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year TICE. 3d as administrator j. C. NeiH, deceased, aoia county, North to notify all pei^soDs g’ainst the estate of exhibit them to the re vard^ N. C., on or 910, or this notice bar of their recov- indebted to said le make immediate R. D. NLILL, tor of L. C. Neill. 1909. re citjiVES AIKEN sh to order TOMBSTONES, franite, etc. orders until you* OFFETT actor led on all worfc rtly. MLY NEWSMPE8 IK TBAMWWAWIA jWIITlt,, .,t.7 ,.1i;r 1 ,.i?««,«; h s5Clv*ij‘Bt -XI3f %.IHItE*:(llMBf Alto WbtAGEI T ■.■.-■-..y ^1. I..I I, ft |'|- ■> r ^ 1^ _ ^ ^ . '. /,...■ ' ' ■ :: ■„ - ■ - >; - . .-, ; A HOME Foit HQMjB':^bgx^ HOME PRINT VOLUME 25 Philadelphia Servfce Having Trouble WUh thiployees. CASS WEES SET ON FIRE ,„ Kensington, Pi.iiadf.l::'.s'a Great, Mill District, the Most S^srious DIs- turbances Occurred—Gars Attacked by Boys and Strike Symphathisers. philadelplila—Coming when .least expected, a strike 'was declared eainst the Philadelphia Rapid Tran-. !ft Company, hy the Amalgramated Associatoin of Street ’ ^nd* ' Electric ^ilway Employees. Two cars were burned, a score more attacked, their crews forced to abandon tbem, and numerous arrests were made. Ex cept in the central part of ^he city, vhere the ears were heavily protect ed street car service' was almost, at a standstill. • • ‘ Cars Wrecked and Fired. In Kensington, Philadelphia’s great mill district, the most serious distrub- ances occurred. Here two cars at tacked by boys and strike. sympha- tbizers, after the crews were com pelled tcf flee, were wrecked and set on fire. The cars were damaged be yond repair before the firemen ar rived. . Great crowds collected in this vi-* dnity, and for a time it was feared a riot would follow: when, however, the firemen were ordered to turn their hose on the crowd, the mob quickly scattered. Alonsr Ke'nsi'nactffn avenne, lum^cr and other cbstrnctiora vpre ^i"ed on the tracks. The usual big Sa^^urdav night crowd, out for fun, was in evi dence, but the street was ^ heavily 'policed, 4md no further general dis order occurre'd... - Struck fey MissHei'. ' "VTest Phila<!elphla, the southern «ed\ou of the citT. Germantown and ot\ieT paT^s of Philadelphia abo re- TsorteA allacks on cars, forcing trol ley men and passengers to seek safe ty. Many persons were struck bv missiles, but no one was seriottsly Jiurt. Second Strike in Year. The strike, the second within a year, came so suddenly that thous ands of persons were caught awav from their hcrmes. The leaders of the union claim that the trouble was started by the company. The corpo ration replies that the strike was a prearranged affair on the part of the union. KIkLS.HIS CHItPREN Crazed >P^thei^ 'Commits > Awful2 Crime -:,at Birmingham,, Ala. Birihfngham, ^Afa^-K?eb¥'ge ^liepliens,' li^ed^ 3§ years,.^ei^glneen on t|^© ?L.ouis- I viHe and Kashvllle Railroad,' evident-! j ly: (craied V at a^..killed i three of his little children, shot and; j wounded his old negro nurse and then * blew out his bTaUts. He** was the srnl of l^bert St^h^ns, a prominent mlnOj operator of this'" district. He entered the room where the old negro nurse had "the youngest child, Jamis, 18 n^biiths old, on her Tap,‘ and’ pulling a pistol shot the child to death. The bullet went through-, the little baby’s, head and struck* the nurse in the head, inflicting" a dangerous wound: . - / The crazed father then shot his two little daughters, Mary E|lizabeth, aged 7 years, and Blanche,' aged 4 years, to death and then shot* him- sell. A ten-year-old-son escaped from the house. A note was left by the fathr- 'saying: *Tm to blame for' it all ” >bout months a£:o, ’Stephens’ wife died. It Is believed the death affected him. IVIEMPHIS HAS $200,000 FIRE. Plant of Bag Company and Several Warehouses Destroyed. Memphis, Tend.