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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-07
SHOE Mnnufncturers Fan.

Lynn, Mass, December 6.---V. J. A. M.
Jones, boot and shoe manufacturers OF
Boston and this city, today made an as
s.gnment. The firm is one OF the oldest
sbne houses In the city and manufactured
GOODS for the Southern and New England
trade. The cause for tine failure is said 10
he inability to collect outstanding accounts
and a general dullness. Liabilities Sl3V'-
600: assets unknown
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-07
CAGES nEPoI,r.
The London Mail Says 1t Gives En-
HInnd Food for NeMcctInn.

The London Mail Says 1t Gives EN-
gland Food Tor Reflection.
London. December 1.-THE Daily Mail.
commenting cditorlally this morning on
the report of Secretary of the Treasury
Gage. says: ENGLAND can not complain of
the American proposals. for building up a
merchant marine Americas action Will ba
precedent for Great Britain to follow
closely IL our merchant service. which IL
our empires bulwark, is seriously threat
ened by American competition The Amer
itan expert figures are SO prodigious as TO
oonionnd free traders; and the time haze
arrived for England to consider her whole
economic position. Tho imposition OF n
tariff upon non american exports In the
West Indies must be taken as n signal proof
that the American support OF tho open door
In the Far East can not be counted upon
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-07
BIDS ON LUMBER.
Texans VIII HIVE mn Opportunity on
spring Contracts.

EDrfnE CUUtrHtfH.
Especial Dispatch to The Post)
Washington, December 6.-congressman
Cooper caEc5 today at the war department
to ascertain why Texas lumber men were
rot given an opportunity to bid on the lum-
ber contracts given out by tho government
last month. He ascertainea that the lum-
her contracts wero given out by tbs quar-
termasber general stationed at Atlanta.
ard the bids for same were published ex-
tgusive.y in Georgia papers and We're not
asked for by the war department direct.
The bids asked for 18.00O.000 feet OF lum-
bar, but contracts for only 100000 have
been awarded. The other 100000 feft will
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-07
RIVERS AND BARBoRs.
Administration Repu bIicnns Wall
Oppose Any Approximations.

Especial Dispatch 10 The Post)
Washington. December 6.--There is de-
velopipg determined opposition to river
and hiaihor bill at this session, and the OPP
position all comes from the republicans
and close seconds and supporters of the adj
ADMINISTRATION. The cause for It lies in the
recommendation for AN increase in the
regulir army with increased expenditures
a big appropriation for TIE pavy and the
ubter failure OF Tine Dingley bill 10 produce
sufficient revenue, even with the assist
ance of the war revenue tariffs. to meet
these expenditures.
Hon. Tom Ball believes, however, That
the opponents OF e river an1 harbor b IL
will he defeated and that such a bill Will
be reported this winter.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-07
Galveston Cotton san nurniuy

Liverpool, December 6.--The British
steamer EdenlhaIl. Captain Jones, at this
port ftom Galveston. previously reported
with fire In her cargo, has not yet had It
extinguished After clearing most OF tho
cargo below decks and in the lower hold
fire broke out again, demonstrating flooding
the fore part of THE vessel
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-07
The sampson Beats the Record.

Especial Cable Dispatch to the Now York Her-
nid ana Tho Houston Post. Copyrighted
1913. by James Gordon Bennett.)
Port Antonio. Jamaica4 December g.
The Admiral Sampson OF the American
Mail Steamship company line arrived here
Ribs morning beating the record from
Philadelphia.
COMMISSIONER Porter is quite satisfied
with his mission TO Cuba. tariff has
been arranged to throw several thousand
dollars more into the treasury.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-07
NIcnrngun,s Cabinet.

Especial Cable Dispatch to the New York Her
aid md Tho Houston Post. copyrighted
1893. by James Gordon Bcnnett)
Panama. December 6.--The Hcralds COR
respondent at Managua telcgraphs that tho
new cabinet inaugurated yesterday is com
posed az follows: Foreign affairs. Joaquin
Samson; finance. Felix Pedro zelaya; In
terior, Fernando Abanunza; public works.
Leopo!do Ramiroz Mariana.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-07
BUSINESS MATTERS.
stock Sold +by Assignee.

