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w, r BULLE VOL.11. ASHEBORO. N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 16M907. NO. 50. THE RANDOLPH TBi NORTli STATE HEWS items of Interest Gleaned from Various Sections FROM MOUNTAIN TO SEASHORE Miner Occurrences of the Week of Interest to Tar Heels Told in Para graphs. Our State at Jamestown. Raleigh, Special. Commissioner Gteneral Foguc, of the North Carolina Jamestown Exposition Commission, was here last week. He says that he finds that it requires constant atten tion to keep things on the move. The management of the transportation de partment has been simply chaotic and lie spoke of owe car of show cases for North Carolina which have been loaJ and unloaded seven times. Then, too, the ofii!U decorators and carpenters have been outrageously behind with their part of the work, lie says that if the freights had been delivered within ten days after arrival at the grounds and if the decorators and in halation had been completed by the contract lime, practically all of the North Carolina exhibits would have been ready on the opening: day. No less than ISO of the North Carolina cotton mills make exhibits and have shown a very great degree of inter est in having their department com prehensive and it will illustrate all the kinds of textile work done in the State, some of which will be a sur prise to North Caroliuas and to the general public. The furniture men will have two exhibits and will show splendidly what the State is doing; in this line, notably in the manufacture of artistic furniture which will con vince people that they need not send to Grand Rapids or anywhere out of the State to get beautiful designs and excellent workmanship. The North Carolina building at the Jamestown Exposition is to be turned over by the contractor May 25th. It is not knr:wn whether there will be any ceremonies of dedication or not. The bisiiHng complete and furnished wiii cost something like $20,000. Thi'e rooms have been furnished as a rii'-ate contribution a parlor, as rec-'pti':!! room and living: room. Mrs. Gei rue Vanderhilt furnished the re ception room throughout all the ar ticles in it being the products of th-3 Jnri-.-strial School, at Biltmore. She l :s :u her own expense had this room paneled i'i oak. She takes a great '';! of :i:teiest in the whole affair and i-o room in any of the State buildings v ill lie 'more attractive than this one. One of the best known furniture man-v.'V.-tiTrers in the State furnishes an i :':;! rispm and it is hoped that othei r ?r:farturers will follow their ex : ' and furnish other rooms, as i . ivfs public spirit and at the same i n: : iinstrate in the handsomest fash i what is being done in the State. "!: North Carolina building will bo ; ! charge of some specially appointed 1 ns oj person all the time and i-ring North Carolina week, August 1 :h to 17th. Governor and Mrs. Glenn v i'l be in entire control of it, as the c mrti-sion will for that weels turn the br:i!ding over to them. It is ex : -ted that on Thursday of that week, l ' ere will be a general reception on a y lare scale, as that will be ''North Carolina Dav." A Large Bequest for Guilford College Kiih Point, N, C, Special. Mr. J. V. C.'x. one of the trustees of Guil f r 1 College, has received the encour r news from Chicago that large ! .-f;::pst has been left to said college 1 m the Fowle B. Hill estate. Mr. I ill was related to James J. Hill, the r ii .vav magnate, and has relatives in N; nil Carolina. North State Notes. A splendid monument to Cleveland v s Confederate soldwrs was i : vr:Vd on May 10th. Col. Locke ( i w. the brilliant orator of the tc;T?:n. !tnte Veterinarian Butler, who vent to Polk county to investigate the : ed case of glanders, finds it was i t ;I:at disease but merely an abscess i.: the tooth. John Bethel a notorious negro was fl ;.-t and killed while attempting to i pe from the convict camp of nke count v near Wake Forest. He v : s sentenced to four years for lap nv. He escaped from jail some y'-ys ago, leading several other pris- ( i:ers. - i nstiranee Commissioner Young rules no life insurance company doing i : -i::ess in North Carolina shall issue r.rv special or board contracts or sell : iv stock in connection with its pol i its. This is to prevent rebating and intended to place all citizens of the S ; te nnon the same basis as far as lii'" insurance contracts are concern' c-L Secretary Livingston Johnson re ports that North Carolina Baptists diirin.- the nast twelve months gave " .'.'iO.500 for foreign missions and $16, 14 for home missionaries. Wake Forest College has in four months i lis.'d .37,000 on the new endowment fun 'I. William Dancv, who served in Com v E. Fortv-seventh North Carolina ! -. iiiicnt and who also nai ee" )-. TT.mio 15 vears, died a SO. t,1c,Qr..o Commissioner Young p.-.vs into the State Treasury $30,131 Ai 'ill receipts. Mad Rood Run Spencer, Special. Deputy Sheriff ! oks and another officer nau an ..