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IE INSOLENCE OE
ALABAMA NEGROES
looker WaGliington’s Appeal
to Convention Criticized.
IDLE TAKE INDULGED IN
.Violent Tone of Kditorlal In Negro
New.-pnper May CoinHernct Favor
able Impression Created by Wash
ington and Other Semlble Negroes.
Montgomery, Ala., June 3—A mild
sensation was caused here today by the
receipt of a negro paper published in
Mobile by members of the constitution
al convention containing a leugtby ar
ticle criticising the tone mid temper and
sentiment of the appeal of Booker Wash
ington, W. II. Council and other lead
ing negroes to the constitutional con
vention in behalf of the negro race.
The article declares that the negroes
not only ask lor fair play of the conven
tion, but uemand it; that there is no use
■ m attempting io fool anybody; that if
the negro is treated right ho will help
make the south bloom and prosper; "if
treated wrong, he will seek what oppor
tunity he can to weaken it, so that ho
can destroy this system of semi-bar-
baric slavery;” that the country cannot
live in peace and happiness with one
law for one race and another for an
other class that the negro is not now
satisfied, and that tbe race only submits
because they are powerless to help them-
, selves. Taut the negro "is either a cit-
> izeu or a slave; that the country is only
} making trouble for itself in the distant
future; that the negro submits now but
^^that submission is by force and with
^ 'discontent, a cancerous sore, which will
come to the Eurtace in uu eruption in a
few years.”
The paper quoted from is published
Ez^T>y two prominent negro ministers of
Mobile. It is believed that the violent
tone of the article will do much to de
stroy the good effect and favorable im
pression created by t he appeals of Booker
Washington and W. 11 Council in be
half of the race in the convention,
which were made a few days ago.
NEWS FROM SOUTH AFRICA.
Its Paucity Causes Much Uneasiness
In Loudon.
London'. Juno 3.—The war office is
moving no effort to allay the public un
easiness caused by the scantiness of
news from South Africa. Nothing has
i yet come through to illuminate the
Vlakfoutein affair, the only dispatch on
the subject since the first official an
nouncement being u3 hue message from
Lord Kitchener, issued this morning,
giving three additional names of officers
killed.
Details just received of the relief of
Zeerust by General Methuen show the
town was practically besieged for sev
eral mouths and that its food supply
was short.
A dispatch from Pretoria announces
that the constabulary have captured
Abram Malau, son-in-law of the late
Colonel Joubert. Malau was an ener
getic, progressive politician before the
' war, and since it began he been very
active against the Biitish and has filled
several important commands, including
that of Piotersburg, until the British
occupied that place.
COST 0 F L IVIN G I NCR EASED.
New York Butchers Advance the Cost
of Fresh Meats.
New York, June 3.—The butchers of
this city have announced an increase in
the price of meats, effective this morn
ing. The wholesalers have increased
the price of carcasses to 8 :, 4 and 9 cents
a pound, an increase of about 1 cent over
ruling prices. Retailing prices will be
advanced as follows:
Sirloin steaks, advanced from 16 and
18 to 18 and 20 cents per pound; porter
house, from 20 and 23 to 22 and 25 cents,
round steak, from Hi to 18 cents; roasts,
from llhj and to 12 and 18 cents a
pound. Veal reihains the same, but
lamb is scarce and higher.
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Extraordinary Accident.
Cn^CKOTTE, N. C., June 3. — Miss
Rosa DcffJ, the stenographer in Captain
J. H. bloau’s office in this city, suffered
greatly yesterday as the result of an un
usual accident. As she prepared to
leave her room yesterday morning she
shook her skirts—that gesture not being
uncustomary among women, it is said—
and a pearl button that was somehow
attached to the skirt was thrown up
with such force that it broke the glass
in her spectacles and pieces of the glass
flow into her eye. The pain was very
great. Miss Dell submitted to several
examinations by an oculist yesterday,
and it wa-vonly after much difficulty
that the broken pieces of glass were re
moved from her eye.
Narrowly Kscaped Lynching.
Pirrsurrto, June 3 —Benjamin Setti,
/ alias Watrou. aged 28 years, narrowly
^ - .^scaped lynching at the hands of an in
furiated mob of 500 citizens of McKees-
E ort, Pa , today. Setti is alleged to
avu assaulted a 4-year-old daughter of
Thomas Sullivan. The police were
forced to use their maces to keep back
the crowd while Setti was taken to the
police station. The child is in an un
conscious condition and may uot recov
er. Great excitement exists in Mc
Keesport and Setti is strongly guarded.
