North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. XXXVL NO. 114. SBALEIGH, N. C, FBIDAY EVENING, MARCH 5, 1897. , $4)0 PER YEAR. ' WHAT WE EXPERIENCED Meteorloglcal Snmmary of the- Weather for the Month of FWrMnr, j ; : The monthly meteorological sum . mary for Tebruary issued by the agricultural department is now out. The first Dart s of the month, was anything but pleasant and agreeable, The mean atmospheric pressure was 30:09; high pressure 30.68 on the 28th; lowest pressure 29.53 oq the 6th; mean temperature, 46; highest -: temperature, 75 on the 22d; lowest ' , temperature, 25 on the 28th; greatest - daily range of temperature, : at on i - the 14th; least daily range of tern- th 1?th- mean tern- v, - - : perature for thismonth was 46; mean v' temperature for this for Jl years, 44.4; average excess- of daily mean temperature during the month, 1.2 degrees; accumulated deficiency of daily mean temperature since Janu ary 1, 80 degrees; average daily de - ficlency since January 1, 14 degrees; prevailing direction of wind, south west; total movement of wind, 5,005 milna. : mavtmnni vam.t.V . t wind.' direction and date, 29 miles, south' west, 23d. The total precipitation was 4.42 inches; number , of days Vith ,014nch or more of precipita tion, 11; total precipitation (in inches) for this month was 4.42; average preoipltation for this month for 11 years, 4.32 laches; total excess in precipitation during month, 0.40 .inches; accumulated deficiency in precipitation since January, 0.94 inches, number of clear days, 9; partly cloudy days, 12. AMERICANS -TO BE TRIED Spanish Official! in Cuba to Hurry th Proeeedlnga and Expel Those OnUtj. By Telegraph to the Press Visitor. Havana, March 6. The corres pondent here of the Associated Press is Informed upon good auth ority that positive orders have been issued to the civil and military au thorities throughout Cuba to try with all possible haste, and in the most satisfactory manner available, all American citizens who are now in jail and to expel those found guilty from the island. ' . Colonel Feijoo, while reconnoiter ing at Santa Ana and San Rafael, this province, has bad skirmishes with the insurgents, during which ' live or tne enemy were mueu auu two were taken prisoners; jxamon was, tne score tarjr ui vuef tillo, the insurgent leader, who is a prisoner at Stltio Esconbido, says that the insurgent leader, Agulrre and .the Marquis1 of Santa Lucia, . presldont of the Cuban republic, both died recently of sickness, and that Qulntin Bandera, one" of the best known of the insurgent leaders, - died recently of wounds. . ... y-l . . 1 TTT 1 t -.. ft)' vaptam-vteuerai . oyicr u3 us- ' rived at Camajulani on the rialroad leading to Remepios and -Calbarien, where he is expected to embark on board the Spanish cruiser Legaspi, for Bavana. THE LIGHT CONTRACT Committee Represented by an Expert from v - . . flaltlmoro Xr i 3 -1 . .Ln ltrk committee naa a meeting no cousiuer the light contract .' Representatives ... 4 ' . it - A.. - L.I3 of the Raleigh Electric company and the Raleigh Gas company were oresent. ' " " ,Tbe contract for lighting the city Vas submitted. , The light commit tee was represented by an expert from Baltimore, who is thoroughly -. Koofinn hv fipption was taken ud and a number of changes made., The light companies wanted the lights- to be turned on and off at a - certain fiour.vXhe committee insist ed that the lights should be turned .. on hall in Jur before sunset and burn continuously until half an hour before sunrise. - The contracts will be -signed in a few daysT ' . ; x , .. I GOV. BRADLEY APPOINTS :; A. T, Wood to Saoeoed Bleekbara an ' l'lted States Senator. v ,-, By Telegraph to the Press-Visitor, ' J .Frankfort, Mar,";? 5. Governor ' Bradley J today announces the ap . pointmebt' of' A. T Wood of Mt, Sterling to the senate to succeed Blackburn. ,s . ' . ; A. B. S Oi- Flyer Ditohed. . " Bv Teletrraph to the Press-VUttoiv Lqvxland,' O., "March 5,Train No. 105 a Royal blue line flyer west: bound on the Baltimore and,. .Ohio rwas ditched at Bills station,- ten miles east of herf, Physicians were asketf from here. . - V ' " 'J Scenes of Wildest Excitement and Disorder Enacted," OOOK..THE . , REVOLUTIONIST. Latter While la the Chair Adjourned the Uonse Arbitrarily Refused to Listen to "Question" All Over the Lease Jaettloa---Freeman Elected Speaker Pro Tern Han- t eoek and Alexander were Wild. At two