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"Way v. i V THE ENTERPRISE MOOKESVILLE, SOUTHERiN INDUSTRIAL New Enterprises That Are Enriching Our Favored Section. New Industry For North Carolina. And now come the fact that China can do longer claim to be the only country that produces the rush from which the famous "Chinese matting Is manufactured. This great mcnopily jean no more belong exclusively to the Flowery Kingdom. Along the banks of the Trent and Neuse rivers and their tributaries and marshes, be ginning about 15 miles above Newborn there grows a beautiful rush from three to seven feet high, samples of which were lately submitted to a Bos ton expert and declared by him to b : the Identical species of the Chinese va riety and from which the Chinese ira -tings Is made. The supply of this rush in this State is positively inexhausti ble. It is a perennial, exceedingly hardy and a vigorous, rapid grower In its original green s'.ite tho stalVs are from the size of a kni.tlng jicedlj to that of a lead pencil. It is conser vatively estimated that about 300,000. 000 yards of Chinese matting are ship ped into the I'nited States alone an nually from China. It will therefore . be seen what the discovery of this North Carolina rush really means to the commercial world, and its impor tance to the men who will engig? iti Its manufacture. Truly the great an I diversified wealth cf tho Old Nor h State is a constant and continual sur prise. "The half has never been told." Raleigh News and Observer. A Southern Bleachery. One of tho most important an nouncements ever made in connection with the Southern textile industry has appeared during the current week. Ir Is the announcement cf the complit'on of the J300.000 bleachery at Clearwater S. C, the Erst of Its character In this section to cater to the general mill trade. There are two other bleache rles In the Ikmth, hut they are opera- loit !n (Vi iimrtirvi with rnttm f4to. ' riea. The plant just completed will print, bleach and dye sheetings, drill, ducks and sateens, and its weekly ca pacity is ICO tons of goeds. The ope rators have been chosen from tho leading plan's in New England, ario the company owning the bleachery ex pects its plant to be but the Initial st"P tt vi lonmarp v rpinr .n inp .-ut-.irn k. Dieacnms ana eiveiu an oi mias u m i. j ci ...0 .U..O.d ... no- Intiirdilo r1 L Crop. ring J. H. BU- r.io, - ,), 1st week from He repor:s .'imnty will be "s last year, but v i II he short. So box has not be-i l oi iae laies ueing ;n hink fin th,. nil n - M to l.L'o a box on ii;.; Caritoi, Is on a trade fir DOXf s r.t wauchula. and he cx- 'cts to secure fully tint manv h-T. Mr. Carlton is of the opinion that th growers will market the!"- fruit as car y as possible this year, a; many of them lost heavily by hoi dins back for bet:- r price3 last year. Tampa iFla.) Tim-3 South Carolina Mills. Preliminary figures marling rotrn mill property in South Carolina ghen out by the State board of assessors ace as follows: Capita! :..-' whea orra'i ized, $19.314. ."'i0; lr,n ! I drht, J2.H1. 000; value of pl.nt. J:1 num ber of bales annually 'ns;ia 1 .114 236; number of spindles. S.o'-.l.fuft; number of looms. 71. HI, numher of employes. 43.01S: est it::! tod pipilati' n mill settlement. 6 A 2'); afs-e l va!u for taxation $1,;&3,S1I. Textile Hut-Ts. It is rumored that J. hn K. of Glenn Springs, S. C , will cotton factnrv. firrn it build a It h rumored that a company wiil h organized to build another cotton m'.li at Harmony Grove, Ga. The Board of Trade tt Cha-lestown, W. Ya has under ia-i deration a proposition of Phihidclp'iia parties establishing a he sicry l;;iitting m".l o empl-;- 200 hPTis. A dispatch from VIetria. Texn;, states that a sliipment of "5) round ba'es of ctnn from the Gohlm-in G n nery & Mills Co. to Iirrrrr n oa th 13th of Au-tist will probably Ias the ! first cotton in any lar-'e atiount fron' the new rrop to 1k landed In Enron... The IVr.mnt Knitt ng C . of 2112 Hope s;reH. Philadelphia, Pa, has re moved to She p'.ierihtT.v l, V. Vi, I's plant and cniiner.'e i oiera'ions, pro ducing cotton s amie s b i-icry. Messrs. T. N. Icjlin, II. M Du in. J. W. Smth and T J. Tatr k of P)w!iri, Green, S. C, iately r p r'- 1 a crain Izing kulitirg cimpRny. hn. s'-cur1 subscriptions to th am u'lt o.' I'Loc1. nnd will arran :e f -r c ht plant. It Is pr"ps-;d 1o m:!"!'!':-'.' n.e ir,i ; "car. glives. etc. Ilobp:t M. Pulin w;.l be secrelary Ths Bonnie Ci.fun "I'll. The Pnnnie Cntion f i rf Kir.