_ VOL XVI. , YADKINVILLE, YADKIN COUNTY N. C. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 17. 1903 *T„„ ' • ■ .. ..-- - - - ' 1 1M™— 1 .. i ■' _' - iN*y. do “Darkest Africa” Will Welcome the Ex i President With Open Arms. i —___. * * Mombasa, East Africa, By Cable.— Mombasa is- preparing already to wel come Theodore Roosevelt when he lands here the latter part of next lhonth on his much^heralded African trip, and the coming of the former president of the United States has given a decided impetus to the inter est in the present hunting season. The governor of the protectorate, Lieut. ^^Col. Sir James Sadler, isup" ^^-entertainment for the distinguished visitor, but in spite of these arrange ments, the greeting to Mr. Roosevelt will be more to the great sportsman whose fame is well known to local hunters than to the former president. East African sportsmen were l«yji ly gratified to learn that Mr. Roose had refused the offer of the authori ties to grant him a special hunting license that would have permitted him to kill game to an unlimited extent instead of confining himself to the two elephants, two rhinoceroses, two hippopotami, etc. Lions and leopards are classed as vermin and consequent ly* no license to kill them is required. The white population of Mombasa has heard much cf Mr. Roosevelt’s personality and in a joking way frequent references to the “big stick” are being made. The prospects for good hunting this season are considered excellent. Many settlers in the outlying districts, real izing the increasing interest in the prospects for good sport because of the coming of Mr. Roosevelt, are vol untarily sending in information about the movements of game. According 1 to a dispatch received here a record group of lions, numbering 32, was seen on the Nandi plateau Tuesday at a point about 50 miles north of Port Florence. (The Nandi plateau is on the west side of the great Rift val ley.) Among them were three huge males. / - > Giraffes Seen. Four families of giraffs have been at Makiyjdu, 200 miles inland from here, on the line of the Uganda railroad, and elephants have been seen at Elburgon, 475 miles inland on the railroad and along the Sabaki river, not far to the north of Mom basa. R. J. Cunningham, the noted Eng lish big game hunter and naturalist, who is to be guide to and general manager of the Roosevelt party, has been heie for some time completing the preparations for the trip into the wilderness as well as the shooting and collecting excursions along the line of the railroad. He is selecting.and hir ing native porters for tlie excursion. He takes only experienced men who are known to be courageous and to possess great physical strength. The safari kit. in other words, the camp equipment for the work in the open, is to come from London and will be in readiness when Mr. Roosevelt arrives. Everything points to a successful stay in British East Africa and Ugn da for Mr. Roosevelt; the natives are peaceful; game is plentiful and the people of Mombasa are waiting eager ly' lo extend him a welcome. * DECISION IN FAVOR OF THE OIL COMPANY ^mcago, special.— J lie (Jtandard Oil Company, of Indiana, found not guilty of accepting rebates from the Chicago & Alton Railroad on ship ments of oil from Whiting, Ind., to East St. Louis, 111. The verdict was returned by a jury in the Federal Court on instructions of Judge A. G. Anderson, who averred that he fol lowed the Circuit Court of Appeals’! decision as to the verdict returned at the former trial .of the same ease and on which verdict Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis assessed a fine of $29,240,000. Judge Anderson’s decision was not unexpected as he had Tuesday told the government prosecutors that the proof relied on in the first trial was incompetent and that it must be com plemented or fail. It was with some thing of an air of hopelessness that District Attorney Edwin W. Sims and , | ills assistant attempted to show the advisability of the Illinois classifica tion to prove the existence of a legal rate of IS cents, which was a vital point in the government’s contention. Attoitf.eys Threw Up Case. It was after Assistant District At torney James H. Wilkerson had ar gued for two hours and in the end ad mitted that the prosecution could not furnish the further proof deemed nec essary by the court for a continuation of the case, that Judge Anderson an nounced his decision. Mr. Wilkerson said that th§ government could pro? Ceed no further and suggested dismifh sal of the case. Attorney John S. Miller, chief counsel in the case for the oil company, immediately mTJYed that there be an instructed verdict of not guilty. The court so ordered, and the jury, which had been excluded during the arguments by the attor neys, was called in and charged. GEORGIA TOWNS SUFFER FROM STORMS Atlanta, Ga., Special.'