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4 m V ".I ; 1 'J! 1 "v 3 I! 1! i ii 1 4 Kg I i 53' u ; 1 r; ii ' A. V t c I' I V4 ? f ' h s i . i- ?. -f "ha, f I'1 " I Pi-- i f r ft" .; I if it t .IP:'' I THE TAR HEEL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1903. THF "cgl FPinAV. AUGUST 21, 1903. j 'a , ' " " THROUGHdUT THE STATE THE WEEK'S EVENTS CAREFULLY ' CHRONICLED..... ' g i EXTRAORDINARY COMPLIMENT. : Greensboro Telegram: Miss Haly burton, who at one time was- a teach er in one of the Greensboro schools,1 has -prepared a set of readers & -. to which the extraordinary compliment has ben paid of being adopted for use in all the public schools of Texas. - KILLED THE FIRST YANKEE. Windsor . .Ledger: We j heard a confederate veteran point but a sol dier 'from Hertford county: here last Thursday,-and says he killed the first vankee killed in North Carolina dur ing the "war. It was at Roanoke ls- land.We believe he referred to a Mr Vaughn, of Union, if we are not mis taken. . . IGNITED FROM LIGHTNING. . The Kinston Free Press ays : The dairv beloneins to Mr. J. T. Middle- ton, situated just beyond the south' ern corporate limits of the town.was hnrnfid last nieht ; between 8 and 9 o'clock, and 23 head of cattle and :1 . tinrap was burn fid with it. It ' was skid that the fire was due to a light ning stroke as people living near the building" saw" the top enveloped in the flames immediately following a blind - ino- flash of liehtnins. which also shocked them. The 1 amount of the loss will exceed $2,000, with $1,300 in surance. MAD RUSH TO WRECK. An Engineer and Fireman Are Bur ied in the Debris.. CONFESSION! BY ROSEBORO Tells of MUrder of Mrs. Beavers, Says Nothing of Darker Crime Charged. EfE Sjccialis, Asheville, N. ' ' C, Through freight No 62, third- section irom Aucvmc, to Spartanburg, 'ran awy on Saluda Mountain at 2: 15 p. m.,-Thursday .The engine and thirteen coal cars were wrecked near Melrose. The engine and eleven of the cars are a total wreck,, piled upland de ished in the cut. Engineer J. H- Averill, Jr., of 'Asheville and Fireman Hair, of Asheville, were killed and are under the wreckage and. cannot be found until the wreck is clear-, ed. Brakeman vW. B. Sherrill, of Swananoa, N. C, had both legs cut off. Engineer Averill was a bright young the orcnar(i after him and NO SMAL POX AT DUNN. Dunn Banner: Last week wild rumors went out over the coun try in regard to small pox 1 at Dunn Like the pld'story of the. three black crows, the story . . grew as 'it went from mouth to mouth, until it reach ed gigantic proportions. . Our neigh boring town, Benson, was so alarmed, that it established quarantine against us, and still kepes it up. The true situation in the main ' is this: Oq Monday f last week, a young man by the name of Jernigan, was discover ed at Lee Hotel siqk with what look ed like--small pox. The hotel was at once quarantined and all inmates are kept in the house. ' man. tweniy-tnre eais ui a&c a son of Col. J. H. Averill, of Charles ton. His father,., mother and wife.and two little children are spending the summer at Saluda, within three miles of where he met his untimely death. He stayed on his engine with his fire man doins all he could to check the train until the engine buried him in- its. ruins. As the runaway engine passed Mel roes the operator, J. H. Heatherally, ran out and Fireman Hair threw up his hands, and smiled. The operator Charlotte, N. C, ' August 15.--At Statesville to-day Will Roseboro, the neero was convicted of the murder; of Mrs. Dolph Beaver Wednesday, and who has been sentenced to bang Thu rsday, ' September 10th, at 4 o.clock in the ' afternoon, confessed the crime Yesterday afternoon Rev. A. J. Ar thur, a well-known neg.o ministervis ited the' Jail 'ft ni had a long talk with Roseboro. He. insisted mat ,oseu ij m.i-U ;i c.