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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-29
COPY OF THE CORRESPONDENTS.
\ Finger Thrust Before Rollins
Eyes Points to the Danning
Evidence.
Especial to News and Observer )

Especial to News and Observer.)
Biltmore, N. c., Sept. 2S.--The fol-
loving correspondence between Presi-
dent Roosevelt Secretary and the
North Carolina State Republican
Chairman Rollins, of sAslieviIle, and
the quotation from sthe. Presidents
Life of Benton are self explanatory.
"Ashevi1Ie IN. c.. Sept. %, 1904
Hon VIM. Loe, Secretary, to the
President, Washington d. c..
Hon. r. b. Glenn, the Democratic
candidate for Governor, stated in his
speech yesterday that the President
said the Confederate soldiers were
anarchists and that strains of coarse
brutality ran through the Southern
PEOPLE or words to that effect Is the
President correctly quoted"
THOMAS ROLLINS
Chm. State Rep. Elk. Com.
White House Washington,
d. c., Sept. %, 1904.
My Dear Sis:-Your telegram Of
yesterday has been received. The
statements you refer to are absolutely
false.
WIN. LEOB, JR.,
Secretary to the President.
Hon. Thos. S. Rollins, Asheville,
N. c..
BY reference to page 161 of Mr..
Roosevelt's Life of Benton" copy
righted by Mr.. Roosevelt in 1886, you
will find Mr.. Roosevelt uses the fol-
lowing expressions: Slavery wac
CT iefly responsible for the streak OF
coarse and brutal barbarism which
ran through the Southern character"
H. A. LATHAM.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-29
ENORMOUS LOSSES CLAIMED.
Russians at CheefOO Say the Japan
ese Lost i'm the Attacks Be-
ginning the 9th, 1000
Men.
CBy the Associated Press.) }

Chefoo. Sept. 2S.-1.3O p. m.-
Russians residing here claim to have
received information that the Japan
ese losses in the last assault on Port
Arthur which began September 10,
were seven thousand.
A Chinese who left the fortress on
September 26 says that the Russian
losses were between 500 and 600.
This ChiEaman says that the Jap
anese were unable to remain in the
three supplementary forts which they
captured and that they retired at four
o'clock on the afternoon of September
26, after enduring several days of tre-
nendous firing from the inner forts.
He adds that the Russians at
tempted to bury the dead on both
sides at night because the decompos-
ing bodies seriously menaced The
health ,of the garrison. The Russians
allege that it is the deliberate policy
CT the Japanese to undermine the
health of the Russian troops by means
of the odors from the decomposing
bodies and that for this reason they
fire on the burial parties
The Chinese who was member of G
burial party says that the Japanese
fired when he and other Chinese at
tempted to bury the dead. He adds
that when the wind carries the odors
toward the Japanese the latter retire.
Chinese say that the most severe
attacks were made on the supplement
tary forts of the ItZ and AnShu noun
tain forts. The Russians had under
mined the ground and several hundred
Japanese were blown UP OH September
%. Reports received from the Mao
tao Islands mention a terrific report
which shook the houses there on that
date.
The Russian ships. says the report,
took no part in the battle From
thirty to fifty shells fell daily in the
Chinese new town. One shell tore the
rudder from a torpedo boat destroyer.
The Russians are now building a
new fort on Liaoti promontory bear
ing on the island side. It's construc-
tion indicates that five large guns will
form the nucleus of the battery
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-29
COARSE, BRUTAL
YES, He SAID It
Glenn Has the Printed
Records.
THESE ARE HIS REPLY
RooseveIt's Denial of SIarderine
Southerners Looks Like a Tissue
Paper Counterfeit of Thirty
Cents in a West Indian
Hurricane.
By IL. l.. GRAY.

