North Carolina Newspapers

WILSON MOTHER. AND BIS S. H.Thompson in Biblical Kecorder, - A few miles out from Charlotte 18 a celebrated: community known ai "Steele" Creek neighborhood. "It ".-settled .byi the . Scotch-Irish V and from . the beginning been noted f i telligerice and "morality. I Durini Revolutionary War,' nearly all its were staunch patriots and brave 'era:1 Among the 1 influential people were Kobert Wilson ad his wife, Eleanor. They had seven sons in i the American army, each of whom dijd his part to drive the' British from their na tive land. " Robert Wilson and hist son, John, weres captured by the British as they, were taking supplies to General Sumter's pmeh. They were carried to ,Camdeiy South JCarolina, and confined in the jail with General Rutherford, Andre ar Jackson , afterwards .presi dent of the United States, "nd others. Cornwallis found his -tay in tlhar lotte anything but pleasant; in fact, he was so annoyed by the constant attacks on lis out-po'sts andvsentmels that " he dubbed the, place 'The Hornet's Nest. ' ' Afterjihe defeat of Ferguson Atj King's Mountain, Cornwallis deemed it! .wise for. him to ieturn, to South Carolina. During this retreat he staid- one night at the Wilson farm, occupying the home as his headquarters, and requiring Mrs. Wilson tt prepare a nieal for hint and Tarleton. When he .found thati her husband and son were his prisoners at Camden, j he called- her ,. j and jsaid, "Madam, your husband and sop are my -prisoners, and it is possible that others of your family may i soon be in my-power. If you could inducefyour husband and sons, who are young and ambitious, to leave the rebel armj and fight for King George, I can almost as sure you that they- shall have rank in the British &r my. If you will prdmise me to induce them to do soI will order their release at once. " i ' ' 1- ' T am nnifa trilHnnr " -ronUm! I ATra Z1CCHKCS the was has or m- i the people sold- Wilson, !to do anything which I think 1 is right to promote the real and per . t manent welfare of my family. Irj this ;'- ""instance I wish to say to you, that my husband and my sons have been for the last five years, fighting for the holy .H caiisV of liberty. Not one has ever faltered in the hour of duty nor fled from the contest, while others at your solicitation have yielded up their hopes . and turned their backs on the land which gave them birth. Only yester day 1 sent my seventh son, Zaccheus, but fifteen years old, to "join his broth ers ih Sumter's army; Before I Would see my boys turn from this glorious struggle, I would take these three smaller lads and would myseli nlist under Sumter's standard and show ' my husband and sons how to fight and If tif Jneeds be how to die for heir .country." "Ah, General, we have struck the - ' hornet's jiest again," said Tarl4ton, "but never mind, when I get to Cam den, I will see that old Robin W lson never comes back." Mrs. Wilson, had reference to what " had "occurred between her and ittle Zaccheus theday before, when he had come to his Booth er and said, ' 'Mc ther you kn6w that father and brother t Ohn are in iail at Camden. Do you know what that means?" "Yes mv son, I know only too well what it may mean. It means, my dear, - - that we may never see them alive again, and it means also that General Sumter has lost two as brave soldiers as ever carried a rifle." "I was thinking of the last rather than what you said at first. I cannot save father and brother from the cruel Lord Rawdon but I can take the place of one of them in the army. I have cleaned my gun and have my powder and balls ready. You know that I can shoot equal to any man in the com munity and if you are willing lor f me to go I am prepared to start as spon as you fix me some food to take with me." The tears came to the eyes of- Eleanor Wilson as she put her arms about the lad and pressed to her bosom. him for one .moment God bless A: I my brave boy. Yes, go my if there comes a day when son m.ti I it shall be necessary, your mother will follow you and die with you. The day Cornwallis left the Wi ison Dlantation, Zaccheus Wilson was cap- tured by a party of scouts and broqgnt to uornwaiiis. lie was found on flank of the army doing all that a marksman could do to diminish; the pnfr the! number of redcoats. When Coriiwallis found out his name he decided to take him along to, guide him to a ford where he could cross the Catawba river. : The . . t ... - , . t :npn nt r.hp. tnrpmnst onintYin pntorort at the point designated by the lad, but the sojdiers found the current deep and very swift. Cornwallis, seated on jhis horse near the river bank, saw the ?u soldiers - floundering in the water and drawing his sword said with a terrible oath, "1 will cut your head off, you .treacherous little rebel scoundrel. x ou navej purposely t lea me to this place-to " deceive" me -and delay . ' 7 9 , .passage. Drawing himself un to hisull hei and advancing a step nearer, Zacch " replied, . "You have the power to y my head off asT have no arms to tena myseii ana i am your Drisoher; . put iQon i you ininic. it wouia be a cowardly act to strike an unarmed boy v wibu. juui ewurui- xx - jl uau uniy ine nan oi your weapon it wouia not bei go "cowardly, but then your lordship kndws it would1 not be so safe. I have not deceivad your troops,' for had they gone ; a little up the river after' getting iito the water, as I told them, there would. 