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E ECEOE & CO., WEW BERNE, - v Ni C- AianEs cisr stock - rmTAXDAED Bnuids of LIQUORS, rpOBAOCO, Cigars, Cigarette?, Ac, THE BEST BEER. nJASH COlfXTY Apple Bramlj. OORN "WHISKEY, made at home. XilPOUTED GOODS, AND ALL "T" IQXJOB3 iIly kepi in a First-V.-tlw Sloon. . , Ii3UDf BKB THK..PLACK, , - J. C. 8TANCIL, i (SuaMSto D. W. Patterson) 2f 27 ytdla dU"; " Market Dock. Do You Need.... Refrigerator, Ice Cream Freezer, it-Wire Screen Doors, - and other Seasonable :-Goods ? IF O, CALX, ON large Lemons 20 c. PEB pe JUr.lOO BANANAS, . 20C. PER DOZ. Floe lice Cig", ripe, w, Smokiog .i ' Tobacco f 1. 7 T A 0 lyerside THE INSURANCE GASES. Cbnclushe Hyidence Frauds. as Little Progreg in EstabM hinrnt of ft Conspiracy LiTcy Tilt Iietwern COflDSf 1 Atlaxtit IIoiEI.. MoUE1IE.1 City, N. 0., Aug. 1. As far as any progress towards the establishment of a conspiracy is concerned in the graveyard insurance trial in progress here, things are in statu quo. The day was consumed in heated tilts between opposing counsel and the examination of a number of wit nesses, revealing nothing new be yond what newspapers have already had, but simply stirring up the rot tenness the more. The trial pro ceeds slowly toward establishing a conspiracy among the graveyard .men in the indictments. Three justices sit on the case. They look wiae but often rule other-wise in passing upon questions of law and evidence. Morehead City, X. C, Aug. 1. The trial of the sensational rases of conspiracy to defraud the insurance companies was continued to-day. ine eviOence brougnt out was m line with that of the day before, but was much more explicit and con clusive. Fraud was proved conclu sively in one case after another. The following shows: First, the actual ages; second, the age named in the'policy, and third, the real physical condition of the parties named below who were all insured for good amounts: Hattie A. Davis, TO; 45; infirm. Sarah M. Gabriel, rery old; infirm. Shepherd Davis, 70; 56; infirm. Emma J. Casey, 70; 50; infirm. Melissa Guthrie, 70; 50; infirm. John Boyd, physical wreck. Wm. J. Eice, said to be wgood risk; a lunatic Mary A. Long- burst, Co; oo; poor health. Wm. 11. Jones, good risk; consumption. Sarah A. Lewis, over CO: 41). liosan na Washington, 60; 35: laid up with rheumatism, Samuel Windsor, 85; 58; infirm. Thomas Davis con sumptive Florence Chad wick, in rery bad health. The prosecution attempted to prove that the money received on the benefit paid at the death of Wigfall was divided between four relatives of the dead man and that these four relatives insured a man in the last stages of consumption eleven days before death, swearing that he was a good risk; that the insurance agent in Beaufort certi fied that-TVigfall was a "good risk." Most of the day was taken up by wrangles between counsel as to the admission of testimony. A large number of letters, affidavits, ap plications for insurance policies, etc., were admitted to-day and seven of the witnesses were examined orally. The court room was filled with in terested listeners. RICHMOND TIMES. J At the request of the Times Dr. T. Delaumr, medical examiner and one of the accused, last night telegraphed the following statement of his side of the case. . 'Beaufort, N. 0., July 31. The trial now in progress, alleging a conspiracy on the part of promin ent citizens of Beaufort to defraud certain insurance companies, is purely a game of buncombe. There are civil suits now . pending in the United States Circuit court and the Superior court against these companies- to ; compel the payment of several - claims in this county, and the evident . purpose of the indict ment fcr conspiracy, and the wide publication of the same, is to man ufacture public sentiment and gain notoriety for shrewd counsel in or-1 der- to prejudice the minds of the future jurors' in the cases, and there by help them defeat the payment of honest claims. "The defendants are all respecta- Lble citizens tl Beaufort, whose char acters '.cannot be impeached, and when,the farce of a trial is over, and the alleged conspiring defendants are dismissed as they will be pro ceedings will at once be instituted against the prosecuting companies to get redress for the published slan der, against the good names of peaceable and law-abiding citizens, all of whem are good men too poor even to employ counsel without each one making personal sacrifices, not withstanding the published ac counts of small fortunes having been made by insurance swindles." Messenger. , Ooe Way the Story Is Told. The version of the Beaufort in surance affair which the New York Morning Advertiser, a Republican (aper, lays.before its readers as fol ows: - "Six big insurance companies have discovered that a large number of more or less eminent persons in the South nave banded together to defraud them by insuring colored persons whose sands of life have al most run out, under the representa tion that they are white people in good physical condition. These enfeebled colored citizens slide off one by one from the shores of time, the Southern association collects the insurance money and all goes merry. That is to say, all went merry until a few detectives were distributed in and around the suspected region in North Carolina and ten prominent citizens were placed und.er arrest, The arrested peasons include a Jus tice of the Peace, an ex-Mayor, a minister of the Gospel, and so on. It is needless to say that society down there is all agog and that con siderable feeling lias been engen dered against the Northern capital." brutalitv of Liable to Fine of $67,500 Chicago, July 30. II Clay ritt was tried yesterday