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ASHEVILLB, .N. CL, WEDNESDAY MOKNING, APBEL 24, 190L
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& Co.,
5 A Special
5 tion Sale
: Celebrated
i brand of
reduc-
of our
Eagle
Muslin
! "UNDER-
1 WEAR'
Our etock of these goods consist
ing of... .. ...i .
GQWCN1S . .:...
SKIRTS.
OPJAWERS,
CHEiMISlE-, and
CORSET COVERS,
being much larger than we care
to have at tMs season, we nave
decided to offer ' aim at theuni
fartm redradtion of one-fifth. (1-5)
off our regular prices.
Oar goods are all marked
plain figures off iwMch, you
niuct one-fifth.
in.
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Sale Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday.
jOestreioher
&Co.
51 Patton Avenue.
For excellence and b:sauty no
vehicle compares with tihose
turned out by the
COLUMBUS BUGGY CO.
Every piece of material used
in their construction is perfect,
a3d only skilled union labor em
ployed. Trap?:, buggies, surries,
for sale (by
ASHEVILLE HARDWARE
COMPAHY.
Don't Board Any Longer
Let Mrs. L. A. Johnson fur
nish rooms for you, (pay her on
instalments and save money.
43 Patton Ave.
Rock! Rock!! Bock!!!
JWp !(.tp iItv iTVYnff-rvni of our stone quar
ries 4n city and suburbs. Are jxrepared
tor furnishing building stone, step
stones, hearth stones, ' curbing, etc.
Also for grading side or yard -walks end
excavating. BURGESS & MOORE,
Asheville, N. C, Phone 23, Bor 222.
WOOD'S SEEDS.
A full line of Wood's Garden
Seeds, Lawn Grass, Sweet Peas
and Nasturtium Seeds hulk..
GRANTS PHARMACY.
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HEADACHE.,.,.';
Hok, Nervtma and Neurawp
Headache quicady ; relieved ?
Baldwin's Headache tnre. ; 2S, :.:
GRANVS PHARMACY.;
Six Masked Men Board a Choctaw, Okla.
homa and Gulf Passenger Train and
Loot Express Car.
Express Messenger Meader
Beaten Over the Head and
Forced to Open Local Safe.
The Through. Safe BJown Open with
Nitro Glycerine and Entire Contents
Taken Porter Fatally Shot
Little Book, Ark., April 23. The
Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf passenger
train, which wasbJeld' up at midnight
near the Iron Mountain (crossing four '
and a half miles west of Memphis, ar
rived here at 6:10 this morning, half an
hour late.
(Sidney Drew, the negro orter who
was shot by the bandits, was taken to
St. Vincent's hospital and had hi
wound dressed by the company's local
physician. His condition is serious and
he may die. C T. Meader, the express
messenger, was badly beaten over tha
head and shoulders with a pistol bat
he was able to continue his ion. The
passengers were not molsie-l. Frank
TV. Haskell, local ageut of the Wells
Fargo Express company, ouli sot es
timate the amount the robbers secur
ed, (but it is said to be over $3.00i).
The tra'n left Memphis at 11:40 Jast
night, and citer crossing the bndge,
made the usual stoip at Bridge Junc
tion. At this point six masked men
boarded the train, but w"er3 not eeen
by any of the train cdew. Whtn a
ipoint half a mile west of Iron Moun
tain crossing had been reached. Mes
senger IMeader started to cross over
from ttihe first car to the other, where
the express safes were, as he had fin
ished arranging the 'baggage. As he
opened the door "he found himself star
ing into the barrels otf two revolvers
and two shot guns and sawi four men
standing on the (platform. He was
grabbed by one of the robbers and his
pistol, which he carried in a belt
around his waist, was taken from him.
About this time the train began to
slow lip and came to a full stop. Then
shooting began. Two men who had
boarded the rear of the second car,
captured Sidney Drew, the train porter,
and made him uncouple at that (point.
The engineer and fireman had been
taken care of by this time. Two of the
robbers mounted the engine cab and
forced Engineer Johnson to pulil the
(baggage and express cars about half a
mile. The place where the cars top
ped is in the midst of a dense cane
brake, and Several miles from any
habitation. The track israised fifteen
feet above the surrounding country.
When the engine stopped George Ward,
a Iboy who 'had been riding on the blind
(baggage, sprang off and started into
the woods-. A shot from one of the
robbers brought him back to the train.
Then "Open the local safe or we will
'kill you," was the order given to the
messenger by one of the robbers, who
seemed to (be the leader. He was very
calm while the other three were very
much excited and worked like ama
teurs. The messenger obeyed and one
of the men, who carried a sack, placed
all the contents of the local safe in it.
"Now you and; the kid get into the
car ahead," was the next order.
