The News and Observer.
VOL. XLIII. NO. 134.
Leads all Other North Carolina Dailies in Both News and GiMation.
THE TRIAL OF M, ZOLA
Senational Scenes in the
Paris Court.
NOVELIST IS HOOTED
CROWD VEHEMENTLY SHOUT:
“SPIT UPON HIM.”
TYPICAL MOCK-HEROIC SPECTACLE
Witnesses Are Summoned But Pay no Atten
tion to Summons. A Series of Excitable
French Spats and the Court Ad*
journs Until Today.
Paris, Feb. T.—The trial of M. Emil
Zola and M. Perreux, manager of the
Aurore, who are being prosecuted by
the government as the result of a letter
which tihe novelist caused to be publish
ed in the Aurore in December last,
strongly reflecting upon high officials
connected with the Dreyfus case, open
ed to-day in the Assize court of the
Seine. M. Zola, was represented by
M. Laborie and M. Perreux was de
fended by M. Olemenceau.
•Great public interest was manifested
in the case. The police measure** taken
to insure order were rigorous.
Zola, who arrived in a carriage, was
greeted with vehement shouts of: “Gon
spu<*z Zola” (Spit upon Zola.)
An individual who shouted “Vivo
Zohi” was promptly suppressed.
The proceedings commenced at 1 p.
m. under the presidency of M.
Delerogue, who announced that the
court would be cleared if there was any
demonstration.
Although the court was thronged,
quiet was maintained owing to the
knowledge that a company of Reinibli
can guards had been placed at the dis
-I>cshl of the judge, to preserve order.
While the jury was being selected M.
Zola entered the dock. He was pale. A
few cries of “Vive Zola” were promptly
suppressed by the vigorous protests of
the majority in the audience.
After the reading of the indictment,
the advocate general explained that the
charge was strictly limited to the pas
sage in M. Zola’s letter denouncing the
Esterbazy court martial.
Continuing, the advocate general said
it was imperative to prevent the pro
ceedings from wandering and “thus
playing into the hands of the accused,
whose aim is to get a revision of the
Dreyfus affair by a circuitous route.”
In regard to the limitation of the
scope of the trial, the court decided to
allow the accused to call evidence in
support of the other charges contained
in his letter, including the accusations
which he made against Col. Paty Du
Plain, and Generals Mercier, Boisdefre.
Billot and Pellieux.
After reading the names of the wit
nesses summoned, M. Delerogue read a
number of letters of excuses ineluding
one from the Minister of Justice, M.
Harlan, announcing that the Minister
for War, Gen. Billot, had not received
tilt l authority of the Cabinet to testify.
M. Delorogue also read a letter from
ex-President Casimir-Perier, saying he
could not testify except as to facts sub
sequent to his presidency.
Col. Paty Du Clam was then called
ami refused to testify.
M. Laborie urge the importance of
his testimony, adding, that unless the
court ordered the witness to testify, he
might be compelled to demand an ad
journment until the next session. Coun
sel also said he was not prepared to op
pose a secret trial, if it was absolutely
necessary. But, continued M. Laborie,
the allegation that the matter they were
discussing was connected with State
secrets and the National defense was
a. mere joke.
The advocate general thereupon pro
tested against the National defense be
ing called a joke, to which M. Laborie
hotly replied that he would permit no
one, not even the advocate general, to
east suspicion upon his patriotism.
(Obeeis.)
Addressing the jury M. Laborie said:
“The oroof we wish to show you is so
striking that our opponents are making
efforts to prevent its becoming known.
Nevertheless, if it is necessary, I will
declare it alone, without witnesses. If
1 fail, Dreyfus will remain in the, gal
leys, where lie was placed by a law ♦ex
pressly made for him.” (\ iolout pro
tests.)
M. Lalwrie insisted that the judges
of Dreyfus should give evidence and
that Madame Doulancy, whom Zola hud
summoned but who has declined to ap
l**ar on the ground of ill (health, should
also testify, urging that she lie ordered
to appear <if necessary. Counsel added
that Madame Boulaucy, in addition to
the notorious Uhlan letter, .possessed
others from Major Esterhuzy, outrage
ously insulting the French army, which
had not been published.
