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GENERAL HEWS.
Matters of Interest Condensed Into
Brief Paragraphs.
- Germany will get more first prises at
the Paris exposition than any other
' foreign nation.
The Democrats elected nearly every'
thing in Alabama Monday, carrying the
state by over S0,UUU majority.
Eleven persons dead and a score o
prostrations is the result o! the heat
Monday at Chicago. The maximum tern
erature was 93 degrees.
It is said positively that President
Kroger is willing and anxious to surren
der, provided a satisfactory promise wii
oe given as ultimate uesuuauuu.
Minneapolis turned out last year 14
290.000 barrels of flour, recmiring 70.
000,000 bushels of wheat, and grinding
at the rate of 2200,000 bushels a day.
In a collision between a passenger and
a freight train on the St. Louis South
western (Cotton Belt) Railroad, ; at
Aurich. Ark.;" Monday five men were
, killed and two seriously injured, v :
Adispateh from Pretoria dated Au;
trust 5th, says (ten. Kitchener has nar.
- rowed the circle around Gens. De Wet and
Bteyn by driving out the enemy from one
- of the flank positions which they bald.
Grant Hoffman, aired 23 years, a bi
cycle racer, went to sleep on the pilot of
a Baltimore and Ohio engine at Berlin
Met ann fallincr tun whnAla nnfliuwl nver
' ' his head. Death was instantaneous.
His body was taken to Berlin.
B. Thiele. fourth officer of the Ham
burg American liner Duetschland; blew
out his brains during the voyage of the
big ocean Greyhound that was finished
, when the steamer reached her pier JnHobo-
ken Monday. He went asleep on duty
and was disgraced thereby. v
At Atlantic City. N. J., Monday, an un
known man committed suicide by shoot
ing himself in the bead after be bad leaped
from a pleasure yacht into the ocean
. The suicide boarded theyacht at the Inn
As the boat was on its return trip he
; lumped from ; the bow. While efforts
were being made to rescue him he flour
ished a revolver, and alter shouting
farewell to those on the yacht, placed
the pistol to his head and blew out bis
brains. His body has not. been recover
, Capt. G. Booker Jones committed sut-
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by shooting himself through the brain.
.. The ball entered just above the right ear
and caused probably instant death.
About eighteen months ago, while
climbing over a fence. Capt. Jones accl
dentally discharged a shotgun which blew
off all the lower portion of his face. His
recovery was deemed marvelous, ' but he
suffered greatly from the injury, and was
really dying when he killed himself. He
could not have lived a week longer. In
tense pain probably drove him to suicide,
Pamlico Dispute a Queer Affair.
Baleigh, August 0. The Pamlico dis-
mita in a. nneer a IT Air. The ennntrv la a
little one. with only 1,700 voters, isola
ted and without a railroad. Some years
ago a man died, leaving property worth
some $30,000 and two little girls. His
administrator was the richest man in
the country. One of the girls married
before she was of age and sb and her
husband ask for an accounting. The ad'
minietrator said that only? a few bun
dred dollars was due; and that the dead
man owed him a bank account of f 10
000, and that there were other necessary
expenses which bad absorbed the estate.
Suit was brought, and it was the big-
gest case ever tried in the county. It was
freely said that no one would dare at
tack the character of the rich man who
was administrator, but is was attacked
and in the plainest terms bo was charged
with fraud. He was found to have per
petrated a gross fraud and the verdict
was against him for the full amount
claimed, tie appealed ana me supreme
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This suit engendered the bitterest kind
of feeling and the rich man in question
led a movement against the regular Dem
ocratic nominees. This flght aa hot in
the primaries. The line of cleavage was
along this law suit. The straight Dem
ocrats carried the primaries overwhelm
ingly. The trouble at once began. A
part of tbe miuority Democrat, about
70 in number, joined forces with the Re
publicans and Populists, and the outSt
put up a combination ticket, on which
all three bad eandi iates. Each bad a
eparate committee republican. Popu
lists and bolters. Smevery influential
men are among the bolters.
Easijson County.