1 Cornwallis " was r'so struck 'with" the ; Doy s orayery anu cooin esa ! inat ae calmed1' down and thursting- hiff swe rd into its scabbard . said,- " Wilson, y ?u i are true grit and a fine boy. , I wodld i not nuri a pair oi your neaa. ' n . . j t , j in saieiy anu went ou lis way 10 VY inns boro, South - Carolina. . On the way Cornwallis called "Zaccheus and eaid to him, "I shall not need your service any longer as ; guide,"you can return.' Go home and. -take care of -your mother and grow up. ?a loyal citizen' of the king." He thanked -the General .for his release but the Briton would have thought his advice ill-bestowed, had he known the active use to which the lad put his .rifle, .so. long as there was p. redcoat or a Tory, to be found. . r ; ' .. Zaccheus returned home, ; where he remained until ? such time as his ser vices were in demand. One morning a. few weeks after, his experience .with the British, the family were overjoyed at tEe home coming of the father and three of the neighbors with him. When the greeting were, over, Zaccheus asked his father m to tell, him 1 how, he had" escaped from Lord Rawdon. Seated by his fireside with the mother and the children about him he an swered, "Well Zaccheus, - when your Jfriend, Cornwallis, reached Wirinsboro, he sent Lord Rawdon . word to have me and John with ' several ; others "taken . to Charleston heavily V guarded. There were twelve of us sent under an officer and fifteen men.-; Astwe went along I thought of several plans of' escape, but could not carry themout."' Finally we encamped for : the . night at Fort Wat son, which is about two hundred miles from here. Being in a .; part of the country where the British' were quite thick and Whigs . scarce, they stacked their guns in the portico arid stationed oniy .one sentinel to watch us. All the others were in the house preparing sup per. " We bribed a soldier to buy us some whiskey and as the day was rainy we pretended; to. Sdrink very freely. Smith seemd to get very drunic and de termined to treat the sentinel which was against orders. I begged him not to go near the sentinel, as he would get into trouble and followed him to pre vent him. He staggered up towards the fellow who was laughing at him, when all at once the drunken Smith seized the sentinel, which was against orders, the two. This was the signal agreed upon and the rest of our party captured the pile of guns in the portico. As the guard and 'their officer came rushing out to help their comrade they were met by the points of the bayonets in the hands of their late prisoners. I made them go inside and there hold up their hands and. solemnly swear to never bear arms against the cause of liberty and told them if I should ever know of their doings so I would hang every mother's son of ? them. They 1 were only to glad to be paroled on such .terms and promised to go on to Charles ton. Just as I finished swearing them to the terms of their parole I was told that aparty of British "dragoons were in sight. We separated into small groups and we four have reached home as you see in safety. The others aimed to reach Snow Island where -Marion makes his headquarters Zaccheus Wilson, his father, and all his brothers lived to fight to the end of the war and to see peace and prosper ity established under liberty's flag for which th ey had fought so gallantly. Some years after the war was over the brothers all moved to Tennessee where their descendants are today numbered by the hundreds. A visitor to the. old Steele Creek church can-see even yet simple headstones marking the last resting place of Robert Wilson and his wife Eleanor, who died in the year mo. The Legislature's Important Work. tJharlotte Observer. Public thought now turns to the Leg islature, which will meet two months hence? This body will be charged with heavy responsibilities, the chief of which will be taking care of the deficit in the public Treasury and the consideration of the revenue bill. How-to provide for the public expenses for the jiext two years and at the. same time meet the deficit is the problem for the Legisla