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VOL. XXIX. PITTSEORO, CHATHAM COUNTX .N. C THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 6, 1906. NO. 4.
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BRYAN'S HOME COMING
HAILED WITH ENTHUSIASM
Throng Cheers Speech in Madison
Square Garden, New York City.
HIS VIEWS ON POLITICAL ISSUES
Declares Regulation of Trusts the
Paramount Issue Favors In
come Tax Believes in Govern
ment Ownership of Railroads.
HONORS PAID TO BRYAN'.
San Francisco, Cal., October,
1905. Bid friends good-bye..
Honolulu. Few days' sightsee
ing. Japan. Received by Mikado
and civic and military bodies.
Present at reception to Admiral
Togo.
Korea. Greeted by Korean and
Japanese officials.
Philippines.- Addresses Filipino
Assembly. Visits important sea
ports and is made a Datto.
China. Visits Shanghai, Hong
Kong and Canton and makes ad
dresses. India. Honors bestowed by
English dignitaries, after which he
visits principal cities and Straits
Settlement.
Egypt. Succession of entertain
ments in Cairo and Alexandria.
Palestine. Addresses vast as
semblages and makes tour of his
toric places.
Hungary. In Budapest is re
ceived with highest honors.
Turkey. Centre of interest of
capital.
Italy. Period spent in quiet and
sightseeing, with occasional ban
quet. France. Welcomed by foremost
tribunals and called upon for sev
eral addresses.
Switzerland. Receives highest
honors of Swiss Government.
Norway. Present at coronation
of King Haakon. Makes address.
Russia. Present at session of
Duma in St. Petersburg. Addresses
that body.
Germany: Honored by the Kai
ser and highest officials.
England. Delivers Fourth of
July address. Guest of Ambassa
dor Whitelaw Reid. Meets King
Edward VII.
Holland. Receives every atten
tion and visits points of interest.
England. More receptions and
honors.
New York City. William J. Bry
an's welcome to America by the De
mocracy of the United States in Mad
ison Square Garden will stand as a
Tecord reception to a man in private
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W. J. BRYAN, SKETCHED ON BOARD SHIP WHILE PREPARING HIS
SPEECH.
life who is not a military hero. In
some respects the reception to Gen
eral Grant upon his return from his
tour round the world eclipses it, be
cause it was a series of ovations
throughout the country, with inter
est wrought to white heat by one of
the most fervid political campaigns
in the nation's history.
But Mr. Bryan's was a hearty,
sympathetic welcome, reaching at
times the pitch of wildest enthusiasm
when the multitude in the sweltering
atmosphere of the great auditorium
arose to its feet and wildly cheered.
Democrats had come from far and
near in special trains to pay him
homage. He was surrounded by men
who had been at each other's throats
in 1896, variously supporting Bryan,
McKinley and Palmer. All were now
united in the opinion that Bryan wai
the man to lead them.
Democratic pomp and circumstance
were assembled to welcome the Ne
braskan. There were eighteen United
States Senators and ex-Senators, and
twenty Democratic Governors and ex
Governors. There were representa
tives of every State in the Union:
from Hawaii and from the Territor
ies. v '
At his first appearance on the plat
Undertaker Embalms Himself.
Aclam I-Iantz, fifty-nve years old,
an undertaker at Knox, Clarion
County, Pa., drank a quantity of em
balming fluid by mistake and died in
horrible agony, -
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Courtesies to Bryan.
President Roosevelt instructed the
Collector and Surveyor of the port of
New York City to extend the cour
tesy of the port to all of Mr. Bryan's
friends who accompany him home.
term Mr. Bryan was cheered for five
minutes. Vhen, when he was intro
duced, to reply to Augustus Thomas'
adu.ass of welcome, the crowd let
loose its enthusiasm, and for eight
minutes, while Mr. Bryan stood, the
audience oared their welcome, stand
ing on chairs and waving flags, hats
and handkerchiefs in the air, with
the band feebly trying to drown the
tumult with a medley of national
hymns.
The meeting was opened by Harry
W. Walker, who spoke on behalf of
the Commercial Travelers' Anti-Trust
League. He said only a few words,
and then introduced Governor Folk,
of Missouri, who spoke fifteen min
utes. When Tom L. Johnson, Mayor of
Cleveland, was introduced as the pre
siding officer he received a warm
welcome, which caused Mr. John
son to smile broadly. He got a round
of applause when he said if a halt
was not soon called the corporations
would make the laws of the country
and the people would be compelled to
live under them.