M. Laljorie further contended that
Major Esterhazy was persecuting
Madame Boulaucy in order to prevent
her from surrendering the letters.
Counsel for the Aurore supported M.
Laborio’s request for the appearance of
Madame Boulancy. and urging the court
to obtain u verification of her alleged
ill health.
Later oil M. Laborie insisted that the
depositions made 'before the examining
magistrate be read in court. This win
opposed by the attorney general on the
ground that the examination was not
concluded.
M. Laborio then vehemently protest
ed against tike absence of the sub-
poenned witnesses, and referring to the
non-appearance of General Mercier,
said: “When he was Minister of War
he submitted to the judges of Dreyfus,
behind the back of the prisoner and his
counsel, a secret document,.which, how
ever, be said was unimportant.
'“lf this document, as lie declared,
was unimportant, the incident is ended
and there is no further need for General
Mercier’s testimony but if as alleged,
the secret document did not exist, let
General Mercier come and tell the court
so, and our side will lie well satisfied.”
is attempt to drag the former Min
ister ot Mar into the witness stand caus
ed much commotion in court, which was
increased when, on several members of
the Dreyfus court martial refusing to
testify, M. Zola rose up in the dock
and indignantly cried: “We must know
if these persons are acting under ttte
orders of the Minister of War or of
their own volition.”
General Boisdeffre was then called
and claimed exemption on the ground of
professional secrecy, whereupon M.
Laborie shouted:
“One would really- think all these of
ficers imagined they form a separate
caste, above all rights, and that they are
totally exempt from the laws and the
respect due to justice.”
lae court then ordered a, short ad
journment, until 4:30 p. in., in order to
allow M. Laborie to draft his argument.
On the resumption of the hearing M.
Laborie made a speech demanding that
the witness be ordered to attend and
testify.
The court postponed decision until to
morrow and the case was adjourned.
HOW CAN DIE
ONE, MOTIONLESS WHILE FLESH FALLS
OFF IN FLAMES.
Tvto Burned at the Stake, and They Stood
the Burning Without Flickering,
Inhaling Fire.
Washington, Feb. 7. —Tlie Attorney
General sent to the Senate to-day a let
ter written by assistant United States
Attorney McMeehan, giving the results
of his investigation into the recent
burning of two Seminole Indians in
Oklahoma by a mob. He says that the
sentiment in the neighborhood of the
crime is all with the mob and he was
infornuxl that it would not Ik- well for
him or any other persons to go into that
locality if it was? known that the object
was to locate the conspirators. Mr.
McMcehan’s letter tells in the, main an
oh! story but he gives some new details.
MeGfey, was, he says, the first of the
Indians to move a muscle after the
torch was applied and hi* did not move
until the flesh was beginning to drop
from his limits and the fire was begin
ning to touch his ears. “He then gave
a loud whoop and bent over as far as
the chain would allow him, and sucking
in the leaping flame, sank down and ex
pired without showing any more signs
of pain. Not so with Palmer Sampson.
He did not move until after MeGisy had
inhaled the flames. Then he commenced
to kick with both feet, throwing burn
ing pieces of wood twenty-five or fifty
feet away. It was with difficulty that
(hey succeeded in getting him burned.”
Mr. McMeehan says that a baptist
minister named Hiram Holt prayed for
the two Indians before their execution
and that as he knelt in prayer he held n
rifle iu his hand.
FOR REFORMING BOYS.
Virginia’s House Cbnlmittee Recom
mends Cages Instead of Shackles.
•Richmond. Ya., Feb. 7.—The House
Committee which lias Ix'en investigating
the .Laurel Reformatory for Boys, to
day agreed on a. report which exoner
ates the Prison Association of Virginia,
the organization conducting the institu
tion, from charges of mismanagement.
The report recommends, however, that
on account of the broadness of the low
ers conferred upon the association, “the
control of the association should lie in
the hands of the State.”
The report further says, among other
things:
“It is the judgment of « majority of
your eermnitt<*e that tlhere has been no
cruelty practiced toward auy of the in
mates by any of the officers of the said
association, but the majority of yom
committee are constrained to think that
the punishment in some cases has been
unnecessarily severe, particularly in re
ference to tihe application of the system
in lengthening the time of detention of
the 'boys in the -custody of the Prison
Association.
