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VOL. 20. SMITIIFIELD, X. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1001. NO. 34.
GENERAL NEWS.
A Partial List of the Week's Hap
penings Throughout the
Country.
It is reported that the Pan
American Exposition wiU close
#2,000.000 in debt.
At the (ire in Philadelphia
Friday 20 lives were lost The
property loss was $500,000.
The town of Delmar, Pel., was
burned Saturday and 300 people
made homeless. Sixty buildings
were destroyed.
A negro was burned at the
stake in Louisiana a few days
ago for the usual crime, after
confessing the deed.
The war department has re
ceived an autographic letter
from Aguinaldo lamenting Presi
dent MeKinley's death.
Three outlaws overpowered
the jailorat Wayne Court House.
West Va., Saturday night and
escaped after locking the jailor
in a cage.
United States Senator John P.
.Jones, of .Nevada, has gone back
to the Republican party, declar
ing that the free silver question
is a dead one.
At Meriden, Conn., Sunday,
Miss Alice Ellis, a trained nurse,
committed suicide by inhailing
chloroform from a tin pan in
which she had placed her head.
Caleb I laid w n, owing to weak
ness from old age, fell from a chair
at his home in Newark, N. J.,
Sunday, sustaining injuries from
which he died. His age was 102
years.
Thomas \Y. Cridler. third As
sistant Secretary of State, has
tendered his resignation, in order
to accept the post, of Europeon
agent of the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition.
Andrew Carnegie has offered
.$100,000 for the establishing of
a library at San Juan, Porto
Rico, provided the city will give
a site and providefor the library's
maintenance.
Rear Admiral Schley has ac
cepted the invitation of the
Hamilton club of Chicago in the
following telegram: "Millions of
thanks. Impossible to name
date at present."
The Eastman Kodak company,
with an authorized capital of
$?'15,000,000, has been incorpo
rated in Trenton N. J., to manu
facture and deal in kodaks and
photograph supplies.
t ci. 1.1 . - rii.. i- 1. . i __
a ocmev mmi nus ueen organ
ized at Rich Hill, Mo , by some of
Admiral Schley's Democratic ad
mirers. Strong resolutions en
dorsing him for the next. Demo
cratic Presidential nomination
have been passed.
On his return to New York from
a trip through the west, J. Pier
pont Morgan's special train cov
ered the distance between Detroit
and Niagara Falls, 277 miles, inj
200 minutes. Part of the time
the speed was 85 miles an hour !
Safe blowers entered a store in j
Oerea, Ohio, Saturday, wrecked
a large safe, and made their
escape, carrying with them booty
amounting to more than $100,-j
000. The majority of the funds j
secured belonged to Baldwin Uni-I
versity.
Caleb Powers has again been
convicted of complicity in the
murder of Governor William
Goebel, of Kentucky, and sen
tenced to life imprisonment. The
jury was out only 50 minutes.
An appeal to the Supreme Court
has been taken.
Mrs. Minnie Edson Taylor, a
widow of 50 years of age, went
over the Niagara Falls on the
Canadian side last week in a bar
rel, and came out alive. Her
barrel was placed in the river a
mile above the falls. The barrel
was whirled and buffeted through
the seething, surging, swift-flow
ing waters to the precipice, then
dropped 160 feet to the white
foaming waters below. The wo
man was taken out not seriously
injured, being the only person
who ever went over the falls and
came out alive. She is rapidly
recovering from the shock and
has already received several pro
posals of marriage.
CZOLGOSZ PAYS PENALTY.
The Assassin Dies in the Electric
Chair Declaring: That He Feels
No Regret tor His Crime.
Leon Czolgosz, the murderer of
Presdent McKinley, paid the ex
treme penalty 111 the prison at
Auburn, .V Y., Tuesday morning
at 7:12 o'clock by being shocked
to death by 1,700 volts of elec
tricty.
Czolgosz retired the night be
fore at 10 o'clock and slept
soundly, tie was awakened at .">
o'clock Tuesday and told to get
up and dress, ,\bicli he did. He
was carried a breakfast consisting
of coffee, toast, eggs ifnd bacon
which he ate with a relish.
