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' T r i J"' -- -jr. ."''V -.. N -tit - WOL T: NO. 99 ASHEVILLE, N. C, FBIDAY JIOBNING, JUKE 1, 1900. PRICE 5 CENTS 1 k(. isssj Mvs.) N i ESTREICHER'S sale of Silk Waists In Black, White and Gray, ducked and corded. Trices $3.25 and $4.00 Worth 14.00 and $5.00 White Wash Waists. The celebrated Eagle Brand, which for excellence of fit and workmanship has no equal. We have them tuck ed and corded, some trimmed with embroidery and some with lace. Prices 98c to $5. QESTREIC 51 Patton Avenue. If you want the Very Best Hose buy our Chicago Electric at 17c. Asiwille Hardware Co. Southeast corner Court Square, 'Phone 87. MASSAGE. AND PACKS. Treatment for: Nervou. Rheumatic ad other diseases. special: Thur Brandt Maraige for female Disease; also Face Massage. PROP. EDWIN. GRUNER, Gnaduate Chemnitz College, Germany. L!rmerly " Oakland Heights Sana torium.) , Home ot Office Treatment. Office ?urs, li a. m. to 1 p. m., 2 to 4 . . m. ,a O. MA TNT ST '.TTT .TrTTTDXrp' The d-onlyby Mrs l. a. Johnson, 43 Hon Iv. occvens can rviy upuu iUiuw . ian Insecticide lor roaches and water ndus for ants. Grant's pharmacy, ood'e lawn grass at Grant's. 1 fla5?!T 8X6 never adulterated -Grant's ."Se. Grant's nhamniw. M -f . OOd's Sonsrster t'noA Kmc for riL- Itary birds. No risk. 10c. Graat'a cy. HER&CO ROBERTS JOHANNESBURG The British Blag Floats Over the Boer .Government Buildings. Pretoria Probably Not Occupied. Yet A Rumor That Kruger Captured. Has Been Another That the Boers are Massing: South of Pretoria. SAID TO HAVE PREPARED AN ELABORATE POSITION THERE THE SEAT OF THE TRANSVAAL. GOVERNMENT MOVED TO MID- DLEBURG. London. May 31. The following dis patch from Lord Roberts has been re ceived at the war office: "Johannesburg, May 31. (2 p. m.) Her majesty's forces are now in pos session of Johannesburg and the Brit ish flag floats over the government buildings." London, June 1. Although there is no direct statement regarding the present situation at Pretoria it may be said with practical certainty that the city remains in the possession of the Boers and that its occupation by the British is not necessarily immediately imminent. Roberts only entered Jo hannesburg yesterday (Thursday) af ternoon and there is every reason to be lieve he is still there. His brief de spatch announcing that the British troops had occupied Johanesburg is the only news of Thursday from the scene of operations. If any British army has reached Pretoria it is incon ceivable that it would not have been reported. The prediction made Wed nesday by the correspondent of the Daily Mail at Pretoria that the place would be occupied in a few nours seems to have been the result of ex citement. The correspondent at Lorenzo Mar ques states that Kruger is at Middle burg, whither the seat of government has been removed. According to some English corre spondents at Germiston the Boers are massing at Six Mile Spruit, six miles south of Pretoria, where they intend to make a desperate stand. They have prepared an elaborate position there, their front extending twelve miles. RUMOR OF KRUGER' S CAPTURE. London, May 31. It is rumored that Kruger has been captured by the Brit ish six miles beyond Pretoria. PRAISE FOR SOLDIERS. London, May 31. The war office has received from Lord Roberts a despatch dated Germiston, May 30, 9 p. m., say ing: "The brunt of the fighting yes terday fell upon Ian Hamilton's col umn. I have sent him, as already mentioned, to work around to the west of Johannesburg, in support of French's cavalry, which was directed to go north near the road leading to Pretoria. I have not heard from French yet, but Hamilton in a report which has just reached me states that about 1 o'clock in the afternoon he found his way blocked by the enemy strongly posted on some kopjes and ridges three miles south of the Rand. They had two heavy guns and several field guns and pompoms. Hamilton forthwith attacked. The right was led by the Gordons, who, after capturing one extremity of the ridge, wheeled around and worked along it until after dark .clearing it of the enemy, who fought most obstinately. The One Hun dred and Fourth led on the other flank and would not be denied the chief share in the action, as in the casualties fell to the Gordons, whose gallant ad vance excited the admiration of all. Hamilton is now at Florida, due west j of Johannesburg, and French is a few miles further to the northwest. The Gordons cavalry, the mounted infantry and the Seventh division are holding the heights of the town. The Eleventh division, with batteries H and G and Do Not Buy a Home Before neeing us. We have several Interesting bargains to J offer, are daily adding: to our list X and , . may - have Just what yoa TV want. Price , and term ., will cult. ' I VJILKIE & LaBARBE, th, heavy artillery, are south of