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Iboouble wreck
ves and Property Lost In a
Railway Accident
flfl) BEAD; SEVERAL INJURED
.2c. f arager Crashes Into Freight
Train Vith Dead Engine on Rear,
gnicAhiS Both and Demolishing
Gars Wrecker Strikes
u"
Practically Whole Train
Piled Ito Ditch.
Birn:;:,.?uani. Ala., Special. As a
re;air of a double' wreck on the
viihe!;! Railway a short distance
east id u"iuIknvn, a suburb of Bir-
cariy Sunday, two men are
number injured.
Harris, fireman on the
dec;!
Ti
i'iil.
cvly. brakemau on wrecker
.red are James Wages, At
ULvr, skull fractured, head
;uo scratched; S. H. Hill,
i iJiiial injuries; Thomas
winter, bruises on body;
ilK' i'-V
bint .r..i
v,::. ' itegraan.' shoulder dislocated;
two postal clerks, slightly, injured;
w;,Ho vac.::':or. knee cut.
Ti e ; : : character of the wreck
make- ii -rising- thai: the casual
ties wc-r? not more. A freight train
wi.Ii a -'-d engine on the rear, was
muhwr toward , Birmingham. The
operator, it is said, allowed No. - 37,
the nisi passenger, to enter the block
: ir crashed into the dead engine,
saiiK-Iiiiig' them both and demolishing;
Si-vcra! cars. Three cars of the
i'rciiiht train were thrown across the
easii'Dinnl track, almost at the instant
that the Southern wrecker en route
to Ilcl'iu. Ala., passed. The wrecker
stiiiik them pud p radically the whole
train riled into the ditch. Two men
were caught 'under the engine. -
Th? bap-gage and mail cars of the
:tssengor train were torn up and the
three demolished engines Avith the
debris strewn about presented a grue
suiiie picture.
Great Fire in Manila.
Manila,-By Cable. Fire destroyed
1.100 houses and parts of the Dis
tricts of Sing-along, Paco and Bani
baag, in Manila. The American set
tlements at Ermita and Malate es
caped through the hard work of the
firemen, assisted1 by soldiers and cit
izens. The flames, fanned by a heavy
gale, swept an area of 100 ' acres
clean, within two hours, and destroy
ed the homes of 100 residents and 1,
000 natives. The native refugees are
now' sheltered in the schools and
other public buildings many are camp
ing in open spaces. The damage is
conservatively estimated at $200,000
ia geld. Xo eausalties are reported.
The officials of the health depart
ment do not agree with the estimate
oi' the damage given above which was
inruie by policemen and firemen.
Thcv assert that 269 houses were de
stroyed and "iyOO natives rendered
homeless. Their estimate of the fin
ancial h :-s is the same as that of the
oilier municipal department. It is
thought that the. figures given by the
health oincers are nearer correct.
The districts of Singalong, Paeo
and Banbang, lie to the east of the
walled city of Manila and just behind
the residential distraction of Malate
and Emrita, which face the bay. Near
ly all of the native houses in the fire
; T district are nopa huts of com
Piuniivelv niall value.
Founder of W. C. T. U. Bead.
Dunkirk, N. Y., Special. Mrs Esth
er .McNeil, the founder of the Wo
man's ' Christian Temperance Union,
and first president of the organiza
tion, died at her home in Fredonia.
She was bora Carlisle, N. Y., 94
years ago, and was widely known
ihroughorii the United States as a
1cmperance worker.
Three Injured at Carpet Plant.
Philadelphia, Special. Three per
sons, two. women and a man, were ser
iously injured as. (he result cf an ex
plosion of a gas$ retort at the plant
-f John and James Dobson, carpel
manufacturers, in the southwestern
part of the city. The explosion fol
lowed a slight fire and threw 4,00C
employes at work in the mills into s
panic."- Many young women fainted,
i ut ail the employes were gotten out
e.; rely with the exception of the three
'.viio "were badly . burned. They arc
Mary Cavanaug'h, Annie McKirk sini
rorge. Shaw.
