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I. I - - . ' ' f f S r V i f f. r f i, -S 5. ? t --'Pi VOL; V: NO. 105 A8HEY1LLE, N. C, SATURDAY; MOBNING, JUNE 1900. H PRICE 5 CENTS 4 k' " '1 'J - ' ESTREICHER'S sale of Housekeeping Goods. Commencing: Monday, June 4, we will 3,ut on sale 100 MILL ENDS of TA BLE DAMASK. The pieces range in 1 ngth- 2. 2 1-2 and 3 yards. We will cll the i i $1.39 quality at 95c yard. $1.00 quality at 69c yard. $1.15 quality at 85c yard. 75c quality at 59c yard. In Towels we offer two extra epe dal values in Linen Huck our 1.40 quality $1.10 doz. $1.95 quality at $1.65 doz. CURTAINS. We are showing the latest makes of 'Sobinett Curtains, controlling one of th' most celebrated makes for this market. Prices range from 69c. the air to $10.00 the pair. OESTREICHER&CO 51 Patton Avenue. "Standard the World Over." Tie Columbus Buggy Co.'s .No. 95 Handy Wagon. i Compact and Strong. Asheville Hardware Com pany, Agents. SOUTHEAST COR. COURT SQUARE. 'PHONE 87. Kelley Springfield Tire put on in our Rubber Tire Department. MASSAGE.. AND PACKS. Treatment for: Nervous, RheumaJtio nd other diseases. Special: Thin- Brandt Maase far "Female Diseases; also Face Maosag. PROP. EDWIN GRUNER, Grtduate Chemnitz College, Germany. aneriy -. ith Oakland Heights Sana wlum.) , ome or Office Treatment. Office fours, ll a. m. to 1 p. m., 2 to 4 . . m 3 a. MAIN ST. TELEPHONE 20 Wood's Seeds for cummer planting. Want's Pharmacy. One of the best insecticidea is what Known as Slue- Shot It will destroy jmost any kind of bug on almost any a of plant. It Is as eff-ctive as V's green while much safe and. reaper. Sold at Grant's Pramacy. Bord eaux Mixture at Grant's. yvmie the rain is on is a good time v uw lawn gr&s. Get Wood's Ever Sfeen Lawn &rass at Grant's. Pari is Green at Grant's. Can you use a Lenox Sprayer? av one; price $3, at Grant's." - ' We twr Bed Bugs, Moths and Fleas, use' 50 .in ii in . if i u uTfi m i i an r It is excellent; cents at Grant'., FIGHTING :51M n mm Large Number of Boxers Ex pected to Reach Tien Tsin Today. Minister Conger at Pekin Asks for Instructions. Reports There is No Improvement in Menacing Situation- State Department Unwilling to Inter fare in Chinese Internal Affairs. ACTING CONCURRENTLY, HOW EVER, WITH THE EUROPEAN GOVERNMENTS A MATTER FOR CAREFUL DIPLOMACP CAP TAIN McCALLA'S RESPONSIBLE POST. Washington, June 8. The following cablegram was received at the navy department this morning from Admiral Kempf on board the Newark off Taku forts: "Tang Ku, June 8. Battle yes'teday between Chinese and 'boxers' near Tien Tsin. A large number of 'boxers' are expected to reach Tien Tsin tomorrow. "KEMPF." Minister Conger at Pekin has also been heard from today. His message to the state department said there was no improvement in the situation and asked for instructions. It is not deem ed proper by the officials to indicate upon just what point Conger needs ad vice,, but there is an intimation that he wishes to know to what extent he is to co-operate with the diplomatic repre sentatives of the European powers at Pekin. Secretary Hay took the mes sage to the cabinet meeting, where an answer was framed. . , j The state departriierit is ' steadfastly pursuing the line cf policy laid down at the beginning of the "boxer" trouble, of avoiding any interference with Chi nese internal affairs beyond puch measures as may be absolutely neces sary for the protection of life ani property. . Especially it is determin ed to avoid commitment to the policies of any of the European powers which might involve the United States in trouble. Therefore, notwithstanding the ominous news conveyed in Admiral Kempf's cablegram, it seems entirely probable that Minister Conger will be directed to stick to the same line of policy which he has pursued up to this time. It is not to be understood by this that the United States government is desir ous of evading any proper measure of responsibility and the state depart ment officials are careful to point out that, while retaining our independence of "action, our government is really acting concurrently with the European governments respecting this boxer ag itation. Thus, at