North Carolina Newspapers

Vol. VII. RALEIGH, C; WEDNESDAY. JUNE 19 lflm No. 177 1 1 III Patent Laws the: Mother of the Trusts ro beHoverhauled . A Republican Congressman ,. Believes His Party in the House Will Take the Same View ' V : Washington, June IS. There will be . i :, revision, of ithe tariff during the congress, but it will be strictly in . . .nlanoe with the Repubiean policy f protection,'- said Representative rriiuv of Illinois, this morningand the reciprocity treaties that were not acted .-;i J a ft wiwter will- be pressed in .the ?;. ii;ue next December. When the taritf question conies u:i i.;- the nouse '".we will , take occasion to ;.-.. k into our patent laws, and although tii"' subject of patent laws and "the -tariff seem wide apart, yet I.waiit to sav ih.-u they are closely associated with v;u- another. The patent laws protect iii- trusts more thau.the tariff. I wr.nt li; p;itemt laws '"revised and changed, me give you an illustration. Todnr J ;..!! can buy a sewing machine for 33 rli.tt but a few years ago cost $130, -nd t i- latter price for the machine was (.i.irL'ed to the protective tariff. The :nith is the high prices of many necex ary articles which , are ascribed to the tariff are due to the patent laws. It ; our patent laws and i not the tariff -that is really the mother of trusts. "More than one thousand articles con trolled by the trusts would not be ma-1 tcrially affected if the articles that en ter into their manufacture were placed on the free list, because the trusts own the patent rights. Indeed, I believe; the next congress will look at this matter as I do, and that it is the patent laws and not the tariff that forces the people to pay exorbitant prices for articles in tin's country which are alleged to be soM much cheaper to foreigners. '"'- "It .is not the tariff,xut-the pa-teflfr laws that enable half 'a "dozen, capital-i-rs to form a combination and control th markets of the United States. With a modification of the patent laws Those combinations could not be suc cessful. This whole subject will be thoroughly discussed by the next con gress." . ' " . " ' . REMONSTRANCES VAIN Friendly Intervention Resen ted with a Fatal Shot Berkeley, Caf., June IS Dr. J. G. .Ti-nn ft iipiitir wfl shnt ji-inl fjitnllv wounded last night by Rev. Charles I Adams,- formerly ; aii Episcpal minister. t, . i . f It is said that Adams daughter called .Ti-ssup by phone and asked him to come to her home and prevent her father from whipping her. When Jessup arrived at the-, Adams house he remonstrated with him. Adams drew, a' revoh-er and shot th dpntist through the breast. Adams is i:l j:iil and -Jessup is dyingl '"' Itev. Charles G. Adams, who shot and pii'!.,)l.Iy fatall-y wounded Dr. Jessup is well known throughout the east. Dr. J-?up and Adams had long been friends. Adams says be was drunk when h- di.l the shooting. Jessup is still alive, h:t his condition is considered hopeless. Worry Proved Fatal Mount' Camel, Pa., June ,18. David I!: liarilsi a 20-year-old youth who was PjiiumitD '.Cupoj paijjutu nw?fq aAuq, oi Vuri-j-ie on the porch of the home of his' J is.tn -e, Miss Lizzie w aters, some time 'I !!-; P. the night lie was found on lilt lillll 1X1- iVUW prch' this morning with.; a bullet j th OFFICIAL: : 5T0RY MARTIN'S Legislative Committees Lac v is a Loser- Martin Stole $16,1 acv Vnc report' of-the committee appointed 'l General -Assembly-to investigate ;ho .a e.'.unts'jof Maj. W. II. Martin, tht "'.li iiK institutional clerk in .the of f" f tx-State Treasurer Worth, hat .niplered. ' an,:' 'r('lit "will riot be made publi.' tt- Si-m''l hy all the members and t'lT'1:'11-'- t0 the. Governor. Repre ,''l Vf' F. M. Shaunonhouse of 3Ieck r.,'v lir;"- nIl drafted the findings of the q.'i y. .J;"tli he and Senator T. M. Arring- fj'i iiilVf. IrTl tYta ,'UIirlf Tl-Vllfl-i Tito o rTfir'I;i-y forwarded' by ; J)- Winston, the thh for his sign express to Judge ird member. of the ignatnre: T! rtage of MajonMartin has beer. f,'-.,i. .-).