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♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ THE WEATHER TO-DAV w ♦ ♦ For North Carolina: ♦ : fair. : VOL. 1.. NO. 47. Leads all North Carolina Dalles in lews and CiS&&tfan. ACRES OF BIILDINGS MELT IIA WHIRLWIID OF FIRE Jacksonville is Compelled to Call on Other Cities For Aid. FIVE NEGROES PERISH IN THE FLAMES Firemen Fight the Fire With Dynamite. AT TEN FIFTEEN IT IS UNDER CONTROL The Windsor, the St. James and One Other Hotel Besides a Theatre and Six Blocks of Houses Destroy ed. Telegraph Wires Burned. (By the Associated Press.) i Atlanta, Ga., May I’,.—The officials of the Western Union Telegraph Company \\<re advised tonight that almost the entire business section of Jacksonville, and a large portion of the residence sec tion had been destroyed by fire, which broke out shortly after noon today in the factory of the Cleveland Fibre Company. At S:3O o’clock tonight the fire is still burning, and although aid is being hurried to the Florida city from many adjoining places, it is feared it will not arrive before the fire has burned Itself out. It is impossible to give a reasonable estimate of the loss. It is said that five negroes were burned to death. No other casualties have been reported. The fire is supposed, from advices re ceived here, to have practicully wiped out twenty blocks. A gale, which blew all day put the Haines front the start en tirely beyond the power of the fire de partment and the city was left at the mercy of the flames. The St. James and Windsor Hotels were destroyed. The St. James was the principal hotel ol the city. It was a brick structure, five stories high, modern in all its ap pointments. It faced the Bt. James Park and waS just across the street from the Windsor. It was the highest priced hotel in Jacksonville, and whs the winter home of many millionaires. The Windsor is a block nearer Hay street three blocks from the centre of the town. It is a modern frame buikl ins. four stories high, and covering ) „ne of the largest blacks in the city, j The Times-Union and Citizen. which is regarded ns the geographical centre of Jacksonville, is one block from the Federal building. The Western Union building is one | block down Bay street from the Time®- j Union building. The telegraph company is sending all its business on a train which left At lanta at 10:4f» tonight. This train also carried a corps of linemen and opera tors and n carload of wire and other telegraph supplies. New York and other eastern cities are sending all their telegrams ta Savannah, and a train which leaves Savannah at 3 o'clock tomorrow morn ing will carry the messages to Jack sonville. Savannah, Oi.. Mav Jacksonville fire Is under control at 10:15 p. m. Three hotels, theatre and about six blocks burn ed. Western Union have lust gotten one wire into Jacksonville'. Long distance telephone wires all burned. A VILLAGE MADE MOTHLESS. Story of the Ferrybook Di*a*ter on the River Dnieper. (By the Associated Press.) London, May 3.—A special dispatch flout Odessa. dated April 26ib, purports to give an eye-witness story of the re cent ferryboat disaster on the River Dnieper near Kutchkarovka. when almost a hundred mothers, with their babies, returning from the evening milking were dt owned A sudden storm sprang up. there was a panic, the pontoons swamped .Hid only a few of those or the ferrry were -lived by a boat. Three persons clung to a horse which swam ashore. Practi cally every family *n the villege was ren dered motheriess by the disaster. Morgan Aids a Hospital. (By tile Associated Press.) Aixies Bains, France. May 3.—J. Pier l»oni Morgan lias donated fifty thousand Danes to the local haspital here, and the municipality has marked its appre i iaticn of the gift by the presentation of a bequet Inscribed the “Town of \tx lea Bains to J. Pierpout Morgan, Uhevalier of the Legion of Honor, in recognition of his gift of fifty thousand francs to the new municipal hospital.” Mr. Morgan and Mr. Carnegie have had M voral conferences here. Weldon Jail Crowded. iSpecial (o News and Observer.) Weldon. N C.. May 3.