Body of Miss Fcdlstcn- Reco'Versd.
Staunton, Va., Special. The bodj
cf Miss Mabel Pendleton was founc
half & mile below the bridge ovej
Jackson river, at Clif ten Forge froir
which 'she and her lover Stuart Gay
jumped , to their death on Thursday
last after being'tarned back at Staun
ton while en route to Washington u
be married. The body of Gay has
not yet been recovered.
VOL, XjQX PtTTSBQRQ. CHATHAM
MR. CARNEGIE ON PEACE
Reply to Letter From President Ceii
taining Suggestions Which Mr.
Carnegie Quotes as " Objections
and Proceeds to Answer.
-Kew York, Special. Mr. Andrew
Carnegie, who is president of the
peace congress, gave out a statement
as to the- results of the congress just
closed. Although not so designated
by Mr. Carnegie, the statement con
stitutes a reply to some -of the sug
gestions c'ontained in the letter which
President Roosevelt addressed to the
congress oil its opening- day Mi
Carnegie quotes these statements as
"objections" and proceeds to answer
them as follows :
"Our peace conference has brought
three objections clearly before us.
"First, Nations cannot submit all
questions to arbitration.
"Answer, Six of them have recent
ly done so by treaty Denmark and
the Netherlands, Chile and Argert
tma, Norway and Sweden. '
"Second, Justice is higher than
peace.
"Answer, The first principle of nat
ural justice forbidj men to be judges
when they are parties to the issue.
All Jaw rests upon this throughout
the civilized world. Were a judge
known to sit upon a case in which he
was secretly interested he would be
dishonored and expelled from his
high office. If any individual refus
ed to submit his dispute with a neigh
bor to disinterested parties (arbitra
tors or judges), and insisted upon be
ing his own judge he would violate
the first principle of justice. If ha
resorted to force in defense of his
right to judge, he would be dishonor
ed as a breaker of the law. Thus
peace with justice is secured through
arbitration, either by court of by trib
unal, never by one of the parties sit-tl51-as
judge in. his own cause.
"Third, it is neither peace nor jus
tice, but righteousness that shall
exalt the nation.
"Answer, Righteousness is simply
doing what is right. What is just is
always right; what is" unjust is al
ways wrong. It being the first princi
ple of justice that men shall not be
judges in their own cause to refuse
to submit to judge or arbitrator's un
just, hence not right, for the essence
of -righteousness is justice. There
fore men who place justice or right
eousness above peace practically pro
claim as it appears to me, that they
will commit injustice and discard
righteousness by constituting them
selves sole judges of their own cause
in violation of law, justice and right.
"Civilized-man has reached "the
conclusion that he meets the claims of
justice and of right only by uphold
ing the present reign of law. Our
pressing duty is to extend its benign
ant regn to combinations of men call
ed nations. What is right for each
individual must be right for the na
tion. This union of law and justice,
ensuring peace and good will among
men through disinterested tribunals,
is the 'righteousness which exalteth
a nation." The demand that inter
ested parties shall sit in judgment is
the wickedness that degrades a na
tion." By Wire and Cable.
The Thaw trial ended with the dis
agreement and discharge of the jury.
A great rubber trust is planned at
Providence, R. I.
A furious blizzard is swweping over
the copper country in Micigan and
over Northen Wisconsin.
Advices from Shanghai are to the
effect that the famine horors in China
are growing worse, and that the tath
rate from starvation is 5,000 daily.
A demand -om the Government
for the expulsion of Socialist mem
bers stirred up the Douma, and some
startling speeches Avere made,
LieutGen. Robert McGregor Stew
art has resigned as Governor of Ber
muda, Fatal Cutting Scrape Between Negro
Women.
Spartanburg, Special. Annie Wil
son, a negro woman, was lodged in
jail here for cutting the throat of
Florence Clifton, another negro wo
man, at Inman Sunday afternoon.
