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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-01-20
AN ENTERTAINMENT
To be Given by the Pupils of Deaf and
Dumb School.

Dumb School
The pupils of the North Carolina Insti-
tute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Will
give an entertainment this even
ing at 7:30. A splendid program
of music has been arranged and in ad-
dition short play will be produced.
The entertainments given by this
school are always of most interesting
character and this will no donbt be up
to the usual standard.
This concert is given on the occasion
of the opening of the the new audito-
rum.
The public generally has a cordial
invitation to be present The program is
as follows:
PART ONE.
Observation-Disclosures (White), Band
Dedicated to Principal John e. Ray.
Vocal Trio-'Down Among the Lilies -
Misses f. C. Harris, p. Boykin, G. Zach
airy.
drill of the Sprites," Kindergarten
Glass.
Chorus-"The Curfew," (Attwood),
Advanced Choir
Recitation-."How Jimmie Nursed the
Baby" Leon Harris.
Vocal Duet-''The Purling Brook "
Poynanski). Misses NJ. Downey, f. C.
Harris.
Andante and Waltz, (BeyerN Pot
Pourri. Band.
PART TWO.
Genius of the, Nineteenth Century,
100000. .Catharine Harris.
Sarah. Wife of Abraham. Mary Mclean.
Pharoah's Daughter. Dora Cockman.
Cornelia. Roman Matron, Julia McGhee.
Cleopatra :. LENA Hill Small.
Queen Elizabeth $50. Estelle Fleming.
Captain Moll Pitcher. Elizabeth Burns.
st. Cecilia ........ Mary DOwney.
Agnesi of Bologna ..Clevie Weathers.
~Hypatia .... Emma Gibson.
Joan of Arc -. Florence Duncan
Sappho ......... Frances Rainey.
Martha Washington, Sarah Baumgardner
INCIDENTAL MUSIC.
Ave Maria ................C herubini
Sapphic Ode ................ Brahms
In Thy Dear Eyes. Bartlett.
Accompaniest-Gert Fisher
ARGUMENT OF THE PLAY.
The Genius of the Nineteenth Century,
longing for some means by which man
might conquer time as well as space,
is presented by an up-to-date American
college girl, with an invention that she
calls 1.-THE Observation-Disclosures" which.
as it's name implies, annihilates both time
and space, and which, upon the proper
application of the crank" will produce
famous persons from .remotest and far
distant countries"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-01-20
SATURDAY SHOE SELLING.

SATURDAY SFIUE oELIINN.
-Four Specials for Children from the
January Shoe Rightfng Sale.
Genuine Dongola Lace and But
ton Spring Heel-sizes Z to H.. SOC
Dongola Patent Tip-Fair Stitch
Spring Heel. Balls and Button,
sizes. II to =. ........ Csc
Dongola Button, Foxed Coin Tip,
Spring Heel. Sizes, , to TO-. S5c
Williams & Hoyts entire line all
kinds and sizes, from a 2l2 In
fant's Cacque to Misses No. 2. 500
THESE SHOES WILL BE SENT
OUT TO C-HAVE SOME SENT
UP
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-01-20

Twilled Umbrelas-Congo Silk, silver mount
ed-a waterproof Umbrella from 75c to SI.oo now
Ladies and gents 2oinch steel rod, loop han
die Taffeta Umbrella from 100 and co. now
Merose Serge Umbrellas, steel rod, fancy han
dies ivey and ceuoid silver mounted, tasses, ETC..
from I.5o and 200, now
Century Serge, steel rod, horn handle, silver
mounted, Paragon frame, very superior Umbrella
The Supreme Serge, tight roller Umbrella,
choice variety of handles, Bamboo, Congo, Weitch-
ell, Horn and Pearl Handles, Club or Crook
Taffeta Silk Dress Umbrellas and Ladies' Col
ored Coaching Pdrasols in the newest coloringS,
HEAVY WEIGHT UNDERWEAR TO GO
Natural Egyptian ribbed Shirts fleeced line
Camels Hair Shirts and Drawers, all the season
soc, now go at
Mems fine Derby ribbed Shirts, white wool
and sanitary greys that retailed for 90 to go at
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-01-20
Heavy WEIGHT UNDERWEAR TO GO.
WE CAN TALK TOWELS

