North Carolina Newspapers

The Weather To-Day: Fair. A The News and Observer. VOL.XLVII. NO. 42. LEADB 111 NORTH CAROLINA DAILIES il lEIS 110 GKjUMIN. BOERS ATTACK LADYSMITH General White Pushes Joubert's Forces Back / After Some Desperate Fighting. ENGLISH LOSE ONE HUNDRED MEN White Estimates the Boer Losses as Much Greater. After Being in Action Several Hours He Withdrew His Forces Which Returned Unmolested to Their Cantonments. Boers are in Great Numbers. Their Guns Have Farther Range Than English. London, Oct. 30. —The- War Office has received a dispatch which says General White has fought an engagement pre sumably with General Joubert’s force, which was pushed back after several hours’ fighting. The British lost about 100 men. and the Boer losses were much greater. The Boers were in larger num bers and had better artillery. Ladysmith, Oct. 30. —11:50 a. m. — Firing commenced at 5:20 this morning, the Boers shelling Ladysmith with forty pounders. After seven shots the British guns suc ceeded in silencing the Boer tire. . A force of Boers is now advancing on the British loft Hank. Ladysmith. Oct. 30.-12:50 p. m.—The naval brigade arrived this morning at 9:30 o’clock and has just commenced firing with six quiqk tiring guns with great precision. The Boer forty-pound ers, which had again lx gun to shell the town, were temporarily disabled at the third and fifth shots. Brisk tiring is in progress on the right and left Hanks. WHITE ATTACKED BY JOUBERT. London, Oct. 30. —A War Office dis patch from Cape Town dated October 20th, says: “An armored train under Llewellyn got within 1,900 yards of the Boer laager, three miles south of Crocodile Poort. The Boers had driven in their horses on the approach of the train. Three Maxim belts were discharged into the Boers, who must have hadi consider able loss. They returned ten shots with no effect. Colonel Plumer's outpost has had several skirmishes on the Crocodile river.” From later advices it was learned that the Llewellyn train returned to Moehudl, one hundred miles north of Mafekiug. Llewellyn reports all quiet. General White’s dispatch which was da fed 4:30 p. in. today, reads: “1 employed all the troops here except the obligatory garrison before the works. I sent a mountain battery, the Royal Irish Fusiliers and the Gloucesters to take up a position on the hills to clear my left flank. The force moved at 11 yesterday evening, and during some night firing the battery mules stampeded with some of the guns, which, howover, I hope to recover. These two battalions have not yet returned, hut are expected this evening. “I detailed two brigade divisions of field artillery and five battalions of in fantry, aided by cavalry, under General French, to attack a position upon which the enemy yesterday mounted guns. We found this position evacuated, but our force* was attacked with considerable vigor, by what 1 believe were General .loubert’s troops. They had many guns and showed in great numbers. Our troops were all in action, and we pushed the enemy back several miles, but did not succeed in reaching his laager. Our losses are estimated at between HO and 100, but those of the enemy must have been much greater, the fire of our guns appearing very effective. “After being in action several hours I withdrew the troops and they returned unmolested to their cantonments. The enemy are in great, numbers and their guns range further than our field guns. “I now have some naval guns which have temporarily silenced and, I hope, will permanently dominate tin* enemy’s l>est -guns, with which lie lias been bone 1 larding the town at a range of over 0,000 yards.” BOERS MASS ON THE BORDER. London, Oct. 30.—The latest news from the western border has apparently reassured the British authorities as to the ability of Mafeking and Kimberley to withstand assaults. A dispatch from Fort Tuli, forwarded during the evening of October 24th, an nounces that Blackburn’s force, in the skirmish of Rhodes’ Drift, killed 12 Boers. A Kaffir spy reported that many more Boers were lying in the drift, dy ing. Blackburn died of his wounds on returning to Fort Tuli. Scouts there re port that the Boers are concentrating strongly on the Rhodesian border with Maxims. BAYONET ATTACK REPULSED. Lourenvo Marques, Delagoa Bay, Oct. 30.