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:v- V." '--',V-;rrjH.ooii'4iaM,-r.'.li ' nfl-na rrnul,i-;.J; .5;.is Mus 9:iii! w!T ; Tf'fWfi f ifTi? VTf Jf MU IH 1 1 ii re AL M .'.PUBLISHED EERY EJENINCVEXCEPT; SUNDRY, Vol. HI No. 25. ELNSTON, N. O., SATURDAY. MAY 6, 1900. Prico Two Cents. BRITISH ADVANCE. Roberta Headquarters Now At . ' Brandfort, 35 Miles" Nearer Pre- " toria. This Important Capture J "Will Enable Roberts to Oo-operate WithBuller. in - London, May 4. Lord Roberts reports the occupation of Brandfort: on May 3d without much opposition, the Boer army of DeLarey retiring in a northeasterly direction. This is considered the most - important news from the front since the . capture of 'Gen. Cronje, the,: position , giving the key to one of the main roads leading to the Drakeneberg passes, which possibly may be the, means of co-operation with Gen. Duller later on, provides an advance base of supplies, and at the same time menaces the Boers nowsouth , east of Bloemfontein; - The Boer army under Gen. DeLarey is presumably on the way to Winburg, .which will probably be the next imme diate objective point of the British Brandfort, thirty-five miles nearer the Transvaal capital, is now Lord Roberts' headquarters : - The central British army is now in line with, the extreme left at Boshof, under , Lord Methuen, and the extreme right at Elandslaagte under Gen. Buller so that movements of these wings in co-opera-4 tion with the army may shortly; be ex pected.' " ' .," A ; dispatch from Aliwal North says ihatSmithfleld was occupied yesterday ' by Gen. Hart's brigade. Out of the ISO Boers in the town 25 were captured and "the rest decamped. i ' ' J - A. dispatch from Lord Boberts, dated May 4, says: . - , - - "The mounted infantry have gone on to the Vet river. The rest of the force will march there tomorrow. 4 The rail way has been repaired to this point. ' . ' 4Hunter reports very J satisfactory 'news that the passage of the Yaal has been carried at Windsor ton without oppo sition." - . - . , i.i Long Range Bombardment, ,k ' TVarrenton' Cape Colony, 1 May -1'4. A "British six-inch wire gun opened ' unex " ' ' pectedly on the Boer laager yesterday at ' a distance of seven , and aj half miles, r throwing hundred pound shells with " wonderful accuracy and causing a hasty .'retreat by the burghers. The bombard ment was continued today at all points by Howitzers and : field guns, supported by two companies of the Monster regi ; ment, . the Boers being driven from -shelter and their guns being put out of - . action. . v - An Imposition. . i Charlotte Obwrver. Statesville has just had the Cosmorama, eand The Landmark, in concluding its .notice of it says: ' " r "The Ladies' Aid. Society of the Meth odist church," under whose auspices, the entertainment '-was given, got . about .. one-thrd of this amount after the ex penses were paid, and Mr. J. Henry 1 Gerls, of Chicago, the promoter, got the .remainder." It is the same story every time. When will our people learn to refuse to be bun . -coed by promoters who cook np exposi- tions, Cosmoramas and other fakir like enterprises for religious or charitable purposes, put the trouble and expense ' upon the local community and then walk -off with half or two-thirds of the pro rceeds? - . ' ? ifiii . can . I f ,'t- : '. ' You knov all about it. The rush.1 the worry, the ex- htust'.on. iou go about with a treat weizht rest ing upon you. ; You 'ttBroworrtmsreei- inz. You are a slave to Your work. Sleep fails, and you 'are on the . verge ot nervous exhaustion, what is to be done? Take '": we j Ns.v i.r r 1 v ' For fty years it has been li'a'ng up the discouraged, giving rest to the overworked, and bringing re freshing sleep to the depressed. It is the best nerve-tonic you can take. v-v- n;-r- - S1.M a totiU. : All irz?.ttL . "I hare used A yer' rndie!nes for more f"n 40 yar. I am ur vmir Sarsapa t.i.a gaTedmrlifa whrnl f t took it, 40 fea.TB t"o. i atu now p( To and ata itevor m i.liont Tour ro"i i o " JfsAXK Thomas, r.M Jan.21,i::3. , . : , i.non, Kaiiaaa. f "imt wtiiver, write r I iit it, loa Aii .:', I R.J. C. . . mi . INTRIOUB AND GREED. A Claim That the Standard Oil Company Controls Twenty-Six Senators. .v Philadelphia accord, ad, . - . . . - The New York Times yesterday printed a statement giving a curious explana tion of the late public utterance of Secre tary Boot, in which he declared that within a few years ws must be prepared to abandon the Monroe doctrine or fight for it. According to the publication in The Times the negotiations between the United States and Denmark for the pur chase of the Danish West India Islands have been interrupted by , the discovery