North Carolina Newspapers

y HHinnnn ' T iT H in) itiTr mm. For North Caro lina: Fair. Temperature for .the past 24 hours: Max. 86; Min. 66. A. VoL XII RALEIGH, N. C. THUHSD AT. SEPTEMBER 17, 1903 IKo. 90 t I . -1L JLJLJlm. JLVJlMJiU-JL 11 0" " ' ' - 1 '. : A - ' t ierce Ilrarricaiie - Up Slue Jersey Coast Atlantic City Swept Furiously. New York and Philadel phia also Experience ; Something Really . 1 Terrific New York. Sept. 16. A vagabond cy clone, not more than one hundred miles ir. diameter, startled the weather pro I hi9 this morning by dancing In from the pea across New Jersey and 'this ?, ti?n of New York. It was the flere twister for Its Inches for a long: t::u- th it has tumbled waters, uproot ed trees, unroofed buildings, driven 5n-.in craft ashore and smashed win dow glass hereabouts. It v .1? born somewhere at sea south er! of New Jersey. It traveled on Its v vn track with great speed, and Its rt.vrv eloolty varied from 50 to "0 an hour. The aneometer of Forester Emery showed that for twenty minutes ending at 11.45 there v.a an e-.isterly Ele fluctuating be twn 43 and 6 mile. In the open sea th. force of the blast was higher. The White Star ?tamer Oceanic from Llver r.wi an-i Queenstown was nearing Fire i:nr. l when the little giant swlrler hit h'r. She is the third biggest liner In the world, but her commander decided to lay her to a couple of hours and let th Rrcat blow go by. The centre of the storm passed over tM city about i o ciock p. m. v in-!. which within two and a nau had shifted lrom east to south- , t. whirled into the southwest and v.ft. making lee shores of weather ! .-tes. and vice versa, and. having al :. t.Iy slammed dosens of little anchor , i craft ngilnst the Staten Island ....res. began slamming dozens of them the shores of Gravesend Hay. At : r o'clock this afternoon the wind r i t faded to a zephyr. The. cyclone 1 gone north. :.e !artr steamer, the S. E. Spring, vik-h plies between -New Rochclle, l:y- Ileach and Stamford, was caught -vf? Greenwich and was driven. on the ;ck off the big country mansion of II. C. Benedict at Bell Haven.' The . ir-tain. hts crew of seven men and ven passengers were saved, but the m.fr. which Is a slde-wheeler, 20 : over all, was pounded to pieces r-. the rocks. The passengers and crew Vi a thrilling experience and. their cape from drowning was miraculous. Vry Sever at Atlantic lty Philadelphia, Sept. 16. The follow i: c message was brought to this city : iay from' Atlantic City by train A fierce southe.-st storm swept the New Jersey coast today and wrought crnt damage. At 5 a. m. a wild wind reeded a heavy downpour of rain, which lasted until 8 o'clock. This was f flowed by another hurricane, the wind reaching a velocity of seventy miles an lour. Fears are expressed for the if-ty of vessels along the coast, but a thin city Is now completely cut off ?-.m telegraphic and telephonic com ? inication no definite news can bt ab lund from the various maritime and 1 -favlng stations. In this city the .'image wrought by the gale will -mount to many thousands of dollars. Th Hotel Strand Is said to have been i.-rr.aed to the extent of $20,000. The : ! Ktr.plre theatre the new Bartlett, tr hotels Rudolph, Chelsea, Toungs. Marlborough and Windsor were all tr' r or less damaged. I The ummer residence of J. G. Adams f t Li r. wood was partially wrecked as "-I a many others oo the main land. A hue at Texas and Atlantic ave r j-m m as demolished The roof and up rr tory of the McCIay apartment h -; at Pacific and South Carolina r.-iea was blown off and several per--.! were injured. The Champion rrtrnent house was damaged as well the Hotel Dunlop and Young's pier. M try pavilions along the entire length f the board walk have been demollsh M and the city beach front Is ah re wh Mth wreckage. Hundreds of trees. and !cn were blown .down and thousands -f w indow lights broken. Electric power has been shut off In W to avert accidents. Tha trolley ire is tied up and business is almost t a standstill. The streets were flnnied water and the public 'hxIi held no sessions. All trains are !it. and the telegraph companies are ending their business by messengers outside points for transmission, v It !