before Mer-Jus- tice Pyle at Kevance, 111., on a charge of violation of the game laws, The defendant admits having in his possession 27, unu game birds. If. the illegality of this is proved the minimum fine is $135,30'' and the maximum $676,500. Many sportsmen were present as I well as several cold storage dealers who have establishments similar to Merritt's in Chicago and elsewhere. The decision was reserved until to dav. It was rendered this morning, finding the defendant guilty of the illegal sale of wild game. Merritt immediately riled notice of appeal nnd his bond was fixed at 5lU,"0". A Smallpox Scare. Winston, N. C July 1. The smallpox sare in Patrick rotinty, Va. , near the North Carolina line, is creating considerable excitement. Three cities have quarantined against t ine lniceieu uisirict. xjigui ueai.ua and twenty one cases are reported up to date. Several citizens aro said to be leaving Martinsville and other places near by on account of the A HAS OF MVY CKIMDS. Tlic List of Ho.' me upposnd Victims Murdered t Obtain lnsurat.ee Money Has Now Reached T. n, Cuicauo, III., July 31. The police seen rod today a skeleton which thoy believe to be that of Mrs. Connor, one of the alleged victims of II. H. Holmes. M. G. Chappell, who claimed to have articulated several skeletons for Homes took two detective to the house of a west side physician where the complete skeleton was found Chappell savs he got the bones from Holmes The police decided after further examination that the skeleton is probably that of Miss Cignuule, the Indiana girl. It has been sold to Hahnemann Medical College ly Itonu'S, the police claim. Today's find makes two of three skeletons which Chappell claims to have ar ticulated for Homes and the pnlu-e are -in hopes of finding the third, very shortly. Chappell's son, Charles, claims that his father is insane. He de clares that the old man has been of unsound mind for several years and expresses the belief that his father knows nothing whatever of Holmes doings. Detectives who are thoroughly conversant with the Holmes caso now believe that the self-confessed insurance swindler has been guilty of at least ten murders, and name the following as his victims: Cigrande, Miss, of Indiana,' who was associated with Holmes for six months. Connor, , daughter of I. L. Connor. Connor, Mrs. I. L., who left her husband for Holmes. Durky, Kate, a girl whose life Holmes insured. Pietzel, Alice, found murdered in Toronto. Pietzel, B. F., found dead in Philadelphia; for securing the in surance on Pictzel's life, on his con fession that he had substituted a body for that of Pietzel, Holmes was convicted of fraud and is now awaiting sentence. Pietzel, Nettie, found murdered at Toronto. Tietzel, Howard, last seen with Holmes at Indianapolis, Oct. 21, 1894. Quinlan, Cora, aged eleven, daughter of Janitor Cjuinlan; Holmes had her life insured for $1,000. Williams, Annie, Holme's steno grapher and mistress. Williams, Minnie, sister of Annie; Holmes says she was killed by An nie in a fit of jealousy and that he put her body in a trunk and sunk it in Lake Michigan. One the many theories that has been advanced concerning the Holmes castle and the many uses to which it was put is to tho effect that Holines was a professional "pro curer." The presence of so many yon ng girls about the premises at I various times had led to the sus picion that Holmes added this to his nefarious crimes. In this way the disappearance of some of the un fortunate creatures is accounted for. There is now little doubt that the Chicago police will convict II. U. Holmes, alias Mudgett, alias Pratt, alias Gordon, now iu tho Philadel phia jail, of thp murder of at least seven persons. They know the name of the man who can hang Holmes by giving his testimony and that man is in xneir power. 11 is name is Hatch, alias Bond, alias Mascot, aud he is now serving a sentence of ten years in the penitentiary at Little Kock, Ark., for horse stealing. He is as close to Holmes through all his mur der plans as Janitor Quinlan and is ready to tell all he knows. This in cludes the pointing out of the rest ing place of the bodies of the Wil liams Bisters, whom he himself assis ted in secreting after they were murdered. He will tell how they were murdered and exactly how all their bodies were handled. . He will also give full and explicit informa tion concerning the murder of Piet zel and his two children, and of Mrs. Connors and her daughter Pearl. In short this man is the only living per son aside from Qninlau who can tell the story of the murders in Uic char nel house at Sixty-third and Wal lace streets. Aside from Quinlan,he is the only man who can tell of Holmes' crimes in a way that will bring forth evidence of Holmes guilt. The mention of his name by the police today made Janitor Quinlan turn pale and refuse to talk further and a confession from Quinlan is al most assured, but will come too late, as Hatch its to be the State's witness. It has been arranged to request his pardon from the Governor of Ar kansas if he will give his testimony, with the understanding that he will not be prosecuted in Illinois for complicity in the Holmes frauds and crimes. It is expected thai Attorney Wil liam Capps, of Fort Worth, Texas, gave the police of Chicago some val uable information about Hatch. In fact, it is definitely understood that Hatch was discovered in the Little Kock penitentiary by Attorney Capps, who is in Chicago for the purpose of proving up the fraudu lent transactions of Holmes with re gard to the property of the Wil liams girls, lie declared today that the AYilliams girls were both dead and that he could offer sufficient proof to a civil