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WASHINGTON LETTER.
8pr)il Correspondence.
Washington, Aug. 7, 1899
There is to be more whipping
of the devil around the stump.
That is the sum and substance of
the semi-official leaking as to the
-intention of the administration in
the Philippines. Gen. Otis is not
to be either recalled or humiliated.
Oh no ! not for worlds I the admin
istration has such absolute confi
dence in him that it intends to let
him set In his office at Manila and
worry oyer the ten-cent details of
the government of such portions of
the Philippines as recognize our
authority. But another man is to
be put in command of the army
which is to do the fighting. That
would be so thoroughly character
istic of the McKinlev administra
tion that it is generally accepted
to be true of present intentions.
Of course those intentions, like
many others have been,- may "be
cnangea beiore being- carried out.
statements differ as to the man
who is to command the fighting
orancn oi tne nillppine army,
some saying that it will be Lawton
and others that it will be Miles.
Gen. Miles has indicated to Secre
tary Root his willingness to take
command of the Philippine cam
paign, outtnere are several reasons
why he is not likely to go. The
first and most important of which
is the evident intention of the ad
ministration to leave the supreme
command nominally in the hands
of Gen. Otis. Gen. Miles could
not serve under a subordinate offi
; cer.
The new secretary of war has
been asked to pass upon a question
of law, but he has not said that he
will do so, notwithstanding all the
talk about that being what he was
taken into the cabinet to do. The
question involved is whether the
secretary of war has a right to au
thorize ofl3cer8 who are his favor
ites to draw specified sums in addi
tion to their salary and regular al
lowances, to be used to maintain
the dignity of their positions.
During Alger's recent visit to Cuba
he authorized Gen. Brooke to draw
$7,500 a year in addition to his pay
as major general ; Gen. Ludlow,
who made a break last week by
Vi P688ing "a Cuban newspaper,
$5,000 a year, in addition to his
pay as, a brigadier general; Col.
Bliss, collector at Havana, $3,000
in addition to his salary as colonel,
and Maj. Davis, sanitary officer at
Havana, $2,500, in addition to his
salary as major.. Alger directed!
that these allowances be made from
the Cuban revenues. Only favor
ites of Alcrer were authnrixA tn
draw this extra money, no such au
thority beincr eiven to Gen. Fitz
Lee, Gen. Leonard Wood, and other
officers who would seem to have
quite as much dignity to maintain
as the officers on dutv at Havana.
It has been pointed out to Secre
tary Boot that Section 1269 of the
Revised Statutes, which fixes the
pay ox army officers, contains this
positive language : "No allowances
shall be made to offl nam in nrlriitirm
to their pay except as hereinafter
proviaea." The provisions refer
red to are for the care of ofi3cers
horses, the payment for quarters,
ana ior travel pay, but there is no
where a word about anv allowance
to maintain dignity. It is very
ciear mat Alger exceeded his legal
authority in makincr these allow
ances, but whether Secretary Root
sit .. . . r i
win say so is a horse of quite an
other color. 1
Against the advice of exnertn.
Secretary Alger gave a contract
last year for twenty-five Brown
segmental wire wound guns. They
are now ready for delivery, but will
not be accepted, because when test
ed, one of them blew out the breech
and fractured its jacket, under less
than the- required pressure. If
they had been readv for delivArv
before August went out, they would
nave probably been accepted and
paiu ior.
A Sad Case of Drowning.
Thursday afternoon about three
o'clock a peculiarly sad drowning
occurrea in Bogue Sound, near
Cedar Points resulting in the loss
of the life of Miss Katie Jones, a
girl fifteen years of age, who lived
witk her mother, Mrs. K. N. Bell,
at Uedar Point.
That afternoon Johnnie .Inn pa
brother of Katie, and Miss Mamie
weeks took a boat and went to. the
sound, intending to go in bathing.
The . boat was run up on a shoal
and while they were in the water
the boat went adrift. Johnnie
went after it, telline the cirla to
stand still in the shoal. He gained
tne boat and looking back saw that
the girls had moved and were un
to their necks in water. In his
haste to reach them he broke an
oar and makincr the best sneed nasi
sible, he reached the spot ' in time
to grasp Mamie, but his sister
Katie had disappeared, and nothj
tog more was seen or her. The
place Was drstrffftii. hut tin to troai
terday morning the body had not
been'recovered.r-Newbern Journal i
Easy Justice This.
Havana, August 8. As the re
sult of a recent altercation between
an American and a Cuban, in
which the former was obliged to
draw his revolver , in self-defense.
the American caused his assailant
to be summoned before a local
magistrate.
The evidence brought out showed.
that the Cuban had struck the
American in the face with a olub
before the latter drew his revolver.
but the judge decided that 1 the
American must pay a fine of $20
for drawing his revolver.
The American, however, was al
lowed to leave the court room, and
after a few day s. called to see the
judge, who told him that he could,
if he preferred, serve a term of im
prisonment instead ef paying the
one, each day's confinement count-
ed as equal to 33.
The American said hii business
would not permit of this arrange
ment, whereupon the judge said he
could let the prisoner serve the
time in his own house, giving him
leave to go when and where he
pleased. This arrangement, was
accordingly made.
Says We Want the Earth.
