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The EVENING PtESS. REE PUBLISHED EERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDRY. VoL IV-No. 262. KINSTON, N. O., THORSDAY,aNUARY 30, 1902. Price Two. Gents. STATE NEWS, InterMtlxur North Carolina Item In Condensed Form. Mr. D. B. Baker, proprietor of the Hay wood Hardware company, of Waynes- ville, has made an assignment. Assets, 4,000; liabilities, f 3,000. Prof. L. I Hendren, of Newborn, has resigned his position at Trinity High School to accept a position as professor ol physics at Columbia College, Mew York. A third report of the very fatal disease among horses in the eastern counties is made by the State veterinarian, who re news the statement that it is due to for age poisoning. Fayetteville Observer: John Henry Alexander, a nearro railroad hand, Hon S day shot and fatally wounded Vina Free man at tne latter e nouse on mumiora treefe. Alexander escaped and has not yet been apprehended. The woman said the shooting was accidental. Mt. Airy special to Raleigh Poet: Gar Held Atkins and Bad Marshall, white boys, while in a field near the home of At kin's father, became engaged in a contro versy and Marshall shot and instantly killed Atkins, the entire load of shot en tering his heart and longs. "Mean corn liquor" was the cause of it all. Sewn prisoners escaped from the jail at Hendersonville Tuesday night. They were confined in cages. Throo prisoners wonld not go. The escaping prisoners at the bars with a saw. Their escape was not discovered until the deputy sher iff went to carry breakfast. Most of the men who escaped were desperate men. ' Fayetteville Observer: On Monday, near Idaho, some dogs scratched up from a ditch on the side ol the road, the body of an infant child, and when discovered, were eating it. The mother of (he child Is known to the authorities, and Bhe Is suspected of having buried it alive. Cor . oner Boss and Deputy Sheriff Monaghan went to Idaho at noon to investigate the matter. News comes from Black Mountain, some - miles east of Asbeville, that smallpox has broken out there. Vaccination, has been made compulsory. Residents of that sec tion are resisting the ordinance and a number of arrests have been made for re sisting. The llvep of physicians and offi cers who attempt to enforce vaccination have been threatened by several persons. One girl says she will shoot anyone com ing to her home to vaccinate her. The State board of health has received notice of twenty-two cases of smallpox In Sampson county. Four deaths have been reported up to date. One of the fa talities was in the care of an infant. An other was a young lady who died of con fluent smallpox. The third was a gentle-1 man, confluent smallpox being given in this case also as the cause of death. The" fourth was a gentleman who died within forty hours after the first symptons. His was genuine hemmorrhagio smallpox, which is the most malignant form of all. Four deaths out of twenty-two cases is a serious percentage. It looks as if Wll ton had a companionjin misfortune. Concord Standard: Lester Bell, who took into (he mouth too much of the ' thief that steals away ths brain, got in to a row with his half brother, Geonre Mel- , chor, Saturday evening on Mrs. Fisher's place near Mt Pleasant. He took a jeal ous rage about his brother and his wife - and got hia shot gun. His mother, en treating htm to desist, got in ths way of his shot and got it -in tbe neck while George was sprinkled at different places but not much hurt. The main force of the shot narrowly missed George's stom ach, in which cam there would have been , a funeral. Lester was brought to jail Satorday night, be seems right sorry that liquor made him shoot his mother. It is not probable that the witnesses can ,. appear against him at this court. ; ,, 'Washington Cor: News-Observer: The - senate committee on forest reservations ' Wednesday unanimously agreed to fa vorably report Senator - Prltchard's bill for the Appalachian Park. - The bill pro vides for the purchase of not more ; than two million acres of land and appropri ates five million dollars. , Both our sena tors are members of the committee, and ; both, it is needless to say, attended the meeting. . It looks like this bill will pass v at this session. Representative Small has Introduced a bill to establish a life saving station on Ocracoke Island, near Ocra eoke Inlet. The station will be ten miles from a station on the north and six miles from ths one on the south, and is sepa rated from the latter by an inlet. Many wrecks have occurred there in recent ' years..; ,- i ' Assistant Labor Commissioner Faison has completed the chapter on "Textile Industry in North Carolina for the an nual report. It shows there are now 226 cotton. 