The prisoner was led out of his
cell and marched between two
guards, with two otht rs follow
ing, into the deat h chamber.
The guards on either side of
Czolgosz had hold of his arms as
if either to support him or to keep
him from making a demonstra
tion. As he stepped over the
threshold he stumbled, but they
held him up and as they urged
him forward toward thechair, he
stumbled again on the little rub
ber covered platform upon which
the chair rests. I lis head was
treet, and with his gray flannel
shirt turned back at the neck, he
louked (juite boyish, fie was in
tensely pale and as he tried to
throw back his head and carry
his head erect his chin quivered
very perceptibly.
As he was being seated he
looked about at the assembled
witnesses with quite a steady
stare and said: "'I killed the
President because he was an ene
my of the good people?of the
working people." 11 is voice trem
bled slightly at first, but gained
strength with each word and he
spoke perfect English.
"1 am not sorryfor my crime,"
he said loudly just as the guards
pushed his head back on the rub
ber rest and drew thestrap across
his forehead and chin. As the
pressure on the straps tightened
and bound his jaw slightly he
mumbled: "I'm awfully sorry I
could not see my father."
It was just exactly 7:11 o'clock
when he crossed the threshold,
but a minute had elapsed and
he had iust finished the last state
ment when the strapping was
completed and the guards step
ped back. Warden Mead raised
his hand and at 7:12.HO Electri
cian Oavis turned tin-switch that
threw 1,700 volts of electricity
into the living body.
tne rusii oi t rie current threw
the body so hard against the
straps that they creaked percep
tibly. The hands clinched sud
denly and the whole attitude was
one of extreme tenseness. For
forty-five seconds the full current
was kept on and then slowly the
electrician threw theswitch back,
reducing the current volt by volt
until it was entirely cut off. Then
just its it had reached that point
fie threw the lever back again for
two orthree seconds. The body,
which had collapsed as the cur
rent was reduced, stiffened up
again against the straps. When
it was turned off again l)r. Mc
Donald stepped to the chair and
put his hand over the heart. He
said he felt no pulsation, but sug
gested that thecurrent be turned
on again for a few seconds again.
Once more the body became rigid
At 7:lo7 the current was turned
off for a time.
From the time Czolgosz left his
cell until the full penalty was
paid, less than four minutes had j
elapsed. The physicians present
used stet hoscopes and other tests
to determine if any life remained
and at 7:17 the warden, raising
his hand, announced: "Gentle
men the prisoner is dead."
Wednesday evening the por
trait of Capt. Otwav Burns was
presented to the State. Judge;
Walter Clark presided, the meet
ing lieingatthecapital. Dr Kemp
P. Battle presented and Auditor
B. F. Dixon received the por
trait. Governor Aycock was to
have made the s|**ech of accept
ance but went to the Weldon Fair
Monday. The presentation was
made through theState Literary
and Historical Society.
NINE NEGROES KILLED.
The Camp-Meeting' at Duncan's
Chapel a Bloody One.
AMOciatod Press Dispatch..
New (Means, < >et. 21) ?A special
to the Pieay line from Balltown,
Dr., says that the race war
between the blacks and whites
which started at a negro catnp
iiieeting at Duncan's Dhapi 1
Sunday forms a story of blood
unequalled in the history of the
Pearl iliver Valley. One white
man is dead, another is dying
with a bullet hole through his
stomach and a third white man
is badly injured.
Nine negroes were killed in the
bloody affray?Ave men, three
women and one small child. A
dozen or perhaps more negroes
escaped to the woodsand swaiups
with wounds that are believed to
lie certain death in the bru h
away from medical care.
The eainp-ineeting negroes had
come from twenty miles all up
and down the valley. Elder
Stephen Duncan, of New Orle ins,
for whom the chapel was named,
was present.
On last Thursday, the meeting
opened with several hundred
negroes encamped around the
church, in tents and in rudely
constructed shanties.
One day previous to the camp
meeting, when the negro, Hill
Morris, han been burned at the
stake near Balltown tor an assault
on Mrs. J. J. Hall, public teeling
was at a high pitch.
Under those conditions the
negroes gathered at Live Oak.
