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r r. LET ALL .THE ENDS THOU AlfilSV AT BE THV COUNTRY'S, THY. GOD'S AND TRUTHS." BEST, ADVERTISING MEDIUM. $1 A YEAS. CASK IN ADVANCE. WILSON. N. C FEIUH AUV 24, .18.9.8.; DUMBER 8. VOLUMK XXVIII. 1 JZLO -. , r - . . . ' :- . - -, - - - : U-- ; - I i " 4J. Ill RECTORY,' hKI'.MM UKK or TIMINS , LOCAL VKA INS: N. l'.qund. S. Pound. THE MAINE 1 1 M IW twteu- Florence and Weldon. No. 7. .-. ' - - No- 23 2:35. P.M. Leaves Wilson. 2:20 1 M. Between- Wilmington and Norfolk: ij-55 I', M. Leaves Wilson, 2:37 Between Goldsboro and. Norfolk. No: ,..2. No 5:41 AM. Leaves W ilson , 71 1 M, 'Shoo Fly" Wilmington to Rocky Ml: No' jo No" 41" M. "Leaves. y uson, 0.13 a.i'i, iy.20 Aii Iiiyestisratioii as to the Cause " Begins at lhivana. THE VESSEL MAY EE'RAISED. In the Latter Evont the Companies Will Ed Paid a Bonus. - TO INVESTIGATE THOROUGHLY. " TIIKHICII.TKAINS. - Between Florence ami Weldon: No J2 - - ' JS,- -S-' 1-22 A." M: Leaves Wilson. 11:06 l'. M COI N I V uFKiCKK. 1! A k I F COMMISSIONKKS: .. K. S. Cl-AKk, Cliairiiian. V Shai.i. Fh.tcn, J- H. NiArsoM I c. Hadi.kv. . . Isaac 1.i.t'N. -W. J. Chkkky, Sluniir, .1 -J. IPaki.in, Vlerk oLSup-.-rior romt. J . 1. Gri i-1 i n , ' Resist eV-bf I feeds, S.. I L T son. r reasurer, Wm. Hakkiss. Coroner, J . T. R kv kl, Surveyor. . TOWN O.KKII Ki:. . ai.dkrmkn: j . J.I). lUi.i.ociv, ) . A. Clark", Dr A A.M)f:KS.)., fclKO. Hackni y, J. TV Lllis. 1st '2nd 3rd 4th :5th' Ward, P. U. Dkans, Mayor; 1 Jno. K. Moork, Town Clerk; ; W. F. 1 ) i.ans, Collector. I'OLICK- ; r Snak en iiK'm;, Chief FphriamnHarkeLl, Jaies Maksiiholrnk D. P. C 11 rtstm AN, Frank Fei.ton St. Commissioner. iMversi Will Ho r.mp' oyort ly Our (inv 1 rmnciit to lie tlie lirtriom of til vi'iTt-'U'l y'esscl-Meantliiifl It Is Assuilied by Our Naval OfiUer Vh:,t tin Kv'iVlos u AVus t auscit y Ac--Ii-nt A SiirvVtvop.ot.tlio Wm-k Tells tlie stoiy.of tlit'firciit Disaster. The Number of Dcml Aow l'liucd at .-'J IS, V!iI!e ."57 Were liijure;! The, Vizcayu tit cw Yo:'li. . AY'a'hiiiirton, F-.b. 21. The ' naval court -' Inuuiry appi .ir.ted to investi--ate he Maine riisny;ei- i;eg:!n:- i:s work, it nlivana Uid.-jy. This, news came' to the navy department', yesterday from 'Admiral Siear-Ji, ;U Ksy VePt has 'no more Knowledge on the sub ject of the cause of the disaster, or even- of yie circumstances attending it, than have the public, and that the report to the effect that Captain Sigrs-. ,c-e had warned the department that; the Maine Aas in ganger from sub-' marine mines or torpedoes is utterly without foundation, .no such report ever -having. been received from mm or from anybody elFe." ' The navy department has compiled the following summary showing the to tal results" of the Maine disaster: Totat officers and men on aard Maine, 355 :' 'total, officers,' 26: total men, 329 to tal officers savejd,24: total men sayed, 76; total ofneers lost, 2; total men lost. 2 16; total men injured, 57; doubtful, 7. The seven men appearing as doubtful probably represent that number, or tfess, whose .lives, have been saved, but who cannot be identified at present ori ac count of errors in the transmission of telegrams are .included, in the 76 appearing as saved. Two men reported as having died in the hospital are included in the total of 246 appearing above as having 1 eon lost. mi TRAVESTY A3 iTomini? ' X III II ! 1 1 1J. I I .11 Sll I II U IU l IV. Remarkable ' Proceedings in the Trial of M. Zola. PRIVILEGES OP THE MILITARY STOliY OK A srilVlVOIl, till lt II KS. j Timothv's church. Rev: TliomaH P.ell, rec'tor!Services: Sundayj?, u a, m j p. m ; Sunday School at i p. tm Wedtiesdays, evening' prayer 4 p nt., bible class 7:30 p. m. Fridays, even ini; prayer and adelress 7:30.... Mttliodist Church, Rev. J. B. Hurley uid -7:?,o m. Pastor; services' .at 1 1. a. p.m. Sunday School, 5 p. hl; J. F. Kruton, Supt.. Prayer meeting Wed nesday night at 7:30. ,1 Christian Church, Rev. B. H. Meltn Pastor; services every Sunday,' 1 1 a-m, 7:00 p m. Prayer meeting Wednescay night. . Sunday School at 9:30 o'clot'k, a. m., Geo. Hackne Supt. : Presby teriau Church. Rev. J ashes Thomas; Pastor; services on tlie First, -irst, :vi'ry -Third ' and Fourth Sunday in e month'. and at Louisbiirgf Second Sun day. . Services at 11 a. ni. and 830 p. ni. , Sunday School at 5 o'clock, p. m. Baptist. Church, service, as follows; Preaching Sunday morning at '11:00. o'clockaid 8 p. m.'.Rv: W. H.'Redish Pastor. , Prayer meeting .Wednesday eJening at ' 8 o'clock.- Sunday School at 5 p. m., 1). S Boykih Supt. Primiti ve Baptist, Church, - pre;u himr ..on' 2nd Sunday by Flder Jas. Bafss; on 3rd Sunday by Klder jas S: Woodard; on the 4th Sunday and Saturday before by the pastor, Flder P. I). Gold. Ser- " vices begiir'at 11 a.Jm. i MMHiKv -Regular meetings of Mt. Lebanon Lodge Ko. 117 A. F. & A. M. are held in their hall, corner of N.