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i .1 - H "M i iij in ii ii f u . i i ' . . t , i - . . . a ...'lit . i i i i . , m . t : a .... 1 i . . PUBLISHED EifERY EBNINC EXCEPT SUNDRY, Vol. II No. 175. KINSTON, N. 0., TUESDAY. OCTOBER 24, 1800. Price Two Cents. 111 SOOTH AFRICA. Particulars of the Fight at Elands laagte. Estimated That 400 Bo era Were Killed. Boer General Koch Killed. . Cape Town. Oct. 22 10 p. m. A dis patch has just arrived announcing that the Boers are shelling Dundee, east of Glencoe, at long range, but that theirflre is ineffective. It is now definitely known tbat Glencoe was attacked yesterday by tne jjoer main column, uur lorces are intrenched in a good position. The situ ation there is not vet fullv cleared ud. Cape Town, Oet.23. It is rumored here this morning that Barkely West, north west of Jumberley, has been surrendered to the Boers without firing a shot. Cape volunteers, it is reported, will be sent to relieve Jumberley. London, Oct. 22. According to a spe cial dispatch from Glencoe Camp,the Brit ish cavalry, while pursuing the defeated Boers, were engaged by a force of the en emy on the north road. Firing is now in progress. In the engagement yesterday at Eland slaagte, between Glencoe and Ladysmith, when the British, under Gen. French, routed the Transvaal forces under Gen. Jan H. M. Koch, second in command in the Transvaal army, Gen, Koch was himself wounded and captured and has since died. Gen. White in' his report of the above fight says: "The Imperial Light Horse moved to ward the left of the enemy's position, and two squadrons of the Fifth Lancers toward his right. During the artillery duel, mounted Boers pushed out from their left and engaged the Imperial Light Morse, in a lew minutes the enemy's guns ceased firing, and our artillery was turned on the mounted Boers who op posed the Imperial Light Horse. The latter at once fell back. After the artil lery preparations, our infantry advanced to the attack, supported by our guns in the second position. The Devonshires held the enemy in front while the Man Chester Regiment and the Gordon High landers turned nis leit name. ? "The Boer guns, although frequently silenced, invariably opened fire again on tne sngntest opportunity, and h were served with great courage. After severe fighting our infantry carried the position. At 6:30 p. in. this was accomplished, the enemy standing his ground to the last with courage and tenacity. The Fifth Lancers and a squadron of the Fifth Dragoon Guards charged three times through the retreating Boers in the dark, doing considerable execution. "We captured the Boer camp, with tents, wagons,horses and also two guns. Tne JJoer losses were very considerable, : including a number of wounded and un wounded prisoners. Among the .former are uen. Jan. ii. m. Koch and 1'iet Jou bert, nephew of Commanding Gen. Jou- bert. One goods train, with supplies for liiencoe camp, and nine English prisoners were recovered. It is roughly computed tnat our joss is loU killed and wounded 4 i J ; 1 . . 1 . . , -uur wounaea ana tnose oi tne enemy are now arriving by trains. Besides Bo ers, we have many Hollanders. Germans. and prisoners of mixed nationalities. The behavior of our troops and of the colonial forces was admiral. ' ' . . Boers at Elandslaagte. .Ladysmith, Oct. 22, The best estimate places the Boer loss at Elandslaagte at 400 killed, besides many wounded and captured. , vx UA':&::i?&Xw All the British cavalry sauadrons. ex cept one, have returned, and the where abouts of that one is known, so that there is no cause for anxiety. Severe pun ishment has been inflicted upon the re treating JtJoers. Boer Death List at Mafeking. Cape "Town, Oct. 22. A message re ceived from Col. Badem-Powell, in com- manu at juaieKmg, dated uctober 15, says that fifty-three Boers were killed - and a large number wounded in the en counterwith his force. It is believed that the explosion of dynamite at Mafeking, so cleverly arranged by Col. Baden-Powell, resulted In very large loss to the Bo ers, so that it is quite probable that Gen. Cronje will not resume the attack, and will perhaps retire altogether. Victoria's Heart Bleeds! London, Oct. 23. The secretary