Morganton. N. c.. Sept. 2S.-The
speaking today was under the shade OF
a wide-spreading poplar in the open
air of the court house grove.
About five hundred of the citizens
of Burke county sat and listened fos
over two hours to the candidate for
Governor as he laid down the doc
trine.
Mr.. Glenn was introduced by J. e.
Spalnhour, Esq, member of the Leg
islature. He caught the crowd from
the start and held them rapt to the
end.
A string band played Dixie" ana
the people enthused. A brass band.
some of the players looking as though
they had bden snalched from the
plow shafts to the silvered horn dis
pensed music between times. In the
interim Bob Glenn spoke-spoke as
he only in the State can do. He went
from "a to lizard of the DEM
ocratic dictionary. The people were
with him. Many women were there.
and they cheered on the men.
The day has furnished one of the
first of the campaign lies that REQUIRES
mailing. AS he has forged through
the west Glenn has put it hard into
Roosevelt. The President. if he has
a skin and a wire from North Carolina
must have felt the iron of the candi-
dates invective.
At any rate Chairman Tom Rollins
has attempted to reply. He has chal-
lenged the statement that the Presi-
dent has ever said that the Old Con-
federate soldier was an anarchist. or
that he stated that. through the South
ern.. character runs a strain of brutal
coarse barbarity.'
Glenn has been making these state
ments. Today in the face of Chairman
Rollins statement he reiterated them.
He has the speeches and the books in
which the expressions occur in bold
black type.
The sayings have cut to the quick OF
the white Republican voters of the
west and they are down in history.
When Glenn shouts them from the
house top it is time for Republicans
to get to cover.
Rollins, like Harris. is a mighty
nice man." but he is travelling a
mighty rough road when in the face
of so experienced a campaigner as
Bob Glenn he attempts to palliate the
of his strenuous chief
Burke is of course strongly Demo
cratic with Phonse Avery at the wheel
and eX-Judge A. G. Avery pointing out
the shoals of the channel. The ship
of the party is i'm hands that will steer
it past difficulties to a safe harbor
AS all along the route today S
speech made votes. 1t was we'll re-
ceived and accepted with that open
that comes with any au-
dience that gets its doctrine first-hand
from the speakers HpS.
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Numerous Sk'Pmisiles Reported.
(By the Associated Press

NDy tie [ASSOCldteC TTeSS.)
st. Petersburg, Sept. 28.-A dis
Iatch received here from General
kuropatkin. dated yesterday afternoon
announces that numerous skirmishes
have occurred along most parts of
the Russian front. The Japanese
have not altered their positions east
of the railroad and confine themselves
to outpost attacks to the north all OF
which so far have been repulsed
Reconnoissances by the Russian
troops have established the fact that
the main Japanese forces are still
along the branch railroad to the
1entai mines. Both sides are in con-
slant contact. General Samsonoff' s
troops particularly have had frequent
encounters but have sustained very
few casualties. The Russians have
captured some Japanese cattle and
horses.
The Japanese have constructed
pontoon bridges over the Taites river
al Bentsihu.
The general adds:
"On the night of september 20
Cornct Mil1heiff, with detachment OF
Ural Cossacks attacked the japanese
biVouacked at Khousandi, causing q
great panic The same day the Oren-
burg Cossacks laid an ambush for half
"a sqadron OF Japanese cavalry, who
returned their fire, but soon retired,
having sustained considerable loss and
leaving several dead on the field"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-29
Select Their Candidates.
(By the Associated Press. }

Boston, Mass, Sept. 27.-The lead
ing political parties selected many OF
their Congressional county and legls.
lative candidates for the NoVembe:
election today, in caucuses held Jointly
in twenty-five cities and two towns
where the Luce joint caucus law is
in force,
Eugene N. FoSs. the leading reciprO-
city advocate of the State, won a sharp
contest with three other Republican
candidates in the Eleventh district.
defeating stephen O'Meara, formerly
editor of the Boston Journal, his near~
est competitor, by 724 votes. Foss will
be again opposed by Congressman
John A. Sullivan, who was renomina-
ted by the Democrats without opposi-
ton.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-29
ON NATIVE HEATH
SpruiII Makes a Great
Address Among People
Who Know Him.
lSnecial to News and Observer.

Especial to News and Observer.)
Littleten. N. c.. Sept. 2S.-Littleton
was stirred for Democracy today when
Hon. Frank S. Spruill, State Elector.
spoke at this place.
He was greeted by splendid au-
dience for he is a popular man here
and his ability and eloduence are
known of all.
The audience was an enthusiastic
one for it caught the contagion from
the speaker who is enthusiastic for
Democracy
We know Frank Spruill here for he
was born and raised amongst this peo-
pie. Here are his schooboy friends
and intimates of early days. men being
present who as barefooted lads hao
played with the speaker. who bare
footed frolicked with the rest
But today he made as great n
speech as he could have made on this
campaign. He tore aside the veil be-
hind which hides the pretensions of
the Republican party and it's Broncho
candidate, erratic tempestuous, un-
stable. and i'm contrast showed the wis
dom of the Democratic policies and
the exposition of these by the stable.
sound and judicial Alton Brooks Par
ker, who will, as the Nations Presi-
dent. lead this country into the safe
channels of obedience to the constiu-
ton.
He reviewed State affairs but de-
voted his main attention to the great
National questions and handled these
as only one who is a logician and
thinker can do. 1t was a splendid
speech and the cheers that
Frank Spruill won came not alone be
cause of friendship, but because OF
the great address that he made and
the splendid exposition of Democratic
doctrines made.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-29
FAVOR WATTS LAW
w. C. T. U. Hold That 1t
is a Great Step To-
ward Prohibition.
;necial. 10 News and Observer.) )

