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lilt NEW BERN, u!jTi. N. C.;' FRIDAY JULY. 24, 1903 -- SECOND SECTION 31th YEAR r ' No. 2S..r QUEEEC IN FETE TBI TRIAL ENDS IN CONYlCTION i BIT COUNSEL -X0YE8 FOB. : JiEW TRIAL AND 8PBINGS ' - . "i sensations -Vcy i';!iTCFr:s::.::::F.ciQ Cmr Stone Laid of School Building kendent's Convention State Baud FITTSEO HAS A ' -- SySEH EPIDEII Fifteen Persona End Llvea-Six Try To Do So The Causes And Tha C'"f .. Xeans Uaed Pittsburg," July 21. Between July 8th and 18th, in this city, fifteen per- bom committed tuicide and alx at- Most of the trade H directed against of its founding.': The Prince of waieaittn,pted t0 d0; I Borne of the tlx wlli arrive on the. warship Indomita- may die:- ' ; 'Anti-Yankee Sentiment There Gets Ancient and Picturesque City of Cana. fLOiE A TIIIEFr ,' Stronger and More Ylraleat r ' 'Mexico Cjty, July 21. The- anti-for- 'elgn fight in Mexico la assuming large ..y; da Celebrates Ha I0th - Birthday : ; Quebec, 'July 21. Extraordinary pre proportions. La Patrla (newspaper) cautions were taKen. tooay ior . me proclaims the time ripe for a policy ! safety of the .distinguished vlsltora whose cry "shall be "Mexico for Me'xi-J expected her tomorrow to help the cans. '- - I eity.: celebrate the ' 300th, anniversary the ' "Yanke es," Ag - Mexican; editors term ail Americans. - " v' TT . Among other things La Tatria de clares that if Americans think ' the Governments ; of Argentina, Chill, or j the Englishman and American Will Brazil are more enlightened than that 'reach th "city at precisely-the" same mliiMte. A -military ruard Is ready to. 'escort Fairbanks to Spencerwood, where be will make his headquarters while Jn the city. The arrival of -the United States warBhlp New Hampshire In the river was greeted by the boom- of Mexico they should Journey to those r-. ... . .. . i. .. , .iT-' I pans, ana tne sooner jne. peuer, Jit 8uubwr Program for- Super!. Aher kferrtiig t the effortsjori the part of foreigners against the propos ed new "minlnc law reHtrlctlnir Ineor- af Equitation Adjourned Uatll Aug. j poratlon m Mexico the paper says! 4th State Auditor Dixon's Fiacres "We repeat our attitude toward for eigners. '.We are not. Boxers,-but pa triots, and when' we make a given de cision we make it not against foreign ers, but tor the benefit of Mexico.' , Returning. Signs ofiSood Times ; : New York, July 21. The Anslonia clock .faatory in Brooklyn, which' em ploys more than 1,000 hands, was op- ! ened today, with a full force after a shut-down of several weeks. -, . , ,: "Takeaaa a Basts, V. : ;" - ' ': '. v Special Correspondence. 7 Raleigh, N.' C, July 21 A sensation swept th crowd in the Superior court today when Charles C. Harris, as counsel for Frank Pardee, the ex-car Inspector for Seaboard Air Line, con- Ticted last evening of stealing hams and otbar; freight from, a car: last ' March, 'appealed to the court for a new trial for Ills client on the ground that hfelt that he as counsel had Salem, Mass., July 21. The-Nau-failcd o do his duty by the prisoner mnkeag cotton mills resumed opera itt th Jlr st 'trial In that he failed to tlons on full time today,; glving-em- . attack the character of H. J. Stewart, I ployment to 1,500 hands. ? : yard master for the- Seaboard here, on the ground that he I now charged with and suspended., from work on ' much more aerloual offense than that tor which he had prosecuted Perdee. " Explaining further, Mr. Harls inform ' 4 the court that Stewart -was' sus ptBdsd : from duty by the Seaboard superintendent on the charge of re - porting on his yard pay rolf. a num ber, of negro men who were -not em- .. ployed, and in one or more instances were actually dead, and also with tak- ble and Vice President Fairbanks, rep-1 a majority of the self-mureders were resenting the United States, will reach done In the tart of Pittsburg formerly here on a special train, timed so that known. a Allegheny,. It has become popular to say of a suicide that he or she has "Alleghented.", ! ,i Eleven of the twenty-one took car; bollc: acid, two chose other poisons, five used revolvwe, one clit his throat, one jumped from ajridge and another from a window.,.,... Physicians say that dying by carbol ic acid, the choice of the majority, la as horrible a way to die as can be BUS ESS RECORDS ostohqeb" CO. Fills' SATISFACTORY