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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-08-12

pie of Senator Pritchard's Lilly White
Republican party in Wake county. II
was a study in black and white. and its
composition is shown by the character Of
the two delegations elected.
. list Of the attendants at the meeting
was not TO be had. There was no flourish
OF trunpets about it, but it Is known
that White Republicans OF prominence in
Raleigh We're conspicuous by their alb
sence- II was the Federal o~ffce-holding
crowd. backed up by the negroes. that
had the machine at work yesterday.
Whether the Republican party in Wake
viii stand for yesterdays deal waits TO
be seen. There are those who say that
1t Won 7, but that is another story, which
will be heard another day.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-08-12
NAVAL

WILMINGTON, N. c.. August 8 -Turpentine
n5thIng doing; receipts 1873 casks.
Rosln nothing DING at 81. l00l. Is; receipts PSI
Crude firm =, 81. 4oQL2, SO; rer-,p s l25 barrels.
Tar firm at o. so; receipts 302
SAVANNAH Ga, Aug. 8 -Turpentine firm at
ia receipts 2,5l4; sales l42; eX ports BORA.
kos!n firm; receipts 5,7CS; sales 81; ex ports
l,025.
quote: A, b, C,sl.O5; d, $40; f, BL15. F.aI. 20.
g, Sl.25; H, u 50; !, Sl9J; X. az. 40, M. e.. 80;
n, 81 80; G, 81. 40; W w, 1856.
CHARLESTON, 5. y, Aug 9-Sprits turpertine
steady at 4oh receipts -, sales 10, tx ports =.
koS't hrn; receipts =; sale, $50 exports
Quote: A, b, c, d, E, 81 25; f s1.35; 6, s1.4O;
Z 1.s65; |, s2.0O; K $3.50: Vi, k2& n, $3.50; VIC
- w w; 1856
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-08-12
ABOUT FORTY Mills IDLE.
Curtailment of the Output of the Mills in
Western North Carolina.
Especial to News and Observer.)

AopSS4oi ~ S'o NAN
Charlotte, N. c., Aug. 9.-It is esti-
mated that a curtailment of sixty per
cent of the yarn mills Of this section is
now in force. and consequently about
forty of the mills are idle. Spot cotton
at eight cents is the cause and the mills
are waiting for the new crop to lower
the price of raw material.
The first boil of the new crop cotton,
grown in Mecklenburg county, was
brought in today, it grew high up on the
trunk Of an old oak, where a bird mad
probably carried the seed.
The Mecklenburg Fair Association has
opened uptown offices and is preparing
to bill the surrounding country for the
big fair, which is scheduled to be held
in October. Premium lists are being dis
tributed and quite a sum will be dealt
out in prize money.
One of the first convictions under the
early closing ordinance, came about this
morning before the recorder. According
to the officers watch, w. G. Lindemann
was selling beer at eighteen minutes
past nine, while Mr.. Lindemann's watch
recorded q few minutes prior to the
closing hour. The recorder accepted the
mute evidence of the p~olicemans time
piece and imposed a fine of fifty dollars.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-08-12
Maj. Conley Injured.
(McDnWell Dnmocratl

Mcdowell Democracy
Major w. A. Conley was cutting down
a small tree near the house and in cut
ting through he drove the blade OF the
axe into his left leg just above the ankle
bone. The wound is causing him no lit
tie pain, but no serious results are an
t~icipated.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-08-12

4 company has already been organized
in Smithicld to build a new prize house
to take the place Of the one destroyed
by the storm on Wednesday. and within
the next thirty days a brick building. 30
by 80 feet, and two stories high, is to
be erected. The following officers Of the
new company were elected. A. X. Smith.
president; y. VI. Lawrence, Jr., secretary
treasurer; \. K. Smith. T. r. Croker,
and T. s. Ragsdale, directors.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-08-12
FER COTTON
MID, ~RECEIPTS.
y BANK

