CHOLERA RAGING III MANILA ;
The Epidemic Confined Almost
Entirely to Native Population.
Health Authorities Have Thus Far
Been Unable to Stop Spread
of the Disease.
Washington, D. C. Information
received by the Insular Bureau of the
"War Department from Manila is to
. the effect that cholera in a very viru
lent form is raging there. During the
-creek ending July 4 there were 116
cases and ninety-nine deaths from the
disease. That the health authori
ties have thus far been unable to stop
the spread of the disease is indicated
liy the further report that during the
twenty-four hours preceding 8
o'clock a. m., were twelve cases and
five deaths reported from the prov
inces. . During the same period in
Manila there were twenty-nine, cases
rhich came to the knowledge of the
health Department, twenty-three of
which were fatal.
The situation has assumed a very
crave aspect, and the authorities
liave taken stringent measures to
stamp out the disease as speedily as
possible, but it seems jto have gained
m headway which is 'regarded with
some apprehension. It is said that
the disease is confined almost en
tirely to the native population, al
though several cases among white
persons have been reported. It is be
lieved, however, that the army and
the civilian employes of the insular
Government have thus far escaped
from the ravages of the disease. It
bas been the practice f the Philip
pine authorities to cable the names
of employes of the Government in
case of death, and as none have been
reported in this manner it is thought
that there have been no fatalities
Among them.
The islands have never been en
tirely free from cholera, but up to
the present time the disease has been
practically under control, only an iso
lated case having been reported to
the authorities from time to time.
After an absence dating from
March 21 cholera again reappeared
In Manila early in May, when there
were six cases and six deaths. Dur
ing May there were also fifteen cases
nd twelve deaths from the same dis
ease in the provinces. Every possible
effort was made to trace the source
of infection, but so far all attempts
have been unsuccessful. The first
case occurred in the person of a beg
gar, who was known to have been in
the citjr for at least several weeks.
ks far as could be learned, he ate
only such xood as is common to the
poorer cas3es. While it has not been
3ossible to trace any connection be- .
rurred in the district of Tondo, and
all of them in houses that border on
the same estero.
H. M'K. TWOMBLY, JR., DROWNED
:5eized With Cramps Waile Swimming
in Rig Squam Lake.
Ashland, X. H. H.McK.Twombly,
Jr., only son of the New York capi
talist, got a cramp and was drowned
In Big Squam Lake, Holderness, X.
H., six miles from Ashland. He was
eighteen years old, and four weeks
a.go had graduated from Groton
School, in Groton, Mass. He had
looked forward to a course at Yale,
and only a short time before his
death had been talking enthusiastic
ally of his future -career at college.
The young man, whose mother i3
the sister of the late Cornelius Van- j
derbilt and of William K., Frederick
W. and George W. Vanderbilt. would
have been one of the richest boys in
the United States had he lived to at
tain his majority.
Young Twombly had gone to the
lakeside with a party of students who
3iad graduated from the Groton
School. He was the best swimmer
in the little coterie.
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BRITONS LOSE FAMOUS CU
3rand Challenge Trophy at Henley
. Captured by Belgians.
Henley, England. The crew rep
Tesenting the Club Xautique de Grand
Belgium) defeated Trinity Hall,
Cambridge, by three lengths in the
ISnal for the Grand Challenge Cup.
Time, seven minutes nine seconds.
The cup thus leaves England for the
Urst time in its history, and for the
next twelve months will adorn the
headquarters of the Belgian Rowing
-dub.
The ease with which the Belgians
3eat the crack British crew was a
Tather rough shock to the compla
,cency of the home oarsmen and to
itheir belief in the hitherto unshaka
ble invincibility of their methods of
Towing.
The short, quick stroke and lack
of leg-work of the Belgians have
5een criticised by the British experts
since the first appearance of the for
eign crew.
Heavy Penalty For Land Fraud.