Two Killed Over (’rapt.
Chattanooga, Jnnc 3.—’Squire Cor
nelius, n white man, and Harry Kilts, a
negro, are dead, as a result of u quarrel
over tho proprietorship of 1(3 cents in
vested in a frame of craps at Mendiau-
villo, Ala. Kills was shot through the
heart; Cornelius was shot through tho
breast bv the Kills brothers, who nindo
their escape.
Work of Ineeiiillnrlcs.
licCoxKKLLKViLLR, O., June 8.—Fire
bugs tried to hum this city last night hy
setting fire io the business part of the
town. Tuo worst fire in years resulted.
Pariseu’s storage building and other
building* Mere destroyed. The loss ii
pmxyy, with uo tusurauu#,
OVER THE STATE.
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NewHy^tt-uta from Other Counties C.rotipr.l
Together.
Mrs. Martha Horger of Orangeburg
county, who died a few days ago, is
said to have weighed 4(X) pounds
Prof. Albert Barnes of Clemson
College has made a model gasolene
engine weighing 200 pounds. It is
5-horse power, and is said to be a
great improvement on any now in
use.
Amos Carter has been arrested at
Laurens for the killing of a convict
guard in Darlington county in 1900.
He was on the Laurens chaingang for
stealing and will be pardoned so he
can be tried for murder.
Several stores and residences wore
burned in Marion Wednesday night.
The further spread of the flames was
stopped by the heroic action of J.
Monroe Johnson, Jr., and Rich Wil
liams, colored. The loss was about
$15,000.
Seventy machinists at t he Southern
Railway shops in Columbia struck
Thursday. They demand a nine hour
work day. The strikers are orderly
and no trouble is looked for. Both
sides are taking it easy. This is the
first stiike in the history of the
shops, which have been running
tthiry years.
At a meeting of the trustees of
Cedar Springs Institute at Spartan
burg Wednesday the plans of the
architects, Wheeler, McMichael &
Co., were accepted. The plans call
for a three-story school building to
cost $20 000. The specifications will
be made out at once and the contract
let. Maj. D. R. Duncan of the board
of trustees and President N. F. Wal
ker compose the building committee.
Francis Roundtree, infant daughter
of Captain and Mrs. Robert T. Steph
enson, of Yorkville, died last Thurs
day morning at about 10 o’clock of a
complication of troubles incident to
teething. The little sufferer had
been ill about two weeks and wasted
away steadily and surely until the
end came as stated. The funeral
took place yesterday morning. Had
the child lived until next Monday,
she would have been aged just one
year.
A meeting of the stockholders of
the Monarch Mills. Union, was held
last week. A full meeting was had
and the principal business was the
adoption of the resolutions passed on
April 20 by the board of directors of
tho mill in regard to increasing the
capital stock from$200,0(K) to $550,000.
Tiieso resolutions were unanimously
adopted—$175 000 of this stock is to
be preferred and the balance common
stock. Part of tho increased capital
will go to complete the purchase of
machinery for the present mill and the
other will go to adding to the mill.
The latter will, however, not he
started for. some time yet.
Saturday afternoon Mr. 0. S. Ellis,
of Florence, shot and mortally
wounded Hayes Ashby, a negro. The
ball entered the negro’s breat just
below the right nipple and lodged
near the backbone. The negro was
drunk, and was firing his pistol pro
miscuously on the street about half
a block below Mr. Ellis’s residence.
It is said he attempted to kill his
wife. Tbe negroes in the commun
ity were badly frightened. When
Mr. Ellis appeared Ashby was still
raising a racket, and with an oath
drew his pistol. Mr. Ellis fired at
close range and the man fell. Physi
cians who examined the wounded
negro say there is no chance for him.
There was very little excitement.
F. Fair Lee, of the Union Hardwood
Manufacturing Co., Union, was run
over by a car loaded with hickory
logs used by the firm. The accident
occurred at 0 o’clock and as a result
one of his legs is cut off at the knee
and the other ^ust above and the
right hand is ground into pulp. He
may live but it is doubted. There
were four cars loaded with these logs
on the sidetrack and they were try
ing to ease them down a little. He
had gone under one to remove the
scotch when some one above took off
the brakes and started the cars, and
in trying to get on he was tripped
up. As soon as it was discovered he
was under the car the brakes were
put on; the car stopped on his body
and it was necessary to unload tho
car before it could be moved off.
