VOL xxmx. NO. tt?. THETHIRD CONVICTION INSURANCE AGENT HASSELL IS FOUND GUILTY OF FALSE PRETENCES. CONSPIRACY CASE NOW ON TRIAL Ab WiciallN Evidence is Regard to The insurance of His Brother, James W iKftill--ile Was C oßsamplive ** tea lusared and Coiild Not Speak Above s Whisper— Roth the ApgS cation and r i h : Death Proofs Were Entireiv Falsa—No Argument by Counsel. TRENTON, N. Dec. K> (Special) At the special term of Jones court to-day the third of the “Graveyard" insurance cases was called. State against ('. 11. Jh.ssell, Silas Blount, David Parker and Albert iYig lsll, false pretences. The solicitor nol prossed the defend ants Parker and Blount and announced that Wigfall hail just informed him that lie desired to submit. The defence exhausted tbeir chal lenges and then objected to the talcs jurors because they had been sum moned from distant parts of the coun ty. They made the objection that these jurors should have been summoned ] from amongst the by-starulers. Judge Graham overruled the objection. Ab. Wigfall was then introduced by the State. Col. Jno. W. Hinsdale's ex amination elicited the following: “James Wjgfall was my brother. 1 have lieen living in Beaufort thirty five years. My general business is fish ing. I know Hassell. 1 signed the name James Wigfall to the applica tion for insurance in the Bay State Beneficiary Association. Barney Davis, who purports to be subscribing wit jiess to the name, was not present when I signed. J do not know where Barney now is. He left Beaufort re .eently but did not tell me where he was going. “C. R. Hassell fifced up this applica tion at his house in Beaufort. Jim and I being present. He had spoken to my brother concerning the insurance and told me it would Ik- wise if 1 too Id talk to Jim about it. 1 felt embarrass ed about it but eventually lie made the application and we got the policy. Has sell sakl it was the best thing mv brother and l laid ever done. That none but himself would have taken the risk. It was at Has sell’s solicitation that the policy was put upon my brother’s life. “Jim teas about 21 year.-, old and lived in Beaufort all his life except when he was at St. Augustine school in Bgleigh. About 3 years before his death he returned from school to Beau fort and taught school with the excep tion of 3 months, when he was mer chandising. He had quit school teach ing on account of his health and stopp ed merchandising a month before his death, because his health would not jierniit him t/> continue. “J had Jim brought home from school He then hail a deep, heavy cough.” Question—“ When did he gel well of that cough?” “When he died. He died Nov. 6. 1893. The application was made Oct. 18th. 1593. “At the time this application was made J judge he weighed DO pounds. He was weak and feeble and did not look to me like he would-live long. He had a constant, heavy hacking cough and was choked up with phlegm. I think he had consumption. He was unable to work. I was present when he died. He was laying on the bed and asked me to make a tire. I had a nice fire, but revived it to please him, and when l came hack to the bed, he had raised up. I put my arms around him and carried him to a chair. He was as light as a child. When he struck the chair he was dead. He was conscious to the last,” TUt> sworn proofs of death state that the assured died of typhoid pneu monia after an illness of 3 days. “At the time the application was made he could not sjieak above a w his )K>r. “I the premiums on this policy to Haescl}. lie said brother Jim did well to get the policy out." Witness identifies the death proofs, sworn to by Dr. T. B. Delamar. The witness stated that a draft on the Bay State Association for $3,000, which is handed to him and identified, was sign ed by Silas Blount for him in his (Wig fall’s) name, and was given to Frank W. Gibble to be mailed. It is payable to G. H. Roberts, cashier Bank of Xew bero. “The draft was paid In the company and I got the money. Two or three days after Hassell found I got, the money he met. me on the street and said ‘f guess you are rich now.’ “I said no. “He said, ‘you have aeted damn mean towards me anyway. You ought to have given me one-fourth of that money. Xobodv else would have done your dirty work for you.”’ On cross-examination witness ad mitted he poeketed $2,970 and said he di>. ided it with his w ife and child ren. "Dave Barker collected it for me. I do not know whether I have made my (K-ai-e with the prosecution. Hassell j got his fees. .\£y brother consented 1 for me to sign his name to tie- applica- j lion. He was feeble and said lie did j not feel like signing it. Hassell did i not ask me to pay him the horse and buggy hire Barker owed him, now that I had money. “I have spent the money I got from the insurance company in various ways. .Soils*’ of it on my house. 