The Weather To-day: FAIR. The News and Observer. VOL. XLVI. NO. 104. LEADS AUL NORTH CAROLINA DAILIES IN NEWS IIP CINQ IF Til. THE LINES FAVOR NORFOLK ’TIS SAID Inter-State Commerce Com mission at Charleston. HEARING OF THE CASE C. A. FULTON ('KDATE'S SOME THING OF A (SENSATION. DECLARES SOUTHERN LINES TO BLAME lie Places Upon Them the Whole Responsible ty for High Discriminating Rates Against South Atlantic Ports. His Statement. Washington, .Inly 10.—The Inter- State Commerce Commission Onlay be gan the hear Wig of the discriminating freight rate east* in which the Charics ton, fS. Bureau of Freight ami Trans portation appears as complainant against the various railway lines connecting Charleston. Norfolk and Wilmington, with points west and south. There are about forty individual roads named as defendants, the Southern, the Atlantic Coast Line association, the Seaboard Air lane and the Baltimore ami (lido. The charge is the long-standing complaint of Charleston that discriminating rates are .made by the railways in favor of Norfolk and against Charleston both on products from the West and for foreign and coastwise shipment and for railway distr.oution from Norfolk to other Southern points. The hearing began today before Com missioners Clements, ITouty and Cal houn. There appeared for the complain ants J. I*. I\. Bryan, counsel, and John A. Smith. Manager of the Charleston Freight Bureau. Counsel for the defen dant carriers was Edward Baxter. Among those present at the hearing ■were William Campbell, General Freight Agent of the Chicago and Eastern IMi mbs Bailwa.y; .7. M, CuUl-. Traflic. Man ager, of the Southoisi Railway and 11. W. Glover, Traffic Manager of the Sea boa rd. The first witness was S. F. Parrott. Chairman of the Southeastern Freight Association. His examination developed the fact that this Association was tin* successor of the Southern States Freight Association and this in turn of the Old ■Southern Railway and Steamship Asso ciation. Mr. Parrott said that a good •many arrangements of the latter Asso ciation were still in force as to the rates from the West to Southeastern Seaboard ]n»ints. He Avas not fully conversant with the way these rates had been made. Changes in rates were usually discussed at the meetings of the Association al though it did mot undertake to make and enforce them. * W. IT. Fitzgerald. Commissioner of the Virginia Railway Association was called but he added very little to the knowl edge of how rates to the South Atlantic IMirts were made. 'His Association, he said, consisted of the Atlantic Coast Tam* and the Southern Railway, the Seaboard Air Line, having 'been a member till about three years ago. 11 is office, how ever, had nothing to do witli Western through rates, merely publishing and compiling the rates given it by the indi vidual roads. Counsel for the Charles ton Freight Bureau endeavored to find on Avliat principle the rates into Charles ton wore made, but Mr. Fitzgerald after an hour's questioning could only say that they were compiled by John A. Ryan, one of the rate clerks im his of fice. 'Witness said he gave no instruc tions ns to how the compilation should he made and did not review the work after it was done. If the work was nyt satisfactory to the individual roads, thev could call attention to it. Otherwise the clerk’s compilations stood. Mr. Fitz gerald at first said that it would be im possible for the Southern Railways to reduce the Western through rates to •South Atlantic ports without reducin' the local rates to inferior points as it would interfere with the long and short haul provision established by the Inter- State Commerce Commisson. He after ward admitted, however, that the fact of water competition by great lakes and Atlantic Coast Steamship lines implied t*i Charleston. Wi!m : rigton and Savan nah as much as it did 1 > Norfolk. Mr. Ryan said he begged to call tlm attention of tin* ceinvnissior. to the fact that nunc of the railway people would .give any explanation of the theorv under Avhi< a rates were made to favor Norfolk ami discriminate against other Southern ports, although the freight schedules showed tins state to exist. Mr. Fitzgerald said that while he did not know t just how the rates were ar ranged. he felt sure they wen* arranged on a fair and