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4f AILY tt n .,4 It, t . 1 I 4 PUBLISHED EiZERY HFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDRY, VOL. V,-NO. 295, KINSTON, N.C MONDAY;; MARCH 16. 1903 PRICE TWO CENTS. i 4 ) H GEHERALHEWSliTEUS Matters of - Interest Condensed Into , V ' Brief Paragraphs. ' A ilTTLB ABOUT IUMEROOS THIHGS The Pith of theorld's News That Mlarht Interest ' Our Readers. An Item Here and There. ; ., . ' .The inquest into the death of Edwin I Burdick began Saturday Colonial Secretary Joseph and Mrs. Chamberlain received a great ovation when they . landed - at Southampton from a visit to south. Ainca - RtrlrHn1rtiMi of the Pennsylvania railroad company hare -voted to in- - crease the capital stock by 1150,000, 000. making the total authorized cap! - tai moo,ouu,ouu. ; Senator Spooner; held that Senator Morgan's criticism Of the validity 6f the Panama canal title was uniustifl : able, and that a valid title will pass - 7: fwdan Armour ; and John Cuda- ' nay nave cornerea jviay corn.' uaai vear 2.600.000.000 bushels of corn was " raised, but more than 75 per cent of it . was. damaged ojr nn.'t,.;r&.';?; ., Mavor Carter H. Harrison has se- purnii nofl .!) . the rlflfl'ates to the ; Jjemocratio cny ' convention ana wui - doubtless be the next Democratic ' candidate for mayor of Chicago ' ' " The board of revenue has completed the census of , China, showing a to have a population Of 426,447,000. The nnmWtnf tnhahlfcanta In Mancuria. ' Mongolia. Thibet and Turkestan were only estimated. - , " ' ' ' The MlssissiDDi river is still rising, , - The levees are being closely watched and miarded." So far no breaks have ' been reported. The damage already ' amounts to millions of dollars. There , is small loss of life. , , - Holland proposes to enact a law prohibiting strikes, about 80,000 of her railway employes, propose to aime. . ' Should the strike become general, Germany's export trade through Hoi "land would be crippled." Then the Kaiser would take a hand. , in the course of the- trolley car strike in Waterberrv, Conn.. . an in junction has been granted restraining from boycotting the Hallway " and Lighting company, from impeding Jthe business of the company, and from acts of intimidation and violence. ' Continental countries are annoyed by ; our treaty with Cuba. As soon as the treaty is ratified, Germany will ask both the United States and Cuba for Identical' privileges. Other govern ments will probably make the same re . quest. If it is refused Germany will give other countries preferential treat - ment Venezuela's initial payment on the - 9340,000 pledged., to Germany is now due. In the .payment she ' will be al ' lowed two more days of grace. In case the payment, aniountinsr to $70. 000. is not forthcoming on time, r Bel crium will be asked to step in and assist in administering the customs as provided in the protocol. An order' has come to '. Baltimore from the New York offices of the West ern Union company to "do up" the Postal company. tJo an army vof-men was put to work' to, cut -down Postal wires. Ninety-five pOlei were stripped of wires. But the army, bf destruction was followed by a body of Postal em plovees strinffiBtr the wires on . new poles. .yr''i'v A ''.r'V'.V'' The indications are that Senator Fairbanks' presidential boom" Is to be made a reality in the south. - A seem' indy well defined plan on the part of Senator Fairbanks to establish a string of newspaper organs through-1 out the south is developing.' He - has already bought out the Elizabeth City Carolinian and moved it to Raleigh. He has also bought a newspaper in Greenville, Tenn., and is preparing to A Remarkable Cim. ... One of the most remarkable cases of a cr ' 3. deep-seated on the lungs, caus i - pneumonia, is that of Mr. Ger trude E. Fenner, Marion, Ind., who was entirely cured by the use of One Minute Cough Cure. She says: "The coughing and straining 'so weakened me that I run down in weight from 113 to 92 pounds. I tried a number of remedies to no avail until I used One Minute Cough Cure. Four bottles of this wonderful remedy cured me entirely of the