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that ire not very robust need a
warming, building and fat forming
food something: to be used for two
or three months in the fall that
they may not suffer from cold
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EMULSION
1 Cod-Liver Oil with Hvooohos-
nites of Lime. And Soda, sunnlies
xactlv what thev want. Thev
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well all winter on this splendid food
tonic Nearly all of them become
very fond of it. For adults who
are not very strong, a
course of treatment with
the Emulsion for a couple
of months in the fall will
put them through the
winter in first-class con
dition. Ask vour doctor
about this,
Be sure you et SCOTT'S Emulsion. See that the
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All druggists; yx sjxd $100.
SCOTT ft BOWNE, t.hen.uts, New York.
AMEHICAN MUSICAL PRODIGY,
MlgS A 11 j 11 i CottttJW Amiohij, t1:i
Wttild' POP? Mi 04 1 Mn.iriuns.
2 MiAl Atf Ulttl'flL C?rt tldWa lilt4 Attiprlfttii
inimical ttwtlgy vrlm bonte iajn MteU
byville, ill,, I mid. to be one of fhe
fulH-ttlf-l MtlilMtftN lt Ilia WOfld, Al
though not p! tm & hr tudifj Mis
in iii,tHfu ip iimilKt? nod deltfltt flta
-loititiUiJ UUsJfllH Of 1101 WJUl UPf
fcupm'b licTTwi uiiHit t s mf the Vuv
Tliu Lwo j'tnira b!o lifts yem bhwly
Jlig iniiki' ll.Ti- T-iiiuiL'j't nml fvofottsop
liusoni. The luttpr1( avIioq asked by
Oottlow for fh'o aiuomtt gf hla
jchargca, replied: ' "(insle, there mm be
no talk of business botweeu nrtists. You
re nn nvtlrit. Your music delightH mc,
If I enn bo otjiny help td you In your
career r abaii do all in my power for
you. You may tnke iny aid as a courte
sy from an oidoi artist to a yotingcr
oni'." Miss CoHlow began hot musdcaJ
titudlcs r.L 3 yenrs of age. At 5 aho
made per dobut in public. From that
time she was In demanid. At 9 alie waa
la' iwi in ob ta frf Professor Wolfsohu
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j.?.nd couaterpolnt unler Pro-
fessor Gleason. She plays the most dif
ficult .music from memory. She won
New' York musicuis with hot perform
ances of Beethoven's concerto In C,
which she played with the Thomas or
chestra throe years ago. She has lately
turned her mind to composition. Br
first piece, "A Koinanza" for violin and
piano was bought and published in
Gennqiffy. Miss Cottlow is undoubted
ly the ablest pianist over produced In
jjlmerka. ,
Seeing Without Eyes.
HKjes are popularly considered to be
Quite necessary to sight, but this Is an
error, , if we are to believe Dr Nagel, a
rerert German experimenter. Many
creatures without eyes can see; at
least, they can distinguish between
light and darkness and even between
different degrees of light. This is the
low es-t degree, of aeeing, to be sure, but
still, it is really sight, and djffers
scaicely more from the vision of some
insect that possess eye? than this
dors from our own clear sight.
Cieatures that see withoat eyes see
fcy nrt!;.s of their skins. All skins,
SKys Dr. Nagel, are potential eyesj
that IS, they are sensitive to light. n
animals that haveeyes the sensitiveness
has been highly localized and greatly
inf.rfased so that man. for instance,
hus a retina very sensitive to light,
am! an expanse of ordinary skin which
possesses a sensitiveness to light so
-slight that it is hardly conscious of it.
Yet his skin is sensitive in some de
gree.", as is proved by the fact that it
si:rburns that is, light may cause a
disturbance in the pigment of the skin
jiist as it does in that of the eye. In
the eye the disturbance is accompan
ied by a nervous change, which sends
a telegre phic message along fhe optic
nerve to the brain. In the skin, too,
there are nerves, and there are mes
sages, also, but their tidings imprint
no image on the mind; they simply
pXiirc88 discomfort cry out "suK
1 nut t in many cyelesi creatures
tlmre been, noticed nn increased
riipitlvpnes of the whole akin sur
face tf Htfht. Darwin long ago no
n, -i that earth wortni. although thy
hav no ey. will suddenly withdraw
ltV tolr holw at the approach eM
lirhted rnndle. Home reaturw sm
ru Mtiiltlve to stultten InPi'wuw of
Hght etheti to midden diminution,
DoMon Jottfal.
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YEAR. NO. 23.