minutes before noon Sut ton, of Cumberland, member of the committee to investigate the lease of the North Carolina railway to which the senate substitute bill was referred, arose. Cook, who is the chairman of that special committee, was in the chair. Lusk'had pre sided during the earlier part of the session, and Speaker Hileman, who was so hoarse that he spoke with difficulty, sat on the left of Cook. Sutton asked consent to call up a resolution asking the supreme court to give tomorrow its opinion in the matter of the substitute for the lease bill. Sutton's purpose was to gain time. Blackburn sprung to his feet and as the hands of the clock pointed to noon declared that the hour set for the special order, the senate substitute lease bill, had arrived and that it must be taken up. Hotn be ana button Kept on their feet. Demands were -poured at the speaker to recognize one or the other. Conspicious among those who cried out was Sutton, of Cumber land, Hancock and Alexander. Sutton, of Cumberland, said that he wanted the special order held up'until the resolution was acted on. He wanted delay, Then the storm burst. Blackburn said, "You know that under the resolution adopted by this house no resolution can be intro duced save by unanimous consent. You know that the journal shows that the resolution is not introduced. I move that the house concur in the senate substitute," Then confusion broke loose. Twenty members were, on the floor at once, all shouting, a'l protesting, some one way. some another. The two factions arrayed themselves. For two or three minutes the up roar continued. ' Then Person of Wayne moved that the house take a recess until 3 o'clock. There was a roar of protests; "vote it down, vote it down", and amid the din the voices of Alexander, the twoSuttons and Hancock could be heard second ing the motion. The aisles filled. Cook put the motion. There was a burst of "aye," drowned by a sweep ing rush pf . " no", which, rattled to the dome and desoended in a torrent of sound. "Division I" shouted Blackburn, Murphy and forty more. But Cook' declared the house had taken a recess until 3. Blackburn strode up the aisle. That ia false 1" he Cried. V "I appeal from-the decis ion of the chair."' ' r ' The scene was at this moment In describable. , Cook left the chair as v the gavel fell. He slip ped - to the rear - lobby. The uproar raged. Pandemonium broke loose. Members rushed to the front.. Some put on . their hats and moved toward the- door. Some of the more timorous hurried to the lobby. . The atmosphere was filled with "execrations,: mainly ( of Cook and his ruling. ''It is tyrannical- " ?It is unjust "... "We will not sub mit to It"', 'He had a right to declare the house adjourned," shouted "Cook's friends' The factions v faced, each other prepared tor battle. One blow would have caused an instant riot ' .Some men shouted "For God's sake stop this. It is (he most dis graceful scene the state over wit nessed. : Never talk about the legis lature of 1868 again?' . -During the turmoil the speaker (Hileman) sVt serene in his chair on the speaker's desk. Suddenly Mur phy shouted: "The house is with out a. speaker. I move we elect Freeman speaker pro tern." "I second the motidn" said Blackburn and a score of others. Murphy put the motion. There was a rallying volley of ayes and then taking Free man by the arm Murphy led him to the speaker s desk. Free man did not take the chair but stood at the end of the desk. The assemblage was now a mob. The galleries fairly bulged with wild eyed, exerted spectators. The up roai reached the senate and the sen ators poured ioto the hall of the house. Suddenly Lusk rushed to the front and leaning over the desk at which the war correspondents of the newspapers were seated, raised his arms high above his head and in his loudest voice shouted as he looked at Freeman at the speaker's desk; I protest. In the name of North Carolina I protest. This is treason. This is revolution. We ought to send for force to clear this hall and to stop these riotous and revolutionary proceedings. Be a shamed of yourselves. Be men. All this was said with a rising vote, to accomapaninment of yells and cries which stuned- the ear. Dr. Alexander rushing up even near the desk shook his fist at Fre- man. His eyes nasnea witn anger. Come down from that place," be cried. "You are a usurper. ' Ypu are a traitor." The factions, all party linos broken, roared and