North Carolina Newspapers

: -v. -A i VOL. X. No. 174, WILMINGTON, N. 0., FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1897. PRICE & CENTS. 7- 1 I i- i Ivh -71- iW . ... Kl TFL KGRA PIIIC i SUMMAliA'. V THE STATE. , , Sbnator Butler attacks the railroad commission fori not redileingr railway -passenger and freight rates. Shell fish Commissioner White makes a re port on tpe oyster industry5 of North Carolina .paters; that! during the year ending .April .Oth last, 600,000 bushels were . sold 'from Pamlico sound. A new cottW, factoryds I)uili3ing at Spray iri Itockingham cdunty, and the, con- . tract; is let for: the Coleman factory at Concord. The president awards a medal of honoti'to Colonel. AndrjeW Mc Oonnigle, "of Ashevfll-e, . for gallantry during -the-hite var.-4 The elders and .. deacons' institute convenes; at Red ' Springs. Captain : Cr.aighill ,' makes his " report '-on the work done in . the North Carolina; rivers and harbors dur- , ing the past . year. ; )' DOMESTIC. 'r - ' President - Andrews, jof Brown .univer ity, rt.signs; . he was too much of a free silveriteito suit.1 the trustees. : The senate committee on contingent expenses reports adversely Senator Tillman's resolution to' investigate the - charges made that Certain senators were using their ofqcial positions to make- money oh sugair trust stocks. Jtf ri Q -V- 5 HA . aia i . 'tha Tin. signed undfr pressure from the presi dent the seal fisheries! letter to Ambasr sudor 'Hay.- i-At Cincinnati MaIver --. -wins -the ? diamond stakes. Govern-. meat improvements .igive 164 feet "of "water- in-James riverj at low tide up to the lower part of -the city of. Richmond.-1 A bill is introduced in'' the house of 'representatives to appoint a monetary commission. Rev, Peter Hovermans, the oldest Catholic priest in the UnittAl States, died at Trojy, ,N. yesterday. -i --Governor Black, , of. New York, refuses' to order an extra Itii m -of courtrto try; jthe tobacco trust directors. In Virginia the total jvalii- I ation for taxation of railroads, etc., is $::',, 7sD,(i2, from" which the state re ceives $21X,91H: In the conspiracy trial, ,;it Norfolk the evidence is all in and the argument begun.- iThe question of the Alaska-' boundary line now be comes important. Many Van Gouver jCmu! miners. ar'- preparing to go, to the Alaska gold fields.- Chicago ' turned out yesterday to do honor to the'lmem ory of Central John '.A. Logaiji; "his stitue was unveiled. 4r f-The negro who - committed ..ab assault on little -year old Jewel Cimpbell 'in l Henry cjounty, (la . July 10th, S is taken from the officers and hanged, ' l; i FOREIGN. -Mr. Whitelaw Reidl gives a dinner at his London 1 residence;: covers ( were I laid for forty persons; there were many i notables among the! guests, ,th0 chief ltt-ing the pfince of IWalds; Mrs. Reid 1 t?ave -a reception after the dinner.- -A. carrier pigeon has Ijeen caught on the .north point of Norway with: .North s pule passed lif teenth," stamped on its i : wing. Progress isjbeing made on ,the I Turkish-Greek peace riegdtiatiohs. The Alaska gold fev : )aild'. ' - !.' . f has strucij. iMig- ANOTHER MS LYNCHED A Negro in Georgia I'ays thel'snal Penalty 'Tor a Fiendish Assault on a SixTiear Old White Girl i Maeon, GaJ, July 22. A , special to The. Telegraph from Griffin, Ga., says: Oscar Williams, the negro who assault ed little. Jewel Campbell; the 6 yeat old daughter of A. uC". Campbell,' in 'Henry ' county, Saturday sf,ternpbn; J My 10 th, was ; takenHfrom the Central iiilroad-passehger tiiain, en route .from Ulat-ou to Atlanta and lynched' on the TrM.-iYt. .j.4.iS ml at r o ciock tms nmrning. -Th'e body was swung to a red oak limb and was literally torn to pieces, with pistol,: shotgun and rifle. .When the work had . been completed one of the men in the mob took an ''en-. veloi.e from his poje-ket, tore off the. luck of it and wrot the following in Fcriptton which 'was binned to the dead man's shirt: "To the mayor of Pike. from Spaulding: TWfe was , the rebuke tf the lynchers to Aftayor' Huguelly, of Itarhesville, 'Who cailetl out the Tiilitia if that town to pflotect Williams a eek ago." ..!.- Ry lO o'clock this i morning the little clump of,: trees w-hejre the body hung was surrounded, by f.a crowd that naa come from . the Country around. Anwhg the for many thousands tules o viewed the dy Was the father the girl victim. 1 have but one re t. Air. campot II said to a Tele- raph' reporter, "ankt that isl.J was not here i take part "i u giving khe villain his deserts, i I know w he is I the, I right I man and am satis td with fhis ideath. LovejoyJ fourteen I was at ivork at yniles awa but as soon as 1 heard of the lynchirtg 3 jumped into apjuglgy and nii ried to i the. scene.l . C)roner Jesse Willliams empaneled a jury at il 0:30 o'clock this,' morning, nnd after . A few minutes a' verdicU of death at '-the 'hands o2 parties unknown -was reached. CXm a jingle witness was examined; "I have looked all oter the town and can't find la, soul who knows 'anything about the case," said the eorT iiner.i ana so- me Mfain-i a auiiiiu- Jated." . ' " . rj The negro's bodywas taken fr pm1 the scent