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. y t $Yr v - : ytl ?'-yy . Vw- - s v . , , t i 1 - J. h " VOB. Ill; :Y LtTMBERTON, N. C.PTEMBER 4 , 1902. 1 IV : NO. 6. WHOLE NO. 187. . T75 TT TTyI rsx c-V ?7V TT, vr ; rr- tt . : y-.vj y.. 7 . - y : . ,y- r 1 h v V v s Y ' ' vk' YY.;--' i T. 'iY; ; Y Y' t;YY -p'ltej. - The Proceedings of the . Meeting Heldf at Greensboro. , J" t , i Greensboro, Special. t"hfe State Re lublicaa coayenttoa met here last Thursday. It was,largely.attended and the negro w "conspicuous by his ab sence. fhfe.iHAst important action of the coavention was the endorsement at he candidacy of Thos. Hill, o Hali f spc, for .-Chief" Justlceofl th Supreme Court, and the leaving blank: th& no'mi ., nations for .associate Justices. Rev. D. " A. Lbng was npminated, for " Superin tendent of Public Instrujctioa and Drt D. II.' Abbbott for Corporation i Com - mi&sioner.. xThe convention was called to order in the . opera house, at 12 o'clock by. State Chairman PrikcJiard. For half an h(jur before! the tiihe set for the meeting thedelegates gathered In the hall' and galleries and listened to the music . of the Randleinan f k Band brought by the Randolph!! county dele gation for the purpose.! When Mr. Pritchard tapped the table and called -for order the assemblage became quiet. The chairman introduced Mr.! It.' D.' Douglass, who welcomed the conven tion to Greensboro, ' ! 1 i SENATOR PRiTCHARDS . SPEECH. The following is a synapsis of Bena- tor Pritehard's speech: : j ' We have reached the period la our history when the issues of a political tampaign should be considered t'rom'& business standpoint. . The industrial tfohditions in the. Country jffom Harris on's administration to the; present time were then reviewed, and jthe. prevalent prosperity : attributed ' tdi Republican rule in the naiian;YThieretwer 420 - more corporations chartered la North Carolina under Republicah national ad tninistration from ScMarqh 4,i 1897, to March 4, 1901, than from j July 1, 1893, to March 41897, under Dembcratic na tional administratioa,ij f'a this een nection I also call Yitteatida: to the fact that from larca.4,;l901, to March y 1902, ther W$re55 j corporations chartered, &n amount: almost equal 'to the .-nuaiVer chartered; during the four year of Democratic administration." J'te Senator made much of the fact, that the cash balance inj the national Treasury was, on Jujy hi this year,' $208,630,022.64, and showed ,that the Republicans had managed the affairs of the government witb j consummate skill and ability. A high tribute was paid to berth McKialeyjand IooseVelt. Tho Democratic paiy was s$vefely ar raigned for its alleged f attack upon American soldiers in the j ' Philippines. - "The position of the Republican party with respect to the Philippine question' is that; we bought and! paid for the r Philippine Uganda, and own them "" as much as we,own any other territory. "We propose to retain them and to give thi? inhabitants the jerf best form of brernmeat suitable to their Necessi ties as a people. The acquisition of this territory by our government will in the end-result in more substantial benefit to the South than all other sec , tions of the- country combined. What we need is a market for our -surplus cotton and cotton fabrics,-and the Orient-is a" country ; whose people are by climate and habits the natural cus tomers of the cotton planters of the South. In the Orient , we can find a ready market for our surplus raw cot ; ton as well as our cottcur fabrics and the Southern .manv"who Stands' in -the ay of the. extension of our trade in that direction is either I very short- sighted or -williner tn" sacriflpp tho hcr interests of this section! -in ' order to create a. rjoliticak "issue Tha Philln- pines are the. gateway to the Orient ana contain splendid, trade possiDiii- I . .THE TARIFF. v ' 1 r'' Senator Pritchard ridiculed (Senator Simmons for.saying iu a recent , view: "So far as the Soth Is concern--! ed, at least, the Democrats recognize ; the silver- question as temporarily eli minated from national political affairs. I do not say thaj it is a' dead issue, but - I do say that it must, slumber for a few ; - years. In my opinion the big issue in the next campaign will be the tariS." ,' In '96 the Democrats found the tariff an' embarrassing'- question and let it "slumber 'awhile," and now they finds the silver question the ; embarrassing ' proposition and . are going to let it "slumber for a few years." : i t'other sections of the country ) have become prosperous in consequence of our pro tective tariff laws, , and have accumu lated their, milliomvand now that .they are in the full enjoyment of the';bles-; sings incident" thereto, :it wouldlhej In equitable-and unjust for the United ; Sfatesto adopt a01icy.jqttnrtffi0dpi tion ; which would , necessarily carry with it a general reduction in - , the prices of all raw material, the most Of which is to be found In our section.". THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMEND ' - MENT, : ' The constitutional - . amendment and the negro question were ,ref erred to as follows:, Y - nYY'jvYj 1 "Senator Simmons, a few weeks ago, issued a statement to the neoDle of the State in "which he undertook to .show that he had discovered aj plot by which the colored people are to rise up dur ing the month of October,- and com- pk tely demolish ; the white- people" Of - " the State. It is not my purpose on this V occasion to undertake to answer in de tail the absurd statement which he has seen, fit to make,- but 'there-are sqme features of the question to which I de sire to allude briefly. He says that the negro question can never, be' settled in North Carolina until ' the Republicans A Bad Earth quake; YIIY , Washington, Special. The War De partment received a cablegram from A General Chaffee, at Manila, .reporting tho occurrence of1 a serious . - earth- J quake , on I the 'Island j of Mindanao . Twenty persons were killed iby falling walls, the victims all being Moros. The Americans' in the vicinity escaped' and the dispatch' says there: was no reports any of the soldiers occupying that Part jf the island - sustained .any ""in- jury. r mmi P III I II I III u w I II iivi Y Y Y ;" YYY ; Y ' will agree that In the future no efforl wiliie made to test what is kndn as ths constitutional amendment. The is suance of the document to. -vhith 1 re fer did not create any: excitement in any: quarter," in so far as I can learii? Hia manifesto fell flat,! an& has been the Subject of much ridicule and merri ment among the Bmall'boys tn.the dif ferent sections of the State. , . . "Duringthe consideration "Of the ameridment two years iago,Y Senator Simmonr Circulated a statement which was signed by 162 prominent lawyers, the first ixaragraph of which is as fol lows: . L We, the undersigned" lawyer members of the North arOlinii bar; af ter having examined and sconsidered the provisions of the. propose!! amend ment to the constitution submitted .by the ,Legislatur of 1899. to the people for ratification, give it as our opinion that the said amendment is not in con flict either with the State or Federal' constitution,. This gtateaeat was signed by such .lawyers as iioC lames E, Shepherd, iludge MacRae, Col.' IE C. JcneSi jEdwarfi Pou, Lee S, Overman, BDn, T. G. Skinnen K. n. Justice, and others ,as4 niet ,with the hearty: ap prtSii of Senator Simmons, Governor Ayeock and the leaders of the,Bema criitiG party. In that Statement the J sam inai tne proppsett amenament was not ia conflict with either .State or the Ifedttal constitution, and that its adop tion would forever settle the negro is sue. If they were not -mistaken what harjm could come, to any. one if some colored man should decide to. test its constitutionality. It eannttt be possible that Senajer Simmons ; and the other distinguished Democratic lawyers could be mistaken about a great const!-. tutional question like ..this. In other H words, if the Democratic politicians and the Democratic lawyers were cor rect in their opinion about the Consti tutional amendment two years ago Senator Simmons need inot be alarmed in the s-lightest degrjee about the rale of the apendmeatc ., t " v ' . -i -"In this tonnection I desire to call attention to the fact that every I'egis trar in North Carolina at the next elec tion will be controlled b tha parry, It is for the Utmocratic Party to say How many colored people shall vote at 4 the ensuing election,. ', and no voe knos this better, than Senator Sim mens himself, and ar; attempt on his part to raise the negro question at th time is done for the purpose of divert ing attention from fiVfe real issue ? ft -w.lv( in this campaign. There is nO one who favor- neitro- domination. The majority of the colored people vi. rvorth. Carolmjt are conservative, i a trietic and law-abiding; and Senator Simmons knows that tfcey-do not want negro domination and his efforts at this time to create a isce issue. do this class of people a greats injustice. - C il"The qnf stion now- is as to whether of fipt our Democratic friends will act fin- good, faith with respect to a solemn piedge vni h they . made on evory stump m the Ftate. . . , - 5 -"The issue which Senator Simmons seeks to raise with respect to the amendment at this juncture of our af- fairs cannot be consistently urged by the leaders ofTthe Democratic party. Ho seeks to ayoid-a solemn promise which he and all other Democrats mads in the f camiia.jen"ti!?n wars ss tn-tr!t fhaf j the adoption of ithe constitutional I ' amemlmentJ would eliminate the race ; issue in future campaigns, and would enawe tne-husiness men or the state thought., " J ; y- j : Y - inter-fetef State, it. then- passed out of the realm of politics, and if Senator Simmons, Governor'Aycock and the other leaders ! jof the Democratic , party-ffiant - what they saidtwo years agO there can be no euch thing as a' race issueNi&. the present campaign. v - - The -Democratic administration in the State wasattacked as being in.com petent, 'and the