—A $200,000 fire de stroyed the plant of the Memphis Bag Company and the ws rehouses Of May or E. H. Crump, in which was stored a big stock of bupra:les ^(fid harness, and H. J. Hasenwinkle .Grfitn Com-' Pany. The loss on all three is prac tically covered by insurance. Five hox cars loaded with burlaps for the Memphis Bag Company, were also d^ stroyed. The fire originated on the second floor of the bag company’s plant. The ^^aze quickly spread to,all parts ^of the building, and to the warehouses adjoining. Three firemen were slight* ^ injured by falling walls. WOMENWM0T Franirfort-on‘Mataj%cne of^e- rioBS tilsiitocfiS. t n l A TRAI^ OF COTTON. Big Shipment of Long Staple, Valued at $100,000. Statesboro, Ga.—The largest ship ment of ocrtton ever leaving States boro and probably the largest ship ment ever received in Georgia by any firrn from an individual left here over the Savannah arid Statesboro railroad for Savannah. The i<^ R. P‘m- mons. one of t>e * 4^^, section. The shipmf"'* ing 709 bales, every b*\le of which i^ seVi Island cotton, and the whole shlo- jnent represents nea/ly $100,000 at> 30 cents per pound. Mr. Simmons has been holding his loDf stopie cotton .^ce the '^st opened, notwltligtandlnsr the fact t^r ■ - at one. time the price of the' staple went down considerably. All the while it was going down he advised the farmers to hold for better prices, expressing his confidence in the price^ going up tfigain. DIED TO SAVE OTHERS. Watchmarl Was* Caught in Machinery of Drawbridge and Crushed.. Fort Mottei, S. C.—Sacrificing his life to save the lives of others, Thom as Jefferson, 30 years night watch man for the Southern Railway at Con- garee river bridge, met with "a horri ble death at ■ his post, being caught in the machinery of the drawbridge and crushed to death. The steamer City of Co'lumbla ar rived at the bridge and the watchman opened the draw for it to, pass, but; as train No. 15 was due he hastened up the track to place a signal to save the passenger train from crashing Into the waters of the Congaree. Coming back to close the draw, the watchman fell into the aperture, used for oiling the machinery of the bridge. Short ly afterwards the train crew closed the draw and crushed the life out of the unconscious man. THE ELECTION-REFORM Most Determihed ahd'^ctive Manifest*; ants Bald to'* Hay^'^ Seen Wofnen— Thought Present C«hai)ceMcr May'Btf Forced to Reslgn.-^lVlatiy Arnestsi • !^erUn.-^Hand-to-hand' fighting be ,tween the Social Democrats and'the police' at Prankfort-on-the-Main .inark-' .ed the riot over the ejection reforms. Dispatches received" pia^d the num ber of Injured at least 100. Chancellorr • Von Bethman-Hcdlweg, alarmed by the situatlc , held a^long conference with his advisers, at which every phase of/franchlBe’reform and the dlsordersV that have been brought about by the government’s stand 6n tliat subject, were dfeicnsse^. The belief is growUig daily Ihat the chancellor will be'’swept from power by this crisis. Only"^j#ai reform—an alteration erf the three classes of vot ers and the complete <Jcrn<^essioi3[ of the secret ballot, such ac used in die United States—cli&k the Social ists, and such changes would alienate the conservatives from the chancellor. Details