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The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-11-29
CHINA SUES FOR PEACE.
willing TO Pay an Indemnity and all
Expenses of the War

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.-The de-
parture of the Chinese customs chief
for Japan is regarded by officials here
as the result of Japan's demand for a
direct offer from China The De
Ting mentioned in the cable is said to
bea German who occupies the position
of commissioner of customs. That he
should be sent as the peace envoy is
accounted for by officials on the
the ground that al indemnity would
probably be secured on the customs
receipts of China. 1t is said that the
Chinese envoy will probably be the
guest of the United States minister
at TOXIC. Japanese officials say he
will be accorded every courtesy.
cable from Japan states, however,
that China has intiinated her willing
ness To pay an indemnity Of 10000
600 teals, and in addition pay ali the
war expenses incurred by Japan AS
the war expenses reach 100000, 600
teals, the total offer of China would
be 26O, 600, 900 teals. The teal is a
Chinese silver coin worth about 10
cents at the present exchange so that
the whole payment would be approxi-
mately $175, 900, 600 American money.
The amount is regarded here as quite
large, and it is believed arrangements
between the two nations could be
effected on terms providing for a small
Ter war Indemnity.
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KILLED BY A MANIAC,
He Takes the Lives of His Mother,
Brother, Sister and Himself.


WELLsyILLE, Mo, Nov. 21.-This
village was the scene of a tragedy ear
ly Monday morning, which wiped out
all but one of family. Thomas Por-
tercheck, with his mother, two sisters,
and brother, occupied small house
a half mile from the business portion
of the village. They were Bohemians
in humble circumstances. Sunday
afternoon Thomas acted strangely and
gave indications that his mind was
deranged. He labored under the hal
lucinatiOn that his neck was broken
and insisted that Il doctor be sum-
moned. HIS relatives endeavored TO
convince him of his error and tried to
get him To go to bed. He insisted on
sitting up all night.
Late at night the family retired,
leaving Thomas in a rocking chair.
At o'clock Monday morning his sister
Mary was awakened by an agonizing
scream from her mother. When she
emerged from her bedroom she found
her mother lying on the floor, while
Thomas stood above her handishing
an axe. The floor was covered with
blood, and from an adjoining room
her other brother, James, could be
heard moaning IN the agony of death.
The girl ran through the. house, and
finding all the doors locked, opened a
window and jumped to the ground.
The man seized can of coal oil, and
after pouring it over the floor and
furniture, set 1t on fire. He then
drew buther knife across his throat
and fell by the side of his dead mother
The girl attempted to extinguish the
flames, but they spread so quickly that
in less than ten minutes the house
was like a furnace. The screams of
the=girl awakened the neighbors, and
they rushed to the scene, but the
flames had finished the work which
the maniac had commenced.
When the blazing wood had cooled
sufficiently TO allow search of the
ruined home, four bodies were found,
blackened and charred.
They were those of Mrs. Porter
check, her younger daughter, and her
sons, James and Thomas. Investiga-
tion showed that the mother, daugh-
ter, and James had been horribly
mutilated by an axe. 1t is believed
that Thomas had first killed his
brother, then his sister and mother.
The mother had been confined to her
bed for twelve years.
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COLORED INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.
1t Will Probably be Located Near
North WiIkesbOrO

The News says that Bev. DR.. Smith,
of Greensboro, and Mr.. J. NJ. Rogers,
of Winston, expressed themselves as
being well pleased with the tract of
land near North Wilkesboro, Cor the
proposed colored industrial school, to
be established by the. Presbyterian
Synod Of North Carolina. The site
contains about three hundred acres.
Dr.. Smith and Mr.. Rogers made
a favorable report to the executive
committee, which met in Greensboro
this week to take action on site,
prepare a charter, etc.
The board of directors is composed
of the following gentlemen: w. d..
Morton, @. G. Vardell, A. j. Nickel
way, E. W. Smith, D. A. Monroe. l..
B. Turnbull, r. f. Campbell, j. NJ.
Rose.
The executive committee is com
posed Of: Rev. w. u. Morton, chair
man: Rev. L. B. Turnbill, secretary;
G.. w Watts, treasurer; J. M. Rogers,
W. H. Sprunt, ii. L. Smith, e. q.
Graham.
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ITALY SHAKEN AGAIN.
The Total Damage Estimated at 1000,
900 Lire-Volcanoes Active.

