North Carolina Newspapers

The Weather 1 o-Day: FAIR. The News and Observer. VOL. XLVII. NO. 52. LEADS UL MI CMMIMA DAILIES II US AM) CRCUUTXM. A CONTEST WILL FOLLOW, 'TIS SAID The Official Count has Begun in Kentucky, EXCITED MEETINGS HELD BOTH STATE CHAIRMEN CLAIM THE STATE BY 4,000. NOIMATERIAL CHANGE IN THE SITUATION Among the Newspapers the Times now Claims Goebel's Election by 963 While the Even ing Post Says Taylor is Elected by 3,605. Louisville, Ivy., Nov. 10.—Uncertainty regarding the result of Tuesday's elec tion in this State is not likely to he re moved for some time Bcdh sides still claim, victory, the State Chairman of each party asserting that his ticket has a plurality of about 4,000. Newspaper returns from Republican sources give Taylor a plurality of 3,438, while those from Democratic sources make Goebel’s plurality 941 J These latter cover all but 35 precincts in the State, although several reports from comities give < sti mated pluralities instead of actual. Os the missing precincts five are in Louis ville, which went Republican this year; twenty are in strong Republican coun ties, and ten are in strong Democratic counties. Feeling among the factions has been 'aggravated rather than allayed by ♦he developments since Tuesday. Ex cited meetings are being held in many parts, of the State to protest against frauds which it is alleged are contem plated by the leaders. Nothing st.ort of the official count will determine the re sult, and it is a foregone conclusion that the announcement of that count will sim ply change the scene of conflict to tin* courts or the Legislature, where it will appear in the form of a contest. The situation has not changed ma terially up to 1 p. m. The official count was begun today in all parts of the State by the county boards of canvass ers. In this city a large crowd gathered at the court house, but there was no dis turbance. The latest claims from newspapers re turns are ai plurality of 903 for Goebel by the Times, and a plurality of 3,005 for Taylor claimed by the Evening Post ARRESTS FOR INTIMIDATION. Frankfort, Ivy., Nov. 10.—Buford Wil liams, Wingate Thompson and Coleman Carr, prominent Democrats, have been arrested by a deputy United States marshal on. warrants charging intimida tion of colored voters on Tuesday. This makes a total of nine warrants of this kind issued by the Federal court, and it is understood that probably a hundred more will he issued. WESTERN UNION’S BULLETINS. Cincinnati, Ohio, Nov. 10. —The West ern Union Telegraph Company today is sued its last bulletin on the Kentucky election saying that with Complete re turns from 94 counties and nearly com plete front 23 others. Taylor’s plurality is 1,382. The two count its not reported, Leslie and Martin, gave in 1897, a Re publican plurality of 1,135. FRAUDS ALLEGED IN KNOX CO. Jjouisville, Ivy., Nov. 10.—The official count of the ballots cast on Tuesday was begun today throughput the State. In this city a large crowd gathered a't the court house, epreseutatives of all the paries were admitted by the com missioners' and the examination of the ballots proceeded in an orderly manner. Judging ffom the progress already made, the official count will show no great variation from the unofficial figures which give Ixniisville and Jefferson county to the Republican)* by a plurality of about 3,000. There was no change today in the claims- of the party managers. The Democrats assert that Goeltel will have a plurality of 5,000, while the nominee himself places it at 7,000. The Repub licans claim Taylor is elected by a plu rality of 4,000. The Times (Goebel Democrat) has the following special from London, Ken tucky: “State Chairman A. W. Young, of the Democratic Campaign Committee, is at Barboursville, seeking to have the entire vote of Knox county thrown out. Numbers of affidavits alleging fraud and irregularities arc lieing filed with the county board. It is believed Taylor’s majority will be considerably reduced, if the county is not thrown out entirely. "Official returns from Clay reduces Taylor’s majority to 907. “No changes have been made by the canvassing board of Laureat county so far. Taylor’s majority wili remain 931, though the Democrats will tile affida vits