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The news & observer., 1904-10-30
Political Side of Rowan.
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Salisbury. n. c., Oct. 29.-The reg
istration books in this as well as
other counties closed tonight and the
indications are that comparatively few
will lose the right to vote in the COM
ing election as the books show a
heavy registration. Some, however,
were too. late and cannot enjoy the
highest legal right of an American
on the 8th of November.
Again today Messrs. w. c. Newland
and e. Spencer Blackburn. Demo-
cratic and Republican candidates for
Congressional honors in this district.
met in joint debate at China Grove
Rowan county, at which place almost
one thousand persons heard the able
addresses. Tonight Mr.. Newland ad-
dressed an immense gathering of
Rowan voters in the court house in
this city. Almost every sentence of
the speaker brought encouragement
TO the hundreds of voters present. At
the same hour Mr.. Blackburn was
addressing a representative crowd of
his followers at Chestnut Hill, a su-
burb of Salisbury all of whom SEEM
pleased with his exposition of the
political issues of the day.
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Making Heart Stirring.
Speeches in Wayne.
THE HOME OF AYCOCK
The People Show by Their Hearty Re-
ception of Glenn That True Dem
Ocracy is Welded to Principles
and Loves Equally All
Its Sons.
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Fremont, n. c., Oct. 29.-One of the
most powerful speeches ever heard in
this section of the State was the one
de elivered here this afternoon by mex.
Governor of North Carolina Bob
Glenn.
Mr., Glenn was impressively intro
duced by the county chairman, Hon. f.
~ Daniels, of Goldsboro. He spoke IL
arch containing IN flowers the words
"Qur Governor" TO {, very large crowd
fer two hours. The way in which. he
handled the record of the Republicans
was pleasing to his hearers and lie was
frequently given hearty applause. His
comparisons of the administrations
brought frequent hurrahs for Glenn.
Governor Glenn met a hearty wei
come in Fremont, as he had on pre-
NiCus occasions, and few white men in
this voting precinct will vote for other
than Bob Glenn. He is loved by the
people of this section. and his spec ch
this afternoon made warmer friends
and more friends for the next Cover
nor
This is the native place of the pres
ent splendid Governor Charles Z. Ay-
cock, and the great crowd testified by
it's applause and interest that the peo-
pic We're a solid mass for Democracy,
and that whether the nominee of the
Democratic party be from Wayne, or
orsyth whether he be a native OF
Fremont or of any other place, he
has strong place in their hearts. The
greeting given Captain Glenn was one
from the heart, and such a one as
Charles B. Aycock would have had the
people of his birthplace give the man
who is to succeed him.
lie talks National issues with force
and knoWle dge, and his illustrations
are such as to catch every man, and
To illuminate his subject. His thrusts
at the Republican administration were
cutting. and his denunciation of RnOse-
welt for his race views and actions
and for his bitterness towards The
South was full of force. In handling
State issues he drove the truth home
that only in Democracy is there safety
for North Carolina. and that the Re-
publicanism of the past, with all its
hideousness, was a guarantee of what
might be expected should that party
ever regain control in the State.
The speech was one that has drous-
eG Democracy, and it will sweep for
ward to a great victory, LED by the in
vincible Glenn. He proclaims the great
truths of the party, and his promises
are that he VIII ever stand for the
best interest and progress of this great
State.
While here Mr.. Glenn was the guest
of Mr.. Guitar Lee and after the speak
ne he left by private conveyance for
Soldsboro to fill his appointment to-
lleht. Many from this place will go
to Goidsboro to hear him again.
The news & observer., 1904-10-30
Daily Pnpere G1p@u30m

