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Salisbury weekly sun. PUBLISHED EYERT WEDNESDAY. JOE X. ftOUECHE. CLINT, N. BROWN, Proprietors. EDITORIAL SQUIBS. 7 A-Admiral Dewey on the advice ,pf his physician, has cancelled the dates for his visits to Philadelphia and Atlanta. r" -Hon. William J. Bryan has begun his stumping tour of Ohio in the interest of John McLean, the Democratic candidate for Gov ernoiu . ' Admiral Schley was the herb of the hour at Frederick, Md., Fair, this week, and the ladies present ed him with a boquet of chrysan themums tied with blue and-white ribbons. President Steyn of the Orange . Free State seems to fear that in case England succeeds in benevo lently assimilating the Transvaal, nis own country win oe - next on the menu. ' The Asheville Citizen asks if it is wise to muddle up political matters in this State by a hot fight for the senatorship while the suf frage amendment is before the people? j With no war on her hands, and With $20,000,000 paid her to turn it over to us, the. Asheville Citizen remarks that Spam must- be having a pretty good time these days. The Philadelphia Ledger thinks that Oom Paul's folks could not be more expert at railroad wrecking if thev had all been brought up in Wall street. Attorney-General Montague will take the stump in Virginia for the Democratic ticket. He will take ground against expan sion and trusts and indorse the Chicago platform. General Otis will probably jiot again admit Filipino officers to Manila, even for the purpose f conference, as it is said their uniforms have an inspiring effect upon disaffected natives. The British Government ac cepted the terms of the agree ment proposed by Secretary Hay for a temporary adjustment of the Alaska boundary. The arrange ment went into immediate effect. In his annual report, Secre tary of War Root recommends the V increase of the regular standing army to 100,000 men. The Sec retary also f ayors the 1 revival of the grade of general and lieuten . ant-general. There is a growing conviction that the price of cotton has not yet reached the top, and that when the world becomes convinced the crop has nearly all been marketed and is not being held back by the farmers the price isgoing up in a ' lhe prder has - gone forth from Senator Hanna and the Re publican national committee . that the Republicas must carry Mary land, no matter what the cost, for the eflect it will have upon the-i presidential campaign. The way in which our troops in the Philippines return from re cent advances and the promptness with which the1 Filipinos reoccupy positions .from 'which they were temporarily driven, does not give promise of a speedy conclusion, of the war. The army and navy - are re ported to be not working together harmoniously in the Philippines. 'Army officers, including General Otis, are said to be jealous of the navy and not inclined to give it credit for what it has accom plished. - Brigadier-General Bates will be raised to the grade of major-general oi volunteers; Major General Lawton will be appointed brigadier-general in the regular army; Brig-Gen. Frederick Funs- f ton has been reappointed to the same grade in the volunteer estab lishment. rnt- j. ue committee on permanent organization appointed by the Anti-Imperialist Conference, formed a national organization Vto - be Known as the American Anti-Im perialist League. Existing or ganizations will become members at the outset and the work of- se curing new local organizations will be pushed all over the country. - The Norfolk Landmark says: "According to Farm, Furnace and Fireside, published at Roanoke, the people of the 'United States 'paid over $25,000,000 for import ed goat skins' li st year,' and will read brought great quantities of bit skins from Australia. statement, which 4s correct, surprise most of 'those who it; for from all appearances have more goats and rabbits we in this country than we Know w hift to do with or how to kill." ' Ex-Go v. Hogg,' of Texas, ex presses the opinion that it is the duty of the United States to "shoot hell out of the Filipinos and put an end to the war." The Wilming ton Star says between shooting hell out of them and civilization into them our soldiers over there will be .kept actively engaged for some time. , Cotton prices advanced last week more than one-halt cent per pound. The Manufacturers" Rec ord estimates that the advance if maintained will "mean at least $75,000,000 to Southern farmers. There are many who are confident of a still greater advance. Unfa vorable crop advices are given, as the reason for the increase of prices. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Southern Railway Company was held at theirgeneral office, Richmond,. Va., yesterday. A large majority of the capital stock was represented. The old board of directors were re-elected without change. No other businesss was transacted. General Brooke has shut down on cock-fighting in Cuba, The Asheville Citizen, says the only thing for the Cubans to do now is to come to the United States and have their chicken tights, or if they wish to gamble on a large and more patriotic scale they can go up against the stock exchange and wheat faro tables The South African war threat ens to inflict great hardship upon numbers of innocent people far removed from the theatre of its operations. Among them are the wives and families of the Cornish miners employed in the Rand gold mines, who for a long time have been living in Cornwall upon the remittances sent them by their bread-winners. The failure of the supplies from this source for months to come s.eems certain, and much consequent distress is antici pated. An esteemed imperialist con temporary is laboring to convince the South that annexation of the Philippines would be to th ad vantage of that section, because it would create a great market for our cotton goods. TheRichmond Dispatch says the same sort tof missionary work in the interest of imperialism was attempted in New England and brought forth from a New England eotton manufactur er, who had investigated the sub ject, the statement that a yard of cotton cloth would clothe the av erage Filipino fdmily. -In the American Jewish "Year Book" for 1899-.1900, it editor. Dr. Cyrus Adler, makes a "tentative estimate" of the Jewish population of the United States, with the result of a total of 1,043,- 800. In the list of States, New York leads with 400,000, followed by Pennsylvania and Illinois, each With 95,000, Ohio with 50,000, Maryland, California and Missou- ri, iSo,uw eacn. ine Jewish im migration for the first six months of the present year was 14,372, of whom 1,463 landed in Baltimore, where, up to July 1, 1899, 20,140 Hebrews disembarked since 1891. Mr. O. B. Stevens, Commis sioner of Agriculture of Georgia, has issued an estimate of the pres ent cotton crop. After a careful investigation and correspondence from the cotton-producing sections Mr. Stevens has reached the con clusion that the crop of the United States will not exceed 9,000,000 or 9,500,000 bales. He introduces many figures and facts in support of his conclusions, the principal reasons being the light yield in many, sections and a decreased acreage of 1,422,000 acres. Under these conditions, Mr. Stevens says, j cotton should brinec 8 or 9 cents per poimd by January 1. ... According to the New York Journal, having failed to acquire glory at the expense of Schley, Rear Admiral Sampson has turned his verbal batteries on poor old General Shafter, who was never known to do either a friend or an enemy an injury. According to all accounts, the glory should be distributed as follows: To Wheel er, who refused to retreat; to Schley, for destroying the fleet of the enemy, and to Chadwick, who dictated the letter which brought about the surrender. ofToral, and tnus ended the war with Spain. It is left to Sampson and , Shafter to settle what they did not do. Ral eigh Post. Thomas Dillon, a white laborer, was found dead in bed tins morn ing at his home in Kidder's allev. By his side was found a four ounce bottle of laudanum, and this, coupled with the fact that he had previously threatened to take his own life, leads his friends to believe that it is a case of suicide. Domestic troubles were assigned by him previously as the reason of his intention to commit the rash act. Wilmington Star. NEWS OF THE WEEK. SATURDAY. Four new cases of yellow fever were reported yesterday at Jack son,' Miss. , which was a great sur prise. It is estimated that the new census will show Havana's popula tion to be between 250,000 and 300,000. It is reported that British losses in the fight at Glencoe were three hundred, and those of the Boers twelve hundred. The origin of the plague which has broken out at Santos, Brazil, is believed to have been traced to Portugal. ' The Macabebe scouts with Gen eral Lawton, in Luzon, have de feated hostile natives, killing and wounding several. ' Several thousand British troops fought and defeated 4,000 Boers at Glencoe, Natal. President Andrade, of Venezue la-, has fled from Caracas, and it is said that the revolution is at an end . The Chesapeake and Ohio will expend nearly $2,000,000 in en larging its terminals at Newport News. Gold Democrats in Maryland will support the Republican State and legislative tickets in Novem ber. William Waldorf Astor has do nated 5,000 pounds sterling to the British Red Cross fund for the South African war. British advices are that the Boers were worsted at