VOL V:NO. 104
ASHEVILLE, N. C, FBIDAY SIOBNING, JUNE & 1900.
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$1.00 quality at 69c yard.
1.15 quality at 85c yard.
75c quality at 59c yard.
In Towels we offer two extra spe
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MURDERERS
European Women Killed by
the Boxers and Towns
Burned.
Extermination of all For
eigners Threatened.
Gen. Nieh Claims to Have Killed 500
of the Desperadoes.
Great Britaia Slow to Make Her At
titude Known.
AFFAIRS IN CHINA WORKING UP
TO A SERIOUS CRISIS CATHO-
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LIC CHRISTIANS SAID TO HAVE
CAPTURED NINE CANNON IN
TUESDAY'S ENGAGEMENT.
Central News says it has been definite
ly ascertained that three European wo
men have been murdered by boxers.
General Nieh, the Chinese commander,
who was sent to attack the boxers,
claims to have defeated them, killing
five hundred.
BURNING AND KILLING.
London, June 7. Telegraphing from
Tien Tsin unde date of June 6, a corre
spondent says: "I left Tien Tsin this
morning en route for Pekin, accom
panied by General Nieh, supposed to be
one of the best of the Chinese generals,
with sixty troops. We proceeded to
Lofa, a distance of thirty-one miles.
We found the plate layers' cabins in
flames and telegraphic poles cut and
men engaged in destroying others in
villages near the railway where flags
were seen bearing the inscription 'Kill
all foreigners.' I saw smoke, evident
ly from burning houses in the distance,
General Nieh refused to proceed fur
ther, being in mortal fear -of the "'box
ers," tho-ugh the foreigners endeavored
to persuade ' him to disentrain his
troops, who are firmly convinced that
It is useless to fight the boxers, as oth
er Chinese say they have seen boxers
hit with bullets rise and run away.
There is little prospect of a resump
tion of traffic to Pekin unless the for
eign powers assume control of the rail
way until the Chinese government
proves itself capable of managing
communications with its capital.
EXTERMINATION THREATENED.
Tien Tsin, June 7. A Chinese ser
vant of a Belgian engineer, who left
Pao-Ting-Fu two days after the Bel
gians, saw five foreign and two Chinese
dead bodies in the Grand canal, one
being the body of a foreign woman. A
boxer placard threatens the extermina
tion of the foreigners here on June 10.
SERIOUS CRISIS NEAR.
London, June 7. Affairs in China are
gradually working up a crisis of the
first magnitude. The morning papers
1 1 J. 1 . a 1 i T 7X7 1 . J f
ininK. mat ine riusn squaurun is rec
ognized as inferior in strength.
GREAT BRITAIN CONSERVATIVE.
London, June 7. It is understood
that if the United States expects
Great Britain to take independent or
initiative action in China, as might be
gathered from special despatches quot
ing Congressman Hitt, it is depending
on a contingency which appears very
remote indeed. From every continent
al capital today comes evidence of how
keenly the powers appreciate the far
eastern crisis, yet the British foreign
office retains the apathetic attitude
which for years has distinguished its
Chinese policy. The government un
derstands that the diplomatic and na
val authorities on the spot are co-op
erating harmoniously and so long as
this state of affairs continues Lord
Salisbury sees no immediate necessity
for taking steps over the British min
ister's head.
A member of a foreign embassy in
London states that it is certain the
British foreign office is contemplating
sending instructions to all its ministers
to secure the support of other govern
ments, especially that of the United
States, in a plan of action. Though
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Russia might be invited to take part,
this mfovement will have for its ul
terior object the frustration of any de
signs Russia may harlbor for making
capital out of the present troubled
state of affairs in China. This state
ment the British foreign office categor
ically and emphatically denies. Ev
en if the denial is prompted by motives
of policy, it can be said without reserve
that Great Britain, will take no action
on her own initiative beyond the mere
protection of her endangered subjects.
No amount of public pressure ould in
duce Lord Salisbury to enter into fur
ther complications until the Boer war
is finished.