State Auditor quoted as apblogizingtO officers of various co rporations in the State fori. the oppress ive taxation-laws. fl ' am informed."; said Senator Pritchard; "that a num bex'ol business en have left the State since the adoption of the present reve- Ti a d riAf::t1iiri:nhThtiTv'; with 4 .hfi to&y Sproioxhich : Iti mam -i'sRdj that wunin tne past year u large number ot - corporations formed dWaDital which f properly be- loneerl t ri ; North. -CarOlina have bea f6f cedAo to New Jersey for the. pur pose of securing articles t)f -incorporation, in consequence of thg unjust pro visions in our laws with respect to such matters, and I have. been told since coming- to .Greensboro that for - the -same reasog ;-several oorporatios? - ia; Guilford county -have, within the. past six months surrendered their charters and 'obtained- charters in the State of New- Jerse y.'i The revenue law was: at tacked at ether points and the-' state ments made thatc'here,. is a growing tendency on the part of Jhe'Democratic party in North Carolina to discriminate, against, privatfe corporations. Y ; J i "Whereas, wk 5C?he 'to examine, the Auditor's reports with! respect to re- ceipts ana- aisijursemems,-we - -- amu condition pt alfairs that: is:; calculated to alarm the taxpayers' of the State: In 1898 :the bdrdenbf ; GotS Ayock'sJsong .was. to the etfectthat;the?iusion raa ! ministration had collected dxpond; . 'Van Buren," Ark. "Sp'ecial.Six negro labriowiiiedd &nd Oths ers are'missing in . a wreck -of a work train west of here in Indian Terirtory1. The train left liere. in the morning .to distribute new stc el, along" the Kansas & Arkansas Valley ", division ofx the oadV?Neaf; Illinois :stettonhe:-eBgine; left the track and .was. Overturned wfth T- ed by a Democratic Legislature. He in sisiea mat the Populism and RepublU cans should be turned, eut Of "power. anq tnat the Democrats fehSuld again e entrusted with the -management of Uf State alfatrs-rJMJOn thfi erronnrt that mere was a reckless expenditure of the people's money.- One would imagine that aftwJiaviag made such an appeal, In evnt of success' the Demoorat ic. party woufd- have s cut down rather thanlncreased ouf" expenditures, ; but such ias not' the case." . , THE I DEFICIT - IN - THE STATE I TREASURY. - - showing that in the three jrearSi 1896, 1I9T ft&d i898ttnder, fusion rule, total receipts! fl&4-been $3,886,088.31 and to tal . fexMnditures 3,83,792.79, leaving a sufrphia. ot 53,295.52, while in the three ywrs of ;Pembcratic rule, 1899, 1900 and. 4?01,'i the .total receipts had been $4,7i8i498;03 and expenditures $4, 921,336.10; Weaving a deficiency of ?154, 838.02. : , V:- , Y. - t ,'It will bc observed . by the forego ing table thatvunder. the three years of Democratic riiJewhich.we have just had they have collected from the peo-' pie $880,419.77 imore than; was collect ed in the sam length pt time under fusion or RepubHpan.ruleThis states ment als shows at, they, have ex pended the- enormous 'sum -: of $1,088, 545.31 more, in the thet years of Dem ocratic rule than was 'expended during the same time under Republican or f u sion ruie. . .. -"pSYYs. Y Y "One would infer fromsSehatOr Sim. mans1 statements that. ttlrVPWi dt increaie i& E8pr6priati6hs''fr;"any of the State, institution auriigjReiiUbll can and: Populist rule, but such is. not the case. I call attention tottha ' ;fac.t that there was an increased. apprd9ra; tionor Uie year 1898 for . the ;Dea.f, Sa..ST rtl?oe Shelby, Cblumbus, itiS; negroes. $53 463, There was also &tt increase i for the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Mor ganton which . amounted ;tc - $20,000j There was an increase in the appropri ation -for the Insane Asylum at Ral eigh for: the year 1896 of $20,000, for the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Morgan ton Of $20,850, and in increase of $3,633 for the Western Hospital at Morgan ton, as well as an increase of $3,525 lor the Deaf, Dumb and Blind School at iiaieign. - . - "After, meeting all these increased expenses, there was in the State Treas ury ; January C 19; 1901, when it was turned over fr Treasurer Worth to Mr. Lacy, a cash balance' ot $37,528.36. This Is a splendid showing and is sufficient within- itself to convince any fair minded frsott that - the fusion party while in tiower administered our State affairs in. a more satisfactory and eco nomical manner than they are being administered by the present adminis tration." The deficit now confronting the State Treasurer is estimated at $450,000,. CAPT. CHAS. PRICE PERMANENT -"SC CHAIRMAN - The report of the "committee being adopted. Cant' Charles Price was hamm ed as permanent chairman and R." B' McNeill, secretary, by the committee on organization, composed by W P. By num. W S. Hyams. A. E. HoItonChas. McNamee, E. C. Duncan and D. H. Ab bott. . " :Y YY . .The committee of platform was - an nounced as follows: First district, Harry Skinner; second district, E. M. Steward:. third district, D. H. Abbott; foufrth