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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-11

principal military loss at San Juan was
one temporary company barrack wholly
destroyed; some quartermaster property
damaged. No personal injuries yet re-
ported, but all wires are down. No in
jury to shipping here save two small
local schooners sunk, two sailors drown
ed. San Juan lights temporarily dis
abled. Gable reports from Ponce say all
shipping is ashore Custom house sheds
badly damaged and goods stored therein.
Messengers from two interior posts tell
of barracks unroofed and personal and
public property damaged. The losses by
the inhabitants are very great, and eX-
treme suffering must result. The last
hurricane as severe as this was in 1876,
when, owing to loss of houses. fruit and
provisions there was a famine. / would
suggest public notice in the United
States to the effect that contributions OF
food, clothing and money for the desti-
tute would be received with the greatest
gratitude and will be applied strictly TO
relief Of destitute. Have appointed
board to supervise destitution. There
are many thousands of families w1ro are
entirely homeless, and very great dis
tress must follow.
(Signed.l DAVIS,
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DEATH IN THE Mill POND
FOURTEEN YEAR OLD BOY DROWNED NEAR
LEN0lR WEDNESDAY.
His Companions Did not See Him Go [ own,
Only Missing Him When Dressing.
The Bod, Re ;over,d.

Lenoir, y. c., Aug. 10.-(SpcciaL) ~
While in bathing in Wilson's Mill pond
at p. m. yesterday George MarInl.
aged fourteen years. son of Edmund
Martin, was drowned The boys with
him did not see him go down and enly
missed him while dressing. His body
was recovered in Ii feet water about
midnight, and brought home.
The rush to Blowing Rock continues,
forty for the Rock is the report today
Several hundred have passed during the
last two weeks.
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A PUBLIC SESSION SATURDAY.
The Examination of the Secret Dossier
VIII End Today.


Rennes, France, August 10.-The
members Of the DreyGlIs court martial
today took testimony of NM Chamoin
and Paleologue. The former was ex-
amined frcm $3.50 to $3.50 and the latter
was on the stand from $50 TO II:45 a.
M, when the court adjourned until to-
morrow, when it will iconclude the exam
inatlon of the secret doSsier.
CoiCmel .louaust, president Of the court
martial, on leaving the court today, said
a public session would take place Satur-
day.
1ae police adopted the same methods
of precaution as yesterday, and there
WAS only the smallest gathering of spec
tators. Captain DreyfGs was allowed TO
walk to and from the I.ycee without his
usual escort of four or six gendarmes.
Only captain of gelldarmes was with
him and this officer walked a few steps
behind the prisoner
STRAIN TELLS ON DREYFUS.
Rennes, France, Aug. 10.-Maitre
Demange, the principal counsel of Cap
tain Dreyfus, in an interview today with
4 representative of the Associated Press,
after today's session, expressed himself
as very we'll contemted with the way in
which matters are proceeding, and judg-
ing from his manner, one may say that
the defenders of THE accused have not
yet met anything very surprising or
alarming in the secret dossier
Naturally NJ. emange declined to give
any particulars respecting the contents
OF the dossier, but he declared that he
ana his colleague, Nj. Labori, were sat
ished of the conscientious desire of the
members of the court to thresh the whole
matter out and to have full light turned
upon the accusations against their client
This will take same time. and the end
of tine month will be reached before judg-
ment can be given. Meanwhile the strain
is telling on Dreyfus, who is showing
physical distress.
R.AMATICD SCENES EXPECTED.
Rennes, France, Aug. 10.-Saturday's
public session will be verftabe field
day, probably the most exciting day OF
the whole trial, as General MERCER and
Casilnir- Perier have been cited to give
their testimony then.
The first witness will be Lieutenant
Colonel De La Roche Vernot. French
Military Attache in Berlin at the time OF
the arrest of Dreyfus. His evidence, it
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-11
THE CAROLINA NORTHERN.
(Lumberton Robesonian.)

Eight car loads of steel rails for the
Carolina Northern Railroddth first
consignment of 700-ton lot that is to
be shipped at once-arriyed Friday. Five
car loads more will be here today or
tomorrow and the rest is to follow rap
idly. The rail is all steel weighing ~
pounds to the yard, and is as good in
every respect as is used on any road.
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A REPoRTER's COPYRIGHT.