- Halifax ( ir-cit Criminal Court begins Monday. The jail id full of prisoners and Solicitor Daniel will have his hands full. The county authorities are trying to locate the men who shot John Pope, a The News and Observer. colored farmer, in the eye a few nights ago at the fair grounds. His wound is serious and may result fatally, as the ball is lodged under the bone near the ear. Farmers who have been holding cotton now realize the mistake they made, and some are disposed to turn losse at the present low prices. A primary has been called for tonight to nominate a mayor and ri'cn commissioners. Mayor Gooch will proba bly be nominated for re-election. There will be several changes in the board of town commissioners as some of the old members will not allow their names to be used for re-election. Extra precautions are being taken to prevent the spread of typhus fever from Mexico into this country. Officers have been regularly inspecting every train crossing the frontier. Efforts to Secure Control of the Union Pacific Fail New York. May 3.—The Commercial Advertiser says: "There is good reason to believe that E. H. Harriman will continue iu control of the Union Pacific Railroad. The pur chases of Union Pacific shares by out side parties, although very large, it is asserted, fell considerably short of a majority and Mr. Harriman and Mr, Hold have so strengthened their hold on the property within the past few days that a continuance of the present management is practically assured. "Friends of Mr. Harriman are con fident today in their assertions that United Pacific control still rests with the Harriman syndicate. There is som talk, however, of a possible recognition by the controlling powers of the great minority interest that lias been eon centrated in the recent sensational ANOTHER RAILROAO An Extension of the L. & N. to the S. A. L, Another Route Needed For Coal Carrving. Will j the Seaboard Get a Portion of the Coal Carrying Traffic? (Special to News and Observer.) Greensboro, N. C., May 3. —It is cur rently reported that there, is a movement on foot for an extension of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad to ;he Seaboard, either at Norfolk or Wilmington. The route is from Norton. W. Va., the present eastern terminus of the Louisville and Nashville thence to St. Paul, Va., striking the rich coal fields at that point thence to Radford, Va., where a road is new being surveyed to Floyd, C. H., thence to the headwater, of tin Dan Riv er and connecting with a narrow rail road from that point to Mt. Airy, N. C., which will be made a standard gauge. Here a connection can be made with the Southern railroad or by a further exten sion east the Seaboard road can be tap ! ped, thus giving two strings to the oul- I let. It is a well known fact that the ; Southern interest requires an outlet for i ils western connections from Greensboro, j rather than run byway of Asheville, as I is now the case. The Norfolk and West ern and the Southern Railroad having an agreement whereby neither will en croach on the other’s territory has pre vented the Southern from entering on the work of the western connection, but with the Louisville and Nashville working in conjunction it may serve the purpose as well, for the Southern’s western outlet and also the Louisville and Nashville’s eastern outlet to the Atlantic ocean. The coal carrying capacity of the Nor folk and Western has been crowded to the limit and other facilities wilt in iho near future be furnished the coal opera tors in the West Virginia coal fields for another way out for their product, for which there seems an unhaliing demand ai this time. Will the Seaboard Railroad get a portion of this coal carrying traf fic? Judge Boyd says the next session of the Circuit Court of Appeals may be held in Baltimore instead of Richmond. He says: The statute designates the place for holding the court, but declares that it may be adjourned to any city within the district which the judge may choose. The betel accommodations iu Richmond are not entirely satisfactory, and as soon as the court assembles it may adjourn to Baltimore. That is uot determined fully. Chief Justice Fuller, who usually sits with the appeal court will be unable to do I so at this session, and there will be only four judges present.” CHEEK GOES 10 THE PEN. Reported Discovery of Oil on Texas Form Be longing to P H. Hanes. (Special to News and Observer.) Winston-Salem, N. C., May 3. —Yadkin Superior court closed today. Henry Cheek, aged 28 years, was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to the penitentiary for seventeen years for kill ing Andrew Pinnix, brother of State Sen ator