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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-06-22

the phrase '"Brave to a fault" and adds,
elf they were less brave, there would
have been many less faults, and more
victories in this war. Caution they have
not, but just bunt ahead, and take the
consequences. Lord Roberts is shining
and glaring exception to this rule. All
in all l consider him to be remarkable
man and general"
He says the English artillery had tre-
mendous preponderance over that of the
Beers. who rarely ever used their artil-
lery. Captain Slocum says smokeless pow
der enables an army to conceal itself, al
though artillery may be located by the
fash Balloons and powerful telescopes
must be used to locate an enemy.
Speaking of the march of the British
army from Bloemfontein to Pretoria he
dwells on the indifference of the officers
to enforce orders for safety and the re-
luctance of the soldiers to intrench them
selves. The infantry never rush in their
attacks. but march calmly forward. Cap
tain Slocum saw mounted men waiting
for orders to advance, sit erect, making
a perfect target for the rife at short
range He adds:
"They have not the individuality and
resources of our men, but for indomita-
BILE courage, accomplishing fortitude and
implicit obedience, they are beyond criti-
cism.'
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A CHANGE OF RULE
The Order Establishing Civil
Government
'Fhs Change Takes Effect on the Fourth Of
July. Judge Taft Appointed Civil
Governor.
(By the Associated Press.)

Washington, June 21.-Secretary Root
today issued the order of the President
establishing civil government in the
Philippines. The order is as follows:
"On and after the fourth day of July.
nineteen hundred and one until it shall
be otherwise ordered, the President or
the Philippine Commission will exercise
the executive authority in all civil affairs
in the government of the Philippine
Islands heretofore exercised in such af-
fairs by the military governor of the
Philippines and to that end the Hon.
William H. Taft, President of the said
commission, is hereby appointed civil
governor of the Philippine islands. Such
executive authority will be exercised
under and in conformity to the instruc-
tions to the Philippine commissioners,
dated April 7th. nineteen hundred and
subject to the approval and control of the
Secretary of War of the United States.
Themunicipal and provincial civil gov
ernments which have been, or shall here
after be, established in said islands, and
all persons performing duties appertain-
ing to the offices of civil government in
said islands, will, in respect of such du-
ties, report to the said civil governor.
'Thepower to appoint civil officers,
heretofore wasted in the Philippine Com
mission, or in the military governor, will
be exercised by the civil governor with
the advice and consent of the commits
sion.
'The military governor of the Philip
pines is hereby relieved from the per-
formance, on and after the said fourth
of July, of the civil duties herenbefore
described, but this authority will continue
to be exercised as heretofore, in those
districts in which insurrection against the
authority of the United States continues
TO exist, of which public order is not
sufficiently restored to enable provincial
civil governments to be established under
the instructions to the commission, dated
April 7th, nineteen hundred.
"By the President:
"ELIHU ROOT.
Secretary of War"
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find BARKER GUILTY
The instructions Leave the
Jury no Choice,
Barker in Jail. Before Him Stands Possible
Seven Years Imprisonment. Case to
b. Appealed.
(By the Associated Press.)

New York, June 21.-The jury before
whic hThomas c. Barker, of Arlington,
N. J., was tried for shooting with in
tent to kill the Rev. John Keller, of the
same town, took one ballot this after
noon and returned with a verdict of
guilty Under the charge of the court
they could do little else. The jurors
were told them must set aside all else
and decide only if Barker with intent
fired at Keller. That was the law and
they insult obey it. Notice of appeal
was given by Barker's counsel.
Barker tonight once more found him
self an inmate of the county Jail. He
must remain there until $4,000 bail is
furnished. Before him stands a pos
sible seven years Imprisonment and a
fine of as much as $1,000.
Mrs Barker wa snot in the court
room to hear the verdict. She was in
another part of the court house and
when told of the verdict sobbed bitter
ly. Mr.. Keller was also absent and
showed deep emotion when told of the
verdict. Barker had expected an ac-
quittaI. He based his hopes upon the
strong plea of his counsel when he
dwelt upon the unwritten law that a
man has a right to kill where the sanct-
ity of his home if assailed. Whatever
the effect of this line of pleading upon
the jury, it was swept away by the
cold charge of the court that the STORY
of the alleged outrage, or the outrage
itself, if true, was no justification of
the defendants assault"
The court explained he had admitted
evidence that Barker had been told of
an alleged assault, not because it had
anything to do with the case, but be-
cause it was for the jury to determine
if the story had anything to do with
making the defendant criminally ire
sponsible. If they believed the defend
ant was sane at the time of the shoot
ing they must convict.
In his closing Prosecutor Erwin ask.
ed the jurors if the womans course
was the natural one. He said her story
was improbable because Mrs Barker
would in the natural course have told
her husband of the assault at once ana
failing, that would have made a conf
dant of woman and not of another
man.
The jurors only ballot was unanimous
for guilty and a unit for the highest
degree charged. Mr. Keller as soon as
the trial was completed issued brief
statement in which he absolutely denied
the truth of the allegations that have
been made and published by Mrs. Bar
ker.
Barker will probably be sentenced on
Thursday next and then his counsel
will file tn epapers in an appeal to the
Supreme court.
Barker. in an interview tonight, said:
Il did not expect such verdict. 1t
seemed to me there was a reasonable
doubt l believe that no twelve men
would convict me after hearing my
wife's story. / believe that the Su-
preme court will give me a new trial.
and that my wifes story will be told
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CAPTAIN sLocUM's REPORT.
Interesting Comments by the AttaChe on the
British Defeat at Colenso
(By the Associated Press.

