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I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 T I I I I I HH i 1 1 H-j BULLETIN THE ; WR.F.A.HEJVLEy, DENTIST. OFFICE: Front Room Over Bank. WORK GUARANTEED. ASUEBORO, - N. C. I BANK OF RANDOLPH, t 4 WE SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS. 0 Ii 1 1 m 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1; 1 1 1 1 1 a ia 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 NO. 14. VOL. I. ASHEBORO, N. C , THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1905. RANDOLPH THE "HOME, SWEET HOME" HOUSE. Bhl stand the maples at the gate, Tho Ltark. -lr-trees beside the door; lhAcbb""nlte c?1,s 1,is Pensive mate As sweetly as he did before. Ko more the footpath breaks the lawn, llv f-.thrSC 18 oversrown and dim; JUy father never treads upon J. he spot tor years so dear to him. AN EXPERIMENT .. How the Jimmy Supplemented the Pen. BY JULIEN n ?i n r -J05 F you have ever tried to St T K NT'te a story in which a S JL 2 burglary forms a vital pari: of the plot, you will agree TOW that for this sort of work theoretically, at least there should be no time so fitting as the midnight hour; no place so prolific of spinal shivcrings as a bare, dimly lit room in a rambling, deserted old house, where cold draughts, and eerie, unaccountable creakings conspire to add just the right flavor of ghostlincss to the situation. It was exactly upon this theory that I rented such a room in such a house in a lonely suburb of San Francisco, and on a certain bitter cold evening in December prepared to pass the night there. My desire was to work up a vivid account tf a burglary in all its fas cinating details depicting the entrance of the burglar, the feelings of the un fortunate individual whose lot it was to bo the victim, and all that sort of thing. Naturally, I spared no pains to make my environment as suggestive as possible. On the table at which I intended to sit while recording my im pressions of the situation, I placed a loaded magazine pistol. The blinds I had drawn so closely that from the outside the room must have seemed to be in darkness. My only light was a dark lantern, which I had bought that day from a benevolent-looking Hebrew patriarch, who recommended the lantern most highly. He evidently had mistaken my calling. I did not at once feel in the mood for writing. And so, as there was a comfortable fire goin in the old-fashioned grate, I got out mv pipe and Smoked lint if tJ-p miilniirJif Ii.jm- n-ll all the weird, fantastic images that it calls up in the imagination was almost at hand. At such a time and such a place, sterile, indeed, were the imagina tion that did not feel itself aroused. I was soon scratching away finite mer rily. I had been working thus for perhaps twenty minutes, and had just reached the point where the burglar is due to make his entry on the scene, when I fancied that I heard a faint scraping sound at one of the windows. It startled me for the moment. Then I concluded that it was nothing, con gratulated myself on having brought my imagination to such a responsive pitch, and laughed at myself for hav ing been frightened by a monster of my own creation. i I resumed my writing. But I had not completed a dozen lines when something occurred which was not down on my program. It was a repe titionthis time unmistakably real of the sound which had startled me a few moments before. In a flash I shot the slide of my lantern to. picked up my revolver, and slipped quickly and noiselessly into a c!oe-t. I pulled the closet door almost shut just leaving a sufficient opening to enable me to see what was g.,incr r,n jn the room without myself being seen. I did not have long to wait. The window at which I had first hoard that faint, scraping sound was slowly, carefully shoved upward. The blind was then cautiously thrust n.si.lo. and a masked face appeared in the opening. For a moment it glanced warily about the room. Then, apparently satisfied with what he saw, the prowler raised the blind and climbed in softly through the open window. This was realism with a vengeance.. I shifted my f.-et silently, and took a new grip on my revolver. For a moment I thought of sallving forth from my hiding ph,r0 and giving battle to my nocturnal visitor. On second con sideration it sceme, jitter for me to re main where I was and await develop ments. The,, if 10 hm.ar djd flis. cover my hiding-place, I would have a decided advantage. While these speculations had been forming in llly ,;,,. tIle hmlar baA pulled an ugly-,,.,king pistol from his pocket, examined it, and put it back. Then with the slide half closed he be gan to flash his i,trr about the room. He was , truth a burglar to satisfy the requirements of the most ran gumary youth who ever reveled in a dime novel. He was short and of figure, shabbily dressed, and pos sessed of a g.-nt which for nnre hiirrfnr- lousncss far surpassed anything I have ? 11 the stage. He wore a soiled muflb,- ab0ut his throat, for l I rrl . . ...... y. .,,,. ils mpr coI(L N()w cat(.n. mg sight of n,y wntch-which, in my excitement, I iia-(, left yin on thp table-he slid over to the table, picked up the w;lt,h, and after a moment's scrutiny ho thrust it into his pocket nint ot satisfaction. He con ",s f:,,;""" of the room, but coum nmi nothing else worthy of his f11"""' ""ee he s -emed to be look jug iamer queerly at the closet, as if he thought it might be profitably inves tigated. I had a rather bad minute just ai,otit this lime, and felt greatly relieved when he wont sii0ti fro.