heart that receives it is large and
in behalf of Gods afflicted children
the deaf, the dumb. the blind and the
insane. Those shut out from the beau
tiful light of this wOrld-the songs of
the birds, the lift OF speech, nd
whose reasons have been dethroned.
Like the PRAYER of the Grecian warrior
of old, you have heard their appeal
'Discpel this cIoud-the light of
Heaven restore,
Give me to see-and oh, | ask no
more"
You cannot grant this petition. You
cannot restore the sight. An all-W1Sc
Providence has ordained it otherwise
but under YOUR great leadership and
that of others, the beneficent Demo
cratic party has made it possible, that
by the soft and gentle touch of the fin
gers they can now read and learn that
most beautiful of al lsongs,
'The Lord is my shepherd, l shall not
want;
He maketh me to lie down in green
pastures;
He leadeth me beside the still waters.
Again you have heard and needed the
cry Of the poor, unfortunate insane as
they have called aloud from dark and
dismal dungeons and prison cells,
where for no crime or violation of the
laws, but because of affliction, the most
terrible of all, they have been con-
fined with thieves and felons. Under
your guiding hand the Democratic par
ty. true to its principles, true to it's
people has now made it nearly pos
sible 20 say to the world that never
again shall one of North Cardinals s cit
iXens be thus doomed.
II crave from you sir and from this
audience, if l NAV be permitted t.
greet you further with love and affec-
ton in behalf of more than 1000
children who daily attend the public
schools of this State, and who daily
in their little petitions pray that the
Father Of all Mercies may smile upon
you, and abundantly bless you for the
grand ana glorious work you have dohe
in their behalf. Fer the thousands OF
school houses and institutions Of learn
ing which have studded the hills and
valleys of this old commonwealth un-
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CLAIMS OF COWHERD.
Details of His Estimate of Democratic
Gains in Congress.
(By the Associated Press)

Washington, Oct. 29-Chairman
CoWherd, of the Democratic Congress
siGnal Comrrittce. today issued slate-
ncnt claiming 225 seats in the 59th
Congress for the Democratic party. He
bases this prediction on the claimed
strength of the National ticket in the
East and to local dissensions in the
Republican ranks" in tie Middle West
Mr.. Cowherd says:
''As the situation stands at present,
the prospects are that the Democrats
viii carry 225 out Of the 3SS districts
in the United States. In the estimate
] have included the States of Idaho.
Utah and Wyoming. These are all
doubtful as matters now stand. The
Democratic chances are excellent in
two Of the three. Our gains in the
strength Of the National ticket. IN the
Middle West they will he due mere
particularly to local dissensiolls in the
Republican ranks. The long hold on
patronage has bred much trouble il.
Republican districts, and the Demo-
Gratis Will profit correspondingly by
reason of it
The details of the estimate follows:
Alabama, 8; California. 4; Arkansas.
Z. Colorado, 3; Connecticut, 3; Dela-
ware, /; Florida, 3; Georgia IL. Ida
ho, /; Illinois, 10. Indiana Z: Iowa. 2
Kansas, ?; Kentucky. 10; Louisiana, z,
Maryland, 5; Ma massachusetts,, 4; Michi-
gan. 3; Minnesota, 3; Mississippi, 8:
Missouri, IA Montana, i; Nebraska. 8
Nevada, /; New Jersey, 5; New York
IL; North Carolina, 10; Ohio 9, Penn
s5!vania, 8: Rhode Island, 2; South
Carolina, = Tennessee. 8; Texas. 10;
Utah, l. Virginia. 10; West Virginia.
:: wisconsin, 6; Wyoming, l. Total
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HOUSE IN FLAMES
Raised by Burning Cell
ing Falling About Him.
lncendiary's Deed.
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Asheville. n. c., Oct 29.-News
was received here to-day of the burn
ing at Shiloh, five miles from Asne-
vile, yesterday morning of the resi-
dence and barn Of Warren Smith.
well-to-do and industrious neg
that section of the county The fire
was of incendiary origin and Smith
lost eVer"-+hing that he possessed. even
TO the clothing worn by himself ana
family. The house that ~.os burnea
had recently been completed at a cost
of $500, while the contents were va;-
ued at several hundred dollars in ac-
dition to $500 in cash that was in the
building and which was either lost by
the fire, or stolen before the torcn
was applied. The barn contained "a
pair of good mules. four hogs. $50
bushels OF corn, a wagon, harness ana
buggy. All these things were burned
while Smith and his entire family came
near losing their lives. The man was
awakened about / o'clock yesterday
morning by burning pieces of plank
falling from the ceiling of the room.
He hurried up the stairs to where
his children were sleeping and after
reaching the second floor the stairs
gave way, and he was compelled to
drop the children out of the windon
and then iump himself.
one of the children had its feet Sc
verely burned while another was hurt
about the legs in falling from the WIN
dow.
The person after firing the two
buildings thre Wthe torch away ana
this was found about 90 steps from
the barn. The tracks of the man were
visible around the house and the OUT
buildings and yesterday he was track
ed with blood-hounds a distance or
eight miles when the dogs | It the
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Death of a Young Man.
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Salisbury, n. c., Oct. 29.-Mr.
Hibschman Kerschner, son of Rev.
and Mrs. d. NJ. Kerschner, of Spencer,
died yesterday after a protracted ILL
ness of several months. He had never
recovered from injuries sustained by
falling under a moving passenger
train at Spencer last March by which
he lost a foot and a part of his leg.
Mr.. E. C. Land, of Reidsville, n. c.,
has succeeded Mr.. u. G. Scott as
manager of the Southern Bell Tele-
phone system in this city, taking
charge of the plant yesterday.
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VIRGINIA HITS THE EARTH.
Her University DOWned by the Red
skins of Carlisle.
(Rv tlle Associated Press.l )

