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The News and Observer. VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 112. TTKIE L/&GBIEST ©OGeSMILftTJTOK] ®F AKfi? TOG3TK] ©AGmOIiM [MOOT. ELOQUENT TOM MASON HE CHARMED: THE VISITORS, AND ALUMNI OF WAKE FOREST YESTERDAY. WHAT SHALL WE MAKE THE STATE. The Theme of the Hour—“ Let I s Make it the Home of Virtue”—Messrs. Broughton, Dowd and Booue Elected Trustees of Wake Forest College— The New Officers of the Alumni As sociation—To-Day is Commencement Day l'roper. Special to the News and Observer. Wake Forest, N. C., June 12. Col. Thomas W. Mason to-day deliv ered the annual address before the liter ary societies of Wake Forest College. Wingate Memorial Hall was filled by the large and cultured assemblage who gath ered to hear this favorite son of North Carolina. President Taylor presided. Rev. Dr. Biackwell, of Elizabeth t ity, offered the opening prayer, after which the orchestra played the beautiful Inter mezzo from “Cavalieria Rusticaria.” Seated on the platform w T ere: Col. Thomas W. Mason, Capt. O. M. Cooke, State Superintendent John C. Scarbor ough, W. N. Jones, Esq., Rev. Dr. A. M. Sims, Rev. Dr. Wright, of Richmond; Rev. Dr. Columbus Durham, Rev. Dr. C. S. Blackwell, Rev. Dr. T. E. Skinner, Carey J. Hunter, J. N. Holding, Noah Biggs, H. C. Dockery, Prof. F. P. Hobgood, N. B. Broughton, Rev. G. M Dudley and Treasurer Briggs. When Col. Mason and Capt. Cool e came down the aisle, leaning od the arms of the chief marshal and his as sistant, there was enthusiastic applause. President Taylor, in introducing the orator of the occasion, said the literary societies of Wake Forest College had learned to obey one scriptural injunc tion, to “covet earnestly the best gifts,” and has also learned that to find the best they did not have to go outside of North Carolina ‘•What will you make of North Caro lina, gentlemenF’ Col. Mason asked; “what shall we make of our State? The question is my theme. It has come to me and has taken hold of me as the inspiration of this hour. You have honored me as your guest. By your invitation I have come to see some of you put off the gown of the collegian, and put cn the toga virilh of the citi zen; and the question springs to the lips: what shall we make of our State ? “Our care of the State Is our talent of which the coming years will reckon with as. * * * The good name of the State is in our keeping. Shall I point you to some happy household where, all that is false and mean and selfish dies upon the threshold; where the house hold gods are truth and honor; where the cricket on the hearth sings its lullaby to those who sleep in the arms of virtue; where the mom with the coming sun light calls to prayer and thanksgiving for another day in which to do good, j So also will the State be true and roble j and generous and peaceful and God- j fearing and beneficent, it we choose ; to make it so. It is cur house- j hold. Our venerated mother sits at the | hearthstone. Is there a spot upon her j garments ? We put it there. Is there a line of sorrow on her brow? We gave the pain that wrote it there. Is there a downward glance where some fond sister looks her in the eye? Some deed of ours has caused her cheek to burn with shame. Are her garments unspotted, is her brow serene, is bc-r eye lustrous with conscious worth when she greets her si-i.er:- < Ti en we have been true to each other, and true to her. “The -State is our inheritance. It gives to us whatever of rank, whatever of privilege, whatever of safety we en joy in the citizenship of the world. “The sentiment of the people consti tutes the State. States ministered to by wealth and members and learning have perished from the fullness of safety.” He quoted the words of the historian Fronde an the last days of the Roman Republic and said we might write uqder this picture of the Warning,” “Let us take no thought for the things that minister to the pride of life; rather let * fu! of its purity and health. We rnu-t make no mistake in our stand ards of merit. Good intention, generous impulse,, unselfish purpose, sense of duty, faith in God as the source of good: are not these the lineaments of those who are the only safe guardians of the State ? Tnese may be homely virtues, but with them alone abide peace and honor and length of days.” He spoke of the many “good men and r- * . ■ ■ • ful to their trust; “but unhappily for us we have hail bad men as the guardians of the State 1 will not pain you by say ing that we have them now. Nor need I call the names of those whose vacant chairs are their best gifts to us. “We hove marked days in our calen dar a here the State reset) some high occasion.