Vol. VIII
RALEIGH, NC.;SUNDi.!pVEMBER:i7, 1901-TWELVE PAGES.
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Locomotive Blown Up and
Cars Derailed Rear
End Collision Near
Same Piace
TI
co '.
i -M.urg. Pa.. Nov. 1G. A venr-eml
n lunveen an east-bound passev.-
; u-.ii'i ami a i reign t tram ana an :u
:,it trf, 1'liw up a passenger tsnin
:: livnam'ite canned excitement anion;
v, : ,1. ..fficiais hi this city today.
t,k was on the mitlule division of j
',., :i-y'vauia llailrood and occurred j
pi..".; a. m., one :ui,l .i half unk-s
r :( Newport and not far from Trim-1
' link, where a Disastrous wreck
urn-i in 1S07.
j y-unoite. undoubtedly placed on the
jrflck f r the purpose of wrecking tho
f .-i smith-hound express 0:; the North
1 , ;,tr;.; liaihvay. almost blew . a great.
winaoiive to pieces and derailed the
; near York last night. Never ia
ii, htory -f the railroad lias such an
;:::.npt Wen made to wreck a tram
i.r l th'M-c will be no effort spared -to
v; .l,wn the perpetrators. The ?4vt
v. hi re tl'.e wreck occurred is surrounded
ty high .hills on one side and the Codo.
r ,-: i-i'Otk 011 the other, and is one. of
i i, kelicst places between Ilarrhbur
AUGHTERS
OTTO
Jniceib elected for the Enstr
ine Year Next Convention
to be Held in New
Orleans
WPmingron. N. C, Nov. 10. Spe
Th.. c'-.-winsr cLtv's session of th
!-i:;hth annual -convention-of the Unite
Daughters of the Confederacy , was a
lv-y ore. Thcie was a gieat rush; to
i -i'.sh business in time for adjournment
-.; is evening. A majority .of the deie
..i fs left for their respective homes to
:'!):. Th:i SialGard Air Line ran a
i-!!l from here to Hamlet, carrying
.i laige majority of tlic delegates from
r. . v.vr, "who wiii make connections
th. if. with throush trains.
The Confederate Ye eran. published
1 S. A. Cunningham, at Nashville, was
Mia adopted as tht official organ.
'!'! c-omimttee appointed to deci
(v;;s founder of the l.nited Daugh
of :he Confederacy !ecided that
('. M.- Good! -At. of
Tennessee, was !
- f-. under.
The other contestant vas :
:. dines, of Alabama.
hs. J. E. Cantri!'. of Kentucky,
i'nnan of the motto committee, t
that a star had been selected as
ro
if the r. r. "
On th'? j
"Think,"'
f the star are the woids
DYNAM
PASSENGER
'wo.-Possible Aspirants
Have Thinking Caps On
Gen. J. S. Carr and Hon. Cr B.
Watson Not Ready to Say
; What They Will Do
Inn-ham. N. C, Nov.
;-i!rai Juiian S. Carr
10. Special.-
this afternoon
-.-liiK-.l to either affirm or diiy the re-
that he M-ould make the run for
t Uni.ed States Senatorship to suc-
1 ' 1 Senator Pritchard. ,Iie was asked
ii;.- question pointedly, and in reply said
it.nt he had nothing to give out and
v.-is he d to be quoted as declining to be
r .: rvicwed on the -subject.
From another source it is learned that
' '' i!'-r;;l Carr has received a large nnni-
i" of letters from friends throughout
" : tate urging him to make the run,
;! -liaising him their support if he does.
Ti:e same source says thr.t he now has
Sift O 1 Rir 111 A TI &ITA
m IiQIYIj IN All Oral D
' 1 W Unillk III til bill Bill'
Davidson and Techs Had
Misunderstanding in Re
gard toCompensation
V Hnta, Ga., Nov. 10. Special. The
- ' h-Davidson game which wfvs to have
'"'ii played here this afternoon was
: i 1 d oil about 11 o'clock on account
a misunderstanding about the guai-Ji-ee.
