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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-05
CONDITION OF BANK
Statement by Temporary Re-
ceiver Of Farmers and
Merchants, New Bern.
Especial to News and Observer.)

New Bern, N. c., Sept. 4.-The following
statement was given out today:
To the Public: The undersigned tenn
porary receiver of the Farmers and Mcr-
chants Bank of New Bern, submits the
following statement of the condition of
said bank, which is approximately cor
rect, subject to minor changes The as
sets include all money, debts and property
of every description, which have come
into my hands, and in the case of debts
they are accounted for at the face value
of the evidence of debt, and the banking
house, etc, are at estimated values.
The liabilities include every demand
which is claimed as a liability of the
bank, consisting among other claims OF
three notes of the Southern Hosiery
Mills Company, which aggregate $4,000.
The assets include among other things tho
bond for $40, 600 of T. w. Dewey, cashier.
Assets, s1SS.099.
Liabilities, $190547.13.
Attention is also called to the fact that
the capital stock of the bank now out
standing, amounting to $4,000, is not in
cmded in the liabilities.
(Signed.) THOS. DANIELS
Receiver Farmers and Merchants Bank,
New Bern. N. G.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-05
THE RAMLET AFFAIR.
Gresham and Jamison Express Regret---No
Action by the 7, P. g..

Especial to News and Observer
Winston-Sale N. c., Sept. 4.-The
North Carolina Division of the Travel
ers' Protective Association met in called
session here tonight. Inc Booker Wash
ington incident at Hamlet, North Caro-
lima, was discussed. Messrs. Gresham and
Jamison, owners of the hotel at Hamlet,
were present and presented their side of
the question in regard to serving break
fast to Washington and his party at their
hotel on August 23rd. The gentlemen ex-
pressed regret if they had done anything
wrong After hearing the statement of
the hotel owners motion was adopted
to the effect that the association did not
feel called upon to take any action in
the matter.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-05
s80r DEAD IN THE ROAD.
7. L. Lucas Killed by Negro Who Says He
Shot at Squirrel.
Especial to News and Observer.)

Especial to News and Observer)
Dunn, n. c., Sept. 4.-Yesterday while
Mr.. T. Lucian Lucas, accompanied by
his little son, was conveying q load of
tGrpentine through the Beaver Dam sec
ton, he alighted from tho wagon to cut
switch, when the report OF gun
echoed on the air and Mr.. Lucas fell
dead in his tracks At the same moment
dog jumped out in the road but al
most Immediately disappeared IN the
bushes, and nothing more was seen or
heard.
The boy hastened to house near by
and told what had happened. Mr.. j. j.
Wilson then started for the scene with
blood hounds. Meanwhile a phone message
came from Ellington saying that negro
named Covington gave himself UP to the
officers at that place and Is now in
jail The negro says he shot the gun
that killed the man and claims he was
shooting at a squirrel
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-05
INCREASE OF TWO MILLIONS.
How Guilford is Growing in Wealth. Well
Behaved Excursionists,
snecial to News and Observer.

(SDecldl TO news duu OpeCIN N0lJ
Greensboro, N. c., Sept. 4.-The Reg
ister of Deeds has completed the abstracts
of the taxable property of Gulltord coun-
ty as returned by the various assessors
and list-takers of the townships of the
county.
The total valuation is G13 ,495 732.1S)
Last year the valuation was ($11, ,457, ,415.-
72). This shows an increase in property
values in Guilford county in one year OF
fS2, ,677 ,314.46). A large part of this two
million dollar increase is In Greensboro
properties, real estate. bank stock, corpor
alton excess, income. etc.
The increase IN real estate and personal
properly is not quite one and a half mil
lion dollars. That this increase of over
two million dollars in one year is normal
and conservative, is attested by the fact
that there were but two complaints before
the Board of Equalization of excessive val
uation by the Board of Assessors.
The county has not dollar of indebted
ness of any kind, and will soon sell ($300
600 of county bonds for road building.
There has never been an excursion
crowd in Greensboro that was as well be
haved as that of the Cabell Street Union
Sunday School which came here from Dan
vile yesterday This Sunday school is the
second largest in the United States, tho
largest being in Philadelphia. There were
more than a thousand teachers, students
and friends of the school here, under the
charge of the superintendent of the school
Mr.. E. G. Mosely, and they all seemed
to have spent a pleasant day of it, no
table picnic dinner at Lindley Park being
an interesting feature of the children.
The graded schools of the city opened to
day, and hundreds of children have beer
] in evidence on the streets leading there
to. The prospect of great increase il
attendance over last year, overtaxing the
capacity of the building is giving the su-
perintendent and school board great un
easiness.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-05
THE END OF A ROMANCE
A Runaway Marriage Followed by a
Separation and Suit for Di-
vorce, the Curtain Fall
ing at Last on a
Tragedy.
Especial to News and Observer.)

