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: : $f 711 4r VOL VIII. Lib i CHARLOTTE. N, C THURSDAY, APRIL lisirt NO. 433 98 The Value of Constancy. T'jp constant drop of water Wears away tho hardest stone; Th constant jarnawof Towser Mast Sorites t lie toughest bone; Tne ooii.-hhiii owing lover Carries ofr the blushing maid; And tfce constant advertiser Istiic ne wligets ihe trade." FARMERS' COLUMN 0 P I'EU Harden Soed for one cent." J j 1). Colli:'. Tl-A K Minorca egf-3 for hatching, ;0o a l sett inir or throe settings tor $1. 20N s. K to-eU street. j.lt if An r, your ruf?ry painted for $5.C0 a I 1 ire V Meuim'B, corner Fourth and Cliuivh streets. 2ft-d2t-wlt iMK SALE-Chattel Mortgages, Deeds, P Mortvape Deeds, Trustees Deeds and other letral blanks at N'fws& Times Printing' House, 25 S Tryon street. 25-6t-d&w. VOTICE 1 rorbi-i any one from hiring or employing Sam Parker, as have hired iiim tor the vo ir 1N7. If any one hires him in the Stite I will collect his watres until his tune is out with me August 1st 1897. T. W. Mann, Mint Hill. N. C. 23-tf IOR S ALE Crop liens printed and for sale : at the Nkws Sc Times office. dxvr THE Merchants and Farmers National Bank, OF CHARLOTTE. Accounts both lartre and small solicited Interest paid on time deposits. We want your patronage. J. H. McADEN, President. JNO M. MILLER, Jr., Cashier. GARDNER'S LIGHTNING FLUX It Drops is the only remedy known that has never failed to cure any ca?e of llux, dysentery cholera morbu, A-c. For sil by R H Jordan & Co , and the Chu lotte F ru Co Prepared by J. F. GARDNER, apl 1 Hornet, N. C. l,50O Bushels Choice white corn, being ground at Star Mills and sold at RETAIL for 45c. per bushel W. M. CROWELL, Manager. Great Southern Detective Agency, CHARLOTTE - - - - N.C. All legitimate defective work done well at reasonable rates. Best of refer ences. 2-18-6m The Model Restaurant is the place to get a good hot dinner for 25c Fresh fis-h and oy?ters always on hand. Hamilton & Link, No. 221 West Trade Street. YOU i WANT Employment. 'ANT a vacancy filled VANT Information. WANT ! Send 5 cent3 in stamps and we will tell you how to get it. Addres, Southern Employment and Intelli gence Bureau, HOI Fayetteville Street, Raleigh, N. C. Since the change in our Pusiness Methods we notice a wonderful increase of customers. Asking why, the answer comes true and plain that every one wants the most for the money. Every one purchases where all things are een wlike to ail and goods are sold closest. Cash counts in this generation. What planter is it that does not know cash buys a horse, wagon, land, fertilizers, cheaper than credit, then why not DRY GOODS? It does s.ive dollars on your year's dry goods bill. Alexander's entirely new stock of staples, dress goads, silks and notions is worth your seeing. Ladies' waist, sepa rate white collar 503. and up. Fine Grenadine skirt well made "and wide, 3.70 up. Sheeting 81 inches wide 1 7c. 1- 153. Sne quality seamless black ho-e. 50c, the best corset at pricj in Charlotte. Percales 5c, She, 12-k 0 heviots for everlasting dress skirts 1 0c. yd. WoVf Trad Street Cali hrv.ise. Pa- the- f;T?ger Tj?h. P.y TfV-.rrr.r-;i to The News, St. Paul. Apnl i The Missis-;:-!!.'i river pas -ed. the danger line this morning, but is still rising. All the residents of the West Side have been driven to fchig ground. HIGHEST OF ALL. ' , ! SOMETHING ABOUT THE NEW TAR- IFF BILL Rushfd Through the House, "Sight Unseen." North and East Get the Benefit of, it All. Means Higher Prices. Staff Correspondence of the "News. , Washington, D. 0 , March 31. The house votes tomorrow on house bill No. 379 entitled, "An act to provide revenue for the govern meat and to encourage the industries I of the United States," and commonly known as the Dingley tariff bill. 1 The present extra session of the fifty-fifth coDgress convened March 1 15th, and the proposed tariff bill i was reported from the committee on ways and means four diys later. This important measure has thus been rushed through the House in ten legislative days. It covers sixty three closely printed pages and em braces about seven hundred sections and sub