Washington, June 21.-Captain S. L. H.
Slocum, Eighth cavalry, who was military
attache with the British army during the
early part of the Boer war, has made his
report to the War Department. AT the
time of the British defeat at Colenso De-
cember 25th, 1899, Captain Slocum said he
considered the situation of the British the
most critical They had been defeated all
along the line, and had the Beers as
sumed offensive operations the English
army with long and thinly guarded lines
would have been placed in great jeopardy.
Captain Slocum also was with Lord Rob-
erts and describes in detail the move
ment toward Kimberley. He says that
Roberts was confronted with a crisis
which would have staggered and been the
undoing of many commanders in chief.
His advance to Kimberley and beyond
was successfully carried out and the sur
render of General CronJe changed the sit
uation. and relieved the critical position
of the British army. Speaking of the
Beers, Captain Slocum says they were
splendid on the defensive, but did not
consider offensive movements as part of
their proper tactics. He speaks of the
British people as a nation exemplifying
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of their own section will be in proportion
as we bend our energies upon the broad
est technical education of the rising gen.
Grafton.
'.The records of history show nothing
with which to compare the advancement
of the present age. The steam engine,
the labor saving machine the railroad,
the telegraph have during the last half
century been working revolution. 1t is
only within the last five years that the
full effect Of this revolution has been
derstood, even by far-seeing men. For
fifty years, under the ever-increasing
growth of production by labor saving ma
chinery. the world has been adding to
its wealth at a rate far surprising any
thing dreamed of before. But this wealth
was being reinvested in new railroads. in
new machinery, in what might be called
new plant for doubling and quadrupling
the productive power of man. In this
way new capital was absorbed almost as
rapidly as it was created. But now we
have reached a period when surplus
wealth seeking new sources of profitable
employment is being accumulated more
rapidly than new avenues for investment
can be found. The result must be that
country during the last twenty years will
be far exceeded during the next twenty.
Our industrial advancement, which has
been so great as to amaze the world,
must continue on a still broader scale.
If the South fully utilzes it's advantages,
if its people are trained for the oppor-
tunities which are ahead of us, twenty
years hence the South should be prOduc-
ing 20000,000 bales of cotton, and its
5000, 900 spindfes should have increased
to %, 900, 900 or 80, 900 900 or more. Instead
of $3.50, ,0000 900 capital in cotton mills, 1t
ought by that time to have $400 000, 900
to $500, 900 000 it's coal output from 50,-
900 900 tons, as at present, ought to be
$50 200, 900 tons, and in every other line
of industry there ought to be rate OF
progress which will make the South of
1920 many times farther ahead of the
South of today than the South of today
is ahead of 1880. Surely what we have
accomplished since 1880, starting under
all of the disadvantages under which we
labcred ought to be more than doubled
yes, more than MISUNDERSTANDING the
next twenty years. And this will be true
unless we of the South prove unequal to
the great responsibilities and to the glori-
Gus opportunities which are before US.
The people of the South hoH their destiny
in their own hands Recreant to their
trust they cannot be"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-06-22
RICHMOND WINS THE GAME.
a Wild Throw by Curtis Lost the Game to the
shipbuilders

