The Gazette. (Raleigh, N.C.), Vol. 9, No. 21, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 10, 1897 Page: 1 of 4
four pages : ill. ; page 24 x 17 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
THE WEEKLY GAZETTE.
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPEB
—PTXBIil 8 H ED BT—
JAMES H. YOUNG, Editor and Prop.
A. J. ROGERS and J. D. PAIR
General Traveling Agents.
b72525HH2HSS2SH2ffiH2H55H?5Z5aH»
THE
GAZETTE.
VOL. IX.
THE WEEKLY GAZETTE
I
Kates of Advertising;*
One Square, one insertion $ 50
One square, one month 1 00
One square, two months 2 00
One square, three months ..... 2 50
One square, six months........ 5 00
One square, one year 9 00
^0"Xib«ral contracts made for larger
advertisements.
25H5Z5H3SESZ52S2S2S5S2S2
RALEIGH. N. C.. SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1897-
NO. 21.
Hoi Winds and Drought Has Given
Crops a Set Back.
FURTHER IMPR0VMENT IN CORN
Local Storms Have Caused Injury to
Crops in Kentucky and Misssuri,
But 'Damage Comparatively Light.
Tha Department of Agriculture, in
•its weekly crop bulletin issued last
Tuesday, says in part: While some-
what too cool for the best results over
the mora northerly districts, with
A'icessive heat in the Southern States,
the week has, upon the whole, been
favorable for the growth and cultiva-
tion of crops in harvesting of grain.
I.oeai 6torms have caused injury to
crops in portions of New Jersey, Ala-
bama, Kentucky and Missouri, but the
carnage has been comparatively light.
Portions <jf the Ohio valley, Galf States,
Western,. Kansas and Colorado are need-
ing ra'.n,
I'o'^ton has made rapid growth in Ok-
lahoma aud Texas and a generel im-
!'.<>vement is reported elsewhere. In
ike central aud eastern portions of the
cotton belt, however, the reports gen-
erally indicate that the plant is small
:sTul backward. A general rain is much
needed over the central and western
portions of the cotton belt.
Corn has made further improvement
during the week in the principal corn
States, having made rapid growth in
Illinois. Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas
sad Oklahoma. In the more northerly
sections the crop has generally im-
proved, but continues backward.
In the Southern States the general
mtlook is less favorable than previous-
ly reported, having been damaged by
Jl'Jt winds in Texas, and by drought in
Arkansas, and in the East Gulf States.
Kains have retarded cultivation in por-
tions of Iowa, where the crop has made
fair growth, but its condition and the
stand are vaiiable.
The winter wheat harvest Las con-
tinued under generally favorable condi-
tions. East of the Mississippi harvest-
ing is now in progress as far north as
the southern portions of Illinois, Indi-
ana and Uhio, and the crop is matur-
ing rapidly in the more northerly sec-
tions. Home damage has been done by
excessive rains to wheat in shock in
Missouri. Harvesting in California has
been somewhat retarded by cool weath-
er and showers over the northern part
of the State. Rains in Oregon aud
Washington have been beneficial.
Hi ring wheat has generally made favor-
able progress. The early sown is head-
ing aad the reports generally indicate
ih*< the straw is short.
Tobacco is more promising than pre-
viously reported in Virginia, Tennessee
and Kentucky, and the crop is growing
nicely in Indiana, and Maryland.
Home has been cut in Florida and it is
ripening in South Carolina. In Georgia
and New York it is suffering from
drought.
BUSINESS BLOCK BLOWN UP.
Terrific Explosion of Dynamite at
South Scranton, Pa.
An explosion of dynamite Tuesday in
South. Scranton, Pa., seriously damaged
the business block of Leon Olchefeski, a
double dwelling block and single
houses. The bussiness block was blown
to pieces. In twenty-one housesall the
windows were blown out aud the plaster
shaken from the walls. The shock was
felt ali over the city.
Cuba's Yellow Fever Scourss,
The reports received from Cuba by
Surgeon General Wj-inan, of the Ma-
nnt- Hospital Service at Washington
snow that yellow fever is spreading.
The 1'nited States sanitary inspector at
Havana reports that during the week
there were in that city 40 deaths from
yellow fever with approximately 251
new cases, and 30 new cases of small-
pox, with three deaths. The United
States Consul it Sagua La Grande re-
j orts that during the week there were
that city 24 new cases reported from
yellow fever and 80 cases from small-
1-ox.
A Munificent Contribution.
•Tames ('. Carter, the New York law-
yer. 1»ik contributed £5,000 to the Ran-
dolph Tucker Memorial Hall to be
erected at Washington and Lee Univer-
o'!*V' • ^■es"1gton, Ya., at a cost of $50,-
*"r the accommodation of the law
school.
Turning of the Tide.