La Grange, Texas, December 6--H. G.
Schihmaoher, assignee, sold the stock Of
groceries and fixtures formerly owned by
A. s. Davidge to Yeager Hill q Sons of
smithyille for 5000, they being the highest
bidders. Sealed bids We're received by the
assignee hanging all along from $500 up-
ward The purchasers will Immediately
move this stock 10 their large store in
SmNthYille.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-07
saxvn,in Destroyed.

Texarkana, Texas. December 5.-The entiIo
saw mill plaIt and machinery Of the Hieko''
Lumber company at ogemaw. ARK, forty
fiye miles north OF here on the, Cotton Boy
railroad. was totally destroyed BY hIe early
this morning. The mil WIN De reoniit ~
In the past three years. Loss is estimated al
SAC 600 and insurance $4,000
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-07

VIRGINIA MAsoNs.
Princc Of Walcs IN he Invitcd
10 the Centennial,

Richmoud. Va. December e.
At a meeting OF the Grand Lodge
OF Virginia Masons tonight tho
celebration Of tho Washington
centennial was taken up.
II occurs on December I. 1899.
II was decided TO extend On invl-
tation to be present TO the Priace
OF Wales. grand master Of Ma
sons OF England.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-07
Petty Maneuvers in the Reconquered
Soudan viii Not Be Tolerated.
THE SPEECH CAREFULLY PREPARED.
Officials In Power Advised to Discontinue
Their Irritating Actions.
AMERICAN AMBASSADORS CoMpllMfNTED
sir Edmund Pleased with the "'Ncw
diplomacy" lnnuaurated DUR
ing the Present Year.

| Paris. December 6.-At the silver Jubilee
banquet of the British chamber OF COM
mSroe here this evening the ambassador,
Sir Edmund j. Monson. referring to the
| new dhplomary,' which is said TO have
come into fashion during the past year
said IT was chiefly due TO the enterprise OF
| the president. but also 1t was In a measure
due to the mother country's innovations
and to the originality OF the American
mind---ever watching to improve every
thing---wih.ch Will perhaps end by wiping
THE diplomats OF the old school off the face
of the earth
The ambassador said: II am quite ready
to acknowledge that there is much good
in the particular Innovation tncurring in
my mind at the present moment. America
has invariably sent to England the finest
representatives of her Intelligence and
culture. and / think we may attribute in
no little degree tho happy development Of
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which these representatives performed
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informed as the foreign minister,, Sir nh
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''oh u i'oV' VI winch ne declared was one
cf the most significant factors in restrain
ing the combatiya elements now menaci,o
the neaco ., ,g,a .ar,h
App'''sA ~ iaA''e 70 uisapuse nerseir
OF all suspicion of unfair intentions on
the part OF Great Britain to try to believe
'r''ie was no genera ahimosity in England
'owhra france ana 70 meet ENGLAND ON
every queSt'ch at issue win an honest
ueS''e LOT an equitable arfangement Ho
o'nciuueu as loiows'
wohio earnestly ASK Officials in
power ana uhoil'ciai eNpohehis Oh puo-
~ op'h'oh 70 u'Scoun'enahce ana ap-
spaih from continuance OF the poiicy
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tolerable irrltatiso. / would cntreat
them to resist the temptation to thwart
Blatixh enterprise by petty maneuvers
as ,,vsis Of ceneral K,,cbener,s nro-
iectsd institution In the reconauered
soudan. Such ill-considered proyoca-
ton might nave tne eiiecl OF ooh-
as,ranee in Esypt into the adoption Q,
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-07
Trenty Yearr for Muraer.

Corpus Christi, Texas. December G.--Juan
CARA. charged with the murder OF Deputy
Sheriff Aiphonre Soils near La Grurjar, Starr
county. on the night OF June n. this year.
was given twenty years in the State peni-
Tertiary.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-07
TEXAS sENAronsaIr.
GovernOr-lllect Snyers Says that He
In Not n Candidate.

