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/ J \ THE LARGEST Circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. LEDGER SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FBIDAY. WE GUARTTfJTOE The Reliability of Every Adver tiser Who Uses the Col umns of This Paper. A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTAHUSHED FEB. 16, 1894. GAFFNEY. S. C., FRIDAY, APRIL *46, 1901. 81.50 A YEAR. TRADE CONDITIONS IN IRON AND STEEL Activity In Rails a Feature of the Market False News of a Itesplte. Clayton, N. M., April 31.—A me* sage was received here last uight by the sheriff of this county, signed "Otero,” raying that President McKinley has 5 ranted Thomas Ketchum, alias "Black ack,” who is to lie hanged here Fri* day, April ‘M, a respite until May 25. An inquiry addressed to the governor developed the fact that it wasa forgery. The governor denies having sent any message to the sheriff here. The sheriff has doubled his force since the false tel egram was received. Stricken With Paralysis. Chaiu eston, A ril 25.—Dr. H. B. Horlbcck, health officer here for 8(1 years, has been stricken with paralysis and is now seriously ill Th«; whole left side is paralysed, hut physicians say the patient may recover the use of his limbi in the coarse of u few days. Dr. Ilorl- heck is well known throughout tbs country. Aiiihnina’s selection. Bikmix iiam, Ala , April 25.—Chair man Job it V. Smith of the Democratic state campaign committee says the ma jority for the constitutional convention In the stut<- Mill lie not less than 80,000, juid may reach 50,000. DEVELOPMENTS OF A WEEK . Trolley Line Building Is Assuming Keiu irknble Proportions—Kail 31111s i Overcrowded With Orders—Demand J For Agricultural Implements. Cleveland, April 25 —The Iron Trade Review, discussing trade condi tions this week, says: The buying pace has subsided some what in the pnsi week, and the lull can j only be welcome to overcrowded mills. The largo business done in the Chicago district with implement manufacturers and ether buyers of bars is the chief ex- -ceptiou to the rule of light buying; rails are another. It is estimated that the western bar contracts closed in the past two weeks will approximate 200,000 tons, almost all of it steel. The activity in rails is ip view ef the advance to $28, effective May 1, which is expected to bo made this week. The year promises to make a record for rail tonnage unequalled since the early eighties. I rolley Line llulldtiig. Trolley line building is growing to remarkable proportions. Cleveland has alone contributed contracts and inquir ies totalling 35,000 tons in the past week for electric lines and Cleveland syndi cates working in different parts of the country have fully 600 miles of such roads here under construction or ready for contracts. Some of the rail mills are unable to promise deliveries short of October, and the indications are that the scarcity of billets duo to the large amount of steel goiiip, into rails will bo a femme for some months. • The fact that the agricultural works in the Chi -Mg > district have come into the market thus early for their next season’s supply is significant of the heavy demand for implements and for harvesting machinery that has devel oped, in many cases taking up all the stock carried over and all that had been planned for this year. KaUi-oad Equipment. The favorable character of the gov ernment crop reports is another factor, of which more and more is sure to be heard in railroad buying as the. season advances. Railroad equipment pur chases are likely to make a new record this year, cur works capacity being taken tor mouths ahead. There is no sign yet of the specula tive buying that produced the furore of 1899. In fact, the parallel of 1899, of which there i* occasional talk, has no existence. Buyers of pig iron are not. working up any nnxicty over a runaway marker, and are very philosophically watching the situation and buying for their needs in the next three or four mouths. NEGROES TO BE RETAINED Fight Made Against Them by the L'uio:i League. New Yoke, April 25. —Between 400 aud 500 members of 1,800 belonging to the Union League club of this city met last night at the clubhouse to take ac tion on the question as to whether or not white soi vuutM should be employed to take the place of the negroes whose services have been engaged since the formation of the organization. Some time ago the house committee had the question before it, aud in a report which it made to the imtctiu' ast night recom mend that the negro i > bo dispensed with. When the matter came up for discus sion cx-Cougressroan John S. Wise offered a resolution to the effect tbat the negro employes be retained. There were speeches pro and con, but finally Mr. Wise’s resolution was adopted by a vote of nearly two to three. The matter has caused a great deal of comment of lute because of the previous historic position of the Union League club as a participant in the struggles to free the negroes from slavery and as champion cf the black race iu subse quent years. Her Claims Kcrogniztd. San lit a nci eco, April 25.