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VOL IV.
DUNN. N., C, WEDNESDAY- JULY 1, 1396
NO. 2K .
LATEST NEWS ,
IN BRIEF,
GLEANINGS FROM 31 ANY POINTS.
Important Happenings, Both Home
and Foreign, Blcfly Told.
Southern News Notes.
At Oeala, Fla., while Duke Graham
und Tony Dice were in a boat on Sil
ver Springs Run spearing fish, they
were tired on from ambush. Graham
- u& Killed and Dice wounded.
The Seaskols Dry Goods Company,
of Louisville, Ky., has made an as
eipnraf nt to the Louisville Trust Com
panv. TLc assets are estimated at
.V! 15, 000, and the liabilities $73,000.
At Jc-rVersonvillo, 6a., Mrs. Eliza
beth Nobles and Gas Fambes were re
.( uU need by Judge C. C. Smith to
L.r.g on tLo 7th of August. The
iit.'o directed that Mrs. Nobles be
, iaucd firs?.
At Washington, Ga., in the trial of
J. L. Sutton, charged with being ac
cessory bei'ore the fact of the murder
oi li. L. Ilinton, the jury after staying
out fo.jr days and nights, returned a
verdict of acquittal.
.Consul General Lee's brother, Capt.
Dan. M. Lee, of Stafford county, Va.,
vho is in constant correspondence
-vith liis brother, denies emphatically
that Gen. Lee has written the private
k-tter concerning Cuban affairs.
The Loan and Savings! Bank of
Charlotte, N. C, is short to the
noio'int of $4,500. John E. Oats,
l-resident of the bank, has published a
iard to the public guaranteeing each
and every depositor that the shortage
in covered by his bondsmen, and that
the bank will continue to do business
ht the old stand as usual. j
Northern News Items.
The four round fight between ex
Champion James J. Corbett and Tom
Sharkey at San Francisco, was de
clared a draw.
Gen. Benjamin Harrison-was chosen
President of the Indiana State Bar As
sociation at its organization in Indian
apolis Tnesday.
The New England Granite Com
pany's works, at Mason, N. H., have
been destroyed by fire. Loss, 50,000.
Two hundred operatives are thrown
ont of employment. ..
. The Bank of Salt Lake City, Utah,
formerly the American National Bank,
has closed its doors. The owner, J. H.
Bacon, says all the liabilities will be
paid in full.
The jury in the case of Mrs. Mary
Almont Livingston Fleming, of New
York, charged wifh having poisoned
her mother, Mrs. Bliss, has returned
a verdict of hot guilty.
The directors of the Naumaukee,
Mass., Mills, have decided to further
curtail 'production by shutting down
No. 3 mill. No. 5 has been closed
since the first of the month. This
shut-down will reduce the total pro
duction about one-half. The company's
ether mills will run four days a week.
Prince Lief, Byron McClelland's
chestnut colt, won the National Derby
Saturday at St. Louis, Mo., in record
breaking time from a field of the best
three-year-olds on the turf. The
weather was ideal, the track never
faster, and the attendance 25,000.
Purse, $20,000.
Cornell's team won the boat race
from Harvard at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.,
after a hari struggle for the victory by
the latter, making the rowing in 10
minutes and 18 seconds, four seconds
hhead of her formidable rival, 8j seo--ads
ahead of the Pennsylvania crew,
and 33 seconds ahead of Columbia.
Foreign.
Henry M. Stanley, M. P., the Arc
tic explorer, is ill in London with in
flammation of the stomach. He has
been unable to take food for several
days, and his condition is serious.
A dispatch from Bayruth, Syria,
pays that during the recent fighting
between tha Turks and the insurgent
I' ruses in the Hauran districts, the
former lost 200 men killed. j
The German Derby, a race that is
worth 175,000 marks to the winner, was'
run Saturday at Berlin, Germany, and'
won by Trolhetta; Dandar was second
and Ganasche third. There were 25
starters. j
The portuguese government has
granted to Great Britain permission to
land troops at Beira, in the Portu
guese South African possessions, for
the purpose of marching tbem into
Matabeleland to quell the Matabele
uprising. !
John Scott, the last of the old law
reporters, has just died in England at'
the age of 93. His first volume of re-!
ports of cases in the Common Pleas, to
which court he was always attached, is
tor 2 William IT, the year 1832. He'
compiled 90 volumes of reports in all.
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Washington, j ' '.
Secretary Olney has received from
Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British am-;
bassador, a formal request to use his
Rood offices to secure the release of thej
British surveying party who wero ar-:
rested by Venezuelan police.
Confederate Monument in New York.
Arrangements are being made to dedicate
tbe monument in ML Hope Cemetery, New
York, in honor of the Confederate Veterans,
c n Labor day, but if not then perfected, on
Thanksgiving day. The G. A. R. will not
take part as a body, but many Grand Army
Pests will be represented. - The monument
U a stately obelL-k of granite.
