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STATE NEWS.
Interesting North Carolina Item
In Condensed Form.
Mr. W. R. King died Monday at Golds
boro, aged 45 years. " y - ; - fd r l ;
Rowan county, it Is reported, will give
2.500 majority for the constitutional
amendment. .
The Republican State cbnvention.which
meeets at Raleigh May 2d, baa only 242
votes, two for each member of the lower
bouse ot the legislature, ine KepuDiican
leaders are working like beavers to keep
the negroes out ol the convention .
A stramre suicide occured at Lincoln-
ton Sunday. Tobe Kiser, a mill opera
tive, got on the track facing a swiftly
, moving' train. The engineer bletv-j the
' , whistle, supposing the man would step
off the track. Kiser continued ' on the
. track and was struck and killed. He re
marked to a friend a few minutes before;
"I will be dead in 20 minutes."
T?Aloicrh Pnat! Tht Wilminirton DaDers
report the strawberry season as havingj
' opened brightly sales on tne local mar
ket 'at 25c oer Quart, while returns from
shipments to New York and Philadelphia
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report reauy aiee at uu w ceu u jwr
quart. We hope our friends in the straw
- berry belt will reap a rich harvest this
season. Their losses last year were quite
rserious, and they deserve good returns
.. now.
' Charlotte News: Night before last Jo
Orr's wife was alone in her house, Jo
being on duty at the Central. A negro
. man entered the house and with drawn
pistol commanded her to give him Jo's
money. She pretended that she was go-
inc to do bo. but instead turned and
picked up a poker and gave the man a
lick over the head, ue dropped tne pis
tol, and thus' deprived , of his weapon,
left the house. - - . '
TERRIBLE BUSH FIRES.
Train Hemmed In in Attempting to
-Rescue Lumbermen. - Hundreds
' Of Persons Believed to be Inside
, a Circle of Flame. ;-.' J ;
Winnir.vManitoba,tApra 22-Thd
" city is in a fever of excitement, caused by
the bush fires now raging along the line
of the Southeastern railway. All the
country from LaBroquerie, about fifty
miles down the line toward Warren,
. Minn., a distance of about' seventy-five
miles, is known to be in the grasp of the
' fire, which is sweeping the forest in all
directions; fanned by a strong easterly
' wind, and the number of human beings
. entrapped is estimated at raiiy ouu, com
1 posed chiefly, of scattered settlers and
men employed in the lumber camps. ' '
A special train bearing railway officials
and a party of rescuers, 'which left for
the scene yesterday, was last heard from
between Vassar and Wood Ridge. It
bad been driven back by the flames. No
-word ha been received from the train
today, and the officials conclude that
Wood Ridge is burned and the train en
trapped. The forest along the track is
dense and retreat will be impossible.
A rescue train, with a strong, force of
! men, doctors and supplies, was dispatch
Ad at noon today and reached La Bro-
querie safely.' Beyond that the whole
forest is a mass of flames, and advance is
impossible, as the track is burned and
the retreat of the special train is cut off.
Tonight the wires are all down, and no
news whatever can be obtained.
Rescue parties are being organized and
will start tomorrow' on wagons' for the
scene to attempt to rescue the settlers
and stragglers. The fires have been burn
ing for some days in various quarters,
. but were not considered serious until the
, strong wind Thursday night fanned the
flames and united detached fires within
: one tremendous circle of destruction.
AREA OF FIBE'INCREASIKfl. ' : '
. Duluth, Minn., April 22. Fierce forest
fires, are reported raging in the northern
and western portion of St, Louis and the
eastern portion of Itasca counties, and
. thousands of dollars' worth of property
in the western portion of the Mesaba
range, is threatened with destruction.
