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"V 2ft,, V a f : I THE C At) G ASIAN. Vol. SANTIAUO CAMPAIGN STiikY OF ISATTLK BEING UN KAVELEI) BY BGHLEY COURT OF INQUIRY. SCHLEY REMAINS IN ICNORAKCE A.ln.lral Kvaoa Admit Schley Wu Kept lu Park About Secret Hlcnale Rlg-abee rail to Clear Mystery Intimation That Nampaoa Waa Warned Schlay'a llen1li Condact In Action. Washington, D. C., Oct. 4. The ,n)'''Ht? of theCoqrt of Inquiry t investigate the conduct of Ad miral Schley during the Santiago naval campaign are rapidly progress Intf. Ii the last four days eleven witnesses have been examined. The next important thing thua far de veloped it) that Information furnish ed by the navy department to Banjo Hi m and the captains of the four h outing ships In regard to the pres ence of the Spanih fleet in Santiago harbor were not communicated to Schley, although many of the offi cers of these vessels were in dally contact with his ileet. Hear Admiral Evans, who' as cap tain commanded the battleship Iowa during the Santiago campaign, was one of the moHt Important witnesses called. Ills testimony, covered the entire period from the time the Iowa Ittl the port of Key Went on the 2oth of May, 1898, until the 6th of July, when Admlal Evans testified he had a conversation with Admiral Schley concerning the battle of the :(i. lie described in detail principal battle off Santiago, also gave xirticulars concerning bombardment of the Colon on the and the the 1st or May. On his cross-examination by Mr. Itayr or, Admiral Evans said he had lett Key West with the Iowa for Cienfuegos on May 20, and that he knew before leaving that port that a secret code had been arranged for communication with the insurgents on shore at Cienfuegos, as Captain Chad wick had given him this infor mation. Then, did you inform Commo dore Schley that this system ol sig nals had been arranged?" 'I did not. It never entered my mind that he did not know it." Upon what ground did you sup pose that Commodore Schley knew it?" 'He was the commanding officer of the squadron." Admiral Evans also testified at great length In regard to the famous loop of the Brooklyn, saying that at one time the Texas had to come to a dead . stop because the Brooklyn was within 100 yards directly ahead of her. He nftlso said that official chart of the battle showing the Brooklyn not to have been closer than one-third of a mile from the Texas was absolutely wrong. ( ommander Miller read from the collier's law to show that the Iowa, the Massachusetts and the Castlne h id been coaled on the 23d and 24th. The sea on the 25th, he said, was nasty. On the 26th the collier was umkintrfrom 6 to 11 knots and the nea waa smoother. Vessels could have coaled that day. He had ob jected to having two battleships coal as they had a peculiar rolling mo tion and might have crushed the collier between them. In response to the court Commander Miller said he could have coaled any of the ships on the 25th, though not com fortably. Captain Theodore F. Jewell, who was commander of the cruiser Min neapolis, said that he had first fallen in with the flvine sauadron on the evening of May 26. Captain Lemey quoted from Admiral Schley's letter to the senate committee on naval af fair, dated February 18, 1899 say ing: "After having been informed by the scouts commanded by such officers as Sigsbee, Jewell and Wise, that, although they had been off Santiago for a week, they had seen nothing of Cevera's fleet since it left Curacoa," and a&ked whether he had given to Admiral Schley this infor mation or any other information concerning the Spanish fleet. The witness replied: "I gave him no information with reference to that subject whatever." Capt. Sigsbee, formerly of the Maine and afterward of the scouting ship St. Paul, testified that the first I08itlve knowledge of the presence of the Spanish fleet in Santiago Ear tor was on the morning of the 29th of May, 1898, twenty minutes after the Colon had been sighted in the harbor by Schley's squadron, al though he had been cruising off the harbor since the 21st of May. He did not give Schley on the 26th, wnen he first met that officer upon the arrival of the squadron, any defi nite information of the whereabouts of the Spanish fleet, although he re ported to him certain events which he thought ought to have Indlcited that the fleet was inside the harbor. He reported, however, that on the 23th he chased some steamers, which he thought were the Spaniards ap proaching Santiago. Admiral Samp "on, In a report to the Navy Depart ment, apparently quoted Capt. Sigs- as saying that Schley was block ading twenty-five miles from the harbor of Santiago. Capt. Sigsbee positively denied ever having made ucn statement. All of the commanders of the scouts have now been on the stand, w although all of them received dlipatch saying the Spanish fleet was reported to be In Ha n I a rn tor and one of them received the dispatch from the Department say Ing that the enemy were actually at antiago, no evidence has vet f.n r.rrI.,l . t a - r -vv. ,v uv mat n was com- r VCT vAJuiiuouore ckmley. On this point the case seems to have rZ . ' c. 9 8UPPosed that -.:.. gave his test!