—The Ex aminer sajs: Mrs. Clara Kluge-Sutro has secured from the representatives of the Adolph Sutro estate a recognition of the claims urged by her and her chil dren, Adolph Sutro, Jr., aged 9, and Adolphiuo Sutro, aged 7 years. The settlement, which is on the basis of |150,000, has been agreed upon. The woman claimed to have been the con tract wife of the late millionaire. It is estimated that she secured the famous cliff house as her share of the estate. Before his death Sutro executed a deed giving to these children real estate in this city which was then estimated to be worth f50,000. SONS OF SOUTH SELECTED Many Chosen Kor Positions In the Regular Army. Washington, April 25.—The secreta ry of war has made public ths names of the 588 men selected for first and sec ond lieutenants in the regular army under the reorganization bill. All of those men have had service either in the state or national volanteer or iu the regular army. They have been ordered for examination, aud should they pass will l>e appointed. The list includes the following: Georgia, twelve—Cleveland Wilcox- on, Blanton Winship, Troup White head, Calvin F. Holmes, L. W. Caffey, Walter P. Corbett, Bois Reese, John J. Miller, S. <3. Orr, Hunter Harris, Charles M. Pendleton, O. W. Flake. North Carolina, ten—John W. Gulick, Edward Hill, Robert O. Patterson, W’il- liam D. Pritchard, William R. Beavqrs, Walter Mcrntosh, Dickson A. Everett, John A. Wagner, Bradley J. Wootten, John S. E. Young. South Carolina, eight—Tfiaddeus B. Seigle, Lawrence S. Carson, Clarence S. Nettles, Joseph 8. Hardin, Edmond R. Tompkins, William P. Crawford. Alabama, ten—Frank N. Clover, Jas. E. Shelly, Frank E. Lynch, Thomas Hardeman, Richard B. Coing, William P. Schrews, William Wall, Marion B. Mabson, James O. Hixson. NEW ROAD TO BIRMINGHAM Line Will Run From Atlanta to the Alabama City. Atlanta, April 26 —Application has been made to the secretary of state for a charter for the Atlanta and Birming ham Air Line railway, to run from At lanta to the Alabama state line, a dis tance of about 60 miles, with Binuiug- ham, for the immediate future, as its western terminus. It is projected to go through the counties of Fulton, Camp bell, Douglass, Carroll and Heard. The amount of the capital stock will be foOO.OOO, with the privilege of in creasing it to any amount necessary by a two-thirds vote of the stockholders at any meeting at which a majority of the stock shall be represented. The charter will incorporate the com pany for 101 years and will locate its principal office in Atlanta. It states that the incorporators intend in good faitii to go forward without deday to se cure subscriptions to the capital stock of the company aud to construct, equip, maintain and operate the road as stated in the application. The belief is that the charter is being secured in the interests of the Southern railway, but of this nothing can be told at the present time. FIGHTING JTHE MORMONS 31 acou Minister Would Drive Them Out of Georgia. Macon, April 25.—Rev. S. R. Max well of the Christian church at Macon has gone to Toombsboro, Ga , to assist Rev. C. E. Miller of the Ohristiau church at Oconee in a discussion with Mormon elders. Parties who heard a part of the debate say it was highly in teresting. Mr. Maxwell, just prior to his departure from Macou, said: "I am one oi the Protestant ministers of the country who believe that the at tempt of the Mormons to invade this state with their false doctrines should be checked aud I am willing to go a ny- where in the state at any time to fight such an evil, and if by staying at Toombsboro for a week I can assist in driving these elders with their false doctrines out of the state, I will gladly remain there for that length of time.” MR. CHRISTIAN APPOINTED Assistant General Passenger Agent of the Seaboard. New York, April 25.