-i the room, le;ivill the ,loor opeu beDind ' fJU;e minutes afterward I cuh.u near h;ni walking down the halls and through ,f. ,!lu.:.pPte( rooms of the old pi.i. r. i was 1nst beginning io iiope mat l,e would find his investi- fediioii so Darren 0f results as to cause him to leave the house ill disgust, when iiia loorsteps !lOW sounded in the hall jeauuig to my 100DJ and an instant I ft ill behold my mother's face, Her singing voice drifts down to mei !nr vacant now her waiting place, Where she had always loved to be. Xo hand can stay the crumbling walls. The fearless weeds and mosses start' And every piece of Home that falls ' Kests heavy on my homesick heart IUicoe Brumbaugh, in Lippincott's. IN REALISM JOSEPHSON. ?.""):"') ? " r ".O later he w as with me again. He looked about him; then walking over to my table, he picked up my unfinished man uscript, contemplated it a moment, and thrust it into his coat pocket. Then going over to the coal box he scoopeil up a generous shovelful of coal and threw it upon the fire, which had near ly gone out. After which he calmly almost luxuriously drew my chair up to the lire, laid his pistol on the table within easy reach, and proceeded to read my manuscript. He was clearly a most extraordinary burglar. At first the unexpectedness of his singular actions dazed me; then the boldness of them fairly took me off my feet. I watched my felonious friend narrowly, noting with pardon able pride that he semeed interested in my story. Then a sudden wild idea seized me. Why not enlist the aid of my degenerate guest in the noble cause of literature? Indeed, could anything be more appropriate? Surely, I reas oned, it does not necessarily follow that no good can come from a burglar. And this one seemed unusually intelli gent. The more I thought of the idea the more it pleased me, the more it took hold of me. Still I hesitatedi The thing was undeniably dangerous. To be sure, I had obtained my knowl edge of guns on a cattle ranch, and felt that I could shoot about as fast and as straight as nine burglars out of ten. But what if this burglar hap pened to be the tenth? I had just about come to the conclusion that I had better rie low until my knight of the dark lantern had departed, when something occurred that suddenly changed my plans. As the burglar Gnisbcd the ruamiserinf tirv vn-tvnoil and laid it back on the table with the muttered remark: "Nobody but a bl3nied idiot would act like that burglar!" Those were unfortunate words for him. For no sooner had he delivered himself of this caustic and unmerited aspersion on my powers of character ization than I sallied forth with blood in my usually tranquil eye. He reached as if for his pistol. "Cut it out quick!" I snapped, with as much in cisiveness and determination as a mild and peaceable author could reasonably be expected to muster. Then I picked up his gun and placed it in my pocket after which I addressed myself again to my burglar. "Now, my good friend," I said, pleasantly, "seeing that you have expressed dissatisfaction at my conception of your calling, I shall be indeed grateful to you if you will give me some idea of what a true burglar is like. You will find my fountain pen an exceptionally smooth writer." The burglar regarded me for a mo ment with puzzled face. "I'm not a burglar any more than you are!" he then said, with a short, snappy laugh. His statement almost made me drop my pistol. But I never took my eyes off him. Then a sudden idea occurred to me. "Take off your mask!" I commanded. Off came the black cloth. One look at that thin, scarred face, with its crooked mouth and restless, shifty blue eyes, convinced me that if ever a burglar lived, here was a choice speci men. But I determined to humor him. That may be," I said. "At any rate, will you have the kindness to place on paper and perhaps hand down to a grateful generation of authors a true description of the most exciting bur glary you have ever committed?" He looked at me in apparent aston ishment. "Why," he replied, smiling broadly, "I'm a writer myself. I just fixed up in these togs for a bluff. I'm out for the same thing you are. I thought this old place was deserted. That's why I came here. I'm an Am herst man," he said, with a tinge of pride that was either real or else ex ceedingly well done. "Class of ninety four." But the farce had proceeded far enough. Will you kindly explain to me in what way you expect your literary experience to be enriched by purloin ing my watch?" I asked, politely, wish ing to bring matters to a head. For reply the burglar sprang at me But I had seen his sharp eyes meas uring the distance between himself and my pistol-hand, and I was prepared Springing back quickly, I avoided his grasp, and dealt him a chopping blow on the neaa with my heavy pistol He went down like a log. I was sincerely sorry that the neces sity for violence should have arisen and up to a certain point in our inter view i nan eveu nopea tnat l was about to secure