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TOE DI LY 'EDITS PUBLISHED, EiERV EVENING EXCEPT SUNDRY, foL II-No. 267. KINSTON, N. a, MONDAY,. FEBRUARY 12, 190& Price Two Cents. . ' . GEHERAL ; HEWS. -' ' ' " i ' liters of Interest Condensed Into , Brief Paragraphs. ire hundred miners in Tennessee went ( t on a strike Saturday. . "Jiii The Fleming-Snyder murder case at Jrfolk, Va.. resulted in a mistrial. The Seaboard Air, Line will purchase f ; new locomotlveripr. their through Una. ; . T: '-v'-'' v4u0-"i The cruiser Prairie sailed for France ,-iday, with exhibits fortbe Paris exbi tion. .She carries a crew to bring back je Albany. ::;,f;r;i The committee of the Virginia senate vorablv reports the bill allowing the ' aboard Air Line to build from Rich- Iond to Washington, -At Richmond, Ya., Saturday; Judge addill, without qualification, refused e injunction against the consolidation I the Seaboard Air Line. . , , I At NtwYork, Saturday, the Jury Jn the iolineux case returned averdictof guilty the first degree. It is said this trial as cost $200,000. Hemurdered Mrs.K. i.' Adams by poison. y ; I At Chicago. Saturday, all the trades Sliated with the building trades were eked out. It affects the men employed a all buildings in the city.. The contrac ts refused to grant Saturday half-boli-ay and the men struck. There are 32, 00 idle, and if other trades quit in sym 'athy, 60,000 will be idle this week. At Cherry Station, Tenn., Saturday, lim Gordon, a negro farm hand, enraged ecause Mrs. Geo. Rollins, a white "farm 'r's wife, refused to give him some money, avagely attacked her and cut her throat v itb a butcher boife. Her screams were ,eard by her husband, who shot the icgro twice and beat out his brains with Hhe gun-butt. Mrs. Rollins died in a few 'ainutes. ' ; .. '., ' . , ' I The Jeffries-Corbett fight, It is an nounced,' will take, place before the Sea- ide Athletic "club, Coney Island. W.A. 5rady, representing Jeffries, and George Ooneadine, representing Corbett, metSat jrday and took this decisive action. The National Athletic club, of San Francisco, "ailed t6 deposit the $ 5,000 forfeit with New York stakeholder in . the required time. The date of the fight is changed to .May 15th. , . :. ' h Rear Admiral F. Y. McNair, who has recently been on sick leave, has, on ac count of continued ill health, asked to be detached from the superintendency of the naval academy at Annapolis and be given isick leave for an extended period, and his request has been granted by the department. ; The president has. desig nated Commander Richard Wainright to succeed Admiral McNair. This is a great compliment to an officer of his rank and years, and is due to his. "exceptional abil ity and the signal services rendered by him during the, Spanish American war while in command of the auxiliary cruiser Gloucester. , . ' ' , At Chicago a lone robber, well dressed, with money in, his' pockets and with a silk mask to cover his features, was shot and killed in C. H.- Woerner's park pavil ion late Friday night by Frank Barum, an Oak Park lawyer, and Edward Sum merfeldt, the barkeeper. Besides Sum merfeldt and Barum, there was only one other person in the saloon when the rob ber entered. The robber commanded them to throw up their hands. Resist ance was , offered, and the robber fired twice, one of the bullets taking effect in Summerfeldt's arm. Barum wrenched the revolver from the robber and both he and Summerfeldt fired at the robber, who fell dead at their feet. In the dead man's pockets was found ?165. Question Answered: s ''Yes, August Flower still hasthelargest pale of any medicine in the civilized world. Your mothers and grandmothers never thoHght of using anything else for Indi gestion or Biliousness. Doctors .were scarce, and they seldom heard of Appen dicitis, Nervous Prostration, of Heart failure, etc. They used August Flower to clean out the system and stop fer mentation of undigested food, regulate the action of the liver, stimulate the nervous and organic action of the sys tem, and that is all they took when feel ir dull and bad with headaches and ct. r aches. You only need a few doses cf Crra's Ac just I'lower, in liquid form, to rcahsyoa eith.r.c-1 there is nothir j f oriou3 the natt:r with. you. For sale t-y Tcs; !: I an ten Pre - Co. .Jt'-tj k r : c : b r rh:t!.- r.t lowct prief s. ?. 1:7.1 C3 yevr r::k. : ROBEETS IN OIIAttQE. J Butter to Keep Boers Busy at Lady .y emith While Crushing Elows Are To Be Given Free State Forces In (v The West. , London, Feb. 1L Spencer .Wilkinson, the military expert, reviewing the South African situation for the Associated Press, at midnight, says:; ? :-':V'rV :f"i "Lord Roberts has now taken hold of the campaign. His strategy evidently is to act m the western theatre of war with energy enough to move the center of gravity thither, t Gen. Buller's move must therefore be considered in its' place in a general scheme. , The idea seems to be that if Gen, Buller cannot skin the bear himself he can hold its leg while someone else does. Accordingly Gen. Buller is not to risk his army, but short of that, is to five the Boers as much to do in Natal as "The new' plan involves prompt and successful offensive operations against the Free State forces in the west a series of crushing blows.. 