-ish and Golds boxo streets on the 1st and 3rcl Monday ni dus at 7: V-o'"l(ck p. lmeach month. : , C. K. McH.re, W.M..' ResMdar meetinsrs of bit! Lebanon Chaiiter No. 27 .are held.in the Masonic 'flail every 2nd Monday, night at 7:30 o'clock p. m. earn nioiun. VV. 1L Applewhite, IL P. Rerriilar meetings of Mt. Lebanon Commanderv No. 7 are held, in the Masonic hall every 4th Monday night at 7: w o' clock each month. - W. J. Hoy kin, E. C. r. O F. A. M. Meeting every Mon- A-.iv nltrht nt t in -o'clock.-. I. O. (J. r 5 Hall. . -., ' f F. B. Mtyo, Councellor Regular meetings of Wilson Lcklge K .of H. No. 1604 are held in their.hal over the 1st Nalional Bank every 1st Thursday evening at 5:300 clock, p. m B. F. Briggs,, Director. Renlr meetinsrs of Contentne; i miirc 'o s-7 K. of P.-. are hehKin lihC' Fellows' Hall very Tlnirsda . night. Visiting members, 'lways M.el come. Resrular meetings of Enterprise odge, No. 44. are held every I-relay night in Odd Fellows' Hall. This . . . 1 .L j .1 . . prompt- jaeiif.n. is iinuouTneuiy 'uue w .It,, expiss t1i.re-.:i.i..n' of Becietary Long to ha'.e th'e investigaviun btifun at the eat;iest. 'possible'', moment. ! rai. rain-Fins!. was heard from late Saturday night, hut. the telegram was not ' delivered at the navy- department' until yesterday .mominrf. lils message "read as ifullows: ..-.'... -H)nly ! nV' -t. .esporienced . wrecking divers' can do eiTective work- m the Maine. ' In tlie m rr wurss '1 ' cati use 'ftej'y ice 'divers'.- I id some . work" today, .!ut with, hit !e success. Will do better tomorrow. . Pa-ts of the Maine, es peciaHy the supers! rrie'tur'. and connec--tions, ai-e-f.ne confused mass of metal." The statement relative to exfnenced divers is: explained at me navy utfai l ment no ret!ee:ion uiun the men now engaged at work; they being en listed men behmginjr to' ike navy. ' It is the ."practice on In .ird of- men-of-war to assign a 'few. men. always volunteers, on ac-ount of the hazardous nature of the work, to-duty as divers, in connec tion with their reufar work. The seepe of: their, work rarely carries them .teener than 2o teet into the vater. and it ip eaid that for operations in deeper water, such as would be involved . in the exaihinatien of the Maine's bottom, their training has not fitted them; They are also lacking in that kind ;of -skill, necessary to' eiia:e a diver to grope his ' way- "safely through the internal parts of: a inighty ship like the Maine, -torn and distrtej-beted as she is, and this Avork is highly dangero-iis. It is to meet just this'emevgency that the navy depa; t trie n't is' making every effort to hasten the. beginning pf the work of j recovery of goi-ds and perhaps the raisi-ng of, tlie hull by professionals. .To thatjend Captain Lenily, the judge advocate general of the department, was at work yest-rday in his ofliee wM-h renres-eritatives of wrecking companies trying to draw up. contracts' for the im mediate; pVo!-;ecutic.n f the -work. The task has m t I e. eh easy t''dh-rse"; of, owing to an apparent disposition on the - - - . m. part of at hast ore ot tne concerns to Trive aj hard bargain, leaving the de partment m tlie "dark as tiv.tne amount if hioney to be .'taid for their services. L'ut ' it vis Jet lart'd that the obstacles have now .been s'uvinc-untetl, and that the contracts can !. signed today.; The (loiniJahies win .be paid on the scale of; ilajls work, with a provision for a Ijonus iif Lltey, succeed in raising the vV-sse!. . t'hj:. ensuring the recovery of as mut h c.f m? va.ualne equipment as is possible, should it not be practi cable to float the M.'ine again. ' Great xlitiiculty, is eypt tted in recovering the big ten-inch turret guns, each worth $40.00'.- owing 'not. oVny to their weight. SO tons apiece, i hi ut carriages, but. to the enormous .turrets enclosing them with -100 tons of steel.,,. , ' The photographs taken of the Wreck were studied with much interest by the naval officers heie.- (iiect sutpri.se was expressed' at the extent of the' wreck, and. the vast mass of sieel'-and iron heaped In the forward part of the ship was a particular 1 bject of attention. Tlie -experts ''who had -first ve ured the. .theory of a "'burs. log boiler as, the cause of the dostl uction chlim to find.strorig remforeement j ia the rictures for that belief. , As to j vvhat eaused 'a. boiler.. 'to explode,1 whether a disguised bomb in the coal, low'- :wat?r oil faulty consruc tion, they do not now undertake to say. They Address tlie .Inry nt TUolr I'leas lire and Answer On y Such Question as Tliey 'l'leass -j-Ksterbazy .