cough, strengthened my lung's and restored me to my normal weight, , health and strength." J. E. Hood. ArilYcd Thi M m Th:.t Vi2 J Cc-zVp. M open a journal Id Birmingham, under the management of Roscoe Mitchell. Several other enterprises are named in North Carolina and Tennessee in which Senator Fairbanks is said to be Interested, Several parties have been looking over the field in Norfolk, with the view of starting a penny morning paper' and the report is that Senator Fairbanks is interested in the scheme. Lady Granville Gordon, who has disappeared from her English home in London, taking with her her little girl, Cicely, over whom there has been a dispute in a divorce suit, is said to be en route for Sioux City, Io. It is a fact not widely known that Lady Gordon peptone, Minnesota, a village not far from Sioux City. Many people in Souix City know her well and she has relatives in Minnesota. A Statement. t : , ' Mr. EDiTOB':-For 'M benefit of those who are '-' v. , ; - , temperance legislation foi .ww, we desire to make the following statement: After consulting with many of our friends and after becoming satisfied that the London bill would fall to . be passed by the legislature, we decided to pre pare a dispensary bill for Kinston and secure its enactment into law, ', subject to ratification by the peopie.,V ; ; ' : , We prepared a bill which we think was admirably suited to local eondl tlons In our town and sent it to Sena tor Pollock and a copy to Representa tive 'Wooten to be introduced. .After receiving the assurance from - the liquor dealers here that they would not oppose the bill and fclso the as surance of our senators that it would be passed, and receiving no intima tion from our ; representative that r It would be opposed i in ' the 1 house,!- we gave the matter no further concern, '-r The bill passed the senate out, mucn to our . surprise, 1 was tabled in the house and our efforts afterwards to get it through the house were rendered futile on account of the bill being lost and could pot be found, We deem it necessary to make this statement that the people' may under stand the situation and may take such steps in mass meeting or otherwise, as may seem to them wise for the further ance of their -wishes in this matter. . . - - n. j, KotrtrsE, - ( : - js. y. prows, McDaniel, ABBOTT, ,' Okmoxd, " Committee.' . German Ships 'and Sailor , u v n. j, i, . f Boston Globe.' . - , j. It is a remarkable fact that while the' Germans furnish . among the best sailors in the world, especially officers, and while the requirements of a nauti cal education in Germany are more rigid i than elsewhere, . the German steamships are run at lower cost than either the British or American. ." v The captain of a German liner is paid $06.04 per month. , The, captain of an American liner receives $120 per month. A German able seaman gets $14.74 a month, while ; an American gets $25. . as a result it is said mat tns uer- man officer gets certain "tips" , which are not allowed in the American ser vice, but this does not help the ordi nary seaman. , , But Germany Is getting to windward Just the same. In 1881 her flag covered only i,Z4J.z0 ions or mercnam snip ping.' In 1902 it covered 2,6tt,950 tons. She now'ha9 second place among mar itime nations, Great Britian still lead ing with 14,800, 489, tons of merchant Bhinolns-. the United States holding third place. We have less ocean ton nage than a single steamship company in Germany, - : And Still It Grows. Raleigh, NJV.-C.i March, 13.J. S.r Wynne, secretary and treasurer of the- Raleigh cotton, mills,: of this city, -is authority tor the statement that anew Fries merger will be formed by the aid of New York eanitallsts and that the consolidation is expected to be effected - - . . 1 - early in April. The Raleigh mills will enter the combination, - ' , The Stomach Is the Man. ' ' ' A weak stomach weakens the man, be cause it cannot transform the food he eats into nourishment. Health and strength cannot be restored to any sick man or weak woman without first restoring health and' strength to the stomach. A weak stomach cannot di gest enough food to feed the tissues and revive the tired and run down limbs and organs of the body. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure cleanses, purifies, sweetens and strengthens the glands and membranes of the stomach, and eures indigestion, dyjpepsia and all stomach troubles. J. E. Hood. ""S MAN IOLLING HORSE XHl WAY HE ACQUIRED HIS HATREO TOR HUMANKIND. ' 1 v It AU With the Crl Tvt- . mnt Be Btv4 ta Him ClmdU Tlctoma Iaeldeata Tkat Marked HI 1 The development of a vlciooa horse from an Innocent colt is described by Bewell Ford la one of the atoriea in "Horse Nine. " The colfa disposition was first apolled by Ignorant and cruel handling on the farm of one Fertina, Then he -was sold, and his subsequent career la thus pictured:,. .-cY. '.: In the weeks during which he trailed over the fruit district of southern Mich igan in the wake of the horse buyer Blue Blazes learned nothing good and much that was 11L He finished the trip1 with raw hocks, a hoof print on hit flank and tooth -marks on neck 'and withers.' Horsea led In a bunch do not improve in disposition. " : ' i Some of the scores the blue roan colt paid in kind, some be did not. bat' he learned the- game of give and take. Men' and horses alike, be concluded, were against him. If he would bold hia own,' he must be ready 'With teeth and hoofs. Especially be carried with, him always a black, furious hatred of man In general. . . ; So be went about with ears laid back, the whitea of hia eyes showing and a. bite or a kick ready la any emergency. Day by day the bate in him deepened ttntil it became the master passion. 'A quick footfall behind him was enough to send hia heels' flying as though they had been released by a hair trigger. He kicked first and investigated af terward The mere eight of a man within reach ing distance roused all his ferocity. ' A j Toward his own1 kind ' Blue, piaies bore himself defiantly; Double harness was something he loathed. One' was tot free to work his will on the de spised driver if hampered by k pole and mater - In such cases he nipped manes and kicked under the traces un til released. - He had a special antip athy for gray1 horses and fbiight them' on the smallest provocation or upon none atari. ' As a result, Blue Biases, while know tng no ' masters, 'bad many owners, sometime three in a. single weak,-., JIe began hU career by filling ' a three months engagement as a livery horse, but after he ISad Wn away7 tvdoseo times, . wrecked several ' carriages and disabled' a hostler he was sold for half his purchase price.4 ,' I i ' - '.TheO did he enter upon his- wander ings hi real earnest He pulled street cars, delivery: wagons, drays, and ash carts. He was sold, to unsuspecting farmers, who; when bis' evil traits cropped out,-wapped blm nnceremonit ously and with Ingenious prevarication by the roadside. : In the natural course pr events he . was much pttniBbed., V-- - t Up and across the southern penin sula of .Michigan The drifted' content tlous!y growing more .vicious -with each enoounteri more daring after each, Victory; In Muskegon be seat the driv er of a grocery wagon to the hospital with a Bboulder bite requiring cauter ization and four. stitches, .In Manistee he broke the small bones In the leg of a bakerslai-bof."HB--Cadillae- boarding stable, " hostler ; struck ' hira with an iron shoveL Blue Blazes kick ed, the hostler quite accurately ' and very suddenly through a window1,'" "; Between Cadillac and - Kalaska ' be spent sexeral lively weeks with , Xarn, era. Most of them- tried various ,tanv ing ' processes. .Some escaped with bruises and some suffered serious in jury., At Alpena' he found afi bwer,1 who. having fend something very con- . . . . j . . . - . , vinclng In a horse se tramer oooc, eiao- . ...... Good AdvieeW-" v-rvrip-Forcancer, tumors, swellings," bills. Which-, reached the senate ' The most" miserable beings to the ;ing sores, ugly ulcers, persistent pim- branch of the general assembly . this world are those suffering from Dye. ples of all kinds, .take. B. B. . B ,: It;.term,,have been incorporated into -our pepsia and Liver complaint. More -destroys the cancer poison in the statute laws as distinct measure. ;i than seventy-five percent, of the peo blood, heals cancer of all kinds,- cures. Troy, March, . 