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Vol HI No. 142.
KINSTONT, M. 0., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER. 19, 1000.
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GEIiERAL -UEWS
flatters of Interest Condensed Into
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' A shortage o! f 20,000 baa been discor
' ered In the Union national bank of Vh
cago, and Teller fleo. 8. Forbes commits
euicide. He bad belped "a friend" cover
up his overdrawn account. - -
It ie reoorted that Thos. F. Walsh wil
receive $18,000,000 for bid Camp Bird
mine at Ouray, Col., from a syndicate of
EngitHb and American investors, beaded
by Alfred Beit, the South Africa diamond
' An old four-story tenement building at
Cincinnati, used as a branch nursery of
' the Salvation Army, was burned Mem
day. Its occupants were so imprisoned
that five were suffocated to death, three
fatally injured and four seriously.
A dispatch. Sept. 18th, from New York
" says: A tug boat with 15-harbor police
bad a terrific encounter early this morn
1 1 insr on Staten Island, below the B. & O
l '. .:t i ! j i . l i ; a l fry :
- , urmgo, w imj river pirnteo. x wu. iiraum
, were drowned, five arrested and one was
, seriously wounded.;;;
, The tug America was run into and cut
' ' in two Tuesday morning by the Atlantic
transport liner Mlnnenana on Houston
street, New York. The men on the tug
bad not ; time even .to cry out, and five
were drowned. One man wno was Bared
believed the others were stunned.
A runner from the Seminole camp at
Turtle Mound, Fla., reports that m a sun
-v . dance last weekfourSeminole braves had
a bloody fight, all being aspirants for the
chief s daughter. All four were silled
the melee. The girl then drowned herself
from grief for one of the dead braves.
. , An official , dispatch from Shanghai
says a German naval battalion, accom
panied by 40 Bengal lancers, captured
and burned tbe town or Jjiaug on oep
tember 11th. A hundred Boxers were
killed. The Chinese regular troops who
occupied the place had previously fled.
The German loss was one man killed and
, ' five wounded. ''.rr:jtk't& '-,'i1
1 Half a dozen big lumber mills are idle
at Norfolk as a result of a strike of their
. employes for a short day and mors pay
. The men desire nine hours and 37 to 80
' cents per hour, against - 25, cents paid at
present. Most, if not' all, of the planing
.' mill men in - Norfolk are involved ; The
- mills of Mess. Cake & Co., Jas. 'Etheridge,
v. ' C. M. Cake. Watkins & Bro. and the
Builders' Supply company -all being idle.
A special to the Chicago Record from
Columbus, U bio. on the day that Uryan
spoke there, -said:-"Up - close to the
speakers' stand today and earnestly at
tentive stood Gen. John P. Beatty, the
, wealthy banker of this city, who wrote
the gold standard literature distributed
in Ohio four years ago by . the state Re
publican central committee. , He recently
' declared for Bryan, and is said to have a
considerable following." .
THE POWERS ACCEPT EARL LI
And Will Doubtless Acoept Prince
if Chin? as Negotiators. . ,
. London, Sept, 18. The Daily Graphic
asserts that all the powers have accepted
Li Hung Chang and will probably accept
' rnnceUning as negotiators. It says also
that the powers have agreed to insist
that a central government, satisfactory
to - the powers, shall , be established in
China, and that full retribution shall be
exacted for the attacks upon the lega
tions. . f
No communications have yet passed
between the powers concerning indemni
ties, and a Berlin dispatch says it is be
lieved there that Dr. Mumm Schwarzen-
stein, the German minister, will purposely
delay the negotiations until Marshal von
WaJdersee bas arrived. , -.
RockMll Reaches Taku. r
Washington, Sept. 17. Admiral Remey
bas adrifed the state department of the
arrival of special Commissioner Rock hill
at Taku today from Shanghai. -
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mer islands of the sea. , She is wearing a oaaplet of fresh flowers and a neck
lace of sharks' teeth. ' Her Jiome Is Tutulla, which is United States territory.;
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Senator Elect J. P.' Dolllver, who
of Iowa to succeed the late John IL
for 12 years. - He is a brilliant orator.
.. ; nil Flala Storr Won. '
An cngroomed mau slouched up to
Smith In Farnum street the other day
and accosted him as follows: -; '
'Say, mister, If I was to tell you that
wanted a quarter to get a square
meal you'd think I wanted It to buy
whisky, wouldn't your - - .
That's exactly what 1 would think."
replied Smith. -
."And If I said I wanted a quarter to
buy whisky you'd say you didn't pro
pose to cacouraffe the drink habit
wouldn't you?"
"That's tvbot I'd Pay."
"And If 1 said I " anted a quarter to
tny food for a starving wife and 11
b!!Jren you'd tLiuU I was a liar.
wouldn't you?"
-1 would."