Just the Same Thing. "Say, loan me
?10 for about a week?" "Can't; fcave
n't got but five." "That'll do led me
the five for two weeks!" Chicago Rec
ord. ' "
LADIES' DAY AT CANTON.
Public Reception to Major McKinley,
His Wife and Mother.
NON-PARTISAN DEMONSTRATION
Thousands of Women Greet the Candidate
for the Presidency and Family I'Iott-
er and Speeches of Congratulation
From the Home Folk for Mother and
"Wife No Men Actively Participated.
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Caxtojt, Ohio, Jane 27. Five thousand of
the hundred thousand people of Starke
County greeted ex-Governor McKinley, his
wife and mother at a public reception by tbe
women of Canton, late yesterday afternoon.
And of these five thousand there was not a
man present besides the Governor, the pa
trolmen at the doors, and two score report
ers. It was a non-partisan affair. The house
was darkened and there were handsome
floral and electrio light effects. Two hun
dred handsomely dressed women assisted in
the reception. There was music, and the
beautiful home of the late Jacob Millar, with
Its great rooms and broad lawns and shady
trees, presented a scene long to be remem
bered. For a half dozen blocks each way the
streets were crowded from 2 till 6 o'clock.
Mrs. Alice Danner Jones, one of the most
eloqnsnt women of Ohio, presented Gover
nor McKinley, his wife and his mother, who
is eighty-seven years old, from the balcony
overlooking the lawn.
Major McKinley thanked the assemblage
for the compliment to his wife and mother,
and concluded by saying that no man could
have a higher ambition than "to merit the
approval of the mothers and sisters of his
own city." Within the house a dai3 has been
erected in the reception-room, upon whien
MRS. WILLIAM M'KI'LEY, SB.
(Mother of the Republican candidate for
President.)
sat Mrs. McKinley and the Major's sweet
faced mother. They merely bowed to the
multitude. The Major stood upon the floor
and shook hands at his usual rate, thirty
three for every minute, pronouncing each
name as It was given to him, and frequently
adding a pleasant word or two.
For blocks and blocks the street was filled
with waiting carriages, and in t he yard a
surging sea of parasols told of thousands of
women of high and low degree Impatiently
awaiting opportunity to pas3 between the
ribbons held so as to form an aisle by the
younger matrons of Canton.
CORNELL THE WINNER.
First in the Greatest 'Varsity Race of the
Year.
The 'Varsity boat race was rowed at Pough
keepsie, N. Y., over the Hudson course, the
finest In the world and under perfect condi
tions. The little crew, representing Cornell
University, won from Harvard by four open
lengths in nineteen minutes, twenty-nine
seconds, which breaks the American colle
giate record for four miles. The University
of Pennsylvania boat lapped that of Har
vard. Columbia was twelve lengths behind.
The race was rowed and won in the pres
enoe of more people than ever before wit
nessed a race in this oouotry. Probably 30,
000 people saw the Cornell and Harvard
crews make their magnificent struggle.
The crimson men led for two and a half
miles, with Cornell and Pennsylvania so
close as to be dangerous. For two miles
these three crews were close together. There
was not half a length between any two of
them.
The struggle between Cornell and Harvard
up to the third mile was as grand a fight as
was ever seen on the water. Cornell trained
inch by inch until their boat forged ahead,
and then Harvard, though upon almost even
terms, had to drop back beaten.
Pennsylvania was three lengths behind
Harvard at the beginning of the fourth mile,
but her crew pulled up until they finished
less than a length behind the Cambridge men.
GREATER NEW YORK COMMISSION.
The Members Meet and Organize, bat Dis
cover Divergent Views.
The Greater New Yorx Commission, after
it had organized in New York City, found it
self divided. On the question as to whether
it should declare itself for a borough form of
government the New York commissioners
were arrayed against those from Brooklyn.
It was the first sign of difference of opinion,
and was considered as an indication ot future
contention. ;
The organization of the commission was
effected in Mayor Strong's office. General
Benjamin F. Tracy was elected President,
George M. Piimey, Jr., of Staten Island. Sec
retary, and Silas B. Dutcher, of Kings
County, Treasurer.
Former Mayor Thomas F. Gilroy, who was
appointed by Governor Morton to fill the va
canoy caused by the refusal of Comptroller
Fitch to serve as a commissioner, was pres
ent. His appointment wa9 made public by
Mayor Strong when the commission met.
Cloudburst Wrecks Homes aud Crops.
A cloudburst at Marietta, Ohio, which
covered a wide area, was the most destruc
tirA thof ATAr rieitAii that terrirorv. Houses
were swept away, stock of all kinds drowned
and many persons narrowly escaped with
their lives. In some streams the water rose
twenty feet In ten minutes. Crops are ruined
on the Little Muskingum for twenty miles.