Tech was to give Davidson $200,
but after the season commenced it M'as
I' .und that tlie crowds Mould not war
ran:, such an amount, and Manager
' .'''1;ie so wte lavidson. J lie la-1
isoii manager then dhered to play for
. iter cent of the gate receipt s-whk-h j
cch accepted. Tech, made a-11 arrange-j
UN
TRAIN
and 'P.altini-ore. It is believed that tlic
object mis robbery.
F.nginper Isaac Sterner said he heard
a terrific explosion followed by a great
shock. The explosion' occurred . iinnie
dintely under the day coach which was
four cars lehir.d the engine. Passen
gers on tho train say they first, uv
;l ball of fire in the air which was fol
lowed by a blinding flash and a, deafen
in g roar. The passengers' were gre -thy
shocked, many throwing themselves o;i
the floor of the cars until the .train
stopped.
The Seashore express on
the middle
at 11 5 a.
1 d'rvisrou, .which is due ncrc
m.. was running at the usual rate of
speed and crashed into the rear -of a
special frcieat tram at 1U.uU
us
I "V. ....... 'T" i , . 1 r i- I .rl I TVQC ruTinincr cIotx-.
Iv. As scon as tha engineer and fire-
' man saw that it was
nipassible to stop
the train they jumped. Fireman Charles
D. Toomey went into the Juniata river
and was picked up later in an uncon
scious condition, lie is injured inter
nally. Kngineer .Harry Kuhlwind jump
ed over the embankment and is badly
he. it. The passenger engine went over
oh its side and is n complete wreck. It
Kecked all of the four tracks. Two
freight cars-"were ilcnwli-.hed aio-rr wir 1
the . caboose, find the wreckage caught
tire and was consumed.- The passengers
011 the train were badly shaken up and
several were cut by pieces of glass.
ADOPT A
AND. EMBLEM
'Love," i-Pray.";'lnrc".-and "Live." In
explanation 'of tho se-Iqerion 'Mrs. Cam-I
S ii',l siiidf "To act without thought is!
! folly, to act without love i unholy, t
I set without pray is not religioij. A-l !
ihi.ught, all love, it'll prayer without uc- ;
tion is ineffective . or cowardly." Sao;
also reported", that the cotton plant had !
been selected as the floral embiem off
the otg-luizatiou and said: "It is the one :
nanj tnat in ius mossoia ami mourn
.1 - i 1. 1 . .
ie in perfection in the spring-time in every j
Estate in the South.
At tnis juncture -Mrs. t&tonewaii . 1 ac-K-;
scit came to7he "stage to $ay good .ve
s' 1
to the convention. LveTybody in - tue j
1: Obit ladv sr.ske a few words, bidding
ili.-.-u niM.Mi ntvil wSshiiiEr ail iliviion a
svucc.-'M'ul year.
The election of officers resulted as f jI-
lows: Honorary President. Mrs. Stone- j
wall Jackson, of Charlotte, for life;;
President, Mrs. J. A. lt.mysaviile, Ii une, j
Ga.; Second Vice President, Mrs. T. .1. j
L;tham. Memphis. Tenn.; Recording'
Secretary. Mrs. .T. I. Hickman. Nash-i
vi.'le, Tenn.: Corresponding Secretary,'
M;s. Virginia F. McSheery, West Vir-!
trinia: Treasurer, Mrs. James Leisrli, !
Norfolk,
AVt.: Custodian, Mrs. Gabbitt. !
Ga. !
Atlanta.
The next annual meeting will be he-Id j
in Now Orleans in November, 1002. The j
present convention has been a great ;
sficcess, and de-lesrnte all express groat ;
i.- iiirht at their warm and spiendid en-:
taii.ment in Wilmington. j
the matter under consideration and may
decide any May a; any time.
It is
known thr.t he is being urged to run
by a large, number of his friends. Ills
action in refusing to give out anything
shows that he has the natter under
advisement. .
