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rntfV Paper is 4-1 Years Old rii CHARLOTTE, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1897. VOLUME XL17 NUMBER 2276 j i i i ti - . n n professional. Dr. W B. WakofieK n-;ii l,p n hiB Oll.Ci ai ;h' tuun try ,,..t n juiv i, i"- i'. 'i .1 in iy io on .j mi -t Ilia prat;Liv;c la w j jc( J-'iir ,;sc unU Hiroal. PR. GEO. W. GRAHAM, Otlico 7 West Trade St. !,., i.ce li railed lo Eye, Ear, Ni-se Rii.l Throat. " Apr 3, 1996 SBORNE, MAXWELL & U KEEK AN S, Attorneys at Law, , Oflirt' I and 3 Law Building. CM -", 58'J5 pj N PHARR, Attorney at Law, uilieo No. 14 Law Building. (JLA.RKSON & DULS, Attorneys at Law, OHUre No. 12 Law Building. )IiS. M'COMBS & GIBBON PhyHicians and Surgeons, (jtlh v: No 21 North Tryon Street. Charlotte, N. C. ,uu want toluok nice, send your i to the Line HI AULOTTE STEAM LAUXDliV VVj have the beet laundry in Norih Carolina, and gaarantee you strictly tirst-clasa wotk. Charlotte Steam Laundxy. No heller preparation can be made for the hair than HUGHES' QUININE HAIR TONIC. It keeps the Hair and Scalp in pel feet condi' ion all the tune Trial sizeS.j cents. R. H. Jordan & Co. Ktiimp Agency. Frescriptionists. Phone No- 7. When the Eyes I dome tired from reading or sewing or if ihe letters look b.urred and run together, it is a sure iadic tion tun are needed Consult cur expert Optician about your eyes. Examination free. Shell & Harrison, JEWELERS aad OPT ICIAN3, 40 H-iiitli Tryon Street, Charlotte, N. C NO) ICE TO STOCKHOLDERS. NOR IT CAROLINA RAILROAD GO , Secretary and Treasurers Office, I5urlingtn, N C, Jut,e 15, 1897, Tie forty-seventh annual meeting of H e bUtct- holders of this Company will bul eld iu Greensboro oi Thursday July Nil 1S(J7 S ock holders desiring to at tend can gel tickets for themselves and i Humiliate members of tbeir families (wife and children living under their Maf and who are dependent on them) by applying to the undersigned P. B. RUFFIN, 10 "t Secre'ary. JUST RECEIVED New Line of Jackson Souvenir Spoons. Garibaldi & Brun?, LKAHltfO JKWELEKP. "THE LIM! Only Complete Biography of the great Commoner. Written hv hwV.fiw frigid and law-partner, Maj. Clement Dowd. Chapters on different phases of bis life written by men iati m,t, wui, h crpat statesman. A Handsome Volume, 1116s- t rated with numerous Portraits of Senator Vance, the Van t'ainilv fiinl ntlipr views. Cum mav be procured at the the agents in each township. PRICE: Cloth Binding, $1.50; HUNDRED DROWSED. A PACIFIC STEAMER WRECKED IN THE INDIAN OCEAN. The Fate of the "Aden" at Last a Cer tainty A Tragedy of the Southern Seas. By Telegraph to The News. London, June 29 According to advices received today there is no longer any doubt as to the fate of the missing Pacific Line steamer "Aden," which left Yokohoma June 1st for London with . a number of passengers aud a valuable cargo. In is now known that the Aden was wrecked June 9 th on a reef near the island of Socotra, in the Indian ocean, off the eastern extremity of Africa. It is thought nearly a hun dred lives were lost. A number of her ( fficers and eight passengers were swept over board and drowned. The boat, loaded with passengers and sailors, left the ship June 10th. The weather was very heavy and it is feared the boat has been lost. .Other accounts say that nine pas sengers, three Europeans and thirty three natives of the crew were saved. Twenty five passengers, twenty Eu ropeans and thirty three natives of the crew, with all the officers are missing or drowned. A later dispatch says the Indian government steamer "Mayo" rescued th surviyors of the Aden at Beven o'clock Saturday, just at the time the wreck of the Pacific Liner was breaking up. They have been taken to Aden REPAIR CONFEDERATE MONUMENT- Mecklenburg Veterans to Meet to Raise Necessary Funds. -The Trip to Wrlghtsvllle. Mecklenburg Camp Confederate Veterans are called to assemble on Saturday July 10th to act on a re port of the committee who were ap pointed to look after the needed repairs to the monument in Elm wood erected by the ladies of the county to the unknown Confederate dead The base of the monument is in bad condition and immediate steps are necessary to be taken to repair the same as the longer the. matter is put off the more money it will take for repairs. Commander Hilton n aux ioua for a full meeting of the vet erans. . At-this time the trip of the veterans to Wrightsville and Ocean View will be discussed and all neces sary arrangements will be perfected. The date of the trip is July 26. The veterans will remain about one week. HUNG BY HIS HEEL8. The