district, C. P. Lockey; fifth dis trict, C. A. Reynolds; sixth district, T. A. Sutton-seventh district," Z. V; Wal ser; eighth district, A. H. Price; ninth district, L. L. Jenkins; tenth district, J. J. Britt. The convention then took a recess until 8:25 o'clock. - The result of the hot fight in caucus was the winning out of Senator Pritch ard by the adoption, by a viva-voca vote Viv a narrow ma ioritv of the f ollowina resolutions which will be adopted to- night. Y- : ' -V ' Y . ."Resolved. That, whereas, the. Re publican; party desires the elevation to i the bench of the best fitted lawyers of , the State, regardless of party affilia j tions, the candidacy, of the Hon. Thorn as H. Hill, of Halifax, for Chief Justice, of North Carolina, Is hereby endorsed and we, the Republicans of the State, in convention assembled,- do earnestly recommend, him t0 the .people of the State-for this high office. "ReSblved. f rirther That it is the sense of this convention, that no nom inations for associate justices be made at this time, but that the,; executive committee, hereafter- is empowered to take, such action in relation to the same as shall seem best."-' . - ; HILL ENDORSED FOR CHIEF JUS YY-. - - " TICE. -. Y- When the convention assembled.after supper, Mr. Seawell, of Moore, offered a resolution endorsing Senator Pritch ard and the records of ..Congressmen Moody and ; Blackburn, which was f-i Assistant Dis - trict Attorney Price theh offered the resolution agreed on In the caucus en dorsing-T.-H. Hill for Chief Justice and leaving blank the nominations for Associate Justices, .which was.:adopted without oppositipnY; - - i-Yi D.A. Long, of Alamance; :was nOmi nated for' -Superintendent. 3t Public, Instruction by . u. N. Douglass, who, in answer .to inquiry, vouched, for his Re- puDiicamsm ana ne went tnroun au right. Assistant uistnct Attorney us car Spears, Of Harnett; and ex-Judge W. T. Bynufn named D. ; H. Abbott for railroad commissionerYaridYheYwas nominated bya rising vote. : E.rSW; YTimberlake, Y of Franklin, fourth district; W. : S. O'B." -Robinson, of WTayne,: sixthr: H. F. ,Seawell,.- of tenth ; . H. a. Star buck; gor Forsyth, eleventhV;lMJt?McVeU; - 6 - Aae, - thlr - t..ntt. n -RlvfSo WonHorcnn fourteenth1ta?DYMashburhof Mad- .nmi ?- srTtAThVwfli.A.-iiin!Titi..'rtrHhi S I outopposifionffor:udge& of -the; Supe- I Hrtr rnnrt : YY---Yi Yw - .,, u trior Court , . ; . , I ... . . . . :. Cyrus Hall J McCprmick,Ythe pf esi J ti6nal.Haryester8';p6m WU:.Hi:WBi.Mio-yua,u,wvyuiivv the inventor , of ,th famous ireaplng 'whfh:bpftr bier JnamA: S Tr?? JleCormick was born . in -Washington and s wasliCTaduated"jrom-Mnceton; In, was, jgradUated" Jrom 'Erinceto: 1873.- Since . that tim e:.he -has j-been I connected lyfith theMcCormickYHaf- vesting Machine . Company. - of - which FRIGHTFUL DISASTER 30 Killed and 29 Others ' Were, Fatally j - Hurt BAD. WRECK ON SOUTHERN RAILWAY An Excur!on Train, Loaded With ; Negroes, Jumps the Track QA High Embankment; , ' Y - - Y Birmingham, -y Ala:; .. Special. On rounding a curve on a high embank ment near Berry Ala., at- 9i 30 o'clock. Monday morning, the engine and four cars of an excursion train on the S5utb7 em Railway leaped from the track and rolled over and over down-the incline, smashing the coaches into kindling wood and Causing the instant death of 30 person and the injufy of 81 others. Physicians say !at least 29 of - the in jured cannot live. With the exception of H. . M.- Dudley, trainmaster of ; tbe Southern Railway, and Engineer J. W.' Crook, Hying at Birmingham; and Rcs-j coe Shelby, of CelumbuSi'MiSS;; all df the dead and ihjured are negroes who had taken advantage of excursion rates from points in Mississippi to -Pirming-ha'm. Y . " The dead: Whites, H. M. Dudley, train master Snuthprn Tf nilwa.v. -.T wCrook engineer, Bi'rmingham; Ros & Sniitjti, isolaj Little Martin, child Coiutftbus Aliss. ; 4 Charley .Carp, Co iuxttbus Wiss.'; Ezel Patterson West PoiirfiMiss.d- CIarkJoJnjntes,v Miss.;v'l4ttte" Green Columbus ;A Willie Thomnsoh. -ColumbusY 20 dead ".whose l bodies'have jiot been Identified. . Twent nine excursionists are .thought to be fatalry irured aldS?: 'others sustained injuries of more or less serious nature. Mrs. Marie Cox white, injured and back sprained. ... - Y '"v' i When the wreck'o&curred. the train was running at the rate of 30 miles 'an hour and just started around a curve on top of a 60-foot embankment. With- j out warning the tender . Of the engms suddenly left the. track, jerking, the engine and the first fOUr cars With it There Were ten cars to the excursion train, but the fourth broke loose from 1 the fifth and -with the heavy engine plunged "down the steep incline. The cars, which were packed with passen gers, turned completely - over several times and was crushed like egg shells, killing and crippling the inmates. Persons who have returned; from the scene of the wreck say it is indescrib able. The dead bodies of the negroes J -were scattered in every direction ana th moans and appeals for help from the wounded was -heart-rending. As soon as the accident was reported to "the officials of the road, wrecking trains, carrying physicians,: were hur ried from Columbus, Miss., and Bir mingham, and everything .possible- is being done to alleviate the sufferings of the iniured; The dead bodies have been prepared for burial. . Labor Day Observed, - Knoxyille, : Tenn., Special. Labor Day was appropriately celebrated here bv the Central ; Labor : Unions, of east Tennessee. This morning a big parade occurred in which labor unions and merchants and manufacturers partici pated.' 