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A Home Newspaper Published in the Interest of the People irid for Honesty in Governmental Affairs.
Vol. IV. No. 40.
STATESVILLE AND IREDELL COUNTY.
Insane Man Prefers Jail to a Home with
Friends. Iredell's First Bale.
. Statesville Landmark. Sept. 15.
The first bale of new crop Ire
dell cotton was Bold on the States
ville market yesterday by F. A.
Cloaninger, of Barringer township,
The Statesville Cotton Mills was
the purchaser. The bale weighed
515 pouuds and the price was 10
cents.
The sale of lands for taxes hav
ing been postponed to October
10th, Sheriff Summers has taken
a fresh hold this week and the list
of delinquents is again advertised.
But the list has "swank'.' mighty
since it first appeared. The pow
er of publicity lias brought many
sovereigns to the captain's office
and most of those yet on the lists
will probably drop in by the day
of sale. They would better do so
if they want to save their lands,
for the sale will go this timj.
The graded school opened yes
yerday and as always is the case
at the fall opening, there was a
great swarm of children. Some
the rooms were overcrowded. The
enrollment was rot completed but
more than 500 were in attendance
Sherman Moose, an insane white
man who is not considered very
dangerous but was placed in jail
some months ago for safe-keeping,
is an interesting character, Sher
man had been begging his friends
and relatives to take him out of
jail and allow him so -live with
them and work for his feed. One
day last week a relative who lives
in Shiloh tewnship made arrange
ments to have Sherman released,
statiug that he would take care of
him. Friday afternoon Sherman
stated that he was ready to go and
was given his freedom. He left
the jail in high spirits and start
ed for Shiloh afoot, but when he
reached Bloomfield he deliberate
ly turned back and traced his
steps to the jail. On arriving at
the jail he asked Mrs. Connelly, the
jiiler, to please allow him his cell
again and his request was granted.
When asked why he came back the
unfortunate man answered that he
was a burden to his. people
and that he was afraid that he
might give then further trouble if
he was allowed to go tree. At
times Moose talks very intelligent
ly. A Landmark reporter talked
to him a few minutes Sunday and
during the course of conversation
the unfortunate stated that after
a man had spent threedays in jail
he lost his manhood and could
never be of any account thereafter.
Effort to Delay Sale.
As the result of a meeting of
parties interested, held in Greens
boro Thursday afternoon, it seems
probable that the sale of the Odell
Manufacturing Company, of this
city, will not take p' ace Septem
ber 16th, as advertised under the
decree of the United States Court,
the change of plans having been
brought about by the recent' fire
that destroyed a portion of the
property. The representatives of
the creditors present asked Mr.
Caesar Cone, the receiver, to re
quest the courkfco modify the order
of said court 'heretoforemade, in
order that the sale may not take
place until after the first loss
had been adjusted. Judge ;Boyd,
who issued the order of sale, is
out of the city, but no trouble is
anticipated in having the order
po modified as to postpone the
sale until fire loss shall have!
been adjusted. Another meeting
of the creditors will be held in
Greensboro September 24. Con
cord Times.
A Paying Investment.
Mr. John White, of 38 Highland
Ave , Houltou, Maine, , says :
' Have been troubled with a cough
every winter and spring. Last
winter I tried many advertised
remedies, but the cough continued
until I bought a 50c. bottle of Dr,
King's New Discovery; before that
was half gone. Tbis winter the
same happy result has followed ;
a few doses once more banished
the annual cough. I am now con
vinced that Dr. King's New Dis
covery is the best of all cough and
lung rededies." Sold under guar
antee at all Druggists. 50c. and
$1.00. Trial bottle free.
KILLED HIS WIFE.
Tilley Claims Shooting Was Accidental but
the Story Is Not Generally Believed.
The most sensational homicide
this country has known since the
crime for which John Hodges was
hanged, the murder of his wife
two years ago, took place three
miles from Durham tonight at 9
o'clock and W. H. Tilley is held
tonight without bail.