Especial to News and Observer)
Kinston, N c., Sept. A sensational
tragedy occurred in this place at / O'Clock
today when Emmett Boyette shot his wife.
Lena Boyette in the front porch of her
fathers house on Blount street in the
presence of her mother and younger sister.
Boyette was evidently under the in
fluence of liquor at the time, but the act
the pistol, SO calibre, to Walter Fields
while on the way to the home of his wife,
who had for some time been living with
her father, Mr.. J. C. Chestnut, a saloon
keeper on North street.
The incentive was jealousy on the part
of the husband, who had been separated
from his wife and a suit was pending for
divorce with her as plaintiff
On reaching the house Boyette APP
preached Mrs. Chestnut, saying: "Can 1
see Lena privately few minutes
Mrs. Chestnut refused to grant his re-
quest, bidding him to leave. Thereupon
he stepped up on the porth and took out
his pistol and fired, the ball entering the
right breast of his wife just below the col
lar bone. She staggered and made as if
to run into the house, when he fired the
second shot, the ball going into her brain.
She reeled and fell in the hallway and
Boyette sank down by her side, where he
was found when Sheriff Wootten, who
was at his dinner a short distance from
there, arrived on the scene.
Boyette was placed under arrest and
was on the way to the Jail when Mr.
Chestnut, father of the murdered woman
having just heard of the crime, ran down
the street to get at Boyette, presumably
for the purpose of making a double trag
edy, in which he would very likely have
succeeded but for the coolness and decid
ed action of Sheriff Wootten, who covered
him with his pistol and told him to stand
off.
Chestnut was then seized by Messrs
Henry sutton and >. A. Qulnerly and
Boyette was taken to Jail and locked in
cell, where he was seen by your CORE
spondent. Boyette gave as a reason for
his act jealousy and expressed sorrow for
it and said that he was willing to pay for
it with his life.
Doctors were quickly on the scene and
all that human skill could do was done
but the markmans aim was too sure. and
Mrs Boyette died this afternoon at 4:4s
The circumstances of the whole case
make it a more or less romantic love
affair, beginning with a runaway little
over year ago, and eliminating in to
days tragedy. Mrs. Boyettes parents
sometime ago persuaded her to leave Boy
cite and live with them. This caused hin
to attempt suicide. Later a divorce suit
was instituted and was pending when the
tragedy occurred.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-05
Conference Between Millers,
(By the Associated Press.)

Nashville, Tenn, Sept A conference
of prominent members of the Millers'
Federation of the United States with the
Southeastern Milers' Association is in
session here today. The meeting was
called to take some action relative to the
differential rate now in existence between
flour and wheat intended for export. The
discussion was along liberal and progress
sive lines and probably will result in the
formulation Of an address to be presented
to the railroads through the Millers' Fed
Grafton.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-05
First Road Building Machine Arrives
Especial to News and observer)

IopECIdI 10 NEWS anu UDSefVer.)
Lakevlew, N. c., Sept. 4.-The first of
the big machines designed to compete in
the great bodybuilding contest on next
Monday, the 7th, reached here this morn
ing, having made fast time from its
Pennsylvania home. AS it was being un.
loaded from the car it attracted consd-
cradle interest, as none of our people had
before seen a road-building machine of
its magnitude. The Moore County Road
Commissioners have been invited TO
make an official inspection on next Sat
urday of this and the other contesting
machines, which are expected to be here
Friday. asss
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-05
The Opening at Davidson.
Especial to News and Observer

-
Davidson, N. c., Sept. davidson
College opened here yesterday with a
registration of one hundred and ninety
students, eighty-five of whom are fresh
men. Students are. coming in on every
train. In an interview with DR.. Smith
this morning he said that every room in
the college was filled, although there is
new dormitory, which accommodated
sixty three, and some students will have
to seek rooms in the village Two hun.
dred and fifty students will be here, one
hundred and fifteen of whom are new
men, including students classed as special
Many improvements have been made dur
ing the summer including the building
of a dormitory and commencement hall
A game of baseball was played between
the sophomores and freshmen classes yes
terday, resulting in favor of the sophs
by a score of twelve to one.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-05
Agreement With Creditors.
(By the Associated Press.l

Newport News, Va, Sept 4.--Robert l.
Mason, receiver for the Hampton Roads
Railway Company, today announced that
a tentative agreement with the creditors
of the company had been reached at a
meeting held in Philadelphia yesterday.
Mr.. Mason says the bondholders have
agreed to provide 100000 to be used in
completing the construction of the road
and settling the claims of creditors. The
company will probably be taken out of
the receivers hands shortly and then re-
organized. t..,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-05
FOUR CoNvICTs SHOT.
They Were Attempting to Escrpe and HUrli d
dynamite at the Guard
(Bv the Associated Press.)

