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VOL. 21. SMITIIFIELD, X. C., FRIDAY, MAY 23. 1002. XO. 11.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Some Happenings of the Week
Tersely Told.
Many Items ot Interest Concerning:
Tarheeldom Clipped and Culled
From the State Press.
Hon. C. H. Nlebane has been
re-elected President of Catawba
College.
The Oberon Mills Company,
of Alamance, was Incorporated
last week with $200,000 capital
stock.
Insurance Commissioner Young
has paid into the Treasury $20,
185, being his collections during
the month of April.
The Montgomery Mining Com
pany, of Candor, Montgomery
county, has been incorporated
with half a million capital.
The town of Goldsboro has
adopted the plans of W. P. Rose
for the $15,000 city hall and
market which will be built there.
The State has chartered the
Park Driving Club of Charlotte.
It will have a driving park, ath
letic field, gymnasium, clubhouse
and restaurant.
Union county has a candidate
for Corporation Commissioner in
the person of Mr. John M. Fair
ley, a successfuland popular busi
ness man.
The monument to the late
Lieutenant William F. Shipp,
who was killed at San Juan Hill,
July 1st, 1808, was unveiled in
Charlotte Tuesday.
The Frwin cotton mill com
pany proposes to erect a new mill
at Durham which will have35,000
spindles and about 1,000 looms
and will cost about $000,000.
The State Press Association
will meet at Hendersonville June
25-26. Free entertainment was
offered but the executive com
mittee decided on the pay feature
and rate of $1 a day at hotels
was made.
The Imperial Tobacco Com
pany. which is fighting the
American Tobacco Company,
has leased a storage warehouse
in Durham and expects to buy
much leaf on that market the
coming season.
Sidney Ellis, aged twenty-one
years, lost his right arm .Monday
while working at a saw mill near
Clemmonsville. lie had his hand
on a large saw when it started,
catching his clothes and arm, the
result being that the young m an's
clothing was torn off.
It is definitely settled that no
further steps will be taken toward
having this year any celebration
of the anniversary of the first
landing on Roanoke Island, but
to defer this until next year, when
both Congress and the Legisla
ture can take the necessary steps,
the idea being to make it largely
a national affair.
There was quite a serious cut
ting affairat PinevGrove chureh,
about three miles from Louis
burg Monday. A man by the
name of Dement, stabbed an
other man Fulcher in the back
with a pocket knife. The wound
extended to the lungs and is said
to be quite serious. All of the
parties are white.
Hubert Cash, superintendent
of Durham Home for the Aged
and Infirm, was discharged Fri
day. He attended a funeral,
then bought a pistol, walked two
miles in the-country, and while
walking along a road and in the
presence of several persons blew
out his brains and also shot him
self in the breast. Death quickly
resulted. When the spectators
reached him they found his cloth
ing on fire.
F. M. Lytch, who lived on a
farm near Laurinburg, commit
ted suicide Saturday bv blowing:
the toj> of his head off with a
shotgun. Mis preparation for
the suicide was deliberate and
made with care. He left a note
stating that the act was not due
to rashness but had been con
templated and seriously consid
ered for two years past. Aside
from this he assigned no reason
for the deed.
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Champe, af
ter having been divorced 20
years, were remarried last week
at Concord. Mrs. Champe and 1
her daughter have lived in Rich
mond, Ya., and Mr. Champe
much of the time in Charlotte.
Gen. William P. Roberts, of
Gates county, who was the
youngest brigadier-general in the
Confederate Army and who was
for eight years State Auditor,
has announced his candidacy for
the Democratic nomination for
Congress from the First Dis
trict.
A Washington correspondent
states that 42 counties have
made returns of poll tax pay
ments to Chairman Simmons.
The delinquents who failed to pay
are as follows: Democrats, 2,
1)20; white Republicans, 4,832;
negroes, 12,238. This indicates
that the delinquents in the 1)7
counties will approximate these
figures: Democrats, 0,743; white
Republicans, 11,100; negroes,
28,204.
News was received at M inston
Monday of the death of Mrs.