There was trouble over a license
an*l (irear Lott's tent became
the center of contention. Some
trouble occurred Saturday even
ing but there was no bloodshed. It
came up again Sunday afternoon
when Constable Boon and a. posse
rode up to Lott's tent with a
warrant.
Wade Walker, one oftheeonst a
ble's posse, was struck over the
head with a Winchester, and ttien
the slaughter began. The blacks
tied from thefrail wooden church,
for it was no shelter from the J
rain of bullets. Lott retired into
his tent, shooting and fighting.
Joe Seal received hi* death
wound.
Preacher Connolly w is shot
while standing in his yard. His
daughterfell just inside the house.
The other negroes around Lott's
place kept up a steady rain of
bullets.
Lott's old mother-in-law, his
two daughters, and the little boy
fell in a heap inside the shelter.
Sophie Lott saved her life b.v con
cealing herself behind the stove.
Then she escaped and the men did
not harm her. They were atter
(i rear Lott. He was barricaded
and the next move was to fire the
place, which they did.
Then the fire forced him from
under cover he appeared in the
doorway and twenty rifle balls
went crashing through him. He
fell in a heap, head foremost on
the ground. Parker and Beverly,
both blacks, fell with him.
For twenty-four hours it looked
as if a general uprising would
wipe out the black race in Wash
ington Parish. (>ver 1,00< I armed
men yesterday were at the scene
of the battle.
Marriage Licenses.
For the week ending October
28th, the following marriage li
censes were issued:
White?John W. Blackman to
Ida Maie Fitzgerald, Jos. W.
Harden to Nettie Hollewell.Thos.
Batten to Claudie Willis, W. T.
Outland to Ilosa Voye, A. J.
Fitzgerald to Jennie Raiford.
Colored?Bryant Cogdell to
Julia George, Bryant O'Neal to
Hattie Howard, Sydney Todd to
Onuie morgan.
Just Their Way.
Tess?"If you don't love him
why don't you let him know it?"
Jess?"Well, he sends me flowers
and takes me to the theatre you
know, and " Tess?"But gra
cious! 1 don't see how you can
play with his affections that
way." Jess?"Play? I call that
'working' them."? Philadelphia
Press.
STATE NEWS.
Short Items ot Interest Clipped and
Lulled From Our State
Exchanges.
Masonic Hall school building
at Greenville was burned Friday,
catching on the roof from the
flue. Loss $800, with .*400 in
surance.
At the Raleigh Fair grounds
before day Friday morning a
wooden boct.h, need as a restau
rant, was burned and a negro
boy was burned to death in it.
The State Agricultural Society
at its annual meeting last week
elected L. Hanks Holt President
for the ensuing year, General
\Y. It. Cox,declining a re election.;
The Wilmington Messenger says
tiie largest fish oil and scrap fac
tory in the world is being con
structed on the Cape Fear river
near Wilmington. Itwillemploy
eight steamers and produce .'10,
000 barrels of oil every twenty
four hours.
Last Sunday Tom Fason shof
and instantly killed his brother
in-law, John Fairish, at Eason's
house about one mile from Wade,
Cumberland county. Fason was
arrested and lodged in jail. Had
blood had existed between them
for sometime.
An attempt of .Mr. C. M. Sher
rill, of Hickory, to marry Miss
l'earl Elliott, of that place, but
at present a student at I'eace In
stitute, at Raleigh, was frustra
ted Friday by the objection of
her parents and the vigilance of
the college's president.
The suit of Mr. John A. Pem
berton, of Fayetteville vs. Atlan
tic Coast L'ne has been compro
mised, the plaintiff getting about
$12,000 damages. Engineer
IVmberton was badly injured in
a railway accident and had
brought suit for $ 10!>,000.
Mr. XV. E. Crossland, of the
Penitentiary Directors, lias been
inspecting the Halifax State
farms. He says the crops are in j
fair condition; what there is of;
t he cotton crop being good and I
a yield of from 000 to 1,000 bales I
expected. The upland corn crop
is good but the peanut crop is
poor.
Josiah Turner died at his home j
in Hillsboro Saturday, aged 75.
He first entered public life in 1851
as a member of the legislature !
