, presented resolutions providing for state legis lation that shall designate as crimes restraint of trade in any line, state egislaition for control of Corporations, state legislation to prevent entrance into any state of a foreign corporation except on an equality with domestic corporation subject to the same laws. No corporation is to be formed in whole or port of other corporations, no cor poration shall own eitock of another corporation in similar or competitive business. The following resolution was attached to the recommendations: "Resolved, That it is the sense of the conference that all capital stock of pri vate corporations be fully paid, either n lawful money or in property of act ual value of the amount of capital stock and that in private corporations with capital stock issued in excess of the amount actually paid up as above pro vided, shareholders to be liable to the extent of twice the value of stock held by each." The conference concluded its labors this afternoon and adjourned sine die. At the conclusion of the reading of the report on the resolutions Governor M Millan said the committee was aware that almost all forms of trusts derive their existence from state or govevn mental or municipal exemption. "We do not wish," he continued, "to crush or destroy corporations but to regulate them. The only benefits of trusts go to men who hold trust stock. There iS not a single trust today that does not sell its products at higher prices than they would bring if there were no trusts." The report of the committee on reso lutions was 'adopted, together with t':e usvomary resolutions of thaiks Gov ernor savers spoke reelmgly an 1 grate fully of the manner in whi.:a ihe in vitations to the conference hi5 bt.n responded to. TRANSPORT BUFORD HELD FOR DISINFECTION A Soldier from the Ship Develops Yel low Fever in New York Harbor New York, Sept. 21. The transport Buf ord, wihich was to have sailed to day, was detained at her dock by. or der of the quarantine authorities, wlor jrtlier--dJsiiaf rfhe-' arriv ed from Havana on the 18th she was quarantined five days and fully disin fected prior to release. Before ber re lease two soldiers who had been ailing, and showed suspicious symptoms were removed to Swinburne island. One of these today developed unmistakable symptoms of yellow fever. Hence the order of delay for further disinfection. WANTS HONOR WITH LIBERTY Paris, Sept. 21. The Aurore today publishes the following ' declaration from former Captain Dreyfus '"me government of the republic has given me my aiberty. But liberty Is nothing to me without honor. From today I shall continue to seek reparation for the frightful judicial error of which I remain the victim. I wish France to know by a definite judgment that I am innocent. My (heart will only be at rest when there remains not a single Frenchman who imputes to me the abominable crime perpetrated by an other. (Signed) Alfred Dreyfus." DREYFUS INCIDENT ''CLOSED" Paris, Sept. 21. The followimg order has been issued by the mdniter of war: "The incMemt is' closed. The military judgea, enjoying the respect of all, have rendered their verdict with, complete in dependence. We all, without harboring am 'afterthought, bendf to their decision. There can be no further question of re prisal of any kind, hence, I repeat, the incident is closed. I ask you, and if necessary, I 6hould command you, to forget the past in order that you can think. 'solely of the future. With you and all my comrades I proclaim Vive L'Armee, which belongs to party but France atone . Signed Galllfet." The order will be read to the troops throughout the French army. PETER JACKSON DYING San Francisco, Sept. 21. Peter Jack son, the pugilist, is dying of pneumon ia. The hospital doctors 'believe Jack son's case is hopeless, as he has 'been drinking heavily for months. Buy a good stove from Mrs. L. A. Johnson and save half the fuel. Yes, she sells on the installment plan. A high arm machine for $20.00 at Mrs. L. A. Johnson's, 27 Norta Main street Are an every day possession. Almost every one has them. They don't seem to be very wonderf al until they nurt us or we lose them. It does not make the affliction any easier i to bear, to know that we are to blame. Save yourself this un- i happiness by having us examine them for you, and fit yoa with proper glasses. S. L McKEE, SCIENTIFIC OPTICIAN, i 45 Patton Ave. t TO DISFRANCHISE WHITE VOTERS J. R. gurriner Heard Settle Express His Amend ment Views. Arriien, N. C, Sept. 20, 1899. Editor of the Gazette. "WTaem I was in AshevSIle Mem day ex-Congressman Thomas Set tle expressed himself to me on the amendment as follows: He said the fifth section' of it was unconstitu rtdonal; ithat St would undoubtedly be thrown out by the courts; and that 'the amjeadmenit would disfranchise both white and black illiterates. He said it would go harder wi-th the whites than t3ie negroes because the ignorant whites ere mostly farmers, living where they could not get school aid vantages, while ithe negroes lived mostly