The crime is a horrible' one and
though the Clifton "woman was alive
there is no chance for her recovery.
Placed Under $700 Bonds.
Marksville, La, Special Charged
with manslaughter for their alleged
carelessness in allowing the negro
Charley Strauss, to be lynched, Dep
ty Sheriffs J. E. Keegan and J. J.
Salmon were brought here under ar
rest and placed under $700 bond each.
Strauss was hanged to a tree in the
woods near Eola, La., where a crowd
of masked men met the deputies as
the latter were escorting the negro to'
jail.'
Americans Sentenced to Death.
San Antonio, . Tex., Special. A
special from Monterey , Mex., says :
Information has been received that
the Supreme Court of Mexico has af
firmed the decision of the lower court
in the cases of Hulbert, Mitchell audi
Hale, Americans, convicted of pois
oning two other Americans for insur
ance money in Chibuhua and that the
three men have been sentenced lo
death,
NO DISCRIMINATION
Railways Deny Charges Mad
By Southern Shippers
DECLARE RATES REASONABLE
Postponement to Saturday Allowed on
Motion of Complainants to Allow
Tims for Serving of Papers Forc
ing the Introduction of Minutes Of
1905 Conference 1
Washington Special Rates on cot
ton goods from Southern points tot
the Pacific coast. China and Japan
was again the subject of hearing be
fore the inter-state commerce com
mission; Ej J. Southallj representing
the compldiriants; made a formal iho
tioh for a postponement of the heat
ing .until he could serve defendant
railroad and steamship companies
with a subpeona duces tecum to com
pel the production of the minutes of
the conference held in 190-3 which re
sulted in the alleged agreement ' .to
raise Vates. The defendant compan
ies finally agreed to produce thesa
minutes and the hearing was continu
ed. '
Mr. Southall said to the commis
sion that he intended to show by thg
minutes of these conferences that
they were participated in by railroad
men notwithstanding the denial of
this during the earlier testimony.
The railroad' representatives replied
that the minutes would not show the
presence of railroad men at confer
ence and claimed further that to
agreement was entered into by thm
regarding the rates in question. It is
claimed that if an agreement was
reached between the steamship lines
it is beyond the jurisdiction of the inter-state
commerce commission.
Secretary Ayers of the China and
Japan Trading Company, explained
the exact method of purchases, price
of goods and rates paid for shipment
both - from New York to the Orient
via the Suez canal and from the Pa
cific coast.
The defense rested their case after
the testimony of Lincoln Green
through trainc manager of the South
ern Railroad. . Mr. Green told- the
commission that the rate complained
of was fixed on an exceedingly low
basis because of water competition
and that it had been reduced from
$1.85 per one hundred pounds to San
Francisco to $1.15, present rate. The
commission took the case under ad
visement. An Island Town Destroyed.
Manila, By Cable. The town of II
oilo, Island of Panay, was totally de
stroyed by fire Friday morning, with
the result that 20,000 persons are
homeless. As this dispatch is filed
the confiagation is still raging, and
owing to the heavy Wind blowing it is
beyond control. The civil and mili
tary authorities are doing everything
possible to check the flames and assist
the sufferers. No estimate has been
made of the amount of damage done
and no details of the fire are obtain
able, owing to communication with
Iloilo being seriously affected. Iloilo
is the capital of the Island of Paney,
located on the east coast. The port,
which is the second in importance in
the Philippines, next to Manila, is
the centre of the sugar import trafle.
Stolen Express Money Recovered.
St., Paul, Minn., Special The $25,
000 stolen at the Union depot Tuesday
night, was recovered by the police.
John Gunderson, the suspected rob
ber, who was arrested on Wednesday,
told the police where he had huYSen
the money. One package containing
$10,000 was found under a piece of
dirt in Jackson" street, and two other
packages containing $15,000 were
found under the platform at the Great
Northern shops.
75,000 Deaths in a Single Week From
Plague in India.