WE CAN TALK TOWELS
To you. with the full assurance that our
talk will be listened to. 1t is said that
prices talk best-good, Wen let them
talk.
THREE TOWEL SPECIALS.
45-inch, all Linen Huck Towel
worth zoe, marked to. ...... 15c
4O-inch Colored Border, tied
fringe, pure Linen Damask
Towels, worth 25c., marked at. 19c.
46-inch extra fine Huck Towels,
Damask Bordered, full bleached
and extra wide-none better at
Soc, marked at. ........... 25c.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-01-20
NEW ADvER TISEMeNTS.

HELLER BROS.-Only $3.50 Pair.
WARMERS SAFE CURE-Woman's
Sentiments.
SHERWOOD HIGGS & CO.-Where
to Draw the Line.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-01-20

mentioned above parai OF being
in Carolina,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-01-20

Horrible agony is caused by Piles,
Burns and Skin Diseases. These are
Immediately relieved and quickly cured
by De Wits Witch Hazel Salve. BE.
ware of worthless limitations. j. Ha!
Bobbitt and Henry 7. Hicks.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-01-20
FORMATION WANTED.
WE WANT THE NAME f EVERY OWNER OF A
MathuShek Piano

in
in
o.
Luddcn and Bates s. NJ H.
of
s).andfor specials e
1st 1899
following parties:
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-01-20
5AsswoaS5G1wvyls,d Neswo0a98aug6s SAsswoea96aNyde
Where to Draw the Line!

hard draw line between and say here the present one ends and
here will notice things already out like coses in
this month";
In Muslin Underwear oaks Dress Goods aces mbde
BeaChg Mems
Dollars will do almost double duty next week
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-01-20
Come Under Our Umbrella.

GREATEST UMBRELLA BARGAIN SALE Raleigh has ever
They'll go quick; chocer selection greater variety
and larger quantity than any other store in the city prices
far below.
The age-herald., 1899-03-19
ROOSEVELT SHOWS MRS.
 PLACE NO F1ERCY
According to Present Arrangements She Will Be Ex- ecuted At Sling Sing Prison One
 Day This Week.

Governor Roosevelt has refused to com- mute the sentence of Mrs. Martha Place. the condemned Brooklyn murderess. and she will be executed some day this next week at Sing Sing prison.
 When the governor made known his de- cision he issued the following memoran- dunn:
 '"rhis is an application made on behalf of Martha Place. now in confinement in Sing Sing prison under sentence of death for the crime of murder in the first degree, com mitted in the county of Kings, on the 7th day of February, 1898.
 '"rhe case was tried in the county court of Kings county, and a judgment thereon rendered, on the Sth day of July, 1S9S and the defendant was sentenced to the punish- ment of death in the manner and place prescribed by law. From this judgment the defendant appealed to the court of ap- peals, and the unanimous decision of that court, Judge Martin writing the opinion was that the judgment should be affirmed.
 'No more painful case can come before
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Building Up the Country It Serves.

A New York exchange, dated March 2, contained the following in regard to the Southern railway and the country tributary to it's lines:
 "A member of a leading Wall street stock exchange house, just returned from trip over the Southern railway, says: I have been much impressed with the physical condition of this property, and was especi- ally struck with the change in attitude of merchants and manufacturers towards the managers. It has been a matter of com mon remark throughout the south that the company heretofore kept rates on a basis which retarded the growth of the company. There is longer any opportunity for these comments and they have disappear ed The management has put into effect a policy which is building up the country in stead of hurting it, and this is working great wonders along the line of the road. It is making 1t popular and giving it a great deal of new business by reason of the new industries which are being estab- lished. The train-load is increasing ma terially, which is one of the most satlsfac- tory signs of the progressive policy of the management. The rivalry of the Norfolk and Western is unusually pronounced, which will sooner or later affect the earn ings of one line or the other considerably. !"
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governor than an appeal to arrest the course of justice in order to save a woman from capital punishment, when that wo- mans guilt has been clearly established
 and when there are no circumstances what ever to mitigate the crime. If there were any reasonable doubt of the guit-if there were any basis whatsoever for interference with the course of justice in this easel should so interfere. But there is no ground for interference. The accused was con- demned as guilty of murder in the first de- gree after full and fair trial, although, as all men know a jury in such case Is al-, ways reluctant to give a verdict against woman if any justification whatsoever ex- ists for withholding 1t. This verdict was then reviewed at great length by the court
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tion and atrocity. To interfere with the course of the law in this case could be justified only on the ground that never hereafter, under any circumstances, should capital punishment be inflicted upon any murderess, even though the victim was herself a woman and even though that vic- tim's torture preceded her death.
 There is but one course open to me. I decline to interfere with the course of the law"
 After giving out the memorandum, Gov. Roosevelt said that he had arrived at the decision after communicating with the dis trict attorney of Kings county, who pros ecuted the trial; the judge who presided at the trial, various people who had observed the trial, Chief Justice Parker of the court of appeals, and Judge Martin of that court,
The age-herald., 1899-03-19
MONTEVALLO

