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The News cind Obs^iwcr VOL. XXXIX. NO. 51. TTKIE [LftGßffilST ©DKSQDILATDGDRI ®F AOT GTOiWIH ©AiftmOMA nDAOOL FOR WHITE SUPREMACY jb»_ BEN TILLMAN’S PROPOSED NEW CONSTITUTION IN SOUTH CAROLINA. AN EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION Every Person Applying For Registra tion Mast be Abie to Read aud Write Any Section of the Constitution, or Mast Show That lie Owns and Pays Taxes on $390 Worth of Property- Voters Must Also Produce a Receipt lot all faxes lor the Previous Vear. Columbia, S. C., Oct. 1 —The report of the suffrage committee, of which Sen ator Ben Tillman is eh; icuiau, was made tonight aud is as follows : Section 1. All elections by the people shall be by b Hot. Section 2. Every qualified elector shall be eligible to any office to be voted for, unless disqualified by’age. But no per son shali hold two offices of honor or profit at the same time, except officers in the nr ilia and notaries public. Secioa 3 Every mule citizen of the United States, 21 years of age and up wards, not laboring under the disabili ties named in this constitution, and pos sessing the q i*l fixations required by it, shall be a legal elector. Section 4 The qualifications for suf frage shall be as follows: (a) Residence in the State for two years, in the county one year, ia the election district in which he offers to vote four month--, and the payment of a poll tax six months before any election; pro vided, however, that ministers of the gospel in charge of an orgauiz d church shall be entitled to vote after six months’ residence in the State, if otherwise qualified. (h.) Registration, which shall provide for the enrollment of every elector occe in ten years. (e ) the person applying for registra tion must t>e able to read aad write any section in this constitution or must sho w that he owns and pays taxes ou 300 dol lars worth of property in this State; pro vided that at the first registration under this constitution and up to January 1, 1893, all male persons of voting age, wh#can read a clause iu the constitution or understand and explain it when read to them by the registration officer shall be eligible to rr gister and become elec tors. A separate record of every illiter ate person, thus registered, sworn to t>y the registration officer, shall be iled, one copy with the clerk of •oart and one in the office of the Secre tary of State, on or before January 1, 1893, aad such person shall remain dur ing his life time a qualified elector, un less convicted of someone of the disqual ifying crimes enumerated in Sec 6 : The certificate < f the clerk of court or of Secre tary of State shall be sufficient evidence t» establish the right of said class of cit ieo is to rt gistration and the fraLcbise. (1) Any ptrson who shall apply for registration after January 1, 1898, if •tierwise disqu dified, may be registered; provide d he can both read and write any section cf this constitution or cau show that he owns and has paid tax-s duriDg the previous year on property in this State assessed at S3OO or m re. (e) Managers of election shall require c t aay elector offering to ?oe at any election, b. tore allowing him to vote, proof of the payment of all taxes, in cluding po.l tax, assessed against him for previous year. (f) Registration certificates whin 03t •hail be renewed if the applicant is qua! ified under the provisions of this con»ti tuiion, o~ if he has been reg stored as provided In sub section “U.” t'e tion s—Any person denied registra tion s.iaii have the right to appeal to any asd all courts of this State to determine the question under the limitation im posed in this article, and the General As •stably shall provide by law the eorrec tioa of illegal or fraudulent registration aad the punishment of the sam*. Sre ioa 6 Tne following persons are disqualified from being r gistered or voting: First, persons convicted of burglary, •heft, arson, obtaining goods or money infier ra se pretences, perjury, forgery, rebbery, bribery, adultery, embezzle ment. bigamy, or crimes against the •(•otion laws, provided that the pardon •f the Governor shall remove such dia qualikatiou. Second, persons who are idiots, insane, panpem supported at the public expen ->e, aad persons confined iu any public prison. Section 7 For the purpose of voting ■o person shall