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E DA LY ft JCE: It.JfC. Vol. m-No. 13. KINSTON; N. O., SATURDAY; APBIL 21, lbbo. ' .' Price Two Cents GEHERAL HEWS. Hatters of Interest Condensed Into Brief Paragraphs. Representative Levy, of New York,' on Thursday introduced a bill to repeal the war revenue acc The trial of Col. Coleon. in Kentucky charged with the murder of Lieut. Scott and L. YV . Deroaree, was begun Thurs- day. ,. . '. . Gen. Carrington baa arrived at Beira. Portuguese South Africa, to begin his march into the Transvaal , through Rho- deflia. The poorest -man in Flnley county, Kansas, lives in a $23,000 house. That is what the poor house cost, and he is ; tne only inmate. , , : In the Goebel murder case indictments have been found against John W. Davis and Green Golden, and, it is rumored against uov. Taylor. ' Ilomer Crawford, a negro, was Jegally . executed in the county jail yard at Haw kinsville, Ga., Thursday for the murder oi Johnson rate, colored. A lot of Chicago business men have be gun a crusade against the cigarrette. , They ' pledge themselves not to employ any person who smokes tbese things. - It. II. C. Hill, of Baltimore, represent ing the R. G. Dun mercantile agency, was , killed Thursday by falling from a sleep mg car oi a Pennsylvania itaairoad tram ' The fight of , the telegraph operators over tne (southern seems to be unchanged, both sides claiming victory., Operators . on tne Atlantic & Danville division went out Thursday. , In Mississippi the railroads will not be able , to . resume operations for several . days on account of the floods. Several trains are water-bound, and immense damage nas been done. James Francis Smith, the American dis trict telegraph boy, who is bearing to i President Kruger a message of sympathy from Philadelphia and New York school boys, arrived in Paris Friday, on his way to South Africa. - - ' , J Representative Hepburn, in charge of the Nicaraoruan canal hill. that a definite arrangement has been reacnea Dy wnicn tne bill will be con- ; siaerea Dy tne nouse May 1 and 2 and Eassed. The provision for fortifications i cut out, but a clause looking to defense . raiuaum ui. .... v , The house On FrMftV nAnni-oA the. mittee'a proposition for two battleships, - three nrotected crnispm A.n1 throa m. .mored cruisers, all to cost 128,000,000 : iur nuns ana ultimately to cost with armament 150,000,000. The house re fused to provide for establishing an armor plate factory., The Republican etate'convention which ' met at Montrnmv A In. nn Thnmi a . broke up into two factions inconsequence oi a disagreement, resulting in a row, In which Distols were fliwri And rma man was seriously hurt. The governor order edthe convention out of the state hquse in consequence or tne disorderly proceed ings. . - . The recent session of the South Carolina legislature cnanged tne law requiring rail roads to provide separate compartments in coaches of white and cnlnmri gers. The new act provides for separate coaches and establishes a uniform rate of a cents per mile instead of first and sec ond claes fares. The railroads complain that the change has cost them consider wy. . . 1 , 1 . , ........ ' The enirine and flvoarrf tu ot bound fast train went through a bridge .... near vucuraue, xna., on xnursday night. Engineer Geo. Crane and Fireman Frank Reynolds were killed and BrakemanCW. Hook was probably fatally injured. One ; of the : wrecked cars was loaded with whiskey, which caught fire and burned the bridge as well as the wreckai Advices from Bolton, Miss., state that xieurjr jucaiw, a negro accused or an at tempted assault upon a Mrs. Saunders, near Brownsville, in Hinds county, was hanged by a mob in front of the Browns ilk school house. He entered Mrs. San ,ders' room, but . was frightened away, and captured a few hours later, by citizens who went in pursuit. ' The lynching fol lowed. . ' y.Zr. v ;? ; .. The treasury department has completed the arrrangements for the retirement of Porto Rican money and the substitution of American currency. James A. Sample, chief of the issue diviflion of Treasurer Roberts' office, and W.P.Watson, of New York, an expert accountant, have been selected to go to Porto Rico to make the exchange and will leave before May 1st. ..... '.. ; . ' All Ferrough Bey, the Turkish minister, called at the state department Thursday and had a 10 minutes conversation with Acting Secretary Hill about the claim of the United