London, August 10-The Honorable
Sir Ford North, Judge Of the Chancery
Division Of the High Court of Justice
rendered an important decision today.
He granted he London Times an in
junction restraining a publisher named
Lane from reprinting speeches of Lord
Rosebery. admittedly taken from the
Times. The Judge held that the report
er had copyright in his report and that
this copyright had Deen acquired by the
Times.
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PRESIDENT STAYS IN DOORS.

Plattsburg \. ", Aug. 10-The
weather was cold and rainy here today,
and the President and Mrs. Mckinley
and the rest of the Presidential party
have remained in their apartments all
day. The President viii probably re-
view the Twenty-sixth regiment at
Plattsburg barracks tomorrow If the
weather is favorable.
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RALEIGH flREMEN WIN
They T0jK THE REEL RACE With
GREAT EASE,
But in the Grab Race here Was a Tie for First
Place Between the Raleigh and
Wilson Teams

Washington, \. c., August 10.-(Spe-
ciaD-Raleigh firemen came out today
with flying colors. They won the reel
race easily. Time, SO seconds; Wilson,
80; 4. .enderson, 4S.
In the grab race Raleigh tied Wilson
for first place. Time 221la seconds; Hen
derson, 26.
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MILES coNFERs WITH ROOT.
The Latter Silent AS to Change of Com
manders in Philippines

Washington, Aug. 10.Major General
Miles had conference of more than
half an hour with the Secretary of War
today Secretary Root said that the
conference was devoted to military mat
tiers, but would not speak definitely as
to their character. When it was sug
gested that there were rumors that he
was consulting General Miles with ref
erence to a change of commanders in
the Philippine Islands, he said he had
nothing to say ON that subject.
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ORDER TO RUSH SUPPLIES.

Chattanooga, Tenn, Aug. 10-Captain
Mccarthy, quartemaster at Chicka-
mauga Park, received orders to rush ten
carloads of Government supplies to Ma
Mia. Harness, tools and tentage will be
sent They viii go in a special train.
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TO BREAK UP THIEVES ASYLUM

4 General Policy of Extradition Deter
mined On.
Washington, Aug. 10.-The State De-
partment has determined upon "A general
policy OF eXtradition between THIS coun-
try and Cuba, Hayti, and other territory
wholly or in part under the direction Of
the United States A number of cases
have lately arisen in which fugitives
from justice have claimed immunity by
going to Cuba or our msular possessions,
on the theory that our relations with
these places were in such transtory CON
dition that the usual processes Of extra
dition would not apply.
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TRANSPORTS MUST BE HELD.
British Admiralty Prepares for the I'M
mediate Despatch of Troops.

London. Aug. 10-The st. James Ga
Zette this afternoon says all the ship
ping companies under charter to the
Lritish Admiralty for transport purposes
have been notified to hold all their trans
ports in reserve, for the immediate de-
spatch Of troops.
The steamer Dunera has been ordered
to be i'm readiness Saturday to shin n
detachment Of horse artillery to South
Africa.
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CROSSING THE OCEAN ALONE.
The Daring Feat of Howard Blackburn
Of Massachusetts.

Queenstown, Aug 10.LEhe British
ship Nelson, Captain Perrian, which sail
ed from I.yttleton, y. H., may 9TH, for
London and which has arrived at this
port, reports that she passed July Bird,
in latitude rs in., long. 2l W., a three
ton cutter, containing one man, steering
on the direction Of Ireland. The oecu-
pant of the boat made no reply to tne
Nelson's signals. The little craft was
proceeding gaily in smooth water. Her
name, apparently, was Great Western,
or Great Eastern"
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TERRIFIC STORMS PREVAIL.

Santiago ae Chill, Aug. 10.-Via Gal
weston, Texas, Aug. 10.-Tremendous
storms prevail throughout the country.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-11

Howard Blackburn, of Gloucester
Mass, set sail alone ON the afternoon of
June 18th last in little sloop-rigged,
four-ton boat, the Great Western, ON a
trip across the Atlantic, from Gloucester,
Mass, to Gloucester, England.
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DEwE1 GUEST or sToLL.

