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.1,53 i fa VOL, lT.KO.2G. riTTSHiiUO. rtf ; a, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27; !H03. ft' KORTH STATE MATTERS y Newsy , Items (ileaned From K . Murphy to riantco. v:eUtX5;;&v:N3i iSklp. Mr, A; Tides, owner of the cele brated "llailft gold mine, arrived ia CfcarloUe Wednes'ay morning to spend the day., with his ron-in Saw, Mr. F. IL MoNineh, and his many Meads In Charl?iv Just fctfoMTffolRK. cut to' the tracts.' fee ' concluded that tm 414 not have ' euyygh. pocket c'haiee ...to maka . felVa . wtivfortaWe and.- hy-'. sot Ecclcs & Iiryaa to convert a check for $50 into cadi. This bo stuck down into hie trouncm pocket aud went io the races,, Wh?n he got tack ho re ported that a pickpocket bad worked hltn for' total of $31. Mr. Thles has do idea at what Stage of the game he vu relieved of hia cash. : ; t . Annie Grass, tho ten-year-old daugh ter ?f Mr. Percy Oraas. who lives near the Qhadwlek mill in Charlotte; met with au awful death Wednesday morn ing. Shortly before the noon hour she was told to go and make a fire pre paratory to cooking the inld-day meal. On going Into the kitchen che picked up an S1 an and carried It with her to the stove. She poured some oil on the fire and is It did not Haze up at , once, she again took the can and com nwuced pouring on more oil. The oil caucht fire ami the can exploded. throwing the tmraing oil all over the i hud. She died before a physician reached her. Tuesday at Advance, la Davie coun ty. the wtf of Braxton Bailey com mltted suicide by jumping in a well and drown'Eff btrself. As soon as. the missed search was made and her boJy was recovered within about twenty minutes, but life was extinct when the was taken out. It is stated tliat she had for nome time been In feeble health and that her mind had Ixxxmie impaired. Nothing more is knows as to why the we led to com-mlt'fctsif-dctstmcUcn. . , Mrs. Sarah A. Finger, widow of the late M?4. S. FIngr. died Sunday even ing at 4 o'clock at her home in New ton.1 Mrs. Finder wag apparently ia good health and attended the Sunday school and preaching, services in her ova church. "Reformed, and was sitting on her porch converging with lier aeiee. Miss Wtxie Rhyne, when she threw up ber hands . and cried "Oh, I,ord.". and died Instantly. She had been a sufferer since the death rf her hasband ia '96, but was for some time in apparently better hcal'.h than usual. While exercising on the track Mon day evening at 6:30. the celebrated running horse. "Mr. Smoot," belong ing to Mr. A. G. Denton, of lUleigh, - flew the track and sustained Injuries which will incapacitate him from participating in the races of the meet, two of which ho was entered for that afternoon. Thia well-known horse has many out of town admirers who had put up money on him and who will regret to hear of the accident., which befell him. The horse waa attended by Veterinary Surgeon Adam Fisher and is now doing well. , ,, There waa a bad wreck on the Southern railroad nnar Raleigh Tin' a day afternoon. The entire train left the track and Some of the cars were torn into rplinters. Several were in . jurcd inc'r" or less seriously, but, etran;;j to ?f.y, no otui' was killed. It Is no,, koo'f.i Justwhat caused the wr ai it ii ald the train was only running about twenty mllea an hour at the time of the accident. It ia announced la Raleigh that the ' Seabonrtr Air Line shops, burned there id Iv.DO. will be rebuilt at once. Material ia btfng replaced and a part of the old wails are to be used. Thirty-live additional mechanics will ho given work at once and 300 morn within a year. The largest individual life Insur nee claim paid In North Carolina dur Ing the year, was upon the life of the late Preston L. Brldgera, of Wilming ton $3593. - The city of Wilmington Is growing and prospering. At the recent meet ing Ihe Chamber of Commerce it wnafhown that the city's bank re aosf-eea are now $5,450,032. Its cotton tafule the pad. year amounted to III,- tip $7,000,000; :, dry poods. $2,2tlO,TOl), and fertilisers, " $1,875,000.'