North Carolina Newspapers

CAUCASIAN. i r . vol.. XVIII. KIMBERLEY TAKEN. At Ust The Boers are Said to be six Retreat. THE FORTUNES OF WAR TURNED. Uncral Vnnc'.i, With a l-orce of Ar Mlerv, CaSnry and Jliuntcd In. fantry, llnters Kluib.rley and Dines t the Club. London, r.y C.V.Mf..-Th9 War Ofti,-, announces that Oumal French reach ed Kiinhr-ilty Thur.s.l.iy evening. Fol lowln,? li Luil Roberts' mew to tho War (nt; c: "J.i.fi::)'I:il. I-v;. jt;, ;i. m.- French, with a r.r.-e of an!liy. rivalry and mount d Infantry. r-a V-d KimV.-rlr-y thin evening, Thtis :i iy." .'cm i il Oonjc, ;(. t:.,t u; jjy two. Is tf.rU.: ly In r.-tr.ut fiom L rl Ky;.:H, w,;::j; northward. Gr.i. Frcm-ii. with th- cavalry. Im-!y sUy Hi over m&'Iit in Kimboley, :.n.l then pil.-hcl fin to iit't hi to;i, ;li y; ; the l - tlr'ng enemy. A bins I!Jt i- wagon I ialn Is moving 'toward BloeaifoiMeln. followed jrchi.ai:iLIy by a Kuco force f itj: f i.sh Infantry par lure tho 1.':tj it! tluir li lit v .1?- wip!ii-3 -an .1 ai;;!ii;it!;::i. Military opinion h'-n- : not iv.h far afvr !la'ely, lie ., i.--r or. 1 the re -d 0f re I Lord Ilcheiij will Ilia ISocrsi laimn tr. assort n.ijW.nM, r.;;r tb trooos. IIo h.u to fovvl 7'.0i'.i) persons hi hi.-s I lue whole MmlK-rley popuU:ion. He rnii. .t r : n i ". J the i iliie il from Modder IEUvr down m KimlKrlpy and revuliul tho la.;;er. General Frerdi u r..w mi a j;uy m a: uon. oat the t fced w.'.rt u.ua iHMt luve prd'.Mbly mailt? m my IM. Ni:;;:.i;i of iiKi:it'l nm-.'r. ili" provided. Lord Robcr;. has Yii'Mijiht a genuine pre lini'n y awes the lia;.rt-.riu:i i, that ho hru enough. ior the preerri. l- will need to prr -p.v. v Ior annthei strike. All ov.r Kngku.d there Uive ocea rvldences ol pu'.io Joy. In every Uicaitn an.l juiVilk- meeting, aroun.l JMilrtKHl Rta--')t:; 4i nil I'i the &tree-t.-, fhere liave 'tun wxpreision of gl-atl-I'f.'-s an l .iu'.iliation ovfr lae ivew.s The. nv -;).;.;.; v i are e.iifos-Ia'.iy rejoivlrx. i '1 !mjo wliD ita'.l ih." no.vs cioeiy se only one di-.rmbing tactor in the Capo i:.!.MtJin. ami that Is. the prr.nre of ih IVjers tow .ml I.cnl RoL-ertii' l;ne t.f mp oly through DeA.ur, vnkh wai in-vrr mcr Important 'than no.v . The lio".s nmkr Commaiulants lelarey .Ltivl G !) nonet rato to the railroad. Tii -y ii ive piihf'l General Cleiuents ImcU to Arundel. a:i.l iiave outflauUa" I'.n. All .ire within PO mile, or twe-s tinv h:ird march, of the fentral rail um' f0,,,l,tlt"Si iM-rt Robert? has left Q 'uleralne forces along the line and ar tend bark more If necessary. Tli-e followinc; dispatch from General HobertH fill tho s-Ui in the earlier tPstvitehes. "Moddrr River, Feb. 1C The Sixth T ivl.Mon left Wj.teifall diltt, early yes terday morning, and marchetl here, ir on tho K.imo evcnlns to Rondevil lirlft tc hold the erosinq; of the Mod lcr r'vt r, and leave General French free t .k:i. Shortly aflfr tiiTiving here the mounted infantry vlslttl Jaeobsodal and found it full of .women ar.d children with some wounded men, il'oing well. On the way back, the tnouattsd In'an trv kvert Atf i. 'ko l :in;l nin nifn wera i wo'.indcd. Colonel Hcmy and Major 11;;. hel nn I ten men were m'.asir.. Iloth cifl'.ers were rtibieiiutuMy found at .1 icchid.tl. slighily wounded. The ivaky division U nuning in a north erly direction and ha.i appartuily al ready redii! e l the pressure en Kl:n-li'Tl-y. ns Pekewkh siarn als the enemy l as r.b.nuloned Alnxande'. fontein and that lie 'hn o.ii;;Jt-d It. French ha? advanced j? (if a Abonsdani with a sl's'it r and is pushing; a tho poj'., bin Tea' beins held by mounted infan try. Clements, .having bcn pressed by the Boers, 'has retired to Arundel to -ot er Naau w peart." The War Office1 points out that the word "lure" in the above d'spxtcli mearu toaia point oa tht? M odder river other than the Modder river station. Lumber Intsrests Pooled. Norfolk, Va., Special. It U faid that the entire pine lumber interests of Virginia and North Carolina have been pooled. Dr. J. O. White, of Camden. N. J., Is reported to have been promo ter and to have consummated the deal t the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. N. Y.f Thursday. Truce in Kentucky. Frankfort, Ky., Special. The agre?- j merit to postpone the Taylor-Beckham uit operates as a truce in ioe legai vtle over the State offices and It Is hot probable that there will be any de cisive chauges In the situation till then unless the return of the Democratic legislature here next week, adds some unexpected feature. A party of the at torneys on both sides held a meeting Friday evening and made several plana for consolidating the various injunction rases in order to avoid a clash between ithe different State courts in which they are pending. Want to Make Lynching Treason. New York, Special. Representative White, of North Carolina, In a speech before 400 people, under the auspices of the Afro-AtnerIan Council of New York, eald he had a bill for introduc tion in Congress making lynching trea son against the State. At no time, he said, has the race prejudice been so strong, and It was time for the nation to . t that every Individual life was sj sare unui iqb ia.w iur.t-3 na course. tn m . I . . . t A ) . 