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V. - . . ' " ' ' -V-- - ----- . -, y . HE RiLEIGHv N.:d; THIliRSDAY. NOVELIBER 14, 1901 Vol. VIII No. 83 THEY FOUGHT THE SIORV OF v 'LOR . , - . A - Graphia Picture, of How American Boys Were Mur dered in the Recent Sa mar Massacre Victoria, BVC, Nov. ,13. F. P. Alli son, who is returning from Manila, was a passenger on the steamer Empress of China, which arriTed- yesterday, gives full details of the recent slaughter of the United States troops in Samar, where Captain Connell" and a company of the Ninth infantry were almost an nihilated by the Filipinos. He says the people of Samar or at least: that por tion of it were unused to the white tioop, ior tne garrison at the scene or the massacre prior to the coming of the Ninth infantry from CnSna which was made-up of tne Ninth cavalry, a col ored regiment. The natives liked the men who were more liketheni in color, better than the whites and when the infantry arrived among the Filipinos :hey believed that because the1 negroes found them friendly so would they and the guard was not so strictly kept. Captain Connell who was in charge of this force 'at Balingiga, had but 72 men who had police, fatigue and guard duty to do"The night before the mas sacre the village presidente came to Captain Connell and before the Padre declared that it would take one hundred more sombre? (native laborers' to do certain pioneer work. He did not have the men and begged the indulgence of the army captain. Captain Connell replied:- "Do the best you can. (Jet any native who will work to clear away the underbrush." Just after daybreak natives, with holos with which they cut underbrush, began coming into camp. Then the .massacre began. The last nnderbrush man killed the sentry, the church bell rang, the soldiers went Ao breakfast below the floor that held their arms. The insurgents split,, half went up stairs and shot down, and, the other half went in the mess room and mur dered the unarmed soldiers by forceof numbers. How the soldiers died is a sad but glo rious chapter in the history of Ameri can arms. Not one "of the survivors turned his back upon the scene of car nage until all was lost, their officers fallen, their comrades slaughtered and a terrible vengeance executed upon the enemy. Then they saved themselves and their wounded mates. The tales rf mutilation of the dead are all too true. Cnptain Connell aud Lieutenant Bum- puss were hacked up as warriors never! I Packed in Trunks and Dress Suit Cases Violators of the Game Laws Smuggle Pheasants Much Ado Over a Five Cent Glass of Wine Harrisonburg, Pa., Nov. 13. The esse against six New York . sportsmen who are charged with sevei'al violations of the Lacey law in Pute county, were taken in the federal court this morning. Dr. Kalbus, secretary of the state game commission, presented a number of wit nesses who all testified to having seen game packed in trunks and dTess suit cases belonging to the defendants. Mr. Seares was on the train when game warden Joseph Berrier of this opened a suit case and found eight English pheasants the killing of which the law prohibits until 1003. True bills were rendered in all the cases. These defendants will be tried at Scranton in March and from every in dication there is to be a national fight and a thorough test made of the laws. The defendants have as their' attorney former Auditor General Gregg and At torney . Kirkpatrick. Pending their trial an effort was made to secure per- Storieshtliat rre ' i - V - - - . Abominable Lies Good Feeling Between the Mexican and U. S. Com missioners Philadelphia, Nov. 13. Dr. W. P. Wilson, president of the Commercial Museum, arrived here today from the Pan-American Congress, in Mexico, ' to which he is a delegate. Sevenit news paper . clippings which told of alleged j LIKE HEROES were by a true foeman. Captain Connell apparently was awakenedin his quarters by the attack- J ers pouring in. He was alone, so he jumped from the window down among his guard, but the guard had all been, slaughtered. He was struck down by many bolos, almost as soon as he reached the ground. Not satisfied with killing him the assassins hacked his body into bits, severing the head, upon which they piled paper and sticks of." wood, setting them afire , to render the face unrecognizable. The body, however, was identified by Lieut. DrouillardV detachment, which eapie down from Basay. The bodies of Lieu tenant Bunrpus and the doctor