- The fire is most extensive between Hib
bing and Swart River, about seventy-five
miles northeast of the !city. Powers &
Simpson's saw mill, near Hibbing, has
, been detroyed and the' fire is traveling in
the direction of Cass Lake, near the lines
of the Duluth, Mississippi and Northern
' and Eastern Minneso' v railways, and
constantly increasing in area. . v
Grand Forks, N. D., April 22. Persons
who came in the Great Northern train
from Dnlutii brought word of terrible
. forest fires' raging at various points ,
along the line. Many , families in the
vicinity of Eckler, Sol way and Bemidji,
on the Great Northern, and Nary, on the
Brainerd and Northern, have been
burned out. Settlers , from points at a
distance from the railroad came in during
the day and reported that their homes
1 i l been destroyed, and that they had
to . -
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BE AGOOO BOYI GOO0BYI
Imt ttt la my dram 1 go Uck t fit day
Wbea I Hood at our oM wooden c
And started to school in tun bsttla am,
. Well arnc4 with a primer an slate, '
And M tba latch fU I thought mjtli too
Aad gloried, t fear, oath sir, ;
T1U I hoard a kind votes that whispered to bmi
"B good borl Ooodbrt"
agoodborl Ooodbr!" It
Thejr have followed n all these years!
They havs gtven a form to my youthful dreamt
Aad scattered my foolish fearss
They have staid my feet oa many a brink,
Unseea by a blinded eye, .
For Just la Um I would pauss and think I
"Beagood boyt Goodbyt"
Oh, brother of mine, ia the battle of life,
Just starting or Bearing its clpee,
ThU motto aloft, In the midst ot the strife,
Will conquer wherever it goes)
Mistakes you wfll make, for each ot us errs.
Bat, brother, Just honestly try
Ts accomplish your best. In whatever occur
"Be a good boy! Goodbyt" , .
John lu Shroy la Saturday Evening Post.
A PARTIALLY OBEYED ORDER
The Reporter Returned, but the Male
Wai a Toul Lom.
Harmon y. Brown of Ohio, who held
a responsible place on the staff oC Gen
eral Rawlins during the civil war, tells
the following story of the general's
treatment of an Intrusive reporter:
"Pne day before ;Vlcksburg the cor
respondent of a certain paper went to
General Rawlins for news
, "The general pondered a moment and
took me one side. '
'Take this young man,' he said, 'up
to the top of those trenches within a
stone's throw of the enemy. Take him
up there and lose him. I don't care.
what happens. Understand r
. "1 said I did; and we started through
the lines. Both of us were mounted. I
pointed out crest overlooking the en
emy and told him be could get a good
view from that point.
'Ain't you coming with me? be
saked. r
; No, I replied. I know all I want
io know , '',..,.
"So he started alone. As soon' as the
top of his hat and the, tips of his mole's
ears showed above the crest there came)
a Volley of tousketry ten yards wide
that cut the air like a big knife blade.
The crown of his hat was sliced off as
with shears. He managed to drop to
the ground In safety, but thfhpersever-
ing mule was literally filled with lead
Alter th firing ceased the correspond
ent crawled to the spot where I was.
"'Did you learn what you wanted to
know? laskect-- -. ' -
: M 'Eh T gasped the correspondent,
wiping his face and looking at his
bands to see whether they were bloody.
What I wanted to know? Oh, yes. of
course. The enemy are over that ridge
all right.. - -il v'i -fv,
"When we returned to headquarters,
General Rawlins saw us and bailed
me. I went inside his tent
"I thought I .told you to lose that
confounded reporter somewhere, he.
said testily.
did the best I could, sir, I an
swered. 'He came back, but I have
the honor to report the mule a total
loss. "Saturday Evening Post
A Srlo .Swperatlttoa. -
No Navajo Indian will ever make a
campfire of wood from a tree that was
struck by lightning qr.tbat might have
been.1 If such a fire is made by an Ir
reverent .white man,, the Indians, will
retire to a distance, where they cannot
feel the heat or smell the smoke, and
. tit . ; a. t .1 ...t 1. 1. n i. .....
fireless and Bupperless, rather than eat
of food prepared on that kind of a fire.
The Navajo believes that if he comes
within the influence of the flame be
will absorb some of the essence of the
lightning which .will, thereafter be at
tracted to him and sooner Or. later wlll
kill ' him; Up .In ; the mountains more
than half the great pines are' scarred
by lightning, but no wood from them is
usecL Almost an'y old Navajo can nar
rate Instances where the neglect of
this precaution has resulted disastrous
ly, for, men ore sometimes killed by
lightning hi a region where thunder
storms are frequent and It Is. but a
step from the effectMto the cause. , ,. :
y What Joseph Waa. , , '
The Sunday school teacher Jjad been
telling the class about Joseph, partlcu
larly with reference to his Coat ot
many colors and " bow his father re
warded him for being a good boy,' for
Joseph, she said, told his father when
ever he causht any of his brothers in
the act of dbing wrong. ,'
"Can anv little "boy or srirl tell me
what Joseph as? the teacher asted,
fccplng that some of them bad can-t
tLe Idea that he.vras Jacob's favorite.
