zs&jasm
»r of the American force*
of Mindatao, cables that
who susfl+ed thA attack
ire of the Moro fort hr Amari
U VTZZTl'Z:
Bajah Muda, Sultan Panda Pad to
a number of the loading Dattos,
were killed iij the engaiehietrt- ^ The
It on the principal tort, reports
General Darla, was one of the most
gallant performances of American
arms la the PhlBppfties Ik fid the r§giT
ment of Lieutenant Colonel Trank EL
Baldwin, the Fourth Infantry, deserve*
rihe greatest credit of its conduct The
2*8363:
tn the four lines of ditches under the
grails of the fort When the position
was'eaHHM these ditches were found
,to h* lined with Moro dead. General
Tnri* «JjTW:t«rl*46 Uufctffe to® Pf JH
AmertaBsgs excellent and says he has
never wftBeseed a performance excel
, ling th» capture of the Moro fort In
gallant™. Genera! Davln^aymsly >»
Is bis Alnful duty to aanouncvtlui
* the oveMhrpw of Moro power wds not
accomplished without sev«|e less tt>
the Amwlcans. One o facer and 7 men
were killed, / while 8 officers an4 3?
men weft grounded.
After tore 84 Moros who survived the
assault md mdrehed out of the fori, 3
•others io were concealed thero mads
an unsii&esqful break for liberty. Same
of the Moro wounds^ t$i«#i to stab the
America^soldiers, who were caring for
them. IMis impossible to give the total
of Moro jead, as a ndmber of them are
lying in Ihe t»#r r*
defendedflby 300 men. Its capture saves
a siege, is it^would ham been impos
aible to the position without
scaling'ladders. ... ■
, WrJnTrtrtfdW YorV* t*Vikt *
Clyde, lfj Y., Sptelal—New York Cen
tral fas^inail Nrt S, west-txfiun!. eolVi
tided wl«M feet ftefehtgofcfciia'the
opposite! direction a quarter of a mile
west of the station here et 6 pjggujdfi
lng the engineer and fireman of the
mall anjM&lyfftltAns thirteen
““ dCTl*r»w nM
Pbyrid.iMalMUUiK
England, Ark., Special.—Town Mar
shal Sam B. Weaver was shot and kill-*'
«d by Dr. WnnE. Allen at 7:l(>Wed
needay Afttk. The right arm of At
thur Young, a by stander, was broken
toy a str* «***:'• Dr.' Alleu'-fiad Wferf
arrested about Id days ago by Weaver.
state that the two men met
after eome angrywords -.Allen
In
■?« , .} ^ypiii|i i1y A||mmi jJ
of Oeneral Interest In
Short Paragraphs.
wrnaug
auT^nEfu^ils, Tenn., mo
opoliced Admiral Schley’s third day’s
cmahasA.
iKfcnr ill i 11“" “
of ""Bheeaey” E—ia~
A lamp from a third-story window
ended theJlfq of Mrs. Martha A. h£n
j9Ti9
Ing hie grand-daughter.
Mary Awfleld, act Butler, Tenn., Wll
R«*¥* cnimnl^wLanlcldAif njr
hew fiotef.at'lfoirguelMe, N. M.,‘
has been offered the Seventh Day Ad
J. A. Diffenbaugh, Passed Exalted
Ruler of the Elba of Baltimore, Md.,
'tMe by dotting his throat' and wrists.
An engine and 12 ears ran away
down a mountain near Saginaw, west
M&m# r £££
Killed. ; -
The Democrat# of Manchester, Va.,
have nominated H. A. Maunce for May
Chgrles L-Page, for Common
itfV^AttornfpJsnd J. Q. Saunders,
Benrgeant/
News has been received In Peters
burg of the burning of the stables and
barns of Mrs. Rosa Bowers in Sussex
county, with a large quantity of feed
and all farming implements. Three
fine horae* and two caws were burned
to death. The fire waa of incendiary
'fMKaMil . 4 ! I /
of Falls
the damage
floods of last
have the plant
iniSKtha. Mill has
*30 looms.
I At*PheNationalCapital.
Revenue collectors during March
were 221,227.5*6*
, The. Government has officials at
Boise, Idaho, investing Surveyor
Genial Ferranlt.
in A complimentary dinner was given
Secretary o,f,the Navy Lpng by hie bu
reau chiefs, at Washington,«£>, CL.,
< Thh Clfcb,t t>f Chi&gd, 111.,
WHlt >ep|aspniptlselto.rWa*4torfon.