court to secure a set ting aside of the title of their prop erty (now in the name of Pietzel as D. B. Lyman), so that the heirs of the two girls could secure the prop erty. But he refuses absolutely to say what his evidence of the murder was. A Startling C nfessi jii MoSTitE.VL, July 30. A startling bit of news was made public this morning. It was the confession of Andrew Boyd, of the firm of Boyd, Gillies & Co., whose premises were fired last May, and for which two members of a gang of firebugs, Paynes and Jennings have been ar rested. Detective Carpenter became con victed that one of the members of Bovd's fiim was implicated in set- ting tire to his own premises. Mr. Boyd was taken before one of the leading insurance companies and told that, to save himself, he must implicate the others and tell what, ho knew about their actions. He had already been approached by one of the men who demanded a larg-e ; 8ii m of money to keep his mouth 'close, and this is probably what ! opened Boyd's month. He admit ; ted that he knew of the intention to ; fire the premises, but had not the ! strength to resist, Having made ) this admission he was taken before the crown prosecutor to whom he told bis story lie was tiien allowed to leave the country, a3 detaining him for a witness would be uteless, a4 he was fast becoming a physical and mental wreck. Some impor tant arrests aae expected in a few days. A YANKEE DISCOVERED IT. The Method ut Tek'oraphino; Without Wires. John Dull Has Lately Been Experi-' nicntingr, Uut frof. Trowbridge, of i Harvard. Knew How iu isso. Professor A. K. Dolbear, in the Electrical Engineer, says: The in- creasing- interest in the attempts to telegraph without wires both here and abroad makes it worth while to make mention of some farts which have been forgotten or ignored, and I venture to point out that the method whirh has lately been em ployed so surressf nil v in England for telegraphing across a sheet of water between three ami four miles wide with no i-onnecting cable was fully describee by Professor John Trowbridge, of Harvard University, in 180. He made his original re searches between the Observatory in Cambridge and the city of Boston, between which is a time signal wire having the eireuit broken by ( look once a second, lie found he could hear the clock beats a mile away from the line by connecting a tele phone to a wire five or six hundred feet long and grounding their ends paralled with the circuit. His experiments and conclusions are detailed in a paper given before the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and are published in their Proceedings for 1SSU. How com pletely he covered this ground of doing telegraphic work by means of earth conduction will be seen by the following quotations from those pro weed in gs: ' The theoretical possibility of telegraphing across large bodies of water is evident from this survey which J have undertaken, "Theoretically, however, it is pos sible to telegraph across the Atlantic Ocean without a cable. Powerful dynamo electric machines could be placed at some point in Nova Scotia having one end of their circuit grounded near them and the other end grounded in Florida, the con ducting wire consisting of a wire of great conductivity and being care fully insulated from the earth except at the two grounds. By exploring the coast of France, two points on two surfaces not at the same poten tial could be found, and by means of a telephone of low resistance the Morse signals sent from Nova Scotia to Florida would bo heard in France." This i3 precisely what is being done in England, carrying out Trowbridge's method. In the var ious descriptions of methods and operations which I have seen there is no mention of the work of Trow bridge, and whatever merit and utility there may be in this method of doing telegraph work belongs to him, Shortly after the publication ot the paper from which I have quoted Dr. Edward Everett Hale wrote a story for the Atlantic Monthly in which these earth sheet currents played an important part. Beyond that I have never seen mention of the discovery, for it was a discovery, and an important one too, that slight currents could be detected at relatively great distances from their source by means of a telephone con nected to tho ground. A CHINESE MASONS FUNERAL (n Philadelphia-Ceremonies Attending it-What was Buried With Him and For What Purpoes. In exchange are accounts of a Chinese Funeral at Pittsburg which road as follows: Lee Jin Mini, Treasurer of the Chinese lodge of Freemasons, No. 8, Chee Kong Tong, who died at Derry, Penu., last week, was buried here to day with all the pomp and cere monies of Chinese Masonry. While Lee Jin Mun was only an humble lauudryman he was a Mason of the. high Celestial sort, and his country men testified to this by a befitting burial. After the ceremonies, at 303 Grant Street, which lasted over an hour, the body was deposited in the casket. A table was spread on the walk with the provisions whioh are to sustain the spirit in its new home. There was a big slab of fat roast pork, another of raw pork, two chickens, cooked with the heads on, and all kinds of fruit and sweet meats At one end of the table was a box of sand, jn which burned colored candles and joss sticks. Be fore this the officials knelt and said their prayers. Grand Master Dan Do of New-York performed the prin cipal part of the ceremonies. Toilet articles were placed in the coffin, aud all was ready for the start to Unioudale Cemetery, Allegheny. At the head of the pro cession was a horseman with a triangular red banner painted with Chinese characters. Then followed the Grand Master and Lee Tom Ma. Grand Missionary, who