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THE , ' DAILY-. FREE ' PR PUBLIS H ED j Efe RY EEN IN G : EXCE PT SU IS DKY, ! ... VoLni-No.27. KINSTON, N. a, TUESDAYMAY 8, 1000; V- Price Two Cents. GENERAL HEWS. ..... V' " Matters of Interest Condensed Into Brief Paragraphs. Heavy ' damage by forest fires are re ' ported from West Virginia. .' V The Lexington, YtL opera bouse was burned Sunday morning. Lobs f 9,000; insurance f 3,500. , The bouse on Monday passed tbe bill to increase the appropriation for the - national guard from $400,000 to f 1,000,- - 000. ( s'l''T-V"::'' W.C. Endlcott, secretary of war during 1 Cleveland's first administration, died, at Boston Sunday afternoon, of pneumonia, yr aged 73. An'unknown.negro, about 20 years of - age, was lynched three miles from Geneva, Ala.; Saturday for assaulting a white girl. He confessed the crime. ,j , I . The Populistic Democrats, Populists and silver Republicans have about agreed . on .Bryan for president and Charles A; - Towne, of Minnesota, for vice-president. Admiral Dewey went to Memphis Sun ' day, and was escorted to bis hotel by a company of Confederate veterans. The regular exercises in honor of Dewey took place Monday and Tuesday. : ; . ''. A most destructive woodland fire has been burning for Some days in Chester- field county, Va. It has . swept over an area of five miles, and has destroyed an ' immense amount of cordwood and stand- ing timber. V:-.' 'I:-:tvrV Pk; The bottom is falling out of a part of " Newark, N.J., where the houses are sink ing so fast that the occupants are mov ing out." They were built on a quicksand deposit, too near a hole without a reach- able bottom. 1 j - By the burning out of a furnace of the Scbloss-ShefHeld Steel and Iron company at Birmingham, Ala. j Saturday night f 75,000 worth of property was destroyed , ' by fire; Several funiacr men narrowly1 escaped death. '' V':; ; - ;Y: : " Judge Thompson, of the TJ. 8. district coart at Cincinnati, has decided that the law does not require any revenue stamp r Kn afRTul f.n Winrin of notaries miblic. ' The practice has been universaJlK require '. The Mississippi Valley "Hay Storage rtan4: anT-thn inmhei Tarda of thft Hof- ner-Lothman Manufacturing company at St. Louis were burned Bararaay. vine total loss is estimated at $350,000, of 1 nliinK fha Vio (inmnunT Biifltaina. abont $40,000 and the llofner-Lothman the - remainuer, av eunre iuh o vuiuw uj insurance.,'. ' s , :.,...r " ,v The Mallory Line steamship pier at . New York was destroyed by fire Sunday. - Loss f 1,000.000. Several barges Which were moored near the pier were burned, - ' and Aianv rMiiAs nf -thftir caotains and , of the members of the families on board , were made. Onlyone life was tost; xne - 9-montns-old daugnter oi uapc. unanes k Lochs, of the barge Sherwood, was " drowned. -' The British colonial office has received ' dispatches giving accounts of several re mnfc n.tjulra nnnn tha British constabu lary in the Gold Coast Colony by the Ashantis (nauves), io.uuu oi wnom sur miniul TTiimnaai tho MlTlit,A.l: Thft Tift.. ivuuucu .uuhw.i f- tives were repulsed with heavy losses, but many of the constabulary were wounded and quite a numoer giuea .' British reinforcements are on the way. Half a dozen tornadoes occurred in cen tral Kansas (Sunday afternoon, l wo nonintia nm known to have been killed , u.nA t.hrofl inin'rftd. A later disDatch from Kansas City says that 14 tornadoes are . reported to nave Deen seen ounaay in (.antral TTftnnafl fin far as learned Wm. . IfalfT-inb- onH xcita vahi loot their lives in v the destruction of their home, north of j.r. . . , v JKUinwood, were tne opiy persons uiea. " A xornaoo swep over wuwiu cuuutj, Totolo Rnnilav. and tCis believed several people were killed. More than one-third y. of the houses in Garea werewrecked. RuiFAPal hniiua went wrecked at Little -Elm and several people injured. A storm Tisited San Antonio.Tex.; Monday morn ' Ing, doing great damage. The San Anto ' nio Loan and Trust Co.'s building was v demolishedi -The loss is estimated at -' 175.000. , V - , The vicinity of Wilsonville, Neb!, was visited by a heavy wind, rain and hail storm Saturday night. A Presbyterian church was destroyed, and many barns and out-buildings demollsned. in toe country along the path of the storm sev eral 1 farm houses were blown to pieces and a number of people injured. So far as known no one was killed.1 The hail stones are reported to bave been as large as baseballs, and were driven tnrougn The carelessness of farmers and brush- burning mountaineers is held