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Vol ni No. 201.
KINSTON, N. O., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1900.
Price Two Gente.
GENERAL NEWS.
Matters of interest Condensed Into
Brief Paragraphs.
An $85,000 Are at Beatrice, Neb., Sun
day, destroyed a block of brick build
ings. An unidentified negro had hia bead cut
off by a train near Hyndman, Md., Sat
urday. Three men were killed and seven others
severely wounded by an explosion of a
boiler at Sault St. Marie, Mich., Sunday.
Fire destroyed astoreaud dwelling at
Barnesville, Md., Suuday. The tire
started in the cellar and is of unknown
origin.
Gen. Buller, it is said, will be toade a
peer when the New Year's honor list is
issued. He will assume the title of Lord
Buller of Ladyi-mith.
The Venezuelan government is getting
fixed for war. It has recently received
from Germany 10,000 Mauser rifles and
3,000,000 cartridges.
Fire at Rochester, N. Y., Sunday after
noon wrecked an electric light and power j
plant and destroyed a flouring mill. The
loss is about $175,000.
Bernard Riehl, 65 years old, of Media,
Pa., and Theodore Thompson, aged 42,
were asphyxiated by gas as they slept in
a hotel in Atlantic City, N. J. Everything
points to an accidental death.
Representative Davis, of Florida, re
ports mat tne people ol nis state are
greatly interested in the outcome of the
constitutional convention in Cuba. They
believe Cuban annexation will be a ca
lamity. Work has been suspended on the tear
ing down of the Dewey arch in New York
as a result of a request by the manage
ment of the South Carolina and West
India exposition which is scheduled to
take place in 1901.
An Italian foreman was found mur
dered at Keyser, W. Va , Sunday morn
ing. He is supposed to have been killed
by other Italians. This is the first mur
der to ha e occurred in Mineral county,
W. Va., since its organization 34 years
ago.
E. L. Adams, a brakeman, was ground
to death Saturday by a locomotive at
Catawba 8. C. The death is a particu
larly ad one. He had been married ouly
about three weeks, and leaves a young
wife, a widowed motuer and three sis-,
ters.
It is reported from Vienna that the
question of cession of the Danish Antilles
to the United States will soon be settled.
If Denmark is unable to come to terms
with the United States, The Journal
says she will establish in the West Indies
a large harbor and coaling station, the
capital for which will be furnished by
Germans.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg, Nov.
25, says concerning the czar's illness: "It
s persistently rumored in St. Petersburg
that the condition of Emperor Nicholas
is critical. Well informed people here
declare that the disease has made far
greater progress than the czar's physi
, cians have publicly admitted. A fatal
issue is now gravely feared."
..At Akron, 0., Edward Eppley was
found guilty of the unlawful possession
of dynamite. This is one of the cases
growing out of the riots there in August 1
last, wnea tne city Duuding was - blown
up and burned. This is the fifth convic
tion that has been Secured, but the jury
only returned a verdict after tho judge
had sent them back with a sharp repri
mand, .
-Much excitement was caused near
Pana, HI., Sunday, by a report that , the
skeleton of a young girl, presumably 12
or 13 years old, bad been found in a well
on the Brunot farm four miles north of
there. In April of last year thedead body
of Jane Brnnot was found in this same
well Mrs." Brunot . was murdered by-
two of her nephews, who are no w serving
we sentence m me isiiesier puiM;uuary
The work of cleaning the well out was
commenced,, and .- at the bottom was
found the almost perfect skeleton ol a
young girl, a bracelet, and a comb and
key. .The deepest mystery surrounds the
grewsome nnd. , .-;.
; INSURGENT FORT TAKEN. .
One Thousand Americana Success
fully .Attaok a Force of Filipl-
BOS. 4 v - W '.. .. ; . ' '
Manila, Nor. 24. A strong , stons for
tress : defended by the insurgent Gen,
Geronimo. in Pinarouran, north of - Ma
nila, was captured and destroyed Thurs
day by ,jl,000 American cavalry and
infantry of the Twenty-seventh and
Forty-seventh regiments and the Fourth
cavalry.-' The bulk of the rebels got
away v .'The attack was made from - four
sides up the steep rocks leading to .the
fortress. Ths troops were under heavy
fire bfl t ater x three v hours .climbing
reached the top. The enemy fled before
the attacking party'. . . . '
Private Hart," of the Twenty-seventh,
and Private Koppner,ot, the .Forty-nev-entb,
and two native scouts were killed
and 12 of the attacking fores wounded.