The following Bennettsville special
to tbe Charlotte Observer, tells of
the reception of Senator McLaurin
after his arrival from Gaffney; Two
hundred and fifty of tho citizens of
Bennettsville, Senator McLaurin’s
home, marched to the senator’s
residence, called him from his bed,
and the object of the visit was
announced by T. W. Bouchier, Esq.,
in a beautiful speech. The senator
stood on his front porch and in
pathetic and patriotic strains of
eloquence spoke of his unbounded
appreciation of this evidence of tbe
endorsement of his home people.
Tho senator said that he was in the
fight to stay, and that there were
signs of dodging by Tillman; but
that he intended to hold him to the
agreement. The senator said that
he only wanted Tillman In this race,
and that he would give the people a
clean, decent, hightoned campaign,
or if Tillman preferred he could
throw us much mud as Mr. Tillman
wanteq. Senator McLaurin said that
the seriate was loo small for both
Tillman and himself, arid that he
wanted to meet Menator Tillman in
every county in South Carolina.
Such men an Captain P. L. Breden,
E. K Exutn, if. W. Carroll and many
such prominent businela men, led
the crowd Bennettsviih will he almost
nolid for McLaurin, and the citizens,
through Mr. Bouchier, pledged
Senator McLaurin their support.
VETERANS REUNION
ADJOURNED SINE DIE
Unanimously Voted to Meet
in Dallas, Tex., Next Year.
THE REBEL SONG SUNG.
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The Keunlnn a Success In Every Way -
South Carolina DIvImIoh I’renenteU a
Grand Spectacle—Rebel Sons Suna by
Capers Scott-Other News.
(Correspondence of The Ledger.)
Memphis, Tenn,, May 30.—The
Reunion! How many hallowed
memories cluster around that sub
lime word and take us into the
realms of bliss and ecstacy !
We find ourself in this magnifi
cent city this afternoon brimful of
news for The Ledger readers and
at a loss to know where to begin re
porting it.
Over twenty-five miles of streets
are covered with a mass of humanity,
varying in many instances. Travel
is almost impossible and the streets
present an aspect of which we are
proud.
This afternoon the Eleventh An
nual Reunion adjourned sine die
amid huzzahs for Memphis, and will
meet at Dallas, Texas, next year.
Only two places were in nomination
for the convention. Mrs. Kate
Cobball Curry, of Dallas, nominated
Dallas, Texas, as tho place of next
meeting. She began hy saying,
‘‘My dear old sweethearts,” and the
hall broke forth in a storm of ap
plause at these words. She presented
many written invitations signed by
various State officials and citLjns
pledging the unstinted hospitality of
the city and State. She was loudly
cheered.
General B. H. Young nominated
Louisville, Ky. He made a magnifi
cent speech voicing the claims of tho
42 000 of the eons of Kentucky who
went forth to fight for the Confed
eracy. He said that instead of the
latch string being hung on the out
side of tho door they invited the Con
federate veterans tojuiock down the
doors and walk in and take possession
of their homes and hearts. There is,
ho said, ‘‘no law in Louisville against
a Confederate soldier in reunion
times. His nomination was seconded
by Col. George, of Bowling Green,
Ky. Judge Beckham, of Fort Worth,
Texas, seconded Mrs. Curry’s nomi
nation in a strong speech. He was
followed hy Judge Kitterell, of
Texas, in a stirring speech for Dallas.
Col. G. T. Bowles endorsed Col.
Young’s nomination, as did also a
fine looking Mississippian. Several
others took part on both sides until
the ballotting was reached, when Dal
las received I 2(13 votes against 1,046
for Louisville, Ky.
South Carolina from 133 camps
gave Dallas 137 votes; 9 for Louis
ville.
As soon as the vote was announced
Col. Young moved to make the se
lection of Dallas unanimous, whicli
was done amid loud cheering by the
Texans.
The great noise kept up on the
streets and in the division headquar
ters, which were all in or near the
building in which the convention
held its session, together with that
of the boats in tho river and travel
on tbe streets, made it impossible to
hear anything. General Gordon said,
‘‘If the constituted authorities
couldn’t have less fuss he could turn
tho ex Confederates loose aud they
would put a stop to it.
South Carolina was represented by
J33 camps and 137 delegates and an
immerse outpouring of veterans,
sons and daughters, as well as many
of them coming from the States of
their adoption to honor their grand
old State.
