?K i? m i ttjfi r I ii Mrrali). , ? price one dollar pek yeak. "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD.' single copies three cents VOL. 20. SMITIIFIELD, X. ?., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1!H>2. NO. 51. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. Some Happenings of the Week Tersely Told. Many Items of Interest Concerning Tarheeldom Clipped and Culled From the State Press. The Governor has postponed the hanging of Andrew Jackson at Lincolnton until March 20. Miss Helen Gould, of New York, visited the State Normal and Industrial College at Greens boro Tuesday. Mrs. Susan McGhee, of Frank lin county, died Tuesday. If she had lived till the Hth of April she would have been 100 years old. The White Furniture Compa ny, of Mebane, is authorized by the State to increase its capital stock from $25,000 to $100, 000. Twenty-four thousand dollais have been subscribed to the stock of a new national bank to be es tablished July 1st at Waynes ville. The State has chartered the Atlantic institute at Morehead City, it is an educational insti tution and no capital stock is giveu. News comes from Greensboro that in a neighborhood row near that city Saturday night a white man by the name of Shaffner,and a negro named Hubbard, were killed and five persons were in jured. Blanton and L)ick Fleming have been convicted in Rowan Superior Court, charged with criminal assault upon Mrs. Belle Livingood, a widow, who lives about fifteen miles from Salisbu ry. They were sentenced to be hanged April 11th. The Mckinley monument com mittee for the State has issued a notice to the people of North Carolina, saying that the S ate was expectedto contribute $1,000 for the monument and suggest ing that sub-comuiittees be form ed at every county seat to raise the proportion each county ought to give. A negro named Joe Smith, of Wayne county, went to Golds boro last Thursday in company with his sister-in-law, Klla Smith, and wagered that he could drink more whiskey than she could. The whiskey was bought and the two returned home. Friday morning Ella was found dead in her bed. Her sister, Joe's wife, gave him $20 to buy hera coffin. With this Joe vanished and has not been seen since. President Taylor, of Wake Forest College, will preach the baccalaureate sermon before the graduates before the professional departments of Shaw Fniversit.v. colored, on Sunday, March 9. On the 13th President Kilgo, of Trinity College, will deliver the annual address before these graduates in medicine, law, pharmacy, etc. The trustees will meet the same day. It will be the first time they have ever met at Raleigh. Gaston A. Kobbins, who lost I his life in the recent Park Avenue Hotel tire in New York, was a na tive of North Carolina, having been born in (ioldsboroabout 4.'5 years ap a. He graduated at the I'niversity of North Carolina in the class with Governor Aycock. He has spent most of his life in Seltna, Ala., having represented his district in Congress. He h?d been living at tlie Park Avenue Hotel in New York for the past It* months. A charter was Monday granted to a corporation with a capital of 98.(H)0,(HK); the Penncarden Lumber and Manufacturing Company, of Lenoir, Caldwell county. The incorporators are John H. Danenhower and Wil liuin J. Merritt. of Pennsylvania, and Walter W. Noble, of Is-noir. The charter confers extensive privileges?including the manu facture of lumber, wood pulp, wood alcohol, etc., the construe- < tion and operation of factories, the development and sale of i electric power, etc. The State's i fee for the charter is f600. | A statute is to be placed at Guilford Battle Grounn. It rep resents a "North Carolina Colon ial of 177b." It is 0 feet high and of elegant finish. The New Orleans papers an nounce the engagement of Miss Nichols, daughter of the Chief Justice of Louisiana, to James Richard Young, insurance com missioner of North Carolina. The date of the wedding will be late in April. Governor Aycoek has commu te] the death sentences of Rus-' sell Gates, white, and Harry Mills, colored, to life imprison ment. They were two of the Kmma post office burglars who stood guard on the outside when the crime was committed. They were to have been hanged Wed nesday. Mr. R. N. Duke has given an other one hundred thousand dol lars to Trinity College. The an nouncement of this gift was made at the civic celebration held in the memorial hall Saturday eve ning, and came at the close of the exercises of the evening. The donation was made in this way: Mr. Duke has given to the college the funds to employ four new professors. These profes sors will fill the chairs of politi cal economy, German, romance language, and