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PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDRY. Vol. HI No. 28; KINSTON, N. a, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 19Q0. Price Two Cents. GENERAL NEWS. T III m " -- T ... 1 ;--. Brief Paragraphs, y r y i . The American Hotel, at Genesee, N. Y., was burned Tuesday, and wo lives lost. Loss $12,000. - - The British In South Africa continue to advance toward Pretoria, and at last re ports were half way from Bloemfontein to Kroonstad. yyc;yiyyyyyy"' ;V -, Dr. L. E. Wyeoff, of Addison, W. Va., committed suicide in his office by taking several kinds of poison, any one of which would have been fatal. He was addicted to the morphine habit. , ),: 7 v The house on Tuesday adopted a reso lution calling on the secretary of . the treasury to furnish information concern ing the kind and amounts of ingredients used by manufacturers of oleomargarine, The strike of telegraphers on t he South era railway has been called off, but the boycott Is still on. President Powell sajs some members of the order who had agreed to support the strike did not .do eo, and that had all remained loyal, the strike would have succeeded, v y,y The city council of Atlanta adopted .a resolution Monday night calling on Mayor Woodward tojresign his office. The per sonal habits of the mayor is the cause of resolution. The mayor was requested to resign last summer, but was excused upon bis promise to reform. His term expires January 1st nest. . 'y yy V. y Near Mount Aetna, Pa., Monday, Mrs Rebecca Clay, an aged widow, was murT dered by her son David, aged 48. v The "son was - under the influence of liquor, During the quarrel the son seized a ham mer and brought -ft down with force on Vila mnf.har'a haaA fXar cbnll urn a ornuTnm and she died ' shortly afterwards.. The son was arrested. , The factory of the Ware Furniture Co., one of the largest manufacturing plants of its kind m the south, of Atlanta, ua., was burned Monday afternoon. Forty cottages, occupied by employes of the factory,' were destroyed, many ot the families losing all their effects. The loss ' to the factory and on the cottages will be about 1 200.000, with insurance about one-half. This is the, most serious- nre Atlanta hasiad for years, and the entire department was sent out. , x y ,v A three-story .brick 'building, in the business center of Kansas City, Mo col lapsed Monday afternoon, burying seven persons in the ruins. The building, which was an ancient swuciurp.'uau in con demned several months ago and had re cently been weakened by workmen exca vating for a new buildingon an adjoining lot; The building collapsed almost with out warning, the wails bulging, out and ' the roof crashing in before any of the in mates could make a move to escape. The ruins were soon covered with a swarm of firemen digging for the buried ones. . Destructive Fire at Mt. Olive. Mt. Olive, N. C, MaJ- 7. Mt. Olive was again visited by a destructive nre Sun day night, and the loss will aggregate about f 4,00U. nau ox wmcn is covered by insurance The fire was discovered about midnight in the lqft of an old hotel on southeast corner of Main and East Centre streets and spread quickly, though ; the people responded promptly to the alarm and worked heroically until , the fire was under control. - The hotel build ing was completely, destroyed, with sev eral stores on the first floor and a num- ,: her adloining. -?:y;y"y J. 0. Cobb and wife occupied rooms in niture and household goods were totally - destroyed, though they . had Insurance amounting to f 150. y :, Other losses were as follows: Henry Chelney, groceries, loss f 300, no insurance. ' M. W. Pope, groceries, loss 1300, no insurance. y , J. D. Ilighemith, groceries, loss $700, Insurance 1300. . ;W.D. James, market and restaurant, ' loss $100, no insurance, y. ; . , Harper Quinn, groceries and general merchandise. los9 $800. insurance $000, J. A. WesthrooR, general merchandise, loss about $2,000, insured. R. F. Ashford, colored, restaurant, loss $100, no i nsurance. : ;' The fire is supposed to have been of in- . cendiary origin though there is no clue to the perpetrator of the deed.. - ' v . It was only with the greatest effort that Westbrook's store was saved, after the shutters and doors were burned off. Does it Tay to Eay C-ap? "A cheap reraedy for cc-js1 3 ' col '3 ia ' til right, but you want eccietLing; that ' wi',1 reli end cure t'ue inore fvere f.nl dan. ous re?nlts cf throat rn I l::r t s trotillfs. V.'tat stall you do? warmer and more rr,y;l.ir climat if r cfi;iLle; if not ros.