Special Dispatch to The Post,
Washington. December 6.--Goyernor-
elect Joseph d. Sayers was seen this morn.
ing by The Post correspondent and asked
what he had to gay concerning the state
merit made by enc of his personal and po-
litical friends to the effect that he would
be a candidate for United States senator
against Senator Chiffon emit Congressman
Bailey. Governor Sliyers said: II am not Il
candidate for the United States senate. /
have written or spoken to no ono upon
the subject and no one is authorized to
speak for me-"
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No Dry Docks for Galveston
or Sabine Pnse.

Washington, December 6.--The
secretary OF the navy has for
wariel.to congress thu report of $
the board appointed TO report on
the desirability Of locating dry :
docks capable or receiving war
vessels at Galveston harbor or :
Sabire harbor, Texas, or In
waters tributary thereto. The
hoard reports that 1t is not
deemed advisable TO locate docks
]. in either locality
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-07
1,hnnre in Locntion.

Lockhart, Texas, December Sine Bos-
ton store, which opened-alp a new business
here q few months since, having removed
srnm Round Rock TO this place. has closed
out It's business and removed to some other
,i,,tf
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-07

Washington. December 6,-Eastern Texas
Fair; colder In southern portion; light north
erly winds.
winds. =
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-07

not he needed until spring. when tho Texas
lumber people will be given an opportunity
to bid.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-07

Madrid, Decednbcr 6.The semi official
Liberal regards President McKinIsy's mess-
age 40 an international affnont BY dis
courteous conuusror," and adds THE
wInole country will protest AGAINST the
repetition OF the calumny In regard TO tho
Maine"
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-07

". as II Is evidently carefully prepared and
was read in the delivery.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-07
New Extradition Treaiy.

Especial Gable Dispatch to the New York Her
aid and The Houston Post. Copyrighted.
1898. by James Gordon BennettJ
Buenos Ayres. December 0.-The senate
has approved the eAtradtion treaty with
the United States.
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Phone 400
WEATHER SroRMArros.
General .ervation-.

Observations tal by the United states
weather bureau q p. m. yesterday 7'to
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-18
BREVITIES.

The perils Of the sea come to us all
in reading the account of the awful
loss of life on the ocean steamer Mohe-
gan. Some 10 human lives went out
in that terrible disaster. How little is
man!
SambO when he turns soldier and is
made a colonel fails to measure up.
Pawning rifles is not a highly military
performance. In Alabama negro cav
alrymen shoot and kill the provost
guard. In the South Carolina negro
regiment the colonel "pawns rifles" In
North Carolina the negro regiment
robbed watermelon patches.
The admirers of Sampson and the
enemies of Schley are trying to put
the former in the fight off Santiago
and to shut Schley out of the honors.
Schley fought to the finish and in COM
mand. Sampson was eight or ten miles
away. If the navy department prac-
tees that injustice it will dawn it.
Rob Schley of his laurels and cover
Sampson, and an injustice will be
wrought most despicable.
There is a peak on the American side
in Alaska higher than Mount st. Elias,
supposed all along to be the highest
point.
1t looks as if The New York Even
ing Post would like to negroiZe the
south. 1T is English you KNOW" 1t
parades an Indictment of southern peo-
pie in their treatment of the negroes.
1t does not know the situation. If it
would do unto others as it would ba
done by it would avoid an error or two.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-18
Sale of Dress Goods

kinds. They are long patterns. New
Jets. all kinds from &c to 25c per yard.
We carry a big stock OF fancy and
plain Innings from Sc to 25c per yard.
We have all the new things. large and
small. Buttons 20 match all kinds OF
Dress Goods.
Remember. We are headquarters for
Mems and Boys Clothing, ali kinds
and prices.
Our line Of fine Undcrwear and cheap
Underwear cannot he matched. for
children and women U1iou Suits from
CSC to M.e1.
Special sale OF Matnag aud Carpet
from Toe per yard up. Our stock in
this line IS very large.
We carry fine and cneap Blankets.
Quilts and Comforts. from 44c 10 $3.50
each.
Remember our large Millinery and
Cape department. We have the lar
gest stock OF any house in the state.
Our line is up-to-date and almost half
of regular millinery stores, where you
viii find we 10 the business Of the city
in almost any line
Call and bring your card and get H.
punched with every purchase at VIII
u~Tington's Big Racket Store. near the
Postoflce. opposite che orion Hotel.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-18

