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The News and Observer.
VOL. LII. NO. 138.
Leads all North Carolina Daily Papers in Both News and Circulation
AVENGERS CLOSING
ON TOPE FIEND
Hidden in a Swamp and Cap
ture Imminent.
THE COUNTRY AROUSED
Pretty Young Mother Lying at the
Point of Death.
DRAGGED FROM HERSCR'AMING CHILDREN
They F.ed to Get Help While the Poor Creature
Begged Piteously for Mercy, Beaten
Almost to Death by Her Black
Assailant.
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(Special to News and Observer.)
Goldsboro. N. C-, Aug. 23. —Mrs. Jas.
C. Smith, the white woman outraged and
beaten yesterday p. m., at her home near
Seven Springs, is in a very precarious
condition. j ;j
The negro brute, Thomas Jones, who
committed the outrage, I am advised at
S:3O this evening, is located in a swamp
in the neighborhood and it is thought
will be captured. The chances 01 escape
are increased, however, by the darkness.
The neighborhood people are justly
aroused, and if caught, a speedy fate
doubtless awaits the fiend.
As the facts developed the crime be
comes darker and darker. Mrs. Smith
is young and pretty. She resides witli
her husband on a plantation cleared in
every direction save one. Here a pine
thicket apprears the home to within a
hundred yards. From this thicket the
negro approached the house. Mrs. Smith
was alone at the time. Jones made an
improper proposal to her, saying that if
she complied with his demands he would
not hurt her, but if she refused he
would kill her.
Mrs. Smith indignantly refused and the
villian dragged her fro mher home to
the pine thicket and there icoemplished
his purpose, having beaten the poor help
less woman almost to death and quite
beyond recognition. He left her as he
doubtless thought dead.
The negro Jones came to this section
from Durham. Last year he worked in
tobacco at La Grange. This year he was
employed on the farm of the father of ms
poor innocent victim.
Another Story of the Grime.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Goldsboro, N. C., Aug. 23.—Tom Jones,
the negro rapist, is being hunted by hun
dreds of people in the lower section of
the counfy today, but up to this time he
is still at large. The horrible crime of
which he is charged was committed on
the person of Mrs. Will Smith, at her
home in Indian Springs township, yes
terday afternoon about six o’clock. Today
she lies in helpless unconsciousness, her
face discolored and her throat bearing
the imprint of her brutal assailant's fin
gers.
Last night sentinels were stationed
along every path and public road in that
section to prevent the escape of the ne
gro, but as stated every effort thus far
made has been barren of result.
Mrs. Smith’s husband left his wife yes
terday morning In cheerful spirits and
went to town with a load of tobacco. Late
In the afternoon, while the faithful wife
was preparing supper and on the look
out for his return, there appeared at
the kitetien door a heavily-built, evil
looking negro, who made an insulting
proposal. The woman shrank from him
in horror and loathing. The brute then
forced his way into the house and pulled
Mrs. Smith out of the door, dragged her
across the yard and over the fence to
a chimp of bushes across the plantation
path where, after nearly depriving her of
life, he accomplished his foul purpose.
There was no one in the house but two
small children, who seeing the negro
dragging their mother across the yard
and hearing her pitiful cries for mercy,
fled from the house and ran across the
field to -he home of a neighbor, where
they told as best they could what had
occurred.
Help came but too late. The negro had
left his victim on the spot where he drag
ged her unconscious and disfigured.
The news soon spread and people be
gan early in the evening to flock to the
scene. Sheriff Scott received a telegram
about ten o’clock last night, asking him
to go and carry bloodhounds.
He did not have the dogs, but he wont
himself and joined the search for the ne
gro. He came back this morning and
said the people were aroused and that
Ihev were scouring the woods.
If the negro is caught there is no un
certainty about the fate which will over
take him.
In coming home the sheriff said he
passed a number of ladies on the nublic
road who had left their homes and gone
in search of the negro.
