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The Lenoir News. 4M The News Pri intery t A TWICE-A-WEEK' FAMILY NEWSPAPER. THE VERY BEST ADVERTISING MEDI UM. READ BY EVERYBODY. :OSLY ei.OO THE YEAR. iaOW FRKFAKED TO DO YOUR JOK PRINTING. ALL THE LATEST TYPEFACES USED. (lVE US A tfALL. A TRIACT5TtfctVE ASK. EC. C. MARTiy, EDITOR AND PROP. , PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AID FRIDAYS. . PRICE Sl.OO THE YEAR. Vqljjme ix. 1 UBiSroiR, sr. a, august 27, 1907. xo. 1 or. Industrial News. ': Greensbipro, N.,C.,1Ang. 2. There jras copsiderable excitement nere yestetday morning ( about ll o'clock when 3Jr. Frederic Bet tmering attempted to commit sui cide by hanging himself on a tree in the Fresbyterian Church yard. Joe Walker, the negro sexton, hap pened td look out and saw the ghastly form, and fouud that Mr, Dettineriug,, fearing that he would not be strangled , to death, was slashing his throat with a pocket knile. Walker snatched the knife from the man's hand and cut the rope from his throat. Mr. De ttmeriug had not lost consciousness and began complaining . at the negro's interference. A daughter of Mr. Dettmering, heal ing of the attempted suicide, telephoned to the police head quarters and in a few minutes an officer arrived and took the would be suicide to the police station. In the mayor's court Mr. Det tmering stated that his trouble came when he married Mrs Minnie Walters, Aug. Gth that his children objected to the marriage and would not treat him kindly, that he was without money and that he could not make a living. It was reported a few days ago that his bride had left home, but Mr. Dettmering denied this, and said that she had only gone en a visit. After being taken to police head quarters Mayor Iirandt had a long talk with the man, who promised that he would not make another effort to end his life. Mr. Det tmering is SI years of age. Crazed by Turpentine. Charlotte Observer. Winston-Salem, Aug. 22. One of the most amusing occurrences took place here in what is known as "Dog Trot" last evening. John Dulin, a mild and steady negro man of mature years, took an over dose of turpentine yesterday after noon or rubbed himself with the spirits until its burning crazed him for the time being. The negro was at home alone and in pacing the room he caught sight of his re flection in the mirror. He secured his revolver and took a shot at the negro in the glass. The shot attracted more than a score of neighbors but they were afraid to enter the house and 'phoned for the police, who found Dulin in a precarious condition from the turpentine, but unhurt. The man was removed to the county jail where he was given medical attention. Negro Attacks Two Sisters. Charlotte Observer. Block, W. Va., Aug. 22. Two daughters, aged 14 and 16, respec tively, of John Carr, a farmer liv ing two miles from Pocahontas, were attacked by Walter Rippey, a negro, who attempted to assault the younger and shot twice at the elder as she ran to summon aid Rippey was arrested and taken to Tazewell jail. The speedy trans fer of the prisoner to Tazewell pre vented trouble. The conductor and engineer of the passenger train which recently collided with a freight near An burn, Wake county, and the train dispatcher and operator at Dur ham, all of whom are charged by the coroner' jury with criminal negligence in connection with the wreck, have all given bonds to an swer a charge of manslaughter at the next term of Wake Superior Court. ' Subscribe to the Lenoir News $1.00 Revenue Officer Shot From Ambush. Industrial News. North Wilkesboro, N. C, Aug. 22. Revenue Officer J. T. Shep herd, while looking for an illicit still near Wilbpr postoffice, some five miles north of here, yesterday afternoon, was fired upon from ambush and painfully, though not fatally shot. He was hit by some forty or fifty small shot scattered from his head down his side to be low waist. Had the shot been larger they would probably have caused death. The particulars seem to be as follows Shepherd, together with Officer Harkins, Garfield, Jennings and United States Deputy Marshal Reynolds, hail located a still and had separa ted so as to approach from differ ent directions. Shepherd was alone and was crossing a fence about two hundred yards from any of the other officers, when he was tired upon from Iwth barrels of a shot gun, ue was momentarily stunn ed and fell from the fence, but rallied in time to see and recognize his assailant, who was running through the woods. Mr. Shepherd tired several shots" at the fleeing an, but it is thought none of them took effect. "Hope" Couldn't Sniff Burglars. Industrial 'ewn. Asheville, X. ('., Aug. 22. Ibirglars entered six