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j. g. OVERMAN,
Portsmouth, Va.

Residence Laurel avenue. near Duke
street, Prcntiss Place: works at Navy.
Yard. Two years have passed since Mr.
Ovcrman vas cured by me. and there has
been no return whatever OF the disease
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-05-23
Every Remedy Had Failed,
But He is Perfectly well Now !

~ HAD TRIED ALMOST EVERY
CArARRH MEDICINE | ever heard OF
and ALL FAILED to cure me. My sui
:crngs We're severe and was miserable
indeed ! FELT ALL THE TIME AS
PHLEGM IN MY THROAT which | must
hawk away. This kept me hawking ali
the time. My throat would ect dry and
sore and MY NOSTRiLS FELT S'rtiTl
FY AND CLOGGED UP. My Ears
KEPT RINGING AND SiNGiNC CON
STANTl.Y AND MY EYES WE'RE
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petite WAS very poor. and / was so bad
off couldn't sleep and WOULD GET lip
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AND EYES y Ill RIGHT. ALI. THE "a
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ENTIRELY CURED Before taking his
trca tmemt USED TO LIE IN BED AN
HOUR COUGHING AND HAWKINC;
BEFORE COULD Go no SL'i:tp
But NO TROUBLE NOW | certainly
recommend DR. FIrcy'3 treatment as the
best CGtarrh Cure.
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-18
he OUGHT TO SUCCEED.
Mr. Small Is Smuggling Close to River and
Parbor Committee.
washington Post.)

When Representative Small, of North
Carolina, recites the various projects in
which he is interested before this Con-
gress, it sounds like the jabbering of an
Indian chief. That is because there are
SO many Indian names applied to land and
sea objects in the Tar Heel State. Soup
pernong," "Pamlico," which Mr.. Small
says should be spelled "Pamplico," al
though the government insists otherwise,
"Pasquotank, and others of like char
acter stand out prominently in his con-
versation.
There are 2S5 miles of seacoast ada
cent to my Congressional district" says
Mr.. Small, land more inland sounds than
in the domain of any other member of the
House in the United States. Cape Hat
teras and Cape Lookout are in my terri
tory, from which you will gather why
am smuggling close to the River and Har-
Dor Committee. There are several very
necessary river and harbor improvements.
which l hope Congress will authorize in
that vicinity"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-18

First Political Party Under the American Re-
gime Forming.
(By the Associated Press. J

Manila, Dec. I7.-Advices just received
from Iloilo Island of Panay, say that the
insurgents, Saturday night, burned a
large part of the village of Cabatuau.
Assistant Surgeon Frederick A. Wash
burn, Jr., of the Twenty sixth volunteer
infantry, with eighteen men held the
principal buildings. A strong wind was
blowing at the time The Americans sus-
tanned no casualties
The first political party under the
American regime is in process of forma-
ton. It's principles have been embodied
in a platform which will shortly be made
public. 1t is understood that the declara-
tions Of the platform give the fullest
recognition to American sovereignty, and
also favor considerable degree of native
autonomy concerning internal and local
affairs.
Thirty rebels were captured this morn
ing at a suburb of San Pedro Macati, four
miles from Manila, by twenty-five men of
the Twentieth United States infantry, and
twenty members of the native Manila po-
lice all under Captain Gaines, Assistant
Chief of Police. The force landed in
small boats and surrounded the suburb.
Seventy persons were captured, but only
thirty were identified as insurgents.
Later advices from Iloilo announce that
detachments of the Twenty-sixth volun-
teer infantry this morning surprised the
headquarters of Quintin Salas, capturing
considerable quantities of stores and val
liable papers. Several natives we're
killed. The Americans who had no losses.
were still in pursuit of the fleeing insur-
gents when the dispatch left Iloilo
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-18

