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Vol. II No. 141.
KINSTON, N. 0., FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 15, 1809.
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Interesting North Carolina Items In
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Of IteinsThat Wilt Interest North Carolls-
lans. Sobs News, sons Politics All
Of Same Interest to True "Tar Heels."!
It is expected that about half the
members of the governor's staff will
accompany him to New York and par
ticipate in tb, "Dewey Day"; ceremo
nies.
.lneuurnam ueramnas enterea upon
ics eieventn voiame. it nas steaauy im-
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proved ana is a cream to me live town
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in which it is published and the live men
who conduct it.
State Treasurer -Worth, upon being
asked the question whether the $10 tax
on laundries applies to Chinamen-and
negro laundresses, replies that it 4oes
not; but only to steam laundries
J. P. Caldwell, editor of the Charlotte
Observer, sailed from New York Tuesday
on the North German Lloyd steamer
Konecriu Louise for Europe to take a
short vacation of rest and recreation.
The space formerly . occupied by the
State board of agriculture at the State
fair will this year be occupied ; by a
monster furniture exhibit participated
in by all the furniture factories of High
Point, of which there are twenty-one. .
Wilmington Messenger: Advices from
Cape Hatteras are that the Merritt
Wrecking company's expedition, sent
there to save Diamond Shoals lightship,
which was stranded during the recent
hurricane, is experiencing great difficulty
in t the work of salvage. Should ; the
weather become bad it maybeimpossi
ble to save her.
The Smithfield Herald tells of some fine
farming in Johnson county. Mr. Polie
Gardner will make on ten acres twenty
five bales of cotton. The Herald says
that the estimate has been , endorsed by
the' opinions of old and experienced farm:
ers. 1 . upon in acres more.ne estimates
that each acre will ( net one bale-rthus
resulting id the phenomenal yield' of 40
bales upon 25 acres. ,
A very peculiar case' of hydrophobia
, is reported by the AJbermarle Enterprise.
Abeut two years ago . a dog, seemingly
in play with Charles Little, a young man
who lived in Stanly, , county, dropped
some foam on Little's hand.. Sores broke
out on his hand. -The dog ; provedVto be
tnftdJ Some time aim Little "started to I
mad. Sometime ago Little "started to
Albermarle, but after going a few miles
refused to continue further. Later he
beaatne mad and. was carried to the hos
pital at Morgan ton for. treatment. The
hospital phyeican diagnosed the disease
aa av very plain case of hydrophobia, and
the young man died in terrible agony
last Friday, v
M. D. Brinkley was found at Winston
Wednesday morning shot la the head,
and. died that night. He leaves a wife
and four children. It is believed that
after he was shot he was robbed, as it Is
thought he had about 200 with him
and it was missing. -. Eight -white men
suspected of knowing . something about
the shooting were arrested . Wednesday
to await an investigation. Thomas
Beed, Bob Cobler and Tom Hudson were
tried before two magistrates Wednesday
on the charge of being implicated in the
ki'Iir j of Brinkley. The evidence against
Beed is damaging.
The three defendants j
were committed to jail without bail to
await the criminal court.- Thomas Hud
son, one of the three men charged with be
ing r onsitle for the death of Brinkley,
has nia3 a confession. . He eaid Thou.
Reed shot Brinkley;' that they engaged
in a fight when Brinkley threw one hand
to his hip pocket, ' whereupon Reed fired
and Brinkley fell. They did not stop to
see how bad he was shot. Hudson says
they were all drinking.
Raleigh Cor. Charlotte Observer: Some
of the old students at the Agricultural
and Mechanical College played a practi
cal joke on sixty of the freshmen last
Sunday, by telling them they were under
orders to go to the Baptist Tabernacle
I to attend the morning service. Four stu
dents, in nniinrm nnd . with nrmn. nn.
peared tbe ;qo I victImB t0
the church. At the capital sauare three
of the escort ''fell out,' saying they had
to go on guard duty there, but one went
on with the, freshmen and quite a stir
was created as they marched into the
church. The solitary escort departed
and the freshmen were left to get back
nnnrotected. Thev told the president
Uhat thev did not like their escorts thus
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LaGRANGE NEWS.
