North Carolina Newspapers

■ NORTH STATt HAPPENINGS Occurrences ( Interest Gleaned From All Sectioae of tks Bu»y TWr Heel State Shrouds Boy's Death. Kinston, Special.— Qrover Cleve land Cannon, a young colored boy about 10 years old, was reported on ~ the streets as having been drowned while in swimming with some com panions in the swimming hole out at the Kinston Brick Company's plant. Something of a mystery seems to surround the drowning and a coro ner's iriques; wao held Monday even ing. It is said that prior to the drowning two or three colored men were seen to be standing about thorc. They disappeared when the news was reported. Several parties went •- out to investigate and found the dead boy dressed and lying beside the edge of the pcol. There is considerable doubt expressed as to the nature and cause of the boy's death and a com plete investigation will be made. Can non haa been for some time a boot black at the John Cox Company's store and bears an excellent reputa tion both for honesty and politeness. He was evidently trustworthy and never been in trouble of any kind - aince he had been here. A Bold Burglar. Durham, Special.—A burglary was committed at the home of Mr. J. S. Perry, j\TcMannen street Sunday night or rather early Monday morning, that was as held as it was bad. The bur glar or burglars filtered the residence went to the second floor and from a room in which thiee men were sleep ing sfole the pants of all three and ransacked the pockets in the hall al most in front of the bedroom. The burglar soared $43.50 from the three pockets and the deed was done so quietly that it was not known until Monday morning. The three men robbed are: Messrs. John S. Carr, manager of the Carolina Holler Mills; H. I). Morris and W. E. Baker. A few borders are taken at the Perry home r.nd these were three of those who made their home there. They usually occupied two rooms. Thov did not hear a single sound during the night and the first they knew of the robbery was Monday morning when they \7jnt to get their clothes and missed nie pants. These were then seen pitched in the hallway and the bmglnry was out, - Water Still Rising. Wilmington, Special.—Within a radius of five miles at the confluence of the Northeast, Shelter livers and Shaken creek, six miles east of Bur gaw, in a fine farming settlement known as Hollv Shelter, between t'Jr ty and forty families have been driv ' en from their homes and thousands of dollars' damage to crops and live stock is reported to have been wrought bv high water, consequent upon freshets yi those streams. The wa ter is still rising and suffering is said to be in sip-lit unless present con ditions isbate. Estimates of the damage are as high as SIOO,OOO. All previous recdrds of freshets have bieiv broken. Attacked by Savage Dog. Concord, Special.—Master Charles Marion Stone, the 4-year-old son of Mr. mil .Mr*. (•; S. Stone. of Char lotte, sustained a serious scalp wound when attacked by n collie dog. The canine was enjoying his evening meal when the child came upon him. The dog made a vicious lunge and plunged his teeth in the front part of the child's forehead, probably pen etrating the skull. Mr*. Stone and her two-children arc guests at home of her parents, Capt./and Mrs. J. M. Alexander. The wound is not thought to be a fatal one, though it is of a serious r.nd doijecrcas uaturn Stranded" Off Oape Lookeout. Wilmington, Special.—An unknown four-masted schooner flying signals of distress is reported stranded with sails and spars goiie off Cape Looke out. The Wilmington tug Sea King has gone to her assistance. No fur ther details are obtainable here at this time. North State Items. News has reached Southport of the drowning of Capt. A. M. Guthrie, n well-knr,\vn Cape Fear pilot, who was washed overboard from the small coasting schooner Frank Williams off Hateras Sunday night during the heavy weather following the storm. Rockv Mount's tobacco market op ened for the season with at 60,000 pounds, which brought satis factory prices. The prospects are bright for a large crop in this terri tory and tobacconists are anticipating a record-breaking season. The qual ity of the offorinir wflsfoor. Postmaster Ramsay has received notice that beginning August 10th railway postal service will be estab lished cn trains No. 21 and No. 22 be tween Salisbury and Norwood. This will give the Yadkin road a double daily mail service, excepting Sunday. No. 21 and No. 22 are now carrying only express pouch mail. Preparations have been going on at Guilford for several weeks for the two hundred and ninth annual session of the North Carolina Yearly Meet ing of Friends. Hk . a Policeman on Trial for Mnrder. Winston-Salem, Special.