The South Carolina Division head
quarters presented a grand spectacle
—a perfect love feast, almost an
old fashioned Methodist camp meet
ing. Delicately constituted ladies of
all ages, both married and single,
pressed through the bull hunting
some one to give them information
concerning some loved one they
wanted to s e or hear something
from. The veterans all lent a help
ing hand to find tho object of their
search.
I will give the ‘‘rebel tong” sung
hy Capers Scott In the South Caro
lina Division hall the first day of the
convention, for which he was loudly
cheered by his comrades, and at the
conclusion of which a lady, Mrs.
Dunlap, stepped up to him and
pinned a Palmetto badge on hit
Areas’, and also one on the breast of
your correspondent for Introducing
him to the South Carolina veterans
as a South Carolinian by birth, both
blood and birth, and an Arkansan
by adoption. Mrs. Dunlap came
from Columbia to pay honors to tbe
veterans of her State.
Here is Caper’s song In full:
1 am a rebel soldier,
From Tlplln csnie to Prs^ks
And poverty compelled mu •
To turn out In thu rui Us.
In all sorts of weather,
Let It lat wet or dry,
'Tin my fate I inusl relate
To eft her sluir or cry.
fold weather I* approaching;
1 have no clothes to park,
For none I led hehlnd me,
They wro all upon my hack.
And I defy the hardest
of Mil the London trade.
The landlord of "Mat husnlein."
To tell where they were made.
My coat cost two tint! slxpenrtv
AlioUl ten years nt(o,
I Liuzht It from a peddler,
Ills name 1 did not know
Mv rap I bouKhl from a soldier,
Thu lining from the store;
This oil skin has oovured It,
TUmo, levsu years qr mure,
To win these fancy “briehes"
I had cnoug-h to do,
They cost me two and six pence,
In the year of (S2) sixty-two.
Resides my silken handkerchief
To ornament my frame,
I bought It from a ;:lrl
At tho corner of Drury lane.
If my old shoos were fellows.
You'd think them something rare;
One l got it St. Charles,
The other at Uaff Fair.
My sox, I did not buy them.
Although they cost me bij-h;
My slips 1 (jot amonjf the ra«s
Where tho soldiers used to lie.
Perhaps you think I stole them,
Hut 1 tell you ’tis not so;
Ten thousand had passed by them.
And would not stoop so low.
l.ll an officer bade me take them.
And take them without fear;.
For they were not tit for anything
Dut a Georgia volunteer.
Cone buy my humble ditty,
From town to town we’ll stc
Perhaps in some snug corner,
\Ve’U find a mug of beer.
Which always makes me merry,
And cheerful as you see;
May kind heaven reward the soldier boy,
Tlie sons of poverty.
J. L. S.
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GONE TO OXFORD.
Sheriff l.ogan In MissUsIppl Investigating
Identity of Man Claiming to bo Keeso.
The Reese matter is still being agi
tated by those who want the reward
for his capture, and it seems they
are not at all satisfied about the
identity of the man in tho Oxford,
Miss., jail who claims to be M. R.
Reese.
The Yorkville Enquirer says that
in view of the continued wrangle be
tween the people who want the
Reese reward and Mr. \V. II. New-
bold, over the question as to whether
the prisoner in the Oxford, Mies.,
jail is really M. R. Reese, Sheriff
Logan is out there to investigate the
matter. The sheriff went to Mem
phis to attend* the Confederate re
union, and from there he goes on to
Oxford. He has no idea that the
man in dispute is really Reese, hut
thinks it worth while to actually go
and see. Then the quarrel will be
stopped. The sheriff is expected to
return this week, and his coming is
no doubt awaited with no little
anxiety by those who are most
deeply interested. Sheriff Logan is a
man whose veracity cannot for a
moment be doubted, and his report
will put an end to the "wrangle.”
Of course it is possible that the man
in the Oxford jail is Reese, but no
one around here believes it; and it is
hoped that Sheriff Logan will clear
up all doubt and put all minds at
rest on the subject.
A Rnging, Kottr.iig Flood
Washed down a telegraph line
which Chfis. C. Ellis, of Lisbon, la.,
had to repair. "Standing waist deep
in icy water,” he writes, "gave me a
terrible cold aud cough. It grew
worse daily. Finally the best doctors
in Oakland, Neb., Sioux City and
Omaha said I had Consumption and
could not live. Then I began using
Dr. King’s New Discovery and was
wholly cured hy six bottles.” Posi
tively guaranteed for Coughs, Colds
and all Throat and Lung troubles by
Cherokee Drug Co. Price 50c and
$1 00.
