The News and Ob_ ~~ver.
VOL. LIII. NO. 20.
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AHOTHER EFFORT
BY THE PRESIDENT
i.
Promises to Appoint an In
vestigating Commission.
AND ACT ON ITS REPORT
ThU if Mitchell Will Oet the Miners
Back to Work.
MITCHELL ASKS TIME TO CONSIDER
And He Wishes to Lay the Proposition Before
His Associates. Wriehtand Sarrent Were
the President’s Agents. Roose
velt Talks With Others.
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, D. C., Oct. 7.—The fol
lowing statement was made public at the
White House this afternoon:
“On Monday. October 6, Hon. Carroll
De Wright, Commissioner of Labor, went
to Philadelphia, and gave to Mr. John
Mitchell the following from the Presi
dent:
“ ‘lf Mr. Mitchell will secure the im
mediate return to work of the miners in
the anthracite regions, the President will
at once appoint a commission to investi
gate thoroughly into all matters at is
sue between the operators and miners
and will do all within his power to ob
tain a settlement of those questions in
accordance with the report of the com
mission.’
“Mr. Mitchell has taken this matter
tinder consideration, but the President
has not yet been advised of any decis
ion.”
The President was in consultation to
day for almost two hours with members
of the Cabinet relative to the coal strike
situation. He also talked over the sit
uation with Dr. Albert Shaw and Dr.
Lyman Abbott.
About. 1:30 o'clock. Frank P. Sargent.
Commissioner-General of Immigration
and for years Chief of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen, arrived at the
White House from his trip to Philadel
phia, where he went as the emissary of
the President to convey to President
Mitchell, of the United 'Mine Workers'
Association, the proposition of President
Roosevelt that the miners resume work.
Mr. Sargent had not succeeded in seeing
Mr. Mitchell. The President, however,
had heard from Commissioner of Labor
Wright -who saw Mr. Mitchell on the
same errand last night in Philadelphia,
and the latter's report was that Mr,
Mitchell desired time to consider the
proposition and lay it before his asso
ciates.
After a conference of an hour between
tbc President, Attorney General Knox,
Postmaster General Payne, Mr. Sargent
ar .d James S. Clark, it was decided to
give out the above statement.
Orders to the National Guard.
(By the Associated Press.)
Harrisburg, I’a.. Oct. 7. —General orders
placing the entire National Guard of
Pennsylvania on duty in the strike region,
were issued today from division head
quarters, which have been established at
the Commonwealth Hotel in charge of
Col. William J. Elliott. Assistant Adjutant
Adjutant General of the Guard, who will
remain in Harrisburg until the troops
are recalled. The orders designate the
location of the throe brigades and all of
the State troops will he in the field by
Thursday. General Miller will command
the division.
NO DEFINITE PLAN AGREED OS.
After Conference With Striker* Manufacturer*
Go to Confer With Operator*.
(By the Associated Press.)
Bualo, N. Y, Oct. 7—The conference
between the committee appointed by the
National Manufacturers' Association and
President Mitchell and his lieutenants
held, at the Iroquois Hotel, this after
noon did not result in any definite plan
being agreed upon for the partial re
sumption of work in the anthracite coal
fields but the members of the Manufac
turers’ committee stated that they were
greatly pleased with the progress made.
The fact that communication was estab
lished with the operators by long-dis
tance telephone and an appointment made
to meet a committee representing them.
In Philadelphia tomorrow, is looked upon
as significant.
Mr. Mitchell, this afternoon possivcly
declined to discuss the reoucst made by
President Roosevelt that Mitchell use bis
influence to induce the miners to resume
work with a promise of the appointment
of a commission to investigate the min
ers’ grievances. It was learned from a
reliablo v source, however. that Mr.
Mitchell docs not regard the proposition
favorably, and that he will decline to ask
the miners to resume work under the
conditions stipulated.