sections each one of which affects some industry or product. From this one can see with what haste the measure has been rushed through. As a matter of fact, the bill was framed by Chairman Dingley and the Republican members of the com mittee on ways and means, and they, and they only know how and why the schedules have been fixed. THROUGH "SIGHT UNSEEN." The truth is many items are going through without discussion, the com mittee is giving no adequate explana tions, and the measure is going through the house to most of the members "sight unseen," as school boys trade jack knives. The bill is an avowed protective measure, as its title indicates, but the protection, as usual stretches oyer the North and East, and leaves our part of the South in the cold. NOTHING FOR THE SOUTH. For instance, cotton ties that are free of duty now are taxed eighS tenths of a cent a pound. Cotton bagging, admitted free of duty under the Wilson act, is to !' taxed j a cent per square vard and fifteen per cent ad valorem. , Wool that, now comes iu free is to be taxed eleven cents a pound. This seems little now, but when the aver age man comes to buy his next win ter's clothes he will feel it in the price of the suit. Senator Pritehard has made one mighty stroke for the State; he has secured protection for our mica, to the tune of three cents a pound and fifteen per cent, ad valorem. That's all we get out of this tariff. And that benefits about 162 people in two counties. In many of its schedules the Din gley bill is higher than the extreme McKinley tariff. It is the furthest step in the direction of protection. And though the tariff was not an issue in the last campaign, this bill will make itself remembered in higher prices. The Republicans themselves do not believe it will restore prosperity. In our own Southern section how can higher prices onhat we have to buy and lower prices on what we have to sell, make us more prosper ous? For the wall of protection isbuiU around what we buy; but what we sell must fight for itself in the open markets of the world. John Wilder Jenkins. HIGHER THAN M'KINLEY. The Rates of the Tariff BUI Now Pend ing in Congress. By Telegrrarh to The News. Washington. The Sensation of the tariff debate today wa3 the onlaught made by Richardson, of Tennessee, upon the bill. He read from comparative statements pre pared by the chairman of the com mittee and seated boldly that the present bill will tax people a great deal higher than even the McKinley bill. Twelve out of fourteen new schedules contain rates : higher than the McKinley bill. Great Strite. New York, March 29. A strike of ster.m fitters in this city, in which khveen 30,000 and 60,000 men tnny be involved, wr.s declared tcday when over 1,100 steam fitters rt fused to go to work. The strike is the result of a practical lock out on the part of the bosses. DIXON IN CHARLOTTE THE N0TrD NEW YORK DiViNE !N- TERVIEWED. He Thinks That in the Coming Elec tion Tammany Will be Victorious--Mayor of Greater New York. Rev. Thomas Dixon of New Yorkv was a passenger on the South' bound vestibule Monday. He wab en rente to Macon, (ia., where he will deliver his famous lecture "Modern Babylon" iu that ciiy tonight. A News reporter had about a ten minutes chat with the noted divine. He says that the people of New Y"ork are very happy over :he pas sage of the Greater New York Char ter and that it will be a great and lasting beneQt to both cities. Right at this juncture the coun tenance of of the famous preacher changed and an expression of deep regret was pictured thereon when he began to tell the reporter of the wickedness and political degradation into which Tammany Hall had fall en. "But," said Mr. Dixon, it is very evident to my mind, notwith standing the coruption that exists within this organization it will con trol the politics of these two great cities Their organization is won derful and they will make a desper ate fight to gain their lost political prestige. "Who will be elected mayor, asked the reporter." Well it is entirely too early to make any predictions. The Republicans are pushing ex-governor Levi P. Morton but he will not be elected as