A man may be so extremely busy
that ho can’t possibly do the things
he dosen’t want to do and still find
considerable time to play golf.
Dyspeptics cannot bo long lived
because to live requires nourishment.
Food is not nourishing until it is
digested. A disordered stomach
cannot digest food, it must have
assistance. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure
d'gests all kinds of food without and
aid from the stomach, allowing it to
rest and regain its natural functions.
Its elements are exactly the same as
tho natural digestive fluids and it
simply can't help hut do you good.
Cherokee Drug Co.
Whoever is the mother of Trusts,
New Jersey, their nurse, is deemed
by some to be in a measure responsible
for their gauche manners.
"A tew months ago, food which I
ate for breakfast would not remain
on my stomach for half an hour. I
used one Dottle of your Kodol Dys
pepsia Cure and can now eat my
breakfast and other meals with a
relish and ray food is thoroughly di
gested. Nothing equals Kodoi Dys
pepsia Cure for stomach troubles’,
H. 8. Pitts, Arlington, Tex. Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure digests what you eat.
Cherokee Drug Company.
Tho names of plants often suggest
their several uses; as, fer instance,
a pie-plant being for pie and a rub
ber-plant for looks.
"The Doctors told me my cough
was lucurab^ One Minute Cough
Curs made m^i well man.” Norris
Silver, North Stratford, N. H.—Be
cause you’ve not found relief from a
stubborn cough, don’t despair. One
Minute Cough Cure has cured thoua-
anda and it will cure you. Safe and
sure. Cherokee Drug Company.
There Is nothing a man of good
sense dreads in a wife so much ae
having more sense than himself.—
Fielding.
Mr. James Brown, of PutsmdTith,
Va.. over ninety years of age, suffered
for years with a bad eore on his face.
Physicians could not help him. De-
Wilt’s Witch Hazel Salve cured him
permanently. Cherokee Drug Co.
Ahourall a boy Is good for until he
is fifteen fs to run errands and eat up
the last pleGf of pie.
Danger, diso^e and death follow
neglect of the bezels. Use DeWitt’s
Llltlo Early Risers^o regulate them
amj you will add te ars to your life
and life to your yearV, Easy to take,
never gripe, Cberoiqee Drag Co.
FOREIGN SOLDIERS
FIGHT IN TIEN TSIN
Object Lesson In V/estern
Civilization For Chinese.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
A DISGRACEFUL AFFRAY
Bloody Kiot Procipltatrd by British
Fuslllor*, Who Wore Acting us Po
lice, Kinlcavorlng to Prevent Freftch
Soldiers From House breaking.
Tien Tsin, Juno 3 —-There was a seri
ous affray yesterday between interua-
tioual troops.
Some British fusiliers, who were act-
ing as police Here, sought to prevent
i reach soldiers Irom housebreaking
when they were attacked with bayonets
arid bricks.
The fusiliers in self-dcfenca fired into
the air.
This brought a number of Germans
to tne aid of the French .uen. They
numbered altogether 200 men. Five
fusiliers fired again, killing a Urouch-
man and wounding three (A hers.
In subsequent lighting, flour fosuiers,
five Gi rinuus aud one Japanese were
wounded.
The arrival of a German < fficer and a
fdroug guard ended the affray.
Waldersoc Leaves Peking.
Pf.Ktxo, June I» — Tim departure of
Field Marshal Count Von Wuldensoe
from Peking today was marked by a gr rat
military display by the allied troops, tike
booming of artillery and tho playing
bands. I he entire dipli.aiatic body es
corted the field marshal to the d<<pot.
Von Rauch, aide-de-camp and nejmew
or Count Von Waldersee. will r« main
here to escort Prince Ciiuu, the «• niper-
or’s brother, to Renin, where h j will
formally apologize, m behalf of ' Jhina,
for the murder of Baron Von Ket tier.
PISTOL DUEL IN STREETS.
Sensational Shooting Affray In ’North
Caroiliiu Town.
Monroi:, N. O., Juno 3.—A serious
shooting affair occurred on th<> streets
here Saturday evening.