- reported that the power-house of the . irburban Traction at Pleasantville, sx miles from here, was blown down. lr meadows are tinder water, causing considerable delay In railroad traffic. wYr)c Arta Wrt laYars New York. Sept. 16. A terrific hur ricane, driving sheets of rain before It, "ran to sweep over this city at 11 "V!ock tod a"" Houses In the surburbs f '-iff red some damage, trees were up 'fed. signs blown down and other "Umajre of a minor character reported. T:graph and telephone wires were Mown in all directions and communl t!n with the outside world was rractlcally unended. Business in Vall street and the commercial dis tricts came to a standstill. The streets r deserted, as walking and riding. vre danrerou .braus of ialilnel. danrtrou waui of fa Mine I - i'.zr.r loo hrirv ,hin-iM etc It to STwont storm New York has experienced In years. A terrifying fea ture of the storm was the intense dark ness which set in, making lights a ne rhlla4lphla Catches It Philadelphia, Sept. 16. A severe storm from the gulf region' reached this city about 5:30 this morning. The rain fell In torrents, driven by a thirty eight mile wind,- The telegraph and telephone service is badly crippled and there is no communication with Atlan tic City. A. G. McCausland, superintendent of the Atlantic Railroad, arrived from Cape May at 9:30 o'clock and reported that the fury of the storm there was unprecedented. A bank building was unroofed, the Queen Anne Railroad pier was partly destroyed and a number of cottages were damaged. All telegraph wires to the coast are down and some surburban trolley lines are idle because of prostrated wires. A Catalgn mt Casualties Laurel, Dell, Sept. 16.-Five ioats sunk, three killed, scores of houses wrecked and unroofed, roads made Im passable by uprooted trees and wreck ed houses, is the resultof this morn ing's storm, the worst that ever visited this region In the history of our oldest residents. Gale on the Baltic Berlin. Sept. 16. A telegram from Lu beck states that a heavy gale is rag ing on the Baltic Several vessels have been sunk, including five Swedish and Norwegian, two Danish and two Eng lish boats. Many lives have been lost. Ferdinand Will Travel Berlin, Setp. 16. The usually well In formed Post says that Prince Ferdi nand of Bulgaria Is about to start on a foreign tour, and .will probably visit Berlin In the middle of October. BOY MIXED POISON . A Aud Thirteen Years. Old .v.. M u d e rs. Hs S te prriQther " Norfolk, Vl, Sept. 16. John II. Dey, the thirteen-year-old boy charged with mixing poison which killed his step mother, Mrs. OHn Simpson Dey, was given a preliminary hearing i n the police court today and was held for the grand Jury action. Mayor Riddlck testified that young Dey's confession was made to him In the presence of the youth's father af ter the latter had told the boy that no harm would come to him by confessing. The question of ball is to be determined later, the prisoner In the meantime being committed to Jail. GONE T01AY A CABLE Line Will Soon Be Complete From Sitka to Seattle Seattle, Wash., Sept. 16. The United States cable ship Burnside sailed for the north last night to continue the work of laying the cable from the head of Lynn canal, by way of Sitka, the capital of Alaska, to this city. She has a stretch of 600 miles of cable aboard. Gen. A. W. Greely. chief signal officer of the U. Sarroy, Is on boad the ship. The Burnside will proceed direct to Juneau where, after making a short line connecton. she will leave for Sitka, laying out about 230 miles be tween the two towns, and continuing south from the capital by the open ocean as far as the cable rope will reach, possibly ta a point off Queen Charlotte Isle. It Is said the entire consignment of cable on the Burnside will be laid and the vessel be back In this port for the final link by October 15th. FILIPINOS WANT PAYING OFFICES Manila, Sept. 16. The leaders of the Federal party are preparing a strongly worded petition to the United States congress requesting-that the Philippine commission be reorganized.. .Tney asx that the membership be increased by the addition of two Filipinos and one American, and also that the salary of the Filipino members be Increased be cause the auditor, the collector of 'cus toms, the attorney general, the solicitor nnd the treasurer receive salaries 53.000 In excess" of those paid to the native. MmM..lnnar THA TeilllOn ttisv , ..a. in i : set forth, a desire al' """"f"; 'managers. A basket 'picnic or lunch linance, the secretary of justice, l"ejeon be held at Guilford Battle secretary of commerce and the secre- Ground Xuesdayt 13thf followed by a tnry of police be appointed so that two magrxlncent exhibition of fir'el works natives may hold office as secretaries. 