- ujuujr wie mystery would be clear! Tho Mr.rUI - . - . . I A .1 vea u,ae' ut o. llie III EMI ftl mitta- ukUk ria a rwwi.. I. a . It "uuuinu-u 10 me court, the a Bna prominent that the In- lormauon which the Navy Depirt ,11.1 . 4 . . . " . I - iui wuiev piiiiitiv i through everybody's flneers Instead oi Deing conveyed to him, as it Bnouia nave been. Thomas VV. Dleuaide, a corres pondent of the New York Sun, tes tified to the nearness of the Brook lyn to the Texas while thejoop was executed. He said it was a close shave." T t X a 1. i-ieui. vmmanaer bharp; form- ny commander or the Vixen, tes tified that at the time of the Brook lyn's loop he saw the Texas appar ently dead In the water. He would not vouch for the accuracy of the notes of the battle taken by Lieut. Harlow, of the Vixen. When ask ed If he remembered being ordered by Commodore Schley to report to Admiral Sampson that from smoke in the harbor It looked as if the Spanish fleet intended to come out, he said that he could not remember the occurrence, although it might be possible. He testified, also, that the New York arrived an hour and fifteen minutes after the Colon had surrendered. The Colon was the last Spanish ship to strike her colors. Capt. Sigsbee again positively tes tified that he never received or com municated to Commodore Schley the departments dispatch of May 20, saying that the Spanish fleet ar rived in Santiago harbor on May 19. Lieut. James G. Doyle was the first of the Brooklyn's officers to ap pear as a witness, and was called for both sides. He testified that changes in the Brooklyn's log, as to the turn made at the time of the loop, were inserted to correct palpable errors, and were made at the suggestion of Lieut. Sharp, of the Vixen. One of the most important epi sodes in Lieut. Doyle's testimony came just as the court adjourned. Mr. Ilayner had asked Lieut. Doyle whether the blockade as establi-hed by Gommodore Schley was main tained after the first of June, the date of Admiral Sampson's arrival. The witness answered in the affirma tive, and then Mr. Ilayner inquired when the circular from the blockade was commenced. Before Lieut. Doyle had opportunity to answer, Capt. Lemey, who from the first has insisted that Admiral Sampson must not be brought into the case, objected. The court immediately retlrea, ana in a tew minutes re turned with an announcement that all ouestlons as to the blockade off Santiago must be confin d to the arrival of the commander-in-chief, Admiral Sampson. The effect of this decision, of course, is to prevent Admiral Schley's counsel from showing to the court, as they had intended, that Schley's plan of blockade was satis factory to Admiral Sampson upon the latter's arrival, and was main tained by him for a considerable pe riod without change. Upon the reassembling of the Court next day Lieut. Doyle again took the stand. Mr. Rayner, coun sel for Admiral Schley, aaked: "What was Admiral Schley's con duct and bearing at the time either during the bombardments or during ine Dauie oi juiy o, wneu ma nip Was under fire?" "He always struck me as being Just about as well possessed as It was possible for anybody to be uhder those circumstances." Mr. Rayner then asked the wit ness whether on July 2, 1898, he had observed smoke coming from Santiago harbor over Zocopa hill? Caotain Lemly objected, contended that Such questions would be to open ttle gates for an interminable inquiry and if one side should enter upon such ouestlons the other side also must be "allowed to do so. They did not obiect except lor the reason of the time involved. - Mr. Rayner was then permitted to ask his Question, which he did in the following words: "Was the smoke observed on July 2, by Commodore Schley, commun cated to the squadron?" The reply was: "Smoke was ob served rising in the harbor on July 2. and my impression now is ana always has been since that night that that information was conveyed to the commander-in-chief." After describing the battle of San tiaeo and the chase of the Colon, Lieut. Doyle was excused, and the court adjourned. At this writing it seems likely that the Department will not can vprv manv more witnesses. If this turns out to be true, Admiral &Wey will shortly have an opportunity of presenting his side ot tne case, ine testimony against him has generally been very weak, and he ought nave very little trouble in refuting it. 1t is Important that those who co on excursions for pleasure or health should make some provls Ions against the attacks of bowel diseases, which not only cause them great inconvenience, but are some times fatal In their results. A bot tle of Pjrry Davis' Pain Killer is, ahkTA found. . a most effectual remedy against such attacks. Avoid anhatltntaa. there 18 Out one rain Killer, Perry Davis', rnce auu . . n i. . af. M RALEIGH NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY OCTOBER 10. 