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aa"- . n. mmr maw w m THE: DAILY. FREE PRE PUBLISHED EMERY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY. Vol. m-No. 57. v kinston; n. a, Tuesday, june 12, 1000. Price Two Cents. v GENERAL HEWS. Matters of Interest Condensed Into Brief Paragraphs. Six boys were drowned while in bath ' ing near Pittsburg, Pa., last Sunday. .A mine explosion at EUb worth, Pa., Sunday, killed two men ana injured tnree Some One in ambush shot and killed John Ovess and his young son at Mobile, , Ala., Sunday: ,, '. '.-,. ' .A A terrific wind storm passed over Ohio Sunday, doing thousands of dollars' damage to fruit. , N ' Probably the cheapest money at ' the . command 01 any people is the govern raent money now in circulation in Guate mala. At the latest quotation a dollar in gold was worth $1,600 in paper. , 1 Near Sneads, Fla., Ernest Hard wick, a farmer, was beaten to death by a gang of negroes. - Two negroes, supposed to hare been in the gang, were shot to death. One of the negroes, it turned out, was innocent., A frightful accident, resulting in the loss of four lives and the injuring of twenty-six persons, occurred on the Oak land Beach Electric road, near Providence, R. I.. Sunday. Two cars met in a head -on collision on a sharp curve The car , coming toward the city telescoped the down-trip car, crashing its way through to the fifth seat. ' , . Two negroes were lynched near Biloxi, - m.. i it. j - ni : - Alias., ounuay, lor me niuruer oi tunn lina Winterstein. The negroes were tied, back to back, and swung up to the same tree. Their bodies were riddled with bullets, and after death ensued, were set on fire. ;. Sheriff Ramsey and Marshal - Moseley reached the scene alter the execu tion. They saw the members - of the . mob, but it is stated "were unable to recognize them on account of trees east- ing shadows on their faces." Sunday was one of the most eventful and bloody since the great strike on the St. Louis transit lines began more than a month ago. There were numerous en counters between strikers and other indi viduals and the constituted authorities, . resulting in three deaths and the wound ing of five or more persons, mostly strik ers. One of the latter will die. ; The sheriffs posse shot into a crowd of strik- t ere. Twenty of the strikers were arrest ed and locked up. Gen. , Stephens an- ' Bounces that he will call out the militia only as a last resort. ' s f" THE OHIO RIVER. ' J'' mm III . . . ,'(. Haar ttm Pletnreao.no FetUKt of the Pnat Are GoiyV , ; The Ohio is no longer tlWeautlful river it once was. It flowed in majei i . tie curves and sweeps through a limit less paradise. The glory of that river in the harbarlc splendor of an autumn day was beyond description. Robed from the Alleghahles to the Mississippi In her gorgeous fabric, of maple and sycamore, which everywhere drooped down to the stately flood, shimmering, v bending in her course with considerate and majestic dignity, a trip on one of the brightly painted steamboats was the event of a lifetime. There was also a dignity in the steamboats. They did not pant and rattle like a, locomotive, ' nor were they silent like an ocean , steamer. The long, huge steam cylln-1 ders, with deliberation and . a soft though pervading sound, blew huge clouds of steam Into the air. The river steamers were the Monte Carlos of the nejr world. Every one of them carried its contingent of professional gamblers, each of whom had a "bowle" in bis boot leg. These men, unmolested, trav- eled the year round between Pittsburg and New Orleans, fleecing the unwary ' and paying a percentage to the cap- - tains. . The Ohio is a noble river yet, though winding through forest denuded hills. The orchards and cornfields are at tractive. It promised once tobecome the Rhine In vineyards, but the grapes were smitten with a rust which de stroyed the crops until the attempt was abandoned. : It will never be crowned with feudal castles In ruins, but the groves will be replanted, and another rentnry end will see It once more the' "oeautiful river.," Chicago Interior. Tb Best Prrscrl;tlfla for id Fam M kottU of Gbotw'i Tiittum Ckilx 1 omc. It ktrm. V simply troa and (jaimn ia a tattaiaa ilAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 3 I i 1 0 -1 . ' m J U..i J SUITS OF ARMOR. Tlte Laat Battle In "Which They Wero Worn