Birmingham, Ala, Sept. 4.--Four con
victs were shot at Pratt mines prison
early this morning in al attempt to es-
cape, the wounded men beng Tom Fay,
John Brewer Richard Kinnebeck and
Thomas Nelson. Brewer and Klnnebeck
probably will die.
All are white and were serving terms
ranging from two to twenty years.
They had secured quantity Oh dyna-
mite and blew an opening IN one end OF
the prison. They ran through this and
hurled sticks of dynamite at the guards
The latter opened fire with Wnchesters
and succeeded in preventing what might
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-05
a Crowbar Driven Through Him.
Especial to News and Observer

especial, TO News ana observer
Salisbury, n. c., Sept. 4.-Jim Caldwell,
a colored employee at G. w. Isenhour'
brick yard at Spencer was accidentally
killed yesterday while digging at the plant
The embankment of an excavation in
which Caldwell was working suddenly
caved in, covering him several feet deep
in earth A crowbar with which he was
working was driven through his back and
death resulted in a few hours.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-05
Gap@ma Daily m Both N@@ I'd G@uaG0m

have been a wholesale delivery. D. ~
Emery, serving twenty years, was "a
only one to escape.
The crowd was led by Tom Fay, who
was the youngest member of the famous
Miller Duncan gang of safe blowers.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-05
r. H. T.
American League Games.
(By the Associated Press.)

AT Detroit r. H. T..
Detroit .......5 0 1 0 0 8 *-11 Is
Cleveland, .....0 0 0 2 0 l 0 0 0-3
Batteries: Kitson and Buelow.
Rhoades and Abbott.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-05
On the Diamond.
Southern League Games.
(By the Associated Press.)

(By the Associated Press)
At Birmingham r. II. E.
Birmingham % 0 2 0 0 6 Ill IL s
New Orleans q 0 0 0 0 0 0-6 Z 5
Batteries: Triton, Crabell and Brown;
Hastings and Hurley
At MONTGOMERY r. II. e.
Montgomery II 0 0 5 0 90 1 *-7 IL
Shreveport $50 0 0 0 0 0 3-5 I
Batteries: STREET and Clark; Fisher
and Graffius.
Little Rock 80 0O12O5 0 *-6 13 8
Nashville ......1 0 l 0 o 0 0 %
Batteries: Bollin and Lynch; Herman
Nickens and Roth.
At Atlanta R. H. E.
Atlanta 80 0 0 90 0 0 0 0 ii 10 0
Memphis 10 0 0 90 % 0 0 0 90 4
Batteries: Wilson and Matthews;
French and Fritz.
Second game. r. H. L.
Atlanta ........O 0 0 2 0 0 1-3 /
Memphis .......2 1 0 0 0 0-S 0
Batteries: Killen and Matthews; Ap-
plegate and Fritz.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-05
National League Games.

(By the Associated Press.)
At Pittsburg- r. H. Il.
Pittsburg .....0 0 01 % 0 *-S
Cincinnati 40 0 @ 0 1 0 0 0-1 1
Batteries: Lever and Phelps; Poole
and PeitZ.
At New York R. H. 2.
Brooklyn ...1 O103 20 1 0 O-6 8
New York 10 0 0 0 0 8 8 0 II 3
Batteries: Garvin, Reidy and Ritter;
Taylor McGinnity, Warner and Bower
man.
Second game. r. H. E..
New York ..O % 90 % 2
Brooklyn ..........0 0 1 0 0 0 CT 1
Batteries: Cronin and Warner; Schmidt
and Jacklitsch.
At Philadelphia R.H.E.
Boston .....0 0 o 0 2 o. 10 4
Philadelphia 30 0 A 1 90 *-6 9
Batteries Pittenger and Moran;
Mitchell and Roth.
Second game. r. H. T..
Boston .....OO 100000 Z 4
Philadelphia IL 0 2 A 0 2 0 0 80 10
Batteries Malarky and Moran; Dug
gleby and Doom.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-05

At Washington r. H. f.
Washington ....3 8 0 2 100 IS Z
New York ........0 0 0 0 0 0-1 l
Batteries: Patten and Drill; Howell,
Deering, Putnam, McCauley and Zeluskey.
Game called on account of rain.)
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-05