1901 WOUU UASQUEIACES AS A tUI Ur I 111., ft wM ItMUd "Mr. Hall" waa . Feaaale. New York.Hi.nr. nn ti,-.. ... , r u-;evruKB Blry oi a woman who preferred to !"- -or a man was revealed by the death of Miss Carolina Hall, of Bos. cabin passenger on the steam- sn,P ---ta JJl Terlno, which arrived irom Naples and nth-. tM.w, u., j .. w" y' a lDe passenger list Miss till innctKul o utr. m .... . 1UW "an,". ana with "him" on the . v i . . ... "P was Mrs. Hall. It was not un- 111 the former was stricken with """' iiiucn uirnL inn iniri'a unr. . .. f - supposed man was ivomn. tw lore that no one suspacted that Mr. uaii" was not a man and .h and nis wiie wera received as such. The 1 f a A woman addressed her companion as Tlaa TTolIM J i "my wife." The woman was 39 years of age I and la said to have been the onlv I "augnier oi a uoi. Mall, a well-to-do I 1 A . 0m -m. 1 retired army officer living in Bos ton. She was 6f slender build. me-1 mum height and with a short crop of light hair cut pompadour. She drewsed well and carried hereof with the air of a man. Her voice and gestures were masculine. After "Mr. Hall" was laken ill, the ship's surgeons were called In and then the secret came out. The patient begged that it be kept, but the sur geons were forced to tell it to the captain, who, however, did not dis close it to the issventv-flve cabin passengers. The surgeons said the patient was suffering with consump tion. The vessel docked at this port Sunday and the young woman died at 2:33 a. m., today. During the day the coroner's office was notified and a coroner's physician visited the ship and held an autopsy on the body. After this the other woman telegraphed to Col. Hall, in Bos ton. All day long in the saloon of the steamer, "Mrs. Hall" sat by the dead. She was there tonight wait ing for the dead woman's relatives to come for the body, She is an Italian of about 35 years and rather good-looking. She cannot speak English and did not seem willing to tell all the strange story. It was learned, however, that she had known "Mr. Hall" for some years and was well aware that her com panion was a woman. This evening a telegram from Al bert J. Hall was received abroad the steamship for Miss Carolina Hall, saying the sender would come to New York. It was dated Boston Highlands. It was learned tonight through the Italian woman that Miss Hall had resided abroad about ten years and that her companion; Guisseppina Poriania, had known her about three years. - She thought men could get along in the world better than women and therefore adopted male attire.- She traveled thus with the other for two years, and as she was an artist, went about the art centres painting and work ing at her profession. Being a good rifle shot Miss Hall is said to have entered several tournaments and won prizes. When she decided to come home sne ascea the Italian woman to accompany her. COLUMBIA WINS SECOND RACE Sncltah Boat Ontaatled From the Start to the Flniah. New York, Oct. 3. In the most superb contest ever sailed by single sticke's for the America's cup the unapproachable white Yankee sloop Columbia vanquished to-day in a snankin breeze over a triansrular course off Sandy Hook the plucky Iriah knjeht'a challenger. Shamrock I IT Th wind, from north-north- west, held true from start to finish, and at times had a force of about 18 knots. The Shamrock was beaten over the thirty mile course by two minutes and fifty-two. seconds actual time, and three minutes and thirty five seconds corrected time. The fastest race ever saile 1 in a cup contest, it was only a royal struggle from a spectacular point of view, but it was absolutely, decisive as to the merits of the two racing machines. There is not a yachting sharp who witnessed the race to-day who is not firmly convinced that the defender is the abler boat, blow high Or blow low, beating, reaching or running and that Sir Thomas and his nlerry British tars are doomed to return home empty handed. Tammany's Candidate, Shepard Nominat ed for Mayor. New York, Oct. 3. The Tam many convention to-night nominat ed Edward H. Shepard for mayor. The platform of the convention charges a brutal indifference of Be publicans to the city of New York. Republican legislation, it says, denies to the city the right of self-gevern- ment until it has minimized home rule in New York so much so that in many respects it has less control of its affairs than the humblest mQ- nd tne teUef L. t thrrinte come to remove that the time has come to remoyeiieved, while it waa engaged in an the tuestion of municipal ownership f)m tho spnere of academic discus- sion to that of practical application, Mr. Croker's slate was adopted by the convention throughout, the nominee for comptroller being Col. W. W. Ladd, Jr., and that for presi dent of the board of aldermen being George M. Van Hoesen. IT GIRDLES TRIE GLOBE. The tame of Bucklen's Arnica Salve, as the best in the world, extends round the earth. It's the one perfect healer of .nt. nnrnn. burns, bruises, sores, boils. I scalds, ulcers, felons, aches, pains and all sun eruptions uniy ibiuu pue J I or- . 