“Tihe use of shackles at the association
does not meet with tile approval of a
majority of your committee, and we feel
■that other means could tie pursued to
bring incorrigible lioys under proper con
trol, which would lie less grating to the
public, and less calculated to carry with
it a feelhng of a. sense of degradation,
and would at the tsutme time be equally
as efficacious. And in this connection,
would suggest: that it would iierbajis Is;
well to prepare a few cages to he use 1
as a substitute for shackles.”
TO FORM A PEANUT TRUST.
Ait Indiana Man Visits Norfolk for
That Purpose.
Norfolk, Va., Feb. 7.—\V. 11. Small,
an Evansville, Iml., peanut cleaner, has
been lien- endeavoring to form a trust of
all peanut factories, eighteen in Virgiuia
and seven in tlm West. He also contem
plates, if successful, the closing up of
those factories not paying, or unneces
sary. No steps have been taken by the
Norfolk operators, and Mr. (Small has
gone to New York, for the purpose, it
is stated, of securing some firm there to
undertake the work of attempting to ef
fect the organization.
RALEIGH, N. C., 'jUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY S, 1898.
TIL OF DEPUTIES
Judge Delivers a Sharp Re
buke to the Press.
BAIL WAS $402,000 IN ALL
*
GIVEN BY PHILADELPHIA SURE
TY CO. $6,000 EACH.
STATE TRYING TO PROVE MALICE
The Defense Mixes Up a Witness Who Makes
Wrong Identification-Damaging Remarks
of Deputies Sworn to, Threatening
to Shoot Down Miners.
Wilkosbarre, l’a., Feb. 7.—-When the
trial of Sheriff Martin and h:s deputies
opened this morning Judge Woodward,
alluding to the outbreak on Saturday be
tween Attorneys (Jarman and Lenaban,
state! that a repetition of .the offense
would cause the offenders to be punish
ed for contempt of court.
Then came a severe denunciation of
the sensationalism of certain newspa
pers in, as the court said, “endeavoring
to present justice by an exaggeration of
the facts of the trial in print and pictori
ally.” He would, he said, not mention
any names at present, “but if tile as
tounding falpsi hoods and misrepresenta
tives continue, the representatives of the
paper will find the door of the court
house closed to them.”
“This is a court of justice,” continued
the judge, “engage! in the trial of a
east dealing with the life or death of a
number of men, and is not a concert, or
a political convention. The dignity of
the court must, and will be preserved.”
But two witnesses were examined du
ring the morning session and they
brought out no new facet.
Just before the noon adjournment the
court accepted lciil for all the accused
deputies and the sheriff in rhe amount of
$0,600 in each case, making $402,000 in
all. Bail was furnished by the Phila
delphia (Surety Company.
At the afternoon session George Yea
ger described the meeting with the sheriff
and said the sheriff drew bis revolver
and pointed it at the strikers. He
crabbed one and pulled him out from the
others, all the time holding the pistol at
his breast. Then some one shouted to
shoot and they sliot. The witness then
pointed out. the deputies whom he saw.
shooting,.
The men Yeager pointed out as doing
the shooting wen* John Zeirlt. Harry
Zeirdt, Schuyler Ridgway and Thomau
Hall. The witness could not remember
any more.
“After the first few shots.” said the
witness, “there was a volley and then
a number of separate shots and eleven
men were killed in five minutes and lots
wounded.
He said that during the course of the
examination that he could point out any
deputy who wtg present at the shooting,
and the defense Immediately scored a
strong point by calling in front of the
witness stand John Hampton. Chief of
the Coal and Iron police. Yeager was
asked if he had seen Hampton with the
deputes.
“Yes,” be exclaimed, “be was in the
line and was holding his rifle this way,”
and he illustrated.
The defense when its time comes, will
prove that Hampton was not on the
scene „t all, but was in Hazleton at
the time.
Thomas Hall, clerk of the Valley Hotel
in Hazleton, testified to a remark lie
bad heard on tin* Sunday following the
sliooting from Deputy John Turner.
