The Weather To-day: I CAROLINA™ | FAIR. The News and Observer. VOL. XLVII. NO. 10. LEADS ALL NOBTTIHI CAROLINA DAIUEB II NEWS All CMAIION. SEARCH LIGHT SWINGS TOWARD CEHTRAL PRISON The Scene of Investigation Shifts to the Capital City To-Day. SUFFERERS TO BE HEARD MEN FROST-BITTEN- WHILE ON SUMMER ELL’S FARM WILL TESTIFY. SUMMERELL HIS OWN WORST WITNESS Says he Usually Whips 50 p>r Cent of his Men in Order to Maintain Discipline. Acknowl edges that the Castle Hayne Con victs Were Frost Bitten While at Work on his Farm. Hit Mazon Over the Head Twice. lHadifax, N. €., Sept. 21.—(Special.)— SwjH-rvisor Sumnnerei], of the Northamp ton, 'State farm tasked a hearing of evi vkiieo iu his defense by the 'lnvest igating 'eomimittee. It was granted, ami two days lhave been consumed in the examination of his witnesses. But now that it is all over, it is to he doubted if the man’s last condition !> not worse that Ms first. Even on his own testimony Sun nm roll stands con victed, for liis own evidence was in some respects the most damaging. I lielieve Lewis Siraamerefll told the truth on the stand. He showed no dis position to evade, and he answered with, commendable readiness and candor every question that was asked him. In fact bis readiness to make answer was so •pronounced as to provoke his attorney and caill forth a reproof. He said he usually whipped about half his men; he found This necessary to maintain discipline. He had struck .Toe Mazon over the head twice with the butt end of h,is lash, he said, instead of once, as other witnesses had testified, and in addition to This he was ■whipped by two in: n. Some convicts were frost bitten omhis farm last winter, he said, while at work in the field, and not at Fasti* Hajme as other witnesses had been claiming. These and many other admissions very ■damaging to himself (he made, with an honesty Truly commendable. And I have no doubt he was equal‘y honest when he said he had never been cruel or mest rented a convict. It is, however, all a matter of definition, and urn fort M,ately for KmrimereH. though fortunately for the convicts bis definition rtf the word “cruel” is not that commonly accented by the people of The State. The otDuir witnesses examined ihi-: morning in Sommerell's lueha'lf were Col. 'luos. W. Mason, Mr. (Jen. I*. Biirgw.vii, Dr. 11. W. I/cwis. Overseers J. N. Ilnni h-f, Sam Howell. ,T. M. Fiord and Geo. A. Pittman 1 , and Mr. M. 11. Clark, They all gave Summer ell a g-ood character and none of Them, had nutil recentlv ever hoard to charged with cruelly. His overseers denied ]x»sitively t!:;.; he was cruel. or had ever unnecessarily punished a convict. In addition to 'these witnesses 11. L. Tillery. M. W. Tillery and \V. A. Piero,* were examined as To the management of some of file other farms. The committee completed its work this afternoon at 1 o’clock and left for Ral eigb. where either witnesses are sum inoned to ap'peair for examination tomor row. Among Thera are M ill Richardson and Pat Freedle, of Nash county. Roth of them were frost bitten while on Sum rnerell’s farm. Also there tire a number of convicts aaid employes in the central prison tiiiiit may he examined. SCMMERKEL ON TIIE STAND. The first witness examimsl today was Swimr visor Sunn morel 1 himself. He be gan b.v coinipet i tion and arbitrarily controlling produc tion or fixing prices. Continuing the platform says: "We also recognize that, legitimate business interests fairly capitalized and homiestly managed have built up our in dustries at. home, given the largest em p.oy intent to labor at the highest wage, and have enabled us to sneressfully com pete with foreign, lountriest in the mar kets of the world. Smell industries must not la* struck down by legislation aimed at dishonestly organized institutions which destroy legitimate enterprise and the opixirtunities of labor anil plunder sue public.” PRESENTED TO PRESIDENT. The Gift of tin* South’s Sponsor to McKinley. Washington, Sept. 21. — Miss Nannie Randolph lletli. who was the sponsor for the entire South at the Confederate Reunion at Charleston last May, has presented to the President, in a pretty frame, the resolutions adopted by the sponsors at tlie reunion thanking the President for the “gracious words ut tered by him” at Atlanta last Decemtier in referring to the living and dead sol diers of the South. The resolutions are signed by Miss lletli and by the spon sors of the different States. PLUNGE INTO THE RIVER THREE ENGINES HURLED FROM A BRIDGE BY A COLLISION. It Was a Rear End Collision in Which Four Men Were Killed and Three Were Injured. St. Paul, Minn.. Sept. 21.—'Four men were killed and three seriously injured 'today in a rear-end collision of freight trains on a bridge cm the Omaha road near Windon. An engine was ptphi ig the first train and the second was a double-header, so that three engines were thrown into the river in badly wrecked Condition. One spall us tlie bridge was demolished and seventeen cars thrown into the river or along tin* tracks. These cars toofl lire and several were burned. DREYFUS PREMATURELY OLD. London, Sept. 22. —A correspoudeiut of the Daily Mail who joined the Dreyfus party at Bordeaux and a oconT tanied them to 'Carpentras, discovers (Dreyfus as “tho.ughtful. prematurely aged, with soft eyes, a smile dike a woman’s and rather the apnea ranee of a savant than a soldier.” His health, the c'orrewpond ent says, il far from satisfactory. He ate* meat yesterday for the first time. "It is against the doctor's orders," said Math'ieu Dreyfus. "Ah.” said the former Captain of ar t'Tiler.v, “let me have a holiday today. I will 'lie sedate and