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And TRO Members of tho Royals Family
 Are WrithinS in Agony.
MRS. ROYALS LIKELY TO DIE
Negro Was x-C Convict His Time Was Purchased by Royals-Worked About the Place as Chore Boy and Was Chaslised.
 Lynching Threatened.
Special to The Age-Herald.

Meridian, Miss, March 4-To get re- .venge for a fancIed wrong. Will Hill. a 16- year-old negro resorted to fendish means this morning by putting a box of rough on rats in the coffee at the home of Supervisor J. R. Royals, who lives in the western part of the city.
 As result of this diabolcal act MT. and Mrs J. R. Royals and Miss Annie Me Kenzie, a sister of Mrs. Royals, are toss ing and writhing in the most horrible pain, Mrs. Royals being at the point of death. Drs. lizard and Lowry are con- stantly: at their bedsides, doing all that medical science can suggest to counteract the effects of the poison.
 Talk of Lynching Rife
 Will Hill was safely lodged in the coun- ty jail. thanks to the prompt action of the police. He was immediately arrested and locked in the city jail. but as the news spread and lynching talk became rife. he was removed to the county bastile.
 Hill is an ex-convict. He was sent up about eight months ago for burglary. Su- pervisor Royals bought him out of the stockade and took him to his home. where he was to stay until he had worked out his fine as "a chore boy around the place. Yesterday MT. Royals chastised the negro for failing to do his work properly, and giving aback talk to Mrs. Royals. This morning the negro arose early and after building q fire in the stove put water in the coffee pot along with a box of rough on rats. he had found about the place. Mrs. Royals was surprised at this extra ordinary display of industry, but attribut- ed it to the whipping.
 Experienced Burning Sensation
 MT. Royals had taken but a few sips of the coffee when he experienced burn ing sensation in his stomach. Shortly af- terward the whole family were seized with violent vomiting spells and physicians were hastily summoned.
 MT. Royals little boy Lonnie, first sug-
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HOMESTEAD BILL GOES THROUGH.
II VIII Settle the Old Fisheries Controversy
 Other Appropriations.

Washington, March 4-After a debate lasting several days, the senate late this afternoon passed the bill extending the homestead laws and providing for right of way for railroads in the District of Alas ka. Comparatively little discussion of general interest was created by the bill
 Section 13, providing for certain bond ing concessions to Canada in lieu of pro- visions to be extended by the Dominion government to this country. however, in- duced pretty lively debate as it brought tions on the New England coast which has been pending between the United States and Great Britain for 100 years The statement was made on the floor of the senate that there was every reason to believe that by the passage of the bill the fisheries question could be settled without great effort as assurances to that effect had been received from large and influential element in Canada
 The senate at 5:05 went into executive Monday.
 IN THE HOUSE.
 Washington, March 1.-Two more ap- propriation bills were sent to the presi- dent today, the pension bill and the con sular and diplomatic, both of which went through their final stage in the house to- day. This was private bill day. The most important dctlO0 taken was acQu1eScence in an agreement to make the bill appro- priating alsut S1,20O,000 for war claims, ap- proved by the court of claims, under the provisions of the Bowman act, a special order for next Friday. The claims car ried by the bill, 730 in number, are for stores and supplies seized during the war in the southern states.
 Only two other bills were passed today, one to pay the heirs of Sterling T. Austin about 1000 for cotton seized during the war and the other to pay an aggregate of 8, 360 in small claims growing out of back pay, etc., earned during the war
 Must Not Touch Mckinley
 During the debate on minor relief bill, Mir Handy (dean) of Delaware, who was attempting to contrast the promises maiie by President McKinaew in his inaugural a year ago today with their fulfiliment, was called to order for not speaking to the question before the committee MT Payne sustained the point of order and an appeal was taken. The democrats protested that the practice had always been to allow the widest latitude in coumittee of the whole and MT. Mc1dillin declared that this and Kindred rulings marked the gradual decad- ence in the right of speech in the house.
 On the appeal the vote was 91 to 91. MT Payne, who was in the chair, announced the result 'srhe vote is a tie" said hes .tand tine chair votes in the affirmative, so that the decision of the chair stands as the decision of the hos1se.'s
 At o'cloek, under the rules, the house recessed until o'clock, the evening session to be devoted to private pension bills
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< THE MARBLEHEAD AT TARGET PRACTICE The Fleet Has Beet Kept at
 Feather-Edged Readiness TO START TOWARD HAVANA Public Temperature On the Rise at tho
 Cubap Capital. NEED OF IAN MEN-oF-wAR Twenty-FiS undred Men Aboard
 the Fleet
ly-Fi < .undred Men Aboard
 the Fleet
COULD HOLD THE CITY OF HAVANA
No Effort VIII Re Made to Raise the Hull oj the Maine Is Split Like a Mackerel Forward and Aft-would Not
 Re Practicable.
Special to The Age-Herald. BY ALFRED HENRY LEWIS.

