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VOL' SftHTnril-:!,]), X. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER :>7, X901. xo 2<(
STATE NEWS.
snort Items of interest Clipped
and Culled From our State
Exchanges.
Governor Avcock is wearing
crepe on his left arm out of re
spect to Mr. McKinley.
There are322students enrolled
at the A. & M. College at ltaleigh
and no room for more.
Lucy Jones, a young negro
woman, died last week at Rocky
Mount from the effects of lauda
num with suicidal intent.
The increase of tax values in
Wake.countv is nearly a million
and half dollars, nearly half of
the increase being in Raleigh.
Henry Perry, a white man of i
Rolesville, Wake county, is in
Raleigh jail, charged with an as
sault on Lucy Taylor, his 12
year old neice.
The six rural libraies allowed
Wayne county have been estab
lished and State Treasurer Lacy
has forwarded the warrants to
Superintendent Atkinson.
Senator Simmons, who attem
ded the burial of President Mc
Kinley at Canton, saystheSouth
was more largely represented
there than any other section.
Rutherford county's new eight
thousand dollar jail is nearing
completion. The cost of the jail
will be paid for entirely out of
the county's share of the dispen
sary's profits.
Littleton Female College lias
opened well. There are more
than 100 boarding pupils pres
ent. An impressive memorial ser
vice in memory of President, Mc
Kinley was held in the college
chapel last Thursday.
Mr. John A. Campbell, of Ashe
ville, and Miss Mary P. Robin
son, of (loldsboro, were married
in the First Baptist church at |
(loldsboro Wednesday, of last!
week. Miss Robinson is a niece
of Dr. Robinson ol Smithtield.
The State Superintendent has
set apart October 14th as "North
Carolina Dav" in the public
schools. The subject for discuss
ion is to be "The First Anglo
Saxon Settlement in America,'
that of Sir Walter Raleigh's colo
ny at Roanoke Island.
(labe Best, a whitefarmer of fair
circumstances, who lived near
Dudley, Wayne coudty, was
arrested last week, charged with
assaulting a 11 -year-old girl,
and was bound over to court in
the sum of f1,000. The prisoner
, escaped from tee officer in charge
of him.
bxCtnef -I list ice James h. Shep
herd, who.has been mentioned as
a candidate to succeed Chief .Jus
tice Furches, has made a state
ment declining any further u-e of i
his name for the place. He states
that he will not be a candidate 11
for any place before the next i
State Democratic convention.
Marshall DeLancev Haywood i
has been appointed assistant
State Librarian, a place created |
bv the last legislature. Mr.
? Haywood is by taste a historian
and is at present writing a life of 1
Gov. William Tryon, whor-foas '
Governor of the colony at the '
time of the battle of Alamance.
The Governor has offered #2001
reward for the'arrest of Victor |
Hilliard, a chronic horse-thief. ,
whose specialty is the hiring of .
horses, which he drives long
distances and sells to farmers in (
t he back country. He has offered i
a reward of #400 for Pleasant Mc- ;
Donald, a white man of family. \
who in Iredell county outraged a f
J 1-year-old girl he had taken for
adoption. j 1
Miss Mabel Duke, of Durham, (
N. C., daughter of Brodie L. Duke i
and granddaughter of Washing- f
ton Duke, the millionaire tobac- 1
co manufacturer, was married to \
H. It. Goodall, a traveling sales- \
man, of Richmond, Va.. at the '
Yarborough House in Italeigh 1
Sunday evening by Rev. W. D. f
Hubbard. It was a runaway I
match. It is stated that Miss \
Duke was to have wed a young c
man fronk Chase City, Va., in De- I
eember, and that he called at her i
home Sunday afternoon but did 1
not find her. ?
WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES.
Items ot General Interest From the
Nation's Capital City.
The public schools of the Dis
trict of Columbia opened Mon
day with an attendancees iniated
at not less than 50,000 pupils.
The President has appointed
Col. James M. Bell, Light h Caval
ry, to bea Brigadier-General, vice
Brigadier-tleneral Ludlow, de
ceased.
Hear Admiral Sampson has re
quested the Navy Department to
relieve him of hnyiresent duty as
commandant of the Boston navy
yard on October 1st, on account
of the bad condition of his health.