Turner was in tin* hotel talking to some
friends, and lie said, speaking of the
shooting:
“M'o all marched out to Lattiiuer and
as the strikers came up I heard a shot.
It. seemed to come from the ranks of
the strikers, and then we opened up. 1
idiot nine of them, and killed five.”
The next witness was Christopher Bre
hen, a miner of Cranberry. Drollen
said lie was at M’est Hazleton when
the strikers arrived and that be talked
with Bcrnheiser, one of -the deputies,
who wanted him (to join the deputies.
Boruheiser said “every one of the d d
strikers ought to Is* shot.”
“They have as good a right to strike
♦is anybody,” the witness replied, “and
1 would not stop them.”
“You’re d d coward,” Bornbeiser
id, “or else you would get a. gun
and go out with us to shout, them.”
(A. few days tliefore the shooting, the
witness had a talk with a deputy named
Dodson, who said:
"We ought to get so much a bead for
shooting down these strikers. I would
do it for a cent a bead and make money
at it.”
On orosK-oxatiniiiatioii the witness ad
mitted lie bad boon, in jail for a week on
tin* charge of burglary, but that he bad
been bailed out and acquitted. His orl-
Vinal story was not altered.
'Flic last witness was John Costello,
who said (he was helping 'a wounded
mam when Deputy A. E. Hess approach
ed him. .He was about to detail the
conversation which ensued and by which
the (Common weal till hoped to prove
malice on the deputy when the defense
objected. There was a long argument
conducted by attorney Palmer and
Lenahan for the defense, amid attorney
Scarlet, McGahren, Carman and Martin
for the Commonwealth.
The court will decide the question in
the morning.
LEE'S STORY OF RUIZ
Gives Particulars of Execu
tion of Spanish Officer.
REPORT SENT TO HOUSE
ARANGUREN WAS ACTING UN
DER ORDERS OF GOMEZ.
RU‘Z WENT IN A PRIVATE CAPACITY
General Lee Interposed in Behalf of Emissary,
But His Note Reached Insurgent's Camp
Tco Late--Rirz and Aranguret
Had Been Friends.
Washington, I>. C., Feb. 7. —The Presi
dent to-day transmitted to the House the
r< , iiort'S from Consul General Lee rela
tive to the execution of Col. Ruiz, which
the House called for by resolution. These
reports consist of two dispatches to tile
State Department front General Lee.
The first, under date of I lecomber 21st,
is in the form of a narrative account of
the circumstances attending the execu
tion. • “As .a matter of public interest,”
says General Lee, “ 1 have the honor to
(inform the Department that on Monday,
December 13th, Lieutenant Colonel Don
Joaquin Ruiz, of the Spanish »onps of
engin«*eiis, and aide de camp of the
Captain General, an officer well and
favorably known in the city, visited Col.
Aninguren, am active and enterprising
insurgent chief with whom he had lieen
formerly well acquainted as the latter
had been in his employment when Ruiz
had charge of the water works of this
city. Col. Ruiz left, here at six a. m.
Monday, December 13th, alighting at
Camp Florida, 21 miles from this city,
where he breakfasted with the Spanish
commander and in company with frac
tious (guides), a white man and a negro,
he rode on horseback in the direction of
A langur on's camp. After lie had pro
ceeded two leagues *ie was met by
Arauguren. who was mounted and had
an escort of 14 calvary, Col. Ruiz, j
•After ew'aange of salutations. lieguin a ,
(speech to Arauguren and his party, set
ting forth the prospective glories of j
automatic rule, and I nan advised made
offers upon the part of tin* authorities
here for -the surrender of his command,
whereupon Arauguren, acting under the
instructions of h.s general in chief,
Maximo Gomez, .mu tClol. (Ruiz and his
two men, executed.
“It will lx* remembered that in Novem
ber last t.oiuez fawned a, proclamation
ordering Ibis officers to put, to death any
person or persons that should approach
them with the effort to make them trai
tors to their comrades or cause, or to
induce them to accept autonomy under
Spanish rule. Arauguren, previous to
the war, lived iu Havana with his moth
er. but has since been a bold and active
officer of the insurgent ranks.
