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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-09-21
CUBAN ARMS AT SOUTHPORT.
Attorney AycOck and Marshall Carroll
Receive Instructions.
Special to the News and Observer.
WAsHINGTON, D. o., Sept. 20.

WASHINGTON, ID. g., Sept. 20.
The State Department to-day was in
formed through official channels that 450
boxes Of ammunition and POI boxes of
rifles, in special car No. 5,841, over the
Pennsylvania road, had been shipped to
Southport, N. O., to be transferred to
the steamer Commodore. The Commo-
dOre is the same steamer reported yes
terday as being at Wilmington, n. O.,
and loading up with arms for the United
States of Columbia. 1t is suspected their
real destination is Cuba.
Acting Attorney General Conrad tele-
graphed U. S. District Attorney AycOck
and Marshal Carroll calling their atten-
ton to the facts and instructing them to
see that no violation Of the neutral laws
of the United States is committed.
The steamer cleared from New Lon
don, Conn, for Oarthagena, U. S. of
Colombia, and put into Southport for
the ostensible purpose Of having repairs
made and c0aling, Two carloads of
freight was received yesterday and
loaded. The packages by their size and
shape seemed to contain guns and car
tridgeS. The Captain of the vessel, how
CF6A, SdiO tueJ COuJdiuSu MluluS ma
chlnery and implements. U. S. Attorney
Aycock was of the opinion that the evil
dence at hand did not warrant him in ar
resting the officers or instituting pro-
ceedings for forfeiture.
Mr.. W. J. Shea, of St. Louis, passed
through Washington yesterday returning
from North Carolina. Mr.. Shea says he
has purchased 500 acres of land in the
western part of the State for oak timber
which he will have sawed up into timber
and shipped to different carriage facto-
ries North.
Mr.. Wiley Powell, of Asheville, who
has been spending few days with Mr..
R. W. Watson, left to day for New York,
where he will take special course in
medicine.
DR.. Stephen B. Weeks has sent to the
publishers his history of the Quakers in
the South.
VIM. T. Robinson has been appointed
postmaster at Ledford.
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WILL FORM A REPUBLIC.
Cuban Rebels About to Organize a
Constitutional Government.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Sept. 20.-The
Secretary of the Cuban revolutionary
party in the United States has received
a letter from Gen Maxine Gomez, Com
mander-in- Chief of the Cuban army,
dated at the latter's headquarters at
Camaguey, August Both.
Gomez says the constitutional govern
ment of the republic is about to be
formed, representatives of the Provinces
being already on the grounds and ready
TO elect an executive and cabinet and
appoint ministers to foreign countries.
The minister to the United States, he
says, will be empowered to raise loans
for the republic. The revolution will go
on, he says, until it tliumpbs. The
country from one end to the other Is
hostile to Spain and the Spanish have
done little to diminish the Cuban's grow
ing power,
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Officers of the Southern Appointed.

NEW YORK, Sept. 90 The Board of
Directors of the Southern Railway Com
pany have appointed the following
officers. to take effect on Oatober1: Dol
A B Andrews, First Vice President;
William II. Baldwin, Second Vice Presi-
dent; W. ". Finley, Third Vioe-Presi-
dent. Paul /. Wells was named as Su-
perintendent Of the Sixth Division. Mr..
Finley's headquarters will be in Wash
ington.
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R. G. Dun & Co.'S Review.

NEW YORK, Sept. 2O--R G. Dun &
Cos weekly review of trade will say:
In spite of gold exports wheat advanced
for some days, in all nearly two cents,
mainly because a single speculator
bought, but on Friday it fell about one
cent. Corn rose and fell in sympathy
with wheat, and with as little reason.
Western wheat receipts for three weeks Of
September have been 16, 791 $50 bushels
against 16,491, ,629 last year, while
Atlantic exports, -four included, have
been 3,941, ,693 bushels, against I, ,621 1886
last year. Good reports Of foreign
crops, weakness of flour in Minnesota
and large exports of corn from this coun-
try, all work against rise In wheat,
though scarcity Of contract grades may
help speculative advance. Pork pro
ducts have been reasonably yielding,
with prospects of large corn crop, but
before the close had stronger tone.
The cotton market, lifting and falling a
fraction each day, alternately, shows no
settled tendency, big stocks balacing on
und0ubted, but as yet not definite de
crease in yield.
The cotton mills which laid in stocks
Of cotton below six cents are enriched by
the advance in material, and enabled to
make frequent advances in goods, which
are sustained. The present demand Is
dull, but there are no reports of stop
page, and the threatened strike at Fall
River does not come The woOlen manu-
facture is doing well in dress goods and
hosiery, but the demand for mems wool
ems is much restricted, and few mills
have closed.
The failures of the week have been 213
in the United States, against 210 last
year, and 80 in canada, against As last
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BETTER AND BETTER
GENERAL TRADE CONTIN q ES
TO SHOW STILL FURTHER
IMPROVEMENT
ESPECIALLY IN EAST AND SOUTH

