treaty is warn
The Cuban Reciprocity Measure Gets
Through at Last. v
THE SENATE ADJOURNS' SINE DIE
Newly the Entire Closing Day
Was
The
Final Ballot,
Washington, Special. After ratify
ing the' Cuban reciprocity; treaty the
Senate adjourned sine die Thursday at
15 minutes past 5 o'clock. Practically
the entire day was behind closed doors
in executive session. Most of the "time
twas devoted to consideration of the
Cuban treaty. Several speeches were
made in opposition to the. treaty and
one in favor of it, and then promptly
at the agreed hour 3 o'clock, voting
began. Roll calls were had '.on a mum-
ber of amendments and the treaty itself
was made the subject of a yea and nay
.vote. The motion to ratify was adopt
ed by a ballpt of 50 to 16, somewhat
more than a three-fourths vote, where
as," only a two-thirds vote was neces
sary to secure a ratification. The de
tailed vote of the Senate was:
Yeas Aldrich, Alger, Allison, Anke-
ney, Bacon, Ball, Veveridge, Black
burn, Burnham, Burrows, Burton,
Clark, of Wyoming; Cockrell, Cul
lom, Depew, Dietrick, Dolliver,f ,pry
den, Elkins, Fairbanks, Foraker, Fos
ter, of Washington; Frye, Fulton, Gai
linger, Gamble, Gorman, Hanna, Hans-
hrrmirh Wavhiirft YTrtnlrlna TCAtniv T,ntm
imer, Lodge, Long, McCamas, Mc
creary, McCumber, Nelson, Overman;
Penrose, Perkins, Simmons, Smoot,
Spooner, Stewart, Stone, Warren, Wet
more; total j 50. '
Nays Bailey, Bard, Bate, Berry,
Carmack, Clark, of Montana; - Daniel,
Foster, of Louisiana ; Mclnery, Mal
lory Martin, Money, Morgan, New
lands, Pettus, Taliaferro; total 16.
In making the pairs, two Senators
were paired for the treaty with one
against it. The pair list was as fol
lows: Kerns and Hale with Gibson; ,Wil
lard and Proctor with Clark, of Arkan
sas ; Scott and Quay with McLaurin;
Dillingham and Clapp with Tillman;
Kittredge and Piatt, of New York, with
Patterson; Piatt, of Connecticut, and
Hawley with Teller; Mitchell and Clay
with Dubois; Quarles with Culberson,
Mr. Hoar was absent and unpaired. ,
Tllss Roosevelt Abroad.
San Juan, P. It., By Cable. Miss
Alice Roosevelt1 landed here Thursday
from the steamer Camo, from New
York. She was met by Governor Hunt
and his family and was driven to the
palace, where she afterwards held an
informal public reception. Miss Roose
velt will receive the citizens' commit
tee in public tomorrow, and ; wiU at-,
tend the citizens' reception at the the
atre the same evening, when there, will
be a display of fire-works and a de
monstration4 in - her honor. Many tavi-.
tations have been issued by the Gov-.
ernor for an entertainment on Satur
day. ., On Wednesday. Miss Jftooseyelt
will leave San Juan on an inland trip,
during which she will visit the prin
cipal plantations and cities.
Vestibule Wrecked.
Charleston, S. C. Special. The
Southern Railway ..vestibule train .No.
34, due at Camden at ll:3(f a. was
wrecked at a switch 8 miles north of,
that point Sunday. The front trucks
under the baggage car jumped the
main track and threw the train into
the side track, all cars -being com
pletely derailed except tlvsr Pullman
which had one set of wheels off. One
man, an unknown tramp, supposedly
asleep on the siding, was instantly kill
ed, and Jim Reed, colored, a passen
ger, had one leg broken. Lewis Cly
purn and Mrs. M. E. Taylor escaped
with slight injuries. . ?
' . norgan at the fleeting.
