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VOL V: NO. 101 ASHEVILLE, N.' ft, SUNDAY vMOBNING, JUNE 3, 1900. PRICE 5 CENTS v f . . ,-!:--- '. QESTREICHER'S sale of Housekeeping Goods ' Commencing: Monday, June, we will put on sale 100 MILL ENDS of TA BLE DAMASK. The pieces range in length 2, 2 1-2 and 3 yards. We will sell the $1.39 quality at 95c yard. $1.00 quality at 69c yard. $1.15 quality at 85c yard. 75c quality at 59c yard. Tn Towels we offer two extra spe cial values in Linen Huck our $1.40 quality ac $1.10 doz. $1.95 quality at $1.65 doz. CURTAINS, We are showing1 the latest makes of Bobinett Curtains, controlling one of thi most celebrated makes for this market. Prices range from 69c. pair to $10.00 the pair. the OESTREIGHER&CO 51 Patton Avenue. "Standard the World Over." COLUMBUS BUGGY CO.'S No. 99 CONCORD. Splendid Value at Our Price. Asheville Hardware, Com pany, Agents. Southeast corner Court Square, 'Phone 87, Kelley Springfield Tire put on in our Hubber Tire Department. MASSAGE.. AND PACKS. 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V suitor of .the Gazette. sriT lsl1 10 aPTeal to the love and re an of a11 the good feeling gentlemea .;ia Jadies of Asheville, . and .l'ngers will you help one in. great stress I am now in bed helpless aid ,uy. -rrr11 flpo ifrlfnr!?. ie to SAMANTHA C. WHiSON.: STRONG COUNTY NAHHtU The Greatest Convention Ever Held by Republicans in Buncombe. Lusk and Wilson Named for the legislature. Congressman Pearson Addresses the Assembly. Convention Composed of Earnest and Enthusiastic "White Men. BROWN NOMINATED FOR SOLIC ITOR; JONES SUPERIOR COURT CLERK; HARRIS RE7GISTER OF DEEDS; PAYNE TREASURER; WORLET SHERIFF; PATTON, MERRILL AND WALDROP COM MISSIONERS. Yesterdays Buncombe county re publican convention filled the court house in this city with an earnest and enthusiastic assemblage of white men. It was the most notable convention ever held by the party in this county, and was harmonious and drderiy throughout. The ticket nominated .represents every section of the coun ty. The convention was called to order by Dr. T. A. Harris. R. B. Roberts acted as temporary chairman. A committee was appointed on - per manent organization consisting of J . B. Hunter, of French Broad; Otto Hildebrand and Captain J. A. Wag ner, of Asheville. While this committee was out, Congressman-Richmond Pearson was vo ciferously called ,for. When finally 'Mr. Pearson advanced to the platform he was greeted with a tremendous ovation. He safjiWpart: ."I see the sameaetermination here today that was evident fourteen years ago, to keep your liberties. Then it was for the -liberty of your cattle, and today it is for the liberty of yourselves and of your children. You placed the banner in my hands two years ago, and robbery snatched it away. In the fight for death, with enemies in front and traitors in the rear. In a life and death grapple with enemies in front and traitors in the rear, I snatched it up and I hold it aloof today every stripe in its place, every star in its. place, every stripe un polluted, every star untarnished and unstained. (Applause.) "You never saw a better type of white supremacy than is assembled in this hall. Mr. Pearson said that the cry of negro domination was a false cry. Every county in orth Carolina in which there could be said to be any danger of negro domination was per mitted to regulate its own affairs by a republican pourt and a decision of the legislature, and is freed from any pos sibility of negro domination. He then read chapter 488 of the laws of 1899, showing that the following eastern counties- are excepted from the general law: Washington, Granville, Caswell, Bertie, Vance, Warren, Crav en, Edgecombe, Perquimans, Franklin, Montgomery, Pasquotank, New Han over. The justices of the peace in all these counties, are elected by the legislature and their commissioners are elected not by the people but by the board of j-ustices of the peace. If they prefer this all right, buit let us have the sys tem we prefer. "It is all right for them to regulate their own affairs," said Mr. Pearson, "but we don't want them to attempt to regulate ours. Every political law submitted ty the democratic party and every policy advocated by them has been enacted by the domination of the black belt. They are not content to rule themselves. -Every head or their state committee came from tha$ black belt. We have borne the yoke put on us by them: for twenty years, until we can stand it no longer. We say to our brethren In the' east we are not willing for the negro to put his Furnished Homes... !Fot "aU sorts and f . conditions of men." We can please yon if it is possible....... Also a few nnfur- nisned left. I WILKIE & LaBARBEi Rtnl Estate pwkch;:: Thoa CSli tt Patton Ay. mVk at!. ..