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' fit '4J WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY OCTOBER 14, 1893. 31.00 PER YEAR. "VOL. XXXI. NO. 82. njwrast fir; n NEGRO EX-CONVICTS Imported Into Illinois From the South to Take Place ot, Strikers. A BLOODY RIOT A Battle Between the Miners and Negroes and Their Guaids on the Train The Train Passes Swiftly out of Town Seven .Miners Killed and Many Wounded on Both Sides Fighting at the Mine Governor Tanner Refuses to Aid in Import ing This Class of Labor He Puts the Blame for the Fight on the 3Iine Owners. Virden. 111.. October 12. The little ,' town of Virden is comparatively quiet tonight after a day of riot and blood shed, resulting from the long expected clash between the union miners and imported negroes. At 12:40 o'clock this afternoon a Chicago and Alton special train bearing 200 negro miners from the south arrived at the stockade around the Chicago-Virden Coal Com pany's mines and immediately the fighting began. The list at 1:00 o'clock tonight stands: Seven dead, thirteen wounded. It is said that six men were wounded inside the stockade, but this has not been verified and those inside the stockade refuse to communicate with outsiders. For the past two weeks rumors have reached Virden that a train having ne groes from Alabama would reach the city and the Chicago and Alton depot has been surrounded day and night by miners. The Chicago and Alton limit ed, due to pass here at 10 o'clock en . route to Chicago, was an hour late, displaying Hags on the rear indicating that a special was following. Immedi ately the word was. spread and a dense crowd of miners lined the station plat form, while another crowd collected at the entrance of the stockade a half j mile north of the station. ' At 12:40 o'clock the special train passed the station and signal shots were tired from the south end of the train announcing its arrival. j Immediately shots were fired from the moving train and outside and the battle was on. A few moments after i the train had passed the switch where j D. L. Kiiey, a Chicago and Alton de- j tective, was stationed, and while he was talking with two citizens, he threw up his arms and dropped dead with a bullet through his brain. He was the first man killed. The train continueu 10 me siocKaue, me iimicia firing into it all along the route and the negro passengers returning the fire. The moment the train reached the stockade, the miners opened a desperate, fire with Winchesters, re volvers and firearms of all descriptions. The negroes on the train answered with a steady fire. The miners on the train were enveloped in a cloud of smoke and the shooting sounded like a continuous volley. Engineer Tigar received a bullet in the arm and dropped from his seat. His fireman seized the throttle, pulled it open and with a jerk the train was under speed carrying a load of wounded negro pas sengersi to Springfield. How many were wounded is not known. The train stopped at the stockade but two minutes. Its departure did not cause the fighting to cease. The stockade was filled with sharpshooters armed with Winchesters and' they kept up a steady lire into the crowd of union miners. Eye witnesses say the dead miners were killed after the train had departed. It is not known how many men are stationed behind the walls of the stockade, but an estimate places them between twenty-five and forty. It is claimed that six within the stockade were wounded, but those in side refuse to hold any communication vith the outside and nothing authentic cap be learned. Word was, however, sent from the stockade to physicians In town that their services were need ed. A DESPERATE FIGHT. The supply and provision store of the Chicago-Virden Company is known as the Climax Trading Company, with Superintendent J. F. Eyster in charge. At 2 oclock, after the firing at the .stockade had subsided, an attack with out .a parallel in the history of the trouble was made on Eyster in this .store in Main street one block from .the depot, which will probably cost ;him his Jife. He was sitting in his :Store whan his telephone rang and he was instructed from the stockade to eire physicians and hurry them to the place. Kyster jumped into his de livery wagoju and securing two doctors jrushed with them to the mines. He returned to Jfis store, climbed out of nis wagon ai.3 was just entering the door when the" cry vas raised that Manager Eystei? had returned. Fred. Lukens, of the mines, was with him. With ri rush A throng of in furiated miners