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II'. "II, .'II I . J. - , ill ! I I ' 1 I I 1 '. ' ' 1 I - ' I , 4 1 I i " ,L it m w, I PUBLISHED; feyERY' EyENINGEXCEPT SUNDRY, f 1. 1 bl. IT fro. 282. kinston& G.a?HxmsiiAYrMABOHi;.i90o; 5 Price Two.Cents. GEliERAL HEYS. fe atters of Interest Condensed Into , Brief Faragi-aphe.L,; ? , Three new cases of the plague hare been scovered in Honolulu ' Cronje's surrender was on the 19th an- veraary or tne uritish defeat at Maiuba Newark, N. J.1, suffered a million dollar Tuesday, In which several lives were jThe Porto Rican tariff bill, as amended, wsed .. the house Wednesday, 172 to ' n'ffr-ii-i c-;i - . The South Carolina legislature has ap opriated $10,000, lor . a monument to erected at Chickamauga. , Two - nitroglycerine 'explosions' in the sterville, W Va.1 .. oil . field Tuesday re- klted in the death of three men and the Ital injury of another v ; Richard Wade, aged 29, shot and killed ,wen xiawaras, agea z, at ioraen baft, . Md., Thursday. They quarrelled yer who shotild take a girl home from a nice. "it in ;.: 1 . 1" There was a' collision on the Missouri acifle railroad, near' Independence, Mo., uexday.. The wreck caught Are ana two rsons at least ; were burned to death ad several injured. : -', ; .' I The British losses in South Africa up to eb.' 28th was 12,884,' of which .2,819 ere jouaea uunug xae iasc iorinigm. he Casualties are thus classified.' Killed, 1,883; wounded,' 6,838; missing; 3,173; isease,880. '.' " '-."'i ' : I Fire destroyed the business ; part of .larion4, Pa., Tuesday morning, and re cited in the death of former Judge W.W. 'arr, who dropped dead from excitement fourteen, business houses weredestroyed. ,'he loss will amount to f 150,000. ; George Williams, a young negjo killed is mother while they were following the orpee of the husband and father to the rave, near Pleasant Hill, Ga.?; The Jjoy rdered his mother to stop her man festa Ibns of grief. ; She paid no heed to him, nd then he' shot and killed her. .; , ', A dispatch, Feb. 28, from Redding, Ck)l., ays: Nine miners are entombed in a unnel of the Mountain Copper company n Iron Mountain. Five hundred men are mployed in the mine and 200 are in the night shift. .Early , this morning a . big cave-in occurred in the; tunnel, and the nine men were unable to escape. Tney are enclosed in a natural chamber, and their raps on the walls show that all are well, i Every effort is, being made to res cue mem. . , p. Joseph Glean, a farmer living near Blue- field, W. Va., killed" his daughter and her lover, and ' cut ; his own throat Tuesday night. Glean had forbidden Albert Marsh to call on his daughter. On returning home he found Marsh in the parlor with her. lie ordered Marsh to leave, and on his refusal, took a shot gun , and fired on binC Ellen .Glean sprang in front of her lover and . received, tht cbarsre iin her throat, dying instantly -The second shot killed Marsn. ixiean- then kllied nlmseJi. . A Boer-English Mix TTp, There fs a German in Danville, III, who has an English wife and an Englishman who has a German" wife. The four got into a dispute the other day on the south African war, and, the a list of casualties was thus reoor ted : The German, Stabbed three times with a mtcbiork.'mav die. r . His English wifer badly bruised and scratched The JjJnglisaman, badly beaten and scratched.. : , His German wife, scratched and hair torn out. - c When the fight began; the English wo man stood np for ,, Tommy . Atkins and the German f or the burghers, but as the battled weired the JngUsh woman was found ontbe 'side Ol her German husband, and the Uerraan : woman , fought , beside her lord and master , on behalf of the queen.'' ' ' j x v ":"' 4, Rockinaham superior court, was can celled on account , of smallpox in the county. ' ... v, , '.-, k We have 5 saved many doctor bills since we began using Ubamberlauva ,.M)Ugn Remedy in our home.