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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-15
Philippine Bill Passed by
the House Stirs Will
Iiams of Illinois.
(By the Associated Press.)

Washington, d. c., April 1.-THE House
of Representatives today passed the Phil
pr;n bill, 139 to 123, following which
tL.re was an extended debate over res
olution to permit Colonel Thomas w. Sey-
mons, of the Engineer corps OF the army
to serve on the advisory board of CON
sulting engineers in connection with in
ternal improvements in the State OF New
York After several fiery speeches had
been made in opposition to the resolu-
tion it was adopted by an overwhelming
vote. Consideration of the General De-
ficieEcy bill was begun, although no one
addressed himself to the measure. Mr.
Hamilton (Mich.), discussed the question
OF capital and labor, while Mr.. Cochran
(MC), criticised the 'usurpation of the
executive power by the executive
He took issue with Bourke Cochran re-
garding the disposition of the speaker
to reassert the dignity OF the House
and Inquired what evidence have of
tbat?" si7fN
Mr. Cochran attacked ex-Prcsident
Cleveland for forcing his financial poll
cies on the country which he said were
az variance with those of the majority of
voters and said that Mr.. Cleveland's arbi-
t1ary way of doing so was a menace to
consit ttutional government. Mr.. Clevi
land was a man whose friendship means
destruction, whose touch means paralysis
and whose support means dishonor." The
President had been exiled never again
to renstate himself in the confidence of
his countrymen." He said that now that
the country was returning 70 patriotism
and sanity, he would commend to those
in charge of the booms of certain men
see king the Democratic nomina tion to
bear in mind that one of the most cir
cUitouS foutes possible or imaginable was
a certificate OF good character from Mr..
Cleveland late yReralI ican President
of the United States.
Mr.. Williams Ulls.), criticised the Phil
iprine bill, which he said was opposed by
many Republican members as out
rG6eous fegislat;)n against the Filipinos
by guaranteeing TO the railroad companies
five per cent of the capital invested in
construction. He declared the people of
the Philippines would be forced to pay
subsidy for every railroad built in
these islands The Philippine Commits
sion, he vehementy asserted, was the
American agent of the archipelago. IF
this law goes into effect" he said amid
Democratic applause, ''who knows but
that some Machen, some Beavers or
irtendent of railroad construction in the
Philippine islands?'' He predicted some
of the greatest scandals that ever have
occurred in civilized government"
The House adjourned until tomorrow
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PELI0n ON OSsA.
Stunned by Disaster. the Muscovite
Still Clasps, | Did 1t All.
(By the Associated Press.)

st. Petersburg, April 14.-The official
bulletin this afternoon conveying the ia.
telligence of tie loss OF another torpedo
destroyer and the accidental crippling OF
another battleship was almost as severe a
bios as the loss of the Petropavlovsk yes
terday and plunged the whole town anew
into grief.
The Russian word in the text of the Of
fetal dispatch describing theaccident to
the Pobicla means either "mine" or "tor-
pedo,' but the qualifying verb indicates
scnthing moving towards the ship This
dispatch puts an end to the idea prevail
ing here that there had been an engage
ment following the disaster to the Petro-
pavlovsk.
F'ortyfive officers and men persisted on
board the torpedo boat destroyer Bez-
trashni.
1t is confirmed that the Grand Duke
Cyrils injuries consists of burns ON the
neck and legs. A private dispatch to his
father reports that the wounded officer is
better a life buoy was thrown to the
Grand Duke by which he sustained him
self in the water until picked up by one
cf the boats which were lowered imme-
diately by the other warships.
Rear Admiral Urius statement that
Vice Admiral Togo's fleet was responsible
for the sinking of the battleship Petro-
pavlovsk at Port Arthur is officially de-
MED here. member of the general staff
informs the Associated Press that the ad-
vices received do not show that naval
engagement took place unless the con
oerning and sinking of the torpedo boat
destroyer Bezstrashni can be so denomi-
na.od
The destroyer and four consorts were
outside scouting Turing the night. The
Bezstrashni Jagged behind and became
lost in the mist. When day broke she
tried TO creep in along the coast but was
discovered, cut off, ovcIpowered and
sunk, only five of her crew escaping The
fate of the other members of the crew is
unknown, although it is believed that
some Of them may have been captured.
That the Petropavlovsk was blown up
by mine placed at tic entrance to the
harbor to prevent the blocking Of the
channel is the opinion entertained by the
general staff. 1t is true ttat the vessel
sank in full view of Vice Admiral Togo's
fleet. which was seen on the horizon, but
her loss was not caused through agency
of that feet. There is a disposition to
raise controversy to whether the ex-
pIcsion occurred inside or outside the bat
tleship, similar to the controversy which
followed the destruction of the United
States battleship Maine in Havana har-
Dor. The fact that many of the wounded
including Grand Duke Cyril were badly
burned seemed to support the theory OF
an internal explosion.
Grand Duke Boris, who witnessed the
disaster from Golden Hill, in telegram
to his father, Grand Duke Vladimir, de-
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Winston S New Depot.
Especial to News and Observer.