States for indemnity on ac count of the damage done to American property during the Armenian troubles. It 13 said that the United States govern ment will now insist for immediate pay ment from Turkey. COAST UNB CONSOLIDATION. Atlantio Line Stockholders Ratify the Deal New Offloers Elected. holders of the Atlantic Coast Line of Vir ginia met this morning and ratified the action taken by the board of directors at the meeting in Baltimore yesterday, which was to consolidate the various lines, save tne Klcnmond, Fredericksburg & Poto mac, composing the system and to change tne name to tne Atlantic toast Line Kail- road company. ' . The election of officers resulted: W. G Elliott, formerly president of theWil mington & Weldon railroad, nresident: H. Walters, president of the Atlantic Coast Line of Connecticut, first vice Dree ident; Alexander Hamilton, former presi dent oi tne Atlantic Coast i4ne oi Vir ginia, second vice-president; C. S. Gads den, former president -of the: Atlantic Coast Line of South Carolinathird vice president. The number of directors was increased to 12. In- order to become final, this action will have to be ratified by the companies of the system south of here, and for that purpose meetings will be held Friday and eaturoay. ,- - Consolidation Endorsed by W. Sc W. and S. Railroads. Wilmington, N. C, April 20.--SDecial meetings oi tne stocKnoioers or tne Wil mington & Weldon and Southeastern rail road companies were held here this after noon, y per cent of the stock being rep resented. The action taken by the board ot directors at Baltimore, on Wednesday. with regard to the consolidation of all the roads composing the Atlantic Coast Line system into one corporation was unani mously endorsed. Tne name of the new line will be "The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company," with a mileage of 1,770 miles and an ad ditional mileage of 800 controlled 1 by lease or joint ownership, making a total of approximately 2,600 miles. . v Besides the officers named In yester day's Associatea Press dispatches, the di rectors will De: B. DV iNewcomer, Balti- mnn HM V. R Rnnlon RnMalvnvi V P . George Howard, Tarboro, N. C; Donalci McRae, H. Walters and J, W. Norwood. Wilmington, N. C; Michael Jenkins and Waldo Newcomer, Baltimore. Md.; Fred W.Scott. Richmond. YaD .IV. Lassiter. Petersburg, Va.: HlB. Short. Lake Wac- eamaw, JN.u.; and J. J. Lucas, Society Jas. t . Post will be secretary and treas urer, and the general offices continued at Wilmington. There will be no new mort gage and tne present bonded indebted ness will not be increased. Section Masters and Engineers to - Strike. , Charlotte. N. C. April 20. -It is ' re ported Here this morning from a very di rect source that the section masters on the Southern will tro out tomorrow. Sat- . - urday, at noon. This, of course, would almost necessarily involve the engineers, Tt Can a Cold In Oh Oay " Talc Laxative Bsomo Qvnmw Tablst. AD dtnseutt refund tb monev if it full to cur. ' E. W. Ubovb' nKUtnra i on ach box. sc Once tlu-r' was a 'lly old fox thnt was too fond of grapes, and on day. the New Year's of all the foxes, he swore, off from! eating this fruit lest his embonpoint increase beyond reason and he be called fatty, a term of dert sion. : But bis appetite for the luscious benches grew too strong, and be hied him to a grape arbor. A heavy bunch of grapes was hanging high up on the vine. He Jumped and Jumped, but could not reach them.; After be had exhausted himself to no purpose and he was sure he couldn't reach the grapes be said: "No, I will not eat them. I made a resolution not to do so. What a virtuous fox I am.1" And he went off to tell his friends about bis self denial. Moral.--Virtue Is always a comforter when vice becomes Impossible. -New York Commercial Advertiser- If troubled ty a wf-.k f rrrctite, or cc: cf Cl:?.!sler!