At Washington
New-York tribune., 1903-05-17

vsed and Enlarged Edition. With illusTari3ns'
Poetry. Edited by Ernest Hartley IoaGairsSJ IartsJ
M A. Vol VI Octave, PIP. Xxx, 6l2 ifnporteu
by Charles Scribner'S Sons.
IF was with the best possible editorial 1udg-
1nent that Mr.. Coleridge reserved Don Juan
for the SIXTH and what was at first lntehdeu u
he the last volume devoted to the poetry III the
Murray edition of the complete works So much
new material has been brought to hght ana II
has so seriously expanded the different volumes
as +bav have aDpeared, that an addition to the
twelve originally contemplated was unavoidaole.
This which is now nearly all in type, and Will
probably be published during the coming sum-
rner will contain occasional poems. eplgrafns'
etc. a photography more complete IMAM mas ever
hitherto been published" and an exhaustive III
dex Nevertheless, the present volume SETS aS
If were the capstone to this literary monument
one of the best editions of a great poet IL mas
ever been our fortune to see-for the poem Whlch
fills it is not simply the masterpiece OF Byron as
an artist but the work most fully representa-
tive of his genius and of his character as d
man.
In his Introduction Mr.. Coleridge addresses
himself. as hundreds of writer's have done be-
fore him. to the question of what aim Byron
NAV or may not have had in his mind when
he began to compose this poem. The hrSt cahto
was begun in 1878; there were long intervals
between the writing of the Others and the Ie"
stanzas beginning the seventeenth. which are
now printed for the first time, were not written
until 1923. These facts might seem to give addeu
color to Byron's own reference to the matter III
a letter sent to Murray shortly after the pup
Ication of the two first cantOs. You ask me,
he says for the plan of Donny Johnny; mare
no pIan-I had no plan; but had or have ma
terfalS You are too earnest and eager
about a work never intended to be serious 10
x-o,, elnDose that | could have any intention but
to giggle and make gisgle?-a playful satire
with as little poetry as could be helped, was
what I meant" No doubt he meant what ne
said, but as Mr.. Coleridge remarks in accepting
that fact he kept back the larger truth.
Without attempting u find in Don Juan the
architectural construction which Byron. by the
yerv nature of his genius. was i'll calculated to
desire or to achieve it is nevertheless impossible
to deny that the poem has the intellectual and
the spiritual homogeneity which bellies the poets
assertion TO Murray. Il had or have materials,
New-York tribune., 1903-05-17

he says. What were they but experience anu
well reasoned conclusions thereon, destlheu u
be formed into a natural unit under the lrspir
ton of a poet who may not have seen il1e s'e1oI-
ly. and seen it whole, in Matthew Arhoiu
sense Of the word, but who saw it with extraoI
binary penetration and sympathy? Don Juan
is uneven and redundant; the opinion that II
might have been carried on indefinitely Is not
unreasonable; but even as it stands 1t lnduDlta-
New-York tribune., 1903-05-17

stanzas in the poem itself In the first eants
Byron says:
NV POEMS epic, and is meant 70 be
Divided in twelve books; each book containing.
With Love and War. heavy gale at sea,
A list Of ships, and captains. and kings reiguns
New characters; the episodes are three:
panoramic view OF HelFs In training.
After the style OF Virgil and of Homer.
So that my name Of Epic's no misnOmer-
the next stanza he goes on pIayfuiIy "a
state that he will specify ali these things "witn
New-York tribune., 1903-05-17

bly, possesses those tangible and organic quail
ties which are bound to inhere in the work OF
a creative writer under whose hands life IS as
plastic as the clay in the fingers of the sculptor,
and under whose vivifyins, fashiOning touches
even the most spontaneous improvisation can
not but take on a balanced form. An interesting
contribution to this point is offered by certain
New-York tribune., 1903-05-17
FAIRY GIFTS.
by EDWARD WRIGHT

Lady, the fairies at your blrth .,,
Brought you the sweetest no"erS VI e'A' '-'
To grace your lips and cheeks they chose
Carnations and the brier rose:
With hvacinths of shadowy dyes
They touched your eyelids and your eyes,
And vhitest lilies washed with dew
Yielded their loveliness to YOU
But when away the falrleS Went
In came an elf on mischief tent'
Who, vexed with all that had been DONE
Took out your heart and left sIohe'
New-York tribune., 1903-05-17
BYRON.
"Don Juan" in the DefnitiUe Edlt'on
of HIS Works.