— Police man 8. L. Swaim, indicted for mnr der, was put on trial in Forsyth Su perior court last week for shooting and killing Charles Phelps a young negro man, Sunday morning June 14th. The officer and a man depu tised to assist him in arresting Phelps for gambling claim that the uegro fircil upon Swaim tww«c before the officer shot Phelps. Phelps' mother and two other negroes gave evidence that the officein did all of the shooting while Phelps wa:i run ning away from them and the de ceased did not even have a pistol The trial resulted in the acquittal of the policeman. To Meet In Charlotte. Raleigh, Special.—The second an nual meeting of the Association of North Carolina Postmasters will bo held in Charlotte, September the 22, and 33, 1008. The first annual meet ing was held in Raleigh last fair week, when the association was form ed. At this meeting the association was addressed by Hon. P. V. DeGraw, Assistant Postmaster General, and other prominent officials from Wash ington were present. Tho place of meeting was decided by the executive committc to whom the matter had been left. The residential and 4th class postmasters will attend the meeting at Charlotte, and it is ex pected that prominent official* from Washington will be in attendance. State News In Brief. The Secretary of Slate charters the Barium Springs Picnic Committee having for its purpose the benefiting of the North Carolina Presbyterian orphanage at Barium Springs. It is without capital stock, the incorpora tors being H. N. Howard, P. S. Boyd, W. I). Pharr, B| W. Pressly, H. D. Hills and Z. V. Turlington. Other charters just issued are the Quinn- McQowan Furniture Company, Wil son. capital $20,000 by 0. W. Quinn, A. D. McGowan and others, the Con tinental Credit Company, Aslieboro,.- capital SI,OOO by C. L. Loftin and others for commercial business and the Belhaven Lumber and Manufac turing Company, SIOO,OOO capital by J. A. Wilkinson and others. During the month of July there was a total of 142 arrests J n Durham for various offenses. Assault cases took the lead with 21 arrests. Fifteen were arrested for cursing, and 14 each for larceny and assault wilh deadly weapons. There were 13 ar rests for drunkenness and 6 for sell ing whiskey. Most of the other cases were small violations of the law. The coroner's jury after investigat ing the cause of the death of Grover Cannon, the colored boy who \va9 drowned near Kinston Monday, found no evidence of fonl play and decided that he came to his death by acci dental drowning. hTe Blue Ridge Construction Com pany, of Asheville, has been given the contract for the erection of the pub lie building at Tuscaloosa, Ala., at a cost ,of $138,447.45. The building is to be finished by December, 1900, and and is to be of marble to the second story; the balainec of brick, with mar ble cornices. Treasurer is Under Arrest. Greensboro, Special.—M. L. Bloom berg, secretary-treasurer of the Greensboro Table Company, was ar rested under arrest aud bail pro ceedings, charged with misappropri ating funds of the company. He was held under a $4,000 bond for appear ance at the August tern of the Su perior Court. Death of Venerable Horse. Lexington, Special.—"Ann" Thom as, a colored farmer 8 miles from town lost his 34-tyear-old horse this week. The animal had about "made" a 15-acre-crop of corn and cotton, and then turned up its feet. It had a record, having belonged to Chas. M. Griffith, when he was sheriff years ago. There is no boubt of its age. Fortune Awaits These People. Raleigh, Speical.—Secretary of State J. Bryan Grimes has received a letter from a party in Canada ask ing for information of Dounell, John and Christopher McCrae, who came to this country from tho Highlands of Scotland, and settled, in this State. If any ouo knows of the descendents of these people they will please write to the Secretary of State as to the identity of the same. The descen dants of these people; it is said, are entitled to a portion of a fortune of $1,000,000. Wbitaker is Given the Limit. Asheville, Special.—Rev. William G. Wbitaker, convicted of using the mails for fraudulent purposes, was sentenced by Judge Newman in the United States Court to eighteen months in the Federal prisou at At lanta and to pay a Une of SSOO, the maximum sentence. The court sajd in passing sentence that it would be a miscarriage of justice not to give the limit. : ■ ' HYDROPHOBIA TREATMEM Announcement by the lforth Carolina State Board of Health, Under Sig nature of Dr. Bichard H. Lewis, Secretary of the Board. Raleigh, N. C. f Bpeoi«l.