New York, Special. The directors
of the New York, New Haven & Hart-,
ford; Railroad met here to take up the
employes' grievances presented;,, to
President Hall. Among the directors
present was J. Pierpont lorgau.. J-Jt
.was. known after the meeting that the
to sav. to the
? &?:A?$n
Earned, from
i directors had ; nothing
public to day, but " it was
W. p. Bishop, one of th cdirectprs, that
a decision had been reached.ahdf ihat
it would-be forwarded- to thetneiiat
once. He would not -give any; intima
tion as to .whether any-coneesslOBs&ad .
been ; made4 or. any other-' fact :qow
cerning the. decision.
Richmond, ; Speclal.Unlted - States
Marshal Morgan Treat,
Skelton Williams.
Seaboard Air Line
pear oeiore tne unuea btato. .inter-
istate commerce commission, at wew
v.v TfrHav ; wnot if &a
":;T rrZrrl
and othoFfi f-f vy
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im ITEA1S OF, NEWS.
Many Matters of General Interest In
; Short Paragraphs f
The Sunny Toutli.
Flood conditions still cause ' great
apprehension and much danger in the
West; '. ' J
James R. Keene, though ill, contin
ued his battle with the Harriman in
terests for Southern Pacific control.
Plaquemine, La., Special. The river
at this point rose four-tenths during
the past 24 hours. The gauge this
evening reads 33 1-2. ' The back water
on Uayou Plaiuemlne and ; Lower
Grand river is higher at this time
than in1897. A number of arrests have
been made by the levee inspectors of
parties rldfng on the levees; The
levees are in splendid condition.
At The National Capital.
The office of Director of the Census
has been offered to Mr. S. N. D. North,
of Boston.
.The State Departmewt is hopeless of
any fruits coming from the proposed
Alaska boundary arbitration.
. ,? A verdict of acquittal was found in
the case of Ensign Ward K. Wortman
i in connection with the explosion on
the battleship Massachusetts.
,J. Pierpont Morgan conferred with
President Roosevelt at the White
House.
Mr. George Uhler, president of the
Marino Engineers Association of the
United States, will succeed Gen. Jas.
A. Dumont, chief of the steamboat in
spection service.
At The North.
A $3,000,000 oyster combine was or
ganized at Providence, R. I.
Dr. R. C. Flower was arrested in
New York on a warrant charging him
with grand larceny.
Clovernook, the home of Alice and
Phoebe Cary, near College Hill, Ohio,
has been sold. v
The Fire Department of Lafayette,
Ind., turned a stream of water on
riotous students of Purdue University.
v Miss Maude Mullock, of Washington,
D. C, was hurt in a railroad wreck
near Mahoningtown, Pa.
In a suit against the executor of
the estate of 0. B. Rouss, in New York,
the mother of the plaintiff, Miss Edna
Weller McClellan, told of an alleged
settlement of $35 a week on her daughter.'-
. ; -.
From Across The Sea,
i
The Czar of Russia issued a decree
granting religious freedom throughout
his domains and ordering other re
forms. V
Lord Granville Gordon received a
letter from his wife, who is in France.
" The debate on religious orders was
opened in the . French Cfcamber of Dep
uties. Lord Minto opened the r Canadian
Parliament;,
An effort will be made to get . the
Pope's consent to allow his jubilee ,
gif ts to be exhibited at the St. Louis
Exposition.
John RAdmnnd was the nrmcipal
speaker at a St. Patrick's Day baLauet
in London. J
Thteiaeichstag budget committee vot
ed in favor of appropriating $30,00d
for Germany's exhibit at the St. Lol
fair. ' .- ' "-.
Sir Robert Reid urged in the House
of Commons that international action
DC taiven w nmit uvi atu.mvu.s.
Kine George of Saxaiy wrote an
open letter to his people blaming Prin-:
cess Louise entirely for the . recent
court scandal.
Russia and France favor t gianutig
China's, request to have the Chinese
tariff dues collected In gold.
A revolution has broke out in UruT
cuav.
