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T IT flE PUBLISHED EMERY ENINC EXCEPT SUNDHY. KINSTON; N. 0., THURSDAYS AUGUST. 16, 1900. VoLJII No. 113 Price Two Cents. GENERAL HEWS. flatters of Interest Condensed Into Brief Paragraphs. . ', 8eoator Hanna will open the Republi- ' can campaign in New Jersey nimseii. lie will make a speech at Asbury Park next Tuesday. Being satisfied that there is no yellow fever in Tampa, the state authorities in ' Alabama bare raised the quarantine against an Florida, - The largest shipment of gold ever ship ped irom mis country m one aay was shipped from New fork city Tuesday, 98,161,000 in bullion being sent over. Bob Fitisimmons and Tom Sharkey have agreed to fight on August 25th be fore the Coney Island sporting club for a . purse of $25,000. Charley White is to be referee. ' Six hundred American excursionists, - holding second-class return tickets to the United States, are stranded in Paris, unable to leave on account of tbecrowded - condition of home going steamers ' The agent of the Devil's Lake Indian - reservation in North Dakota has tele graphed the Interior department that smallpox V has broken out among tne Indians and there are now 21 cases on the reservation W.J. Alderman was stabbed to death - near Moultrie, Ga., by his friend, , J. C. Csrls, while both men were riding in a ' buggy. No cause except drunkenness is given. Both were prominent citisens Curls has been arrested. Reports from the Philippines say that the insurgents nave shown, increased ac- - tivity during the past few weeks. The American losses in the Island of Panay Jast month were . greater than-, in any month since January last. 1 v' ; . Acting : Mayor, Samuel Huffman. sol ' a well known taxidermist, arrested today for violating a city ordinance. .Later, liartigan lollowed Huffman into a res . taurant with a drawn knife and cut him thirteen times with fatal effect. Hartl- 'gan then secured a -rifle, andfleilbe. town., i-v;;?,,..; . At Haskin's turpentine distillery, near Alarianna, D ja., Thursday, W alter . Kos , sin and Charlie Bullock, negroes, became r. involved in a quarrel and the former : killed the latter, " Wm. Haekins, a young - white man, attempted to arrest Rossin. ' The negro fired at Haekins, putting a Dan in ootn arms. ; iiasKtns then nred at Bossin and dropped bim dead in bis tracks. . , ' - - - 1 A most serious accident occurred 'at Riverton, one "mile from Front- Royal, . Ya., Tuesday., A team of two mules was being driven across 'the frame, bridge spanning Happy Creek, when the bridge , gave way, precipitating tne team and drivers, j osepn iieieiora, wntte, and a . colored driver into the creek S3 feet be low. , The men were fatally injured . and tne mules Killed outright. - One of the most remarkable law suits on record threatens the city of Ports mouth, Va. An attempt is to be made to hold the city responsible for the murder of Joseph el ton.- killed by tne, escaped murderer, Colton, who was afterwards ' lynched. It is said that Colton, wllle under seatence of death, -was permitted , to escape from the Portsmouth xity jail through negligence of city employes, and that Wei ton . could not have been killed by Colton if the condemned man bad been properly safeguarded.- r , Ai London, Eng., while performing Monday evening, at the royal opera house, Budapest, the well known opera singer, Mme. Nemethy, according to a dispatch from Vienna to the Daily Ex press, drank a virulent poison instead of tbe colored water supposed to lie used on the stnsre. Mme. Nemethy fell before the horrified audience and died an hour later. How poison came to be substituted for the colored water baa not been ascertained. It is believed, the correspondent asserts, that Mme. Nem ethy was quite ignorant of the drink. A collision between two freight trains on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, on tbe viaduct across Gwyns Falls, just beyond thecity limits of Baltimore, at midnight Tuesday night, revolted in the death of Chas, N. Sobopporr, engineer, and Arthur J. Piatt, fireman, both of Baltimore and both employed on the engine polling a westbound train of emptj cars. Tbe col lision is said to have resulted from the failure of the dead ercinoer to carry out orders. When the tmins met, torrrt ergme was thrown from tLe i n : re into the cret-k, CO feet below. J hop pert' r-ek was broken and l'latt was Lurid t f-neath the wreck. "i.'y baby wn torri'My kk with the ." irrLof'S," snys J. II. Dost, of Williams, Vrr?on. "We w, re tr.i'..! to cere him with the d .'.-t'h r - r.