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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-02-18

The coal miners have secured
an advance in wages for mining
bituminous coal, and no doubt it
will be made an excuse for con-
tinuing high prices of that fuel.
1t should be borne in mind that
the highest advance to the miner
is only 10 cents ton, and that,
with this added, his total wages do
not equal the duty of 81 cents lev
led by the Dingley tariff, and
which has been suspended for one
year. There will have to be sor g.
thing much more formidable pro-
duced to account for the mainten-
ance of the prices now being
charged for coal.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-02-18

Mrs. Young (proudly)-The
landlord was here today. 1 gave
him the months rent and showed
him the baby.
Young (who was kept awake
last night)-It would have been
better my dear, if you had given
him the baby and shown him the
months rent.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-02-18
Notice to Stockholders.
h. s. NJ. RAILROAD.
EASTERN STANDARD TINE.


SOUTH BOUND.
No departs daily 1 On n n,
&, O. agPatts dsiiiy except sunday Is m
No departs daily between Charles
too and MiddfepOrt. ...-.......... 8 SPIN
NORTH BOUND.
No departs daily. 4 a a m
No 3 departs daily between Charles
ton and Middleport. $50. 9 liam
No departs daily except Sunday. % o m
No 81 departs daily except Sunday. ~ q m
Nos. 8 and will run daily except SUNDAY
between Charleston and Columbus.
L. p. KUHN. Agent.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-02-18

Representative Payne announces
that the republican party will
never revise the tariff.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16

months concerning the connection of the
Mexican Central Railway Company, limit
ed, with various American railway com
blnat;ons.
''The Mexican Central Railway Com
pany, limited, of which l am chairman, is
as Independent of the Rock Island sys-
tenn as it is of the st. Louis and San
Francisco Railway or the other six or
seven railway system in the United States,
of which / am a director.
THE Mexican Central has not made
and does not expect to make any exclus-
i've alliance with any single line or com
bination of roads and will continue to be
conducted as an independent Mexican
property. The conversion of the outstand-
ing income bonds which are menace to
the company's progress, into semi-annual
interest bearing debenture certificates of
the Mexican Central, is the first step in
the readjustment of its finances.
"The present management does not ap-
prove of continuing the plan of issuing
and selling non-cumulative bonds due
thirty-five years hence to raise funds to
carry on the great work of completing
the Mexican Central Railway system.
and, after the present income bonds are
retired others will not be issued"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16
STORY OF A MURDER
Three Killed, Two at a Still
House. One Brought to
the Pen Yesterday.

Sheriff James S. Elkins, of Columbus
county. yesterday morning brought q
white man named Cross Edmundson tC
the Penitentiary TO serve a six years
term
Thereby hangs a tale. Edmundson was
convicted for completely in a murder IN
his county, and turned States evidence
IL seems that Edmundson and two other
men, one named Register and his son,
heard of a negro who had 81 900 in his
possession and was sleeping in a still
house. They determined to get the money
and went out to the still and killed the
negro and also a white man named Sole
They then burned the still and went to a
negro house and lay down and slept
Edmundson soon got up and fled, leaving
Register and his SOD.
When the negro came out in the morn
ing his suspicious were aroused by seeing
two men and three guns The odd gun
was found to belong to the murdered
white man named Sole. The two Regis
ters declared Edmundson had killed him.
but EdmundsOn came to trial, turned
States evidence and told the whole story
OF the crime. The older Register was
sentenced to States prison for life. thc
younger Register was sentenced to hang
and Edmundson was given six years. The
two Registers have appealed from the
Judgment.
The elder Register ran against Senator
Joe Brown for a seat in the General AS
sembly, at the last election
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16