is known in Cincinnati under the Christian name of the Uev. G. S. Thomas. The Marine Band followed, then the members of Lodge 8. with Hags, banners, and paper lanterns. There were about twenty carriages in line. All the way to the cemetery tom toms were'beat, terrifying the horses and exciting much profanity among the drivers. There were at least 8,000 people at the cemetery when the ceremonies began. After deciding to place the coffin endwise in the grave, Lee Tom Ma delivered the funercl oration. Candles and joss sticks were again burned, and small brass coins scat tered on the ground to keep the devil busy picking them up, so he will let Lee Jin Mun rest in pence. Then the worldly possessions of the deceased were placed in two piles at each end of the coffin ami buried; tho grave was filled up aud Lee Jin Mun has gone to join the household of Joss. Anarchy iu Salvador. City ok Mexico, July 30. Pri vate advices from the Republic of Salvador state that the country is 011 the verge of anarchy, there no long er being any protection to life or property. Murders arc committed with impunity, and recently the po lice assassinated a reputable citizen of the capital city. President Guiterrcz is unequal to his position, and his cabinet is made up of heterogeneous elements, in cluding fervent Catholics, rampant atheists, agnostics, Eree Masons, Liberals, and Conservatives, who pull in all directions, while Guiter rez looks helplessly on. The cabi net has been ironically nicknamed the "bodge podge" cabinet. Thou wilt always rejoice iu the evening if thou has spent the day profitable. IMPORTANT DECISION. Seel ion 2.5 of the Revenue Act of North Carolina Declared Unconstitu tional. Asiikyiu.k, N. C, July 31. Judge Chas. II. Simontoi, of the L. IS. Court, has handed down a decision in an important case. On I Luc -coui 01 juiy a warrant was ! issued by Justice Carter, against W. J. Hough, of this city, the charge being that Mr. Hough had violated section 25 of the Revenue Act of North Carolina, forbidding the sale of pianos and orcrans within the I State without payment of a license j tax of 25U. j Tucker & Murphy, of Ashevillc, ! repre senting the W. W. Kimball : Company, of Chicago, and other j piano and organ companies', pro : cured a writ of habeas corpus from 'Judge Sinionton returnable at Flat j Rock. July 24th. On that day J. D. j Murphy argued the case before I Judge Sinionton. Yesterday the I Judge sent his decision to the J; United States Court Clerk Pater j son's office. In this the Judge holds j in favor of defendent, that section ; 25 is unconstitution;.! and void, for the reason that it is a violation of article 1, section 8, of tho Constitu tion of the United States, granting to Congress exclusive right to re gulate commerce between the States. Editor Robinson' Sentence for Cou tempt of Court. The action of Judge Ewart in sentencing the editor of the Ashe villc Citizen to pay a fine of $250 and go to jail 30 days for contempt of court, naturally creates much in terest, because it is the first instance of the kind in the State of which we have any knowledge. Not a great while ago a man was killed iu Bun combe, under exceptionally tragic circumstances, and Jesse Sumner was charged with the crime and ar rested. His counsel argued that because the Ashevillc Citizen had published inadvorteutly, an incor rect statement, which it afterwards corrected, that Sumner had con fessed the crime, and for other rea sons, Sumner could not get justice in Buucombe county. Upon this showing, Judge Ewart moved the case to Henderson county. The Citizen criticised the removal as "unnecessary, expensive and a re flection on the intelligence of the people of Buncombe county," and said: "The pretense that Jesse Sumner cannot get a fair trial in this county is not well found," &c, &c. The Judge ordered the editor to show cause why he should not be punished for contempt, and held that the "report was grossly inac curate," and "was made with intent to misrepresent the court, aixl to bring it into contempt and ridicule." Editor Frank E. Robinson appeared in court, swore that the report pub lished was "believed to be true:" that the article was written "in the exercise of the Constitutional right of the press to fairly, justly and in good faith inform the public "'of the acts and doings of public offi cers," and to criticise the same; and the publication "was not made with intent to misrepresent," or to .bring the court into "contempt and ridicule." Lawyers Jos. S. Adams, Chas. A. Moore, Ixicke Craige and J. D. Murphy represented Editor Robin son, and biised their argument upon the decision of the late Chief Jus tice Prarsou, in ex parte Biggs, 64 N. C. Reports, in which it is held that Mr. Biggs having filed a dis avowal, he cannot be convicted, for "his intention is locked in his own breast; is known to himself alone, and he is permitted to purge him self by his own disavowal." Judge Ewart did not feel himself bound by this decision, even though ren dered by the great Pearson. It must have been very gratifying to Editor Robinson when fourteen of the leading citizens came into court to sign his $200 appeal bond, for he will carry the caso to tho Su preme Court. Monday's Citizen contains a temperate review of the whole transaction which gives the oase to tho great public jury. It is in excellent taste, which tends to show that the Citizen was simply ex ercising its Constitutional right to criticise public officials. Its closing paragraph is a statement that will commend itself to every reader: "But conceding for one moment that the proceedings of the court were inaccurately reported by the Citizen, shall an editor go to