CHAR6ES WERE FULLY PROVED
The Legislature to Be Memorialized
in Behalf of the Soldiers Home
FORESTRY SOCIETY ORGANIZED
Portraits of Throe Culoncls Tile
phone Rates LowerfAtoto Fulir O01
cert Elected Other N. C. Squibs.
A special from Raleigh to the Char
lotte Observer, says the penitentiary
directors unanimously decided that Dr.
Kirby Smith, son of the superintend
ent, iiad been guilty of the grossest im
morality with two of the female crimi
nal insane; that the charges against
him were fully proved and that Dr.
George L. Kirby and Superintendent
Smith were commended for promptly
discharging him as supervisor. The
board also decided to place the peniten
tiary absolutely in charge of the execu
tive committee, composed of Directors
Chadbourn, Martin and Gotten, thus
taking control entirely out of Superin
tendent Smith'B hands. Smith 'made
no protest but submitted toft all. He
now only nominally the superiu tend -
ent. His submission is all that Saad
him, as but for this he would have been
deposed. All the ofhciuls M)d employes
who have their families in the peniten
tiary ore ordered to removo theni im
mediately. No bills are to be mid uh-
less approved by Chairman 1'oekery
ana two executive committeemen.
There will be a complete overhauling
and all Btirplua employes wilt de dt'op
pad', It was decided that tho heniiiffi'
liary should hot be lead a the ati
m a! pptitimeiit ill the Mbit- i ' t'
At Italeiiih dttritta tair Week there'
wa fth iuterestiu eetemtut v i u m r.
fair grtmudw the presehinUoti loltp!
Wale fur if hbrafy d pautlums. of h
three uolguula nf th Tvieut.v iwlh
North (Jaroluitt regiment A. l. Vrtdiie,
Haul y K, BuiLrwyu and .luun M.r-ftll
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Uiohard H, Buttle, president of lief
introduced John liurgwyn Mel!no, v
made the presentation speech in ll
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taste and paid tho commanders of t
to
regiment a tribute, stating that at
Gettysburg the loss vas greater than
that of any other regiment on either
side during the war. Governor Russell
made an eloquent live minutes' speech,
accept nr.' the portraits in the name of
the S'ft e, and saying that, dead or liv
ing, the Confederate soldier oocupiod a
place in the pantheon of fnaul Ho iu-
trodueed Justice Montgomery of the
Supremo
dress acc
Court,
who in a'forcof nl ad-
intiny. Prominent
men
were pros
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and
Suerate Vetbr-
ans' Asso
mg among them. 1
The Railroad Commission decides that
the order reducing telephone rates iu
this State must stand. The ordersMa
made June 1st, and is as follows: The
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph
Company will be allowed a maximum
charge (annually, semi-aunually or
quarterly) for telephone rates as fol
lows: Price of bnsiuess: Special wire;
$34 per year; 'i, party wire, each, $80-69
per year; ',, party wire, each, 2-3. fiO pejr
3ear; 4, party wire, each, $20.40 per
year; "5, party wire, each, SIT per. year.
Resideuce: Special wire, 24 per year;
2, party wire, oach, $32.40 per year; So,
party wire, each, $'i0 ier year; 4, party
wire, each, 8it. m:3 per year; 5, party
wire, each, $14. 40 per year. Effective
June 10th, 1827.
The State Confederate Veterans in
annual session at Raleigh elected Col,
Francis M. Parker of Littleton, presi
dent; George T. Leach, of l!ittsboro,
vice-president, and C. B. Dc rvsoii, of
Raleigh, secretary. Speeches were
made by G. H. Battle, J. C. irdspngfl
C. J. Leach and Rev. James Battle.
A. C. Avery, W. H. Day, C. B. Dcni
son and Jas. G. Macrae were appoint-:
ed to memorialize the legislature to
make more liberal provision for the
soldiers' home, which now gets Only
$8,500 annually and has already i ex
hausted this year's appropriation It
gets far less thau theio.me in any other
State, and subtantial brick cottages are
needed for not less than two hundred.
A resolution of thanks to Charles Broads
way Rouss was adopted, by a rising
vote.
The North Carolina Forestry Society
was organized at the State Fairi It
starts with twenty members. W.; E.
Petty, of Carthage, was elected presi-.
dent; C. A. Schenck, of Biltmore, vice
president, and W. W. Ashe, secretary, i
The forest products of the State are
among its most important sources: of
income, amounting for the eastern
counties alone to more than twelve mil
lion dollars. The society has for its ob
ject the improvements and perpetuity
of the forests of the State, their protec
tion from fires and their renewal. The
next meeting will be held at Newborn
during the fair, when addresses will be
delivered by State Geologist Holmes
and other members.
