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Hanilet, Aug., 15. — One of the most mysterious murders in the history of ^his Wction occured at the Seaboard hotel at this place about 6:30 tonight, when a liian registered iat the hotel under the name of George S. Nance, Ma con, Ga. killed the woman who was registered as his wife. The couple arrived on.Seaboard train Number 12 from Atlanta this morning and after breakfast a«?ked for a room, saying they would spend the day here and go to Norfolk tonight. They spent sometime this morning on the streets and went to their room, No. 75, about 6:30 tonight. J. G. Scott, a guest of the hotel passed the room and met Nance who was going from the closet. Upon opening the door to room 75, Scott saw smoke and getting a Are extinguisher, at tempted to enter the room. Nance, tried to prevent him from entering, but Scott forced the door open sufficiently to use the extinguisher. Monsarrat, another guest Bsd Strangers. iiirMngtoi! Relormed Cborcli. Ckjmer Front and Anderson Sts. Rer. J. D. Amnr«w, Patter. Sunday School e\ery Sabbath, $fM a. m. Filching every 2nd and 4th isbbath, 11:00 a. m. and 8:00 p. m. Mid-week Service every Thurs- ifty, 7:45 p. m. A cordial welcome to all. Fsrsonage 2nd door east of iwrch. Presbyleriaa Cburcfc. Srr. Dw Wlclr«r, Ptttm. Services every Sanaay at 11:00 .EEL and 8:00 p. m. Sunday School at 9:45 a. m. Frayer-meeting, Wednesday %% 8:00 p. m. The public is cordially invited til services. Baptist Chnfdb. Rct. Martb W. Bcck, PMtor. Preaching every Sunday 11 a. , 8 p. m. Sunday School, 9:30 a. m. Sunbeams, second and four- aii Sundays, 3:00 p. m. Prayer Meeting, Wednesday I facing the door discovered the i body of a woman lying near the door and the entire body on fire. When the body was pulled in 1 to the hail the hall t^ fire extinguished they discovered that the woman’s .skull was crush ed and that she was dead. Nance had not attempt^jd to leave and was placed under ar rest. From the condition ot the room, Nance had killed his wile and had then changed his clothes and poured oil from a lamp in the room over the body and about the room then setting fire to the body. After being arrested Nance made a statement saying that they had some words and his wife attempted to cut him with a razor. It was then he killed her, he said, but that be did not intend to kill her when he struck he’r. An open razor and an empty beer bottle were lying on the floor beside the woman. She was small and pretty, weariner. glas ses,; She was evidently French. There were.found among, her effe:Cts several French , transla- tic(]^s. She . was . handso-iiely dress(3d and wore a large dia- j niond riijg. Many of the effects j were burned but among those! saved was a reception.biil from S. | H" George-& Co., Greenville, S. i § p. m. Church Conference Wednesday ^ ^fore first Sunday in each month > Q., addressed to ’ Mrs. George S. Communion, first Sunday. 1 Nance, :321 Lauren, St., Green- Woman's Missionary Society, viile, S. C. Her shoes have the irtt Tliursday 3:30 p. m. Ladies’ Aid Society, first Mon 4fcy 3:30 p. m. name of a Knox ville, Tenn., firm. I Nance is apparently forty I vears old, medium size, clean I slender. He was The Metfecwlist Protestajat Church, 1 well d "essed and when arrested. -I Spencer, Aug. 9‘ ”H, Clay GrubbSi oneof tbe moBt promi nettt bu8i!i«es men this sec- ti6ii isf N^lth Carolina, Was shpt to death bis* home at > ChuFeh- iand,near Spencer, early today by bis wife. It is s^d Mr. Gruhb returned last night frora Salisbury and while under -the influence of liquor severely beat I his wife, cuting her ear almost I off, stabbing her in the neck and ehoulderiB and inflicting numerous bruises on her body. Her life imperiled shs grabb ed a huge revolver on a table and fired three shoote in bis b^y. One entered the breast and two the abdomen. Death came at 2 a. m. one Hour after 1 the shooting took place. It Is claimed that Mrs. Grubb acted in purely self defense. She was badly beaten and cut up prior to shooting her husband and al though treated by several phy sicians from Spencer and othei places her condition is critical. Immediately after the tragedy neighbors were summoned but Mr. Grubb died before they reached the scene. The killing is tha culmination it is said of a series of attacts made on Mrs. Grubb during the past few montns.