be deemed to have * tiiitd or lost a residence, by reason of toil presence or absence, while employed in the service of the United States, nor while engaged in the navigation of the waters oi this s T ate, or of tbe United fi at ;*, or of the high seas m 8. The genera! assea b'y shall provide by law for the regfstra ion of all qualified electors and shall prescribe tbe manner of holding elections ados as certaining the results of the same; pro vided that each cf the two parties cast ing the highest number of votes at the preceding electi m shall have represents tion on the Board of Managers at each precinct, aud on the Board of County Canvassers i each county. Sec’ ion 9 The several counties iu the State sb«U bo divided into election dis tricis wi h one precinct in each of the same at which alone the voter registered for that precinct can cast his ballot; pro v ded that a voter may be transferred from one election district to anot her. Section 10 The General Assembly shall provide by law for the holding of party primary elections and preventing fraud at the same. Section 11. The registration books shall close at leas; ninety days before an election, after which transfers and reg istration shall be not be legal except as to persons coming of age in the interval. Section 12. Electors iu municipal elec tions shall possess all the qu ilideations herein prescribed. Section 13. Electors shall in all cases except treason, felony, a breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest on the days of election during their attendance at the polls and going to and returning therefrom. Section 14. No power civil or military shall at any time interfere to prevent the free exercise of the right of suffrage. Section 15 At any special election iu the incorporated cities an 1 towns of this State, for the purpose of bonding the same or for raising revenue, all resident owners of proper y iu said cities aud towns of the a-s ss d value of S2OO, who are qu dist d electors under this con stitution, shall alone be entitled to v to. At such el ction the voter shall produce a receipt for all taxes, county, State and municipal for the previous year, as evidence «>f his light to vote. No Divorces in South Carolina. Columbia, S. C., Oct. 1. — South Caro lina occupies the unique position among the States of the Union of being the only one which has no divorce law and has never had. The constitutional conven tion this morning after a hard fight, by a vote of 86 to 49, adopted a section of the constitution forbidding the granting of divorces for any cause whatever and not allowing recognition of divorces granted iu other States. TOBACCO RUINED BY FROST. One-Third of the Crop in the Piedmont Section Destroyed. Special to the News and Observer. Winston, N. C , Oot. 1. Last n’g'u’s f'-ost damaged, if not ruined, all tobacco in the field in the Piedmont section. It is estimated that only two thirds of the crop has been cured The loss to farmers will be heavy, as much flue tobacco r inamed uncured. Greater Damage Further West. Special to the News and Observer. Asheville, N. C , Oct. 1. Reports from por ions ot Buncombe, Madison and other western counties are to the < ffect that last night’s frost great ly d imaged the tobacco crop. From a third to half of th* crop is said to be de stroyed. Filth ot the Crop Damaged ia Virginia. Da n tills, Va., Oct. 1 ~ Reports by mad and telegraph to the Duly Register from Halifax, Henry, Pittsylvania and Franklin counties in Virginia, and Gas well and Rockingham, in North C*ro liu-', show that frost last night was gen eral and very destructive. Vegetation is blasted and some damage to tobacco is reported However, but little tobacco was out, p rbaps a little less than one fi'thof the crop, but what was out was ru.nfcd ice and Black Frost. Lexington, Va., Oct. 1. — List night a heavy black frost fell all through the Shenandoah Valley, from this point North to Harper’s Ferry, doing great damage to the excised vegetatiou. lee is forming ;n many places in a thinskim. The thermometer tell from 75 to 30 de grees last night. The tempera'ure to niguc is going down, and more frost and ice is expected tonight. Much of the vegetation has bjen cut short off with the ground All Vegetation Killed. Charlottesville, Va., Oct. I.