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'Citizen iievill VOLUME XIII. NO. 235. ASHEVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10, 1898. PRICE 3 CENTS As Daily e As Perfectly Wen led as the Blushes of the Rose. OUR MOCHA AND JAVA COFFEE. Prepared by an expert who gives his whole attention cater ing to the exacting tastes and requirements of consumers. 3 vJ Pounds for $1. SINIDER'S, ' 6 COURT SQUARE. ARCH FRONT. Bon Marche, 15 "South Main St. NKW SPRING DRESS GOODS. XKW CLACK DRESS GOODS. NKW SPRING GINGHAMS. NKW RIBBONS. NKW SPRING PERCALES. NEW SPRING WHITE GOODS. NKW AND CHEAPEST INDIA LINEN. NEW VAL LACES FRO.M4 UP TO FINEST. CENT NEW OUTINGS FROM 5 CENTS UP. NEW BLEACHED AND UN BLEACHED DOMESTICS. NEW RIBBONS. a NEW LACES. l,i us .r new goods just received in ;i it departments. Those new ties for ladies ate very tty. Bon Marche, 15 SOUTH MAIN ST. Armour's Soups. We i all especial attention to i.ur line of Armour's Soups. TWse are splendid goods . and r have an assortment to select from. Knickerbocker Corn at $1.50 has no etiual on the market. I Cowan & Stradley ! 16 N. Court Place. Phon 47. aentines.. I .arge assortment of dainty Silk and Celluloid Novelties at papular prices. Lace Valentines From Ic. Uo. Thousands of Komic Valentines iuw on exhibition at RAY'S BOOK STORE H North Court Sauare Claiming ,...The Earth. v. Seems to be the sum and sub stance nowadays of many ad vertisements. Nothing new in trying to delude the public. Our felt shoes and slippers for women are going at 25 and 50 cfiits under former prices. J. SPANGENBERG, A N. Court Square. .V mm Dainty Wear is carefully and properly handled here. The finest and the coarsest piece of goods that come to this laundry of eurs, receives the same amount of care. We are particular about everything. That's why we have been so success ful. If you are particular about your clothes, send them to, us. Prices are reasonable. Asheville Steam Laundry, 43 West College St. tuatu. vjurtteuty cuvti peace f "Better to be born lucky than rich," is an old saying. Wearing your birthday stone will bring luck, and luck riches. The beautiful purple Amethyst, the gem of February in some delicately wrought setting makes a charming piece of jewelry. We ,-are now showing this stone in a variey of articles suitable for ladies' or gentlemen s wear. t 1 Rings, i earings. brooches, stick I mtmA pins, scarf pins, and watch vils may kick ana curc me arouna, uai charms are some of the ways it can be worn. ..B. H. COSBY.. . The Reliable Jeweler, , 27 1'attoB Ave. PRIVATE ESTATE -HAND PICKED Mandhling..... Java Coffee, 45 c The Finest Brought - to the ITnitl States, At i' Cents Pound. Now we have a monop oly on this grade of Coffee, as no one else in the city handles it. 'Tis too fine for the ordi- priary trade ours ask for the best, so we keep it for thm. O. A.GREER 10 N. Court Square. Ruksell Sc Co. Stationary, Portable and - Traction Kniilnes. Hft-svmil Is and Separators. . i Write for Catalogue. .T. S. MORRISON, AGENT. Valentines.... N BOTH COMIC AND FANCY CHEAP AND EXPENSIVE.... N.' r We have an excellent line of gold pens just the thing to address a valentine with. . . Morgan's Book Store WEST COURT SQUARE. IT'S REPUBLICAN TESTIMONY Abuses at the County 'Convict Camp Exposed. THE HALF NOT YET TOLD THE COMMISSIONERS TO ACT. FAILED Hone H. M.Smith Fes Is it to Ba His Duty to Lot tho Public Know What ia Going On. Editor The Citizen: A few words in explanation as to why I resigned the superintendency of the county convicts. Perhaps the people -may think I am a littie late in coming out with this ex planation. But if they will read my let-: ter in another place of this issue they will understand why I have deferred this matter. A great many people have ask ed me why I quit, and I tell them because they ask ed me to quit. But Just why they ask ed me to quit I can hardly tell them; unless it is as they told me, I was too good a man for the place, an,d too good to the prisoners. Well, perhaps I was. I was good enough to whip a man when he deserved it, and good enough not to whip him when he didn't deserve it; and if every man in the gang de served a whipping I wouldn't buck down from four to eight at a time and whip them as the present incumbent is doing. It looks too much like an old time hog killing. I was good enough to see that they got enough to eat, and wouldn't let them go to work on cold, frosty morn ings without coats and shoes as the steward wanted them to do. of ten. And I was good enough not to let them lie on their bunks cold nights without anything under them or over them, and have given blankets off of my own bunk to them when there was no other. Oh, yes, I guess I was too good to them; but I feel good over it and I thank the Lord that he gave me a heart instead of a gizzard. 