glared at each other. Angry words passed and repassed. Suddenly H. A. Gudger appeared whili Freeman was speaking and stood beside him. Freeman was en treating the house to quiet to listen to him. "I am not going to hurt you!" he cried. Gudger leaned over the desk and said, "Now, boys, let's all leave." Freeman said, "Don't get excited. This is a small matter. The journal shows we have taken a recess until 3 o'clock." Cluud Dockery walked to the clerk's desk and said, "Gentlemen, hear me. We will settle this matter at this session of the legislature, and fairly, but I protest against this revolutionary business." Freeman stepped down at 12.12. The whole affair had occupied but nine minutes; but minutes seemed hours. There were cries, "Freeman ought to be impeached." There were others, "Cook must be im peached. He is not our speaker. He will not act act fairly." There were loud curses of Cook, who by this time had left the hall for his ignoring the demand for a division on the vote to adjourn. Cook's partisans declared he had a perfect right to declare the house adjourned. Blackburn sprang on a desk and shouted "give us fair play. We won't be gagged." The anti-Cook men declared -be knew the substitute supporters were in the majority and bad won the fight. Speaker Hileman,as matters quieted, walked around to the reporters 'desk and spoke of his hoarseness. He was very calm. By 12:25 barely a dozen members were in - the hall. The lately gorged galleries were empty. The quiet after the thun derstorm was almost startling. Out from the capital the people poured. Groups of excited talkers were seen everywhere. The anti-Cook men said "his conduct has made us 10 votes." Gov. Russell was in his office beneath the hall. At the first roar above his head he thought the build. ing was falling. Then he ran out and upstairs, nor did he stop until he reached the head of the stairway. on the second floor. There he met the advance guard of the people rushing out of the hall and found what the trouble really was. - The Forenoon Proceedings. The house met at 9 o'clock and im imedlately took' up" the calendar. Bills passed; - To protect fish In any mill pond. To make the appropriation for the Cullowhee normal school in Jackson county of 12,000 instead of $1,500 was supported 'by Ensley. : Bryan of Chatham, said this was another scheme to rob -the .treasury and moved to table, Tbis was lost. The bill after half -an hour's debate, passed its readings.; . To charter the Bladen and Colum bus railroad, Columbus county. ; To incorporate Duplin and Wayne railroad and lumber company . . By leave Bryar. of Chatham with drew his bill, which passed its 2nd reading lastvnigbt, providing for the election' of clerk of the railway com mission by the legislature. He said the matter had been amicably settled . (The programme was thatC C Fagan populist bolter, should be elected clerk. The compromise must mean that the commission will elect Fagan or that he is to be "given something equally as good." Bryan said the commission wanted to elect its clerk . ) Bills passed: To give the state treasurer discretionary power as to paying out appropriations, so he can pay them quarterly or semi-annually instead of annually. Bill to create the office of prosecu ting attorney for the eastern crimi nal circuit court wasdisaused. Han cock whose bill it wis, said it did not take away a single fee of a su perior court solicitor in the counties composing the district. Dixon of Cleveland said the bill interfered very seriously with the solicitors; as it took all criminal rises out of their bands; tnat solicitors Daniels, Sewell, Bernard and Kichardson opposed it; that it was simply to create another office and make a place for somebody. Hancock said there was politics in the bill. He said Bernard was not in the district, now that Vance was taken out : that all svo New Hanover and Craven were under democratic solicitors. He said as to solicitor Duiiiols 1 hat he was elected by fraud. Cunningham appealed to the house not to pass so unjust and unfair bill and strike at solicitors dulv elected: that it was a gerrymander Dockery offered an amendment, providing that the solicitors now elected shall have control of the criminal dockets in their counties wherever they are present. Dockery s amendment was lirst voted on and adopted, Hancock alone voting no. Then he moved to table his own bill. This was done with a roar and on Ward's