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VOL IV: NO. 310 ASHEVILLE, N. O, SUNDAY MOENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1900. PEICE 5 .CENTS. K ESTREICHER Are You Interested -in Corsets? Did you ever try the cele brated French P. D. Corsets? We have just received a full line of them in all sizes, We have the exclusive agen cy for the celebrated Ameri can Lady Corsets of which we carry about twenty dif ferent styles. These corsets are all warranted perfect fitting and good wearers. If not perfectly satisfactory in very respect we will re place them with a new cor set. Perfect figures given by the wearers of our cele brated corsets. 51 Patton Avenue. .MASSAGE.. AND PACKS. Treatment for -KERVOUS, RHEUMATIC end OTHER DISEASES. Special: THURB BRANDT MASSAGE FOR FEMALE DISEASES; ALSO FACE MASSAGE. PROF. EDWIN GRUNER, Gzaduate Chemnitz College, Germany. Formerly with Oakland Heights. Sanitarium.) , 5 S. MAIN ST. TELEPHONE 206. Home or Office Treatment. Office hours, 11 a. m. to 1. p. m., 2 to "4 p. nr. Do You Know... That hundreds of our best citizens after testing the merits of the . Asheville Pres eiag Club have become regular mem bers at One Dollar a Month? We cleian prees and repair clothing in first class style. Ladies work solicit ed. We send for and deliver all cloth ing. X J. C. WILBAR & CO., Prop. Telephone 339. 4 North Court Sq. over Gazette Office. BAKER & CO., Scientific Refracting Opticians, No. 45JPatton Avenue. Examination Free. OSTEOPATHY- The Willard Institute of Oesteopath- v. D. WMlard M, E. T. D.-O., and E. b. Willard, D. O. Offices over Dr. T. Store, Court Square. C. Smith's Drug Office hours, 9 a. . w to 12 noon, and 2:30 p. m.X to. 5.30 p. m. Examination and consult tion free, t t Got dem Cheese and we gwine to sell 'em; Now is your chance ! t H. C Johnson, t 39 PATTON AVE. & company ' OESTREICHER&CO III TO i esiL's IFE He Died Near the Hour of Seven O'clock A Remarkable Scene of Sor row W&en Announce ment Was Made. Beckham Takes the Oath as Governor Crowds Gather Threateningly in the Streets During the Day. Saloons Ordered to Close and Guards Increased at Public Buildings. Injunction Issued Against Legislature Meeting at London. Frankfort, Feb. 3. William Goebel died tonight shortly after 7 o'clock. The announcement of his death was made by a distribution of the following cir culars: "To the people of Keritucky It is with the most profound sorrow that we announce the death of Senator William Goebel. In his last moments he coun seled this friends to keep cool and bow to the law in all things. We, his friends ahd admirers, beg of the people of Keritucky, lit this "hour of affliction, to carefully abstain from any act of vio ence or any resort to mdb law. It would be his wish, if he were alive, that there should be no stain left on his mem ory by, any imprudent act of any who were his friends. Law is supreme, and must be in time re-established, and, all the wrongs that, lie and his. party have suffered will find their proper redress." This is signed by Senator Blackburn, the president pro tern of the senate and the speaker of the house and sev eral others. When the announcement of his death was made the corridor of the hotel was filled with the friends of Goebel, and there followed a' scene of sorrow un usual and! in many ways remarkable. Men and women' put their arms around each other's necks and wept on etch other's shoulders. There was ev ery manifestation of the deepest grief. Some cried aloud and many sobbed as though, their hearts would break. Af ter the first outburst, they became calm and then asked permission to see the idiead. This was granted to those who had been personally acquainted with him. A line was quickly formed to the second (hall, leading to the room where the body lay. It was some time after the announce ment of Goebel's death had been made that the fact was revealed that he had been dead nearly an hour before the an nouncement. The purpose of with holding it was not stated. Immediately after the announcement was made, and after the crowd had calmed down somewhat, a conference of the demo crats was called. The situation was reviewed! and ft was decided that BeCk- ham should be sworn in as governor The clerk of the cour of appeals was i For Rent A well located, completely,, for. $40 per month. This is '. a bargain., ' We also have