-s Mour.tain. N. C. w hich i 'irnph :. d i: plant some rmntl.s a;o tt.ir cd ipe.a Hons with 4.100 spindies on twist p;y yarns from 8i It 40s. H has now -ie elded to add 10 0 spind'c, this fail and more spindles later on f fill the build Ing. The whole cost will b about 1100.000. Sevrn'y.flre hands ar em ployed, which wiil be Increased to 17.1 in a few months. Ail the tenement bouses ar nearly complete!. J. 3. Mauney is preldnt. Aprtrot Ttilp Stilpp.l 11 Ihi.m, Apiicol pulp to t.'ie amouut t,: t A, u-ty-tlglit tons J( re uitiy eid.-r, from California by a i e.g e London Jam-making firm. mi it 1 I -I '1 if "1 PRESIDENT MKINLEY SHOT A Cowardly Attempt Buffalo, AN ANARCHIST'S BLOODY DEED. The President Was Holding a Recep tion When His Assailant Advanced WliU Covered Weapon and Fired Two Shots, Both Taking Effect Mr. .Mckinley's Condition Thought To Be Favorabls For Recovery. Buffalo, N. Y., Special. President McKinley was shot and seriously mounded by a would-be assassin while holding a reception in the Temple o Music at the Pan-American Exposition a few minutes after 4 o'clock Friday. One shot took cffe;-t in the right breast the other in the abdomen. The first is not of a serious nature and the bullet has been extracted. The latter pierced the abdominal wall and has not been located. It was a few moments after 4 p. m., while President McKinley was holding public reception In the great Temple PRFSDF'T AVII-I o' Music, on the Tan-American grounds, that the cowardly attack was made, with what success time alone can tell. Standing in the midst c! crowds numbering thousan Is. sur rounded by every evidence of good will pressed by a motley throng of people, showered with expressions of love an 1 loyalty, besieged by multitudes all eager to clasp his hand, amid these surroundings and with the ever-recurring plaudits of an admiring army of slght-sfers, ringing in his ears, the blow of the assassin fell and in an in stant pleasure gave way to pain, ad miration to agony, folly to fury and pandomoniura followed. Down at police headquarters, sur rounded by stern-facfd inquisitors cf the law, sits a medium-sized man of common-place appearance with his gaze fixed on the floor, and Kstf-ni with an air of assumed in !:ffen n e to the pcrsis'ent stream of questions. argu m.nts. objurgations and admonitions with which his captors s-ek to induce or compel him to talk. The daily or gan recital in the Temple of Music witnessed the dastardly attempt. Planned with the diabilicil iir-jc-n iity and finesse of which anarchy or Nihil ism is capable, the would-be assassin ! carried out the work without a hitch and should his designs fail and the Preside nt survive, only t Hiv,ne Prov idence can be attributed that hencfi- cent result. The President, though well-guarded by United States Serrt S-rvice detec ' tives, was fully e.xpc see! 1r such an at tack as occ urre.1. He stood at the edge of the raised dais upon will h stands the great pipe organ at the east side of the magnificent structure. Throngs I of people crowded in, to gaze upon their executive, perchance to clasp his hands, and the-n fight their way out .n the good-natured mob that every min ' ute swelled ami multiplied at the points of ingress' and egress to the; ' fcnihllne The President was in a cheer- t ful mood and was enjoying to the full the hearty evidences of good j, ill which everywhere met his caze. Upon his right stood John G. Milburn. f: Buffalo, president of the Pan-American Exposition, chatt r.g vr in t' e President and introducing t h.ni es- Another Virginia Ship-Yard. ' Norfolk, Va., Special. It was n nour.rei that another shipbuilding r,.:i-ern, with a capital of .i.0'.rt-'ju. w iuld nppiy for a rhart-r at on e un-d-r the Virginia laws, to ert a plant tt Swall's Point, about five nr.'n down the Elizabeth river, whre th"y have secured options on over 1.00 sr3 of wa'er frai.t at $750 p--r are. The c ancrrn w.ll be known as th" X irfoik Shipbuilding and Dry I;c.h Company. Cliv. land Ccn See No R ason Win-:.-!. ! nr... Spe ial.-Ev P. .1 n' G:i vr Ov'.'