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$ TA. K HEEL TOriCS Items Gathered 'From AH Sections of the Stnto Stabbed With a Fork. Durham, Special. Joe Carter, a uSilicn of Koxboro, is under treat Kiflat at the Watts Hospital on ac- VUHti mt of three stabs in the abdomen j AJJitl HU ItTOUU III HIS J.viLtIC I""" Sist week, the stabbing being done bv Lacy Wilson, a Durham young man is now at work in Koxboro, a fork being used in inflicting the wounds. TIr condition of Carter is such as to give hope that thi wounds will not prove fatal. The wounds, however, are very painful, lie prongs of the erting fork enter in the cavity of the stomach at ihtsc places. 'ii. nll bo several days fcefore the full nature of the wounds jus be determined. It was late in fkit afternoon that the stabbing was &me. Wilson and Carter got into a dispute of some nature and the re sxtlt was that' Wilson grabbed a fork the table at the boarding house and used it. After being stabbed Carter walked for some distance and than fell to the ground. He lost rtmsiderable blood on account of the wrennds. It is reported here that the fs$ and fight oceured on account f a woman who lives in Iioxboro. 3fcth Carolina Veterans' Reunion. Winston-Salem, Special. The an neal reunion of North Carolina Con federate Veterans' Association will hs beld in this city August 19th anc5 iKHh. These dates were definitely de cided upon at a joint meeting of the Hrfleet Camp and a committee from the board of trade held in the Win jet on Council chamber last week. A entiral committee composed of Messrs. F. J. Liipfert, R. C. Norfleet, 3S. T. Bynum, Maj. T. J. Brown and Dr. J. A. Blnm was named It will reqaire $3,000 or more to entertain She visitors, as there will be about 1,300 here, and a large portion of ffh amount wag raised at. the meet last week. Dr. R. E. Transom vaj named as treasurer.- ,Tht. Twin City will provide aburicVxnt enter tainment for the visitors .and promis es to give the veterans a good time erery minute of their stay in Win-on-Salem. Increase of $40,000. Winston-Salem, Special. "There nrs.5 an increase of forty thousand i&ollaxs in the internal revenue re ceipt; for the fiscal year ending June 33, 1903, over the previous year. This tseans that there were over six hun ted thousand more pounds of manu fasjtared tobacco shipped from this iSj" by locUl manufacturers to the pens oi ine country man msi ym. Ber, D. Clay Lily, D. D., who has been making his home in Winston-J Sal-em since his resignation of the pastorate , of .the First Presbyterian ff-lmreh. will leave the city soon riil his family for Kentucky where ttev go to make their new home. Sails of Lightning ; Played Around Sick Bed. Eeidsville, Special. What came mear,- being a serious accident hap pened at the home of Mr. "S. G. Woods at Parley, when lightning Struck the desk telephone ' in Miss Sffffsd Woods' room and balls of fire played'. over the room and across the h&i where Miss Woods lay sick, even bsrmng three large holes in the bed Nothing-. ' Miss Mamie Woods, a 3ssfes of the invalid, showed her Ttrve by-cutting the telephone wire vfth a knife while the lightning was rsrraing along it, Vane1 even tried to throw the 'phone out oi doors, iis rss fortunate indeed- that no one was hurt. Cittern Mill Operative Loses a Finger. Durham, Special Emmet t John srm, a young white man who has foean working for the East Durham KfrHm Mill for a short while, .was painfully hurt late Thursday' after siKra. He was at work on one of the machines when his hand was a;oght anti the third finger on the left hand practically mashed off. . Big Robbery in Asheville. ' Asheville, Special. Morris Gross, f New York, who with Mrs. Gross, is stopping here for a few days en route to the Pacific Coast to take a steamer for the Orient was robbed f over ten thousand dollars. Gross isd the pocket book with the money is his possession at night. In the rooming it was gone. The book con tained nine $50 bills and a letter of rrcdit for two thousand pounds sterl ing bought by Gross in New York be re starting for the Orient. . Detec inres are at work on the case. Silver Service Presented. Beaufort, Special. On Friday af ternoon at 3 o'clock the splendid sil ver serviee was presented to the ermser " North Carolina, Lieutenant Governor Winston being master of eeremomes and making a very pretty address. ' There . were ,many, noted persons present. The serviee is ma mificent and the officers of the North Carolina declare that no other ship kii a finer. A Tragedy in