Goddess OF Liberty, and the other the GOu
dess of Justice, adorn the main portico on
the front entrance, while the whole build
ing is summounted with a tall tower, in
which is to be placed the new town clock
The postoffce department of the United
States government will let the contract
during the month of September for a new
postoffice building for Goldsboro. The
site has already been purchased. 1t sis on
the corner of John and Mulberry streets,
one square from the present postoffice
building and very nearly in the center of
the city. Congress has already appro-
priated $4,000 for the building and
grounds, and Hon. c. r. Thomas the rep
resentative from this district, who was
on the committee of public buildings is
satisfied that he can get the amount in
creased to $4,000 at the next term.
The Goldsboro Rifles will have for
Asheville on Monday and go into encamp-
ment with the First Regiment of the
North Carolina National Guard in Ashe-
vile.
At a meeting of the Retail Grocers' Pro
on Thursday night, resolution was in
troduced boycotting goods made by the
American Tobacco Company, but after
long and spirited discussion the resolution
was tabled. 1t is very probable that the
resolution will come up at some subse-
quent meeting, 2s there is determined
movement on the part of some of the
merchants to follow the lead of great
many other towns in the State in boycott
ing the American Tobacco Company's
goods until they pay more nearly the cost
of production for tobacco. The low price
of the weed has seriously interfered with
trade and will greatly hinder collections
where merchants have sold on fall time, as
a great many have done
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16
LOOKS HARD SAYS The JUDGE.
For Man Who Works far 500 a Month to Get
Only S75.
(By the Associated Press.)

Birmingham, Ala, Aug. 15-The sixth
day of the hearing of the coal strike ar
bitration board was taken up with fur
ther presentation of evidence by the oper-
ators. j. II. Adams, assistant district
manager of the Republic Steel and Iron
Company, said that the eight hour system
would increase the cost of production
that furnace kborers work twelve hours
per day, and that the tipple work, wash
ing and the like, at the mines, were such
that the output could not be handled in
eight hours
Judge Gray, chairman of the arbitra-
tion board, asked the witness many sharp
questions regarding the company store
system. He wanted to know if it would
not be easy to issue a laborer a five
dollar bill as to give him a five dollar
store check. The chairman also asked if
1t would not be better to pay the laborer
more frequently than to have him stop off
from work. to draw checks. The witness
gave no reply to this question, but said
that the stores of the companys had orig
mally been established at the request of
the miners ut looks hard said Judge
Gray, for man to work for $100 per
month and get only $75 because of the
store check system
This statement referred to the method
OF dlscounting store checks for cash. The
witness said the negroes drew checks to
get money for gambling and whiskey for
drinking. Judge Gray inquired if the
present system did not encourage these
immoral practices
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16
ALLAG0OD Has RESIGNED.
Commission Finds He Acted Within Els Au.
thority in Whipping Miss De c. is.
(By the Associated Press. }

Atlanta, Ga, August 15.-The Georgia
Prison Commission, which has been in
vestigating the whipping of Mamie De
Girls, white woman convict at the State
prison farm, made its report today. With
the report came the announcement of the
resignation and its acceptance by the COM
mission, of Warden Alagood, whose con.
duct III Furnishing Miss De Girls was under
investigation. The charges of improper
proposals by Allagood, alleged by the wo-
man and similar conduct toward other.
female convicts are found absolutely
false and Malicious The report says the
warden acted entirely within his au-
thority in whipping Miss De Girls, and that
he was led to it by extreme aggravation
The commission concludes that this par
ticular punishment waA an error on the
part of the warden, who, recognizing that
his usefulness may have been impaired
by reason of the prejudice which has
been created against him by gross misrep-
resentation of the facts of the case" has
voluntarily rendered his resignation
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16
They Saw the World.
Especial to News and Observer.

Especial to News and Observer9
Greensboro, N. c., August 15.-About
July 1st Messrs. S. Glenn Brown and
Lacy E. Rankin, two popular young men
here, and employees of the Southern Rail
road. concluded to see something of the
world
They resigned their positions and went
to New Orleans Here they signed as able
bodied seamen on the steamship Darier.
and sailed for Liverpool July 18th They
reached Liverpool August 1st. having
earned their board, passage and $25 extra
on the trip. Here they grew homesick and
took passage on the Etruria for New
York, reaching there in six days, and
Greensboro last night, coming by way of
Norfolk and spending some time there ard
at Virginia Beach.
Their friends here were delighted to see
them back. The young gentlemen say
they had the trip of their lives.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16
GIFT FOR A SCHOOL Of
JOURNALISM,
Joseph Pulitzer Provides S.,
00O,000 for One at Co.
Iumbia University.
(By the Associated Press. j

