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CAUCA S1AN ? Voi XIX KALEIGU. NORTH CAROLINA, JANUARY 24, 1901. So. 6 I 4 f GRAVE bHARCES. BRITISH STARVE WOMEN AND CHILDREN ANDKILL UNARMED PRISONERS IN THE TRANS VAAL. MARTIAL LAW IN CAPE COLONY. Homtm Coacwntraflag- at Carolina Ilor Itaileft-ata Arrtrt-lEDllh IHrnilol o Kitaraalaatloa. London, Jan. 17. The "stop the wr" committee today panned the fol lowing reaolution : "Orders which a British officer report he personally re oelred reveal the adoption by Lord Robert and Lord Kitchener of a po'i cy having for Its aim the ex'ermina tion of a heroin nationality by starving It women and children and the de ib ra'e massacre of unarmed prisoner " The latter clause alludes to General Kitchener's alleged secret orders to General DeWet's pursuers to tak- no prisoners. Copies of letters from an unnamed British officer conta ninjr these and other charges, will be sent by the committee to Lord Halisbury and Ixjrd Roberts and others. Cape Town, Jan. 17. Martial law has now been proclaimed in every part of Cape Colony, except in the districts of ap-Town, bimonst'iwn, wyndbfrg. Port Khxabeth and Kast L ndon It has also been proclaimed in Com'-ii land, Gr'qu 'land Kast and in East a d West Po- doland It ha been proclaimed unlawful for ny person in he Cap Peninsuli ex cept otilcials and regular or irregular troops, to p iitsesi arms and ammuni tion or either. London, Jan. 17 General Kitchener telegraphing from Pretoria under da'e of Wednesday, January 10, says the concentration of 3 000 Boers at Caro lina, Transvaal, is reported. He add that oiville's mobi e column wa en gaged ner Vantone's Hoek. The Boers were driven away with heaw ls. Three hundred Boers entered Aber deen yesterday, loot d the tore and retired on the arrival of 100 British in fantry. Standerton, Jan. 17 Boer women, brought in by the milit ry, report that Wo rtyn, who i ppoinle a del f ate of be Boers h re to the Hght ng Boers lo surrender und r Lor Kibch nerV pn clama h-n, was made a prisor er and ient to I'ietrewlef, ao cuced ot high treason I h Boers are till active around Hta' oVrton London, Jan. 17. Th- KveningMtan dard -ays it h-ars a number of Borr pris ners have escaped from eylon A dispatch from ape Town, dat d Jan. 18, says that during the occupa tion of Aberdeen by the Boer invader they looted the stores and recruited twenti-flve lurch rebels. Tw-i of these were civil servants who robbed the postoffice before leaving. FILTHY CONVICT CAMP. Sensational Kport by Grand Jury of Mecklenburg-. . Charlotte, N. C, Jan. IS. The grand Jury's report, made here to day, contains sensational matter in reference to the condition of the county convict camps. The report say: "We find Btancill convict camp in bad condition. There are thirty-six men in chalna, sixteen trusties, two women and three water-boys,one on ly about nine years old, and we would recommend that he be bound out. The prison quarters are too small, as inoHt of the prisoners ar more or less d incased. The bunks or beds are too small for the men to lie full length. We also found the drinking water and cooking water very muddy and unfit for use. The camp present an unsightly appear ance and we fear would have a ten dency to lower instead of raising the citizenship of the men while in con flnement. We found them eating their meals with sticks, pieces of bark, etc., instead of spoons." Wedding Postponed to Save $2 Wilkesbarre, Pa., Dispatch. Because it will save $2 Mary Fin ley and John Milkonlan have de cided to postponed their wedding until' August 7. They went into the marriage lincense clerk's office today and discovered that as Mary will not be of age until August 7, and as her parents are dead and she has no legal guardian, she cannot give her own consent until she is 21. The court provides a remedy in such cases, however, and will appoint a guardian at a cost of $2. When this was explained to John and Mary, they had a long talk. It took them half an hour to decide the momen tous question, but they finally agreed to save the $2 and wait until Au gust 7th. To Search for King- Solomon's Mines. Oakland, Cal., Dispatch. John R. Farrell, a mining expert of this city, will start for Africa in a few days on a mission highly ting ed with romance. Farrell goes in quest of "King Solomon's mines," made famous by Rider Haggard's well-known story. Farrell says he expects to make a big showing. He goes toAfrii-a as an expeit for a large London syndicate. Killed Brother to Protect Home. a Norfolk, Va, Jan. 17. Ctnrles Oor don, eclored, waa killed by his brother Anionics, in jfortamoath today. The layer declares he was trying to ave lW father's home which ws urety for the br.itrer's peine boi d. He declares thtt Charles, In a Jealous rage, was about to break hi bond, which waa iriv. n becaoae he had struck a woman with I eun ' VALUABLE FARMERS' BULLETINS. Ery Farmer lath Mat fan ii. Tb.n rrwi at! ntwmltl ltal Ihoiii Th fallowing it a Hat of the Far mera' Balletins available for distri bution, showing the number, till', and s;ze in pasts of t-aei. Cjpita will be sent to any address on impli cation to Henators, Kepreeutatives, and Delegates in Congress or to the Secretary of Agriculture, Washing ton, D. C. : 10 L)framiaou9 plant, pp24. 