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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON V, SECOND' QUARTER, INTER NATIONAL SERIES, APRIL 29. Text of the Legion, Lnke vll, 18-28. Memory Vere, 22.23 Goiaen Text," Math. vii. 37 Commentary - Prepar ed toy the Rev. D. 31. Stearns. - '' -'f.jh... Copyright, liXX), by D. It. Stearns. , IS. "And the disciples of John, shewed him of all these things." . The harmonies think that the order of events in this chapter is the historical order; that after the healing of the centurion's servant the widow's son was raised, and then the lessou of today (Math. xi 2) says that John heard in the prison the works of Christ. This first verse of our lesson tells how he heard and suggests to all disciples of Christ to be ever telling His' wondrous works. Are you so glad-that you have heard that- you, . with all your heart, want others to hear those in the prisons, those in heathen darkness? ; 19, 20. "Art Thou Jle that should come, or look we for another?" rJohn had baptized Him, had seen the Spirit descend upon Him, had pointed Him out as the Lamb of God, and now this ques tion. What does it mean? Is it for him self or for his disciples' sake that he asks it? Would he have these disciples of his made sure that Jesus was the Christ, that they might follow Him? For it would seem that up to this time they continued as John's disciples, or in his imprisonment and seeming neglect, for: we do not know that Jesus ever visited him in the prison. Did the devil present doubts to John's mind concerning Him whom he had pointed out as the Lamb of God? : 21, 22. "Go your way and tell John what things ye have seen and heard." Thus said Jesus to John's disciples after He had done many works before them which only God could do and preacheoT the gospel to the poor as only. lie who spake as never man "spake could preach it. He said on another occasion: "The works that I do, bear witness of Me, thati the Father hath sent Me. The Father, Himself which bath sent Me, hath borne witness of Me. The Scriptures testify of Me" (John v, 36, 37, 39). John had heard the Father testify at the baptism; he knew the Scriptures, and if he had never seen many mighty worlft wrought through Him he now beard of them through his disciples. 23. "And blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in Me." Does not this seem like a very special word for John and indicate that John was somewhat offended? If you wonder at it, try and put yourself in his place or imagine a very common occurrence: Mr. or Mrs. B. is sick; they do not send the pastor any word, for he is supposed to know every thing; a week, or two, or three have passed, and the pastor has not called. If you know what they are apt to saj, I need not tell you. If, meantime, they should hear that the pastor had actually called three doors from them, the "case would seem worse still. If the 'pastor knew of a case of distress among his peo ple and did not call for a month, or even two, would it not seem a. cause to leave that church? If you were in real trouble and your dearest friend knew it and did not come to see you, would you not be offended? Do not condemn John even if he really was offended unless you never under any circumstances become offended with God or man. 24. "What Went ye out into the wilder ness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?" Thus began Jesus to speak of John after his messengers were departed. Some light upon this figure may be: found in I Kings xiv, 15; Isa. xxxvi, 6; xliii, 3. It may be suggestive of weakness easily influenced, which John certainly was not. In Isa. vii, 2, trees moved with the wind is a symbol of fear in the heart, but John had no fears. In Eph. iv, 14, we read of those moved with every wind of doctrine, but John, like Elijah, was well established. John was a tree of right eousness, the planting of the Lord, that He might be glorified (Isa. lxi,3). 25. "But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously appareled and live delicately are in kings' courts." John was not rich in this world's goods, his raiment being camel's hair and a leath ern girdle, and his meat, locusts and wild honey (Math, iii, 4). He sought no favor from earth's great ones, nor did lie covet their food or raiment. - He was great in the sight of the Lord and sought only His approval, filled with His Spirit (Luke i, 15).. He sought the hearts of men for God, that they might learn to welcome the Son of God when He came. 2G. "But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet." His Father, filled with the Spirit, said, t'And thou, child, shalt be called, the prophet of the highest, for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to " prepare His ways" (Luke i, 76). By comparing Ex. iv, 16; vli, 1, we get one meaning of the term "prophet" one .who becomes the mouth or spokesman of another.