were found upon a bridge leading up to the quarters over a little stream. The lieu tenant had a hole cut horizontally across the forehead, almost severing the top of the head, and a deep gh down each side of the face, so that when his body was picked up the face was practically severed from the rest of the head. The doctor's body was not so badly mutilated. Separated from their weapons, most of the rank and file, fought like heroes with table knives, stones, clubs, and such rude weapons as chance threw in their,way. It was a. bitter fate that be fell the Filipinos who closed in with the Americans before x they received their death wound- It will be remembered tnat o nnes. were saved. One" of these was in the nanus 01 me igeau ul uv""' anu renaerea a ternme sergeantwho is now -in the Taclobar. hospital, drew a bead on the faithless presidente who led the attack and as a solder expressed it, he kil.ed him and blew him to dog meat. This was while the enemy were i . , . . . . Th snoonnsr at mm auu siauuiui at wmi do:os, Dut ne seeum-u a high priest of veugeance for he only ; received three wounds and m get to the barotos and escape received three wounds and managed to One sergeant of Company C, Ninth Y . , , . . fantrv proved himself a hero among; . H. . . - , - in heroes roes in the tfaiangiga ngnt, ior n was. a fh C i teX With six men Te fotht! n.rto hnildtnir! with his way to the headquarters building to see if they could rescue their popu lar young captain, the lieutenant, the doctor, or pick up a stricken comrade. . Only the mangled bodies of the dead met their gaze,, but the post flag flapped above their heads in the faint morning breeze. Despite the mad rushes of the horde of drink maddened savages, that surrounded them, they stood at bay long ! enough to haul the colors down and bundle them -p. Then, striking, haekine. shooting at the blackheads all about them, they cut their way back to the beach, where another little knot of comrades were defending the baro tos and their wounded companions. Then they sailed off with at least the honors of war. mission for the New York hunters to continue the sport, but the state com missioners gave notice that every vio lation would be followed with other prosecutions. United States District Attorney McCorrell and Attorney Rob ert Snodgrass, of this city, will repre sent the United States and game com mission respectively Herbert Smallwood, a Baltimore col ored man, was charged with violating the United States law which requires all dealers in liquors to pay a special tax. Smallwood on September -16 ac companied an excursion of the Balti more G. A. R. to Gettysburg. He had with him a small basket in which he carried a bottle of wine and a small glass. Near Gettysburg a friend asked him what he had in the basket and said if it was wine he would like to have a drink, as he was not feeling well. Smallwood gave his friend the wine and received five cents for it. Five minutes later he was arrested and handed over to a policeman at Gettysburg on the arrival of the train at that place. Judge Archibald was of the opinion that the case did not come under the act of con gress, but was a violation of a state law ana that the tax was for persons in business. He Was inclined to believe that there was nothing for the jury to do but bring in a veruict .of "not guilty." discourtesies of American delegates to ward President Diaz and his wife, were shown to him. One , story was to the effect that an American was assigned to take Mrs. Diaz into dinner and excussd Himself upon a plea of illness. Another said that the American women declined to wear full dress at entertainments given by the Mexican- president. Dr. Wilson became angry and said that some enemy of the United States- had been trying to make trouble. He said: "I have attended every session of the congress and every evening entertain- ment given up to two days ago. These stories are abominable lies. The ntmost good feeling exists between the Mexican land the United States commissioners. ! In fact the friendship formed promises great developments : for each, nation.: It has fallen to the lot of AnlerieaW to conduct the wife" of the Meiiean'pres ident into dinner at three of the five entertainments, so far. given, andTI as sure you that each American thus? cho sen has been proud of ; the honor thus bestowed. V ; " ; : " "The American ladies conform ' ia every respect to the i customs of the country. They ' invariably .. appear in evening dress wljien .that.; is called for by . the occasion and then: toilettes nave been so elaborate as to create consider able comment in local papers. "The stories are.? lies. start ,upon my return trip to the congress today, and I shall make it a point to discover where these reports originated and if possible make it warm .for the respon sible writers." -i r t r WIND WAS J00 HIGH -i. . - Test Shoot of Gathmann Gun Postponed New York, Not. 13. Many army, and naval officers went to Sandy Hook this niornin-r to sep a test of the Gathniaun gun and the aerial torpedo, which it is ! designed to carry, but the test had to be Dostooued. It will probably take place before 8 o'clock tomorrow morn- j Wilmington, N. C, Nov. 13. Boe ing. oial. The annual convention of the Uni The test is an official one and the 'ted Daughters o' the Confederacy was committee appointed to passion it is.cnfied to order this morning in Young made up of Major J . G. 1. Knight, men's Christian Association auditorium of the corps of engineers. Major Rogers j by the national president, Mrs. E. G. lHornoa 4ka if. n i . 1 ona rf mPTvt ; ! Weed, of Jacksonville. .Fla. It is eS- Ar.rt,. T t wueor f th a rtillerv :! Ijieut joseph Strauss, of the ..tfavy and Lieut. Clelland Davis of the navy Besides these officers there were pres- eQt Liem General Nelson A. Miles, , General John R JJrooke ColoRel J. P. t g c tein G X. whistler of ) m . C4)loD. Wallace F. j 1andolpll t.hjef of lhe artillery corps. , n . ' ri4MriiA H.ipf nf artillery corps. Secretary Powell f 1 tillery corps, ( i-ecorder of the board of - " ordnance and fortifications. The ju- ,.hm;n to superintend the firing for the representatives of the makers of the 2im. . - f " -''- The cause of 'the postponement of the' test was primarily the high Wind about the Hook that prevailed' all day today and forced a number of coasting ichoou- ers to come to anchor near the proving grounds and only a mile off shore. j The Gathmann gun is 44 feet long, with an interior diameter of 18 inches. It weighs sixty tons. The projectile it fires weighs one ton and' is between six ana seven feet long. It is fired with a-Jrelocity at the muzzle of the gun of 2,000' feet a second. The gun has been sef upon a platform built for it. MUST RIDE OR LOSE THEIR JOBS Scranton, Pa., Nov. 13. For six weeks the mail carriers of this cky who are in sympathy with street car strikers have kept offthecars. Tod;t3" they began riding, not because they wanted to but because- they could not help themselves and retain their situa tions. The government sme time ago entered into a contract with itha Scran ton Railway Company 'to carry the mail carriers over their lines. Since the strike the mail carriers have been going about in wagons at the ex pense of the committee of the strikers. The government when it learned of this made an order insisting tljat its em- ployes musr live up to tae contract mat s . i il 1 .1 it . i. it had made with the Scranton Rail way Company. Today this order went into effect and the mail carriers rode as directed. The company regards this as quite h victory, for when people see two or three people on cars, they are apt to ride themselves. HOW THE BOERS ELUDE PURSUIT Secretary of War Says They Kill Natives to Prevent Their Giving In formation London, Nov. 13. In a speech here today Secretary of War Broderick de clared that the success of the Boers lately in eluding pursuit was partly ex plainable by their murdering natives to prevent, them from giving'-information' as to their movements. He admitted that in saying this he was making a serious eiCTge but many murders of this Ttind h$d been mentioned in tlui War Office's secret intelligence, that he had questioned General Kitchener who had replied .that cold blooded mur ders of natives by been freouent. Boers have lately J , - Reviewing the situation. Mr. Br -erick said he was able to account i'-' 53;00O r,oers killed, wounded or pri oners, rie oeneveu lueie- -" thousand Boers in the field. He claim ed that 14.700 square miles of Trans vaal and 17,000 square miles of the Orange River Colouy were secure from the Boers by the block house system. He instanced-the" increased security of tne. railways, which -were cut thirty-two times in October, 1900, and not once in October, 1901. ' . - Mr. Broderick announ2 5 that he was replacing part of the army with fresh men largely drawn from India and he mentioned a further offer of contingents from an unnamed colony. Dealing with the criticisms of the army corps com mands he touched lightly upon the case of General Sir;- Red vers Buller, w-ho was recently, dismissed from the' army! He justified-the -appointment of General Sir Evelyn? Wood, whose deafness, he said, had exist ed throughout his - career and had .not.