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7 -:isig"iiMMiiii t Q " PUBLISHED HFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDRY. VoL IV No. 289. KINSTON. N. 0.. MONDA.Y, MARCH 8, 1902. Price Two Cents. FRESHGOSSP OFJTHEiOtD NORTH STATE Cdd and Interesting Happenings From Ewry Section. ' Ctood Roads Movement Spreading Throughout the StateLife iand Property Losses by the Flood . ( Cigarettes for Prince , Henry Crimea and Oaeualtles Variety Of Short State Stor ies. Bale'gh Morning Post: Prof. J. A Holmes, State geologist, spent several , hours in the city yesterday. He to work ing arduously now on the matter of the ' agitation of the good roads movement . -which was given such an impetus by the recent visit of the Southern , Railway's good roads train to this State and espe dally by the general State convention 2ield here early in February. The feature ' , of the work with which Prof. Holmes -; eepedally concerned now is the organfza Hon of branch associations in the various counties as purposed by the, general or- n sanitation perfected in Raleigh. He says a large number of counties have already ; organised along the line desired and are v getting down to active co-operation with the State association. Many other are taking steps to organise very soon. He expresses gratification at the success - which Is attending the good roads move- went the State over, and confidently ex pects great results in active road Im ' provementas wajj as the ultimate enact ,, ment by the legislature of a general road IaW fair and just to all section of the ' ' ' Imw Library Ixt in Flood. , The law office of Senator Frltchard at . Marshall was waited away by the flood : Saturday, and its contents, including the senator's library, destroyed. In the rush of water at Marshall the building eon taming the library, valued at f 2,000, was swept away. A reward of 1 1,000 was offered at once to have the books saved and men struggled to do this but , the force of the water could not be over- come and they were lost. ' Peppered With Skot. ' John Holmes, a negro,, was discovered arty Friday morning stealing corn from CoL T. H. .Bain's .barn at Gojdsboro. "When he came out with a bag on his tack the colonel banged away. Holmes . fell, bat got up and ran.; Later in the day he was discovered by children ly ing v under a stoop and said he had fallen off a trafatl but examination showed that - his back was so perforated with shot the akin eonld be used as a porous plaster. Store Breaker Shoots Captor. , . A negro store-breaker was arrested 1 two miles west of Hillsboro, but not un til after he had shot Deputy Constable John Stone in the thigh, inflicting a pain 2uL though not dangerous, wound, v Con- ' stables Stone and Rosemond ran down , ' the negro and he opened fire .on ;ihero. ' After shooting Stone he ; turned the weapon on Rosemond, who seised it and . escaped with a burned hand. :; He then overpowered the negrcC ', TZorth CjrolIa' 6M to tbe Prim. Among the souvenirs, ihat Prince Henry will carry away with him upon his de parture win be several thousand Ameri can cigarettes. -A an attention to the ' distinguished visitor, who, he learned, is . very fond of the little rolls o white, James B. Duke, "captain of the tobacco Industry? and ; the 2. president of the American Tobacco company, which has recently added Germany to its tributary '-; trade territory and established several factories there, sent "2, 000 cigarette to tbe Hohensollem for the Prince. - -W. 8. Hyams has been appointed clerk of the Federal court at Asheville, J -.To this date only 19 eountlee 1 hare made full settVment of State taxes for 1901. :"''',o.:;rf;;;' ;;.: 5; Norfolk capitalists are contemplating tbe erection o(a large modern hotel at Raleigh and say tbe plans will positively be carried ont If Raleigh capitalist will take some of the stock. Tbe Apex Canning company Is taking steps to Induce the farmers to plant to rn a tx so that they will bars a full eup I 'y this season. .The Apex JTewg shows tLat at twenty-fire cent a bushel toma toes py better than cotton at ten cent. The growth of the Odd Fellows in this C'ate continues to be remarkable. Tbe :;t this year will be Dearly f 11,000. ""re were receired Saturday sppltoa sfir rewl'djs at Jfu kiont North-' if a t r. ai:J VT5p? i-oro. r y- T?zwi?i Senator Pritobard to name another man to be nostmaster at Charlotte. This ac tion was taken after an investigation of the cbargee against Postmaster Mullen Charlotte business men want Mullen re tamed. ' -; 'yV-'V t Thomas vttls had three incendiary fires on successive night last week, and at the last one a negro was even . W- nine ; away , and i was .given,; ehaee, Five shots were fired but be escaped. Bloodhounds will be employed and if the negro is caught he will have a very busy minute. .