of state for war, the Marquis of Lansdowne, has received the following message from the queen, dated to-day at Balmoral Castle: "My heart bleeds for these dreads losses aain to-day. It is a great suc cess; but, I fear, very dearly boc-ht. Would you convey my wannest and, heartfelt sympathy with the near rela tives of the fallen and wounded, and my admiration of the conduct of those they have lost." . The Powers Will Interfere. Paris, Oct. 21. The. Memorial Diplo matique and the Courier du Soir learn from definite sources that immediately after the first fevy fights in South Africa, the great powers will interfere under the terms of the Hague convention. Said thatKruger Would Yield Now. London, Oct. 23. A special dispatch from Cape Town Sunday says that ad vices received there from Pretoria report President Kruger as now being in favor , jf.T 1 J Ii I 1 J oi an unconaiuonai surrenuer. ibis auu ed that it is expected the executive coun cil will meet on Monday or Tuesday to discuss the advisability of such a step. The report it is stated here, must be accepted with reserve. Boers Completely Staggered. Capetown. Oct. 24 (Afternoon?). News from Dundee is to the effect that the Boer disaster at Elandslaatrte stag gered the Boers completely, rendering the attack at Dundee feeble. Therefore there is noause for anxiety. The Transvaal Situation. jew lork, uct. 24. At London com mons Wyndham read Wolsely's summing of tne situation at Ratal. Yule has fallen back to effect a function with White, who camped last night eigh teen miles south of Dundee without see imrthe enemy. Since reported all was well White fought a force of Orange Free State troops at Waschbaneck success fully. , .:..'r ' A dispatch from Sir Frederick Walker was read confirming the report that Kimberly was safe. Votes 8,000,000. London, Oct. 22. The House, by 837 to 25, voted 8,000,000. FIRE IN EAST DURHAM. Several Houses Consumed. Loss About $9,000. Insurance May .Be $3,000. 1 . Durham N. C, Oct. 23. Fire broke out in east Durham about 5 o'clock this morning, and in a short time several houses were burned. It is estimated that the total loss will amount to . be tween $ 8,000 and f 9,000, covered by perhaps one-third insurance. - The losers and the amount of insurance carried are as follows: . " ... . J. S. H. Proctor, three-story building, total 'loss; one residence partially de stroyed; loss about 3,000, with $1,300 insurance. C. A, Crabtree, drug store, burned to the ground, loss about $2,200, with in surance of $1,000. R. J, Brown, stock of groceries; loss about $1,500, with $1,000 ? insurance. Mr. Brown also lost $212 in cash. uerDeri cc ismitn, contractors, new pncK Duiiamg oi x. Hi. ssmitn & uo., par tially destroyed; loss about 8700 and labor on building, with no insurance. ' Knights of Pythias hall, over Crab tree's drug store; loss in furniture and paraphernalia, I about $400, with no insurance. .. B. F. Abernethy, manager of branch store of Thomas & Campbell; loss about fiuu on stock and $100 on personal enects, wim no insurance. i G. T. Beavers, meat stall: loss on meat. butcher tools and carpenter: tools, about fiuu, witn no insurance. ; ? . .; - H. A. Crabtree, brother of C. A. Crab- tree, lost S15 in cash. 4 ; . i The fire was discovered in ' what seem ed to be the rear of Brown's grocery S. J. Gooch. 'a fireman. ' was knnclcRri from a ladder by a piece of falling timber tuiu oaaiy nurc. - u - : : f Just bow the fire oriorinated nnt known. The opinion in East Durham is tnat Mr. lirown s store was robbed and then fired to cover up the crime. During the winter of 1897 Mr Jattimi Reed, on of the leading citizens and mer chants of Clay, Clay county, W. Va., struck his leg against a cake of ice so as to bruise it , severely. It became very much swolen and pained him un haAv that he could not walk without the aid of crutches. He was treated by physi cians, also used several kinds of liniments and two and a half eallona of whist-r in bathing it, but nothing gave relief until he began using Chamberlain's Tain Cairo. This brought almost a complete cure ia but a week's time, and he believes that had he not used this remedy Lis I -j would have had to be amw'tKL V-' i Balm is unequaled for