motion the clin cher was put on while Hancock re tired, entirely "knocked out. SENATE. In the Senate the following bills were passed: To require firms to register the names of partners: to provide for the maintainancc of the State penitentiary: to authorize the school committee of Raleigh to issue bonds. CONVICT SHOT Attacked a Guard with a Shovel--Wounded Several Times. A penitentiary convict was shot and wounded by a guard today at the "Clay Hole" near Walnut creek bridge. The convict is a recent recruit from Gaston county. He became stubborn this morning and when ordered by the guard toffo to work, seized a shovel and began a desperate attack on the officer. The latter shot the maddened con vict in self defense, wounding dim in several places. It is not known whether his injuries will provefatal. No names could be ascertained. RAIN TONIGHT And Early Tomorrow Clearing During the Day Colder at Night. The weather prediction for Ral eigh and vicinity is rain tonight and early Saturday morning, with clear ing weather during the day. It will be colder Saturday night. The storm from the northwest has developed unexpected . energy and has advanced to the Lake re gion, attended by unusually heavy rains in the central valley. Very heavy precipitation occurred during the past 24 hours at St Louis and Cincinnati, with over 3.00 inches at each rtation. The presence of a considerable high barometer on the New England coast is causing great crowding of the icebars and dangerous gales on the north Atlantic and great Lakes. The weather is warm in the south and colder in the extreme north west. It has cleared on the Rocky Mountain slope. Mrs. T. R.-Jernigan, with her two children, reached this city yes terday from Shanghai, China, and were the guests of Mrs, WW Smith, Mrs. Jernlgan left today for her home in Bertie. Mr. Jernigan will not return from China for sometime. ' The Rev. Dr. Thos. Babb is to be elected chaplain of the penitentiary at a salary of IC0O. All the bolters are to be provided with' pie, so it is said. ' s -.i- HAS FEW EQUALS Floy Crowell and her hxoeilent (-oinpanv at Metropolitan Opera House. MissFloyCrowellandherexcelle.it company presented " A CircusGirl to a large and enthusiastic audience last evening at Metropoht an Hall. "A circus is a delightful mirthful comedy, with enough dash and life to please the most exactmg. Miss Crowell is a talented little star. She has captivated Raleigh. The supporting company is unusu ally strong and well balanced. The Floy Crowell Company is unques tionably the strongest popular priced attraction that ever came to Raleigh. Many one dollar attrac tions do not compare with it. The plays presented are of a high er standard than those "usually pre sented by popular priced shows. A pleasing number of specialties are introduced between acts. The attraction tonight will be a "Tennessee Heiress, a delightful little play. The people of Raleigh are getting a gold dollar for ninety cents at the Metropolitan this week. TODAY'S MARKETS. The MovemcntM In New ork und Liver pool Markets Nkw Yoek, March 5. Marketquotationsfurnished by E. B. Cuthbcrt & Co., 30 Broad street, New York, and .105 Wilmington street, Raleigh N. C, over their special wire: The following are the opening. highest, lowest and closing quota tions of the New York cotton market today : MONTHS. OPEN-I HIGH- 'LOW CLOS ING ING. KST. I EST. January, February March, April, l 84 6 HI i ti Hi I ri !il 6 80 I It 6 85 i !I4 6 1 7 00 li 0 ! 7 OO 6 9S 7 04 li 5 7 01 I! 97 7 10 H 97 7 0!l 7 01 7 10 7 01 7 10 6 76 6 Tl li 7ti (i ttO tj 60 6 (It) (i (ill (i (: 6 99 I 6 1)2 0 08 6 07 (i 72 I 00 0 7.1 May, June, July, AUgUHl, bopt'mb'r. October, Novemb r, December, Closed barely steady: sales 151. 000 bales. cotton Movement. The following shows the semi weekly movement of cotton at 13 leading interior towns this week compared with that- of last week. last year and 18!)5: UKC'I'TS. SHIPMENTS. STOCKS This week.. 20,9p:i 31,331 310,710 Last week. .27,364 37,953 378,003 Last year.. 10,482 30,154 330,370 In 1895 41,97,". 