some bits of realism that would be real contributions to the common literary fund. But as mat ters now stood, there seemed but one thing to do. So I bound the burglar hand and root witn some rather feeble looking rope that I found in the closet where I had been hiding. Then going to the window, I blew shrilly upon the police whistle with which, in my stren uous endeavor to attain the realistic atmosphere, I had previously equipped myself. Before many minutes a couple of blue-coats were on the scene and a little later the patrol wagon was clat tering o-rer the pavement with my burglar Inside. At that moment he probably did not know just -what was going on. No doubt, however, the true situation occurred to him later. And now- for the sequel which con cerns itself with the fate of the manu script and of the burglar. The fate of the manuscript, like that of the burglar, was cruel. After many trips across the continent, it was finally ac corded an entire pigeon-hole in my desk, where it will probably rest to the end of my days. And the Question of why an unavailable manuscript should be preserved and given an entire pigeon-hole brings me to the second part of my sequel. Shortly after the arrest of the burglar he was identified as one Nicholas Ware, a man wanted by the police in half a dozen cities. The aggregate reward offered for his arrest amounted to some two thousand dollars, and as the chief of police was a man of small experience in such mat ters, we divided the money. AH of which, I humbly submit, merely goes to show that the pen i3 mightier than the jimmy. The Ar gonaut. The remains of a big sea reptile, said to be the first of its kind known to scientists, have been dug out of the limestone in Humboldt County, Ne vada, and shipped to the University of California. About forty varieties of fantastic fish from the Bermudas are to be sent to the New York Aquarium. Over 1000 specimens will be inclueled in the ship ment, which is expected to reach Gotham on July 14. Inasmuch as a soldier wounded in attle sometimes lacks the strength to call out for help, Dr. Matignont a French doctor in the Japanese Red ross service, has invented a whistle which, with a verv slirht exertiom :ives a loud sound. Since the first visit to the ice can of the South Tole was made, some fifty years ago, there has been a steady re cession of the belt of some thirty iles. and it is flrsrued that in the course of time it will be possible to make approach to. the pole itself, and that the land in that vicinity may even become inhabited. The city of Hartford, Conn., has the distinction of being the first to use an electric street-sprinkler. The water- tank resembles that of an ordinary horse-drawn street-sprinkler, but tlu vehicle is driven by a storage battery, and is, able to cover in a day twice the ground covered by a sprinkler drawn by a team of horses. Attention Is called by the Scientifiic American to experiments at Harvard University which seem to demonstrate that engineers usually underestimate the maximum loatling caused by dense crowds on bridges, floors and plat forms. Forty men, averaging 1G3 pounds in weight, placed in a box six feet square, caused an average pressure of 1S1 pounds per square foot on the floor. The plains of Hungary are well adapted for the raising of geese, and travelers in that country are often en tertained by seeing, from passing trains, great flocks of geese feeding in the fields and watched by gooseherds. So many feathers are yielded by these geese that four "bed-feather markets" are held annually at Budapest, and at each market from (500,000 to 700.000 pounds of bed feathers are placed on sale. A Highwayman' Mistake. No sympathy can be felt for the young rufliian whose misadventure came recently to the knowledge of the police and public. Walking along an outlying and little frequented boule vard he came across a woman, whose reticule dangled from her forearm. Be ing a thief by profession and a cur by nature he saw an opportunity to steal. "Give me your bag," he said, clutching it. "Give it quietly, or I shall do you an injury!" Hardly had he said the words than he received a blow between the eyes that sent him to the ground, and, before he could recover himself, he got a kick on the jaw that broke the lower part of his face. When he was taken before the Commissary of Police he learned that the woman he had as sailed was the well-known Julia, a pro fessional wrestler at local fairs. In hospital he will have time to meditate upon the wrong of attacking an unpro tected female, especially when her methods of defense are so vigorous and effective. London Globe. Brave Man Papa. Evelyn is the little daughter of a Marshall County family, relates the Chicago Chronicle. She is very timid. Her father, finding that sympathy only increased this unfortunate tendency, decided to have a serious talk with his little daughter on the subject of her foolish fears. Tapa," she said, at the close of his lecture, "when you see a cow ain't you 'fraid?" "No; certainly not, Evelyn." "When you see a horse ain't you 'fraid?" - "No, of course not?" "When yon see a dog ain't you 'fraid?" "No!" with emphasis. "When you see a bumblebee ain't you 'fraid?" "No!" with scorn. "Ain't you 'fraid when it thunders?" "No!" with