Mr. ." hnson then introduced Au
gustus Thomas, the playwright, to
make the speech of welcome. Mr.
Thomas has a voice of great power,
and he was heard in every part of
the hall. Then Mayor Johnson came
forward again to remark that this
was the happiest night of his life, and
introduced Mr. Bryan. Then came
cheering for the Nebraskan as he.
stepped forward.
Mr. Bryan in his introductory re
marks told how his love for our form
of government had been quickened
by his visit to other lands. He spoke
of the progress of arbitration among
nations, and coupled with this the
hope that the United States would
not adopt in its foreign relations the
policy of collecting private debts by
the use of the Navy. Then Mr.
Bryan set forth the issues for which
he-will contend in the next Presiden
tial campaign. The most notable of
these was the Federal ownership of
trunk railroads.
A synopsis of Mr. Bryan's recom
mendations follows:
1. Arbitration treaties which pro
vide for submitting disputes to The
Hague or some other tribunal for in
vestigation Jbef ore declaring .war or
beginning hostilities.
2. The Navy not to be employed
for .he collection of private debts
against other countries.
3. The Philippines to be dealt with
after the manner of Cuba.
4. An amendment to the Constitu
tion providing that each new Con
gress shall convene in regular session
a few months after the election of its
members, instead of thirteen months
later, as at present.
5. An amendmentto the Constitu
tion providing for the election of
United States Senators by direct vote.
6. An amendment to the Constitu
tion specifically authorizing the Fed
eral Government to levy an income
tax.
7. The compulsory arbitration of
all labor disputes, but no compulsory
acceptance of the commission's find
ings. 8. An eight-hour day.
9. No "government by injunction."
10., The money question to be con
sidered a closed incident.
11. Publicity as to campaign con
tributions, and no contributions from
corporations to political campaign
funds.
12. The destruction and eradica
tion of all trusts and monopolies:
(a) By enforcing the criminal
clause of the Sherman law.
(b) By making it illegal for the
same person to act as director in two
or more interrelated corporations.
(c) By Federal licenses for cor
porations engaged in interstate com
merce. (d) By forbidding the use of the
mails, telegraph and railway lines to
any corporation which is endeavoring
to monopolize an article of com
merce. 13. A revision of the tariff, with a
suggestion that the President be au
thorized to put upon the free list art
icles competing, with those made by
a trust.
14. national ownership and man
agement of trunk-line railways, with
State ownership and management of
railways wholly within State terri
tory.. 15. Opposition to plutocracy,
which is "abhorrent to r. republic,"
with a deprecation of socialism.
Petition the Czar For Dictatorship.
The Monarchical party at Moscow,
Russia, in an address to the Emperor,
openly appeals for : a dictatorship,
! "which will put an end to the demor
alization in the army.' It also urges
the complete suppression of Parlia
ment and the restoration of the un
limited autocracy.
Watermelons a Cent Apiece.
1 Choice watermelons sold recently
at Laurel, Del., for $1 a hundred, the
lowest price ever known. ...
TRAINS GISJOR WIVES
Cleveland Starts a New Depart
ment in High Schools
Scientific Cooking and the Care of
Babies Taught Instructors Will
Be Women of Experience.
Cleveland, Gio. Girl pupils in
the Cleveland high schools are to be
taught scientifically how to become
good wives-. Superintendent Elson
and his assistant, Hicks, outlined
their plans for a technical branch of
the high school which would be de
voted exclusively to the teaching of
girls in the arts of housewifery,
whether they int .rid to take up -that
profession later in life. The instruc
tors will be women who have suc
ceeded as wives, and will be much
more practical than theoretical. The
girls will be taugrt to sweep, to sew,
how best 10 purchase household sup
plies and how to care for babit :.
They will have real babies to dress
and care for under the watchful su
pervision, of course., of the teachers
wno nave gone through all these ex
periences. Superintendent Elson said:
"This is not a fad or an experi
ment. We are going at this earnestly
and scientifically. The average girl
who marries to-day s woefully ignor
ant of the duties expected of her, and
therein lies a lot of domestic misery,
and to this fact can be traced the
wedge which has broken up many
homes which should have been per
manent and happy. We are going
to fit our girls to be wives, not serv
ants. The first year they will take
up the arts applied arts and ele
mentary sewing. The second year
elementary chemistry in its relation
to household duties and a more ad
vanced course in sewing and the arts
that ability to make home beauti
ful and attractive.
