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EDAILY ERIE PR PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY, ol. I-No. 174. KINSTON, N. C., THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20, 1898. Price Two Cents. Is Hampered By a Desire of Some Full Terra Hen. X Still the Absorblnf Subject of Discussion In Paris Important Naval Experiments , At Toulon Russian J'ofoei Hfye Made Kn Aoflresslve Move on Northers China Washington, Oct. 20. The navy de partment is hampered by the desire tore establish the foreign naval stations by a limited number of the full term meninser- vice. Atpresenttheenlistedforceincludes about 8,000 for the term of war only and aa peace may be declared daily they , may be entitled to discharge. Nearly al of the 120,000 long term men are with Dewey's fleet. French War Preparation. Paris, Oct. 20. The war preparation is the absorbing subject of discussion. Ac cording to the papers, there were impor tant naval experiments at Toulon last night. A flotilla of torpedo boats were detached to make an' endeavor to force an entrance to the harbor, the whole gar rison was called to arms, and the forts and batteries were manned ready for in 'stant action. Russian Forces Aggressive In China. London, Oct. 20. Dispatches from . Shanghai say that Russian forces have , made an aggressive move on northern 'China, seizing the town of Neu Chwang, '.and the forts at the mouth of the river v Eliaou. NEWS OF DEWEY. ; Reported Enoountef of American Ships . With Fllllppinos Discredited. Washington, Oct. 20.--Xotbing has yet reaebed the state or navy department regarding an encounter between Dewey's . ships and the Fillippinos over hoisting the rebel flag. Tho report is not believed ,. by the authorities. It is suggested that ; the report , bad its origin in Dewey's ' trouble with the Fillipinos over the de- ,. termination of the insurgents to fly their flag on their little gunboats. i French Missionary Murdered. Paris, Oct, ' 20. At the cabinet meeting Del Casse read a dispatch from the French , minister, at Pekin announcing that a Jrench missionary and several Chinese Catholics had been massacred or burned to death in a chapel at Paklung by a nn on nn . riotous mob. Gerard immediately de manded reparation from China. . Quiet at San Juan. ' , Sari Juan, Oct 20. The city remains quiet and orderly.' Major General Brooke has installed in . the : palace ) Brig.-Gen ..Henry, and remains commander of the district of Ponce, and Gen. Grant com ( -mauds the district of San Juan. The Feve Districts. Jackson, Miss., Oct 20.-The weather is warmer, but another frost is predicted. There are ewer new cases in the yellow fever districts, and no deaths. The fever is unusually mild. v Train Robber Bound Over. Kansas City, Mo., Oct 20. William W. Lowe, a self-confessed train robber, ha been arraigned before the criminal court and pleaded not ffuilty;1; tils bail was fixed at f8,ooo. t ; ,v , ; ' ! Shot His Wife. ' Paterson, N. J., Oct 20. John Rien hardt, former saloon keeper, shot his wife and himself today because she inter fered with his business. He had much property. A Chinese Joke. ' Vancouver, Oct. 20. The wording of the article in the Chinese Mail show that the rumored marriage of Chang and the dowager empress is intended aa a joke. A STRANGE SENTENCE. Punishment For a Murder That Wm More Cruel Than Death. In 1801 a man died iu the Catskills who had been condemned by one of the strangest sentences on record. Ralph Sutherland was born in 1701 and lived in a stone house near Leeds. He was a man of violent temper and morose dis position, shunned by his neighbors and generally disliked. Not being able to get an American servant, he imported a Scotchwoman, and, according to the usage of the times, virtually held her in bondage until her, passage money had been refunded. Unable to endure any longer the rag ing temper of her master, the girl ran away. Immediately upon discovering her absence the man set off in an angry chase upon his horse and soon overtook her. The poor woman never reached the house alive, and Sutherland was indict ed and arrested on the charge of murder. At the trial he tried to prove that his horse had taken fright," run away. pitched him out of the saddle and dash ed the girl to death upon the rocks, but the jury did not accept the defense, and Sutherland was sentenced to die upon the scaffold. . Then came the plea of the insuffl oiency of circumstantial evidence and the efforts of influential relations. These so worked upon the court that the judge delayed the sentence of death until the prisoner should be 99 years old. It was ordered that the culprit should be released on his own recognizance, and that, pending the final execution of his sentence, he should keep a hangman's noose about his neck and show himself before the judges of Catskill once a year to prove that he wore his badge of in famv and keot his crime in mind. It was a more cruel decision than the sen tence of immediate death would have been, but it was no doubt in harmony with the spirit of the times. . .Thus Ralph Sutherland lived. He al ways lived alone. He seldom spoke,: ; His rough, imperious manner had gone Years followed years. - At each session of the court the broken man came" be f ore T the bar of justioe and silently showed the noose that circled his neck. At last his ninety-ninth year came, the time when