-: where some great deed was done, the memory of which makes us truer to each other. So it is we have marked the 20th day of May in this cal endar as our Independence Day. Nor do I a*k whether it was wise in the men of Mecklenburg to resolve on that day in the \ ear of 1775 to be an independent State, * We know this deed was done for the honor and happiness of our house hold These men of 177 results. They felt the honor of their household demanded that they should no longer remain the subjects of King George. They left results to Him in whom they trusted for deliverance; and in His providence victory came to them. “And so it was that on this 20th day of May, our day of liberty, we met to remember those who, in 1861, put on the gray uniform, nor did these men of 1861 count result?. They too were moved to this great act by the motives that transform the man into the hero. They too left results to Him iu whom they trusted for deliverance; and in His providence victory did not come to them. And yet we love and cherish them the more tenderly; we reverence them none the less because they died so well for a cause they could not win. “How little care we for the things that perish when imperishable honor is our inheritance. “We must not think of the State as something apart from ourselves. One writer says; ‘The true conception of the State is that of an organism in which each part is at once a means and an end to every other part. Whatever benefits one member benefits every other, and whatever injures one member injures every other member. The State is the organic brotherhood of man.’ “What, then, shall we make of our household ? Let us not make out of it the home of the plutocrat and his hire lings. We have put away African slav ery at great cost of treasure and blood; let us not bind our free limbs with fet ters, though they be of gold. “Our Republic is in danger. Now men's hearts fail them, not for the life of the Union, but for the life of the Repub lie There is wide spread distrust of the guardians of the State. It is taking hold of the very life of our people. “First, let us make our household the home of virtue. Let us teach our youth that they must wear always upon their breasts the white flowers of duty and honor. “We shall have need to raise our standards higher. There is so much now to be done. The cares of the State will increase as the years go by. The education of the peo ple will continue to be of larger concern; the supervision of those industries which the State has called into being for our welfare and happiness brings added cares. More and more we shall appeal to our sovereign to settle our differences and tell us what is right and just. Our old civilization with its individualism and simplicity is passing away. When it has gone out with the century, those of us who once gathered flowers in its gardens of beauty may be pardoned for coming, in the dawn of another era, to its tomb, bringing our wreaths of grate ful memories and giving our tribute to the dead old years. “Gentlemen, you will enter into the life of another century, into the larger life of the State. Your alma mater will clothe you for your household du- j ties, and follow you with anxious, | longing eyes. We have need of your young, glorious manhood. In the name of the State, I welcome you. Be careful of your health, of your muscle and strength. But, more than all, be care ful of your moral fibre. Train your j sense of duty. Let no selfish, ignoble ; purpose mar the purity of your motives. Make our household stronger and hap pier by your presence. Cherish its hou- ; ored name in your heart of hearts. Make it the home of virtue, I pray you, and J its colors will adorn you when you enter into the citizenship of the world.” This limited summary hardly give.