equitable basis with no view to inti it ring Charleston. N I• 1 * hist witness of tin* day was f\ S. Fulton. Secretary of the Ohio River Central Traffic Association. He fur nished the surprise of. the hearing hr shifting the whole responsibility for high discriminating rates against the South Atlantic ports to the shoulders of the Southern railway lines. He said that Ihe roads North and West of the Ohio had lor ten or twelve years maintained a standing otier to pro-rate tin* through freight -(barges to the South Atlantic puls with the railways South of the Ohio emocrat and Republican county school hoards met in joint session to day and agreed upon trustees for various townships. 'I hey Avert* divided on coun ty supervisor, however. The Republican hoard re-elected Dr. A. 11. Davis and the Democrats, \\ . O. Cox, a young lawyer here. Reports made today by the equalization hoard show large gains throughout the county in property assessment. In Winston the increase is over six hun dred thousand dollars, and in Salem toAvnship over one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The county fathers do not think a special tax Avill have to he levied for payment of the court house* bonds. George Hudgins, the young man who was thrown frojn bis cart Saturday afternoon and dragged two hundred yards is still unconscious. Very little hope is entertained of his recovery. ATTEMPT AT POISONING NARROW ESCAPE OF THE CHILD OF MR. C. M. VANSTORY. First Regiment Band to be at Firemen’s Totrn ament. Fxcursionis's TnatCou’d not Get Away. («reensl*oro. X. C.. July 10. (Special.) —Saliio Runson, a colored servant at tempted to poison the .‘{-year-old child of Mr. C. M. Manstory, of this city last week. The little one had been very ill and suffered from sleeplessness. The ne gro. who Avntched by tile bed. gave the child a large dose of laudnum to make her sleep. Mr. Vanstory happened to come in just before the child sAvallowed the poison. aiidJie kept her from taking it and saved "her life. The negro wo man at once left and has not been seen since. The First Regiment hand will furnish the music during the great Firemen's gala week here next month. The Greensboro baud will also play during the week. T A crowd of colored excursionists at this place from Roanoke. Ya., did not succeed in getting away on account of hick oi lands. The crowd was on hoard and steam up, hut they could not raise the necessary amount. * • DECLINES TO ARBITRATE. Austro-Hungarian Claims AYi 11 Not Be Noticed By I’ncle Sam. Vienna, July 10-The United States Government has declined the proposal of the Government of Austria-Hungary to arbitrate the claims for damages arising from the death of Aiistriaa-liiiugariau subjects during the rioting at Hazleton. Fa., in September, 1.V07. Washington. D. ('.. July 10. The officials here confirm the advices from Vienna that a plan of arbitration, pro posed as a means of settling claims growing out of the Hazleton, Ua., riots, had been rejected by the United States. This probably disposes of the matter, ac cording to tin* view held here, as it has run the entire gamut of diplomatic ne gotiation, and all of the plans of settle ment. including the last one of arbitra tion. have come to naught. At the outset the State Department called the matter to the attention of the Governor of Pennsylvania, who in turn awaited tin* action of the grand jury at Hazleton, which tried the sheriff on the charge of murder. The jury acquitted the sheriff, whereupon the Pennsylvania authorities said that they could not recognize a responsibility which a jury had held did not exist. The State Department took a similar view, whereupon Austria-Hungary pro posed arbitration of the claims, it is this last proposal which is rejected, which seems to close the matter as the claims are hardly considered of sufficient importance to justify Austria-Hungary to go beyond tile diplomatic representa tion she has made already FIRED THE JAIL. I icksonv te, N. ('.. July 10.—(Special) Tin* jail here caught lire on the insnh* late Sat lirady night. The lire was quickly extinguished anid hut little dam age was done. It is believed that tin* prisoners started the fire in tin* hope ol escaping during the excitement. STEAMER REPORTED WRECKED. Halifax, X. S., July 10.