A vast quantity cf stores and wat mate
I rial was destroyed, tyt-
! Tha Best PresGrlptlia far Cbilts
d Fever is bottls oi Glove's Tastzlcm Canu.
i mc. It is simptj fa-oa sod quiiuns a a tvtrfes
oria'. No ctui no pf. ftro, . ,
SAVED BY PALMISTRY.
Tattered Individual Provci Ills Chs
by Showlne Ilia Hands.
"Rensouing from Antecedent proba
bility." sale) the justice to u prisoner
with n soppy lint and a turned down
mouth. "1 would say that when this
policeman accuses you of being a
tramp he Is speaking with a high re
gard fur the truth."
"Knowing little about logic." the de
fendant replied. "I am unable to say
whether I am guilty on that proof. But
by palmistry I am innocent. .My life
line Is good, my capacity for hard
work Is simply astonishing, and my
confidence In my own ability is su
perb." "Score one Cor palmistry. Now hold
up your hands."
They wont up.
"I can't toll whether you have work
ed by the looks of those hands," said
the justice. "But in the interest of the
spread of knowledge I will digress and
say to you that an article Known as
soap was invented some years ago."
"Never heard of It," said the prisoner
cheerfully, "and I know just as nnirh
about my guilt or innocence as I do
about sonp. You might try me by a
jury of my peers."
"Your peers are too busy telling fairy
tales to bartenders on this muggy
morning to come out to help the ends
i of justice. The dollar they'd got for
jury service would make them die of
heart disease."
"A doctor told me I'd never have
that," the prisoner said.
"I'm not Intensely interested in the
state of your health." the justice said
coldly. "I don't know whether you're
a tramp, and neither do you. I am in
clined to the opinion that you are, but
I guess no policemati will arrest you
between here and the corner."
The prisoner made the trial trip suc
cessfully and was seen no more. Chi
cago Journal.
Kitchener Hade Her Tremble.
During the Anglo-Boer war a smart,
good looking married woman of about
30 years of age acted as a Boer spy.
She was married to a Russian civil en
gineer resident at Johannesburg, and
at the outbreak of war the "slim"
Transvaalers sent her over the border
labeled "dangerous" She established
herself at Cape Town and soon man
aged to extract information from im
pressionable English officers. A corre
spondent who met this clever woman
in Cape Town said:
"When Lord Kitchener of Khartum
arrived In Africa, she went to meet
him, for she knew that If she could get
Inside his secrets she could learn all
things. She made it her business to
come casually in contact with the
Egyptian sphinx. She ran, her eyes
over the tall, gaunt figure, the rugged,
ugly face. She looked into the promi
nent, all seeing eyes and knew at a
glance that she was face to face with a
magnetism stronger than her own, and
nothing would Induce her to go near
him again. That is the most danger
ous man In Britain,' she said. . 'I feel
as If I were within the shadow of
death when I am near him. He Is a
man for men to conquer. No woman
can reach him .to use him. He would
read me like an open book In an hour,
and I believe he would shoot .me aa be
wpuld shoot a Kaffir if he caught me
red banded. I will try all other men,
but not that living death's head. No
Wonder he conquered In. Egypt. I
think he would conquer Jn hades."
Wld Trousers, Harrow Street
La Lucha of ' Havana In a long edi
torial "giving fits' to American visitors
to Cuba generally comes out strong in
defense of Cuban trousers and of the
narrow streets of the Cuban capital, It
says: . . . - ' - , 5-
"One frequently hears 'Americans
ridicule what they call "Cuban trou
sers? thereby betraying their own crass
Ignorance. " For instance, one of. the
coolest materials for men "to wear ' is
alpaca. To make close fitting trousers
of It pr of any other thin material
would prove disastrous: consequently
In all 'tropical countries, the. loose trou
sers are worn, and persons who visit
Mexico, Central and South America or
India: grow rapidly : accustomed - to
them. Furthermore; the shape affect-,
ed here so much is the height of fash
ion In France. ; ' : . -; V.y
"Again, the statementls frequently
made that the streets of Ha vana should
be "widened and made modern.' Gross
Ignorance is again displayed. All trop
ical cities are built with narrow streets,"
as that Is the only way In which pedes
trians can le given shade daring part
of the day; - Bjr stepping out on -to the-
Frado at 2 p. m. from Obispo of Obra-
pla the difference in tempera torsi on
wide and harrow streets may be
noted." f
MEANS TO CRUSH IT.
The Amerioan Tobaooo Oo. Begins
A Fght On the Welle-Whitehead
Cigarette Co., of Wilson.
