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VOL. VI. NO. 85
A8HEVILLE, N. O, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 19, 1901.
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Oestreicher
.. & Co.
J desire to call attention to their
4i extensive line of
! White and Colored
Wash Waists
yrmnny new designs have been add
ed within the past few days.
The makes we carry, the EAGLE
'and MARQUIS . BRAND are
known the country over for the
excellence of fit and! standard of
. material .
Prices 98c to
$7.50 each.
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iWe also direct attention to our
complete line In both white and
colored wash fabrics, our stock
comprising the latest production
of both domestic and foreign
:
to
looms.
coc
! Oestreicher
! & Co..
5 1 Patton Aveaue.
If
You
Have
Laid Aside
$75.00
For a
New Buygy
Jast keep $7 SO
in your pocket.
Tot until June IStli wej tttter a
10 PER CENT REDUCTION for
sash on all open and top Buggies,
rraps, Runabouts, SurreysRoad
Wagons and Carriages. This is
a splendid opportunity to get that
Buggy or Carriage Tebeen
waiting at a figure bordering on
actual factory prices.
"If we have it, it is the Best."
Asheville Hardware
Company.
food will srorr
CONTAMUfATO
In the
ODORLESS KEJFRIGEBATOK .
Buy one ram
Mrs, I. A. Johnstfa, Patton
Kockl Rock!! Bock!!!
trr vi Vv Vwiir fttOJift QWMX-
riea in city and suburb- Are preprea
tor furnishing buiMtaS stone ttep
w. mv arfrnnea. Ksurbihz. etc.
Also for grading side or yard
Aftoevllle, N. C, PtHU 2$, Box 2.
HEADACHE
Baldwin's Headache .Core
quickly relieves sick, nenroua and
neuralgic headadhefl.' This !s otae
of the most popular remedies we
prepare, hardly a day passing
without some demand... 25cents
bottle. , SlMliS
GRANTS PHARMACY'
Agency for WoodV Seeds.'
REIGN OF
TERROR AT
Tfte Last of the Militia
v Peace it&fJ.
Both Sides Make Concessions and Onion Men Retain Their
Places Threat of City Council Has Salutary Effect.
Albany, May 18. The white winged
Ldove of peace hovers over Albany to
night. The reign of terror is at an end.
All the troops with the exception of the
23rd regimen, t which leaves tomorrow,
departed during the afternoon and
evening.
All non-unionists have also left the
city. They were escorted to th- out
skirts of the city by troops and boarded
the trains to their respective homes.
Scores of them had heads bandaged.
The strike was an expensive one,
costing the country and railroad com
pany about $110,000 in all.
Albany, !N. T., May 18. The street
railway employees' strike fwihich was in
augurated eleven days ago on the lines
of the United Traction company, in
Albany, Troy, ICohoes, Rensselaer and
"Watervldet is at an endi, and ope rations
aa the entire system will be resumed at
noon today. There have been conces
sions on iboth sides, and! an agreement
was reached early today at a confer
ence at which both the corporation) and
operatives were represented, under
rmhidi it should be possible to avoid
strikes in the future. The company on
its part agrees to receive jrepresenta
tions regarding grievances from any
committee of its employes representing
organized or unorganized labor; that
men suspeua&ed or discharged by the
DICKERSOII AND BREESE
GET NEW HEARING
for Re-Hearing
Based on Language in
; J i ( o Jj. dge Bjr
num to Jury.
Judge Charles A. Moore, who with
Senatpr "Pritchard has !been in Rich
mond arguing a rehearing of the Breese
and 'IMckerson cases before the United
States circuit court of appeals, returned
yesterday to Asheville. Xate yesterday
eveniimg he received the following 'tel
egram:
"Riohmond, Va., June 18.
"New trial granted in Ddckerson and
Breese cases. 'Mandates "will issue forth.
with. H. T. ME1LONT, Clerk."
Judge 'Moore says that a special term
will probably be ordereduFo try these
cases, Ibut where and! Ttefore" wham he
does not know.