-. Stmo- .Zola's fjRvyers,.ns lo-s tlw .Itidge. Paris, Feb. 19. The remarkable trav esty on justice, thei"trial" of M. Zola, was continued yesterday in the' same manner as heretofore. Zola's counsel was smibbed and insulted by. the pre siding judge, while witnesses for . the The 57 .appearing as injured presecution were permitted,to air their views and address the jury at their pleasure. , General Boisdeff re was the first wit- nooc Tim fftnoinl nmfirmul tlie-sfafo- ments .made by General l'eilieux. f The presiding judge addressed Gen eral Boisdeff i-e as -follows: .'"General an incident we did not anticipate oc-. curred yesterday. ' A desire was mani fested that you should be examined. and the court has acceded to it." 1 The presiding judge then read the shorthand report b General Petheux s statement, and askedthe witnessjvhat he had to ' say on the subject. Genera Boisdeffre replied: "I coniirm fully the authenticity of General Pellieux's state ment. I do not wish tojadd arword to it butv.gentlerren of the jury, ygu are the nation here, for you represent it. If the nation has not confidence in the chiefs of the army, let it say So, and we aVe ready to leave to others the burden of our responsibility. Gentlemen of. the jury, you, : who represent . the nation, pronounce an opinion." As General Boisdeffre was leaving laoiitennnr Hlandln .Tel Is of Ills Es -:vpe From the Vrerked Ship.. Key West, Fla., Feb. lS.Iieuten ant John J. Blandip, of Baltimore, one: of the surviyors of . the Maine, who is at the Key West hotel, gave a press correspondent last evening a succinct account of the disaster, say ia'g that not until now has he , been able to recollect the-sequence of events in the awful ten minutes following the explosion Tuesday evening. Lieuten ant P.landin was on the Trenton at the time of the, terrible disaster off Sa moa, in 18K9, when American and Ger man vessels lost, 24 1 men ail told. Lieu tenant 'iilandin says: '-'-.:; '.:;.- "T was on the watch, and when th- men had been piped below I looked down the main hatches and over the side of the ship. Everything was ab solutely, normal. I walked aft; to the quarter deck behind the rear turret, as is allowed after 8 in the evening, and sat" down on the port side, where I re mained for a few- minutes. Then, for some reason I cannot explain to my self now, 1 moved to the starboard side and sat down there.- I was feeling a bit glilm, and in fact was so quie; that Lieutenant J. Hood came up and asked laughingly if I Was asleep. I said, 'No, I am on watch.' ' Scarcely had .1 spoken when there came a dull, sullen roar. Then came a sharp explosion, some say numerous detonations..-' I remember only one. It seemed to me - that the sound came from the port side forward. Then came a perfect- rain of missiles of all de scriotions. from huge pieces of ce ment to blocks of wood, steel railings fragments of gratings and all the debris that would be detachable in an explo sion. . .- "I was struck on the head by a piece nf eement and knocked down, but .1 was not hurt, and got to my feet in a moment. Lieutenant Hood had run to the poop, and I supposed as I followed, he. was dazed by the shock and about to iuuiD overboard.; l haiied mm, anu he answered that he had run to the poop to help lower the boats. . When I got there, though, scarcely a minute "could have elapsed, I had' to wade in water to my knees, and almost in stantly -the 'Quarter deck w as awash. On the poop I found Captain Sigsbee, as cool as if at a. ball, and soon all the othcers except Jenkins and Mer'ritt join ed us. The poop was above water after the Maine settled to the bottom. Cap tain Sigsbee ordered the launch and gig lowered; and the officers and men, who by this time had assembled, got the boats out, and rescued a number in the water. Captain Sigsbee ordered Lieu tenant Commander Wainwright for ward to see the extent of the damage, and if .anything could be done to res cue those, forward or to extinguish the llaircs. which 'followed close upon the explosion and burned fiercely as long as there were any combustibles above water . to feed them. "Lieutenant Commander Wainwright. on his return,' reoorted the total and awful character of the calamity,' am "Captain Sigsbee gave the last sad 1 order 'abandon ship' to mert overwhelmed with grief indeed, but ca'm and appar ently unexcited. Captain. Sigsbee -was the last man to leave the vessel left in his own gig. '"1 have no theories as to the cause of the explosion. I cannot form any. examination by divers may tell thing to a "court of inquiry. J others, had heard that the Havani har bor was "Cull of torpedoes, but the of ficers whose duty it was to examine into that reported that they had found no signs of any. Personally, I do not. believe the Spanish had anything to do With tha -disaster." ;- - - v A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED. Tuesdrty, Feb, X5. The steamer Clara Nevada' was lost In Alaskan waters, and 40 gold seekers drowned. 1: i ' , . i Count Kalnosky, former Aus,tro-Hun- garian minisu r of foreign affairs,-died at Brunh. Austria, yesterday, aged 651 A Revolutionary musket, probably 1 loaded over a century lago; went off while being sol'd at auction in New, York Timothy Hogan is under .arrest in Columbus, O.. for robbing matt boxes. He is said to have stolen $10,000 in the past year. j ' ,"'; Two repres?ntatives of the Japanese rovernment are on their-way to Mex i ;-o in the int. .