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Vol. XVI. No. 250
ASHEVILLE, N. C.f FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 1, 1901.
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Groceries and Feed.
Diplomatic Meeting Discuss
ing the List.
UNITED. STATES TAKES LONG
STEP TOWARDS BRINGING OR
DER OUT OF CHAOS.
London, March 1. A dispatch from
Pekln to Reuter's agency, dated Feb
ruary 26, says the diplomatic meeting
that day discussed the list of provincial
officials whose punishment will be de
manded, which was not completed.
It also decided that the Italians are
to retain customs property which they
seised on the ground that the customs
are purely a Chinese institution and
have no. right to be within
the legation area. Hence the
European custom staff, who are
really serving as foreign bondhold
ers, will be compelled to settle out
side the fortitled limits.
All of the foreign residents are un
easy because the French, German and
Austrian ministers maintain that none
of them can live within the fortifica
tions. If the other ministers take the
same view the merchants and mission
aries will be forced to live among
Chinese who are no friendlier than
before, on account of recent hostilities.
The American government Is the on
ly government which has announced its
Intention to compensate the Chinese
for land required to extend the lega
tion grounds.
Washington, March 1. Carrying out
the policy Inaugurated by the state de
partment when it changed the military
force In China into a legation guard,
the war department has Bent orders to
General Chaffee to still further reduce
the force.
The general now has under his com
mand 1800 men. If the other powers
can be Induced to follow this policy, it
is hoped a long step will have been ef
fected toward the restoration of nor
mal conditions at Pekin.
It is said at the war department that
arrangements have not yet been made
for bringing away troops from Pekln,
and it is believed this cannot be done
before the ice clears out of the Pet Ho
river, which Is usually some time In the
latter part of March.
The troops are to go to Manila, there-
by making good the losses which Gen
eral Mac Arthur s command will sus
tain through the withdrawal of volun
teers who are coming home to be mus
tered out.
It fs the understanding at the war
department that Chaffee, who will
leave Pekin with his troops, is to re
lieve Mac Arthur of supreme command
In the Philippines.
ASSASSIN ARRESTED.
ASSAILANT OF MINISTER
PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.
OF
St. Petersburg, March 1. The man
named Karpovitch, who shot at and
wounded the minister of public lnstruc-
tion, M. Bogolipoff, while the latter was
holding a reception, has been arrest
ed. Mr. Bogolipoff was formerly rector of
the Moscow university, and later cura
tor of the Moscow educational district,
where he distinguished himself by a
strict enforcement of discipline. He
was minister of public instruction
when the law was passed punishing
obstreperous students with military
service. He recently ordered the un
sparing enforcement of this law and
approved many sentences against the
students.
TO COME SOUTH.
OWNERS OF SILK . MILLS WILL
LEAVE PENNSYLVANIA.
Plttston, Pa., March 1. Determined
not to grant the demands of the strik
ing silk workers, some of the mill own
ers have gone, to Georgia to secure
sites for the silk industries, which they
say will be removed at once to that
state.
The strikers will be given one week
longer to return to work ai me oia
scale of wages. If at the expiration of
that time the mills In this city and at
Scranton are not in full operation the
machinery will at once be removea 10
southern points and the mills In this
city will be disposed of to other man
ufacturers. cabinetIesignations.
ALL HANDED TO THE PRESIDENT
AT MEETING.
Washington, March 1. At the cabi
net meeting today,, the last under this
presidential term, all members pre
sented to the president their resigna
tion, to take effect upon the qualifica
tion of their successors.
Attorney General Griggs, who Is the
only number who has decided not to
remain during the coming four years,
was among the number and his nomi
nation will go to the senate with the
others Tuesday. He will not serve
longer, however, than April L when, It
is now believed, Philip G. Knox of
Pittsburg will receive the appolnt-
HABEAS, CORPUS.
Chics go. March 1.- Lloyd J. Smith,
under indictment for removing grain
.11 .....hnnw. without cancelling
iCi'" . mane implication for a writ I
of
habeas corpus - .V
court. Four J"aV;ViumenU by tha Capetown, March l.-Slr Alfred Mil
ter listening t0.b' ni-' ner has started northward to take up
attorneys, gave permlMlon: ror ine n gTim of th
Four Jung", sunns
tng of briers ana w
SENATE AMENDMENTS
ELLIOTTS MOTION TO CONCUR IN
; THB - CHARLESTON AMEND
MENT IS DEFEATED. '" '
Washington, March f. The house
committee on rules met today to frame
a rule for consideration of the' army
appropriation bill with the Cuban and
Philippine amendments, a determina
tion having been reached to accept the
senate amendments throughout with
out the formality ana delay of the
usual conference committee.