Queer Accident to Flying Machine Inventor Cook. By Telegraph to The New. New York, June 30. Patrick Cook, of Second avenue, was found hanging by his heels from the high bridge this morning by a policeman. Cook said ne had Deen experimenting with a parachute preparatory to trying an aeroplane flying machine, his recent invention. Me naa nung from the bridge eighty feet over the water for more than an hour. Newsy Notes From Croft. Correspondence of Thi News. Croft, June 29. Miss Sallie At well, of Mooresville, will begin a subscription school for email chil dren, at Alexandriana school house, on the 28 th. Miss Maggie Pope left this morn ing for Asheville. She goes on a visit to her friend, Miss Ethel Weaver. Miss Florence Barnes, of David son, visited her friend Miss Bessie Abernethy, last week. Messrs. E. A. Ranspn and T. W. Hunter, of Huntersville, returned from Erskine College last weel. J O Walker also returned from Green ville, S. C. Mr. Sylvester Christanbury of this place, has been critically ill the past week. His condition was un improved at last accounts. liev. J. II. Hankins disappointed quite a large congregation at Inde pendence HiJl, Sunday evening. It was his regular appointment and we presume he was unavoidably detain ed, much to- his congregation's rret. , iiev. A. J. Hanson preachea a- Huntersville A. R. P. church last Sundiy morning. He and his bride will remain there visiting relatives and friends until next week, when they leave for their future home m Tennessee. . OF VANCE. Charlotte News Office or from , : Handsome Jlorocco, 1 50. NEGRO LYNCHED. TROOPS COULO NOT HOLD AGAINST THE MOB. OUT Sheriff Asks for Troops to Guard the Jail at Woodville The Man Lynch ed Had riurdered a Farmer. By Telegraph to The News. Jackson, Miss, June 25. Lien tenant-Governor Jones this morning Al 1 1 . 1 . o wiiegrapnea Adjutant-lleneral Hen- ry trom Woodville as follows: 'The sheriff of Copiah county wants fifty men to guard a prisoner from the mob. Take all necessary BLeps io comply with the request. If my presence is necessary wire me." General Henry received another request from Crystal Springs, asking that troops be sent. The message stated that the guards could not hold out against the mob any longer. A telegram received later says the negro murderer was taken from the jail by a mob at 9:45 o'clck and was hanged at 9:50 o'clock The man lynched was charged with the mur der of a farmer at Crystal Springs A WAITING GAMF. That is what They say the Adminis tration is Playing with Spain. Washington, June 2G. The opinion seems well grounded that the present administration will play a waiting game for a while with Spain over the Cuban' question. When it is remembered that Con gress is expected to adjourn about tne middle ot July, that Woodford don't expect to go to Madrid till after that date, and that the change in consul general at Havana is still longer postponed, it is still evident that much of tho talk about the "Critical stage'' of things reached is founded rather upon hop 8 of Cu- b.tn sympathizers ihm upon anv outgoing from the administration headquarters. True there is a crisis but on capitol hill rather than the white house If the house can be held down till the tariff bill is out of the senate that will become it3 primary business, of course, till the conference is finished and the ea rolled bill is sent to the president. The senate may rant and roar, but in the game which is playing here now one speaker with his own code of rules is worth ten senates with out any rules worth mentioning. BUSINESS BLOCK BLOWN UP Terrific Explosion of Dynamite at South Scranton, Pa. By Telegraph to The News. Scranton, Pa., June 29. An explosion of dynamite early this morning in South Scranton seriously damaged the business block of Leon Oichefeski, a double dwelling block and single houses. The business block was blown to w . . 1 lilt piec s. in twenty-one nouses an tne windows were blown out and the plaster shaken from the walls. The shock was felt all over the city. ANTI TRUST AMENDMENT. To be a Feature of the Tariff Bill.