noon of the lynching late this by a crowd ostensibly for Br . . '" . . . . .... after burial, but r lumor is rite that it win no burned people nt midnight by a large Crowd of from! adjoining counties. It is not pos 5 tivelv Known wnere -ine uouv ts or m here it will be Incinerated - The following is the.trinie fori which WiiliMms suffered: On Saturda i: July Kilh.i-Willuims' was blowing in a field sever-al h'u'mtred yards from thelCamrr- bell home. It was ai very hotday and Irs. ! Campbell sVnt jher little son and daughter. Krhest arid Jevvei, fo carry siimei witter to the negro. Wht the c-hildreh1" arrived at the' place .'Wheiv; illiams was at woirk, he complained ul a headache and asked the little boy to hold his -mule whie Jewel wentwith him to a spring hot ar distant to pour some water ;on his head. The little girl ran along merrily toward the woods, little dreamirfg of the cruel fate that. was 'In store for her. A few minutes Sater the little coy, who is only 8 years ,ld- heird his sister scream.. Terribly frightened, he hastened toward home to inform his mother that something. W!i v.rone.i' Oh the Hvay he met a jn ighltpr's. hoy - end ;tne two went .uo fuTes to -summon X..:C .Campbell. In fle meantime the rtegro,had iyfn up ins; j.urposo. ! He hurried -back fo ik lield. took tle mule to the house, where he got, his epai ahdhat and fled. In a Muirt time the little; girl, bleeding and bruised, appeared to! teii her mother of the assault.! 3ledical attention was at -once secured tor the child and though. for a time her lifej. was despaired ot, sh was soon pronounced out of danger I and now bids fair td entirely recover. J Koyai makes the food pure, ' I 2 . " ' "I. wholeiome and delicious. I pmmm 1 - Absolutely Pure i I . ROYAL &AKIUQ POWDER CO., NEW YORK. HBSBMOWMHSaSMIKaMM SENATORS AND SUGAR TRUST REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON THE TILLMAN RESOLUTION. Strong Position Taken Against Ordering an Investgatlon Nature of the Charges Gone Into Freely Indefinite Charges Opposed by Positlre Denials of Senator?. Committee Severe on Sensational Jonr nalism " . . i V (Washington, July 22. Senator Jones, of ' Nevada, chairman of the committee: pn contingent expenses, today submit ted to the senate the report of that committee on the resolution introduced by 'Senator. Tillman, f r investigation of the charges of speculating in sugar stocks, etc. The reporl takes a strong position against ord,erirg the investiga tion, and is a very ex mustive review of the procedure of th past in such masters. e senate in the The report takes the position that aside from the names of the newspaper men themselves, only taes'name of Sen ator Smith, of New Jersey, is mention ed in the newspapers making the charges on which the resolution was based. The position is taken that the newspaper -men do not count, ."inas much as those gentlemen, do not pro fess to write from knowledge and usu ally, if not always, decline to . disclose the sources of their information." With reference to Senator Smith the report saysj "Here- is a newspaper vharge .made a,gain'st a senator of the United 'States without an averment of personal knowledge on the part of the . i ' . wrijer and without the- slightest par ticle of evidence to sustain it not eyen as much as would warrant a justices of the; peace in summoning witnesses! to determine the truth of a complaint; by one5 citizen against . another with ref erence to the most, trifling incident of every day life. It is the bold and na ked assertion of a man who does hot profess or pretend to have any knowl edge whatever of the alleged fact of which he writes. On the other hand, we have a definite, explicit and -abso lute denial of the charge from'the sen ator affected a denial publicly made from his place in the senate, upon rthe responsibility of his position as a sen ator of the United States." , . ! As to the clause of the resolution which charges that "brokers in - New York knew in advance .as to what the finance committee would report as to the. sugar schedule," the committee sav they-can find in the newspaper clippings presented in' support of :the proposed inquiry "nothing but indefinite; allusions,7 insinuations, guesses and in ferences drawn by correspondents from hearsay statements and the j hearsay some times several degrees removed Many of their expressions indicate jthe tlimsiness. of the foundation on which they , have erected this structure I of scandal." The attack of one of the cor respondents is characterized as ""a de liberate, unfair and envenomed deter mination to, if possible, bring upon the sub-committee of the finance commit tee the contempt of the country." I "Whenever," the report continues, "we approach a statement that, judg ing from the Sensational heading; of the article, seems about to give us (de finite and responsible information which could be reached by an investi gation, we -are disappointed to find that instead of affording evidence- of the alleged fact, the statements eon 8IS.U OT iijBlii aat loirs, -raysrtniirucr" "lit II is and indefinite allusions made on 'the authority of some person whose name the correspondent