Itebecca Roominger, aged 88
years, a native of Forsyth coun
ty, which occurred a few days
ago at Columbus, Ind. While a
resident of Winston before the
war the husband drove a coach
between Greensboro and Salem.
He once hauled President Andrew
Jackson and upset the coach 011
the trip, but without serious re
sults. Mr. ltominger died in 1892.
University Programme.
Sunday, June 1, 11:00 a. m.
Baccalaureate Sermon, Rev. O
E. Brown, 1). lb, V anderbut
University.
Monday, June 2, 8:00 p. m.;
Anniversary Meetirgs of the
Dialectic and I'hilantrophic liter
ary Societies in their respective
Halls.
Tuesday, June 3, 9:30 a. m.
Seniors form in front of Memo
rial Hall and march to theChapel
for prayers. 10:30 a. m. Senior
Clasf^ Day Exercises, in Gerrard
Hall. Presentation of Senior
Class Gift, and acceptance by the
Trustees. 12:00 a. m. Alumni;
Vddress bv Hon. Edward, W.
Pou. 1:00 p.m. Business meet
ing of the Alumni Association.
l ;30p. m. Alumni Luncheon in
Commons Hall. 3:30 p m.
Annual Meeting of the Board of
Trustees in the Alumni Building.
5:30 p. m. Closing Exercises of
the Senior Class. 8:30 p. m. j
Ynnual Debate between the
Dialectic and Philanthropic
Literary Societies. 1,0:00 p. m
Reception in Commons Hall by
the President and Faculty.
Wednesday, June 4 10:15 a.
M. Academic Procession forms
in front of the Alumni Building.
10:30 a. m. Commencement
Exercises 111 Memorial Hall,
Orations by members of the
Graduating Class. 12:00 a. m.
Address by Hon. Hilary A. Her
bert. Announcement of Prizes.
Conferring Degrees, by Govenor
Charles B. Aycock. Presentation
of Bibles.
Cost of General strike.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., May 10 ?
Should the National Convention
of Mine Workers, which will be
called bv request of the anthra
cite strikers, grant their desire
and call a strike^* all the coal
miners in the 1 ffited States,
nearly 500,000 employees would
lay down their tools. The fol
lowing statistics show the enorm
itv of such a strike:
Anthracite miners in Pennsyl
vania, 147,000; bituminous
miners in Pennsylvania, 95,000;
miners in all otlier States, 214.
500; total, 450.500;_ average
daily wages, $704,095; yearly
wages (230 working days),
SI 01,941.850; coal mined yearlv.
tons, 209,881.827: value of coal
mined, $300,891,304.
(let a free sample of Chamber
lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets
at Hood Bros., Mare & Son or
Cavenaugh & Benson,'drugstore.
They are ciisier t o take and more
pleasant in effect than pills.
Then their use is not followed by :
constipation as is often the case
with pills. Regular size, 2oe.
per box. 'i
MOUNT PELEE STILL FURIOUS.
Terror-Maddened Islanders Flying
to Fort De France?A Rain ot
Fiery Stones.
Fort De France, Island of Mar
tinique, May 21.?Yesterday s
eruption from Mount l'elee was
violent in the extreme. Colossal
columns of volcanic matter were
ejected from the volcano, which
rained huge, red hot boulders,
many feet in diameter, on the
ruins of St. Pierre and the coun
try near it, from an enormous
elevation and with fearful veloci
ty. The volcanic clouds advanc
ed until they reached Fort De
France.
The spectacle was appalling
and sublime beyond all descrip
tion. The whole population of
Fort De France was thrown into
a frenzy of panic, during which
soldieis, police, men and women,
all terrified, frantic, weeping and
praying, rushed through the
u:i 1 i a.-i
SLIWU3, Wlliltf UYtJIIltfUU tut? JilUW
ing fiery clouds rolled relentless
ly aud rained down stones, still
hot, amid the swirling ashes.
The steam launch of the United
States cruiser Cincinnati took
some refuge and to the French
cruiser Suchet and nearly a hun
dred persons sought refuge on
the Cincinnati and on the United
States special steamer Potomac.
