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?? M mm? i LANC ~lroLriX-~ DEATH OF MR. McWHIRTER. Ho Passed Away Suddenly at an Early Hour This Morning. Mr. John W. McWhirter who for many years was a well known figure in Charlotje, died at the home of Mr. J. O. Long, corner East avenue and McDowell street at an early hour this morning. Mr. McWhirther came to Charlotte last week from Lancaster, were he had been spending most of his time of late. He was very feeble when he arrived and Mr, Loug suggested that he go to his (Long's) house until he felt better. This he did and seemed to improve very fast. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Long drove out to his brother's farm, lie took Mr. McVVhirter with him.' He seemed - -to enjoy the ride very much and, on his return said he was feeling much better. At supper last night, Mr. McVVhirter eat heartily and about 9:30 went to his room. Mr. Long went to church, returning home and found Mr. McVVhirter asleep. About one o'clock this morning Mr. Long was aroused by a strange noise, it seemeil to come from the room that Mr. McWhirter occupied. Then he heard some one open the back door and go to the water bucket. Thinking Mr. ( - McWhirter got up to get a drink of water, he was preparing to go back to sleep when he heard some one try to get out the front door. Then he got up and Mr. i McWhirter called him and informed him that he was desperj ately ill. The two walked out on the porch as the sick man insisted that he wanted air and felt that walking would be of benefit to ^1^-him. Mr. Long noticed as soon * as he took Mr. McWhirter by the arm. that blood wm flnwinw f*A?< f f ? ?. ?? MW ** t 4 V/ LU his mouth. He immediately sent for a physician and in the meantime tried to do something for the sick man. The flow of blood continued for some minutes, then there was a choking sound and in a few seconds the end came. Mr. McWhirter died sitting in a chair on Mr. Uoug's front porch. Few men that have ever lived in Charlotte had more true friends than Uncle John McYVhirter, as he was familiarly known. tHe came to Charlotte from South Carolina in 1870. He first entered the .grocery business, his place of iiusiness beiug on College street. He continued in this line for a number of years. Finally he retired from active business and returned to South Carolina, locating in Lancaster. He built him a beautiful home in a most picturesque Rpot near the town. lie spent a large sum of money im^proving the place, and had all the conveniences that go to make liv-! ing comfortable and pleasant. Ho 1 was not satisfied and oftentimes expressed the wish to move bark to Charlotte. He would always make it convenient to come m * whenever he could and was always sure of a hearty welcome. Deceased was an eccentric man, but was geneious to a fault. lie 4 delighted to do a charitable act and there was no needy person who ever went to him that was turned away empty-handed. A telegram from his brother Mr. Qeorge McWhirter, received by Mr. Long today, states that he I 5ASTE LAN CASTER^S. will leave Newberry, S. C., this 11| afternoon and will arrive in Charlotte tonight. Hh will accompany the body to Harmony , drove, Ga., where the interment will take place. If they can possibly do so, they will leave Char lotte on the 10 :15 o'clock train.? Charlotte News, 12th inRt. ' ' i w To permanently cure Melancholy Difficulty of Breathing1 and Swimming of Head, use Simmons Squaw Vine Wine or Tablets. NEGRO LYNCHED |?V V'LWIDOI-'li no u JL it i-iu ii\; . vi Had Assaulted and Murdered a rP Colored Woman In Mississippi. ''' Sardis, Miss.. June 11.? Simon 10 Brooke, colored, was lynched by ^ a mob of 500 negroes near here, ^ having been taken from the jail ^ sometime between midnight and dawn. The crime which was thus avenged was one of the most atro- P' . . . b* clous in the criminal anuals ot w this State. Last night a nogress ' named Armistead, while returning from a shopping tour to her ^ home, was assaulted by Brooks ^ and another negro. The woman ^ was outraged, her throat cut and she was severly beaten about the head and her jaws were tied to t % or prevent breathing. Ller body was ^ then concealed in rubbish. The woman rallied suiliciently to give the alarm and the names of her I ~ - g? assai Ifcnts. Part of the goods ill taken from the woman was later found in a trunk belonging to e8 Brooks. The mob, which was composed