Naples. Aug. 10.-On his arrival from
Sorrento, Admiral Dewey will be the
guest of Albert St0l.
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TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

Dr. Walter Manning Barrows, of Con-
necticut, who married Perry Belmon.
and Mrs. Sloane is dead. DIR. Josiah
Strong says he was of an extremely SEN
stiye temperament AMI tnat the harsn
criticisms OF his performance Of that
ceremony preyed upon his mind. ronbns
him of slerp sapping his vitalit1 and
thus hasteLIns his death
Bishop .Iaaessen of the Belleville tlll)
Roman Catholic Diocese will accord the
rebelfious parishioners of st. Patrick ;
church in East st Louis no furthee roc
ognition until they come i'm repentance
and seek absolution. The Bishop vii,
at once look about for suitable site for
a new church
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EASTERN LEAGUE RESULTS.

Hartford, Conn, August 10-The
Hartford Worcester game postponed ON
account of rain.
Providence, r. L., August 10-No
game on ACCOUNT of rain.
Ar SpracISn.
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DAVIS,
Commanding
DOMINICA IS DAMAGED.

Kingston, jamaica, Aug. 10.-Humi-
cane bulletins report that the eastern
and northern districts of Dominica are
damaged, that Guadaloupe has suffered
slightly and that Montserrat and Anti
qua have suffered severely. Many of
the inhabitants are homeless, cultivation
is destroyed and the plantations are
wrecked
The Virgin Islands, particularly Tor
tola and st. Croix, were the worst suc
ferers.
They report many fatalities and dis
tress among the survivors, beside proper
ty losses.
THE PENSION REPORT.
Washington, Aug. 10-The report of
Commissioner of Pensions Evans for the
fiscal year ended June Both last, shows
a total disbursement of S13S, 253, 9233,
leaving a balance of S1,S57, 1SS in the
treasury out Of the S140.G00,000 appro-
priated The total number of pension
ers on the roll June Both was 991 $40.
a decrease of 2.195. There We're 49,
J91 names added to the roll and 13, 1856
dropped. The report shows the pension
roll is decreasing. OF those dropped
34.345 were because of death and S,S41
because of re-lnariiage, minors attaining
their majority failure to claim pension
and other causes.
The war with Spain brought total of
1886 claims, of which number but 295
have been allowed.
Continued on Second Page
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STORM MOVING NORTHWARD.

Kingston, Jamaica, Aug. 10.-Turks
Island reports that the cyclone passed
during the night, after doing trifing
damage. The centre of the disturbance
is apparently progressing norihward to-
wards the American coast.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-16
SHE is IN ANGER
SteVenson's Widow Talks
OF Samoan Affairs.
Warm Sympathizer With the Islanders
Scores Two Nations and
Justice Chambers,

LONDON, May 2.-Robert Louis Ste
the Westminster Gazette from Funchai.
Madeira, on the bombardment of Sa
moan villages by British AID American
Warships
Mrs. Stevenson says: "President
Mckinley allowed no fir.l-g on Cuban
towns unless they gave active cause Of
offense, and Commodore Watson was
ordered not to attack undefanied Span
ish cities. Does the President keep
his humanity for civilized countries
alone?"
Mrs. Stevenson declares that th= Sa-
moan villages are inhabited in time of
war by non-combatants, who have TO
choose between the Shells &C the war
ships and taking TO the bush" Under
such conditions, sac says, delicate
women can hardly exist. While children
die like flies.
Mrs. SteveEsOE's Letter concludes as
follows: Chief Justice Chambers has
been represented as saying in a letter
TO his brother, I>never was happier.
He must be a person s;ngujarly devoid
OF imagination if ne ever pictured to
himself the scenes being enaC.ed II The
mbardment OF those villages; the eX-
odus of panic-stricken people rushing
hithar and thither; shells bursting
everywhere, the cries of bedridden and
hapless wounded people burning alive
in their blazing houses; women in the
pangs of childbirth, mangled children
crawling on the sands, the sea before
them and the bush behind them And
we read that the woods also were
shelled. Who is to be held accountable
for these deeds that disgrace both Eng
land and American
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-16
FLOWER CLOCK.
The Opening and Closing of the Flow
ers Tells the Time of Day.