On last Sunday morning the First Bap-
fist Sunday School elected the following
officers for the ensuing year:
J. d. Boushall. superintendent.
John E. Ray, first assistant superinten-
dent.
Carey ]. Hunter. second assistant SUI
perintendent.
]. j. Tolar, secretary.
j. B. Pearce, treasurer.
w. NJ Royal, auditor.
c. w Newcomb, chorister.
Miss Emmie Rogers, pianist.
E. B. Owen, librarian.
S. w. Brewer, usher.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-18
THE Nsws AND OBSERVER TUESDAY o tNlNa DEC b. lsoO

Mrs. Sarah Booz, mother; Nellie Booz,
sister of the young man; Rev. DR.. Alli-
son, DR.. Weaver. a Bristol physician who
attended Oscar Boooz and several others.
The board left for New York tonight
and will sit at West Point tomorrow af-
ternoon.
Mr.. Booz. the father testified that his
son had written home on several occa-
sions that he had been hazed. He en-
tered the academy in June, 1898, and in
August he wrote home that he had been
in fight and had received pair OF
black eyes, and that he had been knocked
out by a blow over the heart. Mr.. Booz
said he went to West Point TO see his
son and told him he must stand it. Oscar
told his father he expected TO be haZed,
but he did not want TO be treated brutally.
The father said Oscar did not want his
mother to know how he was being treated.
Mr.. Booz then told how Oscar had in
formed him that Tabasco sauce had been
forced down his throat.
Oscar said the cadets would pull the
blankets from him and pour hot wax from
candle on his body.
Mr.. Booz thought the officers at the
academy could stop the brutality, but he
would not say they condoned it. He
could not understand why they had
treated his son IN such a severe manner.
Oscar spent all of last year at home N
an endeavor to build up his health. He
never would reveal the identity of his
prosecutors. Mrs. Booz testified her son
had written home that West Point
was unfit for a young man who wanted
to do right and that parents should not
send their sons there.
Nellie Booz, a sister of the deceased
young man, testified that in a letter re-
ceived by the family on August 7th, Oscar
told Of the fight he had with another
cadet, and that he fought until he was
winded. The cadets called him coward,
and a disgrace to the corps. If he did not
go into the fight, they said, the fellows
would make life unbearable for him. "
He asked his father for permission to re-
sign. Oscar described many little indigni-
ties which were practiced on him.
If he had not swallowed the Tabasco
sauce he would have strangled. They
were holding him down and he could do
nothing else.
DR.. J. Soils Cohen, a throat specialist,
testified here this afternoon that Oscar
had tuberculosis of the larynx and that
when he came to this city for treatment
his case was hopeless. He thought that
if Tobasco sauce had been forced down
Booz's throat it may have made him more
susceptible to tuberculosis.
Sigmcrd S. Albert, classmate of Oscar
Booz, said that Booz was not hazed any
more than any other cadet He was one
of Booz's terminates while in camp. He
and Booz and fourth year men, he said,
were made to do ridiculous stunts, such
as making the upper class mems beds and
"other unmanly and disgraceful' things;
what he meant by the latter he said, was
none of the public's business.
One night some fourth year men were
forced to open their mouths and shut
their eyes, when someone squirted into
their mounts was he believed to be To-
basco sauce. 1t did not hurt Albert be-
cause there was not enough of it.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-18
SENATE SETS TIME
TO VOTE ON TREATY
Continued from First Page)