rprcizi, truia an-1 rhcma4.:.T?a. roro!etyJ.E.noal. ' GENERAL hews: Matters of Interest Condensed Into Brief Paragraphs. Creelman gives up the fight in Ohio and says that McLean will be defeated. Hen na and boodle will doit. , , Brooklyn won the . final game of the exhibition eerie with'" Philadelphia on Saturday, 10 to 5. : ' - 1 y f .; . The committee of for,ty of the gold Dem ocrats. of Maryland announce that they will support the Republican state end legislative ticket! in November. , Admiral Dewey; on the advice of his physician, has canceled the dates for his visit to Philadelphia and to Atlanta and will accept no more lavitations of : this sort before next spring: A business block in south Chicaso burn ed Sunday, entailing tfpss of $120,000 and painfully injuring twelve' persons. Fourteen buildings were burned. An old landmark was destroyed in, the Grand Central Hotel. It wa,a frame building, and was consumed rapidly. The guests had barely time to save themselves, and ned with little apparel, f T . j The northern part of Montana is cover ed four or five feet deep inXsnow. For four or five days last week it snowed almost unceasingly, and is ten or twelve feet deep in drifts. :' The bodies of eight sheep herders have been found in To ton county and ' fifteen others are missimr. In Toton county 20,000 sheep perished, and it is believed that twenty persons have lost their lives, uv. f . . ;? - A dispatch. Oct. 22. . from . Atchison Kan., says: Two robbers last night ehot and killed one man and wounded another in a store at Doniphan, which they later robbed; Today, the despera does ambushed and killed , a policeman and wounded another man, both mem bers of a posse pursuing them. Tonight the robbers are surrounded, six miles north of Atchison, ! and an attempt to arrest them will be made at daylight. Gen. Otis has replied to the three insur gent officers who 4 entered Angeles last Friday with a request, made through wen. MacArthur, l for ; permission lor Filipino commission, headed by as Filipi no major general to visit Gen. Otis in or der to discuss peace terms and to arrange for the delivery of more American prison era, that the desired interview . cannot be granted, because the suggested i proposi tions of the Filipinos are vague, indefinite, and unmilitary. and because the Ameri cans must continue to decline to receive any representative of the so-called Filipi no government. , A Columbia, S. C, dispatch of Oct. 19th says: The entire Wallace circus was ar rested at Greenwood, S. C, late last night when about to load for Augusta. The oaoung.was stopped and the showmen were in a serious fix. ; A ? farmer named S. H. Home tried, it seems, to buck a game in a side show. After losing over $bU0, he decided, as luck, or the 'game sters were against him,: to appeal to the aw, iie employed a lawyer and swore out warrants for several of the men by name "and others." All the drivers were arrested as they reached the train with their teams. After waiting an hour or two,' the ' managers paid , Homo. $625. He withdrew the charges and , the circus men were released. . A dispatch from Carthage. Miss., Oct. 21, says:v- For the fiendish murder of the five members of the Gambrel family at Saint Annes in this (Leake) county, two men have paid the death penalty one by burning at the stake, the other by hang ing, two negroes are under arrest be yond the confines of this county, and a posse is said to be in pursuit of two white men. ; This last statement, how ever, Js contradicted from another point and developments must be awaited. Last night John Oliver Gray, a negro. was captured after being chased for miles in the swamps. He confessed : that he was one of the party that did the mur derous work, and the posse . made short work of him. He was hanged and his swaying body riddled with bullets. Gray, in his confession, implicated two white men and these men. according to report. are being pursued, haying, it is said, left tne neighborhood. : Pneumonia is one of the most danger ous and fatal diseases. It always results from a cold. Chamberlain's Cough Reme dy will quickly cure a cold and perhaps prevent an attack of pneumonia. It is in act made especially lor that ailment and has become famous for its cures over a lare part of the civilized world. It coun- racts any tendency of a cold toward rjr."