The Tot al Damage Estima ated at 1000,
900 Lire-Volcanoes Active.
ROME, Nov 23.-Several more shocks
Of earthquake of an undulatory char
| acter were felt at Reg gio di Calabria
/ Wednesday morning. The shocks
| were violent but brief, and each sut-
ceeding shock was of less duration
than the one preceding it. The panic
continues at Messina, but no further
shocks are reported.
oignor CALI, under Secre tary of the
Interior, arrived in Reggie to direct
| the repairs necessary to the public
buildings which were damaged by the
shocks there.
News from the districts shaken by
the recent earthquakes comes in slow
ly, but every despatch shows that the
devastation was far greater than the
early reports indicated. Thirty eight
communes suffered severely. San
Procopio, Oppido Mamertino, Scilla,
and Palmi, all in Reggie di Calabria,
and with a total population of some
$4,000, are little more than heaps of
ruins.
Many destitute families from
the ruined towns are pillaging
the damaged shops and houses.
Troops been have posted through
out the unfortunate districts to
protect property. The total
damage is estimated now as
nearly 1000, 900 lire. The collection
of taxes has been suspended in most
districts of Reggie di Calabrla.
The volcano on StrnGboli Island is
in full eruption, and Etna and Vesu-
vius are active. In Linguaglossa, near
Etna, sChoolhOuSe was shaken to
the ground. The sixty occupants
were rescued alive, although many of
them were rescued severely.
The cathedral in Missina has been
closed to prevent danger to worship
DerS
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Rubinstein's Last Moments.

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 2I-The
death of Rubinstein, the celebrated
pianist and composer, which occurred
on Tuesday morning at Peterhof, was
expected. He was playing cards until
III o'clock and was in the best of spir-
its. His wife, at about midnight,
went to his bedroom to bid him good
night. Rubinstein then appeared to
be enjoying his usual health. At
about o'clock in the morning Nine.
RubinStein heard cries. from the di-
rection of her husbands BEDROOM,
and, running to his door, she found
him standing up near the entrance
with bed cover around his shoulders.
He was crying with pain and gaspel,
"a doctor, doctor, L am choking. :
Two physicians were hastily summon
ed, but all their efforts to save the suf-
ferer's life were unavailing, and he
died in their presence.
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WHEN CONGRESS MEETS.
WAR EXPECTED UNLESS A COM
PROMISE Is EFFECTED.
Against the Administrations Finan-
cfal and Tariff PoIicy-Senators
Opposed to the Bond Issue

Special Correspondence of the Sentinel.1
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2O.-So soon as
Congress meets a war ''to the knife"
will be begun on the Administrations
financial and tariff policy unless a
compromise is effected before that
time. Senators Harris, voorhees,,
Jones, Cockrell and others are opposed
to the bond issue but desire to pass
the "pop-gun" bills. Other Senators
are averse to further tariff legislation.
1t is needless to dwell on the advan-
tages this discOrd will give the oppo-
site party. Democratic unity is what
every patriot should at once attempt
to promote. From the present out
look, 1t seems scarcely probable that
the majority Of the appropriation
bills will receive any consideration be-
fore the coming short session closes.
Senator Platt who is here ON his way
from visit to Newbern, North Caro-
lima, says this will be the result.
Judge Advocate General Lemly, U.
:. n. has returned from visit to his
native city, Salem, n. Q.
Opposition from unexpected sources
has developed to Gear" Reeds recent
boom. Perhaps some of
Tom Reeds compatriots with presi-
Dental aspirations do not wish to see
him put in a position where he can
WELD SO much power.
Commissioner Miller of the inter-
nal revenue bureau is quietly perfect
ing his arrangements for the execution
of the Income Tax provisions OF tue
tariff law, but no secret is made of
the belief that another enforcement
of the law will be impracticable with
out la1ge increase in the service. 1t
is understood that Secretary Carlisle
Will ask G .ngreSs for an immediate
appropriation Of $500, 900 for the en-
ployment of additional deputy collec-
tors, etc, for the purpose OF putting
the machinery for the collection of
the income tax into practical opera
'i'su The law takes effect January
1t, next, but all the machinery for
its enforcement must be prepaid, in
advance of that date.
1t is understood that the President
today issued an order placing addi-
tiopal postoffice and State Depart
ment employees under the Civil Ser
vice regulations. Up to a late hour
this afternoon the order had not been
received at either of the departments
or the officers Of the Commission.
TARHEEL.
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JUDGE ROBINSON TALKS.
THINKS THE BREAK IN THE
SOUTH HAS COME TO STAY.
Predicts That Butler and Mott Will
be the Next U. s. Senators From
North Carolina.