. 'Wllmlna ton's total trade amounted to $.15,140. 720. A large amount of building is go " Ing cm, and a number of factories are V lwlng erected. i '' ? Jt SIS M i ' sviHe, Spwlsl. John Broadnas, tiny li,irdered Mr. Sidney Blair, an jind highly esteemed citizen of egon section, waa hanged for his jtt Wentwotth Friday, at 1:33 p. ie execution took place In the w. of thirty-odd people and the allowed the sheriff by tho law. fen erlff J. E, Dimbeth sprung 'rgor which ended tho career of the most remarkable murriereir. hlutnrv of Iho conntv. and the 1't ;; if. l'ywf Vn was In every way a complete , Death resulted within V ri'n- ""f ler the trap had been thrown. avcVcI Ve wns no slga pf a struggle or A FATAL WRECK Southern Psssc-g-r Train Leaves the Track Near Rals'gn. Raleigh, SpcclaL The Southern Railway part tiger train, No. SS, left here ar 5 o'clock Tuesday afternoon and was totally wrecked at Walnut crfk. two mil-aa east of here. Pas- sfngers 'felt tbe jar when tie enjim left the rails and a few moments later wera thrown f:o tlsdr eata. Thatti- glne c!on5 reroaincd on the ' embanlr sent while three coaches and a b&S- .-ie or tolled down. Tte bagsaRa esr tnabkd nearl thirty feet . aad rolled over twice, The .ceroad-clssa ! car t:ars4 ever once aad then remain- j d inverted. The smoker rolled over! rl:i!e (ha rear co3Ch slid down on ttvs s.fK Tee two-forward ears were sir uh-si,. cemoiisnea ana even ice lass trsc'i Iknchra wcrs torn from the floor fend pt4 cn tho opposite side. The tola was go'ns; 50 miles an hcttr when Engineer nippry tays th-j front trwek of the engine Jiimped the traek. Brakes were applied but for over two hundred yards the train ran tearing np si'-la and scattering twisted tails. The work of icue was begun Immediately and the passengers were tsken from -beneath-seats and debris where they hsd been thrown. The In jured ve;e carried to Rex Hospital. The esupra are absoluiely miraeu. lous. Ex-Senator -ank Daniels- wss aboard wlH 1,1c 1i-, glil :id Josr pfcoa Daniels two boys. The children were not hurt but Mr Dan'tls' ler was painfully bmised. I. M. Pi''v tor's rose wa3 broken: Mrs. J. C. El lington, fctp dislocat?d; Mail Clerk Will Burwell, colored, sprained sboulder: Conductor Wm. Coble paia fully bruised in ueck. shoulders and face; E, U. Fleming Wilson, contusion e? left side; "W. T. Dsttch. of Oolds boro. conluslcn of back; Representa tive II. B. Parker. Jr.. ;f Ooldsooro, back injured; J. T. 131 and. l.ou!sbur contusion of peeU: Sheriil Sharp, cf WlJson, contusion of si;!-j and ana; W. II. Smith, cf Gcddsa-wo, srlp wound; M:s. M.iry Hobby, sprain. Others were slightly Injured. The popular verdict ascribes the wreck to roltcn ralis, but, the railrosd people deny thia Rev. Br gut Acqulttrd. Sylva, Sjt clal. An ecclesiastical ccundl confii;ting rf some half dozen .cjersrvmen and Isymcn met hera in conference with tbe Paptist Church of Sylva Monday, the 13th. and wcut over the case Of Rev. T. Erisht wirh the church. The council consisted of Rev. B. W. N. Simm. of Wavnesville; Rev. T. F. Deitz. of n'rv'on City; Rev. W. T. Bradley. J. D. Sitten and W. H. Morrison, with Prof. E. Lee Fox, of this place, as secretary. Rfcv. B. W. N. Simms was elected chairman by thi Presbytery, after they had all met with the church, and had obtained from them such facta about Rev. Bright as they possessed. The Pre3 bvtery then sat on the rase for a part of two days. Thev had a most har monious session. They found some ir regularities in the proceedings of the Conferences of the Church, in taking up the case of Rev. T. Bright They did not hestitate to bring them out in connection with the hearing of the case. Indeed It seems these irregulari ties, coupled with the confessions of Rev. Bright before the church and before tho Presbytery, were so over whelmingly in Mr. Bright' favor, the Presbytery seemingly could, do noth ing less than recommend his forgive- ' ness by: tno churcn, whicn iney uio. j Rev. Mr. Bright made a full confes- elon and Mated that he did not know j he was doing wrong when he went Into the cherry tree scheme. Arrested For Smuggling. Beaufort, Special.