J. W. Pinnix, February 2nd. Cheek shot Pinnix with a double-barrel shot gun at a still house. Both men were drunk. Sheriff Shore, of Yadkin, carried the pris oner to Raleigh tonight. A prominent cotton mill man says two attempts have been made to combine cot ton manufacturing, but they failed. He added he did not think such a thing possible for several years at least. It is reported that a valuable oil well has been discovered on a farm in Texas owned by P. H. Hanes, of Winston. John M. Lindsay, for fifty years one of Rockingham county’s leading citizens, died near Madison last night, aged ninety years. New Industry at Lexington. (Special to News and Observer.) Lexington, N. C., May 3. —Davidson Building Material Company Is the latest new industry for Lexington. E. M. Ward is president and L. F. Rathrock, J. F. Hedrick, J. C. Crissman, directors. These are practical working business men, and the chances are that they will meet with the success merited by intelligence and hard work. All the talk in our town now is schools (By the Associated Press.) movement of the Union Pacific stock. "Stock exchange operators say that the heavy demand for Southern Pacific shares which has accompanied the pro tracted upward movement in Union Pacific was caused largely by efforts of a considerable Southern Pacific minor ity interest to regain possession of that system in the event that Union Pacific changed hands. The last named com pany holds but $75,000,000 of the South ern Pacific stock out of the authorize t issue of $200,000,000. Some of the old time stockholders of the gt»uthem and Central Pacific syst ris are anxious to have the independ€nee\of the property, er-established. It is believed the out side demand for Southern Pacflc share ,4 within the past few days impelled the Hsrriman-Gould interests to add ma terially to their holding's of that stock.” and schools and graded schools. On next Monday the sovereigns of Lexington vote on the question. Considerable interest is manifested. We have had no fights yet, but can't tell how soon the match will be applied to the fuse, li is the opinion of this writer that schools will carry. The registration this year is larger than usual. There is much improvement going on. The sound of the saw and hammer can be heard on every hand. John Kirk, a negro, of this county stole a valuable cow last Friday night from Mr. Carrick, of Cotton Grove township. He took the cow to Salisbury and sold it to a butcher. The negro was arrested in Rowan on a warrant from Davidson, and carried before Squire S. M. Peacock, where be confessed his guilt. A set of burglar’s keys was found on the negro's person. Sheriff Dorsett tried one of the keys ( a skeleton arrangement) ou several office and store locks and it worked like «, charm. FIVE THOUSAND FOR KITTRELL. Mr* Shannon’s Beqaest to the Negro Normal and Industrial School. (By the Associated Press.) (Cambridge, Mass., May 3.—The will of Mary Shannon, of Newton, filed in the Middlesex Probate Court today contributes more than $125,000 to charitable and pub lic institutions. Hampton (Va.) Normal and Agricultural Institute gets $10,000; and Tuskegee (Ala.) Institutions, Kittrell (N. C.) Normal and Industrial School for negroes, Atlanta (Ga.) University and Mallalieu Seminary for poor whites, Kin sey. Henry county, Ala., $5,000 each. Death of Mrs, M. A. Oliver. (Special to the News and Observer.) Reids v tile, N. €., May 3.—Mrs. M. A. Oliver died at 3:15 a. m. today. Five children survice her. They are 11. I Oliver, lieidsville; J. T. and Manton Olives, of The Review; Mrs. O. L Fitzgerald. Lausonville, and Miss Maud Oliver, he remains were interred in Oreenview cemetery at 6 p. in. today. The funeral was hold at Main Street Methodist Episcopal church, Rev. J. I'. Brooks officiated. Gift to Oxford Orphanage Asylum. (Oxford Orphan’s Friend.) As is seen from our list of donations, we have received a beautiful gift from Mrs. A. C. Best. Washington. I). C. Mrs Best has recently experienced the bad misfortune of losing her daughter, and presents the piano to the asylum as a memorial to her. It is a handsome in strument and we are grateful indeed to the* donor. > A JitHe loving is a dangerous thing. RALEIGH. NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 4, 1901. GEEIDID YOUHEAR THEBIRDSWARBLE? They Play a Well Nigh Fault less Game. FIFTEEN HITS OFF BASS Richmond Falls Like Ripe Corn Un