-rest of a colossal coloniza tion scheme near San Benito: From all pirts of China tome reports of attacks by the native rough element on foreigners.- The whole cwuntry seems to be in a state of unrest. Wedties-riHys Kf h, 1. Lord William Nevilt vas sentenced to five years penal servitude in London for fiaud. ' ; '.; The exports of domestic merchandise during January were $14,000,000 in ex cess of those during the corresponding period last-year. It is said that Ambassador to Turkey Angell will -resign in time to resume the presidency of the Michigan State uni versity in the fall. .h. Miss Lilliai Hanna. sister of the s;en ator, was marrietV last evening at ThonTasviye. Ga to S. P. Baldwin, a young Cleveland lawyer. The: Spanish cabinet has apppinted Polo Bernabe to succeed ome. as minister at Wash- me and mm Anothei Conflict Over Possessions in West Africa." THE FP.EN0HMEN AS INVADERS. The RotrI IXIeer Company, Hacked br British Arms, Ordiered to Forcibly , l-:xel tlie Invaders If Necessnry. 'tlie JSltiiBtlou Very Grave. ' Akassa, West Africa. Feb, 21. Intel ligence has arrived here that two French expeditions are advancing to .v.ard Sokota. capitol of the Sultanate of Sokoto. on the Sokcto river, in the extreme north of the Haussa states, and that six French ofneers. - with a force of 200 men, haye arrived at Ar l.undu (Argungi?) and Tagga. Thefof iner towh is an important place on the Sokoto river, abut half way between the sultan's capital and the River Ni ger, and is within the .British sphere. The sultan of Sokoto has commanded the Fieneh force to halt about '40 miles iroin the capital. Tne uoyai rsiger 1 ompany's representative. Deputy .-Vgent General William' Wallace, is holding the company's forces, with am munition and stores, Tn readiness, and is awaiting instructions to assist the sultan of Sokoto and .to secure French evacuation of British territory."' I - the! stand Al. Laborie; counsel, for M. Zola, rising, said: , M should like to ' nuestioh General replied the presidini and An some- with POST OFFICE HOURS. Office opens 8 a m. and closes at stinset Day mails close for. North at 1 p. " West " 1 p. " " . " South "1.30 p..m. e'ight mails for all points close at 9 p m. m. m. GET YOUR OB PRINTING AT THE ADVANCE OFFICE. Established I86tf. 1 LABELS. imi 1 11 11 " ' c,JysWMmi'iM' Marks. wWcopyrichts. Thirty-one yeais aetive practice. Opinion aa to validity and patentability. Write for l ook .of instructioim and references. EDSON BROS., 925 p Street. Washington, D. C. V ALARMING RFMORS- DKMFl). Set' i-e tai'j' I.o 1 ir M 11 it Statement to - Scllie Tlifin. ' ; Washington. Feb. 19.-TTne feature of yesterday at the navy department was the large lui'Vibcr. of l uiriors of a war like tendency' that came to the;; atien--tjon of IthetifTicials las requiring atten tion, and as in every ease contradicted, So formidable ht;P grown 'the list that at the close of oflic e Incurs S"cretary Long was induced tu r.arke the follow ing statement as the . easiest manner of disposing at one time of all these storiesT j - , - "Reaily no information has been re ceived since Cap ain S gsboe's fAist tZis ' patch adding anything to our kirowl . edge of the disaster: Ail we know is that the Maine,; blew up. There is ahundaht fcom for speculation of all sorts, but no conclusion can be arrived at until an examination has been made by the divers, and niore facts obtained. j "You may say absolutely that thefe; has Ijeeri no secret cabinet meeting, that nothing. has taken place in cabine" that the nublic have not been informed about i that- tlie whole policy of this "department has been to give the' public all the dispatches-; that the department When a man is suffering from atv achino head a sluegish body when his muscles are lax and lazy his brain dull" and his stoma-h disdaining foot! he'jvilj.if- wise h-ed ,thes"e warnings and resort tt the right r-mtxly, before if is too late. "I'akkkk's- ARsapa; Rii.bA'' the "K-iNc, oF iiunoi) purifi ers,", makes the appetite keen -and heaftv, invigorates the liver, purities Ihe blood and fills it with life giving el ements of the foot!. It is a wonderful bloo'd ! maker, a-nd llesh builder. -Sold by U. VV. Hargrave, - .. Diseases of the BlootT niitl Kcrveg. ; Xo one heed suffer T'itlnienralgia. 'l ids disease. is quickly and ; pcriuanently cured by Th-owns' Iron Bitters. Every disease of the blood, nerves and stomach,- chronic :r otherwise, succumbs to "Browns' - Iron .lihters. Known and u8h1. for nearly .a -pturfcr of a century, it stantls to-lay fore most anion; our most valnctl r.emotlies; Biovvus'Irou Bitters is sold by ad dealers. Boisdeffre." "You cannot judge.