19 Important insecticides, pp 32 21 Barnyard Manure, pp 32. 22 The feeding of farm animals, pp 32. 23 Food: nutritive value aodcos', po 3i 24 Hog cholera and swine plague, PP 16 25 Peanuts: culture and uses, pp 24. 20 Uweet potatoes: culture and oses, pp 30. 27 Fiaz far seed and fiber, pp 1G 28 Weeds, and how to kill tbem.' PV T2. 29 Hounng and other changes in milk, pp 23. 30 Qrape diseases on the Pacific cot, pa 15. 31 Alfalfa, or Lucern, po 24 32 Hiloa and B'lage, pp 32 33 P-ach growing for market, pp 24 34 Mea's: composition and cook ing, pp 2'J 35 P.itato culture, pp 24 30 Co "on seed and its produc's. m 10. 37 Kifirorn: culture and uaes, 12 38 Ht. raying for fruit iisasec, pp 12 39 Oiiou culture, pp 31 40 Frm drainage. p 24. 41 F iwl: o-rn and fed pp 24 42 Facta atoat milk pp 29 43 Bdwage dupotal oa tun farm, np 20 44 Commercial fertilizers, pp 24. 45 I 'i Sects irjnrious to aioieu grain, pp 24 4i lrri?tiou in humid climates np 27. 47 I arects aff-ctiog the cotton i'l.nt, po 32 48 The maouiiog of cton, pp 1G. 40 Saeep feeding, pp 21 50 S.rghum as a forage crop, pp 20 51 8 a" dard varieties of chickens, pp 48. 52 Tue sugar beet, pp 48 54 Some common bird., pp 40. 55 Tne dairy herd, pp 21. 60 Esptrim-nt station work 1. pp 31 57 Hatter making on the farm, pp 10. 58 The H-y bau as a foraga croi, pp 24. 59 B-n keeping, pp 32. 00 Methods of curing tobacco, pp 10 fit Asparagus culture, pp 40. 02 Marketing ftrm produce, pp 28 03 Care of milk on ton fnrm,pp40. 04 Ducks and geese, po 48. 05 Experiment station work II. pp 32. 00 Meadows and pastures, pp 28. 07 Forestry for fatmeis, pp 48. 08 Tne Mack rot of the cabbage, pp 22. 09 Kzperimont station work III, pp 32. 70 Insert enemies of the grape, pp 23 71 Essential in beef production, pp 24 72 t attle ranges of the southwest, pp 32 73 Experiment Station work, IV, pP32 74 Milk as food, pp 39. 75 The grain Smuts, pp 20. 70 Tomato growing, pp 30. 77 The liming of soils, pp 19. 78 Experiment station work V pp 32 79 Experiment station work VI pp 28. 80 The peach twig boier, pp 16. 81 Corn cu.ture in the South, pp 24. 82 The culture of tobacco, pp 24 83 Tobacco Boils, pp 23 84 Experiment station work-VU, pp 32. 85 Fish as food, pp 30 86 Thirty poisonous plants, pp 32 87 Experiment station work VI I f, pp 32 88 Alkali Lands, np 23. 89 Cowpas. pj 16. 90 The manufacture of sorghum sirup pp 32 91 Potato diseases and their treat mnr, pp 12 92 Experiment station work J X pp 30. 93 Sugar as food, pp 27. 94 The vegetable garden, pp 24 95 Good roads for f rmrs, pp 47. yo raising sneep ior muttoc, pp pp 48. 97 Experiment station wjrk X pp 61 98 Suggestion to Southern farm er?, pp 48. 99 Three insect enemies of shade trees, pp 30 100 Hog raising in the South, pp -40 101 Millets, pp 23 1UZ southern forage plants, pp 48. 103 Experiment station work pp 32. 104 Notes on fros', pp 24. 105 Experiment station work pp 32 106 Bretd of dairy cattle, pp 48 107 Experiment station work- XIII pp 32 108 8altbuahet, pp 20. 109 Farmers' reading cou:se, pp 20. 110 Rice culture in the United States, pp 28 t 111 The farmers' Interest in good seed, pp 4. lrz ar aa ana Dreaa making, pp . , . . . 113 The annle and how to prowl r ' PP OA 114 Exnlfimfit station work- XT V nn 28 115 Hop culture in California, pp Li. 116 Irrigation In fruit growing, I PP 48. 117 Sheep, hogs and horses in 1 the Northwest, pp 28. . 118. Grape Growing in the South, ppJ2. 119 Experiment station work XV. 120 The principal insects affect ing the tobacco plant. CANADA WANTS INDEPfNOlRCt. I bm iKiminlon u ll Trao.formral imto aa I tHiriM-tid. ot Mudel o era . An exchange ay that for Home time ia-t tnere hai tjeen wme dL cu.lou alxHit the Hfwions of an "in dpenleinv' club In Montreal, bat tiw manager of the new movement did nX ap4-ar to judge the time op-! portune for the appealing to the imbllc. - A gojl leal of interest vras added to the movement by the fact that during the ParLi Exposition a large number of young men apfieared. In Paris wearing "independence of Canada" buttons, and an attempt! wan made to c-onnect J.I. Tarte and J. X. Perrault, the Canadian com-: ml.ioners, with the movement be cau.ie a numljer of independence but ton' were among the spoils recover ed from men who had burglarized Mr. iVrrault's hou.se. Mr. Perrault explained, however, that thee buttoas were about fifteen years old and he had changed his viewu fcinee. Now the Canadian independence league has hsued its platform and constitution, but has declined to pub lish its list of officer? and members. The constitution consists of eisrht- een clauses, which the first eight are: 1. DisHolutlon of the colonial rela tion of independence.' 