—'A dispatch received here today from Pretoria, under daite of October 28t.h, says General lOronje, the Boer comman der, announced there that the British garrison l at Mafeking made a bayonet attack on Commandant Ixmwsl nager, near Grandstand, but were repulsed, leaving six dead on the field, and it was believed that many of the attacking party were wounded. The dispatch adds that Saturday morning Colonel Badeu- Powell asked for an armistice in order to bury the dead. General Cron jo con sented to this, the Boers assisting in placing th<' dead in tin* wagon returning to Mafeking. PORTUEGUEStE TROOPS ARRIVE. London, Oct. 31.—A special dispatch from Lourenzo Marques says a strong force of Portuguese troops has arrived on the Transvaal border from Mozam bique territory, owing to fears regarding the hostilities between the British and Boers. BI LLER IN TABLE BAY. London, Oct. 31. —A dispatch . from Cape Town announces tin* arrival in Table Bay of the Dunotfar I Castle, late this evening, with General Sir Redvers Builer and his staff, who are expected to land this morning. They will meet with a tremendous ovation in Oupe Town. It is reported from Pretoria that 200 of the British wounded from Dundee* arrived there and have been furnished accommodation in the State school build ing. * A BATTLE WITH CANNIBALS. Capt.Mohun Commanding Belgian Tel egraph Expedition Routs the Foe. lvonidon, Oct. 30.—Mail advices from the Congo announce that Captain Mo bun, formerly United States Consul at Zanzibar, who is commanding the Bel gian Tanganyika-Con go Telegraph Expe dition!, has reached the Congo Free State, and was engaged at the end of July in a fierce battle at iSanguli, where the force consisted of ten Kuropeaaks, with Captain Mohan commanding. 'Shortly after the attack commenced Baron l>ha*mis>, the Belgian commander dis patched three companies of soldiers to assist Mohun, and the enemy, consisting of eanibais, who horribly torture their wounded, were finally routed. Captain Mohun did great execution with a Win chester repeater. It is estimated that the enemy numbered 1,500 men, and lost 300 killed and GOO wounded. The Bel gian force lost 9 men killed and 47 wounded. The enemy tied to Tangany ika. Princess Isabelle of Orleans Wedded. Ism don. Oct. 30. —Princess Isabelle of Orleans (sister of the Duke of Orleans) and Prince Jean of Orleans were married at St. Raphael’s Church, Kingston, this morning. The Bishop of Southwark, assisted by Parisian) and London priests, officiated. The Duke of Orleans gave the bride away. The church was lavish ly decorated with flowers and palms, white chrysanthemums, cameleias and roses predominating. There was a great attendance of royalty ami other distin guished persons, including tin* Countess o- Paris, the Duke and Duchess of Char tres, the Prince of Wales, Princess Wal demar ©i Denmark, Prince Henry of Or leans, the Duke of Alencon, the Duchess of Aosta and many diplomatists. Burial of General Guy V, Henry. Washington, Oct 30. —General Guy V. Henry was given a military funeral ut Ar lington today, his grave being close to the Temple of Paine and within sight of that of Lis old commander General Crook. The President, the Secretary of War and other members of the Cabinet attended the services, both at. tin* Church and cemetery, -cue military escort con sisted of a battery of artillery, Troop 1 of the Third Cavalry, now stationed at Fort Myer, when General Henry was once in command, and the members of the Guy V. Henry Garrison, a colored veterans association comprising many of the old troopers of tin* Tenth Cavalry, who served under General Henry in the West. A British Steamer Damaged. Greenock, Oct. 30. —The British steam er Domingo de Larrinaga, Captain Leders, from Pensacola, Flu., via Nor folk, Va., October 14th, arrived here to day, and while docking, damaged her stem by striking the quay wall causing her fori peak to fill with water. Death of Mrs. Alice Battle. Asheville, N. C„ Oct. 30.—Mrs. Alice Battle, wife of IPast Assistant Surgeon Samuel W. Battle, retired, of the United ■State Navy, and daughter of Rear Ad miral Belknap, retired, is dead. Con sumption was the cause of her death. RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 31, 1899. BAT RICHMOND NOVEMBER 9. Day on Which the Jefferson Davis Monument Will Be Unveiled. Macon 1 , Ga., Oct. 30. —Mrs. Jefferson Davis has ■written a letter to Mr. Harry Stillwell Edwards, the novelist, that the monument to her noted husband will lx* unveiled at Richmond, Va.. on November 9th, the day on which the memorial tablet to .Miss Winnie will Ik* unveiled. Mrs. Davis also inform® Mr. Edwards that the epitah lie lias submitted for the