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( - f THE EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO NONE. vol.. I. . RALEIGH, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1898 J NO. 17. m an I SECTIONS R'p'v to the United States . Received. ;:VEFL QUESTIONS ; OPEN. li ii j ;.:ur.s . Mediate Between Spain i n c luted Stales Accepted ad Ref- -aai Officers, Shifted. W- iIINti It VX, D. C. (Sre. j be reply of the Spanish l"""- government to tbo ieace con- . . , is. I down by the United States i . - n received by the French tin . r. ?l. Cam:n.n. The reply came , . :.. tl.e l:s atch first receive! ii - f;,': t:.'" I' I " ! t i . tit ' t-'.iy iLc oj cnia p.i.8apes of the Jtrly. A few minutes later . r j ati h brought a second, and Ev.'; t comic;? uninterruptedly byn ot :ues?aerf until feven . t!..; r?i !y ha l beeu received. i.i t:i u.'t-jru joix tLio President i .i i i!.d:re ;t intimation that the i -i rt !y l;ad coiue to the French -. A cabinet oflicer who was n:s iiim at tbn timo said ou leaving: lie ::iformat:oa that ha$ come from bout thy action of the Spanish :. : t ii-lH tt? s that the Spanish : -. ;: -I te I terms in a general , v, l-iit ; -vt several tuations open t. t f : u A iuclvAii in the terms 1 ruittrd. I he communication of ft tli-o tctnii wjj explicit, spe c.'..t stating tbo j-oints that were f ; t. : father lu'jrotiatious. We stand ! .".; t: til 3. " I.I Iiuparrtal prcjose3 a new sola t.a i f-r the s-ettlement of the Cuban : I; t.iici it for granted that tho I r.i'.- i t t'f-i ta'uot be asked to r.s- ti.e l i!tivu of about A":i?,l.00 .'" . cf debt existing Le.. '! rebellion bean in VJ, and t:.-.- i .' ') .;. .f IVt.OO'J.uiWj 'spcat und it snests " that Spain !. : I undertake to pay, interest and i !,! -ipi :a on the Cuban debt until t!;-' nw West Indian republic is in n l''-i'wu to do sc, which Kl Imparcial u'..h!h to be!iee Cuba could soon do, Lp!! it.s vast natural resources were it-u-Ii i cd uuJer au American protec trrate. - I i.. titer i tidence of the TiesTliat Bind. "in i.p-, Spain (15y Cable.) It is f r. ! tliat as soon aa the Americea reply' irticcvive 1 "enor Sau-ta will uominate I f M'o couiiuissiouci a. Ill Liberal savs: "li.e ;ovinuieut received au oiler tr m KnIiwid to inedato. The offer f favutably regarded, but was not .vetvd." Id Liberal (-ays further: " 1 lie preseiiceuf a larce lntis!i njuad i u nenr (iibraitar is clear evidence of ast understaadmjr. if net an alliance l-:efn Luglad ind tho Cuited iu-:cti:a!an Resolution. Aihices received from Cocos, Ouate at Washington show that the re-':-ationary movement there has ft-) n:Kd a phase, which while not ,5.j ar.hius the existing $;ov.rniuent, p: if;.i-e tu tuvol vo foreign residents in i:r at diiiictiity.r The insurgents, under Ucra!e-. are believed to have received cj::..lerable support from the Mexicans i u the frontier, who are said to- be t 'hareable, at lea-t, with failing to ob- r neutrality. Some of the foreign lo-idcnts already have suffered heavy i.-tiuiiH of money under forced lovit3 l-v the iusurireal?. and it may be that Miotic repi oentatiom oa thp eubject i!l be required by the United States. ' .UccptcJ ad Referendum. Mai i;ti, Spafa -(Ijr Cable). Tho I.d'ral ays: ''The government ac re; t t'iC United States conditions ad referendum, believics: that it is not au th. ricd to cede tcrntorv without tbe xotet f the Cortes. If McKinle3-objects, the Cortes will bo convoked." . W i!I e difficult t Sac the Colon. The Merritt Chapman wrecking stea-uor Totoma has arrived at Santi ago and has visited the Cristobal Colon I ba wreckers reiort her to bo in a vei v 1 a 1 Mtuatiou, and they fear it is iaipos d !e to ave her. ( A Mob I nder Fire. A ruob trie.l to rescue three nero t-ni;iittTj of tho tegular army, incar- . mte I ia jd t l ampa. Fla., receut-l;- An armed guard ordered them to .wm-?, I -it tho mob opened tire ou the .