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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-02
PERSONALS.

Mr.. w. A. Cooper has gone to Ran
dleman on business.
Rev. DR.. A. a. Marshall, has returned
from a trip to Atlanta.
Mrs. Geo. ". Thompson returned
from Pittsboro yesterday.
Editor j. A. Thomas, of Louisburg.
was in the city yesterday.
Mrs. T. b. Mosely returned from a
visit to friends in Virginia.
Mrs. Edward r. Clark, of Weldon.
is visiting at Judge Walter Clark's.
Mrs. r. S. Tucker has returned
from New York and Atlantic CITY.
Mrs. {. II. ordan and Miss Busbee
have returned from a visit to Balti-
more.
Miss NQry Barbee has gone to
Greensboro on a visit to the family of
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. w. Andrews.
Mrs. S. &. Hall, Miss Hattie Hall.
and Miss Julie Tiff, of Albany, Ga,
are visiting at Capt. S. A. Ashes.
Gen. w. II. Cox, of Washington. ID.
c., arrived in the city yesterday. His
son, Mr.. Albert Cox, is visiting at DR..
Hawkins.
Miss Fannie Heck is in Greensboro.
Yesterday afternoon she made a talk
y
at West Washington Baptist church.
! Mr.. S. b. McPheeters has gone to
ST. Louis, where he has formed a law
Observation-Disclosures and Har-
ris. He will make st. Louis his future
home.
Mr.. JOS. G.. Brown returned yester-
day from New York, where he went
to attend a meeting of the Executive
~. 10
ton.
Rev. G. s. Finch spent yesterday in
the citv He has just returned from
a revival at Mt. Gilead church, in
which there were twenty-five CONVEX
sions.
Mrs Paul Lee and daughter, Miss
Margaret, accompanied by Mrs. Lees
mother, left yesterday for Baltimore,
Atlantic City, New York, and other
points North.
Mr.. w. r. Barker made a pleas
ant call yesterday, passing through
the city on his way from Roanoke
Rapids to Salisbury, where he will re-
side in the future.
DIR. and Mrs. a. w. uurtice have re-
turned home, greatly benefited by a
most enjoyable trip North, by steam
er, and a week Of decidedly cool
weather i'm Boston.
Miss Nantce McMackin has gone to
Atlanta to visit her brother, Mr.. Frank
II. McMackin, who holds a very re-
sponsible railroad position, with head
quarters at that place.
Rev. l.. G. Broughton and family,
of Atlanta, Ga. who have been visit
ing at Mr. n. b. Broughton's, have
returned home. DR.. Broughton has
been up in New York preaching with
Rev. A. c. Dixon. 1t would be hard
TO find two more forceful and sue
cessfnl evangelists than these two
North Carolina boys
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-02
THE STATE FARMS.
The Peanut and Cotton Crops Slightly Injured
by the Drought.

Messrs. L. i. Arendell and j. w.
Perry, members of the executive
board Of the State prison, returned
yesterday from a visit to the State
farms on the Roanoke river.
1.-The dry weather. said Mr.. Aren-
d1y, has damaged the corn crop
considerable, but the cotton is well
grown and well pointed, except some
high and dry plans and the peanut
crop is especially good. We have
eighteen hundred acres in Spanish
peanuts, said Mr.. Arendell, and good
Judges say that we will average forty
bushels per acre. We surely ought
to make $4,000 bushels and nearly or
quite as much cotton per acre as last
year. The corn crop is cut short, but
if we have no further bad weather we
will have plenty for next year and
perhaps limited quantity to sell"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-02

But in an evil moment Dave tanked
himself up on decoction that in Rich
mond county passes for liquor, but
outside is known to be star I've, pot
ash. logwood and dynamite. The
pizen got in its deadly work and Dave
got SO preposterously hilarious, that
he mounted a soreback mule from An.
son county and rode off into the gath
ing gloom. The next day the sheriff
did the gathering in act, and Dave
was the one gathered in, and being; I'M
able to prove an alibi for the mule,
he was sentenced to spend three
years in the penal establishment here
by good behavior he worked of
four months and ten days of his SEN
tence. He was freed yesterday and
took the first southbound Seaboard
train that came along.
Dave, you are out at last, are
you?' / asked him as he was waiting
for the train.
He grinned good naturally, 'yessir,
my times out. Got out four months
ahead of time And at the pleasant
thought of his good luck he grinned
again.
What made you take the mule?
on Ulull l. nave any USE Iol d hLuiN'
''Wen, | tell you," said he. Il was
just crazy drunk. ] drank some OF
that pizenous Rockingham whiskey
and | didn't know a mule from a saw
buck until next day. That old whis-
key will get any man. It'll drive a
fellow crazy in no time
He left yesterday afternoon for
Wadesboro, near where, he says, he
can get a job firing the engine to
DIN.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-02
THE TAXATION CASE.
Chairman MCNEIL Thinks the Railroads Have
Not Made Out Their Case.

