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VOL. 20. SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1901. NO. 36.
STATE NEWS.
Short Items ot Interest Clipped and
Culled From Our State
Exchanges.
A gold nugget weighing a pound
and a-balf has been found in Ca
barrus county.
A 16-year old boy and a 13
year old girl were married at
Durham last week.
The Gattis-Kilgo trial will
come up in Granville Superior |
Court at Oxford next Thursday.
Thecolored Baptists of Raleigh
have laid the foundation for a;
*.30,000 brick and stone church.
Saturday High Point voted for j
a fifty-thousand doll tr bond issue J
to complete its system of water
works.
The Presbyterian church at
Manchester, Cumberland county,
was burned Tuesday. Loss
*2,500.
North Carolina received *4,150
from the Peabody educational
Fund for the yearendingOctober
1, 1001.
An effort will be made to raise
*1 ,000 in North Carolina for the
McKinlev National Memorial As
sociation.
Governor Aycock has been
made an honorary member of the
McKinley National Memorial As
sociation.
Eugene L. Harris, who has been
registrar of the State University
for several years, died at Chapel
Hill Sunday night.
l'eter Smith, of Madison coun
ty, has been placed in jail at
Marshall, charged with the mur
der of liis step-daughter.
Hon. Robert 15. Glenn, of Win
ston, has announced that he will
be a candidate for the United
States Senate to succeed l'ritch
ard.
John J. Tuton, a veteran of
the civil war,died at the Soldiers'
Home at Raleigh, Friday, aged
70 years. He was from Greene
county.
The Shelby Knitting mill was
burned lasbweek. Loss.510,000,
partly covered by insurance. The
mill had been in operation only a
few months.
The Wilmington Dispatch men
tions Mr. George Rountree for
Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court. He is oneof Wilmington's
ablest lawyers
A woman. Rev. Mary A Shelley,
performed the marriage ceremony
w hich united Charles Hensleyand
Artie McMahan at Sylva, Jack
son county, last week.
Miss Lula VVoodell died at her
home in Raleigh Wednesday of
pneumonia. She was the daugh
ter of Grand Secretary of tiie Odd
Fellows, B. II. WoodsU.
The eighth annual Convention
of the I'nited Daughters of the
Confederacy convened Wednes
day in Wilmington and was ad
dressed by Gov. Aycock.
Edmund Watts, of Catawba
county, was sent to the peniten
tiary last week to serve a three
years' term. This is the fourth
time he has taken up his abode
there.
A report to tlie State .Superin
tendent from Vance county, says
only fourteen whitechildren there
between (> and 21 years of age,
cannot read or write, and only
11+ negro children.
One Mauser charged with set
ting Ins own storeon fire in order
to collect insurance, was convict
ed in the Superior Court in Wil
mington last week and sentenced
to ten years in the penitentiary.
There arc only 88 convicts in
tlie pen at present. The rest are
at work at various places in the
State?some building railroads,
some harvesting tlie crops on the
State farms and some working
at saw-mids.
A t wo-V' ar-old girl of .1. 13.
Vanhoy, of Alls-marie, Stanley
county, met death in a distress
ing m.inm r last week. My some
means she fell from i sn nig, the
rope tightening arom her neck
and choking her to deat !i.
E. I- Travis, of the peniten
tiary directors, says the cotton J
crop at the State farms is turn
ing: out better than wasexpected.
Ethel Pope, a ten-year old col
ored girl living in Raleigh, while
playing with a shot gun Satur
day morning in some way dis
charged it, and her head was
blown entirely off.
Drew Vaughn, colored, who
was to have been hanged in
Hertford county last Monday for
murder, has been respited until
December 9th. The respite is to
allow the Governor time to in
vesti gate the case.
Governor Aycock has pardoned
Paul Wensil.ot Cabarrus county.
He was, when 15 years old, sent
to the penitentiary for five
years, for s.tealing. He escaped
and was at liberty ten years or
so. Three months ago he was
retaken. During his long liberty
he went to Stanly county, mar
ried and lived a very upright life.
He has a wife and several children.