stressed toward the store. Eyster ran behin'd a counter with a revolver in each hand. The miners pressed hard after land as Eys ter sprang up stairs b4 and" the miners began shooting simultaneously. He ran to the top of his building- and jumped behind a chimney while the miners ran into the streets and opened fire on nil? again. Chips ilew from the brick chimney and Eyster ran from over across the roof of another store .ring into the street as he ran. As he ci 'oss ed to the roof of the Bank of Viru en where he reloaded his revolver, blo was flowing from a wound in his sideV but with dogged determination against terrible odds, he continued his fight. Jumping to the roof of the Rae & Gisch drug store, he halted behind a projection from the roof of the build ing he just left and emptied both of six chambered revolvers. Then, spring ing from cover, he dashed ahead amid the rain of bullets, to the roof of the Steed building, the upper story of which is known as miner's hall. He Cither fell or Jumped through the sky IS THE RESULT. light and landed in the arms of a crowd of miners, who seized him and carried him down stairs to the street. Other hands seized the almost uncon scious man and he was dragged into the middle of the street. Local police men drove back the crowd and carried Eyster to the city square, across the street. Eyster was motionless and sup posedly dead. The police left him lying and attempted to disperse the crowd. In a few minutes Eyster was seen to raise his hand and wipe the blood from his face. Two men sprang at him and with the ferocity of tigers began jumping on his body and strik ing him on the head with stones. With a yell the angry crowd charged into the square to kill Eyster. The police charged in a body and fought their way to the centre of the mob, where they took a stand over the prostrate man. A carrier was produced and Eys ter was taken to the Buckles hotel. He had been shot through the groin and is terribly battered about the head. The physician states that he has barely a chance for recovery. The dead miners were removed from the vicinity of the stockade to hotels and livery stables and the wounded miners were taken on litters to the station and taken to Springfield tonight. One man in the stockade was killed and eight wounded. There are about thirty-five strong men stationed inside the stockade tonight, each keeping wa!ch through a loop hole. The four towers have been deserted. Manager Lukens remained at his desk in the office all night issuing orders to his men. Manager Lukens said tonight: "The blood of every man shed here is on the governor's head. He is absolutely out side of the law and has no justification in refusing to send troops." A detail of militia at 10:15 o'clock killed ex-Lieutenant of Police Tom Preston, of Chicago, at the stockade. He was standing outside the stockade as guard. The militia gave the by standing miners the command to halt and Preston stepped back to the gate. The militia fired and he was shot in the stomach. He was carried into the office in the stockade, where he expir- ed. Battery D, of Galesburg, 111., un Craig, arrived tonight der Captain from Pana. Springfield, October 12. The special train on the brought the Virden, had Chicago and Alton which Alabama negroes from eight wounded men, all deputies, except one, a colored miner; who were taken to the Springfield city hospital. Of these men one died to night, William W. Carroll, a deputy sheriff. He was shot through three times. Another train which arrived, a 9 o'clock tonight, brought up six wounded men, who are at St. John's hospitals. John M. Hunter, of Pontiac, the pres ident of the Illinois district of the Unit ed Mine Workers of America, lies at the Collins house in a critical condi tion. Mr. Hunter got on the train which bore the colored miners to this city this afternooon and engaged in conversation with two of the colored miners. Some of the deputy sheriffs saw Hunter, and when the train was between north Grand Avenue and the north shaft, and was going at the rate of eighteen miles an hour, it is esti mated, the deputies attacked Hunter and pushed him off the train. A man happened along later in a buggy and saw Hunter lying near the track in an unconscious condition and placed him in his buggy and took him to the Col lins house, where a physician dressed his wounds. He is terribly cut about the face and his ribs are injured. He is still unconscious. Governor Tanner tonight wired the war department asking if the Fifth Il linois infantry