—The North Board of Health baa issued the following bulletin on the prevention of hydrophobia: " The General Assembly, at ita last regular session enacted the following: An Act Authorizing the State Board of Health lo Provide for the Pre ventive Treatment of Hydrophobia. Section 1. That the State Board cf Health ia hcieby authorised and em powered to provide for and have con ducted under its direction the pre ventive treatment of hydrophobia cr rabies, whenever in its judgment cir cumstances, financial and other, will justify it. To meet the expense* of this treatment the said board is here by given authority to supplement the revenue derived from feeß for the treatment by such sums from the treasury of the Ktafe Laboratory of Hygiene as may be neccessary: Provided, that the -usefulness and efficiency of the said laboratory is not thereby impaired. See. 2. That the benefits of eaid treatment shall be given free of charge to ull rssidents of the State who shall present to the Secretary of the State Board of Health, or its representative having in charge the marmgment of this special work, an affidavit of inability to pay, duly sworn to and subscribed before a justice of the peace, or, if the case be n minor, such nn affidavit by the parent or guardian. To meet a* far as may be the expenses of this spec ial wofks, the said State Board of Health is hereby authorized and di rected to demand from those able to do so the payment in advance of a reasonable fee, not to exceed in case the usual charge made by the reputable Pasteur institutes of this country. The Board of Health, at its recent annual meeting, decided that circum stances would now justify the treat ment. The following extract from the cir cular of information issued by tho Laboratory of Hygiene gives the nec essary details: Rabies.—ln no other diaease is an early diagnosis of more vital import ance. Fortunately, a diagnosis can it) most cases be made from a micro scopic examination of the brain of the rabid animal. The suspected ani mal, or its head and neck, should be sent at tho earliest possible moment to the laboratory for examination. The head should be packed in. ice to prevent putrefaction, and should be sent by express, prepaid. A careful account of the animal, with a full history of the cause of suapysion, should be sent in every case. The treatment will require tho pn•- once of the patient in Raleigh for about three weeks, but residence in a hospital is not necessary. The cost of the entire treatment will be s.">(), or will be furnished free to**persons unable to pay, upon submission >P "an affidavit of inability to pay, duly sworn to and subscribed before a justice of the peace, or if the case be a minor, such an affidavit by Ihe parent or guardian." Attention is called to the fact 111 nt the law requires the fee td be paid in advance. It should be said nUo that, if after trial it should be foniul necessary for the support of this special work, the fee will be increased. This work will be in eliarge of Dr. 0. A. Shore, Director State Laboratoiy of Hygiene, and all communications on the subject should be addressed. to him, at Raleigh, N. C. Lumber Plant Destroyed. Elizabeth City, Special.—A large and spectacular fire occurred here Tuesday morning at 3 o'clock when the Charles Creek Lumber Company's saw miU on Charles Creek was re duced to ashes. Dry kiln* adjoining the saw mill were saved by heroic ef forts of the Are company. A large number of laborers are thrown out of work, a number of whom reported at tho mill as usual, not being- aware of the morning (Ire. Forty-six hun dred dollars insuranae was carried on the property, but this does not cover half of the loss. Negro Manslayer Given Three Year* on Roads. Winston-Salem, Special.—ln Supe rior Cofcrt John Wooley, colored, sub mitted to a verdict of manslaughter for shooting and killing Peter Deni son in this city June 6th. Wooley was given a term of three years on the county roads'. After the murder Wooley escaped to Roanoke, where ho was arrested by a Baldwin detective. Another lee Factory. Wilson, Special.