fpjc Bmitljficli) fbMiX ? i ? v. - -- - ? ? --- _ price one dollar per teak. "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COI NTRY AN1> OUR GOD. single copies three centr. VOL. 20. SMITIIFIELD. X, C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1002. NO.50 NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. Some Happenings of the Week Tersely Told. Many Items of Interest Concerning: Tarheeldom Clipped and Culled From the State Press. Snow has fallen all over the State at depth of from (1 to Is inches?the hea viest since Ex-President Cleveland and a party of friends arrived on fur rituck Sound Friday for a two weeks" duck hunt. Judge Purnell, of the eircuit court, has received an order from Washington to wear a gown while on the bench. Plans have been addopted fur the new dormitory of Trinity College, to cost .$25 Odd, the gift of Mr. B. N. Duke. Green Pickergon, a farmer liv ing in Franklin county, tried to kill himself last week by cutting his throat with a razor. Application is made to Gov. Ayeock to commute the sent'-nee of Murderer John II. Hose, of Wilson county, to life imprison ment. The public school authorities are notified that when the second $100,000 of the State's aid to schools is needed it will be forth coming. Last week Frank Shaw, colored, was convicted of murder in the first degree in Robeson Superior court and sentenced to be hanged March 4th. Jake Hill, of Stokes county, has invented a flying machine and has decided to enter the flying machine contest at the St. Louis Exposition next year. Miss Mamie McKane, night operator at the Charlotte Tele phone Exchange, was burned to death early last Saturday morn ing. It is supposed that while sitting too neu,r the stove her clothing caught on fire; she then rushed down two flights of stairs into the street where two police man extinguished the flames with the snow. She died about 12 o'clock. A lamp explosion in the house of Wiley Taylor,colored, Friday.; caused a fire at South Mills, 14 miles north of Elizabeth City,! which swept the main business and residential portions of the town. Ttie fire raged for four hours before it was gotten under control Twenty five buildings were destroyed The loss is es timated at $40,000. There was no loss of life. Hector McLean, survivor of the j noted McLean twins, died at his home, near Lillington last week His twin brother Hugh died thret years ago. They were born in Harnett county February 1(5, 1810. They were wealthy and educated and always dressed precisely alike Hector never recpvered from the shock of his brother's death. They never mar ried and were always together. Shearer Bibical Hall at David son College, the gift of Rev Dr. Shearer and wife, was dedicated last week, Rev. Dr. Howerton, of Charlotte, delivering the dedica tory address and Rev. Dr. VVhar ey, of Mooresville.the dedicatory prayer. Many of the Presbyter ian clergy, members of the board of trustees of the college, and other friends of the institution were present. The building is a very handsome one. Mrs. Julia Lima Rrewster Brick, who died at the age of 80, in her home in Brooklyn, N\ Y., Febru ary "I, bequeaths in her will, a great portion of herestate, which is said to be worth nearly $1, 000,000, to charities in which she had been interested for fifty years. To the Jos. K. Brick Agricultural, Industrial and Nor mal School in Kdgecombecounty, North Carolina, the bulk of her property goes. This school has been one of Mrs. Brick's particu lar cares. It was named in mem ory of her husband, who died a generation ago, and is for the enucation of negro boys and: girls. A charter is granted hy the State to the Wade Lumber and Supply Company, of Trov,capitul $?>0,000; I'red. II. Wade ami two others of his family owners The company "ill operate saw mills and planum machines ?nd real in millsupp!u's. A charter is also granted 1 he High Point Vetieer iug Company, capital $."0.00(1; ?!. W. Clinard and others. owners, The-eompany will make and sell veneering* oi all kinds and excel sior. The following are the district vice presidents of the ''North Carolina Good Roads Associa tion " First district, it. R Cotten, seci nd. W. It Cox; third, William Dunn; fourth. It II. Lewis; fifth, V. W. Graham; sixth V It Wil liams; seventh, It X. Page;eighth, r. F. Kluttz; ninth, George II. Powell The executive commit tee is composed of President P. H. Hanes, Secretary J. A. Holmes, Treasurer ,fowe|ih G. Brown, S. L. Paterson, A. W. Graham, W. C. Itiddick, Paul Garrett. A. .1. Carroll, a white man, a farmer living near Durham, was being taken to jail in Durham Wednesday when lie was attack ed with heart disease and died soon after getting inside the jail door. He was arrested on the complaint of his wife, who said he had threatened to kill her and thechildren. The trial was post rionpd unit buino* mm.hle to five the bond required?