- A vtdley was poured into tho inn,! from the upper story of the I ,:: '"V. ami s-everal f-hots took effect I! ntH,n.ied were carried away by ' .tr cvmia le', aDd the raid wad uu- Vn I nt.re laskan Party Lost. A letter teceived by the Alaska Com ii.tre:al Cc;u,aay, at San Friucisco, listed I I, i!,! .. , ...., u,j ,7ui, sars: "Jn- I m 7V L5t1wiff,aul native pilots, cuod tor the Mnskovito river, have been lest. licorjre Maurice Iber Dead, A dispatch from the Villa Lbers, at Tatzing, near Munich, Havaria, an rouucea the death of Geo. Maurice LLers, the etymolo,nst aDd novelist lie was born in llerha ia IS37. aal OfHcers Shifted. Ci t Charles D. Sigbeo, who com ciaaded the battleship Maine, has been ordered to relieve Capt. John Y. Vhil lip cf. the command of the battleship Texa., now undergoing repairs ia New crt. Cart. Caspar F. Goodrich, of the auxiliary cruiser St Louis, has been ordered to the command of the Newark, Commodore Watson's flagship, to fncceed Caj-L Albert S. Barker, who fcai Leea transferred to tho battleship ()rya ca arcoist of the iliael at Cft. CUrlui E, gisrt " f ... . ,.iou received here is to the tf 1 ;Vtlr 1-arty of lC.pros l?v V' V '-euihc? ti:e Colum t'rL ,.XIl;r.1. oipHuy, gether WAR NHVVS tPlTOMIZED. News of Interest Briefly TolJ for the flurried Reader. Two soldiers were iustantlv killed by lightuius during a storm at Miami, 1 ia. The Third Kegiment of Mississippi olunteers. Col. Laaks in command, has been mustered in. T he Spanish hospital ship Alicante, witu VO) of the Spanish prisoners at antia-o, hasailed for Spain. The protest of Senator 13acon, of Georgia, against Bending Col. Itay's imaaune3 to Santiago is deprecated bv the latter. . Assistant Secretary Vanderlip is now fending to EiibscriLera about 0,000 bond3 a day and this ' number will be increased later on. Two batta!ioiistf tho Fifth Ilegimeat, United State Voluhteois (immuues), have failed on tho transport K10 (iraudo for Sa.ut:a?o. i 'I he lOieventh and Nineteenth l!egu lar Juf;iutiy l;eg::eats and TrOo li, efthe l-'ecoul Cavalry, hare disem barked at i'onc-e. Tho transports Miauii, Matteawan acd iaucia, 1 sailed with United States troops, have snilcd from Santiago, Cuba, for tho Uuito I States. '1 he tran.jport ".Vashiugton, with the Fourth 1'eunsyl vunia lt-gimenti, and th a Seneca, w iih Colonel Querto's. rog imeut have disembarked at Guauica. Admiral Cervera and his sou visiied Ccsf Concha, commander of the ad miral's f!.i--bhip wiiria Teresa, and other pick Spanish ollicers nt Norfolk. Tho righting ftrergth of tho Ameri cans nor operating near I'once is about I'.CCU men, e;ual to tho entire force oi Srani.Nh regular troop on ths island. A marine of the Unitud States auxil iary guudoat Goveruor llusatll, from Uostou, cruisiog tenth, was drowned at lieaufcrt, S. C, during target prac tice. An olScial dispatch to Madrid from Sau Juan de l'orio llio.o says: "Most cf the voluuteera are in a disorganized condition and nio abandoning their armB. " Capt. irdgar Hubert, of tho Fighth Infantry, died of lraiu fever at Ponce, l'orto Lico, on the night cf the iih. Ho v.-as a Georgian and a West i'oiut grad- , uute. Tho following is Genoral Shaffer's ta:.itary report for August Total tick, ;i,44j; total number fever caaoa, J, 4:-; total numbor of new cases, 412; total number of lover cases returned to duty, -l'Jti; deaths on August 7th, 11. Secretary Long nnxl tho naval.experts have decided to rcvis the plans for the three new battleships so as to increase their siza and fpced. Congress will bo urged to make au appropriation for the additional cost, which will not be -;reat. The first detachment of tho Third Brigade," First Ary Corps, iu command of liriu lier General Fred J). Grant, has railed from Newport News on the tianspcit iludsou for l'crto Uico. The transport nonmauia, which went aground at Guanica, has beeu success fully floated. Flevea men were recently arrested iu Duituaoio fir deserting from the Lleventh Mnrylaud ltegimout. Lieut. Saitoris, of General Lee's staff, is slightly-ill with malarial fever. He i- a grandson of Gen. Grunt. Tho Si an i oh cruiser Maria Teresa has beeu floated at Santiago and will fcoa start frr Norfolk under her own steam. She is iu fairly good condition. First North Carolina Kegimeut at .Kckfonville, Fla., and First Alabama and .fecoud Texas Kegimenr. at Miami," F'a , have bceu ordered t hold them MMves iu readiness for early ileparturo for Foito Uico. Au oflicial dispatch from l'orto Uico says the Americans have seized the ccsioni house in .the village .of Fa jardo, which place w as without a gar rison. The lug Hudson, which has been with tho Uncas on tho North Cubau coast blookailje, tank a little Spanish sloop rccoutly and captured another cue off i 'iirdeaas. The First Fegiment United States t'Vlunttr Frt'iueers recently sailed from New York for l'orto liico. Tho government has ordered tho re lease of tho steamship Manoudia, of the Champagaio Gcueral-Trans Atlan tic Line; cf IVauce, captured by the Americana Avai8hii iu West lndiau waters and brought to Charleion, S. C. The United States transport Louisana receully arrived at tjuaraUtine iu New York hutbor with forty convalescent office rs aid meu from Sautiago. ; 