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OMAN N ESTABLISHED 1870 Count; v, God .'inci Triitri. SINGLE COPIES G CENTS. VOL. XXXVII. NO. 14. LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, APRIL 20. 1006. WHOLE NO. 2131 ROBES SAN FRANCISCO IS LAID IN RDINS Earthqnako Stocks Cause Great Dam ago to City on Pacilic. HUNDREDS PEOPLK RILLED One Shock Followed Closely Another Three Honrs Later a Third Shock Came Fire Breaks out in Ruins and Does Great Damafle. A disaster that has no parallel in recent years visited the Pacific Coast Wednesday when hundreds of people lost their lives and many millions of dollars of prop erty loss was caused by shocks of earthquake. The greatest amount of loss was in San Fran cisco, a city of 400,000 people, where many of the lives were lost and the greater part of the prop erty loss sustained. The loss of life first estimated at 3,000 seems to have been somewhat overesti mated, yet it was large enough to be appalling. The property loss is not far from $50,000,000 and is estimated to be four times as much. The following telegrams received to-day are used by cour tesy of the Western Union Com pany. By Western Union Telegraph. San Francisco, April 19, 2.15 p. m. Fire continues burning in a diagonal line up a hill, com mencing at McAllister and end ing at Battery street, and on Mission as far as 16th street, with rising wind and scarcity of water. No one is allowed to en ter the city. Soldiers are dis tributing water. By Western Union Telegraph. San Francisco, April 19., noon. Entire district up as far as the new Fairmont hotel on top of Knob Hill, California, set between Powell and Mason streets, is all gone. Reported that one hun dred thousand people are home less, and at 6.30 a.m., San Fran cisco time, fire was not under con trol, and water supply was again cut off. Later reports from Los Angeles show earlier information as to loss of life and property in that city to have been greatly un derestiaated. Ten thousand Vinmfi'pss are reported at Santa Rosa. By Western Union Telegraph. San Francisco, Aoril 19th, 8 a. m. (11 a. m. Eastern time) Fire is still raging. The city is prac tically destroyed. It is too early in the morning to learn definitely the exact situation at the water front. Boats and suburban roads are running on schedule time, except Alameda. The military is doing police duty, but city is not under martial law. By Western Union Telegiaph. San Francisco, Cal. April 18. Several hundred people were killed and many more injured by shocks of earthquake in San Francisco today. Every building in the , city was damaged and many were wholly destroyed. There were two separate and distinct shocks. The second fol lowed the first after an interval of three hours, the latter shock destroying all buildings unset tled by the first. Thieves are already at work and troops are hastening from Predirio. Berkley, a suburb, is reported ruined. The, buildinsrs occupied by the Exmrpner and Call. San Francisco's leadinr newspapers,. are des! myed. Late dispatches place probable loss of life at 300. The Empo rium is gone. Market street is described as a seething furnace. Fire is now working havoc in the ruins. The whole city east of Sansome street to water front and south of Market as far as Tenth com pletely destroyed. It is now stated every building in the city is more or less damaged. The Western Union office has caught fire and the Postal Telegraph of fice was demolished. '' This is perhaps the greatest earthquake since that at Lisbon. There were more slight shocks later in the afternoon, which completed the destruction al ready begun. Small towns aear San Francisco suffered greatly. This is one of the worst disas ters the world has ever known. No definite account of the loss of property and life can be given at this time. The people are horri fied and rushing madly through the ruined city. ELROD NEWS ITEMS. Children Greatly Enjoy Egg Hunt Other News of Interest. Elrod, April 19. The children of the neighborhood thoroughly enjoyed an Easter egg hunt Sat urday afternoon in the beautiful grove at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Bridgers. The