Greensboro, N. C, Nov. 24. It is said
that the American Tobacco company
has declared war on another independent
manufacturing concern the Wellw.White
head Cigarette oinpany, of Wilson The
method of warfare is the same usually
waged by this corporation against inde
pendent concerns. The dealer who han
dles Carolina Brights, manufactured by
the Wells-Whitehead company, is to have
the American Tofacco company's goods
offered him at a reduced price, while tha
consumer is to be given a 20 percent,
rebate on the trust's cigarettes. Circu
lars have been distributed in Greensboro
by agent of the American Tobacco com
pany offering to give free a box of either
Duke of Durham, Cross Cut or Columbia
cigarettes for the fronts of five boxes t f
either of thewe brands. The circular
wind up with this caution: "Don't
throw your empty cigarette boxesaway,
& they have a value of one cent each."
Several agents of the American Tobacco
company are now in North Carolina in
terviewing the jobbers and dealers and
holding out indu.-ements to them to han
dle the trust goods exclusively. The
trust has decided to take this course to
crush competition on account of the pop
ular favor attained by the independent
concern s cigarettes.
AN ANCHORAGE BASIN.
Wilmington Wants Congresa to
Provide for One and for Navi
gation of Cape Fear River.
Wilmington, Nov. 24. Wilmington is
mating every effort to get in good form
its request to the next congress to pass
an appropriation lor an ancboraare basin
here and for making the Cape Fear river
Between Wilmington and Kayetteville
navigaoie tne year round. The commer
cial organizations of the city have taken
up the project with great zest and have
lurnished Capt. E W. Van Court Lucas
corps of engineers, United States army
with abundant information in favor of
the appropriation which he will incorpo
rate in nis annual report to Gen. John M
Wilson, the chief of engineers. It is urged
that the anchorage basin is not onlv nec
essary to Wilmington's full development
as a port or entry, out also the proposed
anchorage basin will serve admirably as
a aepot lor tne neet of torpedo boats and
other war vessels of light draft. The im
provement of the Cape Fear river will
mean a great deal not only to Wilming
ton and Fayetteville but the lands along
me river as wen wmcn are expected to
become fine trucking fields just as soon
as prompt and certain transportation
can be provided. For a fourth of the
year now navigation is tied up by scar-
city oi water in the river.
On the Edge.
A little boy fell out of the bed at his
home In Idlewild some nights ago. and
when his mother aud some of the oth
er members of the family teased him
about It he felt very much as If he had
done .something disgraceful and cried
as If his little heart woukl break.
His mother saw that she was on the
wrong tack, so she ceased to tease him
Qnd made the others quit doing so and
made a show of sympathy by asking:
"My child,, how on earth did you
come to fall out of bed?"
"I don't know, mother." he replied,
"unless I went to sleep right where I
got In." Memphis Scimitar.
Pocketed the Insult.
At the close of a performance given
as a benefit to John Brougham, the ac
tor and dramatist, one of the audience
threw upon the stage a purse of gold.
Brougham picked it up and after exam
ining it said, , "Ladles and gentlemen,
circumstances compel me to pocket the
Insult but," looking grim, "I should
like to see the man who would 'dare to
repeat it!" - , - ; ; v.- ' '
Choice of Tailors;.
Chollie Yooab tailah doesn't seem to
give yon a vewy good fit.
, Fweddie No. dean boy, but he gives
ue cwedlt, and that "is bettah, ?- Ex-
changs, -. ' - . - ' . ..-
Do von rtat this color fof
your our ? Then wc cin't help
onjw.' But if jW want ?. your
ersy hair restore! to trie fceaott--ful
dark, rich color, it .used to
I niTc, AycrVHur Vigor .will.
frve rt to yoo every time, joo
now xta net. a dye, its a
i" hiir-foodY Tfcef e U no need of
looking old before your time. '
ram
from mi of U Vf?"?:
, wtH tli Doctor
tot Jost ttf riirtit
J. C. ATZB, LoweU,
itxx.: n. E win t i
iurgtodo. Addres6,Dr,
Light Grccm Hair 1
LaGRANGE ITEMS.
Frkk Press Bureai.
LaGrange, November 20, 1900.
There will be Thaukfgiving service at
the M. L. churcn I hursday night.
Mess. Rouse Bros., bankers, have put
in a thirteen thousand pound safe in their
banking house.
Mr. J. L. Wertz and son, Robert, of
Newark, N. J., are stopping at the Fields
Hotel for a few days to hunt in this vi
citiity.
The public school opened today. Mr.
rred Johnson principal, Misses Alice
Harper and Lillian Hodges assistants
Seventy pupils were enrolled.