"The third and fourth years will
be devoted to scientific cooking. With
good cooking our divorce courts
lose much business. We shall teach
the girls how to care for the invalid,
and especially how to care for babies;
how to deal with the butcher and gro
cer and everything a wife should
know. Even if our girls marry rich
men and have servants to do their
work this training will put them in a
position to know whether their serv
ants are doing the work properly.
One important feature of the training
will be the teaching of the girls to
make their own clothing and millin
ery." CRAZY OVER BANK FAILURE.
Man Grows . iolent Brooding Over
Loss of $80.
Chicago. Johann Kindler. eigh
teen years old, became violent and
alarmed passengers in an Ashland
avenue car while brooding over the
loss of $80, which he had deposited
in the failed Milwaukee Avenue State
Bank. Kindler is held pending an in-vesti-ation
of his sanity. He is the
second person to become mentally de
ranged as a result of the failure. In
addition, three persons, including a
teller of the defunct bank have com
mitted suicide, and one man fell dead
tonowing the flight of President Paul
Stensland and the closing of the bank.
TRAGEDY OF THE PLAINS.
Dead Mules Hitched to Wagon Con
taining Two Dead Men.
Roswell, N. M. J. S. Mercbam, of
Portales, while driving across the des
ert near Kenna, found a covered
wagon, with two dead men on the
seat, and four mules dead in their
harness. Mercham made no investi
gation, but hurried to the nearest
telegraph office and sent to the Sheriff
here the facts of his discovery.
Officers started at once for the
scene, carrying medicines and a small
supply of nourishing food, fearing
that inside the wagon there might be
women and children who are sick or
starving.
THREE DEWEY PRIZES FOR $103.
Inglorious End of Spanish Ships Cap
tured at Manila.
Washington, D. C. Three Spanish
ships captured by Admiral Dewey in
Manila Bay on May 1, 1898, were
sold by the Navy Department for
$103. These ships were advertised
at several Asiatic ports, the total cost
of advertising being $28, and the
Navy Department is quite well satis
fied that the bids were sufficient to
cover the expense of advertising.
The three ships are the -iklbay, Ma
nileno and Mindanao. They have
been stripped of everything movable,
and are simply old hulks practically
useless for ny purpose of the navy.
Estimates of Canada's Crop.
The first estimate of the wheat
crop yield issued by the Northwest
Grain Dealers' Association is far
short of that of the sanguine crop
experts, who figure on one hundred
or 125,000,000 bushels. In their
circular the grain men placed the
average yield at 19.4 bushels per
acre, or an aggregate crop of 77,
207,000 bushels.
Nebraskans Call on Hearst.
The Nebraskan delegation of
Bryan men called upon William R.
Hearst at the headquarters of the
Independence League in New York
City. .
imports of Diamonds.
Thirty-five million dollars' worth of
diamonds were imported into the
United States in the fiscal year 190 6,
against twenty-seven millions in
1905, nineteen millions in 1904, and
tweniy-six millions in 1903.
Japan's Cheap Railroad Ties.
Railroad ties from Japan are de
livered ia Mexicc for use on a new
railroad in the States of Sonora and
Sinaloa at a cost of fifty-six cents,
apiece.
NEW LAWYERSTURNED OUT
Result of the Supreme Court Exam
inations at August Term.
Raleigh, Special. The State Su
preme Court gave out the list of
names of the successful applicants to
practice law in North Carolina who
stood the examination on Monday.
There 'were sixty-seven who appli
ed for the examination, but from sick
ness and other causes eight did not
appear. There were forty from the
State University, nine from Wake
Forest, three from Trinity, two .froi
Shaw University, colored. Two fail
ed, one of these a negro, while of the
fity-nine who passed one is a negro,
J. T. Sanders, of Charlotte, who is in
the real estate business.
Licensed Attorneys, August Term, '06
M. L. Davis, Carteret county.
J. S. Duncan, Carteret county.
Donald Gully, Wake county.
