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Vol. m-No. 59.
KINSTON, N. 0., TflUBS DAY, JUNE 14, 1900.
Price Two Cents.
GENERAL HEWS,
Matters of Interest Condensed Into
Brief-Paragraphs, v
It is said Eepublican leaders are, wor
ried over the selection of a running, mate
for McKinley.
The McLean men controlled the Ohio
Democratic convention. Everything in
the convention was for Bryan.
. Out of a total of seventy-five plague
cases since the outbreak of the disease at
Cairo thirty-four of them have resulted
latany.
At Tallahassee, Ala., Thursday, while
nine men in a basket cable line suspended
85 feet above the Talapoosa river at that
point were crossing the river, one of the
cables broke and the men fell into the
river below. One was killed and two are
'reported enable to live. - All the others
received injuries. . ; C . f
Three men were killed, eight so badly
burned or maimed that , they are in the
are in me
hospital, and three othef men are missing
as the result of a Are m thecooperage
establishment of Paul Weldmann, at
"rr tiwvcum owu u j 7
vvimamsDurg, isroosiyn, Auesaay nignii.
The property loss is variously estimated
at from $75,000 to f 250,000.
: At Frankfort, Ky., Tuesday, an attempt
was made to kill William Smoota police
man at the governor's mansion, omoot
.was coming in a side gate, when an un
known man, who had secreted nimseii in
the yard, fired at him, the ball passing
through bis clothing. The police think
the man was a burglar. - Gov. Beckham
has not yet moved into the mansion.
- Terry McGovern fully lived up to his
'title of featherweight champion at the
Seaside Athletic club at New York Tues
day night by knocking out Tommy
White, the clever Chicago boxer, in three
rounds. The little champion never
bowed better form. The third round
was a. succession of knock downs for
White. No sooner would he regain his
feet than he would go down again and
after going down for the seventh time he
was so far gone thatltwas impossible for
him to get up again, although he made
a game effort. The boys were to have
fnncht twentr.fi ve rounds at 128 sounds 1
at the ring side. v ; ,
The court of claims has passed upon the
suit of Admiral W . T. Sampson 'and
others under bis command at Santiago
for prize money on account of the de
'' struction of the Spanish fleet. There is
interesting reading in the decision for
those who like to fight over the Sampson
Schley controversy, because the court, in
its findings of tacts, formally declares
- that Admiral Sampson was the com
mander-in-chief, and that Commodore
Schley was the commanding officer of
, a division or squadron thereof, on duty
under the, orders of Admiral Sampson.
The to tar amount of bounty money al
lowed is 1G6,700, of which amount
Rear Admiral Sampson will ' receive
f 8.335 and Admiral Schley about $3,000.
The Beat As For Uea to Harry.
Edward Bok. writing In The Ladles'
Home Journal on MA : Boy For a Hus
band." contends that "no young man
' under 23 years of age Is In any sense
competent to take unto himself a wife.
Before that age be is simply a boy who
has absolutely nothing which be can
' offer to a girl as a safe fundation for
life happiness. lie is unformed in his
character, unsettled in his ideas, ab
solutely ignorant of the first essentials
of what consideration or love for a
woman means. lie doesn't know him,
self, let alotve knowing a woman. He
Is full of fancies, and It is. his boyish
nature ,tofllt from .one fancy to an
other. ' ' I ' .-
' "He is incapable of the affection up
on which lore Is based, because be has
not lived, long enough to know what
the feeling or even the word means.
lie is full of theories, each one of
which, when he comes to put It Into
practice, will fall He is a boy pure
and simple., passing through that try
ing period through whlcn every boy
must pass before be becomes a man.
But that period is not the marrying
time. For as his opinions of life are
to change, so nre his fancies of the
girl he esteems as the only girl in the
world to make him happy. The man
of 30 rarely weds the girl whom he
fancied when be was 20."
Question Answered.
Ye, August Flower still ha thelargeet
ale of any medicine in thecmhiod world.
Your mothers and grandmothers never
thought of using anything else for Indi
cation or llmoupnes. Doetnr were
parr. find thev seldom beard r.f Arpcn-
rii itis. Nervous Prostration, of Heart
failon. tc. They xal ugtJ6t Flower
toeiran out tie fvstm and pton fer
mentation of nndo-ted food, mru'ate
tie action of the liver, ftimc'ate the
1 TTor,3 find orzinic action of the Fjn-t-m.
nr. that is nil ).? took wIipq In 1
irr dr.Il r.r.J ad with I.eaJ.K hc anil
C. T ;,'!.. . Vo l r-'r pec I a f.w do.H-S
of ;:- n' Au.--.-t I ) w-( r, n Y.'.'i form,
ti;. A'Toa :';. ) X'..- r in notl.irj
i. r. t; ViSiU r irith yon. For f.w
THE SITUATION IN CHINA
Grows More Threatening Daily,
British Marines Attacked by
Boxers. Chancellor of Japanese
Embassy Murdered in Streets of
Pekin.