-ill- 1 , .t , - r -.."w - loot on your necks, btit toa swr- to you by the blood of our fathers that you shall not put your foot" on our necks, you shall not take away the rights for which our fathers died. (Prolonged applause and cheering.) "Your amendment is unconstitu tional. "It is unwise. "It is unpopular. "It is unjust. 'It is unnecessary, even for your own protection. ' " , "It is intolerable to us. We will not stand it. (Applause.) Mr. Pearson said that" the sentiment in Rob Maney's pOem, recently pub lished, was the most suitable key note of the campaign, "That easier were it to hurl the rooted mountain from its base than' to force the yoke of slavery upon men determined to be free." "The men from the black belt, the men with the red shirts, have under taken to introduce their methods into the mountains. They had to go to the black belt to get their chairman for the county executive committee of Buncome county, and they nave chosen John D. Murphy to introduce their methods among you men of the mountains, and they have gone to Bertie county in th eblack belt to find Mr. Locke Craig in order to represent their new doctrines in the legislature arid make laws for you. "Fraud isn't a native of the $3 moun tains. It was imported, like the cat tle disease. Mr. Pearson read the democratic pledge from page 18 of their handbook declaring that the democratic party will never submit to the people a proposition to take from a man his I right to vote and then said deliberately and impressively, "There are several distinguished democrats in this hall, and I welcome them here in the name of my republican associates. I ask any of these honorable gentlemen, now did your party not make that promise? (Dead silence.) Did your party not break that promise. (Pro longed silence.) - "The Aehevile Gazette has offered $10 for any democrat who will justify the breaking of that promise, provided the writer will get a minister to en dorse it as being consistent with the principles of honesty and revealed re ligion. If they can't "get the endorse ment of the ministers they can't get a majority of the people to support them." He read Mr. Pou's sworn statement that no measure for the disfranchise ment of any one would be submitted, and asked: "How many times must a man lie to you before you believe him a liar? "I hope the earnestness with which this campaign has begun will continue throughout it. Nominate a good ticket and I hope it will succeed. I am here to join you for business. "Congress laid down some laws in settling the contest: First, 'Thou shalt not steal;' second, 'Thou shalt not lie;' third, 'Thou shalt not forge;' fourth, 'Thou shalt not bribe,' and fifth, 'Thou shalt not stuff.' " (Applaus.) The committee on permanent organ ization reported the following: Colonel V. S. Lusk, for chairman; Hunter Arnold, for secretary, which was adopted. Colonel Lusk took the chair amid great appluase. He addressed the convention in part as follows: "I have been attending conventions of the republican siarty in Buncombe county since 1867, but I never have looked upon so splendid a convention as this. I have heard it told and re peated over and over again that the republican party is the negro party in Buncombe county, but here is an ocu lar refutation of that lie, for I see but two negroes in the house. I wish the democratic party would quit lying, but they never will, it is bred in the bone. "We are confronted in Buncombe county and North Carolina with the most important questions you old men have ever been forced to meet. We have been fighting the democratic party on one question or another for thirty years but never before have you had to meet them on an issue to de prive you of your liberties. We would