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Salisbury, N. C, April 8, 1902.
Ac;3Tun:LvT0;
VttSM:
a bill Rcip-
wjlssal Districts.
P. "bbond,' ya.ti April 3. A big
iu tbe Democratic party has
n precipitated by Governor
, .Montague, who," wi$h the closing
Boesiou'bf "the legislature this eve
.niug, ;. eentrin a message vetoing
tjie bill reapportioning the con-
The Governor claims that the bill
. is contrary to state and federal4
law add is inimical to the best in
terests of the commonwealth.
Opponents of the reapportion
ment claim that the state was so
redistricted by the bill as to make
the 10th district, represented in
Congress by Major Peter Otey,
Republican, as a punishment' for
his opposing the machine.
TRA1H ROBBERS AT YORK.
6o!og to Africa to Raise cotton.
. Four stalwart young colored
. men'rom the South, one of whom
is accompanied by his wife, are in
the.city on their way to Africa.
i
where they will live. permanently,
joining XouLOth.crs whp; went out
last yeajr as mop! agriculturist,
.. hoping to show . the natives of
.logo, on the west.: uoaat, how to
raise cotton "by the latest Ameri
can methods..: v -
' ' AH of thes'e instructors, or'mod
els,n;a8 they are called, are fr m
the Tuskegee Institute, over which
Booker -T. Washington presides.
They are iu charge of J. N. Callo
way, of Tuskegeo, who, employed
by the Germain Colonial Economio
Society," took out he models of
last vear and started a cotton plan
tation of .100 acres.
Togo, Mr. Calloway says, is
. ' about the size of North Carolina .
It is a German possession. Cotton
is grown there in a crude way by
the less than half civilized
natives, who, however, are willing
to4work and take great interest in
the model farms and farmers.
New men from the South will
be hired tvery year to become
cotton' raisers in Africa, but Mr.
Calloway says it is not proposed
to start an emigration to that
country. New York dispatch.
T&ej Hold cp a Traia la Uisscarl izi get
Poor! Paid for Heir Troolile.
St. Joseph, Mo., April 4 Pas
senger tram Io. 13 on the Bur
lington road which left St. Joseph
for Denver at 11:40 last night,
was held up three miles north of
the city limits by four masked
men. Railroad authorities assert
that the robbers did not g6t any
thing, although on 'this point
conflicting reports are in circula
tion today. Several rumors have
it that a large amount was secur
ed by the. bandits.
The robbery, or attempted rob
bery, took place 15 minutes after
the train had pulled out of the
Francis street station in this city.
The-'scene is very near the place
where, on the night of September
24, 1893, four young men of this
city made a futile attempt to rob
a Burlington train, two of the par
ty being shot down. On that oc
casion the railroad authorities
under the leadership of W. C.
Brown, then general manager of
the Burlington's Missouri lines,
ran a dummy train loaded with
policemen and deputy sheriffs,
tlje scene of the trouble
i i- ; - i t i
iq xne ronnera were taxen oy
surprise, their plans having been
tipped off by a treacherous con
federate.
In the attempted robbery of last
night, after holding tne train 35
minutes the bandits allowed it to
proceed. The men compelled the
engineer and firemen to attempt
to cut off the. baggage car. This
attempt was successful ; thereupon
the baggageman was ordered to
open the door. This was done.
Then a number of shots were
fired at the trainmen, but none
took effect. The : 'engineer ran
his train to the next station and
reported to the officials in this
city. A dozen -detectives were at
once sent to the scene, but thus
far no clue has been found.
ukcdnshtutiqkal.
His Tens Anti-Trust Law Knocked est
Bi Ccart's Decision. " ;
Austin, Tex., April 2. The
Court of Civil Appeals, third dis-,
trict, today handed down opinions
in the cases of the State of Texas
against the f Waters-Pierce Oil
Company on appeal from McLen
nan county, and the Shippers
Compress and Warehouse Com
pany, on appeal from Travis coun
ty, affirming the decisions of the
lower courts and declaring the
anti-trust acts under - which the
suits were . brought to' be uncon
stitutional.. . i
, The suit against the Waters
Pierce Oil Company was brought
by the state to recover penalties
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sentimental interest-attaches to Price has sent the following letter People's Party, ol the. f United
Mason and Dixon's line, which is to the press: I connot empha- States, a new political party was.
being resurveyed and remarked size too strongly Tthe strength of formed here today, composed of
by authority ofj.the legislatures the present cotton situation. Re- reform elements opposed to . the
iof .Pennsylvania and Maryland. Iceipts indicate absolute exhaus- Democratic and Republican par-
Uriginally it was intended merely tion while exports, which are to
las a mark of boundary between day againdouble the receipts, re
the possessions of the Penn fami- fleet the eagerness of the demand,
ly on one side and Lord Baltimore The .only large quantity of cotton
on the other, but in later years I that is lelt available to meet the
.
