North Carolina Newspapers

IPyt Smitljficlft MtMk _ ? _ ? _?___? ? ? ? _____ trice one dollar per tear. "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD." single copies five cents. VOL. 21. SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1902. NO. 33. GREAT STRIKE ENDED. Rejoicing in Anthracite Coal Region. THE VOTE WAS UNANIMOUS. President Mitchell Much Pleased at Action a Miner's Convention. Coal to be Supplied. Wilksbarre, Pa., Oct. 21.? With a shout that fairly shook the conveutiou building, the rep resentatives of the 147,000 mine workers, who have beeu on a strike since last May, officially declared off at noon to-day the greatest contest ever waged be tween capital and labor, and placed all the questions involved in the struggle in the hands of the arbitration commission ap pointed by the President of the United -States. When the news was flashed to the towns und villages down the valleys and on the mountains of the coal regions, the strike affected in habitants heaved a sigh of relief. Many days have gone by since more welcome news was received. Everywhere there was rejoicing and in many places the end of the strike was the signal for impromptu town celebrations. The anthracite coal regions, from its largest city?Scran ton to the lowliest coal patch, has suffered by the conflict, and every one now It i<ks for better times. While the large army of none workdt-s and t leir families, numbering approximately half a million j persons, are grateful that work is to be resumed 011 Thursday, the strikers have still to learn what their reward will be. Presi dent Roosevelt having taken prompt action in calling the arbitrators together for their first meeting 011 Friday, the min ers hope they will know by Thanksgiving day what practical gain they have made. VOTE TO RESUME UNANIMOUS. The vote to resume coal mining was a unanimous one and was reached only after a warm de bate. The principal objection to accepting th arbitration proposi tion was contained in the scheme to take care of those men who would fail to get back their old positions or would be unable tb get any work at all. The engi neers and pumpmen get better pay than other classes of mine workers and they did not care to run the risk of losing altogether their old places and be compelled to dig coal for a living. The question came up yesterday, and was argued right up to the time the vote was taken. No one had a definite plan to offer to over come the objt ction, and the re port of the committee on resolu tions recommending that the strike should be declared off and that all issues be placed in the hands of the arbitration com mission for decision, was adopted without the question being set tled. A few moments before ad journment, however, a partial solution was reached when a delegate in the fartherest corner of the hall moved that the prob lem be placed in the hands of the three executive boards for solu tion and his suggestion was ad opted. The principal speech of the day was made by National Secretary-Treasurer \V. H. Wil son, who practically spoke for President Mitchell and the na tional organization. In a strong argument he counselled the men to accept arbitration, the very plan the strikers themselves had offered, return to work and trust to the President's tribunal to do them justice. A SERIOUS QUESTION. The question of taking care of a 1 men who will fail to get work immediately will be a serious one for the union. There is no doubt the executive boards will take care of the engineers, firemen and pumpmen; but there aie thous ands of other classes of mine workers who will have to be looked after. In some places hundreds will not be able to get work for weeks, and in other lo calities where the mines are in very bad condition, there will be \ no employment for many work j men for some mouths. Hundreds of men, needed to re pair the mines, and otherwise put them in condition for opera tion, will be at work to-morrow morning, the convention having decided that this was imperative I in order to go to work quickly and satisfy the country's demand for coal. All the locals will hold meetings to-morrow, at which instructions will be given the miners regarding their applica tion for work. President Mitchell received many congratulatory telegrams from all over the country after the news spread that the strike was ended. On his return to headquarters he was asked for an expression of his views on the ac tion of the convention, and in re ply, he said: MITCHELL PLEASED. "I am well pleased with the ac tion on the anthracite mine workers in deciding to submit the issues which culminated in the strike to the commission se lected by the i'resident of the United States. The strike itsell | strengthened the power and dig- j nity of labor. Conservative, in telligent trade unionism has ref ceived an impetus, the effect o-! which cannot be measured. I! earnestly hope and firmly be lieve that both labor and capitalj have learned lessons from the | miners' strike which will enablej them to adopt peaceful, humane and business methods of adjust ing wage differences in the fu ture." After .Mr. Mitchell had notified President Roosevelt of the ac tion of the convention, he sent out the official announcement thrbugh the press to the