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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-03-23
THE WAR.

The South African war has been going
steadily in favor of the British. and
with the capture of Bloemfontein the
Orange River Free Staters will in the
main leave the Transvaal, and make
what terms they can. The Free Staters
were led into the war by President
Steyn, and they have not been by any
means satisfied with the part they have
had to play. It is a noticeable fact that
in the account of Lord Roberts entry
into Bloemfontein the people are des-
cribed as receiving him with enthu-
siasm. This points to the fact that GER
tainly some sections Of the population
were averse to the war, for Bloemfon-
tein is a thoroughly Dutch town.
Why the Free Staters entered into the
war seems inexplicable except on the
theory that they were overawed by the
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-03-23

There have been frequent complaints
during the war about the misuse of the
white flag The charges have been de-
MED and have been reiterated. flag
pant case, of it, however, came under
the notice of Lord Roberts himself, and
has called forth a prompt protest from
-that officer There is nothing more
'Jiisgracefui than to lure your enemy TO
you by pretended surrender, and then
shoot him down in cold blood. That the
Filipinos should do it, one may not be
quite surprised at, but that the Beers
mould resort to it is surprising, when
one considers what an intensly relig-
ious people they are. Another thing
that is surprising is the use Of explos-
i've bullets. Considerable numbers Of
these were fround in Cronje's lager,
It seems hardly possible that the gen.
eral was aware of the fact that such
ammunition was being used, but on
the other hand since the ammunition
lis served out by the government, one
must presume that he knew. 1t may
however, have been private ammuni-
ton which had been brought surrepti-
tiously into the camp. 1t is to be hoped
it was. II
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-03-23

It has taken the physicians of the
Board of Health a considerable time to
decide whether Mr.. Levy, the hotel
clerk, had plague or not The Star Is
very much pleased that the young
man is declared never to have had the
disease. But it does seem very extra
ordinary that medical SCIENCE could not
decide the question some time ago. But
one must remember that medical sci
ence, outside of surgery, is largely ex-
detrimental
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-03-23
FRIDAY, MARCH 90, 1900.

A very palpable error occurred in one
Of The Stars editorials yesterday. 1t
read Certainly we do want the place to
be called the Kerosene Hospital of In
curables." The context shows that the
word mot" was left out. 1t should read
Certainly we do not want the place 10
be called the Kerosene Hospital of In
-ura HES
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-03-23

Put up in all sizes. Trial
bottle, 25 cents, which will
make a pail Of the most effec-
tive Disinfectant.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-07
State Officers Indicted.

Lansing, Mich. Jan. 6.-The Ingham
county grand jury which created series
of sensations by bringing indictments
charging several State officers with fla
grant criminal offenses, adjourned today,
the term of office of Circuit Judge Per-
son, who summoned the jury having ex-
pired.
The following are the persons who
have been indicted and the offenses al
legged:
Edgar j. Evans, Speaker of the House
of Representative, two indictments for
bribery; VIM. \. French, State Land
Commissioner, offering brides; Charles
II. Pratt, agent for law-book concern,
offering brides; Representative j. Judson
Hammond. Of Pontiac, soliciting brides:
Fred \. Maynard, exAttorney General.
misdemeanor in retaining a portion of his
chief clerks salary; viii l.. White. State
QuartermaStcr General; Colonel Harold
\. Smith. Assistant Quartermaster Cen
eral: Arthur +. Marsh, Adjutant Gener-
al and Chairman of the Republican State
Central Committee and Eli r. Sutton.
regent of the University of Michigan
and member OF Governor PingreeS' staff,
charged with alleged fraud and embez-
Element in connection with the sale and
alleged repurchase of military supplies.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-07
Prof. Morson's Tribute.

In recording the terrible disaster by
which the lives of three of our bright
and promising youths were so suddenly
blotted out on yesterday, it may be
some consolation to the hearts of the
bereaved parents TO know in what terms
of Borrowing praise their teacher, Prof.
Hugh Morson, spoke of them when he
called last night to request the notice to
be inserted which appears elsewhere.
He spoke of their presence at school on
the day before they met their sad fate,
and the happy, beaming faces they show
ed in discussing their proposed trip.
Mial Williamson had been a pupil of
the school for two years.
In department and application to his
studies, he had always given entire sat
isfaction to his teachers, and he displayed
abilities of al very high order, especially
in mathematics. Young as he was, he
was almost prepared to enter college.
Edwin Lee and James Hunter entered
the Academy at the opening of the pres
ent session They We're diligent in their
studies, faithful in the discharge of every
duty, and beloved by their teachers and
school-mates, who, next to the imme
diate circle OF their own stricken rela
tiyes will feel most keenly the untimely
loss Of these three bright young lives.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-07
LEADS ALL NORTH CAROLINA DAllES I'M NEWS AMID CIRCULATION.

