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VOL. XXVII. GASTONIA, N. C. TUESDAY,
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BLACUUIN NOT GUILTY.
Federal Court Boom at Omens*
bare a Scaaa al Wild Applause
Whan tba Congressmen Fmm
tba Eighth ia Cleared at
Charges of Practicing Before
Be* ailments.
Cfcutottt ObMmr.
Greensboro, April 20.—As was
predicted in The Observer oi
to-day the Blackburn trial closed
this morning jost before the
clock struck 12. The case did
not n> to the jury for, as Judge
Goffclosed his charge, be said,
"And, gentlemen of the jury, if
yon were to bring in a verdict
of guilty 1 aboula set it aside;
< therefore, why go through the
formality of rendering one."
As the words fell from the lips
of the feinted man of law no
outburst of applause burst from
the large crowd which bad as
sembled to bear the court de
liver its instructions. The
cheering was liberal and pro
longed. Forgetting thet court
waa still in session a number of
lediee rose np from their seats,
walked across the bar and con
gratulated Judge Goff. The
scene that followed the noted
utterance was very animated and
interesting, lien rushed out
and filed telegrams to friends
and newspaper reporters sent off
bulletins. There waa tnmnlt
and applause, and, through it
all, the defendant sat where be
bad been all the morning and
received congratulations from
those who were close at band.
He showed considerable feeling,
but aaid very little.
lalefaf hit Bonn.
YMkvtlta RniMr.
Mr. J. Bolivar Scott, of ibr
Delphoa neighborhood, recent I <
bold « pair of horaaa of bin >•
raiaior for $500, ooe for $2 0
and tba other for $900. "U it I
do not know that J have don*
yarv well,’’ a«M Mr. Scott, in re
farriof to the natter, "for l an.
told that the man to arhom 1
•old tba karat for $300 almost
immediately afterward sold him
tor $400, and then I bad to go
••dttHiy a pair of nalea, for
yhtoa 1 paid a catty aa ranch aa
1 J* .*®T horaaa.- The
point, however, h tba practical
demonatratlon of the &t thal
$300 and *300 horaes Caa ha
raietd in tide aactioo.
Sabecrfbe tor tin Ourrn,
leselutione el Respect.
It it tbe desire of Gastoais
Lodge No. 53 Knights of Pythias
to express the high degree of
esteem in which onr deceased
brother, Robert C. Adams, was
held by every member of the
lodge, therefore, be It resolved:
First, That while we bow in
hntnble submission to the Divine
will, we mourn the loss of a
brother whom to know was to
love, and whose life and fellow
ship sweetened and brightened
ail onr lives.
Second, That he was ever true
to his brother knights, faithful
to ovary Pythian obligation and
always brought to the council
ball or to the fraternal circle tbe
sunshine and bouyancy of hia
manly spirit. He was frank,
manly and brave, and in his life
exemplified those gentle and
chivalrous traits that can spring
only from s generous heart ana
a noble spirit.
Third, That he was a young
man of mach usefulness sad
Promise; a good citizen, a con
sistent Christian and all life waa
made better for hia having lived.
Fourth, That to his devoted
family, and especially to her
upon whom this bereavement
falls so heavily, we extend our
heart felt sympathy.
Fifth, That a copy of these
resolutions be spread upon a
special page of our minute book,
a copy be sent to the widow and
family of onr deceased brother
■ nd that copies be sent to our
city papers and to tbe Carolina
Pythian.
J, H. Kxwjrcny, ")
H. F. Glsxn, £ Com.
Quo. W. WmaoK, )
Hero Vatea Then Veters,
CiwtatM Ofcwrwtr.
Newbern, April 20.—An elee
i wss, held io the city of Beau
iort yesterday for tbe purpose of
making sn assessment for tbe
support of agTaded school. The
pti eerily g campaign waa wans
and the election one of the most
exciting ever held there. On
couatiag the vetee it was found
that wore had been deposited
than there were legal voters in
the rit, uud, although those who
are! tu favor of the aseeesment
woe, they decided to throw the
election out on account of fraud
sod issue e call for a new elec
tion, which will be done Mon
day. Tbe majority la favor of
the tax was 40.