Dr. Hume in Virghra.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Chapel Hill, N. C., August 23.—Last
week’s Valley Virginian contained an
editorial leader “On The Permanent Ele
ment in the Race and the Individual,’’
based on an anniversary discourse by
Rev. Dr. Thos. Hume, D. D-, LL. D.. at
Waynesboro, Va., and a special tribute
to the discourse and the speaker. Dr.
Hume's lectures this summer in Staunton
on “The Incarnation” and “The Personal
and Local Elements in Bunyan’s Pil
grim’s Progress” were attended with
great interest.
Dr. Alex Phillips, a well known Chapel
Hill man and Dr. Hume both appear on
the programme of the Augusta Sunday
School Convention.
In announcing Dr. Hume as the preach
er for next Sunday it is stated that “no
man is more beloved amongst the Pres
byterians of this section.”
KNOX WILL 00 TO PARIS.
To Inveitigate Soma Questions m the Panama
Canal Case.
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, Aug. 23. —Attorney Gen
eral Knox returned to the city today
from his vacation spent principally at
Atlantic City. He will remain, however,
only until Monday when he will leave
for New York preparatory to sailing for
Paris next Wednesday on the Oceanic,
lie had hoped that this trip to France
might be avoided, but Mr. Russell, who
is now there investigating the Panama
Canal question for this government, has
tabled Mr. Knox that there are some fea
tures of the case that in his opinion
should receive the Attorney General’s
personal attention. As to what these
matters are Mr. Knox has no informa
tion.
In speaking of the railroad merger
suit, the Attorney General said that
testimony would be taken in the case,
beginning at New York next month. When
that has been concluded the court would
set a time for an oral hearing. As to
the Greene and Gaynor case. Mr. Knox
said that within a day or two he would
formulate instructions to the government
counsel in Quebec as to the next steps to
be taken to extradite the men. The
government, he said, had no thought of
abandoning its case and every possible
means would be exhausted to secure the
return of Greene and Gaynor to the Uni
ted States.
TO DO WITHOUT OUR COTTON.
England Thinks Eho Can Raise Hor Supplies
in Upper Egypt.
(By the Associated Press.)
London, Aug. 23.—The British Cotton
Growing Association, which, with the
hearty co-operation of the Colonial Sec
retary, Joseph Chamberlain, is striving
to render the British Empire independ
ent of the United States so far as raw
cotton is concerned, is now paying spe
cial attention to upper Egypt, where it
is asserted, the association can develop
a cotton belt dwarfing that of the South
ern States of America. Major Count
Gleichen, secretary of the Sirdar of the
Egyptian forces, Major General Wingate,
addressing the association at Manchester
recently, said the experiments now con
cluded on the hanks of the Nile show
the quality of the cotton grown there to
be the equal of any in the world. There
are available 13,000,000 acres of irrigated
land and the only difficulty is the labot
supply, the Dervishes having depopu
lated the Soudan, but the completion of
the Suakim-Berber Railroad is expected
to solve the problem, besides furnishing
an outlet for the crop.
TO REMOVE TO AILANTA.
The General Freight Department of the South
ern Railway.
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, Aug. 23.—1 t was an
nounced officially today that the general
freight department of the Southern Rail
way, including the offices of E. A. Neil,
general freight agent, and of Lincoln
Green, assistant general freight agent
and their respective clerical forces,
would be transferred from this city to
Atlanta, Ga. The department will be
moved during September and will be
open for business at Atlanta by October
Ist. Mr. Green has just returned to
Washington from Atlanta, where he en
gaged quarters for the freight depart
ment of the Southern system and made
all arrangements for the change. The
transfer, Mr. Green explained, was
deemed advisable by the officials of the
Southern for the reason that Atlanta is
the most central point of the freight sys
tem and the location of the freight de*
partment in that city will facilitate
greatly the work of the office.
Roosevelt Worries Dixie Bads.
(By the Associated Press.)
