North Carolina Newspapers

TH0ESDAY, September 15, 1904. SC. LONDON. Editor. A visit to Judge Parker was much enjoyed on last Thursday by three or four hundred editors from several States, among them being the editor of The Rkcobd. rri. j:c. lf f lw oiKr nf New xue r4t v York at 8:45 o'clock on a special train, and, after a ride of two bourn, arrived at a small station on the Hudson river, where a large steamboat was awaiting: them and on uhich they went up the river about three miles to Judge Park er's home. He resides on his farm which is on the west bank of the j Hudson river and extends about balf a mile along the river. The boat tied up at a pier in front of tbedwellkigr, and the editors, with a splendid biass band in front, formed a procession and inarched up the winding road that went up the bill to the dwelling. The pio cession baited in front of the dwelling, and in a few seconds Judge Parker with several distin guished gentlemen came out the bouse and stood on the piazza facing the crowd, which cheered bim most enthusiastically. " As soon as the cheering ceased Mr. Josephus Daniels, as chair- f 1 1. n inmtni'tlnn rt OIT'UKTP. meats, introduced editor Kuapp of St. Louis, who made an appro priate speech to Judge Parker in behalf of the editors. When he finished Judge Parker made a splendid speech and proved that be was an orator as well as a learned jurist He spoke with feeling and emphasis and was fre quently cheered. After the speak ing every editor was introduced to Judge Parker, who gave each a bearty ban 'shake and spoke most pleasautly and affably to every one. It was not like a formal re ception or ceremonious handshak ing, but more like a man meeting old acquaintances and friends. He made everybody feel perfectly at home and was as affable as any gentleman could be to hid guests, entirely unpretentious and as cor dial in bis greetings as anybody could be. After being introduced to Judge Parker every editor was introduc ed to bis wife and married daugh ter, bis only child, who were as cordial and affable in their greet In gs as he was. His two grand children were running about bare footed and enjoying themselves just like other children. Knowing that our farmer read ers would like to know what sort of a farmer Judge Parker is we went to the barn lot and saw his fine bogs, cattle, sheep and horses. They were epial to almost any that we had ever seen at a State Pair, especially his hogs and cows The first thing that attracted our attention near the gate was a j oke of the largest oxen that we ever saw hauling a wagon load of en silage to be packed away in sixty-ton silo for winter feed. The farm was well cultivated and show- ed tuat its owner was as erooil a farmer as he was a Judge. Every editor was most favor ably impressed with J udge Parker and so would be any respectable man, regardless of politics, who could see bim in the simplicity of bis happy home life. He is a man of splendid physique, six feet in height and of symmetrical figure, and with a charming personality. .No President has ever graced the "White House with more populari ty tban will he after the fourth of next March. The editors remained about three hours at Judge Parker's home, and when they walked down to the boat-landing he accompa nied them and stood on the pier pleasantly talking with them un til the boat moved off, when they . all cheered him which he grace fully acknowledged by taking off his bat and repeatedly bowing. As long as the boat was in sight bis little grandson was most en thusiastically waving a flag.' His residence is on a high bluff commanding an extended and beautiful view of the Hudson river. A grove of shacby trees surrounds it, among them being a very large walnut tree, and a green sward ex tends down the hill to the water's edge. It is so lovely a place that several editors remarked that they would rather live there than in the White House, and it was sug gested that this was the reason why J udge Parker haddeclared in favor of only one term as President. The conference of Democratic editors, held last week at New York was greatly enjoyed by all who were so fortunate as to ba present. Among them were six teen from North Carolina, and they were all highly gratified ' at the many deserved compliments paid their fellow Tarheel, Mr. Jo sephus Dauielswho was the chair man of the committee of arrange ments aud to whose untiring ef forts is chiefly due the success of the conference. A magnificent banquet was giv en the editors at the celebrated Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, at which speeches were made by Henry Watterson and other distinguish ed editors from different States. An excursion was given the edi tors to Coney Island, where they saw the sights of "Dreamland" which they will never forget. The federal government has ex pended nearly a million dollars in the military maneuvres and mimic battle near Manassas. Nearly 30, 000 troops (militia and regulars) were assembled there last week from many States and carried on rii i 1 i ! a mimic war. lie only result oi this vast expenditure of money was a sort of picnic for our holi day 'soldiers. ' In travelling- to and from Ma-. nassis some of the soldiers com mitted gross outrages on inoffens ive persons. At Charlotte and Greensboro some troops from Georgia and South Carolina com mitted open robberies, forcibly robbing the shops near the depot. . - -v - ail .1 " At iteidsville on