The Supreme Court says the State is
liable for the costs in the Pamlico oys
ter cases. Of these costs there are sev
eral thousand dollars, due the sheriff
and clerk. Auditor Ayer does not see
how he can issue a warrant for the
amount, and so will rccointnend to the
claimants that they appeal to the Legis
lature for relief.
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There is some comment on the sen
tence of Georgo Johnson, negro rapist,
at Wilmington, to be hanged on Thanks
giving day. It was an unusual selec
tion of a day by Judge Sutton.
The railroad commisssion in session
at Raleigh took np the matter of the
reduction of rates of freight on cotton,
which it recently ordered and decided
that they should stand. It will be re
membered, H. W. B Glover, traffic
manager of the Seaboard Air Lihc,
urged the commission not to lower the
rate.
A 8yaarTroffl(t'oTntr.tto ovrt
waa infferintf from symptott of catntth
and was taken to Dr, Wake Held f.r
treatment, The doetor found aud re
moved from the ehild'ft note n lare
M"d Maple, itieh as is uned iu putting
up wiriueeN, iionervcu,
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TOLD IN A PARAGRAPH,
The South
Two prisoners broke Jail at Newton,
N. C. They wore awaiting trial for lar
ceny at tho November term of court.
The britkh steamship Myrtle Dene,
from Char leoton, 8. C, to Wilmington,
N. C, grounded near the Cape Fear
bar.
The postoffice at Boston, Ga., was
blown open and one hundred dollars iu
cash was taken; stamps and other post
office matter was not disturbed.
The New England cotton mill manu
facturers will visit the following cities
on their Southern trip: Norfolk,
Raleigh, Charlotte, Columbia, Augusta
and Atlanta.
At the Carriage Builders' National
Association, in New York, W. T.
JouoHj.oi Carthage, N 0., was elected
one of the vice-presidents.
Tho Invalids Aid Society of North
America visited Charlotte and Ashe
virlo, N. C, last week. Thev expressed
themselves as highly pleased with both
cities.
At Winston, N. C. , talk is being re
vived about the Southern Railway
building a road from Reidsville to Ker
hetsville thereby putting Winston-So
lem on a through line.
j Evangelist Lee has closed his revival
it Charlotte, N. C. Many were added
to the different churches, and organized
an anti-saloon league. He goes to Sal
isbury to hold a meeting.
Rev. Robert E. Caldwell, pastor of
the FirBt Presbyterian church, of Wins
ion, N. 0, , is arranging to take a trip
fo Europe and the Holy Land the first
Of the year, with a party of prominent
Neith Carolinians.
! Jacob A. Mutt. 00 years old. living
five miles from Salisbury, N. C, be
tontt Utthu's mountain on the Mokes'
fmy fnaii was found tlead in his
house, He was lyiutf prone -noon his
face, with his head iu the flreftlat-e,
I'lie bttif atitl skin worn huvneti from
His head, He lived entirely alene,
'iluMfiiitcAdsBft.Jf. M. IdtwraHae, of
tlteOfprd (f, a,,) orphftu Rsyiuw,
mi that he has as many children as
Ue tan eate for, about HO, He also
says that of the j, ooo orphan obildNm in
the State who ought to be cared for,
uimtr ftoo are now being cared for in
all the orphanages in tho State com
bined. At Rookiugham, N. C. , while Miss
Lily Cole was on her way to work in
the Pee Dee cotton mills, some un
known villain attempted to rav
ish her, but owing to the screams of
her two younger sisters that were with
her, he fled without accomplishing his
hellish act.ySeveral suspicious char
acters have, been arrested, and there is
likely to be a lynching if the proper one
io caught.
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The North.
Birdie Davis, a schoolgirl, , of De
catur, 111. , who failed in her studies,
killed herself.
John Sartain, the eminent artist and
engraver, died at his home in Phil
adelphia, Pa., aged 89 years.
James K. Taylor, of Pennsylvania,
has been appointed supervising archi
tect of the treasury. I here wc?e about
thirty-five competitors.
Warrants have been sworn out against
State Auditor Mayhew, ex-Auditor Hip
pie and Clerk Anderson, of South Da
kota, for embezzling.
A St. Louis, Mo., dispatch says
2f 5,000 worth of cartridges, dynamite,
rifles, pistols and saddlery, intended
for the insurgent army in Cuba, have
been sent to Texan ports by Cuban
patriots.
At Cleveland, Ohio, J. J. Shipherd
has been arrested on a charge of em
bezzling nearly $200,000 from F. I).
Robinson and a receiver has been asked
for his firm, which is alleged to be in
solvent and owing $2,000,000.
William R. Foster, Jr. , who abscond
ed from New York on September 20,
1888, with, it is claimed, $193,000 be
longing to the gratuity fund of the New
York produce exchange, has been caught
in Paris.
