Newspapers / The Asheville Times (Asheville, … / Jan. 3, 1900, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Asheville Times (Asheville, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
7) i Si's '&'; -v. .ffllCTDCinUCD)C 1 1 1 1 I U I I'll 1 1 til Taking Sale Today we are making especially low prices o n all cut pieces of TABLE Our object is to save measuring and re-roll-ing. We can safely guarantee a saving ot 25 to 30 per cent. 51 Patton Avenue. ' j v. 11 AND PACKS. Treatment for: MHVOUS, RHEUMATIC Juad OTHER DISEASES.. Special: THtJRE BRANDT MASSAGE FOR FEMALE DISEASES; ALSO FACE MASSAGE. PROF., EDWIN GRUNER. r .. .'Gndu&te Chemnitz College, Germany. v Formerly with Oakland Heights. Sanitarium.) 65 S. MAIN ST. TELEPHONE 206. Home or Office Treatment. Office hours, 11 a. m. to 1 p. m., 2 to 1. p. m. ANOTHER SUICIDE ATTEMPTED. By George W- Justice This Time in Marietta, 6a. A Marietta, Ga., despatch of January 1 to the Atlanta Journal says: 'George W. Justice, who made an unsuccessful attempt to commit sui cide here recently toy swallowing an -overdose of laudanum, made another attempt 'to take his life Saturday night by hanging himself. "Justice came here from Selma, Ala:,, Cne time during the summer for the rpose of regaining his health, but after remaining here a month or so, decideldi to locate here andpractice law. About a month ago he 'came into the store of Mr. E. H. Northcutt one even ing after banking hours audi presented a draft on his brother for $10 drawn through the Battery Park bank, Ashe r ville, N. C, and obtained! the money on it. The draft when presented was turned! down, and returned with inf or dination that.no such party lived there. Mr. Northcutt had Justice arrested af ter the authorities had located him in Atlanta, on the charge of cheating and swindling, and he has been in Jail here tor about a week. r ' i r "'He was confined to a cell with an other prisoner and last night after his cellmate hadi gone to sleep, Justice "tie t towel around; his neck and- to the cell overhead iurd Jumped into; space. -His struggling. aroused . his t eHow prisoner, who took in the situation et ft glance and rhe hurriedly relieved Justice by . breaking1 - the towei-rope '' from which he was dangling. The jail er as notlfleASahd soon had Justice i8 eased of his normal fanil ties. . "Justice is a manr lafbout fifty, years of age and it Is said has a; family living ' -somewhere - in 'Alabama and , he claims that he has relatives livfoig near Ashe i Tllle, N. C ; He. will be held to answer the (offense of. being: a1 common cheat and swindler at the January , term- of Cobb superior court." Grant's Digestive Cordial for Dys pepsia. Indigestion and - Constipation iPriee'SOc at Grant's.'. - ;- . Grant's No. "24 cures Colds and La Grippe. Quickly controls vchills, ar.dApaIn.i' 25c, at -Grant's fever RddONS UN&Nd. OESTREICHER&CO BOEUS ATTACIC GEfJi FRENCH They Turnthe Surprise on the British and Re-occupy Positions. French Still Maintains Con siSeraBieldvantaffe. His Report off the Clever Move Upon the Enemy. The Reported Occupation of Colesbnrg Unconfirmed. GENERAL BULLER'S REINFORCE MENTS THE FLOODING OF THE TUGELA RIVER AN ADVANTAGE TO HIM GERMAN CRUISER ON THE WAY TO - DELAGO A BAY. London, Jan. 2. The latest news from General French's operations show that his clever surprise of the Boers and his successful skirmish with therm was not the impressive victory that a section of the press has claimed. The facts seem to be that the Boers not only suffered very little, but during the kiarkness rallied and turned the sur prise on ih& British by attacking theni next day ith their supposed ;crippled guns, some I .of , which were ; evidently those General Gatacre lost at . Storm berg. General French's despatch does not detail his movements later- than 2 p. m. January 1, and the final issue of the movement is unknown. Nothing reliable has been received confirming the rumored occupation of Colesburg. GUNS NOT DISABLED 1 Rensburg, Jan. 2. It Was discovered this morning that the Boerjj jhatf re tiied dxiring the night and reoccupied ihetfjposltlons''. from Which General French drove them.