11 woolen, 3 silk, 1 carpet and 1 Jot bagging mill, total spindles 1,694, 63, Increase 212,000 overpreviousyear; looms 36,1 23, increase 3.000; knitting . machines 3.814, increase 1,800; hours of A Our for Lumbago. W. C. Williams, of Amherst. Ya., says: "For more than a year I suffered from rambftaro. T Anally tried Chamberlain's Patn Balm and it gave me entire relief, which all other remedies have failed to da" Sold by J. E. Hood. labor in cotton mills are in no case less than 11 and in knitting mills 10 to 10. The number of operatives are: Men 18, 171. Increase 21 per cent: females 18,- 877, increase 15 per cent: children under 14 years 7,990, Increase O per cent, lie finds 82 per cent, of the adults read and write, which is the same as the previous year, while only 85 per cent, of the child ren read and write, this being 3 per cent, less than last year. High Point special to News-Observer: Thursday night about 11:30 o'clock. Miss Mamie Smith was awakened at her home by a stifling smoke, and upon Investiga tion found that her residence was on fire. She gave ths alarm to other occupants of the house, Mrs. Bailey, Mr. V. M. Craw ford, of the High Point Clothing com pany, and Mr. Holderman, jeweler at A. P. Staley's, who with Miss Smith barely escaped with their lives, so rapid was the progress of the fire. Nothing Was saved but a trunk belonging to Miss Smith and one owned by Mr. Crawford. Mrs. Bai ley was the last one to leave ber room. She started down the stairs, from the sec ond floor, but so dense was the smoke her escape in this direction was cut off. Shutting her room door she raised the window over the front porch, and climb ing out jumped for her life, lighting in a blanket held by friends. She escaped in jury. Ths total loss was about 2,000. Charlotte News: Mr. Frank Jenkins, of McAdensville Cotton mills, was killed Saturday night by Mr. Sam Bry men, the police officer of that town. The tratredy occurred at 8 o'clock. Jenkins and his brother were In the southern see tioa of ths town. They were bothdrink- ing and Mr. Brymen came upon the scene and insisted tnat tne two men go nome and not create any disturbance. Both refused and a fight occurred. - The officer was thrown to the ground and while streeched out full length, Frank Jenkins leaned over him and drew his knife and began slashing the officer right and left. Brymen attempted to use his club but this was wrenched from him and was used by the two brothers to good advantage. While still lying flat on his back, Brymen drew his pistol irom his pocket with his left band and fired at .Frank Jenkins, who was still in the act of cutting at him. The ball entered his left breast, ploughed through; the main artery and lodged in the heart. Death followed almost instantly. Soon after the occurrence Officer Brymen gave him elf up, surrendered his pistol and awaited tne coming ol tne coroner, xesterday af ternoon a coroner's jury wasempanneled and the verdict was that It was a case of justifiable homicide. A Core for Populism. Wellington Pot. The administration is ramming ths life out of the Populist party in North Carolina by appointing its leaders to the lucrative offices. This is a trifle hard on the expectant Republicans, but it is a effective cure for Populism. Keith Found Belief, kalcigh Port. Concurrent with the confirmation b: the senate of his nomination to be co lector of the port of Wilmington, the Hon. it. Frank Keith, formerly Dr. Motts wild-eyed 16-to-l-or-bust running mate. promulgates the opinion that 16-to-l is dead. And it is difficult to determine which is the happier, the corpse or the new collector. SCHLEY'S APPEAL, TO THE PKE8I- DENT. 5 Beview of the Court's Finding Asked - Three Ground, Washington, D. C," Jan. 29. The navy department has made public Admiral Schley s appeal, delivered to the president about a week 'asto. The department's "comment" will be published in a day or two. -i..- -.v..v : ::,:-.-r Admiral Schley appeals to the presi dent as tne enter executive, ana commander-in-chief of the army and navy, "vested with power to regulate and di rect the acts of the several officers there of, and he asks that the president re view the findings of the court. He ask this on three grounds, in each case basing his appeal on ths findings of Admiral Dewey, as opposed to the majority re port. These three grounds are set out compendiously in tne "petition, wucn fills about eignt printed pages of a pam phlet and Is signed by Admiral Scbley, and by Mess. Bayner, Parker and Teague, of his counsel. Attached to the petition are three exhiblts-"A," "B" and "C each made up of copious extracts from the testimony taken by the eourt of in quiry and intended to confirm the state ments of fact mads la ths petition itself.