Mafeking, I 1 J I A 1 but tney appear to nave re -occu pied the scene of the fighting. a dispatcn irom vianiia says that the Filipino Junta will sen representatives to Washington this winter to" present the Filipino cause. Boers attacked the British forces at Glencoe and were re pulsed, losing all their artillery The losses were heavy on both sides. " lhe yellow fever . situation at Miami, Fla., is said to be, Berious the Governor of Georgia has taken steps to protect towns from ref u gees coming from that place. A speeial from Carthage, Miss. says: For the fiendish murder o the five members of the Gambre family at St. Annes, in this (Leake) county, two- men have paid the death penalty one by burning at the stake, the other by hanging, The entire county is aroused. uenerai r reuerick t unston re ceived a telegram from the War Department Saturday offering him a brigadier's command if he would return to the Philippines after his former regiment, the Twentieth Kansas, is mustere out. General Funston acceptec the offer. At Albany, Ga., Saturday, the danger of twisting the lion's tail was pointedly illustrated . Fred Morris, aged 10, visited Cooper's circus. Eluding the vigilance of the keepers he seized the tail of the biggest lion and gave it a se vere twist. With an angry roar the beast thrust its paws through the bars, grabbed the child's head and nearly pulled it off, and the claws scraped the skull in a dozen places. The child is seriously in injured. A corrected listf British offi cers who were killed or wounded in the battle at Glencoe Hill has been issued. The list does not in clude the name of General Sy mons, who was seriously wound ed, or the names of officers who have died since the battle. Two colonels, three captains and five I lieutenants were killed. One colonel, three majors, and six cap tains and eleven lieutenante were wounded. Thirty non-commis sionea omcers anu privates were killed and 152 wounded. General Symons, who was acting general in command of the British forces at Glencoe, has been promoted to the grade of major-general, though it is still doubtful if he is alive. MONDAY. Generals Lawton and Young, with a force of 3,000 men, are preparing for an extensive expedi tion on the Filipinos. The Navy Department will make a thorough test, of the Marconi system of wireless telegraphy, with a view to its use on warships. War Department officials deny that there is any lack of attention to sick soldiers at Manila. There is an unusually large, force of sur geons and hospital attendants. Gen. Symohs, a British officer, was severely wounded: in ja battle with the Boers yesterday.- The Boers were repulsed after fighting half a day. 1 The British loss was" heayy. General' Otis cabled the Wari Department yesterday as follows: Lawton's advance under Y oung is in &an isidro. where a garrison will be established. Considerable resistance was encountered yester day. Casualties: One killed, three wounded, Twenty-second Infan try. The enemy suffered consid erably. One Spaniard and fifteen insurgents soldiers were captured. Young reports that the inhabitants in that section of the country are mostly friendly. Frank E. Babcock, a farmer, residing near Redwood Falls, Minn., murdered his wife and three sons on his farm yesterday The murders were committed in a fit of insanity. Balcock loaded his gun and went to where his two little boys were playing near the house and shot both of them blow ing their brains out. His wife saw the deed and ran to the barn for safetv. He searched for and found his wife in the barn and shot her through the head. From the arn he walked a mile south to where his oldest son was at work and at close range fired a sbet hat blew out the brains of this son. JLnen reioatung ne piaceu the muzzle to his mouth and fired off one barrel, killing himself in stantly. . "! ' 1 1 1 1 TUESDAY. Major Howard, son of O. O. was , killed in battle in Howard, Luzon. British troops have defeated the Boers at Elandslaagte, between Glencoe and Ladysmith. During the past few weeks $28,- 000 have been paid to the farmers of Jefferson county, W. V: apples. ra. , for A wealthy citizen of Michigan has contributed $5,000 toward the projected West Virginia Presby terian Academy. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee and other Americans have sailed from Ha vana for the United States. The General is on a leave of absence. . President Andrade, of Venezue la, has succeeded in escaping from La Guavra without turning over the government. It is not cer tain wbether ne will try to con tinue the fight. At Alley, Scott county, Va, last nighf. Walker Davidson shot and killed his young wife and then shot himself. Davidson is sti alive with no hope of his recovery. Drinkis said to have caused the crime. Airs. Michael Aukenbrand was killed at Kitcliens-Bridge, near Albion, 111., yesterday by Mrs. A Lane, a neighbor, as the result o: a quarrel, lhe two women were in front of Mrs. Lane's house and Mrs. Aukenbrand had a child in her arms when her neighbor brained her with a "hatchet. The correspondent of the Lon don Daily Mail at Durban, Natal, says: "An official of the Bonanza Mine, who has just arrived from Pretoria, declares that while there he heard that Colonel Baden-Pow ell, the commander at Mafeking, had captured General Cornie and 30 other Boers, and had killed 500." The steamer Montezuma cleared from New Orleans for Cape Town, South Africa, with 2,039 mules for the British army, six thousand bushels of oats, five hundred tons of hay, and eighty tons bran. Her commander, Captain Owen, expects to; make the run from New Orleans to Cape Town in twenty-six days. London, Oct. 23. A special dispatch from Cape Town Sunday says that advices received from Pretoria report President Kruger as now being in favor of an un conditional surrender. It is abid ed that it is expected the execu- tivejcouncil will meet on Monday or Tuesday-to dtsttfs-re-arfrk bility of such a step,. The report be accepted it is stated here must with reserve. WEDNESDAY. The revolution in Colombia has spread to serious proportions. Grea,t forest fires have spread over an imminent area in Western Maryland. :' An American scouting party at Santa Rita, Luzon, killed six Fili pinos and captured eight. Only one large oyster packing establishment in Norfolk is now in operation, the packers refusing to employ . any but non-union hands. , ' I The biennial contention of the Universalist Church now in ses sion in Boston, yesterday approv ed a religious platform to succeed the Winchester confession. News has been received from Dundee to the effect that the Boer disaster at Elandslaagte staggered the Boers completely, rendering the attack upon Dundee feeble. The withdrawal from the ticket of Josiah R. Adams, Republican cautcfidate for Judge 'of the Su- rjeme Court in Pennsylvania, it is ought may injure the - whole ticket. Patrick O'Brien Parnelite, was suspended from membership in the House of Commons for de claring that Joseph Chamberlain's hands were stained with blood like a murderer's. John Franklin, a miner, resid ing at Pinckney, Ala., choked his wife to death yesterday and blew out his own brains with a pistol. Jealousy was the cause. The couple. left several children. leiegrams irom mussels say that m Transvaal Legation circles there it is stated that France and Russia will not permit the annex ation of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State to England. Six new cases of yellow fever were reported at Key West, yes terday. At Miami, Fla., nineteen cases in all were reported. There were two new cases and three deaths yesterday at New Orleans. A Boer army, reported to be ,000 strong and under the com mand vof Commandant-General Joubert and President Kruger in, person, began an attack on Glen coe, Natal, Sunday. The British are reported to have fallen back. Bad news was received in Lon don yesterday from the Transvaal. Gen. Yule's failed to reach Lady- smith or to join Gen. White. It is stated that nothing hinders the Boers from following up Yule's retreat and getting around Lady- smith to the southeast. The British troops, it is thought, have serious, work before them. At Helena, Mont. , for five days last week snow came down almost unceasingly. At the town of Chotei, the county seat of Teton, county, it was ten to twelve feet deep in drifts and at least three feet on the level. The bodies of eight sheep herders have already been found in Teton county, and fifteen other herders who are mis sing have been given up for lost. The loss of life will exceed twenty persons in Teton county, and 20,000 sheep perished in the storm. Forty-two wives scattered throughout the world, four of whom are in Chicago, was the con fession made yesterday by Walter N. Farnsworth, a Chicago candy commission man, who was arrest ed charged with bigamy. "I cannot tell exactly how :i.any women I have married," said he. "1 know of eleven in Europe, four in China, three in Peru, one in England' and over twenty others in different parts of the world, but to save my soul I could not tell how many. 1 married them for different reasons. I did not li ve long with them. They will all tell you 1 was good to them." The Iron Age in a recent is sue describes the consolidation of numerous manufacturing and min ing interests effected by the Vir ginia Iron, Goal and Coke Compar ny. The company now has 16 furnaces, 31 iron ore mines, 8 coal mines, 700 coke ovens, 8 limestone quarries, 125,000 acres