Simla, IncY:a, By Cable. There
were 75,000 deaths from the plague in
India during the week ending April
13. Seventy thousand of these occur
red in Bengal, the United provinces
and the Punjab. The epidemic began
in the Punjab in October, 1S97, since
when nearly a million and a half
deaths have occurred.
Preacher Held for Unlawfully Marry
ing Couple.
Rochester, Special. Rev. W. F.
Coffey7, pastor of an African church at
Olean, was arrested on the charge of
unlawfully marrying Arthur Jones,
colored, and Dora Hitchcock, white.
Coffey was held for the grand jury in
the sum of $500. Fred Hi'eheock, ihe
father of the girl, and Arthur Jones
to whom she was married were mar
ried, were arrested - and arraigned.
They pleaded not guilty to disorderly
acts, A jury trial will be given them,
- Mills of South Carolina.
Washington, Special. Three cases
involving charges of excessive rates
and discrimination on . the part of
about 30 railroad companies against
cotton manufacturers of the South
were heard by the inter-State Com
merce commission Chairman Kna'pp,
and Commissioners Clements, Coekreii
and Lane are hearing the cases. It is
likely the proceedings will continue
for two days.
nnnisrrv isr rL. THURSDAY. APRIL 25. L90?
.. Lil2 , - . . . .
-jrf NEWSY gleanings:
icans will run .Cuba at least
r longer.
The Russian lower house has
agreed to the restrictions imposed by
the' Premier;
. Improvement in . taste iii, aft .in
America id marked, says Joief
Ldwengard; of Paris.
John W: Yerkes;. Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, resigned: Office to
resume the practice of law. -
The meeting of the sovereigns of
Great Britain and of Spain may ma
terially influence the balance of power
in Europe.
Figures disclosed in a suit show
that $i;275,000 was paid in royalties
under the Seldeti patent by automo
bile manufacturers in four year:1-.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, of Canada, and
General Botha arrived in London; a
remarkably hearty welcome was
given -to the fdrnier Boer leader.-
Samuel Gompers, president of the
Federation of Labor, at- a meeting of
2 000 telegraph operators declared
himself in favor of international'
peace.
Commander Robert E; Peary, at
Portland, Me.f announced plans tot
his proposed voyage,, when he will
make another attempt to reach thd
North Pole.
Residents of Pittsburg say that
Harry -Thaw has so greatly depleted
the family's fortune that there would
not be enough left to spare for bail in
case the Court would accept it.
A London dispatch states that
as the result of a controversy It
has been decided that Sudbury, a
smail Suffolk town, is the original of
the famous Eatanswill of "Pickwick
The annual depreciation in the
value of warships is shovn by the said
at auction of six British war .vessels,
among tham tbe Sans Pareil, which
cost $3,597,210, and which brought
$133,000.
May Be Fatally Injured.
Winston-Salem, Special. - "While
working on the gable at the residence
of Mr. A. F. Messick in Salem, Mr.
Paul Miller, a young carpenter, fell
from the scaffold, a distance of To
feet, and sustained injuries that may
prove fatal. He fell, backwards and
his back is badly injured; besides,
he may. be internally injured. The
physicians are unable to saj; whether
or not he is internally hurt, but they
fear that he h
New Enterprises.
Charters are granted the Dixon
Lumber & Veneer Company, at Rose
Hill. Duplin 'county, crpital stock
$100,000; William J. Hall and others
stockholders; also to the Roades
Manufacturing Corrpany, at Lincoln
ton, to make "cotton goods, $300,000;
John M. Redes, D. f. Redes and G.
W. Rodes, stockholders; also ihe
Diisbcro and Sylvia Electric Light
Company, to furnish power, light and
heat in Jackson and other counties
capital stock being $10,000.
High Point's Industries
High Point, Special.
In the gencr-
al meeting of, the Manufacturers'
Club, held Saturday night, there was
decided interest in the matter of
funds for the representation of High
Point and her industries at the James
tow ExpoiSon. It has been decid
ed to expend $2,500 for the purpose.