par ents and a few friends of the children were present. All seemed to enjoy the outing very much. A few from this community attended the closing exercises of Alfordsville school Friday even ing. They report a pleasant time. Mrs. Rupert Bridgers has just returned from a two weeks visit to her mother, Mrs. ChappeJl, at Candor. Rev. W. W. Willis, of Ashpole, was here last week en route t6 Buie, to see his mother, who is very ill. Miss Bessie McLean, f Mc Donalds, is spending this week with her sister, Mrs. P. H. Adams. Mr. Will Currie, of Max ton,' was in the community Sunday. Misses May and Annie Thomp- son, oi namer, o. -., sijcui; lis ter with their aunts, the Misses Thompson, near here. LAKE OF MYSTERY. Its Unexplored Waters Lie Under Charleston. Richmond, Va., April 17. A Winchester, Va., special says: Great, excitement prevailed to day at Charleston, Jefferson county, West Virginia, twenty- two miles north of here, over the discovery of a subterranean lake and cavern which are being ex plored this afternoon by an ex pert with electric lights. Men were blasting rock yes terday and discovered the lake and cavern when the discharge fell through. They descended and with a small boat rowed around several hundred yards The lake is of the vurest water. Residents of Charleston are alarmed, fearing the ground will fall in, burying them and their property, as the subterranean wonder is directly under the town. Rev. A. E. Baker, pastor of the Presbyoerian juu rch in Lumber ton. will preechthe baccalaureate sermon before the students o the Clarkton Military Institutt Sunday at 1 1 o'clock. Rev. J . M Will n IV. (if Wilmimrton. will deliver the address Tuesday, the 24th. Mr. H. 11. Lowe, of Charlotte, was here this week on businJs.s. NEWSPAPER OUTFIT FOR SALE Having purchased the en tiro plant of the Argus TithM-hi: nany, we have for sale a first-clas-i newspaper out lit in good tion, including the following: ONE CHICAGO TAYLOR 7-COLUMX I'OMO PRESS, ONE ECLIPSE FOLDER, , ONE PEERLESS GEM C ITT Ell, ONE GASOLINE ENGINE, TWO-IIOIiSE POWER, 'ONE CHICAGO TYPEWRITER. In addition to this, we offer a fine line of advertising tpe, leads, rules, galleys, imposing stones and other printing office material. Call on or address THE RORESONIAN, Lumberton, N. C. NEWS ITEMS OF INTEEEST FROM RED SPRINGS Red Springs, Apr. 19. Rev.J. M. RBie D. D., of Laurinburg, willpreach the Baccalaureate ser mon and Hon. G. B. Patterson will make the literary address at the approaching commence ment of the Southern Presby terian College and Conservatory of Music. The institution has thus chosen very near neighbors for its addresses this year. This is well. The work will be as well done as if others far off had been invited. Hon. G. B. Patter son was the first President of its Board of Trustees and this is the tenth commencement. A. sort of decennial address would be interesting and entertain and instruct a great audience. The ball games, Monday and Tuesday, between the North Carolina Military Academy boys and the Jones boro boys were sources of interest and fur nished great pleasure to the base ball enthusiasts. They were close and exciting. The interest ranged around the deft playing of young Weatherly, a profes sional from Mp,xton,who lined up with the Jonesboro nine. He wen the game for his side Mon day on a score of 6 to 5. Tues day the score, we learn, was 7 to 10 in favor Jouesboro. That was an unsurpassed re ception given the Seniors by the Juniors at the College Monday nicrht. The decorations were faultless and beautiful and the young ladies in their new spring dresses never before looked so lovely. This is what we are told by a nice judge and of the finish esthetic culture. No doubt every young gentleman present is dis posed to say there is more or less of sterility in our adjective. The following published re solve reached us late, but not too. late: Let's all attend the course supper at the former academy April 20th 6 o'clock, at Lumber Bridge N. C. Only 25 cents. Get tickets for the supper and the play 'The Mouse Trap' which opens at 8:30 p. m. Tickets for plapalone 25 cents. Play given in beha'f the new school building." The Lumber Bridge and Rae ford ball ter,.ms play a match game at 3:30 p. m. The above is worth going to. Good things may be expected. The cause is orthy.. lhe welcome will be hearty. No doubt a great crowd will turn mi. Remember the time it is tins (Friday) night. Miss Esse Shaw who had been lit, the Hiirh Smith hospital in ray i ttev ue two weens reiumeu home Monday. She said she was veil cui l 1. oaoJ fully restored. It. is a '.ro ,A n.'