NV York. Aug. 9,-The statement of
the associated banks for the week ending
aaE shows.
Loans &-5.#a},S00, increase S6,S23, 200.
Deposits >'5g.6t3,o 600, increase $2,497, SEQ.
Circulation $al.>>o, POO, increase 1898, 900.
Legal tenders Stab, soc, decrease So
.-aa. Specie $l71, 46S, 400, decrease
jr~a0. Reserves $24S. 942, 900, de-
>t.o>-.5lo. Reserve required $685.
M.o. increase >524,375. Surplus $9,O31,-
~. decrease SHOT, $50.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-08-12
New York \

yY~ YORK. Au-, 81 .. m.-Monev Oh call
."-y at - pei cent; closing ofTcreI ut
PER tert, last loan at per cent; ruling
>' pr cent. Prime m~ercantiI" paper
i.G7Ier cent Sterling exchange n)mtna with
@ysai and ct s51a tor 80 days. Fcsted
hs ifali-sS. commercial bills 4.94Am
i54. h- silver 52M. Mexican dollars 4i4
'~'..al-rl bonds steady; State bonds inactive:
".lua1 bonds Irre-ular.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-08-12

The Beaufort Little Neck Clam Com
pany, of Beaufort, Carterct county, was
incorporated yesterday in the Secretary
of States office, with authorized capltal
stock Of 81 800, which may be increased
to $50, 900. The incorporators are }. III.
Potter, IL. l.. Potter, w. v. B. Potter ana
Guy u. Potter,
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-08-12
HAVE WE LOST 2
Corrected Figures Show a
Slight Falling Off of Voters
But there Is Estimated 10 Be About $780, 0O
Unlisted, Ard this May More than
Make the Difference.

The figures for the valuations OF real
and personal property the tax listers
books for Raleigh township have been
gone over again, with the following re
suits:
Whites, real and personal
property $6,o14, 1880
Negroes, real and personal
property 341 ,049.00
Indians, real and personal
property 965.OO
Total Sc, 9f6, 1920
The corresponding figures for last year,
1901, are as follows:
Whites, real and personal
property $685. $500
Negroes, real and personal
property 341, $1,000
Indians, real and personal
property S40.0 90
Total $6,97l 500 90
This shows a loss of $55,44S from last
year. However, there is now unlisted
about 100000 which is perfectly good,
and taxes on which will surely be paid.
The amount for 1901 does not include
unlisted valuations, either, but there are
more that ae good this year, it is
thought, SO that it is likely that this
years showing will in the end be slight
~ better than last.
The above figures do not include rail
road or corporation property either for
1901 or 1902. The 1902 totals are not
official, but they have been carefully
gone over and are doubtless correct.
In the rapid adding up of the page
totals from the listers books Friday
evening, the total for one whole page
was omitted, causing a big error in the
figures published yesterday morning. OF
course, those figures, as the ones this
morning, were not given out as official,
and the error was not made by any Of
the county officers.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-08-12
Mr.. Laughinghouse's Loss.
(WashingtOn Mossenger.D

(WaShlngtOn MoSS"nBefD
We regret to hear of the heavy loss
sustained by Mr.. J. ]. Laughinghouse. Of
Pitt, by reason of the recent heavy winds.
Several Of his tobacco barns were blown
down and the damage sustained is as
seSsed at 81. 900.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-08-12

Eggs firm; State and Pennsylvania 2ca
2o1a; western. l40l7h; southwestern, I6Ql7.
Iallow dull; city (S2.N per padsase So
country (~packges free) 6HQ62. -
Rosln firm; strained. common to good 51n
0I.6O. ~ "n
Iurpentine firm at 46K147.
Hlce nrm; domestic. fair to extra 4H07;
Jaoan 4AQL5 nv
Cohee-spot Rio quiet; No. 2 invoice 5h.
mud, quiz {; Cordova 8GIIX.
sugs raw was steady; far refining 2x
centrifugal, 96-test, 3 1892: refined sugar steadp
mould a 4.9J; standard A 4 As: confectioner's A
40; cut ioaf o.lo; crushed Is; powdered 4.75;
granulated 4.65: cubes 80.
Moiasses stealy: New Orleans, open kettle
Potatoes easy; New York and western ::
:ersey a Long Island sl.OOGl 25;
Southern prime 75Q S, .Ol
reannts ste.dy; fancy hand-picked 81; do
cabbages E sy; Norfolk, barrels =: Long
Island, per 100. -. 0on2, X.
1Frelghts to Liverpool; cotton by steamrr 12Hc:
grain Id.
Cotton seed oil clo4ed we K. Prime crude
! i,o' D.. hi IS, = prime summer yellow
II on summer yellow 4l1: prime white
$500 nominal.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-08-12