When the conference adjourned the fol
lowing official statement was given out:
“The committee of the National Asso
ciation of Manufacturers has listened to
the explanation of the present strike
difficulty as offered by a. special com
mittee of the United Mine Workers at
the head of which was Mr. John Mitchell.
The National Association of .Manufac
turers’ committee has learned what it
could of the conditions and now goes to
Philadelphia for the purpose of meeting
a committee of mine operators with the
idea of getting their side o fthe difieulty.
The National Association of Manufactur
ers’ committee carries no proposition
from the mine workers and has no other
mission than the desire to speedily bring
about a settlement of this dispute."
To Investigate the Coal Trust.
(By the Associated Press.)
New York. Oct. 7.—lt was learned to
day that United States District Attorney
Burnett had been instructed by the At
torney General in Washington, to in
vestigate the working of the Coal Trust
in his district, that of the southern half
of Now York State. General Burnett de
clined, however, to state the nature of
the investigation to be made by him or
when it would be commenced. Further
than to state that such an investigation
had been ordered, he would not talk.
McLean and Dixon at Liberty.
(Specal to the News and Observer.)
Liberty. N. C., Oct. 7.—Hon. D. H. Mo-
Lean and Dr. B. F. Dixon spoke here to
a goodly number of people on the 4th.
Quite a number of ladies were present.
Hon. D. H. McLean led off with an able
speech reviewing the past of the Republi
can party and comparing it with the work
of the Democratic party. He showed that
the real friends of education and good
government in this State were in the
party which was now in power.
Dr. Dixon followed. The Doctor dealt
freely in facts gathered from the figures
in the Auditor’s office and did our cause
good.
The Ramseur Cornet Band furnished
excellent music for the occasion and was
much complimented.
Democracy is not losing in this part.
NOT A (MOULD GET
TRROUGH
Police Guards Useless. Call
for a Thousand Volun
teers Unheeded.
tßy the Associated Press.)
New Orleans, La., oct. 7.—The New Or
leans Railway Company today attempted
to obey the order of the mayor to run
passenger cars this morning and although
almost ihe entire force of city police was
concentrated at the scene of action, only
one car succeeded -n going five squares
from the canal barn.
Four cars were started out with non
union motormen and conductors, each
carrying eleven policemen, while a hun
dred policemen were massed in the vicin
ity, but when the first car reached Tonti
street the strikers and their sympathizers
made a rush for the ear and secured pos
session. The police made no show of
resisting the assault. Not a single strik
er was hurt. F. H. Schwcnck, of Chi
cago, a nonunion conductor, was badly
injured, and he with three other non
union employees wore bodly taken pos
session of by the strikers.
A policeman was hit on the foot by a
brick and another of the non-union men
v ho is a prisoner, was roughly handled
but not badly hurt. The cars were badly
damaged by stones.
The company informed the mayor that
the police protection was inadequate ana
this afternoon Mayor Capvielle issued a
call for a thousand volunteer citizen po
lice. The responses to the call have
hern few and it appears that in the fail
ure ol police protection the militia will
he called out.
The company says it will be ready to
run cars if protect ion is given.
Three arrests were made by the police
during the day. The four ears which
were sent out by this company this
morning, left the Canal street barn at 7
o'clock in a procession and started up
Canal street. They were greeted with
hoots and yells by the crowd of strikers
in the immediate vicinity, but no vio
lence was offered. Two blocks from the
barn a large crowd was gathered and
they made a dash for the first car. One
man swung on to the trolley rope and
pulled the trolley down. The can ran a
block and a half before it stopped. The
stopping of this car stopped all the others
and the strikers boarded them without
any show resistance. Some police
drew their revolvers. Stones and bricks
were showered on the cars and the
crews of two of them were carried off
bodily. The trolley ropes were cut.
The company then made a play for Fed
eral interferences by running out a mail
car behind the others and of course it
could not get through. Ground was laid
for a charge of interfering with the mail.