loud laughter. "Oh, von silly child." "Papa," saiel Evelyn, solemnly, 'ain't you 'fraid of nothin' in the world but mamma?" Record Pearl Seaion Reported. According to a London dispatch the official reports of the season's working of the Ceylon pearl fisheries show that it has been a record year. The Gov ernment's profits will amount to ?S30, 000. Last year tke Ceylon Government's profits amounted to $350,000, which was itself a record. The system of dividing the proceeds from the oyster beds is that the Gov ernment takes two-thirds and the na tive divers one-third. Jewejers' Circu lar Weekly. WILL EXUM'S NECK SAVED But He Promises Never Hereafter to Appeal to Any Governor Eor the Reduction of His Sentence Gover nor Believes the Man is Worthy of Death. News and Observer. Governor Glenn has commuted the death sentence of Will Exuni, of Le noir county, to life imprisonment at hard labor in the State penitentiary t Raleigh. Exum was tried at the September term, 1904, of Lenoir crim inal court and convicted of murder in the first degree. He was sentenced to be hanged. Appeal after appeal was made to the governor after the Supreme Court refused to find error in the ruling of the lower court. Large representations of lawyers and prominent citizens appeared again and agaaili before the governor, some urging a commutation, while others as strongly opposed it. Once compell ed by pressure to give a written statement as to what lie would do in the case, Governor Glenn wrote that commutation was denied as Exum was guilty of murder in the first degree. At last the murderer's attorneys headed by ex-Governor Clias. 13. Ay- cock, petitioned for a commutation on the ground that there was no pre meditation in the commission of the atrocious crime. This and the arnest heart-rending appeals of the ex-Governor have saved Will Exum's life. Governor Glenn's raseons for grant ing the commutation are as follows: "On appeal to Supreme Court, no error was found in the ruling of the lower court and the judgment of the court was affirmed. The prisoner un der the rules of law, having applied to me for .-iommutation from the death penalty to life imprisonment at hard labor in the penitentiary, I have read and re-erad the evidence and consid ered carefully everything urged, both by counsel for the State anil counsel in favor of commutation of the pris oner's sentence. "The prisoner, himself, acknwl edges the great atrocity of his crime by filing a written statement, signed in the presence of witnesses to the ef fect that if the extreme penalty of the law is not enforced against him, that he will never hereafter appeal to any Governor for the reduction of his sentence "In my own opinion, there was ample evidence of murder in the first degree, and the prisoner would receive but a just sentence to pay the penalty if his crime by the forflture of his life. However, nine of the jurors, the trial judge, the judge delivering the opinion of the Supreme Court, and another of the Supreme Court judges who had carefully examined the case strongly recommended commutation of the prisoner's sentence This ia also urged by thousands of the best citizens of Lenoir, Greene and Pitt counties, and while a great manv good men oppose the commutation, 'public sentiment seems to favor it on the ground that there was lack of premedi tation on the part of the prisoner. "Therefore, while I still believe he is guilty of an awful crime, acting in favor of life, and on account of the strong recommendation of those who heard and tried the case, I commute the sentence from death to life im prisonment, believing that if I err it is better to do so on the side of hu manity than run the risk of doing a wrong that could never be recalled "The sheriff of Lenoir county is therefore directed to immediately take Will Exum and convey him to the proper authorities at the State's prison in Kaleigh, there to be con fined at hard labor for the remainder of his life "This, 21t day of August, lOOo. "R. B. GLENN, "Governor." Fire at Goldsboro. Goldsboro, Special. A small ten ant house belonging to Messrs. II. Well & Bros., and occupied by a col ored man by the name of "Dee" Cole, situated on John street just opposife the cotton yard, was" com pletely destroyed by fire Monday night about 12 o'clock. The fire was occasioned by the overturning of a lamp. The oil quickly ignited and in a few seconds the building was in flames. Cole lost everything he pos sessed in the way of household ef fects, except one chair. Carriage Factory in Greensboro. Greensboro, Special. A movement is on foot to establish a carriage and wagon factory, with a capital of $50,000, on the Southern Railway just west, of the city, using the property recently occupied by the Carolina Spoke & Bending Works. It is learned that $13,000 of the stock has already been subscribed, $3,000 of which was taken by a practical car riage manufacturer. North State News. Governor Glenn heard last week ap peals in the case of Will Adams, sen tenced to be hanged Monday. Ef forts will be made to have the sen tence commuted to life imprisonment. Erasmus Jackson, a farmer resid ing near Fayettevilie, committed sui cide last week by blowing his brains out with a gun. In the same neigh borhood. Mrs. Allen killed herself