1 have an ordinary home 10x24 feet, 4 rooms, It is listed for taxation al S(LKi, I owned the lot and hail the house nearly finished when I got this money. 1 have five in my family. 1 have ifo money now. W hen f got the $3,000 I owed some money s’rank Johnson, $100; Bero Davis, SIOO. I cannot say who else I owed. I don’t know what, has become of the money. I swear 1 do not know where the sum and substance of the $3,000 has gone. Dave Barker didn’t get it. 1 loaned him SIOO. He gave me his note for it. 1 will say 1 loaned him $500.. I loaned Frank Gibble S4OO or SSOO. I do not know how I have spent it. I don’t know'what has become of the other ■£ JlJount had SIOO but he The News and Observer. m immi wmiitii ®f m mm miouk duy. ined my brother. 1 suppose Mr. Has sell took Jim to the doctor. I did not take a sound colored man to Mr. Hassell and repre sent that it was my brother Jim. "I had this insurance some time be- I fore David Parker knew it. Silas Blount learned about it the same trine David did. 1 took no security for the money I loaned Barker and Gibble. “1 have known Mr. Hassell nine or ten years!” IRC. Strong testified Hint the appli cation for insurance was filled out in Hassell's handwriting. B. B. Robinson. G. \Y. Gerki.as, .las, Bryant and Jas. C. Davis, of Beaufort, corroborated the witness IN igfall as to the condition of his brother’s health at the time the insurance was ejected. The State then rested, it had been re|KVrted that Hassell would take the stand in his own behalf in this case, but after a hurried conference with his counsel, they decided otherwise. The-ease was submitted to the jury upon the charge of his Honor Judge Graham, no argument being m ule by counsel. Before midnight the jury re turned a verdict of guilty -the third t his week. To-day the ease of State against S. D. Delamar, T. B. Delamar. Levi . Noe, J. C. Delamar, Stephen I. Turner and \V. 11. Turner, for conspiracy, was called. THREE ISIN IN FRANKLIN Ksil d n hi:* Fnmhlteg Dead Infant Found - ho: Front tinbu-ii, < BOriSBFJiG, N. Dec. 14.- (Spc cuil)- The past few flays have seen three very serious crimes committed in this county. On Sunday Tink Mills and Judge ( ook, colored men, about 40 or 45 years old each were gambling in the* north ern part of the county. They had a fifty cent piece on the table, anti of this 30 cents Mills owned 10 cents and Cook 10 cents. Cook seized tiie pieet of money and Mills at ouee pulled a pistol ami shot him and he -died on Tuesday Mills has been in hiding since. A few davs ago some parties found floating in Tar river about eight miles below here the body of a new born white male chi Id. The body was wrapp ed in a piece of white cloth and then tied in a guano sack. The party who found the infant buried it and after wards laid his neighbors of it, It came to the ears of the authorities and the coroner had the body taken up and an inquest held. Suspicion point ed to a young woman in the neighbor hood. but when she was sent for she laid disapjieared ami up to thW. w riting has not been seen. On Thursday night as Jas. I. Harris, his mother and sou, James, were sitting before he tire at Harris’ house some one shot young James through the window, hit him on the side of the neck and face anti dangerously wound ed him. No warning was given and no cause is known for the shooting. 5 HUR4I A N i d) EOLITH S. President "T av l«;r Talks to Hie Ktmlen s About th** tilfl Roman. WAKE FOREST, \. Ik-e. 14. (Special)—This morning at the chapel services President Taylor made appre ciative remarks about the late Allen G. Thurman as au illustration of the possibilties of incorruptible American citizenship. These three-minute talks by Dr. Taylor at prayers are stimulat ing and valuable to the students. The faculty* yesterday set the limits of the Christmas holiday. Jt will ex tend from 2 p, m.. Dee. 20th to 9 a. m M Dee. 30th. The fall term examinations will all be held w ithin the period of one week, that next preceding January 35th. Each examination is to be limited to three hours, and there will’be two ex amination periods each day, one in the forenoon and one in the afternoon. \ number of students are expected lo matriculate January 13th, the be ginning of the spring term. President Taylor has distributed 4,000 copies of a neat pamphlet descriptive of the col lege and announcing the new term. Rev. T. C. Britton, of Soo-Chow, China,a Wake Forest graduate, preach ed here Wednesday evening last. Judge Tiinberlake is on the Hill vis iting his mother. LOWER RV»EB TO ATLANTA. Auo'herCut M«de bv all Roads S.oith of ihe Ol i « River. ATLANTA, Ga.. Dec. 14. Railroads South of the Ohio and East of the Mis sissippi rivers have just made from the 19th to the 20th of December,inclusive, •ales much lower than any ever made before. The round trip from Wash ington, 1). (’., to Atlanta, Ga., 1,300 miles can he made for $8.57 or little over half .a cent a mile. Other rates are in the same proportion. Round trip from Richmond, Yu., $0.20; Nash ville $3.40; Knoxville $3.80; Birming ham $3; Chattanooga $2.45; Savannah $4.20; Jacksonville, Fla., $5.25; Louis ville $0.70; Cincinnati $7.15(54.30 lovvei than the previous excursion rate) Lex ington, Ky.. $5.90; New Orleans $7.45; Norfolk. Va„ $7.90; Portsmouth, Ya., $7.90; Columbia s3.so; Raleigh. V. $0.30, and Evansville. Did.. sti.So. 