-'interfered with 'iisXabiif y as a commander, aid he announced on the Duke of . Connaiight's authonfy the lattef's indention 'to-go on active ser vice when required, the dukev laying that wherever his army corps goes he will go. This disposes of the only pub lished criticism of the duke's appoint ment, it halving been supposed that he would not'be allowed to go on "active service owing to his nearness to the throne. ' -'" - ' iovATiofnT MRS. JACKSON Annual Meetingof the Daugh ters at Wilmington estimated that two hundred delegates hvere present at the opening session and nhnt fniiinrr off thoro i in n'f tpTiflnnf is made up m enthusiasm. The. morning session was taken up nrinciDallv wkh addresses of -welcome by the president of the local chapter, Mrs. Wm. M. Parsley, Mayor Waddell, on Jiehalf of the city and Gov. Aycock, on behalf of the state. The response Weed. - A musical program rendered by Soon after the meeting was called to . , orqer trodu Mrs Stonewall Jackson was in- roduced to the convention and she was V; -;,-h etnmt rt nnnuna It was the most inspiring scene of thfe day. The entire afternoon was taken up m preparing credentials. Tne local chapter gave a magnificent reception at. ithe Ofton tonight compli mentary 40 visiting delega tes. Confeder ate" reterars and members of the Wil- mington Light rInfnn'try. The receiving party composed of Mrs. Stonewall Jack- ' son. officers of the general convention and officers of the local chapter. lt was a most brilliant affair. The hotel ball room was thrown open and the scene was one of dazzling beauty. There was much lobbying 'today and several' candidates will receive good sup port in election for the presidency. Mrs. Weed announces that she will not stand for re-election. Texas, Kentucky and Virginia) are fighting for the president and the contest will be spirited. The convention Will get down to business tomorrow callingTn the president Several Delegations Wait on Mr. Roosevelt W.-ishingron, Nov. 13. A strong plea ; for the re-establishmeut of reciprocal commercial relations with Canada was made to the president by a delegation composed of representatives of ehani- Lns of commerce and boards of trade f , ,he principal eities of the country .The president was requested to ad vise the establishment of reciprocal trade relations with Canada in such a manner as lie, might deem most expe client. The president told the delegation thaj, while it would . be invidious for him to express himself in favor of reciproc ity with 'any particular country, he could say that 'the general subject of rc- 'ciprocal relations was receiving a great. deal of his attention. He believed that congress also would devote much time and .study to the question. The dele gates filed a. typewritten statement: of their views, with a compilation of sta tistics concerning -trace between th United States and Canada. The removal of the age limit of 45 years placed ujkhi postmasters is a sub-t jict in which Senator Mason of Illinois is gmirtly interested. The pronibition of appointments as postmasters for men more than 45 years oid, he claims, is a bar to the many deserving veter ans of the civil war. The senator dis cussed the matter at length with the president today and will submit data in writing on the subject to Mr. Roose velt in, a few, days. Senator Cullom. ex-Senator John B. Henderson. Chief Justice Fuller, and Prof. Langley, of the beard ct regents of the Smithsonian Institute, called on. 1hf president today in regard ito the i' t 01 est of that -institute." They desire l''"" fome step, be taken to awaken ! interest in the Smithsonian to a v -1cr degree than is now evident. ri.or Axpiroz, the Mexictan minister, V.eil on President Roosevelt today. He v.