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- , II ' " " I " . - 1- " ' - ' . , - ' f if ' fT Tf v ' - A '- - - r . -. j - ' 1 f s ' 1 Ill VOL V: NO, 108 ASHEVILLE, N. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 13, 1900. PRICE 5 CENTS QESTREICHER'S r sale of Housekeeping fioods. CommeDdng Monday, June 4, we will -put on Bale 100 MILL ENDS of TA BLE DAMASK. The pieces range in l ngth 2, 2 1-2 and 3 yards. We will a.:i the . : i.lSSI $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 spe cial values in Linen Huck rur $1.40 palityat $1.10 doz. 41.95 quality at $1.65 doz. CURTAINS. "We are showing the latest makes of 3obinett Curtains, controlling one of th' moat celebrated makes for this market. Prices range from 69c. the 5air to $10.00 the pair. OESTREICHER &CQ 51 PattonAvenue. "Standard the World Over." The Columbus Bc.'s No525 A lig-ht trap furnished with either ebaf's or pole. Seats can be made dos a dos, or back eeat can be pushed under front seat. An all round utility trap. AsheTille 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, Rheumatic nl other diseases. Special: Thur Brandt Masscge for Female Disease;, also Face M&as&g. PROF. EDWIN GRUNER, graduate Chemnitz College, Germany. Formerly -. ith Oakland H4ght Sana torium.) Home or Office Treatment. Office kours, 11 a. m. to 1 p. m.t 2 to 4 . . m. 5 S. MAIN ST. TELEPHONE 20. iVATERSON FOR BRYAN. Louisville, June 12. The Courier-Journal, which in '96 practically organized c"e gold democratic movement, today advises again, the third party movement 11 says the money difference being eet tlt(J, it prefers to take chances of just ministration of public service under rvan if he can be elected, and will ihert-forp siirrkfr ItVio. lonwvmtifl ticket. 11 advises the gold democrats to meet n,3 declare its organization ended and jeave to individual democrate to do as tbfey please. CHARLESTON'S EXPOSITION. Charleston, JUne 12. At a meeting the executive committee of the uth Carolina Interstate and West India exposition today It was decided organize a company. Over $175,000 as been subscribed. The exposition is 10 be held in the fall of 1901. ., ' BOERS DRIVEN NATAL r t tt- Laing's Nek and Majuba Hill Evacuated by the Transvaalers. British Reverses in Orange Free State, Over a Thousand of Robert's Men Made Prisoners. Uncredited Report That Steyn Has Betaken Bloemfontein. IMMENSE AMOUNT OF BRITISH STORES CAPTURED AND - BURN ED KNOX LEAVES KROONSTAD TO INTERCEPT THE BOETIS. London, June 12. The following was received from Buller tonight: "Jou bert's Farm, June 12, 5:05 p. m. At 4 o'clock this afternoon I encamped four miles north of Volksrust. Laing's Nek and Majuba Hill were completely evacuated by the Boers last night. Clery, from Ingogowas, is now coming over the nek. I had to camp here for want of water." THE BRITISH REVERSES. London, June 13. There is still no news from Roberts. Buller's opera tions seem to have at length freed Na tal from the Boers but without inflict ing any crushing defeat. The correspondent of the Daily Ex press at Mahadorp sends by )way of Lorenzo Marques Boer versions of the recent fightin in, the Orange river col ony which resulted in disaster to the Derbyshire regiment. The correspond ent states that Kruger has issued a bulletin saying that tne burghers at tacked the British in four divisions at Roodeval and Rhenoster river and the fighting lasted four hours. Two hun dred British were. killed and wounded and 700 were captured, together with immense stores,, a Maxim gun, a thous and lyddite shells and the English mail. The stores were subsequently' burned. Another unofficial report says that Dewet during the fighting on June 7 captured a lot of ammunition and 3,000 suits of clothing. Dewet estimates he put a thousand British out of action. Stories are circulating in Machaniorp that Generals Botha and Delarey have been offered $50,000 per annum to de sert the Boer cause. FORCED ALMOND'S NEK. London, June 12. The war office posted the following despatch from General Buller: "Headquarters in Na tal, June 11. We forced Almond's Nek today. It is not marked on the map, but is the last defile to Charleston flats. The enemy, were in considerable force, with several guns in position. The brunt of the fighting fell upon the Second Dorsets, who carried the posi tion at the point of the bayonet, and the Third cavalry brigade, wh'o heavily attacked on our right from