Three persons were burned to death
and seven more were severely injured
in a fire-that destroyed the Hotel Brook
lyn at Kelletesville, twenty-five miles
southeast of Oil City, Pa. The building
was a three-story one, roughly built of
double boards, and burned like tinder.
Henry A. Holcombe, a director of
the Bennett and Columbia cotton mills,
at New Bedford, Mass., which went
down in a financial crash last 'spring,
has been ordered held for the grand
jury by Judge Fox, on a charge of con
spiring with Frank Rhadley, "the late
treasurer, to defraud the corporation
out of $100,000.
There is talk of a bill beiug intro
duced in the next Delaware Legislature
providing for uniform whippings of
convicts in the three counties. I u New
Castle a cat-'o-nine-tails is used; in
Kent a rawhide, and in Sussex a gum
switch. Sussex folks think the punish
ment iu New Castle is too severe, and
in Sussex it is too light. The Kent plan
may be agreed upon.
91 lscelianeous.
R. E. Lee, a mail cairier of Char
lottesville, Va,, has been presented
with a check for $10,000 by a wealthy
student of tho University of Virginia as
a token of friendship.
The Presbyterian Synod 'o'f' Minne
sota has appointed a committee to fight
Mormonism, which is fast gaining con
verts in that State.
The case of Mamager Shroeder, pro
fessor of dogmatic theology in the
Catholic University, has been referred
to Pope Leo for final determination,
Forced from their reservations by
Congressional action, the Cherokeo
and Choctaw Indians will emigrate to
Mexico. i.
Washington.
tifleote are no easily counterfeited that
a radical change wilt be made In the
next issue of new 'nil la,
Imiuiuratiuu offleiaU have been
warned to leok out emeiitf Immigrants
!,. easea of favus, a contagious dieaae
N. CM TlIUllSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1897.
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A Sensation In Matthews by the
Confession of a House-Burner,
THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH-
Valuable rapcrs-(irccnsboro Stands
Ity Her Own Acquitted of the
Ci. urge of Murdering a Negro.
Tho Charlotte Observer says the
peaceful, quiet hamlet of Matthews has
developed a sensation, the particulars
of which were told by a party from that
section. Several 'years ago Pleasant
Hill Church, about a mile from Mat
thews was burned. The origin of the
fire could not be determined. It was
hardly thought that it ctu'd be incen
diary, for who had aught against the
church ? Shortly after the fire, howev
er, people began to think that the fire
might have been incendiary, as scraps
of paper were pioked up here and there
with incendiary writing thereon, the
writer threatening to burn the town.
Tlie-e threats were connected with the
firing of the churck-, but suspicion fast
ened on no one. About two months
ago, the bam of Mr. Jas. R. Williams,
father of M. R. Williams, clerk of the
criminal court was burned. This also
temained a mystery. Frank Abernathey,
a sou of Rev. J. W. Abernethy, who
lives a mile from Matthews, went to
Mr, Williams and confessed that he had
fifed the church and barn, and said he
wanted to i ay "Rrown Williamson for a
hog of his that fetlshed in the barib"
Atiei'hather had a tefhear Matthews,
Hetweeu (he time of ike burning
td (he eh ui eh and barn he goi
up an eieitement ahtmt hi Mure -on
ittg been fobbed, laimiag to have leat
1,000, Hp went amongst his friend
ami ftekptf them to kelp mak up hi
lose, A nnmher of them gavehlm nh'
Mautial aid, After cuufeetdug to the
JliHHg of the ohurck ami barn, Aber
nathey also eonfesHed to Mr, YvilUam
bou that ho jobbed his own store and
also wrote the incendiary threats that
had been distributed around Matthews.
Upon being asked by Mr. Williamson
if he wanted the matter made public, he
replied that he did uot care so long as
his mother did not hear it. Abernathey,
itseems, has been laboring under re
ligious excitement recently, which either
prompted his confession or unbalanced
his mind. The public la? not decided
whether to clans him as criminal or in
sane, but, in either case, ho should be
confined for fear history will repeat it
self with him. The people of Matthews
are very mnch excited over the matter.
The State Hoard of Health held its
annual conference at Goldsboro. There
were present Dr. R. H. Lewis, of Ral
eigh; Dr. Vonable, of the State Uni
versity; Dr. S. Westray Rattle, of
Asheville; Dr. J. L. Nicholson, of
Onslow, and Dr. J. D. Spicer, of
Greensboro. The conference was a
most interesting one in all its details.
The subject, "Jiread," was discussed
in an ablo and popular manner by Dr.