jail for oue error, for two, for three, after evil intent has been disavowed I-' and if not for the errors, then for the opinion expressed? There is the issue. How does it sound, and how will it sound as it goes out among the people, and from now until this generation is passed away, that Judge Ewart attempted to imprison an editor for ouo or more alleged errors, committed; if at all, after a fair investigation, and for express ing honestly conceived opinion?" The public will await the decision of our highest court with deep in terest. The question of how far an editor may go in criticising a public official is an important one, both for the press and the public. There are those who would have acensor of the press and puuish every editor who dtrres criticise public officials. There are others still who believe that the widest latitude should be given the press, in the confidence that, whatever may be said, the people will ultimately repudiate an unjust and false critic, and that an upright official will not be injured by untruthful criticism or partisan abuse. Whenever you begin to put editors in jail for the honest ex pression of opinion, it is hut a step towards exercising a censorship over the press, and making editors fawn before power. There is but one further step and that leads us to the rule of a Czar. Ureat Britain and Trinidad. Loxpo-v, July 30. The United States ambassador, Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, referring to the reported seizure of the Island of Trinidad by (treat Britain and the agitation in Brazil on that subject, said today that the incident was a trifling one. The island, he added, was very small, only occupied by a few goats, and the British ships merely stopped there to lay a cable. Great Britain, he continued, did not claim the Island of Trinidad: in fact, it is not worth claiming. Like most South American governments, said Mr. Bayard, in conclusion, Bra zil is intensely excited over nothing. Mr. Bayard has not had any instruc tions from Washington regarding the Island of Trinidad. A boy in one of our public schools having been told that a reptile "is an animal that creeps' being asked the name of one, promptlv replied, "A baby." THAT HOMICIDAL HOLMES. Latest Developments in Thi Sensation. Attorney Capps (ioea to Little Rook to Look ATter Hatch -A Hypnotist Offer to U( t a Confession From (Jnin'itii. ClIICAoo, Aug. . Attorney William Capps, of Fort Worth, who is in Chic; representing t! he ot the V illiams sisters, left tmnirlit for Little Rock. He goes with a letter from States Attorney Kern, of Cook county, authorizing him to represent Kern in the negotiations concerning Cald well, Alias Hatch. Allias Allen Allen, now in the Little Rock penitential y. At best, the Chicago authorities do not believe Hatch can give information that will develop evidence that will prove murder and they say hi.- statements are contradictory and that the evi dence of his having had absolute knowledge of murdersconuniUed by Holmes is decidedly weak-. Attor ney Capps has convinced them, however, that there is proof of the identity of the prisoner as A!h-n. alias A. E. Bond, alias Ma-r nt. It is now clear that the police have been conferring or attempting to confer with the life insurance companies. An inadvertent remark from an official at police headquar ters today was: "You can bet they (meaning the insurance companies) will not admit having paid losses to Holmes or upon any of his alleged victims that will convict every conspirator against them." The foregoing remark was called out in a discussion over Holmes' statement that be is worth $200,0'0, it being believed he collected insur ance upon the lives of many persons believed to be his victims. A well known local hypnotist called upon Chief of Police Bade noch today and requested that ho be permitted to try his art upon Quin lan the proposition being to secure a confession from Quinlan while the latter was in a hypnotic state. The chief refused to test the hypnotist's powers. Philadelphia, Aug. 1. There appeared today an entirely new statement from Insurance Swindler Holmes, who, despite the advice of his counsel, and his own statements that he would talk no more, still continuous to inflict sensational stories upon the long suffering pub lic. This statement is asserted to be up to date, and to present the prisoner's defense as it will be made in court. Holmes insists that he did not kill Pietzel. although ho in timates that he came very nearly doing so on several occasions in self defense, Peitzel being unruly and quarrelsome when iu his cups. Ho still holds to the statement that Pietzel committed suicide and as serts that District Attorney Graham i? convinced that he (Holmes) did not kill Pietzel and is confident that he cannot be convicted of murder in Philadelphia, Toronto or Chicago- Holmes declares that Pat Quinlan has nothing to confess and that Minnie Williams was his best friend. He still holds to the story that Na na Williams was murdered by her sister, as he has heard nothing from her. Tho bones in the Chicago "castle" he accounts for by saying that many meat bones found their way into tho cellar from 'the restau rant, and that being a doctor by profession, he bought several cade vers for scientific and pecuniary purposes, during his residence there, the bones of which may have been found by the police. About Mrs. Gertrude Connor's disappearance, he has very little to say. What beeame of her after she left his employ he claims not to know and asserts that there was no possible reason why he should have murdered her. As for Alice and Nellie Pietzel, he says they were given by him to Ed. Hatch. How ard