could not be placed at his disposal for use at Virden. Colonel Culver, the commander of the Fifth, has tendered his services and those of the regiment to the governor. The miners are gathered in knots on the streets, but there have been no dem onstrations. CAUSE OF THE DIFFICULTY. Chicago, October 12. The difficulty at the Virden mines originated April 1, 1898, when the miners of the fourth district of Illinois went out on a strike Instituted by the Union Mine Workers. Trouble followed at once at Pana, but the Virden miners remained iuiet through the summer. The strikers .had asked for 40 cents a ton and were offered 28 cents. Actual disturbances at Virden began September 25th, when the Chicago-Virden Company, the principal mine owner at that point, imported 100 negroes from Alabama. When the train arrived with them on board It was mot by a large 1xdy of armed nnion miners who threatened to shoot the firsa negro that stepped from the cars. The negroes were final ly prevailed upon to return to the south and the mines were not operated. President T. C. Loucks, of the Chicago-Virden Company, then proceeded to make preparations to g;et other min ers. October 8th, Sheriff. Davenport notified Governor Tanner that there would certainly be trouble And that S-ate troops were needed to preserve thc peace. Governor Tanner advise! the mine officials against Importing mine.'s; that he was opposed to the system,- that while there was no Ktw to keep hem out of Illinois, he did nct feel it to he his duty as governor to1 use the ar.n of the state to give pro tection to l.'Jine owners in 'operating their mines yvlth this . class of em ployes. Superintendent Lukens, ac cording to Governor Tanner, replied that the mines would be run at ail hazards; that the company would em ploy such labor as they saw fit; that they would import this labor and op erate the mines with it, even if they had to do it at the point of the bayo nets and the muzzle of the Winches ters. The governor steadily refused to call out the state troops, and charged the operators with importing ex-convicts and an undesirable class of workmen. The operators declared that the men they desired to bring to their mines had been chosen for their ability and their capacity to become good citi zens. They also said they were will ing to take back the strikers at the scale of 28 cents a ton, but that they could not open their mines at the exorbitant demand of 40 cents. Sheriff Davenport has been in sym pathy with the governor and says he does not want to enforce laws that will bring labor into the state and offered to reason rather than undertake the task. One hundred Springfield miners re enforced the Virden strikers October 10th, armed and determined to prevent the negroes from going to work. Arm ed men have since been practically in possession of the town. WHAT GOVERNOR TANNER SAYS. Springfield, October 12. Governor Tanner this evening regarding the Vir den riot said: "Mr. T. C. Loucks, president, and Mr. Lukens, superintendent of the Vir den Coal Company, at 12:30 o'clock to day made good their threats to land a train load of imported laborers from the south and attempted to put them to work in their mines, at the point of bayonets and the muzzle of Winches ters, (such laborers being drawn large ly, if not entirely, from the criminal classes, ex-convicts, who learned their trade while doing terms in the peniten tiary of Alabama), after having been fuly advised and having full knowledge that the landing of such imported la borers would precipitate a riot. I had wired them that if they brought these imported laborers they did so at their own peril, and under the circumstances would be morally responsible and criminally liable for anything that might happen. "The killed and wonded are largely idle miners who were on the outside. The others were the hired guards who were brought along by the coal com- pany. Most, if not all of them, were non-residents of Illinois. There is no means of learning their names or whereabouts, for the reason that they declined to give them out, knowing, perhaps, that they are criminally liable for murder, as they had no permission from any officer in Illinois authorizing or deputizing them to act as deputy marshals of deputy sheriffs. "These avaricious mine owners havo so far forgotten their duty to society as to bring about this blot upon the fair name of our state; have gone far enough, yes, too far, as they had fair warning from me, by wire and tele phone, that the importation of labor which brings