C. A. Hall, Person county.
E. C. Hobbs, Gates county.
A. K. Powers, Pender county.
Charles Scarlett. Orange county.
W. II. Weatherspoon, Durham
county.
S. F. Wilson, Yancey county.
J. G. Adams. Buncoms county.
T. S. Beall, Guilford county.
Elijah Cox, Onslow county .
L. L. Caudle, Mecklenburg county.
J. B. Clark, Bladen county.
O. M. Gardner, Cleveland county.
J. R. Hoffman, Guilford county.
R. S. . Hutchinson, Mecklenburg
county.
D. C. Humphrey, Wayne county.
H. C. Jones, Mecklenburg county.
C. C. Loughlin, New Hanover county-
P. G. Monk, Washington City.
J. R. Moore, Columbia, S. C.
J. S. McNider, Perquimans county.
J. H. MeMullan, Chowan county.
J. H. Nowell, Bertie cquntie.
J. D. Proctor, Robeson county.
B. H. Perry. Vance county.
H. H. .Phillips, Edgecomb county.
R. H. Sykes, New Hanover county.
N. L. Simmons, Beofort county.
F. L. Sale, Beaufort county.
J. W. Winborne, Chowan county.
Isaac C. Wright, Sampson county.
W. T. Wilson, Forsythe county.
J. K. Wilson, Pasquotank county.
G. C. Weaver, Buncombe county.
J. M. Hoyle, Lincoln county.
E. T. Snipes, Hertfoord county.
W. V. Prior, Henderson county.
H. K. Biggerstaff, Buncombe county
R. G. Lucas, Mecklenburg countny.
Benjamin Lovenstein, Durham
county.
J. H. Howell, Haywood county.
O. J. Moore, Caldwell county.
J. A. Parker, Harnett county.
C. C. Lisenbee, Buncombe county.
H. B. Fisher, Buncombe, county.
A. C. Jones, Charlottesville, Va.
J. T. Sanders, (Col.) Mecklenburg
county. '
L. B. Vreeland, Mecklenburg county-
Archibald Currie, Mecklenburg
county.
S B. Sparrow, Gaston county.
T. B. Higdon, Rowan county.
J. P. Fizzelle, Greene county.
W. S. Lowdermiik, Richmond
countjT.
B. S. Wamble, Catawba county.
Cotton Crop Short.
The excessive rain has badly dam
aged the eotton crop throughout the
cotton belt in this state. A report
er talked with persons from different
sections of the State, and they all re
port large weed that presents a very
fine appeairance, but they say the
fruitage -is short and that the bolls
are rotting. Farmers have brought
sample bolls here, showing that the
rain is proving very destructive to
the staple just at this time, rotting
the few bolls that are left. Much of
the fruit has fallen off the stalks
before maturing. Reports were re
ceived direct from Jonesboro, Smith
field, Apex and Burlington, to the
effect that the crop is bound to be
short one-half. Mr. W. H. Powell, of
Fayetteville, a cotton dealer and a
large planter, said that he has fifty
acres of cotton, from which, with
good average seasons, he would gath
er fifty bales, but that he is certain
ii will not yield more than twenty
five, as result of the excessive rain.
He says, moreover, that the crop in
Cumberland county will be equally
short, one prominent farmer declar
ed that his crop is cut short 75 per
cent. Raleigh News and Observer.
Young People Meet.
Charlotte, Special. The opening
of the convention of the Young Peo
ple of the Associated Reformed Pres
byterian church took vlace it the
East Avenue Tabernacle. Miss Lil
lian Morrison, general secretary of
work,, took charge of the meeting,
and after a few introductory words
of greeting outlined the plans and
purposes of the convention. Follow
ing the address of the general sec
retary, it Avas made the order to
enter into the election of officers for
the convention. Miss Ola Barron and
W. W. Boyce, Jr., of Rock Hill. Mr.
J. II. Ross and Miss Rachel McMas
ter Avere named as the nominating
committee. After a short retirement,
they suggested the following officers,
who received the unanimous vote of
the con-ention: President, Rev. Wil
liam Duncan ; vice-president, Rev. J.
P. Snipes; treasurer, "Mr. R. R.
Steele; secretary, Miss Minnie Alexander.