The Past Week has been a Remark
able one in Business CIrcles--W heat
Exports have been the Largest IN
three MOnths--The Heaviest Ship
ments of Corn in Seventeen MOnths-~
Extraordinary Demand for Iron and
Steel-- Advances i'm all Prices.
NEW YORK, Sept. Bradstreet's to-
morrow will say:
General trade throughout the United
States shows further improvement in this
second week of September, more par
ticularly in manufacturing and CONNER
cial at the East and South. From the
central Western and some Western
States, notably Iowa, there are advices
that purchases of seasonable goods have
been checked and weak because of high
temperature throughout the region speci-
fed, but in the South Atlantic, Gulf and
Southwestern States, and on the Pacific
coast general trade has been increasing
in volume with improving mercantile
collections as rule, and goods selling
with less effort in many instances.
In support of favorable influence con
ditions are this weeks heavily increased
total of bank clearings, the largest
weeks aggregate of wheat exports with
in three months, the heaviest weeks
shipments of Indian corn in seventeen
months, the maintenance of full proper
tions of the extraordinarily heavy de-
mand for iron and steel, and the signif
cant hardening of the leading money
markets, accompanied by reports of in
creasing mercantile discounts.
Price tendencies this week are more
favorable from the point of view of the
holder, advances having been recorded
in wheat, corn and oats, after a pro
longed reaction, wheat flour, raw and re
fined sugar, coffee, brown and bleached cot
ton goods and print cloths, in sole leather
and turpentine. Quotations have held
steady throughout the week for cotton,
wool, lumber, hogs and lard, while de
creases among prices for leading staples
are noted for cattle, sheep, pork and
rosin.
A special inquiry by Bradstreet's into
prices for more than 100 staple products
show that in the second quarter Of the
current calendar year there VI re adj
vances in quotations from 56, no change
for II, and lower prices reached by only
%
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A Town wiped Out by Fire.

MINEEAPoLIs, Minn., Sept. 2O.-A
special from Ipswich, S. D., says that
the entire business portion of the city
was burned at an early hour this morn
ing. No estimate of losses and insurance
is given.
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NO REFEREE YET SELECTED.
The Choice Was Deferred Until The
Day Before The Fight.

NEW YORK, Sept. 2O.-The meeting
to day for the purpose of selecting a ref
cree for the Corbett- Fitzsimmons fight,
was without result. No referee was cho-
sen, and the matter was deferred ut the
instance of Fitzsimmons' manages, until
October 80, one day before the fight.
Neither Corbett or Fitzsimmons was
present, nor was W. A. Brady, Corbett's
manager,
Martin Bulian, who represented Fitz-
simmons, said he favored the selection
Of "Yank" Sullivan as referee.
Gov. CuIbersOn Still Stands Firm.
AUSTIN, Tex, Sept 2O.-It is learned
here to-day that Judges Davidson and
Henderson, of the Court of Appeals re-
fused to sit with Hurt in the prize fight
habeas corpus case on the ground that
the court cannot hold legal session dur
ing vacation, and further that the prop
er tribunal to hear the case was the
county judge of Dallas county.
The regular session Of the Court of APP
peals begins at Tyler on the first Mon
day of next month and it is stated here
that the Dallas grand jury now in ses-
sion will indict the principals of the re-
cent fight, and they will have chance
for a hearing before the full bench in re-
gular session.
However, this may be, Gov. Culber-
son still stands firm and will prevent the
fight, under common penal statutes, and
his determination has given currency to
a rumor in sporting circles that the fight
will take place in the Indian Territory
not far from Colbert. Sports here have
given up hope of seeing the fight in Texas.
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-09-21
How the CIubs Stand.
Whero they Play To.Day.