does not disclose AH these-guesses, inferences aad innu endoes are met in the most direct and emphatic -manner by the statement, of the senator from Rhode Island, Sena tor Aldrich, the chairman of the: Sub committee' ; of the finance committee,7 hariingin charge the arrangement of the details of the tariff bill-" Senator Aldrich -S reply to Senator TiUmany which he refers to Senator Jones, Nevada, as the only senator outside of the sub-commit'tee who had knowledge of its proceedings, Is quoted at length Replying to this statement, Senator Jones makes an individual parenthet iX'al i statement, in which he says he is -a member of the finance committee of the senate and that such Information a,s he'obtained from the sub-committee on the occasion referred to by the sen atbr from Rhode Island was informa tion received in legitimate, official con- ii a.: ; it. i. i i a A.t . . X. sultation with the members of the sub committee and that, such information wals conveyed by Senator Jone.s to no human being in any form or manner before-the presentation of the particu lars to the senate and its publication in due and orderly course. .The report takes the position that the distinct assertions of senators; are not to be outweighed by newspaper at tacks instigated by men "willing: to make; statements to newspaper corre spondents with a view to publication, and then, jlike assassins who use the stiletto in the dark, skulk behind those correspondents and "refuse to permit their names to be made known, . even for purposes of evidence." It would, the; report ( continues, be monstrous to set, in. motion the investigating machinr ery of the senate every time such ah attack is made upon a senator, and the committee concludes that !'if every unfathered rumor and unsupported charge were to be. held sufficient ground .on iyhioh'to base an investiga tion into theofiicial conduct of he peo ple's representatives, there is no legis lative body in the world that could for a single day carry on the work for which it was designed. Its entire time would be given over to the work of in "yeigating - rumors, whispers ( and charges Before- the investigation -of one such couid "be completed, another would have made its appearance and when' the second had been, invested, a third would have1 been provided and would be ready, which,., in turn, would be . succeeded by a fourth, and the fourth by a itfth. There would be no end' " I ; -" Y . ' ' ! The cbjmmiitee goes at lepgth into the quesftkm of the propriety of ex pelling from the senate press gallery or sending to prison newspaper corre spondents who make false charges, taking aj position against both sugges tions. They say that expulsion from the- gallfery - would be disproportioned to the pffense, as the other galleries of the senate iy.ould be open to the of fenders. "It might eeu fce" the com mittee added, "that the notoriety ao quired by a correspondent by reason of such expression," instead of operating asi a punishment would prove a source of I promotion in his profession." Fur thjermore, theV. iLunclude that such punishment would have n6 ' Influence upon the newspaper proprietors' thern selves, and that, with the press asso ciations covering the ground, Itj'ould be impossible to aepnve newspapers from securing the news. ;' j v - In conclusion, t committee recom rnettaJ 4hat the resolution "be ifi--nitely poslf.f)ned, saying "it seems to your cominittee Ih.aJ the time has come when the senate should practically de clare by its action that it iU not be accessory to attacks upon itself or its members from irresponsible sources. No investigation of any charge affect ing the integrity of the senate or its members should at any time be under taken unless such charges be definite and made by some" known and respon sible person not engaged professionally in sensatnqnal journalism' ; Nominations by the President. y Washington, July 22. The president today sent to the- senate the jhomjna tlons ot Morris D. Wlckersham, .Lo be attorney for the Northern district-of Jabama, and Henry Mayer, ta be post- laster at Vicksburg, Miss, ' : :, - . OUR OYSTER INDUSTRY. Report of Commissioner White New Cot ton Factories in This State. (Special to The Messenger.) Raleigh, N- C, July 22. State Shell fish Commissioner .Theophilus White made a report today on oyster industry, saying nearly all the oysters taken in. North Carolina are taken with hand tongs; that there are 3,000 tongers that during the year ending April 30th 600, 000 bushels were sold from, Pamlico sound and its tributaries, at from 15 to 40 cents per bushel. That they were all from natural oyster beds; that, they are finer than those often sold for CO to 80 cents; that dredging must take the place of hand toriging and that the only thing heeded is a market for pys-. ters. : ' ' j No. letter book of Governor: Nash can be found in the executive office. It appears that all business officially done during his regime was under the name of Governor Caswell. Such is theM statement made7 by Private Secretary Alexander. .. '. ' j " v The labor commissioner has advices f cl tipw Lttonmill at wrayrKOCKiirs-- harn county, and