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Items of Interest From Many
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Parts of the State
MINOR MATTERS OF STATE NEWS
Happenings of More or Less Import
ance Told in -Paragraphs The Cot
ton Markets.
Three Miles of Track Gone.
AsheA-ille, N. C, Special. A cloud
burst Thursday afternoon near Hot
Springs, between Asheville and the
Tennessee line, his completely tied
up triffic on the Knoxville division
betAveen here and Knoxville. ' Only
meagre particulars can be secured at
this time. The Asheville division
superintendent's office reports that.it
does not know the extent of the dam
age; that communication is badly in
terrupted ' and that traffic for the
time is suspended. It is said, Iioav
ever, that the cloudburst washed
away about three miles, of track;
that the read-bei is badly damaged;
that seTeral smell bridges are gone;
and that a big land-slide occurred.
The big steam shoATel used in build
ing the local freight yards here has
been sent to the scene with several
work trains, the derrick engine and
big forces of' men. The superinten
dent of the Knoxville division and
Superintendent Ramseur, of the Ashe
rille division, are on the scene. Tele
graph wires and poles are down. No
trains are able to pass the scene and
everything is tied up.
New Washington Enterprise.
Washington, N. C, Special. An
other new enterprise has recently .been
incorporated in this city. The new
company will be known as the Novel
ty White Brick Company. The com
pany is capitalized at $100,000 in
$40,000 of preferred 6 per cent stock,
and $60,000 common stock. This
company is organized under the aus
pices of the Washington Investment
Company, who are now engaged in
developing Washington Heights, a
residential suburb of this city and
the manufacturing plant will be lo
cated on these heights. They will
manufacture sand, lime and ' other
kinds of brick and building material.
Big Saw Mill For Durham County.
Durham, Special. The contract has
been given for machinery to instal a
large saAv mill plant several miles
south of Durham. This plant will be
owned by Charles and Eulis Fenny,
and the timber on the Trict tract of
land, containing about- 1,100 acres,
will be cut. On this land there is a
great deal of pine and hard wpod tim
ber and people of experience in such
matters Avho have examined the timber
say that 10,000,000 feet of lumber can
be cut from the land.
Knew He Would Die.
Goldsboro, Special. A peculiar
death occurred in a restaurant in
this city. A young negro, who gave,
his name as Tom Smith, Avas eating
dinner and remarked to those around
him that he had had one stroke of
paralysis at Kinston a few days ago
and felt like he Avas going to hare
another. In a feAV minutes the stroke
came and he died without a struggle.
No Yellow Fever in Natchez.
Natchez, Miss., Special. A report
to the effect that there were two
cases of yellow fever at the ,Natchez
City Hospital, one mile from the
city, was denied in emphatic terms
in a concise report signed by Sur
geon White, Marine Hospital Service,
in charge at New Orleans, Dr. E. .H.
Archinard, expert and bacteriologist
of the Louisiana State University, Dr.
L. . Sexton, of New Orleans, and Dr.
J. F. Hunter, secretary of the Missis
sippi State board of health. The
patients came from Louisiana.
Flattering Offer.
Charlotte, Special. Dr. J. R. How
erton, pastor of the First Presbyter
ian church in this city has been of
fered the presidency and manage
ment of the Montreat Association,
Avhich is considered one of the most
flattening positions in the church Avprk
in the State. ,Dr. HoAverton has not
announced Avhat he will do in the
matter.
Too Late For Proper Exhibit.
It is to be regretted that the Avork
of preparing for this State V exhibit
at the James toAvn Exposition next
year did not begin, though September
is almost here. Hoav. are the grains,
the grasses, fruits, etc., to be noAV
procured? The exposition begins
May 1. There isv only one thing to
be done and this will be to utilize,
if possible, the display which the
agricultural deoartment will make at
Boston in October.
The world never forgets the good
citizen. The world immediately for
gets the man of money only. Go
through our "Who's Who in America,"
and other books of men of mark, ex
claims the Denver News, and not one
tenth of one per cent, of those regis
tered as worthy' of having their names
printed there are men who are known
- for their money.
FiNE EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS
Record, of Growth, of Public Schools
in North Carolina For Past Five
Years Compares Favorably With.
That of Any Other State Interest
ing Statistics.