. ' '
Miscellaneous flatters. r
Another clcy's testimony in the Bur-
dick inquest at Buffalo - threw much
light on the facts surrounding the
tnnriier. but failed to disclose the
guilty person. J
Levees and railway embankments
Peaking along the Mississippi and.
flLTrnndirions are verv crave
flood .conditions are very grave
The Wabash; injunction
suit . was
taken up. by . Judge Adams
and the day consumed in
reading affl-
davits. j-
- . . . ... .
C. W; Schwab, president of the. Steel
Trust, and Mr. D. H. Francis president
Cl ' Y ...a 1lvnnalln la
. K Y. . KronDrln- wilhfilm.
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I iianected of noisonlne.
i : 1 - 1 - '
Ex-President Graver Cleveland an
. :i ..... ' .. .. . .
l : - -
j yest ana ne at tne opening or tne at.
houia Exposition.
. MTVM-M Mtm OTWP; "I, rniwoo pain; are iu- ;"-i was XU8- wldol thim ..WWT ;
, a summons tcf I Geofge ossey, the negro herb doctor, ,n w!l fnTrifilv . financial ntr u" t.y
A TERRIBLE
X Negro Shoots a flan and a Young
! . - , ! Lady.' ' '
: Reidsville, Special. One "of the
darkest crimes in the annals; of Rock
ingham county was committed in the
Carmel section, about five miles from
Reidsville Thursday, night. John Broad-';
nax, a negro boy about 16
y ears old,
killed Mr. Sidney Blair, a
most estim-
able citizen : of - that- section, anr
wounded Miss Sallie Walker, who was
a school teacher and housekeeper for
Mr. i Blair. Miss Walker was shot in
three different places.
DETAILS OF THE CRIME.
About dark, while Mr. B
niece, Miss Walker, were
the negror John Broadnax,
air and his
at supper,
entered 'the
house,: and engaged in a
with Mr. Blair.: Without
conversation
Warning he
drew his pistol nd fired upon them.
Mr. Blair was killed almost Mnstantly,
two balls taking effect. One entered
at the collar bone and the oiher pierced
the bowels. He fell heavily kp the floor.
Miss Walker, was .. wounded at three
different' places, one ball taking effect
just under the skin of
the neck,
muscle of
another went through -the
the arm, while stil another! grazed the
ihe arm, while still another grazed the
realizing that the pistol cjkamber was
empty Miss Walker rushed 4 on . the
negro and pushed him through the
door, barring it, and placed1 a quilt un
derneath the prostrate form of her
uncle, removed her .shoes nd left the
building to notify the neighbors, who
rushed to the scene. - ' !w
When they arrived at the scene of
the, crime the negro was found in the
kitchen In the act of pillaging the
room. He was dttfered to surrender and
he did without resisting. He was taken
unawares, as he had thought both his
victims had died" from their wounds.
When they arrived his pistol .was found
to have been re-loaded, and but for the
prompt action of the gentleman who
rushed in on him and thereby excit
ing him he could and probably would
have made his escape.
i The news of the horrible crime
quickly spread to the adjoining farm
and within a short time the premises
were crowded with people! The negro
made a full confession and stated that
he was told by another party to com
mit the deed and that it was hi3 In
tention to search the premises for
money and -valuables.: He thought he
had succeeded In killing both of the
inmates of the home,! and was sur
prised when he had time to realize that
he was In the hands of the people who
would not permit him to leave.
About the time Deputy Sheriff John
C. Faucette arrived there was talk
among those who had gathered, which
indicated that there was danger of the
negro 'being murdered.
Two or three suggested that the evi
dence was- conclusive that the nego's
confession made doubt Impossible; that
there was a chance of his escape, but
they were promptly told that this
would not do
I know your faces," said Deputy
Sheriff Faucette; "If you , harm him or
permit him to be harmed I will have
you everyone arrested." he added. This
quieted "those who were in the crowd.