to our state an unde sirable class of citizens had to stop, and I say now to such, and all others, that this is a thing of the past; that it shall not be tolerated in Illinois while I am governor. These men, the presi dent and officers of the company, pre cipitated this riot by the bringing in of this imported labor, are guilty of murder and should be, and I believe will be indicted by the grand jury of Macoupin county and tried and con victed for this heinuous offense." TROOPS ORDERED TO VIRDEN. Chicago. October 12. Colonel Young, of the First Illinois volunteer cavalry, received orders tonight to report at Springfield immediately with troops A, B. C and D of his command. These troops will leave at 11 o'clock tomor row morning and from Springfield will be hurried to Virden. Washington, October 12. Late to night a telegram was received by the war department from Governor Tan ner, of Illinois, that the Fifth Illinois now on furlough be placed at his dis posal to quell the riotous demonstra tions at Virden, 111. The situation at Virden is represent ed as crtical and Governor Tanner is embarrassed because all of the state militia are in the service of the United States. He is unable to order to the scene of the miners' troubles any of the Illinois troops in the service of the government without the authority of the secretary of war. The matter in volves some difficulties which preclude the possibility of a hasty decision. It will be submitted to Secretary Alger tomorrow morning and late tonight Adjutant General Corbin said that the probabilities are that the regiment will be placed at the disposal of Governor Tanner. More Convalescent Soldiers Arrive New York, October 10. The trans port Berlin, Captain Wilson, arrived today from Porto Rico via Santiago with a number of officers and 206 con valescent soldiers and laborers and several civilians. When the sick came on board General Henry sent with them ample supplies . of nourish ishing food for the sick and each day the men were served with three hot meals. The good result of this treat ment was evident when it was con sidered that on the first morning out over 40 per cent, answered sick call, and each morning the Improvement was so rapid that the morning sick call of today showed but 16 per cent of the men ill. The quarters were Tcept in splendid order, and everything is in good condition. The health of ficer made an inspection and permitted the transport to proceed. Had Typhoid Fever. "My system was very much run down by typhoid fever. I began tak ing Hood's Sarsaparilla and the effect was most invigorating. It gave me a new lease of life, and I have enjoyed good, health ever since taking it, and have been able to follow my usual bus iness. J. A'. Conner, Jr., Rockbridge Baths, Virginia, Hood's PI113 rote nausea, sick head iache, biliousness, indigestion. Price cents. THE EPISCOPAL COl'NCIL. The General Proceeding off hi Body. Areius on tbe Amendment to tbe Conttt.uUon Washington, October 10. There was no abatement today in the public in terest attending the triennial council of the Episcopal church, and large crowds joined In the religious services at Epiphany church which preceded the business of the day. The expanding influence of the church was indicated by a memorial from the Japanese diocese for the crea tion of a southern Jurisdiction in that country, and from the Anglican church in Honolulu, heretofore fostered by the English church, asking that in view of I the annexation of Hawaii to the United States, the church of Hawaii be amal gamated with that In this country, be coming a missionary jurisdiction. The propositions were referred to commit tees. The divorce question came up and was placed on the calendar for dis cussion, following the resolution on the czar's peace conference. The resolu tion to close the doors when the di vorce question came up led to a spir ited debate. Several deputies criticis ed the move toward secrecy. The question of closing the doors finally went over until the divorce subject was considered. This cleared the way for the main discussion of the day on the amend ment of the constitution. This relat ed mainly to the internal organization of the church and to the amendment of article 4 for the establishment of standing committees in each diocese. This article was agreed to after the adoption of an unimportant amend ment. "Article 5, Governing the formation of new dioceses led to considerable de bate. It was explained by Dr. Dix, the chairman of the committee that the article contravened