Washington, Special. The record
made by North Carolina during the
last five years in educational facili
ties compares well with that of any
State in the union, as shown by the
report of the commissioner of edu
cation for the United States for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1906. Tha
report has just come' out and is very
interesting.; ' "
There were 676,615 children of
school age in the State 474,657 white
and 221,958 colored. For the educa
tion of these children the State was
spending $1,2S7,275.70 annually, ex
clusive of $161,363 raised by local tax
ation. The total amount expended
for each child in North Carolina, of
school age, including local taxes, was
$2.17 the average amount in the
United States being $9.50. The aver
age monthly salary of teachers was
$26.78 for Avhite and $22.19 for col
ored teachers, and in the United
States the average monthly salary
was $48. The length of the public
school term in North Carolina was
76.15 days; average length in the
United States, 145 days.
The average value of the school
houses in the State was for white,
$231.43,; colored $136; 830 districts
were Avithout schoolhouses of any
kind; 829 had log houses. In differ
ent counties of the State schools were
closed during the winter on account
of hte buildings not being inhabitable.
Attention is called to the fact that
a great hinderance to effective educa
tion in a State so large and sparsely
populated as North Carolina is the
multiplication of district schools to
t atisfy special families. Nearly one
half of the Avhite school districts in
the State and 44 per cent, .of the col
ored districts contain less than 65
children of school age. Another
notir-eable fact inconection with the,
report of the commission is that 82
per cent, of the entire population is
.urai and agricultural and that illit
eracy among both the white and col
ored race is decidedly on the decrease.
The enrollment in schools for the
United States for the. year 19034
reached a total of 17,896,890, being
and increase of 357,422 over the pre
vious year. Of the total amount ex
pended for . all purposes ($691,000,
000) nearly two-fifths, or 39.5yper
cent, was paid for common schools.
It will be seen that the Federal, State
and local expenditures for education
tor the year 1903-'4 amounted to al
most one-half the cost of the national
grvernrfent.
Durham led North Carolina, in the
number of children attending school.
With a population of 6,679 she had
2,713 children in sohool; Asheville,
population 16,47S, had 2,637 children
in school; Charlotte, (figures shoAving
number of children attending school
are not given); Concord, population
7,910, number of children in school
2,713; Greensboro, population 12,793,
number of children in school 2,260;
NeAvbern, population 9,090, number of
children in school, 2,567; Wilmington,
population 21,344, number in t school
not giA-en ; Winston, population 10.S04,
number of children in school 1,735.
To run her schools during the year
Asheville received from the State $66,
from the city, $20,186, from the
county and other taxes $10,94S, a
total of $32,335 as against a total of
$9,600 for Concord; $37,494 for Dur
ham; $23,600 for Greensboro; $9,316
for NeAvbern ; $26,455 for Raleigh,,
and $17,500 for Winston, no figures
beinjr sriven for Charlotte. ' It aviII
thus be seen that Durham received
more than any, city in the State and
that Asheville came next Avith Ral
eigh following.
While Durham received more for
being followed by Durham, Raleigh
and Asheville m the Order named,
these expenditures being for perman
ent investments, teaching and inci
dental expenses. The figures for the
different places were as folloAvs: Ash
eville, $30,186; Charlotte, no figures
giA'en; Concord, $39,750; Durham,
$32,500 ; Greensboro, $23,000 ; NeAv
bern, $8,954; Raleigh, $30,342, " and
Winston, $17,310.
Among the higher institutions of
learning reported closed recently is
the North Carolina College, at Mt.
Pleasant, v v
The total value of property possess
ed by institutions of higher learning
in the United States is $464;216,543,
a gain of almost $33,000,000 over the
amount for the preceding year. This
is an instance of the growth of col
leges throughout the United States.
Trinity Colloge, at Durham, is the
only institution in the State that re
ported gifts amounting to. over. $100,
000 for the year, the amount received
by it being $106,000. The total value
of all gifts reported by the several
uniArersities reeeiAring ' donations
amounted in the year to a total of
over $9,000,000. ,
Assistant Attorney Appointed.
Winston-Salem, Special. Ex-Superior
Court Judge A. L. Coble, of
Statesvillc, has been appointed as
sistant district attorney for the Wesr
tern North ' Carolina district. His
commission was receiA'ed last Aveek by
District Attorney Holton. The ap
pointment takes effect September 1.
Judge Coble served as Superior court
judge, for six years.