- . We keep a': bottle open all the time and whenever any of my family or myself begin to catch cold we begin to use the Cough Remedy, and as a result we never have to 'send a wav for a doctor and i incur; a large "CoCtor bill, for Chamberlain's :j Uougb Kemedy never fails to cure. It is certainly a med icine of creat merit and worth. D, ' H Meakklb, General Merchant and Farmer, Mattie,' Bedford countyrPa: Forsale by J. E. Hood,,,, , -V;,! 4 vv mm M mm 4W. i X - ; v. ' af wit A 2TEV7 DAVID F0H All OLD- , ' New Tori J1IT0 EADY8UITH. Lord Iun'donaldEnt'era tbe Belea eredTp Y00!?8 ulfer Qu tp Nelthorpe. , ng dis- ,1" J . .III. .'ill,!'!1 . , . London, March 1. The following patch was received this morning: t , -f ''Lyttleton's Headquarters, , Pieter's Station, 9:05 Thursday, morning, March 1. Lord Dundonald, With the Natal car bineers and a composite regiment, entered Ladysmith last night. I am movingon Nelthorpe. ' 1 ' Bplleb,"; COLLEGE GmLS' GRUESO joke: tiff A. But They Enjoyed a Laugh at the Expense of . Their Obivalroua Fellow-Students. , - i , "A certain coeducational colletre has a ledge running Just outside the girls' rooms on the fourth floor, connecting window with window," tells a writer of "fVkUaiMk fiirlo' r .a fir a anil Pranbi "hitlo March Ladies' - Home ' Journal. . This ledge the girls used for going from room to room for midnight feasts. In the day time io was m piaui eigub ui uie campus. One afternoon a party of coJlege men coming across tne campus saw lour girls sitting on this ledge talking and laugh ing and eating bananas and cakes,' and enjoying themselves generally. Suddenly there was a shriek. The men saw one girl sup and pitch headlong over the ledge; The other girls, with terrified faces, rush ed to the nearest windows; The men ran toward the body of the unfortunate girl, It had struck heavily and" lay .perfectly still. With horror and pity they lifted the limp form. It was a second or two before tney realized That tne tumble j clothes were but fastened to an old stuffed megaphone, and that the whole thing was a huge jokebeiore tney saw the-aughiDgrXaeet4 &1Z every-teaidQW. Then they put the .dejected dressed np megaphone down roughly, pulled their nats over tneir eyes and went away, peal after peal of laughter going after them ' ENGLAND DENOtJNOED. f Russian ' Papers Bewail; Cronje's Defeat, and Declare the War In famous. - - ' St. Petersburg, Feb. 28.Tbe news papers here outdo the result of tne con tinental press in bewailing Gen;; Cronje's defeat and in virulently abusing I Great Britain. They declare , that the Trans vaal nas fully demonstrated its right j to complete political independence, with Jan outlet to the sea. They suggest that the best help for the Boers' would be to create a diversion against ureat Britain elsewhere, and maintain , that it is the duty of Europe to intervene and J'end the . 4 t ii t.. . x , i has ever waged for predatory purposes.," More Money For State Guard. Raleigh, March 1. There is a bill now before congress to increase the appropri ation made by the Federal government to the militia of the several states from 400,000 to $2,000,000.-This would give North Carolina five times as much as it nas been receiving heretofore. Ad- utant-lieneral Royster and Mr. J. C.f JU Harris will go on to Washington when the bill comes up. ; probably next week, to urge its passage.- The present appro priation is wholly insufficient. Is your fcresta bad? Then your best friends turn their heads 'csida. A bad breath means a tad liver. Ayer's Pills are liver pills. They curs const-fatten, t;I:cttsness,dyspcfsii,' 'sick headache. 25c. AUcru-:?:ts: ai't your ?,(n 8 rr b T 1 l- ' , r,v" f"r t3 r3 FIRB IN RALEIGH. J ' Pogue Tobaooo Warehouse And v Other Property, Destroyed. ; Loss $23,000; Insurance $20,000. ,.f , Raleigh; Feb. 28. Fire broke out this morning in the rogue tobacco : ware house, catching from a defective flue and destroyed the residence occupied by Mrs; George H. Williams, a cottage belonging to Mrs. O.J.Carroll and the stables of Dr. J. A; Sexton.'; The warehouse1 con tained about 250,000 poands of tobacco and only 50,000 pounds were saved from the buildinar: '' ' ' '" " s!