New York, August 15.-Joseph Pulitzer
tablish a school of journalism at Colum-
bia University, this city new building
for the school will be erected on Morn
ingside Heights at a cost of $500. 900 for
school which will hold toward the Univer-
sity a relation similar to that of the
other professional schools as the law
school, the school of medicine and the
school of mines and like them will be ma
tional in scope.
An important feature of the organiza-
tion of this school will be an advisory
board, TO be nominated by the donor. This
board VIII aid in the devsing Of a plan
and course of instruction that will meet
every requirement on the scholastic as
well as upon the more strictly practical
side.
Seven members of this advisory board
have already been designated by the
donor, and with others to be selected here
after, will be nominated TO the trustees
OF Columbia University at their meeting
in October. They are:
Nicholas Murray Butler, president of
Columbia University. ex-officio; Hon.
Whitelaw Reid, Hon. John Hay, Secre-
tary of State; Hon. st. Clair McKelway,
Hon. Andrew d. White, Victor F. Law
son, of Chicago; General Charles Taylor,
Sr., of Boston, Charles w Eliot, president
OF Harvard University.
In making the announcement of Mr..
Pulitzer's gift the World tomorrow will
say:
students purposng to enter upon the
career OF journalism will find accessible
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16

/ here courses of study that will for this
profession be equivalent to what other
professional schools supply for other pro
tessions; while young men already engaged
upon the newspapers and desiring to ad-
vance themselves more rapidly by the
cultivation of their aptitudes, may find in
| these courses a valuable assistance.
"At the time of the last census there
were in the United States 114,073 lawyers
and 30,09S persons classcd as journalists.
The legal profession was provided with
trained recruits by 100 law schools with
] LOG professors and instructors. For a
fair proportion there should have been
at least six colleges of journalism with
faculties 291 strong. There was not one.
Not single one of the 30,09S newspaper
men and women in the country had en-
joyed what lawyer would call a syste-
matte professional training.
cit is hoped that the school cf journalism
will put this profession upon a level with
others in supplying a definite educational
course for students and in afforllng the
newspapers an opportunity to recruit their
staff from men adequately trained
''The building for the school viii prob
ably be completed by the autumn of
1904 and it is hoped that the school may
be opened soon after. The course of
study will be two years. Candidates will
be admitted upon an examination as to
good character and intelligence but pre-
vious COLLEGIATE courses will not be re-
CURED"
President Eliot has prepared scheme
of instruction which provides courses ia
newspaper administration, newspaper
manufactures, the laws and ethics OF
Journalism, history of journalism and lit
erary form of newspapers.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16
uARSHIPS ORDERED
TO TURKEY.
The Gar Means to Choke
Abdul Hamid With Hum
: Bile Pie.
(By the Associated Press.)

st. Petersburg, August ia squadron
OF the Russian Black-Sea fleet has been
ordered to sail for Turkish waters.
Notification of this move has been tele-
graphed from Sebastopol to the Russian
Ambassador at Constantinople
The dispatch of the squadron is intend
ed to emphasize Russia's intention of ex-
acting complete compliance with her de-
mands as to satisfaction for the murder,
b va Turkish gendarme .of her consul at
Monastir.
The following telegrams exchanged be-
tween the Foreign Office and Russian
representatives abroad shows the first
steps taken as a consequence of the mur-
der of M. Rostkovski, the Russian consul
at Monastir.
"on August IL. Count Lamsdorff, the
Foreign Minister, telegraphed to NJ Zino-
yeif, Russian Ambassador at Constanti-
npple, that neither the Sultan's expression
Of regret, the visit of Prince Ahmed, the
SultaQ's son to the Ambassador, nor the
expressions of sympathy by the Grand
Vjzier and other high Turkish digntaries
was considered to be adequate satisfac-
ton for the murder of NJ. Rostkovski."
The following demands Wer emade:
"The immediate severe punishment of
the murderer, the arrest and exemplary
punishment of the person who fired at
M. Rostkovskl's carriage; the immediate
production of positive proofs that the Vail
Of Monastir has been actually banished;
the instant severe punishment of all the
civil and military officials responsible for
the murder. In addition TO these de-
mands. Ambassador Zinovieff was in
structed to make certain demands as a
means of general pacifcation in the Vii
ayet of Monastir."
On August 70, Count LamsdCrff tele
gIaphed to the Russian diplomatic agent
at Sofia that the imperial government
could not obtain adequate satisfaction for
the assassination of NJ. Rostkovski and
therefore had already taken measures to
secure redress As ON the occasion of
the murder of Consul ST. Cherbina the
suppression of the insHrrectionary move
ment among the Albanans was demanded.
so on the present occasion demands had
been presented to the Ottoman govern
ment for the severe punishment of all
the military and civil authorities guilty
of atrocities against the Christians.
Constantinople, August 15.-The widow
of NJ Rostkovski, in informing Hilmlz
Pasha, the inspector general of Mace
donia, that she would not accept the m
demnity of $50 900, offered by the porte for
the murder of her. husband, said she did
not want Turkish charity. She has re-
turned the decoration of the order OF
the Nishani- Shopakat bestowed on her
by the Sultan and also her husbands 5
Turkish decorations.
steamer has left for the Dardanelles
to embark Ali Ria Pasha, the dismissed
Vail of Monastir, who has been eXiled to
1ripoli
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16
THE NEW CITY HALL,
Action of the Retail Merchants Association
in the Boycott Matter
(special to News and Observer)