Pietzel, Holmes says, was also given to Hatch in Indianapolis 011 October 10th. Thit Hatch, he as serts, is not the convict in the Ar kansas penitentiary. Holmes says he was married three times aud that the lady who calls herself Mrs. Howard is not his legal wife, but still remains loyal to him. Holmes asserts that he is worth $200,000 and would have no difficulty in raising that amount were he out of prison. Both Holmes and his counsel as sert that developments are to be looked for shortly that will clear tho former, and the latter expresses sur prise that these developments have not already materialized. KILLED HIS FATHER. Deplorable Tragedy in Pasquotank County, N. C The Murderer Ar rested in Norfolk, Ya. Washington, D. C, A special from Norfolk Seventeen-year-old Lee Rosedale, Pasquotank July 31. Ya., says: Sawyer, of county, N. C, was arrested in Norfolk vester day and carried back to North Carolina upon the charge of par ricide. He gives an account of the killing of his father as follows: "Father (George Sawyer)gave me a kicking Sunday because 1 did not get up early enough to cut wood to cook breakfast with. When I went out to cut the wood father gave me the kicking, whereupon I struck him with the ax I was cutting wood with, which cut a gash in his right breast, which, however, was very slight. "Father ran into the house after the gun and I ran for a nearby neighbor's house, and while there one of his sisters came to borrow a gun cap from the neighbor in whose house 1 had taken refuge. She told me that father was coming over to kill me, and in a few minutes she returned home with the cap. I saw father come out of the front door with a gun in his hands. I gath ered up the neighbor's gun, for I could not escape, and when he was within a distance of twenty steps I fired, the load taking effect in his groin. Then thinking I would also be shot, I threw down the gun and ran, not knowing that I had killed father until arrested. I am willing to return without requisition papers, for I am not afraid now." Young Sawyer is IT years old; strong, robust, well dressed and genteel looking. He also claims that his father often treated him harshly, and that recently had been taking out spite against him for buying a pair of shoes without his consent and had been whipping and cursing him daily until the fatal eudiug. Whatever career you embrace, propose to yourself an elevated aim, and put in its service an unalterable constance. Victor Cousin. 1 11 k AMi'iniKin: pks'.'kibf.ij : ( liarlesliin Ni wn A Courier The i inn War linat on WImoIi the Naval Reserves Will Cruise 1 his Year. The Amphitrito is a double tur rrttrd monitor, with an iron hull and j steel turrets and tower--. It is 2''." 1 feet overall, is oo f.iot beam, draw-'. when full 1, 16 tons. manned, coahd and 1: displacement almost The armament con-i ts iclie 1 itle--,t wo four i;:c:i nhe.-. t wo rapid tire men. The fret is but t wo 1 1 ' i . iu ndcrs and tWi .arries Ooai IVet. eci I o the Ampiiitrite lid. ( o'lSrq uen 1 1 v. w.i.-hcl over bv at .-ea t lie d every wave, hov. ever, is Abo e 1 lie main deck . 1 small hurricane deck. from which the boat.: arc swung, and the ship is managed when 011 a I-';;-'-. Above this again i a na--rov bridge with wheel 1io-h and -c-p-h lights. This is called the signal b iv tee nnd besides two power ful search lights on either end, an apparatus in the centre, electrically uneCted with glo on the niih 'oniplrte set of tarv mast, operate- ds in colored lights. The mili tary mast rises some forty feet above the biidge and is only useful to hold a .it ! steel ciad platform contain ing the I wo Ilotehkiss cannon. ding below t he decks the first, thing tuat M t ikes a visitor is the heat, and there'; no joke about it. There are electric fans everywhere, and the vessel being 111 calm water, the hatches were all open and yet the thermometer in Ot.pt. ise's apart ni Mits registered ss degrees. In the engine room it was 1 :id degrees. ! in dynamo room 112 degree-, the mercury in the steam steering room showed 16 degrees and so on. The ward rooms are handsome, conven ient and comfortable and the men's quartirs trim and neat as always on Uncle Sam's bouts. The engines are compound and have about 1,5(10 horse power, six boilers furnish the steam and the estimated speed is twelve knots an hour. . Electricity and hydraulics are brought into requisition to aid the engines and two dynamos of several hundred light capacity each are run on and off eight hours at a time. The vessel being almost entirely he low the water line it is necessary to keep the lights burning all the time. Electric fans arc located in almost every part of the ship. An immense hydraulic engine is located amid ship. and in this a pressure of 500 pounds is produced to turn the great steel turrets with their twin 2i feet Id inch guns. The turrets are located fore and aft, and the only approach to them is from the second deck below the water and through a small passage. These steel towers are about 25 feet induwnatcr, sU:i 1 a'ojit 15 feet aboue the main deck and consists of two sections of solidly welded metal 1-2 aud 11 inches thick. Tho up per section, which forms the cap and is rounded on top, is turned with the guns, as before stated, by hydraulic pressure. The Id inch rifies carry an armor piercing, con ical projectile weighing 50 pounds, taking 250 pounds of powder as a charge. The work of loading, etc., is, of course, largely done by powder and the officer in charge of the guns in action can almost manage the turret from his little pigeon hole at the front, just between the "bar kers." The two turrets are identi cal and the entrances are effected from the deck