Veuible. 4 'The Air We Breathe was
the subject of a well-written paper by
Dr. Lewis; "Christian Science." by
Dr. Rattle, and "The New Disinfect
ant," by Dr. Nicholson, were also
among the very interesting subjects
discussed. After the reading of each
paper the invitation was extended to
all present to ask any questions they
wished answered, and in this way
much useful information was given tho.
people in respect to sanitary arrange
ments, and their needs along this line.
At Greensboro thore was a mass
meeting held under the auspices of the
Immigration and Industrial Associa
tion, of that place, in beha!f of the
Southern Stock Mutual Insurance
Compnay against the Southern Tarifl
Association of Atlauta, which latter
company has cut the rate of insurance
50 per cent, to kill the company of
Greensboro. The meeting was en
thusiastic. Over two hundred bueiaess
men were preseut. Strong resolutions
were adopted, pledging those taking
part to support the home company.
There are a' great many valuable
papers in the office of the State Audi
tor, which have for a great many years
been without arrangement. Auditor
Ayer has put Mr. Clark at work ar
ranging these according to years. It
is proposed to mako a collection of
autographs of each of the governors.
The papers in the Governor's office aud
in that of the Secretary of State also
need a careful arrangement.
Two of the men, Tom Gillespie and
Jim Edwards, accused of the assassina
tion of John Kennedy, at his home in
Alleghany county, have been committed
to jail at Sparta without bail. At tUe
justice's trial it was provan that Gilles
pie had said that Kennedy had reported
him and that he intended to send him
to hell for it. This, with other strong
circumstantial evidence, caused his
commitment.
Chairman Dockery, of the peniten
tiary, says he has no idea it will be
leased. Governor Russell is extremely
anxious to lease it. It is also learned
that upon certain conditions Jno. R.
Smith will not be removed as superin
tendent and that he will accent those
conditions. Charlotte Observer.
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At Clinton A. J. Perry and C. L.
Perry, of Bladen county, was acquited
for the killing of Steven Johnson, col
ored, at Elizabethtown.
The only loss by a North Carolina firo
insurance company at last week's big
fire at Durham was $450, a dwelling.
South Carolina mill men appear to
bo inducing a great many North Caro
Una mill operatives to goto their State.
A few years ago they took hundreds of
people from the southeastern part of
the State to Pelzer. Now they hate
taken the night force of the great Odell
mills at Concord. Wi! m in ft en Me
eettgor.
A Justice of the Peace in Nash county
una been tdaeed in jail for an attempted
outrage on a young lady a few day ago,
The young lady Is an orphan living at
his house,
MERCHANT THIEVES.
Some Sent Co the Penitentiary, Others
Fined and Sentenced to the Chala-
Oung.
The most remarkable car robbery
zaso on record in the South came to an
end; last weekat Dalton, Gai, in the
Superior Court, Judge Aloazo Fite
presiding. Duriug the past threo
weeks eighteen robbers, charged with
systematically looting cars on the
Southern Railway, extending over
a pci led of five yearn, have been
tried and found guilty. The ring
tender, Walter Rohaunon, was
convicted iu five cases, and was sen
tenced by the court to ten years in the
penitentiary, His gang, Tom Kiuue
man, Ren Hcarce, Sam Paiutcr, Lute
White, Hill Long and Ed Morris, the
latter colored, received sentences front
three years to oue year. Jim Harris,
the member of tho gang who turned
away, was not sentenced, and it is
probable that under tho recommenda
tiou of the superintendent of the rail
road, he will be released, or his sen-1
teuce will be very light.
The merchants convicted of receiving
stolen goods from the robbers are as
follows, all prominent in business aud
social circles iu Dalton and north
Georgia:1- G. M. Cannon. T. P. J.
Pcepies, J. H. Render, Anderson Gid
dens, Clee Combee, G. W. Horan, W.
H. McCareOn, J. Kirkefarrer, Ed.
Roberts and Jesse Langstou.
The court senteaced all these mer
chants to pay fines ranging according
ing to their ability to pa3', from $1,000
down to $25, and one year on tho chaiu
gaug. the latter fentenced to be sus
pended on payment i f tho fines and
costs;. On account of the robberies, of
which these suits were the result, the
Southern Hallway seems to have paid
damages to consignors amounting to
900,000 during the live years tho gang
were making their ileptoilations,
Urnttret'l itt:a IStiatern felllea He
purl a laMiiitt off in Collections,
HrBdMieet'a weekly ewmmeretal re
port fur the past week, pays in part;
"While the general trade movement is
somewhat irregular anil there are
further evidences of falling off in de
mand, tho volume of business con
tinues of largo proportions. Specula
tion iu wool has ceased, aud demand
for the htaplo is less than for weeks
past. Cotton goods are dull on the
weakness of raw cotton, and jobbers
report dry poods lower than a
week ago. Interior merchants in the
Central West have not distributed fall
stocks as promptly as expected and
many jobbers at Western centers find
that they over-estimated the consump
tive demand when securing fall goods.