-.sf?n ?f he was j;i;wt t criitiP ch? : ged Thv n.gro stated that on after noon of . the murder he was- pp. -s: fig by tlle-U-2a. home, and seeing some r-i!f .i ir jes in ' the. or :"? lip cJiail,r the fftnce and was in;t.he ret r.V'illing ,?r-ie apples whf-u Mrs Peziv'- raided to him i got y.z oi nci orchard , He says that he replied to her m oottso avo'i's finci reiusei; io unui 1 r was rsoy. He continual 'o i-u'l the apples, and Mrs. Beaver came to He made eorre x V - 21 4 Nain St. Norfolk, Va. ;, ; ' Academv of MusicBiiilding. With the Gale Jewelry Company. All work guaranteed, broken lenses repaired anu ucw Artificial (giassV eves made' to qfder. EYES EXAMINED f BEE. Gorrespondence solicited. r,""" ' ' STUDENT BOARD EftS. i -G - Persons desiring to board students the coming (school year will please of communicate with S L. Sheep. 2t threats, whereupon she left, return ing toward the house. He thinking that she was going after a gun, fol lowed her, and just as ' Mrs. Beaver was in the act of going iip. the steps, he caught her by the throat and chok ed her to death. "GATHER UP THE FRAGMENTS." and' his many 1 flagman Bishop Howie, and Dard were unhurt A TOUGH FISH. . w. Newton Enterprise1: Aleck Yount has a fish pond with one fiish in it. It is a huge carp 17 years , old. A pair of carp was put in the pond 17 years GREENVILLE TO HAVE A TOBAC CO FACTORY. - .Local CaDitalists Will Subscribe tne Necessary Money. Greenville, N C.-, Aug, 15 A niass meeting was held in the court house this afternoon 'o take oieps re or- aranize an independent com.oacy. to establish a, cigarette and smoking to bacco factory in Greenville and to put buyers on the market to parcnase J tobacco. The attendance upon the meetii? was large and composed of men of all professions and trader. Speeches Tvore mae oy secretary ot btate J so many of our great men started from the hoe, the plow and the farm, that it has grown to be a public senti meht that greatness among men has its gem, in the country, and the com parison between city and country bred men favors the conclusion that there is something in farm life that is" favorable to the production of great deeds and great men: There seems to be an instinct often in all men for forests and trees, and green fields and clover, and : new cut hay and rippling brooks, and the "Old Oaken Buckets. The earth is known as our mother earth, and there is per haps no man who does not love nature's lessons of grandeur and greatness. Why, then, are farm boys constantly drifting into the towns cities to encounter its dane-erons temptations? CAREFUL ATTENTION. A good watch needs 'careful attention to keep it going as it shoukVgo, but it must have intelli gent attention. We know how to put it in good condition and keep it so Let us look at it and tell you what it needs. We offer you the ad vantage of twenty years' experience. A Great Responsibility. In compouiding a prescription is not a simple matter to be' done in haste. We feel the responsibility for thel patient quite as much as does the physician,, and we see to 4 it bat the medicines are exactly what has been called , for, and in exact quantities. . There is scarcely another business where constant care is 30 vital as in the drug business, -..Life itself often depends on the compounding of prescriptions. Our full realization of this is your best guarantee that we will nerve you promptly, accurately, and inexpensively. Standard Pharmacy, 99 Poindaxter Street, Elizabeth City, N. 0. Jan C. W. COLUNGS,' ' Next Door to Seeley & bon. "REPORT ON lOOO CONRMEMENT CASES" j B UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE vircinIa MEDICINE-DENTIST RYPHARMACY 'CLINICS I0O8-3" "TEACHING METHOD "CATALOGUE" ago. They ate up all the other fish j Cryaa Grimes. J . J . Lauehinshause. but he carp tribe has not mcreassa. One of the original pair had a piece of flesh picked out of his back by a hawk a few years ago, and died.The 'carcass was thrown to the hogs, but was so tough that they could not tear it, even in a tug of war match. The lone occupant of the pond was caught about three years ago. It measured 23 inches in length. As it was not very tempting to the appetite, it was put back into the water. 