with the State Election Board at Frankfort next Tuesday asking that three precincts be thrown out, which will reduce it.” The Times also has the following from Bardstown, Ivy., concerning the count in progress there: "A serious technicaT error in the vote may increase GoeHTs Nelson county plurality to 1,880. rn the official count it was discovered that in every precinct except one W. P. instead of W. S. Tay lor was voted for, and the only pre cinct, New Hope, gives W. 8. Taylor the Republican candidate only 73. leav ing the official vote as certified by the two Democratic commissioners as fol lows: I “Goebel 1.959; TV. 8. Taylor, 73; Wm. F. Taylor, 1.198. The Republican com missioners refused to certify to these fig ures.” GOEBEL’S VOTE INCREASED. Fray:fort, Ivy., Nov, 10. —The Demo cratic State TVmpaign committee with a score of clerks, is busy tonight tabu lating returns as (telegraphed from the various county canvassing boards. Sev eral counties arc still out, and in ia num ber of those heard from today, the coun ty boards will meet again tomorrow to pass on contested ballots which may ma terially affect the result. The members of the committee claim that Goebel's vote , was slightly in creased by the official count today, and still claim has election 'by at least 4,000. The committee declines to give the vote by counties as received by it, and on which the claim of Goebel’s election is based. It is conceded on all hands here that the result will not be definitely ascertained for at least two days, and that no matter which candidate may be declared elected, the .Legislature will finally have to settle a contest which is certain to be institued for possession of the office. V Reports received tonight by the Conrier-Jounull from counties where the official count was completed today show in most cases slight changes from the unofficial figures. In a few important instances, however, the changes favor the Republicans. Leslie county, in the Eleventh district, which was not includ ed at all in the table last night, which gave Goebel a plurality of 971 in the State', is reported tonight as having given Taylor a plurality of 992 votes on the official count. Kenton county,jvhieh figured in last night’s table with 2.493 plurality for Goebel, is reduced to about 2.1(H). Oldham county’s Goebel plurali ty, official, comes 90 instead of 185 its reported last night. In a number of comities there are slight changes, each candidate profiting. Reports to the Commercial (Republi can) up to midnight, show gains of 501 for Goebel and 308 for Taylor, on changes from the unofficial returns. This leaves Taylor's plurality, accord ing to the Commerekil’s advices at 3,041. Reports fro this paper from to day’s count cover 08 of the 119 coun ties in the State. Fever at Port Tampa City. Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 10.—The State Board of Health announces two cases and one death from yellow fever at Port Tampa City. A rigorous quaran tine of the place and of the docks was at once instituted, and later dispatches this evening declare that no excitement exists, nor is there any indication of any exodus whatever. Dr. Porter, State Health Officer, declares that owing to the lateness of the season there is no fear of any spread of the disease. The fever at Key West is dying out, and it is very mild at Miami, where there were no new cases today, hut two deaths. THEY ACCEPT THE CHARGE DAUGHTERS OF CONFEDERACY AND THE GREAT DAVIS MONUMENT. Corner Stone Already Laid at Richmond. $20,000 in Hand. The Daughters will Push the Work to Completion. Kichmpud, Ya., Nov. 10.