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VOL. 21. SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1902. NO. 15.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Some Happenings of the Week
Tersely Told.
Many Items ot Interest Concerning;
Tarheeldom Clipped and Culled
From the State Press.
Lightning killed Mack Joseyat
liis saw mill in Alexander county,
Friday.
Elzie Riley, aged 71, anil Miss
Fannie Mali, aged 2d. were mar
ried at Durham Tuesday.
A young man named XcNeely
was killed by a trial at Nebo,
McDowell county, Friday morn
ing.
Fire destroyed the livery stable
of Isaac Kelly at Kaleigli, Thurs
day; nine horses smothered to
death.
.lames D. Doe, of Chatam
county, has recently lost four
children, two of them dying in
one day.
The Rankin Coffin and Casket
Company, of High Point, was
incorporated Monday with $ 100,
000 capital.
llev. Louis Phillips, one of the
oldest Methodist ministers in the
country, died at his home in
Chatham county, Sunday, aged
95 yea?-s.
A company has been incorpo
rated-to put in a street car lii e
at High Point. The conditions
of the charter are that cars must
be running within twelve months.
Davie county will have six ru
ral free delivery routes?four
from Mocksville and two from
Advance. The service will begin
July 1st. The carriers areequal
lv divided politically.
Two citizens, Warren Whitty
and J. R. Oakley, died at Maves
ville, Jones county, Monday,
from the effect of drinking wood
alcohol. All efforts of the doc tor
to relieve them were fruitless.
While working at a saw mill at
Hillsda'e, nine miles from Greens
boro, Friday afternoon. Everett
Archer, 20 years old, was caught
by the saw and so terribly man
gled that he died in a few
moments.
Pamlico count37 will vote on
the 28th of June on a proposi
tion to vote $.10,000 bonds to
build a railroad. There is great
enthusiasm for the proposition.
Pamlico is a rich county and
needs only a railroad to develop
it. ? I
The Teachers' Assembly, which
was in session at Morehead last
week, elected officers as follows:
President, Dr. F. P. Venable, of
the State FniVersity; vice presi
dent, Prof. J. 15. Carlyle,of M ake
Forest; secretary and treasurer,
Prof. Carmicbael, of Durham.
Mr. E. 11. Howell, of Concord,
had a piece of bone taken from
his foot on the 3d of this month
that was broken by a bullet at
the battle of Seven Pines, and
that had given him more or less
trouble for 40 years, making at
last a running sore on his foot.
The Weldon News says that a
negro named Powell, living in
that vicinity, awoke one morning
recently and found his wife dead
in bed by his side He ran for
her mother, who lived near, and
just as the old woman entered
the house, where her daughter
-jlay dead, she suddenly dropped
dead. Two sudden deaths in the
house caused the greatest alarm
among the other negroes of the
neighborhood, and they began
to pray earnestly, believing it to
be a warning.
Two negro boys Harrison and
?lames Gillespie, aged respectively
lb and 14 years, who were under
arrest charged with killing Miss
Pornelia Benson on a farm in
Rowan county, Monday after
noon of last week were taken
from jail at Salisbury early
Wednesday morning afterwards
and hanged to a tree in the rail
road yards. Their bodies were
then riddled with bullets. Both
admitted that they, beat the
young woman's brains out with
rocks liecause she tried to make
them leave her premises.
WALLER'S WORK IN SANAR.
Says Hades Is a Winter Resort Com
pared to the Island. '
San Francisco. Cal., June 1?5.?
Major L. W. T. Waller, F. S. ;
Marine Corps, who arrived here
in the transport Warren, ex
pressed emphatic views concern
ing the war in the Philippines.
"You can't stop the revolution
in the Philippines unless you take f
the severest measures," said lie i
in an interview. "You would j
hate to see your wounded and
dead mutilated. I cannot describe
the fearful condition in which we
found some of the bodies of meu
under my command who were '
murdered by insurreetos. 1 re- '
eeived by verbal and written
orders from General JacobSmith <
to kill all insurreetos who were <
caught armed or who refused to
surrender. !,
"It was the only thing that
eould be done and 1 never ques- 1
tinned General Smith's orders
with one exception This ex- i
ception 1 refuse to state. A fair <
estimate of the number of natives
MAJOR LITTLETON W. T. WALLER
killed by the men of my command 1
would be four to five hundred.
These were all killed in battle i
with the exception of eleven car- i
riers, insurrectos at heart, who i
were tried by court martial and
shot.
"There was only one woman
shot and she was only slightly
wounded. She happened to be in
the breastworks of a fort my
men were storming.
"I have fought in every country
in the world except Australia,"
said Major Walhr,, "but Samar,
, well hell is a winter resort
compared to Samar.