Especial to News and Observer)
Newport, News, Va, June PA wild
throw to third base by Curtis in the
third inning lost the game for the
Shipbuilders today, Richmond winning
by the score of 5 to 8.
Gettig, the youn Baltimore amateur,
pitched another pretty contest and
shared the honors with Thomas of
Richmond. In the third, Bigbie was on
first and went to second on Soffle's hit
to left field. The ball was wet, having
rolled in the grass and slipped from
Curtis hand on the throw in, both men
on bases scoring.
Score: RHE
Newport News 0 2O10O OO-S 6
Richmond :. 30 2 90 2 O-5 8 A
Batteries: Gettig and Foster;
Thomas and Manners. &c..
1t is UNDERSTOOD here that Charlotte
is making a desperate effort to capture
the Newport News club instead of
Portsmouth, the latter being crippled
by the departure of half of it's players
A number of enthusiasts offered TO raise
sufficient money to keep the club here,
but in view of the big strike now on,
Ashenback advised them to hold the
money until next season. He proposed
to make his home here and will trans
fer his franchise from Tarboro back
here in 1902, it belonging to him in
dividually. An eight club league win
be the thing next season.
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NO SPECIAL PRIVILEGES.
And aFree Press and Free spsach, Says the
Alabama Convention.
(By the Associated Press. !

(By the Associated Press)
Montgomery, Ala, June 21-The Con-
stitutional Convention today refused to
increase the Governors salary from
$4,000 to $4,000 per annum. but adopted
resolutions requesting the Legislature to
do so.
An ordinance was introduced creating
a board of arbitrators for the settlement
of labor disputes.
Lomax, of Montgomery, submitted the
report of the Committee on Preamble ana
Declaration of Rights
A few Of the material changes reported
ere as follows:
To section five of the declaration the
following words are added:
mo law shall ever be passed to re-
strain the liberty of speech or of the
press"
To section seven, provision fixing i'm
the Constitution the right of defendant to
testify in his own behalf
Section 20 IS changed by prohibiting the
General Assembly giving any exclusive
or irrevocable special privileges or i'm
munities, and providing that all fran
chises privileges and immunities shalr
be subject to revocation, alteration and
amendment.
Section SO is changed by striking out
the prohibition against educational or
property qualification for suffrage.
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RICHMOND GETS THERE
Wild Throw to Third Puts Newport
News Out.
MAKES THREE RUNS TO RICHKOND's FIVE
Newport News Says an Eight Club League
Will be the Thing Next Season. Play
on National and American
League Diamonds.

Especial to News and Observer)
Norfolk, Va, June 21.-The Lobsters
made slow start today but wound up
with a brilliant victory. No runs were
made by either them or the Shippers
in the first two INNINGS. Norfolk then,
apparently exhausted herenergies in the
next inning, making three runs to Will
mington's none. This woke the Will
mington tea mup, as the next inning
showed. The Shippers were not allow
ed to send another man across the
plate, and at the end the score stood
Z to g. Score: r II e
Norfolk ...1... 10000 O-3 2
Wilmington 80 004 o. OF IA 0
Batteries: Slagle and Lehman; Stuart
and Cranston.
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Industrial Advance the Great
est in the South.
IMMENSE WEALTH IN COTTON. COAL, IRON
The Enormous Benefit to the South OF
the Great Oil Fields of Texas.
The People Hold Glorious
Destiny in Their Hands
Especial to News and observer)