The argument for a new trial in the
Breese case was based -upon the charge
of 'the district judge, as follows:
."NOw, gentlemen of the jury, ilni con
clusion of the whole matter, the law
as laid down to you by the icourf, as I
have said to you before, is supreme so
far as you are concerned. In the view
which-. the court takes of its under
standing of the law and of the evi
dence the court cannot see now the
defendant can escape conviction, and
While you are not Ixxund by the opin
ion of the court, T say to yu as I have
a right to say that in the opinion of the
court. (Uederstanding the law as the
court does, the defendent is guilty and
t is your duty to say so.
Judge W. P. Bynum appeared! for
the government.
DESTROYED BY LIGHTNING
Philadelphia, May 18. IThe country
home of Thomas B. Wanamaker, at
Meadowb-rook, Montgomery county,
was struck by lightnimig this morning
and entirely destroyed. The loss is es
timated at $500,000. The house was
adorned with Valuable paintings and
bric-a-brac, all of which was destroyed.
Mr. Wanamaker and his family were
at their (Philadelphia borne at the time.
A woman oaretaKer and .her child and'
a m'aia servant who were sleeping In the
house narrowly escaped being burned; to
death.
The .house was of the colonial style
and i was foullt in 1826. In size it rival
ed a hotel. Its abutting wtrags con
tained scores of ibrooms, a ball room,
SEJB SPECIAL. ADVERTISEMENT
OF OIL. COOKING STOVES ON 5TH
PIAiGHB. REtAD IT NOW. J.H. LAW
85 PAfPTON AVtENUE.
Does the
HSht hurt
yourEyes 0
i gfaade thena 'wvlth . aT pair of our
COLORED OUASSEBS. We have them
In all styles andi prices. Eye examine,
tions free. .
S. L. Mckee,
Scientific Optician
54 Patton Ave. Oprp P. O. '
W P. WESTERN,
Masseur.
iWatson & Reagan, real estate
Court Square., (Phone 223.
office,
AN END I ALBANY
Leave To-day and
the City.
superintendents shall ibe entitled ito ap
peal to the executive committee of the
company; that in case employes can
disprove charges under which they were
suspended or dischargett they shall bel
entitled to pffyfor the time they twere
Idle during such, suspension or discharge
andi that there will be no discrimina
tion against any of the men who en
gaged in .the. strike except those guilty
of nnlarirful.sor riotous acts. The com
pany reserves the right to employ un
ion men or non-union men and to dis
charge enjployesor cause. 1
The wages of all the motermen, con
tihictorsj, Mnermdnt taind) pdtmien Selip
20 cents per ihour and of pitmen help
ers If 1-2 cenfts per hour. The men
agree that no proposi jnr for a strike
shall be acted' upon by any division at
the same meeting at-vhich it is intro
duced, ibut 'that at least forty-eight hours
shall elapse before such proposition
shall bf voted uponahdi that if a strike
shall !be ordered it shall not take ef
fect untii at least six davsjhave elapsed
after notice fo the ""company, during.
which time the employes shall con
tinue their work. The non-union men
brought here to fiil the places of the
" -t" i
Di.ian.-cxa -m urauuuauijr .wnuuiaw,
aRhough the formal agrelnent does not
mrvtr, the,
The city council Jast night passed a ;
resolution declaring at would declare the
street car franchise forMtedi if "the com
pany did not compromise ibef ore tbnight.
This very likely haA-e-Salutory effect.
banqueting hall, library and picture gal
lery, The pictures in the art gallery are an
irreparable loss. Their approximate val
ue is $250,000, andi several of the paint
ings were . specimens of the old mas
ters. One alone, la Vandyke of Charles
I., cost Mr. Wanamaker $43,000.
Manila, May 18. Last month Civil
Governor Whit marsh of iBenguet led
an expedition of 70 bolomen and six
riflemen and thrashed the dread hunt
ing Busuls who "have 'been infesting
the Northern part of Benguet. He
captured 75 of them including some
chiefs, all of whom will be sent to San
Fernando for trial.