also that the contract is let for the Coleman cotton mill at Concord, which is to be operated by negro labor exclusively. B a tier's Attack on the Kallroad Commls- : . Bion ' .. ! (Special to The Messenger.) Raleigh; N. C.j July 22. In a sighed editorial in his paper Senator- Butler says: "The railroad commission has refused to reduce freight and passen ger rates. The commission has refus ed to do what seems plainly to be its duty.' It cannot answer the arguments presented by Governor Russell, Judge Clark -and JOsephus Daniels. This throws the whole question into the next campaign. Let the people now elect a legislature free from corpora tion influence and in a position to do justice to the people; and the railroads." . i ' ... - The Elders and Deacons' Institute (Special to 'The Messenger.) Red- Springs, N.' C, July 22. The -elders and deacons' institute is in ses sion. I' Rey. Arthur Smith, of Savannah, is in charge of the musical programme. The opening sermon was preached by Dr. Eugene Daniel, 'of Raleigh. The at tendance is large and many able speak ers are present. Dr. Hoge and Dr.. E. A. Alberman will arrive tomorrow. A NOTABLE DINNER. Mr. Whitelaw Reld Beturns the Hospital ltles of the British to our Representative at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. London, July 22. Whitelaw Reid, special envoy of the United States to the recent diamond jubilee festivities, gave a notable dinner this evening, at his. temporary residence, in - Carlton House Terrace, as a return for British hospitalities extended to him and Mrs: Reid during the last sjx weeks. Covers were laid for forty, the table being beautifully: decorated with flowers and dressed with a profusion of handsome silverware. and elasswa.reIn. onff nf the : ante-rooms the Hungarian band discoursed music during tke dinner hour. The house was beautifully dec orated with roses and orchids. ; The table was . spread m what . is know as the banqueting hall on the second floor, out-of which opened nu merous reception rooms. The walls were hung with tapestries which Mr. Keya had procured for the occasion, as the: former tenant. Lord Lonsdale, had sold off the most of the famous pictures which once hung jn (his part of the house. - Mr. Reid had also installed electric lights,' the roorhs formerly hav ing been lighted with candles The dinner hour wfes 8:30 o'clock and for some time before a large crowd of spectators was gathered in front of the house to watch the arrivals , The prince of Wales came promptly at the moment arranged,' wearing the ribbon of the Garter, with ordinary evening dress. Mr Reid Received him iri the hall which was lined by numer ous attendants and conducted him. to the drawing room where -the company had already - assembled. . Dinner was announced immediately. The pHiice of "Wales took iri Mrs, Whitelaw Reid, Mr. Reid escorting the Countess Deym, Hvife of "the Austro Hungarian ambassador. ' Among the guests were Baron de Staal, the Rus sian ambassador; the duke and duch ess of Portland,1 the earl and countess of Londonderry, the earl and countess of Warwick, the duke and duchess of Buccleuch, the earl and countess of Cork arid Orre, Sir William Vernon Haf court, Hon. George N. Curzon, Lord and Lady Arlington, Baron Tweed mouth and Lady ; Tweedmouth, Lord Hyde, Countess. Isabella Deym, Lady C. Scott, Lady - Helen Stewart, Miss Hay, Miss Greenfell, Mrs, Ogden Goe let and Miss Goelet, Henry White of the United States legation, Baron Mon tague Routon.' Sir A. C. Stephen, Lord and Lady Cavendish-Bentinck, Sir Ar thur Ellis, Mrs. William James and Mr. and Mrs. Ogden Mills. Arthur J, Balfour was also I invited but, owing to the pressure '.pi parliamentary du ties, was unable I to be present. 1 Mrs. Reid gave ing the banquet. a- reception follow- Indeed, the dinner was scarcely over when the rqpeption guests began tof arrive. Among these (Were Ambassador Hay and Mrs. Hay Lord William Beresford and Lady Ber esford (Lillian, duchess ; of Marlbo rtough); Viscount! Peel,' Sir Thomas Sanderson, Sir Arthur. Sullivan, Mo" ly Bell, ; assistant! manager of The Times, and Mrs. Bell, Lady Randolph Churchfll, Mr." and Mrs. Ralph .Vivian Mr. and Mrs. Bradley-Martin, Miss teiter, Mr. arid Mrs. McKinley Osborn, Mr, and. Mrs. Adla'i B. Stevenson, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Foster, - General Payne, of the bimetallic commission; the bishop of Ohio, the bishop of Ala bama, Lord Mayor Fuedel-Phillips and the lady mayoress. " r . Vocal "' music- was furnished during the. evening by Mme Melba Pol Plan con, Mr. Ben Davies and Mile Landi. . tries which impose similar duties on More Money Wanted for pledging the .