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-' - , - ,. III . " VOL. VII. NO. 30. GREENSBORO, rN. 0.. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1900. Price Five Cents 'sf EMM -; .1 A NEGRO WOMAN FOUND DEAD. BODY LAY IN AN OLD CARRIAGE. Lizzie Crockett Probably Went by the Whiskey and Morphine Route Was Ad dicted to Both Habits-Body Discovered lv a Former Employer, Who Notified the Officer s Buried! at the Expense of the County. Karly this morning the dead body of Lizzie Crockett, a colored woman, was found in a vacant lot in the rear of j Wagner's restaurant, on Lewis street. Mr Warner was the first to notice the woman, and thinking; some thing was wrong, notified Officers Whittinarton and Jeffreys, who made an investigation and found that she ;va? dead. The body was reclining on ' the seat of an old dilaDidated carriage and was not then stiff or cold. In the ab sence of the coroner, Dr. J. P. Tur ner, who is omt of the city, Dr. K. L. Kierson was summoned to make an ex amination. He found that life had Dot been extinct for more than two or three hours. There were no signs of violence and an inquest was not deemed necessary. Tne body was turned over to Aaron Mendenhall, who prepared it for burial at the expense of the county. Death was probably caused by whis key and morphine, to both of which hab'ts the wonan was addicted. She was known to have purchased a small quantity of the latter drug last night, and she is thought to have been drink ing also. She was seen as late as 11 o'clock in company with a negro man.i Becoming overpowered by the effects of whiskey and morphine, she proba bly went into the vacant lot in search of a place to lie down, and found the old carriage in the rear of the restau rant. She was heard by Mr. Wagner at 5 o'clock this morning, but knowing her habits, he supposed her to be drunk, and paid no further attention to her. The womaa had been employed by Mr. Wagner as a cook in his restau rant. She was to have gone to work io: a famih- at Proximity this morn- When the physician went down to ?xaraine tfie body it was surrounded by a ci owd of negroes, attracted to the spot by morbid curiosity, but their na tive u ce stition would not allow one of "-hem to touch their dead acquaintance. To them the sight of the form upon which death had laid its chilly fingers in the oariy morning hours, produced some hing more than a feeling of sol emnity or sympuhy; it was more akiu :o a feeling of dread superstition and a ve, a idr d of dire warning from some -un.-e.n power. WAS ANXIOUS TO SEL. -'Kockhouse Kid" Wanted to Sell a Fine Gun at Any Old Price. A negro by the name of Joe Smith, alias "Rockhouse Kid," was goiDg arouod town this morning with a fine double-ban el shot gun which he offer to sell at any old price. The gun, he said. cot S"0 ( and he probably told the truth in this particular, ) but on account, of be;ng in need of ready-cash, he would sell it for $5. It didn't take very Icqo- to find gome one ready to trade on this proposition, and ihe gun w'as about to be be exchanged for a ve-dollar bill, when Chief Scott cham -d to pass alohg and investigate te t.-ansaciion. He was satisfied that the gun bad been stolen and locked up t ie nejit-o on suspicion. Tiie pun is in the office of the Chief fi 1'oliee, where the owner can get it iy identifying it. WANTED HIS DOG. 'iii-.i tin- OI5 icer WiA Up to a Few Trick Also. For the past few days the officers have o.-n making raids on dogs upon which the tax has not been paid, with the result that a number have been impounded. Saturday evening a negro employed by Mr. S. C. Dodson came to Chief Scott with a dog check and a ,0D? face, saying some "wuthless nig ger'' had taken the check off his dog, causing Fido to be locked up. Taking the check, Mr. Scott compared it with bis book and saw that it was the same number sold to Mr. Dodson. It was a pretty shrewd irick on the Part of the negro, who really ex pected to fool the officers and get his dog without paying the tariff, , " THE EMPEROR IN TEARS. Beseeches the Empress to Not Bring Rain on the Empire An American Sortie. Thousands of Chinese Held Back. By Wire to The Telegram. Victoria, B. C, Sept. 3. Chinese refugees eayj in a copy of he North China Gazette brought here today, that the Emperor, in tears and grovel ing at the feet of the Empress Dowager, besought her not to attack the lega tions and bring ruin on the empire. He was contemptuously refused and driven away by the Empress and Prince Tuan. The same paper says the American minister and Baron Von Kettler were warned by three Chinese ministers. Baron Von Kettler refused to heed the warning1 not to go to Tsung Li Yamen on the day he was kijled. The following account of a sortie by American marines is given! The Mex ican legation was surrounded by thousands of Chinese when Capt. Meyer and his man charged and