not be confronted with it now if the democratic party had told the truth two years ago. We are a people born free, and by the grace of G6d, we'll die free. (Applause.) "Suppose Locke Craig two years ago. had told the people that he favor ed submitting a proposition by which he expected 75,000 white men would be disfranchised. Don't - you know he would have been snowed under so deep he never would have gotten out? But on the contrary he most solemnly denied the impeachment. I under stand now he says he never said he was not in favor of a disfranchising law, but we know wnat ne saia men, and we will be the judges. "The further the democratic party runs, the further they get from . the truth. The constitutional amendment Is a refutation of .their promises. Thee is no use in being deceived twice by the same party. You were deceived in the last campaign, but I was not. I knew if the democratic party got in power it would make it so intblerable for the republicans In Buncombe coun- ty that they could not stand it. "They say now it Isn't a question qf constitutionality, tout Simmons,v Pou and even the editor of the. Citizen said such an attempt would be unconstrtu tlonal. Be on the lookout for they have set a trap forvyQU. V - y Th fourth section disfranchises wprvbodT who can't read ., -.or write fhen-the fifth section- Is to deceive (Continued on-fifth rage.) - , BAKER iB CO., Scientific Refracting Opticians, , No 45 Patton Avcnuei i.yecial atteaUon give ; to repairing. SITUATION AT PRETORIA i - - " Indescribabfe Scenes of Con fusion in the City on Day Johannesburg Fell. Troops in Retreat and Stores Being Looted. Some Preparations for Engaging the British Outside the Town. Howie Conquerers Wei e Received at Johannesburg- THE. CITY WAS ALMOST EMPTIED OF ITS INHABITANTS A PART OF ROBERS' FORCE WAS NORTH OF THE TOWN ON THE PRETORIA ROAD THURSDAY. (From Laff an Correspondent.) Pretoria, Thursday, May 31. Gener al Ben Viljoen's commandos are pass ing through the town. They came from the direction of the rand. The men have been fighting for two or three days and together with veir horses are worn out. They are re treating and I therefore believe more firmly than before that no defense of Pretoria will be made. Last night's Volksstem, official organ of the Trans vaal, states that Kroonstad and Bloemfontein are being threatened by burghers and there is a prospect that they will be retaken. General Dewet with 8,000 men occu pied Viljoen's drift yesterday. His ob ject is to cut and harass the British lines near that point. There are in describable Scenes of confusion in "Pre toria . The banks are being guarded. The government stores are being loot ed by burghers. Foreign residents andXmembers of fighting commandos arelrushing through the town. Ten thousand burghers will defend the ap proaches to the city and it is expected a battle will be fought at Six Mile Spruit at any moment. THE OCCUPATION OF JOHANNLo BURG. London, June 2. The war office re ceived the following despatch from Roberts tonight: "Johannesburg, 8:30 a. m., June 1. On ay 31 the occupation of the town passed off quietly and satisfactorily. Today, thanks to the excellent ar rangements by Dr. Krause, the Trans vaal commandant here, order prevails throughout the town. Krause met me at the entrance to Johannesburg and rode by my side to the government of fices, where he introduced me to the heads of the , several departments, all of whom acceded to my request that they should continue their duties until they be relieved. "Johanne3burg is very empty but a good crowd assembled in the main square by the time the British flag was hoisted with the royal salute. Three cneers for the queen were then given. At the end of the ceremony the Eleventh and Seventh divisions marched past with tne naval brig ades. The divisions of the Royal field artillery, Hamilton's column of cav alry and a division of mounted infan try were too far away to paitake In the ceremony. The troops looked very workmanlike and evidently took a keen interest 'in the proceedings. The Fourteenth division and Waveli s brigade have been left 'behind at Jo hannesburg to preserve order. The remainder of the force is encamped north of the town on the Pretoria road." WAR PRACTICALLY ENDED. London, June 