ture to face. The appropriations will . - 0. neonles thp. larp-pra.nd mnrA AnlirVfcAn "o r. T "r , iiu uceus. kjll top oi me oramary ne cessary expenses is"a debt which is to be paid. How to raise the money needed without imposing too heavy a .burden upon the tax-payers is the question? There is reason for a good deal of pub lic confidence m the Legislature elected lue8day. There will be some wise men in it, conservative and i ust" men. who love the State more than they hate any special interest, ana tnese win exercise their influence that taxation b made as nearly equal as may be. It was said frankly by a Democratic speaker in Charlotte during the recent campaign tnat the impeachment of the judges ab sorbed so much of the attention of the last Legiskiture that' it did not, in its last days, give to subjects of legislation the deliberate consideration which they deserved . ; There is nobody, however, for the new Legislature to impeach, hence there will i be no distraction on this account. The election of a Sena tor will of course absorb a great deal of interest, but consideration, of, the sub ject need not consume time which be longs to legislation. It should, not, for this -special- subject of a fair revenue bill deserves; much and serious thought. And, by the way, The Observer jpon tinues to think well of its suggestion of a few months ago that Lieutenant Goy, ernor Turner, pick out now his chair man of the Senate finance committee and give him nqticey in -order that he may fortify himself with information, and - study the general - principles, if not ; the aetail: of : a finance bill m advance of the meeting of the Legis lature. 'J , 'r, 'Give me an example of a decided anomaly, " said the sketch writer, paus ing for , inspiration,, VA. prohibition candidateUn . the 'state of Kentucky." replied, ther exchange editor, right- off the reel;-;" ; ' bill Aitfs mi-Hilt. .... 1.. L : ... i7 n vumuon. - - j.n a recent letter l toot, tne part of the bad boys and said they must not be given r up. That Jetter has provoked a mostr mtelhgent r comment from a western scnooi teacner, . who nas been teaching boys ; for twenty years..- He says that jbis so-called bad boys almost invariably turned out to be his best boys, best scholars, and best" men, and he never punished one of them with i the rod. His illustrations are very apt, entertaining and instructive, for he is ! no ordinary teacher but is a highly cultured gentleman and writes a beau tuui letier. nis ieiterv contained sev eral, pages and .was eagerly - perused. He says I arri a believer in, the rod; but it has. been .my . lot-s to ha.vato- use - it mostly, but lightly, on mamma's pets the good boys who never did anything wrung- xxe uues not oeneve in moral turpitude or total depravity, but that all natural instincts are good, and that evil is only an abuse or misuse of the good, -and he has never seen a human being who would riot at times perform some kind office for another, never ex pecting a reward. Once upon a time, the story goes, a little girl was watch ing a sculptor as he put the finishing touches upon an angel that he chiseled from a block of marble, and jshe ex claimed: "Oh, what a beautiful angel you have made!" "No," said the sculptor "the angel wasalready in the marble. I have only clipped away the rough stone that hid it." oo it is witn every man mere is an ang 1 there, though too- often hidden by the stony covering. The skillful sculptor could find it. Ibis reminds me of an incident that happened many years ago in Rome while I lived there. It was on Sunday wmie a great iresnet was inundating a portion of the town. A poor boy, the son of a widow, had rowed his little boat out in an eddy to catch some wood that was floating down. By some mischance his boat was caught by the Current and he was carried rapidly down the stream. His mother had seen it all and ran down the bank screaming for help. Many people rah along with her, but could do nothing. It was near a quarter of a mile to the juction where scores of men and boys were watching the surging waters. As the little boat neared the bridge pillar it capsized and the" boy disappeared with the boat. In an instant it came to the surface again and the boy was seen clinging to the chain at its end 'Say e that boy, somebody. ' ' Said one, "I'll give $5 to save that boy." Said another, "I'll give $10. 