Raleigh. Raleigh, Special B. M. Stultz, a Seaboard engineer, whose wife and six children live at Roanoke, was shot by Turner Smith, an eighteen-year- old boy, and died an hour later, hav ing bled to death. Stultz was at tempting to enter or had entered the home of Smith, for the purpose of visiting the sister of the boy, who had fired at the man earlier in the night. The tragedy occurred at 2:23. and Stultz, mortally wounded, walked a distance of four hundred yards and fell i a heap at the Seaboard sta tion, and despite the efforts of phy sicians, expired at 3 o'clock. The dead man was scheduled to go out witli train No. SI at 3 o'clock, and had on his overalls when found. Smith surrendered and is in the guard house. An inquest will be held later and it is probable that the boy will be exonorated. Warehouse . for Charlotte. Charlotte, Special. The plan re cently promulgated by the local Far mers' Union to secure funds to erect a system of warehouses in the coun ty this fall is meeting with general favor among the farmers. There was a meeting Thursday of the commit tee appointed to draft a plan and work will begin at once upon secur ing subscriptions. The proposition is to erect one central warehouse in the city with a capacity of( at least 2,000 bales and then other smaller houses in other localities throughout the county. The purpose of such a system is to enable weak farmers to keep their cotton off the market in the early fall when the price is de pressed. It is believed that the com pany which will be formed to ope rate such a concern will be am ply strong enough to manage it suc cessfully. Prof.- Thompson Re-Elected. Statesville, Special. Prof. D. Matt Thompson, who has had charge of the Statesville graded schools for years and has managed the institu tion entirely satisfactory, ha? again been elected superintendent for an other year, and the following named have been selected members of the faculty of the school for the next session: Prof. II. E. Craven, princi pal; Misses Kate Finlev, Annie Lois Ilenly, Claudia Pohidexter, Edna Brooks. Jessie Massey, Lottie Glass, Clara Gillon. Elinor Murr, Lottie Linton, Nell Armfiehi and Lula Craven. Miss Arm field of States ville, and Miss Craven of Concord are the only new members of the faculty. Many Applications for School Super intendency. High Point, Special. The school board had a meeting to select a man ( succeed Dr. George II. Crowell. resigned, to fill the superintendeney of the Ilisdi Point graded school?. There was quite a number of . appli cations which have been boiled c. S "n to six and from which the school board will make a selection some time this week. Dr. Crowell goes to Epworth University, Oklahoma Citv. Okla., to which he has been elected vice chancellor. To Serve Second Sentence. Greensboro, Special. T. M. An geif, convicted four years ago of de frauding the government out of a hundred thousand dollars, has been taken to the Atlanta penitentiary to serve a second sentence of four years for defrauding the government out of two hundred thousand dollars which has still to be served. Tar Heel Notes. , The State convention of dentists met in Charlotte last week and had an interesting session. The rural letter carriers had then meeting in Wilmington Friday and Saturday. The superintendent of the third division of the Seabord Air Line ha; moved his offices to Monroe. Sabbath School Institute Held at Ab erdeen. Aberdeen, Special. The third an nual meeting of the Western District SabbatiTSchool Institute of Fayette ville Presbytery has been in session here since Monday morning. .The in stitute, under the management ot Rev. J. B. Carpenter, field secretary and Rev. J., K. Roberts, schools in Favettevile Presbytery, is by far the most successful and instructive that has ever been held. Rev. Messrs. Carpenter and Roberts are experi enced and expert in Sabbath school work. Telegraphic Briefs. The National Educational Associ ation "began a big convention -in Cleveland. Secretary Taft returned to his desk in the War Department and passed a. strenuous day. A commercial house in Colon was boycotted for allowing the use oi United States flags as washrags. Troops were ordered to the Texai border to preserve - the neutrality laws in Mexko's .behalf. TO MEET IT CHARLOTTE State Executive Comraittee, Which Met ct Greensboro, Besieged WiO. Invitations, Selects Charlotte For the Meeting Place of the State Re publican Convention, and Names the 26th of August as the Date. Greensboro, Special. The Republi can State Convention for the nomi