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GENERAL NEWS. Matters of Interest Condensed Into Brief Paragraphs. . Sir Thomas Lipton's yacht Shamrock started for home Wednesday. A freio-ht, afnmev with a went ashore at Whitehead, Nova Scotia. m W ednesday night's gale. She will be a total loss. The Cape Charles lightship at the en OAPT.B. M.PAOB. A Statement of Soma Real Facts in Reply to a Mean Attack by Oapt Pace on the Kinston Tobaooo Market. Capt. E. M. Pace has been running a tobacco warehouse at Clinton, " which the stockholders decided to done, fit a ft rat of this month for the aonamt w aim. pose the Captain has managed to lose some money for the stockholders, as he is reDuted to hare for other noonla nt. every other market tie bos operated on I 'M 1 1 1 M-f-rt l M 1 t I'M H 1 i h ! j BAIT FOR A TIGER By Henry Sterna, i ri SJSlSoS' ab,e to long "hcd A n!Ltram 8truackr,a c,w . ThureJay, We thus describe this unique character L, 15 An. ' , UIia 81crs were so that owr readers may better under. overturned. The logs rolled over and ground three men into a pulp. Three otners were pernaps fatally injured auuuuie uieinonai was dedicated in Z1? J?011' Cula' Tuesday, in scribed "Tribute of the Cuban people to the memory of CharW A. nmt nino. tnoug statesman and tireless defender of uioan iiDerty." . i . If. TV!!' .... mra. i nngvee ana two children were burned to deaths near Tiff, McDonald county, mo. The baby fell into a caul- dron of hot apple butter, and the mother wxju auuuier cnua were iataiiy burned trying to rescue it stand what sort of man has made what we consider a mean and nmliVinimnttna- on the Kinston tobacco market. SoniPtirriA a cm Cant. lnw nrao m.iinA ry . uo tiwvt because a farmer who hnr! nlrondv anM ouiue wuamo on ine mnston market, after sellincr some nn Vrm' w mwvt f iswa va Capt. Pace that he got a much . better price m Kinston. In the last issus of the Sumnunn nmn. crat Caot. Pace tells a, frran.t tnla ahnnt some farmer taking a Jot of tobacco to Kinston and "turninc tam" otk it. - than takingit to Pace at Clinton, where, says .race, it sum ior mucn Digger Tkl-KKMI I . .. . . Gen.FnnstonfcfLhnnt.t, ai.w-w aS paraaes tins to try to make farm- . Ireland and The Monitor, a Catholfc o 1!fa.?!s i? per published fttnFranoiW n)i.. maum xvuibdou. we nave m?Ewi ?5W 8,uspicio.n that ?apt. Pace in- in the Philippines The archbishop d! tE'a,ra carry his tobacco to A dispatch from Cindnn.fi in tiverecruitin for a ah wrhS IV; JTT "?:V V" ora aDOUl amennto aid 1the!Bofera in The fact is that tobacco brings better oOUtn Africa is cninjr nn In nfnnna3 nv;w ;n f:4. i i -n- . . 1 He Cincinnati recruiting agent is Harry fish a truthful statement of your average iXwe. lie is a cnant in ntnnro onri 4-v.a. , noted as a local football nla vr On TOm it ' F ' ' 0' list alreadr secured hv Twb m sknni nir,- . . thirty names of young Cincinnatians and when more farmers go to planting Kentuckians. Loweia a noniinriT a. a v' ? i..j a ii m r. vi" i "v,- nrau .oiuuuu ? were, ' uut as ves ?nagent f the Wfion, D. C, re- there is not enoUgh tobacco sbld CrUltinff acenCV Whioh il nmrnir n 4 nn ' !..). n j.1 t-.T: . December. - j having lef t Novflm wV uu iaat DV7 CT head quartewoboutls mUes off. ' ' . I . ThpntnrA mnnv KntraM n 4 i'tnE.4- I we had an iutervk'w with Uim next morning: tie Haid be had Jong wanted Burma was a most 'disturbed coun try from 1852 till 1836. I had my share of rough work, for I was detailed to survey and explore the country with a view to opening it put by roads. One day some villagers came to ask me to shoot some elephants that were destroying their dhan (paddy fields). I asked ' them If the . herd was a large one: They said yesl but that If the two ringleaders, which looked like twins, were killed the rest would go back quietly to the Yomahs. , . .. . . : . . ipus 001 particularly ousy tnat aay, so 