Norfolk, Va, Oct 29--Carlisle In
dians defeated the University of Vir-
ginia IA TO in snappy gave today.
Virginia scored in the first hatf by
Council breaking through a hole eft
guard Murphy made and r,lrEing half
the field for a touchdown. Yancey
Kicked goal.
In the second half the Indians
adopted desperate style of play and
kept the ball in virginia's territory
until Libby from the Sc. yard line put
a place kick over the bars.
After the second kickoff Carlisle
rushed Virginia to her fifteen yard
lire. Council dropped back for / punt,
but a bad pass spoiled the play and
he was dcwned OIL Virginia two yard
lire. Virginia lost the ball on downs
The news & observer., 1904-10-30
TG D|SHONOR HER
Negro's Attempted Crime
Against a White Wom-
an Near Winton.
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Winton, n. c., Oct. 29.-Ernest
Daniel, a notorious negro, was bound
over to the Superior court here this
afternowon by a justice of the peace,
upon the charge of an attempted as
sault upon the person of Mrs. d.
Bryant. a respectable white woman
about forty years old. The crime was
attempted last Wednesday morning
upon the public road traversing the
country from this place to Tunis
the most frequented leading out of
the town. Mrs. Bryant was on her
way home from a neighbors house.
The evidence is strong against Daniel
and as his character is reputed to be
bad. the opinion is that he will re-
ceive the highest punishment at the
hands of the law.
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GATTIs AND GRIMES CLOSE.
They Represented Larabee & Com
pany of New York.
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Salisbury, n. c., Oct. 29.-As a re-
suit of the failure of j. w. Larabee &
Co., brokers of New York city, which
was announced two days ago, the local
firm of Gattis & Crimes who repre-
sented the defunct firm in Salisbury,
gave notice yesterday to their local
patrons that the office here will be
discontinued for the present. 1t is
learned, however, that the same firm
here will shortly resume operations as
representatives of other Northern
brokers'
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on the play and Sheldon was pushed
over the line.
Ten minutes after Libby made a fair
catch of Yanceys forty yard punt on
Virginia's forty-IlVe yard line and pur
q placed kick between the posts for
the final score.
Substitutes were freely used in the
game, regular players being exhausted
by the flerceness of the play. Flores
Carlisle's right end. was sent to the
side lines for slugging
The news & observer., 1904-10-30
WHAT REPUBLICANS CoNCEDE.
MaiOrities for NewIand i'm Three Coun.
ties. Tapping the Barrel.
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Concord, n. c., Oct. 29.-Registra-
ton which closes this evenir shows
large gains in the four wards here.
Indications point to heavy registration
in the COUNT precincts The chairman
of the Republican Congressional Com
mittee lives New1and three hundred
majority in Cabarrus. six hundred in
Stanly and fourteen hundred in
Rowan.
1t is stated authoritatively that
Spencer has ia led the barrel for
eight thousand. wnich broke the rec
ord yesterday.
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Death of Mrs. Il. II. RightseII.

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LAGRANGE n c.. Oct. 29.-Mrs. L.
I. Rightsell died here at her home
at $50 tonight. Her illness was of
long duration.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-05-24
FOREIGN NEWS.