SAN F1ANCISC0
BUT A MEMMY.
Flame-Swept City • Vast Veete
o( Aikea and Inlnn-Ita Fat
al* Beatles* tad Dairy.
Teat* and Supplies Naadad—
Sana Incidents *1 the Terrible
Catastrophe.
Oakland, April 20.—San Fran
cisco is but a memory. Not s
home remains, and the peninsula,
yesterday the home of nearly
half a million people, is now s
maos of ruins. Besides the great
San Francisco conflagration the
fires of Boston, Chicago, and
Baltimore, seem ' insignificant.
More people died in Galveston
flood perhaps, bnt the destruc
tion of property was far leas.
Mayor Schmitx’s residence fell
before the onslaught of the fire
fiend and the Executive and
and General Fnnston, working
in perfect hannoey from the
same offices, were forced grad
ually backward until to-day it is
expected they will have to move
into the military reservation
itself. A few stark steel rains
thrust mighty beams ioto the
smoke-clouded sky as if in defi
of the elements that strove to
wreck their destruction. The
steel frames are twisted and bent
bnt remain faithful to hopes of
inventors who conceived them.
The United Ststesmint stands
deaolatc amid rains. The qaakes
of angry nature did little more
than make the mammoth pile
tremble and its atone defies the
fire and remained.
NUMBS* OF USAD UNCKHTAIN.
It it now impossible to esti
mate the number of dead. Five
bundled may be aa near right aa
five thousands. Estimates of
tea thousand are common.
Two thousand refugees arrived
last night at Sacramento and
20,000 more will be sent there to
day. Thorough outcasts of the
earth, bveneas in image of man,
plied their thieving ghonlisb
calling in the darkness. Sol
diers shot many of them.
Toiling up steep bill aides,
drawing trunks and household
goods over piles of debris, tbeir
faces blackened by smoke, lined
by (offering, and resembling
imps from another world, men
followed by dazed families sought
all night to find relief from scenes
of boTror. It is a cosmopolitan
crowd and a motley crew. The
mournful procession of poor
whites, Onent peoples of all
nations, wended tragically from
the rookeries they called home.
The soldiers are administering
affairs with all justice of judges
and all devotion of heroes. It
was the soldiers who prevented
people from robbing the fire
fighters of their last drop of wa
ter. It is the soldiers who keep
up the courage of the .refugees,
feed the hungry and serve the
injured. Doctors and nurses,
and policemen working without
food and all work with patience.
The great story of the San
Francisco disaster is yet to come.
It will never be all told. There
will be aa many versions of the
thousand* of tragedies as there
were people in tae stricken city.
61 Xn.LKl> IK ASYLUM.
Oakland, Cm]., April 20—Dr.
Clark, superintendent of the San
Francisco County Hospital, tel
ephoned Press headquarters in
Oakland last night concerning
the situation at the Agnews In
sane Asylum near San Joss. Dr.
Clark said that 11 employes and
officers of the institution, includ
ing . Dra. Kelly and Bell, were
killed and 20 tainted. Among
the patients 85 were killed and
120 injured. All the buildings
were demolished. Dr. Clark said
that there was absolutely no con
fusion, and that he believed all
the patients had been accounted
for.
MAKV CUAZKU BY PLAMZ9.
San Francisco, April 20.—
White the heroic fire-fighters
were mskiag the last stand at
Van Ness avenne, panic reigned
among the survivors la other
parts of the city. Soldiers were
obliged to prevent men and
women, made insaae, from rush
ing into deserted buildings to
save valuables from the ruins.
At Larkin and Sutter streets,
two men and a women broke
from the police and rushed into
a burning apartment house,
sever to reappear. -
Probably 260,000 refugees are
•trnggtiag to get out of the city
and hourly the task is becoming
more difficult as the fire and beat
eut off avenue after avenue of
escape. la every excavation
and kola throughout the north
beoeb householders are burying
household effects, throwing them
into ditches ana covering the
hole. Attempts are made to
mark the graves of tha property.