Winston-Salem, N. C, Nov. 'l-"6.--Spe- j
cial. lion. Cyrus It. Watsri, of -this
c ity, M-as asked today if he Mould be a !
candidate for United States Senator, j
lie replied: "I think it a little too early!
to ii)2Ko an announcement, out 1 win
say that at the proper J:ime I may en
ter the race if I find there is any room.
Jeff."
If Mr. Watsorf should decide to bo
come a candidate this would give Win
ston tM-o aspirants for Senator Pritch
ard s seat, Capt. R. B. Glenn having
announced a year or more ago that he
M ould be in the race. The friends here
nf Gen. Julian S. Carr, of Durham, have
110 confidence in the report that he will
be a candidate for ithe senatorship.
w-it for a game, advertising the same
cricnshel v. thinking' the olfer Mas ac-
. ' ...
cc-pted. A letter, written iu Athens yes
tei-uay, M-as the first intimation to the
contrary, and it came too late for the
public to be M-arned; so many gathered
at the park expecting to "see a close
game. Regrets M-ere expressed, but it
v -as the fault of neither team that the
game was not played.
A NEW FLYER
Aerial Machine Invented by
an Italian Count
London. Nov. 10. The Italian count.
Amerigo, Di -Schil, -who M-as incorrectly
nmiounced as prepaiiug for an aerial
trip from .Venice to Rome, claims to
have invented a machine for aerial nav
igation whic-h is already assured of com
mercial success, and a strong syndicate
has put up money to finance it. The
count is now -in Venice and proposes to
j ny from there over the Adriatic tot
j Trieste in about a mouth. The triais !
have been very successful, according to
ja current report, bur the machine has j
Snot yet been publicly displayed and a
i good deal about it ha-s to be taken on
: trust. All that appears certain is that
tue count has devised a 12-horse power
electrical motor made of aluminum, that
the car .will hold three persons, that
the balloon part of the machine has
been constructed without much in the
way of novelty, and that it has para
chute attachments, and if it should fall
. into the sea will float like a boat. But
the count has prudently arranged to be
accompanied by a steamer on the sea.
Brigands Reduce Demands
Loudon, Nov. 16. A news agency
dispatch from .Sofia says that according
to trustworthy information the brigands
r j wno captured Miss Ellen Stone and
j Madame Tsilka have reduced the
' amount of the ransom demanded to
-0,000 pouuds sterling. Mr. Dickiusou,
the American uiplomatic agent at So
fia is willing to pay 15,000 pounds ster
ling, though that sum is greatly beyond
the amount at his disposal.
A Petrified Heart Found
Kinston, N. C. Nov. 10. Special.
A remarkable discovery has been made
by Mr. II. A. -Williams The object is
a hard substance in form of a heart,
end from the circumstances- of the find
ing it is supposed to be the heart of
a human being. Tt was found in a marl
bed surrounded by decayed bones, six
feet below the smface of th ground.
CIVIL .SERVICE IN
RURAL FREE DELIVERY
Better Pay Seems to . Be
Essential to Promote Effl
iency in he Service
Wnlinni vnv. i. President
" ' :
Roosevelt desire expressed several
uaj s ago, iuai an rmcu nrc wc.i.cij
carriers be. placed in the classified ser-
was th? caUf;e of an important fac-
tor in a consultation held today between
the members of the
civil service corn
mission and General Superintendent
Machin of the rural free delivery" ser-
vice, -ine conierer.ee iasieo uir iivjjij
four hours, and none of the officials
present would talk for publication about
M-h at M-as said and done M-hie .'the ses
.n a 1... .1 e 1 tn
sion lasted. It M as said that no definite 1
plan of action for
bringing about the
desired result had been decided upon,
and that a number of conferences would
doubtless be necessary before an agree
ment M as readied between the -officials
concerned.