THE, WORKS OF LORD BYRON. A New; Re
vsed and Enlarged Edition 1en WIN SoIsridge
M A. Vol VI. Octave, pp Xxx, 6l2- inpor'eu
nv Charles ScribnerS Sons
New-York tribune., 1903-05-17

Mr. w. NJ LightbOdy has risen up III the
naqes of seThe Westminster Review TO ask IL
English literature is not dying, and he has
some pointed things to say about the influences
that are wounding, if not killing, it, We may
aoree with him in the sad conclusion that Eng
ljsb literature is not what it once was. Great
names are few and they are decreasing IN mum
bpr The new figures of promise that arse
have an appalling way Of failing to fulfil their
proInisr The clever man or woman who writes
one cr two creditable books and then subsidies
into cOmplacent medOcrity is as common as
blackbcrries in July. 1t is also true, as Mr.
Iightbody declares that in the ranks of crltl-
cism there are far too many writers whose
judgments are not simply too good natured, but
at their best are Of little account There is
something also to be said about the inSidiouS
entrance of the democratic idea, in its crudeSt
form into the domain of letters. Among read
ers and among writers perceives too often
the effect Of the dictum that lone man is as
good as another" In literature this idea is as
pcrnicious as it is absurd. But, when all is
said we believe that it is q mistake to talk in
this tragic vein about English literature. Good
books continue to be written and published.
Many of the critics who treat them know their
business and there are thousands of readers
VINO give the friendliest and most apprecative
reception to these publications.
New-York tribune., 1903-05-17
gbe Nemt2lork grlbno1@
ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT-
SUNDAY, MAY II, 1903.

The appontment of Professor Bury TO succeed
the late Lord Acton at Cambridge mas oeeii
everywhere approved, for he has shown Ill MS
original work on Greek and Roman history anu
in his edition of Gibbon, that he has unusual
canacity. But it is disappointing to ma MIN
insisting in his inaugural address that history
is not a branch Of literature and going Oh u
nroye il thus: THE facts OF history Ike 'he
facts of biology or astronomy. can supply ma
teral for literary art; for manifest redSoh' my
lend themselves to artistic representation far
more readily than those of the natur'i
sciences: but to clOthe the story OF a hu-
,non socpty in Il literary dress is no more
tho mart of an historian as an historian tnah II
!, tho MART of an astronomer as an aSlroh-
orner 10 Drescnt in an artistic shape the story
of the stars This view OF the mal'e' may
commend itself to those Sclentlhc hlStoIlahS "ho
have Iatterly been doing their best 10 TURN one
of the great interests of humanity lhto the "a
elusive property of pedants, scattered sl''i soy
over the world. and occupied III eAchdhSiii7
,,nonc themselves books unreadable by any one
or+sido their charmed circle. But the rest OF Us
will hold to the conviction that Wheh ihe nl'
torian has made up his mind that 1t - nol MS
business to pay tribute to literature III
form TO his work it is time Tor MIN 10 put up
tho shutters and retire from business allo
getner.
II is nernaps not generally realized among
Americans that they are privileged 10 Ie"u
many an English book before the author oI 1t
has made his appeal TO his countrymeh- 1llIe
,,.aS when the new English novel, eSpecl"h!'
,,aS nubIiShed discussed in all the h'eIuS
journals and in some cases nearly 1OrGot'eh'
law tho time il was put on the market mere
Now if is the other way around. we are wen
,oDtant. hut one recent incident leads Us 10
,-ondar if we are. after all, losing something py
.tie roodiustmpnt When the American eullIoh
&c Mr. Josenb Conrad's "Typhoon' reached US
oi.,h+ months ago. there was nothing III the
volumo save the brilliant story that gave IL It's
title, Now "TyphOon' has been puDllSheu ~
I,noIand and. possibly to console the tedueio
there for the delay. by giving them soou lhe"'
,,ro t5raa other tales have been bound between
+ho Same covers. Amy Foster, Fl ak anu
ro-r,orrov," none of which do we recollect
,,,oing in anv publication of Mr. Conrad 5 issued
tp this country. Speaking of these three com
,o,itions ..The AtheDaum' says that Whilst
less strikingly powerful, perhaps than lhe great
c+or,1 of tho storm. each is in its way as nhe
iooo Of work" Even without this recommend
tiop we would want to read them, 1of MI.
Conrad has never, TO our kho"ieuSe' "o0
noor niece of work. We were glad 10 nave
4,I,vnhoon~ when it came. But we cahhot heip
roernttinr that by coming so early 1t deprlFeu
us annarently of other writings by the same
autbor. for which we may now have TO wait
long time.