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f 7 ' i m m m m ..-.mm VOL V: NO. 92 ASHEVILLE, N. C, THUB8DAY MOENING, MAY 24, 1900. PfilCE 5 CENT - T : " v '3 ESTREICHER'S sale of,. Silk Waists In Black, White and Gray, tucked and corded. Prices $5.25 and $4.00 Worth $4.00 and $5.00 White Wash Waists. The celebrated Eagle Brand, "which for excellence of fit and workmanship has no ?qnal. We have them tuck ed and corded, some trimmed mth embroidery and some with lace. Prices 98c to OESTREIOHER&GO 51 Patton Avenue. For a heavy high class piece of HOSE we can recom mend to you our Comet 1 inch 4 Ply Rubber. Asbeyille Hardware Co. Southeast corner Court Square, 'Phone 87. ..MASSAGE.. AND PACKS. Treatment for: Nervoua, Rheumatic nd other diseases. Special: Thur Brandt Massage for Female Diseases; also Face Massage. PROF. EDWIN GRUNER, (Graduate Chemnitz College, Germany. -Formerly -. iith Ooklap,d H?lgMB Sana torium.) Home or Office Treatment. Office hours, 11 a. m. to 1 p. m., 2 to 4 . . m. W S. MAIN ST. TEIEPHONB 20. Wood's seeds at Grant's, The odorless refrigerator is guaran teed to give perfect satisfaction and Is tsold only by Mrs. L. A. Johnson, 43 -Patton ave. ; Best Almond Extract at Grant's. :Laldwin Headache Cure 25c Grant's. Grant's Dandruff Cure, 75c rants. Grant's Hair Tonic, 50c. Grant's. Grant's Poison Oak Cure, 25c Grant's. Grant's Lavender Shampoo, 25c- .- Grant's . Digestive Cordial" or ! Dys pepsia, Indigestion and-- constipation . Over 500 bottles sold. 50c at Grant's. Grant's tfanffe Cure, . 50y - Grant's; 1- I BOERS FAIL TO MAKE STAND Abandon Their Position Rhenoster River on Rob erts Approach. at Part of the British Force Cross the Stream. Transvaalsrs Had Prepared for a Strong Resistance. Strategic Movement of the British) Checkmated Them. BELIEF NOW THAT THEY WILL NOT FIGHT IN BATTLE SOUTH OF THE "VAALi KRUGER KEEPS CLOSE WITHIN PRESIDENTIAL MANSION-BETHUNB FELL IN TO TRAP. London, May 23" The following was received from Roberts tonight: ' ' South Bank of Rhenoster Riverj May 23. We found on arrival here this morning that the enemy had fled during the night. . They had occu pied a strong position on the north bank of the river, which had been care fully intrenched but did not think it advisable to defend it when they heard ' that Hamilton's force was at Heilbron and that our cavalry, which had cross- ! ed the Rhenoster some miles lower down the stream, were throwing their right and rear. The bridge over the Rhenoster, several culverts and some miles of railway were then destroyed. Hamilton's troops drove the Boers un der Piet Dewet before them from Lindley to Heilbron. The passage of the Rhenoster was stoutly defended. Our loss might have been heavy but for a well concerted plan which brought r S mi th -Dorrien srigader,. yxi the"ehemy"s flank Just at the right mo ment. ' k "The officer commanding at Boshof reports that upward of 350 Free Staters surrendered during the last few days, giving up 350 rifles, about a hundred horses and a large quantity of ammu nition. Kelly-Kenny reports three companies of yeomanry who were sent to repair the telegraph and clear the country between Bloemfontein and Boshof, have returned to Bloemfontein, having performed their duty exceed ingly well." London, May 24. Roberts despatch tells all that is known here of his ad vance and the Boers' abandonment of their positions on. the Rhenoster river. Their retreat is regarded as a further indication that they will not risk a battle anywhere south of the Vaal river. Some correspondents reaffirm that they are demoralized and are not likely to make a stand even at the Vaal. KRUGER UNAPPROACHABLE. The Lorenzo Marques correspondent of the Mail declares that the councils at Pretoria are divided. Those favor ing a continuance of the war are in7 the minority. ' . Kruger has been unap proachable for a whole week. He does not leave the presidency, pleading ill ness. He heads the council from day break until