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VOL. 20. SMITHFIELD, N. C.. FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 11)02. NO. 44.
NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS.
Items of Interest from Wash
ington City.
Some oi the Week's Happenings
in and out of the Halls ot
Congress.
Another squadron of United
Statescavalry has been ordered
home from Cuba.
Ex-Gov. I.eslie M. Shaw will be
gin his duties as Secretary of the
Treasury or. J anuary 25.
Senator Hanna thinks the
chances are encouraging for pass
ing the reconstructed Ship Sub
sidy bill.
Rear-Admiral \V. S. Schley has
decided to appeal directly to the
President from the decision of
the court of inquiry.
The population of the United
States, including all outlying
possessions in lOOOss placed at
84,233,000 by the Census Bureau.
Both houses of Congress met
Monday and adjourned soon after
the formal announcement of the
death of Senator William J.
Sewell, of New Jersey.
The War Department lias re
ceived a copy of a proclamation
signed by nine Americans asking
American soldiers to join the
Filipinos in their tight.
m _ -i n . ?? ...
i uesuav oena,tor .Morgan( \ia.)
secured the adoption of a resolu
tion lor inquiry by the Inter
oceanic Committee into the rela
tions between the Panama Canal
and transcontinental railroad
companies.
William P. Hepburn (Iowa)
chairman of the Intersta e and
Foreign Commerce Committee,
declared in the House Tuesday
that the new offerot the Panama
Canal Company was part of a
scheme for delay.
The House Committee on Cen
sus has ordered a favorable re
port on the bill creating a per
manent Census Bureau. Chair
man Hopkins will seek to have
t he bill passed after the N icaragu a
Canal Dill is disposed of by the I
House.
The Division of Insular Affairs
of the War Department has an
nounced that the total customs'
?revenues for Cuba duriug the 11
months ended November 80,
1901, were $14,355,000, as com
pared with $14,505,202 for the
same period of 1900 and $18,
878,557 for 1899.
% Representative Cooper, of Wis
consin, chairman of the House
Committee on Insular affairs,
Tuesday introduced a bill giving
the Philippines, to begin January
1st, 1904, with a governor, ap
pointed by the President; a Leg
islature of two houses, and with
two Philippine commissioners to
represent the Filipino people at
Washington.
The Secretary of the Treasury
has rendered a decision on the
appeal of John EHinger against
the action of theCollector of Cus
toms at Honolulu in assessing
merchandise brought into that
port from Pago Pago. Tutuila.
The Secretary sustained the col
lector, holding that Tutuila is
foreign territory within the reve
nue laws of the United States.
The Panama Canal Company
has offered to sell its properties
and concessions to the United
States for $40,000,000. The
proposition wilt be forwarded to
Congress by the President. These
figures are $00,141,000 below
the commission's estimate, and,
if accepted, would make the total
cost of the Panama route $."?,000,
704 less than the* Nicaragua
route.
A bill of much interest to ex
Confederate soldiers was favora
bly acted upon by the House
Committee on War Claims this
week It provides for paving,
ex-Confederate soldiers for horses,
bridles, saddles and side-arms
taken from them in violation of
the terms of surrender made by
Generals Lee and Johnston with
Generals Grant and Sherman.
The bill was introduced bv Rep
resentative Padgett, ot Tennes
see.
Since the findings of the court
of inquiry were made public!
Lieut-Gen. Nelson A. Miles has ,
been a frequent visitor to Ad
miral Schley, and has called three
times at the Richmond during
the past week. The Admiral has
felt sympathy with the General
in his public rebuke, while the i
General believes Admiral Schley \
has failed to get justice from the <
hands of tne Navy Department.
The President and Mrs. Roose- |
velt gave the first of their state !
levees Tuesday nignt, when the
members cf the diplomatic corps
at the Capital, with their ladies
and the members of their staffs. j
were his guests. This annual
reception which is the most bril- '
liant as well as one of the most
important of all the social gath- I
erings of official life, derived its ;
principal interest from the fact :
that it was the first evening re
ception given to the representa
tives of old world powers by the
new head of the nation and his
wife.
Rich Tramp to Wed Her.
