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VOL. VL-17.' , A8HEVILLE, N. FBIDAY MORNING, MARCH 1, 190L PRICE 5 CENTS I -1 5 Gestreiolier 1 & Co., 51 Patton Ave. GOO Our stock com prises everything that has been crea ted of late, such as Talleta Dess Skirts, Rainy Day Skirts, Flannel and Sill Waists Belts and Neckwear. Agents for American Lady Corsets. Eagle Brand Mus lin Underwear. PS 81x90 Sheets 45c 45x36 Pillow Cases IOC. If we have it it Is the best. We have just received carload of COLUMBUS BUGGY GO'S VEHICLES Whick Include NEW AND ATTRACT IVE lines in open aJid Top Buggies, Car riages, Surrie and Trap. ry win be able to display la i short time, and Invite our call if you are in need of anyrthSmg i HIGH CLASS WORK. . ASHEVILLE HARDWARE CO 8 B. Cor. Court Square. Phone 87. Don't Board Any Longer Let Mrs. L. A. Johnson fur nish rooms for you, pay her on t installments and are money. 43 Patton AVe, ROCK ! ROCK ! ! ROCK ' ! ! We are in control of four Stone Quar. lea in city and sulburfoa. Are prepared tor. furnishing building atone, tep stones, hearth etonea, curbing, etc. In fact any kind, of 1ulMinig stone. Al so grading side or yard walks and ewsavatlng workr BUBGESS & MOORE, w. pm i V Watson 1 ? Reagan reul . estate office, Ourt . Squares I- Zon?; m;.: , ' 'r4 PiURCHlASiB 'FROM ?JS - (MEANS EI j ? iny6ar 4 pocket. ; vCur V' stock ? is complete and vafied.-i,VJ-:..A 6 & i 10 CENT SIpiRB ' ' Hone 213. : :':.:. go patton! Ave; YOU MUST, hve pure bloo?l fot t good health. Hood's Sarsaparilla purifies the blood. ,TakO Hood's Sar Bapariila if you would DC AVE LL. ExtraValue h mmrni fit! whii - FIMflLPieiil TO -- n 1 1 Ml . v-fc Report of- Conference x Committee Was Compromise All Along the Line, ; TOTAL REDUCTION ABOUT $41,000,000 ! Pro visions of Bui as Agreed' Upon to Take Effect First of Next July. Washington, Feb. 28. The iseniate to day agreed to 'the conference report on the war revenue reduction Will. There was no abjection. The conferees of the senate land house today announced the result of j their deiberation of the measure. The report of the committee shows a com promise all along the line the changes j in the present law being: ' Tobacco, 20 per cent, discount of the original tax of 12 cents per pound as against 25 per cent .reduction as fixed by the senate and none as the bill pass ed the house. The rate agreed upon will make the tax, $9.60 per 100 pounds as stated in these despatches yesterday. Cigars On those weighing more than ;three pounds per 1,000 the house rate of $3 per 1,000 was retained against 3.30 as fixed by the senate and $3.60 a in the present law. On those weighing less than. 3 pounds per thousand' the senate rate of 18 cents per pound was allowed! to stand as against the rate of $1 per thousand as fixed by the ex isting law, which was not disturbed by the house. Cigarettes On those weighing mot more than three pounds per thousand, the senate action fixing the rate at 18 cents per pound prevailed. The house 'did not change the existing law. Deer The (house rate of $1.60 per bar rel and repealling the 7 1-2 per cent dis count was retained. ' Bankers' capital 'Present- law retain ed, the senate receding from its amend, ment. Commercial (brokers' rtiax-r-'Repcaled in accordance with original action) of both houses. - Certificates of stock transfers The rate of 2 cents for each $100 is retained and the senate amendment makiner the law include the transaction of bucket shops was accepted by the house con ferees. Sales of products at excWanges The senate' amendment exempting safes of merchandise in actual course of trans portation was accepted' but the rate of one cent for each $100 as fixed by tthe present law was retained the sen ate amendment fixing the rate at 2 was disagreed to. (Bank checks Repealed in accordance with the house action. Certiftdates of depositTax repealed. Promissory notes Tax repealed. . (Money orders Tax repealed. Bills of exchange foreign The rate fixed at 2 cents for each $100 iin accord ance with the senate amendment. 'Bill! of lading for export Repealed. Express reteeiptsRepealed. Telephone messages Repealed. Miscelllaneous 'bonds Tax repealed, except upon bonds of indemnity. Certificates of damage and certifl dates not otherwise specified Repealed taharrter-piarty (Repealed. Ooveyances (Exempted (bew $2,500; ofoove $2,500 2S cents for each $500, in accordance with senate action . Telegraph messages Tax repealed ; Insurance Tax repealied on all kinds of insurance in accordance witfti the action of the house, the senate confer ees receding on all senate amendments. Leas es-r-Tax repealed . Manifests Tax repealed. IMortgages-JTax repealled. (Steamship passage tiokets Exempt below 450 im value and ther ate fixed at 50 cents for each $50 in cash ifor that price and over. , , Power of attorney rax.repeaiea. Protest--Tax reipealed Warehouse receipts-Tax repealed. 