ATCH. Printer' Ink say The Dlpatch ik vor don't rkad THE DISPATCH YOC DON'T OCT THE NEWS. baa to largest circulation or any political weekly newspaper in the boil la. ESTABLISHED 18c2. LEXINGTON, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1903. VOL. XXI.--NO 37. THE PAPER 6F THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE AND WITH THE PEOPLE. THE WHOLE ROUND WORLD, THE SANCTIFICATIONISTS. THE DISP A Week's Events Carefully Busy THURSDAY, JAN. 13. It developed in Baltimore financial circles today that the deal between the Union Trust Company and the Seaboard Air Line for the purchase by the latter of the control of the South nd Western Railway and . the Cranes Nest Coal Company is off. Washington, Jan. 13. It is an nounced today that General Leonard Wood has applied to the war department for duty in the Philippines, and that his request has been granted. FRIDAY, JAN. 10. At the annual meeting of the Southern Express Company at Savannah, to-day it was deter mined to increase the compen sation of all salaried employes to an extent that will involve a largo and liberal addition to the pay rolls of the company. The American board of com missioners for foreign missions recoived a cablegram to-day from Ahmednagar, India, an nouncing the death from blood poisioning of George W. Harding No tidings of the overdue American Line steamer St. Louis have been received at New York up to midnight. SATURDAY, JAN. 17. As a result of the recent can vass of a large territory in eas tern North Carolina by Mr. James Dodd, an agent of the Wilmington Tobacco Warehouse Company, 495 farmers in a radius of 100 miles of that city, have promised to cultivate 1,h"4 acres of tobacco during the com ing year. This section which was canvassed by Mr. Dodd, has raised very little, if any, tobacco in former years. A largo ma jority of the farmers each agreed to plant at least four acres in yellow leaf, while not a few said they would plant six and eight acres. Literature relative to the growth and curing of the weed is furnished free of cost to the new growers by the warehouse company. Five boys, whose ages range from 13 to 15 years, while coast ing at South Bethlehem, Pa., tonight were struck by a train on the Philadelphia and Reading Railway and instantly killed and another was fatally injured. At Konciusko, Miss., today Sheriff Love and posse brought in aDd lodged in jail ten white citizens of the northern part of the county, charged with the lynching of Jim Gaston and Monroe1 Hallum, twov negroes, at the cross roads last August. These parties and a number of others have been indicted by the grand jury of Attalla county. SUNDAY, JAN. 18. Five men were killed and four . others were wounded, two of them probably fatally, by the ex plosion of a powder charge of an eight-inch gun on board the United States battleship Massa chusetts, yesterday morning while at target practice off Cule bra Island. Testimony accumulates as to the increasing perils of the Bal kan situation. In Vienna, where the Macedonian agitation is close ly watched, the opinion gains ground that Russia and Austria Hungary may not have an op portunity to test the efficacy of the reform proposals they wish to impress on the sultan. At the Cabinet meeting at Washington today, Postmaster ' General Payne took up with the President some cases relating to the appointment of postmasters, but no announcementof probable . appointments were made. It is Understood that it will be de termined early next week wheth er Samuel H. Vick, the colored postmaster at Wilson, N. C, will be re-appointed. The case has attracted wide attention. No developments were reported in the Indianola postoftlce case except that it has been decided Collected and Condensed for Readers. to decline the request of the citizens of Indianola that their mail be sent to Heathmann in stead of Greenville, on account of the limited facilties of the Heathmann office. Owing to the interference of a messenger boy a wreck was caused on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad east of Cum berland Md., early this morning, in which four employes of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad were killed and three injured. MONDAY, JAN. 19. Turkey at present is experi encing an unusual thing, a heary snow storm. All communica tions between Constantinople and its environments has been interupted and European train service has been suspended. At 3.15 this morning at Colum bia, S. C, hope of Mr. Gonzales' recovery has been practically abandoned. The sergeons will make a final effort to save his life, but the case is almost hope loss. When the grand jury, especial ly convened to investigate the coal famine in Chicago, shall make its report today it is ex pected that there will be 39 true bills returned against coal deal ers. The indictment, it is said, will charge the coal dealers with violations of anti-trust laws, and with blacklisting. TUKSDAV, JAN. 20. Abram S. Hewitt former mayor of New York and Repres entative!; in Congress from 1H74 to 1HH7, died at G o'clock this morning in New York. He was in his Hist year and had been critically ill for ten days. There have been 1(1 deaths from the plague since January 1 at Mazatlan, Mexico. Thedeaths on the 15th numbered i, and many new cases are reported. Most of the ladies of the higher class have left the city and hard ly any women are seen on the streets. Trade is reduced to the lowest possible point. J. J. Herman, manager and match-maker for he Fort Erie Athletic Club, of New York, an nounced tonight that he will offer a purse of $25,000 for a 20-round boxing contest between Jeffries and Corbett. He has written to the champion and ex-champion making the offer and if satisfac tory answers are received, he will, he says, at once post a for feit of $5,000 as a guarantee that the cont est will take place with out inte rference. LOOKOUT, WILDCATS. The National Guard Bill Passes the Senate. Adjutant General Royster has been notified that the Dick Na tional Guard or militia bill has passed the United States Senate, it having already passed the House. He said that within three or four days a call would be issued for all the officers of the State Guard to meet in con vention at Raleigh to make ar rangements for carrying out the provisions of the bill. It is the purpose to have the National Guards of this State in the finest possible shape. Guardsmen are delighted at the passage of this much hoped-for bill, which places all of the companies of the North Carolina State Guard under the care of the United States government. According to the provisions of this bill the government will have authority to call out the State troops in case of any National trouble the same as it now exercises over the regular army. This is for a period of any nine months ser vice. There seems to be fun ahead for the Wildcats. Their services are liable to be called for at any time now by Uncle Sam to sup press dangerous riots, coal strikes, etc First Methodist Episcopal Church South, Lexington, N. C. The above engraving shows the new First Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of Lexington, as it will appear when completed. The building is now in process of erection. When completed it will have cost about $15,000 and will be one of the handsomest structures in the state. The arrangements of the building will be elaborate and complete. A rolling partition will sepa rate the main auditorium from the Sunday School room. The latter will consist of eight separate class-rooms one room for infant class department, another for the Bible class, etc. There will be a ladies' parlor, pastor's study and all of the other appliances of a strictly modern church. The en trance into the building will be through a vestibule, which will conduct either to right, or left to a broad compartment wherein doors lead to the main auditorium. ALL DEAD BUT THREE. Typhoid-Pneumonia's Fatal Work in a Single Family. Sunday night at 11 o'clock, at her home uear the Wennonah Cotton Mill, occurred the death of Miss Nora Jones, aged 1 years, of typhoid-pneumonia. The funeral, conducted by Rev. Mr. Smith, took place Monday at Piney. The death of this young lady shows remarkable and deadly work of typhoid-pneumonia in a single family, the equal of which has never been witnessed in this community. Four weeks ago Mrs. John Jones died, followed t wo weeks later by a daughter. The case above mentioned makes the fourth death within a month. Three remaining daughters are in bed seriously ill with the dis ease. The father died two years ago similai l.v afflicted. The case is one to excite the genuine and heartfelt sympathy uf everyone, and marks almost the entire obliteration of a fam ily oi people wno were among the best citizens of Davidson county. Not Out to Stay. Durham, N. C, Jan- 17. Gen Julian S. Carr has gone to New Orleans. He left here last night, going by way of the Southern road. He went south to attend a meeting of the directors of the San Antonio, New Orleans and Gulf Railroad. He will be gone some ten days. In conver sation he talked of the senatorial contest and intimated that he doubted if any nomination will be made within a week or ten days. He intimated that if there was not an agreement he might come back in the race later on, simply getting out at this time in the interest of party harmony and to give the others a chance to clear up the situation. Reformed Church Services. Last Sunday night Rev. J. C. Leonard, pastor of the German Reformed church, brought the cheering news to his congrega tion that the Lexington and High Point churches had been sepa rated and each constituted a charge alone. Rev. Leonard has been the pastor of both since he organized them two years ago. The Board of Missions has com- missioned Rev. D. E. Bowers for High Point. This means that the Lexington church is to have the entire time of its pastor, a fact which the members of the congregation greatly appreciate. REV. J. D. ARNOLD. Rev. J. D. Arnold, whose like ness is herewith appended, is the beloved pastor oftlie First Meth odist Episcopal church of Lex ington. This is the fourth year of his pastorate here. Ho came to Lexington from Concord and his record as the leader of one of the leading denominations of the city is highly creditable, lie has won the respect and esteem of cur people by his earnest and consecrated Christian character, and by his strong and effective labors toward the upbuilding of the sacred and noble cause he represents. Since takingcharge of the Lexington church Mr. Ar nold has added 1(H) new mem bers to its roll, the list of which now numbers 224. Since the old church was burn ed Mr. Arnold has conducted ser vices in Hedrick & Sink's hall. A cut of the new church, which is now being erected, appears elsewhere in The Dispatch. Wreck at Thomasville. No. 35, the south-bound vesti bule, due .here at 8:05 p. m., ran into a freight standing on the main line at Thomasville Sunday night, demolishing two freight cars and seriously damaging 35's engine, which was one of the fine, large and new locomotives recently added to the Southern's equipment. No one was serious ly injured with the exception of a severe sprain to the ankle of the fireman on the vestibule. The passengers were badly shaken up and pandemonium reigned for awhile. The cause of the wreck has not been ascer tained. Either some scoundrel opened the switch maliciously, or else 35, moving at high speed and 20 minutes late, cut it, throw- ! ing the vestibule from its path. There will be a meeting of the Tyro township Teachers Abso- ciation in Reeds