responsible for an unprecedented number of forest fires in the mountain sections of Mary land this spring. The damages have not been computed accurately, but. the loss in timber alone will reach into hundreds of thousands of dollars, many miles haying been burned over. A number of dwellings bave also been destroyed, and miles of fencing, which will take large sums and months of labor to replace, are gone. A dispatch from Manila says that Gen. PHnletoa Garcia, the highest insurgent officer except Aguinaldo, was- captured Sunday by Lieut. E. V. Smith, of Gen. Funs ton s staff, in t tie tovyooj jaen,inree miles northeast of San Ieidro, province of New Ecija. Garcia4 personally directed the guerrilla operations, and ,GenFun Bton had spent weeks in trying to corner him, several companies beating the whole country at night. Often the Americans caught messengers bearing Garcia'tfcom mands. The people protected him, and burned signal lights whenever the Amer ican soldiers ' appeared. Gen. Funston will endeavor to persuade Garcia to se cure the surrender of his forces, which number several thousand. Most of Gar cia's men live in the mountains, and few bands would number more than luu. X f . Sick headache. Icci t'..: a'l di gest veil, appetite poor, t ; i e!j coa stipited, tongue co:"J.- It's yczr liver! Ayer's Fills tra 1 easy and safe. Tfcry cits 757?? sia,t iliousr.es s. 23c. AHEr'.-ts., V iiil your iihvi , r T" 5 1 , J CHALLENGE TO REPUBLIOANS Chairman Simmons Challenffea the Republicans' to a Joint Debate With tho' Democratic State Nornl; neea. , ' Raleigh fostMajr 8th. . - - F. M. Simmons, Esq., chairman of the Democratic State executive committee, yesterday wrote a letter to A. E. Holton, Esq., of Winston, N. C, inviting a joint debate between the Democratic and Re publican nominees on the State ticket. I , mm . 1 t a t 1 t- i ne itepuoncans wuo sbti uen iuugu inir at Butler's effort to divert the Demo cratic nominees from a debate With the main Republican show to the side-show to laugh again. Butler's artful effort to engage the Democrats in joint debate with the dummy ticket nominated by his handful of followers, which was made up largely of McKinley offlce-noiders, nas been more man met by Mr. eimmons. ' If the Republicans are half as anxious as they confess to . discuss 'the issues in this camDafam. they will not hesitate to accept the challenge. Ex-Judge Spencer B. Adams, the Republican nominee, for governor, can meet Hon. Charles B. Ay. cock, the nominee of the Democracy for governor, if he so desires. " The Republican bluff launched by First ri x Z.A. T1 1 1 I T.. LMllvoueuih ouuw una vwu viuicu., up to Mr. Holton now. i i GRATNGERS ITEMS. .' i '- , v v ' ', May 7, 1900. ; Mr. L. H. Rountree. of Ayden. was here yesterday,' 1 - 1 ' A good many of our people are attend ing court today. ' Miss CalHe May Jpnes spent Saturday mgnt ana ouuuajr tu ajuiu. . , i -. 1 rmnA ilinwtr ni rtiin tvonld be & wel come visitor with our tobacco farmers iust now. uh " v.-, V Rev. J, T. Grubbs went to Greenville Saturday to fill bis appointment Sunday. Ha will return today. - Mn. Cltmie Hill, of Ft. Barnwell, who had been visiting at Mr. C. H. Barwick's, returned nome oaturaay. There will be a Sunday school picnic at Df Vnl RatnrHtxV If AT 1 C? T1vrvho1 V is invited to come that will be sure to bring a basset. ' Cplta. 1m Trrla Ch-rchyar. A German traveler has discovered come quaint ' epitaphs in a Tyrolean cemetery. v f-: v ' On a tombstone in the, valley of Tux was this inscription, "In pious remem brance of the ; honest widow Anna KriedL 40 years long." . A miller, is thus remembered. "In Christian' mem ory or , wno oepartea xnis uie wim out human assistance." . A fanner whose initials only ..are given and appears to have been the author of his own epitafch " has this memorial: "ITere rests in God F. JL Ue lived 26 years as tnan and 37 years as husband" . : ' . i v On the tomb of a man. who fell from a roof and was killed are these word?. "Here fell Jacob Uosenknopf from the roof Into eternity." , ' : This wall of a desolate husband caps the rUrnnr, "Tears cannot brmj thee back to life, therefore I weep," - . Snitched Off. "When through her own carelessness I discovered that she wore falsa balr, I lost all love for her," said UarJry.' A l- r?! rt tie Crst c"J wrec$ i l.y a izI.iIaccJ switcl-rtUad- 5 L!a NcrtM American. WHO SHOT. AT Hill? Union Soldier Wants to Find the Oonfederate ,Who Sbot at Him During the i War ; between the States. Interesting I loidents of the Fighting1 Around : linston. To the Editor Thc KinbtoS FiitK Press: Dorinar the civil war I was a Union soldier for four years. .The last time I was under, fire was near Jims ton . in March. 