midnight. BETHUNE WALKED INTO TRAP. Details in regard to the disaster' to Bethune's horse in the neighborhood of Vryheid show that he changed the route prescribed for him and tried to occupy Vryheid, which he had been in formed had been abandoned. The British walked into the trap and were mowed down with Maxims, losing five oCRcers and sixty-three men killed, in cluding Qaptain Goff, who led them. LORD ROBERTS ADVANCING. London, May 23. Once more Lord Roberts is advancing in force. The wait at Kroonstad Is over and already themain British army is about twenty miles north of its former resting place. Judging from, despatches from Lord Roberts at Honing Spruit station, while flanking him on either side of the railroad, General French's cavalry and General Ian Hamilton's mounted in fantry are both slightly in advance .of Lord Roberts, and threatening to envel- 60 Not a Before seeing us. We have several Interesting bargains to offer, are dally adding to our list and may have Just "what you want. , euit. ' Prices and terms will r I WILKIE & LaBfiRBE, J Real Estate Brokers, op the Boer position, which extends for twenty miles due Jiorth: WARREN TAKES DOUGLAS. Cape Town, May 22. General War ren has occupied Douglas after heavy fighting and without sustaining any loss.. The Boers have retreated' to the north. 'BADEN-POWELL'S REPORT. London, May, 23. The war office is sues a despatch from. Lord Robertsun der date of Honing Spriut, May 22, an nouncing the receipt by him of tne fol lowing message from Major General Baden-Powell: "Mafeking, May 17. I am happy to inform you that Mafeking was suc cessfully relieved today. -The northern and southern columns joined hands bn May 15 and attacked the enemy yester day and after a small engagement7 4iTi tirely defeated them wittfloss. Tjte British casualties weithree killed 4n4 twenty-two wounded.- The relieving force marched into Mafeking and the relief and defense forces combined and moved out and attacked the enemy's head laager. .We shelled them out And nearly captured Snyman and took one gun, a flag and a large amount of am munition, stores, etc. Five dead and fifteen wounded Boers were found. The enemy appears to be retreatingln all directions, except one commando which is lying low, possibly to cover the retreat of the remainder. f: "Captain Mclaren ' and Corporal Murray were found in the Boer hos pital. The townspeople -and the garri son of Mafeking are heartily grateful for their relief." Lord 'Roberts' despatch further says: 'Ian Hamilton reached Heilbron th morning, after a series of engagements with a Boer force under Dewet. who is retiring before him. Broadwood hjas captured fifteen Boer wagons. There have been 75 casualties in Hamiltons force to yesterday evening. We marched here this morning." PLAN OF BOER ENVOYS " Washington, May 23. Mr. Fischer, one of the Boer envoys, spoke freely today as to their general plans for the future. He said that it was their pur pose to visit ten or twelve of the prin cipal cities of the United States arid explain to the people whatever ,they might wish to know of the Boer cause. They were, he said, particularly anxi ous to avoid even the semblance of taking any part in American polities. They came to plead with the whfle American people for sympathy and support. ; - .ft WILL BE 110 REVISION. Presbyterians Decide Not to Change Confession of Paith. Atlanta, May 23. No discuesion on a revision of the confession of faith of the Presbyterian church will arise in the present session of the southern general assembly now in cession in this city. The overture from the Bra zos, Tex., presbytery asking a change regarding the death of infants was re ported negatively this morning by the committee to which it had been re ferred, and the report was adopted by the assembly precluding the possi bility of a discussion over the confes sion. ROYAL ARCANUM. Next Aimnal Meeting Will b3 H-ld in This City. H. Taylor Rogers received the fol lowing