Mr. J. D. Glass was I summoned to help
take the 'prisoner to jail and he and
Deputy Faucette had placed ; him be
hind the prison bars ' before midnight
Mr. Blair was perhaps aoout sixty
years old. He was a native of Pittsyl
vania county, Va.. and had only hi en
a resident of this kounty about ten
years. ? His niece, Miss Sallie TWnJker;
was his housekeeper, and taught school
ia the neighborhood. She was about 25
years old, and was devoted to her aged
uncle. Her remarkable nerve and pres
ence of mind 'have been the subject of
general commnt on the streets and
elsewhere. " " -The
home of Mr. Blair was robbed of
about $60 recently, and officers have
been trying to locate the perpetuaor
Of that crime. ; Broadnax oassed
through Reidsville and several neonle
i assert tnat he nad a ntimTter nf
watches, new clothes and two or three
valises. :He left the Carmel section.
wnere he had been" working as a farm
laborer for some time about the time
the money was missed from Htv Blair's
home, it is almost certain that he got
iuc muuey t mat time ana returned
w gewnavjeweiry ana other vaiu-
ab es he could find on the place.
a message has- been received from
Governor Aycock stating that he .has
ordered a special term of Rockingham
Sujmrir. Court to try Broadnax.
Dp. Baker Surrenders.
Tarboro, Specfal.Dr. J. M. Baker sur
rendered himself, last week unnn h
return to town. A few hocra later he
was before Judge Brown, on a bench
arrant chargingi,htm7wlth7 felonious
;
9aj:morntog: Bakery passed'
KUimg. ,Tte eTidence In tjrief as jthat:
ihg out he was seized bvBos3. who he-
Uftmtmwto Spiitol.
t pursued-closely i by Bass, Who! was fat-
tempting; to seise the pfstolUe cahght
Baker ;by the iback ot . theJoat:Aww3;
I was pulled" offV Baker retreating rapid-
I IV linn rACnin fni ftfol WAlnAH T.
OTeoo.ninim.?f uutsiaers 'closed on
.-I Bass. By this time Baker's pistol was
I rinmon nrA trnA
Thp tMMmnnv nrrrA kv rirrtoa
- I ..ne testimony onered by the prose-
I cution ana tne aexense varies
,rine;prosecuuon claims that as Bass
I wa3 held. Baker advanced and shot;
th t that Bakw all the time wa.
m " w m v mm mm mm w mm in mm m uw mm m Mm. mm 11 in arm. - i vaa i iiAi a n . iji m iim - w mm.
attempting to escape. The prosecution
tTsbow malice, produced the . declara.
Hon of Baker immeaiiey
shooting, that he "had put two. Into
him. . ji. -nrna
As the matter before ine juu6c
solelv the question of ball, the case
:i ln annp fnllv into, i The prosecu-
tion did not insist upon murder in the
first degree, this was iwv m -uu6
simply determine its amount, which
was fixed at $10,000 ; which was.proppt
lv riven. According to! all the wit-,
nesics and the ante-mortem statement
of Dr. Bass not a- word was spoken by
cither. -
Arrested for Embezzlement.
Philadelphia, Special.r-Charged with
embezzlement and other irregularities
amounting to about ,$20,000, George B.
White, the vice president and a direc
tor of the 'Bank of South Pennsylvania,
at Hyndeman, Bedford county, was ar
rested by a deputy ! United States ; mar
shal and held in $8,000 bail by United
States Commissioner Craig for a fur
ther hearing next Wednesday.
Spring Notes From Billville.
Literature has been lively the pas!
two weeks. All the poets are plowing.
In Conference.
New York, Special:' President
Schwab and several of the legal rep
resentatives of the ; United States Steel
Corporation were in conference here
The object of the ! meeting could not
be learned. It is understood that the
forthcoming annual report of the cor-,
poratlon will embody a comprehensive
statement of operations for the past
year, and wiU deal especially with the
matter of production.
Nominations That Failed.
