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' i j ? i FORECAST: r Pair and, 'cdldeir. VOL, VII NO. 277 ASHEVILLE, N. G, TUESDAY MOENING, DECEMBER 80. 1902. FTVTI CENTS PER COPT. .TOUR DOLLARS A THAR. : - . . -"'V , . , ' -- - ' - . WarmThiBgs " FOR Cold Days Comforts $1.25 to $3.50. Wool Blankets $2.50 to $7.50 Woolen Vests and Pants Ladies' Woolen Stockings 25c 5oc and 69c Fleece Lined Hose 25c and 50c Woolen Mitts 25c Children's, Infants Mitts and Gloves bpecial prices on Heavy Woolen Dress Goods, Sumner's Send the Children We treat them Just as well, (if mot better, than grown folks. Whatever they get here will be just right. This is a careful place. Only the best is good enough for sick folks; nothing but the best can be had here. We make a .specialty of pre scriptions. Pfafflin's Drug Store, Patton Ave. and Church St. If we have it its the best. A HAPPY IIEW YEAR Builder's Hardware, Guns, Ammunition, Mill Supplies, Cutlery, Scissors, Carvers, Heaters. A HAPPY NEW YEAR . f 11 Asheville Hardware Co. On the Square Phone 87 Asheville HOLIDAY .GIFTS.. Be sure and look at our line of Sweaters, Smoking Jackets, Hats, Gloves, Neckwear, Shirts, Suspenders, Handkerchiefs, &c. Suitable fr Presents Boys. for Men and 41 Patton Avenue. Whitloek's BIG WHISKEY ENT IS SEIZED Revenue Officers Take Posses sion of Largest Rectifying House in the South CASTRO COMPANY WELL GIVE BOND Will Contest the Case in! Court Great Mail OrderJLiquor House The pliant of the Casper company, of Wmstonj-Salem, the largest rectifying establishment in the south, was seized on Saturday for alleged violation, of the internal revenue law. The concern is the second most important that has ever (fallen under the heavy hand of Uncle Sam's revenue officials, the larg est ever seized being that of Key & Co. of Statesville two years ago. The officers making the seizure of Casper & company's establishment were Messrs Sands and Kaaiipe. The company will bond all the detained goods and resume business at an early date. They will contest the case in court in fact they declare 'they will fight it hotly. Several thousand dol lars are involved in the seizure. The Casper company's establishment has been in operation about a year. They have done an immense mail order business. Their advertfeerrnente- are to be found in many of the papers arid magazines, especially in. the north and THE OIL HEATER. Buy the Banner and then you are SURE you have the best there is. J. H. Law, 35 Patton Av. Get a NicejPaip Opera Glasses . For use during the opera sea son!. We have some beauties at $1.50 to $20.00 McKee The... Optician 54 Patton Avenue geiheii Sometimes take a practical view of things and give their wives Christmas presents of value. Boyce's. Perfect Steel Ranges are leaders in this line. We alscThave Coal Vases, Fire Sets, Andirons, etc., all very acceptable at this season. W. A. Boyce 11 South cfourt Square. For Sale Or Exchange. a hPAiitifiit modern counter home a ear 'Bine-ham school. House 9 rooms, 1 0 acres of land in high ttate of culti vation. W1U aell or exchange for city property. We are offering splendid value in two business properties on Pattnn, AroniiA rid Main street. These ire all choice values. Piatt Atkinson St Sons Co., Real Bstats Dealers. dust Received . A car load of Flower Pots, and owing o delay to shipment from factory wui au frM.tiT reduced orices. If in terested call at once as they are bound to go. The rx D Department Store, 22 Patton avenue. Foone vri. ESTABLISH f , 1' 1 11 i-MMIIBBBMBBBSSaSBBBJBJJJJJJJJJJMSMHlBBSSBSBBBMBBBkMSBaBaBiaBlBSw west. They are preparing to open an establishment similar to the one at Winston-Salem at St. Loui. est an early date. TO HADE E Declars7 General Pearson, the Boer Leader, Now in Mexico City. Monterey, Mex., Dec. 29. General Pearson, the former Boer commander who is here, says plans had been madef or an invasion of Canada with an jarmy of pro-Boer Americans whe the proceedings 'were stopped by the death of the financial backer, Edward Van Ness, a wealthy resident of New York. He declared that but for the death of Van Ness an invasion would