Key West, Fla, March 4.--Today tho Marblehead entertained herself with target practice, big guns and small. The targets were fioated a half mile from the ship.
 Since Monday, when sicard got his orders to be ready to sadl at the drop of the flag, everything aboard the fleet has been main- tained at a feathers edge of readiness. There is not vessel from the Indiana to the Ericsson on which steam Is not con> stantly maintained for speed of 12 knots an hour.
 Every boat from Havana reports public temperature on the rise and popular con- ditions worse. Blanco has little or no con- trol of the town. More than 10 per cent. of the real city population are against Blanco and deeply for Weyler
 It all makes crying case for American men-of-war. Long should have the whole fleet in sight of Havana, if not in the har- bor proper.
 How many men have you aboard the fleet in Key West and Dry Tortugas?Y asked one of the fleet commanders
 "Aobuot 2,500, should say, he replied.
 ~Nould that be enough to stay4a riot in Havana?' l next queried.
 Enough to Take the City
 Tt would not only be force enough,'' re- piled the commander, ito protect Ameri- cans and hold the rioters at bay, but once in the streets with our Gatling guns we could take and hold the city.
 It has been decided to foreEo all effort -----~~>~----~~----~~~ s,~-~~>>-->--
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gested that the negro had poisoned them. remembering seeing him handle the box the day before. Search was made. and the empty box was found in one corner of the room. The strongest evidence against Hili is that he did not drink any of the coffee. He is an inveterate coffee drink CT, but this morning he refused absolutely to touch the coffee.
 Citizens are highly indignant and it is likely that an attempt will be made to force the county jail
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THREE HOUSES DESTROYED.
< Disastrous Blaze in the "HolIow" of Flor-
 ence.
speciaf 10 me Aee-Herald.

Florence. Ala, March 4--F1re this after noon at o'clock destroyed three houses sits,ated between the business part of the citv and the river in the part of the city known as the '17ollow." The buildings were the property of the Chattanooga Loan company, and were worth perhaps $750 ai- Together. and being insured for $150 each.
 The fire broke out in the middle of row of half a dozen cottages, and the wind be- ine from the east, the two next to the one in which the ire originated were destroyed. The advance of the fire was stopped by q large number of men and boys who had coneregated, and who by main force turned the burning building over and down the hill.
 The fire department got late start and never reached the conhagrafion at all. though 1t is doubtful they would have saved any of the property.
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NOT SIMPLY TO BE PREFERRED
 BUT FOR R6TUHL POSSIBILITIES

building for Brazil in France which are also reported to be about to pass Into Spanish possession, are presumed to be the Dead0ro and the Floriona which are build ing at La Seinne, Tou1on. These are small but powerful battleehips. Their tonnage is only s.1e9s but they carry four 10-dnch rifles in turrets, in addition to two 6-ineh and four 47 inch guns and a good second battery. Their coal endurance however Is small and their forte would seem to be coast defense operations or cruising near a base of supplies.
 Comment at State Department
 The London reports also caused com ment at the state department In some quarters the feeling was expressed that in the event of the court of inquiry show ing international phases of the Maine ex- plosion, the obligations of neutrality were as strongly imposed on Great Britain and Brazil as in time of war.
 But as a general rule foreign govern ments are free to sell warships, directly or through their citizens up to the actual date of hostilities-
 Admiral sicard's precept convening the court of inquiry now Investigating the disaster to the battleship Maine has been received by the navy department, and was made public today. It is important main ly in showing the exact scope Of the in- quiry, and the extent to which the re- port will go Aside from the usual or t,>f~tf st%o findings of fact and it's opinions on these findings Admiral Sicard directs the court to record any information as to person or persons, mot connected with the navy of the United States, who are in it's opin- ion responsible in part or wholly, directly or indirectly, for the explosion and loss of the Maine" with the names and de- gree of responsibility in each case. The court is to make It's report to Admiral Sicard.
 Wants Dry Tortugas
 The war department, it Is understood, will endeavor to induce the treasury officials to return the Tortugas islands to its juris- diction, but at the treasury department It is said that no request has yet been made upon the secretary of the treasury for the re-transfer. Should the request be made, it is stated that it would be compiled with at once. Some years ago this island, then under the control of the war department was turned over to the treasury department for use as a quarantine station with the stipulation that it would. be re-transferred at any time upon request. Since then the government has established on Tortugas one of the most complete quarantine sta- tions in the country. This fact, however, would not even be considered should the war department need it for its own pur- poses. Possession, it is said, would be given it in forty-eight hours.
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UNCLE SIM GOULD ThK6 6UBh WITH EhSE
Government in Possession Of Maps Which Mould Facilitate Landing of Troops in More Than
 Hundred Ports of the Island.