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F i""7on county met ?! n J iy in Canton
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BUHR'S FIGHT AGAINST FATE
Jut 8ncc Returned tbe Crtik
. iB Sorrows of HI Life Came.
"Aaron Burr was CO years old when
be resolved once more to battle with
fortune," ' writes William Perrlne In
The ladies' Home Journal. "Going
quietly into New York, hi opened an
office for the prncticvof law and In a
fortnight bad earned $2,000 in fees.
But hardly had he written to bis
da ughter a bout his luck " when t hero
cn me from South Carolina the news
thnt her beautiful boy, who had been
the Idol of the ambitious statesman.
was dead. , . 1
I "But there was in reserve for Burr a
still heavier blow. Toward the close
of the year i 1812 Theodosia Allston
made preparations to visit her father
ta New York. Passage was engaged
On the schooner the Patriot for Theo
dosia. her physician and her maid, and
the lovely woman was radiant with the
expectation of meeting her father with'
m the next five or six days. The Pa
riot sailed from Charleston out into
he ocean In Christmas week, and not
a vestige of her was ever again seen.
and It is surmised but ' nothing Is
known as to her fate that she foun
dered off the. coast of Hatteras.
"Day after day and long after all
hope bad been abandoned there might
be seen on the Battery at New York
the lonely and unhappy father, peering
far down the bay as If he were scan
ning the sea for a sail. Of his agony
Aaron Burr cave the , world but little
view.. He had schooled himself In the
habit of never exhibiting his emotions,
but in one of. his letters he declared
that he felt ns if he. had been severed
from the human race."
VIOLirCMUSIC.
Its
Peculiar end 1 Varied Effect - on
Wild Ant mala. , .
The violin was used recently with In
teresting results . In experiments with
all sorts of Uving creatnres.; First It
was played before a tarantula, cue
paid no attention' whatever to It. But
a nest of scorpions became Intensely
txclted and wiggled frantically.
A cobra snowed remarkable suscep
tibility. She ' was sleeping soundly
when the experimenters approached
her, but the first tone awakened her,
and she raised her head. As the mu
sic swelled she continued to rise till
she was standing straight as a pillar,
supported , only by her tail. Every
change in tempo and pitch had effect.
The pizzicato made her puff her entire
body, swift waltz music caused her to
erect her ugly hood to Its fullest size,
and a sudden dissonance made her
wind and twist her body as If she were
lu real agony. .7 '..
Tbe polar bear tried to dance to the
sounds of the Instrument. At least he
swayed his body rhythmically and
made a rumbling sound which portray
ed deep measure. The grizzlies and
the lions moved their paws and the
lions their tails also In time with the
music. It happened that' a string snap
ped, with its peculiar, sharp smack.
just as the player bad begun to per
form before the cage of a hyena. That
poor animal at once hunched its back
up, drew Its tail between its legs and
crouched, trembling, la the farthest
corner of the cage. The elephant and
the ostrich were delighted by soft tones
and "appeared to suffer true distress
from loud and sharp notes. New York
Press.
He Cae For Toe.
If shoes go on forever, why should
not our toes grow together? We have
to use for them. e can t manage
them. About one man In 1.000 can
pull on his interossel muscles and
spread out his toes. In tbe remaining
909 these muscles are as dead as fiber.
They, haven't been used since the In
fant stuck his toes In bis mouth and
crooned a baby song without word
If we wore mittens all the time, the
Individual control of our fingers would
be lost. We eat so much soft food
that we have scarcely any need of
teeth. Gums would answer every pur
pose, as mastication Is performed 1j
machinery before we lo!n a meaL
There are over CJU distinct muscles In
Luman bodj. of which tbe best of
keep. about 100 In prime condition
proper use. New York Press.
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THE FIRST BATTLE.
The Chinese Resisted Allies Seven
-And a Half Hours.