The Fbek Peeps Bubkatt,
LaGiunge, Sept. 14, 1899.
Mrs. H. E. Dillon returned from a visit.
to Wilson today.
Miss Lula Whitfield began teaching
private school Monday, 11th inst.
MissLfllieKirkpatrick will begin teach
ing music at home Monday, Sept. 8 th.
Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Copeland, of : Kins-
ton, are visiting at Mr. Shade Wooten's.
There will be preaching in the Presby
terian and M. P. churches Sunday morn
ing and .evening.'-?;r,'
Miss Katie Matthews, of Newbern, has
returned to her home - from a month's
visit at Mr. W. L. Hardy's, in Trent town
snip, one maae many inenas annng ner
stay, who will miss her.
Rev. D. H. Petree spent several days
here this week and succeeded in enlisting
the co-operation of the business men of
the town in establishing a newspaper, to
be edited by Mr. Petree and called The
LaGrange Sentinel. Mr. Petree has the
energy, brains, newspaper experience and
the support of our business men the nec
essary elements that make success.
A pair of horses, belonging to and being
driven by Mr. Bob Wyman,of Snow Hill,
got away from him near Mr. D. W. Wood's
and ran' here, where they were stopped
by running against the postoffice, crash
ing the pole through the window and
throwing one of the horses. .With the
exception of a broken pole and the scare
Postmaster Miller got, who shijt the door
to keen the horses out, the casualties
were slight, t '
Mr. T. Haywood Best arrived on the
freight this morning with the remains of
Ma Krffhr. f r. TK : J: TWf' xxrhn HioA In
Baltimore Wednesday morning, and left
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at once tor uest . nomesteaa in ureene
county, where the remains will be inter
red. Mr.'Best was a good man, and be-
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Hies of Greene county. A profusion of
xnbst-beautiful flowers, artistically ar-
ranged, with a white dove perched above'
them', accompanied the corpse. .
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Slmonton Postpones Decision.
AsheviIIe,N. C.Sept. 14. Judge Simon-
ton will not, decide the tax case within the
next twenty days. He has given the at
torneys that much time to file brief if
they bo desire. No commissioner will be
appointed to take further testimony.
He considers this as a full hearing, and
any appeals from this decision must
be to the circuit court of appeals.
t- natter SU?s, EIs, Etc.
The Free Press has taken the agency !
for one of the largest rubber stamp and
seal factories in the country, and is pre
pared to show cuts of and quote low
prices on ruDDer stamps oi all kinds,
check perforators, corporation and ioa-
-y public scala, steel stamps, stencils, eto
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Tin Pith of the World News Tbtt Might
Interest Oar Readers., Sons Is Fresh,
Some May Be "Salty Bat Not Spoilt.
A new American base ball association
is being mooted. - 'V j
Many prominent men are In attendance
at the anti-trust conference io. Chicago.
The Transvaal's reply to the last note
of the British secretary has been received
and is said to be unsatisfactory. War
seems almost certa; .
The D. S. warship Paraguay captured.
a Filipino schooner at Baleraae,Philippine
Islands, recently, after a sharp engage
ment, though there were oo casualties.
Western farmers are intensely stirred
over the power of the trusts and are now
uniting to fight them. There are said to
be 5,000,000 in the fight against these
robbers and oppressors. 4'
A negro was lynched at Ty Ty, Ga.,
Wednesday night by 200 men. He was
positively Identified as one of the two
negroes wno assaulted Mrs. Jonnson
Tuesday. Search for the other negro
continues.
TThe Washington department of agricul
ture reports the condition of the cotton
crop as worse uian ever mown perore.
0q September 1st It was 68.5. ' Wheat is
also bad off 68.5, as compared with 84
last month. : - . ,
At Salem, Mass., 200 girls employed in
canning factor! 98 received 4 cents per bas
ket for peeling tomatoes. They asked for
5 cents, and when it ' was refused, they
struck and paraded the streets, brandish
ing their knives. ". ' ...