'I ho transport steanu-rs Lakme and Charlos G. Nelson, bearing live com 1 aniejuof tho First New York Yoluu teers, a'Ai iho Second I'nited States Yohiuteer L'ugint-ers have sailed for Honolulu. Ten tbou'sftad dollars have been re covered from the Spanish cruiser Maria Teresa by the Potomac at Santiago. Admiral Sampson's report of August savs tho Marino battalion is in excel lent health. Also the health cf the fonndroa at Guautauamo " is fairly good. The Sixth Missouri Yoluuteerp, now at Jefferson barracks, "near St. Louis, has been ordered to proceed at once to Jacksonville, where it will become part of the corps under General Lee. The United States cruiser Montgom ery and the hospital ship Kehef, have arrived at the port, of I'once, Porto liico. Tho epidemic of typhoid fever which pravails in eo luanv of the army camps is giving the War" Department a geat deal of concern, and steps are being taken to check the fever and prevent further spread of the disease. Governor fc"haw, of Iowa, accompan ied by Mrs. Shaw, together with Adju-tant-Generil II. M. livers and Colonel H C. Pratt, of the. Governor's staff, recently inspected the two" Iowa regi ments stationed at Jacksonville, Fla. The Governor was much pleased with their appearance, and aleo with the lo cation of the camp there. Met the Usual Fate. John Meadows, the negro who at tempted to assault tho 7-year-old f dftUihtc? cf Bccsoa Camp, at tame!, aiaall place CMr Grill; 'J, Go., wsi I hanptj ca.th e lji cf tb9 tswa 63 j CHI DAD DISPUTE Strained Relations Between Eng land and Russia. OUTCOME MAY MEAN WAR. Admiral Ccn era's Reply Guyama, Porto Rico, Captured It's Not All Sunshine and Gold in the Klondike; LONDON, Eng.. (By Cable). -That extreme diplomatic ten ,""s"s" sion exists botween St Peters burg and London, is "generally admit ted, though the officials deprecate the alarmist reports which were recently current It is hoped that the firmer stand adopted by the Marquis of Salis bury, which seems to have already created some misgiving at St. Peters--burg, will have the desired effect of aires liug ilussiau aggressiveness. It is felt both hero and on the continent that the outcome of the dispute in re gard to tho uew Chwang llailroad ex tension, is the "crucial point of the suc cess or failure of Great Britain's pol icy of "open doors. " As evidence of the fact that Great Britain' appreciates the gravity of the situation the Associated Press learns that the admiralty is preparing for all emergencies, and that, it will soou be ab!e to mubiliza the entire fleet at the thortest notice Fvery officer and man on furlough or on half pajr, has beeu assigned to a ship and instructed to bo jn readiness to. join at the earliest moment. Therefore, practically every ship iu the British navy, whether ia or out of commission at the present moment has its full complement of offi cers and men ready to take her out to sea when the time arrives. Admiral Cervera's Reply. Admiral Cervera ia reply to an invi tation from tho citizens of Greensboro, Ala., Lieut. Hobscn's home, to visit that city, 6aid: It would be very grati fying to mo to accept jrour invitation to visit Greensboro, where was born the bravo Lieut. Bichmond Pearson Hob-t-oa, but it will be impossible for me to do so, for as soon, as the war is end ed it will be obligatory upon me to re turn immediately to Spain, to account for my conduct which must be judged as provided for by the law. Nevertheless, I shall not fail to carry through ail my life the remembrance of such brave officers as Lieutenant Hob sen and also tho flatteriug invitation tendered mo by the city of his birth." Guyanja Captured. Ponce, Porto Bico, (By Cable.). General Brooke's advance guard en tered Guyama, after a sharp skirmish in which several on both sides were wounded. Tho Spanish forco at Guy ama. uumberiug L00, were driyen back toward Cayey,' with tho loss of one killed and two wounded. Of the American.",' Privates 'Gordon, Walcott and Beffee, of . the Fourth Ohio, were wounded, noue fatally. General Haines occupies tho town. Major Flagler, while reconuoiteriug near Coamo, rau into the enemy's piokets and wa3 fired upon. Tciirty shots were fired, but no one wa3 injured. It's Not All Sunshine and Gold. Beturaiug Kloudikers, who recently reached Sau Fraucisco without 'any gold, report the conditions existing at St. Michael's as being extremely pro carious. They say that thousands of people are etranded and that relief must be scut by tho government. Commer cial companies control the only avail able landing places at