1 The commissioners say that I was re ported for letting my men stand around and talk and laugh and do nothing. Now everybody that knows anything about my work knows that is false. They know that is not my style. Some Democrats have said to me: "Well, I 1 guess you are with us now." No, gen- ibil ... . iemen, my party ana me commission- pies out of me. Now, this card and my letters to the commissioners may hurt the Republi can party, but I believe in the old adage, "Hew to the line and let the chips fall where they may." Very respectfully H. M. SMITH. Asheville, N. C. COMMISSIONER BROWN WAS TOLD. The following is the letter referred to in the foregoing: Mr. T. Hale Weaver- Dear Sir: I want to tell you and Mr.. Ashworth a few things that I think you ought to know; not that I want the place back, -for I feel that I have done my duty as far as I had power and I would not take it again only, on condition that I have full control over all steward, guards and prisoners, for, as I told you before, you commissioners don't know what is going on there and, therefore, can't run it successfully; and if I were to take charge invested with such power the first thing I would do would be to discharge the steward and two or three of the guards. I think that guards who threaten to shoot the prisoners' "damned hearts out and heads oft'" should not be kept on the force. The other night after I paid them off I told them that some of the crowd had reported lies on me and told them what had been reported: Men not working, standing witn drawn pieks, talking and toughing; talking to passers by, and so on. "Now," I said. "you ail know that fs false. yes," they said, "it was; the men had all worked very well except Mr. Penland." "Well," I said, "don't you know the doctor said not to put him at hard work, but let him carry water, pass around tools, etc.?" It now seems that all the reports grew out of Mr. Penland's not work ing. Now I will tell you a few things concerning the steward; just such as I can prove if necessary: Not long after he took charge he took one of the prisoners ana met some lewd women out and stayed in a school house (nearby) all night, and the next morning had the "gall" to send to me for a team to take the women back to town; and, of course, I refused and re ported him to Mr. Brown. Such busi ness has been going on off and on since.' He has taken two mules and a pris oner out and kept them until one and two o'clock in the morning. He tried to get one of the trusties to bring women from town to see him; has taken coffee, meat and other things from the camp. I asked Mr. Brown if he settled for them. Mr. Brown said "No; he offered to settle for it.1' Also it seems that the Whole Sandy Mush country makes the camp their camping ground and stopping place in passing to and from town. I have counted 16 meals to be eaten from Sun day night to Tuesday night by outsid ers, and they go into the "center box" and play cards with the night guards and steward, and talk and laugh half the night or more. The prisoners have complained to me that they could not sleep for the noise they Jcept up In there. I told them I coulddo nothing, but report; to Mr. Brown, which I did. The steward has dealt out sorry to bacco to the prisoners and kept good tobacco and given it to the guards who had bought rights from prisoners. He has paid more for hay and other things than I had the same offered for. When I w.ould say anything to him about it he would say: "This part of the county ought to get the trade now." On Christmas Eve. before I went home, one of the trusties came to me and wanted permission to go to town that night. I told him "No." 'After I left the steward let four or five go to town. One of them got drunk and rais ed a row and knocked another negro in the head with a stick. Another got li quor for one of the prisoners on the chain gang and-shipped it to him. The next day he was drunk. One of the Asheville papers had an article in it accusing me of letting the prisoners come to town to take Christmas. Now you see why I say, if you can't trust me to run that camp, for the Lord's sake get a man that you can trust and then invest him -with the power to run it, with the exception of employing. This isn't the half that ought to be told, but I think it enough. Now if you will all tolerate such car rying on I don't think the people wilL I am going to write Mr. the same I have written you, and if there's nothing done at the next meeting of your board I will have this letter pub lished. Show this letter to Mr. Brown if you like. I am, yours, fraternally, H. M. SMITH. Asheville, N. C, Jan. 7. 