New Mexico Populists.
At the New Mexico Populist Territorial
Convention held at Albuquerque for the se
lection of delegates to the National Conven
tion resolutions advocating co-operation with
TiaTTinflratio uartv for the purpose of
gaining free coinage of silver at the ratio of
IS to 1 were aaoptea unimmwimj.
North Carolina Democrats.
At Baleigh Cyrus W. Watson was nomin
ated bv the North Carolina Democratic Con
vention for Governor on the fir5t ballot. The
platform adopted instructs in aeiegaies :o
p&lcago to vote f or freesllver.
FATHER KNEIPP TO VISIT US.
Famons Originator of the Cold Wafer
Treatment to Come Herein September.
The Rev. Mgr. Sebastian Kneipp will come
to the United States this fall to deliver lec
tures and perform his cares. Hugh Ch.
Pressfreund has sailed from New York for
Woeriahofen, in Bavaria, where the priest
lives, to perfect himself in the methods of
the cure and to bring the reverend physi
clan back with him.
Father Kneipp i3 celebrated throughout all
Europe as the originator of the cold water
cure. When, rs a young man, he had Just
entered the priesthood, his health began to
fail, and he thought he would be obliged to
MOB. KNEIPP AXD TWO OF HIS f ATXDTTS.
(The patients are Archduke Joseph of Aus
tria and his son.)
give up his profession. He was loath to do
this, however, and began a careful study of
the human body. He became convinced that
the congestion of the blood in different parts
of the body was the cause of most of the ills
to which flesh is heir, and determined that
the external application of ice cold water
was the best remedy for that. He underwent
a course of this treatment himself and was
soon restored to health.
He established himsejf In Woerishofen,
one of the prettiest towns in Bavaria, and
lias treated all who came to him free of
charge ever since. Kecently his cure became
all the rage in France and Germany, and
last year it is estimated that more than
thirty thousand persons were treated by him
and his assistants. The Emperor of Austria
has undergone the treatment twice. The
Archduke Joseph of Austria and his son,
Archduke Augustin, were treated by him'
this year, and different members of the
Rothschild family have paid him visits.
When the Pope was ill two years ago
Father Kneipp went to Rome and treated
him. The Pope was so well pleased with
the treatment that he oonlerred the title of
Mon3ignor upon the priest.
Besides the cold water treatment only the
simplest kinds of remedies are used. Each
patient 13 compelled to walk barefooted in
the snow in winter and on the wet grass in
Fummer. Nervou3 affections are the dis
eases which yield most readily to the treat
ment. LYMAN TRUMBULL DEAD.
He Caught a
Fatal Cold at
of a Friend.
the Funeral
Ex-United States Senator Lyman Trum
bull died at his home in Chicago, after a long
illness, the result of a cold caught while at
tending the funeral of an old friend. He
died surrounded by his family.
A career like that of Lyman Trumbull's
comes to few men. For more than sixty
years his had been a life of ceaseless activity.
He had ben school teacher, "lawyer, judge.
Ha played his part in politics on the stump,
in the halls of Congress, in the deliberations
of parties and as a non-combatant counselor.
In the beginning he was an anti-Slavery
Democrat. As a Republican he fought side
by side with the men who founded the Re
publican party of to-day. Then he again
became a Democrat. In the latter years of
his life he parted company with that party
and became a Populist. . And all the men of
all parties respected him. Judge Trumbull's
last api earance in a court room was made
as counsel for the American Railway Union
officers before the Supreme Court in Wash
ington. He was twice married. His first
wife was Julia Maria Jayne, of Spiingflld,
III., whom he wedded in 1843. She died in
Washington in 18G8. In 1837 he married
Mary J. Ingraham, of Saybrook, Conn. He
was born in Colchester, Conn., in 1813.
GEORGIA FOR SILVER,
The State Convention Adopts the Unite
Rule.
The Georgia Democratic State Convention
met at Macon and instructed the State dele
gates to the Chicago Convention to vote as a
unit. The following were named as dele-
gates-at-large: Evan P. Howell, Patrick'
Walsh, Al. Lewis and Pope Brown.
The platform declares forthe free, unlimit
ed and independent coinage of silver at the
ratio of 16 to 1. and condemns the Cleveland
Administration.
. Governor W. Y. Atkinson led the conserva
tive and Evan P. Howell, of Atlanta, the
radical elements of the silverites.
Governor Atkinson and the other State
officers, except State Treasurer Hardeman,
were renominated. W. J. Speer was named
for State Treasurer.
Sheriff Shot by Tramps.
