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S-VISITOR. NUMBER 8696 RALEIGH, N. C, TUESDAY EVENING OCTOBER 11. ix8 25 CENTS A MONTR 'THE TIME HEWS BY WIRE Foreign and Domestic Evems of Today. STANDARD OIL TRUSI Covernment Will Establish Permanent Coast Signal tations-Th Spoal ards Leaving Porto Klio-Total Abstinence Advocates Views. STANDARD OIL COMPANY. lAn Attempt to Show That it is Still Doing Business. iBy Telegraph to the Tlmes-Vistor. NEW YORK, Oct. 11. Attorney Gen- eral Monett, of Ohio, examined John D. Rockefeller regarding the Standard Oil Company today in order to show that it had not dissolved as ordered by the Supreme Court of Ohio, but is Bt ill doig business. Beyond admitting that the trustees of the company kept a set of books his memory failed him. All the officers and stockholders in the company will appear before the com missioner. COAST SIGNAL STATIONS. By Telegraph to the Tlmes-Vistor. WASHINGTON, Oct. 11. Captain Bartlett, superintendent of the coast signal service, which as one of the re sults of the war made a lengthy re port, which points out the need of per manent service. Among the southern points selected are Cape Henry, Va., Morris Island. S. C; Tybee Island, Ga., and Palm Beach and Sand Island, Fla. ASSESSMENT CHARGESx PREFER RED By Telegraph to the Tlmes-Vistor. WASHINGTON, Oct. 11. Charges have been preferred before the civil service commission against Postmas Knlght and Assitant Postmaster Grubbs. of Richmond, Va., Deputy Col lector of Internal Revenue Smith, who is under Collector Brady, of Virginia, and Morgan Treat, United States Mar sha of the Eastern District of Virginia, for levying political assessements and for bribery made by the Central Repub lican League of Richmond. KNIGHTS TEMPLARS. Twenty five Thousand In Today's Pa rade. By Telegraph to the Times-Visitor. PITTSRURG, Oct. 11. The beginning of the triennial conclave of the Knights Templars was marked by a parade it ten o'clock. It Is estimated that fully twenty-five thousand were in line and the streets were lined with spectators from the surrounding towns. Brigadier General Cobin acted as Grand Marshal of the parade. SPANIARDS LEAVE. I .American Flag Now Floats Over Man zanillo. By Cable to the Times-Visitor. MANZAANILLO, Oct. 11. The Span iards boarded the steamer "Porto Rico" and sailed yesterday. During the af ternoon Col. Ray hoisted the American flag over the publio building. SENATOR KYLE. By Telegraph to the Times-Visitor. CLEVELAND. Oct. 11. Senator Kyle lias sufficiently recovered from paraly sis to leave for Washington Thursday. His secretary denied that Senator Kyle had changed his views on the money quesion. , FOR OMAHA. By Telegraph to The Times-Visitor. CHICAGO, Oct. 11. The special trfjns bearing the President, Gen. Miles,,.n Wheeler and others en 'route for the Omaha fair arrived this morning. They did not Btop here but went around the city and stalled west about seven over the Chicago and Northwestern. POPULIST PARTY DEAD. The Only Pcpullst Daily In the South Admits the Fact. By Telegraph to the Times-Visitor. ATLANTA, Oct. 11. The Atlanta Journal invited all Populists back to the folds of the Democratic party In its Saturday issue. The Augusta Tribune the only Populist daily in the South yesterday advised its acceptance of the Invitation admitting that the Populist party Is dead nationally, and that there can be no reason to keep up a separate , State organization. All eyes are now I turned on Tom Watson. STRIKE SPREADS. By Cable to the Times-Vls(tor. PARIS, Oct. 11. Despite 'the optimis tic predictions of the end of the strike being near it continues to spread. The brick layers 'and wood carvers today decided to join the strikers. The city is ouiet. The increase of the garrison force Indicates that the government f, urs political rather than labor trou bles. PEACE COMMISSION. By Cable to the Times-Visitor. LONDON, OCT. 11. A DESPATCH TO THE EXCHANGE TELEGRAPH COMPANY FROM PARIS SAYS THAT THE UNITED STATES AND SPANISH PEACE COMMISSIONERS ARE AT ENTIRE VARIANCE RE GARDING THE QUESTION OF THE DISPOSITION OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, AND THAT THEY HAVE REFERRED THE MATTER TO THEIR RESPECTIVE GOVERN MENTS. ASSIGNED. By Telegraph to the Times-Visitor. DOVER, N. H.. Oct. 11. The Dover Clothing Company, one of the largest of the kind lit the State, assigned to Re ceiver Whittenmore, of the Dover Na tional Bank, today. DESIRES MODIFICATIONS. By Cable to the Times-Visitor. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 11.-The reply from the Turkish government to the notes of the European powers on the evacuation of Crete was handel to the ambassadors yesterday evening Turkey accepts the terms proposed by them but expresses a wish for certain modifications. JOINT SESSION. By Cable to the Times-Visitor. PARIS, Oct. 11. The peace commis sioners held separate sessions this morning preparatory to the fourth Joint session, which began at two o'clock this afternoon. MUSTN'T DRINK BEER. By Telegraph to the Times-Visitor. WASHINGTON, Oct. it. The total abstinence advocates are preparing to wage war upon the army because of the indulgence of the troops in beer and other beverages under, what these crit ics deem governmental tolerance. AT THE ACADEMY. There is no man In the burnt ro:k profession so well known and so uni versally admired by the people of Ral eigh, as Is George Wilson, and whn the announcement was made that George was coming, associated with such a galaxy of royal minstrelsy as W. S. Cleveland and his company, there was a rush for the box sheet to secure favorite seats. There never was at tempted so great a scheme in the min strel business as that of uniting the Cleveland and Wilson shows. They were two great drawing cards whn pitted against one another and united make the grandest show of the kind on earth. While in the parade and in the first part there is maintained an indi viduality, yet in the comblnatiorf of the individuals and their organizations 'he splendors of the grand achievement is made manifest. It Is a show unparal leled in the historv of the American stage. With such stars of the profes sion as E. M. Hall, John Queen, Chis. G. Weber, Keno and Welsh, led by the two great kings of Minstrelsy Wilson and Cleveland, a night of good fun may be expected tonight. SCANDAL AND IMPERTINENCE. Col. John W. Hinsdale, Mr. Charles Cook, for the State, and Mr. R. O. Burton for the defendant are in G: i.rrsboro, where the tormer win mckc a motion today in the Federal Court for the appointment of a referee to pass upon the bill of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad for scandal and impertinence. The ground on which the motion is made, one of the Gov- nor's attorneys here says, is that the con plaint of the railroad was mainly recital of one of Governor Russell s stump speeches. Dr. Banks, of Kader, spent yesterday in the city. Judge MacRae is attending the Fed eral Court now In session at oreens- boio. l, S Patterson, of Forestville, has been a continuous subscriber to me Visitor for fourteen years., He renewed for the 169th time today. Miss Eliza Moore, who has been on a short visit to her sister, Mrs. U. M. Wi huh. in Durham returned to her home in this city yesterday. The special services will continue at the West Raleigh Baptist church this week. Servi.es are held at 3 p. m. and 7-3(1 d. m. ami are conducted by Rev, M A Adams. Judge Thomas C. Fuller returned yesterday from Santa Fe, the term of I'lr'ted States Court there having end ed. He says that the ownership of s rr,n cm, nrres of land, among other tl.insf. were settled during the term. Next week the appeal in the case of Jim Booker, alias Jim Chavis. who Is under sentence of death in the ail here, fur the murder of Mahaley -White, will b heard before the State Supreme Couri. Booker has greatly broken since he has been in jail and his despair H apparent to all. m YELLOW FEYER The Iise;se Srdily Spreads in thr5 souih JACK FKOST AWAITED w Cases In Mississippi and Louisiana Other Detention Hospitals Equlpcd Today's Official Report. By Telegraph to the Times-Visitor. WASHINGTON. Oct. 11. Reports to the marine hospital show that yellow fever in the South iB steadily increas ing. The