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5 DIED GAME 'v Interesting Details of the British Operations in East Africa FANATIC ARABS On Mitnh l-lth the British Army Captnrril ofcoto anil Made a. Pris oner of Hie Emir Five Hundred British Soldier Fought Six Thous and MohninedanM and Slaughtered The in With Maxim and Rapid Fi re l,nll, More Possessions for En uland. London, May 12. Colonial Secretary Chamberlain announced in the house of Commons today that as a. result of the British mlitary operations in the Soko t and Kano districts ending -with the c.tptur- of the Emir of Kano, 100,000 squaf - mil' s of territory had been add ed to r.orih-rn Nigeria and would be administered by the government of that t-rrit-ry. Iiit'-r --st irig details have leen received h-r- of the capture of Sokoto March 14th by the British column command ed by Colonel Nortland. The engage ment lasted two and a half hours. The British numbered about five hundred m--n with four quick firing guns and Maxims. The enemy's horse and foot .-!-. stimatf-d to number some six thousand men. their riflemen being arni.-d with modern rifles and using .-mokeb-ss ;Mvder. The British camped during the night of March 13th one and ;t half miles from okoto after a hard march of one hundred miles from Kaura with but little water and having jkissed through a difficult country. At daybreak. March 14th, the British moved out in square formation towards the valley in which Solloto lies. Imme diately after the British appeared over a ridge, the Fular. s charged with fa natical bravery un leterred by a wither ing Maxim .and rille fire. They had no proper leaders, t :t the isolated bands continued to s'vance over heaps of dead and dying often only individuals reaching withir. a yard of the square, where refusinr quarter, they were shot down while s outing "Allah," "Allah" with their ln-; breath. The main body of the nativ : were finally routed, leav ing a rtmi. nt of about thirty chiefs around the Izmir's great white flags. These chi fs were defiant to the last and their -corpses were found hedging the stani ,id when the British entered the city, which consisted mostly of thacheu houses. IN FAR AWAY MANILA I)oiiu.s of a Son of Wilmington in n Distant I.nutl. The many friends m "Wilmington of Jlr. Marcus Rternberger will be glad to know that he is steadily progressing In his new field in li'e in the Philip pines. Mr. Sternberger is m the service of the government and is one of its most valuable coast wise inspectors. His father in this city, Mr. Joseph Sternberger. is in receipt of a copy of the Mar: la Cablenews. a daily ten page America i paper published in Manila, which c utains the following: " There is smuggling going on off the the Island of Panay of many valuable pieces--, composed of silver. Collector of Customs has been somewhat puzzled as to the origin of the free entry of this personal property. "Mr. Shuster was seen by a Cable news representative, and stated that he had not been oilicially informed of any extended operations to avoid pay ment of customs duties. However, he remarked that the Island of Panay has always been a source of trouble to the custom officials inasmuch as the typo graphical formation of the island gives and almost free entry for goods deliv ered in the night time. ' Collector Shuster admits that the coast of Panay affords facilties for this kind of work. Mr. M. Sternberger left on the coast guard boat Palawan yes terday for Capiz to relieve Inspector P. A. Jumper. Mr. Sternberger' s assignment is to the new station. Collector Sinister informed a represen tative of the Cablenews that there was no particular case requiring his imme diate action. As stated. 'I have no of ficial information of any extensive smuggling being done in Panay. There has. and always will be. an attempt to use the Southern Islands as basis to bring in dutiable goods through the small ports of the Archipelago as the smugglers, whom once the goods are .r:.e Ian-led. can clear themselves in Manila as having received them from a. e,ast point.' " The Sula was dispatched by Mr. Shuster to patrol the coast of Panay. to offset any attempt on the part of vess-is headed towards Capiz and the f a. t f the Sula being sent there and tii-- rapid transfer of Mr. Sternberger gives some credence to the reported vmmrclimr takinsr place in that section.