1897. The foregoing letters were today shown to Commissioner T. C. Brown, but he declined to comment on them. SCANDINAVIAN EDITORS THEY SEE- ASHEVILLE FROM CARRIAGES THIS MORNING. They Represent a Constituency of On Hundred Thousand of tho Very Boat Clasa of Agriculturists in This Country. The party of Scandinavian editors, under the direction of J. F. Olsen, agent of the. Land and Industrial department of the Southern railway, were visited at the Swanaanoa hotel by a number of citizens last evening. These editors are highly intelligent gentlemen, and the combined circulation of the papers they represent Is not far from 100,000. Their constituency is lo cated largely in the states of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska. These Scandinavians originally came from the Scandinavian peninsula, comprising the states of Norway, Sweden and Den mark. They are strictly an agricul tural people, and have almost always settled, on their arrival in this" country, in the colder sections of the Northwest. Having been reared in a very cold cli mate, they have easily been made to believe that they could not have good health in the warmer states of the South; The object of the Southern railway in bringing these representatives of this desirable class of citizens South is to show them that not only does this sec tion offer a much more healthy climate than the states in which they now live, but that it offers opportunites for prof itable investment in agricultural lands unknown in the Northwest. The party left Chicago on February 7th .and the itinerary fixes their return arrival at Chicago for February 19. The stops arranged for include Louis ville and Lexington, Ky., Harriman and Knoxville, Tenn.; Asheville and Raleigh, N. C; Norfolk, Va; Wash ington and Baltimore. . The party is composed of J. A. Jer sild, editor of The Dansern (The Dane) Neenah, Wis. ; Halle Steensland, repre senting the Amerika-Norden and the Lutheraneren, Madison, Wis.; N. F. Hansen aiid wife, representing Krin den og Hjemmet (Women and the Home), and the Farmeren, Cedar Rap ids," Iowa; G. Albert Linden of the Svenska- Journalen, Omaha, Neb. ; C. O. Olsen of the Sendebudt (religious, Methodist) Chicago; S. T. Gunderson of the Jtasmussen Publishing company, Chicago, which ' publishes six papers, among them the Chicago-Posten, Uge bladet (Minneapolis), Heimdal, (St. Paul). Scandinavian Farm Journal (Minneapolis); L. M. Garrell of the Svithiod (Swede) ,Des Moines, Iowa; J. F. Johnson of the Times, Racine. Wis.: W. B. Wingren "of the Nya Veco-Pos- ten (weekly Post). Most of the Scandinavians are Luth erans in religion, but there are amongst them many Baptists and Methodists. This morning at 10 o'clock the party were taken for a drive by a committee of the Board of Trade composed of G. S. Powell, H. F. Grant, O. B. Wright, J. D. Eggjeston, jr., W. T. Mason and S. F. Chapman. The drive was over the Beaverdam road, back by Sunset drive .the Battle cottage, Kenilworth and Connally's. The party left on the 2:30 east bound train for Raleigh, Norfolk, Washington and Baltimore. The editors expressed themselves much pleased with this mountain coun try, and the papers they represent will no doubt contain much matter relative to the South and its advantages, and it is believed the result will be the set tlement of many of these Scandina vians in the southern country. HE WILL RESIGN. Alderman Scott to Retire Before the Spring Election. George F. Scott will, before the ap proaching spring election, tender his resignation as alderman from the Third ward. This is a step which Alderman Scott feels he must take because of the great conflict between his private and public duties. He feels that he cannot longer do justice to personal interests and, at the same time, devote a reas onable amount of time to public af fairs. The resignation of Alderman Scott just before the election will mean that the city will be called upon to elect four aldermen instead of three as here tofore. There will be aldermen to elect from the Second, Third and Fourth wards and one alderman at large. Alderman Scott has ever been a faithful public servant, and Asheville will lose by his resignation. THE COLLECTOR'S AXE. 68 Heada Were Taken During the Past Month. James S. Coleman, one of the re signed deputy collectors under Collector Harkins, has completed a list which shows that during the month 68 Dem ocrats, who were doing service in this riistriot Via vp hppn senarated from the internal revenue service. This is fine showing for a collector, in view of the fact that the civil service law is still supposed to be in. operation. It was remarked that Mr. Harkins would be called upon to spend about $5 for post age to explain to his friends that this statement did not mean that there were 68 vacancies. A 725 Pound Hoq. The Citisen has the boss hog