der the Scathe. ■[ >-| - THE GIANTS FIGHT BRAVELY BUT LOSE s 4-| —. And Norfolk Keeps Up Her Reputation at a Hard Team to Handle. The Shipbuild* ers Trounce the Porli mouth Boys Once ior|. (Special to NewLarfi Observer ) Richmond, Va., May 3. —The Richmond team went down before Raleigh’s fast team this afternoon like corn under the scythe. The visitors played a faultless game, well nigh, and found Eass with ease and with emphasis, fifteen good solid hits were made oil the lit tic twirler. and among them were singles, doubles, triples and a home run. Some of the Richmond lads made a good showing, hut tliel remainder fell down, and were tranafobmed into verita ble monkeys by the splendid aggregation from Raleigh. Raleigh's runs were made in bunches, and only three innings' were needed to secure the fourteen With which they are credited. The North Carolinii d » scored by good hitting, assisted by c tally errors on the part of the locals. THE TABULA' El.) SCORE. RICHMOND. AB. R. 11. P.O. A, E. Darby, s. s { 0 0 2 3 1 Bigbie, 31) 0 3 0 1 2 Soffle. 2b 4 0 1 4 j 0 Fillman, r. f 3* a 0 2 () 0 Kain, e. f ~4 0 (1 2 1 0 Trager, I f 2 1 0 2 0 1 Thomas, lb 3 2 1 10 0 0 Cans, e 4> 0 2 0 0 0 .Bass, p 3> 0 0 0 5 0 Total 321 3 7 27 15 4 RALEIGH. A®. R. 11. P.O. A. E. ■Stanley, c. f 4» 2 1 0 1 0 iHennager, 2b ©< 1 2 4 4 0 Kelly, lb ..55 2 1 11 1 0 Atz, 3b 4* 3 3 2 3 0 Hauptman, r. f f» 3 2 0 0 0 Meade, s. s .V 11 4 71 Sherman. I f 5 1 2 1 0 0 LeGrande, c 5 1 2 4 0 0 Bowden, p 4 0 11 1 l Total 43 14 15 27 17 2 SCORE BY INNINGS. Richmond 00020010 0 — 3 Raleigh 0 0 0 4 0 4 6 0 o—l 4 Summary—Two base hits, Atz, Haupt man, Sherman, LeGrande; three base hits, Sherman; home run, Hauptman; stolen bases, Fillman, Traeger, Stanley, Hauptman, LeGrande; double plays, Soffle to Darby, Darby to Soffle and Thomas, Atz to Kelly to Atz, Heunager and Kelly, Hennager and Meade to Kelly; bases on balls, off Bass 4, off Bowden 6; struck out, by Bass 3,ihy Bowden 1; pass ed balls, LeGrande. Umpire, Staley. At tendance 800. BOTH TEAMS PLAY STAR BALL. Batting Honors Even Sorfolk One Belter in the Error Column (Special to News and Observer.) Norfolk, Va.. May 2. —Norfolk defeated Wilmington today by (the score of 4 to 3. Both teams put up an excellent game of ball and Umpire Clarks’ decision gave satisfaction generally. The batting hon ors were even throughout, while Norfolk had ore *he best of it in the error col umn. There were no special features to the game. Score: R. H. E. Norfolk 11010001* —4 7 2 Wilmington 0020 0 010 o—30 —3 7 3 Batteries: Wolfe and Nelson; Allen and Thackers'. PORTSMOUTH ON ITS LAST LEGS. The Newport News Team Walks Away From Them With Ease (Special to News and Observer.) Portsmouth. Va.. . May 3. —Newport News-Hampton again defeated Ports mouth this time by the score of 0 to 3. The boys from acros* the roads had an easy thing in the demoralized Portsmouth plavers and walkedi away from them without effort. The game was devoid of interest, and the crowd was extremely slim. It looks as though the Portsmouth team were on its last legs. Score: Portsmouth ■■•••10 0 00020 o—3 Newsport News 1034100 0 0 !> Batteries: ROPP and Westlake; Hei berger and Ashenback. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. Clubs Won. Lost- P. C. Norfolk 11 3 •; i>6 Newport News 0 Raleigh "’I; 3 Wilmington J ]' A s Richmond " 1,1 Portsmouth 3 11 313 THE GAMES TODAY Raleigh at Richmond \Vilrain|t‘> n at Isorfoll '- I 'Mwport News at Portsmouth. NATIONAL LEAGUE GAMES Brooklyn Leady Philadelphia and New York Boston I (By the Associated Press.) Pittsburg, Pa., May 3. —The visitors played a patched up team today and the locals won easily. Attendance 1,300. Score: R. H. E. Pittsburg 3003 04 0 0 o*—lo 13 3 Chicago 03100 11 00 — 6 12 2 Batteries: Leever and O’Connor; Hughes and Chance. Time 2:35. Umpire. Emslie. Brooklyn May 3. —Today's game was in favor of the pitchers. Both Kitson am* White did splendid work. Attendance 1,800. R. H. E. Philadelphia 0001 00 0 0 o—l 8 3 Brooklyn 1000 011 2 *—s 0 1 Batteries: White and McFarland; Kitson and McGuire. Time 2:11. Umpire, O’Dav. Boston. Mass., May 3.—'Today’s game was a pitcher's battle. In which Matthew son excelled. Attendance 1,200. Score: R. H. E. Boston 00001000 o—l 4 1 New York 0010 01 0 0 o—2 8 0 Batteries: Nichols and Kittredge; Matthewson and Smith. Time 1:30. Um pire, Nash. AMERICAN LEAGUE GAMES. SieverWini For Detroit The Quakers Bnnch Hits Effectively. (By the Associated Press.) Detroit, Mich., May 3.