1 .Ta Senator Shot. ck8oa. Miss., Special. State Sen ator R. L. Bradley was slightly wound 4 at Raymond, by Mrs. Ida Bolls, who alleges that Bradley had failed to keep faith in a promise to marry her. Senator Bradley xvaa seated at dinner In the fcotel, when the woman entered the dining hall and fired at his head, tho bullet enteric; tho back of tho ccci n3 inflicting & palnrul wound, thcuft cot laUl. Mn. Bslli Hun it imh tat wm vnmul TAVLOR FILES PETITION. lie Wants to Restrain Beckham ana Caslleman. IvouUville. Ky., fipeeial. Suit was filed In th'i Circuit Court Wedne&day by couaatl for Governor Taylor, seek ing to restrain J. C. V. IkKikham from acting as Governor, and General John U. Cattleman from attempting to dis charge Uie dnUlea of Adjutant General. Summons were -rve-J cn the dfen iants thU aX'.trnoan. The suit will be allotted to one of the Circuit Court jiidi j by a hiwln. This drawing may noi be held for several day?. Wtun It id held, an application for a retraining onkr will be made. The iiuU li brought 'j Governor Taylor for hiiulf Indivl.UiaJy, aaid as Govornor of Kentucky. The petition aasertu ! that Governor Tayor was ele-:teJ to ti:at office on November 10, 1S93, and a;'t;i-.vaid ruceived a certificate of elec tion and qu tlinod oa Governor. The pe ti;;.;':n (.oiuitiu:.: "Since the time of iU hut! qualiiicr.tion to the present tim', the. plaintiff has contiuuousl been and id ivow pcrfoirming the func tioiu of 'Ulift oiTk-e, and Is recognized as Governor by the other State officer. Ui'.t the plairJtiff ijj j that the defen dant, J. C. W. i'-ecklvun, is now and for .rocne time iiris ben claiming and pretending to be the Governor of Ken tucky, and to have the right to per ioral the functi;r3 of said ottice, claiming that on the aforesaid No vember 1, 189!), one Wm. Gotbel war, elemed Governor of the said State, and (hit he, th sa.id Backhaul, waa then tkxiU-d Lieuienunt Governor, and that by reason cf the subsequent death of said Gobbed, he, the said Beckham, has become invested with the powers of Governor of said State. And he is now a ad for ime time has been pretending to exercise the power and performing the fu:L3tioii.3 of the cfiToe of Governor aforesaid. He has been pretending to send mess-ages as such Governor to the General Assembly of Kentucky, and l.as pretended to appoint the defen dant. John 13. Castle-man, aa Adjutant j General of Kentucky, and to iuveit him with power and control over the mili tary of said State, and the Mid defes daait Ca4.tlc.aian ii now claiming and pretending to b3 such Adjutant Gen eral of the State. Anti-Trust Conference. Chicago, Special. The committee on resolutions of the National Antl-Truat Conference, after a stormy meeting, - naily agreetl upon c report which will be Mibmitted to the conference for j adoption. The discussion was caused j by a difference of opinion among the mera.ber a- to the details of how the j government should obtain control of j the railroad, telegraph and telephone j lin-A A faction led by Tom L. John- i Eon, LoiUd I'ost anil other single tax advocates, insisted that the value of frandiUe in assuming control should j be Ignored. They thought the gov- I ernment should take the property J without paying compenss tinn to the ; owners. John I. Altgeld, George F. AVil- j "ansa. Governor Lee and ex-Attney General Monett, of Ohio, were for gov ernment ownership of the.,e utilities, j but thought the cause would be injur ed by advocating practical confiscation at this time. Finally Mr. Altgeld sug gested a compromise, which brought the waning factions together and pre vented p. fight later on the floor of the couvcnlion. Tho provision denying the value of the franchise right was stricken out. and an amendment substi i tuted. declaring that the owners fchonld receive just compensation for all property taken. Irrespective of wa tered stoclt or ether fictitious securi Ilea. Injunction Refused. Cincinnati, Ohio. Special. Holding the the Federal courts had no juris diction of th situation in Kentucky I Judge Taft c-tinesclay afternoon re- J fUj,c,j lo grant the application for in- junction agalust the Kentucky State board cf elections and the Democratic contestants for State offices, other th:-:i governor and lieutenant governor The case can go ultimately to the Uni ted States supreme court. Telegraphic Frlefs. Trinity Methodist Episcopal church, 2343-2347 Indiana avenue, Chicago, one the oldest Methodist church buildings in that tity was almost totally destroy ed by fire Wednesday night. Only tho walls of the structure were left stand ing, and it is estimated that the loss will exceed $100,000. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Darien & Western Railroad, at Darien. Ca., officers were eleoted, and the directors were authorized to take steps for the extending of the road from its present junction with the Florida Central and Peninsular to the Savannah, Florida and Western, prob ably at Walthourville, Ga. Guilty ot Murder. New York, Special. After deliberat ing seven and a half hours, the jury re turned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree against Roland B. Molineux, charged with the murder r-f Mrs. Katherine J. Adams, by poison ing, on December 28, 1S93. Barlow S. Weeks, counsel for the defense, made the usual motion, and Recorder Goff vijourned court until February 16, vhen he said he would hear the mo -ion and sentence the defendant. Trusts In South Carolina. Columbia. S. C. Special. There was a hot fight in the House of Represen tatives Saturday over Mr. W. J. John eon's bill to prohibit the operation of trusts In this State. There is hearty sympathy for the bill, but some fear it will be suicidal to enact a law until some legislation can be effected. The bill was a copy of the Texas law. Iu view of the fact that the Virginia Csrolica Csera'.cal Company pur chase 1 ccarly il tits p&uph&ti tfa&ti la tue t4t, jb fcftl.tr-a! cacttUftf STATE SQ'JIBS. The cadet ba'jallion or Hbt A. & HL Colloege will parade on the afteaooa of the 22nd, Washington's birthday, and will have dress parade in front of the governor's mansion in Raleigh. Tuesday, the 2vth, the B. L. synod of North Carolina met in Salisbury to consider any an4 all propositions ftaed in the committeea hands for the removal of the North Carolina. College. The concentrating raill at the Union oopper mine been set in motloa and the firet ore was put through the mill last Saturday anl it worked ad DUrably. It la expected that the mdU ml he regularly in operation in a short time. Shelby Scar. The corn and &rit mill at Double Shoaui -was washed eway I33 Monday night by the swollen streams. The 3iills belonged to the Double Shoals Cotton mills and the loss Is probaibly 0ut $500. The river was higher than it h3 Ueeii for some time. Shelbr Star. For the flrit time the throttle of the new engine at tha o'.l mill wa3 turned Tues-Aay afternoon and the machinery tar te d upon It s work. No sed were put iiito the mill that afternoon, but It is nor .busy at its work. They hive n abundance cf seed piled back wait ing for the mill. Concord Standard. On Tuesday night the safe in the etore of r.kax & Brown, at Davidson, was blown onen. and the monev amounting to about $400 was stolen. The news first came here to Policeman Harris. From the looks o! the explos ion ic i3 thought to have been the work of experts. There is ao eslue whatever at this Time as to who the parties are. The Durham correspondent cf the Charlotte Gbse-Tver says ihe vlcLlms of the explosion ere all doing well and physiciana hepe for the recovery of all of them. He adds by way of peculiar incidence that while ,tlie heavy ma chinery was twisted, mashed and ruin ed the power house clock was blown across the Ijouse and left without in jury. Mr. Dickson's watch, too, was gathered out of the debris, ticking ahead and none the worse for what had happened. The disappearance of Solomon Pool the eld negro who lived near Wake Forest remains a mystery. There has been another hearing in the case o his wife and son, who are charged with murder. The evidence Is entirely cir cumstantial, and i3 that he was killed in the house by blows on the head; that efforts were made to get the hlood stains from the floor; 'that the hod1 was iunk in the river, and that a let ter was forged purporting to come from the old man. and dated at Rich niond, Va., saying he was there and well. The son is still in jail, without privilege of bail. A. L. Thorn, of Pchut Pleasant, W. Va., a member of. the Mason county court, and a man of wealth and usually astute business qualities, was beate out of $1,000 hy a novel scheme a few days ago. Tuesday evening Jast a stranger, in clerical garft, stopped at 1l!s house and asked to stay all night, explaining that 'he was a Baptist cir cuit rider who had lest hi3 way. At 9:30 a young looking couple drove up and asked to be directed to a minis ters 29 they wanted to be married. Thorn's romantic turn cropped out, and he Invited the couple indoors to be - ! 1 A fit . j 1 ii married oy the Itinerant minister. The j knot was tied and Thorn signed the j certificate as witness, treating to cof ; fee, cake, pie and apples in honor of the event. The next day Thorn went j to the bank and was astonished to find that Jils cheek for $1,000 had 'been cashed. He had signed it, payable to bearer, through a slit in the marriage ! certificate. Monroe Enterprise i Lenoir is to have a grain elevator, ! Moore & Ivutz have purchased of Mr. 1 Widiby the lot upon w:hieh his mattress i factory, which was recently destroyed ! toy fire, stood, and will build an eleva tor upon it in which the farmers can i deposit their grain, receiving certifi- j cates for the same. Upon these cer tificates they can borrow money and will thus be able to hold their crops o as to market them to the -best ad vantage. It will be a great benefit to many and we trust these enterprising gentlemen will find it profitable. The Chronicle says that nearly ev cry lumber dealer in Wilkes county has ibeen indicted for failure to pay State tax Imposed on lumber dealers, Some two or three weeks ago we print ed a letter Xrom State Treasurer Worth on this subjaot, and also a suit which had been 'brought where the decision cf the treasurer was overruled in the classification of dealers. It might pay those interested to look it up. Lieutenant W. B. Lemly, our former business manager, is at Manila, 10,000 miles away. He writes fats father that he thinks the war Is about over; that the rainy season is passed and the weather is fine, Winston- Republican. There were