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DAILY te JU: I V j W i " Tix''' l -T?ii PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDRY, ; 1 - 11 i . i " i ' 1 1 i ii i iii ii i . I i ' . t Vol. IH-No.8 " KXNSTON, N. O.mONDAYAPRIL 16, 1900. Price Two Cents: ULTIMATUM RUMOR. Reported That the Czar , Will Com mand England' to Make Peaoe. Confidence ,., In "Roberts Rises. Presents for Prisoners. St. Petersburg, April 14. The Czar and Czarina started last evening for Moscow. Extraordinarily persistent rumors are current in Moscow tnat on itussian xuum tor Rnnrtnv t,h Onr will issue a man! feSto containing an ultimatum to Great Britain demanding that she conclude peace with tho Boers forthwith under threat of occupying Cabul and Herat if Great Britain fails to comply. This re port is connectea py some persons witn the fact that.no reservists are at present allowed -to - take '-unlimited-leave, but probably the orders to the reservists are connected with the projected summer manoeuvres in the central provinces' in which 200,000 troops, will participate, and at which Emperor William is ex pected to be present. Confidence in Roberts Rises. London, April 14. The reassuring re ports from Bloemfontein published in this morning's papers ; have done much to, restore confidence in Ix)ndon. All the correspondents seem agreed that Lord Rpberta knows what he is about. The critics of the. afternoon papers eagerly speculate on-the possibilities of the Boer commands ' at-Wepener being -cut off. This, seems quite possible, as ; the, ; force, from Bioemfonteltt is advancing by way of Dewetsdorp, Gen. Chermsideis nearing the objective with the Third division j, by way of Reddersburg, and Gen. Brabant's force is moving; fro.m Aliwal North by way of Rpux villa ; and . Bushman Kop, while across the border a strong ' force of Basutos are closely watching events. In the mean while Gen . Bundle's , division is concentrating at Springfontein, Lord Methuen's force is trying to get to Hoop Btad and it ia believed thatGen. Hunter's division will strengthens, the , Britishleft at Fourteen Streams. ' The weakening of Gen. Buller's force by the withdrawal, of the Union and Tiah brigades now under Gen. Hunter, is attributed to the fact that the general commanding in Natal has decided that the forcing of his troops is impracticable aad that he will merely attempt to main tain the status quo until Lord Roberts' main advance opens his road through Laings Nek. Beyond the mysterious Cape Town nint regarding the early expectation of good news about Mafeking,- there is no further information at hand in connec tion with that beleagured, town, which must be in great straits." J ? ,; Presents for Prisoners. Pretoria, April 18. United States Con sul Adelbert S Hay has received six and one half tins, of presents forjBritish mil itary prisoners, mostly from England and the Cape, comprising luxuries, gro ceries, cigars, cigarettes and beds for the hospital. They have been admitted duty free to the Transvaal, and every facility afforded which hat greatly" grat ified Mr. Hay. ? He recently f visited the prisoners at Watervaal and says that hie found everything as we) as could be) ex pected under the circumstances. ' "' - - Good Friday was observed as a hoi' iday throughout the republic. : r ,Vf .nn, i r " i Prisoners Off for St. Helena. r (Cape Town, April J4. The. transport "Lake Erie, with upwards of 500 Trans vaal prisoners, including , French, Ger man and Russian members of the foreign legation captured at Hoshqf; sailed for 8t. Helena today -iV? - v Cronje at St. Helena. St. Helena, April 14.-Gen. Cronje, his wife and three of his staff of the former . Boer commando, . who 7 with other Boer prisoners, who arrived here on the Niobe and Wilkee, April 10th, were landed to day, accompanied by Col. Reef. They -were met by . the governor i and scom m ander-in-chief at - S t. . Helena, Robert Sterndale aad Mrs. Sterndale. at the . castle, where the party remained for an hour, afterwards proceeding to the Kent building, , - Gen. Cronje looks well ond appears , cheerful. The other Boer prisoners will disem bark Monday. : , .Lord Jlosslyn. Captured. , London, April ;15.