D. C., to ask the President to be its
guest next fall. ~ ; -
u tf I IVM ... * ww** I * i' 1 i ri t !
--
t-At The North.
^ , *
* > ttl* tfdaalte Trust rwill Wchase ^he
•lx quarries of Wisconsin.
I of Brand & ubben’s store at St. Paul
HUK Walter N. Dimmick
B. Drex
n elected
trican Diesel Bn
r York, control of
rwbicfe has been acquired by the Inter/
I national Power Company. _.
f The First National and' Metropolitan
w kj aasrsa-s
to be the second largest in the country.
lit inm
charged with the murder.
mmm.
Fear girl* hare been awarded the
* ^ Conklin i, wblte
. Tbr werkingueo of the Chicago and1
Alton shops. In Bloomlng^m, ,to th#
number of 2,000, hare signed on agree
ment to aWtaig ffom meet for thirty
JayS ThJSrSS nopeful that every
var{QQnaA ^ (tha COUntTI igll follow ^
jftfc'w1
women
In plater. The sitter
poses Just ae she would for a painting,
and the artfct executes a bust portrait
in clay. From this a plaster medallion
Hie l* usually preferred for these, por
trait*. '
W^\,x n-\ Vj^p^r
President Roosevelt Talks to Cadets
at Annapolis v
iW# Vu v* f/r *rr
ootJ^th® p«tfy wARt'iupM
Ity of the Meo of the Navy -^4|p
V\*k. w' w 4wn ,Wl*nA. hV'
r{1Ann*jiohe. ¥*i 'Sm^TT*** «P«b
cfal train conveying President Roose
velt and party to Annapolis to attend
j the graduating exercise# N#»Hfc
Academy, arrive^ here over the Penn
sylvania Railroad. As the President
, slighted from the train he /wf^hfr
reived by Superintendent Walnrig^t
and his aide, lieutenant Sefbmefer;.
A battalion of marhfcar under cent
mand of Captain t«cas, - waa drawm
up at the station. The party proceed-^
ed in " carriages lb ' thh Aoadefciy
grounds. The President walked gcrosp
the campus to where the cadets were
lined up, and pastor down th# line,
looked each cad<£ squarely in L the
face. He was then pn##*ted i
officers of the Acfiddiny hy Com
der Wainwrigbt. iWhfle this ws
ing on, the shore batteries fife
President’s salute of 21 guns,
sound of the bugle blast; th©
stacked guns an# marched by
to the chapel, inhere benediction was
pronounced by the chaplain. In the
meantime, the President had been es
corted down the aisle by Commander
^Walnwris*; and.*J.
seat on the platform, the battalion of
cadets, the officers and others, re
ceivmg the president standing.
Command^ Waifcfrrlght tk*n latro*
duced Dr. George T. Winston, a mem
ber of the board of visitors, who deliv
ered a short address. He was loudly,
applauded when he referred to Dewey
as the' hero of Manila and Sampson
the hero of Santiago, and at the con
clusion of his remarks was congratu
lated by the president. The gradu
ating class discarded their guns and
Accoutrements and advanced close to
the platform. President Roosevelt
theh addressed them, his remarks .be
ing frequently interrupted by ap
plause. The President said in pawgj'l
^ “In receiving these diplomas
become men who above almost any
others of the entire Union are to carry
henceforth the ever-present sense of
responsibility which must come with
the knowledge that bn some tremen
dous day it may depend npon your
courage, your preparedness, your keen
Intelligence and knowledge of your
progression, whether or not the nation
is again to write her name on the
world’s roll of honor, or to know the
black shame of defeat. We all of us
earnestly'RTTpe' that the occasipn for
war may never come, but if it has to
come, then this nation must TJa and
the prime fadtor in securing victory
ifparMpwjnMign foe must of necessity 5
be States navy. If tb«fc
n*vy failn Us then we are doomed to
fefent, no .Mutter what may be our,
material,, wealth or the high average
bt our citizenship. It should, there
fore, be an object of prime importance
for every patriotic American to see
that the navy is constantly built up
and above all that it Is kept to the
highest point of efficiency both in ma
terial and in personnel. It cannot be
too often repeated that in modern war
and especially in modern naval war,
the chief factor in achieving triumph
is what has been done in the way of
thorough preparation and in training
before the beginning pf,tbe war. It
1b what has been done before the out
break of the war that is all impor
tant.