-a's received in the cabinet room. Mr. As-.piroz has ju?t returned from the Pan American congress. It was the first time he had. called on President Roose velt since the latter has been at the counties and says tnL wnere iioik White HoTise- I elections were held and a fair cow. A GIGANTIC . . RAILROAD DEAL CORPORATION FORMED To Take Over the Stocks of the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern and Control Those Properties New York, Nov. 13. The sweeping charcter of the Northern . Pacific Kail road settlement came out today with an announcement of the incorporation un der the laws of New Jersey of the North-em Securities Company with n capital of $100,000,000. Tbis company is to nae over the stocks of the Great North ern and the Northern Pacific Kailroads and control those properties. The three incorpora tor named George F. Baker, Jr.. Richard Trimble and Abram M. Hyatt are merely temporary represen tatives of the Morgan-Hill interest. They will be replaced by a board of di rectors in which the Union Pacific in terests will 'have a liberal representa tion. The settlement puts an end to the controversy under the ' control of Burlington, 'provides for joint control of ! the Northern Pacific and the Great Nor- I them and assures protection to itne -"" x '"'f8 AU AJW arucies or incorporation oi me " . x v 1 i uc wu'P.'i'.v lut-pyieu auu mc.i iiU5seii, counsel tor tne ortnern trnvii- ,c Railroad. A filing fee ' of $80,000 ;gtock whiefl was pasged todar nad the was paid by a check from J. P. Morgan , a al of the Harriman interests. The ?pe!flc 0b3e?t ,t ' ch hold a large majority of the pre 00,000,000 company as to acquire a11 i fen-ed shares of the capital stock of the Northern Pa- j Holders of 'a m'ajority of the common cific and the Great Northern Radroads. j j stock . (rephsseilting the Morgan-Hill in The Northern Pacific shares will be jterest) requested the dkectors to retire turned over -to tne proprietary corpo- . the preferred on the first of January, ration at llo, which for the Sloo.000,000 ino2; and gave satisfactory assurances of Northern Pacific common stock .that that tth(j necessary mo-ney for that will be extant under the settlement plan pUTp0Se will be furnished. The diirec will be equivalent to $178,250,000. The ,ors resolved that the necessary funds oreat .ortnern siock wm De turnea in at -lou, wniu ior tne ?.azo,uuu,uuu 01 stock is equivalent to 225,000,000. The aggregate of these two sums is $403, 250,000. Should aHofthe shares of both roads be transfeiTed nhder this plan the capitalizatrion of " the propiie tarv company wil be increased. There is ?ood authority for the statement that a very large majority of the Great Northern shares have ben .fledged. The new Burlington proprietary - company chartered in Iowa .;o lease and ODer- J er i-esolution was adopted by the North ate the Burlington Railway ystem is j ern Pacific board today declaring a div entirely distinct from the New Jersey 1 idend of one per" cent, on the preferred corporation -- althr igh it av"v be con-J shares for the period to end -December trolled by the same interests. - j 31, 1901, in addition to the regular div- About the time that the news of 'the 'idend payable on December 5, Charles t.-! corporation of .this nnv company reached Wall street the directors-- of -the Northern Pacific Railway weBt into session. There were present: President Charles S. Mellen, E. H. Harriman, j Writing Friends That He is Living Strange Conduct of the Old- est Metal Broker in New York New York, Nov. 13 William Ingra ham Russell, a metal broker of 66 Madi son Lane, who, had been missing since yesterdav, and for whose body the police and his friends have been searching, walked into his office at 10:30 o'clock this morning. A letter received bj his confidential clerk last night from Mr. Russell permitted no other inference than that when h was next found he would be dead iifsome New York hotel. Mr. Russell is one of the oldest metal , bro kers hi the city, and be has been several ! 4 i m oo ni-oairteni- nf th Metal Exchange and he -is editor of The Metal Market, His letter says: . : i "Dear Wheaton: Forgive me for put ting such a burden on you, but I know no one else I could ask.. Probably early tomorrow morning you will hear where I had gone la'st night. When you get the news please take charge. My wife does not expect " me home until tomor- row njght. I am going up to a hotel. where I shall register in my own name, ANTIS ALLEGE FRAUD Mr. Shelly Denounces Elec tion Methods in Many Counties Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 13. General Charles M. Shelly, chairman of the campaign committee against .the . rati fication of the new state constitution today issued a statement saying that forty white "counties gave majorities against the now constitution but 'that the ratificationist committed gross frauds in .the black counties making It appear that, the negroes voted to dis franchise themselves. He denounces the election methods-in many of the i . 