—There is a move ment on foot for the organisation of a company for the manufacture of ice in Wilson. Some of the most substantial business men of tho city are interested in the movement. The' factory is to be of ten-ton capacity and will be ready for business by the opening of the next ice season. . v 3 , * ';•••, -v . , i J£& SEN. ALLISON-DEAD Servcttfn Congress For Nearly a Generation WAS A MAN Of GREAT ABILITY After Suffering For Borne Weeks From a Complication of DIMMM Senator W. B. Allison, of lojra, Suddenly Begin* to Sink and Panes Away Before His Frlecda Are Aware of Hie Critical Condition. Dubuque, la., Special—United States Senator W. B. Allison died at his home in this city Tuesday afternoon TID' immediate cause of his death was heart failure. The end came its a result of a serious sinking spell due to a prostatic enlargement com plicated with kidney diseases, and during a period of unconsciousness which had lasted since Saturday af ternoon. Two weeks ago the Senator left his home in the city to escape the heat. He went to the home of Mrs. Fannie Stout, a friend of the family living on the Asbury road a few miles from town. For a few days'" hit condition seemed to improve, but he !;• cr began to grow worse. Medical advisers urged that an operation be performed to relieve the prosatic enlargement which was bringing his condition to a crisis. Saturday morning the Senator was lnought back home. Soon afterwards lie relapsed into a condition of semi consciousness. Except for brief pe riods of partial recovery ho remain id in this condition until death came. News of tho serious illness of the aired senator was kept from the pub lic as much as possible until his death came as a surprise to the thous ands of friends residing in this city, (tidy the more intimate friends of the l'»mily were aware of his critical con dition. No arrangements for the funeral have yet been made. Long Term in Congress. Senator Allison was born at Perry, O . March 2d, 1820. His boyhood days he spent on the farm, which «ns liis birthplace. Reaching young manhood he secured his education in Allegheny College, in Pennsylvania, ttliil the Western Reserve College, of Ohio. Ho was admitted to the bar in 1 RT>O. From 1850 to 1857 he practiced law in Ohio. In 1857 he removed to Dubuque. He was a delegate to the national Republican convention in Chicago in 18(10. He was a member of tho Governor's staff during Hie Civil war. In 18(53 he was elected to Congress and served con tinuously until 1871. In 1878 ho was elected United States Senator from loiVa and represented his State in this capacity until the time of his death. Cummins a Candidate. M- Lake Forest, la., Special.—Gover nor Albert Is. Cummins, of lowa, has announced himself as a candidate to sueceed United States Senator Alli son. The Governor paid a glowing tribute to his late political adver sary 's services to lowa and the coun try at large then frankly declared his ambition to bo elected to the Senate by the Legislature of his State. Prominent Chicago Broker Arrested. Chicago, Special.—Robert E. East man, until lust Thursday a broker with offices at 33 Wall Street, New York, was arrested by detectivee from Cicago central station. The charge against the prisoner was not revealed but it was stated that the arrest was made after A. A. Knowles, a vice president of the Mechanics Na tional Bank, of New York, had come to Chicago with evidence against the man. Mr. Knowles refused to discuss the case but Eastman asserted that his troubles was due to an overdraft of $15,300 on the Meehanies National Bank. Lynching Narrowly Averted. Richmond, Va., Special.—Jacob I. Hechler is believed, to be mortally wounded and Royal E. Eellerson is in the city jail on a charge of attempt ed murder. The shooting took place in Hechler's home. Heeler accused ed Ellerson of improper conduct to ward his wife, and Ellerson shot him three times—twice in the face fnd once in the lungs. Friends of Hech ler tried to lynch Ellerson and six policemen were engaged for nearly an hour in getting the man to the station several persons trying to shoot him. A Catholic University. St. Louis, Mo., Special.—Tho twenty-sixth annual convention of the Knights of Columbus opened here with more than a thousand delegates attending. A parade of the dele gates opened'the programme. Sever al matters of importance ~will be tak en np by the convention,, one of the most important of which is the rais ing of half a million dollars for founding a Catholic University at Washington. gp Manager Luodtor Company Shot Boyoe, La., Special.—Samuel Du bois, a log scaler, shot and killed John Tower, general manager of the National Lumber Company, at Cleve land Spur, nine miles west of this town. Dubois then turned the re reiver upon himself and inftietsd a fatal wound. The shooting is said to have been the result of personal differences between" the sealer and general manager. PROUD OF BLOODY ACT Hanaattoßst Shwtfaf fa Raleigh— The Murder# rim But Is Sim Down by Kembsrv of His Own Race and After a Trial Placed in Jafl. ' Raleigh, Special.