a very broken country round Iketini moun tain. I hope our casualties are less than 100, which, considering the ex treme length of the position, is much less than I expected. The whole at tack was directed by Hildyard, whose dispositions were extremely good. The artillery, Tenth brigade and Third cav alry brigade did most of the work." KNOX LEAVES KROONSTAD. London, June 12. The war office has received the following despatch from General Kelly-Kenny: "Bloemfon tein, June 12. Our troops from the north are' at HonSngsspruit (south of Roodeval), where the Boers cut the British line of communication, having defeated the enemy. They will be at American Siding tomorrow at 8 a. m. General Knox moves out from Kroon- stad to intercept the enemy. Fuller particulars later." BAD NEWS FROM FREE STATE. London, June 12. Bad news from the Free State oozes out slowly from the war office. The line of communications was cut Wednesday, the day after Lord Roberts entered Pretoria, but the fact was not admitted until Saturday Furnished Homes.... For "all sorts and conditions of men." We can please you if it is possible Also a few unfur nished left. WILKIE & LaBARBE, Real Estate Brokers, 'Flume Ml. - -.23 Pattoa Ave. nor the truth revealed until yesterday that there has been severe fighting at Roodeval and that the militia battalion of the Derbyshire regiment and other details ha)d been taken prisoners. These details were guarding the rail way where the Boer raiders struck the line of communications and their casualties were severe, about a hundred- bfelng killed and wounded. So far as reported the defense of the militia was clearly vigorous, but the force was outnumbered and the Boers were enabled to destroy the railway for over twenty miles. Lord Methuen after reaching Lindley by a forced march from the railway left a garrison there and headed for Heilbron to join General Colville, but was fighting with a Boer force on Thursday within ten miles of his des tination. Whether this force was re turning from Roodeval with its prison ers or was an auxiliary column hover ing about Heilbron is uncertain. Apparently the raiding column re mained on the railway for several days, for a casualty list reached General Knox at Kroonstad under a flag of truce. General Kelley-Kinney has or dered General Knox to the north, but the direction taken by the raiding forces is not known. PAGET' S GARRISON IN DANGER. General Paget's garrison at Lindley would appear to be in imminent dan ger, although no references are made to it in the despatches. This unfavor able news has caused keen disappoint ment in military circles, but there is no disposition on the part of well informed men to censure Lord Roberts. He took the risk of having his line broken when 'he pushed on Pretoria by forced marches, and the results obtained have justified the course, even if his army be compelled to live off the country until order can be restored along the rail way The Free State troops have delivered an effective counter stroke, and have taken over a thousand prisoners at Lindley and Roodeval. They have thrown the British campaign into dis order by their brilliant strategy and have learned by experience how much mischief they can cause by harassing the British lines of communication. PRESIDENT STEPN. In regard to President Steyn(being at Bloemfontein, a despatch from Maseru, Basutoland, dated Monday, June 11, says President Steyn Was then at Vrede, 200 miles from Bloemfontein. General Buller seems to be making substantial progress and ought soon to possess the railroad at Charlestown (in the northern extremity of Natal) whence, presumably, he will advance. ,pn Heidelburg and affect a junction with Lord Roberts. A despatch from Lichtenburg, dated June 11, says sixty Johannesburg mounted policemen, with a Maxim gun, have surrendered to General Hun ter. A probable explanation of the re ports that a British force ds moving through Swaziland comes in a despatch from Port Elizabeth, dated June 11, announcing the return there of the British cruiser Doris from Kosi bay, whither she had taken a number of whale boats with the object of landing an armed force, presumably part of a plan to penetrate into Swaziland. According to a Cape Town despatch the cabinet crisis continues. It is ad ded that should President Schreiner secede from the bond, as he threatens his action would place the bond in the minority in the assembly. Mr. Schreiner has accepted the resigna tions of J. X. Merri man, treasurer, and J. W. Sauer, commissioner of pub lic works. Among the members of the yeomanry killed at Lindley was W. T. Power, proprietor of the Canyon ranch in North Texas, and son of SirvW. T. Power. BRITISH PRESSING BOERS. London, June 12. Fifty thousand British troops are within half a hun dred miles of the marauding Boers, north of Kroonstad, and they are 'ex pected, of course, to make short work of them. Nevertheless, outside of the slender war office news, no one knows wihat is going on. FATAL FIRE IN WILLIAMSBURG. S.veral Lives Lost in Destruction of a Big Cooperage. New York, June 12. Weidmamd's cooperage, between North Eleventh and Twelfth streets, Williamsburg, was burned this evening just as 125 men em ployed there were quitting work. The flames spead so rapidly that all failed to get out safely. Two received burns which resulted in death; one was fa tally burned and several seriously; five are missing. The loss is" estimated at a hundred thousand doJlare. Wood's Turnip and Ruta Baga seeds, fresh at Grant's Pharmacy. Paris Green rilug Shot and Bordeaux Mixture at Grant's Pharmacy. Grant's Talcum Powder, 10 cents at Grant's. Sick, nervous and neuralgic head aches relieved by Baldwin's Headache Cure; over a thousand - bottles sold. Price 25c and money refunded if iot satisfactory. Grant's, Pharmacy. Grant's Digestive Cordial is an ex cellent remedy for dyspepsia and in digestion. Many eases of tang stand ing have beeri radically cured. Price 50c and money l3ack if not satisfactory Grant's Pharmacy. . , , BAKER & CO., Scientific Refracting Opticians, Not 45 Psttoa Avenue, v Examination -Free. Special attention given to repairing. CHINESE UNDERTAKER MOBBED 111 SAN FRANCISCO For Bringing in Coffins Sispiciously To Raise Quarantine. San Francisco, June 12. The board of health has decided tg raig the quar antine of Chinatown twenty days from the verification of the "last case of pfague, which was on June 2. If an other case is found the quarantine will not be lifted until twenty days from the date of its discovery. Wing Tl, a Chinese undertaker doing" business on Sacramento street, under the Chinatown morgue, had three cof fins shipped in through the lines and in doing so incurred the displeasure of several hundred of his Chinese breth ren. They demanded to know what use he had for coffins when no one had for coffins when no one had died, and not being able to1 explain to their sat isfaction, he was mobbed. The front of his shop was battered in with stones and clubs and he was chased to hiding. It then required the efforts of a strong force of police to club the riot ous Chinese into submission. 'There are about 14,000 people in Chinatown," said one of the Six Com panies' officers last night. "Of this number at least 4,000 penniless and without food except what is supplied by the merchants of the Six Com panies." Many of the Chinese mer chants, at a meeting held during the week, decided to pay no bills or rent during the blockade. BUNCOMBE IN EXTRA SESSION. Ashe villa Railway Franchise Crimi nal Coirt Abolished. Special to the Gazette. Raleigh, N. C, June 12. The demo cratic caucus called for tonight will not meet, though there was plentv of informal caucusing. There is opposi- J tion to having the question of street railway franchise in Asheville submit ted to the people of Asheville. Sena tor Cocke has not only favored this but this afternoon demanded it of the cau cus. Cocke feels that this question has aroused enough interest to have the people pass upon it. Senator Cocke seems to be the favorite among west ern members. He does not wish Judge Stevens thrown out of office. He does not ptand, however, with many of his colleagues in this. Abolish the crimin al court is the wiatchword of many from the west. There is some talk of the impeachment of Solicitor Ferguson. hut it will probably not amount to any thing. There has been more caucusing and less done than ever known in North Carolina politics. The brethren seem to be in trouble. THE EXTRA SESSION BEGUN. Raleigh, N. C, June 12. After a caucus lasting all the morning the gen eral assembly met at noon. Winston, of Bertie, introduced a resolution, that was referred to the committee on rules, for an investigation as to whether the state treasurer had paid out money to Shellfish Commissioner Theophilus White in violation of the