story of the season to tell and if there are any who can beat it they should speak up. Recently D. R. Noland a merchant of Fines Creek, in Haywood county, killed a hog that weighed 725 pounds gross. After being dressed the porker weighed 649 pounds. Mr. Noland was In town yesterday with a quantity of tobacco. He'd like to know if anybody else here abouts baa butchered a 700 pound pig. T. C. Starnea a Candidate. T. C--Starnes has decided that he will be a candidate for the nomination to the office of clerk of the Superior court of Buncombe county, to succeed J. L. Cathey. Mr. Starnes will be a candi date for the nomination before the county Democratic convention. PACK YOUR GRIP, DE LOME Uncle Sam'Has No Ground for You to Stand On. TO MINISTER virOODFORD A NOTE. SENT BY THE 1ST ATE DEPARTMENT. It Telia Spain That the Minister la Persona Non Grata and That He'd Beat Hit tho Grit. WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. The State Department this morning gave out for publication the substance of a cable gram sent yesterday to Gen. Woodford, our minister to Madrid, in reference to the De Lome letter: "There has appeared in the public prints a letter addressed by the Span ish minister to Mr. Canalejas. This let ter, the minister admits, was written by him. It contains expressions con cerning the President of the United Staes of such a character as" to end the minister's usefullness as a representa tive of his government in this country. Gen. Woodford, therefore, was instruct ed at once to say to the minister of state that the immediate recall of Du puy De-Lome is expected by the Presi dent." i. It is stated that up to this time no re sponse nas been received from the Spanish government. Up to 10:30 O'clock today Senor Dupuy De Lome had not received from his government the announcement of its acceptance of his resignation, but it is believed that this soon will be given and that the minister's official connection with the government as Spanish representative to the United States will come to a prompt termination without the neces sity of action by this government in giving to the minister his passports. Senor De Lome regards himself as now a private citizen, although technically still Spain's representative. Events in connection with the minis ter's letter have been transpiring rap idly within the last few hours, and all the attending circumstances developed today. On Tuesday night the minister first received private information that thV letter was in the hands pf the Cu ban junta and was about to be made public. The information was meagre, and not knowing exactly what was re ferred to anil believing the story was an exaggeration from Cuban sources, he characterized the reports as ridicu lous. At no time, however, did he deny the authenicity of the letter to Canale. jas. Later, when fully acquainted with the facts, he cabled the Spanish gov ernment fully, stating that the letter was about to be published, and,- in his judgment, the effect would be to end his usefulness as a representative of Spain at Washington. This was Tues day night, before the publications had appeared. In effect it was a tender of his resignation. This continues to be the status up to the present time, the offer of resignation being before the au thorities at Madrid. MADRID, Feb. 10: News of the De Lome incident was received too late yesterday evening to obtain opinions. The government ascribes its authorship to the Cuban jingoes, the Washington State Department announcement that De Lome had admitted the genuineness of the letter not being received until ear ly this morning. Senor Canalejas is out of town, but his secretary said he had never received any such letter from De Lome. For some time past the authorities have been taking extra precautions in guarding the residence of United States Minister Woodford, which is on the outskirts of the city. Sunday the guard was reinforced by 24 men, and the Her aldo says that even this is' not con sidered sufficient. Additional precau tions have been adopted, evidently un der the impression that public order might be disturbed. . A number of mounted civil guards have been posted in tht vicinity. Thereupon the Heraldo asks whence the necessity of these pre cautions, since Madrid has offered ab solutely not a single symptom justify ing such measures. RESIGNATION ACCEPTED. A meeting of the Spanish cabinet was held today under the presidency of the Queen regent. The minister for foreign affairs read a dispatch from Senor Du puy De Lome, saying that the pub lished letter to Senor Canalejas was written by -him and that his position had, consequently, become untenable. He begged the government to accept his resignation. The cabinet decided to accept the resignation of De Lome. The ministers subsequently met and decided to telegraph to Senor De Lome, accepting his resignation and entrust ing the first secretary with the conduct of the current affairs of the legation. 