drove them back, holding them until a barri cade could be built. TO PROTECT FOREIGNERS. A French Gunboat Going: Up the YangTse Kiang River French Opinion of Ameri ca's Policy. By Wire to The Teleerram. Paris, Sept. 3 A dispatch from Shanghai reports the French gunboat Surprise on the way from Taku to that port for the purpose of ascending the Yang Tse Kiang river for the pro tection of foreigners in Nankin and Hankow. According to advices from Nankin, three British war ships have entered the Yang Tse river. Li Hung Chang is said to have de manded the services of two maritime viceroys and two members of the coun cil of Tsung Li Yamen as peace nego tiators. The French opinion of the American po lie j in China is that it is quite un trustworthy, being inspired mainly by electioneering motives. LABOR DAY OBSERVED. Working People Take Holiday and Enjoy Themselves Big Parades. By .Wire to The Telegram. New York, Sept. 3 Labor Day was universally observed as a I oliday in this city. There were no large parades, but the streets were filled with jolly picnickers, and all sports were largely attended. Buffalo, N. Y.. Sept. 3 Labor Day was generally celebratod here. This morning there was a great parade of labor organizations, thousands of la borer participating. St. Louis, Sept. 3 All kindsof busi ness is generally suspended. Over 25,000 men participated in a parade of labor organizations. Otis Succeeds Wheeler. By Wire to the Teleffram. Washington, Sept. 3. General Otis has been selected to fill the post of commanding officer of the Dspartment of the Laues, made vacant today by the retirement of General Joseph Wheeler. Gene-al Chaffee will be made a brigadier general. . Wreck Near Staley. There was a slight freight wreck near Staley, on the A. & Y. division of the Southern, about noon today. The journal under one of the cars of a lo cal freight train broke, and three or four cars were derailed before the train could be stopped, some of them being badly damaged. There is no telegraph office at Staley andtheabove particularsre all that have been re ceived at the superintendent's office here. The other trains on the road were delayed several nours on account of the wreck. Guilford Col.egre Opens. Prof. T. G. Pearson, who spent most of his vacation in4Greensboro, went to Guilfor . I ollege- today. The college I opens tomorrow, and judging from the large number or young people wno lert or passed through Greensboro for that place today, the attendance will be very satisfactory. Greensboro will be well represented at Guilford this, year, xhe following eight oung" men being ;in attendnc4i Eiiner Leak, Roland Hill , f- Henry. Smith, James Lewis, Jack LoetlfX Glascook, Percy "Gentry ,. nd Clinton- REPUBLICANS III CONCLAVE STATE COMMITTEE HERE TODAY Arranging: for the Presidential Campaign, Which They Will Open on the 5th Will Endeavor to Plol the Party's "Full Strength" No Hope of Carrying the State for McKinley Chairman Holton Will Run the Campaign from Greens boro. According to a call by Chairman. Holton, the Republican State Execu tive Committee met in Greensboro this afternoon to "take stock," as it ere, this being the first meeting sinse the late election. The following were those present: Chairman Holton, of Winston; Sec retary Hyams, Of the Ninth District; 1 Treasurer Bailey, of Davie county; Collector H. S. Harkins, of Asheville; Collector E. C. Duncan, of Raleigh; United States Marshal Dockery, of Raleigh; Assistant District Attorney E. Spencer Blackburn, of Winston; United States Marshal Millikan and Postmaster Tyre Glenn, of Greeens boro; Revenue Officer and exheriff J. A. Hoskins, of Summerfield; J. W. C. Long, of Statesville; Heenan Hughef , of Graham; D, S. Crawford, of Orange county; Ma'jor H. L. Grant, of Goldsboro; D. W. Patrick, of Snow Hill, and R. J. Lewis, from the Sec ond District. The meeting was held for the pur pose of arranging for the coming Na tional campaign, but it is understood that, after surveying the wreck of the Republican pany and considering the majority given the constitutional amendment on August 2d, they re solved that it was worse than folly to talk of carrying North Carolina for McKinley, or any other Republican. The most they hope to do is to keep up some sort of a party organization. In response to an inquiry as to whether an effort would be made to vote the negroes in November, a member of the committee said, with despair and hopelessness written across his countenance, "We will endeavor to poll the party's full strength " Chairman Holton tellsThe Telegram the Republicans will open the cam paign about the middle of the present month. He expects to have several noted speakers from other States, though no appointments have yet been made for any of them. Mr. Holton will continue his headquarters in Greensboro. An Important Meeting. The mass meeting in the conrt