—The combination of a jealous negro, a gun and a dead woman was the sensation here Thurs day. At 12:30 o'elock Simon Love joy, very black and aged about 40, who has been a hard-working fellow and who for the past nine year* has consorted with Annie Martin, a ne* grew aged 35, and who has a son aboat half her age, went to tie wo man's house, quarreled with her about another lover and then shot her, using a repeating riile, in whieh he had only one cartridge. The bul let took effect in her head, making a most horrible wound, and as soon as he saw his victim dying the mur derer dashed out of the house and made a run for the country. Geoige Lane, a well-known negro in east Ral eigh, saw Lovejoy running and heard the shot and he haised the hue and cry. He and other negroes pursued and the man was chased through a truck farm, where he threw away his gun, presently getting rid of his coat and he was next seen in the pond in the old granite quarry. The quarry wan surrounded. Lovejoy was in the Tfater up to his neck. He was foreed to come ont by his captors, who be sides Lane were Ernest Riddick, Alexander At water and William Wal ton, and thoae brought him in a hur ry to the eourt house, followed l*y a Erreat number of other negroes, feel ing being pretty high against Love joy. On arrival at the court house the murderer was instantly taken before Justice Harry Roberts, who commit ted him without bail and in a few minutes he was in jail. The police had been telephoned of the murder and that a man was making his way toward the northeastern part of the eity, so they went out on East Martin street. Meanwhile Lovejoy had been taken on South street, about a mile from the Capitol, after he had run several hundred yards. Lovejoy exults in his crime. He and sahd he killed the woman nnd was glad of it. When the sher iff told him to stop talking and that he did not know what he was saying, he replied that he had fed and cloth ed the woman and that she had wash ed and cooked for him but that a man had come between them and that he was entirely willing to be hanged for his deed. , Gale Hits Wrightiville. Wilmington, Special.—The popu lation of WrightsviUe Beach, resident aud transient, had a bad fright with the fuller development of the north east storm that swept- the coast early Thursday morning. The wind blew a ?alc for most of the night, many de daring the velocity fully as high as when the railway trestle across the sound was swept away and much damage done to property in Septem ber two years ago. The disarrange ment of light and power wires on the beach early in the night added to the arencrnl confusion there and no elee trio cars were operated across the sound after 11:46 p. m. In order to provided safely for all on the beach in case of on emergency, the Tide water Powar Company, which owns the traction line to WrightsviUe, chartered n three-ear steam train from the Atlantic Coast Line and this was operated continqoiuly aK night, connecting with the electric cars on Wrightßvillc sound. There was considerable excitement Wednesday night and many people came up to the city. The storm did not reach the height of its fury however, until between 9 and 10 o'elock Thursday morning, when the tide wss piled high on the beach by the strong northeaster and the surf broke over the southern end at the beach. The trestle remained tntaet during ii all, though the steam train operated across it up to an early hour in the evening had to move with extreme caution. Practically si I the inhabitants of the beaeh were Wf by 10 o'clock Thursday morning and many of the visitors are quar tered on the sound side of the beach and at the hotels in the eity. Thurs iay night there were only a few per sons on the beach and these may leave *t any time on the train which is kept in waiting in case of an emer gency. It is believed, though that the worst of the storm is over. Steps and board walks about some of the :ottages have been washed away and i small cottage on the extreme south jrn end of the beach, occupied by the family of Mr. A A. Nathan since the burning of the Oecan View Hotel was blown down. The damage will not ntceod SSOO. The Tidewater Power Company announces that the regular schedule of electric cars along the en tire beach front will ha resumed on tegular schedule in a day or two. Train Bills Deaf Mote. Durham, Special.