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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-09
JUDGE DAYS CUBAN MISSION.
He Will Simply Investigate and Report
on the Death of Ruiz.

Washington, April S.-Julge W. T..
Day, of Canton, who has been charged
by the President with mSsion to Cuba,
will be in Washington next Saturday
when he will receive his final inStruc-
tions. From administration authority
it can be stated that the scope of Judge
Days mission has been much exaggerat-
ed. He has been selected as lawyer to
specifically investigate the dealh of Ruiz
and is not commissioned to handle the
Cuban-Spanish situation generally. The
President did not ask him to do this and
he does not expect to attempt it. He
will, however, report to the President
all that comes to his knowledge as Incl
dental to the investigation he VIII
make.
After going through the papers in the
Ruiz case that are on file in the State
department, Judge Day will leave for
Havana. 1t is. not thought that the in
vestigation in the State department will
take over ten days after Judge Day ar
rives here.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-09
BIDDING FOR ARMOR PLATE.
Only one Bidder Who Wanted Monop-
" on Condition Precedent.

Washington, April S.-The navy de-
partment received to-day but one bid IN
/ answer to the advertisement calling for
! proposals for supplying about 5000 tons
of armor for the three battleships, Hi
| nois, Wisconsin and Alabama, and this
one was so irregular in form as to be
| far wide of the advertisement. The sim
! gle bid was from the Illinois Steel Com
pany, of Chicago and it proposed to sup
ply the 5000 tons of armor desired at
| $500 per ton on condition that it be Civ
| en- twenty year contract to supply all OF
the naval armor. In such case the re-
mainder of the armor beyond the 5000
tons would be supplied at $40 per ton
! The armor was to be paid for in gold
coin. An alternative proposition contem-
plated the erection of ar armoor plate fac
tory by the government and its supply
with steel by the Illinois company. No
awards have been made and the whole
matter probably will be referred to Con
greSs.
The interest felt in the results of to-
days bidding was manifested by the
number of persons present. Lieut.. Stone
was there for the Carnegie company;
Vice-President Davenport and Messrs.
htlSS ulIu LUZ
President Harrah and Mr.. Petrie for the
Milvale Steel Works; Charles Cramp,
for the Cramp Ship Building Works;
VIM. =. Walmer. Second NicePresident
of the Illinois Steel Company Hyde,
President of the Bath Iron Works; ex-
Secretary Herbert and a gathering of
naval experts from the ordnance, en-
cheering and construction bureaus.
In view of the fact that Congress by
an amendment to the naval appropriation
bill had limited the sum to be paid for
armor for the three battleships to
maximum of $500 per ton, as against a
bout $500 now paid. there was no sur
prise expressed by the persons present
in the Secretary's Office when Secretary
Long, taking his place at the head Of the
table announced that only one bid had
been received, which was from the Hi
nois Steel Company, of Chicago, con-
Germ which now for the first time enters
the field of competition for supplying the
government armor. Before the bid was
read Lieut. Stone, for the Carnegie Com
pany and Vice-President Davenport, for
the Bethlehem Company presented to Sec
rotary Long written statements of the
reasons which had impelled these compa-
nies which have heretofore supplied all
the armor used by the government in
building the new navy, to refrain from
submitting proposals in answer to the
present advertisement.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-09
springfield Republican.