Academy, Sat- urdny, January 24th, at two o'clock. Teachers who are con- ducting schools in Tyro town ship, are urged to be present to compare maps and organize for the purpose of making ' tovmBhip maps. BETTER ROADS. Mi;. Editor: 1 see it stated that the Beard of Trustees of Lexington town shi( are circulating petitions to ascertain public sentiment as to issuing bonds to improve the public roads of the township. In fact I have seen one of the pe titions proposing an issue of bonds not to exceed $5o,(KtO, 1 think. But I have not yet signed the petition, not because I am opposed to good roads, but be cause I wish to understand the movement before going into it. Every man who thinks is of course in favor of better roads and recognizes their bearing up on the growth and prosperity of our town. And I take it that those who pay taxes will be per fectly willing to pay more if it will secure good roads. But we already pay a considerable tax for this purpose, and yet I have net, heard of much improvement. This question of good roads is so important a matter to the town that we ought to have general concert of action upon it. To se cure this, ought we not to have a public meeting to discuss the movement which the trustees have initiated and to adopt plans the best plans looking to the improvement of our roads, and thus all pull together and make the movement effective. This short communication is intended simply as a suggestion and plea for concerted action upon this very important subject. F. C. Robbins. Accidental Shooting:. Mr. W. F. Miller, of Cotton Grove township, called on The Dispatch Monday,, bringing the sad news of the accidental shoot ing of his son, Mr. F. L. Miller, last Friday, by Mr. Frank Trant ham. The young men were out hunting when the accident oc curred. Twenty-one shot were received by Mr. Miller, being distributed over his left arm, cheek, ear and nose. His injuries, while not fatal, are considered quite serious. At present he is progressing as well as could be expected. Dr. Myers was the attending physician. Marriage Near Cld. Mr. W. E. Perdue and Miss Alice Metters, were happily united in the holy hands of mat rimony, Jan. 18, at the home of the bride's father, Mr. James staff of The State, and his de Metters, near Cid, in Emmons 'voted surgeons were present, township. Chas. Sechriest Esq., ' A few minutes after the end officiated. Mr. and Mrs. Per- came it was known all over due have the best wishes of Columbia. The whole city is their many friends. deep in sorrow, Giving Free Concerts at the Wen nonah Cotton Mill. A small band, consisting of four men who claim that they are sanctified, are holding a series of meetings at the Wennonah Cot ton Mills. The meetings have been in progress for several days and the;r preaching and conduct is creating great excite ment. From what we have seen and heard of the? e discord sow ers their meetings serve more as a concert to gratify curiosity seekers and demoralize the com munity than for anything else. They area band of false leaders sent only of the devil and are. with all satanic power, ridiculing the different Christian denomina tions, thereby sowing discord among the different churches wherever they go. There is no such thing as reaching sinless perfection through sanctifica tion; as they say, for the word of God distinctly says in Ecc. 17-20: "There is not a just man on earth that doethgood andsinneth not." Then if this bo true there canSbe no good grow outof them. And also in another place in the Scriptures are these words : "He that sayeth he is without sin is a liar and the truth is not in him." So let us turn a deaf ear to their solicitations and as an enlightened people living in a gospel land favored by God with the richest blessings, invite these demoralizing, misleading work ers of iniquity out of our midst by not giving them our pres ence. E. F. Smith. Latur: We are glad to know that the good people of the Wen nonnah community have awaken ed to a sense of their duty and have asked these ungodly crea tures to leave our midst by 'lock ing the doors of the church -on them. But still they persist and seem to be determined to preach their in isleading doctrine and have secured the school house. If the committee docs their duty they will exclude them from the build ing and appoint a committee to ask them to leave town. E. F. S. Attempted Robbery. Grecnsbo.o, Jan. lb Mr. J.H. Denny, superintendent at C. N. Cone's cotton mill, was waylaid late last evening while on his way home from work and he says three men set upon him. first drawing clubs. Taken ut terly by surprise, especially as he had 'nothing to defend himself with, Denny ran and as he did so two shots were fired at him, but both went wide of the mark. Mr. Denny says he recognized one of the men as R. E. Trout man, whom he discharged yes terday from the mill. The police were notified and Mr. Cone offered a reward of $200 for Troutman's capture. About 1 o'clock this f morning Officers Crutchfield and Alexander, ac companied by Mr. Cone, went to Troutman's home on Asheboro street, and arrested him. One of the officers knocked on the front door while Mr. Cone and the other went around to the rear. When Troutman heard the rap on his door he ran through the back door and landed in the arms of the officer. He will be given a hearing to morrow on the charge of secret assault. The other two men are known and quite likely they will be captured soon. Mr. Gonzales Dies. Columbia, S. C, Jan. 19. At 1 o'clock this afternoon, Mr. N. G. Gonzales died at the Columbia Hospital. He was unconscious when the end came, and it was painless. His wife, his three brothers, A. E. and W. E. Gon zales, of The State, and A. B. Gonzales, of Colleton; bis sister, Miss Harriet R. E. Gonzales, and members of the editorial