erS Tells the Time OF Day.
The phenomenon of certain species
Of flowers opening and closing at parti-
cular hours has been utilized by an
Ohio landscape gardener TO add a
unique decoration to the grounds Of
John d. Rockefeller's country seat at
Tarrytown. 1t consists of a flower bed
which can be used as a clock. The
bed is circular and divided into twelve
parts. Each part contains a figure
composed Of a flower which opens or
closes at the corresponding hour Thus
the , space is occupied by a II made
of hawkseed, which closes at P. NJ.
precisely. The hands, of course. are
stationary and merely ornamental.
They are composed of the common
yellow da delion. which opens at ): 80
A. NJ. and closes at $50 p. NJ. They
points to arrangements of flowers re-
presenting these figures.
There has been no difficulty in find
ing flowers TO suit the various hours,
and in some cases the figure has been
made UP of more than one flower.
Among those that have been used are
the snow thistle, that closes at 1 p.
NJ; the SOW thistle, that opens at 5 A.
N. and begin to close at II, but does
not fully close until noon; the yellow
goats beard, which opens at y. NJ.
and closes at 4 P NJ with such accu-
racy that in some of the poorer dis
tricts of Scotland-where there are no
clocke-the children are dismissed from
school by it; the blue chicory, which
opens ct A. NJ. turns white at sun
rise and closes at noon; the morning
glory, puppy, waterlily, pimpernal, and
marigold opening at A. NJ, Z A. NJ, s
A. NJ, and a. NJ, respectively; the
star of Bethlehem, which closes at IL;
passion flower, which opens at noon,
the beauty of the night, which opens
at 5 P. M.the evening primrose, which
opens at g.; he white lychnis, opening
at 6, and the blue convOlvulus at AN.
This clock is so arranged that from
distance it looks like an ordinary
flower bed, but on close inspection no.
ne could mistake it for anything other
than what it is.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-16

not inviting TO look upon. and they do
not sell easily. Green makes a better
showing and books in blue will gener-
ally find a buyer. but red books have
always the best sales. Perhaps, after
all, II Is not a bad plan when you know
nothing Of the book you are buying to
buy i because OF its color. Color is
always essentially suggestive Red is
bright. warm and good 10 look upon.
and IL is we'll that the binding OF books
IN drab should be discouraged.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-16
Rook-BINDrNG CoLoRs.

\ bookseller has been telling Litera-
ture that the color of the binding has
a great deal to, do with the success of
a book. Red books sell. The great mass
of bookbuyers, Of course excluding
the few who really know something
about books, judge by appearances.
Drab and gray and brown books are
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-16

The accurate fitting Of
Glasses to correct all errors of
refraction auiU continue TO ls
Our special aim, though no part
Of this most accessory tcork alt
suffer from the slightest neglect
as zee grind all manner Of
; complicated lenses an ous' os1n
; acorkshop, the advantage to soss
of receiuing gour glasses aOithfa
: taUenty.four hours after receipt
Of the prescription cannot nc
, orer estimated.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-16

MAPS, MAPS, MAPS, OF Honolulu,
just issued by the Hawaiian Gazette
Co., Won Holt Block, King street. Sc
cure one before they are all gone. so
cents each
Mesa free press., 1899-12-22

The intimate connection between
water supply of streams and forest
preservation is becoming realized at
home by even Eastern people where
irrigation is not necessary. Governor
Stone, of Pennsylvania, has deter
mined to make forest protection one
Of the features of his administration.
A commission appointed by him will
select and locate three state forest
reservations aggregating 100, 900 acres
at the headwaterg of rivers of the
state. The seate authorities are
deeply interested in the subject and
declare tina. obtaining these lands is
Pennsylvania one hope of preserving
it's agricultural and farming interests
as we'll as its water supply.
Mesa free press., 1899-12-22
GLORIOUS NEWS

Comes from DR.. D. B. Cargile, of
Washita, I. T. He writes; "Four bot
ties of Electric Bitters has cured Mrs.
Brewer of scrofula, which had caused
her great suffering for years. Terrible
sores would break out on her head and
face, and the best doctors could give no
help; but her cure is complete and her
health is excellent" This shows what
thousands nave proved, d,-that Electric
Bitters is the best blood purifier known.
It's the supreme remedy for eczema,
tetter, salt rheum, ulcers. boils and run
ming sores. 1t stimulates liver. kidneys
and bowels. expels poisons, helps diges-
tion builds up the strength. Only 81
cents. Sold by J. Fl. Barnett Druggist
Guaranteed.
Mesa free press., 1899-12-22
THREE MEN KILLED.