monument lias 'been accepted. Stuart Knott First Vice President. Savannah, Ga.. Oct. 30. —President Jt. G. Erwin, of the Plant System, this afternoon eon firmed the report from Louisville, Ivy., last night that Stuart R. Knott, formerly of the Louisville and Nashville, has Imvii appointed first Vice President of the Plant System. Mr. Knott will have his headquarters dn this city, and will lie directly in charge of the management of .the physical side of the property, President Erwin devoting liine self to the finnneial side. Mr. Knott’s salary will he #20,000 per year. Train Derailed, Nine People Hurt. New Orleans, Da., Oel. 30. —Spreading rails caused the Memphis Express <d the Illinois Central to leave tin* track tonight just inside the city .limits, and two coaches were overturned. Nine people were injured. Mills to Double Capacity. Elbert on. Ga.. Oct 30. —The Pearl Gut ton Mills at this place has deckled to dou ble its eapaeifty. The machinery has been contracted for and will Ik* put in as soon us tin* necessary arrangements at the mill can Ik 1 made. SQUABBLE OVER SCHOOLS NEGROES DEMAND HIGH SCHOOL AD VANTAGES FOR THEIR OILDR N A Case From Georgia Before the Supreme Court Involving the Construction of the Federal Constitution Washington, Oct. 30.—The United States Supreme court today heard argu ment in a case involving the right of tdt Board of Education of Richmond county, Ga., to establish a high school for whites in Augusta without also establishing it high school for colored children. The case was based upon the petition of a number of colored people of the county, who asked that an order be issued either compelling the board to give their chil dren the advantages of a public high school or to compel the board to refrain from carrying on white high schools for the support of which the petitioners are taxed. The ease involves the construc tion of the Federal Constitution, and has attracted considerable attention. Former United States Senator Edmunds appeared for the colored people and Messrs. J. Ganahl and F. 11. Miller for the Board of Education. The Philippine Commission Meets. Washington, Oct. 30. —The Philippine Commission held its first meeting at flic quarters selected for them in tin* Arling ton today. Professor Schumuiini, Ad u miral Dewey, Colonel Deiuby atnl Profes sor Worcester were all present. It was announced before the meeting that none of the deliberations would 1 be made pub lic <tiil the commission bad finished* its labors. Colonel Demiby said that no pro gram had been arranged, and. that it was impossible to say even what general course would ’be followed till after the commissioners had discussed the mat ter. The commission reorganized its clerical force and roughly blocked oat the form of its reiiort. There is a mass of ma terial on hand, and a good pant of the report is already written. The comimisshm will meet daily from 10 till 1. leaving the afternoons and evenings for individual work. Ask for Increase in Wages. Fall River, Mass., Oct. 30. —The mill operatives of Fall River, through their representatives dm the Textile Council today, asked for an increase of 10 p.*r cent, in wages, to take effect November 13th. The manufacturers, through the committee, replied that they bad no pow er to grant the increase asked, but would refer the request back to their association for instructions. The conference lasted three hours and the proceedings were harmonious and the discussions full. Captain Dyer Asks to Be Relieved. Melrose, Mass.. October 30. —Captain N. M. Dyer, U. S. N., who commanded the Baltimore at the Manila fight and who lias been assigned to Havana to command the naval station thea*. lias asked to lie relieved of that duty. Whi’e not a sick man, Captain Dyer is not in a condition to undertake active wok at present. A Water Works System. Rocky Mount, N. C„ October 30. (Special.)