- Their quick fir" ing guns, which, it - was 'believed,'" had been disabled yesterday, reopened toi dj eshllne,Rfitlsh Ctii4era1)Ie v"accniracyX"though"Vth's shells diL not -.explode and werettif feotive.15 The British, hold: all positions they took yesterday. DOUGLAS OCCUPIED . Modder River, Jan. 2. Colonel Pil cher has occupied Douglas without op position. LATEST FROM COLESBURG. Pretoria, Jan.. 1. The British in great force attacked Assistant Com mandant Schoeman's command in the Ooesburg district 'Sunday night. Th?y tried to take the position by storm, but were repulsed. They repeated the at tack in the morning, but were again compelled to retreat. The Boers are still holding the position'. GENERAL FENOH REPORTS. . London, Jan. 2. The success1 of Gen eral French's column is at length .con firmed officially. The war office this afternoon issued a despatch from Cape Town, dated Monday, January 1, as follows: "French reports today from Colenso by heliograph as follows: 'Leaving at Rensburg, holding theenemy in front of half of the first Suffolks and a. sec tion of the 'Royal horse artillery, I started thence at 5 o'clock in the af ternoon of December 31, taking five squadrons of cavalry, half of the Sec ond Berks, eighty mounted infantry and ten guns. I halted for four hours at Maidor farm, and this moraine: oc cupied a kopje overlooking and! west ward of Colesburg. "The enemy's outposts were taken completely by surprise. At. daylisrht w shelled the laager and enfiladed the right of the enemy's position. Artillery fire in reply was very hot from a 15 pounder using royal laboratory ammu nition arid other guns. We silencod the guns of the enemy's right flank, demonstrating with cavalry and guns to the north of Colesburg towarVfe the junction where a strong laager of the enemy was holding , the hill and the position soutbeast-of Colesburg As far as the junction our position cuts' the line of retreat via road and bridge. " iSome thousands of 'Boers witfli two guns, are reported as retiring towards Norval's Point. All of Remimgstkm's scouts proceeded toward Achtorland yesterday morning. Slight casualties, want to rent bouse; : f f c a house or buy v fcaveA JtiUfle top'rent or:a house we' can af ccoo VJILKIE & LaBARDE, Real Estate Agents. . 2S Patton Avenue. VTTt WW T ?f f 9tf f f ? TV 9. V T., about three killed and; fewwocaledi Details .later,-' " . ' .; v B6ERS LOST iHEAVOpir. ' V ' -Brief Indfependenit messages, . from Rensburg filed th? evening: ' ?Janitiary 1 supplemented! General' French's de them the British were seen- snefflngT'aPWl?a WarsWps Engafire in a theBoer position at 5 o'clock Monday .evening, and expected to enter 'Cble burg today. The British, losses were three men killed and seven wounded. The Boers are supposed to have suffer ed heavily from the accuracy "of the British, artillery fire. ' - iGeneral French's statement th -he j Boers were using a 15-pounA3ier and Wool idh ammunition evidently ref ers to one, of the British guns captured at Stormiburg. The (Boers' strength' in the engagement with French is estimated at form 5,000 to J, 000 men. ;N GERMAN CRUISER GONE TO LOR BNZO MARQUEZ. Berlin, Jan. 2. The German second class cruiser -'Schwalbe left Dar-es-Sa-i laam, a seaport of Africa twenty-five miles south of Zanzibar, for Lorenzo Marquez. STOPPING BOER IMPORTATIONS . Chicago, Jan. 2. The Chicago Rec ord's London correspondent cables ns follows: The entire -country Is rejoiced at the seizure of the Hamburg East African lined Bundesrath. In the be ginning it was generally felt here that the carelessness of the authorities was chiefly responsible for the illegal im portation, by way of Lorenzo Marquez, of miunitions for the Boers. The': In solent assertion, too, of the Russian of ficer, Gurko, that he and his compan ions were fully determined to join the Boers, irritated .the public mind, and the fear was everywhere expressed that the supineness of the authorities would allow his boast to 1e made good. The seizure of the Bundesrath, with three German officers and twenty men,, pn their way to join the Boer army, points, fhbwever, to the fact that a proper lookout at last is being kept. GERMANY NOT LIKELY TO ACT. The statement In the German papers that the Berlin foreign office has prom,- ' ised to interpose on behalf of. the prlsr loners is disregarded here. In official " circles assurance amounts to conviction that the officer in' command of the South African station would not' have taken the extreme measure f arresting ankl detaining the Bundesrath unless, he had .Ineontrovertrbie evidence that it had attempted to land contraband of war of putative coanfbatants. In diplomatic circles here It Is not a. u rlo-rrnnraw frtirprri(ment will make any formal protest If a case ,ls clearly proved against the Bunaes- .x tM nrf wirt ,t Durban rfa$ latest despatches-.