other, furnished and unfur nished houses. For Sale tt i -vim Valuable sesidence property , on MonitJfoToV avenue, and f other -property, improved and unimproved, all at reasonable t prices: -: " v'v WILKIE & LaBSRBE, Real Estate Agents. i ,23 Vatton 'Avenue., , ,. (light 11 sent for. He quickly arrived and ad ministered the oath. I The news of Goebel's death was tak- ' en to the executive mansion tonight by a soldier. A few minutes after his ar rival there the 'force of guards at the gates was increased and ah. order was issued to allow no one to enter or leave I the grounds. Taylor has been inacces sible to visitors all afternoon and even to close friends. He was more so af ter the news of Goebel's death. Beckhami issued a proclamation to night expressing his regret at Goebel's death and highly euloerizine' him. Beckham announces that" he has been qualified as governor and calls on all violent characters and the militia in charge of the public buildings to dis band. He requests the support of all law abi'ddng citizens in his efforts to maintain peace. ARMED CROWDS GATHER THREATENINGLY IN THE STREETS Frankfort, Feb. 3. About all that was needed in Frankfort today was the application of a match to bring about an explosion. All day long affairs were in, a more critical condition than they have been at any time since the shooting. The departure of many legislators for their homes, it was thought, would serve to v .quiet things, but it had' the contrary effect appar ently, and for the first time the streets were filled with ai more or less incend iary crowkf. (About noon news came from Goebel's room 'that he had a sinking spell and that he could not rally. That cams very near beng the match. As soon as it was known a big crowd gathered around Capitol square; Every man was armed - with tr revolver;." AU- the available police of the town were, sent to keep the crowd moving. It was a more or less 'boisterous crowd; and kept cheering at intervals for Goebel, and addressed foul language to the soldiers - The presence of the crowd caused a lot of nervousness inside the square. The commanding officers of the soldiers were fearful that an accidental dis charge of a gun in the hands of a sol dier or the firing of a pistol, in the hands of one of the crowd might pre cipitate trouble. They doubled and tripled the guards at the gates lead ing into the state house grounds. They stationed a company of troops wtti bayonets in front of each gate ins'.do the fence. This was to prevent any possible rush. The crowd grew big ger, bigger and higger as the day wore on. When the news became Inown that Goebel's condition was critical the mayor of the town issued a proclama tion closing all the saloons. After thi3 there was some improvement, and the police succeeded in scattering the crowd in Capitol square. A latga part of it gathered in the vieinitv of the Capitol hotel, and waited for news from Goebel. News from the sick room was brought down' every few minutes by one of his physicians. With each successive bulle l.Y from the sick room; snowing tnat trie patient was growing steadily worse the ex citement increased and several in the wafting crowd were affected to tears TEMPORARY INJUNCTION RESTRAINING TAYLOR The chief events of the day were tte granting of "a temporary injunction re straining Taylor from interterring with the assembling of the legislature in the state house andi f rom compelling the attendance of the legislature av London,: and the issuance of a writ of halbeas corpus- oalling for the produc tion in? court of Lon Walker, held as a prisoner hy Taylor's orders; for serving a notice on Taylor of the injunction proceedings. Considerable excitement attended the attempt of the service of the writ of habeas corpus, because it was declared by Goebel's lawyers that the refusal to recognize the writ will pet aviolatkm, iSoV only of the state courts but of the United States courts. The serving of the -writ was frustrat ed. The sheriff jnade no ffort to serve the writ of temporary injunction . When the news that the injunction haNi been granted leaked out 'efforts were redoubled at the Capitol grounds to prevent its being served. Subse- , if I . ting persons to enter were relaxed xso s asrto allow those- who ' had business ihere to enter the 'grounds hut they w5 escorted toy a squad - of soldiers who had orders to shoot the prisoners