Jo- fesburg. Hamilton speaks in hisrh of praise of the manner in which Bruce Hamilton and Colonel Spens, of the Shropshire light infantry, handled their men, under Smith-Dorrien's di rection." WHY HE WAITED. London, May 31. The war office has received the following: despatch from Lord Roberts, under date of Germiston. Miy 30: "In answer to a Hag of truce I sent to Johannesburg this mornin", the commanaant came to see me. He begged me to defer entering the town for twenty-four hours, as there weie many hundred armed burghers sti.'J in side. I agreed to this,' as I am mcst anxious to avoid the possibility of any thing like disturbance inside the town and as bodies of the enemy are still holding the hills in the immediate neighborhood, from which they will have to . be cleared off beforehand. Rundle reports,', that he attacked a large party of Boers near Senekal on May 28. He said his casualties were not heavy. Brabant reports that on May 28 two of his patrols, consisting of two officers and forty men, were cut 'off by the enemfand taken prisoners." INTERESTS CONCERNED ARE CHIEFLY AMERICAN Important Missions Cut Off by Insur gents in China. New York, May 31. In American mission circles it is said that the inter iests chiefly concerned in the disturbed districts of China are American. It 13 pointed out that several important American mission stations with women among the members of their staffs ,are at Pao Ting Fit, where the missionar ies are reported to be cut off. Among Americans in the district at present threatened by the "boxers" around Pekin are the Rev. Harry E. King and Mrs. King, in charge of the Methodist mission station at Pao Chow, and Rev. Nehemiah Hopkins, Mrs. Hopkins and Mrs. Fannie Higgins Hopkins, M. D., who were transferred to that post.. Rev. George R. Davis, pesiding eldeC of the district, was out of Pekin and at one of the two adjacent stations at the time of the reported disturbances. Mr wno were not missionaries, were at ine- oi-anQoo of Woclovon imivprsifv 5ind well known throughout the country Rev. and Mrs. Honkins have long been in the field. The Presbyterian board of foreign' missions has a mission at Pao Ting Fa I which it occupied in 18&6. The mis , sionaries stationed there are Rev. J , W. towry," '"Rev. J. A. Miller, Mrs Miller, Rev. F. E. Simcox, Mrs. Sim cox, Dr G. Yardley Taylor, Miss A. P. Lowry, Dr. Cbrtlandt Van Rensselaer Hodge and Mrs. Hodge. Nearly four teen thousand visits were made by na tives to the dispensaries of this mis sion in one year. The mission als maintains a church at Man Cheng, thirteen miles from Pao Ting Fu. The American board of foreign missions also has a mission at Pao Ting Fu. The following misi&onaries are sta tioned there: Rev. George Ewing, Mrs Ewing, Miss Annie A. Gould, Miss Mary S. Morrill, Dr. Willis C. Noble Mrs. Noble and Mr. and Mrs. Horace Pitkin. CHILDREN DRAGSEO OUT OF BURNINC HOUSE By a Ssven-Year-Old Boy Mother Perishes in the Flames. Media, Pa., May 31. Two children were dr'aesred from a burning house on fhA trunk tarm of T. Steer Bicksloe last night by their 7-year-old brother, who, driven out by tie flames, left his moth er and a baby to perish. His mother, carrying the baby and a lamp, fell on a etairway, the lamp seting fire to the house. The carpets, saturated with oil from the lamp, burned fiercely, and the boy realizing that the house was doomed, dragged out a brother and a sister who were intent on rushing through the fire to the mother. Theni he returned for his mother, whose arras clasped the baby. But her weight was too great for his little arms ana, as the flames were closing in on him, he gave a last despairing look at th doomed woman and fled, heartbroken to a place of safety. ' A THOUSAND MEN TO AID ST. LOUIS POLICE 8heriff to Have Posse Read bj To morrowEach One Armed. St. Louis, May 31. Sheriff Pohl mann, who yesterday received orders from the board of police commission ers to summon a posse comitatus of 1,000 men to aid the police in preserv ing order during the street railway strike, began the work today. Lisfs were prepared, and summonses are be ing served as fast as possible by the sheriffs regular deputies. The sheriff expects to have the posse ready for service by Saturday. CUBANS EAGER FOR EDUCATION. Havana, May 31. Superintendent of Cuban Schools Frye reports today 150,- ono scholars attending: 400 schools om the Island. - . , want adds reacb Asbeyilie Gazette P ople. BAKER S CO., AGUINALDO - MAY BE DEAD - Officer Shot From a Horse May Possibly be Filipino Leader. His Personal Papers Found in Saddlebag. Body Seen Later on a Raft Guarded by Insurgents. An Influential Rebel Agitator Cap tared. OVERCOME BY MEN FROM THE FORTYEIGHTH INFANTRY- MARCH'S S-CCESSFUL TRAMP OVER NORTH LU N MOUN TAINS. Manila, May 31. Major March, of the Thirty-third volunteer infantry. who has been Pursuing