When State Controller James 4. Rob-
erts, of New York, brought forward his
scheme Of graduated system of trans
fer or inheritance taxes. it was denounc-
ed as "Populistic,' Characteristic" and
'Rryanistic" by the leading newspaper
opponents of opposite tendencies all
through the State. Yet this plan, en-
bodied in legislative measure, has pass
ed the New York Assembly by Il unani-
nous vote.
The radical nature of the proposed tax
rs makes this result significant and eX-
traordinary. The present inheritance
tax laws of l per cent. on personal prop
erty passing to direct heirs: and > per
cent. on such property going to collateral
heirs. The proposed arrangement pro-
vides that on personal estate passing di-
rect heirs, the rate Of tax shall be l per
cent. as now. where the estate does not
exceed S1,OOO,OOO: above that, the entire
personal estate shall pay an additional
tax of one-half of l per cent. on each adj
ditiOnal $4,000 or major fraction there
of up to S2.5OO.0OO; and fax of l per
cent. on each additional $250.000 above
that up to S4.00O.00O. and estates in ex-
cess Of that sum shall pay not more than
10 Dcr cent. Personal property passing
To collateral heirs rs to be taxed ) per
cent. as now, where not in excess of
S1OOo0O. and each additional amount &c
S21O,OOO or major fraction thereof, VIII
add per cent. to the rate, provided,
however. that estates exceeding $4,000
GOO shall lay no more than Il per cent.
These are provisions calculated to take
the breath away from those able Massa-
chuSetts legislators who ventured to inn
pose Il tax of l per cent. on certain re-
mote collateral inheritances and let d.
rect iDheritanceS go free. and then trem-
bled over what they were pleased to con-
slider most radical and dangerous step.
If the proposed New York rates had been,
in force at the time Of Jay GOulds death,
for example. the State would have taken
to iSelf 10 per cent of Il personal estate
estimated at SS0.000.00O. or SS,000.O00
i'll Il lump. That will give the reader
IN idea of the extent to which the pro-
posed law goes
Such taxes, of course. will be charac-
terized in millionaire circles as cOntisca-
tory and outrageous altogether: but the.
States which make possible these great
property accumulatiOns and protect them
in paSsng down to the heirs, mev Justly
require some such measure of cOmpon-
sation as is provided in this bill The
unanimity of the New York Assembly
in favOr of these impositions indicates
in ,triking manner the spread of the
conviction among the people that the i'm
menSe individual Accommodations of the
time have not been bearing a just share
IN the burdens of government.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-09
BUCK KITCHEN ON THE POPU-
LIST
FrOm the Press-Visitor.)

Capt. Buck Kitchen made one of his
characteristic speeches at Scotland Neck
last week, which was attended largely
by ladies. He declared that he had no
confidence in any man who wants office.
or the political parties in North Carolina
he said the Populist party, the party
with which he has affiliated two years,
has more rascals in it than any other,
according to its number. He said Ma
rion Butler is the worst man in it. and
Harry Skinner next worst. He de-
clared there had been an abortion Of
justice to the people of North Carolina
in their effort for financial reform, and
he further declared in thunderous tones
that the people will not long submit to
the rule of any race save that of the An
glo-Saxon.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-09
ELECTRIC BITTERS.

Electric Bitters is medicine suited for
any season, but perhaps more generally
needed when the languid, exhausted feel
ing prevails, when the liver is torpid
and sluggish and the need Of a tonic and
alternative is felt. A prompt use of this
medicine has often averted long and per-
haps fatal bilious fevers. No medicine
will act more surely in counteracting and
freeing the system from the malarial
poison. Headache, Indigestion, consti-
patton, dizziness yield to Electric Bit.
tiers. SOC and 500 per bottle at any
drug store.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-09
THE INSURGENTS SURPRISED.
The Surrender OF a Leader, and Del
gadO Ill.

Havana, April S.-The Gerome bat
talon, while accommodating in the vicin-
ity of Encrucijada, province of Pinar Del
Rio, surprised the insurgent force COM
manded by Perico Delgado and the re-
Imainder of the force commanded by
Ducassi. The enemy left eleven men kill
ed on the field, and the troops captured
eight prisoners and quantity of arms
and ammunition.
Delgado is reported to be seriously ill.
and Vidal Ducassi is reported to have
been wounded on March 2. The second
of the Ducassi brothers is also wounded.
according to a rumor which has been re-
ported to the Spanish authorities.
Advices from Pinar del Rio say that
the insurgent leader Col. Jose Amieva
Fuentes, has surrendered to the Spanish
commander at that place.
A detachment Of provincial guerillas
Of Matanzas, has captured DR.. Jose Ago
Gown, the auditor Of the insurgent war
department.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-09
HOLDING THE FORT.