if they attempted to serve the papers. -Wi'i. 1 -" - nor Blckburn arrived- today andi went to the Cpiiol hotel, where there was a conference with the democratic eaders regarding the probable effect of. the tltude the administration to wards Taylor; He Informed the demo cratic leaders about his interview with McKinley, which was evidently of a gratifying nature, and urged his hear ers to maintain peace at all hazards, and allow matters to be adjusted by the courts. Colonel Chlnn after the conference accompanied the Laffan Bureau repre sentative to Capitol square and point ed out the spot where Goebel wak shot. He expressed the belief that tti shot which struck Goebel was fired by one man, while the other four suc ceeding shots were fired, by other men. He declared that they were fired almost simultaneously. He said when Goebel fell he raised himself for a moment and tried to reach his gun. Chinn said he admonished Goebel to lie still, or they would shoot him again. When th representative remarked to Chinn. Well, they didn't hit you," he replied Tou bet they didn't. I ain't hanker ing for a crowd to come and pull down the sheet and say, 'Poor Jack, don't he look natural. " APPREHENSIONS FOR EVENTS OF TOMORROW Frankfort. Feb. 3. Ht 'has not been, de cided at a late hour onight where Goe bel will be buried. It was said that the matter will be decided tomorrow by the brothers of the dead man. One "brother arrived from Arizona tonight soon after the' death of the Senator. Over five hun dred telegrams of con Mence have been received from democrats 1m all parts of the icountry. Frankfont is quiet at mid night and officials are congratulating themselves that tomorrow is Sunday. They are more or les's apprehensive over Monday, becou6e that is county urt day, and. usually hundreds of people come, to itown. Fiscal court has offered $1,(M$ reward for the apprehension of the assassin, cording' tOLSome folks here oebei wa&inot shot by a political assas sin but by a man who sought tp avenge the death of Judge Sanford. STORY THAT GOEBEL WORE COAT OF MAIL Another story is thiat Goebel wore a coat of mail when shot. This story is said to come from a physician! 'who also said the. coat of mail injured Goebel as badly as 'the bullet, particles of steel be ing carried into the "body by the bullet. The physician is reported to have added that Goebel was 6 hot with a Krag Jor geneon and that a steed bullet was used. KENTUCKIA2TS OPINION. Tells From. Personal Knowledge, of Affairs There. 8. E. Cohen, of Louisville, Ky., who arrived in this city yesterday, said in am interview with a Gazette reporter, that the newspapers and the public generally had no conception of the true state of affairs in his state. He said that although the board of election commissioners had been com posed of two 'democrats and one repub lican, they agreed in giving Taylor the certificate as governor. Then the legislature took up the case and, although according to the stato law, a ballot should be taken in the se lection of the judges in an election contest, the democrats having a major ity in both houses refused to ao so against the protest of the republicans, and chose their judges as they pleased, who declared Goebel governor. Mr. Cohen says that Governnor Tay lor is being supported by the best ele ment In the state, while the Goebelit.-s are for the most part ward politicians and heelers, and that many eminent democrats, among whom are Geneial Basil Duke, who served in the confed erate army during the civil war, and Congressman Sweeney, have, since the advent of Goebelism In Kentucky, vot ed the republican ticket for the first time in their whole lives when they cast votes for Taylor. They did this because they wished to repudiate Goe bel and Ms methoote of carrying on a political campaign. When Goebel ran for the nomination for governor he had several running mates, and he only became the nomi nee after a "knock-down and drag- out" fight, in which there were many peculiar incidents. These running mates are still staunch iflemocrats, but now that the issue has arisen between Taylor and Goebel, they are silent, having no ward to say on either side.. He went on to say that at any mo ment an outbreak might come where blood would toe shed, as all men were heavily armed, . ahd moved around as though they expected anxfi were waiting for something to