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VOL. 20. SMITHFIELD, N. FRIDAY. .JANUARY 17, 1902. NO. 45.
TO IMPROVE THE CAPE FEAR
Plan Calls For a Total Appro
priation of $1,350,000.
GREAT SCHEME ABLY PRESENTED.
Hon. E. W. Pou Corrects a Misstate
ment by Mr. Rixey?Senator
Simmons Presides Over a
Session of Senate.
Washington Special in News and Observer.
Washington, I). C., Jan. 14?
.Major E. J. Hale, of Fayetteville,
appeared today before Chairman
Burton's House Committee on
Hi vers and Harbors and present
ed rhe case of the Cape Fear Riv
er improvement plan, in which
the l.nited States engineer re
ports that eight feet at low water
throughout the year may be ob
tained. It calls for a total ap
propriation of $1,.450,000, but
its friends will be cout> lit for the
present, with an appropriation of
any amount sufficient to begin
work on the plan recom
mended by Ca)it. Lucas. This
provides for three locks, each 150
in the chamber and 2S fee. wide
\vith movable dams 170 feet
long, the plan being similar to
that employed on the Kanawha
Kiver.
The distinguishing feature of
.Major Hale's argument was the
demonstration which seemed to
greatly impress the committee,
that the peculiar seacost ot
.North Carolina, jutting out over
150 miles east oithe normal line,
was responsible for the hitherto
commercial inferiority of our
State to her neighbors, and that
except approach to our back
cnimtrv he had via t he Cane Fear
River and Fayetteville, wlfich its
precisely on the normal coast
line the trade of central and wes
tern North Carolina is intercept
ed hy the ports of neighboring
States over shorter lines.
He also contrasts the cost of
the .Manchester ship canal, seven
ty-five million dollars?serving
seven and a half millions of peo
ple, with the cost of the proposed
Cape Fear improvement, which
will serve two millions of people.
He said that if the British could
value an Englishman for such
purposes at ten dollars per head,
the American Government might
afford to value an American at
08 cent per head, which would be
the cost per head of people sever
ed by the Cape Fear River
scheme.
Senator Simmons and Repre
sentative l'ou were present and
say that the committee was
most favorably impressed by
Major Hale's speech and elabor
ate maps and telling exhibits
were handed the committee as
the argument proceeded. It was
a great presentation of a scheme
which nieams much for out
State.
It will be recalled that this plan
has the endorsement of our legis
lature.
During the discussion of the
pension bill in the House Mon
day, Congressman Rixey, of
Virginia, stated that North Car
olina spent $100,000 in pensions
for ex-Confederates, giving to ex
pensioners from 814 to So 2.
This was such a glaring misstate
ment that the talented young
member from the Kaleigh dis
trict, Hon. Iv \V Pon. could not
allow it to go unchallenged, lie
secured recognition and in a vig
orous two minutes' speech, in
which he had the undivided at
tention of the House, showed
that our State spent #200,000
in pensions to our soldiers, giv
ivg to each pensioner from #20
to #120. Mr. Pou is one of the
ablest young men our State ever
sent here, and he will lie heard
from in due time
A party of Congressmen seem
ed to be surprised a day or two
ago when Hon. W. W. Kitchen,
of the Fifth District, told them
that four tier cent of the receipts
of internal revenue paid by Dur
ham last year would erect the
building asked for by him for
that town, or that the net profits
of the postoffice there for last
year would pay interest on a
sum sufficient to erect four such
buildings. Mr. Kitcbin has this
and the Winston Hill much at i
heart. Senator Simmons will in
troduce the Durham bill in the
Senate tomorrow.
President pro tern Frye called
Senator Simmons to the chair
and our Senator presided dur
ing most of today's session of
the Senate. He presided like a
veteran. This is an unusual
honor, as 110 other Senator has
been called to the chair during
this Congress.
The delegation Winston-Salem
ladies will araive tonight to in
vite President Roosevelt to at
tend the centennial celebration of
Salem t emale Academy. Sena
tors Simmons and l'ritchard and
most, if not all, the House dele
gation will accompany the ladies
to the White House to-morrow.
Senator Pritchard arrived to
day and found a great array of
the faithful anxiously and im
patiently awaiting his arrival.
North Carolina Republicans are
here in force. Rut there were no
new developments today in the
District Attorneyship tight.
CORONATION EMBASSY.
American Envoys at The Crowning:
of King: Edward.
Washington, Jan. 14?The spe
cial embassy to represent the
Knifed States at the coronation
of King Fdward VII of Great
Britain was announced by Secre
tary Hay today after the meet
ing of the Cabinet. The embassy
is bs follows:
Special Ambassabor? W hi tela w
Reid, of, New York.
Representative of the United
States Army?General James H.
Wilson, United States Army, of
Delaware.