strikers that the strike was off. It was addressed to all miners and mine workers in the anthracite region, and contained a cnuVionto those resuming work to exercise more than usual care in order that ac cidents to life and limb may be averted, owing to the condition of the mines after long disuse. Killed Himself When the Widow Refused Him. Several months ago Mrs. N. H. Bryant, a rich, lovelv and fasci nating widow of Holly Springs, Miss., went to Littleton, and stopped at the hotel, remaining there all summer with occasional trips to the coast near Norfolk, Va. Not long after her arrival at Littleton, she was followed by Conductor W. B. Anderson, of the Illinois Central Railway, whose home was Water Valley, Miss., and who was devotedly in love with her. He thought until yesterday he was the fortunate suitor and when she told him ] that to day she was to marry State Senator B. B. Nicholson, of Washington, N. C., the shock de stroyed his reason, and he de termined on suicide. He went to bed and there blew out his brains. His body was found this morn ing. At noon Mrs. Bryant and Mr. Nicholson were married. Anderson's suicide was kept secret from her. She and her husband passed here this after noon on their way to Holly ?Springs. She is not yet aware of Anderson's terrible fate. She is a North Carolinian by birth and has several uncles at Henderson named Harris, prominent people. ?Raleigh Special, 15th, to Char lotte Observer. Mills Combine December First. Huntsville. Ala., Oct. 21 - Authoritative announcement has been made that the Sout hern Tex tile Company, better known as the Fries mill merger, will become effective on December 1. A Commit tee assigned the duty of fixing the valuation of the seventy mills in the merger will meet in llaleigh, N. C., October 28. The stock of the plants com bined will, it is estimated, exceed if30,000,000. T \V. Pratt, of the Valuation Committee, states that a great many other mills in the South have applied for membership and their applications will be acted (upon iu uue time. AN EXECUTION IN TEXAS. Jim Buchanan, Negro /Murderer, Tried, Convicted. Sentenced and Hanged In One Day. Nacogdoches, Texas, Oct. 17.? Jim Buchanan, colored, the mur derer of the Hicks family, was tried here to-day. A plea of' guilty was accepted by the judge and the negro was legally hanged within two hours after sentence had been passed. Ten days ago the dead bodies of Farmer Hicks, his wife and daughter, were found in the Hicks house and Sheriff Spradley immediately began to search for the murderer. Buchanan was j captured and confessed the I crime. I pon his arrival here the ne gro was immediately turned over to Sheriff Spradley, who told the people he would be given a speedy \ trial. The town began to fill up rapidly and the excitement was intense. The telegraph wires were cut, the railroad tracks were j torn up for a short distance, and j it was announced that an at tempt would be made to get pos session of Buchanan. District court was at once con vened, a jury was empanuelled without delay, and the negro's plea of guilty was accepted bv the court. The judge ordered thac the death sentence be execu ted November 17, but many de clared that they would not allow delay. Buchanan then waived the thirty days allowed him by law, and preparations were be gun to erect a crude scaffold in the jail yard. When the task was completed Buchanan was hanged by Sheriff Spradley in the presence of a large crowd. A Fatal Fire in Chicago. Chicago, October 22?Fifteen persons are missing, five of whom are dead, as the result of a fire which started in the basement of the Glucose Sugar Refining Com pany's plant at Taylor and Beach streets late last night. A score who jumped from the third, fourth and fifth story windows ? are in the hospitals maimed and injured. The number of missing may be largely increased when a complete list of those in the buildings is obtained. The ruins are still so hot as to make this impossible. The loss is about half a million. Ten persons a'e known to have perished, seveu more were fatally crushed by jumping from win dows. Scores are missing and are supposed to be in the ruins. The Corn Products Company's building at Dekoven and Canal streets was also destroyed. To day's estimate places the loss at nearly two million. Only one of the five bodies recovered is identi fied, that was Frank llhotenberg, foreman of the fifth floor, killed 1 by jumping. Ninety men weie emploped at night by the Glucoss company. Not half have been ac counted for. Negro Burned at Stake. Forest City, Ark., Oct. 21.? A mob of a thousand men stormed the jail last night and took Charles Young, a negro, bound him to a telegraph pole in the public square and prepared to burn him. They were finally entreated to take him out of town, so the mob repaired to a stave mill, one-half mile from town, bound the victim to a tree and fairly roasted him alive. Young claimed to be innocent to the last by implicating another negro, Henry A. Armstrong, but it was proven he was telling a lie. Y'oung was charged with the as sault and murder of Mrs. Ed. I-zewis, a week ago to-day. America's Famous Beauties, Ixiok with horror on Skin Eruptions, Blotches, Sores, Pimples. They don't havethem, nor will any one. who uses Buck len's Arnica Salve. It glorifies the face. Eczema or Salt Kheum vanish before it. It cures sore lips, chapped hands, chilblains. Infallible for Piles. 