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VOL. XXV. ucii; i mio ciunTrn Jumrnaryof the Work Done By Legislature. MANY RAILROADS CHARTERED. Thirty Counties Allowed to Improre Their Road The Important Beso- lntios Insurance Legislation A Mass of Miscellaneous Measures. The important laws enacted by the legislature are summarized by the Raleigh correspondent of the Char lotte Observer as follows: The Important Resolutions. The following are the most impor tant resolutions which were adopted: Requesting Congress to vote for the Appalachian Forest Reserve ani asking the Governor to go to Wash ington in the interest of that meas ure. Kndorsing the second Hague Peaco conference. Endorsing the Jarcestown Exposi tion, appropriating $20,000 more to it and allowing the Noith Carolina building to be sold and the proceeds used by the commission. Making a $5,000 gift to the cruiser North Carolina. Urging Congress to improve the upper Cape 'Fear river. Also urging it to prohibit polyg amy. To secure a change in the constitu tion so Senators will be elected by a direct vote of the people. Hills were passed eliminating wbis ey from the following counties: Jurke, Li neon, Catawba, McDowell, Madison, Cherokee, Maeon, Cabar rus, Cleveland, Rutherford, North ampton, Stanly, Scotland, Cumber land and Mecklenburg. Road Improvements. Thirty counties were allowed to improve their roads and very large bond issues allowed to be voted on for this purpose in the counties of Franklin, Forsyth, Durham, Rowan, Wake, Granville and Buncombe, ranging from $100,000 to $300,000. At no session of the Legislature have charters been granted to so many railways; the following is tho list; North Carolina Union, South port, Northern & Western, Raleigh & WinstonrSalem, Northampton & Hereford; Western Carolina, Bladen & Northern; Rockingham & Caswell; Randolph & Comberland; Graham County, Washington & Vandemere; Nantahala, Dover & Southbound; Tuckaseegee, Elkin & Alleghany; Virginia & Eastern Carolina, Virgin ia & Carolina Southern, Deep River & Fanners Creek, Alleghany & Pied mont Southern, Southwestern, Greens boro, Seaboard & Great Western, Mattamuskeet, Kinston & Carolina, Monroe & Southern,. Franklin & Smoky Mountain. Bills were also passed allowing Buncombe, Hender son and Rutherford counties to sub scribe stock for a competing railway betweeu Asheville and Rutherfcrd ton; to allow the consolidation of the Aberdeen & West End, the Ashe boro & Montgomery and the Jack son Springs railways; to allow the conversion of the Wilkesboro & Jef ferson turnpike to a steam or elec tric railway. - For Schools. In the way of schools and school matters, bills passed incoporating the Stonewall Jackson Training School or reformatory. To establish a reformatory. To establish a manual training school in the mountains. To establish a teachers training school in the East. A school of Technology at Spray. To aid the Elhannan Orphanage at Marion. To allow elections to be held in townships or school districts upon the subject of compulsory education. To require deaf mutes to attend the State school at Morganton and tt limit the attendance to North Caro lina children. To require 16 weeks attendance each year- of children between ages of 8 and 14 years. To provide a safe and adequate water supply for all schools, public and private. Creating a system of public high schools, the number for each county to be fixed by the State superinten dent of public instruction to be not less than one or more than four. Railway Matters. A great deal of attention was giv en railway matters, and -the follow ing are the important bills which passed: To fix the maximum passenger rate at 2 1-2 cents per mile. " To regulate freight rates and pre vent unjust discrimination":' To prevent public dringing in pas senger cars. To require railways to keep pas senger cars clean. , To allow conductors and station agents to ai'rest drunk, disorderly or boisterous persons. To allow railways to construct fcclt lines at towns. To require one director and one in corporator of all railways to be ftcit uen and resident of tbla State,: ,To alto' tho corporation commit iioa to require union depots in towns of 2,000 persons. ' .To require street railways to. pro vide separate accommodations for .negroes and whites. v To prevent stealings of goods , in transit, and also to prevent stealing f brasses -and oth.er railway proper- i . To greatly enlarge the powers of the corporation communion. Miscellaneous Measures. Other important bills of a mweei laneous character are as follows: To restore dentists to their former dignity as doctors. To allow judges and magistrates to exclude all persons