I have said before that Tammany Hall wiii name the next mayor." Mr. Dixon tells a reporter that he is coming to North Carolina in the fall and will spend some days with his relatives at Shelby. His mother and father celebrate their golden weddiug this fali and there will be a reunion of the Dixon fam ily. From M.icon Mr. Dixon will come back to Chester where he lec tures tomorrow night. From Ches ter he goes to Darlington, Florence and other South Carolina towns. FIERCE COMBAT Gen. Hernandez and Gen. Rivara Have a Stubborn Fight. -Many Killed. By Telegraph to The News. Havana, March 29. General Hernandez while operating among the hills of Pinar del Rio, encount ed at Cabezadaz, a party of insur gents under Gen. Rivara. The Cubans-occupied a strong position and fought stubbornly, but after several hours they were defeated and dis persed being unable to withstand the heavy cannonading and the muske try fire of the troops. It is reported that Maj. Gen. Rivara and his chief of staff, Col. Bacallaio, were taken prisoners. Lieut. Terry was badly wounded by a fragment of a shell. General Rivara is said to be suffering from three wounds. The In -urgents car ried some of their dead with them and left ten on the field. THE FLOODS IN THE SOUTH. High Water Doing Lots of Damage Through Mississippi and Arkansss. By Telegraph to The News. Helena, Ark., March 30. The situation today is "worse than ever before. The river is still rising and there is a stiff gale. FLOODS AT GREENVILLE. Greenville, Miss., March 30. A levee broke at Mound Landing, 15 miles north of this place this morning and the water is very high at Greenville and all towns west of De?r Creek. Many hegs and cattle have been drowned. Thousands of acres of the most fertile lands in the Delta that have already been planted in corn or ready to be rjlanted in cotton will suffer. Death f f Gpti. Win. J,. KeJdy. Richmond, March 28. Gen.Wnf. L.' Reddy died in ManchtSterxounty this morning. Deceased was' one of the last commanders 'of the Stone wall brigade. He represented his county (Wythe) in the State Senate; was at one time superintendent; of the penitentiary, and later command ant of the Lee Camp Soidieri' Heme near this city. SITUATION GRAVE. i MASSAOSE OF CRETANS AND AR MENiANS FEARED. Turkish Army Preparing to Advance --Austrian Troops Off From Trieste --Fighting Near Suda Today. By Telegraph to The News. j Constantinople, March 26. j The ambassadors of the Powers real I . . ' . . j ize the gravity of the situation in Crete, and the danger to the Cretan Christians as well as to the Ameri cans They are today considering the advisability of recommending to the Powers, they represent that a Euro pean Government of some kind be appointed for Crete, and that the Powers at once require the Turkish troops to be withdrawn. ' TURKS PREPARING TO ADVANCE. Salonica, March 26. The Turkish consuls are leaving their posts in, Thesraly. Siege artillery is going to the front. This augurs an advance of the Turkish army. CROWN PRINCE TAKES COMMAND. Athens, March 26. The Crown Prince will start tomorrow morning fGr Thessaly, where he will take command of the Greek troops. FIGHTING NEAR SUDA. Canea, March 26 The Cretan insurgents have burned the Mussal mans' property at Fort Keratidi. Skirmishing proceeindg about the village of Ersikaraiyioutside Suda, this morning. AUSTRIANS GO TO CRETE. Vienna, March 36. A battalion of Austrian infantry left Trieste for Cn te today. Part of the men will be stationed at Suda, the remainder at Crete. BOMBARDING GREECE. The Situation Looks Worse Today Than Ever Before. By Telegraph to The News. Paris, March 31. It is an nounced here this afternoon that the powers have decided to proceed with a partial blockade of Greece at an early date. Canea, March, 31. The Chris tians since yesterday have bombard ed the Block House above Izeddin Fort, which together with the for eign iron clads replied with shells. The bombardment continued until eleven o'clock last night, and was resumed this mornign. The result is unknown. TO CUT OFF WATER SUPPL A Detachment of Mixed insurgents Try to Famish the Gr s. By Telegraph to The News. . - Canea, March 