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vf5rf ' -M' JOHNSON'S MORGAN'S a CHILL TONIC. CHILL CURE. Every bottle guaranteed to cure or money re funded at MILLER'S DRUG STORE. irirrr- Pleasant to take, d every bottle guaran teed or money refund ed. f'or sale at 2 MILLER'S DRUG STOREl This Argus o'er the people's rights, Doth an eternal vigil keep No soothing strains of Maia's sun, Can lull its hundred eyes to sleep" Vol. XVII. GOIiDSBORO, NY C THURSDAY. MAY 9, 1895. HO. 5. WW- GEORGE MILLS HANGED. HE PAYS THE PENALTY OF HIS CRIME AT THE GALLOWS. The Will of the Late Sr. Hawkins to be Contested: A Curious Illicit StiU: A "Western Union Telegraph Operator Prosecuted: City Politics. Argus Bureau, Raleigh. May 4, 1895, f A crash as the trap fell, the body of a man swinging at the end of a hangman's rope, the feet touching the grounu. with every slow rotation or an unconscious tody, and you have the story of the execution of George Mills. The drop fell at 11.40 o'clock; 18 minutes later the physicians. Doctors J. R. Rogers and A. T. Cotton, of Morrisville, pronounc ed the murderer dead. The condemned man was vis ited in the jail by Rev. Dr. N. B. Cobb, Rev. Tuttle and Rev. Levi Branson, who prayed with and read scriptures to him. Mills said he was ready and willing to die. At the gallows Rev. Tuttle offered prayer. Mills made quite a lengthy talk on the gallows, saying that he felt the Lord had forgiven him for his crime and that he was glad to have made a full and com plete confession. He then prayed long and fervently, said good -by to all those on the gallows plat form and was guided to the trap. His arms were bound and the black cap adjusted. As this was being done, Mills said, "What eyer you are going to do I want you to do quick." His wish was gratified for the next instant Sheriff Page pushed the leaver which released the drop.. Death came from strangulation. A coffin,- bought by his brother, Tyse Mills, was in the yard and the body was immediately carried to the cemetery where the burial takes place this afternoon in the old burying grounds. A sensational piece of news has just reached my ears. This is that the will of the late Dr. W. J. Hawkins is to be contested. Dr. Hawkins was one of Raleigh's wealthiest citizens. His will di vided his property quite uneven ly between his relatives and children. I will send you parti culars to-morrow. Col. T. M. Argo tells me that the suit of Mrs. Cram against W, C. Cram is to be compromised. Mr. Cram will have to pay a con siderable amount. The papers are now being drawn up and the case will be heard this afternoon. A settlement is a certainty and thus all the sensation lovers duped, for there will, of course, be no ' 'racy" trial. The city election comes off next Monday and the result is very much in doubt. The doubt exists all on account of that obi quitous divine, Rev. D. H. Tut tle, of whom I have several ti mes had occasion to write. The Rev. gentleman has quite a story al most fanatical following here. He has announced that he will vote for no party that does not pledge itself lo pass an ordinance requiring bar rooms to close at 6 in the evening and to have nq screens, etc. in front of the doors. He has 75 followers, all formerly Democrats, who will vote for Wynne, Republican. So close is the vote here that number of deserting may hold the balance this small Democrats of power. Rev. Tuttle is much here on account of his criticized stupidity and because .he practically pledg ed himself, by taking an active part in the primaries, to vote the Democratic ticket. The fact is simply this: Russ was too honest to pledge anything without authority; Wynn will pledge any thing to occupy the mayor's seat. A curious still, illicit of course, was on exhibition at the Revenue department to-day. It was home made and consisted of an ordi nary lard bucket, on top of which was an old water bucket, the cap. The worm was fashioned from an ordinary peice of iron piping. The capacity of the still was three gallons. Mr. Edgerton, manager of the Western Union telegraph office here, has been prosecuted for contempt for charging W. W. Smith 50. instead of 25 cents for a telegram to Elizabeth City. Mr, Edgerton says the case will be . carried to the U. S. Supreme court. ' Mr. Pou gives me this clear ; statement of the disagreement of the Standford-Ellington jury "The question submitted to the jury was whether or not Mr. Standford demand the