VOL. VIII.
COLUMBUS, N. C.,' THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1902.
V
NO.14.
SALISBURY RETIRES.
England's Able Statesman Resigns
From His Position
BALFOUR NAMED AS SUCCESSOR.
jlr. O'Connor Sums Up the Situation
With Regard to the Change Will
Benefit Ireland.
London, By Cable. The Marquis of
Salisbury has resigned the premiership
or urtL xjnixiuj. auu iwui, iuu. xx. o.
Balfour the First-Lord of the Treasury
and government leader in the House
of Commons, has been, appointed to
suceed him. . -
The Marquis of Salisbury tendered
his resignation at-an audience which
le had with King Edward last Friday.
Saturday Mr Belfour visited the King
and accepted the premiership.
Thomas Power O'Connor, M. P., in
aa interview by a representative of the
Associated tress summed up the situa- l
tipa with the resignation ofLord Salis
bury and the appointment of Mr. Bal
four as follows:
The resignation of Lord Salisbury
tras expected in connection with the
coronation ofKing'Edward, but when
the coronation did not take place there
grew up an idea that perhaps the
Premier's resignation was indefinitely
postponed. Old men cling to power, and
it was supposed that Lord Salisbury
was not free from the weakness of so
many others. This prospect did not
ouite satisfy his colleagues. Lord Salis
bury's health has been notoriously in
different, especially since the death of
his wife; his extreme obesity is, of
course, inconsistent with activity, ei-
ther of mind or body, and there were
-whispers that he, sometimes, was over- tained two attorneys of the Montreal
come by sleep in the midst of momen- and Canadian bar who have ably as
tous cabinet questions and that he, only sisted him. The report then calls at-
awoke when the discordant voices of
Joseph Chamberlain (the Colonial Sec
retary), and Sir Michael Hicks-Beach
(Chancellor of. the Exchequer) , the
two chief opponents in the ; cabinet,
reached an unusually high pitch.
Once or twice, too, lately, in the
House of Lords, he has shown a certain
want of grip that was almost painful,
For instance, when the terms of peace I
in South Africa had .to be announced,
he calmly asked the House of . Lords
whether they desired to hear the words
of Lord Kitchener's dispatch, as
though the communication was really
of little importance.
"Probably his resignation now has
been, influenced partly by the desire to
make sure of the succession being in
the Cecil family, and still more with a obtaining the game under false . pre
view to preventing the accession of tenses, or for participation in these
Mr. Chamberlain. No man could be crimes, provided such participation is
more adverse than Js Lord Salisbury to
supreme power being in the hands of
so impulsive,' restless and arrogant a
politician as the Colonial Secretary.
Though they had been made political
bedfellows by necessity Lord -Sails-
bury and Mr. Chamberlain remained
apart and were secretly hostile to each
other. In addition, the accession of
Mr. Chamberlain might involve the
immediate disposal of Lord Cranborne
sunder Secretary for the Foreign
fice), and the Earl of Selborne, (First
cord of the Admiralty), the one the
son and the other the son-in-law oi
Lord Salisbury.
"It is doubtful in case, whether the
rank and file of the Tory party would
iave accepted Mr. Chamberlain will-
ingly. They do not liKe him. 'inere ,is
a- certain section of young Tories who
inzlv Thev dn nnt. like him. There is
! lo not love Mr. Balfour, thinking him
''slack and decadent, but he is still the
f larling of the straight Conservatives
! and his opponent would be even more
Papular with his political Opponents
I than with his political friends. Despite
his many faults, Mr. Balfour remains
the most popular figure in the House
. . . . ..
oit Commons and his very faults help
Mm in this respect ir he be indolent
is also courteous. v tolerant - and
broad-minded, and he will not .insult
other nations as Mr. Chamberlain, has I
done. His tongue is well under re
straint and he has all the instincts of a
Sentleman. !: v ;'Vs
"I regard the change as beneficial to
Ireland, in the long run. Mr Balfour
has had much experience in Ireland,
Jnd, though he is not a home ruler, all
old animosity has disappeared and
Je is just the man to propose a solu
on of the long, outstanding difl&culty.
Blit Mr. Balfour does not come into
office at a . very happy moment The
Education bill, which he is piloting
through the House of Commons, arous
tremendous religious passions on
both sides, and it is doubtful if he will
e able to carry it through without
uch concessions to his political op
ponents as will exasperate some of his
Political friends; The aftermath
in ? wa nas also come and the ma
jonty the government, though large
wanting in cohesion. But' it is use
ts speculating further; the unexpec-
,.always the dominant factor in
glish politics."