(Meader did not eemi to move fast
enough to suit the robbers who had
(him in charge, so he delivered a few
blows with the heavy revolver fee car
ried. After the messenger was in the
other oar the robber continued to beat
fadms, the messenger says, until he was
very Ibadly bruised. He received a very
bad icut over the right eye.
One robber stayed to guard the tw
(prisoners, the other two joining their
comrades in the express car, where
they were at work on the through
safe, which was locked and could not
be opened until Little Rock was reach
Broken Glasses.
vjvdv ia nnthlne so annoyine to people
TwhoweugUMes as to g?t them broken,
We makif pctaltT of worlcin tbl. line.
.It don' matter howeomplieated the jowe
we can duplicate mem on "V
" BYE EXAMINATIONS FREE.
w mm wr tstS Scientific
' 9. Lt Optician.
PAstnffiee,. . v - 54 Pattoa Avenue
Masseur
iWkitson: Ileaw real, estiKte Pffliee
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ed. They had about a. pint
glycerine and poured it in
of niteo
the' crack
of the safe.
.When everything was ready all left
the car and the explosion followed'. It
was a complete success, for the door
of (the safe was blown off and hurled
twenty feet away, striking a tree trunk
and smashed It. The robbers re-entered
the car and! it was tout the work
of a few. moments to transfer the con
tents of the safe to the sack. Every
thing was taken. The1 robbers then
Jumped off and with a few parting
hots disappeared into the canebrakes.
The engineer ran (back to the rest of
the train and as soon as (the coupling
was made started as fast as possible
for Edmonson, twelve miles away, the
nearest telegraph station, whtere the
affair was reported to Superintendent
John H. Harris. The superintendent
immediately wired to the convict camp
at Hulbert, five cmiliee this side of the
scene of the holdup, asking that the
blood-hounds there (be placed on the
trail of the bandits. Rewards will be
offered.
HAVE DESCRIPTION OF SUSPECTS
IMemphis, April 23. The Memphis
txtIHIpia ihiAVf n. idiprTnTti.nn Of two men
rtn oare suspected of havtag had a hand j
In the Hold-up near Bride Junction last
mdght. The suspects, who were well
dressed, applied to tna .Kansas iity,
iFort Scott & iMemphis depot ticket
agent for passage to Bridge Junction,
bult he refused! to sell them tickets and
they went away. As all trace of 'them
has 'been 'lost it is thought they hoarded
NATIONS WONT RECOGNIZE
VENEZUELAN DECISIONS
Washington, April 23 .Information '
received here is that England, Ger
many and Spain have notified Vene
zuela that they will not recognize the
decisions of the Venezuelan courts in
deciding claims of their subjects aris
ing out of the revolution in Venezuela.
A PENNSYLVANIA
VILLAGE SINKING
Mayneld, Built Over a Mine, Excited
by a Cave-in.
Mayfield, Pa., April 23. This village
la excited by a cave-in. A-bout ten
houses have been twisted out of plumb
is excited by a cave-in. About ten
and the Delaware and Hudson tracks
are sunken about ten inches. The
rails are badly twisted and traffic is
stopped. The area covered by the set
tling is about 400 yards and is thickly
populated . People have fled from their
houses, but only person was injured.
The foundation of the Greek Catholic
church has fallen and the building is
In danger of collapse. The cave first
occurred in the bottom vein of the Hill
side Coal and Iron company's Glen
wood colliery.
ARMY LIMIT 76,000.
Washington, April 23. At a confer
ence with- General Miles this afternoon
Secretary Root decided to limit the
strength of the reorganized army to
76,000. It will, therefore not be re
cruited to the maximum strength: oi
one hundred thousand.
THIS IS THE LAST WEEK OF THE
SPRING CLEARING SAlLJ. JT is
TO EVERY ONE'S ADVANTAGE TO
GO AND SEE WHAT IS OTTFUDRED.
J. H. LAW, S5 PATTON AVE.
tf
Portuondo Cigars, 6 for 25c, Blomtoerff' s
Blomlberg's Selecto
smoke.
Cigars
good
Try Our
Fresh MARSH
MALLOW Drops
At 2Qc lb., at
HESTONS
26 South Main St
Phone 183
'the 8: -3 D. m. iRfemsnd Of .A
tdok the chances t&se&km rr jm
Junction. Another thenr i h ho
tftto liyea went oat en w r rWnti.
jin which twos held rap and assisted
ue roDoery, (naving been detailed to
uacLx.e sure tnat the coveted
mtoney was on fbttard.
express
AMOUNT OF BOOTY UNKIIOVII.
Memphis, April 28. The Wells Fargo
people (here say they do not know yet
how much money the train robbers got
in the hc4dl-up oca the Choctaw. Omteiha
and. GmOif road at tBridie Jauniction, Ark.,
test night . They are informed that only
wne of the two express safes were loot
ed. They have sent a man tto the scene
of the robbery to investigate.