of an- intrigue- between certain Danish officials, high German functionaries and a director of the Standard Oil company. The German proposition is to cede back to Denmark a part of North Schleswig (which was seized by Germany in 1867) in exchange for the Danish "West India Islands.. The director of the Standard Oil company, who figured in the affair, is said to have demanded a 10 per cont. commission on the purchase money to be paid by our government to Denmark the demand having been grounded on some antecedent understanding with Danish' officials and to have asserted that as the company controlled the votes of 26 United States senators the sale could not be consummated without its consent. How much truth there may be in the allegation that there has been a serious effort on the part Of the German ' govern ment to buy the Danish Islands, should the option of the United States expire, is a matter of question. Germany, could not make such a purchase without con scious offense to the United States, and for that reason there is cause for doubt. But in so far as the Standard- Oil com pany is concerned, the narration bears every mark of verity, and the failure " of congress to: take action on the proposi tion to appropriate money for the pur chase of the islands goes far ' to substan tiate the claim of the director of the company that that corporation owns 26 senators.',' y ' : iJi xy.; . 9. y t'. THE GREAT MINE DISASTER.': Not Enough Coffins to Bury the Dead and Many Bodies. Are Da i Composing, a The .Loss, of Xife Will Amount to 260. . ; i . .Salt Lake, Utah,-May; S.The ' latest dispatches from Schofield say ? that . the extreme estimate of dead are now con ceded to have been too .large and it is numerically impossible to place the loss of life at 800, as there were not that many men in the mines. The probabil ity is that 250 will be about the total number ot dead 'BelaUves of the vic tims continue to arrive from surround ing towns. -There are not enough cof- flns in the camp to bury the dead and to add horror to the situation tns oodles are rapidly decomposing and it has been suggested that cremation may have to be resorted toWrfc.:; ' .u' -'HS:.' There are 50 bodies for which . no pro vision for burial has been made. - A joint committee of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias spent the ;day among the dead, identifying members of their orders. They found about 20 i of each order among the dead. The school children of this city have gathered a car load . of flowers which will be sent to Salt Lake in a special car at their disposal. Sub scriptions for the relief of the sufferers are coming in from all over the stats and the total amounts to f 13,000. j v. i:'.iyyy' Aat Bnslmcers. r7 ,J. Something new and interesting about ants was learned by a Mount Airy florist recently, y For a week or so he had been bothered by ants that got into boxes ot seeds which rested on a shell To get rid of the ants he put into exe cution an old plan, which was to place a meaty bone cloje by, which the ants soon covered, every one deserting; the , boxes of seeds. As soon ss the bom would become thickly Inhabited by lbe little creepers the florist tossed it into a tub of water. The ants ha.vln.tr twen washed off, the bone was put In Use as a trap agajn. '; --""''- Then the florist lethougbt ' hlmswlf that he would save trouble by placing toe bone in the center of a sheet of fly parpor. beliering that the airts woul.l never ret to the bone, but would ger caughren the stickyj fly paper WUik trying . to rvach the food. But tbo florist was surprised to find that the abts. upon discovering ; the nature of the) per trap, formed a working force and built a path on the" papef clear to the bone. . The material for the, walk waa saDd securedil fromi little pll? near by. ' For hours the ants worked, and when the path was completed they made their, way over its dry surface in couples, as la a march, to the bone Thiladelpbia Record. - "Speaking of cavalry," said a veteran oQcer, , "probably the hardiest : and ! tiost effective cavalry forces the world ever saw were some of the Confederate squadrons in the civil war. TVhy, For rest's troops harassing .Sherman to the tea used up horses at the rare of 11 rrr man in a twelvemonth.' Indian- -STATE US. Interesting North Carolina Items In Condensed Form. At Baleigh, Friday, the A. & M. College beat the University of Maryland playing ball, 4 to 3. . y " f - Tbs , U. S. senate on Friday passed a bill appropriating f 80,000 for a public building at Durham. :", .,, .