"TVV.I. say. r.itstrr, I went a quartrr
Id raj for l.ai lr:r c? tr. tLer-tn !.ir-'g
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Gear, bas represented Iowa In congress
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Kicked on tli 81ry.
Probably most writers of serial sto
ries are familiar with the sensation of
recelvins letters of commendation or
disapproval from Interested readers
who are following up the stories as
they appear in their regular weekly or
monthly installments. Occasionally
some curious person asks for private
Information as to what the outcome Is
to. be, while others offer euzjrestions
as to the disposition to be made of the
villain or express a fear that the au
thor is to marry the Lero to the wrong
woman.
The writer cf a Ferial story In one of
t-e rr marazlne a few years bjto
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inJr-SEt reader. Tie names are
chaEcI for ctivlors reasons:
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' HE KILLED OOEBEL. '
James Stabblefleld Deolares That
James Howard Boasted of His
Crime. 1 ' '
Frankfort. Ky., Sept. : 17 The first
really sensational testimony in the trial
of James Howard, charged with having
fired the shot that kilted William Goebel
was given today by Bowman Gaines, a
local livery man, and James Btubblefleld,
a former deputy sheriff of ; Clay county
The former identified Howard as the man
who ran out from the rear of the state
house grounds and jumped over the fence
immediately after the shooting. Uaines
whs positive in bis identification of the
prisoner as the man and said the ' latter
then wore a moustache and was followed
by a man who was tall and slender;
boy who was nearby at tbs time wil
also be introduced as a witness to cor
roborate Gaines. & - ; ii-V
The most sensational witness, how
ever, and at the same time the most im
portaut witness from the prosecution
standpoint Was James Stubblefield,
one-leurired and one-armed eX-deDutv sher
iff of Clay county. ' Stubblefield testified
that Howard exultlngly told him that
be fired the shot that took Goebel's , life
Money Still Needed. '
A U8tin, Texas; Sept. 16. Gov. Sayers
save out the following today:. ..
"imports sent out from this place by
whomsoever may that eight or nine bun
dred thousand dollars bas already been
paid in are : absolutely- false and made
without authority and calculated to 'do
great barm to the needy sufferers on our
coast. No such sum of money bas been
received or anything approaching it bas
been received. It is believed - that the
stories bave done great barm' in that
they have prevented the contribution of
money wuivu is so soreiy neeueu at ' ttxi
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vetftoa." . ; ' . .
Galveston, isept. 17. The latest list o!
dead in tha Galveston disaster printed by
The Post, revised to date, shows the loss
of 4.07S lives. The paper says none of
the persons whose names are printed in
the list bave been heard from and 'that
a great number of names bave been fur-
niHbed by relatives of those dead. '
It is estimated that 8.000 people, have
left Gal vestoa.. pf these about , 5,000
are now ln Houston beinir cared lor,
Others have gone to the interior or to
other states. ; -
Croker Bets Heavily oh the Eleo-
', tion. ' "
New York.' Bent. 17. Richard Croker
has bet, up to tonight, $80,000 to about
f 225,000 that Bryan will be elected.
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Fiddleback-r-Are yon going around
lo Miss Muffin's tomorrow night, Mrs.
von Blomer? . i :m
Mrs. Von Blumer She gives a chaf
ing-dish party, doesn't she? i
Fiddleback Yes. u ? : ,f
Mire, von ' Biumer we may..! Aft
a Fiddleback (smiling) Well hardly.
Mrs. ? Von' .Blumer-Why,, I thought
oil were fond of Miss Muffin.
' Fiddleback I am, but. not of her
chafing dish parties- ' t.c i v r 1 f
Mrs.. Von Blumer Yon mean-i '
Fiddleback I mean the chafing dish
part --a ir.j .itc:ii ;
Mrs. Von BlumeiwYou don't like
that Kw-t, -fs rxsci .j.-.-vr -
Fiddleback Well, I can stand a good
deal, but the concoctions Miss Moffln
gets up Id that Instrument of torture
are too much for me. s -. , : ; v V
Mrs. Von Blumer Yon are too bard
on ber, I am sure.
Fiddleback Hard on her, - do you
say! Well, I guess she Is pretty bard
on the rest of ber victims.
Mrs. Von Blumer What particular
dish of hers don't you like? .
Fiddleback Well, I can't say. that
am partial to any of them.: I've
tried them all. and there isn't much
choice. Her lobster Newburg can pro
duce about as much complex-agony
as anything else. But I think for suf
fering long drawn out, for steady, on-
Intermittent, ablebodied ' pain, ber
Welsh rabbit takes the blue ribbon.
Have you ever tried Miss MuQn's
Welsh rabbit? .
Mrs. Von Blumer Oh, yes, Indeedl
Why, I bave been giving her cooking
essons for the last six months! Har
per's Bazar. ; :
History 'a Koterioaa Faalt.