1 agreed to go out 1 had a long trudge, nnd. sure enough, I came upon the two inseparables and accounted foi them both.: . ' . But the day was orercast" We stray ed erratically. Finally night came oa, and our men acknowledged that they did not know their wy out of the fo est. i ; j:'VJT,-: :h --.sf I ought- to have T mentioned that j Moung Uonug (lee. an . Independent warrior, half soldier and wholly a dh eolt. was in arms at this time and ap peared here aud there from time to time. Wherever he met our trooDS he was, defeated, of course, but as a rule be only iittackcd .outlying towns, tor turing tbe people and levying black mall wherever possible,' 1 8upKse It was between 2 a. m. and 3 a. m. when we were savagely awak ened, and before we. knew for certain trhether the whole thins. was a fantas tic . dream or not we ; were securely abound aju. tfl.ktyofrjtjUoHos ; Gee's il An Ayinit4i vA( ..... 1 1 1 tear me to pieces atTIay"fiuddled"up aeipiessiy. It appeared afterward, however, that the Karen girl's brother had been forced to erect the trap and had made toe partition of male bamboos of great strength. Ia the darkness I could see the great luminous, wistful eyes of the man eat er. The fearful brute, finding he could not get la at me, began to Insert his paws gently, but I crept up to the out er bars, and then he could barely reach me. He did succeed, however, In giv ing me a claw or two on my back and DUttOCK. As be smelled the blood he began to gnaw at the bars and would doubtless have made short work of them, but there was a sudden glare of torches, a confused murmur, and then I felt the worst had passed. The Karen girl, with 10 of the Sikhs out of the 20 which formed my body guard, came up and bayoneted the ti ger, which was caught literally like a rat In a trap. Fire they dared not, as they were only a couple of miles from uoung uee's camp. They released me. more dead than alive, from my living tomb and then Improvised a hammock out of a native blanket and carried me to my camp. En route I met D'Oyly, who, with a strong force of regulars and Irregulars, was hastening to my rescue, I lay between life and death for sis weeks, for the shock ti my system, as well as the exposure to the cold chills of a December night, bad brought on a severe attack of fever. , But I was truly thankful for my seeminclv mi raculous escape from that man eater, which I met under such appalling con ditions. Wide World Magazine. STATE' NEWS. Interesting North Carolina Items In Condensed Forxn. LaGRANGE ITEMS. Chairman Holton of t,h tton ll Klin n party, savs that tlin Ponnlit will rM lor the constitutional amendment. Four thousand norl wifcnenWI h presentation of a crmt lv rvn vilinn af. 1T mann nark to the vitv nf fiftWahtwn k ' Me8. Henry and Sol Weil, Thursday. A dispatch from Ore pnsbovbsavsadan-" Strous fire occumid at the Proximity anufacturintr Co'h. mill WoHnMilnv night. The darna to stock and ma-' chinery will probahly reach $1,000 or f 1,5UU. The dead bodv of . colnwvl Infnnf waa found near Durham Thursday afternoon. It had been buried with a sack wrapped around it, and whs hi ratched up by dogs. The hands and one foot were eaten off. ) The steamer Neuw. uftpr IviW Mtinm in a marsh in Pamlico nnnnrl slnra h August hurricane, him been floated. The recent storm and high tide floated her, . ! ana a tug puuea ner m deep water. Fayettevflle Observer: Mr. M. L. Maine, of New York, a brother of the junior Eartner of the great cotton firm of Geo. opeland & Co., of New. York, is in the city for the purpose of purchasing a 500 acre tract of land, suitable for the raising of Angora goats, the wool and meat of ' . V . . m ami wmcn are vaiuaoie articles or export. ' : i Wilmington Memenger: That very amusing and humorous "first composi tion'!! of the late Senator Vance, that is going the rounds, certainly gave much . promise and showed