- Manchnria Free to all Comers. Paris. May 12. The Russian charge d'affaires. M. Plancon, has given reas surances regarding Manchuria. He has issued an official notice that all Man churia is open to foreign travel and add that passports are r.o longer nec essary. There were 500 Russian soldiers at New Chwang. who were removed about the date fixed for the evacuation, and the same number returned to New Chwang. It appears that the Russian force which returned to the Liao forts merely used the forts as temporary reeting places, while journeying south ward to their station on the peninsular. The United States consul at New Chwang has arrived here to confer with Minister Conger. RECKLESS JOIRNALIS3I. The Pennsylvania. Libel Law Signed l,y Governor Penny-packer He Speaks of n Cartoon Hit at Him, and Say Xewnpapcp Articles Canned Three Presidents to be Assassinated. Harrisburg, Pa., May 12. Governor Pennypacker approve! the Grady Salus libel bill today and at the sarno time issued a long statement giving the reasons for his action. The bill whet was in the governor's hands for more than a month goes into effect immedi ately and repeals all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the new act. The governor claims in his statement that there is nothing in the terms; of the measure which prevents any news paper from making such com ments upon legislative measures or upon the official acts of state, munici pal, county or public officers as are proper information for the public or are in the line of legitimate public dis cussion. Continuing he says: "The bill in its application is not confined to officials, but affects as well, the citizen or busi ness man, whose conduct constitutes no part of the right of the public to infor mation. The corporation officer who has been falsely charged with crime; the manufacturer who is falsely accus. ed 'of being a drunken brawler; the wo man whose domestic griefs have .been unfeelingly paraded, or whose chastity is improperly suspected; the student who has been falsely accused of murder, the clergyman who has been cruelly malinged; the quiet citizen whose peace of mind has been destroyed by the publication of evil gossip; the merchant whose credit has been affected by groundless rumors; the sufferers from reckless but not necessarily malicious publications are given the right not to prohibit publication, but to recover the damages which they have sustained, I provided they prove negligence or lack of care on the part of the publishing newspajers. All of these are instances of what has in fact recently occurred. A mayor of our chief city has been called a trailer, a senator of the United States has been denounced as a yokel with sodden brain, and within the last quarter of a century two presidents of the United States have been murdered and in each instance the cause was easily traceable to inflammatory and careless newspaper utterances. "A cartoon in a daily journal of May 2nd defines the question with entire precision. An ugly little dwarf repre senting the governor of the common wealth, stands on a crude stool. The i stool is subordinate to and placed along side of a huge prnting press with wheels as large as those of an ox team and all are so arranged as to give the idea that when the press starts the stool and its occupant will be thrown to the ground. Put into words the car toon asserts to the world that the pres is above the law and greater in strength than the government. No self respecting people will permit such an attitude to be long maintained. In England a century ago the offender would have been drawn and quartered and his head stuck upon a pole with out the gates. In America today this is the kind of arrogance which 'Goeth before a fall.' ' The governor says if such abuse of the privileges allowed to the press is to go unpunished, if such tales are per mitted to be poured into the ears of men and to be profitable, it is idle to contend that reputable newspapers can maintain their purity. He also says that many years experi ence on the bench has led him to the conclusion that crimes are widely pro- pagated not by the malice, but by the recklessness of the press, and that in certain classes of cases, among them murder, the accused were at times ac quitted or convicted before they reach ed the court room. Governor Pennypacker says the rep utable press need have no fear of the operation of the law but that it will have a repressive effect upon the evil tendencies of modern journalism. SHOOTING AT CHADB0URN Two Farmers Fall Out and One Shoots the Other. Yesterday about noon at Chadbourn, on the Wilmington, Columbia and Au gusta railroad, a serious shooting affair occurred between two prominent farm ers of that section of the county, E. 9. Read and Chester Edmunds, and as a result of the occurrence one of the par ticipants. Edmunds, is in the hospital in this city dangerously wounded. He was brought down early this morning on the belated train from the south. The shooting took place near the de pot in Chadbourn. Edmunds accosted Read about killing some of his hogs, which it was alleged Read had shot for running in his Helds. Read called Ed munds, so it is