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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-01
PEFFER's BOND RESOLUTION.
The Consideration of it by the Senate
Again Postponed.

Washington, March 31.-The expect
ed debate on the resolution for a Senate
inquiry into recent bond issues did not
occur to-day, as Mr.. PETER gave notice
that he would defer his motion to pro-
ceed with the subject until tomorrow.
The Postoffice Appropriation bill,
carrying S93,000,0 900, was considered in
part, but not completed. A sharp de
bate on mail subsidies arose, Mr.. Villas
opposing an extension of the subsidy
system, while Senators Perkins and
White, of California, upheld them.
SenatorGeorge's speech in opposition
to Mr.. Dupont's claim to seat, Occur
pied most of the day and was not com
pleted.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-01
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES CONTEST
Argument by Counsel Heard by Elec-
tons Committee Mo. 2.

Washington, March 31.-(Special)
The election contest of Cheatham
VS. Woodard was heard by Elections
Committee No. 2 to-day. Judge Fl. G.
Connor and Hon. G. b. Aycock repre-
sented Mr. Woodland, and Mai. J. W.
Graham and Blocks of Five" Dudley
represented the contestant. The CON
testant, who was defeated by over s.
900 majority, alleges that Mr.. Woodland
was counted in by fraud on the part
Of the judges Of election. Messrs.
Connor and Aycocl< both addressed
the committee and from the records
Of evidence clearly showed that the
election was conducted fairly, that
there was no intimidation or fraud
practiced, and that the judges of cleo
tion were men Of good character.
Messrs. Graham and Dudley made the
best showing they could with the evil
dence before them. The friends of
Mr. Woodland feel confident he will
win.
Representative Nelson, of Caldwell,
is passing through tonight on his
way home from New York.
Judge ID. il. Russell is here, also Mr.
ID. w. Whitaker, of Durham.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-01
INTERNAL REVENUE lNFoRMERs
Southern Democrats Try to Stop the
Appropriation for Them.

Appropriation for Them.
Washington, March 31-The House
spent the day considering the Sundry
Civil bill and fair progress was made.
No amendments of Importance were
adopted.
A determined effort was made by
some of the Southern Representatives
to strike from the bill, the appropria-
ton of $4,000 for the pay of internal
revenue informers which is particular
ly obnoxious to people in the moon
shine" district, but it was unsuccess-
ful.
Mr.. Adams, (Rep., Pa.), undertook
to correct some of the false reports as
to the alleged compact between certain
free silver Republicans and some Phil
adelphia manufacturers. In that con-
nection he referred to the resolutions
adopted last night by the Manufactur
ers' Club of Philadelphia. Mr.. Hart
man, of Montana, and other free silver
Republicans in reply charged that
they had been persistently and MALI
ciously misrepresented by the gold
bug" press. The conference they as
serted had not been of their seeking.
Mr.. PicBIer, of South Dakota, also
made statement concerning what he
said had been misrepresentation of
the Republican platform of his State,
which, instead of making a specific de-
claration ON National issues, had sim
ply affirmed the doctrines of the Ma
tional Republican party at Minneapolis
until the St. Louis convention should
have adopted a new platform.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-01
ANOTHER WOMAN in THE CASE.
Frank Webster Arrested in Kentucky
For Abandoning His Wife.

Winston, N. c., March 31.-(Special)
Frank p. Webster, leaf tobacco
broker and prominent citizen of Madi-
son, who mysteriously disappeared
from that town several weeks ago, was
arrested in Richmond, KY, last evening
on a warrant charging him with aban-
doning his wife. A Winston officer
went to Richmond to-day after Web
ster. He will be brought back to Rock
ingham county for trial. His wife says
he got her to sign paper to sell their
property, claiming he wanted the mon
ey to use i'm his business. He got the
money and disappeared and Mrs. Web
ster learned that he had been living
with another woman.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-01
The Brutal Butchery of Five
Cuban Patriots
BY SPANISH GARRoTERs
The Execution Was Horrible
and Revolving.
VICTIMS sTRANeLED TO DEATH
One of Them Had Confessed to the
Priest Declaring the Others In
nocent of the Charge
Against Them.
Against Them.

