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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-17
The MASSACRE AT KONG
FRANCE CALLED UPON 10 PUNISH CHIEF
SAM0RY.
The Variegated and Bloody Career OF This
Cruel Tippoo TIb--French Troops
Surprised.

Paris, Nov 1G.-A special despatch to
the Journal brings serious news from
the Niger region, West Africa. In or
der to punish the inhabitants of the
town of Kong, capital Of the Kingdom
of Kong, in the Mandingo region OF
upper Guinea, for their refusal to supply
his troops with provisions, chief Samory
has razed the town and massacred sevs
eral thousand natives. For several
weeks the French newspapers have
been calling upon the government to
send a punitive expedition against Chief
Samory, who on August Goth last, sur
prised and routed a French detachment
of native troops sent to occupy terri
tory he had offered to evacuate. Two of
the French officers and forty-four men
were killed. Kong is rich and fertile
dependency Of the Freuch ivory coast.
If the report published by the Paris
Journal is confirmed, the French gov
ernment will have no alternative but to
send such a punitive expedition as the
French press has been urging it to un-
dertake.
Samory, who is otherwise known as
Samadu and who was formerly known as
the "West African Mahdi," is a Tippoo
Iib, on large scale. A wholesale
slave hunter, he first came into contact
with the French in 1882; but in the tive
years war which followed, he was re-
peatedly defeated. In the latter part OF
1884 he carried his slave raids far to
the South into Sulmania, capturing and
destroying Falba, the capital of Sula~
mania and the great emporium for the
trans-Niger trade. A vast amount of
country was devastated; thousands OF
natives were slain; thousands more were
sold into slavery; and the country was
so depopulated that trade come to a
standstil and the colony of Sierra Leone
was reduced to the verge of bankruptcy,
These conquests brought Samory
fresh accession of strength; and in 1885
he again commenced operations against
the French province on the north. Two
severe defeats, however, brought him to
terms, and in February, 1887, he signed
a treaty of peace with the French, in
which he recognized that the river Niger
was the boundary between his territory
and that of the French.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-17
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

Mobile, Ala, Nov. 16.-Four new
cases of fever were reported today.
There were no deaths. Four new cases
are reported from Whistler.
London, Nov. 16.-George Brewers
two year old bay filly, Nellie r., ridden
by TOD" Sloane, won the Apethorpe
selling nursery handicap at the second
days racing of the Leicester November
meeting to-day. There were eleven
starters.
Bremen, Nov. 16.-The British steam
er Strahdon, Capt. Philip, which arrived
here yesterday from Savannah, has
been quarantined for FIVE days, the incu.
bative period for yellow fever. One
OF the crew Is dead and II In
thought the death was due to yellow Jack
on board.
Louisville, KY, Nov. 16.-The General
Assembly Knights of Labor to-day Sc
lected Chicago as the next place of meet
ing, and the first Tuesday in November.
1898, as the time for the next meeting,
Reports from several minor committees
were heard, but nothing OF Importance
was taken up. Grand Master Workman
Hicks said that the Assembly would noe
It's business before Saturday.
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BY THE BELGENLAND
A DRIFTING CREW PICKED UP JUST IN
TINE.
SULTAN MUST SALUTE b
The Narrow Escape of the Survivors of the
Abandonel Schooner theodore
Dean