—W. E. Chris tian, general agent of the passenger de partment of the Seaboard Air Line rail way, has been promoted to the position of assistant general passenger agent of the sumo company, with headquarters at Atlanta, taking the place of R. H. Tate resigned. Mr. Christian is a well known news paper man, having been connected with leading papers iu Now York, Philadel phia and other sections of the country. He has directed the work of the adver tising department of the Seaboard, and this, in connection with his railroad cx- E ericnce, it is considered, eminently fits im for his new position. British Export Duty on Coal. London, April 25.—Replying today to a numerous aud influential deputa tion representing coal owners, miners, shippers and merchants, assembled to protest against the export duty on coal, the chancellor of the exchequer, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, declared tbat while ho had no intention of dropping tfe coal tax, the representations of the deputation would bo carefully consid ered by himself and his colleagues. He bad already admitted that there should be some some exemption in the case of existing contracts, and suggested tbat those interested appoint a small com mittee to discuss the question with the customs authority. On the second read ing of the budget bill he ought to be in a position to anuonnee the terms upon which exemption would begin. Outrage by Whisky Element. Athens, Tenn., April 25.—The office of the McMiun Citizen of that plaoe was raided last night. The editor, Walter Franklin, daring the recent temperance fight in Athens, published very strong and convincing editorials and news items in behalf of temperance. The presses were overturned and his type was scattered, part of it being damped into a stream of water in front of his building. Public condemnation Is very emphatic and trouble Is feared if the parties are caught. Georgia Fruit Growers to Meet. Calhoun, Ga., April 25.—The North Georgia Fruit Growers’ association will meet in Calhoun on May 2 and 8. An elaborate program has been arranged aud the list of speakers Include some of the leading authorities on peach culture in the state. The growth of the fruit industry here during the past few years has been phenomenal. During this wiuter thousands of young trees have been planted and In a few years every foot of land tbat will grow a peach tree WtU be planted. OVER THE STATE. Newsy Items from Ollier Counties Uroti|>e<i Together. Two negroes on Mr. W. E. I)e- | Loach’s place near Camden got into ! a difficulty lust week and resorted to iiearms; Sam Certain shooting Bob Woods. The wound was a painful one but not serious. Claitin University will close its present session May 1. This has been the most prosperous ya^ iu the history of the institution. The enroll ment has reached 737 and many have been turned away for lack of accom modation. Thirty-one teachers have been employed. Sheriff Trantham took John Trues- dei from Bethune to Camden Friday, charged with the murder of Book Cook, and lodged him in jail. Both are negroes. They had a dispute over $1 35 and Truesdel cut Cook’s throat with a razor, killing him almost instantly. The American Congress of Tuber culosis meets in New York on May 15tb. This body of specialists makes a study of causes and methods for preventing the ravages of consump tion. Governor McSweeney has ap pointed Dr. J. W. Babcock of Colum bia, Dr. T. Grange Simmons of Char leston and Dr. George R. Dean of Spartanburg delegates from this State. Madame Ursula Dignam died at the convent in ColumbiaSun lay after a long illness. She had reached the Hge of eighty-one years and passed peacefully away. She was Miss Catharine Dignam and was born in Ireland. She had been a nun for fifty-seven years. She came to this country in 1841 with Bishop England and in 1857 took the black veil in Charleston. Claude McMillan, a son of J. H. McMillan, proprietor of the woolen mill, sixteen miles above Spartan burg, came near being killed by bis brother Curtis Monday night. Com ing late to the store, where they both slept, he tried tago in by a ladder. Curtis waked up frightened and fired, striking Claude in the groin. The wound is a serious one, but Claude will recover. A drowned white man was washed up from the river last week at Rich field plantation. An inquest was held, but no clue to his indeutity could be found, so be was buried in tbe rice fields. He had been dead a considerable time, and wore brown overalls and new brogan shoes, and $4 34 was found iu his pockets. Any information as to his indeutity should be sent to the coroner of Georgetown county. On