14. About twelve pie In the United. States are . afflicted- the worst humor; or -.: suppurating .. o'clock today, near Candor,', Lane with these two. diseases and their ef swellingv .Thousands ' cured - by i Morgan shot and instantly killed John fects: such as Sour Stomach,- Sick- B. B. B.. after all else fails; B. B. U. Richardson.' The two men were at the Headache, Habitual Costiveness, PaMcOmposed of pure botanic ingredients, home of Marshall Pittman, and when pitation of the Heart, Heart-burn, - Improves the digestion, makes the Morgan started to leave, calling Rich vVaterbrash, Gnawing 'and Burnings blood pure and rich, stops the awful ardson to follow him, Pittman's wife, Pains at the Pit of the Stomach. Yel- itching and all sharp, shooting pains. . ' low Skin, Coated Tengue and Dis agreeable Taste in the Mouth, Coming up of Food after Eating, Low Spirits, etc. Go to your Druggist and get a bottle of August Flower for 25 or 73 cents. Two doses will relieve you. Try it. I Id M lZJJ mr ajiifej W umi a us nui -vm wvwk sv the stall to wreak vengeance with a riding whip. ' Blue Biases accepted one rut. after which he crushed the aveng er against toe plank partition uutll three of the man's ribs were broken. Toe Alpena wan was fished from on dor the roan's hoofs just In time to save his Ue.; , . ' V'.:' - This incident earned Blue Biases the name of "man kHler,M, and. it stuck. He even figured in the newspaper dis patches. . "Blue Biases, the Michigan Min Killer," 'The Ugliest Horse Alive," "Alpena's 'Equine Outlaw" these were some of the headlines. The Perkins method had borne fruit , : V.- J'-,'"l' """" """' : !A',l.aekT' Bl- tslaaias;. ' " In the old days," said a Colorado man, "Senator Tom Bowen came to Denver -from Arkansas down on his luck. Steve Dorsey had just defeated him for the United States senate. i:. fTont didn't seem to catch oh In Den ver, though he was a good lawyer. He was run' down at the heel, and be took to pin pool to kill time. - The stakes were usually a round of drinks and a bunch of mining stocks, the par value Of the stocks represented being entire ly ' consistent .with the 5 cost . of paper id the price of printing. It was al waya s real hardship on Tom when be test" The drinks had to be paid for In cash; you know; But he seldom lost, and, do you know, the little woman at hohie used to go through his pockets every night for mining stocks. ; i' . ' ''ell, , one day there was a high strike in- a prospect not so very far from Denver, and In telling his wife about It the future senator sighed that he, wished he owned a few; shares.. 'I think you, dOi dear, answered the little woman, and then to1 make sure she went and looked over her possessions. To make a long story short Tom Bow en went downtown that afternoon with securities worth half a million in bis pocket, and he remembered that be bad won them all In a single half1 day Dot long before." New-York Telegram. ' Mfr';:"'. 111 '; ; . . " , 0;W:VMnmin m Cwtm. . . , ' It is said, that statistics prove- that in every 1.000 bachelors there are thirty- eigl.t crlmIala,V while tn very 1.000'' as given damages in the sum of trjarrled men the criminals number only V 13,000. - The ; defendant ; will appeal. e' -i'tn. If this Is so, it surely proves ' Congressman E. Y. Webb, of the that' liiepreseBt -day. members ihew,fntn district, -will deliver the literary labeled coy and hard to please have ' Jes? fp,Tao.h.illcoeDT leeptag men-but of mischief, sufaclent T M JohnBonf ol Greensboropresi to outbalance pethapa even the Unkind, - dent of the North Carolina conference reputation handed down the ages, by pf the Methodist Protestant ehurch. Mother Eve. London TStler, -"' Uatotaeo. '"v '' 1 Towne-Met Gabble and' Perkins' at a smoker last, night and -Introduced them to each other. " f , Browne Oh, say, it's a shame to In troduce a bore like Gabble to anybody.' Towne It's evident you don't know Perklnf or you'd see1 the humor of it ' ' j