—Tin* Steamer Portia from New York for Halifax is re ported Avreeked to the eastward of this port. I RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY MORNING..JULY 11, 1899. HE BEGINSAWAR AGAINST FEVER Wood Finds Matters Worse than He Anticipated. TO MOVE HEADQUARTERS MANY PREDICT TROUBLE WILL RESULT FflOM THIS. DESTITUTE CUBAN SOLDIERS THETE More Outrages by Cuban Banditti. They Ra d Three Farms and Vanish Unhurt. Another Outlaw Killed in the Act of Escape. Santiago de Cuba, July 10. —General Leonard Wood, tin* Military Governor, returned this morning from tin* United Stales and immediately began vigorous action to stamp out the yellow fever. He limits the situation more serious than lie had anticipated. Tomorrow headquarters Avill move to Son go, twenty miles north on the rail road. a point about a thousand feet above sea level; so will all the ad ministrative departments except flu* san itary and a few immune clerks in the quartermaster's and commission staff. Paymaster has been ordered to suspend all payments to tin* Cuban troops until the fever has been stamped out, the special object of the order being to prevent the soldiers from drinking dur ing the epidemic. Many predict that there Avill he trou ble when tiiie United States troops are entirely removed from tin* city, as tiler.* are many thousands of destitute Cuban soldiers already here. They are ex pecting payment and have torn, though for the best reasons, pur off for a month. OUTRAGES BY BANDITS. Havana, July 10.—The Board id' Agri culture of Puerto Principe, has ap pointed Sellers Cardenas and Lnaees s, committee to visii Washington n*nd ask for an appropriation for the province to enable it to purchase farming im plements. The Manzanillo rural police have killed Robinson Arito, an escaping outlaw. At Bayan. ;. 5,000 men arc waiting payment. About 2.000 weapons have been delivered to the mayor. ’ At P ijt.cal, two armed mi u hailed Julio Angulo, owner of the plantation Santa Rosa, and ordered him to open tin* door of his 'house. He hesitated or refused and they tired twice through the window, whereupon In* complied. The men were Maximo Rodriguez ami Antonio Moreno, who escaped from j Bojueai jail last month. They hound 1 Angulo, searched the house, secured I $5.1 <>, and having ordered him to bring, mi additional SSOO to n spot designated within an hour, under threat to return and kill him. they left with tile plan ters’ horse, title and machete. A short time afterward, the same men practically repeated this performance on tin* plantation Guijales, belonging to Fermin Diaz. There they obtained ten centimes. They went next to the ad joining farm, tin* property of Jose Gonzales, where they secured $lO and various ’articles of jewelry, finally dis appearing untouched by the bullets’ lire I tom 'the raided houses, after their de part lire. '1 lie Mayor of Alquizar has asked Gov ernor-General Brooke to cease sending rations to that point and to expend an equal amount in the purchase of 1,-inning implements ” in order that our people may earn their 'livelihood instead of being dependent upon alms avliosc regu lar arrival lends to encourage vagrancy and to destroy self-respect.” LIEUT. COLS. APPOINTED. Washington, July 10.—The President has appointee tin* following Lieut.-Coio mds of volunteers: .Maj. J. I*. Bell. Assistant Adjutant (*e era) of \ olunteers, now serving in the Philippines. Hi* was appointed from Kentucky to West Point in 1574. He went to Manila with Gen. Merritt and has had charge of the Bureau of Military Information. ( aptnin Herbert 11. Sargent, who was Colonel of the Fifth Immimn* regiment during the war with Spain. IB* was ap pointed to West Point from Illinois. ( aptnin John J. Brereton, of tin* 2dfh.. infantry. Hi* was appointed from Now Jersey to West Point and g\fi dilated in P'77, since which time In* has been with tin* 21th, in lantry. He was in the bai lie of San Juan Hill and highly coni nn tided for his coolness and braA'ery. Captain 11. Plummer, I(ltii., infan try. >Lo Avns appointed to West Point from Maryland in 1873. During tin* Spanish war he was on duty in Cuba as Brigade Oiinrter-master at the headquar ters of the Fifth Corps. Captain Plum mer was recommended for brevet for gallantry in action at Santiago. COAL COMPANY ORGANIZED. Roanoke, Ya., July 11).