'I'll give $20," said another, but nobody dared to venture. The mother cried in agony, "Won t somebody save my boy." Just then a young man was seen rushing wildly down, throwing off his coat and shoes as he came and passing the crowd, he ran down into the water and struck out boldly for the boy. He got him, and clasping one arm around his waist swam with the other and laid him at his mother's feet. He was limp and speechless, but alive. Putting on his shoes and coat the young man walked quickly away. But he was known to most of those present. He was a bar keeper and his moral standing was not good for he was profane inspeech and his associates were the sports and drink ing men of the town. He was under the ban, but there was an angel in him somewhere. He knew, the poor widow and he knew the boy and he scorned to accept any reward. I have often rumi nated over that heroic deed and won dered. My school teacher friend says that the difference between a bad bov and a good one is that the stone is harder to chip from the former, but gives a finer and more durable polish when the rough outside is.chiseled away, but the good boy s angel is found in chalk, and soon crumbles or decays. lie tells of uob, the worst bojr ever taught. It was far out in western Texas, and when the school was made up it was predicted that Bob and the teacher would have a fight in less than a week, lie was iuiiy apprised that Bob was wicked and cursed like a sailor -r-w m 1 1 t i -9 and would fight at the drop of a hat and arop it himself. Bob's-ather was dead and his mother an invalid and very poor, but Bob loved her and was kind and good to her and cooked the breakfast before he went to school, which was two miles away. He always hurried home after school to chop the wood and bring water and help her with the supper. The teacher's pun ishment of his pupils, when it had to be given, was keeping them after school and requiring them to get their lessons. Bob very respectfully asked to be allow- ed to go home to wait upon his mother. I He behaved very well for a week, but his bad day came and he did not study at all. lie seemed to be ready for a row.' The teacher, told him mildly, but iirmlythat he must stay in until he got lus lesson. He gave a look of de fiance and shut up his bqok. My friend says: 'It was one of the trials of my4ite. I pretended to. be reading a book, but I was only thinking. In half ah hour Bob opened his book, but Tsaw tears ih his eyes. After a while he said; I can't study now. . 'Please sir, let me go home. .It's getting dark and mother will be scared. She s all alone and sickr 4 ' Please, sir, I will get this lesson tomorrow,-and I won't be bad any more.' .Well, I was just overcome. and JL took mm in my arms ana we Wept together. Never did Bob'give ine any more, trouble and all the neighbors wondered.-, I yerily believe that if I had whipped him he would have been ruined by it; - After his mother's death he enlisted in the army .- and s won ' his straps, and he writes me occasionally, and always thanks me for the kindness r showed him" at school.""' "f - jl believe tnat tne U3e ox. the rod in our, public schools has been-, generally abandoned. The .punishment ..of. re fractory pupils is now: just what it is in ouri colleges; Expulsion, - suspension, monthly reports of conduct and pro- I gressr: Patrons seem satisfied with this and the generar verdict is thatSolomon I was iokincr. Mv friend Fort was as I hdstile to whioninir children as is Dr. Holderby, of Atlanta, and Cwhen I quoted Solomon, who said, spareth - the rod hateth his :son, f.he said, y Well, Solomon was mad he wrote that With all of thosewives he must have had three or fouijihun dred children, and the ' little rascals were always tagging after him and beg ging for candy, or a knife or a doll, or something, and they climbed Tipon- his legs and felt in bis pockets and pulled his hair, and.Jt's pappy this and daddy that, until he got desperate and wrote that verse. I don't take.; anything for granted that olomon says, nonow. a man whojwas as-big afoolabout "wo men: as he was, needn't tell me about whipping children. He didn't know how. to raise Rehoboam, who succeed ed him,- for he said to the children o: Isreal. .. , 'My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scor pions.' That's the kind of a boy he raised with his rod:" - But after all and before all it is the home influence that moulds the child, for that is constant and enduring. The angel that was within Bob was uncov ered ; by his mother's love. Some mothers send their little children to school as to a nursery to get them out of the way or because they cannot manage them at home. While others put up for them a nice lunch and -kiss them a sweet good by and fondly watch for their return. Our children had to go more than a mileto .school when we lived on the farm. They had to cross the creek on a foot log and then down the hill until out of sight. It was my daily pleasure to watch them go and come, and feel that they were safe. And now our eldest daughter is going to leave us going to Wmnsboro, S. C, to live, where her husband has found