said, a liar and Ed munds returned the epethet. where upon the two clinched and a fight en sued. Read shot Edmunds in the back, while they were clinched, the bullet, of 32 calibre, entered between the left shoulder blade and the spinal column and broke two ribes in its progress. At the time a brother of Edmund's was standing near by and hit Read, after the shooting, with a coupling pin, but notwithstanding Read managed to escape on a train and got as far as Whiteville. where he was arrested and placed in jail. The wounded man. nder the care of Dr. N. A. Thompson, of Whiteville, and accompanied by his brother and several friends, arrived in the city about 1 o'clock this morning and was taken direct to the James Walker Me morial Hospital for treatment. ASSAULTED WITH A BRICK Small Neisro 11 oy Hit a Small White Hoy. A small negro boy, Arthur Walker, was before Mayor Pro Tern W. H. Yopp yesterday for hitting a small white boy, Clarence Davis, in the head with a rock. The injury was not serious, though painful, but as a deadly weapon had been used the defendant was bound over to the next term of the superior court in the sum of $50. He failed to give the bond and was sent to jail. The assault happened yesterday morn ing on Sixth street, between Bladen and Harnett, and was caused by a game of street base ball, which the negro de sired to participate in and was not al lowed to do so by the white boy. BUNCO GAME Colombia's Ugly Tactics With Regard to the Panama Canal WANTS A DIVIDE Impression Created at Washington That the Colombians by Their Op position to the Treaty With the United States Are Endeavoring: to Suneeze the Owner of the Canal Route for a. Part of the 40,000,000 to he Paid Them The Nicaraguan Canal Project to toe Resumed. Washington, May 12. Dr. Thomas Herran, Colombian charge d'affaires, said today that he had not been advis ed by his government that President Marroquin had resigned, as reported in dispatches from Panama. If it shall appear shortly that the Colombian gov ernment is unwilling to consummate the treaty, or is disposed to defer final action beyond the "reasonable time" mentioned in the Spooner act, the state j department will at once endeavor to re j open negotiations with Nicaragua and Costa Rica with a view to securing control of the alternate route for a ca nal through these countries. In fact, Secretary Hay has already within the week talked with Senor Corea, the Nic araguan minister, and Senor Calvo, the minister from Costa Rica. It is said by parties to the negotiations that if they are resumed it will be upon the distinct understanding that the United States government definitely abandons the Panama route. So much ill feeling was excited in Nicaragua and Costa Rica by the dropping of the Nicaragua route after the protocols had been drawn looking to its acquisition, that the resident ministers of the two countries here are very loth to take up the subject again without an express agreement that they are not to be used to club the Colombian government Into terms. The officials here, however, feel very confident that it will not necessary to resort again to the Nicar aguan route, for they believe the pres ent difficulties in the Panama negotia tions are solely attributable to efforts on the part of the Colombians to make the most of the opportunity to induce the Paiama canal company to divide with it tsome part of the $40,000,000 to be received by the company from tb United States. AX ELASTIC CURRENCY. At the JleetiiiK of the Texas Bank ers Yesterday Ex-Secretary Gnage Advocated a Credit or Asset Cur rency. Sherman, Texas, May 12. The Texas Bankers' Association met here today and listened to the reading of a num ber of letters from prominent bankers in other states. One of the letters was from ex-Secretary, of the Treasury Lyman J. Gage, who discussed the question "Is the Money Supply of the United States Sufficient?" "I answere the ques tion," he said, "by expressing the very grave doubt whether it be adequate in volume, and a clear conviction that It is not economical in character. The provision for supply ought to have re ference to recurring needs, responding in volume when occasions for use of currency are the greatest and retiring naturally as the requirements grow less exacting." He argued for a credit or asset currency, saying that he was well aware that deep prejudice exists against either, -Tut an honorable his tory of such a currency for a genera tion in several states, "and a history of several generations abroad, fully Justify the belief that with some rea sonable and just guards around it, we can gain the advantage of an adequate currency without any risk of disaster, or the loss of a single dollar." He as serted that the following proposition could be successfully supported: 1. Such a currency is required in the interest of the whole country. 