Though a great distance from
town crowds are pouring out there
afoot and the house is overrun by
the morbidly inclined. At mid
night Coroner Maddry went o the
scene, arriving too late here to
give the result of his finding. In
a pool of blood of unbelieveable
amount Mrs. Tilley is lying face
sidewise to the floor. A winches
ter bullet has passed through her
face and her husband sits within
1 five feet of her, held by Sheriff
Harward, who dees not hesitate to
tell the man he murdered his wife
Tilley's story is that at 9 o'clock
he saw a dog in his yard and, tak
ing down his rifle, snapped twice
at the beast. Thinking his gun
was unloaded, he hit it with his
hand and it discharged full in the
face of his wife, who was sitting
at the bureau reading a paper.
She fell without a cry and he
rushed to her, he says. BelieviDg
her dead, he went to a neighbor's
and aroused him. She died twen
ty minutes later. The fellow talks
with a refreshing nonchalance of
the tragedy. He does not seem
the least disturbed and when
pressed for an account of his past
life says it has not been what it
might have been, domestically
speaking. He is pretentiously re
ligions and has stood without
blame in his neighborhood. Nev
ertheless Sheriff Harward says
Mrs. Tilley has appeared often in
distress and .asked : advice as to
living with her husband, who had
threatened more than once to kill
her. Her relatives are bitter, for
they tell a story of bow he took
all of her $3,000 secured by her
second husband's death and in-
vested it in a plantation, falling
out with her when she refused to
be further bled. They had not
lived in' the same room until the
past month, when a reformation
began . and the two were united.
Their only child was asleep at
the time of the shooting and there
is nothing but circumstantial ev
idence, antirely too much in doubt,
it would appear, to sustain a
charge of murder.
Mr. and Mrs. Tilley are well
connected, both being members of
good families as live in Durham.
Durham special to Charlotte
Observer.
The Value of pood Roads.
A gentleman who is interested in
good road building, and who has
had ample opportunity to observe
the progress of the work, said af
ter, looking over the sections of
macadam recently completed on
the Taylorsville road, wst of
Statesville, that it is the best
piece of macadam work he has
seen'. Further discussing maca
dam work, this gentleman re
marked that if the building of
macadam roads will increase the
value of adjacent land $5 per acre
(the lact is the average increase is
greater than this) the increased
value of a strip of land a half mile ,
wide on each side of a road will
pay the cost of building the road,
and the increased value of laud
farther than a half mile from the
road is clear "gain. It is a well
known fact that, the building of
macadam roads adds greatly to
the value of land and the increase
half mile
away but extends several miles, j
. . m i :n I
A farm on this same ijtwhu j
road was offered for $3,000 before
the road was built and had no
toir'ora. Since the macadam was
put down an offer of $10,000 was ( is being dispensed by druggists
refused. And the increased value everywhere. In a few hours, Pro
of land is just one point in favor ventics are said to break any cold
of macadam roads ;The saving .-completely. And Preventics,
in the wear and tear lof stock, ve- j being so safe and toothsome, are
hi-le and harness, the hauling' of ( very fine for children. No Quinine,
j rt anA tram town and many
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other things are to oe auaeu.
Statesville Landmark.
Salisbury, N.
CONCORD AND CABARRUS COUNTY.
Dog with Hydrophobia Is Killed. Cotto
Opening Marriages arid Deaths.
Concord Times, Sept. 15th. '
Lee Brown, a Confederate veter
an living three miles west' of Char
lotte, on the Beattie's Ford road
died Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock
at his home after a brief illness.
A dog belonging to Sam Morgan
had to be killed last Friday on ac
count of having hydrophobia. The
dog had bitten eight dogs before
being killed, but would not bite
Mr. Morgan, as he caught it and
tied it after if had bitten the dogs
Mr. Charles A. Linn was last
week appointed a carrier on Rock
well R. F. D. No. 2, with A. H.
Shoe substitute.