profitable employment. They have rive children, some of whom were our daily visitors and made us happy when they came. What shall we do now? We thought that this exodus of our children was over. My wife and I are growing old and it grieves us . to lose our children and grandchildren. But this is the common lot. There is noth mg true but heaven. Bill Arp Rural School Libraries. Raleigh Cor. Charlotte Observer. The Observer correspondent had an interesting chat to-day with State Su perintendent Joyner regarding the rural school libraries. He says North Caro lina is the first State in the South to have these. It will no doubt gratify the legislators wha voted for the bill giving $5,000 out of the public school fund for the two years 1901-1902, to know what a great success these li braries are. Durham was the first county to have them. Four years ago it established two by . subscription. Then two years ago it got the six for which the State allowed appropriation. Along came big-hearted Julian S. Carr and offered $10 for each school in the district not thus covered. In a few weeks 25 libraries were provided, and in less than six months there was one in each of the 35 white districts. The State has in all given $60, the county $350, Juhan S. Carr $290, the remain der being raised by private subscrip tions. There , are 4,733 volumes in these libraries and they cost over $1,- 100. The largest number of books read by any one pupil was 67, and 327 pupils read over 10, while 1,000 were read by 1,000 persons outside of the schools. Only three book's were lost and these were replaced. Scholarship is greatly aided by the libraries; says the county superintendent of Durham, who makes this report to upennten dent Jovner. They have created a demand for all kinds of good literature. They are a true inspiration. The State Superintendent is delighted with this report, the first ever made. He says thai Georgia is taking up the matter of establishing these libraries, but in that State there is no special appropriation, the movement being purely voluntary. In this State the plan- will grow. The old libraries will be maintained; new ones will be created. The State Liter ary and Historical Association, which drafted the bill for the libraries, can al ways be sincerely proud of its work. Talent In the South. Augusta Chronicle. The South is full of men and women of talent, not only in literary lines, but the intensely . practical. Many of our young ana miaaie-agea ooutnerners have gone East and West and prospered. greatly in all of the callings of life, but many remain at home and give shining manifestation that genius, is not con- fined to sectional divisions. We had great men in the past. We have them 8tilL There will be- great men in the future at the South. . . - . f. Book Pound, on Battlefield. Through an article published in The Republic a prayer book found on the field of battle-at Perryville forty ' years ago and now in the custody , of Colonel R. J. Breckenridge, of Danville, Ky., may restored to its owner.1 ': ; - John ?F. Lamb, of No. ; 1817 South Jefferson avenue called at The Bepulic office yesterday - and stated., that the Reverend " J7 J. Mombert, whose' name is inscribed on the fly leaf of the' book as the donor, is still living and' resides at Patterson, N X. - On October: 8th, -the anniversary of the battle,- Colonel Breckenridge was one. the orators of the day : at the un veiling of a. Confederate, monument; At the close of the exercises he was ap proached by . an aged woman wher gave him the Bible, stating that it had been found on the battlefield on October 9,i 1862, the day following the battle. The Colonel was requested to endeavor to locate the owner of the volume.,- . .. Don't be inouisitive about the affairs of even your most intimate friend, : - a LESSON VH, FOURTH ARTERrlNTER Blorrtene 18, 1 Goldfcm Text, rCopyriffht. 190, by? American Pre Association. Ti' And the people served the Lord all theaays of Joshua and all the days of th elders that outlived, josnua.. So It is also written tarJoslv xxlvv 31, and it seems to be given as a reason for this that they had seen all the great works of the Lord that He did for Is- JraeLH But now we come, to a- different storyrThe book 'of Joshua tell-of -vie tory in the , land, i This ? book tells : of sin. iudement. repentance and deliver nnof. - Their' sin was disobedience in making a league with the heathen rath- pr than manifesting the , true God. the Ood of Israel to them: - The great sin of those who bear the name" of Christ today is that instead of being separated unto Him and honoring Him they are in leamie with the world lying In the wicked one (I John v, 19; Rom. xli. 1,2). V" ; .b,;;- S-ia There arose another generation alt er them which