Two tramps shot a farmer's dog near
Glencoe, Minn., and a warrant for their
arrest was secured and given to Sheriff
Rogers, of McLeod County, to serve. The
Sheriff, with a duputy, overtook the tramps
and demanded their surrender, whereupon
the vagrants opened fire, killing Rogers al
most instantly.
Filibusters Seized.
United States revenue officials on the
steamer Winona, of that department, have
seized the Three Friends and the City of
Richmond at Key West. Fla., their com
manders being accused of filibustering.
27,000 Killed In Japan.
It is now said that 27,000 'persons were
drowned and 8000 wfre injured by the .re
cent tidal wave and earthquakes in the
northern provinces of Japan.
A Venezuelan Incident Closed.
The Venezuelan Government informed
Minister Andrade in Washington that the
English surveyor Harrison had been re
leased. Slain by Her Insane Son.
Mrs. Leander Stevens died at her home In
Clinton, Conn., as the result of a murderous
assault made on her by her insane son. The
boy attacked her with a pair of tailors'
shears and drove one of the points through
her skull. Mr. Stevens was assaulted.
Drowned Herself and Three Children.
Mrs. Boerner, wife of Fred Boerner, a
prominent citizen of Comal County, Texas,
while in a fit of insanity, tied her three
small children to her body with ropes and
then jumped into the Comal River. All four
were drowned,
. THE COJlMRnnjAL REPORTS.
Business Slums Improvement De
crease in the Number of Failures.
Dun and Bradstreet's commercial reports
for the past week !s as follows: There are
continued signs tLatagain in business has
begun. Stocks h ive gone higher than they
Were before the a uncial break ten days ago;
Wheat and cotton are in better demand; there
Is more confidence in monetary circles and
the tendency toward shrinkage In great In
dustries seems in some measure, at least to
be- cheked. While the outcome of the
Democratic Convention is uncertain and the
great crops are not yet wholly beyond danger,
a sure and strong improvement could hardly
be expected, but tho tone in business circles
has grown distinctly mere hopeful.
Textile manufacturers do not gain.
The only change in cottons is a reduction
In bleached shirtings in standards to the
lowest price ever reached, though the
change discloses no new weaknesses,, but a
belief that the time has come when sales can
benefit by reductipQ, and large sales are now
reported. -. Stocks of dealers are believed to
be so low that replenishment would now
make a great change in the condition of in
dustry. Tne waiting in iron and steel brings a
slightly lower average of prices, the lowest
since April 1, and only 1-8 per cent above
the lowest of the year, though the combina
tions make no changes in quotations. Beams
are quoted delivered instead of at the mill,
but numerous contracts are kept back; con
sumption of wire nails at current prices has
so declined that American wire rods are
offered at competing prices in England;
scarcely anything is-done in bars. Plates
are weak and also sheets, and orders for rails
though numerous are not large. Southern
No. 1 is offered at 51 below Pennsylvania
pig, and grey forge is 10c. lower at Pittsburg.
Since coke has advanced to $2 per ton the
ovens at work have decreased 83 per cent,
and the weekly output is 60,643 tons or 35
per cent.
At Baltimore general trade is very dull, al
though some merchants are preparing to
send travelers South. Crop prospects in
Texas are unfavorable, owing to lack of rain,
but quite satisfactory in South Dakota and
West intpWashington. Relatively the most
favorable trade report ot the week is from
Chicago where inquiry for iron and steel has
i -.creased, and specifications for work are
coming forward more freely. This has created
better feeling and the business outlook
there is more favorable. Chicago jobbers
in dry goods, clothing and shoes report fair
sales for fall trade. Business failures
throughout the United States continue to
run Bomewhat above the range in like weeks
in preceding years. The total reported this
week is 265, compared with 234 last week
and 231 in the week one year ago.
There is a moderate increase in lack
clearings throughout the United States which
amount to $1,038,000,000 this week, an in
crease of 10.6 per cent, over the prpeediuy
week, but a decrease of 3.5 per cent, as com
pn red with the corresponding week one year
ago. . ....
CROPS IN THE COTTON BELT.
Generally Speaking Reports Are Fav
orable and Guarantee the Produc
tion of a Large Yield of Cotton.
The following are extracts from the sum
mary of the weekly crop bulletin of the Agri
cultural department at Washington:
Virginia ftuehnwad : CooL with cloudy
weather and much rain has kept farming op
erations at a standstill In eastern counties;
corn continues fine, but fields are grassy;
wheat harvest under way; grass improving:
oats heading; cotton and peanuts damaged
by rains; tobacco verv promising.
North Carolina Raleigh: Week too cool for
cotton; precipitation abundant, with excess
in five counties and destructive hail storm
in one; all crops doing well; first cotton
blooms 10th; wheat harvest nearly over and
threshing begun; early peaches and apples
in market; poor quality ; condition of grapes
good.