- -nter with West Sprinkle, an escap- convict of bad reputation, whom ' v spotted on a street car here. ' fen the officers approached Spni ! jumped from the car and took to v-MR tie officers firing one round thsir mac LUWWw 1 ICU Ulu. b - they 1 , 1 in thick un tUlil ilAKULWA ()W Condition of North Carolina Crops for the Past Week as Given Out ty the Department Conditions for Veek Ending Monday, May 13. There was a deficiency of tempera ture during the past week, very near ly every day being partly cloudy. The temperature averaged slightly below normal, and the precipitation some what above normal. The highest tem peratures wen,- generally recorded mi the 7th; from that date the weather grew steadily cooler until the 12th when the lowest temperatures oc curred. No frosts were reported, but the cool weather has been very un favorable. Rain occurred generally on the 8th and 9th, but locaf showers occurred in some places, especially i.i the western district, vary nearly every day from the 7th to the' 11th. "Sev.Ye thunderstorms occurred in the Cen tral District on the Slh and 0th. While the rainfall was not excessive, still the previous rains were abundant, and the continuation of the wet weather givatly delayed farming operations. A. II. Thiessen, Section Director. Mrs. Patterson Suicides. Salisbury, Special. Persons from Mill Bridge told the pathetic story of Mrs. Bina Patterson's suicide Fri day evening at her home ten miles from Salisbury. The stories vary in that some of them represented Mrs. Patterson as cutting her throat in a room and dying quietly while the oth ers declared she was in the yard and after slashing her throat ran after her children, whom Mr. Patterson had told to give the alarm to the neigh bors. Mrs. Patterson lived about !. minutes after committing the deadly deed. She was conscious a portion of the time, although is appeared that she was entirely deranged. Laboring under the delusion that she had done some great theological wrong, she scrawled as she rapidly bled to death these words: "(rod revealed to me the day that I have overthrown the kingdom of God." Mrs. Patterson was Miss Bina Lingle, belonging tt that brilliant Rowan family, whose sons and daughters have imortalized themselves. Her brother, Rev. Dr. Walter Lingle, of Atlanta, is" one of the South 's foremost ministers' and her brother, Rev. W. II. Lingle. is a missionary to China. Dr. Thomas Lingle, is president of a Western university, Mrs. Patterson was in her days of lucidity a delightfully itted and brilliant woman. It is be- leved that Mrs. Patterson's tempora ry insanity resulting from cumulative SOl'IOWS. Within ihr- nt vpn shp l, a f-st mother and sistei . Mrs. J. A. Me- Oabbins dying veiy recently. Charles Ramsey Granted Bail. Asheviile, Special. Charles Ram- ey, the .Madison county oiheer who. on the night of Saturday. April 27, shot and killed Claude Ball at a ''box supper at Laurel rork, Madison county, has been released on $2,000 bond for appearance at the next term of Superior Court or Madison county for the trial of criminal cases. The elease of the alleged slaver of young Ball was through habeas corpus pro ceedings. The day after the killing officer Ramsey was arrested and sub sequently placed in jail. Recently at torneys sought their client's release and a writ of habeas corpus was is sued. Considerable interest it is said. will attach to the trial of Ramsey at the next term of court. Joe Ball fa ther of the slain man, is a very in fluential citizen of Madison county, where officer Ramsey is also well known with a large family connection. Charlotte to Gastonia. Gastonia. Special. From Gastonia to Charlotte by electric railway that is one ot the posihilities of the next year or two. Not onlv is it a nosibil- ity, but the construction of such a line seems highly probable. The basis for this statement is the fact that a pro posed route for such a line has been surveyed. Mr. W. L. Law, chief en gineer for the Four C's, and his corps of a asittant reached Gastonia Thurs day afternoon, the terminal stake be ing driven down about 6 o'oclock almost in front of the Falls House. Mr. Law, stated that the route as sur veyed by him takes in Mount Holly, MCAoenvnie, Lowell and Gastonia, the length of the route being about CO miles all told. State News in Brief. Dr. J. W. McNeill, of Favetteville. of the Bickett commission, will visit colonies ot epileptics in several States North and West. .A special committee composed of Dr. McNeill and the sup erintendents of hospitals at Morgan- ton, Raleigh and Goldsboro. will care fully investigate and report on best plans for handling epileptics. At Lumberton on Friday a monu ment of imposing elegance was unveil ed. This shaft was erected under the auspices of ie Daughters of the Con federacy to the memory of the Con federate soldiers of Robeson countv. Almost Despaired Of. Spencer, Special. Conductor Rob ert L. Miller, who has a run on the Southern