At Portland, Ore., Henry Meldrum,
former United States Surveyor Gen
eral for the District of Oregon, was
aentenced to pay a fihe of $250 on
each of twenty-one counts and to
serve sixty days' imprisonment at
liard labor on each of eighteen counts,
In the Federal penitentiary, for con
spiracy to defraud the Government in
-connection with land deals in the
'State.
Three Lives Lost in Hotel Fire.
Fire destroyed the Ouichita House,
an old frame hotel, at Monroe, La.
John Taylor, proprietor; Irvin. Tay
lor, his grandson, and John Farrell,
ol Bienville parish, a guest, lost their
lives.
Lagging in San Francisco.
One of the few adverse reports in
the business world is the delay to re
building San Francisco by the high
price of labor and the tardiness of
some insurance settlements.
GIRL SHOULDERS A MURDER
Confesses to Killing a Youth After
Accusing Two Young Men.
Emma Stephany Tells How She Shot
Her Sweetheart James Frizznell
While Celebrating the Fourth.
Pottsville, , Pa. First Implicating
two young men of prominent fami
lies in the murder of James Frizz
nell, whose body was . found in the
street on July 4, then clearing the
men and taking the blame for the
shooting on her own shoulders, Em
ma Stephany, nineteen years old,
daughter of a prominent merchant
of this place, amazed the police by
the stories which she told. Because
of the sudden change in her stories
the police are inclined to believe that
the girl is - demented, and that
neither she nor the young men whose
names she told know anything about
Frizznell's death. Yet both her
stories at first glance appeared to
have the imprint of truth, and the
girl now is under arrest awaiting
the result of an investigation by. the
police. ' ' . . .
Frizznell's body was found In the
street on the morning of the Fourth
of July with a bullet wound in his
breast. Among those whom the
police questioned in regard to the
shooting was Miss Stephany. She
said that she had seen the man slain,
and she mentioned the names of
those who she said did the Shoot
ing. The police visited the young
men mentioned by the girl, but ap
parently they were able to prove
a complete alibi, for they were not
arrested.
The police continued their work
on the case, and they were sur
prised when the girl walked Into
headquarters and said that she want
ed to retract the story she told and
take all the blame for the killing.
She asserted that she shot Frizznell
acicdentally with his own revolver
in celebrating the Fourth. She said
he loaned her the pistol and that she
meant to fire it in the air. She shut
her eyes when she pullHi the triccer.
and when she opened them again
Frizznell was lying on the ground
with a bullet in his breast.
JAIL FOR TRUST LAWYERS.
To Have an Opportunity to Prove
Charges Against Toledo Judge.
Toledo, Ohio. Jadce Kinkade, of
the Common Pleas Court, who re
cently sentenced the icemen to the
Workhouse, sentenced Thomas H.
Tracy and Clarpnce Brown, their at
torneys, to ten days each in the coun
ty jail, and Alexander Smith, another
attorney, to pay. a fine of $230 for
contempt of court. In filing a motion
charging the Judge with misconduct
in the trial of the icemen
The sentence was suspended to
give the attorneys an opportunity to
show to the Circuit Court that their
charges against Kinkade are true.
The three men sentenced are the
most nrominent attorneys at the To
ledo Bar.
ROJESTVEXSKY PLEADS GUILTY.
Russian Vice-Adniiral Courts Death
to Save Subordinates.
Cronstadt. In a manly effort to
save the surviving members of his
staff and the other officers who. he
believed, surrendered the gunboat
Bedovi on account of their affection
for their wounded commander and
their desire to save his life, Vice-Ad-miral
Rojestvenskv pleaded guilty be
fore a court-martial.
In a short speech to the court the
Admiral declared that he took all
the blame on his own shoulders and
asked that he alone be punished to
the fullest extent of the law, virtually
an appeal for condemnation and
death, which is the penalty for haul
ing down the St. Andrew's Cross to
a hostile vessel.
Helen kellei: to add blind.
Governor Guild Appoints Her Mem
ber of a State Commission.
Boston. Miss Helen Keller, of
Wrentham, the deaf, dumb and blind
girl, will be a member of the new
commission for the industrial educa
tion of the blind, which has long been
advocated by her, and which was re
cently authorized by the Legislature.