Philadelphia, Pa, Nov. 16.-The clos
ing portion of the voyage of the steam
sAIp belgenand, which arrived to-day
from Liverpool, was eventful and inter-
eSung to those on board, and to the
watchful eye of the lookout can be cred
tied the saving of Il number of lives. On
Sunday morning the water logged and
sailess schooner Willie l.. Maxwell Was
sighted and she was taken in tow to the
great relief of her crew of ten men, the
vessel having become helpless. On Mon
day morning a small boat was sighted
drifting helplessly with five men aboard.
When the men were taken on board the
steamship it was found that they We're
the crew of the abandoned schooner
Theodore Dean, Captain James +. Hod-
gon, of the Dean, had been washed from
the small boat and lost. Capt. Hodgon
resided at SOmerville, Mass, and leaves
a widow, two daughters snd son.
The Theodore Dean left South Amboy
ON Friday last for Norfolk with a cargo
lof coal. When off Absecon Light she
lost her main sail and on Saturday at
noon when 40 miles Il. n. e. of Bar
negat, she sprung a leak, plank hav.
ing been torn from her side. The YES
sci filed rapidly and with four feet of
water in her hold the captain at 1:3U
lp. M, ordered the small boat lowered
and the crew, six men all told left the
ship. An hour later the vessel was
seen to sink. There was a heavy sea
and tremendous gale and the small
boat was kept to rights with great diff
Guilty. At 6:30 O'Clock, the boat was
raised almost on end and Capt. Hodgor
was swept overheard. The oars were
also lost and those in the boat were
left helpless. The boat drifted from
that time until 8 o'clock Monday morn.
! ing, when it was sighted by the Belgen
| land and the men rescued from theil
Iperilous situation.
| The ship-wrecked men suffered greatly
from cold and hunger They had will
/ them in the boat only a small quantity
Iof biscuit and a gallon jug of water
| The men rescued were James Butler
mate, of fremont Maine; Frank Miller
colored cook, Of Providence, and Thos
Thompson, Marion Olsen, and Christian
Olsen. The rescued men spoke feeling
lily of the treatment they had received
on the Belgenland.
! The Theodore Dean was built in 1856
at Tottervil'e, n. Y, and was owned il
| Boston. Her gross tonnage was 81!
land net tonnage POI.
schooner Willie l.. Maxwell
which was taken in tow by the Belgen
land on Sunday morning off Nantucket
was launced only year ago at Frank
4 lin. Maine. She is 175 feet in length
and her capacity is 261 tons.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-17
GERMANY's HAYTIEN PROGRAM.
Proposes to Send an Imperial Commits
sioner Accompanied by War Ships.


sioner Accompanied by War Ships.
London, Nov. 16.--The Berlin cores
pondent Of the Times says:
'.Not only the radical, but the clerical
Journals are of opinion that the conflict
with the republic of Hayti, and the at,
tack on the missionaries in China VIII
be used to influence German public feel
ing in favor of extensive naval plans.
Various journals, meanwhile, continue
to urge the government to take prompt
measures for reparation in Hayti.
The Neuste Nachrichten considers the
action of Hayti not only an offense 10
the dignity }bf Germany, but an insult to
Emperor William.
The insinuation in the documents pub
hshed in the Haytien newspaper Moni-
teur that Germany had been acting as If
she contemplated a protectorate of Hayti
Is described as a ruse to excite the mis-
trust of other powers, particularly the
United States. It is said in official
quarters that the government is consid
ering sending an imperial commissioner
to Port Au Prince with the German wal
ships.
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THE GULDENsUPPE SAW.

New York. Nov. ia saw which
may be the implement with which Will
liam Guldensuppe's corpse was dismems
bered in the cottage at Woodside, l.. l.,
where he was murdered in June last,
was brought 10 District Attorney
Young's office at Long Island City to.
day. 1t Is said to have been found
buried to the handle in the meadow ly-
ing between Flushing and College Point,
just as Mrs. Mack is said to have told
the officers on Sunday last that it was
placed by Martin Thorn. The saw wilt
be produced when Thorn's trial is re-
sumed on Monday next. In anticipation
of this latter event, a special venire Oe
200 jurors will be issued tomorrow.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-17
A DEADLY KENTUCKY FIGHT.

Lexington, KY, Nov. 16.-Merritt
Martin, saloon keeper and agent for
the Chattanooga Brewing Company, and
j. j. Ryan, also saloon keeper, had
a terrible fight tonight In the latter's
place of business on Main street, as the
result Of which Ryan is dead and Mar
tin Is locked up charged with murder. The
men became angered over an account
and began fighting with their fists. By
ISLANDERS interfered and separated them.
While Martin was being held away from
Ryan, the latter hit him blow in the
face, whereupon Martin drew his pistol
and began shooting. The friends were
panic stricken and fed leaving the
fighters together. Martins third shot
struck Ryan in the left arm and a fourth
entered the abdomen. Martin was ar
rested. Ryan died while being carried
to the hospital. He was a single man
aged about 35.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-17
JACK FROST COMING.
A Fall in Temperature Today for tn
Southern States.