applied mathe matics. In making the announce ment Dr. Kilgo said that it was equal to a gift of one hundred thousand dollars to the endow ment fund of the college. This makes more than $700,000 that, the Duke family has given to TVinitv ROSE PAYS THE PENALTY. Hanged at Wilson For the Murder 01 Thomas Parmer. A special from Wilson to the News and Observer, of February 20, says: The law has been satisfied. John Henry Hose paid his debt with his life upon the scaffold here this morning. Hose spent the time up to the execution in prayer with his spiritual adviser, Hev. A. P. Iyer, of the Methodist church. He expressed through him his message to the world, which was to the effect that he had made his peace with God and bore no ill will for those with whom he had been associated in crime. There was no confession on the scaffold, as this had been given out in his appeal to the Governor. At 10:15 Deputy Jesse Mayo came from the jail, followed by Hose and Hev. Mr. Tver. On the scaffold they were joined by Sheriff Sharpe, Deputy Warren, of Nash county, and Deputy Wil liam Mills, of Wilson. After all were on the scaffold Hev. Mr. Tver offered prayer. The prayer being over those with rhe prisoner bade him a last farewell. The death cap and ropes were then adjusted by Deputy Wells. The drop fell at 10:24 and in ten minutes he was pronounced dead by Drs. W. S. Anderson and Crocker. At 10:42 the body was cut down and after being placed in a coffin was turned over to his relatives and taken to Kenly for burial. i. uc: riiviic | m exception of that by Captain Charles E. Clark, who command ed the Oregon. i Captain Clark's statement cor- i responds with Ids testimony be fore the Court of Inquiry, except, that it is made somewhat strong er, in that he states specifically rather than by inference, that he recognize 1 Admiral Schley r.s be- 1 ing in command and repeated his signaled orders. The other captains quoted bv ' the President say that they re- < ceived no orders .from Adt oral i Schley, and "would not have ] heeded" them if they had re ceived them. i The insubordination of these I declarations by junior officers is < ignored by the President. The President also ignores, the 1 statement of Captain Clark, and renders his decision irtaccordance I with the opinion of the officers who declare that they would not have heeded the orders of their superior officers had they received them. The President introduces his coniment upon the appeal with a statement that he has read the testimony taken by the court and the logs of theships. and has heard the statements of five cap tains commanding tfie vessels in the tight. Ilis only citations, however, are from the "state ments" of the captains. In effect lie says that these cap tains (who in their statements court that conclusion) and other captains in the tight are entitled to whatever credit is due for the Santiago victory. He implies that Admiral Sampson was tech nically not in command, and de nies that Admiral Schley was in command actually or technically, and implies that Admiral Schley was actually carried into the tight by thecaptainof the Brook lyn. The decision, reply or opinion, under whatever, designation it may be identified, when stepped of its verbiage, actually accuses Admiral Schley of cowardice. In referring to the "loop" made by the Brooklyn, the President makes use of this sentence full of venom: "This kind of danger must not be too nicely weighed by those whose trade it is to dare greatly for the honor of the flag." The danger referred to is that involving the probable loss of the Brooklyn had she been turned toward instead of away from tne shore in making the "loop." 'i'k? .i...? ,i... ,:.i? i lic iatu nidi tiie avuiuautc this unnecessary danger enabled the-Brooklyn to prevent the es cape of the Colon. If not other of the Spanish ships, is ignored by the President in this connec tion, though the fact unavoida bly appears in the further discus sion of the battle. The President approves the "unanimous" finding oftlieeourt with a comment that it "should have specifically condemned the failure to enforce an effective night blockade at Santiago while Admiral Schley was in com mand." NOT SUPPORTED BY THE EVIDENCE. No evidence in support of this assumption of inefficiency of blockade at night while Admiral Schley was in command is cited by the President. If he were as familiar with the testimony as reading it should have made him he should know that the charge of inefficiency of blockade at night was distinctly and specifically disproved and was abandoned by the prosecution. Another reference made by the President is one that even the hostile members of the court did not appear to have found war rant for. This is the expression (referring to Schlev:) "His diso bedience of orders and misstate ment of fact in relation there to." The basis for this comment must have come from a source of comment availed of by the Pres ident rather than from the testi mony taken by thecourt, or even the "statements" of captains quoted in the opinion. 