burglars in Hickory Monday night. The store of Mr. W.M. Keever, on Morganton street wa3 en tered and something over a dollar in small change, i5ome flour and other ar ticles taken. The stores of W. C. Shell and Shuford Hardware company were also entered and the doors were found open Tuesday morning, but noSh lng was missed trom either. We no tice from the papers of neighboring towns that burglars are continually gettting in their work and it behooves every one to be on the lookout. .An important suit has just been de cided in. Greensboro. Miss Corren sued the water company for lack of sufficient water pressure a fire" which destroyed her property some time ago. The case is without a precedent and by the decision is an eye-opener to all water companies generally. The Jury brought in a verdict of $3,000. An ap peal was taken. The report that Mme. Nellie Melba, the Australian prima donna, is to mar ry Dr. Joseph Joachim, of Berlin, is i declared to be absolutely baseless. Mr. Billie Maynard, of X Roads Church, Yadkin county, was riding a mule when the animal fell on him and broke his leg. The mule in trying to get up fell back on him and broke his leg in another place. - He also sustain ed internal injuries. His recovery la doubtful. Tho trustees of Lenoir College held a meeting in Newton Tuesday. Steps were taken to put an agent in the field to raise money to build a handsome addition to Catawba- College, Mr. Ai A, ESi:!ori, Trio is always amegf &s Ii A LEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, SENATOR EDMUN He Declares the Fifth Section of the Proposed Amend ment to the Constituti on of North Carolina to be Unconstitutional; and Says Furth er That The Court Would Strike Out Section 5 and Leave the Remainder o? the Amendment to Stand. Washington, D. C, Feb. 10, 1900. Ieac Sir: Ycur letter of the 15th ult was duly received. 1 have care fully considered the two fjuestions you submit for my opinion. Your firstt question is whether Sec tion 5 cf the iwuendment proposed to Constitution of North Carolina by the Legislature cf that State by the Act approved February 21si, 1899, will, if adopted, be valid in view of the Con stitution of the United State.?. This Section makes, in the plainest posslo.e terms, a perreetiy amurary distinction between male citizens in respect of the most sacred political rights of men. It give3 to those per sons who were entitled on or before January lat. 1SG7, to tote in any state and to their lineal descendants the right to take part in elections In North Carolina, without the qualification required of every other male citizen of being "able to read and write any sec tion or the Constitution in the Juigusfl aj:gu?.ge." The discrimination is no? founded on any reason whatever that can have any relation to a "republican form cf government." which the Con stitution of the United States has re quired the nation to guarantee to ev ery State, but is absolutely in opposi tion to, and destructive of republiear government. It is a well known nn(? historical truth that before and oa the 1st day of January, 1S67, there were great numbers of male citizens cf thc United States in, and citizens of State? In which they resided, who were not entitled to vote although twenty-one years or more cf age, and great numb bers who were under twenty-one yearf of age and therefore not entitled tc vote and who were not lineal descen dants of the voters of that date, and there were great numbers of African descent and many aliens in process o' naturalization. All these ever natur ally increasing classes of citizens are required to possess a particular liter ary qualification, while no such test if applied to the residue of citizens or the State. A form of government c' this character cannot, I think be held to be republican, either in a legal, or moral, or political sense I think that the discrimination is flatly in contravention of the Four teenth Amendment to the Constitution of the "United States, which, among other provisions for securing equal rights and privileges to all, commands that no State shall "deny to any per son within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." It may, I think, be safely affirmed that it is now settled that the Fourteenth Amendment confers an affirmative and positive right upon every class and condition of people to a broad equality of treat ment, and permits no distinction or discrimination not founded upon rea sonable and just grounds of classifica tion. It is impossible for me to imag ine that a discrimination -resting on its face solely upon a date could have any other basis than a purpose to disfran chise the people of a particular race and color whose condition on January 1, 1S67, of then recent slavery, had made a great mass of them Incapable of reading and writing any section of the Constitution of North Carolina, al though doubtless large numbers of them were entirely capable of intelli gently choosing their rulers. I am also of opinion, if I am right in supposing the motive and purpose of the Section is to disfranchise a mass of colored citizen,? of North Carolina, BoBBcers la New York Hotels. Many people have not . understood why all the great hotels In New York city employ special detectives who are constantly