by jumping in a well, having made her will and left it in the Bible Frank Gilliam Drowned. Winston-Salem, Special. Frank Gilliam, aged 17, was drowned in a pond a few miles from this city. Gil liam, with several companions, were in the ponel bathing. He was a good swimmer, but it is believed that he remained in the water too long and was attacked with cramp. He came near drowning another boy while the latter was trying to rescue him. FEVER IS SPREADING Conditions Have Not Improved as Expected MANY NEW CASES DEVELOPED Chief Mississippi's Board of Health Announces the Presence of the Yel low Fever and From Sis to Ten Cases New Cases in New Orleans Drops to 31 and Deaths Beach Rec ord Number Thus Far of 13. New Orleans, Special. Official re port to 6 p. m.: New cases, 31. Total to date, 1,743. Death, 13. Total, 402. New foci, 12. Total, 402. Remaining under treatment, 199. Board of health at Natchez, Miss., pronounces six to ten cases yellow fever there. The record shows the smallest num ber of new cases since August 6, and the largest number of deaths on any day since the fever made its appear ance. The unusual number of deaths is attributed, in a measure, to the change in the weather, Sunday being cool and pleasant, in great contrast to the weather of the preceding week. Three wedl-known merchants are among the new cases. Only two name3 that can be traced to Italian origin are among the 31. Of the deaths, eight are Italians. Two died in the Charity Hospital and two in the Emergency. All but two of the deaths were down town. The principal news from outside the city was the announcement from Nat chez of the discovery of six cases there. Other repo -ts from the country are as follows Amelia two cases. Bayou Bceuf, one case. Preah Grovn, three cases and one death. Elizabeth plantation, one death. Hanson City, four cases and one death. St. Rose, two cases. Port Barrow, two cases. Ninth ward of Jefferson parish, one case. Lake Providence, three cases. Gulfport, three cases. Mississippi City, no new cases. The Southern Pacific Railroad, at the request of the State board of health, has put on a special coach for the accommodation of people travel ing betwoen infected points on that road. It will be run every bther day. Quite a controversy has developed between City Health Officer Kohinke and Dr. Joseph H. Holt, at one time president of the State Board of health. Dr. Holt, in the course of an address before a meeting, passed some severe strictures on the city health officer, who, when he heard the report of the address in tho morning papers, wrote him, asking if he had been correctly quoted. Dr. Holt has made a rather warm reply. Fevej Until Cold Weather. Pensacola, Fla., Special. Dr. Porter, State health officer and assistant sur geon of the Marine Hospital Service, who is here expressed the opinion that yellow fever is not likely to spread in New Orleans as it has in the past, but he does not believe the disease will be entirely stamped out before cold weath er. Dr. Porter said: "The time to com mence work to eradicate the mosquito and to clean up is winter. This was shown by the manner in which Ha vana was cleaned. Most of the work was done during the winter season and when summer appeared it found the city in good condition. You cannot ex pect any city if any size to be cleaned in a. month or two months, as it re quires time and hard work to place it in condition. Kills Two and is Killed. Selma, Ala., Special. Oliver Lott, a negro laborer at the lumber mill of G. Talley in Tunnel Springs, during a quarrel with John and Henry Helton over a debt, opened fire on them, killing John Helton and seriously wounding Henry Helton. The negro then fled and barricaded himself in a house. A posse of citizens under the leadership of G. Talley attempted to arrest him. They surrounded the house, but Lott refused to surrender and fired on the crowd. Talley was mortally wounded and died a few hours later. The posse then fired on the negro and his body was afterwards found riddled with bullets. No Attempt to Suppress Evidence. San Francisco, Special. Referring to a cable dispatch from Honolulu which intimated that .efforts had been made to induce the autopsy surgeon and phy sicians who attended Mrs. Leland Stan ford at the time of her death, to modify their first statements regarding poison ing, Attorney Wilson, representing the Stanford estate, and Detective Captain Callunden denied that there was any such attempt. They said all legitimate doctors' bills had beea paid. Bad Freight Wreck. Charleston, S. C, Special. A local freight on the Greenville & Laurens Railroad was wrecked near Barksdale four miles from Laurens. It is thought that the accident occurred on account of an iron bolt on the track. Tho colored fireman was killed and Engineer J. L. Bearden badly injured. The engine and seven cars cars were demolished. There have been three wrecks near this point within the past six months and foul play is suspected. Strike in Foctory. Warsaw, By Cable. The strikes in the factories at Warsaw and Lodz have ended. Trains are running from Warsaw on time. They are guarded and driven by soldiers. The wholesale arrests which have been made here in clude leading members of the Polish Socialist party. Several persons have been conveyed to to the Fortress of Modlin, because jails set apart for po litical offenders are full. NORTH STATE NEWS Occurrences of Interest in Various Parts of the State. Charlotte Cotton Market. These figures represent prices paid to wagons : Good middling lO1 Strict middling 10y2 Middling 10y2 Tinges ....9 to 10 Stains 7 to 9 General Cotton Market. Galveston, firm 10 11-16 New Orleans, firm 10 Mobile, nominal lOys Savannah, steady 10 Charleston, steady 10 Norfolk, firm 10 Baltimore, nominal TJii New York, quiet 11.20 Boston, quiet 12.23 Philadelphia, quiet .11.45 Houston, steady 10 11-16 Augusta, steady 10 Memphis, steady 10 St. Louis, firm. . . . 