2. New federation to be known as United States of Canada. 3. Provinces to become states with sovereign jower. 4. Federal authority to have only such jowers an shall be specially del egated to it by sovereign states. 5 No power shall be delegated to the federal authority except with the assent of the majority of delegates of each of the sovereign states con vened in a national assembly. 6. Creation of a state militia un der command of a federal officer. 7. Universal suffrage. 8. The great highways and servi ces (railways, canals, telegraphs, etc.) to bo public property. Others deal with changes in laws along socialist lines. SIDETRACKED THREE WEEKS. A Kailroad Knciooer Obeyed Ilia Orders to Iho Letter. Binghamton, N. Y., Special to the Philadelphia Times. "Side track at Hampton Junction, Pa., and await orders." ; That was the message Hiram Ad ams, an engineer on the Jersey Cen tral, a branch id" the D-daware, Lac kawatia & Western, received Decem ber If). There had been a small freight wnck on the line and it was thought best to switch his train in temporarily. After the first three hours went by Adams got hungry and went to a hotel. The day pass ed and no further orders came. The next day and nothing, then a week, two weeks, and finally three passed Adams was living in comfort at his hotel when he received a message to come ahead. After sending the order the train dispatcher forgot Adams, and when that individual failed to show up it was thought hewas sick at his home in Hallstead, Pa. Finally an inves tigation was made and the startling discovery came that he had been for gotten for three weeks. He has filed with the Delaware. Lackawanna & Western a bill for his hotel expenses and time and half time after the first ten hour on the siding. Ho says he did not report for the reason that once before he had asked ior iurtner oraers ana received a r a. . sharp reprimand for interfering in ousiness inai wa3 not nis. lie ac cordingly obeyed orders and now asKs me company to settle, saying the Brotherhood will back up his re quest. The Morganton Hospital. In an interview with a Raleigh correspondent, Superintendent Mur phy, of the Western Hospital for the insane said: "We have 750 patients. There are 400 applications on'file. This doesn't cover all the insane in the western district. I estimate that there are 500 such and that of these perhaps 400 are in jails and 100 in county homes. Most of these are kept at home. In many instances they are kept in specially built log huts, sometimes in a room the walls and doors of which have been strengthened. Not infrequently the head of the family has to auit hi work to devote his time and atten tion to the insane member of his family and thus pauperize the entire family, 'We want accommodations tor 400 more patients. We want $150,000 to provide such accomoda tions. We will only ask for.$25.. 000 for the maintenance of the ad ditional 400; which is only 160 each a year. That is cheaper than their people or their counties can care for them." . - Recruiting For Army. Washington, Jan. 19. Active re cruiting for the army, is in progress in all principal cities -of the country. Tne authorized strength of the regu- lar army at present is 65,000 men, and the recruiting in progress is with la view a maintaining it at the strength after the -discharge of the 35,000 volunters June 30th next ... ... . aii pnnsrmoiiTji gra - tnr t nruA ytcmiih I .it .. anu ine moer oi recruits averages about 2,000 a month. Corn Crop Tied Up on Canal. Norfolk, Va., Jan. 17. The para lysis of traffic on the Dismal Swamp Canal, owing to a break in a lock at Deep Creek, which is so serious that it will take months to repair it, has held up the shipment of the im mense corn crop of the fertile Disma Swamp alluvial lands. The canal is choked by many cargoes of corn. BLOODY BATTLE. HOT FEUDAL WAR IX KEN TUCKY. FIYE PECSCNS SNOT AMD KILLED. State Mtlltf Called Oat to QaeU taa IU tarbaac - Froa&laeot raaatUea Epr4 la taa Tmrnd. Lexington, Kyn Jan. 18. Colo nel D. Williams, with a