on which are stored the ammunition, coal and other sup plies. Between the two turrets is a large armor clad octagon that con tains the officers' quarters, etc. This is evidently a part of the boat that would not stand a very heavy bre and could perhaps be dispensed witl: if necessary to go into a war. On the hurricane deck are the light guns, all arranged with steel shields and provided with the latest and most approved equipment in the way of sights, wind gauges, pistol triggers, etc. The Ainphitrite is provided with many water-tight compartments,and in case of collision or other accident could probably close them in time to prevent foundering." She has only been in commission since April of this year, but everything seems as smooth and shipshape as an old ship of the line. The vessel is altogether different from anything that has been seen in this harbor for many years, and an interested crowd was gathered on the sea wall of East Battery all the af ternoon. It is understood that the officers of the Amphitrite will be shown con siderable attention while here, and special honor will be shown Charles ton's own son, Ensign Mofiitt, one of the cleverest and handsomest of the monitor's staff. I LEVER DETECTIVE WORK. Detectives After Month's Work Find the Satchel of Mrs. Maefc. Containing1 2S.O0O Counterfeit Stamps. BriTALo, July 31. The last link in the chain of evidence that for months the United States secret ser vice has been binding about Mrs. Mary T. McMillan, alias Mrs. Mack, the notorious stamp counterfeiter, who is now in the Erie county jail, was forged last Saturday in Post master Baker's private office, where a satchel belonging to the woman was opened and found to contain 28,000 counterfeit stamps, excellent ly made and done up in five original packages. For two months secret service men have been seaching Buf : falo for the valice, and its finding was one of the cleverest pieces of detective work done in Buffalo in vears. With nothing except the fact that Mrs. Mack visited the Ameri can Express office, with a grip early in the spring to work upon, the officers, after two months' work discovered its hiding place, and Inspector Shea, of New York city, now litis the stamps in his possession. It wtis found on the Terrace in the possession of a well known BufTalo ian of ill repute, who may prove to be an important member of tho big counterfeiting gang. His connections with the nefari ous work is beieg run down, and for that reason his name is withheld. Some of the stories related of tho strength" of the jewfish aro very re markable, and it is said that boats have been towed out to sea by this fish. The jewfish will often break hooks and lines which are strong enough to capture a good sized shark. Bucklen's Arnica Salve, J Tile best salve in the world for Cuts, Brui.-es, Sores, Ulcers, fca.lt liheum. Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped hands. Chilblains, Corns, anil all Skin Eruptions, ami posi tively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 2i5 cnets per box. For sale by F. S. Duffy, Druggist. FUSION AGAIN NEXT YEAH. !euilnl I'pnn hy Republicans and l'ni'tilists. Candidates f'ir Lending (jfllees Already ( hoseii. Hut Kept Secret, Dr. Molt R. enrolled to the Plan. It i- a long time until the next i I c.i .n but nevertheless the Kepub- !,c;;n a I' rat b.'l.-is lsvv and Populists have practically ''d t heir affairs, that is, the if fusion of those parties m . This news conies straight. Of sc there is a division of the offi W . A. Guthrie, Populist is to th. IT nominee PriP hard el. - ted to for Governor, and Beptiblican, is to he Semite. These Tli"re is to bo tin all the other Sta'e the electoral tick are i he k notes ci i mil d i v , -ion of offices and also o et. As will tak to the latter the Populists Six or live as may be decl ilea. ii ere is ine ntuui wnieii ijern ovals will have to beat. Two Su preme court judges aro also to be I'kcted. .Montgomery will be re nominated, and a Republican, most probably ). L Russell, will be nom inated to stisceed A. (,', Avery. Ir. Mott has had tin interview with Guthrie and is said to have left .satisfied. Whether he is to get the collect'irshsp of the Western district or whether his son, .Marshall Mott, is to be nominated for Attorney Gen eral, or whether some other bonus is promised him, is not yet definitely known. II. L. Grant, of Goldsboro, is to be made Secretary of the Uni ted S ates Senate. If there were to be a decision now as to the exact personnel of the com plete ticket there would be a scram ble, and this both the Republicans and Populists want to avoid, so that matter will be kept in the back ground until next summer. Mean while the men who arc to be put on will. be quietly selected. There will be, it is positively asserted, two con ventions, one of each party, just as was the case last year. The silver question will cut quite a figure and the belief is that the Republican convention will straddle it in an ad roit way. It i3 declared that the mass of the people in this State have for two years past been for silver. Persons who travel in tho country say tho farmers arc all that way. A promi nent Populist editor says he never saw the people so independent in view as they are now, and he asserts that the mass of them are at present bound very loosely by party ties. Free thought and free speech arc the rule, he declares, It is a condition ami not a theory, these rural votors think. Wil. Messenger. The Way to Solve It. We have time and again within the past three years asserted that the establishment of State banks would be the speediest and easiest solution of the financial problem. Eastern bankers who have their