officials report that the In crease is likely to continue until cold weather sets in, which Is now three weeks off. The total cases In Missis sippi since the epidemic began is four hundred and seventy, thirty-six deaths have resulted. Yellow fever is reported at Lake Charles, La. In a dispatch from Dr. Sushan, of New Orleans. Franklin, La., has twenty cases but no deaths so far. Mississippi reports to day new cases as follows: Jackson 3, Canto 4, Crystal Springs 4, Madison 15, Harrison 14, Rldgeland 1, Norwood 6, and one death, Oxford 1. Camp Hutton has been converted into a new deten tion hospital at Avondale, near New Orleans, with a capacity for one thou sand patients was opened today. EUGENE D. DARTER DEAD He Had Taken a Narcotic to Induce Sleep, Leaving a Negra to Wake Him If His Puis Ban Down The Negro Went ta Sleep aad the Drug Gat In Its Work A special today's Charlotte Observer from Ashevllle says: Judge Eugene Douglas Carter died in his room here Sunday afternoon. He had been 111 for a week or more, and in Saturday night in an effort to in duce sleep took a dose of a drug cau tioning his servant at the time to watch him and if his pulse ran down to imme diately send for a physician. The ser vants, himself exhausted from lack of sleep in attendance upon Judge Carter, fell asleep shortly after the Judge did. and did not wake until Sunday morning, when the Judge was found in a dying e'nndition. Judge Carter was attendel by three physicians up to the hour -.f his death, 4:45, but onlv once did he show any sign of reviving. The remains were taken to Marion, the home of Judge Carter's mother. where the funeral occurred this after noon at 5 o'clock. Judge Carter was a native of Mc Dowell county and was about 40 years if age. He studied law under Col. Geo. N. Folk, at Lenoir, and was licensed in 1880. Since that time he had prac ticed in Asheville, with the exception of a short period, when he was a resident of Fayetteville. He filled the office of solicitor of the Criminal Court for six years, and was considered one of the ablest prosecuting attorneys in the State. Last year he filled the position of police Justice of the city of Asheville. On June 20th last he was appointed Judge of the Twelfth Judicial district by Gewernor Russell, to succeed Judge Norwood. The latter began a suit to determine the title to the office and was given judgment by Judge Greene. Only a short time ago Judge Carter an nounced that he would no longer defend the suit. COUNTY CANVASS. The Democratic county candidates spoke at Auburn yesterday to a very large crowd. Last night they had a splendid crowd about 200 at Garner. Today they spoke at Hood's Store, and tomorrow they speak at Wakeflield. The fusion candidates spoke at Roles vllle today, and tonight they go to For estville. GEORGE WILSON'S RIDE. When the minstrel parade came up Fayetteville street this morning, a Times-Visitor reporter lifted his hat to George Wilson. The great minstrel man could not help getting off a joke as, he lifted his sombrero in recognition of the salute and added; "This is what I call rough riding in the South." George was mounted on one of Isaac O'Kelly's carriage horses, which had a tendency to stop In front of Ed. Den ton's cafe. Samuel F. Henszey, receiver of tlv Langdon-Henszey Coal Mining Com pony, has been ordere'd by Judge l'ur nel! to pay over at once all moneys in his hands. The commissioner in the ease Is also ordered to make a settl'- rticnt. There is an order also to l!e ceivcr Henszey to turn over in ten days all 114 coal cars to the Moshannon Coal Company, of Pennsylvania. Henszey says he can't do this, as most of the cars are In service. CARRYING WEAPONS. lie Punishment is too Light When Convicted ASSAULT WI fH WEAPON Kindred Ci arges one W 1th the Other Should be in the JurisJic ion of Justices of the Peace. (Communicated.) There is a growing tendency to carry tiui pistol in the hip pocket and thus it is that so many cases 'of carrying con cealed weapons and assaults with dead ly weapons appear upon the docket at the criminal terms of our Superior Court. From an investigation of the