Asheville, N. c., June. 21.-In his
lima State Bankers Association today,
Richard H. Edmonds, editor of the Man
ufacturers' Record of Baltimore, review
ing, in comparison with the advancement
of the business interests of the whole
country, the industrial progress OF the
South during twenty years. said:
Study the history of the last twenty
years, and you will find the story OF the
men who. IN season and out OF season,
amid discOuragements scarcely realized
now, with unflagging zeal worked for the
South's upbuilding. When leaders in
political economy and finance said that
the South could never become an impor-
tant center of cotton manufacturing, and
even made some Southern people believe
their doctrines. these men, sometimes
blindly perhaps, but always full of hope,
went ahead building mills or preaching
the gospel that the mills must come to
the cotton. When every furnace fire
lighted in Alabama was proclaimed as
but another waste of misguided capital,
these same men said that Alabama would
some day enter the worlds markets with
It's IRON. Every mill which turns your
cotton into finished goods and gives en-
ployment to hitherto idle hands, every
shipment of Alabama iron to Europe, is
tribute to the men who. twenty years
ago. in field and in factory, in the press
and on the rostrum, began to fight the
Souths battle for Industrial freedom.
Starting under the most adverse condi-
tions. what has the South accomplished? q
"Statistically the progress of the South
during the two decades may be summed
up and shown by the following figures:
4ooa 1nnn
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mer; Taylor and Bowerman. Time
1875. Umpire, oDay
American League Games.
Baltimore, Md, June 21-Today's game
between Baltimore and Detroit wass a
pitchers battle in which McGinnity had
the better of it, Attendance 1924. Score:
R.H.E.
Baltimore. J.. ..02O0O110*-4 8
Detroit. /. .....OOO2OO1OO--s 8
Batteries: McGinnity and Robinson:
Cronin and Shaw Time 1880 Um-
pires. Sheridan and Connolly.
Philadelphia, Pa, June 21-InabIlity to
hit Griffith resulted in a shut out for
the home club today at the hands OF
Chicago Attendance 1851. Score:
R.H.E.
Chicago. j. ....01O00102O s 1
Philadelphia ...000OOOOOO--O
Batteries: Griffith and Sullivan; Piatt
and Powers. Time 1870. Umpire. Can
tillion.
Washington, June 21.-Milwaukee won
todays game by punching hits in the
second fourth innings. Everett was
put out of the game in the third for
disputing a decision. Score: RHE
Washington 30 90 O2O--313 s
Milwaukee LOS 500 2 0--1O IA 2
Batteries: Gear, Carrick and Grady:
Reidy and Maloney. Time 1;40 Um-
pire Haskell. Attendance 1884.
Boston, Mass, June 21.-Boston won
1,o -
and three errors netting them three
runs. Attendance 1859. Score: RHE
Boston .......1 0 8 90 0Ox-4 8 q
Cleveland ......O1 O011 0O-3 10 3
Batteries: Lewis and Schreck; Dowl-
ing and Wood. Time 1:44. Umpire,
Manassau.
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(Specialzto News and Observer.)
Washington, N. c., July 21.-Hon.
John Fl. Small, S. c. Bragaw and Dom
nell Gillian have gone to Concord to
argue a case in chamber before Judge
Allen. 1t involves the title to street
in this place For years the Kugler
Lumber Company used a street which
the town had condemned but not open
ed. The Kugler company claimed the
right TO sell the street.
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National League Games.
(By the Associated Press.)

~AHSOSAStNSN
Philadelphia, Pa. June 21.-St. Louis
could do nothing with Orth's pitching to-
day and the locals won in a close and in
teresting game. Attendance 765 Score
III. e.
st. Louis. ;. ....0001OO00O-A 0
Philadelphia :. .201O1OO0*-4 70 1
Batteries: Jones, Harper and Nichols
Orth and Mcfarland. Time 1:45. Um-
pire, Emslie.
Boston, Mass, June 21.--Boston had
no trouble in winning today, making it
five straight from Chicago. Lawson
held the visitors to six hits. Hughes
wa sbatted hard in only one inning.
Attendance 500. Score: RH e
Boston ....3 0 0 o 0 0 2 0X-5 3
Chicago .....0 / 001 0 0 1--3 2
Batteries Lawson and Kittridge,
Hughes and Killing. Time 1:45 Umpire,
Nash.
Brooklyn, June 21.-The Brooklyns
made twenty-six hits for total of
thirty-four bases against Cincinnati to-
day and won in canter. Kennedy
was in good form and held the visitors
well in hand. Attendance 1900.
Score: RHE
Cincinnati ....O12 O0OO-3 z s
Brooklyn ......1 4171 Ox-21 26 2
Batteries; Parker and PETIT; Kenne-
dy and Mcclure. Time 1:4S. Umpire,
Dwyer.
New York, June 21.-The New Yorks
played splendid today, scoring a clever
win over Pittsburg. TayIor's pitching
puzzled the visitors. Attendance 1000.
Score: RHE
Pittsburg ......O / 900 0 o. 5 q
New York .....O 0 0 2 00x-3 L
Batteries: Phillippi. Wiltse and Zim-
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Little Eddie Did 1t.