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tis. The platform of the. new.
organization f embodies the plat
form adopted at the conference
held in Kansas .City last' Septem
ber, when'a call-for- a "convention
it became the frontier between enormous demand is the stock at I was issrd'to unite reform forces,
tw warring sections whose armies New York and . New Orleans. At
pushed desperately forward to other points existing stocks are
Jcross'it. Prior to the breaking out nearly all sold or contracted for.
against Plutocracy.0 -It - re af- -;.
firm, the i :rit of the declaration v
s. -
of the. pri:.
t oi tne war netween thn nt.A.t.pa Mn. I it annears to me now tnat the i iifttinnni rnnv.
son and Dixon's line marked the physical impossibility of getting ple'C party, in b;01118 0
nortbern boundary of slavery and enough cotton to keep the world's aiid Cincinnati. autne e
rrzmspiGdl&i the
01 xne reo
maha
maud
the.
trust acts bf Texas are unconstitu
tional. -
for violation of the anti-trust
statute of 1899. . f the southern limit of abolition- spindles going- will be apparent I for'the iul'Tative and Kerendum
Under the decisions of the Courti ism. . On one side of the line was I sooner than I anticipated. and T I an'd the'.:eoverrirflGntou'if't5hip of . -
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iwiiu nuu uu buo utucr Blue vtuuiiiuuo w ' uciiovo . m a vcijr i ail puunc UtHJliea
cases today, all threeof the anti- "the south," conflicting elements prompt reflection .of this fact by I pal planks;' "While
separated by an
bf divis
been a gulf between. . Prnt Hnrtt TnrrV I Ownership. r3arv.t)f L LonnY thA"
Mason and Dixon s line was old. w, . 0 wi '
, , . ' ' Wilmington, April . 8, Wil-
nearly a century old. when the . . . . .. .
i . . mmgton ana tnis immeaiate sec
clouds of civl war lowered upon - , . , -
rrmm ' . , tion has been visited by three frosts
it. The gentlemen who surveyed ... - , , i.
i m ir j i tais we& ana tat
It. ( l ino M O orr onH Inrnmi n U Tt;
oeginning -w iook
Conditions Is Texas. . j
v Laredo, Texas, April 3. Judge
McLane and District Attorney;
Hamilton who have returned
from Carizzo, where they went . to
hold a term of the District Courtj
for Seapata county are reported
tq have declared that the v people
of that country are in a most
deplorable condition and thai
some relief must be given to bene-
fit their situation . '
Judge McLane is quotod as hav
ing said; "There is no fodder ioj
the horses and corn was five cents
a pound (Mexican money.) The
stock are sopoor they can scarcel
walk. The water holes are nearly
all dry, wui last out a lew ecss
longer and when the water fails
what stock is left will not live a
week. ' . , I
"We travelled 140 miles," said
the judge," and in that distance
did not see enough grass to fill
ated by an imaginary mark an immediateand sharp advance party; "the Tptkn .TujsUi'tL
rision, yet as assaredly sepa- in the market. - SociaIi?, thaTVefrendu;n LeaguX
in interests as if there had the "Uuion Labor Vparty, PiTolictp
on, were commissioned m 1763
and they completed their task and
were discharged in 1767. At in
tervals of five miles large stone
were set up to mark the boundary
between the lands of Penn and
Ijord Baltimore. The stones were
brought over from England for
the purpose. On one side of them
was engraved the letter "P" and
on the other "M,:V the former
facing north, and the latter south.
re
arms of the land s proprietor
The intermediate miles were
marked with smaller stones bear
ing merely the initials. Years
ago, more than half a century,
trucxers are
the least bit
Ownership, partyof t. Louis', the
Prohibition patyarid ;th Unitsd
Christian party represented
on the floor of the convention ,
accredited or by J volupteej dele- .
gates, only twaffiftioh;al-organlz-. .'
gloomy over th9 continued coid ' thut
spell. For two mornings ice has.
appeared in exposed places. - The
truck farms are suffering 'v&d it
is feared that much damage has
resulted, v especially .in decaying
the season. Truckers in this sec
tion must have early seasons for
marketing their strawberries and
vegetables, or else they will not
be able to get good prices after
4-Vin tti.V frrxm rrf rr oaotinn
admoTxe begiutf topour -uahe market.
is oi tne land's proprietors, m.-j i.a. :
slight. So for the cold's greatest
injury to the truck planters is in
delaying, the seasoji. . '
Public vOwnership v .'party, ;ha4v
given their delegates any authori
ty to" form an alliance. .