-',. bj'-. the committee to be fcoon as the report has been com-1 s'iIh 'r0asilrer Lacy : will " make de-1 ,a oa ex-Treasurer Worth's bond for! As P. hole m has. temple. Worry .over his. in ability to pay for the furniture for his new nome is said to have - caused Rich arils to,take. his life. : . : RUSSIA RETALIATES - ' - ' j - . i I , i - ; - "... : , Duties Advanced on Imports from tfe United States v asnington, J une 18. The Russian ambassador, Count .Cassini,' has commit nicated to the State Department" that in consequence of the action of the American government through a ..treas ury oruer or .March J last, applying tariff restrictions against: Russian petro leum imported into this country; the Russian minister of finance, M. DeWjjtte, has issued aii order, dated June 7; im posing the high tariff rate of the Rus sian schedule on American white resin, under Article 28 of. the Russian tariff law, and increasing the rate on Ameri can bicycles, under: Article 173 of the Russian laws. This action is entirely apart from that taken in conn potion with Russian sugar, and is a new develop ment in the discriminatory duties im- posea- uy this government and the re taliatory duties imposed by Russia. The order of th? Russian minister is to take effect Friday or twp weeks from t: - its issuance. 1 ERNOR MARTIN Philadelphia Artist Will Paint His Portrait Winston-Salem (J., June 18 Spe cial. Mr. Albert Rosenthal, an artist of i nuaueipnia, arrived here today to paint a life size portrait of Governor Alexander Martin, who was one of the five delegates vfrom North Carolina to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 which framed ithe -Federal Constitution. The picture will be painted from one in possession of Governor Martin's grand nephew. Col. James Martin. Mr. Rosen thal has-been employed to paint a series of portraits of all the members of the Constitutional Convention. They will be" placed -'in' Independence Hail, Phila delphia, lie will go to Chapel Hill from here to paint a portrait of Gen. William R. Davie, who was also a member of the convention. From there he will go to Asheville. He will paint the others if they can be found. He is anxious to find . the portrait of j Richard Caswel! the first Governor under the State stitntiom ' . , .... ' - Mr.' W. l Ai "Lemley;. who is in the race for' the- western .orth Carolina col leetorship, went; Washington tonight. He was accompanied by' Congressman Blackburn, who is supporting him. Ur. . Frank, Sh.tfrucrr) who left here a few . weeks ajro f i Europe, will be united in marriage at Cassel, Germany, tomorrow to Miss Margarette, Schroeder. The couple will take an extended bridal tour before coining to Salem. Negro Woman Murdered Waycross, Ga., June 18. Negroes in this section are greatly wrought up over the murder of '"Mary .'.Flowers, who was found murdered and lying in a pool of blood. Some time during the night she had been brutally murdered. Every thing about the room was bloodstained, amA in ne corner Avas a smoothing iron w in winca sue was mur-k. 11 was rbespattered with blood, and some of the woman's hair, was -matted' on it. The . discovery was made by the step children of the dead woman Avho slept in an adjoining room. The Avoman's as sailant; after knocking her: senseless with a fbit-iron, stabbed her tAnc in the neck and throat. Suspicion is directed to Arthur ReeA-es, who lived in the same i house. Strickers Accept Reduction London, June 18. The strike in the iron, trade in South Staffordshire, which has lasted sixteen weeks, Avas brough to a termination this morning. The met resumed Avork at a ten-per-cent reductior. in Avages. This Avas due to the depres sion in the ircm trade. ' . ;.f .... Another G i rl I n the Fa m i I y London, June 18. A dispatch received here from St. Petersburg announces the birth of another daughter to the Czar- rina of Russia. Report Treasurer the amount of defalcation. - Action will of course be'-taken. "to compel the 3alti more .Surety Company, which . gavo Major Martin's bond, tomake good th shortage. The company gave an "annual bond of $o,000. . As. Major Martin's theft exceeded that sum slightly in the course of a "year, the . actual " loss, sus tained by Major, Martiir and his bonds men" is not large.' , Treasurer B. R. Lacy will lose $374.84 by reason of ; Martin's sojourn in his oflice. Martin spent thirty days in Mr. Lacy's office familiarizing . his clerical force all composed: of new men AA'ith the duties of the office. So accustomed Avas Martin to running his hands down in the treasury that he could not resist the temptation after he had lost his job. He not only-stole, tha $374 before men tioned, but he also forged a check for tioned, but he also forged $750.03,' changing it from'. to another. - . "; V- - - v one account OF RASCALITY III I V 14- 1 II i iiu Russia the Only Menace to Our Supremacy FACES TO THE FUTURE Judge Speer Says Some Things that are New and Strange to Southern Ears Expansionists of Long Ago Savannah, Ga., June 18. At the cele bration of the one hundredth anniversary of the State University . at Athens 'this morning Judge Emery, Speer, of the United States Court for the District of . -M - Georgia, delivered an address before the Alumni Society that is ' the talk of the State tonight. '""'. ; He said that the great power in Europe which menaced America was Russia, and she must be crushed bv the Anglo- American union. He defended expan sion and endorsed the late insular - de cision of the Supreme- Court. 1 Judge Speer called on the young men of the South to give up narrow' partisanship and tolerate no longer political machines In giving the history of the country he pointed out what had been done-:. by Southern men who thought 4 for them selves. He spoke in glowing terms of the work of 'the Southern " States indus trially and commercially. In a -measure Judge Speer defended combinations of capital. In his conclusion he said: 'In view of the conclusive demonstra tion of American industrial supremacy, m view of the enormous . balance of trade in our favor with foreign., lands, is it not wise for the American people, after, all that has been said in the;pat: fcims of political parties, to consider calmlv and Well weigh whether the gen eral welfare is the more retarded or promoted by the concentration "of -capital and the . consolidated organization of great industries which ; are coincident with these enormous national accomplish incuts.' The comprehensive,, perspicuous minds- which have planned multitudes of industrial combinations' of the greatest aitude have apparently little leisure o ipeak or write on these tonics, ' but some of them undoubtedly ;possjess astQn- American people to inquire . nibrer'aie fnlly and 1 reflect more profoundly 'with regard to the effect of these mighty consolidations V ' ' - ' . 'Are we not too easily driven to .con clusions of ioliticians : made for a pur pose? ', Indeetl, are we. not prejudiced, often irrevocably, by , a huniorpus squib which a bright paragraphist has. placed )etore a million minds at the same mo ment of timeV Even now. bbw merci- ess is the Avar of squib and paragraph uid cartoon directed against that finan nu cartoon directed against that fanan-1 ler or Ayorlu reputation, Mr. 'J. 1 . Jior-j ncalculable benefits accomplished, for the South by the far-sighted, just yet uiiuiig conclusion or tnat remarKaDie man. llie prosperity of an asrricultural onimunity may be generally determined by the excellence of its roads, arid the prosperity of a modern State by the excellence of its railroads." . Speaking of the need of united action on the part of England and America, the orator said: . "There has been a remarkable paral lel in the development of power between the English speaking and the . Slavonic races. The- SlaA-onic arid Anglo-Sa'xon races have a common genius for gov ernment. Each possesses in ithe north temperate zone the seat of power, vast territories, capauie of supporting count less millions of the human race, and Avith both the moAement of population is towards the Pacific. -In Russia east ward, and in America and the British possessions 'Aves'tAvard