—The late nfter aoOn train from Keysville, Va., on the Southern Railway, struck and killed Willie Pigford, a colored deaf mute, one hundred yards from the union passenger station here. The negro was walking on the parallel Seaboard track and stepped in front jf the passenger train on the South srn. He had been here less than a week and caqge from Warsaw. - A Bute with him had a narrow escape. SLEW HIS PATHS Lad in North Carolina Town Shoots to KB TRAGEDY AT A MILL VILLAGE James Kiddle, Engineer at Hope 101k Plant Shot aad Killed bjr His B«a—Youth Claims That he Acted ia Self-Defease. Hope Mills, N. C. Special.—An awfal tragedy was enacted Sunday eight at Cotton, a mill village one mile from Hope Milk and seven miles from Fayette ville. A father was shot down in the viogorous strength of less than middle age by bis sen, just entering into manhood. While James A. Riddle, engineer of Hope Mills, No. 4 was conversing with three friends in front of a livery stablest Cotton about 6 o'clock Bon day afftoraoon his son, Tom Riddle, aged 18, walked up into the crowd and proceeded to roll a cigarette. The father remonitrated with hia so* on the evil of cigarette smoking / and told him that be must quit the practice or that evil results would follow. ( Top>* the son gave a very pert answer. Rough words followed, when James Riddle, the father raised a plank and threatened his son with chastisement. Tom pulled his pistol and began firing on his father, one ball—which caused death—passing through the hesrt, snother just sbove the heart, another through the shoulder another through the arm. .The fifth and last chamber missed fire. Riddle, the murderer, surrendered to Chief of Police W. A. McLean, of Hope Mills, at 9 o'clock. Sunday night. McLean was instructed by the coroner's jury to take no bail, whereupon the prisoner was conveyed to the county jail at Fayetteville late Sunday night. Receiver Tor Big Electric aad Water works Company. Atlanta, Qa., Special.—James T. Anderson, of Marietta, was appoint ed receiver for the Georgia Manufac turing and Public Service Company, a half million dollar corporation yhich supplies the city of Msrietta with electric lights and water. The appointment was made ou an invol untary petition in bankruptcy filed against the concern by Atlsnta cred itors. Tha company of which M. M. Sessions is president owns an elec tric light plant, waterworks system and a paper mill. A hearing was set for August 11th. Grain Elevators Burned. Chicago, Special.—Fire which was so hot that the firemen could not get nearer than a block of it, and which made it necessary to play streams of water on buildings three and four squares away, destroyed the Burling ton elevators, "E" and "F", the dock transfer warehouse of that road and either burned or rendered useless 100 box cars. The loss on the grain in the two elevators is placed by Armour & Co., who owned it, at $700,000. The total loss is placed at $1,000,000. Three Killed by Premature Explo ' Tpir Hazel ton, Pa., Special.—Two Amer icans and an Italian, all of this city, were instantly killed by the prema- " turq explosion of a blast at the stone crushing plant of Charles Kehoe, on the outskirts of Hazelton. Thomas Kehoe, a son of the contractor, was injured about the head. Contractor Kehoe aaid that the death of the men was purely accidental. The bodies were blown some distance from the seene of the cxplosios. 1 ~ V 3. Steel Cars Demolished. Philadelphia, Special.—What is de clared to be the greatst freight wreok involving the destruction of steel cars .occurred on the New York division of the Philadelphia & Read ing Railway near Meadowbrook, a suburb, Sunday, when out of a coal train of twenty-eig/:t cars, nineteen were demolished, entailing a loss esti mated at SIOO,OOO. The train which was running at the rate of 50 miles an hour, was thrown from the track by the breaking of tbe flange on the qne wooden car in the entire train. Shippers Given Ten Days. Washington, Special.—Nothing fur ther was heard by the inter-State commerce commission in relation to' the controversary over freight rates in the Southeastern territory. Ship pers in that section have been given ten days from July 31st in which to file a complaint against a proposed increase of rates and it i# expected their complaint will be here in a few days. Rhode Island Mills Out Wages. Providence, R. L, Special.—Notices were posted at the mills of the United States Cotton Company at Ceotn& Falls that one week from Tuesday a reduction of wages will go into effeet. The rate or reduction was not mentioned bat it is under stood by the operatives to be a 10 [per cent, one. The company employs 500 hands. " ;