I5YE8TIGATI0N OF KIKE LIFE AND FIBE DSrBASCE COXPAJilES BESULT TO TBEIB , CBEDIT ' lng of ; cannon- while - thousands'' on shore applauded the magnificent ship. The city la gaylly decorated for to- J chosen, morrow's exercises and if today s blue I The causes: Four because of grief sky and lovely weather continues noth j yft a! Moffltt on account of his sister's lng will mar the cWH. !and military I suicide; Q. R.' Thompson because ot program arranged. Orange, HJ.. July 21. The plant f Thomas A. Edison, which employs '.0,000 men, resumed operations on full 'line today; after running on a reduced time schedule for many months. ; ' Higher Than Eiffel Tower . New York, N. Y, July 21. There is going to be a new peakr on the down town Manhattan skyline that will over top the proposed Equitable building extremely low, three persons end- by about 100 feet, and will put the nr Uves' wnlle another maae an ' .. .. . . . .i.... Slneer tower down in a valley.' The attempt ana is' now in a precarious Rlffpl tnwpr mv hH cnmnelled to irlve I condition. up its place as the ' world's . loftiest structare. -- , ' The newest development In the race skyward- came with yesterday's an nouncement that Architect Ernest Fine Carolina Crops. As far as our observation and infor- natlon go there has not in years been North Carolina a better prospect for wiDliful crops Of every kind than this years affords. In most of the state the lag these checks and forging names I advance guard of agricultural products of the payees- and cashing them, fori have been excelent and the outlook for al aw leneflt.w':'';;;o-:vi:;.:'-'':: 1 Judge NeAl declined, to grant the -&w .trial but took occasion to say that he was deeply impressed with s the case of Perdee, the circumstantial evidence agalrist whom seemed to war- -' rsnt the jury In giving a verdict of guilty-In spit -of the fact that, he had up to the time of. the "alleged erJma maintained an excellent char- ' actr. And .that ' he would defer tor white judgment; in the case. ; . f At tha irequest of counsel H. J. Btewart was allowed a statement In ' Ala own behalf. . He said Mr. Harris . iad'not sUted all the facts in h(s 'rcasr to the court, thereby presenting . - aim in- the wrong light." That while 'v. 'It was charged with. the acta as stat - vi d by Mr, Harris, there-was an' In- ' vestitation by the Seaboard author- Hits' only-yesterdayi at which' he was . ,ixoncraUd from all charges except ' that of possible negligence In having his pay rolls proi.rly signed, a duty ithat be had. erroneously left-largely ' to tha chief clerk. He said further - ithat his information w&a that unless "!h. wr further development of ipples, melons and grapes : is fine. f here; has been an absence this year if the oft' beard talk of too much or ixfllve drought and In couseqaence he . grat staples, cotton, ' cofn," and obacco, are' flourishing finely and It uine unforseeh disaster docs not over- eke them . will fulfill the moat san- julne hopes ot our . people. " Word somes to us from the east that the irops of that region are much better than they were at a corresponding time last year, and that a good har vest is confidently expected from them tn. the Piedmont country we have it rom first hands that tobacco and corn re doing .splendidly.- and from . the treat western section cornea bIbo good ".(dings. ; T-X 4 '-V -., v These matters are of much lmpor- .ance to the people of our staate, ie- gardless of class or occupation, be cause despite her mills and her mines ttorth Carolina Is still mainly an ag ricultural state. The value of the ag ricultural products of the Old North 3tate is far In excess ot that of any if it other reuorces. A -state that ;an and -does produce 130.000,000 the murder of his brother; and two young girls ended their lives because of love affairs; four, illness; two had suffered financial reverses j and the others were despondent. .1 ' , .Last Friday, when the barometer Now It's The Sacred Kiss Richmond, Ind., July 21. Followers ot the Rev. William Crabb, ot Nash ville,; Brown County, , whose sect Is Flagg is preparing plans for a build- known as the church ot the First Born, lng with a tower 1.000 feet Wgh. to be are Indulging in , the sacred kiss. erected on the site of the Mills build- Every member has a perfect, right to lng, lit Broad street and Exchange salute his brother or sister with a Palce. oDooslte the Stock Exchange; ; Ibs. ""d it can be on tne ioreneao, Mr. FlHgg Is now in Europe, but atjcneea, nana or we moum. me cu.