He was later a captain in the
Confederate Army and served in |
the Confederate Congress, lb
was editor of the Raleigh Sentinel!
during thestormy days of Recon
struction.
rrotessional sale crackers blew i
open the safe in the postotfice at
Rutherford ton some time before
day Wednesday morning and
secured something over five hun
dred dollars' worth of stamps
and cash. They entered by
breaking two locks on back doors.
Their tools were found near the
building next morning. No clue
has been discovered as to the
identity of the thieves.
Raleigh News and < )bserver:1
There was a marriage Thursday j
afternoon in Raleigh to which no
wedding invitations had been
issued, and which created quite a
ripple of surprise. The bride was
Miss Miriam Iledfern. aged 15),
the daughter of Mr. J. T. Red
fern, of Anson county, and up to
the hour of her marriage she had
l>een a student of the Baptist
Female University. The happy
groom is Mr. L. Kugene Benton,
of Wadesboro, whose age is put
down in the marriage license at
twenty-five.
Mr. Pulaski Cowper. a native
of Bertie county, and widely
known in this Slate as an insur
ance man, died at his home in
Raleigh Monday, aged nearly 70.
He had been in failing health for
a year or more and spent the
summer at a sanitarium. He
had been since 1808 connected
with the North Carolina Home
Fire Insurance Company and for
some years had been its Presi
dent. He was in public life some
years, as private secretary to
Governor Bragg, and was also in
a position in the executive de
partment in 1801-2. His death
was due to Bright's disease.
THE SLHLEY INQUIRY.
A Brlel Summary oi the Progress
ot the investigation.
Admiral Schley's cross exam
ination in the court of inquiry
Monday covered these four
points:
1'irt. That he had no written
order of battle. His defense was
that he had verbal orders, {riven
duringaconferenceof himself and
the captain of his squadron.
Second. That he did not reach
Cienfuegos wit h all possible dis
patch. Although tiiis detail is
not included in the specifications,
it was admitted by the court.
Admiral Schley replied that he
was detained by adverse currents
and by stopping an hour or two
to confer with Captain Chester, of
the Cincinnati, and by slowing up
when it wasevident that he could
not reach the harbor of Cienfue
gos before dark.
Third. That he remained too j
long at Cienfuegos llis answer
was that he was directed by Ad
miral Sampson to remain there
until satisfied that the Spanish
fleet was not in Cienfuegos har- i
bor, and that lie sailed when the
absence of the fleet was made
known to him.
'PV... *? 1 i L!
i wuini, i uai ut? KCfit ills-*
squadrou intact en route to San
tiago. when he might have made j
faster time by abandoning the
smaller vessels and the collier.
He replied that this would not
have been, in his judgment, good
military policy, and would have
exposed the collier to capture by
the enemy, who was then sup
posed to be on the seas.
The cross-examination of Ad
miral Schley continued Tuesday.
The entire day was occupied in
questioning him concerning the j
journey of the Flying Squadron1
from Cienfuegos to Santiago and
the reason which influenced him j
in turning back toward Key
West. The latter maneuver, |
known as the retrograde move-!
merit, was the principal topic of
the day. Admiral Schley gave
three reasons for turning back.
First, the statement of Capt.!
Sigsbee, who commanded the
scout ship St. Paul, that the
enemy was not in Santiago har- j
bor; second, the opinion of the!
pilot Nunez thattheentrance was!
too narrow and shallow for the
Spanish ships, and third the
ambiguity of the Navy Depart
ment's telegram. The latter
stated that he was expected to
ascertain the facts and not to
allow the enemy to escape with
out a decisive action, and gave
him discretion to coal his ships
at Mole St. Nicholas, Gonaives
Day, or Cape Cruz. As a matter j
of fact, he did not go withinj
eighty miles of Cape Cruz. The
retrograde movement only ex
tended thirty-two or thirty-three
miles in lenirth.
When asked if it would not
have been wiser to confer with the
captains of the three scouting
ships, rather than rely upon
Capt. Sigstiee alone, Admiral
Schley replied: "It would have
been wiser if they had given ine
the information which they had
without consultation."
During the day it developed that
Secretary Long was in error
when he informed Congress that
the department's dispatch of
May directed Schley to "re
main" at Santiago. The dis
patch does not contain such I
direction. On the contrary, it
gave him discretion to go away
to coal.