Another reason is the character of fhe ground. There is a fair road, as roads go, which our engineering corps would put in order quickly for transportation purposes. The distance of fifty miles could be covered by troops in three days easily, and could be made in two days by forced marches
 From Mantanzas province into Havana the country is rolling, and would afford little protection to an enemy. Supplies for Havana come by rail In some instances.
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Two weeks after declaration of war between Spain and the United States Ha- vana would be occupied by Uncle Sam's soldier boys Old Glory would be floating over the palace where the captain-general and the press censor now are, and Boys in Blue'' would be eating sugar cane and saying, "Never touched me"
 The Island of Cuba was seemingly map
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on the southern coast. and controls the ca ble to Trinidad, Manzanirlo and Santiago de Cuba. It would be necessary to protecf the cable and also the railroad line at this point. An attack on BatabaEo would have to be made from land. as the water is too shallow and the banks too numerous to risk warships in the region of the Isle of Pines.
 With 25.00o troops and artillery pounding at Havana from the rear and the battle-
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Cutting Passen ger Rates

Houston, Tex, March 4.-Passenger rates to St. Louis. KansaA City and the east are In worse shape today than they have been for months One-way tickets are sold at almost the purchasers price and there is lively cutting by ticket agents to secure the business. A Philadelphia ticket was sold from here via St. LQuis today for $15 less than tariff and a flair price for St. Louis and Kansas City is $1b and SIP, or about one-h half tariff.
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MCCOY wins

Hot Springs, Ark, March 4--Izid Mccoy, champion middle-weight pugilist of the world, met and defeated Nick Buriey of California in the arena at Wilmington park today. The Californian was knocked out in the second round.
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NsshviIle the Victor
snecial to The Age-HeraId.

Nashville, Tenn. March 1.-The Nashville Athletic club defeated the Chattanooga Athletic aesociafion In a stubbornly con- tested baeket ball game tonight by a score Of 19 to 1 The Chattanooga team played 8 Cd coiieIderable s1<ilL Tho first hn1f re- suited Nashville [, Cha&<anoo1n ( The lo- osl team sWept every {hln1 before Ghom b tic la6t half, their b6e1flful paasiuo md
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sfesmer (aleado,rc Ashore

Cape Henry, Va, March 4-T7e steamer oleadowe, Capt Harrison. from Delaware Breakwater for Norfolk to load grain, Is ashore two ndlee south of Cape Henry life-saving station. The crew of twenty- three will all be saved, twelve having been taken eff already with brooches buoys. The utorm Is etiil raging. The velocity of the wind is upward of fifty maies an hour
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Cod wave Buy heeters from Alabama
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Iv4 LNAE COAL q per ton Tslephops
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The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1898-01-08
By VIRTUE OF A DEED OF
trust, executed by Daisy F. Rhodes to