- The great business of every prophet was not so much to predict .. future events, but just to be a mouth for God and say what God told him, just to be the Lord's mes-; senger, with the Lord s message unto the people (Hag. i, 13). 27. "This H he of whom it Is written, Behold, I send My messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee." While all the prophets spake of Him (Acts x, 43), it was given to John only of all the prophets to be His Imme-. diate forerunner and to see - Him in ; the flesh and to point Him ut as- the Lamb of God and Israel's Messiah- To John only of all the prophets was it given to publicly set Him apart to His public mm Istry in baptism, to see the Spirit come. as a doVe upon Him and. to near J the voice from heaven. J . 28. "For I say unto you. Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist. But he that is least In the kingdom of God is greater than : he." " Math, xi, 11, uses the term "kingdom of heaven"? in this same statement- -It is the' kingdom of God, for God is the author of iU and the kingdom of heaven, for heaven Is the character of it. But to .my mind the terms are synonymous. I ..think the ori gin of both Is found in Dan. li, 44.; -As to the. last clause of this verse. of our lesson, there are two explanations, either of which is simple,", and both are true. When the kingdom comes, the.ieasrm u will be greater than John then ; was, ;itnd John himself in his glorified body at. the resurrection of the just shall be greater than he ever was before.; -The other- ex planation is that Jesus Himself was for the time then being the least, having taken in ' His - humiliation the lowest place; tmt being the King, He is the OUR WA8H1SGTOS LETTER. Special Correspondence. " , !' The belief is - growing that jAdmiral will accept the second place with. Mr. - Bryan on the Democratic; ticket. It is well known that he will go into the Kansas City convention with the back ing of (a number of influential , eastern Democrats who will ask for his nomi nation as President. 'But before ;. they do so, orJbeforethe convention consents to even consider his name for the honor.' it will be essential that he state ' his in- erition: to support the platform and candidates selected by the convention. Unless he will do this, eVen he must realize! that there is no hope for him, and that he might as well Btay out from the first." Indeed, he would make a better race as an independent lyso do we. as me treachery involved in such action would certainly lose him votes he might otherwise obtain. Pos- which sibiy he might , preier to stay m the woods and not state his position, but this will not be permitted. Willis Ab bott, in behalf of the press bureau of the Democratic party, has given but an in terview welcoming the Admiral into the party and adding that "of course" he is too honest a man to ask the support of the convention unless he is willing to abide by its decisions. Further, a mem ber of! the National Committee haa writ- letter to the Admiral, which he t welL avoid answering before the tion meets, asking him i flatly formation on this point. If he ledge himself, there is said to be reason why he should not ac- e Vice-Presidency alter losing the Presidency; By so doing he could achieve his dearest purpose of defeating McKinley, who, he firmly believes, has conspired to "Kill" his popularity. ie believes that nearly all the slurring re marks about him which are printed in the papers under a Washington date line, Tare inspired directly from the Whie House. Whether he is right in this supposition or hot, it is certain that he is! firmly convinced of the fact and that both he and Mrs. Dewey hate the President with a bitter hatred. I A good many interesting reports of the attempts of army officers to track down and capture Aguinaldo are com ing in frpm the Philippines. They all have had only one result, and that is failure. The belief is, however, that Aguinaldo is not at Singapo e, nor in Japan, nor anywhere else except in Lu zon.! In fact it is said that he is not far tronj Manila and frequently visits that place, assuming for the purpose a dis- guise, at which he is saia to oe specially clever. It would be an easy matter, say army omcers ai ivianiia, ior .a-guinaiuu to come into , that town on frequent yisits without running the risk of detec tion, in face, about thesaf est place for him to stay would be Manila, which is the last place likely to be searched with the expectation of finding him. It is supposes that if he visits Manila it is in the jgarb of a beggar or a destitute Fili pino. The present Republican- Congress, which so exerted itself to please .the trust in regard to Porto Rico and as well as on other subiects. will almost eer jainly go home without even formu latin or any plan for relieving the coun try of war taxes, which, according to the Secretary of the Treasury, will have ded a surplus of over $50,000,000 yiei by June, 1901. There is some