CUBAN
flfFIS
R NHS
It Looks Like Revolution is Be
yond Control
NEITHER SIDE ABLE TO CONQUER
Ardent Hope That Prerogative of,
Piatt Amendment Will Soon be
Utilized!
Havana, By Cable. "Neither side
can whip the other," is the concise
statement now heard everywhere in
Havana, and it may also be fairly
construed to be the growing convic
tions of thoughtful persons through
out the island. In HaA'ana at least
the conviction Has led, among all un
prejudiced persons, to expression of
an ardent hope that the prerogatiA'e
of the Piatt amendment soon will be
utilized by the United States for the
purpose of effectually putting an
end to a condition that everybody
believes is otherwise bound to groAV
more and more intolerable.
Nobody appears to belieA-e that the
insprgehts will take Havana, although
this is not regarded as impossible,
especially when it is considered that
eo-operation in such a movement as
suredly . would come from within.
Everybody concedes that the govern
ment troops can continue their record
of victories in almost all open fights
with the insurgents, but how the gov
ernment with the forces uoav 'at its
command and in view of the small
number of enlistments, even can pre
vail against its enemies who fight
in the same old method of guarillla
warfare is a conundrum which no
body prejends to solve.
That the insurrection is growing
Constantly is. undeniably evidenced
every day and the decree of pardon
recently extended by the government
has brought no appreciable change in
the situation. One of the few Ameri
cans who joined the insurgent ranks
came into Havana. He has been a
farmer in Cuba for several years
past, and presumably is a. reliable
source of information. He informed
the correspondent of the Associated
Press that 15,000 insurgents now
south of the Artemisa, in scattering
parties, shortly will be concentrated
with others from the vicinity of Guan
ajay with the intention of capturing
both Artemisa and Guanajay and
holding the entire width of eastern
Pina del Rio province. They will
thus control the situation far better
than did the Spanish troops in the
days of the famous trocha and at
precisely the same points. The insur
gents already have taken Cabenas
and Bahia Honda on the north coast
of Pinar del Rio province, and accord
ing on conservative statements they
have easily 75 per cent, of the people
of this district with them.
Three hundred insurgents, under
Gen. Carillo and Campos Marquetti,
the negro congressman, occupied
Bahia Honda, bn the north coast of
Havana province. More than 50 resi
dents of the town have already joined
the band. This body of insurgents
does not interfere with the property
of Americans or other foreigners.
It became known that the insurrec
tion has spread to the province of
Puerto Principe. SeA'enty men have
taken up arms at Moron, that ' prov
ince, led by Garcia Canizares, speaker
of the house of representatives, dur
ing the Liberal ascendancy in that
body .
Demise of J. L. Jones, Grand Master
of Masons.
Nashville.Tenn. Rnwmi tt. ci
-r ? u.u.uiuad
ot Lm Den died in this city folloAA'
ing a surgical operation several days
ago. Mr. Sloan Avas a lawyer and
Avas elected grand master of Tennes
see Masons in 1904. He was 65 years
old.
Wounded By Terrorists.
Warsaw, By Cable. Gen. Tumen
off, . commander of a brigade at the
garrison here, was Avounded but not
seriously, by fiAe reA-olutionists,' who
fired upon him with revolvers as he
was leaA'ing his residence. General
Tumeroff participated in the recent
pacification of the Baltic provinces,
serving .under General Orloff, Gover
nor General of LiA-onia.
Kills Wife and Himself, v.
Macon, Ga., Special. A special to
The Telegraph from Albany, Ga.,
says Howard Hayes, a middle-aged
man, placed his left hand over the
eyes of his wife and fired a bullet
into her brains. He then killed him
self. Before the shooting occurred
the woman's screams were heard,
then two reports of a pistol. When
neighbors arrived, Mrs. Irlayes Avas
dead and her husband dying. " There
is no clue to the cause of the Horrible
crime.
Charged With Peonage.
Gainesville,; Fla., Special. Jotn P.
Lynch, a prominent lumber manufac
turer, was arrested here by United
States officers charged with peonage.
He was taken to Jacksonville, Avhere
he aviII be arraigned before a United
States commissioner the plaintiff, an
Italian, claimed that with four com
panions, he had been held in bondage
by Lynch 's agent or manager and
not permittee! to leaA-e the place.