- Mississippi :. ! New York, July 2. The engineers "of the war department having taken issue "with the government Mississippi river commission, which appropriated $400, 000 for dredging out of the $2,933,023 ap propriation allowed for river improve ments, the secretary of war resubmit ted the entire matter to the commis sion for; re-apportionment The law makes it obligatory on the commission t9 appropriate a large proportion of the appropriation to dredging and dredging plants. Athough the law re gards the dredging of the river to be paramount to repairs to levees and other imfcroyernjents,' it does not say what portion of Hhe annual appropria tion shall be used for this purpose, but leaves the . diviislon Wdth the commis sion. The secretary of war did not consider that (one-seventh of the ; 1897 appropriation tiould be classed -as "a large proportion" ;' and in consequence qX his action the committee re-cqnyened today at the army building here, to go t over their work again. 500 pounds fine North Carolina but ter, sweet, as honey, just received. 500 spring chickens. Car North Carolina watermelons. Saunders & Marshall, pT Princes .street.; Phone 384. NO AGREEMENT AS TO WHEN THE SENATE A ILL VOTE ON THE REPORT. Senator Allison's Unsnccessfnl Attempt to Have a Time Flzed f or the Tote Senator Tillman's KeasonstforAdvocatlng Kx port Boanty on Farm Prod nets To Ala low the President to Suspend, in Whole lor in Part, Discriminating Duties on For eign Vessels f . ' ' ' SENATE. Washington,' July 22. Shortly before the senate adjourned today, Senator Allison, in charge of the tariff bill, made a strong effort to have a time fixed for' the final vote on the tariff conference report. Failing in this. Sen ator Allison gave notice that the ses- sion' tomorrow would be protracted with a view to securing a vote. It was the first definite, movement made thus far toward bringing the debate to a close. Senator Allison's first pronosi- tioi was for a vote at 5 o'clock tomor- row, but fhis! 'was objected , to by Sen- S-.toiv Eettus, jof Alabama. Then Bet of the game and Hastings substituted proposed a. vote some time before ad journment tomorrow, .which was ob jected to by Senator Morgan. The sug gestion, of Saturday at 1 o'clock met with like objection from Senator Mor gan., a he Alabama senator explained his last objection by stating that he thought all debate on the report would be exhausted tomorrow so that it was needless to make ah agreement in ad vance, Fnding that there wa$ no dis position, to reach aft agreement, Sena tor Allison finally gave noticeV that hereafter while the report was pending, the senate, would not adjourn at 5 o'clock without a yea and hay vote. The debate 6n the report today was participated in by Senators Chilton, of Texas; Jones, of Arkansas, and Petti grew, of South Dakota, in opposition, While Senator ! Aldrich took frequent occasion to defend the report against the criticism of these senators. The credentials of the new senator from Tennessee, Thomas B. Turley, who succeeds the late' Senator Harris, were presented by his colleague, Sena tor Bate and the oath of office admin istered. . During the discussion, of the agricul tural schedule, . Senator Tillman was drawn into a vehement argument on the benefit of an export bounty on agri cultural'products. The South Carolina senator declared that the imposition of such a bounty was the rnost effect ive means ,of destroying the entire protective system, for if the farmer got one drop of blood in his mouth he would want to "swallow the whole carcass, and it would ena in a scram ble, overturning the whole system. The' house joint resolution was pass ed requesting the president to make in-: vestigation as. to the. Exclusion of American tobacco from fdreign coun tries under the regie "contract system. At 5 o'clock, the senate held an ex ecutive session and then adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Mr:. Dalzell, republican, of Pennsyl vania presented from the committee on ways and means a bill to authorize, the president to suspend in part or in whole the discriminating duties Im posed . on' the vessels of f oreign coun treis which impose similar duties on our vessels. He explained that the ex isting Mexican laws irnposed discrimi nating duties on vessel carrying lum ber and general carga, but exempted those carrying coal- ' Cardiff and Wales how monopolize the coal trade of Mex ico, which properly belonged to the. coal "mines of Alabama, Tennessee and Pennsylvania. This bill was designed to allow a partial suspension of duties. The passage of the. bill was advocated by Messrs. Underwood, democrat, of Alabama; Wheeler democrat, of Ala bama; McMillin, democrat, of Tennes see, and Kidgeway, popuusx, or iian sas. The bill was passed. Mr. Lacey, republican, of Louisiana, secured unanimous consent for the con sideration of a bill to amend the act creating a civil government in Alaska It was identical with the bill passed by the house at the last session creating a surveyor general and a register and receiver of the general land officei It, however, contained an additional fea ture .' empowering' the president to create an additional land district. Mr. Lacey explained that the Yukon valley gold discoveries rendered an additional land office imperative. In answer to a question, he said the gold fields lay in both the United States and British North America. The Klondyke region was in Canada. The bill was passed. Then at 12; 55 o'clock the house, on motion of Mr. Dirigley, took a recess until tomorrow. .-" ' i : ".- NORTH CAROLINA RIVERS. Keport of Captain Craighill on the Im provements Made During the past Year Washington, July' 22. Several river and harbor . 