Arnsworth. New York, 202 West For
tieth street; VIM. H. Morris, manager
of Asbury Park Opera House, Asbury
Park. n. j.; Charles C. Webster, As
bury, n. j.; Arthur Lands, Asbury
Park. y. J.
Following these was series Of deposi-
tons from stage managers and opera
house employees on the route the MIR.
Plaster of Paris Company had taken be-
fore reaching Chattanooga, in which the
Opponents with one accord stated that
Leiden abused and insulted Miss Morri-
son in their presence on many occasions.
Miss Morrison in closing her testimony
stated that when child she had been
kicked on the head by a pony and that
since that time she had been subject to
headaches and great trouble with her
head. Before the court had adjourned
the defense announced that its plea
would be. temporary insanity.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-07
Speaker Trimble to Preside.

Frankfort, Ky, Jan. G.-The Senate
adopted the report of the Committee on
Rules, which provides that the Speaker
of the House aud not the Lieutenant
Governor shall preside ut all joint SEES
sions. This arrangements will make
Speaker Trimble lDem), the presiding
officer when the Governors contest is
heard. Lieutenant Governor Marshall be-
fore he put the vote said:
Il deem it my duty to state to the
Senate | very much doubt whether it is
in the power of the Senate to limit or
prescribe the duties which devolve upon
me us a constitutional officer"
The joint rules are yet to be adopted
in the House.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-07
CAPTURE OF CoMMANCHE
Three American Prisoners Shot by
the Filipinos.

Manila, Jan. 6.-7:3O A. M)-Advices
from Magalang, Province of Pampanga,
report that Captain Conhauser, with
three companies of the Twenty-fifth regi-
ment, captured the insurgent stronghold
COmmanchc, on Mount Arayat, yester-
day.
Three Americans We're wounded, but
the enemy's loss is not known. Three
members Of the Ninth and two of the
Twelfth regiment, whom the insurgents
held as prisoners, We're shot and horribly
mutilated. Three Of them are dead and
the other two are recovering.
Captain Conhauser set fire to the bar
racks and to the town.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-07
PLEA TEMPORARY INSANITY
Many Deponents Declare Leiden In
suited and Abused Julia Morrison

Chattanooga. Tenn, Jan. 6.-The hear.
ing i'll the Julia Morrison case was re-
sumed this morning. Miss Morrison be-
ing on the stand for croSS-eXaminatiOn
The witness reiterated her statements as
to the epithets applied to her by Leiden,
leading up to the tragedy. The letter
written by her to Manager Harris, which
recently appeared in the dispatches of the
Associated Press in which she said to
Harris: If you do not telegraph this
damn fellow Leiden to keep his mouth
shut | will leave the company" was sub
mitted to her. and she admitted having
written it. But" said she, Il wrote
it at the dictaton OF my husband"
She further stated that she did not
know where she was born: that She had
never seen her father and mother, and
confirmed her testimony of yesterday AZ
to her foster parents whose names We're
Dale The attorneys for the State got
the witness somewhat confused by ask
ing why she had not married her pres
ent husband the second time immediate
ly after learning her real name instead
of waiting for seven years. She stated
that for one reason she had not the
money at the time, and there were other
REASONS" said she.
The defense introduced dispositions
from several parties in various parts of
the country where Miss Morrison had
resided, teStifying to her good charac-
ter
Among the dispositions We're those from
y. +. Moss, President of the First Ma
tional Bank, Lafayette. La Mrs. T. NJ.
McDermott, ST. Louis Mrs. Sophia
Stulzback, Patterson, \. j.: Margaret
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-07
Mial Williamson, Edwin Lee and James Hin
ton Drowned Yesterday.
TRAGEDY OCCURRED At HINTONS POND
The Boys had Started Hunting and Laying Down Their Guns
on the Bank Went Out on the Ice, Which Broke
With Their Weight. Bodies Recovered Last
Night Universal Sorrow in City Trib
ute From Their Teacher.