'V ;A'.;-Vt J - "Lord Roberts has reinforced Methnen with a cavalry brigade and horse artil lery, and there is probably an infantry division to follow. . fc "To all appearance Gen. Buller has given up his third attempt before his at tack was fully developed. , , ' "A telegram received this evening from Lorenzo Marques speaks of a sortie from Ladysmith in the night of Thursday to Friday. Such an attempt of Gen. White to cut his way out was probable and may' succeed, though; the- nature of modem weapons is against him ,: and there would be heavy loss and many stragglers would be cut off. "The likelihood of Gen. White's trying to fight his way. out would explain the reticence of the war office. It would also explain the demonstration from Chieve ley, of which we have heard only through a Boer telegram. - "No decided opinion on the .operations of the past week can be pronounced un til a connected, authentic account shall have been received. '. ' "." Bailed From a'llapld Town. u 'One of , the funniest' experiences: In my hotel life," said an old clerk, "was that in which a man registered his name 'without writing his town after It, as Is the custom. When 1 called his attention to it, he said: ,'I hadn't forgot it, but I feel a little bit timid about It.. The last time I was away from homo 1 registered the name of my town and the- clerk, asked me what state It - was in. I got mad In a minute and: wouldn't stay Jn the house. 1 went to another house and registered from Brooklyn, and the next day I appea red In the paper credited to New York. 1 showed it to the clerk, and he said he Changed my place of resldentv.on the boon because nobody ever registered from Brooklyn. . "I told the man he need have no fear of having the incident repeated in our place provided he vwanted to write the name. lie said he would think about it and asked to be shown his room." so I saw no more of him un til late In the night. He then asked me If 1 had an atlas. lie studied it minutely for a few minutes, measured distances with - his two hands, like a farmer, and then he called , me and pointed out the name of a town. 1 asked him if that was his." " It Is the name all right.' he replied, but I don't' know whether the town is still there. ItV la the boonjinest town you ever see. and "; when I , left It was growin so fast that farmers in the adjoinin state were burnln their fences to keep the town from growin right over 'em.' Chicago Inter Ocean. . ' ' Sfi Had Ilrad.Abont It. , One day a boy was missing from a schoolroom In one of the up town pub lic school buildings. The teacher look ed around and failed to see the fa miliar facev ' " . "Does any pupil know why Tommy McGregor Isn't in school today?" she. inquired. ' ; There was no answer. , . The teacher repeated the query. Then a little girl slowly lifted her hand. Tlcase, ma'am," she said, "I know." "And why does be stay away, Uary?" TI:::?, ma'am, it's 'clcsa he's c Ilary'tad read the ccrt2j!o-J3 C "3 card th-t wc3 tichcl ca tha fr;t cf th2 hc"::.-C::vcIiLl T.-'a D;-!:r. STATE HEWS. I ' Interesting North; Carolina Items , i ''' - ,v' In Condensed Formv "--, ............ .. i ; .t ,-.),' w y v .i .l i in iii n y . The stock of the Louisburg. branch of the Raleigh & Gaston railway has at last been sold to the Seaboard Air Line. ... ' The State , has chartered the Harriet Cotton Mill at Henderson, capital 150, 000. This is the seventh mill to be char tered thisyear. v ii;:.f ) ,r. I Elihn A. White, ex-revenns collector of the Raleigh district, died at his home in Perquimans county Friday, after many months of illness. , , n ? , , 1 It is the plan to take the cadets of the Agricultural and-Mechanical College to Southern Pines and Pineburst, the New born fair and to Col. Julian; 8 Carr's Occoneechee farm at Hilleboro. ,f0 : li the supreme coort Friday there was argument m an interesting, case. A wife made a contract and her hasband wit nessed it. The. question 'arises did he consent and was pis signature as witness a proof of his consent. ' ' v- : w , Dr." "J; .U. M. Curry is espeoialiy Invited to make a speech at the session of the North Carolina TeachersV assembly in June. The legislature is to be infited to attend the session in a body and hear Dr.; Carry's address, , f,; Fire destroyed the 1 buildings of the Neuse River Institute at Weldon Sat urday. The school was a large one for colored people. Rev. S. G. NewBOin was principal. A few of the books were saved and ten Of the desks, . About 100 pupils attended from various sections of the State. There was no insurance at all and the loss is quite a heavy one to those interested. ' ' -.. Effle A. Roberts, a young woman of fine appearance, left Raleigh Friday for Salt Lake City, having become a Mor mon. One of the Mormon, missionaries, named Emery, who was there recently, arranged for ner to go. I The Mormon church paid for her ticket. .Her; age iq about 25.; : She is the first female convert to. leave this State for