The State Superintendent of
Public Instruction has compiled
some returns of school children, i
etc., for this year. It shows that
the number of white children of
school age is 459,491 against
429,491 last year. The enroll-J
mentisthis year290,174 against
270,497, showi >g an increase of
19,751. This is the most satis
factory showing yet made. The
returns for Mitchell county a re
not included, as they were de-!
stroyed by the Hood there last
May.
At the conference of the Chris
tian church held at K iuston a
few weeks ago the church bought
the school property of the Kiusey
Seminary at Wilson and will soon
establish a college there. The
following have been named as a
board of trustees: Rev. R. H
Melton, George Ilacknev, Joseph;
Kinsey, of Wilson; J. W. Hines,
of Rocky Mount; J. S. Rasnight. j
of New Rem; K. R. Tunstall, of |
Kinston; E. A. Move, of Green
ville, and Rev. J. J. Harper, of
Smithtield.
Col. Fred. Olds, writing to the
Charlotte Observer, says that
'?it is said here (Raleigh) that in
the proposed suit by the State of
South Dakota against the State
to force the stile of the North
Carolina Railroad to payoff the
bonds of the Western North Car-1
olina Railroad, South Dakota is
a "dummy," and that the*bond
holders have induced that Com
monwealth to sue because it can
sue another State while they can
not, as individuals, do so. This
is about the twentieth attempt to
force this State to pay these
bonds, which the people by an
overwhelming vote repudiated!
many years ago. John T. Re
weese was one of the pioneers in
these attempts. Of course the
road will not be sold nor the
bonds paid, but one thing is cer
tain and that is that the move
ment will immensely strengthen
the Democratic party in this
Statf. It is playing into Demo
cratic hands, in fact."
North Carolina is Sued.
Washington, Nov. 11.?An
original bill in equity was filed
today in the United States Su
preme Court by John L. l'yle.
Attorney (Jeneral of South Da
kota. against the State of North
Carolina to compel a settlement
ou bonds issued in the name of
the Western North Carolina
Railroad Company.
South Dakota is the owner of
10 of these bonds, of $1,000 par
valueeach. donated for the bene
fif of the StateUniversitv. When
the railroad was built North
Carolina subscribed for .'!0,00(^
shares, amounting to $11,000,
000 of the siork of the railroad
company, and in return guaran
teed the payment of bonds, in
eluding those held by South
Dakota
It is allegt?d that notwithstan
ding the Stab of North Carolina
is receiving iliv N?nds on the
stock held by ii tiiefe has been a
failure on ncconnf of an exten
sion of time to p.' * the bonds or
the interest on I em. The bill
filed today o> k - lor a general
determination a*. I settlement of
the question.
GENERAL NEWS.
A Partial List of the Week's Hap
penings Throughout the
country.
Pittsburg, Pa., suffered a $100,
OOO Hie Saturday.
Miss Helen Gould recentlygave
Ilutgers College #2.">,000.
A statue of Thomas Jefferson
was unveiled at Louisville, Ky.,
Saturday.
A bill prohibiting divorces was
introduced in the Georgia legis
lature Saturday.
One man was killed and forty
wounded in an electiou riot at
Barcelona, Spain, Sunday.
It is reported that William
Waldorf Astor will build a hotel
in A'ew York to cost $2,500,000.
The Democrats will support
Gen. Bartolotne Masso as their
candidate for the presidency of
Cuba.
Gen. James Hagan, a veteran
of the Mexican and Civil Wars,
died at Mobile, Ala , last week,
aged 80 years.
The proposed buildings of the!
St. Louis Exposition in 1008,
will cover 120% acres and will
cost $0,250,000.
George F. Peabody, of New
York, has given $21,000 to the
Young Men's Christian Associa
tion of Montgomery, Ala.
Charles 11. Thompson, Supreme
Finance Keeper of the Supreme
Tent of Knights of Maccabees, is
short $57,000 in his accounts.
Alexander Ford, white, and
two colored men,names unknown,
were killed bv a boiler explosion
at Clayton's cotton gin, Clayton,
Lt., I hursdav.
Powers' theatre, at Grand
Rapids, Mich , was destioyed by
tire early Wednesday morning
The property loss amounts to
about $100,000.