nation of candidates for Governor and other State offices will be held in Charlotte, August 2(5th. This was deciiinl at a meeting of the State executive committee held here Fri day afternoon, the vote on the meeting place landing ss follows: Charlotte 11, Asheville 3, and Greensboro, 2. Charlotte's invita-' tion was extended by a delegation of thirty men, representing the com mercial, political and social life of the city, and it was evident from the moment the Queen City people ar rived here that they intended to capture the convention. After the vote had been' taken on the meeting place the committee dis cussed several matters in executive session, relating to the distribution of patronage, the personel of the State ticket, etc. The appointment of postmasters at Mooresville and Old Fort was considered but no conclusion was reached. The committee authorized the ap pointment within the next ten days of a committee of seven to make sug gestions for the platform to be re ported to the Charlotte convention Later Chairman Adams and Secre tary Persons were added to this com mittee. Secretary Pearson intro duced a resolution inviting Hon. W. II. Taft to attend the State conven tion and the Greensboro centennial, and the same was adopted y a unanimous vote. New Court House Dedicated. Shelby, Special. Cleveland coun ty's handsome new court house has just been completed. This furnished an extra occasion for celebratiou and a large per cent, of Cleveland county's citizenship gathered at S'Hby Saturday for the double pur pose of participating in the usual Fourth of July celebrations and to dedicate the new temple of justice. The new court house is pronounced by men who know as the finest and most convenient court house in the State. Its walls are constructed of the famous Indiana limestone and its roof supports a small dome. It is located on a large square 'in the centre of the town and is consti'ucted with four fronts and four main en trances. The court room on the sec ond floor seats about one thousand people. The exercises were opened by a short address of welcome by Mr. C. R. Hoey, who also read the report of the county commissioners, which gave a detailed account of the construction of the new court house. The total cost of the building com plete is a little more than $75,000.' Rural Carriers Adjourn. Wilmington, Special. The fifth annual convention of the North Caro lina Rural Carriers' Association fame to a close with the Fourth of July festivities Saturday afternoon after sessions continuing through two days in the United States court room. Considerably more than a hundred delegates and members of their families were in attendance and delighted with the entertainment re ceived. The convention adjourned to meet next year !n Charlotte. . The following officers were elected: Pres ident, C. II. Bains, Nashville ; ; vice president, A. J. Hunter, Charlotte; secretary and treasurer, J. W. Brooks, Roxboro; executive committe C. U. Monday, Asheville; Sion H. Rogers, Monroe;: E. D. Pearsall. Rocky Point, delegate to national convention at Omaha, J. W. Brooks, Roxboro; alternate, V. T. Howell, Peachland. North Carolina Confederate Reunion. The Confederate reunion of the veterans of this State will be held on the 10th and 20th of August at Winston-Salem. Major II. A. Lon don, the Adjutant-General of the North Carolina Division of the Unit ed Confederate Veterans has made application to the railroad companies for the usual one cent a mile rate . for the occasion, which will enable n the veterans to attend at small ex panse, and the citizens of Winston- Salem are making great preparations for the entertainment of the vet erans and intend to make it the Greatest Confederate reunion ever held in this State. A program of the exercises will be out in due time. On the first day of the reunion will be held the annual election of the division and brigade commanders. On the same day ad dresses will be made by prominent veterans and that night an entertain ment for their benefit will be given by the citizens of Winston-Salem. On the second day of the reunion will be the grand parade which wil no donbt attract a large crowd. Will Sell Odell Mills. Greensboro, Special. The . creditors of the Odell Cotton Mills at Con cord, N. C, which have been under receivership for two years, met last week and agreed to the sale of the property for the purpose of reorgani zation. Half a million dollars is in RECEIVERS FOR N. & S The Court Takes Charge of a Valuable Railway Property FINANCIAL PANIC IS THE