Utah. - She is to to marry Emery. At Charlotte Friday "Sid" CoWa col ored undertaker, to whom the body of the negro murderer, TruesdaleJ was given for burial, coined money by putting the corpse on exhibition. Truesdale's execu tion was a most shocking spectacle, and excited the morbid curiosity of negroes for miles around. Scores, paid a dime apiece to look upon the body, and Cole reaped a harvest. ( Miss Rosa McLendon, daughter of Dr, W, J, McLendon, of ; Wadesboro, who was a student at the Baptist Female University at Raleigh, went home Satur day morning upon the discovery that two years ago she was secretly married in South Carolina to M, Coyt Redfern, of Chesterfield Court House, that state. She is 17 and he is 20; There will be a remarriage at Wadesboro. : . ; r . , . At Charlotte Friday Judge Shaw, tried the case of Godfrey .against the Marion Furniture' FactoryV at Marion. i J. G. Grant, a member of the jury,, was found to be full of liquor towards the close of the trial, and Judge Shaw sentenced him to ten days in jail for contempt qf court. J. W. Hemphill, the officer in charge of the jury, was also sent to jail fpr ten days for allowing Juror Grant to have the whiskey. The verdict of the jury, which, was in favor of the furniture com pany, was then set aside. : .. " A middle-aged negro woman and her son, aged about 20 years, were lodged in jail at Raleigh Friday evening on suspi cion of having murdered Solomon Mor ing, her husband, aged about 60 years, about 10 hiiles north of there. It had been suspected for several days that they had killed him and placed his body in Neuse river. There appears to be no doubt that Moring has been murdered. The question is whether there is any proof of the guilt of the wife and son, They were taken to Raleigh for safe keeping until the hearing. . For several days negroes had been bringing in news that the old man had been killed and his body weighted and sunk in the river. The day of his disappearance the old man went to the house of a white man and asked for protection, eayir.-r hisson had threatened to kill him nr. 1 that he was afraid to go home lest Lis son and wife ma he away with Lira. The white man told L:m to ro home; th-t L j would not be hurt. TLia wr.3 t!. ? le.:t e en cf Lira. T2 etori.3 told ly tha vri.'i and sen conflict. Ir:r:rl ".:.:' t! a r:."3 who r !vcri'.-cd tier "r, c-:-':"j, r'"-' --V t.T.1 r j.:rr. v. h:lj yi t t' i v.-r i ret rl. : ;:r 'u ; Iv j cl f Ivc: th t. . BRYAN 'IN RALEIGH. x't He Will be Given a Biff Reoeptlon , .Tuesday. ' Will Lecture at the ' ; University Wednesday. Raleigh, Feb. 10.It. is decided that if the weather be favorable Tuesday, Bryan will make two speeches in the tent of Sun Brothers' circus, which is wintering here and will seat 4,000 persons, the tent to be in the grounds of the Centennial public school. ' ' : One speech will be to the people from the country, beginning at 4 o'clock, and HON. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. the other at 8 o'clock to the people of Raleigh, if the weather is inclement, the speaking will be at the Academy of Music. A committee will meet him at Rich mond, and another at Henderson, and escort him to Raleigh, where he will be taken from the station in a carriage drawn by 10 whits horsestypical of white supremacy. ,. It is certain that great crowds will visit Raleigh on this occasion, and prominent men from all parts of the State will take part In the reception to Col. Bryan. ' , : The fact that Col. Bryan will undoubt edly be the next nominee of the Demo cratic party," and probably the successful candidate, makes bis visit a , notable event, aside from the fact that he is prob ably the greatest American alive today, and a gentleman whose reputation for oratory, common Bense ana vast intelli gence is world wide. Col. Bryan will go to the University Wednesday, and at noon will deliver a lecture before the student body in Memo rial hall. , His subject will be "Pending Problems,'! and an admission fee of 50 cents will be charged. Two hundred and fifty dollars of the, proceeds will be used for the establishment of an annual prize for the best thesis on the science of gov ernment. The remainder goes to the two college literary societies. Large crowds are expected to attend his lecture. DOWN ON TRUSTS. , Pitt County Farmers Strongiy Oon v demn Tobacco Corporations. Greenville, N. C4 Feb. lO.