by Enropean Soldiers, Tbe last occasion, it is believed, on which suits of armor were worn In bat tie by European soldiers was in 1799. The incident, according to chroniclers of the Napoleonic -wars, took place ip that year, when a small French force was holding the little fort at Aqwlla in the Abruzzl against a rising of the hostile peasantry of the district. : The French were not strong enough to fight their way through the lines of their opponents, who outnumbered them 20 to 1, while, as the latter bad no guns, the Frenchmen could hold their position with confidence. There were," however, left on the space lying between the opposing forces some dozen or so guns which the beleaguered had not been able to take with them Into the fort. . An attempt was made by the besieg ers to remove these guns by means of a long rope worked by a capstan plac ed in a house a short distance away, and, though their first endeavors re sulted in failure, the French realized that ,the ultimate capture of the ord nanfc would seriously jeopardize the chances of the fort holding out. The necessity of spiking the guns was apparent, but a sortie In tbe face of the overwhelming musketry fire of the insurgents was out of the question. At this juncture an idea occurred to an artillery officer. He remembered hav ing noticed, in making an inspection of the magazine, some old plate armor, and, selecting from the best preserved 12 suits, he determined to try whether they would not afford sufficient protec tion for his men to attempt to work nn der cover of thelr'own guns. - Twelve stalwarts therefore, marched out clad in this cumbrous, unaccustom ed accouterment, taking with them the necessary tools, "and succeeded in exo cutlng their purpose under a x ball of bullets from ,the besiegers. m t THE CRIMEAN WAR. It JVaa started In Controversy Over a Door Kef. , As an instance of what great events? can follow trivial -' happenings the genesis of the Crimean war is inter estlng. ,v','v ; :- '-r : In 1851 Louis Napoleon demanded of the sultan that the Latin monks should have a key to the great door of the church at Bethlehem; that they should have a key to each of the doors of the Cave to the Nativity and the privilege of setting up there a silver star bear ing the arms of France. ' ; : V" i After a year of arduous negotiation the Turkish governments yielded, and In February, 1S33, the keys were band ed.over to tbe Latin monks, and the silver star was established In the sanc tuary of Bethlehem. '- , .Unfortunately Emperor Nicholas, as head of the Gteek church, considered this an infringement of his Tights and Immediately ordered ,150,000 men across the Turkish frontier. At the same time he demanded that the claims' of the Christian population of Turkey should be . secured by treaty with himself, but the sultan refused this, with the support of France, Aus tria and Prussia. - ' . The czar then proceeded to seize the Danubian provinces, proclaiming at the same time that he had "no Intention to commence war. , The central European countries at tempted to secure a compromise, but neither party would agree to their mediation, and in October the sultan declared war. . " . England and France joined him, and so' from such slight beginnings sprang the most merciless, bloody and fruit less struggle of the nineteenth cen tury. New York Journal. ' ' Dolaar It Well. . Half lieartedness never -wins In this world. If a thing Is not worth doing, do not do it, Is a good rule. The lat Robert Louis Stevenson was always aa" enthusiast la whatever he under took, even when at play. Ills Stepdaughter. Mrs. Isabel Strong, who was for a time his amanuensis, says that Stevenson used to maintain that no one could write a good story wbo was not a good player wbo could cot enter fully Into the ppirit of n game. lie himself threw all his ener gies Into whatever he might be rlay lag. At one time Le vas visitlnj a Louse vrLcre a small boy wr.s "rlijia? boat" cq tLe sofa. When tie laJ got tlrei. .i.i Cl r.r.t wnit for tie sL!p to conie . ',- rt. l-t pot ilown' from the s:fa ws".. 1 toward tl.e C:r. t :ctc ; - ,r v !.