It is estimated that there was
a falling off of a quarter million
votes in the election held in Ohio j
this year as compared with the
returns of last year.
A Confederate monument was
unveiled at Murfreesboro, Tenn.,
Thursday, in honor of the Con
federate soldiers who fell at the
buttle of Murfreesboro.
Hector Grown died onthes eps
of his sweetheart's home in New
York, FriJay, just after bidding
her good-bye. His death was
caused by smoking cigarettes.
A company of which General \
Joseph Wheeler is a director, is
contemplating the establishment
of a plant in I'hiladelphia for the
manufacture of a new tire-arm.
In a collision between a switch
engine and a double-header
freight on the St. Louis and vSan
Francisco railroad, Thursday, at
Springfield, Mo., three trainmen
were killed.
mi 4 ? ?
i ne nrst> monument to the
memory of President MoKinley
was unveiled at the little village
of Tower. Minnesota, Sunday.
Governor Van Saut and others
made speeches.
According to mail advices re
ceived from Manila by the im
press of China, .Judge O'Neill, an
American lawyer, is engaged in
endeavoring to secure release of
Aguinaldo by habeascorpus pro
ceedings.
At the annual meeting of the
Trustees of the I'en body educa
tional Fund held in New York
last week, President Roosevelt.
Seth Low, of New York and Hoke
Smith, of Georgia, were chosen
to till vacancies.
(?'rank Kid well, aged 23, killed
his sweetheart, Ada Thompson,
aged 1 (i, at Klizabethtown. 1 enn ,
Monday. He then killed himself.
The <.>!? i man refused to allow
Kid well to visit his daughter;
Leneethe tragedy.
Grace 8 a ell Coffin, of Chicago,'
who married Frank Nixon Coffin,
her first husband, for the third
time a few weeks ago, has been
divorced from him again. This
makes her record for marriages
and divorces four each. The di
vorce wasgranbsl in Racine, Wis.,
last Saturday.
J. (i. Johnson, of the National
Democratic Committee, thinks
that Ex Governor \V. J. Stone,
of Missouri, will head the ticket
in 1004. Stone is a freesilverite.
This year's United States con
sumption of sugar will he 2. .'100,
000 tons. Louisiana furnishes
350,000 tons. A duty of $86
per ton is paid on 1,300,000tons
of it.
One of the worst fires in the
history of Bradford, Pa., occurred
Fri ay. It consumed a dozen
buildings, including the $35,000
city hall. The loss is estimated
at'$150,000.
Peter Gilsey, the well known
New York millionaire, died sud
denly Sunday night. He was
walking along a street when a
blood \ussel hurst, and he lived
hut a few minutes.
1 he returns trout the Alabama
election to ratify or reject the
new constitution are coming in
very slow. It is estimated that
the constitution will he ratified
hy a majority of 25,000.
Andrew Carnegie gave Carne
gie Institute at I'ittshurg, Pa.,
#2.000.000 Tuesday. The sum
of his gifts to this institution is
$0,000,000. In the last few
years Mr. Carnegie has given
$42,000,000 to various institu
tions.
The United States Court of
Claims Monday rendered a judg
ment in favor of the State of
Rhode Island for about f150,000.
The claim grew out of the ac
counts with the Government for i
equipment ot volunteers from
that State during the Civil War.
Gov. Jelks, of Alabam i. Wed
nesday night, ordered the mili
tary conioanv at Troy to pro
ceed at once to Ozark to protect
Pharoah Parramore, a negro,
from being; lynched. Parramor v
is charged with having commit
ted an assault upon a white wo-1
man.
A Merlin paper published Wed
nesday a dispatch from Sofia,!
Bulgaria, saying it is feared that!
Miss Stone, the kidnapped mis
sionary, has been murdered by
the brigands, owing to the delay
in the payment of the sum for.
her ransom. The news is not
confirm* d.
Mrs. Luranty Searingdied near
Fairliope, Pa, Tuesday. She
was b >rn iu Baltimore in 17f?!S
and was more than lb.'! years
old. Of her 14children (5 survive,
with 42 grandchildren. 8 great
grandchildren and 8 great-great
grandchildren. She had 115
descendants.