of the fighting at Frankfort show the struggle w-as the most bitter and serious ‘ of all that- ^ve arisen frorm tha electoral question. The po- licar ‘we»e unable to cope with it and had to call on the troops for aid. Women Lead^ Ribters* Again and again the police and mili tary charged the mobs in,the fsce of ‘storms of missies and the blows of cudgels. Showers of pepper * wera hurled In the faces df the trbops and from 't&^-:^tops of bnj^lniis mtinifest- ^etything -rfse they, cotild Ifly'hqn^^'on'ihlo/tlie ranks. The m'dst ferocious fighters of the radicals v/ere the women. One girl, waving a red flag, stood at the fore front of a gathering of riorters who foogbt back a detachment of police for half an hour at one of the city’s priiicipal corners.' Wholesale arrests were made after the dlsorfdiars and the jails are crowded.. THE HOUSE OF LdRbg. Solemn Ceremony of Swearing in for Perhaps^ Time. London.~^he swe^ing in, of mem* bers of wliat.may be Jthe last house of lords and what is almost certaioly the last as it is now constituted, be^ san with all the., medieval ptnnp of governmental machinery., . A ~ great crbwd was in the‘'chamber of the i hereditary, house and' the galleries were thronged, .some of^ the most fa mous beauties ^d^ society women of Britain bel»| JH-tl^Uadies* gal lery. .The> .belief t^ati; never again.^ would the upper house, be convene! with the same authority as that it now hold« added a eomber dignity-tb the historic show which all the trai^ptngs- and ceremonies could not lend. ’ ^ Enthusiasnd made" itkelf apparent fre<iuently, and^ there were * tiiany .echoes of the past struggle and fore-^ rimners of the coming battle for the curbing of the lords’, powers. ^ One'’of the ^ most Interesting figures in the new house of lords is Herbert Gladstone,.son of the Grand Old Man, who accepted a peerage in spite of ^Is former-c<mnection with the min istry and its bitter fight on the hered itary house. The royal commissioners, desig nated to attend to" the opening fcrr- malities in the place of the klng^ had a busy time of it. ROBBER HAD HIS NERVE. A STRANGE FATA>LITY. FARMER COMMITS SUICIDE. COLLISION ON SEABOARD. our Persons Injured In NortK Caro- lina, But None Seriously. ' Raleigh, N. C.—Foiir persons ^ were “jured, ncme seriously, in a head-on ®o lision at Aberdeen between train th^ Seaboard Air Line, and ® Pinehurst train, of the Aberdeen ^®d Ashboro Railway. f ^®^lision occurred In tbe yard berdeen. The Aberdeen and Ash- ®ro train was shifting a Pullman car position, when the Seaboard, Wife Found- Body of Her Husband Dangling From I^after. ,Scottsboro, Ala.—M. L. Bryant, a well-to-do farmer,* committed^ suieide in an outhouse on his farm near Fack- ler, in" *ra.ekson county, by hanging himself with a rope. V Bryant's wife, mlssttng^ him, at the supper hour. Instituted a seawh^a'nd fcrund the body hanging from a rafter.' Such Seems to Have Pursued Those iri Alleged Caprtol ^Scandal. ■ Harrisburg, Pa.—’This' strange fatal ity. that hAs pursued some of the principal figures in the capItol scan dal was ag^n brought to the public mind when John E. Scott, one of the .chief witnesses in the celebrated case, was found dead in the bathroom of the hous^ where he made his home while in Harrisburg. He is the sixth man In the case to die.r^His death was due to heart trouble. Scott was secretary to the board of public grounds and buildings which I let many of the .ccmtracts for fur nishing the capitol that brought more than a dozen ,men to. the bar of Jus tice. He was a witness in two trials, already held, and was to take the j stand In the case of Joseph M. Hus-; ton, architect of the capitoli* whose I trial will come up next month. Two of thie six men. who died were , under a two years’ sentence, one was awaiting trial and two were important ! witnesses. Besides these, one of the *■ many' men under indictment has been confined in an insane asylum. . Snow" Fl^ Feet Deep« Franklin, Pa.