"I left Samar a howling wilder
ness," he continued. "They tried
to make it that for us, but we
made it a howling wilderness for
them."
"Want any more of it?" he was
asked.
"No. I am getting to bean old
man now," he replied. "I'm in
my fifties. Besides they've sur
rendered. and it's all over. It's
always all over when they sur
render in the Philippines," and, a
sarcastic smile curves under his
military moustache.
"Have you anything to say,
Major, regarding your court
martial on thechargeof executing
Samar natives without trial, or
was that the charge?"
"The charge against mo," he
said, "was murder. Yes, one
plain word?murder, and as for
having anything to say about
the court martial, of course, I
have. I objected to being court
martialed, it wasn't done at my
pleasure; I was not consulted in
the matter: I was simply court
martialed.
"I know who caused that court
martial; I know who brought it
forward; I know who was at the
back of it all; and Washington
knows as much."
Captain Clark, wlio made the
remarkable run with the Oregon
from Nfare Island. Cab, to Santi
ago at the outbreak of the war
with Spain and who tool: a most -
conspicuous part with his ship in
the battle of Santiago, has been
advanced seven numbers and
nominated to the Senate to be a i
Hear Admiral. This takes him
within two numbers of being a
Senior Hear Admiral and insures
his retirement with that grade. Ii
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
irief Summary of the Week's
Happenings.
>ome of the Most Important News ot
the World Condensed tor the
Readers of the Herald.
Two earthquake shocks were
elt at Newport, Oregon, Satur
lay night.
Sunstroke caused the death of
John (i. Swatz at Cleveland,Ohio,
Saturdaj'.
Dealers in New York have ad
ranced the price of soft coal fifty
jeuts a ton.
At Boston Sunday IB. 000
Christian scientists attended the
annual communion service.
Judge Advocate Lemly has
been placed on retired list on ac
tount of physical condition.
Prayers for rain were made at
numerous points in Texas Tues
day, the drought being severe.
Senator Hanua lias written to
a friend that he inus - not be con
sidered for the presidency in
I'.IOd.
Five men lost their lives in a
cloud burst at liarre, Vt., Sun
day night; there was also great
damage to property.
Miss Celia Farrell, of New York,
after spending 15 years in a eon
vent, has given up the veil and
married Robert \oght, of Fort
Madison, Iowa.
Rev. I). J. Yerkes has resigned
the pastorate of the First Bap
tist church at Plainfield, New
Jersey, after a continuous ser
vice of 31) years.
Cambridge University, England j
has conferred the degreeof EL. 1).
on Whitelaw Keid, the United
States special ambassador to
the English King's cornation.
Kenor (ionzales de Quesada,
the new Cuban minister, was es
corted to the White House Mon
day by Secretary Hay and pre
sen ted hi scredentialsto President
Roosevelt.
Sunday morning at Coatsville,
Pa., Harry Ricer proposed to
Mrs. Rachel Sahler and because
she refused to marry him killed
her and then blew out his own;
brains.
Mrs. Leous Westrop, a white
woman living near Martin,Miss., J
Sunday afternoon killed five of
her children by shooting them to
death in an outhouse and after
ward burned the structure over
their bodies.
Representative Thonmson, of
Alabama, has introduced a bill
in t he House appropriating
SI00,000 for the removal of all
the deceased Presidents of the
United States except (ieorge
Washington to the National
cementery at Arlington.
Death and destruction followed
in the wake of a tcrnado in Illi
nois one night last week. The
saddest feature was the killing of
three young women who were at
tending a dance at the town hall
of Herna, a small village, ten!
miles east of Bloomington.
A strike of street car employes
is in progress at Pawtucket, It.
1., and last week the military was
ordered out to keep the peace.
The cars had not been run since
Thursday and an attempt to
resume operations Sunday
brought on a riot which the
troops were unable to handle
The attempt to run ears was
abandoned.
C. F. W. N'eely, who was sen
tenced to ten years' imprison
ment and to pay a fine of $5,
(501 for the Cuban postal frauds,
was released Wednesday under
the bill signed by President
Palma, June!),granting amnesty
to all Americans convicted of
crimes in Cuba during the term
of the American occupation and
those awaiting trial. Three
Americans were implicated in the
Cuban postal frauds. One of the
others, Heaves, had been pre
viously pardoned and the third,
Hathbone. is out on bail bending
a new trial.
THE DROUGHT BROKEN.
Most ot the Damage to Crops Will no
Doubt be Repaired. Cotton has
Suftered Less Than any
Other Crop.
The Weekly Crop Mullet in of
the North Carolina section of the
Climate and Crop Service of the
United States Weather Bureau,
says of the week ending June 10.