and last night when her grandson was
brought home dead, the table was just
as she had fixed it at the dinner hour
the three plates for the three boys.
The first person to discover that some
thing had gone wrong was negro wo-
man, Mag Durham, who passed by the
pond about o'clock. There she saw
the three faithful dogs, keeping watch
over the guns and refusing to allow any
one to come near. In the ice was
suspicious looking hole and on the water
foated cap. Not human being was
in sight. On the bank were two guns.
The third gun was in a boat that was
frozen in the ice, near the hole through
which the boys had fallen.
The woman ran to the home Of another
negro woman, Fanny Price, living near
by and told what she had seen. The
Price woman went down and satisfied
herself as to the truth of what Mag
Durham had reported. then ran to Mrs.
Hinton's, mile and a half away.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-07
ALL PRISONERS FREE.
Otis and Watson Cable That Gilmore
is Among Them.

Washington, Jan. 6.-Official cOnfirma-
ton has come from both General Otis
and Admiral Watson of the first reports
from Manila of the release of the Ameri-
can prisoners who have been held in the
hands of the Filipinos for many months.
and there is no longer any doubt that
Lieutenant Gilmore, of the Yorktown.
is among the number. General Otis
dispatch reads as follows:
Manila, Jan. 6th.-The prisoners now
enroute from Vigan arrived tonight. and
list of them will be telegraphed to-
morrow. Captain Gilmore is among the
number.
(Signed) Otis"
Admiral Watson's advice is as follows
Manila, Jan. 5th.-Colonels Hare and
Howe have re-captured all of the
American prisoners, including Gilmore,
now at Yigan.
tSigned) "WATSON."
The sweeping statements made in the
dispatches To the effect that all of the
American prisoners have been released
has aroused q hope that in the list will
appear the names of some of the officers
and privates of the army who are set
down upon the army rolls as missing
Prominent among the missing army
officers was Major Charles NJ Rookie
Teller. of the Ninth infantry. This Off
Ger advanced beyond the lines during the
fierce fighting early last summer. He
disappeared completely, and no trace of
his body was ever found
1t is gathered from General OTIS re-
port that the released men have been
sent by boat across Lingayen Gulf to
Dagupan, at the northern extremity of
the railroad and about a days journey
from Manila.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-07
PENALTY FOR BRIBERY.
Whallen May be Jailed, DISTINGUISHED
and Fined $4,000.

Frankfort, Ky, Jan. 6.-Senators
Thomas and Crenshaw, jointly filed an
information today citing John ]. Whal-
len and Charles Ryan to appear before
the Senate on a statutory proceeding
charging them with contempt in at
tempting to bride Senator Harrell The
penalty upon conviction is a fine of So
900, confinement in Jail during the ses-
SIGN of the Legislature and forfeiture of
suffrage. A similar charge viii be filed
in the House and n joint committee to in
yestigate the charge is asked.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-07
Lentz Speaks Against Imperialism

Detroit, Mich, Jan. 6.-Congressman
J. Lentz. of Ohio, made a radical anti
lmperialist address tonight before big
audience. lie asserted that the question
of Imperialism is by far the most inn
portant one before the world today. and
that the concentrated thought of our
S0,0G0.0c0 citizenship ought to be devoted
to it until il is settled, and settled right
Most of the speakers quotations in sup
port of his arguments were selected from
the words of distinguished Republican
antiImperialists.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-07
Did Not Want Watts Body.