CANADA NOTHING FAIRLY,
High Officials Trying to Shield Gay.
nor and Greene. :
Washington, Special
tion case of Benjamin D. Greene and
j onn a . uaynor, whose removal from
Canada to-the State of Georgia for
trial, on charges tf misappropriation
and embezzlement of over $2,000,000 in
connection with river and harbor im-
vuuuuuu mm aver a,uu narDor im-I
r.-nTrr-4- -4. CI i - .
Tuudi vimaan, ua.,nas been
sought for some time by the United
QfQf00 ni t, j.-, : j;
Statesc, will take on a. dinlnmatta
in a few days, when Secretarv Hav
communicates to the British v govern-
uicui iub viw oi tne omciais oi our
Department of Justice that the Canadi-
an authorities are pursuing an extra-
oramary ana unwarranted course in
the case. The delays and embarrass
ments in. the extradition proceedings
resulted in Marion Erwin, special as-
sistaht to to the Attorney General,
wuu uaa ukku in arave r.narsp ot me i
extradition proceedings for the United
States, transmitting to the . Attorney
General, under date of Montreal, July
7. The special report on the Depart-
ment calling attention to the alleged
fa.ct that representatives of Greene and
Gaynor are closely connected through
professional and family ties' with the
Canadian officials to whom this gov
ernment mast, look for the extradi
tion.
Mr. Erwin reports that -prior to in
Utituting. the extradition proceedings he
was put on notice that the fugitives
had "taken refuge at Quebec to resist
extradition and that they had employ
ed as their council the firms of law
yers to which belonged the higest of
ficials of the provincial and Dominion
governments." He says that he was
thus'prechided by the position taken
by them from conferring with the law
officers of the crown." He therefore re-
tention to this provision of the Cana
dian extradition act: "Whenever this
act applies, a judge may issue his war
rant for the apprehension of a fugitive
on a: foreign warrant of arrest, or on
information- or complaint laid before
him, and on such evidence or after such
proceedings, as in his opinion would
subject to the provisions of this act,
justify the issue of his warrant if the
crime of which the, fugitive is accused
or alleged to have been convicted had
been committed in Canada."
Citation .is made of the extradition
treaty , between the United States and
Great Britain and it is shown that it
provides for extradition for the onenses
of embezzlement, fraud, receiving sto
len moneys or goods or property, or
punishable by the laws or both coun-
tries. Mr. Erwin made complaint on
oath on May 24 before Hon. Uiric La-
Fontaine, an extradition commissioner;
resident at Montrealwho is given ju-.
risdiction over the whole province of
Quebec, charging Greene and Gaynor
With having participated in the crimes
0f fraud, embezzlement and obtaining
mnnev under false pretenses, the corn-
plaint setting out-matters in detail and
that such participation was punishable
Dy the laws of both countries. The re
port then directs attention to the reg-
ularity of the service of the writs,
arrest of Messrs. Greene and Gaynor
and their remand for further exami
nation. After this Judge Andrews, at
Quebec, issued writs of habeas corpus
which were served at night on tne
jailer at Montreal, who held the men
wh?rh Ttrpro Rorverl at. niffht on the
under extradition commissioner's order
for further proceedings.5
On what followed the report says:
"Without notice to the commissioner
or to the attorneys representing the
United States in the proceedings, the
Montreal jailer, who holc' his appoint-
ment under the provincial authorities,
within a. few minutes after service of
the writs upon him, conveyed the pris-
nners hv snecial train back to Quebec.
s there were other judges at Montreal
exercising habeas corpus powers and
In such" cases the Canadian laws give
a judge, in the district of Quebec no au
thority to bring a prisoner irom Mon
rpnl nn habeas cornus injury, - it r is
not believed that the jailer at Montreal
would have adopted so extraordinary a
course without notice to parties in in
terest, except under high official pres-
rrVio, oHnrnova nt that time an-
oearins in the proceedings for the fu-
gitives, and moving to have that done,
embraced amonsr others, the nrm 01
tiM rotHv "Parent. Taschereau. Rox fc
Cannon, which firm the Hon. Charles
Tritznatridk. Minister of Justice for the
rrtTtwiriTi nf Canada, is a member. 01
wh l nh firm- Mr' Cannon, son of the
deputy attorney for the province or
OiifihAe is a member of which the Hon.
R K. Parent. Prime Minister for. the
province of Quebec is a. member; also,
X? I hoiTit attnrnW general
Hon:MrArcbauUatto
tor tne pruvmuc -"
Chauveau. son or tne extraaiuou wu
SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL
1
Heipi
ng the South.