At a reception by the federal party
to Chairman Hull of the house military
committee in an address, he expressed
the opinion that as long as water run
and grass remained green the Filipinos
THE LAUNCHING
East Boston, May 18. The Indepen
detice was launched from the Atlantic
works tonight. The yacht " gracefully
slid down its ways and touched the wa
ter at 11:07 p. m., amidst the cheers
of hundreds.
The vessel as christened by Miss Glad
ys dJawson, eldest daughter o th3 own
er, who broke the bottle of wine on her
bow. . When the vessel was launched
she was launched into dock and tied
up for the night.
Boston, May 12. Ijawaon, (the own
er of the Independence, in a statement
tonight regandilDfe the oeibarring of ms
boat from the cup races, says In sub-1
stance that he agreed to comply with!
YESTERDAYS' LEACUES GAMES
At Philadelphia Phila...
..4 9 2
..0 5 2
McFarland ;
Chiago;.
Batteries Duggleby and
Manefee and Kling.
New..-TorkrPittsburg, Brooklyn-St.
Louis v and u3oston-Cincinnati games
postponed on account of rain .
Need--a. Lawn ' Swmsr. Harramock or
Croquet? Ceil at AndVews' Book Stores.
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We bake
Steam Brad
We bake
Hand-Made Bread
is none better.
Also Whole Wheat, f
Graham Re at
HESTONS
Phone 183 . M o
Main.
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ABIGAN GOMHT
BRUTAL MURDER
LAST NIGHT
Melvin Taylor Inflicts Fatal
Wound in Breast of
Thomas Branton.
Thomas Branton was brutally mur
llered by Melvin Taylor in iWest Ashe
Mlle last evening. The quarrel grew
pipit of Branton's resentment off Taylor's
attentions to the former's daughter.
icsranton lived, with his wife and six
children, in a cove at the foot of Dea-
s view, about 7 miles west of the
;ty He was known to many ineoole of
heville, as a vender of rustic seats
and wares of various sorts baskets,
and the like which he made of willow.
Melvin Taylor is the eon of Newton
Taylor, who Jives near (Sulphur Springs.
Both came to town yesterday morning
and Branton .became intoxicated. The
two started home in the wagon of John
Beachboard, a farmer who lives in
Branton's neighborhood. They begaa
quarreling and fighting, the contention
being over Taylor's attentions to Bran
ton's daughter, and Beachboard became
disgusted and put them out of the wag
on at the top of the West Asheville hill,
near the residence of E. R. Cowan.
It? was there the murder occurred, II.
P. Parhan, who had been in the wagon,
and Mrs. Cowan being eye witnesses.
Taylor, who was sober, and (Branton,
almost too drunk to stand, began ex
changing blows with their fists, the
onlookers thought. Branton was
thrown down upon a pile of stones by
.tie roadside, and Taylor sprang on him.
J.ii .
in. tne gathering: darkness .'Pa.rhnn
COUld Only See that tie men. WPTP RtTnie.
iifni Aftf TV- were strug-
Kling. After a ifew (moments be de-
teoted a dark stream starting from the
body of Branton
' "You have stabbed him," he said to
Taylor.
'1 have cut him a little," said Taylor,
"but he is not badly tourt."
"Yes he is," Parhan replied, trying
to drag the infuriated man from the
body of his victim; "you have killed
him."
Taylor then arose and! catching up
with Beachboard's wagon, went on to
ward Ms home.
Parhan urged Branton to come with
would be a part of the great American
federation. He expressed surprise at
the advanced stage of peace and said
he was delighted over the possibilities
for civilization. He believed the Fili
pinos capable of the fastest develop
ment ever witnessed. He advised them
to go slowly, and said when they be
came self-supporting be believed the
Americans would clasp hands across
the sea on an equality of liberty and
freedom of institutions.
The president of the federal party re
plied expressing confidence of the Fil
ipinos in American government.