dockets the following facts show them selves: During the past two years there has been before the Superior Court 66 cases of carrying concealed weapons, 46 of which either pleaded guilty or were found guilty by verdict of jury on trial; 20 of these were Judgment suspended upon payment of costs, 1 was fined $25, 2 were fined $15, 1 was fined $10 and 4 were fined $5, 4 were sent to the roads for 4 months, 7 for 3 months, 2 for 2 months, 1 for 1 month and 1 for 20 days. The average cost in these cases is about $25, the allowance made by the county commissioners for work In the .county house of correction is $6 per month for men and $4 per month for boys under IS years old and women. The judgments for 4 months, the great est punishment inflicted, If a man would amount to but $24 or $1 less than It cost the county to convict the defendant. The Judgments suspended upon pay ment of costs are generally those who can pay out costs all goes to the court officers, not a cent of It goes into the school fund. In the cases where fines were imposed amounting to $70 the school fund got it. Under the law before it was changed when jurisdiction was in the Justice of the Peace the fine was absolute $30, no more and no less. In the 46 cases of guilty, there would have had to been imposed a fine of $30 In eaeh case mak ing $1,380. In the 8 cases where fines were paid the school fund would have received $240, and in the 20 cases of judgment suspended upon payment of costs each about $25 in the justices' court with a fine of $30 and cost would have been about $32.50 in each case, but the school fund would have gotten from the 20 cases $600 In fines and about $75 in costs would have gone to justice, sheriff or constable. This same rule will apply to assaults with deadly weapon. During the same time there were 50 cases of A. D. W. upon our docket. Of these 31 pleaded guilty or there was a verdict of guilty. of these 15 were judgment suspended upon payment of costs; 1 sent to roads for 12 months, 3 for 6 months, 1 for 5 months, 2 for 4 months, 2 for 3 months. 1 for 2 months, and 3 for 1 month; 2 were fined $15 and 1 was fined $5 and costs. The cost bill in a case of A. D. W. is greater than in a case of C. C. W. because in a large majority of cases of C. C. W. the officer making the ar rest finds the weapon upijn the prisoner, and there is no need of a large number of witnesses. And in but one of the 50 cases mentioned was there any serious injury inflicted, and in nearly all none whatever, simply the deadly weapon showed up and ousted the Jurisdiction of the justice, necessitating sending the case to the Superior Court. The average cost of such cases in the Superior Court is about $30, while in the justice's ?ourt with 4 witnesses it is $4.05and with afine of $10 in each case would aggregate $14.05 the defendant would have to pay the school fund be ing benefitted $10 in each case. While in the Superior Court with no fine the defendant pay on a suspended judg ment $25 or more and the school fund gets nothing, but If a minimum fine of $10, not to exceed $50, were the law and the jurisdiction was in (he justice of the peace, then the school fund would be benefitted and the defendant would not be compelled to pay any heavier money Judgment. In aggravated cases the $50 fine could be Imposed and exceed any Judgement ever imposed for either these charges in the Superior Court upon a convic tion. Frequently a man is arrested by the police perhaps for being drunk or some minor violation of the city ordinances, and when searched in the police station a pistol is found on his person. There can be no doubt of his guilt and the Mayor should certainly have jurisdic tion in such cases. LIVING DOLL SHOW. The doll show that was to have been held last Friday evening, will he held this (Tuesday) evening at the home of Mrs. Hodges on Hillsboro street. Come to see live dolls of ail kinds and nation alities. For the Good Shepherd church building,. fund. Refreshments served at I reasonable -jtfiuos. Admission: Adults, 10c.; ."hUdiettt tc. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. THE MONTHLY MEETING WILL BE HELD THIS TUESDAY AT 8 P. M IN THE MAYOR'S OFFICE. MAT TERS OF IMPORTANCE ARE TO BE CONSIDERED AND A FULL MEET ING IS DESIRED. ROBBERY IN OBERLIN. Last night (hour not known) the re freshment stand opposite Camp Shipp Bagley, on the Oberlin road, in the front yard of Monroe Smith, colored, kept by Mr. P. W. McGowan and Mr. L. T. Huddleston, was robbed of every thing In sight even the bottles con taining syrup, the ice pick, can opener, and a few pieces of chewing and smok ing tobacco, cigarettes and canned goods, and a few samples which were left to accommodate people who called for things while the stand was being closed up for the night was stolen. The bulk ol the goods were carried into Monro Smith's house every night for protection, otherwise the whole stock of the refreshment stand would have been looted. The loss was slight, as the goods are moved from the stand every night and put in a place of safety. Hereafter nothing will be left in the stand over night. ORDERS WANT WHITE LABOR. F. P. Sargent, of Firemen's Brother hood, Raises an Important Iussue. The railroad brotherhoods composing the Federation of American Railway Employees will exercise their influence In the direction of replacing the colored firemen and trainmen emploved by some of the railroads in the South with white firemen and trainmen, says the Atlanta Journal. This subject was precipitated in the union meeting of railroad men yester day afternoon by Mr. Frank P. Sar gent, Grand Master of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, and it was again brought up before the meeting of members of the orders last night. The question is one of Importance and far reaching interest. The sentiment of the railroad men is In opposition to the employment of colored men as locom otive firemen and as trainmen. This was evidenced by the ringing applause of the remarks of Mr. Sargent on the subject yesterday afternoon and again last night, when GrandMaster Morrls sey took up the subject. Both denounc ed the existing custom and declared the best work that can be taken up by the railroad men of the South is along the line of putting white men in the place of negroes on railroad trains. "fhe question is of interest principally to the Southern members of the orders and It is especially noteworthy that the agitation and precipitation of the dis cussion was made by Northern men, the executive officers of the brother hoods who come from Illinois. They take up the cause of the members of their organizations and encourage them in this movement which has for some time been quietly under way. A MAN OF ACTION. The young man who blockaded San tiago harbor and wrote his name Im- perishably on the pages of history, says the New York Journal, esessentially a man of action. When there is work to be done he proceeds to do it to the best of his ability. He wastes no time in trivlalties. What he has accomplished with the Maria Teresa has so impressed his supe riors that they have consented to let him try to save the Cristobal Colon. If the waves and rocks have not left her a hopeless wreck Hobson will float her alongside of her sister ship. The hero of the Merrimae adds practical quality to his bravery that makes him altogether one of the most admirable and interesting figures of the war. WRITTEN ON BIRCH BARK. There is a bank in a little country town up in the mountains of New Hampshire, as the story is told, which holds a check of Joseph Jefferson for $2. The check is in a frame, under glass, and will probably never be seen by Mr. Jefferson, was written while the veteran actor was out on a hunt ing and fishing trip. While following the road on foot to a town, he came in sicht of a farm house. Here, he thought was an opportunity to hire a wagon and team to carry him the re malnder of the way. But to his sur prise he found that he did not have the $2. Not a piece of paper could be found So the old comedian took out his knife cut a square piece of white birch bark from one of the trees near by, and wrote a chek for the amount on that When the little country village wa rpnehed this unique check