JERSEY CENTRAL EMPLOYES
OET INCREASE OF WACES
Committee Beaches Agreement with
the Company.
New York, April 23. The conference
committee of employes of thfc Jersey
Central reached an agreement with the
company today as far as the trainmen
are concerned. It is expected an
agreement With the telegraphers will
he reached toimorrow. i
Under the agreement the wages 61
the trainmen and switchmen are ad
vanced ten per cent. The minimum
of telegraphers' wages at present are
$4d per month. It was agreed that this
should stand, but demand will be made
for an advance for more Important
work and 'general readjustment of
wages. ,
COURT OF INQUIRY
AT WEST POINT
Convened to Investigate Insubordina
tion of Cadets.
West Point, April 23. The court of
Inquiry convened today to investigate
the insubordination of about a hun
dred cadets who recently yelled deris
ively at Superintendent MMs, placed a
sunset gun in front of his residence
and were about to fire it when stopped
by sentinels. The action of the cadets
ta due to the punishment of Cadet
RolstOn by Mills for not reporting Ir
regularities in the mess hall . Tha dis
andssal of some of (the offenders is ex
pected. i . j , :
This is a more radical position than
that assumed by the United States,
which only insists on reviewing the de
cisions of the Venezuelan courts in re
gard to American claims. England,
Germany and Spain maintain the
claims miust be adjusted through diplo
matic means.
MRS. NATION OBLIGED
TO GIVE NEW BONDS
Goes to Jail for a Day bnt will Then
Resume Smashing.
Wichlita, April 23. Mrs. (Nation ar
rived last night. She will have a hear
. t before Judge jyale tomorrow on th
uestim f renewillg fcer bond. Hfr
question of renewing
present bondsmen refuse to serve Ion
ger. She had several offers of bail to
day but refused them, saying that until
she is released tomorrow she will take
nn lifA in the county jail. She said
she thought jail life would do her good
but declared on her release she would
renew smashing saloons and also cigar
stores. '
YESTERDAY'S LF.ACUE GME8
Following are scores by the National
Jaague games played yesterday:
R
At Philadelphia Phila.. .. 5
Boston.. ..
Batteries Orth and Douglass;
and Kittredge.
P-
At St. Louis-nSt. Louis.. ..10
THttsbu its1.. .. .... . . 4
H E
8 1
8 2
Willis
H
10
8
E
2
5
Batteries Harper and Schriver;
Waddell and Zimmer.
New York and Brooklyn; Cincinnati
and Chicago games postponed by w-;t
grounds.
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A Rare Opportunity
To Purchase a Suburban
Home Below Value
N1
'EW house of six rooms, hard
wood finish and hardwood
floors: large barn and out
S
houses. Three acres ground, one
acre enclosed lor chicken yard. ;
Price unil Maylet $1,750. House
alone cost '$2;400- Good neigh
borhood; 'y Owner r has business
interests in, city "whicb require
his residing near in. '
Villkle LaBarbe,
AN IMPERIAL
FOR REFORMS IN CHINA
Prince Ching aad Earl Li Placed on General Board of
State Affairs''---Expedition Beached Great Wall
Without FightiDg, a
Pekin, April 23. Li Hung Chang has
been informeki that the Chinese troops
under General Liu have already retired
into Shansi province and' are beyond
the point where they might come la
contact with the German and French
losdiers. The Germans continue to
aJdvance and are now a little beyond
the boundary of Chili province. The
inhabitants of the Chinese
villages
have (become frightened at the advance
of the expedition and have fled in ail
directions.
(Rookhill, following instructions re
ceived from Washington, has urged
the ministers to limit the indemnity
to forty million pounds. The German
minister thinks the amount required
should be over sixty million pounds.
The British minister thinks that the
missions should bear their own losses
and that the missionaries are inclined
to be sordid.
Shanghai, April 23. First result re
cent edict called for reform measures
appears in an imperial edict today.
This abolishes the privy council and
substitutes therefor a new board, call
ed the "General Board of State Af
fairs." The edict commands the new
board to recommend whatever changes
are needed. The emperor will then re
port the suggestions to the dowager
empress for her decision. After the
return of the court to Pekin tha sug
gestions adopted will be put in force.
The president of the new board is
Prince Ch'mg and among its memibexs
is Li Hung Chang. . ,
The notorious Yni Tin Lin, recently
appointed governor of 'Tunnani has
'been dismissed.
Berlin, April 23. Count Von Wal-
Vlersee reports that the French-Ger-mmn
expedition arrived; without oppo
sition at different, points of the great
wall, which is the (boundary of Shansi
province, it is unomciaiiy stated tnat
there will be no further advances and
there will be no fighting.