1 . . " YY " ". Memphis,; SpeciaLLabor Day was observed in the usual. way by the closing of banks and the postoffice af ter -one delivery, the parade of labor unions and-tarious outings.- v - ...... Chattanooga, . Tenn.; Special. La bor- Day . was generally celebrated here. - Roanoke; V&., Special. Labor- Day was celebrated here in a fitting man ner, business being generally sus pended. In the morning an immense parade took place, which was partici pated in bythe union men of the city. At Crystal Spring Park Mayor Cutch. in, of Roanoke, and. State Labor Com missioner Doherty addressed a large crowd. . - Louisville, Special. Labor .Day was more generally observed throughout the State than in previous years. Gpv- Lernor Beckham .having' declared it a J legal holiday for "the first time.: The feature of the day. in thiscity was a big. parade, in' the alternoon, -t partick pated In by nearly every - labor Organ ization In Louisville; A big mass meet ing ;and -; picnic "-was . scheduled .t Phoenix Hill Park, at night Business wast almost at a ; standstilL - . '."' Y . 7 A SulcldftYYfYY1 Y Durham." Special.-Mr.DAf Simpson. ! whO -has had the management of the West -Durham store of R. Blacknall & Son for some time, committed suicide Monday morning hy taking laudanum;- He; was found in jus-room at an early hourin an;-unconsciou3 OonditionwPby-: sicians wete summoned at ohce and did 11 in their, power to save his life for moreithan-two houw. but to no avail; Ho? was at his " workf yesterday ? and. closed his West Durham store as usual J 9 came-aown-tpwi xne jouug uiau A JDOUYB lor laiUnS WS -OWU LILV 10 u - nYH J-xamei.hfere .alHrata .yeaE.'.agrcTO,-Roxvf:,T,1. wrtAiPT, mnia that-, have used I JTrora rlO left ' TnnthOr- fthp.r flwneie ie - . and several sisters and - brothers. ,He was'about 228 of agI, H"t -Yl a -H on or of Army Officers; ,By Cable Y-ajor .Gteherals sitting decided to re ' j t.c,f trip Prth to flTW1fVT.f iho the; A"merlcan -raftyY visited the mili- l'QT- iKKnf at T.HerioTifiolfl T.iPntftriftTit Colonel J; H Kerr,- thd" United States ( htimAt ti, Evening in honor of the visiting Ameri can army officers. - .Besides the mem OVER 200 KILLED mCANO. ; . Still Another Violent Eruption Does greaiDama. s; - By Cable.t-The steamer Ijorona ar rived : -here" Monday frdm i.Fort-de-"France, Island. -of Martinique. She-1, reports"' that 3.? terrible eruption Of Mont Pelee .occurred at 9 o'clock Saturday night; and that people . who arrived at" Fortrde-France from the north part of the 'island re ported that the village of Monroe Rduge er the district not iprevieusly destroyed, 'was badly damaged . by a tidal wvejY Hundreds of people lpst their lives. A sloop from the island'of St: Vincent, report that" M0nt ?elee'S crater is now quiet, imt that the de tonations during Saturday pight were" the loudest heard Up' to that time and :,e inn!D1?ants wereternwy - Monte Pelee has been,.iii constant eruption since. August 15. ff Here was an enormous fall of ashes' frfm the vol- cano the night of .the ,25th. TThere , was 2Sth, when the volcanic rumblings were heard at a creat distance. The moun- tain burned fiercely that nig"ht and out t at sea passing vessels were covered with ashes. The nigbtof the 30th there were three separate ; eruptidns.T" , . . ;? ItHS impossible to approach the tu ined tOwh 6f St. Pierre f rcon the sea? The people of the vjjlage of f Lee Arbel, coast, are terror-stricken and 6 the inferior. Hoi water is on tne flying to pouring down on Lorraine! and Basse Point, villages to the north'east of the iCr'ater. Horrible detonationd are heardZ The ground rocked and quaked -and Ar ticles en- tables were thrown -to the, floor- Thfe governor of MarJ.ini(jue has' brdered every available boat to remove people from the coast villages to Fort- de-France. ' f At 8 o'clock in the evening of Satur- jdayth. 