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ui . R.a - w a i rv n. mm w n rw i i m r. - w i""'"n IWhi,iIiWMMM Established 1870. Country, God and Truth. Single Coi stated Cents. VOL XL! NO. 87. LUMBETON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 191C. WHOLE NO. 2625 UU - . HORRIBLE CRIME. A Father, Daughter ana Grand Daughter Murdered and Burn ed in Granville and Girl Out raged Negro Arrested. ttaleigh Dispatch, 20 th. Last night between 8 and 9 o'clock, in Granville county, near Hester, there was found in the ashes of a burned house the charred bones of three people, later identified as J. L. Sanders, a farmer, his 20-year-old daugh ter Mattie, and bis f cur-year-old I granddaughter, Irene Overton. ! A blood bespattered well house 1 with a knife beside it gave the! due and this moring Nathan! Montague, a young negro of the ! neighborhood, was arrested. In; his house the bloody skirt of the i girl and other parts of her cloth-j Ing we re found, with blood and! hair on the negro's clothes. He was arrested by the sheriff of j Durham county, taken first to! rinvViJim pnri then hrnncrht j-r tkol State's prison in Raleigh for sale keeping. The negro had been working at a hog killing in the afternoon at which the young girl also at tended. The evidence is that he went to her father's house at night, killed the father and little child by means unknown, then assaulted the girl and after out raging her cut her throat in a struggle in the yard. His next step was to set lire to the house i to conceal his crime. The girl's j mother was in Oxford and this probably saved her life. Just before the fire, neighbors heard three shots and a pistol was found near the well house. Sheriff Wheeler had learned of a mob gathering and by a mislead ing route got away from it. A report of a mob forming to go to Durham caused the negro to be brought to Raleigh. He denies his guilt, but the condition of his under-ciothing gives un doubted evidence against him. ..-t-C WKLtt. I i WE SELL IT FOR LESS"- O T. Wll I I AM L t . w r 1. 1 ? , FIRE INSURANCE - cu"-- I DOING THE HOLIDAYS IN THE GROCERY LIKE, FREE DELIVERY U. H. vVJSHART PHONE Nol XMAS FRUITS CANniFS fat- ovstfrr g CRANBERRIES NUTS CELERY etc ICV B. REDMOND PHONE Na113 mm: 1. i B- STAIRS OVCK FBCEMAN : PRINTING COMFfrNYS OFMls 1 M 1 Sa?teS' M---iSESSi 8 n f. Jw n i f-i ' '.y-- . i J COMPLETE LINEOF XMAS CARDS,ALSO PERFUMERIES AND STATIONERY FOR THE a-HOLIDAYS inc. hupe DRUG CO., ru- riy , ' Nl CARVING SETS CUTtfRY efc L L. n. ALOW-.LL 1 1 n:lK,G 1 1 i 1 11 MISS JOSEPHINE BREEC5 REDUCED PRICES ON ALL It is said that the Governor will be petitioned to order a special term of court to try the negro and Gov. Kitchin has said that he will do that if the people want it and he-can get a judge MAXTON NEWS ITEMS. A Youriff Thief Caueht-An Entertainment for Carolina College Death of Mr. Jas. Marsh Personal. Correspondence of The Robesoman. Maxton, Dec. 20. Mrs. Edwin Gibson returned to her home in Gibson Sunday night. Misses Lillian and Elizabeth MacNair spent Sunday in Bennettsville, S. C. Mr. Carl Pace came home today from Chapel Hill to spend the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Pace Mr. John Allen McLean, Jr., who is studying law at U. N. C, came home last night for the Christ mas holiday s. Mr. E. L. Wcoten, of Rowland, spend Sun day in Maxton with his parents, Miss Hallie Austin, who has been teaching at Concord this fall, came home Saturdav night. and solicitor. There will be a Mr. Lacy McLean, principal of regular term in Granville begin- the Concord graded school, came nmg Februarv 6. When a special home baturday tor the holidays. term is called there must be 20 Saturday morning about 7 days notice. , o clock a very sad death occurred at the Maple Shad inn. Mr I James Marsh, of Fayette ville, a travelling salesman, who was ; stopping here for the night, died suddenly from a hemorrhage of the lungs. He called lor help, but lived only a short while after the physician came. The re mains were carried to Fayette- ville Saturday night, accom panied by Mr. Byron McCallum. Last night, while the S. A. L train was standing at the depot The Scotchman in His Own Country and in America- British Politics Prohibition. Two and a Half Million People Affected by Floods and Fam ine in China. Victoria, B. C. Diapatch, 21st. News was brought byi the steamship Aymeric today of floods that have caused great loss of life and of a severe fam ine in the Anhui Province of China, affecting two and a half milliAna nf narenno "Pott TT. C. Lobenstein, a retiring missionary aj;hief as caught in .the 'express Macmillan,' Alex. Torrie, Angus