-f " 5 " i The losses are E. L. Fleming & Co., to bacco, 110,000: J.,P. Taylor & Co., to bacco, 18,000; JuJius Lewis 4 Co., ware house, f d,uuu; Joeepn a. rogue, residence, 11,500; O. J. Carroll, residence,! 500; Dr. J. A. Sexton, stable, 200; lost and dam aired furniture. $100. . . o , Total loss , over. , $25,000; insurance about $20,000. The firemen could not get water to fight the fire with the water pressure being very low. , ; t ? , A RUDE AWAKENING? :' Latest News from Buller Disturbs British Sense of Oomplaoenoy., lx)ndob. leb.;2o-Uen. trailers m ac count of the tremendous resistance he is encounterlne in his efforts to reach Ladysmith has brought public interest with a sharp turn from complacent con templation of Lord Roberts' victory to a realization, otHhe ; ; very serious con-i ditiorf still existing in Natal.rs;Th6Ugh Gen. Buller'e dispatch is construed as a victory bravely won. the commander pf the forces ' in Ratal has so often re- Dorted similar victories without achiev ing bis main object that the publio has learned to contain its jubilation until ladysmith is actually reieved, while the loner list of casualties invariably follow ing any apparent gain fcy Gen. Buller is always awaited with dread and anxiety, which temporarily rob ms partial sue- cesses of their acclaim. - v' t , i - T, '''I'll f ' v.-'5 t, ft? 1 1,1 'New Feed for Hogs. . Mr. G. M. Wier tells us of a new feed' b has discovered for nogs or more prop-, erlv sneaking one he has adopted. It is poke salad. , We have known of its being i j Sit.' i 1 l : cuoKeu op wilu uietu, uuuiiujr, yvtxa, tur nips and the like but Mr. Wier is the first person to cultivate it for that purpose as far as we know, i . . , Find in ir that his hocrs ate it with trreat relish and seemed , to thrive upon such diet, Mr. Wier has undertaken to culti vate or propagate the plant. He has set out 500 hills and will plant more. lie puts them about in the fence corners, along hedge rows, on ditch banks, and otner waste places thus incumbering no land that might be used for other pur poses. i. i : - , . . . Juoiled with a little meal and slops he savs the noke salad is a crood feed for hoes and be would rather nave one ear of corn cooked up in this way than four ears of corn to b fed dry.1 Jie has tried t and knows what he is talking about. ; The poke sprouts put out early, grow rapidly and last a ' long time and Air. Wier thinks others would do well to give it a trial. ' No cultivation id required and absolutely, no expense is incurred. -The only labor necessary is to plantthe roots and gather the leaves. . . " Sohooner Abandoned OffHatteras. New York, Febl 28.Capt; Somers and the crew o? the schooner Sarah E. Ward, which left ! Charleston Friday for this port with a cargo of railroad ties, ar rived here today aboard the Morgan Line steamship EI Paso, from New Orleans. They abandoned the Ward off Hatteras Monday morning after spending a night m her riggings. ' , Does it Pay to Buy Cheap? A cheap remedy for coach a and colds is all right, but you want something that will relieve and cure the : more severe and dangerous results of throatand lung troubles. What shall you do? Go to a warmer and more regular climate? Yes, if possible: if not possible for you, then in either case take the only remedy : that has been introduced in all civilized coun tries With success in severe throatand ung troubles, "Boschee's German Syrup." t not only heala and stimulates the tis sues to destroy the germ disease, but allays inflammation, causes easy expec toration, gives a good night's" rest, and cures the patient. Try one bottle, iiecom mended many years by all druggists in the world. Forsale by the Temple-Marston Drug Co. ' : !. : DoesTiiEFr.EEPKEssdo your printing? f not. why not? There is none better. The prices are low, considering the quality of work. , STATE HEWS; Interesting North Carolina Items In' Condensed Form. -1 1 i 74 4! Contracts have been let to build the immense cotton mill and. bag factory at Durham, t . (- ,, s, ;, ; k, j . Montgomery Democratic ' convention endorsed Aycock for governor and Sim mons for the senate. 