the , star of em pire takes its Avay.' Utterly: conflicting in . theories of gOA'ernmerit, the Anglo Saxon is the chief bulwark of civil ahd religious liberty on earth, the Slav the representative of despotism in state and church. The Anglo-Saxon " bases his civilization on the deA-elonment of 'the individual, and Russia, in all of its his tory, has relied upon his suppression. "A French Avriter has predicted that one hundred years hence, leaving , China collosal powers in , the AA'orld, . beside which Germany, England, France- and Italy will be as pigmies-the United States and Russia. -' If this prediction knoAA-n, and it has been dragging through be true, and China can not he left out the courts for fifteen years. On March o of the question, if Great Britain. in.her;lat the 'Philippines Commission took the isolation is to meet her downfall; if ;our republic, great as it is, is io remain tne sole obstacle to the ever progressing, steady grinding, glacier-like movement of Slavonic poTAer, it will result from trivial jealousies, from baseless preju dices and an ignoble rancor for; past dif ferences between the tAA'O ' great ; mem bers of Anjjlo-.Saxon race with a com mon blood, a common historj-, a- com mon "freedom of . religion, a common lib ertj' of conscience anl a common liter ature: and the spectacle will present; the inexpiable crime of "the a?es." . .' On the United 'States Supreme. Court, decision in the insular cases he isaid: "And eA-en uqaa-, belated ; Americans are bawling anathemas at the Supreme Court of 'the United States,, some jof them denouncing it as the plague soot in our judicial system, because that august -tribunal, without; incorporating Jr. rk nnr Tinrlr nofltlC millions OI SiH MM" .... ' m . to whom our institutionsarecomnre- lioncihlP. have seen in the constitution , " 1 " " . - . i the power to govern by congress X?:: enormSus and most valuable flccnisitious LL our stntesmansuHi aiiu .a. arms Truly some of these: gemwi .i .i;A;tna frr " ae nave aiscovertnt u . 41, . i i j i i-.a nf tne tsavage lagats anu utmi-uuui- - Philippine. Islands ; and, wouaei i . recall, some of these, humanitariair statesmen,. are from practical .hard headed ,Georgia a state" which, in snite of : ail the treaties made with the Inr drauxland -all the efforts of the S uoreme J Court and jthe President of the United States -within the memory of everr old man now living, drove out the Creek Indians, expelled the Cherpkees and took - over -their- possessions. So recent was this remarkable- expansion in the boundaries of our own state that today large portion of its territory, a land --e ancient 'Canaan, 'flowing with milk and honey" is commonly knoWn as 'Cherokee Georgia,' in "memory of those American Filipinos, who, denuded of their assets, the fathers of our. philanthropic states men v sent , whirling toward the set:ng sun.Y These gentlemen should commend to ( their souls the doctrine of Daniel Webster, who declared that our politics-should stop at low water; mavk. It is idle for them to protest against ex pansion. . It is. an accomplished fact." MILLS IN FLAMES Buffalo: Suffers a Loss of a ' Quarter Million ,.' , . - ; - " Buffalo, June 18, The most destruct ive fire experienced by this city. in many mouths broke. out shortly before 2 o'clock this morning, in the Frontier flour mill at the foot of Ferry X$treet. The loss in. buildings and their- contents will ag gregate v about $220,000, and the loss resulting from the hindrance of the busi ness interests affected will amount to a large sum. , ' - Not only, the Frontier flour plant, but the 'Ryan elevatofand the Queen City mill,; as well as the offices of - the 5 Fort Erie Ferry Company and a. large num ber of small boat houses, ay ere' destroyed by fire. , NarroAV escapes from death by burning were numerous. The heat Avas intense, and the squatters on Souaw Island were driven from their homes in a panic' At 4 o'clock this morning the fire was under control, and a few hours later it was extinguished. It is believed that the blaze was