Saturday Sheriff Dukes of Orangeburg was advised tbat Emanuel Stroman. who is wanted in tbat county for the killing of Grant, another negro, had been arrested in Augusta. Stroman consented to return with the sheriff to Orangeburg without requisition papers. Another negro, Elias Nelson, was arrested some weeks ago in connection with the same killing, but he has been since released on bail. Henry Tindal, a young white man of Florence who was a habitual drunkard, was found dead Sunday night in a station bouse cell, where he bad been incarcerated for being drunk. He was locked up about 6 o’clocK in the evening. A police man, who visited him in the ceil at 8 o’clock, found him still under the influence of whiskey. About 9:30 o’clock he again visited him, when, to bis utter surprise, he found him dead. The coroner's jury’s verdict was tbat “Tindal came to his death from the excessive use of alcoholic liquors, of his own accord.” Tindal’s father died a few weeks ago at the Hospital in Charleston, where he was sent from this city for treatment. A few days after the death of bis father, his aunt died. The State pension board had about coucluded its work and practically all of tbe applications for pensions tbat have been before the board have been approved or rejected. Tbe only trouble is tbat so many odds and ends are now coming in, and the purpose is to include these just as far as possible. The board finds that there will be considerable falling off in tbe number of peneiouera, but this, it is thought, is largely due to the fact tbat pensioners have labored under the impression that they would con tinue to receive pensions, without making new applications under the law, once their names were on the records. The new Jaw rtquires new applications and new conditions have to be complied with, and some of these requirements have been found of decided service in keeping out fraud. Lust Tuesday the body of a man was found lodged in some willows on the Berkeley county side of tbe San tee, about one mile above Le Nud’s Landing. The body was in a state of decomposition, the skin of the bead aud lower jaw was gone and four front teeth were out. The clothing was red knitted shirt and drawers and blue overalls, with long stockings, worn over the overalls, and spiked or calked shoes on the feet. It is re ported that another body was found lower down the river dressed very much the same, but with rubber boots on. As no one here has beard of any person having been drowned in this section it is supposed the bodies must have come from higher up the river. This is written with the hope that it may lead to identi fication of the lost mec. It could not be definitely determined whether tbe body was of a white man or mulatto, but your correspondent, judging by tbs skull, takes It to b« a whits pita. A LITTLE ESCAPADE IN THE LONG AGO. Two Aspiring Young Men Go Courting. AN INTRUDER APPEARS Aiut the Younit Men are Frightened from the Home of Their SweetheartM- Who the Intruder Was, aitd the Mtory In De tail. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Willie, April 23—We propose now to give our readers a hit of news which, at the time of its occurrence, we tnought to be very sensational, and although it occurred a good many years ago there are, perhaps, a good many of our readers who have not forgotten the occurrence. We will give the particulars as they oc curred, only withholding true names and places. The principal factors in the case were two young men or. at least, they thought that they were men, whom we will call “W” and “J.” Now, these two young men had come to the conclusion, although they were but fifteen and eighteen years old, that they were of sufficient age and size to go into the courting busi ness, and with this idea in their heads they had set out tbat year to test their ability in the business of gaining tl e affections of the fair sex. In thost days the country was not supplied with towns and villages as it is now Their places then being supplied oy country stores, of which there wa i an old gentlenan whom we will call Mr. Scotch, kept one near the res jence of these young men. Now, 1 ir. Scotch would occasionally go to town to replenish his stock of goods, at which times he would *e away for several days. Now, be it understood that Mr. Scotch was tbe proud possessor of two or three fair daughters, besides a fair and dashing niece, who would always visit her cousins during their father’s absence. Mr. Scotch also had a sister-in-law, Mrs. “H,” who would visit her sis