By 10 o’clock all tc ears ahd been re
turned and the crowds of strikers had
dispersed except a few who were left on
watch. Clark Bentley, a conductor, was
arrested today on a charge by Postoffice
Inspector Lake Jones, of cutting trolley
wires near Audubon Park on October 1.
The fact thu the Felcral officials have
taken a hand has, surprised then.
An affidavit has also been made
against D. Munlsch for cutting wires and
the inspector says two other men were
concerned in the crime. Bentley was re
leased on SI,OOO bond.
The trial of the sixteen strikers
charged w ith interfering with mail cars
began before the United States Commis
sioner. and much direct evidence was
adduced against all but the officers of
the union, who were not in the vicinity.
The trial vas continued until tomorrow.
The only time most people ran save
money by not spending it is when they
haven't got any.
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 8, 1902.
ONE MILLION MARK
1,000,000 Pounds of Tobacco
Sold Here
t j
Tobacco and Cotton Together Have Put Into
Circulation cn This Market 5210,974 3
More Than Last Fall.
Tobacco and cotton together have put
into circulation from this market up to
the present time this fall $210,974 more
than last year. Os this total excess,
cotton has contributed $103,474, and to
bacco $107,500- These figures are of
course approximate, and do not claim to
be exact, but they come very close to
the actual amounts.
That much has been actually paid out
to farmers for cotton and tobacco over
and above what was paid out last year.
Os course there was no tobacco on this
market last year, so the amount of to
bacco sales this fall is all excess over
last year.
One million pounds of tobacco have
been sold on this market since last Jul>
in the two warehouses, the Farmers’ and
the Capital City. It has been estimated
that the average price paid lias been
$10.75 per hundred pounds.
Several prominent tobacco men pre
dict chat before the season is over,
3,000,000 pounds will have been sold,
whereas the expectation was that the to
tal would be about 2,000,000 pounds.
One gentleman who knows perhaps as
much about tobacco as any man* ,in
North Carolina, predicted to a News and
Observer reported yesterday that be
tween five and eight million pounds
would be sold next season.
This same gentleman said that he did
not consider that the combine between
the Imperial ar.d American Tobacco
Companies would effect the Raleigh
market in the least, either this season or
next. He looks upon it as simply a com
promise touching the manufactured ar
ticle in England.
The competition, he says, between the
buyers cf the two companies on this mar
ket has hern just as keen since the re
port of the combine as it was before.
A PARDON ASKED IOK MU SHOW
Many Petition For Pardon For LYcnng Man
Who Committed Crime-
One of the worst crimes ever committed
in North Carolina was by a young man
in Guilford county. His girl victim was
cruelly wronged. IT is conviction wae
widely approved as a just sentence. A
M. Scales, Esq., of Greensboro, was lu re
this week to ask a pardon for Murrow,
and the matter is now before the Gover
nor. He will no doubt give the applica
tion long and serious consideration before
cutting the sentence down six-sevenths.
The Greensboro Telegram, writing of the
application, says:
“Mr. A. M. Scales, Mr. J. S. Murrow,
and Mr. D. B. Coletrane, the latter of
Concord, went to Raleigh today carrying
for Governor Aveock’s consideration a
numerously signed petition for the par
don of Roscoe Murrow , son of Mr. J- S.
Murrow*. There has hern some criticism
of the movement to secure a pardon for
Young Murrow, but Mr. Sales, who baa
looked into the matter thoroughly, says
such criticism is due to ignorance of the
facts in the case. He has in his posses
sion affidavits which he says make it
certain that false accusations were pre
ferred against Murrow. Some of these
he read to a Telegram reporter, who
agreed along with everybody else that
they changed the aspect of the case most
decidedly. So numerous are these affi
davits and so reliable and trustworthy
are those making them that it looks as
if Mr. Scales has a complete ease in be
half of the young man. Had lie been
able on the trial to produce the evidence
he now has Mr. Scales thinks the sen
tence of the court would have been far
different Young Murrow has served
something over a year of his seven
years’ sentence. The sight of one of his
eyes is practically gone and the other
is failing. Specialists have examined bis
eyes and they say if he is not relieved
of the hardships incident upon his life
as a road convict he will assuredly go
blind. The glare of the sum on the earth
and the tools with which he works makes
the daytime injurious to bis failing vision
and at night sleeping with a light in the
quarters only serves to make matters
worse.”