-, an accurate conception of Got. Mason’s flue | address. It was punctuated with ap plause, and at the end a:i antbusiasne ovation was tendered the orator. Rev. I)r. Columbus Dm ero • ■>■ Douneed the benediction. Three New Trustees. The Board of Trustees was called up >u to elect to three vacancies in the ram of the trustees. They elected N. ) Broughton, the prominent business m. u and Sunday-school worker of Raleigh: State Senator W. O. Dowd, of Charlotte, editor of the Daily New.-; and the Meck lenburg Times, and one of the leading members of the late Legislature; tr.d Rev. J. B. Boone, of Windsor, a promi- ; nent. Baptist minister, and founder of ; the first graded school in the State. New Officer* of the Alumni. After the alumni addross by Prof. W. L. Poteat last light, the Alumni A?,,0- j ciation held its annual business meeting, i The new officers elected were: President, Rev. W B. Morton, of Louisburg; Vice- President, J. N. Holding, of Raleigh; Secretary and Treasurer, Prof. W. I. Po'eat, of Wake Forest. >la** Meeting* ol the Mocietics. This afternoon at three o’clock mass i meetings were held iu the halls of the I two societies. There were present the | students and a large number of former ! members of the societies. In the Phil : omatheeian Society hall Rev. W. L. : Wright, pastor of the Lee Street Baptist ] church, Richmond, Va , and Rev. J. W. Millard, ol the Theological Seminary at j Louisville, Ky,, delivered the leading j addresses. In the meeting of the Euztjlian 1 Society Messrs. J. F. Spain hour. Solicitor ! us the Eleventh district, and Walter Pickett, prominent North Carolina alumni, made the opening addresses. The Baccalaureate Sermon. Rev! I)r. 11. M. Wharton, of Balti more, one of the most popular Baptist ministers in the country, preached the annual sermon at eight o’clock this even ing. An extended account of the ser mon will appear later. To-morrow is commencement day proper. The graduating exercises are to be held in Wingate Memorial Hall, be ginning at 11 o’clock. In the evening at 8 o’clock occurs the annual promenade concert, one of the most pleasant social features of com mencements at Wake Forest. RALEIGH, N. C., THURSDAY. JUNE 13. 1895. SHOUTING FOR SILVER CHAMPIONS OF THE WHITE METAL NOW IN SESSION AT MEMPIII«. MORE THAN 2,000 DELEGATES. Senator Turnie Made Permanent Chair man and a Platform Committee Ap pointed—The Convention one of Great Enthusiasm—Sibley Abuses Cleveland and Carlisle and an At tempt W ill be Made to Endorse Him lor Presidento-Bntler Preseut. Memphis, Tenn., June 12.—When the committee on resolutions appointed at to-day’s session of the Southern aud Western States Silver Convention makes its report to-morrow there may be a lively time. The committee went out at five o’clock and it is thought will be ready to read the platform at an early hour to-morrow. The plank which may make all the trouble is the one which endorses Joseph C. Sibley, of Pennyslvania for President. Mr. Sibley is a man of brilliant at tainments, a fervid friend of the free silver idea and a cordial hater of the administration policy. In his speech to-night at the auditorium, he did not spare either Cleveland or Carlisle. It is somewhat doubtful at present whether the plank will ever get through the com mittee. If it does it is almost certain it will never get through the convention. The more conservative members of the delega tions do not believe it would be good policy to introduce a Presidential boom for even so popular a friend of the free silver movement as Mr. Sibley into a platform which was originally intended to show nothing but the feeling of the convention on the money question. From the standpoint of the white money enthusiast nothing was left to be desired by to-day’s convention. Two thousand delegates braved the torrid skie3 to be present, and every State, with few exceptions, sent its most prom inent and representative men with in structions to shout for silver, vote for silver and tolerate no discussion of any thing else but silver. The delegations varied greatly in size, the largest coming from Mississppi aud Tennessee and the smallest from some of the far Western or so called silver States. The small repre sentation from the silver States was ex glained to the convention by Gov. L. ir ad ford Prince, of New Mexico, on the ground that all these States had recently attended the convention at Salt Lake City. Nevertheless, said Gov. Prince, not one of