Norfolk, Va, Jan. 6.-Police Sergeant
Watts, of Lynchburg, father of w. w.
Watts, who was lynched at Newport
News yesterday morning for assaulting
Mrs. Simpson, arrived here today, Ell
route to Newport News. On learning
that his son was guilty he declined to go
further and arranged by telephone for
the burial. Watts sister, who is teach
,er i'll "a Lynchburg school, also tele-
phoned to ask if her brother was guilty.
and said she did not want the body sent
home, and it will be sent TO Richmond
Medical College for dissecting purposes.
Watts said he had tried to reclaim his
boy, who was maynard, and had warned
him of the fate that overlook him.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-07
THE BUNDESRATH AFFAIR
SHE WAS SEIZED ON NEUTRAL
TERRITORY.
AND CARRIED NOTHING CONTRABAND
So Berlin Now Declares, News of the Re-
lease Of the General at Alden Regarded
in Germany as a British
Back Down,

Copyright 1900 by Associated Press
Berlin, Jan. 6.-The excitement occa-
stoned by the seizures of German mail
steamers by British cruisers increases
and overtops everything else. Even the
opening of the Prussian Diet on the
coming Tuesday is dwarfed thereby. In
spite OF the strong current of popular
anti-British sentiment, the German Gov
eminent still honestly tries to continue
its course of layol neutrality, but anxi-
ousiy awaits favorable British action re-
garding the seizures. which the Govern
ment and nation both regard as unjuSti-
fed
The Government has ascertained with
out Il shadow of doubt that the Bundles
rath was seized on strictly neutral terri
tory within a radius belonging, by in
ternational law, to the Portuguese colony.
Thereby. the action of the British
cruiser Magicienne was clearly wrong as
here contended. The news that Great
Britain has released the steamer General
seized at Alden, is here construed as
Great Britain's backing down. In Off
cial circles today, the hope was express
81 20 y representative of the Associated
Press that Great Britain will admit she
is wrong after detailed and comprehen-
sive proofs submitted at Londan.
Part Of these proofs are the bills of lad
ing of the Bundesrath, the General and
Herzog, shown gthat the German East
African Line was most particular to
exclude all chances of their vessels con-
tanning contraband. The Bundesrath
is shown to have on board 10 passengers
for Delagoa Bay, comprising II Portu-
guese, of whom several were Govern
ment officials; two former Austrian and
one former German army officer The
rest were civilians. This line is subsi-
died by Germany to the amount of
100000 marks annually
The correspondent here OF the Assoc
ciated Press interviewed Herr Barth,
the Freisinnige leader, who said:
THE Bundesrath incident will cause
the Fleet Bill to pass with a rush. 1t
viii break the Centrist opposition. No
party. not even the Socialists, would risk
going before the country now in oppOsi-
ton to the Fleet Bill, as it would be
swept away.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-07
Average Weight of Cotton Bales.

New Orleans, La, Jan. 6.-Secretary
Hcster's statement of the actual average
weight of 4.7G1 ,J49 bales of the cotton
crop embracing port receipts and over
land for four months ending at close of
December. is so 1900, against 0lS
11-10O pounds per bale last year, de-
crease of Z 33-100.
Detailed averages are:
Texas, 527 1900; Louisiana, o14
63-1OO; Alabama, 503; Georgia, 1872
35-1OO; South Carolina, 497 15-1O0;
North Carolina, 500 S7-100; Virginia,
1913; Tennessee, etc, including Memphis,
st. Louis and overland, 800 Hoo.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-07
Will Put Out Lilly White Ticket

New Orleans. Jan. Cat conference
of leaders OF the Republican party (su-
gar planters branch, at the ST Charles,
it was resolved to put out straight
Lily White Republican Ticket. If the
sentiment expressed can be depended
upon, Mr.. Thomas ]. Woodward, of this
city, will be nominated for Governor.
The Lily White State Central Commit
tee met today in the st. Charles Hotel
for the purpose of calling a State con
vention,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-07
Redeeming Change" Bills.

Atlanta, Ga, Jan. 6.-Thirty 81
change bills issued by the Western
and Atlantic railroad bearing date of
August 1st. 1862, were received by
Secretary of State Cook today from
Chattanooga, and he was asked to pre-
sent them to the State Treasurer for
redemption az ten cents on the dollar as
the law provides
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-07
Recovery of the Bodies.