2. The protection of the note holder against deprecation or loss may be made entirely adequate. 3. There need be no dangerous credit expansion through bank note issues if reasonable limitation be imposed as to volume, and a propr system of central redemption provided. 4. Such a currency would go far to ward arresting the annually recurring anxiety occasioned by the impairment of reserves, called into temporary use. as they are to serve as a medium of circulation in the movements of crop harvesting. 5. It would tend to steady the rates of interest in the central cities, and prevent the violent and costly pertur bations between "Money as a Drug" and "Money impossible to borrow," and thus save the individual investors the great losses now so frequently ex perienced by reason of fluctuations in the money roarket. 6. It would be in the interest especial ly of the agricultural classes, affording them as it would an adequate supply of a safe circulating medium of ex change and payment, on terms more favorable than they could otherwise enjoy. News Notes from Wilson. (Special to The Messenger.) Wilson, N. C, May 12. Yesterday was most fitly and appropriately ob served here as Memorial day. Judge Connor made a most admirable address, and was introduced by John W. Blount, Esq. Our streets were thronged all the day, and in the big procession there were hundreds of old veterans. Our superior court convened this morning with . that admirable Jurist, Judge Brown, presiding. GREAT OVATION. President itoosevelt's Reception at San Fraicisco Yesterday He Burn ed 8115.USO Y. M. C. A. Building Bonds and Joined in Singing Praise God From Whom All Bless ing Flon"-He Made n Speech for the Tariff, Sound Money, and on Elastic Currency. San Francisco. May 12. Heartier greetings were never given a president of the United than that offered today by the city of San Francisco to Theo dore Roosevelt. Through miles and miles of densely packed, cheering, pa triotically enthused humanity, the na tion's chief passed, bowing his ac knowledgements, evidently wearied by maintaining an erect position in his carriage, but buoyed up by the impres siveness of the demonstration. It was a magnificent ovation. When the presidential train, drawn by a handsomely decorated locomotive arrived, the president was welcomed by Mayor Schmitz and M. H. de Young, president of the citizens' re ception committee. Mr. Roosevelt expressed his thanks to each in a few words and was then introduced to Admiral Rickford, of the British Pacific squadron, who con veyed the good wishes of King Edward and said that the arrival of the flag ship of the squadron to assist in the greeting was another instance of the cordial reations existing between the two nations. President Roosevelt said he appreciated the evidence of friend ship and begged that his good wishes be given to his majesty. Before entering his carriage, Mr. Roosevelt stepped up to the locomotive and warmly shook hands with En gineer McGrail and Fireman Everily, who had piloted him safely from the south. In the parade the line was headed by a troop of colored cavalrv. this being" the first instance in the west where negro soldiers have held tha position of honor in a public proces sion. Following the president came United States troops from the local posts, sailors and marines from the warships in the harbor and at Mare Island, regiments of the state militia, and a number of semi-military organ izations. A notable feature was the fancy marching of the Cleveland .Grays, who came from Ohio to participate in the California greeting. After reviewing the parade the pres ident was escorted to the Y. M. C. A. building where a throng had assem bled to participate in the burning of mortgages and notes representing the total indebtedness of $115,280 upon the property. The president, by request touched a lighted match to the docu ments and as the flames licked up the papers he Joined with the assemblage in singing "Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow." The president made a brief address. The president was banqueted tonight at the Palace Hotel by the citizens committee. In his speech at the ban quet he aid: "We have attained our present posi tion of leadership in the international business world, in a tariff policy which I think our people as a whole have ac quiesced in as essentially wise alike from the standpoint of the manufac turer, the merchant, the farmer and the wage worker. Doubtless as our needs shift it will be necessary to re apply in Its detail this system so as to meet these shifting needs, but it would certainly seem from the standpoint of our business interests, most unwise to abandon the general policy