- 1 a l-trf-ort we t r , . 1 C -r,..' :ii D V.c, (.!:c!t.Ta n--i I--'-rr! V v. Ifn h"rrj ,0- it r . i '." ft- I a coiv r !..te car-." lr ..' I v J. ll 1 1 .!. A Bride' Clever Idea. . ,. Out In a big apartment house on Co lombia heights there dwells a young married woman who is as naive as the bride in the comic weeklies. The house keepers who live in the same house with her hare been somewhat annoyed of late by mlceT:.. The ; young woman met one of them In the unfl the other day, and the .conversation naturally turned on their common pests. ; - ; ."The mice have been so bad lately," aid the elder woman, "that I keep ev erything locked up and all my eatables In the boxes." ; x The younge woman's eyes sparkled with eagerness. ; . - "My!" she said. "I wouldn't dare do that I wouldn't want to run such risk. I leave crackers and cheese lying about every night when I go to bed so that when the mice become , hungry they'll find something to eat and not gnaw things. I'm always afrajd they'll bite holes In my new tablecloths ami my nice centerpieces if -I don't leave the cheese right where tbey can find It easily. I feel perfectly safe when know there's Dlenty -for .them to cat right where they can get at it." V There's nothing after all like having a clever idea like that now and then. Washington Post v. , Nickname f British Reclneats. , , The grenadier guafcls were nicknam ed "The Coalheavers' because they were at one time allowed to work Ja plain clothes at odd Jobs for private employers. The'Seventh foot were "Tbe Elegant Extracts" because at pne time all their officers "had been chosen from other corps." r "The Forty-sixth owed their name of "The Lacedemonians" to their colonel's stirring speech on the ancient Spartans. ' LI ke many other regiments, .,Tbe Galla Fiftieth" re ceived several nicknames "The Blind Half Hundred,'? from their ophthalmic troubles In Egypt, and "The Dirty Half Hundred" because in their penin sular fights tbey wiped themselves with their black facings. The One Hun dredtb regiment are "The Old Huu dred" and "The Centipedes." The reMy-elghth'weW willed rrhff"fre and Afts" because, standing back lo back, they, repelled, a front and rear attack before Alexandria in 1801. The Cheshire regiment has been christened The Lightning Conductors" because in the Irish maneuvers of 1S99 several men were struck by lightning during a night march." London News. . - - " ,' . Harderoas Milk. "' Experiments made in Chicago prove that milk preserved'-"With formalin will kin kittens, says The Rural New Worker. ) The ; milk inspector ; says; "Take 'two kittens, for. instance-two healthy cats of the same age and size. We wonld feed one kitten on pure milk and tbe other on milk which had been doctored with preparations of formalin. The result was Invariably the same. The kitten which was fed on pure milk grew fat and hearty; the other kitten began to droop, languish and .lost strength. Soon it would fall sick; In two or three weeks it would die." V An ordinary cat has seven lives, and we. may safely credit a Chicago, cat with two extra chalices. I The average baby has not more than half a life. When fed on milk that would kill a cat" its chance for living is whittled down to a fine point It is a murder ous, practice to put these cursed 'pre servatives" into milk! . ' ' -: ' Skeep Parasites. :' Some writers claim that sheep ought not to be pastured on land more than one year before it Is plowed and re seeded, but my sheep hare been kept free from parasites by the use of tar, turpentine and . salt Bore two Inch holes in a pine log, fill with salt and smear tar around the top,, and sheep will tar their, own noses while eating salt Sheep soon learn to eat 'tar. I Eeep it mixed with turpentine and salt where it Is accessible at all times. About one-half pint of turpentine to one peck of salt is the proper propor tion. Arthur Odell. Michigan. The Teotbbrnsb riant. One of the most curious plants In tie world Is what Is calleJ the tooth- Imsh plant cf Jamaica. It l3o species cf creeper and has notLinj particularly 1ftxr!?T about It3 appearance. Vf cut- t'.zz r'1 f 10 a sultaLle IcntU an! fi-ajlnj the cn's the rntires con vert It Into a toothhrush. anJ a tooth powilcr to accompany tbe ce cf the tr-'-'h Is also prcparrd lr pulvrrizln? the iaJ stems. A!a Minor v?r the chief or t t-t 1 the tv. t rt nturj, i on It v r. f 1 '. -."j r r V " " ". Tl C . : -i t! 2 tv nar- tr, : C T IS WITBIN 16 DILES. The International Foroe A Hearing ' Pekin. Germany la, Determined That England Shall Not Have a Free Hand In Yangste Valley. Sending