-ctesrjy- Vftyt to the facVtfca MafekW Is fn asofry plight. The little garrison evidently Is becoming taespera'ttf," for the last, sor tie was a serious one, suggesting, as it did. the consciousness of being In a hopeless positlKWi. It is barely possible;; that Colonel Baden-Powell may hold out until relief comes, -unless a Rho . desia force sooner comes to;!hisr -suecOr EFFECT OF THE FLOODS. The beginning of thei; heavy rains on the western border and "In Natal must seriously affect military operations . The rising of the Tugela river operates in favor of the British. If Buller at tempts a flank movement to the west ward the barrier which1 the swollen river offers to southward movements, 'by the enemy will be found an advan tage. On the other hand, however, the heavy rains render the movement of large forces difficult, while the renewal of the grass on the veldt, as a result of the rainfall, benefits both side?, 'and especially the defenders of Lady smith and Kimberley, where forage is scarce. The burghers apparently Intend us ing their intrenched position at Inihlawe as a base of operations against Chlevc ley, endeavoring to worry General Bul ler by a frontal attack, which probably will fail, anldi which, even if successful, would not affect the situation of Lady smith." GENERAL BULLER'S PRESENT STRENGTH. General Buller now has 27,000 men and sixty-tone guns without countingij the naVal pieces. He is still handicap ped by want of , cavalry, yet it is thought that he meditates an early move, in the hope. of fighting a success ful battle before the 'arrival of Lord Roberts. The mere suspicion that su.h (Continued on Fifth Page.) '1 'v?'u2&' lz'W-l? la . easy enough by burt)Sa&. Write r .caBl Qauaifof particulairs.'. telling ttt-aJT nearlyj a 'possible what , ;; you want ; There's tak. reason hT"u5onld - Hot "own YOTTR. OWTST-TTOMK. ' " "-.' i;. it fand If you: do. not listen tt .ou warmngL id take adyantage of some of' our -or- whea.. too old Dor rray. '-ii mmp If you wish,-t rent now,' and buy Jater you cannot dlb) better- than calif 1on tist wp cm aid you. in' many ways nere you caaif t- aid yourseir.' OwnlDK WmiyWS ALEXANDER, -iREAL TSSTATE BROKERS; iJ ' r ' J- T. t;T 26 Patten Avenue. v. " TJMlT FOR THE NAVY BATTLE AT SANTIAGO Conflict Sunimoned to the; White Honse. Wategtion, Jan. 21 A notable con ference, was held at the white house this afternoon when President Mo Kinley .met eight of the commanding officers ot the fleet which destroyed thfe Spanish squadron at Santiago, for the purpose of hearing from them cer tain explanations and opinions which he desired' Secretary Long was pres ent. The president learned from the Hps of these interested the movements of A(hnhal Schley's sqla-dron on the Cuban coast. He had explained to him the character of the loop made by the Brooklyn in the Santiago engagement and drew from the officers their views as to the character and extent of the reward which snoud be bestowed for gallant and meritorious services in bat tle. Reference was also made to the revival of the grade of vice akSmiraJ, with two numbers in it in order. that pchley might receive equal advance-, ment with .Sampson. Just what purpose the president had In summoning the Santiago captains to the whitejhouse did not appear, but the calling of Jthe conference is taken to mean that he was intensely interested In the matter of rewards and thosa with whomThe talked are confident that he will not let congress get away with out giving, the subject consi'deration. REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION MAY 2 Th& Place ia Raleiffh State Commit- ' ' ' ,.;tee Meet. Specfal to the Gazette . . Greensboro N . C . , Jan. 2 In re sponse ; to' a call Issued by Chairman HoTtonthe state republican executive TOmtoltfeelinet here today for the pur pose; of deciding a time and place for holding the next republican state con vention!. The committee decidedl to hol-d?the convention in Raleigh on May second."; :;A'r . . . ; ij .Tlte""attendance 'at;th'e , committee meeting was very large; -Ambhgi he prominent' repiiblicahs j;prBsent I were n'e'yV' la.Jor1 James- 'M . Moody said : ex Shefiffv Jones, of Wake. jxour correspondent talked with all the members' of the committee and they all gave very encouraging reports as to the opposition to the amendment in their respective districts. CHAIRMAN JOHES SENDS CURT REFUSAL Vpn Not Attend Nebraska Banquet in '. Bryan's Honor. Lincoln ,Neb., Jan. 2. Chairman Jones, f the national democratic com mittee wired today a curt declination to be present at the Nebraska traveling men's banquet on . Friday, at which Bryan will be the ;guest of honor. Local democrats say it