Taku, Admiral Kempf is acting in a similar manner to the commanding officers of the foreign navy there assembled, although his or ders are subject to the approval of no one. NAVIES IN CONCERT. At the Tien Tsin, forty miles up the river, which the admiral expects 'to be attacked tomorrow, the foreign naval commanders are acting together. It is said that in case of an emergency in volving jeopardy of the lives of for eigners the United States forces at Tien might even be directed in their general movement by the senior naval officer ashore, even though that officer snouia nappen 10 ue a wiiumi. a xvus- sian, a Frenchman or an Englishman. This temporary subordination of au- thority might be brought about, and, In fact, would exist solely through a military exigency. , If Tien Tsin is to be attacked by a vast horde of boxers it is entirely con- ceivable, according to miHtary prac- tice, that a successful defense of the foreign lives and property in the city can be mairitaxnea only tnrougn tne assumption of he command of the for- I. Furnished I Homes.... j For "all -sorts and t t conditions of men."' J t We can please yon J if it is possible....... Also a few nnfnr- I X nished left. t , WILKIE & LaBARBE, i Real Estate Brokers, Phone 661. 23 Patton Ave eign naval forces by one competent of ficer; too many captains may mean defeat. In view of this possibility the as sumption of the command of the American forces ashore by Captain McCalla may. be significant. It is an unusual course for a captain of a ship himself to take command of a landing party as ,has been dene by Captain Mc Calla. His rank would correspond with that of a colonel of marines, and it may be, that he would himself be the senior officer at Tien Tsin, and thus be obliged to assume command of the de fense and direct, in a general way, the operations of the European naval par ties landed there. The naval officers here are, confident that Tien Tsin proper is not in partic ular danger. The gunboat Helena will soon have the town under her guns, and there are believed to be three for eign warships in position to co-operate. DISCUSSED AT CABINET MEETING Washington, June 8. Almost the only subject before the cabinet meeting today was the situation in China. Sec retary Hay read a cablegram from Minister Conger at Pekin, in which he stated that there was no improvement in the situation and asked for instruc tions. Secretary Hay stated after the meet ing that a reply would be sent to Mr. Conger substantially reaffirming the one sent a day or two ago to the effect that he will be expected to do whatever is necessary to protect the lives of Americans and their property and to maintain the dignity of this govern ment. He will be instructed to form no alliances with any government. It is understood here that the repre sentatives of the powers in Pekin will call in a body on the dowager empress and present the necessity of her taking immediate and vigorous action to sup press the rioters. It is assumed that Mr. Conger will join with the other representatives. CHINESE TROOPS SURROUNDED. Tien Tsin, June 8. It is reported from Chinese official sources that 4,000 boxers surrounded 1,500 Chinese troops J between Lofa and Tong Tsun yester day, and, according to the latest, news, fighting is still going on this morning. Officials say that 500 boxers were kill ed, but give no account of the Chinese casualties. Thirty of General Nieh's troops encountered a body of boxers three miles from - here on the Taku road, and killed twenty-one of them. No. news has been received from Pao Ting Fu for three days and the situa tion there is believed to be critical. It is reported that the Chinese troops have been defeated near there. The French cruisers D'Entrecasteaux and Jean Bart and the Russian cruiser Ros sie have arrived at Taku. JAPAN 'AND RUSSIA MAY ENCACE IN WAR Discussed With Excitement in Diplo plomatic Circles. New York June 8. A despatch from London says: The anxiety respecting ; states consul, Holiie, has been confer events in the far east has spread still ring with President Kruger, is creat further. Over and over again one ing some comment, but in view of the hears the opinion expressed