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It it the hope," hdweveiyorthe .
Allied People's Party, that tithe f
reform forces wUl'decide to nnita
with the n w ofgikjtzition. -
j Jfce conve;ition waR practically. .,.;
dominated by the.Jople'spirt
; At times discussions 6f 'a livety.
Uessages To Mid-Ocean.
Marconi still continues to pr
. form he impossible and McClure's '
V . . . . secreiary pi m
! IMaazine to report him. The n j
account in the February McClure's
1 Mnrconi's experiments at St.
John's, Newfoundland, Marconi,
himself declared to be the best
popular account ever written of
his work in wireless telegraphy.
Now, iu the April issue, Henry
Herbert McClure tells the story of
the wireless messages received on
board the"Philadelphia"on her
now famous voyage. These
messages not only broke the dis
tance record established at St.
John's, but also for the first time
demonstrated the practical utility
of the system over long distances;
for these messages consisted of
words and sentences, not,' like the
others, of a single letter, and they
were actually printed on telegraph'
typo, not as at St. John, barely
detected on a telephone by a
straining ear. The writer of the
article is a personal friend of the
inventor, and the account is often
given in Iarconi,s own words.
Rowdies on'a Lark.
Reading, Pa., April 2.- Sixteen
young men. sons . of reputable
citizens of this city, were arrested
this afternoon for terrorizing a
country school, rioting, destroy
ing property and threatening the
teacher. Henry, C. Kissinger,
e Bern School
Board, is the prosecutor.
! Miss Helen DeLong is the
teacher of the Bern School about a
mile north of this- city Her al
legation is that the young meli
who were in the country, boasting
a spirit of deviltry, entered the
school in a body, behaving obnox
iouslv and disorderly, shouting
and terrorizing the little ones.
After smashing a neighboring
hot house the young miscreants
escaped on their bicycles. Jus
tice Snyder held each of them iu
$200 bail for court.
one's hat. Nothing has been
growing in that country for two
years." . .
ety.
nature took p'ace and fora.tim'eV".:
it seemed that ihe movemont wat" r-
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about to fail, owing to the un
willingness of a number of the
People's party delegate! to make
any concessions' to the other reform-forces
present.
In the plank on money the plat
form1 adopted favors 'scientific
Frost fa The South-
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Ten years ago it appeared likely ' Th8 B",S RfPal"d-
tnat the historic boundary would 1 London, 4. rUtcnener today money based upon the entire
become lost, or at least involved reports a heavy engagement near wealth of the people of the nation
in doubt. Recently the Pennsyl- Dreikuli, in Western Transvaal, and not redeemable in any spe-
vania and Maryland legislatures on March 81, in which 1,500 Boers cific commodity, but to be 1 6-
ordered the resurvev and the new under Delarey and Kemp were gal tender for all debts, .public
Atlanta, Ga., April 3. Frosts marking. The engineers are now completely routed by a force of I audprivate, and to be issued by
engaged in the work British under Generals Cookson the government only without the
About a dozen of the old stxmes and Keier. The report reads: intervention of banks, sufficient
have been found. Some "of them "Our forces were reconnoitering in quantity to meet the requ ire
were performing prosaib duties, toward Hart river when they ments of commerce Louisville
Instead of standing &R ppntinel. struck the gun tracks and caught dispatch.
Severe at JSJlOXVllle. KepOrtS i: u.x , I nnfli fha Ttnora roanltinrr inn
from Macon Savannah Augustaj ly diyided gbctio , they were Unning. fight of eight miles
weregeneral last night in Tonnes?
see. portions of Mississppi, Ala
bama, Georgia and the Carolinasl
The frost was heavy at Nashville;
Charlotte and Wilmington and
In Fator of T& Park.
Washigten, D. C. April 2. -Senator
-Simmons was invited to
attend and address the National
Charleston, Memphis and Meridian
are to the effect that the frost was
light. The damage to the fruit
crop in ueorgia, it any, was
slight. ,
Heavy frost occurred last night
in the yiciuty of Chattanooga!