Lawson Thrown From His Wheil.
(By the Associated Tress.)
Savannah. Ga., Oet. 7. —Gus Lawson,
the cycle rider, was injured this morn
ing on the track of the Savannah Coliseum
while training for his race tonight with
Bobby Walthour.
Lawson was following a motor pace
by Callahan, of Baltimore, when a plug
of the motor blew out. While trying to
got out of the way. Lawson's wheel throw
him, the fall badly cutting his head.
Dr. Whitehead’s Body Brought Home.
(Special to the News and Observer.)
Scotland Neck, N. C., Oct. 7.—The body
of Dr. Frank Whitehead, who died at
Suffolk yesteray, was brought to Hob
good today and will be buried near N i
liala Presbyterian church close to his old
home tomorrow.
Dr. Whitehead wife the son of Mr. W.
T. Whitehead, one of the leading farmers
of this community. He practiced medicine
as a young physician hero a few years
ago and then removed to Suffolk, where
he built, up a handsome practice. Hi*
death s**a3 a great surprise to his many
friends here.
When a married couple got a divorce it
is up to each to congratulate the other.
Tlis Weather Today: fiffiKKTt Fair.
ONE HUNDRED AND
ONE MILLIONS
Total Net Earnings for Nine
Months of the Steel
Trust.
(By the Associated Tress.)
New’ York, Oct. 7. —The directors of the
United States Steel Corporation, today,
issued a statement of not earnings for
the nine months of the year ended Sep
tember 30. Earnings for July, August
and September, with the last month es
timated, aggregate $36,764,643; total net
earnings Tor the nine months deducting
each month’s expenses for ordinary re
pairs, renewals and maintenance of plant,
also interest on bonds and fixed charges
of the subsidiary companies aggregate
$101,142,158. The usual dividends of 1%
per cent on the preferred, and 1 per cent
on the common quarterly were declared.
Deducting $10,774,105 for sinking fund
on bonds of the subsidiary companies
and depreciation and reserve funds leaves
a balance of profits for the nine months
applicable for securities of the corooro
tion of $90,368,053. From this amount is
deducted $13,680,000 for nine months’ in
terest and a sinking fund on the bonds,
leaving a net balance of $76,688,053. Un
divided profits for the nine months appli
cable to increase of “depreciation and
reserve fund” account, new/ construction,
or surplus, are $34,647,982.
The preferred dividend is payable
November 13, and the common dividend
December 30.
A NEW ENGINE FOR DURHAM
Also a New PireStation toCost Between E6.U00
and 87,000-
(Special to News and Observer.)
Durham, N. Oct. 7.—The Board or
Aldermen, at their meeting last night,
I decided to purchase a fire engine. .Mr.
Horace Moore, of the LaFrance Fire En
gine Company, Elmira, N. Y., was pres
ent and made a proposition. The engine
is one of the best made and will be
ready for delivery in about ninety days.
Hook &. Sawyer, architects, of Char
lotte, have submitted plans for the now
fire station of Durham Hose Company,
No 2. Estimates for the construction of
the building will be received at the
meeting of the aldermen on Monday
night, October 20th. The new building
is to cost between $6,000 and $7,000, and
will he thoroughly equipped in the most
modern and improved manner.
