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DAI L V 1L klwo PUBLISHED EVERY BMEINO EXCEPT SUN PHV. VoLUl-No; 70. ! KINSTON, N. O.. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 27. 1800. Price Two Cents. . . , . t . -, V . ii ; 1 l .,, ., , .i i 1 -' " '. . -t ii 1 t 1 '."i r- . . 11 RADICAL THREATS. They Want Federal Marshals ana , Troops at the Polls: Chairman Qlmmons Says Their Talk Is Bluff And Bluster and Urges Regis trars to Do Their Duty. Hon. F. M. Simmons, chairman of the Democratic State executive committee, " wm interviewed Monday in regard to the threats recently made by Dent, Gov. Reynolds and Senator Franks, the two ' Republican candidates for corporation commissioners, to hare United States v denntv marshals at the polls, and to ar rest registrars who refuse to register such persons as tneir party may wisn w have registered. Mr. Simmons said that these threats simply showed the desperation of the Bepublican leaders. It shows they see defeat staring them in the face. It has been a custom of that party in the south whenever they see themselves about to be defeated, to turn to the Republican national . administration for help. In 1890 Fritchard wanted federal soldiers; Mr. Holton is said to have recently inter viewed the president with reference to sending federal soldiers here this year; ' andnow they want to surround the reg istrars with United States marshals, and force them to register negro boys under 21 years of age, negro criminals, im- . ported negroes, and negroes, who having once registered in their own names, pre sent themselves to be registered under various aliases.. They would imitate here in North Carolina the late example of Kentucky's' usurping governor, who, having conspired to assassinate the man who had beaten him before, the people, - surrounded the Democratic legislature with soldiers to coerce it into recognizing his fraudulent claim to the office of gov ernor. - v! v The mere suggestion of these things by ' Bepublican candidates and newspapers is an Insult to the people of North Caro Una. It is a foolhardy attempt to bull doze' and intimidate the registrars and ' itirimft of election. There are now upon : the old registration books the names of between 15.U00 and 20,000 negroes who have no earthly right to vote, put there by fraud and perjury, and kept there by the infamous provision of the fusion elec tlon law of 1895 and 1897. The Repub lican managers have sent out secret or ders to the neirroes to press registration. and they are seeking, by these threats, to ' tflrmrim and coerce reinstrars into allow ing every nemo to register, whether mi Aliflart or not. : ,,.... : i Continuing, 'Mr. Simmons said that he had thoroughly investigated all the acts of congress bearing upon these subjects, both personally and through competent attorneys, and that as a result of- these Investigations, he had found that there was absolutely no authority of law , for what these leaders of the negroes pro pose. He said the act of congress, passed in February, 1870, authorizing toe ap pointment of supervisors of elections and the presence of deputy marshals at the polls, commonly known as the "Force Bill," had been expressly repealed by the act oi congress, passed in reunyu-jr, 1894, and that there is absolutely no : warrant in any United States statute for their appointment, or for the exercise by, them of any such authority. The deputy marshal undertaking to exercise any supervisory authority, either before anv registrar or at the polls, should be immediately arrested under the provis ions of our State laws, making it a mis demeanor to in any way interfere with or obstruct an officer in the discbarge of his duties as registrar or poll-bolder, A deputy marshal has no more right to in terfere with the registration or the. polls than a private citizen, and would be amenable to our State law, just as would anv private citizen, for his acts in that behalf would be without color of law. "In regard to the threat to arrest reg istrars," Mr. Simmons said, "no author ity can be found in any United States statute for such arrests. Sections 5507, 5509 and 5510, which are cited by cer tain Republican papers and leaders as authority for deputy marshals interfering with elections, do not give jurisdiction to any United States court.