“Iu accordance with a request made
to me by the Russian Consul and other
friends of 001. lvuiz. and with the knowl
edge, consent and approval of General
Blanco, I made the attempt to save the
lift* of the Spanish officer by sending to
001. Arauguren Mr. Ernesto Tosco, as
my representative here, with the? fol
lowing note:
“Ilabana, December 16, 1897.
"Mr. Nestor Arauguren.
“My Dear Sir: I am informed that a
Spanish officer named Col. Joaquin
Ruiz is your prisoner. I write to say
that the said officer is a personal friend
of mine and lias shown me kindness and
courtesy since my arrival in Habaua. I
therefore request you as a special favor
to me to release 001. Ruiz and to allow
him to return to this capital. The lx»ar
or of this note, Mr. Ernesto Tosca, is
my personal representative and I com
mend him to you.
“I am, etc.,
(Signed) “FITZHUGH LEE.”
"I regret to say,” continues General
Lee. “that my representative did not
reach tlw* insurgent camp in time to de
liver said ncx* before Col. Ruiz’s execu
tion which had taken place on the day
of Ruiz’s arrival.”
On December 30. General Lee wrote
as follows:
“Referring to m.v previous despatch,
I desire to say further that the note to
Arangureu contained therein was not
delivered, lieeause when my representa
tive reached his camp this insurgent
chief was temporarily absent therefrom,
but the next ranking officer, then in
command, gave to Mr. Tosca the fol
lowing statement:
“Oainp of Cuba.
“Details of tin* death of Lieutenant.
Colonel Joaquin Ruiz:
‘This gentleman came to these fields
dressed in the uniform of a Spanish mil
itary officer and Indore the Cuban forces
made to Col. Nestor Arauguren proixtsi
t ions of anotonomy for Culm. Col Aran
gtiren resecting the orders of our army,
made Ruiz prisoner and he was executed
later, after a court martial had been
held and in tin: name of tlw* organiza
tion of our army. -And that it may lx*
known. 1 furnish this information to
Mr Ernesto Tosca, who came commis
sioned 'by the American Consul at llu
baoa. . , r ,
“(F' Y. LJ, (Country and Liberty.)
\nm of Cuba. I>ooctinl**r 18, 1897.
(Signed). "MAJ. ALFREDO LIMA.”
“It now appears that Col. Rusz visited
the insurgent camp in his private and
unofficial capacity and that with the
of one or two of tihe authori
ties of the iwhiee and possibly a few
others, no one knew of his ermnd, or de
parture. fit would seem, therefore, that
lie went, into the insurgent camp in an
unofficial or private character, and not,
under a Hag of truce, or other official
protection in war, a procedure always
hazardous >to the life of any one who at
tempts it.”
Both these despatches are addressed
to Assist a nit -Secretary of State Day,
and not to Secretary Sherman.
BIG RAILROAD DEAL CLOSED.
A Syndicate of Bankers Take the Entire
Issue of Charleston and Western
North Carolina Ist Mortgage Bonds.
Baltimore. Md.. Feb. 7.—A syndicate
compose*d of Baltimore, New York and
Richmond, Virginia, bankers, has been
formed by tin* Maryland Trust Company
to take the entire issue of first mortgage
bonds of tlw* Charleston and Western
North Carolina railroad.
This road has become part of the At
lantic Coast Line, which purchased it’s
entire capital stock and an issue of in
come bonds. The coast, terminal of the
AVestern North Carolina road is at Port
Royal, S. O.
MRS. HUNTER APPOINTED.
She Wins the Fight Over the Kinston
Postoffice.
Washington, Feb. 7. —The President
to-day nominated the following ixistmas
tens:
North Carolina—Ada Hunter, Kinston.
Virginia—Win. L. Mustard. Pocahon
tas: C. L. Dillon, Pulaski; Clias. T.
Holtzman, Luray.
OFFICERS GIVE ALMS
MEN OF THE MONTGOMERY RELIEVE CHIL
DREN IN MATANZAS.