Goshen, N. Y., Jan. 0.?Tat- '
tered, torn and to all appear- 1
ances poverty stricken, Thomas I
MacNamara went yesterday to
the home of .Mrs. Mary Pailey, ,
his old sweetheart, in Coldenham: ,
Mrs. Pailey, a widow with seve
ral little children, did not at first ,
recognize the rough-looking man,
but when he told her who he was
she received him cordially and
bade him welcome.
i iv.. 1 ? i ui- i
<Aii/er ptirLU&iiig in ut?r uuuiuie
repast he told her of his wander- 1
ings and that he was poor 110 *
longer; that he owned a big prop
er y out West; that the old love |
still burned brightly in his heart, i
and that he wanted to take her '
back to share his fortune. She 1
accepted the offer, and within a ]
week or two their marriage will
take place.
Thomas MacXamara was born f
near Newburgh, and when a j
young man loved Mary Dooley. j
Mary's parents would not let her ,
wed him. To please them she
married Patrick Daily, who died
about three years ago. Mac;
Xamara five years ago lost his ?
position as a printer and worked 1
his way westward. Three years 1
later he stowed away 011 the '
steamship General Arthur, bound }
for Alaska, and reached Dawson -
City. He located a rich claim at
Skagway, worth, he says, half a r
million, but he sold it for $ 140,- |
000 and camt back totheStates. (
Having read in a home paper j
of the death of his old sweet- j
heart's husband, he came East t
to see her, tramping and stealing
rides in freight trains out of
liking for his old life. He has '
now discarded his old clothes, '
and to-day received a large re- '
mittance from his bankers by
wire.
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Bank President Since 1853.
Mount Morris, N. V., Jan. (>.?
Hiram P. Mills, one of the oldest f
bank presidents in the United i
States, died suddenly here to-dav. t
He celebrated his ninety-sixth t
birthday Thursday last and j
danced with the company, lie 1
chaffed with his son Charles, who ;
is 70 years ol 1, for quitting the i
dance before he did.
Mr. Mills had been president of |
the Genesee River National Rank (
continually since its formation in j
1853. He was one of the engi
neers of the old Genesee Valley
canal and helped lay the rails of ,
the first railroad between Albany
and Schenectady. ,
It is reported that there are
300 cases of smallpox under \
treatment at Knoxville, Tenn.,
and that the disease is spreading '
at an alarming rate. The epi- 1
demic, it is stated, was started J
bv a jack rabbit. The jack rub
bitdied Saturday afternoon. 1
I
Heads should N^ver Ache.
Never endure this trouble. Use
at once the reinedv that stopped I
it for Mrs. N. A. Webster,of \\in- j
nie, Va., she writes "l>r. King's <
New Life Pills wholly cured me of
sick headaches I had suffered from
for two years." Cure Headache,
Constipation, biliousness. 25c. 1
at Hood Pros, drug store.
GENERAL NEWS.
K Partial List of the Week's Hap
penings Throughout the
country.
The old Liberty bell started on
its journey from Philadelphia to
the Charleston Exposition Mon
day morning.
Pr. Nicholas Murray Butler has
been elected president of Columbia
University, New York, to succeed
Mayor Seth Low.
It is stated that the West Yir- \
jjinia Central and Pittsburg Hail- i
way has been sold to the Penn
sylvania for $17,000,000.
The annual report of the South
Carolina dispensary for last j
year shows a net profit of $545,
248.12 to the stateand counties.
Last Monday County Surveyor
Homer M. Neff, of West Union,
Iowa, killed his sweetheart,
wounded his rival ami committed !
suicide.
Hon. William J. Bryan, in a
speech at Wooster. Ohio, Mon
lay, said the Democratic party
must not abandon principle for
patronage.
A south bound passenger train
>n the Mississippi Valley railroad
collided with a switch engine at
Uicksburg, Miss., Monday. Engi
neer Samuel S. Craig was killed.