By VIRTUE OF A DEED OF
trust, executed by Daisy f. Rhodes, to
the undersigned trustee, aa,ed Dece m Der
8. 1896, and recorded in deed hook No.
10, page 3i3, in the clerks Office Of Roar
ole county court, conveying the property
h ,reinatter described TO secure to NJ. A.
and G. d. Cyphers. the payment of TWO
notes of six hundred dollars each, dated
December 3, 1896, due in one aud two
years from dase, with int crest from date,
and default having been made in the pay
IDent of the first of said notes, and having
been required so to do, shall on MON
m, on the premises, offer for sale at pub
lie auction TO the highest bidder, the fol-
lowing described property situated in
Roanoke county, two miles southeast of
Roanoke city, on the south side of Roa-
noke river, to-wit
Beginning at an oak stump on the
south side of o road represented on plat
by l, thence south rs degrees poles to 2
in the middle of the road, thence along
in the middle of the road south 20 Ia de-
grees east 81 Ito poles to 3, thence leav-
ing the rond and running with S. MUSES.
line north 1-2 degrees east II poles to 4
on bank of u branch, thence along said
bank north 81 degrees east II poles to S,
north 40 degrees east II 40 poles to 6,
north 10 Ia degi ees east 5 $40 poles
to the river just above the mouth of the
brarch at Z, thence up the river as it
meanders north SO I-2 degrees west
poles, north 73 "a degrees west 10 poles,
north 10 degrees west 10 poles, north III
degrees west 3 10 poles TO a stake at s,
corner to w. h. Blackburn, the nee with
same leaving the river south 81 degrees
west 30 93-l00 poles to n stake or the east
side OF the road at o, thence south 81 de-
grees east II 30 10O poles to'the beginning
and contains S acres 3 rods and % 9-l0
poles.
TERMS: Cash as to enough to pay the
cost of executing this trust including
omMissionssand all taxes which may he
in arrears. and to pay one note of six
hundred dollars with interest from De
cember s, 1896. and six hundred dollars
o n December :, 1898, with interest from
Decembe" S. 1896, which sNall be secured
by deed of trust, and the residue, if any,
shall be made payable and secured in
such manner as the said Daisy f. Rhodes
shall prescribe and direct, or in case of
two equal annual pay ments with interest
from day of sale, secured by deed of trust
upon the said property.
This sale will be made subject to three
prior deeds of trust, one for six hundred
dollars with interest from February s,
1897, one for four hundred dollars with
interest from January IL, 1876, one for
three hundred and eleven dollars with in
terest from September 10, 1896. All of
which are duly recorded in the clerks
Office of Roanoke county coort.
ID. T.. KEFAUVER,
Trustee.
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LEGAL NOTICES.
J. Z. PECK, Auctinneer.

- ~. C<SA,
TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE
RESIDENCE AND GROUND AT
TACHED.-By virtue of two deeds of
trust executed to Thomas j. Kirkps trick
and Chas. NJ. Black ford as trustees by
A. Pope and wife, bearing date upon the
2Sth of February and the first day of
June, respectively, in the year 1901, the
undersigned, as surviving trustee, will
upon TUESDAY, THE 25TH DAY OF
JANUARY, 1893, AT 10 O'CLOCK
NOON, sell by way of public auction, ON
the premises, the house and land attach
ed now occupied by Thomas w. Miller,
which may be described as follows:
Beginning at the northwest corner of
the Boulevard and + street, thence with
the Boulevard west 100 feet to point.
thence north between parallel lines $50
feet to an alley and known and designa-
ted as lots 8 and 8. block s, AS shown by
the map of the West End Land Company
on file in the clerks Office of the hustines
court of the city of Roanoke, Va, and
being the same property conveyed to
Evalin Pope by deed from S. w. Jamison
and wife, dated March 18th, 1885, and of
record in said clerks Office i'll deed book
26, page 235.
TERMS-Cash as to $1,000. with all
accrued interest," thereon, past uue taxes,
insurance and cost of sale, and as to the
residue of the purchase money on such
terms as Thomas w. Miller may direct,
and should he fail to give direction. on a
credit of six, twelve and eighteen
months, purchaser giving bond with ap-
proved personal security, hearing interest
from date.
CHAS NJ. BLACKBOARD,
Surviving Trustee.
Is 10 Is IS TO %
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1898-01-08
A GREAT ADVOCATE.
Good Stories of George Wood, Lawye,
of Many Years Ago.