—Apparatus for the water works is being distributed throughout the town, an*: work goes rapidly fer ward. Admiral Dewey lias taken possession of his new home. TWICE DEFEATED. BF ODD TROOPS Two Engagements With the Foe Near Labam, CONSTANT SKIRMISHING IDE TREATMENT OF SPANISH! ITtlS< >NEUS REPORTED. A RELATIVE OF LUNA SEEKS REVENGE He Asks a Personal Interview With General Otis. Letter Brought By Spanish Com missioners Returning From Within the Filipino Lines. Manila, Oct. 30. —0:25 p. m. —Three 'companies of Colonel Bell's regimem have had two encounters with tin* in surgents near Labam and scattered them. The insurgents left four officers and eight m m dead on the field and the Americans captured three prisoners and several guns., On the American side one man was killed and two offi cers and six men were wounded. Cap tain French took a. reconnoitering party 'beyond Labam after he had mer the enemy and was reinforced by Major Bishop, with two companies. The in surgents brought up cavalry reinforce ments. and there was a second fight du ring which their leader, Major Salvador, was killed and many were wounded and carried away. Colonel Bell lias been given a free hand around Bacolor. He lias sixty mounted men, scouring the country daily, and they are killing many Filipinos in skirmishes. 10:35 I*. M.—-The Spanish commission which entered the insurgent lines a month ago with money to relieve the wants of several thousand military and civil Spanish prisoners, returned to Angeles today. The commissioners re port that they spent most, of the time in Tarlue and the vicinity, where there •ire some 200 sick Spaniards in the hospital. The Filipinos ill-treat and iil feed them, refusing to surrender them, as well as the other Spanish prisoners in the hope of compelling Spain to recog nize the independence of the islands. From Tarlue to Bamban, about two thirds of the way, the commissioner travelled by train on the Manila-Dagu pan Railway. The remainder of the journey from Bamban to Angeles they made on foot, escorted by handsomely mounted Filipino cavalry. They were received between the outposts by a member of General MacArthur’s staff ami were brought by train to Manila. There are fourteen American prison ers. they say, at Tarlae, all of whom are well-treated. Lieutenant J, C. Gill rnore, of the United States gunboat Yorktown, who fell into the hands of the insurgents at Baler, on the East coast of Luzon last April, where the York town had gone on a special mission to re lieve the Spanish garrison, is at Bingat. The commissioners have brought a let ted to General Otis from a relative of the murdered Filipino General Luna, who wishes to avenge the assassination by Aguinaldo’s officers and who asks a personal interview with the military governor. According to the commissioner’s statements Aguinaldo, who is still at 1 arlae, with 3,000 trimps, wishes io con tinue tin* war, although In* has a high opinion of the American officers and soldiers. General Lawton he calls “el General de la noehe” (The night Gen erali, because that commander has at tacked him so often in tne dnrki’.eis that he never knows when to look for him. Aguinaldo is said to In* well supplied with arms and ammunition and be is aide to get plenty of rice from tin* north ern provinces. With the Spanish commissioners came a large number of women, the families of eight prominent officers of the Fili pino army, who recently applied to Gen eral Otis for permission to send their families to Manila. Upon the receipt of tlie military governor’s reply, the nature of which has not been disclosed, the women and children started under es cort from Tarlae for the American lines. When they arrived today Gen eral MacArthur compelled them to halt about a mile beyond om* outposts, where they will remain while their credentials are being examined. EXTENSION OF CIVIL RULE. Washington, Oct. 30.—Word has been received here of the further extension of civil administration -in the towns adja cent to Manila. These include Pasig, Taguig find Pa terns, where elections nave been held under the direction of tne military officials in order to get a full quota of native officers to carry on the civil affairs of the towns. An order from tin* Eighth Army Corps also directs the election of a new mayor at I mins, as the one formerly chosen has failed to exercise the functions of late, and is thought to have gone over to the insur gents. Washington, Oct. 30. —The Navy Do partinent has received a report from Cap tain Leary, the naval governor of the Island of Guam, in the Lad-rones. Cap tain Leary soon learned that hiis author ity as Governor was being subverted, and every one of the measures of reform which he proposed was being defeati*d by the liostile influence of the friars. They resisted every decree no matter of what character from a spirit of intense eon- servatism and a belief thait any disturb ance of the order of things which had governed the island ifor so many years would cause them to lose their hold upon the natives. After exhausting all other means to overcome Ithis influence, Con tain Leary reports that he was obliged to notify half of a dozen of the friars that they might have free transportation away from Guam, and he should expect them to avail themselves of the offer. That left but one friar on the island, and he was a man whose character and reputation was such as to convince Gap tain (Leary of his fitness to remain. . . PkcomimanderwebanigcYr eta s hh bh OUR TROOPS WELCOMED. Manila, Oct. 31.