frAmMf. Ank; oo,-. omce. I ne authorities had been mq;- ACu a Moravian Avri THE FINAL SUMMONS. To the Editor of The Robesonian: Through the courtesy uf Mr. A. W, McLean, who visited Oban while on his recent European tour, I have seen a copy of the .'Oban Times, of date Decem ber 10th, inst., and published in the Scottish Highlands. There is much in it of very great inter est to those of us whose fathers were from the same country, the same section of country, and who yet remain as full-blooded Scotch as were our fathers, land as any who are now to be found in that picturesque region. Our kinship is readily appar- i. tj j i : names of those attending any public assembly of which men tion is made m the Oban paper, one might suppose that the clans of Bladen, Cumberland, Harnett, Moore, Robeson and Scotland . i-i .t t counties had gatnerea at some point in the Cape Fear district, this State. I notice, for example, an account of an enthusiastic gathering of the Glasgow Skye Association, presided over by Sir J. H. A. MacDonald, Lord Kings burgh. Among these present were Dr. Neiil Macinness, Messrs. Lauchlin Mackihnon, Wm. Camp bell, Donald Macdonald, Ken neth A. Morrison, K. D. Mac kenzie, Donald Macleod, Jas. Mackellar, W.J. MacAllister, A. Graham, M.MacQueen, A. S. Mac- kay, Wm. MacCallum, Matthew I GOODS, CLOTHING, HATS, fj SHOES, FURNITURE, CtcJ rnuM iNuvv untilu the END Or THE YEAR W. J. PRE VAT T o M Pimp n l-iii ,i o.-., T-T 1 r ' i . B i nc .niiNUKUUtRY UU. 1 FOR HEAVY & FANCY CRO CRIES COUNTRY .PRODUCE FRESH F SH OYSTERS eft T. W. BULLOCK Mgr. MARRIAGE AT HOSPITAL. Mrs. Frederika Wessel Passed Away This Morning Funeral Tomorrow Afternoon. Mrs. Frederika Katrina Dor othea Wessel, relict of Capt. Jacob Wessel, passed away this morning at 2 o'clock at tne home of her son, Mr. Henry J. Wessel, on the-west side of the river, about a mile from town. The deceased would have been 79 years olJ next month. Stie had been ill for some time and her death was not unexpected. The funeral will take place from the residence tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock and the remains will be interred in the old cemetery on Fifth street, where her hus band's, remains were interred 23 years ago. Mrs. Wessel, whose maiden name was Cappelmann, was born in North Germany and was of an aristocratic family. Capt. Wessel came to this country when a young man and returned to Germany, where, in 1858, he was united in marriage to the deceased. He returned to Am erica in 1866 with his wife and lived for a while at Elkton, Bladen county, moving in a few years to Lumberton, where Capt. Wessel was engaged for a while in the mercantile business. One son Mr. Henry J. Wess,el and three daughters Mrs. Wm. Wilkins, who lives in Florida, and Misses Lena and Julia Wessel, who lived with their mother survive. Miss Mary Loula Earle of Flor ence and Mr. P. S. Kornegay of Warsaw --Second Class Graduated. from North Anhui, said: "So desperate were the people "that thousands banded together robbing any who had food sup plies, and lor weeks scarcely a night passed without many mur ders. The floods caused great loss of life. The rapid rise of water swept away scores of vil lages, thousands of persons being drowned. A rauroad engineer reported that one of the bridges near tnere naa been cnoKea up with bodies and he had been im - ? -i . i . pnsoneu two cays in tne upper part of a temple before being rescued by a boatman. 'The situation during the winter will be terrible far worse than during the famine three years ago. The starving can be reckoned by hundreds of thou sands, and relief committees should be organized at once." Funeral Eliza of Mrs. Ann Higley. The funeral of Mrs. Ann Eliza Higley, an account of whose death appeared in Monday's Paper, took place Tuesday after noon at 2 o'clock from the resi dence of the deceased on Sixth Street. The RPrvirrc was r.nn ducted by Rev. C. H. Durham, pastor of the church, and the missinjr money lor some time, but were unable to catch up with the smart fellow until last night, when Policeman Dunlop, hiding in the office, saw young Charlie Aucrun, colored, walk in, and take out of the cash drawer two ten-dollar bills. Mr. Dunlop ar rested him and now they have discovered where the missing checks and bills were. Young Aucrun, about twelve years old, had been working at the aepot for a short while, carrying tele- grams, etc.. out now ne win lose his jot) and probably his reputa tion in this town. Last Thursday night Mrs. J. T. Poole gave a noodle enter tainment for the benefit ot the Methodist Carolina College. The entertainment was very much