office from Mr. Ellington bat Judge Star- buck on consideration decided to withdraw; this issue from the jury, it being immaterial. The jury was out all night and no conclusion had been reached This morning it was ascertained that seven believed the state ment of Mr. Hillington that no demand had been made; five the statement of Mr. Standford and Mr. Purnell that the demand had been made." - Tie marriage of Mr. Will V. Coley to Miss Sue Harris, of this city; is announced, . A TRAGEDY I' HIGH LIFE. The Son of Governor Hrown of Kentucky and Mrs. Fulton Gordon Killed by the Husband of Ue Unfaithful "Woman. Louisville, Ky., April 30. : A bloody shooting affair took place this afternoon, when Arch Brown, the son and private sec retary of Governor Brown, was shot and killed by Fulton Gor don. Brown and Gordon's wife had been intimate and Gordon suspected the wrong doing of the pair. Brown and Mrs. Gor don entered a house and Gordon, who followed, found them in bed. Gordon began the shooting and Brown returned the fire. Mrs. Gordon was shot during the melee and killed by her husband. The guilty couple were 'complet ely taken by surprise, but Brown had prepared himself for such a visit. Gordon was not injured, although he was covered with blood and was thought to have been shot. He is, however, in convulsions. Mrs. Gordon was a Miss Nellie Bush, of this city, and belongs to one of the most prominent families in the State. She eloped with Gordon about ten years ago. Young Brown was recently divorced from his wife. When the divorce was published, although no woman's name was mentioned, it is under stood that the reason for the di vorce lay in Brown's intimacy with Mrs. Gordon. On account of the high connections the mur- ji i -i aer nas causea a creat sensa tion. Another account says that Brown and Gordon's wife were in the house at 1025 Madison street and Gordon followed them there and caught them together. He at once attacked Brown and shot him fatally. Brown return ed the fire and injured Gordon. Gordon then turned his weapon on his wife and shot a bullet through her stomach, killing her mstautly. At the time of his marriage Gordon was a clerk at the Gait house. Shortly afterward Gordon and his wife moved to Frankfort where he became proprietor of the Cenyon house. This he con tinued to run until the World's fair, when he sold out his- estab lishment and moved to Chicago. Gordon was watching his wife and Brown and saw them enter the house. He waited a few minutes aud then rushed in, find ing the guilty couple in bed. He opened fire . immediately and Brown returned it. Nine shots were exchanged, Brown firing four. Gordon, as soon as Brown fell, shot his wife. Gordon left the house imme diately. A few minutes later Brown's corpse was found in the upstairs room. The following telegram was taken from his pocket. "Louisville, Ky., April 28. 'Archie D. Broion. Frankfort, Ky: "Don't write any more. Come Tuesday. Meet me.at 10 a. m.'' It was pursuant to this tele gram that Brown met Mrs. ' Gor don this morning. It was a brief but sanguinary battle that was fought in the front room of the second floor of Lucie Smith's house. As soon as Gordon gain ed admittance a duel to the death evidently began, is rown had a 38-calibre revolver which was found empty after the tragedy. Six bullets pierced Brown's body and three that of Mrs. Gordon. 'I shot both of them. They are both dead. Come with.. me and I'll show you where they are," said Gordon to the officer who arrested him. Gordon said to Officer La- paille on the way to the jail that he had suspected the couple for some time and about a week ago he found that his suspicions were correct. He weat to the house this morning and found them. He drew his pistol and fired five shots at Brown, by which time the Governor s Son had his pisto in play. Brown tired two shot at Gordon. Then the lattt grappled with him and took his pistol away from him and shot at him with his own weapon After shooting at Brown he shot at his wife as she was goin down the, steps, striking her just as she reached the bottom She fell dead outside the door. Brown's body lay on the floor of the room in which he was killed until 2 o'clock when it was removed by undertaker King. The body presented a horrible appearance, being covered with blood from head to foot. There were three wounds in the breast, one of them being over the region of the heart; two wounds in the head, one being