If Mr.. Fries is only after consolldat-
ing the weave mills and MI. onderWood
the spinning mills, 1t doesn appear
where there is any conflict between the
two schemes.-Greensboro Telegram.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-08-12
BALTIMORE PROVISIONS

BALTIMORE. August 9-Flour dull. western
extra 3l.oG>3.3O do family s3.6o038 IS: winter
wheat patents s.. SOU3.95; DO. extra Z. 9U03 10; do.
Straleh hts, % extra q 8Ol3.2O.
WnaaS Io"er; OF and the month I%0HH;
>eptenier =, No. red =; steamer No. 2 red
Germ duil; spot ind August -; September
: TN; year as asked; January 43 asked; south
ern white 6O162; mixed =
Oats weak demoralized; No. = whit, cd 52l
53: 40 2 mixed, O d,
Rye dnl AID easy; Nc. 2 nearby, Sc; No.2
western
Butter firm: fancy imitation 1920; fancy
creamery 2iW22; fancy Iadle store packed.
Eggs firm; fresh l7H0I8
Cheese -teidy; large lO0lOb; medium III;
small 10A0tOH.
Sugar firm; hne and coarse granuIated LIZ.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-08-12
RALEIGH STOCK MARKET.
Corrected daily by Grimes & Vass.)
n

Bid. Asked.
North Carolina 6's, 1919 ......134 1851
North Carolina AS, 1919......104
Virginia new IS ............-- 9GA
Virginia Centuries, 1901 -. 9G1s o6$s
Railway SIS, 1894 ..124
S. A. L. As S6M S712
Western N. c.. r. r. 6s, 1914 1S
Ga, Car. & Northern SIS, 1929. .111h 112
Carolina Central Railway As 100
Ca, So. & Fla. r. r., 1915 ..11i
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-08-12

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-24
The Base Ball Pond.

Elsewhere in today's issue of The Star
will be found a letter from the president of
the Washington Brick Company directing
attention to the fact that that company.
owner of the vacant ground in the north
eastern section of the city where a large
pond now exists, menace to life in the
neighborhood, has since April last been
endeavoring at its own expense to drain
the ground and to minimize if not to abso-
luteiy remove the danger. 1t appears that
the company is constructing a sewer which,
when completed, will carry OFF all but about
six feet of the standing water 1t is graft
flying to learn thus that the owners of the
land in question have been diligent in TAX
ing precautions to abate nuisance which
has already taken three lives and which. If
undiminished, would presumably take more
in the course of time. But it is not assured
that the brick companys works now under
way will entirely remove the danger, for
six feet of water wilt apparently remain
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-24
Harmony.

There was a politician in prehistoric age
Who said the other fellows filled his soul
with righteous rage
He vowed the man who strove against his
party was Ounce;
He said he wanted harmony and wanted it
at once.
So he made his little program which he
pointed to with pride
He said that its advantages could never be
denied.
And when somebody limited that its lines
were too severe.
By way of discipline he plugged the critic
with a spear.
He said he hoped they'd mention. any flaws
they CHANGED to find;
He was ready to debate them in liberal
frame of mind
But loyalty complete he'd suffer no one to
relax.
If any one objected, he was smitten with an
ak
And presently he looked about; and scat
tered Ger the plain
Were the remains Of kickers who would
never kick again.
He was the sole survivor of his party once
so vast,
And he sighed with satisfaction, Here Is
harmony at last!'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-24
Mr.. BRYAN Full of Fight.

