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.W- 5 V : - t k. ' ft I yS5V - f T mM Bilk lvJbr;hvnl VOL V: NO, 7J ESTREICHER & COMPANY Sacrifice Sale of Corsets... Having concluded to dis continue the following lines of Corsets, we will offer them this week at these extremely low prices: W. B. R. & G. and Warners. 15c Qualities at 5pc $ 1. 00 Qualities at 81c $1,25 Qualities St St. 00 $1.50 Qutiltles at $1.25 $1.75 & $2 Qualities at. ..$1.3q 32.50 & $2.75 Qualities $1.95 'We carry a full line of the American Lady and P, J)l Corsets JJESTREICHER&CO 51 Patton Avenue. Standard the World Over." Our Prices on COLUMBUS WORK will suit you if you want to buy with a view to SAV ING IN THE LONG RUN. All our work is furnished with Brad lev shaft Couplings. Long Distance Dirt-proof Axle witb Bell Collar and Bailey Hangers for End Spring Gears. Asheville Hardware Company, Agfa. Southeast Corner Court Square, 'Phone 87 Xelley Springfield Tire Pat on in Our Rabber Tire Department. MASSAGE,. AND PACKS. Treatment for: Nervoua, Rheumatic and other diseasea. Special: Thur Brandt Maasage for Female Diseases; also Face Massage. PROF. EDWIN GRUNER, (Graduate Chemnitz College, Germany. Formerly -. iith Oakland HgMs Sana torium.) Home or Office Treatment. Office hours, 11 a. m. to 1 p. m., 2 to 4 p. nx. 55 S. MAIN ST. TELEPHONE 206. Uneeda Rest m m A-T OAK HALL, TRYON, IS. C. One of the best equipped hotel in the 'South, Forty mile south of .sbeville. Joseph Hellen & Son, Proprietors, Call lor booklet at City Ticket Office, PattdB A'; cnce. LONG BRITISH BATTLE LINE Extends From Bloemfontein to the Basutoland Border. To Sweep the Country North ward to the Transvaal. Baers Practically Cleared From the Southern Country. Their Guard at the Passes Leading Prom Natal. THE FIGHTING NEAR THABA N'CHTJ A' THOUSAND . BOERS FORCED TO RETREAT FROM BANKS OF A RIVER. Thaba N'Ohu, Orange Free State, April 28. Oeneral Pole-Carew after fighting at Leeuw kop, in conjunction with General Dickson, and capturing Paiarde Kraal, marched to Tweedeje lak. On Friday he marched to Bush mansfontein, where he found 1,000 ,BoeTS 'wlth a KruPP snn and Pompons Gordons brigade seized the forward bridge, possession of which was con tested. In a short time the entire cav alry division was engaged and they re mained in action until the Boers re tired. WILL BE FORCED TO FALL BACK. London, April 28. Lord Roberts' lat est achievement consists in clearing out the Boers who threatened 'the rear of his right flank anu driving them in to a more compact mass in a smaller area. Generals Brabant and Hart are moving northward along the Ladybrand road, while Generals Rundle, Cherm side and French presumably are press ing'1 to the northeast, in the direction of Thabanchu. General Hamilton. Bupported by General Colville's divi sion ami1 General Maxwells brigade, conwnajttds' the 'Moader river country nor'tte at ''ISannas post, and these troops, taken together, form practically un broken battle line from the Bloemfon tein railway to the Basu'toland .border. Tht Boers, therefore, have no alterna tive but to fall back toward 'the Trans vaal. A despatch from' Lladysmith under today's date says there are only small parties of Boers in Tintwa pass but some hundreds are guarding "Van Ren an's and Cliviorshoek passes. Com mandants Debeer and Vannieskark are in charge and the forces have been so disposed that the whole body can be massed at any pass the British may at tempt to force. A BABY HIPPOPOTAMUS. New York, April 28. Miss Murphy, the hippopotamus in the Central Park menagerie, last night gave birth to the fourth young hippopotamus in the park. The newest hippopotamus is about 14 inches long,' stands 8 inches high and weighs 20 pounds. LEAGUE GAMES YESTERDAY. At New York R H E Neither side scored for nine innings Runs made in the tenth: Chicago 1 5 St. Louis 3 7 Batteries: Garvin and Donahue; Young and O'Connor. At New York ' IL H E Rfrlrlvn 10 10 0 .tJOSLOIl " Batteries: Kennedy and McGulr: Nichols, Dineen and Clark. Umpire Eimslie. pvinaolnhifl 19 17 I New York 1 9 Batteries: Donohue and McFar1nd Dohenev and Warfler. Umpire, Con nelly. At Pittsburg Plttsfourg R tL BS .495 , 7 12 1 Zimmer; Cincinnati Batteries: Cheesboro and Newton and Kascoe. Umpire, Swartz- wood. FOR RENT (Partial List) FURNISHED 7-i oom house $40 per monitih. 