no existing regu lations, but laid down broad principles governing the whole case. Delegate Lightner of Minnesota moved to strike out that feature of the article which provides that no city shall form more than one diocese, ex cept when the civil authority consoli dates into one city portions of territory belonging to different dioceses, in which case each portion of said terri tory shall remain attached to the dio cese to which it previously belonged until a change is made by the consent of the general convention. This amendment was finally adopted at the afternoon session. Article 5 was then recommitteed for further consideration by the commit tee. Article 6 was adopted on a vote by dioceses. Article 7 led to sharp division over the so-called provincial system. The committee report provided for unit- j amination and consecration was then ing dioceses into provinces. Dr. John taiien up. An amendment proposed H. Egan of the committee, presented hy Rev Dr. Easter Qf Los Angeles was a minority report holding that the civil adoptedf providing that in the declara divisions of the country into states : tion of belief required of bishops, should be followed by the church j priests aild deacons, the word "doc without the creation of strictly eccles- . trines" sna1 be in the singuiar form iastical "provinces." The subject went - as representing the fundamental nrin- over untu tomorrow. The house of delegates agreed to a resolution of the bishops repealing the Mtiftn establishing th nravpr hnnl? n-v,.- distribution tion was formed for the purpose of ac- complishing the free distribution of prayer books, but its work has been completed and this branch of church labor is now attended to by the di ocesan association. It was decided to create a new missionary district in Japan to be known as the Kyoto district, which is coterminous with the Japanese diocese. The missionary will be selected by the bishops. A resolution was agreed to providing for a general committee to which shall be referred the resolutions presented by the Lambeth conference. Washington, October 11. At the opening of the session of the house of deputies of the Episcopal council to day, Rev. Morgan Dix announced the death yesterday at New London of Hon. Benjamin Stark, lay delegate from Connecticut. After a brief tri bute by Mr. Seymour, of Connecticut, the telegram announcing Mr. Stark's death was referred to the committee on memorials. Rev. Dr. F. Davenport, of Tennessee, from the committee on canons, report ed a resolution discharging that body from the further .consideration of the proposition for the revival of the or der of evangelists. The committee be lieves that a step of this character should have its initiative in the house of bishops. The resolution was adopt ed. At 11 o'clock the deputies went into session with the house of bishops, sit ting as a board of missions. Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota, presiding. A beautiful incident of the joint ses sion was the presentation and adoption of resolutions complimentary to Bishop Hare, of South Dakota, who has occu pied that dignified position for twenty five years. Theboard also presented the bishop with a handsome silver lov ing cup suitably Inscribed. The bishop replied In a speech full of emotion and gratitude. A resolution offered by Treasurer George C. Thomas, of Philadelphia, was Sunday' after Epiphany and an the Monday following addresses are to bs made and collections taken from the sunaay scnoois ror tne oenent 01 mis sions. A resolution presented by the bishop of Massachusetts was adopted receiv ing with gratitude the united offerings of JSO.OOO for missionary work con tributed by the Woman's Auxiliary and placing on record the board's ap preciation of the devotion of the wo- J men of the church and hailing with thanksgiving their increasing generos ity. The house of bishops today agreed to report of Secretary Hart recommend ing the correction of several errors of print in the standard copy of the Rook of Common Prayer, kept at the mission house in New York and of which Mr. Hart is the custodian. The bishops also agreed to the changes in the "golden number" in the prayer book, by which the Easter dates are ascertained for the next 3v0 years, beginning with 1900. Almost the entire afternoon session of the house of deputies was consume! in debate on the amendment of the constitution providing for the forma tion of provinces out of the diocesan and missionary districts, and it was finally recommitted to the committee