-A registrar is a judicial officer, acting under the author ity of a valid State law, and can no more be interfered with or hindered in the dis charge of his duty of passing upon the qualification of persons offering to regis ter than a judge of the superior court in the trial of a person charged with illegal registration or illegal voting,, or any other offence esjainst the laws of the State.' The right to register and vote is a right Bribing under the laws of the State, and outside of any federal juris diction, except in caw9 where it appears that the right is denithi coder the law simply twnnse of ra, color or previous condition of servitude. To pay tl.at a r r --trnr, l.t cf f.n p.; . Jir-ir- ,;:y rf-:r upon r 'At to let- i U r:, 1 en rea, i.i B,To-:rt n r-. : (f 1 IS i c '.' ,1 : : : v . j t i 1 t 1 F" ' point of the bayonet. Elections were conducted and supervised by federal of fice-holders. , All that has passed awa; -mrrerrft is honed, to return acrain. T people of North Carolina do not propose . . . . 1 a! to toieraw tne uniawrai ana revoiuwuu arv interference of federal office-holders who are seeking by every abominable and desperate effort to have registered negroes who are not entitled to vote, as was done in the election of lotto and 1898. This is a government by the peo ple, and not by the United states com missioners and deputy marshals, nor fed' eral office holders. They may run and control, and do run and control Repub lican and fusion conventions, but they will not be allowed to take charge of the elections of the people. If any registrar in discharirinir the duties of bis office is subjected to any threat or any prosecu tion by these federal marshals, let him Continue to do his sworn duty faithfully and fearlessly; they will not dare arrest him; they know they have no authority for such a course: they are simply trying to intimidate him. But, if in their des peration, they should arrest any regis trar, bond will be furnished him; counsel will be provided for him, and he can rest assured no harm can come to him. Those who thus interfere with him in the dis charge of his lawful duty under the laws of the State will be both criminally and civilly prosecuted, for the' man who swears out such a warrant; and the man who executes it will be both criminally and civilly liable criminally because it would be an unlawful . interference with the registrar in the exercise of the judicial discretion imposed on him by the statute, and civilly because such a prosecution would be without probable cause, and, therefore, malicious. ... "Let every registrar act as his duty requires; register those who are 'entitled to register under the law, and see that no man who is not entitled to register is allowed to do so. Our laws prescribe, as the state nas a right to ao, the qualm cation of voters. Jt requires a certain age; it requires a certain residence: it re quires that the party offering to register shall be a bona nde resident of the State, ounty and precinct, in these respects, our election law Is not different from the law in every other state in the Union, and from what has always been the law here. A boy who is not 21 years of age is not entitled to register simply because ne is a negro; a man wno nas committed an infamous crime is not entitled to reg ister simply because he is a negro; a resi dent of Virginia or South Carolina, who is temporarily sojourning here, is not entitled to register simply because he is a negro; nor is a man entitled to register more than nice simply because he is a negro, and wants to vote the Republican uciiet. . "These are the people the -Republican candidates and leaders wish to force on the registration books. It is to get these negro boys and criminals upon the regis tration books that these desperate men bluster, and threaten to invoke the ma chinery of the United States courts, and the presence of deputy marshals at the polls: Their threats are mere wind and fury. There is no authority in the United States law to enforce, them. They need frighten no one; it is in line with Butler's threat to whip white men out of the State, and of Blackburn's threat to as sassinate white men who are not willing to submit to tne negro rule oi tne Repub lican party.' , ' Prootloal Education at the A. 6c 11. College;" - W have received a little hand-book of the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, of Raleigh, a. C, and we are glad to see that this institution is devoting itself zealously to technical edu cation and manual training; . Onr State needs men well educated Ja all lines of engineering, especially, mechanical and electrical engineering, and also in cotton manufacturing. Jr or the development of our great natural resources, we need also thousands of skilled workmen expert carpenters, wood-turners, blacksmiths, machinists, mill-workers, boiler-tenders. electricians and dynamo tenders. The A. M. College trains lads for such work. and if they possess talent, educates them for all technical professions. t The college last year enrolled 802 stu dents, of whom many paid their own ex penses by labor at odd times. Students wno do not labor may attend the college at a total expense, includingclothing and books, in fact everything, of about $140. This can be reduced one-half by securing a free scholarship and obtaining work at the college. Entrance examinations will be beid in the county court house Saturday, July '28, at 10 a. m., in the ofSce of the county superintendent of public instruction. Any boy may obtain a copy of the little hand book, with full information about the college and the examination, bv apply- ir trt President George T. Vioton, l. s C. A Co i Co: Z L'e;::!3s. r: v..:..ri c-'e it ItST-r . f .: r.