This is Mr.. Bryan's reply. made in New
York yesterday, to the talk about organizing
a new party in his interests:
The new movement seems to be based
on the possibility that the ClevelaDd-Hfli
element will obtain control of the demo-
cratic party. l do not think that that con-
tingency is probable, nor do L see that any
good is to come from a discussion of such a
contingency. If the head of the house is
sick Ii is better for the children to try to
save his life than to begin to quarrel over
the estate in anticipation of his possible
death To make application, it is better
u get to work and save the party from the
humiliation and disaster that II suffered I'M
der Mr.. Cleveand's administration than to
discuss plans based upon the supposition
that the improbable will happen"
Mr.. Bryan takes the correct view of the
matter. Talk about a new party seems to
concede defeat within the old party. The
Nebraskan comedies nothing of the kind.
Evidently. with the spirit of Paul Jones,
he has just begun to fight. He and his
friends are the democrats. and are at home
where they now are. They must hold the
fort. and he thinks that within their power.
So he adjures his followers to grid up their
loins for the fray. and take no thought of
anything else for the present.
But this is not to say that a new party
will not be organized in 1904, with Mr..
Bryan, some faithful lieutenant, at its
head. Mr.. Bryan will cross that bridge
when he comes to il. He does not believe
4. possible for the CIevelandites to capture
the organization and dictate terms. but if
such thing should happen -. Well. the
Clevelandtes know all about boiling. They
have done something in that line them
selves, and how could they throw any
stones if Mr.. Bryan and his personal friends
4
would characterize as a Wall street vic
tory?
Mr.. Eryan's reasoning is sound and his
tactics are good. This is 10 time to talk
about boiling. The leaders of the anti
Bryan faction are not INDUCING in 1t. Their
probable action in case they lose again in
the contest within the party lines may only
be inferred from their past performances
Mr.. Cleveland alone occupies an absolutely
unequivocal attitude in the premises. AS
long as the Bryan lamp holds out to burn
that distinguished sinner will never return.
But MIR. Hill. Mr.. German, Mr. Mclean and
others, while bitterly opposed to the Ne
braskan. have, in a way. supported him be-
fore, and probably, in a way. would support
him again At present they are trying to
defeat him within the party by methods en-
tirely legitimate, and against which Mr..
Bryan may not justly complain. They have
thefr views and he has his and democrats
IN the different states are being asked to
pass upon them.
Mr. Bryan is thought 10 lack wisdom nut
he cannot be accused of lack of shrewd-
ness As politician he is foeman
worthy of any mans steel. and we shall
probably witness some very pretty flour
ishes Of his blade during the coming two
Years
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-24
Fire-Fighting Here and Abroad.

An Inquest is in progress in London reIa-
tive to the burning OF a building in that
city in VIII Oh several women lost their lives
The chief of the fire department an officer
of the navy. is under sharp criticism for the
lack of extension ladders in his equipment
and IN defending himself referred scornfully
TO the New York department, with which
his had been disparagingly compared. The
chief OF the New York department answers
in even more scornful terms. and now a
controversy is IN fun swing According to
Chief Croker of New York the London fire
hghting methods are Anticipated in the ex-
IRENE 1t requires fifteen or twenty minutes
for the engines to get into the street after
the alarm rings. When a second alarm is
necessary a mounted aid is sent into the
adjacent district with a request that that
section kindly help out the one already on
the ground. if not inconvenient. OF course
this consumes precious time, and the result
Is heavy fire rate in the English capital
Travellers return from abroad with their
regard for the American fire-fighting
methods greatly heightened. They see
companies turn out here within a quarter
of minute from the completion of the
first alarm In this city they often see the
steamers dashing I'D the streets in the thir-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-24
Democracy in Massachusetts,

The referendum. No campaign contribu-
lions by corporations. Municipal ownership
OF public utilities. Is this the latest plat
form of Tom Johnson of Cleveland or of
Sucker Rod Jones of Toledo? 1t Is not
1t sounds like it might be, but it has a
very different paternity, and comes from an
other section of the country. 1t Is the
platform upon which Charles s. Hamlin Is
willing to accept the democratic nomination
for governor Of Massachusetts, And, mark
you. MIR. Hamlin Is a gold democrat
prCtege of Grover Cleveland and a near
neiShbor of Richard Olney. When these
things are proposed in the west they are
associated with populism. In Ohio they are
thought to point to state socialism. What
shall be said of them now that they have
appeared in the old Bay state and are
ebampiOned by man who in Mr. Bryan's
opinion is but little different from a re-
publican? Win Mr.. Hamlin halt at the
state line? Why should he? If his plat
form Is good for the state, why not also for
the United States? And if it is carried
that far. who will then be able to say that
popuism Is dying out?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-24
METROPOLITAN Murder Mysteries.