except those con cerned in trials for felonious assault, to receive, bay, bold or sell real or personal estate. To regulate sales of leaf tobacco on warehouse floors and require re ports to the agricultural department To prevent usury and extortion. To extend for two years the tim for settling the Stat debt. To promote publie decency by pun ishing people for using indecent signs, writings and pictures in publie. To allow the Governor to appoint special police for water power, trans portation and construction compan ies. To provide for the care of the men tally deficient by providing special institutions for them. To prevent the sale of adulterated or misbranded foods, drugs, medi cines and liquors. To increase fhe number of State challenges in all cases less than cap ital. To allow the Governor traveling expenses. To allow judges to send criminal boys under 10 to the reformatory or county home. To extend the crime of vagrancy so as 'to include keepers or inmates of disorderly houses. To prevent and punish trusts and combine:'. To authorize the State board of health to provide for preventive treatment of tuberculosis by means of a hospital in Moore county. -To regulate the writing of prescrip tions by plrysicians. To proteet electiieal power trans mission lines. To require the penitentiary to pay it's ebt bonds of 1S0U, amounting to $110,000 and to pay $175,000 of its earnings into the treasury to go to the central fund. To separate tuberculosis prisoners. To require the commissioners of agriculture and the board of agri culture to be practical farmers. To require registration of trained nurses. To protect makers and dealers in mineral waters. To amend the law regarding remov al of cloud on titles. To protect primary elections and conventions and punish fraud there at. To pay half fees to officers andt witnesses where no true bill is found.' , ,To extend, time for obtaining land grants. To regulate osteopathy and create a State board of examiners. To protect hotel and boarding house keepers. To prescribe the hours of service for railway employes operating trains. To establish State board of equal ization for the assessment of real estate. To regulate the hours of the labor of children in factories. To amend the landlord and tenant law. To so amend the general road law that county commissioners can let the working of roads by contracts by sections. To enable the State to make proof of the possession of whiskey licenses, issued by the government in prosecut ing offenders. To iimit the poll tax to $2 in cities and towns. To provide for the display of the State flag on all court houses, schools and other public buildings. To exclude minors under 18 from pool rooms,- bar rooms, etc. To prohibit corporations from pre venting publie improvements by other corporations by preventing occupancy of land for right-of-way. To place all telephone lines under the coropration commission. To promote the oyster industry. To punish fraud in giving worth less checks, drafts and orders. To create the office of fish commis sioner. To require express companies to pay claim for loss or damage to property. . To secure immigration in North Carolina; appropriating- $10,000, half from the State, half from the agricultural department,' v To secure a statue of Zeb Vance to be placed in statuary hall at the Capitol at Washington. To fix the salaries of State officers and to. require fees to be turned into the State Treasury. To make general election day a legal holiday. To make the pension appropriation $400,000, an increase of $125,000. " There were bills of course, carry ing increased appropriations for all the State institutions, some forty in number. ' Insurance Legislation. A great many insurance bills were introduced but only : a' small percent age of these passed."' Those which did pass are as follows: v To amend the ReyisaJ by allowing companies having over $100,009 cap ital to invest the excess in such man pgr as tha insurance commissions approve?. . - To. reguiata the uso of the reserve of 'life companies by cllowiag it to ba used; for re-insurance, to bs avail able in ease of the. insolvency of the company. To define fraternal orders. To prohibit the application of the iron safe claus to buildings and fix tures. J '- To prevent tba diversion of fav&$ RALEIGH, NORT1I in insurance companies for political purposes. To require fire insurance companies to furaih blank proofs f loan in c&e they demand such proof. To regulate the form of life in surance contracts by requiring the form of all policies under .VX to be submitted to and approve by the insurance commissioner before the company can issue said policies, this