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(Tljr JlmiHjfidd JlrraUY trice one dollar per tear. "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD ?' = = single copies three cents. VOL. 21. SMITHFIELD. X. C? FRIDAY. JULY 4. 1902. xo 17 DELEGATES INSTRUCTED. POU, ALLEN AND JONES EN DORSED UNANIMOUSLY. Clark and Connor Given Almost Tbe Entire Vote?Delegates Named To State Convention. The Johnston County Demo cratic Convention to name dele gates to the several conventions met here Saturday. Chairman W. YV. Cole called the convention to order Satur day at 12 o'clock and called Mr. Clarence YV. Richardson to pre side as temporary chairman. Mr. S. T. Iloueycutt was asked to act as temporary secretary and the representatives of the Democratic Press were invited to assist him. On motion the tem porary organization was made permanent. All the townships were repre sented except YViluers, Pleasant Grove and Elevation. A motion was offered by Dr. It. J. Noble that thecpnventioupro ceed to the election of delegates by townships This brought forth some discussion in which Messrs. E. J. Holt, Ed. 8. A bell, John A. Xarron, M. C. Winston, Dr. E. N. Booker and others par ticipated. It was finally agreed mat dele gates, after being instructed, be appointed to the State Con veil tion and that all other Demo crats be added as delegates. A resolution was adopted mak ing every Democrat who chose to attend a delegate to the Congressional, J udieial and Senatorial conventions. The following resolution was offered by Mr. A bell and adopted by a rising vote: "That we, the Democratic party of the county, in convention as sembled, at Smithfield, on this the 28th day of June, 1002, unanimously "Resolve 1st, That it is with pride we view the Congressional career of our countyman, Hon. Edward YV. l'ou. "2nd, That with commenda tion we look upon his record,and thank him for his manhood and courage in refuting and repelling the attempted slanders aga.nst the South. "3rd, That we fully appreciate his faithfulness to dutv, and kindly remember his work for his district. "1th, That we heartily endorse, and enthusiastically recommend his re nomination to the Con gressional convention to be held at Raleigh on the loth day of July, 1902." Mr. E. J. Holt then offered a resolution to instruct for Judge Clark. As some objection was raised the townships retired and polled the vote which resulted as follows: For Clark, 21 ll-lo; against Clark, 1 1-15 A vote was taken between Con nor and Rrown which resulted as follows: Connor 22%; Brown, 3%. The following resolution was then unanimously adopted: "Resolved by the Democracy of Johnston county in conven tion assembled this June 28, 1902, at Smithtield, N. 0. "1st. That we point with pride to the record of Hon. W. R. Allen, of Wayne, of Hon. Armistead Jones, of Wake. "2nd. That it is the sense of this convention that they be nominated to the position of Judge and Solicitor,respectively, of this Judicial district. "3rd. That every Democrat in this county in good standing he and is hereby made a delegate to the Judicial convention which meets in Smithfield, July 3rd, 1902." It was then proposed not to in struct any further for candidates. At this juncture .Mr. A bell mount ed a chair and read the following resolution: "We, the Democratic conven tion of Johnston county assemb led, do heartily approve and hereby endorse the candidacy of Eugene C. Heddingfleld and pledge him our support in the State convention for (xirporation Commissioner." The resolution was endorsed by acclamation with a rising vote. The following delegates and al ternates to the State convention were named: Clayton?f. T. Ellington and Charles W. Home. Alternates? D. H. McCullers and M. G, Gul ley. Cleveland?Pr. E. N. Booker.! Alternate?A. M. Sanders. Pleasant Grove?Not repre sented. Elevation?Not represented. Banner?R. H. Ryals and B. F. Godwin. Alternates?B. S. Rose and A. E. Surles. Meadow?W. S. Eldridge. Al ternate?J. W. Wood. Bentonsville?N. W. Smith. Al-! ternate?C. B. Pennington. lngrams?Rufus Sanders. Al ternate?E. P. Baker. Boon Hill?J. W. Perry and I). F. McKinne. Alternates?L). T. Creech and Joe Massey. Beulah?C. W. Edgerton, J. W. Bailey and W. A. Edgerton. Al ternates?E. B. Richardson, 1). H. Bagley and E. G. Barnes. Oneals?J. F. Brown and J. B. Smith. Alternates?J. C. Jeffreys and H. R. Godwin. Wilders?Not represented. Wilson's Mills?J. \. Wilson. Alternate?Geo. E. Jones. Selma?N. E. Edgerton, T. R. Fulghum and Geo. 1). Vick. Al ternates?Win. Richardson, J. W. Futrell and M C. Winston. Smithfield? W. M. Sanders,Ed. S. Abtll and C. S. Powell. Alter nates?Dock Stephenson, J. O. Ellington and T. .1. Eassiter. General News Items. Minnesota Republicans, in State convention, have re-nomi nated Samuel R. Vansant for Governor by acclamation. The Pontiac Mining Company of New Jersey has been incorpo rated at Albany, N. Y., tooperate in North Carolina and Virginia, with a capital of $1,100,000. The Agricultural Committee of the House decided to accept the Senate substitute for the Ap palachian forest reserve bill, with some minor changes, and deferred action on the subject until next December. According to the report of President Flynn, of the United Mine Workers, about 11,000 coal miners in the Rirmingham, Ala., district have obeyed thej strike order which went into I effect Monday night. The Norfolk and Hampton Roads Shipbuilding Company has been