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THE D A LY PUBLISHED EVERY ING EXCEPT SUNDRY, Vol. III-No. 10. KINSTON, N. 0., WEDNESDAY. APRIL 18, 1900 Price Two Cents. .-a GENERAL NEWS. Mattel's of Interest Condensed Into Brief Paragraphs. W. F. Miller, of Franklin syndicate fame, is convicted of grand larceny. The Atlanta Journal has changed bands, toe price paid. being f 276,500. At Tuscaloosa, Ala., Rev. 0. B. Wilson was killed by lightning while using a telephone. Tbe Southern Railway Co. has pur chased the Louisville. Evansville & St. Louis Air Line. At Keysvillc, Va., a negro who was about to be lynched, was allowed by one of the party to escape. The Kentucky governorship case ha been docketed in tne federal supreme court and set for bearing April 30th. The president has sent to the senate a statement of the cost of the first Philip pine commission. The expenses were f!17,185. J. C. Farrar, whose accounts as teller of the Waterbury, Vt., bank are said to be short $ 25,000, was arrested Monday in Boston. The pope has decided that the Roman Catholic religion shall not be united with politics, and a decree to that effect has been issued. The U. S. supreme court has decided that the shipper, and not express com pany, must pay the revenue stamp tax on packages. it is tne talk that duelling may be re vived in Louisiana between Gov. Foster and Senator Gaffery. The latter called Foster a liar. The butter-dish department of the Escambia Woodenware Co., at Escam bia, Mich., was burned Monday night, Loss, f 60,000. Mrs. Louise Partridge is sent to jail on the charge of killing Kufus Wright, at ubi cago. He is a member of the Morgan & Wright rubber tire firm. The railway traffic is almost wholly suspended in some sections of Mississippi by heavy floods. Bridges and 'sections of track are washed away. Hester's cotton statement shows the movement into sight up to April 13th to be 8,388,358 bales, which is 1,892,000 bales less than up to same time last year. Tulane University -gets another lift t. m g CA A AAA i 1 aire. v. . Anion gives ou,uuu ior. tne Eurpose of erecting a library building, to e known as the 'F. W; Tilton Memorial Library." ' A drunken negro ran amuck on an ex cursion train in Kentucky. After felling a white man with a coupling-pin, he was shot to death and his body hurled from the train. The proposition to elect senators by the people is doomed to die in the senate. It will be reported adversely from the committee on privileges and elections, if it is reported at ail. J.S. Williams, president of the Seaboard, says: "Our plans for formation of the Seaboard Air Line system, embracing be tween 2,oUU and 3,1 OU miles of road, have been successfully completed In the mining town of Windber, Pa., four men were killed and ' two seriously wounded in a disorderly house. AH were stabbed it is supposed, by an Italian, who was soon after killed by a train. A cyclone wrecked eight houses at Rayoe, Tex., on Monday night. It is be lieved several lives were lost. A man in a buggy was lifted from his seat and blown 100 yards. Telephone and tele graph lines were destroyed, v The Spanish minister at Washington has returned to the mayor of Chicago the invitation be had received to the Chicago celebration of the battle of Manila. The mayor writes him a letter of apology and says it was sent through the ignorance oi a cierk. yyiii: Gov. Johnson, of Alabama, has given out a statement on his defeat and con- gratulates himself that he received nearly 40 per cent, of the votes in the primaries. Be praises the ability of Morgan, and says: "I am a Democrat, in victory or defeat, and shall acquiesce, as I have al ways, without a murmur." AtXroton Landing, N. Y., the first bloodshed as the outcome of the strike at the Croton dam, was the shoot ing from ambush of Sergt.BobtDouglass while he was relieving guard. Great in dignation is felt over the cowardly act. The strikers say they will not go back except at higher wages, nor allow others to take their places, and will resist sol diers if sent to help the bosses. The strikers are well armed with guns and pistols. :, . ., ; X snow, rain and wind storm prevailed Saturday, Sunday and Monday in parts of Colorado. Wyoming. New Mexico and Kansas. In the Cripple Creek mining dis trict it has been blowing constantly for almost two weeks. Railroads are block aded and mining operations seriously hampered. Similar conditions prevail in the Gilpin and Clear Creek county mining district?. ,.The snow is from two to six feet deep on the eastern elope of the mountains. On the divide between Den ver and Colorado Springs and in some mountain canons trains are stalled in heaps of snow, which is so heavy that snow plows buck it with little effect. BAGGING AND TIES GO UP. Trusts Have Absolute Control of Both Artioles. Very Heavy Ad vances in the Prloes of Both Ar ticles Announced. Savannah News. The cotton planters of the south may again have to resort to cotton sheeting as a covering lor tneir cotton, ana to 6eek some substitute for ties to bold the bales in shape. These needful supplies are now entirely controlled by the trusts Last year there were half a dozen com petitorsin each line. This year there are none. One concern has absolute con trol of all the cotton bagging inthecoun try, and another