Special Correspondence of the Sentinel
WASHINGTON, Noy. 22.-Judge w.
S. OBJ. Robinson, of Goldsboro, with
his wife and daughter are here at the
Ebbitt. He says the break in the solid
South has come to stay. He adds: 81
have always been Republican, and am
proud to see the grand old party max
ing headway in the South, for think
it will be the best thing in the world
for the prosperity of our Southern
people that its citizens should divide
politically, as they do in the North.
Though the triumph over Democracy
was won this time by fusion, my be-
lief is that hereafter there will be a
clean, square fight in North Carolina
between the Democrats and Republi-
cans. The coming Legislature VII
repeal the present unjust election
laws. and in the future our elections
VIII be conducted on a higher plane
'As to the SenatOrship, L have no
doubt that Marion Butler will get the
long term and that some Republican
from the Western part of the State
will be chosen to fill out Senator
Vance's unexpired term. For the
last place there are numerous candi-
GdCto II. 4lOUU, lIOLI H. EWdTU,
f A. Holton, James Moody, J. q.
Pritchard and o. II. Dockery. The
chances are. L think, strongly in favor
OF DR.. Mott, who has been a fighting
Republican in the North State for
many years 1t may be that in the
scramble between all these aspirants
from the West, the geographical ques-
tion may be overlooked and the Sena-
torship go to Judge ID. L. Russell, who
is from the east side, but who is to-
day the ablest Republican in the
State, and a man who would be a
honor tc his people as United States
Senator"
Judge w. S. OBJ. Robinson
knows as we'll as the rest of US do,
that the West will name the Repub-
lican Senator and that it is narrowed
down to choice between Mott,
Ewart, or Pritchard. He also knows
that If the Republicans had not
made combination with the Popo-
Gratis in North Carolina they would
not have won single Congressman or
Judge in the recent election.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-11-29
NEWS NOTES.


John Balda Crenshaw, "a prominent
citizen OF Lynchburg, is dead.
Yale made nearly $4,000 at foot
ball last season and 81 800 at baseball.
Evidences accumulate that Germany
Is pursuing represSive policy toward
American impOrtationS.
1t is said that Maine women are in
creasing in height. Six-footers are
not unusual among them
Miss Abbie NJ Spealman was con-
victed in Philadelphia of swindling
by advertising for husbands.
A decree has been issued in Den
mark forbidding the Importation of
America live cattle and fresh meat.
A woman sues BELLEVUE Hospital
physician for making an autopsy of
her dead husband against her protest.
The encouragement of New York
is of opinion that the Governor has
no right to give the body of an exec
uted criminal for experiments.
Upon investigation it has been
proved that horses belonging to Pres
ident Cleveland have not been sub
jected to the process of docking.
The General Assembly of the
Knights OF Labor at New Orleans
voted down proposition to make
lawyers and barkeepers eligible to
embership.
The grand Jury of McLendon coun-
ty, at Waco, Texas has indicted John
ID. Rockefeller and other Standard Oil
magnates for alleged conspiracy to
control the oil market.
The discovery of thirty human bod
| les in cave near ChurintZio, Mexico,
| is thought to account fo- the strange
| disappearance of many victims of rob-
| oery in that region.
| Washington physicians have applied,
! through the State Department., to
| French physicians for a supply of
serum, which, il is alleged, has great
curative power for diphUheria.
Lewis Brown, aged eighteen years,
of Wood county, w. Va, while hunt.
ing, was shot and killed by the acci-
dental discharge of his gun, which oc-
! Cured while he was climbing fence.
Major-General Writ Allen, distin
guished soldier of the Confederate
Army, died in Sheffield Ala, of heart
disease. He was United States mar.
shall for the southern district of Ala
bama during Mr.. Cleveland's first
| term.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-11-29
HUNT. STOCKTON NUPrIALs.
A Pretty Marriage in the NJ. E. Churcf
at Kernersville.