- Its Adoption Probable. By Telegraph to The News Washington, June 29. It is ex pected that an anti-trust amendment will be framed in a day or two wnicn will provide for the punishment by fine or imprisonment of any person or combination who conspires with any other combination or trust to trade in any article protected by the tariff bill. The amendment, it is claimed, will be adopted July Wheat Takes a Jump. New York, July 26. July wheat went up with a rush this morning squeezing of the shorts. Armour, Pillsbury and their associates in the wheat corner are engineering the deal. The control of the corner is held in the West, there also is where the greafesi short interest is located. Exciting scenes were enacted. Debs to Start for New York. Chicago, June 26. Eugene V. Debs, expects to go to New York in two weeks to start the campaign of his "Social Democrats of America." The movement is growing rapidly, 35,000 it is said have become con verts to it- . The Queen's Public Thanks. London. June 28. The queen, through the press, expresses her thanks for the many touching proofs nf lnvaltv and affection she is receiving by letter and telegraph from all parts of the empire. a6 Miners Crushed by Rock. Valparaiso, June 27. Twenty six miner 8 have been killed by a fall of rock in the Labrar mines, in the province of Atacama. - Brokers to Keep the 4th. New York, June-29. Both the Produce and Coffee exchange will be closed next Saturday- and Monday, to' allow the brokers to observe the "Glorious Fonrthi" Very Successfully Killed. Auburn, N. Y., Jun 29. Wife murderer 'Kobert J. Powley was put to death this - morning at 11:25 o'clock in the electric chair. The execution was very g'uccessf aL' FATAL COLLISIONS. TWO CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR TRAINS WRECKED THIS MORNING. Three Wisconsin Delegates Killed and Thirty Injured In West Chicago Three Killed in a Wreck on the Van dalia Line. By Telegraph to The News. Chicago, Jane 30. Three per sons were killed outright and twenty, or thirty injured in a rear end col lision on the Chicago and North western ear y this morning, at West Chicago, thirty miles out from Chi cago, on the Galena Division. The killed are: Mrs. John God ding, of Appleton, Wis;" Miss R. Shifman, of Appleton, Wis; and an unidentified mun, supposed to be a tramp. The injured, as far as learned, are: Mrs M. M. Baird, Neenah, Wis; Miss Daisy Blackwood, Depere, Wit; Miss Alfred Fifei, Greenbay, Wis; W. H. Finney, Oconto, Wis; Mrs. Algernon Galpin. Appleton, Wis; Wymond Gibson. Sion, S. D; Mis3 Irene McAllister, Oconto, Wis; Miss Amelia McKay, Mrs. SJ B Marsh, Mrs. McKay, of Appleton, Wis; W. Mickelsetter and Mrs. Seymour, of Wis; Dr. E. A. Miller, ol Clinton ville; Mr. aud Mrs. Russell, Apple ton; Mr. and Mrs. Ripley and Prof. Williams, of Fond DuLac, Wis; Misses C. E. and S. C. Shipman, of Appleton; Michael Stletlerand wifj. of Fond u lac; Chas. Courteney, Bel videre. Ills. All were Christian Endeavor del egates who left Chicago last night en rrute for San Francisco. The trains were sections four and five of the Christian Endeavor special sent out in nine sections. Section five ran into section four, whicb left Chicago fifteen minutes ahead. No. 4 carried the Wisconsin dele gates twenty five hundred strong. No. 4 had to stop where the Free port line diverges from the main line. No. 5 came up behind at a great speed aud the shock of the collision was terrific. THE VANDALIA WRECK. Indianapolis, Ind., June 30 A dispatch from J. J. Turner, gen eral manager of the Vandalia rail road line, dated Terre Haute, says one of the Christian Endeavor ex cursion trains was wrecked at West Terre Haute this morning. The dispatch saya nobody was injured except three postal clerks, and their injuiies are not serious. Terre Haute, lad., June 30. It is learned that R. T. Sherman, of Indianapolis, a mail clerk on the St. Louis train, was killed and that W. P. Conn, of Indianapolis, baggage master on the west-bound train, was fatally injured. Sam Parkinson, mail clerk, and Frank Owens, fire man, weie fatally injured. DEATH OF AN OLD CITIZEN. Dr. n. M. Orr Passes Away After a Long Illness. Dr. M. M. Orr, one of Charlotte's oldest and most highly respected citizens, died at his home on Eist Avenue Monday night shortly befoie 11 0 clock. The life of this venerable citizen has been hanging by a thread for many days, the end . being momen tarily expected. He had been in failing health for some years. A stroke of paralysis about two years ago, coupled with rheumatism, hastened the end. Dr. Orr was born March 10th, 1810, being at the time of his death in his 88th year. The Orr home stead is situated in Mallard Creek township, about 12 miles from Char lotte. It was there Dr. Orr was born. Erly in life he decided to make the medical profession his life work. His family being one of the wealthiest in the State his edu cation was the best that could be had. He graduated in medicine from the old Philadelphia College of Medicine and afterwards located in Concord. It was there he met his vife, Miss Harriet Fox. They were married on the 2Gth of July 1848. To them were