knew not the Lord nor yet the works which He had done for Israel, Joshua and all that generation hav Ing passed away from this present scene, their successors must have known of the Lord, who brought their fathers into the pro raised! land, but they had no heart for Him., They did not like His ways, His righteousness. His ' dominion ' over them. Uke their descendants long after ward,, they acted as if their hearts said, "Speak unto us smooth; things; prophesy deceits; cause the Holy One .of Israel to cease ,from before us" (Isa. xxx, 10, 11), They are rebresented today by a vast multitude of churchgoers, many of them church members, who will not endure sound doctrine II Tim. iv, 3), yet profess loy alty to Christ. They profess that they know ' God, yet in works they? deny Him. 11-13. They forsook the Lord and served Baal and Ashtaroth. The Lord God who brought them out ot xne lanu oi figypi, wuo leu xuvin through the Red sea on dry land, who overthrew the host of . the Egyptians, their enemies, who fed them, with manna all through the wilderness jour ney, who divided! Jordan before them and gave them the good land-with vineyards and olive yards and homes for which they labored not God. who did all: this for them and gave them life and breath and all things, Him they forsook and fell into the idolatry of the people round about them, who knew not God. i Thus they worship demons and not God (I Cor.-x, 20; Deut. xxxii, 17), for- it is the devil who turned Adam and Eve from God and even asked the Son of God to worship him. who is back of all this turning away from God and His truth, and His worship and who is working so hard in our day in many theological seminaries and pul pits to turn people away from God. 14,. 15. Whithersoever they went out the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had said, and they were greatly distressed. The testimony of one of their rulers about a thousand years after this was, "The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek Him, but His power and His wrath is against air them that forsake Him" (Ez. vlii, 22). In Lev zxyi and Deut. xxvili Hod gave an abundant warning as to what He would "do if they forsook Him, but for all this they sinned still and believed not for His wondrous works. They be lieved not in God and trusted not in His salvation (Ps. lxxviii, 32, 22). The whole Bible teaches that since sin en tered the carnal mind is enmity against God; the heart is deceitful and desper ately wicked; every imagination of his heart is only evil continually (Rom. viil, 7; Jer. xvii, 9j Gen. vi, 5). 16. iMevertneiess tne ivora raised up judges which delivered them out of the hand ef those that spoiled them. We have just referred to the wonder ful sinfulness of man and his rebellion against God, but the Bible is full of the more wonderful love of God, Who loved us even when we were dead In sins, who commendetb His love to ward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us (Eph. II, 4, 5; Rom. v, 8). That "God is Love" is the great foundation truth of Scripture, and, being such, He is not willing that any should perish (I John iv, 8, 16; II Pet. ill, 0). Many a time He turned His anger away from this people, and, being full of compassion, He,! forgave their iniquity and destroyed them not (Ps. lxxvtii, 38). He sought and found Adam and Eve when in their stn they turned away from Him, and He has ever since been seeking and saving the lOSt. - - . 17-19. They ceased not from their own doings nor from their stubborn way. :r With many sinnings and repentings they went from bad to worse. "They mocked the messengers of God and de spised His words and misused His prophets until the wrath of the Lord arose against His people till there . was no remedy"" (II Chron. xxrvi. 16). Very long He bore with them, but finally He sent them into captivity for seventy years. After ue restorea mem irom Babylon and they again became' a peo- nle. thouirh not as before. He, sent - to them His own Son, but they, rejected Him and crucified Him, and now they are- scattered among an nations unui He shall come again in His glory, and then they swill receive Him and be a righteous nation from that time forth. They wlU blossom and bud and fill the face of the earth r with fruit (Matt xxiiL 38. 39:'lsa. xxv, 8; xxvil, 6; Ix. 21). t-How wonderful Is the purpose of God and how sure of fulfillment (Isa. xlT. 24; Ps. xxxill. 11). How much of heaven upon earth every child of .God might, have If only - willing to walk humbly with Him! (Deut xl, 21; Ps. IxxxL 13-m) We enter Into rest when wXSZsb tt& vtewnyom. THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL. Florence warehouses burn. Forty -j" pi&pzs;. Thousand -.' Dol lars. vrjcuinjbiyStf0: ?.