Good Stories OF George Wood, a Lawyer
of Many Years Ago.
There are still some members of tho
New York bar who remember George
Wood, tho contemporary of Daniel
Lord, Ogden Hoffman, William Kent,
James Il. Brady and other distinguish
ed lawyers of many years ago. The VEN
cradle Benjamin D. Silliman has de-
scribed George Wood as being conspic-
uous for his great learning, his wonder
full power i'll stating his cases and his
mathematical power i'll argument. He
was great advocate. Frederic r. Cou-
dert somo time ago told tho following
story of Mr.. Wood: 81 can remember,
looking back to early boyhood, that ven
erablo figure and recall speaking to one
OF his contemporaries about him. Tho
person to whom I spoke said yes, q
client OF mine got an opinion from
George Wood once WELL 1 said,
how was it done, how much did he
charge" for even i'll those early days
the professional instinct asserted itself.
i will tell you, my friend replied.
My client went to him and said, "Mr.
Wood, l would like to have your opin-
ion OH these papers. - "Givo mo the pa
pers and come back tomorrow, said the
great lawyer. The papers wero produced
and the client departed. The next day
he presented himself before Mr.. Wood,
and the latter said, Fifty dollars, !"
and nothing more Tho client was in
tclligent and assumed that he should
pay him that sum, which he did. After
waiting awhile he asked, "What about
my papers, Mr.. Wood?" 'They arc not
worth q d." replied Mr.. Wood, and
he mado no further comment Oh tho
case. -
David Dudley Field used to relate
the following: George Wood was the
pcrsonification of logic and cold as
marble. L was sitting beside him III
court ono day when no arose to argue
a case, and as he arose his coattails
caught the back of tho chair and hung
over it. Wood stood up and spoke, 1
should think, for fully two hours, but
never once did those coattails move.
ION one occasion a young lawyer
who had engaged George Wood to try a
case was asked, How did tho Judge
charge the jury?' ooh, George Wood
charged tho jury, was tho reply. -
New York Times.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1898-01-08
The Servant was Willing.

AT a dinner party tho coachman had
como i'll TO help wait on the table.
Among tho guests was ii very deaf old
lady. Coachman, i'll handing vegetables,
comes to tho deaf party peas,
mum?" says Jehu. No answer. peas,
NUM- (Loudcr.) Still no answer from
the D. r.; but, placing her ear trumpet
to her ear. she lifts it interrogatively to
the man, who, glancing down and seeing
tho tube, calculates: "Well, it's rum
way OF taking them, but 1 suppose sho
likes it. Here goes'' And down went
the peas into tho ear trumpet. San
Francisco Wave.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1898-01-08

OLD friends got up'a purse Of 500 and
went to his tailor and ordered new
suit of clothes for him. They told the
tailor that it was i'll payment Of q
wager. When the suit was made, they
packed it in n box with new hat,
shoes, collars, shirts and two scarfs and
sent it to BlNnk. A letter was inclosed
which read:
DEAR BLANK-By express send you tho
tutfit that lost by my last election wager.
'The signature was such that no one
could read it. There was some specula-
ton as to how Blank would take this
hint Two days later he turned up at
the club in his new clothes, and when
he was congratulated OH them he said
they were the result of an election
wager. The new clothes were too much
for him, however. He got drunk Oh tho
strength of them and staid drunk ut the
club for the next two weeks, when he
was dropped from membership. New
York Sun.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1898-01-08

TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE,
REAL ESrATE-By virtue of deed of
trust, dated November 18th, 1895, rec
orded in the clerks Office of the corpora
tion court for Roanoke city, Va. in deed
buck No. 100, pace 2e3, from John Sex
ton,et uX. to the undersigned,ssto Jos. T.
Engleby or..assigns, the payment Of SO,
800 aud interest, and default occurring in
the payment'of said note, and being so re
quested by Thomas j. Burke, the holder
of the note evidencing said debt, 1 will
on SATURDAY. THE GOTH DAY OF
JANUARY, 1893. AT 12 O'Clock m., in
front"of the premises, proceed.to sci. .nt
public auction, 10 the highest bidder, all
that certain parcel OF land lying in said
city and described rs follows:
beginning at the northwest corner of
Nelson street and Salem avenue. then, e
northward with Nelson street % feet to /,
point, thence westward parallel. with Sa-
lem avenue 80 feet more or less to an alley,
thence southwark para lei With Nelson
street % feet To Salem Avenue, thence
eastward with Salem avenue 80 feet to
place of beginning.
TERMS: Cash as TO enough to pay
the cost of executing this trust aud to
pay the said su II # So 800, with interest
from November Eth, 1895. ana the res
due, if any, shall be payable in two equal
annual instruments with interest FROM
day OF sale and secured by lien on said
land. THOMAS W. MILLER,
'Nr,t