- , ' . "What!" exclaimed M. Iaborie. ; "No!" vehemently " retorted the pre siding judge: '"you cannot. Call the next witness." . . Laborie vainly proteste.d against this ruling, but an usher called Major Esterhazy," who took the stand The judge asked the -major what he had to answer to the charge- that he was the author of the .bordereau! Es. terhazy replied: 'Gentlemen of the jury, on a shadow of proof, this miserable Mathieu Drey fus has accused me of being guilty of his' brother's crime. I have been ad judged by my peers, who have acquit ted me, but today I am summoned as a witness so that he may reaccuse me, when I have neither advisor nor coun sel to .defend me. I will answer any questions you put to nie', gentlemen of the jury, but as for those people," turn--intr to"M. Zola and his ecunsel, "M woii't reply to them." i The advocate "general reminded the court of his. demand that the Dreyfus affair shou d hot be mentioned, other wise, he added, he would leave the mat ter in the hands of the court. Counsel for M. Zola rector :ed: "The geiferals came into court in. full uni form and ;earing their decorations, in order to make speeches for the prose cution. The defense is reproached with attempting to secure a revision of the Dreyfus case. but. the ireneials -have harangued against a revision of the trial, of Major Esterhazy, who was ac quitted." - The judges went into conference on M. Laborie'S demand that certain arYny of ficers be reca'ted, and decided that only Esterhazy should be recalled. The lat ter took the stand, turned his back on Zola and counsel, refused to answer the questions, and was excused. Other witnesses called by Zola's coun sel were not permuted to teslify. After"eoirt adjourned there were nu merous street riots, many Jews being roughly handled. M. Zola narrowly es caped being thrown into the Seine. With' the close1 of today's session of the Zola trial the defense announced that it would call no ''more witnesses. This course was practically: forced upon Zola and his counsel because of the growing disposition of the judge to,pre vent any, leading questions to be asked of the army officers. ; "The session Saturday was the sqene of constant uproar. and sharp passages between the presiding judge and M. Laborie, ola's counsel, who made a strong,'rbut useless fight to obtain evi dence from the witnesses. Everybody looks upon Zola's convic tion as certain. The trial-will, how ever, certainly be quashed by the court of appeals and be retried over again 'at Versailles. Dreyfus' friends are still very hopeful that the reve.aiions of this trial must force a revision of his trial Senor " Louis Dupuy De L ington. ., ' . j - Thursday. Feb. 17. '..- !. jThe tugboat Vrankie fc-apsizetl ih the lower bay, .New York, and two of her crew were drowned. lit. llev. C. T. Quinfard, Episcopal bishop of Tennessee, didd' at Meridian- ville, Ga yesterday. . i A child of Jacob Smith, of Myerstown, Pa., fell against a kitchen stove and was probably fatally . burned. '-.. Miss Isabella Franklin Jones, one of the leading scientists of this country, died at Chicago of pneumonia. ; A little son of Adam Beck, of Albany, Pa., fell upon a cow's hoins and was so terribly lacerated that he win aie. One hundred and twenty-five men of the Fourteenth infantry -have left Van couver barracks to preserve Jaw and order at Skaguay. ' . Friday. Feb. 18. The steamer' Flaohat w as wrecked at Anaga Point," Canary Islands, and 60 persons were drowned. Miss ' Francis E. AVillard, president of the. World's ' 'h. istian Temperance" un ion died in "New York, aged 53. John Ryaii atte; "P'ed to assault Tiiris-A Thi r ias ' r.'ct'oi i .' i' k at Eliza beth, is. J., vh :t '-he K.tt-r sentenced him to state p h : . . . The revenue itir Iluh, stationed at Sah Frantijt-i:, thi'.fttl, a Canadian sealiri'g vessel for alleged violation of the tegulati: ns. A meeting of the flint p -manufacturers is being held in t'. tsbtug look ing to a consclida.icn cf .he union and non-union plants. - A. strike mayfoilow. sattiftlay, l-ei. i:-.- The revenue cuter' Corwin -: ' soon leave San Francisco tb aid x ar in rescuing ice bound Arctic wlij.lt rs. A movement has been started for the. erection of a statue of General Lafay ette by ttys government in Paris dur- TI1K SlTltATIOX MOST GltAVK. Mf France Wants War Her WIli Will Doubtles-j lie (rntlflcd.. London, Feb. 21. It is t asserted on good authority that the Royal Niger rompany has been instructed, after try ing all peaceable means, to compel the retirement of the Fieneh from British territory by force. The su'tana'.e f Sokoto is a feudatory of the company,, and was recently placed under British protection. The situation is regarded as extrenfe Iy grave. Great Britain's forces, in the protectorate district number bitfeen 5,000 and 6.000 men under British officers in. Lagos and the gold coast Hinterland and - at the three separate points of British and French territorial disputes. Boria. Wae and Argu'ngu. The Daily Mail says it has received confirmation of the news from Sokoto. 