has absolute control o! the cotton ties. The American Manufacturing company, of New York, controls the cotton bag ing of the country, and the American teel Hoop company, which is included in the great Federal Steel Trust, controls the tie output. The latter is a compara tively recent amalgamation' of several concerns. . rne liUdiows, oi uoston. Mass.. are still in the cotton bagging business, but they are in close alliance with the American Manufacturing com pany and make exactly the same terms and prices. The result is seen in the changed quo tations, t or several months the quo tations on ties ana bagging have re mained practically unchanged. Today's quotations will be found to differ consid- , , .L, 1 , eramy irom iuubo wuica nave oeen in force heretofore. An increase of about 2 cents a yard has been made in the price of bagging, and it is not unlikely that there will he further increases. The trusts have in fact given notice that a further increase in prices may be expected in June. While nominally the bagging business is being conducted both by the Ludlows and the American Manufacturing com pany both send out the same price list and make exactly the same terms. Both declined to Bell any bagging for this year's crop until this week, and both opened at the same prices. Their terms are spot cash and no credit. All the cotton ties used in the United States are . now made by the Federal Steel company as agents for- the Ameri can Steel Hoop company. The latter is an amalgamation of the several different concerns which were engaged in the hoop and tie business last year. The result of the amalgamation was felt immediately. From 60 cents, the price at which most of the ties were sold last year, the price immediately jumped to 75 cents, from which it was run up to 31.2o, at which price ties have been quoted; for the last several weeks. The latest dictum makes the prices $1.31 spot cash and $1.36 for August delivery. This is to merchants in large lots. To farmers the cost will be 8 to 10 cents a bundle more. With the complete control of the' busi ness now enjoyed by the bagging and tie trusts it can very easily be seen that these concerns are in position to squeeze the farmers of the south at their pleas ure. Dor several years the cotton plant ers have secured these supplies at rea sonable prices, but this will evidently not be the case this year. : Being pro tected by a heavy tana against foreurn competition and having knowledge of the fact that the farmers of the south are in a more prosperous condition than for several years past, and with the assur ance of a large demand for the present year, the two trusts realize that they have the planters at their mercy, and that the time is ripe to multiply their profits. It will ; be alleged, of course, that higher prices for the material enter ing into these products account largely or the increased prices. There will be just enough truth in this to lend color to the assertion, but it is easy to predict that cotton growers of Egypt, India and the rest of the world will pay no such prices for their baling materials this year as will the southern cotton planters. . BOERS IN RETREAT. . " i Their Commandos Withdrawing In Several Directions. The Siege of Wepener Raised The Boers Belying on American Interven tion. - . . j ' . The Best Prescription for Chills and Fever b bottl of Gsovx't Tasteless Chiix OKic It ia tiniclv iron and ouinina in a taste 1cm form. No cure no pay. Prioe, fee. Does The Free Pbebs do your printing? f not, why not? There is none better. he prices are low, considering the quality of work. London, April 17,' 4:1,5 a. m. Lord Roberts has spread his net far and wide to catch the adventurous commandoes that have been making faiischief in the southwestern part of the state. The net has not yet been drawn, but at the head quarters of Lord Roberts the impression exists that the power of the Boers is de creasing. A Daily News ! correspondent says that some are going north and .1 it l i -r-k otners soutn, wnue a morning rost rep resentative says it is not known what the Boers are doing. 4 Evidently the feeling at Bloemfontein is that the dispositions of Lord Roberts are such as to enable him- tot concentrate a large force rapidly at any point. The Boers being aware of thfs, are presumed to be thinking now chiefly of retreat. The investment of Wepener, ' according to a special dispatch front Bloemfontein, has absolutely been abandoned. Accord ing to a Betheny dispatch the Boers are unable to retreat northward because the British strongly hold all roads. Diverse reports come from Natal, one asserting. that the Boers have retired beyond the Biggarsburg range, and another saying that some of them are close to Ladysmith. 