-itla for jn Go to a Ye, tr nil f 1. .. re. ta;9 tz;e c.mv n been introaucJ in all ciii I ccun- ;tf.r 1 yrrup." I'-t ! 1 With S'.'Oe ; .Ttro'abls,"!;. not only hc-:ia 3 tO tl-'- '.TO J : i'-' "r:: ' ' - y ion, f.iv. a -t'i t. : ' 1; :'!' f .n-cra Crrr; - l-e ! " 1 tl.o 1 a 1 i r "S L v ty t". DISCOVERED. Postoffice. Official in Cuba Stole a V- : - Bis Pile of Money. - Jf 1 Havana; May T. The - United States , . .; ' . . transport Ingalls leftheae last night, hav ing on: board Col. Burton, the inspector general, who is going to 'Fortress Mon toe; with orders to proceed direct to Washington. . It is reported that this la due to discoveries made in connection with bis inspection of the postal affairs at Havana, which have resulted in the arrest at Rochester, N. Y. on Saturday, of Chas. F.' Neely, former treasurer of the postomce department in Cuba,. on the charge- of embezzling $36,000 from the government. It is also thought possible that JNeely's arrest may, result la local arrests here before night. t . New York, May 7. Chas. F. Neely, chief financial agent , of the Cuban. podtofHce department, whawas arrested in Roches- ter on - Saturday evening, wmie on nis wav on the Southwestern limited to his former borne in Muncie, Ind., on a charge of embezzling $36,00u of government money, was arraigned oeiore uommis- sioner Shields at 11 o'clock this morning and held in $20,000 bail for examination iSeely was arrested in response to in structions from Secretary of War Root, based oh information received from Gov. Gen. Wood. ' The arrest is believed to be one of " several that will be made in the case. ' Neely was practically disbursing agent at the, postomce- department in uuoa. Col. Burton: inspector . general on Gen. Woods staff, has been ordered-to this country with papers necessary to secure JNeely's detention until he can oe tasen back to Cuba. THE TORCH IN LUZON. Filipinos Burn Bulan to he Qround , After. Driving:- the Garrison Out. Many Spanish and Chinese Reel , dents Killed. y. . , ; V" " -';- ManDa, May 8. The city of Bulan, in South Luzon, has . been destroyed by 8.000. Filipino insurgents, who applied the torch to the place. This news conies to Manila in unofficial letters ana nas caused consternation amonsc those who Were inclined to credit the-assertion that the rebellious spirit of -the natives was ranfdlr subsiding. . i The burning of Bulan occurred May 4. The Insurgents fired the place alter anv ing out fifty men of the Forty-seventh volunteer infantry who were garrisoning the town un account 01 tnaoverwneim ing numbers oi the enemy, the Americans were powerless to resist tne woric 01 in cendiariem. -; ' ' The large body of rebels, after setting fire to the buildings, killed many of the Spanish ' and ' Chinese residents. There was nor provocation ; for the butchery but the' Filipinos seemed determined to annihilate' everything in Bight. y Bulan had a population of 20,000 and contained many of the largest commercial establishments in ' South Luzon. - The burning of the -city destroyed all of these and not only ruined the merchants, but made many of tbe people homeless. . It is feared that there Will be great distress in Bulan. Only One Legal Plaoe in the State , To Fight Chickens. Washington Post. .v 1 "There ia only one locality in North Carolina, and that is in my district," re marked Representative Bell amy. of North Carolina, "where it Is legal to fight game cocks. Over across the line in (South Car olina the mains are numerous, and the patrons of thislsport, which 1 