ed the provisions OF the existing law
giving preference to honorably discharged
soldiers and sailors of the Civil War,
manned or suffering physical impairment,
to all soldiers honorably discharged. The
committee rad further extended it to
veterans Of the War with Spain and of
the war in the Philippines.
Mr.. Richardson asked why the soldiers
of the Mexican War were not included.
In this era of good feeling why not in
clude the soldiers and sailors of all the
wars?
Mr.. Gillett (Mass.), the chairman of the
Civil Service Committee, which reported
The measure, protested against the bill.
He declared that the bill was improperly
before the House. He stamped the bill
as vicious 1t would give preference to
900 men, and for many years would
keep civilians off the rolls. The soldiers
of the Civil War enlisted as a sacred
duty The regulars did not enlist for the
same reason. They were rewarded with
pensions.
burn Iowa) protested that the bill made
an appointment vested right
Mr.. Mccall (Mass.) opposed the bill be-
caste. The Government service should
be open to all. 1t was slur upon the
intelligence Of the soldiers to give them
this preference.
Mr.. Fowler IN. j. also opposed the
bill
Mr.. Sulzer IN. " attempted to force
a yea and nay vote upon the BILL but
failed, and on rising vote the bill was
defeated-51 to 105.
Mr.. Cannon, chairman of the Appropria
ton Committee, reported an urgent De-
ficency Bill carrying $1S2, 800 for con-
tingent expenses of the House of Repre-
sentatives, Indian Affairs, District OF Co
lumba, and the National Home for Dis
abled Volunteer Soldiers. The bill was
passed.
The House then passed 1O2 private pen
sion bills and at SIS p. M, adjourned.
INDIAN APPROPRIATION BILL.
Washington, Dec. 1.-THE Military
Academy Appropriation Bill was reported
to the House today. 1t carries $699, 151,
which is $346, 59S below the estimates and
slightly above the bill of last year.
The Indian Appropriation Bill was COM
pleted today by the House Committee on
Indian Affairs. 1t carries something over
$4,000, 900, the exact aggregate not yet be-
ing determined. The number of Indian
agencies is reduced from 50 to "A, those
omitted being the Lemhi, Idaho; Neah
Bay, Washington; Nevada, Nevada; Qua
paw, Indian Territory; Sac and Fox, Iowa;
SiitZ, Oregon; Sisseton, South Dakota;
Tulalip, Washington. The estimates made
no provision for contract Indian schools
but $4,000 is allowed for the Hampton,
Va, school as this is not considered a
sectarian school.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-18
THE Booz CASE INVESTIGATION.
The Taking of Testimony Begun Yesterday by
the Board Appointed.
(By the Associated Press. J

Philadelphia, Pa, Dec. 1.-THE taking
of testimony in the case of Oscar L. Booz,
the West Point cadet who died two weeks
ago from injuries which his parents al
lege were inflicted at the West Point
Military Academy, was begun today by
the Board of Inquiry, appointed by the
Secretary of War. Two sessions were
held at Bristol. the home of the BooZ
family, and another in this city in the
late afternoon. The members of the
board are Generals Brooke, Clous and
Bates, accompanied by Captain Dean, of
the Fifth artillery, who acted as recorder
The court sat in the study of the church
which adioins the Booz homestead The
witnesses were William II. Booz, father;
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-18
GREAT STEEL POOL COMING.
Fourteen of the Largest Concerns in the COur-
try to be in 1t.
tBy the Associated Press.)


Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. 17.--Negotiations
are on foot and declared to be certain
of successful conclusion, for the forma-
tion of pool by fourteen of the largest
steel plate manufacturing establishments
in the United States.
Among the concerns included are named
the Carnegie Steel Company, the Illinois
Steel Company, the Federal Steel Com
pany, the Lenkens Steel Company, the
National Steel Company, the American
Steel and Wire Company. 1t is said that
the Carnegie Company heads the list with
10 per cent of the total business of all
the mills.
The pool is arranged on the percentage
basis and the country is divided into ter
ritories to be exclusively supplied with
steel plates by the various members OF
the pool. The decision was also reached
to do away with commission agents. The
pool effects the domestic market alone.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-18
TO REPORT THE HOPKINS BILL.
Vote in the House Committee on Census Seven
to Five
tBy the Associated Press