1863. I think that the Confed erates who shot at me on- that occasion belonged to a militia company from your latitude and I write this hoping to get into communication with some of them. I expect to be at Raleigh on May 23 to witness the solar eclipse and I would like to make a flying visit to my Kinston friends, who were so cpnsidemte as to miss jne 35 years ago.' " . The battle of wise s Fork, sometimes called the second battle of Kinston, was rougbt I tmnn on March iu, 1805. uen. Hoke with bis Confederates attacked our forces under Gen. Cox with terrific vigor and, though finally repulsed, hecarried off as trophies 1,500 prisoners from our ad vanced brigade. 1 bave always consid ered it one of the most brilliant efforts of the war, considering our superiority in. numbers and the discouragement that was,settling down on the Confederate cause We expected a lenewal or the at tack, but after waiting two days I was ordered to report , at Gen. Cox's head quarter's at 6 a. m. of the 13th. - At that time and place I was directed to accom pany 200 of the 12th N. Y. cavalry to ward Jvinston to ascertain u tne enemy were evacuating that place and specially to find out whetherthe bridge .over the Neuse river was intact.; I was then a signal officer and this was in the line of my duty We passed through our picket line and advanced through a wilderness country about five miles and came out on a prominence ' alongside the river from which we could distinctly see your town on the other- side of the ? stream, two miles beyond m. Here I; halted the cavalry and with : my . signal; glasses 1 1 took a view of the 8ituatlon.Aoout. !a mile and a half ahead across aa Open country,. J could see : fortifications on both sides , of the river,-; at the point where X supposed toe bridge was located I climbed' the trees ' and caught sight through tne foliage of wbat 1 supposed to be the bridge. I could see a few sol diers moving about and "with my tele scope could count the buttons on the coat of the guard that walked the para pet, which loomed up - across tne Inter. ments of small bodies of men across , the stream I was sure our presence had been observed. The captain of the cavalry battalion thought we had bettefl return with our. information at once, it oc curred to me however t that by going down the steep bank of the river and looking up stream I might get ; a . better view of the bridge As I now remember it.' the point On which we were located was 20 or 30 feet above the level of the stream. . 1 found that by , lying at full length directly at the waters; edge and looking underneath the Overhanging bushes I could 'v distinctly . see what 1 wanted. 1 pulled my telescopaont to a focus and was enjoying a' near view of the partially burned bridge, 1 when sua denly I heard directly across the stream the snapping of a dry .'branchy folio wed almostinstantly by the Crack of . a rifle. The Neuse river at that point was about 150 feet wide and the snot war evidently when I heard the snap of the branch. bullet struck the sand directly before my quickly I bounded up that steep ascent amid a perfect encore oi . wmstiinr oui lata that at the time I suoDOsed were all : . f ... meant for me. 1 1 believe, however, . that if any fair-minded umpire had witnessed mv feat; chronometer in hand, he would have given me the first prize for high jumps, against all JNortn.Carolina. - t w nen i reacnea tne top oi tne oan e found that most of the shots came from my cavalry escort,' which had seen some movements on the other side and opened on my Kinston friends the moment after they opened on me, so I Cannot . be sure that more than the first shot was actu ally intended for me. i J J . The next morning, March 14th, our troops advanced. I acted as guide to Carter's brigade and J marched them around the fort so as to attack it from the southwest, hoping thus to cut off and capture the f garrison. - When we rushed up the slope of the parapet, we found the fort empty, but: we were sa luted by a fusilade from the other .; fort across - the ; river. " The loose timbers which had connected the piers :xA the burned bridge had been thrown into the stream when the garrison on . the south bank had withdrawn and there was no way our boys could reach them, . except with bullets. ' - -I raised my signal ts t and waved it as agreed on to the rest of the troops about a mi a nvA a half distant. I observed sudden cessation of tte Eric-r -on the otVc-rtias and hoard a ve're call out, "What are you firing for v1:'.b wavira flarof truce?'' One of our crrt.