'rick ets are good for five days. IM» M ILL ANOTHER WEDDING. It W :I! b** Cell braf> <( in Winston Next Wednesday . WINSTON, N. C„ Dec. 14. (Special.) Miss Bessie Anderson, the accomplish ed daughter of Maj. W. F. Anderson, of this city, will wed Mr. David Luke, a wealthy young paper manufacturer of l Piedmont, W. Va. The event takes place at the home of the bride, Deeein j Ik*r IS. Winston shipped over 200,000 pounds of manufactured tobacco this week. The county exhibit shows Forsyth’s expenses during the past year to have I b«en $25,105.77. The convict camp cost $8,319.42. Hi. EVEN STORES WERE 111 TIN El> TAR BORO, N. C., Dec. 14. (Special) Fire destroyed eleven stores in Beth el, Pitt county, last night, the build ings being the principal business houses in the tow n. The losses estimated at $25,000, half of which is covered by iri sui an«*. The merchants lost most heavily are S. T. Carson,"A. B. Cherry, Stanton Cherry and Bunting and Blount. NEXT YEAR AT KINSTON THE METHODIST CONFERENCE DFCIPzS TO M LET TH I RE IN 1890. RALEIGH ALSO ASKED FOR IT But Kinston Got the Votes—Dr Kil im’s Plain ImiK About Chris lan Ed ucation and I Diversities—Rev. T. N. Ivey’s Reply to Cy Thompson—Pres ident Cleveland -Mops Over on Ills W ay me Rut Doesn’t Stay Long— I he Bishop’s Address. ELIZABETH CITY, X. C., Dec. 14. (Special)-—The fourth day's opening worship was conducted by Rev. J. W. Jenkins. The call of the pastoral charges was completed. The bishop hail the class elected to deacon’s orders to conic before the ( onference and lie addressed them at length. This was a very comprehensive and profound ad dress ami was listened to with close attention by a large congregation. “We have no creed that is not to be verified in consciousness ami expressed in the life. The doctrine is not worth much that can’t be lived. Our great work is to save men. We are not to instruct them in the creeds, as a school would do, but vve are to save them by bringing them into living union with the living Christ. If we can do this we shall not be uneasy about our theolo gy. The extent of a man’s power and the fulness of his ministry is to be val ued by his vital union with Christ. “I want every one of you to be so grounded in Christ that yon shall be always the enemy of sin in every form. Don't allow any compromise with sir*. There is no concord between Christ ami Belial. I want our ministry to represent the highest quality and highest faith of Christian life, so that they shall go to their people and say you can’t make any alliance with sin. “But you are to light worldliness in the church in the spirit of love. You are not to use a meat axe and try to butcher men, but i n love you are to re buke men for their sins. There are no degrees of sin. All sin is alike evil in the sight of God. The sin of drunken ness is not darkened homes and broken families and distressed hearts. These are but the results of sin, but the great iniquity of drunkenness is that God has saiti, ‘no drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of Heaven.’ “When vve work among the poor and outcast the world looks upon us with scorn, as though vve were insignificant, but vve are doing a work there that is going to set us upon the throne of j>owcr at last, and there shall rise up from among these, the very subjects of your kingdom. “We don’t want any small men in our ministry who will look with scorn upon the low places among the masses, but vve want men who are great enough to serve the lowest of all people in the earth. “You will have to get. yourselves down if you want to get up. You must go to the very poorest, of the earth if you would be the noble men that God w ants you to he,’’ The fixing of the plaee for the next conference was the next order of busi ness. The vote was between Edenton Street, Raleigh, and Kinston. Kinston was chosen. THE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE. The report of the committee on books anil periodicals was Submitted to the conference. The report recom mends that the editorial management of the pihper be