for recommendation and report on certain amendments offered during the long discussion. ,nfrton of Xew york was adoptetl piowuii; mai nw irum.e miuu ue tur bounded as to contain only a fractional portion of a state or states. The action of the house of bishops in changing the golden numbers in the Prayer Hook and making certain cor rection of print therein was agreed to. In the house of bishops the report of the church university board of regents was agreed to and a resolution adopt ed, abolishing the board. The existence of the body is regarded as unnecessary, as its work is now done by a volunteer association having, for its object the promotion of the interests of the church, schools, seminaries and col leges. This action of the bishops was afterward agreed to by the deputies. After some discussion of Articles 2 and 3 of the proposed new constitu tion relating to the organization of th general convention and the consecra tion of bishops for foreign service. the bishops formally non-concurrred in the action of the deputies and a conference committee will be appointed. The provision in the constitution thnt no city shall form more than one dio cese was stricken out. After briefly touching upon the pro posed new canon of marriage and di vorce the bishops adjourned. Washington, October 12. Included , . : 3 : w . : i i in the preliminary routine business transacted by the house of deputies of! the Episcopal council at its session to- j day was a resolution reported by Rev. j This statement of Mr. Hoger show Dr. Duncan, of Louisiana, from the ed the receipts for the said fiscal year committee on the state of the church,' wert 42;5S4;II fa0ntfiat 'lisburs.-ntciit.s having for its object the publication' were only J2..M4.V6 as a my,. fr-tatL . e J . 11 it and Mr. Itogers and his friond givo it annually of the pastoral letters call- out 1o tho poovW of xho coun(y thAt ing the attention of the people to the tne prcs0nt board saved about S15.0M obligations resting on the church for j to the county. Mr. stmnnrh called up contributions for the support of the on Mr. Haywood Knight, the trca-urrr a?Pd and infirm clerev. The resolu-. tion was adopted. After an hour's discussion the article as reported by the committee was adopted and is as follows: j "Dioceses and missionary districts may be united into provinces in such ' manner under such condition and with such powers as shall be provided by the canons of the general convention, provided, however, that no diocese shall be included in the provinces without its own consent." Article 8 of the proposed new con stitution, relating to the qualifications of priests and deacons necessary to ex X J - ciple or belief of the church and op- j posed to the plural form which sets '. forth its teachings. S nn orMMa tl-VmVi Fr Div ovnlnineri I , . ', !it ,. ' , ! cept with slight changes, was aaopiea. j Article 9 regarding the trial of bish ons. presbyters and deacons for of fenses contrary to the discipline and I i y i i fi x i law or me cnurcn leu u consiueiuuie debate. A message was received from the house of bishops announcing the se lection of San Francisco as the place for holding the council of 1&01. At their morning session the house of bishops having received the report of a committee on the re-arrangement nt missinnarv districts nostnoned tem - porarily the nominations of mission- ' Jl!f present board of commissioners nrv hishnns borrowed fr the county 4,ono on the ary Disnops. 0,.ow 1 5th day of July., 1W. from the Com- Nearly the whole of the afternoon m,rcia, and FarmelV bank an,, t!iat session of the deputies was consumed amount has not been paid bark to tlx? in the consideration of article 9, an bank. The county treasury Is out of amendment offered by Mr. Stetson of New York, finally being adopted. It provides for the establishment, by or with the authority of the general con vention, of a court or courts of appeal with power to review the final determi nation of an inferior court as shall be provided by canon. The whole article was recommitted to the committee for further consideration, and report. Shortly before adjournment article 10 which relates to the use of the Book of Common Prayer and seeks to throw safe guards around It with a view to preventing its hasty or inconsiderate alteration was taken up. Rev. Dr. Huntington, of New York, offered as an amendment to the article a provision on the subject of Christian unity and made an impassioned ap peal in behalf of the principles em- bodied in the amendment. Without