that noth- (Washington dispatch which asserts that ing can prevent war between Japan Mr- Hollis has no official errand to the and Russia. In diplomatic circles ! Transvaal there little disposition to nothing else is talked about. Tnere exists now an excitement among diplo mats such as has not been known for years, and which has entirely eclipsed all the attention hitherto given -to the war in South Africa. A visit to the city revealed an in crease in anxiety. There exists In financial circles all the preliminaries of panic which sentiment has affected all the markets and quite neutralize! the anticipated effect of the good new3 from South Africa. It only needs a lit tle, if anything can be judged by Thurs day appearances, for a serious break in prices to take place. Public sentiment is urging the government to take more active interest in Chinese ments. Pfii n ncninoDATC cod ncucv UJLU UtlYlUunAlU rUn UtW CI. ! IndIanapolis. June 8.-The Indiana &old democrats have renewed talk of nominating Dewey for president. It is sai(j his name was informally discussed ! at a meeting- of the executive commit- tee in New York. Mr. Frenzel, who has just returned from the meeting of the executive committee. when asked the feeling in the west in regard to Dewey said he was held in the great- j ; est admiration. He also declared that Dewey's views on the monetary ques- j tion were the same as those of the gold i democrats, and Dewey was not radical Cn the. subject of imperialism. Frenzel further said those things were discuss ed at the meeting of the committee and commented on favorably. BRYAN TO MEET BOER ENVOY. Lincoln, June 8. Bryan will head a delegation of prominent Nebraskans, named by the governor, who will go to ' Omaha tomorrow to meet the 3oer en voys Bryan, In speaking of the mat ter tonight, says he does not see why he should not meet the envoys. He de clared there were ho politics in the matter but sympathy. His sympathies were wholly with the ' Boers in their struggle. The Boer envoys arrived at Omaha tonight and were greeted by a large crowd. . ' - . ' BAKER (S CO;, Scientific Refracting Opticians, Hot 45 Patton Avenue Examination' Free. -' Special attention given to repairing, a GEN. DULLER IN ACTION Storming the Approaches to Laing's Nek and Ma juba Hill. Gains Some Positions of Im ik portance. From Which He Can Make Strongholds Untenable. Bnr Boberts' Continued Silence Indicates He is at Work. CONSUL HOLLIS' VISIT TO KRU- GER WAS UNAUTHORIZED AND IS SAID TO BE OF NO POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE PREPARING TO ANNEX THE TRANSVAAL. London, June 9. The following was received from Buller tonight: "Yellow boemfontein, June 6. Talbot and Coke with the Tenth brigade of South Afri can light horse seized Van Wyck. The enemy made some resistance and a good deal of sniping occurred. Our casualties were about four killed and thirteen wounded. During the 6th and 7th I got two 4-7 inch guns and two 12 pounder naval guns on to Van Wyck and two 5-inch guns on to the south ern spur of Inkswels. Under cover of their fire Hildyard today assaulted all spurs of the Boeg between Batha's pass and Inkswels. The attack, which was well planned by Hildyard, was carried out with immense dash by the troops, from whom no mountains were toosteep. They outflanked the enemy, who were forced to retire from a very strong position. I do not think we had any casualties, and I hope I obtained a po!tkn from which I can render La Lngs Nek untenable." ROBERTS MAINTAINS SILENCE. London, June 9. The war news is scantier than ever. Roberts maintains silence which is generally construed to mean that he is at work. Buller's mes sage, however, commands universal at tention. It was considered that Buller would not carry on operations, but would merely use his army as a re straining force. He is now commenc ing to turn the Boers' position at La ing's Nek by making way over the Drakenberg mountains on the left. HOLLIS VISIT TO KRUGER. T -rvn H rT Tun a. Q A T vTciY- -w Ma rn n aa !;HBr,Qh n fHo th TTnitAri muvemeirw at an 5mu cant A dispatch from Cape Town an nounces that the work of organizing the government of the Transvaal is progressing. A