—La t night frost was quite damaging to all tender vegetation in this section. To bacco was injured in several places in the c uuty, parti mlarly in the low grounds. Frost at Fredericksburg. Fredericksburg, Va., Oct. I.—Frost fell in this section last night. The to bacco was injured iu Louisia aud Caro line counties. (ironing Crops Kilted. Roanois, Va., Oct. I.—A severe frost fell in this section iast night, killing all the growing crops not already destroyed by the drought which has prevailed for the past two months. Most of the to bacco had been cut. More frost is ex pee'ed to night. GEN. M AHONE IMPROVING. But His Physicians Say There ia no Hope lor Ilia Recovery. Washington, D. 0., Oct. I.—Ex Sen ator Mahoue’s condition was slightly improved this morning, and during the cay there has been no perceptible change. The attending physicians, however, say there is no possible hope for his recovery. The area of the paralysis has not ex tended, and to some slight extent has abated. The General has recovered power over the muscles of his tongue, but is not yet able to speak. He remains conscious, aud to day when his sou, Wil liam Mahone, Jr., arrived, the father recognized him aud extended his right baud. The left side aud limbs continu* completely paralyzed. Unchanged at Midnight. Washington, D. O , October 1 —Ex Senator Mahone’s eondiiou was un changed at m'daight. He was very low and his physicians could offer no hope, although it was thought that dissolution might not occur to uight. His family were wi'h h m London, Oct. 1. —It is pr* dieted by an eminent authority, Gusecker, that the European sugar eiop will bo 1,200,000 tons short of the average. RALEIGH, N. C., WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 2. !895. WRECKED ON A REEF A SPANISH WARSHIP DRIVEN ASHORE IN A HEAVY STORM. BUT ALL THE CREW WAS SAVED Though the Cruiser Cristobal Colon is a Total Loss—She Formed a Part of a Fleet of Spanish Ships Detailed to Watch the (.'oast of Cuba lu Older to Prevent the Landing ol Filibaster ers—Another Report is that the Ves sel was Sunk by the Insurgents. Havana, Oct. I.—Following close upon the loss of the Spanish cruiser B ireasti gui, whi;h was sunk in collision with the Spanish merchant steamer Morter.i, off Mora Castle, at the entrance of this harbor, at midnight on Septem ber 18, resulting in the drowning of Ad miral Delgado Pare jo, Commander iu- Chief of the Spanish naval forces iu Cuban waters, and sixty-six men, comes the news of too wreck and probably the total loss of t ie Spanish warship, Cris tobal Colon, a second class cruiser ot ab >ut 1200 tons displacement and 1600 horse power. The Cristobal Colon formed a part of the fleet of Spanish warships detailed to watch the eoast of Cuba in order to pre vent the landing of filibustering expecti tions from the United States and else where. The cruiser carried four 12 cen timetre Hontoria guns, two 7-centimetre guns and two rapid fire guns. Her crew is es invited to have numbered about two hundred officers and msD, but the exact figurts are not known here at present, rs she had ou board men intended for the smaller patrol vessels of the Spanish fleet, and may have detailed • men ashore. The station of the Cr sivbi! .Colon was the waters ah jul Cape Antonio of the west extremity of the Island of Cuba, her command ir having particular insiruo tions to watch the Gulf of Porre it and Guadiana, south of Cape An tonio Tne disaster occurred off Colo rado Point, in the Golf of Gua liana, south of the town of Mantua, in rhi Province of Piaar Del Rio, uear which territory Havana i 3 tituaced. The exact d tails of the disaster have not ye: been m-de kffown; but, so far as can ba gat hated, the facts areas follows: The Cristobal Colon appears to have encountered the severe weather off Cape Antonio and to have put into the Gulf of Guadiana for shelter. There she tried to ride out of the fierce gale and heavy seas; but, was slowly driven towards Colorado Point, off which jutting there is a dangerous reef, known as the Colorado reef. When the commander of the cruiser saw that he could not make headway against the storm, he at tempted to anchor according to the stories told here; but the ancaors would not hold and the cruiser was driven ashore. Ano T her report has it that the Cristo bal Colon ran on the reef at night time when her commander believed her to be far enough off shore to continue steam iug against the force of