'sImilar to those given at expositions. It Is believed that this is the initiative HVing the origin and his- for a concerted demand for the aP?torly of the celebration and its aims, ihim about his conduct. A quarrel fol polntment of more native office holders, Is in press, and "15,000 will be print-1 lowed and Williams draw a revolver at higher salaries. " led and distributed broadcast as infor-jand shot Germany dead. it-is reported, irom v-tuu have been twelve ct'ses or cnoiera u 'nine deaths during the past 24 hours. A health commissioner has been 'dis patched with doctors and assistants to fight the outbreak. The garrisons of Mindanao and Jolo arc being steadily Increased. General "Wood's expedition-Is penetrating the Interior. It is feared that this will re sult probably in friction and ultimate hostilities. A hundred fanatics in the province of Neuva Eeija surprised a constabu lary force. In the ensuing fight five of the constabulary were killed and two I wounded. Eight of the fanatics were killed. . The incentive for the attack Is not known as the fanatics, did not at tempt robbery J WENT WHIZZING BY -4r Seaboard Fast Train Disap . pointed Lakeview People Lakeview, N. C, Sept. 16. Special. The citizens of Lakeview were disap- pointed last evening, when second tion of train 2 passed Lakeview at about CO miles an hour, an unexpected delay between Raleigh and Lakeview making It Impossible to permit a stop. This train carried companies L and M of the third battalion of Uniter States engineers en route to the Philippine ! Islands, who had been invited to make a ten-minute stop at Lakeview and to partake of coffee and light refresh ments. The train was in charge of Passen ger Agent J. W. Cole of the Seaboard's "Washington office, who will accompany this, the first through business inau gurating trans-continental passenger service over the allied Seaboard-Rock Island-Frisco system. SLASHED WITH N A LONG KNIFE e . A Durham Negro Carved in a Way That Is Likely to Kill Him ' Durham, N. C, Sept. 16. Special. Robert Ledbetter, colored, is in Jail, having been committed without bail to await the results of injuries inflicted upon Jim Bullock, another negro. The trouble occurred last night. Bullock went to his home and found Ledbetter there paying attention to his wife. A fight ensued and the Ledbetter negro used a knife with almost deadly re sults. Bullock was stabbed in the left breast, the knife entering the cavity of the breast and probably cutting the top of the left lung; two long and ugly wounds were made on his head; there are two bad stabs in the back," and a long and dangerous wound in the shoulder. At first It was thought that Bullock would not live through the night, but he is still living this after noon, being under treatment at the LIn.com hospital. He has some chances of recovery. As soon as the crime was committed Ledbetter escaped under cover'of dark ness. This morning Officers Harris and Cobb heard that he was going down the country road taward Raleigh and they started in pursuit. He was overtaken and captured a few miles below town and. brought back here. The offcersdid not know the negro, as he came here but a short while ago from Moore county, and he was arrest ed on suspicion. At first he protested that they had the wrong man, but be fore he reached town he confessed that he was the one who did the cutting. He said he did not know why, but that he was afraid theother man was go ing to. kill him and he began to cut right and left. On account of the extremelly danger ous condition of Bullock, the prisoner was committed to jail without bail. GETTING READY ; FOR THE REUNION Greensboro Is Preparing for the Biggest Celebration . of the Kind Greensboro, N. C, Sept. 16. Special. There was a well attended meeting last night to take further action in the matter of the reunion of non-resident North Carolinians to be heia in Greens boro October 12-13. Judge Boyd read the report of the general committee of five, to whom had been referred the duty of suggesting plans, saying that this committee had been in. session several days for hours at a time and that its work had -been onerous and difficult, but that it was apparent that the most successful gathering of people ever known