portion of toir Alfred Milner'e staff has gone to Pretoria to start the machinery, -so the proclama tion of the annexation of the Transvaal may be speedily expected. HAD NO AUTHORITY. Washington, June 8. Secretary Hay said, in reference to the xxrenzo Mar ques dispatch stating that it was be lieved United States Consul Hollis had been negotiating with President Kru ger to bring about peace, by direction of the Washington government, that Mr. Hollis had no authority whatever develop- from the state department to make a trip into the Transvaal, and further more the state department did not know af any such intntion n nis iart- consul had no right to go into foreign -.TVi that his visit was of a purely personal character, it is not probable that no- tlce will be taken of his reported ac- tions. ! Courtney is selling Hanan's Tan Shoe at $4 for cue week. WISDOM CARR & WARD nicroiriivinc 23 South Main Street yJ in ) WISELBE CAREFUL ? Id IMPORTANT DISCOVERY OF FILIPINO DOCUMENTS Archives of Aguinaldo's Government Found is a Forest. Vancouver, B. C, June 8. A copy of the Manila Times, received by the Idzu Maru, tells of an important dis covery of insurgent documents and other articles which had been hidden by the Filipinos. It says: "On May 2 General Funstoh was making a person al reconnoissance with eighteen troop ers in the direction of Bongabaon and Portabagan, up the Rio Grande de Pampanga, when he discovered a per pendicular ladder leading up a cliff crowned with a deep forest. Beside the ladder hung a rope, which, when pulled, rang an alarm bell in the woods back of the precipice. The gen eral and his men ascended the ladder and found thirty or forty large wooden cases crammed full of state docu ments, comprising most of the archives of the rebel government. "There were other things saved from the wreck of Malolos, about 1,000 Hotchkiss shells, a stock of bombs and much other ammunition, 200 pounds of black gunpowder, office furniture, from the Malolos Audencia, carpets, chairs, tables and a lot of miscellaneous goods of no special importance. The docu ments were the principal prize. After such inspection as circumstances per mitted, General Funston set aside sev eral tons of useless rubbish and burnt it on the spot, saving the state papers. These comprise all the correspondence of Aguinaldo' and his chief officials from the time of their earliest dealings with Dewey down to the hurried migra tion from Malolos. There are letters to and from .Wildman and Dewey, be sides several business firms in Manila. Aguinaldo's own letter book giving: press copies of everything he wrote is also there. It is rumored that the pa pers show some firms in Manila to have had relations with the rebels hitherto unsuspected." PIO DEL PILAR CAPTURED. Manila, Saturday Morning, June 9. Native police have captured tne notori ous rebel general, Pio del Pilar, at San Pedro Macati. STILL UNHAVELINQ CUBAN POSTAL FUND More Evidence Against Eathbone Court Clerk Accepts Bribe. Havana, June 8. The auditor's in vestigation of the postal frauds have discovered further irregularities on the part of Rathbone. They have found bills amounting to $8,000, mostly due a Muncie, Ind., firm, paid twice on his order; also that he received $7,000 pay bills which should not have been paid. The government has notified the surety company on Rathbone's bond it will be held for these amounts. Secretary Sousa, of the Cathedral district court, which court will try Neely, has been arrested for accepting a bribe from Carlos Bacarrisse, representing the Pillsbury Flour company, for obtaining a favorable decision by the court in a suit against Bacarrisse. When the case was pending in the lower court Bacarrisse refused to pay a bribe to influence a decision in that court and the decision was rendered against him. He informed General Wood, and at the latter's suggestion appealed the case and when again ap proached paid Sousa in marked money. iThis was found in Sousa's possession. Sousa denies the money was accepted as a bribe but as a gift and declared under the Spanish regime everyone did as he had done. He was released on bail. There is no direct evidence that the judge of the Cathedral court is im plicated, but Wood will investigate. Boys' Wool Suits at cost for one week at Courtney's. ri L. S a Agency R0CKBR00K FARM" a 4(v CREAMERY BUTTER. J v Strawberries Peaches Cantaloupes Watermelons As well as 6roceries. 