Railway between Spencer and Monroe, Va., is critically ill with pneumonia at the home of his brother. Engineer J. Q. Miller, of this place. His life has been almost despaired of several times within the past week. An abscess was discovered on one of his lungs and an operation for the same was performed with the hope of saving his life. Dr. Battle Highly Honored. Chapel Hill, Special. Dr. Kemp Plummer Battle, L. L. D., who has for so many years served th University with such efficiency as alumni profes sor of history, and from 1876 to 1891 as president has received the honor oi' an annuity from the Carnegie Founda tion for the Advancement of Educa tion, bis annuity of $1,650 to go into effect whenever Dr. Battle shall see fit to retire from his duties iu the IVl iviity end accept it, WHEAT GOES HIGHER Crop Conditions Bring About a Sharp Advance in Price GOES TO ONE DOLLAR A BUSHEL Ne Claims in Any Direction That Market Was Being Manipulated Heavy Realizing Sales Pushed Price Backwards Somewhat Fol lowing Opening, But at Close Mark et Was Strong With Demand Un satisfied. Chicago, Special. In most sensa tional opening in the history of the Chicago board of trade, wheat shot past the dollar mark. Heavy realiz ing sales pushed the price backwards somewhat, but at the close the market was strong and, according to the ma jority of speculators on the board, the demand upon which the late advance lias been made is still unsatisfied. The net advance for wheat was four cents for the July and September options and 4 1-8 for the December option. From the low point of Monday of last week July wheat had advanced 13 1-1. September has gone up 15 3-4. In the December option the high point was l(i 3-4 above the low price of Monday. It was a certainty that a strong bulge would take place in the wheat market at the opening. As soon as the gong sounded there was a terrific roar of voices, all anxious to buy and nobody offering to sell. The trade was too big and to broad to be fol lowed with any uncertainty, and brokers filled orders frequently sev eral cents away from the point at which they had hoped to buy. The July option opened between 03 and 94. which was 1 1-4 to 2 3-S cents higher than the close of Satur day. September opened at 95 to 00. which was up 1 3.H to 5 3-S above the closing price of last week. De cember showed a wider range than any of the other options, as the opening for December ran at all fig ures between 9C 1-2 and 103. The rush of buying orders seemed to come from almost every town i'i the United States which was situated along a telegraph wire. The profes sional traders were of the opinion that the opening was a little too vigorous and that the chance to seize profits on lines of long wheat carried over Sunday was tempting. As soon, therefore, as trade steadied a trifle, millions of bushels were thrown up on the market in realizing sales. As a result, the advance for a time was checked. The buvimr orders, however. still poured in and the market again soared. There were no claims in anv direc tion that the market was being mani pulated. The general opinion seem ed to be that the advance was based upon natural conditions which are certain to curtail in lartre degree the world's coming wheat crop. Advices. from all parts of the West and North west confirmed previous reports of damage by weather and by insects. In addition, telegrams from the Can adian Northwest declared that there was still no possibility of seeding l.i that district, and that every day of delay meant the loss of thousands of acres that might otherwise have been sown to wheat. Such prominent traders as William H. Bartlett and James A. Patten declared that condi tions at home and abroad warranted the sensational advance in prices, de claring that the wheat problem for this year will be a difficult one for Eu ropean buyers to solve. Marvin Boy Dead of Exposure. Dover, Del., Speeial. The jury which has been investigating the death of Horace Marvin, Jr., rendered the following verdict : "That Horace N. Marvin, Jr.. came to his death from exposure the fourth day of March, 190J." There were 15 members "of the coro ner's jury, but only 12 voted for the exposure. The others refused to vote. Telegrams Interfered With. Puerto Cortez, By Cable. Com mander Fullman, of the United States gunboat Marietta, has had another un pleasant experience with Central Am erican administrative methods, by the tampering with his official telegrams by a Honduran commander. Com ma nler Fullman had given orders thai he America a marines be withdrawn from Gan Pedro, one of the few in terior towns to which American sold iers had been sent. On the day the troops were to leave, he learned thai Manuelito Banila, commander at Sar Pedro, had been reading his tele grams and delaying their transmissi r until it suited him to forward them. Nine Dead; Four Others Hurt. Bristol, Va., Speeial. Saturday af ternoon, while a force of men were ai work blasting on the