put und* r the control of a committee elected by the two con ferences. The report bearing on this matter was made the special order for 10 o’clock next Monday. At 3 o'clock p. m. the conference again convened, with Rev. R. A. Willis in the chair. The report of the joint board of finance was made. W. H. Branson, of Durham, is chairman of the board. DR, KILGO’S OPTIMISM. Tin* report of the Board of Educa tion was next Submitted. Dr. Jxilgo spoke to the report. Among other things, he said: “This report comes to us with no voice of calamity. There is in it no lack of faith. It shows that we have not worked in vain. There has been progress in all our institu tions. This is an hour .of congratula tion. The future church is to be deter mined by the place Christ holds in its educational institutions. It is time the world was taking Christianity serious ly. When Jesus said, ‘Render to Cae sar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the tilings that arc God's," He swept the rim of the universe andJaid every planet at the feet of Jesus. I am not going to substitute-Blato for the word of God. “AU institutions are the,expression of a thought, of a principle. The day is coming when the universities of this country will rule you with an iron rod in their hands. You can’t get one of vour college graduates to teach in one of your poor communities. That means that he wants to fatten up the world and give it nothing back, he proposes to give nothing to the world. 1 say that it is a wrong notion of education. "Some of the worst forms of Ameri can heathenism are found in some of our colleges and universities. Send your boys to the school that believes in Christ. 1 have seen schools take boys ouf of your Christian homes anti out of your Sunday schools and keep them four years and then send them back looking down upon your simple faith in Christ. “1 go into your home to ask for your boy to educate and you ask what w ill it cost, just as though it was old rotten plank you were dealing in. Don’t tell me you are teaching morality in your unchristian college. The rottenest thing iu this wopld is a Christian mo rality. You call your Legislture a Christian Legislature. Don't they have prayers every morning? And as soon as prayers are over some fellow jumps up and offers a bill to license bar-rooms. Is that Christian? “One of the greatest benefactors of Southern Methodism is Washington Duke. Brethren respond to his gener ous offer and let us roll up tin* endow ment of Trinity College.” The address made a very profound impression upon the conference. Missionary anniversary meeting to night, PRESIDENT CLKVELAN D PRESENT President Cleveland and hunting party arrived here this evening at 5 RALEIGH. N. C.. SUNDAY. DEC. V. ’895. 1 o’clock. It is exported that the P-res i , dent will attend church here to-iuor * row. Bishop Wilson preaches at 11 a. m. and l)r. Kilgo at S p. m. at the Meth ! odist eurch. The other churches will lie opened to-morrow and pulpits will j lie filled by members of the con sere nee. j Later. - President Cleveland left by ] special train at about 8 this evening for home. IVEY CON FOBENDS CY THOMPSON. In my dispatches reference was made to the sermon of Rev. T. X. Ivey, of Wilson, which was pronounced a Very tine effort. It was not an answer to Cy Thompson’s charge that the church is an enemy of liberty, but a. strong presentation of the Bible t ruths found ed upon the text: ‘And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." The whole sermon would be good read ing, for it is a. crushing reply to Thompson. Put the conclusion was so striking and original I give it in Mr. Ivey’s own words. He closed by say ing: “The statement made in all ages of the world since- Christ that the Church Inis ever been on the side of slavery seems to me a shocking' and blasphe mous statement, it means the con stant absence of the Spirit from the Church in all ages of iter existence. It means that the Spirit of liberty which descended on the Day of Pentecost in a shower of fiery tongues, burning into the very heart of the church and mak ing a glory brighter than that which shone above the -mercy-seat-, plumed Ilis wings for a filial .flight from her altars and her throne of power. If the Spirit laid been with Ice there must have been liberty. Who will say that the Spirit- has been absent from the Church during till her past? It must Vic confessed that, at times the Church has not followed the instruc tions and yielded to the power of the Holy Spirit. But in every instance, wherein there lias been manifest a re creancy of tri-wd on the part of the Church there has been a strong pro test, though it may have been a silent one, against such recreancy. In the dark days of the Inquisition, w hen Zion's chariot-wheels were pattered with blood, there was an earnest out cry of the great heart of the Church against the cruelty of an ecclesiastical oligarchy. How unfair and cruel, then, is it to lay the crime of a delirious few on the shoulders of Christ’s Bride! Humanity has been lifted gradually by a Spirit-guided Church into the sweet atmosphere of liberty. Looking at the immediate surroundings, it is difficult to realize how high humanity lias beer lifted. From the little shire- town of Caldwell county, nestling like a pearl iu a setting of mountain peaks, there is a beautiful turnpike-road of twenty miles in length to a famous mountain resort. 