.see to iro to, she ,,is if you get sick. The hospi g Com-condi- tal is nearly full. We can testify it has everything from skilled physicians don to expected in a first class hospital. We had the pleasure of seeing Mr. John C. Currie, of Perry Florida Monday. He was looks ing halt and happy. It was a fly ing trip he had made to see his sister who had been painfully hurt. All the Robeson contin gent in Florida were reported well. He was speeding home ward. Ralph Bingham had agood au dience. Be lecture was de lightful as a whole. All were amused and everybody laughed and spent his much enjoyed hour under his shell. Nature did much for the literal amature musician-and elocutionist. North Carolina Military Acad emy has passed into other hands. Dr. S. W. Murphy has closed a trade whereby he retires. He speaks well of his successor. Next year the academy will be therefore under an entirely new administration. Messrs. Cook, Garrett & Mc Neill and the Red Springs Drug Company will rebuilt their burnt stores including the post office as soon as the the brick can be placed on the ground. We are glad to hear that Miss Emma Currie.of Lumber Bridge, who was so dangerously and pain fully hurt over two weeks ago is getting well rapidly. Mr. Newton H. Smith, of Fay etteville, came down to see his his daughters at the college Monday night. Mr. J. C. McPhail, of Shannon is keeping house for her mother while she is visiting in Southern Pines. Mrs. W. H. Sikes has gone to Cumberland for a month's stay in the county. Rev. Dr. C.H.Vardell preached at Shannon last Sunday after noon. ' Mr. Ernest Sikes spent a few days at home the past week. Mrs. Clifton returned home Tuesday morning. Invitations Received. The Robesonian is indebted to he facultyof Jeffarsrm Academy, MeLeansville, N. C, for an invi tation to attend the annua! com mencement exercises, to be held May 20th to 22nd. The annual sermon will be delivered Sunday afternoon. May 20, by Rev. J. O. Atkinson, of Elon College, anc1 State Superintendent J. Y. Jpy nerwi'l make the literary ad dress Tuesday at 2:30 p. in. . Genercl T. A. Bond, who i spending some time at his winte home in the country, was her Wednesday. ASHPOLE NEWS LETTER. Ashpole, Apr. 19 Mr. Glenn Ashley is at home from Florence S. C. for a few days, to the de light of his many friends who are much pleased to see him looking so wen. nara worK evidently agrees with him. He is engineer on the Florence yards. Quite a crowd of Ashpole peo- went Ionia church Sunday after noon and heard an excellent ser-: mon by Rev. Mr. Wilson, of Ken tyre, S. C. The sc1hk)1 greatly enjoyed an Easter holiday picnic at Atkin son s MUl. rney weni in wagons and had a whole day of unlimited fun. A. L. Jones has bought a store lot on Main Street formerly own ed by J. I. Hill, and, we under stand, will build on it at once. Capt. Wiggs came out from Lumberton Monday last and will spend the summer with his nephew S. J. Smith. Messrs. Sloan of the Mercer Furniture Co. have moved in with the Bachelor Club in the Brown Building. Miss Mary Wilkes, of Chad bourn is a welcome visitor in town the quest of Mrs. Z. V. Stranghan. The wife and daughter of Mr. Edwards. S. C. engineer came here and spent last Sunday with him. Mr. H. G.Mitchell Sr. is suffer ing with a bad carbuncle. But we understand is improving. Dr. McKenzie.who recently lo cated at Barnesville, was in our town last Tuesday. Miss Mamie McDaniel return ed Tuesday from a pleasant visit to Board man. Dr. Brown and C. B. Thomp son returned from Baltimore last Saturday night. Miss Eva Tate, of Chadbourn, is visiting Mrs. F. C. Jones this