G. A. Moser will move into the
Wood house on North Union street
which is to be vacated by G. L
Murr.
A license was issund last week
for thrt marriage of J. W. Bailee,
of Union county, and Miss Fran
ces Curlee, of Cannonville.
Lucas Lentz, a son of R. P
Lentz. of Concord, was married
last Thursday in Danville, Va., to
Mrs. Ida Wreim. They will make
their home in Danville.
Mrs. Mary A. Bonds died last
Friday night at the home of J. M.
Ridenhour, near St. John's with
whom she made her home. She
had .suffered for sometime with
cancer and was 82 years old. The
funeral services were conducted at
St.John's church at 10 o'clock 3at
urday morning, and the body$was
laid to rest in the graveyard there.
The cotton fields of Cabarrus
are wmtening undar the warm
September sun and the next few
we ka will witness a great ingath
enng of the fleecy staple if the
weather does not interfere. The
bolls are opening rabidly upon
laud of ordinary soil and the farm
ers will endeaver to get as much
as possible inside their storehouses
before it is damaged by rain.
What Sort of a Joke is Tbis?
Rev. W. B Goble and F. W.
Bost, two of Chins Grove's promi
nent citizens have just secured a
patent, which promises when nut
on the market to make them
known and talked of the world
over. Alter many years of labor
and study they have perfected the
Monarch automatic burglar alarm
which, when installed in a dwell
ing, not only start's an alarm bat
lights up the house and indicates
the room which the burglar is at
tempting to enter, and at the
same time makes a photogaph of
the burglar. It is also so arrang
ed that in case an attempt is made
to onter the house while the occu
pants are away the date and hour
the attempt is made is registered.
These gentlemen have organiz
ed the Monarch Burglar Alarm
Company, with Rev. W. B. Goble,
president, F. W. Bost, secretary
and treasurer, and as Boon as the
necessary arrangements are com
pleted will open sales offices and
manufacture the alarm here. Mr,
Goble will retire from the minis
try and devote his entire time to
the manujacture of the alarm and
Mr. Bost, who for a number of
years has been one of the leading
merchants, will retire from the
mercantile business and look after
the office work of the new enter
prise. J. N Dayvault, formerly of
Dayvault Brothers, will be manager-for
the State of North Caro
lina and will leave in a few days
for the Eastern part of the State
to put the alarm on the market.
China Grove special te Charlotte
Observer.
.
A clever, popular Candy Cold
Cure Tablet called Preventics
noiaxative.noimngnarsnnorsicK
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Cornelison & Cook.
Sold by
O., Wednesday, September 23rd, 1908.
A STRIKIN6 COMPARISON. I
One Which is Comprehensive, Clear
and
Alive With Meaning:.
"Mr. Bryan compared the dif
ference between the conditions in
1896 and the present time.
"When I spoke in the-East in
in 1896," he said, "I recognized
that there was an intense opposi
tion. I recognized that there
were people who feared that my
election would be injurious to
the country, and they communi
cated that fe&jEQJg)&e who
worked to them. Today there is
no such fear. In: 1896 there were
people so alarmed at what they
thought was a menace in my can
didacy that when the election was
over, honest and religious men
knelt down and thanked God that
the country had been saved."
He declared that jio such feeling
could be found today. "There
are." he said.- "no people
who
are fearful fof danger
in case of my .election." The
only people, who would feel that
they had been saved in case of hiB
defeat, "the kind that don't
thank for their safety." That
difference in "the temper of the
people, maintained, was apparent
everywhers.
"In 1896, the clerks in the
stores were in many, if not most
cases, given to understand that if
I won there might be no business
doing in the country for four
years. Today the clerks in the
stores are not being - advised bv
their employers as thy Were twelve
years, ine clerks in the storts
are learning that binder Republi
can rule the living expenses have
increased more rapidly than their
salaries. .-.