Especial to News and Observer)t
Snow Camp, N. c. Sept 2S.--Trhe
North Carolina Womans Christian
Temperance Union in recent State con-
vention at Kernersville placed itself
on record as follows:
THAT we are opposed to the manu-
facture sale, use, importation and ex~
portation of alcoholic liquors. and will
continue to work for it's total annihi!a-
ton.
eve believe that any recognition OF
the liquor traffic is evil and evil con-
tinually, whether in the form of IL
cense, tax or dispensary law. and that
any present gain bought at the expense
Of future calamity is unwise.
"We believe further that a rigid
enforcement of the Watts law would
be great step in the direction of en-
tire prohibition, and would regret any
amendment which would weaken it as
temperance measure"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-29
MRS. MARY w. GRAY DEAD.
One of the States Best Types of Wo-
manhood the Mother of Mr. X. L.
Gray. OF Raleigh. N. G.

Especial to News and Observer)
winston, N. c., Sept 2S.-Mrs Mary
Mills Gray, who would have been sc
years old next Sunday. one of the
states best types of womanhood.
passed away here at her home tonight.
at half past ten o'clock.
Mrs Gray was the relict of the late
MI. Robert Gray and was born on the
second of October, 1918. in Guilford
county. near Greensboro. Her hus-
pand, the late, Mr.. Robert Gray. who
oled IN 1881, was Il prosperous country
merchant of Randolph county, who
with his family moved in 1852 to Win
ston, being the first settler of the
place. He was prominent in the for
nation period of this place, was a
hlghly esteemed citizen and man
well versed in public affairs
Of the cor~'o nine children have
been born. all of whom survive except
two, apt. S. Wiley Gray, who was killed
at Gettysburg. and DR.. r. s. Gray. who
died in Winston a few years ago
The surviving children are Mrs M.
u. Gibson. Mr.. James A. Gray, Mrs.
Thomas Barber, Mr.. Eugene E. Gray.
Mr.. Emeroy S. Gray. all Of Winston;
Mr.. r. T. Gray. of Raleigh. and Can't.
w. T Gray, of the United States Navy.
All of these. except CAPTAIN GRAY
were present at the bedside of their
venerable mother as she breathed her
last, and Capt. Gray. who is on the
way here will reach Winston tomor-
row. The funeral will be held on Fri
day.
Mrs. Gray was a noble woman. and
she has given to the State noble
heritage in the children she has raised.
A member of the Methodist church
she was earnest. devout consistent
Her influence has ever been for good
and many there be besides her own
family who will shed bitter tears of
regret because of her, demise. She
was charitable in the true sense of
charity. a woman of fine mental en-
dowments and of modest character.
1T is such woman who make best for
the life of a State and North Carolina
is the poorer for her going. the richer
because she has lived and because
her influence has been felt and will
be felt through her descendants.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-29

dreams of less than two thousand ma
jority from the good old county of
Craven.
l met today Messrs. A. ID. Ward
and W. T.. Arendell the candidates
for the State Senate from this district,
comprising the counties of Carteret,
craven, Jones. Lenoir, Onslow and
Greene. They have already canvassed
more than half of the district and
they are confidently anticipating a ma
1ority of from four to five thousand in
the district. The Democrats of the
east are getting ready to shake hands
with the west over a glorious victory
in November.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-29
THE BANK OF LAGRANGE.
Organized Yesterday With w. f.. Bor.
den, of GOldsborO, President.

ESPECIAL to News and Observer)
LAGRANGE, N. c., Sept. 28.-The
Eank of LaGrange was organized yes
terday afternoon with w. E. Borden
of GoIdsboro, president. The capita
stock is ten thousand dollars, all OF
which has been subscribed. The
stockholders are citizens of Wayne
Greene and Lenoir counties. Busi-
ness will be begun as soon as the
necessary preliminarieS can be exc
ented. 1t is probable that a lot will
he. purchased and a building erected
The board of directors are Simeon
Wooten, r. Fl. Hardy, John r. Woot-
eli, Alex Sutton, 0. Taylor, w. e. Bor-
den and r. H. HoWland.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-29
Self Speaks in Montgomery.