- his office it wa admitted that such a torn is being inauigea m more ire project Is under way. " The matter, however, Is yet In its earliest stages, the work on the plans , having been confined thus far to the preparation ot preliminary sketches.' Until -Mr; Flagg returns from Eurbpe nothing definite will be done, "' ; The proposed tower will overtop the Eiffel tower by "twenty feet, v It will . be ninety-one feet higher than the new Equitable, building, which will rise 909 feet above the curb, while from the -top one will have to look down nearly 400 feet to catch a glimpse of the 612 foot Singer atruc ture. ,':.tii ;" rw ; -;;.-" It is estimated that If atmospheric conditions are sufficiently favorable the. new. tower on the Mills property ill be visible nearly ten miles out to sea. It will be longer lp point of floor area than either of the two tow ers, recently erected In the city, cov- quently than when the church waa es tablished and Is attracting the atten tion and criticism, of many; people throughout the State. f i The followers of Mr, Crabb believe Illness can be cured by prayer, and the minister reoently announced he. would permit himself to be bitten by a rattle-snake and would show his prayers were effectual because the poison would not cause him the least discomfort.- J , . : . .- ' R & S PJJUVAY A DEVELOPER WILMINGTON THIEF CAUGHT HEBE .chargts against -hl'm he would be re- W01h o( cotton, to say nothing of Its tobacco, grain and other crops, is not o be spoken of lightly in the matter f larmlng. - ' .'. ; . " '; - j Instatfd In his duties as yard master I The superintend nt, he said, had been i Quoted to him as saying this. M Rev. William Meade Clark, rector of Bt. James Episcopal Church. Rlch- 1 mcnd,vand editor 'Of The Southern i Churchman,' spent the past three days . hero, tha guest of the Brotherhood of the Oood Shepherd, having come es a ceclally to deliver an address btfor . ( brotht rhood and their tiends Mon- day ev nlng. The address waa a forci ble presentation of his conception of i tha ideal reltton that should exist . between a layman and his rector. It " was heard with great pfeamire and profit by the-large audience. Mr. C-iWe also delivered the aermon for tha U o'clock service at the'Chrcb -'. tf tha Oood Shepherd Sunday morning j He was rector ot this parish a numbti .( of years, having resigned for anothei . nnriuh u-htfen years aao. whi-n b ' was succeeded by Dr. I. McK. Plttln 1 w.r tha nraserit beloved rector. Mr. -1 - -"'. Clarke was accorded a most hearty ' . w lcome back to his old pariah. C rand Mister 8. H. Gattls, and ' tWaud Tiler R. II. Bradley of the r. ith Carolina Crand Lodge of Ma g ,i s, went to Banbury today for the purpose ycf laying tt.e corner stone to- Mulatto Described at Clever Swipe Artist Arrested en Telegraphic Bequest In response to a telegram from Cou stable W. B.; Savage, ot Wilmington, to arrest a negro named John Roblnsm for robbery, Chief Harget found the erlng ten by eighty feet. This ought man Tuesday evening working with to provide nearly 7,000 square feet.oithe street hands, and yesterday morn- rentable office space on s floor, and I mK Robinson was taken back to WU will make the building remarkable not I mngton by Constable Savage - who only in height, but also la capacity Lame for him the night before. Bob- and earning power. '. . . " ; Imson Is charged with larceny of The Mills building, owned by D. O. lmoney (rom the safe of M. H. Kelly, Mills, was put up about .twenty-five I havlQg acceM to It by means of a key years ago, and covers, a plot fronting I wbtcb he found.- The arrest is re 163.5 feet In Broad street and 126.! I warded as very Important. fet In Exchange Place, with a wing Z feCt wide running through to 35 Wall I .. . onrrFSSFCL GET AWAY Improve Company's Property . Engineer of Roadways. E." Pr Lalrd, jf the Atlantic Cohst Line, was In the olty, yesterday and held a conference with the street committee of the Board f Aldermen In regard to the improve itnt of the company's property at the lepot and also the repair of the sew- rs along the' line of the railroad. fhe rnatler is being thoroughly ex amined and the necessary repairs and changes will be made. street. Whether the Wall street part rMrUt. . Th. cmi DIksb- the site is aiso to oe coverea Dy BMrB. tj.