Cruisers to Shanghai. Chinese Demoralized. London, August 15, 4 a. m. The only news which takes the advance upon Pe kin further than Hoslwn comes from Paris. The London papers con tain noth ing to confirm the French report that the allies are within sixteen miles of Pekin, although a Che Foo dispatch is printed saying they were within 27 miles of the goal on Saturday. . Confirming tbe report of the arrival of the international forces at i Hnsiwo, Tbe Daily Mail s correspondent adds: - s , "The Chinese offered little real opdohi tion. The arrival of the allies frustrated a determined attempt to divert thecourse oi tbe river. - Tbe beat is intense but tne health of the troops is good." . : A 8t Petersburg special savs: t ' "The latest news from Geo'. Lineviteh, commanding tbe Russian troops in the province of Pechili, is that tbe allies, after tbe capture of 1 ang Tsun, took one day'H rest audthen on August 7tb a vanguard was formed, consisting of ens" Siberian regiment of Bothnia Cossacks, three bat. talions oi Japanese infantry, one Japan ese sapper company - and an American mounted battery, "., "In spite of tbe condition of the road, this column proceeded force in tht marches 11 versts toward Pekin, en countering at Nan Tsai Jung, about 49 miles from the capital, a Chinese detach ment, which fougbt for an nour and a half.l Flna'ly the Chinese threw down their arms and fled in a panic. I ""'-. VWhen this news was sent bad: all tbe allies started forward in three columns, with Cossacks in frontandpn the flanks." ' - A Port Arthur special announces - that the women and children have been offi cially notified to leave that place, x The Chinese minister in London is quoted as saving that he hoped and be lieved that peace would' be established s . ... . a i ; . . t.Li- oesween i;n.ma. ana tne powers' wnum tbe next six weeks. Yesterday he trans mitted to the British foreign office an other message from the British minister in Pekin, Sir Claude MacDonald, the con tents of which the officials have thus far refused to make public. -:, .'y- - 'k -, v. OKBMAMY OPPOSES GREAT BRITAIN, j -, The Berlin correspondent of The Daily Chronicle says the German government has ordered two cruisers to Shanghai and that another is on the way, while a fourth is already there. -& "The German government, m- says, "is evidently determined that England shall not nave afree band Intbatregion. . wThe Standard, after " expressing the opinion that there is Increasing ground to hone that the ministers will be res cued by the arrival of the allies at Pekin tomorrow (Thursday) it tne imtiai rate of progress is maintained,, goes on to deal with what will follow .the rescue, and sajs it may be taken for granted that tbe policy attributed to the Washington cab inet represents the absolute minimum of the demands of tbe combined powers. Uerun. Anjrust l. considerable sur prise is expressed by tbe German foreign office at tbe information communicated to Washington by (ten. Chaffee that tbe allies were at Hosiwu last Thursday, in asmuch as other recent dispatches bad asserted that the Chinese were strongly entrenched in front of the . allies above Yang Tsun. - . The Hanover Courier, discussing the campaign, says, today that foreign office circles regard the success of the present movement as next to impossible, and ex pect that the first task of .Count von Waldersee, after his arrival ai the front, will be to lead tbe advance upon Pekin. Lieut Col. Iteinbold Wagner, discussing therailitarv problem in The National Zeitunir, argues that' the foads leading from Pekin to ths interior ought to be seized in order to prevent the escape of the reoels, and that then with an army of from 70,000 to .80,000 men, an ad vance should be made rdong both . banks of thePeillo. ? ; . - 1 : The possibility of the clashing of the Dter national interests in China is still generally discussed. The Berliner Post refers to the landing of the British at Shanghai and to Bussia's actiou at Mt bh wan, particularly to ths latter as hav- Qnestion Answered. Yes, August Flower still has thelargesi sale of any medicine in tberiviliied world. Your mothers and grandmothers never thosght of u'sir anything else for Indi gestion or B.'.ousneps. Doctors were scarce, and they seldom beard of Appen iritis. Nervotit l'rostratiou. of Heart failure, etc They ud Aurift Flower to clan out the system muiI tp fr mrntatioa cf c ' , "t"l L.h1, renilatn the action of the liver. timuhit th dtvous arl ornr.ie action of the sys t I-' 1 1" " t i. r 11 they trx wv n fVi. i 'C-.l ar. 1 t n, -nitli 1ih.;.. and c" .ts!.k You cy need few doe ' ! .