Admiral and Mrs. Dewey left
Washington Monday for Palm
Beach, Fla. The length of their
stay there is ^indefinite, as the
trip is undertaken for the benefit
jf Mrs. Dewey's health.
x nc i;uuci nmncin cxi tun nr?tl
aeake and Ohio shops in Hunt
ngton, West Ya., are on strike,
rhe strikers claim that all the
joiler makers between Husseland
Hinton will go out at once.
Three negro children were re
cently burned to death in the
suburbs of Springfield, near Nor
olk, Va. Their mother, a cook,
ocked them in a room where a
ire was burning in the stove and
vent to her work.
At San Francisco Monday Uni
:ed States Judge Arthur'Noyes
vas fined $1,000, District Attor
tey Woods sentenced to four
nonths and Assistant Frost tol
fear for complicity in the Cape
S'ome (Alaska) conspiracy.
Fire at Logansport, La.,
ruesday afternoon burned the
business portion of the town,
:onsisting of forty-three build
ngs. Total loss $125,000;
nsurance $75,000. The fire
jrigiuated from a defective fiue.
Montague Lessler, Republican,
vas elected to Congress in the
Seventh New York district T ues
lay, to succeed Nicholas Muller,
Democrat, resigned. He beat '
Deny Belmont, the regular Demo
cratic candidate by 39+ votes,
Die count showing the>>e figures::
Lessler 7,077; Belmont 7,283.
According to the naval register
or the New Yea.', Uncle Sam has
tow afloat and available for
lervice 225 war vessels of all
sorts, with no less than sixty in
irocess of construction. Of the.
atter eight are battleships, six
ire armored cruisers and nine
ire first class protected cruisers.
The '?Carneirie Inst,it.ntimi"lms
jeen incorporated at WaShing
:on by Secretary Hav and others
nterested in Carnegie's projectof
i national university. It isundr
itood that Carnegie has removed
he obstacles to the acceptance
jf his ten million dollar donation
Do the cause. >
The large tobacco factory of
'umeruit & Cameron, Richmond.
Va., was practically destroyed
py fire Tuesday night. The
lames are supposed to have
sriginated in the drying room,
rheluss is estimated at tfl.'O,
>00 on building and stock. It is
rully covered by insurance.
Because of a wrong signal at
Ninevah Tower I riday night a
fast Pennsylvania mail and ex
press t rain ran into a slow freight
engine.fi ve miles from Johustown,
I'a., and a few minutes later a
westbound freight crush**! into
the wreck, causing the death of
four persons and the serious
Injury of at least five others.
RAILROAD DISASTER IN NEW YORK
Trains Collide m Tunnel and Fitteen
Persons are Killed.
?
New York, Jan. 8?In the New j
Y'ork Central Tunnel that bur- j
rows under Park Avenue, this j
city, two local trains collided to
day. Fifteen passengers werej
killed and twice that number1
were injured. A dozen of the
latter were seriously hurt, and
the roster of the deud may be
extended.
It was a rear end collision
between a south Norwalk local
that ran in over the New York,
New Haven and Hartford Rail
road and was halted by block
signals at the southern enterance
of the tunnel, and a White Plains
local that came by the Harlem
branch of the New York Central.
The wreck occurred at 8:17 a. in.
at which hour the trains were
crowded bv suburbanites.
Most of the death, injury and
damage was wrought by the
engine of the White Plains train
which plunged into the rear car
of the motionless train and was
driven through to the middle of
the ct^r, smashing the seats and
furnishings and splitting the
sides as it moved forward. The
victims either were mangled in
the mass of wreckage carried at
the pilot, crushed in the space
between boiler and car sides, or
scalded by steam which came
hissing from broken pipes and
cylinders.
SELMA NEWS.
Misses Ilattie and Mable Brink
ley have returned to Scotland
Necki
The graded school opened Tues
day morning with a large at
tendance.
Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Edgerton
spent Tuesday and Wednesday
in Raleigh.
Mr. Robert Millard Nowell and
Dr. .J. W. Hatcher spent Sunday
in the country.
Mr. Blaks Baker, who has been
with R. B. Whitley ft Co., left
Wednesday for Wendell.
Mrs. C. W. Richardson and
children have returned from a
visit to relatives in Raleigh.
Misses Stella l'assmore and
Malhe l'reston and Mr. C. N.