South & West ern Railway on the works of the Can Bros, at Altapass, N. C, an explosion occurred, in which nine men were in stantly killed and four others were seriously, if not fatally injured. T!u men are employes of the railway com pany and were natives of the Allapa- sect ion. Schooner Moore Towed to Port Badlj Injured. Norfolk, Va., Speeial The three masted schooner William Thom-if Moore was towed into Norfolk at't 'i a collision off Hog Island with tin Cuban steamer Bayamo which struck the Moore with great force, taking- ct'i the schooner's bowsprit and badK damaging her bow. The Moore w.is bound from Charleston, S. C, for ;-: York, lumber laden and ibe Bayamc was bound from New York to Cuba, 31 DIE IN A WRECK Swift Running Excursion Spe cial Totaliy Demolished MANY MORE INJURED WILL DIE Special Train Carried 145 Shriners and Friends Returning From Los Angeles Locomotive Struck De fective Switch While Running 50 Miles an Hour, Turning Somer sault. Santa Barbara, Cal., Speeial. Tir-ty-one dead and a score injured com prise the casulties of the wreck &t Honda Saturday of the Ismailia spec ial train of New York and Pennsyl vania nobles of the Mystic Shrine, who were returning home from the annual meeting of the Imperial Coun cil of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shriners al Los Angeles.. The train carrying 145 Shriners and friends from Ismailia Temple, Buffalo; Rajah Temple, Reading. Pa., and neighboring cities was rushing northward at 50 miles and hour on the Southern Pacific coast line when the locomotive struck a defective switch at the sand-swept sea coast siding of Honda near the waters of the Pacific ocean, along which the railroad runs for 100 miles north o Santa Barbara. The locomotive turned a sumersault into the yielding sands. The cars swirled through the air and landed on the fiery mass of wrecked steel. The coaches were crushed to debris, and took fire. The flames were so-m extinguished by uninjured persons from the rear coaches. As Honda is isolated it was not till late Sunday that definite information could be collected. The bodies of 25 victims now lie in hanta .Barbara ami lour more are at San Luis Obispo. The injured, many of whom are terribly hurt, and some of whom may die, are in two sanitariums at San Luis Obis po. The wreck occurred at 2:35 o'clock one hour and 45 minutes after the party had left Santa Barbara, where they had spent all the morning sight seeing. The statement that the train was making a terrific speed when it struck the defective track is borne out by the fact that it covered the Gl miles of crooked track from Santa Barbara to Honda in 300 minutes The locomotive in leaving the rails tore up the track, twisting the huge steel rails into fish hooks. The bag gage ear half buried itself in the sand on the right side of the locomotive. It was smashed almost to kindling wood. The dining car, in which were 32 persons eating luncheon, leaped inio the air and fell directly on the de molished locomotive. Nearly every person in the dining car was instant ly killed. Scores were scalded by steam escaping from disconnected pipes. The rear coaches rushed on the first wreckage, jamming it on those who might otherwise have escaped. Several pinioned in the debris were roasted alive. Engineer Frank Champlain was pitched with the cab 25 feet beyond the engine. He got up nd ran a mile, seeking help before he discovered tint his arm was broken and that lie was severely scalded. Only two of the nine men of the dining car crew- are numbered among the dead. The re mainder, though cooped up in the nar row kitchen and pantry, sustained only cuts and bruises. A last call for luncheon had just sounded a few minutes before the disaster. Embezzler Surrenders. Charlotte, N. C, Special. -The ex pected happened Saturday morning when Mr. Franc II. Jones, the default" ing assistant cashier of the Charlotte Aanonhl IJnnk, suddenly appeared in ihe city and voluntarily surrendred himself into the custody of the Unit ed States officers to answer the charge preferred against him, that of embez zlement. Mr. Jones arrived on South ern passenger train No. 44, which came in a few minutes before G o'clock . He was accompanied by his wife and his attorney, Mr. C. D. Ben nett. A preliminary hearing was given him Saturday night, and he was released on a bond of $10,000. $380,000 Improvement Bonds. Richmond, Va., Special. The Rich mond, Fredericksburg & Potomae Railroad Company sold $380,000 of 3 1-2 per cent 40 year gold bonds to the Kichmond-W ashington Company to provide funds for "the Richmond, Frederisksburg & Potomac portion vf the cost of double tracking the belt line around Richmond, and to buy new rolling stock. The Richmond. Fredericksburg & Potomac will pur chase immediately 100 new steel coal cars and 200 new steel under-frame box cars. On July 1 next the per diem hire of freight cars will be in creased from 25 cents to 50 cents. 