-:r." '? ' c vn ; . - n drv. n p it. in t I l i" n t r " GEHEML'tfcS. Blatters of Interest Condensed Into Brief Paragraphs. Georgia delegates to Kansas City are said to favor 1. B. Hill for vice-president, The carpet mill of Masland A Sons, in Philadelphia, was burned Monday. Loss 75,000 to f 100,000. Of the fire battleships to be built, three will have superimposed turrets and two are to be of tue old style, i About half the American troops in Cuba are to be withdrawn and brought home to enable sending more troops to the jruiiippuiea. . The governor of Bombay. India, reports that there were 10,277 deaths from the cholera out of 15,479 cases during the week enaea June 10. Another effort will shortly be made to obtain a re-bearing of the famous Carter case. The plan is to try to bring him be fore a civil court on a writ of habeas cor pus and then' have the case tried upon its merits. ; . i : AmosCummings tells the Washington Post: "I am going to Kansas City to see Bryan nominated, and I am going to see mm eiectea lust as surf as l live to see election day' Mr. Cnmmings favors Hill ior vice-president; , Jack Thomas! a n'eirro. who attempted an assault on Mrs. Leene, a widow living in Suwanee county, Fla., Friday night, was taken from the sheriff by a mob Mon day, nangea to a tree and riddled with bullets. Jle made a full confession. For the first time In his pugilistic career Tom Sharkey went down to decisive de feat Monday night in the historic arena ni tne seaside Athletic. club, Coney Island, and big Gus Ruhlin, the Ohio pugilist. won a clean knock-out after 15 rounds of fighting that made a memorable battle Edward and Minnie Clegg, at Mounds- ville, W. Oa., faith curists, had a child that became sick, and refused to have a physician ordered there by the Humane society. The child died. Warrants have been secured charging the child's parents with murder, and they were locked up. The society is determined that while peo ple who are grown may select 4heir own means of healing, children must not be allowed to die unattended. Five) dollar silver certificates of the new design made their first appearance Mon day in Washington and took the place of the old fives in all treasury payments from the cash room. The feature of the new note is a large typical Indian head in the center, with a blue seal, and a large iat.tar V with hn nmmA - . blue, running in a curved line across it. As an artistic production this note is re garded as equal to any ever issued by the government. , The weather bureau's weekly summary of crop conditions says that, except in Texas and Oklahoma, cotton has suffered very unfavorable weather conditions and the crop is generally very grassy, rust and lice being extensively reported in the central and eastern portions of the cot ton belt. Too rapid growtb is reported from the central portions of the belt. while growth has been checked by low temperatures in North Carolina.' Some fields in bottom lands In Mississippi and Tennessee have been abandoned. The week has been very favorable to tobacco, except oVer portlc ns of western Kentucky and Tennessee, waere it has suffered from heavy rains. ' , INSTITUTE ITEMS. . June 25, 1900. Miss Lera Bryan is visiting in Kinston. Mrs. J. J. Bryan left - Sunday for Jones county.. Miss Nettie Hardie returned Sunday from a visit to Trenton. Miss Mabel Kennedy, of LaGrange. is visiting Miss Maude Dawson. Miss Mollis Hardy returned Sunday from a Tisit at and near Kinston. Mr. Tom M. Kennedy, of Waycross. Ga.. came last week to' spend the summer. Mr. J. E. Turnage returned Saturday rom a three weeks' visit to Richmond. -, Mr. W. J. Brothers opened an ice house here last week. It is a great convenience to our little town. : MLss Bertha Wright, of Washinjrton. N. C., came Thursday to visit Misslola Patrick and left Sunday for Hookerton. Mr. and Mrs. D. II. Dixon, Mrs. John Taylor and daughter, . Miss Julia, of Hookerton, spent Sunday-at Mrs.N. E. Patrick's. Question Answered. Tes, Anrspt Flower etHl haa the largest sale of any medicine in the civilized world. Tonr mothers and grandmothers never thohtof uir,TaTtb.iEg elw for Indi- ,oa or miiosrnesa. Doctors "were 'arr, end they seldom