"There were," he said, "busi-
ness men who in 1896 thought
their business was jepordized or
would be, by a Democratic vie
spry, ouv tneae usiueaavTnen m
the last twelve years have learned
enough about trusts to know that
their business has been jeopardiz
ed under Republican rule, and
that nothing but Democratic vic
tory can save their business.
There were many small manufac
turers who viewed with alarm a
Democratic victory in 1896, but
Democratic victory can save
their business. There were many
many small manufacturers who
with alarm a Democatic vic
tory in 1896, but !the Bmaller
manufacturer knows today that
his business is insecure as long as
great trusts are permitted to stalk
abroad and drive into brnkruptcy
men who refuse to sell out to
them.
"In 189 5 laboring men were
threatened with a panic in case of
my election, and they have learn
ed that the Democratic party has
no monopoly on panics. Thev
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have learned that the Republican
party can bring on a panic as well
as the Democratic party.
"So, my friends, no matter
among what people you gi; no
matter in in what section you are ;
no matter to whom you address
your remarks, you find that today
fie people have better understand
ing of what the Republican party
Brands for and what its policies
mean than they had a few years
ago." From Mr. Bryan's speech
at Trenton, N. J. -
' This Man Is a Stayer.
Why, certainly, John Laws was
renominated by the Democratic
county convention held on Satur
day, August 29th, for register of
deeds of Orange county, and that,
too, by acclamation and without a
dissenting vote. The Democrats
of Orange have about made up
their minds that this office belongs
to Mr. Laws by right of possession,
and they are going to constitute
to elect him as long as he lives.
Mr. Laws recorded his first paper
as public register for Orange coun
ty in August, 1849, 59 years ago
last month. The Orange County
Observer will pay a handsome re
ward for the names of any mar
ried couple who are now living in
this county or elsewhere, who were
married in Orange county, and
whose marriag9 license was not
issued by John Laws. Hillsboro,
N. C, Observer.
ALoEMARLE AND-STANLT COUNTY.
waiser Failed to Show Up., Mr. Harris
Gives His Friends Quite a Scare. ;
Stanly Enterprise, Sept: IT.
lhe Hon. Zb. V. Waiser, of
Lexington, was scheduled to speak
berore the Republican club here
Thursday night. But he failed to
show up, and some folks are won
dering if his name wasn't used
merely to swell the attendance of
the Republican club, which has
had a hard time of getting a lis
teuing quorum of late. But the
Hon. Z. B. Sanders is a resource
ful politician. He discovered that
the court house door was locked,
and that his crowd waB small.
"Just come up in my 'office b ys
and I'll roast the Democrats, for
this 'Democratic trick' " was the
illuminating thought that struck
his brain. So he escorted the lit
tle handful of hearers up into his
office, and it is said that he roast
ed the Democrats to his satisfac
tion. The affair was amusing in the
apparent seriousness with which
the crowd tried to use this rlisa to
fool some one and get up preju
dice against any unoffending foe.
No effort was made by the club
to get the keys to-the court room
from the proper custodian; but
Zeb might have found his talk
very dry if he had not have had
this little ruse to sharpen his wits.
The large farm one mile east of
town, at the cross roads, is heing
tended this year by John Suother
ly. This laud for years bas beert
going to waste, and has not yield
ed returns at all. But Mr, Snoth
erly farms on scientific principles,
and under his touch deserts are
made to blossom as the roe. The
land is being plowed with a disc
plow, and a large turn plow is also
used. It is plowed, not scratched.
Terraces have been thrown up
in all partf of tbe field and a
urainage oi one men to every
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twelve feet secured, the water over
flow turned in several different
directions. And the substance of
the soil is retained, not washed
out bordering ditches and streams.
Disc and drag harrows will be used,
and the work of reclaiming this
land is but just begun. Watch
Mr. Snotherly. Go to him nd
see the home-made level he uses
for laying off his terraces, it will
be a good object lesson for anyone
who does not use this method.
Better crops, improved soil, and a
stop to land washing away are the
advantages offered.