- The mail boat brought news from OcraroUe Tues day that by orders the life-saving crew at Portsmouth (5 miles from Oeracoke) had arretted the mate and n sailor who were on the wrecked bark Vera Cruz VII. They are In cus today at the station, charged with at tempting to smuggle and violation of the immigration law. There are 200 barrels of whale oil on the vessel. There was a quantity of rum and this the Portuguese sold at $1 a gallon to people at Portsmouth. A Beaufort man who went on the Vera Cru says, he has no doubt that her captain's pur pose was to enter at Oeracoke be cause It Is so remote fiom any col lector of customs. He Intended to land his immigrants and also smuggle. It Is said that he entered a lot of pas sengers as his crew, making the lat ter 25. 'while M was an ample num ber. Tho vesvel was formerly the Moea B. To cr and was built at Bos tan in 1874, and is of ' COS tons. Sho Is now C feet deep in the sand and it will require a very high tide and several tugs to get her to deep water. She is now leaking. The cause of her going ashore Is that the passage is too narrow for a large vessel and thp local pilot got her aground. There la now a notice on the boat forbidding any one to board her. Cola Sentenced. Raleigh. SpecIal.Joe Cole, Sr., the negro who killed CapU Fyed Stevens, on tho Seaboard Air Line passenger train near Henderson last summer, was brought to the penitentiary Mon day night. He was first sentenced to hang but the Supreme Court granted dm a new trial. The court s opinion 'a pot inado public here, but was sent to Henderson yesterday. Cole's lawyer taca -submitted to murder In the second degree which the BolicitDf agreed to and Judge Brown sentenced -I BIG Officii MifflE V.r. WicWs Free Delivery jTervxi Is & S227.300 Cut of the Way.:- . -. ,tr- r - .'' I LE CAvEtOcD lib AdTHOKJl . '. . . - He Hail Klsr', l;e-Trp thn it- Vltlf-in1 K'Ulilmia' ef It-rt lu-l t:d to t: Coue it i:.t Ttenbl Waidiinsien. D. C.-A uefiVic of f-so.) lu the Free Vellvvr? Divikn Its eaust'd consternation In the 1'ostofSee Department. ropluiafd'.-r Oneral rayijj ee verily criticises Superihtca! ent Mrtciien, now under atispensien, for permitting so lurje a deficit.' Mr,'r.vne hnx'deelded not .to'fns pend anyroutes as a result of the de ficit,' but he will net establish any new ones uulll tlje. utfXt .apprapriathtii- be comes svsllrtbie. July 1. Ccngrrfs wid be asked to make ibt fb-ficit Rood. First Assistant - Iostmaiter-4Jeiierrl Wynne received an intimRt'on on May 1 tli.it a u'.-S-it pxmied. te wrote Mr. Maeiien. and letter was received, si rued by BoaUkeeper Si Icli. tayir he d"f' ii azzreimted '.fci'MsiO. Mr, Payne 1 1 reefed Mr. rtrlJow to iuvsi! gnte. Mr. ftriKtow's answer plrtfi"! city free d livt-rr deficit at $U3 7C and ih rural five d'divery SISI.'MR Mr. Mac!) en said that on May 1 ,ti;e itefldt. rs shown by tl! books, amount ed to only WMSMI. The Jf227.".i0, l.e says. U an puiintcte vr to July 1. Be yond declaring that tlirro hns l.'een no attempt at deception he ifucd t( dis ci!s fi:? teefer, Nr. Payne fieHiiirvl - some warmtli in sey-whetter the rireni KtaticeH aurronndinz tiii Mici vr?,r ranted the removal of Mr. Maejcu. Mr. JMvne'iiid that U his opinion tin' liifsiin;f ' was Jmnertiner.t'. JTf. ws i!:ed by the newsiMner conwpendents rewrilinc the fllcerewuev between tl:e. t'XHm re-Vld hr ATc. Sraelieu as the dpflcit t:nd the Ijittn reored 1'V the infpectoi'f. Mr. l'fiyn leplied that, womnfiy en t!i receint '!)( rf port from M. M-idien Ibnt thrre wn a i:ti(it ef szn.wti, !ip ksv instruc tioi's that thi deficit piio nut l e in-, creased, and that exnenrfiturc should be -U''tnikd so n to eliminate it..' if rtossible, br end of the fUcal year. Jnn. Zih "Then," ndd-'d the Potmas-ter-fJeneral. "I immediately irot the re port tlitit the ilcfleit was SJ27.