in the main corridor. Soma have had an idea that thexe detectives are employed as "bouncers.' No such thing. According to one of the most intelligent of these detectives the other night, the work of a detective In a ho tel Is arduous. "You have no idea." he said, "how many spies and sneaks and 'rubbernecks' Infest the corridors of the New York hotels. These sp'.ea are employed to watch public men and If possible to listen to their utterances when talking to their friends In the corridors. These spies and sneaks are also employed to report on all sorts of matters. It is a remarkable fact that so irany men acquainted with public iff airs are so guileless as not to be aware of the presence of these 'rubber necks!. The detectives In the hotels quickly spot these fellows, but so long ts they conduct themselves decently there is no ground for ejecting them. Nevertheless, it Is my opinion that ivell-known men who desire to discuss; the secret things of politics and of Unance and of religion, and who also iesdre to have business matters kept private, should be very careful to as lortain who is sitting beside them in ;he corridors of our hotels, or they hould discus3 their matters else--vhere.' New York Sun. fctmorUt ii that tf thlsgft isd THURSDAY, FUBUUAUY 22, WOO. h PINION who, under the present equal and Re publican constitution of that State, are cow entitled to suffrage, that it vio lates the Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. The matter of motive and purpose is one fact, and If such motive and purpo-se ei-kt, then the right of this cli-s of citizens is "denied or abridge 1 on ac count of race, color, or previous con dition of servitude;" and this 'Section of the proposed amendment cannot be saved by any device of date or phrass. See Williams vs. Mississippi, 170 V. S. and cases there cited, where the prin ciples applicable to cases under th-3 Fourteenth Amendment are stated. I am for these reasons of opinion that the Fifth Section referred to will be held void when brought to judicial de cision. Your second question is whether 4 and 5 of the Constitution are so depen dent on each other that the 4th section must be held inoperative if the fth Section is void. Applying the test established by the Supreme Court of the United States in regard to such questions, it would em that Section 4 may stand perfect- ! ly well without the oth Section. !t is ! complete in itself as a distinct Section and a dist5nct and complete proposi tion. It does not even refer to Sec tion 5 or to anything contained in ?t. The first four sections of the proposed amendmcat contain a complete and equal :rle (whether a wise one or nor) for the suffrage . qualifications of all citizens, sex, age, residence, innocence of crime, and capacity to read and write any section of the Constitution. In the nature of the thing no reason can, I think, be stated for holding that it is dependent for it3 validity on the 5th section in any respect whatever. It may be presumed that the legislature was actuated by a high sense of the importance of intelligence in the voters in a government of the people and sup posed, (erroneously I think), that a apacity to read and write a section of the Constitution was the essential and sole evidence cf such intelligence. Having made this complete and equal system, the legislature appears to have felt that the class of citizens who were 30 fortunate as to have been legal vo ters before January 1, 18C7, and those who were so fortunate. as to have their lineal descendants, could not be expec ted to possess and ought not to be re quired to possess the constitutional learning required of other classes, and so, as an act of gracious benevolence or as n recognition of the fact that the persons so situated and so descended should be entitled to vote, a separate provision was made for them. The legislature may very justly have felt that the legal and equal provisos con tained in the fourth section were so important to a Republican government it would have the main provision even if the grace, etc., provided by section 5, could not lawfully be bestowed and stand as the fundamental law of the State. It cannot be supposed that the legislature could ' desire to make a broad, equal and universal provision in the Constitution of the State depend on the validity of an act cf grace and favcr to a particular class of persons. Without enlarging on the subject, I think that the 4th section can stand although the oth section is held Inva lidl Very truly yaurs, GEO. F. EDMUNDS. To Hon. J. C. Pritchard. United States Senate His Great Work A Chicago man, who has written a jook, was telling about it the other lay to a friend who bad onee clone him t service. "By the way,' said the author. "I ,vou!d be delighted to give you a copy f my work, if you care for it." "I should be more than" pleased to jave It." was the reply, "especially if rou will write your name In iL" "All right. There's a book store last around the corner. If yon will ioconipany me we will go there and pet it. I don't happen to have a copy ji my office just now." After they bad stopped to glance at jome of the new things in the book tore the author hailed a clerk, and, pushing his chest out very far, asked for the novel