caused by a lighted cigar being thrown into the Frontier mill by a pes senger on a passing ferry boat. HOT )ir7rfTYNCHERS . :. Grand Jury Strongly U rged to Make an Investigation ; J . . eAT Orleans, June 18. At the open ing of. the circuit court at Jackson, Miss., Judge r J'oAvell strongly charged the grand i jury to investigate theVrecent Jj Bchinof -theriiegro Terry and to re turn indictments againsfc the guilty par ties. At ' the conclusion of his charge he emphasized the fact that he was thoroughly in earnest by handing the forema-n a list of citizens who are said either ;to haA'e been connected - with th. lynching or to knoAV of' those who wrere. The-lynching referred to took place about four months ago, the negro" having entered ithe room of a young woman at night' and assaulted-her. ' The judge's charge was ;a severe arraignment of iynching and an appeal to the p'eople of Mississippi to assist in breaking it onlr'i -rent crime but freouentlv a oniy a gieat enme, out iiequenny a great blunder, as Vino luiioii ennwn in Mississippi lately Avhen the haste of a mobdn lynching prisoners had prevented the real criminals from being captured. The strong appeal of. Judge PoAA'ell is taken as evidence that the judiciary of the State, co-operating AvLth GoAernor Longino, has not abandoned the attempt to suppress lynching in Mississippi in spite of tAAo failures,;. Governor Longino announced in his inaugural speech his intention to break up lynching in Missis sippi. All the power of the State failed in two cases to secure a single convic tion of a lyncher, but the last lynching campaign . at Seiardin proved the move- ment to ne rar stronger w.iu ul msi, and public sentiment had been Avell aroused on the subject. The Terry case will show whether It is sufficiently aroused to indict anB punish lynchers. , . CORRUPT JUDGES - Three s Out Four Native Officials Turn Out Bad $ Manila,' June 18. Judge Rasa,' one of tht former iudces of the courts of first instance, is implicated in the frauds j in connection with the aclministration.or 'the. Enriirnez estate. This case is well .4-fAit .1-11-1 rTT onmniflVJ ll III L tri auu ' Senor Mameje. a judge of the court oi first instance, for aiding the administra tors of the estate in fraudulent trans nctions. Senor Magsalin, another judge nf th eeourt of first instance, is als i charged with malice and incapacity. Thus three of Manila's four native judges have apparently proved them selves unworthy of confidence, and this goes far to demonstrate the necessity of placing Americans on the bench. The case of Judge Basa will be one of the first to be tried by the newly estab lished Supreme Court." , : ' . Directors Elect Officers 'Wilmington, N. C.; June 18. Special. The directors-of the South Carplina Pacific Railway met here today and elected Warren G. Elliott, of this city. President of the Atlantic Coast Line. nrnsint nn,1 C S AlKJall. Of -lien- iiv..iviii. U11U " ' ... ' secretary. No other iiini LS U1. 1 i Vas transacted. ; X ' . c X j n J , bOndS for UOOCI nOaClS Wilminm,. X. C, Jnne 18. Special. - , ,,... bona isstie ?r, v election for good roads in New Hanover county, was heia today and" carried by a f.eAV rotes. li iSI Men Take the Law in Their Own Hands ' HUNTING A DESPERADO A Mexican Strung u p With out Ceremdny--Suspected ,Wili Be Tortured if Caught fay the Man-hunters . Belmont, TexM June-IS. Great ex citement has been caused here by the neAA-s of a. clash between a posse of Tex as Rangers arid -a party of armed Mex icans. The Americans were conducting a hunt for -Gregoria Cortez and his des peradoes, - who . killed Robert 1. Glover, sheriff of Gonzales county; W. T. Mor ris, sheriff of Karnes ; county, and Tonv Schnabel, , a ranchman, a few days ago. The searching parties now number more than 500 men. A large number. of the friends of the murdered officials came up on a gang of - Mexicans some miles f rnnl this nlnee Whfi ncommanded -to lay Jdown their arms and reveal the hid- 1 - i - ..