composite company of 8 tale militia number ing eighty men, under command of Capt Henry Hutchison, with lku tenant James Dodd in charge of one section of Battery A, ten men with one Oatllng gun, left here last night for Corbln, In Wbitely county, the scene of the wholesale murder and riot of Wednesday night. The militia are under sealed orders from Governor Beckham and will report to Sheriff Sutton of Whltely county for duty in main taining order and guarding prison ers from mobs which threaten them. The tragedy which calls for the sending of troops was enacted Wed nesday when Kolla White, a young man of Corb.n, was stopped by the father of Mary Shotw 11, and in the difficulty which followed James Shotwell was shot, dying from his wounds There had been bitter feeling be tween Shotwell, who was a member of the feud faction which has clal ti ed many victims during the past few years, and young White Th father did not want his daughter to marry into the ranks of the en emy. Just wnat passea betweo the men is not known. White drow his revolver and fired a bullet Into the brtast of his sweetheart's fath er, wno leu unconscious to tne ground. White ran toward the stor of his brother, James White, and took refuge there. The Shot- wells area large family residing II many parts of the county. - The Whites summoned their friends and in a Jew minutes the town was in the midst of one of tb worst riots ever witnessed in h sm-tll town. The dead are: Jame vSnooweli, Susan Cox, killed by a niay umitib uuntig prumio uuu shooting, Sutton Farris, also kitlen oy a scray builet. The wounded: Uadley Bradley, wounded by an explosion; Percy Cooper, injured by the ex pi o ion. Unknown irav odng man, inj jrt d by explosion The Whites barricaded them selves in the store and prepared for siege. Deputy Sheriff Hitchcock entered the store and White sue rendered to him, but refused to bt i m . i . 1 mi IITLI. movea irom. tne pi&ce. J. tie w ii i l remained locked in the store until sight when a large stick of dyna mite was placed under the build ing. One end of it was torn to pieces ; by the explosion. The town author iiies were helpless to suppress the riot and telegraphed to Sheriff Sut ton at tae county seat. Sheriff Sut ton arrived on the scene at midnight and found White and two of bis brothers in a dark room in the store all heavily armed and well supplied with ammunition After some parleying they admitted the sheriff and his posse who thought it beat to remain in the store until morning. In the morning Sheriff Sutton, summoning a strong posse, left for Williamsburg with the pris oners who were accompanied by his brothers an friends During the entire night there was heavy firing from the direction of the Shotwell home, but the Whites did not re- turn the fire. The Cox woman and Sutton Farris were shot at this time Several others were wounded. Relativea of Capt. Pritchett Are Invest! sating- Hia Death in South River, Annapolis, Md., Jan. 17. The broiher-in-law of Capt. Zachariah Pritchett, of the bugeye Richard Smith. ofCrisfleld, Md., who was reported drowned from his boat on Tuesday of last week In South River, in this county, arrived here to-day with a detective. The deceased cap tain had $161 on him, and foul play is suspected. All of his crew are here in jail. Capt. Joseph Cain,, master of a Baltimore dredging boat, which was ying off South River on the night Capt. Pritchett disappeared, states that he heard about midnight cries of "Help," "Murder," coming from the direction of South River. Saner Kraut for the 'Kaiser's Army. Philadelphia, Jan. 1 The Ger man government nas piacea an or der for 2,400 tons of sauer kraut with the Meintner Bros. Co., of this city, to be shipped to China for use in the Kaiser's army. The contrac tors are here now preparing to ship the order, and the kraut will be for warded to the Pacific coast within a few days.. Eighty cars will be re quired for its transportation. Postmaster Accused of Robbing- Mail. Parkersburg, W. Va , Jan. 17. Tne United States grand jury yester day returned three indictments against L. V. Valley, former assist ant postmaster at Richwood, for rob bing registered letters. He is alleg ed to have stolen hundreds of dollars from Italian railroad laborers who were sending it abroad. - Telegrams Censored. Hew York, Jan. 18. it was an nounced today that .the Government of Venezuela on December 9th estab lished a censorship over all dispatches to and from the United States and it has been strictly in force ever since. EUTUI ITS FIRST MAUfM03. TV mmtm fUforsaaAory Vtmm rtrat A4v cal-l ia ta Alllaaoe by aator Ba Hickory Ti men-Mercury. One great question l-efbre