A special from Morganton says that
DIR. Murphy, superintendent of the West
ern Hospital FOR the Insane, received the
new spoil hunting board courteously al
the asylum when they met on Wednes-
day, but when Chairman Lusk made a
demand for him to turn the insane over
to the new board, he promptly refused to
do anything of the sort. DIR. Murphy
wisely and firmly followed the course
pursued by DIR. Miller at the Goldsboro
Hospital and DR.. Kirby at the Raleigh
asylum.
In refusing to surrender these institu-
tons to the pie brigade, these superin-
tendents are acting within the strict linn
its of the law. They have been elected
to manage and control these institutions
for term that has not yet expired.
They are advised by the ablest lawyers
in the State that the revolutionary leg
islation repeating the charters of these
institutions is unconstitutional and there
fore null and void. They owe the duty
to the insane in their institutions not to
leave them to the tender mercies of the
pie brigade unless the Supreme court
of the State declares the law under which
the new directors are acting valid. In
that event, they would obey the highest
court. Until then they will go quietly
about their business, treating the unfor-
tunate insane with the skill that has
made their management blessing to the
the commonwealth.
Until then! And it is our opinion that
when the Supreme court renders its decis-
ion, they will be protected in the property
they have in their offices, and the State
will be saved from the disgrace of con-
yerting the hospitals for the insane into
dumping grounds for political hacks.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-09
WANTED.

The Sun Life Assurance Company OF
Canada has a number Of good positions
,pen for the right men. District man.
gers and special agents in the Ordinary
nd superintendent and solicitors in the
Thrift department wanted. Policies for
ess than one thousand dollars classed as
THRIFTY Apply to
J. II. JOHNSTON,
Manager for North and South Carolina.
Raleigh, N. o.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-09
EFFORTS TO FREE MELTON.

Washington, April S.-The State de-
partment has been informed that the
health of Owen Melton, one of the Com
petitor prisoners, which has been re-
ported to be very bad, is now much i'm
proved. When he RECEIVERS completely
an effort will be made to separate his case
from those of the other prisoners ON the
ground that he was a newspaper man
and not combatant and secure his re-
lease.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-09
Hunter is Quorumless.
Continued from LIST page.)

The impossibility of Hunters election
is now conceded by some Of his leaders.
Their concession of probable defeat
comes with a last bitter anti-Hunter
statement from the six bolting Repub-
leans who absolutely burn the last
bridges behind them and make the posi-
bility of their return to him too remote
to no con sidered
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-09

A special from Washington to the
Richmond Dispatch says that Judge Will
liam Smith O'Brien Robinson, of Colds
boro. will succeed the late Judge Sey-
mour, and that speculation is busy in
making Senator George Butler, of Samp-
son, Robinson's successor. Senator But
Ter does not reside in the district and
would be ineligible.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-09

The friends of DIR. Charles w. Dabney
will rejoice at his appointment to 50, 500
position in the Agricultural Department.
He is as able and resoureefal man. 1t is
a great compliment t. him.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-09

Mr. l.. III. Webb is writing an inter
esting series of sketches and reminis-
cences of Richmond county. There are
mines of interesting historical data I'M
touched in every county. 1t must be
brought to the surface in sketches, re-
miniscences, and monographs before a
perfect history of the State can be polish
cd NV the statesmen and scholars.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-09
SALUTATORY.

SALUTATORY.
1t is with feelings Of peculiar satisfac-
ton that we appear before this august
community as a champion of Mckinley
and Sound Money, and at the same time
as an ardent admirer and warm sup
porter of the cause of William Jennings
the hOstler-in this mission of double
dealing, in that we shall try TO be "all
things to all men,
We are hustlers from start to finish.
We are now starting, and it will not be
long, with our present bright prospects,
before we finish. We are constructed
after THAI fashion which pretends to
build up and at the same time tears
down. We can kick up more hell in
twenty-four hours than can be allayed
in twenty-four years. We have no re-
gard for established institutions, neither
de we have to ask any one for favOrs.
We have our own skillet, and we can
carry tat least until we get ready to
lay it down.
If any other paper or printing institu-
ton does not pay obeisance to us, we will
demolsh it along with the grand old
Jackson Democratic party. The fact
is, we are the authors of all wisdom and
the projectors of all April fools. We are
much in little. and more little than much
We are the trained of all trained jour
nalists. and We defy the world and also
the Southern COnfederacy 10 produce our
equal.
If we don't succeed in knocking every
thing out in front of us in ninety days,
you may take up our notes and other evil
dences of Indebtedness, and we will slip
away like the fieeting ray shadow
We are larger to-day than we will be
six months from now, and you had as
well turn the other corner of your mouth
around in order to be ready for the
change. We are accustomed to doing as
we please, and we will cuss out any
thing that does not suit our fancy. In
other wors, we are cuSsers from Cusser-
vile, and might properly be cassed
among the profane authors.
Winston has d better 0pening-that
is for wind-than any city we have met,
it. In other words, a fool and his money
are soon parted
AS you now have to advertise with
us in order to get your money back, we
will proceed to do as we please until the
money gives out, and by that time we
will have had enough of You, and you
will have seen all you could care to of us.
Until then. bear with us as best you
know how. because we are not built for
explanations and apologies.
Just plain business. you pay your
money and see the show.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-09