-.lr.s re- Y'.; ?'lti n'tafi"-c!tr:r?, tut a t'-- eel tic t." lheatbe tn.? was rcrrniej end some of the shot i ' rd di' r- on.j near my flax, as I tLca im-.-'.ei In about 20 minutes the firing ceased. Our boys being largely in the majority. every time a head or hand, or cap even, was raised above tne embankment it was saluted at once, t -. ..... i.- i,' Jrroin; informatioo subseauentlv re ceived I think Gen. Hoke took all his vet eran soldiers with him on his retreat and left s company of militia only, to keep up appearances for a time, which militia I thiuk must have been from your imme diate section. Now it came my turn to lauau. Our Kinston friends were perfectly safe be hind . their earthwork but tbey could not get ont of it without exposing them- felvs to the merciless tire of an ever in- nreasiug force, if, Mr. Editor, you; will ... ..n. . & i . . . i walk a;i una tu nvtr vu ourpoaiuon you Will how perfectly we had them cooped up. Our boys began a good na- tured bautering, told tbein tbey had got into the "last ditch" and advised them to surrender. They returned the compli ment by advising us to swim over and capture them. : We responded that our engineers would swing a bridge across in a few uiinqtes and in the meantime they i could stay where they were. Soon after one man started on a run for a wooded country'toward your village. He made almost as good time as 1 did tha day before, several snots were fired at bun but I do not think they touched him. The next one that appeared was a boy. One of the soldiers Ured but the rest cheered him as he ran. A Michigan cap tain wnose name l cannot recall turned to his veterans and said "They're old mett and boys, let 'em go." So after that, when one appeared our boys would hoot and cheer aud occasionally some one would snap a gun to encourage the sprinting. So Kinston won the medal in the second day's races. . v . ' x do not tbink. anyone was eeriouslv injured either day.. The only casualty on our side was one poor eoldier who swam tq one of the piers and climbed up to assist in reminding the bridge. lie suddenly fell off, probably in a fit, and went down into the waters of the Neuse in full veiwof 1,000 men who were pow erless to help bim. '. . i The mayor: of Kinston with half a dozen citiiens soon after came . down to the opposite bank under a white flag and formally surrendered the town, ' but it was some hours before onr troops, got over to ' taxe possession. -? LAXer , in tbe day I established a signal 'station on the balcony of your hotel ; and during our stay I made : some-delightful acquaint ances among your citizens: - wq If this should meet the eye of any of cnesoiaiers woo witnstood our advance on those two days, I would be glad to receive, a letter from him. ; - . i ' Yours truly, r.-n . .-'.i' . Geo. C. Round. Manassas, Va. May 3, 1900. -. uoldsboro and Raleigh . papers please copy.' ' i n -, -.. , STATE JEWS. , Interesting North. Carolina Items In Condensed Form. INSTITUTE ITEMS. " . ; " May 7, 1900. Mr. Herbert Hill, of Lousin Swamp. spent Sunday here. .Mr. Giles Parks and sister. Miss Sallie. spent Saturday and bunday here. Mr. George Tucker and Mr.- Spence spent Sunday with Mr. Henry Allen. Miss Iola Patrick and Master. De Witt Allen went to Hookerton this morning. Miss Cora Woo ten, of LaGrange, visit ed Miss Dainy Gray Saturday and Sun day. ' ' , - ' ! ' Miss Myrtle Tucker and Mr. John Jones, of near Kinston. spent Saturday night at Mr. J. J i. Bryan's, y'i'v: 'wva Mrs! M.: Pulley and daughter," little Miss. Susie, of LaGrange, are visiting friends and relatives here. 4 ru Miss Ruth Tucker and Mr. Troy Rouse. of near Kinston, spent Saturday night and Sunday at Mr. A. T. Dawsons. . Misses Mary Smithwick and Nancy Burgess, of LaGrange, spent Saturday and Sunday with Miss Maude Dawson. - Misses Bertha May and Rosa Taylor and Mess. Jim Edwards and Anderson Hyatt, of Kinston; Prof. James Newbold and Mesa Johnnie Walters, Carl Sutton and Eugene Best, ' of LaGrange, spent Sunday jit Mr. A. T. Dawson's; , . - i iitssri-riiir i ;-;- Danger About a French Duel. I Wilmlnjtoa Star.?