Providence, R. 1., Aug. 23.—The friends
of Cecil A. Lyon, chairman of the Re
publican State Committee of Texas, are
considerably exercised over the recent
announcement by the President that he
wished to warn the Republicans of the
South that if they wanted anything from
him they would have to get out and se
cure votes instead of getting delegates
to Republican national conventions and
looking for Federal offices. Judging from
a dispatch received abroad the train to
day the friends of Mr. Lyon seem to
think that he was made the special ob
ject of the President’s ultimatum and was
held responsible for the political quar
rel in Texas, but this was found to he
incorrect, the President saying that his
remarks applied to all.
The British Tennis Players
(By the Associated Press.)
Newport, R. 1., Aug. 23.—The two Eng
lish tennis players, R. F. and H. L.
Doherty, are getting dangerously near
the finals in the national championship
in singles, and the possibility of one of
them adding this event to their already
won championship in doubles grows every
succeeding day. Both won their matches
today with almost commanding ease, H.-
L. Doherty, already the champion of all
England, defeating H. F. Allen, of Phila
delphia, in straight sets, while his brother i
was disposing of W. J. Clothier, also of
the Quaker City, in three seta taf one.
RALEIGH. NORTH CAROLINA, SUNDAY MORNING. AUGUST 24, 1902.
100 MUCH OUTCRY
ICIINST COMBINES
This is Roosevelt’s View of
the Matter.
TRUSTS ARE NECESSARY
They Should, However, be Under Gov
ernment Control.
BUT IF SHOULD HANDLE THEM TENDERLY
There is Much Good in lhe.se Corporations, the
Pr sident Conc'udes, and Stringent
Measures Should Not be Us*d
Against Th.m.
(Ily the Associated Press.)
Providence, R. 1., Aug. 23.—Not since
the visit here of President Hayes, twenty
five years ago, has a Chief Executive
been accorded so brilliant and thoroughly
general a reception as that tendered to
day to President Roosevelt on the oc
casion of his tour through this State.
People came from every part of the
State and gathered 15,000 strong about
the platform at City Hall, from which
the President delivered an address. An
ovation which lasted five minutes was
the President’s greeting when he rose to
speak. President Roosevelt devoted his
attention to industrial conditions grow
ing out of prosperity, especially the in
crease of corporate wealth. He said:
“For some of the evils which have at
tended upon the good of the changed
conditions we can at present see no
complete remedy. For others the remedy
must come by the actioh of men them
selves in their private capacity, whether
merely as individuals or by combination
one with another. For yet others some
remedy can be found in legislative and
executive action, national, State or muni
cipal. Much of the complaint against
combinations is entirely unwarranted.
Under present day conditions it is us
necessary to have corporations in the
business world as It Is to have organi
zation among wage-workers. But we have
a right to ask in each case that they
shall do good and not harm. Exactly
as labor organizations, when managed
intelligently and in a spirit of justice
and fair play, are of very great service,
not only to the wage-workers, but to
the whole community, as the history of
many labor organizations has conclusive
ly shown, so w'ealth. not merely in
dividual but corporate, when used aright
is not merely a benefit to the community
as a whole, but indispensible to the up
building of the country, under the con
ditions, which at present the country
has grown not only to accept but to
demand as normal. This is so obvious
that it seems trite even to .state it, and
yet if we are to judge from some of the
arguments advanced against and attacks
made upon wealth as such, it is a fact
worth keeping in mind.