regard.as a very cruel one, and which I never wit nessed but once or twice in my life, have full swing. "The North-Carolina law ia Justly very severe on this sport, but a few years ago an Innocent lookinrbill came before the State legislature and was enacted into a law. It provided for the incorporation of the New Hanover Li v Stock and Poul try a36ociation,.as I recall the name, with a clause declaring that existing laws re garding restraints on the trial of endur- auce of animals and poultry should not be enforced against this particular asso ciation." The enactment went upon the statute book,-and in that way there, is one locality in theOld North State where the matching of game chickens is sanc tion ' 1.". - - ; - - " ' Ease Ball. , - Tuesday.' Boston 4, New York 13. ' Pittsburg 1, Chicago 2. Brooklyn 3, Philadelphia 10. St. Louis 9, Cincinnati 7. : STANDING Or THE CLUBS. CROOKEDNESS Won. Lost. PerCt. ,.10 5 .6C,!i ,.8 6 .571 ..9 7 .r,c,2 .. 8 7 .nr..) ..8 8 .noo 7 8 .4" .; G 8 ,42 S .. 5. 10 .833 rLiladelptia......... Cincinnati............. l iookljn 9 Lou; llttyarr- !'ew Yc : Los ton.. 5. Tl-3 lY3 Tt Lblicf : r;'. ;y -3 ia prepared to do a or rlain job rrintiy and oa ttort tot ceKt'Grally. .Uways in Drtnicnt of Etationory, , card Lo:rd.?, etc. Tim: t --.rrr.-.-x cv,i mere j r 1 i r-; 1 roodwi ;k ' '.' ' 1 r.t, 1 jv.- Ft "li. a I-: 1 f . f : .'. ' . ' ; l';-"ps i- lev. BOB GLElIli'S SPEECH. Hon, R. B. Glenn Captivates Bla AudJenoe in Klnston. A Orand Speech in Favor of White Su premacy. " ' ; 1 . - State Senator B. B. Glenn, of Winston. poke to a largecrowd in the, court honse n lunston yesteraay aiternoon. bo many were present that quite a number bad to stand."" r y ryy y -;.7 At 12:40 o'clock the speaker was pre sented by State Senator J. (j. Jackson. , Hon, K.TJ. Glenn spoke for about an hour and a half, and held the undivided attention of his audience.' It was Warm weather and the speaker wartntd up to his work and soon took off ravat and collar. : He announced that he was not here as a candidate for any office. He came iiot to talk to men . as Democrats. Republicans or Populists, but as white mm. :.;'--rsy X y --.yr4 '': y ':--' There is only one issue. h said, nefore the people in this section; vjz: "Who is to control Kortn Carolina ia the iuture7 Are white men, hd asked, to. rule, or are those controlled by black "men to rule7 Never in-the history of North Carolina has any party or fusion of parties been put In power bycolored muu that did not give bad, shameiui, vicious misrule, - Mr: irlenn paid a giowingtnbute to the Confederate soldiers, and said when Lee grounded arms at Appomattox, more arms were in the bands of JNorth Caroha ians than in those of .all the other south' era ; states combined. A high tribute to North Carolina bravery and patriotism! Sach people will not Bubmit to black supremacy. ' ' Mr.ulenn gave a brief but vivid lnstorv of the terrible conditions brought about by Republican negro rule right after the war, of how the Republicans stole the public school fund and everything else they could lay hands on, thus preventing the children, now.growD, of having school advantages, and now these Re publicans are prating about the illiterate whites, v Uf how the homes of white peo- Eie were burned, women 'assaulted, men illed.and how patriots were imprisoned for Opposirfg such horror oi misrule. , "Of now eventually, unaer tne leadersnip 01 glorious Zeb Vance, the State was re deemed and good rule followed for twenty- years, of how the Democrats reduced taxes, provided public schools. established hospitals and asylums for the unfortunate and -rendered life and prop erty safe, etc.. -;." - 14 - : y. 1 he speaker told of how the ropulist party began because ot dissatisfaction, not with the state government, but with the national laws. How, after awhile, the- leaders of the negroes, seeing the white people . tlivided, proposed to the Populist leaders fusion to take advan tage of the division among the whites; the leaders controlled by the negroes got in power by this division, and