Where they play To-day.
New YORK at BOSTON.
BALTIMORE at BROOKLYN.
WASHINGTON at PHILADELPHIA
CLEVELAND at PITTSBURG.
LOUISVILLE at CINCINNATI,
CHICAGO at ST. LOUIS.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-13
SUCH A TEAM COULD WIN.
Would Even Capture the Utah
Republicans.
FavOrs n Platform Recognizing the
With EIkins' Recently Expressed
Sentiments, But Not Declaring
In Other Words, a StraddIe.

Wheeling, w. Va, June Eek
Senator n. B.. Scott, national Republi-
a committeeman, in an interview,
has declared himself for S. B. Elkins
for president.
I'VE are going to mann EIkins for
president" said Mr.. Scott, He will
be named on the second ballot. I
have been in the west recently and 1
found the sentiment everywhere for
him. L believe, West Virginia will
send a solid delegation to the conven-
ton for Mr.. Elkins. 1 predict that on
the first ballot at the next convention,
Mr.. Elkins will have the solid delega-
tions of California, Arizona, New
Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming,
Washington and Colorado and a
strong following in Kansas, Nebraska
and the Dakotas. For second place
on the ticket, I favor a wayout west
ern man. Elkins and a western man
viii win"
Senator Scott favors a platform
which shall be in keeping with Elk
ms recently expressed silver senti-
ments, recognizing the white metal
fully, but not declaring unqualiiedly
for free coinage.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-13
NEWSPAPER MEN.
PRESERVING INyIOLATE CONFI-
DENTAL INFORMATION.
Rights of Papers to Expose Public
Scandal, Observation-Disclosures of
Office and Violations of Law.

Philadelphia, June 1.-THE onven
ton of the International League of
Press Clubs today adopted a resolu-
ton, offered by Charles Emory Smith,
of the Philadelphia Press, urging the
various press clubs of the League to
work energetically to ecure from the
legislatures of the several states the
passage of laws to protect newspaper
men in preserving inviolate confiden-
tial information communicated to
them in the ordinary course of their
duties. The resolution was adopted.
Speaking as a newspaper proprietor.
MI. Smith said that if he had cor
rectly observed the young men about
him there was not n worthy MEM
Der in the newspaper profession who
would not rather rot in Jail than be-
tray his confidence.
John II. Dow, of Philadelphia, Of
fered a resolution relative to libel
laws, introducing it in a long pream-
BILE calling attention to the services
performed by newspapers of the ma
ton as the chief weapon of defense
against official corruption and vice.
and reciting thai it has become their
duty and right to expose public scam
dal, Northumberland of Office and
violations of law. SO long as they do
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-13
IRON AND STEEL.
An Unbroken Record of Advances
All Along the Line.

An UnbrOken Record of
All Along the Line.
New York, June 12.-The Iron Age
tomorrow will say: The past week has
been n of the most stirring in the
history of the iron trade for many
years. 1t presents an unbroken re-
cord of advances all along the line.
The most extraordinary thing is that
the upward tendency has developed
so fast without the powerful aid OF
heavy purchases from the principal
consumers-the railroads.
The central west leads in the adj
vances. The boom feeling prevailing
there seems justified there by the
practically no reserve capacity in fur
mace plant or steel works. 1t is really
only in Chicago hal such a reserve
does exist anywhere west of the AL
legheny mountains. 1t is very differ
ent in the east and in the south ana
notably so in Virginia.
The rise in steel and the difficulty
in getting tin plate bars is making
the domestic manufacturers of tin
plate nervous Over the danger of be-
ing forced to surrender a part of their
market TO foreign makers.
There have been some sales of lake
bessemer with stitfening in prices and
a perfect slaughter of iron and besse-
mer ores. There is a good deal of
activity in finished iron and steel, ad-
Vances being made all along the line.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-13
ON DOGGY CREEK.
GOLD FEVER GROWS APACE IN
OKLAHOMA.
Scores of Restaurants Going In, With
the Usual Accomplishments of Sa-
looms, Real Estate Offices and
Dance Halls.