Jn the state, would be held in Greensboro October 12th and 13th. In presenting the report Judge Boyd made a talk, tilling something of the magnitude of the reunion and of the lavorauie ouuuuk iiu iiie Mjienuiu sue- M 1 T 11 1 J 1 cess that will crown the efforts of the " ... .. ' ' maiwn iwr iuu , ooro uunns " reumuu. Inception committee of 100. composed I of prominent personages of the state, headed by Governor Aycock. Rev. A. C Dixon of Boston has teen selected to preach the reunion sermon." X?r. Charles D. Mclver closed the meeting with a speech explanatory of the1 work being done and of the great Importance of notifying every native of this state residing elsewhere of the cominr reunion. , For information upon !any point con nected with the home coming, om munications should be addressed to Hon. R. D. Douglas, secretary of the board of managers, Greensboro, N. C. TRACK' OF THE FLORIDA STORM No News f Yet From Points South of Tampa Town Reported Destroyed Jacksonville. Fla.. Sept. 16. All corn- LunicatlOD witn tha west of Xampa vls stm cut off coast south Tampa. Ms still cut off and no re port has been received from the towns of that section beyond a rumor .that Puntarasa, a town of 100 people on. the lower coast, had' been destroyed. x The damage in middle Florida is tnrnhflhlv much less than was at first , believed, and wa principally infiicted , rV,iv, i,i caused many washouts on the ' rail roads. "Three negroes were killed by falling timbers at the camp of the Cummer Lumber Company, near Gainesville, and another negro was severely hurt and probably will die. A dwelling and several cottages were wrecked. At Mulberry the phosphate plants are reported as greatly damaged. They have been compelled to shut down until the water subsides. From all parts of the state great damage to the turpentine industry is reported. Tle damage to the orange groves is heavy. Orange men estimate the loss to the crop at from 25 to 40 per cent. Many grange trees were torn to pieces, the fruit splitting and dropping to the ground. ;rrrrentlnl Mains lu Georgia. y Atlanta, Ga. Sept. 16. Reports from the southern and southwestern section of the state indicate that torrential rains have been general there and that the damage to cotton is great and widespread. At Pulan six Inches of rain has fal len" withrn 40 hours, and at Pelham and Meigs, -Mitchell county, 11 inches fell in two days. Prom Meigs comes the report that great damage to crops has caused con sternation, and that merchants are cancelling their orders for merchan dise. The downpour seems to have been general and the country is flooded, ;overflowi nj? and damaging railroads and county ' roads, crops. besides the injury to Killed in a Mine Winston-Salem, N. C, Sept. 16. Spe cial. The remains of Noah Benge, aged twenty years, arrived, here this after noon from "West Virginia. The young man was killed yesterday in a coal mine near North Fork Junction by a block of slate falling on him. He lived only five minutes after being taken out. The body will be sent to Elkin tomor row for Interment. It is accompanied by George Halsey, another young man. The, two have been working in "West Virginia for two years. They went there from "Wilkes, county. Crash at High Speed Elizabeth, N.tJ., Sept. 16 A Somer ville express to New York, running at a high rate of speed, crashed into a freight train at the Spring street sta tion of the Central railroad at 1 o'clock this afternoon. Brakeman A. P. Mink of Bayonne, who was on the engine of the freight, was instantly killed. The engineer of the passenger, train, John VanFleet of Rockaway, N. J., was bad ly injured about the body." The other members of both crews saved them selves from serious injury by jumping. Yellow Fever Scare Laredo, Mex., Sept. 16. The Texas state board of health and the federal authorities have established a most rigorous quarantine against New Lar edo, Mexico, opposite this city, on ac count of several very suspicious cases of fever which physicians say indicate all the symptoms of yellow fever. One death has resulted , thus far. A Many people are preparing to leave the city: LABOR AGENT SHOT TO DEATH 3 . Ccnterville, Miss., Sept. 16. Williani Williams, a negro, was lynched In Main street here by a" mob of several hundred people. , Williams, who was a labor agent, had been here several days employing j negroes for contractors lri other sec tions of