LeoncavallO, the composer, today ded-
icated to the Kaiser his new opera,
''RoIand of Berlin" which he composed
at the Kaiser's request.
Advices from Lao Yang, Manchuria,
state that cholera has broken out at
Feng- Huang- Cheng, and that hundreds
of japanese are dying daily.
NJ. Boris Sarafof, the Macedonian
leader, has crossed the frontier into
Macedonia. 1t is believed that his de-
parture presages renewal of the insur-
rectionary movement in Macedonia.
kilograms from Ceuta state that tribes
in the neighbOrhOOd of Tangier intend to
capture one of the foreign ministers at the
Moroccan city, as protest against the
Anglo French treaty delineating tina re-
spective spheres of influence of the two
countries in Morocco.
A dispatch from London says the "Old
Cheshire Cheese" tavern caught fire this
morning, and for time it looked as if
nothing but heap of debris would be
left of the favorite rendezvous of tourists.
After a stiff fight, however, the flames
we're controlled. Considerable damage
was done.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-05-24
Wants Haunted House.

w. X. Lyons, real estate dealer in
New Brunswick, n. j., received an
order on Thursday morning from Will
liam Oherman, of New York city, the
secretary of secret society, whose OBJ
ject is the study Of the habits of ghosts.
The order read:
ave must have haunted house, and
it must be supplied with an authenti-
Gated ghost and some lively spooks, and
we don't care how quickly you get it for
u.s."
Mr.. Lyons has not disclosed The
name of the society, but declares that
the order is a bona fide one. He is
searching the city for such house, and
is thinking of offering the society the
old Bellona Hotel, on Burnett street,
formerly run by Commodore Vanderbilt
and his wife prior to his starting in the
steamship business there. This house
is said to have been haunted With a
ghost resembling the commodore in a
white rubber coat. The society, Mr..
Lyons says, gets a place haunted by
ghosts, places its members there, max
ing the house lodge room, and then
entertains the ghosts.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-05-24
New Place for Col. Mosby.

Col. John S. Mosby was yesterday ap-
pointed as assistant attorney in the De-
partment of Justice. For the last three
years he has been employed as a special
agent of the General Land Office, his
headquarters latteTly having been at
Montgomery, Ala. In 1878 Col. Mosby
was appointed consul at Hongkong by
President Hayes. He had declined to
accept Office under General Grant, al
though he had supported Grant for Pres
ident. He was then practicing lawyer
in Virginia. The colonel has supported
all the republican presidential candi-
dates except Mr.. Lincoln. He cast his
first vote for President in 1860 for
Stephen A. Douglass, of Illinois. In
1865 he was removed from the Hong
kong consulship by President Cleveland.
At the request of Gen. Grant he was ap-
pointed an attorney in the law depart
ment of the Southern Pacific Rail road
Company, and since then has made San
Francisco his home. Col. Mosby enjoys
the unique distinction of being the first
consul who ever sued the United States.
On settlinghis accounts he found that he
had overpaid the government about
$4,000. The Court of Claims gave
him a judgment and the Supreme Court
affirmed the decision. Colonel Mosby,
it is said, will make his home in Alex
andria when he shall have entered upon
the duties of his new position.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-05-24
The Presbyterians.

At the General Assembly Of the Pres
byterian Church Of the United States
in Buffalo yesterday the special commit
tee on marriage and divorce made its
report and submitted the following
recommendation for the consideration
and action Of the General Assembly:
"The General Assembly again enjoins
all ministers under its care and author
ity to refuse to perform the marriage
ceremony in the cases Of divorced per-
sons, except as such persons have been
divorced upon grounds and for causes
recognized as scriptural in the standards
of our church. Recognizing the comfy
which should exist between Christian
churches, and believing that it should
be desirable and tend to the increase of
a spirit Of Christian unity, we earnestly
advise all the ministers under the care
and authority of this General Assembly
to refuse to unite in marriage any per-
son, or persons, whose marriage such
ministers have good reason to believe Is
forbidden by the laws Of the church,
in which such person, or persons, seek
ing 10 be married may hold member
ship.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-05-24