29. A mixed de tachment of French, Italians, Rus sians, and Turks, under command of a French captain, has occupied the fortress Butsuuaria, which pro tects the springs that are supplying Canea with water. ' Thev have attempted to cut ( ff the water supply. Twelve Tuiks Ai d One Gt-rman Killed. Constantinople, March 30. Three reports from Turkish head quarters at Elassona correct the fighting already taken j lace on the Turkish side of the frontier. Twelve Turkish soldiers, and one German officer were killed. Lniz Jury Fai'a to Agree, Baltimore, Md-, March 26. The jury in the case of Dr. Joseph Luiz, on trial in the United States Court for filibustering, after being out all nisht faiied to agree. The judge sent them, back again morning to deliberate further. this Scott Gees to Faris. Washington, March- 26. The nomination of Edgar Thompson Scott, of Pennsylvania, as second secretary to the embassy of the United States at Paris was sent to thec Senate today. Hiust Havo a Quorum. By Telegraph to The News. Washington, March 29. The house op osition tcthe tariff bill was resumed there policy to delay today. The minority decided that the ma jority must furnish a quorum. NO. 36 WRECKED. A BAD ADGiDENT AT BELT JUKG HON, GA. Engine, Baggage and Postal Coaches Derailed List of Those Who Were Injured. Train No. 36, due in Charlotte at 9:10 o'clock a. m., came to gnf at Belt Junction this morning at 1:20 o4clock. Switch engine, No. 1395, in charge of Conductor Beach and Engineer Warnell, were shifting ,cars -on the main line at about the time No. .36 was due. In attempting to go into the siding some of the cars broke loose and ran back on the main line. No. 36 came along at this time and a side-wipe collision followed. The cars of the switching train were par tially on the main line and on the switch when the accident occurred. The engine, postal and baggage cars of No. 36 were derailed. The accident was about 6 miles this side of Atlanta, B$lt Junction being in the fifth division. As soon as possible the passenger coaches and sleepers wTere run back to Atlanta, where a new train was made up. It will reach Charlotte sometime this afternoon The injured are S. L. Wallace, engineer of No. 36, slight bruises; Robt. McBride, colored, firemen, bruised about head and limbs; Neal Upson, brakeman on the switching train, bruised about body; Frank Clement, baggage man on No. 36, was also slightly hurt. No. 36 was in charge of Capt. C. F. Marshall. He was not injured in the least. This is the second accident this crew has been in in the past ten days. News readers are familiar with the close shave near Blacks burg last week. M Kl LEY REWARDING HIS FRIENDS A List of Prominent Appointments Sent to the Senate Today. By Telegraph to The News, Washington, April 1. The Pres ident sent to the Senate today the following nominations: Andrews D. White, to be Ambas sador to Germany. W. F. Draper, of Mass., Ambas sador to Italy. Benj. F. Butterworth, of Ohio, Commissioner of Patents. . Wm. B. Howellj of 2few Jersey, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treas ury. Col. Fred D. Grant, of New York, has been offered the Assistant Secre taryshipof War. MORGAN ON CUBA. He Introduces a Resolution Declaring That a State of War Existed There. By Telegraph to The News. Washington, April 1 Senator Morgan introduced in the Senate tc day a Yf solution declaring that a state of war existed in Cubji, but that this government preserve strict neutrality. He gave notice that he would ask .he, consideration of the Senate tomorrow. Senator Allen offered a resolution protesting against the summary ex ecution of General Riviera, the cap tured leader of the Cubans. Sena tor Hoar objected to its considera tion and it went to the foreign rela tions committee. The Senate went into executive session to consider the arbitration treatv. Gen. LeeNotlji' Washington, Y 31. The State Department declares that Con sul General Lee has not been granted a leave of absence to take effect April 15th, as published, or on any other date. General Lee has not nsked for leave, and no action look in rr to his relief at Habma or to the acceptance