OF TH
YACHT INDEPENDENCE
every requirement of the New York
Yacht Cluib, except the rule requiring
the surrender of the ownership of his
boat to the members of rhe club. This,
he declares, he will not do. He ex
pressed the belief that the Independence
is the equal of either the Columbia or
the Constitution, and says he will ask
the owners of the two Shamrocks, Col
umbia and Constitution to give the In
dependence a race after (the America's
cup match is decided.
He says he Is obliged) to cancel the
existing engagement o? the Indepen
deuce to race the Columbia arad Const!
tution off New Port In July because it
would be manifestly unfair to hang the
fate of the Independence on one race
Ohio Headquarters at Weill'
TO LET
(Furnished rooms In family of two.
Very desirable location, 241 Haywood.
FURNISHED AND
I UNFURNISHED
HOUSES FOR RENT
Call at our office, tt- Faittpa
wvenue wn$ look oarer our list oC
desirable nouses tf you wre-lb-terested'we
may- have just, wtm
you want.
I IVilkie & LaBarbe,
Real Estate Agents.
23 Patton Ave. Phone 661.
OHIO SAFELY
AT SAN FRANCISCO
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Improvement in Mrs. McKinley's Condition Permitted the
President to Attend-Thonsands Witness Launching.
San Francisco, May 18. The launch
ing of the Ohio . was successfully ac
complished today. The weather was
perfect and thousands witnessed the
ceremony.
The improvement in Mrs. McKinley's
condition -permitted the president to at
tend. The president proceeded to the ship
yards is; he transport Slocum. The
president on the way to the-stand was
presented with souvenirs in the shape
of a gold plate inscribed with a testi
monial of esteem of the deputation of
workmen who intercepted him. , The
president mounted) the box and in re- k
ply to the remarks of the spokesman
of the delegation, complimented them
bn their workmanship, and dwelt on
the Olympia and Oregon in the Spanish
American war and lauded the Calilfor
nians on their patriotism and declared
the insular possessions acquired
through the war with Spain, were ours
forever, not to subjugate but to eman
cipate. He closed by declaring he
would cherish the souvenir as one of
the dearest tokens he ever received.
The president and members Of the
official party then proceeded to the
special stand. Besides the president
were the members of the cabinet and
the wife of the Governor of Ohio, the
Ohio delegation and others.
It was 12:22 p. m. when, the vessel
slid down its ways in response to the
pressure of the electric button by Miss
Barber, the president's niece
As the great ship started down Its
ways Miss Deshler.the sponsor, broke
a bottle 'Of wine over the bow savinas.
"I cherish thee,. Ohio."
There was not a cheer, until the ves
sel reached the water, , then a great
him to the house of 'Dr. Brownson, not
far away. "I will stay here," said the
wounded man, and a few minutes later
he breathed his last.
Coroner Sevier was notified, and he
in turn notified Deputy Sheriff Reed,
who went with him jto the scene of the
killing. S. C. Alexander, J. H. Buok
roer, S. M. Sumner, R,,.H. Moore, W.
T. Britt, and I3. R. Cowan Were sum
moned as a jury, and in the rain and
darkness an inquest was-treld, the find
ing of the jury being in accordance with
the facts as here set forth. Parhan's
testimony was to the effects that Tay
lor had struck the first blow. An ugly
knife wound, about six inches long, was
found in. the dead man's breast. It is
thought the knife entered the heart.
Deputy Sheriff ' Reed and William1
Wright started at once on the trail of
the murderer. Sheriff Lee and Deputy
Weaver later started in pursuit.
The body of Branton was brought to
Noland Bros.'s undertaking rooms.
Branton is a man of about 45. Tavlor
is about 21 or 22, and Ibears a bad repu
tation .
COMMISSION TO SETTLE
CLAIMS OF MISSIONARIES
Pekin, May 18. The governor of
Shangsi, who favors reform, has ap
pointed a commission of progressive
officers to settle the claims of the mis
sionaries and afford relief to native
converts. The Chinese plenipotentia
ries have recommended that money to
pay the indemnities be raised by new
taxes on opium and tobacco.
SALEM COMMENCEMENT.
