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,1 V 4 - . -M VOL) V: NO. 123 ASHEVILLE, N. 0, SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 30. 190). PRICE 5 CENTS i CONTINUED ! OESTREICHERS ODDS AND ENDS SALE a decided success last week. AVe will include many more lines this week, among them Silk Waists at $3-98 and $4.89; were $6.50 fo $9.50. v India Silk Waists, in white, greys and black at $3.25 and $400. v "We have also made decided reductions in Lawn Waists, especially for this sale. Ladies' Hermsdorf Black "Hose, worth 25c, this week at 14c. 50 dozen Dropstitch Goods, Avorth 50c the pair. Odds and Ends Sale price, one-half doz. at $1.50; smaller quantities at 35c the pair. OESTREICHER & GO 51 Patton Avenue. GOLUMBUS is coupled with Buggies as ELGIN is with Watches. 'Other manufacturers have profited by the prestige which attaches to the words "COL UMBUS Buggies:' . There is but one Columbus i Buggy Co. 1 .Name plate on every vehicle . L f7o Err t9 Meyille Hardware Com pany, Agents. .SOUTHEAST COR. COURT SQUARE. PHONE 87. Kelley Springfield Tire put on In our Hubber Tire Department. MASSAGE.. AND PACKS. Treatment for: Nervous, Rheumatic and other diseases. 'Special: Thur Brandt Massage for Female Dttseases; also 'Face Massage. PROF. EDWIN ORUNER, 55 S. MAIN ST. TELEPHONE 206. (Graduate Chemnitz College, Germany. Formerly with Oakland Heights Sana torium.) Home or Office Treatment. Office hours, 11 a. m. to 1 p. m., 2 to 4 p m., BAKER & CO., 'Scientific Refracting Opticians, No. 45 Patton Avenue, Examination Frce. Special attention given to repairing. Gazette P- ..pie. want adds reach Aftheville We are headjuarters for cots and cot mattresses. Styles to euit everybody. Mrs. L. A. Johnson, 43 Patton avenue. Ice cream Server! at th Wnmnn't U Exchange very Saturday and Monday. Repo rts His Return to Tien Tsin arid His HarB Fight to Reach Pekin Battles With Boxers Going and Returning, Destruction of Railroad Prevented His Advance. No Word Yet Regarding the Fate o Foreign Ministers. THE BATTLESHIP OREGON RUNS ASHORE IN A FOG ASSISTANCE I SENT UNITED STATES TO , BRINO ISSUE WITH CHINA TO A HEAD. IF CONGER IS NOT SOON SOON HEARD FROMl' London, June 29. Admiral Seymour, In a lengthy despatch by way of Che foo today, reports his return to Tien Tsin and says he was unable to reach Pekin by rail. The despatch goes on to say that two attacks .by boxers on the advance guard of Seymour's forces were repulsed on the 13th with consid erable loss, to the boxers, and no loss to the British, and that the attack by boxers on the train at Lang Fang June 14 was repulsed and a hundred boxers killed. Five of the Italian troops with Seymour's forces were kill ed. The boxers attacked the British guard left at Lofa the same afternoon, but the guard was reinforced, and the boxers repulsed, a hundred of them be ing killed and only two British seamen wounded. In an engagement with the boxers at Auting on the 13th and 14th 175 boxers were killed, .with no casual ties to Seymour's, force. Owing to the destruction of the railroad in front of Seymour he decided on the 16th to re turn to Tang Tsun. After his depar ture from Lang Fang two trams, which were to follow Seymour, were attack ed on the 18th by boxers and imperial troops from Pekin. The Chinese lost from 400 to 700 killed, while the British lost six killed and forty-eight wouna ed. The trains subsequently joined Sey mour at Yang Tsun when he was well back on his way to Tien Tsin. Seymour says the wounded were started by boat with the forces marching along beside the river and that the Chinese fought the advance from village to village, and that on June 23 he made a night march, arriving opposite the imperial troops' armory above Tien Tsin at daylight, where the enemy opened a heavy fire on them. The armory was taken after .a determined resistance and several attempts by the boxers to retake it were repulsed. Seymour says the relieving force reached him on the 25th, and when he evacuated the arm ory he burned it. THE OREGON ASHORE. London, June 