of coal land 100,000 acres of ore lands, cast-iron-pipe works, a horse-shoe factory and rolling mill, a basic open-hearth steel plant and 3 com mercial foundries and machine shops. "The furnaces," says the Age, "are 2- at Roanoke, 1 at Buena Vista, 1 at Radford, 1 at Graham, 1 at Pulaski, 1 at Max Meadows, 1 at Bristol, 1 at Reed Island, Virginia; 1 at Etnbreville and 1 at Carnegie, Tenn. ; 3 char coal furnaces in Tennessee, and 2 at Middlesboro, Ky. The steel plant consists of 7 25-ton basic open-hearth furnaces, a 32-inch blooming train, 10-inch hydraulic shears and a 22-inch rolling train. The horseahoaJaQEyand , rolling I mill are at Max Meadows, Va The -cast-iron-pipe factory is at Radford, Va. At Pulaski, Va.; Embreville, Tenn.; Middlesboro, Ky., and at Toms Creek, Va., are well equiped foundaries,' machine shops and woodworking plants, making almost everything for the operations, including cars. These shops also do a general commer cial business. The freight shipped from the various plants aggre gates 3,500,000 tons, Norforlk be ing its point of export. After his "swing around the cir cle," President McKinley returns to Washington convinced that the whole country is with him in his unAmerican policy of imperialism expansion and "nigger-killing" in the Philippines. He may cbange his mind after the people have had an opportunity of expressing their opinions by their ballots. Win ston Journal. The University-Davidson foot ball team at Charlotte Saturday resulted University 10, Davidson 0. Be sure your sins will find you ouV and so will vour wife. 1,500 BOERS BLOWUP. Led Over a Mine-Alleged Slaughter at Mafeking. London, Oct. 20. The Daily News' Cape Town correspondent says: "It is rumored here that news has reached Deaax Junction that the Boers attacked Mafeking in force, but were repulsed. The defenders, seeing the enemy re treating, pursued them ior some distance. Then a feint was made, and they commenced to retire on the town, allowing themselves to be driven in by the Boers, who, eager to retrieve their position, again advanced to the attack and were drawn over lydite mines, laid for the defence of the town. It is reported that 1.500 Boers were killed by the explosion. . - i The Negro Exodus- The new industrial feature of the South has in it but little place for the negro, lhe bouth is now enterino1 unon a splendid era; of industrial development. The build ing of factories for the manufac ture of its thousand raw products of field and forest and mine, wil call for an intelligent laborer that is not to be found in the negro race, ine new era means uiuuu to our people in North Carolina. It means a place where white wo men and men and white boys and girls can labor. That is a new idea in the South white women and girls at work earning wages. It is now getting to be the order of the dayy. They have the keen ness of brain and deftness of hand to assist machinery in its work. The negro neither has the quick ness of intellect nor the quickness of hand to do this work. So there is no part in the industrial future for him. But he can do what he is excellently fitted for serve the white man. That is his sphere Beyond it there is no place for him in the South. If he is unwilling to accept the condition he must go elsewhere. In fact we hope that they will continue to leave our part of the country. Every negro Wves iherehv rr-ndeis easier for tho white man and white, woman to get work. The presence of the negro here impedes us. It has kept our w hite men and boys out nf the field and' shop and our white women and girls out of do mestic service. North Carolina is undergoing a change in this par ticular. Our people are coming to be self-reliant and self -helping From now on each family will gradually enter -upon doing its own work. This is the day of the great middle class; an important develoner of a nation. From out of this class, trained at home to work and labor, will rise the great men of the future, the industrial giants of the ages. Windsor Ledger. Queen's Heart Bleeds. London. Oct. 22. The Secre tary of State for War, the Mar quis of Lansdowne, has received the following message from the Oueen. dated to-dav at Balmoral 7 Castle: "My heart bleeds for these dreadful losses again to-day. It is a great success,,, but I fear, very dearly bought. Would you convey my warmest and heartfelt sympa thy with the near relatives of the fallen and wounded and my admi ration of the conduct of those they have lost?" Killed Through Mistake. Tarboro, N. C, Oct. 19. Wed nesday night about 11 o'clock John A. Weddell, clerk of the Board of Labor Commissioners and town treasurer, shot and killed Hamp Banks, a half-witted colored boy who had gone to Mr. Weddell's to deliver a note. It appears that Banks instead of going to the door went t(H.he win dow and was trying to make his entrance through it. His efforts aroused Mr. Weddell, who asked who was there and what was want ed. The negro made no answer, but thrust his head into tne room through, a pane of broken glass. At this Mr. Weddell seized a pis tol and fired several shots. The negro was killed instantly. Of course no blame can be at tached to Mr. Weddell, who deep ly regrets the unfortunate occur- rence. lie. Tias me sympatny or the entiro community. rNews & Observer. Wonder if we couldn't hire Sampson out to Great Britain or the Traansvaal. Such all-round genius ought not to be allowed to rust. Richmond Dispatch. Oom Paul might hire him and lend him to Great Britain. His capacity for being late would be a great help to the other side. Asheville Citizen. When poverty comes in at the door love sometimes goes back home to her papa. DOUBLE DAILY SEBVICE. New Train Will be Put on the! Yad kin at Once- The best news the people along the line of the Yadkin branch of the Southern have heard in' a long timejs the word sent down the line yesterday evening by officials to the effect that a new passenger train Js to beput on the line. .This will mate a double daily service on: this important branch ine of the Southern. The officials say the new train will be put on as- soon as a sche dule can be arranged. This will probably be about the first of No vember. Dogs. The Asheville Citizen expresses the sentiments of the Sun exactly in the following article on dogs: Dogs are all right in their places, ineir singing notes are very pleasing at the right time and a long way off. But the right time for a dog to sing is not at night when people wish to sleep; and the right place for them to practice vocalization is not near a dwelling containing sleepy people, ine "nonest watcn-uog s bark" is all right at the right time and place. But the same honest watch dog is an undiscriminating ani mal. It never occurs to him ; that there is a time to bark and a time to observe a golden silence. There are a good many dogs in Asheville. Perhaps some of them are useful in their wayj but they are not useful when in the way of folks. Dogs have -peculiar tal ent for getting in the way, for barking at" the wrong time, and for making themselves nuisances generally. They do other dis agreeable things for which they should be fined. The Citizen is not necessarily speaking of "your" dog, but of some one else s door. That other person's dog is not a particularly useful animal at .best, and the com munity would be better off if that dog were not a member of it. We believe the Asheville Board of 4 Trade could find employment for a Committee on Dogs. The urban n ci cm villa rtri.sn n rkf io L3 1 r n repression, abolition anything to ge rid of him, her or it. He, she or It is a perambulating flea incu bator, in addition to other dis agreeable habits, and the flea is altogether too much in favor of expansion to be, an agreeable mem ber of the community., The Citizen is not in favor of cruelty to dogs. Far from it. But the dog in town is a dislocated dog, as a rule. There are excep tions as when the dog is nicely stuffed and used as a stationary ornament. People have rights that are superior to the rights of dogs. Dogs have inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pur suit of happin e?s, but no right to bother people. The tired man, woman or child has a right to rest or sleep without being pestered by a dog. Thus They Were Married. An exchange prints the follow ing marriage ceremony which was said by a Tennessee Squire a short time ago: 'Wilt thou take her for thy pard; for better or for worse; to have, to hold, to, fondly guard till hauled off in a hearse? Wilt thou let her have her way, consult her many wishes; make the fire every day and help her wash the dishes? Wilt thou com fort and support her father and her mother, Aunt Jemina and Uncle John three sisters and a brother?" And his face grew pale and blank; it was too late to jilt, as through the floor he sank he said: "I wilt." Durham Fire- East Durham was visited by a big fire at an early hour yesterday morning and about $8,000 worth of property went up in smoke.