Washington Aug. 6.from the fact
that the engagement lasted seven and a
half hours; it is argued in the department
that either the Chinese must have been
heavily entrenched or that there was an
immense horde of them to so stubbornly
contest the advance of the 16,000 inter
national troops. It is figured by mili
tarv experts that a loss of 1,200 killed
and wounded on the part of the allies
means a loss of three to six times as
many by the Chinese. It is nossible that
a blow of this magnitude may break the
resistance 01 tbe Chinese to tha advance
of the foreign column, but on the other
band it is poesible that this may be one
of a large number of places on the road
that have been entrenched with a view
to falling back and contesting the foreign
advance so as to delay as long as possi
ble tbe arrival 01 tbe foreigners at rekin
Unless the onuoeition snddenlv breaks
down the .military experts look for
desperate engagement when tbe troops
reach the walled city ii Tung Lbow
which is said to be even more favorably
located lor purposes 01 delense than lien
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Chinese Defeated by the Russians
A dispatch received at the war office
in St. Petersburg from Gen. Grodekoff,
aatea KnarbarovflK, August ad. eavs
two squadrons reconnoiteringneurTecbe
engaged l.uou Chinese.' with two guns
and 250 cavalry. After a stubborn fight
the Hussions were reinforced by another
squaaron with two guns and defeated
the Ubinese. killing 200.? Tbe Russian
loss was eight men killed and eight
wounaea. - . - ': '
This dispatch adds that the battle
around Aigun was continued August
ara, the uossacks losing o men killed and
25 wounded, and driving back the Chi
nese, killing 200 and capturing two guns
ana two nags. ? xne inscription on one
of the flags read: ' "The People of the
Large Fist." Aigun, when the dispatch
was sent, was burning. Other dispatches
report Russian successes near . Port Ar
thur.
Details of the Battle.
Che Foo, Aug. 7. The "Chinese works
at Pietsang have been captured by the
auies ana the nrsc battle on tbe way to
rekin won. The foreign troops are now
in posession of tbeChinese trenches. The
fighting was fierce. A strong force of
Americans participated, consisting of the
rinth and Fourteenth regiments, Reilley s
battery and the marines. The allies at
tacked at daylight Sunday. The Chi
nese held a strong position behind deep
xrencnes ana heavy ; breastworks and
oopholed houses. The alllies advanced
n the face of a hot fire. For seven hours
the Chinese stubbornly resisted, then tbe
foreign troops rushed on the position and
tneumnese were swept from tbe trenches.
Tbe Americans fought gallantly.
'I The Russians Victorious.
London. Aug. 7. The big battle be
tween the itussians and Chinese near
Talchow has resulted, according . to a
Shanghai dispatch, in a victory for the
former and the killing 01 8,000 Chinese.
The Taotai, however, in spite of this, has
refused the Russian demand to give np
the forts there. It is now fully oonnrmed
that tbe fourth brigade of Indian troops
have been ordered to China.
Chinese War Notes. "
It is said the United States and Russia
are formulating an agreement for pre
serving the integrity of the Chinese em
pire.
LI Uung Chang notifies tbe consuls at
Shanghai that the ministers left Pekin
for Tien Tem last Friday, but they put
no connaence in tne statement.
Li nung cnang says the Boxers are
not rebels, but are true to tbe royal house.
He says the present outbreak is due to
the Chinese hatred of foreigners.
It is thought that Russian troons will
move on Pekin from another Doint from
Shan Hal Kwan a longer route and bet
ter than ths one chosen by the allied
forces.
Havrallaa ProaaaeiatioBa,
llawallans call their chief Islands
Hah-vwy-ee; we say Ilah-wy-ee. Otb-
tr proper ways or giving well known
flawailan names are: O-ah-hu. Ilo-no-
uln. Mow-ee (Maui). Kow-aye (Kauai).
Ne-e-bow (Nllhau). Uee-lo (Ililo), La-
fej-na (Labalnai. Ko-bab-Ia (Kohala).
Vowels are as In Italian, and deserve
much care. Hawnllans pay little at
tention to consonants. Baltimore
Ker.
tartar at lloat.
A lady reslJing.Ia North Columbus
meeting a girl the other day who bad
lately been la bef service Inquired:
WelL Mary, where do you live
towr
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THE HALIFAX GAME.
A Fine Exhibition of Baseball.
Score Kinaton 8, Halifax 3.