the state, and It is alleged that he enticed several employes to leave. James H. Germany remonstrated with r to death. , : F ranee Bought the Water-Shed Asheville, N. C, Sept. 16. Special. A few days ago a large tract of tim ber land was purchased on the Swan nanoa by some eastern parties, the deal having been negotiated by J. M. Campbell, a real estate agent. The land is part of the city water shed. Several aldermen declared today that the sale would never be confirmed as the city would seek to obtain tha land by condemnation , proceedings. The proposal to denude this forest has call ed forth vigorous protest. The matter is being widely discussed by business men tonight. ' DEAD IN THE BUSHES A Young Negro Woman Found With Her Throat Cut "Wilson, N. a, Sept, 16. Special. This morning while E. S. Toney was coming to Wilson and when within two miles of town he detected a very offen sive odor in the bushes near the road, and upon going in . the direction of tho odor he discovered a negro woman,name unknown; killed, with throat; cut from ear to ear. Dr. Anderson, the coroner, is now investigating the terrible and shocking affair. Wilson,yN, C, Sept. 16. Special. The body of Lucy Ann Joyner, a colored woman, 19 years old, was found about ten feet f rom the public road leading from this place to Stantonsburg, and about a mile and a half from this town. She was last seen ; Saturday evening, and it is evident that she was murdered that night. Though her body is badly decayed and almost unrecog nizable there are wounds about the neck and Ibreast plainly discernable, and they were made with a knife. j A jury 6f inquest went out and view ed the body at 11 o'clock, and a post mortem examination is now . being made by Drs. -"Wade Anderson and Charlie Woodard. Evidence will be .taken before the coroner and his jury this afternoon. EVERY ROOM TAKEN ' $- - Brilliant Success of the At lantic Christian College -Wilson, N. C, Sept. 16. Special. The Atlantic ; Christian College, under the admirable management of the profound and scholarly Dr. Coggin, made such a brilliant .reputation last session that many parents were so eager to have their children entered in this splendid Institution of learning, that before its doors were opened yesterday every room had been engaged arid the college is now full to overflowing. Last even ing the large and handsome auditorium presented a brilliant and beautiful scene, for-lovely maidens in all of the witcheryof their budding charms were flitting to and, fro, the very incarna tions of loveliness, and scattering the perfume of ecstatic rapture, making; the auditorium seen a bewitching vesti bule to scenes ofbliss supernal. Fine music brilliant reparre, beaming eyes and merry laughter winged the mo mentswith rapture and enchantment, and made one dream in ecstacy of a New Edent with blooming flowers and sweetest ..birds and rippling rills with only sunbeams dimpling their musical bosoms. UPTON IN THE HANDS OF DOCTORS S i r Thomas Has Catarrhal Appendicitis and His Con dition Is Serious Chicago, Sept. 16. Sir Thomas Lip ton is suffering much pain i today from the sickness which attacked him on his arrival in Chicago yesterday. Another reference of Doctors Homer, Thomas, Nicholas and George . Webster was called, for today. - " After an hour's conference late last night three physicians agreed that his indisposition,' which was at first pro- nounced acute indigestion, had de veloped unmistakable signs of infiama-5 tioh of the stomach and, bowels. To day it was .definitely declared that he is .suffering 'from appendicitis 'catar rhal appendicitis." . . Today "the condition of SIr Thomas is regarded as serious. An operation in such cases is. sometimes necessary. The physicians desire to avoid trie use of instruments in this instance. In his room at, the Auditorium an nex Sir Thomas spent a restless night, despite the - administering of opiates. It is the comment of those close to him that under no circumstances can Sir Thomas be restored to health for some days, and it is believed that he will have to defer the date of his departure for Eurone. iril(D)ir(D)CCC) Military Enterprise in North ern Africa With the Con- , sent of Great Britain. A Subject for Guessing ' Paris, Sept. 16. Preparations are well advanced for the next war of conquest In which a great power will engage. The French government has deter mined to conquer and annex Morocco and operations on an extensive scale will probably be begun within a few weeks. 