the cyclone. In any case, she ran ashore last night or early this morning ia a most dangerous position and with a heavy sea miming Everything possible Eetrns to have been done to save the cruiser, but all efforts in that direction were useless and she was finally } btndoued this morning, a helpless wreck, pouudiug herself slowly to pieces ou tne Colorado reef. Some of the crew swam ashore, others reached land by means of pieces of wreckage aud in the boats; all the crew and officers a d men were saved by some means or anoth4l Tne above are all the facts obtainable here at present, aad o wing to thereti- C iaee of the authorities some inaccura cies may have crept into the story. But the maiu facts are correct, and the wreck of this file warship, so soon after the sinking of the Barcastegui, has cast a feeling of intense gloom over the government officials here. There are none too many Spanish vessels iu these waters at present, and the loss of the Cristobal C >lon will be keenly felt by tbe government at this crisis. Os course, the friends of the insur gents are circulating the usual sensation al stories regarding this, the latest disahter to the Spanish government, claiming that the cruiser was sunk by a torpedo exploded by insurgents. In of fical circles, however, this report is classed as being “nothing more than an invention of the rebels.” In spite of this official assertion, there is no doubt that the government has not thought it proper to make public all tbe facts in the case and this may not be done until the official report of the com mander of the wrecked cruiser has been received aud passed upon. A German Mail Steamship W recked London, Oct. I.—A despatch received here by Lloyds from Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, this afternooD, announces the meek and total loss of the German mail steamship Uruguay of 1,460 tons. The Uruguay left Hamburg on August 7 for Montevideo aad arrived there ou Sep uanber 3 She was on her homoward passage when she ran ashore off Cape Frio, not far from Rio De Janeiro, aud ail efforts to float her proved fruitless. Her crew and all her passengers were r.ccued. L*al«»ar« a Presidential Postuilice. Washington, Oct. l.—The following fourth cla s postoffl :es bocam > presided taa! to day, aud the postmasters iu each case were re-appointed: Oaancoek, Va., Montgomery, W. Va., Louisburg, N. C. THE LAW MAKERS MEET THE SPECIAL SESSION OF THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE NOW IN SESSION. GOVERNOR CULBERSON’S MESSAGE It is Confined Solely to the Prize-Fight Question and Reviews at Length the Situation W’h eh has Made the Call ing ol the Boby Together Necessary-* Two Hills Aire, dy Introduced—Em ergency Clau-e Cannot be Passed as the Legislature Now Stands. Austin, Texas, Oct. I.—ln compliance with the proclamation of Gov. Culber son, convening the Legislature in this city on Oct. 1, to take action on the prize fighting question, which has been agitated by the proposed <’orbett-Fitz siuirnons mill at Dallas, October 31, a quorum of both houses responded to roll call to-day at high noon and were in working shape within thirty minutes ami at 12:30 o’clock promptly received a message from Gov. Culberson. The Governor confin id himself - solely to the prize fight question, and reviewed at length the situation which has m ide the calling of the Legislature necessary. He said he regretted that he had t,o c all the solons together, that this quest o i was being wrangled over in the courts, he deemed it advisable to stop further discussion by having the Legislature enact a law that would be clear aud 6pecifii on this subject, and he desires it to go into immediate effect. His message is concluded as follows: “By proclamation, all persons have been given notice that this exhibition would not be permitted, and whatever has been done by its projectors was with full responsibility for the consiqueno's “The public interests require that this exhibition especially, should be suppressed. Discountenanced b; Mex ico aud the territories, outlawed and driven from every State, it is proposed to assemble a horde of ruffiaus and gamblers and offer here this commanding insult to pu l'c decency Agiinst it, the instincts aud tno pride of the people revolt and your prompt and resolute action will spare them the ig norny and the shame. It will do auother