THE Merchant Marine Commission,
consisting of Senators and members OF
the House of Representatives appointed
at the last session of Congress to inves-
tieate the decline of American shipping
and report whatlegislation is necessary for
its betterment, met in New York yesterday
Interesting testimony was given by Pres
ident Thomas Clyde, of the Clyde line,
and c. L. Orcutt, president of the New
port News Shipbuilding Company. Mr.
Orcutt astonished the members by stat
ing that ships can be constructed in
England for rs per cent. less than in
this country. He added that the tariff
on material made 40 per cent. differ
ence in favor of the British builders and
admitted that a ship which would cost
$500, 900 to be built in this country
could be duplicated in England fer
800, 900. With such difference IN
price is there any wonder that ship
building is on the decline in the United
StatesY But Mr.. Clyde comes to the
rescue by urging that the United States
must pay the builders the difference in
cost of building and enough to enable
them to operate the ships on account OF
the "much higher wages" paid the
sailors under the American flag. In
other words, the American ship builders
who charge three times more for build
ing ships than they should charge, must
in addition, be subsidized, and therefore
be further enriched at the expense of the
entire people. This is the underlying
theory of the trusts that the masses
should be taxed for the classes.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-05-24
ALeper Cured.

New Orleans, La, May 24.-For the
first time in the history of the world a
leper has been cured and will shortly be
discharged from an institution for the
care of leprosy. A young French boy,
fifteen years old, who has had leprosy
for three years and has been in the
Louisiana Lepers' Home for a year and
a half, was discharged from that insti-
tuition within month. The boy came
from New Orleans and was committed
to the asylum in October, 1902. When
admitted he was of the color Of coffee.
He was covered with eruption, especially
on his face, which was full of leprous ul-
GERS. His face is now handsome, with
clear color in the cheeks and with hair
on eye brows and lashes. He has lost
the leering grin peculiar to lepers, and
could not be recognized as the same per-
son who went in.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-05-24
France and the Vatican.

Rome, May 24.-Cardinal Merry de-
Val, Papal Secretary of State, discussing
the strained relations between France
and the Vatican, is quoted as saying /:
1.-THE Holy See is confident that salts
factory solution ill be arrived at
which will endorse the justice of it's
course" 'But' heis said to have add
ed, "should the French chamber endorse
the governments anti-clericalism, thus
adding a new proyocation, the Pope may
submit the whole affair to the judgment
of the European powers.
Paris, May 24.-After a meeting OF
the council of ministers today note
was issued officially announcing the re-
call of NJ. Nisard, French Ambassador to
the Vatican.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-05-24
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs

Festivities begun yesterday at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Skeady, of Tren-
ton, N. j., in honor of the wedding of
their daughter, Jennie, to Frank Schaltz
eliminated in a tragedy this morning
when the bridegroom and his brother,
Joseph, were shot by James F. Steady,
a brother of the bride.
The First National Bank of Cape May has
been closed by order of the Comptroller Of the
Currency. The depositors will be paid in
full. It's said the troubles are due to the
financial difficulties Of its former president,
DR.. Wesley r. Wales. The comptroller has
appointed National Bank Examiner VIM. Nj.
Hart receiver.
William II. Brown, president of an iron
company at Indianapolis, Ind, was discover
ed by the police Monday to be treating horse
suffering with lockjaw by faith cure methods.
Mrs. Brown said veterinarian had been EN-
pioyed but failed to relieved the suffering
animal, and Mr.. Brown resorted TO prayer.
The insular legislature, at Sau Juan, Porto
Rico, adjourned today but Immediately re-
opened for the first day Of the extraordinary
session, called for the purpose Of negotiating
q loan Of s., 0O0,00U from the United States.
One man was killed and the other was
scalded 20 horribly by the explosion Of a
water bar under the cab of an express train
engine on the Reading Railroad early last
evening that he is not expected to live.
Prof. Frank II. Slyder, former superinten.
dant ofthe public schools Of Franklin county,
Pa, and recently follower of Dowie, COM
mtted suicide yesterday at his home near
Orrstown, across the Pennsylvania line.
Judge Ralston in Philadelphia today, es'
tablished Pennsylvania precedent by de-
Gliding that relatives of a man hung for muir
der cannot recover the amount of his life in
surance policy.
A telegram from Beaver, Pa, this morning
says that Senator Quay is little better.