"I must Insist," declared Diana, who
was the acknowledged leader cf the
Olympian Woman's SuZnze rarty.
that the rarity cf the ballot would be
conserved ty ullotvir? us to vote,"
Nonsense." pretested Mercury, lead
er cf tl-? c: ration. "Too woniJa't h
ie to cortrcl the Muse of History.
he's a nat-ral born rerater." ri."a.
STATE ' HEWS.
Interestlxtar ' North Carolina Items
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. The supreme court will meet September
24th, at 10 a. m., to examine applicants
for license to practice law. , - .
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ajuukju curnwpuoueDc oi'tue Wil
mington Messenger gives an incident of
the batching of chickens by the warm
weather.
' The insurance on property destroyed in
the Washington fire last week will aggre
gate 2G,000. The loss by fire amounts
to $100,000 . , . .
The Republican-Populists will hold an
indignation meeting at Flea Hill, Com
berland county, Friday, Sept. 21st, at
which Butler and others will speak.
Andrew Jackson, a negro desperado,
was captured Saturday and is in jail at '
Lincoln ton. He entered a house where
three white women Were asleep and mur
dered Mrs. Wilson, literally cutting her
to pieces. He was captured in Hender
son county. ' ' i i .
Tarboro Southerner: - Because -thrmt
stubborn, unwise men just beyond Mac
clesfield refuse to grant a right of way to
the East Carolina railway, work on the
extension of this road has been indefi
nitely postponed. Mr. Bridgers has bad
the convicts returned to the penitentiary.
The Newbern Journal savs that dnrlnir
the past summer extensiveimprovements
bave been made on the Clermont Knit,
ting Mills, owned by Mr. P. U.' Pelletier.
witn tna addition of much modern ma
chinery and enlargement, Mr. Pelletier
says that he can give employment to 75
more people.
There Wus'a cold-blooded murder in
Raleigh last Sunday night; A negro man
known as "Boots' Brown, aged about
25, and married, living In one of the two
negro wards, went into the other negro
warn, canea oaran, uavis, wire of John
Davis, to ber irate and shot her to dPat.h.
The murderer had not been apprehended '
at last accounts.', i ; .
. Mr. Robt. Fnlcher. keener of th ;Fnr.
sytb eounty home for aged and infirm,
was assaulted and stabbed Mondav bv
ao inmate named Brown.' The wound is-
a serious one. The trouble arose over .
me Keeper reprimanding urown lor some
bad conduct. While stoooinnr over tn
get a stick, Brown, Who is insane, rushed
upon Mr. Fulcber with his knife, cutting '
a long and deep gash across the shoulder
and back. z-,..:
' Dr. L. I. Bodenhamer. one of the' lead
ing elders of the Primitive Baptist church
In this State, died Monday, morning at
bis home in High Point, after seven
months' illness, three of which - he wb
confined to his be J.' Dropsy was1 the
eause of his death. He was in his' 70th'
year. , Dr. Bodenbamerestablished Zion's
Landmark, organ of the Primitive . Bap
tise cnnrcn.now owned and published in ;
Wilson by Elder P. D. Gold. - , .
The dedication of " ihe First Presbvte-
rian church at Raleigh last Sunday morn- -intr
was a veiv imbressive ceremonv.
Tbere were many . preachers of . that de- '
nominat!6n present, 'and the audience
numbered over 1.000. The prayer was
by Rev. Wm. McPheetere, of Columbia,
whose grandfather was the first pastor;
while the sermon was by Rev. Pr. Walter
W. Moore, of Richmond, who first snor-
gested the building of the new church. A
collection amounting to 1 1.300 was
taken to apply on the debi of f 3,000.
Saturdaynight at 9:43 o'clock Youncs-
ville was visited by a cyclone,, which
resulted in the painful injury of one per
son and the destruction of property and
farms to the amount of f 7.500.' The
cyclone appeared as a great cone-shaped
oanoi nre witn tne acute point Tising
heavenward. Its couree was zhrtair and
appeared to strike the ground as a
bouncing ball, It passed th rough the
southeast part of town and wrought
destruction as it went. Cheatham Bros. .
arge four-story prize houRe. iust nearinir
completion, and the Methodist and Bap
tist churches suffered complete demolish-
ment and were the ' principal . houses
destroyed. It was miracnlous that other
buildings in its path were untouched.
Tops of bouses were thrown 200 rards. .
chimneys torn down, innumerable trees
wrenched oU and torn np by the roots.
telegraph and telephone wires blown
down and great damage done to cotton
for two miles either wsy from town.
Only one person, a colored woman, was '
injured, and she paiDfulIy. One or more
booses were destroyed at Wake Forest
and considerable damsjre to crops done
between YounggTiIle aDd there.
AUGUST FLOWER. ?
"It is a nrprising fict sars Prof.
Ilouten, "that if. my trarels ia aU parts
of the world for t'rx laf t ten ye ara, I have
met mor r"or i bsvipt ce.J Green s
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