(Mtf. A subordinate "ffleinl hns r.o auibority to cret' a dV? lt without tlfc authority of his superior officer, I care net who that subordinate otHccr may be. If be knew on Mayl that there was a $20. 000 deflcit. and that very day appoint ed "mrgo numlver of cnrrk'rs. which would lnrgely increao the deficit, the action was objectionable." Mr. Payne sold, however, he would give Mr. Machen an opportunity to ex plain the amount and the cause of tb deficit, which friends of tbe accused official r.t-scrted that he would have no difficulty in dolnjt. TRAN VAAL PARLIAMENT MEETS. Iioera Connplvnnn by A borne From tint BritUh LeKisl.tnrr. Pretoria, South Africa. The first British Trnnsvuul ParKameut whs v Kir Arthur I ntvtnr Hi opened IJ..iiteiiaiit-fioveriior i.r tt.A Ti-.-.mvi..! in . welcoming the new and enlarged legislative council the I.Icutctumt-t :uv- eriK.r said the tiovertnncnt had done Its best to obtain n representative body without recourse to popular election, which In tltese times would only cmuc political nud racial strife. lie fore shadowed important measures for lvl o!f-pernmeut. heavy expenditure lu the extent-ion of railroads and other public works, and promised no far as possible to meet local sentiment In regard to education. Provision would be made to teach the Dutch language. The Boers were conspicuously absent from the assemblage. WHITE AND TWO NSCROES HUNG. Lyi.clinl "r Murlrrlngn I'rninin-nt Ail3 , vorate or Prohibition. Tampa,' Pin. Amos Randall, white, and Dan Kennedy and Henry tiolden, negroes, were lynched at Mulberry, Polk County, thirty miles from here, for the murder of Barney tfrown, tt white mini. Randall whs charged with being the operator of a "blind tiger." and Brown was a prominent advocate of prohibition in the campaign which has just ended. The other night, while Brown was en route home, he was shot from ambush and his throat cut. The people-of Mulberry secured evi dence which led them to believe that Hund.iU bail employed uegroes to kill Brown. The three' men were taken Into custody, and one of the negroes confessed that Randall had hired them to commit the crime. ABANDONED TOWN BURNED.. Montana City Vflprd Out by a fir Sat by Tramp. Fast Helena, Mont. Montana City, four miles south of here, at one time one of the famous placer camps of Montana, was destroyed by fire. The camp has been deserted for a long time. Once a city of 1000 people, with a daily (taper, first class hotels and fine streets, Montaua City bad sunk until for i decade It had been entirely aban doned. It is thought tho lire was the the work of tramps. KUtilnrft folic- Chief DliinlMtJ, The Chief of Police at Klsalacff. Russl.-t, has also been dismissed for failure to suppress the out! Semitic ! riots. ,:..',- 4 TELEGRAPH POLES FALL Pcnw v'y -ria RailrrciOt strovs' Prop riy of'ths 'Western Union. . ' result, of Long, djtter fight 7 : ITlir- h Cnnrt Jfae.t an Tiijnnrtio f o ' Tsrih "imijr thi Kail rrntl "Jsr Uowa 13.00a Xlttm ot lVtra in Sis tt- YtrMrrn tiling -'' . ruiladcipliln Pa. FJftf cn hundred tuiics of 1eiesiihjiuc were put out of business', I'iMM iifiles of wire grounded, tV),W.) paies cliopjied down and 1750,000 worth of telegraph iroperiy destroyed, U the reeord of the latest developments in the Pennsylvania Rillroad-Western I'nien tight. History shorrs is record of one cor poration htriki'ng auotber a blow so trciiicndf.us i.s that just dealt to tho Western irniou Telegraph by the Peun fiylvaitia Railroad. A. J. Cassatt began more than a year ago to retaliate on ticorsr J. 2eu!d, wha had dirf-d to Invade I'emisylvnnia by pushing the Wabiish Railroad Into Pitttjburg. When finally the Pennsylvania Rail road struck the Western Union, the blow fell almost simultaneously in six States IVuiibylvjuiia, New Jersey. Maryland. Virginia, West Virginia mid New York. It lost none of its force because it spread over such great area. Into the eftert went the mighty power of a great corporation. Fully S(Xt. iijeu, tllstril'Hted