(Charleston News and nnrier.l
In an-adidress delivered in Atlanta
few days ago Mr. R. H. Edmonds, edi-
ior or tne Manulaciurers' Record, made
O Of Mam m mi.-. . . - I
.ZC'S SJ?61!?;'
ifi v.Q i,,rv :r " I
uuvuuuu 1U1 . KUULUCIU MVS. Hill I
v"v' uvCOl, Ul LUC OUULO HH
declared ttint ,,tic l a a.
its no ' - 1 1 riw w VaT.' T-iw vT
its now limited facuues for the many
white boys, who would' glady avail
themselves) of the v opportunity, "its
great natural advantSgSs will not more
enable theih towin in competition with
the technical experts of other sections
tnan would a xiaaiih strong position
enable an kimy equipped with the
muzzle loader guns to withstand an
assault from cue holdine a position na
turally weaker, but equipped with the
repeating rifle and the breach-loading
"uuuu.
General Industrial Notes,
The annual meeting of the Alabama
Commercial and Industrial Association
will be held at Gadsden Julv 9 and to .
Among the topics to be considered will
be a business view of Alabama's new
constitution, a technological school for
Alabama? municipal problems and re
forms, insurance rates and risks, diver-
sincation or industries, plantation life
in Alabam'a, an Alabama exhibit at St.
Louis, and. river arid harbor legislation.
The association is composed of various.
commercial clubs In the State, and has
worked systematically to increase its
usefulness! to the business men of 'Ala
bama. Mr. W. P. Lay, of Gadsden is
president,! and Mr. L. L. Gilbert of
Montgomery, is secretary and treasur
er. . i
Hugo, Pizzoti, United States consul
at Turin, Italy, is in this country try-
ing to negotiate for the delivery of 4,-
000,000 tons of bituminous coal for ex-
port to 'Italy. It is thought in New
York that the coal may be bought in
Alabama.
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A chamber of commerce has been or
ganized at! HarrimahoTenn.; with eigh
ty-three members tod "Srtth' Messrs. J.
D.Roberts j president: John Handy, vice
president;! Burd Kurtz, secretary.
and
A. C. Jackson, treasurer.
r
The Logan County Cotton Oil Co. of
Paris, Alkj., has been chartered, with a
capital stock of $50,000, of which $25,-
550 has been subscribed. The ofilcers
of the company are W. H. Jones, presi
dent; Geol M. Zeller, vice-president;
Anthony Hall, secretary, and W. R.
cherry, treasurer.
The Arcadia Cotton Oil Mill &
Manufacturing ' Co. was organized on
the 18th jfnst., with a capital stock of
$50,000, of which $30,000 was subscrib
ed by local people. The plant will be
a two-press one of thirty tons capacity.
The officers of the company are F. T.
Taylor, president; L. F. Wakeman,
vice-president; S. W. Smith, treasurer.
A company was organized last week
at Longbiidge, La.; to be known as the
Longbridge Cottonseed Oil Co., for the
purpose of establishing a cottonseed-oil
mill. Officers of the company elected
I are as follows: Oscar Bordelon, presi
dent; J. B. Ferkins, vice-president; L.
L. Bordelon, secretary; W. F. Joff ron,
treasurer. The capital stock of, the
company Is $60,000.
The market for cottonseed products
in Texas last week was dull and lower
CottnnseRfl nil was nnntf(! nn thfl 2Sd
inst. at S?5 cents fnr nrlmft crnrte.. loose,
and 38 cents for prime summer yellow
oil: linters. 2 to 23-4. all f. o. b.
mills at interior points in the State.
Prime cottonseed meal was quoted at
$24.25, an cottonseed cake at the same
fisrure. f.; b. b. Galveston.
The Chlcotah Cotton Oil Co. of Che
cotah, I. jr., chartered in Tennessee,
has been Iformally organized, with .the
following! ofilcers: H. B. Sjaulding,
presidents Checotah. I. T.; G. N. Hen
son, vice-presiddnt, : Chattanooga,
Tenn.; Gi C. Bushnell, manager, Mus
cogee,, I, IT. The authorized capital
stock is $80,000. The mill is now under
active construction, and the machinery
ordered, f jThe plant will be ready to be
gin operations by October.
The Brownsville Cotton Oil Co., of
Shelby county. Tennessee, . has been
charteredi with a capital stocK or 55ir.-
J a : . x . 1 ttt
uuu. a ne mcorporaiors are j onn vv .
Campbelll Daniel Bond, R. G. Brown
ing, W. S. Roberts and Hill Bond.
The Hampton Stave Co. of Fordyce,
I Ark., h& amended. Its chartej by in-
creasing! its capital stock from $40,000
to $120,000.