houses on Connally's How in Victoria, last night but '." from one of the resi dences was the only booty gotten. The robberies were not discovered by the residents until they arose in the morning and it was several hours before the police were noti fied. "Hope,"' the sheriffs blood hound, was taken to the houses and she quickly picked up ascent, which led down to the passenger station where it was lost. It is believed that they escaped on the early morning train to the east. The houses entered were occu pied by railroad men and as Tues day was pay-day and as the burg lars took nothing but the money, it is believed that they expected to find a considerable amount. In one of the houses the burglar climed over a bed in which two people were asleep and in another house moved the bed from the win dow, without awakening the sleep er, thus proving himself no novice at the game. Respects Injunction. Raleigh Evening Times. Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 21. State Circuit Judge B. M. Miller, who is the first to organize a grand jury since the Louisville & Nash ville Railroad obtained its blanket injunction against solicitors, sher iffs and other state officers, ampli fying an original injunction so as to prevent these afficcrs from pros ecuting the road for failure to put on the state's lower freight and passenger tariffs, has instructed his grand jury not to find indict ments. In no uncertain tones he charged the grand jury today that a court of competent jurisdiction had en joined criminal prosecutions under certain acts passed by the recent legislature, and that until these injunction proceedings are passed upon by the courts of the land, there could legally be no prosecu tions in the state courts. Hunting for Trouble. "I've lived in California 20 years and am still hunting for trouble In the way of burns, sores, wounds, bolls, cuts, sprains, or a case of piles that Buekled's Arnica Salve wont a ulcklv enre." writes Charles Walt ers, of Alleghany, Sierra Co. . No use hunting, Air. waiters; it cures every ease, Ctuaranteed by J. E. Shell's drug store. "Be. Await Decision of Supreme Court. Raleigh Evening Times. New York, Aug. 21. If Wall street opinion is worth anything, there is no chance that the South ern Railway will accept sugges tions of Governor Glenn of North Carolina that the Southern Rail way withdraw its present action and wart for the decision of the supreme court of the United States on the rate question now pending in the state courts and the other in the United States circuit court, or that the road will give the rate law the "fair trial" suggested, and if it rinds it will be confisca tory, that road could depend on the sense of fairness of the people to insure a change. One of the counsel for the South ern Railway said today: 'The papers have not made it clear that it costs us just eighty six and thirty live hundredths cents for every dollar's worth of business we do in Xorth Carolina. If we accepted the reduced rates that the state law has provided for interstate business, we would make a profit on our assessed tax valua tion within the state of just :i9 1000 of one per cent. 'Within the state of Xorth Caroliua we pay taxes on a valua tion of 7, 213,222. 74. Under the present rate schedule our profits would le only 128,007.47 on our tax valuation. This leaves out of consideration our capitalization and the percentage that should be due on our franchise value." The Ambitious Boy. Pittsburg Press. A boy at seveivtocn can practi cally determine for himself wheth er he will lie a simple burden bearer for others as long as he lives, a leech on society or whether he will be a broadminded, useful and successful man. If the boy at this age has no ambition to lie anybody and is content to simply let things dicker and take his chance with others just like him, frittering away his opportunities to acquire knowledge and caring only for the trivialities of life, he can make up his mind to carry a hod, ride the brake beam of a freight car or dodge the police as long as he lives, or he can resolve to be man in the highest sense, seek every means for physical mental and moral growth and development and must graduate into the ever widening field of utility and success. It matters little what his boyhood enironment may be, if he but has the ambition and well grounded purpose he will climb out of it. Dentist Attempts Suicide. Charlotte Observer. Durham, Aug. 22. To-night between 6 and 7 o'clock Dr. S. E. Thompson, propietor of the Thomp son Dental Parlors, attempted sui cide by drinking laudanum. For a few minutes he was in a serions condition, but within a half hour the physician who attended him said