week. ALFORDSVILLE NEWS. School Closes with an Enjoyable Concert. Alfordsville, April 19. The school closed at Alfordsville Fri day, April 13. Everybody re ports a delightful time. The school room was beautifully dec orated with dog-wood, violets, and white hllies. It proved to be one of the most successful concerts that was ever held here. Mrs. J. E. Alford left Saturday for Bladen where she will spend some time with friends and rela tives. Mr. Lamar McCallum.was vis iting his parents Mr. and Mrs. J. B. McCallum Sunday. Messrs. Sam and Herbert Buie of Red! Springs were visiting rel atives in this community Friday and Saturday. Misses Josephine and Pearl Fvans of St. Pauls are visiting relatives here. Mr. Edmunds will spend a few days here before going home. Alarge crowd attended services at Midway Sunday. Misses Agnes Evans and Mary Tom Weaver will visit friends and relatives in this community before going home. Mrs. J. B. McCallum and daughter. Miss Mary Edna, were visiting Mrs. Daniel McLean Sun day. Stockholders' Meeting. The ti -st rr eel ing of the stock noi. ers ot ine uresaen uoim M'l's will be held Tuesday, May 1st, at li o'clock, in the office o the Lumberton Cotton Mills. A large amo iriE of capital stock ha oeeir saoscnoea :uiu worn is ex pected to commence on the n in a short lime after the ineeU of stockholders. -- BLACKBURN TRIAL BEGUN TUESDAY Congressman From Eight District is Confronted With Serious Charge. ABLE COUNSEL ON BOTH SIDES Prosecution Wins In First Con test Case Mast go Jory on Its Merits, Rales Jadfle Gotl Jadge Lewis Representing Government. Greensboro, N. C, April 18. The trial of E. Spencer Black burn, congressman from the eigth North Carolina district, came up for hearing in the feder al court at 11 o'clock this morn ing. Blackburn is specifically charge with violating Section 1782 of the Revised Statutes of the United States in practicing and receiv ing fees therefor before the government departments at Washington. United States Circuit Judge Nathan Goff, of West Virginia, presided at the hearing. Judge L. L Lewis, district at torney for the eastern district of Virginia, assisted by J. J. Britt, assistant to United States Dis trict Attorney A. E. Holton, will represent the government. Congressman Blackburn's In terests will be looked after by Former Judge W. P. Bynum.Jr., E. J. Justice, A. L. Brooks, G. Sam Bradshaw and Frank Loyell. The trial promises to be one of the most notable ever heard in North Carolina, not only on ac count of tho high official charac ter of the defendant but by rea son "of the prominence of the at" tormys on the respective sides. The present trial is the out come of an investigation institu ted last December by the dhpart ment of justice at Washington in connection with certain charges that had been filed against the congressman. This inquiry was followed by an lnuictmeiu oi uiacKourn ai the term of 'the Asheville court February 22nd, last. He was indicted on hrea charges covering three separate and distinct transactions. Immediately afcer the hearing was commenced the defense filed demurrer contending that the alleged offenses were committed before Blackburn had taken the oath as congressman, and that he was therefore not amenable to the statute; the demurrer was overruled, and the case will go to the jury on the testimony. Revival at Methodlit Chorea. The revival services at the Methodist church , are daily in creasing in interest, services are held at 10 a. m. and 8 p. m. 'ihi attendance1, especially. at the evening services, is quite large. flie Rev. E. McWhorter, of Max ton, is preaching some able and interesting sermons. Pastor Paris was indeed quite fortunate in securing his assistance. The public is most cordially invited to attend tb services. Revival at Tabernacle. Revival services are in prog ress at the Tabernacle. Assist ing the Kev. Mr. Weiss, is the Uev. Mr. Newton, who is an ex ceptionally able preacher. The attendance at the meeting is very encouraging and much interest is manifest in the services. Quito a number of vomvruu:i,.arv- reported.
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