act to be effective July 1. To allow the insurance commis sioner to employ an actuary and ac countant to calculate and check up the books of the insurance companies To impose a general penalty for all provisions of the insurance law for which no special penalty has been imposed. To provide for the volunteer fire sncn of the State in ease of injury or sickness, due to service at tires by levying a tax of 1-2 of 1 per cent upon the premiums of fire insurance companies, but in order to secure this the town must comply with the fire waste law. t To declare that the agent of a lif insurance company is the agent ol the company and not of the policy .holder. THE TRIALJT HARRISON Progress in Case For Kidnapping Son of Senator Beasley. Elizabeth City, Special. The trial of Joshua Harrison for the kidnap ping of the young son of Ex-State Senator Beasley began diere last week and is attracting a great deal of at tention. Mr. J. W. Poyner testified on Saturday. His testimony was along the line of previous witnesses, and dealt with the location and the search by which the prosecution in tends to disprove the drowning the ory. The prosetution produced more tan gible evidence when Mr. Millard Mor risette was called. He testified that' he was on the road the day the boy disappeared; that he met a mule,, and baggy going at a rapid gait (descrip tion of mule and buggy tallies with Harrison's) that he saw a boy in the buggy, light complexion, had on blue cap (Kenneth wore blue cap) ; did not notice man particularly.' His evidence was unshaken under cross examina tion by E. F. Aydett. Mr. J. L. Turner next testified that he crossed the road on that day in front of a mule and buggy and saw man- throw-blanket around boy. Spoke to man and called him. Mr. Turner saw boy's legs through crack in, cur tain; had on blue stockings (Kenneth had on blue ones.) A severe cross examination by ex-Governor Aycock failed to shake evidence. Mr. Perry next testified that he saw the mule and buggy on that day; the man had a storm blanket over a lump of something; heard a soothing voice saying, "Here, there;" believes voice was Harrison's. The cross-examination failed to.shake his evidence. Mr. J. J. Pierce next testified that he lived in Norfolk at the time; saw boy on the street car with two young men, one drunk; recognized him and said "Hello, Kenneth," boy never spoke; had not heard of boy's disap pearance at the time; communicated with boy's father. The cross-examination failed to shake evidence. Mr. A. L. Evans next testified that he heard Harrison say that Mr. Beas ley ought to be tarred, feathered and tied to a stake, and that he would like to apply the torch. At the afternoon session of the trial of Joshua Harrison, convening at 2:30 p. m., the first witness was T. Ju Baum, who said he had lived in Currituck county all his life and that he was well acquainted with Joshua Harrison. Witness said that after the disappearance of Kenneth Beasley Harrison spoke to him about the matter several times and would always broach the subject' as soon as they got together. ' Witness said he cautioned Harrison about his rash statements, to which he re plied: "It's catching before hang ing," and that he believed witnes was his friend and would swear to a J lie to save him; that some time after this witness and a colored man went to Harrison's for some wine and Harrison asked witness if he knew why Beasley was not going to the Legislature. Witness replied that he did not, whereupon , Harrison said : "Well, I do, I am responsible for it." Witness replied: "I will give you credit for it, just like I gave you credJfc for the disappearance of the Beasley boy." Harrison replied: "So, you give me credit for that?" Witness replied: "I do." "I will acknowledge then," said Harrison, "that I am responsible for it." After the prosecution rested its case Saturday the defense introduced a number a witnesses among whom were Joe Harrison, Tomas Harrison sons of the accused man, and his wife. Their evidence tends to show that the defense will try to prove an alibi Mr. Maithias Dudley and Mr. Mercer ; testified that they had met a mule and buggy in the road but did not know! the man driving; Were -positive it was nop tiarrjson, , v - . fratricide at Andrewi. - Andrews, X. C; SpoeiaWIn 39 ai fray near fcjre Sunday night Avery Pujbaan," aged 21 years, shot and in-; stantly killed ; his brother ElbeW Pullman. The diseased was about 30 years old, and when sober was an industrious citizen. Both young mc-u had been drinking" excessively, at the time of the trouble, and report Ua? : i CAROLINA. TU UBSDAY. MARCH 21. 