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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-26
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Cash quotations were as follows

Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour steady; winter patents, $500; straights
| g. 50a3 70 bakers S560G3.30; clears S3.3503.50;
spring specials $40; spring patents S300@1 40;
wheat, No. spring. SS@S5; No 3, 7StdSl; No.
e: oats No 2, 81 No white, SO; No. 3 white,
| 4@36; rye, No. ., 5l34d5}; good feeding bar
ley, 1900; fair to choice maltinx, 5l@56; flax
seed, No. |, ~; No. northwestern, l.C2l3;
Prime timothy seed, $50: mess pork per bbl
| l2.65@l27O lard per l00b., S.0712@S10; short
ribs sides Qoosel, 1870; dry salted shout
ders boxed, 6.5s@70E short clear sides
grade wines, LA; clover, contract grade 1880
NEW YORK PROVISIONS.
NEW YORK, August -Flour-firm; winter
patents S}90@tS; Minnesota patents $500
lis.
Rye flour steady; fair to good s3.9O@3So;
choice to fancy S2:90d3.25.
Buckwheat fiour-dull; sl.90@215.
Corn-meaI steady; yellow western Sl.l2.
Rye-steady; No. 2western 5S12
Barley-steady; feeding D. mailing 20.
Wheat--firm; No. 2 So; May, S714; Sep
TENDER, Sc; December, S61a.
Corn spot easy; No. 2, 5S12; May, %; Sep
Beef-firm ; family slO25@lO75; mess. 5000
$50; beef hams 2l.50@2i.0l; packet l05O@ II;
picked shoulders 6td6l4; picked hams, l212.
Lard-firm; western steamed, SIS; refined
firm; continent $40; compound COPS.
Porll-steayy; family lG75@l6.2o; short clear
HOO 1850, mess l5.00@l7.5O.
Tallow-tirm; city per package 158, country
i12@34.
Rosfn-firm; strained common to good 100.
Turpentine-steady, 57Cd573.
Rice-firm; domestic, fair TO extra, 5000,
Japan $685..
MOlaSSeS-firm;. New Orleans, open keItle,
good to choice, 3l@f2.
Coffee-spot Rio quiet, No. Z invoice 51s,
mild quiet, cordova 7Mll.
Sugar-raw, firm fair refining 5-l6 molas-
SEES 31s, refined, steady.
Butter-firm; extra creamery lB4,state dairy
H@llS.
Cheese-steady; state fun cream small col
ored 1885, white fall made, l03s.
Eggs-firm; state and Pennsylvania q.
Potatoes-Long Island l.57tGl.75, new South
ern, 1.25@l.57, Virginia sweets 2.25Cd2.50.
Peanuts-steady; fancy hand-picked, 1904,
domestic 361iH.
Cabbage-steady; Long Island @5@l0
Freight To Liverpool ~.
Cotton seed oil quiet and steady prime
crude f. o. b. mills 29d TO- prime summer yell
low 4IIa@i2, off summer yellow 80, prime white
IS; prime winter yellow AZ, prime meal Z1.VO9
"a so nominal.
BALTIMORE PROVISIONS.
BALTIMORE August 25-Flour quiet: winter
patents S}.75d 100, spring satents Si.00GfS
MWhcat-firm; SO}stg34, Southern wheat by
sample tSGSG4.
Corn firmef; spot 5G34957, Southern white
corn 56@S0
Oats-steady; No . white 400.
Rye-hrm; No. :, So
Butter-steady; fancy imitation l7@lS, fancy
creamery 20.
Eggs-steady; fresh 166l61%.
Cheese-Stcady; 1875, large l03stGllH.
Sugar-Strong; fine and coarse granulated
5,2112.
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NOTICE OF ELECTION IN LITTLE
RIVER TOWNSHIP
By order of the Board of Commissioners
of Wake county, N. c., adopted or Mon
day the 9rd day of August. 1903 Notice
is hereby given that there will be an
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August 18th, 1903.
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Register of Deeds and Clerk of the Board
Of Commissioners of Wake County, N. C..
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-05