London, June 13, 4:42 a. m. Sixteen
British marines reconnoiteringin advance
of the international column marching to
Pekin, fought and chased 2,000 Boxers
Monday, killing 20 or 30. A correspon
dent accompanying the column, in a dis
patch dated Tien Tein, June 12, via
Shanghai, says:
While the working parties, accompa
niea by a patrol oi it British marines
commanded by Mai. Johnson, were re
pairing the lines Monday afternoon, eight
miles beyond JUofa, they encountered
small parties of Boxers who were de
stroying the line. The Boxers moved
away from the advanced marines and
apparently dispersed into the country,
leaving the rails moved and the sleepers
burning." .
The marines, when two miles in ad
vance of the train, near Lansr Famr. sud
I lonlv Ttetwivtul Ttnvora ihrnnmlnir frftm
ua:
that they numbered 2,000, some of them
5eing mounted and they were trying to
get between the marines and the train
Mo8t ofthem were armed with spears and
8vvor(j8, , a few had firearms, which thev
bandied awkwardly,
The marines retreated, keeping up
running fight for over a mile, and, killing
between 20 and 30 Boxers, r
The Boxers pursued the , British for
some distance. Then : seeing more ma
rines from the train coming to then-
assistance, Mai. Johnson's 16 men baited
and poured a heavy continuous fire into
the crowd, driving them across the front
of the reinforcing bluejackets, who pun
ished the Boxers severely with Maxims.
The Jioxers fled and the .Europeans.
following up their success, cleared, out
the villages. , The total loss of the Box
ers is estimated at 40 killed and wounded.
Seven of the wounded were, attended by
British surgeons. The British loss was
nothing. - v - ; - .
.. Unless their loss caused the Bexers to
lose heart, the international column will
have much trouble before it ; reaches
Pekin. The railway is so much damaged
that the column covered only 84 miles
Sunday and Monday
Evidence of Gen. Nieh's
o Derations
were found .in headless - bodies. The
whole country presents a desolate aspect,
entire villages naving been deserted.
The expedition numbers 3,044, as fol
lows: British 915, German 250. Russian
300, French 128, Americans 105. Japan
25, Italians 50 and Austrians 25." f
Chancellor of Japanese Legation
Murdered.
London, Jjine 13, 5:20 a: m. The
Times, in an extra edition, puplishes the
following dispatch from Pekin, dated
June 12, 2 p. in.: '.. ;
The chancellor of the Japanese legation.
Sugiyama Akira, while proceeding alone
and unprotected on : official duty, was
brutally murdered by soldiers of Tung
Fuh Slang, the favorite body guard of
the empress, at Manigale (?) railroad
station yesterday.
The foreign reinforcements are daily
expected. The present isolated position
of Pekin, the destruction of foreign prop
erty in the country and the insecurity of
life are directly attributable to the
treachery of the Chinese government.
London, June 13. The correspondents
at Tien Tein, Shanghai and other treaty
ports throw sidelights on the situation.
According to one dispatcn from Tien
Tsin it is understood there that the for
eign ministers will insist, as soon as fresh
bayonets arrive at Pekin, upon the re
moval of the anti-foreign advisers of I the
empress dowager and upon the substitu
tion for them of councillors fnendly to
western civilization. -
The English at Shanghai are afraid
that Great Britain has been deceived and
that the whole business will have to be
gone tnrough again.-' Kussia a aims,
they argue, are not understood, and
RuH8ia and France are apparently not
working in the same spirit as the other
powers, rive tnousand Kuosians are
ready to landat Takn. . : 1
BOTHA UNDEFEATED.
But the British Gain Ground. All
Quiet at Pretoria and Johannes
bur.
London, June 13. After a week's
silence Lord Roberts has been heard
from, his line of communications having
been practically restored by means of a
complete victorygainedbyGens.Methuen
and Kitchener over Gen. Dewet at the
Rhenoster river, yesterday, June 12th.
The Boer camp was captured and the
Burghers, it is added, were scattered in
all directions.
Lord Rolert, on leirg notiSed of the
cutting of In line of commamcauonn,
ent GtMi. Kitchener in ail hast to join
Gen. Methuen. Jane 11 tb Lord KolrU
UtJirked (reD. Hotha, who wn in strong
forcv, fifteen milt poufheast of Pretoria.