these States was unrepresent ed. A committee had been appointed at the Salt Lake Convention to represent all the States, and JThis committee would arrive to-morrow. The convention was called to order *t 2 o’clock. W. N. Brown, of Memphis, chairman of the Central Bi Metallic League in Shelby county, Tenn., which sent" out the call for the convention, rapped the assemblage to order. Ou the platform were the following: Thos. Scott Adams, Secretary of State of j Louisiana; M J. Cunningham, Attorney j General of Louisiana; John Fitzpatrick, j Mayor of New Orleans; A J. Warner, j President of the American Bi Metallic ‘ League; Gov. J. P. Clarke, I editor of the Omaha % or!d Herald : j Senator James IL Berry, of Arka.. a : Senator Stewart, of N v*da; N nat r i Wollcott, of Indiana; ■■ ; a’or 1 G ■ Harris, of Tennessee; Alex I)eim i\ of j t'aliiornia; Representative H. D Money, I North Carolina- Be’n r or J X George, of ktss*.*ippi; Seimf David Turpie. of j (- ,v. L Bradford Prince, of N k M x- ; John Garv Lean* of Son'll Carolu;. From start o» finish, the convex.: l n i | was one of great enthus a n>. Kv :y i pronounced free bi'.vt r uftei-aue was :i.- ; -igaal for prolonged applause, and wfi- r. j I ihe various persons, well knosn in p l > j lie life, appeared on the rostrum, •• • !i ! received an ovation When Chair ts.-os i Brown had railed the convention to j order, L. I) Estes, of Louisiana, pra\ ed j He implored divine guidance for j • the delegatee, and hoped they ru ght be j ! led into adoption of “Honest Money” as j i tpeir platform Thi* C'cat'd a bit of a | ; , asation until it was leaned that he j | meant free silver. Coi. Casey Young, of Memphis, Tenn . ' delivered the address of welcome Senator Harris arose to introdu* e the i ! permanent chairman. He made a short j ! speech, explaining the object of the con- j | volition and the call. If was hrictly j j nou partisan ai d was called for orn j ur- j i pose only—to consider the rehabilitation j of silver. “Democrats can be hero in this con j vent ion,” said Mr. Harris, “without im- | i pairing in the slightest degree their alle | gianco totheir party. So may Pop- lists | and Republicans.” j Senator Harris then introduced Sena i tor Turpie as permanent chairman iu the j following words: “There is no more j j able or truer bi metallist in the United j States of America than Da* i 1 Turpie, of j Indiana.” Mr. Turpie addressed the convention i i part as follows: “Bi-metallists arc not against gold. Wc are for silver and for jus i■ - vTj! or >• ■ bp, of tho value ot silver aud gold, concerning which it. may be said both these metals are variable in v lue Etch changes in value from time to time like other com modities, but they vary in value infinitely less than any other commodity. “It is said that if we restore silver to free coinage, g >ld will leave us. This is asserted as a principle under what is called “The Gresham law or rule” where two or more kinds of money circulated together, the inferior will drive out the better currency. This rule, save in very rare instances, has no application in coin But what party in our country is seeking to debase its coin ? “The loss of our gold, the departure of our gold, will, as some opponents say, bring about depression. Yet gold stayed with us from the beginning in usual quality and proportion until 1873, when we ceased coining silver. From 1873 until 1872, while silver was not coined, gold touched a low ebb. When, in JB7B, we began to coin silver again, gold re turned in larger sums than ever, and stayed and increased with us. Since we ceased the coinage of silver in 1893, du ring 1894 95, gold has left us again. “The faith of the advocate of a single gold standard is compounded of one truth and one pernicious error; that coined standard dollars should be of equal legal value is true, but that the metal in them must be of equal bullion value is a fallacy; contrary to our com mon sense and experience that it cannot be much aided by prophecy.” The nomination or E. B. Wade, of Tennessee, for secretary, followed, and at the suggestion of Senator Harris, all the newspaper men present were made assistant secretaries. Resolutions were passed that each State should name a vice-president and a member of the committee on resolu tions. A roll call of the States