-A i dispatch; from Bloemfontein dated April ,15," says: "A. patrol of Royal Irish, .with whom . was Lord Rosslyn has teen sent to - Krobns tad." Leemokop, southeast of, Bloemfontein, April 15. The Boer command which is tUHn the southern district, and which, it was feared, had been cut off, has ren dered a good account of , itself with the Basutoland police who bad invaded the Orange Free State. : Four British scouts who were cap tured, say that Bloemfontein is bard pressed for water. They add that all the private wells were guarded and civil ians were not permitted to use them un til the troops were supplied. If Pretoria Is Captured. London, April 15. It appears from every indication that the Boers are pre paring in the event of Pretoria being captured to make a last stand along a line reaching from Leydenberg. A trav eller recently arrived at Bloemfontein says that the Boers' are energetically working to persuade the Swazis that the British cause is lost and are seeking to ingratiate themselves, hoping to secure a footing in Swaziland peacefully, or to seize bold of he country if . .necessary. EASTER SERVICES YESTERDAY Services Appropriate to the Oc casion Held in the Methodist, Christian and Episcopal Churches : The churches of Kinston, with the ex ception of the Baptist and Presbyterian, observed Easter with decorations arid appropriate services; jThe Presbyterian pastor was not in Kinston. - METHODISE CHUBCH. At the Methodist church the decora tions were elaborate and beautiful, re flecting great credit upon the ladies in charge. " - : : rmi- s Theeingiug was notably sweet and harmonious. ' . , , ' S ;i ! The voluntary was an Easter anthem: "Shout the Glad Tiding " the solopartof which was sung by Mie Irma Williams in strains as lovely and sweet as has probably ever bean sung in a Kinston church. The offertory "Unto thee, Oh, j Lord," was also very beautiful. At evening services the ' new Easter anthem "My Redeemer; Liveth," was rendered by the same excellent choir. 1 Rev. D. H. Tqttle preached, strong and forceful sermons appropriate to the .Oc casion" at "hoth "morning' and evening services. ,; CHHISTUN CHCBCH. The Christian church wtis very nicely and appropriately decorated by the ladies for the occasion. v; At the morning services, the pastor. Rev. W. G. Johnston, preached, a very able sermon, i his subject being "The Glory of the Resurrection." !;i - The Christian choir is always a good one, but the : two anthems sung yester day were especially complimented. ?.?- EHISCOPAL CHtJHCH. " The Episcopalians could riot observe Easter as elaborately 'this year as has previously been their custom, owing to their church having been burn ed. The ladies very prettily decorated the grand jury room at the court horit-e and what was lacked in not having a beautiful church was made up by the two eloquent and strong sermons deliv ered by the rector, J. H. Griffith'" t;r 'J The subject of the morning . service was "Christ Our Passover, Is Sacrificed for " Us, Therefore Let Us r Keep the Feast." Tbe subject of the i-everiing ser vice was '.The Historicai ! Side of Eas ier," Children's services! - were held in ths afternoon and the amount of f 20 was presented as their offering for Eas ter. Besides this amount f 30 has been raised by the children' since the beginning of Lent toward the building of the new church, v, , . . Welcome to tJtie Fair I 4 Sunday' Newbeni Journal.' i ' Tomorrow wig usher in the first day of the Thirteenth Annual fewbern Fair. The promise for this Fair; is that it will be up to everything credited to it, in the way of exhibits,:; races, entertainments and Bocial features,-:' - -:- - i The record of Newbern as a Fair city is not local, is not .confined 'even to Norh Carolinafor its AdtjualFairis recognized as a supierior one;;flnd;its several depart ments are al ways attractive1 to tisitors, even to thosetvhoisit the great fairs of nbrtheni citiesli 'H, :. 1 1 As U8u41. during Fair ; Week, Newbern throws iOpefthe.aodrstortheicomirig guests, and not on)y ;wel(;6me8, 'but en tertains; J- ; -r-:-i,-y-' , .Throughout .the . week there will be recreation and pic" -b sf6r";eyery one, with; plenty to chc . on ia the way of amusements! The promise ; is , for . not only a good Fair, but gooiiveathet Jrf wtieh to enjoy it, apd. after tb(JcLir.;ribotbs just past, the . chaise ttft' 're 'w ill: prove most agreeable: . .,, J f ;'8;hopsands of visitors. . ' '. 