The suit of Thaddeus F. Smith against
the Erwin Cotton Mills Company was or.
in the Superior court today. The plain
tiff sues for SIO,OOO damages for injuries
received by some machinery in the dye
department of the mills of the defendant
last December. Guthrie & Guthrie are
the attorneys for the plaintiff, while
Boone, Bryant & Biggs, Winston and
Fuller, of this city, and P. H. Cabell, ot
Richmond, Ya., represent the defense.
Ellis Warren, colored, of Orange coun
ty. while at a dance at the homo of May
Watkins, colored, on Red Cross street,
this city, was shot last night about It
o’clock, by some unknown party. The
ball sped through a window and struck
Warren in the back, below the right
shoulder. No clue as >o the guilty party
has yet been obtained. Warren is re
-1 orte 1 as getting on as well as could be
expected, and it is thought will recover.
The Democratic candidates begin their
county campaign next Monday. At one
o’clock on that day they are to speak at
Mangum's Store, and at night at Rongc
raont. lion. A. L. Brooks, of Greensboro,
Messrs. C. B. Green and Jones Fuller ad
dressed the citizens of East Durham last
night, and made strong and able speeches.
Mr. Brooks spoke today at Rougcmonl.
j. Lindsey Patterson, “Independent"
candidate for Congress in ihis district,
spoke at the court, house in this city to
night.
Tlv' remains of Miss Minnie Ray, the
18-ytfar-cld daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James Ray, who died Monday afternoon
of fever, were laid to rest this afternoon
in the oily cemetery. The funeral ser
vices were conducted from the residence
at 3 o’clock by Rev. A. P. Barbee, pastor
of the Christian church.
Thirty-seven deaths occurred in Dur
ham during September, twenty whites and
seventeen colored.
THE WORK NEARS LILLINOION.
Trostlcs on the Mills Road to be Finished in a
Ftw Bays
“We shall begin laying track as soot-.
as tor rails arrive, and wc are looking
for them now every day."
So said President Mills, when asked as
to the progress being made on the ex
tension of the Raleigh and Cape Fear
road from Fuquay Springs to Lillington.
“The trestle work,’’ he continued, “is
nearly finished from Fuquay to Neill’s
Creek. This point is within two miles
of the Capo Fear and our present objec
tive, Lillington. It "ill be completed by
die middle of next week. The grading
is proco'ding very satisfactorily and will
be wound up, by December. I think.
“You’ll tie operating through to Lll-
Hngton by Chritmas. won’t you?"
“That depends in some measure on the
weather. 1 shouldn’t like to ray posi
tively. On>- thing is certain, though" -and
hip far-' lit up with one of his sudden
genial .-miles —“we must get in there be
fore the fertili/.'*r season opens."
Dan Fateh, sh > famous purer, yesterday
failed in an attempt to lower his record
of 1:591/., covering the distant" in 2 03-
a wonderful performance, eniu-lderiug the
soft condition of tie-Brack.
SUING THE A- C. I FOR 820.000-
Labor i* Organizing all Along the Line in
Wilmington.
(Special to the News and Observer.)
Wilmington, N. C., Oct. 7. —B. F. Penny,
a leading dry goods merchant of Wil
mington, is suing the Atlantic Coast Line
Railway Company for $20,000 damages in
the Superior Court here before Judge
Henry R. Bryan. The complaint sets
forth that in August, 1898, the plaintiff
was a passenger on one of defendant
company's trains upon which an unruly,
negro had to be ejected by the conductor
at Leland, Brunswick county: that the
negro in retreating from the train, fired
a pistol at the conductor and the ball in
tended for the conductor, struck plaintiff,
causing serious injuries which he believes
and is told arc permanent and yet dan
gerous. At a previous trial before Judge
W. A. Hoke a verdict by a jury for $6,000
damages was set aside for technical rea
sons. Bellamy & Bellamy, E. K. Bryan,
Herbert McClaramy, Eugene S. Martin and
A. J. Marshall, Esq., appear for Mr.
Penny, while the railroad's interests are
being looked after by Messrs. Davis &
Davis, Bellamy & Peschau and Rountree
& Carr.