.md was fishing .' Darling I.ai" in Tyringha-n. Mis-.. hen b" leeeive-d the ne'i regir l;.. '. the ,h:.M.n? o! P!f:d?lt M'Kir.i-e. Mr. Cleveland was h irr fld ' ' -ne ws and said: "With all American i itizetis I am grratiy shocked a- t'os prtc. I cannot conceive o' a motiv . It ri.u t lia.e be'Mi the a t o' a .riizv in an ' Seif -conci it is the main .i wagging tongue. Him At penally persons of note who approach ed. Upon the President's left stood Mr. C'ortelyou. Then the multitude which thronged tlie edifice Vegan to come to a realiz ing sense of the awfulness of the scene cf which they bad been unwill ing witnesses. A murmur arose, spread and swelled to a hum of con fusion, then grew to a babel of sounds and later to a pandemonium of noises. Tho crowds that a moment before had stood mute and motionless as in be wildered ignorance of the enormity of of the thing, now with a single im pulse surged forward toward the stage of the horrid drama, while a hoarse cry welled up from a thousand throats and a thousand men charged forward to lay hands upon the perpetrator of the dastardly crime. A SCENE OF WILD CONFUSION. For a moment confusion was terri ble. The crowds surged forward ro ! gardk of consequences. Men shout ed and fought, women screamed and children cried. Some of those nearest the doors fled from the edifice in fear of a acampede. mliU hundreds oT oth ers from the outside struggled blindly forward in the effort to penetrate the crowded building and solve the mys- !4M NT KIN! F.V tery of exc itement and panic which every moment grew and swelled with in the congested interior of tiie edi fice. A DRAMATIC TRAGEDY. Inside on the slightly raised dais was enacted within those few feverish moments a tragedy, so dramatic in liarac ter, fo thrilling in its intensity that few who locked on will ever be able to give a sue e inct account of what really iliel transpire. Even the actors v l;o were playing the principal roles came out of it with blanched facts, trembling limbs ami beating hearts while their brains throbbed with a tumult of conliictim: emotions which! eoulel net be rlarifieil into a lucid nar rative of the events as they really transpired. I'KESIDENT REMAINED CALM. Km of the multitude which witness ed or bore a part In the scene of tur moil an 1 turbulence there was but one mind which seemed to retain its cHiuilibriuni. one hand which remain ed st.-adv. one eve which eazed with unflinching calmness and one voice j which rt tamed iis even tenor and fal- ti-red not at the most critical juncture, i They wi re the mind and the hand ; and the eye and the voice of Presi-1 di nt McKinley. After the first shock of the assassin's shots, he retreated n F''p. Then as the detectives leaped I upon his assailant, he turned, walked I sn adily to a chair and seated him- j self, at the same time removing his ! bat anil bowing his head in his hands, j In an instant Secretary Cortelyou and President Milburn were at his side., His waistcoat was hurriedly opened, j the President meanwhile admonishing those about him to remain calm anil telling them not to be alarmed. "But ou are wounded." cried his sec Tetnrv. "let nie examine." "No. I think not." answered the President. "I am not badly hurt, I assure you.'" PRESIDENT'S ASSAILANT TAKEN TO PRISON. The Prrsidint's assailant In the meantime had been hustled to the rear of the building by the exposition irnardR. win re he was held while the' imileling was cleared and later ie was lil: ii ( 1 II 'I lJ nun1 iiuu.HU' w cf the Buffalo department, who tooK the prisoner to No. 13 ponce station ::nd afterwards to police headquar- ' Posloflice Clerks. Milwaukee. Special The National P:s'of,Ve Clerks' Association adoptet ' in.-:sifl a::'.:i bill. It asks that th? minimum sai.iry for clerks In first an t s.cr.nd cl.i-s o.Th s ! t an 1 that :h maxim i:n be $1.2. wi-.h a yearly inerea. e of J'.i 'l uniii the salary snail have reached J 1.4 Hi per year. It farther ais that bill r!"r!is r.-ceiie u. a r., ::i si'ry 1;J with yearly advar.c s cf '.''' uu'il ti.v shall re- ' ive l:.- This a;ipii-3 to all clerks. $5110 To $400. irk. Sp' ial. -The news of i 'u r f ih Columbia to meet ii. when rccivr-d at 'he mii-v appa'enrly caused no I- cf sfhamr-Kk mon-y N ,r d d it affect the odd' 'jiltained by backers of the Nrw V th " ! 1 ct Shaniro- i k c. i-fat urn' 11:1 -iv - fr.rm'rly Vlnltor. Put little licttllg. nowev 1, was r'c'irded dm in? th1! day. O ae wamr "f 5 on Coluiniiia to 0:1 -"..ainr..