their wav :iome some of our North Carolina sol diers were guilty of similar out rages, for which every one of them should be severely punished. The JapaneseRussian War. From The Charlotte Obsorvor, Sep?. 12tli. What will likely prove the great est battle of the campaign in Man churia has been fought, and the soldiers of both Czar and Mikado are now resting from the great fatigue which their almost nnpre cedented fighting occasioned. The result was an overwhelming vic tory to the Japs, but it makes one shudder to calmly contemplate the awful cost of the capture of Lnao Yang. The casualties are now placed at a total of about G0,()00, and the fact that the hospital corps and the lted Cross with the Russian forces were entirely over whelmed by the work laid out for them bv the Japanese bullets shows the magnitude of theslaugh ter. The fact that . 25,000 Rus sians who had been cut off "from the main body and were in danger of annihilation or capture at the hands of the Japanese made their escape, and the failure of the Japs to overhaul Kuropatkiu befoiv he reached Mukden, is not surprising and detracts nothing from the sweeping triumph of the Japanese arms. As the situation now pre sents itself, tle llussian forces have halted in the vicinity of Mukden, about 75 miles north of Liao Yang, with the Japanese not far away, but there seems no im mediate danger of another gener al engagement, and in hict late dispatches indicate that the pres ent campaign may be considered practically ended, and the armies are likely to establish winter quar ters and merely strengthen them selves for the second year's war fare. It may be that the Russians will remain at Mukden, but it has been indicated in recent dispatches that Harbin would be made head quarters. The latter place is some 300 miles north of Mukden and should Kuropatkiu withdraw thither, Russian evacuation of the entile southern portion of Mau churia wonld be complete. But whatever the decision of the Rus sians on this point, the recent op erations have emphasized the steady victory of the Japanese, aud made Kuropatkin's alleged strategical movements appear in the light of retreats that became in some instances almosi panics. $2 Wheat Predicted. Chicago, Sept. 12. "Wheat at $2 a bushel before next May" was roared by the bulls today ou the board of trade. At the opening there was an excited demand for wheat, for few traders venturing to sell. Those who wished to buy shouted bids of 2 cents a bushel above the prices prevailing at the close of the market Saturday asd the quantity that any order would sell even at such a tempting ad vance was extremely limited. . Of winter and spring wheat pro duced this -.year' in the United States it was contended there is barely enough for bread and seed if every bushel of it was available which is not possible, and the country is therefore face to face with the necessity of bringing in foreign wheat to help keep the wolf from the door till another harvest shall have been raised. The University of North Caro- l'na formally, opened and began! Pff cipnatea turns elves upon eacii work last Thui sd ly with the larg-1 J,er d ?fc each 1otb.er " f?1" est number of students in attend-1 ulIY' !kei tL-e S.Tes 1m iiriHVSe a C'f.rthetimeinthehistorvof L?st. that annihilated each other the institution. " without the slightest damage. Washington Letter. rFrom onr Reeulur Correspondent.! Washington, Sept. 8, in0i;: . Since my last letter great activ ity has manifested itself at the Congressional headquarters of the Democratic party in this city. In- . stead of leaving here and joining the national committee rin New York City, as was contemplated a month ago, it has been decided that the most of the effort for the recovery of Congress.to the Dem ocratic party will be made here. In the suite of rooms at the Riggs House is a large diagram on which are marked the close districts in the different states which are to be earnestly contested prior to November 8th. Two editions of the Democratic campaign book will soon be issued. One will appear next week. The proofs have been revised and cor rected. Thcfirst edition will make about five hundred printed pages, aud will be in larger type and bet ter papei than the Republican text-book. The second edition will contain the letters of accept ance aud discussions of the" tariff trust, and wage questions. Senator Paris .Gibson was in town yesterday and he reports that there is liable to be trouble out West. In Montana Senator Clark's sou threatens to run for Congress, and if he does so it will introduce a financial element which, added to his personal pop ularity, will be very likely to elect him and carry the State lor Park er. It is believed that a very heavy Democratic vote will be cast in the cities if the Chirks become personally interested. are troublous times foreshadowed in Colorado and Washington while Nevada is confidently set in the Democratic column. Very little money will come out of the Democratic campaign in an effort to even reduce the Republi can majority in Pennsylvania. Rut Democratic leaders there are de termined to diminish the names on the assessors' lists, and it is asserted that evry fictitious name on the list is known to Democratic workers, and that the assessors will be asked to strike oH' these names uuder threats of arrest and prosecution. In many wards in Philadelphia .assessors havo been more discreet th;m usual because of the presence