1907. AN ANTI TRUST LAW Penalties Provided Por Trade Restraining Combinations COMPETITION MUST BE OPEN roll Text of the Measure, Enbradnj Amendments, Will eh Finally Pass ed the State Legislature. Following is the full text of the anti-trust bill as passed by the Legis lature, which has just adjourned, and the suplemental act, also adopted and ratified by that bodv: An Act prohibiting conduct within the State of Norjh Carolina whic! intereferes with trade and com- merce. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Section 1. That it shall be unlaw ful for any person or corporation to directly or indirectly be guilty of any of the acts and things specified in any of tha tub-sections of this section. (A) I or any person, firm, corpora tion or association to make a sale or sales of any goods," wares, merchan dise, articles or things of value, what soever, in North Carolina, whether di rectly or indirectly or through any agent or employes upon the condition that the purchaser thereof shall not deal in the goods, wares, merchandise articles or things of. value, of the competitor or rival in the business of the person, firm, corporation or asso ciation, msking said sale. (B) For any person, firm, corpora tion cr association to directly or in directly, wilfully destroy or injure r undertake to destroy or injure the business ef any opponent or business rival in the btate oi ISarth Carolina, wi'h the puropse or intention of at tempting to fix the price of anything of value when thecompetition is re moA cd. ' , (C) For any person, firm, corpora it en or association which directly or indirectly buys or sells within tho State, through himself or itself or through any agent of any kind, or as agent r principal or together with or through any allied subsidiary or dependent person, firm, corporation or association, as much as 50 per centum in quantity4of any article or thing of valnc-whicb?Ss"sold t-r bought in the State to injure or destroy or undertake to injure or destroy the business of any rival or opponenet by lowering the price of any article or tmng oi value sold, so low or by rais ing the price of any article or thing of value bought, so high as to leave an unreasonable or inadquate profit for a time and with the purpose of increasing the profit on the business when such rival or opponent is driv en out of business, or his, their or its business is injured. . (D) For any person, firm, corpora tion or association dealing in any thing of value within the State of North Carolina to give away or sell at a place where there is competition, such thing of value at a price lower than is, charged by such person, firm, corporation or association, .-for., the same thing at anohter place, where there is not sufficient reason for charging less at the one place than al the other, with the view of injuring the business of another. (E) For any person, firm, corpora tion or association engaged in buying or selling anjthing of value in North Carolina to make or have any agree ment or understanding, express, or implied with any other person, firm, corporation, or association, not to buy or sell said things of value within certain territorial limits within the State with intention of preventing competition in selling or, ' to fix the price or prevent competition in buy ing of said things of value with these limits, provided nothing herein shall be construed to prevent an agent from representing more than one principal. Bu nothing in this provi so shall be construed to authorize two cr more , principals to employ a common agent for the purpose of suppressing competition or -lowering prices. Sec. . 2. That any corporation, either as agent or principal, violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and such corporation shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than $1,000 for each and every offense, and every person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than $1,000 for each and every offense, and every person vio lating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor aud upon conviction, shall be fined not less than $300 or imprisoned within the discretion of the court. See. 3. That any person being either wkhin or without the State who encourgaes or wilfully allows or permits any agent or associates in business jn-this State to violate any of the provisions, cf this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and; upon conviction, shall be punished as pro vided in Scalioa 2 hereof, Sec. 4. That where i&a thisgi pro? bibited in lection eua of this act are continuous, then, in such event, afte? tfcs first violations hereof, each vresk that tba violation of such pwiri shall continue shalj ba a separate of fenses -.'