—Today, Hon. J. Taylor Ellysou, President of the Jef ferson Davis Monument Association, ap peared before the Convention of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and presented the resolution adopted l»y the United Confederate Veterans, asking the United Daughters to assume the responsibility of raising a monument to the memory of President Jefferson Davis. The rules were suspended, Mr. Knywam made a statement as to the funds already subscribed antr after a full discussion of the matter, the Daugh ters accepted the charge by an over whelming majority. The corner-stone of the proposed monument was laid in Monroe Park in this city, in 1899, and it is designed that it shall he a memorial not only of Mr. Davis, but of the “Lost Pause.” The monument fund now in the hands of tin* association and camps amounts to some $20,000. The Daughters are at liberty to change the design that had been agreed u]x>n. The convention decided to appoint a committee to co-operate with a commit tee of the Davis Monument Association i in pressing the matter of raising funds for tin* monument. At the afternoon session, a resolution was adopted, pledging individual and collective effort to have eliminated from the literature of the War of 1801-03 ref erences .to "The War of the Rebellion," and secure the substitution therefor of the “War between the States ” Tonight tlie delegates attended a re ception at the Confederate museum where portraits of General It, Lee, General Bryan Grimes, of North Caro lina, and Miss Winnie Davis we-e pre sented. Total Bank Clearings. New York, Nov. 10.—The total bank clearings in the United States for the week were $1,711,125,838; per cent in crease 30.8. Exclusive of New York $040,540,905; per cent increase 24.3. Irregularities have been discovered in the proceedings of the court martial which sentenced to death four of our soldiers in the Philippines, and it is now thought the death penalty may not be inflicted. RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 11, 1899. BOMBARDMENT OF LADYSMITH It Continues Daily but Wi'h Few Casualties, A REGIMENT DECIMATED RUMOR OF BRITISH DISASTER FROM AMSTERDAM. A SMALL CONVOY CAPTURED BY BOERS White Reports the Strengthening of His De fences and Says That He Has Supplies Amply Sufficient for His Needs- Treachery Alleged. London, Nov. 10. —The British War Office has received frtom General Bul let* the following dispatch: “Cape Town, Thursday evening, Nov. 9.—Have received by pigeon-post from General White today the following: “ ‘The bombardment at long range by heavy guns continues daily. A few casualties are occurring, hut no serious harm is being done. “ “The Boers sent in today a number of refugees from the Transvaal under a flag of truce. A flag of- truce from Ladysmith met them outside the pickets. When the party separated, tin* Boer guns tired on it before it reached our pickets. “ ‘Major Gale, of the Royal Engineers, was wounded today while sending a message . " ‘The entrenchments are daily grow ing stronger, and the supply of provis ions is (ample.’ ” BOERS CAPTURE A CONVOY. London. Nov. 10.—The War Office tins evening issued the following: "From Buller, Cape Town, 12:40 P. M.—By un-sage from Bulawayo, dated November 3rd: A small Convoy and es cort under Spreckley, of Plumer’s force, was attacked by Boers Noveml>er 2nd. Six meii missing and lost convoy.” The War Office has also issued tin; following: “A report having appeared in the South African papers that our artillery fired on the Geneva flag. General Bul ler telegraphs the following account ot the incident given by the Standard and Diggers’ News by the Rev. Mi*. Mar tens, a Dutch clergyman with the Boers: “‘Directly after the first cannon shot the English thought our men were at the railway station and fired there. They were not, hut one of the shots went through an ambulance. As soon as* they found their mistake they ceased firing.’ "The ambulance, in accordance with tin* usages should have been three miles from the field of battle, so the ambu lance cannot claim the English broke the usages of civilized warfare; hut 1 do not think the English would have fired on them had they known this. It was unintentional.” THE 81 NEWS OF WAR. London, Nov. 10.—Tenders for 3,000,- 000 pounds sterling in treasury hills, the first installment of the war fund, were opened today. The total of the applica tions amounted to 10,721,000 ]M>uinls sterling. The issue was allotted as follows: 2,000,000 i>ounds sterling at six months and 1.000,000 you mis sterling at twelve months. The average rates ]>er cent 'were 3 pounds, 18’x, 2d, for tin* six months’ Dills ami l 3 pounds, s’s (id, for the 12 month hills. A REGIMENT DECIMATED. London, Nov. 10. —Another minor emanating from Amsterdam sources says thut “a British regiment was de cimatevf Friday by Free Blnters.” It is added that six hundred of the British soldiers were killed or wounded and that 300 horses were euptured. NO NEWS FROM THE FRONT. London, Nov. 11 -4:30 A. M.