difficulty in deciding which taxes to repeal, em phasized by the insistance of the people fori relief from stamp taxes on the one hand and the claims of certain interest forr favors on the other, and between the two. the Republicans prefer to do nothing. The government, of course, gets no interest ior tnis, nut mere is no J . r i t . a it " doubt that the favored banks will con tribute largely to the campaign fund of the Republican pwty this fall. One per cent on tne money loanea out io mem would even now amount to over a mil lion dollars, which would be a very nice nest egg for the campaign. It would all be perfectly straight forward, too; That is the beauty of it. The Secretary lends out the money to preyent conges tidn in the Treasury and the banks con tribute to the funds out of pure patriot ism. Further, by declining to reduce taxation at present the Republican par tvl erets into an excellent position to prove iiitj xsemuuraba in -wjlc yuft. I 1 L 1 f . in . - XUa nwhmv Next fall, if the taxes haye not been be fore reduced, the Republicans can make at what reductions they see fat. If cKinley is re-elected, it will retain enty of revenue for the needs oi tne untry, while if Bryan is elected, the enublicans, who will still be in. power nfext winter, will reduce taxation until revenues are insurhcient for the untrv. leaving the Democrats with a fiftsnrv which mast be rapidly ae- eted unless, they adopt tEe always un t J alternative of putting back some oi tne taxes once . mure, aucu -'. . mi the Republicans will say" they left the Treasury overflowing, that they reduced taxation to suit the demand ot tne coun tfy, and that the incompetent Demo drats rapidly landed the Treasury in financial difficulties. It is a beautiful scheme, and there seems no way of pre venting its going through. Some of the monstrosities of the special legislation occasionally leak out. tiere is one. , neprcsciuaur o ; tick, of Kentucky, recently received U Jetter from a woman in his district who ptfid that he become interested in her Application for a pension. She said that Lhen the civil war broke out she: was fen gaged to a oung farmer boy who Lnttn the front. Before he left he gave her "a medal to wear. ; He was killed, and since that time she has been fcaarried twice and has raised two fami- hies. - But she never : -could : forget the blue-eyed farmer boy, and has always 'wnrn raedaL She thinks this en- 'fUiM Her to a pehsiohi land asked 3Ir,! iFitznatrick to aid her in Becurin one I And this is no worse a case than some ten aj cannd conven for in does p ho good cent th that have approved by Congress. - THE SOUTH ACSlCAZi WAB. Baltimore Sun. 16th;. r: ' ' Though Lord Roberts has sent several strong .British columns to the relief of the British trooDS at Wepener, on the southern border of , the Orange Free State, the Boers show no indication of abandoning their attack. Tho British osses ' at Wepener "in. four ): days have been 18 killed and 132 wounded, but Colonel "Dalgety, who commands the garrison, is holding out.: On Saturday, the date of the latest advices received yesterday in London the fighting con- uuuwii .xi i evident mat xoers ; noDe to capture Colonel Dalgety's 1,500 men. Uf the British columns ,,. started to Wepeher's relief the one under General Brabant, which has left Aliwal North, is likely to reach there first. It was re ported at ; Cape Town yesterday that Brabant had already arrived and. had inflicted loss on the Boers. , It is rum ored that Boer. reinforcements have ar rived at De Wet's Dorp on the way to Wepener. ..- ; ' " :": - ' ''' ' Winston Churchill cables from Bloem fontein. that in his opinion 250,000 British troops will be needed to finish the. war. Silence is maintained as to most f the military operations in the immediate vicinity of , the Free State capitoL The Earl of Rosslyn and a pa trol of the Royal Irish Rifles have been captured. President Krager has just attended a conference of the Boer com mandants at Brandfort. - Lord Roberts has telegraphed to Presi dent Kruger, charging .that colonial British who are prisoners of the Boers are ill-treated, and asking that they be given better treatment. General Cronje, Colonel Shiel and other prisoners of the British were landed at St. Helena. Baltimore Sun, 17 tn. I Lord Roberts' military operations in the Orange Free State are being senous ty impeded by rains, but it is reported that he has accomplished the relief of Wepener. Several war correspondents at Bloemfontein state that the Wepener attack has been abandoned and that most of the Boers in that vicinity are retiring northward. Another body of burghers, "6,000 strong is said to be moving southward toward Bethulie. By dividing thus the burghers may confuse the British and prevent effective pursuit. Generals Chermside and Run die, with 20,000 British troops, are moving toward Wepener and should they overtake the Boers might be . able to