the peo ple is, can and will the prcrnt Irg Wature eUb!ish in tne Bute a re formatory for young criminal. There bt not a more timely and humane rabject which the law-makers will have to consider. Thiols an Alliance question. It was flrvt mentioned, so far as we know, by the State A 11 lane la one of its Marions at Greensboro. We remember being on the committee to which the resolution favoring such an institution was referred, and that the committee reported unfa vorably on it. We shall never forget how Sena tor Butler, who was president at the time, took the report. He did not like it; and aa no one eb seemed to want to oppose the recommendation of the committee, he called some one to the chair and took the riour and we never heard a more convincing argument for anything than he made for the reformatory. The result was that when the vote wis taken, it was unanimous (If we mistake not) for the reformatory, despite the recommendations of the committee. Hence, Senator Butler was its first effecutual champion in the State. Now everybody says we mut have it if it is poHsible to do ho. Will we get it? WOULD PAY AS INVESTMENT. Senator Morgan Submit Flaaroa on le- aracnar Canal Traffic. Senator Morgan has submitted another report on the Nicaragua Canal. It contains a special state ment of Prof. Emory H.Johnson, a member of the isthmian commis sion, of the traffic resources of the canal, and its effect upon th com mercial industries of the Unite! States. Mr. Morgan says the state ment "proves conclusively that as an investment, the N.caragua Ca ail will earn a highly remunera tive profit on a c st of even $200, 000,000, which is the extreme esti mate of cost presented by the isth .nlan canal commission." Prof. Emory In his statement makes a number of statls ical esti 'iiat8 For tne year ended June 3J, 1899, he aays that 3.426,752 car o tons of United Stat. 8 commerce could nave used tn canal, and 3, 316 377 tons for South, Central, and d.Hish America, and 5,766 456 Eu ropean tonnage. The commission estimates that seven and a hlf million tons of traffic wdl be avail able for the canat in 19 U ; after the canal has been opened the traffic will increase to a traffic of 11,250, 000 tons in 1921. A dollar a ton is estimated as tuost feasible. The report says the effect of the canal on transconti nental railways will compel a re duction In rates which will be off set by the large local traffic. THE COAL TRUST. All Coal to be Sold Through -iogle Ag-ency. Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 18. Now that J. Pierpont Morgan has gained control of the entire Anthracite out put, the announcement may be made at any moment that the distribution will in the future be made through a single agency. It is estimated by so doing, a saving ot twenty-five cents a ton on commission will be secured. Tnis would mean . A. A X a total saving oi iweniy-iour million dollars a year. As yet it is not decided what company will take the agency, but it is intimated that the chances lie between the Philadel phia and Reading Coal Company and Iron Company and Temple Com nanv. It is believed that the latter has the best chances. Why Mayor Hunter Reslgued Hiawatha, Kan., Jan. 18th. Be cause a majority of the city coun cilmen refused to leave a revival meeting and attend the regular weekly council meeting, Mayor 8. Hunter has tendered his resigna tion. Unable to Stcure a quorum to transact business Mayor Hunter sent a sheriff to the revival to com pel the council men to present them selves at the city hall. A majority sunt word that they had tu attend the revival and could not como." Sew Orleans Camp Sends 8250. Check for Richmond, Jan. 17. In connec tion with news sent out recently that a Confederate camp In New Or leans had repudiated the action of its delegate, Capt. Walsh, in pledg ing the camp at the Louisville re union to subscribe $250 to the Jeffer son Davis monument fund, Mrs. Norman V. Randolph, chairman of the central committee of the fund, acknowledges the receipt of a check for the amount from Capt Walsh. In this letter Capt. Walsh says: In forwarding check have the satisfaction of knowing not merely that the promise made on behalf of delegates of Camp No. 1 has been car ried out, but that the comrades of army of Northern Virginia who served under Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee, have not failed to respond when the call was made to honor the memory of our great lead er, Jetrers n uavis " Bill Introduced in the Utah Legislature Aaint Polygamy. Salt Lake City. Utah, Jan. 17. One of the most stringent anti-poly gamy laws ever proposed was intro duced in the Utah Legislature yester