'ALL IS QUIET. Guatemala'a Potomao Only Rippled By Killing of the President. WASHINGTON. Feb. 10. Official confirmation of the assassination of President Barrios came today to the State Department In the following ca ble from United States Minister Hunter at Guatemala city, dated yesterday: "President Barrios was shot -and in stantly killed last night at 8 o'clock while walking with two military of ficers near the palace. The assassin, while attempting to. escape, was im mediately killed by' the President's staff. Manuel Estrada Caberera. the temporarily successor, has been peace ably installed. All is quiet." The Railroad Won. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 10. A de cree was entered in the Federal court yesterday in the case of the Railroad Equipmnt company of New Jersey, against the receivers of the "old East Tennessee. Virginia & Georgia railroad. A Judgment of $250,000 against the rail road had been given in the State court, and the case was removed to the Fed eral court. The djree was for the railroad. 14 LIVES . WERE LOST PROPERTY WORTH $1,550,000 DESTROYED. Pittsburg Visited By aTerrible Con flagration A Number of Misaing And Injured. PITTSBURG, Feb. 10. The loss of e and destruction of property by fire at Thirteenth and Pike streets last night was the greatest in the history of Pittsburg. At least 14 people' were killed, over a score were injured, and property val ued at $1,550,000 was destroyed. The list of dead, injured and missing, as far as now known, is as follows: " Dead: Lieutenant of Police John A. Berry, age 30; John Dwyer, 35 years years, son of President Wm. Scott of the Chattauqua Lake Ice company; Stanley Seitz, aged 15 years; George Leveless, 40 years old,, married; un known, white, aged about 25 years; John Hanna, bookkeeper and cashier Chautauqua Lake Ice company; Wil liam Smith; a son of President Scott; unknown fireman; fetanley Sipe, aged 16 years; fireman, white, name un known, age about 40. years; William L. Wallenstein, employed in Ruben Sa men's milk depot, and two unknown men." . Injured: Robert Rosamond, Owen K. Felder, Owen Mulahan, George Doug las, William Flemin, Jos. Headley, Rob ert Dobson, Capt. J. A. Brown, Peter Malone, Davis Stewart, Wi.lliam Des muke, Charles Wilson, Peter Malone, Police Officer Rodgers, Mrs.- Mary Desmuke, Charles Simon, George King, John Hunter. Missing: Nathaniel Green, Thomas Lynch, Edward Barry. It is believed that at least 10 more bodies are In the ruins which are stili too hot to be moved. The estimated losses are: Union Storage C., $775,000; Hoevelers' Stor age Warehouse and contents, $t00,000; Chautauqua Lake Ice Co., $150,000; small Pennsylvania avenue houses, $25, JOO; total. $1,550,000. The explosion was caused by the bursting cf large tanks filled with am monia, used in the manufacture of -ice. VV. C. Burt, a prominent insurance man, this afternoon places the total loss close to $2,000,000. Burt said there was not an insurance company in either Pittsburg or Alleghany that does not hold policies on the property destroy ed. The cause of the fire is not yet discovered. BISHOP. T. U. DUDLEY. Elected Secretary of Foreign and Domestic Missionary Society. The New York Sun of Wednesday says: ' - "The Ritjht Rev. Thomas Underwood Dudley, Bishop of Kentucky, was elect ed yesterday to the general secretary ship of the Domestic and Foreign Mis sionary society of the Protestant Epis copal church at a meeting of the board of managers of the society held at the Church Missions House, Fourth avenue and East Tw enty-second street. The of fice to which Bishop Dudley was elect ed was made vacant by the death, last July, of- the Rev. William S. Langford, D. D., who for 12 years had been its in cumbent. "In electing a bishop to the post of general secretary of the missionary so ciety, the managers of that organiza tion have set at nought one of the tradi- tions of the church. Never, so far as it is recalled, in the history of the Epis copal -church . has one of the members of the episcopate accepted an office of that character. What the House of Bishops will do in the matter at the general convention of the Episcopal church next October cannot be guessed at. In the past the House of Bishops has so jealously guarded its dignity that it has never permitted even one of its own members to become its secre tary, that work having always been delegated to a member of the priest hood. "It was said by one of the members after the meeting that Bishop Dudley could not take up his new work even temporarily without the consent of