Secretary Long has granted the
request.
The Schley Court of Inquiry
Friday, gave a decision in effect
that facts alone are to be admit
ted as testimony. The testimony
of Rear-Admiral F.J. lligginson, I
former commander of the Massa
chusetts, was in the main favor
able to Knar-Admiral IV. S.;
Schley.
Saturday President Roosevelt
appointed tVilliam B. Ridgely, of:
Illinois, to be Comptroller of the;
Cuirency to succeed Henry G. j
Dawes who resigned some weeks
ago. By the appointment of
Mr. Ridgely the President redeems,
a promise made by the late Presi
dent McKinley. Mr. Ridgely will
assume the duties of the office |
October 1st.
< ommander heaton Schroeder,
executive officer of the battleship
Massachusetts during the war
with Spain, testified before the
Schley Court of Inquiry.on Sat
urday. His evidence and that of
Admiral Higginson showed there
was no foundation for the state
ment that during the blockade of
Santiago by the Flying Squadron
the ships under Admiral Schley's
command went out to sea at
night a distance of 25 miles from
Santiago. The statement was
made in a magazine article writ
ten by Admiral W. T. Sampson.
Commander Lewis C. Heilner,
navigator on the-batth'shipTexas
at the time of the battle near
Santiago on July 3, 18!)<S, testi
fied at the Schley Court of In
quiry Monday, that the Texas
was in great danger when the
Brooklyn crossed her bow iu
executing the famous loop. The
court admitted his statements as
expert testimony despite the pro
test of Admiral Schley's counsel.
There was a sharp controversy
between opposing counsel as to
the policy of bringing Admiral
Sampson's name into the trial.
Admiral Schley's counsel insisted
that Sampson cannot be kept
out of the case.
Judge J. M. Wilson, senior
counsel for Admiral W. S. Sehlev
before the Court of Inquiry, died
suddenly in Washington Tues
day. Announcement of hisdeath
was made to theCourtof Inquiry
by Mr. Isidor Ravner. Admiral
Dewev, president, of the court,
immediately directed an adjourn
ment until next morning. While
the death of Judge Wilson is a
great loss to Admiral Schley, no
delay in the proceedings of the
court* is probable. The inquiry
will Re continued, with Mr. Isidor ,
Ravner as leading counsel for
Admiral Schley, although it is '
possible another lawyer may be
engaged to assist him in an ad- '
risory capacity.
Pies:('entR xisevelt, in conver- ,
jation Saturday at the White ,
House with several Southern j
Senators and Represeiitatives
who called to nssuie hiin of the .
South's support for his Adminis
: ration, emphatically declared '
hat lie was going to be President j
if the whole I'nited States, and ?
lot of any section. "1 don't care
or sections or sectional lines," (
le said to Senator Pritchard, if
vho informed him the South '
vould support him most heartily. (
'When 1 was Governor of New 1
fork I was told I could make 1
our appointments in the army. .
iVhen I sent in the names there
rere three from the South and ?
>ne from New York. They were 1
irave men, who deserved recog-;(
lition for services in the Spanish ;
Var, and it did-not matter what _
Rate they were from."
GENERAL NEWS.
A Partial List of the Week's Hap
pening Throughout the
Country.
The President has committed
himself to (jiving'freedom to Cuba
as soon as is possible '
It is unofficially stated that
Vale will confer an LL. i>. degree
on President l'oosevelt.
Seth Low has been nominated
for Mayor of New York by the
Republicans and Citizens Union.
The nine anarchists who I..a!
been arrested in Chcago haw
been released for lack of evi
dence.
Frederick Fraley, of Philadel
phia, ((resident of the National
Board of Trade, is dead, aged 1)7
years.
Two men were killed and an
other seriously shot in a fight at
a dance in Green county, Tenn.,
last Friday night.
The Commercial Pacific Cable
Company has been chartered to
lay a cable from California to the
Philippine Islands.
Emma Goldman, the noted an
archist who had been under ar
rest in Chicago, has been released
fori ack of evidence.
Two former shareholders in a
Utah mine where 200 persons were
killed by an explosion have given
$1)0,000 to aid survivors.