Havana, March 81 Never in modern
times has there been a more sicllening
spectacle than the one which to-day
attended the public execution of five
Cubans. The men had been condemned
to death by the Garrote as "murderers,
yiolators and incendiaries."
Troops were drawn up in hollow
square and in the middle were placed
the chair and post. Ruiz, the public
executioner, had deputized an assis-
tant to conduct the affair. The con-
demned men having received the officer
of the church, were brought into the
square to meet their fate. One of
them had confessed his guilt and af-
firmed the innocence of all the others,
who also protested that they were
guiltless.
The first man to die took his seat
in the chair calmly; the iron collar
was fixed about his neck and cap
drawn over his face. Then the execu-
toner undertook to apply the screw,
but was so excited that his hand slip
ped repeatedly, with the result that
the victim died by slow strangulation,
emitting the while the most distress
ing cries.
The second execution was accom-
plished with even more distressing
awkwardness and delay, the execu-
toner being almost on the verge of
collapse as he performed his horrible
function The protests of the officers
and priests forced Ruiz to undertake
the third execution, but he did little
better than his assistant had done.
The fourth victim Of bungling gar
roters was likewise tortured and then
Ruiz literally fed from his post, leav-
ing his assistants to put to death the
fifth unfortunate Cuban, who escaped
none of the agonizing experiences that
had attended the execution of his fell
lows The whole affair has left upon
those who witnessed it and upon those
to whom it has been described feel
ing of the utmost horror.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-01
FOR CHEAP SLEEPING CARS.

Washington, March 31.-In the House
today, Mr.. Moody, of Massachusetts, in
troduced a BILL by request, requiring
railroads to accommodate the poor
class Of passengers with sleeping berths
as good and as cheap as the berths
available in common cars. The price
of a l2ght's rest is not to be over fifty
cents per passenger, $50 that the work.
ing class Of people shall be recognized
properly on night trains, and have the
privilege of lying down by paying for
simple economical accommodations at
an appropriate price.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-01
SEED FOR FREE DISTRIBUTION.
Secretary Morton Lets Contract for
Over Ten Million Packets.

Washington, March 31.--Secretary
Morton has let contract for the TO-
125,OO0 packets of vegetable seeds, to
be distributed to the public under the
recent act of Congress, to ID. Landreth
& Sons, of Philadelphia. The price fixed
is $4,000, the seeds to be delivered sub
ject to germinative tests, under very
carefully drawn contract, free of cost
at the Department in Washington,
ready for mailing.
The contract for a million packets
of flower seeds was let to l.. L. May q
Co, of st. Paul, Minnesota, at one-half
cent a packet.
Under this new method of buying
seeds and compelling the sellers to put
their own firm names upon the packets,
it is believed by the Secretary that a
better quality of seeds will have been
secured.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-01
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

It is again reported in Havana. that
the insurgent leader Gomez is dead.
The United States cruiser Minneapo-
lis has just been docked and cleaned
at Taranto, Italy.
Five Cubans put to death in most
horrible and sickening manner by the
Spanish garroters.
The British Chartered South African
Company, alarmed at the uprising in
the Transvaal, ask that large force
be at once despatched to the relief OF
Buluwayo
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-01
LAST EDITION.
O'CLOCK. A. M.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING
THE WEATHER.

Forecast for Wednesday The United
States weather bureau issues the fol-
lowing forecast for the next twenty
four hours:
For North Carolina Cloudy and
threatening, with showers in eastern
portion; southeasterly winds.
Forecast for Raleigh and vicinity:
Warmer, southerly winds; probably
occasional light showers.
Yesterday: Maximum temperature.
GA; minimum temperature, So; rainfall
or inch.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-01
A NEW x RAYS DISCOVERY.

San Francisco, Cal, March 31.-Dr.
Phillip Mills Jones, a local scientist
who made the first successful expert
ments ON the Pacific coast with the
x rays, declares that the rays do not
emanate from the Cathode, as has been
supposed, but from the Anode Dr.
Jones is supported in this position by
Professor Sanford, an eminent scientist
of Stanford University.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-01
N0pTu CARnIINA

Frank r. Webster, a leaf tobacco
broker who mysteriously disappeared
from Madison, arrested in Kentucky
for abandoning his wife.
Over q million pounds or manuiac-
tured tobacco shipped from Winston
during the month of March.
Argument by counsel in the Cheat
ham-Woodard contest heard i'm Wash
ington yesterday by Elections Conn
mittee No 2.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-01
DEEPER CHANNEL AT NORFOLK