of detectives and in some instances they have re fused to pad the lists in obedience to orders from ItcpublicaL leaders, declaring that they would not-tuke the chances. One of the most notable gather ings the United States has ever known is that of the eighth Inter national: Geographic' Congress which meets today in this city. It is true thnt very few of the Uni versities or colleges of this coun try maintain chairs of geography, though geographical instruction is in the curriculum of almost every institution for higher edu cation in Europe. iut geograph ical science has made n wonderful advance on this continent and the asseinbb' of the Congress lu re is doubtless a recognition of that fact. The most prominent Ameri cans in connection with the Con gress are. YY. J. McGee, Chief of Anthropology at the World's Fair, Grove K. Gilbert, and Henry Gannett of this city, and Profess or Wm. M. Davis, of Harvard.' It will be a movable congress, hold ing its sessions from city to city throughout the United States and Mexico. An interesting incident which will attract the attention of this Congress is the discovery this summer of a great mass of mason ry on Capitol Hill within u()0 feet of the Capitol itself, indicatiug the existence of a buried city quite unknown to archaeology. The discovery has been made hy the extensive excavations on the site of the new palace to be erected for the ofiices of the members of Con gress. This site has been covered with buildings erected on virgin soil since the beginning of the last century, yet how far below the foundations of these houses have been unearthed fragments of other edifices unknown to history or tradition. As the North Amer ican Indians did not build cities tjf masonry, the question arises whether there-was a people upon the Potomac coeval with the Aztecs and Toltecans, -and if so, what vas "their name and staii ;n, ago aud race." It is called mimic war this marching and countermarching of battalions, regiments and brigades across a hundred square miles of Virginia this week; but it is hoped that something more important than diversion will result from the expenditure of the million and a half of money appropriated to the manoeuvres by Congress. Thirty thousand men are there and their officers are trying to -solve the problem o handling large bodies of soldiers over the diversified sur face of au actual battle-field. The Browns and the Blues have doubt less indulged in some complicated movements in the; effort' to force each other in different . directions without any display of force. The Blues, numbering 15,000 uuder General Fred Grant marched from the Potomac westward against the Browns of 15,000, under General Franklin LSelh, operating in the r l t i T T 11 mi l enanaoaii v fa ley. ney nave Terrible Wreck on S. A. L. Special to Charlotte Observer. Catawba Junction. S. C, Sept. 9 Five dead and several in ' a dy- ing condition is the result oi the catastrophe which took place at sis minutes past 1 o'clock this morning, when the Seaboard pas- senger tram is o. 41 sped across a sinking bridge 300 yards south of the Catawba river and two miles from Catawba Junction, and then on which they afterward had Inuch pluuged from the tracks down a eon and returned to New York, steep embankment about 30 feet The speeches were delivered at the high, only to be . followed by an edge of Rosemount verauda. Af extra freight engine, with a cm- ter the speeches an informal re boose attached, mingling the two ception was held. - flyers m a mass of wood, steel and j iron with about -40 pieces ot hu- an cargo.- There was not a sin- gle soul among them that escaped unhurt. ' ? It was said by trainmen of longed the house. experience that a more complete deinolishmeut of railroad equip- ment could scarcely be imagined, So thoroughly ruined were the en- gines and the coaches that the, greeted Mr. Daniels' introduction trainmen were ou the point of set- of Mr. Kuapp, and during the hit ting fire to. the debris, but the. au- ter's speech there were many thorities of Yoik county stopped shouts of "good for you!" and ex them. The scene at the bridge pressions of appreciation, beggars description. The engines Judge Parker's speech was list lie over-turned huge, shapeless ened to with the closest attention monsters of iron-, with their hel- , by the editors, few bf whom had uiet-shaped sand boxes and other ever heard him speak," Judge parts scattered within a radius of Parker read most of his speech 100 feet. The coaches are like and made no departure from the crushed wooden shells, with their j written text. He read with great red plush" seats in indescribable care and deliberation using few confusion; trucks, wrenched loose !. gestures. The editors frequently from the rbottora of the cars, are applauded and several times broke scattered around; about the only! into cheers and laughter at the part or parcel of the railroad eouip- speaker's attacks upon the Repub- menfc remaining intact are the two red lanterns swinging from the rear of the Pullman. There were many theories ad vanced today as to the cause of the accident. The railroad men fell in line with the opinion of Mr. George S, Pitz.vater, chief detec- tive of the Seaboard Air Line, ""-i-s Uie speaker huu io that the collapso of the bridge wait for quiet. -and the tearing loose of the light , At tha comdusion of ndge Par hand rails, were the result of tho ! kpr,s fplondid address