The afternoon papers today urge a
combination of the powers with a
greater object than the suppression of
the boxers. The St. James Gazette de
clares there is nothing for it but to see
what can be done by a magnified ver
sion of the European concert we saw
worked in Crete by the diplomatic
steam roller, more complicated, less
handy and more jarring than the old
one, because it includes wheels which
are Japanese and others which are
American. The Westminster Gazette
says that Great Britain's choice is to
await a coalition between Russia and
Japan, meanwhile confining her ef
forts to police work and landing par
ties, or to organize joint European in
tervention, in which all the parties will
bind themselves to keep peace and re
spect the indendence of Pekin.
Later details from Tien Tsin say that
during the engagement at Tung Hu be
tween the boxers and Catholic Chris
tians Tuesday the Christians captured
nine cannon.
ADAMS AT FAYETTEVILLE.
An Enthusiastic Audience Congratu
lated by Democrats
Special to the Gazette.
Fayetteville, June 7. Hon. Spencer
B. Adams, republican candidate for
governor, spoke here today to an en
thusiastic audience, many democrats
being present. Judge Adams made a
strong speech and was highly compli
mented by democrats who heard him.
This afternoon's Fayetteville Observer
(democratic) says of him: "Judge Ad
ams has a strong face and is a great
lawyer. There was nothing aibusive in
his speech." Cumberland county will
elect an anti-amendment ticket by a
large majority. W. A. S.
FILIPINO REVOLUTIONARY
SOCIETY'S PETITION
Asking: for Independence and a Pro
tectorate. Manila, June 7. The Katipuan so
ciety, a secret order with ramficationa
throughout the islands, wnich, it is
said, was the instigator of all the re
volts against Spain, and is known to
have played the principal part in the
rising against the Americans, ie pre
paring a petition to the American -congress
which will be submitted through
the Philippine commission. It recites
the history of the society, its aims the
negotiations of the Filipinos wiht the
Americans previous to the opening of
hostilities, declares, annexation is im
possible under any conception, and de
mands independence under American
protection.
REPRESENTATIVE REINHARDT.
Spoke Out in Democratic Convention
Against the Amendment.
Raleigh, N. C, June 7. Judge Spen
cer B. Adams has received a letter
from Lincoln county, which says:
"The democrats of Lincoln county
held their convention last Saturday,
June 2, and nominated the old ticket.
Representative Reinhardt made a
speech and declared himself against
the amendment. He said that HE
WAS AN HONEST MAN AND HAD
PROMISED THE PEOPLE TO
STAND BY THEM, AND INTENDED
TO DO SO, IF IT DEFEATED THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY. How is this
for white supremacy and the amend
ment? Brother Adams, we are going to
defeat the democrats this time sure.
You can tell this to all the people you
meet."
SUICIDE OF A NEGRO BOY
Special to the Gazette.
Charlotte, June 7. Frank Sadaier, a
young colored boy, killed himself at his
home at Gastonia today because his
father said he would whip 'him. The
elder Saddler was preparing to carry
out his threat when the boy left the
dinner table, got a pistol and put a ball
into his head and then ran into the
yard and fell dead. D. H. L.
NAVAL CONSTRUCTOR H0BS0N ILL.
Washington, June 7. Naval Con
structor Hobson, the hero of the Merri
mac, now at Manila, has been found
unfit for duty because of illness, and
will 'be given a leave of absence.
The person who got the wrong hat at
Odd Fellows hall Thursday night will
please return it to Wilkie & La Barbe's
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A LULL IN
SOUTH AFRICA
Interest Centered on the Brit
ish Prisoners Who Were
in Pretoria.
Estimates Differ as to the
Number Eescued, ,
Burghers Carried Off Large Quanti
ties of Stores.
Boers Still Holding Out iri' Several
Strong Positions.
A SERIOUS QUESTION IN THE
NETHERLANDS CONCERNING
KRUGER BURGHERS TAKE AN
OATH TO CONTINUE THE FIGHT.
London, June 8. There is no news of
late date from the Transvaal. Interest
for the moment centers on the fate of
the British prisoners, regarding whom
there is no more definite news than is
contained in Roberts' despatch of Tues
day. Correspondents differ as to the
number rescued. One says the Boers
removed l,6O0 and others 900. The lat
ter number are said to be penned up in
a four-acre barbed wire enclosure on
the open veldt t Nooitgedacht.