thiDg It will recall to the great city of this State, inhabited by a manly and generous and enlightened people, the wholesome and assuring truth, now ob scured by anger and misconception, for which it will hereafter thank you, that no part of its material prosperity, no part of its social and intellectual and in dustrial ptogress, no part of its splendid destiny is bound up in an endeavor to hold within its limits one of the most disgraceful orgies that ever promised to discredit and dishonor Texas “Impelled by a sense of duty to exert every executive power to divert this calamity, yeu have been called ia special session and the resposibility for the con sequences is now divided with you That you will meet it as become* the represen tatives of the whole people, anxious aud ready to protect the fair name of the State is not doubled.” As soon as the message was road, in compliance with i‘s command, two bills were introduced in both houses. The respective bills in the two houses are identical. The one introduced in the Senate by Senator L rwis, of Boxor, and the oae in the House by Repre.seot tive Ward, of Travi’., are generally con ceded to bo the tneas ires of he ; d oinis tration. .They d- flou. tha pr z ; lijhtin?, or any pugilistic eucou t *r, shall be deemed felony and shall be punished by ira. rsonment of not less than one, nor more tha i two years. This bill, of course, has the emergency clause. The other bill, in troducod in the Senate by Senator Simp son, provides a peualty of not less than five, nor more than ten yea s, aud fur tuer provides that anyone, who, iu any manner, aids or abets a fight wii lbe con sidered a participant and subject to the above named puuishment. The emer gency clause is also in this bill. These bills were referred to the Judic iary committee ia either house, and they were to take ac?ion thereon this after noon. The* Dallas attorneys appeared before them, however, to aek for further time, cla’miog that they could showthat the proposed law was unconstitutional aud class legislation as well as confisca tory. In compliance with their request, both committees adjourned until morn mg at 9 o’clock, and uothii g further was done by either house in the matter. As the matter now stands, it is a po litical row between the friends of Gov ernor Culberson and his present oppo nents, of which he has quite a number in the L gi-lature. There are niaety four members of the House present and twenty tour Senators. Iu the House it is neces sary to get eighty six votes to make the law go into immediate effect aud 20 votes are necessary ia the Beoaie. Iu the House at the present time there are fif teen out and-out men against putting the emergency clause in the bill, while there are four who are doubtful. This puts the two thirds vote out of the question in the Hous? with the present roster. In tbe Senate there are three against the emergency clause and two doubtful, which places the bill in serious danger there also. If a vote was taken now with only these present,there is little doubt thatthe emergency clau e would ba d seated. The administration forces do not propose to come to a vote ou the matter, however, until more of their men arrive, and these absentees are ex fieeted by to-morrow afternoon at the atest. The Dallas people also want a i delay to gather additional forces, so everybody is pleased to delay the game at present. To-night lobbying is being indulged in right and left aud a strong effort is be ing made to pull the twenty-two Popu lists in the House over to the right side. Corbett on His Wav South. Washington, D. C., Oct. I.—James Corbett and party arrived in this city at 3:30 to-day, and the champion went at once to the National Park, where heand his brother Joe appeared in a game of ball. Corbett did not take any chances of being hit while at, the bat He injured one of his fingers slightly in catching a thrown ball. The party left at 10:30 over the Southern road for Atlanta, where Cor bett appears in a sparring match to morrow night. From there he goes to New Orleans, where another sparring exhibition will bo given Friday night, and thence to San Antonio to go into training. Corbett said in regard to the calling of the Texas Legislature that while he believed the Governor meant to do right lie was mis-iuformed as to the brutality of prize lighting. TH E AT LA NT A~ E X POSITION . To-day the Exercises ot Minnesota Day Will Occur. Atlanta, Ga , Sipt. I.