day by Speaker Glasman ofOgden The bill provides a maximum pen alty of twenty years in the peniten tiary for any man found guilty o haying more than one wife. Ql CAPITOL SQUAtt. IrataUa Xoaaa a4 C i at. H. A. Ijondoo ha got an offic at last. I am glad of 1U The ofSc is a small on bat he U not vry bg hlmtelf. and Chatham rabbit will look WlM. Colonel Eagae Cox. of Pitt Co.. who four yt-are ago was a candidate for ICfgistfr of IMda on the -olg-icer" ticket, has landed aa Aaatat ant Eagruealng Clerk The hravy welf ht wm to b U . U. Jutl.ce and 11.0. Connor and Allen. Betnbardt, of Catawba collar fac tory, a harty good aoul la back and everybody who knows htm la glad. There are many new far con nected with the legislature, ard bow tbey are going to "chaw 'all they bite ia In the hereafter. The small Ikes with some mouth are plentiful and will do the ah jot ing off upon requisition. Wry like ly somebody has . told thorn what to say, but not when to atop eayltig It. It has come to paas that people -some do not understand the tongue of their country since we gjtso many public school good English is above par. Hon. F. D. Winston, the white supiwmacy enumerator of cenaue under Harrison, 1 present trying to take part. The Legislature did not meet un til the arrival of Mr. Settle Dockery How could It! Penitentiary affairs seem to In vite general participation. It would be well for some to study how to J keep out of it. Carraway and the same old hat are again In town. The newly appointed Attorney Qeneral has escaped notice. Smith, of Gates, the young p-o- pies' friend, has returned. Stubbs is perhaps the lazbst, best looking man In the Assembly. It excites wonder whether the Supreme Court Roportorlal peg fits the hole pushed Into better than the one lately pulled from. It is hoped that some of the aro ma of the guano pile will be brush ed away by the breezes from the oapitol. Mr. it. n. ttackett, or wiikes, is down luoking as if he had nut found what he wanted, and the s-ssiou of tne Legislature is most too short. Mr. F D. Jones, of Chatham, President of a railroad over tner as long as your arm. is here to get his franchise extended. Capt. C. M. Cooke, of Franklin, genial and jovial as usual, bobs up the same man he always was and we expect always will be un til earth takes its share of him. Thomas G. Skinner was here on his own business. TO REDUCE THE OUTPUT. So Say the Southern Hoalery Bplnnera Association. unariotte, jn. u., Jan. iv. At a meeting of the Southern Hosiery Yarn Spinners Association held here today, at which 150,000 spindles were represented In person or by proxy, an order for a curtailment of production was passed. Charles A. Adamson, President of the Asaocla tion, says this means an entire stop page of night work. If this does not bring about the desired amount of curtailment, an order may be in sued for the mills to run on short time during the week, but this h unlikely. In view of the the order for the curtailment of production all present list prices of the Southern Hosiery Van fir! n nova A oorknlo t Irkn o m afton, 4 Caa U syuiUUMO AOCTValaaSVU IV aaau- donedas prices are expected to in- . JT i aLa Another Big Trust. New York, Jan. 17. The Jour nal and Advertiser to-morrow will print the' following: "The first steps In the formation ofa 1200,000,000 combination of four existing steel and wire companies were taken yesterday afternoon at a secret meeting lathe offices tf the Federal Steel Company, attended by the chief representatives of the American Tin Plate, the American Steel and Wire Company, the Amer ican Hoop Company and the Nation al Steel Company. Large I nit at Ion Fee. New York. Jan. 17. The mem bers or tne :ew 1 org cotton ex change by a vote of 212 to 26, adop ted an amendment making the initia- tion fee in future $10,000 and limit- in(ka momhuRhin in Tort r now abont 425 members. Mem- berships in the past have cost about 5 000 ' Cablnet Dinner Cancellexl. Washinjrton. Jan. 17 Althoueh the President's progress toward re- covery from his recent attack of grip has been uninterrupted, It Is now probable that the official receptions announced for the winter, as well as the cabinet dinners, will be can- celled. Died ofa Wound BccelredlB the War Charlotte Observer. Mr. Robert Garrison, a well-known nft!on rf Afpblpnhtirtr muntv. and avPteran of the dvU war. died his home In Mallard Creek township, went to Washington last inursaay f a ninok- vptrdav aftcrnoanJ and delivered the certificate of North His death was the result of a wound nroliroH In tho war. thirtv-eiirht years aeo. . Mr. Garrison was 53 years old and leaves a wife and four children. His hndv will he interred