41,595 337,053 New York Stock Market. The following were the closing quotations on the New York Stock Exchange today: Sugar 116 American Tobacco 74j Burlington anjQuincy 701 Chicago Gas 77 American Spirits 138 General Electric 35 Louisville and Nashville 481 Manhattan 80! Rock Island 08 Southern Preferred 271 St. Paul 70 J Tennessee Coal snd Iron 27! Western Union 83! Chicago Grain and Provision Market. Thefollowing were the closingquo tutions on the ChicagoGraiu and Pro vision market today: Wheat May, 768 ; July 73. Corn May, 2H; July, 255. Oats May 17. July IS; Pork May, 8,35: July 8.45 Lard May, 4.20; July 4,27 Clear Rib Sides May 4.37; inly 4.47. Liverpool Cotton Market. The following were the closing quo tations of the Liverpool cotton market today: March - March-April 3.53-54 April-Man 3.53-54 May-June 3.54 June-July 3.54 July-August 3.54 August-September 3.51-52 September-October 3.45-40 October-November 3.41 November-December 3.40 January-December Closed steady; sales 10,000 bales Attacked bv a Cow . Da.nvii.lk, Va , March 5. Late this afternoon at her home, one mile from this city, Mrs Caroline Apple was seriously, and it is feared, fatally, gored by a cow. Mrs. Apple was passing through the barn yard, where a cow, with a young calf was confined, when, without warning, the animal suddenly at tacked her, knocking her down, and seriously goring her in the abdo men, before she could be released from her perilous position. Mrs. Apple is 63 years ot age. and it is feared that she cannot recover. (inn A Thousand Pie-Hunters Told to Return Again. VISITORS DEPART Memhcis ol McKnili- a (.iihinc! lake a Peep ut I Iti-n-Oflices -l lccluntl s l nhinct l ulls on Prcsidi-nt . McklltlcY- Wasiiinoton. I) (:.. March 5 After the ball was over at an early hour this morning the happy politi cians retired The day was well advanced before many of them made their appoarance in the Into! cor ridors. It rained a little early this morning. A cald wind kpt most of the visitors iudoors except those leaving the city. More than half of yesterday 's sight-.eers departed at eight this in irning. The broad ave nues and streets arc deserted and the decorations wet and bedraggled ISeyoud the formal appointment and confirmation of the new cabinet. the president's proclamation ( til ing an extra session of congress on the fifteenth, there are no political developments today. Plie entire cabinet is here except secretarv of Navy lyjng who arrives this aftcruo u. The new cabinet ac quainted themselves respectively with the departments today. A thousand otliceseekers were not per mitted to bother the president. Ihev were advised to return next month or summer. aly important places will be filled before the ses sion 1 he entire cabinet except Olney met Major McKinley at the executive mansion at ten twenty. RESIGNATIONS IN OKDEK. Mr. olnov s Already sent In nml oilier. U tll I ollow Toda fiy Telegraph to the Press-Visitor. Washington. March ft Secretary Olney has resigned and his resigna tion was at the White flouso before 10 o'clock today. It will be left to be acted upon bv Maior Mckinley. All the other cabinet members will have their resignations prepared also by tomorrow, but until the new cabinet is contirnicc. all ol Mr. Cleveland s cabinet will continue ui oli'ee. Thirteen ambassadors and minis ters have also sent in their resigna tions. These will be accepted in due form by the next administration when their successors have been appointed. Some few consul gen erals, including General Lee, have submitted their resignations. The work of the various executive offices is now well in hand and only routine business will be transacted during the remainder of the week. Practically the administration has closed up its afTairsand is now ready to surrender the government to new officials. The under secretaries, as a rule, will leave snjn after their chiefs. Mr. McAdoo will b un ex ception, however, as he has been re quested by ex-Governor Long, the coining Secretary of the Navy, to remain here until March !.". IN FAVOR OF HAHNFiS. tlonne Committee Rejects nil HIJs Min ority Ask to l.ca e to ; crnor's Conne.ll It looks as if Mr. 