St. Michaels, aud vessels are unable to land their passengers or their cargoes. The Yu kon is getting too low for navigation and tho distress will be very great un less the government takes energetic re lief action. Baron Banffy Threatens Count Thun. The Vienna correspondent of the London Observer says that Count Thun, president of the Austrian dele gation, and Baron Banffy, the Hunga rian Premier, had a conference recent ly regardine Austro'ilungarian affairs. Barou Banffy delivered an ultimatum to Couut Thun, threatening to intro duce a protective tariff against Austrian good3 unless Count Thun shall in duce Parliament to enact the Ausgleich bill. : Queen Louise Seriously III. The Berlin correspondent of the London Times telegraphs that private advices from Copenhagen Bay that the condition of Queen Louise, of Denmark, is most serious The Atlas liner Altai recently5 left New Y'ork for Cubji, carrying fifty tons of clothins: and provisions shipped by the Bed Cross Society for the Cubans, and other sufferers ia Santiago. Spaniards Disgusted With Porto Rico. The news, that has reached Madrid from l'orto Bico regarding the cordial welcome given the American army by Spanish volunteers and natives of tho Island has disgusted the political lead ers of Spain. The general, opinion is that it is not worth while to risk lives and spend millions of dollars for the sake of territories which are worse than disloyal to the mother country. A farewell Audience With the Sultan. Dr. James B. Angell, who resigned in May last, and has been succeeded as United States minister to Turkey by Mr. Oscar S. Straus, of New York, had a farewell audience with the Sultan at Constantinople recentlv. - . K Russian Back-Down Indicated. The correspondent of the London Daily News, at Odessa, gives under re serve a report that tho Bussian charge d'affaires, at Pekin, AT. Pavloff, will socn be removed, and he regards it as indicating a Bussian back-down. The Open Door in North China Now Shut. ..The Shanghai correspondent of the London Daily Mail says: "Bnssia is now practically ia possesion of Ni. Cbacg. aud 'the crta doei Iji ncrth CUU U iff J5I!Iu" THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. . - Tlie South. Congressman T. W. Gaine. Demo crat, was re-uominated for Congress in a primapy election held in the Sixth district of Tennessee withcut opposi tion. ' ' At Bichmond. Mo., after a long dead lock, John L. Dougherty was nomi nated by the Fourth Missouri District Democratic convention for CongTess, to succeed Congressman Dockery. At the Democratic Congressional conVention of the Twelfth Texas dis trict, which recently met in San An tonio, James L. Slayden wa3 renomi nated for Congress. The postofBco at Fort Monroe, Va., was robbed of about 2,400 in stamps and S-50 in cash, together with several registered letters.' The thieves were evidently professional cracksmen. They bored a hole ia tho safe and forced the lock to pieces. The 18-ycar-old daughter of J. M. C. Howell, a prominent citizen of Knox county, T'eun., wa3 outraged by a ne gro brute, who subsequently cut her throat, severing her fingers from her hands and otherwise butchered her body in a terrible manueri A double killing occurred at the con vict camp, near Little Hock, Ark., re cently. A convict named Bishop was advancing with an axe on John II. Ful ligan, a guard, wheu tho guard shot and killed him. A dispute arose over the killing botween Warden Gillis Hud son -and Will A. Potts, abother guard. The lie was passed and Potts' shot and; h killed'Hudson. ' The North. Eight serious cases of typhoid fever are reported at tuo Fort Thomas hop pita', at Cincinnati. . ' At Detroit, Mich., tho League of Americau Municipalities elected Sam uel L-. Black, mayor of Columbus, O., president. Jimmy Michael defeated Eddie Mc Dufile in a 25-mile road race on the Willow Grove track at Philadelphia recently. There was a race riot between white and colored men and women in a eec- tion of known t the We.u Side of New York a3 Hell's Kitchen recently. The movement which was becun at Falls Biver, Mass., last month for tho purpose of closing t weuty-.fi vo or thirty of tli9 principal cloth mills of that city for four weeks has failed. Biotiug has been resumed by the striking woodworkers at Oshkosh, Yif. , on account of the sash and door manu facturers trying to operate with non union labor. Maj'or Van1 Wyck, who has been summering at Freep6rt, L. I. . recently distinguished himself as a lifo-fcaver by rescuing three young women from drowning. At a meeting of the municipal council of New York resolutions wero adopted for au investigation into the1, alleged unsafo condition of Brpoklyn Bridge, caused by tho crowdiug'of the trolley cars. : Prof. Park Morrill, chief of the fore cast division of the Weather Bureau, died at Washington of typhoid fever. He bad been employed by the .Weather Bureau for twelve years. He 'leaves a mother and widow. Mrsj John Voss. of Grai0 Bapids, Mich. , wife of Lieut.