—Country roads about bere.^ire tmpassable because of Iteary snows. -Farmers using coal tor ^fuel are unable, ter reach the mines, f: EARtHQUAKE IN CRETE. Island Shaken by Seismic. Shocks-?- Pebple Panic Stricken. Athens.—terrific eairthquake has shaken Cretie. A village was destroy ed, according to advices received here* ^nto i^ound ^ast tween F^ybei^ and L/uctnda ifarmw and the population of the entire island are cutting up thetr fences . fg m panic. The extent of the Ids^ of scruth, it is said, came In on speed and crashed Into the Aber- and Ashboro train I «‘Th f Backs.' > fine,” said the en- •^»ythini^ patron. «i can’t ima^ne 'littip n ®ore acceptable than a nice * ‘‘U ^“^fsback.” proprietor of the ^ big greenback.’" ‘ ^^^^adelphia Record. : ' : - A food famine is threatened, pi aome part of Venango county the jsnow "te over flve--i^t deep. ^ ; ^ter. .Burgess E>ead, ^ New^ Burgess, jthe Vic tor who_sUupr^, for^^ m bom fe lE^tfin «3 years He wiH be borfei at Hi* country home at life, is not known, but is believed'to have been .heavy. ; - Seismic, disturbances are pervading the entire trough Of Uie Mediterra nean. A^shock was felt at Malta, and Messina^has alk) been shaken. ’The Inhabitants df towns and vil lages are fleeing to the country. Hun- "««rhe" Coanty Fai^t died at his home, 1T7 West Ntoet:fifth ^ st^€A.r He wa«4:dreds have left*Canea, the cblet port] uid Cai^la, the capftaL',:^^: villase demciish^ was Varipetro. Canea puf- fei^4 .iieavily. ‘ " . Looted Drug Store ^While Crowds Were Passing From Theater. Pittsburg.—A‘robber held up a drug store proprietor here, got all the cash from the drawer, and escaped, ia,l4^ though the theatre crowds were pass- in.g at the time and the street was^ brilliantly flighted.; * ' The .robbery was most daring, as the vicinity was brilliantly lighted and. the streets were thronged. In full vi^w of the crowds the higfewaymaii -enterM ''^<3T45ftJg“ stoj® ccrtxist- er, drew a, large revolver from his pocket and commanded the proprietor to throw up his hands. The druggist laughed at the man who announced: *T mean business.” Still covering the doctor,, the robl)er walked around ^ the counter, opened the cash register and put all the cash in his pockets. While he was doihg this, *a negress entered,, and v»?Ten the gun was pointed at .her she fainted. HONOR GIRLS AT VASSAR. Southern Girls Receive Red Roses From Faculty in Token. Poughkeepsie, N. Y.—The names of the honor girls at Va'ssar college have been announced. The announce ment Is one Off the most important of the college year. Each honor student has received a red rose from the faculty in token of the award. Among them are: Charlotte Mof fett Gaylor, Memphis, Tenn.; Mary Margaret Shelly, Louisville, Ky,; Constance Elizabeth Plant, <?!Tielnnati, and Helen Wilmina Young., Hutchin son. Kans. ^ fA SdOtHEHN RAILWAY COMPANY. Operating the TranRylvania Railroad. Effective 12K)1 a. m. Sunday, Sept 26, *09. T TimeTTable No: 0 00 . o’i,. Eastern Standaj^ Time STAtidNS O 03 7.P PM 4 80 Lv'. .Hendersonville Ar f* 46 ....Yale.. s4 61 »M........Hor^e Shoe {4 S6 ....Cannon ; ..T:. 