After etrenuous oi-poition, the Uritis-h
forces gained conMdernMe ground, but
Gfn. Ikitlia, when Iord Ilo!rta left the
lili. was still un.ltfented.
All is quiet at Pre toria and Johance-
Lurg; aii.l lxnl IluU-rts pajs the gorem
nent rci Lave no ar-ri l.enion a! out
tLe fecurity of t! p prn:r in South Africa.
a it will tot tak lor to remedy ti e
rr( tr-J r- r-ir t) Th 'road. 1
HON. J. Q. JACKSON DEAD.
He Died Suddenly at Raleigh This
Morning at 6 o'clock.
Kinston was shocked this morning to
learn that Mr. J. Q. Jackson had died in
Raleigh early, this morning. .No one here
knew of his being sick. We are unable
to learn the cause ot II r, Jackson's death
He went to BaleighLMonday to attend
JL
the special session of the legislature, and
was then in very good health. -Mr.
Jackson was nearly 68 years old.
He leaves a wife and many warm friends
to mourn his 'demise. , , t
The remains - will be brought from
Raleigh this afternoon, and remain in
state at his late residence. ' Funeral
services will be held in the M. E. church
tomorrow afternoon at 4:45 o'clock by
Rev. D. H. Tattle, and the remains buried
in the cemetery after the funeral service.
Mr. Jackson was a man of the highest
character in whom all who knew him
had the utmost confidence. He was at
his post of duty when death struck him
down. . He was one of the senators from
this district.
The Free Pbebs has lost one of its
personal friends, and the county one of
its best citizens. . , , , , ..
We extract a brief clutch of
the life' of
Mr. Jackson, which
was printed Sept,
2, leuu, in the free press.
J. Q. JACKSON.
John Quincy Jackson was born in Le
noir county, in the old Tower Hill house,
which the Tulls now own, October 12
1832. He received his first education at
Airy Grove academy and graduated from
Trinity Uollege in 1801. y
From tne age of la years be resided in
Greene county until he enlisted, in the
spring of 1862, as a private in the 61st
regiment, North Carolina troops Ho
was elected second lieutenantof company
E, when it was first organized, and soon
afterwards was promoted to first lieuten
ant, in which rank he was in actual com
mand of the company during nearly the
whole of his service. He was in battle
at Wiiliamston, N. C, and near Kinston,
in December, 1862, be was captured by
the enemy, bnt paroled a day later and
exchanged in a month. At the seige of
Charleston he was among the forces on
duty, and lay under fire a long time: and
then going into Virginia, shared in the
closing part of the battle of Bermuda
Hundred, fought at Gaines' Mill against
Grant s army, and again in the battle be
fore Petersburg, where be was wounded in
thearm, July 30, 1864. This wound kept
him out ot service about seven weeks and
after his return to the ranks, be served
north of the James until captured at
Fort Harrison, in September, 1864.
After this misfortune he experienced the
miseries of a prisoner of war at the Old
Capitol and Fort Delaware until June,
1805.' Then returning to North Carolina,
he farmed in Greene county and studied
law and was admitted to the bar in
1868. .
Since 1878 be has been a resident of
Kinston. He formed a partnership with
the late F. B. Loftin, which relation con
tinued for several years. Mr. Loftin re
moving to Goldsboro, N. C, the partner
ship was dissolved, and Mr. Jackson en
tered into a partnership with the late
D. E. Periy, Esq., which continued until
Mr. Terry's death, which took place
April 3, 1SU7. -
In 1898 Mr. Jackson was nominated
tor tne otate senate irom tne 8th sena
torial district without his knowledge.
He accepted with great reluctance, and
was triumphantly elected along with
his running mate, Hon. Jas. A. Bryan,
of Newbern.
Mr. Jackson is a good civil lawyer, and
a very good advocate. He is especially
sought in all matters of trust and where
big interests are inrolved, because of his
great wisdom, strict integrity, and so
briety of Judgment.
lie is held in high esteem by all classes
of our people as a good and honest man
acd lawyer.
Mr. Jackson is a member of the Metho
dist church, and is a Mason. ,
Tre Fbee Trth in rrernred to do all
kinils of artietic or plain job printing,
and on short notice generally. Always in
stock a ci'-e a,kortipent of stationerr.
on per?
rs. rnve1orei. card board, etc. The
Flirts, is turr.irg out more job
it
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. it
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print:r7 tl.in ever UTore.aoJ rood work
that f,v,s satisfaction, en 1 at low,
rri. '
THE LEGISLATURE.