Peeler, teachers in the graded
school, have returned after
spending Xmas holidaj's with
friends.
The town authorities have at !
last opened Anderson street from
W. H. Etheredge's to the street
running north from the coal
chute. It should have been open
ed long ago; it was a necessity
besides being a convenience.
The Selma Manufacturing Co.
is doing a good business, so good
that our people will during the
summer start a first-class dry
goods and millinery store. We
are all together now >nd are
going to make things lively. We
need a furniture dealer here.;
Some days ago one was here
prospecting: we do not know of
a better place for one. That is
for one who can hustle
Mr. It. II. Whitley cf\Jied the
stockholders of the proposed
hank together Wednesday morn
ing at his store, where it was or
ganized as the "Itunk of Helm a."
Ten thousand dollars was repre
sented in person or by proxy,
M. C. Winston was elected presi
dent and It. It. Whitley vice presi
dent. It. It. Carrington, C. W.
Richardson. N. E. Kdgerton md
It. It. Whitley were elected direct
ors. The president and board of
directors were ordered to get in
corporated and make arrange
ments to build a brick building
24 x (50 feet for the bank at once.
Land to build on was secured
adjoining the store of W. II.
Etheredge. The bank will lie
open for business by April 1st.
1002.
Sknkx.
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The Best Prescription for Malaria,
Chills and Fever is a bottle of
drove's Tasteless Chill Tonic. It.
is simply iron and quinine in a
tasteless form. Nocure?no pay.
Price 50c.
STATE NEWS.
Short Items ot Interest Clipped and
Culled From Our State
Exchanges.
The county physican reports
twenty 01 more cases of smallpox
in Forsyth county, brought there
from Virginia by a negro.
James Hold and Miss Jennie!
Thompson, of Holt's mountain,
eloped Monday and were mar-1
ried. The groom is 88 and the
bride 82.
A disastrous fire swept the
little town of Grimesland in Pitt
county Wednesday morning.
The damage is estimated at
f;$o,ooo.
Attorney General Gilmer, who
was critically ill in lialeigh for
several months, has recovered
sufficiently to go to his home at
Waynesville.
Mrs. Simmons, wife of Senator
Simmons, who has been ill for
several months, has been taken
to a sanitoriuin at Harrisburg,
Pa., for treat meat.
It. <). King who was seriously
injured in a railroad wreck near
Cameron last September has sued
the Seaboard Air Line for forty
thousand dollars damage.
The report of the farmers of
this State to the State labor
commissioner shows that it costs
?% cents a pound to produce cot
ton. That is the average cost.
The December bulletin of the
State board of health, issued
Saturday, says there is smallpox
in twelve counties, and that in
Cabarrus county there are 40
cases, 20 in Iredell and 25 in
Wayne.
P. P. Claxton, Professor of
Pedagt gv at the Normal and In
dustrial College at Greensboro,
has resigned to accept the Secre
taryship of the Southern Educa
tional bureau recently estab
lished at Nashville, Tenn.
The Roanoke Island celebratioh
committee will recommend to
the general committee that the
celebration last a month, proba
bly in July; and that a company
with $250,000 capital, in shares
of $5 and $10, be formed, and
that congress be asked to appro
priate $250,00(1.
It is reported that the epidemic
among the horses in Swan Quar
ter continues and as nearly as
bad as when the mosquito was
doing his work. State Yetri
narian, Dr. Tait Butler, says the
trouble is located in the brain
It attacks horses very suddenly
and unless a remedy is found
Hyde county will lose all its
horses.
A State official says that State
Treasurer Lacy need have no
alarm about the State's finances
this year; that since the State
treasurer came into office, in the
middle of last January, he has
raised $1,703,000 and yet much
of the taxes for last year are
unpaid. The tax on property
valuation of $320,000,000 will
yield $847,000.
liovernor AycocK nas commu
ted the death sentence of Drew
Vaughan to life imprisonment.
Vaughan was to have been
hanged at Winton Wednesday.
Tlie Governor had granted
Vaughan three respites. The
negro was convicted on circum
stantial evidence and doubtasto
his guilt caused the Governor to
commute his sentence.