4- sail n an trtnmtM cure. - r INSURGENTS ARE ACTIVE ISLAND OF SAM AR SCENE OF TRAGEDY. AMERICAN SOL DIERS SURPRISED. -ICSE CCUPANY AIKC3T WIPED CUT Smrrivora Report IMMaUr-AU tke Ofli eera KlUd-Bodte Horribly MatiUted -Oma. Harkea Prepaxlas to Attack Ia-anrcenU-Kativea Poaalbly Xneoaracvd bj Aaaaaalaatloa or McKlaW. Manila, Sept. 29 -A disastrous fight between United States t roc pi and insurgents "occurred yesterday in p1 ordered the police to prevent the Island of Samar. nnrRilinHn J Emma Goldman's lecture tomorrow O aww-l A large body of insurgents attacked Company C, Ninth Infantry, only twenty-tour members of the com- pany escaping. All the others are reported to have been killed. The company were at breakfast when attacked and made a deter mined resistance; but the over whelming numbers of the insur gents compelled them to retreat. Of the survivors, who have ar rived at Basey, eleven are wounded. According to the latest returns the strength of the company was sev enty two. Capt. Thomas W. Coa nell, Fiwt Lieut. Edward A. Bum pus, and Dt. B. S. Oriswold, sur geon, officers of the Company, are among the number killed. Late advices give horrowing de tails of the slaughter. It seems that the president of the town, claim ing to be friendly, led the assault in person. On hearing of the slaughter Col onelalsaac Derussey, of the Eleventh Infantry, started for the scene im mediately with a batallion. The body of Captain Connell had been tied at the heels, saturated with kerosene and partly burned. Forty five bodies had been burned in a trench, leaving seven unaccounted for. Tie charred remains of many were recovered. In many instances the bodies had been mutilated. Three hundred Macabebes will also be dispatched to the scene of the massacre on board the Legaepie, which is delayed by a typhoon. jDapt. Edwin V. Bokmiller, of the Ninth Infantry, reports that Gen. Hughes is assembling a foce to at tack the insurgents. The lnsugents captured all the stores and ammuni tion of the company, and all the rifles except twenty -six. News of the disastrous fight be tween troops of the Ninth 1 nfantry and the insurgents in the Island of Samar yesterday was sent promptly by Gen. Hughes, commanding that island, to Gen. Chaffee at Manila, and by him transmitted to the War Department. It reached the de partment during the early hours yesterday, and Adjutant General Corbin, realizing its importance, at once made it public, after sending a copy to the White House, lien. Chaffee's dispatch, which agrees with the Associated Press dispatch, is as follows: Gen. Chttffee'a Brief Report, "Manila, Sept. 29. I "Adjutant General, Washington. "Hughes reports following from Bassey, Southern Samar: United States Infantry eleven wounded have just arrived from Balanglga; remainder company killed. Insur gents secured all company supplies and all rifles except twelve. " Corn- PM-7 was attached during breakfast, morning September 28; company seventy-two strong; officers, Thomas W. Connell, captain; Edward A Bum pus, first lieutenant; Dr. R. S. Griswold, major surgeon, escaped. ,4CHAFFEE." Later dispatches from Gen. Chaffee confirmed the newspaper reports that the officers of the company I were killed. The news created a sensation in official circles. It was the first se vere reverse that has occurred for a long time. Still the officials were not unprepared for news of just this character from Samar, where the revolution started by Aguntldo still continues. Samar is a country about as large as the State of Ohio, and the American forces, of occupation number in all about 2,000 and 2,500 men. These are distributed among various posts in the island, a large number being located at the more important centers Ialand bat Recently Occupied. Spain never made any effort to occupy Samar, and it only has been for probably three - months past that the United States has under taken that work. The latest report made by Gen. Hughes to the War parunen was inasj uk 1 A A X 1 .1 . 