1 r London waits confidently for. almost immediate announcement of news favor able to the British. Doubt exists, how ever, as to any rapid, continuous advance toward Pretoria, chiefly on account of the lack of horses, many of which die in the long voyages. ? The Bloemfontein correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, in a dispatch dated yes terday, says: "The Boers have raised the siege of Wepener and have left Rouxville, A majority of them have) undoubtedly retired north, with the exception of a body of about 6,000: now-reported to be going toward Uethune. : The Daily News has the following from Reddersburg, dated Friday: lien. Uhern side saw the rear guard of the Boers disappear southeast in full retreat. The enemy appear to be in strong iorce 14 miles east of Reddersburg. They are fall ing back before our advance guard." The Bloemfontein correspondent of The Standard, telegraphing Monday, says: "The Boers are in full retreat from Wepe ner, bugging theBasutoland border. The Basutoias are marching parallel with them along the frontier watching eagerly for the slightest encroachment.'; Belying on American Intervention. London, April 17. The Lourenzo Marques correspondent of the Daily Mail, telegraphing Sunday, April 15th, says: "The tone of The Standard and Diggers News show that the Transvaal govern ment is relying strongly upon American intervention. Great results are expected from the campaign of Mr. Webster Davis and from the presidential contest. BRITISH WELL ADVANCE. Gen. Roberts to March at Once Toward Pretoria. Boer Activity Forces Him to Move. London. April 17. At last Lord Rob erts seems to be on the eve of making his main advance toward Pretoria.. ; Unless all the usually reliable sources of infor mation and all the indications smuggled past the censor are at fault, the British army within a few days will be marching southward. After many premature and unfounded reports that have purported to tell of this move, there is naturally, even in the best informed quarters, con siderable hesitancy in definitely settling upon the day Lord Roberts is likely to leave Bloemfontein, but there is a settled Question Answered. Yes, August Flower still hasthelargest sale of any medicine in the civilized world. Your mothers and grandmothers never thought of using anything else for Indi gestion or Biliousness. : Doctors were scarce, and they seldom beard of Appen dicitis. Nervous Prostration, of Heart ailure, 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 ing dull and bad with headaches and other aches. You only need a few doses of Green's August Flower, in liquid form, I to make you satisfied there is nothing serious the matter with you. For sale by Temple-Marston Drug Co.' impression that it will take place either at the end of this week or the beginning of next. The long, weary wait of the Free State capital has apparently effected a much-needed rehabilitation, though it is probable Lord Roberts would still fur ther have delayed his advance had not Boer activity forced him to put his forces in such position that today unless they ad vance, they must quickly proceed north ward, the stragetic advantage will be lost. The supposition is the advance win be made in parallel columns, west of the railroad, the Third and Eighth divisions sweeping northward, the extreme force amounting to 75,000. BOERS STILL INVEST WEPENER But it is Said the Attaoks on the Town Grow Weaker. Lonlon, April 17.-11:10 p. m. The war office has received the following dis patch from Lord Roberts dated Bloem fontein, Tuesday, April 17th: "Our force at Wepener is still sur rounded, but it is reported that the enemy are attacking in a very half-hearted man ner and are anxious about their commu nications, hearing that forces are ap proaching Wepener from two directions one under General Rundle, via Redders burg and another under General Brabant with General Hart's brigade in support, via Rouxville." GOEBEL ASSASSINS. Grand Jury Indicts Howard Broth ers for Murder and Five Other Republicans as Accessories. Frankfort, Ky., April 17. At 4 p. m the Franklin county grand jury returned the first indictments against parties in the alleged plot to murder William Goebel. and names theprincipais in the assassina tion. Berry Howard, former represen ta tive of Harlan county, and bis brother, Jim Howard, of Clay county, are charged with murder. Republican Secretary of State Caleb Powers, his brother, John l. Powers, ' superintendent of schools in Knox county, former Secretary of State Cbas. J? inley, Henry JU. loutsey, private secretary to Republican Auditor Sweeney, Auditor's Oerk W. II. Culton, Holland Whittaker.of Butler county,and Wharton Golden, are charged as accessories. Golden is the chiet witness for the stat and Culton and Youtsey are both under arrest and are said to have made con fessions and it is believed will be made state witnesses. Caleb Powers, is under arrest with Whittaker, while John Powers, Finley, Berry and Jim Howard have not been arrested. The grand jury is continuing its ses sions and is expected to return a number of other indictments against parties con nected with the alleged plot before the last of the week. ,. , Filipino General Surrenders. Manila, April 17. Gen. Montenegro, one of the insurgents' best fighters, has surrendered to Col. Smith in the moun tains near Calaling, in the province of Pangasman. where, with wen. Alaca bulos, he bad been trying to reorganize the Filipino army. Col. Smith, with five companies of the Seventeenth regiment, nearly surrounded the .force or Montene gro. who discouraged by the impossi bility of making his men stand against the Americans, surrendered, lien. Maca bulos escaped.' -The insurgents have attacked San Jose, in the province of Batangas, and Hanta Cruz, on the lake, fruitlessly. A Mcca Mas and Ills Hen, The meanest man in Illinois