Chairman Mcneil, of the Corpora
ton Commission, arrived in the city
yesterday from Ashevilie, where he
has been attending the hearing of the
taxation case.
He is much pleased with the prog
ress of the case and thinks there is
little doubt that the State will win it.
1.-The testimony brought out from
the witnesses summoned by the rail
roads rs very conflicting said Mr. Nc
Neill. I'm fact, many of those sum-
moned by the railroads made fine wit
nesses for the Commission. Certainly,
So far the railroads have failed to
make out their case"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-02
DAVE BENNETT FREED.
"0ld Corn Liquor Was the Cause of 1t All,
He Goes Hcms.

There was happy mig" in Raleigh
yesterday. His name is Dave Bennett
and he is as black as the ace of spades,
or any other black thing. But he was
as happy as he was black, and had on
a new suit of clothes as black as
either one. The coat was silk lined.
He had just been liberated from the
penitentiary. where he has served a
sentence for horse stealing, of more
accurately, mule stealing.
He says he was drunk when he took
that mule. 1t was in a small town in
Arson county, called Peedee. Dave is
an excellent fireman. For a number
of years he fired on the Seaboard and
was so badly smashed in an accident
that the company gave him life
time job as fireman, to prevent suit
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-02
Orphans Concert.

The Chapter of Orphans from the
Oxford Orphan Asylum, now on a
concert tour through the State, will
favor Raleigh on Monday. September
10th, with one of their delightful con-
certs. These young people have been
specially trained and make this tour
to raise needed funds for the two
hundred and twenty orphans now be-
ing cared for and educated by the Ok
ford Orphan Asylum. Metropolitan
Hall should be filled on this occasion
and all who read this announcement
are requested to tell their neighbors
and friends about it.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-02
MR.. sMITHURsT DEAD.
He Passed Away Last Night at 1918 O'clock

w. A. Smithurst died at his resi-
dence in this city last night at 10: IS
o'clock, of Brights disease and paraly
sis, at the age of AZ years. He was
a son of Sidney and EIrZa Smithurst
and was born in this city, where he
lived most of his life. He was a con-
sistent member of the Tabernacle
Baptist church, and was held in high
esteem by all who knew him. He
leaves a wife and three children, one
sister, Mrs. Addie Cheek, and other
brother, Mr.. Sidney Smithurst. They
have the sympathy of the community
in Their sad bereavement. The fun
eral will take place at the Baptist
church tomorrow at o'clock.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-02
MIR. SALES REPORT.
Thirty-Three Deaths in Raleigh During
August.

Health Officer Sales report for Au-
gust was as follows:
During August % deaths occurred
in Raleigh, of these were white
males. females and s colored fe-
males. OF these, were under ! year.
) between l and 3 years, 2 between )
and 10, 3 between 10 and 20, 9 be-
tween 20 and 80. 3 between 30 and 40,
between 40 and so and ) over so.
Among the ) deaths over 50 years
old was a negro who was 1913 years of
age, when he expired on August 18th.
His name was Austin DeyereuX and
he lived by himself in a little house
on South Wilmington street.
The reports show II birth during
August, white and 10 colored.
OF the % deaths, not more than 3
died of any one complaint.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-02

Miss Matte A. Higgs has returned
from Chatauqua, n. Y. Having COM
pleted lac full course in the CHATEAU
qua Summer Music School, with a
certificate from the dean of that
school, DR.. H. r. Palmer, of New
York City, to teach Sight Luigina
Theory and Harmony in connection
with her Fletcher Method School
(SimpleX and hlndergarten) being a
certified and authorized teacher of
the Fletcher Music Method. Miss
Higgs taught successfully in Raleigh
last year and hopes those interested
will call on her between September
1st and 23rd, as on that date she will
organize her classes.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-02
Terrible Damage by Drought