born five children, Mr. John F. Orr, Mrs, IL A. Ham mond, Mrs. Mattie Aycock and Misses Laura and Fannie Orr, all of whom survive him. Dr. Orr was a consistent member ot the Episcopal church. The fun eral, will took place Tuesday at 6 o'clock from St. Peter's Episco pui t'hiirch, the services to be con ducted by Rev. E. A. Osborne. The pall bearers will be: J. S. Myers, John Van Landingham, W W. Phifer, Dr M. A. Bland, Col. H. C. Jones, J. J. Gormiey, W. S. Mallory and L. W. Sanders. Chicago's Population, i,8a8,ooo. Chicago,' 111 , June 29. The, publishers of the city directory of Chicago, now in press and to be is sued soon, have made what they claim is a conservative estimate of the population of the city. They put the figures at one million, eight hundred and twenty-eight thousand. ' Bucklen8 Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for Cnta; Bruises, Sores, Tetter, Cbapp bkin Erupiious aud postiveiy uures Piles or no Dav veauiied. It is guaranteed to give perfect mfo tion or money refunded. j?rioe 25 cents per box. "For sale by Harwell & Dunn wholesale and retail. WITHOUT COMMENT WAS SENATOR HALE'S LOBBYIST RESOLUTION REFERRED. Senate Today Working on the Wool Schedule Sub-Committee to Re port on the Hawaiian Treaty. By Telegraph to The News. Washington, June 25. In the Senate today the resolution of Sen ator Halerelative to restricting the privilege ;of ex Senators on the floor of the Senate to those who are not interested in legislation atd claims, waa referred, without comment, to the committee on rules. - The consideration of the wool schedule ( was resumed at para graph 37yY relating to Aubusson, Exminster. Moauette tnd Chenille carpets, the committee rate being 6 J cents per vara ana I lorty per cent ad valorem . ' ' WORKING ON HAWAIIAN TREATY. The sub-committee of the senate committee on foreign affairs will likely report soon on the Hawaiian annexation t treaty. Committeemen Davis, Morgan and Foraker are quietly working since the treaty w&s Eent to t6e Senate. They favor ratifying the treaty as proposed by the State department with a few amendments. INDUSTRIAL TRAINING SCHOOL The Seaboard Air Line's Train Has Started on Its ilission. , Correspondence of The Nkwb. Aboard The S. A. L's Indus trial Train, June 28. The " Sea board Air Line's Industrial Train ing School is out upon its mission. The train consists of a locomotive, sleeping car, dining and kitchen car combined, four car loads of r ad- workiug implements, three cars of of canning, fruit evaporating, dairy ing, syrup making and agricultural implements, besides an expert gar dener, with a complete line of seeds that are adapted to this soil and climate, both for market and home consumption. The experts will explain how to rotate the crops aud get the bebt results which can only be doue by planting fresh seed that mature quickly. There will be aboard an expert dairyman from Pennsylvania who will demonstrate that as good butter can be made in the South as in the North, and at a much less cost, and that, after being properly equipped, there is very little trouble in making good butter. There will be several different methods of canning shown by vari ous firms, and also fruit evaporators of different make It will be demon strated that a fruit evaporator that will dry a half bushel of fruit in nice condition a dav, can be made by a fourteen year old boy out of an ordinary molasses hogsheat at a very nominal cost, and as the fruit season usually lasts 60 days there is no reason why every farmer should not evaporate all the fruit he needs, besides having some to sell. nstead of going to the store and buy ing uaiitorma dried truit at an exorbitant price. There will be a cooking school at each place, where pickling, preserv ing, canning, cooking, etc., will be taught by two experts from Boston Modern stoves, ranges, charcoal broilers and complete kitchen fur nishing will be shown. The work of road building will be in the hand3 of several experts and will be supervised by a government representative sent out by the United States Agricultural Department. Daniel Speaks for Cuba. Washington, June 27. Senator Daniel, of Virginia, was the chair man and principal speaker at a largely attended Cuban mass meet ing held at the Columbia theatre this afternoon. He declared that the condition of affairs in Cuba, was one of war with the sword, torch, dagger and knife. It was not only a condition of war, but a war ox murder and arson. Armour's New Enterprise. Omaha. Neb.. June 25 Armour & Co, of Chicago will erect an im mense packing house in South Uuia ha. The details have all