$500?he was started to jail, when death came. Carroll s mind had been impaired, it is said, and he and his wife had lived unhappily for a long time. Each claimed that the other was at fault. At breakfast one morning last week in den ltock Hotel, Ashe ville, J. H. Salisbury, conductor on the Knoxville branch of the Southern railroad, was shot and almost mortally wounded by a negro waiter. There had been some previous trouble. The con ductor earlier in the morning had slapped the negro because he was insolent when the conductor had ordered him to get up and give the chair he was in to an old gentleman, a guest of the hotel. At the breakfast table Sailsburv happened to sit at a table, waited on by the same negro. He ordered his bteakfast, but the negro only went to the stove and sulked. Salisbury called the head waiter and said: "That nigger won't: bring my breakfast. I slapped him just now and I guess he is waiting for me to slap him again." The negro rushed up and. said, "Yes you did strike me," and as Salisbury rose fired four shots in quick succession, one taking effect in the abdomen. The negro was arrested and jailed. The building committee of the Agrieulturial and Mechanical College at Raleigh have awarded the contracts for two buildings. One of these is the 1'ullen Memo rial Building, and is to stand between Primrose Hall and the shops. The present hot houses will be removed and placed in rear of Primrose Hall. The new building will be of brick, stone trimmed. In its basement will be the dining room, to seat 500 persons; on the second floor reci tation rooms and the library and on the third floor the chapel (aleo to be the auditorium), to seat 1,000. W. P. Rose is the architect and builder and the price is$10,000. Theother build ing is Watauga Hall, to replace the burned building of that name. In its basement will be the arm ory. All the remainder will be dormitories, and there will be 00 rooms, accommodating 120 ca dets. The cost will be $12,000, and Barrett & Thompson are the architects. There is available $2,000 worth of material in the wal's of the burned building, the site of which it willoccupy. There was $0,000 insurance on the burned builuing. Bucklen's Arnica salve. The best and most famouscom pound in the world to conquer aches and kill pains. Cures cuts, heals burns and bruises, subdues inflammation, masters piles. Millions of boxes sold yearly. Works wonders in boils, ulcers, felons, skin eruptions. It cures or no pay. 25c. at Hood Bros.', GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. Brief Summary of the Week's Happenings. Some ol the Most Important News ot the World Condensed tor the Readers ot The Herald. Three men were burned U> death Sunday uigln in a factory tire near New York. A Kansas man has had two silver weddings. 1 le married twice and lived with each wife twenty five years. Tired of life, according to a note she lef , .Mrs. J. 1'. Allen, of Buffalo, N. Y., killed herself with carbolic acid .Monday. Two masked a.en held up twelve players at Flanagan's gambling room, in Clinton, Iowa, Monday, and took $2000 from them. The underwriting syndicate of the United States Steel Corpora tion has declared its first dividend and will distribute $10,000,000 in profits. Mrs. Charles I'urdy, of Toledo, Ohio, who kept a hotO in tue .Klondike and dealt in mini tig claims, has made a fortune of $1,000,000. A $3,000,000 office building, the largest in the world, holding 9000 persons, will be erected in Chicago early in the spring by the First Fatioual Bank. At Columbus Ohio surrounded by brother officers, with whom fie was chatting pleasantly, Lieutenant Clarence M. Furey, of the Second Infantry, .Monday suddenly pulled a revolver and shot himself in the temple, dyiug instantly. The unmarried employees of the Salt Lake City Daily News, the Mormon paper, have been notified that unless they marry by June 30, they will lose their positions. The church authori ties have decreed that every man and woman must marry and rear a family. Representative Berleson, of Texas, stated to the House Com mittee