the court had ordered that the utmost penalty of the law should be executed. For the last time the man tottered before, the judge's Denca, out new judges naa arisen in the land, new laws had been made, old crimes had been forgotten or forgiven, and there was none who would accuse him or execute sentence. Indeed the awful restriction that had bound his life eo intimately to the expiation of his crime was now legally removed. ' But the spirit of self punishment con tinned, and when Sutherland, after he had passed his hundredth year, was dis covered dead, alone in his house, his throat was found to be encircled by the rope which had been placed there nearly three-quarters of a century before. Youth's Companion.! ' - . Value of Constitution. It happened in the spring of 1860, when Garibaldi was pursuing his expe dition' in Sicily and when the words Constitution and Liberty" were on ev ery Neapolitan's lips. i. ' Why are you so anxious for a constitution?" asked a for eign tourist of his guide and donkey driver, while they were traveling through 1 the mountains of Sorrento. well, you see, your excellency, " was the answer, "because I think we shall be all the better for it It is now close upon 20 years that I am letting out my asses to visitors from, all countries English,' French, Americans; all of these nave a constitution, and they are all rich."" Argonaut life In Colorado. . A person in this country no sooner gets through shoveling coal and carry ing put the ashes than he has to sprinkle his grass and push the lawn mower. The more coal he shovels the more ashes ho carries, and the more water he squirts the harder he has to push the lawn mower. It is ever thus. Longman! (Colo.) Ledger: v : an uuu tn. JUl w cvcijr 4 square mixes M 11.. i 1 . f . a . . m .11 fiu r 1 1 . u Enrrata u r rt . r- of every 100 square miles of territory rVnrffi on1 imAWna in I. The Spanish Commissioners Stil Seek to Attach Conditions OP Of Trying to Provide for the Assumption Of The Cuban Debt by the United States Will Not Recognize Affirmatively The American Position. r htis, uct. zu. in I opauish peace commissioners have not .vet received from .Madrid instructions to bid adifii to Cuban sovereignty without further seek ing to attach some condition providing for the ussnmLtion of the Cubau debt by the United States. If the are a t present so disposed and instructed the Spaniards will not at tomorrow's meeting recognize affirmatively .. the' American position They apparently intend not to yield and will tomorrow make another written presentment. ' ' . ' Cleveland Ball Club Against Management. Cleveland, O., Oct 20. The Cleveland base ball club iu the league are' against the management. Only two or three have signed contracts for next, year,' the others refuse to sign until they learn where Cleveland is going to play. Wilson Succeeds Breckenridae. Llxirigtbn; bct:20enS;Wtlfon will succeed Gen. Breckeuridge in command of the first army corps today. To Take Part in Jubilee. New York. Oct. 20.--The battleship Texas weut to Philadelphia today to take part in the peace jobilw.; Dreyfus Hearing Oct 27th. , r Paris, Oct. 20. Drevfus' hearing U set for October 27th. Republicans at Institute. Institute, Oct. 19. The Republican candidates met at Institute today and found a few white men, a few negroes, but no ladies, to hear them peafc.; 1 After bearing Mr. lirlght s oratory (7) and his stress on his favorite clause, "If negro supremacy is wrong" one of his bearers thought bis 1 name was not at all shady enough for theman. Mr. VV ooten spoke seemingly for the ben efit of the negroes for some time and it is a pity they did not turn out in full to bear mm. . It is a sad pity they did not have re spect enough for the teacher and school girls to keep their whisky away from the school yard. . We are proud to say the Democrats used no whisky at that place and the speakers had plenty of ladies to near tnem speaK. - : , INSTITUTE ITEMS. ' October 19. 1898. Mr. W. J. Brothers went to Goldsboro today. Miss Ruth White returned last Monday from a visit in Wayne county. Quarterly meeting at . Hell Koad was well attended Saturday and Sunday. Mr. P. M. Hardy has opened a irrocery store at Mr. A. T. Dawson's old stand. Miss Lucy Brooks spent Saturday and Sunday with her parents near Grift on. Mr. Lewis Turnage and Miss Lera Bry an attended Sunday school convention af Ormondsville Saturday and Sunday. Among our visitors Saturday and Sun day were Misses Lizzie and Sallie Moore and Mess. R. Moore. Sidney Bum pass. N. Currin, S. Currin, S. Sugg, Leon Pridgen, hi. i).-Pleasant, of Uienileid; Mr. K.ii. Bizzell, of Goldsboro; and 'Mess. John Brown and Archie Taylor, and Mrs. J. T. Rouse and son, Troy, of near Kinston. Corrupting an Eeko : At Kiliaruey every. visitor hears some laughable stories. Here is one new and fresh, I think which I picked up dur ing my last visit to the glorious lakes: A number of boatmen who were quar reling about the division of "tips" in dulged at the top of their voices in a good deal of profane language, which the marvelous echo repeated verbatim. . "Arrah, look at that, now, for a scan dal," said one of the party who was of a pious turn. "T'achin the poor harm less echo to curse and sware." Spec tator. . ' .. ND TO THE IAS - - . COM "io iii sir ibis. " i ' ' ' Interesting North Carolina Items la Condensed Form. Mr. Frank Chane, aged about 