"Officers and men alike must have,
thq sea habit; officer! and men alike
must realize that in battle the only
shots that count are the shots that
hit and normally the victory will lie
with the side whose shots hit the of
Between Senators Sim
tefcandP Itehs d.
\ debate was precipitated in
Friday by Mr. Pritchard, of
>lWa, by some remarks he
_jpollttes and pbli$|oal ntethoda
Jn that State, in the course of a.fccus
sion the Philippine hill. Bermain
[**<«.»* Mw» pending measure dett
‘ujftlstratlve features
^Yipsieted th*
KTaid*
thd SbSsSjS Sl^that
• if the, charges were true, the guilty
MigbUo be punished severely and un
doubtedly would be. He suggested that
some of the methods employed by the
opponents of the hill in tills country
1 ought to, be reformed, and told of what
la called the "sand cure" ip North Car
olina, the victim having his face crush
ed info the sand to stifle his cries while
the was being beaten to intimidate him
politksalli This drew the fire of Mr.
■ Simmons, of North Carolina, who de
.eiared that he never heard of such a
practice. The debate thus started cov
'ered a'wide rhnge of subjects concern
ing lAteth Carolina politics.
Mg Pr,,ohard declared that a ma
jority <bf the people of North Carolina
and of the South were ip favor of the
proposition, of the majority of the Phil
ippine committee and He quoted Th'e
Charlotte Observer as a leading Demi
ocratic paper of the South, in support
of the mention of the Philippines.
"Dote got the Senator know," inter
rupted Mr. Simmons, "that the Char
lotte-jObserver opposed the election of
Wm. J/Bryan to the presidency?”
ij “That Is true," replied Mr. Pritchard,
"but foe paper opposed him purely on
the lfoue ocf free silver.”
In itepoose to another .question by
Mr. Simmons, Mr. Pritchard said he
knev^jpf nobody In the South—Repub
lican *&r Democrat—who was in favor
af “Usporialism,” but he asserted that
a majority of the business men of the
Soutl^were in favor of expansion.
He sgld that a Republican voter was
taken from bis home at night and
heated, his face being crushed Into the
sand to stifle hls criea
Mr. Simmons declared that this was
the fltbt time he ever had heard of the
.•sand cure." He sted he did-not believe
the statement of the .witness quoted by
Mr. Pritchard and insisted that If it
were^&ue/’tte'teteir curb tete not ad
ministered ter pellttenl pui**sses. He
said that for six years he had been the
chairnlan of the Democratic executive
fommitteh of North Carolina, and he
had never known of any cases of out
rage and violence for political pur
noses. 1/ - ;
Bryan had a majority of 6,000 at the
last presidential election. “Either the
colored vqtera were cheated out of
their votes,” said he, “or they voted
the Democratic ticket. I don’t say
which.” He recited what he denounced,
as "outrages'’ that had been perpe
trated, h§Jteclared.*-by the. Democrats
of North CaroUpa, -upon, Republican
voters, but he tpid he did not-think, a
majority of the Democrats of the State
apftrpvakef s,uch outrages. He.did not
think, thdrefoWi. that the Isolated cases
of outrages and torture in the Philip
pines should be dted as arguments
against the Republican policy In the
islands. He expressed the hope that the
punishment of offenders against the
articles of war would be swift and sure
as he believed it would be.
Mr. Simmons replied to some of the
suggestions made by Mr. Pritchard as
to North Carolina politics, In the course
of which he Justified the “white people
in protecting themselves against Irre
sponsible majorities.”
“Does tny colleague say,’ inquired
Mr. TrltlUH, “that the red shirts did
not ride through the State and terror
ize voters?”
In reply,-Mv. StomrtfS averted that
the man who< ' Mr. Rrttchard
. .JpS
otest way an emissary of the Dem
, ocraiic party. Ha had repudiated the
charge publicly,and. bj had^fH so. In
explanation offtWifc* «HT<rbi)8titu
tion he toaid ..thht while it permitted
educated negroes to vote Rwaa adopted
“expressly for thdpdrposq of excludlhg
the .votes of irresponsible negrola
&& adoption of that constitution we
were moved by a hfgfa desire to perpjet
uate the Anglo-Saxon civilisation In
North Carolina."
•• -V I. . .. i--- , >/
SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL
f ' Raleigh to Tidewater.
At a meeting of business men hpld
recently at Raleigh', N. C., $21,000
were subscribed for building the pro*
posed Raleigh & Eastern North Caro
lina Railroad, to pxtend from Raleigh
to Washington, N. C., via Wilson and
Greenville. This line .would be about
ninety miles long, and would provide a
very direct route from Raleigh to tide
water on the Pamlico river. James II.