After being idle for some weeks, the
tube department and the sheet mill of
the Heading (Pa.) Iron Works has re-
'iunied operation. The former gives
employment to over 900 hands, while
'he latter will give work to 250.
Abandoned,
socialist colony
i'fbs' Scheme
'•-ugene V. Debs'
.'j' la' has been abandoned! and there
«iU i, . a migration of unemployed men
to tlit- State of Washington in its stead.
J he expense of their transportation will
'e paid through a per capita tax of 15
^".ts „ month on members of the So-
ciai i 't-niocracy, Debs' new party.
Two of a Kind.
. J epi eseritative King, of Utah, has
1 - . "liiood in the House a bill identical
^'itii that introduced by Senator Mor-
: in the Senate, providing for the an-
u* xation of Hawaii under the condi-
v,' 1 V1 ;,ie treaty negotiated by the
t resident.
Rascality cares less for political prin-
cples than for the opportunities which
affords. The rascal is usually
a wide-awake man, and is overflowing
'th energy, which he turns to his own
account, if politics appears to him
,° ^,s''r a better field for his plans than
urgh.ry he enters the race and seems
to be
competing for honors, while in
tact he ;S chiefly after loaves, fishes and
shekels.
take ( °! ,"le best things in the world to
or "spring fever" is a hoe handle.
THE WORLD OF BUSINESS.
Messrs. R. G. Dun & Co.'a Weekly
Report of Transactions.
Messrs. R. G. Dun & Co. 'a Weekly
Review of Trade for the week ending
Saturday, July 8d, says: Midsummer
vacations have commenced in many
works, with a decrease of orders usual
at this season. This customary vaca-
tion is called a strike where agree-
ments regarding wages for the coming
year have not been reached, and the
extensive strike of the Amalgamated
Iron Workers announced July 1 is of
this nature, but the strike of coal
miners in Illinois and other Central
\> estern States is not, and may prove
costly. In some iron aud cotton works
wages have been reduced, owing to low
prices, one cotton mill in Virginia
closing because the reduction was
not accepted. With a better demand
the employers will seek agreement. The
situation is distinctly of a midsummer
character. Large hopes are built on the
prospective demaud after the tariff bill
has passed, but the pressure in the mar-
ket of large importing stocks may defer
it. The general belief is that a removal
of uncertainty will in any case increase
business.
Since much of the future depends on
crops the brightening prospects are of
the highest importance. Estimates by
persons usually most pessimistic now far
exceed any made a month ago, on the
promise of 559,000,000 bushels of wheat,
of lower condition, but a largely in-
creased acreage of corn. Cotton pros-
pects are brighter as the crop appears
to be rather early, rather than later
in the legions which were not
flooded. The movement of wheat is
small. Western receipts for the week
being only 1,030,779 bushels against
2,041,719 last year, and Atlantic exports
2,004,178, flour included, against 2,-
162,172 last year, but a strong effort to
lift prices failed, and the close is 1^
cents lower for the week, with corn half
a cent lower. Cotton rose with small
sales. The iron and steel industry
halts at midsummer, although the de-
mand for finished products still in-
creases and disappointment is due only
to the fact that the increase is not yet
enough to keep all mills at xsprk aud
thus to bring better prices, which now
average slightly lower than ever before,
though not 1 per cent, below those of
March, 1895. The export trade is in-
creasing, and a large order for India
has just been taken at a price said to
be So below British bids. Coke pro-
duction is increasing again, as more
iron furnaces are going into blast, and
an addition of 25 cents has been order-
ed in anthracite coal. Tin is higher,
with larger consumption, and copper at
lOrJ for .Lake, with heavy exports, while
lead has adyanced to 8.6 cents. Amer-
can makers are te'.ling tin plate largely
at S3.20 for full weight against 80
for foreign.
Textile manufacturers are waiting
and cotton mills curtailing production,
with large stocks on hand, and prices
scarcely changed, while woolen mills
are gradually increasing work with
better orders, and ibices incline to ad-
vance a shade. Enormous buying of
wool, 250,000,000 pounds this year,
against 102,000,000 last year, reflects
speculation mainlv, anu some larger
lots have been sold three to five times
since arrival. Prices are Bomewhat
stronger at seaboard markets, and so
high in the interior that dealings in
domestics are restricted, amounting for
two months to less than 21,000,000
pounds, against 55,000,000 pounds
foreign.
Failures for the week have been 241
in the United States, against 257 last
year, and 30 in Canada, against 22 last
year. _
Change In Freight Transportation.