'The Times, commenting editorially on the-news from Sokoto, says it cannot credit . the report, and reproves the levity of the French press regarding a grave situation. The presence of a French force at Argungu, The Times declares, would be so flagrant a breach of any possible construction of the Say Barua agreement of '1K90 Anglo-French treaty at Busah) that "nothing but its immediate withdrawal could avert the most deplorable consequences." Other papers publish similar articles urging Lord Salisbury to intirnate plain ly that Great Britain's limit of "squeez ability" has been; reached. : The. Morning Post says: "If France is really. making deliberate plans to an nex British territory by military occu pation this can" only imply that she de sires war with England. In "that case her wish will doubtless be gratified." - ing the coming exposition. Ex-Auditor Mcore, ol L'ncoln. Neb., has been set free cf a eonvie.ion for al leged embezzlement ch the ground that the statute is unconstitutional. A panic was created in a West Seventy-second street (New Ycrk) house -by a large' piece of1 reek blown "througli the walls from a near-by quarry. Monday, Feb. 'ill . ' On Saturday in Chicago May wheat sold at $1.09. j A London dispatch announces- that Charleston,' S. C.,.Feb. 18. The News and Courier says: "The killing in Greenwood county of Dave Harris, col ored, an unoffending and good .citizen, by a band of midnight assassins was as flagrant a crime as any! that the Jaw authorities of South Carolina ever have to deal with. It is no excuse or palliation of their lawless and 'bloody deed that the murderers made a mis take in killing Harris for another man. Their crime was of the most 'deliberate and savage kind, and had it been com mitted by colored men instead of white men it would be. made the subject of an active and thorough investigation, which would not be ended unti1 the the condition of Mr. Gladstone's healthj murderers were, brought to account for Three States 'nnwt:oii lid. Chicago, Feb. 21 The states of Wis consin, Iowa and Illinois are prac ically -noVl cund. Reports from Cedar Rap ids and- Vve'oster City,'; la., Freeport, liloomingtun, Paicki'ord and Galesburg, Ills., 'ndicate an average snow-fall since faturday night of two feet. Through out Wisconsin-' and northern Michigan the fall was much heavier in fact, the preatest of the seastn. A 40-mi!e gale l as piled the snow into enormous drifts, lompletely. paralyzing . street railway traffic and seriously interfering with the" operation of trains on the steam roads. v- is. very grave. The health department of Chicago re ports 40,000 persons suffering from tha rrip in that city. . ' '". . Thieves hauled1 away $600 worth' of Clothing from the store of Philip Cof fee, at Tamaqua.'Pa. .' '..All'. ''the Mechanicsburg (Pa.) indus trial establishments are running 'full time with their complement of hands. Why allow, yourself to lie slowly tor tured at the stake of 'disease ? - Chills and Fever Will inidernvne, aiKFeventu- ally break down., the strongest consti union "FEBRl-CURA" (Sweet Chill rt)nvc of Iron) is piore effective than Ouiiiine and being combined with-Iron is ah; excellent Tonic and Nervine Med icine. -.It is pleasant to take: is sold, under positive guarantee to cure or money refunded. Accept no substj tu -es. The "itist as good" kind don't effec t cures. Sold by B. W. Hargraye. Their .murderous conduct. It ought not o be possible for- eight or ten white men in South Carolina. to kill any man even a negro without cause and go unpunished and unchallenged for '.their crime. It is the third murder of the year in the state, and the year is barely begun. The first two have gone unnoticed by the representatives of the law. Is the third to receive no more attention? If it shall not we are cer tainly in a bad way, as it .'will ' prove' that the life of a man , is regarded among us as no more sacrfd'lhan the life of a dog, if on y he e poor and friendless and black. The curse of crime is on us already, and we are not lifting a hand to. avert it." ' '' , NewjKirt News. -Va., Feb. IS. George . W. Ashby,. a prominent business man of Ham;-'ton. was convicted of per jury this afternoon and his punlshnent fixed at one minute in jail and a fine of $5. Three yearsf. ago Ashby . gave damaging testimony against William II. Bridgeforth, in a divorce suit Insti tuted by Bridge forth'S wife. The pro-c-c'ution was based on this testimony. I All the parties connected with the di jvorce suit ami the' Ashby trial .were prominent in business and society clr cles. : ' . j ; - LittleIlK k. Feb. 21. R. G. Massey, a .prominent citizen anu constable of Franklin township. I. ittle Rtver county, was murclered in a horrible manner at a point six miles from Ashdown. Sat urday night, by "Ned 'Aiken and his son and two negroes he was trying to ar rest. Massey was shot from ambush, his lung; being torn from his body by -bullets. Massey had previously arrest ed Charley Johnson. 