Geo. W. Bowman, a wealthy
Chicago mine owner, has agreed
to give the people's Church of
America $1,000,000 to further
its work.
Senator Wellington, of Mary
land, Leon Czolgosg and Emma
Goldman were hanged in effigj
at Sharpsburg, Md., Saturday
morning.
By the will of the late Nathan
iel Hawthorne Cusack,Miss Alice]
Roosevelt, eldest daughter of
President Roosevelt, receives a
legacy of $100,000.
President Roosevelt indicated
in the Cabinet meeting Tuesday
that his views as to reciprocity
are in accord with those expressed
by Mr. McKiuley m his buffalo
speech.
Mrs. Mary Bumpke, committed
suicide at Manistee, Mich., last
week by setting fire to her barn
and then sitting calmly in one
corner of it until she was burned
to a crisp.
Governor Savers, of Texas, has i
signed the "blind tiger"' bill. The I,
new law imposes severe penalties ,
and imprisonment for shipping
intoxicating beverages into local |
option communities. (
in a head-on collision Sunday -
night on the Grand Rapids and j
Indiana railroad, eight miles (
north of Galidac, Mich., between 1
a railroad freight train carrying l
Sunday excursionists, two men 1
were killed and five injured.
"Jim" Parker, whose work at j
the Temple of Music", buffalo, is '
now historical, spoke to a packed 1
audience at Fitzhugh Hall
Rochester, X. Y., Sunday. A col- !
lection was taken up for the 1
negro and nearly $2000 was 1
raised. Parker modestly told of
his part in the tragedy.
E ght new cases of yellow fever
have developed among the crew
af the British steamer Ethel
Bryhta, which arrived at Santia
go de Cuba September 19, from 1
Jacksonville with three cases of t
the fever on board. The eleven t
mfferers are being treated at the i
rellow fever hospital and are do- 1
ng well. j
Indignation was spread through e
the town of Vineland, New ! t
lersev, Sunday by a sermon i
a reached by Rev. John G. Ent re
tin at the Wesleynn Methodist 1
Church. In referring to.I'resi- I
lent McKinley's death the"sj>eak- q
t said his assassination was s
i judgment and a punishment 1
in the Government for the "hor- h
?ible murdering" of the Filipinos
md the furnishing of war to
?England with which to murder
he Boers. He also said the as- .
lassination of the President was
n part the result of the iniquities .
>f the Government in allowing .
he Vanderbilts, the Rockefellers, .
he Morgans and other million- /
tires to oppress the poor. c
THE FARMERS' CONVENTION
A State Organization Formed to Hold
up the Price of Cotton Seed.
A meeting of cotton farmers
and ginners was held in Raleigh
Wednesday to take action in
jvference to the price of cotton
seed. Thirty-one counties were
represented. The North Carolina
Fanners State Association was
organized and the following offi
cers elected:
President?I>r. R. It. Speight,
of Edgecombe county.
Yice-President?Hector -Mc
Lean, of Scotland county.
Secretary and Treasurer?T. B.
Parker, of ()range county.
The following resolution was
unanimously adopted:
"Whereas the cotton crop is
short and there is an increased
demand for cotton seed for feed
ing, fertilizer and other purposes;
and, whereas the present offer
ings of pric(* and terms of ex
change for seed are below .the
real value of the seed, be it re
solved:
"That it is the deliberate judg
ment of this convention that seed
are now worth to the farmers at
home 25 cents a bushel or should
be exchanged on a basis of 2,000
pounds of seed for not less than
1,838 1-3 pounds of cotton meal
to analyze 8% per cent ammonia,
and we advise and urge the cot
ton farmers of North Carolina
not to sell or exchange at less
thau about prices, and we ask
the earnest co-operation of every
cotton grower in North Carolina
to this end.
"Resolved. That we invite the
cotton growing States to form
Cotton Farmers' Associations
and assist us in securing and
maintaining these prices for cot
ton seed."
The membership tee was fixed
at 50 cents.
It was decided that the next
regular meeting would be held in
llaleigh Wednesday night of Fair
week.
The Secretary will correspond
with leading farmers in each
county to press the forming of
county organizations.