"I know." one cf the tttla tfzli ra!J.
:'.l'r cp tor tm.l.
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GRUSHItiG TA6AL0S.
About 1,000 Put Out of Action
Laat Week. Some of the Blood
iest Engagement of the War.
AznerioaniOsa 0 Exiled and 10
Wounded.
Manila, April 22. The last , week has
been one of the bloodiest of tie war since
the first day's fighting around Manila.
Authentic reports, mostly official, show
a total of 878 Filipinos killed, 12 offi
cers and 44 men captured, and many
more wounded v . The number wounded
in hardly guessable'.. Considering that
the Filipinos entirely lack hospital facil
ities, a great majority of the wounded
will die. Probably the week's work fin
ished 1,000 insurgents.
The Americans'; total loss was nine
killed end 10 wounded. Two sergeants
and one private, were killed in ambushes
while escoi ting provision trains,
The insurgents have been aggressive
in almost every province of Luzon. Gen.
Pio del Pilar's ? band, numbering 300,
which was out of sight for three months,
the leader being reported killed, lias re
appeared In its old' field about San
Miguel. : -
wlah's men attack sanmigukl.
Pilar is supposed to be again in com
mand. He gave the American garrison
at Wan Miguel, consisting of three com
panies of the Thirty-fifth Infantry, with
a Gatling, a three hours' fight during a
night attack. The loss of the insurgents
in this engagement is not included in the
foregoing total, as they removed their
dead and wotinded, but presumably it
was considerable. ,
. Twenty Filipino in the province of
uatangas attactred Ueut. Wonde, who
with eight men was scouting near San
Jose. The lieutenant and five men were
wounded and one private was killed.
Sergkijedolug, of the Thirty-fifth In
fantry, was badly wonnded . in an am
bush near Baliuag. V- '
Lieut. Balcb, of the Thirty-seventh In
fantry, with seventy men,, had a five
hours' fight with 400 insurgents in the
JNueva Laceras district. Twenty of the
insurgents were titled. . ,
Col. Smith, of the Seventeenth Irilantry,
who captured Gen. Montenegro and
brouirhthim to Manila, is in the Isola-
t?on hospital suffering from smallpox,
presumably caught from tne rilipinos.
MONTENEGRO TIKKD OF THE WAH.
Col. Smith's command captured 180
officers and men with Montenegro. - The
officers were brought to Manila. ' Mon
tenegro, who -was formerly one of the
xuo8t dapper ; officers in the Filipino
army, - looks worn and haggard. He
says he has led a terrible life for months,
and he has offered to return to the north
with Col. Smith to endeavor to persuade
his former comrades of the useleasness.of
opposing the Americans. ' " - ' -i
One hundred escaned Spanish prison
ers from the province of Tayabas, South
Luzon, have arrived at. Manila.
The mannrents have 400 more Span
iards in that district. Recently the Fili
pinos destroyed several rods of the rail
way line near Paniquo in an unsuccess
ful attempt to wreck a train
i Tla iBarsrlalre'tTerror. -
k burglary welL known to.lhe polico
of the larger cities, who ( was recently
taken Into custody; toia a reporter tnai
a little dog", was. more terrifying to
the , "profession" than any ' burglar
alarm or detective. '
"Guns be bio wed V said he. Tm dead
willln to take a chance wid a fly cop.
too, and the tinklers and sltch ain't
troublln mo a little bit But a bit of a
dorg! Yesslr, I hates them little
purps' ; worse'n poison. The big fel
lers St Bernards and them you kin
make friends with. Give them a bit of
meat and they're all right But when
one of them little dorgs comes at your
a-barkln and yelptn, you got to skin out
quick or you finds the hull house a-top
of you. r-,'.;i " vi:i-:i-
"There ain't no makln friends with
them. They , know - you don't b'long
ther, and they're just a-goin' to git
you but or know the reason why! ;Tho
'Come,. Fido, nice doggy,' racket ain't
a-goin to help you at alL There s only
one thing to do when them little fellers
gets to hollerin rosnd-your heels. Just
git out as fast s you kin git! Nine
times out of ten that ain't fast enuff.
neither!" New; York, Mall and Ex
press. - - . ..-'
Whit lie ThoDRht of It.'