An important change in the freight
transportation service between New
York, Philadelphia and the South has
been made by traffic agreement ar-
ranges between the Baltimore and
Philadelphia Steamboat Company and
the Baltimore Steam Packet Company
by which a through freight line has
been formed for handling goods to all
points reached by the Seaboard Air
Line and its connections. The Balti-
more & Philadelphia Steamboat Com-
pany maintains a daily service from
New York and Philadelphia to Balti-
more by way of the Delewareand Ches-
apeake canal and Chesapeake Bay.
The freight will be carried from Balti-
more to Portsmouth, Ya., the tide-
water terminus of the Seaboard Air
Line, by the steamers of the Old Bay
Line, and thence transferred by rail to
its destination. The new Line will
give added faoilities to Philadelphia
merchants for doing business in the
South, and it will receive a large pat-
ronage on account of the shortness of
of the route, and the quiok dispatch of
freight which it enables.
The Vessels We Built Laat Year.
During the fiscal year ended June
30th, there were built in the United
States and officially numbered 729 ves-
sels, of 177,643 gross tons, compared
with 709 vessels of 203,977 tons for the
previous year. The decrease is almost
wholly in wooden tonnage, which for
1897 amounts to 64,940 tons, compared
with 94,7."»0 tons for 1896. Of the total
construction 347 vessels of 118,065 tons
were steam vessels, compared with 822
of 134,047 tons for the previous year.
Steel steamers built on the great lakes
number 15, with 55,866 tons, compared
with 24 cf 50,020 tons for the previous
year.
Bequeathed $75,000.
It has been found by the board of
trustees of the Mary Baldwin Semi-
narj', at Staunton, Va., that the will of
the* late principal, Miss Mary Julia
Baldwin, bail endowed the seminary
with a bequest of $75,000.
A Giant Sewing Machine.
A giant sewing machine has been fin-
ished at Leeds, England. The machine,
which is to be used for attaching cotton
belting, weighs five and a quarter tons.
Indians l»le Erom Drinking.
Five Indians are dead and several
others are expected to die at Malone's
Point, Minn , as the result of excessive
drinking of pain-killer, hair oil and
other preparations containing alcohol.
Bank Wrecker Sentenced.
Louis Gallot, the convicted Union
Bank wrecker, of New Orleans, has
been sentenced by Judge Parlange to
eight years in the penitentiary at hard
labor. The case will be appealed.
To Him Is Referred the Third Issue,
As to Whether
THERE WAS FRAUD IN THE
The Execution of the Lease of the N.
C. R. R. to the Southern R. R.—The
Road Could Ltate.
A special from, Greensboro, N. C., to
the Charlotte Observer, of June 30th,
says: "The decree in the case of the
Southern Railway vs. the North Caro-
lina Bailroad et als., was handed down
today by Judge Simonton and filed
here by the olerk of the court. The
decree goes over the evidence, and is
contained in eighteen typewritten
pages..
To the three questions: "1st, as to
whether the North Carolina Railroad
could lease; 2nd, was the lease execut-
ed in conformity with the requirements
of the charter? 3rd, was the lease exe-
cuted bona fide, without fraud and
malpractice?" Judge Simonton an-
swers:
X- irst, the North Carolina Railroad
aad the right to lease.
Second, the lease was executed in con-
formity with the requirements of the
charter.
Third, as to whether there was fraud,
the question is referred to Hon. Kerr
Craige, as special master, to take testi-
mony and report.
State Attorney General Z. V. Walser,
Governor D. L. Russell and the new
board of directors are given 60 days to
file testimony. The complainant and
the old board of directors are given an
additional 60 days to file testimony, af-
ter which Attorney General Walser and
Governor Russell are given twenty days
to reply. The special master shall then
report to the court as soon as possible.
In the meantime the restraining order
remains in force.
TWO BAD COLLISIONS.
Three Killed and Twenty or Thirty
Injured.
Three persons were killed outright
and twenty or thirty injured in a rear
end collision on the Chicago & North-
western early on the morning of June
30th, at West Chicago, thirty miles out
from Chicago, on the Galena division.
The killed are: Mrs. John Godding,
of Appleton, Wris.; Miss R. Shiftman,
of Appleton, W~is: ; an unidentified man,
supposed to be a tramp. The injured
passengers number twenty or thirty.
All were Christian Endeavor dele-
fates who left Chicago en route for Han
'rancisco. The trains were sections
four and five of the Christian Endeavor
special sent out in nine sections. Sec-
tion five ran into section four, which
left Chicago fifteen minutes ahead. No.
4 carried the Wisconsin delegates
twenty-five hundred strong. No. 4 had
to stop where the Freeport line diverges
from the main line. No. 5 came up be-
hind at a great speed and the shock of
the collision was terrific.,
the vamdaiila wreck.
A dispatch from J. J. Turner, gen-
eral manager of the Vandalia Bailroad
line, dated Terre Haute, Ind., savs one
of the Christian Endeavor excursion
trains was wrecked at West Terre
Haute. The dispatch says nobody was
injured except three postal clerks, and
their injuries are not serious. It is
learned that R. T. Sherman, of In-
dianapolis, a mail clerk on the St.