-- ;' . In this latter document ths first ground of appeal is ths , holding of Secretary Long in. his endorsement of the court's hading that "the conduct of the eourt in making no findings, and rendering no opinion on those questions (that of com mand and of credit for the victory) is ap proved, indeed it could, with propriety, take no other coarse, evidence on these questions during the inquiry having been excluded by the court." The Bert Prescription for Malaria ChiTlan4 rrrarte a bottl f Gaovs'a Tui ua Canx Tonic. It at upty iroa a4 qvauaa ia mi form. N imn h fay. Fnom joe. GENERAL NEWS. fatten of Interest Condensed into Brief PaxagTapnnv t Rear Admiral Schley received1 an en- tnlmastlc reception at Louisville. Seven Italians were killed by suffoca tion in a tenement house fire at Boston, Mass., Tuesday. .., A bill has been Introduced in tne senate authorizing the president to choose be tween the Panama and Nicaragua routes. The Clyde steamship San Marcos re ports passing a vessel, bottom up, nit.V' three miles northeast by north from Fry tng Pan Shoals lightship last Sunday. Gen. Chaffee denies the reports lof fric tion between the military and civil au thorities In the Philippines and drives a very encouraging resume of the: situa tion. ; At Pittsburg, Pa., on Wednesday, three people were killed, two fatally hurt and a score of other men more of less Injured by two cars getting from under control of their motormen. , The Soflt correspondent of theibndon Times, wiring under date of Jantrv 29, says: "It is rumored1 that Miss Stone and Madame Tsilka were liberated this morning on Turkish territory."- ? Fannie Bourne, charged with the, mur der of her paramour, Louis Maffao, at Newport News, Va., three months ago, was tried Wednesday and acquitted, it be ing proved that Maffao shot himself In a scuffle with the woman. ' , Mark D. Bartleson, one of the best known travelling men in ths soutft, rep resenting a Macon (Ga.) house, tn shot and killed at Miami. Fla., on Tuesday by J as. O. Williams. The shooting wks the result of an altercation. :vi '. Senator Lodge's resolution author ising the committee on Philippines to make an investigation of the Philippine question and for that purpose to sit dur ing tne session ol tns senate was adopted by the senate on Tuesday. Bear. Admiral Lewis A. Klmherly, U. 8. N., retired, died at West- Newton, Mass., Tuesday. Admiral Kimberley was selected for service on the Schley court of Inquiry, but was compelled to decline on account of ill health. The proper authorities are Investigat ing the mystery of the terrific explosion of dynamite whlcn killed six people and did so much damage in the vicinity of the Grand Central station. New York. The money damage is said to be $145,- 000. Weston M. Keipftr and Henry Rowe were banged Tuesday in the Harrlsburg, Pa.. Jail yard in the presence ol 1,000 per sons for the murder of Chas. W. Ryan. The murderers went to their death with out a shudder and neither made any statement on the gallows. The military appropriation bill has been practically completed by the house committee on military affairs. The bill car ries approximately $91,000,000, which is about 110,000,000 below the esti mates and about 20,000,000 below the appropriations of last year. The bouse committee on commerce Tuesday decided in favor of government construction, operation and maintenance of a Pacific cable, and ordered a favor able report on the bill of Representative Corliss, of Michigan, providing the de tails ol such a government undertaking. Andrew Carnegie has turned over $10,. 000,000 in steel trust bonds for the founding of his proposed educational in stitute at Washington, D. C. These bonds may be substituted for other securities. Dr, Daniel C. Gilman, late of Johns Hop kins University, has been elected presi dent oi tne carnegie institute. Later dispatches state jthat the robbers who held no the train at BranchvUJe. S. C, Monday were unable 7 to open the sale tbey took away with them and dumped it Into tne river, wnere It was found. The amount of plunder secured amounts, therefore, to . about $13 not enough to cover the cost of ammuni tion expended. -'.;: ii'V ; A dispatch from St. Louis, Mo., says: Two hundred and thirty guests of the Llndell hotel were driven from their apartments Into the sleety streets Tues day night by raging flames whlcn wrecked the adjoining building and threatened