—With the! completed death roll of Sunday night’s Arkansas tornado just com ing in, the tail end of the Arkansas storm which Tuesday night swept across Alabama and south Georgia Wednesday set in motion a new death count for the latter two States. This count was ten, £ve negroes killed in Cuthbert, Ga., and throe whites and two negroes drowned at Montgomery, Ala., the latter dcl'hs a result of high water following a record rain fall for the past 20 years. Cumming, Ga., Tuesday got into tegraphic communication with the outside world and sent word that a tornado ploughed through miles of timber, farm yards and valuable property in that vicinity besides de stroying half a dozen farmers’ homes and seriously injuring a young man and a young woman. Cuthbert Hard Hit. Cuthbert, G-a,, reported the damage at $500,000 and Mayor D. A. Mc Pherson issued an appeal for aid., Nearly half of the main business block of Cuthbert was demolished. Every store on Depot street was blown down, tilling the street with piles of brick and timbers. Home less persons wandered through the i town searching for household posses sions which the wind had scattered for liocks in all directions. The whites dead at Montgomery are: Wiliam Dillard, 20 years old. Thomas Harper, of Atlanta, 23 yea rs. Unidentified white man. Floods at Montgomery, Ala. Montgomery, Ala., Special.—Heavy and continuous rains wrought great damage here and the situation was made serious Tuesday. Several homes in north Montgomery were abandoned and inmates carried to places of safety in boats. , The Grand Theatre, a handsome new structure, was flooded and the damage will be heavy. SHIPS COLLIDE ON MASSACHUSETTS COAST Uiatnam, Mass., Special, — The Iteamer Horatio Hall of the Maine Steamship Company, from Portland, New York and II. F. Dimock, of the Metropolitan line, from New York to Boston, collided at 7 o’clock Wednes day morning and the Hall went to the bottom in half an hour and the Dimock ran ashore six hours later on Cope Cod beach, where the passengers and crew of fhe Hall were landed unharmed. Wireless calls were made but the position of the ships was not well stated and in the dense fog as sistance failed to reach the point of diaster. MUST NOT PLACE ON THE “UNFAIR LIST’’ Washington, Special.—The Ameri can Federation of Labor hereafter may freely refer to the boycott against the Buck Stove and Range company of St. Louis, except by in clusion in the “We don’t patronize list.” This in substance of wide spread importance to the labor world, to manufactures and to newspapers generally, is the sweeping decision handed down Thursday by the court of appeals of the District of Colum bia intbe noted injunction case of the Bucks Stove and Range company against the American Federation of Labor, which has been before the courts of the District of Columbia in various phases for months. In a re cent decision by Justice Gould of the supreme court of the District the American Federation of Labor and the officers, Messrs. Gompers, Mitch ell, Morrison, and others were en joined from conspiring to boycott the Bucks Stove and Range company and from printing or publishing or dis tributing, through the mails or other wise, any copy of The Federationist or other publication refering to the complainant, its business or products in the “We don’t patronize” or “Unfair list.” ANGRY FIRE IN SPARTANBURG DOES $50,000 DAMAGE Spartanburg, S. C., Special—In a fierce and angry fire Friday night, that resisted all efforts of the fire de partment, the two-story brcik build ing of 3. B. and J. F. Cleveland and occupied by Harry Price, clothier, and it- JL- Bowden, dry goods, was destroyed together with the stock of both nierchant3, entailing a loss of $50,000. Assistant Fire Chief Mitch Fireman Stevans were injur ed by falling timbers, though it is not thought their injuries will prove serious. At one time it looked as if the en tire block from the Whittington drug store on the corner of Main and Church streets, just north of where the fire originated to the Lee Build ing on the south, would her destroy ed. The loss, which is estimated at _$50;000, is partially insured, 2 ' ryr m NEWS IN BRIEF — ■ . 4 Items of Interest Gathered By Wire and Cable 'j* \ —mmm i n GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAY Lire Items Covering Events of More or Less Interest at Home and Abroad. By an act of Congress on Feb. 1st the windows of President Hardison ind President Cleveland may use the mails free of postage-for the balance of their lives if their aut^raj^^^ The annex for the demented at the county home of Rockingham, N. C., was burned on Tuesday and two aged inmates were burned to death. The State of Washington has local aption. Every incorporated town and every country district is a unit. When Mr. Fairbanks wTas Vice President he had an elaborate ink stand made for his desk. On hearing somplaints of extravagance he sent in bis check for $200, which covered the cost and took it with him when he re tired. The federal grand jury in New York found a true bill for slander against the New' York World in the Panama affair. South Carolina makes it bad on the man that drums for liquor orders. Diplomatic relations with Nicara gua were practically broken off Fri day by the State Department, which ardered Secretary of Legation Greg ory at Managua to return home, leaving the legation in charge of the consul, who will have no diplomatic capacity. Six persons wrere hanged in Louis iana for murder and one for criminal assault March oth. Maj. Hale, editor of the Fayette-, ville Observer, presented to the N. C. Supreme Court last week an oil paint ing of Jno. De Rosett Toomer, who made the speech of welcome to Gen. LeFayette when he visited Favette ville. Editor Hale also published the speech and the General’s response. At this writing Gen. Butler of South Carolina, and Hon. Cyrus B. Watson of North Carolina, seem to be in the power of fatal sickness. Preparations