telegram yesterday afternoon from E. L. Harris, supreme repre sentative tfor North Carolina of the Royal Arcanum: "Asheville secured supreme council by good majority." The supreme council Royal Arcanum ia now in session' at Montreal. Quebec, and will hold its next annual session in Asheville. There are probably about one hundred representatives, with their families, who attend the meetings, and generally spend about ten days. Montreal, May 23. The supreme council of the Royal Arcanum today closed its session, lasting several days, by the election of officers. The coun cil will meet next year in Asheville. YES ERDAY'S LEAGUE GAMES. At Pittsburg RHE Pittsburg..,. 8 9 1 Brooklyn 5 5 4 Batteries: Waddell and Chover; Howell and McGuire. At St. Louis RHE C St Tjnnla .... 2 4 1 Boston. 3 6 2 Batteries: Touug and Robinson; LMneen and Sullivan. At Chicago RHE Chicago. 5 10 2 Philadelphia.. .. .. .. .. .. .. 310 Batteries: Griffith and Chance; Piatt and McFarland. At Cincinnati KHE Cincinnati.. .. .. .. - 4 6 5 New York;. . .. .. .. .. .. ..15 17 3 Batteries: Scott and Pelts; Doheny .and ; Bowennan. - -7 AMERICAN LEAGUE. " AtweyeiaT-HEaeVeland, 5; Chica- go, '17 ' ' , . ) At; BUffal-Kansas City, 11; Buf-tfalo;- 5.J '-: - ; " '-' - At Detroit-Detroit, 7; Milwaukee, 6. At Indianapolis Indianapolis, 6; Minneapolis, .6, , ., v Best Lemm Bfrtract .at Grant's. - Peerless r.Oojn: Salve, ,10c Grant's. it Ji Scientific" Eefractinir 'Opticians, 2 - No 45 Patten Arenac, j jecSal iteatioa; drs to 6t-fc. ' THE CUMNOCK E DISASTER 22 Miners Lost Their Lives in the Chatham County Colliery. Only Five Saved From the ' East Heading, Explosion Caused by a Broken Gauze in a Lamp. Fourth Disaster in the History of These Mines. MINE WAS NOT DAMAGED VIC TIMS DIED IMMEDIATELY FROM BURNS CAUSED BY EXPLOSIONS AND SOME FROM AFTERDAMP. Raleigh, N. C., May 23. Twenty-two miners, ten white men and twelve ne groes, lost their lives in an explosion at Cumnock mines, Chatham county, N- yesterday afternoon. The ex plosion occurred at 4:30 oclock, and is supposed to have been caused by a broken gauze in a safety lamp. The accident was in what is known as the east heading and between forty and fifty men were in the mine at the time. Five were brought out alive from the east heading, while hone of the men in the other parts of the mine were in jured. About fifty persons from Sanford, a town six miles from the mine, went out immediately when the news of the disaster was received to assist in the work of rescuing the dead and lending assistance to the Injured. THE DEAD. The names of the killed are as fol lows: White John Connelly, mine superin- te3en Joe Ghuss, William " Tyson, James McCarthy, John Hankey, Wes ley Clegg, John Willett, John Gate wodd, Robert Gatewood. Negro Sim Mclntire, Dan Goldston. Joe Fagan, Will Reeves, Robert Reeves, Allie Bynum, Joe Taylor, Jim Maks, John Lee Palmer, Jim Palmer. MINE N-T INJURED. The explosion occurred in the 460 feet east level, half a mile from the shaft. The mine was not damaged, and the explosion was not heard outside. Twenty miners at work in the west levels went to the rescue of the oth ers and saved five, all seriously burn ed or bruised, four of them negroes, and one, Garland Thomas, white. There was much damp in the mine. The explosidh burned to death all save four, and these afterdamp killed. WORK OF RESCUE. .Within an hour after the explosion the work of rescue began and by night all the bodies except one, that of Sim Mclntyre, had been brought to the toprf John Connelly, the mine super intendent, came to this state about three years ago from Pittsburg, Pa. He leaves a wife and three small children. Willie Tyson was the son of Jordon Tyson, a prominent citizen of Moore county. The bodies were prepared for burial last night, and the funenal took place today. , A great many of the bodies taken from the mine had been burned and the scenes around the mouth of the shaft yesterday had been heartrending. A BAD