Louis train, was killed and that W. P.
Conn, of Indianapolis, baggage-master
on the west-bound train, was fatally
injured. Sam Parkinson, mail clerk,
and Frank Owens, fireman, were
fatally injured.
OHIO DEMOCRATS NOMINATE.
Silver Republicans, Populists and
Prohibitionists Will Also Put Out a
Ticket.
• At Columbus, O., on June 30th, the
following Democratic State ticket was
nominated: For Governor—Horace L.
Chapman; Lieutenant Governor—Mel-
ville D. Shaw; Supreme Court Judge—
J. P. Spriggs; Attorney General—W.
H. Dore; State Treasurer—James A.
Wilson: Board of Public Works—Peter
H. Degan; School Commissioner—By-
ron H. Hurd.
The convention was one of the most
memorable political associations in the
history of Ohio. Everything was for
free silver, and every speaker drew
cheers by some mention of Bryan.
A motion was made to endorse W. J.
Bryan for the presidential nomination
in 1900. Three cheers for Bryan were
then given.
The silver Republicans held a con-
ference and expressed great indigna-
tion. They said it was true that they
h*ul announced that they did not want
a place on the State ticket, but the an-
nouncement was not made until they
were told that they could not have it.
They appointed a State committee to
call a State convention to nominate a
separate ticket. The Populists also
agreed that they would hold a State
convention and have a separate ticket.
The Prohibitionists will have at least
two separate tickets, so there will be
six State tickets in the field.
Bicycles Come Down.
The Pope Manufacturing Company,
the oldest bicycle builders in this
country, and who make high grade
wheels, of which the price has been
heretofore held at $100, aunounce thai
after July 1st their 1897 standard will
be sold at $75.
For a number of yeare the average an-
nual cost to Chicago for removing dead
animals from the city has been about
$37,500, but now a contract has been
made by which the contractor agrees to
remove the carcasses to a point three
miles beyond the city limits and pays
$5 a year for the privilege. It is esti-
mated that during the five years for
which the contract is to run the city will
save $187,500, and that is certainly a
very good showing for dead horse econ-
omy.
NEWS ITEMS.
Soutlivru Pencil Pointers.
There is talk of the Virginia Prohibi-
tionists holding a State convention at
Lynohburg August 20th.
The total paid attendance at the
Nashville Exposition for the first two
months is very near 500,000.
Government engineers say an imme-
diate appropriation of $500,000 is need
ed for Cumberland Sound, Fla.
A cloudburst in the vicinity of Hen-
derson, Ky., washed away about a mile
and a half of railroad track.
The Federal and State officials will
unite to protect the Florida coast from
importation of infectious diseases.
At Villa Ridge, Mo., Erastus Brown,
a young negro, w as lynched by a mob
of 300 persons for an assault upon Mrs.
Annie Foerving, a farmer's wife.
The Grand View, one of the leading
hotels at Tallulah Falls, Ga., has been
burned. Miss Hattie Higgins and her
mother, of Atlanta, bearly escaped with
their lives from the burning structure.
Lobs, $25,000.
Much damage was done by a wind
and rain storm throughout Central
Georgia. A great deal of timber was
blown down, and the telephone wires
are all down. There was some hail, but
it did very little damage.
A dispatch from Kansas City, Mo.,
says farm labor is scarce, and at many
of the railroad stations farmers await
incoming trains, hoping to find men.
Tramps are refusing offers of $1.50 a
day and even $2 to work in the fields.
At Tampa, Fla., James Davis, col-
ored. entered the house of Mrs. Ripard
Knowles, white, and assaulted her. He
was friglitengd away by her screams
and fled without hat, coat or shoes. He
was captured and jailed without any de-
monstration of violence.
The Tennessee Exposition which is
attracting so much attention through-
out the country, and which is being at-
tended by thousands from both the
Northern and Southern Htates, is
beautifully illustrated in the July
number of the Oriole, which is pub-
lished monthly by the Baltimore Steam
Packet Company. The illustrations
were sent the Oriole specially by the
board of managers of the exposition.
The same number also contains maps
of the famous -Tames river route of the
Baltimore Steam Packet Company be-
tween Baltimore and Richmond, and h
large amount of other information of
value to the general public as well as
travelers.
All About the North.
On the 5th five people were killed in
Chicago by fireworks.
Arthur Gaidiner, of Chicago, broke
the world's one mile bicycle handicap
record, his time being 2:05A.
At Chicago, Pittsburg and other
Northern cities many deaths and pros
trations are reported from the intense
heat.
Wm. F. Hoey, known to the genera-
tion of play-goers as "Old Hoss," died
at his home in New York with acute
paralysis.