Especial to News and Observer.l
Aberdeen. n. c., Sept. 2S.-Hon. w.
A. Self opened the Democratic cam
paign last night in Montgomery coun-
ty by making a rousing Democratic
sreech 1t was splendid and COM
pletely to the satisfaction of all
Democrats and to the discontinue OF
the Republicans. Report here is
that Montgomery is in good shape
and that the entire ticket will be
elected by a good safe majority.
The next Governor Bob Glenn, is
billed to speak at Troy October
thirteenth.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-29
Delay in the General Advance.

st. Petersburg, Sept. 2S.-6.15 p,
III nl-The latest official advices from
the front are silent on tie subject
of the Japanese fanking movements
east and west of Mukden, from which
the War Office concludes that Field
Marshal Oyama has not yet begun tc
press his advance rom Suanchan, or
up the Liao river valley. indicating
that there is still further delay in the
general advance.
The Associated Press is now author
lied definitely to deny the report that
the Japanese in any force have crossed
the Hun river about so miles from
MUkden.
There is no evidence that the Jap
anese turning movement is nearly SO
extended. The only Japanese at this
point are the scouts reported in these
dispatches September 26. The only
information received from General
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-29
LEAVE THE BOARD
John Shelton Williams
and John MiddendOrf
Resign as Directors.
tBN the, Associated. Press.)

New York, Sept. 2S.--At meet
ing of the directors of the Seaboarc
Air Line today John Shelton Williams
and j. w. Middendorf resigned as di-
rectors and Charles A. Conant anG
n S. Meldrum were elected in their
places.
Mr. Williams also resigned as n
member of the executive committee.
his successor being G. Sidney Shepard.
The office of chairman of the board.
held by Mr.. Williams,C was abolished.
The duties and powers of that office
are to be taken by the chairman OF
the executive comrlittee. James y.
Blair.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-29
ALL HELD FOR TRIAL.
The Men Arrested for the Affair at
(By the Associated Press.)
Baxter.
(By the Associated Press }

Macclenny, Fla, Sept. 2S.-UDon
conclusion of arguments to-day in the
cases against the men charged with
committing an assault with intent to
murder, upon w. N. Duncan, at Bax-
ter, Fla, Judge Berr yordered all the
prisoners held for trial. Bail was
fixed at $3.50 each in cases against
Jesse Altman, Coley Johns, and
Lonnie Bowling and at $3.50 each in
the cases against nine others. Upon
conclusion of this case the State went
into the hearing of case against these
nine defendants, charging them with
a'Cing and assisting prisoners TO es
cape. but on this charge the court de-
C'ined to hold them.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-29
AMT NO BOLL WEEVIL.
But it May be the Weevirs Big
Brother, OontcherknoW.
(By the Associated Press.)

Covington, Ca, Sept. 28.-The sup
posed boil wevil discovered on a
plantation in the eastern part of this
county several days ago upon com
parison with the real Mexican boil
Weevil, specimens of which were
sent here this afternoon by the State
chronological Department proves
to be an entirely different insect, be-
ing of a different color and very much
larger than the Mexican WeeVil
There are. however. serious appre-
tensions that it may prove to be as
destructive as the Mexican insect
A number Of the insecs have been for
warded to State EntomoloCist Newell
Cor examination.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-29
JOLLY FISH FRY.
Lake Luccrne the Scene of Great
Catch Yesterday.

A big crowd of people went to
Lake Lucerne yesterday to take part
in the catching of fish there.
The lake was drawn off and there
was lots of fun. The tables were
kept loaded with fish and everybody
enjoyed the day, there being fish for
all at the all-dav dinner.
Among the delighted visitors was
Mr. r 4. Robinson. editor OF the
Durham Sun. who is now ready for
a big fish sctry.
Mr.. Dughi brings two horse load
of fresh fish and these VII! be on
sale at the market this morning.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-29
Last Trial Trip of the Denver.
CEv the Associated Press.)