Governor Guild announced the ap
pointment of five members to . make
up this commission, and besides Miss
Keller, who will serve on the commis
sion for four years, are Dr. E. Hart
well, of Boston, five years; Miss An
netta P. Rogers, of Boston, three
years; Dr. J. H. A. Matte, of North
Adams, two years, and Robert L.
Raymond, of Milton, one year.
BORGES GETS FIFTEEN YEARS.
Convicted of Larceny . in Connection
With Ubero Plantation Swindles.
Boston. Ferdinand E. Borges was
sentenced to from twelve to fifteen
years in State's prison, the first day
in solitary confinement, for his con
nection with the Ubero Plantation
Company swindles, whereby hundreds
of "investors" were defrauded of
money given to promote, fictitious
plantations of fruit and products in
Ubero, Mexico. In passing sentence
the Court adjudged Borges to be a
common and notorious thief.
Hon and Steel Orders Large.
The iron and steel industry is mak
ing satisfactory progress, and book
ings of new business are still made
at a healthy rate.
New Village at Vesuvius.
The Duke and Duchess of Aosta
laid the cornerstone for a new village
on the side of Vesuvius, Italy.
President Starts His Vacation.
President Roosevelt reached Oys
ter Bay for his summer, vacation.
TARHEEL CROP BULLETIN
General Summary of Condition of
North Carolina Crops for Week
Ending. Monday, July 9, 1903.
A-
The weather during: the past week
has" been generally cloudy with fre
quent" rains especially in the central
and eastern districts where the dam
age by excessive rain was consider
able. The rain over the entire State
a vera ged about 0.S0 : ineh above th e '
normal. The greatest excess was at
Wilmington where the rainfall wasv
2.47 inches above the normal amount.
In the western district the rains were
reported, and the week as a whole in
that section was favorable. The warm
weather of the week ending July 2nd
continued-until the 3rd when the
weather became gradually cooler, the
temperature averaging for the week
1 to 3 degrees lowe rthan the normal.
The highest maximum temperature
reported was 96 degrees in Halifax
County on the 3rd ; and the lowest
was CO degrees in Buncombe county
on the 5th and 9th. A. II. Thiessen,
Section Director.
Great Gathering of Fanners.
The following is the programme of
the great meeting of fanners at Ral
eigh. July 10-12, 1906:
' Tuesday July 10, Noon.
Opening add ress, Commissioner . of '
Agriculture F. L. Patterson; Address
of weleome,-. Governor R. B. Glenn;
Response, President C. C. Moore.
Afternoon Session, 3 O'clock.
Agricultural Outlook in North Car
olina : Ten Years of Progress in Agri
culture, J. Bryan Grimes; The Com
ing of Live-stock, A. C. Green; Cat
tle Ticks Must Go, Dr. Taft Butler;
The Farm' Garden an Important
Small Industry, Prof. H. II. Hume;
Farm Poultry. J. S. Jeffrey; Mule
Raising, Dr. E. B. Wilcox, Office of
Experiment Stations, Washington, D.
Evening Session, 8 O'clock.
Problems in Feeding Animals;
Fundamental Problems in feeding
Animals, C. D. Harris; The Efficien
cy of . Homegrown Feed, A. L.
French; Address, Hon v Ed. H. Web
ster. Chief of Dairy Division, Wash
ington, D. C.
Wednesday, July 11th, 6 A. M.
Trip over the College Farm.
Morning Session, 10 A. M.
Program for Tobacco Farmers,
Program for the Cotton Farmers,
Program for Daily Farm ere, Program
for Institute Workers, Program for
Women.
Afternoon Session, 2 P. M. General
Session.
Problems in Soil Management;
Better Methods of Farming, Prof.
C. M. Conner, Agriculturist Florida
Experimental Station ; Home Testing
of the Soil by the Basket Method,
John C. Brittou; Alfalfa, T. B. Par
?ver ; Farm Tools and Implements,
D. W. Thorpe ; Dignify .Your Calling,
Col. II. C. Dockery.