of the system, under which our success has been so signal. In nancial matters we are to be congratulated upon having definitely determined that our currency system should rest upon a gold basis; for to follow any other course would have meant disaster so widespread that it would be difficult to over-estimate it. There is. however, unques tionable need of enacting further financial legislation, so as to provide for greater elasticity in our currency system. So, in my judgment, the con gress that is to assemble next fall, should take up and dispose of the pressing questions relating to banking and currency." BOLD NIGHT ROBBERY". XiKht Watchman Knocked Down and Robbed of Ilia Watch and Chain Hope Mills Votes for Schools Beantifnl Colonial Home. (Special to The Messenger.) Fayetteville, N. C. May 13. Last night J. W. Holly, watchman at the Norfolk Lumber Mills in east Fayette ville. was knocked down and robbed of a watch and chain. The robber then rifled the money drawer of the com pany, but obtained little, as the cash and other valuables had been removed for the night. Holly knows his assail ant, and the police are after him today. An alarm brought the fire depart ment out last night to a building on Franklin street, owned by Ed. Evans, and occupied by several tenants. Not much damage was done to the prop erty, but the fire was evidently in cendiary, as oil was found poured over the steps and other parts of the build ing. The thriving towns of Hope Mills Nos. 1 and 2, situated on Rockfish. seven miles south of this city, voted in favor of graded schools yesterday by good majorities. At the first the vote was 93 for and 12 against; at the sec ond, 94 for and S against Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Holt have moved into their new residence on Haymount, and a lovelier home cannot be found elsewhere in North Carolina. The plai of exterior architecture, colonial style, has been carried out in every detail, blending in one harmonious whole, while the interior is a model of taste, elegance and comfort, with high-pitched rooms, broad halls, exquisite til ings, manteling. wainscoting and stair ways. The wall frescoing is by An derson, the Swedish artist, whose work on the interior of the First Presby terian church is so much admired. The surrounding grounds fitly set off the Holt home a profusion of flowers and grasses in front, with terraces, groves and driveways extending to the creek In the rear. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Williamson will board for the summer at "Pine View," Mrs. J. B. Broadfoot's pleasant resort on Haymount, pending the building of their residence on the arsenal grounds, overlooking the city. The convention of the Episcopal Brotherhood of St. Andrews for North and South Carolina, will be held here during the sessions of the Council of the Diocese of East Carolina, begin ning on Wednesday, the 20th instant. Many distinguished clerical and lay delegates of the Brotherhood are ex pected, among them Bishop Caper, of South Carolina, and Dr. Wood, of New York. A large crowd took part in the me morial exercises at Chicora Confed eate cemetery, where Mr. E. R. Mp Kethan. of this city, introduced by Mr. J. C. Clifford, of Harnett county, de livered a fine address. Mr. W. N. Tillinghast has been elect ed treasurer of the board of trustees of the city graded schools; of course a better choice could not have been made, Mr. A. A. McKethan, Jr., is rush ing work in the construction of the plant of the new pine product com pany, situated in the southeastern out skirts of the city. The buildings, which are near completion, are exten sive, and the machinery will be of the very best in every department. Mr. John K. Strange, who has been with the Cape Fear Electric Power Company, and the Fayetteville and Wilmington Steamboat Company, has taken a position at Jacksonville, Fla., with the Stevens-Merrill Company, builders of the steamer "City of Fay etteville." Mr. W. A. Phillips is now with the Hope Mills Manufacturing Company as storekeeper. Mr. A. J. Marshall, of the Wilming ton bar, was here yesterday, repre senting Mrs. Alice Phillips, petitioner for partition of real estate. Col. T. C. James, of Wilmington. Is registered at the Hotel LaFayette to day. The annual meeting of the stockhold ers of the Hope Mills Manufacturing Company takes place next Wednesday, the 20th instant, in the offices of the company at the town of Hope Mills. State Senator Joseph A. Brown, of Columbus ounty, who was a prominent candidate for congress in the Fayette ville convention last August, was in the city yesterday. THE STRANDED SHIP. The Immigrants on Board the Vera Cruz III Have Arrived at Xew Bern and Will he Inspected There. Pitifnl Story of Their Trip Across the