90 Are Supposed Dead in Mine. City of Mexico, 'Special. Ninety men are supposed to have lost their lives in a fire which started in t'.o Ten ores Copper Mines at Varlardena, in the Staie of Dinango, last Fridrfy nivhr. The iiie is si":!! raging ami is said to be beyond ontrol. Tliim iivc bodies have bevi recovered up ; this time. Seventeen miners are known to have escaped. Strong Sentenced to Three Years. Macon, Ga., Special. After delib erating 21 hours, the jury in the case of L. D. Strong, charged with the murder of Henry Smith returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter and Strong was sentenced to three years imprisonment. Notice of appeal w is filed. Strong shot and killed Srni'li. it is alleged, because of Smith V :"i-wjvTrr-tcliit? l'-t toyrv! .',y:.u.-' AGAINST THE TRUST Court Decides That Druggists Must Not "BSsck List." OLD PRACTICES AT AN END Decree of United States District. Court Pereptually Enjoins it From Continuing Operations. Indianapolis, Iiid., Speeial. The so ealled "drug trust" was perpetually Jnjoined from continuing its opera tions by the entering of a decree in the United States Circuit Court for the district of Indiana on the com plaint of the United States govera- Jieut filed by JosepI B. Kealing, United States district attorney. The defendants, 92 in number, who are the members, officers, directors, agents and attorneys of the Nation al Association of Retail Drug-gists, with the National Wholesale Drug lists' Association, tri-partite proprie tors "black list manufacturers," ''direct contract proprietors," 'wholesale contract proprietors," and Charles C. Bombaugh, are pre petually eu joined from combining and conspiring to restrain trade in drugs, fix prices by agreement, black list retailers who cut prices, or to re fuse to sell to any retailer on equal terms. All publication of black lists is forbidden and all contracts and agreements covered by the charges and declared void. The direct contract serial number plan is prohibited as well as the secur ing of the adoption of schedules for the sale of drugs. Charles C. Bombaugh was charged in the bill of complaint with being engaged in printing and circulating lists caiievi uiaeK Jisis, wineli contain ed the names of druggists throughout the country who sold proprietary ar ticles and medicines at prices less than those which the alleged combina tion ordered. , As charged, .he mailed a list each month to every retail -and wholesale druggist in the United States who be longed to the association, of those ac cused ot cutting prices, and as a re sult of this, these "aggressive cut ters" as they were rolled, could not buv soods. It was further charged that those accused of cutting juices on proprie tary medicines, were unable to pur chase any kind of drugs from the members of the several asociations. All such practices are perpetually en joined. HEIR TO SPANISH THRONE. Young Queen Gives Birth to a Son and There is Great Public Rejoic ing. Madrid, By Cable. The news that the direct male succession to the throne of Spain had been assured by the birth Friday of a son to ()ueen Victoria sent a thrill of rejoicing throughout the country and 'at night the happy event is beinu: celebrated from one end of the land to another. Mother and child are both doiu.r well. The hurried departure of royal mes sengers form the palace at 10 o'clock to summon the courtiers and the mem bers of the diplomatic corps gave the first indicaticl that the birth was im minent. The usual gathering outside the Paiii1? Ji.rt yard was soon swel led by immense throngs of the excit ed populace, who watched the con tinued stream of brilliantly uniformed personages driving up to the royal residence and tried to identify the in dividuals. When the event was finally announced theje was great public de monstration of joy. Congratulations were later teeeived from all parts of the world. Entire Train Leaves Rails. Chicago, Special. One woman was killed, and three score other persons were injured in a wreck on the Chica go, Burlington & Qnincy Railroad at the crossing of that line with Hamlin avenue in the southwestern part of the city. The woman whose life was lost was Mrs. Mary Miller, widow of Thomas Miller, formerly traffic man ager of the Burlington road. Fully 40 passengers were injured, but in so slight a manner that they did not report their injuries to the ponce. White Boy Slashed by Negro. Winston-balem. Special. beorge Sales, a young white boy about lii years old, was fearfullv cut by a ne gro at the R. J. Reynolds tobacco factory about 5 o'clock Friday after noon. Two long gashes were cut in his head iiecessitatin 2ii stitches in dressing the wound. He is painfully, though not seriousl v wounded. The negro who did the cutting has not yet been arrested but the police are searching for him. More Than 300 Men Desert. Hamilton, Bermuda, By Cable. The British cruser squadron comand- ed by Rear Admiral Neville, which arrived at Bermuda from' Hampton Roads, reports thai wholesale descr tiniss liMii Hiitish ships occurred while tlx'v were in American waters. It is estimated that over 'MO men, in cluding many chief petty officers, .ie serted. For the apprehension of s chief voemsu ;f signals, a reward of $500 is offered. Lynchhurg Box Factory Burned. Lynchburg, Speeial. The box fac tory belonging to R. E. Mitchell, m the East End, was destroyed by fire entailing a loss aggregating about $... 