South Carolina Columbia: Week favora
ble for crop growth and cultivation except
too much rain over southeastern portion;
both early and late corn continue promising;
cool nights and lice have lnjurea couon
se-
riously, squares forming pientiiuiiy
blooms common: melons ripening,
an d
fruit
prospects lessening.
Tennessee Nashville : Heavy rains In
eastern section and portions of central bene
fited crops; latter part of week favorable for
haying and cleaning crops; cool weather
checked cotton growth; but plants generally
healthy; tobacco generally thrifty; corn and
other crops doing well ; western section
needs rain.
SWALLOWED BY TR1 WAVES.
British. Steamer Goes Down with
Hundreds .on Board. One Saved.
A special telegram from London says: The
British steamer Drummond Castle, which
sailed from Table Bay, May 28th, for this
port with 350 persons on board, has
been sunk near Ushant, the most western of
the island'off the coast of Brittany, France.
The steamer Drummond Castle wa3 wreok
ed at midnight on June 16th. A survivor of
the disaster named Marquard is at Ushant
and two others are at He de Molen. Six. bod
ies have been reoovered, including that of
Officer GilL About six bodies have
been placed in a special house. The
ship sank in j three minutes.
The Drummond Castle struck the rocks west
of He de Molene at midnight on the 16th and
sank immediately. There was no time to
take out the boats. Present information is
that one person was saved at Ushant and
two other survivors are at He de Molene.
Their names are not given. A government
tug is carrying on the search. The telegram
states that the Sybille lowered her boats and
did all that it was possible to do to rescue
those on board the steamer, but so sudden
was the collapse of tbe vessel that the efforts
of the cruiser's men were in vain.
A CAR FACTORY
GOES SOUTH.
A Pennsylvania Concern Goes to
Sa-
vrnab, Ga., to Build Cars.
The Georgia Car & Manufacturing Co.,
ixcorpoiated with a stock of $300,000, has
begun the erection of J its plant here. The
machinery was formerly located at Hunting
, don. Pa. , and was recently bought by Savan
nah capitalists. The company will emploj
400 to 500 hands. The six thousand miles ot
rnore of railroad tributary to Savannah will
give the company practically all of its busi
ness in the way of car building and perhaps
the largest amount of tbe car repairing.
Some of the railroads have found it cheapei
to have their building and repairing work
done by contract than to do it themselves.
It is stated that cars can be built there fot
25 per cent, less than anywhere else owing to
the great timber belts located near by. A
wood Vulcanizing plant will also be estab
lished in connection with the car factory.
A Royal Decree.
A royal decree has been issued, authorizing
the 8panish bank at Havana, Cuba, to Issue
12,000,000 in gold bills in denominations of
ten, Ave, three and one dollars and in frac
tional denominations of fifty, twenty, ten and
five cents, the above sum to be delivered by
the local treasury in payment of current ob
ligations. The government will deposit in
the vault of the bank (3.000,000 in silver be
sides a part of the stamp tax collected by it.
The government is authorized to enforce the
circulation of these notes.
!
HOMICIDES IN AMtSRICA.
Judge Parker Discusses the Causes
In
the North American Review.
Judge L C. Parker, of the United States
District Court of the Western district ot Ar
kansas, discusses in the current number of
the North American Review the causes
and tbe remedy for the recent homicides in
the United States. The facts are placed
before us in such a way that we cannot
contradict them. During the last six
years there have been 43,902 homicides in
this country, and average of 7,317 per year,
within the same period there have been
723 executions and 1,113 lynching. In the
last year 10,500 persons were killed, where
as in 1890 there were only 4,290, or less than
half as many. The figures prove that
homicidal crime Is increasing at an alarm
ing rate. The ineffective administration of
the criminal law is blamed for this state of
affairs . David Dudley Field says so ; Justice
Brewer, of the United States Supreme Court,
says so, and Judge Elliott Anthony, ot Illi
nois, is of the same opinl' n. Judge Parker
also agrees with the other exalted expounders
of the law, and dwells on the false sympathy
that is always awakened for the criminal and
finds no tender expression for the victim a
few days alter the crime has been perpetrated.
Judge Parker notes the indifference of the
community at large to the enforcement of
the criminal law, and points to the corrupt
verdicts which are the outeome of fraud and
perjury.
PROGRESS OK" THE SOUTH.
A Diversity of New Interest asShown
tV the Manufacturer's Record.
The Manufacturer's Record, in its weekly
summary of Southern industrial news, re
ports that the two most important events
announced for the week have been the pro
posed building of two elevators at Galveston,
to have an aggregate capacity of 600,000
bushels, the increasing grain trade of that
port demanding an extension of facilities
for handling, and the decision of expert cotton
manufacturers to build at Gaffney, S.