Representative of the United i
States Navy, Capt. Charles E.
Clark, late of the battleship Ore
gon and now (ioveruor of the
Sailors' Home, Philadelphia.
The secretaries to the embassy
will be J. P. Morgan, Jr., of New
York; Edmund Lincoln Baylies,
of New York, and William Wet
more, son of Senator Wetmore, of
Rhode Island.
Instead of selecting one person
to represent the United States}
the President has chosen three
distinguished men, equally prom
inent in their various fields.
Mi-. Reid is editor of the New
York Tribune, and was represen
tative of this Government on the
occasion of the Queen's Jubilee
ceremonies. His diplomatic ex
perience as Minister to France
renders him especially qualfied to
meet the requirements of the
new post.
Captain Clark is famous as the
commander of the Oregon on her
memorable trip from the Pacific
to Cuban waters and also during
the Santiago sea fight.
General Wilson is a distinguish
ed soldier of both the Civil and
Spanish Wars.
The members of the embassy
were the personal choice of the
President and are expected to}
be most acceptable to King Ed
ward. Mr. Reid has a large for
tune and will be able to enter
tain in a lavish manner, lie will
probably engage a handsome
residence tor the coronation.
Congress appropriated $10,000
to cover his epenses at the J ubi
lee, tint in addition Mr. lieid
spent about 000 of his own
money. The ex pauses of General
Wilson and Captain Clark will
probably be paid out of some
contingency fund of the Gov
ernment if no sum is appropri
ated by Congress. The income
of neither would permit of his ac
cepting t he detail unless the Gov
ernment paid a parteftheexpen
ses.
Failed to Fly and Trouble Followed.
A recent dispatch from Kings
ton, Ontario, says:
At a meeting of Free .Met hodists
at Verona, one of the brethren
declared he could fly, and pro
ceeded to demonstrate his power.
He launched into space and his
head came in contact with a large
coal oil lamp. The lamp fell to
the floor and the oil ignited.
At one time five men nnd three
women were on fire, and five out
of theeight were seriously burned.
The flames spread and caused a
panic. Many were injured in the
stampede.
STATE NEWS.
Short Items ot Interest Clipped and
Culled From Our State
Exchanges.
Smallpox has again made its
appearance at Kinston.
There is a case of scarlet fever
in Bingham school at Asheville.
Tuesday the city of Asheville
voted $200,000 in bonds for a
new water supply.
Governor Aycock spoke on the
imperative need of public educa
tion before the Charlotte Chamber
of Commerce Tuesday night.
The Monarch roller mills at
High Point were burned Friday.
The mill was insured for $.'$,000,
estimated to be half the value.
Charles O'Brien, buyer for the
American Tobacco Company at
Winston, has been ordered to
Turkey where he will continue in
the service of the same company.
The nineteenth volume "of the
State Records, compiled by -I udge
Walter Clark, has appeared.
There will be only one more
volume, and then the general
index.
The Wayne County Board of
Education at its meeting this
week apportioned $2.00 per
capita to the school children of
the county. This will give four
and oi.e-half months' school.
The mayor and chief of police
of Elizabeth Cit.v have brought
suits for $10,000 each against
the Citizens committee, owing to
the latter's charges against the
mayor and chief in the Nellie
Cropsey matter.
Tl?. ^n,n Hr.ll H ........ ! ?
x uc: uvy v? u ui uciiua vuu in urau
fort county, has voted for a
special tax of 30 cents on prop
erty and 90 cents on the poll to
supplement the public school
funu. There were but two votes
cast against the special tax.
J. L. Love, formerly conductor
on the Carolina Central, has en- j
tered suit at Wilmington against
the Seaboard Air Line in the sum
of $100,000 for injuries received
in an accident to a freight tram
of which he was conductor near i
Cronly, on December 20th, 1900. |
The famous Liberty bell passed
through a part of North Caro- 5
lina last week en routefrom Phil
adelphia to the Charleston expo
sition. The bell and the com-1
mittee accompanying it were
given ovations at Asheville and
along the railroad line between
Tennessee and Asheville.
Houston Merrimon, of Asheville,
who was shot and seriously
injured about two months ago
by a young girl whose ruin he
had accomplished, has recovered.!
He was teller and assistant cash
ier in the Dlue Kidge National
Bank at the time of the trouble
but on the same day his resigna
tion was offered and accepted.
The report of the Monroe dis
pensary for the past year shows
gross sales ^amounting to $21,
957.07. Tlie net profits for the
year were $0,000 and of this
x ? 1 x e \ ?
? iiiiiiuiu i ue iown 01 .Monroe re
ceived $1,001.68, the county
school fund $1.001.0.'?, the chain
gang $1,001.03 and the Monroe
graded schools received $1,11)5.
11.
