"V ? ; -IT-* '* N mmmmmrnum &SDAY AFTERNOON". \UGUST 18. l?tt; NO. 13 ^ . . ? , ? ? - NOVEMBER. MISS KKBA HK1.KN M'tUt KN TKRTAINKK I'H.MIMI Ntll.Y YF.ft TKJU>AY AT HtB HOMK IX IIONOK OF HKlt XF.GRO ATTEMPTS TO ROB THE 8'VrORB. Yesterday morning an attempt waa made by a young colored man to ea ter the aafa In the oBee at Mr. E. W. Aym' atoro. v . ' ' l Mr. Will Ayera waa alttlng w* far away from the office and Mr./Edward Merrill waa la the front waiting on costomera at the time. The negTc entered the rear deor and succeeded i In getting Into the office without be ing aeen. Mr. Ayera heard the knob click and Immediately started for the office. The negro heard him coming and mad* good hla escape out of the beck door. Mr. Ayera chaaed him some distance, hut eras unsbl* to overtake him Nothing *aa missed IB QUITE BICK. The many friends of Mr. Edmund Buckman will regret to learn of bis lllnes*. He Is suffering from fever. It Is to he hoped he will soon re AI>I)!*? TO RKSUtKXt'K. Dr. William A. Blount la making Improvements to his home on West Second street In the way of making api the Independent.ticket. Watch Ken NAIION MUIIHNS j - ,y - - - President Mootte, of Chiluw Re public. Passes Away j A1LURE THE CAUSE HK IS XKW vonii A WKKK AUO AND WAH AN KVK WIT XKSH TO 7HK SH of awtor Montt am? a, a shock to the public. The tentative arrangements for the bringing back of the body Include the dispatch of the nation's finest warship to Colon, where the body will be taken from Bremen. The Chi lean fieet will probably escort the funeral ship down (be coast. Vice-President ? Villaloboe yester day held a conference with the pres. Ident of the senate. Senor Escobar, and the president of the, chamber. Senor Orrego. and With the mem bers of the cabinet, in regard to the succession to the presidency, a call (or a council of state was issued. United States Mlnlatsr m?tch?r tn. If you have any doubt about the success of our Two Days Week End Sale, we ask you to come down and see the number of people who avail themselves of the Special Inducements we offer each week. Then you will be convinced that we have all we claim and then SOME I Below we quote only a few of our many offerings for Friday and Saturday: . SPREADS Good quality, extra heavy ^KVr"T^,LM79c rife ? Full site Marseilles Spread, north $1.50. Friday(? I OfX and Saturday....,(J) I DOMKSTICS. And worth yards I ndroscoegin Bleaching;, th 12 1-2c7 Only 10 Is to a customer v.. J72C Best Grade- Lonsdale Cambrtfc, The 15c grade. Not or- | I 1A cr 10 yds. to a customer | 1 lU Beat yard wide Unbleached Homespun, 8c. grade, rj. Fof Special Lot of Ladies' and Children's white and colored Canvas Oxfords, worth /? ft. up to >1.50, per pair CHILD'S ROMPERS Age 2 to 6. Worth 50c. each, neat O ~7'?? checks and stripe ... O I 2|, GALITEA Just what you want for the little Boy's Wash Suits I nl Per yard.. | O2C *: ffj, ?' Small quantity of Mull J left, worth 29c. will go A for Z. oisxs-.^.ec We call your attention to oui dtsplav of Dress Gingham id East Window. Beautiful Plait Patterns for School 1 Dresses. Per yard | ? V .v1 p Colgate's Best Talcum | | uaj ior many ence to the Bishop Oom sent notice* to ev? country directing era be it & id today late present. OF STATE KL1N1) AND l?KAF 1KMNU NOBLK j Mr. John K. Ray. ; State School for the 81 and Dumb, at Raleigh, fr, the city yesterday and $ i Interest of that Ition. He iVloohtag up (white and black, that dumb or blind. The ~r I Carolina provide* for tl cation, and It la remarl bow much good la ied along this line. ?avion thert were 390 ed. The State has I Of the above character; the/fene at Raleigh, la for the care of the white blind and the deaf and dumb color ed. Several from tfcia county will probably attend the tastifcatien this jfall. Mr. Ray left for Ptnptown this | morning to consult with 4 prospect ive pupil there. ' ^ I I About nine a colored >girl, Laura Mackey, waa totally blind w*at to the UrtAfcuttou from thla city. She remataaft. there about five years. During the summer all the students return to their homes, and Laura came home In Her fourth year. While here eh* mad? ?19 by means of her needle fa dotfcg fancy work. etc. After her graduation she married in this city. I This Is but an instance of the no ble and great work this Institution Is doing In North Carolina. Mr. Ray related several Incidents to a News man thla morning Of what some of the students had aceflOB^IIshed. They teach school, music, are members of the county boards of education snd commissioners, etc. ' Wherever one Is, blind, deaf or dumb, the Institution mak*a inquiry and efforts are made at" once to se cure them as students In tha Institu tion. The State of North Carolina Is ac complishing untold good tu the edu cation of Its blind an.l dea f and dumb. ' XKW niRBCTCR OF Ml'ftlO AT THE STATE .NORMAL CGfc^EGE, Prof. Hermann- H. Hoexter. who had charge of vocal music at the State Normal and Industrial College asked to be released that he might spend a year or more studying mus ic in Germany. This request of Prof essor Hoexter was granted by the board of directors, and Prof. Albert S: Hill, of Atlanta, Oa., has been ap pointed director in this department. The authorities of the college feel that they are very fortunate In se curing the services of Mr. Hill, as he is a musician with broad culture and large experience. Professor Hill graduated