- ' .."".''..' FayettevlUe Is preparing to hold a big good roads meeting in April and Gov, Aycock has been Invited ; to be ; present It to proposed to issue bond for, f 100. 000 for road improvement. Good roads advocates are taking great interest In this meeting, as it is hopsd the results will lead to similar movement in other counties. Bob Montgomery, colored, confined in the jail at Marion, called tbe jailor, and when be came to see what was wanted knocked tbe lamp ont of his hand and ran down stairs, jumped through a win dow and made his escape. Nothing has been heard from him since. He had been sentenced to three months on the chain gang for fighting. Jailer Nichols was not seriously injured. J. W. Wallen, who lives on Fiat Creek sixteen miles north of Aehevllle, was driven by the rising water from his home Saturday morning. . He Vxk three children, aged 8 and 6 years and 9 months, to a tobacco barn, left them with a torch and returned to -the house for his wife and another-child. While gone tbe barn caught fire and burned to the ground, all the children losing their lives.;. John Marsh of North Adams, Mass. is reported as having decided to locate cotton mill at Charlotte, N. C. He has been In tbe city named daring the. week investigating with a view of building there. J. M. Greenfield, of KernersvOle, N. C write that hi knitting mill, recently es tablished, .included 13000 , building, welve knitting machines, twenty-firs operatives, and has capacity "of . 120 dosen pairs of half-hose daily; . v Mess. John BudisiU and assoeiate,' of iilocolnton, N. C, hare tncorporated the John BudisiU Manufacturing Co., with capital stock of 975,000, for the manu facture of cotton and woolen good. The charter permit beginning business when 115,000 ha been, subscribed Specific details hare not been ascertained yet. ' ' FabioRomanL ;i This play will be presented In the opera house here this evening. It comes with high praise from every place in the State it ha been presented and ' a . large au dience to assured It f a romantic mel odrama adapted by Mr. Chas. W. Chase from. Marie Corelli's well known novel "The Vendetta," dealing with Italian love and; vengeance and is said to , be one -of the best plays of that order now before the public The artist, presenting the play have been carefully selected for the characters asefgned tbem and consist in part of such well known people as Wal ter Lawrence, Claude Scare) Edwin F. Gardner, Guy B Hoff man C. H. Ball and Miss Martha Beauford. The production as In tbe past eleven year is under the management of Mr. Atden Benedict. , AO the scenery for the production will be the same as originally ' presented , In New Xork city, . Mis Qllie Cooks has been engaged to present her dancing special ties. ' ;'. ! . " A Bad .Lothario. . A peculiar ease fa presented to the offi cers of tbe law at Kinston. A man to guilty of very wrong doing and no statute can be found under which be can be pros ecuted. The circumstance in the case are as follows: Mr. Munroe Lee, who came to KJnston some months ago, paid court to Miss Carrie Whaley.' From the manner of his courting, the aunt of the young lady, Mrs. Eliiabeth Thomp son, mistrusted Lee, and wrote to tbe chief of police at Dunn, Zrom which place Lee came to Kineton. and made inquiry. The letter was answered, but was sot called for at the Office her and was re turned to Dunn. TlTcLlei of police there wrote to Chief Bouae I at Kinston, lnrlcs- ingtbe letter he had written to lira. Thompson, which stated that Lee bad a wile and children living at Dunn. For tunately the young lady had not mar ried Lee. Lee wrote some very fine love letters to the yourg; lady. He went to see cer jet-rdar, unaware that he had been found tit. ITe d' Ja't stay 1od. Ttey were on tbe ere of running away to be r.:rr-' I, bnt tl'i is all tro- en up now, Bni tie joccg woman says he will send tbe Iots letters written by Ijp to Lis w;' lie Is a t ad, tad man and tfcre oxizt to be some I.w tnder whi.htecouid t gotten lor tJ enuavore. BUSINESS IN GENERAL, COTTON Cotton Goods Said to bo Facing . Soriotts Crisis. Blowneaa of Delivery and Paucity Of Supplies the Chief Complaint Buainees on Spring Aooount Go ing Forward in Large Volume In Oereal0,Obrn Makes the Chief Ad vance of the Week. Bradstreets business1 review for last week, issued Saturday: Current .demand 1 of full volume for this season of the year, while business on spring account goes forward fat large volume. This, too, hi the face of unfavorable weather condt tions In large sections of the country. Iron and steel are quieter on the