50th, the sky. was cloudless. Suddenly lnd without Earning one-half or.ine norizon ,was opscurea py -a. pii.cn Dtac ?cioua rorraust.c 'ini cio dud was the centre of :most magnificent :-. electrical- effects the- flames Of light sur passing the most elaborate ' fireworks. Flames and flashes continlJed tojburst from the cloud until nearly midnight. Columns of flames shot outf of. the cra ter of Monte" Pelee to explode about the cloud in showers of balls of golden firev which fell through the' darkness JLn myriads of sparks. Three large aureolas were seen in the sky over the opening of the crater. , - x : ' A tidal -wave rushed upon Fort-de-France, and . the terrified I Inhabitants fled in large numbers , to. he interior. The wave was not severe and 'did but slight damage. At midnlght of the 30th Monte Pelee-was quiet. . Shortly after this hour there came anojhei shower of ashes, accompanied by .vivid, sheet lightning. :: In addition to(the-200 persons report ed to have lost thei lives at Le Carbe and Morne Rouge, many other persons are said to have been killed, all over the northern districts of, j the island. The governor of Matinique is believed . to have Started for" the scene of de struction. When the steamer Corona arrived here yesterday she was cover ed with ashes and scoria, f tj m ti F. W, I., Sunday, Aug. 31.-The French Trans-Atlantic Company's steamer Salvador,. .which has just arrived at Point-a-Pltre, reports that she left for Fort-de-France, island ot Martinique, yesterday arfd passed Mont Pelee at 7 u ciocK uie same evening., ine volcano was then in violent eruption. On ap "proaching the islands of Les Saintes (small islands off the south extremity of Guadaloupe) , ashes were falling on the vessel. She arrived off r Point-a Pitre at 5 o'clock,- but was unable to enter port until 11 at night, fowijjg to the obscurity, i . : Cut in Two By Train.- ' J Greensboro, Speclal.-Ivory Alston a negro man about 23 years of age-, - met a horrible death Monday morning about 11 o'clock between the .. coal chute iandftho" passenger depot. He -was walking up the track .when some -one cried to him, and upon looking back he. saw a yard engine coming and- stepped upon the track running -parallel just in time to be struck r1. another engine, in charge of Engineer Jess Copeland, who was running along towards the chute for coal. ; It is said the engine that killed Alston was not : running-over four miles per hour. The body of the negro" : was terribly man glecLthe 1 lower part being severed frohffthe upper part at thg waist; and both feet torn 'off. Coroner . Turner was soon upon" the scene, but did not think an-, inquest . necessary, and . or dered the i body removed at once. -AboUt 20 cents in money and a 38-cali-bre- pistol were found -in the pocket of his cqatiiying near the. body? It. is presumed"jjieSas walking along with his coat oV his arm. Alston, Vho has been in- West. Virginia for some time past, returned m Greensboro yester day. His father, and sisters live on North Gilmer street r ' - - - ' :;. The Cotton Crop, , Y New Orleans, Special The total -of Secretary Hester's anntial report of the cotton crop of the United States, pro mulgated Monday ; shows receipts, of cotton at all United States ports for the :yearto have been 7",B7,zau oaies, ."'against 7,666.452 last year; overland to Northern mills and Canada 1,103,953 -bales, against 1,140,237 ; Southern con- sumption taken direct from the inte rior of the cotton belt 1,897,437 against. 1,57,733, making the cotton prop of tne . ted States for 1901-1902,' amounts 1 1ft Ron con .og net in-XXX 4' TflRt VPfUT. from every mill : consuming I' - . . . .il.l. cotton, s - 534. JiS. An KM r,i-0r f rrTviv nrtrts "an (i 1 in were taken from" ports and in m port lBceipia. - . for Archbishop, - . YT ?New;Ycrk, Special.--The proganda; . . n ar1'Pv n n tho I . s. ... r1 - . ' - -. " auxiliary Bishop of New Yorki' as arch-; " , Taishoplof New York in, succession to the. late Most Rev. Michael Augustine nCorrigan and' Right Rev. Geo.' Mont-' gomery, - blsnop ol-1-.os Angeies, cui., as co-ad jutor to the Most Rey. Fatrick H IS ACTIVE AGAIN. Mount Pelee Violently Eruptire Ouce PEOPLE' THOROUGHLY;. FRIGHTENED hjhNewsfrom Neighboring Islands . Is to the .EffecrThat Rumbling Noises and Detonations are Heard In - the Direction : of Martinique, While Showers of Ashes Continue to Drs6end t p0inte-A-Pitre, island of Guadalupe -aDie.-yxnw enure-port naa ,oeen covered with a cloudof ne dust since g O'clock Siifiday morning and the poju ulaco is panic-striekefl: FifiS ashes are ?1Iin5 continually in a I11M dilttMr Semi - darkness4s over ..the sea and the ships in the harbor- seem,to befenvelopl ed'in a cloud of smokeV, Advices from Bassse Terry assert- that ; cince . day-, break today'the entire island has been, covered with a Cloud i of dust coming Jfcpm the Southeast, the direction of the iand Of MartinqtiecThe populaon of asse Terry is greatly alarmed. , f INDICATIONS : OF VOLCANIC AC-- - ; TIVITY. , " Roseau, Ronmancia,- B.' W. I., , , ... ... Cable. A thick mist ' has,- enveloped Roseau and its neighborhood and dust Is falling. . . - i- - ,t. JdhnrAfitlgtta,' BW. Ir-Many very, loud detonations te"re heard here from 9 o'clock to midnight - Basse Terry, St. Kitts, Bt-W A se ries of loud reports was heard here last night from T-uuttl'9 o'clock, Y r-A seveie -eruption of NMont i Pelee, 'MartinqueV urasTSported to : have oc curred at nOon, August ZV This report waa brought to. Castries,- Island, of. St"5 Lucia, by officers sji the French steam ship Dahome This eruptionx was foU lowed by total -darkness, for Ave miles away from the volcano; J " - Yi A dispatch1 received from St. Thomas, D.,WI.. August 26, said that between 10 o'clock.