Young, has placed a guard of soldiers
at the house where Eyster was taken.
The ~coroner's jury held two sessions
today and examined several witnesses
They were all e~x-guards, who are un-
der nominal arrest by the military and
for whom a blanket warrant was
sworn out yesterday. The testimony
was practically the same as given by
their companions Friday.
The general idea conveyed was hat
the men who were employed to protect
the property of the ChicaCo-Nirdcn
Coal Company, not only did not fire
the shots themselves. but they did not
have time to see whether comrades
did. This applied 10 the guards sta
toned in the The coal COM
pany has several witnesses to exam
inc, including Manager Lukens, and ii
will take one or more days to conclude.
ST. Louis, October 1.-THE fifty
seven negro men, with their fifteen
women and children, who, were
brought to ST. Louis after be-
ing driven out Of Virden, are being
cared for by the city temporarily.
The negroes desire to be taken back
to Alabama, but they have no trans
portation.
A telegram was received from the
Chicago Virden Coal Company asking
to have the G miners kept here,
the coal company to pay their expenses.
The telegram said that the negroes
would be kept in St. Louis until pro-
lection for them at Virden could be
had; hen they would be taken there
and put to work in the mines at that
place. Thiel's men and the police i'm
mediately began to round up the blacks
who had scattered around the city and
took them to Four Courts, where they
will be kept until other quarters are
secured.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-18
Troops to Embark at Charleston

Charleston, S. c., October Ex-senator
B. r. Tillman, who has been working
to have troops embarked from Char
lesion to Porto Rico and Cuba has
beer assured by Adljutant General H.
G. Corbin hat the honor of sending
the soldiers to the islands will be
equally divided by Charleston and Sa-
vannah. Today Mayor Smythe receiv-
ed from Senator Tillman a copy Of a
letter from General Corbin, in which
the letter say among other things:
Savannah, Ga, has been chosen as
one of the ports at which we shalI
embark troops. The secretary of war
desires me to inform you that he will
give instructions that Charleston also
be used for this In other
words, he desires to so arrange that
the shipping be as nearly as possible
divided between the two points Of
Charleston and Savannah"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-18

The chief duty Of a genuine white
man in North Carolina Is to put white
men in charge of the state government
in all departments. and in control %
all county and municipal governments.
But the most pressing part OF the duty
of a freeman, a man or white skin now
is to control the Legislature We. in
common with thousands of others over
the state, are particularly interest
ed in carrying the mex legislature as
the first, principal. most important
duty. All safety, all reforms in North
Carolina hang right here. Fail to elect
the next legislature and you have a
continuance of the present bad rule,
with all of its vicious, oppressive, dan
gerous results, greatly intensified and
made utterly unbearable. The primal,
pressing duty is to sci good. true,
capable men to the legislature. Do
you hear that? Then heed and do.
Remember that nothing good to the PEG
pie of North Carolina car ONE from a
p~erpetuation of blasting, degrading
negro government. You have tried it
and know il. You are under it now.
How do you like it? Can n genuine
white man be in love with it?
Elect all the democratic candidates
for the judgeship if you can-that is
highly important. Elect all the demo-
ratio nominees for solicitor, for upon
that hangs no little of enforcement Of
law in the courts. Elect every candi-
late for the federal house. The state
has been disgraced long enough at
Washington. Send men who are SCUM
democrats, who cannot be bought by
presidents, to the house of representa-
tives. Important legislation is ahead
in the way of expansion, public econO-
my, taxation, the robber tariff, and the
absurd changes that may practically
urn down the present mode of govern
ment, and transform the United tates
into a great, cOnQuering, high taxed
kingdom. Perhaps all the nominees
are not precisely the men you would
have selected, but they are surely bet
ter men, a decided Improvement upon
the fellows now so grossly misrepre-
senting North Carolina. Turn the
rascals out and elect democrats. Do
your duty earnestly, gravely, pertina-
ciously and enjoy a good conscience.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-18
THE GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY
Charter for a New Railroad in Eastern
North CarOiina-COnfusion as Tn Flu
sion Plans for Reorganization Of
State Guard