Sen. Charlotte, N. C, May 12. A special to The Observer from New Bern, N. C. says: The revenue cutter Boutwell, Cap tain Seplam. arrived here today at 1 o'clock with the 391 immigrants taken from the wrecked barkentine, Vera Cruz III. Upon arrival of the cutter at the wharf she was boarded and quarantined by Assistant Surgeon Primroe, of the quarantine station of the Port of New Bern. His report was that the immigrants were in good con dition considering the hardships they have experienced and that examination Ehowed that 90 per cent, of them had had smallpox. The manifest of the wrecked barkentine showed that 290 were signed for, but when they were taken from the wreck 392 were found, but one died after reaching shore, thus leaving 101 more than the manifest called for. Captain J. M. Fennandez was in charge of the Vera Cruz and the papers received at the custom house here show that he left Brava, Cape Verde, April 1. It is reported that he has left for parts unknown, but this is not confirmed. The immigrants" are in charge of the officers of the Boutwell and are being cared for at the govern ment yards, where they will remain until the immigrant inspector arrives. The story they tell is quite pathetic. When they left Brava they wen- each allowed one biscuit with a little brown sugar sprinkled on it a day, and when their water got low they were made to put one bucket of fresh to two buckets of sea-water for drinking purposes. Thousands of people flocked down to the yard to see the strangers and in the afternoon they were moved to sell some of the souvenirs that they brought over with them. SOMEWHAT CONFLICTING. Norfolk, Va., May 12. A message from Hatteras today states that the barkentine Vera Cruz III which is ashore at Ocracoke inlet, is in good condition. Agent Seymour, of the Mer ritt Wrecking Company, stated tonight that he had not yet heard from W. S. Tooker, who was sent to the scene to examine the vessel, but it was believed that the vessel which is an old one, would hardly be worth trying to float since she is high and dry, and it would require an extraordinary high tide to get barkentine into her native element again. STRIKERS WERE ENJOINED. Singular Case Being Heard Before the Uniteil States Court of Appeals at Richmond. Richmond. Va., May 12. In the Uni ted States circuit court of appeals here today. Judges Goff, Simonton and Mor ris heard arguments on appeal of the famous coal strike case, inaugurated against the union miners in West Vir ginia, by the Chesapeake and Ohio coal agency company, and various mine owning concerns. On the 30th day of July, 1902, the Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Agency Company presented to Judge Keller its bill of complaint, alleging among other things that the defendants, J. W. Car roll, W. B. Wilson. John Mitchell, in conjunction with others, were conspir ing togerher to interfere with the op erating and conducting of their coal mines and coke plants. Judge Keller issued a restraining order inhibiting John Mitchell and all others associat ing or acting with him from in any wise interfering with the management, operation or conduct of mines by their owners or those operating them, either by menaces, threats or any character of intimidation used to prevent the em ployes from "going to or from the mines and coke plants, or from engaging n the business of mining or laboring at coke plants. On January 30th 1903, Judge Keller entered an order, upon motion by cer tain of the defendants, to dissolve the injunction as to them, dismissing the bill as tf certain defendants but as to all others he made the temporary re straining order a permanent one. The remaining hundred or more de fendants took an appeal from the or der. And it is on their appeal that the case comes up in the United States cir cuit court of appeals for hearing. WASTED BY" CIVIL, WAR. Gloomy and Deplorable Condition of Affairs in Colombia Depreciated. Currency Which Takes ?2,000 to Bny an American Dollar. Washington, May 13. A gloomy pic ture of the terrible plight in which Co lombia finds itself, as the result of the exhausting four years of rebellion is contained in a communication which has reached this city from a source of unquestionable reliability. These advices state that on March 1st last, the government gave notice that it had stopped the issue of paper money. Consequently the government early in April was almost entirely with out funds. It had not enough to pay running expenses, to say nothing of foreign claims and demands. Not a cent of interest had been paid on na tional debt since the war commenced in 1S9S. The claims growing out of the recent revolution were assuming tre mendous proportions and as there was no other matins of relief It was appar ent that the government again