finally organized. The J i company will build an immense plant on Hampton Roads, hav ing purchased over seven hundred acres of land for $543,000. First loss of life reported from the anthracite strike occurred Tuesday at Durvea. An Italian was shot dead by one of the j policemen. More trouble is ex pected and the guard at the ! collery has been doubled. Reports about the shooting differ, some i blame the officer and others the j i dead laborer Former Chief of Police .lamps Chillers was shot and instantly killed Tuesday night bv William Myers, an employe of the Clarks burg, West Virginia fire depart ment. Two other men had an altercation andChilders attempt ed to act the part of peace maker when Myers pulled a revolver and shot Childers in the abdomen. The President Tuesday nomi nated Spencer B. Adams, of North Carolina, for chief judge, and Walter L. Weaver, of Ohio, and Henry S. Foote, of California. I associate judges of the Choctaw and Chickasaw citizenship court. Also, Seymour W. Hancock to be postmaster at Newbern, N. C. These nominations were con firmed by the Senate. As a result of a bitter contro versy that occurred in theSenate Tuesday. Senators Bailey of Texas and Beveridge of Indiana, had a personal encounter. Bai ley is the aggressor and deman ded the retraction of certain words that Beveridge used in reference to him. Before any harm was done, spectators had separated the combatants. The encounter occurred after the sen ate adjourned. CONGRESS SPENDS A BILLION. How The National Law Makers Are Disposing: of Uncle Sam's Money. Washington, .July 1.?Chair man Cannon of the House Ap propriations Committee, today presented a statement of the ap propriations made at thepresent session of Congress, showing a to tal of $750,063,837, not includ ing the large amounts that will be required for the Isthmian ca nal and building and river and harbor bills. In his statement Mr. Cannon says in part: "An analysis of this table shows that the total estimated expen ditures forecast by the executive departments aggregated $776, 348,.'118; that the total appro priations made, exclusive of $50, 1.30,000 toward an isthmian ca nal, aggregate $750,063,737. Ijfce appropriations made in the n%ular annual bills for ordinary expenses of the government pay able during the fiscal year 1903 aggregate $595,502,705, which, together with the sums carried under permanent appropriations and exclusive of the amount re quired by the sinkingfund,makes a total of $665,423,925. In the nature of things, and the light of past experience this entire sum will never be expended but pro bably will be reduced in the neigh borhood of 10 per cent. The revenues of the government, as 4-:. i- . i XL . i _e iiuw eswiuuueu, uu tiif uusis UI revenue reduction legislation en acted at this session, amount to $040,520,(530. The expeuoitures to be made under the appropria tions of this sessiou will not ex ceed $(500,000,000 or a sum ap proximating $40,000,000 less than the revenues which we ex pect to derive under the revenue laws as revised by this Con gress." Kepresen tati ve Livingston (Georgia,) the ranking Democrat of the Appropriations Commit tee, submitted a statement show ing, with the inclusion of the Isthmian canal, river and har bor, and other prospective ex penditures, appropriations of over one billion dollars during the part session. His statement says in part: "The direct appropriations made at this session of Congress, including the Isthmian canal ap propriation, reach the astonish ing aggregate of $800,193,837. l'o this should be added the further amount of $259,373,215, to include contracts authorized to be entered into in addition to the specific appropriations which are made. These contract au thorizations are in the nature of promissory notes of the govern ment, issued by this issue of i on gress, to be met and liquidated in the future, and constitute us much a part of the appropria tions chargeable to this sessiou as are the specific appropriations made, and which are to be ex pended, not at once, but through out the coming fiscal year. "The two sums aggregate $1, 059,577,052. The appropria tions, including authorized con tracts, of this session exceed those, including contracts, of the last session by $170,798,101. "The last sessiou of the 53rd Congress, for the fiscal year 1880 was Democratic in both branches, and the government was administered by Mr. Cleveland. It therefore affords fair ground for the purpose of comparison. The difference bet ween the total then and now amounts to the startling sum of $558,881,707, or more than as much again ns it required to conduct the affairs of government under a Demo cratic Congress and executive. A warrant lias Iwn placed in the hands of the sheriff at South ampton, I... I., for the arrest of Louis Disbrow in connection with the recent drowning of Clarence Fofter and Miss Lawrence at (ioon (iround, L. I. A dispatch from Laredo, Texas, says that Saturday, with one exception, was the hottest day ever experienced in that city. The local observations showed a maximum temperature of 111 degrees in the shade. WASHINGTON LETTER. I Keirular Correspoudenee. Washington, June 30, 1902.? On Thursday, the House of Rep resentatives passed the Philip ' pine bill by a party vote, but one Republican voting against the j measure. The bill is still in cou ; ierence, and constitutes the only obstacle to immediate adjourn j ment. All