—The Alle gheny Coal Land Company with an au thorized capital of $lb(),()()() was organ ized here today with the following offi cers: J. Taylor Ellyson, of Richmond. Ya., President; .1. It. Fishburne, of Roanoke, Secretary and Treasurer. I ucii n II Cooke, H. D. Lafferty and Frank A. Hill, of Roanoke, comprise the Board of Directors. 1 STARVING, THEY APPEAL FOR AID Desperate Straits of the Cit izens of Hearwe- THE FLOOD SUBSIDING BUT THE PEOPLE'S CONDITION IMPROVES YERY SLOWLY. THOSE AT HEARNE TO BE RELIEVED Governor Sayers Says That During His tong Residence in Lxts He Has Never Seen a Worse Calamity Befall l*s People. Austin, Tex.,;.Tuly Kb—Gov. Sayers, j and a corps of assistants have spent the entire day working in behalf of Hood sufferers. Reports from the stricken district to day are to the effect that, while the waters are rap.uiy receding, the condition of the flood sufferers is improving very j, little. The Governor received official re j ports from Velasco, tin* southern most ! point, that everything was in fairly good j condition there with twenty-two foot of I Avator prevailing. He has received a | telegram from the citizens of llearm* stating that they had foughjl alone as long as they could and would now have to ask public aid. that all the property in that section had been laid waste, they were starving and homeless and needed motley, food and clothing. Their wants will be supplied at once. County Judge Bell, a Bollvillo, wired that there was 1.2(H) sufferers in the counties of Mills Creek and 1.00(1 in the creek bottom in absolute need. From numerous other portions of the flooded districts similar reports came pouring in. Gov. Sayers stated today to an Asso ciated Press correspondent that the ef fort on- tin* part of some to belittle tin* damage attendant upon the flood was L actuated by motives that he could not thiderdfand: that during his long resi- I donee in Texas, lie had never seen a ! worse calamity befall its people and that from reports he had at his disposal he was led to believe that the list of suffer ing would he very large. CHESS TOURNAMENT ENDS. Lasker Receives the First Prize; Sec ond Divided Among Three. London, July 10.—The Chess Mas ters Tournament was concluded this afternoon. Lasker received tin* first prize of SI. | 250; Janowaski, Mareczy and Pillslmrv j divided second, third mid fourth prizes, j each man receiving $575: Scliieelrter was awarded fifth, $.'525: Blackburn,* sixth. $250; Tschigrin seventh, $200; Showai ter eighth, $l5O. anil Mason ninth and filial prize SIOO. The records of the players at the end of the contest follows Won. Lost. Bird 7 20 Blaeklnirne 15*4 17*4 Cohn ...11*4 15b, Janowski IS 1) Lasker 22(4 4*4 Lee 0(7 17(4 Marocczy 1H }) Pillsbury IS 0 Soldi', liter 17 10 Showalter 12(4 IP/, Stcinitz .' 11(7, in/ Tinsley !.. . \ (5 21 Tschigorin 15 12 -Mason 12 15 A REVOLUTION THREATENS. Inflated Currency and Over Production of Coffee the Cause. San Francisco, Cab. July 10. —Several leanings citizens of Guatemala just ar rived on Ilie steamer 'Sam Juan confirm the reports that a revolution is threaten ed in that country. A prominent plant er now here said: “The inflated cur rency combined with the surplus produc tion of coffee, explains the conditions. Os late years every bit of arable land has been used for Ihe growth of coffee, Avith the result that there is over-produc tion,.” STEAMER PORTIA WRECKED. T.ic* Cans,* a Dense Fog.—No Lives Re ported Lost. Halifax, N. S.. July 10.—*The steamer Portia, from New York for Halifax was wrecked during a dense fog early this evening on Flinn's Island, off Sambro. a point about fifteen miles to tile east ward of Halifax. The passengers and crew, 115 all told, landed o,n the is'iaud in the ship’s boats and are all comforta bly housed there. No loss of life is reported. 'two REGIMENTS ASSURED. Otis Thus Cables to Washington From the Philippines. Washington. July 10.—General Otis cables the following: “Two veteran regiments assured. Will enlist lout one thousand. You can ap point eleven second lieutenants for first and nine for second regiment to recruit in the United States, all other officers filled.” APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT. Captains and Lieutenants for the Volun teer Army. Washington, I). (’., July 10.