beard of Ar-pen- . -rvc-" lTOstrat:rn. Of lienrt t.. - . if. 1. c 1 K: -. t I low IT er-p f r- t j i ' r t t :. v i-st, rr p. 3 r . i.'f ' ' -Vi I 'J i.r-:r; fr ' f. 1.03 Cf t. 3 r. j FTS- f di ALLIES IN TIEN TSIN. Internationals Enter the City With Few Casualties. . Chefoo, Tuesday, June 26. Rear Admi ral Kempff reports, by a, Japanese tor pedo boat, that the combined forces en tered ' Tien Tsin on Saturday, June 23, sustaining small loss. - They started on Sunday to relieve the force which left lien Tsin June lOtn. and which is believed to be surrounded near Pekin. ( According to Japanese reports, Admiral Seymour has been captured, and the min isters have left Pekin, guarded by Chinese soldiers. Their whereabouts are now unknown... ' London June 26, 8:35 a. m. The Brit ish cruiser Terrible has arrived at Chefoo from Taku, with the following news: "Eight hundred Sikhs and 200 Welsh Fusiliers have effected a junction with the American, German and Russian forces, which had been cut off by the Chinese about nine miles from Tien Tsin It was proposed to deliver an assault upon the Chinese forces at ; Tien Tsin last night (Sunday night)." It is not clear what forces united. It would seem that one relieving force, cut off, had been relieved by another; At any rate, it is apparently certain that the allies arrived in sufficient numbers at Hen Tsin Sunday to attack the besieging Chinese. "Foreign official opinion here," says a dispatch from Shanghai to The Express, dated yesterday, "inclines to believe that the worst has happened to the legations at Pekin; and to Admiral Seymour as well. Even if the legations were safe on June 1 9, there is no guarantee that they are safe now. The situation grows more and more gloomy. The entire absence of reliable news from the capital seems to justify the worst construction which can be put upon it. . "Bad news comes from Nan King, where the unrest is said to be growing hourly." , The allies are making extensive ' prepa rations. Russia has ordered put 50.000 men, Japan win send 15,000 more in a few days, and England is preparing to send a large force to China. u A Danger of Dissention Among Che Fob. J una 2rt. The officers of the British first-class cruiser Terrible assert that discord exists between the Russians and Anglo-Americans, and say they be lieve tne Russians are planning to break the concert and take possession of Pekin Independently. They assert that Vice Ad miral Seymour's command lacked unison, the foreigners sulking because they were under British leadership. They bitterly denounce tne Russians conduct as un civilized and barbarous, and charge that the slaughter of peaceful Chinamen at Taku has aroused the otherwise passive natives against the foreigners. Many persons familiar with theUbinsse character think tbe foreign ministers and Vice Admiral Seymour are held as hostage for good terms of settlement. They also believe tbe whole Uhinese army is joining In tbe movement, under the leadership of Tung Fu Hsiang, who crushed the Mo hammedan' rebellion. Recently be was nominally degraded for the purpose of or ganizing an anti-foreign uprising quietly. Chaffee to Command Amerioana Washington. June 23. The president has assigned . Gen. Adna R. Chaffee to the command of the military forces operating in China; Gen. Chaffee was at the war department today receiving instructions, and will leave for San Francisco in time to sail July 1st with tbe Sixth cavalry. This detachment will sail on the Grant, which has been ordered to touch at Nag asaki for further orders. r: i Horrible Slaughter. . London. Juns 20. Horrible newscomes from Tien Tsin ana m The bodies oi massacrea men ana wo men of all European countries, and also American and Japanese, litter the streets of tbe city. The foreign banks are looted and destroyed. . Tien Tsin surrendered to the allied troops Sunday.' -r- BASEBALL. TCEBDAT. . . Pittsburg 8, Chicago 6. Boston 10, Philadelphia 0. New York 6; Brooklyn 8. Bt. Louis 5. Cincinnati 7. STANDING Or THK GLOBS. Won. . LoM. Per O Erookljn 85 17 Philadelphia 32 21 Boston..... 20 25 Pittsburg... .........20 "27 673 .604 .509 .490 .453 .451 .429 .380 Chicago .2i 29 Cincinnati..-....- .....23 27 Ft. Louis...... .21 " 28 New York. 19 ,- 31 ctate League Games.' Tarboro was epraia defeated by Rale: zh Tu" !iy. 5 to 3. At tie clow of the 9th nr.'