happen. Mr. Cohen himself has always been a good democrat but he denied the soft impeachment" toy voting for Governor Taylor. A good cigar at Blomberg's. IMcInttirff ait 47 Eagle street, has a complete outfit for making woven wire bed springs, which, he will sell cheap. ' . ' Gazette want-ads one cent a word. IKDIAK APPROPRIATION BILL PASSES HOUSE Effort to Beverse Policy of Congress Pails. Washington, Feb. 3. The Indian ap propriation; hill tor the year 1901 was passed toy the house today, after four days of consideration. An effort was made toy Fitzgerald to reverse the school policy of congress, announced In 1895, and practically- repeated every year since, and to secure a continuance of the contract service for educating Indian youfths, but it received no sup port. The provision in the bill ratifying the treaty with the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache 'tribes in Oklahoma was strick en out on a point of order. After disposing of this measure the house listened! to the delivery of eulo gies upon the late Representative Er mentrout, of Pennsylvania, and at their close adjourned to Monday. DEWEY WILL CO 10 NASHVILLE. President Will Also Probably Attend Celebration. Nashville, Feb. 3. -Dewey today ac cepted the invitation extended to hinvl by the chamber of commerce to visit Nashville to participate in the ceremon- es connected with the formal presenta tion of the gun of the gunboat Nash ville that fired the first shot in the Spanish-American war. The invitation extended to McKinley, Root aridi Long will also likely toe accepted . During the stay, the visitors will be given a brilliant reception. BURNETT & LAMBERT. New Firm Formed for Extensive Car riage Making and Iron "W ork. The firm of Burnett & Lambert has been formed for the manufacture of all kinds of carriages and wagons, black smithing, wood and Iron working, etc., and particularly fine work. B. Burnett has been in 'the city a number of years, and is a fine carriage maker and expert blacksmithl Dr. Lambert will continue his .veteri narian practice, attend personally to the fine horse-shoeing anu. look after the of fice work for 'the firm.. C. L. Brown has been engaged as the exoert honse-shoer. A general supply of wheelwright's and all other stock necessary will be kept for the trade. ' They will do unholstering iron; woru and palnting.an.fUll carriages .the heed for this' work on th better class of vehi cles having been felt for t long time. Instead of sending vehiclea away here after, they will be prepared to do any work needed on them. They wilfl put on rubber tires, also. Light wagons will he built, to compete with the foreign manufactured article. - me firm t xpects to be ready to go to work April 1st", and the co-partnership was formed to take effect on that date.- They will occupy a building on South Main street to be erected by Henry S Lambert. Mr. Lambert has purchased lots from Mrs. Hilliard, Dr. Hllliaro! and John M. Cumpbell, each 0.00 feet deep, making a surface of 75x100 feet. The building will be of brick, 75x100 feet in size, with pressed brick front, two stor ies high, and a sttone basement. The building and kt will -.-.st about $6,000. R. S. Smith is the architect. Work will begin as soon as the. contracts can be let and will be finished for occu ptancy by April 1. A boiler and engine will be put in for power. The oldest established Cigar and To bacco Store Blombes s, established 1887. Good night! Use Camphorline: have soft white hands In the morning. 25c. All druggists. s Golf Goods at Blomberg's. Mrs. F. R. Darby says: ''Camphorline Is not only good for chapped hands but for burns and inflamed surfaces also. My husband would have been badly burned the other day had I not used Camphorline quickly and freely." Wood's seeds at Grant's Pharma:y. Ice Skates at BlOmberg's. II8!