—To-day has been without special incident at the ex position, though the crisp weather hss induce a large attendance. To morrow will ba an important day The Minne sota editors two hundrad strong, will arrive. They will be welcomed on the grounds and will spend the day in sight seeing. At 3 o’clock the exercises of Minnesota day will occur in tbe Audi torium. At night the guests will be honored by a display of fireworks repre senting the storming of Wei Hai Wei. A feature of the fireworks will be a porc ra t ia fire of Judge Win B Hornblower, a guest of liouor of G. orgia B *r Associa tion. Friday, the Tennessee editors will be here. Western Roads Will Not Give Rates. Chicago, 111 , Oct. IFor the third time in the last two months, the Western roads refused to day to make any further reductions in rates for the Atlaata Expo aition than seventy five per cent, of doub'e loeals. Tne only road that voted in favor of a further reduction was tbe Illinois Central. Ali the other roads de clared that they were not selling any tickets to the Exposition, and to make reductions for it was but affording means for demoralizing their general business without purpose. The action of to day’s meeting may be taken as final in the matter. ABDUC TED BY A PRIEST. Pretty Maud Rteidel Found by Officers iu a Chicago Convent. Chicago, Oct. I—Maud SteideJ, 15 years old, whose mother lives in St. Joseph, Mo., spent last night at the Harrison Street Annex. She was ar rested at a West Side convent by officers from St. Joseph last evening. It was claimed that she was abducted from the Missouri towm at tbe instance of a Catholic priest. A’bsrt Kiandf, of 1014 Diversy street, wes arrested early this morning on a charge of abduction. He is a brother-in law of Father Dominic Wagner, whom the friends of the girl soy spirited her away from St. Joseph. It is said Father Wagner pursnaded tbe girl, who is good looking and large for her age, to leave St. Joseph and come to Chicago. Elandt went to St. Joseph and brought the girl to Chicago and placed her in a Catholic school on the west side. He said this morning that ho knew nothing about her abduction and had only done what Father Wagner had asked him to do. The police have in their possession a quantity of furniture which it is said was shipped here by Father Wagner and which seems to give an indication that he expected to set up housekeeping in Chicago. Not.mng further has been heard of Dora Kennedy who disappeared shortly after Maud Steidel was missed under similar circumstances. The kidnapping of Miss Steidel created a furor in St. Joseph two weeU ago. Last Wednesday night a mob of friends of the girl’s father gathered about the par sh bouse aud threatened to lynch the priest. He escaped by a bick door, however. M ss Steidel was taken home to-day by her uncle. THE YOUNG MEN ARK WILLING. Nearly 500 of Them Wish to Marry Hip Nias Lee’s Daughter. San Joan, Cain., Oct. 1.-—Letters and telegrams continue to pour into the telegraph ami postoffiee addressed to Hip Sing Lee, the mythical Chinese merchant prince in whose name an ad vertisement recently appeared in a San Francisco paper offering battering ,n --ducements to any respectable white man who would marry his daughter, Moi Lee. There are at present nearly five hundred letters in the postoffice address ed to the mysterious flip Sing Lee, all presumably in answer to the advertise ment referred to. Senator Riackburn’s Daughter Weds. Washington, D. C., Oct. 1 —Miss Lucile Blackburn, daughter of Senator Jos. Blackburn, of Kentucky, was mar ried at noon to day, at St. Matthew's Catholic Church, to Thomas F. Lane, Chief of a division of the Register’s of fice iu the Treasury Department. The wedding party was confined to fifteen people, the Rev. Father B trt performed the ceremony. After the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Lane loft for New York whence they sail for Europe. PRICE FIVE CENTS. A STAB AT THE TRUST JUDGE SIMON TON’S DECISION IN THE BRIGGS CIGARETTE MACHINE CASE. GREAT REJOICING AT THE RESULT The Injunction Asked for by the To bacco Trust Against the Use ol the llrlgg* Cigarette .Machine as an Infringement of the Ransack Patent is Refused, the Case Dismissed and the Cost Charged Upon the Trust-The Case Was Heard at