2. That the BrUsh are not now in Pretoria can only be attributed to the fact that they are not aware of its defenseless condition, as mentioned in Laffan's Pretoria de spatch. The war in an ordinary sense of the word has practically ceased, but WISDOM mimk wits CARR & , DISTRIBUTORS, 23 Scrath Mais Street. Pbone 26S. ftF YOU MllI&focrT- WARD it is evident a desperate section keep up resistance tr th ir.ri will There is a good deal of anxiety to night lest there should b. snm in a report forwarded by Laffan's Pre toria correspondent that 8 non have cut Roberts' communis Hn the Vaal river. It would not be a serious HituBor i -"iv-i, in view ui situation's a whole, if an isniat force of Boers had succeeded in -getting behind the British advance, for Pretoria is unquestionably at' the mercy of the British advanre eniarfl if it has not already been occupied. ' PRESIDENT KRUGER LOCATED Lorenzo Maraues .Tnn 9 pt..i,i1. -A , J- V.VJ U Kruger yesterday was still at Mac- r-aaoaorpn, about half way between Pretoria and the Portuguese, frontier, on the railroad between the Transvaal capital and Delagao bay. Boer com mands, totaling about 10,000 men, held Thursday all the Dositions and hills around Pretoria. Another larere rnm- mand was at Bronkhurts Spruit, about forty miles from Pretoria, on the rail road leading to Delaeroa 'hav. Tola. graphic communications with the Transvaal are closed to tne public. Feverish excitement prevails here, ow ing to the almost total abs from either side. The nhippt nf the 'trip here of Frichie Rlnff Prpirioit Kruger's son-in-law,- and Dr. Heyman, his physician, appears to have been to place a large amount of gold in safety. HEILBRUN OCCUPIED. London, June 2. The war office has received the following dispatch from Lord Roberts: "Johannesburg, JuDe 1. (2:15 d. m.l Sir Henry Colville, in reporting the arrival of the Highland brigade at Heilbrun, states that he was opposed more or less the whole way from Ven tersburg. Eight men were killed and four officers and thirty-two men were wounded. Colville says tbe Lanca shire battery of field art'lrv did ex cellent work. Grant's naval gune were most valuable and the troorjs behaved in a most soldierly manner throughout the trying march. Rundle telegraphs that his casualties were thirty-two killed and 150 men woun'l'd." OFFICIAL FROM FRENCH. London, June 2. Lord Roberts re ports to the secretary for war as fol lows: "Johannesburg, May 3I.-i-.'9:40) French's report of his operations during May 28 and 29 reached me at 3 a. m. today. He was opposed throughout bis march, but managed to drive off . the enemy from the strong positions ttt.y successfully held with very little loss, and is now holding the nlace. which I directed him to do north of Johannes burg. Two officers were wounded and two men were killed and twenty -Heven wounded." DEFENSIVE POSITION. Cape Town, June 2. General War ren, with seven hundred men, occupied a strong defensive nosition at Fabor- sput' on May 29. At lawn he found that he was 6Urrounded and he was fiercely attacked by 1000 rebels. The horses were stampeded, but the force concentrated and the Boers were re pulsed. A small party in a garden continued to fight tenaJous v, but evacuated' as the Charge began, lavirg a number of wounded. Tae British lost fifteen killed, includiig Colonel Spence, and thirty wounded. YESTERDAY'S LEAGUt GAMES. At Philadelphia R H E Philadelphia. I .. 8 8 2 Pittsburg.. .. 2 5 2 Called at fifh inning on account oi rain. Batteries: Fraser and Douglass; Lever and O'Connor. At Boston R H E Boston .. 17 21 5 St.. -Louis 16 18 6 Ten innings. Bafrie-ies. Dineen and Clark; Powell and RoirtsDn. New York and Cincinnati, Brooklyn and Chicago postponed cn accounr of rain. 5 AMERICAN LEAGUE. At Chicago Chicago, 2; Buffalo, 1. At Cleveland Cleveland, 6; Milwau kee, 3. At Minneapolis Mi aneapoli, 7. De troit,' 6. Ten innings. At Indianapolis Indianapolis, 8; Kansas City, 4. We are headquarters for cots and cot mattresses. Styles to suitevery body. Mrs. L. A. Johnson, 43 Pat ton avenue. SOMETHING NEW Hominy in Tomato Sauce, 1 pound cans, 10 cents. Ritter's Concentrated Un fermented Grape Juice, In Half Pint, Pint and Quart Bottles. Absolutely pure, 20, 35 and 55 cents. Pure Fruit Shrub, ia Plot Bottles, 