9 -room hou6e,$50 per month. 5-room flat, $32 per month. 11- room house, $60 per month. 8 -room house, $55 per month. 5-room house, $40 per month. 9 - room house, $75 per month. UNFURNISHED 5-room flat, $18 per month. 7 -room Ihouse, $25 per month. 9-room house, $35 per month. 12- room house, $60 per month. 7 -room house, $16 per month. Apply ait our office for full de-' Bcription. WILKIE & LaBARBE, i KCai estate orvAcia, Tia,a.a t AHiAiUftttttf ft t ASHEVILLE, N. C, SUNDAY SUBSCRIPTIONS OPENED FOR OTTAWA FIRE SUFFERERS City of Ottawa wants to Borrow $100,- 000 for the Homeless. London, April 30. After consulta tion with the Canadian high commis sion, Lord Strathcona and Mount Roy all, the lord maytor of Newton, it was decided to tmmedia'tely open a mansion house fund for the relief of the home less poor people of Ottawa. The stock exchange fund opened today with sev eral large subscriptions. The lord mayor's appeal will 'be issued Monday. Ottawa, April 28. At a moss meeting of citizens held last night it was decid ed to instruct the city council 'to ask the Ontario legislature for leave to borrow $100,000 by issuing debentures to aid the sufferers from the Are in Ottawa and Hull. Ottawa, April 28. The estimate made of the effects of the fire runs as fol lows: Homeless, 15,000; destitute, 8,000; fatalities, seven; thrown out of work by destruction of industries, Ot tawa, 3,000; Hull, 2,000; value of build ing destroyed $2,500,000; personal prop erty, $4,000,000. The figures do not in clude lumber burned. LARGE FACTORY BUILDING FALLS T0 PIECES Thirteen Men Buried in the Wr 2ckage Two Dead. Birmingham, Ala., April 28. By the collapse of the frame work of the main building of the Dimmick Pipe and Foundry company in course of erec tion a't North Birmingham this morn-. ing, two men are dead and eleven in jured, at least two of whom will die. The building is 300 feet long and 100 feet wide. While an immense beam was being placed in position on the roof, thirty feet above ground, it fell and striking the next beam knocked it down. The second beam knocked down the third and so on until twenty beams had fallen, causing a general collapse of the structure. About thirty men were at work on the building at the time and of this number thirteen were on the super structure and went down in the wreck age. ARRESTED ON A SERIOUS CHARGf A & N C. Conductor Accused by Mu latto 9irl Former Democratic Candidate. Special to The Gazette. New Bern, N. C, April 28. J. J. Royall, of Morehead City, the demo cratic candidate for the legislature from Carteret county, defeated by E. C. Duncan in 1884, and now a con ductor on the Atlantic and North Car olina railroad under the present dem ocratic administration, has been ar rested charered bv Malvlna Moore, a bright mulatto girl, with assault with intent to commit a rape while on his train between Havelock and New Bern. The case will be heard Mon day. BRIEF FILED IN KENTUCKY CASE By Council for Gjv. Taylor and Lieut. Gov Marshall. Washington, April 28. Counsel for William S. Taylor and John Marshall, in the contest in the United States su preme court over the offices of govern or and lieutenant governor of Kentucky today filed a brief in the case in that court. The brief is signed (by James P. Helm, Helm Bruce and Kennedy Hplm as counsel, while the names of x-Governor W. O. Bradley, W. H Yost, A. E. Willison, D. W. Fair leri'i. W. C. P. Breckinrigde and John Shelby are appended as "of counsel." STONR WATER FILTERS. r-ATvr OPFKR LOW PRICES THIS YEAR ON THE BEST FILTER EVER MADE. IT IS SAFE TO HAViB oNE. J. H. LAW. 35 PATTON AVENU'B. Fine lot cow peas at C. 39 South Main street. Cooper's, 67-6t. Wood's Seeds at Grant's. Flower Seeds at Grant's, Wood's Lawn Grass at Grants.'