1 JanVs J. Hill, William Rockefeller, H. M. Twombley, Daniel S. Lament, John S. Kennedy, " Willis .la mop. Charles Steele, Jaics.Stiilman, George F. Ba ker, Samuel Rear Ebeu It. Thomas and Drayton' Ives, v V The resignatdon of Robert Bacon of J. P. Morgan &; Co., as a member of the board '. was accepted and : Samuel Spencer, president of the Southern Rail way Company, was elected in his place. Resolutions were unanimously ' adopt ed thatr- the" Northern Pacific Company, exercise the right specifically expressed in each certificate of its stock, and re tire the preferred stock . at par on the first of next January. The "Northern Pacific reorganfzation agreement of UJuly, 1896. authorizes this comnanv to retire the preferred' stock in whole or in part, at par trom time to time upon any first day of January during the" twenty years' succeeding the. date of said re organization agreement; it being the prarpose and intent of the Hsaid agree ment that the ultimate control of the new-company should be held and be exercised by the holders of the common stock and that the preferred stoc should as soon as practicable be liqui dated and paid off in cash at par. ' At a meeting of the Northern Pacific stockholders on July 1, 1896, a reso Iution was adopted unanimously provid ing for the issued of $80,000,000 of com- j mon stock and $75,000,000 of preferred stock and expressly providing that such preferred stock should be issued upon the condition that at its option the com- 'pany might "retire the same in whole part flt par flrom time to time - ... 4av nf TonllotM. . be . provided by sale at not less than par of : $75,000,000 fwr. per cent bonds convertible into .common stock. It has. been arranged that commdfl stock hold- 'ers shall.be entitled to pttrchase at par an amount of these new bonds equal to seven.ty-five eightieths of the amount o? his present holdings. After the convey j s;on Cf those bonds into common, stock all of the Northern Pacific Company s capital stock ($133,000,000) , is to be of one class without-preference. A fnrth- , S. Mellen was re-elected president or the company for the ensuing year. Daniel S. Lamont was re-elected vice president and George H. Earles secre- tary and assistant treasurer, and I will plan that you get word which hotel early this morningT" Good bye, .my dear fellow. I have a warm brotherly feeling for you and appreciate your work. May you and yours prosper. Gratefully, W. T. RUSSELL." As soon as the clerk received this letter he hurried with it to . Mr. Rus sell's son. W. B Russell. The son sent his wife out to Fanwood. N. J., wher his father lives, to look after his mother, and the rest of the family while he notified the police. A general alarm was sent out at once, in which Mr. Rus sell was described as a man of fifty-four years, short, heavy, of light complexion, and wearing grey colored clothing. The son'said that his father suffered severely, from neuralgia, and that, as far as he knew, this could be the only -cause, of a desire to end his life. When Mr. Russell appeared today he looked like a man iu perfect health mentally and bodily, who had just en- joyed a good breakfast and was pre-1 vim and enthusiasm. When asked : to explain the note , to .Mr Wheaton he declined. - After Mr. Russell dismissed his inter viewers his stenographer set to work sending out postal cards to his friends and business associates announcing that he was alive. , followed the constitution was defeated. He asserts that a judge of a Buperior court boasted of voting five times.: Former Governor Joseph FV" Johnson, an anti-ratification leader today an nounced the ana-ratificationists intend ed taking up their organization and were sure of controlling the Democratic State convention next year and that a majority in the next legislature .would be men who voted against the new con stitution. The next legislature wili. elect a United States Senator, Mr. Pet tns' term expiring a year later. Rumor connects Governor Johnson as a candidate.- Governor Shelly, is talked of for governor against W. D. JeJks, the pres ent incumbent. - - Iexmgton, Vs., Not. 13. Roanoke Col lege was easily defeated by Washing n and Lee University in, 25 nd 15 "ante halves by a score of 34 to 0. .e feature was Smith' goal kicking. 1 . "
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