Until the latter part of the
week the characteristic feature of
the weather conditions during
the past seven days was the con
tinued drought, accompanied by
high temperatures, and intense [
sunshine; however, although not
shown by reports of crop corre
spondents which are generally
mailed Saturdays, copious show
ers occurred Sunday night and
Monday over most of the State,
which will no doubt repair inost
of the damage to crops reported
this week. Although local show
ers fell on the Sth and 12th, with
some hail in the western part on
the latter date, the drought be
came quite serious and resulted
iri more or less damage to all
crops. The temperature was
rather low early in the week, but
rose very liitih during the middle
portion, with nKixtma above !>8
degrees, and the maximum above
:)n egrees, ana trie uany aoove
the normal. It is thought that
the thorough cultivation given
to the staple crops prevented
much serious damage, an<l has
placed them .in proper condition
to be immensely benefited by the
rains which have arrived in time.
Cotton, with its long tap-root,
has suffered less from the drought
than auy other crop, though
some young, weak plants were
killed, and growth has not been
rapid; chopping has been com
pleted; lice have appeared in
some counties and have injured
early forms; cotton is too small
to form squares or blossom, ex
cept in the south portion. Corn
has withstood thedroughtlyfair
ly well, though a good deal of
upland corn was fired during the
latter part of the week; much
late planted failed to come up;
chinch bugs are leaving wheat
and attacking corn; laving by
corn is making good headway
with but little of the crop yet in
silk and tassel. Tobacco has
suffered badly from the drought;
many late set plants lacked suffi
cient vigor to endure the dry
weather and have perished, and
generally thestandis poor: some
tobacco is still to beset; drought
has given plants a tendency to
runup narrow and button too!
early. The injury done by dry
weather to Irish potatoes, spring
oats, and gardens is irreparable;
Irish potatoes have been cut
short nearly half; digging is
underway wbh inferior yield.
Spring oats are heading very low,
and cannot now make a full crop.
The harvesting of wheat and
oats has progressed rapidly, and
much of the grain was safely
housed. Some mowing has been
done with light yields of hay;
many upland pastures are dry
and brown. Small fruits, dew
berries and blackberries have
suffered slightly from drought;
shipments are underway, lticeis
doing well.
Rains reported for the week (in
inches): (Jreensboro 2.1b, Lnm
berton 1 02. New Bern 0.10, YVel
don 0.22, Hatteras 0 80. Wil
mington 0.10, Charlotte .'1.10,
Settle 2.10. Davidson 1 27, .Ma
rion 0.68, Raleigh 0.81).
Governor Jelks, t f Alabama,
ha* pardoned Geo. Howard, Mar
tin Fu ler and John Strength,
three of the four white men con
victed of lynching a negro, Itobin
White, and sentenced to 10years.
The case is famous as the only
instance in Alabama where a
white man has been convicted of
lynching a negro. The men had
served one year.
It is said that there are now
only th ee negro postmasters in
North Carolina, where three
years ago there were scores No
more will be appointed. They
are being dropped. One was
dropped last week. One is in a
town in which not a white person
lives.
COLOSSAL INDUSTRIAL SCHEME.
The Cones to Build tbe Greatest Cot- 1
ton Mill in the World At Greens
boro. ?
A Greensboro special, dated '
.1 uue 17, to the News and < tbser
ver savs: Moses and Caesar 1
Cone, the largest mill and real1'
estate owners in the State, an- <
nounce this evening their pur- i
chase of sixteen hundred acres of '
land adjoining this city on which
they will at once begin the erce- I
tion of another cotton factory '
and mill village. I
The contract has been awarded \
for fifteen million brick to build i
with. The mill will make blue[
demins goods exclusively and
will be the largest plant of the
kind on earth. There will be30,
000 spindles and three thousand
looms in operation, employing i
three thousand operatives. The 1
power will be supplied by a twen
ty-five hundred horse power en
gine. ? !i
Material and supplies have al
ready been contracted for and
the estimated time required for
completing the building' is one
year. The mill will be in the.
neighborhood of the two large
cotton mills here, Proximity and
Revolution, and the mill will be!
furnished water from the same
dam. It is one mile from the
city and from the large finishing
mill.
The Cones are the principal
stockholders in this latest mill
and Moses Cone gives out that
the company has figured out that
building and equipping of the
plant ready to begin operations
will cost one and a quarter million
dollars, and that they are thor
oughly prepared to carry it to a i
finish.
EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS FOR 30
YEARS.
A Great Advance Made in North
Carolina in a Generation.
Extract From Dr. Winston's Address at the
Teachers Assembly at Moreheud.