'This ambition of France is, of couse, well known and well understood. What is not known and will not be easily understood is that Great Britain haa consented stand idle and to abandon her almost traditional attitude of pro tection of the royal prerogatives of the sultan of this African country. Less than ten years ago Greet Britain would not have hestitated to have made war with France if necessaxy, in de fense of the integrity of Morocoo. The. sultan, as late as the spring of the present year, relied with absolute con fidence upon British support. Whether ; he has yet become 'aware of Its with- drawal has not transpired. The explanation, of this radical change of policy on the part of the British government is only partly clear. It has at first glance the appearance, of another "cave," and a weak one at , that. Its motive, however, ia.undoubt ly the new effort which rGreat Britain Is making to divorce France from her alliance with Russia. The concession was made by the Brit ish authorities at the time of the visit j of President Loubet to the king In -July last, and M. ' Delcasse brought back with him to Paris the consent of Lord Lansdowne as the greatest coup of his administration. How. much will be accomplished toward the object aimed at by this very substantial favor to the French republic it is difficult to say.' The re action against Russia in French pub lic opinion is considerable and it 4s In creasing. It is especially strong na tionally in financial circles, where it la realized that Russia has systematical ly turned French sympathy into cola from the moment ttre alliance was an nounced. , v.. --jv ..i - - '...",,.. The compact is, however still a lac tor of prime Importance in internation al politics,. 3id .England cannot hope to render it inoperative today or to morrow by her friendly action with re gard to Morocco. The approaching campaign will be a venture of keenest military interest, not alone to France, but to all Europe. Nothing Is known, and much is sus pected regarding the effectiveness of of the machinery and personnel of the French army. It has had no real test. The conquest of Morocco will not be child's play, although it involves noth ing approaching In magnitude the task which Great Britain assumea with a light heart when she sent General Buller with 50,000 men to subdue the Boers. , Strategic Importance mt !Hrocco Paris, Sept. 16. M. Jaures, the So cialist vice-president of the chamber of deputies, has written a letter to the Petite Republic in which he asserts that ah expedition to Morocco has been decided upon. He also asserts that the organization of a French procotol Is be ing considered He appeals to the pub lic to register" its opposition against such a policy. ' The Temps,- commenting on M Jaures' complaint, says that Morocco Is, after France's eastern frontier, the most important strategic point -in the French empire. It adds th.at M. Jaures alarnT over the military adven ture in Morocco arises from the fact that the military authorities are in vestigating the situation for the pur pose of providing against eventuali ties, should France's endeavors for a pacific settlement fail. The French diplomatists in England and in Spain are negotiating for the maintenance of France's preponderat ing influence in Morocco. Once that la settled, the Temps says, the pacific policy of M. Jaures for the gradual spread of civilization in Morocco will, become possible. Change in Mill Management -Greensboro, N. C, Sept. 16. Special. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Hiawatha Manufacturing Company" held at Gibsonville yesterday, Mr. Berry Davidson resigned as president , of the company. Chas. H. Fisher, of Greensboro, was elected president, and W. C. Thurston, of Burlington, secre tary and treasurer.. The new manage ment expect to improve the mill by the addition of a lot -of new machinery, nutting in fire protection, etc. Bubonic Plague at Tondo Manila," Sept. 16.-6:30 p. . m. One hundred cases of bubonic plague are reparted in Tondo, the most northern and populous surburban district of this city. Of these eighty have had a fatal termination. Twelve cases, with nine deaths, are also reported from Cebu, in the province of Vlsayas. Cholera is prevalent in all parts of the islands, the result of an absence of rain.