been ar ranged and the papers were signed this afternoon. A tract 01 lami nas been nurchased adjoining the land bought a year ago. Another lar j;e tract lying west and north nas brea bought from the Union Stock Yauls Company, making in all about nit; teen acres. Georgia's Heat" Record ifrokea. Atlanta. June 27. All heat records in Georgia have been broken and a number ot fatalities turoagn out the State have resulted from the hundreds of prostrations repored. Two deaths have occurred in this city and more are expected. The thermometer registered 104 this afternoon and people were compelled to stay in doon. - A nurderer Suicides. " Hazelton, Pa., June 28 John Brandt, who was indicted for mur der and later released on a habeas corpus, shot and killed himself, a few yards from home this morning. His trial'was set for today. A Loan of Six Million Pounds. Madrid, June 28. The Spanish government has signed a contract for a six per cent loan of eight mil lion pounds to meet the expenses el the Phillipine war. It will be guar anteed by Phillipine customs. BODY IDENTIFIED. POLICE THINK THEY HAVE THE NEW YORK MURDERER. Victim Was a "Rubber" in Murn y Hill Turkish Baths, and Boarded With the Supposed Murderer's Husband By Telegraph to The News. New York, June 30. Four men called at the morgue this mornirg and looked at the hand and exam ined the trunk of the mutilated body which has caused so much mystery. They declared unhesitatingly that it was William Guldensnppe.the 'rub ber" at the Mun.y -Hill Turkish baths on Forty second street They said they knew the body because of its physical peculiarities and a scar on the index finger of the left hand. Guldensuppe had a felon on his finger and Dr.0 Casey, one of the four, said he removed it by an ope ration. Guldensuppe boarded with Mrs. Augusta Nack, a mid-wife, at 439 Ninth Avenue. Mrs Nack left htr husband, who is still living. Guldensuppe disappeared Friday morning. Mrs. Nack will be watched by de tectives while the officers are making a search for her husband. NACK ARRESTED AT NOON. New York, July 30. Herman Nack, husband of the woman in the murder case was . arrested at noon and taken from the bakery wagon of which he was driver, lie tried in vain to escape by lashing his horse. The Hagou is owned by a concern in Astoria where the red oil cloth was sold last week. Mrs. Nack is de tained by Capt. O'Brien, of the de tective bureau at police headquar ters. Nack refused to make any statements. DEATH OF MRS. MORRIS M DONALD A Young Wife and Mother Died Sud denly Yestsrda. The funeral services of Mrs. Mary L. McDonald, who died at her home on North Graham street Monday afternoon at 5:30 o'clock, took nla- e Tuesday afternoon at the residence at 5 o'clock Dr. J. W. Stagg, of the Second Presbyterian church, will conduct the services. The pall bearers were: Z. T. Smith. J. W. Ct-bb, E. H. Walker, S S. McNinch, D. C, Moore and W. F. Stevens. Mrs. McDonald was the "only daughter of Mr. J. N. Caldwell, of Newells. She was married to Mr. Morris McDonald in 1893 Three children were born to them, the youngest being only six days old. The deceased was one of - the best of women. To make home' happy was her chief delight. She lived for her husband and little children; a d their happiness, along with the religion she professed, was the sweetest of life's joys to her. The grief stricken husband and little children have the sympathy of the entire community. EIGHT TRAMPS BAGGED. They Came In on the Vestibule and are Now on the Chain dang. "I have never s?en"or heard of as many tramps in my life as daily pass through Charlotte." This expression was made by one of the oldest rail-roadei s in Char lotte this morning. The country around about Char lotte is infested with these wander ing sons of rest. When No. 38, the north bound vestibule pulled up at the Southern station last night, eight tramps made their appearance. Some got off of the front coaches; some from the trucks and one came sliding down from the top of oue of the sleepers. Mr Haney, the depot policeman, was on the scene and at once telephoned for a detachment of police to arrest the wanderers. The game was all bagged, eight being taken to the station house. This morning mayor pro tern Bre vard fiurd each $5. Of course they did not have the required article along with them, so they will be sent to the chain gang where they will assist the read commissioners in their arduous labors for a time. The large numr of this class of people is not confined to this section. From everywhere come3 the same report. A SUDDEN DEATH. M?ss Buffington, of Baltimore, Ex piies