crush them. A column sent due eastward from Bloemfontein could probably cut off their retreat to the north, but there is no statement that such a column has been sent out. Gen eral Brabant's whereabouts are un known, and he may have attacked the Boers near Wepener. Near. Bloemfon tein theJ3oers: are active. They have a strong position about ten miles to the northeast. Mafeking was still holding out up to April 8. General Botha, commander-in-chief of the Boer army, is in Pretoria con sulting the Government officials. A dispatch from the London Daily Mail from Lorenzo Marquz says the Boers are relying strongly upon the hope of American intervention. The Boer prisoners at St. Helena have been sent to Longwood, the famous prison of Napoleon I. Baltimore Sun, 19th. The Boers are makinar the most of their opportunity to sweep through the Oiange Free State, gathering men and supplies before an effective blow can be struck bv .Lord Roberts. Heavy - - . - m rains continue and impede the move ments oi the .British, but do not seem to hamper the Boers. The fate of Wepener remains in doubt. A Lo rehzo Marquez dispatch says the Boer commandant at Koomatinoort. on the a . eastern border of the Transvaal, has received a telegram stating that the place has surrendered, but there is no confirmation of this. It is reported from Boer sources that the Bethulie bridee .over the Orange river has been blown up. Over this bridge-and the one at JNorvars nnnt. farther west, nearly all' the sup plies for Lord Roberts army have been transported. -Lord Kitchener, who has been supervising the work of protecting the ISritisn line oi com munications" has returned to Bloem fnnt.ein! A bodv of Boers is marching: north ward through the Trans ville to inter cept General Carrington'aforce, which is to enter Rhodesia by way of Jieira, Pnrtn sriiese East Africa. Nearly half the members of the Trish- American ambulance corps from Ohicaero. which recently arrived at Pretoria, are reported to have torn off their Red Cross badges when ottered Mausers. - The criticisms , of Generals Buller and Warren and Colonel Thorneycrolt hv Lord. Roberts continue to be a sen sation in London. It is rumored that Warren has already been recalled and that Buller's recall will follow. Lon don papers which a few months ago praised Buller to the ; skies are - now declarinsr that he is a complete fail ure. Colonel Crofton, whose helio graph message to Warren caused Bul lfir tji rint Thome vcrOft in command on Spion kop, bras been punished by being placed on halt pay. r t A correspondent writing from with in the Boer lines adds his testimony to that of Webster Davis to the effect that the Boers had but 7,500 men m Kflt.nl with which to shut up General White's troops at Ladysmith ' and op pose Buller's army. The total ;- lorce opposed to them numbered about 40. 000 men. The Boer Army maintained a position thirty miles long -and, was wi d a1 v acatiered " but such was its mo bility that it could be concentrated at any, part of the line within three hoursi M Tbemhd jury1; of f Frankfort Ky has returned indictments against ten men charging them with the murder of William Goebelr r. . .. c . A. fiKPUBUCAS PAPKR COMES OUT FOa TOSS AJlEMDnENT, The Raleigh State Journal, edited by J ames M. Allen, a white Republi can, puts at the head i of that paper the motto, "White .Supremacy -Ad ministered bythe Republican Party; defining the position of the- State J ournal upon the Amendment : ;; "The State Journal; after a short suspension, is before the public again. we nave decided to advocate the Amendment, believing it to be for the best interest of North Carolina. . We havTe fulley surveyed the ground, and realize .the fact that we differ with many of our Republican friends. - "While the Republican State Con vention has not vet assembled and declared against the Amendment, we are satisfied from present indications that it will do so, and wish we could see bur way clear to abide by its de cision on this question, v c - " . "As a Western Republican, we came to Raleigh in 1897 to accept a position under the fusion, administration. We have had an opportunity, to observe and study eastern conditions and have become convinced that there is some thing radically wrong in. the East. While the Amendment may not cure all our ills, it heads in the right di rection and will improve present con ditions. ' 1 "As a life-long Republican., we take this course, believing it to be for the best interest of the white people of North Carolina and at the same time will elevate and improve the ne gro race, we tafce this position as a Republican who has always supported the Republican ticket and expects to continue to do so, and believe it the duty ot every true Republican in the State to do the same. We want to see conditions such that men can meet each other on the stump as gentlemen and discuss principles and the great economical, educational and