'Proprietary medicines Tax repealed in accordance with! house action, the senate amendment being disagreed to. iPerfumiery land' cosmletics Tax re pealed. - . . ' . :v ' Chewing gum--Tax repearea. iesMLJarw' modified sot as to ex- vin rromi taxation legacies of "Oharl- table, religious, literary or eduoattonal character. .. The totfal'uction of the revenues as- -We fit you with the . Right Kind of Glasses k ; SBIXAiMINATTON FRES." "Glasses to c 54 Patton " Aven ue. : Ht any eyer -Opposits Postoftlce -,t- r " - C made by the bill as agreed uponi will amount to about $41,000,000 as egainist a reduction of $40,000,000 as it passed the house and $45,000,000 -as amended in the sena te . ' , The provisions of IJhe bill as igreed upon wMl take effeetij' the first' of next -July. i s DISCUSSING RELATIONS WITH UNITED STATES Opinions of Cuban Newspapers on the Convention. Havana, Feb. 28. The action of the constitutional convention on the rela tions of Cuha with the United States is the sole topic of the newspapers. La Discnishion. (revolutionary) says the United States twoufld have to ap peal to force -to obtain (the relations they -would ask for. Diaro De La (Mar ina (oonservatve) regards the request as equivalent to a protectorate. It says the answer of the convention is not prudent and does not settle the question. It is the general opinion of tha news papers tnat the convention Could hard ly be expected to acceed to the wishes of the United States, as the delegates were elected by the extreme radical ele ment. AWFUL CRIME OF , A NEGRO IN ATLANT Committed in the Heart of the Geor gia Metropolis. Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 28nAn unknown negro entered the residence of Mrs. Buehianaira ' at 86 Spring street in the heart of the city this morning and compelled her to cook his breakfast. Then tying her feet and hands he quiet ly ate the 'breakfast, after which he set fire to the house, placing a quantity of paper in a bed where he had forced Mrs. Buchanan to lie. The negro es caped without btlng detected. Mrs. Buchanan screamed and assistance came before the fire had gained much headway. A search is now being made for the negro. . ROBBERS' RIG HAUL AT LINGOLNTON Safes in the Fostof5.ce and Two Stores Blown Open, Special to the Gazette. . Rutherforditon, N. C, Feb. 28. Pro fessional safe crackers blew open the safes of Beal & Co., H. S. Roberson and the postoffice at Ltocolnton this morning, between four an five o clock. They then went to the depot, stole a railroad hand Car, rode to Newton, and are supposed to have taken the Soutfci ern for New York. 'From the postoffice they got four teen hundred dollars in cash, and books and papers amounting to six hundred. They secured several thousand dollars from the two stores. A dozen safes have toeen blown open and robbed In this state recently. EMPEROR'S NARROW ESCAPE, Collision of Coach With Electric Par Barely Averted. Berlin, Feb. 28. The emperor hlad a narrow escape if rom) injury, if not death, today. - He was out driving and his carriage barely escaped being' run down by an electric car which 'had become unnmniageaJble. The emperors coach man succeeded! in pulling up he horses in tiroe to prevent an accident. TOPIC ' ' i t plaeiaecEm - Iuring March, lApril, May, purify your blood with Grant's SarsapariHa. Fine tonic. Jl.OOv Gmnt's Pharmacy. tl Try a Gazette Want. Porto Rico '& Tfic Island's Richest Leaf. y The Native Method of Makei A GRAND FULL SM QKE Yon can get them at " " Pfcnne 183. 