56 OS - S«>wah. 15 11 ...V........fflaiityr>ft.:...,Ji.„ »5 17 -I......-.: pefiwse ............ ft 25 Davidson River...... 30 Pii3«rah ’iroicst.. 40 Ar....+„ Brevard Lv 53 Seiica 01 ,.•••*.« Cherrjfleid 16 Of :«... ...v^.Galvtifft;..'. ^6 10 ............ Rosmaji f& 25 Quebec ...... f6 35 Reid’s"‘’."‘1.. 6 45 Ar...Lake Toxawa’y...Xv A M 10 10 f» 4$ 89 44 f9 89 69 as fu 89 21 5t 13 f»9 10 b9 06 f8 60 f8 43 f8 40 35 f8 2k fs 10 8 to “I” Stop ou fcigiial. * ‘8’ ’ Regular stop. For tickets and fall information apply to T TTE. W. UARTEk, Ag’t. J. H. WOOD, Dist. Pass. Ag’t, Asheville, U. C. County Government*. Representative~G. W. Wilson.; Clerk Superior Court—T. T. Loftis. Sheriff and Tax Collector—C. C. Kilpat rick.;’ Treasmrer^Z. W. Nicholls. Re^ster of Deeds—B. A. Gjllespie. . Coronet—Dr; W. JVWallis. Surveyor—A. L. Hardin.' ' Commissioners—W. M. Henry, Ch’n; G. T. Lyday; W. E. Galloway. Superintendent , of Schools—T. C. Hen derson. Physician—Dr. Goode Cheatlmm. Attorney—R. L. Ga?h., ^ ; Towh'CcLViiHiiiaiit^^ Mayor—W. E..Breese, jr. Roard of AJldermen—rT.lH, S^ipni^. J,< F. LJ Pe-^ Vane, Carter, r"* ; ^ ^ j 'f ' Marshal—J.^A. Galloway. Clerk arid Tax Collector—T. H: Gallon way. Treasurer—^T. H. Shipman. Health Officer—Dr. C. W. Hunt. Attorney—W. W. Zachary. Regular meetings—First Monday night in each month. Professional Cordis. R. laWyer. 11 and 12 McMinn Building Notary Public. '■ W. B. DUCKWOILTH, ATTO R N E Yt AT-L A W. Rooms 1 and 2, Pickelsimer Building. G. A. R. Men Are Puzzled. Warren, Pa.—Charles R. Keck, sup- McMiiui Block posed to be dead, created a sensation by 'cheerfully greeting his bid G. A. R. friends who thought that they had officiated at his funeral two years ago. He now lives /at Sherman, N. Y. The G. A. R. men are wondering H. G. BAILEY Civil and Con^tins Engineer and Surveyor BREVARD, N. C. who, they buried. ' Articles Signed' for Fight ’ San Franc!sco.-^MIJyelone ^ Johnny Thompson’s - manager has secured the signature 9f ^ Baling Nelson to' arti cles to a 45-round fight to be held on May 30 before'the elnb ’ ofPe^ng the best inducements.* The 'men are to weigh 133 pounds ringside.* , , BOCKBEE’S seeos SUCCEED I SPECIAl. OFFER: «.;t. .ttlU Hwr Atrbl«llt' make yon our permaaent customer. Prtee collcctloii f q^Ien$d;OBiMi,8f Capture Marshal; Loot. Bank. felbomin^on. 111.—After"' capturing and ga^ng tie night marshal, fmir nteo blew open the safe in the batik ^t Ghatsworth.^SO'mHee'^st of-heare* se curing $8,600.. ivarlt* iesmalL. «OAttAlf!I%E» TO 1»LEA8B. WjM io^y: Mentloa this Paper* SEND 10 CENTS ' i to eow poatac* sad «ad raMfv* till* Ttf aalkle InctracfiTek BcmwU S«e4 aad Plwit BmIc, j UtiB all sboeS tte Best leeWttw Swde, Hwo ,, Yeggmen Blow. Saf^. " Maxei^, . Ga.—Unlmown yeggmen, believed to^ be^ eiq^ertsj blasted the safes ..in the postoAces here ^d at ^pheias.with nitrqgly<»rine end se^ .cur«d a/lot of stamps . anKmnting to $600.' The olD<je herel was robbed ot I \$100. in stamps^ while* $400 let- stamps was taken from the ofllce at Stephens. ;^tiy No. 2558. North Carolina—Transylvania Coimty. r C. W. Hunt OTters and claims 100 acres of land more op less l3ring in Dunn’s Ro<;k Township,^adjoining the lands of Ed Bat son and others. -Beginning on a black oak on the north side of Wolf: Pen Mountsdn, in the.old Candler line, marked comer, and runs various^ courses and distances, so as to take ail the vacant land. ,Entered Dec. 21st, 1909.. .B. A. GILLESPIE, . * ^ Entry Taker. . r.j i ■ •
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