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BRIEF NEWS KOTES FOR THE BUS) MAN 1 T _______ ? w. MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OP THE PA8T WEEK TOLD IN , CONDENSED FORM. WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED plJts Review of Happenings ?f Greatest Interest From All . Parts of World Southern* In Birmingham, Ala., one man ,waa klled and two Injured by the explo alon of a pot of molten slag at the Ajttce furnace of the Slosa-Sheffleld EMbel and Iron Company. The dead, Onest Corley,- a a negro switchman. Infnred, R. L. Montgomery, engineer, bpdly burned about shoulders; J. A. ftogers, fireman, burned on arms. The molten elag spread oyer the negro, and t%e men en the englns saved them s*ree by uncoupling the pot car and rvanlng the pot engine out of danger. The Ynited States mall boat L?a porte. a gasoline launch which carries moll to the St. Johns river towns iu Florida, sank while. off Arlington. The boat was overloaded with mall and parcels poet matter besides some cargo sad went down in 19 feet of water, 200 Met off shore. 1m New Orleans several hundred panic-stricken school children fled from the Amesville school building in a blinding rainstorm when lightning struck an oil tank belonging to the Texas Oil company and Bet fire to the more than 2,000.000 gallons of crude oil which it contained. There was no explosion, but the flames burst forth in an Instant and enormous volumes o\ black smoke ascended to a height of more than a thousand feet. \ Two men are dead and a third mor* tally wounded as a result of two pis tol battles near Vienna, Ga. The first encounter was between Oscar Blow and P. P. Sangester, the latter being killed. When Sheriff Bennett and his \ deputies cornered Blow he opened fire, shooting the sherifT In the stomach. The officer killed Blow as he fell. One hundred thousand dollars' dam age was done, and several hundred men and women thrown out of employ ment when fire destroyed ' :u - Hgfcr factories, three sponge 1 *vo lumber sheds and .severu er buildings In Key West, Fla. '1 1 ?*o was discovered In the factory *2 the Key West Cigar company, and spread rapidly, for. a time threatening the low business section of the city. W.- Williams, 64-year-old slayer of his wife, Mrs. Henrietta Williams, of Rome, Ga., was sentenced to life imprisonment at the state farm. The jury bringing a v?rdict of guNtv, with recommendation to mercy after the minutes' deliberation. The defense's plea o! insanity and the age of Wil liams were the contributing factors to the lienency. Raving Just before dying of con sumption, William Fine, aged 50, of Newport. Tenn., is alleged to have " claimed that he had the blood of four persons on his hands and that he could not expect forgiveness. General William Jennings Bryan, speaking at a dinner given in honor ot the foreign members of the International confer ence that is arranging the celebration of 104 years ot peace among English speaking peoples, In New York, de clared that "the new peace plan offered by President Wilson to all nations la the latest and longest step toward peace. It contemplates time for in vestlgatlon and deliberation," he said, "and this makes the possibility of war remote." James P. Thompson. James E. Hus sey, John J. Murtha and Dennis Swee ney, the four demoted police Inspec tors, charged with a conspiracy to of struct justice In New York, were con victed by a jury In the supreme coijit. Only 38 minutes were taken by the Jurors to reach their verdict that the defendants were guilty of a misde meanor in plotting to keep a proa, pective witness against the "system" from -making graft disclosures before the grand pury. In New York a despondent east aide paper cutter released such a quantity of gas when he turned on the Jet In committing suicide that the fumes filled the tenement building where he liYed and an explosion occurred, In which more than a score of persons were Injured, two of them probably mortally. The explosion and reBultant fire caused a panlo in the neighbor hood, a crowded section on Madison street. _ . Hauling vegetables