1 i laJhOULl C3AA V AUiW VU VUV owm aaaaay gated about 300. The Filipinos car ried on a guerrilla warfare, and op erations against them were difficult. ' J? ft,n!?f- ' . The disaater to Company C, of the expedition to clear the country of roving bands of these insurgents. The fact that the Americans were attacked while at breakfast indicates the daring and pluck of the insur gents. Immediately upon receipt of the dispatch Adjutant General Corbin cabled Gen. Chaffee to send a com plete report of the fight and a list of the casualties. A well-known official of the gov ernment in speaking of this oat- break against tho "American forces in-Samar said he regarded it as conseauence of the assination ot President McKinley. In all proba blllty toe inmrpmts had received, he m1 J, only meagre r porta of the tragedy, and pwnlbly belkrved the shooting to be the result of come popular outbreak against the P resi dent. The natives had aeixHl the opportunity In l he flicker! ug bops of retrieving soma of their lust ground. Company C was a portion of the Ninth Keg 1 merit of United States Infantry which went to China at the time of the Boxer outbreak and which there performed valiant ser vice. Later the troops went to Ma nila and were engaged in provost f'uty in that city. Daring the part summer a batallon of the Ninth was sent to Samar. EttttA C0L0UAI I0T TO SPEAK. Mayor Ilarrlaoa Ordra That ftaa 8aa ureaaed Writee of CsaJcoes's C'ria Chicago, Oct. 2. Mayor Harrison m m . mm. . . nignt. me anarcnist organ, "rree Society," was issued today for the first time since the President was first shot. In it neither the mem ory of the dead President nor the grief of the people Is respected or een considered, the leading article, aTevIew of Czolgosz's crime, is by Emma Goldman. Anarchist Joaraal Barred from the Mall a Chicago, Oct. 2. Abraham Ieaak, anarchist leader and editor of Free Society, the most recent issue of which is ready for circulation, was today denied, at least temporarily, the use of the United States, mails for the scattering of his paper. He was told at the postoffice to file a new application, which would be referred to the postmaster and un til a ruling should bo received from Washington the paper will be rigor ously barred from the malls. The Epiecopal Convention. San Francisco, Oct. 2 The Trien nial Convention of Epis opal bishops, clergy and laity was inaugurated at 7:30 a. m., with the celebration of the Holy Communion in the local Episcopal churches. At 1 1 a. m., the Convention was formally open ed at Trinity church with solemn religious exercises. The convocation sermon was preached by Bishop Morris, of Ore gon, the senior attending bishop. The bishop quoted from a speech lately delivered by President Roose velt, at Denver, in which the then Vice-President showed how slow the statesmen of the early days of our country's history were to realize that the great West was lo become an inhabited and civilized land within any reasonable period. This ignorance was reflected in the Church. Opportunities were neg lected because of it and the conse quent loss to the Church is irrepara ble. TWO HANCED TO A TRESTLE. The Alleged Murderer of a Printer pat to Death bj a Mob. Shelbyvllle, Ky., Oct. 2 Jimbo Fields, aged 16, and Clarence Gar nett, aged 18, both colored, were lynched here early this morning for the alleged murder of Willie Hart, a printer, who was stoned to death on Saturday night, September 22nd. The boys were taken from the jail and swung from the Cando trestle within 500 yards of the jail. The mob went to the jail, and demanded the keys from the jailor, but he re fused to surrender them. The doors of the jail were battered down. The prisoners were remover almost be fore they had time to realize what was happening. The work was done quietly, and the mob disappeared without its members identity be- coming known. Hart's body was found in a house of Fields. path leading from the the mother of Jimbo Prince Cbsn Thanke the Kaieer for Hla "Gracioue Reception." Berlin, Oct. 2. Prince Chun, be fore leaving German territory sent long dispatches to Emperor ,Wil liam, thanking him for the "gra cious reception, extended to the ex piatory mission, for the hospitality and the decorations bestowed upon him," and expressing "a hope that the powerful German empire may promote the culture and develop ment of China by a gracious show of mercy toward the Chinese dynasty and that Germany will maintain the best of relations with ChinaV He had scarcely-' gotten away when news arrived that the Ger man mission station near Tiang Tong, had been devastated by re bels. The German consul at Canton immediately requested the Chinese authorities to take steps to punish the perpetrators of the J outrage. The latest information as to the fate of the "missionaries is that all but one escaped and reached Hong Kong, The Royal Month and the Royal Diaeaa-, Sudden change of weather are esp.cially trying, and probably to nnna mora Bn than tith.onmfnlnni and eonaumptive. The progress of scrofula daring a normal October Is commonly great, we never think of scrofula Its bunches, cutaneous eruptions, ' and wasting of the bodily subtance without tainkingof the great good many sufferers from It have derived from Hood's Sarsaparllla, whose radical and permanent cares of this one disease are enough to