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The Rose City Cotton Oil Oo. of Lit
tie Rock Ark., has been incorporated
wixn a capital block, uj. . ov.vuv.
The
oflicers are Messrs. T. H. urchpresi-
dent: G. iN. Reay, secretary and treas
urer; L. H. Conley, ; manager. Con
tracts for machinery and buildings
have, beep placed.
It is st4ted that G. A. Light and other
capitalists of Lincoln county, Alabama,
have' formed a company to establish
nnAta a-lare RtAve mill at Flora.
Tenn.
The Salem Furniture Co. of Salem.
N. C, has been chartered, with a cap
ital or -$12,500, y H. N. Egertohf and
other stockholders. " i
The dry-kiln of the Ezell State Co. at
Camden, Ark., containing about 50,000
staves, was burned. on the 15th Inst
The loss is estimated at $10,000, with
no insurance.
. The L. Fox saw-mill and yards oi
T A LI IS Si. . II ,.J .
ariuui- mieeu mues soutn -oi
YJ T jt j. -. ,
JCU"1U5A'.lja" were uesiroyea oy nre
onthe 19th Inst The loss is estimated
Lnf onnnrt n,u, t.
at $20,000, with no insurance.
The Martin Furniture Co. of Hick-t
ory, N.'C, has been incorporated, with!
a capital stock of S50'.000. The incor
porators are Thomas J. Martin, J. Mj
Chiles, C. E. Wildman and W. i W
Griffin.:: . ' ' "
i The Lena Lumber Co'of Silicia, Ark. J
has been incorporated, with a capital;
stock of $25,000. The incorporators are'
B. Faisst, C. Faisst, G. Faisst. . Ki
Wurz, I. Finkheiner and C. W. Lewis.
The Camden Drug Co. of Camden,
S. C, has been incorporated, with a
capital stock of $2,000. The incorpora-
tors are W. A; Dunn, A. -W. Burnett
and. R. T. Goodale, all of Camden. i
The steamship Marianne cleared last
week from Savannah for Barcelona and
Trieste with 2,817 tons of high-grade
Florida phosphate rock for the former;
and 1,291 tons for the latter port.
The Johnson Lumber Co. of Little
Rock, Ark.,, has been chartered, with a
capital of $50,000, one-half paid up. The
incorporators are John Dermitt, W. F.
Farrar, George W. Cleveland and Wil
liam -H. Johnson.
It is stated that the Virginia-Carolina;
Chemical Co has closed a deal with
Hon. E. H. Dial of Meridian, Miss., forj
the purchase of 320 acres of land; just
outside the western limits of that city J
The Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co.
will at once begin the construction of
a fertilizer tactory on the site pur
chased with a 40,000-ton capacity, and
a $50,000 oil mill.
Fate of Firemen.
Toronto, Ont., Special. Five firemen
were killed in a disastrous fire which
started in the old street railway stables
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nnw nommipd hv P' MrTntnah Sr Snnof
and spread to the 'wholesale, hay and
straw warehouse of Gadsby & McCannt
These establishments were swept away
In an hour's time. David See. Harry
Clarke, Adam Kerr, Walter Collard and
John Russell, firemen, were working
outside the southeast wall of the Mc
Intosh building when the brick wall,
two stories high, suddenly toppled out-
waras ana ounea tnem. Tney were.
dead when extricated. The total loss
is estimated at $550,000; insurance
about $100,000.
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usuurnc in nurc iruuuic. . I
Norfolk, Va., Special. With the hope
of obtaining a confession from Charles
Frederick Osborne, held for the murder
of his wife in Stillwater, Oklahoma,
and suspected oi murdering anotnei
here, several weeks ago, the police are
thinking of subjecting him to the fa
mous "third degree." Osbdrne is indifr
farpnt nnrl rlnpa Tint, shnw the erriff-
strlcken countenance that he did at his
last triaK He pretends to remembei
nothing, not even his wife 6ut West,
ana inose wno once wougnnim inr
nocent now pronounce him the worst
villian unhung. Commonlsrealth Attor-
ney I liton win ipve a dennite decision
as to whether he Will hold Osborne
here for murder or allow the Oklahoma
authorities to . take him.
Serious Floods in Kansas.
Manhattan; Kan., Special. The flood
situation in the valleys of the Blue and
Kaw rivers is becoming more serious
and many families have beenforc.edtp
leave their homes for higher ground
The Blue is a raging torrent, 21 feet
deep and still rising: It is running over
the Union Pacific tracks several feet
ten for a distance, of two miles, tak-l
ing a short cut to' the Jaw 'river, ; just
east of Manhattan. The "body-of a Idead
man floated rpast here on tne liawit
coum uui.ue uau6ut.