Roosevelt and the South.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 22.?Tfce
Journal printsa etterfrom Pres
ident Theodore Roosevelt in re
ply to a communication sent him
by Mr. J. R. Nutting, of this city.
The letter to Mr. Nutting is from
Oyster Ray and bears date of
I une 14. The then Vice-Presi
ient says in part:
"I am extremely proud of the
fact that one of my uncles was an
admiral in the Confederate Navy
and that another fired the last
run fired aboard the Alabama.
1 think the time has now come
when we can all of us be proud of
the valor shown on both sides in
the Civil War. In my regiment;
1 had more men whose fathers
'ought in the Confederacy than I
aad men whose fathers fought,
tor the Union.
"I am anxious to visit Roswell,
and if I get thechancel am going
to stop at Atlanta some time
aext fall "
Roswell is a Georgia town
where Mr. Roosevelt's mother
ived.
Aguinaldo's Guard Gives Up.
Manila, Sept. 22.?Aguinaldo's
>ody guard, Major Alhambra,
wo captains, two lieutenants
uid 29 men, with 28 rifles, sur
rendered about 40 miles north of
laler, Luzon, to Captain George
V. Detcbemeudy, of the Twenty
leeond Infantry, yesterday, took_
he oath of allegiance and were*
?eleased.
After Alhambra kidnapi>ed the
'residente of Casiguran, Septem
>er 12, Captain Iletchemendy re
luisitioued a steamer and *pur
ued him closely. He would have '
teen captured within an hour if
le had not surrendered.
Czolgosz Sentenced.
Leon F. Czolgosz was carried
uto court yesterday and sent
nced to be executed October 28,
a Auburn prison by electrocu
ion. He took the sentence calm
v. This is the earliest period,
he law allows sentence to be ex
uted. I
MURDER IN FIRST DEGREE.
The Trial ol Lzolgosz Lasted Only
Two Days?Defense" Ottered no
Witnesses.
Last Monday at buffalo, X. Y.,
Leon Czolgosz was put 011 trial
for his life.
The assassin pleaded guilty, but
Judge White ordered the plea
changtd to not frailty, so as to
provide every legal safeguard.
The jury was selected.
Frederick Mailer, assistant
prosecuting attorney, outlined
what was expected to be proved
against the assassin. The taking
of testimony then began.
Samuel .1 Fields, the first wit
ness. showed a drawing of the
scene of the murder.
Percy A. Hliss displayed photo
graphs of the scene.
l>r. Harvey It. Gaylord, who
performed the autopsy on Presi
dent McKinley's body, said the
primary cause of death was "gun
shot wound" and that the actual
cause was the "absorption of the
brokendown matter of the pan
creas" resulting from the pass
age of the bullet.
Dr. Herman My titer, who as
sisted in the surged .operation
on the President soon after the
shooting, said the bullet was not
found and extracted at that time
because the President's tempera
ture was rising. He said the bul
let had not passed through the
pancreas. rl he reason the bullet
was not found at the autopsy
was that the President's relatives
objected to further mutilation of
the body.
l)r. Matthew D.Mann,who per
formed the operation at which
Dr. Mynter assisted, testified that
it would probably have resulted
fatally to have investigated the
entire track of tne bullet during
life. He was still on the stand
when court adjourned fortheday.
The trial was resumed Tuesday
morning.
The evidence for the prosecu
tion was concluded in the after
noon, and the counsel for the as
sassin?ex-fudge Loran L. Lewis,
ex-Iudge Robert 0. Titus and
Carlton E. Ladd?announced
that they had no testimony to
offer. Experts who had examined
Czolgosz had reported that he
was perfectly sane and 110 defense
could be made
Ex-Judge Lewis addressed the
court, declaring that the prisoner
was entitled to a fair trial and to
the benefit of any doubt as to his
guilt which the jury might have.
District Attorney Thomas C.
Penney asked the jury to bring
in a verdict of murder in the first
degree. Judge Truman C. White,
who presided, charged the jury
hripfl v
The jury retired at 3.51 o'clock
and sent word in 28 minutes that
it had agreed on a verdict. \t
4.20 o'clock the verdict?guilty
of murder in t He first degree?was
formally rendered.