Prof. R. D. W. Connor, of Wilson, has
arrived and assumed the principalship
of the High Schobl. Something over 2,000
pupils were enrolled in the public schools
yesterday and that number will be in
creased next week[
General Organizer M. S. Belk, of the
American Federation of Labor, last night
organized the printers of the city into a
Typographical Union. A Federal Labor
Union, under a charter from the Ameri
can Federation, was also formed. The
latter consists of painters, tinners and
allied trades. There is organization of
labor here all along the line.
THIS ENDS THE BLUFF
Roosevelt Displeased With
Southern Republicans for
Excluding Negroes,
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington. D. C., Oet. 7.—Bishop
Alexander Walters, of New Jersey; Bish
op G. W. Clinton, of North Carolina, and
Rev. L. L. Caruthers, of New York, rep
resenting the executive committee of the
Afro-American Council, called upca
President Roosevelt today to ascertain
his attitude toward the movement among
certain Republicans of the South, to ex
clude the negroes from participation In
the counsels of the party. They were
especially solicitous of ascertaining
whether the President endorsed the ac
tion of the Republicans in North Carolina
and Alabama with this cud in view. They
were presented to the President by Gen.
James S. Clarkson, surveyor of the port
of New York. Postmaster General Payne
arrived at the White House while the
conference was in progress and was pres
ent part of the time. After the inter
view the colored men expressed them
selves as highly gratified with what the
President Lad said to them.
They announced that the President had
stated to them that his actions in all
matters affecting the race was bis an
swer as to the attitude toward the col
ored man; that in ♦appointments the
character, intelligence and the esteem in
>which the applicant was held in the com
munity in which he lived would be the
first consideration and that no man would
bo excluded or appointed because of his
color. That he heartily disapproved or
the efforts of certain Republicans in the
South io exclude the negroes from par
ticipation in politics was known so they
reported the President as having stated
io those in authority in the movement.
Moreover, it also was stated that the
President had cited his action in remov
ing District Attorney Vaughn, of Ala
bama, who was the head of the white
Republican movement in that State as
evidence of his attitude. It is inti
mated that this attitude would be stilt
further emphasized in the appointment
of his successor.
When Bishop Walters and his asso
ciates departed they expressed them
selves ns completely satisfied with the
President’s attitude and it is understood
that they will issue a statement, defining
their position as well as the President’s
attitude.
When they came to the White House,
they stated they were prepared, in case
of an unfavorable reply, to issue an ad
visory statement to the colored people
of the <ountry in favor of political re
taliation upon the Congressional nomi
nees.
Death of W. P, Figart.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Winston-Salem, N. (\. Oct. 7.—Engin
eer W. B. Figart, who had his skull
crushed by head-end collision, near Wal
nut Cove, :i the N. and W. yes
terday. died last night.
In his annual report President Cole
man, of the tobacco association, says:
Leaf tobacco sales since last October Ist
have been ‘2.668,(00 pounds, which
brought $1,208,587.96. being an average of
$9.54 per hundred. This shows a de
crease of 2.517.987 pounds under last
year, hut in increase of $191,522.91 paid
to the farmers.
$l5O Reward.
Governor Ayeoek yesterday offered a
reward of $l5O for the capture and de
livery of Bird Morgan, who is wanted by
the sheriff of Montgomery county for the
murder of Calvin Reagan.
Many a bachelor has made a number
of women happy by not marrying them.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
IT STIRS THE BILE
OF SOUTH HATERS
Proposed Monument to Lee
in Washington.
HYSTERIA SEIZES THEM
General Wilson and Captain Potter
Are the Men.
80TH INDULGE IN A FLING AT THE SOUTH.
Poller Considers Our Soil Too Pure to be Used
For the Ertcion of a Monument to
Any Rfbil. Grand Army
Events.