-h rw Where to. Find Them V of the new skyscraper could ,: not -. be learned. . FOB 8ALE 12 Bushels Nice Clay Field Peas, at 2 B0 per bushel, sacked, F, O. B., New Bern. Write to - CHAS. B. HILL, 35 Middle Street. rty tas valuations by counties. Af ter a general discussion of the situa tion It waa decided that In order to have In hand Just that Information necessary for Intelligent action In vluinver chunks' may be necessary for dfKlied equalization. It would be . , ..t.lA ...lw..l I ,w,.t.nrv l.i nrllrttirn until AllBUHt 4th. Biorrow tor a nananuui ijuumu , -o-- ,!Mir, The adJrees will be deliv-1 This action was taKtn. fi. by Secretary of State J. Bryan . Pupprlittendent ot Public n- : !i J. V. Joyner has Just pcr- r i -.ifrmn fur the E.mtern pany. Yesterday morning two convicts at N I work on the county road at the camp Yon should try one of ear Back's I near Clark'a siding took French leave Stores or Banges and be happy Giro Lf tha guard and are atlll without the us au opportunity to expiate their j protection of armed men. The two aierllsJ. S. Basnlght Hardware Coi men are Will Stalllngs and G. u. uan- lela, convicted at tha last term ot court They went into some thick underbrush and got away from th guard; no shots were fired but the command to halt and return was given which the fugitives, lf they heard It did not heed. Notice or tne eacspt was sent to all the towns round about md the officers aro looking awry- Boy Killed by Big Porpoise -.Savannah, Ga.. July 23. StrucK down by a giant porpoise at play In the sea, three-quarters of a mile on the Tybee Beach, Harry, the fifteen year-old son of John O. Lovett.' was hv tha hi flan. ftprdav after- a . Mrrtcd down before the I where tor them, but have tailed to UWU " -w - "f . . 1. 1 eyes of Wylly. a son of Dr. and Mrs. find them. It Is reportea mat nmr of tha men were ai u their Jobs, and their environrntnts and that they would not neglect th ouDOrtunlty to leave without notict If need be, but they would leave eucn grinding. Irksome work at they bal to do. Their get-away waa cieyer W. V. Brunner, wl" whom no was swimming. The body has not been recovered. TOICI OF THE PEOPLE A Man ta Hold Mr. Editor: . There having appeared In the pub lic press some statements to tne et (...;;. a i ty f 1 l i ; t.f twen'y cm tl, P:-ilf, t I: July 2t b I , t A- ' 'utlon of Coun- . i lii!- : at, composed ,;! n lii tS.t ncrtion of ( t Bt Cry, r.'s cmiiitjr, ZU.h. The '! h-oi cf ti.e t: k f "''' - 1 ''''' ti'l'-ii'i it tii he tn-it-J l.y ..!- of the m i . t tit t'tncittul t 111 t!i t 'a!c. I -, ! , 'e I-..BT.1 ( f V pi!'. '!' ". cre Myl1, 1!M)7 .';;!ltiiii to eij'ia:;. . vahiatliio at l l"n the i (.f V.: f "i ! ' I I'" The ntati-niiiit of the State .Auditor Jiowi'd tliut a nuiiiber of the counties In wliU-h trere were the most glar ins; Ine.'jualltks In asHPuBiiii-nts as com pand with valuis in other counties there hnve been coinldcrable lucre aas In fact the fiiMires presentid by the Auditor Bliowed that the projwrty val ues In the State have been about dou t,Hd since 1900,' the liicreiiKP having lift-n from :!00,000,000 lo more than tfi.i0.(l00,00. Lieut. Oovernor Fram-ls 1). Vin: t( n, pri sided today lu the ati- rr, ,.( Coventor Glenn, ex-o'V-lu i n:,n.:n. O'l.er no'inbera ot th Joha D. Importt Another Aato Columbus. Ohio, July it Jobn D feet that the 8tate of North Carolina Rockefeller applied today for. his i. of nrnnerlv renresented In the fourth automobile license, wqicbuux rewlvershlp ot the Norfolk and South- that he has added an Imported ma ern. Railway, I deeire to express the chine to his garage a Reoault He k. nf th thlo-lnnw has besides mis a rm-i.ru, UlllUililk t il o v hid ' - - tiers arul pntrons of the road la East-1 Peerless ana a v. nut ewm. rn North Carolina Is represented lu AlIcKed Cunnens Accomplice I I d Laporte, Ind.. July 23. It a di elded today to make no effort to t x tradlct Jullns C. Truelson, the . Voik man In Jul! at Vernon, Tei , fvr forgery, and ho made a cot.fi hHlon covering Ma '! -d connection with several timtii-ii committed ly Mrs p. lie flnMi. 