-..! ing places of- the tnurderers, the" Mex- leans resisiea anu a -ngnx iuiiowtu. jluk result vas ithat one of them was shot -to death, one was,, hanged, one wounded by a gunshot, and a fourth had his skull crushed with' a 'rifle barrel. The Mexican Avho was strung up wae commandedj before "the rope Avas put around his neck, to reveal the-' wherea bouts ;of -'Cortez and a bandit ' named Sandavo, but', he is said to have died without opening his lips. The captured bandits tefused '. absolutely to furnish the hunting parties with any informal tion. -. " -. The feeling against the Mexicans is growing and men are. joining the Amer ican posses which are determined to se cure possession of the criminals. It is declared that , every Mexican 'Avho is suspeoted of being in league with the murderers will i be tortiired until they are' made to divulge the hiding places of the 'men Ranted for killing the sher iffs. v.. ..... , - '' '' . It'-, js .feared, here that . the fighting will become serious and that there ma v be international complicatipns as a re sult of ithe assaults on the Mexicans. - ' :- ' Remarided to the Coroner New York, June 18 Capt. Abraham Johnson and Capt, Sylvester . Griffin, commanders, respectively, of the North field and 'Mauch Chunk, the ferry boats in collision in the harbor last Friday, were remanded to the coroner by Magis trate Zeller in the Tombs police court today. Captain Johnson originally -was i charged, with . criminal negligence, and . . , .. . . , i t - I - - ? v , second- degree. In the coroner s court the - charge was homicide. The inquest was. set down for July 8. Coro ner ucca -admitted them to bail in the sum of $2,500.. . . ; . - -. After Evans' Job Washirigttori, June IS. Senator-elect Burton of Kansas, -was at the White House this nWiuing and made an en gagement to, see ' the President tomor row; in the interest, of ex-Representative Peters Avho is a candidate .to suc ceed II. Clay Evans as coriimissipner of pensions. . Senator Burton belieA-es that Mr. Peters' chances are very bright, although Mr. Evans will not ad mit that he has any idea Of retiring from the office. v . SHIP PURSUED BY COLOMBIAN REBELS New Orleans,' June 18. The' officers of the steamer "Jamaica from Bocas Del Toro, Colombia, report ithat they were pursued twiee sit Code by a partv of Colombian rebel.-The town of Coclo is near. Bocas, and there being no gov ernment garrison at the latter place tha insurgents,' to "the number ef six hun dred, looted th town and especially -the Chinese stores. "They demanded of Cap tain Pe'deiiin of -the, 'Jamaica that he PORTO RICO'S HAPPY DAY July 4th Will Usher in the '.'- ' Free Trade The cabinet, at Washington, June 18 the meeting .today,, discussed for some time affairs in Porto. Rico, , the matter of establishing. free- trade betAveeu the , j j u T?f, ttn havine been island and the bnited fetateb having oetn of auv istru. jriciutt v. . v . - the ' calling- of an extra session of the island council. The council will meet July 4, and then the free trade proclama tion will be-read by the governor. The heads of the different departments of the island have" considered the report of the treasurer, which shows that the revenues of Porto Rico are sufiicient to maintain the government and pay all expenses. Besides this, there is now a surplus. According to the terms of the JeacheariSfrWs'to eutered surrender hs;pilot: to them as they AA-ished to attack liocas Del Toro, aad wanted somflone to pilot them into tUa harbor. They also Avanted him to surrender-the ship's physician and a Colombian" officer who' happened to le on the . : vessel. Captain .l'edersih re fused and put to sea, Avhen the C61om bians pursued; him somo distance in a small - boat,' biit- he soon - outstripped them. It was learned that the insur gents had seized two Norwegian; vessels at Code and Used them for expeditions along tho coast, looting .the smaller vil lages, ,-and " when . the upply of coal or these steamers ran out had beachcJ them. ' . . - : -- ONCE TOO OFTEN Berberg Ran His Confidence Game Into -the Ground Washington, June IS. A. warrant for