Advices from Kaliscb, in Russia Poland,
say tnat S J persons were crusnea to
death in a synagogue there, caused by
the upsetting of a lamp. The victims
were all women and children. Many oth
ers were injured.
A cyclone swept over the island of Ber-
mudaTnesday night. Houses were blown
down and others were unroofed. No
lives were lost, but heavy damage was
done to public and private, property, fruit
and cedar trees. ; The causeway was in
jured badly and the government house
was damaged. The storm was the worst
known there since the. hurricane of 1880.
In fact many of - the inhabitants say. it
exceeded the gale of 1880 in violence.), '
The White Star steamship Oceanic ar
rived in New York, after making her first
voyage across Wednesday She is 704 feet
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tenng 11 mw tons.. Jier engines were
designed to develop 45,000 borse-power.
Her coal capacity is about 6,000 tons,
and she consumes about 500 tons of coal
daily. She is rigged with three masts,
and is equipped with two funnels, each of
20 feet diameter and 80 feet above ber
fire grates. - ) ,;: Wvr; ' :
At Indianapolis, Ind., Wednesday, Mrs.
Lula Jenkins filed three suits in the Uni
ted States court . against the sheriff of
Ripley county and citizens of Versailles
for damages because of the lynching of
her husband in 1897. ; Mrs. J enkins de
mands heavy damages Her husband
was lynched with four other men, and
Mrs. Jenkins charges the sheriff with aid
ing and abetting the mob. A long list of
citizens of Versailles are set forth as mem
bers of the mob.
The transport Tartar has been detain
ed at Hong Kong by British authorities
because of being overcrowded. It had
1,145 American troops and 55 cabin pas-
sengers. It is a British ship, but was
chartered by the U. 8. government Some
discharged volunteers are said to have
complained at being overcrowded, cans
ing clearance papers not to bo granted.
Since the above was put In type the Tar
tar has been allowed clearance papers. It
is expected that she will proceed at once
to the United States.
t To the Town Authorities.
The streets are very dusty
The sprinkler's getting rusty;
The folks are complaining
Wish it would go to raining
And lay this awful dust.
The merchants are kicking;
To their wa res the dust is sticking.
They should have some protection
From this great dust infection.
Please lay the dust.
No w, our dear city fathers,
This dust surely bothers .
The clerks who are dusting
Because the sprinkler's rusting.
Please lay the dust.
The above poetical effusion was banded
us to publish by a "kicker.". Sometimes
people kick without cause and sometimes
they don't. This is one of the times
when they don't. The authorities should
"raise the dust", and lay tho dust. This
is no joke.
Will Be Pardoned Eventually.
Paris, Sept. 13 Much surprise is felt
here by unfounded rumors afloat in
London that Dreyfus has been pardon
ed. It is fully believed here that he will
be pardoned once the court rejects his
appeal. It is considered a foregone con
clusion that it will be rejected. It is be
lieved that a pardon will be granted
prom ply if Dreyfus avoids requesting the
minister of justice to allow his case to
be carried to the court of cassation.
Conditlonal Demand, for the Pardon of
Dreyfus.
Boston, Sept. 13. The Post today an
nounces that it has received the follow
ing private dispatch from Paris: "Gen
erals Roget and Mercier have offered on
the part of the army to demand from
President Loubet the pardon of Capt.
Dreyfus, if the Jewish committee will
drop the matter, and on the condition
that Dreyfus shall live away from the
large cities of France for three years."
Amnesty to Bo Granted Dreyfus and
Others.
Paris, Sept. 14. The judge advocate
of council of revision received the dossier
today. It is believed the council will
render its decision In a fortnight when,
it is rumored, the government will im-
mediately gram amnesty to every one
connected with the Dreyfns affair, includ
ing Dreyfus, Colonel Picquart, M. Zola
and General Mercier. 1
'' ' He Toole the Hint, s 1
1 1 General Harrison," in 1889, sent Dr.
Bedloe of Philadelphia "to Canton as
consul. During ' his term the doctor
was spending a month or two in Wash
lhgton and was largely in evidence In
social and political circles. About this
time the Gridiron club gave a dinner
and both gentlemen were guests. The
doctor told a few stories early in the
evening, and later on the president
made a speech. ?