conducted Koloratz from his country-house
I to the fortress. and after he had been scaled
up in one Of Nero's wells for a week or
longer. the Government made him a propo-
sition.
koloratz was to regain his liberty provid-
ed he signed declaration binding himself
to refrain from opposition to the reigning
family. and to deed lis palace. the present
Post Office. to the Government together
with 100000 francs as maintenance fund.
After Koloratz subscribed the paper that
robbed him of three-quarters of his for
tune, he was told that he must enter the
prison hospital for little while in order
that. under the care Of physicians he might
regain his former robust appearance.
The poor man survived the doctored food
he received in the hospital just three days.
On the fourth an extra issue Of the official
gazette announced that the great patriot
was dead from ptomaine."
sEwER-PRISoN FOR
ANOTEHER PATRIOT.
In other budding capitals men who build
great houses are rewarded by offices and
decorations. In Belgrade the possession of a
palatial home leads to trouble instead.
Ranko Tajsic, leader Of the Radicals. had
constructed for himself beautiful three
, story mansion on Market place-one day
when King Alexander drove by he OBJ
served that his political opponents house
| exceeded his own in style and vastness.
Tho impudent Radicalr' remarked his
| Adjutant.
The Adjutant reported to the Prime Min
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-05

year of Alexander's reign five women and
over thirty men writhed under the lash in
the fortress and that some twenty laid
their painting flesh on red-hot bars.
But the Servians are tough race. and it
does happen sometimes that abuse and tor
ture fail to kill parties who. the Konack
thinks. should make haste to die.
In that event the prisoner Is ordered "be-
fore the commandant' and either on the
way to him or on the return trip. suffers
accidental death.
The accident Is prearranged as follows:
After the prisoners arms and legs have
been secured by ropes. he is pushed along
dark corridor. at the end Of which Is
situated an ancient we'll. once used by the
garrison when besieged.
The mouth Of the shaft which lies con-
siderably lower than the bed of the Dam
ube is ordinarily covered up but on the
fatal day somebody or something no one
knows who. or what-''raised the lid to adj
NIT air."
After the prisoner has vanished. the lid
is fastened again.
The Kolorat case. to which allusion was
made. happened under King Milan.
In 1880 Koloratz was the Pierpont Morgan
Of Belgrade.
A man of decided ability and integrity,
Koloratz enjoyed the confidence Of his fell
low -countrymen to remarkable degree.
but. nevertheless. it was freely prophesied
that he would not die in his bed. Why?
Because he hated the Obrenovitsches.
One fine day detachment Of Hussars
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-05

|, lister and three days later Tajsic was on the
fortress. parliamentarian immunity not.
withStanding
At that time Ranko was known a. the
Servian Hercules.
He was over feet high. broad shouldered.
strong and full Of life and energy-evidentiy
a person that could not be broken Ia the
ordinary way.
So instead of immurins him. or keeping
him in the contaminated easements. whore
political prisoners are turned into Son-
sumptives at short order. the eousnandsaf
placed Ranko in q sewer. whore he stood
in the mire knee deep for two long wseks.
Then they hauled him out and invites
him to sign his palace and fortune ossr 70
King Alexander.
Ranko laughed boistsrousiy. for In The
meanwhile he had gone mad. but afixsd
his signature at the point indicated. the
commandant holding his hand.
The commandant had to-for Ranko had
gone blind in addition to soinR mad.
I see him in the streets every now sn0
again. preceded by his faithful dos.
He always smiles.
Since the hour Alexander releassd rim
from the sewer he has worn the Sd3otv
smile.
As to Alexander. he gained q fnoeusasaRv
reputation for munifcencs s1a vsaa1s
spiritedness by deeding the stoisa Asuso
over to the university.
yERRCARBW2 !
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Widows and orphans, too, with that differ
ence however, that they were not even
asked, his Majesty simply helped himself to
the pupilary funds under the states care.
Not whole window in the palace to-day,
the porte cochere statuary is in smithereens
and the sentinel boxes, that. only two
weeks ago. were set up by the door. are
| smashed into kindling wood.
/, So much for Belgrade'se most conspicuous
| public buildings, contemplated from outside.
Though their history be written in citi-
zens' blood and stepped in Kings shame,
| the "reminiscences they call up lose much
of their significance when compared with
the memoirs of the Konack (old royal pal
ace), citadel and police headquarters. Up to
the time of the Turkish evacuation. the
"konack' was the residence of the sublime
Portes viceroy, and such fitted with fer
midable dungeons and very complete torture
chambers. which Milosh, swineherd and first
Prince of Servia, and his successors. Milan
and Alexander, subsequently made liberal
use of for political and private ends.
Indeed it Is said that the existence of
these old time aids to barbaric injustice
made the ancient pile particularly attractive
to the last Inflated rulers. man and wife.
Belgrade tells of the mysterious disap-
pearance of numerous persons. hidden to
the konack and never seen again by their
family and friends, and there are well de-
fined rumors that several Of these prisoners
of state We're murdered outright in the sub
terranean vaults, while others were spirited
away at night and buried alive In the silent
easements of the fortress. AS to the torture
chambers Draga's brother. Nicodem, once
described their horrors to crowd Of intox-
icated army officers.
The eXecutioner," he said. stripped the
prisoner and then forced him down upon a
wooden horse, two feet high.
Next he bound the culprit's feet to two
rings fastened to the floor side by side; then
he threw him backwards and made his
hands fast TO rings in the wall some three
feet apart. Thus his head was about on a
level with his feet, while the horse resting
under his back, bent his body into the shape
of crescent.
In order to stretch the limbs more eff
fectualiy the executioner finally took turn
or two on winch, which forced the pris-
oner's feet some six inches nearer the rings
THE prisoner, having been given a taste
Of what he might expect. was then admon-
ished to confess and upon his refusal water
was poured down his throat by way of a
funnel.
He had to swallow quarts upon quarts of
liquid. no matter how hard he struggled
and writhed.
ANOTHER AND LARGER
HORSE is USED.
las this royal horse did not produce the
desired effect, another three feet and half
in height was placed beneath the prisoners
loins instead of the lower one. thereby Civ
ing much greater sweep to his body.
"As the change was made without length.
ening the cords the limbs were stretched
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-05