along nearly 2.VJI) miles of railroad, were hurletl against ihe Westera I'niott in tbe work of dei i ruction. The morning was weil advanced wheu a i.:esiige Hashed over the wiles freni I'irtsluirg to the bvr.il dep-trtuieut of ihtf Pwait-ylvania Railroad, in the Broad street station. It annouuevd that Judge Joseph Buillngton. of the I'cited Slates Circuit Court, bad for mally refused the restraining injunc tion previously nsked for by tbe West ern I'nion, and. furl her. declined a re quest for delay pending an apppnl to the l.'uited gtatett Supreme Court, made by A. M. Neeper, inac.:l frjr the tele grspli co'mpaoy. The removal of the wires had been arranged or in advance as far as practicable. New axe were stored at convenient points ready to band. When tbe order came every wctiou turned in to de molish the Western Unlou property. New York City.- Officials of the Western Union Telegraph Company said that the Pennsylvania Railroad was taking great risks by remavtug the telegraph equipmeur. "The case will be appealed," said one of the company's attorneys, "and if It is decided by the Supreme Court in our favor the Pennsylvania will h called upon to indemnify us for all damage." CUBAN TREATY SIGNED. It Kuiuodiea All Ibe ProvUIons of the . . Piatt At endineu?. Havana. Cuba. Tbe permanent treaty between the United Slates and Cuba, in which Is incorporated nil the provisions of the. Piatt amendment, was signed at the office of the Secre tary of State instead of at tl palace, ns v,-iis the case with former treaties. Thp signers were Secretary of State Zaldo and United States Ministpr Siiuiers. who were const itnid spe-.-hil plenipotentiaries for that purpose by their reseevt governments. Tlk' permanent treaty contains no provision for its ebrogatloii and no ex traneous conditions of any kind. It simply Incorporates tb,. entire Piatt amendment Into the form of n treaty. The I "Hath of time consumed by the negotiations was prlu : inn!ly due to the fnct tlm th Cuban Government de sired to Include in the treaty various extra neon conditions, esuecially one to the effect that there should be no Intervention In Cuban pfialrs by tbe T'nifpd Siato excenf through the Ini tiative of the President of Cuba. All tbene conditioun were rejected. It Is now expected that an aereeme-t covering tbe details .f the United States naval stations will be reached bv IVtddent Palma and United States Minister Sin!ers within three weeks. $73,500 FOR RAEBURN PORTRAIT. Fancatlonal Vrlca I'attl In I on.lon For Sir ' John Sinclair' I lkrnr. I.oudon. A sensational price, $7.1,."(W,' was paid by a dealer in a London nuciion room for Radium's portrait of Sir John Siiiclaer. Sir Henry Rae.lmni was born st Stockbrldge. near 'Kdlnburcli, in 17."f.. He died In lS'jri. He was npprenticed to n goldsmith, but etlucnted himself In painting. He became a famous por. trait painter, tind iiaiuted portraits of distinguished Scotch people, such as Sir Walter Scott and Sir John Sin clair, the author. i RECORD YEAR IN IMMIGRATION. Tjtat Number of Allan to Arrive in 190 Slay Health S50.0OO. Washington, D. C.-Imntlgrutiou Bu reau tdlit lals believe the immigration record this year will reach sr.ti.ism. For the first ten mouths or the current fiscal year the number of Immigrant wn t!iM.71t. The total number In iWJt was MS.7-l,"t. The record year was lHVi', wheu "&$.WKi aliens arrived. May is always the largest month in Immigration, mid it was 'expected that more than ldtUSKt aliens would enter ihe port 6f .New York aloue this mouth. HINOR EVEHTSOFTHEWEEK rosiniasier-3enernt rajht 2Sed oh officials accused of inwSvffSiea ly former Cashier TuHocb to explain the charges, - It is raid that the SittelTtd fSsht Will tie renewed wliyn-Cotj'srrf!'? 