000, with $2,600 insurance on stock building and equipmeut. It is be lieved that spontaneous combustion caused the fire. Three nearby Wfca IjfiiUW, but the tit them. AND STILL THE SEA GIYES UP TWO MONTH-LONG BATTLE ON SHIPBOARD ' BETWEEN CHINESE AND RUSSIANS k Thousand Rabid Coolies and Maddened Peasants Engage in Deadly Combat at All Hours ol the Day and Night During Maori King's Last Trans-Pacific Voyage. " San Diego, Cal. With nearly 1000 enraged Chinese and 200 maddened Russians rushing in mobs at each other, thirsting for "blood and a fight to the death while a helpless crew of half a hundred friendly Chinese and three lonely English officers stood between the murderous assaults in an effort to stop the fearful carnage only to be set upon by both forces, while a. ernwrloH hin rnllprl wilrllv in a fierce storm such was the awful j America, vhere it was the intention experience on board the British ship j of the EarI. her owner, to search for Maori King, which sought San Diego r treasure. Harbor, forced to run for refuge here i The vessel was beached and in order to nrevent what appeared to wrecked oil the coast of Honduras be certain wholesale slaughter. an(1 is a complete loss. As a result of therace war six Res- The owner and crew escaued nar sians and two Chinese lie dead and rowly with their lives. The Eari and more than 200 are dangerously i Countess FiczwiHiam went to Keii?.?, wounded from knife thrusts-. '.ccovd- wilere they were cared for by the ing to Cantain J. W. Duncan, hi com- i British colonial authorities, while the mand of ths slric'ien shin, the Mi-ori . "-i-e sent to Xew Orleans. Tney King left Vladivostok wi-.h 'J21 Chi- ! will be forwarded from here to Xew nese. 417 Russians, a crew of fifiv- j orl:. six Chinese, who had Ions; been in the ! s is the second expedition seur service of the boat .and their officers: ! out by Karl Fitzwilliam within the Captain Duncan. First Officer T. S. '; Vernon and Second Officer T. H. 0;:- lev Tt annoys Hint a Chines rniiivnf- tor, Lee Sun Sai, lured the Chine.se on board the ship from the vicin'.ty of Harbin on a promise to land them i in San Francisco. When two a-jys out he told them a lmslahe had been made, and the boat would land them ; at Guayamas, Mexico. On learning' of . this deception the Chinese broke out , in mutiny, chased the officers of the ' ship into their cabins, attacked those , of the Chinese crew who remained faithful and then starved a race war on the Russians. The officers finally fought their way out, and, after shooting a score of the Chinese, regained control of the ship. All of the horrors of mu tiny rampant with a horde of rabid coolies of the lowest and basest type engaging in deadly combat all hoars of the day and night for nearly a ; month, were intensified by the filth j of the passengers and the rotten . decks, unwashed and putrefying with ' thick coating of offal, blood and foul garbage. Disease broke out among the Chi nese, making the situation worse. : As they refused to allow the surgeon ; near them over a hundred died like rats and were thrown overboard. "It was a real hell shin," accord ing to First Officer T.S. Vernon, "and have seen some pretty tough lots in my time. "Just a week ago we were caught in a trightful storm. Even witn a free crew we would have had great difficulty in riding her out. But with 1 a row going on between the Russians ada and was the oldest, son ot Vjs and the Chinese it was awful. The count Milton, M. P., and Laura, propeller shaft smashed through its daughter of Lord Charles Eeauclerk. steel case and it took us two days to repair it. All of this time we were being beaten to and fro in a raging storm, the waves washing clear over the decks. But the Chinese and Russians were bent on murdering each other, and the battle still went on. Their the Chinese called for the life of Lee Sun Sai, the contractor. "During the blackest night, the Chinese, most of them stripped bare to the waist, their brown bodies slick and shining in the lightning flashes, surged back and forth, nearly a thou sand of them, brandishing long knives and screaming hoarsely in their hideous gibberish like so many fiends on Walpurgis night. "Thev rushed at the Russians again and again, cutting and slashing and stabbing. The officers were simply helpless." British Vice-Consul Allen Hutcn- inson has appealed to the military authorities, and orders have been re ceived from Washington that as many soldiers as necessary to quell the mu tineers be detailed from Fort Rose crans. Captain Duncan asks