4,900 feet above tin* level of the sea. Who that has ever traveled this road can ever forget it and the sensa tions produced? First, an ascent to the brow of a hill, where you are greeted with the sweet breath of the white pine and the panoramic picture of purple mountains swinging their serpentine columns along the circle of a pearly horizon. Then a gentle de scent around the brow of scented hills to where a pellucid stream rings out its tinkling music over its pebbly bot tom. A canter on a seemingly level road winding between a singing brook on one side and gray, moss-covered crags on the ot her. A gentle ascent to where the eye is greeted with a revela tion of grandeur. A descent, with granite columns towering above you, and in your ear the sound of waters fretting and fuming through a rocky bed a hundred feet below. Now pass ing a spot where the sunlight seems to linger, then passing its nook, never greeted with the kiss of sunbeam, moonbeam or starbeam. Ascending, descending, descending, ascending, you arrive at your destination. Where are you? You are told you are 4,000 feet above the sea. You cannot realize it. You have semingly gone down as often as you have gone up. You are taken to the brow of a rock and told to look down. It seems as if you are looking from the battlements of the skies. You gaze on a hundred moun tain tops beneath you. The forests be low look like emerald swards, and the little cabin on the mountain side can be carried in your hand. You realize by looking to the bottom how high you have come, and you realize that though at times there may lit a descent, yet the whole road practically may be an ascent. . “The Church of Jesus Christ, moved and guided by the Holy Spirit, has been bearing humanity tor 4,000 years along the road which leads from slav ery to universal freedom. During the first stage she wandered through the low grounds. From Calvary she be gan to mount with renewed vigor. But in all her journey has she not descend ed? Yes. The men who bad seen the glory of Pentecost had hardly fallen on sleep before she descended into the depths of false Jewish theology. When Constantine saw in the heavens the fiery cross, and afterward carried that cross on his victorious banners, she de scended into the corruption of a State Church and an elaborate Christian for malism. During the travail of the Dark and Middle Ages she descended into the aw ful gloom of pagan philoso phy, pagan superstition and pagan im morality. In the eighteenth century she descended into the depths of a gross material ism culminating in the horrors of the French Revolution. But has she not also ascended? Yes. She has never, thank God, descended so low but that she has risen higher; and we have only to look at the position of humanity when Christ walked and talked on earth and the position of hu manity now to see how high in tin* at mosphere of liberty it has been lifted by tin* Church of God." THE M» r OOJV VE* ’ I'**. Fell lii* the FonimPt e *«» ll* et am! Fix the Time mi l Place TERRE HACTK, Ind., Dee. 14. The National Executive Committee of 1 lit* People’s Party have issued a call for a meeting of the National Committee at Linde!l Hotel, St, Louis, Mo., January 17, 1896, to fix the time and plaee for holding a National Convention 'and transact other business. They say it is desirable that they have a full rep resentation, and kindly request all to lx* present. No one will be permittted to act as proxy without credentials in writing. The call is signed by H. E. Taubeneck, chairman; M. <'. Rankin, treasurer; J. N. Turner and Lawrence J. MeParlin, secretaries. GUNBO&TS ARE ON HAND AUSTRIAN GAURD SliM* JOINS BRI ! Isli A’ J> IT \LI \ 8 V ESSE US AND IS NOW IN THE BOSPHORUS i I ll** («i|ii*i (it i hi* Turkish Korin Were i rained ! |»<>nlhe Bnif-h Ship Drvad as she Passed »he Dardanelles--Fur ther Derails «sj ike ilhs*>hc!