Mr. iamejs work of some malicious person or ook hls utAti by the side of the persons. Mr. Fi tz water showed j Lratio candidate aud pre six spikes anil several angle-bars j utVdi individual in tne par- wh eh he niched near the wreck and said that they bore the marki of having been tampered with. l i No. 41 left Monroe with au ex press car, a mail car, two day coaches and a Pullman. Starling 15 minutes behind was light eu fii;e, No. G1U. The wreck at the bridge was 2S miles distant from Monroe. After No. 41 had rushed across the bridge and fell, tjoing, the engineer said, at 40 miles an hour, she became enveloped in to tal darkness. The engine" plunjred and rolled from the track, . carry ing the entire train with it, so that there was-noE a single bit of it upon the rails! Every sign of it was "below 'the level of the track. The engineer of No. (tin, following about six mirmtfs behind, accord ing to an' eye witness, could not, consequently, have had the slight est intimation : of any trouble ahead. The freight's search-light was an oil burner which did not cast its rays very far. No. G4G took the front of the bridge, with a rush ULd then sailed through, the empty space above the col lapsed part of the strm-tu re, graz ing the top of the Pullman and crashing into the side of the rear passenger coach with frightful force, laying its iron nose full in the middle of the coach. Interviews with a number of the survivors " were ghastly. They, one and all, concurred in the es sentials of the affair. Most of them were sleeping. There were 1G negro laborers in the first pas senger coach, next to the mail car. In the smoking coispa; tment of the second passenger coach there was no one except Mr. C. 8. Cole man. In the coach itself there were Mr. and Mrs. Black, Mrs. McMcnus, and several others. In the Pullman were Mrs. Herbert, Mr. and Mrs. Silvey, Mrs. Clay, with her six-months-old baby and two or three meu. . The crash over the embankment killed the fire man, who was a negro named Ed ward Roberts, and Mrs. Black. Engineer G. U. Meares said this morning that he felt the bridge sinking beueath the engine as it neared the farther side; then came the plunge downwards. He says the engine turned completely over and half way again, but this im pression was probably due to the noiTor or me moment, rns escape-with a few minor injuries was marvelous. To use his own words, "I managed to live and crawl trom a place where I do uot understand how a little snow bird could have got out." Mrs. Flagter Loses $30,00Q. Special to Charlotte Observer. Newport, 11. I., Sept. 12. Mrs. H. M. Flagler reported today that she had been robbed of money and jewels valued at $30,000 at a bril liant society fete here. Mrs. Elagf ler, who has attained aii enviable social position in exclusive socie ty, attended a charity bazaar re cently aud wore a chatelaine at her belt containing money and jewels. After purchasing tickets in a raffle she reached for her .purse to pay and found that the chatelaine had been slipped from her belt. This is the last of a se ries of daring robberies here. In, other cases the loot was mysteri ously returned to the owner. It is supposed to be the work of .a' nB"u"j 'f Pioiiiiimac ano it is ex- rive'ed11" -Uabk -WiU . -V . - Editors Visit Judge Parker. Special to News and Observer. Esopus, N. Y., Sept. 8. Judge- Parker today received pledges of loyal support from editors of more than 200 Democratic newspapers representing chiefly the Middle West-and the South. They came on r. special train from JNew loik to Hyde Park, crossing thence in the excursion steamer St. Johns, upon- the arrival of the boat the editors marched np Rosemount headed by the Seventh New York Regiment band which played "Hail to the -Chief" as "they reach- Josephns Daniels, of Raleigh, N.-jC, introduced Charles V. lvnapp, ol fct. Jorns, as spokes- j man for the . editors..-.-' Applause ! licau administration. The hiirh esc pitch of enthusiasm was readi ed toward the close when he de precated attacks on others within the party. Cries of "Good!" "that's right," and the like broke from various parts of the audience and for sev- : l- Ml- -iiueis, in a woru, una "I JT Judge Parker where every editor came from, giving -town and coiin tv. All those from New York, New Jersey, Indiana and other doubtful Stales lingered a moment at the request of Judge Parker, who inquired about the organiza tion in the various b'tates whence the visitors came. After he had been introduced to about thirty North Carolinians, Judge Parker turned to Mr. Dan iels and remarked that he was glad th; election was not being held in North Carolina today, as in view of the fact that all these voters were in Esopus, he would certainly-get boat. To. Mr. Henry Lou don Judge Parker sai.l: " a he pleasure oi is all ion Yo'i gentlemen havi come a Jong distance to see me. PScasnre Pariy Drowned. Philadelphia, Sept. 11. The Delaware river steamer, Columbia, on its way from this city to Bris tol, Pa, tonight crashed into a steam launch about li) miles north of here, grinding it to pieces and causing the drowning ot eiht of th.e dozen occupants of" the small boat. All of the party were Phil adelphians. Deputy sheriff Joe Nichols, of Orange county, was killed on last Friday by a man named Nap Hor ner, whom he was try in g to. arrest. In Praise of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. 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