'J,'., In the name of the Fair Association and the citizens of Newbern. the Journal bids all welcome to the Thirteenth Annual Fair I - STATE; NESS. Interesting North Carolina Items In Condensed Form. At Raleigh Saturday Lehigh beat A. &, M. College playing ball, 6 to 5. At Greensboro Saturday the University beat Oak Ridge playing ball, 6 to 4. The Sanford Express says that 200 or 800 employes at Hope Mills are sick with the grip. The University students have petition ed President Alderman not to resign to go to Louisiana. Senator Pettigrew is to be the star performer at the Populist State conven tion at Raleigh on Wednesday. He is to make the address. f The senate committee on public build ings and grounds has authorized a favoruble report on the biJJ for a new public building at Durham tpcost f 60, 000. jy Greensboro Female College .jcommence ment exercises take place May 29 and 30. Rev. James Atkins, D. D., of Nash ville, Tenn., will deliver the annual ser mon. Miss Lalla Ruth, the daughter of Gen, and Mrs. Julian S. Carr, of Durham, will be married to Mr. William Foley Patton, of Pennsylvania, on the 25th of this month. ; Judge Simonton sends to Standing Master Shepherd his decision as to the matter of the production "of the books of private corporations " in the railway tax assessment case. The judge says the books must be produced. : ; Secretary Mebane has published a pro gram of the Teachers' Assembly, to be held at Morebead June 12th to 17th, inclusive. Many promineUt ; educators will talk on subjects of interest and bene fit to the cause of education. V The Populists of Mecklenburg county met in Charlotte Saturday, 35 persons taking part. The convention took a deeided stand against local 'ue3n with the Republican party and refused to com mit itself on the question of fusion as a Stateissue.' z:-17trf- " s ' 111 Craven county Populist conven tioh' wasJ held tnl Newbern ' Saturday. The only .business done was to elect all the delegates present (only 16) asdele gates to the State convention,. A promi nent "politician of Newbern offered to wager f 50 that not more than twenty five white men in Craven county would vote against the amendment-. ' He found no takers. o less' than twenty-two new cotton mills, with a subscribed capital of $2, 565.000, have been chartered by this State from January 1; 1900, to date. They are located1 as follows: Winston Salem, Graham, King's Mountain (2), Fayettevillef ; Lexington 2)f Gastonia (2), Enfield, Henderson' (2),i'Lowell, Smithfleld, Spray, Troy, Hickory, Cberry Ville, Oxford, Charlotte, and Sanford. The State Journal, a Republican pa per, edited by J. M. Allen at Raleigh, appeared last week as , an advocate of the franchise amendment. Its editor says' " The question is not asked in eastern North Carolina "Are you a Demi crat or Republican?" but "Are you a white man or a negro?" Many of the white people do not know what Dem dcratic or Republican principles are, and do not care to know so long as present conditions exist." . .... The State has chartered the Montauk Water and Electric" Power, Co. The capital stock is $100,000" and leave is given to inci ease it to $ 250,000. The stockholders are M. W.J Ransom, E. B. Barbee, W. H. Day, W. C. Riddick, J. P. Leach, W. L. Powell and Whitt A. John son. The company proposes to dam the Roanoke river between Gaston and Eaton's Ferry, and on the south side of that stream between these points to es tablish factories, using water-power: also to build the mountain electric lines of power to Littleton or other points in Halifax and Warren counties. ; Washington Messenger-Intelligencer: A gentleman from Parmele called to tell us that Lane ' Hodfges,-' accompanied by his wife" andieh11d;and 'Nannie Perry, passed through Parmele Tuesday bound for Salt Lake City to make it their future home.VFrom further inquiry "We? learn that Hodges is a citizen, of Old Ford, this bounty, has been a zealous; advocate of Mormonism, 'and that he owned a small farm, w hich 1 he ! abandoned before leaving, and Miss Perry is the daughter of Cornelius Perry, the brave Confederate soldier and Color bearer of Gen. Crimes' Kgimint;theold soldier is nearly heart broken;.' i " i " Good printing at loWprices. Fust'PBKss furnishes it. ' The NEW BAPTIST CHURCH. First Services Held There Yester day. It Will Cost About $16,000. Short Description of This Hand some Edifice. Rev. C. W. Blanchard yesterday held the first services in the new Baptist church. The formal dedicatory sermon will not be preached until the church is cleared of all indebtedness. The services yesterday were very appro priate to the occasion, Mr. Blanchard choosing his text from the chapter of the bible telling of David starting and Solomon finishing a temple for the Lord. 