-Col. Voss, of the Thirty-second Michigan Regiment of A'olunteers, at Fernandina, Fla., has begun suit against Miss Bose Vander luis for 10,000 damages for alienating the. affections of her huaband. The excessive hea of the last few woeks culminated in one of the most terrific electrical storms that hus ever visiied Philadelphia. The rainfall was the heaviest in the history of the local weather bureau. In one hour and three quarters 5 4-10 inches of ram fell. The coinage of the mints during July aegrogated ,940,744, of which $3, So3, 000 was gold. ' Two cars on the Utica, N. Y". , belt line trolley road went through Bradley's bridge, near Whitesbbro, and 17 pas sengers weio precipitated into the Erie Caual. Miss Mary Brady of Utica, was the only person killedi Several were injured. Mr. Sutro, tho miningf king, died in San Francisco, Cal. Mi. Sutro con ceived the idea of tunneling the Corn stock lode, a work which lasted several years and eost millions of dollars. Sutro amassed a fortune of about 4, -000,000 in mining and real estate opera tions. He was electeid ; mayor of San Francisco four years ago." and served one term. Confederate veterans, ; survivors of Pickett's Division, and invited guests, numbering in all 109, participated in the encampment of Union and Confederate soldiers at a resort on tho New Jersey side of the Delaware river. Mrs. Pickett, the widow of General Pickett, accompanied the Southern soldiers. Blisccllanoous. Montreal has been selected as' the place for the world's championship bi cycle races ia ; The Norwegian steamer Fortunate, bound for Tilt Cove to load copper ore for Swansea, was crushed- in tho ico 500 miles from laud. The crew of eleven men took to the boats and drifted about for twelve days, covering 350 miles. They wero reduced to desperate misery owing to frost bites and want of food and water, when picked up by the British steamer Southwold, also bound for Tilt Cove. - ; Foreign.- . The Canadian government has taken from the Yukon miners more than 32, 500,000. There was a aevere earthquake shock felt at Messina, Island of Sicily, on the 6th inst The inhabitants were panic stricken, but thero was no dam age done. ; Government receipts durins July amounted to $43,847, 108. The expendi tures during -July ou account of the war amounted to $30,000,000. Gen. Wood, Military Governor of Santiago, recently called a meeting of butchers and retail provision dealers of that city with the object of formulat ing a tariff for the sale of the necessi ties of life, for which the dealers had been charging exorbitant rates. All the dealers were bidily iadiEnftat at tl-t iaterieriCce. ae asry IE, He Resents the Newspapers' lmpti tationof"Big Head." ; j SUFFERING FROM FAMINE, Spain Hopes for Foreign Intervention in the Settlement of the War. Spanish Prison at Santiago in Bad Condition. The N ew York Journal prints cable gram from Hong Kong, giving the text of a message sent by Aguinaldo, the Philippine insurgent leader, Consul General Wildman. Aguina says it has been reported that he to do 4is getting the big-hcadand notbehaviri a3 ho promised Mr. Wildman. ' Ma re ply," gays Aguinaldo, "I ask why should America- expect me to outline my policy, present and future, and fight blindly .for her iuterests, whoa America will not be. frank with me? Tell'' me this, am I Cghticg for annexation, protec-. tion or independence? It is for Amer ica to say, not me. I can take Manila, as I have defeated the Spanish every where, but what would bo the use? If America takos lnanila, ,1 can save my men and army for hat tho future has in r,tore for me. Now, good friend, be lieve me, I am not both fool and rogiie. Tho interests cf my people areas sa crod to ine as are the interests of your poople'to you. " . Starving on The Newfoundland Coast. The schooner Cambridge recently ar rived at Halifax, N. H., and brousht'a talo of terriblo suffering on New Found land and Labrador coasts. The party was on a prospecting expedition and included Dr. MGrris, whose services were required at Lewis Inlet night and day to give relief to 'persons sick and dviutr from starvation. Large quauti- 1 ties of provisions were distributed from ? . . . 