V., a cotton mill to manufacture a very much
finer grade of goods than has ever been pro
duced in the South. At Charlotte, N. C. a
12,000 company has been formed to manu
facture cordage and webbing; a $50,000 com
pany has been organized at Concord, N. C,
to build a cotton mill, and a water-power
has been purchased in North Carolina for a
6300,000 mill; a $50,000 water company has
been organized at i ensacola, Fla , am a $50,
000 duplicate electric plant contracted for at
Columbus, Ga.; a $100,000 glass decorating
company at Macon, Ga,, has let contracts
for water and electrio light plants Pittsburg
people, who have purchased 1,000 acres of
coal land near Charleston, W. Va., will put
in an extensive electric minintr equiDment:
a bicycle factory at Hagerstown, Md., now
employing about 1.700 hands, will be en
larged: $30,000 will be expended on the
extens-ion of the water-works at Hagerstown;
the electrio railway, between Baltimore and
Washington has let a contract for one power
house for $81,500; an ice company has ben
organized at Spartanburg, 8. C. ; a $100,000
electric power and light plant will be built at
JacksoD, Tcnn. Texas reports a $30,000 ice
company at Lagrange ; a lignite coal com
pany at Rockdale; a $228,000 sewer contract
at San Antonio and a coal company-to oper
ate 2.300 acres of land: arrangements are be-'
ing made in Philadelphia for the organization
of a company to purchase ihe furnace at
Basic City, Va., and operate ore mines in con
nection with it; a beef extract works Is to be
established at Alexandria Va.
The general list of industrial enterprises
for the week shows a considerable diversity
of new interests.
DEATH AND DISEASE IN CUBA.
Smallpox Raging Malarial Diseases
Prevalent, With SomeYellowFever.
Reports to the surgeon general of the
Marine Hospital Service from the United
States sanitary Inspectors in Cuba to Wash
ington show terrible Increases of deaths
from contagious diseases in the island. Dr.
Caminero, the official at Santiago, writes
that "smallpox is raging epidemically" and
the oases which can be counted by the hun
dreds are increasing dally. There are no
precautions to keep the sick isolated, and
wakes over the corps are of dally occurrence.
Yellow fever has oecreased somewhat. Ma
larial conditions of most deadly character are
common, and dysehtary among the adults
adds a large contingent to the general mor
tality." The Amerioan consul at Sagua la Grande
reports that yellow fever Is on the increase
among the troops at that print and from
Cienfuegos the consul reports 49 deaths from
mall pox and increasing yellow fever.
Had Many Wives.
The Ex-Khedive Ismail, of Egypt, who
recently died, had more than 800 women in
his harem at Cairo. When he abdicated and
left Egypt in 1879 for Naples he took with
him twenty-eight wives and a great number
of servants. His successor and son had only
one wife and the present Khedive married a
slave. The mother of the Khedive is the first
lady of the State and takes precedence of his
wives and daughters, who are called prin
cesses. She is beautiful, highly accomplished
and speaks four languages. She dresses In
European style.
Declared Unconstitutional.
At Louisville, Ky., In the $5,000 daxage
suit of B N. Lander, colored, and wife,
against the receiver of the Ohio Valley Rail
way company, Judge James Breahitt decided
the separate coach law unconstitutional and
the jury was given pre-emptory directions to
find for the plaintiff. An agreed verdict for
$125 was then signed by the twelve men, and
the case will go t the Court of Appeals.
Lander's wife in July last was forced to move
from the car set apart for white people to
the coach known as the "Jim Crow" car.
Brooks's Comet Returns.
A cablegram receiyed by Messrs. Chandler
and Ritchie from the European centre of as
tronomy, Kiel, announces that Javelle, one
of the astronomers at the observatory at
Nice, has observed Brooks's periodical comet
on its return to the sun. The comet is one
discovered by W. B. Brooks, of Geneva, N.
Y., in 1889. Its orbit, as computed from ob
servations obtained in 1889, predicted its re
turn this year. It has been found very close
to its computed place.
Canvass of the Delegates.
The Chicago TriSune says: "A canvass of
the delegates of t very State and Territory On
the currency question shows 578 delegates to
1 the Democratic National convention to be,
either by instruction or personal preference,
for the Iree and unlimited coinage of silver
at 16 to 1, against 328 delegates instructed for,
or favoring the present gold standard." The
estimate is based on the observation of the
unitvrule by the delegates from States which
have so instructed.
Birthday of Baseball.
The game of base ball was fifty years old
last week, the first match game having been
played at Hokoken, N. J., on June 19,.1$46,
between the Knickerbocker and New York
clubs. Previous to that time town bail had
been -the great game, but some of tbe devo
tees got their heads together and evolved a
series of rules which chanced the sport so
materially that they decided to call it base
balL The first team was organized on Sep
tember 23, 1845, but it was net until the fol
lowing Jane that a match game was played.