Andrew M. Lawrence, man
aging editor of Hearst's Chicago
American, was sentenced to forty
days in jail by Judge Hancey at
Chicago, Tuesday for contempt
of court. H. S. Cantield, the re
porter who wrote tlie article
criticising Judge Hancey's de
cision, was given 80 days in jail.
The Northern Securities Com
pany, capital $400,000,000, was
incorporated at Trenton, N. J.,
Wednesday. The company is
formed to acquire and deal in
stocks and securities of corpora
tions. The filing fee of $80,000
was paid, the check coming from
J. I* Morgan A Co.. who are un
derstood to be identified with
the company.
The Riverside Mills of Ander
son, S. 0., are to be enlarged.
The capital stock will tie increased
from $00,000 to $1-25,000 and
4,000 additional spindles will be
put in. The mill is now opera ting
60,000 spindles The en argu
ment, which is to t: ke place at
once, was decided on by the di
rectors about two weeks ago and
nearly nil the stock has been
taken.
Representative Babcock, of
Wisconsin, is still ndvocati g a
reduction of the tariff on trust
products, and the cutting <41* of
all taxes levied under the war
revenue bill. Mr. Rabcock says
he will prepare and in'rodnee
ea My in the session n new bill
providing tariff be taken off all
heavy steel products, such a - bil
lets, structural and building steel
and other articles in which labor
is not a material part in its pro
duction.
WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES.
Items ot Interest From the Nation's
Capital.
The cost of coaling the United
States Xuvy for the past year
was nearly #2,500,000.
President Itoosevelt has ap
pointed William F. Willoughhv.
of the District of Columbia, to be
Treasurer of the Island of Porto
Rico.
The Court of Inquiry adjourned
its public sessions last Thursday.
Secret sessions are held each day
and will be until the court makes
its final report.
Senator Hanna dined with
President Roosevelt Friday even
ing, for the lirst time since the
new chief magistrate has occu
pied the white house.
Tuesday President Roosevelt
appointed Henry CIuv McDowell
to succeed the late Judge Paul,
as United States District Judge
for the Western district of Vir
ginia.
rostmaster uenerai ?mttn, 111
his annual report, will ask for an
appropriation of six million dol
lars for the Rural Free Delivery
service. The present appropria
tion is 500,000.
Tuesday the State Department
received a cablegram from Auck
land, New Zealand, announcing
the death on October 27, of L.
\V. Osborn, Consul General of the
United States at Apia. Samoa.
Brigadier General Henry C.
Merriam, commander of the De
partment of the Colorado, was
retired Tuesday, on account of
age. He entered the army in I
18(52 and has seen much active
service, being engaged in the wars
with hostile Indians in the West.
He will be temporarily succeeded
by General Dates.
Secretary Long intends to send
Rear Admiral Robley D.Evans
out to the Asiatic station to be
second officer in command. Doth
Admiral 11 mey, commander-in
chief of that station, and Admi
ral Kempff, junior squadron com-!
mander, will return soon to the
United States, having served out
the term allotted for service in |
Asiatic waters.
One subject which will receive
much consideration at the hands
of the Congress soon to convene
is the Isthmian Canal. The Isth
mian Canal Commission, Rear]
Admiral John G. Walker, chair
man, met here Monday to agree
upon its report to Congress.
President Hutin of the Panama
, Canal Company is also on hand
to make a fight for the purchase
of ids company by the Govern
ment. It is thought that Con
gress will probably carry out the
| original plan of building the
| canal across Nicaragua.
The following Rural free deliv
ery routes have recntly been
established in North Carolina:
I Apex, Wake county. Length of
route, '1'1\ miles; carrier, Robert
L. Bagley. Post office at Kwing
| to be discontinued. Four Oaks,
Johnston county. Length of
route, 21% miles; carrier, \lonzo
H. Wellons. Post office at Glen
more to be suplied by rural
I carrier. Mail to Four Oaks, N.
C. Garner. Wakeeountv. Length
of route,21% miles;carrier,Simon
S. Turner Jr. Post office at
Rand's Mill and Lemay (Wake
county) and Pennv (Johnston
i county) to be discontinued.