While the president has openly ex
pressed his belief that the placing of the
rural carriers under the classified ser- I
vice M ould be a Mise move, and the -j
civil service commissioners in ill pro- j
bal-ility concur in this be-lief, it is known '
that the proposition is not favonib'e to j
the officials of the Posn Office Depart-
m:ut. I'ostmaster jcm rai .-.muii uuu .
I'racth-ally decided in the preparation
of his annual report, to ask that the
rural carriers be given .ff.OO a year In
rtefld of .VM as at preseut, but had de
termined r.ot :o recommend that carriers
be placed under the civil service regu
lations. What fflcct the expressed Mish
of the president and today's aud -future
deliberations of Mr. Machin and the
civil service commission will have upon
the views of the postmaster general is
not known, but in any case his annual
report ro congress 'will probably be de
layed in consequence.
Superintendent Machin has been, and
MUSSOLINO FRETS
IN CAPTIVITY
The Brigand Breathes Out
"Threatenings and
Slaughter
Romp, Nov. 17. The brigand Musso
lino has made three determined attempts
to escape, and consequently- is more
closely guarded than ever. Since his
capture he nas macie no niipse rrom nis
murderous faith and has
clared his :intentuon to kill
so.emmy
ll those M'ho
had anything to do Mith his recent ar
rest and -some ha:if dozen prison guards
M-ho rejected his overtures to help him
escape. The intention to conduct nis
ta-ial at Riggio has been labaiidouied, ns
it is beiieved ;it M-ould be impossible
,to obtain a jury there M-hic.h would not
contain some friends .of the brigand.
He will probably be tried at Lecce. It
is -already evident that the proceedings
will assume the dimensions of a state
trial.
. S
Anarchist Slashed to Death
London,' Nov. ' 16. Anarchists are
grieved to learn of the death, of one
they greatly loved and admired. ; The
deceased Mas Alessandrio Angiolho,
brother of Sepor Canovas, a murderer,
and himself a most promising criminal
and chief of Ihe band of anarchist des
GAMBLERS PARADISE
.- -,; ' - . - .
Famous Resort to Be Wiped
Out of. Existence
Washington, Nov. 16. Jackson City,
in Alexandria county, at the southern
end f the'histoiie long bridge over the
Potomac, which for years has been a
resort for' gamblers and sports, will be
practically wiped out of existence by
the purchase, by 'the Pennsylvania Rail-
road
of theiland upon which nearly all
;e haunts are located. Unsuccess-
of th
ful efforts have time and again been
made by successive legislatures' and
governors of Virginia to close up th?
gambling establishments, and the police
or this city have also labored to that
end. The places were spasmodically
raided huti with little or no effect and
the county officials were powerless to
control the situation.- The land will be
used as an' approach to the new rail
road bridge which will be built by the
company in place of the long bridge.
Pierce Sworn In '
Washiugton.Xov. 1G. Herhert H. P.
Pierce, of Massachusetts, former secre
tary of the United States embassy at
St. Petersburg was sworn ia today as
third assistant secretary of state, suc
ceeding -Th8-V. Cridler of West Vir
ginia. Mr. Tierce immediately assumed
tie duties of his new office.
- . s .
Champion Found Guilty
shev5Jle, N. , J., Nor. 17. Special. i
The
jury m tne case of nampic-n, on,
trial for. murder in the criminal court.!,," "T ' - Ll. luLL
this afteraoon returaed a verdict of j MeIflde-, bh started from Manila wita
t-uil'tT of murder in the second deeree ' a batch of valuable documents which
The judgment of the court will be prrssed
on him -Monday.
doubtless still is, unless very recently
converted strongly opposed to the .plac ing
of ' the six thousand 'rural carrier
under the classified, service. He has
said that what the rural free delivery
service really needed and what was
really necessary ito the procurement and
retention of on efficient force, was not
a set of civil service rules designed for
the protection of those in the service
and imposing them upon candidates for
positions, but rather more inducements
financial mitl otherwise, attached to th-2
position of a rural character. Mr. Ala
chin considers that his ideas have been
proved by the fact that there are tM-ertty
or tliirtj' resignations of rural carriers
received daily at the department, lie
pairing the efficiency of the force.