We do not always agree with Capt.
Kitchen, but he spoke parable in Scot
land Neck last week when he said that
the people of North Carolina will not
long submit to the rule of any race save
that of the Anglo-Saxon. And he might
have added that they will not much
longer submit to the rule Of men who
owe their election to pandering to the
ignorant and vicious vote Of the State.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-09

Keysville, Va, has been practically de-
stroyed by fire. On Saturday nearly
half the town was burned, and on Mon
day nearly all that was left was destroy
ed by flames. The loss was very heavy.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-09
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The special on the sixth page from
Norganton is copied from the Charlotte
Observer. The credit was omitted by
mistake
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-09

Phoebe Couzens advises the womans
rights advocates to stop it and get mar
ried. 1t is a trifle late for some of the
girls to take advantage of the sugges-
tion.-WashingtOn Post.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-09
BRYANISM DID IT.

II Has Forced all Parties to Take Strong
Grounds TO Tax Large Wealth.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-09

The old people say that wnen you
hear the whippoorwill's first song you
may know that winter is gone. As the
w1hippoorwill was heard last Tuesday
night we may expect no mare wintry
weather this spring.-Chatham Record.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-09

When Baby was sick. we gave her castoria.
When she was Child. she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-09

TO CURE A GOLD IN ONE DAY
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money II H.
tails to cure. 4De.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-09

Entered at the postoffice at Raleigh,
n. c., as second-class matter.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-09
CAUSE OF THE FATAL WRECK
A Spreading of the Rails-Bodies of the
Dead Sent to Their Homes. and Debris
Cleaned Away.

Winston, \. c., April S.-(SpeciaD-
The wreck which occurred near Pilot
Mountain on the Cape Fear and Yadkin
Valley Road yesterday afternoon was
caused by rails spreading. The bodies
of the men killed were sent to their re-
spective homes to-day for burial.
Engineer Powers. who was scalded,
is not considered serious.
The wreckage was cleared away this
evening so that trains could pass.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-09
AN APRIL DAY SATURDAY.
Some Spicy Things About WinstOn's
New Daily Paper.

The following, purporting to be the
salutatory of Winston's new daily paper,
the Journal and bearing date of April,
1. 1897, comes to us. 1t seems that the
Journal promised to issue it's first num-
Der on that day, but failed to arrive on
schedule time. That evening the follow
ing, printed on one side of a small piece
of paper, was distributed on the streets.
Though the authenticity of it is doubtful
and the authorship unknown, it is here
printed for what it is worth:
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-09

Col. A. E. Buck, the new Minister to
Japan, has rendered to Mr.. Joel Chan
der Harris the position of First Sec
rotary of the Legation, and we under
stand Mr. Harris has made up his mind
to accept the same. Uncle Remus"
would make big impression in Japan.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-09
NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS.

The News and Observers telephones:
Editorial Rooms ..............'. ~
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-09

The Worth of Their Money
Smythe-"I don't see any sense in hiring
professional singer, and then having
him monopolize the entire afternoon,
as the Hitowers did to-day
Mrs Smythe.-''Well, Mrs. Hitower
explained it to me that they didn't get
him for mere song" brooklyn Life.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-09

A st. Louis woman has achieved dis
tinction by appropriating $4,000 insur-
ance money she got ON her husbands life,
to paying his debts. The insurance was
for her benefit and could not have been
touched by the creditors of her deceased
husband, whose memory she thus hon
ored.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-09