—Siever kept the hits well scattered today, and aided by Gompers Decline to Discuss the Cotton Hill Situation Mr. William E. Curtis, the Chicago Recbrd -Hera Id' s Washington corres pondent, writes as follows: “President Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, declines to discuss the rumors of a strike among the oper atives of the cotton mills of the South ern Satees. which is said to have been set for the first of May. The story goes that the Federation of Labor has been gradually organizing the opera tives in that section for several years, auq that the labor unions are now very strong among the spinners in all parts ♦ (he snappy fielding behind hint won the game. Attendance 3,500. Score: n. h. E. Detroit 11 1 120 0 0 *—6 8 3 Cleveland ..01 100 00 1 o—3 8 1 Batteries: Siever aud Buelow; Hoffer ami Yeager. Time 1:40. Umpires, Sheri dan and Manassau. Pldladelphia, Pa., May 3. —The home club played a faster game than Baltimore aud won by bunching hits. Attendance 2,641. Score: R. H. E. Baltimore 00031 00 0 o—4 10 1 Philadelphia 20403000 *—9 13 2 Batteries: Yerkes and Robinson. Fraser and Powers. Washington, May 3.—Washington today won the first game of its series with Boston through good stick work in the first and fifth innings. Attendance 4,000. Score: R. H. E. Washington 4100 40 0 0 * —o 8 5 Boston 01021000 o—40 —4 71 Batteries: Carrick and Clark; Fore man and Criger. Time 1:57. Umpire, Cantillion. Milwaukee, Wis., Mav 3.—Milwaukee was easily beaten m the opening game today. The home team fielded miserably. Attendance 4,000. Score: R. H. E. Milwaukee 0000 00 3 0 (f — 3 5 8 Chicago 1702 00 0 0 I—ll 14 1 Batteries: Leahy, Hawley and Sparks; Skoperand and Rand. Time 2:20. Um pire. Haskell. EASTERN LEAGUE RESULTS. Providence 19. Hartford 11. Worcester 6, Syracuse 10. Buffalo 8, Toronto 5. Montreal 10, Rochester 4. SOUTHERN LEAGUE RESULTS. At. Little Rock—Little Rock 7, Mem phis 0. At Shreveport—Shreveport 8, New Or leans 7. At Birmingham—Birmingham 13, Sel ma 2. Tribute to Major Alstcr. To the Editor: he sad news today of the departure of another old hero and sterling gentleman emboldens one who knew him most intimately and valued him accordingly, to lay a little sprig of immortelle on his newly made grave. Major Robert W. Alston was for years succeeding the war one of my nearest neighbors in a sparsely settled section of Warren, as he was tnen and ever after, one of my nearest and dearest friends. His valor was attested by all of h’s comrades, and doubly attested by a beautiful ugly gash across his visage, which somewhat marred the facial symmetry. It was only one ot many glorious scars received in free dom’s cause. Me it said that the loss of a few dentals and a slice of the upper lip in no wise spoilt Bob’s beauty in the eyes of his good wife and all 'other good women and brave men of his al ter life. "On the contrary, quite the reverse.” The mark of that “Minnie" was ever held by them to be a prouder badge of glory than "the golden Reece’ o rthe grand crop of the legion on the breast of on ordinary lieutenant gen eral or field marshal. The dear old fel low’ never took it to heart himself, as urn. J TO REDUCE THE STRENGTH. Program For Withdrawing Part of the Army From the Philippines. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, May 3. —It is expected that within a day or so a program will he completed at the War Department for a substantial reduction of the present strength of the United States army in the Philippines. The regular troops now there, who have seen the most service, are the Fourth, Eighteenth, and Twenty third Infantry, and one battalion of the Third artillery. They went out to Manila | in 1898 iu the first expedition under Gen eral Anderson and if the aunouneod pol icy of the Department, heretofore lived up to, is continued, these will he the first organizations to return to the Uni ted States. Some of these troops will be replaced with the new levies just raised in this country. It has not yet been de termined how large a reduction will be made. The Department is also arrang ing to transfer a number of the enlisted raen from one branch of the service to another, with a view to securing the bal ance of proportions contemplated in the Re-organization Bill. Enlistments are being made in satisfactory numbers. These