Pou, E. B. Barbee and Josephtts Dan
iels are among the subscribers to the
fund. It is estimated that the line can
be constructed for $1,000,000, and the
neoesaary shops can be built for $501-;
000. The line would* it was stated,
traverse one of the richest ahd most
fertile sections of North Carolina. Pro-,
vided the necessary, subscriptions are
raised, bonds will be floated to, build
the road. .**VJ
In this connection it is Interesting to
note that a lirfe is proposed between
Stantonsburg and Wilson. Regarding
this project, Dr. S. H. Croker of Stan
tonsburg writes the Manufacturers'
Record that citizens of the two towns
propose connecting them by a railroad.
Continuing, he says:. “We had abdut
enough money pledged to build the
road, and the delay la due to the con
templated Ralbigh ft Bastern North
Carolina Railroad from Raleigh via
Wilson and Greenville to Washington,
N. C. If so, that road will be on our
line, and we are now working in har
mony with the Rdlelgh ft Eastern
North Carolina. The road will run
through the finest timber and agricul
tural belt in the State, and we see no
reason why it will not pay from tho be
ginning."
Industrial Miscellany.
The large lumber plant at Hitch-;
cock, near Emporia, Va., operated by
the HitchcOck-Trego Company, will
under a contract pass under the con
trol of the Emporia Manufacturing Co.,
which will utilize a large portion of the
output of this mill at its planing mill
and box factory in North Emporia,
tHitchcdck mill will cut from 40,
to 50;000 feet of lumber a day, and
sr the new management will be op
erated at its full capacity.
A syndicate of prominent’ Maryland
and West Virginia financiers baye or-,
ganized a company in. Hagerstown,
Md., with a capital of $100,000. Tbs
company has. purchased about 10,QflO
acres of t-lmber land—spruce, heinli
and hardWOOds—from ex-Senator
ry O. Davis', la Randolph county;
Virginia. This tract will be dew
at once. The main office wflf-X
cated at Hagerstown, with R. IjL Afvey,
Jr., the Toc&l representative.
Governor Montague of Virginia has
signed a bill granting to Mr. H. L.
Page and his associates the right to
build a tunnel under the Elizabeth
river in Virginia, so as to connect Nor
folk, Portsmouth and Berkley. It Is
provided that the work of constructing
the tunnel must begin within ninety
days, and it is expected that cars will
be run through fit within a year from
the day the work is begun.
Textile Notes. . ,<
The Vale Royal Mills at Savannah,
Ga., have been sold by Mr. H. P. Smart
to the Hiiton-Dodge Lumber C6. The
mills are located west of the central
Railway ft Ocean Steamship Co.’s ter
minals, and'are among the most mod
ern and best equipped plants li the
Stater. These mills nave made a spe
cialty of cypress lumber and shingles.
The Hllton-Dodge Lumber 'Co. will
continue to operate the mill, having
leased from Mr.,Smart.large Limberln
terosts .along the S4 innlVMwi’-Tt 1
understood that the price paid for th
mlllB was $30,000.
* * >■ r; 'iJk I "l •-!
» Work Is progressing rapidly on the
construction’ of the Alexander City
(Ala.) Cotton Mills, and the buildings
will be completed soon. The main
■tnicture is oL brick, three • stories
hi|h, equipped with electric light*, wa
ter and sewerage system, fire equip
ment, etc. There is a spindling-room
•n the second and the third floor, each
L128x165 fast: In sMe. The DleHer-rdoni
Ms on the third floor, and is 46x128.fact)
The company 1b capitalised at $900,000,
j and will operate 10,000 spindles.
8ra Cotton Mills of Torkvill% S.
ordered between $0000 and
worth of additional'niachthfert,'
ida to be obtained from Its t*
crease in capital from $40,000 te
taf! I > K 7ifK«
End of Huston, TJt, Is enfleav
fora mill company; • $36,OP
subscribed.
SUhStfKttS":
:o build a cotton-rope mill.
aWt £
iderwear. will be the principal'
investment $16,000.
Cotton Mills of Toccoa, Ga.J
►i si»ty»flve additional loamS
iranafe&a*
i product will accordingly be
cloth, instead of yarns only,
ly.- Plant will spin night and
d Cottdn Mills of Cedartown,
:ompleted the installation of
ent Increase in spindles from
£000. The plant was i«t
te while the engino was being