et entirely of negroes, did its work very quietly. The white people knew nothing of the affair until cj hours after it occurred. jn * ? th Correct Insufficient, Painful, pro- ^ fuse and too Frequent Menstruations with Simmons Squaw Vine Wine or ar Tablets. p, ' " " " wi Willing tor United States to te Mediate. Berlin, June 11.?The London hi correspondent of the Frankfuter ha Zeitung says: to "The idea of having the United T1 States mediate between Great ah Britain and the South African r? I " republic is being favorably discussed in all quietness in impor- a tant commercial circles here. It bo is pointed out that, at the pres- th ent, no power stands so close to ho Great Britain as the United th States, while at the same time the ga fact that the Republican form of fr< government prevails in the Unit- hh ed States, would make Washing- co ton's meditation especially ac- to oeptatble to the Boers. t fo "It is also thought that the ob prominent social and political dii position occupied by the descendants of the old Knickerbocker Dutch in the east of the union th would bo regarded by the Boers' ty a< a factor recommending to them j?f the friendly intervention of the th United States as an arhit^r " ' w! ?_? j no There is a time for all things. The I ^r< time to take DeWitt's Little Early | en Risers is when you are suffering from , constipation, liilousness, sick-head-' Pa ache, indigestion or other stomach or | ha liver troubles. Crawford Bros. , to London, Juno 12.?The Cape- dr town correspondent of the Daily ki Mail says that the expected exodus from Johannesburg has be- ce gun and that bnainess there is at en a standstill. kc R EN SRMI-WRRKLY. C., WEDNESDAYJ wmm FOUGHT STRIPPED TO M UST. iscarded Blankets, Coats and Haversacks. [LI PIN OS KLUDK CAPTURE. | lien Seemingly Cornered 'I hou sands Slip Away ?Capture ot v Paraiiuque and Las Pittas 1 i Manila, June 11.?The Filipino f I cupation ot the province ot (Jate has been broken, and as the 1 Riilt of the present movement * e Americans now control .the iportant coast towns of Para- 1 ique and Las Pinas, while a * ng line of insurgent, trenches y cine our south ln.e have been |F eared. The insurgents have again ' 'oved their facility as dodgers, tween 3,00() and 4.000 warriors, ho seemed destyied to he capred, having disappeared, the ajority sliding away under ver ot th < night, after lighting e Americans all day. Some hers came to meet our troops ith protestations of frieudship. The Thirteenth infantry lost le man killed and six wounded ; e Ninth infantry, one man lied and five wounded; the surteenth infantry,three woundI, and the First. Colorado regient, 11 wounded. Yesterday's work was the hardt our army has seen. The batp field stretched out across the itire isthmus from Laguna de ay to the harbor. While the troops were advan- e ng the army gunboat Napidan, s the river near Taguig, shelled c e enemy, killing several of t em. The monitor Monadnock (j id the gunboat Helena shelled iranaque and Las Pinas all day t Lth the full power of their bat- [ ries. I The rebel sharpshooters kept in t ding uutil the American lines 1 id passed and then attempted (1 pot stragglers from the trees, tanks to their poor marksman- r ip, this subterfuge was without t suit. The whole country proved to be \ succession of small hills, with c itrtrv o roii ml ~ l * -L 1 ^ rnj VM MV4 UOl/*?CDll Ultl Ul^Il, 1 ick grass, and bushes in the d illows, which greatly added to i e difficulty of the advance, but c vo shelter thai saved many i jm the enemy's bullets. Our L on threw away their blankets, a ats and haversacks, stripping the waist and trusting to luck f r food. Water could not be n tained, and there was much v" 3Com fort after the canteens v *re emptied. v At the outset the Colorados, j, e Ninth infantry ami theTwen-first infantry forced tne line t insurgent trenches, wheeled to e e left and drove the enemy to- t ird the lake. During this mamvor the Filipinos, in concealed e inches on the right, opened an p blading lire, but the brigade, rtly owing to the high grass, 8 d few hit. 