-'v Can yen rTord to neglect your cell ttI ch bo rtll-tle revz:2y can be aiioratrue7 It is for sale by J. II Hood. ' ' liar Colncidene. While lunching picnio fashion upon theJIer de Glace party of tourists were surprised by a woman who, letter la hand, emerged from the neighboring hotel. The party consisted of husband and wife, two, daughters, a young girl friend , who was traveling with them and a courier and guide. The woman yed the crowd for a minute, and, then, rushing straight up to the young girl. she asked her to mail the letter. "It will get there so much Eooner if you don't mind carrying it down with you," said the woman; "otherwise I shall have to wait until tomorrow when the regular .postman cornea" The whole proceeding was so sudden and so char acteristic of women that the girl was inclined to laugh, but Eho pocketed the letter and promised to mail it as re quested. "Your face was your fortune that time," remarked the man of the party on the way down. "That woman looked us over well before she picked upon you. I tupposo sue saw that you were one. who could bo trustednot to forget to mail letters." New tuo point of this story is not tbat the girl forgot to mail the letter, for she didu't, nor that it was the man of the party who had to remind her of it, for she needed no reminding,': but that just before posting the missive the girl happened to glance at its super scription. It was directed to her mother. The girl could hardly believe her eyes, yet there it was in good, plain Ameri- can writing, the name of her own dear mother, whom sho hadn't seen for so many mouths and at her own borne ad dress. The girl sent a letter home upon her own account and learned that the woman was an old friend whom the mother had not teen for many years and whom tuo girl had never seen, though often heard of. When the two, woman and girl, afterward, met to know each other orthe"-first-time, ihey agreed that the Mtr do Glace had supplied them with the choicest sample of coin cidence in their experience. New York Sun. :,;,-:-'v -. . .. ..;vU:.; A Teit For Right or Left Handedness. : It is noted editorially in The Medico Legal Journal, New York, that in many criminal cases it becomes necessary to know whether a man is right or left handed. . Quoting Dr. Hall of Denver, a high authority, the writer says: "The matter has generally been set tled by. the production of witnesses, who havo testified freely in many cases to a given condition ' when an equal number of witnesses have been brought forward who havo testified to an oppo site coudition. In many cases the ques tion could bo better settled by an exam ination, of the prisoner, if such an ex amination could bo obtained, or of the corpse, in caeo this became desirable by a study of tho cicatrices upon tho hands, such as are inflicted by every man who handles tools of every kind, but espe cially tho pockctknife. Although most left handed ' boys are taught to write with the right band, I believe the knife is commonly bandied with the left hand in such cases by the left handed, and many tools are used In a similar manner in various trades. In women the study could not be expected to be of so much value, and still it baa proved to be fair ly conclusive in many cases." STATE NEWS. ' Lovemaltlnc In Public . , . It is evident from her letter to The Ladies' Home Journal that Miss Lilian Bell finds much in Paris to interest and amuse her. Among other things that are rather novel . to an American "one sees," she .writes, "the comical sight of a French bride and bridegroom, in all the glory of their bridal array white satin, veil and orange blossoms- driving through the streets in open cabs and hugging and kissing each other with an unctuous freedom which ia apt to throw a conservative American into a spasm of laughter. Indeed the frank and candid way that lovemaklng goes on in public among the lower classes is so amazing that at first you think you never in this world will become accus tomed to it, but you ret accustomed to exeat many ctr&se sihts ia Faria. If a kiss explodes with causu&l