of his resignation has been taken. For S. eretarits of tlia Treasury. By Telegraph to The News. Washington, April 1. It is offi cially announced thar, O. L. Sp-iuld-ing, of Michigan, and W. Bt Howell, of New Jersey, have been decided upon for the assistant secretaries of the treasury department Tne nom inations will probably be sent to the Senate today. Both are experts on custom matters. CAME HEAR DEFEAT. DINGLEY TARIFF BILL SAVED BY tk RULING, Democrats Had a Majority of tht House When Lanham Offered ait Amendment Killing the Bill. . By Telegraph to The News. 3 , . Washington, March 25. The Dinglev tariff bill came near being- lost in the house today, and it Was. rescued onlv bv a technicality. Consideration of schedules of the tariff bill in detail for the'purposeof s , amendment began today, when thfr house went into committee of tha whole, and the clerk was irstructed to begin the reading of the bill. MOVED TO KILL THE BILL. Renresentative Lanham, of Texas offered an amendment in effect kill ing the Dingley bill while the Dem- ocrats were in a majority in the nonse: this morning. This caused conster nation among the Republicans. By the partisan decision or onair man Sherman, the motion was do- : clared ont of order and the bill thr& saved. . Representative Dockery then of fered an anti-trust amendment. Chairman Dingley rose in defenca of the bill as it stood. - The chairman declared him out of order. Doings at the Ca pit r. Washington, March 31. Then was a small attendance in the house this morning. Voting on the tarirt bill will begin at 3 o'clock this after noon. Large crowds are in galleries. Grosvenor presented the commit tee amendments about which . there, has been eo much discussion duriDg the past few days. It names April the .first as the date which the bill will go into effect. The house voted .150 to 120 to adopt the retractive amendment ta the tariff bill and fixed April th& f first as the date- The bill passed ly a large majority. Shortly aftei three this afternoon. In the Senate auu lie use Today. Washington, D. C , March 30. The. pooling bill wa3 introduced in the Senate today by Mr. Foraker. It is the same bill of last session, with, several additional amendments. Senator Allen spoke today advo eating the passage of his resolution,. . ngainst imposing a tariff on all arti cles of daily consumption. He made a vigorous attack on trust combina tions. The resolutions will go to tha finance committee. There was no quoru m in the house today. The ways and means com mittee took charge of all amend- mentsand they were adopted with-" out debate. No Win Served at White House Dinner. Washington, March 28.-r-The? question whether wire will be served at dinners in the white house seema to have been decided. Following ch a precedent established by another Ohio president and bis wife, the Mc rTin'eys have, without any discussion of the subject, quietly eschewed the Practice of serving wine. At th& lirst cabinet dinner given last Wednesday two gobL t3 were at each plate, one for ordinary Potomac water and the other for appllinari3 Mr3. Cleveland never served wine, and, as far as she was concerned, it it had rested with her, it is probable there would have been wine at none of the white house dinners. At her luncheons no Cordials were served. Presiden'.l'itl Appointments. By Teiegrraph to The News. Washington, March 29. Tmy following appointments were mado; by President McKinley tcday: Henry Clay Evans, of ' Tennessee Commissioner of Pensions. Charirmane Tower, 'of Pennsyl vania, Minister. to Austria and Hun gnry. i homa3 Byan, of Kc-i .-.n?, First asMstant-Secretary of the Interior. Was William-"Grat." Berlin, March 27. The col umns of the newspapers are still given up to criticisms' of the Emper or William I, centenary fttc, which were held Monday, Tuesday anil Wednesday. ' Apart from the semi-official or gans, many, of the papers protest against the excessive glorification of the old Kaiser. The Ycssische Zeltung' 'advises that too phrase "William the Great" be k-f t to the verdict of future generations. -1 r I W s i '-
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