..Washington, Special. The nomina
tions that' failed of confirmation at the
extra session of the Senate are: Win.
M. Byrne, district ! attorney of Dela
ware; Wm. D. Crum, collector of cus
toms, .Charleston, S. C; George - Saw
ter, assistant appraiser of merchandise,
New York. Postmasters Thomas S.
Harris, Live Oak, Fla.; W. L. Harris,
Charleston, S. C; Dallas Herbert, XJom
Rockdale, Tex.; mU tx Iimsdea to
an assistant surgeon in tne
HospiUl servke :
Carlne
Death of Cotton Hill Man.;
Griffin, Ga., Special.-j-Maj or -A. Ran
dall, one of the best knbwn cotton mill
men throughout the South, and promi
nently connected with! cotton milling
events in several States, died here
Thnrsday, from the effects of a paral
ytic stroke. He served as superintend
ent of cotton mills in Canada, New
York. Illinois, Alabama and Georgia.
He was born in Providence;. R. I., in
1837
Mysterious Dynamite Explosion.
Bluefield, W. Va., Special. A. large
box of dynamite exploded at noon to
day, near the Norfolk & Western sta
tion. Three laborers were probably fa-
tally injured and a score are more or
less seriously hurt. I Articles in a
house a half mile away were jarred
and all the property in the immediate
vicinity of the explosion ,was consid
erably damaged. Over; 500 window
glasses were broken.:, and Princeton
avenue for half a block in practically
a wreck. The cause of the explosion is
unknown.
FRANCE IS GROWING RICH.
Number of Persons ; Owning SecurU
- ties Is Increasing Every Year.
A statistical publication just issued
at Paris presents an Interesting show
ing of the division of wealth In that
country. The almost universal sub-'
division of the land In France began
with, the first revolution, and now
there are 5.500.000 Of . Deasants each
owning a home and tract of land. But
the same process has been going on
in th iirc tn. f ft.fli! L.
erty. In 1830 there were but 125.000
holders of French rentes, or govern
ment securities. Now there are ovr
2,000.000. Tabulations of the holdings
of railway securities and bank shares
make a similar shnwincr
trade there was an increase of about
t per cent in the past decade. 'while
the number of concerns . In, the whole
sale trade actually diminished "in the
Bam
; ,Of
same time: , - .:,- -
course, these figures . are hot n
exhaustlvft
I norisnri -t, h., ti -.
?;ha" tte 5Im of n in, France
uoiHwwuuc, ;wua no. slight
Influence exerted by the socialist ele
ment. It seems as if this tendency
was . showing its' effects as "the : simf
lar; conrseHn land legislation : did early
In the Jast centuryln diffusing prop
yl nwvus tne 'common - people
other nation can surpass.
Paper is being made frum corn
' uSSir. m w7v" Z toZZ. '
muvtw mv jummon 1 nflnn a mam
'w X
t
Newsy: Items dleaned Fr0f5 j
Murphy to flanteo. !
a
-
w X k may grants
Ashevllle Lumber Company 0f a
ville, capital $25,000, J. w. Hut?6"
ford and others stockholders.
Mr. Phillip Hanes, who was t.-,
In the abdomen by a colt in h?0
lot at Mocksville; Tuesday afh
died at his home in that place a?? A
o'clock Thursday night as a wJnM
result
his injuries.
An incendiary fire Friday niehf j
stroyed the passenger station ...
freight warehouse of the Seaboard a?
Line at Yaughan in Warren conn
considerable
burned. .
'
As yet no statement can be
secure
murief
as to whethtr the Haywood
case win v waj. uui inea in b.i
am Ill -A-t. -r.r. 1 1 x4 . Ixsv 42. .
elgh this month. The term of count
only ten - days away. Both the prJ
cution and the defense are kRPnu!
very quiet, but It Is known that S
searcn tor wnuesses uas never ceasuv
J. S. - Wynne, secretary and 1m'
urer of the Raleigh Cotton Mills V
Kaieign, , is , ajmuui-iiy ior : tne state1
ment that a new Fries merget wili
formed by the aid of New York as I
tallsts," and that the consolidation J
expected to be effected early in- Anjl
The uaieign mms win enter the coa
bination. .