Special to the Gazette.
Winston-Salem, N. C, May 18. The
ninety-ntoth annual commencement ex
ercise of Salem Female College opened
tonight with a grand concert consisting
of music and elocution. The program
was creditably rendered) and rwias wit
nessesed by a large and representative
audience, majny patrons and! friends from
a distance being in attendance. To
morrow at 11 o'clock Rev. Dr. Cecil,
pastor of the First Presbyterian churoh,
Richmond, Va., will preach the Bac
calaureate sermon in the OkJ Home Mo
ravian church. The year Just closing
has (been a successful one, over 350
pupils being registered. Twenty-six
young ladies compose this year's grad
uating class,
(Blomberg's "most tip to date cigar store
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Where Photography
Leaves Off WeBegia
With Pencil & Brush.
ram any good ptiotograph we
' produce enleedi 'portraits .in
crtwsto Mid pastel.- Do not send.
" away a valued family picture
to .nave it enlarged when yoa cn
fcave 't done .better right here.
' Our portraits mar be ;. blfiher
-f than those ; some copying hoaselr, J
agent offers you, but "ere
Is a difference In quality whlci is
not computable in dollars and
cents.
N. Brock,
29. Patton Ave.
LAUNCHED
cheer broke forth from the crowd.
steam whistles were blown and for a
time pandemonium reigned.
The president immediately returned
to the Scott residence, where he ifound
Mrs. McKinley much improved.
Secretary Cortelyou gave out the fol
lowing at 8:30 p. nr.: "Mrs. McKin
ley's physicians report she had a com
fortable day, but there Is a slight rise
of temperature tonight."
When it became known this morning
that the president was to attend the
launching of the battleshtn Ohio raoit
of the population of San Francisco and
vicinity semed to be movm-? towards
the Union Ironworks. lithnmrh tv,
time for the launching was set for 1?:26
P. m. the populace commenced to gather
about the Union Iron works many hoifs
before. Only a few were allowed to
enter the enclosure surrounding the
ways but thousands of spectators cliis
tered 'the bluffs overlooking the works.
On the bay &hore of the farther sid
of the cove mto which the Ohio glided
stands (had been erected and they were
black with people at an early hour. On
the bay the scene was most animated.
Every pleasure craft nd steamer, sail
boat atoid row boat that could be pressed
in service hovered around the ship and
these were kept ba?k with difficulty by
the patrol tugs. It was estimated that
fully 50,000 people saw the big battltshlp
plunge into the wat?r. No outsider was
allowed in the yard adjoiniig the ways
until the appointed hour fo- the gates
to open., 11 o'clock. Work was knocked
off at 10:15 for a few minutes so that
the men etmgaged ins-iking away the
blocks could join thir fellow workmtn
in hearing the address of the president
who had arrived at thai hour on th
United States transport tug fcldcum
with the cabinet officers andi specially
Invited guests of the army and the na
vy. We Will
Credit You
with icommota sense, therefore we
make no exaggerated statements,
simply plain facts and figures that
are correct.'
Corticelli 50 yard spool silk,
iolors. . Regular price 5c.
all
3 Cents
3000 yards Scotch Lawn. Dain
ty designs, beautiful coloring, all
new patterns. Regular price &c.
At...
3 Cents
1000 yards Crash Toweling, plain
white and checks. Regular price
5 and 6 cents. At
3 Cents
We give you 5 per .cent, off any
advertized prices on sheets, pillow
sases and) muslins that will be
made in the city.
Large Reduction in all wash
Goods
G. A. SHEARS
33 SOUTH MAIN STREET.
Girl wanted for cashier.
REAL ESTATE, v
WhiQliPo You Wish)?
Do you wish K a fine house
in this city? We have it.
Do you want a nice farm?
We have it
Dovouwant ta.buy an es
tablished grocery business in
Asheville?" We nave it.
- Po you want a vacant lot?
We have it. -
In short &o you wish any
thing in the real estate line?
If so, we can furnish it.
Apply early to
CLIFFORD & DAVIES.
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