Especial to The Messenger.)
Raleigh, n. c., October 14.-Articles
of Incorporation have been fled with
the secretary Of state for the Great
Eastern Railroad Company. The road
will extend $50 miles through John
ston, Wayne, Green, Pitt, Beaufort and
Hyde and form a junction with the
Southern railway at either Goldsboro
of Selma. The capital stock is $780,
900. Following are the directors: j. ID.
Mccormick and /. N. Allen, of New
York; J. w. Lynch, of Kinston; ]. H.
McCleary, of Suffolk; George w. Suggs
and Josiah Exum, of Snow Hill.
Among the stockholders are Swift Gal
lOway, J. E. Grimsley, A. ID. Warren,
S. L.. Hargrove, James T. Suggs, J. r.
Dali, w. j. Jordan, w. R. Edwards,
George w. Lindsay, R. S. Wynne, J.
H. Harper, j. II. Beaman, J. w. B.
Couch, John d. Grimsley, w. H. Dali,
J.. H. Cobb, E. II. Suss, R. D. L. Dixon,
c. d. Sauls, j. j. Potter, L. V. Morvill
and B.. J. Moore.
A populist state committeeman says
there is hitch as to four or five judi
cial districts and that an effort is be-
ing made to settle this by telegraph.
Republican State Chairman Holton
declines to give the anne of the fus-
ion nominees for judges and. solicitors
and says the ticket will not be an
nounced until election day.
Theoplius White, populist from the
First district, says that if the republic
ans do not take Meekins down as can
didate for solicitor the populists will
put up Leary as a candidate. Leary
is here. Meekins refuses to withdraw.
Both republican and populist confer
ence committees asked him TO with
draw.
The fusionists are so much at sea as
to this business that in a speech today
Edward W .Pou, democratic candidate
for solicitor in this district, offered s.
20 any populist who could tell him who
he (the populsit.) intended to vote for
for pudges and solicitors.
The plans for the reorganization of
the state guard was completed today,
but will not be made public until No
vember 1st- Ii provides for three d.
visions of the state, each having a reg
iment Of ten companies with three Of
ficers and sixty men each. The coun-
ties comprising each district are
named.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-18

Our stock Is complete. We have made
large preparations 10 please the
aides in his line We have n COM
pIete stock Of new Silks for dresses n
waists. We have a lot OF all wool fan
cy. A. inches wide. nice goods, we sell
fer CSC. Our line of Fancys from loc 10
1sc are very pretty. Our line OF Wool
Fancys run from IS TO - inches 1
from &c To soc. Our Novelties at 4oc
and soc are very pretty. We have a
very fine Flannel. % inchey wide, in
the new blue and black. worth 15c.
special soc. Ladies' Cloth. a lovely
piece for Skirts and Capes. So inches
wide. for IS. Double widths Cash
meres. special 1eLc. Our Silks stock
is very nice. We have all prices tn
SUIT, and quality. up-to-date styles are
the very newest. prices from Isc TO e5c-
Very hobby changeaole Brocade Ia
feta. Black Gros. from Csc To M.oa 4
beautiful piece OF Moriah Tafeta. in
black. - inches wide for $i.o0. worth
regular s1.50. Ladies'. 1 would like to
say this: If you are in need of Dress
Goods or Dry Goods OF any kind. you
should give my stock a look be
fore purchasing elsewhere. / viii
promise 60 save you money. We have
a beautiful line Of fine new Braids, all
~ W.