enjoyed, there was much fun in being taught how to make "noodle" soup. They made S-52 for the college, which will add much to the funds. Maj. T. J. Wooten spent today in Laurinburg on business. ---An organ recital will be given at the new First Baptist church some time within the next ten days, possibly some night next week but perhaps not until First Baptist January 2. Prof. Harry J. Zehm, interment was who is at the head ot the music ?iade in the old cemeterv on deDartrnent of Elizabeth College, Ftfth street. The pallbearers Charlotte, has studied under Jjere Messrs. K. M. Biggs, John some of the famous masters of Wishart, S. Mclntyre, R. D. Europe and is considered one of aldwell, C. H. Freeman, Frank the foremost musicians of the (ough. State, will preside at the organ. Macintosh, A. Macphail, Archi bald Macpherson, John H. Sin clair, Dr. Norman Maclean, Prof. Magnus Maclean, Rev. Dr. Mac lean, R. Bethune. In another column the death of Rev. Dr. McNeill, "a notable Highlander," is announced, while throughout the paper are to be found the names of MacEachern, Macin tyre, Macrae, Stewart, Macar thur, Gilchrist, Black, and others, which have been familiar to me, ana some very dear, since my j earliest childhood. It will be noticed that in almost every in stance the native Scot spells out the Mc, and writes his name as one word. Instead of McArthur, as it is usually found with us, he writes it Macarthur, McRae is Macrae, and soon with the oth er Macs The presiding officer of the Skye Association, Sir J. H. A. MacDonald, LordKingsburgh, is, we might say, connected with us in another way. His great grand mother was a sister of Allan Mac Donald of Kingsburgh, husband of the celebrated Flora MacDon ald. Allan MacDonald, it will be remembered, was a major in Gen. Donald MacDonald's com mand, and was present at the battle of Moore's Creek. The struggle between the Lib erals and the Conservatives is on, the principal issue being a- dimi nution of the power of the House of Lords, the effect of which would be, as it seems, to make ' (continued on page 8.) At the Opera House. Paul Gilmore and his excellent company delighted an audience that filled the opera house last evening in "The Bachelor." Mr. Gilmore was at his best and so pleased the audience that he had to respond to a curtain call at the end of the second act with a speech. ''The Orpheans," one of the numbers of the lyceum course, was the attraction Tuesday eve ning, rnis is a male quartette and the singing was good. "The Four Pickerts, who have given pleasure to Lumber- ton audiences aforetime, will be the attraction tomorrow and Sat urday evenings. Miss Mary Loula Earle of Florence, S. C, and Mr. Perry b. Kornegay ot Warsaw were married Tuesday afternoon at 4.30 o'clock at the Thompson hos pital, where the Dnde had just completed a three-years course in nursing. The groom is traveling salesman with head quarters in Charlotte. The cer ernony was performed oy Rev A. E. Baker, who resigned the pastorate of the Presbyterian church here recently to accept a call to a church in -Lynchburg, Va., and who came Tuesday morning for that purpose. Only the officers of the hospital and the patients the bride has nursed in Lumberton were present. Miss Josie Barksdale, a nurse at the hospital, was maid of. honor. and Mr. Robt. C. Kornegay of Warsaw, a brother of the groom, was best man. lhere were no other attendants. The bride wore a green coat-suit ana car ried a shower bouquet of lillies of the valley; the maid of honor was gowned in white and carried white carnations, Mr. ,j. E. Rancke, Jr., played the wedding march. Many handsome pres ents were received. Elegant re freshments, consisting of a salad course, cream and cake, were served. Mr. and Mrs. Kornegay went Thursday night to Char lotte, where they will live. Mrs. Kornegay's wedding day was also the day of her gradua tion as a trained nurse and im- LOCAL BRIEFS. Rev. F. Weiss will Dreaeh at. the Gospel tabernacle Sundav on the iollowmg subjects: 11 a. m., God's Christmas Gift to the World"; 7 p. m., "The Wonder ful Ccuncellor." Licenses have been issued for the marriage of Virginia E. GaddyandR. W. Bullard; An nie McPhaul and Hector F. Cur rie; Novella Reece and Troy Johnson; Lone Barnes and E. B. Stone. -Mr. Albert L. Friedman, who has been with Mr. A. Wein- stem iui :-iuuul uiree montns as salesman and advertising man ager, expects to leavp SmpHau for Baltimore, Md., where he will spend the holidays with home folks, and thence he will go to Newport, Pa., about the 15th of January, where hp py. pects to engage in the mercantile business. The following: have romp home from