for the man that " was to be. We doubt if he could have done better when . thirty years of age' with the same subject. , i( ; , s Statesville landmark: Private, but -reliable information has reached here" of the killing In Mitchell' county Friday of Mr. Milton Phillins: He was shot There are mnnv hnxrpra nn ha vtnam i , . . . . I . rf - w w wu Auunuvvu New Confidence Game. 1 market all . the time; we have four bis- uur readers are warned against a new mc"u,uIO)lroiKremnienes,iinAmer- confidence game which is being worked Lcan TODaoS Co. steamery five big prize by an ingenious gentleman of New Enir- f,U8e8' a?d every facility for, handling land. ' , tobacco in vast quantities. We had He writes to the seWWl viVftm t,o already sold over six million nounds of has been recommended to him as an hon-1 to,,ac??lp to November 1st, and will estman.andwonldithflnnHaihioWhi!8?11 eiht or ten million pounds before - . . . - - f V UiUi 1 I.L. . . a i . T (the victim) to go on a little journey to t- uBeas?n cioses. 4na tobacco sells as Cuba, to dig from a certain place and u1? n the Kinston market as any mar brinfl: awav a fabulous Ket m JNorth Carolina with eaual advan- during the Spanish-American war by a r8? S?d hiher ,than lt has sold ln P1- rich American now in mil . mi a i , x ue connaence man states that he is too ousy himself, hence cannot go, and winds up modestly bv askinc- tha to send $5 td pay the expense of some jetu expenaitures. , - . Perhaps some of OUT rpnrlpra hum nl ready received such letters, as they are warehousemen an being circulated in North Carolina; handling tobacco. . i 1 . I ;nnr Pana mo - v.VHt IVbMfMUV We know that a littla mnrfcAt with nrAv one buyer besides "the, warehouseman, and with no superior fnilitifla for hand ling the weed, cannot sell tobacco for as uigu prices as where there are a to catch a sahib of the detested En? Hsh and would mete-out to mea puu Ishment so terrible that It would effee tually prevent ot hers froiu wa uderl ug i Into his country. . A for those with me. he said they had been warned what their fate would Ih If they assist ed the Kala-Iogue, , He ordered them otf for lustaut tor ture and execution, but I cannot de scribe the horrors tliat followed.; Their memory is a horrid nightmare to this day. , auoui ; d. iii. I : was walked off a FnRmPRWHTtiTtirn from ambush while plowing Jn his field "v N6v. a, 1899. Mdkialmost instanJy. Phillips tVt fon ia onminff in iu,in,.w wa8 wlia VJ JMarsnai Uner when Cotton is coming in freely now. . the ,atter t;,, to arre8t the 6 Mrs. Ithodes, of Jones county, is visiting rado Honeycutt some two weeks ago,' her mother, Mrs. Waiters. and where Griei received the w onnd Mr. Quincy Fields has accepted a po- from which he died Thursday, While It" ition as clerk for Mr. 11, B. Kinsey. is not known definitely, it is' supposed Mrs. Maud Hadley, of Falling Creek, that Honeycutt or some of his friends went from here to Goldsboro today. shot Phillips. , . juage Mmonton s decision m the case vi Virginia u. laattnews, oi isew lorK,. a stockholder of the Carolin a Central railroad, against the corporation com mission, was filed Wednesday. This case was argued at Aehevillo and involves the right of the : commission to reduce the minimum in car-load shipments of fertil izers from 15 to 10 tons. Judge Simon ton holds that the commission has a right to fix reasonable rates when the Mr. J. F. Hucirins hax lenufrneri na m. tion master of this section of the A.&N.C. railroad. Mrs. J.E. Debnam, who has been spend ing some weeks in Wilson county, return ed Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. J. Henry Fields returned Wednesday from a visit to their farm in ureene county. number of competing buyers, competing iimtuuiroiura cuxu oupenor latUIUeS ior ar as nnn.t Bi. , ,, . tt . 7 Mr- w.ii.