The Ju? Business.
The A. ('. i>. train which comes
in from the north every after
noon. is now known as the "jug
train."
Speaking of jugs, we find the
following in the laimberton
Uohesoman:
Fifty-seven jugs were put off at
Lumberton in one day?many at
Max ton, lied Springs and other
places, but little drunkenness is
reported. Fifteen hundred jugs
left Hamlet on one shipment,
much of wlii h came to this
county. It is a sad sight to see
such a sinful waste of money.?
Fayetteville < tbserver.
PWE LEVEL I LENS.
We are sorry to note that Mr*.
J. H. Worley is very sick.
There seems to be a lot of
moving in our little town.
Mr. I). U. Oliver is the happy
man. It's a great big girl.
Mr. J. P. Davis, of Durham, is
spending a few weeks here.
Mr. Luther Barnes, of Wilson
county, spent a few days in town.
Mr. B. L. Strickland and family,
of Selma, spent ()ld Xmas iu town.
The po8toffiee is moved once
more. It is now in the Creech
and Bras well house.
Mr. T. W. Green and family
have left our burg for a home
somewhere near Shiloh.
Mrs. C. Price is now living in
Rev. J. H. Worlev's house, reT
cently vacated by W. .1. Green.
Mrs. Ida Woodard and little
Blanche, recently spent a few
days visiting relatives and friends
in Goldsboro.
Mrs. LulaCotton, of Goldsboro,
recently spent a few days here,
visiting her parents, Mr.and Mrs.
W. F. Gerald.
Mr. P.C. Worley, of Plymouth,
spent Saturday, Sunday and
Monday with iiis parents, Rev.
J. 11. Worley and wife.
Bob.
AROUND SANDERS CHAPEL.
Mr. Joseph Strickland, of Dur
ham, spent a few days in our
neighborhood recently.
Mr. Thos. J. HoltleftforChapel
Hill Tuesday, where he will finish
his course in medicine in May. *
Messrs. J. F. and C. H. Sanders
left for the Charleston Exposition
Monday, to spend several days.
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Whitley, of
Princeton, spent last Saturday
with Mr. and Mrs. John Smith.
Mr. and Mrs. John Smith who
have been quite sick at the home
of Mr. W. A. Smith, are still very
feeble.
Mr. Chas. S. Powell, Jr., left for
Macon, Ua., Monday, to take a
course in the Macon Business
College.
Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Ellington,
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Austin and
Miss Lena Rose, were in the neigh
borhood Sunday.
Mr. J. F. Sanders and Miss Lil
lian Holt, spent Saturday and
Suuday with Miss Bettie Lee
Sanders in the Preston section. 1
Mr. C. T. Hill and Miss Lizzie
Whitley were married at Smith's
Chapel last Sunday. We bespeak
for them a happy and prosperous
future.
We welcome to our neighbor
hood Mr. and V rs. C. R. Lynch,
of Wayne. Mr. Lynch has re
cently purchased Mr.C. Godwin's
place on the river. *
Misses Nellie Barbour, Mattie
Hudson, Bertha Stevens, Annie
Martin, Leon Stevens, All>ert
Barbour and Kenneth Ellington,
attended Sunday School at Sand
ers Chapel last Sunday.
W.
AROUND GLENMORE.
Sheriff J. T. Islington was here
Tuesday on business.
Mrs. Martha Sanders is visiting
her daughter, Mrs. J. T. Wellons
at Smithfield.
Miss Helen Pearce, of I -''v, >
who is teaching school ai tuur
(taks,spent Saturday and Sunday
here.
Messrs. H. H. Ilrown, Percy
and Henry Smith, of tin* Four
Oaks section and Mr. llollo
well, of (loldsboro, were in our
section Thursday night.
The Sunday school at Sanders
School House was reorganized
Sunday. Mr. W. N. Iah* is super
intendent. It will meet every
Sunday at ?'! o'clock p. m.
Miss Alma Sanders, who was
one of the committee ap|>ointe I
to solicit contributions t? pay
off the indebtedness of Antioch
M. K. church, having raised
the largest sum was awarded a
lovely two dollar album.
Ikimh.