Judge White announced that
he would sentence the assassin at
2 p. in. Thursday. Under the law
the sentence will be death in the
electric chair.
The testimony on the last day
of the trial was chiefly given by
persons w ho were near President
McKinley when he was shot. Not
one of them stated that James
Parker, the negro who has been
given credit in some quarters for
preventing the assassin from
firing a third shot at the Presi
dent. had anv noteworthy part
in the tragedy. It was shown
that the assassin was seized and
knocked dow n by others, Private
Francis P. O'Brien, an artillery
man, and several Secret Service
men bearing the chief parts in
the struggle.?Baltimore Sun.
Dur Governor to Speak in Behalf or
Education.
Governor Charles B. Aveock I
will address the citizens of John
iton county at Wilson'" Mills on
me of the livest questions of the
lay, that of education, Satur
lay, Sept. 28, at one o'clock,
tat all who are interested in this
ijreat subject go out and hear
the address of our educational
Governqr.
Rural Free Delivery Postponed.
The Department nt Washing
ton iias ordered Special Agent
Harr, who has been engaged in
establishing lliiral Delivery
routes, out of this district tem
porarily. Mr. Pou regrets this
very much, but tells vis that it
could not be prevented. Mr. Pou
directed Mr. Harr to lay off the
routes in 'lie other counties of
the district first and now just, as
he was ready to take up the work
in Johnston, Mr. Harr is ordered
away, lie has laid out thirteen
routes distributed over all the
other counties of the district.
These routes will probably be put
in operation by Jan. 1st, 11)02.
Mr Pou tells us that petitions
are pouring in to the Department
at Washington at the rate of
about 800 per month, that the
Government has only fifty agents
at work laying off these routes
and that there is more work on
hand than this force can do for
a long time.
There are still 30 on file from
our district which have not yet
been taken up?about seven from
this county. Mr. Harr leaves
Saturday but Mr. Pou has the
promise i f the Department that
he or some other agent will be
sent back to this district during ?
the winter to investigate all the
routes asked for and eventually
lie hopes to secure the establish
ment of all the routes asked for.
Under the circumstances our peo
ple must be patient and wait for
their turn.
BENSON BUDGET.
N. B. Barber is back at his old
post.
Mrs. <i. VV. Cavenaugh is visit
ing at Angier.
Miss Lilhe Turlington is visit
ing here this week.
Henry Blount will lecture here
about October loth.
Bradley Johnson is out South
advertising his famous elixir.
J. H. Wheeler has bought Tom
Wiggins' residence on Church
street.
Mrs. R. F.Smith returned Wed
nesday from a visit to relatives
in upper Johnston.
Miss Daisy Hardee arrived here
Sunday from her visit to Wil
mington.
We omitted last week to men
tion the death of Talmage, the 7
year old son of S. W. McLam.
Chas. and J. O. Johnson spent
Sunday with their parents while '
J. I). Bain prospected in B. C.
section.
C. C. Kvals has laid out in lots
about 10 acres of his field ad
joining his and J. VV. Wood's and
It. F. Smith s residence lots.
The Coast Line expects large
shipments of cotton from here
and is arranging better facilities.
The large cotton platform is also
being sheltered.
We are too modest to boast,
but too charitable to let the peo
ple sell their cotton without
knowing where they can get the
highest prices for it. Bring it to
Benson. Five buyers on the
market.
Our merchants have not heard
of the short crops, and have
stocked their stores just as
though the country were full of
money. The President's death
has not shaken their confidence
in business, and one of them em
ployed three new clerks in one
day last week.
There is another prophet in the
land. He arrived at John Den
ning's Friday night; and, taking
John's word for it, he made a
stump sjieech Saturday morn
ing, expressing regrets at McKin
ley's death, nnd the belief that
Roosevelt will keep the old ship
off the rocks till l!>04 when the
Democrats will come to the rescue.
The enterprising tobacco ware
houseman nere appreciate the
support the farmers have given
this market, and as evidence of
such appreciation they will on
October 3rd give a barbecue pic
nic and are extending an invita
tion to all the fanners and their
families to be present and feast
and rejoice with them a whole
da,*. Those having tobacco to
sell wk do well to bring along a
little thai day.