resulted in the following being named : Alabama--State Treasurer Frank Smith, vice-president; James Bankhead, committee on resolutions. Arkansas -Senator James H. Berry, vice-president; Senator J. K. Jones, committee on resolutions. Colorado - Alva Adams, vice-presi dent; Charles S. Thomas, committee on resolutions. Florida—Delegation delayed; will ar rive to-morrow. Georgia Judge F. M. Langley, vice president; Henry Jones, resolutions. Indiana—David Turpie, vice-president and member of committee. Kentucky- J. Randall, vice preedent; Joe A. Martin, chairman of committee. Louisiana—M. J. Cunningham, vice president; Gilbert L. Dupres, resolutions. Mississippi—W. G. Yerger, vice presi dent; J. Z. George, resolutions. Nebraska- W. J. Bryan, vice-presi dent and members of committee. Montana—Raul A. Fuse, vice-presi dent; Charles S. Hartman, resolutions. Nevada- W. M. Stewart, vice-presi dent and member of committee. North Carolina T. F. Heath, vice president; Marion Butler, committee. Ohio a. J.« Warner, vice president, and member of committee. Pennsylvania Joseph C. Sibley, vice president and member of committee. South Carolina John Gary Evans, vice-president; ex Gov. Tillman, resolu tions. Tennessee—Wm. D. Bate, vice-presi dent; Edgar Carmack, resolutions. Virginia—P. F. Weaver, vice presi dent: E. C. Treadway, resolutions. New Mexico—Rev. J. D. Bush, vice president; L. Bradford Prince, resolu tions. Amid enthusiastic applause Senator Harris was then named delegate at large from the United States. •J H. MeDarrower, of Teunes-e, a well | known S'ato Populist leader, in an jm pa ioiH-d speech, demanded that the I Fhird pnty men be giv’ n bettor repre | siniatien on the committee on resolu- I tin: - Daly one Populist, he declared, [ Maron Bo? Ur. of North Carolina, was ! now on the committee. The Pop I ulisf,* had been assured by those i.i charge <f tbs convention that ir they handed a list of j names to the secretary they would be I placed on the committee. This list was j now in the hands of the so.-rotary but | had not beta read Were the Third i party men to be ignored. The conven j tion ordered th.it tb6 bcpl&ccu | ou trie committee. Alex D-.lmar, of Cal for ma, then ad j viia .-.*( d the convention At th* conclusion of Mr. Delmar’s J speech, the convention took a recess until 8 o'clock. Senator Stewart, of M \ Si RI..G t: AT GHEES .BORO. I Ist* l <mlr ctinu Eurties Wvie .Mr. Aii gu-tn* Rankin and Miss Sue Hall. | Sp*.; ini to :he N’e-r- hikl (er. .Greensboro, N. C . June 11. A very pretty w-. <1 ling ceremony took S place at Centenary P.* sbyterian Church i at 7:10 o’clock last, evening The contracting parties were Mr. Au I gust us Rankin arid Miss Sue Hall. The beautiful ceremony was performed | by Rev. S O. Hall, brother of the bride | The ic-liers were Messrs. Robert Murray, I Richard Brook*, C. C. Shall'tier and Nor j man Willis. The decorations were ex ceedingly tasteful and pretty, being of daisies and evtrgieei s. Both of these young people are very popular here and as a consequence they received a great many handsome presents. The newly wedded couple took the'South-bound | train for Asheville where they will spend j some time. i EDITOR HARPER Iff! LUCK. He Wa* Married Yesterday Afternoon to Mi** Vi via Wood. Special to the News aud Observer . Newbern, N. C., June 12. Edgar E. Harper, editor and proprie tor of the Daily Journal, and Miss Vivia Wood were married this afternoon at the Church of Christ by Rev. I). A. Brindle. Mr. and Mrs. Harper left on the steamer Neuse for New York and other points North. MUST KEEP HANDS OFF AMERICANS ADMONISHED TO TAKE NO PART IN THE CUBAN REBELLION. THE PRESIDENT S PROCLAMATION. Mr. Cleveland Declares That the Uni ted States Desires to Remain on Terms of Peace and Amity ,With Spain, and, therefore, Admonishes All Persohs to Abstain From Viola ting the Neutrality Laws hy Taking Any Part in the Civil Disturbances. Washington, June 12.