-:as ' r ' I Very i . Tt '!;- J. II U:ol. -J k 023 ;:t' . ... i x 1- The Valet! Ilia Opportunity. The Comte de Brlenne, talking of the violence of some masters toward their servants, said that on one occasion. having corrected bis valet, for some grave dereliction of duty, he had for gotten the matter when tne next morn ing, while shaving blm, the man sud denly held the razor to his throat, say ing, . "Whose turn Is it today, M. le Comte?" .. "A moi toujour; continue," was the calm reply. - " "He finished shaving me, and we were mutually pleased with each oth er, but relations became somewhat strained after such ail Incident, and the comte gave him 100 louis and Lis dismissal. "Never beat your servants, young men," he concluded; "your lives ere at tbelr mercy, and you would find It hard, as I did, to owe It to one cf them. CornhlU Magazine. " - What ES Alwar Sr It makes no Gl-erc-ee Low little a I cy Is, wl'.ca V.3 tr.ct-cr f:cM3 L';;i t r'--?j3 f Tc ! (" tt)!s r 1 CUBAN STATISTICS. ' Negroes Number But 82 Per Cent . And the 3pa.niah Much Less. Census Figures on ; Whioh Suf frage la Upheld. ' Waihingtoo fort. ' , ' i i. - Gen. Sanger has made public the com pendious results of the Cuban census, taken under, his direction. . The figures are very instructive, and in the opinion of the war department officials, fully Jus tify the decision of the .administration to allow municipal suffrage 'in Cuba at this early stage. - 'v : f . :y.y:f The officialb are gratified to find that tne native Unbans . constitute so large a portion of the population; that the wnites so greatly outnumber tne blacks, and that no large a proportion of the na ttve population can read and ' write. In their opinion, there seema to be no room for the objection that the proposed basis of suffrage would result in .turning the island over to the control of Spain. The total population of Cuba is 1.572. 797, including 815.205 males, and 757.- 592 females. There are 447.872 white males and 462,926 white females o! native birth. The foreign whites num ber 115,760 males and 26,458 females. There are 111,898 male negroes and 122,740 female negroes. The mixed races number 125,500 males acjd 145,305 fe males. There are 14.664 males land 163 female Chinese. The population of Ha vana city is 235,981, and of the province of Havana, 4i54,u. : Tne population of the province of Matanzas is 202,444; of Pinar del Rio, 273,664; of Puerto Principe, 88,1134; oi Santa Clara, 256, 536. and of Santiago. 327.715. Of tne total population or the island, 1,109,709 persons are set down as single; 246.351 as married; while 131,787 live together by mutual consent. There are tso.liu widowed persons.- : Of the total population, according to citizensnip, zu,4 9 are spanisn; i,zifo 867 are Cuban; 175.811 are in suspense. 79,526 are of other citizenship, and 616 are unknown. The - Spanish by birth number 129,240. Of the children ten years of age and over, 49,441 have at tended school. Of the total population 443,426 can read and write, and 19,158 nave a superior education. .. v : " Is Butler sTlldKinleyite? - - Harry Skinnner Aaid at Raleigh re cently: r - , ''I believe Senator Butler is at heart a McKinlevite. I believe Butler wants to give the North Carolina electoral vote to McKInley. lr he is honestly and sin cerely for Bryan why does he seek to place obstructions in the way of polling the full Bryan strength in 'North Caro lina." . . Thousrh bitterly fouarht by Senator Butler at every point the foxy leader could not prevent the election of Col. Skinner as a delegate to the Populist national convention, which meets in Sioux Falls May 9th. Col. Skinner, w ho was chosen as a delegate by his district, was asked what course he would pursue at the national convention ' with refer ence to the nomination ' of Col. Bryan, toi. BKinner replied: - "i am going to sioux rails and -1 am going to support Wm. J. Bryan. "I am going to ask the Populist na tional convention to instruct Butler to take down the electoral ticket in : this State if be is sincerely in favor of Bryan. In other words I propose to disclose Sen ator Butlers hand in the nation as J think I have done in the, State. ; If he is for McKinley the world shall know it and he shall not deal doubly or by indirection any more." - l 111 mj. "W, mi Z?5 A. 7 r W I A ill You know all about it. ; The rush, the worry, tne ex haustion; YOU go about with a ereat weight rest ing upon you. You can't throw off this feel ing. You are a slave to your work.. Sleep fails, and you are on the veree - of nervous exhaustion. What is to be done? Take w' v-4 y ill .III For fifty years it has been lifting up the discouraged, giving rest to the overworked, and bringing re 1 freshing sleep to the depressed. ! It is the best nerve tonic you can take. . . SI.M ftottlc Ail irwutcU. tvn4U yean. I am euro jrour barsajia- ! riila saTed bpt life when I Erst took it, 40 year . 