'I he church only lacks now, for comple tion, carpeting, putting in of one memorial window and some pulpit furniture. Next June will be three-years since work was first commenced on the present handsome edifice. When first started it was intended that the building should cost about 8,000. It has cost f 15,000, and when entirely completed the total cost will amount to nearly 16,000. This sura of money was probably expended to as much advantage toward getting an ideal auditorium as could possibly have been done. There are other churches in the State costing more money, but this is Erobably as handsome a church as there i in the State, and its arrangement is such as to make it probably superior to any auditorium in the State. ' The inside dimensions of the church are: Length 74 feet, width 48 feet, pitch 80 feet. The length of the church runs north and south. The pulpit platform, baptis try, and alcove for choir and organ is on the side of the building. The seats are arranged in a circle so as to put every one of the congregation at the same radius to the pulpit platform. The seats and their arrangement have received the commendation of every one. They are perfect both in their arrangement and comfortableness. When it comes to the floor this is the most distinct improvement over the floors of most other, auditoriums, No one in the congregation has to crane their neck to see the speaker The floor is bowl shaped," a gradual wlant from the back and the sides towards the pulpit. The church has 19 windows, seven of them memoiial - windows, as follows: Large window in south end in memory of Pinckney Hardee, given by Mrs. Emily .Hardee Kennedy: a window in west side given dv v. x. xr. . v.; two wmuows in same side given by the Baptist Sunday school; on same side of church a window in memory of Jas. M. Woo ten, a deacon in the Baptist church for 40 years, given principally by deacons in the church at the present time; a window in east Bide of the building to the memory of Jesse Jackson, given by hischildren;a window in same side of building will be put in to the memory of Roberta Hai dee Hodges, bv Mrs S. E. Hardee, s :r AH the windows are beautiful and the large one in the south end is probably as handsome, it not tne nanusomest in tne State. v '.y."h..'' ,; iv ' ; The church is lighted by three large chandeliers, the middle one containing 25 electric lights. This was generously given by Mr. Kleber Denmark. The two other chandeliers contain nineteen electric lights each. There is also a light in each of the two tower entrances . . , . i- I here are three entrances, two en trances in the south end and an entrance in the northwest corner: of the church: There are also two dressing rooms, each having an entrance. ; One of these rooms will be fitted up for a study for the pastor, The expense of slating, the building was borne by Mr. W. Lt. Kennedy. :.m v The church is heated by hot air process. It has a seating capacity of TOO, being at least a- third larger than , any other church in Kinston.- - ? The building of this magnificent structure will ever be a glowing monu ment to the members, of the Baptist church at this place, and especially to the indefatigable efforts ox tne present pastor, Rev. C. W. Blanchard.