with play ex press wagons, wheelbarrows, and trl cy A, 6,000 Spokane school children wiiAake part In a vegetable parade in which several thousands boys and girls are causing as many backyards to blossom and produce real money. Fourteen convicts, some of them life termers, escaped from a stockade near I Largo, Fla. Guards discovered the ' break and headed off the rest. One | bloodhounjl was killed during the ulght by the fugitives. , 1 Contracts liave been placed for the oonstructlon In Japanese yards of three dread naughts. The Italian foreign minister. Mar quis Di San Otullano, and the Spanish ambassador have signed an agrvment whereby Italy and 'Spain reciprocally grant In Morocco and Lldya the noat favored national treatment ai uo* Angelea Lieutenant J. D. t"*rk. a military aviator, who started !roru San Diego on a flight to Los An waa killed at Olive, nine miles jarth of Santa Ana. Lieutenant Park net his death In a (all of less than flf :een feet. Professor Hugo Munsterberg, a Ger man citizen, told the American com mittee ararnglng for a celebration of 100 rears of peace among English speaking peoples in New York, that '.here were many "non-English people" who regarded the movement a forerun ner of an alliance between England and the United States antagonistic to Sermany. Aleko Schlnas, who assassinated King George, of Greece, oh March 19 at Salonlkl, committed suicide by flinging himself out of a window of the police station in Athens. Schlnas gave at an explanation of the crime that in 1911 he had applied tor-wf cslstance at the king's palace and had been drlyen away. In Syracuse, N. Y., determined ef forts were made . to settle the strike of building laborers which developed a series of riots In which twenty-five persons, nine of them policemen, were wounded. The strikers met wjth Sessare Sconfettl, Italian consu lar agent at Rochester, who came to Syracuse and appointed a committee to wait on the employers with a view of arbitrating the wage dispute! The contnractors have signified their wll llngness to arbitrate. When the new submarine torpedo boat H-l was launched at the Union Iron works, in San Francisco, Cal., an American naval tradition was shattered. For the first time in the country's history a United States war ship was christened by a subject of a foreign country. Miss Leslie Jean Meakln, who stood sponsor for the new craft, was born in Montreal and Is a subject of King George. In London the fate of the woman's suffrage bill was sealed by the votes of more than fifty Irish nationalists, who voted .against it. The bill, where by It Was sought to enfranchise 6, 000,000 women, was rejected by a ma jority of- 47; the vote stood 266 to 219. The rebel committee received verifl cation of the report that General Tracy Aubert had surrendered to the Carra zana insurgents at Lampasas, below Laredo, Tejj, The verlflfcation was brought to the border by Major Salca dor Gomez, of the state forces, who says he saw the surrender of Aubert and 700 federal troops. Washington Keen interest is being displayed bj i the government and the public general ly in what action the United States will take as a consequence of the I virtual repudiation of Ambassador I Wilson by President Huerta. The president has made no statement eith er to Ambassador Wilson or ? to the public qualifying his statement thai Mr. Wilson, "diplomatically, has nc I standing" but foreign. Mlnistei De La Barra displayed an eagerness j to minimize the incident. Charles C. Glover, the Washington banker, who recently attacked Repre 8entative Sims, of Tennessee, on ao count of a speech delivered in the house, was brought before the bai | of the house in Washington and repri manded by Speaker Clark for vlolat ing the privileges of the house. A resolution authorizing the banker's arrest had been adopted with only four dissenting votes. When brought in by the sergeant at arms. Glover read an apology, saying that his act was com mitted under great stress of feeling and that he did not know he was af fronting the house. | All fourth -c hiss postmasterships, ex. cept those paying