that the United States allow a guard to ac company the Maori King to Guaya mas, as the Chinese cannot be landed on this side. Baltimore Goes Democrat ir. Barry Maboo!, Democrat, and President of the First Branch, City Council, was elected Mayor of Balti more over E. Clay Timanus, Repub lican, the present incumbent, by a majority of about 4000. Trust Prosecutions Iiag. Attorney-General Bonaparte let. trust prosscniions stagnate, spending nearly all his time in Baltimore, and when questioned by President Roose velt said he had been ill. Feminine Xotes. Nineteen women have been elected to the Finnish Diet. Patti will sing again in Paris to keep a promise made to De Reszke and open his new theatre. Bertha Krupp, the heiress of the late great German ironmaster, who was recently married, has received a new title, "Queen Krupp." Her in come goes on increasing, as does her state and power. Mrs. C. L. Culver, wife of the f-p- cife '-j -usy, lowe, sua- dutit a ;'sii i f :uv't'iuus tee lead- ere down with a roliiug piu. IT RISES. IM . .- j t From the Pit slmrg Dispatci THRILLING NEWS STORIES WRECK OF SHI? IN WHICH EARL SOUGHT BURIED COCOS TREASURE Noble Patron of Gold Hunters and His Wile Narrowly Escape With the Crew ol the Attiquin Golden Goddess With Mantle o! Gems Still Unrescued. New Orleans, La. The Anselra, just arrived in port, brought the crew of the steamer Attiquin, a private vessel belonging to the Earl Fitzwill iaro. The At tin a in v, ps a large vessel, built after the style o an auxiliary cruiser. She cleared, from Bristol, England, stopped at Tampa and Be lize, British Honduras, which j:oint she left for a voyage around Cape Horn, her destination being Cocos Island, off the west coast of Central last three years to uncover the fabled treasure on Cocos Island that has come to grief. In the latter part of i04 the steamer VeroiiiQue, wnien was chartered for the purpose by '--an r-nzwuiiam, carina me -ari. Anairai ramser. reureu, oi me r ru ish navy: Colonel Carter, of the Brit ish army, and several other friends of Earl Fitzwilliam to the famous treasure island cif the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. The Earl stopped at Jamaica and took on two expert miliars and siv teen negro laborers, with a mass of equipment and supplies. The steam er finally got to Cocos after a i-ouh trip around the Horn. When The party got to the island an old German, who was about the only resident of the place, told the Englishmen that if they looked in the right place they could find C, 000, 000 pounds of treas ure and a golden statue ol a goddess robed in a costume of royal gems. The German said that he guessed the statue was buried under a ciiif that overlooked the sea. The miners prepared to blow up the cliff and get at the statue in that way, but. a premature blast blew the top of the cliff down on top of them. Those who escaped went to work to dig out their comrades, assisted by the Earl. There was a landslide, which- buried the Earl and his men in the sand, and gave him a fractured skull. A dozen of the men were sent; to the American Hospital at Ancon, Panama. As soon as the Earl was able to travel he and his friends went back home. Earl Fitzwilliam was born in Can- He married a daughter of the Mar quis of Zetland. He succeeded his grandfather, the sixth Earl Fitzwill iam, in 1902. He carried dispatches for the army headquarters staff dur ing the Boer war, for which he re ceived the Ord'r of Distinguished Merit. He is Master of the Went worth Hounds and the Wicklow Har riers. He has vast estates in York shire and in County Wicklow, Ire land, which are said to aggregate 115.000 acres, from which he derives an income of more than $500,000 a year. .He is one of the wealthiest peers of the empire. The Cocos treasure is supposed to have got there in 1820, when there was a big revolt in Peru and the wealthy citizens at Callao took their valuables out and buried them on the island. While they were going back to Peru a sloop of war sunk all on board but two men. Ths story runs that these two men finally gor. back to the island and picked up $7500 worth of treasure, but on the way back one of them was eaten by sharks. The other fitted up a ship at Panama for treasure hunting pur poses, but. was arrested and narrowly escaped being executed. Then he died a natural death. "S;lent" Smith's Will. Following the funeral services the contents of James Henry Smith's will were made known in New York City. His estate is estimated at S25,000,n00, of which the widow re ceives $3,000,000. Two nephews are the principal beneficiaries. Panic Costly to KIorM. . The panic in stocks in March cost the florists of New York City half a million dollars in lessaned sales dur ing the week before Easter. Prominent People. Peary says $100,000 must be forthcoming before ho will start for the North Pole. Dr. Wiley, pure food export. weighs 250 pounds, notwithstanding the doctor takes his own medicine. isow that Maarteu