Evening Session, 8 P. M.. General
Session.
Problems in Crop Culture: The
Breeding and Selecting of Seeds. C.
1. Williams; Important Steps in Cul
tivation, B. F. Walton; Corn, a Crop
for All Farmers, R. W. Scott.
Thursday July 12th, 7 A. M.
Visit to the Poultry Farm.
Morning Session, 10 A. M.
Program for Tobacco Farmers
Program for Cotton Fanners, Pro
gram for Dairy Fanners, Program
for Women.
Noon General Session.
Following is the program of the
State Dairymen's Association, which
meets in conjunction with the above:
Wednesday July 11th.
10 A. M. Opening Exercises; Pres
ident's Annual Address; Secretary's
Report; Farm Butler-Making, R. H.
Gower; Dairying as I Know it, McD.
Watkins.
Thursday, July 12th.
Election of Officers Points for the
Small Dairyman, L. F. Davis; Retail
Mill, J. H. Bostian; What Dairying
has Done for Me, A. C. Green ; Ad
dress, Prof. B. H. Rawles, Dairying
Expert, Dairy Division, Washington,
D. C; Judging and Scoring; Award
ing Prizes.
Teachers' Salaries Raised.
Durham, Special. The teachers of
Durham county's public schools have
received a slight raise for the ensu
ing j'ear's work. The larger schools,
where but one teacher is employed,
the. salary was raised from $40 to
$45. In other instances the increase
was from $33 to $40 and from $30 to
$43. In other instances tha increase
was from $33 to $40 and from $30 to
$35. In preparing for the fall work
the board apportioned about $20,000
$1,500 was set aside as building
fund and $1,200 as a contingency
fund. Over 200 Houses Flooded.
Wellsville, Ohio, Special. A cloud
burst in the country just back of this
city sent a torrent of water down
Trotters Run that caused the heavey
loss of city and country property.
Over 200 homes and business houses
were t flooded and the foundations
weakened so tha't the pebplo would
not remain in the houses.
TAFT SPE
Cabinet Member's Address to
Nsrth Carolina Republicans
COUNSELS THEM TO HARMONY
The Secretary of War Emphasis the
Importance of Breaking the Solid
South, But Says as Ing'as the Re
publican Party in This. Section Rep
resents Little Save a Factional
Chase for Federal Offices, in Whic2i
v Business Men and Men, of Substance
in the Community Have No Desire
to Enter and in the Result of Which
They Have No Interest, "We May
Except the Present Political Condi
tions of the South to Continue.'
Greensboro, N. -C, Special. The
most interesting feature of the Repub
lican State convention here was the
address by Secretary of War,' William
H. Taft. The address was in part as
follows: V.
"Republicans of North Carolina:
"When your committee did me the
honor to ask me to address the Re
publican convention of North Caro
lina, they advised me that the politi
cal situation was such that if a prop
er effort were made ""at the coming
.election, it would be possible to carry
the State for the Republican party,
and that in that effort they felt they
were entitled to the. sympathy and
assistance of Republicans throughout
the couhtry. The apeal had con
vincing weight with me, for I be
lieve that nothing that could hap
pen in the politics of this country
would work greater advantage to the
country at large, and to the South in
particular, than the breaking up of
what has been properly lenown as the
"Solid South." I say this in no par
tisan spirit, for I am not one of those
who think that this -result would
necessarily increase the probability
of the continuance in power of the
Republican party. The solidity of the
South while it has assured to the
Democratic party a certain number
of Congressmen and a certain num
ber of electoral votes, has in a meas
ure furnished its own antidote by re
straining many voters in the North
who might have left the Republican
party but for what they regard as
the injustice and danger of Southern
political conditions." -
Here Secretary Taft referred to the
disfranchisement of the negro, show
ing that this was not approved by the
people of the north. Concerning the
present day South he said:
"The white people of the South are
a homogeneous people, much more
likely to cherish traditions and re
tain customs and opinion of the past
than the people of the North of more
mixed descent. Hence it takes a long
time to convince the white people of
the South, intelligent, clear-headed
and energetic as they are, that the
cry of negro domination, so often
raised by politicians among them, is
merely for the purpose of solidifying
their vote on the Democratic side
aud has no real jurisdiction in fact.