enlistments will soon bring the army up to the maximum of 76,000 men. At pres ent the infantry and cavalry under the schedules recently approved by Secre tary Root are practically complete, or would be if the excess of men in different regimeuts were transferred to other regi ments in process of formation. The ar tillery is still short and the transfer prop osition contemplates taking men of ex perience in the Infantry and cavalry arms and assigning them to the artillery if they should prefer that service. If not the new enlistments will have to be made for the artillery in order to increase that branch to the maximum of 18,000 men. of the South; that the plans adopted by the Federation there are the same as those pursued by them in the an thracite coal regions—to organize thor oughly and then demand recognition from the mill owners for the unions. Mr. Gompers prefers not to give any information concerning the question of the organization in the South. He de nies, however, iu a most positive man ner the report that demands have been made upon the manufacturers, but de clares that if they should be made they will be readily granted.” ♦ he deemed r.uch mishaps only natural results of war. And they were ail a' - qnlred for duty's sake. He fought and bled for duty, not for glory. Gentle, genial and kindly he was in all the relations of life, a living illus tration of the couplet; the bravest are the tenderest; the loving are the dar ing. "During ou rlong intimacy I can not recall his ever using a harsh wor 1 or an unkind remark to ci about any human being, and yet he had his rubs in life, as who has not? Here was a practical Christian, to my thinking and fain am I to believe that he with his old chieftain, Stonewall, in the shade of the trees across the river." And yet he enjoyed the simple pleas ures of this world in his own simple, innocent way ,and could cut “the pigeon win” with the best to the inspiring strains of old Frank Johnson’s fiddle, presupposing always that it was in a goold old-fashioned square English dance. 1 opine that he would have pre ferred to lead a “forlorn hope” to “leading the german.” Farewell old friend, typical of th? grandest race that the world has known, known once and will never know again the old Southern civiliza tion supplemented by “the Confederate army.” WHARTON J. GREEN. Fayetteville, N. C., May 1. COL. W. H. 08B0BN ENDOBSED. Graduating Kecital at Female Colloge- Hew Machinery For Mineola Milla. (Special to Nelvs and Observer.) Greensboro, N. C., May 3.-—The second Democratic city convention met last night and endorsed the nomination of Col. W. it. Osborn for mayor. The nomination of Mr. G. T. Glascock as al derman from the Sixth ward was also endorsed. The first convention referred Mr. Glascock’s nomination back to his Drimary because he had voted for Mc- Kinley last November. The graduating recital of Misses Leonora Balsley, Adelaide Click and Eima Courtney, in the chapel of Greens boro Female College last night, was at tended by a large crowd. A most ex cellent program was rendered and thor oughly enjoyed. These young ladies have completed the course in music at the col lege. Prof. P.-P. Claxton, of the State Normal and Industrial college, lias gone to Kin ston and Enfield to deliver educational addresses. Ellerman Talks of a Subsidy Bill. (By the Associated Press.) London, May 3. —At the annual meeting of the Leyland Steamship Line today Chairman Elierntan declined to discuss the sale of the line to J. Pierpout Mor gan and Company, until a special meet ing was called to take the matter up. Reviewing last year's business, Mr. El lerman referrred to the Congressional discussion of the Subsidy Bill as "a pe riod of some anxiety." An American sub sidy, he added, would be detrimental to British trade and might make it next to impossible to compete with American owned steamers while British ships could net expect Government aid. Os two weevils choose the smaller. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦*♦♦♦♦ ♦ THE WEATHER TO-DAY.♦ ♦ For Raleigh: ♦ ! FAIR } ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ PRICK FIVK CUNTS. TRADE IN TEXTILES LAGS IN THE REAR Iron and Steel Furnish the Best Reports. THE CROP REPORTS GOOD The Warm. Sunny Wea’her Makes Retailers Smile. EXPORT BUSINESS IN PRINTS BETTER ' But the Slowness of Demand For Cotton Goods Has Caused a Decline of Five Six teenths of a Cent in Ten Da) s, (By the Associated Dress.) New York, May 3.