make it the most famous medicine In the world. There is probably not a city or town where Hood's Sarsaparilla has not proved Its merit In more homes than one, in arresting and com pletely eradicating scrofula, which is almost as serioas and as much to be feared as its near relative con sumption. C3TTC3 tZZf S2AU. Tea raiata avtaea Aaeraat Stta. Waahlngtoo, Oct. S. The moot li ly report of th sutbtkiaa of lh lVparttuect of Acrkmlture ahxms th avenge coodilion of cuttti September ii to have been 61.4 as compared vrlth 71.4 cm the 24th day of the preceding month, 67 on Oct. 1, 1900, 62.4 at the curmpoDdlnr date In 1899 and 70.3, the mean of the October average of the lat ten years. Rarely has so general an Impair ment of condition been reported as the department's various crop re porting agencies unite In heat log witness to this month. There U a decline of 9 points in Virginia and North Carolina, IS In South Caro lina, Florida and TwniMe, b In Georgia and Louisiana, 10 lu Ala bama and Arkansas, 22 in Mi-U- aippi, 5 in Texas, 11 In Oklahoma, 1 In Indian Territory and 14 In Missouri. The averagas of condition in the different States show reports as fol lows: Virginia 73, North Carolina 63, South Carolina 67, Geargia 73, Florida 65, Alabame 65, ML-al.Ippl 66, Louisiana 72, Texas 51, Arkansas 51, Tennessee 60, Missouri 61, Okla homa 57, Indian Territory 61. While the condition in Georgia and. Louisiana is still one point above the ten year averages of thot states, the reports from every other cotton growing State and Territory com pare unfavorably with the average October conditions for any consider able series of years. The extent to which the various States fell below their respective ten year averages Is as follows: Virginia 3 points, South Carolina 2, North Carolina and Florida 8, Alabama 7, Misslsuppl 4, Tennessee 11, and Texas and Arkansas each 18. The condition In Indian Territory is 9 points, and In Oklahoma 16 points below the mean of the October averages of the last five years, and that in Missouri 19 points below the mean of the last eight years. Austin, Texas, Oct. 3. Agricul tural Commissioner Johns stated to day that In his opinion the Texas cot .on crop this year will fall short at least 800,000 bales from the crop of last season. It Is estimated that the crop this year will not exceed 2.335,000 bales, due to the boll weevil and extensive drought in parts of the State. CUBA'S DISTRESS. Aake for Redaction of American Tariff ' on Sug-ar and Tobacco. Havana, Oct. 3. A procession of probably 20,000 persons marched through the streets here to-day to the palace, where a deputation en tered and were received by Govern or General Wood. The deputation. which represented all the industrial corporations under whose aupices the association had been formed presented to General Wood a tetl- lion to ine president asking lor a reduction of the American duties on uuoan sugar ana tooacco. in pre senting the petition Senor Gamba, president of the Merchants Union, said that the producing classes ot the country had come to ask General Wood to send President Roosevelt the petition they had prepared ask ing for concessions on Cuban pro ducts. He added --every knows that you know and appreciate the need in which Cuba is of a remedy for her bad economical situation. All the bankers of Havana joined in the petition and presented an ad dress on their own behalf calling at tention to the seriousness of the situation. Boers Fighting Desperately Durham, Oct. 3. General Botha's full force of 4,000 men made attacks on Forts Prospect and Itala in Zulu- land. The British foughv magnl flcently against overwhelming odds for nineteen hours. The Boers were J fearless and fought desperately. They gained the summit of Itala repeatedly, but were repelled each time. If was probably the news that uenerai uruce Hamilton was approaching that caused a cessation of the fighting. The Boers suffered heavily. Three hundred and thirty two of their dead were found and in addition they carried on a number of their killed. Theyadmit having three hundred wounded. In their rushes they were met with cold steel. Six hundred men under Emmett and Grobelaar .attacked Fort Prospect. They suffered beav ily. Sixty of their dead were found where they had been mowed down by a Maxim gun. At Fort Itala the British guns were put out of action. The Boers have never hitherto dis played such reckless daring, and their defeat is the worst smash they have sustained. STRIKES A RICH FIND. "l was troubled: lor several years with chronic indigestion and nerv ous debility," writes F. J- Green, of Lancaster, N. IL, "No remedy helped me until I began using Elec tric Bitters, which did me more good than all the medicines Lever used. They have also kept my wife in excellent health for years. She says Electric Bitters are just splen diQfor , female troubles; that they are a grand tonic and