act of last year. The legislature held a brief af ternoon session, assembling at 4 o'clock, after a caucus at which the proposed amendments to the constitu tional amendment and the question of protecting the election law from in junctions were discussed. QUIET AGAIN IN ST. LOUIS. Cars Run Without Police Inquest on Victim's of Sunday's Riot. St. Louis, June 12. The experiment of sending out cars over some of the lines of the Transit company without police guards worked so satisfactorily yesterday that the plan was carried out today on several additional divi sions. The mayor's proclamation has quieted down the situation, the injunc tion forbidding the use of explosives or firearms and Warning those havinr no business on the streets to keep off is having good effect. Both the strik ers and the authorities are preparing statements and making up lists of wit nesses to be heard at the coroner's in quiry, which will settle the responsibil WISDOM CARR & WARD DISTRIBUTORS. IS Sooth Uala Street Pbbna 2S3. ity for the fatalities in the riot of last Sunday. The inquest over the remains of Fred Boehne, an aged spectator, who was killed by a deputy, was to have been held today, but was postponed. To morrow -the coroner will summon a jury to inquire into the death of C. Edward Thomas, the striking street rar conductor, killed in front cf the posse barracks, on Washington avenue, Sunday evening. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, has telegraphed President Mahon that he will arrive in St. Louis some time the present week. "Gompers will exercise a supervisory direction Of the strike," said a member of the union. "As the head of all the trades in the American federation of labor he is the highest leader of the labor movement in America, and when in the field of the strike is superior Of ficer." A number of men charged with com mitting offenses in connection with the street car strike were tried in the po lice court today and six were fined. CHICAGO'S LABOR DISPUTE. Committees in 'Session to Ssttle the, Trouble. Chicago, June 12. Bankers, capital ists, real" estate men and a host of others whose welfare depends on build ing activity in Chicago, to say nothing of thousands of workingmen, today ex pressed the hope that the meeting of contractors and trades union repre sentatives scheduled for this afternoon would result in a settlement of the la bor difficulties. The contractors' position has not yet been made public, but it is believed to have been modified. They have been demanding the dissolution of the building trades council as a funda mental movement for a settlement. The demands which will be made of the unions will probably include the following: No restriction in the amount of work a man shall do in a day, no restraint in the use of manu factured material, no rest ictionin the use of machinery, fhe right of the em ployer to discharge and employ whom he sees fit, that a foreman shall be the agent of the employer, and that eight hours shall constitute a day's work, with the rate of wages the same as at the beginning of the labor war. KNOCKED OUT BY M'COVERN. White Proved an Easy Victim Though He Fought Gamely. New York, June 12. McGovern knocked out Tommy White in the third round at the Seaside Sporting club on Coney Island tonight. A defective electric light plant caused no end of trouble. White was the easiest kind of a mark. McGovern was after him from the start. In the second round White was knocked down twice and saved by going. He landed a few left hand jabs at Tommy's face and also delivered a few rights, but the blows were light. In the third round McGovern simply overpowered White with, rushes and heavy blows luat beat down hie guard. Teddy repeatedly knocked White to the floor. Just before being knocked out White made a game rally, but a terrific stomach blow took White's steam away and he was counted out while on one knee vainly trying to regain, his feet. Courtney is selling Hanan's Tan Shoes at $4 for one week. The person who got the wrong hat at Odd Fellows hall Thurtday night will please return it to Wilkie & La Barbe's omce. - Clothing reductions at Courtney's for one week. Boys' Wool Suits at cost for one weelc at Courtney's. We are headjuarters for cots and cot mattresses. Styles to 6Uit. everybody. Mrs. L. A. Johnson, 43 Patton avenue. a a "R0CKBR00K FARM" CREAMERY BUTTER. a a D Singapore Pineapple 6 '4 a u d n $ a $ u Chunks a a E n In 1 lb. Cans, In 3 lb. Cans, 20 cts 35 cts. These goode are packed were grown and are superior to any packed in this country, as they are ripe when cut from the plant. When canned here they are shipped green and artificially ripened afterwards. 