A Fall in Temperature Today for the
Southern States.
Washington, ID. c., Nov. 16.-Special
bulletin: Frosts and freezing weather in
yellow fever districts.
The most decided cold wave Of the
season is indicated for Wednesday
morning throughout the yellow fever
districts of the South.
Freezing wheather will probably oc-
cur throughout the northern and CEN
trail portions of the Gulf States and in
the Ohio valley Wednesday morning
and frosts generally throughout the
Southern States Wednesday or Wednes-
day night.
The change in temperature will be
most marked in the Ohio valley, where
it is now above 60 degrees. The warm
weather on the Atlantic coast today
will probably be followed by a decided
fall in temperature and two Or three
days of cold weather for the season.
(Signed) WILLIS l.. MOORE,
Chief Of Burea u.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-17
HARRIS MEMORIAL EXERCISES.

Memphis. Tenn, Nov. 16.-The memo.
rial exercises which were originally to
have been held in Memphis on October
9th, in commemoration of the life and
services of the late Senator Isham G..
Harris, but which were postponed
twice on account of the presence of vel
low fever, first in the South and then in
Memphiss will be held in this city on
Sunday night next. Senator VIM. B.
Bate will preside over the meeting and
addresses will be delivered by Senator
David Turpie, of Indiana; Congress.
man John Sharp Williams, of Missis-
sippi; Governor Robert l.. Taylor, Ten.
nessee; Hon. John VVertrees, Nashville,
and General George w. Gordon and Col.
Casey Young, of Memphis. Elaborate
preparations have been made for the af-
fair, and the prominent men from all
of the States In the Union and especially
from the South, have been invited. It
is expected that there will be present a
number of Representatives and Senators
from neighboring States.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-17
THE BAPTIST CONGRESS.
,1sxa Of the Ablest Ministers and Theo-
loofsts of the United States Gather.

logtsts of the United States Gather.
Chicago. Illinois, Nov. 16.-The fif-
teenth annual session of the Baptist Con-
rress of Ministers was convened at
Emmanuel Baptist church this after
noon, 1t will remain in session three
days. Many of the ablest ministers ana
theologians of the Baptist church or the
United States are in the city, and Will
take part in the discussion of the Con-
gress.
When the Congress was convened To-
day. Rev. johnson Myers, ID. d., pas
tor of Emmanuel church, made speech
of welcome, and was followed by Judge
Henry Y. Freeman. Rev. Adina Ken
drick, d. D., of st. Louis, president OF
the Congress, responded, and then the
work of the first day was taken up. Ihls
afternoon the subject was: Are the
teachings of the Apostles of equal au-
thority with those of Christ"
This evening the theologians discuss
ed the question: rs baptism pre-re-
ouisite to the Lords supperT
The writer's who read papers on the
question were G. B. Edgar, ID. D., OF
Montgomery, Ala, and 0. Z. Clifford, y.
D.. of Buffalo; Rev. Il. S. Henson, u. u.
of Chicago, and Rev. r. III. Conwell, ID.
D., of Philadelphia, were the appointed
speakers.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-17
BIG PAPER CHANGES OWNERS

Cincinnati, O., Nov 16.-A change
took place to-day in the holding of the
stock Of the Commercial Tribune, which
at the April meeting of the stockholders.
&c not sooner-will put the control OF
that paper in the hands OF the late
owners of the Tribune. This change
was brought about to-day by James NJ.
Glen, president of the old Tribune Com
pany at the time of the consolidation Of
the Tribune with the Commercial Ga
zette purchasing $4,000 of the stock
Of an eastern trust company. This pur-
chase, with the previous holdings of the
Tribune syndicate, gives them majority
of the stock and puts the control of the
Commercial Tribune back into their
hands.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-17
THE TENNESSEE WAY
TAXABLE VALUE OF RAILROAD PROPER
TIES INCREASED S33, 100000.
The Railroad Commissioners Sustained Against
The Companies by the State Board
Of EquaIizers.

Nashville, Tenn, Nov. 16.-Since Oc-
tober 18th the State Board OF Tax
Equalizers has been investigating the
tax valuations placed upon railroad'
telegraph and telephone compaies by
the Railroad Commission and hearing
arguments made by the companies for
reductions in valuations. Today the
Board of Equalizers handed down its
finding which sustains the Railroad
Commission in increasing the taxable
value of these properties nearly Soo,-
100000 over the valuation OF last year
The reductions only amount to Sl,9oo'-
600. The increase in revenue TO tne
State, it is estimated, Will be S99,ooo
each year.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-17
CHILDREN BURNED TO DEATH,

Eufaula, Ala, Nov 16.-Three half
gron children lost their lives in the
burning of an old frame house,a mile
from White Oak, Ala, Sunday night.
Their parents, Louis Brown and wife,
went to church leaving their children
aged II, 8 and 6 years, locked in the
house, supposedly for their own safety,
but the old building caught fire soon at
ter the parents left and when they re-
turned they found it a heap of ashes.
In the center of the mass of embers, the
bones of the children were found in q
heap, showing that they had huddled to-
gether in their fear and agony. 4
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-17
MAI. CowPER MUST co.
Mckinley so Cooked the Civil Service
Regulations That the Commission is
Powerless.