in Mallard Greek church yard today. Toats item it a r auu: nrc A twmm aa UUaa mm Mary C la triaia Richmond, Va. lHptrh. While worktiMfi rtr tUr a hrwllrsf apparmtua In tb cha I of William and Mary CWWv WiilUma. lurg, ttalay, a bvy 4 tVtl at4 broke open tb tom-a of tu rrrat turn, rrvraling their Umraaod dat. In if of lhf Ury lm.lm rakrt only dut and a few frafftuefiU cf bunt rrtnalml. Tt w a rac ket that hadoocYCuataltM! tlMUly of um who mut puiltkml tW-r a goos taut In the ot)rr lay lb akrlc ltn of NorburtM lWrkrly, lUtriar1 lUudolph, or Itltbop Ma-liKl of Girgt Wyth, for only tb fuir. th memory of htirdnl and llvc Virginia i iroul( mere laid to r-l within the fairlaU of William and Mar. The leaik-n racket In thl io1 tomb had a!o crumble! r.tiduf, but the fthroud dral about tlx fig ure In gratvful folL though yellow with aire, wu in a taffet-t Mate of reMr-atiaa. A guard i at (ww laced over the tottit, tldara c'liaaid and orden el veil thtt no oue other than workmen t allorel to enter the rt of the iKilldlng pied by th tonilx. Aj wam aa -alble the toudai u lll Urvlred, and there L now no danger of any of the remain being dlturtal or rvtnoviil. A BIC FIVE IN CKAHAM. IHlo( Itoaaa. Mlllla? at or. lH-ac Mora and TUpaoaa Eicaaaa- M txaa About ax.lMtO. Burlincton, N. C, Jan. 1 Th moat disastrous fire that r visited Ora- ham occurred today about IS oVIwa noon. The Urge i room dwrll rc, occupied by J J. Snyder and know n the Hunter Uoi:. occupied bx th- M !' Brook as a millinery store, the sif.iiionn 1nijr store. Dr. lo InV office, Mebnand Mifbell. brokerajrr ofll-e, and a jren-ral storage rwini were entirely consumed m atwut an teMjr and a half. The origin of the fire i unknown, but it b-icin in an uptalr room of tii Hunter house. There i a stove with a fire in the room, but one was in the room t the time that the fire b'gn I lie wind was blowing furiously and before aitance could arrive the fire waa beyond control. The tl&meit spread from this h ue to Uie m II nery store of Midmi HriMks, and frm tliat store tiyimrnn,dru'st'rp. fe-prate efforts w-re made to nuiflic the flanira to the fir-t bu Idin, but al ;n vain 1'here was no means to ebi the flee rxcept buckets, and on f uch a day there was no hope of uccesa f lVristent work by the Iarr crowd prevrnted four hoiiea ront kuou to simmonn druif st ire fr.rn b ir- ing al though one known as the 1. K liar den's stand caught Are and burned through the boxing near the eaves. The Appalachian I'ark Would Prora a Uood IirMtnral. Richmond Diipatch. 8enator Pritchard'a bill makirg an appropriation for the porctiase of a region in the Appalachian Mono tains in Virginia. North Carolina, 8onth Carolina, Georgia, and Ala bama for a national forest reserve, to be knewn as the Appalachian Na tional Park, is a ommendabl meas ure. Ai matters stand, the wonder fnl aid beautif ol region in question ia rapidly being despoiled by the timber-bunter and other inspectors of the merely aesthetie. It should te preserved in its native grandeur and pictureaqaeneM as far as possi ble, and this preservation would tend to the material benefit of all contiguous regions, in the airest of the process of denudation now going on in the proposed park area. The Federal provision of national park lands in the West has prov- d a good investment, from the general busi ness pcint of view, as well as other wise. There is every reason to be lieve that a similar venture in the Appalachian region would prove fe - . - , a a. a nnU irS. aVaJi 2 'ae principle of the greatest good to West Florida Wants A-'abama to Adopt It. Pensacola. Fla.. Jan. 17. A dm I meeting of wet Florldlans was held I here lat night in the intern or an- nexlng west Florida to Alabama. I Representatives of nearly every coun I ty west of the Chat tachooche river were prenent. The proposition was I endorsed. The chairman appointed I a committee composed of two mem I bers from each west Florida county to present the question to the Legislature of Florida and Alabama. Initial steps toward onranizimr a West Florida Annexation Associa tion were taken. Democrats Expelled Frow Party For Voting For Qay. Harrisburg, Pa., Jan. 17. At a Joint caucus of the Senate and House I Democrats today, resolutions were adopted expelling from the party nd denouncing in very vigorous I language, mose iwiuuiiiie w no am- i . . i i ea ine vuay ivepu uumus u uw ur- ' ganlzation of the House and Wm. J- Galvin, who also voted for Mr. "I -v -STT Jl f Ia A at? A. Maay ior uniwa diau oenawr, Four Men Killed. I Norway. MJne. Jan. ISw Eour men were killed and several injure l in the cohiaion of two freight early todaj near Locke a tills. md train