Alter Short illness. Miss Maggie E Buffington, of Baltimore, died at the home of her biother, M. L Yeager, West Seventh street, Monday evening at 7 o'clock after a short illness. Miss Buffington returned from Asheville about a week ago, the very Dicture of health. A day or two afterwards she was taken sick but none of her family thought serious ly of it as she had always been in the enjoyment of perfect health. Her condition rapidly grew worse until death came at the hour named. Loom is Goes to Venezuela. By Telegraph to The News. Washington, June 30. Frank B. Loomis, of Ohio, was nominated for Minister to Venezuela today. . m 1 ii "Only nervous" is a sure indication that the b load is not pare. Hood s ISarsaparilla - purifies the blood and cures nervousness. BIG STRIKE ORDERED will AFFECT 125,000 MINERS. COAL liners In all the Clreat Coal District 10 uay uown Their Picks Next Saturday.-Prospects for a Prolonged Contest. Hv Telegraph to The News.' Pittsburg,- Pa., Jnne 29. An order for a general strike of coal miners in this entire mining district has been given. The men are to quit work Saturday. It is estimated that a hundred and twenty-five thousand members will be affected in the coal mining con test of Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. The strike was ordered today by the officers of the mine-workers' union. The fight between the coal mine owners and the miners will be one of the greatest between labor and capital in recent years. The strikers are making extensive preparations for a long period of idleness, and say that they will be prepared to stay out for months. The mine owners say they do not care if a strike is ordered, as they have an immense supply of coal on hand, enough to supply all the de mand for months to come. THE LEATHER SCHEOULE. Before the Senate Today -House Ad journed Until Thursday. Washington. June 28. The leather schedule came up before the senate today. The duty on all hides. dry, salted and pickled, was fixed at twenty per cent, advaloruin as pro posed by the -finance committee, instead of one and one half cents ner round. The finance com mitten also proposed to strike out the draw back allowed on leather exported aud made from imported hides. Senator Smith made a speech in favor of free hides, talking over an hour. The house adjourned till Thursday. Washington. June 28. ReDre- sentative Crnuipacker introduced a bill in the house today to exempt from the civil service regulations, all places with salaries of $600 or less. A HUNG JURY. In the Case Against Officers of the Cigarette Trust. By Telegraph to The News. New York, June 29. An excit ing point in the trial of the officers of the American Tobacco Company was reached this morning when the crowds hung around the court of general sessions to hear the jury's verdict. After a hearing extended over twenty days, the counsel for the prosecution and the defence yester day delivered their last addresses, Judge Fitzgerald charged the jury, and at 6:15 o'clock last night, the jury was 6ent to considerate verdict. Unil two o clock this afternoon the jury is still out. It is expected it will not agree on a verdict. If so, without doubt there will be a . new trial. CROWDS GATHER TO 8EE HER. The Queen Arrives at Buckingham Palace. By TftlegTaph to The News. London, Eng., June 28. The Queen arrived at Paddington station shortly before 1 o'clock this after noon from Windsor. She was driven through Kensington where she re ceived the address of congratulation from the Kensington Vestry. The route was crowded with people, es pecially children who assembled in thousands to see the Queen. She arrived at Buckingham Palace at 1:30 o'clock. A CATECHISM CONTEST. At Gilead CburchYoung Men Fight Over a Cigarette. Correspondence of the Ntw. ' Huntersville, June 30. The A. R. P. Sunday school is to have a contest between classes in the r citation of the Shorter Catechism with the Gilead Sunday school next Saturday, July 3rd, at Gilead church. This will be a public contest and everybody is invited to attends It will take place about ten o'clock in the morning. A picnic dinner will be served on the church grounds. Rev. John M. Grier, of the Prtibyte rian church at Huntersville, will deliver an address in the afternoon. - A little skirmish took place on the streets yesterday between Luther Williams and Jim Alexander, in which Alexander struck Williams with a rock, knocking him down. A cigarette was the cause of it all. Rev. and Mrs. A. J. Ransom left this morning for Stanley to visit friends and relatives. Miss Emma Hunter" ha3 gone to Chester, S. O., to visit