invigorator for vtreak, run down women. - No other medicine can take its place in in, oA, family." Try them. Only 50cxlCUsfkction guaranteed. fitVtiboUle today. - CCftMlUTI AWT TITUS. to ef ijai.r a-n i. Fnxa the aa ;WwUl The new a tale ratrertatcodeet cl pMk: lolroctiua c4Nurtlt Carolina, Thomas K. Tuoo, baa a vrry inter- etlng rt auoallty. He U tpuken of aa Cot. Tooq and a Gen. Toon, -fur h tra s culooet, tbea a trtcJlrr KeaeraL then ajtaln a rutooei. Tah im under an odd provtio that aa thot lied the appolntmeot of certain colonels a a temporary brigadier gen erals. Geo. Toon has platvd la toy hands a large pocket-book which he a tried on hla peraoo during the war. It contains hb cocuuiU4oo, alno the laat pay he rtvrlved, Ac. Ill notification aa to the brigadier gneralcy U written on a IrtW-r alfe aheet of very thin and pr Mpr, and la a a follow: Uetdu rura lrtarunrnt Northern Virsinia, Jaae 4. IM4 Kitrart hpe rial Ordrr No. Ill: lar rllote( oaoied office a htf lag brea appointed to the Umporarv raik of the pCnil oea indicated, are aifne4 to duly aa art forth: llrig. Get Tbtaa V Toa lo the temporary command of Jnhnttoa'a bncade, Rodea'dltiaion Ewe.l'e .orp.. bj command of Geo. K ML Ijm W H Ttiuii, A A Ge era!. hr.g Gen.Toon through Grn, Earlj. Gen. Toon had certainly aorulooel of the Twentieth North Carolina In fantry won his right to a generalcy. He became colonel July 25, 163, a appears by the fqial order of Geo. Iven-on: -H.'!. Thorns F. Tooa, Com-ny A, Twentieth N. C. T., having been by the hoard oi examiners of this brigade and re commended for the colonelcy of hi regiment, the Judgment of the board is approved and Capt. Toon la hereby directed to aume Immed iately the command of the Twen tieth N. C. T." He than "Jampl" the lieutenant colonel and major and several captains. His avoond commission as colonel waa date I May 30, 1664. He protected and the date was properly fixed as July 26, 1863. IIU letter Is sovered w ith Interesting indorsements and )gna tures, among thane of Gens. IUbert D. Johnston, John B. Gordon, R. F Lee and John Blair Uage, A. A. G in the officw of the Secretary of War. The commisnions are on letter sheets of blue iier. They beirln with the word "You are hereby In formed that the president, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, has appointed you," Ac. "We are appointing to the tem rary rank of brigadier general, P. A. C. 8., under act approved May 31, 1864." is dated June 2, 1864, and the rank Is from May 31. Should yoa accept you will report for duty to Gen. R. E. Loe." Gen. Toon commanded Johnston's brigade until January 28, 1865, when, a stated, he was recommis sloned colonel of the Twentieth, his old command. It in quite odd to near one comraue aaurfsa him as general and the next one call him colonel. Gen. Toon wan wounded three times at SharpHburg; firrt in the arm, then in the leg, but thexe two wounds did not check him. The third broke a lone In thu leg. One of the interesting things in his pock et-book is a Confederate railway pass; another a regular railway ticket. He was last year elected Mate u perintendent of public instruction, and Is devoting himself to the state's educational advancement. It is not every day a man finds what he's looking for, bat the fol lowing from the Knoxville Journal comes to us without looking, tor the sentiments were ours before. But as we, who believe in honesty In the ballot box are somewhat strangers in a strange land here In the south, it is very refreshing to know-that there are others who are subject to like passions as we and are not ashamed or afraid to give expression to their feelings: The Journal says: The man who will stuff a ballot box, who will make a false count of the votes cast by the people, who falsifies the returns of an elect ion, or who is a party to such things in any way, who seiecs election jomcULs to do puch things, or who falls to pre vent the crimes when he has the power to, or who accepts an office that comes to him through such In famous methods, Is as much an enemy to his country and to its free institutions as the assassin who fired the shot that took the life of Wil liam McKlnley, and robbed the nation of its chosen and beloved president. This is no extreme statement, bat the plain, universal 4ruth. Chatham Citizen, Sept. 25. What is tne amerence between a "South hater" and a "North hater?" If one is a scoundrel, pray tell as what the other Is? For either to talk about the other,- Is a case of "the kettle calling the pot black," and displays more gall than brains." -Hickory Times-Mercury. To Skeptical Asthmatics. The truly marvelous cares of Asthma which have already been effec ed by Dr Budolph 8c biff mann, -certainly call for notice. His . preparation. (9chlffmann's Asthma Caret not only, gives In stant relief in the most stubborn and obstinate eas s but post tl rely curesC in proof of which har what the