- wr.s. watcLI-j t!n r'r, c-' 1 c:t tt V.v.i !a t; : -.r--t .' c .'t . t ::"-Y C : - NOT MUCH OF AN 'ORATOR. A Conductor to Whom a Woman Gave the Wrong Cola. - MIs this all you've got, madam?" ask ed the conductor on a North Side car as he scrutinized the coin in the semidark- ness of the tunnel. " "What's the matter with It?" she ask cd In such frigid tones that the. con ductor looked confused. "Nothing, but" ; "Then If there Is nothing the matter with it why do you want mo to give you another ulckel ?" . ' "Nothing,' but that" be ventured again. "Woll, thou, somebody else must have given It to you. , I didn't have a penny in my purse." "Yes, but you did give it to me, mad am, and It's all right, but" - She had got red in the face. The other passengers were watching the outcome, and -one, youth who was standing craned his neck and got a good - look at the cola JJe grinned. She saw, him grin. That broke what remained of her dignified nd chilling patlenpe. ; She testily snatched the coin from the bewildered conductor. As she was tossing It into her oped purse she, too, , got a look at the coin. The car was coming out Of the tunnel, and it was lighter so that she could make out the coin. - w; ty , ' 'fWhy, . that Is n" but she was too much confused to finish the sentence. "Yes, It is " a $3 goldpiece, madam. You gave It tome."' - i "You might have said so," she mur mured meekly as she fished out a real nickel." " ;v ; v .-.',, . j,--.-; ' - "Well, you see, I ain't much, of an orator, madam," he said and resumed hjs march down the aisle, reaching for nickels. Chicago Inter Ocean. WORKING UP A SICKNESS. The Story- of a Han Who Thought He Had Appendicitis. . , : -, "A nervous wan recentlycalled 'on me," said a New Orleans physician, "and asked, 'In what part of the abdo men are the premonitory pains of ap pendicitis feltr 'On the left side; ex actly here,' I replied Indicating spot a little above the point of the hip bone. "He went out, and next afternoon I was summoned in hot haste to the St. Charles ' hotel. I found the planter writhing on his bed, his forehead bead ed with sweat and bis whole appear ance indicating Intense suffering. 'I have an attack of appendicitis,' he groaned, Wd I'm a dead man! I'll never survlxe an operation! J , ' . ! 'Where do you feel, the pain? I asked. ... , ; .'v '"--.':' 'Oh, right here, he replied, putting his fingerjon the spot I had located at the office I feel as If somebody had a knife in me thereand was turning It around." ,,, N : " Well, then, It isn't 'appendicitis at any rate,' I said cheerfully, 'because tnat is the Nvrong side.' : 1 : ' I " The wrong slder ' he exclaimed, glaring at me Indignantly." 'Why, you told me yourself Jt was on- the left , " Then I must have been abstracted,' I replied calmly. ' I should have said the right. I prescribed something that wouldn't hurt him and -learned after ward that he ate hla-dinner In the din ing room tjbe same evening. Oh, yes; he was no doubt In real pain when 1 called," said the doctor in reply to a question, "but you can make "your fin ger ache merely by concentrating your attention on it for a few moments." New Orleans Times-Democrat . Caehaaared, V The lapse of years makes quite a difference In things, and Rip Van Win kle was not to blame for feeling out of place after his loug nap. "Everything is uew," he murmured pitifully, the while a tear pushed man fully away at his eyelid. "Nothing Is like it used to be. Oh. for the sight of something familiar!"- Wandering iuto a store, he carelessly picked up a coin le paper, more to hide hi emotion than onrthlner efse. Sud denly he garV a cry of exceeding great 3oy. The same olJ Jokes!" he sobbed Joy fully. TLe same, old Jokeif Kansas City Independent. A Flattrrlaa- Indorsement. ratber (to son who has recently en tered the practice of law) Well, my y. are you making any Leadway la your i . nfcsr !oa? Son Am I? Well, I thluk I have a rlpht to rcn!-!er rnyw'.f an aJrt now. rattf r In !ccd! WT.at experience have ycu Lnl to J-'tlfy t) n con3- r ? r nA naa ca". 1 ne a 1-r t '.ay. ACTING IN CONCERT. Admirals at Taku Send Foroo of 1,500 to Peldzh One Hundred Americans Under Capt. Ca.Ua in the Expedition. - - Tien Tain, June 10. The special train that went to examine the line and recon noiter returned last nijrht. The railway w as found clear two miles beyond Yang l sun. ice engineers, with the ituards, walked a mile and a half farther. They found tbe ties and two bridges burned, and the railway torn up. They saw a few hundred persons,, apparently vil lagers, gathered ahead of them. The first repair train, with Admiral Seymour and his staff, 650 Brlttah; Capt. McCalla's 100 Americans. 