. Rail d win's Headache Cure. Grant's Clro-nfa T.ivw Pills. SH18 . mild and purely vegetabe, LOc pill 25c at Grant's Grant's Digestive Cardial cures dys pepsia, indigestion and conistipauor 50c at G ant's. A certain , cure for dandruff Grant's Dandruff Cure; 75c at Grants. Peel ess Lorn Solvent; 25c at Grant's When run down and in need of a fi Hve take Grant's Tome. 75c Grant's Pharmacy. A new line of Baby Carriages aad re cllntng go carts at Mrs. L. A- JoLnson'r 43 Patton avenue. Tone iw. BAKER & CO,, Scientific Refracting Opticians, , JYc 45 Patton Avenue -. ... Bx&minaUoQ Frve. Ueclal attentioa gira .- to repairing. MORNING, APRIL 29. 1900. YESTERDAY'S WORK IN SENATE AND HOUSE Pettigrew StDl Championing Aguin aldo and Oom Panl The Clms to be Settled Under Treaty With Spain. Washington, April 28. When the Lsensate convened the desk of each sen ator Dore the evidence taken in the CHark case, consisting of three large volumes and the resort of the com nittee. a resolution was ad ,Di.-providing- that exercises appropriate to the reception and accepting from the. Grand Army of the Republic of the ftatue to Grant to be erected in j the capitol foe miao the special order for Saturday, May 19. A resolution by Mr. Pettigrew, of South Dakota, calling upon tue pres ident and secretary of war for infor mation whether General Torres on be half of Aguinaldo "asked General Otis to cease - -hostilities, and for informa tion as to the alleged salute made to the Eilipino flag 'by Admiral Dewey were passed without discussion. The following bills were passed: For the establishment, control, opera tion, and maintenance of a northern branch of the national home for dis abled volunteer soldiers at Hot Springs in South Dakota, and appro priating $150,000 for the purpose;" re quiring that the dam across Rainy Lake river, Minnesota, be commenced within three years and completed within five years from May 4, 1898; ap propriating $2400 to be paid to cer tain persons for improvements relin quished to the United States for the use of the Nez Perces Indians. Mr. Pettigrew called up his resolu tion, "expressing sympathy for the South African republic and best hopes for the success of its determined con test for liberty. It was moved that t be referred to the committee on foreign relations. Mr. Pe'ctigrew de manded the yeas and nays. The roll call showed 31 yetas, 11 nays, not quorum, and the senate adjourned. Some routine business was transact ed at the opening of 'the session of the house today. Mr. Ray, of New Yr'- renewed his request to print in con Bection with Livingston's resolution relative to remanding the cases of Green and Naynor to the southern dis trict of Georgia. All papers in the case were ordered printed. - Francis R Lassitcu:,,. who, succeeds theF late Sidney Eppes as representative from the Fourth Virginia district, was sworn in. In connection with the presentation of his credentials a com muniea'tion was read from James Sel- den of Cowden, protesting against the seating of Lassitor and the filing of a formal contest on the ground that the vote bv which Lassitor claimed his election was a "paper vote not actu ally cast. The agricultural appropriation bill was sent to conference. At 2 o'clock the senate bill to cre ate a commission to adjust the claims of citizens of 'the United States against Spain, which the United States under reaty with Spain jgreed to adjudicate and settle, was taken up, and after dis cussion reported back and 'the com mittee instructed to report a bill refer ring all claims to 'the court of claims. FATAL ACCIDENT AT RICHMOND Traveler and Engine Crashes Through a Trestle Into St rset Below- Richmond, Va., April 28. Three men were killed outright and six injured in an accident on