HISTORY. The Cumnock mines already had a reputation for fatalities. On December 19, 1895, an explosion of fire damp- oc curred there while sixty-five men were at work, and forty dead bodies were taken out. Since that time, however, extensive improvements have been made, and the mines were regarded as free from fire damp. Pennsylvania capitalists own the property. The disaster that occurred yesterdav is the fourth, and in the disasters about eighty-five men have lost their WISDOM PARR &AVARD South 1X&I& Street- 3 rYixme lives and .many' others have been in jured. The wrines are situated at Cumnock, in Chatham? county, about six miles from Sanford. The mine has been long used in a desultory fashion, but in 1888 Samuel H. Henzy, of Philadelphia, or ganized a company, and put in modern machinery. There are two shafts, one a small affair for ventilation, and the other, the main working shaft, is 8-12 feet , and is considerably more than 500 feet In depth. The explosion in 1895 was caused by fire damp, although J many of those killed on this occasion lost their lfves from the resulting ex plosion of ajmost 250 pounds of dyna mite that were stored in the mines. WHAT THE NEGRO ASKS- Addrass by Booker T. Washington Equality of Opportunity. Washington, May 23: Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee last night de livered an address on the future of the negro at the Metropolitan A M. E. church. He said: "In these latter days we he.ar much of removing from our- fundamental law the precious magna charta of our citizenship, the: fifteenth amendment. Whether wisely or unwisely this guar antee of our rjg-hts was placed in the constitution by the ripest thought of the nation, at the time it was enacted, and there in my mind, at the behest of the conservative and patriotic opin ion of both the north and the south, it will remain while the constitution it self stands. "What the negro asks is equity of opportunity. Close the door against the negro, now, and within a few years the temptation will be to 'close It against a class of white men. The minute you recognize a law which taxes a negro for the support of gov ernment and deny him the opportunr Ify to make his wishes felt at the ball lot box, that minute you begin to un dermine our whole theory of govern ment and throw to the winds the prin ciples for which the revolutionary war was fought." A BUBONIC PLAGUE CENTER. New York, May 23. A dispatch from Rio Janeiro says- the government vhae published a decree proclaiming that the town and harbor of Rio Janeiro are suspected as a plague center, and it is officially announced that several plague cases have occurred there. Eleven suspicious; cases have been re ported during the past twenty-four hours. ; There haye been seven deaths jsstiMl)wl-?yeasttres. rHavrtjeeir ad'opted to isolate the victims' fami lies "and disinfect their houses. MR HYAMS GOES TO GREENSBORO Special to the Gazette. Washington, May 23. W. S. Hy ams, secretary of the state committee, left here today for republican head quarters, Greensboro, to assist in di recting the work of the campaign. A YOUNG MAN'S SUICIDE. San Francisco, May 23. Thomas Mc Dermott, brother of Maxine Elliot, the actress, committed suicide today. Do mestic troubles led to despondency. MOSELLE VINTAGE DESTROYED. Berlin, May 23. It is reported that the recent cold weather almost entire ly destroyed the Moselle vintage. 7 FOR LADLES UP-TO-DATE. I carry a fine line of imported and domestic walking and golf skirts. We sell you the cloth in patterns by the yard or take your measure and make to your order. At I. W. Gla ser's, 18 South Main street. Wood's Lawn Grass at Grant's. Peerless Corn Solvent 25c. at Grant's. Try Grant's Tonic. 