-Abig crowd of farmers was present today at the anti trust and tobacco convention.. Bad weather kept numbers away. Strong resolutions favoring boycotting the American and Continental Tobacco com panies' goods were passed, also favoring efforts to induce merchants not to handle their goods Reduction of acreage and naa tt hnmn fortilizprs wfut nrrred. State Chemist Kilgore was present and made an instructive taiK on iermizers, xne in gredients used, how used,- cost, etc. , Dr. O'Hagan made a capital speech urging living at home, making supplies, cultivating less, becoming independent of trusts. ; - r ' Farmers in this county will use lees fertilizers this year and .will probably reduce acreage. IUa t'apacltr Had Limits. An old farmer who was in the habit of eating what was set before him. asking no 'questions dropped Into a Memphis cafe for dinner. The waiter gave him the menu card and explained to the old gentleman that It was the list of dishes the cafe served for din ner that day. Accordingly , he began at the top of the' bill of. fare and or dered t-ach thing in turn until he had covered about one-third of It. The prospect of what was still before him was too overpowering, yet there were tome things at the end that he want ed to try. lie calfed the waiter and. confidently marking of? the E?acc3 on tie card with t!3 Index Ercr, raid: "Lcck her?. I've tt frum thar ta th-r. Can I t'ilp from that to thar end cat en to the fccttaar l!eztlj Eclssitar. ACTION OF TAYLOR. .. , , , 1 -- Declines to Sign Agreement, But ' Deoides to Order Troops Home And Let the Law Take Its Course. Reconvenes , the Legislature in : Frankfort." Democratic Legisla tors Decline the Invitation. ' Frankfort, Feb.' 10. Taylor refuses positively to abide by the Louisville agreement nrd has invited the Demo crats to coiuv and take his office from hfm; but he warns them that it must be by due process of law, and in the legal fight in the state courts he win contest every inch of the way. v He has ordered the militia home. , . , , Taylor's determination to fight in the courts was announced this afternoon at the close of a conference attended W 2no Rpnuhlican leaders from all Darts of the state. The announcement was made by Taylor in the shape of a procla mation as follows: v "The excitement recently prevailing in this city having to some extent subsided, and there appearing now to be no neces sity for the general assembly to remain in London, 1 do hereby, by this procla mation reconvene the legislature ; in Frankfort Feb. 12 at 12 o'clock noon." Simultaneously with the issue of the proclamation orders were issued to com manders of the troops to disperse their commands,' and in 'ess than an hour one company had; started on a train for home. Five more companies 'left tonight, and ..1 .1 J. . ill 1 .!.!. 10 vne morning uie rent v iu icavv, wnu the exception, perhaps, of one or two companies which will be left to' guard the state house. 1 Taylor also issued the following state ment: . ' ' 'I have only this to say: "After mature deliberation and con ference with my friends from every sec tion of the state, I have concluded to al low this controversy to take its due course, vigorously contesting every inch of ground and upholding the rights of the people to the uttermost. If these rights be destroyed the responsibility for' that destruction must rest wit h J hose who sit in judgement. It is due them to say that the eminent gentlenwi. my friends, who secured the proposition re sulting from the Louisville conference, acted in perfect good faith from the high est motives of patriotism, and . did the very best they could." . The proclamation issued by Taylor took the Democrats by surprise, and up to late tonight they had decided . on no plan of action. Nearly all .of them are in Louisville. Democrats who are here : are 'incensed at Taylor's action. They say that the Democratic legislators cannot come here Monday without recognizing Taylor as governor and that they cannot get pos session of the state house and state prop erty, which is the bone . of contention, without coming here, - From Louisville tonight comes word that Beckham has advised the Democrats that he cannot; guarantee them protec tion in Frankfort, and therefore they cannot come here. - The stand taken by Taylor seems to have the situation, from the. Republican, standpoint, exactly where it was before Goebel was shot. Beckham, after learning the decision of Taylor, sent a message to the Demo cratic legislators notifying them o! Tay lor's refusal to sign the agreement and declaring that all negotiations in that line were ended. He recommends , "that they continue their sessions fpr the pres ent in Louisville, where they Will be pro tected. He says the capito building are now held by an armed force in ; defiance of law, and promises that as the legally elected governor he will use every lawful means to restore order at the state cap ital. He further says that as soon as the legislators. deem it advisable they can adjourn their meetings to Frankfort and asks their co-operation in bringing about peace. ;. When the Democratic legislators heard the message read they passed resolutions providing for the appointment of a joint committee to investigate and report to the general assembly whether such con ditions prevail at the seat of government as will render it possible and advisable for the legislature to resume its sittings there, and in the meantime the assembly will continue to hold sittings in Louis ville. . It is the general belief here that the whols situation will be solved by the courts and that there will be no farther bloodshed. - ' r Tt3 C::t rr:::r.;t::3 f:r C! "3 nd Ferer U a bottle cf Grove's Tastfi ess C at. Ionic. It is limply iron nd quinine in t.. - .exss wn. No cure no pV- l iite.scc.
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