At 10 o'clock the Potomac went
to investigate matters, and all
reports ogree that Lieut. Benja
min 15. McCormick, the comman
der of the steamer, did great
work. He went in close to St.
Pierre and found that city had
been bombarded with enormous
stones from the volcano, and
that the ruins left standing after
the first great disaster had been
nearly razed. Millions of tons of
ashes then covered the ruined
city.
FurthtT south the smaller
stones had destroyed the houses
of the brave villagers who had
stuck to their homes
Lieut. McCormick took on
board the Potomac 180 refugees,
the oldest of whom was 72 years
and the youngest three days old.
The lieutenant fed them and
brought the party to Fort I)e
France This work of rescue was
difficult and dangerous.
It is reported that the whole
population of the island is fleeing
towards Fort De France. The
consternation prevailing is in
describable. Mount Pelee is still
very threatening.
The French cruiser Suchet went
on another tour around the is
land and did not take part in the
rescue work of the Potomac.
The B. F. U. May Get $15,000.
Scotland Neck, N. C., May 21.?
News comes that from the estate
of the late Dennis Simmons, of
Williamson, who died a few days
ago at St. Vincent Hospital in
Norfolk, the Baptist Female Uni
versity at Raleigh may get #15,
000 and the Baptist Orphanage
at Thomasville will probably get
$00,000.
Trinity College Programme. '
Sunday, June 1, 8:50 p. m.,
Baccalaureate Address.?1 )r.
John F.Crowell, Washington City.
Tuesday, June3,11 a.m., Bac
calaureate Sermon?Rev. J. M.
Buckley D.L).. New York City.
Tuesday, June 3, -1 p. m.,
Alumni Address.?Dr. Albert An
derson. Wilson, N. C.
Tuesday, June 3, 8:30 p. m.,
Commencement A dd ress.?Dr.
Henry Van Dyke, Princeton Uni
versity.
Wednesday, June J, 10:30 a. m.,
Craduating Exercises.
Four polieeemen ami three
negroes dead, five white men and
one negro wounded, and an entire
block of building** burned, is the
result of a conflict which began
at Atlanta, Ga., early Saturday
morning l?etween the police and
blacks. Will Richardson, who is
believed to have been half Indian
and half negro, the owner of a
store on McDaniel street, in the
suburb of Pittsburg, and four
other negroes, brought on the
trouble bv resisting arrest and
defying the officers of Fulton
county and Atlanta.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. I
Brief Summary of the Week's
Happenings.
Some of The Most Important News ot
tbe World Condensed tor the
Readers of tbe, Herald.
The tornado at Goliad, Texas, [
on Sunday, is estimated to have
j cost 79 lives.
The Philadelphia Record was |
sold at auction last week to Wil
liam S. Stenger for $2,300,000.
Thirteen persons who went for
a sail on one of the lakes of
Killarnev, Ireland, Sunday were
drowned.
A $2,000,000 wooden and wil
lowware combination has been
formed, with hea I quarters in
Chicago, 111.
A fearful rain storm deluged
Great Falls, M?nt., on Thursday,
driving 300 persons from sub
merged houses.
The ice has broken in the Yu
kon River, Alaska, and the ad
vent of spring in the mining re
gion is announced.
Mrs. Carrie Nation has been
sentenced to jail for .'10 days and
fined $100 in Topeka, Kan., for
smashing bar fixtures.
Robert F. Baptist, of Gal way,
X. Y., a former slave, has given
$1000 to Booker T. Washing
ton's institute at Tuskegee, Ala.
Between 175 and 225 men and
boys, it is estimated, were killed
by a gas explosion in the Frater
ville mine near Coal Creek, Teuu.,
.Monday.
With one exception, all the
fertilizer plants in Alabama have
been bought by the Virginia
Carolina Chemical Company, of
Montgomery, Ala.
Dr. Henry Van Dyke, professor
of literature at PrincetonUniver- j
sity. has been elected moderator
of the Presbyterian General As
sembly, in session in New York.