'he Ninth infantry crept around * the right, llanked the trenches, iving out the Filipinos and o lling many of them. jt The Colorado regiment advan- * d to the lake. Two companies v countered trenches on top of a * toll, where the Filipinos stood TERF rUNEl4,1899. Makes the food more c v?ist high above a trench, poui n^ a volley upon the advaucin Americans. The Colorado troop ;h trged and drove them ou Lieut. Col. Moses being wounde n the arm as he jumped into th Tench. In the meantime Gen. Whet iou's column advanced one and ialf miles toward Paranaqm vhere the Americans found itrong trench on a ridge, out c vhich they drove the Filipinos b lard fighting. The enemy tried to llank th lismounted troops of the Fourt ;avalry accompanying Maj. Ger iawton, and at the same tim hey made their only advance hrowing a skirmish line to Han he Fourteenth infantry. Bu hey were easily repulsed, th \merican artillery coming to th :rest of the hill and shelling then About 3 o'clock in the aftei loon Gen. Wheaton's brigade leaded by Gen. Lawton, who, i lis white clothing and helmet, o i big black horse, was a shinin nark for the enemy's sharpshoot ,ers, circled to the south of La L'luas, encountering a large fore >f Filipinos in the shelter of th rees, Gen. Lawton had a narroi tscape. In the first volley of th tuemy the horses of three of hi taff officers were shot from uo I . i HL - n i ioi iuhuj. me v^oioraao regimen >ore the brunt of this attack am lispersed the Filipinos. Hardly had they finished oi hat lot when a large force ap >eared in the rear, which th sinth infantry and a part of th Colorado regiment drove awa; 3y this time nearly the wholi livision was around Lake Pinas The Americans camped for th< light south of the town and 11 he midst of a heavy rain. At 6 o'clock this morning Gen Vheaton advauced upon Las Pi ias with a troop of cavalry, th< .'wenty-first infantry, the Colora lo regiment, part'of the Nintl nfantry and two mountain guns rossing two streams and enter ng the town without tiring a shot le then advanced upon i'aran que. The women and children, and or that matter, many men re naiued in the towns. Xo house /ere destroyed, though man; /ere torn by the shells from th /arships. Everywhere the Amer cans found white llags Hying. So far as can yet be ascertained he Filipino loss is about 50 kill d, about 350 wounded, aud 2' aken prisoners. The whole country is net-work d with trenches, and the enetu; - l r - - - uurruu irom sneiter to shelter. To-day long trains of commis ary wagons are carrying provis ^WAtVXP u not ^ ww Iwi m" mended for every RHHT thing; but if yoi IVV/w I have kidney,live r bladder trouble it will be fount list the remedy you need. At drug ists in fifty cent and dollar sizet foil may have a sample bottle of thi /underfill new discovery by mail fret lso pamphlet telling all about it. Lddress, Dr. Kilmer & co., Bingham ton, N. Y. 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Washington, June 11.?The n war department to-day received n a report from Maj. Gen. Otis of g the military movement yesterday to the south of Manila for the s purpose of clearing out the rebe els in that section. It shows that e the movement was a great sucv cess and that the ememy's loss e was considerably greater than s stated in prexious dispatches, i- Gen. Otis' cablegram is as folt lows: 1 "Manila, June 11.?Terrific neat yesterday did not permit T troops to reach position at hours i- designated; enabled majority of e insurgents to escape in scattered e organizations south and westward, . which they effected during the 3 evening and night. Movement . great success, however; enemy 0 disorganized and routed, suffera ing heavy loss; troops resting today at Laspinas and Paranaque. i. Navy did excellent execution . along shore of bay ; but many in* e surgent detachments retired in . that direction, protected by presti ence of women and children whom they drove along with them. - Our loss, four killed and ?'!0 wounded. Report of casualties 1 Q tar f 4 ? - ii.vva. uuunoi OblVD Illiklt) Ol enemy's loss about 400. Otis." Dr. M. A. Simmons I.iver Medicine creates a good Appetite, Tones and 9 Strengthens the Stomach, and builds y up the Health. 0 Troubles in Transvaal. Bloemfontein, Orange Free 1 State, .June 11.?It is asserted in ollicial circles here that President ^ Kruger will propose to the Transvaal raad the abolition of the dynamite monopoly. y While Orange Free State is us ling its inlluence at I'rotoria to . obtain reforms for the Outlanders - in the Transvaal the railroad com. pany |has sent all its available - rolling stock to .Johannesburg to r be in readiness for a possible Girt dus of the population. g , Dr M. A. 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