“A great fortune if not used aright
makes its possessor in a peculiar sense
a menace to the community as a whole,
just as a great intellect does if it is un
accompanied by developed conscience,
by character. But obviously this no
more affords grounds for condemning
wealth than it does for condemning in
tellect. Every man of power by the
very fact of the power is capable of do
ing damage to his neighbor, but we can
not afford to discourage the development
of such men merely because It is pos
sible they maye use their power to wrong
ends. If we did so we should leave our
history a blank, for we should have no
great statesman, soldiers or merchants,
no great man of arts, of letters or of
science. Doubtless on the average the
most useful nian to his fellow citizens is
apt to be he to whom has been given
what the Psalmist prayed for, neither
poverty nor riches, but the great cap
tain of industry, the man of wealth, who
alone or in combination with his fel
lows, drives through our great business
enterprises, is a factor without which
this country could not possibly maintain
its present industrial position in the
world. Good, not harm, normally comes
from the piling up of wealth through
business enterprises. Probably the most
serious harm resulting to us, the peo
ple of moderate means, is when we harm
ourselves by letting the dark and evil
vices of envy and hatred towards our
fellows eat into our natures.
“Still, there is other harm, of a more
evident kind, and such harm it is our
clear duty to eradicate if possible and
in any event to minimize. The corpora
tions, and therefore those great corpora
tions containing some tendency to mo
nopoly which we have grown to speak of
rather loosely as trusts, are the crea
tures of the State, and the State not only
has the right to control them, but is in
duty bound to control them wherever the
need for such control is shown. There is
clearly a need of supervision—need to
exercise she power of regulation on the
part of the representatives of the pub
lic, wherever, as in our own country at
the present time, business corporations
become so very strong, both for benefi
cient work and for work that is not al
ways beneficient. It is idle to say that
there is no need for such supervision. A
sufficient warrant for it is to be found
qver and over again of the various evils
resulting from the present system, or
either lack of system.
“There is in our country a peculiar
difficulty in the way of exercising such
supervision and control because of the
peculiar division of governmental power.
When the industrial conditions were sim
ple, very little control was needed, and
no trouble was caused by the doubt as
to whore power was lodged under the
examination. Now the conditions are
complicated, and we find it difficult to
frame national legislation, which shall
be adequate, while as a matter of prac
tical experience State action has proved
entirely insufficient, and in all human
probability can not or will not be made
sufficient, to meet the needs of the case.
Some of our States have excellent laws
—laws which it would be well indeed to
have enacted by the National Legisla
ture. But the wide differences in these
laws, even between adjacent States and
the uncertainty of the power of enforce
ment result practically in altogether in
sufficient control. I believe that the na
tion must assume this power of control
by legislation, and if it becomes evi
dent that the Constitution will not per
mit needed legislation, then by constitu
tional amendment. The immediate need
in dealing with trusts is to place them
under the real, not nominal, control of
some sovereign to which, as its creature,
the trusts shall owe allegiance, and in
whose courts the sovereign’s orders may
With certainty be enforced. This is not
the case with the ordinary so-called
‘trust’ today, for -he trust is a large State
corporation, generally doing business in
other States also, and often with a ten
dency to monopoly. Such a trust is an
artificial creature not wholly responsible
to or controllable by any legislature, nor
wholly subject to the jurisdiction of any
one court.
“Some governmental sovereign must be
given full power over these artificial and
\ery powerful, corporate buildings. In
my judgment this sovereign must be the
national government. When it has been
given full power, then this full power
can be used to control any evil influ
ence, exactly as the government is now
using the power conferred upon it under
the Sherman Anti-Trust Law. Even when
the full power has been conferred it
would he highly undesirable to attempt
too much, or to begin by stringent legis
lation. The mechanism of modern busi
ness is as delicate and complicated as it
is vast, and nothing would be more pro
ductive of evil to all of us and especially
to those least well off in this world's
goods, than ignorant meddling with this
mechanism, and above all, if the meddling
was done in a spirit of class or sectional
rancor. It is desirable that this power
should be possessed by the nation, but it
is quite as desirable that the power
should be exercised with moderation and
self-restraint.
“The first exercise of that power
should bo the securing of publicity among
nil great corporations doing an Inter
state business. The publicity, though
non-inquisitorial, should be real and
thorough as to all important, facts with
which the public is concerned. The full
light of day is a great discourager of
evil. Such publicity would by itself tend
to cure the evils of which there is just
complaint, and where the alleged evils
are imagluery it would tend to show that
cueh was the ease. When publicity is at
tained it would then be possible to see
what further should be done in the way
of regulation.”