$II$IIST$1W1II1II 'ON THE SQUARE.' Agency "R0CKBR00K FARM" CREAMERY BUTTER. ft I ft TEAS. SOUTH CAROLINA, TETLEY'S: OOLONG. MIXED and INDIA CEYLON In three grades. POKOE. FORMOSA OOLONG. KO SA. ft 9, ft ft four ROYAL DRAGON 2. ENGLISH 2. erades. BREAKFAST, GUNPOWDER, three gradae. OOLONG, four grades. JAPAN: - ; BASKET FIRED. A ' COLORED. ft ft ft YOUNG HYSON. ft ft ft CLARENCE SAWYER Successor to W F. Snider, 6 NORTH COURT SQUARE. ft PEOPLE ARE EXASPERATED i Bickerings of English States men in Parliament ! May i Result in Uprising. Demand for a New Cabinet Will be Made, - Unless Situation Improves at Home and in South Africa. Lines Between Conservatives and Rad icals Nearly Swept Away. THE MILITARY SITUATION IS taken; , as FAVORABLE, AS 0 FRESH THERE IS NO NEWS OF DISASTER. London, Feb. 3. War politics for tht moment command more attention than the military developments in the Souiii African struggle. Parliament mt Tuesday to face the darkest situation that has confronted England since ear ly in the century, and the country ha3 waited with the keenest eagerness and anxiety for great patriotic declarations from British statesmen in which there would ring out the inspiring self-re liant purpose to redeem the prestige of the British empire and enhance its splendor. Instead the country has listened for four days to a partisan de bate, in which excuses, explanations, pettifogging critcism and recrimination have been the principal features. It is not enough to say that England is disgusted. She is indignant and an gry. There shouMi be no mistaking the temper of the British public. It is al most true that there are no conserva- . . tives and no liberals left In the country except in parliament. The nation is composed of Englishmen whose sole political aim and creed is the restora tion of the British empire to the posi tion.it , occupied in the world- six months ago. To thiSvend it .demands" practical,, genuine, co-operation, of both parties and the effect of futile waste of words during the past four days , is already shaping Itself into a demand for the formation of a coalition cabinet, which will include ex-Premier Rose hery, George Wyndham, the present parliamentary under-secretary of war; William Broderick, present under-secretary of foreign affairs, and Rt. Hon. Herbert Asquith, M. P., liberal. This Idea will undoubtedly grow Into a great popular mandate which Salisbury and! parliament will be compelled to obey, unless the situation both at Westmin ster and South Africa is radically and speedily improved. THE MILITARY SITUATION. There is a vague popular hopefulness regarding the military situation, based scarcely upon anything more tangible than that there has been no news of fresh disaster in nearly a week. Let ters from the Laffan Bureau's corre spondents with Buller and Methuen reached London today. All were un sealed and marked "Opened under martiail law." They were not hopeful in tone. ler. But the military authorities think from the nature of the situation this is hardly probable for some time. An impression has been create-aV in certain quarters that 'the main, cam paign under General Kitchener may take the form of an invasion of the Orange Free State with General Me thuen's force as the nucleus and Mod der river as an advanced base. CZAR MAY INTERVENE. Paris, Feb. 3. It is stated in diplo matic quarters that the Czar will inter vene in the South African war in about a fortnight. RECCONNOISANCE. M odder River, Feb. 3. A strong caval ry recconoiseaoxce was made itoday of the Boer position to wes'twaras of Moa der River station. A balloonist with a party saw a number of Boers going Howards Jacobsdal. A British shell fire directed at the Boers was ineffective owing to the presence of a dust storm. Lomdoa, midnight Saturday night, Fo. 3. The war office is without news of any kind from South Africa. ON CANAL PROJECT. London, Feb. 3. Ambassador Chatj had several interviews with Looto Sil- -Isbury recently on the Clayton-Bulwer treaty and its connection, with the Nic araguan canal. It is understood that England Ib willing to forego what Mie regards as-her Just claitu? but de mands an equivalent, the "nature of which has not toeen revealed. This, however, Choate has commixflliatsd to Secretary Hay , . EXPRESS CAR R0B2ED. . Charlestdri, S. C 'Peh J. An" cx- press car on train No. 23 c the -Atia' tic Coast line fnun.New York, contafiw ing miscellaneous stuff; was rjbbeilhe tween, Florence, S. C. and Chartestan last night.' "The. express rottrpany say) the car was -left open by mistake. The nffiMala rif fhp- Smithprn EXUTeSS COD1" pany claim that nothingexcept a suit E of clothes was stolen. ft( ! "It Is better to buy furniture onr Instal- merit plan tham to pay such hih rent f-cc , furnished rooms. .Try at Mns. L. A- . Joh n' , 43 Patton A - ill ' 'I ,1 ' ? 5 1 - " , J? . 1 -f'' f-r ai v i t
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