East Main street near Fifteenth street this afternoon. A large traveler on 'the Richmond, Peters burg and Carolina trestle gave way. carrying with it the boom- and en gine and falling twenty-five feet into the middle of main street. The uead are waiter .fiocK, namsuurg, jrd,., bridgeman; Harry Marzolff, Harris burg, bridgeman; Jesse Bowers, Hal ifax, Pa., bridgeman. Of the injured A. Lf. Everet, of Richmond, has nis skull crushed and will die. The-otber injured are G. H. Albright, Joseph Sommers, Muscoe Gardiner ana Charles Manson. Gazette want ads one cent a word. WISDOM CARR & DISTRIBUTORS, 23 South Main Street i 'Phone 268. I WISE, BE CAREFUl7 WARD SEABOARD CONSOLIDATION BECOMES A REALITY Officers of the Enlarged Corporation Elected Yesterday. Petersburg, Va., April 28. A meet ing of the stockholders of the Seaboard Air Line railroad was held here to day for the purpose of electing officers and directors for the ensuing year. The Seaboard Air Line railroad repre sents tlj.e consolidation of twenty rail road companies, 2500 miles of track from Washington to the Gulf and is now an accomplished fact. The fol lowing officers were elec'ted: John Skel ton Williams, president: J. M. .-,hr- treasurer, with a board of directors consisting of S. Davies Warfield of Baltimore, Robert C. Davidson of Baltimore, John 'Skelton, Williams and Jas. H. Dooley "of Richmond, Va., William A. Marburg of Baltimore, William F. Cochrane of New York. William Millendorf of Baltimore and C. Sidney Shepherd of New Ha ven. These also compose the manag ing committee of the greater Sea Board Air Line organization under the agreement of January 5. During the coming week other officers of the company will be elected. IN THE G0EBELIZED STATE Frankfort, Ky., April 28. Attorney General Breckinridge today enjoys the distinction of being the only state of ficer in Kentucky whose title is not in litigation. Judge Pratt, the repub lican contestee, failed to file a super sedeas 'bond prior to last 'night and the title has passed to Breckinridere. FEDERAL COURT AT WINSTON. Washington, April 28. The house to day passed the billp roviding for terms of federal court at Winston. Judge Ewart arrived today. PLAtfS ADOPTED. Work on Mod treat Hotel Will Beein This Week. J. A. Porter returned yesterday from New York, where lie went to lay the lans of the Montreat hotel foe fore John S. Huyler, president, aad Charles A. Rowland, jr., of AtJhens, Ga., vice president, . of. .the Mountain Retreat association. Mr. Porter pre sented the matter in detail and, every thing proving satisfactory, the work on the hotel will be begun this week. j It 'will be a fifty-room house, modern in every particular and will h very neat in appearance. There will be twentv-nve open fireplaces, furnace and every convenience. The hotel will overlook the site of the proposed lake, which Mr. Huyler says will cer tainly be built next year. The ihotel will be completed sufficiently so they can entertain the visitors to the sum mer assembly of the Mountain Re treat association, beginning July L The plans are by Architect R., S Smith and were pronounced emi nently satisfactory by Mr. Huyler The first set of plans, made by Mr Smith and approved by Mr. Hoiyler last summer, did not conform to the contour of the land at the site and so nfw nlans were made especially for the site. These are even more con venient than the first and' work begins this week, breaking ground. DELEGATES TO REUNION. Members Named to Go to Louisville in May. 7.eb Vance camt U. C. V. held a (meeting yesterday morning ana me fnllnw ne- delegates were eiectea 10 - - 17 w the amnual reunion at Louisville fipn. J. M. Ray. Col. A. G. Haiy- burton. Mai. J. R. Du Bose, Oapt. G. M. Williams, Capt. W. M. Gud eer: alternates. Mai. J. R. Ballew, F. M. Miller, J. J. Mackey, H. L King, G. A. Pickens. Commandant Milley was authorized to name a sponsor and maid of honor for the aamo if he deemed it advis