The most important feature of
' the report of the board of visitors
to the West Point Military
Academy is a recommendation
that the academy be rebuilt. The
report says: "It has been nearly
lot) years since West Point was
founded, and from the birth of
t he institution nearly all the im
provements have been on the
patchwork plan. There is but
one building constructed by the
government at the post that is in
harmony with this day and
generatiop. All the others are
old, uncomfortable, and entirely
inadequate to meet pr>sent con
ditions. Few of tht m are equip
ped with any of the conveniences
n< w to be found in the average
public school buildingin the coun
try districts of many of the
States."
FOREIGN NEWS ITEMS.
A Summary ot Events in Lands
Beyond the Sea.
The Republic of Peru has
adopted the gold standard.
England is preparing to send
4,000 cavalrymen to South
Africa.
Erzeroum, Turkey, was severe
ly shocked by an earthquake
Friday. Many houses being de
stroyed.
King Edward VII celebrated
his six tiet h birthday at Sand ring
ham palace Saturday in a quiet
manner.
Andrew Carnegie has given
tl00,000 (#500,000) to build
and equip a technical college at
Galashiets, Southern Scotland.
llulil Rifat Pasha, the Grand
Vizier of Turkey, died at Con
stantinople Saturday. He has
been succeeded by Abdurabman.
A terrible gale aiid snowstorm
swept over Denmark Wednesday.
The snow was five feet deep at
Copenhagen. Several vessels were
wrecked and many lives were lost.
A great rainstorm lasting two
days swept England, Wales and
Ireland this week. Many vessels
have been wrecked and the death
list will reach a hundred or more.
(ien. Kitchener reports that 44
Doers were killed and 100 wound
ed in the recent battle at Braken
laagte, Eastern Transvaal. The
Boer (ieneral Opperman was
killed.
Count von Hatzfeldt-Wilden
burg, German Ambassador to
Great Britian, has retired from
the diplomatic service on account
of ill health. He has been in offi
cial life 44 years.
The bursting of a gun on the
British Battleship Royal Sover
eign, Saturday, resulted in the
death of one officer and six artil
lerymen, and the woundhig of the
captain and 13sailors. Theship
was stationed just outside of
Astako Harbor, Greece.
Lord Kitchener, in a dispatch
from i'retoria, dated November
11, presents his weekly report
and incidentally locates General
De Wet in the northeastern pait
of the Orange State. He says
the Boet s have recently been col
lecting under I)e V\ et's leadership
and that the British are now
moving to disperse them. Lord
Kitchener gives the Boer casual
ties since November 4 as 03 killed,
105 wounded, 104 captured and
45 surrendered.
t\: w-l i? : J i.. _ c rr\?i
win/,, nit- i lesiueiiie 01 l acio
ban, Island of Leyte, who has
been proved to be an agentof the
Filipino junta at Hongkong, has
'been arrested. Many incrimin
ating papers, implicating numer
ous officials, were seized at the
time of his arrest. The gunboat
Leyte has discovered a signal
station working in Leyte and
communicating with revolution
ists in Samar by the flashlight
system. Three operators were
arrested and the station was de
stroyed. The men confessed that
many recruits have been sent
from Leyte to Samar.
The trouble between France
and Turkey has been arnica , y
settled and diplomatic relations
resumed. Admiral Caillard was
ordered Monday to withdraw his
fleet from Mitylene. The trouble
'arose over the Sultan's reiusal
to cor cede certain claims of
France arid diplomatic rel s
were broken off in Aurdoi.
France's chief claims were time
in number. First, the Quais
company, a French concern, had
constructed wharves at Constan
tinople and insisted that its c re
cessions should be adh?red to.
which the Suban wa* nnwdling
todo; s cond,pavinents of money
advanced by French citizens for
the construction of Turkish rail
ways were withheld for years;
third. Francemsisted upon recog
nition of her status as the pn?
tector of Christians in Asia Minor
and a legal r?cognition bv the
i Sultan of religious ami edui n
| tional institutions established bv
Frenchmen in Turkish territory.
The capture of the ports of Mit v
lene forced the Sultan to grant
all of France's demands.