26 S. MB The Lucke Rolled Cigar TODAY'S "GAZETTE. EUTSTJ PAGE: Reduction of War Taxes. William W. Evarta Dead. South African Situation. BWtal iExplosion In SPowder Works. Work of Train Wreckers. SECOND l"AxB: DkSarkets by TeCegrat litems of State News. THIRD PAGE: iMfiscellany. r lAi hur W. Dunn's Washington lit tler. - " FOURTH P JGE: Editoaial. City Personals. Topics of this town. FIFTH PAGE: Work of Legislature. Loioail and Telegraphic hjws. SIXTH AND SEVENTH PAGET: 'Miscellany. EIGHTH PAGE: City News. RAPID WORK IN CONGRESS The Houses Eeach Agree ment od Several import ant Bills. Criticisms of Admiral Sampson's Let ter Sen ate-CaLs for Correspond ence- Washington, Feb. 28. The senate covered so much ground today in dis posing of various appropriation bills that Chairman Allison of the appro priation camimattee concluded that a night session was umneceissary. When the isenate adjourned at 6:30 the river .and harbor bill had been passed and con ference reports on the following- bills agreed to: Military academy bill, biJIl to settle claims against Spain in ac cordance with ithe treaty of Paris, bill to reduce .war taxation, diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. A further conference on .the postoffice arpropria tion bill was ordered. The sundry civ il bill wa pending whenthe senate ad journed When the senate convened today the president pro. tem., Mr. Frye, pre--sented a letter from the Marquis of Landsdowne, expressing appreciation of his majesty, King1 Edward VII. for the resolution the senate adopted upon the occasion of the death of the queen. The resolution offered by Senator Allen (Nebraska), calling upon the sec retary of 'the navy, for copies of Gun ner Charles Morgan's letter to Rear Admiral .Sampson seeking promotion, and the admiral's endorsement there on, together with ail correspondence bearing upon the matter, was adopted. The house devoted the greater part of today's session to the consideration of the bill to promote the fficiency of the revenue cutter service. During the debate on the (bill-Hepburn took occa sion to pay an elloquent tribute itia the man behind the gun." He denounced the spirit expressed in iSampson's i en dorsement of Gunner Morgan's appTica tion for commission and declared wherever such a spirit was shown it lought to be stifled. Without complet ing consideration of the bill the house adjourned. In the course of the day the house agreed to conference reports on the war revenue reduction bill and the di plomatie and consular appropria itionr bill and the agricultural appropriation bill and rejected the re port on the postal approbation bill. Congress is making unexpected pro gress with important legislation in its dosing hours. There remains little to be done, since the Nicaraguan canal rJlll Is not to become a Haw this ses sion. SAMPSON VAMTS TCIKNOW WHH MADE IT PUBL'C Washington, Feb. 28. Secretary Long received a letter today from; 'Admiral Sampson saiyang that the latter did no know how .the laooli cation of Gunner (Morgan for promotion or Sampson's en dorsement eot to the nerspapers. The secretary has not heard fromf Mor gan who alsa has been asked as to now the matter became puouc. ...TYPEWRITERS... We are agents for the Reming ton Standard Typewriter an: would be pleased to show t3he iat .' est models at our office, or place one on trial writh responsifble (par itiesHdon'iL make a imdstatoe in tying another before seeing the latest improved (Remington.. We alsojbuyi, sen, rent and ex change serondHhandl typewriters ; of all makes. Owners of second "hand (typewriters which are not in -use, or whicbi are out of or- irfvr n mnrwcnnt tthemi into cash or exchange ior matohines in per-i i , feot condition. We repair au v- X - Imdld B X sewond hand mtoanhes before renting.or eeiung Typewriter Exchange, 23 Patton Ave,; iAsheyiliefc ,w a ii 0fl FEARFUL EXPLOSION M 0WDER WORKS med and Three Others Fatally Injured Shock Felt For Miles Aronnd. v v Patterson? fefe 28 .' An explo- wa occurrea si aflin and Rand Powder works ton this af ter- noon. John Duffey, ie foreman was kJlled. Josiah, Smith, Robert CBiggist, Jos. Harvey are so Ibadly injured that it is believed they will die; The explosion occurred in the drying house and the wrecked building was consumed by fire resulting from) the explosion. Duffey's head was found a hundred reec iromi the house. The explosion shook the mountains to which the works were situated and ,hf ihinaA.i T !N WRECKER'S WFUL WORK Brought Trains Into Collision at a Station Causing Loss of Life. Wreckage in Fiames, Buildings Burn ed and Town Narrowly Escapes Destruction.