Space was received by w:-r. The
meeting was v.;eil attended and a vari
ety of intcrsts were represented.
There is no doubt that the showing
from here will be hiirhlv creditable.
18 Inches of Snow at Denver.
Denver, Col., Special. According
to the. local w-eather bureau's meas
urements, IS inches of snow fell hen
during the storm which came fron
the north. A heavy precipitation als(
was general in Colorado, benefiitting
the grain crops, which were threaten
ed by drought. Freezing weather i;
anticipated, but little damage will bi
done, as vegetation is covered witl
snow. Damage estimated at $500,00h
has been dene to fruit trees in thi
Arkansas vail 03'.
ianslughtsr.
Savannah, Ga.,
Special. In the
ponce court George' Hmbert, waten
m:n;R. E. Wallace, engineer, and
W. E. Jackson, fireman, in the em
p'oy cf the Central of Georgia Rail
way, who were in charge of t&e train
ar.d crossing when a sight-seeing auto
mobile was run down on for;jj;y
last, injuring Miss Mary Teresa
Rourke, of Brooklyn, N. Y., so badly
she died and severely injuring sever
al others? were held for trial on a
charge of manslaughter.
Prominent Florida Lawyer hmt. ,
Jacksonville,, Fla., Special. A." W.
Cockrell, one of Florida's leading law
years, died suddenly of heart disease
at his home here aged 72 years. Co?
onel Cockrill,' who served in the civil
war as an ofiicer in an Alabama -regiment
came to Jacksonville, shortly
after the war and entered the prac
tice of his profession. He leaves sev
eral sous, one of whim is Robert S.
C.' crell, an associate justice of the
Supreme Court nf Florida.
Plans for New Battleships Signed
Washington, Special. Secretary
Mtcaif signed the plans and specifi
cations for the two 20,000-ton battle
ships to be built for the United States
navy. They are to be of the general!
tvpe cf the Dreadnought of the Brit-
isii navy, ifce plans will be sent to
as many navy yards and such private
ship-building linns as signify their in
tention to make bklr.. They will be
seat out on April 2D, n;d bids will b
opened
j line .iU.
a9
NORTH SM NEWS
Items of Interest Gfeae! from
Various Sections
N TO SEASHORE
Minor Occurrences . of the Week oi
Interest to Tar Hpels Told in Para
graphs. FSur Burned to Death.
Caroleen, Speeial. At 11 o'clock
Wednesday night a large iwo-Stdry
dwelling house at Henrietta caughi
fire from the closet below, and before
tlie family or neighbors awoke to
make the discovery the ilame's had ad
vanced too far to save the building
or any of its contents. The - most
dreadful feature of the disaster was
the loss of two little children sleeping
tip stairs who were burned to death
and their bodies can scarcely be ree
onized. Two sons of Ws. McDadCj
who occupied the house, were so seri
ously burned by their efforts to make
their escape that it is not thought that
they can live. Also old Mr, MeDade
was badly burned and may not recov
er. Details would pronounce this the
saddest calamity in tli3 history of the
town.. The two. young men of the Me
Dade family died f rem the. horrible
burns received. The young jnen were
IS and 20 years of age respectively,
and nearly gave their lives to save
from the flames the two little children
aged 4 and 6', Mrs. MeDade may yet
die ast a fifth victim.
Mail Eobber Captured. "
Wilmington, Special.- The mystery
concerning the disappearance . of a
package containing $10,000 in curren
cy, in transit by mail from the Atlan
tic National Bank, of this city to the
Chemical National Bank, of New
York, was cleared up by the arrest
at the instance of postofnee inspec
tors of Edward A. Nelson, 27 years
of age, employed in :Lc railway mail'
service. The confession and arrest
of young Nelson was accomplished by
Col. S. T. llooton, ehief of. the post
office inspection service 'at Baltimore
Postoffiee Inspector Wm. J. MJxwell,
of Baltimore, and District Inspector
S. II. Buck. Nelson had recently re
signed from the service to engage in
the confectionary business on one of
the most prominent corners in the city
and accompanied by his wife, to whom
he was married 15 months ago, and
by. his mother, he had gone to New
York. The robbery was accomplished
by Nelson by slitting the mail pouch
that contained the package and he
had hidden most of t hp' money under
his dwelling. Bond was given in the
sum of $5,000.00, his wife"aud mother
raising that amount on property they
owned. All the money was recover
ed. New Railway Company.