less than $180 a year, were thrown open to competitive examination by an order issued by Resident Wilson at Washington. These positions are retained In the classified service, but about 50,000 In cumbents who were "covered" Into the classified service by executive orders of previous administrations, will have to meet all comers In competitive ex amlnations to hold their positions with civil service protection. Approximately 93,000 acres ot moun tain land In Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and West Virginia, was approved (or purchase by the national forest reserve commission. This will make almost 600,000 acres bought by the government up to date for the Appalachian and White mountains forest reservation. By a vote of 41 to 32 the senate refused to accept an amendment to the sundry civil bill by Senator Qalllng^r striking out a clause exempting labor and farmers' organisations from prose oution under the anti-trust law with funds appropriated by the bill. Three Republican senators, Jones, Lafolette and Norrls, voted with the Democrats against tbe Gallinger amendment and two Democrats, Pomer and Thomas, Joined the Republicans In supporting it. Representative Thomas M. Bell's nomination- of A. S. Hardy, editor ot the Gainesville Eagle, to be postmas ter at Gainesville. Ga? was turned down and President Wilson sent in the name of Mrs. H. W. J. Ham, widow of "Snollygoster" Ham, to succeed Mrs. Helen D; Longstreet. The Japanese embassy was supplied by the state department with a copy of the alien lan-ownlng bill passed by th? California legislature and the am bassador will employ the time between now and Secretary Bryan's return to Washington In preparing a formal pro test against the measure. Apparently the embassy has no hope that any word President Wilson may send after Secretary Bryan returns will Influence Governor Johnson to withhold his sig nature from the qft, so the dfely ob ject of the protest will be to acquaint the American people with the Japanese contention. Wonderful Skin Stive Bucklen'a Amira Salve 14 known everywhere a? one oi~%he beet remitHen made for ull diseases of the ikm, and also for burnt, brusies and boifs. Re duces inflamation uod it toothing and . healing. J. T. SottHamtfn, publisher of News, of CorneliUH N. C., writes that one bos helped hit* adrioim skin ailment when all other remedies failed. Only 26c. Recommended by Aycock Dru^ Co. ? The only thing yoa own after noh die ii what yott have given away. SALE OF LAND AND PROPERTY FOR c TAXES III accordance with an ordinance pass ed by the Board ol Town Commission erij and by authority -of the charter of the town of Louisburg, 1 will on Mon day, June 2nd 1913, sell at the court houae door in Louisburg tbe following town lot* for non payment of taxes due thereon for 1912. The taxes and coats are aa follows: Alston, Henry R.', 1 lot Hal- , If ax street ? < $ 2.18 Cash, Georgian tin, 1 lot Eger ton 2.40 Dent, G. N., 1 lot Halifax 8.71 Davis, Algia, 1 lot Halifax 2.9S Egerton, Amoe, 1 lot Ken more aye., 5.48 Foater, Millie, 1 lot, Averitt ave., 2.4ft Griffin, R. H., 1 lot Railroads 6.80 Green, Austin, 1 lot Mineral Springs 6.37 Green, John, 1 lot Mineral Springs 6.58 Hawkins, Mrs, M. E., 1 lot Church street ) Hawkins, Mrs. M. E., 1 lot > 35.95 Middle street 1 Hollingsworth, T. A., 1 lot Main street 3.50 Hayes, John, 1 lot Terboro road J.45 Hawkins, Dolly, 1 lot Cedar street ' <1.85 King, Louis, 1 lot Main street 2.81 Lank ford. June, 1 lot Halifax 7.08 McDowell, Walter S., 1 lot v Blab town 6.80 .Owen, Mary, 1 lot Rsilioad 5.43 Overby, Archie, 1 lotTarboro road 2.02 Perry, Stephen, 1 lot Halifax 5.70 Ruflin; Mary, 1 lot Slab town 2.40 Williams, Gus, 1 lot Halifax 8.73 Williams, Phil, 1 Jot King 14.71 Wood, Dave. 1 lot Tatboro road 4.05 Yarbbro, Henry K., -1 lot Tarboro r< ad Yarboro Henry K., llot Main street 19.09 Yarboro, Calvin, est 1 lot I Newport * Yarboro, Calvin, est., 1 Min eral Springs 7.24 R. W. Hudson, T^x Collector. May 2, 1913. SOUTHERN RAILWAY PREMIER CARRIER OF THE SOCTH SCHEDULE OF TRAIN8 FROM RALEIGH N. B: The following schedule figure* are published only a ? inf?rmat?ou and are not guaranteed. Nc- 21-H:85 A. M. ? Through train for Aebeville with chair car for Waynes ville. Connects at Apheville with Carolina Special for Cincinnati. Chi cego, also for Knoxville, Chattan ooga, Memphis and all Western point*. Connect# at Greensboro for all Northern and Eastern points. No 146-12:40 P. M.? For Durham. Oxford, Kevsville and Richmond. Connects at Richmond for Washington. Balti more, Philadelphia end New York. No 130-4:63 P. M. ? For Greensboro han dles through Pullman Sleeping Car for Atlanta, arrives Atlanta r?:2!