The finest game of baseball ever seen in
Kinston was played at tbo ball park yes
terday evening between Halifax and
Kinston. ,. Those who are not satisfied
with such an exhibition as was given
tbem must be extremely hard to please,
We expected a fine game from tbe visiting
team and we knew that if our boys , cap
tured the game they would have to hus
tle, but, frankly, we were surprised at
tbe magnificent game they put up. We
really believe that Kinston feels more
pride over that game than over the re
cent election. .
Halifax played an errorless game, per
haps tbe first ever seen here. Besides be
ing free from error much of their field play
was brilliant.'. But they could not solve
"Dunk's" curves. He pitched one of his
best games, striking out 12 men and
holdiug the hits down to three.
Harry Stevenson spread himself out
over the centre "veldt" in the most gor
geous shape, He went for everything
that flew beyond the diamond and not
only that he got it. He made a beau
tiful double by taking in a long, and
seemingly safe, drive of Dunn sand throw
ing out Fitzbugh at first.
1 The only errors made by either side are
charged up to George tsugg. They
marred an otherwise perfect game, tut
playing short is notJieorge s specialty
Those who attend today will see him
pitch and it will be a different tale alto
getber. '
Leon Oettinger will play short today.
Leon was a' number one short stop be
fore he went north, two years ago, since
which time he has not bandied a ball un
til a week ago. He is rusty and allow
ance must be made on that account, but
we think be will give a good account o!
himself. -V,, ' 'l
Wooten went to bat five times and
made four hits, one of which was good
for two bags, but bis sneak by first didn't
go down with Umpire Herbert so be had
to bustle back there. '
Jones was at bat five times and made
a single, a double and a triple and two
sacrifices, which is eminently satisfactory
to himself and his friends, v ;
Lewis went to bat four times and made
four hits one of tbem a two-bagger.
Today s game promises . to be even
more exciting than that of yeeterday, as
Halifax will put np a stronger pitcher
and are determined to wipe out yester
day's defeat. V" . -"
Tbe attendance yesterday was the
largest ever seen at our new grounds and
we think that as large a crowd will be
out today, and even a larger one is ex
pected. - .
That Is a nice crowd of boys that
Halifax team and they merit your pat
ronage.
The summary follows:
KINSTON.
Nana AB R BH SH PO A E
Wooten, If,... ....... 5 3 4 o o
0tifler. ab.. ....... 41 i J
ionet, 3b, s 31 3 a
rbrt,ib, 5 .00 t 8 o
Sujg, ,... ...... .. ,5 a a 1 o e
Stevaotoa, E., t(,... 500 , 00
Sutcoiod, II., el,- 4 q e o 3 1
Lewis, e, ........... 4 1 4 a 13 o
Morton, p, ......... 4 I 1 " 1 o 3
Total,
41 16
HALIFAX.
AB R BH
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Gregory, O..M...
Cheshire, 30,...,.
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Uagley, tb,..
Hotfmaii, b,
tenner, rt.......
Gregory, t., cf..
Total
w 3 3 0 a6 aa
Not Herbert was put out bv beinc hit by
batted baU.
Bases Stolen: Wooten, Oettinger.l
Jones, Sugg, (3) Lewis, Morton, Greg
ory, Q., Fitzbugb, Bagley, Hoffman,
Gregory, s .
Two-base hits: Jones, Sugg, .Lewis.
Three-base hit: Jones.
Double plays: U. Stevenson to Her
bert; Dunn to Bagley to Cheshire.
Bases on bails: us Morton l; on Dunn
Hit by pitched balls: Fitihugh. .
Struct out: By Dunn 3, by Morton 1 2.
Passed balls: Lewis 1, Fitxbngh 1.
Time of game: 1:45. - Umpire. W. 8.
Herbert. Scorer,-Dr. T. H. Faulkner.
A Twelve Beer Dimmer.
They dined well, if not wisely. In the
old days described by Sir Algernon
West in bis 'Kecollectlons.' He says:
Thanks to the Introduction of smok
ing after dinner, wine drinking Is now
over. What it was la old days ap
pears most incredible. The late Lord
Clanwllllam told me of one occasion
when he had dined at a friend's villa
near Putney. The dinner was extraor
dinarily late . for those days at 8
o'clock- .