.'--. " ;" Sec. 5. That the provisions of this aet shall not be construed so as to repeal of restrict tae common Jaw doctrine preventing'.-unlawful umbi nations io trade, which is bT 1 " 1 - - - . - " 11 - m m m enaetd aud deebml to U ta fall fort in this State tupt at mt be icronswteat with the tbfr ptTiiiesi ot tl$ er. f?ee. 6. That if u t nud in appear epoa SJavit u, asy toUeitor, It? affidavit osar be mde upon infer tuition and bejiff and when made, upun information and belief it LU ftaie the ground po whirl the ! dfvit i made aud if reasonable in th State that any corporation ha violated or i, violating any of thw provision of ihi get 'nldxi ih judi cial dislrift of mb Maeitort it hUali be it duty of suett solicitor to ap ply to a judg of such judicial dis trict or iud holding th courts of tush judicial district, for an order to cium such corporation, it ofikra and astute, or either of thesa. to ap pear before such jvkigt at a tims and place to be named by him, whih tim shall not b less than 5 days from the issuing thereof to show caus why aach corporation, its offi cers and agents or either ol them should not produce before such judge at a time acd place to be named, all the papers, books and records of such corporations and if the judge shall be satisfied- that such productions should be made, he shall make an or des requiring such corporation, its oiEeers and agents or either of them to produce all of its papers, books and records to be examined by auch solicitor in the presence of sucn judge. If any corporation, its offi cers, or agents, shall fail to appear or shall fail to produce such papers, books or records as may be required, he or it shall be guilty of a misde meanor and it shall be the duty of such solicitor to proceed to prosecute such corporation, its officers or agents The said solicitor in case of the con viction of a corporation shall be paid a fee of $200, to bo taxed against the corporation, and in case of the conviction of an individual a fe of $100 to be taxed against said indivi dual. Sec. 7. This act shall be in force from and after July 10th, one thous and, nine hundred and seven. In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the eleventh dav oi March, A. D., 1907. FRANCIS D. WINSTON, President of the Senate. E. J. JUSTICE, ' Speaker of the House of Repres entatives. Examined and found correct. -O. L. LTYER3J AN, For commit te?. Supplemental Act. An act "supplemental to a bill which has passed the Senate and House of Representatives to prohibit conduct in the State of North Carolina which interferes with trade and commerce. Whereas, An act of the General Assembly has passed the Senate and House of Representatives, entitled as shown in the caption above, and Whereas, Provision is made in the said act for investigation and prose cution for the offenses therein named, and Whereas, In said act it is not pro vided that a person subpoenaed to testify shall be immune from prosecu tion for or by reason of matters dis closed by his or her testimony, and Whereas, It may be difficulty, if not impossible, to discover or punish for crimes committeed in violation of said act if witnesses are permitted to re fuse io testify upon the ground that the tcsliraonj might tend to incrimi nate tho witness. Therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Section 1. That no person who is subpeonaed and required by the State to testify under the provisions of the acts posse J at the present session of the General Assembly, entitled. "An act to prohibit conduct within the State of North Carolina whiclrlnter feres with trade, shall be prosecut ed or convicted on account of matters disclosed by the testimony of such witness, nor shall the testimony of such witness be received or used in any court in any prosecution against him or her. Sec. 2. This aet shall be in force from and after its ratification. In the General Assembly read three times and ratified,' this the 11th day of March, A. D., 1007. v FRANCIS D. WINSTON, President of the Senate. E. J. JUSTICE, Speaker of the House of Repres entatives. Examined and found correct. WILSON, For th ommiitee. To Assist in Prosecution of Peonage Casec. New York, Specials It was an nounced that United States Attorney General Bonaparte has appointed Vlarance S. Honghton, cf this city as deputy United States attorney gener al to assist in the prosecution of the Peonage cases which the government is instituting. He will assist Mary G. Quackenbos, who was appointed an assistant district attorney seme time ago to take charge of the-cases. Mr. Houghton was formerly in charge of ihe criminal branch of the Unite? States District Attorney's