'Aiken's son-in-law, for carrying a pistol, and Johnson escapedi Massey and Rit haid Dickens. a deputy, had started tb Aiken's house to arrest Johnson, hen the murder occurred. Raleigh Feb. IS. President Rob- ert Hancock, of the Atlantic-and North Carolina railway, went ,toi see Gov-ernor-Russe:i and urged. the latter hot to take up the matter of his removal until May on the ground that'lt might prejudice his interests in the $10,000 ..' damage suit against him by the mother of the. girl he is alleged to have ruined. The governor said he would not delay. He asked Hancock if he would re- sign. ''Hancock said no. The governor,., at once called the board of internal im- : prttvem'ents together and ousted ''hini as director-To be president fie baa to be a direeior. Tlie directors will ovists hin on the 2'Jd. and Ihefc there will he an injunction matter. - . Gainesvil'e. Ga.. Feb. 18. A seriou problem Is confronting the lumbermen -of this fate in the ' rapid devastation of the magnificent pine forests; which 20 years ago seethed inexhaustible. It has become, a- custcmi to plant sawmills and turpentine tlistillerieji in the heart of the fc rests, and then work-outward, until the timber is converted into lum ber, or rendered worthless by the op erations of the turpentine' operators. This has . resulted in rapidly thinning out the forests, ;unto now, even In the ' wild land portion 'of the state, an un broken line of dense growtlf Is rare. An effort was made to enact la'S by which those rutting down trees would .be compelled to plant others in their places, but such a. statute has never found favor wnn a majority of the legislators. Forest dand can be ob- ; tained for a mre song? from $1.50 to $2 an acre, and this has tempted a large number of men with enough capital to . run itinerant sawmills. There Is one consolation hi . the fact that where giant pines once stood farms are now.'' springing up, and there Is reason for the be.ief that the state i ill ultimately relinquish the industry of lumbering. for the more extensive one of agricul ture. . ' ' -I. THE WORK OF FIENDS. , Diabolical Xttehipt to liiirn a Yonn Geortlla.;irl to Il(fllll. Atlanta. C.a., Feb. 18. -V letter wa received yesterday by Governor Atkin son from Sheriff Patterson, of Decatur county, .giving the bare facts regard ing the horrible efforts of three drunken negroes one day last ;Week to burn to death the daughter of James " Aldayt a prominent citizen of -a district remote from telegraphic facilities in Decatur -county. Thejgiil. who Is about 16 year of age, had occasion to go to a spring about 200 yards from her father's house and on returning through .a dense . thicket hej-as seized by three ne- t groes, whom she had never" seen before, and when they discovered that she was the daughter; of Alday tf of them firmly held her while the third applied matches to the skirts of Mier, clothing. She was detained until the flame were licking her face and had eaten Into her undergarments and then released. - She ran screaming to her father a noor, where she arrived with not a shred of clothing on her body and literally one huge blister. Immediate attention wa given her and every effort made to save her live, but the latest reports from the rlace indieate that her -tleath I hourly exac ted. The sheriff Is making every effort to discover the fiends. The governor is investigating the affair, and It is very probable a large reward,. will be offered for the apprehension of the three men. ' f I" .-: The New V.n-x mill t rlKe. New Bedford." Mass., Feb. 21. The sixth, week of the big strike opened, to day, and apparently there is no settle-, ment inl sight. The prevailing opinion, however, is that the operatives will be. forced back ; to' work inside of two weeks. A significant fact is that the' Weavers' union is getting short of funds. The strike pay of the union Weavers has been cut down from $3 per week, and this cannot last very long, as this imall amount of money will not support a fainily. No active steps have been taken toward compromise; - - , Fnaltive Teller Kt-osrn. ; Wilmington, Del.,; Feb. 21. William N. Boggs, the teller of the -First Na tional bank, of. Dover, who. is accused of taking $I0G. 000 from that . institution, walked into the office of Marshal Short, in the federal building. Saturday and gave himself up to' the. United States authorities. After strenuous efforts to secure bail for the accused man he was taken to New Castle jail late, in the af ternoon. Boggs refuses tb say where he has been. Four prominent citizens were arrested for alleged "complicity with Boggs. They are Thomas S. Clark, Charles Butler, Ex-Shei iff Cole and Colonel Cooper. They furnished bail, and were released. They vigor ously assert their innocence. Two Ilnndretl Fishermen ITc-cucd. Copenhagen, Feb. 211 A dispatch re ceived here from Helsinffors says that the 200 fishermen who were carried t. sea last Wednesday on a tract of ice that broke adiift.on the coast of the Gulf of Finland, have been saved. ; "In a minute" one dose of Hart's Ess fn ik of Ginger will relieve any ordinary case of Colic, Crampfr or Nau sea. An unexcelled remedy for Diar rhoea, Cholera Morbus, Summer co n plaints and all internal pains." Sold by