house Thursday night in the interest of the Central Carolina Fair, is of great im portance and should be largely at tended. Gen. Julian S. Carr, of Dur ham, one of the vice presidents of the fair association, will be present and deliver an address. Everybody has a cordial invitation to attend the meet ing. Tickets to the Band's Concerts. The tickets for the entire course of concerts to be given by the Gate City Band, at the Academy of Music during the coming season, have been issued and may be purchased from -any mem ber of the band. Season tickets (for admission to six concerts) will be sold at $1.50 each; tickets to a single con cert at 50 cents each. Meeting of Women's Societies. The Ladies' Aid Society and the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of Grace Methodist Protestant church met with Dr. Joy Harris this afternoon at. 5 o'clock. The ladies were address ed by Miss Forest, a returned mission ary from Japan. Refreshments were served. Literary Meeting. ( WestMarket Street Epworth League wilf tonlgnt discuss the situation in China. A number of papers have been preparea giving the best thoughts from the brightest minds of the day. A cordial invitation is extended to all who are interested in this subject to be present. Time, 8:30. Mr Boycott Branching Oat. 24. Pleasant Brothers have sold their grocery store, on tne corner or Walt er avenue aml Spring street, to Mr. O. JD. Boycott, who will conduct it in the future. He will move his feed and sraln.'BtQP irom 'West 'Market streatfdr the. laborer1 and his - family. and. consolidate ifc with fchfi grofeefctAil honor to the laboing' man, ' foir opsin, est. BRYAN SPEAKS TO A MULTITUDE. Fifty Thousand Hear Him in Chicago and Cheer Him to the Echo By Wire to The Telegram Chicago, SeptJ 3. Fifty thousand enthusiastic people crowded into Elec tric park today to hear W. J. Bryan speak, Mr. Bryan's voice was in spletldid condition and he made a great speech, thrilling the vast assemblage. He was interrupted time after time by vociferous applause, and at the con clusion of his speech was given a mag nificent ovation. END OF GREAT SUFFERING. Mr. J. A. Byrd Passed Away Yesterday Prayed for the Relief of DeathFuneral This Afternoon. Mr. J. A Byrd, who has been crit ically ill for some time, died at his home on North Spring street yester day morning at 10 o'clock. He had been in feeble health for 18 months or more and at times suffered greatly. For the past few wesks his condition was critical in the extreme and it was known that his death was only a ques tion of time. During the spring of 1898 he suffered a painful and serious accident, from which he never recovered. The Fire Department was giving an exhibition of the Hook and Ladder Company's new aerial truck on the corner of South Elm and Eas,t Washington streets, when Mr. Byrd received a se vere blow on the bead from a falling ladder. The injury affected his spine, and be was never again able to attend to bis business. About three months ago he went to Johns Hopkin's Hospital, Baltimore, for treatment, but the physicians in charge gave him no encouragement. After his return home he was ale to be up but little and "at times suffered a-ffony, especially toward the last of his illness. During his rational mo ments in the last two weeks of life he prayed for the relief that would come through death. Mr. Byrd was a quiet, inoffensive man and a good citizen. For a num ber of 'years ce conducted a barber shop in the McAdoo House building, enjoying a liberal patronage and meeting with success in business. He leaves a devoted wife, who watched J faithfully by his bedsiee to the end came. The deceased was a member of West Washington Street Baptist church and Greensboro Council No. 13, Jr. O. U. A. M. The funeral took place at his residence this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, being in charge of the Junior Order, the members of which attended in a body. The service was conducted by Rev. L Johnson and interment made in Green Hiil cemetery. LABOR DAY. The One Day Set Aside for the Working- Men of America. To the Editor of the Telesrram: Labor Day has come. The one day set aside by the national congress in honor of the sons of toil has dawned upon us, bring-intto the skilled and unskilled toiler the day of ret for him and his family. It is not so mnch the day of rest that delights aod enthuses, bui the thought that be has been re membered by the law-makers at our national capital. He may well be proud, for it clearly goes to show that labor hns not gone unrewarded. The day is known but little of, except what we glean from the metropolitan dailies, in this part of the country, but where organized labor is in evidence, today millions will participate in the festivi ties to its honor. Picnics, excursions, parades, etc., will form the major part of the attractions. The workingman