The following retort. Is recorded of
pdr. Maurice Barrjtnore: Once at the
lloffman House. New Yorkf an Eng
lish stranger interfered with the con- j
jversatlon of a knot of friends by a long
tirade against all things American. He
finished by an attack on our spelling.
"Why, you can't even spell correcny
In this confounded country! Honour,
h-o-n-o-r; labour, I-a-b-o-r.' What do
you think of that, Barry T ,
"Y.V.l," rcr"oa r.irryEcra ElJTly
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THE CUBAN SCANDAL.
Offloera Live High. Ludlow Given
15,000 a Year, While Gen. Lee,
His Suooeeaor, Has Not Been
Granted Any Allowanoe.
Wathingtoa Post, April syL
The exposures regarding the allow
ance of money from the Cuban revenues
to United States army officers stationed
in Cuba continued the engrossing topic
of comment in political and official cir
cles yesterday. There is now a very gen
eral desire to examine the detailed ' ac
counts of expenditures in the island,
which Secretary Root promises Bhall
soqn be submitted to the senate. The
disbursements of the Cuban funds in the
Eear ending on the 81st Of last Decern
er reached the enormous sum of 14.
000.000. Up to the present time no no
couut of these disbursements, except in
the most general and indefinite terms,
has been publicly made.
I he positive announcement m 1. tie
Post yesterday that Gen. Leonard Wood
wns drawing about $17,000 u year as
governor general of Cuba attracted es
pecial attention in Washington, where
he w well known, and where, only two
years ago, he was a captain and assist
ant surgeon in the medical corps of. the
army at a nalary of about ?l,b0()a year.
There wan also considerable adverse
comment over the discrimination, ad
mitud by the secretary of war. by which
Gen. Ludlow was presented with $5,000
a year additional as governor of the
city of Havana, while ten. ntzlwgu
Lev. his successor, has not been irranted
any allowance whatever. The sentiment
was expressed by more than one senator
yesterday that if the allowance was
necessary, as alleged by the war depart
ment in excuse for its action, it should
have been sriven to Gen. Lee as promptly
as to Gen. Ludlow. This will undoubt
edly be a subject of inquiry when the
senate makes further investigation..
' WEBB THE ALLOWANCES ILLEGAL?
It wna atated veaterdav. in the' defense
made public by the war department, that
the allowances were not granted until a
favorable opinion bad been secured from
the attorney general. This opinion, it
is expected, will be transmitted to the
senate and wjll be carefully scrutinized,
in view of the express and emphatic pro
vision of law which makes udditionat m
lowances to army officers illegal. This
law is found in section 1269 of the revised
statutes, which says: ,
"No allowance shall be made to offi
cers in addition to their pay, except as
hereinafter provided." v . y
The exceptions relate to fuel, quarters,
and forage. It is probable that the at
torney general held that as the addi
tional allowances the $7,500 a year - to
major general acting as governor of Cuba,
for instance were not paid ut ; of the
united d tates ire usury, mey were not in
violation of law. It is certain, however,
that this view will not be sustained by
the best lawyers in the senate, who hold
that army officers are amenable to the
law of the United States, even if they are
temporarily stationed ; m Cuba. Tne
provision of the law is so positive and
unmistakable that it is difficult to -see
bow it was explained away by the attor.
ney general. Senator Daniel, in discuss
ing this phase of the subject on Satur
day, said that the law had undoubtedly
been Violated.: He did not be said,
how any one could contend that it " was
in the power of the president or any one
else, except congress, which alone could
fix pay and allowances to any officer of
the army. Here is what Senator Daniel
said: ' ,
"Does not the oath of the president of
the United States to see that the' laws
are faithfully executed apply to this law,
as well as to any other law? Is ; there
any place on earth, unless in Bome remote
and partially civilized . regions,' where
any chief of a nation, be he bey, sultan,
or what not, has the right and power to
over-ride the express, specific ) enactment
of the legislative body? I deny that the
(ireeident of the United States is above
aw' .:-s ; ., . ;
Durham Herald: " We came near for
getting to mention that our old friend,
Utho V ilson, was not in evidence at the
Populist convention. A great deal may
be said against Otho, but he evidently
knows aMead horse when he .sees one.