in the centre" of the forehead. There was an other in the centre of the stom ach and another in the right arm Mrs. Gordon's family is one of the most prominent in this State Her mother was once State libra rian and: her, grandfather was Judge Zackariah Wheat, Chief Justice of theCourt of appeals of Kentucky. . The coroner's jury renders verdict of justifiable homicide: THE ROSTER CORRECTED. Editor Argus: I see that at last Judge Clark has undertaken the task of writing up the history of JNorth Cai-olma, part m the late unpleasantness aud fearing that he may be guided to some extent by the North Carolina Roster, I desire, so far as my memory serves me, to correct the Roster of Company A. , of the 27th Reg iment, the old Goldsboro Rifles; as it is very incomplete''as to the casualties ot that company, go mg alone irom memory. I am unable to state in same particu lars at what particular battle some of the men were wounded or killed and-1 simply state "wounded in battle." Please publish the same and we will mail to Capt. Jimmie Graham, who is to assist the Judge in the history of the 27th, a copy of the paper that he may see when ,f there is a correction needed. Do this and you will oblige the survivors and friends of the dead members of the old company. W. G. Hollo well. Bryan, Jas D, Corporal, promoted to Oapt. and killed at Bristo Station. Baius, Eli, lost a linger at Fredericksburg-. Davis, W E., wounded, twice in battle. Dees, J T. wounded at Bristo Scation. Denmark, J J, promoted to Lieut, and killed at Bristo Station. Faii-cloth, Win, killed at Petersburg. Flowers. Wm, killed in battle. jrriee, Stephen, killed in battle. Gardner, J B. wounded, Bristo Station, Goosdin. Richard, transferred to 2nd Reg., and killed at Malvern Hill. Holloman. R, killed in battle. Holloman, E, killed at Bristo Station. Howard, J D.killed at Bristo Station. Howell, Wm M, killed at Sharpsburg. uoiiowell, VV. (Jr. lost a leg: at iiristo Station. Kilpati-ick, S B, wounded at Bristo fetation. Knight. W A, promoted to Adiutant and killed in battle. King, Allen, lost arm at Sharpsburg. iviossev, w vj, aieu irom wounas re ceived at Bristo t;j,iion. Musgrave, N W, wounded in battle. Musgrave, W b, -wounded in battle. Mattox, Wm. died from wounds , re ceived at Sharpsburg. Noble, Richard, promoted to Lieut and kined at Sharpsburg. Overmam, Ezekiel, wounded in battle. Farker.Jas H, killed at Bristo Station. Parker, Richard B, wounded at Bristo Station. Parker, Xathan killed at Sharpsburg. Parker, James R., (Uncle Jim,) an hon orary member of the Co, the father of the three above named, visited the company, about once a month and supplied all our needs, died recently at the age of 89. Pike, J no W, wounded Aug. 25, '64. fines, ii I', killed near Richmond. Powell, Henry, died in Hospital. Perdee, Adam, !N, died, Roberts, J no T, wounded, Roberts, Jas B. wounded; Rhodes, Bryant, wounded at Sharks- burg, and killed at the Wilderness. Sasser. E B, died from wounds received at Bristo Station. Snipes, Tobias, wounded at Sharps burg, lurloughed and died at -home. Sauls, Jos, shot in the head at Fred ericksburg-. Smith, Stephen J, killed at Sharps burg. Sloeumb, T W, promoted to Lit., re- G signed, and joined the cavalry, and wounded in arm . Wood, Mike, badly wounded and dis abled at Bristo Station. Ward. Richard, slightly wounded in arm at Sharpsburg, Warrick H. wounded at Bristo Station. Warrick, E, wounded at Bristo Sta tion. Lee Yelvington. (Special Argus Correspondence.) On Tuesday evening precisely at 8.30 o'clock there was a quiet and beautiful marriage in the pai lor of our esteemed townsman Mr. Gaston Yelvington. The contracting parties were Mr. Frank Lee, a very popular and well known merchant of Wil mington, and Miss Alice, the beautiful, charming, and accom plished daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gaston Yelvington. The attendants were Misses. Lillie Peacock, Rena Sanders, Nellie Pool and Carrie Graves, together with Mr. Henry Grimes of New York, Mr. A. M. Hub bard, of Wilmington, Mr. R. E. Lee, of Mount Olive, Messrs. R. O. Cotton, and Jno. A. Narron, of Smithfield, The immediate relatives aiad intimate friends of the family were also present. The ceremony was impressive ly performed by Dr. Solomon Pool, pastor of the Methodist church. - The bride was apparelled in a beautiful travelling costume, made of very fine material, and held in her hand several large Marshal Neil