'iiv V. liurncs of this city will get the )u! lic jirinting for the next two years. The Barnes bill has already passed the senate and it expected to omc up before the hnus? a-i s mn as the lease is settled. Under the present contract the printing is let presumably to the lowestlbidders and bidder were re quired to tile their bids by Tuesday last. Yesterday the Printing Com mittee met and rejected all bids and a majority reported in favor of the Barnes bill The majority report was signed by ten of the twelve members. Dr. Alexander and one other member will submit a minority report to a' low the governor's council t let the p iutiug contract. This is under stood to be the govornor s desire. Polk Miller will lecture at the Academy of Music on tho 15th. The "Yellow Kid," in McFadeu's Row of Flats is booked at Metropoli tan Opera House. Mr. T, R. Jones has secured the agency for the Christian Feigen span's bottled ale and porter. It is something new niee and healthful. Delivered to private families. N CONFINED IN BEIXEVUE Mr. Myers HtockoJ Broadway With Ilia 1 Open Ail Meeting. ! Thr New York World says : ' Martin Jabez Myers opened an outdoor meeting at Broadway and : Tmrd street at 11 a. in. yesterday. He talked with such violence of , tongue and gesture that he stou bad a big audience. His theme was of the wickedness ot women and how they led men luto evil. As he shrieked out denunciations against femininilv the crowd grew from hundreds to thousands and com-, pletely blocked traffic in the neigh borhixxl. 1 Policeman White attempted to . disperse the crowd. Some one warned the declaimer and he went into the lobby of the Broadway Cen tral Hotel. Hundreds followed him and the am in the hotel set the cierns ami purlers wild. Neither the c razed man nor Ins auditors would leave the place. When the policeman hually forc ed his way into the hotel, Myers at lirst quietly submitted to arrest, lull ha:f a block away made such violent resistance that two other policemen were called. The prison er fought the three men so fiercely that it, was necessary to handcuff him. and he was with great difflulty dragged to Jellerson Market Court. "He became docile before Magis trate Cornell and said he had been employed by lv S. Jatlray ot (Jo., and other dry goods lirms, and was Irom Charlotte. N. C. Ie could not exjiiam his strange conduct. When remanded for mental exami nation at Hellevue his fury broke out afresh, and it was all twelve po licemen and keepers could do to bind him and put him in a cell. " I. H. SMITH GETS THERE. semitoi Mc(.jiskc unj Cupt. Ueinhardt to llnc rimre of the State Farms. John K. Smith of Wayne gets four years in the penitentiary. Hut in taking that four years con tract. Mr, Smith gets one of tho most desirable otliees within the gift of the state government. The Gover nor today issued Mr. Smith a com mission us superintendant of the state s prison for a term of years, which begins as soon as he shall qualify . Air. Smith will not assume the management of the prison until to morrow. The news is learned today that Senator C E. McCaskcy will have the supervision of the penitentiary farm at Weldon and Reinhardt of Catawba will have the management of the Anson farm. Both McCaskey and Iveinhcardt are boltingpopulists. Washington News. S'eial to the 1 'ress-ViHitor. AYasiiinuton, D, C, March ". (rave written charges have been tiled with the postoflice department by fifty live Washington patent attorneys, including four gentlemen who have held tho oflice of commis sioner of patents against the firm known as John W'edderburn A Co.. successors to the defunct examiner claims bureau and the press claims company, in one sense, but it seems not in all, and theNational Recorder, a newspaper published by the linn. The charges go into detail and close by asking that the National Kecor dor be shut out of the mails as a fraud, and that a fraud order be is -sued against W'edderburn V Co.. for obtaining money under falsopre tense-, 1 n addition to the written charges a crsotial hearing was given by the postmaster general to a committee representing the patent a'torneys who signed the charges. If any person in Washington had any remaining doubts about Mark llaiinu being the whole thing under the Mckinley administration they must have been dissipated since lamia s arrival. He attracts more dclercnce from republicans, than the four members of McKinley 's cabinet who are in town combined, aud aecejits it all as his right and speaks w ith an air Of proprietorship, not onlv of the coming administra tion, but of both branches of Con gress. So big has Hanna's head be come that he is actually allowing himself to think of tryirjg to take a fall out of Tom Reed, and is now sounding republican members of the next House in order to ascertain whether it will be possible by the use of patronage to beat Reed for the speakership nomination b afore the republican caucus with a McKinley candidates ' - ' Nothing rew or startling was de veloped at tho investigation yester day evening by the house committee on the lease. ' . 1 1 - - ' ; i