that he was out of danger. Dr. Thompson has been drinking rather heavily here of late and it is intimated that he has financial troubles. When your correspon dent reached him this eveuing the first think he said was, "I wish it had been stronger." , He is Ww out of danger, but tonight said that he would complete the job later on. Jas. Rucker, colored, was hang ed in Asheville at noon last Tues day. He criminally assaulted his six-year-old stepdaughter. He met death composedly, giving no signs of fear. Anybody would call a bluff, ex cept for the fact that it may not be a bluff. STATE XEWS ITEMS. Hugh A.' Leonard, formerly agent of the Southern Railway at Salisbury, who skipped about six mouths ago leaving a shortage of between 1,000 and 11,500, was arrested this week in western Idaho. L. F. Hales, cashier of the Pine tops Banking Company ( Edge combe county), disappeared Mon day and the next day a searching party found him in the 0woO(Ls wandering aimlessly about. His accounts are said to lie straight. In Mecklenburg Superior Court a few days ago three negro boy who had pushed another negro 1mj into the Creek, as as a result of which he was drowned, plead guilty of manslaughter. Two were given 12 months each and one nine months on the roads. Judge Frank 1. Osborne, who for the past year has been practic ing law with his brother, Jas. W. Osljorne, in Xew York, will return to Charlotte in the near future, where he will be connected with the legal department of the South ern Power Company. Failing to give a bond of i?ti00, Robert ll. Taylor, of Salisbury of the Kolert Portner Brewing Co., of Alexandria, Va., is in Rowan jail on a charge of emlez.lenient of the funds of the company. Tay lor had lxen in the service of the company for alout 20 years. The amount of the alleged shortage is .). State Senator .1 . Allen Holt, of Guilford county, announces that he is a candidate for the Demo cratic congressional nomination in the fifth district. This makes two candidates from Guilford Solici tor Brooks having lteen in the race for a long time and there probab ly a half dozen other candidates in the district. Wilkeslxiro Chronicle: Chal. Gilreath had a hearing before Justices Morrison and Staley, Sat urday, charged with involuntary manslaughter in the accidental kill ing of Leonard Walsh, while out hunting last Xovember. Gilreath's gun accidentally fired while he and Walsh were running a rabbit and Walsh was killed. The justices turned Gilreath loose. A Morfanton Boy's Success The West. in The Texarkana, Ark. Tex., Morning Courier of Aug. 7th says: "The row of brick buildings on State Line avenue, at the corner of Tenth street, built by W. C. Har din about four years ago and occu pied by retail stores since then, were sold yesterday by Mr. Har din to W. A. Coleman, for the sum of 110,000. The new owner, who Conducts a small store on Rondo road, at the intersection of the Iron Mountain crossing, is under stood to have bought the property as an investment. Its present rental basis makes it an attractive deal for that purpose." Mr. W. A. Coleman is a son of Mr. R. A. Coleman, of Morganton, and went west about fifteen years ago. The latest snake comes ou the 'phone from Kendall. Mr. Min iard Bradley recently bought a farm near Kendall for farming. He, however, has discovered that the land, last week one day he went out to examine his corn crop and.had to kill nine copper heads and four rattlers before he could safely leach the house. Unless the price of snake hides advance he will ask the commissioners to re duce the assessment of his lands.- I Wilkesboro Chronicle. 1 Haying Tools I The most modern ma chines with all the most modern improve ments. We handle the famous Walter A. Wood Mowers and Rakes. They are to farm tools what a fa mous Buck's Range is to kitchen tools the best made. Mowers and Rake for 65.50. Why pay more. II- Hardware & i When You Buy Harness. Won't you give this shop a chance of competing for your purchase? We can and will save you moA6y, if you will give us a chance. We can't if you don't. Surely our claims are worth testing. It's your money we are talking of saving. Come put us to the test. I PRICE-GL1NE HARNESS PRICE for inferior goods. They are as noted for durability, con venience, and economy of fuel, as well as for style and beauty. Sold exclusively by R. H. SPAINT IOUR & CO. Bring your Job Printing to the News office. Furniture Co. & TANNING COMPANY. "GARLAND" Stoves and Ranges have the most artistic finish of any that we have ever seen. They are everywhere acknowledged to be the best in the world, while they cost no more than is ofteil asked t i i t x
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