1 he suggestion is made that had the Brooklyn turned in, in stead of turning out, in making the "loop," stie might have de st royed the Spanish ships at the mouth of the harbor. This ig nores the fact that theotherships did make directly for the mouth of the harbor, _>etdidnol destroy the Spanish ships; while tie Brooklyn, after making the "loop," did actually destroy these ships when they had dis tanced the rest of the American Meet except the < )regon. The Spaniards are spoken of as having been already disabled when the Brooklyn and Oregon drove them ashore; but this does not appear in any testimony that has been made public. Perhaps the most extraordina rv thing about theopinion. aside from its inability to hang togeth er, is the cheap attempt to rtrng in the name of President. McKiu lev and make it appear that Ad miral Schley's nppea! was not front the Court of Inquiry to the President, but from the dead President to his successor. NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS. Items of Interest from Wash ington City. Some ot the Week's Happenings m and out or the Halls ot Congress. First Assistant Postmaster ! General William .\1. Johnson has resigned, and Capt. Harry 8. New, of Indianapolis, has been offered the place. The House refused to concur in the Senate amendments to the Philippine Tariff bill Wednesday and ordered the bill sent back to conference. Various amendments proposed by the Democrats were rejected. Tin' need of a sub-treasury in the South was presented to the Ways and Means Committee, by Mayor Myers and a delega tion ol business men from Sa vannah, who asked for the estab lishment of such a treasury branch at that place. Justice Horace Gray, of the 1'nited States Supreme Court, has suffered an attack of paralysis. His mind is clear, but he has lost the muscular control of a part of his body. Justice Gray's ad vanced age, 74 years, gives rise to some apprehension as to the outcome. It has been practically decided that the formal ceremonies of taking over the Danish West In dies by the United States shall be performed by the army, and it is probable that a detachment of troops from Porto Ilico will be sent to the islands soon after the exchange of ratifications of the treaty to raise theflag and form ally take possession of the new territory. An ent liusiastic meeting of Boer sympathizers was held in Wash ington Sunday afternoon, and resolutions were adopted calling on President Roosevelt and Con gress to use all their power to prevent the further exportation of horses and mules to the Eng lish in South Africa. In addition to this, a collection was taken up for the benefit of the Boer widows and orphans. The House Com mi tt.ee on Terri tories has unanimously voted to report bills for the admission of the territories of New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma. The vote was taken on a motion made by Mr. Moon, of Tennessee, declaring it to be tlv- sense of the committee that the three territo ries were entitled to statehood and that sub-committees be ap pointed to prepare the bills. A bill has been introduced in the Senate bv Senator Eugene Hale, of Maine, for the construc tion of a building in Washington for file accommodation of the Unittd States Supreme Court, the Department of Justice, etc. The bill provides for the location of the building east of the Capitol and opposite the Congressional Library Building, of which it is to be a counterpart. To begin the work $500,000 is provided for in the bill. \\ lien the Philippine Farm bill came up in the House Wednesday Congressman W. VV. Kitchin in troduced an amendment enlarg ing that section which protects mothers and fathers for failure to testify against their kin, who are charged with treason. Mr. Fbt-t . in sought to have the provisions of the section apply to all per sons. lie pointed out the dan gers of the law where there is no evidence of an overt act and the opportunities it gives for prose cution. An Unusual Record. Constable.!. A. Dunn, of this city, was married July 24th, 1X01. His first child was born Inl.v 24th, 1X03; his e?cond child, July 24th, ISO."; and the third and youngest child was born on July 24. 1X07. So on the same day every year Mr. and Mrs. Ihinn celebrate their wed ding anniversary and the birth days of their three children.? Charlotte Observer.