DSAS AT SANTA SOSA 800.
Oakland, Cal., April 10.—O.
W. Daffy, of Owensboro, Ky ,
was the only ooe oat of several
mots to escape from bis floor of
the St. Rose Hotel at Santa
Roaa. Mr. Daffy says when the
■bock started be rushed for the
stairway, but the building was
swaying so tbst be turned^ back.
He threw himself ia front of a
dresser to protect himself front
falling timbers. The dresser
held up the beams which
tumbled over him. He was im
prisoned 5 hours before befog
rescued. Accordiogto Daffy
there were about 300 persons
killed in the destruction of the
three hotels in Santa Rosa and
not fewer than S00 in the whole
town of Santa Roaa.
SHOCK KELT 7,000 MILKS.
Rome, April 20.—The seismo
graphs in the observatories
throughout Italy have recorded
distant earth shocks. Those of
the observatory at Florence,
which has the most perfect In*
etruments, indicated that an
earthquake had been felt at a
distance of 7,000 miles. The
shocks were so severe that they
injured the instrnmenU.
The director of the Florence
observatory is of lbe opinion
that the earthquake ta California,
viewed in connection with the
outbreak of Mount Vesnviat
and the earthquake ia Calabria
in September fast, indicates the
approach of farther territorial
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WUVUMIVUI.
FACING THE FUTURE.
San Francisco, April 20.—Son
Francisco’s darkest hoar has
dawoed into a day of hope. Its
time of overwhelming disaster
sod peril has coded and its fat
are is now a subject of general
consideration.
The fire is practically under
control. A clear sky over the
mission district shows that the
fire there has been extinguished.
The spread of the flames toward
the western additioot the best
part of tbe city remaining, has
been stayed, and the only por
tion of the conflagration that de
mands the attention of the fire
men is that extending from the
Nob Hill section down to tbe
northwestern part of tbe water
front. Tbe western addition
danger was averted at 2:30
o'clock this morning by the use
of guncotton, dynamite aad two
streams of water. The explo
sives were handled by the chief
gunner of tbe Hare Island navy
yard and hia accomplishments
proved him to be a master of bis
profession.
50,000 cut loaf Arnica.
The work of relief was started
early to-day. A big bakery in
the saved district started its
ovens and arranged to bake
50,000 loaves of bread before
night. Thousands of people
were in lint this morning before
the California street bakery.
The police and military were
present in force sod each person
was allowed only one loaf.
The homeless people in tbe
P*fka and vacant lots were pro
v,ded /or to-day as speedily as
possible.
SOKTOUNC IMDX8CS1BABLK.
The destitution sod soletint
is iudeicribsble. Women end
children who had comfortable
homes e few days ago slept last
night—if sleep came at all—on
bay on the wharves, on the tend
i lota near North Beach, some of
them under the little tents made
of sheeting which poorly pro
tected them from the chilling
ocean winds. The people in the
park* are possibly better off in
the matter of shelter, for they
left their homes better prepared.
Instructions were issued by
Mayor Scbmits to-day to break
open every store containing pro
visions sod to distribute them to
the thousand* under police su
pervision The Young Men's
Hebrew Association ball near
Golden Gate Park, has been
stocked with provisions for the
nse of needy victims in the ad
jacent fields.
Ordxk ASTOnramNOLv oood.
Both the uiayor and Chief of
Police Diuau, when asked for
statements by t k s Associated
Press, expressed themselves as
thankful that the fire was virtual
ly controlled. Captain Oinan
■aid that the order maintained
fairly astonished him/lM
thought it due to early severe
measures taken by the soldiers
aod police in shooting down of
fenders.
Two men were shot and killed
this morning. Policeman Flood
on entering bis home encoun
tered a sttanger who attacked
Mm. Flood shot him dead,
Special Policeman Snyder killed
n men but the details are oof
known.
OOOD riLLOWSHLP THE 1ULU.