that he had written. "Yes, sir." the clerk said. "We have ft around here somewhere. I believe, tut yon are the Grst one who has ever jsked for a copy, and it may take me rome time to And it. Wouldn't some thing else do just as wll? We have a creat many better books at the same price." Chicago Times-Heral'7, A remarkable series of coincidences has come to light in Lynchburg, Va., and Augusta, Oa. In each city there is a Walter Clark whose father was named Samuel and whose mother's maiden name waa Walker. Both Walter Clarks have brothers named Sajauel and William, uncles named Charles &nd Jean gad an tast s&ne4 Slliabttli, TftO&t sen c&ncai t;ao ssr rsiatfcsifcip feltYttt , tfc to tiStilZi. - - i ' 3U THROUGHOUT THE CCUN1RY. The South. Representative Livingston, of Geor gia, saw the President Monday In be half of the appointment of Charle A. Collier as a commissioner to the Pari Exposition. On leaving the White House Mr. Livingston staled that the nomination was made. Collier was president of the Atlanta Exposition, hclu a few year ago. G. B. Patterson, postmaster at Key West, Fla., has been nominated by tl" Republicans cf tho First district for Congress. The Republican Congressional Con vention of the Fourth Georgia district nominated A. II. Freeman, of Green ville, for Congress, and Instructed na tional delegates for McKinley. In a dispute over land. Attorney William J. Jenkins was fatally shot by John Warapoer. at Norton. Va. The Old Dominion Steanikhip Com pany's tug Duryea suddenly filled with water and sank at Norfolk. Va. The Virginia Senate voted down a mciion to adjourn In honor of Colonel William J. Bryan' visit to Richmond. Five hundred miner at the Bryson Coal and Coke Companya mines, near Tazwell. Tenn., struck Monday for an increa of 10 per cent, in wages. At Cherry Station, Tenn., Jim Gor don, a negro, cut the throat of Mrs. George Collins with a butcher knife, and was killed by the woman's hus band. The Jury trying Magistrate Oscar I. Floaiming, of Queen Anne County. Va.. for the murder of young Clarence J. Snyder, failed to agree and the case goes over until May. The North. A New York dispatch say-s that thiee tugs and one lighter are at work un loading the stranded steaauer Cats City. Nothing is being done to get her cff. An explosion partially wrecked the Columbia Firecracker Works at Co lumbus, O., and six men were Injured. Dell Everhart fatally. August Harriman. the millionaire president of the Rubsam & Harriman Brewing Company, of Stapleton, L. I., killed himself at New York by cutting his throat. The Probate Court at Chicago, I ill., has decided that Mrs. Ralalie D. Douglass was legally the wife of the late W. H. Douglass, who left $30,000 and no will. Twenty-five subpoenas have been Is sued for witnesses in the Idaho mining Iiots investigation. The body of Elijah Cone, an old newspaper man, was found frozen in the river at Fond Du Lac, Wis. At Springfield, Mass, William Met calf. a well known local printer and publisher, killed himself by shooting. Judge William H. Taft. of Cincin nati, O., appointed president of the Philippine Commission, is deluged with applications for official places. Robbers tried to held up an Atchi son, Topeka and. Santa Fe train near Perry, O. T., but the engineer put on steam and left them along the track. During a fire which damaged the Stress Hotel, at Cincinnati, O., to the extent of $3,000, Miss Dolly I-rfJ Claire, a trapeze artist, descended from a high window on a rope made of bedclothes. Mayor Rose, of Milwaukee. Wis., ha3 secured $99,200 of the $100,000 guaranty' fund, which is expected to be an important factor in securing for that city the Democratic National Convention. Foreign. The coal strike has gradually ex tended to Germany. The Halle Lelpsig districts are also affected. Daily comes the news th3t large factories have closed because of lack of coal. Cotton is attracting unusual atten tion from speculators on the Bourse at Berlin. Snowfalls have Impeded radway and telegraph communication throughout Germany. Baron Edmund Rothschild and three ; guests killed 1683 pheasants in seven j hours' gunning, near Paris. Bombs have been discovered at the Paris Exposition, verifying the suspic ion that Anarchists sought to blow It up. Police had to be called Into the Chamber of Deputies at Madrid to quell an outburst over a tie vote on an Increase of octroi duties. Persistent drlnktrs who come under Poor Guardians' control at Helston, England, are to be punished by cold water ecrubbings. The London University Division elected to Parliament Sir Michael Fos ter, independent Unionist, to succeed Sir John Lubbock, Liberal Unionist, elevated to the peerage. General Ludlow, Military Governor of Havana, sailed from that city Satur day for New York, on a leave of ab sence of ten days. MraT Oliver Belmont, the Duchess of Marlborough and others of their set were vaccinated during a smallpox 6care at Nice- MIscellaneoas. Richard Croker, whose leg was re cently broken, can now walk with a cane, and will go from London to the Riviera. Sergeant Hugh Welsch, M.. Second Artillery, committed suicide with a re volver at Havana. Robert P. Porter Is expected back from Havana on the steamer which has sailed for New York, having finish ed his tariff classifications. It is said that John Barrett, ex-Min-ister to Siatn, will be made the head cf a commission to investigate the com mercial possibilities cf the far Eat- Ex-Empress Eugenie is recovering from a dangerous illness In Paris. American purchases have increased the price of sugar throughout Germa ny. Money is easy in Berlin but bankers exact exceptional collateral for large loans. - Tie rrcest voyaga d tic transport MarwaiiM iron $an Pracsltco, Cal , ta C10XJE IE Tib ATS. The Boer Commander flovcft Towards Blcmfenteln. London, by Cable. Va X Offlc i ha received the follotax from Gn- ) eral Roberts: "JacotMdAl. Feb. 17. 