-s Koxboro Courier: The Boxboro cotton mills began operation Monday. -This is a busy place, and will add a great deal of help to our community. This mill has all the latest and modern machinery required in a firsfcclaes cotton mill. '" '? ; Salisbury Truth-Index: Mr. George W. Long tells us today that the apple crop in bis neighborhood Is almost entirely de stroyed. Mr. Long says that something has killed nearly all the limbs and that there are but few blossoms on any of the' trees. . . v . K .s . .. Sam H. Hawkins shot himself in the head at the Buford hotel, at Charlotte, Friday morning, in an attempt to com mit suicide, caused it is supposed by men tal depression. He was a clerk , in the office of the Bell Telephone Co. He is not expected to recover. Chatham Record: An old colored wo man, named Patience Hives, died near here a few days ago, and a pet sheep that she had raised about the house followed her corpse to the grave until it was filled, and then slowly walked back to the house with the other mourners. -y,, v Congressman ' DeArmond, of ; Missouri, will deliver the literary address at the approaching commencement of the State Normal and Industrial College in Greens boro. - Congressman John H. ; Small, of the first' district, will deliver an address on the educational needs of theState. , The advance guard of the national ex pedition to observe the total solar eclipse: as authorized by congress, left the United States observatory at Washington, D. Thursday for the places in North Carolina and Georgia where the two principal ob serving stations will be established. The North Carolina station Will be lbcated near Southern Fines. ij t r The corporation comnrissibn was on Thursday notified of the complete consol idation of the Seaboard Air Line system. The commission is also notified by the Southern railway and the Western Union Telegraph Co. that they are pushing the work of putting all the freight and tele graph offices on the Asheville division in shape, and that nearly all offices are now open.;: yrv''-y:i Lumberton Bobesonian: Wednesday of last week, while; two eons of? McDuffie Cummlngs, a Croatan, living near Fates, were driving a mule to a cart, the animal became frightened and ran away. ' The cart was overturned and both the boys were thrown out. - The oldest, aged 14 years,; was killed almost instantlyand the other, aged 12, had his skull frac tured and is not expected, to live. Three- negroes have been arrested at Rockingham ' for prowling around the home of Mrs. Beck, one of whom, Will Worley, fired a pistol ball into the room. There were three young ladies, factory operatives, 'with Mrs, Beck, and it is sup posed the negroes were bent upon the commission of a Vile crime, At the pistol shot the ladies screamed, and soon two gentlemen ran to their, assistance. The negroes are in jail, two them of being held as witnesses against Worley.- f 4 ,.y Newbern Journal: ' :The thunder storm of Thursday evening was a severe one in this section, there being a heavy fall of hail in several places, but the lightning was very destructive, causing two deaths. At Baird's Creek, the house of Geo. Con nor was struck, and his child was killed, and his wife knocked senseless. The house of D. Mann, near - Newport, was struck also. , Mrs. Mann, who was standing in the doorway, was killed, while Mr. Mann was rendered senseless. During the storm the rainfall was nearly 1 inches. . . C. WiDorsey and W. Smith, con nected with the division of agricultural soils ' of ..the agricultural department, Washington,' D. C, are now in Baleigh for the purpose of making a ssrvey of eastern Nerth Carolina. They are spe cialists in soil work, while Mr. B. G.Davis, of the United States geological survey, will do the topographic map work. State Geologist JA.Holmes will look after this work. f The surrey will begin at once near Baleigh and will take in every coun ty between Wake and Craven, five miles on each side of the North Carolina and the Atlantic & North Carolina railroads being the area -that i ' now intended to cover by the survey. Thla wort is in con nection f with the" exporlrr-.cr-t farms at Tarboro and Bed Springs that hare just been established for the 'purpose of ascer taining what Crops' are best adapted to the dL. fent sections of tia :st.