> A. M. connccting at Greennhoro for all Northern and Eastern Points, also Asheville and Western points. Mm kes connection in Atlanta for New Orleans, Birmingham, Memphis und for Tex '* and California peints. No 131-7:00 P. M.? For Greensboro maker* connection with solid PullmAn Car Train for Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and all oth?r Northern and Eaatern points. Also with through Pullma j Tourist Car for New Orleans El Paso, Los Ang I ee nnd Ban Francisco. also wih through train for Columbia. Savan nah and Jacknonvillv. No 11 1-2:30 A. M.? For Greensboro. Han dles Pullman Sleeping Car for Win ?ton-Sale"*, whieh is open for occu pancy at Raleigh at 10:00 P. M MaKe* connection for po>nts North and West, also for Asheville, Mem phis, St. Louts and Western points, also connects with through Solid Pullman Car Train for Atlanta aud New Orleaus. No 112-4:30 A. M. ? For GoMsboro makes connection for . Wi'mfngton; New Bern, Morehead City. Also connects with A. C. L. at Selma for points South and North. No 108-10:40 A. M.? Local train tar Selma nnd Goldsboro. New train service ?ffective January 19th, 1913. No 144 12:30. P. M ?For SelmA and Golds boro, makes .connection at Selma with A. C. L. Railway, North aid South, also at Goldsboro with A. C. L. and Norfolk 8outbern R?ilways No. 22-7:80 P. M.-For, Selma and Golds boro, through train with chair ca. from Ashsville. Makes connection at Selma with A. C. L. Railway North and South and at Goldsboro with A. C. L. and Norfolk-8oui hero Railways. For detailed. information, also for infor mation co?i*Aiing special round-trip rates account vari? us special occasions and Pullman Sleeping Car reservations asx any Southern Railway Agent or communicate withthe undersigned. H. V. CART, J. O. JONES, Oen'l. Pass. Agt. Tray- Pass. Agt. Washington, P. Raleigh, N. C. 8. H. HARDWICK, H. H. COAPMAN, Pass. Traffic Mgr. Vice Pres. 4 Gen. Mgr. Washington D. C WILLIAMSON PRESSING CLUB Louisburg, N. C. Tho place to have your clothes prop erly cleaned and pressed at reasonable prices. > , UptStairs ' in A. ,T. Neal Building phone no. so. eft * ? . "V . ? ' . ?? WITH THE ?' ? ?" ? ?f. ? ~\ : ' .*? *' ? . ?. 4 SPRING SEASON * . ) ?? , - ^ Comes the time for your house cleaning. While doing this you will >0 doubt ind several pieces of old furniture that needs replacing or the need of some Dew pieces. It will pay" you to come in and see our stock. This season especially the splendid selections we are showing have received the heartiest approval from the best judges. Oar prices are right and you will ind that it will pay you to come in and look over eur line. OUR UNDERTAKING DEPARTMENT '/ always receives wir best attention and should yau need aur services in this line we can assure yoa ? f the best the market affords. W. E, White Furniture Co. i LOUISBURG- NORTH CAROLINA Jon't Your Horse Suit You? Then e??e to see us and" let us trade you pne that will. Our j Mr, Fuller is now in markets purchasing a nice lot of good horses and his long experience and fair dealing will guarantee you satisfaction. Come to see us and lets talk it over anyway FULLER &. PERRY Spire's Chicken and Egg Market. We want all your chickens and egps. Pay. highest cash prices. Also p?as. corn, dried Ripples, peaches, sweet po tatoes, all kinds meats. We have a lot of new plow castings wcwill swap you for old iron. Come to _??<? us. I. this space Belongs to F. W. JUSTICE THE COUNTRY MERCHANT ? ? ? . * ? t. ?
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