?3)t jimitljficift IteMi). price one dollar per tear. "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD.'' single copies three cents 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. 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 , J. It. I.edbetter, and Hood Itros.