- .'. " t 1 lower, ia l. ;:; I f -rm, t i".'. tn .:' .-I t!;ere i r.-.t!.:i -r t. r - it'"- r with T"i. I.r ssi.' v T- -r ::!-:t..n Drug ing caused some apprehension among tbe other powers, especially In Japan "It would not be strange," says Tbe Post, "if other powers did likewise, and it would cause a serious complication of tne situation if not only Great Britain but others took occasion from Russia's action to adopt steps of far reaching im portance for the future-" : " v Berlin, August 14. A semi-official dis patch from Tien Tsin, dated August 8, says tbe Russian Col. Woyciak has re ceived advices from Pekin announcing that during tbe night of July 31st the bombardment of the legations was re sumed and that the" European church yard was desecrated. Chinese Demoralized. London, August 14. A special dispatch from Yang Tsun, dated August 7, reports tbe arrival of supplies there sufficient to last 12 days. ; , , . The dispatch adds that reconnoisances show tbe Chinese are demoralized and fled towards Pekin. , The American signal men are keeping the telegraph wire intact along the line of maHb in the face of great difficulties. ' About 50 per tnt. of tbe wounded are cases pronounced, to be serious, by the attending physicians. -v 1 A Good Libel La-vr. ; . Ncw-Obsrvr. ' ; s Tbe next legislature may be relied upon to enact a good libel law in place of tbe present antiquated law bearing on the question of libel in North Carolina. -, In tbe seuate the editorial profession will be repi-esentedby Ma. H.A.London, editor of tbe Chatham Record, and N. B. Brought on, publisher of the Biblical Re- t-M.fll-. Tl V 11" A coruer, WUIW wr. muuii su, nuuumu, btu- atorfrom Wilson, was once a editor. In the house the editorial profession will be repreneuted by Mess. J. B. Whitake of For-yth, A. D. Watts, of Iredell, Clyde R. Hoev. of Cleveland, and .John w. uiv ius. of Stanlev. while Capt. W. W. Cara way, of Lenoir, is an honored 'ex" , and Mr. Geo. E. Hood, of Wayne, is a gradu ated newspaper correspondent. His OwifVrap. . . i There is a young man in the pension 9fSce who is buying a house on the Jnstallment plan at a town somewhere ietween. this city and Baltimore, and hutdear little wife lives out there. It is his wont to come in early of a mom ing and, to go out again on the 620 train when his day's work is done. A few days ago he met an old friend from Chicago, and, yielding to the entreaties of that old friend, he decided to spend 'the evening in town. He was so afraid wiflo would feel hurt if she knew that he had deliberately planned an even ing's good time without counting her In that he manfully resolved to deceive her. Accordingly - as ; he came, away from the office he went to a telegraph office and sent this message to her: "Unavoidably detained. Missed 530 traliWN.Will he out later." It. was a. great deal later when be reached his happy home. , Wiflo met him at the door, 'and there was a look in her. eye 'that every married man learns to know and instinctively to dread.'" ' -r ' ' - - : "Did yoti get my message preciousf he asked as 'he kissed her tenderly, holding his breath meanwhile as a pre cautionary measure., - "res, dear," she made answer, and when a woman calls her husband "dear" that way you can cut loose from the weather bureau and prognosticate a few things' on your own hook. "Yes, dear. I received your message. Hers it IS." ' :- ..' --J:, f - There It was. sure enough. It was marked as plain as plain could be, Received at 423." He hadn't thought cf that Washington Post" ; - , -r . - : : ;; V; . Br. Blckerler' Method." -"I hari Ln a complete, and concise history of our war iu tu . , . j "Exactly, exactly." 'hurriedly Inter rupted Mr. Blckeiicyl "Just what 1 have becu looking for.. What a beau tiful edition: By the way. don't for get to go around and see my wife. She wishes one, yon know.' Never mind the - price. Here's $10. and you can keep the change." ' The book agent had fallen helpless against the desk. The surprise was loo modi. 5 ' " ,IIer IvoyT called Mr. Blckerley. "Help me carry this fellow out That's the way to fix 'cm.' Indianapolis Sua Tke neat nu Most Heae?. The finest honey In this country li g:!thrri1 f-nrihlves where white clo ver nuil I r;sv"xl are acvessiUl- It quantity. I...wever. It fall b-b!nd that maih , irrn the roldcnrwl and bock wlicnt l'liwsvu. From New York. rcnn-ylvan!n and Vermont comes tbe cost of the co!iil honey end from Ari or.a m l CallfoiuSa the largest amount f extracte! or lhjuUl honey. C -r a C:'.i 1j C:i