The motion to take up the car coup
ling bill, thus displacing the sundry
civil appropriation bill, was defeated in
the senate by a vote of 25 to 36. Con
sideration was then begun of the sun
dry civil bill.
The house defeated the motion of Mr.
Elliott to concur in U. ; Charleston ex
position amendment to the Louisiana
purchase bill ayes 84, noes 132.
A protracted conference struggle on
the river and harbor bill Is promised,
Conferences began Informally even be
fore the conferees were appointed. But
as there are. 299 items of difference,
some of them up to the million dollar
mark, there 1b little prospect of even a
! partial agreement before tomorrow or
Sunday.
The matter was further complicated
by the reference of the bill back to the
river and harbor committee, but Chair
man Burton immediately called a meet
ing and hopes to begin rormal con
ferences during the day.
DEAD SOLDIERS.
BODIES BROUGHT ON INDIANA
FROM PHILIPPINES.
San Francisco, March 1. The trfftfS
port Indiana brought from Manila the
bodies of the 15 soldiers who died In
the Philippines as follows:
Lieutenant J. Morrison, Jr., Fourth
calvary; Dr. Louts P. Smith, private;
1 Private Herman Buehler, Company C,
! Forty-second Infantry; Hans Cofferd,
Company D, Fqrty-slxth Infantry; P.
A. Fitzgerald, Company K, Forty-sev-,
enth Infantry; Arthur E. Gleason,
Company L, Forty-sixth infantry; Guy
Price, Company K, Forty-fifth lnfan-
) try; Louis Sliver, Company F, Fortieth
United State's cavalry: Samuel Tweek,
Company M, Thirty-ninth Infantry;
Leopard Wenzel. Company H, Third
Infantry; Charles D. Smith, Company
D, Thirty-ninth Infantry; George W.
' Halen, Twelfth United States Infantry;
Corporal Herbert Haws, Company H,
Thirty-fifth Infantry: Fred. L. Gregory,
Thirteenth Minnesota volunteers.
The following dearths occurred during
the voyage: D. J& Droader, private,
Forty-third infantry; William E.
Candy, private, Thirty-third in
fanry; James McLaughlin, pri
vate, Seventeenh Infantry; Wil
liam Kicks, private. Twenty- sixth
infantry; Clarence E. Crelghton, pri
vate. Thirty-third Infantry; William D.
Gregory, corporal. Thirty-eight-infantry;
James Dunn, Company B. engin
eer corps; M. E. Matthews, private,
, Company A. Third cavalry.
GERMAN RAILWAYS,
EMPEROR WILLIAM FAVORS A
COMPLETE CHANGE.
Washington, March 1. It is reported
that Emperor Wllllat.i has expressed
himself In favor of a complete change
In the German railway service, accord
ing to a communtcatlin received at the
state department from Consul General
Gttent her at- Frankfort: :
At an audience recently held by
Privy Councillor Rathenau, a pro
moter of great electrical enterprises,
the latter gave the emperor detailed
Information emphasizing the necessity
of constructing electrical railways for
direct and rapid connection- between
Berlin and the principal cities of the
German empire.
FOUR SUSPECTS.
VIGILANT SEARCH FOR ATLAN
TA'S HIGHWAYMAN.
Atlanta, March 1. The condition of
Mrs. C. A. Buchanan, who was yester
day boldly attacked by a negro, Is
somewhat Improved today. Four ne
groes have been arrested as suspects.
Two have been released.
Mis. Buchanan has not yet been able
to see any of the prisoners for Identi
fication. Vigilant search is being mude
for the highwayman. The chief of po
lice has Issued a general order fdr the
arrest of all negro vagrants.
FINE RESIDENCE BURNED.
Pittsburg, Pa., March 1. "Brae
Mar," the handsome residence jately
owned by John G. Lelshrnan, minister
to Turkey, and recently bought by
Col. Frank J. Hearne, first vice presi
dent of the National Tube company,
was totally destroyed by fire yester
day. The loss will exceed $100,000. The
origin of the fire is unknown.