will gatheraround him this day those who are dear to him and hie himself; from the scenes of his labor to the country or to the beach and enjoy the day as he' would no other in the year. It is his day, set aside for him and to him it belongs. But one city in our State will ob serve this day, and that is Charlotte, and, from reports, the day will be a pleasant one. A basket picnic at Lat ta park, a. baseball game and a pa rade of the trades union, all uniformed. Tomorrow's papers will show that the day has not been one of riot, but that throughout the country it has been ob served as o'ne of rest and amusement his is uofa bed of roses. Labor. THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. ITS RELATION TO THE INDIVIDUAI -c . Even After Calvary the Kingship of Christ w as .Not .rally Apprehended Sometimes Today He Receives the Crown of Thorns and the Ironical Inscription of King The Old Cry of Repentance Addressed to the People of Today Characteristics of the Kingdom. . A large congregation heard Mr. J. W. Bailey, editor of the Biblical Re corder, of Raleigh, at West Washing ton Street Baptist church yesterday morning. He spoke on "The Kingdom of God as Related to the Individual," making an address of much power and force. Mr. Bailey is a fluent and ready talker, as well as a strong and convincing writer, and never fails to say something of interest, whether he speaks from the rostrum or through the columns of his paper. In the course of his remarks yesterday morn- ing he said: . "Jesus was . announced, hailed, hated and crucified 9 as a king an earthly king. The disappointment of the Jews is scarcely less, pathetic than His disappointment in them, crowned as it is by His crucifixion. "One would think that after Calvary at least after these centuries the nature of the kingship of - Christ, cer tainly as far as thenndividual Chris- . tian is coneerned would have been fully apprehended. But I fear not. sometimes yet He receives the crown of thorns and the ironical inscription of King, even from those who regard titemselves as His friends. 'John the Baptist came crying, Re pent, for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand. Jesus opened his ministry with the same message; 'and when. He 6ent forth . the seventy they were charged to preach as they went, say ing "Repent, for the ingdomk of Heaven is at hand." "Evidently this message is of the first importance. Evidently it is ad dressed to people here and no,w;' evi dently it ppeaks of a kingdom ready, at band, i0 foe promulgated 'ki; the earth. If we agree upon so much, there is life only to be revealed, the character of the kingdom that is ready for as, provided we turn away from others and make ready to accept it. "The kingdom of Heaven is -of-heaven, not of earthr but nevertheless it is intended for men and women on the earth, not of this world, but as suredly in this world. It' is temporal , as to place, but eternal as to charac ter. We are liable to make the mis take of the" Jews and confound our selves here by looking for any earthly king, only failing to find an earthly king in Jesu and therefore abandon Him. Be sure that He is ready to be your king upon the earth but more. His kingdom is in the hearts of men, is a moral kingdom, and as the moral relation includes and transcends all otJaers, as His' kingdom includes all life domestic, personal, industrial, political and social as well as spiritual. And if Jesus rules he would rule utterly. Do not sufier the idea that, because He is not temporally visible, He is not temporally present, power ful and ruling. The moral relation, the spiritual life covers the whole." f Mr. Bailey then undertook to briefly sketch chief characteristics of the king dom. ''It is," he said, "a kingdom with a law Righteousness. It is a kingdom of a principle Love. It is a kingdom of an ideal these beatitudes I have just now read to you, this par able of forgiveness, this similitude of childlikeness these express forth the ideals of the kingdom; but we are to find them all at once in the person of Jesus, whom we are to imitate and appprOpriate. "The Kingdom of Heaven is a king dom with a purpose the redemption and exaltation of sinful men. v. "But I would lure you away from earthly corruptions again. Do not think that we can do these things. Do not think that we can come at them all in a day. It is a divine kingdom with a divine King who enables men - and women to lay hold of His laws, His principle and His ideal, otherwise so far out of human reach. He hears the despairing note of the world, fie kndws that men are weak, He 16ves the weakest, the sinfolesjt and the 'tnis erablest, andwhen Ue &ys fiLte king dom is ready He means that it is ready to ,help not simply ready to Tje re- 't" Continued on page Jitfe) ' -f -v. " a - , r - L- i V! . 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