was taken to the bank by the farmer and immedi ately cashed. The bank had it frani and keeps it as a souvenir of the grea actor. El n borate i made for the lion at the t night. vt'pnral ions are hein "House Warming veeep ',i;.ital Cub Thursday The Circus October H1st. This is the month of marriages. Minstrel show tonight. LOCAL NEWS ITEMS Familiar Faces in tin- Mass ing Throng. SHORT STATEMENTS Uaveincat of ataple You Know jicau iftfla ia aaa' About the City nateaea of Today's Street Gossip. Rev. O. L. Stringfield left town to day. Justice Douglass has returned SrijiA Greensboro. Mr. W. C. Petty, of Carthage, was in town today. Mr. Emmett Levy struck town this morning. Mr. J. A. Williams, of Reidsville, is in. the city. Mr. C. L. Lindsay, of Chapel Hill is in town. Capt. C. M. Roberts has returned to the city. Mr. C. F. Jones, of Charlotte, is in the city. Mr. N. E. Bunting, of Fayetteville, is in town. Mr. A. J. Cook left this afternoon for Asheville. Mr. J. M. Featherstone, of Danville, is at the Yarborough. Mr. James H. Chadborne, Jr., of Wil mington, is registered at the Yarbo rough. The street force is now working on Edenton street facing the capital square. Editor J. W. Bailey will leave tomor row for Franklinton to attend the Cen tral Association. Mr. W. C. Douglass has return0-! from Charleston, where he appeared before Judge Simonton in the telegraph cases. Mr. George McNeill, of Carthage, was in the city this morning en route to Wake Forest. The next great event in the business circles of Raleigh is the auction sale of the Myatt property near Newbern ave nue. Read about it on the third page. The First Baptist Sunday school Sun day morning adopted resolutions of re spect ot the memory of Mrs. Meserve, who died last week. She was a zealous member of that Sunday seheol and regular in her attendance. Three answers were received this af ternoon to the problem published in this paper yesterday. To the one send ing the first correct solution this paper will be sent free for two months. Send in your solutions. Prof. Holmes' lecture before the Wa tauga Club last night was highly com plimented by al who heard it. He usedused stereopticon views to illus trate his talk. Prof. Holmes is thor oughly conversant with the subject of roads, and is doing his State a great service. Chief of Police Norwood desires to call the attention of parents I the dan gerous practice of the small boys jump ing on the street cars when they stop or turn corners. These boys are a nui sance and the Chief will have the kids arrested so boys you had better look out. Adjutant General Cowlcs writes Col. Olds from Washington that he is there on legal business before the Commis sioner of Internal Revenue for some of his clients, in the matter of forefited bonds. He says "so much has been said about keeping the Second Regi ment in service that 1 want it under stood I am doing nothing along that line." He says he is very anxious to go to Cuba. It appears from this that he is going with the First Regiment. Mr. Gaston E. Thurst..n, of Golds boro, who is a son-in-law of Mr. W. R. Crawford, of this -ity. as carried to Richmond from Goldsboro Sunday to be treated for appendicitis. An opera tion was performed yesterday and a telegram announced that he stood the operation well, but is exceedingly weak. Mr. W. R. Crawford, Jr., left at 2:16 this morning for Richmond to be with Mr. and Mrs. Thurston. THE SEVENTH CORPS TO MOVE. General orders have been issued from corps headquarters at Jacksonville, for the movement of the Seventh Army Corps from Jacksonville to Savannah. The movement Will begin as soon ns the Quartermaster's Department can provide transportation. The Regime-its will move in the following order: Nimh Illinois. Second South Carolina. Fourth .Illinois. First Texas. Second Louisiana. Third Nebraska (Col. ltrvnn's) Regi ment; V'.lst In. liana. So-.m 1 Illinois, First North Carolina, Forty-ninth Iowa, I'Yiiiith Virginia and Sixth Missouri, It is not anti.ipat'd t! the stay -of the troops at : only sufficient to Cuba to he barking the tr i will bo long, transportation 1 and for f-.m- i