increased taxes, put negro magistrates, constables and policemen' in office, and gave bad local rule in . many portions of the State, Mr. Glenn told of having visited ; Wil mington Newbesn and other places in Eastern Carolina., under negro rule, of seeing negro policemen arrest white men in Wilmington and take them before ne gro magietratesr of the register, of deeds at Wilmington being a negro and issuing marriage licenses for white men and wo men. . At Newbern he saw ' a iwhite man arrested for a misdemeanor turned by the sheriff over to , two negro deputies. who handcuffed him and took him to negro jailor, who put the white prisoner in a cell and locked him in with a negro criminal and turned away laughing be cause he thought he had finally put the white man and the negro upon a plane of equality. .-'. .y.-y. .--Sy Mr. ulenn expressed righteous indigna tion at the scenes he had witnessed that resulted from fusion misrule and said that never again in North Carolina, will the negroes hold office. (Great applause. Mr. Glenn said that in some eastern counties he had found some Democrats whorseemed opposed to the amendment, bhad not fpund in Western Carolina a sinfe) Democrat but nvbo will support the arienament. . The speaker said that its enemies are saying the proposed constitutional amendment was adopted hastily by the legiwlature. This is false.. A committee of 20 of the strongest lawyers in the leg' lslature were appointed by the Demo cratic caucus to consider the matter, and from this committee a sub-committee of five of the ablest lawyers were selected to draft the measure. They worked on it nearly GO days, rCad every decision of the North Carolina and other" state su prenie courts and cf the U b. supreme court beanns on the matter, got the ad vice of the leading lawyers in North Car olina and in the United States to help cct up the law. After benijr draited waa submitted to the full committee and car. r.:"r tlrj .-.-, then to the Demo cratic 1 aiious and pone over and discnaped word by word and line by line. When it came tx lore tua House ana senate not a firgle Republican was alia to . poi out a word that was .untnstitntiunn Inthesonato Lieut-dor. Reynold. he saw no harm but only rood in it and aD j v: s 1 !:.;; 1 ci.ar"" a 1 '-rkrttyn y- Let y I.' a"..l l-! kl urn Lav vvr,' V; '1. 1 ! t n t ' M VOte yharL 1 im in c:. 1 t: Every man must pay his poll tax before Marco ot the year in which he votes tor the previous year's tax. Next, only those who can read and write are allowed to vote. The 5th section . provides that those whose father or grandfather voted previous to 1S68 can vote, whether they can read or write or not; And they can continue to vote as long as they live. All coming of age after IVW must be able to read and write to qualify as electors.,, : borne say the white children will sot eara as fast as the negro children. He didn't believe this for a moment. The Anglo-Saxon . is . superior to all other races, as shown throughout history, y The amendment will be a great stim ulus to education. Four months schools will be provided in every county. It will be a mighty poor white boy , who can't learn to read and write before 1908 with four months schools, especially when the registrar before whom he will go, will be as anxious for him to vote as he will be to vote. : (Laughter and applause.) Morgan, Money, Daniel. McEnery, Sheppard, Avery and many other able constitutional lawyers say the amend ment is constitutional. Ldmunda says it ia unconstitutional. He is a great lawyer, but he also said the law to di vide the races in the public schools was unconstitutional, while the U. S. supreme court decided it constitutional., Pritch ard says it is uncoustatutionahyeut-he has no reputation as a constitutional lawyer; bis reputation is as a; criminal lawyer.' Butler says it is unconstitu tional, but be was only granted his li cense last year. The internal revenue storekeepers, gangers and gougers say it is unconstitutional. They sit around the house where "the liquors are stored and say