action the matter went over until to morrow. The bishops spent the entire after- relating to the remarriage of divorced persons, but without finishing it ad journed until tomorrow. Ctpuln JlcCallt Sutloned at Norfolk Washington, October 12. Captain i McCalla, who commanded the Marble- head throughout the war and rendered such brilliant service at Guantanamo and other south Cuban ports was today relieved from the command of that vessel and assigned to duty as captain of the Norfolk navy yard and taking the place held by Captain Bishop, re Tin loyal la tbe M9t y&m kkig fuw. ActMl tta iW It Wr4 lrtWr tVu mar alter Absolute! Pure KAMA LIT Y IMIAUTIIi:!) A Return to Day of t r)ouLtU! fleld-Frenrli Itulr Wake Coiiuif Ap lroarhlnc llau k rtiptry 1 udrr lie publlean-PopulUt Tlauacrntrnt -iJ) (Haleigh News and Observer.) Iist spring Mr. W. C Strunach. thn last chairman of the board of county commissioners under democratic rule, had his attention called to a statement made by J. J. Rogers, the register ot deeds, and clerk of the board of com missioners made under Section 1LJ V the Code, of the receipts and disburse ments of the county from the firjt Monday of December, ISM, to the Crst Monday of December. lsfT, the flrt fiscal year of the present board of com missioners, by which J. J. Kogers trinl to show that the expenses of the coun ty for the first fiscal year, t-ndlni; n the first Monday of Drcember, amounted to only $27,34. St., and at onct commenced to investigate the truth the statement. r ine county, to ascertain the trnUi of the statement. Mr. Knight said htt had nothing to do with the statement and that it was incorrect. On the arnt day Mr. Knight made a full examina tion of the books in his office, aided by Mr. J. Q. Williams, the clerk In Mr. Hogers office, and wrote Mr. Stronach the following letter: "Oflice of Treasurer of Wake County. "Raleigh, N. C. May 13, 183S. "Mr. W. C. Stronach, Esq.: "Mr. Armlstead Jones, J. Q. Williams and myself have examined the books In my office, and find that of Wake county fund from the receipts from all ourcs from December 1, 196. to December 1. 1S97. amount to Ha.OCT.O. "The disbursements from December 1, 196. to December 1, 1897. amount to $42,990.73. Yours respectfully. "HENRY II. KNIGHT. "County Treasurer." The false statement that the expendi tures of the county only amounted to J27.834.S6 has been reported, and thu statement is being daily made by J. f m . vr I n uiui ill" ' ' K. II" J 4 ( 'U IMll Iftll U slon candidates that the present boml saved Jll.ooo to the county, and paid I the pame upon the bonded debt of the ! county. When the Statement WM made upon the stump Mr. Knight was again approached and hi et- amined and after a full I examinatfoni wrote again to Mr. Stronach the fol lowing letter: "Oflice of Treasurer "of Wake CounH'. "Raleigh. N. C. October 5. 10J?. "W. C. Stronach. Esq.: "Dear Sir: I have examined the books in my office and find that none of the county debt due and owinpr at the time the present board of county commissioners came Into office on tho the first Monday In December. U!C. has been paid, except the sum of which has been paid to the Kinr 1 Bridge Company for building brldcrjr. money now, and I have not paid the Jury tickets for last court, and only a few poor orders to outside poor givrn at last meeting of the board. "The county is behind two months in paying the expenses of the work house and poor-house. There are coun ty orders outstanding, amounting tn about 11.200, or 11,500. unpaid, and the costs of the September term of the court have not been paid. None of the county bonds have been paid. "Respectfully youm. "HENRY H. KNIGHT, "County Treasurer. HALIFAX DEHOCItAT 9 -W A Routing Convention Hood Tfekrs Nominated -A Northern Hepubllrau Declares for Democracy (Special to The Messenger.) Weldon, X. C. October 11 Not slnee- colonial days when Halifax county iook steps to free herself from Brltiaff oppression ha there been such a Gath ering of representative white men as ath-rd Halifax today In the dem- ocratic county convention. Over LOGO people were present. A splendid tick et was put in the field and rlnrims speeches made by Senator Ransom. W. H. Day and others. Mr. Rlake, a life long republican, of New York, spoke and said In North Carolina he fctool squarely for white supremacy, whlct meant the democratic party, and thai., he would work and vote the tlcckU If you suffer from sores, bollg. pim ples, or if your nerves are weak &&(!.' your system run down, you should ta&& Hood's Sarsaparilla.