The Work is Finished. A Stormy
Session in the House
Raleigh, June 14. This will be the last
day of the special session of the legisla
ture,
. It was agreed in caucus last night that
adjournment would be taken not later
than midnight tonight.
The purpose for which the members
came here has been accomplished, -The
constitutional amendment and the elec
tion law have been amended and ratified
and some other important general lesris
latlon Has been passed
Yesterday was a day of conservatism
and quick work in the senate, but of ex
citement and sensation in tne house,
Three sessions of both bodies were held
one at 10 o'clock, one at 4:30 and one
at 10 last night. At the first session the
election law was considered. It took the
senate just six minutes to pass it on its
three several readings. In" the house
there was a lengthy and very sensational
debate and three hours were consumed
in passing the bill on its third reading,
At tne afternoon session the constitu
tional amendment was passed, and then.
in the house, the flood gates of general
legislation were opened and many bills
1 rushed through, and many more intro
duced and placed on the calendar.
There was a sensational debate in the
house on the election law between John
son (Pop.) and Giles (Rep.) on the one
side and Justice, Curtis and Craig on the
other. . Johnson in the course of the
debate said:
"l am not nere to deiend tne negro
race, i believe in ail candor that they
ought never to have been given the right I association, players to be entirely am
to vote. Being ignorant and just freed I ateurs and mainly collesre students.
from bondage, they were unfit to exercise
the right of suffrage. I believe also that
the white man has inherited the qualifi
cations that make him fit for, and capa
ble of, self-rule. Many of those who
shouldered their muskets and fought in
the late war for home and country-
many of the best people today in . North
Carolina- can not read and write. They
have ruled and they will rule under all
circumstances, and I hope to see the day
wnen tne Anglo-Saxon race will be su
preme over all the earth."
Isaac Smith, Craven county's well-
known colored representative, then
wanted to ask Johnson a question.
"Do you represent the idea of the Pop
ulist party when you say the negro has
no right to vote?" demanded the colored
Republican of the white Populist.
"I paid he ought not to have been given
that right at the time it was given," re
plied jonnson. .
"But that is not what I asked you,"
persisted Smith. . "In expressing that
sentiment do you speak as an individual
or do you express the sentiment of your
party?"
"I speak as a representative of the
white people of North Carolina," loftily
replied Johnson. '
"No you don't; no you don't." broke in
8mith. "These, are the white folks"
pointing to the Democratic side.
The statement was srreeted with a
thunder of applause and hand-clapping
tuuii josieu pevertu ntxuuua. -
"I had another question," continued
Smith, "that I wanted to ask the gentle
man, but he evaded answering the
flrst.one and hell evade this. So I won't
ask it." v-v.
"What is the hishest crime in the cata
logue of crimes? " he asked, and answered
by saying: "it is Ingratitude'
" The gentleman from Sampson holds a
certificate and warms bis seat now by
votes from my .race. His party if he
haa any party has m tne senate today
a representative that is there by negro
votes. I refer to Senator Butler, whom
we put there in connection with your
httle put. '
Two of the . nine votes against the
amendment were cast by Democrat.
three by negroes and four by white Re-
nnblicans. The two Democrats were Mr.
Rhinebardt, of Lincoln, and Mr. McNeill,
of Brunswick.
Among the bills introduced in the sen
ate was one introduced by Senator Bryan
to Incorporate the Hank of L.ati range. ;
Hired tb Preaa Ceaaor.
The average uewgpuper man is usu
ally nlom nn quick wittcd as the next
one. -th'.n was pretty well Illustrated
when Xhf Chicago Record was placing
Its foreign correspondents. George Ade
was sent abroad by Victor I. Lawson
for that purpose. .de did all right
until . he got into Scrvla. There he
found all the newspaper men In Jail
for political offenses. lie fvas In a
quandary, so he cabled to Mr. Lawson:
Newspaper men all In JalL Press
censor very strict,"
Lawson promptly cabled back:
"Make press censor correspondent'
And Ade did It. Inland rrinter.
A Qaartr of Mlllloa.
To the Individual worth 230,000 one
little 23 ctnt piece is a quarter of a mil
lion. If yoa do not ee the point Im
mediately, think It over It's there.
Chicago News.
Only once In thefr history as a na
tion have tie Spanish achieved a naval
victory. Tliat was at the battle of
LT3nto, 13 171. when, with tl:e all
Vcr.etJar.ii cu 1 Genoese, ttcy anni
STATE MEWS.
Interesting North Carolina Items
In Condensed Form.
John Norcott, a 16 year-old negro, was
drowned at Greenville Wednesday.