"When they at last rose from the
table and went tp to their rooms, Lcri
Clanwllllam flung open Lis winJow
and saw the -haymakers cc:rj
the Cell .
"I wonder,' te thocsht. wLit L--r
.ey bcjla work.' And ca ccr. - -
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STATE HEWS. .
Interestiiig North Carolina Item
In Condensed Form.
. William Major Gay, aged 73 years, a
prominent citizen of Wilson, died Satur
day night.
Registrar R. 0. Fry was tried by a U.
S. commissioner at Troy Monday upon
affidavit of a negro. Case was dismissed.'
r II. L. Greene is certainly elected to the
legislature from Wilkes,' his majority
over J. W. McNeil, Republican, being 41.
LaGrange Sentinel: On the night of
Aug. 3rd, a thief entered tbe stables of
Mr. Robert Hinnant a few miles from
LaGrange and stole one of his best mules.
The thief lias not yet been caught. -
Butler is still in Raleigh. His idea of
making contests of legislative seats is
heartily ridieuled. He says the election
at Raleigh was quite a model one. It
seems to have been pretty nearly as quiet
everywhere. .
Salisbury Truth-Index: Last night a
negro named Cowan, while working in
a shaft at the Whitney mine at Gold
Hill, was killed by a dynamite charge
going off before he was ready for it, or it
went off quicker than he thought. ,
The State board of canvassers will
meet August 30th. It is composed of
Gov. Russell, Secretnrv of State Thomp
son, Walter II. Neal, .1. D. McNeill, Wil
son G. Lamb and E. H. Wilson. It will
canvass the returns of the election held
last week.
Chairman Simmons savs tbe national
campaign in this State will be a lively
one. Of course it will not approach in
liveliness or interest the State cambaiirn
just closed. Nothing has ever approach
ed that and no doubt nothing ever will
in the line of politics. .
At an early hour Sunday morning the
home of Mr. W. E. Turner, in the northern
part of Durham, was burned to , the
giuuuu miu vuv taiuiij , vuuolUUUfg ill
father and three sons, had a narrow
escape from being burned to death. A
bird dog gave tbe alarm and woke Mr.
fallen in. ; . " . . . .
Tbe Greensboro Telegram has reliable
information to the effect that Marion
Bntler has announced his intention of
leaving North Carolina forever. Butler
also made the statement to a Rerjubli-
can a few days before the election that
if the Democrats carried the amendment
and the legislature, he would use his In
fluence to give the State to McKinley in
the November election.
Louisburg Times: Information reaches
ns of a fatal shooting affair on Thurs
day at Clifton's Mill while the election
was going on. The difficulty grew out
of an old feud we learn, and, although
happening on election day, politics had
nothing to do with it. Details are very
meagre and about all that we could learn
was that Gary Strickland shot Sam Rob-
bins in tbe leg with a Bhot gun in a
general row in which some half dozen
were engaged, liobbins died from his
wound. All parties were Democrats.
Standing of the State League.
Tarboro, N. C, August C.
To tbe Frees: I herewith. hand vou
the standing of tbe different clubs in the
North Carolina Baseball association.
Tarboro wins the pennant and Charlotte
and Raleigh tie for second place. Please
publish. No games played after August
4th count in the championship. The as
sociation thanks the press of the State
for tbe prominence given baseball in its
columns.
Won. Let,
PerCt.
Tarboro.............. ....10 8
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.500
.coo
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.540
.412
Raleigh. .. 13 13
Charlotte......-,..............!! 11
Durham M..10 12
Wilmington. 9 11
Statesville . 7 11
Tours truly.
W. Stamps Howard,
Secretary.
'LATEST EST1MATT3.
Democrats Will IIave Forty E;r.
tora and 102 Representative 3.
Raleigh, N. C, Aug. 7. The oZclA i
turns are still not received from r
counties. Oincial and unofUcial rt '
show forty Democratic senators r - 1 1
members of tne boue. Lat- r r
confirm the former estimates f t )
jorities for tbe amenJi-nt i 1 .
ticket.
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