10y the ASSOCldJGu IT6S6sJ
Washington, Dec 1.-THE House Com
mittee on Census by vote OF to 6
agreed to report the Hopkins Reappor-
tionment Bill, leaving the total member
ship of the House at 357 as at present
and re-arranging a number of State dele
cations. The bill will not be taken up
until after the holidays.
The only change in the bill was an
amendment requiring that the several
Congressional districts of the several
States should be composed of contiguous
and compact" territory. The purpose OF
the amendment is to prevent gerrymand-
ering. Under the bill the following States
will lose one Representative each:
Indiana Kansas. Kentucky, Maine,
Nebraska, Ohio, South Carolina and Vir-
ginia.
The following will gain one each:
Illinois, Louisiana, Minnesota, New
Jersey, New York and West Virginia.
Texas will gain two Representatives.
Based upon present political divisions
neither party will gain advantage from
the new -apportionment proposed in the
bill. The Republicans will gain FIVE and
lose FIVE and the Democrats will gain
three and lose three. The basis of repre-
sentation will be one representative for
each 208, S6S inhabitants.
as follows:
Ayes-Hopkins, Babcock, Acheson,
Brownlow, Mcdowell, Ryan and Kluttz.
Nays-kussell, Heatwole Crumpacker.
Burleigh, Griffith and Wilson Is. CO
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-18
Sunday Briefs.

Button Johnson, a negro employed on
the farm of Mrs. l.. T. Cartwright near
College Park, Md, shot Florin l.. Crew,
the manager of the farm, twice, and
then presumably to escape the gallows,
committed suicide. The cause of the
shooting of Crew is unknown.
Two negroes were lynched at Rockport,
Indiana, for the robbery and murder of
a white barber. One of the negroes was
shot in the cell from which his body was
taken to be strung up in the jail yard.
The mob was composed of 500 persons.
A special to the Baltimore Sun from
Wilmington, Del, says bribery runs riot
in Delaware politics. The corrupt use of
vast sums Of money to influence elections
in that State has become a problem
which gives pause even to the politicians.
Legal remedies have been tried, but APP
pear to be useless. The evil is growing
year by year.
A Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun declares the Senate the
most extravagant and aristocratic body
in the world. The record OF its con-
stantly increasing extravaganza is almost
like a fairy tale. The House of Lords OF
England, with six times the membership
of the Senate, does not cost the tax
payers of Great Britain fraction of
what the Senate costs the people OF this
country. The correspondent claims also
that it is the most powerful legislative
body in the world. The House is under
it's thumb and the great body of the
Senate itself under the thumb OF the
leaders.
Secretary Long finds that with five
thousand additional jackies the navy will
be only partially relieved. He will ask
for more. He has knotty problem as
he must obtain Congressional sanction and
suitable men for the navy are quite
scarce.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-18
Naval Board to Investigate.
(By the Associated Press

New York, Dec. IA naval board Of
inquiry was today appointed by Rear Adj
miral Barker, commandant of the Brook
Ign Navy Yard, to investigate into an
accident to the torpedo boat Porto Rico
which occurred yesterday afternoon. The
Porter had just arrived from Newport, R.
L., and had received orders by signal to
move alongside the cruiser Montgomery
lying at the quay wall. The torpedo boat
was running along at full speed and des-
pite a reported command to slow down.
the Porter crashed into the cruiser and
badly bent her bow. Several of the plates
of the torpedo boat were also torn
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-18
coNGER FURTHER INSTRUCTED.

Washington, Dec. IA long instruc-
ton was sent to Minister Conger this af-
ternoon informing him fully as to his
course. He already had been authorized
to sign the agreement and it is said that
this fresh instruction will SO clear the
way of obstacles at Pekin as to make it
probable that all of the signatures of
the ministers can be affixed at once.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-18
COLLEGE, OFFICERS RESIGN.
The Result Of the Students Revolt at Tus-
caloosa
(By the Associated Press. J