30. Seymour's de spatch is practically the only news of consequence received from China. Ig norance in regard to the whereabouts of the ministers and others who were In Pekin is complete. A despatch to the Times from Shang hai says the battleship Oregon ran ashore in a fog off Hukl island, 35 J miles north of Chefoo. Assistance has been sent to her. UNITED STATES WILL MAKE DE MANDS. Washington, June 29. Nothing had been received at the navy department up to midnight in regard to the Oregon going ashore. She left Hong Kong for Taku a few days ago. Unless something is heard very soon of the whereabouts of Minister Conger and the other Americans in Pekin, the United States will take action intended to bring to an issue the relations be tween this country andChina. All that the United States has in mind is- to determine the fate of Its minister and other Americans. If this information cannot be obtained through recourse to Chinese sense of international cour A Bargain. oooo On Sulphur Springs road Ten acres ground and well conetru ted modern house. Will be sold be low value to close an estate. Price on application to interested party. ocoo WILKIE & LaBARBE, 1 t i t Real Estate Brokers, 1 t . t X 'Phone 661, 23 Part Ave. tesy our government may adopt other measures to secure it and bring China to book. It is suspected here that the LChinese government has means at its disposal of getting news from Pekn but refrains from doing so for some mysterious purpose. MARCHING- TO PEKIN. London, June 29. (2:19 p. m.) The fact that a large international force is on its way to Pekin Is taken in Lon don to mean that the commanders, at Taku and Tien Tsin consider "some one at the capital stands in need of relief, so it is accepted, supporting the hope that the legations have been kept in safety there" But it is impossible to deduce a satisfactory conclusion from the absolutely antagonistic telegrams, the most contradictory of which appear to emanate from the same source, the viceroy of Nankin. The viceroy's strange report that the ministers were arranging peace- terms remains unxeplained. The great tenor of the news ie regarded as showing that the foment may he cooling and that the Chinese government is possibly preparing to disavow the promoters -gt the outbreak. Hong Kong reports that the viceroy of Kwangsi province' has called out the milita for service in caee 6t emergency. The householders are being compelled to pay for the cost of the moblization. According to a despatch from Yoko hama divided opinions were expressed at yesterday's meeting of the Japanese cabinet. The ministers of war and ma rine and their supporters urge that Ja pan should undertake the suppression of the rebels in China, while another section contended that Japan ought to confine her efforts to the protection of foreigners. '""'j" Advices from St. Petersburg report abnormal activity in naval circles. The reserve, it appears, is about to be called out, and ten torpedo boats are being prepared for immediate despatch to re inforce the Russian Pacific squadron. SEYMOUR'S RESISTANCE AND . LOSSES London, June 29. (4 a. m.) The cas ualties of the international force at tacking Tien Tsin were: Americans killed, three; wounded, two; British killed, two; wounded, one; Germans killed, fifteen; wounded, twenty-seven; Russians killed, ten; wounded, thirty-seven. The gun fire of the Americans and British is described as "beautiful." After the relieving force pushed on to relieve Admiral Seymour, Chinese regulars under General Nieh, a de spatch from Shanghai says again a!t tacekd Tien Tsin fiercely and bombard ed the foreign settlement with a ter rible fire. Col. Dorwarm, British, com manded the column that relieved Ad miral Seymour. American marines par ticipated in the achievement. SURROUNDED BY CHINESE. The admiral was found entrenched and surrounded by immense masses of Chinese, who were driven off by the relieving column after a brisk Ugh. His men had made a brilliant resist ance, never failing in courage for fif teen days of continuous fighting. Dur