must have recourse to the lithograph stones and start the presses running again Moreover, it was the general opinion that even the small measure of relief which might follow the receipt of the $10,000,000 from the United on account of the Panama canal could not be ob tained as it was not expected that con gress would ratify the treaty. At one time last year exchange on New York was 22,000. that is to say 22,000 Colom bian dollars were required to purchase one dollar's worth of goods in the United States. It was feared that the rate would be even higher this summer, for there was over one billion dollars' worth of this paper money afloat, and it was expected that five hundred mil lion more would be issued immediately to pay war expenses. The correspon dent said the conditions in Colombia at the beginning of April were compara ble to those existing in France in 1796. FALSE RUMOR. Washington, May 13 "I doubt very much if President Marroquin has re signed as president of the Colombian government," said Dr. Herran, the Co lombian charge d'affaires today. "I always have been promptly advised by cable of any cabinet changes, and es pecially when such changes affected the office of foreign affairs. Neither the state department nor the legation has received confirmation of the re ported resignation, therefore, it does not seem reasonable." Mr. Cromwell, counsel for the Pana ma canal company, discussed the canal situation with Secretary Hay today. His advices from the company agents on the isthmus contradict the story printed yesterday to the effect that President Marroquin had resigned. As communicated to Secretary Hay they were to the effect that the Marroquin government is actually stronger now owing to the resignation of General Fernandez as minister of war. Fernan dez is said to have been a discordant element in the cabinet and the fact that his strong personality could be disposed of without causing any commo tion is considered an evidence of Mar roquin's power. THE PORTUGUESE IMMIGRANTS. They Are Still at New Bern-New, England Firm Denies That the Wrecked Ship Was Consigned, to Them. Washington, May 13. The Treasury, department has received a dispatch from New Bern, N. C, announcing the arrival there of the immigrants taken from the wrecked Portuguese barken tine Vera Cruz III. The immigration officials who were sent to make the inspections have not reached New Bern. Blank manifests have been sent, aa the department assumes that the ship's papers were lost with the vessel. A telegram from Boston announces that, the firm at New Bedford to which the ship was said to be consigned denies, that it is the consignee and declines all responsibility for the vessel. The department has cabled to the United States consul at Brava, Cape Verde Islands, for particulars of the ship's destination and consignee. Republican Congressman Doesn't AVnnt a eKru Postmaster Baltimore. May 13. William H. Jack son, republican member of congress from the First Maryland district, an nounced today that he will ask for the discontinuance of the postoffice at Quinlecuquia in Somerset county, to which Andrew J. Day, a negro, was appointed recently. This is said to be the first colored postmaster appoint ed in this state. Congressman Jackson says he will ask for the discontinuance of the post office because it is unnecessary and be cause Day is not a proper person to hold such an office. Day has lived in Maryland only a short time, coming here from Virginia. Railway Telegraph Superintendents. New Orleans, May 13. The twenty second tnnual convention of the Asso ciauon ci" Railway Telegraph Superin tendents met here today. J. H. Jacoby, of South Bethlehem, Pa., presided. In dionapolis was selected for next year's convention. These officers were elect ed : President C. S. Rhoades, Indian apolis. Vice President C. P. Adams, of Jer sey City. Secretary P. W. Drew, cf Milwau kee. The Tennessee Hold-Up. Washington, May 13. Postmaster General Payne has received a tele gram from Inspector Conger, of the rural free delivery service at !Nash ville, Tenn., who investigated the hold up of the colored rural carrier near Gal latin, Tenn.. saying that his report would be submitted at the end of this week. iJockcy Badly Hurt. New York. May 13. Jockey Barry was seriously hurt in the running of the Knickerbocker Hurdle handicap at Morris Park today. Seminole fell at the last hurdle. Barry, his rider, was thrown over his head and the horse, fell on him. Barry was removed to the Fordham hospital, where it was said he was suffering from concussion of the brain. Paint Your Bo&sry for 75c to $1.00 with Devoe'r Gloss Carriage Paint. It weighs 3 to S ozs. more to the pint than others, wears longer, and gives a gloss equal to new work. Sold by M. W. Divine & Co.