-, I; was made. An oft-r of Jl.nuu ei'eu iiioti'y oil Columbia - lale with r.o takers shortly bfon the exchanse closed. to Assassinat New York. ters. As soon n the crowd in tiif Temple of llu, had been dispersed sufficiently th President was re moved in the utomobi!e ambulance and taken to tie exposition hospital where an examination was made. The best medical skill was summoned and within a brief period several of But fa'.o's best knotn practitioners were at the patient'sj side. MK. McK134.EY'S INJURIES. The Fresiden, retained the full exercise of his faculties until placed on the operating table and subjected to an anaesthetic. Upon the first ex amination it was ascertained that one Pallet had taku.i effect in the rirht breast just below the nipple, causing a comparative harmless wound. The other took effect in the abdomen about four inches below the left nipple, four inches to the'jbft of the navel, and about on a level with it. Upon arrival at the exposition hospital the second bullet wound was probed. The walls of the abdomen were opened, but the ball was not located. The incision wad hastily closed and after a hasty con sultation, it was decided to remove the patient to the home of President Milburn. The Assailant. l"on Czolagosz, the would-be as sassin has signed a confesion covering six pages of foolscap, which states that he is an anarchist and that he be came an enthusiastic member of that body wkirou: iuiluvuva of Kmina Goldman, whefcnritings he had read and whose leJTires he had listened to. He denies having any confederate and says he decided on the act three days ago and bought the revolver with which the act was committed in Buf falo. He had seven brothers and sis ters la Cleveland, and the Cleveland directory has tic names of about that number living on Hosmer street and Aekland avenue, which adjoin. Some of them are butchers and others in different trades. He is now detained at police headquarters pending the result of the President's injuries. Czologosz does not appear In the least degree uneasy or penitent for his action. He says ho was induced by his attention to Emma Goldman's lec tures and writings to decido that the present form of government in this country was all wrong and he thought the best way to end it was by killing the President. He shows no sign of Insanity, but is very reticent about much of his career. While acknowl edging himself an anarchist, he does not state to what branch o the or gapization he belongs. SymUatt tic Resolutions. The annoii ment of the attempted assassinatio, President McKinley of sadness and Ileit is of the country, mpathy have been leading cities cf th; brought feeli ror to all see Resolutions or passed In all t South, and at 'olumbia, S. C, Camn Hampton, of, nfedernte veterans. passed stror itions conde.nnin the crime dent's rec ng for the Presi- would-be assas- Fin belo lgerous class ot foreignei ct comes with- rvjn ... London. LondoiirJ the attemrf The news of life of President I McKinley i The first I ited; then, wly in London. rts were discred- conflrmation and general disse ion of the news, , arose a far-re ing feeling of sorrow i which, wherever ed, almost gained the . and ineiign ' Ameriians gat proportions of,' a panic, accompanied by feverish anxiety for further details. The thousarAiof American;, now in London were stiy at the theatres I when .the "news arrived; and retaining j to their hotels found anxious groups ! of Englishmen ind Americans discuss I ing what, without distinction of ra.e, is regarded as a national calamity. The announcement of the attempted I assassination was received too late for extra editions cf the papers to an nounce the news to the mass of the English people and they w ill not learn until they take up their morning pa pers of the President's Injuries. Conditiors Satisfactory. Buffalo, Special. The following bul letin was issue! by the President's physicians at 10:40 p. m, "The President is rallying satis.'ac- .. and u resting tonmfortably; ' . -5 P- - temperature 100.4 degrees, pulse 1.4, respiration J4. At 1 a. m. Saturday the physicians issued a bulletin saying that the Pres ident suffered no pain. The News.ln Washington. Washington. . C. Special.-The streets are throled with people nho are eauerly s.- f J the latent news from the Pnrfit. Announcements through the majaphones at The Post and Star buildings that the wounds are The ,.r,e Is enntempla- ted with horror. Much sentiment Is ex pressed asainst foreigners and anarch ists, but more especially the latttr. Brief Mention. At Iexin"1on, Miss.. Monroe Hit?h ford and Spencer Wright, colored fought a duel whh shotguns, and ho'.ii were killed. Robert T. Wilcox, p:stni3s:'v a. Jae-ksont ille, Ga.. has bee n arrested i n the charge cf ming oflic ial envelops.