—Bradstreet's tomor row will say; "The sanguine feeling as to trade and speculation finds reflection in the enor mous activity in stock speculation, which has attracted much money from the usual commercial channels and expanded clear ings to unheard-of totals. Warm, sunny weather is helping retail trade in the cities and is likewise affording the farm ers favorable opportunity to complete crop planting. General business, the country over, may be classed as satis factory. The iron and steel trades, though reporting somewhat of a lull iu the cruder forms, continue to furnish ihe best reports, while the textile indus tries return the least favorable accounts. "The textiles are relatively the worst situated of all the industries. The slow ness of demand tor cotton goods on do mestic account has been the cause of a reduction of print cloths of 3-16 c, which, following the decline of l-8c last week, makes a net decline of 5-16 c in ten days. Curtailment of production by the mills limits stocks but does not help demand. Export business, however, is better and there is scarcity of brown cottons re ported. "The crop situation at present is Quite encouraging. Warm, sunny weather is helping corn and cotton, and wheat main tains a generally good condition, not withstanding reports of damage by in sects in the Southwest. Cotton crop ad vices are fairly good, and an increase in acreage is still foreshadowed despite much replanting have been necessary in Alabama. Georgia and in Tennessee, where the scarcity of seed for this purpose is remarked. Grain planting is almost finished in the Northwest. "Iron trade production naturally ap pears to be catching up with demand in the cruder forms first, Bessemer pig iron is 25c lower this week and sales have be;eu made of Southern pig fifty cents below the asking price of some weeks ago. although Birmingham reports schedules adhered to. "Failures for the week number 163, as compared with 214 last week, 153 in this week a year ago, 164 in 1899 ant! 240 in 1898." COMPARATIVE COTTON STATEMENT. New York, May 3.—For the week end ing Friday, May 3rd,. 1901: Net receipts at all United States ports during week, 89,268; net receiots at all United States ports during same week last year, 41,064; total receipts to this date. 6,801,856; total receipts to same date last year. 6,203,240; exports for the week, 155,908; exports for same week last year, 89,752; total exports to this date, 6,496,588; total exports to same date last year. 5,164,579: stock at all United States ports, 585,522: stock at all United States ports same time last year, 369,685; stock at all in terior towns, 476,149; stock at all interior towns same time last year, 202,900; stock at Liverpool, 771,000; stock at Liv erpool same time last year, 670,000; stock of American afloat for Great Brit ain, 120,000; stock of American afloat for Great Britain same time last year, 66,000. TOTAL NET RECEIPTS. New York, May 3—The following are the total net receipts of cotton at all United States ports since September Ist, 1900; Galveston, 1,911,007 bales; New Or leans, 2,236,492;M0bi1e, 127,412; Savannah, 1.008,301; Charleston, 216,705; Wilmington. 255 837; Norfolk, 372.716; Baltimore, 60,- 509; New York, 156,753; Boston. 187,587; Newport News, 18,119; Philadelphia. 22,- 403; Brunswick, 85,165; Port Arthur. 20,654; Pensacola, 128,646. Totai, 6,801,685 i bales. A“. Blasphemy” Case in Madison Co. (Wiikesboro Chronicle.) Ashe county comes forward with some iliing new iu this sei-tiou. In last week’s court there was a case of "blasphemy” and the parties submitted and paid the cost. This is the first case of the kind on record iu this section, so far us we can learn. The parties loaded up with the liquid extracts of corn and went to. a mill pood on "Hoss creek" on Sunday am! baptised each other as best they eo"ld under the circumstances. Their loud shouting and praying disturbed the neighbors and they were indicted for blasphemy. Blasphemy is not a statu tory offense in this State, but it is a com mon law offense for the accommodation ot our neighbor county, which delights in getting something uew. Refined Sugars Advanced. (By the Associated Press.) New York, May 3.—-All grades of re fined sugars were advanced ten cents a hundred pounds today.
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