ofSce ir thi$ city. JU&cb&aa A&ssintes Swtiihjtn and Two Otfcs? Woaea. Sm Luis Potcsi, Mci., Special Dispacies frsa Rio Verde state tbat a jirominent ranchman of tbat plaxa nemed Juan Futano assassinated bis sweetheart, the landlady and her daughter at the Louse where she was living. Jealousy is ascribed as the &oiye fo? the deedy mi RAILWAY RATE LAW fcH Ttxt cf Ot tttam Uaftf Fat&fr Fax u t'l-A cata fat Wailt railroad eUls and raiirea4 attorney art root havicf asjtfclaf to y about tht prcbab! artioa f tt transportation compact la rtfid to the new 21-4 oft rata adopt d by the General Atwtcfely, tU toliti U tronf that they will rsit tt la tat Federal courts on the ground tkat It ta eofiiUcatory. Indeed, it is atii that th matter will t taken up be foie the law becomes affective and there are many who expreee the opin ion tbat pusegenrt wil not ride e the cheap rate this year. The new law, which should go into effect the lit of July, follow! : "Tat I General Assembly of North Carolina de enact; Section 1. That no railroad com pany doing buftincftg as a common ear rier of passengers in the State of North Carolina, except as herein after provided, shall charge, demand or receive for transporting any pas senger, ajid his or her ba??a not exceeding in weight 200 pounds, from anjr station on its railroad in North Carolina to any other station on its said road "in North Carolina, a rate in excess of two and one-quarter cents per mile, and for transporting child ren twelve years of age or undtr, ona half of the rate above described: Pro vided, that the corporation commis sion of North Carolina is hereby au thorized and empowered to permit all independently owned and oersted railroad companies in North Carolina whose mileage of road is sixty miles or under, to charge a rate for trans porting passengers not in excess of the present rate fixed and prescribed for said road; and also to permit all railroads constructed within the twelve months preceding the first day of January, 1007, or at that lime in course of construction, for a term of two years from and after July 1, 1907, and also such railroads as may be constructed within two year? from January 1, 1907, to charge sueii rato in excess of the rate above piscrib cd as the said commission may de termine to be reasonable. A caarge of ten cents may be added to the. fare of any passenger when the same is paid upon the cars, if a ticket might have been procured within a reason able time before the departure of the train; and no railroad company shall be required to accept a single fare of less than five cents. "Sec-2. In the case that any rail road company operating as a common carriers of passengers in the State of North Carolina is owned, controlled or operated by lease or other agree ment by any other railroad company doing business in said State, the rat for carrying passengers thereon at prescribed py this act shall be deter mined for said railroad by the rate prescribed by this act for the rail road company which owns, oontroli or operates the same; and the North Carolina corporation commission shall publish the rates Hied by this act for the several railroad companies operating in this State, on or before the first day of June, 1007. "Section 3. Tbat mileage books of 1,000 miles in each book shall be kept on sale at such railroad ticket office in North Carolina as shall be named and designated by the corporation commission of North Carolina, and when such mileage book is purchased it shall be good in the hands of any person or persons named therein on all railroads on which the fare is tt same as or less than the fare on the road of the company selling such mileage book; and when the mileage is detached from said book by any other railroad company than the one which sold it, the said mileage shall be redeemable on demand by the rail road cqmpany which sold it. "See. 4. That any railroad com pany violating any provision of this aet shall be liable to a penalty of $500 for each violation, payable to the person aggrieved by such viola tion, and recoverable in an action to be instituted in the name of said per son in any court of this State having competent jurisdiction thereof.' And any agent, servant or employe of any railroad company violating this act shall be guilty of a misdemanor, and upon conviction shall be fined or im prisoned, or both, in the discretion of the court. "Sec. 5. That any person or per sons, except those permitted by law, who accept free transportation shall be guilty of a midemeandr, and upon conviction shall be fined or imprison ed, or both, in the discretion of the court. "Sec. 6. Tbat section 2G1S of the all laws and clauses of laws in con flict wit b this act are hereby repeal ed. "See. 7. That this act shall be in force from and after July 1, 1907." Teleirapbk Ticks. FUtcber Harris was seateseed at Danrfilt to two year in tb pad- Jexjiisry for robbing tbe dead bodj of w. pi. -xucisai, or gosiiaie. A continuous legal battle Jgaked tbe Tbaw trial, in whici DLstrc? .At torney Jerome was defeated on enarly all points. m The courts decided against ArtV hara fluef on several pojati, NO. 11. 