efiedirnt again to morrow. I am just like a fioy now. and feel that T could run‘and jump about the green fields for very joy. Just think! I shall now Im* aide to laugh and play with my children in tlie beautiful coun try.” After the meail, despite his brother's half laughing protest, he smoked several cigars "to celebrate the holiday.” Tin* sad note amid the rejoicing was the death of M. Sclieurer-Kesf'rter. "I aum grieved beyond word's,” said Dreyfus, “to think that 1 sh'a'M never he able to thank that noble heart." "His delight at everything on tin* jour ney,” eonfimii’s tin* Daily Mail's eorre •s'lHitndent, “was that of a man returning from the dead to the world he loved. The affection and solicitude of ids broth er are touching to see. FRIENDS ASK HIM TO RETURN. The Sympathies of Salem go out to Mr. Hendricks. "Winston, N. Sept. 21.—(Special.) The Salem lodge Knights of Pythias sent Mr. Jblm L. Brietz north today to find Mr. Itobt. L. Hendricks, who left Salem Tuesday on account of domestic troubles, and ask him to return home anili take charge of liis mercantile busi ness. The Pythian* and Odd Fellows Kith join in this .request. If Mr. 'Hendricks refuses lie will N be 'presented with strong endorsements from business men here for the purpose of aiding him in finding employment or engaging in business wherever lie may decide to locate. Thirty cotton manufacturers of the South left 'Charlotte to attend the Na tional Exposition, yesterday. PRICE FIVE CENTS. FOUR LIVES LOST IN NORFOLK FIRE Twc w )le from This State ? B mongThem. H MIS siPPIN, OFTARBORO > AND £ LRY BOSWELL, A CHILD FROM LEWISTON. SEVcRAL HURT, INCLUDING TWO FIREMEN Bodi sos the Dead Removed to the Morgue. Firemen Injured by a Mass of Brick and Timber Which Fell Upon Them. Norfolk, Va., Sept. 21.—Four lives were lost in the great fire which destroy ed the St. Vincent de Paul Hospital early this morning. The remains were taken from the debris and removed to the city morgue today for identification, proving to be as follows: Mrs. Margaret McEween, about 70 years of age, a lady of weak mind, wlio was there for safe keeping. The only way she could be identified was by her ear rings, tlie body being so badly burn ed. Mrs. Elizabeth White, an old lady who had been at the hospital for a long time as a boarder. She was on tlie fourth Hoor and the body had fallen through to the third. She was identified by the structure of her body. Cherry Boswell, a 3-year-old child from Lewiston, N. G., who had a club foot, and was there for treatment. Miss Pippin, of North Carolina, who had just entered the hospital, and was to have been operated upon today. The lwuly was found in the ruins of the bed in which she slept. Miss Pippin was from Tarboro, N. C. The injured are: Fireman Thomas A. Barrett, of the Queen Street engine house, left leg broken, right arm fractured in three places and cut on forehead. He is still alive, hut lias not regained consciousness, and lmt little hope of his recover}- is en tertained. Fireman Robert A. Foster, driver, hurt about the head, but not seriously. Barrett, Foster and several other fire men had run a line of hose through the main entrance of the building, and were driven out either by the fire and smoke or by the premonition of an impending collapse above them. Had they remain ed in the porch they would not have been injured at all. but as they went down into tlie yard from tlie front steps a mass of timber, brick wall, etc., pitch ed out and down from above upon them. The mass that fell upon the firemen is said to have been a water tank that was located in that part of tin* budd ing for the purpose of running tin* no va tor. Miss Kate Dolan, of Washington. I>. C\, one of tlie nurses of the institution, was also injured. She jumped through the stair well from the third story to the first landing in a sitting position at tlie feet of Sister Bernard, the Sister Superior, who happened at that point just at that moment. She was hurt about tin* neck, hands and hack, and is considerably injured. Miss Teresa Glass, of Richmond, Va., also a nurse. She is badly burned about une hand and foot and slightly about the face. She was carried to a resi dence on Wood street. Sister Bernalrd, who is in charge of the hospital, estimates tlie loss at $500,000. on which tiliere was an. insurance of only $33,000. That the hospital will he re built there is scarcely a doubt. Many of the walls are intact and can Ik* util ized. THREE CAPITAL CASES. Kinston's Big Tobacco Sales—New Stores and Other Improvements. Kinston. N. ('., Kept. 21. (Special.) Judge Bryan is holding a special term of court here to try three capital eases. Already half as much tobacco has been sold on this market up to this time as was sold during the entire sea son of 1 SOS’s crop. Work lias been resumed on a hand some hardware store corner of Queen and Gordon streets. A stranger remarked last night that this was tlie "hustlingest” town in Eastern North Carolina. BARRETT FARNUM FAILS. Chicago, Kept. 21. Barrett Farnmn and Company, the Board of Trade bro kerage firm, failed today. A notice was posted on the exchange at 10Hi) a. m., requesting that all trades with the firm bet closed. The house is said to have lieon heavily short of wheat. PRACTICALLY MARTIAL LAW. Algiers. Sept. 21. In consequence of the anti-Semite disturbances here yester day, tin* Governor has established mili tary patrols, practically amounting to the proclamation of martial law. MaeVeagh. counsel for Captain Car ter, denies that he has received from the latter a retaining fee of SIO,OOO and a promise of $50,000 if he secures the Captain’s acquittal.