- iardee has exchanged his ngnt to nx reasonable rates when the larce food six or eight miles through dense grocery business with Mr. WillvPeareal charter wasgranted since 1868-notwith- timr Junff,t,s- 'hd and tortured more or for his livery business. . -, standing there is provision in the charter ' . leSS 1 the Whole WV. unit lit : limiffh I mt . -n.. . i f hot. tfinf.nnn-oi. sholl ivio j :,' ! Mule Story Doubted. Jjondon. Nov. i. ThA Timiw flnto ; difficult to t believe in the story of the iu uiweuimpeue. , it aeciares that trained Daitery mules have never been known to stampede. They have repeatedly made night marches in India without mishap. a ttOBuuies mac uoi. uaneton's mules were under native care. v It . recalls the recently reported . mutiny of native muleteers, and suggests that Boers or tueir sympathizers tampered with the drivers, aud the rolling of boulders was a signal ior them to desert. It suggests alternatively that the natives became panic-stricken and bolted with the ani mats. , i What England ia Fightirar For: jonaon, inov. l. Lord (ieorge Hamil ton, secretary of state for India, speaking at Ealing this evening, regarding the sit- imuuu in doucq Ainca, said: "Uur ulti mate victory is certain, and when the , terms which we, as victors, will propose to the vanquished are known, foreign imuuus win see tnat tne main cause that has forced us to embark upon this con flict is not a desire of pecuniary profit or of territorial aggrandizement, but a de termination to emancipate a vast terri tory, for the common benefit of mankind frrim n. ImmIa 1 J J . l " iguuuio umu uegraamg tyranny. The rioter lloore "Wrecked. umirn, i. v., Nov. 2. Advices to ll:e oweer here are that the three-masted locht icr r.ioore, r-ht, from Bos- to Lrnnswick, went tshow durirT storm ne-r KnncxVet Li e ' it :n, below Kitty Hawk on the North - ;-;y.'v coss- vapt. mx telegraphs Pace made a 0Tn.tiiit.iomi nnA and unnecessary attack on the Kinston market. We have stated whnt to be facts, and hope that it will not be necessary again to refer to Capt. Pace, who we can see in imacinntion wm turn around his deserted wamhonnn to BOO if some poor ignorant farmer will entrust ms looacco to tne ; uaptain to ship to some market where there are buyers. A worried looHair stranffer stenneA tip to a crossing policeman reeterda'T morning and said: '-':'. , "Will t yon kindly direofc Matthew, Mark. Luke and John mil- way depot?'1 "What?" The stranger repeated his request j : "There isn't any such, danofc in thi town," replied the officer. "What yon giving me?" laat isn't the .name of it of tourse," rejoined the other, "but it's something like it Mv head' nil tan. gled up this morning, and I can't get anything right" . V : ... A sudden thought struck the police man, r.':: ' ' ' "Do yon mean the Bis Fom rforw ? he asked. - . . . . ... . "That's itl" exclaimed the. delightedly. "I was sure I'd know it if l heard It again, where is it?" The oScer started him in Sa-hi direction and then went into a brown EtTjiy. At the end of half an hour he er2cr:J from it and said to tizssdf in an ac.Ua voice: - I Trc .:r if that evr r-Vt hTt-- ia rfiva E8."-CLics ja Tilths. less the whole wa v. and at ten?th t found myself stripped and thrust tu'to a trap prepariHl for a tiger, n bamboo or rangement of simple construction. But previously.-while a prisoner and tied to a tree, a Karen girl had. at the risk ef her life, given me a little wa ter, and 1 begged of ber to send some one hurriedly to Captain D'Oyly, who t.was camped a few, miles off, to hurry to my rescue The trap was one of those' usually erected for tigers In Burma. It was a long, rectangular, boxliUe structure, made of bamlioos. The portion , set aside ror the bait was only Just larg- -enough for me. j crouched then1 dumbly., half , dazed with horror and quite unable to realize my fearful posi- It vas Christmas eve and the weath er very chilly for Burma. I offered