New Yorks supply of murder mysteries
is unusually abundant this season. Hardly
does one fade in interest before another
is furnished Just the other day Long
Island supplied a dual tragedy which had
all the semblance of peculiarly shocking
crime. Before the suspected man had been
held for indictment Brooklyn came to the
f!cnt with what appeared at first to be bur-
glary murder, but which now seems to be
of an entirely different and far more COM
pick character. Yesterday the coroners
jury, after listening to testimony, which
seemed to suggest wide possibilities of plot
and counter-plot, rendered a verdict of
death at the hands of a person per-
sons unknown and now the big city is
wondering whether the case is to go into
the list of unsolved crimes. Just before this
case reached it's present crisis with the
coroner's verdict an even more startling dis
covery was made. also In Brooklyn. pointing
to a murder of the kind which fascinates
the metropolitan mind, suggestive of the IA
nous Guldensuppe case of a few years ago
in which man was slain and his body dis
membered and scattered. This latest case
offers what would seem to be good ground
for prompt Identification and perhaps for a
speedy detection of the murderer or murder
STS. he nOFTlDie WDTh WAS not thoroughly
done, although the body discovered
only by chance. Society is saved many a
setback in it's efforts to prevent and to
punish crime by the flaw in the criminal
mind which leaves in the great majority of
cases a slight loOphole for the truth to
emerge. In the case of the man Gulden-
suppe identification and consequent detec-
ton of the slayers were permitted by a
tattoo mark. the removal of which would
have been comparatively easy. In this latest
case the head was allowed to remain on
the body, although practically severed by
the death stroke, and a crippled hand was
left to complete the chain of possible identi-
fication Had the body been securely
weighted and thrown into the river instead
of on it's edge it would never perhaps have
been discovered. Fright, panic or inability
to calculate on the chances of detection has
checked the criminal in SO many instances
in his horrible work of concealment that it
would seem though {, natural law were
working TO save society from the full eff
fects of the crime tendency which our civ
ilization has not yer eradicated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-24

teenth second from the last stroke of the
gong. They see powerful streams thrown
by the dozens upon burning buildings as
against three or four half-inch jets abroad.
They see ladders nearly one hundred feet
in length sent skyward to rescue fire-trap-
ped people. while foreign departments boast
of only forty and f1fty-foot ladders. They
see towers pouring great quantities Of
water upon the fires from above while for
eign firemen would be driven beyond hose
range by the intense heat Of the flames. In
dozens Of other particulars they see the
American fire service conducted upon sci
entific basis, improved from month to
month with newly devised apparatus, in
Simultaneous hose-repair kits, life nets. cell
lar hose. chemical pumps and search lights.
which the departments across the sea re-
gard as silly fads.
The Engiis;lmen now hold the interna-
tional polo championship and they may
beat us in tennis next month. They may
have faster oarsmen-on English waters
But they cannot compete with us In this
far more important department of applied
athletics. Nor Is this merely matter OF
speculative assertion. During the Paris
exposition of 1900 a fire company from
Kansas City "astonished the natives OF
Europe with exhibition runs and perform
anceS and in the international tournament
of fire brigades made such remarkable
showing, by comparison. that as in Ger
tain other International affair there was
mo second The TX. c." men-as they
are fondly termed in the west-starting
with twenty pounds of steam, allowed 10
all competitors, ran 40 yards to seven
story skeleton building supposed to be on
fire, took suction with engine from water
tank, laid out $50 feet of hose made all
connections. threw a stream into the fifth
story while the life-saving crew scaled The
building with pompier ladders and life lines
and rescued persons from the sixth and
seventh stories. shut off stream, uncoupled,
removed ladders and then formed a line and
saluted the jury, all In three minutes ana
forty-three seconds. The fire brigade of
Milan. Italy. managed to get through the
program in ten minutes and twelve seconds!
And the TX. c." team was only type of
what this country can show in every city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-24
Municipal Progress.
From the Boston TRANSCRIPT.


The forces making for municipal progress
are increasing in number and efficiency
from year to year, and the more hopeful
tone taken by reformers Of the outlook is
undoubtedly due to this fact. When we
recall the fact that ten years ago there
was but handful of municipal reform or
CARNATIONS. and those mostly confined to
the Atlantic seaboard, with the possible
exception of one or two in Chicago, and
that there was not a single national body
devoted to the study or the attempt to
solve the complicated and difficult munich
pal problem, We can see the great change
and the great progress that has been made
Now there are, roughly speaking accord
ing to the figures Of the National Munich
pal League, 900 local reform bodies, not
counting village Improvement societies, and
five vigorous. aggressive national bodies
concerned in various phases of the munich
pal question.