The cross-examination of Ad
miral Schley was suddenly con
cluded Wednesday afternoon
shortly after 3 o'clock, when the
court adjourned. The day was
accunied by Judge Advocate
Lemly in asking qut stions, pre
pared for him on typewritten
sheets, relating to the reconnais
sance of May 31, when the squad
ron tired upon the Colon and the
shore batteries; thebattleof July
3, and the Hodgson-Schley con
troversy. Admiral Schley said
that the turn of the Itrooklyn
was made to avoid ramming by
the Spanish ships, to checkmate
the enemy's torpedo-boats, and
to swing clear of the tire of the
American ships, but that the
most important reason of allwus
t he necessityof keeping the It rook
lyn in action, in order that if the
Spaniards passed thelineof slow
going battleships the Brooklyn
would be ready to meet them and
give them a running fight. He
insisted that he would have been
censurable if he had exposed his
ships to the tire of the shore bat
teries on May Bl, in view of the
Xavy I >ej>art ment'sonlersdirect
ing that caution be observed until
the Spanish fleet had been de
feated. Speaking of t lie blockade
at Santiago, lie said that the
plan of circular blockade, which
he disapproved, eventually re
sulted in a mix-up of the Ameri
can vessels when the Spanish fleet
appeared, as all of the former
steamed toward a central point.
Admiral Schley was asked thirty
four questions by the court.
These emanated from Admirals
Benham and Ramsay,, and were
very searching in their character.
They related mainly to the retro
grade movement and did not
mention the battle of Santiago.
During the day it developed -
that Commodore Schley made a
preliminary report of the battle
of Santiago to Admiral Sampson;
but the latter officer rejected it
because it did not mention the
New York. It was after this
episode that Admiral Sampson
criticised Schley for "reprehensi
ble conduct," which was alleged
to have occurred six weeks pre
vious and which had not before
been questioned.
Capt. Thomas Borden, of the
Marine Corps, who was aboard
the Brooklyn, will be the last
witness called for Admiral Scliley.
After he testifies the Judge Advo
cate will put on the stand the
witnesses in rebuttal, of whom
there are understood to be about
fifteen, and it is probable that
Admiral Schley's counsel will call
several witnesses in surrebuttal.
Czolgosz Sane?His Body Completely
Destroyed.
An autopsy was made on the
body of President McKinley's as
sassin, immediately after nis exe
cution. The brain and all the
organs of the body were minutely
examined and found to be in a
perfectly healthy state. The
brain was found to be normal,
slightly above normal. The re
sult of the autopsy removes all
doubt about the insanity of Czol
gosz, declaring that he was men
tally responsible for his deed. As
soon us the autopsy was com
pleted the body was placed in a
black stained pine coffin, every
portion of the anatomy being re
placed under the supervisi'n of l)r.
Gerin and Warden Mead. Shortly
afterward it was taken to the
prison cemetery aud an extra
ordinary precaution taken to
completely destroy it. A carboy
of acid was obtained and poured
upon the body in the cotfiinafter
it had been lowered into the
grave. Straw was used in the
four corners of the grave as the
earth was put in to give vent to
such gases as might form.
It is the belief of the physicians
that the body will be entirely
disintegrated within twelve
hours. During that time and as
long as deemed necessary a guard
will be kept over the unmarked
grave.
The clothing and personal
effects of the prisoner were burned
under direction of Warden Mead
! shortly after the execution.
The District Commissioners
have transmitted to the Secre
tary of the Treasury their ?>-*'
mates of the appropriation* inat
will be needed tor the support of
the government of the District
for the fiscal year ending June30,
15)03. The sum asked is $10,
449,881.87. The sum asked for
the preceding year was $9,080,
703.94 and the sum appropri
ated was $7,532,591.31. The
Secretary of the Treasury will
forward the estimates to Con
gress.
Sunday was the forty-third an
niversary of President Roosevelt.
There was no formal celebration,
the day tieing sjient very quietly.
The President, as is his custom,
attended (Irace Reformed Church,
accompanied by his two sons,
Archibald and Kirmet, and hie
daughter, Miss Alice Roosevelt.