10 Louisville, firm.. .. . . .. ....lOVi Building and Loan Progress. Insurance Commissioner Young says there is art unusual activity in the State in the formation of Building & Loan Associations. The last Leg islature placed these associations in the Insurance Department under the charge or the commissioner. At the time there were forty-four Building & Loan Asociations in the State. The remarkable success that has attend ed their work in the State, especially in the building up of the cities and towns where they are located, has prompted other business men of other places to take up the organization of asociations in their cities and towns. Seven associations have already been organized since the adjournment of the Legislature and samany more are now being promoted. Nothing does more to build up a city or town than a good, well managed Building & Loan Association, said Mr. Young, and there is ilo safer investment than the stock id one of them. They can run at the smallest expense of any business institution in the State, and many of them irt the State,- that have done a very large amount of business have a record of never having lost one cent in any busines transaction. Suit For Damages Instituted. Salisbury, Special. Announcement was made here that Wright & Carlton, attorneys for the heirs of Watt V. Burleyson late of this citv, have in stituted a suit for damages in the amount of $25,000 against the South ern Railway Company for the death of Young Burleyson. The latter was a private in the Rowan Rifles ,and while attending the annual encamp ment at Charlotte about tfu days ago fell into a cinder pit, near the yards of the Southern railway, sustaining internal injuries which resulted in his death, lhrcugh her attorneys the administratrix claims that the defend ant eompany is liable for damages on account of permitting dangerous holes to remain open on its premises. It is also stated by the Salisbury Evening Post that the city of Char lotte may likewise be made a party to the action. Owns Its Water Works. Fayettevilie now owns its water works, the transfer having been made in the directors' room of the Bank of Fayettevilie. This was done in obedience to a decision of Judge Pur- nell, of the Federal Court, sustain ing the city iri its suit against the company, under the franchise giving the city the right to take over the property after a term of years by of fering its value, set by a board of ap praisers. The purchase price is $79, 000, the city assuming $55,000 of the company's bonds and paying the company $J4,000. The city pays its lawyers, the eompany paying the court cost. North State News. Penitentiary Superintend Mann says the crops in Hyde county are better than he ever saw them, and that they simply astound people from up the country Avho have been there this season. It has been quite dry through all that section of the State and no damage has occurred on ac count of rains which have caused such losses in a number of sections. The Secretary of State is prepar ing abstracts of all the wills in his office, 4,000 in number, these running from 1700 to 1773, though there are very few after 1750. All names giv en in the wills and the locations of the lands are covered by these ab stracts, which wil be printed. The wills have been placed in packets. Ceburn L. Harris, expert of the Ag ricultural Department, has complete ed the inspection of foods for man and beast in this State in search of adulterations, and finds a very re markable improvement over last year. The results will be given in The Bul letin for November. A charter is granted the Regal Man ufacturing Company at Poorest City, Rutherford county, to manufacture lumber, capital stock $15,000. A charter is granted the Price Hemby Company, of Price's Mill, Union country, to manufacture flour and meal, cotton, oil and fertilizers. Grand Secretary Drewry says the fire at Mt. Olive destroyed the Ma sonie Hall and property there. First Rail Laid. High Point, Special. An event which marks a new epoch in. High Point's forward stride took place Thursday when the first rail on the Inter-urban Electric Railway, to con nect High Point and Wiuston-Salem was put in place. The occasion was witnessed by over 100 citizens, who manifested great pride in the begin ning of a work which means so much for the development of High Point and the country between here and Winston-Salem. NORTH CAROLINA CROP BULLETIN Conditions For Past Week as Given Out by the Department. The North Carolina section of the climate and crop service of the de partment of agriculture, issues the following official bulletin for