* s air* Destitution tsl" the x rnienian-—-Fit i ceil thousand .Person: K.thd lathe District nl Veil CONSTANTINOPLE. P. *. !3, via So fia, Dee. 14. It became known to-dny that the British gunboat Dryad, which is to act as the second guardship for the British embassy here, had quite an exciting time while passing through the straits of the Dardanelles. When she approached the forts of Kuin Kale and Sedii Bahr at tin* entrance of Ihe Dardanelles in front of their garrisons, and notified them That the Sultan had granted permission for the passage of tin* boat, they quickly manned the guns, which were loaded, and trained them on the incoming vessel. The com mander sent a boar out to inert tin* Dryad, and quite a time r lapsed before he was satisfied that she had the right to enter. Then the Dryad was allowed to proceed through the straits ami into the sea of Marmora on her way to the Bosphorus. Tin* absence of news from the Ulte rior of Asiatic Turkey, and particular ly from Zeitonn, is causing much un easiness among the Armenians and others here. The extra Austrian guardship, BVbe uice. a 903-ton gunboat, currying four guns of fair caliber anti tv>o quick firing guns, has arrived here. A new irade (proclamation) lias been issued in connection with the work of the refo: m in Asiatic Turkey. It orders that those who arc found guilty of murder, arson, pillage or theft of stock shall be prosecuted inexorably and punished in the most severe manner. The irade also orders that the troops are to repress all disorders by force of arms, and that armed persons shall be amenable to martial law. FIFTEEN THOUSAND HOMELESS. BOSTON, Mass. Dee. 14 \ letter describing prevailing condition at \ an. Eastern Turkey, lias just been received in this city. The writer asserts that a descent upon that plaee may be exact ed at any time. “The county,” says the writer, "is being devastated just as fast as armed herds of Kurds can travel from one village to another. Thousands of Kurds are gradually completing their work of devastation and it is feared will soon make a descent upon this city. The wefrk of the last twenty days has rendered at least 15,000 people homeless and utterly destitute. Sas soun is a mere incident compared with what is going on now in this province. If the powers had never touched the question of reform the people would have been ten times happier, safer and richer than they are now.” The writer concludes by asking: “What is the meaning of this great pol itical crime of stirring up the Moslems to hate the Christians more than ever and then calmly leaving the people to their fate?” Another correspondent writing from Philippopolis, Bulgaria, refers to a clipping from a Turkish paper which he says the English Consul has trans lated as follows: “General satisfaction has been caus ed by bringing to light of the seditious intention of the American missiona ries, who, on the pretext of aiding, go about, the village of Anatolia sowing the seeds of sedition, which are in their minds; and vve are glad to hear that the Imperial Government is taking en ergetic means to repress and drive away such masters of pernicious opin ions." IIP vV \ FAILURE IN K CHIRON D. President ol Ike I'Hii’er*' 'Hfioual R»i, k Slake* an Assignment RICHMOND Ya., Dee. 14. The fail ure of Mr. James B. Pace, president of the Planters’ National Bank ,vvas an nounced this afternoon, lit* lias made the bank secure by deeding to it $280,000 worth of retd estate which w ill cover his liabilities to that, institution. Tne total liabilites tin* about $1,000,- i.OO and the e red tors are in five classes. The Virginia Trust Company, of which Mr. Pace was also president, is preferr ed. His son is a creditor of the third eltiss in the sum of SIOO,OOO. In the fifth and last eltiss are northern cred itors in sums aggregating $600,000. Mr. Pace resigned as president of the bank and as a director. Mr. J. .1. Montague succeeded him in the former position and VIr.T.C. Williams in the latter. The bank is made absolutely secure and has plenty ol'currency to meet till demands besides till the other banks have pledg ed any assistance that may be needed. Mr. Pace has been sick and his busi ness suffered by his absence. The di rect cause of the failure is inability of friends, whose papers he held, to meet their obligations. He has, too, been unfortunate in speculation in cot ton. B1 FIDE AT NEW BURN Rlpjcui) It ••.ill* nee partially Consuia** nl te o eial.) -The elegant residence of .1. VV. Stewart was partially consumed by fire it 2 o'clock this morning. The loss is \ ry heavy on account of water and the excitement in the effort to re move the furniture and children. Da vit! Rum!, v and IJoyd Hollingsworth first saw the liie, and it is due to their prompt action that the whole block was not burned. The Atlantic Engine Company did splendid service. Congdon's dry-kiln was nearly con sumed by fire at 3 o’clock, and much valuable lumber burned. Governor Carr and party returned to Raleigh this morning. NEW YORK, Dee. 14. Another big strike in the building trades is on. and lias already involved more men than that of the house* smiths which was ended yesterday. *I'.