- - Kentucky Governorship Contest. Louisville,; Ky.. April- H.Attorneys Lewis McQuown and Helm Bruce, rep resenting respectively Governors Beck ham and Taylor,! left (Louisville for Washington .today and on Monday in tho snnmmA nnrt of the United States they will file the record in the suit for the. Kentucky -. overnorenip. - av. tne same time, the attorneys will make a mo tion to advance the case on the docket and will urge the court to take up the case and decide it as quickly as possible. Tho Bnit will htt . anraed before the .su preme court by Mess. McQuown and Ex- Chief Justice William. . iryor,.' ior wie Democrats, and by Helm Bruce and ;Ex Governor W. O. Bradley for the Republi cans.' -: -i ,g ' -" Subscribe to The Free Press. GENERAL NEWS. Matters of Interest Condensed Into Brief Paragraphs. The Democrats, Populists and Silver Republicans in Oregon have fused on a State ticket and in favor of Bryan. It was officially, announced at Sydney, N. 8. W., Friday, that 111 cases and 38 deaths bad occurred there from bubonic plague. . ,' . The Parte exposition was formally opened Ratu .ay, but it will bf a month before anything much except buildings is to be seen. The officers and sailors of the. British warship Powerful, were "llobsonized" bv the 'English women on their return from South Africa. At Savannah, Ga., three little negro children were burned to death in their home Saturday. Their mother had gone off and left them alone. A war department statement shows much smaller comparative loss by our troops in the Spaninh war than of the British in the South African war. r The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co. will, , on, July 1st, begin operating the' Baltimore and Ohio SouthwHtern road which will add 921 miles to it trackage. The house committee on militia has decided to fix at f 1,000,000 the amount allowed annually to the militia of tho several states in place of the f 400,000 no wallowed. .' United States Senator Daniel, in an in terview, authorizes a positive denial of the statement tnat be opposes tne prop osition to Call a constitutional conven tion in Virginia Referring to the use of his name in con nection with the presidentia l nomination, Secretary Long is understood to have inr formed a number of his friend that if the nomination were tendered him he' would accept it. , " ' "' ' '"' The house on Friday, by a vote of 240 to 15, adopted,A,jreolution for a con- -. etitutional amendment providing for the election, of United States senators1 by direct vote', of the people. Fourteen Re publicans and " one Democrat : voted against it ; : ' .-, , At Richmond, Va., Friday. Richard Mc Carthy, a clever electrician and noted as a singer, was found drowned in the dock. He : is supposed to have walked over board while half asleep, nn officer haying found him near by. and in that condition a short time before his body was dis covered. ' : - . Senator Morgan carried the Alabama primaries by an overwhelm ng majority for .re-election to the U. S. wnate. He carried Gov. Johnson's home county by a vote of 3 to 1. He will have perbapa one hundred of the 120 votes in the Democratic legislative caucus. It is said indications are that Alabama will send a. delegation to the national convention opposed to Bryan and the Chicago plat- form. j..; The navy department has signed a con-. tract with the Holland Submarine Tor pedo Boat company for the addition of. some of their boats to the navy, , By the terms of the contract the government payst150,000 for the Holland. It , also agrees , to pay $175,000 each for any boats of the Holland type it may pur,, chase hereafter, provided that the boats shall be similar in dimensions to the new Holland, which will be larger than .the. old one, ' : v " : it Wheeling, W. Vo., Friday, by tne explosion of two boilers in the furnace of the Riverside plant of the National Tube company, the boilers were hurled 150 feet in the air, three build ifigS and boilers in the steel works and .water works were destroyed and 15 nien in jured, including R. K. SatterfleUy Who was terribly scalded. The damage will exceed $25,000, and if the metal ia the blast furnace chills an additional loss of $100,000. Three thousand 7 men. are; thrown out of work for ten days. ; - - Question Answered. ' "Yes, August Flower still haMthelargest sale of any medicine in thecivilized world. Your mothers and grandmothers "never, thought of using anything else for . Indi gestion or Biliousness. Doctors were, scarce, and they Beldom heard of Appenr dlcitis. Nervous Prostration, of Heart failure, fete. They used ugust 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 ing dull and ' bad with headaches and pther, aches. jYou only need a feW doses of Green's August Flower, jn liquidjonn, to .make you eatfsfied there, .is notUng serious the mattetwith you, ForiViale biTjTempie-Marston Drug Co, y , (
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