Verne Austin and Fred IV ip;■ 3 ( two
young wiiite men, had a d.. xa'3 / over
some trifling matter. Parham,, who
was armed, drew fa's diatol at* l shot
three times, the last, two balls taki ug ef
fect, Tne first bull struck his ani , the
second entered his side, struck a *Rb and
glanced and it is thought; uid not affect
him seriously. P.irhaui then st ir ed to
run. At the Eng.ish drug snore ';oruer
he was met by L unstable Bivins, whom
he threatened to shoot. Bivins «|:d not
shoot him, but fell in behind h Ifn and
trim to overtake him. He eleujRd thu
street as ho went, everybody getting
out ot the way. One negro, (vlio did
not niovo quick enough, was f (red at.
Hnahy, alter some five or six blocks had
been traversed, tiie constable < overtook
him. Parham fired and the o ticer ro-
tnrued tne shot, bringiugdown Ins man..
'the bail struck Parham in the back ana
ranged downward. Ho is tcriously,
though not fatally, injured.* Biviun
was uot. hit.
CONDITIONS IN PORTO RICO.
People Adapting Thcin^flves to tlio
New Hcveriuufiit.
New \okk, June 3—-Among the yas-
neugers who arrived today on the steam
er Ponce from San Juan was W. H..
Hunt, secretary of Porto Rico.
Mr. Hunt said that conflicting renorqs
of the decisions in the Porto Rican cas ss
made it somewhat uncertain when 1 ie
left the island as to what was tho t* uto
import. Under the decisions, howe?/ar,
he believed it would not be many months
before there would be freo trade be
tween Porto Rico and tbe United States,
When tho new revenue law goes i!m>
operation, he said, after July 1, the gov
ernment of tho island, with duties col
lected on foreign importations and with
excise taxes, would have enough reve
nue to maintain itself.
Conditions in Porto Rico were im
proving aud hopeful. Tho people, ho !
said, are adapting themselves to their l
government, aud they are iookii g tor- l
ward to civil government.
Christian Science f'ealulal.
Boston, June 3.—Tho trial of tho
libel suit of Mrs. Josephine O. Wood
bury against Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy,
head of tbe Christian Science church,
which was began last we -k, was re
sumed today. There was additional in
terest in the case, because it was under
stood that Judge Hanna, the reader of
the First Church of Christian Science,'
who last week could not be found by
tho officers of the court, had returned
from u vacation and would appear us a
witness.
I’rcsldeut of Two Kullroud*.
New York, June 3.-—At a meeting of
of the directors of the Ntw York Cen
tral railroad, William H. Newman, pres
ident of the Lake Shore, was elected
president of the New York Central aud
Hudson River Railroad company, lo
succeed \lr. Calloway, resigned. Mr.
Newman has not yet resigned the presi
dency of ibo Luke Shore, so is now
president of both roads. General Su
perintendent Eigar Van Etteu wui
made second vice president.
Amalgamated Copper Dirrotors.
New York, June 3.-—At tho annual
meeting of tho stockholders of tho Amal
gamated Copper company today the fol-
lowing directors were elected: 11, II.
Rog. rs, James Stillman, Hob« rt Bac m,
F. P. O Pott, A. R. Flower, A. C. Hur
rage and W. G. Rockefeller. Mr. Rock
efeller fills the vacancy caused by the
dettih of Marcus Daly. Tln-re were
480,008 thu roc represented at tho meet
ing.
Two KliLd; verui h Jiii-rd.
Wni.iLiMt, W. Vn , June 3. —A bud
wreck is ruported 011 the Pitt'burg,
Ohio, Valley i.nd Cincinnati railroad,
i.ear Powbat.nu. fwo persons are sc.id
'i»)'i* e been killed uud u uuiuujf in
jured.
II ippcnliigs and tin- Doings of Our Neigh- ,
hors Across the Line.
The wife of J. R. McAdams, living
near Mebane, Orange county, £ave
birth to two boys and a girl one night [
lust week, and on the same night
there were born on Mr. McAdams’ |
premises a beautiful little calf and j
four little kitten*, besides a dozen or |
more chickens hatched out.
Mr. YV. A. McLurd, a prosperous
farmer artd'fine old citizen of Knob
Creek, has the largest monazite mine
anywhere Ln that section. The sup
ply is practically inexhaustible
Some days f«hey will get out 1000
pounds. Mr. James Blanton is work
ing it and has a force of twenty-five
hands.
Tuesday morning Erastus Otterson’
and Earnest Roberts, two negro boys
about grown assaulted with a rock
the white buy that carries the mail
ti and from Lawndale. The blow |
inflicted was a serious one producing
unconsciousness. The negroes fled
and were captured at Waco aud are
now in jail.