Though her father prayed at
her bedside for many hours, Fa
ther Dowie, daughter of the Chi
cago faith healer, died last Fri
day after being seriously burned.
Craz d by infatuation for 15
year-old Abitha McCullough,
William Austin, of Hastings,
Fla., killed her and four others
and then committed suicide Mon
day.
Stephen H. Darden, aged 87,
member of the Confederate Con
fess and a veteran of the Texas
war of Independence ai d of the
Mexican war. died at his home
at Wharton, Texas, Saturday.
A tori ado and water spout
swept over Cincinnati and adja
cent cities Tuesday. Six persons
were killed. The damage in the
business section of the former
city is estimated at $1,000,000
with as much more in suberbs.
With imposing ceremonies the
remains ot Major General Starke
Rosecrans were reinterred Satur
day in Arlington Ci metery. under
the direction of the Society of
the Army of the Cumberland.
President Roosevelt made an
address.
Four men were killed and four
others injured in a collision on
the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy, near Hyannis, Neb..
Saturday. All of those killed
wee in the smoking car at the
time. This car was reduced to
kindling wood.
The Louisiana Legislature has
invited Rear-Adrniral W. S.
Schley to deliver an address be
fore it. A bill was introduced
barring from the public schools
histories which do not give Ad
miral Schley credit for the victo
ry at Santiago.
Mary Peden, 1." years old, Fri
nay prevented what might have
pro veil a serious railway acci
dent aix miles from Files City,
Mont. She saw a bridge on fire
on the Northern Pacific road
and, knowing that a passenger
train was almost due, she mount
ed a horse and galloped in a race
against time to the station. She
arrived as the big train came in
sight. She notified the agent,
who held the train four hours.
THE MARTINIQUE DISASTER.
Latest News From the Scenes ot
Horror and Destruction.
Scientist* say that indications
point to farther disastrous vol
canic eruptions on the Island of
St. Vincent. These luminous
spots have been observed cn the
side of Mount Pelee, which are
casting incandescent rays, and
fresh disaster is feared in Marti
nique.
A Marseilles dispatch says that
a cablegram received there from
Trinidad states that residents
are abandoning that island, as
they consider an eruption immi
nent.
Hundreds of dead bodies are
lying in the cabins near La Sou
friere and pestilence is feared }
Thousands of natives are with
out food and the price of grain
and meat lias risen to a high
figure.
Mount Pelee is said to cast a
yellow light over St. Pierre, in
which the sea appears pea green,
while a vast cloud, like a great
black anvil, hovers above the
valley of death.
1 he French Government,
through Ambassador Canibon,
formally expressed its gratitude
to the United States for the
prompt measures taken to re
lieve the suffering in Martinique.
Paris still appears entirely in
different to the disaster in the
West Indies.
The British Government an
nounces thai measures have been
taken to relieve the British colo
nists who are suffering in St.
Vincent.?Baltimore Sun, May
1G.
Great changes in the surface of
the islands in the Caribbean sea,
as well as in the sea itself, have
been made by the- volcanic erup
tions in Martinique and St. Vin
cent.
Mot only has the sea sunk to a
greater depth, but widecrevasses
are cutting the islands into
pieces. Part of Northern St.
Vincent has dropped into the
sea.
The craters have appeared in
Mount Pelee, Martinique. The
eruption continues, but all the
surviving residents have Hed
from the vicinity. There is a
constant rain of cinders, ashes
and lava.
Looting of the dead in St.
1'ierre has assumed larger pro
portions. Thirty more arrests
have been made for this offense.
It is reported that an English
officer is one of the offenders.
Mount Soufriere, St. Vincent,
has ceased its eruptions, but
there are fears of renewal. The
volcanic lake which occupied the
top of the mountain is believed
to have disappeared. Many of
tlie surviving victims have re
ceived injuries which cause excru
ciating pain.
Lieut. B. B. McCormick, of the
United States naval tug Poto
mac, which went to the scene, es
timates the dead in St. Vincent
at 1,700 ? Baltimore Sun, May
17.