-. The fire was in the business parjt of town. This State isto be well repre sented at the Paris Exposition. according to a Raleigh correspon X ' 7 dent. Most of the expense of the exhibit will be borne by the Uni ted States, which assigps space to the State. "But as an earnest. of its zeal in the matter, the board of agriculture to-day appropriated 2,500 to supplement the United States government appropriation, and to have the State thoroughly represented. It is the expectation that there will be a fine display. T. K. Bruner, the board's secre tary, will gather the collection. He will go to western North Caro lina in a few days, as the United States government's agent to com plete its collection of apples. Miss Ella Davidson, who has been visiting relatives in and around Charlotte since her return home from tho mission fields of China, has again taken her - de parture for those, far off lands. She will take work in the' city of Hong Chow. Charlotte News. CHANGE OP REVENUE AGENT. C. Patterson Succeeds Col. Thrasher in the Carolinas- . The information is given that Revenue Agent Thrasher, of the Carolinas has been succeeded by Agent A. C. Patterson the trans fer has already been made, we were told last night by a revenue offi cial. The agent for the Carolinas is paid i salary of f8 a day and ex penses. Mr. Patterson has re cently been d6ing special work under the new revenue act, which provided for the appointment of seyeral special men in each dis trict. - "And the Islands Came to Us-" : Mr. McKinley has inot hereto fore distinguished himself as a humorist, but, on bis last day of speech-making.on his return from his Western trip, beseems to have developed quite a vein of humor. At Youngstown, Ohio, address ing an audience estimated in . the dispatches at 20,000 (people, be cave an original and, it must be confessed, a highly humorous ex planation of how we come to be in possession of the Philippines. Af -, ter premising that "our boys are in the Philippines," "our flag is there," etc., he went "on to say: "They are there, because in the providence of God, who moves mysteriously, that great archipel ago has been placed in the hands of the American people. When Dewey sunk the ships in Manila bay, as he was ordered to do, it was not to capture the Philippine?. It was to destroy the Spanish fleet, the fleet of the nation against which we were waging war, and we thought that the quickest way to end that was to destroy the power of Spain to make any trouble so we sent Dewey, and the islands came to us. It was no responsi bility we sought, but it was a re sponsibility put upon us." The idea of "the islands coming to us" is decidedly humorous.' Being islands, they probably swam. The President's idea is quite in keeping with the story told by his Democratic rival, Col qnellJryan, addressing an audience described as equally large, at Louisville on the same day. Re ferring to President McKinley's previous statements that our posi tion in the Philippines was a mat ter of Divineilirection, Mr. Bryan said that "the, Republican Philip pine policy ""reminded him or a colored gentleman about whom he had heard. The negro said he had found that if be prayed to God to send him a chicken Ho rarely ever responded, but if he prayed God to send him to a chicken he most always ;ot them." Just so with Brother McKinley. He tells his Youngstown hearers that he did not pray for the Philippines; that he did not seek the re-ponsibility; but that he just "sent Dewey there and the islands came to us." How like a flock of chickens to the -bag of the midnight poacher! Avery Kale Hanged- r Newton, Oct. 11. Avery Kale was hanged here to-day for the murder of George Travis. , Three days bad been named for the exe cution, the first by the court, for February ll)th, the second by Governor Russell for September 20th, but on account of the impor tunity of the defendant's counsel, VV. G. ' Feimster, who exerted every effort to secure a, commuta tion for imprisonment for life, the Governor granted him a respite for thirty days, and the third day of the execution was set for to day. The execution took place in the jail yard enclosure, the gal lows having been erected just off of the back porch of the jail and further removed from public view iTr a crki a 1 1 Kno m m L. 15 feet high. Charlotte Obser ver. Deputy Sheriff Everett Tur ner, of Sampson county, arrived in Wilmington with Archie Kin- sauls in custody. He brought Kinsauls here from Clinton and committed him to tbe New Harv overcounty jail for safekeeping. It was feared that Kinsauls' friends would rescue him if he wasallowed to remain in jail at Clinton. It will be remembered that soon af ter he was committed to fail at Clinton a year ago, hi,s friends took him from jail by force of arms. Kinsauls is a white man and was tried for bis life and condemned to death last Wednesday in the Superior Court at Clinton for the murder of J. C. Herring, white, of Sampson, county. Wilmington Star. Not only' stylish looking, but hoes that look well, lit well and wear well are the kind" we push. Burt Shoe Co. Four alleged murderers, all colored, are now in jail awaiting trial at the term of Rowan's court next month.
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