vaults full of money may assert that there is money enough, and Secre tary Carlisle may repeat this asser tion, but it would be very different to convince the farmer who sells his wheat at 60 cents a bushel or the cotton planter who sells a good quality of cotton for 7 cents a pound, or the farmer who cannot get as much for his land as he could have gotten ten years ago, that there is money enough in this country; and it would be hard to convince the merchant or other business men who send their collectors out to col lect money due them. They know there is not money enough in cir culation, and the weekly list of business failures, notwithstanding the revival in business, is further proof that they are correct. if there was money enough in cir culation why Ihis wide-spread and intense agitation of the money ques tion? Why this demand by the masses of the people for the free coinage of silver? The people do not leave their work and their busi ness and gather in public meetings and send delegates to represent them at other meetings just for the sake of agitating, or for fun, or to kill time, or to raise a racket. Thou ii r r . i i l t i , , sands of Southern and Western meu who had been all their lives acting with the Democratic party didn't pull out of it a few years ago just from caprice and join another party just because they wanted a change, but because that party made the de mand for more money one of the main planks in its platform, and it wasn't in the shape of free silver either, for that was only one of the incidents, one of the ways of sup plying more money. The captiva ting feature of the demand with them was the increase in the volume of money to $50 per capita and that the Government issue the money direct without the agency of banks. Without arguing as to the merits of this demand the fact remains that the men who made it and the more than million of men who voted for it didn't believe there was money enough in circulation. The millions of men who are now and hayo since the repeal of the Sherman purchase clause been contending for the free coinage of silver do not believe there is money enough in circulation. If they did there would no such agita tion, for the bulk of them do not know enough about silver jwr sr nor care enough about it prr ,r, to care a continental for it, if thero was money enough without it; but there is no gold in circulation, very little silver in circulation (although more of that than gold) and the only way they have of getting money is through the national banks, and and these are worth very little to the mass of the people, for they do not and cannot lend money on such security as the people have to give. Here is the cause ot the agitation of the silver question by the masses, simply view it as the most promising way of increasing the volume of cur rency and furnishing the money the people need, it tins were uone in some other way there would speedily be a cessation of the demand for free coinage, because there would no longer be a necessity or a motive for it. Some of the so called "sound money" men are beginning to real ize this, and are essaying to stem the free silver tide by favoring the re peal of the ten per cent, tax on State banks, and the establishment of a system of State banks. We have 6ccn a number of communica tions lately in Northern journals advocating this. One of them sent from Norfolk, Ya., and published in the New York Herald, contended that it was State banks and not free silver that the people of the South wanted, or in other words that State banks are of more importance to them than free silver, which is true. A few days ago Mr. Atkinson, of Boston published in the New York Journal of Commerce aud Commer cial Bulletin, apian for increasing bank note circulation without -"Waiting for the action of Congress of the repeal of tho bank tax, conclud-' ing with the declaration that he had long ago become convinced that the hank tax ought to be repealed and therefore submits his plan for the increase of currency without waiting the action of Cougrees. In the same paper a day or two later was published a letter from a prominent citizen of Danville, Ya., advocating the repeal of tho bank lax and also presenting a plan for the establishment of State banks. In his speech at Gainesville, Ga., Secretary Hoke Smith favored tho retiring of the Greenbacks and sub stituting for them State bank notes, under some nyntem established with proper safeguards. All this si 'ws that the Slate banks are commanding sifleiitioii, and that many are coming to the conclusion that in them is (, found the most effective ai d the speediest solution of tho monetary question. We cannot get thorn alone, but coupling them with limi- -ted silver coinage we may get them and have the soluthpn beyond ai doubt. Wil. Star. ' o WO v.vv.- Mexican Mustang OUllHS JU Liniment Sciatica, Scratches Contracted lumbago, Bpraioj. XojcIm, - v ; Rh en ma tinn. Strains, Eruption, '. Bnrni) Stltchem, Hoof Ail, , Boaldi, Stiff Joint Scrtw 8 tings, Backache, Worma, - ; BitM, Galls, 8winny, r Brnisaf, Sores, Sadile Qalla, Buniona, Spavin Filet, ' Conn, Crack. "r . ' THIS COOD OLD 8TAND-BY acoompUahe for everybody exactly what i claimed : ' -forlL One of the naaona for the (Teat popularity o .V , t the Moatang Liniment le found In IU itui I ' applicability. Everybody needi en auMotoe.. V The Lumberman seeds It In eaee of aeeldnC, Y ' ' Z Theneneewtfeneedaltfortnaralfamllynen, . 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New Berne Weekly Journal (New Bern, N.C.)
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Aug. 8, 1895, edition 1
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