lives at Centralis. - Tie put a large porcelain egg in the nest of an ambitious hen and found that the eggs she bad after ward laid were Increased in size. Then he put V goose egg In the nest, and the aforesaid ben laid an egg just as large. He was so well pleased with the scheme that be put a whitewashed football In the nest and waited results. When be went the next time to search for eggs, be found one as big as the football, but no hen In sight. Securing the egg, he saw engraved on it by hen photography these words: "I'm no os trich, but I have done my best" Later he found the ben inside of the egg. Enfield (Ills.) Clarion. The advertisements that set people to thinking that make them ponder de scriptions of goods and statements of prices are most certain to bring results to the advertiser. Every business man who advertises is amply repaid for the time and attention he gives to making bis business . announcements clear and convincing. Philadelphia Record. White's Black Liniment. It cures Sciatica. Rheumatism and Neuralgia. A 25c bottle for 15c. I. R Hoop. STATE NEWS. Interesting North Carolina Items In Condensed Form. The A. & M. College shut out Wake Forest Monday playing ball, 1 to 0. Mr. Geo. W. Bridgers, a good citizen of Goldsboro, died Monday, aged 72 years. Carolina won the second frame of ball from Tennessee at Chapel Hill Monday, 10 toO. . ' J. J. Newn-n, of tho Gold Hill mines, near Sali. . killed himself Monday by blowing up ii house with dynamite. He had been despondent lately. No cause is known for the deed. Mr. Win. Rose, who moved to Eliza beth City, about four years ago from North Dakota, was thrown from a wagon last Friday by his team running away, with the result that his neck was broken. The Democratic State candidates all spoke at Winston Monday and were given an enthusiastic reception. Aycock electri fied his audience. Many auditors termed him the second Zeb Vance of North Caro lina. Everything is in readiness for tho Christian Endeavor State convention to be held in Raleigh next week, April 26-29, and every indication is that this will be in every way an interesting and helpful convention. ? There is smallpox at Shelby. A negro named Moore contracted the disease, which seems to be of a very mild type, while working on a railroad in South Carolina. It is confined to his family as yet, but as they have mixed freely with outsiders other cases may developat any time. s Judge Moore decides the fertilizer rate cases in favor of the corporation com mission. This is the case in which ten tons is fteed-ns the minimum car load. This applies, to all railways save the Carolina Central, which has its case in the Federal court. The railways will appeal, it is said,;. - ; Raleigh PostrMrr A.: B. Rowel!, of Northampton county, was killed by a train on the Wilmington & Weldon Rail road, near Weldon,' Friday afternoon. Mr. Rowell had been drinking, and the engineer stated that just before the train reached him he suddenly staggered upon the track and in an instant the engine was upon him. He was badly mangled. Durham had another smallpox scare Monday. On Sunday several colored people were sent to t he pest house broken out very freely with an eruption which tho health officer pronounced well-developed cases of smallpox. Three other negroes, who had been domiciling with the erup tion cases, were also sent to the pest house Monday. The situation is begin ning to be serious; Dr. Brooks, the county health officer, detected two new cases Monday, and from the best attainable information, it looks now as though the colored graded school, situated in the negro suburb of Hayti, where these smallpox cases were discovered,' will be closed for the term to avoid further spread of the disease. 3TRIKERS OUT WIRES. Western Union and Telephone Wires Cut. No Telegraph Com munication With Asheville. r Raleigh, N. C, April 16. Shortly after midnight Saturday night Southern rail way telegraph strikers cut all the wires of that road, the Western Union Tele graph company and the Bell Telephone company west of here one mile, Pullen park. Eleven were cut. The wires were cut by an expert lineman or linemen, in such a way that they would fall across the trolley wire of the street railway. As a result when tne current was put on yesterday morning, a number of tele phones were burned out here as well as telegraph instruments west of here. It was a deliberate piece of deviltry and has not only put discredit upon the strikers, but has made the Western Union tele graph and the telephone people furiously angry. It is Known that ; the strikers have with them some expert linemen and that the latter also did the cutting Wed nesday, Thursday and Friday nights between here and Selma. Other linemen have made this discovery. ' - Asheville is yet cut off from the world. The strikers cut the wires in wild places in the mountains. There are only Western Union and Southern wires there and not a word can get through. Selma was in some trouble yesterday, but last night and today was all right. At the Southern office here it was said that passenger and freight trains were running all right. There was a vague rumor Saturday that the engineers and 'firemen' would strike. Nothing of the kind has happened. t
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