'i. Tie authorities sf'et lnv. i:'1 'ition, art cuiivliio 1 Hint Tru- (.!:. ll t 4 1. ' J Selection of Successor to Br. Grimes Of The XeiBcal Department of Wake Forest College Probability . Se. JecUon of pr. D. H. Hill as Presi dent of & M. College The Evil Effects of Cocaine The Kathantel - Jaeobl Mojaorla! Building. " l Special Correspondence. ' Raleigh, N. C. July 22. It"is thought probable that when the trustees of Wake Forest College meet In this city Thursday to elect a successor to Dr. Lewis M. Gaines, as professor in the medical 1 department of the ' college, ' they -will select Dr., Stewart, -now a member of the faculty ot Columbian Medical College, New York. 4 ; !"S It is -a fact that Illustrates forcibly the rapid development that is going on along thejlne of the Raleigh and Southpott Railway, ; recently , opened between Raleigh and Fayetteville that during the past five days not-less than flftee a solid, car; of melons have been shipped from the Linden section near Faye'rieville,- alone, to . northern and easteri ' markets. - The trucking Industry la growing rapidly all along this road aud President Mills and his associate in the management say bus nes in both freight and passenger is steadily. on the Increase. :.-'"' I Tha. executive committee of ; the trustees of the North Carolina, College it Agriculture . and Mechanic Arts, waa In session here today, going over the situation preparatory for the ses sion of the board of trustees to be "ield tomorrow for the election ot a president for the college to succeed Or. George T. Winston, resigned. The 'rknds cf various candidates are ac- ely at work now putting In their ipal,pnlk .President W-cJ-LQ". A the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, who is an active candidate .for the lace, arrived here this morning to .lersoqaly look , after,, his Interests. imong the others -most prominently nsntloned are Prof. D. H.Hlll, now Ice-president and professor of Eng lish; Dr. Tait Butler, now State Vet- tinai ian and. director of the farmers nstitutrs in North Carolina. '. There icrms to be a well 'grounded Impres- tlon that the trustees will at this time -nerely continue Dr. Hill as temporary r -acting president. This was the rourse that was taken In the case of he University of North Carolina, when Or. . Alderman resigned,' Dr. YenabU lelng made acting president and ultl matelr he I proved that he waa "the right man for the place," made pres ident full; fledged. ' The rapid growth of the cocaine lablt among the negroes of Raleigh now' that the dispensary la eliminated. ind prohibition In full sway, waa forc ibly Illustrated this morning In Wake Superior ; Court during the trial of two negroes tor seriously cutting an ther. Witnesses testified that a party f a doien ot more negroes where the jutting occurred had a cigar box filled with cocaine and that they were 'sniffling,' It up their noses." In reply to questions from Judge Neal, they wild that they frequently saw negroes sing It. However, they declared with no accord that they did not ' know vhere they procured It. The cutting ppcared to have grown out ot a reg ular 'cocaine debauch." ' Plans prepared by Chas. McMillan, the architect of Wilmington, for the iathanlel . Jaeobl Memorial Building, t the North Carolina Odd Fellows Orphanage, Goldnboro, have been a lopted by the trustees and It la un- lerstood. that work Is to begin within few weeks. It la a three story atruo- rure and will cost $22,000. The first loor wDl. be devoted principally to gymnasium rooms, and other' apart- nents for recreation; tha second to jlrls dormitory and parlors,, and the third to an assembly hall with five hundred seating capacity. Action Begna by The John L. Boper - Lumber, Co. and the K. S. Co. G. W. Boper Xade Receiver The Raleigh News and Observer ot yesterday, said: , ;-..V 't. 'f. .iV'.f ; Involuntary bankruptcy proceedings were Instituted here yesterday in the United States District Court against the Kinston Lumber Company by the John L Roper Lumber Company, Thos Fitzgerald.' Harry K. 7 Wolcbtt and Hugh M. , Kerr, receivers ot the Nor folk and Southern Railway, ' and El llngton & Guy, of Richmond, Va. . The company 'admitted in writing Its insolvency and willingness to bo adjudged a baBkpt,i;;.v-ri;','-vJTfc'.'