Washington, March 31-The Secrc-
tary of Agriculture to-day sent to the
House an estimate for securing a chau-
mel $50 yards wide and 20 feet deep
from Hampton Roads to the United
States Navy Yard at Norfolk. This
would cost S360,000. A channel 200 feet
wide and 20 feet deep, in the western
branch of Elizabeth river, viii cost
$4,000.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-01

Indianapolis, Ind, March 31.-Gen.
Harrison, his private secretary, and
Dan Ransdell, ex-Marshall of the Dis
trict of Columbia, left this afternoon
at 2:45 for New York where Gen. Har-
rison viii next Monday be married to
Mrs. Dimmick
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-01
FINANCIAL

caused the bears to get scared yester-
day and try 10 get their contracts in
cotton back, and the market closed / to
3 points higher.
Armour withdrew his support from
wheat and it has declined 11a cents in
the past two days; no change in corn
and oats.
Provisions yesterday had another Is
cent break.
Increased activity and higher
range of prices in the stock market de-
spite further advance in exchange
rates
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-05-08
FORAKER ON THE PLATFORM.

The Senator-Eiect for Ohio Talks ON What
the Republican Party La Agreed Upon.
CINCINNATI, May 5.-Senator-elect
Foraker was the guest of honor at the
house warming of the Lincoln club. It
had been agreed that no speeches
should be made or called for, but late
in the evening there was suth a de-
mand for speech from Senator For
aker that he was obliged to respond.
In his brief address he said: THE re-
publican party is united. All its mem
bers agree on projections; they agree
on reciprocity, and they practically
agree on finance, and when the ma
tional convention meets at st. Louis
on June 16 it will declare its belief in
bimetallism, but will declare its oppo-
sition to the free and unlimited coin
age of silver until the same can be
brought about through international
agreement or some other means that
will neither advance nor depreciate
any dollar of the United States, but
maintain its face value in all the world
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-05-08
ERiirs OF FASHION.

Plaid silks are very fashionable fol
roung ladies, and they ere used for en-.
tire dresses or combined literally WITH
eanvas and mohair.
Old-fashioned silk handkerchiefs
with plain centers and palm leaf Dor.
aers are used for vests to wear With
sloth and pique gowns.
Chene floral velvet ribbon, with
sprays of flowers in subdued coioring
On dark background. is one OF the lat
lst novelties in dress trimmings.
Black grenadines. fiounced all ovcl
In soft colors, are very popular Tor
lressy gowns. and very useful as GOV.
ering for q m;ddls-aged black silk OF
satin dress.
All the new sleeves which do not ter
inmate near the elbow are cut long
enough to fall over the hand In points
Or with fIaring cuff, and usually have
the frill of lace to softentthe effect.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-05-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
Mr. GARRISON on the Sd said: Gov.
Mckinley will not be nominated by &C.
clamation, because I can say positive
ly that Allison, Quay and Morton will
remain in the contest and SO surely
will Reed. Mckinley will fall from 81
to 100 votes short of enough to nom
mate at the start, and the field will
represent from 525 to $50 votes"
Mr., MANLEY, of Maine, claimed the
situation on the Sd to be as follows
For Mr.. Reed. 1872; for Gov. Mckinley,
e75; for all other candidates, 217; con-
tested and doubtful, 95; Vermont, g.
This makes 757 delegates elected and
leaves 161 yet to be chosen. The con
test Is not settled yet, and can alone
be determined by the delegates when
they meet in convention at St Louis"
GEN. GRosvENoR claimed on the Sd
that there were 495 delegates elected
for Mckinley, with only 456 necessary
to nominate.
The second, Third, Fifth, Ninth and
Twelfth congressional districts Of
Michigan held conventions on the 3Oth
to elect delegates to st. Louis Each
gave ironclad instructions for McKin.
ley.
The state convention of republicans
At Springfield, Ill, ON the 3Oth declared
their preference for William Mckinley
for president, the motion to instruct
the delegates to the national conven.
ton for ,Cullom being amended by 8
motion to substitute the name of Nc
Kinley and carried by a vote of s32 to
SOB
PRINCESS BEATRICE, youngest daugh.
ter of Queen Victoria and widow of
Prince Henry of Batten berg, has been
appointed governor of the Isle Of
Wight, the Office previously held by
her husband. /
. On the outlook for the repu blican
presidential nomination Mr.. Joseph
Manley, of Augusta, Me. said on the
LIST that any speculation to the effect
that friends of Speaker Reed meant to
withdraw him from the contest were
baseless. Mr.. Manley also said that
Mckinley would never be nominated.
1T will be the issue that will win at
St Louis That issue will be sound
money"
SECRETARY CARLIsLE's recent speech
at Chicago on sound money has been
published in two or three different
forms and is being scattered all over
the west by the million copies
EX-SENATOR 7. c. PLArr said at New
York on the 1st that Gov. Morton was
in the presidential race to stay and
was not going to be withdrawn.
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FADs, FANcIEs AND FACTS.