CAUSE Norfolk & Southern, Owning Ex tensive Lines in Extern North Carolina, Fina:k;ially Embarrassed end Three Receivers Are Named For It A Solid Reorganization of the Company Looked For. Norfolk, Va., Special. On the pe tition of the Trust Company of America, joined in by the railroad, the Norfolk & Southern Railway Company was placed in the hands of receivers by order of Judge Edmund Waddill, in the Federal Court. The receivers named are: Thomas Fitzgerald, Harry K. Walcott and Hugh M. Kerr. George Rublee, of New York, and Edward R. Bairik, Jr., df Norfolk, are named as coun sel for the receivers. Mr. Fitzgerald is designated as general manager for the receivers. A reorganization committee has also boen formed, consisting of George C. Clark, of Clark, Dodge & Co.; Rathbone Gardner, president of the Union Trust Company, Provi dence; Oakleigh Thorne, president of th Trust Company of America ; J. I. Waterburg, president of the Man hattan Trust Company, and S. L. Schoonmaker. The petitioners set forth that trie roa recently bought in the S'uffolk & Carolina Railroad, the PaxolicQ, Oriental & Western Railroad the Raleigh & Pamlico Sound R.-ihoad and the Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad, for which a debt of $15, 000,000 was incurred and f.oated by the Trust Company of America, of New York City, taking lirst mortgage and refunding bonds. Extensive im provements were also inaugurated. It is Anther shown that many of the larger stock and bondholders have contributed heavily Suring the past eight months in the hope of ticYng over the situation and keep ing the property out of the hands of receivers, but in view of the pro tracted depression those larger bond holders and stockholders joined in asking the Trust Company of America to make application for the appointment of receivers. The re ceivers qualified, each giving $100,000 bonds. The Norfolk & Southern Railway owns and operates COO miles of trackage, with principal points at Beaufort, N. C, Edenton. N. C. Raleigh, N. . C, and Norfolk, Vn., They also own the electric tine double route of about 20 miles each from Norfolk to Cape Fear and Virginia Beach. The officials, receivers and boncV holders declare the company's em barrassment temporaiy and predict a solid reorganization. Government Cotton Report. Washington. Special. The arerage condition of the cotton crop in the United States on June 25th was 81.2 per cent, of a normal, as compared with 70.7 on May 25th last; 72 on June ,25th a year ago. S3.3 on June 25th, 190C, and S1.8 the average of the June condition for the past 10 years. This was the announcement made by the crop reporting board of the bureau of statistics of the De partment of Agriculture based on re ports of the correspondents and the agents of the bureau. The condition of cotton on June 25th, and the 10-year average respec tively by States follows: Vinrinia 92 and 84; North Caro lina 80 and S'J ; South Carolina 81 and S2; Georgia 83 and 81; Florida 84 and 85; Alabama 82 and 81; Mis sissippi 84 and 8.1 ; Louisiana 80 and 82; Texas 80 and 82; Arkansas 85 and 82; Tennessee 80 and 85; Mis Fouri 87 and 84; Oklahoma 64 and 84. The condition of the cotton crop monthly for the past 10 years shows an average of 82.3 per cent, on Mav 25th, 81.8 on June 25th. 81.4 on July 25th. 73.9 on August 25th and G7.6 on September 25th. Still Smuggling Chinese in. Los Angeles, Special In Los Ange les according to information gathered by the immigration authorities, is a ring actively employed in smuggling Chinese coolies over the Mexican border into the United States. The gang in Southern California is be lieved to have agents throughout the State and the Southwest, and the in ability of the regular force to cope ! with the situation has caused the Department of Commerce and Labor to send a special agent from Wash-' ington to make an independent in vestigation. : Mexican Ambassador Recalled. Mexico City, By Cable. Enrique Creel, the Mexican ambassador to the United States, who has been on leaTe of absence, has been ordered to return to. Washington. It is presumed that his return is due to the troubles arising from the escape of Mexican revolutionists into Texas. He has been instructed to urge the extradi tion of these men or their prosecu tion in the United States courts. MURAT HALSTEAD IS DEAD (Widely-Known Newspaper and Maga zine Writer Dies at His Home in Cincinnati at the Age of 79 Was a War Correspondent During the Civil Struggle and Won Internati onal Renown. Cincinnati, O., Special. Murat