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.,
The decision in the case of Cant.
Hart, the Bnrmuda commander has
gain been postponed until July 10th.
Consul Giiffin, at Limoges, France,
sajs that bicycles ere taxed $1.92 each
and that one person out of every fifty
capable, rides the wheel. j
Mrs. Mattie Craveu, of San Francis
co, CaL, baa revealed her relations
with the late millionaire Fair, and
shows a private maris ge contract.
At New York Conrad N. Jordan,
Assistant United States Treasurer, has
invited representatives of several for
eign exohange houses to a conference
with him at the sub-Treasury to find
ont what was necessary to do to have
shipments of gold to Qermaay made in
gold bars so as to save the expense of
minting.
At Providence, B. L, the Lonsdale
Company and B. B. and R. Knight
have signed the agreement to eloee
their cotton mills alternate weeks dur
ing July and August.
At Omaha, Neb., Friday, several
thousand Sioux Indians celebrated the
twentieth anniversarv of "the destruc-
tionof Custer's command at Little Big
Horn in 1876
At Philadelphia, Pa., Saturday, Jas.
B. Gentry, who on Feb. 17. 1895.
murdered Actress Madge York j at
Zeiss' Hotel in that city, wat found
guilty of mirder in the first degree.
His counsel has applied for a new trial.
Joseph Conkling, of Charles county,
Md., who was awaiting trial' on a
charge of murdering his wife and
her sister, Miss Daisy Miller, April 23,
has been taken faom the old jail at
Port Tobacco and Lynched by a crowd
of about twenty -five men. j
Gen. Bradley Johnson, of Virginia,
war correspondent of a New York
newspaper, has beeu notified that if he
continues to send out news detrimental
1 to the Spanish government he will be
expelled from Cuba.
Coyler Hall, a wealthy citizen of Es
cambia county, Ala., has been arrested
for tbe killing of his step-father,
O'Ferrall. He denies the killing. ! -
It is announced on excellent parlia
mentary authority from London that
the home secretary has been enduced
to reconsider his recent determination
as regards Mrs. Maybrick, and her re
lease is therefore likely to take place
any moment.
It has been estimated by Sergeant-at-Arms
Swords of the recent National
Bepuliban Convention, which was held
in St. Louis, Mo., cost something in
the neighborhood of $3,000,000.
A. J. Speckert, president of the
German.-Amerioan Tile,, company of
Louisville, Ky., which failed a short
time ago for over $200,000, has been
indicted for obtaining money under
false pretenses.
At Bed Oak, la., Saturday John B.
Gentry was sent against time at Pao
totus park and clipped a quarter of a
second off his record for Stallions,
making it in 2:03 1-2, beating the
track record one-fourth of a second.
WEEKLY COMMERCIAL REPORTS
The Uncertainty of the Money Ques
tion Causes a Lull In Business.
Dun and Bradstreet's weekly report of
business is as follows : j
Failures for the week have been 217 in the
United States against 256 last year and 24 In
Canada against 22 last year. The monetary
outlook is not yet clear to some. The
strength shown in recent conventions by ad
vocates of silver coinage and expectation
that all the elements favoring that policy
may yet be concentrated, incline them to a
waiting attitude. Their uneeitainty retards
improvement, net withstanding the more
widely prevalent feeiiug that the monetary
action of the St. Loub Conventioa will be
sustained by the people.
Interviews with merchants In ttaple lines
at twenty-five of tbe more important dis
tributing centres show thar, aside from the
Increased stiength in wool in the hands of
interior holders tas reflected at Boston and
Philadelphia) an improved demand for hard
ware at Providence, for clothing and shoes
at Baltimore, shoes and dry goods at Mem-
E his, and in similar line? at St, Louis ; there
as been no improvement in trade.
At Chicago there h a more hopeful senti
ment but no increase in business. A canvass
of leading jobbers at important cities shows
no expectation of a revival in general trade
until after election, aud at some points no
real ixprovement is expected untii next year.
The volume of general trade is no larger
than last week; in some lines it is smaller,
notably at Pittsburg and Kansas City. Mid
summer dullness characterizes operations at
almost all points. Relatively the greatest ac
tivity has been among Eastern dry goods
tobbers, who have sacrificed prices to reduce
leavy stocks of cotton goods. Restricted
roduction ot print cloths at Fall River is
ikely to be followed by similar action at
Providence ana at Augusta. ew Lngiand
rubber manufacturers are curtailing produc
tion and the situation and outlook in iron
and steel industries is lees satisfactory, with
a prospective cut in the price of Bessemer pig
Iron and tbe probability of the billet combi
nation reducing quotations and lowering
prices for coke. In addition there are re
duced prices for leaf tobacco, petroleum and
cotton, for wheat, wheat flower, oats, pork,
lard, sugar and coffee.