“MEANB DEFEAT FOR BOTH.”
Mr. Watson Thus Comments on Hr- Glenn’s
Proposition.
(Special to Nows and Observer.)
Winston-Salem, N. C-, Aug. 23. —Mr. C.
B. Watson, who is attending Davidson
court, was called over the long distance
phone this afternoon and asked if he bad
any comment to make on Capt. Glenn’s
letter in reply to one issued by Mr. Wat
son a week ago. Mr. Watson replied
that Capt. Glenn’s proposition to leave
their contest till the Legislature assem
bles “means defeat for both- of us. I
think the matter should be settled at
once,” continued Mr. Wattson, who add
ed: “So far as my kin folks are con
cerned, as referred to by Mr. Glenn, he
can take a census of them and I will per
mit him to add them to his column. Per
haps I was a little slow in filing my lien
or staking off my claim (if I had any)
for the Senatorship, I don’t ask Mr.
Glenn to withdraw from the race, should
Forsyth give me her endorsement. He
can still remain in the field, but I will
agree to withdraw and endorse him if
the convention thinks he is the strongest
and best man for the place. I shall onl>
ask the convention to settle the contest
between us so far as the vota of For
syth’s representatives in the Legislature
is concerned.”
SCHOOLS IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Denial That the System is Use 3 to the Prejudice
of Catholicism.
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, Aug. 23.—The Bureau of
Insular Affairs of the War Department
has made public the report of Frank H
Bowen, Acting General Superintendent
of Public Instruction for the Philippine
Islands, upon charges made, in the Uni
ted States against the school system of
the islands alleging that it was used as
a proselyting agency against Catholics,
and generally used to the prejudice of
Catholicism. These charges were for
warded to Manila and the reply was made
to Acting Governor Wright. The report
of Superintendent Bowen is dated July
71 h, and is a general and specific denial
of the charges. He says that of twenty
persons who have been division superin
tendents only one has ever been a clergy
man. Three division superintendents
were appointed from a list submitted by
leaders of the Roman Catholic church
in the United States.
Work on the addition of the Sanct'rd
Cotton Mil is being pushed. About 30
hands are employed. The walls are
about finished. They expect to have
the work completed by the first of No
vember. The force will then be doub
led, especially when the mill is put in
operation day and night.—Sanford Ex
press.
16 PAGES— SECTION ONE—Pages 1 to 8.
GAY ROYAL BLADES
FROM THE ORIENT
King Lcwanika Lugs Home
Six Silk Hats.
RAS TAKES A BALLOON
The Shah Bristles With Millions
Worth of Diamonds.
AN INDIAN P 0 TEN TATE FOOLS 1 HE STARS
Maharajah of Jaipur Has His Sptcial Goa’s
Name Printed Upon His Visiting Car-' 1 ,
Thereby Working Woe Amang
London’s Fair Ones.
(By the Associated Press.)
London, Aug. 23.—King Lcwanika has
departed for his kraal in Barotseland,
Northwestern Rhodesia, with many im
pediments, one of the most cherished
items of which consist of six silk liats.
Ras Makanuon, the Abyssinian general,
is also homeward bound. Among his bag
gage is a big balloon.
The Indian Princee have disappeared
and with the departure of the Shah of
Persia Monday, London will be bereft of
its last show visitor.
The west end of London, from a so
ciety point of view, is a desert. The
members of the royal family, the Cabinet
ministers and the foreign diplomas are
scattered and all those with money
enough to enable them to do 30 have
fled to tjie Moors, rivers of various con
tinental resorts. Twenty-one West End
clubs aggregating a membership of near
ly 30,000, are closed for renovation and
the shuttered houses of Mayfair add to
the general gloominess. There is talk,
however, ot a “second season” commenc
ing in September with the re-opening of
Parliament and the return of King Ed
ward to town.