'improvement projects In North Carolina have, during the pastl year been under ther supervision of Captain W. E. Craighill, who has just made a report to the war department. The dredging- in Royal shoal, Ocra coke inlet,, North Carolina, says the re port, was completed In October and similar operations were begun at Bea con Islom slue, being finished in Janu ary. The first named improvement is in good condition! but the other is shoaling. Fishing creekswas cleared of snags and similar obstructions were also taken from Pamlico and Tar riv ers. Shoals at the mouth of Content nea creek were dredged, and snags re moved from the stream. The Neuse river was snagged frbm near Goldsboro to New Berrt, jetties were constructed at .Pitch Kettle and at Beacons Old Field and others commenced at Maple Cypress and Wing Da?1 Crossing. Freight carried on the river during the year amounted to 292,092 tons, a gain of 19,067 tons over last year. Work at Beaufort harbor during the year wa confined to maintenance r the works previously construe" Tng cteptn or tne Dar is reporra to be; feet at low water, Tnere was a gain of 8,284 in the tonnage at this point during the year. The inland waterway between Beau fort harbor and New -river was dredg ed, 11,041 yards ofj material being re moved. They is an available balance Of I,!.00? for continuing work at this place." : Wo'rk on the Northeast river was con fined to 'snagging, ! i j The Black riyer waa' also snagged and a shoal at Hawes harrows improved. Several shoals in-the Cape Fear river above Wilmington were improved by regulating works of pile and brush. .The river was also snagged. Improvements on this river at and below Wilmington consist in extending and repairing the retaining dyke at Snow's march, re pairing New inlet dam and in operating the suction dredge. The material re-t moved at the shoals near the mou,th of .the river amounted tjo 463,173 cubic yards. The merchandise carried on the river . during the ear amounted to 673,208 tons, a gain of 55,154 tons over last year. Cotton loaded at Wilming ton amounted to 103,527,167' pounds. The Extra Term of Court Refused New York. July 22. District Attorney Olcott today gave out the correspondence between Governor Black and himself, in which Mr. Olcott asked for a special term of the supreme court, criminal branch, to try the tobacco trust. The directors of the American Tobacco ' Company were tried before Judge ' Fltsfiorald in general sessions court last month, the jury stand ing ten for conviction and two far ac quittal. Mr. Olcott desired, to try the di rectors again this month, but Governor Black refused to give him the extraordi nary term of court which he asked. or4 BASE BALL. A Fine Game at Wilson A nUmplre Knock ed Oat and Rotten.Egged at Pittsburg. Baltimore and Cincinnati Tied for Sec- flond Place ' I .(Special to The Messenger.) Wilson, N. .C. 'July 22. Tarboro ; won a great game today. For fifteen innings It was a pitchers' battle between Barker and Ellyson, Barker having the best of It. Both pitchers received good support. Tar boro won out in the fifteenth with one put. Bally made a great catch of a line hit. The score: ' R. II. E. Tarboro ,.. 3. 10 7 Wilson 2 7 6 Batteries Barker and Luskey; Ellyson and Oldham. (By Associated Press.) - NATIONAL LEAGUE. Pittsburg 1, Baltimore 9. ' Pittsburg 4, Baltimore 3. Pittsburg, July 22. The 5,200 people at the ball park today saw a prize fight, an umpire rotten-egged and two good games all for one price of admission. In thff third inning of the first game Sheridan gave a batsman his base on balls, and when he went out behind -the pitcher's box to watch second, Hawley. said; some thing to him and Sheridan struck Pink a- blow on the cheek. Ha,wley retaliated and with two well aimed blows knocked Sheridan down and out. Hawley Was put In the second game Hawley was put in to pitch and Jennings, the third man up, was given first on what Sheridan ; called an Illegal delivery. This set the crowd wild and in a few minutes a shower of ill smelling eggs fell arouftd the umpire, and he had to stop the game until Captain Donovan, could come in from the field and restore . order. Both '- .games were well played.; Attendance 5,200. The score: . R. H. E. First game, f - . i Pittsburg ....... 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 01 7 1 Baltimore .1 0 3 1 1 2 1 0 09 13 2 Batteries: Hawley. Hastings and Mer- rltt; Hotter and Clarke. Umpire, Sheri dan; time 2:05. .i Second game. ; . , Pittsburg 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 i 7 Baltimore 0 0 0 2 00 1.0 0-3 10 2 .Batteries: Hawley and Merritt; Corbett and Bowerman. Umpire,. Sheridan; time 2:05. ; (St. Louis. 8, Washington 9. St.xLquis, July 22. The Browns put up a slowly game on the bases and In the field tpday. The Senators ' assumed an early, lead, but the home team made a great! bid for the game in the last inning. They, had "-scored four runs - and had a man onj second when the last batter was retired. Attendance 500. The score:! St. Louis ......2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 Sj 14 4 Washington .2 0 1 2 1 0 3 0 09 j 11 4 Batteries: . Donahue- and Douglass; Merper and McGuireX Umpire, McDonald; time, 2:15. :.. ; ; I GhicaerQ 4. NewYork '3. Chioatrn .Tnlv 22. TrMlav' rami was an even thing and a pitchers' hattle for six innings each side, having scored .once ort errors. 