J. M, Harris, of the -Cabarrus
Savinge Bank, gave himself and
his many friends quite a scare
Sunday evening by accidentally
taking a dose of carbolic acid,
thinking it was turpentine. The
mistake was discovered at once,
sweet milk and gasoline having
been used before Dr. Anderson's
arrival, and no injury resulted.
Alcohol is a safe antidote for acid,
but the dose having been only
nine drops it was hardly necessary
iu this case.
STRAIN IS VERY 6REA1.
Dispatches Say Mr. Bryan is Tired Out and
Phyicians Urge Rest.
Hoarse from constant speaking,
fagged and tired, Wm. J. Bryan,
arrived here this morning from
Rochester. Hie physicians have
advised him to take a rest but his
political managers say they cannot
spare him at this time, but will
even extend the Commoner's tour
to the Pacific Coast. Bryan will
only get one day in Lincoln, where
he had planned to rest for a week.
He remained in New York but an
hour and went direct to Harring
ton and Wilmington, Dela., where
he speaks at both ..places today.
Tomorrow at noon he speaks at
Broadwater meeting and at night
will address the Democratic hosts
in Carnegie Hall under the aus
pices of the Democratic organiza
tion. This is considered one of
his most important speaTdng dates,
A long conference was held on the
way down from Rochester between
Chairman Mack and Bryan. The
last ten dates for speakings will
be left open so that Bryan can be
rushed wherever he is needed.
New York dispatch.
PLAN FRUSTRATED,
South Carolina . Negroes Said to Have
Planned to "Shoot Up" a Town.
Eleven negroes arrested at Nine
ty-Six, S. C, are in jail at Green
wood today on the charge of in
surrection, growing out of race
friction. An intercepted letter
revealed the fact that a band of
negroes had been planning secret
ly at Ninety-Six to "shoot up"
the town on Sunday night, Sep
tember 6th, but that the floods
which caused the annulment of
all freight trains had delayed the
delivery of rifles to the negroes.
Sheriff McGilan asserts that the
evidence against the negroes is
conclusive. There has been much
friction between the races since
the general election race riot near
Ninety-Six ten years ago, when
many negroes weie killed.
Two years ago it waB rumored
that negroes were obtaining guns
to use in an attack on white citi
zens, but the merchant who it was
found sold the guns furnished the
names of those who bought them,
and all of the guns were collected.
Four weeks ago Joseph Tolbert,
a white Republican, was run out
of Ninety-Six at a local election,
and it is said that in the inter
cepted letter the negroes men
tioned as marked men- four of
those most active against Tolbert.
Columbia, S. C, special to
Cherlotte Observer.
the Wonders of Modern Surgery.
One of the most daring surgical
operations ever attempted was per
formed this week- in the Bicetre
hospital. Drs. Babinsky and
Bosset having an epileptic under
their charge determined to remove
his entire skull, as well as the
menings, or membraoes that cover
the brain.
lhe operation was successful,
but later arose the difficulty cf
providing an artificial skuil to re
place the one which had been re
moved. Various materials were
tried, including celleloid and alu
minum, but after many experi
ments the doctors found a suitable
composition, and the new skuil
was put in place. While this is
not the first tima a skull has been
removed, it is the first time an ar
tificial one has been provided.
Drs. Championuerre and Doven
once before removed a skull, but
replaced it. Paris dispatch.
A Strong Arraignment of Cannon.
The greatest force for Bourbon
iBm, the bulwark of private snaps,
the strongest obstacle to needed
reform in all the broid land, is
not Senator Aldrich; it is not E.
H, Harriman or John D. Rocke
feller; it is Joseph G. Cannon, of
Illinois. Wielding a power sec
ond only to the President's, he
uses that pow9r always to defend
whatever is entrenchment. He
hates all that is progressive, from
purer food to safer forests, from
railway legislation to improve
ment of the tariff. He is the
kind of force which, by opposing
change when change is right, en
courages socialism and revolution.