The increase in the salary of rural
'carriers, -which will be recommended to
congress by the postmaster general, M ill
in a measure, Mr. Machin thinks, in
crease tho desirability of the positions
in .the eyes of those eligible to till them,
but Mr. Machin does not believe it nec
essary to hedge about positions of such
a class M-ith civil service rules and reg
ulations unless the carriers are placet!
vpon the same plane Mith the city car
riers, and given a yearly increase in sa!-
j arj of l(Mj if-their; work 13 "satisfactory
and efhcient, until the maximum of!
S-1,(00 'is reached. Bnt Mr. Machin does !
not believe in safeguarding positions by i
the intricate machinery of the civil ser-!
vice regulations when the positions, so
far from being eagerly sought after,
aciuui go oeggmg. 4ow is tne time
Mr. Machin thinks, .to keep the bars
doM-n and secure a desirable class of
carriers by offering inducements. It
will be time enough later, ho thinks.
Mlie:i congress shall possibly have pro
vided more jf 'nerouslv for the rural car-
rier to urovid wile to U-pp him in
keer
position that the carrier himself does
not consider worth the trouble.
It is understood that the vieM-s of the
postmaster general coincide with those
of Mr. Machin, and a long series of con
ferences and consultations among the
officials concerned is looked for before
anything more definite develops.
peradoes Mho are operating in the dis
trict of Foggia. Alessandrio had
wronged Costanzia Nicorba, and the
girl's brother, meeting the ruffian in a
street in Foggia, forthwith attacked
hfm Mith a knife, slashing him to death.
$
Fire in North Durham
Durham, N. C, Nov. 16. Special
Last night there was a fire in North
Durham, the store of J. Sacks, a Jew,
being burned to the ground. He claims
that nis loss is $3,600 Mith $2,400 in
surance. The building was "owned by
the Pearl Mill Manufacturing Company
and M-as fully covered by insurance,
How the fire originated is not know-n.
de-X3lr. Sacks came up street and the first
"), lrnonr rf tha firff wn TV-hn thtx alarm
M-as given. The fire department re
sponded and saved the adjoining prop
erty. - : -4
Washington Notes
Washington, i,ov. 17. Special. Robert
S. , Clark, a storekeeper and gauger in
the Raleigh. N. C, internal revenue dis
trict, has resigned.
Postmasters appointed m North Caro-
lina: Poplar, Mitchell county, William
Bennett, vice J. N. Peterson, removed; j
wintnrop, uarteret counry, x.. jreeie,
vice Abram Lee, removed.
Soldiers Drowned
Washington, Nov. 17. The following
dispatch was -'received at the War De
partment this afternoon:
"Manila, Nov. IG. On October 30,
while crossing Bodoi river, Samar, on
a raft, Lieutenant Crawford, First in
ifantry, and six men, were drowned; all
bodies recovered and bc?ied 'in Bodoi.''
The accident was reported at -the time
in pies dispatches. - -
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Christian Science in England
London, Nov. 16. The cult of the
Christian Scientists is spreading so
comparatively rapidly in the eastern
counties of England that the dean of
Norwich has found it necessary to an-
"'!Df p"bl,Gl 1 hat he intends soon tq
fdd6S h"self m a controversy! spirit
to the whole subject.
t-
Gathmann Gun Fails Again
Sandy Hook, Nov. 16. The second test
of the monster 18-inch Gathmahn gun
was made at. moon today aim! resulted in
a 1'aiilure. The first test v of th!y gun
took place yesterday and-'jx-as likewise
a failure. The shell did" no material
damage to the target.
A HOODOO AFFLICTS
ARMY TRANSPORTS
. !
Washington, Nov. 10. A series -of
mishaps has served to prevent the com- j
pletion of Secretary Root's annual re-
pore 10 tne president. The difficulties
eueounterea nave not been overcome.
jand today Mr. Root gave up iu disgust
and will submit only so much of the re
port as he has ni'ennreil.
it i, -i.0 .;n, .