Insurgents Dynamite Train, Killing Five Pas
sengers and Wounding 27--An
Action in Sar.ta Clara,
Havana, Feb. 7.—On Saturday several
officers of the United States cruiser
Montgomery, then at Matanzas, visited
Cascorro, Matanzas, the residence of a
majority of the reconeeutrades, distrib
uting a considerable amount of aims,
while other officers of the cruiser distrib
uted alms in the streets of Matanzas, in
j this case a majority of those relieved
! being children. A considerable number
j of reconeentrados, of all ages and sexes.
I invaded the United Staten Consulate,
j Later iu the day Saturday, the Mont
gomery sailed for Santiago tie Cuba,
to wliibh port the Spanish gun boat An
tonio I>opez has also gone.
lai Union, of Mazanillo, furnishes
another contradiction of the report that
j Juan Masso, the insurgent leader who
recently surrendered, was related to
j President of the Cuban republic, Barto
lonio Masso.
About nix hundred sick and invalided
soldiers sailed for Spain to-day.
'lbe insurgents have dynamited a
train between Boniato and San Vicente,
province of Santiago de Cuba, destroy
ing a first class jiassenger car and
another car loaded with cattle. Five
passengers were killed and twenty seven
wounded. The Spanish version of the
affair adds that the insurgents after
ward attacked the train but were repuls
ed by the fire of the escort, until the
arrival of reinforcements.
According to information from Span
ish sources a column of troops command
ed by Lieutenant Colonel Harvas, (has
been engaged with an insurgent force
at Canada La Yieja, province of Santa
Clara. After inflicting some loss on the
army, tihe Spaniards followed the insur
| gent*? in the direction of arroyo Hondo,
| and later became engaged with six hun
j died insurgent infantry and sixty iuaur
j gent cavalrymen, who occupied an en
i trenched position.
i The Spaniards, it is claimed, after
some lively firing, dislodged the insur
gents who retreated with a loss of
twenty seven men and leaving one
wounded prisoner and twenty eight tin*
arms, a quantity of ammunition and
medicines, one dynamite cannon, two
boxes of dynamite cartridges and a num
ber of important documents in the hands
of the troore. The loss of the Spaniards
is said to ihnve been insignificant.
General Linares reports that during
six days’ operations undertaken in order
to reconnoitre tin* Camaron route to
Taeajo and the mountain heights as far
as Lao, in the Holguin district, he lias
been engaged at Laorlands with an in
surgent force commanded by Torres and
others. The enemy, the general adds,
were coming from tihe direction of
Santiago do Cuba and were well supplied
with ammunition. They continuously
opposed the advance of the Spanish
tixxips, attacking the advance guard and
flanks of flic government force, but
were, it is asserted, conqielled to give
way. The troops, the Spanish report
says, lost four men killed and had two
officers and thirty seven soldiers wound
ed.
A .TEALOU'S SPED-MOTHER.
Kills Her Step-daughter, Outs Her Hus
band, and Then Asphyxiates Herself
With Gas.
New York, Feb. 7.The wife of Win.
W. Place, an insurance adjuster in tlie
employ of the London Fire Insurance
Conqiany. residing at .”>B9 Hancock
street. Brooklyn, to-day killed her step
daughter by burning her face ami Ixxly
with acids, attacked her husband with
a hatchet and cut him so badly about
the head that he may ♦lie. and then
locked herself in a- room and turned on
two gas jets. by an am
bulance surgeon she Was Hnciniseious
but it is Ixdieved that six* will recover.
She was insanely jealous. V
LAST EDITION.
FF o£, FIVE CENTS.
OBJECTS TO EWAHT
Butler Will Not State His
Charges, if Any.
JUDGE EWART’S CHANCES
A MEMBER OF JUDICIARY COM
MITTEE PRAISES IIIM.
SAYS ENDORSEMENTS ARE EXCEPTIONAL
A Fifty Thousand Dollars Public Building for
Winston on Paper and a Fish Cultural
Station, Also, Keeps Time in a
Sort of Runic Ryhme.
Washington, Feb. 7. —(Special)—Sena-
tor Pritchard to-day introduced a bill ap
propriating one hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars. for a public building at
Winston. The bill was referred to the
Committee on Public Buildings and
Grounds. The Senator will see to it
that the bill passes the Eeuate at this
session.