his diocese, and that he could not do so permanently unless he resigned his see w ith the consent of a majority of all the bishops in the United States and a ma jority of the standing committees of the dioceses. This condition, it was said, could hardly be brought about." THE LIGHT TOWERS. All They Need ia Painting and Tightening Up. W. Girdwood, the expert desig nated by the Board of Aldermen to ex amine the electric light towers of the city as to their safety, made an eiamt nation today, and found that there are no serious defects In the structures. Mr. Girdwood says that the shaking of the towers when being ascended is because of the loosening of the support rods, through a failure to tighten up the screws provided for that purpose. One of the guy wires on the Haywood street tower is broken, and has been tied with a piece of wire, Mr. Girdwood says, and this should be fixed at once. The towers have been in use for near ly 10 years, and have not been painted during that time. Mr. Girdwood, thinks that a thorough tightening up of the guy wires and rods, and a good eoat of paint wil lput the towers is as good condition, practically, "as when first erected. Dividend Will Be Declared Soon. A letter received by L. P. McLoud from D. A. Carpenter and John W. Con ner, receivers of the Southern Building and Loan association of Knoxville, Tenn., says: "The report that a 10 per cent, dividend has been declared is false. We are about to ask the court for permission to pay a 10 per cent, dividend, but we may first await the outcome of a decision in Arkansas as to the disposition of the assets in i.hat State. A dividend will, however, un doubtedly beclared soon." Luetgert Gets Life Sentence. CHICAGO. Feb. 10. Adolph L. Luet gert" was last night convicted of the murder of his wife, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term" of his natural life. Luetgert received the verdict with a laugh. - - Eldest Maaon and Odd Fellow Dead. SAN BERNARDINO. CaL. Feb. 10. George Lodd. the eldest Mason in the United States, and probably in the world, and also the oldest Odd Fellow in this country, is dead. He was born in New York city June 27. 1800. The "Empire," leading hotel in New York, is advertised on page 4.. MAKES H He Did Not Force J. W. Shook Off The Track. THE FIELD IS STILL OPEN T H E"S' PLOW BOY . OF CAN RUN. CANTON J.:WiIi Waa Fired Because of Gen eral Anti Civil Service. Reform. Ac tivity and Because of LetteraLWrit ten. - , The Asheville Register has received the following letter from Congressman Pearson: Editor "of the Asheville Register: I have just read in the Daily Citizen of the 5th inst. a communication from, J. Wiley Shook, which is so extraordinary in its tone and character that I feel obliged to state briefly my attitude in the premises, and my relation to the in cident to which Mr. Shook refers. Knowing that " Mr. Shook w as an avowed candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress I willingly gave my assent to his appointment to one of the best positions in the local revenue service. I was at that ' time aware of Mr. Shook" s systematic crit .cism of my course and character, but 1 was not narrow enough or selfish enough on this account to oppose his recognition by the party. Entirelj without my knowledge or interference, ijdr. Shook was notified in November .ast by the Acting Commissioner of In ternal Revenue that he would be dis charged unless he ceased writing dffen iive letters to the President, and unless ue attended strictly to the duties of his jffic-e. I made no complaint of anything .vhich Mr. bhook did or said, until he .oaae the attack, through Democratic aewspapeis, on my course and the course of my colleagues in Congress, .n lue matter ui the civil service. This Attack, Air. Shook unreservedly admits, nas uuuiru.iiied and unfounded in iact. i This disavowal .was abundantly suf ficient, and I regret .exceedingly that tie should have felt called upon to lay oare his motives, or to abandon his candidacy for the Republican nomina tion. . 1 insist that he has a perfect right to run for Congress, and so has every other man in the District. The nomi nation is given by the grace ot the he-. publican party, and the office is given oy the grace of a majority of the elec tors of the District. The people change and ought to change the incumbency of this office whenever they see fit. The party changes and .ought to change the nomination for the office, whenever they see fit, and it is the duty of every loyal Republican to acquiesce in their choice fairly expressed, and to use his earnest efiorts for the success of such nominee. I am not willing that the impression should prevail for a moment, that 1 would use the influence of my position to crush the laudable