-. f:ir private purposes. The purchase' cf mu3 for the r.r.ihh arr-iy in S.:i:;h Africa Las been jtsamed at Kansas ( I y. Mo., after an interval of thr'eniop'Hs District Attorr.fy Philbin. at New York, will appeal, from the decision cf "reorder Ooff In the ease of Polbe Captain Il'ilihy. whose Indictment fo neglect of duty -las recently d smissel Deputy Commissioner of Police Devery. of New York, has preferred 1 hargs sgainv Polir?man Edward ti'Neil for uttrancs at his trial 011 1 barges of misconduct lat Thursday, v.hn he aid he? would not stand for a "shake down." The man who covets bis neighbor's house would change bis mind If Lt kntw what was in the closets. 4 V ft f 1 r FORMER ASSASSINATIONS. Review of the Killing of Lincoln and Carileld. Three times in the history of this country has an assassin attacked its chief officer. In the first two instances the mur derer succeeded in compassing the death of his victim. In the third in stance the Prisidcnt has been seriously wounded and his life now tretnbe!e3 in the balance. The first asssassin was an American whose mini had been unbalanced by the events and results of the Civil War. The second assassin was a Frenchman who was crazed by the de sire for office, and the third is a Pole, who elaini3 to be an anarchist. nr. Lincoln Assassinaled. The firat Presidential assassination occurred just after the close ot the Civil War. when President Abraham Lincoln was shot and almost instantly killed in a Washington theatre by John Wiikes Rooth, an obscure actor. Pi-esi.'ent Lincoln had been frequent ly warned of the danger of assassina tion, as well as threatened with it In anonymous letters, but had never ta ken any precaution against it. believ imr on the one hand thai it. was not Ittcely to be attempted, ana on th other that if it were contemplated no precaution could protect one who was so accessible as the President of the United States. Cn the evening of Good Friday, Ap ril 11th. 1SI15, President Lincoln yisit ed Ford's theatre, accompanied by Mrs Lincoln and two or three personal friends. The play was "Our American Cousin." A few minutes after 10 o'clock an actor, John Wilkes Booth entered the box. having first barred the pas sage leading to it, approached the President from behind, placed a pistol close to his head and fired. He then leaped from the front of the box upon the stage, and brandishing a dagger shouted. "Sic semper tyrannis," disap peared behind the scene3, passed out at the stage door and escaped on horse back. As he jumped upon the stage his leg was broken, and he was recognized by the actors. The President's head fell slightly forward, his eyes closed and consci ousness never returned. He was re moved to a private house on the oppo- site side of the street, where he died 22 minutes past 7 o'clock the next ( i morning. ! Shooting of President Garfield. j The next Presidential assassination was the killing of James A. Garfield by Charles J. Guiteau, a disappointed and mentally unbalanced office-seeker, lt ! was on July 2, 1SS1 that Guiteau shot ' at Garfield twice in the ladies' waiting j room of the Baltimore and Potomac railroad in Washington, as he was about leaving the city to join his wdfe I nn n Vow K.n clnnd nlonsurp trin. finfl of the balls took effect in his back and he sank unconscious to the floor. He was at om e conveyed to the White House and there attended by the best j medical skill till September 6th, when he was removed to the seashore at El- berton, N. J. Bloodpoisoning appeared on the 13th and four days later he ' died. j Guiteau was promptly arrested, in- dieted and after one of the most sensa tional trials on record, was convicted and executed on Jnr.c 30, 1SS2. Gui teau's lawyers set up the plea of In sanity. He had been a persistent can didate for appointment, first a3 min ister to Austria and then as consul general to Paris. He is reported as hav ing said, when arrested, "All right. I did it, and will go to jail for It." A let ter was also found on his person in which he spoke of the President's as sassination as "a sad necessity" that would "unite the Republican party and save the Republic." President Garfield made a brave fight for life. His death did not occur until some two months after he was shot and several times during that period he was pronounced by his physicians as almost out of danget. A description of his wound may not be uninteresting just here, as it bears, in some respee ts, a resemblance to one of the wounds