Tuscaloosa. Ala. Dec. lit is stated
here tonight that owing to the recent dis
turbances among the students of the
University of Alabama, caused by certain
disciplinary restraint to which they OBJ
jected, Commandant West has rendered
his resignation and left for his home at
Union Springs, Alabama. President
James X. Powers has also sent his resig-
nation, effective June, 1901. to acting Gov
ernor Jelks.
Senior Captain James r. Forman has
been appointed acting commandant.
A demonstration was attempted by the
students this afternoon, but was prevent
ed by the students board of control"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-18
INSTRUCTIONS TO sATow.
They Look to Make the Terms Harder For
China to Accept.
(By the Associated Press.l

Wy 4
London, Dec. -(Tuesday.)-" Great
Britain has instructed Sir Ernest Satow
| understand says the Pekin correspon-
dent of the Daily Mail, wiring Sunday,
ito urge the retention in the joint note
of the word irrevocable,' and the inclu-
sion in the preamble of the declaration
that until the Chinese Government
has fulfilled the demands of the powers,
Pekin and the province of Chi Ii will
not be evacuated by the allied troops
at is rumored that Germany is warmly
supporting the British proposal and | be-
lieve majority of the powers and possi
bly, all of them will eventually accept the
proposal, which is hailed here with de-
light"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-18

gambling. The article declares, ''if pa
per cannot live six days without pander
ing to the gambler. the drunkard and the
sensualist, let it wither away
In another editorial DIR. Parker urges
the magistrates to apply the cat and
wipe out Hooliganism"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-18
Mr.. Tuttle's Good Work.
(Special to News and Observer.

Especial to News and Observer.)
Kinston, N. c., Dec. 1.-THE Method
lists have purchased the new Hull Road
church from its owners. 1t was once an
holiness mission church. This
will make three new Methodist churches
on Kinston circuit. Work will commence
on the other two. Rev. D. II. futile Is
doing n great work in his field.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-18
THE KURDs TO Rise.
Osman Pasha Says He Will Lead Them
Against Turkey.
(By the Associated Press.)

Paris, Dec. 1.-THE Matin publishes
dispatch from London giving an interview
with Osman Pasha, general of the Otto
man army, who recently left Turkey
clandestinely. He says that accompanied
by his partisans, he will return to Kurdis
tan, where. according to his statement
the population, already secretly armed,
only awaits his arrival to march as one
man against the yoke of Turkey
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-18
LIKE sHELDoN's IDEA.
First Issue of London Sun Under Rev Joseph
Parkers Editorship
(By the Associated Press. }

London, Dec. 1.-THE first issue of the
London Sun, under the editorship of the
Rev. Dr. Joseph Parker, pastor of the
City Temple, appears this afternoon. The
column where the days betting is usually
published contains. under the caption
--latest News THE wages of sin is
DEATH" and other familiar texts. follow
ed UP by a vigorous protest against
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-18
Rev. J. M. Wells Called.
lBY the Assoclated press.l

Wilmington, N. c., Dec. 17.--Rev. J.
M. Wells, of Saunton, Va, has been
called to the pastorate of the First Pres
byterian church OF this city to succeed
Rev. Peyton II. Hoge, ID. D., who re-
signed about year ago to become pastor
OF the Warren Memorial church, Louis
Vile. Rev. Mr.. Wells is a native OF
Mississippi.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-18
Princess Of Asturias to Wed.
(Bv the Associated Press. J

Madrid, Dec. H.-General Azcarraga,
the Premier. in full uniform; read today
in the Chamber of Deputies and the Sen
ate royal message announcing the pro-
jected marriage of the Princess of the
Asturias to Prince Charles, second son of
the Count of Caserta. A committee is
drafting reply unanimously favoring the
alliance. but Senior Sagasta, former Lib
eral Premier, is reported to have decided
to vote against the marriage.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-18
Earl Ii Has InHuenzs.
(By the Associated Press. }

(By the Associated Press.)
Berlin, Dec. IA dispatch received
here from Pekin, dated December 18th,
says LII Hung Chang is suffering from
influenza. The dispatch also denies that
the Dowager Empress is going to Cheng
Tu, Province of SEE Chuen.