-In :thevmorning and 3 p. m.', August 25, "clouds of dust, were seen in the. direction? of Jlonte Pelee, island of Dominica ? Detonations were heard and there, were light' showers" of volcanied dust on the Island., The,-following" mes sage was received from Dominica r "Since 2 pj m. today- (Tuesday) pro longed jumbling' noises ritf iquiek'. sue- cession have .been heard .. from the southward. ; There Is every indication that ?Monte 1 Pelee :is in violent erup tfca. - - - ---.u . : A dispatch from Paris, dated August 28, said the; latest dispatches received at the Ministry, of y the Colonies from Fort-de-France, island of Martinique,1 dated August 25. They made - no men tiou of the reported eruption of Monte Pelee. The Paris dispatch said also that the cables to Martinique both ; , north .1 v Ti..-7?-i- i.--; Efforts made to communicate by cable, direct with t the ? Island of Matinique. have proved unsuccessful. Telegraphic communication "with that Island from New York is still interrupted. ss".:-v Roseau. Domtacia7, B.' W.'l.. By CJable. ThA thlrV mist." wh1rh enveloned Roseau Sunday, was taken, as it ap proached, for a rain storm. The dust ia still Y: falling, although, - lightly, but during the night the quantity of dust which fell here was greater than -upon any previous occasion since the first eruption of Mont Pelee. "At night fall a dark cone-shaped cloud emitting, electric flashes rose in the South bat it was gradually obscured by ' the mist caused by ithe falling "ashes. Rumbling noises ana a few detonations were, heard during the night of the 30th. The people here are quiet. No Ynews has yet reached here "from Martinique. i New From he Strike. - Wilkesbarre; SpeciaI.-r-Jacob Smith, coal' and ' iron: policeman In the em ploy of .the Kingston "Coal Company, was held , up-by two unknown ; men Sunday"" While he was. on his way to one of the collieries of the company to relieve Jan officer. His' assailants, took his revolver away .from him and then gave him a severe beating. . Tramway Employers in Switzerland Strike: f.; rion Avr - Tv Cla& All ... t.h em- ployes of the tramway of r the city struck because the manager orpine electric workshops? who; Is an Amert can. dismissed 42 men empioyea in theshops and offered them .positions as cohductorsT- It- is feared thev strike will extend to employes on the steamy' era on Lake, Geneva. ' " Tamaquah, TPa. Speclal.-pnly one disturbance 'was reported inc the Fan ther. Creek: Valley Sunday. While Joe and Albert Kutzek; non-union men. were "leaving.:church they; were . at- tacked by a number, of foreigners and liaveTeached here from Caracas, ene compelled to return tothl ch'nrcb'for zuela, are to the effect that a servers safety .jAf ter- remaining there for some fight occurred yesterday, between gov. -, . ; f, time they, succeeded in escaping. This- ernment forces and the advance guardV" afternooa officials fthe (switchback of the revolutionary; army unaeru . . . - . n .:.iii.tS r vn1ntinnists --were nound Major .liearneart tnat -strikers efS" interfering with their, .passen gers at Summit Hill. Company-E.'- of -the - Twelfth i Regiment, .was sent - to the scene and" succeeded in ' restoring f order. Tomorrow large, force of sol I At- mtll .1i 'ri1lAff'ini1 m-n. lect non-union; men while on .. their iect non-union men while on ,way to work'.: -t , " - ; ' -, Y A- Washery'Pump: House "Dynamited. Scrantoni Spscial;-f-The pump'house .of . the National washery at Minooka was blown to pieces 'Sunday by dyna- mite. - Manager Sharkey says no dahv r age was-, done - the washery ' and. that warKJwiii prucwu. - it o uut iiu.ti. is- not knovn I wA TvTar.A-1 thp rivnamite.- The :Verst Rid and Marvlne collierii Ridee and Marvlne collieries are pre-. paring to start upthis weeK-- riae ux-forji--colliery West Scranton had added T a- powerful search-light to its ORDERED TO SEOOTi E Latest Developments' in the Great : Coal Strike.. I Y YJY Philadelphia . Special. Having .ex- hausted . everyv Other, "means for pre serving th& peace and In protecting the non-union men from y Ylence on their way to ana xrozn tnejiines, Brigaaier General Qobin, in com nand I of the troops now' In , the ; coal ' s,. has . Is- sued ail order that the soldiers shall 7s shoot any person detected In, throwing ; stones or other missiles and that if any mob resist the.4uthority.of the itroops that: they shall freely usVtheir hayo- : nets and butts. T - - v A 1 The.Panther Creek valley has r" been In almost , continual turmoil - this veeK ' and : the troops stationed there ' have t had a difficult-time in protecting, the uvea oi workmen, xonignt tne siraa- tlon in .that valley-has improved con- siderably and It is hoped by-the mill- 5f tary authorities; that the lawless and; abusive language directed toward; :-j;the soldiers will now cease. The other'sec- tions Of the coal regions are