Maartens is in this country it is important to know that his real name is Herr J. Van Der Poorten Schwartz. Wisconsin admirers of Carl Schurz have raised $60,000, which will be 'ss-i to maintain an exchange chair iu n e University of Wisconsin with ; uouifc German uuivereit', Late Jettjs In 'Brief MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST Charles 11. Mover, president of the Western Federation of Miners, who is indicted foi complicity in the mur der of ex-Governor Steuuenberg, of Idaho, is said to have served a term in Joliet Pcntitentiary. Capt. A. Krech. of the Hamburg American liner Graf Waldersee, died on the voyage to New York. A shortage which may run up to $100,000 lias been discovered in the Syracuse (N. Y.) treasury. The appellate divison of the New York Supreme Court has affirmed the sentance of one year in jail and a fine of $300 gainst Lawyer Abraham H. Hummel. The rail manufacturers and the rail roads are to name a commission which will determine whether the quality of .'ails needs improving. It is said that the railroads will spend $1,000,000,000 during the next year for improvments. In the Southern Wyoming moun tains it has been snowing for 24 days and the temperature has been below zero all the time . Friction attributed to too much mother-in law has broken out in the family of Frank Jay Gould. The May music festival at York, Pa., is declared to have been a big suc cess. A son ami heir to the throne was born to the King and Queen of Spain. Americans accuse the Guatemalan Government of perpetrating un speakable outrages. Earthquake shocks were felt in Austria-Hungary and at Irkutsk. Sibera. The Czar has signed the $15,000,000 famine relief appropriation. Paris critics are at, war over Rich ard Strauss' musical drama, "Sa lome. ' ' A reception by the President, din ners by So-rctary Tal't. Secretary Root and Postma-ier-Gciieral Meyer were among the events given in Wash ington in honor of the Italian and Japanese visitors. Edward B. Moore, of Michigan, was appointed United States Commission er of Patents. Mr. Roosevelt called off the Cabinet meeting in order to take a ride in the woods, where photographers took bis picture jumping fences and ditches. The presentation of the memorial gates at Jamestown island by the Co lonial Dames of America took place at Jamestown. In an address before the Negro Bap tist Convention at Staunton, President R. II. Bowling said any preacher who had two living wives is unfit to preach the Gospel. A cable from Naples says: Enor mous clouds of ashes appeared from the sea, darkened the. sky and fell on the town. Considerable apprehen sion was felt when it was realized tint the clouds were ashes and cinders from Mounts EUia and Stromboli. A simiiiar phenomenon was noticed along the southern coast and caused panics in several places. A snecial from Bristol, Tenn., says: Felix Kidd, 28 years of age. was slit and killed at Alta Pass, N. C, Sunday afternoon. No details can be learned. William Quinn, chief of police of Greenville, Miss., committed suieUi! in the presence of his daughter, M:s-. Houston, who tried in vain to lake the pistol with which lie killed him self away from him. Quinn, it is as serted, had been drinking heavily. Jud Rook and Jno. Rook, aged Baud 11 years, respectively, were killed by a train on the Ocilla & Valdosta Rail road Sunday afternoon. The boys were driving in a wagon . Franc II. Jones, the defaulting assistant teller of the Chai'lotte, N. C, National Bank, returned to the city and surrendered himself to the authorities. He was held for federal court on a bond of $10,000. Thirty-one people were killed and many more fatally wounded in the wreck of a special train in California. Two Italian women were killed with a razor in New York and the husband of one a barber is accused of the crime. Charles Young, the 14-year-old son of Charles Young.of Berkeley Springs W. Va., was struck and instantly killed by Baltimore and Ohio express No. (j about two miles west of Han cock Thursday. The boy was walking on the track and did not hear the ap proach of the train. Frank Emmett, on trial for con spiracy against the Government, in Pittsburg, told how defective boiler tubes were palmed off on the Navy Department. Jamestown Exposition directors completed satisfactory arrangements for borrowing $400,000 for the Expo sition. George Grant Mason. "Silent" Smith's principal heir, who is said o resemble the latter, will move to New York and "rest." Affidavits were filed in the Eddy suit intending to support George Glov er's ponteneions. Efforts to make peace between the railways and strikers in San Francis co were begun by Mayor Scbmitz. Monroe County West Virginia, con templates the issuance of $100,000 bonds for the building of macada mized roads. Ambassador Bryee -poke on Mon day at the J&aesto-tfH Exposition t.j an iinnttiiM CM ( ftf peopll,
The Randolph Bulletin (Asheboro, N.C.)
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