The trustees of the St ite N'or
mal and Industrial College for
women at Greensboro have de
cided to make extensiveimprove
ments of the grounds, which are
now very bare and unprepossess
ing. George Foster Peabody
has given $10,000 for a park
there, of this $5,000 is to he
expended for the above improve
ments.
At High Point Sunday of last
week a Mrs. Day was found dead
in bed. She and her husband had
sepnrated and the day before had
divided their household effects.
There was some suspicion of foul
play and the coroner was sum
moned, but as there was no evi
dence to support the suspicion
no inquest was held. The woman
is supposed to have died of heart,
disease. Last Thursday a young
daughter of the deceased died and
it is said herdeath was caused by
the shock of her mother's death.
The building occupied by the
Curolina huggv Company and
the market house at Scotland
Neck were destroyed by tire early
Wednesday morning. The Buggy
Company's loss is $1,800 to $2,
000 with $000 insurance. The
market house was valued at
$800 and insured for $500.
Mess. Hood & Britt, general
merchants of Goldsboro, made
an assignment Friday morning,
naming Capt. J. E. Peterson as
assignee. Liabilities estimated
at $10.OOO, with assets probably
half that sum. They had done
business in Goldsboro for twenty
j ears. They did an extensive
time business and their failure is
due t<) popr collections. i
Hector McLaehlin, a young
white man, has been convicted of
burglary in the second degree at 1
Wilmington and sentenced to
ten years in the penitentiary.
The only thing which saved him
from the scaffold was the failure '
to prove that he broke into the
house. Tlie man who occupied
the residt nee could not swear
that the door was locked.
Gov, Aycock last week par
doned Cal I ay, a woman who is
serving a 12 months'sentence in
Mitchell ewnty jail. The old
woman is 70 years old and was 1
convicted of retailing liquor. She
has served four months ami her
health is so broken that her re
lease was asked for. The pardon
was urged by a petition signed
bv manv prominent citizens.
A VERY OLD CHURCH.
A North Carolina Federal Ottice
holder who Preaches Between
Times.
A recent Washington letter to
the Charlotte Observer contains
the following which may interest
Herald readers:
It is perhaps so unusual to hear
of a man tilling a government
position spending his leisure time
preaching the gospel that an ex
ception may be worth notice.
Such an exception is found in the
person of J. A. Ashburn, of Surry
county, who has a position as
doorkeeper of the Senate wing of
the capitol. Instead of returning
to his home to have a good time
as did most all other of the em
ployes at the capitol, Mr. Ash
burn spent the holidays preach
ing in Delaware and New Jersey.
Last Sunday Mr. Ashburn, who |
is a Primitive Baptist, preached
in what Benedict s history de-!
clares is theoldest Baptistchurch
in the United States. Thechurch
is at Newark, Del. It was organ
ized in Wales in 1701 and was
brought to this country in the
ship "James and Mary," bring
ing not only the minister, but
the brick also of which the build
ing had been erected. The ship
landed at New Castle, Del., and
soon after the brick were carried
on the backs of mules a distance
of some ten miles to the present
location, in later years the
church was rebuilt, but a portion
of the original brick are still in
the building.
Umneror William ofdermanv
I - ./ 7
made a request that Miss Roose
velt, daughter of the president,
be allowed to christen his new
yacht, which will be launched at
X"W York. The president, ac
qui< seed and Kmperor William
s"iit a cablegram Saturday ex
tending thanks for the courtesy
and saying that, he would send
Ids yacht llohenzollern, with
l'rince Henry, of Prussia, as his
representative at the launch
ing. President Roosevelt sent
a reply cablegram assuring the
emperor of his pleasure at his
action and extending best wishes
to the emperor and the German
people.
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NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS.
Items of Interest from Wash
ington City.
Some ot the Week's Happenings
in and out of the Halls ot
Congress.
The Director of the Census an
nounced Monday the percentage
of increase of population in dif
ferent parts of the country,
showing for the last decade a
rappid decrease from previous
rate of growth of population in
the West, a less marked, but de
cided decrease 111 the North, and
a slight in the South. For the
first tune in the history of this
country the population of the
South has increased some more
rapidly than that of the North
The Last geographically is in
cluded in the term North, West
and South is far more nearly the
same than it ever has been.
Senator Hoar has introduced a
resolution providing for the ap
pointment of a committee of sev
en Senators to examine into the
conduct of the war in the l'hilip
pines, the administration of the
government thAe and the con
dition and character of the in
habitants, said committee to
have power to send for persons
and papers, to administer oaths
and to sit during the sessions of
the Senate.
Secretary Root lias sent to
Congress estimates of $8!)7,00()
for the defenses of the Island of
Guam and $526,000 for the de
fenses of Hawaii. The defenses
of Guam aretoiucludea seaeoast
battery, $142,000; defensive
sites, $45,000, and topedo bat
teries, mines, etc., $125,000.