Asheville in July, Special to tbe News ami Observer. Winston, N. 0., Oct. 1. The suit of the American Tobacco Company and the Bousaek Machine Company against W. F. Bmuh & Sons and other cigarette manufacturers of Winston was decided to day by Judge Sunouton, of the United States District court, before whom the case was tried at Asheville iu July. Ia the decision filed to day Judge Simoutou dismissed the ease and attached the costs, which it is esti mated will be no less taan S3OO, against tne Tobacco Trust and Bousack Machine people. The suit was originally brought by the American and Bonsack Companies against Brown Bros. Company, W. F. Smith aud Son and Liberty Tobacco Works, of Winston, aud James A Leach, of Thomasville, and J. A. Vance, of Salem. The Trust asked for an injunction against the four first named firms from using the Briggs Gigireite Machine, owned and manufactured by the Win ston Curette Machine Company, of this city, and against J. A. Vance, machin ist, from making them. The trial is regarded here as the most important oae of the kind that has ever come up in North Carolina and Win ston people generally are rt j oiciug with the men who have won such a great vic tory. Tobacconists are free to say that the decision is a heavy stab at the trust, and that the courts are realizing the evil they (the trust) are doing. The testimony in the case was taken in New York, Winston, Danville and Hen derson. Counsel for complainants were Dun A Page, W. W. Fuller, M B Phil lips, of New York. For defendants: Glenn & Manly, Walser <k Buxton, of Wmston, Baldwin, Davidson aud White, of Washington and New York. W. C. Briggs, inventor of the Briggs’ cigarette machine, over which the hard fight has bien made, has invented an other machine, which he says is equal if not better than his first patent. This Decision Governs All tbs Cases. Special to the News and Observer. Asheville, N. C , Oct. 1. Judge Simonton handed down his opin ion in the case of the Bonsack Machine Company and American Tobacco Com pany against W. F. Smith A Go. The argu ment in the case was heard by him here in July. The complainants alleged that the Briggs Cigarette Machine, invented by a Winston man, is an infringement on the Bonsack machine, the exclusive rikhr, to use which belongs to the Ameri c an Tobacco Company, a id sought a per petual injunction against the use of the Briggs machine. The parties to the d- fence wore W. F. Smith & Co., Brown Brothers Company, Winston Cigarette Machine Company, Liberty Tobacco Works aad J. A. Vance, all of Winston, and J. A. Leach A Co , Thomasville. It was stipulated that the result in one case shorli govern all. Judge Simonton decides that the Briggs machine is not au infringement, and orders that bill to be dinmissed with costs. Cigarette War Growisg Lively. Rochester, N. Y., Oct. 1. -The war between the American Tobacco Company upon one side and the National Cigarette and Tobacco Company on the other has reached Rochester, and the price of cigarettes to day took a great drop in consequence. Cigarettes that have been selling for some years at tho rate of ten for five cents to the consumer were sold in most of the leading tobacco stores to day at twenty for five cents, and it is understood it is the sams ail «ver the State. TWO NEW LUMBER COMPANIES. A $25,000 Plant Now Beiag Pat ia at Black Meaatala. Special to the News and Observer. Ashivill*, N. 0., Oct. 1. The Diekson-Mason Lumber Company bought twenty-eight acres near Black Mountain, aud will begin at oase putting up a locust insulator pine factory, with a capacity of twelve to fifteen thousand piues per day. Next summer the com pany will establish a big planing mill at the same place, the total investment being fifteen to twenty thousand dollars. Tho company’s main ofliss u at Ashe ville. The Patterson Lumbar Company, of which N. B. Pattereon, lately of Detroit, is head, is preparing to go into the saw mill business at Black Mountain, and within three weeks will start tho mill with a oupacity of twenty thousand feet a day. A W ile Murderer Convicted. Mount Vernon, Ky., Oct. I.— The jury, after four hours deliberation, gave Lev. W. G. Capps two jears in the peni tentiary for shooting his wife five times some t hree months ago. She had applied f« r divorce on account of cruel treat ment.
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