75c. Grant's. Best Vanilla Extract at Grant's. Grant's Talcum Powder, 10c. Grant's. The stars and stripes float on the wave of popularity. Grant's Liver Pills, 50 for 25c. SOMETHING NEW Hominy in Tomato Sauce, 1 pound cans, 10 cents. Bitter's Concentrated tin fermented Grape Juice, in Half Pint, Pint and Quart Bottles. Absolutely pure, 20, 35 and 55 cents. Pure Fruit Shrub, In Pint Bottles, 30 cents. ;enoy Rockbrook Farm Creamery Butter 1; At vKB V - J V ! As A SEARCHING EXAMIMATIOM Ordered Into all the Affairs of the Cuban Postal Service. Postmaster General's Instruc tions Made Public. War Tax Reduction Bill to be Framed After Adjournment, June 6. The nti-Canteen Bill Favorably Re ported. PROPOSED MISSISSIPPI RIVER IMPROVEMENTS CAUSE IN CREASE IN APPROPRIATIONS RICHARDSON FAVORS REPEAL OF BEER TAX. Washington, May 23. The house to day adopted a resolution providing for the adjournment of congress June 6, also a resolution appointing a commit tee to set during recess to prepare a bill for reducing the war taxes. A bill was passed amending the revised stat utes so as to provide for the extradi tion of Neeley. The senate was almost wholly de voted to Cuban affairs. In connection with Bacon's resolution calling for an investigation and report of moneys re ceived and expended in Cuba by American officials Mr. Piatt, of Con necticut, made a vigorous defenee of the administration and declared that the president would not allow any one guilty of irregularities in the postal service to escape. Later on while Mr. Spooner was speaking on his resolution in regard to the government of the Philippines he adverted to Cuban af fairs. Hoar took occasion to aay it wooiicf have been a good thirtg ifwe had abandoned Cuba. The Cubans would have been spared the present lesson in corruption. He frankly declared he suspected the United States had no in tention of granting the Island inde pendence. Mr. Spooner refuted this. Washington. May 23. In his speech in the senate today upon the Bacon resolution for an inquiry into the postal irregularities in Cuba, Senator Piatt, of Connecticut, made public a letter of instruction given to Mr. Bristow upon his departure for Cuba. The letter is as follows: "May 16, 1900. Hon. Joseph L. Bris tow, Fourth Assistant Postmaster General: Sir Supplementing my let ter of May 12, directing you to proceed at once to Cuba, the following further instructions are given for your guid ance: You will immediately on your arrival at Havana confer fully with General Wood, military governor, and will keep in constant communication with him in the work in which you enter. You will co-operate with the military governor, both in the Investi gation of all irregularities in the postal service of Cuba and in any measures for the reorganization of the system that may be undertaken. The exam ination by the inspectors already pro vided for will have begun before your arrival. You will assume general su pervision of this examination and will force the instructions heretofore given that it shall be of the most searching and thorough character. If you find that you need a still larger force for the prompt and complete performance of this duty, you will call for it. The investigation must be comprehensive and minute, covering every branch or the service and all classes of officials. Its prosecution must be governed sole ly for the purpose of ascertaining the (Continued ei fifth page.) For No Reason Is Asheville more pre-eminent than on account of it fine cli mate all the year round. It is America's firs: reeort, because perennially Invigorating. It is the same way with Asntville3 famous product WHEAT-HEARTS Ht is the nrat breakfast food ifdrjall the year; It Is always-In vigbratlng! WHEAT HEARTS is prepared for serving in two minutes because we've milled the wheat, 'roasted, te gluten, mnd converted tine starch to dex- j trine before ireaches "you. WHEAT.' HEARTS makes a : tempting dlsb with wbicb noth ing else compares If yott . but try, it ence youll understand why "Itf Swlieat-Hearts we Want." TlielWheaf-Searts Gomp'y, : j " y v. ; .!V.."." I 1 i x v t . . . . . . .ir - 1 - r...i-l .;.-v.: vt.,-,', : '
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