Newnort News. Va, Sept 2S.-The
United States cruiser Denver returned
this afternoon from her final trial trip
and test off this coast. with the naval
boar dof inspection and survey aboard.
The Denver arrived off Old Point Com
fort shortly after three o'clock. Inc
trial board left for Washington to-
night where the report on the behavior
of the cruiser at sea will be made.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-29
THREE VESSELS
SUNK BY MINES
#Txr&
Two Torpedo Boats and
a Steamer.
ALL were JAPANESE
Such is the Report From Russian
Source. Japan to Float Another
Domestic Loan. Horrors of Port
Arthur's Siege. Daily
Skismishes.
(By the Associated Press }

London, Sept. 2S.-A dispatch to a
news agency from Vladivostok says
that according to reports from Port
Arthur two Japanese torpedo boats
and q Japanese steamer have been
sunk by mines near Port Arthur dur
ing the last few days. A Japanese
cruiser of the Niitaka type, it is
added, was badly damaged.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-29
CONVENTION IN CUMBERLAND.
n a. Sinclair for the Senate and Nc
Gill and Flaggard for the House.
Especial to News and Observer

Especial to News and Observer.)
Fayetteville, N. c., Sept. 2S.-The
convention was the largest in years.
There were several exciting incidents.
n. A. Sinclair, prominent attorney
was nominated for the Serate and two
we'll known farmers and Confeder-
ate veterans were nominated for the
House, x-Representative A. ID. Nc
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-29
A Verdict of Not Guilty.
(Rv the Associated Press )

Huntsville, Ala, Sept. 27.-The
jury in the case of Benjamin Hill. on
trial for alleged participation in the
lynching of the negro Naples to-day
returned a verdict of not guilty.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-29
Leads all North Carona Daies i'm News and Circulation

Glii and N. C. Thaggard, Esq. They
lea the 1rst ballot Hon. V. G. Bull
lard and eX-Representative E. r. Nc
hethan then withdrew in their favor.
Inc circus has arrived here, and
Inc crowd in town is immense.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-29
Court Week in Montgomery.

Especial to News and 0bserver.)
Aberdeen, N. c., Sept. 28-Court
met in Montgomery county to-day,
Judge Cook presiding during the two
weeks term. Over fifty cases are on
the State docket for trial.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-29
I1AFACADIO HEARN Is DEAD.
\ Writer Who in His Poetic Prose
Thrilled the Soul With BartS of
Supreme Harmony.
(By the Associated Press.

Yokohama, Sept. 28.-Lafacadio
Hern, the well-known author died at
Toxic. September &C. of heart trouble.
His funeral will take place September
O. General regret is expressed among
the Japanese at the death of Mr..
Hearn. 5fsR N4HL&E
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-29
Safe i'm the Fold.

The city of New Bern and Craven
county are each so safely anchored
in the Democratic party that speech
making is needed here mostly for the
ediftcation of the Democratic saints
mo Well-informed Democrat here
Newport daily independent., 1904-01-20
The Magnetic North.

The belief in the constancy of the magnetic compass to the north pole has not the least foundation in fact. At ev- cry different place on the globe it points in different direction, and only one or two of them are due north. Tn London, for instance, it points to place about 1T degrees west of north. Seventy-six years ago it was still further away, be- ing then 2414 degrees, or a quarter of the way around to the west. In the year 15S0 it pointed n degrees east. Then it began to move north till 1859, when 1t pointed due north. But it remained thus only for a moment, passing around to its greatest deiection in 1e0 years. Again it turned in 1920 and is still nov ing nearer the north. It will not reach that point for nearly century and a half, and So it will go on backward and forward foreyer.-N. Y. Herald.
Newport daily independent., 1904-01-20
HOW A TREE IS MURDERED.
An Instance Which Illustrates the Difficulty of Destroying
 One.

A gentleman of means living in a sub- urban town tells how his mother once undertook to murder cherry tree, says the Chicago Chronicle. T was boy at the time" he said. "The tree stood on our lawn; it had been planted by my father, and he loved it with a parental affection; but it was an eyesore to my mother, for she thought 1t spoiled the looks of the garden.
 "She decided to murder it secretly, because she knew that my father would never consent to it's removal For a long time she pondered, asking herself how she might kill the tree without be- ing detected, and finally she decided that she would use for her weapon boil ing water. Accordingly whenever my father was away she would get kettle and, tiptoeing out to the tree with a guilty look, she would pour boiling water upon it's roots.
 At first the tree showed no change under this treatment. After a time, though, change began to manifest itself. My father noticed it.
 By jove,' he said, my cherry tree seems unusually fine and hearty
 And this was fact. The more boil ing water my mother poured on the roots the more the tree thrived and flourished. Finally, in despair, she gave up trying to commit her vegetable mur- der.
 "A florist, to whom she narrated this strange story one day, laughed when he heard it. He said it was no wonder the tree had gotten along so well. He de- clared that boiling water was often used on trees, as it killed off the worms and bugs molesting them"