Mrs. Reuben Kolb, accompanied by her granddaughter, Miss Calie Richardson Is spending a few days with Miss Emmie Richardson, a pupil of the school
 A special announcement is out of the grand opening of the millinery and dress making departments of the Girls Indus trial It will take place next Tuesday, the Fist. At this opening there will be on ex- hibition one of the handsomest displays of trimmed hats and needle work of all kinds ever seen in Alabama. The millinery de- partment of the school is under the man. agement of Miss Julia Hood, of Baltimore
 Mrs. Erwin Craighead, of Mobile, presi- dent of the Federation of Women's clubs is the guest of Mrs. James L. McCon- aughey. Last night reception was given her by Mrs. H. c. Reynolds. On yesterday Mrs. Craighead made most interesting talk to the pupils of the school, in which she is taking much interest.
 Dr. J. B. Hawthorne lectured at the col lege chapel on last Tuesday night to one of the largest audiences ever assembled in Montevallo. His subject, "Courage and Its Couterfeits," was a masterpiece. Thirty years ago before he became famous Monte vallo claimed this great man as her own. He came here from South Alabama to spend his summers with his lifelong friend, now president of the Girls Indus trial school. His touching allusion to Captain Reynolds and his association with him over quarter of century ago was a beautiful tribute. Dr. Hawthorne went through the school and pronounced 1t the grandest effort Alabama had ever made in the cause of education.
 On Sunday last pr. William Hall, of New York, delivered a lecture in the col lege chapel, which so delighted his hearers that he was induced to return, and Friday night he entertained a house packed to the doors on How to Get Married and Stay So."
The age-herald., 1899-03-19
know of no ground for interfering with the

know of no ground for interfering with the sentence
 T went carefully over the evidence, which showed that the accused had first blinded her stepdaughter with acid and then strangled her, and, after waiting in the house all day, when her husband had returned at dark, had attacked him and endeavored to kill him with an axe.
 Her attorneys and her pastor appealed to me for clemency. They raised no ques- tion to her guilt, but claimed that she was insane. The attorneys asserted that she was insane at the time the deed was committed and was now insanse; the clergyman stated that she was undoubt- edly sane at present, but that he believed her to have been insane when the deed was committed although he did not then come personally into contact with her.
 'I accordingly appointed two doctors of the highest standing, upon whose profess sional capacity, common sense and deep conscientiousness I could implicitly rely, and directed them to examine the accused, to decide whether she was or had been in- sane They reported to me that she was not insane; that she was sane at the time of the murder, and before, and since.
 ''There is thus no question of the wom-
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ans guilt, and no question of her sanity. All that remains is the question as to whether l should be justified in interfering to save a murderess on the ground of her sex when no justification would exist to interfere on behalf of a murderer.
 "The only case of capital punishment which has occurred since the beginning of my term was for wife murder, and I re- fused to consider the appeals then made to me behalf of the man who had killed his wife, after I became convinced that he had really done the deed and was Sane In that case a woman was killed by a man; in this a woman was killed by another woman. The law makes no dis tinction of sex in such a crime.
 "This muder was one of peculiar delibera-
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MRS. PLACES CRIME.
Condemned Woman Smothered Her
 Stepdaughter, Ida.