Washington, Nov. 16.-The appeal OF
Maj Cowper, of Atlanta, Ca, from his
removal as assistant postmaster in favor
Maj Smythe, has reached here. The
Civil Service Commission, however, can
see no relief for the action, for an Il
mendment to the civil service rules
made by President Mckinley on July
% last, excepts one assistant postmas-
ter, or chief assistant to the postmas-
ter, of whatever designation at each
postoffice from the civil service require
ments for examination or registration be-
fore the commission. Chairman Proc
tor, of the commission, who returned to-
night from New York, stated that under
this rule there was no action the COM
mission could take in the matter and the
discretion thus given the postmaster was
only restricted by forbidding removals
for political purposes. If the postmaster
gives no reason for the removal there is
no remedy for the deposal.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-17
FOR FATHER AND SISTER.
Young Guinan Exonerated for the Kill
ing of District Attorney Jones.

Carson City, New, Nov. 16.-Julian
Guinan, the boy who shot and killed
District Attorney Charles Jones recent
ly, wasto-day exonerated by the grand
jury.
Jones, who was a married man, had
been paying attention to Guinan's sister
anu upon the day of the shooting met
her by appointment near her home. DR..
Guinan, her father, interrupted the meet
ne and quarreled with Jones. The boy,
who was watching from an upper win
dow of the house, fearing that his faith
er would be killed by Jones, who had a
reputation as gun fighter, shot and kill
ed the attorney with a rife.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-17
JOINT TRAFFIC ASSOCIATION.

New York, Nov. 16.-The Board of
Control of the Joint Traffic Association
was in session here to-day. Among the
subjects discussed was that of passenger
and freight rates east and west bound,
which have been in chaotic condition
for some time. Other subjects consider
ed with the relations OF the Grand Trunk
and Canadian Pacific Railroads toward
the Joint Traffic Association and the
matter Of excess fares charged ON fast
trains between the seaboard and Mis-
sissippi valley cities.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-17
POSTAL TREATY SIf

Washington, Nov. 16.-The finalact on
the part of this government in the rat
ifiation of the treaty adopted by the
recent Universal Postal Congress. was
taken to-day, when President Mckinley
signed the formal convention or treaty
and Secretary of State Sherman had the
government seal affixed. Postmaster
General Gary had already signed. The
treaty takes effect January /. 1899. 1t
modifies the conventional the Vienna. In
Congress, now in force.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-17
AMERICAS NEW POLISH BISHOP
Mr.. Anton Kozlowski Has Been Goa
secrated and VIII Start at Once.

Bualo, N. Y, Nov. 16.--Apoinary
Karwowski, who is a conspicuous figure
in the affairs of the Polish Independence
Catholic church today received cable
message rom Anton Kozlowski, dated
Wiesbaden, Germany, as follows:
II was consecrated as bishop for the
Polish Independent Catholics of North
America last Sunday. leave for Amer
lea at once"
'IYhat means that at last the Poles of
this country will have bishop of their
own" said Mr.. Karwowski.
Rome would not give US one before
we left that church, and now we indie
pendents will have one."
Bishop Kozlowski has had success
full parish in Chicago for some time.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-17
sMALL'S DAUGHTERS DIVORCE

Richmond, Va, Nov. 16-Judge T.. @.
Minor, in the law and equity court this
morning, entered decree in the Ford
vs.. Ford divorce case dismissing the
latter from the docket, and dissolving
all injunctions existing against the Ford
estate. Mrs. Loretta Small Ford and
Mr.. Stuart III. Ford, by counsel agreed
This, it Is stated, is by no means to be
construed as a reconciliation Of the
husband and wife.
Mrs. Ford Is q daughter Of the Rev.
Sam Small.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-17
MR.. wIsWALL's FATAL FALL.
a Boston Capitalist is Found in
Atlanta Cellar and is Dying.