Especial to News and Observer)
winston Salem, N. c., April 14.-Win.
ston-Salem $ new union passenger station
will be opened to the travelling public
May !.
Rev. Dir. D. Clay Lilly, of Kentucky.
writes one of the officials of the First
presbyterian church he VIII be here in
time 10 occupy his pulpit next Sunday.
The Plttsburg reduction company will
establish manufacturing plant in this
city Two buildings will be erected at
once. The company will manufacture. sash
and elevator weights and other articles of
iron.
The closing exercises of the Y. NJ G. A
educational department was dccidaJ
succes IS. Prof. Leon Cash read a most en-.
couraging report Of the work done. G g
Huntington, Y. M. G. A. State secretary
Tor the Cerolinas, reviewed briefly tho ac.
tlvities OF the ASSOCIATION in these States
DR.. Newer, of the STATE Normal cologe
delivered most excellent address.
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WILKES is I'M REVOLT.
Every Mouth Not at the Pap Bunq
Cusseth the Drummer Boy Out.
Especial to News and Observer. }

Greensboro, N. c., April 14.-Ex- Sheriff
Clarence Call, of Wilkes county, who is
here, brings the report that Wilkes coun-
ty Is afire with rebellion over the nomi-
nation OF Blackburn.
He declares that not one in five of the
regular non office holding Republicans in
the county viii vote for the nominee of
the Wllkesboro convention. Asked as to
the probable outcome Of the 'mutiny'
Mr.. Call said that q legal convention
would be held about the last of MAY to
nominate candidate for Congress in the
Eighth district, and that DR.. Carson,
chairman of the district executive com
mittee would make the can for primaries
to send delegates to the convention within
the next few days. Mr.. Call does not
think the nominee of this convention can
be elected upless Blackburn retires from
the field. but he says, that decent can
didate, decentiy, regularly and legally
nominated, and who resides in the district,
would. even in defeat, break the force OF
Blackburn's influence as patronage dis
pcnser ut Washington.
That question of dispensing the patron
age. really seems TO be the milk in the
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TAKEN TO SOUTH CAROLINA.
Arthur L. Satterthwaite Charged With
Obtaining Money by Fraud.
Especial to News and Observer.


Washington, N. c., April 14-Arthur L.
Setterthwaite, of Henderson. North Caro-
Ina, who has been in Jail here two weeks
was this morning delivered by Sheriff 4
I. Hodges to Sheriff Buch, of Florence
South Carolina, TO be carried back to the
latter State to be tried On The charge OF
obtaining money under false pretenses.
SGtterthWaite was arrested by Sheriff
Hodges upon a rendition warrant issued
By Governor Aycock upon the requisition
of Governor McSweeney, of South Caro-
lima, and lodged in jail to await the ar
rival Of officers from Florence. Satter-
tnWaite Immediately applied to Judge
George n. Brown Tor q writ OF Eabeas
corpus ard also to Governor Aycock to
IeYeke the warrant. The Governor de-
cllred to interfere. and ycsteday Judge
Brown dismissed the habeas corpus pro-
ceedings and ordered that Satterthwaite
be turned over to South Carolina off
GERS The prisoner was represented by
Messrs. Rodman and Rodman and the
South Carolina authoiities by Messls.
Small and MacLean.
The prisoner was formerly an agent
of the Sun Life Insurance Comranv and
was found snort in his accounts and
lost his position His father settled the
with the company, but the
young man continued to coIect money
III the name of the company He had
been wanted in South Carolina for some
time, but escaped arrest by leaving the
State. He is also said to have forged
several checks III the vicinity of Viii
this State.
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Leads all North Carolina Daies News and Circulation