A letter from Stanly county says:
"Claimed cotton will barely make half
a crop. Some fields will take acres
to make bale. Adjoining counties
of Cabarrus, Union, Davidson Ran
dolph, Montgomery, and Iredell re-
ports similar. In some sections of
Stanly county trees have died from the
effects of drought"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-02

Remember this: No other medicine has
such record of cures as Hoods Sarsa-
parlla. When you want good medi
cine, get Hoods.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-02

Smoke Sporting Club Cigars, they are
the latest and best
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-02

Smoke Sporting Club Cigars, they are
the latest and best.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-02

If buss means to kiss. re5us evidently
means to kiss again.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-02

Some people may be fast asleep, but
they are slow when awake.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-09

most destitute OF passengers. The Bloom
ington people had promise the road that
II Ii would give them a special they would
have at least two hundred people and prob
ably many more. When the train arrived
there were but seventy-nine people on Ii
and the band composed OF twenty pieces
was included in the number. A special
over the c., II. & D.. from Cincinnati.
carrying eight cars. had but seventy-six
people or IL. The special from Louisville
hauled nine cars. FIVE of which were never
unlocked. The other four were only COM
fortably filled. A special which arrived
of which was crowded.
The l., d. & w. hauled two extra cars on
its regular train and carried about seventy
extra people. The Peoria & Eastern divis-
ion hauled one extra car on Its regular
train, but carried few extra people. The
Lake Erie & Western ran two special
trains consisting of seven and ten coaches
respectively. These trains were better
filled than any that arrived during the day.
The Cincinnati division of the Big -Four
ran q special of ten cars, only n part or
which were comfortably filled. The special
train of nine cars over the Vandalia was
well filled, but nobody had 10 stand up.
The people of Greencastle asked the van
dalia for a special, guaranteeing 200 pas
sengers. Those who guaranteed that num-
Der of people will have TO go down in their
pockets and make up a deficit.
The Cleveland division OF the Big -Four
ran a special consisting of twelve cars,
which came over the Wabash division from
the towns in the gas belt. This train was
comfortably filled. The six cars on the
regular indianapolis & Vincennes train
were we'll filed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-09
CONTESTS REFERRED BACK.
Chairman Jones Would Not Allow Ma
tiOnaI Committee to Take Them Up.

AT the meeting of subcommittee to set
tie the contests in the Democratic national
committee held yesterday, it was decided
TO refer the contests back to the places
from which they had come. James l.. Nor
ris is one of the contestants from Washing
ton, d. c. He entered a big protest against
his case going back and begged Chairman
jones to call a meeting of the national
committee before the members get away
from the city and allow him TO present
his case TO the committee.
Chairman Jones insisted that the matter
should go back to the people for settle
ment. Norris is a patent attorney of Wash
ipgton. Charles w. Slater is a contestant
tor the place on the committee claimed by
Norris. The latter intimated to Senator
Jones that If his case was sent back to
Washington the national committee would
suffer in a financial way.
The subcommittee also referred back to
Indian Territory the contest between DIR.
Wolverton and Colonel Marcum.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-09

yet lost the power OF producing worthy
successors OF those eminent men.
And now / have the distinguished honor
OF introducing TO this audience was GO
ing TO say the next President OF the United
States. / am going 10 take chances on II,
anyhow. though MIR. Bryan chided me yes
terday when / introduced him to some OF
the Cook County Democracy boys as the
next President Of the United States. He
said: Harrison is not a good prophet; he
has been doing that for four years.
1 want 10 say to Mr.. Bryan
that / have simply been practicing in
prophecy; | have been exercising myself a
little. Tonight I am the seventh son Of
a seventh daughter and l prophesy that
William ]. Bryan is the next President OF
the United States Applause and cheers.l
When Mr.. Harrison had concluded his
address he introduced Mr.. Bryan to the
audience as 1.-THE next President of the
United States" When the free silver
champion arose the audience became very
demonstrative and it was some time before
Mr.. Bryan could make himself heard. He
did not speak long and many in the aud
fence were disappointed. a large number
leaving the hall as soon as Mr.. Bryan had
resumed his seat.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-09
FOR LADIES OF THE PARTY.
A Reception rendered at the Home OF
Mrs. f. A. Maus-Fauvre.