As long as the years immediately fol
lowing the war, their agriculture lan
guished, their mines remained un
opened, their factories were few in
number, and the prosperity of the
country seemed confined to that part
of it lying north of Mason rs and Dix
on's line, it was easj, by appeals to
recollections of the civil war and the
unfortunate sequence of reconstruc
tion, to fill the ranks of the Demo
cratic army and maintain the -solid-ty
of the South. But nw, during
the last decade, an unprecendented pe
riod of prosperity has come for the
fair Southern States."
The Secretary. Uien led off into the
body of his speech, showing what the
present administration. and the past
congress have done for the country.
He argued that it is now time for a
break in the solidity of the South,
that the best interests of the whole
country demands it, and that North
Carolina is good republican ground.
Concerning the republican position
on the trust question he said:
"It has been the habit of the Dem
ocratic party. to attack the Republi
can party as favoring trusts and cor
porations, and opposed to the labor
ing man. Nothing could be farther
from the fact. The record of that
party shows that the only substantial
steps which have been really taken
to stop the abuses and oppression at
tempted by the irresponsible hold
ers of the great wealth and corpoi-nte
power, have been by the Republican
party and there is no more brilliant
aud successful exponent o fthis policy
than Theodore Roosevelt. His declar
ations made before . the election are
being enforced and put into practice
afterthe election.'
Mr. Taft argued that the "republi
cans were not to be criticised for the
seeming extravagance of the past
congress ; that the expenditures made
were made necessary by the needs of
the country.
' Secretary Taft left Monday night
on a special train for his home and
thence to keep an engagement in Ohio
Tuesday,
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We Buy and Sell Horses and Hules Wagons.
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PROMINFNT PEOPLE.
Senator Chauncey M. Depew is tak
ing the rest cure at Dohbs Ferry.
Senator Hansbrough began as a
printer after leaving the public
school.
Senator Perkins, who was a Maine
fawner's boy, went to sea when he
was thirteen.
" Edison is unquestionally one of the
most unassuming and democratic of
our great men.
The Duke of Abruzzi- has sailed
for Africa to explore the Ruwenzoni
mountain range.
King Edward is fond of plovers'
eggs, which he generally spreads on
Russian black bread. "
Before he was twenty Senator Pat
terson had worked for eight years as
a printer and jeweler.
Professor A. B. Macullum, of
Toronto University, has been elected
a member of the Royal Society of
London."
. Thomas F. Ryan; who, next to John
D. Rockefeller, is regarded in the
"Wall Street district as the most de
termined money maker in America,
is a director in thirty-two corpora
tions. John Burns, nor a British Cabinet
Minister,' once contended publicly
that no man's work is worth more
than $2500 a year. Yet Burns has
accepted an office which pays $10,000
a year. J-, x"
In addition to his knowledge of
continental tongues, King Edward is
said to know a little Gaelic. It is
probably not very much, for even
Robert Louis Stevenson, a born Scot,
could" not master this difficult tongue.
Elbert H. Gary, Chairman of the
United States Steel Corporation, has
ordered a family mausoleum, costing
$100,000. to be built at Wheaton,
111. The largest roof stones ever
quarried will be used in the mauso
leum. NEWSY GLEANINGS.
A record wheat" crop ,is predicted.
One person in 400 is. insane in
Ohio.
Some Americans are to open a big
department store in London.
New York has :cided to erect a
monument to C?rl Schurz.
Heavy rain spoiled King Edward's
birthday celebration; London sub
ways were flooded.
The Wells, Fargo & Co. Express
Company has been put on a ten per"
cent, dividend basis.
Six hundred men in Indian Terri
tory hanged and burned a negro who
had assaulted a girl of fifteen.