—(Satur day.)—Complete silence lots again fallen upon affairs in South Africa. The Brit ish public must perforce he content with the brief, mU retyped report which the censor allows to filter through from Cape Town. That this condition of l things is no longer due to pressure of work or defective cables lots been amply proven. The Eastern Telegraph Company reckons that the real delay in transmission is about two days. It is evident therefore, that the censorship is responsible for the other two days of delay which seems to befall all the dis patches. i j Moreover, the Daily Telegraph an nounces that its "appropriated" dis patch from Ladysmith, dated Monday, which the War Office published on Tues day, was not delivered in Fleet Street until, yesterday (Thursday) morning. It is believed the War Office received further dispatches yesterday afternoon but none has been published. It is expected that General Buller never exiieoted to Commence the cam paign before Christinas and it plow looks as though this will he tin* ease. Cer tainly no artil)ery can reach Durban before November 14th; and without ad ditional guns, an advance from Esf court would be impossible. No doubt as Lord Salisbury said in a recent s|K*eeh, England will “muddle through it,” and yet another illustration of muddling has become apparent in the fact that gunnery instructors (have only just 'iirived at Woolwich Arsenal for in struction in siege train duties. Al though hurried preparations are being made to prepare the siege trains, the fact that the men are at Davenport and the guns at Wool which seems to show that the idea of the siege train was quite an after-thought. The statement from Ladysmith that tin* British guns do not reply to the Boer artillery because the concrete beds for the British guns have not yet hard ened is interpreted in some quarters tto mean simply that, the British are hus banding their (ammunition, as the Boer fire is only a trick to get the British to waste shells. Among the few items that have arriv ed from the Cai>e today is one saying that the Boers are planting more gnus in the hills* surrounding Ladysmith. All the eorresiKoudents in the beleaguered town are safe and anxious to reopen communication. The latest advices from Kimberley dated November 2nd say that all was well there then. An explosion had been heard, and the supposition was that the Boers had blown up the railway culvert south of Damn field. The Belgian Government, it is said, has warned -Dt. I/eyds. whose headquar ters is at Brussels, thkt Belgium is a neutral country. A. R. P.’S SDUTHERN SYNOD. Now in Session at Charlotte. Confer ence on Erskine College. Charlotte, N. C„ Nov. 10. —At this morning's session of the Southern Synod bf the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church, it. was decided to publish a cen tennial history giving sketches of all churches and pastors that were at any time in connection with the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Synod, and con taining photographs of' the churches, pastors and pastors’ wives. A commit tea' consisting of Dir. Si, A. Agnew, Rev. O. Y. Bonner anal Rev. VV. M. Hunter was appointed to do this work. It was further decided that a hand some church be erected in one of the home missfba fields, to be dedicated on tin 1 centennial year, and to be called the Centennial church. Columbia, 8. C., was designated as the most appropriate place, nearest the spot where tin* Synod was organized. At tomorrow morning’s session a President of Erskine college, to succeed the late Dr. Grier is to be elected. A considerable jwrtion of today’s ses sion was occupied in conference on Erskine college. Rev. 8. \Y. Reid spoke on the indebtedness of the students of Erskine college to their alma mater as an institution of Christian learning. Rev*. <E. B. Kennedy sqxike on the question “Should Latin and Greek be retained in the curriculum of our col lege?” He argued that they should, hut should not be made compulsory, nor Ixl given undue prominence. Rev. W. 11. Miller spoke on beneficiary education. He disapproved of indiscrim inate giving