the past week : In general the weather has been too wet for the best growth of crops; the week has been cloudy and in many places rain has fallen every day. Cotton has been injured to a considerable extent by the rains, bot tom land corn has been drowned and the land badly washed. On the other hand the rain and sunshine in many places proved very beneficial to most crops esepcially corn, but as many farmers still bad their hay and fodder to cut and cure, the week was in that respect unfavorable. The average temperature of the week for the State was only about one degree below the average. In many places the farmers are ready to plow for wheat, and while a great deal of land has been broken, it has been too wet for plowing to be come general. It has been too wet for cotton. In many sections it is making too much weed, and not fruiting well. It is opening generally throughout the State, and picking is in progress in many sections but more common in the east and central districts. In some cases opening has been caused by rust and thus it is Somewhat pre mature. A few report bolls rotting near the ground ani also of the cot ton yellowing. While tobacco cutting and curing have been in progress for some time, there is some that is just about ripe irt the western districts. The crop will not be quite an average in most places, while some report only a one half crop. Firing arid specking has been reported in some portions of the central and western districts. In all districts cutting and curing are in progress. The cures are reported as fair, color good but leaf somewhat lacking in body. A great deal of lowland corn dam aged by rains; while many report an improvement iri the corn during the nast week.- others jrepoTt too much weed and not earing well.- Corn, both early and late, on xiplarids Will do1 fairly well, although the crop is flot as good as was anticipated. Most ot the minor crops are doing well. Turnip planting is still in pro gress, some have colne up, and a good yield is expected. White and sweet potatoes, buckwheat, cow peas, water melons are all doing well. In gen eral the fruit crop is a failure, the fruit rottinar and falling to the ground but a few report apples and peaches plentiful. Fodder and hay have been greatly injured by the rains in all parts of the State. Fodder stripping is under way in all sections, and in places there is lots of hay uncut, the weather being unfavorable. Rains reported: Raleigh 0.81; Goldsboro 0.34; Greensboro 0.92; Lumbcitoii 0.26; New Bern 0.68; WTel dori i.94. A. H. Thiessert, Section Director.- A Fruit faif. Asheville, Special Representatives from the fruit-growing sections of western North Carolina met here last week to discuss the advisability and desirability of holding an apple fair in Asheville this fall. At the con clusion of an interesting meeting it was decided to hold the fair from September 20 to October J, under the auspices of the Asheville board of trade. North State News. The Loray Mill has brought to Gas- tonia about 100 people this week to work in the mill. There were two car loads of them. They came from Ashe ville. Mr. Walter O. Cox, ay oung law yer of Winston-Salem, died at 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon at his home in East Winston, after three weeks' illness with fever. The de ceased was educated at the Univer sity of North Carolina and for four years was county superintendent of public instruction. He leaves a wife, anel one child, besides a number of relatives and many" friends to mourn his death. eauepids atji pasodmt ou sBq aSpnC sqi 9A sy sju.oiu puC SABp OAS. pto sb.u U3iq.il font Xq p:n3 punoj uaaq suq 'asuaDtt jnoqpM jfasiqM flUtiitsja.i ioj uxia juosa.id ajojaq s;.mo o.tt. iq paiJj sbav oq.w. 'Xija siqj jo juuqojara imnoA b 'AaipuBjj sauivf uj -pnadg 'oaoqspjojj) JOB aiqt.t.tai eq; jimmoa 0 ratq gtnsnBD 'puim siq Uodn paa.id jCauoui jo psap psaxo b jsot Anuaaaj peq aq jcqj jobj sqi qrm pajelnoa stqj puu 'ami omos .iriT yjpjati jood ui uaaq pcq uosipaBjj up; 'SutUaAa ABpsotlpSAV o.toqi araoq siq v aptDins pajjunuioD 'o.ioqsapBAV jo uazijta Tinpuanuui put? AqitfaAi puu jauBq b 'uosip.ii?iJ -Q 'JVV '-irc Mrs. Ed. R. Roscoe, of Reidsville was gored by a cow last week and has since been in a precarious condition. During a storm she went out to the barn to feed the animal and, upon reaching the door, the cow met her and bounded upon her, rendering her unconscious, and goring her severely. Mrs. Roscoe s body was badly lactrat- ed and it is a miracle that she was not killed outright. The patient's condition appears some better, but she is suffering intense agony. Benjamin O. Kersh, white, was ar rested last week at Greensboro on the charge of kidnapping his 8-year-old daughter, after being divorced from his wife, who had been given the custody of the child. The kid napping took place in Savannah, Ga., and the child was found at Kersch's home, 966 McCulloch street. Greens boro. Kersh is a carpenter. He was married again last April. A religious sect in Maine rolls on the floor and hugs and, H'sses in ecstatic rrenzy. NOW IP TO RUSSIA Japan Materially Modifies Terms of Peace Proposition FOREGOES QUESTION OF INDEMNITY Envoy Komura Will Offer Envoy Witte'a Waiver of the Claim to "Eeimbuurse for the Cost of