A Pretty Marriage in the NJ. E. Church
at Kernersville.
che SENTINEL's correspondent at
Kernersville writes as follows about
the Hunt-Stockton nuptials:
a beautiful and impressive mar
riage was solemnized at 1880 o'clock
p. M, Nov. 81, in the M. E. church here
in the presence of large and inter
esteds saudience, the contracting par
ties being Mr.. John T. Hunt. Of
Greensboro, and Miss Minnie Stock
ton, of Kernersville, one of our own
charming and estimabie young la dies.
The ceremony was performed by the
Rev. E. j. Poe, in very earnest and
solemn manner.
The decorations were simply beau
tiful and artistically arranged.
Four couples of young ladies and gen
tlemen walked slowly up the aisles of
the ch lrch and took their places near
the chancel, being followed by the
candidates for matrimony, who
marched to the tune of the sweet
music by the Kernerville Orchestra
and stood under the beautifully deco
rated arch, from which swung the
monogram, H."-'tS.", and received
the solemn rites bravely.
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Agent Kearns and His Two Pigs.

One of his railroad friends tells it
that Agent e B. Kearns, of the n. s.
w. depot, had set apart one day last
week. for killing his two porkers-but
alas! when he arose on the morning
designated for the slaughtering to
to take place, the pigs were not to be
found. The story goes that Mr..
Kearns removed his two porkers the
night before from the zen to the base
meut for safe-keeping. During the
night (the exact hour no one knows)
the large Tom Cat belonging to the
depot agent, went out on a rat-hunt-
ins expedition. When the pigs in the
basement were spied there was fun
ahead for Tommie-and he seized the
opportunity and later one of the pigs
taking the latter for a goOd-sized
rat. 1t is presumed that the second
pig went the way of the first one as
| neither could be found in the base
ment next morning.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-11-29
A CRUEL MURDER.
A Co!ored Woman Beats and Burns a
Child to Death

A colored woman named Nervie
Strickland, residing near Ash Hill,
Surry COUNTY, has been sent to jail on
the charge of numbering a six-year-old
cOlored boy who was bound to her.
Her daughter was also jailed as being
an accessory.
The Mt. Airy News says that the
body of the dead child was found to
be one mass of burns and bruises.
There were scars Of wounds that had
healed up, showing that he had been
numerically beaten for long time
There were fresh wounds by the score
and it is said there was hardly an inch
of uninjured flesh on the body. A few
days before the boy died the woman
put rope around his neck and hung
him up in the house with his feet
barely touching the floor. In this po-
sition he was left for several hours,
with his hands and feet tied hard and
fast. At another time she held burn
ing ShuckS under his nose and forced
him to inhale the smoke.
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WINSTON TOBACCO MARKET.
The Tobacco Journa ais Review for tht
Week Ending Nov. 24Ih.

The Tobacco Journal Review for the
Week Ending Nov. oath.
The receipts for this week have been
good in quantity, and also showed an
improvement in quality. BREAKS were
full every day, and with single sal es
lasted urtil nearly nightfall.
The character of the offerings was
very much better, and this fact SEEM
ed to greatly please the followers of
the sales. All goods sold high, the
common along with the rest selling
well. Occasional piles OF damaged
stock were neglected. Very little old
is being offered, and the demand for
this class is almost nil at present.
Wrappers are going at what might
be justly termed fancy figures. The
highest mark of the season on WRAP
pers was reached Thursday, when a
fine lot was knocked out at $72
All of the warehouses in Winston
will be closed Thanksgiving Day.
This was announced several weeks
ago, and is pretty well known DOW
throughout the neighboring country.
The lOng-looked-for-and hoped-for
season has at last arrived, and heavy
breaks are expected from this time
until Just before the Christmas hOli-
days.
Complaint is still heard in manufac-
turing circles of the movement Of
business. The low price Of cotton in
the South is getting in its work on
general business. Cigarette@ 8 manu-
facturers have all they can do to keep
up with orders.
The internal revenue collections at
the Winston Office last week ran as
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-11-29
An Athletes Neck Broken.

BOSTON, Nov. 21.-Frank E. God
frey, acting assistant superintendent
OF the gymnasium of the Boston
Young Mems Christian Association,
fell and broke his neck tonight while
working in the gymnasium. He was
standing on the shoulders of a com
panion and trying TO turn somer-
sault in the air from that position.
While in that position he slipped and
fell. He was about twenty-five years
old and unmarried. He was also en-
plOyed at the art studio of X tson,
the sculptor, and had served as mod
ell for the statue representing "The
Ideal of the American STUDENT" ex-
hibited at the Worlds Fair He died
a few minutes after the accident,
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-11-29
Rules for Gu m Chewing.