the amendment Isun-kon-sti-tu-tion-al, while the Republican dis tiller is on the inside cheating the gov ernment. The Republican , postmaster and. every, other little federal 'official doodle says it is un-kon-sti-ta-tion-al. They say so, not that they know fcny thing about it, because tbey don't, but because their jobs depend on their so saying., . , He appealed to all to vote for the amendment, to bring peace, prosperity, honor and good government to North Carolina. The adoption of the amend' ment will enable th people to divide On s economic questions according as they look at such questions upon their merits. - yy " lie said the only danger is In overconfi- dence, and appealed toold men to use their influence for, and middle-aged and young men to go actively to work for the amendment, to see their neighbors and tell them about it, as it really is, instead of as misrepresented by revenue doodles. lie told the men present to tell their pure wives and daughters that Bob Glenn asks them to- pray to the Heavenly Father to out it in the hearts of the men to vote right in thia great battle for W hit (Supremacy and the liberty, of the Anglo-Saxon in North' Carolina. Mr. Glenn referred to the Republican convention in Raleigh. He said the ne- Sroes were not1 there; because Pritchard ad ordered-them -to stay away, but they would vote next August, the fast one of them. They are absolutely under control of one man." Is such a people as much entitled to vote as the white, man; a people who only register the desires of one mani y y- :, :' Mr. Glenn closed his great speech with a grand perforation, In which be said that on the first Thursday in next Au gust on one side will be marshaled the black ranks ot negroes with an occasional white man holding aloft the black ban ner, of negro supremacy, the banner that means ruin and destruction to the. best interests of the State. On the other hand will be the ranks of true white men, irre spective . of party Populists, Republi cans and Democrats marching to the polls under the banner of White Suprem acy, to cast their ballots for the consti tutional amendment and for the ticket beaded by the peerless Chas. fi. Aycock for governor, for peace, contentment and continued prosperity and good rule in th Old North State. The speech was punctuated with fre quent and hearty applause, and has done great good for the , cause of White su premacy in Lenoir county, y ? ::. - Bob Glenn is a great man and a good one, and he will live long in the affections of our people who have heard him speak in Lenoir county. Mr. Ulenn also spoke last night to a large audience in the court house. A good many ladies were present. He made a splendid speech and aroused much enthusiasm. All of our people are enthusiastic in their praise of Bob Glenn. His coming among us has accomplished good for the great cause of White Su premacy. : ' 1 - -' V":' Thirty-Seven Illled in Explosion. . Lourenzo Marques, May 8. A dispatch from Pretoria says that a boarding house next door to the Rcgbie engineer. ing works at Jahannesburg, which were blown rcp, contained 37 men, all of whom were killed by the explosion. There is no trace of the building left. The evidence against Richards, the American negro who was arrested and cbanred will! murder in connection with cajifthe explosion, is that he stated that ho had been offered 3,000 to blow tip the foTHSiiry. Richards refused .. to rive the EP.nie of the nan who tried to bribe him. C-1 jour Trs:.: Vi:t: .or to , to Tc: STATE MEWS. Interesting North Carolina Items In Condensed Form. The State Dental association is in ses eion at Greensboro. Whitaker Hotel at Pilot Mountain was burned Tuesday. Loss f 1,500; insurance 800. - , At Durham' Tuesday Trinity College beat Maryland University playing ball, 3 to 0. f - Operatives in a cotton mill at Greens boro Btruck Monday for an increase in . wages.; , :yy m. Rhodes," in Cumberland county, cut his throat Monday and is 'not ex pected to live. " , i ' Mr. Jacob , loyner died Tuesday morn. ing at the home of his son. Mr. O, L. Joyher, in