is because of a story that Bryan has indicated that a change fn the . chairmanship would be satisfactory to him. Bryan is expected home tomorrow. Many democrats favor the selection of an eastern man. Gor man would be satisfactory but for his views on money. It is believed that Elliott Danforth is Bryan's personal choice. INDEMNITY CLAIMED FROM GREAT BRITAIN For the Seizure of American Flour at Dalagoa Bay. Washington, Jan. 2. Secretary Hay cabled instructions to Ambassador Choate at London todjay to inform Eng-, land that the United States regarded the seizure of American flour at Dela goa bay by a British cruiser illega1, and that in claiming indemnity for thi seizure this .government regarded its position as being sustained by law an i facts. This direct idiemand for redress was made as a' result of a commnnica- . TV A L10FHER IS VERY PARTICULAR l abwt ehsfthe I he t is pnrtected vtKevered;--but she eomettmes forget about hist eyei .She somehow tfails .to realize that the headache he complahis of i theesuH of --;', Scieniifle"0ptiMi;;'.iJ-t 45 Patton'Ave.-Blalr's-Furfu'ture Storey ' OXAMTNATIOr FRFE,1 ' tlon from Choate emhodvf ns? tv swer of England to the original presen tation of x the claim; . - While the details of the answer are not disclosed enough7 is known to" justi fy the statement that England is not willing to acknowledge that there has been any violation of international 'for in seizing cargoes on suspicion that they were intended for the Boers. In addition to the shippers of flour there are a number of other claima4n;s as the three vessels overhauled and de tained by the British cruiser each car rled a mixed cargo of American goods, none of which could be called munitions of war. The government regards the seizure of the vessels and! therr car goes as a high-landed act, not Justine i by circumstances. Wfth the seizure cf the vessels the United States has no concern, as none of mem flew the stars and stripes. CHICAGO DRAIHACE CANAL. Water Turned Into a Great Sluiceway Yesterday. Chicago, Jan. 2. At 9 o'clock this morning water was turned into the $33,000,000 drainage canal and began to flow toward Lockport, where it will fall into the Desplaines river and thence through the Illinois and Missis sppi rivers to the Gulf of Mexico. What is termed by canal engineers the colateral channel has for some time been completed from the Chicago river in the southwestern part of the city to within fifteen feet of the main chan nel of the canal. This fifteen-foot wall of earth -with two sluice gates behind it has heen all that kept the Chicago river and Lake Michigan out of the canal. At 10 o'clock Monday night a steam dredge began to cut away the wall of earth, and a few minutes before 9 today the water of the collateral chan nel was against the sluice gates and only a few inches of timber remained to be removed before the canal would be In actual operation. When the water began to back up against the sliuce gates the timbers were knocked away ankS the first water from the Chicago river ran into the canal. Engineers of the sanitary dis trict cut the channel to carry 800,300 cubic feet of water a minute, but to day the water was allowed p flotw In to the canal at the rate of only 50,000 cubic feet a minute.. The effect of turning "300,000 cvMd .feet of 4water a. minute into' the empty canaT would, be like 'the .bursting -of a .(reservoir, and jwuidjeg;ay;e canal jaact'.wreoic'tne, controlling woncs a Lockport: Therefore "the ?water will be turned' In gradually. Pitobably a week will elapse before the canal is full 'of water and is carrying away the sewage that now flows into the Chicago river. An occasion that might have been maJde one of the most memorable in the eventful history of Chicago was suffered to pass by unimproved) be cause the trustees of the sanitary dis trict were intent only on their one great aim, the opening of the canal. Aside from the trustees and! engineers of the 'board there were les9 than a dozen spectators present. BLACKBURN NOMINATED. Frankfort, Ky., Jan. 2, Blackburn was nominated by acclamation by the ifemiocratic caucus tonight for senator to succeed Lindsay. Blackburn re ceived eighty votes, only two demo crats refusing to participate. The fea ture' of the caucus was a speech by Goebel, who paid a high tribute to Blackburn. Backburn in a speech of acceptance expressed gratitude. THE JAMESTOWN IN COLLISION Norfolk, Jan. 2. The steamship Ja.iiosu-wn, of the Old Dominion line, bound from New York for Norfo'k witli fifty passengers aboard, collided with the