- j tie eore wp. 3 to 3. Neither - , e " -r lr ,:n t L.l Rale "-a made two n r 1 ." i i - r . STATE HEWS. Interesting- North Carolina Items In Condensed Form. From Ridgeway 1,000 crates of culti vated blackberries are now being ship ped daily The crop is found profitable, much more so than grapes. . Salisbury Sun: A well-to-do farmer oi China Grove township tells us that some of his wheat is sprouting in the shock. . It is caused by the rain the past week. Senator Butler announces that Con gressman Kelley, of South Dakota, and "Cyclone" Davis, of Texas, will stump North Carolina next month in aid of the Populists. - IRL. Ol.A. 1 -1 iL. w jliio DMte una uuariereu me wavnes- il)e Wood Manufacturing company. capital $25,000, J. A. Cloninger and others stockholders, also the Smoak Manufacturing company, of ' Wilkes county, capital $25,000, which will make fruit jars and tinware. Wilmington Messenger: The relatives and many friends of Dr. and Mrs. George C. Worth, missionaries to China, are now reasonably confident that Dr. Worth and family have escaped from Kiang Ying and are now safe at Shanghai, andj in fact, are very hopeful that they will reach this country ere many weeks. On Monday morning Dr. R. H.Speight, Richard H. Battle and J. D. Bouehall, of the committee on the Vance statue, left for Providence, R. I., to inspect the completed statue, cast by the Gorham company, If satisfactory the statue will be brought to Raleigh at once and erect ed, bat will be covered uutiltheceremony of unveiling, August 22. Robert Council and J. W.Handury.two white men, engaged in a friendly sparring match at Roanoke Rapids Monday night uu bun icbuii iv uouuuij jico uvcmj, while Council is overcome Vith grief. Tbe men were said to be close friends. Sandury lived thirty minutes after he had been knocked down by Council, and before he died he stated publicly that no blame whatever could be attached to Council. Mhrltter-'Graphic: The sympathies of the entire community are extended to Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Bobbitt in the sad death of their infant' child which died Wednesday from the effect of drinking box lye. Tuesday afternoon the mother was busily engaged attending to the uiuoeuuiu uumcis muu ttwiid uci uwk warn turned the little one found" tbe vessel containing the box of lye anddrank some of the contents, i The corporation commission meets in Raleigh June 27th to make the annual assessment of railway property. The supreme court decided that it has full Sower in tnat line, dui to mane assurance oubly sure the legislature week before last enacted a law giving such authority. No one has anv idea what steps the com mission will take and how much, if at all, it will increase tbe valuation of tbe railways. mere nas as yet been no con sultation on that subject. The removal of a part; at least, of the tobacco factory of the W. 8. Kimball ft Co. branch of the American Tobacco company from Rochester, N. Y., is being made to Durham, N. C. This will neces sitate the employment at the latter point . or about 000 additional operatives, principally young women. It is reported that the American Tobacco company will manufacture all of its smoking to t bacco and cirgarettes for export at Dur ham, and will set up a bonded factory. ; Goldsboro Argus, 2Gtb: The marriage of Air. ijesne wen, eiaer son oi Air. ana Mrs. Henry Weil, and .Miss Hilda Ein stein, youngest daughter of Mrs. A. Ein stein; was quietly solemnized at noon today at the bride's home in this city, in the presence of the immediate families ' of the contracting parties, Rabbi J. L. Me.verberg officiating, according to the impressive service of the Hswbrew ritual. The popular young couple took the west bound 2 o'clock train for Asheville, and AtKav tnnnntAi'n IVAnrtJ An attempt was made Monday nhrht ' to burn the brick building- in Greenville belonging to Mr. W.H.Harrington. The fire was discovered and put .out. Paper and grass saturated with ktrosine were " found under the floor. Mr. Bright, who kept a saloon next door, was arrested and bound over to court on the charge of setting the fire. He had insurance much in excess of his stock. Mr. Blight's license to retail honor was revoked by the mayor two weeks ago npon his be-' Ing convicted of selling oa bandar, ana his bar had not since been kept open. Mr. W R. rh(don. ranhier rf the Viint National Bank of Winterset, Iowa, in a ' recent letter gires someexperience with a carpenter in-his employ, that will be of value to otber mechanics. He says: "I had a carpenter workinir'or me who was obliged to stop work for several days on account of being troubled wsta Giarrnta. I mentioned to him that I bad bven simi- lariy troubled and that ChnmbrlaJn's Cole, Cholem and Diarrbfi lr: .-!v bad enrvi cs. lie bo-: h t a t -1 : . r f i t f r r.i iv, .i f t J. i:. i. , f " ' . f i Mr - . ' s Ir; - : t r.nl gt ;s I : ' mach . r r.r an f ' Tint ; r .-T4 V. e e 7 t , fir .,t"te - r ( : r t- file e drr- Vt lrc. anl i-.' r... 1 rr.et1 .1 t ( V. -i one dr crrtjLirn.a-'. ifr3he''i.tl. s' ork." IVrsi'alvJ.lir-- . Cet Toirt- tie.. t)' J.
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