-rt a late hour Monday night Florence was vis itedi y one of the f most disastrous fires in; Ushistory.- The Dixie tobac co 'warehouse, the Pee De warehouso, the American .Tobacco company's pack house and' the Munn planing mill were all destroyed. . The fire originated under the pack house of the American Tobacco company. The total loss will reach $40,000. - . The Individual losses are unobtain able 'The warehouses were valued at $4,500. each and the pack house at $2,000. ; 1 The warehouses contained a quantity" of "tobacca' " A great deal was lost in ? the r Pee Dee. nThe pack house, which was being used as a stemmery - by ther American -Ttfinrn company, sustained the heaviest loss, nothing, being 'saved.; It is said that there was $25,000 worth of tobacco in lt.. ' r - ; , , ' The feulf dings will " be ' rebuilt at once. " y v MORE POLLIERIES RESUME. Only Five 1 In Scranton ' District Are - TVS;-Nowwie.:.:r-r..;. ; . Scrantonj-Pa., Nov .5 Six more collieries have resumed in this district after repairs, the completion Jof which prevented them , from" starting when the genrael resumption took place. Only five collieries in this Tegion are still idle. I Four of these will resume during the week. ; The fifth has been abandoned. . The output is now close to the 'normal, and about 95 per cent of the men" at the collieries in opera tion are . back at work. . Pea coal is selling here for $3 a ton, and the larg er 'domestic sizes for $3.75. Five years 1 ago i pea " coal sold for $1.50 and the large size for $2.50. REMANDED WITHOUT BAIL. Police Have -New - Evidence Against JAlan G Maseru Cambridge, Mass.; NovV 5.- Allan G. Mason, who was arrested yesterday on suspicion of . haying committed an as sault upon Mias Clara A. Morton in Waverlyv last ; Saturday nJght, causing Miss Norton' , death, today was held for further; hearing on the charge in the third1 district- court for eastern Middlesex. - It wasv ; understood last night to be the intention of the police to release-the man today as they had been unable to make out sL case against him. - . , ' - : But it is, claimed. that new phases brought to light this morning warrant ed a change in the proceedure. Ma son was remanded without hail. FATAL FIGHT IN SALOON. Dispute Over Election Brings On Pis tol Duel. Helena, Mont., - Nov. 5. Helen Humphrey was instantly killed, George E. Hurd, crippled for life and D. J. DoDrey and David White received wounds " in the feet and legs as the result of a shooting scrape in Free man brothers',-saloon at Glasgow early this morning. Humphrey and JV R. Stephens had some words : over the result of the electionr whereupon both men drew guns and began firing. The room was crowded,, and the injured man had little chance to rf escape Ste phens surrendered to the sheriff. . 80UGH-T DEATH TOGETHER. Mlnlater and Young Lady Found Llfo- I i ' less tin" Church Vestibule. Omaha,; Neb., Nov. 5. Rev. William, C. Rabo, . pastor of the Germjan Bap tist church at Twenty-six and Seward streets, an-d ' Miss - Augusta ' Rush, a young lady living in vthat neighbor hood, were: found dead early today in a" vestibule In the rear of the churcfi auditorium. :'.. The two bodies' were locked in em brace and tne gas jets were turned on, but not burning.. The Rev. Rabo was 65 years oi age and a prominent min ister. .--I'. .; . - - Old Negro Murdered. Columbia, S. C, .Nov. 5. News Eas just been received of a brutal murder Saturday night at Norria station, near .Central, on the Southern railway. Ne ro Hallams, an old and respected ne gro citizen, was sitting in a room in his home when an - assassin fired a load 'of shot at him. through the win dow. " .The load entered his .breast. killing him Instantly. Another shot was nred.-wmcn buried lteir in tn wall, j Bloodhounds were i ; sec from uiemson college and they we placed on the tracks which were found under the window They followed the trail to Jthe home of a white man in the community but those " who had them . in charge ' thought there might be - a mistake and carried - them back to the scene of the killing. ..t-The dogs went straight away to the same house the second ' time. : No" arresta have yet beea made. ; ;v f f 1 " ! Newt Peruvian" Cabinet. 04;;Traffic Officials Meet. " V JMeiniphis; Tennlj Nov. 5 A meeting of the freight traffic officials was held here today for the purpose of discus s Ing rates from St. Louis to the south east '. The meeting was behind clos ed doors, but it is undedrstood that other . important " subjects were dis cussed. ' Among those present were representatives of the Lorisville and Nashville, Nashville, Chattanooga and St. -Louis. 'Frisco. Southern, Iron Mountain, plinols Central." Mobile and Ohio. Seaboard r Air Line, Alabam Great Southern and Central and Geor gia." ;' ' : . v I-