Mr. Root needed to enable him to tell
the president about conditions in the
Philippines.' But the Meade broke her 1
tail shaft and M-as obliged to put into
.agasaki for repairs.
So important Mas it for Secretary
Root to receive these documents quickly
that the transport Warren as sect
from Manila to Nagasaki to take off
the mail from the Meade and start Mith
it for San Francisco. The Warren was
a day and a half on her voyage across
the Pacific when she met with an ac
cident to her machinery'" and limped
into Kobe.
Just what hapened at the War De
partment -when the news of the War
ren's arrival at Kobe came is not of
record. But Mr. Root determined to
make another attempt to get the doc
uments in time. He ordered the Han
cock, the queen qf the transport fleet,
to proceed post haste from Manila to
Nagasaki and take the official mail
from the Warren and then show what
kind of a trans-Pacific speed record "she
could make.
Rut the hoodoo still lingered. The
Hancock is hung up on a reef near Shi
uauosaki and nobody here knows Iiom
badly she is injured or how long it wiil
take to repair her or Mhere another
transport is to be secured to carry her
mail to tne United States. So Mr.
Root wont be able to tell the president
in his annual report of the latest condi
tions of things in the Philippines.
mong the documents Miiich Mr. Root
was anxiously aM-aiting M-as a report
on banking and nuance in -the lhilip-j
pines made by Charles A. Conaut M-ho
Was sent there as special agent of the
War Department to collect information
on these subjects, j.
BURNED THE WIND
A Mile a Minute Beaten by
Automobiles
New York, Nov. 10. A mile a minute
in the open road Mas accomplished by
Uuoi'e thau one driver of automobiles
over tlie Coney Island boulevard in the
race of- the Jxvng Island Automobile
Club today. The special locomotive ou
steel rails is the only thing on earth
that ever M-ent faster, and even its rec
ord Mas endangered by the time made
today by Foxhall P. Keene, Albert C.
Jjostwick and lleuri Fournier. Eaeh of
these three chauffeurs went a mile in
less than a minute, and each Meat un
der all existing records for track or
road for any sort of a vehicle.
The best time made Mas that cf
Henri Fournier, the French profession
al chauffeur, M-ho won the Paris-Berlin
race. He rode the mile iu ol 4-3 sec
onds. Mr. Keene's time M-as 54 and 4-5 sec
onds, and Mr. Bostwick made the dis
tance iu 56 and 2-5 seconds.
PRINCE CHUN AT HOME
Li Hung Chang's Funeral
a
Long Way Off
Pekin. Nov. 16. Prince Chun, broth
er of the emperor, M-ho headed the ex
piatory mission to Germany, arrived
here today. There M'as an imposing
military and official reception of the
prince at the railway statiou. After
wards the military escorted him through
Legation street.
Although ' the court issued an edict
after the death of Li Hung Chang con
ferring the hereditary title of marquis
on him and tM-enty-three generations of
his eldest son and offices and rank on
his other sons and grandsons', and also
provided for the erection of a memorial
arch in Earl Li s native town and the
expenditure of five thousand taels for
the entertainment of any funeral guests
M-ho might attend, no plans have as yet
been made for his burial. The body
will remain in Pekin until summer,
when it will probably be takento South
Anhui province.