Uev. T. H. Sutton will preach his last
sermon, before going to conference, next
Sunday. The stewards of the M. E
church will met next Monday at 11
o'clock to muke their final settlement
with Mr. Sutton.
The wind and rain storm last night
was very severe, but did little damage
here. At Jason Mr. Richard Hardy
fences and twelve stacks of fodder with
some outhouses were destroyed. Mr.
Carson Cobb had four tobacco barns
blown down. A negro familv. eight in
number, hud their house completely de
stroyed.
OFFICERS nKBXAM KJNSEY SCHOOL CADET
COKP8.
The following appointment of officers
and non-commissioned officers for the
cadet corps of Debnam-Kinsey School is
hereby made to remain in effect until fur
ther orders:
Staff Adiutaut and Lieutenant, Jas.
C. Dail; Quartermaster Sergeant, Robert
M. Herring.
Company Captain, Carl W. Sutton;
lsC. Lieutenant, UVber B. Waters; 2nd
Lieutenant, James II. Dawson; 1st 8er
geant, Benjamin F.ltoyal; 2nd Sergeant,
William 1. Kennedy; 3rd Sergeant, Wil
liam C. Ernul; 4th Sergeant, Elijah W.
Moye; 1st Corporal, Robert P. Uzzell
2nd Corporal, Leslie A. Holladay: 8ra
Corporal, Karl Taylor; 4th Corporal,
Julian W. Fields.
By order of
8. J. Holladay, Commandant.
Approved by
J. E. Debnam, Superintendent.
THEY FLOG- THEIR HANDS.
Mill Run by
Owned by
Negro Labor and
New Jersey Corn-
pany.
New York, Nov. 24. Apropos, a re
cently published story concerning flog
ging of operatives in southern cotton
mills, a correspondent of The Evening
Post writing from Fayetteville, N. C.,
says:
"Tne mill in which the flogging was
said to be practiced is in this city, and
the story had some basis in fact. The
mill in question is not owned or operated
by southern people but is the property
ofaNewJeisey company. The opera
tives are not white men and women but
are negroes exclusively, principally negro
boys and girls, and 'picanninnies,' even
the 'superintendent' is a negro sent from
the north by the mill owners. The labor
employed is the cheapest that can be
secured and the hardest to manage. It
is a fact that corporal punishment has
been administered at this mill on more
than one occasion by the superintendent,
who, I am informed, told his employers
at the outset that be could manage this
class or nelp in no other way.
Te (ar i Cols In One Day
ks Laxativ Bbomo OumiNB Tablxts. At
draggistt refund thi money if it fails to car. K. W
tsovs's stenstnr It nfl ,c bos ne
KITCHENER TO LAY WASTE-
To Raze Villages and Impose Death
for Treason. His "Drastic Plan
of Operations."
London, Nov. 26. "We understand."
eaya the " Daily Express this morning,
that Lord Roberts recently reaueeted
the government to send 20,000 regulars
to South-Africa to relieve the same num
ber still in tne field, but that his request
J 1 ! J a.
was aecuneu on iue score oi expense.
After condemning the government's
refusal as "ruinous economy," the Daily
Express goes on to describe Lord Kitche
ner's "drastic plan of operations."
"Be will endeavor to isolate the com
mandoes," it says, "and tomovesusDect-
ed JBoer families into, garrisoned towns.
lie will clear troublesome districts, con
fining the population in larger, if neces
sary, and will take or destroy all food
supplies, punish treachery by death or
transportation,-raze Tillages snilty of
treasonable acts and destroy all farms
In the vicinity of railway , or telegraph
CUlTJDg." ;
AUGUSTTLOWEBo -'It
is a turnrisinir Tact'-sava Prof.
Hon ten, "that in mv travels in all parts
of the world for the last ten years, I have
met mora people having .used UTeen's
August Flower than any other, remedy
for dyspepsia, deranged liver and stomach
and for constipation. 1 find for tourists
and salesmen, or for persons filling office
positions, where headaches and general
bad feelings from irregular habits exist,
that Green's August Flower is a grand
remedy. It does not injure the system
by frequent use, and is excellent for sour
stomach and Indigestion." Sample bot
tle free at Temple-Marston drug store.
Sold by dealers in all civilized countries
STATE NEWS.
Interesting North Carolina Items
In Condensed Form-
Work ha.i begun on a new telephone
line.from Durham to Chapel Hill.
The North Carolina western conference
of the M. E. church at Greensboro closed
Monday. Gastonia is the next place of
meetiug.