-8:50 a. m.—Major Badance’s battalion of the Twenty-sec ond Infantry entered Cabanatuau yester day morning, meeting with no resistance. The natives welcomed the Americans, shouting “Viva los -Americanos.” The insurgents’ troops had tied to the moun ta'ins. General Bates will Ih* appointed Military Governor (of the Mohammedan Islands, with headquarters sit Jolo, until Zamboanga is occupied. General Fred Grant will command General Bates’ brigade. Speed Trials of the Dahlgreen. Washington, Oct. 30. —The Navy De partment lias received the following tele graphic preliminary report from Captain Emory, a member of the Naval trial board, upon the speed trials of the tor pedo boat Dahlgreu: \ “Bath, Maine: “Dalilgren speed trial completed. For (It! consecutive minutes developed speed of 39 knots. Machinery, seagoing, and manoeuvering qualities satisfactory.” The Dalilgren was to have made 30 and one half knots under the terms of the contract, hut provision is made for her acceptance if she should not fall more than half a knot below that speed, , though with a slight deduction m that case from the contract price. ADMIRAL DEWEY TO WED HE ANNOUNCES HIS ENGAGEMENT TO MRS. W. B. HAZE*. A Sister of the Democratic Candidate for Gov ernorof Ohio of Large Means and Very Popular Washington, Oct. 39. —Admiral Dewey announced to some of his more intimate friends tonight the fact of his engage ment to Mrs. W. B. Hazeu, of this city. Mrs. liazen is the widow of General liazen, formerly Chief Signal Officer of the army, who died about ten years ago, and is a sister of John 'll. McLean, Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio. Mrs. liazen has no children, and since her husband’s death has made her home with her mother. She is a woman of large means, abouft forty years of ag“. and popular in the best social circles of Washington. The date for the wedding has not been fixed. TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. The New Orleans Board of Health's repurt, covering Sunday and Monday, allows four new cases and one death from yellow fever. Biela’s comet was not sighted at San tiago de Chili, as -telegraphed on Satur day. In their anxiety some people mis took a cluster of stars for the comet. Secretary Long announces that there will be no change in Admiral Schley's orders, and that no more ships will be -added to the South Atlantic Squadron. It is semi-official'!y asserted at Berlin that tin* increase in naval expenditures will be defrayed by the increase of grain unties in 1993, which is expected to pro duce a surplus of ninety million marks. The Philippine Commission met in Washington yesterday and roughly ' blocked out the form of its report. The commission will meet daily until its busi ness is completed. Tne Savannah Quarantine Board yes terday refused to allow Otis Skinner, the actor, to come there and play tonight because lie has been in New Orleans dur ing the past ten days. Mrs. Alice Gwynme Vanderbilt, widow of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt, yester day tiled a waiver of citation and gave formal consent to tin* admission of her husband’s will to probate. Tom Hayden, a negro, aged 24 years, wjis taken from, the officers who had him under -arrest for the murder of •Andrew Woods, a young white man. and hanged to a tree eight miles west of Fayette, Mo., Sunday. At New York the first night’s play in the 900-iKwnt carom hi 11 bird match Ik*- tween -S lesson find' Schaeffer last night resulted in fin easy vectory for SI os -on, Schaeffer being outplayed by 399 iKiints against 185. ; Dave Justice, a negro, was found dead some ten or twelve miles from Durham I Sunday morning. It is supposed his team ran away and that lie fell from tin* wagon breaking his neck. He was a tenant on Col. B. Cameron’s farm. Mr. ,T. E. Browni, in charge of a fish eommisision car, is in Macon, Ga. He winds up a tour of the State there, dur- j ing which he has distributed something j like 30.000,900 young fish. The vane- j ties distributed are iirliieii] tally rainbow j trout, Mack Kiss and bream. He