B. W. Margrave. listrPBs!ng Stoiii-li IlisMSf . . Permanently cured by the . masterly poweis of Jtnith American Nervine Tonic. Invalids need suffer no longer, because this great remedy can cure them aH. It is a- cure for the whole world of stomach weakness and indi gestion. The cure begins vilh the first dose. The relit-f it brings is marvel lotis aw surprising. It makes ho fan tire; never disappoints.. No matter how Ions -you have sutFered, your cure, is certain under the tise,ofthi great health giving force, lieasaiu and al ways safe. - Sold bv E. F. Nadal. Druggist. I Wilson, N. C. V AH'' Sen 11 hi 11 Betid. New York. Feb. 21. William J. Scanr lan, the singer and Irish character ac tor, died Saturday night of paresis, in Blooniingdale Asylum .for the Insane, aged-12 years. He had been an inmate of the asylum for six years, and had been cared for by his wife. Maggie Jor dan. Scanlan was born in Springfield, Mass., and became locally famous while La small boy because of his sweet voice. When 16 years of age he was in much demand at vaudeville houses., and two years later be Jiegan to write the songs that won him so much fame and money. Subsequently he became the acknowl edged le'ading actor-singer. ' Her Ksiate Kor the Temple Fnnd. Chicago, Feb. 21.- By the terms of the will of Miss Frances E. Willard. late president of the W- C. T. U.. her estate will rass into the Temoie runa, arter the life interests of her secretary. Miss Anna Gordon, and her' sister-in-law. Mrs. .Mary h. Willard. have expired. The pi c rerty consists of "Rest Cot tage," at Evanston. valued at $16.0011,. a smalt cottage in the Adirondacks rand $3,000 in cat-h. which was presented t Miss.Williard on her 50th birthday. : That the blood' shduld perform its vital functions, it is necessary it shou'd not only be pure but rich in life-giving elhments. (These results are best ef fected by the. use of the well known standard blood-purifier, Ayer's Sarsa parilla, ',-.; , - Rheumatism DfttitfliteiH orthe lievo'iittnn. Washington, Feb. 21.-The atirrua meeting of the Daughters of the Amer ican Revolution .opened here today. This year there is, a hot fight in pros pect over the of lice of president general, to be vacated by Mrs. Adlai Stevenson. The organization for the first tirne will depart from its" usage of electUte to this office the wife of the vicefiresi dent of the Fnited States. The two most prominent candidates are Mrs. Daniel Manning, of Albany, wife of the ex-secretary of the treasury, and Mrs. Donald McLean, regent of the powerful New. York city Chapter. . Iottnater Burned to Death. Minneapolis, Feb. 21 A special from Rurisberg says: The postofhee and store at this place burned- Saturday night. Postmaster OIaf Kartunen, who slept in the building-, was cremated.' : There is no evide-nce of foul play, and the fire is' thought to be the result, of accident. Kartunen had been post master5 nine years. His ."body:: was .'.re duced to ashes. Fears Kor Ml"lnir Fishermen. Marinette, Wis., Feb. 21. Nothinghas been heard from the 12 fishermen who started from Green Island for this city Saturday. Friends of the missing fish ermen believej that thev must have found shelter in some of the fish shan ties on the bay. The Sturgeon Bay stage, which left here Saturday for the east shore, has not heen heard from. It should have reached its destination Saturday night. " There were five pas sengers and a driver. i-gg rap- S7 ' Keli-f lit lx Hnnr'.-''., V Distressing Kidney and Bladder dis ease relieved in six hours bv "New: Great South American . Kiuney Cckk." It is a great surprise on aci count of its exceeding promptness in relieving pain in bladder, kidney and back, in male or female. Relieves ret . ntinn of water almost - immediately ! you want q lick relief and cure this i; the remef v Sold by E. F. Nadal, Druggist, Wil son, N. C Is k blood disease and only a blojwreme dy can cure it. So many people piake the mistake of taking remedies which. at best are only tonics and cannot possi bly reach their trouble, Mr. Aa Smith, , Greencastle, Indiana, says: 'IFor years I have suffered with Sciatic Rheuma tism, which thebest physicians were till able io relieve. I took many patent medicines but they did not seem ,to reach my trouble. I gradually grew worse until I was un able to take my food i or handle tnyseii m any way; I was abso lutely belpless. Three bottles of S.S.S. re eved me so that I was soon able to more my right arm; before long I could walk across the room, and when I had finished one dozen bottles was cured completely and am as well a ever. I now eigh 170." 1 V I -. " I A Real Blood S.S.S. cures Scrofula, Cancer, Eczema, and any form of blood troubles. If yot have a blood disease, take a blood medi- , cine S.S.S. (jguaidnleed purely ' vegeta tabU) is exc.nsively for the blood and ; is recommended for nothing else. It forces out the poison matter permanent ly. We will send to anyone our Taluable books.. Address. Swift "Specific Co., Atlanta, 1-