to sweep away the hostelry. Women were carried Irom the upper floors bv elevator and down the stairway in faint ing condition. Mothers, with infants In their arms, groped their way through. REMARKABLE CURE OF CROUP A Little Boy'a Life Saved. I have a few words to sav reeardiaff Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It saved my little boy's life and I feel that I can not praise it enough. I bought a bottle of it from A. E. 8 tee re, of Goodwin, 8. D., and when I got home with it the poor baby could hardly breathe. I gave the medicine as directed every ten minutes until hs "threw up" and then I thought sure he was going to choke to death. We had to pull the phlegm out of his mouth tn great long strings.. I am positive that if I had not got that bottle of cough med icine, my boy would not be on earth to day. Joel Dkmoht, Inwood, Iowa. For sals by J,. E. Hood. suffocating smoke. Men dragged their trunks after them down the stairways of the hotel, and the clerks in the office has tily procured the valuables of the guests from safes and vaults and carried tbem to places of greater safety. The fire orig inated in a seven-story brick structure known as the O'Nell building. There were a dosen or more firms occupying it, of which the largest concern was the L. Bauman Jewelry company. The losses suffered by these concerns will approxi mate $300,000. The Llndell hotel was damaged by smoke and water to the ex tent of $25,000. The executive board of the general fed eration of women's clubs has requested that a committee be appointed from Georgia and one from Massachusetts to meet Wednesday of next week in New York city to discuss the question of ad mitting clubs composed of negro women to the federation. There is strong proba bility that the matter will be settled to the satisfaction of the Georgia club wo men. The circuit court of Louisa county, Ya., has entered a decree regarding the mentality of John Armstrong Chanter, the divorced husband of Amelie Rives, in which Chanler. is decided to be sane. The court decrees that there is no further use for a committee either for Chanter's person or property, and gives him pos session of nts Virginia estates. The next stop will be, It is understood, to recover Chanter's New York property. DUMONT'8 8VCCE88FUL. TRIP. Be Take Two Successful Trips in His Ainhip Over Monte Carlo Harbor. Monte Carlo, Jan. 28. Santos Dumont made a trial ascent of his airship this morning. Everything worked smoothly. The veosel readily answered her helm In the light breeze prevailing. Altera tour of the harbor Santos Dumont steered his craft back to her shed amidst the cheers of tbe assembled crowds. Santos Dumont made a second trip during tbe afternoon. He was out 45 minutes and sailed in three different, di rections over the open sea, performing evolutions with ease and rapidity at a height of about 100 metres. MBaHaMHMSBBnsa-4BSBsaaaaMaBsw - - ON BRAVE MAN. Aad tha Raaaoa Ha Sto Firm trail tiatr rin. A battalion of volunteer Infantry was drilling in a field when a regiment of regular cavalry rode by. Tbe colo nel of the cavalry halted his men to watch the volunteers, and, getting into conversation with the colonel of the latter, be criticised their drill un favorably, especially their want of steadiness. The volunteer colonel was a fierce fellow, and be cried botly, "My men are as steady as any regiment of regulars." "1 do not think so," retorted the cav alryman, "and if you'll draw your men in order to receive cavalry I'll prove If The challenge was accepted, and the cavalrymen charged down upon the citizen soldiers, who awaited them in the usual way. ' ftow, regular cavalry can charge to within a few feet or even inches of infantry at full gallop and then at tbe word of command pull up short. The volunteers, however, lost their nerve when tbey saw the huge horses thundering down upon them and showing no sign of stopping when a few yards off. They fled, all but one man, who remained on his knee, .with bayonet leveled. His colonel, enraged at the others' flight; approached tbe hero and, tap ping him on the back, cried: "You are the only, brave man In the regiment You scorned to run." "Yes, sir," gasped the hero. I had my f ut stuck In a hole, or I shouldn't have waited." Spare Momenta. : Bis Aalaaals ( Loaa; An. - Most of the gigantic animals of geo logical eras belonged to species which have completely vanished, and of those which have living representatives It is difficult to say wbetner they have un dergone a true change of size or whether the modern examples are merely survivals of smaller contempo rary , varieties. The larger animals have a