Tenn'.v doing some damage tcj
fruit. Up to last night the damage:
by previous frost had been from 26,
to 50 per cent rn Southern Tennes-
see and it is feared the heavy frost
last night will cause an average of
50 per cent loss to fruit growing
sections.
serving as door steps, as lining through the bush. Emerging in
for bake ovens, as horseblocks the open country the British were
and the like. The persons using advanced upon by large Boer rein
them protested against giving forcemeuts, who attacked our
them up, not because of their his- flanks forcing them hastily to en
torical interest, but became they trench positions. Fighting ensued
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wereBervinga purpose. However, in cioso quarters uutu mo enemy
they;were finally secured, and will was repulsed on all sides. Delarey
be given their old places, firmly and Kemp and other Boer leaders
secured in bases of ; cement. In vainly attempted to rally the men.
cases where the old stone mark- wh? retreated northwest and south
ers are missing, iron posts will be "offering heavy losses. Our cas
supplied. The work of locating uahies were also severe. A party
t.hn iin hoon tirta hn i of the Canadian Rifles held their
2y
Sargent To Succeed Powierif. ,
Washington, April 4 Frauk
Sargent, president of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen, saw
the president today aud was. ten
.dered thVpoaition otcommissioner
General of Immigration. Mr.
Sargent accepted the offer, but he
Uail Sharks Uai Sooa Go Free. j
Washington. April 4. It is
Good Roads Convention at Char-J reported in ya8hlngton today that
lottesville, fa., to-morrow and the relase of the Cuban postal,
has accepted the invitation, but authorities convicted of theft has:
his absence in North. Carolina will begun.
prevent his being there. In an order issued March 15th, j
Representative Will Kitchin haa but for some reason not made pub-'
had a new postoffice established at lie until . yesterday Governor
the Yaiicey Copper Mine, in Per- General Wood has issued a pardon
will shortly be crowned with suc
cess. Savannah News.
post till every man was put out of
action.
Farcers la Cottca Sections Discocrased.
Savannah, April, 8. Early
cotton planting in this section is
threatened with two drawbacks,
one the wet weather . and the un-
' Saul Tea Frca Deatk.
"Our little daughter had an al
most fatal attack of whooping
l cough and bronchitis," writes Mrs.'
W. K. Haviland, of Armonk, N.
Game Present la Soata Carolina.
Hommett Brothers, of Illinois,
have purchased 1400 acres of land
on the line of the Southern Rail
way in South Carolina for the
purpose of establishing a game pre-,
serve It is said that theegentlemen
will establish a reserve on the plan
of the Yellowstone National Park,
where bison or buffalo, deer and all .
kinds of large game will be pro
tected, withau effort of replenish v.
ing th9 forests with game. This
information will be received with
pleasure by those who have enter-
laiuea iear mat me native game
species would soon b$ extinct in
this country. The land that has
been bought is iu forestry and
shrubbery boundaries and it is the
intention of the projectors to be
gin the importation of game at
once. It will eventually .make
son county, named Crews.
.. The House Committee on
Agriculture will favorably report
the Appalachian Park bill aa soon
ascertain data is furnished. There
will be no minority report.
The district
to former Postmaster Thompson
of Havana, who was convicted
of complicity with Rathbone and
Neely.
President Pal ma is expected, in
accordance
suitable condition of the ground
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ior wors, ana me aiscouragemem KiuifB New Discovery. Our niece
of the farmers .owing to their J who had consumption in an ad-
small fields this season. Reports I vanced stage, also used this won-
from several sections confirm the aer"" meaicine ana uxiay sne
lculcul,rB that nartof th or,f i;v
failed, we saved her life with Dr. .i ,r. .J. ,
uzarc range in
ville Citizen. ' '
Miuoari. Ash-
is
previous statements about the Ur- "di
dines3 in preparation of lands, and King's New Discovery as to no
the indifference on the part lot her medicine on earth.
S:ffirsiB!;:rtAl:;::L
Richmond, Va.f , April. 4. The
cotirention today adopted the suf-
conference
issue
Tnfwl- 1 t - r 1 1
rdance nitt i an old custom ,to cf th. farmers in some coun by Hble for coughs and .olds. te J;1 TU
aadecreeof general amnesty r and S LOO bottles? cmmntvwl hv committee in a yote of bl to 17.
attornevship of t his inauguration, and it is con-1""1' .f"6 ftll dmt: l Trial hottu. fr Twelve Democrats voted with the
s'a AUt.:4.,. : .a AlaV trna far .Tna uaoawv oeuevea m xiavana mail .
.enformto close up Speucer B. Adams, of Grusboro, r'uSJD SKfi T' AaU
.hie buiucH affairj before he yesterday, bat it is .aid teMlay punUhment recently imposed .eroara ii Dredicted in Sonth Car
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Mother Worm Pyrap maket child beaJ
r vr et-eum m worms vm oaks i&en
tu.
At ltoa ttmd.
T. LIT rr,.
uvb mfpuoncani, . ine conven'
tion adopted a reaolulion provfd
ing for adjournment today until
May 22. The committco on , fnal
revision will sit during h9 m?rJg