-It will probablyrequire a yesr to complete' te work." TLe cost on tLe iate of I.ori Carolina will be only te expense of the specialists employed,- the "government having agreed to pay the . salaries and give their time for the information that will be obtained forthe United States de partment cf e Trieuliore. - Eo!e!h will be beadquarters for the men; : White's Black Liniment fall size 23c bottle for 15c. It cures pain. J. E. Hood. TEE CHURCHES. Services will be held at the churches in Kins ton tomorrow as follows, to which everybody la invited; ' . ' " Methodist Churoh. Revival sermons will be preached both morning and evening. Candidates for membership in the church will be received at the morning service. Sunday school at 9:15 a. m. Epworth League at 10:13 a. m. y y ,-S Christian Churoh. v Morning subject: "What is the True Aim in Life?:' Evening subject: "What Convened People Will Do.'' , Sunday school at 0:30 a. m. y Episcopal Churoh. ,.; Services b6th morning and evening. Sunday school at 9:30 a.vn. V Presbyterian Churoh. At : the morning service Bev. R D. Brown will be installed as pastor of the church by a committee of the Albemarle Presbytery, consisting of Revs. F, W. Farrw,of Goldsboro, and James Thomas, of Wilson, and Ruling Elder H.M. Mc Donald, of LaG range Mr. Farris will preside ,and dVliver the charge to the con gregation. Mr. Thomas will deliver the charge to the pastor. After which Mr. Farris will preach. Mr. Thomas will preach at night. iSunday scitool at 9:30 a. m. Baptist Church. Morning subject: "Saved to Serve." Evening subject: "Christian Character Necessary.',' Christain Baptism Sunday evening. Sunday school at 9:30 a. nt. B. Y. P. U. meets Monday evening. The Chapel. 1 Sunday school at 9 a. m. . Preaching in the afternoon. Prayer meeting every Friday night. . Christian Scienoe. Services every Sunday morning at 11 o'clock in the opera bouse. . ON DIAMOND SHOAL3. Ship Stranded and Crew Take to ' Boats. One Boat Swamped and Six Men Drowned. v . y Cape Henry. Va , May 4 The British steamer Virginia, Capt. Charles Samuels, from DalonirL Cuba, for Baltimore. wlt a cargo of iron ore. a crew of 26 men, in cluding one stowaway, stranded on Dia mond snoais anout o p. m:, Wednesday, May 3d, during thick weather. The en tire crew took to ; boats and attempted to leave the ship. , One boat with fifteen of the crew got away, but the other boat was swamped and six men were drowned. The remaining five got back on. the steamer, where they remained till this morning when they were rescued and brought ashore by the crews of the Creed Hill and Cape Uatterar Life Saving stations. ' The . ship stranded 'on the outer diamond about twelve .miles from the shore, and owing to the thick, squally weather which has prevailed for several days she was-liot discovered by the life savers until this morning. The rescue was made in the , station life boats. Much difficulty was encountered in get ting to the ship on account of the heavy sea and high wind, the boats starting early this morning and not being able to return until about four o'clock this after noon. The ship is now nearly all Under water and is a total loss. -, . . . REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN. " Forty, Republican Stump Speakers . Ready to Ten Days. State League Election. 1 ' Raleigb, N, C, May 3.-The State Re publican League met here today and elected C. J. Harris, of Jackson county, president; Thomas S. :-- Rollins, secretary; W.-Y Hall, member of the national com mittee; Chas. McNamee, W. V. Hall, W. S. Hyams, and B. N. Duke, Jr., delegates at large to the national convention. Among the district delegates are . H . B. Cheatham, D. W, Patrick 'D. n.. Abbott, O. J. Spears, George K. Pritchard, and Claudius Dockery." ' Republicans state that James R. ' Joyce is to be their nom inee for conirress in the fifth distrini. SecretaryW S. Hyams, of the Repub- ucan state committee, says bis party will open its campaign at Winston, May 15, when Senator Pritchard, Spencer B, Adams, nominee for governor. Attorney General Walser, Augustus1 Prifeahd others will speak, and that within the next ten days there will be 40 Republi can speakers on the stump in North Car olina. ' He does not yet know whether State headquarters will be opened hers or not. ' t '.--.v.?' v t .-x; - v j - " r ' Question Answered.' y . .Tes, August Flower still has thelargest saie oi any rnecucine in txieciviiized world. Your mothers and grandmothers never thpHgat of uning anything elso lor Indi gestion or Biliousness' Doctors were scares, and they seldom beaTd of "Appen dicitis.! Nervous Prostration, of lieart failure, etc. They need 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 Aunst Flower, in liquid form, tonaieyoT F-?s?ed there' is nothing serious tLe nattor "with " you." For sale by Temple-llarstoa Dreg Co. GENERAL HEWS, Matters of Interest Condensed Into Brief Paragraphs. The U. S. senate on Friday passed the fortifications appropriation bill, carrying .. about 7,300,000. The trials of the men for the murder of Goebel are set for a special term of court to begin the second Monday in July. An American has been arrested charged ' with complicity in the