30 cents. ) I v Agency S i Rockbrook Farm j Creamery Butter Clarence 1. GROCER,- 6 NORTH COURT SODABE. Sawye ANTI-TRUST BILL PASSES HOUSE Trades Unions and Labor Or ganizations Not Affected By It. Senate Makes CanaJ Bill Spe cial Order Dec, 19. General Deficiency, Emergency and River and Harbor Bill Pass. Senate Substitute for House Cuban Extraditkn Bill Goes Through. EMPLOYES OF SENATE ANn HOUSE GIVEN MONTH'S EXTRA SALARY SPEECHES ON SPOON ER'S PHILIPPINE BILL wN SUMES REMAINDER OF SES SION. Washington, June 2. In the sena'e Mr. Perkins of California presented a petition from organizations and indi viduals of his state asking congress to maKe an appropriation for the relief f the famishing people of India and he asked that it be referred to the com mittee on appropriations. Mr. Morgan, chairman of the com mittee on interoceanic canals, made a request that the Hepburn Nicaragua canal bill be made the special order for consideration at 2 p. m. Monday, December 19, the second Monday of the next session. Mr. Morgan said be realized the imposibility of obtaining consideration of the bill at this ses sion. The request was agreed to. An amendment was offered by Mr. Morgan and agreed to, appropriating $13,568 to reimburse the Maritime Ca nal Company, Nicaragua, for expendi tures in aid of commissions authorized by act of congress, known the Lud low commission, for the inspej:ioi and survey of the Nicaragua canal. An amendment was offered and, after some discussion, agreed to, to, pay an . extra month's salary to "employes of the senate and house of represantatives. The general deficiency bill, the emergency bill, the river and harbor bill and the senate substitute for the house Cuban extradition bill we passed. Speeches on Spooner's Philippi les bill occupied the remainder of the session. The house today disagreed to the een ate amendment to the sundry civil bill and it was sent to conference. The Littlefield amendment to the Sherman anti-trust bill was taken up and thirty minutes for general achate given each side. Mr. Fitzgerald cf Massachusetts ridiculed the idea 'hat the republican party had done anything to curb the trusts. Only yesterday, said he, the leader of the republican party the chairman of its national committee defended in the sena'e ore of the greatest trusts, ;.he armor plate trust,- counselling the government to comply with its extoritionate demand?. Mr. Terry of Arkansas denied that the pending measures exhausted the constitutional power of congress, point ing to the minority amendments pend ing, which, he said, would effectually crush trust. After remarks by Messrs Swan'on of Virginia, Driggs of New York md Bel lamy of North Carolina general debate was closed. The bill was then read un- der the five-minute rule. It was pased by a vote of 273 to 1. The bill was amended so as to exclude trades unions and other labor organza tions from the operations of the act. DELL A FOX INSANE. New York, June z. Delia May Fox, the well known actress, was committed, by Justice McAdam to the insane asy lum at Wave Crest Astoria, L. I., on the petiiton of her brother, William H. Fox, and on the evidence of Drs. Auk tin Flint, ir.. and Edward D. Fisher, which showed that she is laboring un der delusions. Buy a nice bed lounge, dheap, et Mrs. L. A. Johnson's, 43 Paton avenue. For cash or on instalment plan. For No Reason Is Asheville more pre-eminent than on account of it- fine cli mate alt the year round. It Is America's firs: reeort, because perennially invigorating. It is the same way with Ashwille's famous prodn t WHEAT-HEARTS It ia the flwt ?1?real !ast fjod for all the year:' fi is always, in- vtgprathig. WHEAT HEARTS is prepared for serving in two minutes because we've milled the wheat, roasted the gluten, ' and converted the starch to dex- - i trine before it reaches yoti. r WHEAT HEARTS makes a tempting dish with which notb.-in-g else compares If yon but try It once youll uncfiewtand wb m "It'Swheat-Hearts we Want." The Wbeat-Hearts Comp'r acumi ll.TYP. It I r1 v 1 . 4 A V f - i jr. J i if . t " 1 !. 5! -a i V "'ii V, 1 1 : i i4 - ml If 8 i 1 5 -i ' r inn- 1 Hi :A ' 1 1 1 1 5 v. 5 I 4 -"- f- , ' t ?! it f ? 4 r 3 11 i Ii ii fit' -, ..i I i ' - 11 1 "-tr 5 i i . vr if , t- ? 1 I 1 1 1 . ,-.. g - r