From the BuuaIO COInmerclaI-I
This visible working of the jaws in
chewing gum is truly not a pleasant
sight, and that it eXasperateS sensi-
tive people beyond measure is not un-
natural. A Buffalo coachman lost d
good position the other day because
he would persist in chewing gum on
the box while driving. The severest
criticism leveled at certain regiments
of the Massachusetts National Guard
at a recent inspection was that many
privates and some officers chewed gum
on parade. The only persons who
gum are policemen, on night duty on
ly, and members of football teams in
actual conflict.
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Old Tobacco.

The Allen (Ky.) Democrat tells of
piece of twist tobacco Mr.. John Car
penter found in tearing away an old
building on his farm: ''The tobacco
and two musket balls were found be-
tween the walls, where they had been
for more than fifty years. The tobac-
co was deposited there when the house
was constructed by Samuel Carpenter,
deceased, who was John Sans grand
father. The tobacco is somewhat
worm-eaten, but is perfectly sound
and has a perfect flavor"
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The internal revenue collections at
the Winston Office last week ran as
LOCATES NEAR RALEIGH.
A Successful Nebraska Farmer and
Stock Raiser.

Stock Raiser.
From the Raleigh News & Observer
Mr.. H. H. Chandler and Mrs. Chan
dler, of Nebraska, arrived in Raleigh
yesterday and will make this their fu
ture home. Mr.. Chandler is a Sic
cessful stock raiser and brings with
him the cream of his herds from his
Nebraska farms. They will live at
the Gatling place, on the Eastern
suburbs of the city, where Mr.. Chan
dler will begin Immediately the breed
ing and raising of the blooded stock,
paying particular attention to hogsf
lie brings with him specimens of the
finest breeds of hogs in the Northwest
pigs that sell for 5000 pair. Mr..
Chandler, in a conversation yesterday,
said that he had not come to North
Carolina claiming to know more than
North Carolina folks. He had visit
ed, and his wife had also paid an ex-
tended visit to the State. They were
| both pleased with the climate and es-
pecially with the people, and they had
come down expecting to make them
selves genuine North Carolinians.
They expect to join in with the pro-
| gressive spirit that seems to prevail
| here and to become, if possible, factors
| in the States industrial upbuilding.
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Refuse to Pay Democratic Preachers.

The Statesville Landmark tells of
congregation near -Statesville the
members of which refused to pay on
the pastors salary because he is
Democrat; of another case in which
congregation applied to the presiding
elder of Statesyille district to remove
the pastor because he is Democrat;
and of another case, this one in South
Iredel, in which a member of con-
gregation told the pastor, just before
the recent election, that il he 1.-THE
pastor) voted the Democratic ticket
he (the Populist member) would see
to it that his salary was not paid
him.
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COMMENCEMENT ORATOR
For Salem Academy-Mr. j. NJ. Beck,
ofPennsylvania.

Mr.. james NJ. Beck, of Pennsylva-
mia. has been CHOSEN to deliver the an
nual address at the next commence
ment of Salem Academy.
One of the objects of the visit north
by Mr.. Clewell was to secure, if posi-
BILE, the presence of this gifted orator,
who has consented to come. Mr.. Beck
is now generally considered the most
eloquent speaker in Pennsylvania, and
he is much sought after as a lecturer
and orator in many parts of the COIN
try. He is the law partner of the dis
tinguished Mr.. Harrity of Pennsylva-
MIA, and although several efforts have
been made in the past to secure him
as the orator at Commencement, he
has not previously seen his way clear
to accept the invitation.
Mr.. Beck was in college with Mr..
Clewell in Pennsylvania in 1876-77.
He was with Governor Pattison's pri-
yate party on recent visit to Florida,
but with that exception has not made
himself as familiar with the South
| Atlantic States as he desires to be-
! come.
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To stop che sac of Horse Meat.

NEWARK, N. J., Nov. 24.-The pro-
prietors of the horse-meat establish
ment in Kearney were ordered to show
cause within ten days why their estab-
lishment shall not be closed. The
output of this concern sells for five
at wholesale, and it is said that it is
bought by the poor people of Newark
and vicinity. At the slaughter-house
it is claimed that the horse flesh is
not sold in this country, but is shipped
to France