soul, and his friends do not expect to see
| him again, for few. II any. fortress prison.
ers Of a political character are known to
have left the place alive.
As a rule. inmates of the Opposition
row. are either carried down the mill on a
| stretcher-being too weak or i'll to walk
or In a hearse.
The fortress occupies the highest point in
the servan capital. and ancient Romans
Goths, Magyars and Turks-all contributed
to its sinister and forbidding architecture.
| All these nations being expert prison
builders. seem to have employed their ut
most ingenuity to make Belgrade's fortress
terror. To mention only one of the relics
of blacklist barbarism, the prison includes
dozen or more weil-like shafts. where per-
sons may be immured.
Driven 1000 years ago. under the Emperor
Nero, these shafts were used with equal
gusto by the old Servian Kings. who be-
came extinct in the Fourteenth Century, by
the sultan's Pashas, Black George and the
Obrenevitsches. and no one believes that
King Peter will attempt to do without them.
particularly as he is descended from most
cruel race. his first known ancestor be-
ing brigand. who slew his own father.
'.Nero's dungeons" have no doors. only
an opening on top. through which the pris-
oners and lowered on ropes and which
are then walled up, save for hole about a
foot square. through which things are
passed in and out of the cells.
This hole is secured by iron gratings and
is opened only during ten or fifteen minutes
every twelve hours.
The prisoners get faint glmpses of day
light only when their scant rations are sent
down to be torn with the teeth or Tapped
up dog fashion. as the Government fur
nishes neither spoons nor forks.
During the rest of the time the helpless
ones are buried in blacklist night Not a
sound, save the clinking Of their own chains
greets their ears
But aside from these most ancient
specimens of the solitary confinement cell,
the ordinary political prison is probably the
most horrible and unsanitary in the world
to-day, the victims OF tyranny being in
variably chained to the rock by an iron
band around the waist and ankles. allow
ing them but freedom to crawl far enough
to reach for articles pushed through the
opening in the door.
The more spacious cells contain benches
for knoutings and in the corridors are small
stoves where irons, styled ''procurors of
confessions" can be made hot.
MEN AND WOMEN
UNDER THE LASH.
The records have 1t that during the last
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-05

Special Correspondence Of The Sunday Republic.
Belgrade, June 20-To-day clean, white
muslin curtains of very cheap grade-for
the regicide Government is extremely shy
of cash-screen the windows through the
shattered binds of which Alexander's and
Dragas bodies were flung to the raving
mob.
The bloody bedclothes, pierced by bullets
and slashed by sabers were sold for a
couple of francs to an old-clotles man, who
is making a fortune by their exhibition in
a windowess room, dimly lit by kerosene
lamps. (After awhile he will make more
money by cutting them up into strips to be
sold as souvenirs to lovers of the grew
some)
ITS fortunate" he said to your corrc-
spondent. that their Majesties were pleased
to sleep under red silken covers-the souve-
Mrs worn in the buttonhole will very
closely resemble the ribbon of the Legion
of Honor"
The parquet floors of the royal bed and
dressing rooms were carefully scraped and
waxed and polished. but the provisional
Governments order: "Out. damned spot,
out" bore no fruit. Peter found ocular proof
in plenty that his commands were followed
to the letter.
So We're those of his predecessors. Alex
ander and Milan. For evidence. look at sc.ne
of the public buildings. You need not enter;
the proofs are written all over the edi-
fees!
On Terezzia street for instance. we have
the Post Office the grandest building Bel
grade boasts of. finer and loftier than the
new royal palace even.
Big golden letters over the portals say
that 1t is a free gift of the Patriot Kolo-
ratz to the Servian people"
Koloratz died of poison in graveike
dungeon below the fortress.
On Market Place stands the university,
rivaling the other in splendor of material
and magnificent proportions-also "a free
gift"
The donor is Ranko Taisic, once known
all over the world leader of the Servian
Radicals. the peoples party.
To obtain his signature to the deed. Ranko
had to be raised out of a sewer, where he
stood knee deep. by ropes: the sewer flow
ing under the citadel has been his prison
for two weeks.
The former brilliant politician is now
blind and crazed. and his free gift to the
Servian people is made to turn out intel
lectual slaves and rogues, such as applaud
and (when the time comes) assassinate
Alexanders, Dragas and Peters.
DRAGA'S PALACE BUILT
WITH STOLEN FUNDS.
And here We have the Lunjevtza Palace,
but recently finished for his wife's brothers
and sisters by the murdered King.
Who built that?
The garrison OF Belgrade, provincial Cow
errors. officeseekers, army purveyors, con-
tractors of all sorts, anybody and everybody
holding salaried position under the Cow
eminent, doing business with it FISHING
.o-all were forced to contribute.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-05

still more, and the cords cut into the flesh
about the wrists and ankles until the blood
flowed.
THE torture was at once renewed, inter-
rupted only by the questions Of the clerk
and the replies OF the victim. As to his
cries, 1t was as II nobody heard them.
Upon the large horse and while the
cords were being frightened, water was
again poured down the victims throat. who
struggled and writhed.
"Once more the water was poured down
his throat. and release came only when the
victim had lost the power to make active
or passive resistance"
Nicodem added that the king of Servia's
horses" were the most satisfactory quadru-
peds he ever encountered.
"They neither eat nor drink, he laughed
"yet perform their work with neatness and
dispatch.
Cruel you say? Pshaw! A King cannot
be expected to stand on ceremony with
traitors"
Belgrade fortress and police headquarters
are styled penitentiaries. but the common
criminal rather likes these institutions,
where he is well fed and treated. provided
he shows a disposition to act as a Gov
when trouble is brewing with deputies and
other politicians.
For. as the Bourbon Kings of Naples en-
ployed bandits to uphold absolute monarchy
by means Of assassination, so Servia's rulers
are always scheming to get rid of parlia-
mentary opposition by hired slayers.
Some day. when the true history Of the
latest and unprecedented royal murder is
rr,{1I h. t~o.r
stuffing and 'colonizing" at the last cleo
lions were at the bottom Of the massacre.
1t will be shown that Alexander elected
Parliament after his own sweet will by
opening the prison doors for all the muir
brawlers in the realm.
They were let out on or before election
day, either to act as voters, keep honest
men from voting, or themselves figure as
candidates and Governments choice"
II the newly elected chambers had been
allowed to convene, there would have been
"a murderers' row" facing the chair.
As the new Skuptchina vanished with its
creator. our prisons are again well filed.
Servian criminals are not likely to leave
q good clearinghouse unless something
better can be had for the asking.
CORD AND TORTURE FOR
UNWILLING PATRIOT.
Good comradeship and circumstances
permittinE. high reward for the felon, the
out.throat, the petty thief: uninhabitable
dungeons. poison, the cord and torture for
the patriot unwilling to sacrifice the we'll
fare Of his country for tho rulers within
and pieasure-such is the order Of things
in Servia.
When. after season of dreadful sus-
pense. 1t leaks out in Belgrade that this or
that member Of the opposition is incarcer-
ated In the fortress. the unhappy mans
family orders masses for the repose Of his
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-10-20
A GLAD GREE |NC To
AyC0CK.
Mass Meeting at Norfolk in
Interest Of jamestown
EXPOSITION.