the Wat" and Will Propose to Refer to Arbitration the Amount to be Paid Japan for Evacuating the Northern Half of Sakhalin. Portsmouth, N. H., Special. Tuesday morning Baron Komura, acting upon instructions received from Tokio as a result of Monday's meeting of the cabi net and "elder statesmen" under the direct presidency of the Emperor of Japan, submitted to Mr. Witte a new basis of compromise, and that compro mise, it is firmly believed, will insure peace. The revelation contained in the an nouncement that President Roosevelt had already informed Emperor Nich olas, through Ambassador Meyer, that Japan was ready to waive the question of indemnity and submit the pries to be paid for the northern half of Sa khalin to the judgment of a mixed com mission but prepared the way for Ja pan's back down upon the main issue. It had met with denials high and low. It was declared to be impossible and incredible. The Japanese declined to admit it and the Russians said they had no confirmation. Mr. Witte inti mated strongly that St. Petersburg has not apprised him to any such action by the President. Theie was even a dis position to ridicule the idea of arbitrat ing the price of half of the islands. Nevertheless, on all hands it was ad mitted if Japan took this position, the ground was cut out from under Czar Nicholas. RESPONSIBILITY NOW RUSSIA'S Mr. Witte, by consummate skill in conceding all the demands of Japan involving the real issues of the war, had manoeuvered his adversaries into a position where, unless they abandon ed the claim for indemnity, they could be held responsible for continuing the war for money. The Japanese, by now forgoing the demand for indemnity, practically turn the tables upon Russia and shift, the burden back to her shoulders if she does not consent to submit a minor issue to the impartial judgment of a tribunal. Mr. Witte publicly dissents vigorously from the proposition, and their will still be a struggle with Pe terhof, but if Japan agrees to formally renounce all claims for direct or indi rect compensation for the expenses of the war the big stumbling block to peace is out of the way. RUSSIAN WAR PARTLY ACTIVE. Evervthine will depend upon the form in which the proposed is submit ted. Shuld the renunciation be so cou pled with the other proposition that Russia could claim it was still only a disguised demand for tribute, the gulf might only be narrowed, not bridged. All the private advices that reach the Russian mission from St. Petersburg indicate that military party is bellicose. insistent that Lmevitch be given a chance, and actives in ns insistence that negotiations be broken off. Mr Witte feels the press we oi in is sentiment and as a man of air.bition he may not feel that he can affofd to lay himself open to the charge that he is temporizing with the situation. He nas power under his instructions to reject out of hand any proposition involving the payment of a kopeck of tribute. He need not consult his imperial mater. He Is a man of Inspiration and he is quite capable, if the Japanese proposi ti .... -fill rt "hlrtflfl nin-lPV " to LIVJU Bdvuio o-.i" ' . refuse even to accept it for transmis sion to St. Petersburg. Rnt such a strike is not expected. Mr. Witte knows that public opinion, both in America and Europe, as wen as m Russia, would condemn him if he broke off the negotiations just aa the way was opened for a possible accord. Turfman Gets Jail Sentence. New York, Special. John E. Mad den, the Kentucky turfman, owner of several fast horses, two of which were entered in the futurity, was convicted of criminal contempt of court, fined $250 and sentenced to serve thirty days i nthe Raymond street jail in Brook lyn to-day for ignoring a subpoena of the Supreme Court of this State. Mad den wa3 summoned to appear before a commissioner in Saratoga during the racing season there to be questioned in his wife's suit for divorce, but failed to respond. Fire at Newberne. Newbern, Special. Fire broke out in the dry house of Blades Hosiery mill at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon and consumed the greater part of the fac tory. The fire raged hercely and twe small tenant houses nearby were burn ed. A strong northeastern wind threatened the entire section of tbi town with destruction, but the firemer had the flames under control befort any further damage was done. Th cause of the fire was unknown. Th damage, so far as is known, is $3,000 Lynching at Newbern, N. C. Newbern, Special. John Moore, the negro who brutally assaulted the wife of Postmaster George T. Eubanks, at Clarks, with a meat axe, was taken from the Craven county jail at 1:30 o'clock Sunday morning and lynched. The mob was, composed mostly oi countrymen, neighbors of Eubanks, but there were Newbern citizens in the crowd. The farmers arrived in town about midnight. Mutineers Courtmartialed. Libau, Russia, Aug. 26. The court martial of 137 mutineers of the battle ship Kniaz Potemkine has just been completed. Eight of the prisoners were sentenced to be shot, but it was recom mended that their sentence be com muted to life imprisonment. Others were sentenced to various terms of im prisoning at hard labor.
The Randolph Bulletin (Asheboro, N.C.)
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