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, D. C\, Oct. 7.—The veter
ans of the Grand Array of the Republic
and their friends were entertained to
day by a parade, given in honor of the
naval veterans and by a number of re
unions held in the big assembly tents
at Camp Roosevelt. The attendance lia3
steadily increased during the day, and to
night the city is crowded as it has been
only on very rare occasions.
The naval parade of the forenoon was
not as lrjy.e as man}? mat have been seen
in Washington, but it was in every war
interesting. The veterans of the navy
each appeared to be an embodiment of
much of the nation's recent history, and
every squad of them was an object of in
terested observation. They were gener
ally old men and many bore evidences of
wounds received in battle. In striking
conrast to them, were the young men of
all the branches of the present service
who marched with them. They included
representatives of both the land and
naval forces and elicited much favorable
comment for their fine appearance as
men. as they did for their excellent dis
cipline.
The parade was reviewed from the
stand in front of the White House by
Admiral Dewey and Commander-in-Chief
Torrance. With them were Secretaries
Moody and Root, Admiral Taylor and
most of the members of the Diplomatic
Corns now in the city. Admiral Dewey
was in Bill uiiiform and was accompanied
by two aides.
All ,lav leng a constant stream of visi
tors and veterans moved by the tempor
ary White House and looked up at (he
window of the room on the second floor
which is occupied by (he President. At
times, several hundred people were col
lected on the sidewalk opposite. Many
of the veterans ascended the stops and
inquired concerning the President’s con
dition.
During the day. the Sons of Veterans
began their encampment. A monument to
(he late General Horatio G. Wright, at
one time commander of the Sixth Army
Corps, was unveiled at Arlington.
During the day. there were a number
of reunions of regiments, divisions, corps
and armies. All of them were held in
the large tents at Camp Roosevelt. The
huge tent which has been given the name
of General Philip Sheridan was crowded
during the afternoon. The principal
speakers were Secretary Root. Governor
Bliss, of Michigan, Gen. J. (I. Wilson,
and (’apt. William Potter, of (he NinMi
Pennsylvania cavalry, president of the
Soldiers' and Sailors’ Rights League.
Governor Bliss spoke of bis recent ap
pointment to the Senate of cx-Secretaiy
Alger saying that it was a vindication of
an ex-soldier who bad been much villi
fied.
General Wilson referred (o ihe proposal
to erect a monument to Gen. Robert. E.
Lee, saying that our monuments should
he to men who had assisted in keeping
the flag flying and not to those who would
have pulled it down if they could have
done so.
Captain Potter endorsed General Wil
son's sentiments. He said he had been
present when Joe Johnston surrendered
to General Sherman and then had heard
Gen. Wade Hampton, in command of the
Confederate cavalry, swear that he would
lead the cavalry to Mexico before it
should capitulate. “Our soil." said the
speaker, “is too pure to be used for the
erection of a monument to any rebel."
Speeches were made al both the Fourth
Army Corps, and Spanish veterans’ re
unions oy Gen. Jacob H. Smith, and Gen.
O. O. Howard. General Smith declared
that the success of our arms in Cuba and
the Philippines had been largely due to
the influence of the veterans of 1861. and
was greatly applauded. General How
aid spoke of visiting, during the Spanish
war. the camps in our own Southern
States, and he said the effect of the sec
ond war had been largely to obliterate
the traces of the old war.
Postoffice f Bobbed.
(By the Associated Press )
Knoxville, Tenn.. (Jet. 7. —The post of
fice Sevicrville, Tenn.. near here, was
, robbed last night* The burglars secured
S2OO in cash, S6O in stamps, and about 400
blank money orders. There is no clue.
Mrs- Nathan O'Berry, of Goldsboro,
was in Raleigh yesterday to see her
1 daughter, who is attending Peace Insti
tute.
The seir-made man is usually as busy
! boasting of bis handiwork after it reaches
■ a certain stage that lje hac no time to
| finish the job.