Unseasonably warm weather has inter
fered With the movement of heavy goods
at the West, but rains in Kansa s Okla
homa and Nebraska have improved tho
agricultural outlook. Relatively agreat
activity in the trade is reported by Kan
sas City aud Omaha merchants. While
quarantine regulations have been raised
in Texas and modified in Louisiana,
busiuess throughout most of the; Gulf
States is practically at a standstill.
"Almost all the larger Eastern cities
report a decreased movement of mer
chandise, and a tendency of collections
to fall away, notably Haltimore, owing
to its Southern connections. The in
dustrial situation continues to furnish
employment to as many persons as at
any preceding peiiod this year and at
higher wages.
' 'There are 20j5 business failures report
ed throughout the United States this
week, against lt)0 last week. There are
27 business failures reported from the
Dominion of Canada this week, a total
considerably smaller than that of last
week. "
THE YELLOW FEVER SITUATION
People Leaving Alabama by the Train
Loud for Other Points.
Up to the J3d at New Orleans there
wero forty-nine new euses and seven
deaths; total Cases to date 1,123; total
deaths 14; recovered 005; under treat
ment 434. At Montgomery, Ala , four
teen cases and three deaths. Only one
case at Memphis, Teuii. Six new cases
at Mobile, Ala., Dr. Gurteras has found
seven cases of fever in Selma, Ala. The
disease, it is believed, has been here for a
month. There is. a general stampede
from the town and special trains wiil
leave for Romo and Atlanta. Surgeon
General Wyman's reports from yellow
fever districts show 20 new cases and 1
death at Edwards, Miss. ;5 new cases at
a convict farm near Raymond, Miss ; 0
new cases at Nitta Yuma, Miss. ; 1 case
at Cayuaga, Miss. ; 2 at Clinton, Miss. ;
7 at Ray St. Louis, Miss. ; 5 at McHenry,
Miss. ; 13 at Scranton, Miss. ; 1 at Pas
cagoulai Adopts the Differential Rates.
The Raltimore Steam Packet Com
pany on October 2"th, adopted the difi
ferential rates, which have been an
nounced by tho Seaboard Air Line be
tween Northern and Southern poir.ts.
Its rates are considerably lower thau
those maintained at present and ac
cording :to the statement of an official of
the Old Ray Lino, are for tho purpose
of equalizing to a certain extent the
disadvantages uudes which the Sea
board Air Line is compelled at present
to operate its express trains. The ac
tion taken by the Seaboard and the Old
Ray Line is similar to that of trunk
lines between New York and the West,
which is recognized as proper by the
Trunk Line Association. Ry the dif
ferential rate the fare from Raltimore to
Atlanta, by way of the Seaboard and
Old Ray Line, is reduced to 37.70; to
Charlotte, N. C, $1.70; to Raleigh,
N. C, $2.70, and Southern Pines,
$8.15. This will give an id- of the
importance of the reduction.
Typhoid Fever Rages.
Typhoid fever is still raging to an
alarming extent at the Eastern Ken
tucky Lunatic Asylum. Dr. Mansfield,
third assistant physician, has been sent
to his home in Powell county, suffering
from the disease, and some three or
four patients have died during the pant
mouth, the aewerage at the instiln
lion is had, and the esistenee of the
disease ia-aeere4iteJ te this,
Nil BE ME 01 Ml.
, lury in the Luetgert Caw Fail to
Agree and Are Discharged.
WERE OUT SIXTY-EIGHT HOURS
Nine Were for Brcaklnz the Sausugc
Alakers Neck, While Three Main
tnlned That He Wus Innocent.
Chicago. (Special). The Luetgert
jury failed to agree. They stood niue
for conviction aud three for acquittal.
They have been discharged after being
out sixty-eight hours. Whou it became
known that the jury was coming in,
crowds about the eburt In e became
denser.' Judge Tuthill was iu his seat
awaiting their entrance. Luetgert was
brought in from his cell, aud walked
along in a dazed condition, und fell
stupidly into a chair beside his coun
sel, ills fuco was a bluish white, his
eyes wore sunken and his lips w ere
drawn. .
The jurors walked in single file, and
no hint of the result couM be gathered
from then faces. Lr.etgcit laced the
jury. Judge Tutbitl .'.aid "juror
look upon the defendant; defendant
look upon the jurors, have you agreed?"