Guthrie. o. T., June 13.-The scene
on the banks of Doggy creek, south
west Of Arapahoe, is a queer one for
agricultural Oklahoma.
Instead of diminishing, the gold fe-
yer grows apace. People are rushing
pell nell along the banks Of the
stream where the camps are only a
few fet apart. a regular hack line
has been established between Arapa-
hoe and the gold field. This hack
leaves Arapahoe at Z o'clock a. m. and
1 o'clock p. M. daily. When it arrives
in the city it is packed with miners,
every one of them carrying a small
sack full of ''ore." AT the same time
men are riding into town almost HOURLY
with sacks of the precious ore tied 30
their saddles.
The nearest town to the gold camp
is Cloud Chief, and that town has
taken on a veritable Colorado mining
town appearance Scores of restau-
rants are going in with the usual ac-
compartments of saloons, real estate
offices and dance halls.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-13
DOM ESTIC DOTS.
Telegraph News from All Parts or the
Land Over Which the Stars aaa
Stripes Wave.

Fred Oil. the Princeton student. shot
by Collins, the negro, is dead
Sigmund Cheidler, of New York, shot
his wife and then killed himself.
Another negro has been lynched at Luf-
kin, Texas. for rape on a ~7-year-old child.
Eugene Debs has appeared in Chicago
and surrendered to the authorities.
The Western Union Telegraph company
has declared d quarterly dividend of IL
per cent.
Over thirty business houses and dwell
ingS burned yesterday at Geneva, Ind
ana the center of the gas belt, involving
a loss of $4,000.
L. a. Wooley, the prominent lawyer, of
London, who committed suicide last
March, was a forger TO the extent of
100000.
The president has denied the applica-
ton for pardon of George W. Cummings,
of California, sentenced for ten years for
robbing the mails.
arrived at San Francisco. They are Fred
Johnson, 4 sailor, and Robert Gonzales,
a mess boy.
Hugh Wallace. of Tacoma. Wash, ma
tionai Democrat committeeman, thinks
free silver will probably receive the en-
dorsement of all parties in his state this
fall.
A dispatch from Berlin says: 1t is re-
ported that the Grand Duke George of
Russia, the czarewitch, now has but one
lung remaining. The physicians in at
tendance declare a catastrophe is inevi-
table. though they are unable to say how
far his life may be prolonged
\ fishing party consisting Of A. Thomp-
son and another man, their wives n
three children, camping on White River.
five miles below Stuttgart, Ark. were at
tackled Saturday night by toughs. Their
tent was shot into and one woman and a
child killed. A man and a boy were seri-
ously injured. John Kemp, one of the
toughs, was killed by Thompson. There
is no known cause for the outrage.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-13
1T CAUSED TALK.
a sensational Divorce Suit at Colo
RADIO Springs.

Ia0O CpI1A-S
Denver, June IA special to the
News from Colorado Springs, Colo,
says: A divorce suit in the first di-
vision of the district court last even
ing is causing considerable talk today,
owing to the prominence of the par
ties and the big alimony. Mrs. Julia
A. Sherman Bolles was granted a di-
vorce from Richard Johnson BolleS and
was given $4,000 cash.
Mr.. r.. J.. Bolles is a wealthy citi-
zen, having made a great deal of
money in the Mollie Gibson and Ar
gentum j. mines. Last winter a Miss
Sherman arrived at The Antlers, and
it was announced that she was a sister
of Mrs. Richard BolleS, who made her
home in California. Two months ago
Mrs. BolleS arrived on the scene and
it became rumored that there was
likely to be divorce proceedings. Tues
day evening after the regular hour of
peared in the court and filed a COM
plant and bill for divorce. The COM
plant alleged desertion.
Immediately Mrs. Clara FoltZ, of
San Francisco, the well-wnown female
lawyer, filed a cross-bill, alleging de-
sertion on the part of Bolles. Mrs.
Foltz arrived here abou the same time
as Mrs. Bolles and announced hat she
was going to locate here. A jury was
summoned and the case Immediately
went to trial. After some formal testi-
mony the jury brought in a verdict for
the defendant, Mrs. Bolles. This morn
ing the decree was entered and filed
and it was agreed that the wife should
have SIS, 900; that plaintiff should pay
her attorneys fees and the costs Of the
suit. 1t is understood hat Mrs. Bolles
holds a considerable amount of prop
erty in her own name in the east, oyer
and above that assigned in the decree
and that she really gets about 5000, 900.
Mrs. Bolles is a guest at the Antlers.
She is a large and handsome woman,
with blonde hair. They were married
in 1868 and have no children. 1t was
Mrs. Foltz's first appearance in court
here and she is credited with being a
shrewd, sharp lawyer.
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not, in printing and writing, abuse
the liberty granted them.