from which President McKinley is now suffering. The assassin stood about six fee', be hind and a little to the right of Mr. Garfield. n examination of the wound showed that the bulkt had entered be tween the eleventh and twelfth ribs, about 4 inches to the right of the spi nal column, and the phytuuans were of the opinion that it had grazed Ihe liv.r and lodged in the front wall of the ab domen, l'hey deemed the Injury not neccssaritv fatal, but conclude! that it ws not advisible to attempt removal if the ball. Iitar. however, it was discoverel thit neither the liver nor any other vital org. was affected by the bullet. For several days immediately follow ing the shooting the President's recov ery was confidently predicted by his do dors. The first check io the favor able symptoms occurred on the lStn Emma (ioldman to Be Anested. P-uffalo. Special. It is reported here bat Emma Goldman, anatchist ladn was here last Monday, anl that sn occupied a hcuse a few doors from where Czolgosz lived. Superintendent Dull is said to have a ked New Ycr' to arrest her. The police are said to he investigating the ca e at the reoueii of Uovwnor Odcil. 5tvcn Men K lied. James, o-vn. N. D.. Special-Five men were killed snd six o:hrs jeriou--ly Injured, two cf whom have fin e died, in a collision tlm o cuned end;--Sunday. A mlx'd train on the Nortii irn Pacific Railroad came In from Oi kco. cartying 17 men on a flat car. As the train passed the ititlon, a ro.il ittfioe- was ttruck. atol the fj'ce of t'.e .on s.,.n cl ued the flat car to cailap. . I lie i.ani' s of the eleid and injuiel e. iild not b" learned. They were bar vest hands who had boarded the car .it Lunioure. two weeks after the shooting. On the 23rd the President suffered a serious relapse and on the next day an incis ion was made along what was suppos ed to be tho path of the wound to al low the escape of pus there collected. This was followed by Improved symp toms. Ort the 28th there was a recur rence of the fever, but this soon passed and there were favorable reports until August 6th. On the 10th another Incis ion was mad along the wound; fol lowing this the reports became daily less encouraging until the lath, when the doctors asknowledged the patient's condition as serious. Nourishment and medicine had to be administered by in jection, and another incision made to liberate the pus in the wound. On the 25th he was again pronounced as in a critical condition, though on the 27th improvement was shown. On September 4th the President was moved to the New Jersey coast In the hope that the change might do him good, and for awhile this seemed to be the result, for on the 8th bis symptoms seemed very favorable; but. on the 11th reports began to fluctuate and continued to do so till the 16th. when a serious relapse came, and from which he never rallied, dying on the 19th, at 10:35 o'clock. During President Garfield's sickness there had been criticisms and discus sions of the Medical treatment being administered, and so after his death a post-mortem examination was he'd. It was found that the ball, after fractur ing the right elevenlh rib, had passed tiirrraph the spinal column in front of me spinal canal, fracturing the first lumbar vertebra and driving the splin ters of bone Into the fleshy parts. The ball lodged about two Inches below the pancres (sweetbread) and half to the left of the spine and behind the peri tonaceum, where It had been complete ly encysted. The immediate cause of death was a secondary hemorrage from one of the mesenteric arteries adjoin ing the track of the ball, the blood rup turing the peritonaeum, and nearly a pint escaping into the abdominal cavity. A Negro Choked Hie Assassin. New York, Special. A special from Buffalo says: J. B. Parker, who grabbed the would-be assassin of President Mc Kinley about the neck with a strangle hold, preventing the firing of a third shot, is a negro who lives at No. 450 Sixth avenue. New York city. He was born in Atlanta, Ga.. forty five years ago, in slavery. He went to the exposition to take a place as waiter In the Bailey restaurant. He lives at No. 223 Clinton street, Buffalo, while at work at the exposition. He is a giant in size, standing over 6 feet, erect as an Indian, has very regular features and is light in color. The assassin tore his vest buttons en tirely off in the struggle. Parker said: "It's the very best day's work I ever did. If I "nail not grabbed that crazy loon he would have