sur face, but consumption remains undimin ished. Short supplies of coke are still complained of in the west and, furnaces are being banked for this reason; but the output of , pig )ron has been larger this week than for some time past. Struct ural mill are filled with orders,' most of them being fire month behind, and the same to true as to other products, orders for which extend well toward the elose of the year. Prices show very little Ian portant change during the week. The heavy break in wheat pries at tbe close of last week, contrary to expecta tions,! did not ; bring to light the large waiting business on export account. To ward the close short covering was forced despite the heavy primary movement on report that the growing winter , wheat crop was suffering and bad lost its cov ering of snow. Corn, among tbe cereals, noted the chief advance of the week. Hog product have been irregular In grain. r Cotton and cotton goods seem to be facing a crisis. Staple cottons also dis play exceptional strength. The chief complaint, in fact to of ..the slowness of deliveries and tbe paucity of supplies. The ' business failures for the week number 204, a agalnet 137 last year. Canadian failures number 37 as against 38 a year ago. .. . Hester Cottoa Report. Secretary Hester' monthly statement, issued Saturday, show the total for February to be 733,450 bales, against 670,748 last year ? and i 847,180 year before last. The amount of the crop brought Into sight for the six month from September 1 to- February 28, in clusive, to 33,000 bales, over last year, The movement from tbe first of September to February 38, inclusive, show receipt at all United States port to be 6,468,. 816 bales, against 5,865,063 last year; overland across tbe Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac river to northern mills, and Canada, 834J44 bales against 893,928; southern mill takings, exclusive of quan tity consumed at southern outports, 992,000 bales, against 872.61V and Interior stocks in excess of those held at the commencement of the . season, 836, 846, against 545.349. The total amount of the crop brought into sight during six month ending with the 1 close of February Is 8,661,604 bales, against 8,238,319. , Vf f : Northern spinner took during Feb ruary 238,429 bales, against 200,077 nrr If 9 , 4'ilil or cut it out; anything, so if you need anything in the Farm Implement Line X7e havo them hero, and a few Two Horse South Berid Chilled E07 rizio, Alz3 and CroT7n F1ot73 for one horse. C u t?.T7zy ILutot73, Cpilied Tooth and V-Shapcd 1"'0 O NaT IN PARTICULAR. last year. Foreign exports for the six months of the season have, been 5,119, 771 bales, an increase over last season of 708,866. Stock at the seaboard and the 29 leading southern Interior markets oa February 28 were 1,291,880, against 1,523,134 the same date last year and 1,436,064 tbeyearbefore. Including port and interior towns stocks left over from season the number of bales of the crop brought into sight during the six months the supply has been 9,021,291 bales, against 8,350,758 last year and 8,838, 1,95 the year-before. a New York Cotton Market. The market on Saturday was .bullish. Reports that exporters and domestic spinners were once more urgently bidding for spot cotton in tbe south, where prices were up 1-16 to cent, on slim offering-, did much to stimulate the bull support Rumors of a near-by further advance in print cloths and predictions for a very light March in-sight movement, were prominent influences. " ; : .. d The President and the Exposition. The results of the Tillman-McLaurin foolishness bid fair to be as long drawn ant .'as- tbe Sampson-Schley business. The board of directors of the Charleston exposition have passed a resolution beg ging the president not to alter his plans and assuring : him a kindly and enthust. astic reoeptionnq a committee haaJKen appointed ; to wait on the president Senator Tillman; visited Senator Piatt, the famous "easy boss" in New York Sat urday and urged upon him that it would be Impolitic .for the president to attend the Exposition owing to the public feel ing and Piatt promised to advise' Roose velt to be conspicuous by his absence. 1 0f course en president wui, as usual, do as he pleases in spite of Piatt or the whole world, but It to evident that there Is go ing to be a party row in South Carolina. And to add to the complication Major M. J. Jenkins now decline to accept tbe word, unless presented by . the president according to , tbe original program. j Roosevelt say Tillman' letter can have no effect upon his. movements, but doe not say whether he will visit Charleston ., Preparing tor Revival.