4ets, end will block all !ellatkn)itutil It ia settled. . ; ( , Coventor Docliery1, of lisa'u),!, asked Secretary of State J f .v't5 persnade France to snrren?leir aiuwra;htt milii.m.tlre, indii-fil-l. ilitfrr lu St Louis, Mo. ..' ftj'V 41" Of 42Ti.0fin flnt n'e1-'pWred Di rector Rolii-Jociftjftf -r5,0f)ft onnevs for the Mfttfkft anlhefSse of 54.3' I cents, V Secretary Suaw returned from Ids' trip to Loui.NUHia, where he went on Irl vote business. ' OCR AttOFTKD 1SI.1NDS. ' Comtnlssii.ner of Immigration Sar gent Is In fjlonolulu io Investigate the lattor situatiou. The deaths from cholera ia Manila now average about eight a day. Sea Island cotton Is lielug planted all over Porto Rico as fast as seed cau be obtained, in innuy Instances planters abaadoslsig tobacco for rottou. Many changes are being made in tlm municipal departments ofSan Juan, Porto Rico. , , ""' ' ' '. -'""' In spite of the fact ibat he died of cholera, the authorities permitted a public funeral at Manila for MattlnL the Filipino politician and leader. 0MKSTIC. Minister Boweti tailed from N04V York City for Venezuela, to be gone about a month, after which he will go to The Hague. Injunctions against sixteen fire insur ance nr-sociations and 3Si! agents were a.kcd for In Illinois, claiming' that they have not complied with the State laws. Cardinal Oibbrms sent to a meeting In Baltimore, Md.. called t. collect funds for the Klfhlnefi mincrer. a let ter In which he expressed his deep ab horrence at the massacres. The $2.-f,0(0 Carne-ip library at W;il pole, Ma?s., was dedicated. Stabbed in four places by Robert Shirks during a quarrel 011 a train near Harriman, Tenn., Matthew Swycegood was killed. Bet-nuse the jury was lllejrally drawn twenty-four lndli-imeuts ngniiist men claimed to be implicated in the mine riots at Tellurlde, Col., were quashed. After attempting to kill his wife and nearly succeeding. Lewis Dice, of Akron. Ohio, killed himself while un der the Influence of liquor. ' The convention of-chiefs of polke adjourned ot New Orleans, l.n., after re-electing Richard Sylvester, of Wash, lugton, D. C, as president. The C. M. Schwab Froe Industrial School was dedicated at Homestead, Pa, Thomas Anderson, n former convict, who had been a reputable merchant by day aud a burglar by night at Brook lyn. N. Y, shot his w Ife, who will prob ably die. and after his arrest commit ted suicide by poison. President Roosevelt left the Y-tse-mite Valley and resumed h's Journey. Representatives of Sihi of the largest firms of New York City engaged In the building Industries took steps to form a union of employers to combat the demands of labor organizations. Preferring the sacrifice of bis life to acknowledgement of his guilt as an embezzler. Postmaster Richard Hedges, of Kossuth, Iowa, was hinifclf respon sible for the blowing tip of Ills post office and his own death In the explo sion. At the sale ordered by a New Jersey court the control and assets of the Asphalt Trust were bought by a rep resentative of the reorganized company for tt.()tli;0OO. William McCariy, thirty-two years ild, wha was to have been banged at Lexlugtim, Ky,. for tbe murder of. Ids wife, Lucy Hubbard, look poison and died. Mr. and Mrs. O. II. P. Belmont ssked ihe Newport (It. I.) Board of Aldermen to exehunge parts of two public thor oughfare for ,1 private roudway through their property. Dr. Charles W. Eliot. President of Harvard University, said In tin address that labor unions systematically per mit violence for the attainment or their ends. The loss of Mrs. Lorillard. who was robbed of her Jewelry in Lunihni, will probably amount to more than $50,tHt(. Russian labor day passed off quietly at Boston and work went on as usual. Some'socialists tried to incite a 'crowd to make n demonstration lu the even-, ing, but they failed. King Edward held the third levee of Ids relgu nt Buckingham Palace. Am bassador Choate and other members of the United States Embassy were present. tJenenil Petroft succeeded In forming a new Bulgarian Cublnct at Sofia; all the ministers belong to the Stambuloff party. , .' Railroad strikers of Victoria. Austra. lia. derided bv an overwhelming inn. Jority to resume work- on the govern ment m terms. Ivin Alfoitsn In a snccch nf I'm reieii. Ing