Halstead, one of the leaders in Amer ican jouralism for over half a cen tury and widely known as a vigor ous editorial and magazine writer, died at his home in this city Thurs day afternoon in his 79th year. At his bedside were his wife, his son Rbert and one daughter, Mrs. Ar thur Stem. Mr. Halstead had been failing in strength for several months and Thursday suffered from cere bral hemorrhage. Mr. andi Mrs. Halstead celebrated their golden wedding anniversary a little more than a year ago. The sudden death of his son Marshall, a few months ago was a severe shyck to Mr. Halstead. Albert Halstead another son, is American consul at Birmingham, Eng. Mr. Halstead was one of the great editors of the last half of the nine teenth century and one of the strong est tributes to his incisiveness as a writer was in 18S9, when his nomi nation by President Harrison to be American minister to Germany was rejected by the United States Senatt because of articles he had published charging corruption to some member of that bo(y He was a native of Butler county, Ohk), and after a short service on a literary weekly, he in 1853, became connected with The Cincinnati Com mercial of which he became owner in 1865. Nearly twenty years later his paper was consolidated with The Gazette and he was editor-in-chief of the combined newspaper until years afterwards. For a time he was editor of The Brooklyn Standard Union and during the last ten years he has figured largely as a magazine and special writer, besis issuing a number of books on current matters of historical interest. In the civil war Mr. Halstead personally report ed many battles being rated as a war correspondent of the first calibre and later in the Spanish-American war he added to his reputation in that line. For fifty years he attended and re ported all Republican national con ventions. Six Die in a Collision. Knobnoster, Mo., Special The fast California special trains from St. Louis, on the Missouri Pacific rail road, collided! with the equally fast St. Louis train from Kansas City two miles east of here early Thurs day. Six persons were killed, all on the train from Kansas City, and at least. 50 were injured. The dead: Michael J. Burke, lineman, 23 years old, Poplar Bluff, Mo. S. R. Inglish, lumberman, Olean, Mo. Fred Story, lineman, Franklin, Kv. W. J. Frisbie, St. Louis, salesman. John Hood, lineman, Ilurle Mo. WT. H. Hardin, negro mail clerk, v St. Louis. A strange train dispatcher at Se dalia issued an order for the trains to meet at Knobnoster. Later this order Avas changed and the meeting place fixed at Lemonte, 7 miles east of here. Why the orders miscarried will be officially investigated. Revolutionists Attack Mexican Post El Paso, Texas, Special. Revolu tionists attacker the Mexican post at Palomas, Chichuahna. one hun dred miles west of El Paso and were repulsed after a battle with the gar ison. According to advices reorived by the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad, their foreman at Mimbres, N. M., is a prisoner in the hands of the revoltionists. Immigration and customs inspectors have been called in for duty at Columbus, N. M., across the border from Palomas. Prominent Floridian Kills His Wife. Pensacola, Fla., Special. Clifford Touart ,a member of a prominent gulf coast family, shot and probablv fatally wounded his wife at Bagdad. Fla., late Thursday. The couple, it is said, quarreled about a visit to Pensacola proposed by Mrs. Touart and Touart shot her three times. Touart 's friends say he is insane. Embezzled State Funds. New Orleans, iLa., Special. Fer dinand! Dudenhefer, formerly a State collector, in New Orleans, wast re cently found guilty in the Criminal District court of embezzling about $06,000 of State funds. Sentence was deferred. Dudenhefer disappeared from New Orleans about a year ago and it was charged by a Baltimore bonding company that the shortage in his offiffiee was known by State of ficials before he left. The bonding company refused to pay Dudenhef er 's bond and a suit followed in which hte bonding company lost. A Bomb in a Tenement. New York, Special. A bomb in the hallway of a tenement partially wrecked the building. Threatening letters, signed "Black Hand," had been received by the owner, Frances co Spinelli, and three police officers were guarding the place when the bomb exploded. One policeman was knocked down by the explosion. , A panto fettwd the tenements. m $ 1 SCIENCE gl' Take one ource of caustic soda; pour over it one ounce of muriatic acid. Both of these are corrosive