A society woman of New York ha,
had her crest and monogram stamped
upon ordinary postal cards.
A custom of Puritan times has been
revived in Machias. Me-, in the opening
Of the town meeting with prayer.
Pingree's potato patch plan is to be
tried in Pittsburgh for the relief OF the
worthy poor. if it is possible to arouse
proper public interest.
A new spoon for serving green peas
has a perforated bowl. and the long
handle is appropriately decorated with
a vine that ends in half open pod Of
peas.
A fine Gala lily. dead black in color
Is said TO be in the possession Of won;
an at Switzer. Kan. The lily is described
as being IA inches long and growing or
4 stem II inches long and Of natural
Lealthful growth
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THAT INTERNATIONAL FAKE.

Let Us Assert Our Power As . Mighty Ma
ton and Resolve to Go 1t Alone.
Messers. Reed and Morton seem now
to be recognized as the candidates Of
the monometallist wing of the repub
lican party; and if it be possible for
Messrs Platt and Marley to be gov.
erned by considerations of principle in
the canvass, we shall see combina
ton of their forces for one of these
two gentlemen in the interest of wha'
is called sound money" The Ohio
''straddle" has not conciliated the
friends of the gold standard, because
it speaks of independent bimetallisn
as possible policy, and that, the golG
standard people declare, is impossible
Most of them have no faith in the pos
sibility of any international agree
ment for the restoration of silver, and
therefore, are quite ready to accep'
allism on those terms. They do no.
want anything bnt the single stand
ard, but if the discussion and advoca
cy of international agreement will
serve to please the people with hopes
of getting the moon, they have
no objections The utmost Of
their hopes is to commit the
republican party to doing nothing
with silver until Europe consents
The tone of exultation with which
their organs received the announce
ment that England would not think OF
going back to bimetallism was impo
little but illuminative. 1t showed what
a piece of hypocrisy is this talk of an
international agreement in the mouths
of most of those who are using it t.
put off all serious dealing with the
monetary problem.
We cannot regard any talk about in
ternational agreement as sincere. if il
be not accompanied with willingness
to shape national legislation SO as te
accelerate it's adoption by European
powers Mr.. Lodge made such a propo
sition in the congress next but one
before this. when he proposed to levy
| higher duties on imports from coun
tries which do not treat silver as a
means of payment equally with gold
The professed supporters of interna'
tional bimetallism joined in shouting
that proposal down, without any dis.
cussion of its merits They are in
favor of bimetallism by agreement,
but opposed to anything which may
help us to get it-Philadelphia Ameri-
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-05-08
A COSTLY STAMP,
"Ten-Cent Baltimore Provisional" Bring


"Ten-Cent Baltimore Provisional" Brings
the Sum of e4,4OO.
ST. LOUIS, May "A postage stamp
called the "ten-cent Baltimore provi-
sional," the only one of the kind known
to exist, was sold yesterday by ST.
Louis firm to w. A. Castle, of New
York, for 81, 400, the largest price ever
paid for a stamp. 1t is about ~
inches long and one-half inch wide and
has the name of James NJ. Buchanan
written across its face. 1t was issued
by Buchanan between 1s45 and 1s47,
when he was postmaster of Baltimore.
The stamp was found by Louisville,
KY, young man named Duncan in old
family papers and he was on the point
of destroying it together with the
others found at the same time before
he learned their value. He sold them
all to the Mekeel Stamp Publishing
Co. of this city for $40, ZOO.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