1 , ' e ' tuo vessel, ihe same CDiiuitioa 01 ai fairs exists all along the coast. '" There are 1,00.0 persons similarly situated and immediate relief i3 necessary. The fail-ure-of the fisheries will tend to further increase the suffering. A Michigan Bank Sacked byTSandits. One oi the most daring and success ful bank robberies ever perpetrated in Michigan was carried out at Richland. According to witnesses, the gang was composed of six men, who came to town ou a hand-car. Four were placed on guard outsido the Uuiou Bank, which is a small wooden building. Three charges of dynamite were ex ploded before the robbers got at the money aud ascaped. The loss is'be tween $0,000 and 7,000, mostly farm ers' deposits. " . A Ferynent in Madrid. The Madrid correspondent of tbe London Mail says: "A majority of the politicians who conferred with Senor Sagasta couacilled peace. But Senor Noceda, leader of tho Untra-Moutanes, urged war a 1' outrance, even if the Yankees, he eaid, were ,to capture Spanish ports, as possibly then an in ternational conflagration "would avenge Spain by placing her in a position to gain more than by making a shameful peace now." : Still Looking for a Way Out. ; Iu the conference between Senor Sagasta and Senor Silvela, at Madrid, tho latter urged that r".s imperative to summon the Corfes for the negotia tion of a treaty of peace.; General Az carrajra oaid that if Spain possessed adequate resources the war should be continued in order to secure more ac ceptable conditions; otherwise peace ought to be immediately concluded. Captain Clark Sick. ! , Captain Chas. F. Clark, commander of the battleship Oregon, now in Cu ban waters off Santiago, lias beeu iu valided home. Definite information concerning his illness is not obtaina ble at the Navy Department. Secre tary Long said that Captain Clark had been granted leave of absence on ae couut of sickness, but that he had, no knowledge of how sick he was, or from what disease he was suffering. Spanish Prison in Bad Condition. Toral, the commander of the Spanish troops, has sent a letter to General Shafter, advising the latter that: the cainpof the surrendered Spanish troops is in an unhealthy condition. TheSpau ish officer also reported that there were several hundred.sick in the hospitals, and that there was an deaths daily. average cf 12 Shatter's Report for August 3d and 4th. Gen. Shafter sends the" followingfsau itary report for August 2: Total j sick 3,778; total fever 2, COG; new case3.fever 449; cases of fever returned to duty 585; deaths 0. -fc'anitary xeporf, August 4: Total sick 3, 354; fever cases ?,54S; total new cases of fever 502; total cases of fever returned to duty 540; deaths 1.5. Hotel Royal Palms Not Used as a Hospital. There is, no truth in the report; that ahe Hotel Boyal Palms i3 to be used as t hospital. Its owner offered to build one for the Bed. Cross Society in Mi- i m 11 - t 1 1.1 ami, on account 01 mis uemg a ueauuy and isolated place, but the hotel was opened only for the accommodation of officers of the division and their wives. , Miles Pushing On. j Ma j. -Gen. Miles is proceeding en tirely without regard to. peace negotia tions. Krag-Jorgeneea guns have been issued. Col. Rulings has captured .3, OOO.po'unds of rice. Thus far the en emy has not molested him. Maj.-Gen. Brooke's landing at -Arroyo was suc cessful. The troops from tho Rouman ian, four batteries of the Twentysev eotd Indiana, tbe First Missouri, tbe First Paasylr&aia and the Filth III) iaQ hara fliiiab?ke4it Vtm. TAR HEEL NOTES. FATAL RUNAWAY AT CHARLOTTE. 1. Mr. Saunders Thrown from the Buggy, Re ceiving Injuries Which Resulted in His Death. ' ' Mr. Saunder3 and Miss CochtanC, lady friend, were out for a buggy ride ia Charlotte recently, and just as the horse was turning a corner, a negro rid iDg a wheel ran into tho horse. The horse made a lunge forward and began to run at a terrific speed. Mr. Saun ders pulled on the reins and turned the horse toward the sidewalk when ho lost the reins and ho and Miss Cochrane were left powerless. ;The buggy struck the curbing and Mr. Saunders was turowu. violently agaipst a stone step on the curbiug. He was thrown with such force that 4when his,, head struck the etono he bounded back the full length of his body, und when picked up his hea l was laying ia the opposite direction from tho sidewalk. His feet were lying', against the curbing, i Ex-, aminsition showed that his skull was fractured from car to car. Tho unfor tunate man nevar spoke after, his