1 '-'- "v.-.t The aldermen of Fayetteville' have re solved to fxt rminate the houses of ill fame in that viy..t' .. . v, T , N-Jir. i Dennis; Simmons, of Beaufort county, t maJtes a gift of $600 to the Baptist Female University at Raleigh. It; is bitterly denied that smallpox is " prevalent in Canton and Clyde, : small towns in the western part of the State. ' Thos Taylor, was found irozen' near Marion on Sunday and - Robert Bingham . at Asheville Buffered death in the same v ay. , , y The public school building for the white race in district No. IS, on Middle Sonnd, New Uanover county, was burned llon day Jrigbt! vIxjss $70; insurance $?Q0.; ji charter has. been arranted the San. ford , Furniture company, at Sanford. ' authorized capital $100,000. J. W. Scott, WV J. Edwatds and others stockholders. ' Mr. A. J. iarshall, the younsr Wilmimr- ton attorney, will have , to stand trial again, on: the charge of counterfeiting. . The trial wilt take place at Raleigh next' May,1" " i"' ' 1 ' "' ' Q. W. Helms has entered suit turninnt the City of Charlotte for $1,000 damac-es foi false? arrest. Helms, his! wife' and child were put in the station house when all were sick,' They refused to be vacci- nated.' v ' ' ' ' " A special from Winston says that a Srivate letter from Reidsvillo says the tate smallpox ex pert i decided that? the sickness in, the female seminary there was : smallpox in a inild form and not chicken pox as reported." - AJl rtvnlrn "f lirt ftnmtviia. ;-. sion drXiaut, D: Fr Mclver, company Kf . Anirq regiment, state guard, of Mfc. Airy," for conduct unbecoming an officer d gentleman. He was the town treasurer and has deserted his family and fiti to . parts Unknown, taking with him $500 of the town funds, 'n.t i At . the Union county: home, in some cabins occupied by colored inmates, a J'blind tiger'' has been in full operation. A raid was made last week and the whiskey captured,"' but what must be donet, with the . violators? They ' are maimed, halt andY blind,' and cannot work on the chain gang. 1 ' rWjll Harris, ' white, a noted criminal. escaped Irom custody at Charlotte Mon day night. Harris was imprisoned there for larceny. He is supposed to have been connected with the murder of "a police man in Richmond, Va., also a postoffice robbery in Atlanta. Harris' pal. a neero. is now confined at Columbus, Ohio, for tne Atlanta roDoery. Tarboro Southerner: Anejrro woman. who lived on Gray ; Bryan's farm, last week Was over at the Blocker farm nick ing cotton. Standing about the fire, her clothing caught. .Frightened, she ran, ' which only made the flames njoreereedv Finally she fell or jumped into a ditch, out it was too late. h was already so badly burned that she died next day. Clyde Sellars, a negro confined in jail at Greensboro,, made his escape about 4 o'clock Monday, morning . under peculiar circumstances. He donned a woman's dress and, representing himself to be a . lemaie "trusty" going for a bucket of water, passed the guard without suBpi-- ci0n.? ? His absence . was not detected for some time when he was probably .; miles rom ureensDoro.. , . yy.f:. f A special from iSalisburv savs: "i The .f question of a railroad's right to remove " itsase to the Federal court since the Craig act was passed was brought up t t a mi . i m . ueiure ju'jge rimoenaKe. xne case oi the administrator , of W. A. Mowery against the Southern railway for $30,- -OUO was to have been tried, but for a ' motion of Capt. Chas. Price, counsel for the Southern, to have a transcript of the case sent up to the United States court. Hon. Lee S. Overman, counsel for the plaintiff, objected on the ground that the law of the State, under- the terms of the Craig act, prevented its removal Judge Timberlake has the matter under consideration and will render hiaopln- onthis weefc. 1 ' Saturday is the last day we wiU make our fine photos, 15 for lGe. Cc: ,e at once, while you pet pictnn s for r !.ir. CLiri'UiiriioiiHO., ": ::- Or r.i IIocfo.
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