Foreman Ihosmer replied, "we can
not agree. " Luetgert swayed and sud
denly fell back into his seat.
't here were unmistakeablo evidences
thut the crowd present did not like the
outcome. Coufuniou reigned for a few
moments and then the bniliil" rappod
for order.
Sketch or the Crime for Which
LuHitcrt Has lieeh on I rial.
The crime cbarged against Ailolph
Luetgert wan lull of mystery, and this
led to the summoning: of a lttrttu num
per of wltoeF'se iu the eitse, m re
mil of wbieh (he Iriel has lasted eight
WeebSi
; On the night of Mny 1, WifT, Mrs,
Luetgert disappeared, Htr relative!
beeame sueptciuuH, and it was alleged
that the actions of the missing wuman's
husband confirmed these euspieions,
The police begau to investigate the
case, aud Inspector Hhaak, who took
churge of it, soou evolved a startling
theory,
This theory was that Luetgert had
murdered his wife and destroyed her
body by dissolving it in cauutic potash
in one of the vats at his sausage factory.
A pinkish biibtunces was found in the
Vat and was suid to be the residue from
the body. The police also said they
found two rings and soino bits of bone
in the vat. The rings, according to
witnesses for the prosecution, were
Mrs. Luetgert's and the bones, it was
testified by experts, were thoso of a
woman. On the other hand, witnesses
for the defense said the rings wero not
Mrs. Luetgert's, and some of the ex
perts stated that the bones were not
those of a human being. In a pile oi
reiuse in the factory yard were found
other pieces of bone which waro said
to have been part of a woman's body.
" 1 ho caso made out by the pros
ecution at tho trial was wholly
circumstantial. Witnesses wero call
ed to prove the following allegations:
First That Luetgert and his wifs
lived unhappily, and that on several oc
casions he had threatened to kill her.
Second That she was seen to enter
his sausage factory about 10 o'clock on
the night of her disappearance.
Third That Luetgert had gotten up
steam in one of the vats and had sent
the factory watchman, Prank Rialk, on
several errands to a drug store so as tc
get rid of him.
Fourth That Luetgert remained in
the factory with the steam tnrnedon all
night, which was not necessitated by
his ordinary work at that time.
The defeuso undertook to prove the
following points:
First That Luetgert had treated his
wife kindly and had not threatened her.
Second That she was not at the fac
tory on the night of the alleged murder.
Third That Luetgert's presence in
the factory that night was for the pur
pose of making eoap to give tho place
a general cleaning in order to prepare
it tor an expected purchaser.
Fourth That Mrs. Luetgert was not
killed on the night of May 1, but was
seen by a number of persons several
days later at Kencsha, Wis.
The motive, of the crime, as alleged
by the proseculion, was Luetgert's de
sire to marry liis pretty servant girl,
Jlary Siemmering. Tho defeuso de
nied that Luetgert had ever made love
to her.
Luertgert was once the leading sau
sage manufacturer of Chicago. He made
a great deal of money by his owu exer
tions and afterward lost it. Rom in
Germany, he came to this country pen
niless, but soon mounted tho ladder of
success until he was rich. Then, his
friends say, an Englishman, who woi a
plausible talker, came along and oier
ed to buy the factory. He contrived to
get about $25,000 out of Luetgert by
various pretenses aud finally disappear
ed, leaving no trace behind. From
that time Luetgert's star seemed to
wane, and a few weeks before his wife
disappeared he failed in business.
The maiden name of the missing wo
man was Louise Rickueso. She was a
servant in a Chicago family when Luet
gert married her. ,
Formal application for bail has been
made, and the judge will be asked to
make it SIH.OOO. Luetgert has maf'e a
aworn statement in which he says in
part: "To the Public The result of
my trial, is a victory for me
because of the disagreement of the
jurv, but I am very much disappointed
and very much surprised that tho jury
did not bring in a verdict of not guilty.
I did not kill my wife aud do rot know
where bhe is, but I am sure tl at it is
only a question of time until she cornea
home." i
Spain's Turn Now.
London.-(Dy Cable). The Madrid
correspondent of the Daily Mail says
Henor de Lome, the Hpanish minister
at Washington, has been instructed to
notify the American govern tneut that
henceforth fiiihusteritig expuddious
wilt be regarded as breaches o( iutur
national law. f
Island Nc'iirh Devastated.
Leyte. eneef the Phil Ipolne Islands,
has been almost devastated by a
eyelone. Mwy wM kilJ
ESTABLISHED 1832
Royal
the food pure,
wbolewaM and delicious.
Absolutely Pure
novAt bmuwo en., mem vowc
A Ml OK I' POTATO CROP.