by the college. Mr. Miller suggested that money he loaned rather than given to students. He also suggested to needy boys who wish a college education that they take out a life insurance policy, and on this borrow the necessary money. At the night session there was a long discussion on foreign missions, by Rev. 11. B. Blakely, of Atlanta, and Revs. J. 8. Moffatt and G. G. Parkinson. Presbyterian and Sabbath school re ports of the second Kentucky. Tennes see and Alabama Presbyteries were read and referred. A communication was read from the secretary of the Board of Foreign Mis sions of the Reformeal Presbyterian church, asking for the signatures of the moderator and clerk of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Synod to a toeti tion to ha* presented to the programme committee of the ecumenical conference, requesting that the Psalms and the Psialms only, shall be used in the devo tions. This was referred; to the com mittee on correfqKmdaMiee. Rev. C. 8. (’lelatul. pastor of the Sec ond United Presbyterian church of Phila delphia, arrived tonight, with his wife, anal will at noon tomorrow present the salutations of his church. DISHONORABLY DISCHARGED. Five Georgia State Troops Charged With Looting a Store. Atlanta. Ga., Nov. 10. —Privates Ber lin, Bowen. Hurst, Baird and Kelley, of The Fifth regime!A, Georgia volun teers, were discharge* today from the service of the State by Governor Cand ler for the good of the service. The men are charged with looting (at small store and barber shop at Hamlet, N. C., on the reurn of the regiment from New York, where it had been participating in the Dewey celebration. Small Towns Left to Freeze. Kokomo, Ind., Nov. 10. —Natural gas is rapidly failing in the northern part of tin* Indiana field. The Dieterieh Syndicate hits given notice that it will abandon its plants in the smaller towns. Five towns in, this county are left to freeze and 2,000 families will eat cold victuals and shiver over tireless stoves. Coal can not ha- had at any price, and there is no wood in the market. The syndicate controls the gas plants in over twenty cities final towns in vari ous parts of the State. In Indianapolis the syndicate has shut off (ail factories and hotels, as well as public buildings, and there is a scarcity of gas expected throughout the State. The field pres sure has fallen off from 320 pounds in 1593 ito 132 pounds to the square inch. Mississippi will send 500,000 full grown coition twills to the Paris exposition to Ih> soldi there its souvenirs of the Ameri can cotton exhibit. The President lots appointed former Governor Joseph W. Filer, of Illinois, a member of tin* Inter-State Commerce Commission, vice W. J. Calhoun, re signed. WHEATOLUNDS AT fin FABIAN -9 iS Troops Rush to Shore Facing a Heavy Fire. CHARGE INTRENCHED FOE AND SCATTER TIIE FILIPINOS IN ALL DIRECTIONS. BELL’S DASHING CHARGE ON A TRENCH. ; The Wa r ” * 'ment thinks Aguinaldo Effectu all Up, but the Pen is Large Seize Aggie is now the o^tfcstion. Mail})* 10.-5:55 p. m.—The lalntkte aierican troops at Pan Fabian a «W*s {the most spectacu lar atfai .oe lcind since General Shafte* ’ fbaiiration at Daiquiri. The ( . of the troop® ami the ulavy .etc. The gunboats main tained ■'tic bombardment for an hour, w e troops rushed waist deep through surf, under a heavy, bur badly at? ’ fire from the insurgent trenches, ~ul charged right and left, pouring volley after volley at the fleeing rebels. Forty Filipinos were captured, mostly iion-coanuniisskiUMad officers. Sev eral insurgent dead and five wounded were found inyr building whi eh had suf fered considerably from the bombard ment. The town whs well fortified. The sand dunes were riveted with bamboo 21- feet thick, which afforded a fine cover. When the transports arrived in the gulf they found the gunboats Princeton. Bennington and others waiting. After consultation with General Wheaton. Commander Ivnox, of the Princeton, and Commander Sheridan, of the 'Bennington, anchored two miles off shore. The gun boats formed a line inside; the Helena, Callao and Manila close, in shore. With the first gun of the ’bombardment, the small boats were filled rapidly, without confusion, by Major Oronite’s battalion of the Twenty-third Infantry