Aguinaldo sue cessfully across the mountains in the north of Luzon and is not at Aparie, reports coming up with the supposed body guard of Aguinaldo north of Cagayan valley. During the fight which followed there was seen an insurgent officer shot from off his horse. He was rescued by a comrade but the horse and saddle bags were captured. The saddle-bag3 contained Aguinaldo's personal papers. The next day an outpost of the Forty-ninth infantry (colored) reported that a raft containing a body, with two soldiers guarding it, had floated down Cagay river, but the swift cur rent prevented its capture. It is tnOUgnt pOSSlDie that the officer shot was AsuiUdluu- mat it was his body which the soldiers were guard- ing. THE GOVERNOR OF BANGUED An insurgent lieutenant and eleven armed rebels surrendered to the Twelfth' infantry yesterday. Sixteen men ef 'the Forty-eighth volunteer in fa'ntry yesterday captured the gov ernor of Bangued. he is an influential rebel and agitator. RAIN INTERFERES WITH CONFEDERATES' PROGRAM Out Door Features Dispensed With The Day's Proceedings Louisville, May 31. The second ses sion of the confederate reunion was a business one. The Sons of Confeder ate veterans met at the same time in the criminal court building. During the morning the rain came down in sheets at brief intervals. Many deco rations were ruined by the steady downpour, which has now continued for the greater part of three days. Nearly all outdoor features of the re union have been abandoned. There was to have been an equestrian tourna ment this morning, but the depth of mud at the park made abandonment a matter of course . A basket picnic to be given this morning at Wilder park to visiting ladies of the confeder acy was likewise given up. At 10:22 General Gordon called for or der. He asked the assembly to join in singing "All Hail the ower of Jesus' Name," and after one stanza of the hymn had been rendered General Gor don introduced Bishop Dudley, of Kentucky, who delivered a touching invocation. On motion of General Walker, of South Carolina, a loving message of congratulation was sent to the Sons of Veterans. A resolution was offered by General S. D. Lee, providing that a message of sympathy be sent to General Wade Hampton, who is ill at his home in Columbia, S. C. Colonel Packwood of Louisiana intro duced a resolution providing for the WISDOM 49 erection in Richmond, Va., of a mon ument to commemorate the sacrifices and loyalty of the women of the con federacy. J. H. Reagan, ' of Texas, asked that the monument be piaced in some central part of the confederacy. The committee on resolutions and credentials reported1. The principal address of the morn ing was made by Senator Berry, of Arkansas. A resolution was introduced by Gen eral Carr stating that the confederate veterans 'organized with a friendly feeling for the northern men and re gard the army of the north without sectionalism as brother soldiers. At 12:15 the convention adjourned until 3 o'clock. Just prior to adjournment' James Dinkins, of Louisiana, announced that during the session he would offer a resolution asking the president to name a naval cruiser after Miss Helen Gould for services to the country dur ing the Spanish-American war. General Gordon was re-elected com mander of the veterans by acclama tion. In addition to the election of Gordon and a subscription of $6,000, making a total of $26,000 subscribed by veterans ,for the Davis monument at Richmond the most important feature today was the report of the historical committee. It regrets many publica tions which do injustice to southern soldiers and advocates the publication of works of "a broad, patriotic tone without prejudice" to offset them, and eulogizes the magnanimity of Lincoln and deplores his death. SOUTHERN MAY LEASE CINCINNATI SOUTHERN $1,090,000 Annual Kental and 10 Per Cdnt. of Gross Earnings Knoxville, May 31. When President Spencer of the Southern railway passed through this city Tuesday en route; from Chattanooga to New York he was returning from an inspection tour of the Cincinnati Southern railway and also from a conference with the trustees of the latter road. This conference' . ' DevmaP! mtroaucea a resolu was held in. Cincinnati last Friday and tlon Providmg for the appointment of Saturday, as has been published. It women commissioners at the unveiling related to the Southern railway leasing 0 tne statue of Lafayette in Paris, the Cincinnati Southern, which, as is! Mr. Daniel sought to secure consicl generally known, is the property of the eration for the bill providing for pay city of Cincinnati. Since the confer- ment of the Hawaiian debt but Mr ence it has developed that President Allison objected, saying that he did nr?iCnnS?ered trU8tS a rentf SO in the interest of an early adjourn- of $1,050,000 per year and 10 per cent. ment of the gross earnings