ing ten days the men. were on quarter rations. They started wjth' provisions for ten days and they could have held out a day or two longer. The column was a few miles beyond Lofa. Deem ing it hopeless to attempt to break through the hordes, Admiral Seymour assayed a night retreat toward Tien Tsin, but he came into collision with a strong force of Chinese arriving from the northwest. There was nothing ro do but to entrench and stand guard. He eventually attempted heliograph communication. Seymour's men caught several Chinamen, who said the .lega tions had been burned and the minis ters killed. Oothers said that the min isters had been imprisoned. The Chinese displayed fanatical cour age in the attack. Four thousand Russians left Tien Tsin four days after Admiral Seymour, but they never got in touch -with him. RAILWAYS REPAIRED Railway communication .from Taku to Tien Tsin has been restored and the force is advancing toward Pek'n. Fighting was in progress Wednesday in the vicinty of Tse Chu Lin. large pre parations are being made to support and reinforce the Pekin relieving col umn. Twenty thousand troops of all arms, largely Japanese, have now been landed. The fate of the members of the le gations is still a mystery. If they are alive and unharmed at Pekin, the Chi nese government deserves some credit, Shanghai correspondents think, for re straining the fanatical mob. Three British warships have sailed from Hong Kong to reinforce the allied squadron at Shanghai. The southern provinces are sending troops toward Pe kin, and the exodus of Chinese of all ; - - (Continued on fifth page.) To destroy roaches use the Co lumbian Insecticide. If you do it right you will be free of the pests for a year at least. It is non poisonous and simple to use. In cans 50 and 75 cents. OOOO Grant's t i Pharmacy, Agency for Wood's Seeds T 53 (Sp Eggg) t J ) gs3 bSS S&gS Roaches. i 0000 - it THE PEOPLE PAY THE BILL How the Present North Caro lina Legislature Increas ed Taxation. What Reference to Treasury Beports Proves. Figures That are of Extreme Interest to Voters. Hen Who Want to be Fortified in Perpetual Power. PROVE THEIR "DIVINE RIGHT TO RULE" BY GROSS EXTRAVA GANCE EVEN BEFORE -THEY ARE FIRMLY INTRENCHED RE -PUBLICAN-POPULIST GOVERN MENT MOST ECONOMICAL. I find by a reference to the treas ury reports tfhat fhere has been a steady increase of disbursements at that department all along since 1883. For purposes of comparison, as well as to illustrate, I make a few figures. The present legislature is now being . dis cussed, as it has controlled the expen ditures for tihe eighteen months ending May 31, 1900. I will give figures show ing disbursements of corresponding pe riods for each legislature since 1883; faking each odd year and first half of each even year, I find diobursements increase over each preceeding period, and the increase of each $100 to be as follows: Periods of 18 Months. 1883, 1884 1885, 1886 1887, 1888 .. 1889, 1890 .- 1891; 1892 1893, 1894 1895, 1896 1897, 1898 1899, 1900. v Average increase on each $100 from 1883 to 1894 per period $11.12 Average increase on each $10j from 1895 to 1898 4.56 increase on each 100 the last eighteen months to May 31, 19oj 30.60 The fact here set forth that the ex penditures of our state treasury have reached during the last eighteen months the enormous aggregate of $2,620,784.85 is a Bait for taxpayers to crack, espe cially since for the first 'twelve of the last eigihteen months the expenditures were $L600,033.30 and the last eix they reach ed 1,020,751.55. Sve these figures and study them. Whenever any political party, what ever its professions or complexion, gains ascendancy, assumes that it is in to stay to the end of time, fortify itse f in every direction against all points with all kinds of implements and parti san machinery, it takes but a 6hort time for it to furnish a new proof of the self-evident truth which has too of ten been demonstrated at the people's expense in every county in the United States. That truth, which should nev ev be overlooked nor