-V" Judge Purnell appointed George W. Roper, who was president of the com pany, receiver of the property, fixing his bond at $25,000, and Mr. Roper left immediately tor Kinston to take charge. It was stated that Mr. Roper became president sometime after the Norfolk and Southern acquired an In terest in the property and made great efforts to extricate the company' from the embarrassment by Which it was surrounded when the : property was turned over to his management These proved to be unsuccessful because of adverse financial and market condi tions. ' ' ' ':': ' ' . ' : GOV BUIDH-RB TURNS 0 L CORPORATION COXMISSIOS PRESS ISG ITS SUIT AGAINST THE . NORFOLK & WESTERN BAlLBOAD - THE PEOAEOGUES COKFEF.EECE City Water System in Use at A. X. A. College- Board to Dispose of lea. Plant-rConference Held Between Prof.. Newman, New Professor of . Agriculture Aud The Board of the A. ft X. A Oatlook for Tha Racing Features At The State. Fair Bright, Special Correspondence. - Raleigh, N. C, July 23 Governor Glenn reached the city this morning ' from his extended trip to the National Democratic Convention at Denver, and " to Washington, New York and Atlan- V tic City, being at the latter place for a few days. rest and recreation. He declares the . section ; of the west It was said that the petitioning through which be travelled, the finest creditors controlled practically all of the stock and probably eighty per cent of the company's liabilities, and that Mr. W,.W. Mills of Kinston, gen eral manager, - was acting wfth the petitioning creditors, and that the pro ceedings were of a friendly character Intended to protect and preserve the assets of the company. ':' Edward R. Baird, Jr., of Norfolk, Va., who is general counsel for the John L. Roper Lumber Company, and the Norfolk and Southern aRllway Co., ind its receivers, represents the cred itors and receivers and instituted the proceedings. - V: , A: The first hearing will be before ref eree in bankruptcy, B. W, Smallwood, August 6th. The liabilities are said to be about 30,000. Brought Kay Close Coal Mines : Pottsvllle, Pa., July 22. Owing ,to t lack of water due to the drought only about half of the collerles In the j r jDgtjce, Greensboro. The Rockingham Foundry and Ma country be ever saw. He is enthusias tic over the outlook for success In the Democratic National campaign. He made a number of speeches while be was away and as he is being urged . to do campaign work in a number of " States, including Nebraska and New . lersoy.'.'The governor expects to be n the executive office here right a long now for several , weeks, except for two or three engagements for ad- ire sses at nearby points. . : The North Carolina Corporation Commission and counsel tor the com mission, are pressing the ault against the Norfolk and Western Railroad Co., for alleged excessive freight rates to Morth Carolina point 3 compared "with rates to Virginia cities. They were In conference today preparing the brief to be presented to the inter-state com merce commission before which the luit is pending. Counsel in tha con fer e nee were Foushee & Manning, Dur lam; T. C. Guthrie, Charlotte and S. ower anthracite coal fields will re sume work tomorrow, , Unless rain j fall8thls "week there probably -will be i an entire suspension of mining next week. Hearst Party Hopes For Gains la The South I Chicago, Jury 25. M. W. Howard, ot I Intendenta of Public Schools will bo minery Company, Rockingham, N. C, received a charter today," capital be--" ing $50,000 authorized and $8,000 sub scribed by W.'A. Biggs, L. C. Sharpe, nd W. T. McRae. , : - , ' The annual seslon of the North Carolina Association ot County Super- Alabama, candidate for nomination for President by the Independence party convention, arrived today and 3prned headquarters in the Morrison Hotel. . ; -f ' ' - The people ot my State," he said, ;are ripe for revolt, as they wrere In 1 892. The Democrats countea tnem mt then, but today It Is generally onceded that the Populists carried he State by 40,000. This year, I bo- leve, conditions aro fully as uvora- ble. and It we win there wu bo no counting out Many ot our leaders xre confident the Independence party will carry Alabama and other South ern 8tates."' ' ; ? W. H. DeFord, of New York, wbc s here, will act at secretary of the convention. . There will be a number ot candi- lates tor first place on the ticket," said Mr. Do Ford. "Over a half dozen States will have favorite sons to' place n nomination, and It la hard to guess who will be named. However, I am certain the convention will be run as men an event should be." ' , ' ' j v- - The. largest delegation Is expected from New York. More than one hun dred members of the party will come held this year at More head, August. 