aspirations of J. Wiley Shook or of any other Republi can in the District. It is a free, field and open to all comers, and when the Republican party notifies me that they wish to give my place to another, 1 shall not only bow to their will, ut shall cordially endeavor to put that will into successful execution. Re spectfully, RICHMOND PEARSON. J. Wiley Will Be Reinstated. It can be stated authoritatively that J. Wiley ijhook, who lost his position because he expressed a doubt that "the Ninth district anti-civil service Con gressman had been sincere in his op position oi the law, will in a few days be reinstated in the government ser vice. A LOSS OF $100,000,000., New York Merchants Ask Interven tion, But Not for Loss of Ufe- WASHINGTON, "Feb. 10. A memo rial was presented to the President yes terday by a- delegation of New York business men, representing a large number of w-ell known and Influential firms in that city, asking that action be taken by this government looking to the re-establishment of peace in Cuba. The memorial recites that the war in Cuba during the last three years has resulted in a yearly average loss of import and export trade between Cuba and the United States of $100,000,000. IRELAND'S POTATO CROP Starving People Driven Out of Their Homes. LONDON, Feb. 10. The debate on the address in reply to the speech from the throne was resumed in the House of Commons yesterday. Michael Davitt moved an amendment calling attention to the distress in Ireland and the fail ure of the potato crop. John Dillon, chairman of the Irish parliamentary party, said the misery in Ireland was a scandal to the government. Dillon added that the distress was aggravated by evictions of the starving. FROM THE TELEGRAPH. Earthquakes have made 400Q people homeless in Asia Minor. General Pando. the Spanish comman der of forces in Cuba, has returned to Havana. The Spanish government has decided to send tfce cruiser Almirante Oquendo to Havana, and thence to New York. It is announced In St. Petersburg that China has abandoned the idea of is suing a loan in London or elsewhere. At New York the Democratic, club, which is being boomed by Richard Croker received $160,000 in dues and ini tiation fees in January. ' The note recently delivered to the Spanish government by Minister Wood ford related to filibustering and was not of a nature to give offense. The question of restricting indiscrim inate kissing among young folks con tinues to be discussed by prominent society people and others In Atlanta, Ga. Top AVcal i'CY and anus, Sudden Changes. Such as are of fre quent occurrence dur ing the cold winter weather, are almost sure to bring on colds and coughs, unless prevented by care fully protecting vul nerable parts of the body. These colds when neglected lead to coughs and fre quently to pneumo nia and consumption for all these and most ailments de pendent ujion an im poverished condition of the system a fre quent use of Pure Cod Liver Oil is ex cellent Dr. T. C. Smith keeps it plain and unmixed as well as in emulsions and medications at the Urujr Store on Court Square.- WE WILL BOND YOU. Tie United Stitss Ridltj zzl (kirs tj Company cf Baltlnors, ill Capital paid In cash... $3'0. 00 6OQ.fXKS.O0 Stockholders' liability Total resources $LOCN3,O?0.00 As agent of the above company I can make the bond of city, state and coun ty officials, railroad, express and other employes, postmasters, gaugers and in ternal revenue officials. In fact all sorts and sizes of bonds, for a small annual premium. I have power of attorney which enables me to execute ail court bonds instantly. These bonds will save the disagree able necessity of asking friends to make you a personal bond. FRANK CASTES, Attorney tsd Ajsst, ASHEVILLE, C. The Club 53 SOUTH MAIN ST., The leading saloon In AshevUIe. -1 car ry a complete line of the leading branis of Liquors, Wines, Ales and Cigars, imported and domestic Agent for tfcs Augusta Brewing Co. " Beer and liquor sold by wholesale and retail. Free de livery. 'Phone 21S. P. O. Box 237. Pat Mclntyre Proprietor. Biltmore Dairy The herd, consisting of high bred Jer seys, Is under the daily Inspection cf a Qualified veterinarian, formerly Inspec tor for the New Orleans board of health. A" the cows hive been Tuberculin Tested and are In perfect health. No expense cr labor spared to secure cleanliness In all operations corrected witn the milk. To do all the above coils money and lots of It; but we bars the satisfaction of knowing that we are supplying cus tomers with pure mi's. Perhaps you can buy milk a Litis cheaper, but Just think It over.
Asheville Citizen (Asheville, N.C.)
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Feb. 10, 1898, edition 1
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