on Agriculture that 240, 000 bales of Texas cotton, valued at $10,000,000, were destroyed last year by Mexican weevil. The committee inserted a $20,000 item in the Agricultural Appro priation bill to be immediately available to eradicate the pest. A special from Loudon says: In the house of commons last week the war secretary, Mr. Broderick, said that the number of horses purchased during the war totalled 456,088, of which 77,101 came from the United States and 11,304 from Canada. In addition about 89,705 horses had been captured in South Af rica. Since December, 181)9, accord ing to official reports there have been in Manila 778 cases of bu bonic plague, of which 0,000,000?the amount carried by the measure framed and defeated in congress last year. The committee is working daily, but the decision on specific ideas nre all tentative and open to revision. The p os toff ice appropriation bill will be reported in a few days. It carries $137,910,598. an in crease of $14,133,910 over the current appropriation and of $3,185,022 over the estimates. The largest item is $41,250,000 for railway transportation of mails. The rural free delivery service gets an increase of $1, 250,000 making the total $7, 529,000 and provision is made to place the rural carriers under a contract system, instead of salaries as at preasant. Colonel HobCroeketfc.grandson of l)j?vy Crockett, died in Arkan sas, Tuesday, aged 70 years. Nashville, Term., reports the severest snow storm since 180." and Chatranoog a the heaviest since 18DJI. About two-thirds of the busi ness portion of Woodbury, IVun , was bnrned Sunday night, caus ing a loss of $50,0*00 to 75,000 Hooker T. Washington has been selected as coni.neiiceinent day or itur for tlie Fniversity of Nebraska next June. He has ac cepted. Cornelius Hoosevelt. tbe only surving son of the late S. Weir Hoosevelt, and a cousin to Presi dent Hoosevelt, died iu New York Sunday. Ex-tJovernor Hubert H. Lind say died at Sheffield, Ala , Ttiurs. day. He was the first governor of Alabama after the reconstruct ion period. Hivers cotton warehouse of Jeffer-son, Texas, containing 1, 400 bales of cotton and 200 lin ters, was burned Friday night. Loss $00,000. Dumont's air ship was wrec ked Friday whilesailing over the bay of Monaco and now lies at the bottom of that bay. Dumont had a narrow escape. One hundred and seventy-nix acres of land in the northern surburbs of Baltimore have been unconditionally dona ed as a new site for the Johns Hopkins University. Death ot General Toon. General Thomas F. Toon, State Superintendent of Public Instruc tion, died suddenly in Kaleigh Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. fj About three months ago he went on a trip in the interest of educa tion through Beaufort and Hyde and other eastern counties. On November 20th heniade a speech at Bellhaven, N. C., and sat in a draft afterwards. He con tracted a severe cold which later developed into pneumouia and for several weeks tie hovered near death's door. He finally began to improve and would havetaken up the duties of his office again in a few days if his life had been spared. Gen. Toon was born in Colum bus county on June 10, 18-10. He served in the civil war and rose to the rank of Brigadier General. He served his county one term in the House and onein the Senate. He was in 1000 nominated for for State Superintendent of 'Pub lic Instruction and eleeted in Au gust of the same year. Governor Aycock Wednesday paid the following tribute to Gen. Toon: "i he death ot General loon would have been distressing; under any circumstances, but coming after we had been assured of his recovery, it is a very great shock. "It is a gratification to his friends to know that his last work was given to the cause of the children of the State. 11 was my pleasure to accompany him in November last 011 an Eastern trip, and 1 heard the last speech which he ever made. This was at Belhaven in Beaufort county. The speech greatly impressed the audience, and in my judgment was the best speech heever made I think now of it as having in it the pathos of his coming death, as indeed it was possibly the cause of it. "General Toon's heart was in his work, and he had grown every day since he had come into the office. He was rapidly mas tering the details of his work, and laying plans for large useful ness. He was winning friends all the time, and thereby ga ning supporters for the work in which he was so much interested, i count it a pleasure