68 years, arespKitKl citizen of McDaniel county, was run over by a tram t Statesville Monday. ' Mr. J. V. Wilson, a mechanic of Raleigh, was shot Mondav night by. his wife. Hh will probably recover. Mr. Wilson had brought suit for a divorce and bm wife attempted to kill him. The News says that Wednesday night Wagner & Ragan's livery stablest Tnomasville, and content, except the stock, were totally destroyed by fire. The tire originated In the front of the building. The cauw is unknown. Loss about $4,000; insurance 1,400. Gov. Russell is pardoning couvicts secretly. He recently pardoned John Flasher and Newton Mace, who were serving five year terms from Madison county, for murder in the second degree, and one London Suelling four months' sentence, from Mitchell, for embezzlement. Democratic 8tate Chairman Simmons says be entirely confident the Demo crats will elect Kitchen, Klutts - and Crawford iu the fifth, seventh and ninth districts, respectively, and that he thinks Small, Thomas and Bellamy have good chances iu the first third and sixth dis tricts, respectively; As to the legislature, be makes the positive assertion that the Democrat will carry both branches; It is now certain that the companies of the second regiment will be mustered out at their homen. Capt. Dodd thinks that h will begin mustering out November 3d. The officers will first muster: out companies B and G, at Charlotte; then companies H, L and M, at Ashevillejnext company C, at Lenoir;' then company D, at Greensboro; then companies F and A, at Fayetteville; then company K, at Wil mington, and finally companies I and B, at Tarboro. in duplTn "county. Registration Uw Violated and Idiots Are " Registered Over Protest. '"" ' Goldsboro Argus.' The chairmau of the board of registra tion, with the concurrence of one Itetmb- lican negro, John W Hill, placed upon thH registration book of Friendship Dre- ninct, Duplin county, N. C, on Saturday, October 15th, the names or three negro idiots, to wit: Henry Williams; Sylvester WilliamH and Robert Williams, over tbe protest of the Deinocratin member of the said board, Mr. J.F. Bailey, and Dr. Matt. Moore, who was present, protest ing against their being allowed to regis ter; stating that he knew them to b id iota having known them from their' in-' fancy. But the chairmau, M r.' L.' Wj Hodges, and the negro, J. W..HUI, over ruled this protest and placed the names of the three idiot negroes on the registra tion bOOk. H r tv br''"T'--; iThis outrage upon the election law is told The Argus by an eye-witness to the disgraceful transaction, 'and any ' one doubting its truth can write to Dr. Matt. Moure, Warsaw, for verification, and Dr. Moore ban been a Populist up to the nesroizing of eastern North Carolina by fusion, when he repudiated the nefarious co-operative combination and returned to his first love, the Democratic party the only party that assures whit gov ernment and honesty in the administra tion of the State,. Two of these idiotic neirroesaiewyeare ago wandered Into Lenoir county and so frightened some of our white ladies that they were taken up and lodged in Jail un til their father, Alfred Williams, came after them. Abe Middleton's methods in old Duplin are giving an unsavory reputa tion to that good old county. Tf vnn urn crnxmr to ret married, don't 'nrowt, Tote Frkk riiss can f nrnish vonr wedding cards in the very latest style, and on the shortest' possible notice. Strict secrecy guaranteed. ' " ' The very: latest styles oi . . . Fur and . . . Plush . . . .Collarettes, black and fancy colors, Prices from $3.50 to $10.00. Don't buy or order any before seeing our col ection. - OBJHQBR BRQiS. in nn Sued by Vanderbilt to Drive Them From His Game Preserves. " IF I Were Shown To Be a Necessity by the War With Spain. Ths rorpedo Boats Showed a Long List of Accidents and Cannot Be Safely Used as Blockade Ships. Asheville, N. C, 0-t. 20.-George W. Vandeibilt baa entertil uit to drive a number of squattero from that part ot the Biltmore estate which is designed for a game preserve. ,Th ecjuatters have re tained attorneys and will, fight the case on the ground that thy have been in un disputed possession for twven years. ' High Speed Battloshlps a Necessity. Washington, Oct. 20. Engineer-in-chief Melville in his annual report says the war, showed th necessity of high speed battleships, and the training of engineers. He lays stress on the help rendered by the Vulcan off Santiago. The torpedo boata showed a long list of Occidents and be thinks they cannot be safely used as blockade ships, aud advocates water tube boilers. Cotton Market. The New York cotton market opened this morning ' for November 5.25 and closed 5.25. January opened 5.32, closed 5.82. : Spot cotton at Kinston, 4.80. Forty-five bales were sold on tha Kinston market today. ' Ui Points to Consider, li There'sonly one kind of print- fp isl ing we don't do. That's the poor 1 kind. That's the kind you don't i C3 want. But when you do want Cp something, that is neat, clean, W right-up-to-datei printed on good &c that, is new and of latest face, set r ?l in an artistic and intelligent man- Qi 1) nerin short, when you want a y fe strictly first-class job, .. .. . ' just aend your orders to ; (THE KINSTON FREE PRESS. : Our Prices Art Low. ' W Satisfy Our Customers. - BATTLESHIPS C GH SPEED
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