1 im now pagt 70 and nx . Mtci ..ont ur me-l tine " J'EAJtK lUOMAO, r. t., T ' f m r-' If nn f""l. t ' i r, . ,.! '..:! -t'. H J THE CHURCHES. in of fiartiw will Kt haA Ut thA ftlllr'h(4 kinston tomorrow as follows, to which very body is invited:. . Methodist Church. ' Sunday school at 9:15 a. m. Vnnnptli 1 AO im At lOttfl IL. TT1- 11 a. m. and 7:45 p. m.A continuation of the revival services, a welcome lor mi Christian Churoh. Morning subject: "The' Necessity faith . Evening enbject: "Saving the World Without the Cross." , , Episoopal Churoh. Services both morning and evening KnnriMV iu-lirvil at. 0:80 R. m. Services will te held in the grand jury room. . Presbyterian Churoh. Preaching both morning and evening Sunday school at 9:80 a. m. Baptist Churoh. MArntncr snhiaet: "Some Lessons From Phriat.'a Miwnrrwt.iftn." Evening subject: "What Is Involved In Following Jesus." , KimriAv noiiooi at y:u a. m. B. Y. P. D. meets Monday evening, The Chapel. Sunday school at 9 a. m. Preaching in the afternoon. Prayer meeting every Friday night Christian Science. Services everv Sunday morninir at 11 REPUBLICAN v COUNTY CON- VENTION Held in Kinston Today. Delegates Elected to State, Senatorial and Congressional Conventions. The Republicans of Lenoir county held their convention at the court house here to day to elect delegates to the State, sena torial and conarressional conventions. The convention was called to order at 1 o'clock by Mr. Benj. Sutton. A perma nent organization was perfected, with Mr. John Fields, Jr., as chairman, and Mr. Jas. . 1'arrott, secretary. Two delegates and two alternates to each ot the three conventions were unan imously elected as follows: : ? ' State WHvramoH.wasrtr rarrott and J. E. Cameron. Alternates Starr Hicks, colored, and Dan Wimnns. Congressional. Mess. John Fields and Albert Miller. Alternates L. S. Smith and Henderson Nunn, both colored. Senatorial. 3. R. Dunn and E. A Simkins. , Alternates Spencer Dixon and John Edmundson, both colored.- The convention endorsed the adminis tration of President McKinley, from the first of its dawn to the present time, and lor lour years more. About 100 were In attendance, about fbree-fourths colored. , , An Appeal to Democracy. Raleiirh. N. C, April 20th. 1900. . To the Democrats of North Carolina:" We are emraired in a camnaiirn of d. ucation. We want every white man in North Carolina to understand the amendment. We want no white man in North Carolina to be misled by the mis erable falsehoods and misrepresentations that out; enemies are circuiatmg . with reference to this measure. It is certain if the white people of the State do under stand the amendment, its effect upon the State and the individual citizen, they will give it such a majority as no measure submitted to the people has ever before received in the history of the State: and win give the ticket - representinir ; this measure the most decisive majority of re cent years. f-Kii'v vr'K-:: I .;:-v To print and distribute literature and to circulate papers and to1 defray other necessary expenses or such .a campaign as we are now en rased in is exnensive ana requires reaay money, xour com mittee is practically without funds. In deed, for the last three weeks it has been borrowing money to r meet current ex penses. The committee takes this method of appealing to the Democrats and all the friends of good government and white supremacy in the State for contributions to pay the legitimate, and necessary ex penses of the campaign. We feel sure this appeal will not be in vain. : Contributions can be sent directly to the chairman of the committee at Ral eigh and will be duly acknowledged. . ,,' v r lours truly, , . .. F. M. Simmons, At: v i Chairman. A map meeting of citizens was held at Selma Thursday nish and adopted reso lutions of indignation at alleged false re ports "propagated by the Raleigh Morn ing Post and by officials of the Southern Railway" as to lawless conduct of tele graph strikers and citizens at Selma. The resolutions express the belief that The Post is controlled by the Southern Railway. The resolutions commend the conduct of Mayor J. II." Parker and close as follows: "Finally, we declare to all tnatweare law-abiding citizens, of no more fierce demeanor thanothermortals; tnat tne reports published concernins; what has taken -place here are greatly emr-Tnt'-d, and ia many particulars entirely fa!??; tLat we have been willing on J are rea-ly r - 1 prepared to protect V" prop' rtv eft! Kr.!' - ra IU:lwrr,nt t' r i .: jt :. i STATE HEWS. Interesting North Carolina Items In Condensed Form. , It is said