ter during her husband’s absence. While these young men may not have been successful in galoipg the affections of these young ladies, the elder daughter, Miss "S,” and the niece, Miss/’B,” had made acomplete success gaining the affection of these young men. In fact, had almost succeeded in running them crazy. Now, upon this particular occasion Mr. “S'' had gone to town to replen ish his stock of goods and “W” and “J,” being aware of the fact, de cided to spend a pleasant evening with tbe young ladies, and sure enough they did spend a pleasant one, though not altogether so pleas ant for them as it was for the young ladies. Well, the heroes of this occasion repaired to the residence of their lovers about twilight and from that time until eight or nine o’clock en joyed the company of their lovers to the highest degree. But about that time while all were in tbe height of their glee, some one espied somebody standing behind the house, which seemed to be an intruder. Every one present very readily decided to investigate tbe matter and ascertain, if possible, who this intruder was. So every one made a dash for tbe in truder, part of tbe crowd going around one way and part another so as to be certain to intercept him, bat the intruder, wishing “W” and ••J” to first behold his face by tbe full glare of the lamp, was careful not to come iu contact with them until be bad entered the house. So into the house he went pursued by the crowd, but when “W” and “J” beheld tbat face they stood aghast; it was just such a face as they bad never before looked upon. A man, or at least in tbe shape of a man, dressed in white, with glaring eyes and face as white as his dress, and to add to his hideous appearance he seemed to be either drunk or crazy, and to "W” and "J” it didn’t make auy difference which. Well, “W” and “J” at once de cided that he was either bis Satanic majesty himself, or one of bis very near relatives, and therefore they were very careful to keep as much space between them and his majesty as possible, without leaving their lovers entirely at bin mercy. One of the ladies seeing that the boys were scared, remarked to them that it was only old "crazy Tom.” Now, if there was anything that these young men were more afraid of than they were of his Satanic majesty, It was a crazy man. But, be it a crazy man or what not, the boys were no0 about as badly scared as it was possible for them to be. By some means or other "W” got into tbe house with gne or two others aud closed the door. Thinking, per haps, to allay his fears somewhat, Mrs. M H” drew an old “cap and ball” revolver from tbe drawer and showing It to him, said, that she would shoot that crazy man If ho didn’t leave there. 4 W” very quickly requested her to hand the pistol over to him and let him do the shooting, but she declined to do so. Well, about this time some one of the party demanded admittance into the house, and before the door could be refastened the glassy-eyed man ran against the door and “W” seeing that he was going to force an en trance, started to the assistance of those wbo wars bolding the door, but bifori hi riiobid Ibi door tbs glMsy eyed man had done entered the house. Well, his majesty being be- ; tween him and the door. “W” back- | ed to the other side of the house with his majesty still advancing on him. “W” decided that the time had come lor heroic action, so he picked up a chair with both hands as if he was going to strike; but strike? no, not much! but instead he placed the chair against Lis majesty’s breast, and as he did so, exclaimed, “Wu-o-o-o-wu-oo!” making a noise ranging between the hollering of a screech owl and that of the howling of a dog and made for the door; bitch ing his coat pocket under the corner of a table and carrying it with him as far as the yard and scaling the yard gate, he made for shelter under the parental roof. It seems that “W” and “J” had decided on the start home at about the same time, although they had not held any consultation in regard to the matter, because “W” had run only about 200 yards until he met with “J” traveling at full speed and going in the same direction and with tbe same intent as that of himself— parental protection. Well, they ran against the door at home and as soon as they could pos sibly do so “W” exclaimed, “Pa! Pal” “Wliy, what in the world is the matter?” says the father. “A man, a man, a glassey-eyed man I Open the do3r, quick,” cried “W.” Well, the father caught on at once and as soon as he could compose him self from laughter he got