The murder for which Mrs Martha Place will pay the death penalty was the crime of a woman goaded by fierce jealousy. William w. Place lived at 50S Hancock street. Brooklyn. With Mrs. Place and her husband lived MT. Places seYenteen-year- old daughter. Ida, his child by former marriage. Mrs. Place was Miss Martha Garretson, of Millstone, N. J. She was married first to Wesley Savacool, with whom she lived in Newark. They had one son. Ross, who is living. She left Savacool, ana became dressmaker in New Bruns- wick. About four years ago she became housekeeper for MT. Place, and less than a year later he married her, although in op- position to the wishes of his family. From the beginning Mrs. Place and her stepdaughter failed to agree. Mir Place showed great affection for his daughter, and Kept her well supplied with money. Her husbands loving disposition toward his aaughter hlled Mrs. Place with anger and nlaoe her deeply jealous of the girl.
 on the morning of February of last year she was in the Hancock street house with her stepdaughter. A servant Hilda Palm, was busy in the kitchen She sent the servant on an errand, and when the girl returned she heard screams from upstairs. A few moments later Mrs. Place came down stars and explained to Hilda that she had a little quarrel with Ida. Then she told the servant that she was going to break up
 
 girl to leave at once, paying her her wages and something extra. She requested the servant to send an congressman for her trunk, as she intended to go to New Bruns- wick N. J that afternoon Hilda then left the house.
 Ida Place was found In her bed dead that evening. Her face and eyes were burned with acid, and there was a wound on the back of her head The autopsy showed that she had been smothered to death. Mrs. Place had quarreled with the girl, had thrown the acid in her face and then suf- located her with pillows as the girl lay in bed. The murderess planned to catch an afternoon train for New Brunswick, but found that she could not get ready in time Her husband was due home at o'clock When he came in Mrs Place met him on the stairway and struck him twice on the head with an axe, fracturing his skull. He staggered into the street, was picked up on the sidewalk by neighbors and sent to a hospital. At first it was believed that he would de but he recovered.
 Mrs. Place was brought to trial on July 6 last, and was convicted of murder in the first degree She was sentenced on July 13 by Justice Hurd in the Kings county court to be executed by electricity In Sing Sing prison in the week beginning August 20. In the early part of August, while Mrs. Place was in the death chamber at Sing Sing, she filed notice, through her counsel, of appeal. Argument on the appeal was made late in November. The decision of the court of appeals affirmed the verdict of the lower court. Counsel for Mrs. Place then appeal ed to Governor Roosevelt for clemency, all leging insanity as the cause of the crime. and the governor appointed expert physi- clans to examine into Mrs. Places mental cond tion. They decided that she was sane.
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of appeals, and was affirmed without dis senting voice, though this court always scrutinizes with the most jealous care such a case, desiring that the benefit of every doubt shall be given to the accused.
 VI wrote to the district attorney and to the judge who tried the case to learn whether they thought there was any ground for executive clemency. They both ar1ewered that there was none whatever, ana that the case was one of peculiar out rate the letter of the judge running as fQ(lows
 ~" The record before you will show erime of shocking atrocity, followed by another-the attack on William Place having murder for its object. That both crimes were premeditated and deliberate there can be no doubt. In my opinion the veridct was eminenty just. I think the application entirely without merit, and
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who wrote the opinion on which the judg- ment of conviction was confirmed.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-09-28
TO FIGHT TRUSTS.
Democrats SOIidIy Aligned Against
the OppressOrs of the
People.