head struck tho curbing. Miss Cochran was thrown from tho buggy, but w3 not seriously hurt. She received pev eral scratches about the neck and face aud was terribly frightened. After be ing carried home she va3 told of the serious condition of Mr, Saunders, and WU3 almost prostrated with grief. Carolina Central Railroad. A plan for t'uj readjustment of the debt of the Carolina Central Baiirbad, in which Baltimore capitalists ate in terested, has been -recommended by a special committeoiiamed for tho pur pose and approved by a large majority of the bondholders. Tho plan pro vides for aa issue ' of 000-000 of ' 4 per cent, fifty -year first mortgage gold bonds, $500,000 of preferred stock and 1,500,000 of common stock. Princi pal and interest of the new mortgage is-guaranteed by tho Baloigh it Gaston llailroad Compauy ami tho- Seaboard '& Boauoko liailroad Company. Elizabeth College Improvements. Elizabeth College, Charlotte, has so cured the services cf a trained nurse from. Philadelphia as matron, a skilled housekeeper aud German women who will act as house maids and cook's. A new pipe organ has been added to the college chapel, also a largo reference library. .. The college authorities are sparing no efforts to make Elizaboth College one Of tho foremost institu tions in the country. . linprovemenis at Brevard. ; ' There is a largo force of hands at work on the new Brevard Toxaway turnpike. Many mile3 of the road have been built, toward Brevard from Toxaway, and it .will be pushed rapidly to completion. A telephone line has recently been comi'deted from Brevard, via' Cedar Mountain to Caesars Head; also a line'from Brevard to Davidson's river and Grange via Shuford's bridge. Was His Own Horse. A novel sight was seen on the streets of Ellijay recently. It was a man who said he was from Asheville and was moviug himself, his Avife aud three children to Marietta. The man .was working himself to a cart, pulling one of the children and what seemed to be their luggage. - The woman and other children were walkiDg. He had pulled his cart all the way from Asheville. The Bicycle Assessment. - The Bailroad Commission hus.decid ed to make the minimum assessment of bicycles &10. 00. In the reports from tho counties there i3 a wide range of difference in the valuation of, bicycles. Seme counties report au average of $10. 00 and others an average of $18.00. The Commission was of the opinion that a bicycle was worth $1G. 00 if any thing. Pearsoa Re-nominated. The Ninth District Bepublican con vention, which recently met in Ashe ville, re-nominated Bichmond Pearson by acclamation. Tho resolutions adopt cdudorse the administration, Pritch ard and Pearson, and insist that the civil service be changed so as 0 "con form to the. laws of common sense and common justice. " ' -- . . Horse Dies With Rabbies. A horse belonging to Mr. C. A. Black, of Cbarlotto died recently from theeffects of hydrophobia. A few days before its death it would chase any one that came inside the lot and would foam at the mouth just as a dog with tho rabbles. ' . ' Bond Issue Defeated . The proposition to issue bonds by the city of Durham was defeated by thir teen votes. Pension Applications Numerous. A great number of applications for pensions are being received at. the Au ditor's office. The first-class' pension ers only get about 00 a "year from the State. Despite the strict regulations governing the granting of State pen sions ah occasional fraudulent pension er gets on the rolls., . . : , " - Twenty-Five Per Cent. Dividend. Crowder's Mountain cottou mill at King's Mountain raid a dividend of 25 per cent, last vear. The capital of the mill is $35,000 ' A Large Consignment of Tobacco. Tho American Tobacco Company re cently shipped l,0CO.C0O pounds of to bacco from Danvillo to Durham. Opening Sale a Success. The. opening sale at the tobacco warehouse -.at Lnmberton was quite a success. 'There was. about 30,000 pounds sold and brought very satis factory prices. There was a number of buyers representing the largest tobacco institutions in the world. - Store and Sf ocfe Destroyed by Fire. , The storehouse and stock of Mr. W. E, CoIUds, of Mawhville, was destroyed by rereceatJy. ' Tbo losn- amonnts tg 4, m to $4, m jpsttf m wo. . ... ; ; : 1 : : "Toung man. this is tne tniru rlun this week you J.aVe como to take 1115 daughter 'slelgaridlng. If you pay cask for the :horcs and tdolgh It uvMtiV either liraacy o: baukrup-tcy, nnd If yo.i don't It mo-ans that jou .ire .1 dc.?! boat." " "I own the liyrry stable, r.!r.n 'That's dllTcren. "Chicago TrJbucc. The National Farmers' Alliance AnS - Industrial Union. j PreaidenU-Mann Page, Brandon, Va. - 1 : - w. I Vice-President 0. .Vincent, Indian apolis, Ind. rs i Secretary-Treasnter W. P.Briciet, Cogan Station, Pa, " ! , - LECTUBKRS. ' J. P. SoBsamon, Charlotte, N. 0. ! " Hamlin V. Poore,. Bird Ialand, Minn. P. H. Peirsol, Psrkersburf, W. Va. V NATION A I EXECncmv COMMITTK. , Mann Page, Brandon, Va.;B, A. Southworth, Denver, Col.; John Bre nig, W. Va.; A. B. Welch, Now Torkj W. Jl Gardner, Andrew'a Settlement, Pa. ... ,- .