.The one hundredth annual conve
tion of. the Evangelical Luthern Syjioi
and Ministerlum of North Carolim
will be held in St. John's chmti,
Salisbury, Rev. J. H. Wilson, pastor,
beginning April the 28th, 1903, at H
o'clock a. rn. ; embracing the centes
nial celebration of the Synod, vhld
takes place on the second day of Maj
The printing firm of Joseph J. Stoat
& Co., of Greensboro, which has
been incorporated with anuanthoriied
capital of $100,000, has elected the
following officers; Joseph J. Stone,
president; Charles G. Harrison, sew I
tary and treasurer. The capital M
been increased land the facilities ia!
be considerably enlarged. Later on i
lithographing plant wrill be jutted.'
A 'phone message from the eocntrj;
to High Point Friday evening eaT
that William Holt; who lived .'net'
High Point, and a negro man met i
horrible death together. Mr. Hoftai
the negro were engaged in eotta;
feed on a steam cutter when the J.
wheen burst, -cutting off both of 1
Holt's ; legs and killing the negro i
stantly. Mr. Holt lingered an hour i
more. - I
Lane Morgan shot and instar
killed John Richardson near Can!
Montgomery county, Saturday. T.
two men were at the home of Mani
hitman, whose: wife is Richardso:
sister. Morgan drew a revolver
crying: You killed my brother t
HI kill you," shot Richardson dc:
A few months previous Richardsc
had killed a half brother of Morgai
Frank S. Eldridge, whose home
in Greensboro, has been missing J
the past three weeks and it is tw
that he is dead. He went to.PUbf.
phla some time, ago to visit relate
and wrote his wife, from there that?
would stop over in Richmond on
return. Investigation showed he
not 'been in- Richmond. It yasfi
ascertained x that, the r t rain on -ff;
Mr.-Bldridge waa believed to Wh
Philadelphia; was wrecked and
men killed, antt it is rearea b
one of thera.
A T, OilmnrA fT flhirasro attOf.
i for the gold brick trio, Howard, &
ley and " Daley, captured at
boroj two years ago and sentence ,
the penitentiary v writes that v
making an effort to have their et
which has been carried to the
preme Court of the United States,'
vanced so as to give an early kfij.
Gilmore desires the influenco ;
Boyd in this matter, but; it is
probable that his .wish will he
fled. It is , understood that one j
contentions upon which the case
Vest before the Supreme Cpnrt
that the trial judge erred In
ling the gold brick men to the
tiary instead of to the roads.
.... jp
: Policeman Frank George, one
most: courageous officers or thjr
force of Wilmington, , wa3
; assaulted by a desperate n ?grj ,
he had arrested in a coioreo r;;
house Satiirdav : fivftninc. The
for'
distance of about two inches
result -of a blow from a pair
knucks and his shoulder
contused by belhgithrown WW
the brick sidewalk after he hj,.
stricken : and: t rendered tncS
from the? blow with knucks.
gro I made - his ; escape but p
tared i two : and a naif mile9
city ; Saturday midnight. ; x '
iployejd byi the South i Atlan"0 ; $
struetlon " Comnanv engaK -a
company work, on Wilson,,
Caldwell county, was instenw ,
Friday, in MakingTa Jv.a n
counts; received It seems t. f
'.or;si;' charges, using seven .
.powder and;: thirteen sUcKs
mite; wre set off. Five of l'k
exploded. Thinking them a11 tf J
Lowrance was leading t?e
hands to the cut in which w
working, and when within t cl3.,
teen feet of the blast, the
exploded, killing him tofiZ
else was seriously hurt. The 1
taken to Maiden, the hoxn
Lowrance. - ;
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