scribed how the ship lifted at the same
time being enveloped in flame and smoke
and then turned turtle and sank in two
and half minutes.
The appearance of smoke or steam and
fire was explained to the Associated Press
by member of the general staff, who
said
"The ship may have touched forward
under her Whitehead torpedo magazine,
resulting in a second explosion, or if she
touched the mine amdships her boilers
may have been exploded. Either hypothe-
sis would act for the appearance of fire,
smoke or steam
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-15
The Royal Arcanum.
Especial to News and observer.)

High Point. n. c., April 1.-THE Grand
Council of the Royal Arcanum is in ses-
sion here. The meetings are being held
in the Junior Order hall. The officers
present are: Supreme Vice Regent How
ard G. Virgins, of Rowe, New York; H.
Taylor Rogers. of Asheville, Grand Re-
gent; D. NJ. Miller, Salisbury, Vice Grand
Regent; w. F. Rountree, New Bern, Past
Grand Regent; A. M. Powell, Raleigh,
Treasurer; DR.. w. II. Cobb, Greensboro,
Medical Examiner
The Council will be in session two days
and the meeting promises to be one of the
best. The order includes some of the most
prominent business men in the State
The building committee of the school
board has given the contract to Archi-
tect w. p. Rose, of Raleigh. for the
plans Of the new graded school building
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National League.
(By the Associated Prcss.)

Philadelphia, April 14.-In the opening
game of the National League season to-
day the locals defeated Boston by con-
sccutive hitting.
Score: r. II. L.
Boston ....1OO0O 0O001O % 0 8
Philadelphia 80 0 l 90 g I SIS IL 2
Batteries: Willis and Moran; Duggle-
by and Doom. Umpire, Moran. Attend
ance 5,179. Time lao.
Cincinnati April 14.-The Cincinnat!s
won in the ninth inning on a single, sacri-
fee and tumble by Tinker, which allow
ed Kelly to score from second base.
Score: r. Fl. K.
Cincinnati .....1 0 o 0 01OO 1-3 o
Chicago ...2 0 0 0 0 0 0 02 4
Batteries; Sutho4 and PeitZ: Weimer
and King. Umpire, Johnstone. Attend
ance 1900. Time 1:40.
New York, April 1.-THE New York
and Brooklyn Nationals opened the sea-
son in Brooklyn today. 1t was an easy
victory for New York, who played an
errorless game in, the field.
Score: R.H.E.
New York ......2 ! / l 0 / 01 OF 10 0
Brooklyn ....1 0 0 0 0 0 O-1 3 3
Batteries: Matthewson and Bowerman;
Jones and Jackltsch. Time 1:50. Um-
pire, Emsie Attendance 1850.
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Hioh Point Insurance Company.
=, 80 News ard Observer !

High Point, n G.; april l4.Lht met
ing last night Of the stockholders of the
High point Fire Insurance Company the
,enort of the secretary and treasurer
= +hot since the company com
L,sncss seven months ago,
,i', ,ie,''eu cd the most sauguine expocta-
,iau sul p" ~, The affairs of the company
are alpnS IN u' ' splendid shape and in all the
report ~ tbe old officers of the company
were reelected.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-15
FORTYFIvEARE KILLED
These Men Perish as the Result OF
the Sinking by the Japanese of The
Destroyer. None Killed on the Po.
bieda. Japanese Claims That the
Pctropaylovsk Was Sunk by One OF
Their Mines Denied by Russia.
(By the Associated Press )