the appropriation bills have been passed and other important measures will be per mitted to await action until the I shot t session. In anticipation | of the passage of the Philippine bill before July Jth, the President has drawn up a general procla mation of amnesty for all the po litical offenders among the t ili pinos and, if his expectations are realized, the proclamation will be issued on Independence Day. Proceedings in the Senate on | Friday were marked by a most able presentation, made by Sen ator Teller, of the position of the Republican party in regard to Cuban reciprocity. The effort made by the majority of the Re publicans to effect a reciprocal treaty with Cuba, he character ized as the most stupendous ef fort to deceive the American peo ple that occurred in all his public experience. Mr. Teller confirmed the prediction, made in these let ters, that a treaty would be ne gotiated and presented at the next session of Congress and de clared that the whole reciprocity | agitation had been an attempt to take advantage of the well known disposition of the Ameri can people to relieve a people in distress, to the material advant age of the American Sugar Refin ing Co., otherwise known as the Sugar Trust. Apropos of Mr. Teller's remark, I have received from unimpeach able sources theinformationtnat it is the intention of the Presi dent to go out to the states whose congressional delegations opposed his Cuban policy, before the next session, and to advo cate from the platform a recipro cal arrangement with Cuba in terms which he believes will re-; suit in creat inga popula rdemand for that end which will make it impossible for the senators and representatives from these states to resist the confirmation of the treaty which he will send to Con Jgress. Such a course will be al most without precedent, it is true, but Mr. Roosevelt considers j that the "national honor," which a Republican congrt ssman suggests is another term for "personal pride." is involved and that, therefore, t hecircuinstances warrant an unusual course to 1 procedure. On Thursday, Friday and Sat urday, Admiral Dewey appeared before the Philippine Committee of the Senate and gave his ver sion of the initiation of the Phil ippine Insurrection There was evident, in the Admiral's testi mony, a desire to avoid placing the administration in an unfavor able light, and also a strong prejudice against the Filipinos. Under the cross-examination of Senator Carinack, the Admiral several times colored up and ap peared to be about to resent the line of questioning. Finally, the Admiral having admitted that he regarded Aguinaldo as a thief but tnat, so regarding him, he bad advanced him munitions of war and other supplies, which course he defended on thegrounc that "All's fair in war," Senator Carmack asked him why he re garded Aguinaldo as a thief in view of the fact that he knew of no dishonest act on Aguinaldo's part, but at this moment Sena tor ^a.lle?i attention to the fact that the hour for adjourn ment had arrived, and Dewey, hastily grabbed his hat, bowed and left the room without wait ing to be formally excused. On Thursday, the House of Representatives added one more to the measures calculated to cast serious rt flections on the Republican party. Under the guise of a merely technical change in the internal revenue law. a bill was passed which deals a killing blow to that portion of the brewing inter* st of the coun . try not controlled by the trust, the United Brewer's Association. 1 It appears that H5 per cent, of the beer produced in thiscountry is uiade by the trust and, of the J remaining 15 per cent, a large, portion is put up in "eight bar | rels." The bill passed by tlie| House prohibits these small pack ages and, if passed by the Senate also, will place the entire indus try in the hands of the trust. That this would be in entire ac cord with Republican principles cannot be denied but that such a proceeding will meet with the ap proval of the people is doubtful. It is with no little pleasure that I chronicle the fact that the rep j resentations in this correspond-' ; ence in regard to the infamous | Union Depot Bill railroaded through the Seuate, and which, j as I then related, gave u subsidy to the merged Pennsylvania and Baltimore and Ohio railway com panics valued at between $1,000 000 and $7,000,000, have ac complished the temporary defeat of the measure in the House Committee, by means of numer ous protests forwarded to that committee from readers of these letters. The House Committee on the District of Columbia at first attempted to modify the more flagrant features of the bill by changing the location of the depot and so curtail the value of the subsidy but, as the protests continued to arrive, the commit tee concluded to permit the bill to go over until the next session, pending which a careful iuvesti gation of the subject will be made, with, it is to be hoped, a result which will mean a saving of sev eral millions of dollars to the people of the United States. On Friday evening, the Demo crats of the House held a confer ence to consider the action of the Republicans during the session of Congress practically complet ed. Resolutions were adopted condemning the Republicans for sacrificing Cuba to the demands of the trusts and pointing out there would have been no difficul ty in passing, in the Senate, the Cuban bill as passed by the. House and that