While out hunting near Reidsville Sat
urday Will Rankin shot into a covey of
birds and accidentally killed his friend,
Wright Smathers. The load of shot en
tered the liraiu of the deceased aud he fell
without a cry.
A South Carolina court last week ren
dered a judgmt-nt that Mrs. Lula M.
Davis, of Raleigh, recover from the
Southern Ktulwuy in the sum of f 10,000
for t he alleged killing of her husband on
the railroad track near W eai minister, S.
V., nt Jauuary.
The Lincoln Journal advauces the
rattier interesting theory that the person
w ho murdered the old man Travis, near
Newton, about ten du.vs ago, was the
murderer also of the two old ladies, Mrs.
Colley aud Miss Carthcart, iu Mecklen
burg county, last week.
At Uoldrboro funday morning a mur
der was committed. A womau, the wife
of the victim, figures iu the case aud has.
along with the murderer, been committed
to jail, held as a witness. The parties
are all negroes. John Cobb is the victim
and JesHO Blackburn, alias Jesse Black,
the murderer. The weapon used was a
razor.
The lower part of Tarboro was badly
wrecked by a cyclone Suuday night. The
tin rooting on Royster's guano factory
was roiled up like a tcrollaud sent crash
ing up, n the thb-oof of the Central
warehouse, whose entire front blew out.
More or less damage was done to many
other btfildiugs. Iu all parts of the town
fenciug is down.
Charlotte Observer: Ross McCoy, son
of Coatesworth H. McCoy, of Berryhill
township, is only 11 years old and
weighs 190 pounds. His size does not
seem to make him dull or awkward, but
he moves about briskly as if he were of
ordinary weight, lie is not at all sensi
tive, but answers readily any questions
put to him about himself.
Charlotte Observer: Sunday night
about 11:30 o'clock a limb of a tree in
Mr. J. R. Holland's yard on East avenne
caught tire presumably from a too live
wire. About the same time the nre alarm
wires got crossed, went awry, and rang
at a great rate for ten minutes. The fire
in the tree was put out easily; but the
noise made by the tire bells was enough to
cause heart disease.
At the last term of Burke county crim
inal court the Southern Railway was
convicted in two cases for giving free
E asses to S. Huffman and T. Newton
Lallyburton. Judge Stevens imposed
the minimum fine of $1,000 in each case.
On Friday Gov. Russell commuted the
sentence to a fine of $ 125 in each case
and the costs. These caes have been
twice to the superior court and thence to
the supreme court ou appeal, the State
winning in the end.
A special from Winston, 24th inst.,
says: The R. J. Reynolds company is
negotiating for the purchase of another
one of Winston's tobaccco manufacturing
plants. The deal has been in progress
for several days.. The details have been
agreed upon, and the papers will proba
bly be signed next week. The president
of the Reynolds' company has been in
New York for several days conferring
with directors of biscompany. Upon his
return it is thought the sale will be con
summated. It is an important deal, and
in the transfer it is said that at least
$200,000 will change hands..
Raleigh Cor. Charlotte Observer; It
appears that only two of the five electric
street railways in operation in this State
pay, the two being as Charlotte and
Asheville. The latter pays well. The
Btreet railway at Winston-Salem is $26,
000 on the wrong side of the ledger since
it began operations. In 1894 the Raleigh
railway passed into a receiver's hands
and in the six years since, it is about
$5,000 on the wroug a)de. These losses
alluded to are in the operation of the line
itself, as these companies make money .
on their electric lights. The manager of
the railway here says it would actually
pay to shut down Nov. ,1st and: resume -
operations May 1st, as there is no profit ',
in the winter travel. The Wilmington
railway is to go into a receiver's" hands.
Raleigh Cor.' Messenger: The tfaptisV
State convention, which meets here Dec 4 .
5th, will be the seventieth' annuaT one.
It met here last in 1892. ' Rev. Dr. BjIL
Marsh, of Oxford, will preside. The num
ber of church members within this con
vention is 167,000. an increase of T.000 :
over last year. There are 140,000 negro :
Baptists in the State. The. contributions '
f i r foreign, State and borne missions dur- :
in g-the year aggregate f 45.000, an to- -i
crease of $5,000- over- last - year. a This
does not include educational -collections.
All the Baptist educational institutes are
most flourishing and l,t00 students are ' .
attending- them. .They,- include A Wake -,
Forest Uollegt lor youog men, the Bap
tist Female. University at Raleigh, the -Oxford
Female Seminary, the Chowan
Baptist Female Institute and 49acad- -
emies, some of the latter having as many
as S00 students.
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