40 Italians. and 23 Austrians, left this morning . at 9:30 A Hotchkiss and othei guns were mounted on a car in front of the enenne The rest Of tbe guns were mounted in the center of the train. A Second train left at 11 with 600 British, Japanese, Russian, and French troops. Repairing material and new rails were taken along. There are 31 foreign war vessels at Taku. A message from Pekin to tbe admirals asserts that the situation is hourly growing more dangerous for for eigners. All those at Pekin have taken refuge in Legation street. Tbe civilian males are under arms to fight with the regulars if necessary. The approaches to Legation, street are surrounded by howling mobs and undisciplined soldiery, with canton and bayonets. Tbe inter national guard was holding off the mob, which screamed insults and threats. SITUATION IS AWKWARD. Hard Fighting Ahead for British .. Forces in the Free State. ' London, June 11. The , Times, in its war leader this morning, says: "Tbe news from tbe seat of war today is somewhat perplexing. An awkward interruption of Lord Roberts' conimuni cations has been effected v by the Boers just north of Kroonstad. and the result for the moment is annoying for two reasons. . -"''.Sv. "In the first place we can hear nothing from Lord Roberts; and in the second, it is evident that a sood deal of hard work still remains to be done before the Orange River colony Is cleared oi the enemy." Meantime the later accounts received of Gen. Buller's operations before Laing's Nek are not so satisfactory as his tele gram of Friday night seemed to indicate. "Though the general himself, singularly enough, makes no mention whatever of the fact, thereis no doubt now that he did negotiate with Christian Botha in the earlier part oi last week lor toe sur render of the Boer force, and after a delay of three days, which he appears to have arranted them with amazing magnanim ity and on exceedingly easy terms, ; bis oner was rejecwu. . . ,7 - "In the absence of any official expla nation it is difficult to undei stand pre cisely what was the object of this pro ceeding on Uen. Bullers part. STEEL WOOL. v i. Carloaa Material TJaed aa I nb- atltnto Cor Sandpaper. i. . Steel wool Is a machine produced ma terial that Is used as a substitute for sandpaper. Tt is composed of sharp edged threads of steel, which curl up together like wool, or somewhat as the wood fibers of the familiar material known as excelsior curl up 'together, though the steel wool Is ' very much finer, tbe finest of It being not much coarser- thanrtbe coarsest of natural wools. The, steel wool Is put up In packages containing one pound each. These are something like rolls of cot ton batting., but smaller, a pound of steel wodl, loosely packed, making, rolled In paper and open at the ends, a package perhaps 13 Inches long and two or three Inches In diameter. - lia.de In "various degrees of coarse ness, steel wool Is put to a variety of uses, the finer wools for polishing wood and" metal, and the coarser for rub bing down paint and varnish. It Is often used on special parts of work, while, for example, on the flat surfaces of a door a hran would use sandpaper with a block back of It: for the mold ings he would use steel wool, which fits Into the crevices and conforms Itself to Irregular shapes. Such work can be done with Jfteel wool far more readi ly and quickly than with sandpaper. and it Is used with like advantage on Irregular' and small surfaces and on carved work. Besides the steel wool there Is a coarser material of the same kind call ed steel 6havlngs, which Is put to vari ous uses, an In taking off old paint or varnish cnJ la polishing wood before raJntiuz. Dd It Is used on bowling al leys and on fioors for smoothing and cleaning then. Sandpaper elojn la use, steel wool breaks down. The wool Is commonly used with f!oves to keep the endi from sticking Into the Encri. New York S un it C:-nC:'i Ij C- Ciy Tat ' STATE HEWS. Interesting North Carolina Items In Condensed Form. Tarboro Southerner: Joseph Pippen, .who lives near Speed, Saturday, in Law- , rence, shot Alex. Brodie, colored, in the back, inflicting an ugly but not danger ous wound. , Simon Harris, a negro murderer, was arrested twelve miles from Durham Mon day and lodged in Durham jail. About a year ago he shot another