- A few weeks ago it is said the family were forced away from home by Mr, Grubb and recently the children had to break open a door to stop their father from beating their mother. It is also charged that Mr. Grubb heat his wife unmercifully with the handle of a pitchfork. Many neighbors soon gather ed at the Grubb home. Under takers Uzzie & Wright of Salis bury were embalming the body in the same room in which it was laid cold. The man looked as natural as in life and gathered about were close friends and neighbors one of whom remark ed that the deceased was to have taken dinner at his home today.The three bullet holes were plainly visibly in the body one iii the left side of the abdo men one almost under the heart and the third at the breast. They had been made with a 32 calibre pistol only three cham bers were empty, showing that every shot took effect, and it is said either would have proved fatal The injured wife was in bed not far frora where the corps of her husband lay and the, children were also at the, home. Rev. Adam Grubb wa.^ ^ there a brother. I V/ It was said at the home that; (S Mr. Grubb-had been abusing and I ^ beating his wife and h?d lain ; across a leather " coiieh in ine ; ^ the front room and gone to ; w) sleep msfking some threatening , remarks before -laying down as | ») to what he would do when he | awoke and that when he awoke ' he again resumed bis for mer tactics and then received the fatal shot. ' Now is me time to turn gie stable and rested lanH 'or wheat. Ttxe OUver bes* on die mairket Both have been tried and their merits'art' W^ll'known. '\''"' -'x: Large stock of buggies. Ask your neighbor how a X Wagons both one w/g a i he likes the High Point and two horse. ' Ml— Com Binder Mower and Hay rake. | The Milwaukee Corn binder Mower and Hay rake | are a friend to the former who believe in labor sav. | ing devises. These machines are sinplier to operate i lighter draught and are So constructed to do the work » better. . ' Grain Drills. The Ontario and Empire Grain Drills are guarante- 1 ed to sow any grain and give satisfaction. They will ® also distribute any quanity of commercial fertilizer. I The Burlington Pride Range. | Jusi received a car load.of Burlington Pride Ranges. “The Bur- 1 lington Pride” i> the kind that makes the husband and wife who have been at enmity with each other because of that old stove, hgp- S py. The kind makes home life pleasant and causes vour wife tn " always meet you with a smile. Make tbatoid building look like new and !sst liliy yean loDpr by it with Davis and Acie paint. Yours to serve, COBLE-BRADSHAW, Burlington, North Carolina lome, uses East Davis Street. Rsf. TWk.«> £. Dftvis, Pastor Farsonoge next door to Church) Services; Morning, 11:00 Evening, 8:00. Fra.yer meeting Wednesday #veaings. Ladies^ Aid and Missionery So- uStliefe every Monday afternoon after first Sunday in each month. Sunday School 9:30 a. m. J. G. Rogers, Supt. Exellent Earaca and Philathea ClMses. You are invited to at- all services. M. £. Ckarehy 8«t. T. k. Syke«, pMter. Preaching every Sunday mom- hsf »ad 'Monday School, 9:30 a. m. Prayer Service, Wednesday ^ sniLg. Macedosk L^eran CkircL Front Street. |J*T. T, s. Brows, Psrtor, Ca«#idence next door to Church.) Morning Service at 11:00 a. m. Vespers at 3:30 p. m. {No services on third Sundays.) Sunday School 9:45 a. m., ev- «py Sunday. Te^chei^' Meeting, Wednesday "^fOO p. m. (at parsonage.) had $462.50 in money on hisj person. | A coroner^s jury was impannel- j led and gave a verdict that the j deceased came to her death at the hands of her husband. Geo. S, Nance, and committed him to jail without bond. Chief of Po lice Braswell immediately hur-j ried him to Rockingham in an | automobile. ' | In addition to the murder the charge of arson is made against hini and it was only on account of the timely arrival of some of the guests chat the handsome Seaboard hotel was saved from flames. Effect is being made by the authorities to locate relatives of the deceased and the prisoner, but at midnight answers had not been received. The body of the deceased was delivered to J. C. Neimyer, un dertaker, who will hold the body pending instruction for shipment. Had 0/er Two Kimdrsd Operc -; M) tioss, Thea Died. 1 ug, io. At- i tfian 200. years three Figbting in China. Canta, Aug, 14.