able. Agency "R0GKBR00K FARM" CREAMERY BUTTER. PATE DiB FOIB GRAS, TRUFFB RUSSIAN CAVIAR. PALE D. LIEVRE AUX TRUFFES. THON MERINGUE. PUREE DE FOIE GRA TRUFFE. ' ANCHOIS. PATE DE GOURMETS. TRUFFLED PHEASANTS. ANCHOVY PASTE. I CLARENCE SAWYER Successor o Wy-Pj Snider 6 NORTH COUBT SQUAKB. Weather Forecaa t FAIR . - PRIGE 5 CENTS. MORE FLOODS IN TEXAS Tremendous Rains Fill 7 Streets of Galveston Wih Water. the Hail Shatters Windows and Wrecks Greenhouses. Nine Foot River Rise Sweeping Down on Dallas. From Ten to Fifteen Dead Victims o the Flood at Waco. ANOTHER STORM TO LAST TWO ..DAYS PREDICTED TEXAS WEATHER THE WHOLE STATE BY THE BU vEAU ALREADY SOAKED. Galveston, Tex., April 28. -Many streets here are flooded from curb to curb owing to the tremendous raina f last night. A hail scorm later shatter ed the windows and wreokeri P-rr. houses. The whole state is soaked. Three boys were caught in last night s storm while rowing on Galveston bay and it is believed that they have been drowned. Another storm to last two days is predicted by the weather bu reau. The water at Sealv is now lm r ir to the highest point reported in the great flood of last July. N , Dallas, April 28. The floods show no signs of receding. On the contrary, most of the Texas rivers are rising. A nine foot rise is sweeping down from the head waters of the Trinity. This will cause a big overflow in the vicin ity of Dallas and Fort Worth tonight. A bulletin from Waco this evening said the list of dead there is from ten to fifteen. Telegraph lines are gone, - isolating more than one half of the state. Rail road movements are absolutely sus pended south of Dallas on almost ev ery line in the state. The loss by flood and hurricane since yesterday morning is estimated1 to reach from $3,000,000 to 15,000,000. TURKEY STILL SILENT. Constantinople, April 28. The Unit ed States legation has not receive the porte's answer to the note handed to Tewflk Pasha, the Turkish foreign lm4rrister, by the American- charge d'af faires, regarding the indemnity claims, and the impression is gaining ground that the reply will be in the negative or even no reply will be made. The latter 'alternative seems to be unlikely. The general impression is that without display of force the porte certainly will not pay the claims, but wishes to show the world it yields to force only. . TO THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. The Southern 'railroad gives a two thirds rate to those attending the re publican state convention at Raleigh, which makes the fare from Asheville $11. UNIVERSITY SUMMER SCHOOL. The seventh session of the University summer school for teachers will begin June 12th next and continue for four weeks. The faculty will include more than twenty eminent instructors. There will be daily instruction in ithe best methods of teaching all the branches taught in the leading public and Jri vaite schools, high schools and acade mies Jn the south. Gince ita establish ment six years ago the University Sum mer School has easily ranked with theh best summer school's of th country. The advantages of this year will surpass those of former yeans. Country dried apples, 4 pounds for 25c. Win. Knoger. Huntley & Palmer's dinner Tr-scuitS and vanilla wRtfero at Kroger'a. It's Always a Case of Love at First Sight, for everbody knows it IT'SWEET'HEARTS WE WAHT.' You must cultivate a taste for sor.fi foods because they're prepared to be merely nutritious. That's why people think the more unpalatable a foci l the more nutritious it must be. Of course, Wheat-Hearts s nuttritious.but remember that when properly cooked and served hot with cream and sugar it it simply dellciou - THE WHEAT-HEARTS COMPANY' ASHEVILLE. 5 I 3 , 1 yt i 4 ,1 R K - 1 i 1 4f u r IP it1-. 0' 4t 1 1 r". ' 11 1 1 f iJ i1 Mil Mi Ik 'f, f 11 t i 1 4 X i 4 5. 1 All f 4 "Mi A ,...jkT. . ' i - .4- r r I t f . J t X if ' - t it 'J r J ,
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