up and let tho boys in and told them that they were about the biggest fools that ho had ever seen ; that it was nobody in the world jut Mrs. “H” dressed in man’s clothing with her upper lip smutted and flour on her face. Sure enough the father was right. Mrs “H” had pretendingly went home, but instead had rubbed flour on her face, smutted her upper lip and dressed in man’s clothing with the results above stated. But it was several months before the boys could discover where the laugh came in. While Mrs. “H” didn’t scare the courting idea entirely out of the heads of our heroes, she did scare them out of paying their respects to those particular young ladies. s Octavus. FREE BLOOD CURE. An Offer Proving Faith to Maffereni. Is your Blood Pure? Are you sure of it? Do cuts and scratches heal slowly? Does your skin itch or burn? Have you Pimples? Eruptions? Aching Bones or Back? Eczema? Old Sores? Boils? Scrofula? Rheu matism? Foul Breath? Catarrh? Are you pule? If so purify your Blood at once with B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm). It makes the Blood Pure and Rich, heals every sore and gives a clear, smooth, healthy skin. Deep-seated cases like ulcers, cancer, eating sores, Painful Swellings, Blood Poison are quickly cured by B. b. B., made especially for all obstinate Blood and Skin Troubles. B. B. B. drains the Poisons and Humors out of the Blood and entire system so the symptoms cannot return. Give it a trial. It cures when all fails. Thor oughly tested for 30 years. Sold at drug stores at $1 per large bottle, fi large bottles (full treatment) $5. Bo sure the bottle reads Botanic Blood Balm. So sufferers may test ’t, a trial bottle given away absolutely free. Write for it. Address BLOOD BALM CO. 4 Atlanta, Ga. Write to day. Describe the trouble and free medical advice given. For sale by S. B. Crawley <fc Co. There will be between 50,000 and 100 000 additional acres of land de voted to rice culture in the South this year.^ A VALUABLE MEDICINE For Coughs and Colds In Children. .“I have not the slightest hesitancy in recommending Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy to all who are suffer ing from coughs or colds,” siyaChas. M. Cramer, Esq., a well known watch maker of Colombo. Ceylon. “It has been some two years since the City Dispensary first called my attention to this valuable medicine and I have repeatedly used it and it has always been beneficial. It has cured me quickly of all chest colds. It is es pecially effective for children and ael- dom takes more than one bottle to cure them of hoarseness. I have persuaded many to try this valuable medicine, and they are all as well pleased as myself over the results.” For sale by Cherokee Drug Co. The man who has no business of his own to attend to, will soon be found attending to the devil’s business. The fleet Blood PuriUer. The blood is constantly being puri fied by tbe lungs, liver and kidneys. Keep these organs in a healthy con dition and the bowels regular and you wlll have no need of a blood pu rifier. For this purpose there is nothing equal to Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets, one dose of them will do you more good than a dollar bottle of the best blood puri fier. Price, 25 cents. Samples free at Cherokee Drug Company. in escaping from a firo, creeper crawl along the room with your face close to the floor. To Cure * Cold In One l>a> Take Laxative Bromo-tjuinine Tab lets. All druggists refund the money If it fails to cure. E. W. Grove’s sig nature Is on each box. 2uc. Mexico buys all of its shears and sharpedged tools from the United States. A Mi Mtope The Cough Anil Work* off The Cold Laxative Bromo-t^uinine Tablets curs a cold In one day, No Cure, No Par. Price 46 ceuU. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. IlnpiM'iilngs Mint the Doing* of Our Neigh bor* Acron* the Line. Col. McClure says if North Caro lina were fenced in by a high wall and cut off from connection with the outside world, she could rais» every thing she needed for comfort and several of the luxuries thrown in. The truckers report that the cold weather is doing incalculable damage to truck. Mr. J. A. Montgomery, who has a farm at Burgaw, was in Wilmington recently and he states that truck in his neighborhood is well nigh ruined. Fuller Jones, who lives nearLowes- ville, lost his barn by fire Friday night. Three mules and five head of cattle, his wagon and all the othei contents of the barn were destroyed with it. Some one is believed to have set firo to the barn. The