—Twelve hun dred were killed in the fighting in this city yesterday. Phillage is in progress everywhere today. Hundreds of the Federal troops have joined the rebels and to- I gether they looted the principal Woman’s Missionary Society j gold and silversmith’s stores. Local officers and army officers are powerless owing to dissensi- tions. ;sfter morning- service on fourth i^ndays.) vj. C. B?:., Saturday before tfrd Sundays, 8:00 p, ni. h. L. L., Lhird Sundays at 8:00 Webu .4venue M. fc. Charch, r. Haiky. Psjtar. a • 1 Rev Freacniag every first Sund 11 -a,;n. and 8:00 p.m.., secon Sunday at 8 p. m. Sunday School every Sandr.- morni;rg at 10 a. m. John F, idol. Sup I. Everybody Weicome. Card Of Thanks. We desire to extend to our neighb.)rhood and friends our h^iart felt thanks, for their kind ness shown us during the acci- df*nt of my son and brother may i God bless each one of Ihera, ! Mrs. T. A. Strader ! W. F. Strader F. G. Strader J, D. Strader Vera C. Strader Baltimore, Md., A ter undergoing more operations during for the removal oi a growth in! his throat ihat interfered with! his Dreathing, Geoige McDowell! 31 years old formerly of Span-1 an burg, S. C , died at a hospi-1 tal.here yesterday while the surgeons were making a last at tempt to save his life. For the past 18 months Dowell breathed through a tube inserted in his throat, he had been under so many operations that he became immune to co caine. and the doctors were forced to use other means. Freezing was resorted to and chloroform to deade d the pain when they worked on the grow th. The doctors said that it was muscular growth, but could not tell what kind. Ic was such that it contracted the man’s wind- pipe and at times all but closed it. ; Most Mta jiave Worms. Many mothers thmk their children are suffering from in digestion, headache, nervousness weakness, costiveness, v/hen they are victims of that most common of all children’s ailments - worms. Peevish, ill-tempered, fertful children, who toss and j grind their teeth, with bad - breath and colicky pains have ail the '.symptoms of having; vvorms and should be given Kick.- I apoo VVorm Killer, a piea.sant i candy lozenge, which expels ’ worms, regulates the bov.'eJs, ; tones up the. system and m-ikes ; children well and happy,- Kicka-■ poo Wi>i’m Killer is guaranteed. All druggists, or by mail. Price 125c. Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co., Philadelphia and St. Louis. GOODMAN’S Big Clothing Sale Extended Ten Days More I The decided success of our big Clearance Sale and the namer> § ous customers which contmue to take advantage of this Sale make it possible for us to continue this sale. FRI Prices on Men’$ Suits, Boys* Sittts $25,00 Suits at $16,00 20.00 Suits at 13.00 18.00 Suits at 12.00 - 19.50 Suits at 9.7S $10.00 and $12.50 Suits at $7,00 $8.50 Suits at $5 25 7.50 Suits at 4.65 6.00 Suits at 4.25 4.00 Suits at 3.75 3.00 Suits at 2.25 , Special Prices os Oxfords Wool Dress Goods $4.00.Oxfords at $3.85 3.50 Oxfords at 2.95 2.50 Oxford? at 1,90 .. $ 25 Quality at 19c' 50 Quality at 37c $1.00 and $1.^ Qiiality at 80c. I Ladies' Oxfords i $3,50 Oxfords at $2.55 3.00 Oxfords at 2.35 2.50 Oxfords at 1.90 2.00 Oxfords at 1.25 1 1.50 Oxfords at 1.10 Ladies^ Dress Goods lOe jPercals 7^c 12|c Perieals 10c lOc Ginghams 7fc 10c Lawn 7ic One Lot 10c L»awn 5c 'Big Lot Felt Hats 5c Lawn 4c $2.00 and $2,50 to go at 85c. Men'» Shirts Big lot ladies oxfords to be closed out at 7fc. All ladies’ white oxfords to be closed out at 95c. Big Lot of Men's Shirts $1.00 and $1.25 Quality 75c. All 50c Shirts 38e. 50c Ties 38c. 25c Ties 17c if ; Ld is woij knowf Writesi Be One Among The Many That Will Attend At GOODMAN’S STORE BURLINGTON, NORTH CAROUNA o on or it S01 AN] s. pj • j'li.'
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