9 ELIZABETH CITY AHORRIBLE ACCIDENT. ? The New Berne Journal says : Hun ter "Williams, -the 13-year-old - son of Mr. B. E. Williams, a prominent farm er of Croatan, was the victim, of a terrible accident Tuesday noon which resulted fatally. The boy had been sent to' carry a dinner, basket to . his brother Bryan, who is a fireman on ' the logging train. The train was on an inclined switch on which the cars were loaded with logs. The boy was siangmg Detween the engine and ten der when the sudden start of the cars jolted him off, and as he fell be- tween the cars he- lay across the track in such a way that the wheels of the tender and two cars passed over both of his legs and one arm. The legs were almost completely severed and the arm was fearfully mangled. The-head was also terribly bruised and lacerated. . O. L. Joyner, G. T. Tyson, L. I. Moore J. L. Fleming and others. Books were opened and several thousand dollars subscribed to start the company. Committees were ap pointed to canvass each township in the county for subscriptions and to report at another meeting to be held next Saturday "When the formal organization of the company . will take place. There is much enthusiasm in the movement for the factory, t 5 STOVE AND PLUMBING CO., Aydlett Building, 13 and 15 Water St. . o e o o o TURNED , .STATE.S .EVIDENCE. They Killed Two Men Was the Object. And Money j FINED VIRGINIA OFFICERS. Portsmouth Star. A negro excur sion was run from Portsmouth to Lit tleton, N. C, . yesterday. The manager secured the services of substitute police officers Rudd and Markham, of "this city, and Police Officer Goodson of Berkley, to go along with the ex cursionists to maintain order. The officers .met with severe treatment at the hands of -the constabulry of Littleton, however,. Upon the arri val of the train the authorities of that place ascertained that the three men in question had concealed pistols on their persons. Notwitstanding that they were ; police officers hereabouts, the North Carolina authorities claim ed they had no authority to carry pis tols in that state, and consequently their arrest followed. The officers were arranged before a justice of the .peace and a fine of $4.08 was impos ed on each. Sheriff James S. Elkins, of Colum bus: county, yesterday morning brough a white man named Cross Ed mundson, to the penitentiary to serve a six years' term. Edmundson was convicted for complicity in a murder in his coun ty, and turned state's evidence. It seems that Edmundson and two oth er men, one named Register and his son, heard of a negro who. had $1,000 in his possesion and was sleeping in a still house. They determined to get he money and went out to the still house and killed the negro and also a white man named Sole. They burned the still and Went to a negro nouse and slept. Edmundson scon got up and fled, leaving Register and his &on. wnen the negro came out in (the inoriung; hJ. suspicions - . - ;tl- i,kr: by seeing two men an1 three guns.T' old gun was found to belong to the muraerea wnite man named Sol a The two Registers derlarprJ tho two Registers had killed him. but Ed mundson had kileld him, but Edmund son came to trial, turned State's evi dence and told the wholo stnrv nf WM. J V. vnmp. oiaer register was FIFTEEN PRISONERS ESCAPE. Two Alleged Murderers, and Thirteen Other Negroes Get out of The Beau fort Jail. Washington, N. C, Aug." 15 Fifteen prisoners in the Beaufort county jai escaped Deiore aayDreak: this morn ing. Two of the men are alleged murderers and one is a Federal "pris oner, all the others being charged with minor offences. The sheriff im mediately offered rewards I for them The escape was made through a hole in .the back of the building, where nve brick had been removed. The jail was virtually in charge of a ne gro attendant who waits on the pris oners and he failed to lock up the men. There is .evidence of culpable negligence and an investigation will probably be made. One of the pris . oiers came and give himself up to day. . All are : negroes. We are offering for te inspection of the pub lic, the finest display of Stoves and Ranges, Hot Air Furnaces, Hot Water and Steam Heaters ever shown in the city. We are also carrying a large assortment of Lamps, Enameled Ware, Tinware and everytding usually found in a first-class Stove House. Our Plumbing display is up-to-date. We are showing them just as they would be in your house. We are fully equipped to do first-class Sanitary Plumbing, House Heating, with any de- sired system. Latrobes, Hot Air, Hot Water, 1 Steam. Metal Roofing, Guttering and Spouting, Slate Roofing. Stove Repairing a specialty. i . - - t 9 - s 