A Japanese expert said that most
of the earthquake losses In San Fran
cisco were caused by faulty construc
tion. .
A. Hepburn,- President of the
Chase National , Bank, estimated that
Americans spent $400,000,000 abroad
yearly.
It is reported that the suits which
the Administration expects to bring
against the Standard Oil may result
in $2,000,000 wc th cf fines. V
American delegates to the Interna
tional Wireless Congress will propose
a plan to punish companies for re
fusing to ' communicate with other
systems. '
Two whipthong makers who went
into bankruptcy recently in South
wark, England, declared that they
had been ruined by motors, and es
pecially by motor omnibuses.
An '. ape in the Bronx. Zoological
Park, New York City, seized a lighted
cigar , thrown into his cage and set
fire to a bunch of hay, almost caus
ing a panic among the spectators.
Morrison G. Swift was fined $10
for posting placards denouncing
"money kings" on the doors of the
offices of J. P. Morgan & Co. and the
Standard Oil Company, in New York
City.
The counsel of George Washington:
"Labor to keep . alive In your breast
that little spark of celestial fire called
conscIence;,, is a word of advice al
ways worthy of thought.
J. A. Maddrey, Cashier
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RAM'S HORN BLASTS
HE best time te
repent is before
you commit.
It takes more
than acquittal to
make a clean
heart.
There is noth-
t . . i
mg more eloquent
tlvnn cilpnf. infta'S.I
i"TXT
olli ' There is none
of the muie of Heaven in a holy
tone.
..There's a world of difference be
tween wishing: and vailing.
Education is always deficient
long as it can see a terminus.
The preacher who is anxious for
popularity loses his power.
"Wealth is a matter of appreciate
rather than of acquisition.
You cannot prove your holiness by
putting your head into Heaven.
He to whom success is the soul of
all will not find success in his soul
The blessings that nourish a living
tree work the decay of a dead one.
The worst part of any trouble is
waiting for it.
on lose force with men as sooq ;i
vcu lose faith in them.
Every great talent has come out oi
rnanv a furnace-like trial.
No man ever' succeeded' in preach
ing Truth by acting a lie.
The worldly Christian will never
make I he Christian world.
The fiercest fighting may be but tte
polishing of the crowns.
Only the smile that is rooted lafc
fruits of refreshing.
. The world is not lighted by
ing the candle at both ends.
A man's judgment of others is of
ten an indictment of himself.
Complacency is often complacent
ly mistaken for consecration.
The emerged tithe will do a lt t
solve the problem of the sabmeiy
ed tenth.
Many women forget that it ta
more than a perfect house to va-Ae i
home.
BUILD SHEDS FOR CATTLE.
Aside from the fact that the co?
have the fresh grass during the sum
mer, the main reason why they
contented is that they have plenty -exercise,
fresh air and are coxnfo'
able. We hear men say that t&e'-r
cows do splendidly during the st
mer, but are very disappointing d,jr'
ing the winter, and some of these
are known to be good providers
is, their cows are reasonably wd1 e
auring tna winter ana tne i '
j trofry
- . - - . f inn iT k
nearly propeny Daianceu.
ble is that the animals are ,
f ortable. In too many cases the a-.
Al VU1U K.4-L pviub v. - .
otner cases tney are not p
and the animals are being stifled
the foul air, V Again, some cojvs
given little or no exercise during -winter.
If they get any at all it
turning them out in the cold karQe.
to drink ice-cold water. Rmem.
the exercising shed, and before
n . - intr lITlTOr IT 111 I LL-i"
a .far! art
have one of these sheds and also
UUno 0 liitw n
range the stables so tney v"
Do this, together with the P
feeding, and you will find the co
contented and happy as m tne
.a. ill rhnW YCU'
mer time, ana tney -preciation
by the milk flow.
- " . . nrptf I" .'if
The largest Dim
worM is the bearded tur' jg.l
measures, from wing
as much as 9 to 10 feeL-
I 1 ' ' '-'I I ! III "ft