substances. The mixture of the two will produce common table salt. Dr. II. Campbell Thomson, of Eng land,, has been making use of the cinematograph in nervous diseases, taking pictures at the rate of sixteen to the second, showing the move ments of th TiftMent.s. " 1 ' riuicsaur vuun, v ti&ii lily LOI1, reports 'the surprising discovery of camphor as an animal secretion. The animal concerned is a myriapod, re sembling a worm or small slug, and scientifically known as polyzonium rosalbum. Metallic' mirrors for searchlights are conning WW use in European nav ies. They don't break like glass ones when the big guns go off, and it is said they "give more penetrating beam both at night and in foggy weather." About 2500 different kinds of ani mals are known on earth that is, warm-blooded, milk-giving creatures, like our common domestic animals. To avoid confusion with other creat ures, one' ought to call them mam mals, meaning milk-giving animals. . Bats were the only family of native mammals found on the thousands of small islands in the Pacific. .'These islands are so far away from the great continents that no mammals but the flying bats could reach them. The variety of bats known on earth is about 400. Water pipes of terra cotta were used in Crete forty centuries ago. Those supplying drinking water conf" sistea or. a series or subcorneal tubes socketed into each, other, withcollars and "stop ridges," so constructed as to give the water a shooting motion, thus prevening accumulation of sedi ment. In the erection of a railroad bridge over the Susquehanna River at Havre de Grace, the American Bridge Com pany will make use of what j,s' prob ably the largest wood block ever made. It has been made especially for the work, and weighs pounds, measures thirty inches across the shell and is rated at sixty tons capacity. The shackle is a solid forg ing three and a half inches thick. Celluloid Is a plastic material com posed of guncotton and .camphor. The guncotton, or nitro-cellulose, is made by treating tissue paper with a mix ture of nitric and sulphuric acids. The product is mixed with camphor and various pigments to produce the desired color, and thi materials are thoroughly incorporated by means o neater! ro s it is sn htrtMK?;-jfTK mitted to great pressure. It isf after- J ward molded into form, by means of heated dies, under pressure.,' It is very hard and elastic" 'and . takes a high finish. Dr. Fraenkel, of Berlin, in a paper recently read before. the Society qf Medicine of that, city, 'gave striking figures concerning the war waged by medicine against consumption. In IS SI the death rate from this dire disease was o2.o in every 10,000, and the latest returns shows- that it has been reduced to 17.25. ' This satisfac tory state of things Dr. Fraenicp't at tributes party to the discoveries of Koch, and he divides the honors equally between prophylactic meth ods and the system of isolation new widely practiced in Germany.; STRAW FOR HATS. flow the Wheat is Planted and Gai nered IJleacliiiig the Stalks. Few people know where. the straw for making summer hats comes from, A great part of it is grown in Italy. To make suitable straw the wheat is sown as thickly as possible, in order that the growth of the plant may ba impoverished, as Weil as to produce u thin stalk having toward the end from the last knot the lightest and longest straw. The wheat blooms at the beginning of J une, and is pulled up by the roots by hand Avhen thegrain is half de veloped. If allowed to remain in the ground a longer time tho straw would become brittle. About five dozen uprooted branches, the size of the compass of two hands, are nrmiy tied together into little4 sheaves and stowed away in barns. Then the straw is again spread out to. catch the heavy summer dews and to bleach in the sun. After additional bleaching the-straw is put into small bundles and classified. Finally it is cut close above tho first joint from the top and again tied up in small bundles containing about sixty stalks each. Golden Halfpenny, Prehistoric Drawings. Dr. Rene Jeannel, of Toulouse, has made an interesting discovery of a cave with prehistoric drawings be tween Foix and Le Mas d'Azil, in the to drawings of horses and aurochs, he found about, forty designs, among which was the silhoutte of a human being. The date of -the drawings, which are in red and black, can be' roughly determined by the fact that they .includo' reindeer, From Th Athenaeum. . . " . . - . ;-.-'
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