videos ia a' cab near tzl? it scsetlaea ccsrta the bens, but It c Icrtr dibits la t-s Icrrl t!rvrrrmtr3 ever ilxJt text cf tllrj tcs crIy wtra e Interesting' North Carolina Items In Condensed Form. . The Raleigh fair was a financial success. Ed. Turner, alias Anderson, shot and killed Thomas Pyatt Saturday night at a house of ill-fame a few miles east of Marion. The murderer fled. There Is considerable excitement in Box boro over sm'M-pox. A pest house has ' been established. There was one case at Itoxboro, a negro named Joe Mackle- ...V.., .1 MV ..MV VUV.V ton, Va., where there are said to be fifteen-cases. Chairman Travis, of the penitentiary executive board, says he has no - doubt that Supt. Day will, as he has promised, make a report Nov. 1st. showing the financial status. At present none of the directors know anything as r to the finances. ; ". ' "; ' ' A special, Oct. 23, from Madison says: While Will H. Opper and Riley Pierson' were removing timbers from the new y cotton mill at Avalon, both were struck by an upright piece of timber, which killed Opper at once and fatally wounded Pier son. lierson is married. - - The State veterinarian is directed to- make a study of the conditions for horse breeding in the Blue Ridge section of North Carolina, to ascertain what breed is best adapted, the purpose being to get ' in some new blood. It is believed that the "French cooch" horse will prove to be the best. . . Artist Ellicott. of Washington, D. C, who is making the statue of Senator Z B. . Vance, informed the committee that it' will be completed by March or April. The unveiling will occur at Raleigh on May the 20th, 1900. It is proposed that . all the national guard of the State shall Earade, and that there snail be a large odv of Maryland and Virtcinia troops and of; Confederate veteran in attend-: Chapel Hill ' News: A woman, who gave her name as Mrs. CharleH Smith, with two children, one a hot aionxv u . years old and the other a' two-mouths' old baby, passed tnrougn tnis place won-' day. She rolls the baby in a carriage. She said she was from Norfolk, that her v husband left her and having po means of support she was making her way to her people in weensooro. ne ciaims to have left Norfolk about two weeks ago and has rolled the carriage all the way except about nine miles. She and her children were tolerably well dressed and very good looking. Henderson" Gold Leaf: The advance in ' price of cotton and the low price in to-" baccowul doubtless result in an increased acreage of the former and a consequent fnllino nff nf t.hn latter nnother season. That is the talk now throughout eastern . - j i ri .i: . ml a 1 . . n fl ivorin varoiinu. v: a ue luuua-u iueu that they missed it in not raising cotton, and next vear bv dropping tobacco and putting in all cotton they may miss it just as badly or worse. It is not a safe plan to carry all of one's eggs to market in nnn hnsl-pt, t.hnnirh. In other words the farmer should not depend upon one market crop atone. : ne may nmw ii right now and then but the chances are . that he may often miss it. r' , . LaGRANGE ITEMS. Movement . for a Railroad From LaGransre to Snow Hill. A Theft' of $609. r Fb Press Bureau, LaGrange, Oct. 24, 1899. : In the old warehouse Mess. Parker & Kennedy; the proprietors,, had stolen' from a drawer in their office Monday morning $609. A colored boy who bought , a ticket and went to Goldsboro was sus- ?jcted, but has not been apprehended, hese gentlemen had the money in the office to pay for tobacco, hence the large sum. We hope the moey may be recov ered and the thief punished. At the request of Hon. Jas. A.' Bryan, president of the A.'& N.C. railroad, a del egation of the citizens of LaGrange will go to Newbern on Thursday, October 26, to meet the directors and other delega tions, to discuss the feasibility of build ing a railroad from here to Snow Hill. A meeting of our citizens will be held Wednesday night and the sense of the meeting will be ascertained and dele- trutoA tn m. mrnmittpm to confer with the president and directors ca above datx Now is the time for our citizens to p zd. together and seize this golden crpci t nity. V
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