It is reorted that several shells drop
ped into Pretoria June 4. Only one was
effective. It hit the United States con
sulate. Accounts regarding the booty
taken by the British in the capital are
diverse. Roberts does not report the
capture of any guns. Some corre
spondents assert that the Boers saved
all their guns, frustrating French's at
tempt to intercept them. The burghers
also carried off immense quantities of
stores, leaving only a few hundred
bags of coffee and sugar. The corre
spondent of the Telegraph, on the oth
er hand, says many Boer guns and sev
eral liTi i ri1 nfflfflf Sk Mi i " men were
captured.
The Times correspondent at Lorenzo
Marques says the American consul has
returned to his post byf special train.
The dbject of his visit to the Transvaal
is exciting much curiosity.
INTERVIEW WJTH KRUGER.
London, June 8. The Daily Express
prints an interview which its Lorenzo
Marques correspondent had with
Kruger yesterday in the president's
private car at Machadorp, 107 miles
east of Pretoria. Kruger had the car
built so that he could move from place
to place according to the exigencies of
the occasion. He said the Boers will
never surrender. He is greatly en
couraged by the work of Generals De
wet and Steyn in the Orange Free
State. He repudiated the idea mat the
war was over when the capital was
taken and declared the capital, or seat
of government, was in his car. He
said he was not so foolish as to remain
in Pretoria to be made a prisoner. He
denied that he had taken two million in
gold with him or that he intended to
take refuge on. a Dutch warship.
Kruger said the real struggle had now
commenced. He feared there would
be much blood shed but the fault would
be with the British.
YEOMANRY FOUGHT DESPERATE
LY. London, June 7. The list of casual
ties now coming through indicates that
there was severe fighting before the
Thirteenth yeomanry surrendered. Al
ready the names of nineteen men killed
and twenty-eight wounded have been
learned. The killed include Sir John
Eliot Cecil Power, baronet, and
among the wounded is the Earl of
Longford .
BURGHERS TAKE OATH.
London, June 7. The Lorenzo Mar
ques correspondent of the Times, tele
graphing June 5, says: "According to
refugees from Pretoria, thousands of
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burghers under General. Botha have
taken an oath to continue the struggle
to the bitter end. United States Con
sul Hollis started for the Transvaal' to
day. The nature of his mission is not
made public here.
REFUGE FOR KRUGER.
London, June 7. The Birmingham
Post, organ of Mr. Joseph Chamber
lain, secretary of state for the colonies,
says it hears from, an official source at
The Hague that a serious question
concerning President Kruger is now
before the Netherlands ministry. The
paper adds that the president, up to
last Friday, had decided to seek refuge
on board the Dutch cruiser Friesland,
now off Lorenzo Marques, and asserts:
"There is good reason to believe that
instructions on the subject have been
cabled to the commander of the war
ship." BOERS CONCENTRATING
London, June 7. According to a dis
patch from Lorenzo Marques under to
day's date the Boers . under General
Botha are again concentrating in the
neighborhood of Hatherly, twelve miles
eastward of Pretoria, From the same
source it is reported that the British
prisoners are being removed to Nooit
gedacht, an unhealthy spot in the El
and Valley. "About 300 men arrived
there June 5 and 700 reached the place
June 6. These probably constitute the
portion of the prisoners which Lord
Roberts reported had been shifted from
Waterval.
BOERS HOLDING OUT. -
New York, June 7 A dispatch from
Newcastle, dated Monday, Kays: Great
numbers of the enemy still occupy Ma
juba Hill, Laings Nek and the Pog
wani range as far east as Englebresh
Pass. On the Ballsaberg the positions
they hold are particularly strong. Gen
erals Christian Botha, Fourie and Pre
torious are in command. Should they
obstinately refuse to yield and still
continue fighting they will in all prob
ability to fall back on Lydenburg by
way of Ermelo with prospects of a safe
retreat into the almost inaccessible
mountains of the Murchison range.
Their task to prevent Buller's entry
into the Transvaal by way of Volhurst
can only result in failure and unneces
sary loss of life on both sides.
BOAT STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
Four M n Who Were Working Be
Taeath i K lied.
Jacksonville. Fla.. June 7. During a
thunder storm today lightning struck
the smoke stack of the ferryboat. Com
modore Barney, which is being repaired
on the marine ways. The lightning
passed down through the vessel, kill
ing four men and injuring or stunning
a dozen ethers. The men were work
ing underneath the vessel. Of the in
jured some sustained scalp wounds by
being thrown from the platform on
which they were working.