—The President tc-day issued the following proclamation: “Whereas, the Island of Cuba is now the seat of serious civil disturbances ac companied by armed resistance to the authority of the established government of Spain, a power with which the United States are and desire to remain on the terms of peace and amity; and, “Whereas, the laws of the United States prohibit their citizens, as well as all others being within and subject to their jurisdiction, from taking part in such disturbances adversely to such es tablished government, by accepting or exercising for war like service against it, by enlisting or procuring others to enlist for such ser vice, by fitting out, or arming, or procuring to be fitted out and armed, ships of war for such service, by augmenting the force of any ship of war, engaged in such service and ar riving in a port of the United States, and by setting on foot or providing or preparing the means for such enter prises to be carried on from the United States against the territory of such gov -9 nment. “Now, therefore, in recognition of the laws aforesaid and in discharge of the obligations of the United States towards a friendly power, and as a measure of precaution, and to the end that citizens of the United States and all others with in its jurisdiction may be deterred from subjecting themselves to legal forfeitures and penalties. “I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States of America, do hereby ad monish all such citizens and other per sons to abstain from every violation of the laws herein before referred to, and do hereby warn them that all violation of such law.) will be rigorously prose cuted; and I do hereby enjoin upon all officers of the United States, charged with the execution of said laws, the ut most diligence in preventing violations thereof in bringing to trial and punish ment any offenders against the same. “In testimony whereof, I have here under set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be fixed. “Done at the city of Washington, this, 12th day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the one hundred and nineteenth. “[Signed j Grover Cleveland. “By the President: Richard Olney, Secretary of State.” Neutrality Laws Will be Enforced. Washington, D. C., June 12.—The Secretary of State has sent formal com | muuications to the Attorney General | and Secretaries of the Treasury and the | Navy directing them to take all necessary j steps to enforce the neutrality laws, in I view of the increased activity of the in ! surrectionists in Cuba aud their sympa ! thizors in this country. | TIIE INSURRECTION CROWING. Gen. Campos bus Asked for Additional Troops to Suppress ft. Santiago deCuha. June 12. Maximo Gomez has reached Puerto Principe and I crossed the frontier. He has about 2,000 i men with him, aud has succeeded in ! evading the government troops sent to j head him off. The invasion of Puerto Principe means that the Insurrection which has so far i been confined to *he Santiago province |is extending westward. In Puerto j Principe province hundreds of Cubans ’ are joining Gomez. The Marquis de Santa Lucia has again : taken up arras, and with him are sev i eral deputies and young men of good | families. Gen. Campos has asked for j addition troops to suppress this new uprising. CIVIL SERVICE EXTENDED. 1 Employees of Government I'rintiutr Office Under Classified Service. Washington, D. 0., June 12 At I raugementa have about been perfected | to place the employees of the govern ! meat printing offic t under the classified service. Rules will have to be formulated in regard to the force to be employed with every session of Congress upon the Con gressional Record. Upon the adjourn ment of Congress the compositors on the Record will be dropped. They will con tinue on the eligible list for one year and upon the re assembling of Congress can apply for reinstatement within that time. Miss Frances Willard to be Married. London, June 12.—The Mascot says it is rumored that Miss Frances E. Willard, President of the Womans’ Christian Tem perance Union, who is now in England, is about to be married to an English gen tleman of wealth and position and of prominence in reform work. This is a revival of a rumor which was in circula tion aboat a month ago. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BA S EB ALL V EST Elt 1) AY . At Brooklyn: Brooklyu, 1 0 7 0 5 0 0 0 x —l3 St. Louis, 020 2 0004 0-*$ Batteries: Gumbert, McDougal and Grim; Kissinger and Peitz. Base Hits: Brooklyn 13; St. Louis 12. Errors. Brooklyn 3; St, Louis 2. At New York: New York, 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 o—3 Cleveland, 003000 2 3 x—B Batteries: German and Wilson; Young and Zimmer. Base Hits: Now York 9; Cleveland 13. Errors: New York 5; Cleveland 1. At Boston: Boston, 102 0 11 00x— 5 Chicago, 00020000 0 -2 Batteries: Nichols and Ganzel; Grif fith and Kittridge. Base Hits: Boston G; Chicago 9. Errors: Boston 0; Chicago 3. At Baltimore: Baltimore, 10 0 000000 l Pittsburg, 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 5 Batteries: Esper and Clark; Killen aDd Kinslow. Base Hits: Baltimore 7; Pittsburg 15. Errors: Baltimore 0; Pittsburg 1. At Washington : Washington, 0 1 o—l Cincinnati, 3 2 o—s Batteries: Anderson and McGuire; Haynes and Merritt. Game called at end of third inning on account of wet grounds. At Philadelphia: Philadelphia-Louisville game post poned on account of wet grounds. CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. The executive board of the Olneyville strikers authorize a denial of the story that the strike has been declared off. The fire in the Antorienhutte mine, in Prussian Silicia, hasj>een extiaguished. All of the imprisoned miners except twenty six were saved. Frederick Ohl, one of the Princeton students who was shot Saturday night by the negro Collins, died at the hospital early yesterday morning. The annual commencement of the Al abama Agricultural and Mechanical Col lege took place yesterday at Auburn. The address to the graduating class was delivered by Hon. H. A. Herbert, Secre tary of the Navy. MorgaDfield, one of the Aquia Creek train robbers now in the penitentiary at Richmond, is able to walk about on crutches. He will be a cripple for life, as he will never be able to bear the weight of his body on his injured limb. The President has directed that Pay master 11. R. Smith, of the Navy, be dis missed from the service, approving the record, findings and sentence of a court martial which two months ago tried him oneharges of drunkenness, absence without leave and scandalous conduct, on the China station. Smith has already been turned adrift in Japan. The trial of Captain Jos. B Eakins, of the Mercer Street Station was begun be fore the Police Commissioners yesterday morning on charges preferred by the Parkhurst Society. He has asked to be retired but the police board denied his application in view of the charges made ;j since 1806 and a Captain since 1876. The jury in the cases of the Council j men P. B. Caulfield and Thomas Halrick, | of New Orleans, charged with attempting ! to extort bribe for cortaiu track privil eges from the Louisville and Nashville Railway, yesterday returned a verdict of I guilty. Appeal will be taken to the j Supreme court. This makes four coun j oilmen at present in the Parish prison ! convicted of municipal corruption. Town Wiped Out bv Fire. ! Geneva, Ind., June 12 -Last night i eery store and the flames spread with ! fury. In three hours all the stores and j dwellings between the Shamrock Hotel j and the Grand Rapids and Indiana Rail* i road, both sides of the streets were re- I duced to ashes, entailing a loss of over i |IOO,OOO with about $35,000 insurance. ! The entire street was swept clean. Thirty residences and stores were sent skyward in flames and smoke. Tho ! Grand Rapids depot and all the telegraph | commuuii alions were destroyed. Fit AX K BLAIR DISMISSED. : But III* Wile W a* Fined for Cruelty to ll is Children. Asheville, N. C., June 12.—A special ! to the Citizen from Los Angeles, says: j Attorney for Mrs. Claudia Blair charged j with excessive cruelty to her step-cnil dren, withdrew her plea of not guilty aud substituted the plea of guilty. Tho court fined the defendant S4OO, which her father paid. Complaint against J. F. Blair, father of the abused children, was dismissed as he was only a passive ac complice. KILLED WHILE HUNTING. John Cairiies, Jr., Accidentally Shoot* Himself on Black Mountain. Special to the News and Observer. Asheville, N. C., June 12. John Cairnes, Jr., son of the proprie tor of the Weaversville woolen mills went with a party oh a fishing trip to Black Mountain, left the party aud waudered into the woods in search of game and didn't return Friends searched for him and finally found his dead body. Cairnes had in some manner shot him self accidently. He was 25 years old, a mason and a good citizen. He leaves a wife and two children.
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