other interests of the State. This can never be done east of Charlotte until the black cloud of the East is removed. "From now until the election we shall battle for what we believe is right, regardless of the consequences. This is a question that should he above party. Settle the question of white supremacy in North Carolina first, remove the danger and then battle for white Republican rule. "We shall continue to support the Republican ticket and defend Repub lican principles, but on the race ques tion we propose to stand by our own race. la Butler Trading for McKlnlyT RaJelghPost. "I believe Senator Butler is at heart a McKinleyite." Extract from inter view with ex-Congressman Harry "Skinner in Thnrsday Morning's Post. Before taking his train for home yesterday Col. Skinner explained more fully this utterance. " He said: "I believe Butler wants to give the North Carolina electoral vote to Mc Kinley. If he is honestly and sinr cerely for Bryan why does he seek to place obstructions in the way ot poll ing the full Bryan strength in North Carolina." Though bitterly fought by Senator Butler at every point the foxy leader could not prevent the election of Col Skinner as a delegate to the Populist National Convention, which meets. in Sioux Falls May 9th. Col. Skinner, who was chesen as a delegate by his district, was asked yesterday what course he would pursue at the Nation al convention with reference to the nomination of Col. Bryan. Col. Skin ner replied: "I am going to Sioux Falls and I am going to suppon Wm. J. Bryan.' ' 'I am going to ask the Populist Na tional convention to instruct Marion Butler to take down the electoral ticket in this State if he is sincerely in favor of Bryan. In other words I propose to disclose Senator Butler's hand in the Nation as I think I have done in the State. If he is for McKinley the world shall know it and he shall not deal djubly or by indirection any more. Air. Mebane's Position. To the Editor-of The News and Observer: Letters are coming to me asking if I will allow my name to be considered by the other political conventions in con nection with the office I now have. It seem 8 strange to me that any such enquiry should be made after my letter, which appeared on last Tuesday- I cannot expect and do not wish, my name to be considered at all in connec tion with the office of Superintendent of public Instruction, by either of the po iitical conventions, soon to meet in the city of Raleigh. When General Toon hecomes Super intendent of Public Instruction he will have no warmer friend and no one who will do more to help him in the great work of public education than myself. Hoping that this statement will make my position clearly understood by .an, and having a feeling of charity for all and malice toward none, 1 am Respectfully, C. H. Mebane, Superintendent Public Instruction Snot Oeaa toy Pauengen He Sought to , ; Tenwlu. Nashville, Tenn., April 16 Near Slaughterville, on the 1 and jn. ran road, on a train returning from Hender son last night, Morgan Boone of Tren ton, a negro, passed; through the white coach brandishing a pistol Ana cursing He struck a white man with a coupling pin, fracturing his skull. ' iioone passed into the colored part, yelling: . ;rve killed a hundred - white men, and now I'm eoine to slaughter niggers." Eight or ten white men with ; drawn pistols followed him. He turned Sand fired twice. Ten shots were fired in the coach, several striking Boone, fatally wounding him. 'A ; He was thrown off the train and several bullets fired through, a windowinto his body. Ma'iy - women fainted. SrftlRJB. OF R-OIAVAY TSJSK T . OUAFQER8. ' ; The strike of the railway telegraphers employed by the Southern . Railway is on. In obedience to orders all opera tors belonging to the Order of Railway Telegraphers quit work promptly at 12 o'clock on the 12th. . The operators claim- that they are Overworked and underpaid, and the strike is. to compel the Southern to pay them a fixed amount for a definite number of hours workand so much per hour for each extra hour. : The ; railroad people : not agreeing to this demand the strike' was ordered, and it-is supposed. most of the men obeyed. - Vice President Dolphin of the O. R. T.f says that all reports indicate an astonishing increase in the strength of the strikers. He claims the. Southern is being put to great inconvenience and is suffering from a block in traffic, also that the road" is trying to re-hire old employes at advanced wages. Supt. Ryder says this is "a base lie" and inti mates that practically all Mr; Dolphin's statements are false. Both sides are still making claims that are wide apart. Columbia, S.-C., April 15.