5: JO a. m. Kelley-Kenay raptuml Friday eeD-ty-tight wigona 1th atorc. txo wax es with Mausers, eight boxen of ahelU. ten barrela of explosive and maar etorea belonging to CrocH' lacr. H ail rttlVrv w. A ..lllr..- 1 the messenger. A dUpairh to the Chronic It from Jac-oLadal untfer Friday' date tar:. "After the tilth divUion evacuated Jacobfdai on Thursday la order lo march north, the enemy re-ovcupied the plice. The fifteenth brigade, in cluding the London - Icperlal Volun teer attacked and aaolled the Boers. The men advanced steadily asd la splendid order and drotv the enemy over the ridges to the northward. The Volunteer, who had scouted to the right and left, showed Tehran-like pluck and stcadlnes. The Stafford shires made a bayonet charge, but tli enemy did uct wait. Tht town was recaptured la three Lours and mount, ed infantry is pursuing the Boer." Negro Soldiers Riotous. ' Kl Pawj. Tex., Special. Nefro troop j stationed at Fort BlUs Saturday tnada an aasault ou the county Jail with the j Intention of rescuing two comrade ! who had been locked up there. Twenty or thirty shots were exchanged and ; a fcoldier and con 4t able kllWd. TLa '. sheriff called out a posce to prevent j the trouble from spreading, and tev- i eral of the posse are looking for the J soldiers who escaped. The city Is lu' j a state of great excitement over thoj affair. The soldiers are armed wla j Krag-Jorgenrton rifles. Early Friday night officers Christy and Scclt had lo ' arret a nr-gro soldier for being drunk ' Slate News Notes, aud disordwly. The soldier was placed The iate charter ti e Cmciiaa snd In jail, and nothing more wa thought j Virginia telephone -nnjany, capital, of tho arrest -by the polio until tho $I00, headquarters tu llenderaon, N. attack, which occurred In the early j C. N. I. Strause, r. C. Toepleraaa hours Saturday morning. std J. B. Bridcer bUKkhoIders. Refuse to Rejoice. , 1! t ' . I r? thfct layers sre now offering to London, by Cable. The news from i ,.,-.,,,--., , ,, . . 7 w . , , n . ta.se their r.p delivered oett October Western campaign in the Orange. Free . ... ; at 7 3-1 rcatK :ic slower rj i buy Stale continues to improve, yet Lng- r has Uiail. ,ln, .j,-, u3,r'for - land refuses to rejo!ce. The truth is bale, but tbt he n-tr raied the relief of Kimberley came In tho over "0 bil. aud U dropplnc rottwa nick of time to avert a scare which j a crop b-eu be bas found It wn- might have become a panic. Thuraday PtSlLIe. night's debate in Parliament might j Secretary T. K. Ilruner. of the ax well have dleheartenel tN country. I ricultural departure nt. will ro to IarU fn or hnth nartw xDreKid views I irtlr ftr the meeting of the beard - - - - I oq the situation and outlook wblca were fairly appalling In their warnings' of natloaal peril. The Plague at Manila. Manila, by Cables-Out of a total of 51 cases of suspected bubonic plagua reported. 42 proved genuine and 32 deaths resulted, half of them being Chinaman. There were 12 cases du ring the week, mostly -within the wall ed city, and a hundred lnspectr. un der the superintendence of - L .i, - officer. Major Edic. are cnftvclcg the sanitary regulations. Thirty of tb inspectors are Chinamen who were furnished by the Chinese merchants. The Health Department census tho the regulation of Manila is about 1M. 000 including 31.000 Chloese. Killing at a Fr.Ik. Greenville, N. C, Special. A mur der was committed in Green county about twenty miles from here Friday night. A man named Harrcll gave a party, and many people, fioa the neighborhood were In attendance, Among the guests w&s a roan named John Faulkner. He became Involved in a dispute with another man wbo.se name could not be learned, aad as a result Faulkner was shot and killed. The murderer escaped. All the par ties are while. Joyful at News. Cape Town, by Cable. When the rews of the relief of Kimberley reach ed here an Immense crowd rubbed to the government house, where tbey sang patriotic English sonrs aad cheered enthusiastically. An attempt was made .to get Governor Mllner to make e speech, but he declined. flollneux. la Sing Slag. New York. SpecIaL Roland B. Mol ineux was sentenced to die In Sing Sing prison, durning the week begin, ning March 26th, for the murder of Mrs. Katherine J. Adams, and was placed In the Sing Sing penitentiary Friday afternoon. He made a state ment before sentence that he bad not been fairly convicted and that "yellow journalism had put a price upon bis bead, inviting every blackmailer, per jurer and rogue." He entered a specific denial of the charges. Telegraphic Brtefs. The transport Bumside arrived si New York quarantine from San Juad and Santiago. T hough eereral times wounded bjf ceeded in driving a gang of robberJ ! from his car at Fairbanks, Ariz. T- J O.ln Aelr .. 