British tramp steamer Glen vech eff Lambert sPoirit todiay, damag ing her to the extent of $15,00. Th Glenvech was bound from SVoinc Pas for 'Bremen via Norfolk. "ON THE SQUARE." Agency "R0CKBR00K FARM" CREAMERY BUTTER. I I Good Old VIRGINIA MIXTURE coco 2 ounce pKltBge....;-.....Bc 4 oimc8 pacI-B.;............bc jmj Kl While it lasts. ; ; ; Successor to Wt JVSnMer,.: - ;'""' - ' ' NORTH COURT SQUARE. & X A Smoking Tonaem HOOD AS GOVERNOR New Cuban Cabinet Takes the Oath of Qffice in Havana. Intended Beforms Discussed With Cuban3. Plans for Electrons and Basis of Franchise. Confidence Expressed in the Govern ment's Policy. CATTLE NEAR HAVANA DYING OF DISEASE SUPPOSED TO BE "TICKS" ALLEGED THAT THE INFECTION CAME FROM TEXAS. Havana, Jan. 2. The new cabinet, appointed by General Wood wasp: sworn in today, except Senor Villalon, the secretary of public works, who is at Santiago. No business has been transacted. After the ceremony Gen eral Wood received a large number c prominent Cubans, who came here at his request, and talked with them con cerning intend eld reforms. Among the topics discussed1 wer e the plans for election and the basis of franchise. General Wood had no definite suf frage plan to offer. A suggestion that suffrage be granted only to those able to read and write and owning $250 worth of property, or those who were in the Insurgent army prior to August, evoked no opposition. All voters will have to be twenty-one years oM1. Vis itors expressed full faith in the gov ernments policy. General Masso lunched with General Wood today. Conferences of the visiting politician will last all the week. 1 . oiwiu k? - ah. jwauiua. uuaigca hum,,:. . there is a 'great quantity ot American' Q-. m..v tm1 .if v T 1 - near Havana sje .dying ten .daily, from a'disi 'fcnott as tlcksfSbiuaalI lege ahtdlseaW; tfeM. introduced 'from. Texas. .! J" ': V "r ' ALL BUT DUE PERISHED. Fa'e of the Crew of a Schooner on the New Fonndland Coast. St. Johns, N. Fi, Jan. 2. A fearful gale x has been raging on the coast the past week.. The -schooner Puritan was' caught in a hurricane on Friday night and dashed against the rocks on Cabot" island and completely wrecked. Her crew of nine . penshed with the excep tion of one, who succeeded in reaching a jutting pinnacle of rock, where he re mained until noon Saturday,' when the keeper of the lighthouse rescued him. THE SENATE PROGRAM Washington, Jan. 2. In congress Thursday the currency 'bill will be tak en up for consideration in the senate and have the right of way until dis posed of. Nearly everybokSy on both sides of the chamber wants to make a sneech and the flow of oratory will be 3 continuous until perhaps February 1. The second bill on the republican pro gram will be that nowin preparation by Senator Foraker providing a .form of government for the island of Porto Rico and it may be reported and taken up for consideration before the cur rency bill is out of the way, for there are likely to be interval when no one is prepared to speak on the latter measure. The snext measure on the program is the subsidy bill for Amer ican shipping, anfl! that will be pressed to a passage at the earliest possible moment. DEBT STATEMENT SHOWS DECREASE Washington, Jan. 2. The debt statement, issued today, shows a de-; crease for December of $5,791,824. For v the first half of the current fiscal year there was a surplus of $21,026,934 In the receipts over the disbursements the receipts being $284,793,494, and the ex penditures i $263,766,560. TO BREAK FROM NATIONAL LEAGUE New York, Jan. 2.JToday President Johnson of -the American baseball league announced that his organiza tion had voted to break away from the Nttcfnal league land the protection of the national agreement and will try to organise dubs at Rostoni New York Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit and Miwankee. BUBONIC PLAGUE IN HAWAII- y Ban Fraftcisco. Jan 2. The steamer Australia arrived today from HonoluHl It was reported Ahef ore' her departure from Honolulu that three, more casts -of bubonic ,plague Jiadneen discovered in, Chinatown, despite drasjio meas uvea t stamp it out. . ; : ; , A TRAIN STRIKES BUCKB0AR0; vSndahokIn1ran. bucboard containingfour men -was struck by: a train on. a" crossing- of the PeansylTa-. nia road- near Montanwn,:; tnis aner- noon7 Three of the men were Instant- r Jv Killed. xu& lourm euuycvr jj jir- GENERAL "4 9Ii h t ! fi fit'
The Asheville Times (Asheville, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Jan. 3, 1900, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75