CrltlclslaafWu Own. - ?' . Ji 'TBut. my dear "husband, it really Is unjust of you to abuse"m0tbers-ln-law so. a There are good ones." ' ! ? "Well, " welU neVeir ' mind. ? I haven't TrttTC ?r' ' 'n-r.'i . "' i ' S f ' ',',vf"J?tate-May 5th; Sanford 7th; Avinter - Care f anew and Blood FoIk. v .flfHigh School, 15th; Oxford, 18th; -.If you bate.blo04 boiou: producing S?avJi e'' eruptionsVipimples, " juicer s,f . BwolleS TmiSiXSf'fc - ' School v 2Bth! glands, bimps andVislngs, 1 burnihg,, UtttetSn' i ' - Itching" skin, cbppercolored 'iBpots br !j The -jrecent legislature exceeded rash on the skin, "mucous patches $n "her of the two previous , sessions in mouth br- throat, falling halrV ,bore:t.henumber of bills Introduced. The oalns. bid rheumatism or foul catarrh. -: senate number at the . session of 1899 take Botanic Blood Balm (B. B.. & It kills the. poison In the bloody soon all orei. eruptions neai. hard-, sweii-z suimomjuwyauu .rj.rrL:! nn1 a nArfopC cure is made of the" 4 worst cases of Blood Poison." - X 1 t Thoroughly testea lor inmy years. . Druggists, $1 per large bottle, with complete directions for home cure, Sample free and prepaid by writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. De-, scribe trouble and free medical advice also ssnt in sealed letter. NEWS Clipped m called .JTom onr Horu Carolina Exchanges. OtD iKD 1ITERESTISG HiPPEIIIGS. Gossip Gathered from Murphy To : Manteo of Importance to Our Tar Heel Readers. ' ' - r;'"v ..- .. ii;;;.; . , : 5,: J It is learned at the agricultural de partment that the sales of fertilizer tax tags are normal.' It is expected that they will be aa large as they were last spring..-, ..v ,',' V.'vi-.'.iivy. - j jN'k::.: ! Friday afternoon the Trinity College baseball team defeated Trinity Park High School by a score of 8 to 4. It was the first game of the season, and a goodxrowd was in attendance. I Mr. 'J t- C Clifford, Of Duhnf " says rapid progress is now being made at the milling town, the Dukes are build ing at the falls of the Cape Fear; The company will expend $2,000,000, W heeded, in establishing the town. ' ,v v Articles of incorporation were Sat urday granted the International Tele phone company, The company is cap italized at $125,000 and allowed to do business on a small capital. Their Office will be at Spray, Rockingham county. - r i Ellis Wiggins was sentenced to fif teen months on the public roads of Wilson county by the-court of Nash, for liberating seven prisoners. Toney, his brother, was sentenced to the peni tentiary by the. same court for two years for attempting to burn Sear's barroom at Nashville. ' ' v The strawberry fields up the WU mington and weioon railroad are white with blooms. Some of the growers expect to ship strawberries from the 6th to the 10th of April, if the weather remains good and there is no set back. The crop promises to ripen two weeks earlier than last year,,; .m In the superior court ; at Charlotte the case of W. S. Clanton against the eity of Charlotte for $5,000, for al leged damage to Clanton's farm, west Of the city, by the sewerage from the city, was concluded and the plaintiff ituthertordton, tf. C., March 14 : rroiessionat saie-cracicers blew open the safe In the postofflce at Rutherford Ion Saturday morning , at 2 o'clock, Securing $100 In stamps and money , and made good their' escape. One year ; ago cracksmen entered the postofflce at that place and did the same work but got about five hundred dollars. It - is believed this was the work of a man in Rutherford ' county. A postofflce inspector was wired for. Governor Aycock has made quite a number of educational appointments to speak during the next two or three . months. The dates up to -the end of ,way are . as follows: Guilford Col NORTH. STATE i,acl 1,51 thafrof 1901 showed a of 1,687, and the last . MuL--V;Of n commuiees, : on porated into omnibus bills of various character, s A little more than 1,200 pf -; won't let your baby suffer, when a 25 cent bottle of Anway's Croup Syrup will cure his cough or croup. Don't risk the ordinary -1'Cough Remedy'' they are not made for babies. Anway's is a baby's cold and