25c at Hood Bos. drug store. * STATE NEWS. Newsy Items Clipped, Culled and Condensed from North Carolina Newspapers. An old woman, named Baker, j was killed by the train near Mar- j shall Tuesday morning. Shej was walking on the track, and supposedly didn't hear the train. A remarkable incident took place during the meeting at the Baptist church, just closed, three generations, father son and grand-daughter joined thechurch 1 and were baptised. The father was in his ninetieth year. The fourth generation was present.? Alleghany Star. Intelligence was received here , yesterday of the sudden death at Battleboro of .Mrs. Whitehead, ( mother of Dr. W. II. Whitehead, ] of Rocky Mount. It is under- jj stood that Mrs. Whitehead sud-1 denlv expired while out in her i yard about 7 o'clock yesterday ] morning.?News and Observer. ( The negro Republicans of the ' second congressional district met 1 at Weldon Thursday and nomi nated Sam Vick, the negro post- 1 master at Wilson, for Congress ' in the second district. Ex-Con- i' gressmen Cheatham and White ( made speeches against the inde- 1 pendent movement in the State, ' which they say has a tendency to ^ crush their race. * The Pittsboro Record says that 1 Willis Byrd, colored, of Chatham 1 county, aged 00 years, was a free ' negro and a voter in this State ' prior to 1835, when free negroes were allowed to vote, and in con- J sequence thereof Byrd has regis tered for the coming election un- ' der the grandfather clause of the ( constitution. So far as known!' this is the only case of the kind I in the State. j 1 Kinston Free Press: Mr. E. (i ( Tyndal, of Neuse township, to- ' j day finished selling his entire crcp of tobacco raised on two acres and the total received was $30945. Mr. Tyndal did not raise a large crop this year for < fear his land was not fit for to bacco culture, being hard and stiff land. Much to his surprise the land proved very productive, and he says it looks as if tobacco , can be raised on any kind of laud in this section. I John Cotton, 62 years old, of Wayne county, has been an in- , mate of the Soldiers' Home at Raleigh for five or six years. Last week the discovery was made that Cotton has a wife in ' Wayne county and since he has 1 been an inmate at the home he 1 had married another in Wake. I In addition to this he was, when ' his sins were uncovered, making ; love to a married woman who lived in the vicinity of the Home ! and was succeeding so well her 1 husband entered complaint ] against him. The gay and fes tive Cotton was bounced out of 1 the Home. If he had been given a little more time he would ; doubtless have added anothei woman to his string. Outline of the Coal Strike. i May 12?Strike began. July 30?One brigade of Penn sylvania troops ordered to the scene. October3?President Roosevelt summoned leaders of both sides to Washington; Mitchell pro posed arbitration; operators re fused. I October 0?Entire militia of Pennsylvania ordered to mining i region. October 13?Operators, urged by President Roosevelt, agreed ! to arbitration. i October 15 ?Arbitrators named. October 21?Convention of miners declared the strike off. President Roosevelt summoned arbitrators to hold their first meeting, October 24. The principal concessions for, which the men struck were an in crease of 20 per cent, in wages to those paid by the ton and a re duction to eight hours of the working day of those employed < by the day.?Baltimore Suu. ATTACKED IN HER HOME. Honor and LlfeAssallcd Heaven Sends Help to a Struggling Woman. The following special sent out from Goldsboro Wednesday night appeared in yesterday's News and Observer: Sheriff Scott received a tele phone message from Princeton to-night stating that a young white woman hud been outraged by a negro man and asking that blood hounds be sent at once. Deputy Sheriff Henry Grady left at 7 o'cl ck with dogs for th scene ot the crime. A later phone message brings the information that the lady is the wife of Mr. Hymbrick John son, Jr., and that she livesonthej public road about one mile and a juarter frorp Princeton. The brute who attempted the ?rinie in a strangenegro who had been working in the neighbor hood for about three months. Mis first name is John. He went to the home of the lady this after noon while her husband was off at work, and while there was no >ne in the house with her but her ten months' old baby. The negro made improper pro posals, which were resented, and he then resorted to force. In the scuffle he had torn the lady's dotbes from her body and had fragged her into the yard, where he had begun to choke her, when Mr. John Daniel Edwards came iown the road with a team and a load of wood. The negro broke and ran across the field to the woods, and has not been seen since. When Mr. Edwards came up to the house he learned the particu- j airs of the assault from Mrs. Johnson. Mr. Edwards went on to iown, where he told the news. ?Searching parties were soon or ganized and the woods are being aunted everywhere for the brute who, if he is caught, will have swift and terrible punishment neted out to him. ORDERS A10NEY TO BURN. Constrained by High Price of Coal AAark Twain Writes to Secre tary Shaw. Washington, D. C., Oct. 21.? Hie following letter was received it the Treasury Department to Jay: " New York City, Oct. 3. 