- There was one conversion at the Christian church yesterday morning. The pastor, Bev. W, G. Johnston, made men tion that preparations should be .begun in anticipation of the revival meeting to be commenced at that church in April. A handsome collection was taken up at the morning service for . modern ; foreign missions. The amount lacked at the morning service to come up to the ' ap portionment of the Christian church at this place to the mission fund, was more than made up at the evening service and the amount expected : to come in later will run the fund higher. ' Notes of the Churches. " Rev. R. B. nines, of Mt. Airy, who to here in the interest of the Bankers' Un ion, filled the pulpit at the Methodist church last night. ' He held the close at tention of bto large audience, his subject being "A Mother's Prayer." The ser mon was directed especially to parents; ' i ': I you won't forget that . j 7 . !. 5 Plows, . i it m DIX0H a MOOTER. showing their responsibility In teaching the young mind. Bev. J. Paul Spence preached an excel lent sermon at the JBaptlst church yes terday morning. A large crowd was present. Mr. Spence also attended the B. X. P. U. services in the afternoon and made an interesting and instructive talk. Tbe subject was "Christian Service." Mr. Spence left on the 4:33 train for New born. There were no services at night. Th'Me who failed to attend services at the Free Will Baptist church yesterday afternoon and night missed a rare treat. They were conducted by Bev. R. I. Cor bett, of Ayden, and were Intensely Inter esting. His morning subject was "Ja cob's Dream." Evening subject, "Crowd ed Out." Mr. Corbet tie quite a young man In the ministry yet he to an eloquent speaker, a good reasoner and exhibits a sound judgment. The congregation will be pleased to have him with them often. INDUSTItlAL GROWTH. North Carolina Steadily Getting- to the Front. The New Tork Commercial contains the following Interesting reference to this State. North Carolina to primarily an agricul tural State, but the census of her manu facturing industries show that she has made wonderful progress in this field during the ten jears closing with 1900. In 1890 she possessed only 8,667 manu facturing establishments, In which a cap ital of 133,745,995 was invested. In 1900 the number of these establishment had grown to 7,220, and the amount of, capital to $76,508,894 more than don ble the sum invested ten years previously, litis Is certainly an encouraging record for a State that does not figure prominently in the discussion of great manufacturing problems. The number of establishment has nearly trebled since 1850, and the amount of capital has, swelled to more than ten time it volume of that time very creditable showing for the half century of progress, during' a good part of which the State was suffering from the depressing effects of t he civil war. k North Carolina to a small .State, .when judged by the size of her population, That amount to but 869,089 in 1850, and has increased to 1,898,810, or 117, 9 per cent in 1900. The number of her wage earner tn the latter year was 70, 570, as against 83,635 in 1890 and they tamed f 18,868,430, as against 16,553, 121 ten years, before. Of this number, 44,1559 were men with a wage record of 110,477,765; 15,644 women, who earned f 2,84,1 17, and 10,877 were children under 16 years of age, who ab soroea yuofzj oi tne total wages paid. The cost of materials used in the manufactures was 153,073,388, and the value of the goods produced, f 94,919. 663. The t wage earners .constitute 37 per cent, of the entire population of the State. ' S-KW--: The leading industries of the State- cotton goods, lumber, flouring and grist mills, planing mill products, cotton seed products, furniture, railroad construction ana canning occupieaa,uiX oi tne es tablishments and tbe others' were used by smaller Industries. The value of their products was 177,351,383, or 81.5 per cent, of tbe total, and they gave em ployment to 55,643 of the wage earners, or 78.7 per cent, of the whole number, producing goods to the value of f77, 851,382. , I North Carolina, according to these fig. ores, to well on tbe road to a leading place among the manufacturing states of the Onion. If she makes the same great progress in the next ten j ears, she will achieve a record that she may well be more proud of than she to of her present one. - Mayor's Court. Mr. J. H, Holloman was fined S3 and costs In the mayor's court Saturday ona charge of drunkenness. Arch Bethel, colored, was fined f 3 aad costs in the mayor's court this morning for drunkenness. v :x Babe Sherrod, colored, was tried Sat urday tor bitting John Grimes, also col ored, with a brick bat. : The mayor; ren dered hto decision this morning, binding Sherrod over to eouiV.'