He poses as a farmer but is
to the very tip of every finger ex
clusively a politician. Therefore
his held upon his, district is
strong. He knows how, by secur
ing local favors, to entrench him
self with astuteneness. He ap
peals to 1 cal self-interest. No
partjof the United States has be
fore it the opportunity to deserve
glory as voters of the Danville
district could obtain by ridding
the nation of Joseph Cannon.
There is small hope that they will
do so much as actually to defeat
him but possibly so many of the
more liberal-minded among them
will be so much alive and doing
on election day that Uncle Jo,
will receive a warning a message
making him somewhat less bigot
ed foe to every effort of the many
toward securing a fairer chance
against the few. Collier's Week
ly. The Watchman $1.00 per year.
Wm.'H. Stewart, Editor,
LEXINGTON AND DAVIDSON COUNTY.
Lawyer Will Combine Agriculture With Law.
Government to Breed Bass.
Lexington Dispatch, Sept. l.
Saturday a cat bit little Doris
Humphrey, daugghter of Mr. and
Mrs, VictrrHumprey, aod fear
ing the animal might have been
mad, it was decided to send the
child to Baltimore Monday night
for the Pasteur treatment. Miss
Kate Angle carried the child
north. The body of the cat was
sent on for examination, but it
was deemed, best to wait for a re
port. Cleveland Myers' madstone
was applied to the wound "and it
stuck for a long number of hours.
Z. I. Waiser,. member of the
law firm of Waiser & Waiser. has
decided to become a farmer, also.
and has determined to move from
his homon 3rd avenue to his
very fine farm two miles from
town, known as "Dalrvmple "
which he purchased some months
ago from Judge H. T. Phillins.
Mr. Waiser, however, will not give
up his law practice, but will
present to the world the unusual
spectacle of a successful lawyer
and a good farmer in one and the
same man.
Allen Hedrick, the miller at
Hedrick's Grove, told The Dis
patch Monday that Noah Hedrick
brought the first turn of new corn
to his mill on Saturday. Noah
Hedrick is a voune man of 85.
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and is famous "for the quality of
his brandy, it being said all over
the county, when a man tastes
anything that pleases him, "That
is as good as Noah Hedrick's
brandy." Mr. Hedrick no longer
distills the seductive aDnle. hnfc
- .
he has a little tickler of 3 pints
buried somewhere that is more
than 20 years old.
Webster's Weekly, of Reids-
ville, evidently thinking of some
thing to which the following
would apply, says : "It was the
William Fentress Henderson, of
Lexington, who said that the
bosseB believed in kicking all the
way from Washington to Lexing
ton and back and call it 'har
mony.' " Col. Henderson made
his mark in this world and it will
be a cold day when this u-ne-quay
statesman fades, not. oily from
the minds of the Lexingtonians,
but also from the minds of scores
and hundreds of people far re
moved. Anecodotes are innumer
able. Indeed, spurious and gen
uine, they ought to be collected and
printed in a book. Those told of
him which never happened might
easily have happened and are
therefore to be considered by the
historian, .
Friday a shipment of black bass
was received here from the gov
ernment and was taken to Hairs-
ton's pond, to stock same. By
spring the fish will be about the
sie to hook. Other people are
making preparations to get fish
from the government. Applica
tion is made for them through
the congressman, and Uncle
Sam furnishes them free. The
lovers of the unsurpassed sport of
fishing ought bo build a pond some
where in this section and have it
stocked. There are no natural
waters around that afford much
fishing around -Lexington, and a
stock company conid easily supply
the want that inhabits the
breasts of many from the time
spring breaks till winter sets in,
How's This?
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that cannot be cured by Hall's
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15 years, and believe him perfect
ly honorable in all business trans
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carry out any obligations made by
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ledo, O.
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blood and mucus surfaces of the
system. Testimonials sent free.
Price, 75o. per bottle. Sold bv all
Druggists
Take Hall's Family Pills for
constipation.