23, 27, and 28th, the law requiring that every superintendent In the State Trust attend unless providentially hln-.-iered. And State Superintendent J. Y. loyner is writing each of the ninety eight county superintendents that he will rigidly Investigate the cause of each failure to attend and report to the county board of education In the COUnty.--;' '-V- '''- .' ' : - Reports Just presented to the Board of Trtiste et of the North Carolina . Colego of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, show that the new city water system and sewerage at the college will be fully Installed by tha time for the opining of the college for the' 'all term. The board has decided to 1ispo3e cf the big let plant Installed there a year ago under the manage ment of the State Board of Agrlcul ture for the reason that it Is 'found that it will be cheaper tor the col lege to buy Its supply. of Ice rather than undertake to qperatt the let plant The Board decides to have the machine .shops and foundry of the college equipment operated under the tame management with Prof. Fred Wheeler of High Point In charge at Instructor tor tha students, who will from New York City alone. Tha dele gation from the Empire State will ar- I take such cou net. Mv hr. arlv Monday morning, ana I rrof, rsewman, tne vlll havt headquarters at the Palmer House. Massachusetts will sena sixiy four delegates and alternates and a tramload of visitors. The delegates from New England Vlll all arrive Sunday. " Besides the Massachusetts delegation there will be ilxteen delegates and alternatea from ew Hampshire, twenty-four from tfalne, elxteen from Vermont; twenty- newly elected professor ot agriculture tor the col lege, and the members of the board af trustees held a long conference rel ative to the policies that shall pre vail In the direction of this depart ment He has been In North Carolina tor the past month and hat six nt the time mostly mingling with the farm ers In various- sections cf the State In connection with work for the farm-' the present traffic manager. Mr. R. E, !.. Bunch.- a native of Wake county. North Carolina, and all his life ldcntl fled with railroad operations In this State. He has cheiy Mennm-a i.im-t.-lf with all otir people and tlolr affairs, and In the event that more rhritijrea are rotitrinptated by the re . . , , m for mild propyl ty, I truat that !m fo rvlK'H wl'.l t r ' .'..' I In or.hT .t 1 i! :iy ! ith!" t ! y on t. - k v 1.1. h h'' 111' - Tk not foriet to take a pair Ol imoked glastea and a kodak on youi vacation. J. O. Baxter, Leading Jew eler. , light from Connecticut; and sixteen jrs Institutes. Professor Newmsn snd 'rom Rhode Island. The New jer- ey contingent ta expected to arrive vlth the New Yorkers. . Outalde the building an electric sign ea feet hlfih and encompassing th 'ull frontage will blate forth the nam- if the new party and announce Its lrst national convention. re! E.iE .i i ra - One rty eaw Pratt Cotton tilu an. Coil-tenser; one double screw Iion Press, the prens as good as new. The Gin and Pres In Gin House on Treut Road, near Deep Gully. Apply to J.Wirj A. 1 Ht'HU R. F. V. i. New 1 i n. N. C. NOTICE 1 In order to close out ouf buslneM Here will etier our enure tiom m nerchandlse for aale at a brf?;ilii. L M. SATTF.ItTIIWAlTi: I I V-0 the trustees are much gratlfltd st tht jutlook .for the furthir developmtut ind growth of this department of the !olleRe work. . That'tlie outhxik for the racing fea tures of the North Carolina Etate Fair his full Is' especially brH.U. U the leclnratlon of Secretary Josejh E. Po-ue, ItnUlth hltig la clr-.'.t or line big talis, prlnctpul r t-rt V ' -i ire Vltnlnla", NottU C.ir': i n; 1 South Carolina fiiale IVli . T - - 'nn I'UI bi a i . i . c i r ' ' : ; . .;.i:;i: All parth-s o '!'? the Can e-t L. ,.(1 ,.rtV,!, ,,'lf, I'll) . V.1I1 i ': I 1 ' ' ' ' ' ,o f.fiO i h ir the lial o (O hi" ur t i ' I I i 5 :;i.(i-mi or I,... I : n' .ty of Flute, J. I'n-ui (..: : .. A i '-.-r II. F. I:m-, r I :m v. V Ai a r-
New Berne Weekly Journal (New Bern, N.C.)
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July 24, 1908, edition 1
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