Washington, Aprtt 23. It lis under
stood that the Chinese plenipotentia
ries at Pekin, Prince Chin and La Hung
Chang are prepared to give a guaran
tee to the powers for the protection of
all foreigners in China, if the foreign
troops now stationed tbere are with
drawn. Thus far the retention of the
foreign forces has been urged as nec
essary in order to preserve order and
protect foreigners, but the Chinese au
thorities say that order has been so far
re-established that the imperial gov
ernment is fully able to direct the Chi
nese troops in -such a way as to secure
complete safety to the interests of all
foreigners. This is understood to be
DISREPUTABLE WOMAN
WHIPPED AT THE POST
Result of a Crrmda to Cleanse a Vir
ginia Town.
Suffolk, Va., April 23. As a result
of the crusade against disreputable
women two of them, Carrie Halmer
and Lavinia White, today received
twenty lashes from a whip weilded (by
Chief of Police Ames in ther city hall.
The women trembled with pain but
did not cry. A crowd looked on at the
proceedings. After the whipping the
women were ordered to leave town
with a warning that they would get
flftv stripes if they returned. They left
! with bleeding backs on the first train
' for Greene Fields.
TO LEAVE OFF UNION LABEL.
Minneapolis. April 23. The sash and
Jrm-2 rrruarnTftatnT-PTS Of this CitV have
'agreed to terminate on May 1 the ar
rangement -ith the wood .workers' un-
.-ur, whirh t.he union label was
WU .f j . ,
stamped on all mill work. The 'action,
it is f eared, will cause the strike of the
carmen ters now in progress to spread
to all olther budldfings.
Where Photography
Leaves Off We Begin
With Pencil & Brush.
From any good photograph -we
produce en'irged portraits in
crayon and pastel. Do not send
away valued family picture
to have it enlarged whei- you can
have It done .'betiter. . right here.
Our portraits anay be Jugher
priced than itftos.e fme copyfag
house agea offers, you.; 'Tut there
is a 'cJlffeTence in quality which is
mot ooanputaible isi. doiajrs .
cents. ; ,. .f . ...
N. Brock t 3
: .29 Patton Ave.
I J
EDICT 1
the basis of the wifchdrawtal of .10,000
French troops and it is earnestly hoped
among Chinese officials that this will
be followed toy a similar movement on
, the part of the other foreign forces in
China.
Washington, April 23. It was said
at the state department that no doubt
'Without intention the Pekin despatches
representing the United States as join
ing an the demands for more' heads and
more punishment in China, do not cor-
! rectly portray the position of this gov
ernment. As a matter of fact Mr.
Rookhill, our special commissioner at
Pekin, is acting under broad instruc-
. tions from the state department to do
j all within his power to restrain the un
necessary shedding of blood. His pres
ence with the ministers In their consid
eration of the subject of the punish-
j xnent of the provincial officials is there
fore distinctly palliative and deterrent.
He is seeking to minimize the punish
ments and it is not doubted that he can
do this with greater success by adher
ing to tha councils of the ministers
than by completely withdrawing him-'
self from their deliberations, even
though the appearance is thereby con
veyed that he is in full sympathy with
their demands.
ALSO
UmbreHaSale
Ot the Most Complete Assort
ment of Desirable Umbrellas.
Sizes Aram a mieat 24 inch cover
to the immiense 34 inch sitorm
U'mbrella t'hlat iwill cover yourself
and all (your enemies.
UMBRELLAS FINE ENOUGH FOR YOUR
USE AND CHEAP EN0UKG TO LEND.
LOT 1.
120 Men's and Ladies' 36 in. Um
brella; steel Paragon . f name, sil
ver itnramed Congo handle, fine
twUled sateen cover, that will
turn rain hut will not turn color.
Special
50c
TjOT 2.
50 Men's and La ides' Umbrellas,
best grade G4ona iSilk; assort
ment of stylish han-des; guaran
teed 'to wear. Usual price $1.25.
Special
98c
LOT 3.
36 Glen's and Ladies' Umbrellas,
fine Italian Taffeta cover, beau
tiful 'handles. The best $1.50
Umbfeld. made.
Special
$1.19
G. A. WEARS.
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REALITY, NOT IMAGERY.
We bez to say to those with
whom we have had business re
lations, that our efforts in their
behalf, fbr the past two months
shall becontinued without relax -atio-j.
We ar- still offering . bargains
that are I&ESAZj and. o4 Iznagna
r " Tf; they aire unprecedented fend
tiey competition. ' , '
Our (rule is ' to push sales ' of all
properties in r handa--jw don't
. . . wait for puaxihasers w . (hunt
" them upv ; If, , therefore, yon. faave
anything fbr sale tor rent, call and
set us, a Boom 37 Ubrary. Blte.
CLiFFOROH DAVIES.
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