Last game played with Ashenback,
RedBirds stood on every sack,
O'Steen gets up on his toes,
Hurls the ball at Persons nose;
Eddie tightens up bit,
Laces out three base hit.
Runs come in a whirl-a-gig,
That's what busted up the League.
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Hoshi Toru Stabbed to Death.
(By the Associated Press.)

Yokohoma, June 21.-Hoshi Toru, who
was Minister of Communications in the
last Ito Cabinet, was stabbed today at
a meeting of the city assembly and died
shortly afterwards. Hoshi Toru was
Japanese Minister at washington and
was formerly President of the House.
The assassination is supposed to have
been due TO politics.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-06-22
USE FOR CAPURrED wARsHrps.
Small Ones to be Utilized by Our Navy For
Coast Survey Work
(By the Associated Press. J

Washington, June 21.--The little Span
ish warships captured during the war are
to be utilized by the navy for coast sur
vey work. Two of them, the Alvarado
and Sandoval are now in commission and
one has been at Annapolis for some time.
This latter vessel has been ordered to
Norfolk for docking, after which she will
begin survey work along the shore OF
North Carolina.
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KILLED HIM WITH AN AXE.
Negro Flies and Though Crowds Pursue Has
Not Yet Been Taken.
Especial to News and observ

Especial to News and ObServer.)
Lenoir, N. c., June 21.-At Cooks
sa wmill on the Yadlxin river last night,
Arthur Ferguson, negro, killed John
McGhinnis white, with an axe. No
particulars have been yet received. The
negro made his escape Crowds are out
in pursuit of him.
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Cotton crop,
bales ........ 5,761,2 10000, 600
Capital in cot
ton mills. $21 976 900 $150,O00 900
Cotton consurnp
ton in South
ern m Ills,
bales ....... 1874 1857, III
Cotton oil mills,
capital SO, 900 $4,000, 600
Coal m i n d,
tons. ......... 6,O49,471 1882, ,O53
Pig Iron, tons. 397, ,301 1904, GIL
Railroad mile
age .......... 20,612 $4,000
Phosphate rock,
tons ......... 10000 ], $4,000
Petroleum, bar
relS ......-... 179, 900 Is, 600 900
Capital in man
ufactureS -. .$251 .692, OBS *$1 ,000, 900 900
VI anuf ctur-
ed products,
value .s445 461 ss1, 500, 900, 900
Grain produc-
tion, bushels. 431 600, 900 $50, Tic 266
Agri tural
.'rod let s.
value ....... .s571 100000 "s1, 200, 600, 900
Exports from
South hern
ports, value 1921, ,031,448 $3.50, ,317, ,545
ESTIMATED in part.
Comparing these facts with the GEN
era industrial advance of the United
States, it will be found that in many lines
the South has made proportionately
greater progress than the rest of the
country. In that twenty years it has so
developed its coal business that it is now
producing, as already stated, more coal
than the entire bituminous output OF the
United States in 1880. It's iron produc-
tion already equals the iron output of the
country as late as 1879. Twenty years
ago the South had 1900 cotton spin
dies and the rest of the country had 10,-
100000 spindes; today the South has
100000 cotton spindles an increase of
nearly 5,500,000 spndles, while the rest
OF the country today has about 100000
spndles, or gain since 1880 of less than
2,OOO, 900 spindles
considering the disadvantages under
which II labored in 1880, the South has
wrought wondrously we'll. The South,
IKE the country at large, faces new con-
ditions today-conditions which demand
the thoughtful study of every Southern
man.
This IS a dav of organization. Econ
omy in management and in production is
the supreme arbiter of business affairs.
Under this spirit of organization the
great world dominating steel plants of
the East and West have been brought
into harmonious combinations They are
backed by capital without limit Many
OF the machinery houses and locomotive
building plants and other enterprises of
the same sections are being formed into
similar combinations. They are giving to
the North and West through their vast
capital power compared With the indus
tries OF the South almost as great as the
difference between the pros osperity of the
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The Improvement Continues.

(By the Associated Press)
Washington, June 21.-Dr Rixey said
after his visit to Mrs. Mckinley today
that his patient continued to improve.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-06-22

Bishop Hargrove will preside at the
Methodist District Conference at Robbins
vile, Graham county, July 18th.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-06-22
Loads all North Carolina Daies i'm News and Circulation
American League Games.

fmer; Taylor and Bowerman. Time
1885. Umpire. O'Day.
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