Mrs. Frank A. Maus-Fauvre gave a re-
ception yesterday morning for Mrs. Bryan
and the ladies of her party. including Mrs.
Adlai Stevenson, Miss Stevenson, Mrs. j. h.
Jones and Mrs. Thomas. of Colorado. On
account of the short notice of the recep-
ton there were few callers outside the
ladies on the reception committee and some
of their friends.
The hostess introduced her guests and
she was assisted by the ladies on the COM
mittee. including Mrs. Frank B. Burke.
Mrs. John w. Kern, Mrs. j. f. Mccullough,
Mrs. w. G. Mcclure Mrs. j. T.. Bell, Mrs.
Guy Hawkins, Mrs. Charles E. Cox, Mrs
w. w. Robbins, Miss Martin, Mrs. Maurice
Donnelly, Mrs. A. G.. Smith. Mrs. Pierre
Gray, Mrs. Hosea Hawkins, Mrs. John e.
Holiett, Mrs. p. j. Ryan, Mrs. l.. ]. Hack
ney. Mrs. Frank Z. Gavin, Mrs. John
Downing Johnston. Mrs. NJ. III. Spades,
Mrs. George w. Sloan, Mrs. Theodore A.
Wagner, Miss Bertha Gall and Miss lone
Scholl.
Mrs. Bryan was dressed plainly in a
white shirt waist and black skirt, with a
tuscan toque trimmed with black velvet.
Mrs. Stevenson wore a handsome black
lace gown trimmed with jet. Miss Steven
son looked lovely in a mode crepe gown
with trimmings of lace. The bodice was
tucked, also the white yoke, which was
finished with lace and embroidered blue
taffeta and black velvet ribbon. She wore
a white chiffon hat with a large black
plume. Mrs. Thomas wore a White plque
gown and Mrs. Jones a blue and white
foulard with white trimming. The hostess
was attired in a French foulard with trim
ming of lace. Last night the party was
taken for a drive through the principal
streets and Woodruff and Morton Places.
--
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-09
Washington Special.

Washington Special.
She was a little woman, dressed in a
flowing blue robe. From underneath her
pantalettes Of the same hue two tiny
Eound feet lmped painfully along. Her face
was yellowish pale, and she wore rings in
Ter ears. There was no bonnet upon her
head. She smiled as the crowds of people
in the railway station made way for her.
Behind her tripped her little son. He was
Chinese, too. but he wore American clothes
and his feet were of natural size. I recog-
LIKED Nine. WI, wife of WI Ting Fang,
the Chinese minister in this CITY. She was
about to take a Pennsylvania Railway
train for Cape May.
All the people in the station and along the
platform got out Of the stumbling little
woman's way. No one jostled her. No audi
BILE remark was made concerning her
strange appearance. She was unattended
save by an American woman who is gov
crness at the legation. At the gate a num-
Der of men. waiting their turn to pass,
stepped aside because they realized it was
rot easy for the stranger 10 be so long
Upon her shrunken feet The little Chinese
boy dropped an umbrella which he was car
rying, and an American travelling man
FASTENED to pick it up and hand it to him.
1he boy bowed politely and said, TANK
YOU" Nine. WI smiled graciously.
At the parlor car steps the conductor and
porter carefully helped Mime. WI In the
rather difficult feat of climbing up.
CHANGED to be in the same car. and on the
journey to Philadelphia a number of little
courtesies were shown the diplomats wife
by the passengers. One carried her a drink
Of water. another assisted her TO arrange
the window shade. the mechanism Of which
was a mystery to her. On the crowded
platform at Philadelphia the people were
just as courteous as they had been at
Washington. and I doubted not Mime. WI.
with her little son and the governess, could
travel from one end of the United States
to the other without so much as hearing
an unpleasant word.
But | could not help thinking of Mrs
Conger in Picking.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-09
Union TrnSt Co.,