-. I'' JtrpiCIABT. V j R: A. Southworth. Denver, Colo.( j R. W. Beck, Alabama. j M. D. Davie, Kentucky. ; VORTH CAROLINA FARMERS' . STA'TX-ALX.I ANCE. ' , j- President Jrio. Qiaham, Ridgeway, N. 0. ' ' ! Vice-President W. G. Upchurch, Morrisviile, N. C. j Secretary-Treasurer J.TB. Iloojcr, . Hillsboro, N C. ! " State Business Agent T. B.PaTket,. milBboro, N..C. Y i Lecturer Dr. V. N. Seawell, Villa now, N, C ; !. . . ' ' I Assistant Lecturer Wj ,B. Brick- house'- , N". O. Chaplain W. S. Mercer, - N. C. - . ' H I Door-keeper Geo. T. Lane, Greeni- boro, N. C.v . ii' ' I AsBistant-Door-keeper Jaa.E.Lyoo, Durham, N. C. 1 , r . i Sergeant-at-Arms A. T. K. Wal lace, Raleigh, N. C; ' i j, Trustee Business Agency. Fund--W. A. Graham, Machpelah, N. C. EXECUTIVE COIMiTTEE OF THE NORTH CAROLINA FAliMEBS" STATE ALLIANCE, j J. W. Denmark, Chairmanf Raleigh, N. O. l John Graham, Ridgeway, N. 0. . W. B. Fleming, Ridgeway, N. O. A. F. Hileman. Uoncoru. n. v. Dr. J. B. Aleiander, Charlotte, N. 0. .-' ' ' ! M . ' Thomas, D. Oldham, Teer, N. C. STATE ALLIANCE JCDICIART COMMXTTE. Dr. J. E. Person, Pikeville, N. C. W. S. Barnes, Raleigh, N. 0. T. Ivey, Hillsbpro, N. 0. r J-i ...TtD TraiKSv. To Atlanta,ChnrIotte, AuBrusta,Atheni, Wll mingtoii, -ffew Orlcaus, Chattunooa, Nash ril!VNew Yoik, .Uostou, rhiladelphla, ft'axhin;taH. Norfolk 4ml Richmond. j JScnodttJe In efloct 3Iay 'J, 1898. 1 ' ' NO. 403 Lv New York, Tenn. R.R. 11 00am Pliil.telphia " .1 12pm NlJiltimoro " 3 15pm YVfihini,'to:i " 4 40pm KU-haiond, ACL. 8 66pm No IT 3 OOpnj 12 05 tm 2 t0tim 4 SO ira . 9 05 im- Ly. Norfolk,? 8. A. Portsmouth,-..- 8 30pm 8 45pm 'J Ojn.'u U20im Lv. "VVelilon,, Ar. Henderson, 11 28pm ll 55im 12 56am 1 4p" f7 32am f4 16-m 7 00pm t'l iJH T2Ti6am 3 40ru ;3 33am 6 05pia , 4 28am 5 5ljm 5 07am 6 56'iq 5 Main 8 lOj'ia 6 43dm 9 12(tn IT ' 1205"a 7 50am lb 25pW it Ar. Durtmm, Lv. Durbam, -t- Ar.Rfilefgh ' Sanforu, ' ; ' I -Southern Tines, 41 Hamlet, ' 'wWadesboro,. " Monrofi, 44 At. WiimlDKjtQD. " ATTchTldotte, Ar. Cbunter, 8 03am 10 56pp LvTColumbla. C N. A Si L..R 6 OOpa Ar. Cliuton.l B. A "L. 9 45um 12 lita Greenwood. '.- Aioevil"f, 44 10 85am 1 Onux 1103am 135im 12 01pm 2 iliirn. l'l3pm 813am EIertoE, A then?. Winder, 1 5Cpm 4 2-im AHaiital:f(:entraljiaie)-2 50pm S20on KCRT1IDODNO. Lv.Atlanta(Centim)S;A.L.12 OOa'a 7 50j,m V Winder, . " ' 2 40pm 10 40pm Athens, " 8 13pm 11 19um Klbertoa, " lop 8 lam Abtievllfcj, " 5"l'm 1 S5tm (Incnwood, " . Mlpm JMtn ATTtohimbiia, V. N. A N. U It. . . . . 7 45n trUAaiZrT "'.':"A. IT 8 13K01 4 2.1im , L. 8 13pm Ar. ( harlotK irvT'UTrTroel I lam let J "10 25m h'thnm 7 M un "6 05idi 8 00m 11 15pm - - ' r - Ar. W'lmingtOD, 12 03pra Lv. Houthmi Tines, " . : ItaiHKbi Ar. IIen1erson, . 44 12 00am ''JOeim, 2 1Cam ll?5am 3 28am 12 S7pa t7"32am f4 IBpfOs f7 OOpjnJ1019ra Ar. Durham', Lv. Durham, ti ll Ts7doa, 4 55am W 45pru ' Richmond, A. C, L. -8 20am 7 85..m VfiHhlncton,TenD.KKl2 31pm 11 80,m Baltimore, 44 1 46pm 10 Philadelphia, 44 8 50pm 3.60ia New York. '" 4C23pm 6 53,irq ATTl Wmrtb, B. A, L. 7 25am 5 Jlpinr y-brfolkj, 7 35am 5 3;t.'m ""Dailyr"l)a'1y except Bunday. ' Noj 403 and 402.-'4The Atlanta Splal, Soli l Yestibplod Train of Tullman Btperi BBd Coach betwea Wasbington and Atlan ta, aho 'Tullman Sleepers between Torts mouth and I hester, S. C. Noc 41 aid 33. "Tbe 8. A; L. Expe.- , Solid Train; Coaches and Tullman SJeejere ttftween ' Toirt.mouth and Atlanta, t'ompaoy Sleeperrtetween Columbia snd Atlanta. Both trnlns make Immediate connection Rt Atlanta for Montgomery. Mobile New Or lean". Texas. California, Mexico, Chattanao ' Vu-n r.mnhia. Macon and FJorida. For Tickets, gleepera. etc., apply to II. H. -. Leard, T. F, LZ. T. BmJth, 6. T. A., RaU ejKh.N. C,l - ! f . c E. hi. J Gil u, ut-D-i ' - - -----a-.. . H W. B. Oiover, Traffla Manager. V.Ii 5lceo, aenaral Bupt, . - j , i Tf i. Anrtewoa, 0, P. Affocb - fSAU 4
The Home Rule (Raleigh, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Aug. 11, 1898, edition 1
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