compara- ,:. tively quiet Y V'Y"; -' " --f ' A mobtgathereji.at the Dorfance col- 2, liery, near . Wilkesbarre,' early in; the Y r day, because it was rumored the col-t llerv, was ahoirt to- start- work. ; crowd soon scattered, however, when it " ' m found that the rumor-was incor.. " " rect. ' The general strike situation remains 'X;'. unchanged. There Is "Some "coal being, shipped, but, the quantity if so" small V' compared with- the norma' shipment '. ;.' that it : has. little or no: effect on : the; market : The fuel now coming: to mar- V -r; ket is principally .washery.,. ana loose Y coal. ' , . --. " - ' . ' . - Killed by aMofr - ' Monroe, MicW SpeciaL-rWalter Le-merand,-, lately from Toledo CHcame home and found -a man, a Frenchman Y-; named Jos.LabargeT also "of .Toledo, in-, the house with hls'wlfe. Ar quarrel efT-, ' 1 sued, Jiabarge: finally- reunning from, the house. An! officer attempted to ar-1. .Y resC him, '.when he ran dcrwnY Third ,- street; a crowd , pursuing him The pry "assaulter'waai-alsed and the mob be--, gan to. shootJf Labarge ran into a-comY" field -where he - was r surrounded- - and! shot deadi-a bullet t1 penetrating, his heart. Y'-Y -Y " y -Mrs. Lemerandsaid:-Tha man was-. sitting in thetarlor with me, when "my husband" came homer There was. noth- ing .wrong."' Mrs-VX-emerand said that, -she and Labarge had planned an elope-.' -ment.".: ' J Y"" - ' - - An autopsy fwas" performed on. La- " barge's body. Two menwhose shots kllled'iabarge are known, but no ar-' ' rests will., be made until after the in- -quesC- .--Y- ' " . ; m. . ! ... j-wz J4 f - - Devices to attract congregations, to Y church are spreading-fromsensation',-' allsmtQ" a business like estheticism. . ' There is a placO of worship rhere- ' h.., nmrt, close Jf" every morning service hand-c ed : to. each ? lady; member ; of the con-, gregatienY During service: th,flOw-.,. ers decorate the alter and the pulpit. The parish it seems, mainly consists of houses without gardens, and flOw- ? ers, therefore,-cannot "he grown - toT any ''great extent. t-?-'," c : :. As an instance olljthe -care "which tiie present curators': are askirg c f" Stonehenge a correspondent merYr. s theexperience of a party of voiles . who nald a recent visit there. -Tl 7 vrer9 ,told that the taking Of vprovis ions near, the tones Is 'prohibited for this "reason: -. It .is believed . that 'the -. presence tjf - fragments, of "food, would attract ,rcents,- whose -possible -bur-crowing would be a. menace 4o-the sta bility of the stonesV - "Y .'Y- Hundreds Of Jhorses - and thousands , of cattle in the Hawaiian Islands nev; er takea' drink of-water., Theyjiye, on the upper altitudes. of the, moun -; tains, where tho cattle riin.'wild from " the time they are born xintil they, are sent- to the slaughter ' house., . Except possibly for two or three - months in y the rainy: season there are nO : streams -or pools f water in - any; part frtiere - the cattle roam, but everyining xaer grows aji recumbent, : jointed .. grass, - v known by the' native name of maninia. . This is both rooa ana arina;., Tiie Wowpfimpp T.iimher- Co.tof ;Jatk' sonf Miss"; has been chartered, with; aV7 capital stock of $100,000.- Thetincor-f; j porators are,D. J. Batqneiaer.-4r. y.; isewcomer anu mj. j. vK.r; v , r Th Kerr ; Furniture Co. of Green ville SccJ has been chartered, with a capital stock of $6,000,. The officers 01 the company are J. B. Kerr,1- president, and -treasurer, -and JKS., Stark, vice-: president. . .1-. Two Hundred Killed or Wounded. Y J Wiilemstead, JDuracoa;!:By --Cable. : Advices of-an official, nature, which, . eraI.Matos. - -The revolutionists ere commanded by Generals' Zoifo. ani Vidal. They made an attempt to occupy ; ... , the to jm of Taguay, but, after.a ngnx.: -of five hours, they abandoned-the field "to the"government forces. Two, bun ,. dred of the revolutionists ere "killed- or wounded. ' - '." ". O 1--.12. Killed Jor Family Difficulty r Bristol, Tenn,, Special. As. the re-v suit 0f an alleged family difficulty, c'b'arles Amburg,- Whitesburg, ,Ky. as "shot and kUled by George Larmer, 1..- -. - : . . . if-AWn?dnn. Va. Larmer accused Am- burgy of improper .conduct" towards a certain member of his family and tmeeU., Ing Amburgy near the public highway . fired uponhim,1 Instantly" Mllin.him Lamar surrendered. -1 ' ' Y M Y - V the soldiers Occupying thatlsevral earsf stsel been presldentsinserl8g4.rHe -bersj; of:the-fnnItedi.-States- :embassy'M agadjutor to the Most Rey. Fatrick weapons t defense. - The Oxford is 1 . ' . island - sustained .any;'in-: laborers; were;caughfc ftnder the rails is 0he. of:. Chicago's - most", influential inumber f-the,highesfc Germairi mili- niam Rlordan - archbishopof San ow turVncct 400 ions cf.coal a nreti "p- ,v: " ,T J - J I and crushed jcjdea,fe? .Y -.J-tary offlceraRrere W-esensgf 1 3 Y4day." .t S ' s -- C lBxut f':'Y: plp-YY :?rtYp!l. " w-L.i?- 'pLr ..tT - V '41
The Lumberton Argus (Lumberton, N.C.)
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