Atlanta, Ga, Nov. 16.-H. Wiswall, a
capitalist of Boston, fell into the base
ment of the Grand Opera House build
ing last night and was found this morn
ing able to move about, butt speechless
and unconscious on account of injury to
his brain. Tonight hospital physicians
decided upon operation and the skull
was trepanned in hope that the pres
sure upon the brain might be relieved.
He is in dying condition.
Wiswall was stopping at the Aragon
Hotel and was undoubtedly trying to
enter the drug store in the building when
he fell in the cellar, striking on his head,
producing concussion of the brain.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-17
THE PICKER MUTINEERs.

Norfolk. Va, Nov. 16.-B. Rand Well
ford, assistant United States District
Attorney, arrived here to-day from Rich
mond to be associated with District At
torney White in the case of the Olive
Pecker mutineers, which comes up be-
fore a special grand jury in the United
States court here tomorrow.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-17

Philadelphia, Pa, Nov. 16.-President
Fetterolf, of Girard College, has issued
an edict against football, and hence
forth the students of the institution
must keep off the grid-iron. The ban on
football was the result of a boy having
his leg broken last Saturday during .
practice game.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-17
NEW ORLEANS SCENTS FROST.
There Were Yesterday Eleven New
Cases and Two Deaths.

New Orleans, La, Nov 16.-There
were eleven cases and two deaths to-day
from yellow fever. The weather turned
cold this evening, strong wind blow
ing Frost is promised for the next day
or two and the outlook is very bright.
Among the new cases are Rev. D. g,
Whitinghill, pastor of the Coliseum
Baptist church, and r. e. Craig, presi-
dent of the water works company. Near
ly dozen ministers have been afflicted
since the fever started.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-17
A TOBACCO TRUST GoBBLE
This Time the American Eagle Company
the Prey Of the American Tobacco
Company.

Detroit, Mich, Nov. 16.-Arrange-
ments for the absorption of the insol
vent American Eagle Tobacco Company
by the tobacco trust are practically com.
pleted. Officers of the trust are in De-
troit taking inventory but the price to
be paid is not given out. The business
oil. the company will be gradually worked
into the various plants of the American
Tobacco Company, throughout the coun-
try.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-17
RESENT NEGRO MINERS.
A Race Riot Probably Imminent Unless
the White Miners are Reinstated.

the Whlte MIners are NtIHsUdteu.
Washington, Ind, Nov. 16.-The strike
Of the Cabe and Company miners which
has been on since last May, is further
from settlement than ever.
A proposition submitted by the miners
to the operators last evening was reject
ed. The operators have imported num-
Der Of negroes from Kentucky, who are
now operating the mines and It Is not i'm
probable that blood-ehed will be the re-
suit In the near future.
As time passes matters are getting
more serious. Miners with no food, fuel,
or clothing, seeing their places in the
mines filed by non-residents and they
colored, are on the verge Of despera ton.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-17
LUMBERToN FEELS THE WAVE

FIVE Gents Cotton Drives Merchhnt
Morrison to the Wall.
Lumberton, N. O., Nov. 16.-(SpeciaD
Mckinley prosperity struck Lumberton
last night: j. III. Morrison, one Of the
best men In the place made an assign
ment to A. w. Mclean. Liabilities ST.
600; nominal assets, $4,000. Inability
to collect and cent cotton did It,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-17
MORE HoNoRs FOR COL. TURK
The Popular Passenger Agent is Pre-
sented With a Silver Gavel.

Washington, Nov. 16.-At the regular
monthly meeting OF the Southeastern
Passenger Association here to-day Col
w. A. Turk, general passenger agent of
the Southern Railway was presented
with a solid silver gavel in honor of his
recent election to the presidency of the
American Association of Railway Pas
senger Agents. Col. Atmore, general
passenger agent of the Louisville Nash
vile, made the presentation speech.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-17
THE CZAR'S HUMANE HAND.
He win Rebuild the Burned Christian
Quarter in the Island of Canea.

Vienna, Nov. 16-The Greek Bishop
of Canea, Island of Crete, has been no
tilted by the Russian consul that the
Gar proposes to rebuild, at his own
cost, the burned Christian quarter of
Canea and to enlarge the orthodox
Greek church. His Majesty has also
granted large sum of money for the
relief of the poor of Canea.
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Leads all O10r North Carolina Dai88 BO N8W8 and Circulation
BEkING SEA MEETING.

Great Britain, Canada and the United
States Reach a Friendly Understand
ing.