not, in printing and writing, abuse
the liberty granted them.
II conclusion, the resolution calls
upon the secretary of the League to
petition the different state legisla-
lures to pass a general libel law
worded as follows:
g, Before any suit shall be brought
for the publication Of a libel in any
newspaper in this state, the aggra-
waited party shall, at least three days
before filing II serving the complaint
in such suit, serve a notice on the
publisher or publishers Of said news
paper at their principal Office of pub
LEGATION, specifying the statements in
the said article which he or they may
allege to be false or defamatory. If
it shall appear on the trial of said
action that the article was published
in good faith, that its falsity was due
to a mistake or misrepresentation of
the facts, and hat a full and fair re-
traction of any statement therein al
legged to be n was published
in the next regular ssue of such
newspaper, IL in ase of daily papers,
within three days after such mistake
or misrepresentation was brought to
the knowledge of such publisher or pub
fishers in as conspicuous a place and
type in such newspaper as was the
article complained of Us libelous, then
the plaintiff in such cases shall re-
Owe only actual damages. Provided,
however, that the provisions of this
act shall not apply to the case of any
libel against any candidate for a
public office in this state unless the
retraction of the charge is made ed
itorially in a conspicuous am at
least three days before election, in
case such libelous article was publish
ed in a daily newspaper. If published
in a weekly paper, at least ten days
before the election.
The resolution was adopted.
The convention this morning select
ed Buffalo as the place for holding
the next convention, the date to be
fixed by the executive committee. The
following officers were chosen to serve
during the present year President,
Louis H. Megargee. Philadelphia;
first vice-president. Joseph H. How
ard, jr., New York; treasurer, James
S. McCartv. Philadelphia; secretary,
Harry D. Vought, Buffalo.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-13
THIRTY THOUSAND.
HONDURAS PAYS FOR THE MURDER
OF RENTON.
A Tragedy of Eight Years Ago Re-
called By the Awarding of Dam
nges to the Injured.

New York. June ia special to the
World from San Juan del Norte, Mica
ragua, says: THE Honduras government
has paid to the United States about $50, 0V0
in gold in settlement of the claim of Mrs.
Renton for the murder of her husband"
The foregoing dispatch is the first init
nation that the Renton case had already
been made a subject of formal negotia-
ton, although it has been shown for
some time that the state department had
investigated the case, and was prepared
to ask satisfaction for Mrs. Renton.
Charles W. Renton, his wife, Emma
Renton, and their niece went to Brewers
lagoon, Honduras, eight years ago. Rem
ton took up a claim and IN 1889 the prop
no trouble with the government or the
natives, until a planters concern called
the Brewers Wood and Produce COM
pany began operating in the territory
near the Renton plantation. The officers
and employees of this concern looked on
Renton'S plantation with envy, n soon
Squatted on part of 1t. They stole Rem
TONS cocoons and soon became MURDER
OuSly aggressive
In March. 1893, Charles Johnson, an
American. went TO visit the Rentons. He
of the Wood and Produce ompan Early
next morning, eight men concealed them
selves in a grove near the Rentcn house
and when Renton appeared opened fire
on him. Mrs. Renton tried TO drag her
husband in. A bullet struck her in the
right wrist.
LII d little WHllS, lnC CiSnI men, iii
employed by the Wood and Produce COM
pany, took possession of Renton's house.
They dragged The dying man and the
wounded Johnson to an Indian hut, and
there kept them under guard. They de-
cided to go away with Renton- AT last,
six men forced Mrs Rentcn and her
niece into a boat and pulled off from
the beach. When they were half way
across the lagoon, Mrs. Renton heard gun
shots. One of her captors said %fiippantly.
There goes Renton." A messenger came
to them who told them that their part in
the death of Renton was known and fur
ther that there were Nicaraguan soldiers
in the neighborhood. The party held a.
consultation and told Mrs. Renton they
would give her and her niece three days
to cross the line into Nicaragua.
After almost incredible hardships. Mrs.
Renton and her niece reached Bluefelds.
Nicaragua They arrived in New York
Secretary of State Gresham for restitution
by Honduras and for the punishment of
her husbands murderers- Mr.. Young,
United States minister to Honduras, was
instructed to report on the case, with the
result as announced in the above tele-
gram.