picnic to be given by the em ployees of the Southern shops will be held this year at Charlotte. It is thought the picnic will be held about the 1st of June, but the date has not been positively decided upon. As has been the case in past years the Southern will provide their employees with a train for this occasion. The trial of Raney Mills, colored, consumed all of Thursday afternoon and Friday morning, in Cleveland county court. The case was given to the jury at 1:00 Friday and at 5:0Q o’clock they rendered a verdict of guilty of murder in the second de gree. At the request of the attorney for the defendant the jury was polled aud each gave the above ver dict. A daring robbery was attempted at Salisbury Friday night, the par ticulars of which have been sap pressed on account of the fact that it was hoped that the robbers would be apprehended. Some person or persons entered the Salisbury Roller Mill and attempted to enter the safe. The safe was badly battered but nothing was taken from it. It is not known what quantity, if any, of sacked goods was taken from the mill. One hundred negroes left (ireens- boro Monday night for the coal mines of West Virginia. Within the past year agents of the mines have in duced several hundred negroes to leave. On account of the emigra tion of a large number of negroes and the removal of many others from tbe country districts to the towns, farm labbr in that section rif North Carolina is very scarce. This has caused some farmers to prepare for only a half crop this year. Saturday afternoon Walter Coun cil, ug d about 15, son of the lute Dempsy Council, and Abram Toe. aged 12, two colored boys, became Involved in a quarrel at Fayetteville, which reaulted in Council’s drawing a knife and stabbing Poe, making a terrible wound, from which, it is thought, tbe boy will hardly recover. The wound begins just two inches from the heart, and is said to have cut through one of tbe lungs. Coun cil was arrested shortly afterwards, and is now in jail. Anderson Borders, colored, wbo lives near Statesville, gave one of his children a pistol to play with a few days ago. Anderson’s wife scented danger and wanted the pistol taken from the child, but Anderson re fused to permit this. Presently, as a matter of course, the pistol was discharged and Anderson yelled to beat tbe band. Clasping his hands on his back he howled, “I’m gone! I’m gone!” The ball had taken ef fect in Anderson’s back, but as the weapon was a small, cheap affair, tbe wound is not considered dangerous and Anderson isn’t gone, as he feared. A negro child about five days old was found dead recently in the suburba of Monroe, only a fev yards west of the graded schools. Both legs and one arm bad been cut off, tbe bead bad been crushed and the body was enclosed iu a shoe box and hidden in leaves until the buzzards found it. Soon after it had been found, Dr. Massey, a physician, re ported to the police that bo had been called in to treat the wife of Spencer Meddlin. He was told that her child was born dead and had just been buried. While be was there a second child was born, a mulatto. The murdered child was a mulatto, so both Meddlin and his wife were ar rested. The coroner’s jury found both guilty of murder and thej were lodged in jail. There seems to be an organized gang of thieves at work in Goldsboro On Saturday night a week ago, a dark stormy night, thu atore of Baker ami Eason was broken into and robbed and on last Saturday night the same store was broken into and robbed again. In a store carrying a heavy stock as they do it Is impossible to mies an ordinary amount of goods, and there is no calculating how much was stolen each time. On las* Thursday night the new suburb known a» “Wind Town,” at the northern extension of George street, was visi ted by a gang of thieves and the pantries of several houses were rob bed of provisions. Again on Satur day night some unknown person* broke tbe glaea show window of a store on East Centre street occupied by a Syrian named “Mike,” and took what dry goods had been placed In the window on display. This rob bing business is getting to be e<Tioui and it might be as well for the city aj thoritie* to increase the police for protection until tbe gt broken up. DOCTOIIS DIFFB! ABOUT PORTO RICO Another Version of Condi tions In the Island. MANY PEOPLE STARVING Islanders In Morse Condition Under American Knlc Ilian Wlicn Spain Held Sway—Hollander Law a Hum bug—Governor Critic z<-d. New Yokk, April 25.