Greenville, aged 74 years. . v . Fire badly damaged 2.000 bales of cofc. . ton in the bonded warehouse at Charlotte Tuesday. , Loss covered by insurance. ' The State grand lodge of Odd Fellows is in session at Winston, and over 200 ' officers and delegates are in . attendance. Grand Secretary Drewry of the grand lodge of Masons reports three jiew lodges formed this year, bringing the total, number np to 314. ' " The revenue ; cutter Algonquin left y Wilmington Monday afternoon to go In quest of the fifteen men w bu abandoned the wrecked steamer on Diamond Shoals last week, -yyy"''? iyy-Vyj.. "- ;, George Home, a negro convict, died at Baleigh Tuesday from" a pistol shot ' wound received on Friday when he made a sat age attack on Warden Green cf the penitentiary, . Linch Jackson and his son, W. G., were killed Tuesday morning by the Southern Railway freight near Asheville. They were blacksmiths. Tbey were lying on , the track and were prob&bly drunk. , ; Id North. Carolina there are three Rev. olutionary!pensioners. . All are soldiers' ' widows. Two are 100 years old. If the youngest reackes the age of these it wll be 1918 before she ceases to draw her ' pen8ion.,l'I5 v'v;.'; ;-yy:s .w.;:,y z The date to the annual convention ot the North Carolina Press association has been changed from June to August, the date now being fixed upon August 22nd 23rd. The association will meet at Hendersonville. . ' V , r At Rutherfordton, on Tuesday, the jury rendered a verdict of not guilty in the case of Clingman, Scruggs, Miller and John Proctor for the murder of Moore in January last. ; It wan the third mur der trial for Scruggs. , ' Work is bow in progress on the follow ing railways in the State: Durham and Charlotte, Hend-rsonville and Biward Carolina and Northern, East Carolina ' (now in operation from Tarboro to Macclesfield, twelve miles.) Dr. Paul B. Barringer, of the University of Virginia; Dr. Richard H. Lewis, of Raleigh, Prof. J. Y. Joyner, of Greens boro, and Dr. Mclver, of Greensboro, are mentioned in connection with the presi dency of the University to succeed .Alder man. . , , . yyy y- .yyy .yy 'y Ed DeBruhl, a negro 4 fireman. Was .. killed at Charlotte rueeday." lie started down stairs in answer to a fire alarm, and fell, crushing the back of his skull. It afterwards developed that the wire was being worked with, causing a jalse alarm. ; ' Mai. Guthrie, of Durham, baa filed an exception to the ruling of Judge Simon ton making P. 8. Hill permanent receiver of the Blackwell Tobacco Co. The order of Judge Simonton making Mr. Hill permanent receiver was given April 27 ' and as. A bill passed the house of representa tives Monday authorizing the establish ment on the coast of North Carolina of a station to investigate problems con nected with marine fisheries interests of the middlo and south Atlantic states, at a cost not to exceed 112,500. Eden ton Courier: x The catch of shad and herring in the waters tributary to Edenton within the past two weeks is ; enormous. Many or the fish that are now being oaught are being hauled out ; on the farms for manure owing to the ex treme low prices at home and abroad. B. H. Morse, the swindler who forged the seal of the State of North Carolina, claiming incorporation under the law of North Carolina of the- "Klondyke In-investment company," headquarters at Wilmington, was convicted at Kansas' City, Mo., federal court of using the mails for fraudulent purposes and sentenced to threry ears' imprisonment. . ; Five of the Virginia's Crew Rescued Philadelphia, May 8. A dispatch to this city from New Orleans reports. the arrival there of the steamer iEl Paso from New York with the second oil! cer and four of the crew of the steamer Vir ginia, which went to pieces on Diamond fchoals, Virginia, several days ao. The dispatch does not indicate where the men were rescued,. but says they were taken from a leaking boatv ' f- j .Cll White's Hack Sdatica, Rheurjiaf A i"e botilo for 2 T Liniment. It c and j. r:. ii.c a.
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