At Leadville, Col., the Fourth was
appropriately inaugurated by a severe
snow storm. The ground was covered
to a depth of one inch.
Congressman Edward Dean Coke,
of Chicago, was found dead in his room
at the Cochran Hotel, Washington,
from a clot on the heart.
•
The jury in the conspiracy case of the
American Tobacco Company, on trial
in New York, has failed to agree.
Ten were for conviction and two for ac-
quittal.
The publishers of the city directory
of Chicago, now in press and to be is-
sued soon, have made what they claim
is a conservative estimate of the popu-
lation of the city. They put the fig-
ures at one million, eight hundred and
twenty-eight thousand.
Miscellaneous.
Seven hundred and sixty soldiers
were returned from Havana, Cuba, to
Spain June 30th, who were on the in-
valid list.
Many of the passengers and crew ©f
the steamer City of Paris, Panama for
San Francisco, died of yellow fever on
the voyage.
Yellow fever is reported by the Ma-
rine Hossital at Washington to be at
Vera Cruiz, Mexico, and to be epidemic
at Panama, Columbia.
A severance of fraternal relations
among Royal Arch Masons of Virginia
and Pennsvlnania has been ordered by
the authorities of the former.
Extensive floods is reported from
France. Considerable damage to prop-
erty, and it is believed that many lives
have been lost. The town of Auch is
practically inundated.
A cablegram from London says the
fate cf the Pacific steamer "Aden,"
which left Yokohoma June 1st for Lon-
don, is at last a certainty, and it is
thought that 100 have been drowned.
Short Stop Jennings of Baltimore,
who was hit on the head by a ball
thrown by Pitcher Rusie in a baseball
game, is Said to be suffering from con-
cussion of the brain.
The suspension of work in the steel
mills, with the addition of the coming
big coal strike, will be the biggest sus-
pension of business at one time for years
past.
Washington Echoes.
Col. W. J. Calhoun has decided to
decline the position o'f comptroller of
the treasury.
The Secretary of the Iuterior will dis-
tribute $1,104,000 among the State agri-
cultural colleges.
The Senate committee on finance has
fixed the duty on coal at 67 cents per
ton. The rate applies only to coal
shipped from countries which do not
impose a higher rate on American coal.
It therefore affects only Canada
A bill has been introduced in Con-
gress to give the Fish Commission pro-
tection over game birds.
The Postmaster-General says he will
not appoint negroes as postmasters at
large Southern cities where they have
not had such before.
FOR LOCAL SHOOL I
Items of Interest Throughout'the Old
North State.
FIFTY-F1FTB CONtlRESS.
FUNERAL OF COL S. McD. TATE.
Agree to Curtail Production—J. B.
Fortune Appointed Clerk—Reward
of $400 Oftered.
C. H. Mebane, superintendent of
public instruction, has mailed to 100
selected men the following letter:
"We, the undersigned, were appointed
a central executive committee by the
North Carolina Teachers' Assembly, to
conduct the campaign for local taxation
for publio schools, to be voted upon
Aug. 10 in every township in North Car-
olina. Upon this election the educa-
tional future of North Carolina de-
pends. We must carry it for 'schools.'
Without local taxation no general
school system has ever been built up.
This committee has been charged with
the duty of selecting a larger commit-
tee to co-operate with the Teachers'
Assembly in this great moyement. You
have been chosen a member of this
larger committee. We desire and crave
your sympathy and influence. If you
have not studied the matter, please
give it your attention, and see what
great things the election, rf favorable,
will carry for North Carolina. Signed —
C. H, Mebane, chairman; -T. O. Atkin-
son. secretary; L. L. Hobbs, H. E.
Smith, Josephus Daniels, E. A. Alder-
man, C. E. Taylor, W. H. Ragsdale,
Hugh Morson, t Charles D. Mclver, J.
C. Scarborough, J. W. Bailey, Ii. L,
Flowers, Alexander Graham, L. D.
Howell, D. H. Hill."
The largest concourse of people that
aver assembled ».t a funeral in Burke
county was present when the body of
CoT. S. McD. Tate was laid to rest in
VIorgauton cemetery. The services
were held in the First Presbyterian
ahurch, and as the body was carried
from the church to the cemetery there
was a procession nearly a mile in
length. The surviving members of the
Sixth North Carolina Regiment walked
L»n either side of the hearse, acting as
the guard of honor. This was the regi-
ment Col. Tate commanded when he
made the famous and gallant charge at
Gettysburg, when he passed through a
s;ap m the famous stone wall and with
his revolver killed six men. He told
this himself and his statement was con-
firmed. He had flanked a line of men
lying down, and emptied every cham-
ber of his revolver as quickly as the
weapon could be fired. The Masons at-
tended in a body. The services were
conducted by Dr. J. M. Rose, of the
Presbyterian church, assisted ov Dr.