hav been made during M'arCh or April. Th Boer war did not end until May. IS NOT E Another Earthquake Shock Sat urday Victims of Former Earthquake Said to Number 4,800. Ahkabad,, Sunday, Detc. 28. An other violent earthquake shock oc curred at Andijan at 10 o'clock las night. . Passenger service on the Andi jan. railroad, interrupted as a resul of the earthquake, has been restored. St. Petersburg, Dec. 29. Further ad vices from Andijan say tne eartn quake victims number 4,800, of which 1,600 were killed in the town of Andi jan and the rest in the adjacent coun try. About 1,000 square miles were af fected. The center was four miles south of Andijan where there was cle'ft in the ground, whence sand water and mud were issuing. The first shock lasted three seconds t was repeated in half an hour when buildings began tumbling, walls w,ere flung down and roofs collapsed, bury ngf everyone within, and the groans and shrieks filled the ,air. The shocks were continued for fifteen minutes and were accompanied by terrifying rum brings, r; torrential rfih and a hurri tarter c People- in the streets were" hur: ed to the ground repeatedly. No ref uge whatever was available. The nearc-renaing appeals- or menas ana relatives buried in the debris tmagni ned the horrors of the situation. The ratives worked splendidly alongside the soldiers in disinterring the living and the dead. TRAY OE DIAMONDS I STREWN IN STREET New York, Dec. 29. A man who said his name was William Madison of Boston broke into a show window at Simpson's pawn office, on Forty second street, with a paving stone to night, and in the presence of the pass ing crowd grabbed a tray of diamonds worth $10,000 dollars. He fled and was pursued by a crowd. When cor nered he drew a pistol. He was se verely beaten and turned over to the police. He said he was broke and hungry Only three of the diamonds were re covered. COMMISSIONER HERMAN ' ' IS ASKED TO RESIGN Friction Between Him and Secretary Hitchcock. Washington, Dec. 29. Secretary Hitchcock today, after a consultation with the president, called upon Bin- ger Hermann, commissioner of the general land office, for his resignation. Hermann will tender it immediately, to take effect February 1. The cause is friction between the secretary and the commissioner. CUBAN COALING STATION J" NEGOTIATIONS ARE BEGUN Havana, Dec. 29. The American minister has commenced negotiations with Palma for a treaty deeding a coaling station in Cuba to the United States. NEW YEARS' PRESENTS. Reduction sale in my line of fine pipes and sporting goods will continue to Jan. 1st, 1903. Fireworks at cost. D. Blomberg, Leading Cigar and Sporting Goods store, Patton avenue Biltmore Firewood, Phone 700. tf A FBW more left of those handsome HANDWORK DOLLS. You get them only at HESTON'S Phone 183 26 S. Main. PLANS CANADA WER MADE AND JAN HORROR NDED GORGEOUS SCENE OE EASTERN SPLENDOR DURBAR S OPENING First Day of Pageant Celebra ting Edward's Accession to India's Throne. C0RZON ENTERS DELHI IN STATE The Pageant Was an Unuiually Magnificent One, Even for the Pompous Orient. Delhi, India, Dec. 29. The viceroy, Lord Curzon of Kedleston made his at,ate entry today into the capital of the Moguls. This constituted the offi cial opening df the Durbar, held to celebrate )the escessiion of King Ed ward as emperor to India. It was a splendid pageant, probably unparalleled la its magnificence. At the head of the elephant procession roae ira ana Lady Curzom on the state "Grand Tusker," twelve feet high, the largest elephant In India. i near noyaab was decked with gold and silver and the elephant itself was almost hidden beneath a gold worked auntie uiuai. ourrouncung tnem were footmen 4n scarlet and gold liveries and 'bearing massive silver staves. The Duke of Conmaught, who represented King Edward.and the Duchess of Cora uaugut iouowea. xneir etepnant was equally gorgeously decorated. Then in order of precedence came the Mizam of Hyderabad, tthe Mahajarah of Trav ancore and other ruling chiefs, seven ty in all, with their huge elephants forming a line a mile in length. This glittering procession started