'The Honorable, The Secretary of the Treasury, Wash., I). C. "Sir:?I'rices for the"tistomary kinds of winter fuel having reached an altitude which puts them out of the reach of literary persons in straightened circum stances, I desire to place with you the following order: "Forty-five tons best old dry ^ovtrnnient bonds, suitable for furnace, gold 7 per cent. 1864 preferred. "Twelve tons early greenbacks, range size, suitable for cooking. "Eight barrels seasoned 23 and "?0 cent post currency, vintage of 1866, eligible for kindlings. "l'lease deliver with all conve nient dispatch at my house in Riverdale at lowest rates forspot rash and send bill to "Y'our obliged servant, "Mark Twain, "Who will be very grateful and will vote right." Goes Like Hot Cakes. "The fastest selling article I have in my store," writes drug gist C. T. Smith, of Davis, Ky.. "is Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, because it always cures. In my six veurs of sales it has never failed. I have known it to save sufferers from Throat and Lung diseases, who could get no help From the doctors or any othir remedy." Mothers rely on it, best physicians prescribe, and Hood Ifros. guarantee satisfac tion or refund price. Trial bot tles free. Regular sizes, 50c and fl. The art of saving appropriate words in a kindly way is one that never goes out of fashion, never ceases > please, and is within tliere.-i i 11 hehumblest.-Faber.I MINERS RESUMING WORK. Hundreds Were Turned Away When They Applied at the Collieries. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Oct. 22.? Thousand* of men began work to-day repairing the mines and placing the collieries in condition for the general resumption of coal mining, which will take place throughout the anthracite re gion to-morrow. Those men who are directly engaged incut ting and hauling coal will not, under the decision of the conven tion, return to the mines until to-morrow. While there were thousands of men who were able to again begin earning their daily bread to-morrow, theie were hundreds who were disappointed when they applied to the superin tendents of the collieries where they were formerly employed. They were principally steam men, engineers, firemen and pump runners, who struck on June 2d for an eight hour day and also to help the miners win their bat tle. These men wanted their old places back, but in many instan ces the company officials refused to discharge those who stood by them during the strike. There were many in the Wyoming val ley, however, who were fortunate enough to find employment. The company olficials maintain they will not discriminate against union or non-union men and that work will be given all men when there are vacancies. Although the strike is over the path of the non-union workmen is still a thorny one. They are disliked by the unionists, and it is expected the relations between them will not be improved when they get into the mines together. Reports were received here today t hat scores of the non union men have given up their positions and are leaving the region. President Mitchell to-day began the work of preparing the miners side of the case for presentation to the arbitration commission. He will be the leading representa tive of the workmen before the tribunal, and will gather around him such experts in anthracite mining as will be necessary to properly present his case to the commission. He said to-day he did not know when he would make his first appearance before the commission. Rapid progress is being made by all the coal companies in the anthracite region toward a gene ral resumption of coal mining. The suspension ofiic ally ends at 7 o'clock to-morrow morning, but the quantity of coal that will be mined this week will not be great. Deserves Every Vote. The Charlotte Observer in speaking of some harsh criticism of the Independents pays this compliment to Mr. E. \V. Pou: "In marked contrast with the spirit of intolerance manifested in some quarters, and with the efforts to lash back into line these men who have stepped aside for cause, was that manifested by Representative E. W. Pou, of the Fourth district, in his recent speech in Charlotte, in which he said in substance that a man is not bound by any rule of party fealty or good citizenship to vote for a candidate whom he con sciously believes to be unfit or unqualified for the office sought. That was the speech of a politi cian?we use the word in its best sense?and of a broad-minded man. A candidate holding these broad views, willing to concde to every man his rights as he claims his own, and representing the political policies that Mr. Pou does, deserves the vote of every independent in his district. And we may add that if his spirit were that of the Democratic par ty in the State there would In* no independents liecause there would be 110 reason for any Democrat to bolt which could not be met by a better reason why he should not." "Good tenrqier, like a sunny day sheds a brightness over ev erything. It is the sweetener of toil and the soother of disquie tude."?Ex.