Tho salary of tho Shelby post
master has been increased to $1500
per year. It was formerly $14u0
This shows that Shelby is growing
steadily and business is increasing
rapidly. Only a few mouths ago it
was increased from $1300 to $1400.
In addition to this salary there is an
allowance for clerks and office rent,
otc.
A fatal boiler explosion occurred
near Big Oak, Moore county, Thurs
day morning at Mr. Hector McKas-
kill’s shingle mill, killing the fire
man, Joe Cagle, and injuring several
others. The force of the explosion
carried Cagle seventy feet and landed
him in the fork of a tree, severing
one leg entirely from the body and
otherwise mutilating him.
A child, of Mr. J. II. Blackwell, of
Shelby, wsti hit in the head by a
stone thrown through the window of
his house Saturday night by some
unknown person. An ugly wound
was inflicted on the child’s head.
The parents were neither in the
room when it occurred. The rascal
who threw the stone ought to be ap
prehended and punished severely.
An eagle measuring some eight feet
from tip to tip was captured alive in
Scotland county last week; recently
a Mr. Spain killed a large eagle at
Waupjhtown in Forsyth county, and it
was only a few weeks ago that Mr.
Story killed one at Fairview Lodge
in this county, and in every Instance,
says the As.heboro Courier, the eagle
was trying fio capture a young puppy.
Rev. Robert Poston, of Pearl, died
last Monday evening from bilious
colic, after liv. ng to the good old age
of 75 years. Lie was an ordained
Baptist minister for many years and
was a successful farmer. Deceased
leaves a wife, three sons and four
daughters and a large number of
relatives to mourn his death. For a
number of years he was a resident
of Shelby.
Mac. McDow'ell, colored, who lives
near Henrietta, killed his son, Jake
McDowell, lust Sunday. Father and
son got into a di spute and hot words
followed, and the father alleges that
the son was tryic’g to shoot him,
when he fired and killed his boy.
Tho father left almot't immediately
for Rutherfordton Ao surrender to
the authorities. Tin* boy was about
grown and was working in Shelby a
few weeks ago.
Tho Lexington Dispatch discovers
tho boss marrying preacher it. North
Carolina. He is Rev. T. H. Walker,
who lives at Pelham, < Jaswell coun
ty. just across the Virginia line, a
convenient place for eloping Virginia
couples, 'Ha began "tyi.tg the knot”
in 1871 and has muTried 1,551
couples. If marriage a failure,
the Rev. Walker will ha-re much to
answer for, and if a success he will
have a starry crown.
Charlie McCombs, colored, and his
two sisters, were arrested and .^ent to
jail in default of bond last weaken
the charge of entering the home of
Miss Charlotte Bridges, near Bea tty-
ville, and stealing a pistol and sp..'ue
other articles. They wore arrest* d
by Deputy J. D. Pruett and tried be -
fore \V. M. Beattie, Esq. They will
await tho trial at the August term of !
court. It is thought that thoy wero
hunting money.
John Froneberger, colored, the
prisoner who succeeded in escaping
from tho Shelby jail three weeks ago
when tho four prison-ers made a break
and ran out when the jail door was
opened, came up before daylight Sun
day morning at, the jail and gave
himself up, saying that he waa tired
of dodging and preferred to come in
and await his trir.l. Sheriff Buttle
had offered a rev ard of $16 for his
capture, but no one secured the re
ward.
As a result of the charges that
efforts bad been made to corrupt; a
juror in tbe case of Long ys. the
Southern Railway, J. A. ijtorhera,
law agent of the railroad, waa on
Thursday sentenced to Jail for twenty*
days and to pay a fine of $1(0; R. A.
Ramsey was sentenced to twenty
days in jail and J. H. Brown, the
juror w’nom it is alleged it was sought
to inll uenco in the case on trtel, was
fine**. $50. L, O. Caldwell ewd B. O.
Deaton, who were also ch trged with
contempt, were found n ot guilty.
Brown, Gorham and Ramt* ny uppeal-
ed to the Supremo Court and were
released on brud in the s am of $200
each..
The least in
quality desoa
Earl
HOPE IS HELD OUT
FOR MRS. M’KINLEY
Encouraging Result of Con
sultation of Physicians.