WILLIAM E. HOLT DEAD.
Beatrice, Neb., June 7. Wm. E. Hoyt,
brother-inlaw- of ex-President Cleve
land, died today, aged 71.
LEAGUE GAMES YESTERDAY.
At New York R H B
New York 10 15 o
St. Louis 3 9 4
Batteries: Seymour, Waerner; Jones,
Robinson.
At Brooklyn R H E
Brooklyn 4 12 2
Pittsburg 7 12 1
Batteries: Nopes, Farrell; Phillips,
O'Connor.
At Boston R H E
Boston 13 15 0
Chicago 4- 6 4
Batteries: Nichols, Clements; Taylor,
Chance.
At Philadelphia RHE
Philadelphia -t 8 4
Cincinnati 5 11 1
Batteries: Maul, Douglas; Scott,
Pietz. ,
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
At Chicago Chicago, 7; Cleveland, 2.
At Detroit Detroit, 1; Milwaukee, 0.
At Indianopolis Indianapolis, 5;
Minneapolis, 2.
At Buffalo Buffalo, 14; Kansas
City, 4.
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CONGRESS
ADJOURNS
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House Recedes From Position
on Naval Appropria
tion Bill.
Senate Amepdment of Mr.
Penrose Accepted.
Cannon Suffers Defeat, to the Gen-?
eral Surprise.
Sulzer Still Denouncing Trusts When
the End Came.
SECRETARY OF NAVY AUTHORIZ
ED TO CONSTRUCT AN ARMOR
PLATE FACTORY IF NECESSARY
FEW MEMBERS PRESENT AT
THE FINISH.
Washington, June 7. By spasmodic
jumps the first session of the Fifty
sixth congress finally adjourned this
afternoon. When the end was reached
Cannon, of Illinois, who last night held
both houses in the hollow of his hand,
as it were, was chewing the bitter cud
of defeat, and Sulzer was still denounc
ing trusts. President . McKinley and
his cabinet attended the obsequies,
which in the senate were devoid of spe
cial interest. In the house Cannon's
defeat was a general surprise, but it
was the general opinion that he de
served the drubbing Cummings gave
him when the latter declared that he
was a toy pistol instead of a cannon.
The result of the contest between the
coast survey and hydrograhic office
was in a way a compromise, and when
it was all settled there was hardly a
dozen men in the house who could tell
clearly just what it was they had been
fighting about.
The house receded from its position
on the naval appropriation bill this
afternoon and agreed to the senate
amendment of Mr. Penrose, which
leaves the matter of armor plate in
the hands of the secretary of the navy,
who may construct an armor plate fac
tory, "if necessary.
Mr. Penrose's amendment was as fol
lows: "That the secretary of the navy
ie hereby authorized to procure by con
tract armor of the beet quality for aju
or all vessels above referred to pro
vided such contracts can be made at a
price which is now, in its judgment,
reasonable and equitable, but in case he
is unable to make contracts for armor
under the above conditions, he is here
by authorized and directed to procure a
site for and to erect thereon a factory
for the manufacture of armor, and the
sum of $4,000,000 is hereby appropriat
ed toward the erection of said factory."
After the reading of the journal in
the house this morning, which almost
covered 48 hours of continuous cession,
attempts were made to pass billa by
unanimous consent, but in most cases
Mr. Lentz objected A number of mi
nor bills and resolutions were passed,
ae was a bill to amend the car coupler
law so as to require railroads to report
monthly under oath to the interestate
commerce commission all accidents to
their employes and to make reports as
to all collisions between trains. Mr.
Mr. Cannon, on behalf of the conferees
of the naval appropriation bill, formally
reported disagreement and moved that
the house recede and. concur in the sen
ate amendment with an amendment
which struck out the word "hydro
graphic" and provides for ocean, sur
veys, including waters of Porto Rico,
Cuba and the Philippines, except the
coasts thereof. Mr. Dayton (W. V-i.),
who was one of the superseded con
ferees, moved to recede and concVr in
the senate amendment to bring the
question squarely before ohe bouse. This
motion took precedence over that .. f
Mr. Cannon. Mr. Moody (Maes. who
last night charged the conferees with
betraying their trusts, apologized for
his words amid applause. The vote was
to be taken on Dr. Dayton's moti m
to recede and concur in the senate
(Continued CJ fifth page.)
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