PRINCETON TSGERS
BEATEN BY OLI
Georgetown Defeats Virginia
by the Closest Kind of
Score Harvard Wins
from Dartmouth
New Haven, Conn., Nov. 16. Yale
and trainer Mike Murphy were victo
rious over the Princeton Tigers here
this afternoon by a score of 12 to 0
The blue Varsity eleven carried the day
much to the surprise of the army of
Jersey rooters, who came to town con
fident that a triumph would be seored
over the local kickers. Superior phys
ical condition was the principal factor
in Yale's success. The loss of the big
freshman guard, Olass, was apparently
not felt, for during the entire game,
barring about ten minutes before the
1 battle ended, Princeton was outplayed,
j The Tigers, while it could not be said
that they were in poor trim, in point
of physique, were unable to withstand
the constant and merciless battering in
which the Yale players indulged from
start to finish. Before the first half
was ended
Princeton's ' star guari,
Dana, was so badly nsed up that he
had to leave the gridiron. In the sec
ond half the New Jersey eleven crum
bled to pieces, and before the wind-up
seven substitutes were taking part in
the scrimmages. There were no flukes,
no mistakes and absolutely no roughing
to speak of, there being but one penalty
imposed for off-side play. In other
words the game was remarkably free
from anything objectionable; it bristled
Mijh beautiful plays, and the best -of
good feeling prevailed throughout. The
Princeton players were, however, game
to the core. They played all the foot
ball they knew, but they did not know
tis much as the men who carried the
colors of old Eli to victory.
Washington, Nov. 1C Georgetown's
old gridiron foe, Virginia, again met de
feat today. By a superb exhibition of
forlorn ,hope luck the blue and grey
Western Conference
Gastonia Prepared to Enter
tain the Visitors with
Characteristic Hos
pitality Gastonia. N. C, Nov. 10. Special.
Everything is in readiness to receive
the grear assemblage of Methodists
next Wednesday. Gastonia Mill, . for
the first time in its history, entertain
next M-eek. the Western North Carolina
Conference of the M. E. church South
which Mill be the tMelffh annual gath
ering of that body.
The preachers number some 200 or
more, and there will be about half that
number of 'lay delegates. The .confer
ence Mill opeiv Wednesday morning at
y - ., in the handsome new First Meth
odist church, of Miiich Rev. Geo. II.
Detwiler, D. D.. is the popular pastor. -
Bishop Richard K. Hargrove of Ten
nessee, will call the body to order and
preside during the sessions of the con
A Great Mud
Down
.Wilmington. N. C-, Nov. 16. Special.
Probably the most interesting M-ork go
ing on anyMiiere in this vicinity nov- is
that being done at FortasMell, at the
mouth of the Cape Fear river, by a
suction dredge of the Atlantic. Pacific
and Gulf Company, Mhicn has the gov
ernment contract of filling in behind
the new sea Mall 'which' M-as completed
not' long ago. The vall is a mile in
length and behind k is a" great valley
M-hich is to 'be "filled in to the level of
tne M-all. The wonderful dredge sucks
sand, mud and shells from the bottom
of the river and forces them to the land
by means of a twenty-two inch iron
pipe M-hich is supported over the M-ater
on pontoons. When the stuff is sucked
from the bottom it is carried to a height
of ten feet above the - surface of. the
OUR PORTS OPEN
TO ANARCHISTS
There is No Law by Which
They May be Excluded
or Sent Back
Washington. Nov.. 16. The absolute
lack of any means under our present nm-
inigration laws by -which, anarchists may
be excluded from the Lmted states as
set forth by.Terrence AT. Powderly, Com
missioner general of immigration in his
annual report. The ipresent laws, he
says, restrict admission of aliens on
moral, pecuniary and phjeical grounds
-1
eleven placed itself at the large end oi
Ae 17-16 score when there- remained
but a scant 45 seconds to play. Threa
thousand people watched from the side
Ell
lines and bleachers on Georgetown held .
the Tarying fortunes of the most excit -ing
game ever played in Washington .
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Cambridge, Mass.,-Nov. 16. HarTarct
defeated Dartmouth on Soldiers' field
this afternoon in the cleanest aud best
game of foot ball that ihas beea played
in Cambridge thia fall. The score was
27 to 12. - : ...