- Superin tendent P. I. Welles of the Columbia division, has offered a reward of $500 for the xm viction of any one tamper ing with the telegraph wires, instru ments or other property of the Southern railway. The agent at Carlisle refused to surrender bis office to the man sent to take charge, resisting with a revolver. The superintendent went upon a special train list night, broke open the build ings and put a new man in charge. Charlotte News, 17th. . Mr. J. L. Cox, division freight agent of the Southern, in this city, was asked this morning for a statement as to the movement of freight. Said 'he: ""We are handling all of the business with usual promptness. .There are as many trains running as before the strike, and they are making the. usual schedules. Anyone who does not believe this can see the trains loading and unloading at the freight depot. The stock of the Southern is as steady as it ever was. It was the steadiest stock quoted on the board this morning. The strike is not affecting the road." Mr. David Cardwell, division freight agent at Columbia, was here today. He said: "I have not noticed the slightest embarrassment to the road by the strike. Two men walked out of my office, but but two otters were waiting to walk in." Charlotte Observer, J 8th. Regarding the condition of the strike the following statement wac made last night by Mr. Dolphin: ''The telegraphers strike on the Southern Railway on the sixth day of the trouble is considered by the men interested as indicating their certain success. Two additional telegraphers on the Greenville district, twenty-five agents and telegraphers between Greens boro and Sanf ord and two oa the Knox ville division have joined the strikers to-day. This practically includes all the operators on those sections of the road. "On the main line north of Charlotte one light freight represented the traffic from midnight to noon, were under normal conditions ten to twelve trains of forty cars each were handled. "Several narrow escapes'' from disas trous head-end collisions were expen enced at Seneca and Lulu, on the At lanta division where two young boys, fourteen and fifteen years old, have b!en installed by the management to handle train orders. At Seneca the - fast mail No. 36 was given orders. The boy telegrapher did not know how to set the signal, the order being accidentally discovered by the conductor stopping to purchase a ticket. . "A similar circumstance occurred at Lula station, on the same division. On account of blockade in freight a large number of mills and factories are about to shut down on account of coal supply being exhausted, especially on the Ashville division. "The strikers are firm and jubilant." Beyond the general statement that all trains were on time and that the road was in perfect running order the South ern Railway officials had nothing to say yesterday about the situation of the strike. They claim that all positions made vacant by the strikers have been filled by competent men and that the Southern is in no wise embarrassed. : Snemwell Goes to Tennessee. The Raleigh correspondent of the Charlotte Observer says: Governor Russell after having con sidered since March 27th. the matter of 'the requisition of theGovernor of 'Tennes see for Baxter Snemwell, a weaitny resi dent of Asheville. decided to honor if? Shemwell is charged with having de- frauded a Knox ville bank out oi ?4,uuu. Governor Russell cites as a precedent for the honoring of the requisition, a requisition for one Cohoon by the Gov ernor of New York. ?He says the cases were similar and adds that if in such a case he should not honor a requisition how can he - expect his own to" be honored ? ::--- . V-'-v' Winston. April 17. The . Baxter Shemwell case was argued before Judge - - m X 4 9'' a Stevens, of the uriminai uourt nere tnis afternoon. His honor refused a motion to discharge ShemwelL He dismissed the habeas corpus and remanded the de fendant to the authorities of Tennessee. Shem well's counsel gave notice of an appeal froni Judge" Stevens' y decision. The defendant r was not T present at the hearing to-day ahd bis bond for $1,000 was forfeited. Judgment nisi was given against Shemwell and.his bondsman, Maj. Robert umgnam, oi Asnevuie. Muck Ffignerman. colored, was tried and sentenced - to death at Charlotte last week. -The trial consumed only b honre- Featerman killed his wife on account of j ealquey, January 16. Judge Moore refused the. request for a new trial and sentenced Jfesterman to hang ; -. m r- - m.' A . i on may oxst. an appeal was uiKen. - ST A.XH5 H E7 M, , .Charlotte has formed a trust on all' the brick made in that city and vicinity. ,uTh4.?hipn,enH 01 ' Btrawberries from the Wilmingtorfiection has begun. The - first Crate BhinnMl was tu:i. phia last Thursday. ; - The Democratic Rfat Mn:.t. i.a Monday for the West on the Vrafafica- tne nrst speeches at BnriiniHrTi TVia , -o ciwuujf law spoke at Greensboro. It is fully realized that the extreme West is to be "the battleground -.. ot. t the constitutional amendment.' That in th stronghold. : Trombto mt Iffewells. , Charlotte Observer, 15th. ; Intelligence reached this city yester day that there had t been considerable trouble at the: Southern's ;, office at : Newell's, this county. When the etrike was ordered Jfld Walker was both opera tor and agent at that place. - He had held this position for the last three years. la aocordance with President Powell's order he quit work and was replaced by an operator named Edwin. who does not belong to the Order of Railway Telegraphers. Immediately iL - ; a a l .... mere ,wua a quiet ana aigninea KICK Oa the part of the inhabitants of Newell's. 