friends. Senator Daniel, in a speech for the Cubans, quoted John Sherman's speech of last 3 ear in which he as serted the right of the insurgents to recognition. OHIO DEMOCRATS. THE CHICAGO PLATFORM IS ENTHU SIASTICALLY ENDORSED. The Two Mala Ideas are a Declaration In Favor of Silver and a Rebuke to MarkHanna. B Telegraph to The News. Columbus, Ohio, June 30. Never has there been a more enthusiastic gathering of the Democratic hosts in this State than at the Democratic convention' today. There are ten thousand earnest men present from all sections. John R. McLean seems today to be in control of the con vention. The Silver Republicans have a committee here to effect a union and ask that a place on the State ticket be left for them to fill It is thought this morning that the Supreme Court Judgeship will be given them. Though differing on candidates, there is complete harmony on two points: 1, The platform must de clare for silver; 2, Hanna must be rebnked. Paul J. Sorer. R-bt T. Honh and John T. Welty were the leading uauujuates ior me governorsnip mis morning, but there are plenty of dark horses. The resolutions adopted declare for the Chicago platform entire, recognize the money question as the most paramount issue and ex press opposition to monom sial ism. PLANNING THE CAMPAIGN Educational Rallies to be Held in All the Townships. The campaign committee of the Mecklenburg Educatioual Associa tion met at the city hall this morn ing at eleven o'clock, Mr. J. W. Hood, the chairman, presiding. Plans for the approaching campaign for the extension of the school term were discussed, and the conduct of the campaign in the different town ships put under the general super vision of the following members of the committee: Prof. Gray, Huntersville, Long Creek, Mallard Creek. Prof Bost, Dewese, Lemly's. Prof. J. W. Reid, Sharon. Paw Creek. Prof. T. A, Sharpe, Pineville, Providence, Prof. L. M. McAllister, Steel Creek, Berryhill. Prof. J. Watt Hood. Morning Star, Clear Creek, Crab Orchard. A series of educational rallies are to be held in each township in the county, the first one being held in about ten days. These will be in tne the shape of large basket picnics at which the people of the several neighborhoods will gather together, and hear speeches from the leading speakers ot Charlotte and Mecklen burg on the subject of education with particular j reference to the August school tax election. Dr.; Charles D. Mclver, of Greensboro, president of the State Normal Col lege, and other prominent speakers from different parts of the State are expected to deliver addresses in this county during the campaign. The committee this morning adopted a resolution, thanking Thx. uharlotte News and The Meck lenburg Times for the offer of their columns for the use of the committee during the educational campaign. rrof. H. K. Keid and Representa tive J. Sol Reid will each write a letter on this subject for The News and Times. It is the intention of the commit tee to push the campaign from this time on. THE BIG RALEIGH EXCURSION. It Will Arrive at Charlotte at 10:30 O'clock Tomorrow Horning. Jim Young's big excursion from Raleigh will arrive in Charlotte to morrow morning about 10:30 o'clock. It is said that it will be the largest excursion of the season. The colored people of Charlotte are making ex tensive preparations to receive their friends from the capital. The First Baptist and Ebenezer Baptist churches will tender to the excursionists a reception at the park. Refreshments consisting of ice cream and lemonade will be in abundance. Mr.. Latta has made all necessary ar rangements to have the crowd taken to the park. A long line of cars will be at the station to take them to ths feast that will be in waiting for them. : la Other Countries. The British naval review 00 Sat urday was the greatest demonstration of sea power ever made. The United States cruiser Brooklyn was much admired by naval experts. Mrs. Margaret Olipbant, the nov elist, died in London, England, of cancer a few days ago. It is announced that the Argentine government will assume the debt of the province of Buenos Ayres, faking as a guarantee for its repayment the customs receipts at the - port of Laplatte. The middle of June cereal report for Prussia shoas that unusually good crops may be expected, espe cially of rye Some of the provinces, Silesia and Posen, for instance, are expecting to surpass anything known in twenty years. The condition of grew is improved. Senator Petti- i
The Charlotte Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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