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GENERAL HEWS.
Matters of Interest Condensed Into
Brief Paragraphs.
The U. S. supreme court on Monday
decided the case of Capt. O. M. Carter
against him.
On May 12th 100,000 machinists in
New York and other cities will go out on
a strike if their demands for a 9-hour day
is not granted. :
The work of rebuilding the Demoeratie
convention hall at Kansas City is being
pushed vigorously, and it will be com
pleted in ample time.
Australian advices chronicle thedlscov
ery of rich placer ground at Wedderburu,
Victoria. John Boyd, the first man to
Btake ground, unearthed a Ml ounce nug
get at 32 feet depth.
Because she refusal to marry him, Max
Golb, aged 30, nhot Uunie Sachs, aged
15, four times Sunday at her home in
New York. A crowd chased him for sev
eral bloeks, caught him and dragged
him, badly shattered, to the police sta
tion. The girl is likely to die of the
wounds. .
A Chicago dispatch says that starva
tion has become a factor in the the build
ing strike. President Carroll, of the build
ing trades council, estimates that 1,000
workmen are in actual want, and that
with their families 4.500 persons are now
in the acute stage of suffering as victims
of the strike.
In India there are the most awful con
ditions under British rule in the famine
distiict. Girls are scld by their parents
at 80 cents a head. Missionary Clancy
says that 30,000,000 people are famine
stricken and that the conditions in that
country are horrible to contemplate.
That is an awful showing for the empire.
Edwin Curtis, son of Sheriff Curtis, of
Elizabeth county, Va.,' was awakened ,
from a nap on the upper floor of his bbnw
Sunday to find the room filled with
smoke, while flames were roaring through
the halls. He smashed a window with a
chair and leaped out, receiving painful
injuries in the fall, and the next instant
the . bousa-caved, uv The building was
completely destroyed. Loss, $3,000.
The weather bureau Sunday night or
dered storm signals displayed on the Gulf
coast, from Pensacola,JFla.,to Browns
ville, Tex., near the Mexican border line.
On the Gulf coast the forecast for Mon-.
day and Tuesday was for fresh to high
winds from the southeast, with thunder
squalls. Heavy rains in the southern
states, causing further floods in that sec
tion, were predicted for the next two
days. i
At Atchison, Kans., Thbs. C. Woerman
pleaded guilty to the charge of burning
the costly residence of J. C. Fox; a prom
inent citizen, and was sentenced to serve
18 years in the penitentiary. He admit
ted that the Fox family had been very
good to him, and said that he set fire to
the bouse in order to play the part of a
hero, and rescuing the family, and there
by make his employer fee! that his kind
ness had been bestowed worthily. . Woer-'
man was a reader of cheap novels.
Sunday's news from " South Africa is
that the Boers hold both Brabant and
Chermside in check, while the Boer artil
lery; pours shells into the garrison at'
Wepener. Lord Roberts is not to ad
vance until all the Boers in his rear are
routed. The Lourenzo Marques com.
gpondent of the London Times say a the
British have been deceived as to the num
ber of Boers underarms; that at one time
they numbered 105,000, and even with"
losses in battle and from desertions, they '
now number 80,000, disposed as follows:
Free State, 50,000; Biggarsburg, 10,000;
Fourteen ' Streams and Klerksdorp dis
trict, 15,000 approximately.? ; h
OADEZ ITEMS.
1 April 21, 1000. '
Very few of our farmers have planted
any cotton yet. -
Rev. G. W.. Holloway, , of LaGrange,
will preach at Shady Grove the 5th Sun
day in this month. ," ,y
We have had hea vy rains and the o w
lands are i under water. Many of our ,
fanners will have to plant corn again.
Just one year ago we had an overflow.
The second term of Iynwood school
closed yesterday.': Damp weather pre
vented the entertainment. The teacher
gets married tomorrow. This is our sec
ond teaoher, and we lost eaeh b mar-,
riage. , Such a reputation! Well,' -ladies,
send in your applications for next term.
Give references and state lowest price for
gbod service. ' v. ' '
N Base BalL
; ' : ' Monday.
Cincinnati 0, Pittsburg 6.
Boston 8, Philadelphia 7.
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