forgotten by a law abiding, liberty-loving people, is thie. The more securely fixed and thoroughly armed and equipped for perpetuating themselves in power and the control of goveramen. either national,. state, coun ty or municipal, any party, clique, or comibdnation of men presume them selves to be, Just in that proportion will they become blind, deaf and obliv ious to the will of the people, more and more careless and Indifferent in man agement of public business, wasteful of puhlic revenues, overbearing and domi neering. And tihe man wno aesires io exercise an Independent political opin ion at variance with their own they spurn with contempt, treat with intol erance, and would deprive him of his Tiiberty or his life. Our state constitution, article I, sec tion 31, says: "Perpetuities and monop olies are contrary to the genius of a free state and ought not to be allowed." Can a more grinding monopoly be con ceived of in a free country than an ay- WISDOM CARR & WARD DISTRIBUTORS, tl South Mala Strt. "Phone SO. mm i js ft mty b I WISE.BE CAREnJL M I 1 tocracy fortified in perpetual power by depriving free, independent, peaceable law-abiding, liberty-loving citizens of their inalienable rigmts, because, for sooth, they do not stullify their con sciences and bow in humble submission to the dictation of the autocrat? Let those who have contributed to the pov erty and ignorance of our people beware how they despise and misuse them. The humble, the poor, the ignorant, have contributed to the endowment of our colleges. They h'ave paid ! their taxes to support the university' arid the other state instfi tuitions; Chey contribute lib erally to the support of the pastors; in proportion to their wealth they are at the front in all good works; they have produced the wealth which you have accumulated, by means of which you have been enabled to educate yourself at the college they helped to endow. Autocrat, beware, do not deceive the poor ignorant white man with the plea that the negro is the coon you are af iter. You know the trap you have set will take in both or violate ithe con stitution of the United States. J. W. DENMARK. "Wlake County, N. C. FIREMAN CRUSHED UNDER FALLING WALLS Several Others Injured at a Big Fire in Pittsburg. Pittsburg, June 29. One fireman was killed and eleven others were more or less injured, and about $300,000 worth of property was destroyed in a fire that broke out in the machine shop of the Best Manufacturing company, on Twenty-fifth street, shortly after 6 o'clock this morning. The dead and injured are: Dead David Williams, of No. 15 en gine company, killed by falling walls. Injured Captain Robert Edwards, of No. 25 engine company; Fireman Peter Tantinger, of No. 25 engine company, may die; George Slagle, of No. 25 en gine company! Timothy Murphy, of No. 25 engine company; Lieutenant William Zipe, of No. 25 engine com pany; Fireman Ziegler, of No. 25 en gine company; Fireman Cavanaugh, of No. 25 engine company; Captain Mc Guire, of No.- 15 engine company; Harry Hart, fireman; George Prenton, fireman; Bert Lenox, engine company Amount . Disbursed. Increase Over Increase Last Period. 'On'e'ch $100 $1,261,019.51 1,323,431.89 1,384,775.33 1,526,265.03 1,719,664.53 1,841,028.89 2,009,011.65 2,009,049.53 2,620,784.85 $269,875.78 62,46.38 61,343.44 141,489.70 193,399.50 121,364.36 168,982.76 37.88 611,7o5.32 $27.22 4.95 4.64 10.22 12.67 7.06 . 9.12 0.00.18 30.60 No. 15. The fire was discovered at 6:18 and the flames spread so. rapidly that in less than half an hour the entire plant four stories high and 100 feet square was burning, and it was feared that adjoining property would go. Three companies of the firemen were quickly on the ground, however, and by hard work the fire was kept within the orig inal limits. By 7;30 o'clock the large structure was in ruins. The firemen were injur ed by falling walls. They were stand ing in a fire escape on the side of the building. They had two streams of hose out and were playing on the fire when suddenly the walls began to top ple and hi spite