A special cablegram to The
Sun from St. Lucia, in the British
West Indies, describes the search
made in the ruins of St. Pierre,
Martinique, by United States
officers for the body of Consul
Prentiss. A new and sudden
eruption of Mount Pelee covered
the rescuers with hot ashes.
They were forced to wear cam
phor bandages overtheirmouths
and returned to their twiats ex
hausted after a thrilling exper
ience.
Immense swarms of germ-car
rying flies have settled upon the
ci ty.
1 lie iirsi sreamsmps to arnvc
in the United States front tiie
scene of destruction are 'the
Ktona and the Horace, which
reached New York Yesterday.
Both touched at St. Lucia and
passed close to the stricken is
lands, being coated with ashes
from the volcanoes.
Superstitious natives of St.
Lucia cal' the c ilamity a judg
ment from HeavenforSt. Pierre's
wickedness, (iraphic details of
the eruption are given by men
returning on th? steamships.?
^BaltimoreSun, May 1!).
A GREAT STRIKE ADVOCATED.
Anthractte Men Want Help ol Bitu
minous Workers.
Hazleton, Pa . May 1?>.?A
strike of national proportions is
advocated by the leaders of the
United Mine Workers of America.
Over 450,000 mine workers, in
cluding all those employed in the
soft coal fields, may be called out
and every mine in the anthracite
region flooded if such a move
shall be regarded as essential to
SUCC6SS.
That the 147,000 mine work
ers now on strike will be recruited
by more than 300,000 soft-coal
miners and mine dependents is
an almost assured fact, and
within a fortnight delegates rep
resenting every coal mine in the
United States will meet, proba
bly at Pittsburg, to consider the
advisibility of authorizing .John
Mitchell to summon to his aid
every mine worker in the United
States. President Mitchell has
authority to call out the bitu
minous workers, but he wants
the soft coal men to advise the
act and then indorse it.
i ne call lor a special national
convention will be signed by the
officers of the three anthracite
districts of Pennsylvania, the
bituminous district of Michigan
and the district of West Vir
ginia.
For Associate Justice.
Mr. Editor:?It is conceded
that one of the candidates of the
Democratic party for Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court
should be and will be selected
from Western North Carolina.
That candidate must present
the mental, moral and legal
qualifications necessary to an
able and faithful discharge of the
important duties of the office of
Judge of the Supreme Court. Of
the many gentlemen who have
been named for this place I know
of no one who combines all the
requisite and necessary qualifica
tions for this position better
than ('has. H. Arinfield, of Ire
dell county.
For twenty years he has devo
ted himself t? his profession with
an apulication rarely to be found.
He inherits the great legal mind,
judicial temperament and com
mon sense methods of investiga
tion of his distinguished father,
lie lias enjoyed an excellent prac
tice-from the time he entered
upon his profession to the pres
ent, which has been made up,
not from any particular branch
of the law, but from all branches,
and lie is considered by the pro
fession an exceptionally able
lawyer in all branches of the
profession known to the practi
tioner in Western North Caroli
na. He is physically strong, and
capable of doing a great amount
of labor, enjoys a liberal literary
education, which he has constant
ly added to, ami his private life
and moral character are of the
highest and best type.
From a political standpoint no
better nomination could be
made, because his party record
is so clear and consistent as to
inspire the confidence of the
whole people. He belongs to no
faction of the party, and I as
sure the people of the State that
his nomination would be thor
oughly satisfactory to all Demo
crats. He possesses the confi
dence of all the people. The
most powerful corporation, and
the most humble individual
could safely trust the justness of
his cause to the legal learning
and innate fairness of Chas. H
Arm field.
It. A. Daughton.
Sparta, N. ('., May 21, 1002.
? The city of Charleston, S.
has contracted with Baltimore
parties for the installation of a
$1,150,000 water works system.
The will of Rear-Admiral Wil
liam T. Sampson, dated April
11?, 1808. was filed Friday for
probate. It divides between his
three daughters 81,000 due on a
life insurance policy, and gives
the remainder, including 8s.500
in stocks and bonds and $10,000
in real estate, to his widow, who
is made sole executor.