tendency to disappear first In a partial failure of food supply. Gigantic armadillos closely resembling those of , the present day were formerly abundant in South America. The re mains of huge sloths are found in Cu ba and North America.' Sharks attain ing a length of, more than 100 feet are found In. comparatively recent fossil deposits. -.; Another fish which repre sents a larger prehistoric species is the American bony pike, which is one of ofthe few survivals of neenonnous ganoids .of the secondary strata. The tiny nautilus of the prestnt day had kindred 10 or 12 feet If-nf fa early times. Another small " shellfish.. . the pteropod. whose deMcate'y complex structure is packed la an l"b of shell. Is found In fossil ; remain te hare react) HI tbe respectable k ngtb of a couple of feet. t " BARGAIN GOLUf.lfJ. A. HORSELESS PROPOSITION. I have a One Mule, Harness and Buggy that I wish to sell for cash or on time with good security. The Mule, Buggy and Harness are in good condition. The Mule is gentle, a good driver and will work to anything. Come and look tbem over. C. E. SPEAR. The Bicycle Man. "YOU DON'T MEAN IT I I certainly do, and it is good for either Brnad or Pastry. How can be do it? He simply bought one car load at tbe right time and the right price, and It is right Flour $4.50 per barrel while it lasts at W. M. CARROLL'S, Staple and Fancy Grocer. North Street. AN EYE OPENER. For breakfast use Coffee and Heeken's Teas, and for good things to eat in the Grocery line stop LaRoque A Rountree's wagon, or phone your urder, and it will receive prompt attention and free deliv ery. All the latest delt.-acies in Canned Goods, Soups, Potted Ham, Chicken, Turkey, Lamb's Tongue, etc. All kinds of breakfast food. Give us a trial order. WD WANT TO C-U-B-A customer of onrn. Our stock of Staple and Fancy Groceries is complete, new and fresh, and the best the market affords, and our prices are as low as the lowest. Give us one call and con vince yourself of the above assertion. J. H. ALEXANDER, General Store. DON'T GET MAD at your wife just because you did not rest well last night. Was there a lump in the mattress or did the spring sagg? If so you should call and see Qulnn & Miller, dealers In Furniture and House Furnishings, and tbey will maks sleeping a comfort. Just think, a White Enameled Brass Trimmed Bed with Woven Wire 8prlngs and Mattresses for 750 cents. WB HAVE NO GRIT in our Corn Meal, because our latest im proved process separates it from the meaL Phone 49 or 118, and your order will receive prompt attention and free delivery. Sold in small or large quanti ties. Our specialty is grinding of corn and oats while you wait, also buy any amount you may have and pay-liberally. NEUSE MILLING CO. We Have Oat Seeds. YOU MAY HAVE a place to eat and a place to sleep, but how about tbe clothes you are often judged by? We can make you look like ready money for $15.00. a suit that is really worth $18.50 ana will equal any tailor-made suit costing $25.00; a $15.00 suit for $12.35, $12 50 .suit $9.60 and a $10.00 suit for $7.60. Them clothes are worth your Inspection. Call and look them over. OETTINGER'8. SLAUGHTERED THEM, cut two-tenths off from them meaning 20 per cent, on our entire stock of Oak Rockers, with leather seats, and Dining Room Chairs, Extension Tables in highly polished golden oak. Five-piece Bedroom Suits, Sideboards and Parlor Furniture. Pick a Banjo, Guitar or Mandolin from our large assortment. Second-hand Or gans and Pianos, new and second-hand Sewing Machines at SLAUGHTER BROS. Your credit is good. ' , ARE YOU ONE who Is going to build or anticipates building? If so we wish to let it be known that we can furnish on receipt of order Framing and Box Boards, cut from Long Leaf Pines, also all kinds of Dressed Lumber. Come and examine our stock and get our prices before pur chasing. Thanking our customers for past patronage and hoping to renew same, we remain, Yours truly, . ' THE GAY LUMBER CO. Prompt Delivery. BARGAINS IN PRINTING. We have some mors of those Letter Heads, Note Heads, Bill Heads and Statements in fine quality colored bond papers, pink and blue. Tbey are good value for price charged.'' If in need of some stationery examine these goods before making your selection. Letter Heads 500 for $1.75, 1,000 for $3.00. Note Heads 500 for $1.35, 1,000 for $2.25. Fine Old Hampshire Bond pink Note Heads 600 for $1.65, 1.000 for $2.65. Fine blue or pink Bill Heads, 7x84 inches, 500 for $1.40, 1.000 for $2.40. Statements, elegant quality bond papers In blue pink, -lemon or salmon, 500 for $1.50, 1,000 for $2.50.
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