4C04flESUSED Report of the Officer of the CRArS CCNflSSlGN A FAKE Uicrecptc ExacdaaUtti f fett rtcktd cs la Street menusg lewtag ItrewaJtrilU Riot &e Be yesd Doatt Th.it Ter Oa&a ef TUa Coop icy Were Uttd la Die caaxgtsg ill ef tbe Z3 SfceUa. Watington, SiaL t'e-ur ri&r from Company IV Tntynftlt !a fantry, r u4 in tb itrvntll affray if tbe otdtnanr df i-aitrarM f the army can ubtautite rrjri nt to tStc Mite committee in irali tary afTir rojicermni; the tnicn pic etaminatm f the "JJ hiU pkked uj in the trrtt if the t4 en the inoruinsr following tbe bowl ing. All of the rifle in tb pMia of , the baUlhou t Kiit IUwn n tb txifM of Aug. U wo wtit to tb pringfiUl aicr.l end twu bot were firrd from earn. Th h,ll ued fr then corcspaird with tbc picked up at ltrutwlle auJ tbe of. firem making the trt repotted tbat it h ben drmontred twyt 4 dis pute that four gun of Company It en UMd in diwharginj all of lhJ . 33 bell. The rfjKrt were tna!c a part of the committer record and Lieut. Hawkins f the ordinance depart ment, and C. A. SHtoiHT, eiprrt in jwetor of (taur ucd in the manu facture of mucket at the Springfield arsenel, are ready to po on the Maud to explain their report and be cr cxamincd concerning I hern. tiray, the negro lu " refrted in a Ualveton jiajx-r ! have given a version of the affair iiite different from other evidence, now Mates that hh confession wta fke. Flood Crest in Sight. Cincinnati, O., Seial. -With a stage of 01 feet it it believed tbt the crust of the Ohio river flood is not far away. f The river has been running out very fet because of a lack of overfull tie nt lower river point. IiOHicx cannot be given, al though tluy are heavy and xteu Kiev. The " present lb! ba- wino from unprecedented! heavy raiu on a soft sand soil, the result being an excessive amount of mud which hi settled on all flooded property. Per sonal aufferiug has not been cxce Kive on account f mild wether and although many thousand have been driven from their home :tbe situation has been bearable. Hciort t'nm up the river say that the wort i over at points above Cincinnati, although, the suffering of tbe homeless end un employed will continue several day. The Cincinnati administration h asked for authority to isae bonds for $150,000 for the relief of flood sufferers. Killed in Public Bosd. Charlotte, X. C, Special. With his skull horribly crushed nd bath ed in his own blood, the body of a young white man, 35 3-ears old, wa found in the public highway, four miles from Charlotte, by a negro farm hand at 9 o'clock. The negro said he beard two shots and the scream cf a woman. Invetigating, he found the murdered body by the roadside and a team standing near by in the road. Shortly afterward the sheriff, acting upon information of neighbor, arrested J. T. K. Kim ball, who live near tbe scene of tbe crime and locked him up, charged with tbe murder. Killed Han Who Bubed Home. El Beno, Okia Special. W. B. Rhea, a cornice maker, returned from Fort Worth Saturday nibt and Sun day afternoon walked into tbe confec tionary establishment of A. Newell, in the principal street of the city, and fired five bhot at tbe proprietor kill ing him instantly. Hhea stepped over and put out the powder fire in New all's clothing and tbr:r stepped out in the trc?t and srrt.nuc:el to the chief of pclire, yi:r:: "I wrabl kill end man b.r r.:ru"d tr.y limine.' Verdict cf Not Gnilty. Mi!le, Oa Spstbl. K. K. Hum phreys wa found not guilty of tho murder of J. R Danitl. The trial had consumed four days and wide in terest bad been manifested. When the announcement of the verdict wa received, Humphrey shook hands with the member of the jury and with Judge Bawling, also receiving tbe congratulations of maay of tbote who had thronged the court room. Quarantine Boca to be Balad. Washington, Special. Archie BoosmU'i condition is still icprov irtf ts4 Ssrgccs General BUtjr an nossaed that tbe qnarantina ratric tiona imposed on account 0 the boy 'a illness will be raised in a few days. Archie sat up in bed. Theo. Boose velt, Jr., arrived from Harvard and will remain at the White House un til after Easter, 1 bfn &ey bad been gambling. t
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