New York, Nov. 16.-rThe defence oi
the Columbia foot ball team ' collapsed
before the determined and swift moving; .
onslaught of the big Cornell men today, -ana
the eleven young fellows whi sport
the blue and white were forced to ac -,
cept a humiliating defeat from -the Itha
ca eleven. The final score was 2 .to- 0,
and a game which at the end of the first
half promised to be at least close, end
ed in almost a rout. ' ' S '
Annapolis, Not. 16. The anost' inter- -esting
game of 'the-season.'-was played
here this afternoon, when the naal ca
dets defeated the foot ball teast of
Washington and Jefferson college by a"i '
score of 17 to 11. The firsit was marlrecl -by
good defensive work -by the-vs-itors-
-and the navy scored a goaLaind a
toucnaown oniy aiccr me A'ennsyiv.
nians nad made two fumbles on kicks'
and lost the ball. The first part of tho
second ha if was a walk-over for Wash-,
ingtott and Jefferson, and they scored at
touch-down, goal and a field goal in the '
first ten minutes. At this point Nichols
went into the game and the remaining
fifteen minutes the navy played thehr
opponents off their feet, and scored tM-o
tmirh firiwnc -frnm one of whifh n, p-oaT1
was kicked. - '
Philadelphia, -Nov. .16. Pennsylvania
had to fight desperately with the In
dians from Carlisle today to win the
annual game by the cloie score of-lC' ,
to 14. In the first half the Indians on t
played Pennsylvania and he.d the, re?
and blue players down to one touch , -
rlrwim at tha Siimp tittlfr SCOrinar ttVft
themselves. ' .. r'
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ference which will probably last un,til
Monday or Tuesday bf the folloMiug
week. . ' "
Rev. W. D. Sherrill, who has served
as secretary for the past eight years.
Mill probably be relected without oppo-
The Western North Carolina Con '
ference embraces all tne territory we
of the Southern Railway from the yic
ginia line to South Carolina and severa ' '.
counties east, mainly along tlie Caro
lina Central road. This district wa ;
formerly part of the North CJarolin. - '
Conference, except "west of "Marion. ' 4
which formed a. part of 'the Holston
Conference , until 1890, when the West-'
era North Carolina Conference was
tormed. There are over 70,000 mem-
bers of the M. E. Qhurch. South; in this'
section of North Carolina, and (the an-
nual conference is an occasion of great
interest to them. v . i .
Large numbers of visitors are ex
pected. Our progressive little city is
known for its hospitality, , and next)
week the homes of all it-s people, irre ,
spective of denomination, will h" .
thrown Open to entertain.. the minister'
lay delegates and visitors. ' , .
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Sucker
the Cape Pear
water and then passed into . tne pipes. "
The pipe is 1,800 feet long. The 'dredge
has been working since October 2GHi
and is filling in from 6,000 to 7,0fM ' '
square yards a day of 24 hours. Up
to this time over 80,000 'square yards
of sand, niua and shells have been de
posited behind the wall. .It will require v
about three months more to complete r
the contract, M'orking day and night.' i
Two separate forces are employed. Tho &
sea wall is made of stone and is 12 f eet
high. It will require about 500,000 cu
bic feet of sand to fill in to the level of
the wan.
The dredge is doing double service-
vice- I
r, ?t
for the government, for in the bar.
is cutting a channel 2,800 feet long
A OAA tnni. -.:An T"! J 3 - '
u mi ow icti iviuc. xue urcuge luri
nishes its own electric lights.
alone." And therefore," he adds. "ther V
is no color of authority in law for the re-
jection at our ports of what are common- S
ly called anarchists, enemies of political;
or social oraer, our jaws recogniainz that1
the right to the free enjoyment of i-ndii
virhml Trnin?OTl i jttr limaliannkla .:kt i o.
The comm'isioner general make's no ire-vp
commendaticm for amending the laws
& fx exclude anarchists. 'Ty
The total number of immigrants en-' i
tering the United States during the lastJ "
fiscal year was 487.S18 as against 44S..1
572 in the fiscal year before. v
Canal Report Finished
y asiuuKiwu, jlqv. xi. '.me report -of i
the Inter-Ooeanic Canal Commission has f
been finished and Avill be presented to 1
the President as soon as it has been
typewritten. The conclusions of the com
nrisskra are simfilar to those contained
in the first report.
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