One thing is settled. There is to be-
campaign against the trusts.
Indeed. if Mark Hanna is to be cred
tied, there will be two campaigns
against the trusts.
With optimism eXuding from every
pore land Mark Hanna's corporosity
gives ample verge for this sort of thlng)
the republican boss returns from Eu-
rope and alleges that democrats will
derive no advantage from making the
trusts a political issue, for the repub-
licans will take an advanced and ag-
gressive position in favor of the regula'
ton of these combines.
Truly the trusts are placed in an en-
barrassing position.
With the democrats solidly aligned
against them, and the republicans, &C.
cording to Hanna, to take an ''aggres-
sive position" what will the poor trusts
do.
But, of course, the managers of the
trusts are not alarmed at Hanna's die
tum. They know that he is talking for
buncomb
Mckinley owes his election to the
trusts. The trusts owe their prosperity
largely to McKinley's protective tariff
The two are inseparable friends.
AS political expediency the repub-
licans may fire a few blank cartridges
at the trusts. AS practical experience
the trusts will suffer no molestation
from the republicans.
But the democrats mean business
They believe in protecting the people,
and that is why there is to be a cam
paign against the trusts.-Chicago Dem
ocrat.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-09-28
M,HANNAITEs FRIGHTENED.
McKinIey's Secretary Of State Makes
Grand Stand Play for the
Admins tration.

The condition of the campaign in Ohis
~ frightened. The German-Americans
of that state are not in love with i'm
perialism and still less with the evil
dences that there is no understanding"
between the McHanna authorities and
the English government. So badly is
Mr.. Mckinley scared that he had his
secretary of state, Mr.. John Hay, write
a letter to the chairman of the Ohio re-
publican committee semiofheiaily de-
nying the existence of an Anglo-Ameri-
can alliance. Mr.. Hay assures this re-
publican chairman that they have moth
ing to do with England and are friendly
to Germany. This statement must be
taken with several large grains of salt.
There may be no open treaty or alliance
as yet between England and the United
States, but the McHannaites and the
English jingoes are closely connected
in spirit and principles. Mckinley's
administration has been a mere copy
of England's policy. 1t was for the
benefit of England and to get American
assistance in the eastern question that
the Philippine outrage was begun. An
open door policy would enrich English
commerce. Our policy toward the Phil
ippines was identically the same as that
of England against the Beers. 1t was
conquest and robbery of weak people
that animated alike the English and Nc
Kinley traitors to liberty. But all was
done with American blood and money.
At Samoa the English caused the
trouble, because they wanted the is
lands which Germans had been culti-
waiting since 1929. The American tool,
Chambers, openly advocated the an
nexation of the islands to England.
Another English tool, Admiral Kautz,
bombarded the Germans and native set
Elements for eight days, and the Nc
Kinley administration most Justify
preached war against Germany. The
course of the McHanna administration
in the Samoa trouble was most con-
temptible one. 1t did everything that
England wanted in that dirty and
cruel affair. American sailors and two
prominent officers were butchered I'M
der the treachery and cowardly COM
mand of British officers, who ran away
and forsook the Americans after put
ting them in trouble in most stupid
and inefficient manner. The English
false dispatches, fostered and uncon-
tradicted by the administration, raised
a great storm of indignation against
Germany and German-Americans were
placed in a false and unpleasant posi-
ton.
1t is too late for Mr.. Fay to coun-
teract the effects of the record by de-
nying in letter to political boss in
Mr.. McKinley's own state that the
McHanna administration has surren-
dered American principles and adopted
an entire British policy.-Illinois State
Register.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-09-28
RAILROAD SYSTEM FOR CUBA.
Its Construction Depends Upon the
Repeal of the Foraker Resolu-
ton by Congress.

New York, Sept. 24.-Gen. A. q.
Greenwood, who has just returned
from Cuba, has the following to say
of Cuban railroads:
within very short time the con-
struction of railroad will probably
be begun which will make every point
of Importance in Cuba easy of access.
We have the right of way, we have the
concessions, and, best of all, we have
the money.
cit is our purpose to have main
line through the island, and to do this
we must build a road from Santa
Clara to Santiago de Cuba, distance
of about 400 miles. Then we will build
branches to the main line from every
port on the north and south side of
the island. This means the building
of more than $50 miles of roads at
cost of at least $25, 100000.
London and Boston capitalists
have financed the undertaking. The
surveys have been made, and MI that
is necessary to permit the commence
ment of the work of construction is
the repeal of the Foraker resolution.
This, we have every reason to believe,
will be repealed in the early days of
the coming session. We shall rush the
work. and give Cuba railroad system
that will prove of incalculable benefit
in the development of her many re
sources.