- MoKeesport, Pa., Feb. 28. Train wreckers at Coal Valley, an the Mon- ongahla division of the Pennsylvania road, caused a frightful wreck directly in front ofthe rCoal Valey station this afternoon. Three ibodies have been taken from the wreck and the wreckage of both trains is burning. Officials say ithere are no other bodies in the wreck. The accident, according to the story of the engineer, was tthe work of a fiend who threw the switch and turned the freight train from1 'the track it was on. directly in front of the express. Flames from the wreck spread to some houses alongside the track and the citizens had' all they could do to prevent the destruction of the town. iSeveral buildings were burned. UPTON EXPRESSES REGRET. At Refasal of New York Club to Grant Flying Start in Yacht Races. London, Feb. 28. Thomas Lipton in an interview today expressed regret at the refusal of the New York Yacht club to grant the request for flying start in the races for America's cup. He said the conditions now are practicaMy the same as In tae last year's races. BOER FORCES LOCATED, Be lAar, Cape Colony, Feb. 28. Tbe combi-ied forces of Gen. DeWet and Oomimandant Hertzog are now east of Philippstotwn about (forty miles north east of here. The total number of men is about 2,000. HAS NO INFORMATION London," Feb 28 5:23 p. m. The war secretary, (Mr. Broderick, announced in the house of commons th.3 afternoon that he had no official information of the surrender of General Botha. 'T'BIS SIGNATURE, ON TOUR PHOTOGRAPH IS EVIDENCE OF TOUR ! DI&CRIMINA2 ING TASTE ; WE ARE ALSO MAKING ! LIFE-SIZED PORTRAITS V CRAY ON WHICH ARE UNEXCELLED? ANX- i ....BROCK. Studio; 29 Patton Avenue: ....X v. 1 ail- tWl 4 for miles around. I ? The company makes gun cotton foe the United States government and the drying house is one of the most dan gerous part of the works. Any parti cle of foreign matter causes explosion and it is supposed that s:mething of th kind occurred today. The injured . men are unconscious. There are rumors of others being Injur-, ed, but the manager of the works says he believes the three named are the only ones seriously Injured. He admits 'there may be others, slightly injured hy the shock. M. EVARTS PASSES AWAY Died Yesterday at His Home in New York City of Pneumonia. Sketch of the Lata TJnitjd States Senator's Useful Life of Eighty Three Years. New York, Feb. 28. William M. Ev- arts died at his home in this city to day. During the morning the patient bad1 a bad turn and failed rapidly until death came. William Maxwell Eivarts was a son of Jeremiah Evarts, a New England lawyer of some ability, but best known on .-account, of his active participation with the nfrork of the American beard of foreign missions. He was secretary of the board for i years .and was ailso for some time editor of the Missionary Herald. William M. was born at Boston Feb ruary 6, 1816. He was graduated from Yale College in 1837, and at the Harvard law school about 1840. He began his practice immediately in-New York city, and rose rapidly in Ms profession. He was leading counsel (for the de fense at the impeachment trial of Pres ident Andrew Johnson, and was attor ney general of the United States from July, 1868, to March, 1869. He was counsel for the United States at Geneva at the time of the arbitration of the Alabama claims, and was secretary of state under President Hayes from 18'. 7 to 1881. He subsequently returned to the prac tice of his profession until 1885. when he was elected to the United iStates senate from New York. Mr. Evert's death was caused tv pneumonia. For several years past he has been without, the use of his eyes and was otherwise so feeble that he was unable to leave hus home. Up to the time of his death he was the nominal head of the law firm of Evarts, Ohoate & Beaman, although for many years he had not been in active practice Soon after 4 o'clock this morning Mr. Everts suffered a i elapse which oiusod him to sing rapidly. At 6 o'clock he relapsed into unconsciousness and grew weaker, until, at Cen minutes after 9 o'clock, without regaining consciousness he expired. Firom the time he became uncon scious th; dying (man's wife and chil dren were with him in the room. There were four daughters and a like number of sons. The latter are Allan, Sherman, Rev. D. Prescott and Maxwell Evarts, and the daughters are Miss Mary Ev arts, Mrs. Beaman, Mrs. Tweed and Mrs. Seudder. . . ..4 J. V. Brown & Son have moved Into their new place of business, 16 Church street, next door to Sawyer's Carpet store, where they have fitted up the most convenient rooms for their busi ness to be found in the state. Tele phone --office, 65 two rings; C. W. Brown's residence, 65 three rings. Of fice open every hour in the year. tf j Mamh 4, 5 and 6 at STORE THAT MADE ASHEVILLE FAMOUS! TIN AND GKAOTTS WAOECB. GLASs AND TJEENiSWAKE, STATIONERY SOXTVENTBS CANDT Every ten cent article in our store on these dates for 9 cents. 5 AND 10 CENT STORE, 30 (Patton Avenue. BUCKNER AND NORTHERN, 0 JP n) Cent 111 Sale 1
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