4 ... It. 1 liner St. Louis, charged with stealln j COcntr ,n " 14.861 In transit from Berlin to Ne ; The State charter the Ltndsiv ehalr York, was discharged by the Court k '' company, cf Hi?b Point, capita!. 11". Southampton because the robbery wal j 0D0. J. A. IJnday and others rtyk commltted on an American ship. holders. , F".nJ J??son' 8flooInvlcffPtr' waf It Is said that John Barrett. ex-Vla-found dead from a pistol ball through wlI1 Dide tllt rf his head at New York Saturday, and mmtesloa to jaTtl54ta the coxn his wife was arrested on suspicion. Sal bossibiliUc cf the far Eaa Miss Aman A. Seymour the tenth Ex-Emprea Eugenie Is recovering victim of the Ford River switch wreck. I . " dangerous Illness la Paris, died at Escanafca. Mich. American purchases have iscrcasel During Us recent, survey for the nrlce of iUtT throughout Germs- mace a souncung near uaam uuna to the depth of 5,253 fathoms, or nearly eU miles. The Itliii Ql L4ti, ntwail, ih at iroVMfti . NO. '2. TAR HEEL NOTES. Roa ttmnfml Sbt. Ccrl llaaam1. who & al Ro. Wrd&etday. cr Grrratboro. carried to Wl&atod Friday aftar nocni and pUcrd la 3'X lit tells a mxA (nnr In n V I A . . - . . 1 I hate a irt. The family can to Crecoslfro frtra New Ycrk State fjr vcir irn r.1 urmti. tnr tv.i. ' wert j bright. The ld. t kd. was aa ! lnt-lilR--ct and ladutrtou boy. cf j great aaa'.sUbr to b!s fathrr la tht matiartrcent of their dairy farta. Wfeca the Kpar.lh-An.t lan ar brvlt cnt te Warn ntl-d with the jUlt of a veum atd J.ccd a -eg1mwt bowaJ j for Cuba, agaictt tbn thr of father and the mtrrM cf his notfe- i r. Whn h rtjrr-H husw. Lia fath er aay. Le tad cLati;-! from U. tt. ocrt. mauly txy !r.to a rrklt. dared :l otx of a Mi. , a&4 wa much rlvea to drink. The father waa fa'thful In Lit S..r!t rrct t& war hid k.,a. but. trance f My. tb mother cin: !te3 Owm and . couragrd the Uty to tbrow o!T a!l fa- rental r-tra!i.t. T.Mlc -ent fron bad to or- unt.l U'cx!oedar of tL? w-. hen Itiimnxl was forrc-d to hoot hi t-na to a.ar bt own life. At lean tLl la the father' tide f tb tjry. The mother ajrea an entirely differ ent nour.t .f .. affair, aad the causes leading up lo It. be aays her husband baa alaya l-eti unkind and brutal in Lis treatment of tbelr mm and had hreate-nM Lis life on aeTersl ocraloa. ruing into tbt Uya room at one time to Lout blm while be adept. Youtg llunimel i tl!l la a precar ious condition, the .bylcln boldlag out no Lope, of M reexnery. - i i ui;, uu ui I ( 111 a i n lLifr UOI.I Its Jun mectlnj-. He will distnbo literature regardirr North Carolina and lock sfter the dliplay of North CaroLna exLib'U in the ezpoaltlon. AH j the exhibits are now on the way to ! ParU. Nothing more will be teat, In if . .. X, ill . . . The corporation commlsd'jd rails for j report or the State bauka tip Jo tbt f uvm ui uumbvm, reiiruary i-in. io;t are 5 banks. Commissioner of Insurance Young says he will return Into the Ftatt lr.,ti,p. j a. It. ,..1 , . ' . . ivi .,ic ii.-v.4i jnr auuui li.- cne ear. The Forayth chair unv 1 a n enterprise. The capital ttork U .. 000. with privilege to lucres to V.03. 000. Several of Vlntoa-alera's bus iness men bate taken stock. Jlr. Charles Siemcrs Is president and I repa irer. The eompruy has leaned the fac tory of Reynold Bros., south of Sl5m. ; Wilmington U to have a cnodH Lo ; pita! bullllng Uiro-.jh ffc generuidty i of Mr. James Walker, one of Ks wei- thlest ead mat estimable ritiren. It j m-ide known Lis ls:enUoi.B Tuesday, i The SraldlLg will e four a-torli. cf the tee.x.t KTounii of the city hot- pltal. It will vc. at tiu.two. a meeting of KdlDg ihyaiciatia and citi zen i bet,i an l a re Juloa uaasl moeuly adoyd Th?t tcia would be provided to carry on the b-jita! he erecbed. SanallpoT la be.udtig jfierwt tLrocjshorit n;ot .f the courtisa o North Carol: La. Tlie cm, L'jerec. are all foerulisrly mini In form, asl the quarantine regali'.iona mtict aa t prevent any .'pprehet.?loa of tht dia eace prad'r.g to any serloua extent The Ail era I r vn Work U faanufae turing a ny-i:n for maki rallrosJ croc:!'. The m u hire U the "Cbim plon croMtie machine. an 4 turxa cat a complete tit In a minute, Tbe Female Seminary at Reldarllle ha cloFed on svecouat of aslipov. Three casee broke out fa the ubooL Those rrtfbjrt to cbe diacas are trade quarantine'. The princlpil political Vrent hi tht State during Ch past week vas the trip of Hon. Wlllliai J. Bryan chroagh the middle section. H spoke la Ral eigh and oft the Urdverrity to Urge aad enthusiastic udkDreaL Oa Wednesday evening he made brief adireexs at Greectboro end Filhmry, and oa Wednesday sUht addrctfed sv Urge crowd at the Southern pisesger depot-In Charlotte. Ills rpeche wef deTOtevI mainly to national qiMwdoc, and State fcsmes were &ot tnrhed open .at any point. j Evaagellst Pearson fcn V fcold- 1 lng a feries if reriral tneietings la 1 Cbaxtotte Cor the pat tea Cut or two wekx Tbe Ubors of thUi noted eran- j geliat hare been crowned with mors 2eckSecbzrg county shows by trr tix rerarn that she U the wealihieft Mooey Is In Berlin but Linkers txict xc;ticnal coU&urU fw Urt lOflXi. V V