'Squire Newell, who was in the city yesterday morning, said that the 'resi dents had become greatly ; attached to' young Walker, and they thought an injustice had been done to him. Against Erwin personally there was no feeling, : but the inhabitants had firmly decided " that it was not right that he should re place Walker. They were chary about giving him courtesy and food, and ; food, and finally they advised -him in plain terms to leave the place. Erwin stood the trial as long as possible, but yesterday he saw that it was useless to- make the fight under present conditions and decided to fcave. A telephone message from Newell's last night states that he had closed up the officer and would leave Newell's' this morning. In discussing this affair yesterday af ternoon Capt. Ryder said that Walker would be recalled from Newell's: that the office there would be closed up and that Newell's would be made a prepaid station. He said last night, however. that he thought it probable that he would succeed in adjusting matters with the inhabitants of Newell's, so that the office there would be re-opened. Capt. Ryder also stated that there had been similar trouble at Harrisburg, as the residents had made a demonstra tion against the man sent there to re place the Order of Railway Telegraphers man that had struck, and that the office at that place would be closed also. Air. J. J. Newman Suicide. Salisbury, April 17.- J. J. Newman, of mining fame, and & . brother of Wal ter George Newman, of the Union Cop per Mining Company, was found dead in a house near Dutch Creek Mine No. 2, in Rowan county, not far from Salis bury, this morning. Dynamite had been used as a means to destroy his life. A portion of the house was blown to pieces and the body of the dead man was found among the debris. Newman wrote letters at his home until 1 o'clock this morning. He then left home and was Been shortly afterwards riding horse- -back, going in the direction of Dutch Creek Mine. " T There were no witnesses of the dis tressing afiair, and it seems that no one heard the explosion of the dynamite. It was generally thought by Newman's friends that his death, was caused by an accident, or that some one had purpose ly blown up the building to destroy Newman, but later reports indicate that it was a case of deliberate suicide. He sent a -note to a liveryman in Salisbury with his horse, authorizing him to make disposition of the animal as best he could, and after keeping out what he (Newman) was due him, to devote the remainder to charity. - ' - Tne Way of tne World. Statesvllle Landmark.1 - The Charlotte Observer, referring to the opening of the Paris Exposition . Saturday, says there will undoubted ly be a very large attendance on the exposition, including numerous Amer- icans, and asks: - By the way, what has become of the boycott of the exposition on account of Capt. Dreyfus, -about which we. heard, so much last fall ? - Some peo ple don't even now remember, who Dreyfus was. - - "Lest we forget !" We have for gotten forgot all about'Dreyfus and his troubles and our feeling against the French people. That is the way of the world. Those of us who can command the price and the time will go to Paris regardless of Dreyfus and ' his troubles. ; Human-kind ; doesn't often dwell " long on the misery of other folks. We have troubles of our own and ;,we are constantly looking for some new diversion. . To KxtermliiAM Uie TnuU. . Washington, April 16. Two meas ures directed against trusts were deter mined upon to-day by the special sub committee on trusts of the House judic iary committee. This sub-committee -has spent ' many days examining the various remedies proposed, and the con ferences were not concluded until a late hour ; today. As agreed ' upon, the remedy is two-fpld, namely, a constitu-. tional amendment giving Congress fud power " to deal . with trusts, and a new anti-trust law making extensions to the Sherman act. -' . :! a ; r j Leaves tne Presbyterian Cnureh. L.ITTLE ' rock; : Aek., April 18. Rev. Hay Watson. Smith, lately from Greensboro," N," C.,'to the pastorate of the Second Presbyterian church here announces his withdrawal from the ,4 Presbyterian ministry " as a protest l; r, against the Westminister ' coufession of faith. ? He probably will join the Congregationalistr. . . ' greatest. - - .. . -f.
The Chronicle (Wilkesboro, N.C.)
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