are being pushed for the 12th conference for education in the South to be held ,rrett,” his newlji-acqiAed horse, purchased at Hot Springs, ira., and with Gen. Clarence R. EdflVds, hia military aide, Capt. ArchibaY gutt, and President Roosevelt’s \derjy’ McDermott, went for a 12-niiA ride’ over the newly constructed PoYmac speed waj*. \ Sees No Callers. President Taft saw no callers Y0 bad business to transact during tY day, this beginning his administrY tion with his heretofore euforce^ maxim that Sunday should be a day* of rest. " 1 Mrs. Taft Fits In. Mrs. William Howard Taft, "first lady of the l?nd,” has assumed her duties without public ceremony or oath of office, which), in weight of re sponsibility. magnitude of impor tance, delicacy c£ execution and ab solute lack o° compensation, except in love for her husband, the Presi dent, and loyi-ity to the nation, as its first woman, have n> comparison. Mis. Laft ts chained with admin istering the social Ad domestic af fairs of the White Jfouse in a man ner consistent withfallowing that revered and nistoridpile to be the public property of he nation, and at the same time tie official place of entertainment ,(fthe representa tives of foreign nations and domestic dignitaries. As tlnWife of Mr. Taft, she was "first ladjfof the land”*in iNWIiwr lilrfo it mMim -Cabinet minis or. In the latter pos-*” ition Mrs. Tr.ft learned the require ments of Washington society. Removed From Officialdom. That the main entrance of the White House may present as nearly as possible ti e appearance of a pri vate residence, the uniformed police officers and frock-coated doorkeepers have been eliminated and in their place are negvo footmen in livery. Mrs. Taft has abolished the posi tion of stewrad and will conduct her domestic arrangements through a woman housekeeper. Plans Social Functions. W hilc the season of prescribed of ficial dinners is over it may be pre dicted that the new tenant of the V\ hite House will conduct a series of informal social functions during the special session of Congress, which will bring renewed animation and social l.fe to the sedate and sombre structure during the first few months of the Taft regime. Mrs. Taft is 46 years of age, al though her apnea ranee and natural animation would not indicate that fact. To relieve the President from domestic cares and social adjustments seems to be (lie platform of her ad minis'ration, and her fir si: few days of duty indicate that she is as com petent for the rank as is her hus band for the duties to which he has been called by the nation. Negro Eurcfd at Stake. Rockwell, Tes., Special,-—After having been identi led by Mrs. Ar thur McKinney tts w negro who at tempted a criminal assSnit upon her Friday morning, Anderso^EUig was taken from thf^.RockweP^^nJty jail Sunday night,,w iron stake driven k .* was burned to deatli v/jj^^presence of about a thousand persons. Baltimore Emerges. Balt.more, Special.—The isolation from the outside world of which this city has been a complete victim prac tically since early Thursday morning was broken Sunday and the city be gan to see the end of the difficulty. The Associated Press office here man eged to secure direct wire communi cation with the New York headquar ters by the cordial co-operation of the Chesapeake and Potomac Tele phone Company at this end and the American Telephone and Telegraph Company at the other. Seven-Year-014 Boy Bound and Gag ged by Burglar. Savannah, Ga., Special.—Seven year-old Evelyn Rabey was surprised alone in his father’s home here Tues day by a ma iked negro burglar who, threatening the boy with death from two pistols and a knife he carried, bound the lad with a rope to a chair and gagged him with a bundle of cloth until the child was near suffo cated, TORNADO KILLS 30 ‘Briijjkley, Ark, a Scene of , Terrible Desolation , J - THE INJURED NUMBER OVER 50 Wreckage Piled High. The tornado hovered about the city onl 3 a few minutes but its work ot destuction was complete. The Ro man Cathcd.c church, standing direct ly in the path of the storm, alone escaped damage o rdestruction and stands a grim sentinel cn a scene oi d«sclat:on. Main street and Cypres? avenue, the two principal thorough fares of the town, are impassable and are piled high with wreckage from end tu end. Every business house is in ruins and there is hardly a home that, has not at least suffered the loss of a icof or wing. The Arlington Hotil was totally demolished. Eighty guests were registered but all escap ed uninjured. Tim Brinkley Hotel, Southern Hotel and Kelly Hotel were all destroyed without loss of life: Relief squads were at work all lay Tuesday coring for the dead and rijured. The Rock Island and Cotton lelt Railways have placed cars at the dsposal of flie relief committee and seeking a temporary refuge at oihei points ncaiby. The dead wove sent to Helena, from which point inter ment will take place. Governor Donaghev arrived from Little Rock in the afternoon in re sponse to a call from the citizens’ committee. Iio has the siuation wed' in hand amt save food, (nothing and shelter are the things most needful. Hundreds tf p. ojde are homeless and are wandering about seeking a tem porary abode. Three special trains arrived from neighboring towns bringing rol.cf workers, physicians ami muses. The Catholic church has been converted into a hospital and here the doctors and nurses are carm^fnr