—Wheu Dr. L. S. Rowe of the Porto Rican coda ooiu- niLsum reached here, several days a, o, he said iu an interview that conditions on the island had been much improved, despite the statements made by "a small element of the population iu a spirit of pessimism.” To this exception is taken by Weuceslao Borda, Jr., a member of the commission chosen by tbe Planiers, Bankers aud Merchauts association of Porto Rico to present to the United States goVenmeat tbe ideas of that or- gamzatiou regarding the state-uLaffairs on the islaua, particularly iu caunec-'* tion with the effects of the Hollander revenue law, "Our people are starving,” said Mr. Borda, iu an interview, "and the island is now iu a worse condition. under the rule of Governor Alien than it ever was before, even when Spain held sway. So hopeless is the state of affairs that fath ers sell theif daughters to keep them from dying of hunger. These people who ^ay the country is flourishing are the officeholders, representatives of that class of professional politicians into which Governor Allen has fallen—the lowest class of all the island’s inhab itants. Tho Hollander Law. "This tax law to which wo object was framed by Professor Hollander, a theo rist, with no knowledge of Porto Rica It was passed by the insular legislators a few days before they adjourned. Gov ernor Allen signed tho measure imme diately, although he had a right to wait for teu days, which we, who object to the law. had every reason to expect him to do. Meanwhile, sure that he would wait, we called a massmeeting of the business men from all over the island. It was bv that meeting that we were appointed commissioners. Those who appear represent 50 per cent of the money interests iu all Porto Rico, and they are not politicians. The mission on which we have been sent bate in volves the life aud death of our corpo rate success or demolition in Porto Rico.” Objections to the Measure. Mr. Borda and his associate, Mr. Bai bas, have filed 18 objections to the Hollander reveuue law. Chiefly they protest against the provision taking away the right of redemption from the-'' taxpaper who is delinquent for iflx months. They object, too, tOfthe^i^lse rnv< i especially one of 80 cenw a gallon on rum. ••uuvernor Allen answered this last protest of ours,” said Mr. Borda, "by saying that the tax on rum in the United States is |1.20, so wo ought not to complain. He forgets that the rum industry here is only incidental, while with us it is a principal industry.” Emigration to Ecuador. Colon, Colombo, April 25.—Efforts are being made to induce Porto Ricans to emigrate to Ecuador, but they have been unsuccessful. The steamer Cat ania has arrived here with only 96 Porto Ricans on board. Her future trips on the same errand have been abandoned. AMERICAN WOMAN IN LUCK Declared to He Kcnl Countess and Heir to Fortune. London, April 25. — The chancery court has decided that Count Reiuhold Edward Moore Von Rosen, residing at Stockholm, is the eldest son of Carl Von Rosen, formerly chamberlain of the king of Sweden and Normsy, gin! hia American wife who wssTTMi** Moore, is the real countess aud rightful heir to the fortune left by Mrs. Clara Jessup Moore, his grandmother. A statement of the counsel makes it appear that some one in America repre sented himself to be Count Reiuhold, asserting that tbe Stockholm claimant had been substituted for him by the Von Rosens. Justice Joyce found that the American rlaimant’s representations *were bogus and fraudulent. The money in dispute amounts to £60 090. w Mrs. Moore was better known as Mrs. Bloomfield Moore, who financed Keely, the Philadelphia inventor, who became famous througn thu exploitation of a mysterious motor. Ills Brains Scattered. Gadsden, Ala, April 26 —At Alice, Etowah county, Job u A. Brooks ami Ben Hammett engaged in a street duel There is an old grudge of long 'funding. They met. drew guns aud a perfect f u- silade followed, but neither was hurt. Brooks then picked up a large rock and threw it at Hammett, striking him on thu head, crushing ins skull and scat tering the brains. Hammett atlli hv«-« but their is no hope for him. Brooke is at home, but no attempt has beru made to arrest him. Both belong to good families. Failed Kor $110,000. Chattanooga, April 23.—A general assignment of Chancellor Thomas N McConnell of Chattanooga has U u filed in Knoxville. John B. Rag n of Chattanooga is named ns trustee, luo liabilities are saitl to l>c $110,000, with assets estimat' d at it j, q the assignment wu* ' n <ie||rc< ia- tion in values of pr >] ty urct boom times. Cbt