shot again. I got a strangle hold on his neck that I learned down south. "Just think, old father Abe freed me, and now I saved his successor from death, provided that bullet that he fired into the president don't kill him. "Yes. I live In New York, hut I never had a chance before to shake any pres ident's hand. I stood in line waiting my turn; a lady was ahead of me, and behind was a fellow with light hair, about 5 feet J Inches tall. "He had a cap in his left hand and a handkerchief in bis right hand. Ha was right in front of me, and I had a good chance to look at him as we walked slowly down the line. "He didn't seem nervous as I recall it, but he kept glaring at the presi dent all the while in a funny kind of way. I was watching him when we got to the president, but was looking at the president. "Suddenly, I heard two sharp re ports, the handkerchief on the man's hand burst into a blaze as the fellow raised his smoking pistol to shoot again, aiming this time at the presi dent's heart. "It seemed to me that my own heart was in my moutn, but with a jump I threw my left arm around the man and knocked his hand down. Then the detectives and I dragged him Into a side room and threw him on a table and searched him. "The president turned a shade paler and sat down on a bench. My clothes were half torn oil me. but I thank the good Lord I did what I could to save the successor of the man who freed my people. I shall stay right here, work ing as waiter." . Oreat Combination Forming. Pittsburg, Special. The Post says: All the bituminous coal mining com panies of Pennsylvania, Ohio. Indiana, Illinois, West Virginia and Kentucky are to be consolidated into one great corporation by the J. P. Morgan syn dicate. The enormous proportions of this corporation can hardly be realized. The fact that the Pittsburg Coal Com pany, with Its capital of $64,000,000 and the Monongahela River Consoli dated Coal and Coke Company, with its capital of J30.000.000. are to be in cluded in the greater consolidation, brings the matter strongly befor Ptliobars aoal omUm. . TluM two co: pr-rations practii ally control all the output In the Pittsburg district and extend their operations well down toward West Virginia in two direo. tions. Officers of these companies are expected to attend a meeting of the coal operators in New York Thursdav of next week, at which the prelimi nary steps toward the formation of the great combine will be taken. , Briefs By Wire. j The movement to end the great strike of steel workers is regarded as . piactically dead, and the strikers Deemed to lose ground. 1 James Fleming was hanged at Deer I Lodge. Mont, for the murder of an I old man wbofe estate he hoped to ! get. I Lena Schillinger, 18 years old. was ' married to Frederick Smith, aged iO years, at Meyersdale. Pa. The York County Traction Company has decided to change Its route to l skip Red Lion. A carriage once owned by General ; Grant is in use at Carlisle, Pa. Burglars robbed the postofnee at Amery, Wis. Senator A. J. Bevctldge. of Indiana, and Brieadb-r Gfna:cl Kobte loft I Manila yesterday on the trcLsport , Thomas for the United States, j A Pckln dispatch states that the ' fore lp:i Ministers l;ave arranged to si-'a the pcsi'C protocol. The Ytllow Fever Board at Havni has sulimltti-d a report declaring that i Dr. Caldas' eorum to imn'uuin,- per sons kgalnst fever is a failure. IS STILL IMPROVING The Wounded President's Condilio:i Grows More Hopeful STEEL STRIKE STILL NOT SETTLE No Compromise SeemsJ Possibls at The Conference-All in the Hands el President Shaffer. Milburn Hotisa, Special. After ib.3 9:30 p. m. bulletin had been issue! from the Milburn residence Mone'.i" night announcing a continuant tit the favorable conditions of the Presi dent, there were many indication--; that the bulletins wen but meagre? indications of the real improvement ot the distinguished patient. At 9:45 o'clock Miss McKinley, a sU of the President; Dr. arel Mrs. H-v-man Baer, the latter a niece of th. President, and the Mioses Barber, nieces ot the President, left the hous:e end taking carriages, announced their, intention of returning to their homes Abner McKinley accompanied them t t the station and to the Associate;! Fre?gy roriTPpiMiaetiT' wxTtrr--tmc near---cs relatives of the President are fo confident of his recovery that they have no hesitation in leaving." Postmaster Frease, of Canton,, x warm personal friend of tho Presidn- who came Monday, sail: "I go back because I have the most positive assu rance that the President is going to make a rapid recovery." In fart by 10:30 o'clock the entire temper of everybody about the Milburn resl len-ej weemed to have undergone a radical ehange. The police did not stop wag ons frcin going by the nearest corner" at high speed. The legular army guarded street. Tho newspaper men did not maintain tho quiet that has prevailed for the past three day.'