"1 was charmed," he said in his soft,
graceful way,' "to hear the clever anec
dotes from our distinguished consul to
-I mean from Amoy." Then he passed
on to other topics, but the doctor took
the hint, and the next steamer carried
Mm back to bis post '
It was not the first time that Dr.
Bedloe had experience with presidents
at club dinners. Once President Cleve
land was a guest at the celebrated
Clover club In Philadelphia, of which
the doctor is a famous wit The Clover
ltea always interrupt their guests when
they rise to speak. Knowing this, Mr.
Cleveland began:
"Go on,-gentlemen; I am prepared
for the worst"
There came an Instant's pause, and
the doctor cackled shrilly:
"So are we." Philadelphia Post
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Filipino Congress Returns iThanks ?
For Offer ofAutori my, But ' !
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Proposal to Enlist Chippewa Indians at
Scouts for Service Against the Filipino ;
Insurgents. Morong Is Abandoned on
Account of Unhealthlness. "f,i
Manila, Sept. 18 The correspondent '
here of the Associated Press has obtained
acopy of the reply adopted by the Fill- t
pino congress to the American offer of an ;
autonomous government. The author of
the reply was Ambroeio Rianzares, who
was offered a position in the supreme '
court, but who failed to appear and was ;
supposed to be detained by the insurrec
tionists. The document repeats the ar- v
gunvAnts contained in the receut appeal
to the powers for recognition; and the j .
Filipino congress claims that Americans
were the aggressors in the war, and con" r
eludes:.; " . , , t.
"Notwithstanding the foregoing, in
which we could have accepted your sov-'
ereignty and autonomy if we had not
seen by the behavior of the Americans in "
the beginning that they were strongly
opposed to us through race prejudice, and
their high-handed methods of dealing
with us, made us fear for the future in
your bands. ' Finally, we thank yon for
your ' offer of autonomy under sover
eignty." Chippewa Indians for tho Philippines. ,
Washington, Sept. 18. Col, JarntM H.
Tillman, of South Carolina, a nephew of
Senator Tillman, was at the white house
today, and asked the president to author-
fee the organization of, an independent
company of Indian scouts for service in
the Philippines. It is proposfd to make
Mr. Tillman, who wa colouel of the First
South Carolina regiment during theSpan
ish war, captain of the company, and
Jos. H. Woodbury, ' Hole-in-the-Day,"
chief of the Chippewa Indians, of Minne
sota, first lieutenant, and some member
of the regiment of "Rough Riders" second
lieutenant ,
It is said that many more than a com
pany of Chippewas are ready to enlist, in
case they are allowed to go to the Philip
pines as an independent organization. It
is understood the president referred his
caller to the secretary of war. ; -;
v Morong Abandoned.
Washington, Sept. 13. Morong, one of
the points on Laguana de Bay, captured
by Gen. Otis some months ago, has been '
abandoned, and the garrison sent to Ca-4
Iamba, the latest point on the bay to be
captured. Morong is said to .be a very
unhealthy place, and of little. value as a
base of supplies'.' The insurgents south
of Calamba are : believed to be moving
east and are said to be concentrating at 1
Sauta Cruz, on the southeastern shore of,,
Laguana de Bay. , , , ,
National League Games.
Wedxesday.
, Philadelphia, 8; Cleveland, 0.
Baltimore, 5; Louisville, 6. '
Boston,!; St Louis, 11. Second game-
Boston, 4; St. Louis, 7. " .
Washington, 7; Cincinnati, 2.
Brooklyn, 7: Pittsburg, 5. Second game
Brooklyn, 7; Pittsburg 1.
New York, 8; Chicago, 8. Game called
on account of darkness.
Roberta is the CnUl Tonlo yoti want because it
cures. 250 a bottle. No cure, no par. Pleasant
aa a Florida oramre. - Wholesale and retail by
Temple-Marstoa Pros; Co J. E. Hood and
uenrj uunn.
Any sort of printing cheap at Tee Fszx
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