WILL VIEV.OLI BATLEFIELDS.
Tickets to Richmond Have Been Ex
tended to July loth.
In order to give the Confederate veterans
visiting Richmond during the sixth annual
reunion of the United .Confederate Veterans
sufficient time to visit the Virginia battlefields
before returning to their homes, the com
missioner of the Southern Passenger Asso
ciation has- authorized its members, com
posed of tbe various roads in the South and
Southeast, to extend until the 15rh of July
the limit of such tickets as expire on the 10th
of July, upon surrender 'of the same not
later than the 5th of July to tbe ticket agent
of the line over which tbe holders arrive at
Richmond, such tickets to be returned to tbe
holders properly extended for return pas
sage until the 15th of July, after their return
from the battlefields.
Troops for Cuba.
A special from Madrid. Spain,
says:' The
first portion of the troops destined for Cuba
will embark on twenty steamers at the end
of August. Tbe troops will consist of 35,100
lnfautry, 467 cavalry, 282 artillery, 1,619 en
gineere and several battalions of volunteers.
Tbe Chamber of Deputies has approved the
credits necessary for the transportation of
these forces to Havana.
NORTH STATE . .
CULLINGS!
OATTLE QUARANTINE.
Governor Carr Issues a Proclamation
i: Regarding Cattle.
Governor Carr has issned the follow,,,
ing proclamation regarding the cattle
quarintine in this State:
"In pursuance of section 2,322 of '
the Code of North Carolina, the See
retary ot Agriculture has consented to
a modification of said quartine line of a
the State of North Carolina, I hereby
proclaim, in accordance with said de
cree of the Secretary of Agrioulture, .
that the territory west of the following
line, beginning at the Southwest corner
of the county of Cherokee; thence
along the Southern boundry of the
counties of Cherokee, Clay, Macon,
Jackson, and Transylvania, to Jthe
Southeast corner of the county of
Transylvania; thence northwesterly
along the Eastern boundary of Tran
vlvania countv to the Southwest cor- '
n6T 0f the county of Buncombe jthence
easterly along the southern boundry of
the said county to the summit of the
Blue Bidge Mountains; thence in a
northeasterly direction, following the -said
mountains to their intersection
with the Northern boundry of the State -of
North Carolina, is declared to be
free from the infectious disease known .
as Southern and splenetic-fever, and
the territory herein above mentioned
is entitled to all the privileges of said
uninfected districts.
In order, therefore, to better en-...
force this law, I do hereby call the
attention of the solicitors of the various '
districts of the State to seotion 2.322
of the Code of North Carolina and the
quarantine laws of the United States,
and urge them to see that this law is
strictly enforced and to prosecute
vigorously all violations thereof, in
order that the cattle-raisers and cattle-
breeders of this State may have the
protection under this act and hereafter
gain better advantages, which will ac
crue from a strict enforcement thereof; -and
I do further warn parsons living
east of said uninfected district, as
herein provided, not to violate said
law by driving or shipping cattle into
the uninfected district, in violation of "
the law, during the period named
therein, from April 1st to November
15th of eaoh year; and I do hereby re
quest all good citizens of this State to "
assist in the enforcement of said
quarantine law.'
Patented a New Bicycle.
Dr. B. K. Gregory, of Greensboro,
has invented and patented a new bioy
ole. In addition to the pedals for pro
pelling it, it has a hand-bar with crank,
wheels and chain attachments so gear
ed as to give the rider full power of bis
arms, and the musoles of bis shoulders
and chest in propelling the machine.'
The inventor claims that his wheel
will enable him to ride with much
greater speed, and more ease and far
less fatigue than any other bioycles as
the rider uses the muscle force of his
whole body instead of his legs alone.
Alfred Stafford, a substantial farmer
living near Bosedale, this State, was
murdered Thursday by one of" his
neighbors, Joseph Cooper. There had
been bad feeling between the two men
for some time on account of stock dep
redations. . '
The programme is out for the
second annual session of the Southern
Bibioal Assembly, to be at Asheville,
j July 23d to August 12th. A long list
of prominent lecturers and teachers
has been secured.
The summer school of the Univer
sity of North Carolina opened with
125 teachers present Wednesday, just
double the number on the correspond-
ing day last year. y
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All arrangements have been com
pleted for the State Firemen's Asso
ciation tournament which is to be held
in Salisbury in August. The prize
amount to over $600.
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Large additions are being built- to
Messrs. F. nnd H. Fries cotton mill,
in Salem s id tj the Southside Cotton
Mill. 3ot& mills are rushed with or
ders. Forsythe's new $50,000 courthouse
is beginning to make a showy appear
ance. The stone and brick work on
thefirst story is Hearing completion.
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