Saturday was payday at Ray, end
the several hundred Mexieans en-
ployed on the railroad grade and In
the mines were haxing iolliGcation
which generally follows that event.
The saloons ran wice open all night,
and music, dancing and drinking were
in full blast. About 8 o'clock Sunday
morning in one of the saloons the:
Orosco brothers, Domingo and Rafael.
had an alteration with Ramon Lopez.
and pushing him out of the door, shot
him full Of holes, killing him almost
instantly. Lopez wa. unarmed and
offer ed no resistance.
The Oroscos theu passed down the
street, twirling their six-shooters on
their fingers, past Donau's store and
up or the hill into Sonoratown. Here
they met Hilario Feliz, and asked
him II he was 3 "bravo,| to whlcn
Feliz replied that be was not. There
upon they also shot him dead.
By this time the camp was aroused,
and men come pouring from all direc-
tious armed with shotguns, Winches-
ters and six shooters. The fusilade
then began, with the result that
Domingo Orosco was killed and Ra-
fael desperately wounded. Deputy
Sheriff Charley White brought the
latter to Florence and he is now in
the county hospital, with guard over
him and small chance for recovery.
The Oroscos were recently from
Quitava, Sonora, and had only been
in the Ray camp two days.-Tribune.
Mesa free press., 1899-12-22
THE PASSING SHOW.

Woman's "n9" many times means
Eyes"
It takes a boy to imagine and a
girl to dream.
The paradise of fools is the waiting
for tomorrow,
Courage in a man is as necessar =
virtue in q woman.
A girls best recommend as wife
is the appearance of her room md
herself.
Lots of men have marriea for
beauty that wished later on that they
had 1T.
It takes righteous man to wear a
darned sock. il darned by most maids
of today.
The world contains but few men
who, once started for themselves, can
find time to stop.
The most time that people waste il
saying nothing in their attempts to
say something.
Life's duties neglected from ten to
twenty means extra effort or total
failure from thirty to fifty.
Ths most unfortunate fool on earth
is the man that can fall in love with 9
woman and then can't fall out.
Heaven is the winter of our ex-
istence. He that fails to provide here
will undoubtedly suffer there.
Some girls marry for love, some for
a home, some for adventure and some
because they haven't anything else tc
Williams News.
Mesa free press., 1899-12-22

supplemented with Triun ph, yell
low feshed early peach. Greensboro
an early peach of good quality, and
Mith MUIR, good drying peach, the
result would be an orchard furnishing
the possessor an excellent variety of
fruit.
The foregoing notes apply to we'll
cultivated trees. The cause Of much
failure in peach growing in this region
is failure to cultivate properly. The
peach will do fairly we'll few years,
if neglected, but will eventually sue
cumb to i'll treatment.
Irrigation without subsequent cul-
stivation causes the soil to become
compact and kills the trees. In this
regard, peach trees will not endure
what pear trees, for example, will.
The peach must have an open soil in
order to thrive. If properly treated
there is no reason why the peach
should not be very profitable crop
in Southern Arizona where a failure
to set fruit is so rare. Experimental
Station.
Mesa free press., 1899-12-22
A LIFE AND DEATH FIGHT.

Mr.. W. A. Hines of Manchester, Ia,
writing of his almost miraculous escape
from death, says: Exposure arter meas
les induced serious lung trouble, which
ended in consumption. I had frequent
hemorrhages and coughed night and
day. All my doctors said I must soon
die. Then began to use DR.. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption, which
completely cured me. I would not be
without it even if it cost $500 bottle:
Hundreds have used it on my recon-
mendation and all say it meyer fails to
cure Throat, Chest and Lung troubles" !"
Regular size SOC and 81 O9. Trial bot.
ties free at J. 81. Barnett's Drug Store,
Mesa free press., 1899-12-22
AOETYLENE GAS

Be independent of gas and electric
light corporations and own your own
lighting plant. The National Genera
tor does not have to bs cared for
oftener than once in Is days. It is
positively safe and is recommended
by all insurance boards. We Light
residences, churches, stores, facto, ies
and towns at 40 per cent. less than
other systems, with double the IL
Elimination. To responsible par ss
will ship machines on 80 days ~.
Send for free booklet on Acetyle
Gas. We want good agents
NATIONAL AoETYI rSv As Co.,
Buffalo, n <,