Winston-Salem, Special. The El
kin and Alleghany Railway Company
which was chartered by the recent
Legislature with a capital sieck of
$125,000 with the privilege of increas
ing it to $3,000,000! was permanently
organized at Elkin. The meeting at
which the organization was effected
was a large and enthusiastic one, con
sisting of men from Alleghany coun
ty, Elkin and vicinity and a number
of other stockholders from Winston
Salem and other places. The first
business was the election of a board
of directors which consisted of the
following named : Messrs. H. G. Chat
ham, R. A. Doughron, A. G. Click, G.
T. Roth, A. M. Smith, E. F, MeNair,
R. M. Chatham, C. L. Smoot, A. H:
Eller, H. E. Frieh, Choate. C: M.
Smith, E. F. Fiells, J, F. Hendren,
and W, J. Boyles,
Studying Lafcor Conditions.
Winston-Salem, Special. Mr. D.
A. Tompkins, of Charlotte and Mrs.
J. Ellen Foster, of Washington, the
special commissioner, for the Departr
ment,of Justice, appointed by Presi
dent Roosevelt to make a report on
labor conditions of Avomen and chil
dren through the country, spent a
while in the city enroute to Wilkes
county, where Mrs. Foster will study
the conditions in the rural sections.
Cotton Mil for Hendersonville.
A special from Spartanburg, S. C,
to the Charlotte Observer of. Friday
says : A number of representative
business men of Hendersonville, .N. C.
spent Thursday in the city inspecting
the, Dayton Cotton Mill, of which1 A.
B. Calvert is president, with the view
of erecting a cotton mill in Hender
sonville similar to the Drayton Mill.
A. company is being organized in Hen
iiersonvillle with a capital stock of
$300,000. The majority of the stock
it is said, has been taken by the peo
ple of Hendersonville, wrhile the re
mainder will be raised outside.
Items sf State News.
The report of the inspector general
of the National Guard of this State,
Pnl Sfi'i'nirfioU in fJn tremor nipnn
.... a . , .
11 be a SuPnse PerhaPs to five com-
panies, as ne recommenas me tus
bandment of that number for general
inefficiency, fail ire to care for prop
erty, etc Of course, there are plenty
of applicants on the waiting lists and
any vacancies axe ready to be filled.
NO37
MAY BEING IN -FARMERS
Planters 'May Bring Agriculturists to
United States bjr Entering Into
' Agreement to Make Tham Share
Parsers. :
Washington, Special. The depart
ment of commerce arid labor has made
a decision that '-..laborer's can "be
kfowght hi from foreign countries if
they ia jb. share tenants, ' sneh. a?
are commonly; &2gSg-?d throughout; ihe
Southern States. lioU- Leroy Percy
of Greenville, Miss., made th sug
gesi6 .to the department and ft was
adopted. - ' ' ' -
j Heretofore the tpartment of com
merce and labor has maw bo distinc
tion between wage workers b'tfPSgbt to
United States and agriculturists
coming 6'v'et' from foreign countries.
Under the 6tM of the agreement
proposed" by Mr. Percy" SM approved
b.y the department of com2f?e and
fsbsr, planters can bring agrieultef
ists id ike United States by. entering
in to an ' agr'MfSat giving the immi
grant opportunity thtmh an opiion
to become a share partner tt'i his
employer. This d'fferer.iiaei Ids
from the wage workers who has been
brought over by factory operatdrs and
against whota the labor contract law
was passed.-
Mr. Percy" submitted Ms form
agreement to Commissioner of Imri
rration Sargent, who" in turn submit
ted it to the solicitor for tb depart
ment of commerce and labor. Both
sffi'vais xprounounceed it eminently
worthy and acceptable from every
standpoint. CeiEffiissioner Sargent
?aid that in the Sointh Carolina case
ihe ruling of the department Wa ad
verse to the mill owners because thf
3ioof showiil that they had brought
labor from foreign countries with a
view to lowering wages.