If our State government has grown
worse during the past decade under the
quickened study of the tissue of the
day." it has been because of the fact
that with the trend of public thought
towards reform there has marched a
little army of hungry ofice-seekers,
whose own personal interests have COM
pletely shut out thought or care of every
other interest, public or private.-Scot-
land Neck Democrat.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-08-07
THIBoDAUx, LnE sAMEDI, I AoUT 1897

| genefalslnsnt CONNIE une chose Il
| lui, tandls quill nous traite CONNIE
dss prisonniers qui lui ont echappe
Il semble que notre independence
soft un vol fait son autorite
aussi Dieu salt que dc denis &c
justice, dc manques Gle fol, dc taxes
ct dsamendes Les plus honnetes
gentilshommes ne regardent Tor
quils peurent soutirer a des bour-
geois que CONNIE une restitution, eh
ell ch !
-Mais du moins yous etres
libres
Our, condition de nous SOU
METRE aux lois de notre corporation,
de subr les reglements de Ia con-.
mune, d'obsir aux ordres du seisne,lr
don't nous sommes les yassaux.
Notre liberta, yoi.-tu, resemble a
celle du soldat qui doit garder lss
rangs, porter ses armss dune GEL
tame faeon, ct obslr tous ses
OFFICERS.
All yous avez ralson, maitre
la vraie liberte ne peut etre que la
OH il Y une seule loi pour tous, ct
une loi qui ne defende que ce qui
mutt au plus grand nomhre.
-Auesi sommes-nous obliges de
Iussr, rsprit Laurent. Ne pouysnt
aller droit en- avant, nous ssrpentons
entire les reglements ct les privileges,
eli eh eh Nous cachons notrs
argent, en- nous faisant petits quand
les maitres men ont pas besoin, pour
lie montrer ct dsyenir exigeants le
jour on lis en- manquent, eh eh |
eh Travaille, Jehsn, travaille sans
regarder Ia fatigue, ct til noas
aidelas TN Jour faire la noblesse
eette guerre en-dessous. Dans dix
ans, 81 tu lie veux, tu peux stre ,les
notres.
Suite au proclaim au9ero.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-08-07
AVENTURES DU CHEIALlER
De BELLE-ISLE PARMI LES
INDIENS ATTAKAPAS.

En- 1719, la Louisiana await passs
dss mains de Crozat 4 Ia Compaxnie
des 1ndss, qui y envoya mile hon.
mes pour la peupler. Cs fut sur un
de ces yalsseaux que Belle-Isle sem
barqua pour cetts nouvelle coionie
ayeo d 'autres OFFICERS ct volontalrss
au port de Lorientl lie batiment
fut porte par les ceurants ct les
vents eontraires la baie St-Bernard.
dams lie golfe du Nexique. LIE capi-
taine envoya So chaloupe a terre
pour y faire eau. Belle-Isle st
quatre de ses camarades sly embar-
querent. Apras que Ia ehaloupa cut
fait So provision deau, ellie attendit
tongtemps les officers qsi etaient
parts pour Ia chasse mais ne les
voyant pas revenir, ellie regagna lie
nasire abandonment les chasseurs q
leur sort.
Perdus dams un pays ineonnu,
Bells-Isle ct ses compagnons errerent
longtemps sur cette cote deserte, ne
yoyant dun cote que Ia mer, ct de
fautre qu'une tsrre habit6e par les
sauvages anthropophages. lis no
salient quittsr les bords marscagsux
de la mer, desesperes au point de ne
sayoir quel parti prendre. lis err
raient le long du rivage, avec lie faux
espoir que lie evaisseau ne s'stait pas
sloigne, quill reviendrait les chercher
lis vivaient d'insectes ct d'herbes
sans savoir 81 elles itaisnt bonnes
GU mauyaises !; 60 oui pourtsnt les
incommodait encore lie plus, c'etaient
les maringouins. lis passerent plu-
sieurs jours dams cetts situation.
Bslle-1sle await aman6 avec lui
du nayire un jeune chisn qul lul
etait fort attacha. Ses compagnons,
pousses par 10 faim, songersnt tuel
l'animal. Bslle-Tsle Y consents,
cedant d leurs pressantss sollicita-