-' -'?' ' "'-ri. . Thera' i iinmn danirer . In attendlnnr French dueli, not to the. principals, but to toe ODservers. , xne ouier oay mere was a duel between an editor - and a Kmlntnr. The editor shot first ahd miss ed his mas. and then the: sculptor, de- claring tnat it was against nis .religious belief to kill another ' fellow, turned his weapon sideways, pulled the trigger, shot nnrt killed the anrtreon who came to fix them up it they happened to get hurt. ? - - At Mebane Aionday Bingham School beat University of Maryland playing ball, 6 to 5. , . . r A call is .issued to all Confederate veterans associations of the State to ,be represented at Winchester, -Va., June 6th, at the dedication of the monument to the North Carolina dead in the Con federate cemetery there. It is reported from Washington that the Republicans in the house have decided to turn out Crawford and seat Pearson, not on the merits of the case, but simply to give tbe Republicans of North Caro lina some encouragement. The house on Monday passed the sen- ate bill to expend $3,000 to repair the road to the national cemetery near New- beru. The president s signature, which , will be made as soon us the bill reaches him, is all tlmt is needed to make italaw. The senate judiciary committee is re ported to be unanimously adverse to the confirmation of Ewurt an federal judge. Il I : J i L A. . ...Ml I . . .. in is nam uihg uu report wui oe muae at the present sension, and that McKinley : will reappoint him on the adjournment of congress. "N , The presidency of the "Baptist Female University at Raleigh bus been urmni- -mously tendered by the trustee to Rev. John ft... White, who has not yet decided whether bo will accept, aud, aiUUrequeBt, the trustees have consented to wait ten days for his decision. ' , Greensboro Record: The Republican ticket was known in Greeuboro, from ' governor down, before the nominations were completed. Parties who came up on the evening train had it all straight, when, as a matter of fact, not a single nomination had been made - when, they left Raleigh at 3;50 in the afternoon. The "Shoofly" train from Norfolk ran into the rear of a freight train at Fremont Monday night and badly wrecked the caboose car and engine. ' Conductor Willi-.-' ford of tbe passenger tr ai n was between the coaches when the collision ' occurred and had his lout' caught between the bumpers and mashed to such an extent that amputation will be necessary. He was taken to Rocky Mount. ' ' 'Raleigh Post: Our' Salisbury corns- ' pondent gives us information of a new cotton mill which Is not only gratifying of itself," but more so from the assur ance that every dollar of the capital ; stock was ' subscribed for- by fanners residing in and near the place of location, China Grove, Rowan ! county;.. Fifty thousand dollars ' of , good money, , the profits of energetic and intelligent farm ing, have been combined for the erection of a mill to manufactme and eonsume at home the products of the farms. Charlotte News: Capt. W. II. Ramseur is very much elated, over the success of his stop motion machines for cotton mill machinery ; which prevent seconds and waste. He is an officer of the University Machine company, which is to manu facture the invention. Tbey have not yet bad time to build a machine shop, ' but already hare orders for eleven thou sand machines. Mr. W. H. Biglow is in Boston representing the company and re ports that the New England mill men are enthusiastic over the invention, which . has long been needed. The company will frobab)y erect a machine shop in Char otte. . v.. ?. , . BOEBS GONE NEXT MORNING. No Further ; Opposition to The 1 Crossing of the Vet River. London, May 7. The Times' corre spondent with Lord Roberts force at the Yet river telegraphs that the Boers evac uated their position on tbe north bank of the river, and, Sunday the British con tinued to cross over as the different col umn came up. The railroad bridge over tbe river at tnat point is entirely destroy ed. Continued the correspondents , "Tbe country immediately north is hilfy but the force is advancing on a broad front and should be able to turn most of tbe neighboring' positions. . It seems likely : that the : Boers intend no serious resistance, but will fall back to succeed ing positions until they reach more fav orable ground. ' - "The present general advance is, the culmination of the recent operations to clear the southeastern. districts. Lord Roberts attained his object by strikinr before the enemy had time to concentrate on our actual front. r : : ; , I Biliousness is a condition characterized by a disturbance of the digestive organs. The stomach is debilitated, the liver tor- 1id, the bowels constipated. There is a oathing of food, pains in the bowels, dizziness, coated tongue and vomitirr, first of the' tmdigested or partly digested food and then of bile. 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