large bribes to my custodians to let me escape, but they only scoffed at me The cold was bitter, but I must have dozed off all the same, for I remember oeing awakened by a clammy some thing crawling over me. My heart leaped into my mouth. It was only a rocksnake, however, creeping through the barf and seeking , an exit' some- wbere4 : But shortly afterward the crowning norror came. - I heard soft footfalls first and. then something . snlfflng around the trap. . There could be no doubt that It was the man eater.' I was kept In ajony for fully tet min utes, and then tie tr-t, erf "rrtly foursJ the door, for he estereJ, and 1 tard the doer falL . ; . Tt:re wzj a rirtltloa cf t;-bocs tstweea t!i and me, but I antidrated tlat ts wouIJ soca Czzitllx tLit end1 Mr. Thomas Best has nurehnjipd thatilA Methodist parsonage, had it repaired ana mis weeic moved into it. The Diseinle church i reneivino' it Inot. coat of paint, which is a' deeper canary than was the color when last painted. Bevs. C. E. Forlines and R. M. Andrews have closed a series of meetings m Buck lesberry and gone to Harris' Chapel to begin a meeting there. : ? The freight train was derailed here on xxiesaay oy tne spreading oi the rails, due to defective cross ties. The train wm detained only a short time, however. Kev. U. .1. F. Anderson, of Hertiord ? iB assisting Kev. Mr. Davis with a series of services in the Baptist church here this weeK; . Air. Anderson is an eionnent nnd nigmy entertaining speaker. . - s c Mr. Kinc. who iorrades tobacco nt. t.hA LaGrange tobacco warehouse, on enter- A. 1 m . 1 , TIT i uig uie j wareuouse eany ueunesoay mornmir. found that some one had nonr- ed kerosene oil on some chins and set fire to it. The fire had rotten very little neaoway ana was easily extinguished. Had the work been done early in the m1U- v. j.-ui v been destroyed. The perpetrator is on- suown FALLING CHEEK ITEMS. " . ; October 31. 1890. Mr. Bob Irev and family spent Satnr. uay ana cunaay at jur. u . i. xiernng-s. 1 Mr. John Vinson, of Wilson's Mills, who has been visitincr Mr. Demnsev Wood. returned home Friday. Mr. W. I. Ilerrinar and son. Mr.Henrv. attended the Missionary Baptist associa tion at LaGrange last week. . . It is to your advantage to get your job work done at this oSce. that that power shall rest solely in the board of directors. He further holds that the act creating theCarolinaCentral railroad is an amendment to the charter of the corporation commission. It is I also held that the road was chartered in 1881. Judge Simonton states that the unreasonableness of therate cannot be decided by affidavits with any degree of satisfaction. He, therefore, appoints "E. 8. Martin, of Wilmington, a special mas ter to inquire into the rates prescribed and specially as to their reasonableness, with leave to report in this special matter. Six Thousand Boer Surround Kim- ..berley. , . , ' London. Nov. 2. A dispatch from De Aar, Cape Colony, dated November 1st. says: . ' 'According to Burchersdorn adviepM. 3,000 Boers have collected at Bethulie hridew. Thev nre nrnhfl.blv thnfomea un der Commandant Iu toil."' ' r . A disoatch from Klindflm nrar ' TCim- berley, dated October 20th, says that a small force of Boers, under Commandant Bchnlts, demanded the surrender of the town, The magistrate complied, a be had onlv dents aided the Boers. ..The magistrate , escaped to Hopetown. , . , : ',' He reports that 6.000 Boers were nmr- u- mundlnir Kimherlev nnd that. mmmirnL ' r cation with the place was extremely difil cultuind danrerou8. Troons and neonlA , in thacity are hoping for relief. Tne dis- ' ciplineof the Boers is indifferent, but they ' . are well mounted. 11 ' The Eocrs Inrads Zululand. Pietennaritibnr. Nov. 2. Tfc is rrvirt- . ed that the Boers are Ofcrr-'-"; rnrtcl Esbscrlbsto Tra Dixt Ttzs Tzzzs. i X i 'J I
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