gladly welcomed. however. by the sterling
commander who has met more cowardly
enemies at home. That's what his friends
say.
The most truthful thing that can be said
against the man is that he never learned
the art of controlling his temper. IL has
got him into no end of trouble. Once an
unjust claim against McCalla was put in
the hands of a collector. This was when
he was -commandant OF Mare island, on the
West coast. The collector. remembering
the Enterprise affair, called the commander
a coward.
inquired McCalla I'm that emphatic sort OF
way that has made him noticeable.
Yes. indeed, and l want TO say that IL
you don't pay that bill I'll
do nothing" said McCalla, as he arose
from his desk and locked the door. Here's
the key of that lock. I'll lay il I'm the GEN.
ter of the floor. The best man gets IT,"
They say OF this collector that he looked
like the victim of a railroad accident when
the commander opened the door and let
him out.
lying I'm front Of 1.-The Last Chance" in
San Francisco one evening. He was cut
and bleeding and McCalla stopped 10 pick
him up. A couple of Shanghai agents
grabbed the commander. but only for n
second. He laid one out with a blow of his
fist and spat I'm the face of the other. who
was too big a bully TO resent IL. Then Nc
Gala placed the man I'm a hack, jumped in
alongside of him and drove 10 the navy
yard AT the gang plank OF the ship he
said:
MY compliments 10 DR.. -, and tell him
to send that man to the sick bay and give
him a good hooker OF whisky first He
needs IL. When he gets we'll leave instruc-
ions TO send him to the mast"
The tars who once condemned McCalla
sing his praises now. They have forgotten
the day before yesterday. even IL he never
can. He hasn't a peer In the American
navy for a man who does his own N
and does not wait for the department TO
act. A sailor said Of him the other day:
Hell die in the harness. out he'll die like
a man. There's no white streak through
McCnlIa
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-09
WEBSTER DAVIS.
SeIf-Scrving Career of the Spectacu-
lar Former Republican.

Victor Smith, in New York Press.
Webster Davis, whose flop from the Re-
publican party to that of the Demo-Pops
was a feature of the Kansas City conven-
ton, left behind him in johannesburg some
warm British friends who went out of their
way TO shower the blessing of hospitality
upon him in the course of his visit to the
country of the Beers. These hosts ac-
copied him as an honest representative of
America and the United States government,
and nothing in the Transvaal was too good
for him. He slobbered all over the Eng
lish folk who entertained him., but no
sooner does he return to America than he
begins to denounce England in the roundest
terms. An American cousin of his host, a
young man of San Francisco, now travelling
in the East, tells me that his relatives are
exceedingly angry.
In 1887 Webster Davis, obscure and al
most unknown, went TO Kansas City to
practice law. His home had been in Gala
tin, Mo-, where he had earned a living as a
and as office boy in the law
firm OF Shanklin, Low & Mcdonald. He
went soon afterward to Colorado, where he
hung out his single. In 1889 he returned
TO Kansas City and thereafter for years
was a rover, living in Chicago and other
places. In 1894 he was elected mayor of
kansas City to the surprise of the entire
State. His first act was to throw over
Major Warner. who had made him a candi-
GATE and elected him. Warner was the
leader OF the Republican party at the time.
In 1895 Davis espoused the cause of the
A. +. A. In 1896 he ran for Governor of
Missouri on the A. p. A. platform. The
campaign was bitter and he shot himself
through the hat as a campaign document
TO gain sympathy and votes. That was the
night before the election. Nelson Crews. a
noted negro orator, compared Davis to Lin
coin as a martyr and began to sing MY
Country, IT'S of Thee" as Davis entered
the hall.
In 1896 Davis fell out with the Kansas
City Journal and told a lot of newspaper
men that Edwards, managing editor of that
paper, had offered him the support of the
Journal for Governor and SIS, 900 for cam
paign expenses If he would vote to GUST
Spears. then chief of police. This was on
the theory that Spears opposed the gam
bling interest. and Edwards wanted him re-
tired. Afterward Davis, in an open letter,
apologiZed to Edwards, denying the inter-
view. Davis was backed by Filley for the
governorship. but Fflley couldn't deliver
the goods. That settled Filley with Davis.
He deserted the old man and the A. p. A.
and Immediately went over to join forces
with Dick Kerens. who sent him through
Ohio and Arkansas to speak for Mckinley,
whom he described as "God-like." In graft
tude Mckinley made him assistant secreta-
ry of the interior. No sooner had he ac-
cepted this office than he began pulling
wires to Gust Kerens and get his place as
national committeeman. Kerens made 1t
hot for him, and he had to resign. His ex-
cuse for resigning, however, was that his
health demanded a rest. He spent his vaca-
ton in South Africa, and the rest of his
career is generally known.