The following facts tell the
story of our progress during the
last thirty years:
1 Forty cities and towns in
our State today have more
money invested in public school
buildings and equipment than
the entire public school plant of
the State was worth 80 years
ago.
2. The same cities and towns |
spend more money in annual sup
port of public schools than was
spent by the entire State 80
years ago.
3. Today the State spends in
annual support of rural schools j
five times as much as it spent 80
years ago.
4. Today there are 378 libra
ries in connection with the rural
free schools and 40graded school
and teachers' libraries in con
nection with the city freeschools,
where not one existed 80 years
ago.
">. Today there is a great State
normal school and a normal de
partment in the State University
tor the special professional train
ing of public school teachers,
where 80 years ago the mere idea
of a professional training for
teachers was regarded as a mark
of pedagogic imbecility.
6. Today at least a dozen
public high schools in our State
are furnishing as varied, as
thorough and as systematic
education as was furnished 80
years ago by the average so-call
ed college.
(. roaay toe rsrare i ouege 01
Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
is training nearly 400 lads foi
skilled work along all lines of
manual industry, agriculture,
engineering, cotton manufactur
ing and mechanic arts, whereas
.'$0 years ago educated men were
train* d awav from manual in
dustry.
S. Today there are at least 20
high-grade academies in theState
for private education compared
with less than half a dozen .'50
years ago, and the city of Ashe
ville alone has larger and lietter
provision for the academic
education of hoys than the whole
i State 30 years ago.
?. Today every Church college
in the State has more students,
more teachers, more equipment,
more endowments, a more ex
tensive plan of instruction, and
i higher standard of scholarship
than it-- most sanguine friends
loped for 80 years ago.
10. To-day Trinity College
ilone has a larger equipment and
mdowment than was possessed
10 years ago by all the colleges
in the State, including the Dni
cersi?y.
11. Today the University alone
has more students, more teach
ers, more courses of study and a
larger equipment than all the
colleges in the State, including
itself, 80 years ago.
12. Today two new colleges,
not yet lo years old, the State
Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege and the State Normal and
Industrial College, have more
students, morp teachers and more
equipment than was possessed
80 years ugo by every college in
the State, including the Univer
jdty. ) *
The following great principles
of public education have been
established in the pnst30 years:
1. The principle of State aid for
the support of higher education
and for the maintenance of free
schools at least tour months in
the year.
2. The principle of local taxa
tion, whereby each community
may tax itself, practically to any
extent, for the enlargement and
improvement of its own public
schools.
3. The principle of technical
and industrial education, where
by the youth of the State may
be prepared for industrial pur
suits as well as for the profes
sions.
4. The principle of specialtrain
ing for the supervision, co-opera
tion and unity.
These wonderful improvements
have been wrought in a single
generation; and, bett of all, they
have been wrought by North
Carolina money, North Carolina
brains and North Carolina char
acter. We have realized and have
acted upon the greatest truth in
nature, that the development of
a people, whet her material, moral
or educa ional. must be wrought
by themselves.
What the future demands?
Rural science in the country; in
dustr al training in the city.
Lovers ot 50 Years Ago Wed.
Rutland, Vt., June 14.?Thomas
.1. Crouch, 74, a shoe dealer, of
Topeka. Kas., and Miss Mary
?lane, 68, of Buel, N. Y., were mar
rie hdeie to-day. Fifty years ago,
when Crouch and Miss Lane were
residing in Buel, they were en
gaged to be married, but quar
reled and separated. Crouch
moved to Topeka and married a
young woman of that piece.
Miss Lane remained at Buel all
her life and never married.
Crouch's wife died a few years
ago. Two weeks ago he sought
out his old sweetheart, made his
peace with her, and so they were
married.
Four men were struck by light
ning and killed on a farm near
Sherman, Texas, Tuesday. The
men were diguing potatoes on
the Coleman farm and their
bodies were found close together.
Nearly every bone in the bod'e*
were broken and theclothingv as
badly burned.
Seven hundred glove makers in
Chicago, III., went on strike Mon
day for higher wages.
A Real Friend.
"I suffered from dyspepsia and
indigestion for fifteen years,"
says W. T. Sturdevant of Merry
Oaks, X. C. "After I had tried
many doctors and medicines to
no avail one of my friends ;>er
suaded me to try Kodol. It gave
immediate relief. I can eat almost
anything 1 want now and my
digestion is good. I cluerfully
recommend Kodol." Don't try to
cure stomach trouble by dieting.
That only further weakens the
system. You need wholesome,
strengt heuing food. Kodol en
ables y >u to assimilate what you
eat bv digesting it without the
stomach's aid. llenson Drug (3d ,
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