and 'Cap tain Buck’s battalion of the Thirteenth Infantry. While the lines of lioats moved shoreward, the gunboats poured the full force of their lotteries into tlie trendbes, won forcing the insurgents to flee through the burrows dug back of the trenches. About-- A) men held their places until the keels of the boats grated on the shore when their Mauser bullets commenced to sing overhead. The battalion formed in gooxl order. Captain Buck, with Pierce’s and Patton’s companies pursued the insurgents on the left in the bamboo thickets. On the right was a frail footbridge across the river, loaning to the towns. General Wheaton, personally commanding, order ed a charge across the bridge ami Cap tain Howland, of his staff, led Coleman's anal —diott’s companies of the Thirteenth and Shields’ company of the Twenty third, who behaved splendidly under their first fire, into the town, which was found to lie nearly deserted, except by the aged anal some Spaniards, xvho had hid den in the buffalo wallows, and Who came shouting delightedly toward the A merma ns. Two companies a>f the Thirty-third had a skirmish along the Dagupan rood with the retreat mg -Filipinos. Tlie troops camped in the rain during tin* night, and in the morning General Wheaton established his headquarters in a church, quartered his men in the houses and sent the captured Filipinos beyond the outposts, with orders not to return. The inhabitants describe all the roads as practically impassable, and say they believe Aguinaldo lias secreteal a yacht in the river Ismggapo near Sulnig for use in his flight when he finds his capture is inevitable. Wednesday was denoted to reconnais sances. Major Imgan went northward to Santo Tomas and burned tin* Filipino barracks. Captain Buck's Thirteenth went to San Jacinto and disposed of small bamls. Marsh's Twenty-third went toward Magdehm on tht* Dagupan road and had several sharp fights with small parties. They killed eight man, brought in 20 prisoners, and had five men, wounded. The Santo Tomas road si*ems to hi* the only means of retreat for a large* body north from Tarlac. ami General Whea ton commands* it. The insurgents of this seetion are going to reiuforee* Tarlae. The battleship Oregon has arrived here from Hong Kong. Captain Ohenoweth and Lieutenants Davis, Van Horne and Braeiford, with two companies of tin* Seventeenth regi ment reconnoiteriug northeast of Mabalaeat, attacked anal routed a bat talion of insurgemts, killing 25) of them. Three Americans were wounaled. General Wheaton repa»rts, by tin* Ben nington, that when the la tiding was made at San Fabian the insurgents en eounteri'd were 390 recruits who were on their way to Dagupan, where they expected the expedition to land. They retreated to the mountains. Twenty eight Spanish prisoners were rescued. The report of the binding ait Lingayen was brought by tht* commander of the Manila, who saw the tight. He got the geography mixed. It has been raining hard throughout the week, handicapping Generals Law ton and ■Maa*Arthur. Tlie transporta tion is the chief difficulty. In the ad vance General Lawton depended on the river to get his supplies, Tlie San Isidro river is fed by mountain streams, and is alternately too shallow fan* navigation or too swift. Two and three launches PRICE FIVE CENTS were necessary to pull the casco moving the supplies from San Isidro, and the mule trains moving supplies frami San Isidro over the muddy roads, matle only two or three miles a day. The tramps) were on short rations most of the time. The only provisions tht- country yiadals* are rice, a few chickens and buffalos. The a»ffia*t*rs carry a supply of cash to pay the natiyes liberally for all tha*y take. The highlands are cool anal the health, of the (troops is good. General Young has captured another large 'share of inis urgent ammunition and munition of war which they were obliged to leave in their hurried retreat. General MacArthur is bringing sup plies from Angeles by the use aif mulct and Carabao teams. Reconnaissances along the front have> discovered the insurgents strongly in trenched before Baniban with several cannon and a rapid fire gun, hut they are short of ammunition. Major Bell has been engaged in. anoth er daring