W. H. Leith of the Methodist church.
At a meeting held in Greenboro of the
cotton mill men of Randolph county,
ali the mills being represented, it was
unanimously agreed to curtail product-
ion one-third time until the new cotton
crop is on the market. These mills
formed themselves into a permanent or-
ganization, with Mr. O. P. Cox, of the
Cedar Falls Manufacturing company,
as president, and Mr. Hal M. Worth, of
the Worth Manufacturing company, as
secretary. The next meeting of the as-
sociatiou will be held subject to the
call of the president.
Judge Purnell has appointed J. B.
Fortune clerk of the Federal Court for
the Eastern district, vice N. «T. Riddick,
acting clerk, who is removed. The ap-
pointment dates from July 1st. Riddick
was appointed May 21, 1866, by Judge
Urooks and was later re-appointed by
Judge Seymour. Fortune is not yet
appointed circuit court clerk, but no
doubt will hold both offices, as Riddick
has done for some years. The pay oi
both offices last year was $3,700, For-
tune is from Shelby.
—-
The Black Mountain correspondent
of the Asheville Citizen says: The
smouldering fire kindled a year age
among the partiaians of "hog" or "no
hog" bas broken out in a new spot by
hanging Mayor A. G. Bobinson in
effigy. Soon after davlight one da;y
last week a figure with two placards
fastened on it was discovered suspend-
ed from a tree near the postoffice. The
dummy was removed and is being held
as evidence in legal proceedings which
are to follow.
At Cannonville, in Cabarrus county,
a 4-year-old twin daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Bernhardt was playing
with a match and an oil can. The
match was struck and at the same in-
stant an explosion occurred, which re-
suited in the child's eye being burned
out and its body roasted, resulting in
its death in a few minutes. The mother
was badly burned in trying to rescue
her child.
college at Char let te.
The contract of the State with Guy
V. Barnes as public i>rinter, has been
made. His bond is $5,000. He is given
charge of the State paper and station-
ery which he is to issue to contractors
for any special work under direction of
the council of State. He is required to
keep a list of all job work and file with
each bill the cost of composition and of
every part of work done.
Governor Russell offers a reward ol
$400, Tvhich is the limit, for the arrost
of the unknown person or persons who
on the night of June 23 murdered Mrs.
A. A. Springs at Lexington. The re-
ward is payable upon eonviction. The
offer of so large a reward is unusual, but
it is recognized that this is an extreme
case.
The Governor has appointed as dele-
gates from this State to the National
Conference" of Charities and Correc
tions, at St. Paul, Charles Duffy, R. B.
Drane, W. F. Beasley, D. W. C. Ben-
bow, Benjamin P. Grigsby, Thomas
W. Patton, V. S. Lusk, A. B. Noble,
A. McCaulay and C. Denson.
Twenty-three persons will constitute
the faculty of the new
Presbyterian
Report of the Proceedings from Daj
to Day.
SENATE.
June 29th—After tedious considera-
tion of the tariff bill throughout the
day, th» Senate wound up with a half
hour of lively and amusing colloquy be-
tween Senators Tillman and Chandler.
The former had proposed an amend-
ment to the tariff bill, providing a $100
head tax on immigrants, aud a restric-
tion against all those not coming to the
United States to become citizens. Dur-
ing the day the Senate disposed of the
lead paragraph, the committee rate of
li cent per pound on lead ore being
agreed to. The other paragraphs con-
sidered were comparatively of minor
•' importance.
June 80th.—The Senate did rapid
work on the tariff bill. The olose of
the long debate in the Senate and the
final vote on the bill is felt to be very
near at hand. Two of the most im-
portant provisions—those relating to
the Hawaiian treaty of reciprocity and
the duty on coal—were perfected, while
another source of much conflict, the
reciprocity section, Was matured by
the finance committee and presented
to the Senate. Aside from these
large items a great many minor
ones which have caused more or
less conflict, were disposed of. The Ha-
waiian provision of the bill was restored
after brief debate, and without the for-
mality of a vote. This has the effect of
leaving the Hawaiian treaty of reciproc-
ity in full force and effect. Turpie, of
Indiana, spoke in support of the amend-
ment for a two per cent, tax on inheri-
tances. It was agreed upon in the cau-
cus that cotton bagging and burlaps
were to go on the dutiable list.
jrly 1st. —Cotton bagging and cotton
ties were placed on the free list in the
Senate bv a vote of 29 to 23. The duty
on white pine lumber was reduced from
$2 to $1 per 1,000 by a vote of 32 to 31.
The bill is now completed with the ex-
ception ^of the reciprocity section and
some comparatively minor paragraphs.