cough cure. 25 cents at J. E. Hood's. 1 a sister of Richardson, would not let 1 him go. She told Morgan to speak i there if he wanted anything. Morgan -then . returned and taking hold of 4 Richardson, exclaimed: "You killed my brother and I will kill you." He ; then shot Richardson dead. ' The lat- r ter had killed Ell Davis, a half broth-, er of Morgan, a few months before, v, Morgan is a brother of Asa Morgan, -who was sentenced to the penitentiary for twenty years in January. " ' The figures given by the report of the attorney general show plainly that -, the crime of murder is Increasing in North Carolina. The report gives two year periods from January 1st,' '. 1889 to 1902, making 1 such periods. In the first there were 90 murdertrlals, in the second 154, in the third 170, in the fourth 186, in the fifth 188, ' in the sixth 189 and in the seventh 204. Trials for manslaughter ' have . in- " creased from 15 for the first period to : 60 to the last, and trials for murder in the second degree which during th ' first two years were only 47, are now ' 84. ' Burglary has increased from 54 to 80, and assault from 25 to 37. Ar son is the crime in which there is - less average increase. - During the first period there were only 14 trials for : this crime. During one period, : 47 '. trials were had, but now it is dropped , back to 13. The highwater mark for '; all crimes was reached during the years 1897-1898 when there were 18,543 tried as against 10,437 during 1889-90. ' . - The 8tate Association. ' ' The Young Men's Christian Asso elation concluded ita sessions Tuesday . night. " . . The following were elected to suc. ceed themselves as members ot the State .executive eommitteer W-. C -Dowd, C, W. Tlllett, Geo. Stephens, J. H. Little, of Charlotte; Dr. Thos. Hume, of Chapel Hill; also the eleo tion of the following members: . H. A. Banks, C. E. Mason, J, H. Wearn, F. D. Lethoo, of Charlotte; W, H. Sprunt, of Wilmington; Geo. R. Collins, of ' Ashevllle. - ', - ' ' The federation '. of the associations " of North and South Carolina with . headquarters at Charlotte, was agreed upon. Reports from all departments showed the Y, M. C. A. ia North Carolina in ; excellent condition. The State eon- vention was well attended and rnost. profitable to all in attendance. Carol Ina 8; Bingham 0. . $ ; 1 Chapel filll, N. - C.,1- March. The " initial game of the season was. played here today when the University boys' defeated Mebane 6 to 0. 1 While the scors Indicates a some what closer game than was expected, yet the University team made a good, " ' showing. Holt tor Carolina played a strong game, knocking two doubles. '- ' The batteries were: Bingham Chand- -ler and Weatherly. . CarolinaT-GreeaV 1 and noble, umpire, cox. Final score, stood, Carolina 6 runs, ' 7 hits, 2 errors. Bingham, no runs, 2 ; ' bits, 4 errors. What's la a Namet Everything is in the name when it comes to Witch . Hazel Salve. E. C. -DeWitt k, Co of Chicago, discov- ered, some years ago. how to make a salve from ' Witch Hazel that is a specific for Piles. For blind, bleed- ing, itching and protruding Piles, : eczema,; cuts, burns, bruises and skin ' diseases, De Witt's salve has no equal.'? This has given rise to numerous worth-. less counterfeits. Ask for De Witt's the genuine. J. E. Hood. -, -' EUVITA IS THE BEST FOUNTAIN DRINX, ; ' ' - ' ' BkCAtlSE' " "L- - - . "T. vwr' J! ' i 'I '' j.- V, Euvita Is delicious,, reTreshlrtg and ' ex- ; hiiaraW J, ' ; -'I-- ' vr Euvita $s , admitted by medical men a ' . r;t) .' true tonic J. , "; i- ' v . A Euvita cures heartburn and flatulency. , s-. ' Euvita fixes your stomach. ' - ' .' v - ", : ,' Euvita keeps yoor stomach right. ; f; ; Euvita cures th- caffeine habit. - , !,.-, Euvita drives away the blues. Vv'-' Euvita gives you good ideas.' v Euvita is a harmless bracer: ' ' v ' ' '. Euvita makes work easy. 1 -','. Euvita will not create any habit. :', 1 ! Euvita takes up the slack is the nervous :; , system ; ;' -Euvita is health. ."" ' Drkk Euvita Erhk Health.-' .' 5c All Soda Fountains. 7) () 0 0 0" M 0 f) 0 u n i -
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