9 "LEST WE FORGET" ; , It is well to erect a fitting and substantial tri bute to the memory of those who have goiie before. We handle fine Monuments, from the quarry to the finish product. Y 5 . We gnarantee all our work against rustin?. dis coloring and. cracking, and. jerect each monument sol idly and substantially. CI; - 59 aid 63 Pojrdfster Siret Ml SOI MARBLE GHHY Ask our Grocer for yoodley's Choice Blend ROASTED COFFEES, 12 I-2G T0 20C LB Always fresh and a home industry Roasted and packed by W. J. Woodley, Wholesale Grocer, Poindexter St., Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Mees -., - the sentenced to prison for life, the youn ger Register was sentenced to hang and Edmundson Was given six years xne two Kesisters have fltmAiiort from the judgment. ' The elder Register ran against Spin ator Joe Brown for a esat in the gen- fai assemmy at the. last pWH. News and Observer. , - A. M WILLEY & SON, i JOHN T. HOWARD, Manager. i I ELIZABETH CITY, N X. ROSEBORO TO. HANG. With Quaking Knees the Negro hears Words of Doom. WASHINGTON MAN CAUGHT 1 A STREET- CAVE-IN. IN Charlotte, N. G., Aug ,13. At States vine toaay Judge , Allen sentenced Will Roseboro to be hanged Septem ber 10th, at -4 o'clock in the -after noon. v While the sentence was being pro- nouncea Koseboro showed f the first signs of right. He was exceedingly nervous ana could hardly stand dur ing the trying ordeal. - me jury took the case vesterdav anernoon at u : 40, and in . twentv. three minutes after a verdict of mur- aer m the first degree was rendered. The crime for which Roseboro will pay the- death penalty Is one of the most henious in the criminal annals of the State.He assaulted Mrs.Dolph Beaver, and to hide his crime murder ed her and thr6w hsr body into a well near the Beaver home. Washington. N. C Aug. IK. Sim erintendent Bland nf ti lio-fct Water "company, was nearly entomb ed in an exoavatinn tnrinv tto. -down 1n a nine foot trench inspecting it when it Mcaved. in,. filling in-up to Tv . ue iaoorers dug him out . "itu suoveis. . ie was ed. - . . , badly bruis- O- takes than I rIot h and rlot.hfts 14 I " " v " , more I iust cloth to make good clothes. -We have - the goods and the ability to. make the right kind of suit for you. . 'You'll look well and feel satisfied if you let us fit you. MAUR 1 G B. WBSGOTT, the Modern Tailor. Water Street. We think our customers will bear us out in the statement that 'in this department we always give big dollar's worth fora dollar. ' ' ' This week we call especial attention to alot of Boy's Knee Pants Suits at 1 .50, Men's Blue Serge Suits at $6.00. If Cou -failed get a pair of ladies 2.00 or' 3.00 fine shoes for l.oU ana z.uu we may nave your size smii. Better Come See. Fowler & ; Water Street, Eliz. City, N. C. IT SEEMS TO BE. .. A special provision that fruit is the most desired and adapted FOOD FOR WARM WEATH ER, Aside from the fact tnat it saves a lot of stewing in the kitchen. Our stock is always fresh. MOTHER DESERTS CHILDREN. Charlotte, N. C, ; Aug. 15. J. - C. Workman, a Carpenter, reported to the police tins .morning, that his Avife na.u-. run away with a printer, Fred Barnes. Tha truant ' wif lft four children, ' the eldest of whom is bnlv" "1" jedia oiu. i ne ponce are after If you. are wSll you tell well; If you fell mean take . X 0 0 It strengthens and nourishes Aydlett Bros. Co: ) , ; - Jobbing Agts J. H. LeRoy Co. ) . For sale by all druggists and grocers Bananas 65c. to 75c. Bunch. Betail 10c. to 15c. dozen. - flabib Basliara, Kext to Post office "Cleanliness is Qodliness.,, This is bur motto, and we have everything scrupulously clean towel for every customer. Mugs . and brushes thoroughly stermzeu Barber Comfort. . A shave that will allow you to sleep. An uncut face when you leave our chairs, and an air of ; satisfaction that will cause you to come ' A f a formerly with J. B. Ferebee. . : 4 A v 4 oraan r leighs old stand. t " ' - " . W&ter Street, E. City, N. C (T To Amateur Photographers ! I carry a full stock of Films, Dy Plates, Developers, Toning and Texing Powders. Ask for my prices on Developing and Printing Corner Mainrand; Poindexter1 Streets i cue eoupie. t ' . ' f
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