of shouts of warning given the men were caught and carried to the ground by the masses of brick and timber which fell as the wall col lapsed. One or two of the firemen f jumped, but even they were struck and cut by the falling bricks and timbers. Williams was taken out dead from un der a mass of brick and stone. His head was badly crushed, and he was otherwise cut and mangled. Six of the others were so badly injured taat they were soon removed to the West Penn hospital. The property destroyed was valued at $200,000, and the stock of patterns and machinery probably $100,000 more. I pio$owniDiowaoinit 3 a 8 R0CKBR00K FARM" CREAMERY BUTTER. q P IF YOU WANT S0METHITG NICE TKY A s Ferris Smoked p Tongue. Q Weighs about five pounds . canvassed. 24c Per Pound k 4 CURENCE SAWYER Successor to W. F. Snider. 6 -1JORTH COURT SQUARE. 4 RAIDING BY THE BOERS Their Present Manner of Campaign in Orange Free State. Desperate Fight to Save a British Convoy. Transvaalers Attack Repulsed Spring Station. at Attempt by Beers to Blow Up Maga zine at Pretoria. HOLLANDERS BEING DEPORTED TO BE DEALT WITH BY DUTCH GOVERNMENT KRUGER STILL. AT MACHADODORP. London, June 29. Roberts, in a de spatch, reports Boer raiding parties ac tive in the Orange River colony. A British convoy was attacked in the neighborhood of Lindley Tuesday but was saved after heavy rear guard ac tion, the British losing ten killed and fifty-four wounded. The preceding day in a skirmish near Ficksburg the Brit ish lost two killed and four wounded. The Boers attacked Springs Station in the Transvaal yesterday but were re pulsed. CONTINUED BOER ACTIVITY. "" London, June 29. Outside of minor conflicts in Orange River colony show ing continued Boer activity in th Senekal district news from South Afri ca indicates preparations for final op erations of a tediously prolonged war. A Cape Town despatch reports an at tempt by the Boers to blow up the ar tillery barracks and magazine at Pre toria. It added that the artilleryman who frustrated the attempt by with-, drawing a lighted fuse was "killed by a. Boer, whom the soldiers afterward tried to lynch. The British aruthorities are deporting numbers of Hollanders to Holland to be dealt with by their own government for not observing the state of neutral ity declared by the Netherlands. President Steyn is reported at Beth lehem consulting with General Dewet. Sir Alfred Milner has notified the government to pay interest on the Free State six per cent, loan due July 14, on condition of no further liability. Cape Town reports Kruger still at Machadorp afraid to , move for fear bridges have been undermined. YESTERDAY'S LEAGUE GAMES. At Chicago R H B Chicago 1 4 2 Brooklyn 0 4 1 Batteries Griffith, Dexter; Kitsen, Farrell. At Pittsburg R H B Pittsburg 2 3 5 Philadelphia 4 7 1 Batteries Waddell, Screiver; Pitt, McFarland. At Cincinnati R H B Cincinnati 3 6 2 Boston 2 7 1 Batteries Britenstein, Peitz; Nichols, Sullivan. At St. Louis E H B St. Louis 4 8 2 New York 3 9 4 Batteries Powell, Robinson; Carrick, Warner. AMERICAN LEAGUE. At Kansas City Kansas City, 5; Chi cago, 1. At Indianapolis Indianapolis, 3; Cleveland, 3; game called in the fiftii inning on account of rain. At Detroit Detroit, 12; Buffalo, 4. At Milwaukee Milwaukee, 9; Minne apolis, 0; decision of the umpire at the end of the eigTith Inning because of dilatory tactics on the part of the Min neapolis players. A Decided Advantage. Asheville people have in be ing able to buy freshly pre pared an unexcelled break fast food. In summer there is some uncertainty what you'll find in a poorly packed package of cereals kept long on the grocer's shelf. There is no uncertainty about WHEAT-HEARTS. It is put up in sealed packages and your grocer always has a fresh supply. WHEAT HEARTS is the ideal sum mer food because strengthen ing and not heating; and, in addition, it may be thor f oughly cooked ready to serve in two minutes. "It'Swheat-Hearts we Want.' The. Wheat-Hearts Comp'y, ABBEVILLE. .it V arw.,-. A, -1 i St
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