A Falling OfT,of no Per Cent. From
Last Year, and flic Causes.
Not since lSifJBL the potato crop of
tue tnitea fttatess,OYeii so ntfirj-t
failure, cays fhe American Agricul
turist, in its final reiort of the yild of
1897. Compared with 4he liberal irop
of last year, there is an apparent falling
off of nearly 30 per cent, in tonnage,
and the quality of the whole crop. The
average rate of yield per acre is placed
at 04 bushels, taking tho country
at large, against bti iu lfcitfC, and 8i
in ')5,
The resons for the disaster to the
potato crop of Iho? are about as varied
as a multiplicity of causes could make
them. Stauding out with more promi
nence than any other two factors, are
blight and lot, ara result of extremes
oY. weal bar eottullioiiBr- lioessivo rain
fall here aud there: a failure of genuln
atiouj later etiuuft drought, rust, scabs',
itisecti, etc, have all been prominently
in evidence, While n,. yield in htodiel
is small, the mistily io almost deficient,
Thin in Pile of moid, hot not all Ntatett,
The crop in best in the Northwest.
Suph portions of Canada aft make a
specialty of potatoes, notably t Ontario
and maritime provinces, blmwageunril,
but not serio4, shortage.
TIUKKT fcCAM'INO,
Passenger Agents Ask tor mi and
National Legislation
At St. Louis th a American Associa
tion of General Passenger Agents met
with delegates present representing
the principal railroad system of the
United States, Canada and Mexico
and adoptod resolutions calling atten
tion to the necessity for State and
National legislation a.ninst the ticket
sculping business. State Legislatures
that have, not already done so are
urged to adopt laws confining tho
sale of tickets to the properly author
ized agents of the transporta
tion companies, and at the sunie
time that thoy will require, under suit
able penalties, the redemption of every
ticket or part of ticket that may be not
used. Congress is also requested to
pass the so-called "anti-scalping" bill
now before that body.
Officers for the ensuing year were
elected as follows: W A. Turk, of the
Southern Railway, president; Chas. S.
Fee, of the Northern Pacific Railroad,
vice-president, and Mr. Smith Reed
secretary.
Detroit was chosen as the place for
holding the next meeting.
GREAT mtlTAIN
Cannot Accede to the Proposition of
the American Commission.
London tRy Cable) Lord Salisbury
has sent to Ambassador Hay the reply
of the British government to the pro
posals of the American hi metallic com
mission, headed by Senator Wolcott.
It is a diplomatically worded note. His
Lordship says that the government of
Great -Britain, is notable to re open
the India mints at present. He re
grets the inability to accede to the
proposals of tho American commission
ers, Gret Britain having as great an in
tsrest as the United States and France
in securing a stable par exchange for
gold and silver, and an enlarged use of
silver.
"In these circumstances," continued
Lord Salisbury, "the British govern
ment does net see the desirability of an
international monetary coulerence, but
wiil be pleased to consider any other
practical suggestions from the United
States. "
Special Low Kates.
On Monday, " October 2oth, the
Southern will put on sale special low
rate excursion tickets to Nashyille,
Tenn. , account of Tennessee Centen
nial and International exposition.
These tickets are good returning five
days after date of sale and can be
routed via Atlauta or Ashevillo. To
those who have never been through the
"Land of the Sky'' this- will atlord an
excellent opportunity to see the moun
tain scenery of Western North Caro
lina and Fast Tennessee, the trip being
made in daylight. Following is the
round trip rate from points named to
Nashville aud return on this date:
Raleigh, $0.5; Durham, 8.80; Bur
lington, $7.10; Wifkesboro, $7.10;
Concord, $5.55; Charlotte, $5.35; Gjui
tonia, $5.15; Greensboro, $6.05; High
Point, $5.90; Salisbury, 5.55; Besse
mer, $5.10; Davidson, $5.85. Rates
from points not named can bo secured
! from any agent Southern Railway or
by writing to R . L. V ernon, T. P. A. ,
Charlotte, N. C.
Des: rted by the Governor.
On account of the preva!ancexf yel
low fever in Montgomery, Ala. , and the
fact that all of the towns and cities of the
State have quarantined against that
place, the Mate government has tem
porarily beeu removed to Blrminsrham.
The governor and ail the Htatoofficers
have located there, and urc transacting
business from this point. The. attitude
of Birmingham is such that yellow fever
cannot live there and was selected by
the governor as the temporu-y seat of
governmeet becaune of this ant
The cable announce thet Olgft Neth
r...h In to have an nttrnnmtlotial
piny wrliten for her one uoxt season.
Pmbably ne is having her Utss dmtna
tlsted In Ave
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