roses, the gift of the groom. After the marriage rite was over, the guests were invited to the dining room and seated at the table with such good things as would appease the appetite of the most fastidious epicure. The presents were many and costly which was a clear betoken of the esteem in which the agreeable couple are held, -Thev left on the 10;25 fast mail, North bound for the cities of New York and Philadelphia, with showers of good wishes for a plasant trip and a prosperous married life. As the tram pull ed off the writer said: "Go it! ye prisoners, shackled in Hymen's chains." J. Smithfield, N. C, May 1, 1895. Wo morphine or opium in Dr. Miles Fa in fiua - tusi aii rain, "une cent a aose. Cove Items. Cove, N. C, May 1 A few drummers were in our tdwn last week. - Mr. B. D. Eubank, is talking of pickinsr peas this week if it doesn't continue to rain. Miss Hattie White cam.home from Trenton Friday, where she has been froins: to school. But on account of so much rain has not returned. ' Mrs. Geo. Smith, died'Monday night after a long and continued illness of about ten months. Mr. Samuel Moore, of Fort Barnwell and Mr. E. T. Ipock, of Asburn, come to our town Sunday, intending to return Sun day evening but on account of so much ram have not been able to return. Bridges being washed away aiso. tev. J. W. Rose, pastor of the Baptist church in this place, left last week to conduct a protracted meeting near Vanceboro. Dr. F. F. Jones, went, up to Dover on business yesterday. We are glad to have the doctor in our midst and wish him much success. A. T. Patrick and Teamoh. Mr. John T. Patrick, of this State, is secretary of the South ern State Immigration Society and has been visiting Boston., He was interviewed by the Standard, the new daily. It fills two and half columns of fine type. Referring to the recent visit of New England legislators, he said they visited ten large cotton factories. As to the ne gro Teamoh, of the committee. Mr. Patrick denies the prevail ing report ot his treatment, and says : "The members of the commit tee, both Republicans and Demo crats, treated the colored man with the greatest courtesy. He was in no way ignored or set aside by any member of the committee, and if he had been would have known it. He rode in the Pullman car with them and other passengers. He had just as good a berth and just as good treatment as the white men. You people up here 'don't know anything,' to use a slang expres sion. You seem to think a negro man is not allowed to ride in a first-class car in the South. The facts are they can ride where ever they choose. ' ' 1 hey go in the first-class cars if they want to pay for first-class tickets. They sleep in the sleep ers if they want to contribute to Mr. Pul man's wealth. The only distinction that is made is this: Socially, the negroes are not in vited to the homes of the whites and asked to eat with them at their tables. The negro man is not allowed by law or otherwise to claim the heart and hand of a hite man's daughter. Neither is a white man s son allowed to wed the daughter of a negro man. The negro is allowed every business and political right that a white person is allowed, and in saying this it is unprejudiced testimony from one who was born and brought up in the heart of the South, among a large slave-holding population. by parents who taught him that they believed it was religiously wrong for one man to own another. While I was taught this it was not in a rebellious or mean way." His parents did not obtain their views from the Holy Bible, but probably from some descen dants in New England, whose forefather imported and sold ne groes for money. The Bible recognizes slavery. He says the negro member was warned as to what he might expect. He says he told Teamoh that they "will be more than glad to have you with them and to gain informa tion from both white and col ored I think you will have the advantage over any other mem qer of the committee. You will in no way lower yourself by taking this t course, for I shall place you with colored people tnat are your equals, , intellec tually and educationally, men who have nice homes and pleas ant surroundings; men of influ ence and means. I said that when the white delegates held a meet mg or visited factories he could be present: that ne would have just as nice carriages for himself and the colored men with him in which to visit factories with the committees, as any of the white