Cay 1 1 STATE HEWS. InterestLtujr North Carolina Item In Condensed Form. " Ex-State Senator Geo. Bishop, of Pitt died suddenly in Northampton county Monday. . The grand encampment, L O. O. F. of this State, met at Wilmington Wednes day in annual session. There will be a ' two days' session. A game of foot la)l between the VaU versity of North Carplina and the Uni- 1 versity of Virginia is being arranged to be played in Richmond Thanksgivins; day. - - William Allen, a Confederate veteran, died in Davie county Tuesday. His death was caused by a kick In the head from a mule. Allen was 03 years old; bad ewned the mule 13-yeara, and it is said this was the first time the animal ever attempted to kick him. v . - An attempt to rob tbe store of Mr. B. B. Witherning, of Faison, was made (sarly Tuesday morning. The robbers were frightened by ths watchman and made off. Blood hounds have Iteen secured and are on the trail of two men seen running from tbe building by the watchman. A white man was arrainged before the ' courts at Monroe Saturday for beating a negro. The negro bad cursed him for voting for ths amendment. He submitted to an assault and was taxed with tbe costs. In fifteen minutes several Dem ocrats chipped in and paid the costs, so the defendant was out nothing. , v 1 , Goldsboro Argue: One of the large mules of the construction company that is building the road bed of the Grea Eastern Railroad near Fremont, fell dead from tbe beat last Saturday and several other mules on the work collapsed. This is unusual and shows how intensely and unprecedentedly hot it is at this time in these parts. .'v-, ' i At his home near Wakefield, about 20 miles from Raleigh, Roscher P. Cbamblee committed suicide Sunday by shooting himself through the bead. The deed was ' caused by ill health and the depression arising from intense suffering. He was a graduate of Wake Forest college, was S3 years of age; andnad"- bright pros pects in life until the band of disease was laid upon him. r ' Raleigh Post: The smartest Populist in the State lives up in Iredell. His name is Adderholdt. ' He was tbe nominee of bis party for tbe legislature, but be was too smart to risk all his eggs in one ' basket, so he also ran for magistrate of his township. lie lost his legislative job, of course, but made tbe home run for magistrate. Now if Senator Butler bad been as wise, while standing for re-election to the senate, he wonld have run for : a justice's place-down in Sampson. At Ramseur last Friday, Rev. J. F. England, the Methodist preacher there, was brutally assaulted by Mr. D. M. Weatberby, a school teacher in the com munity, and-bis nephewOscar Wetherby. Rev. Mr. England bad preached a eer- -mon; on "Amend Your - Ways" and . Weatberby took exception to some things said, which led to tbe assault. The good, people of Ramseur are righteously indig nant and do not hesitate to openly con demn the dastardly act as: brutal and cowardly in the highest degree. . , The Populists of Sampson county have called an indignation meeting. They are ; sending out circulars over the county which read as follows: " The liberty lov ing people of Sam pson coun ty have calleda monster indignation meeting to assemble in Clinton, N. C on Saturday, August 10th, 1900. All lovers of liberty and opposers of red shirtism. mob and force rule, and those favoring honesty in elec tions are Invited to attend, lion. Marion Butler and other prominent speakers will address the meeting. Everybody come." - tost! Many golden opportunities hire been lost by dux m ho toSer from rh.umatum. By taking Rheaoucide Sold by J. E.Hod. MARION BUTLER'S DENIAL. Says He Is for Bryan and the Peo ple's Party Nominee for Vice President N Lincoln, Neb. August 14. Tbe , Inde pendent, a local Populist paper, tele graphed Chairman Butler of tbe Nation- . hi l'opulist committee, for a denial of the report that he would take the tump,for McKinleyi Tbe folio wicg telegram was received in reply: Raleigh. N. ti, Ansrmtl4. 15HW. re port unqualifiedly ta Ise. I am for Bryan and tbe People's party nominee for vice president. 1 am in fvnr of the commit- te nominating a nSioat on August 27th. I am not a Democrat. I am not a Republican. I am a Populist 1 was not for Stevenson in aud am not for him now. (Signed) Marios Pcttes, Chairman. What most po-o'e wact is pomrt!iirx n .: J nr. 1 rnt w 1 1 a m rr l ci a r . 1 1'. TnrwT.,! i-.-ts e:i t:.e :n s t::i h and LivtrTab- to a (. neurit t. TLey sr t .'T in e ..-ct" Tcrsa t ta tat a- 1 r' ty J. 11 Hood, drv A
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