TO CURE CONSUMPTION
Cleveland, O., March 1. It Is Stated
that a company will be organized here
within a few days composed of Cleve
land, Bessemer snd eastern capitalist
and capitalized at $1,000,000 to erect a
system of sanitariums In the larger
rltles in the country for the cure of
consumption by electricity. It Is said
a cure for the disease has been found
GOVERNOR MILNER STARTS.
Transanal and Orange River colony.
isyutl
Murderer Ferrell Executed
in Ohio Penitentiary.
HE QOES TO THE DEATH CHAIR
WITH " A FIRM STEP HAS
jlOTHING TO BAT.
Columbus, O., March 1 "Roslyn Fer
rell, have you nothing to sayT" -4;
"I have nothing to say."
These were the only words spoken in
the electrocution room at the Ohio pen
itentiary this morning, immediately af
ter midnight, preliminary to the death
of the murderer whose crime shocked
the country on the night of August 10,
1900. ;
As the condemned man gave his re
ply to the query of Warden Darby, the
ele;trio current was sent coursing
through his body and the law was
avenged. There was no hitch of any
kind and the execution was the most
successful ever conducted In the state.
The number who witnessed the exe
cution was limited to the strict letter
of the law and the small party took Us
place In the room exactly at the hour
of 12. Three minutes later the warden
nodded his head towards the door lead
ing Into the cell department and Kos
lyn Ferrell, the guards, and Rev.
Fathers Kelly and O'Reilly made their
appearance.
With a firm step Ferrell walked to
the platform on which stood the fatal
chair. He stepped up and took a seut
without hesitation. The guards quick
ly fastened the straps which bound the
bogy In position. The prisoner closed
his eyes and did not open them' again
in life,
All being In readiness, the warden
addressed to Ferrell the words stated
above.
With a quick motion the lever con
trolling the current was thrown and
1T50 volts were turned into the murder
er's body
Ferrell murdered an express messen
ger, who was his mend, and it was
said that the crime was committed In
oraer tnat ne might secure money
with which to get married. The mur
der was traced to him within a short
time after it wss committed.
DEFENDS JARS. NATION.
ST. JOHN SAYS SHE HAS COMMIT
TED NO CRIME.
Kansas City, Mo., March 1. Ex
Governor John P. St. John of Kansas
In an Interview vigorously defended the
course of Mrs. Carrie Nation In her
crusade against the Joints in Kansas
He said that Mrs. Nation's position on
liquor question was like John Brown's
position on the slavery miostion an4
although her methods are unusual an
unrefined nhe is a true reformer and Is
Justified in using any means to abate
the Joint nuisances In. Kansas. Whtlf
she may be technically gulltv of tres
pass In destroying the Jolntlst's prop
erty, he said, the destruction of prop
erty which is being used notoriously In
violation of the law is no crime.
Ex-Governor St. John was governor
of Kansas when the first constitutions!
amendment restricting the liquor traf
fic in Kansas was passed.
WATSON'S DISCOVERIES.
OF IMMENSE IMPORTANCE.
SIR THOMAS LIPTON;
SAYS
Glasgow, March 1. Sir Thomas Ltp-
ton had a long conference today with
Watson and Captain Sycamore In re
gard to his future plans. In the course
of an Interview later he Informed the
Associated Press that Shamrock II Is
totally unlike any yacht ever' launched
on the other side of the Atlantic. The
shape of the challenger, he believes,
will greatly Increase her speed.
"The discoveries Watson has made In
connection with the designs of this
boat" areiof Immense Importance," 'said
Blr Thomas.
OVER PRODUCTION.
CAUSE OF ... SHUTDOWN
KNOXVILLE PLANT.
OF A
Knoxville, Tenn., March 1. The
Knoxville woolen mills today closed
the Jeans mills for 30 duys. About 300
persons are thrown out of employment.
The plant has been running only
from three to five days a week for the
past six weeks.
Overproduction Is stated as the cause
for the shutdown.
MAYOR BOUND OVER.
Omaha, Neb., March 1. Mayor Kelly
of South Omaha was bound over In
$1000 bond on a charge of receiving
a bribe from a gambling house of that
place. The state Introduced evidence
which showed that one gambling house
had paid the mayor $260 to protect It
against molestation. The mayor de
nied that he had ever received any of
this money.
FOR THE INAUGURATION.
Norfolk, Va., March 1. Tho old wood
en training ship Lancaster passed uu
the Potomac river yesterday from
Barbadoes bound to Washington tu
Join the Inaugural fleet The cruiser
Dixie has arrived to take on sailors for
Wnshlngtun. who will be In the naval
division of the Inaugural parade.