. Lest In Breakers.
Wilmington, Special. W. Lyn
ley, of Powder Springs, Ga.,' and
Lloyd Andrews, of Seven Springs, N.
C.,. both young men employed bare
several months as industrial insur
ance solicitors, are believed to have1
.been swept out to sea and drowned in
a lift eon fooi launch which was found
stranded -on' the beach near Middle
Sound, twelve ; miles below Wilming
ton. With a party of friends they
were'at the sound for an oyster roast
and rowed out in the sound to gun foi
marsh hens. Tkey were seen to ap
proach the inlet by their companions
on shore and are believed to have
been caught in the strong current .and
carried out where their boat was cap
sized by the breakers. The body of
neither has been found though most
diligent search has been made.
First State High School.
Raleigh, .Special. The State board
of education is preparing the rules
and regulations for the government
of the rural of country high schools
which are to receive State aid under
the new law. Wake county gets the
first of these, the county board having
purchased it. This school is at Cary
and was bought from the trustees al
a merely nominal figure. The public
school there is to be merged" into it
and this will give a faculty -of about
seven. Students will go to it from
schools all over the country.
May-Be a 'Lynching. ',
Greensboro; Special. Special offi
cer W. F. Tomason pf , . Davidson
bringing with hTm Cornelius Gant, a
ncjjro cf that county, charged with
an attempt at rape on .Mrs.. Swice
good, wife of one of the best "known
farmers of the ' county.
The Gift of Tongues.
Raefori, Special. A woman minis
ter from Wilmington is here holding
a holiness -meeting. , She professes to
speak the "Unknown Tougue" and
since the meeting has bean in progress
several of the . followers have been
blessed with .the same gift. They claim
that they themselves don't know of
what they speak but there is an inter
preter who can tell them-
Past a Hundred.
Greenville, Special. Louise Mc
Gowan, the oldest colored man here,
died Friday night. He was known
to be more than a hundred years old
and claimed that the records showed
that he was 116. He was a good man
andi was esteemed by both white and
colored people. He was a mininster
in the Primitive Baptist church . and
preached as long as' his strength would
permit him to meet his appointments.
Municipal Elections. .
Charlotte, Special. In the primary
held here Tuesday, Mayor McNinch
was unanimously re-nominated, hav
ing no opposition. For aldermen and
school commissioners the candidates
of the Business Men's Municipal
League were all elected over the can
didates of the Citizen's Democratic
League. Good order and good feeling
characterized the contestl
Salisbury, Special.-In Tuesday's
municipal primary Mayor Boycim was
re-nominated by a majority of 180.
The fight here has been rather bitter.
Deposits Double.
Hope Mills, Special. A meeting of
the directors of the Bank of Hope
Mills was held Friday evening. The
report of the officers was a gratifying
one, and indicated that the affairs of
the bank are in a growing and healthy
condition. Since moving into their
own banking building about a year
ago the deposits of this bank have in
creased rapidly, and in the last four
months have doubled. Besides eject
ing two new directors
4l)e Chatham Bceori,
RATES OF ADVERTISING,
On square, on insertion . $1.00
Ona square two insertions - 1.59
One square, one month ' 2.50
For Larger "Advertise
ments Libera! ' Con
tracts will be made.
IN FEARFUL QUAKE
Lives and Property Are Lost in
Mexican Gties
WORSE THAN FIRST REFGRTED
Damages Wrought in Mexican Town3
Not Exaggerated in the Earlier Re
ports The Whole West Coast Said
to Have. Been Affected by the
-. Shocks.