ST. Petersburg, April 14.-Rear Admiral
Prince Ouktomsky wired from Port Ar
thur today that the Bezstrashni, one OF
the Russian torpedo boat destroyers sent
out during the night to reconnoitre be-
came separated from the rest Of the fleet,
owing to the bad weather prevailing, was
surrounded by japanese torpedo boat de-
stroyers and was sunk in the fight. Five
men were saved.
Admiral Ouktomsky adds:
II have taken command Professionally OF
the fleet since the disaster ID the Petro-
pa. .!ovs!..
During some manoeuveTing of the bat
tleship squadron the Pobieda struck
against mine amidship on the starboard
side. She was able to regain port by her
self. No one on board of her was killed
or wounded"
The Pobieda is battleship Of 1854 tons
displacement and of 1850 horsepower.
She is 401 Ia feet long, has I112 feet beam
and draws 2G feet of water and is heavily
armored with steel. She was completed
in 1901, has complement of 7S2 men, her
estimated speed is 18 knots The steel ar
NOR of the battleship varies in thickness
from 4 to 91A inches along her belt. The
armament of the Pobieda consists of four
10-inch guns, eleven 6-inch guns, sixteen
3-inch guns, ten 1-S-inch guns and seven
teen 1.4-inch guns. She las six torpedo
tubes.
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American League.
fBy the Associated Press.)

New York, April 14.-The New York
Americans beat the champion Boston team
today. Score: r.. III. E.
New York ......5111 0 0 0 SIS 10 0
Boston ......,..0 % o o. 1-2 3
Batteries: Chesbro and Mcclure;
Young and Criger. Time 1:35. Umpire,
Dwyer and Carpenter Attendance 1880
Chicago, April 14.-Cleveland won to-
days contest By perfect fielding and
punching of hits in the fifth inning.
Score: R.H. e.
Chicago .....0 600 o 0 OIL 4
Cleveland .....1 O 20 so 0 0 0--6 8 0
Batteries; Owen and Sullivan; Bern
hard and Bems. Umpires, O'Loughlin and
King. Attendance 1000. Time 1890
Washington, April 14.-Philadelphia and
Continued on Second Page.)
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cocoanut Those who have jobs are lining
up with Blackburn, and those out of them,
but wanting them mighty bad, seem to
look upon his continuance as patronage
mogul OF patronage broker of the dis
trlct, as a calamity to which a night
mare would be a blessing.
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Survivors CT the Pe!rGpay.osk.
By the Associated Press.)

st. Petersburg, April IA Telegram
from Rear Admiral Prince Ouktomsky to
the Emperor, dated from Port Arthur at
10 IL. m, today, after reiterating that the
Petroravovsk sank lin consequence of
the explosion OF a mine while sac was ma
noeuvering IN the Pert Arthur rdadstead d
in sight of the enemy's fleet" adds that
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-15
P0LL0CKSVlLLE FIGHTS FIRE,
Two Stores are Burned. When the
Flames are Checked.
Especial to News and observer)

New Bern, N. c., April 14.-Last night
at II o'clock at Pollocksville. a small
town thirteen miles west of New Bern
was visited by fire, destroying the stores
of Chas Witty and j. w. Sheppard, also
doing great damage to their stocks. The
loss is estimated at $4,000, with insurance
of $1,000. This town has no fire depart
ment, but the heroic service of the entire
population prevented any further damage.
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ONE OF THE CZAR'S
DESTROYERSSUNK
And Another BattIeship, the Pobieda Crippled by
Coming Into Collision With Sub
Marine Mine.

those saved include, besides Grand Duke
Cyril and Captain Jakovleff, three lieu
tenants, two midshipmen and ffty-two
sailors. The bodies of captain. two
midshipmen, surgeon and few sailors
have been recovered
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Sumrary-Two base hits. ST. Adams 3.
Carolina 3; home runs, Holt 1 stolen
bases, Carolina 4, st. Adams 2; struck
out, by Sitton 6, by oldham 5; bases on
balls. Oldham j umpire, A. L. Cox; time
of game 1:34.
st. Adams will play Carolina again here
tomorrow. There will be much interest
taken in the game.
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SkrYdICff Succeeds MakaroH.
CIV the Associated Press.)

st. Petersburg, April 14.-It has been
definitely decided that Vice Admira
Skrydloff, commander of the Black Sea
fleet, will succeed the late Vice Admiral
Makaroff as commander er-in-chief of the
Russian naval forces in the Far East. Or
ders have been sent to Vice Admiral
Skrydloff to come to ST. Petersburg fol
the purpose of receiving instructions after
which he will leave Immediately for the
Far East.
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Third District Convention.
Especial to News and Observer