'The Colts won out in the seventh on a bunching 'of two singles,follawed by Everett's long hit for four basest ' At tendance 5,600. The score. I BH. E. Chicago , ...0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 48 2 New York :.....l 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 23 I 8 4 Batteries: Griffith and Donahue; Riiiie and Warner. Umpire, O'Day; time, i:50?V I, leveland 6, Philadelphia 4. Cleveland, July 22. The Indians) had eood hattinc strpaks tn th first! seventh innings, while the Phillies jwere Only able ta hit Wilson- in i the second. That about tells the story of today's game. The visitors contributed to -their defeat by their fielding. Attendance! 1,200. The score: , R. H. E. Cleveland ........3 0 0 0 0.0 3 0 06 10 1 Philadelphia .......0 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 j 9 2 Batteries: Wilson and Zimmer; lOrth and Clements. Umpire, Emslie; timej 2:10. Cincinnati 1, Brooklyn 9. Cincinnati. July 22. When 'the Brook lyns went ta the bat in the ninth inning 'the score stood 7 to 3 in favor of the Reds.. An error, four singles and two doubles gave the visitors six runs and: the game, the Refts going out in onej two, three order in. their half of the : inning, i At tendance 3,000. The score: - R. H. E. Cincinnati. .2 1120010 07 10 2 Brooklyn. .0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 69 14 4 Batteries: Ehret and Peitz; Dunn and Smith. Umpire, Hurst; time,; 2:00. . i Louisville 2, Boston 17. " Louisville, July 22. The Colonels (quit after the fourth inning today and!, the Bostons! fattened their I batting averiages considerably. Miller wis substituted for Dowhnr in the seventh Snning. I At tendance 1,500. . The scote: i R. H. E. Louisville 0 000010102 '8 3 Boston i .;..0 1 0 5 0 5 5 0 1-17 20 3 Batteries: Nichols and Bergen; Dowl ing, Miller and Wilson. Umpires, Lopg and Butler; time, 2:07. i -' I - I -" The Standing of the clubs, including games of the 22nd is: ? . ! WonJ Lost. Per 'Cl Boston j..... Cincinnati ."; , Baltimore New York ...i Cleveland Philadelphia ........... Pittsburg Chicaga '. Louisvillle Brooklyn Washington St. Louis , 52 .21 .712 46 : 25 ;648 46 i 25-. 4648 42 29 J592 41 . r 31 J569 36 41 J532 34 38 . .472 34 43 .442 33 42 .440 32 t ! 41 . .438 28 1 43 .394 15 J 58 .205 ATLANTIC LEAGUE. At Lancaster s I Lancaster ......... Newark! At Philadelphia Athletics ., Norfolk! At Reading - i-'. ; Reading Paterson ' R. H. E. 3 2 0 3 2 0 3 2 015 15 5 0 3 0 2 0 4 2 1 0-12 15 6 i R. H. E. 04100011 07 7 2 00310000 0- 10 6 R. H. E. 10202000 05 8 5 00 0 03000 03 7 4 .1 The Miners' Strike. Pittsburg, July .22. Excitement was at fever heat in local coal miners cir cles tocjlay. The operators jwere appa rently preparing for any demonstration " and before night fall they were con vinced that' matters had taken a jse-? rious turn. Early in the mourning about 500 miriers from the Finleyville district .marched on the Bunola mines on the river &nd. succeeded in bringing 'the men alj work out. Sheriff Lowry-: f this cotunty has a force of ar:'zz .ready fior dutyat a mome-;;. "fj?"Jf ? ffiSSS for at and 1 ooo rSnSb":S. it was reported thkt - i - would march to the Cook "unes tonight and stay there until the diggers -came out. Sheriff Clark, I of Washington county, was on hand with a large number of deputies and trou ble was expected if the strikers jat tempted to" force the men to quit work. The miners' leaders continue at work in an-teffort to get the miners in jthe ConnellsvHle coke regions out, but jthe dispatdhes from Uniontown -and Dun bar indjicate that they are meeting with poor success. . ); Charleston, W. Va., July 22. The backbone of the strike appears to! be broken! in the Kanawha valley. The demand for a general strike among the soft coal diggers,- and the agreement reached to that end, by the represen tatives! in the meeting at Montgomery, yesterday, turns out to be practically a failure.j Tile nien at onlyvthree mines obeyed j the call to strike and they are now talking of returning to work. The organizers from Ohio have abandoned the Kanawha coal fields and have gone the New river, where they will make an effort to get the men out. The sen timent against the strike among the miners is now stronger than at anv time far a week. . . ' Progress of Peace Negotiations Constantinople,, July 22.-4At the sit ting of jthe peace conference today the strategic position proposed i by the mil itary attachees of the powers was agreed (upon and the preliminaries 'of peace between Turkey and Greece were then discussed. -, A Bill to Appoint a Monetary Commission Washington, July 22. Representative iC. W. Stone, f 'Pennsylvania; ' who ' Was chairman of the committee on coinage, weights! and measures of the last bouse, today introduced in the homse a bill to authorize the appointment -of a monetary commission . .