at Leb anon college, Ohio, in 1889 with the degree of bachelor of arta. He was later given the degree of master of arts by this lnatittulon. After grad uation Professor Hill went abroad and was accepted as a special stu dent in thenjniverslty College of the University or London, In addition to malned for fonr years. ? While in the University of Lonodn, In addition to his work in music, he pursued the courses of English, European history, drama, psychology, ethics, philoso phy, pedagogy, etc. Professor Hill seriously begau his musical education at the age of 12 y4ara with Madam Lathrop Lewis, of Ohio. After two years of study he became the pupil of Erraln. of York city. And remalnod a student of his more than two years. He took a course In harmony and sight singing at the Metropolitan College of Music. This course was Intended especially to prepare him as a supervisor of public school music, and as a con ductor of choral societies. In 1889 he began to study music with Pro fessor Alberto Randogger, of Lon don, and continued with, him for the period of four years. Professor Ran degger considered him sufflcfcnty ef fioleat In music to employ him aa his assistant for a roaslMflfefr time At the suggestion of Professor Ran deggor he studied fn the Royal Guild School of Music of Lon<)|> RKTOH1V ORBAT 10-DAY AERrAL RACE AT A OLANCE. Distance, 782 kilometers (489 mllea.) Acuta! distance covered, more th?" 500 miles. ^ Wlnnsr. Lebianc. Second, Aubrun. ? '1. Winner's flying tlri fcUua, 58 minutes. 4 9 seconds. * ? Average speed. 41 miles an hour. First prise, $20,000, posted by Le Matin. Other prises. $32,000. 8tarterm, eight. Date of sUrt. August 7. Route. Issy to Troyes, to Nancy, to M axis res. to Doual. to Amiens, to Isay. Loblanc and Aubrun used mono planes. P?rls, Aug. 1.?The greatest air race ever held ended this morning when M. Lebianc alighted at Issy lee Meullneux. the winner of the $20 - 000 prise offered by Le Matin for the shortest time In the 489-mi;e cross country race over northern France? which began on August 7. Twenty minutes after the winner came down, Aubrun. who has waged a sensational dual with Lebianc from the first day, shot his aeroplane to the aviation field at Issy. Both men used mono planes. Additional prizes for the best time on each of the six lays and other awards brought the total of prizes at stake In the race to $62,400. The total elapsed time of the win ner was ii hours. 58 minutes. 4 9 ?econds. and that of Aubrun 13 hours' 26 minutes and 67 seconds. A crowd of 10.000 persons was at the aviation field at dawn, on edge at the prospect of a whirldwlnd. neck and neck finish to the race that has kept all France excited for more than a week. And', they were . not disap pointed. The failure of Charles Weymann to be In at the finish was a disap pointment to the many Americans,* residents and tourists, in the throng at Issy. But they were enthusiastic, nevertheless. The final stage of the race was run from Amiens. The distance to Paris was a little more than 65 miles. Lebianc arose at 6.03 a. m.. and two minutes later, before' he was out of sight of the cheering Amiens throng, Aubrun. his rival, was off af. ter him. winging steadily. Ten mini utes later followed Legagneux. the only blplanist to make a favorable showing with the monoplane drivers. At ?.40 the watchers at Issy call ed out the announcement of an avia tor's appearance. Just five minutes later Lebianc, cool amid the plaudits of the crowd, was standing beside his motor ob the ground, asking for a cigarette. His sangfroid equalled Hu. bert Latham's, who in his first at tempt to cross the English channel a year ago was found sitting In his plane on the sea surface smoking a cigarette. Lebianc was the favorite and he got a favorite's reception, but Au brun, had no cause to complain of lack of warmth when he swooped to the ground 1 na sp9t near that where his conqueror had landed. In the van of the watching crowd was Lebianc. As Aubrun took In the situation he vaulted from his seat, Iran to Lebianc, shouting congratula itiona. They kissed one another. In French fashion. 1 The peat race started on August 7 with eight competitors. WHAT uVKOLE JOB CANNON 9AY8 ABOUT HIS EN KM IKS AND HIMSELF. "God hates a coward and I Intend to die with my boots on. "Whan time comas no one will be able to say ( was a quitter. "Insurgency la an Inoldent and email men Ilka to be the subjpet or an Incident. "An Insurgent politician Is usual ly oae who did not amount to much when his party and his country need ed men. "Kansas Is Inflicted with Insanity once every ten years but soon get* over it. Just now Kansas has Inaur gentltis. "All this talk about President Tatt seeking to force me to retire is bosh. The last Congress gave him' all that be asked for and he Is grateful for It. "My Ana it lea club makes Roose velt*! look like a .Wednesday night prayer meeting at a fashionable church on a summer night compared with the human race. " Be ve ridge would make an Ideal peaoock with the addition of Just a few feather# ."Anyway, no man or ser of men can drive me out of the Republican party or keep roe from fighting its battles." j| In the matter of the "Jokers" die covered in the .Indian appropriation lta passage It should be an 11M HAVING IN FRISKSHT. The Raleigh correspondent of the Norfolk Vlrgluian-Pilot publish**# an lut?nr(?v in that paper with C