City of Mexico, Special Heavy
earthquake shocks continued on the
west eoast until 4 o 'clock . Tuesday
morning. Late news from the area
of greatest destruction in the recent
earthquake shows that the devasta
tion was greater than at first suppos-
-. Beskte the destruction of Chilpan
singo and Cbilapa, it is now reported
that Tixtia, between these two cities,
23iaining about the same population
as CfilJjJancingo, wa3 also leveled.
Messengers from 'the coast who have?
reach' ed Chiinaneingo say that the
towns of Ajntla and Ometepec have
b?tn octroyed.
?Ayuti:is about 50 miles south of
Cbilpancin'gd isi the State of Guereiro
and some 20 mik west cf Acapulco.
It is oriC of the most historic towns in
the republic, for it was here that the
'plan of Ayutla1' was conceived
which 'caused the revolution, made a
real republic and developed the tal
ents of a young officer named Porfirio
Diaz. The population of Ayutla .is
small Siid it is thought that ..the loss
af life thet'ff will be insignifisant
While West Coast Affected.
Ometepec is. further south near the
boYtndary line of the States of Guer
?rro and Oasaca. It is a town of
about 4,000 Inhabitants. Tiapa, a
town 80 miles wesf of Chiinaneingo,
and near the border line of the Stats
of Oaxaca :s' also reported (.amaged.
The report from Chilpancingo says
that the whole of the 'west coast
from Acapulco south of Salina Cruz,
the Pacific terminal of the Tchuan
tepee national jailway, has been bad
ly damaged.
Owing to the remoteness of these
points and' to Ihe fact that wire and
rail communication is very poor, news
from the stricken district cornea
slowly. Only one wire is working to
Chilaneingo and that spasmodically.
Through the courtesy of the officers
of the Federal Telegraph Company,
the Associated Press was given the
wire at noon Tuesday Avhile it -was
working through to Chilpancingo. The
operator there was questioned as to
the number of eausalties, but he de
clared he knew nothing beyond the
fact that he had seen about a dozen
corpses and knew of some 30 wound
ed. Widespread Destruction.
A despatch to El Pais, a dail paper
which is the organ of the Cathode
church in this city, from the bishop
of Chilapa confirms the report of the
widespread destruction in that vicin
ity. Fourteen are reported to have
been killed in one house and the num
ber of wounded is given at 39:
In Tixtia it is reported that 32
bodies have been taken from the ruins
and that twice that number of wound
ed are being cared in temporary
structures erected in the open country
Up to 4 o'clock Wednesday morn
ins: the shock continued with more or
less severity near Chilpancingo, com
pleting the work of destruction and
destroying many of the most impor
tant public buildings of the city. The
new municipal palace was badly shat
tered. Its predecessor was leveled
by an earthquake four years ago. The
hospitals, schools and the jail are m
ruins.
Figures not Exaggerated.
Up to this time the number of
deaths reported is 33 and the wounded
93. But in view of later reports it is
thought that these figures will f all
far short of the real number of fatal
ities. Two Scalded to Death. s
Key West, Fla., Special An ex
plosion which occurred on the "dredge
George W. Allen, engaged in exten
sive .work on the Florida East Coast
Railway at Key West early Sunday
caused the death of two Spaniards,
Jose Anido and Manuel Agras, and
injured eight others. Four of the in
jured were badly scalded on the hands
and face. A tube in the boiler burst,
the escaping steam blowing open tho
furnace doors and throwing live coals
and steam on the two men who were
killed.
Coal Dealers Meet in Atlanta. . ,
Atlanta, Ga., Special. The South
eastern Retail Coal Merchants 'As
sociation apserribled here for the an
nual convention. Representatives
from North and South Carolina, Geor
gia, Alabama and Florida, -were pres
ent, including nine operators, whole
sale and jobbing dealcis. Robert V
Graves, of Rome. Ga.. uiesident of
the association,
meeting, which
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pre
wii
r.ullnu3 until
Wednesday night.
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