Especial to News and Observer.)
Goldsboro, N. c., April 1.-THE execu.
tive committee OF the Third Congressional
district met at the Hotel Kennon here
and set June the 21st and this city as tbc
time and place of the nominating conven-
ton.
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Fayetteville. n. c., April 1i--The Davis
Hot tel, wooden structure, on Person
street. was burned this afternoon For
while a dangerous fire threatened the
town. but the firemen succeeded in con
filing it to the hotel.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-11-20

descending patronage. without a crust or a cup of
wine to fatten it, of the ineffable one of Strawberry
Hill. Gray had other gided school-fellows. and after
extensively playing the sycophant he was given
a professorship at Cambridge, worth four hundred
pounds a year, and in paving for it was made to
disgrace both his manhood and his muse in a full
some ode to Grafton-that vile one against whom
Francis in his q Junius' letters aimed his fiercest shafts.
Matt Prior the Pot-boy goes to school with Mon
tague, who later as Halifax gives England post-officeS,
Italian opera. the Georges and a bonded debt. So
far as concerns Pot-boy Prior. the only thing the noble
Montague does for him is steal his poem. The City
Mouse and the Country Mouse. - and as Mouse
Montague" pose thereafter as its author.
Addison and Steele were schoolmates, and became
literary partners in their spectators" and "Tattlers.
And yet neither was of any advantage to the other,
more than was Swift or Pope or Congreve or Van
brugh or Arbuthnut or were others of their circle.
When Addison had trouble with his wife, or Steele
with the bailifs. the other sympathized. But so did
those who had not been their mates in school.
There's nothing in the claim of unusual good to
come from school acquaintance. If ones who urge
it mean that a poor boy may find a fond, rich patron
among what rich boys he meets in college, then they
are mere snobs. and mere mistaken snobs at that.
Something for nothing is a traffic seldom seen. and
the rich furnish the spectacle of 1t less frequently
than do the poor. And that this is true makes
partly the reason of the rich mans riches and the
poor mans poverty.
Still. if it was so, and the rich would patronize
the poor at a loss. those in snobbish interest would
soon discover the fallacv of their argument. If the
poor one be a fool. the rich one will never patronize
him. TIdciioet give him something for nothing. If the
poor one has brains. he need not so degrade himself.
To add to what is rehearsed in the foregoing. our col
lege youths encourage themselves, | fancy, in excuses
and bankruptcies and all manner of witnesses by
remembering those ancient worthless or unworthies
of whose escapades they have read. One college
running into debt as far and as fast as his
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credit would allow, when | suggested that he put on
the brakes. reminded me that Cesar owed millions
before he was twenty-one. Another, whose joy it
was to make rows in restaurants and get himself
thrown out-he thought it all that was gallant. and
especially to fight later with the police-defended
himself BY quoting Alcibiadcs. an Athenian tough.
who with a gang at his heels tlourished as the Monk
Eastman of his day.
In conclusion. it might be said that colleges are less
important now than they were when law and medicine
and religion locked themselves in Latin and Greek
and Hebrew and Norman French in order to be ex-
elusive and impressive to vulgar minds. Also. edr-
cation means generally less than folk suppose. 1t adds
to only ones dcxterity. not to ones strength. Many
have been great without it. Diogenes couldn't read:
and yet the wise cynic will trundle his tub to the latest
gasp of time. Many who had it were a worlds laugh
ing-stock. James l. had been educated to a feather
edge. For all that-and this is saying the uttermost
no greater fool was ever crowned.
THE collegiate view of this question will be discussed in a
subsequent issue of The Sunday Magazine by DR.. John H.
Finley. President of the College of the City of New York and
former President of Knox College
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Telegraph Anticipated

THE subJoined extract has been. 1t seems. an inter
esting anticipation of one of the most beautiful
of modern inventions, and may be found in a work
entitled Travels During the Years I7S7-17So in
the Kingdom of France" by Arthur Young:
I'm electricity, NJ. Lomond has made a remarkable
discovery: you write two or three words on a paper;
he takes it with him into a room, and turns a machine
inclosed in a cylindrical case. at the top of which is
an electrometer, a small, fine, pith ball; a wire connects
with a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant
apartment; and his wife. by remarking the correspond
ing motions of the ball. writes down the words they
indicate, from which it appears that he has formed
an alphabet of motions. AS the length of the wire
makes no difference in the effect. a correspondence
might be carried on at any distance, within and without
a besieged town, for instance. or. for a purpose more
worthy and more harmless, between two lovers pro-
hibited or prevented from any better connection"