school to snpnrl tho holidays: from Meredith College, Raleigh, Misses Dovie and Edna Prevatt, Ethel Williams. Lina Gough, Mildred Mclntyre, Annie Ruth Caldwell: Peace TnstitntP Raleigh, Miss Agnes McLean; Elizabeth Colleere. Charlotte. Miss Irene McLeod; Columbia College, Columbia, S. C, Misses Sallie Thompson and Bertha Barker; Presbyterian College, Red Springs, Misses Berta and Katie McNeill and Emma Higley; Davidson Medical College, Char lotte, Mr. Raymond Thompson; Wake Forest College, Mr. Lee Correll: King's Business College, Charlotte, Mr. Ed. Pope; Mas sey's Business College,Richmond, Va., Mr. Albert Boylin. New Teachers Graded School Elected. At a meeting of the trustees of the graded school Monday evening Miss Sybil Hyatt, of Kinston, was elected to succeed Miss Leila May Gdl, who had charge of the ninth and tenth grades, Miss Gill having resign ed, as mentioned in Monday's Robesonian. Miss Hyatt is a graduate of Notre Dame Col lege, Maryland, and she has had quite a bit of experience in ad vance teaching. Miss Isabella Wicker, of Moore county, was elected to succeed Miss Sallie McLean, who resigned on ac count of her , health. Miss Mc Lean had charge or the fourth grade. mediately after the wedding short graduating exercises were held. Miss Mattie White, of Ten Mile, this county, was the only other graduate. The diplo mas were presented by Mr. R. D. Caldwell, vice president of . the posDital corporation. This is the second class that has been graduated at the hospital. South Carolina Loies in Merger Suit. Columbia. S. C Dispatch, 20th. After a trial lasting more than three weeks, a jury in the county court today returned a verdict in favor of the Southern Railway in the suit in which the State of South Carolina sought to dissolve the merger of the Southern and soveral State roads, the Ashe ville & Spartanburg Railroad, the South Carolina & Georgia, the South Carolina & Georgia extension and the Carolina Mid land. In his charge, Judge Shipp held that competition as used in the constitutional prohibition ot a merger of competing or parallel lines, apoiied to lines that com pete substantially and legally. Competition on business handled by connections with other line at junction points on shori stretches of narallel lines, the court held, could not be consid ered within the prohibitive clause. The State is expected to take an appeal. In the Mayor's Court. The case against Oscar Ed wards, who is charged with in terfering with Policeman Strain when he was arresting- T. O. McCormick at the depot Satur day night, the arrest and trial of Mccormick oeing mentioned in Mono ay s Robesonian. has been continued until January 16. It is charged that Edwards inter fered lo such an extent that Po liceman Stra lge had to rap him over the he?.d with his billie. Geo. Koderick. who worked at the Lumberton Cotton Mills un til about 30 days ago and claims Wilmington as his home, was tried before Mayor Rowland yes terday on the charge of taking a suit-case at the depot Tuesday evening belonging to Mr. Robt. C. Kornegay of Warsaw, and was bound to court in a bond in the sum of $100, which he gave. Mr. Kornegay, who came to town to attend the marriage of his brother, mentioned elsewhere in this paper, missed his suit case just before train time and asRed the hotel porter about it. The porter found Roderick in possession ot tne grip and he claimed that it wTas merely a mistake, but the tag had been torn off and Policeman Strain arrested him. Roderick claimed that he had never been in court before, but Mayor Rowland says he found upon investigation that he has been in court in Wilming ton a number of times. A Small Blaze. At noon today fire which started from a spark from the chimney did some small damage to the roof ot a 3-room house be longing to the Seaboard Railroad Co., just across the tracks from the Seaboard freight depot, and occupied by Mr. M. L. Leviner and family. Mr. Leviner is sec tion master on a special Seaboard force. The fire whistle drew the usual crowd and Chief Q. T. Williams and Mr. R. O. Edmund. of the fire department, went tilting down the sidewalk of Elm street with a ose wagon, or the fire wasent nruished ba ore they reached uie depot, be tween Third and Second streets they ran into the peanut roaster of Mr. R. T. Sanderson and scattered peanuts considerably; and Mr. Sanderson says they ruined his roaster completely. There was some damage, fully covered by insurance, to furni ture that was moved out. The roof of this house caught fire at another place a few days ago from a spark from a passing engine.
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