in the itowms where (there were good schools. When Mr. Settle told me thait the fifth section of the amendment would be decided unconstitutional and that the foumth would disfranchise the whites and blacks alike, I told him that if he would deliver that kind of a speech in Western North Carolina he would make more votes against the amend ment than all the speakers who were opposed to it could make, because that would open the eyes of the ignorant whites, as coming from a man who wa irt favor of th eamendment. J. B. SUMNER. MASSACHUSETTS DEMOCRATS NOMINATE A TICKET Payne for Governor Delegates Favor Bryan's Re nomination- Boston, Sept. 21. The democratic state convention today nominated the following ticket: For governor, Robert Treat Paine, jr.; for lieutenant govern or, John H. Mack; for secretary of state, Harry Lloyd; for treasurer, Jo seph J. Flyna; for attorney general, John H. Morrissey. The platform entdlorses free silver, de nounces the fighting in the Philippines, 'the imperiahstlc policy of the adminis tration, and trusts. The following were nominated dele-gates-at-large to the national conven tion: George. Fred. Williams, Christo pher J. . Callahan, Williams McNary an f Colonel Drimkwater. All-four fa Vp Bryan's renomlnat'ion. -1 WILL EXHIBIT AT P&feliL . .Lono.on, wept. zi. Tne at."mptea boyootot of the Paris exposition has prov ed an absolute failure in 6pite of the franctic attempt Of the Daily Mail to encourage it. That newspaper seems to have dropped lately imto the habit of espousing lost causes. The number of British exhilbitors at the exposition to date is over 3,000, inot including those from India and the colonies or those in the art section. Out of all these only twenty-three withdrawals are recorded. RAISED THE PRICE OF PINE Norfolk, Va., Sept. 21. The North Carolina pine association met here to day and advanced the price of North Carolina pine 50 cents per thousand feet on most grades. The attendance was about the Iragest since the association was formed. Those present represented an annual cut of six hundred million feet. BASEBALL GAMES YESTERDAY. At Washington R. H. H. Washington 3 9 4 Uouisville 4 9 3 Batteries: Evans and Kittredge; Phillippi and dimmer. Second ' R. H.E Washing-ton 4 8 4 Louisville 6 8 4 Called in the eighth on account of darkness: Batteries: Fifield and Powers; Flaherty and Zimmer. At Baltimore R. H. E Baltimore ' 5 13 1 Cleveland 4 13 3 Ten innings. Batteries: Knepper and Sugden; Howell and Robinson. Second game Baltimore Cleveland Called in the sixth darkness: Batteries: Pv. H. E. 4 6 1.4 on account of Harper and Sugden; McGinnity and Smith. At PhllurttetoMa R. H. E Philadelphia, 4 7 Cincinnati 5 11 Batteries: Donohue and McFarland; Hafcn and Peitz. New York-Pittsburg, Brooklyn -St. Louia erames postponed on account of wet grounds. 1 Boston-Chicago game called count of rain. on ac WHERE THT5T PLAY TODAY. Chicago alt BogioaV r St. Louts-alt Brooklyn. Pittsburg , Ntt York. . Cincinnati at Philadelphia. Cleveland at Baltimore. Louisville at Washing txm. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. Clubs. W. Brooklyn) ...... 9 Philadelphia 84 Boston 81 Baltimore - 78 St. Louis - 77 Cinciamati 74 Chicago ...... ...... 68 LouSavdlle 65 Pittsburg 3 New York 5 Washmirton .... 49 U 40 50 PC .6) .627 61 .614 3 .595 9 .566 61 64 70 71 76 85 .548 .515 .415 .366 .139 Cleveland 2 122. Tour choice of our entire wtock of Ox ford Ties at $1.75, for this week. A: Mean. . NEBRASKA'S OPINION OF THE PHILIPPINE POLICY Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn Says the State Favors McKinley. Washington, Sept 21. Assistant Sec retary of War Meiklejohn Tetumed from Nebraska today. He was pres ent at the home-coming of the First Nebraska regiment and talked with many men who served in the Philip pines. He says all are in sympathy with the president's policy. He heard no riticisme of General Otis, although the men expressed themselves as sorry they were not allowed at times to push 'the Filipinos and force a decisive bat tle. Meiklejohn believes the anti-expansion sentiment has greatly decreas ed in the west in the past nine months. He predicted that Nebraska wou'd surely go republican at the next elec tion as the people fully endorsed Mc Kinley's Philippine policy. He said anti-expansion would not be an issue as the democrats wpre mm kin p- strong fight on trusts. HAVANA STRIKE SETTLED THROUCH SPANISH CONSUL He Advised Strikers to Go to Work and Secured Concessions for Them Havana, Sept. 21. The strike of the draymen was settled today through efforts of the Spanish consul gener al, who had a friendly talk with the men, all of whom are Spaniards, and ad vised them to return 'to work. This the strikers agreed to do provided they were not arrested for leaving their carts unattended in the streets while delivering goods to the stores, as here tofore. This was the main reason for the strike. The consul general con ferred with the merchants and they agreed to furnish men to unload the carts, thereby enabling the