090 Lotus Peaches One lb. Can, - - 15 cts. The peaches are sliced very thin and are very popular. d CLARENCE SAWYER Successor to W. 7. Snider. C NORTE COURT 8QUAR3. n -?Q $ r D n II APPEALS FOR PROTECTION American Consul at Chin Kiang Asks for a Warship. Telegraph Communications to Tien Tsin Severed, English Residences in Suburbs of Pekin Destroyed, Marine Reinforcements Ordered From Manila. STATE .DEPARTMENT STILL MAINTAINS POSITION OF ONLY PROTECTING AMERICAN LIVES AND" UNITED STATES CONSUL ATES. Paris, June 12. The foreign office to night received a despatch from Pekin stating that the telegraph line between Pekin and Tien Tsin is severed. Sum mer residences of Englishmen near Pe kin have been burned. Washington, June 12. The following despatch was received ait the state de partment today: "Thin Kiang, June 12. Secretary of state: Large number of natives organ ized secret society halted here. People very apprehensive. No protection. Want cruiser. (Signed) "MARTIN." Mr. Mi&ntin is the United Sta'tes con sul at Chin. Kiang and his telegram is the first news received here to indicate the spread of the boxer agitation i 'that section of China. Chin Kianig is one of the most important treaty ports In China. It is located on the Yang' Tse Kiang, a little over 100 miles above the point where-the W Yung runs, and is about 125 miles from Shanghai. At the latter portthe United States gjtf boats Yorktown and Cae'tine are tWW" lying, undergoing some repairs The extent of these repairs is not known at the navy department, buit assuming that they are not more extensive than usual, it is' said that one or both of the vessels might be despatched to Chin Kiamg in the course, of a day or two. However, up to this moment no orders have gone forward to either of the vessels or to Admiral Remey. DANGER OF THE SITUATION. There is an intimation at the stajte department that the consul at Chin Kang has exaggerated the danger of the situation and that the mere halt ing near fhe town of a number of box ers is not evidence that they have any hostile intentions against the Ameri can consulate. It is probable, there fore, that in the absence of more seri ous developments no ship will be sent to Chin Kiang. The town is nearly &0O miles southeast of Pekin, but fortunate ly is much more accessible to foreign warships and vessels drawing as much as twenty-five feet of water can work up the river at that point. One of the despatches received ait the state department was from another consular officer in China, but it was stated that it conveyed no news of im portance and its contents were not made public The -pressure upon the presi dent and department of state from the missionary interests is increasing every moment. RELIEF EXPEDITIONS. It is desired that relief expeditions will be sent out by the United States government to secure the safety of the missions in outlying Chinese towns and the intimation is conveyed that troops might be employed for that, purpose. The state department, however, has not altered its position and Admiral Kempff is still confined to his instruc tion to protect American lives and the American legation and consulates. Mr. Conger likewise has beem laid un der the same injunction, but nothing has been added to his instructions that would specifically direct him to en danger the safety of the legation at Pekin by sending the guards into the southern country in the effort to reaoh. the scattered missions. If this task is to be undertaken by him something (Continued on fifth ge.) For No Reason is Asheville more pre-eminent than on account of it- fine cli mate all the year round. It is America's fiw: reeort, because perennially ivigorating. It is the same way with Ash.ville'a famous prod t WHEAT-HEARTS1 It is the first breal !ast food 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 glutei aLd converted vhe starch to dexl trine before it reaches you. WHEAT HEARTS makes ft tempting dish, with which noth ing else compares If you but try it once you'll undentand wb "It'Swheat-Hearts we Want." The Wheat-Hearts Comp' ASHEVTXTJE7 -11 4- Hi 1 - t St -v r
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