>IF KEPI ll* C%N CONVENTION. Chairman Carter I>sues the Call Iwr the National « onvenlion WASHING ION Dee. it. Chairman ! tarter, of tin* Republican National : committee, to-day issued the call.**.for | tin* National convention. Each Stale will be entitled'to four | delegntes-at-lurge and for each repre i sentativc in Congress at large two ! delegates, and each Congresional dis ! Get, each territory and the District of j Columbia, two delegates. Tin* dele gates at huge shall he chosen by popu lar State conventions, called loaded cars were overturned. The track was torn up for about fifty yards. No one was injured ami the road was cleared with promptness. The aeeiclent was due to a broken rail. PRICE FiVE CENTS. RESTS BESIDE HIS WIFE REMAINS (IF JUDGE THURMAN i o.NMGNFD TO MOTHER E V R I 11. WITH THE SIMPLEST CEREMONIES Khe Funeral U Held at ih** 'I hnr* man Kesldence in the l*rt»**i>r'' of a Gie.it C roud wbo Had %s*etabled in I* iv me I .a* t .**11(1 I'rihn'e to the ’* the "Old Roman,” and in whose affairs the dead Senator took the greatest interest during his lifetime, met at their club rooms and marched in a body to the house. Governor McKinley and the State officials met in accordance with n pre-arranged plan and together pro ceeded to the residence, as did also the city officials, headed by Mayor Allen. The postmaster, acting under special permission from Washington, had closed the office and all the employees, as well as the other Government of ficials in the city, attended. And in addition to those were numerous pri vate citizens from every walk of life, making an immense concourse. Prob ably at no time has there been a more notable gathering in the city of ( plum bus on such an occasion. The members of the family, the Gov ernor and party, and such of the friends as could be accommodated, were admitted to the house previous to the beginning of the services, and then the doors were elo'sed until the brief exercises were concluded. Rev. J. L. Grover, w ho conducted the obsequies, was a life-long friend of the deceased, and is himself bowed under the weight of years, having passed liis eighty-nintli milestone iu life's jour ney, and his white head shook and his voice trembled us he proceeded. He began by reading the nineteenth Psalinaml followedwitha brief prayer. The services were the most sinqde in .character, there being no music, and consisted of tin* reading of tin* Episco pal burial service, found m 1. < orin 11lians XV., 20. Following tlri Rev. Mr. Grover recited'the Lord’s ITayer, and then pronounced the benediction. There was nothing w hatever in the na ture of a sermon, nor were there any words spoken other than as here indi cated . Simplicity had been the desire of tin* dead man regarding the funeral service, and his wishes were respected. The remains were in a plain but ele gant black casket und rested in the archway between the parlor amt hall. The features were very life-like, the end having come without the.ynvages of disease and there was a calm and peaceful look on the face. On the lid was a plain silver plate bearing the inscription: “Allen Gran- r berry Thurman, born November 13, 1813; died December 12, 1895.” During the afternoon the immediate members of the family of tin* deceased accompanied the remains to the beau- Mj ti IHi Green Lawn Cemetery, west of the city, where the body was consign- ■§ ed to the grave. H The services here were even more simple than those the house, consisting only a prayer as the body was Rex ford, of the First," Universoliat M Church being the officiating The pall-l* carers were mostly sons and near descendant® of judge. ■ I he deceased now rests beside body of his wife. v .IF NT OR EXERCISES AT GITLFOKD.H| (il ILFORD COLLEGE, X. ( D*«-. t 4. (Special.) The Junior Exerciser pUthe class of 1.397, of Guilford College, took plaee to-night in King’s Halt at 7:30 o’clock. A large and eultubed audi ence, students and friends of tin* col lege, listened to the exercises vvhiolt were of an exceptionally high -order The follow ing was the programme: I. Oration The Arthurian Ep'e-p W. \V. Allen, Jr., Greensboro.- 11. Oration An Age of l*rogreßS Sallie \V. Sloekard, Saxapuhuvv. ill. Oration The Poet. Horace .Os car P. Moffitt, Lexington. IV. Or..lion The Poet with Nature Bertha White. Belvidere. Music. Y. Oration A Typical Quaker Jos. E. Blair, Guilford College. VI. Oration The National Parks - Lelia Kirk man. Pleasant Garden. VII. Oration -Evolution in Its Rela- M tion to Man T. Gilbert Pearson, elier, Fla. Music.