—The President ’ has made the following ap pointments in the Volunteer Army, the former service of each officer following the name: TO BE CAPTAINS. James B. Adams, First Lieutenant, Ith U. S. V. I. ' Frank F. Crenshaw, First Lieutenant, 3rd U. S. V. I. Paul (J. Gallaher, Captain, Ist Keii t tteky. Jacob If. Culver, Captain, 2nd. U. S. Y. Cavalry. » Charles 1). Gaither, Captain, Hth U. S. V. I. John Van Ness Philip, First Lieuten ant, 4th U. S. V. 1. TO BE FIRST LIEUTENANTS. Robert J. Arnold, Captain, 3rd Ten nessee. Kent Browning. 4th U. S. V. I. Thomas (J. Bradley, First U. S. V. ('avalry. Walter P. Corbett, First Lieutenant, Ist Georgia Volunteers. James 1). Fuuutlery, Captain 3rd U. S. V. Engineers. James C. Dixon, Cuptaiin, sth U. S. V. I. Mm. M. Meek, Ist Lieutenant, 3rd Tennessee. Wm. I*. ScreAvs, Second Lieutenant, 3rd Alabama (’olunteers. Thomas 1L Underwood, Captain, stli U. S. V. I. TO BE. SECOND LIEUTENANTS. Wm. Iv. Armstrong. Second Lieuten ant, 2nd Alabama Volunteers. Arthur G. Duncan, Private, Ist U. S. Volunteer Cavalry. George M, Holley, Second Lieutenant, 3rd U. S. V. Engineers. Henry Iv. Lover, Corporal, Ist U. S. V. Cavalry. Wiiford Twyman. Second Lieutenant, Ist Kentucky Volunteers. SHOT IN A VILLAGE DU^_ ONE OF THE MEN IS EXPECTED TO DIE FROM HIS INJURIES. The Other Shot at but Unhurt has Taken to the Woods and Has Thus Far Elu d d Pursuit. Marion, X. C'., July 10. —(Special) Dan Jarrett and Ed Hall had a ldooily tight in Halltown, five miles north of Marion. Jarrett stabbed Hall sever.b times in the abdomen and breast, and tin* physician says lie is likely to die. Hall shot at Jarrett several times without ef fect. The latter tuck to the woods and has thus far eluded arrest. AN AGE OF FALSEHOOD. Pulpit Arraignment of Embalmed Beef and Adulterated Food. Atlanta, Ga.. July !). Bishop Morrison spoke front the pulpit of the First Meth odist church today to the Freemasons of Atlanta. In the course of his sermon the Bishop said: “It has seemed to me of late that the present (s an age of insincerity, an age of fa Ist *liood, and the status of society and of our business life will bear nu* out. Thousands of men will not tell the truth unless they know they can make something by it. The moral decay of the present age is due to this disregard for truth. Lies are put up in packages, sent out in barrels, and hung up on hooks. Men art* justifying themselves with the fact that their acts are common. "That embalmed beef sent to Culm is : no worse than we get today. 1 believe | that the large death last in this country. I which is daily glowing greater, is due j diredly to the dishonest adulteration of foods which go in the homes of our coun try. The whole commercial world is honey-combed with iintriithfulness, and the inordinate love of money which lias taken hold of our people is at the hot- tom of it. “There are men in Atlanta today who have been running to money so long that while their wealth is five times as great as formerly, their reputation and their influence for good in tin* community is more than live times as small as it was lit* fore.” COMBINATION OF CARRIERS. Mobil**, Ala., July 10. —A combination has been formed by the Southern Rail way, the Mobile and Ohio Railway and the Mobile and Trans-Atlantic Steam ship Company, (Horsley Brothers of Liverpool) for facilitation of export and import business via this port, the rail roads agreeing to bring freight, and tin* steamship companies to supply the ves sels. SEABOARD'S NEW TERMINAL. (Hdundiia, S. 0., July 10. —Today tin* Seaboard Air-Line paid to tin* city council tin* $20,000 asked by the jury of condemnation for the New Side Park property, and now the Seaboard holds the title to a terminal property, cover ing twenty-three acres or picturesque land within one block of Main street, in the very heart of the city. O’BRIEN SUCCEEDS 'PLANT. New York, July 10.—At a meeting of the Board m Directors of tin* Southern Express v ontpamy held today, M. J. O’Brien was elected president to succeed | the lali* Henry B. Plant. Mr. O’Brien was formerly Vice-President and Gencr- ' at Manager of the company. * I PR *4 iv e CENTS. LIST DAY DF IHE BIG CONVENTION Work of Endeavorers Closes Amid Solemn Scenes. MOST LARGELY AITENDED DR. BOYD. OF ST. LOUIS. ON THE RACE PROBLEM. HIE GOVERNMENT MADE GREAT MISTAKE Should Not Have Placed it the Negro’s Fa'd ihe Franchise —Christian-ty Must Sit tie the Question of Rap s and lynchings. Detroit, Mich., July 10.—The Eigh teenth International Convention of Christian Endeavor closed tonight amid scenes of impressive solemnity attending the utterances of “Tile Last Word,” by the President and Secretary In each of the great tents rosiiectively, following responses from each State and country represented, the last exhortations from M. E. Bishop Vincent, of Kansas, and Evangelist Chapman, of New York. Telegrams and cablegrams were sent to The Hague, to President McKinley, Lord Minto, tjuceu Victoria, all breath ing a spirit of good felowshlp and love. Secretary Baer stated that the attend ance at this convention has very milch exceeded that of any Christian Endeavor convention ever held in the matter of I those present at tin* various meetings, j This estimate takes into account the i great convention at Boston in ISDS. |'l hat is to say, that out of the 28,000 i Endeavorers registered, which is tlu* **s | timate of the reception committee and includes Detroit members, there have i lieen more who attended meetings than at any previottis time. The estimate of attendance at the meetings gives a total of 2!15.500. The closing address in Tent Willis tun was made l».v Bishop John 11. Vin cent, of the Methodist Episcopal eium ii. At the day meetings in Tent Willis ton. the final address was delivered Ijy Rev. Dr. McLean, of Cincinnati. IIN ; topic was "The Great Need of Mis | sions.’” One of the principal addresses in Tent Willi stun was by Rev. C. X. Howard. lof Rochester, X. Y„ entitled: "Our i Country’s Greatest Peril.” Rev. Dr. W. W. Boyd, of St. Louis, delivered an address on “Our Country’s Many Problems.’’ He discussed the two questions of immigration and the race problem. For solving of tin* immigra j tien problem,- he proposed three remedies —to maintain American ideals at their highest | l int by an aroused public senti ment; to legislate against the admittance of the pauper and vicious classes of Europe, and; to bring to hear a com bined and quickened Christianity upon the stranger within our gates. As to the race problem, the speaker said that in his judgment the Government made a great mistake which it will not be apt to repeat in the Philippines when it put in the hands of the negro all (in* privileges and franchises of the freest Government on the globe. “There arc t\v<% sides of this race problem,” said Boyd. "There is not a white man in the North, if his wife or daughter were outraged by a beast, would not rush summarily to vengeance. 1 But that does not excuse, though it may : palliate, the diaholiicnl crime of lynching J and the hour is at hand when decisive J steps must lit* taken to abolish lit. Chris tianity must settle tics question: legis lation cannot do it.” Rev. ('has. E. Jefferson, of New York, spoke •upon '"Our Country's one Sal vation." BRYAN CLIMBS PIKE'S PEAK. Summit of Pike’s Peak, Col., July It). —Hon. Wm. J. Bryant came up today from Colorado Springs. The entire as cent of tilt* Peak was one continual ova tion, camps being decked out in the Na tional colors and scores of pleasure seek ers from all over the country being lined up along the track to cheer the silver leader as the train passed. At the Sum mit House hi* received the following dis patch I l orn J. J. Dickey, Western Super intendent of the Western Union Tele graph Company, dated at Denver: "Congratulate you upon your eleva tion.” Mr. Bryan sent the following reply: “Thanks. We reached the top hi safe ty, the average grade of the road being out* foot to sixteen.” TWO KILLED IN THE CRASH. Stockton, Cal., July 10.—A Burlington s*i>ecial train of nine coaches on the way from St. Louis to I.os Angeles, loath'd wtih teachers going to attend the Na tional Education Association convention at Eos Angeles crashed into a freight train within 300 yards of the depot at Newman. Cal., today and two women were killed and thirteen passengers in jured. THE MATTER WILL BE DROPPED Vienna, July 10.—The American refus al has caused surprise and disappoint ment here, especially in view of the pro ceedings of the Peace Conference at the Hague. The official papers, however, consider that the matters will now he dropped.