carriea a large amount of ezpl tsin-s. When the rains struck tiese expuaieu ne borninar embers were scattered for some distance. at U. v,. uecxwiin, oi iwaeigu, Carolina's vote to tne president pro I tm Of the Senate. I The Mount Vernon Boiler Mills I plant was destroyed by fire one night I last week. Loss partially covered by Inwiranoa. THE LAW MAKERS. N OUT 1 1 CAUOUNA STATE !.u;isLTrun most lurcnm nm iirtcsseta ' A13 PAUI8. Tk ' asl.as Mavrtla Mas Ms. fr W TstHm-Viw Krtl A i slls m tVraJtssa. Two bllrs of refwra! Intrrrat w !.! It the Nr-tiat Ve!rmalar rv- minx. onVrtsl by Squalor Oul er. of lUitKtub autbotlilrur Cam tcrvm to -u re land I a Wrwtevn Nurth Carolina fur tbs Atlablao Natur al Park, and tlx other by Nroatt IIetKlrrsjn, r-Jr tlx anMtvJ inetit to tb cte adi4ed by hw Iglslatum .f forbidding tha furniatlunof rsirathm utler tb laws tf this- Stats 1th a racial aUa-k of tmre than l,U"M),tKHi. A ltllKn was tktnl by two ator lUla-nam, (if lllalea. In lb omteeUl elrrt liMi c f Kmtvdy (Poiiit) va.CurrU (lwtxi.). Sen. Wiasl lntnalurl a bill to amend ths4er 31, lw !, re garding -jrat- ar1mrU cm rail nawls ami ateainUaU fin white and rtIortl rarv. H-nator ltru intntilool a bill to prohibit the sale f rlrarHtew In North Can. Una. K-n. Huiith: To aprorUte t0, 0ou fur tb i-ublic ahuli Mr. Mcl an, of Smtland, lctn duatl in the 1Ikj- a bill oYldiug that the State 1'riwm l ruij.jrTel to mauufacturt f-rtllir--r fr agricul tural iur Mr. Wliliart. of New Hanover, intrtalucil a bill to tnak find Mon lay lu St iUiu ta-r ltatr Iay. Kver eimv the I-gtalature haa l"n In wiwdoa tlw-n hare ben per on4 in th lolit-y of the "Houan who -'tiiil to bavH no othec ml as ion than makiiiC vulvar and unirmtle tuaiily rvntarks about th Pupullst arnl lUMitilU-an iiie-mUT. Mr. MMm, of Matllaort, rnm to a u.tion of rintnal rivllg( and mailn the ixiiij plaint that from the ba k of tlw lltiune, whs-re he Mat, It a almo-t iuiss4ble to ). r aome of the d-bate( r.r tli raakrAs dk, ou sxMint of th niuiuienU and talking f a-rxona In tlx lobby bai k of the- tw-abt. He Mid that dur ing the dirou-elon and voting on the bill to incr-a- tin Governor's xalary all ftorb of vile rpithrta liad -m applieil to hiiiiwif and the two Pop ulUt nietnUT- Jut In front of him, Imuw they voted agaln4 the bill. Accordingly, he found It nermnary to appeal to Uie Chair for irotllon while iMTforming hit djity aa a mem Ur of the Houie. THCKaDAT. Senate Mr. Ay cock, of Wajnr, Introduced a bill to rreaU a new 8tate Uzt book commlaalon and secure for dm In public school uni form text books. Ordered printed and referred to Committee on Edu cation. m BUI allowing commlaslonert of Iredell county to pay indabtednaas Incurred by building court boose: passed third reading aod ordered enrolled. Bill to incorporate the bank of Clinton; amended slightly by the committee and passed third read- Ing. Bill for the relief of the dangsr- ous inaace department or tne Htate hospital at Raleigh. (Prorldee for the payment of th six thous and dollars advanced by Treasury Worth, and appropriates sovan bun dred dollars for immediate necessi ty.) Passed third reading and sent to the House. Appalachian Park or Foresty Re serve BUI paaaed by both Booses and became a law. House.-Mr. W I Hard's bill which makes the first Monday In Septem ber Labor Day, passed its readings. Bill authorizing the commissions of Yancey county to levy a special tar, passed Its teoood reading. Bill incorporating the town of Apple Tree, In Greene county pass ed its second road log. Senate bill, appropriating $700 for Immediate support of criminal lnane and ratifies expenditure of 16,000 for the support of the crimi nal Insane during the past two years; passed all of its readings. FRIDAY. 8enate Mr. Travis in trod need 8enate bill, to provide four months schools In every county In North Carolina. Committee on Educa tion! Bills passed to Incorporate the town of East Lumberton. To allow the commissioners of Wilson county to issue bonds (to the extent of $15,000) to Improve county court house; passed second reading. To prevent obstruction of streams in MltcheU county locust pin facto ries. SKSATOR TRAVIS SCHOOL. BILL. Following is the text of the four- month aehool bll introduced in the rtenate Friday by Senator Travis of Halifax: An Act to provide four months school term In every county In the Bute. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Section 1. That tne sum of $200. - 000 be and the same hereby is ap propriated for the nee of of the pub lic schools of the Btate for each of the years 1901 and 1902. beo. 2. That said appropriation shall b paid ont to the several Convlnnad on Second PZ