of tht Cortes said that other Euro. pean governments desired Spain t keep Intact the territory of the Sultnu of Morocco, . - Lord Mllner spoke at Johnnnesburg, South Africa, sympathizing with the opposition to the introduction of Chi licit labor. i f There Is a dearth of farm JnW Vermont l LaUtrei'S itt Holland receive tui f, icents a h bflr- ;. ' s Alabama's new child lab of Liw workins satWacfoiily. f. John Csunda machin: from f8 to $10 a week. ' - - ! A section hand union Lse W formed at Toiwka. ICan. Crocery and butchers uVlii ry to. or r lint, Mich., wiil form a uciun. Tb ni'i ha j complain of the long hours. vlile setter nt Aiameila, Cat. I m'eiveu au iner.as? o ft a Civv. Tl now receive $3 for fight hours' work. Grave disrgers at Sea Jo: Cat., it: on strike, having refused to work on ten-hfur ucbcti'iVi-far vine hour' jmy. Wage- of workmen In the Icon imlu try in the Itn'.i i:trki ntul Sa.tr nr Lorraine, Genuaay, have ttecn redue Trade unions in South Afrlea, whit are comised rtrincipally of Brilisli ai tiansv ere making Mrung protesi: against Hie use of forced native lalo' for the iiilnes. ,i A feature of the labor ituation if the nunlier of trolley employe! throughout the country who are o strike or threaten to go out If their dH mands are not granted. j It Is officially stated that the Retai' Clerk' InteriiBtiotin,! Units hii 4 good standing Membership of and that it hns been recently IncriasiDi' at the rate of -lOiKf a month. The number of persons oeetipied b the world's mthTHvotenitl!is la l;)rtt was 4,70u.!C73. ojAvldch numUvr l.ff-!, n-o wtre engage m lireat rttatu am Ireland, the colonies, depcudem ierf am tkit colonies, depcudem ierf ami ofl9'V, f ;.6''' J laiichesfee4Fn(r.nnticb of tl-e1 possession Tbe Ma Amalgamated Society lingineersj witii a memm rsnip o: iiast only -M nienibers wuo are lu revyvt of un employment benefit, rTrcscn thg a per centage ot about thr?t and tbrcv-quar tcrs, ---. Education in &ws(ien. The largest schoolhouie in thel world, one which ha3 acccmmodationsl for nearly threa thousand children, Jsl claimed by StOiUliolm. In the base-l ment ere ciie hundred bath rooms. where tbe children are required toj bathe If their teachers tnmlc they are! not taught habits of cleanliness at home. Soap and towels Ri-e furiiished free by the city. A wholesome dinner! Is furnished poor children at noon in I all the public schools If they need it. as in f.orway, which insures every child at least one warm meal each day. Children whose parents can afford to pay for the dinner are charged a nomi nal price, and the personal pride and independence of the Swodeu compel many people to pay who really cannot afford to do so. This Is a characteris tic of the race, says William E. Cur tis, who adds: "Swedes abhor charity, and, as a rule, if they tannct take care of themselves, will suffer and even starve rather than accept it. They take care of their poor In a generous man ner, and have asylums for tbe diseased. the afflicted . and distressed, but you seldom see a beggar In Sweden. I visi ted every part of Stockholmand did not see a beggar; one may travel for months In Sweden without being asked for alms." SOUTHERN . RAILWAY. TIiE STANDARD , ' RAILWAY OF Till"; SOUTH. DlHECr LINE TO ALL POINTS I Texas, California. Florida, Cuba and Porto Rico, Strictly first-class equipment on all Ihrouglr and Local Trains, and Pullman Palace bleeping ears on all night trains Fast andfiafo sched ules. Travel by the SOUTHERN j and you are nssnred a Bute, Comfortajilo and Expedi tious Journey, apply to Ticket Agents for Tables Rate . and general inforuif tiou, or address B. II. KARDWICK, U. P. A Washington D. C U. L. VEItNON, T. P. A., Charlotte, N. O. F,K. DAlvBT.a P.&T. A., , Ashvillo, N. C ,SO TROCHLE TO ASSWER QCKSnoxaV Cols to thirty years. ....
Chatham Observer (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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May 27, 1903, edition 1
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