that the next president of the1 Baptist Female University at Raleigh will be a North Carolinian. . Billy Cagle, a white man, shot and killed a negro at Ashebom on the 13th . lost. It is said the negro cursed and shot at Cagle. ' The State charters the Davidson & Dunlap Mfg. Co., at Causey. Chatham county. Its capital stock is $9,000. It has power to build cotton and woolen mills. . ... Pitt county people interested in organ izing a cotton mill at Greenville are re ; 3 nested tn meet at that, place on Thurs ay, April 20, at 2 p. m., to perfect per- v Col. John S. Cunningham, who was de feated for one of the leading places on the Democratic State ticket, was the first man to send a check to the executive ' committee for the campaign fund. . Raleigh cor. Messenger, 19: There was much talk today about the action of the Populist convention in sidetracking Bryan yesterday. Congressman Souther- land, of Nebraska, who came here to boom Bryan, expressed his amazement at what was done and Raid he had never seen anything like it. ' ;' The Halifax county Republicans held their convention Thursday. All present, except two, . were negroes. Geo. H. White, negro, was endorsed for congress or anything he wants,' and delegates to the State convention were instructed to use their influence to have , H. P. Cheat bam, negro, elected a delegate at-large to the national Republican convention. At Raleigh Thursday there was a con ference of Senator Butler and the Popu list nominees at which it was decided to write the Democratic chairman a letter asking a division of time between the Populist and Democratic candidates for senator and State officers. R. B. Davis ' was requested to act as secretary to the State committee until such time' as it regularly-elects one. " The selection of a permanent place for headquarters was left to Auditor H. W. Ayer. It was de cided to open headquarters at once. TAYLOR INDICTED. It Is bo Reported in Frankfort, but The Fact Will not Be Known Un til He Returns from Washing - , ton. . . Frankfort, April 19. Indictments were returned by the grand jury today against John W.Davis and Green Golden as ac cessories to the murder of Gov. Goebel. Green Golden is a cousin of Wharton Golden, who turned state's evidence. Davis was a policeman on the capitol square and tried to escape with Caleb Powers.? The case against W. L. Hazle ipp, who was accused - of complicity in the Goebel shooting, was dismissed. - It . is persistently reported here to night that Gov. Taylor has been indicted . bv the grand jury, and that the indictment was returned today along with those against Capt. Davis and Green Golden, but that this indictment will not be giv.en out un til Gov. Taylor returns from Washing ton. , , . Judge Can trill has fixed April 80th for the arraignment of Harlan Whi taker and "Tallow Dick" Coombs, indicted as prin cipals in the Goebel assassination, and Secretary of State Caleb .Pewers and Capt. Davis, indicted as accessories. The attorneys in the case will ask ; for bail and file petitions and affidavits asking for a change of venue. The date for the arraignment of the others has .not -been fixed. OOINO FORWARD. Censored Dispatches Indi cate That Roberts Is Moving Toward Pre toria. London, April 20, 1.50 p. m. The reDort of the fighting at Karee Siding, six miles : north of Glen, may be the first news of the progress of the British, advance on .'retona, but even if this were only an unimportant , skirmish there are many other indications that Lord Roberts is either starting or has already started for the Northern goal. A dispatch from Cape Town, under today's date, savs the censorship restrictions have been greatly increased "owing to the movements ot the troops." All the dispatches bear traces of the strenuous efforts of the correspon dents to give their papers an inkling of what is afoot. The Boers south of Bloemfontein are reported to be retreating. Large com mands were seen April 19th, near Thaba N'Chu, moving to the north. Their progress was slow, however, owing to the terrible condition of the country. By way of Pretoria comes a report that fever is decimating the MafeLbj rarrison and a letter from, the mayor o Mafeking says Lord Roberts , asked Col. 1'aden Powell -to hold out until May S'J'th. . - T3 r::t rrt"-'-!:n f:rC":'i ?-iJ Fev-r H a bof'e of G 1 levS C Ionic, it it ti-t y iron sod c u v-.. fjral. I J C e f.J J -jr. !..,, S
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