exploit. While scouting with five officers anal two men of the Thirty sixth infantry and Lieutenant Hawkins and ten men of the JFourth cavalry, hr crept behind a (trench containing it hun dred Filipinos, roale them down and kin a'll and wounded 20 men and captured 15. He also brought back 30 Mausers. AGUES'A LIKES NEW BASE. Washington, Nov. V§— -Interest is felt in the War Department over Agui nalaio’s sudden change of base north eastward from Tarlae to Bayombong, about 75 miles distant. There are nuin erotts spellings of the latter place, but the form given is the one most generally adhered to on the maps in the possession of tlie Will* Department. The most in teresting feature of the new situation is that Aguinaldo has been forced out of the Tagalo county into a region north where Tagalo is not spoken and where the mountains are ti*ed with Negritos and other savage tribes xvho are hostile to the* Tag)lies. To the southwest base of Garabello mountain there is a break in the moun tain range and within a few miles arountl the base of Carabeiio mountain on its northern slope one strikes the head-waters of the great Cagayan river that flows northwuril 259 miles into the China sea. It Is on the head waters of tin* Magat that Aguinaldo is bow located. The way is open for hint down the long stretch of river to Aparri at the mouth of the Cagayan where it flows into the sea. This is one of t'hi* wildest but richest valleys in the is land. It is believed that the river Caga yan is navigable for out* tin-ctad gun boats 159 indies from its mouth and for eascoes much further. It is ex pected as soon as Aguinaldo shows any disposition to move.dfown the valley to ward the China sea that the wanshijis and gunboats will Is* sent round the northern end of the island to meet him and shut off his escaiie. If it is liis intention to a*si*;qw* from Luzon he would naturally st*ok Aparri or some northern port, but the country around (Airabello mountain is such that he could probably stand off tin* whole American force in a game of hiale anal seek in the lulls fan* the greater part of the coining season. DRAGGED BACK TO DEATH KERN’S WIFE FLEES AND APPEALS FOR HELP. He Drags Her from a Crowd Into His Hotel Barricades the Door and Kills Her and Himself. Allentown, Fa., Nov, 19.—A sensa tional murder and suicide occurred here this morning when George W. Kero, proprietor of the Hotel Mecca, shot and instantly killed his wife and himself. The pair had not been living together for tlie past three months owing to Kern’s ill treatment of his wife. Mis. Kern was employed in a Vpumlry, and when she boarded a trolley ear at 9:39 o'clock this morning, to go to her work, her husband followed ha*r and stood on the rear platform, alisplaying a revolver. When Mrs. Kern observed him she ran screaming out of the front door of tileyKar and sought tin* protection of about 290 wire and mill employes, who had just finished work on the niglitt shift. Kern hastened after her and twice pulled the trigger of the pistol, but the weapon failed to discharge. The husband then dragged his wife into his hotel anal barricading the door with a chair, in full view of the crowd shot her dead. lie ran into another room and there killed himself. Kern was 38 years old ami his wife 29. A ROUMANTIC MARRIAGE. Lieutenant Bamford Weds Mrs. Mac Kendall O’Brien. Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 19. —Word was re ceived in Atlanta tonight of tlie marriage in Washington on (Sunday last of Lieu tenant F. E. Bamford, Fourth Infantry, V. 8. A., and .Mrs. Mae Kendall O’Brien. This is a highly interesting sequel to tin* Rnrneyn court martial at Fort McPher son in 1897. Lieutenant tßatrmford, at that time was engaged to marry Captain ißionneyn’s daughter, at tin* same tinu* paying marked attention to Mrs. O Bria*n. Captain Itomeyn expressed himself fm*l,v in the matter, and Lieutenant O’Brien hearing of it accosted the captain on the parade grounds. Ilis superior responded by knocking him down, the court mar tial being held soon after. IJeuteiiant O'Brien alias! some time ago ait Dry Tarr tosos. Lienteiint: Bamford is at present, sta tioned in Omaha. The bachelor who sews on his own 1 ait tons undertakes tin* meaning of the single tax.