men." He accepted the : situa tiou and seemed content. But the fact remains that the negrro generally is better treated in the feouth than in the North, and the leading papers know it and some of them say so plainly. The best friends of the negroes have been and still are in the South. They have more liberty and: equality in iaDor nere than in aron-bound rsoston. There is no ( social equality in either section';, but in the North there are white women who have a desire to be wives of negro men, ard some white iowu ucgioueu nit; ii wiio ypreier to marry negroes. Wilmington juvasvityer. -; THE SIGNS OF THE TIMEg. If there is any newspaper more than another of the score or so of really great Democratic dail les oi tne country tnat posseses and deserves the confidence of the people that paper is the. Bal timore Sun. It is tried, true, trusted and sagacious. And here is one of the greatest utter ances. "The sound common sense of the people will always prevail in the end. - When there is business depression and distress men will listen to all kind of quack rem edies. But now with the re rvivai ot prosperity men are not so apt to resort to these. From the West comes cheering news of financial good sense. The Dem ocratic committeemen of Iowa have met in conference and de clared, against silyer inflation. An honest money league has op ened Headquarters in Chicago In the same city the Iroquois club probably the most influen tial Democratic organization in the West has declared against free coinage by a vote of two to one. Mr. McCreary, of Kentucky, is making the fight for the Senate on the sound money platform against Senator Blackburn, who is for free silver. In' the South ern States, the leading Demo cratic newspapers are strongly opposing free silver. The tide has been turned against silver inflation; Mr. Cleveland in his recent letter took the lead and the Democrats will follow their leader." And the Atlanta Journal, an other guiding light for the South and Democracy says: "Every new industry, evfery rise in the price of a farm pro duct, every increase in wages, every fresh enterprise, every sign of business revival, every promise of great crops all these fight against the effort to nut our currency on a silver basis. As the clouds roll away thinsrs look brighter to everybody ex cept the dyed-in-the-wool silver monometallists. Thev will not know what to talk about when matters get all right and they are getting that way rapidly. As the country becomes happier! and more hopeful their worry in creases. Their arguments are being answered by -the course of events and they don t like it one bit. There is every reason to be ieve that by the time the great parties come to make their platforms next year the country will be so prosperous that a promise to make the,m better by the unlimited coinage of silver will be laughed to scorn by the people. The silver monometallists should stop their howling and join the procession that is mov ing: toward better times. The Ladies' Benevolent Society. The following is the report of tne ladies Benevolent Society for ths four months previous to April 1st, '95: Balance for Dec. $ 2.87 Received from donations v 11)2.50 Received from dues. 20.00 215.27 Disburse Dec. Jan. Feb. '94. '95, $15.8 25.35 54.95 26.50 ments March, $122,47 MRS. H. L. GRANT, Treas, Recognition of Cuba Albany, N. Y.. May 2. In the Assembly to-day Mr. Pavry introduced the following resolu tion, which was adopted: whereas, Tne iJubans are engaged in a struggle to Ihrow off the yoke of Spain and estab lish their national independence, and, Whereas, It is feared that Spanish soldiers may repeat the barbarous atrocities which char acterized the war of 1868; there fore, be it, Eesolved, By the Senate and Assembly of the State of New York that we extend to the pat riots of Cuba our sincere sympa thy in their fight for "liberty, and Resolved, That we respectfully, but urgently request the Presi dent of the United States to take proper steps to ensure to the citizens and soldiers of Cuba the r'ghts of belligerents under the rules of modern warfare, and Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions, duly attested, be forwarded to the President of the United States and to the Sec retary of the Department of Staie. : . ".' The . statesman who sells his vote for a railroad pass sells it cheaply, but most people are apt to suspect that he is . better paid. WORK OF A CYCtONE. Towns