Bargains In Teapots,- 12n. - and
each. Law's, 16 Pat ton avenue.
ibn
IT MAT BE POSSIBLE TO MAKE A
PREDICTION BY SATURDAY '
EVENING. ,
Washington, March 1. The generally
One and settled weather' conditions
that have mostly prevailed In all parts
of the country during the past six
weeks are now disturbed and hereaf
ter the country may expect the usual
alterations of lair and foul weather.
-IMs now a question whether the
fourth of -March will fall within tho
fair or foul period.' Nearly the entiro
region from the Mississippi river east
ward was this morning warm, cloudi.
or more or less rainy, and the tempera
ture was unreasonably warm. By Sat
urday evening It will probably be pos
sible to maku a definite prediction for
Monday.
Steamers which depart today for K
ropean ports will have fresh south
westerly winds with cloudy and upset
tied weather to the Grand Banks.
MITCHELL MAN HUNTERS
LOOKING FOR WARWICK.
WHO
SLEW PETERSON.
Knoxville, March 1. A Journal and
Tribune special from Bristol says:
'John and Jesse Peterson of Mitchell
county, N. C, were In Bristol last
night searching for one John Warwick,
a young man who recently killed a
young man named Peterson near Ba
kersvllle, N. C. Warwick is supposed
to have taken refuge In this state.
"The killing was due to Jealousy. The
two young men were rivals for a girl.
Peterson had accompanied her home
from church at night. On his return
to his own home he was met in the
road by Warwick, and after hot words
had passed Warwick struck Peterson
on the head with a stone; then ran
away. The next morning Peterson's
dead body was found upon the high
way.
"The Petersons say that there Is
much indignation on account of the
killing and that threats have been
made agalnBt Warwick's life,"
THE GAYNORS' CASE.
JUDGE BROWN SETS THE HEAR-
ING FOR MARCH 21.
Macon, Ga., March 1. District At
torney Erwin Is in receipt of a tele
gram from New York, announcing that
Judge Brown has set March 21 as the
time for hearing the application for
the removal of Benjamin D. Greene, J.
F. Gaynor and other defendants charg
ed with conspiracy with Captain Car
ter, to the Jurisdiction of the court for
the southern district of Georgia.
The defendants claim that the action
of Commissioner Shields Is nugatory
and seek to prevent the Issuance of
the warrant of removal on that ground.
HORRIBLY MUTILATED.
ELECTRICIAN STRUCK BY PENN
SYLVANIA FAST MAIL.
Greenfield,, lnd., March 1. Calvin
Ballews, aged 43, an employe of the
Trees Manufacturing company, at this
place, was Instantly killed by the
Pennsylvania fast mall yesterday. The
body was horribly mutilated, both
legs and arms being severed and the
neck broken.
Papers found on his person showed
that he was a graduate of Columbia
college and that he had recently been
rr-the-eTnploy-rf-themgoffefctrlc
company in South America.
BARS UNION MEN.
NOTICE ISSUED BY TENNESSEE
MINING COMPANY.
Chattanooga, March 1. The Camp
bell Coal Mining company of Cross-
vllle, Tenn., has Issued notices an
nouncing that It would at once evict
all union labor from its works.
It Is stated that the union will resist
and bloodshed Is feared.
The president of the company an
nounces that no union miners can mine
In the future work In the mines under
any circumstances.
DENIAL FROM CRAMP.
Philadelphia, March 1. Charles H
Cramp, head of the Cramp Hhlpbulld
Ing company denies the report from
Constantinople that the contract for
cruiser for the Turkish government had
been annulled because of the failure of
the porte to pay the first Installment,
Mr. Cramp says tl.at the first payment
was not due until M. rch 1 and that
consequently the report was without
foundation.
ON THE BRINK OF THE GRAVE.
Atlanta, March 1. James L. Baker,
who was sentenced to death for the
murder of his wife, was last night
granted commutation of sentence to
life Imprisonment. He was to hava
been hanged todav.
TO MEET IN LOS ANGELES.
Atlanta, March 1. Mrs. Rebecca D.
Lowe, president of the Federation of
Woman's clubs announces that the
next biennial meeting will take place
In Los Angeles, Cal., March IS, 1WL
SPECIAL BALE AT 20c.
of large stone ware Mixing Bowls,
worth from 45 to 7Bo. each (now 20c.) to
close out the line. J, II. Iaw. 25 Pat
ton avenue.