TWENTY-EIGHT women were recently
asphyxiated at Castle Welda. near
Carlshafen, Prussia. The night was
cold and they built a fire in a stove in
the room in which they slept and in
the morning they were found dead.
The unfortunate women had just ar.
rived from Holland.
RECENT passengers from China re.
ported the black plague still prevalent
in Hong Kong and Canton.
AN explosion of gasoline engine de-
molished the five-story building, 43G
and 432 Walnut street, Cincinnati. at
eight o'clock on the night of the 4th.
Six bodies were recovered from the de.
bris and it was feared that there were
more killed. About IS persons were
more or less severely injured. There
was intense excitement, all the horses
breaking away and much damage to
glass being done in the vicinity. As
the night passed women, whose hus-
bands had not reached home, went
down to the scene of the explosion and
added their laments to the confusion.
was opened at New York on the night
of the 4th by Gov. Morton, who pressed
golden key that discharged cannon
in San Francisco. New Orleans, st.
Paul, Augusta, Me-, and London, Eng.
simultaneously the electric lights
around the different exhibits blazed
out in different colors and created a
sight like scene from fairyland.
THE war department has sent out a
circular to the commandant of each
post to report on the condition of off,
GERS serving at such posts, with q vie "
of placing those physically incapacita-
ted on the retired list at an early date.
The will of the late Baron Hirsch,
the Jewish philanthropist, has been
opened at Bruenn. He leaves S., OOO,
600 for charities in Moravia.
AT Newark, n. j., /, 800 carpenters
struck on the 4th for an advance in
wages from S. to S.. rs and eight hours
on Saturday. If the carpenters did
not win within a week all other trades
were to strike in sympathy.
EDWIN PLANT, of Clayton, Mass. &,
shot and instantly killed his wife Ada,
and then fired bullet into the breas,
of his two weeks-old child, killing it.
Plant fed to the swamp near Karka-
pot river, which was surrounded by q
posse. After lively exchange of shots
with his pursuers, Plant killed himself
ABOUT 1000 men stopped work and
demanded salary at the shipyard OF
the Newport News (Va.) Ship Building
and Dry Dock Co. on the 4th. Thi.
action on the part ofrthe employees was
brought about by the new time sys
tenn. called the clock system The men
claimed that much time was lost in the
morning and At dinner hour on &C
count of having to wait in turn to reg
lister.
THE strike of the 900 employees of tn,
Electric Railway and Light Co. at Mil
waukee was inaugurated on the nigh
of the Sd, and, as each car was rur
into the barn. motorman and conduc
tor left it not to. return until the de
mands of the union for increased nay
recognition Of the employees organiza
ton and several minor concessions ar,
granted Serious trouble was expected
rs the company had been arranging
| fill the strikers places.
/: JUDGE W. d. MINIcK, of Morehead
KY. was recently shot in the arm b
Pin Tolliver, uncle of the famou
Craig Tolliver, and died on the LIST o
blood poisoning.
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MULTUM IN PARvo.

The use of time is fate.-Chapman.
Suspicion shall be all stuck full OF
eyes.-Shakespeare.
Death and life are in the power Of the
tongue.-Bible.
A thought often makes us hotter than
q fire.-Longfellow.
Fellowship in treason is bad ground
Of confidence.-Burke.
Man is the weeping Animal born t.
govern all the rest.-Pliny.
The creation of thousand forests i,
in one acorn.-Emerson-
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THE first practical application of the
bicycle in war is to be made by the
Cuban insurgents. On the steamship
Ardandhu, which cleared from New
York a short time ago, was a supply of
wheels, shipped by q firm of New York
manufacturers. They were consigned
to Neuvitas, Cuba The wheels are to
be used by the officers of the insurgent
army. AS the rainy season will soon
set in over the island, the actual worth
of the bicycle in war should get q Sc
we're and thorough test.
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sTANEoRD's REQUEST PAID.

The California University That Bears His
Name Relieved from Embarraasment.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 4. -After three
years of litigation over the estate of
the late Senator Stanford his widow
has at last been enabled to pay the be-
quest of So. 500, 900 which the senator
left to Leland Stanford, Jr., university.
The payment means an assured income
to the great institution, and this as
sured income implies an end to the
financial stress that has been more Sc
rious than anyone not admitted to the
inner history Of the Stanford estate
knows.
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DURING last year 1894 immigrants
were returned to the countries from
which they set out because they fell
within the restrictive provisions Of our
immigration laws. OF these were
shut out because they were idiots, S
because they were insane, 1,7O1 because
they were paupers, because they were
convicts and $50 because they were
contract laborera In addition to this
1s9 persons were returned before the
end of their first year for coming upon
the poor relief.