goes from there to Chattanooga. PRICE FIVE CENTS FW CRASHES " INTO A FERRYBOAT Cut in Two, the Boat Goes to the Bottom, LOSS OF LIFE UNKNOWN ESTIMATES OF THE RESCUED PEOPLE VARY WIDELY. CAPTAIN SAYS ONLY ONE OF CREW LOST Men, Women and Children Struggling in the Water When the Boat Went Down. Many Boats to the Rescue. Stories of the Rescued. New York, Oct. 31. —The Pennsylva nia ferryboat Chicago, running between Jersey City, and New York, was cut in two by the steamer City of Augusta, of the iSavannah Line, at 12*35 this (Tues day) morning, on the New York side of North river. She went down in seven or eight minutes. There were between thirty and forty people aboard, four being women. It is supposed that several pi*r s*ons were drowned, though there is no positive proof of this. Estimates made by tin; persons who succeeded in escaping vary widely, some thinking lit possible that no loss of life resulted, while others believe that at least a score of persons were drawn, into i.ie vortex, as the ferryboat sunk. August \\ iiwlelKirn, of Jersey City, was one of those in the men's cahim. -lie had just time to catch up a life preserver and leap overheard before the boat went un der. He said tMat men and women and some children Were in the water all about him. He succeeded in masking Inis way to the Liberty street dock. The steamboat squad, a few minutes before 2 o’clock, found a body which, it is siqiposed is that of one of the passen gers on the* ferryboat, drowned as the result of the collision. Mr. H. W. Bible, of this city, jumped •overboard with a life preserver. He saw four women struggling in the water near him, but was unable to help them. He was picked up by a life boat and taken ashore. Searchlights are being used in the work of rescue. A number of tugs and some boats have been secured. ! Everything is being done possible under | the circumstances to pick up persons j from the water. Om boat brought in 1 six men, two women and a child. Oscar Watson, of the Associated Press, who was unable to secure a life pre server, and who swain ashore, was one of the few passengers able to give a co herent. acoounlt of the accident. He said: “We were just about to enter the slip wlp-n we were rum down. There were about forty jieople on the ferryboat be sides the crew. I saw four women and one little boy. The latter was with his father, who appeared to be an Italian. “1 should think the boat sank within ! seven minutes. I did not get a life pre- I server, hut when I saw she was going down, I plunged overboard and swam for the shore. Five men swam alongside of me. There was a strong ebb tide, j The water was very cold. The current was so strong that it almost carried ns down stream.” Captain Durham commanded the Fer ryboat' Chicago. He suceeeded in mak ing his escape. He says that he lias accounted for all the members of his crew, except Fireman Fromine. He thinks that Fromine was either drowned or crushed to death in the stoke hole. Cuban Farmers Want a Tarifi'on Corn. Havana, Oct. 39.—Governor-General 'Brooke has received a petition signed by u number of Cuban farmers urging pro tection against American corn. The farmers say they have no money to buy machinery, but have to plant by hand and to carry their produce on their hacks market, where they obtain little for it, owing ito the fact that there is scarcely any duty on foreign grain. The petition goes omi to say that this condition of things greatly handicaps the Cubans in their attempts to recover a degree of their former prosperity. In cidentally the farmers protest against; the protective duties on oil, alleging that these are in force solely to protect one .vmeriinin refinery, whereas a protective duty on corn “would mean the welfare of thousands of small farmers, whose only source of revenue is what they make by growing corn.” Preparing for the Molineux Trial. New York, Oct. 30. —Active prepara tions are going on in the office of the District Attorney today for the trial of Roland B. Molineux. who is charged with (the murder of Mrs. Katherine J. Adams. The trial willvbogjir on November 13th and will be held in the criminal branch of the Supreme court, instead of in the Court of General Sessions. The President and most of the Cabi net members will leave Washington for Richmond this morning to participate in the exercises incident to the launching of the Shubrick. Should Vice-President Hobart die before tin* hour of departure, however, the trip will Ik* ulmndomHl,