IN NO IMMEDIATE DANGER
The President Is Distinctively More
Cheerful—Sympathy of a Forelgu
Ambassador—Opinion of a Dlaguos*
ticlan of National Reputation.
Washington, June 8.—Hope of slow
improvement of Mrs. McKinley’s con
dition was held out by the attending
physicians after an hour’s consultation
this morning, in which Dr. William
Osier of Baltimore joined. Dr. Osier is
a professor in the medical department
of Johns Hopkins college and has a na
tional reputation as a diagnostician.
The result of the consultation is con
sidered encouraging.
Mrs. McKinley passed a good night,
after rather a bad day yesterday. Short
ly after 10 o’clock Dr. Rixey was joined
by Surgeon General Sternberg and Dr.
Johnston and a little later by Dr. Osier,
who had been summoned from Balti
more.
Secretary Cortelyou gave out this
statement a * 11:15 a. m.:
"Drs. Rixey, Sternberg and John
ston were joined by Dr. Osier of
Baltimore in consultation at 10 o’clock
a. m., and report that Mrs. McKinley’s
condition is us favorable as could be ex
pected. There is no immediate appre-
heusion, and a slow improvement is
looked for.”
The statement that there was no im
mediate apprehension, coupled with the
prospect fur slow improvement, caused
some relief to tho many anxious in
quirers who called at the White House
for news from the sickroom. Secretary
Hay called, on his way to the state de
partment, to inquire, and Ambassador
Gambon came personally to offer to the
president his sympathy and hope for
Mrs. McKinley’s early restoration to
health.
The president was distinctively more
cheerful after tho physicians had an
nounced the result of their conference
and about 11:30 went for a stroll through
thu White House grounds.
THE CUBAN CONVENTION.
Meeting to Discuss the Trouble With
United States.
Havana, June 3.—Tho Cuban consti
tutional convention will hold an in-
formal meeting this afternoon to discuss
the situation. President Capote and
Senor Samayo saw Governor General
Wood, but he was unable to give them
any definite information, saying ho ex
pected a communication from Wash
ington Tuesday, which will be forward
ed to the convention.
Civil Governor Quilez says that be
fore voting on the majority report he
informed the convention that he did
uot believe the United States would be
satisfied with the form in which the
amendment was adopted, including the
explanation. The committee, how'ever,
positively informed him that they knew
tho Uhited States would be satisfied.
It is expected that the decision this
afternoon will disclose tho committee’s
source of information.
BIG FIRE IN BRISTOL.
Hotel Kali mount, Vaived at $IOO,-
OOO, Deemed to Destructlou.
Knoxville, June 8.—A Sentinel spe
cial from Bristol-says: Tho Hotel Fair-
monut is burning and is doomed to to
tal destruction. It is valued at $100,-
000, including furnishings. The fire
originated in the fourth story and was
beyond control before being discovered.
The building was uot used as a hotel,
but was occupied by Rev. C. O. Jones,
formerly of Chattanooga aud Louis
ville, and Colonel J. M. Bartlett. It was
built in 1890 by Major A. D. Reynolds
and Colonel Bartlett at a cost of about
$75,000. '
Insurance is not known.
THEIR DEMANDS GRANTED.
Striking New England Machinists Be-
turn to Work.
Hartford, June 3.—Eighteen hun
dred of the men who have been on
strike here returned to work in six ma
chine shops today, tho companies hav
ing granted their demands for a 0-hour
day with ten hours pay, while agreeing
to recognize local shop committees, but
* ot tho union committees. About 700
m achiuists from other shops are out.
Paper Mills Shut Down.
Hch. yoke, Mass., Juno 3.—Every pa
per imV in tlie clty ‘Lsoopt the Whiting
aud VafV'y mills is shut down today on
account ol tho strike. Conferences are
being holdVfii 8 morning with the textile
manufacturers, but the indicatioun and
exuectatioussaro that tho firemen in the
textile mallsgo o\it the latter pari
of today.
OnlyO** Went Back.
Knoxville, Jane 8.—Striking ma
chinists claimithty out of 148 men who
went out here’last week only one
ohinist helper returned to work _—,
morning, in response to Geiiwal Man*
agor Gannon’s ultimatum of Saturday;
They claim that one helper who did not j
strike last week came out today.
Wages Advanced.
Youngstown, O, June »
tioual Tube company of the # ~
States Steel corporation
rily advanced the wage
ers in the Youngstow^
17^0 per day. Tbej
munjiud goes into r
Three Huq«j