recent blowing up of the iron works at Johannesburg. During a thunder storm Thursday at Franklin, Va, Miss Rebecca Holland, aged 57, was struck by lightning and almost instantly killed. Julien Kobiusou, an old citizen of Blitch ton, Flu., wenb tuddea)y insane Thurs day, and k hot uid killed Arthur Lee and dangerously wounded Dr. S. II. Blitch and bis neptiew, Uuorge Wall. 4 Joseph W. Moiey, a prominent young society uiau aud athlete, of Lous ville, -Ky., committed suicide Thursday by shooting biiumlf through thebieotand turning on lour gus jets, at his home. Ex -Sheriff W. H. Hood, of Chester coun ty. 8. C, while riding his horse from the field to the farm house to get out uf the rain Thursday morning, was strmk by lightning, and horse and rider were killed instantly. , , . Twenty-five thousand men, employed by the Standard Oil company all over the country, have had their wages raised 10 per cent. Matterings o a possible labor storm gathering came from Coustabls Hook, N. J., and brought about the in crease. : "' y; y . W. J. Bryan spoke to 25,000 people at Toledo, O., Thursday, lie said: "The ' Demouratio party is sure to win. The people are with us tuis year and ttiey are in sympathy with the principles which shall: be embodied iu tne Kansas City platform, and which represent the feel ings of the great mass of Ainerhau peo- : Pie." Ambassador Choate has asked Lord Salisbury for an explanation us to the , alleged boarding ana searcii of tlw Amer-' lean ship Rea Witch by a British war ship witbiu-ths three-miio limit of Portu tugueso East Africa. Mr. CboaWs re ; quest is so mild that it does not amount to even a protest. It is said that the chief issue involved is one of fact. Ah uprising of peasants in the vicinity of Kusidiuk, huigaria, is assuming very alarming- proportions.- The . peasants have uuix-eedea iu diaarming some troops and have utwd rities ugamtt others. Two Officers and 15 meu have been killed or wounded. A similar number of peasants fell. Aboat 3,000 peasants are marching onRustchuk against two battalions of troops sent to oetend the; town. i: At Bamberg, S. Friday mbiniug Rev. E. Jobiimu. pastor ot the Baptist . church, shot and killed Mr. W . T. Bellin ger. Bellinger ehot.iour. times, at the -preacher wnn u ibvolver. buv lailed to hit him. The ptvacher shot once at Bel- linger with a suut giiu. The trouble be gan over the paiuiiug of a line fvnee te tweeli the baptist ' parsunag and the premises of the young man's lather. The preacher surrendered nimself to the jailor. A very important decision was promul gated Thursday by the minister of war, Gen. the Marqui u Gallifet, , and one which is particularly noteworthy in a country litte Fi ance, where the consump tion of brandy and so-called "aperitifs,'? such as absinthe and vermouth, is so ' ?revaient, "upenuf hour," between 6 and p. m., ; being a regular institution in France, and especially iu Paris. No . brandy or other ppirits and the so-called "aiieritif"" may : iiueelorth , be isoldal though wine, beer und cider are allowed as innocuous beverages. - , The U. S. senate tu Friday passed the army reorganisation bill, it levolution ises the staff arrungenientB of the army, provides for an increase of 100 cadets at -West Point, raises the rank of command-1 lng general of the army to lieutenant gen eral and that of ' adjutant general to major general. The president is empow ered' to pluce on tbo retired list any officer who ; has been suspended from duty by sentence ot court martial, or by executive' 1 order, iu mitigation of such sentence, for a period extending to within one year of the time of his compulsory retirement! or ' age.. This is well understood to apply to Commissary General Eagan. An amend ment creating a veterinary corps for the . army, consisting of a colonel and 85 other commissioned, officers, was attached; to 1 the bill after a spirited debate, the amend ment being adopted by a vote of 25 to 23. , - t 1 1 1 i. - ; i , - Pritchard Against the South . Durham Huald.. ;j .',(' f',;'- . Speaking of Senator Pritchard recently a Durham county Republican said that he did not have a drop of southern blood in his veins. . "He is for anything against the south," said the bpeaker Yet Pritch-. ard is the man who tries to dictate poli tics in the State.. With the disfranchise ment of the iliiterats negro vote men of Pritcbard'a strips will be ' relegated to the rear, forever. Hia support coces scainly from this class. - ; . . ; . - . Try the new remedy. for .costive-- -, Chambarlain's Stomach and Liver T; v leta. Every box guaranteed. -Trice 15 cents. For sale by J. H. Hood, drcj-Ut.
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