The defenses of Hawaii are to
include those about Honolulu
and Pearl Harbor. General Gil
lespie, Chief of Engineers, states
in the estimates that these defen
ses are urgently needed to pro
tect newly acquired territory of
the United States and to prevent
the interruption of cable commu
nication, these islands being in
the line of the projected cable.
Mr. Rixey, of Virginia,on Mon
day caused something of a stir
on the Democratic side by ad
vancing a proposition to open
the doors of national soldiers'
homes to ex Confederates and to
furnish Federal aid to State Con
federate homes. Mr. Richardson
of Albama, was the only Demo
crat who joined Mr. Rixey in
support of it.
Representative Wood, of Cali
fornia, has written a letter to the
chairman of the House Commit
tee on Interstate and Foreign
Commerce, calling attention to
the alarming number of railway
accidents in various parts of the
country and suggesting that
Congress should inquire into the
causes and provide legislative
remedies as far as these are pos
sible. Mr. Wood points out
that Congress brought about the
use of uniform safety coupling
devices, and he says it should re
quire railway systems engaged
in interstate commerce to adopt
the amplest means of protecting
the public against accidents.
Marriage Licenses.
For the week ending January
12. marriage licences were grant
ed the following white couples:
J. M. Driver and Kllie Penrce,
1?. 1$. Broughton and Bettie
Creech, Jack Cook and Maggie
Mitchener, 1> B Bathea and
Louisa Carroll, Tharcy Batten
and Maggie 1 'ike, Luther A.
Johnson and L. Cestial Lee, Alex
Dupree and Ora L. Barbour,
John \V. Baker and \ man da
Lvans, Charlie Pool and Ida
Knnis, J. C. Price and Ludella
Jones. QuinnieTalton and Bettie
Hinnant.
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GENERAL NEWS.
A Partial List of the Week's Hap
penings Throughout the
Country.
Ex-Governor McCreary has
been chosen for P. S. Senator by
the Kentucky legislature. He
will succeed senator Deboe,
Republican.
The Hamilton club, of Chicago,
will entertain Admiral Schley on
the night of the 25th and a public
recption will take place on the
27th. (ireat preparations are
being made for the event.
Richard Croker has retired
from the formal leadership of
Tammany Hall and is succeeded
by Lewis Nixon. Nixon is a
Virginian and was born in Lees
burg 111 that State, in 1861.
Jim Mays, a negro, charged
with assaulting Lula .Jeans, the
daughter of Joseph Jeans, a
prominent farmer naer Sim
ston, six miles from Springfield,
Ky., was taken from jail by a
mob early Saturday and hanged
to a tree in the high school yard.
The yacht Hohenzollern, of
Emperor William, of Germany,
will go to New York to partici
pate in the launching of His
Majesty's new yacht. Prince
Henry of Prussia, brother of the
Emperor, will also be present at
the ceremony as the representa
tive of Emperor William.
neven lives were lost 111 a tire in
Broadway. N. Y., at an early
hour Sunday morning-. The
Pearlstins and other family lived
in rooms above a shoe store and
were asleeep when the fire started
()ne of those who escaped admit
ted that he had dropped a
lamp, which started the fire.
The state senate of Mississippi
has endorsed a resolution endros
ing thedecision of Admiral Dewey
in the Schley court of inquiry
and declaring that no text books
should be used in the schools in
that state "that give to any
other officer than Admiral Schley
credit for the victory off Santi
ago."
The Chicago board of trade
passed resolutions Monday call
ing upon congress to reopen the
Schley case and make its own
decision as to who was in com
mand at the battle of Santiago.
The Maryland legislature has
also passed a resolution asking
congress to adopt the Dewey
report.
At Chattanooga, Tenn., Thurs
day, the students of the medical
department of Grant University,
in mass meeting, by a unanimous
rising note, asked the trustees of
the university to dispense with
the services of Rev. 11. J. Cooke,
professor of historical theology,
for his attack on the Daughters
of the Confederacy in a religious
paper.
Franklin J. Moses, Governor
of- South Carolina in the days
of the carpetbaggers, was' sent
enced to four months' imprison
ment in Boston last week for the
larceny of an overcoat. Moses
has served a term or two in the
penitentiary since he disgraced
the office of Governor of the
Palmetto State, and has sunk
to the lowest depths of degrada
tion.
A book entitled "Schley aud
Santiago" is in press in Chicago
and will be issued within ten days.
The au'lior is (ieon oK firnhum,
a war correspondent, wh > h 1
exceptional facilities for gather
ing materials, as he was 011 board
the Ifrooklvn during the fight
with ttie Spanish fleet and was
thus in position to tell the story
of Santiago "without fear or
favor." The book is said to have
the unqualified endorsement of
Hear Admiral Schley, who read
and corrected the proof sheets.
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