Especial to News and Observer
Goldsboro N. c., Aug. 15.-Goldsboro' 5
new cjtv hall has just been completed and
the city officials will occupy their hand
somely equipped offices for the first time
on the first day of September The build
ing. together with the new fish market,
will cost over $4,000. 1t is handsome
structure and by far the most imposing
of any that Goldsboro has had SO far. The
walls are made of white compressed brick
with stone trimmings. 1t is three stories
high including the basement, which will
be used as city Jail and for heating pur
nosos Tho second floor will be used as of
fec. for tba different city officials and
the third floor will be used tor the hall
Of Justice. Two large statues, one the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16
Sad Results of the Hurricane,
(By the Associated ress.)

Washington August 14.-The State De
partment has received the following ca
blegram from Kingston, Jamaica, dated
today signed american consul:
Port Antonio greatly damaged by hur-
rlcane. Many dead and seriously injured
are constantly reported to .he consulate"
The departments has received the fol-
lowlng>trom Consul Jewell at Martinique,
Gated Fort de France today: 81
Cane, cocoa and coffee crops total
loss. Fruits and vegetables positively de-
stroyed. Every town and village injured
Thousanlds houses down. Deaths few
Communication difficult Breadstuffs,
provisions, galvanized roofing, viii find
ready sale"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16
CLOUD BURST AT WASHINGTON.
Proposition to Chamber of Comm cree by Gen.
eral Manager Parker.
Especial to News and Observer.)

Washington, N. c., August 15.--There
was cloudburst here early this morning.
The downpour was awful. Out on Wash
ington and Fifth streets a number of
houses are surrounded and partially mum
dated. For several hours today the ram
stopped but it has begun again as hard
as before.
Herbert Winfield, white, was badly hurt
this afternoon. He was out in a boat
hunting summer game and in passing his
gun to a companion it exploded, tearing
his thigh in many places.
General Manager Surry Parker, of the
Washington and Plymouth Railroad, made
the proposition to the Chamber of Com
merce tonight that he would extend the
road into the business water front sec
tion of the city and make the whole strip
of thrty-five miles a standard gauge If
the extension of right of way were given
him
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16
Scored Over Our Tennis Experts.
(By the Associated Press.)

southampton, l.. L., Aug. 14.-H. L.
Doherty and Reginald r. Doherty scored
today in overwhelming fashion over the
American tennis experts The English
tennis champion won both the finals in the
singles and doubles in the tournament in
the courts Of the Meadow Club. H. l..
Doherty defeated William A Larned, the
American champion in three sets by the
score of 6-1 6-2, 81.
In the doubles the Doherty brothers
won over William A. Larned and Beals
Z. Wright by the score of 81, 6-S. 6-1.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16
The MFXICAN CENTRAL.
r. Clay Pierce Declares the System an Inde.
pendent One
(By the Associated Press.)

New York, Aug. 15.-H. Clay Pierce
chairman of the board of directors of the
Mexican Central Railway Company made
the following official statement today:
''In view of my election to the voting
trust and directorate of the Seaboard Air
Line Railway, in association with one of
my felolw directors of the st. Louis and
San Francisco Railroad Company, think
it is proper that | should emphatically
and unequivocally deny the reports that
have been circulated during the past six
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16
A Rascal Gets 1S Months.