. Even those who came from the mansion, where the wounded man lay, stapp?,l on the corner to laugh and chat. From sombre forebodings, tho feeling has suddenly turned to joyful confidence; that the nation's ruler is to be spared. At 10:50 the ligh'.s in the mansion, except thOie dimly shining in the sick: room, weie extinguished and by lt o'clock peaceful quiet reigned alxiu: the Milburn home. On the dark cor ner opposite. the house sildiers, poiiei men and newspaper men kept vigii, however, sheltered beneath their tnt -. The 9:30 bulletin, as was promised, was to be the last of the night and while it was brief attention was call ed to the fact that the pulse was ex actly the same as in the morning 11..', and that the tcmpera.'ure was eight tenths of a degree lawer, a3 highly fa vorable symptoms. The President is Hopeful. At 11:40 Monday morning Dr. Me Burney. the noted surgeon, left, tho President's bedside. He informed r. McKinley that he had a good fighting chance. To this tho President re plied: "Then I' will recover." S eel Strike Not Settled. Pittsburg. Special.- The last efto t to settle the steel strike has failed. The general executive board of the Amalgamated Association adjourned Monday evening without date end without either accepting any of the peace proposotlons. which have corns indirectly from the United Stetns Steel Corporation, or making counter prop ositions, according to the official state ment. The semi-official report is that the proposition secured for the Amal gamated Association through the in tervention of the representatives of t':t! National Civic Federation was unsat isfactory and that the entire matter of arranging for a settlement was left with President Theodore J. Shaffer. The board in its sessions of three days has been clamoring for a fettlcment. but satisfactory terms and means we:e not at hand and the sessions resn'vd themselves Into an informal discusiicn of the situation. TTe CzirCohgrati late. Milburn House, Buffalo, Special. The following message ha3 been le eeived from the Czar of Kuss'a: "Kredensborg, Sept. !t. "To President McKinley. Buffalo: "I am very happy to hear you a-e feeling better after the ignominnus at tempt on your life. I join the Ameri can people in the universal world in hope for your spesdy recovery. NICHOLAS." To Reward Parker. Savannah, Ga., Special. Tnere Is a movement afoot among the colored population to present a substantial tes timonial to James B. Parker, the nesro wha caught and bore down Czolgost, the assailant of the President, thin preventing further shooting. It Is b-llernt- Pafctr - the Prcalilent'j life. Parker's mother was born end raised here, and he was himse'f a mag istrate's constable In this city for sev eral years. He Is well remembered js faithful officer by Coliertor of t' 0 Fort Devciu, Superintendent of Kiro Department MaeGuire and others. Many of his relatives still reside here. It has not yet been dee ided what form the testimonial hall take. The Pry flood. Matket New York. Special. Print rlo'hs continue strong and regulars hn-c sold at 2 7-S. an advance nf I S yard Wide grey goods arc fir mat previous prices. In brown sheetings anl drills and in bleached cottons price-1 are firm with steady demand for im mediate requirements but net much doing for forward deliveries. Then are occasional advances in plaids a: I cotton cheviots and coarse colored goods are generally firm. Prints aia firm. J. Gordon Coogfer Dead. Columbia. S. C, Special J. Gur.'cn Coogler, the poet, died Mcnday. Coogler. who r dJ in O.tViatY.j. wher he conducted a small pr.nt n; business, was In some resptf-ts a re markable man. He wrote poetry by tin armful, as it were, and aithoug'i in::, ri fun was made by the prf s of his s:y e of rhyme, be never took it ls such. CoiTgler published his vorks in bcui form and duubtless made mwy i a them. In his dtath Souita Car u lotes one of her best known citizuw. .
The Mooresville Enterprise (Mooresville, N.C.)
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