Again at the request of Senator But
ler, the Senate Judiciary committee
1-ostponed action on Judge Ewart’s nom
ination until next Monday. The Sena
tor made the request, it is* said, ou the
ground that he desired to further look
into tlie matter thus intimating that
charges might lie preferred against the
judge. When asked by the News and
Observer correspondent to state what his
charges were against Judge Ewart, Sen
ator Butler said he did not care to make
any detailed statements, but he coivsid
erad that Judge Ewart was not judicial
ly qualified for the office, that he did not
have a judicial temperament and was
not a gixxl enough lawyer. The informa
tion in jxissession of tire Judiciary com
mittee, however, tends to disprove this
statement. A member of the committee
is quoted as saying this evening that
not in a Jong time Inis any apjrointeo for
a judicial ixisition lteen so highly on
t Horsed ankl recommended as Judge
Ewart, and furthermore. Ills nomina
tion will lx* favorably reixutod to the
Senate. Judge Ewart ex,x*cts to return
to North Carolina on Wednesday. For
the past few days be has been suffer
ing from a severe cold.
As predicted in these dispatches, Mrs.
Ida Hunter was to-day appointed post
master at Kinston. Congressman White,
it will he remembered endorsed a color
ed man by the name of Hargett, but
owing to the sentiment in the South a
gainst colored postmasters, the Presi
dent could not six* his way clear to ap
point Mr. White’s candidate and com
promised on Mrs. Hunter, who, it is
said, had the endorsement of both the
North Carolina Senators.
Senator Butler has introduced the fol
lowing which will be offered as an n
meiulnient to tin* Sundry Civil Appro
priation bill. For the establishment of a
fish cultural station in the State of
North Carolina, the purchase of site,
construction of buildings, and ponds and
equipment, at some suitable place to lx*
determined by the United States Com
missioner of Fish and Fisheries. $25,000,
or so much thereof as may lx* necessary.
The above was referred to tin* Commit
tee on Fisheries and by that commit
tee referrixl to the Fish Commissioner
who has returned it with a favorable
endorsement.
Senator Butler will now go before
tie Appropriations committee and see
to it that his amendment is incorporat
ed in the Sundry Civil bill.
HIS ABILITY QUESTIONED.
Washington, Feb. 7.—Senator Butler,
of North Carolina, went before tin* Sen
ate Committee on Judiciary to-day with
a request for the postponement of final
consideration of the nomination of Hon.
Hamilton G. Ewart, to lx* judge of the
Western District of that State, until lie
could have opportunity for tire formula
tion of charges he will make against Mr.
Ewart. He did not make known tlie
character of the charges stating that
Mr. Ewart was not of judicial tempera
ment and mat be was not a lawyer of
sufficient standing to entitle him to the
distinction sought to be confer ml upon
him. In obedience to this request the
consideration of the uomimation was
postponed a week.
TO LYNCH A DOCTOR.
Ohio Constable Drives Back a Mob and
lainds his Prisoner in Jail.
Ohillcothe, Ohio, Feb. 7. —Great ex
citement prevails at Laurelvillc, a vil
lage iu Pickaway, over the alleged mur
der of Pb-Ksie Neff, the daughter of a
farmer residing at Adelphi, and the
probability of the alleged murderer be
ing lynched before morning. laite last
night the Coroner rendered a verdict
that the girl’s death was the result of
some drug administered by Dr. Samson,
a local physician, for the purpose of per
forming a criminal ♦qierat-iou.
As soon as the verdict was announced
a mob of about 300 men surrounded
Kamsou’s house for the purimse of lynch
ing him, but the constable with tut arm
ed guai*l finally succeeded in driving
the mob back and placing Samson ib
the jail at Laurelville. A large crowd
is hanging about the jail where (lie pris
oner is confined, ami the jail is strongly
guarded.
Washington, Feb. 7.—Fourth class
postmasters have Ihxmi a planted in
North Carolina as follows:
Glen Ayrc, Stokes BuelMviHltr, Kilchin,
M. E. Martin; Triplett, Phincas Hamby,