town cleric at Cavalier, N. D.. Mr W. rJcrems says:. i was troubled with asthma for 20 years about o y-ars ago started to use voor Asthma Cars, and have not had an attack for six; years." richlnmann's Asthma cure can be obtained of rll Druggists at 50c and $ LOO per package, or by writ ing direct to Dr. .Schlffmann Box 804, Et. Paul, Ulan. NO 43. PR017LERS AT TOO KIHI.Ii OX II Y THE AT THK IUXTUX rmiEiL til ni SUP- S9U.lt II SUttlBIT YAESAL r aaa lnwail aa mtm (Won. ft hla, hr4. A tran-s atery mturm to-eight from West Laan CVtuetrry, where a ruaBjauir of reguhti trow Fort Wayne, Mktv are guatdlnf tbe an!t lo whkh the tvaly of the Ute Prealdeut Mekt&W Ilea. H la to tha enVet that the gaard um duty on top of the vanlt ml a hot at one man, who rrfitard to hewl hl challenge, that the ahot waa diverted by another man aU app-ared from another direction, and that an efltart waa ntaLa to stab the guard Military regulation prevent either the officer or the men f the pot from being quoted on aoy matter connected with their a-rvloe, and fur thl reaaon Capt, 1 ltd. lie, mho lain command, waa obliged to derllne to be quoted at the camp to-olxht. He will make a full report to hla mt- eriors at once. Reliable authorltiea made the fol. lowing atatement: Wau-a4 ram Tmrnmtf Mtaaaaa. Private Deprrnd wa on ruard duty on top of the vault at a point commanding lite entrance below and the approach from the rear, and the man apruacbed from the rear. Khortly before 7:30 he mw what be took to be the face of a man peritg I rum behind a tree about forty fnet from his port. He watrhod It for twenty minute, be mv, and at 7:45 saw ti.e man harry to a tree ten feet nearer. lie challenged the man to halt, but this waa col herded. and the fellow approached nearer. Depreod leveled his gun and aim ed to shoot for eftYrt. but lut at that instant another man who cam toward him from the opposita aide taught the gun, threw it up. and the bulht was spent In the air. This same niaif at ruck Deprend on the right aide of the abdoineu with a knife r other sharp weapon, cutllnr an L" gash In his overcoat an Inch and a lialf long each way, and a smaller one In hla bloune. The flesh was not broken, but was bruised under tin ruU In the cloth ing. IVrend In the struggle fell and rolled down the aide of the vault. Lieut. Aahbti ige, officer uf the day, was In frout of the vault, snd ruhed to the top on hearlog the shot, but the men made go- d their esxape. All inroUr of the ram- piny on iwariug the shot hurrfcd t$ th vault, and betldm suarchlog the cemetery, the guard was Increaaed. One Mta VTaa Maah A. Deprend Is s recruit, enlisted In New York four montlas ago. Ha Is said to be an excellent aoldler and to have a fine record with his officers. ' He says the man who attacked him was masked, but that the first oum he raw was not masked. He aaye the hitter carried a white tackage In his right hand and something that glittered In his left. Since the Incident stories have been told in campof some Invndlary con venations overheard In the crowds that have vl-ited the ceme- tery, Including one to day alleging that some stransrer said: -Lots of people would like to see this - whole thing blown np.w There are seventy soldiers at the cemetery, twenty of whom are con stantly on guard duty about the vault and camp. ITKCKECnX MEIUA. Man who AeeealteS a ChU4 Ilaaaaa to a ' TaArtrraah Pmo la I ha Maataaa Cftj. ' Helena, MonU Oct.' 2 James ' Edward Brady, the man who assault ed Ida Pagftley, five years old. In Helena, yesterday, was this morning. about 1:30 o'clock, taken from the Jail, by the mob and hanged to a telegraph pole In the Iiy market - Square, about three blocks from the jail. The crowd was orderly and after the man had been hanged It quickly dispersed. There were about 200 men en gaged in the affair and they were all raee mmm a4 rr4 S hmm tea Altre4 ay I Mta. f WaaWaS mHiia Rata) JeaS lluti masked. They attacked the Jail- -door with a battering ram, and It . soon yielded. On gaining . admit tance, they demanded at the point of a gun the keys of the Jailor or threatened if he did not yield the - man they woo Id kill nlm. -The jailor then got the man oat of his cell and he was given to the mob. When they first took him Brady said: "What is It, eentlemen?" The march to the hanging place' was quiet. Brady was 'given , a chance to say a word He declared. that they had the wrong, man, al though he had been positively ideo- " tiffed by his victim and a 'score of fjther persons who had seen him' with tD chUd. He also asked that some money that was doe from, the, , Montana Central Railroad be sent to a niece and then he was pulled up.' The end of the rope was' tied .to a' -pole and the crowd dispersed. Later Sheriff McConnell cut the body downy . and placed It in a coffin. There will, be an investigation. ! n I! L i I I I h i " i ' i It U" I. i" .If r'. 1 ' ' if in if ' t 1) i A . A-