Good order and fellowship
seem to prevail in these Im
promptu settlements end tbs
common ruin end poverty km
■Ude all oi the unfortunate*
In building* close to the
camps the police are storing
available food staffs aad b3
clothing (or convenient delivery.
That these will be a last gad
equal distribution of supplies, ia
evident from the tamper of the
city ' administration. No dis
tinction* are drawn nod only few
favors shows.
ujcly ON TH* no cirtxs.
The grave question Is: How
soon, will an adequate supply el
food arrive from ontsidc potato,
evert famine aod destitution?
Then is little food ia Sea Fran
cisco outside of what little each
person possesses aad this can*
not Inst more than a few days.
ST’J’lsaS’SirfTS'SSSS
large neighbor sooth is Los An*
geles, 500 miles away. To the
north is Portland, nearly 800
miles distant, aad its aims at
neighbor ia the east is Salt Lake
City, 1,000 arils* away. These
cities and all of the less popu
lated nearer towns an making
ucncccs xor ldc ocfluiotc mw«
bat it is to tbe big cities of tbe
nation that San Francisco looks
with anxious eyas for relief.
BOU1RS BOUND BY HUNDXXDS.
From a three-story lodging
house at Fifth aad Minna streets
which col la peed Wednesday
moruiag, own than 73 bodies
were taken out to-day. There'
are 50 other deed bodies ia
sight of the reins. This bond
ing eras one of the first to take
fire on Fifth street. At least 100
persona were trilled ia the Coo
mopolitan, on Peart street.
VAKIL DCS aCATMUS.
Thousands of ntisbcn of
faniUes ate separated and with
no means of learning one
another** whereabouts. The
police to-day opened op a bureau
of realstrati— to bring relatives
together.
It ia impossible to secure a
vehicle except at exorbitant
prices. One merchant engaged
a teamster and hones and
wagon, agreeing to pey $50 an
hour. Charges of $20 for ferry
ing trunks a few blocks was
comm—. The police and mil
itary seize teams wherever they
require them, their wishes being
enforced at revolver point n
the owner proved indisposed to
comply with the demands.
Mayor Schmitz looked weary
to-day, but was energetically at
work at his desk, though be
bad had little or no deep. The
policemen repotted that two
grocery stores in the neighbor
hood were closed, although the
clerks were present. "Siheak
the stores open" ordered the
mayor, "and guard them*.
ooA»A)rre» st
J. H. lEWBtPT < CO.
I—Sle Way to Care Cstswb by Hy
It is the height of folly to
dose the stomach with internal
medicines to core natal catarrh.
It cannot be cored except the
catarrhal germs that are present
in the nose, throat sod lungs
have first been killed.
Direct local treatment by
breathing Hyomci through the
pocket inhaler that comae with
every outfit, la absolutely i
■ary to kill the catarrhal i
and prevent their ;
formation.
The soothing afar of
heals the smarting
membrane ot tbe air passage*
lathe BOOT, throat and longs,
kills of the cstanbal gar— and
rids the system of tke last traces
of catarrh.
The complete Hyomei outfit
cooi<i«t« of a hard robber IBsler
only one doflsr, wMe extra battles
can be obtained for JO cants, thus
malting It the moat ■maaartssi traet
ssent fee tae core ni ratarrk, as welt
aa tbe moat reliable.
3. H. Kennedy'S Co poaittvefy
ana ran toe a eat* when Hyomei (a
«Md in accordance with the aitsple
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ATTPmtW, BCN0C1ATBI
Canal* r--rtoli« f-iMaa aa
Meet la Brito* Nay ftk
Tbe Democratic Executive
Committee of Oaatoa Count}
U bureby coiled to meet at tbe
Court House in Dallas at twt
O'clock r.ottKoday. Ha}
7th, 1906, for tftc tnnsacdoe
of sock business as msy coax
before it. All msmben sia urged
to attend this meeting as matten
of importsac* wfll dome be ten
5r-Vritlrit.
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Subaciibt Mr Th* Oastowu
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