The Shah has been the object of much
attention on the part of the newspapers
for a week past, and while it is a moot,
point whether the monarch' is really en
joying himself certainly royal and official
Tjondon have pared no pain to that end.
The round of entertainment provide for
him included everything of a light and
howy character from a vi3it to the wax
works to a big review of artillery at
Woolwich, while the short intervals were
filled up with conversations on political
matters, such as Russion attempts to se
cure ports on the Persion gulf, the ful
fillment of which would necessitate large
additions to the British fleet in Indian
waters. The Persian’s jewels were an
unending source of gossip.
A jewel merchant who was present
at the Shah’s reception Tuesday esti
mated that if the gems the monarch was
then wearing were put up at auction
they would fetch 3,750,000 pounds sterling.
Today arrangements have been made for
the Shah to go deer-stalking in Wind
sor Great Park. The Eastern visitor
expressed a desire to take back a hunt
ing trophy, so King Edward granted him
permission to have a shot at the bucks
of the royal herd. The animals are now
in fine condition, almost tame enough to
permit of stroking them, so the Shah
should have no difficulty in securing
antlers.
The last of the Indian potentates, the
Maharajah of Jaipud, sailed for his home
Friday, though officially he commenced
his journel homeward by deputy on Mon
day. It is customary for the Maharajah,
before starting on important journeys,
to consult the State astrologer as to
whether the planets are favorable. The
astrologer advised the Maharajah’s de
parture Monday, but as it was incon
venient to do so, the Maharajah deter
mined to trick the planets and deputized
his aide-de-camp and some members of
his suite to start and await him at
Dover.
The Maharajah has caused London
hostesses endless confusion by having the
name of his special god printed on his
visiting cards above his own name. Vari
ous smart women were hurt by not re
ceiving answers to their invitations until
it was discovered that they had been ad
dressed to tho god instead of to the
Maharajah.
The embarkation of the Maharajah’s
baggage at Dover caused a sensation
among the provincials, especially the
removal from the train to the steamei
of an imagine of Buddha and copper
vessels containing sacred Ganges water,
which was. carried out by the priests of
the suite with great ceremonial. Among
the Maharajah’s baggage was a bassinet,
a bicycle, a horse and small tricycle.
New Members of the Faculty.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Newton, N. C., Aug. 23.—The fall ses
sion of Catawba College will open Sep
tember 2nd. President Mebane says that
the outlook is very bright for a large
attendance. The present session will
open with four new teachers who fill
positions made vacant by resignations
and changes in the faculty.
Prof. W. W. Chandler, Pr. D., will
have charge of the Department of Eng
lish. He is 37 years old, experienced in
school work and is w r ell-equipped for the
position. He is a graduate of Heidelberg
College.
Prof. William R. Weaver, A. 8., of
Franklin and Marshall College, Lancas
ter, Pa., will have charge of the De
partment of Greek, German and History.
Mr. Weaver has scholarship of the high-
FIVK CENTS.
est order and is a young man of strong
Christian character.
Miss Irma IT. Whitmore, daughter of
Rev. S. L. Whitmore, D. D., of the Re
formed church, Pottsvilie, Pa., will be
in charge of the Music Department. At
the Woman’s College, Frederick, Md., she
.took the full classical course, receiv
ing the degree of A. B. She took at this
institution three years’ course in music,
both instrumental and vocal, and re
ceived her certificate from the Conserva
tory of Music in 1899. She has been a
member of the Choral Union <ft Potts
ville whieh had splendid success in ren
dering the oratorios, “Elijah,” the
“Creation,” and the “Messiah.”
Miss Rosa Rowe will have charge of the
Business Department. She is a full grad
uate of tho Literary Department of Ihe
State Normal and Industrial College.
She also took the course in stenography
and book-keeping. The Isaac Fitman
System of Shorthand will be used.
THKIREDFLL PRIMARIES
McLaughlin far the Senate, Stephens and
Watts for the House
(Special to the News and Observer.)