8" a m a a U il Q 0 CLARENCE SAWYER 8 Successor to W. P. Snider,, NORTE COURT SQUABS. n n 3 GENERAL OTIS GIVES HIS VIEWS - . Declares Guerilla Warfare In the Philippines Cannot Last Long. The Filipinos Have No Or ganized Force, Between 6,000,000 and 7,000,000 Inhabitants in Islands. Americans Have Behaved Themselves Live True Soldiers. GREAT MAJORITY OF THE NA TIVE PEOPLE DESIRE PEACE BUSINESS IN MANILA RESUMED ACTIVELY AGUINALDO'S WAN ING PRESTIGE. Chicago, June 8. General Otis and party arrived here this morning. Mrs. Otis arrived from New York about the same time. General Otis declined to enteV into a detailed interview, saying it would be inconsistent with his posi tion as an officer to enter into an ex tended discourse regarding the situa tion in the Philippines before reaching Washington. "I left the Philippine situation in the best of hands," he said. "The offi cers are all able men and qualified to cope with the questions and situations that may arise. "The war is over. Guerilla warfare cannot last long. We have 55,000 ef fective troops under arms in the Phil ippines. "Estimates regarding- the number of inhabitants in the islands are all wild, but the number is considered between six and seven millions. The great majority of the people desire peace and wish to resume activity. "I don't know where Aguinaldo is. I never saw him personally. It is pos- sible but not probable that he is in the ::' Cagayan section of northern Luzon. It is a rough, mountainous country and very sparsely settled. At first he was regarded by his people as a leader, but lately he is losing prestige and is not held in such high regard. "Funston is now in the Bulcan sec tion. The officers in charge are all ca pable men. Stories have been circulat ed about depredations committed by the men of our army, but they are false. Our men have been held under close restraint and have conducted themselves like soldiers." "I can't see that the administration of our distinguished secretary of war has made any mistakes in this cam paign. We may have made mistakes over there, but, if so, they have been the result of human liability to com mit error. Official reports of the war fare have not been exaggerated, espe cially of late. I am not conversant with the newspaper reports. Al though I received American newspa pers, I had not the time to peruse mem. The censorship has not been rigid and we assisted the newspaper correspond-' ents all we could. Of course some sen sational telegrams were sent, as it was very difficult for newspaper men to se cure correct versions regarding our op erations, as they were so extended, but we helped them when we could. "I have no idea as to my course af ter I reach Washington. I have re ceived no orders, and I simply await the commands of my superiors. My wife and daughter will not accompany me to Washington. They will return to New York today and I will join them later. I was certainly overjoyed to see them, as this is the first time I have seen them in two years." The person who got the wrong hat at Odd Fellows hall Thursday night will please return it to Wilkie & La Barbe's office. 3t Clothing reductions at Courtney's for one veek. 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: resort, because perennially 1-vigorating. It Is the same way with AshLville'3 famous prod'Vt WHEAT-HEARTS' It Is the first breal ?ast f ood for all the year; it Is always in vigorating. WHEAT HEARTS Is prepared for serving in two minutes because we've milled the wheat, roasted the glutes and converted the starch to dex trine before it reaches you. WHEAT HEARTS makes a tempting dish, with which noth ing else compares If you but try it once you'll understand wb "It'Swheat-Hearts we Want." The Wheat-Hearts Comp'y, A R HTHn T.T.TL , if. -1 : 5 -v ; !! 6 lib t, 5 j 1 is JH t' -ft ii -it 4 1 a ,r -I; Li , 4 -1. a 'ii i ' ' " t ' i f A f 'Sat t -iitv, 1
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