On the way she met a white man
named Daniels, who works on the Hin
ton place, and told him. He went i'm
mediately to the spot, and found the
bodies in the water as above described.
James Hinton being near the bank he
was easily recovered by breaking the Ice
above him. But the others were much
further out in deeper water and on
the bottom. BY this time, however, the
news had spread through the commune
ity and people came running to the spot.
The boat was soon cut from the ice,
graphing hooks were secured and the
bodies recovered.
In the meantime Il messenger had been
dispatched to Raleigh to bring the news,
and DR.. Marshburn had been sent for.
After making an examination of the
bodies DIR. Marshburn gave it as his
opinion that they had been in the
water some six hours. If this is true
they were drowned about noon.
1t was about 9 O'Clock at night before
Capt. Williamson and the party from
Raleigh reached there They started
back with the bodies at the earliest pos
sible minute The return trip was nee
essarily solw. and it lacked only a few
minutes of midnight when they reached
here.
But despite the lateness Of the hour a
large crowd of people at once collected
about the undertaking establishment to
which the bodies of the boys were
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-07
Canal Commission Sails.

New York, Jan 6-The commission
headed by Rear Admiral John 6. Wal
ker. retired, sailed today on the Atlas
Line steamer .Alene for Nicaragua, to
investigate and report on the canal pos
sib7lities. Work already done will be
examined. The specific object will be
TO recommend q route for a canal across
the Isthmus. The trip across Nicaragua
will occupy about six weeks.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-07
MUST WAIT THE SENTENCE.

Berlin, Jan. 6.-The correspondent of
the Associated Press had an interview
tonight with a high official who said that
the international questions involved in
the seizures of German vessels by Brit
ish naval commanders are so complicated
and so dimly defined that an agreement
between England and Germany will
necessarily be slow.
AT any rate he continued, 1--WE must
first wait the sentence of the prize court
before we object thereto"
The Associated Press correspondents
learns reliably tonight that the German
Government will forbid the export by
the Krupps Of steel shrapnels for Eng
land
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-07

here. He was unusually bright, and uni
formly courteous and thoughtful in his
intercourse with others. He was his
fathers only son, but he leaves a sister
near his own age.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-07
The Lawton Fund S48, 433. 80

Washington. Jan. 6.-The total sub
scriptions to the Lawton Fund to date
amount to $4S, 433.32, Of which nearly
$1,000 was received this morning.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-07
Foxhall Keene Badly Hurt.

London, Jan. Cit is feared that Fox
hlll Keene, the American sportsman,
who broke his collar bone while hunting
with the Quorn hounds yesterday, has
also sustained internal injuries.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-07
Anott er German Steamer Seized. =

Durham, Jan. 6.-The German steam
er Herzog has been seized by a British
warship and brought to this port.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-07
They Were Not Skating.

1t will never be known exactly how
the accident occurred.
III was at first supposed that the boys
Ead gone skating and the ice had given
away with them. This seems not to he
true. In the first place they had no
sixties. And there were on the ice no
marks as of one sliding on his shoe-soles.
Another peculiar thing about it is that
the hole i'll the ice was a very small one,
not more than five or six feet in diane
ter. Besides that there was paddle.
taken from the boat floating on the
water with the caps. This leads to the
belief that they were all down on the
ice together, trying to break "a small hole
IN 1t with the paddle. when the ice sud
denly gave way with Them
The first Raleigh man to learn of the
drowning was Mr.. Maud Fleming. who
happened to be in that neighborhood
Others who went out from here were:
Capt. Is. T. williamson Ed II. Lee
James II. Johnson, Van 3. Moore. John
w. Brown. |. NJ. Proctor. Joseph Blake.
Garland ines, B. S. Jerman, ]. D. Tur-
ner, w. W. Green. j. NJ. Aver. f. A.
Olds, Jr.. and perhaps others.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-07
Other Famous Drownings.

This is the fourth drowning here with
i'll the past twenty-five years in which
more than one person lost their lives.
In 1874 Il man named Mcmillan and
Beauregard Croker We're drowned in
Penny's pond. There is now monument
in the cemetery here, erected to them
jointly.
In 1879 Hewel Pool and Paul Pool
lost their lives in Mordecai's pond. Mrs.
Burwell Pearce. of this city. is their sis
ter
In 1887 James McPheeters and MIR.
Hughes. "a son Of Mr.. w. III. Hughes.
were drowned in the Grimes rock hole
near where the water works pump house
now is.
Two of the boys drowned yesterday.
Edwin Lee and Mial WilliamsoIl-lived
in this city. where they were loved and
admired for their uniform politeness and
kindly dispositions. They were brave.
manly boys, and will be sadly missed by
their friends and schoolmates.
The third--James Cain Hinton-was
we'll known and most highly esteemed