-. . . i AYCOCK'S SUCCESSOR. SOLICITOR BERNARD IS TO DISTRICT ATTORNEY. BE Judge Hoke t the Johns Hopklna Hopl tal A State Exhibit at Next State Pair. 'The State's Bid for Castle Haynes Prop erty not Raised Fire in a LocomotlTe Cab A Fever Epidemic In Rutherford County To Erect Syllndrloal Cotton Press Plants. - I . Messenger Bureau, Raletgh, Park Hotel. , N. C., July 22. - The rain ended today. Top much has fallen in some sections of the state. Governor Russell commissions Judge Bryan to hold Guilford superior -urt vice Judge Hoke, who is in Johns Hop kins hospital, Baltimore, for treatment. State Treasurer Worth left today for. Morehead City to join Auditor Ayer in preparing for the county officers' con-; vention and will remain until it ends. , ' Secretary Ramsey, of the state board of agriculture, and Secretary iNichols, of the state agricultural society visited the; state fair grounds today and in spected the buildings.! The state owns the west wing of the main building, (which was part of the state exposition building of 1884) and; this is found to leak. The state will repair and re paint it and this year the agricultural department will for the first time in five years make an exhibit in it.. Superintendent Smith, of the peni tentiary, says positively that no bid' greater than the state's bid for the phosphate mine at Castlg Haynes has been made or will be made, j There was a queer fire here in the yard of the Southern raifway about 4 o'clock this morning, i- A fireman made up a fire in engine 607 and then left it. As a result the cab was burned and some of the coal in ! the tender. The fire department was called out. The damage is some $300, it is said. The Charlotte News takes the Mer ganthaler typesetting machines which the defunct Tribune used here. . Tomorrow the state bankers meet at Morehead City to form, a state bank association. " j . ; - Ex-Governor Carr spent last night here on his way home from Washing ton City. I .'!'.' Claude Bernard, solicitor of the first district, has for months had his eye on the place now held by C. B. Aycoclc as United States district attorney which pays S4.000. When he. was last here he appeared pretty sure he .would get it. It now seems that he is the winner. s . There is a bad outbreak of fever in Rutherford county. It is diagnosed as typhoid, but is as malignant and fatal as typhus and extremely contagious. Last year there was much fever in the sand-hill country, but this season. it is said there is Arery little. j It is the purpose 1 of the , company Vhich holds the patent for making the cylindrical bales of cotton to put, 'tip presses in this state. It was only.-the costwhich prevented the state from usingthese at the Roanoke farms. A fifty hourse power j engine, a sixty horse power boiler and four gins are part of the equipment.. The state is the largest cotton grower and ex-Senator Ransom the next largest in North Carolina. 5 . , Summer travel is very heavy, and the excursion business is greater-than ever. The summer . resorts in the state seem to be doing well., S The contract for the printing of the 120th volume of the superior court re ports is based, on 1,000 copies of 1,200 pages. The . reporter says there will not be quite so many pages.; The bids were all tolerably close, ranging from $1,230 by.. The Educator Company, of Richmond, to $914 by the Goode Print ing Company, of the same :ity. Ex-State' Senator W. W. Rollins, of Asheville,. svho is here, was the first man to employ convicts on the West ern North Carolina railroad. In 1872 he , thus used several hundred In the work of grading; But for the convicts this road would never have been built. There is considerable inquiry for to bacco lands east of here. A syndicate in the west wants to buy 3,000 acres. i The Ash interests in this state will be shown by the labor statistics bureau 'to :,be much larger than ever before. Reports are now coming in. - ": Race for the Diamond Stakes. Cincinnati, , Ohio, July 22. Maclver won the diamond stakes at Oakley to day after a most exciting struggle with Ed FarreU, This pair fought head and head for the last eighth 6f a mile to the . Wire, which they crossed noses apart the judges' decision going to Maelver, who was .the favorite at even money; Murphy,' the jockey on Ed Farrell, in attempting' to get through at the head of the stretch" caused the field to be messed about and nearly every horse in the race was fouled. Ed Farrell ran into Bannack Burn, who was fast overtaking the others and knocked him. off his stride. He then caught Maclver and ran the latter to a nose on the post but the judges.-dis qualified Farrell and placed Bannack .Burn second. Murphy's ride On far rell Was more like a western i cowboy man anytmng eise ana he was warned! not to give another exhibition of the sort under penalty of being set down for life. Maclver's race today with 118 pounds up shows him to. be one of thte best 2-year old' in the west: He al ready hag three stakes to his credf The weather was fine and th track fast, - .' . - 1 - ' Railroad Engineer Testifies to Benefits Received From Dr. Miles' Remedies. 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