Especial to News and Observcr.)
Statesville, N. c., Agust 15.-At Iredoll
court this week Judge Alien ordered a
verdict of mot guilty" 20 be entered in
a seduction case, and then directed the
solicitor to send a bill for fornication and
adultery (Which he did The man was
convicted and Judge Allen sentenced him
to eighteen months on the road Those
who heard the case approved the action
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16
A FATAL FALSE STEP
Young William Baker Trips
and Falls Before a
Train.
Especial to News and Observer. J

Charlotte, n c., Aug. 15.-William Bar
ker, fourteen-years-old, and a son of Mr..
Taylor Baker, of Indian Trail, Union
County, wass the victim of a most hor-
rlble accident today.
He was caught under the wheels of a
passenger train on the Carolina Central
Railroad and his left leg and right foot
were fearfully mangled. He is now ting
in the Presbyterian Hospital, in this city.
With some companions young Baker left
his home this morning to engage in a
game of baseball. The boys reached Til
lng's saw mill just as the train from
Wilmington was approaching, and young
Baker was crossing the track in front of
the engine when he tripped and fell. The
heavy iron wheels passed over his left leg.
crushing that limb from the knee down
and mangling his right foot.
The boy will die.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16
THE FIGHTING BLOOD OF
GREENVILLE IS AROUSED
To Organize independent Company to Build Tobacco
and Cigarette Factory and Put Buyers
the Market
Especial to News and Observer.)

Greenville, N. c.. Aug. ia mass
meeting was held in the court house this
afternoon to take steps to organize AN in
dependent company to establish a cigar
cite and smoking tobacco factory in
Greenville and to put buyers on the mar
ket to purchase tobacco.
The attendance upon the meeting was
large and composed of men of all profes-
sions and trades Speeches were made
by Secretary of State j. Bryan Grimes
j. j. Laughinghouse, o. l.. Joyner, G. T.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16
wINDFALL FOR GIBSON.
Mrs. Martha Graves Leaves the Congressman
a Handsome Legacy.
(By the Associated Press.)

Knoxville, Tenn, August 15.-By a pro-
VISION In the will of Mrs. Martha Graves,
recently deacesd in Washington, d. c.,
recently deceased in Washington, D. c.,
Congressman Henry R. Gibson, of the
Second Congressional district, becomes
heir to between $50 900 and s10O. COO. Mrs.
Graves' son, president of bank in Seat
tle' Washington, was a college mate of
oioson and 1T is said Mrs. Graves at that
i.hle TOOK recognition of the good quail
.ies ol the 1uture Congressman and aided
MN financially in securing his educaz
.lon' IL Is said she since contributed
$lUoo to the campaign fund each of the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16
Chavis Guilty of Manslaughter.
Especial to News and Observer

tSpeclaI to News and Observer)
Asheville. N. c., Aug. 15.-The iurv in
the case of John Chavis charged with
the killing of Furman Tally returned >
verdict OF manslaughter today. Judge
Jones sentenced Chavis to three years in
the penitentiary. The criminal term of
Superior Court ended here today Judge
Jones and Solicitor Brown will go to Mar
shall, where Madison court will convene
on Monday.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16

Tyson, l.. l. Moore, j. l.. Fleming and
others.
Books were opened and several thousand
dollars subscribed to start the company.
Committees were appointed to canvass
each township in the county for subscrip-
tions and to report at another meeting to
be held next Saturday when the formal
organization ~of the company will take
place
There is much enthusiasm in the move
ment for the factory.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16
GROWTH OF THE BOYC ,Tr.
Farmers and Merchants in CArterst Move
Against the Tobacco Trust
Especial to News and Observer J

Newport, N. c., August 15.-The Farm
ers and Merchants Association of New
port and Wildwood, Carteret county hav-
ing membership of three hunded. a ma
jority of whom are tobacco farmers. yes
terday passed resolutions boycotting the
American Tobacco Company and calling
upon the merchants and farmers of the
county to cooperate with them in de-
Tending themselves against the exacticns
of the trust