. Gaynor and Greene Again.
Washington, Special. The papers in
the case of Gaynor and .Greene, ; in
which the department of justice 'seeks
the aid of the State department ; to
secufe the extradition of " the men
named have reached the state depart
ment They have been referred to are
viewing authority and when Secretary
j Hay is in possession of all the essen-
tial points in the application he will
proceed to consider the case, it is not
certain when the application -will be
presented. . .
: There is one thing to be said in
favor of music. It never comes out
at the little end of the libra.. . ,
AN AWFUL DISASTER
Johnstown Suffers Another Fearful
Visitation. v
SWIFT DEATH IN MINE EXPLOSION
Dead Bodies of flany Victims Taken
Out With Difficulty Sorrow Pre
vails Over the City.
Johnstown, Pa., Special.--This city
suffered another awful visitation rival
ing the calamity of 1889. The disaster
came in the form of an explosion in the"
Rolling Mill Mine of the Carolina Steel
Company last Thursday.- A Friday dis-- .
patch gives the following particulars:
"This has been a day of heroic res
cues at the Rolling Mill Mine of the
Cambria Steel Company. Thrilling ex
periences attended the efforts of the 40
brave and 'daring feilows , who went
down into thenawels of the earth with
a very faint hope to spur them that still
they might be in time to restore to life
some of those who are entombed.
Death lurked everywhere around them,
but undaunted they surged forward,
swayed with the noblest of numan pur-" ,
poses. The reward of their efforts was
the savirtg of the lives, of. 14 of their ;
fellowmen and bringing ''tnem again
into the sunlight back to loving fami
lies. Dead and maimed bodies were lo
cated but no effort was made to bring
them out or the vast theatre of, death
until every human energy was put for
ward towards seeing that - no living
soul might escape their aid. That done,
the dead were attended, to nd put in
tram cars, brought ,up and exposed ta
tne moroia gaze wnne being transter-.
red to wagons in which to.be taken to
the morgue. Eighty-seven ; dead bodies ;
were recovered . from the mine' between
daylight and nightfuall. Still a party of
officers and miners battled ..on, three
miles inside the mine.: O6casionally
word would come to the-; surface by
some mysterious means that'- .another :
group of remains had been exposed to
the vision- of the- searchers.'- There are
dancerotis headiners in. the , Klondike '
section t the mine yet to be explored
No one knows how many more dead
may be found, there. The mine, officials
refrain from guess work n ,he sub
ject fy; ; " ' ':"-y..K''i '- ." '
' A feeling prevails that .150 is a low
estimate" of, the casualty .list: Johns
town spent the May, . horror-stricken.
From dawn to-dusk flying ambulances v
.coursed the , streets hearing gruesome
burdens from mine to .morgue, from
morgue" to homes. ' . v-?-'
At midnight President Powell Stack
house war seen at the mouth of the
mine and gav6 out the following state
ment: . v-v'
y "The, disaster is an 'awful one and
came on us' entirely unexpected; The :
mine had been , inspected, only , three
days ago and was pronounced in satis
factory conditions. In the 30 years that
the mine has been in the operation no
serious accident has occurred. The
cause is yet indefinite but I believe it
was caused by gas escaping from the
fifth heading which; was '. . closed and
was not . being 'worked because
it contained, gas, into:the sixth 'head
ing.' , . r
"The number 'of casualties is now
placed at 125. Nd list tf the4 names
of the dead miners can be given, for
the majority of them were foreigners '
knd Were known only by check and not '
by name. V The only , way ' their , namei
will ever be known if th.e bodies are not
recovered in time 1 for identification,
will be by their families sending their
names to us'. . ti I .
:: : The mine in which' the dreadful thing
occurfed is one of the largest coal
mines in- the United States, according
to. the statement? of officfals "tonight.
Frpmrthe entrance in the hill across
the rrver from the poirtt to "the one at
Mill Creefc'is a distance of 3 miles.
The Klondike section In wrtlcb: the ex- '
plosion occurred is about two miles
from the Mill Creek entrance,
v The mine is divided . into a large
number of headings, ; levels and sec--tions.
The sections run off to the left
and right of the headings and arc
known as right and lefts by the min
ers. The men who escaped this after
noon fiave spent years working in it
Otherwise they could never have reach
ed the' surface. Lights were out and
there was no way for them to find their
way to the top ; had 'they not known
the mine, perfectly. The few survivors
who have escaped from the depths of
the mines describe the conditions v as
frightful. Outside of the "Klondike" the '
mines are safe and uninjured. -
missioner of Quebec
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