Japanese Water Drop at
Patton avenue.
Law's, 3a
Nebraska's Prison Almost
Totally Destroyed.
THE PRISONERS WERE REMOVED
UNDER EXTRA GUARD, AND
."NO ONE IS INJURED.
. Lincoln, Neb., March 1. The Nebras
ka state penitentiary Is In ruins as the
result of a fire which started at mid
night last night, destroying the cell
house and the entire main building;
The loss will not be less than $300,000
and will probably exceed that amount.
The only building saved was the east
wing, occupied by the warden, the
chapel and a small reserve cell room.
Precautions have been taken to guard
the prisoners, who were removed under
extra guard without difficulty. Lieu
tenant Uovernor Savage has arranged
to have a sufficient number of national
guards sent to prevent the escape of
any prisoners. So far as known no one
has been injured, and the prisoner
will be provided for In the reserve cell
rooms In the east wing.
The fire was discovered by warden
Davis shortly before midnight, he be
ing aroused by crackling flames and the
smell of smoke. An alarm wss given.
the convicts, guards and employes were
I. aroused and a request was telephoned
to the Lincoln fire department for help.
The convicts, numbering 800, were
ordered to clothe themselves and were
marshalled Into the huge courtyard In
a long double line, under the espionage
of a score of armed guards.
The books, records and papers of the
Institution were removed to a place
of safety, but nothing else valued was
saved.
Warden Davis took charge of the In
stitution February 16. "I have no opin
ion to offer regarding the origin of the
flames," he said.
ENLISTED MEN.
WHITNEY SAYS THEY SHOULD
BE GIVEN A CHANCE. -
New York. March 1. William C.
Whitney, ex-seoretary of the navy,
when, questioned said that he saw no
good reason why men who have served
as apprentices In the navy should not
be promoted to the line.
"When 1 was secretary of the navy,"
he explained, "we could not find places
for all the men who graduated from
Annapolis. Now things have changed,
i and there are not men enough from
the academy to fill the places. Then.
' why are not the enlisted men a good
, field to pick from? Why not give them
a chance? They are made of the same
material as the officers.
"In my opinion, the apprentice sys
' tern of the United States navy la the
best In the world. It fits men to fill
positions in every part of the ship, and
there Is no reason, If the academy can
not supply officers, why men who
have come Into the navy through the
door of enlistment should be kept out
of the ward room.
DONE WITH DISPATCH.
ARRIVED, TRIED AND SENTENC
ED WITHIN AN HOUR.
Carrollton, 111., March 1. Guarded by
four companies of state militia to pro
tect htm from a mob determined
lynching, Albert Shenkle, who on Dn
cember 23 .last criminally assaulted the
16 years old daughter of Charles U. Gli
lesiof Carrollton, was-earty-today-'ts-ken
from the county Jail at Springfield,
placed on a special train and brought
to Carrollton.
Through streets lined with silent
spectators he was hurried to the cour
house. An hour after the arrival of the
train Shenkle pleaded gulltv. was
promptly given an Indeterminate sen
tence by Judge Thompson and was on
his way to the Southern Illinois peni
tentiary at Chester.
PRESIDENT INVITED.
CANNOT PROMISE TV ATTEND
CONFEDERATE REUNION.
. Washington, D. C, March 1. The
committee from Memphis to . In
vite the president to Mem
phis during the Confederate re
union culled at the .white house
today and was cordially received. The
Invitation was presented by Gene.!
Gordon on behalf of the general reun
ion committee and by Councilman Cn
rlngton on bohalf of the city of Mem
phis. The president replied he would cer.
talnly visit Memphis at an early dt
but whs In doubt whether b could 1n
so at the time of the reunion.
BLHINDTHE BARS.
THEY'RE JAIL BARS, NOT
THE JOINT KIND.
BUT
Topeka, Kan., March 1. Mrs. Carrie
Nation, the Kansas Joint smasher, re
turned to Topeka last night from Pe
oria. 111., where she went to edit a
newspaper for a day.
She went at once to the county Jail
where she gave herself over to custody.
The $2000 bond which Mrs. Nation was
required to give before she left the
city was cancelled.
Her trial comes up, at the April term
of district court.
The store that mnde Asheville fa
mous. Big drives being made In candy
and stationery, 6 and 10 cent store. It
A new lot of extension tables at Mrs.
L. A. Johnson's, 43 Patton avenue.
der advisement-