Statesville, N. 0., Aug. 23.—Iredell
primaries were held today. J. A. Hart
r.ess was unanimously nominated for
Clerk; R. B. McLaughlin is nominated
for Senator by a vote of eighty to thirty,
one for H. C. Carlton.
For the House Dr. Stevens is'nomi
nated unanimously, and A. D. Watts got
a vote of a hundred and one-third to
ten and two-thirds for John B. Holman.
No nominations were made for the> other
county offices. They will be nominated
in the county convention Tuesday. There
was a very large attendance at the pri
maries.
Cupid Made the Old Man “fewrious.’’
'lll L:f . 1
(By the Associated Press.)
Macon, Ga., Aug. 23. —L. A. Roach, of
Cordon, Ga., father of 15-year-old Agnes
Roach, came to 'Macon aud spent last
night trying to find some trace of his
daughter. He reported to the police that
James I. Tindel, w r ho w r as recently in
the asylum but who escaped; had gone
to his house on the afternoon before and
at the point of a pistol forced the girl
to run away with him. He claimed it
was a clear case of kidnapping, and said
he feared that his daughter would be
murdered. It developed this afternoon,
however, that it was simply a love af
fair, in which the old folks had been
blinded. The couple drove through the
country to Jeffersonville, in an adjoin
ing county, and reaching there at day
light, waited until the ordinary ap
peared. They got a license and were
married. They have returned to the
home of the groom’s mother and the
irate father of the girl is irreconcilable.
Blackburn Refuses Challenge.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Salisbury, N. C., Aug. 23.—Hon. Then.
F. Kluttz this week again challenged
Spencer Blackburn to a Joint canvass of
this Congressional district. Mr. Black
burn replied yesterday to Mr. Kluttz. He
stated that ho knew no reason why he
should reconsider his declination of two
weeks ago. Mr. Kluttz will consequently
make his canvass alone.
Mrs. M. H. Boyden fell in her yard last
night and broke her arm, the fracture
being a very serious one.
Wa*hngton’s Forbears’ Home.
(By the Associated Press.)
London, Aug. 23. —The statements pub
lished in the United States to the effect
that Americans in London are trying
to purchase the house near Banbury,
Oxfordshire, which was the home of
George Washington’s ancestors, with the
view of transporting it to the United
States for exhibition at the St. Louis
Exposition, have surprised the agents of
the preperty, who have heard nothing on
the subject. The agents recall that when
the property was placed in their hands
for sale a year ago, the same project
was mooted and discussed in the news
papers, but it was dismissed as imprac
ticable. Since then the agents have not.
been approached by any American offers.
Negro Who Wai Poisoned Died.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Oxford, N. C., Aug. 23. —The negro, John
Day, who was poisoned by drinking coffee
containing Taris green, intended to poison
the family of Mr. Oscar Yancey, died
yesterday in the field where he was at
work on the farm of Mr. Yancey. The
team which John Day was driving in the
field returned to the house without a
driver and immediately a search began,
which resulted as stated. A coroner’s in
quest will be held.
Why the Fairs’ Bodies Are Held,
(By the Associated Press.)
Paris, Aug. 23. —The correspondent of
the Associated Press learns that the
postponement of the shipment of the re
mains of Charles L. and Mrs. Fair to
Cherbourg, on their way to New York,
is the result of an agreement between
the lawyers t« hold the bodies here un
til it is decided whether it is advisable
to examine them with the view of ascer
taining the exact nature of the injuries
which caused death. The consent of the
late Mr. Fair’s family has boon cabled
for.'
Receiver For the Augusla Chronicle
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(By the Associated Press.)
Augusta, Ga., Aug. 23.—The Augusta
Chronicle was today placed in the hands
of a receiver at the instance of the
creditors. E. B. Hook, president of the
company, was appointed receiver, and
will continue the publication of the paper
as usual, pending the reorganization of
the paper’s affairs.