drivers to remain with the carts. The move ment to Inaugurate a general strike s hanging fire. It was reported from Maitanzas and Cardenas that the ma sons and carpenters at those tuaces struck today for eight hours. RESULTS OF THE PYPH00N ON THE JAPANESE COAST Victoria, B. C, Sept. 21 . According to news received by the steamer Em press of India, the Japanese coast has again been visited by disaster. A tty phoon swept the coast with awful vio lence during the closing days of August amd the beginning of September, oaus- MLg a. loss of , over-3.000 dives. The de- mot be estimated when the Empress: left on September 8. As far as could be learned,, over 10,000 structures were overthrown . The greatest loss of life was sustained 5n the 'Bpime prefecture. Here 2,025 were killed. In the village of Ehshi- raura, in Iyo province alone, 1,500 were killed. The hig copper m'lraes situated in this village were flooded, amd 600 miners who were at work there were drowiaed. At Higo 137 persons were killed and 1,742 houses destroyed. At Takushima the rivers Yoshino, Naka and Zennyuji rose sixteen feet and over flowed their banks. In Kooshi prefec ture 36 were killed, 33 -wounded, 4,792 houses were destroyed and- 23 vessels lost. In Oy&ma 6 persons were killed amd 1,265 houses destroyed, and in Tak amatsu 208 were killed, 114 wrounded. 3,342 houses destroyed and 72 craft lost. HUGHES MURDER TRIAL Columbia, S. C, Sept. 21. The third day of the trial of Mrs. Hughes, of Greenville, for the murder of her hus band last September, ended with indica tions of conviction for manslaughter as a compromise. The arguments will he closed! tomorrow. This is the third trial. In the two former the juries disagreed. TWENTY SIX NEW CASES Jacksonville, Fla, Sept.' 21. Dr. Por ter telegraphs from Key West that 26 new cases of yellow fever were reported there today and two deaths. Wont advertisements in the Gazette bring sure results. They reach the peo ple. 8!$!ISI!S!!gII8ISllI$Ill! Oyster Crackers CRACKER MEAL AND s 1 a A Fine Assortment 8 or FRESH CRACKERS 5i 'n One Poifnd Tins 8 -AT- ON THE SQUARE I SN DER L LAW iUULLITY? Said Not to Have Been Passed By Legislature, Question to be Taken to the Kentucky Court of Appeals. May Knock Oat the Famous Model of the North Carolina Law. The First Case Before the Court to he on the Validity of the Election of a Judge. Louisville, Sept. 21. The republicans exploded a bombshell today, which caused consternation in the G-oebel ranks. Four of the best lawyers of the state after inspecting the legislature records, unanimously agreed ithat the G-oebel election taw never passed, but was juggled through the legislature. The republicans therefore agreed to file an objection in the court of appeals, to the sitting of Judge Hobselon, elected under the Goebel law, and a request to Governor Bradley to 'appoint a special judge. This will enable the governor to appoint a republican, giving the re publicans a majority of the court, thereby enabling the court to wipe out the G-oebel election law before the No vember elction. When the republicans appealed the G-oefbel law to the court last spring it was decided constitution al by a strict party vote. TRAINS CRASH TOGETHER AND A BRIDGE COLLAPSES The Cars Catci Fire and Three Men Were Incinerated. Windom, Minn,., Sept. 21. A freight train standing on the bridge over the Des Moines river near here was run. into by another freight train drawn hy two engines today. Tlhe 'bridge collaps ed, carrying -the three engines and. a part of both trains into the river. There were only about four feet of water to the river and the debris caught fire. Three of the trains' crew amd and a traveling man named Roberts were Ijq cinderated. Three others were 'injured. CATTLE DIE OF TICKS IN THIS COUNTY Has Quarantine Law Been Violated Disease on Cane Creek Special to 'the Gazette: Arden, N. C, Sept. 21. Two milch cows, belonging to Burt Lytle, have died; from "ticks" at his farm on Cane creek. J four miles from here. Two others of 5 hva Tiat .rA slnlr nnd will ryrnrwihlv die. The disease was brought to the farm by a violation of the quarantine law, or a careless evasion of it. Some were brought by am AshevWle man from an adjoining county and' pastured on Ly tle's farm. It was discovered too late that they were suffering from ticks. The people in. this locality 'think an investi gation should! be made to discover the responsibility for the importation of the fatal disease into Buncombe county, which the quarantine Is supposed to protect. AT TATE SPRINGS The season at Tate Spring continues large. There are 150 guest still in the hotel and a large number is hooked for October. The hotel is open, and has a good crowd the year round. Money Saved is Money Made If there la anything you ca um la the lot of Novelties we ari Closing Out It will certainly save you money to buy them. Arthur H. Field. CknTLBC Church Btxt e&a. Pfitton Avftr . . .. ' V V i f 1 "1 " . -if - J A 'J ') - t 7l 1 1 "J , , 1 'J ,4V :,'! ' V 1 i :"tl VM r -it . -. 4 - Y I