-oy,;-.-;.- f Mr. E.L. Prudea was .fined $3 and costs this morning on a charge of drunk enaees and disorderly conduct. Hi dto orderly conduct consisted la having an altercation with Dr. G. EL Taylor, . ; : Saturday's Storm. :I What was simply a heavy rainfall ac companied by a high wind In Kington Friday night was a storm of violent character elsewhere all over-the east Wires were prostrated aad railroad traSe paralysed so that news' of, the storm came slowly. 'Many town fn thts State are flooded and tbe storm left a track -of devastation ' and ruin from Florida to the great lakes. Cndr Oi'hnrttc, cvra conllpulon forever. KINSTOMr FURNITURE FACTORY. Oat of tne Embrjotie State ud Ontns Road to Success. Offloers Elected for the Year and a Campaign of Progress Mapped Ont To Issue $12,000 Prbferred Stock Running Smoothly Novr and Turning Oat Fine Work. A regular meetifig of the stockholders of the Klnaton Furniture company was held In the Library rooms on Friday, Feb. 28th. . Y ' 1 After tbe disposal of the regular routine business, a resolution was "offered to authorise the issuance of f 13,000 pre ferred stock, bearing 7 per; cent guaran teed dividend, tor the purpose of retiring a portion of the indebtedness of the com pany and to increase the working capi tal. , Tbe following officer were elected for the ensuing yean ', , J. W. Grainger, president; L. 0. Mose ley, secretary and treasurer. Directors: E. T. Moseley, L. Harvey, J. B. Temple, 8. H.Abbott, T. W. Uewborn, W. O. Moseley and j. F. Taylor. . " ' Among the industries of Kfnston there is none better equipped than the furniture factory. Like many other en terprh es, at the beginning it had it setback. Our business men and other who took stock had but little practical knowledge of the manufacture of furniture, therefore they had to go through all sorts of trial and deal with all sort of superintendents, unskilled lobor, etc., and could not make satisfactory progress. Therefore the success that was hoped for at the begin ning was not attained. The factory has passed through this trying experimental stage and Is now-on the high -road 'to success. M r-, . i The president and board of directors are good business men and they havs now a man as general manager who has had 16 years experience and . who to an actlv and wideawake furniture - man. The superintendent is a hustler and the foremen of the different divisions look: sharp after their departments. The sec retary and treasurer, to an : honorable young man and has th implicit confi dence of the stockholdei;"1 (; The Klnston furniture, factory is n6w making and turning out -the most artis tic and substantial chamber suits of any factory in North Carolina, and. we see no cause or good reason why this factory in the future should not be a' paying Indus-; try. ; Tbe disposal of the smalt amount' of preferred stock It is proposed to issue will put this industry on a firm and solid basis, and we believe that henceforth It wOl be one of the most successful and - profitable of Kinston's enterprises. : . Greene County Court. Mr. J. A Albritton, of Snow Hill, was inKinston today. He Informs us that the court which has, been In session at Snow Hill tbe past week, closed Sunday ? morning, the reason for going over Sat urday being a disagreement of the fury "' In the case of George Streeter, colored, : charged with attempted raps upon a col-1 ored woman. Judge Winston adjourned court 8unday morning. The civil docket was not touched with the exception of a few divorce cases, Jonas Beaman was . tried for being an accessory before the ''. fact to the murder of Patrick Phelps by . Soe Glenn, all parties colored, s -The mur der occurred at a negro festival several months ago. Beaman assisted Glenn in the fight and also assisted him to escape Beaman was found guilty of mantlaugh- ter and sentenced to two years on the roads. . . . i -f : : ' ' Things Klnston Should Hava. -, A chamber of eommerce. ! '; ; A water srstsm. .V.yiK- ' A sewer systna:'; ' Macadamised streets. Street number on houses Tbe first, if properly organised and conducted would gradually bring' about v all the others. - -,ui .:. nef , if Lef start the good work by organ! Ing leading and progressive business men 1 Into a chamber of commerce. v -" 1 irwfMuveuw Jiie:a.- Mr. J. J. Bogers, who ia E tats aent f - - A A V a for the Security Mut"--.l V'e Inmnam Co., moved his bead rters Lt Eatur-, day from Klnston to T.ilefgh. Hr. Eog ers will be the rea l t-av,:!.-(-r in. the. ittereet t kls coiopa-y a great part of " the time hereafter, but 1 Ln'lj and Lis home wlil contbtt! to te at Klnston.
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