New York, August 4. If the
opinion oi Lr. xaurone vmanova,
ex-president of Venezuela, who is
at present in this city, is of any
value, the boutb American repub
lics have no love for the United
States. When asked through an
interpreter whether it was true
that the bouth American countries
were about to form an offensive
and defensive alliance against the
United otates on account of the
imperial policy," replied that he
had not heard of it, but thought
that such an alliance ought to be
made.
. I The ex-President said that he
thought that the United States
wanted to take "all, all," meaning
the whole world. When it was
suggested to him that this country
would be satisfied with the Phillip-
pines, he replied: "Ob. no: the
United States wants Europe and
the Indies, at least." -
"Do all the South American Re
publics think as you do about the
United States?"
"Why, of coursa. It is a well-
known fact. Who can doubt it.
Do you deny it?"
Gov. Candler in Command.
! Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 5. It became
known today that Governor Cand
ler, of this state, made a personal
trip to Newman, a town 60 miles
south of this city, yesterday raorn-
innr tn oav tfiA 1 i fa gt o n nrrm
John Mullens, charged with an, as
tault upon Mrs. Cook, near Senoia,
Ga., Wednesday. , - j
Governor Candler left the execu
tive mansion at 4 o'clock yesterday
morning, boarded the first (train
and arrived at the public jail of
Coweta county an hour after day
break. He took command of the
Newman Guards, a company of the
state militia, which had been guard
ing the jail during the night from
a mob. and directed Sheriff Brown
to take his prisoner at once to At
lanta for safe keeping.
The greatest excitement prevail
ed in the town during the night,1
and Sheriff Brown, fearing an at
tack from the mob, telephoned
Governor Candler several times for
instructions. r
The mob was successfully avoid
ed and the prisoner lodged in
Suicide in Wilkes A Family of
Self-Murderers
- Last Thursday, just across the line
from Alexander, In Wilkes county,
near Kilby 's gap, Troy Laws' wife com
mitted suicide by hanging herself to a
joist with her apron. It was the sec
ond attempt, as she had tried to hang
herself once before.
The cause for the act is said to be
insanity. There also seems to be a
propensity in the. family for commit
ting suicide, as Mrs. Laws' great grand
mother hung herself not far from the
same place. Her grandfather had the
day set to kill himself but was stricken
with paralysis on that day and never
recovered. The father of Mrs. Laws,
Haines Kilby, shot himself some years
ago. Correspondence of the States
ville Landmark.
ton county jail at Atlanta
before, noon.
Within the next few days there
will be cast in Newark a bronze
statue of Admiral Raphael Semmes,
of the Confederate Navy. The
statue, which will be of herotc size,
is to be erected in Mobile, Ala.,
where the famous commander of
the Confederate man-of war Ala
bama lired and died.
lOl Yoars Old and Was Fr
North Carolina.
Brooklyn, Ind., Aug. 5-Mrj. h
Medaris, one hundred acd ociji
old, is dead at the home of her p
daughter, Mrs. L. T. 'Apple, of u
place. S&he was born in Nerih Cc
Una Jurfe 2ltb.'17!tt. She itvttz
hundred and thirtv livintr de:di:
two sons. 30 grand childreiji, p
grand children, "fifteen, great p
grand childreu and onq greit p
grand son, who whs born 'to 'Mr
Mrs. Orval Beler
March 10, 1890.
at! Friends c
Rev. Dr. W II. Milburn.tbe
erable blind chaplain .oi pti;-'j
Statet "senate, was ljrpfriteJj
sunstroke in "Lincoln,
week. He has been lefcturi:-
the West. I
Ful-
9hr ,y CASTOR I A
A Unique Suicide.
St. Paul, Minn., Aucr. 7. A
special to the Pioneer Press from
Cumberland, Wis., says :
JChris Wold, a farmer near Pos-
kin Lake, this county, committed
suicide today by blowing off his
head with dynamite." f
"He placed a quantity of dyna
mite in a hole in the ground,; laid
his head over it and touched off
the fuse. Nearby was found a
scrap of paper on which was writ
ten: . : .
wii
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the
Signature of
tsSthia fiiMABTiuS.- Plfck,
THEY CURt!
NOT SIIV1PLY.REUEVE
Oh. frhat b!7lrr
Pills have btn to me.-I cwua n v
for ycr,nd walkint: nrarly lu c i f f
could run a foot-rcr, m l hra.vJ , tf j ;
humplntf alone. I IcU him r ?rt a
on's Kidney -rills nd get vc.
25 PILLS 10
CENTS.
Snpcrior to ny hW-vrir tevie'7
on receiDt of five a-ccut tlauij -
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Howard Gardner, Cor.lV;1
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THE NORTH CAROLINA COLLEGE
me.
"Here I go, and the Lord go
m it i
rith
His head and one arm were com
pletely torn away. Wold! was 30
yean old, and leaves a wife and
family who are unable to assign
causa for the deed. I
Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
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Term Begins Wednesday, September.
Tom and Jim Baker Prove an AlibL
A most disastrous cyclone passed
over a section of Florida last week.
A large number of families were
rendered homeless and many are
completely destitute. ; ,
Barbodr8villk. Kv., Aucr. 7.
The testimony has closed id the
case acrainst Jim Barker for killing
Wilson, Howard. The witnesses
for the defense testified that Tom
and Jim Barker were at home when
the killing occurred. J
The case will be civen to the
jury tomorrow, and the case against
wiiey HaJfcer win men be; called.
Although many feudists are here,
mere nas oeen no aisturoacne. I
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The new trial of CaDtain Drey.
fus was begun at Bennes Monday.
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