negro in a gambling quarrel. Newbern Journal: Another case of smallpox was discovered in the neigh borhood of those already reported, and the patient has been taken outside the city and placed in confinement with the other smallpox patients. The doctor reports the patients doing as well as could be expected. Greenville Reflector, June 11 : Dr.McG. Ernnl lost his barn and about forty bar rels of corn on his farm, situated one mile below Greenville, by. fire this morning. Mess. James and Wiley Brown also had about ten' barrels of corif'in the .barn which was burned. The loos in about half covered with insurance. The fire occurred near three o'clock and must have been the work of an incendiary. Tbe shaft to the memory of the lament. f& Vance will lie unveiled in Raleigh on was decided upon at a meeting of the Vance monument committee Monday afternoon. - It was first thought that the monument . would be unveiled May 20th; it was then postponed until July 4th and finally, learning that the statue could not be cast in time the date was changed to August 22nd. The supreme court at Raleigh continues to prolong its session. There is no hesi tation in saying that this delay is for some specific purpose, and the Dem ocratic members of the legislature say ,1 Ml a J ; . . jT 1 tuey wiu not aajourn sine uie so long as the court is in session. It is said .also that if the time permitted, the court would be impeached for usurpation of powers delegated to the legislature. It is claimed by Democrats that the plan of tbe Republicans and Populists is to secure injunctions to interfere with the operations of the new election law, and they will this week so complete that law as to checkmate any court from tying it up. This provision' will be promptly inserted. The committees have agreed Upon it. : ' , , ' ;.; The suDreme court has deeldtd thn cajm of M. L. Mott vs. commissioners of For syth county in favor of Mott. The ques- lion invoivea in me ense is ins antnonty of tbe general assembly tocreatecriminal courts and clothe them with powers neid Dy tne superior courts. The court holds that the act of 1899, placing For syth in the criminal circuit, is unconsti- tutional in so far as it deprives the superior court of Forsyth of a grand jury. As will be remembered Marshall Mott. wbo is solicitor of tbe superior court, secured a mandamus to compel tho county commissioners to draw a grand jury, so that he could work up more business, each criminal case bringing him more fees. The supreme court decides with Mott, and a well known judge save yesterday that the decision of the supreme court would have the effect of breaking up tbe criminal courts in the State. ' Judge Clark dissents from the opinion. LUMBER MARKET PICKINCr UP Increased Demand and Foreign Inquiry Improving. Curtailment Effeot. ' Norfolk. Va., June 10. A slight accu mulation of lumber is reported at many yards hereabout, despite the one-tbird curtailment of production inaugurated by the North Carolina Pine Lumber asso ciation, which controls all the plants in Eastern V lrginia and -North Carolina. A number of independent mills are now co operating in tbe plan. Tbe curtailment was to have lasted but thirty days, but tbe outlook is such that it w ill undoubtedly be prolonged, possibly for several months. The effect on the market, the lumbermen say, baa been steadying and beneficial. . Just now tbe market is in a somewhat uncertain condition, despite a noticeably increased demand and a greatly improved foreign inquiry, but tbe.contiauance of the curtailment plan, it is expected, will result advantageously. Tbe season's ex ports will be large. - Question Answered. Yes. August Flower still has the largest sale of any mediciDe in tbe civiiiied world. lour mothers and grandmothers never thought of using anything else for Indi gestion or Biliousness. Doctors were scarce, and they seldom heard of Appen dicitis. Nervon Prostration, of Heart. failure, etc. They 'used ogust Iiower 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 pys tea. and that is all they took when feel rr? dull and tad with Leviacbes and oti'TBcbes. Ton only ft lew dows of Green's Ac.r-et Ilower, ia liquid f.-ra, to cale rou fV' :;-! there is ncth:-r .--!! r a rrctty J .- '-? to.- -i -Z9 e r- atvr wi;h. you. Fcr va B f i,-, A to Car. X- V. . I (
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