the only reason for failing to do so was the fact | that the bill passed by the House curtailed the profits of the trust to the material benefit of the Cu bans and of the American consu mers. The resolutions also re affirm the well-known fact that the Republican party has been, throughout the session, domina ted by the trusts and monopolies, that it has persistently refused to listen to the counsel, even of members of its own party, to re-; duce the tariff on articles pro duced by the trusts; and that it | has, after passing an anti-trust law to tide over the election of 1900, which law it has since been demonstrated requires much re 1 vision in order that it may be I made effective, positively refused to so levise thut law or to take any other steps which would be contrary to the interests of the trusts and monopolies. A Territic Storm at Washington, N. C. Charlotte. N. C.. June 28 ? A special to the the Observer, from Washington, N. C., sa.ys: With a fearful burst of thunder and lightning, one of the hardest electric storms ever known here struck Washington last night. The average velocity of the wind was about 4f> miles an hour, though it came in flaws as hard as fifty. Th< tug J. L. Paterson, belonging to the Kugler Lumber Company, was towing two schooners, run by E H. Moore, the fish dealer here, and when the squall struck, the wind 'urned the boat on her side and the pilot house was entirely torn away, carrying with it two persons. Five were on the boat All were drowned. The dead: William J. Womble, captain; Henry Paveu port, engineer; Dick Walters, fireman; John Cherry, cook; Allan Moore, the son of E. 11. Moore. The latter was in the pilot house which was cairied off by the wind and waves. The United States buoy tender Violet was in peril, but it took on two submarine divers and went to the scene of the disaster. Several tugs an* assisting in the I recovery of the bodies. GOOD CROP WEATHER. Fine Reports of North Caro Lina Crop Conditions. Soil in Prime Condition and the Out look For Cotton and Tobac co is Nost Excellent. The North Carolina section of the United States Department of Agriculture, Climate and Crop Service, Weather Bureau issued the following weekly crop bulletin for the week ending Monday, June 30. 1002: Very favorable weather pre vailed during the past week, resulting in further improvement in the condition of crops through out the State. The generally favorable character of the reports of crop correspondents is quite pronounced, and indicate at present a very encouraging out look. The mean temperature for the week was about 70 degrees, or slightly below the normal, in consequence of a few cold nights at the beginning of the week, but the latter half was quite warm and sultry, and promoted the rapid growth of all kinds of vege tation. Fine rains occurred everywhere during the week, generally in the shape of showers in the evening or at night, which did not materially interfere with farm work, though at some places where the rainfall was heaviest, the ground was too wet to plow for a few days. The rainfall averaged about 1.25 inches, or slightly above the normal. A Jew severe storms with hail and high winds occur red, chiefly on the 26th or 27th, with damage to crops over limited areas, in which corn was broken down and fruit blown off trees. The soil is in excellent condition, and work has been so well kept up that hardly any re ports were received of trouble from grass or weeds. Cotton is growing rapidly and squares are forming more freely; blooms have appeared in many counties; complaints of damage by lice are inciesing. Corn con tinues to do well the progress in laying by was checked a little in the west by frequent rains, but without material injury to the prosperous condition of the crop. While tobacco is rather uneven, with some hue hills but the majority rather small, the plants seem now to be growing vigor ously; topping has commenced in the centeral-east portion, (iardens and vegetables have itn n roved; peanuts seem to be b aoming freely; rice is good, the prospects for late planted Irish potatoes in the west have mate rially improved a full crop of sweet, potatoes cannot be planted, as the drouth has caused a scarcity of slips. A large crop of field peas has been planted. Spring oats will soon be ready to cut. Threshing winter wheat wheat is progressing slowly, and results show a very short yield but of excelent quality. Pastures have become green again Early peaches and June npples are in market?quality inferior. The blackberry crop is ripe and abun dant; melons are very promising. Rains reportedJ(in inches): Ral eigh 1.66, Wilmington 1.20, Charlotte 0.60, Hattcras 1.10, (ioldsboro 1.68, Greensboro 1 .">8, Lumberton 0.28, New Bern 2.8Q, Weldon 0.72, Mocksville 1.11, Marion 0.48, Avden 1.00, Balsam 1.33. Isthmian Canal BUI Signed. Wellington, I). 0., June 29.? President Roosevelt signed the Isthmian Canal bill last night. The measure reached him late in the afternoon, and within a few hours afterward had become a law by the affixing of his signa ture. When the approval of the exe cutive was given to the great legislation over which so many Congresses have fought w ithout hitherto reaching a final decision, the most interested person present, with the possible ex ception of Mr. Roosevelt himself, was Rear Admiral Walker, I K. N., retired, who served as the chairman of the Isthmian Canal t Commission.