the extradition to England of Franz tVonlierbergr. a rrested in New York on the charge of larceny, Avas issued by the State Department today and sent to the British embassy.. ItAvas charged that Berberg hadstolen $1,.)00 from a wo man whom he had pretended; to marry in London.. Evidence was produced at the hearing before United States Com missioner Alexander in New York that Ithe accused. Whose real name is said to be Emanuel Borges, was a member of a gang Avhich played a desperate game to secure money. According to the story told one of the gaKj would make love to a woman and arrange a mock marriage, his, accomplices assuming the part , of the minister and witnesses. J J-nen-uie irewuueu uusuunu wum se nil - 1 .1 1. 1 J 1 cure Avnac money me woman . nan ana desert her It Avas alleged that Ber berg has played the part successfully a number of times. He will be sent to England in charge of a British officer sent here for the purpose. , : ' j SEVERELY.TESTED The Cup Defender Gives a Good Account, of Herself Newport, June 18 There never was a yacht that in one day was" nut through a more severe test with liht sails -than was the .cup dfener Con stitution today when she spent four ar.d a half hours iinder' ail, in the open. sea. l, was the first, trial of the big bot since the repairs to her at Bristol, and it was most- satisf actoryIn every particular.- Inyf;aet- riot since she' has been launched h'as the crew been keot, so hard at it 'While out every light sail in her sail locker, with the exception of No.T spinnaker, was brokenand' thrown to the breeze, and no fault could be found with the fit of any. She set four difFerent jib itopsails, a balloon jib and balloon staysail, besides -the No. 2 spin naker. It Avas an ideal day : for yacht sailing; there Avas a light northerly Avind and the sea was , practically smooth, there being barely a ripple en the wr.ter in "the bay. Outside,, however, there was a good off shore breeze with a force of perhaps seven knots an hour. The Constitution reached her moorings about 4.45. o'clock, arid Mr. Duncan came ashore. lie said tho day had been a most satisfactory one and that every thing had worked finely.' He said that he had used every sail, on the yacht. ie said that , he Avould continue the v.'Ork each day. ' ; . -. : . Court House fo r Buncombe Asheville, N. C, - Jnno IS. Special. Buncombe county today .voted on ha question of issuing fifty thousand dollars of bonds to build a ugav court-house on the laud donated by Geo. W. Pack. a. former Cleveland, Ohio, millionaire, who now lives in Asheville. Asheville toAvn ship gave sixteen hundred majority for the bonds, but the ; fountry ' precincts generally voted against the proposition. Thev have not been heard from fdnc the polls closed; but will not give nioro than ' eight hundred or a thousand at most against tho proposition. - - -- The Independence Sails Again Boston, June 18. With a steerinff geaT that Captain Haff did not place much reliance on, the Independence went out' sidt Boston light this afternoon for her first spin today since the mast was short ened, the sail area reduced arid the 'stern post rudder hung . in , place nstead of the experimental balance rudder. Alto gether it was a satisfactory demonstra tion. :' ' ' "' ' ' Era of The date when the tariff will cease will De announceu iu iuc gciut tjm.- lamation. The island, revenues will there after be derived from internal. taxation and under wha,t is known the If l- LJfinaer ,aw UAluS bjsmmm yrup.jijr K . somewhat similar to- tbe tax laws operating in the State. Although it has several features which are to some extent objectionable to the Porto Rica ns, its terms are gladly accepted by the peo- , pie for the reason that they aTe to real ize free trade' with this country, which they have been striving to obtain since the island became a possession of the United States. - ... " '- Governor Allen's report to the Stater Department shows that the Porto Ricans are rejoicing greatly o er' the prospect ' of the speedy removal fthe objection- dn; - :.: