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Many Matters of General Interest In Short Paragraphs. The Sunny South. he Charlotte, N. C, postoff ice fight is $till unsettled. v i At the hearing in the case of the United States against ex-Captain 0. M. Carter, at Savannah, testimony was introduced to show that Carter had conducted the work in Fernandiwa harbor with great extravagance, James Bacon, a civil engineer, testified that the Eernandina. jetties built in 1SS6 lost 90 per 'cent, of their volume by 1900., The attorney for Carter made frequent objection to the introduction of testimony. At The National Capital. The confirmations by v the Senate Friday were: Thomas F. McGourin, marshal northern district of Florida; Marcus C. McLemore, United States at torney, southern district of Texas; John M. Holzendorf, collector of cus toms, district of Saint Mary's, Ga. No vote has yet been reached on the anti-trust bill in Congress. , In the Senate Mr. Quay (Rep.Pa.) creates a mild sensation by sayine: he owned, stock in corporations that "'might be classed as trusts." The "Senate passed the Naval and Military Academy Appropriation bills.' President Roosevelt sent a special message to Congress asking for the T r.( V'j u n 111 r n u - ri 1 1 nni n D o ti rr ji 1 i 1 Another stormy session of the House occurred as a result of the Democrats determined to use obstructive tactics. In a report to the State Department Mr. R. JF. McWade. United States Con sul at Canton, China, says marvelous results have been accomplished by an American physician in the treatment of Chinese lepers. Republican leaders in the Senate are making strong efforts to secure the ratification of the Cuban reciprocity treaty and the treaty with Colombia in order to avoid an extra session. The Congress of Daughters .of the American Revolution discussed pro posed changes in the constitution" of the order. The Agricultural and Pastoffice Ap propriation bills were passed by the Senate, the Statehood riders , to these bills being. withdrawn. - The House of Representatives nassed the bill to establish a union station in Washington. From Across The Sea. Czar Nicholas has personally inter--vened to aid the famine sufferers in Finland. . Chinese rebels killed 500 Imperial soldiers in ambush at Yang-Uing pass. A gale of almost unprecedented vi olence has been raging in England. An accidental explosion in the Im perial palace at Vienna injured several workman. Port de by fire. Pafix, Haiti, was destroyed King Edward Dromised Prosidpnt TV R. Francis, of the St. Louis World's Fair to send the collection of Queen Vietoria'es jubilee gifts to be exhibited at the fair and to aid all he could in securing a great exhibit from Great Britain. It is reported that King Leonold will send exhibits from' Belgium and the Congo State to "the St. Louis World's Fair- Mr. John Redmond spoke .in the House of Commons on the Irish .Land bill. ' the amendment in the House of Commongfctp admit Canadian-cattle to Great Britain was defeated. It is reported that the powers have arranged to compel the enforcement of Macedonian reforms in case the Sul tan procrastinates. ! Russia has issued a warning to the Balkan'States that it will not aid them in any effort to change, existing con ditions in the peninsula. ' , Miscellaneous Matters. Regular Republican members of the Delaware Legislature made a proposi tion to " the Democrats, including, the -election of a Regular to one of the United States Senatorships, leaving the other vacant. Isaac Hagaman, in an- affidavit in New York, snakes further charges of fraud in connection with his. brother's -estate. - ' . -. " .' ' V Albert Knapp, the confessed multi . murderer under arrest at Hamilton, Ohio, gave further details of his crimes . B. L. Burdick, a wealthy resident of "Buffalo, N. Y.,,was found mysteriously murdered. V " Subscriptions of $250,000 for an American Academy or Dramatic Art were offered at a dinner in Philadel phia. , Mr. W. Ia timer Small, a prominent .resident of York, Pa., is dead. A report is current in York, Pa., that Italian laborers dug up a chest' cori taining$3,500 .while they were moving the-ruins of an old house. N A New York newspaper states that a convention - of anarchists is soon to be .held in Paris. STILL ANOTHER KILLING. Young Man i 5hot While Defending ' - j His Aunt. - Maxton,N. C, Special. Mr. W. J. Thompson was shot three times, and "mortally wounded, by Mr. E. N.Mc- Lean in; this place Wednesday evening .at 6 o'clock. The shooting occurred in the dining room of Mr.' Thompson's residence. Thompson had been drinking slightly, and in her fear to be in the house with him alone under the circumstances, Mrs. Thompson sent for McLean, who is her nephew. McLean had his lodg ing apartments in the house, but when he appeared as the protector of his aunt, Mr. Thompson resented his pres ence, and an altercation ensued be tween the two men. McLean remon strated with Thompson in regard to his treatment ,of Mrs. Thompson. Thomp son finally drew his pistol and fired at him, the ball barely grazing his left side, passing through the waistband of his trousers and glancing off. McLean then, he says, returned the fire. The best evidence j now obtainable is that he emptied three chambers of his re volver, a No; 32 Iver & Johnston, at close range. One ball entered Thomp son's body just under the left hippie; another entered exactly on the median line immediately below the sternum, .and is embedded in the flesh of his fback; yet another grazed the side of Thompson, inflicting ho injury. The physicians have scarcely any hope that .Thompson cah recover. They say it is barely possible that he can live throughput the night. , McLean surrendered to a magistrate and claims self-defense. He is a son of Mr. G. F. McLean, la lawyer of this place, and his mother is postmaster here. He is 21 years of age' and un married. He has been studying medi cine, but poor health has interfered, with the completion of his studies. Mr. Thompson is about 37 years old. He has been a commercial traveler for a Louisville, house, but at present has no fixed employment. He has' nc children. Colima Belching Fire. MexicoLCity, Special News from thj region surrounding, the volcano of Coli ma continues alarming. The people, terrified by the belching flames, and pouring lava are sgekingshelter in dis tant towns and villages. The city of Tuxpam, in the, State of Jalosa, con tinues under a heavy cloud of smoke. The volearioo is alight with flames. The new eruption yesterday afternoon has increased the general fear. An American who slept hear the volcano on the night of the eruption was awakened by a tremendous explosion and saw the mountain ejecting flames to an enormous height. He waited til) morning, enjoying the magnificent spectacle and then deemed it prudent to leave the vicinity. ., There is not much alarm in the city of Colima, but fears are felt for. the farmers in the neighborhood of the volcano. Cost His Life. i ... ' Fordyce, Ark., Special. At New Edinburg while W. D. Atwood, a prom- I'inent merchant, was placing a tomb stone over his ! child's grave, C. R. Kilgore, an old man whosot two sons were killed last year while resisting arrest at the hands of iAtwoQd and an other man, both of whom had been especially deputized, appeared armed with a pistol and ran Atwood from the graveyard. Atwood armed himself with a shot-gun and returned. Kilgore said: "That is not fair; you havet a gun and I only have a pistol." Atwood ordered him to drop the pistol, but instead of doing so, Kilgore began firing. Atwood then shot and killed him. : Dr. Davis Killed. Birmingham, Special. Dr. W. E. B. Davis, one of the most prominent phy sicians in the Southern States, -was run over by an jAlabama Great South ern passenger train at the Twenty fourth street crossing and instantly killed. Dr. Davis 'was formerly presi dent of the -Tri-State Medical Society and had held other high posi tiers in the medical world. He had a national reputation as a surgeon. " Dr. Thomas Dad. ' Thomasvihe, Ga., Special. Dr. , T, Gaillard Thoma$. of New York, a specialist- of, note in women's diseases, died suddenly ai the Piney Woods Ho tel, Saturday morning, of heart disease. Dr. Thomas, with his wife, was spend ing the winter here. He vas, in , ap parently vigorous health up to' Friday night. During the night he complain ed of feeling il and two physicians were called. He continued to sink, and this morning died. His body will be sent to-N2w York. May Be Rtmoved. , Richmond, Special. The committee of the General Assembly which has? be,eh investigating the charges against 'Judge Campbell J of the Amherst Coun ty Court, decided, it is understood, to recommend the adoption of a joint resolution provding 1 f orthe removal "Tof the judge frarh! the bench. The ma jority of the committee will make a report recommending censure. The charges against Jud&2 Campbell grew "out of ths widely reported horse whip ping by the judge of Rev. Dr. Craw ford of the Antl-Salooh League. SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL The Gluck Mills. . Announcement was made by ,the Manufacturers' Record on January,. 15 of the incorporation and' temporary: organization of the Gluck Mills, An derson, S. C. This is the enterprise wh.ii h R. Si Hill has been , promoting. Arrangements have been perfected en suring the establishment of the plant, and permanent officers 1 have . been elected. They are : IL S. Hill, presi dent; J. R. Vandiver, vice-president; J. B. Loflin, superintendent and G. B. Walton,' secretary. The, company will erect buildings' and install 25,000 spindles with 750 looms for producing a fine "grade of cloth. Virtually all textile machinery has been contracted for except looms, and these have not been ordered because a final decision has not been made as to the exact character of- the product.. Frank P. Sheldon, of Providence, R. I., is engineer-architect in charge. Capitaliza tion of company is $500,000. Increasing Kesler'Mill. Mention was made last week . that the Kesler Manufacturing Co., of Sal isbury, N. C., has purchased addition al building and intended to install 5,600 additional spindles. Besides making this improvement, the com pany will install 3,500 more; spindles in its present building, expending al together about $100,000 for the better merits. Contract for all the required machinery has been awarded. These additional installations will increase the Kesler equipment to 20,000 apin dies. Its product is yarns. The Cotton Movement. In his report for February 13 Col. Henry G. Hester, secretary of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, shows that the amount of cotton brought into sight during 16G days of the pros ent season was 8,489,o24 bales, an in crease over the same period last year of 150,161. The exports were 4,737, 018 bales, a decrease of 63,774 bales; takings by Northern spinners, 1.50S, 266 bales, an increase of 17,148; by Southern spinners, 1,110,004 bales, an increase of 119,341 bales. t Boyd-Mangham Mill Completed. Boyd-Mangham Manufacturing Co., Griffin, Ga., has completed its plant and begun manufacturing last week. This enterprise was announced last year. Its equipment is 10.000 spin dles and 320 looms, producing daily 15,000 yards of light-weight fancy weaves. About 265 persons are em ployed. Lowell (Mass.) Machine Shops furnished the entire equipment of machinery. Capital is $200,000. J. J. tMangham is treasurer. Allen Little is superintendent. . Tc Add 7,000 Spindles. At the s.nnual meeting of the Wood ruff Cotton Mills, Woodruff, S. C, held last week, it was decided to ex pend about $90,000 for additional ma chinery. August W. Smith was re elected president, and the manage ment was given authority to proceed with the betterments. Contract will be awarded for about 7,000 spindles and 210 looms additional. At present the Woodruff plant has 11,000 ring spindles and 250 looms, manufactur ing sheetings. . - Textile Notes. Massachusetts Mills in Georgia's ad ditional mill at Lyndale, Ga., is nearing conipletion. and expected to be in op eration by May'i; The machinery, first .instalment to be. "5.000 spindles and 3300 looms, is" now being put in posi tion. The product will be standard sheetings and shirtings. The mill is built under the -tlirection of the 1Ias sachusotts Mills by the Flynt Building & Construction Co. of Palmer, Mass., with plans furnished by Lockwood, Greene & Co., of Boston. Sweetwater (Tenn.) Knitting Mills has been organized, with capital stock of ,$25,000. and, will build plant. A high grade cf hosiery will be manufactured, about 200 persons to be employed. John M Jones is president; 'W, L. Magill (of Chattanooga), vice-president, and John M. Jones, Jr.; secretary-treasurer. Di rectors are Messrs. Jones and Magill, W. M. Patterson. F. A. Carter. J. II. McCaslin and. James May. Site has been , cnosen, andtho plans are being pre pared. . "; - 'L. " ' Opelika (Ala.) Cotton Mills hnn call ed ajmecting for March 0 to vote) upon increasing capital stock from $lu. 000 to $150,000 inv order to make the additions reported last week. This new capital is to., he- expended for spinning machinery if the stockholders vote in favor of it. A call will also be issued to authoize ; $100,000 cumulative per cent- stock, . $60,000 of which wilL be used to take up present bonds and the balance in buying new machinery. , Lane Mills, New Orleans, La., will make important improvements and enlargements. The exact character and extent of the betterments: " are not ready fori announcement, but will be stated, as soon as matters have been definitely arranged; (It is rumored 2000 looms will, be added and that denims will be manufactured.) At present the plant has; 17,000 spindles and 36S looms, -v ; Messrs.' Alexander Fish. H. A. Weill. J. B. Killebrew, L. R. Campbell and Gilbert Dudley have incorporated (Fish White Goods Co. of Nashville,- Tenn with capital stock of $15,000, for manu facturing handkerchiefs. The-company acquires plant of Fish & Weils or Church, street, daily output 1000 dozer daily, and will increase the facility Liberty Silk; Co. .of New Yorts city "" u-'nnrH tn PreCt SlUO.OOU mil.l at Newport News7 Va. has four.,1 it inadvisaDie,ioMu;a i.- . present. J. L- Patton, president of the Chamber of Commerce, which, promot ed this enterprise, expects to arran for estahHshing a silk mill by the aid of local capital.. : Messrs! J. !R. Nicholson, Gcor-o Phillips and WVT. Wills have incor porated Indian. River Fiber Co with Capital stock of $25,000, to manufacturo palmetta fiber,! extracts,; etc., nt. 1 al- lahassee. Fla. ;. r Messrs. John B. Henderson. Henry M. Gaski, Elmore. B. Jeffrey, Frederick T. Hellman and Joseph W. Hell man have incorporated Phoenix Bag Co. at Baltimore, Md.) Company's purpose ii stated to' be manufacturing bags, bur lap, etc., and. capital stock is placed at $10,000. . - i United States Cotton IDuck Corpora tion of Baltimore expended $79,000 du ring 1902 for the renewal of the water power plant at! its Tallassee (Ala.) mill. -In addition to this amount, there was about $204,000 expended for gen eral renewals and repairs at various mills.- , c: -I : Woman Shoots Her Betrayer. Lincoln, Neb., V Special. Jennie Thomas: a stenosxanher, 24 years old, i went to the rooin of Fritz Broderson, clerk in a Lincoln commission house, and shot him "dead. She then shot her self and probably will die. The young woman fcays Broderson, who is 30 years old, ruined her a-year ago and refused to marry her. . There were not wit nesses to the killing. Miss Thomas' parents live-in a Lincoln suburb and are much respected. Dr. Curry's Will. Washington, Special The will of Dr. J. L. M. Curry, of Richmond, Va., dated Madrid, Spain,' December 28, 1887, was filed. Dr. Curry leaves all his property except a, life insurance policy, to his wife, Mrs. Mary W. Cur ry. The life insurance, the a'mbunt of which is not stated, is ' for the benefit of the children of Dr. Curry; The will contains the request that Mary W. Curry be appointed executrix and that she shall not be required to give bond. Fatal Batilffj With Miners. Charleston, W . Va., Special At Staniford City, Raleigh "county, a ter rible battle took place at dawn Wed nesday,' between -the joint posses of Deputy United States Marshal Cun ningham and Sheriff Cook on one side, and rioting miners on the other, as a result of .which three miners were kill ed, two others mortally wounded and a number of others on both sldxjs more or less seriously , hurt. Th3 dead are: Dick Taylor, - Dobscn, an un known miner. Mortally wounded: John Heiseh, Irwin Lawson. Alovement to Stop Emigration. - Vienna, By Cable.Wit'n the object of steaming the wholesale immigration of young girls ito lAmerical which is occasioning the Hungarian j government considerable concern. Premier DeSzell has sent a circular letter to the local authorities of Hungary, calling . their attention to what he describes as "this, melancholy fact." He directs that the authorities only permit minors to emi grate v when sanctioned to do so by thejr parents or guardians, and when they travel in charge of adults. Bowen's Proposition. Washington, Special. Mr. Bo wen. the Venezuelan plenipotentiary, has proposed to the allied powers that the Czar of Russia be asked to I name three arbitrators who,' as "ThevHague" tri bunal, shalL decide ; the question of preferential treatment. The suggestion has been approved by the State De partment: Mr. Bowen submitted to the allies the representatives the copies of the proposed protocols submitting f!rr Venezuelan case to The-Hague tribu aal. v ,: ":--:". ''::-',rr- v Judge Tompkins Dead. Atlanta, Ga., Special. Judge Hes B. Thompkins, a well-known lawyer and jurist, died at his residence here aged 57. He served in the Confederate army and after the war practiced law ln Memphis and Savannah before lo cating in Atlanta. Judge Tompkins served on the SupeiioT Court bench for five years. . I Mistaken Notion, About Leaves. It is true that people often say that ', the turning up of leaves lis a sign of rain, but the sign does not seem to be a very true one, declares ! the Monthly Weather Review. There are many kinds, of trees like the . siiverlear pop lars, in fact all the poplars, the maple and some, of -jtlie -vbaks, ' which";-. turn' their leaves up ; whenever there is a fairly strong steady wind but they do it a3 much in clear weather as in rainy. Possibly the belief may have arisen from the fact - that winds cap able of jturniag leaves over very often precede or follow rainstorms. t STORM AT GASTONIA Two Qlrls Seriously Hurt a . Mil! Wrecked Gastonia, N. C, Special. as th suit of a storm which swept ov of the wall of the Avon Cott was blown down anrl fnnr - ave of, operatives injured. Two of tw "in twelve and fifteen years of age ' Tan crnuslv hurt and mnv .-.---. j 1JUL rec mt- 1 in .1 . VUH' Thft mill was damacrerl tn oi aoout $o,uuu. umer damage also Resulted. vThe storm, , in its greatest nirV'.' hn, Avon r!r.tlnn TTMi vasiciii item, ui uc hjvyu. i Ofjj aiives,, wiiuse eai s were li j 1 e :1 hv tv am oi spin u les iiuu Liiunaer 0f tPAfA iiTinwarfi of ihc. Kfri"m without until , it crush cd the soutae Wall ui-me castci 11 uau vji -tng anrl Hffpd rino. kUIp.' of thp T.r,e ; . " ivjui. anii tomea u over on me umer naif. destruction came- in a moment hundred and fifty feet of ths wall ea. closing tne second story collapse without warning and fell inward the operatives and machinery, as tb rnnf nritK Us Onfirmnn voffn beams, shafts, countershafts, belts m puueys weui uymg ou iiKe so much paper. The water connections with tlx tank fn the tower were torn and twfef ed like green withes and torrent o( waterl ponring in from above were ad ded to the confusion of the avfrn wreck, the darkness and the roarinj 3torm. v t Only four or ftve operatives wen hurt. Of these two little girls axe (tea. ger'ously injured and may not recover. One is Sadie, the twelve-year-oli ' daughter of Jeff Beatty, and the other is Bessie,. the fifteen-year-old daughter of John Lay. The little Beatty & worked on the day shift and had m come in ;to clean up her sptoiog frames. She was found crushed "against the frame by the falling wall. Herkir was twisted on the spools and blood was flowing in jets irom ner Btj mouth and gashes on her head. Miss Lay's jaw and one hand were broken and the back of her head was crusted. A little girl named Smith and otk operatives were hurt, but none so se riously as the two named, whose cha ces for life are painfully slender. Tlit reason more were not caught in thail fatal wall alley is that the mill was short of night han.ds. ' The damage to the mill by wreck, wind and water is about $3,000 audit .will likely be six weeks before it is running to its full capacity. Great Flood at Pittsburg Pittsburg, Special.-With every trib utary. of. the Allegheny and Monongar hela rivers emptying swirling torrents into the banks of these two streami and rushing dowyn to the point where they converge to form the Ohio, Pitts burg was given a visitation Sunday which forced hundreds of families either to abondon-their homes, or seek escape from the water in the upp stories, while mud and water spread discomfort below. Mills in the low lying levels throughout the county, numbering between 50 and 60, Hooded and. 3S,375 men are throwiH)t of work for four or five days with loss of wages of more than $328,0. The-flood was general throughout wes tern Pennsylvania. The -streams every where overflowed" their banks, causing moreN or -'-less"-'damage to houses and farms that lay in their course. Down town in Pittsburg, cellars and base ments of business houses which are in the general flood bsl t, were inuiatesi. while in Allegheny two railroads werft temporarily paralyzed owing to te water which covered their tracks. Pea pie in the first and third wards of Al legheny, had to adopt Venice metbods of going to and. from their homes. Ample warning had been received most of the residents and busine firms threatened, in time for them t make preparations to minimize losses. The highest stage reached by t!ie swollen rivers at Pittsburg was feet at the government dam "at IrrS "Island. This was at C o'clock in evening. It became stationary attha1 mark and gradualry'began to subsifl The cold weather which set in bs night served to check the Hood a prevented more serious proportioas. Body Recovered. New Orleans, Special. Missing & six days the body of 'Stephen Fitzge' aid, -agent of the American Cotto Company, in this ; city, was takea from-the old basin canal. Mr. FitzS aid was last' seen on Saturday His family suspected foul ? play and b; brother, John. Fitzgerald', came St. Tmiie in nccslcf in thp sparch. Tll- were no marks of violence on the boi and no. money had been taken from pockets. It is probable that he fell ia to the canal by accident and wa3 able to get out. Mr. Fitzgerald from Memphis, where his aged and: sister live. X.:: j:;-..;.:i;,v; ' ' Qsn. Gordon to Quit Lecturing Jackson, Miss., Special. John B. Gordon, commander-in-iei of the United 1 Confederate Veteran ' whot suffered a severe attack of . indigestion, while en route to this city Thursday night, left for Texas. il reported that after General Gordon It lie. will retire from .the platform
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