from the railroad station preceded by dragoon guards and artillery, the viceroy's es cort, and by heralds and trumpeter? The route was entirely lined by Bfitisli and native troops. (From the saluting battery, posted at the fort commamdiing the Lahore gate, guns .thundered out a, royal salute ; tUtf viceroy -passed with the heralds and trumpeters sounding at intervals spir ltea ianiares. rne cortege passed m front of a line of 150 elephants carry ing the bnilliatntly dressed retainers of the ruling chiefs. The collossal beasts all saluted by trumpeting and throwing their trunks in the air, presenting truly Imposing sight, and afterward fell ten line behind the official proces sion. Huge crowdfe of onlookers wit nessed the spectacle, which, it is as serted, has never been surpassed m magnificence even in this country of oriental splendors. The heralds, pursuivants and trum peters who followed the escort and immediately preceded the vice regal procession were conspicuous by the splendor of their attire. They were followed by the newly constituted im perial cadet corps comprising thirty Maharajahe. The excitement was at a fever heat as the first elephants.with gold and silver howdahs af the staff officers, came in view and commenced to circle aroumd the mohque. The finest elephants in Asia passed in front of the great jumma musjid, the steps of which were thromiged with distinguished personages' including the viceroys, American and British guests and the deleerates from the colonies and from other parts of 'the empire. The enormous animals shuffled slowly by, many of the massive howdahs ot quaidit and rich dressing being sur mounted bv magnificent canopies of gold embroidered and bejeweled tapes try. The bodies of the animals were almost hidden by their trapping of crimson, rmrnle and eold. Bands of gold encircled their tusks.golden brace lets were on their ankles, gold and sil ver bells were hanging from their neck chains aiid their heads' were painted and decorated in every conceivable color. The mahouts were clad in (the brieh-t'est attire as were the attendant snaarmpm, who marched by the ele phants' sides. In the rear of the procession rode General Lord Kitchener, the commander-in-chief in India, surrounded; by a hrfil.liamit staff and followed biy the heads of provinces with escorts of In dian cavalry and the leaders from be yond ithe border liinie. - Down the main street moved the cor- Choice Lots On Charlotte Street For Sale Opposite the Manor and Albemarle Park property. The owner has here tofore refused to sell these desirable lots, but we can now name a very reasonable price, either as a whole or divided into four lots. Total frontage 252 feet; depth, 194 feet. Wilkie & LaBarbe i SOLE AGENTS. No. 23 Patton avenue. Phone CO.. tege through lines of saluting soldier and excited, surging, salaming throngs of natives through the ancient city with the balconies and housetops alive and through the gate into the open part beyond. There, after a four mile march, the elephants of the viceroy and the Duke of Connaught halted side by side, and the pageant was concluded with the great princes filing by with, their elephants trumteting a salue. NEGOTIATIONS NOW WAIT OPPN CASTRO Minister Bowen, Acting for Ven ezuela, Is Arranging Protocol Washington, Dec. 29. The Venezue lan negotiations now wait upon Pres ident Castro. Minister Bowen has been fully advised by the state department of the result of its exchanges with the foreign officers at London, Berlin and Rome, and he has been charged to take the case in hand himBelf and ar range the details of the protocol which will- precede the submission of the foreign claims to the arbitration of The Hague tribunal. In so doing Mr. Bowen is acting, not as United States minister, but las Venezuela's repre sentatlve. The officials here wish it to be distinctly understood that their functions ceased, so far as the Vene zuelan difficulty was concerned, when they brought the parties to the con rroversy together. ATLANTA THEATER BURNED 'THE LOSS IS $3000 Atlanta, Dec. 29. Fire broke ouft in the Star theater, on Dcatur