of the road. It T. , . is understood that a majority of the .Tbe report of the Grout oleomarga- trustees are holding out for a rental of nne blll wmch has been an object of $1,090,000 and 10 per cent, of the earn- special interest, was filed today by the ings. Several of the trustees are re-' majority of the house committee on ported as favoring President Spencer's agriculture, the minority also filing a proposition and it may be it will be report. A portion of the majority re- finally accepted. In the event such is port is as follows: the case the Southern railway will be -We are of opinion that the people hi o.i;nvc uiinui ul me iiiuiuiiiaLi Southern for sixty-five years, after tne present lease expires in laob. ine margarine traffic in this country dur proposed lease will, however, bring the ing the pasn few years, which now ap roads into closer relations, similar to pears to h3LVe reacned proportions be thoee now existing between the South- yond the power of the state to sucesa- ciii iuu liic Aiduania uieai ouuiueu', and, to make a local application, be tween the Southern and the K., C. G & L. roads. j cause of the enormous amount of fraud PLANT RESUMES WORK. and illegal selling of oleomargarine is I in the great profits which are derived Indianapolis, May 31. The Neeley from the sale of the imitation because printing plant at Muncie, seized on an 0f jts absolute counterfeit of butter, attachment of the government, on he which enables unscrupulous dealers to ground that Charles F. W. Neeley has impose upon unsuspecting customers, an interest in it, was authorized to; The tax of 10 cents per pound upon resume business by the United States, oleomargarine colored to resemble but court today. "Have the appraisers ter will not deprive the manufacturers placed under oath and see that they do an(j dealers or consumers of any great not 'Neeleyize' anything," said Judge am0unt of leeral riehts thev HOW DOS- Baker to the marshal. FIRE IN BOARDING HOUSE. Minneapolis, Minn., May 31. A boardine house was destroyed by fire today and Anna Peterson and an un - known woman who was spending ti'.e night with her were suffocated by smoke. The other occupants all es caped. Buy a nice bed lounge, cheap, at Mrs. L. A. Johnson's, 43 Pa ton avenue. For cash or on instalment plan. Wood's seeds Grant's pharmacy. i atomizers, new styles, at Century Grant's pharmacy SOMETHING NEW Hominy in Tomato Sauce, 1 pound cans, 10 cents. Hitter's Concentrated Un fermented Grape Juice, in Half Pint, Pint and Quart Bottles. Absolutely pure, 20, 35 and 55 cents. Pure Fruit Shrub, ia Pint Bottles, 30 cents. t Agency Rockbrook Farm j Creamery Buttert ANTI-TRUST VOTE TODAY House Discusses the Bill for the Proposed Amend ment. The Grout Oleomargarine BilJ Report. Slrong Words Against Those Engaged" ' in the Traffic. The Senate Passes the Civil Appro priations. EFFORT TO AUTHORIZE THE IN VESTIGATION OF TRADE IN THE? ORIENT REFUSAL TO CONSID ER PAYMENT OF HAWAIIAN DEBT. Washington, May 31. When the senate convened today Mr. Gallinger, from the committee on commerce, re ported arv amendmpnt t f t Vl o on t-it i civil bill, authorizing a commission to I investigate trade conditions in the i orient. The amendment is thp same a offered by Mr. Gallinser in the senate on Tuesday. Senator Galline-er withr)- rrt tion to reronsirW tho vna K,r ..it. thp T mn'siana ttv-.v,,, i - 1 " !L 1 f Uh"e exPsitl P- " T , nave ample cause or alarm at the mendous illegal .growth of the tre-oleo- tully regulate or control and the pres ent federal laws are apparently alto gether inadequate for the emergency. We find that the very foundation and sess. We believe the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine will continue under this measure and that those who desire a cheap substitute for butter will purchase the uncolored article. The only difference is that the counter- 'feit article will no longer be accessible to hotel keepers, restaurant keepers and boarding house proporietors at such prices as will be an inaucement for them to deceive their guests. If colored oleomargarine is served it will be because it is better, not because it is cheaper, than butter." The report closes with the assertion that "Those who are engaged in the oleomargarine traffic have absolutely no regard for state laws and regard the public as their .legitimate victim, in whose behalf they resent the inter ference of the general government." The senate devoted most of the day to consideration of the -sundry ci vil ap propriation bill, which was passed. The senate committee on privileges and elections has reached the agree ment with the friends of Senator Clark of Montana to allow the senator's case to rest where it is, with the understand ing that no further steps will be taken (Continued on fifth ; age.) 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