to have known him. Whether 011 the field of battle, in private intercourse or in the perform ance of civic din ies. he was always brave, *rne and faithful, and was ever in all the relations of life a gentleman. The State has lost a valuable servant, and those of us who knew him j best, a trustworthy friend." WASHINGTON LETTER. The Philippine Question Still Occu pying the Attention of the Senate. Uorulur Correspondence. February 17, 11)02.?Tin- wi* duiti of i he Democratic senator*, in prolonging the debate oil tin Philippine question until all hud time to fairly express their opin ions on the subject has been justi tled in the divergent interest* which are beginning to manifest themselves on the Republican side of t lie chamber. In the face of the testimony of Governor raft, and of the conteations of the Republican senators that the Filipinos are contented with the existing st ate of affairs, there has been received a petition :rom the Federal party in the islands, signed by 200,000 of the more prominent citizens, request ing that the islands tie made an inte gral part of the Failed States and given a territorial form of government. This, of course, is not at all in line with the Repub lican designs but it has produced considerable effect on t lie more conservative members of the paity who are beginning to real ize that their colonial policy is impractical and that unless they accord the Filipinos territorial rights and hold out to them the prospect of ultimate citizenship, they are likely to have a continu ous insurrection on their hands and one that will increase rather than diminish. It is something of a commen tary on Republican diplomacy that, while the administration is endeavoring to establish cordial relations with the Filipinos and inspire in them respect for Ameri can institutions, Governor Taft is testifying in Washington that they are "a lazy, indolent people incapable of performing jury duty" or determining questions of justice. Of course, the press of the islands publishes these state ments and doubtless the people will be flattered into an immedi ate appreciation of the American sense of justice, quickness of per ception and keenness of judg- j meat. To a close observer, the trend of the government toward colo nialism, entangling alliances with foreign powers ana the attendant naval and military development is necessarily a source of anxiety. The sentiments expressed 111 the| Senate lobbies when the news of the Anglo-Japanese alliance was made known were more than I straws in their indication of the I direction in which the country is drifting. The military strength of the country, already weakened by the distant po-sessions which must be protected in t-imeof war, must now oe augmented ana t tin country placed on the highway toward a standing army and a navy that can compete with the European nations into rivalry with which we have entered in the new struggle for colonial posses sions and aggrandizement. As is wellknown, the efforts of out delegates to the Pan-American Congress were hampered by t he belief of South American coun tries that this government re garded them with a covetous eye. The fear was ridiculed by the press but on Friday a mem ber of the Senate Committee on Intel-oceanic Canals stated that permanent wnership of ih" land through which the Panama Canal might be built was unimportant, as long before the 200 year least would have expired this country would "own all th.it territory.'' Opposition to this tendency found voice in the House of Fri day when Mr Wheeler of K"ii tucky tuadea violent attack upon the administration for its policy in regard to foreign initiom ami royalty. Had the gentleman's speech been a little more care fully prepared and had he omit ted some expressions to which lie was d >ubl less led by the excess of his feelings, th-> address would have i>r That this Convention urges a more extended use of convict labor in road building in North Carolina, and respectfully nsks the General Assembly of this State to adopt a system, which will provide f ir the employment of all its able-bodied male con victs either in actual work on the public roads or the preparation of materials therefor." Young Theodore Roosevelt, who was ill with pneumonia, is recovering and will nrobabh be rem >v'ed from Groton, Mass . to the White House this week. The President, who was nt his son's bedside, returned to Washington last week. The young man's mother and sister are with him.