Much progress was made in clearing
up detached parag.-aphs heretofore
passed over. Only three of these, coal
tar, potash and tea, remain, so that
these items, the reciprocity section and
the brief internal revenue and adminis-
trative provisions, are all that is left of
the bill to be disposed of before the
final vote is taken.
Jct/y 2d. —Reciprosity and retalia-
tion were the two phases of the tariff
bill to occupy the attention of the
Senate, to the exclusion of all other
subjects. Both provisions were agreed
to, although the debate on the recip-
rocity clause was protracted to 6 o'clock.
The reciprocity clause empowers the
president, with the advice and consent
of the Senate, to make reciprocity
treaties giving 20 per cent, reduction in
duties on designated articles, or plac-
ing articles on the free list. The re-
taliatory clause provides that whenever
any country bestows an export bounty
on any article, then upon the importa-
tion of such article into the United
States, there shall be levied, in addition
to the duties provided by the act, an
additional duty equal to the amount of
the bounty.
Jcx.t 3d.—In the Senate all effort to
fix the time for a final vote on the tariff
bill proved futile, but during the day
the bill was brought to a state of prac-
tical completion. Mills, of Texas,
brought forward a new amendment for
a tax of 20 cents a pack on playing cards
which was agreed to by a unanimous
vote, amid much amusement and sur-
prise, as Mills had not expected that
result. All of the administrative sec-
tions of the bill, and that repealing the
Wilson act, were disposed of during the
day, and the paragraph proposing a
tax on beer was withdrwn by the com-
mittee. The Senate adjourned till the
5th, no effort being made to observe the
national holiday.
July 5th.—In some respects the
Senate made good progress, disposing
of two important amendments—that
placing a stamp tax being agreed to.
with little or no opposition, and with-
out the formality of a vote, while the
Spooner amendment, proposing a tariff
investigation, was withdrawn after a
protracted struggle. Late in the day
several new amendments from individ-
ual members were voted on. An amend-
ment to admit books free was defeated.
HOUSE.
JrnY 1st.—The message of the Presi-
dent recommending an appropriation of
of $t!00,000 for rebuilding the immigra-
tion station on at Ellis Island, was laid
before the House. A bill of local im-
portance was passed, and at 1:30 the
House adjourned until the 5th.
JXTi/Y 5th.—In the House the blind
chaplain in his invocation referred to
the spirit of Independence Day, which
he said, gave to us the immortal Declar-
ation of Independence that led to the
formation of a republic which has been
the inspiration of the whole world, for
a large*- liberty and higher civilization,
after which followed immediately a pa-
triotic motion to adjourn, which pre-
vailed. after a slight hitch, until the
7th.
THE MINERS' STRIKE.
J. F. Southerland, of Goldsboro, re-
signs as director of the Eastern b^-^pi-
tal for the insane.
The War Department at Washington
Holds Troops in Readiness.
The great miners' strike actually be-
gan Monday, and the success depends
upon the success of the Pittsburg dis-
trict. Two hundred thousand men
have joined the coal strikers of Ohio,
Indiana, Hlinois, Western Pennsyl-
vania and Kentucky. The only hitch
■o far is in Jackson county, where the
men have refused to join" the strikers.
Information indicates that the strike
order has been generally obeyed ex-
cept in West Virginia, eastern Ohio
and northwestern Kentucky.
At Danville, 111., the Kelley mines
have granted the demands" cf the
striking miners, who have returned to
work.
In case of trouble the War Depart-
ment, at Washington, is ready to re-
spond with the militia promptly in the
c6al districts.
Senators Hanna, Fairbanks, Tnrp4e,
Lindsay, Elkins and Secretaries Sher-
mgn, Long and McKenna have all ap-
peared in interviews expressing the
hope that the miners' strike may b*
settled by arbitration.
Colorado has voted to allow women
to become members of the State militia.
This probably is a concession to the
"new woman" because of her abilities
in the line of dress parades. '
INST
L
Negroes Are Allowed Full Privileges
at the Nashville Exposition.
AFRO-AMERICAN CHIT-CHAT.
Gotten Rid of Its Afro-American
Membership—Oive I'p Excursions
and Buy Homes With That Money.
The statement which is going the
rounds (and which is doubtless in-
spired, ) to the efiect that Negroes are
discriminated against in the buildings
on the exposition grounds at Nashville
and forced to confine their sight seeing
to the Negro building is false from
start to finish. I was in Nashville just
three weeks and I visited every build-
ing on the grounds especially those to
which the local kickers said Negroes
would not be admitted, viz, the
Woman's Building aud the Audito-
rium, at both these places I was treated
courteously as I was in all the other
buildings 1 visited. It was said aiso
that Negroes could not buy re-
freshing drinks in the Agricultural
Building where there is a soda water
fountain, I went over there, bought
soda water and drank it on the sjTot.