Destroyed. Houses Wrecked, pie Killed and Injured. Peo- Sioux City, May 3. Sioux county was devastated by a ter rific cyclone this afternoon. The storm came from the northwest and struck Sioux Centre, a small town forty five miles North of Sioux Centre, a small town 45 miles North of this point, at 4 o'clock. The telegraph reports from the scene of the storm were very meagre, the wires being down, but it is understood that a considerable number were killed and injured. The first received by the Sioux City and Northern railroad from their agent at Sioux Centre. The dispatch read as follows: "A cyclone passed three miles northwest of here. A school house near town was blown down, teacher killed and injured. The whole country in the track of the storm is devastated. Sioux City and Northern tracks be tween Perkins, and Doon are washed out for several miles." Dispatches from Sioux Centre at 8.30 o'clock say that three school houses and at least twenty residences and barns near that place were swept away. At the school houses two teachers and three pupils were killed and many injured. One who escaped says that at least a hundred peo ple must have been killed. Parties have been sent out from Hull, Sioux City and Orange city, neighboring towns, but their work is being carried on in total darkness and in the midst of a tremendous wind and rain storm. It is consequently progressing slowly. CA number of bodies have already been re covered, although the exact num ber cannot be learned. It is said that Perkins, a small town between Sioux Centre and Doon, was directly in the path of the storm and was almost en tirely wiped out. The wires eadmg to it are all down. The tracks are all washed out and the roads cannot be safely trav eled over, owing to the manner in which they were guided by the rain. It is consequently no easy matter 1 o reach it. Physi cians have already set out from Hull, Orange city and Sioux Cen tre, but are meeting with every conceivable obstacle in their ef fort to reach the scene of the storm. Late this evening news was received from Sibley to the ef fect that a storm struck there at o'clock p. m., destroying the house of John Watterson and in juring Watterson and his son, The oioux City and Northern train which arrived at 10 o'clock this evening brought several passengers who witnessed the storm. They reported that thir teen dead had been brought into Sioux Centre at 6 o'clock p. m It is estimated that fifty people must have been killed. The Nor thern tram barely escaped a smash up in a washout near Doon, but was stopped by section men before it passed upon the dan gerous territory. As near as can be ascertained, the towns which suffered were Perkins, Sibley, Doon, Hull and Sioux Centre. There is every m dication that the number of lives lost will reach seventy-five or a hundred. Four school houses were destroyed while the schools were in session. Gordon a Physical . Wreck. Louisville, Ky., May 2.- The story of how Fulton Gor don learned of his wife's intrigue was disclosed to-day. Mrs. Gor don had corresponded with Brown in the name of Paralee Mitchell, a negro servant. The letter came addressed m the care of Gordon at his office. One day last week he forgot to bring one of the letters home and his wife's uneasiness betrayed her. The next letter was opened. When a few days later Gordon put to srether the fragments of a note his wife had written, in which she mentioned that his suspic ions had been aroused, Gordon saw the word Tuesday on another note. He got a friend to shadow his wife Tuesday and the tragedy followed. s Gordon is in bad shape and in danger of losing his mind from the ordeal he has had to under go, t Since his release irom iau hejias repeatedly fainted while in conversation with his attor neys, and is almost a mental ana physical wreck. Evidence is be ing gathered to show that Brown fired the first shot. A bullet hole in the door entered the wall in direct line with the side of the bed on which Brown lay. The. funeral of Brown took place at Henderson to-day. It was largely attended. The ser vices were simple and the sermon brief. Business was practically suspended. " Johnson's Oriental Soap is the most delicate, facial soap in existence, leaves the skin soft. Absolutely pure, and highly medicated. 'Two large cakes in a packaere, zo cts. D or sale by J . t . Miller & Soa, Goldsboro. N. C, TRUCKERS ! 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