Btreet, midway between Pryon and Ivy, at 11:30 oclock this morning. The entire fire department responded to a gener al alarm. Ini a few moments flames shot through the roof. For a 'rime the whole block, bounded by Decatur. Pryor, Edgewood avenue and Ivy street was in danger. The fire was confined to the Star theater. The theater people lost every thing. The total loss wiill be a'bout $30, 000 uninsured. The fire was caused by a deiective flue. CHOLERA SCOURGE IS DEVASTATING MINDANAO ISLAND Manila, Dec. 29. Cholera is devas-lpale fating the country surrounding Lake Danao, Island of Mindanao- - It is re ported that villages on the eastern shore of the lake have been depopu lated by the disease. In Maciu and Bacolod the deaths average 50 daily. The disease is unusually virulent, and frequently persons working, in the fields are attacked and die before as sistance can reach them. Three men engaged in collecting re cruits for Ladrone (bands have been captured in Samar. They carried let ters of recommendation from AguLn- aldo. The latter denies all knowledr f them. A Handsome Set of Carvers u ! is one of the most elegant New Year's gifts imaginable, and'" certainly none could be more useful. Every Carver would appreciate a handsome Carvting Set, and especially ours which combines Beauty and Worth The prices are altogether reas onable for such high quality. ARTHUR M. FIELD Company, Leading Jewelers, Cor. Church St. and Patton Ave WANTED 75 to J50 Acres Farm Lands near Asheville. Aston RawIs&Co. Real Estate Agents, i 18 S. Main St., Asheville, N, C . - PARIS EXCITED. , OVER THE RETURN OF THE TS Members of Family Implicated in Great Safe Frauds Brought Back . ALL FRANCE TALKS OF THE AFFAIR More Public Interest Is Aroused Than by Any Occurrence Since the Dreyfus Trial. Paris, De-j. 29. The six member, of the Humbert familv rpoMitii a rroofoH J UM. VV- vn Madrid for caHosal . u rived at Or lea SLl i :40 O'clock thift mrmin TV ' udij A. prisoners were conducted to the Con ciergerie prison. The arrival of the fugitives wajr de void of sensational incidents, as th French police had chosen an hour for their return when Paris was only half awake. A larsre force of rolic ind soldiers, mounted and on foot, vas drawn up in front of the station and guarded afl the street approaches ir order to prevent the possibility of a popular demonstration. A number of the chief functionaries of the perfect ure were on hand to personally super intend the prisoners' arrival. The men and women of the Hum bert party were separated during the trip from Madrid to Paris, and they were brought from the train in two separate parties. The women came learning on the arms of officers. Mine. Humbert was dressed in black and wore a veil, but she was readily rec ognized by her stout figure. Her young daughter, Eva, was the most pathetic looking of the women. Mme. Humbert was followed by her sister. Marie, who did not sbjsw the brav ado she exhibited at Madrid, but was and appeared disconsolate. Frederick .Hunjbert, Madame Hum -- Continued on page eight) The Handsomest Place On Montford avenue can be bought at a bargain on account of the own ers having decided to leave town. Tne house has all modern improvement and the grounds are the handsotneecrt. for their size, in the city. Let show it to you. H P. Grant Sc Son, REAL ESTATE AGENTS. 48 Patton avenue. 1 The Tailor Phone 347. Come and inspect my line of lmportedand Domestic Suitings before buying elsewhere. Gen tlemen's Riding Breeches and Livery, a Specialty. The Satisfied Smokers In Asheville this year and there were mahy ot them 6 rooked our Pratt Five-Center There are certainly none better. MICKBLSON'S ON THE SQUARE. COLD CREAM Fresh cold cream, ftae for ridn an complexion, 15 and 2Sc per Jar. HOLIDAY RERFUMB. "We offer a choice assortment of kol iday perfumes sad sachet powlers . Tlrey are of the best quality, datntiljfT boxed and very reaseaabry prleea. HUMBER Grant's Pharmacy Grant's No. 21 cures col 25c '-' - - -1 r.x. 'k 7.. -4i -i. i. 'V. v -r ? 'V ;-' 1 4" " ' r . v - . X 'h - , ' J ' "
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