The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-14

of Sutherland, Republican, over King,
Democrat, down to 15O The vote has not
yet been officially declared.
Mrs. Zeralda James, widow Of Jesse
James, the noted Southwestern bandit,
died at her home in Kansas City yester
day. They had one son, Jesse, Jr., who is
now in business in Kansas City.
Charles Jones. valet of the late William
Rice. was removed from Bellevue Hospi
tai, New York. in an ambulance yester-
day to the Tomhs. He has been in the
hospital since his attempt to commit sui
eide.
The Russians have ordered the foreign
ers in the railroad houses at Tong Ku
to vacate the buildings, and the British
have sent there a company of infantry
and 100 cavalry, ordering these troops to
retain and protect the property
The German Government has officially
informed the Colonial Council that it will
gladly grant permission to $4,000 Trans
vaal Beers to trek through the Kalasari
desert to territory in German Southwest
Africa.
The London World says a judicial sep
aration between Prince and Princess
Aribert of Anhalt, is an accomplished
fact. The paper adds that the deeds
were signed and the other formalities
completed during the stay in Berlin of
Prince Christian of Schleswig -Holstein,
father of the Princess
At Poplar Bluff, Mo-, yesterday, par
tial search of the ruins of the burned
Clifford House was made, but only one
unidentified body was recovered. The
debris is still burning and the intense
heat has retarded the work of the search
ers 1t is now considered certain that
five more bodies lie buried beneath the
ruins.
The London morning papers are again
agitated concerning the stability of the
concert of powers in China. The attitudes
of Germany and the United States meet
with disaDproval, the former because
Count Won Waldersee has sent a column
to destroy the Ming tombs, an act which
is regarded as needlessly vindictive, and
the latter because it threatens to break
up the concert.
The strike of the hosting engineers in
the Indiana Coal fields, which was de-
clared on Monday, may be settled by the
end of the week. Yesterday ten of the
Indiana operators signed the Illinois scale
and will pay the wages demanded by the
engineers for one year The signing of
the scale means an eight hour day and a
twenty per cent. increase in wages for
the strikers.
The early calling of Parliament for the |
purpose of securing for the English Gov
eminent further borrowing power is caus- |
ing much comment in London money cir |
cles. 1t is understood that the Govern |
ment has already borrowed 100000 |
pounds from the Bank of England, and
the general idea is that the Chancellor
of the Exchequer will find it necessary
to borrow between 25,OOOOOO and 5o,OOO,-
600 more. They are talking of floating a
Transvaa loan for 20 100000 or more. A
strong feeling is expressed against plac-
ing any part of the loan in the United
States.
Twenty-Five immigrants who reached
Philadelphia as saloon pass myers on the
American line steamer Waesland were
denied admission to this country by a
Board of Inquiry of he United State Inn
migration Commissioners on the ground
that they had violated the contract labor
law. The men and women are Lace
workers. 1t was proved that frse~class
passage had been paid for them by John
Alexander Dowie, the "divine healer"
of Chicago, who is about to found city
called Zion near Waukegan, ILL.,, where ne
intends to establish a lace producing
plant.
The Kaiser has just given further evil
dence of his regard for Baron Won Kettle
Ter, who was assassinated in China, by
inviting the latters American widow to
come to Germany in order that he may
express to her his keen sense, not only
of her husbands services, but also ct the
courage and gallantry which she herself
displayed throughout the terrible siege
of the legations. 1t is expected that the
Kaiser, besides investing the widowed
Baroness with the order of Louise, of
which the Empress is Grand Mistress,
will offer a pension and create her a
Countess in her own right.
In the Freedman's Aid and Southern
Educational Society meeting held at
Newark, n. j., last night, after appro-
priations for colored academies in the
South had been made, there was long
debate on Acknowledgement. Secretary
Mason believed in good feeling between
the sections. but if it was to be had by
leaving the negro outside there would be
trouble. He did not think with Booker
Washington that education should come
first and rights afterward. Bishop Good
sell said that if the North had been placed
in the Souths position it would have
taken steps to disfranchse negroes just
as the South has done. 81 viii tell the
colored men," he said, that every word
Of war they speak now will make the
elevation of their race more difficult in
the end" The white academies were
then given appropriations.
Senator no uic' Condition Groun