Norfolk, Va, Oct. Ex-Governor A.ycock
addressed the mass meeting held in Van
Wyck's Academy of Music tonight in the
interest of the jamestown Exposition.
The Governor spoke of the historical re
lations between Carolina and Virginia,
and met with one of the most hearty re-
c~eptions ever rendered a speaker IN Nor
folk. Governor Montague spoke and
Murat Halstead. General Fltzhugh Lee
was one of the guests of honor.
Governor Aycock was the first Of the dis
.tinguished guests to arrive, getting in be
fore he was expected and before the fifteen
guns salute could be fired.
At the banquet rendered tonight, Gov
ernor Aycock responded to the toast
North Carolina" and was applauded by
the banqueters. The Academy was pack,
ed to the doors.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-10-20
IN NORFOLK
Returns and Tells Of the Great Exposition to
be Held.

After attending what he found to be a
delightful meeting in Norfolk Governor
Aycock returned to the city yesterday.
Governor Aycock was one of the speak
ers at the meeting which was held to set
the pace for the great jamestown Exposl-
ton. Asked his opinion of it, Governor
Aycock said:
The Exposition will certainly be held.
It will commemorate one OF the greatest
events that ever occurred in the history
of the world. Out of the little colony
founded at jamestown in 1907 1t is not too
much TO say has grown this wonderful Ike
public. 1t was there that representative
government had its beginning. The herl-
tage Of it belongs to the whole world, and
the people everywhere ought to join with
t~ide-water, Virginia in making the exposl-
ton a success, pointing all the people to
still higher developments"
While in Norfolk Governor Aycock met
many of the leading men OF the State, IN
Guiding Governor Montague and Senators
| Daniel and Martin. The attendance IN the
! opera house Thursday night was a great
! one, attentive, responsive, and IN every
| way most impressive. Twice the number
of people sought admittance to the hall as
could enter it, and those who gained en-
; trance stayed until the meeting closed al
! midnight. The Governor is enthusiastic
in his praise of the faithfulness OF the
: audience in remaining throughout the
meeting.
He had not seen Norfolk in some years
! and is greatly impressed with It's wonder
full growth and improvement III all dlrec
tions There are many North Cafollnldls
: there. loyal to the State of their adoption
true Nirginians, but never torgetful OF the
Old North State. The Governor speaks II
the highest terms of Governor Montague
whom he says is making one OF the pes
! Governors that any State mas eyer hdu
' While there Governor Ayccck hearu III
Hon John Temple Graves, OF Atlanta
make two speeches, one at the punl,
meeting and one at the banquet Whlci
I followed. He says that Mr., Graves is IN
o,estionably a most wonderful man, al'
that his readiness and fiuency IN speecl
| 10 uneolaIled. At the end OF MI. Graves
t sneech the audience encoreo MN "h'
would not be quoted until he appeared
and made acknowledgement OF the unus
nal compliment.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-10-20
w;D. AND DEEP IsTEREBr
Great Good ccomplished by the Series OF RI
vlval ceilings at Wake forest

Nalc Forest, y. g., oct 1.-THE
SPECIAL series ct protractcl services here
in which tho pastor. pr. Lynch. has been
aided by Or. ". G. Tyrec. OF Hale gh, aj
probably come to a conclusion toMorroN.
Or. Tyree lea YES today for his home
The season has been a remarkable one
The interest has been cXtradordiuarg ats4
wiacspr al, marked by depth rather than
tumult. The preaching has been frank
and searching and clear, and 50 far
as at present appears. no meeting ia many
years has been equal to thi- one in the
good accomplished. II ls impossible ~
state the number Of conversions.
DR.. Tyroe conducted a meeting h.ra
nine years ago. and the grateful apple
citation OF that experience with HIM has
been decpened these last day. IN the
hearts Of our people.
Or. G.. ". Pa-chal and Or. walter SIt"s
represented the college in the late reunion
at Greensboro.
Among visitors here this week ono note
Mr.. W. y. Weathcrford, Of New YORK.
travelling secretary Of the Student Is
partment OF the Y. VI G.. A, and Rev.
Charles L. Greavcs, pastor OF the Rods:
Vile Baptist church.