Nathan Twigg, aged aboutsixty years,
a' prominent farmer reeidimr near Old
Town, Alleghany county, was dragged
to death in a runaway Tuesday.
The state charters the Greenville Knit
ting Mills at Greenville, capital $10,000:
authorized to increase to $100,000; E.
A. Moye, L. J. Moore, and others stock
holders. The insurance commissioner has issued
a list of companies authorized to do busi
ness in North Carolina. There are twenty
eight life, eighty-five fire and fire and
marine; thirteen accident and surety, and
twenty-lour fraternal orders. .
A special from Goldsboro, June 13,
says: Zeb Lancaster, a young white
man, was fatally wounded this, evening
by a negro named Wesley VV hite. Mr.
Lancaster is a constable of Stony Creek
township and was attempting to arrest
White for violating the law: The bullet
entered his abdomen.
A State baseball league was formed at
Raleigh Tuesday, Charlottejand States
ville were repreentedby Dr. Joel Whita
ker, Wilmington by E. 8, Battle, Durham
by John Carr, F. G, Battle and A. Morris:
Tarboro by Henry Bryan and Stamps
Howard; Raleigh by R. C Rivers and ,F.
vv . Jtiabei. it is decided to form
a state
At Wilmington Tuesday night somo
one entered the residence of Samuel Mer
rick, colored, on Saturday, nieht and
stole $1,600, which hehad in an iron safe.
The safe was of the old fashion, locked
with a key, and the bura-lar found the
key and opened the safe to get the money.
Merrick, in explaining how it happened
that he had such a large sum of money
in hit! house, says that when bank failures
were common throughout the country
a few years ago, be lost $800 in one of
them, and he made up his mind that in
future be would be his own banker.
REVISED AMENDMENT.
It
is Expressly Stated That All
Must Stand or Fall Together.
Both houses of the leirislature Wednes
day passed the constitutional , amend
ment as revised and mended by the con
stitutional amendment committee and
approved by the Democratic caucus. It
is now fixed final)? as it will be voted
upon. Very few cbamrct .were made.
The chief changes are:
1. sections 4 and 5 are made one.
2. The educational and . srrandfather
clause are made one and it is expressly
declared that the whole scheme ot suffrage
is indivisible. -
3. Poll tax must be paid in May instead
of March as in tht amendment as origi
nally adopted. i '
4. This provision in the original
amendment is omitted in the amendment
now submitted:
Poll taxes shall be a lien only on as
sessed property, and no process shall
issue to enforce the collection of the same
fTfont no-ainat. autiaaaaA nrnnorv " '
o. A majority of the votes cast will be
. . . .
sufficient to adopt the amendment hot
a majority of "qualified'' voters.
6. It is provided and made perfectly
plain that a man who registers under the
grandfather clause Bhall forever have the
right to vote.
. A. te N. O. R. R.
Pabpengkr DEP4RTMEXT,
Newbern, N. C, May 31, 1900.
RATES TO MOKEBEAD.
The following special rates of fare (sea.
son 1900) from stations named to More-
bead City and return. In effect Jnne 1.
1900:
. SEASON
HATRED AT,
NIOHT.
$2.00
1.80 .
1.60'
1.40 ,
1.30
. 1.00
.90
.40
STATIONS. TICKET.
Goldsboro..........$4.00 '
LaG range .......... 3.50
Kinston 3.00
Dover... 2.75
Core Creek. 2.70
Newbern M 2.00
Riverdale ............... L75
Newport .60
TEACHERS TICKETS.
Special rates of fare round trip tickets
(including one membership coupon of
$2) to the meeting of the North Carolina
Teacher's Assembly at Morehead City. In
effect June 12, 1900, to June 17, 1900.
Tickets to be on sale from June 9th to
June 17th and good to return with final
limit to July 25, 1900:
Goldsboro $4.40 Core Creek $4.00
LaG range 4.25 Newbern .. .1.25
Kimton 4.15 Riverdale...... 3.10
Dover..-. 4.00 Newport. 2.43
RATES TO SEVEN f PEIXUS.
Summer excursion tickets (oeason
1900) from A. N. C. stations round
trip tickets will l sold to LaUrange to
parties vuuting th aUote Springs at the
following rate of fare for the round trip:
lroldtoro....f .0 iNcwliern ?J.2.
Kmston. .00 Riverdale ....... 2.73
Dover.... ..... 1.05 Newport 3.45
CorCreek 1.50 Mort-Vad City 3.90
Tickets on nale Jan lt. Tickets good
to return to Octolr 31, IJmn).
S. L Dill, G. V. A.
hilated tbe Turkish fee L