The roof didn't fall in and nobody railed
J18 "Nigra ' either. 1 had sim lar re-
freshment in the Machinery builili ig,
where I also partook of some del gh fal
sweet cider which was served to me bv
a white woman of tender j ears and pre-
posessing face who politely requested
me to call again. I will make affidavit
t-o these statements and can produce
witnesses to corroborate every word I
have said. I make this statement purely
in the interest of truth and fairness and
to show the despicable and cowardly
methods of the industrious liars who
are engaged in an effort to belittle the
Negro Department and to create the
impression abroad that Negro visitors
are not allowed the privileges of the Ex-
position grounds. The people who cir-
culate these rumors know they are ly-
ing; they know that the visitors to the
Negro Department know that these
statements are lies made out of the
whole cloth with malicious intent to in-
jure the most suooessful Xegro exhibit
ever made in the South. We ought to
be fair and just in our criticisms. This
gagging of the Negro Department at
Nashville by people who have no inten-
tion or desire to visit it, who seize hold
of every lying rumor and spread it for
the purpose of discourageing others
from visiting it may be honorable but I
doubt it. It looks to me like a ease of
sour grapes. I have done. —Bruce Grit,
in Colored American.
Three hundred ex-emploves (white)
of Charleston (S. C.) cotton mill, dis-
placed by Afro-American labor, have is-
sued a public address. Its publication
has been refused by the Charleston
press because it attacks President
Witte, of the mills, one of the wealth-
iest men of the city. The police are
guarding the mills, as an attack is ex-
pected. The police say Supi. Haden
has entered into a contract with the mill
company to furnish them 800 efficient
Afro-American operators within one
j"ear or forfeit all claims against the
company. If he succeeds he is to have
§8 a day and a bonus of go.OOJ. The
address concludes: "If. the colored
man's status precludes him from com-
peting with the office-holder it should
preclude him from competing
with our mothers, wives, sons
and daughters in the light
pursuits of the country. If, however,
his services are of such intrinsic value
to the city's industries that he must
be put in dangerous proximity with our
maidens or they be deprived of oppor-
tunities for his benefit, what consistent
reason can be assigned for excluding
him from office positions? If we loved
our race less and, like money-glutted
foreigners and Southern apostates, in-
clined to degrade Caucasian blood, we
would cheerfully support them for
office. We affirm by all our physical
powers and brave hearts not to sit
supinely by and witness this Negro
horde turned loose upon the pursuits of
our mothers, our wives, our widows,
our daughters, our sisters and rob thein
of their living."
In strange contrast the flurry ami op-
position displayed in the United Statei
over the mere probability of colored of-
ficers in the Navy, stands the English,
government which during the Jubilert
is glad to respect, honor and entertain
the black officers of her navy. Although
claiming to possess a more liberal gov-
ernment it is certain that America has
many lessons in liberality, justice and.
humanity to learn from the Engli^li
people.—Washington Bee.
The Presbyterian Church South lias$
at last gotten rid of its Afro-American
membership. The latter, forced tov
will organize another ' 'Presbyter ia"»
Church South" presumably for Afrc*
Americans only. Christianity Souti ,
as far as the great majority of whi:«i
people are concerned, is a "queer
article" to be sure. We would not hav<*
to wonder what color line course they
would pursue in Heaven, if we thought
they would get there, and we predit t
this statement on our belief in sal-v -
tion as anunciated in the Bible. —TLe
People's Gazette.
Mrs. Emma Clark, colored, died re-
cently at Winchester, Ky., aged 1 7
years". She was the oldest colored p« >
son in that State, and was, perhap-if
the oldest member of the Baptid%
church in the United States, bavin a
joined that- organization when but V
years of age, just 101 years ago.—Tf tti
Race Standard.
It is being noticed with pleasure oy
the public press of our section that til#
colored excursions of this season have
been especially orderly. Such compli-
ments are very gratifying, but w
would prefer that our people give up
the excursions and put the funds th.i*
used into buying homes and building
up their material interests. In thi*
wav alone can we avoid being crowd:**
to the wall in this respect.—Ex.
Mr. W. G. Atwood, colored, is on. o$
the largest lumber dealers in the I 'i-
ted States. He is in business at I
Saginaw, Mich.
JL
18
i
. ;iia
1
t|
ij:
if
I
, JVI
y.49>l
*
if
:'M§
. 'I
'i&S
. I
B *
I
r.
II
|
?*
»S!
m
i|
1
i
I
M
a
i
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Young, James H. The Gazette. (Raleigh, N.C.), Vol. 9, No. 21, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 10, 1897, newspaper, July 10, 1897; Raleigh, North Carolina. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth523654/m1/1/: accessed July 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .