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i I nil,; wiiliiit BANK OF RANDOLPH, T A 9 t minim III 1 1 1 1 1 II I 23t. F. -A. HEJWLEy, DENTIST. OFFICE: Front Room Over Bank. WORK GUARANTEED. ASHEBORO. N.C. T -ftneborot JST. C. WE SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS. """ II l ii i it l 1 1 ti I I I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ,t RANDOLPH mm VOL. I. liliKutROUS ATTACK Prominent Citizen Brutally Slain and Kobbed in South Carolina Town TiOCLUE TO THE GUILTY ASSASStoS Camden Waylaid and Murdered at 9 O clock at Night While enroute Home. Camden, S. C., Special.-Mr R A McDowell, a merchant of this c'ity ;';1S wa-vIaid filld foHy murdered on ,;1.S,7 home Tues'lay night about 9 . i-Iot-K and robbed of his watch, keys mid all the money he had with him lie was struck on the back of the head presumably with a heavy club. Entire State Escited. Columbia, S. C., Special-All South Cni-hna was horrilied in reading the ..ccoum in t lie murder of R. A. Mc- Unwell, brut her of W. L. McDowell, ,.L uie v amuen Chronicle. Me- J owiil was on his way home to iost his hni(! and was killed bv n w from a bludgeon and robbed. The dramatic effect was intensified when the news reached here that R. L. Parker, a member of the jury of the (iiilis ease was found in the river near Caiman. Parker is in a dyiiv condition, lie states that he was walking with McDowell when both were stru:;x down at th Mile mil. went river He was found in reeds ou the :ie mile from tlie nlaee -iit. i. nccurreii. lie knows notMn.v ot the ari:;!r lore McDowell' nec'i was tr..K-cn and Porker's forehead was sn iuk. Bloodhounds are being used. There is great excitement. There have Wen many holdups in this State in th h:.-T fiu'tliitriit anil nr-nnln ti i ,v"t' iiiv evi rate. Since the robb! Judge (iary in Columbia nobody is surprised at the boldness of the Cam 'I' uble murder. A train from nter had just arrived and many 1" wer: on the street when both m.":i v.vre Struck down. Rewards are being offered. President Duncan Ensigns'. T'ni. a, s. C, Special The Union cotton mills situation was greatly clcart.1 at the meeting Wediiesd.v, a con. i-omise being affected by which Col. 1. (.'..Duncan was re-elected pres ident, immediately resigned, and was replaced !y E. W. Robertson, ..presi dent of trie NationarJoannmf?, change Bank, of Columbia, who was elected president and treasurer, the new by-laws providing that these two ofliees could be held by the same per son. This action meets with the ap proval and co-operation of all the stock!-t -biers and creditors. The com promh: came rather as a surprise to many, but nevertheless, was a. great relief. Accidentally Killed. Asho-ville, Special. A telephone mossag? from the Riir Ivy soction of Bunernbe stated that the death of Ellis Maner, of that place, was due to accident. Youny Maner was found dead i i the woods with a trim shut wnuii5 iu the stomach, and the failure to fin! the gun that he had started hunti::g with led those in the neiuh-borho.- d to suspect foul play. The gun, however, was later found some i!istan?3 from the body, with one car tridge exploded. It is supposed that the ur'ortunnte man accidentally shot himself, when he fell and died. Grasp ed in the dead man's hands were leaves broken from a bush that he caught in falling. Compelled to Leave Town. Columbia, Special. W. H. New linld, former State Detective under Gov. B. R. Tillman and a man con spieuors in dispensary affairs, was practi -illy run out of the town of Kershaw Tuesday. Ncwbold has ex cited the ire of the people there on account of his being encaged as a detective to work up evidence against the parties accused of lynching a white man John Morrison, who had killed three men and ruthlessly and cruelly added a fourth vidim on the street a of Kershaw. Throe Children Burned to Death. New York, Special. Fire started in the cellar of a four story apart ment l ouse in Brooklyn and spread so rapidly that the escape of Charles Donnelly, bis wife and three children on tho top floor was cut off. Fire men irscued the father and mother, both of whom were seriously burned, and rfter the fire was extinguished the charred bodies of the chidren were found in the apartment. One Killed in a Wreck. Birmingham, Ala., Special. In a collision between a Louisville and Nashville light engine and a Southern railwr y freight near Boyles, II. E. Ab ercronbie of Villa Rica, Ga., extra firemrn on the Southern, was killed and M. Fulgham, engineer, Brakeman DaviB.vid Fireman Glass o fthe South ern r."d Engineer Jones and Con ductor Stewart of the Ixmisville and Naslniik. were injured. Shot Eis Cousin. Atl:::ita, Gav Special. Green Steer- man, about 17 years, died at Gradv r hospital as the Result of a myscri ous ?! -oo ting September 'iOth. The boy d dared that he accidentally shot hiir.rft:!!', but m cotmin, Thomas Steer mm:, who was with him, ilc-ti!r? tiint l!;g vound We hmSofed Sy him. 6?? twmy M mmmm)h', AREY MUST PAY FILL PENALTY Salisbury Distiller Will Spend Three Months in Eowan Jail and En riches the Government's Coffers. Greensboro. Special. The October teini of the United States Court promises to be unusually interesting if not sensational. The charge of Judge Boyd was comprehensive and clear. There is a large crowd. The eases against the Federal officeholders constitute the chief topic of interest and have attracted quite a number who are here in the capacity of wit nesses and attorneys. It is understood that these cases will be called for trial later in the. week. Only two cases of interest were be fore the court that of D. L. Arey, of Salisbury, who was convicted at the June Charlotte term and appeared here and voluntarily surrendered himself. He left in custody of a de puty marshal fur Salisbury, where he enters upon his three months' im prisonment in the county jail of Row an. Arey also brought with him and is ready to pay $22,000, the amount of the-judgment against him. He will also pay a fine of $200 and costs, amounting to something over $1(500. agregating $24,000, which sum the United States gels from this one de fendant. Following tin? disposition of this case was the trial of one W. B. Lu cas, from Montgomery county, charg ed with operating unlawfully a brunch distillery. Alter very earnest argu ment by his attorney, bradshaw, and the district attorney and the charge of the Judge, the aforesaid defendant concluded that lie-"did not care to fol low Mr. Arey and failed to answer when called to hear the response of guilty from his jury, lie is pursued bv an instauter capias, but the chances are that he will not consume the further attention of the court at this term. State W. C. T. U. Raleigh, Special. Tiie twenty-third annual convention of the W. C. T. U. of North Carolina ended Wednesday afternoon, and is pronounced the best ever held. Mrs. Laura y instoii, ol AIYiro-niitnn v:i eWtn.l jirfi.lpnt i ivr;sf F1i1.tl. 1rh. r.f Witwtnn vice-president: Miss X. Otre Johnson, of High Point, corresponding secre tary; Mrs. Mary E. W. Whi'e, of Guilford College, recording secretary ; Mrs. Mary E. Cartland, of Greensboro, treasurer. The following heads of di visions were chosen: Evangelistic, Mrs. Mary E. Cartland ; prisons, Mrs I. C. Blair and Mrs. Strickland: Darn oDservance, Mrs. f. d. Hackney; systematic giving, Mrs. F. E. Rose; mothers' meetings and purity, Mrs. Elizabeth Tui -ner; temperance litera ture, Mrs. Fetzer; scientific temper ance, Mrs. Battis; press work, Miss Allie Winningham; antinarcotics, Mrs. Millis; medal contests, Mrs. Mary Nicholson; organization, Miss Xotre Johnson: health and heredi ty, Mrs. Mary Hobbs; peace and arbi tration, MrsMary E. W. Davis. The place of next year's meeting will be selected by the executive committee during the winter. Delegates were elected to the National Convention to be held at Los Angeles, California, October 27, as folows: Mrs. M. J. Brainier, Waynesville; Mrs. Shore Kernesville; Miss Marsh, of Winston, and Mrs. Battle, of Raleigh. Contract Awarded. Spencer, Special. The hoard of aldermen of Spencer have awarded a $3-5,000 contract for sewers, street improvements and sidewalks to Mr. C. Markley, of Roanoke, Va., whose bid was a competitive one for the muni cipal improvements in Spencer. The work on the sewers will be begun at once and pushed to rapid completion and the streets and sidewalks will be constructed as rapidly as possible. In addition to the above improvements in Spencer. The work on the sewers will be begun at once and pushed to rapid completion and the streets and sidewalks will be constructed as rap idly as possible. In addition to the above improvements a graded school building will be erected at once at a cost of approxunatey .$10,000. for all of which bonds are being sold. Dewey's Appeal Refused. A special from Raleigh says: The State supreme court, Chief Justice Walter Clarke and Associate Justice Hoke "dissenting", handed down an op inion denying motion of counsel for a new trial for Thomas W. Dewey, defaulting cashier of the Merchants' and Farmers' bank of New Bern. Dewey was recently sentenced to six years' imprisonment in the State pen itentiary. The motion for new trial was based upon the failure of the presiding judge to reduce his entire chanre to writing Dewey was charg ed with embezzlement of shout $130, 000 belonging to the bank. Hotel at Ellerbee Springs. Rockingham, Special Plans and specifications have been submitted and accepted for the new hotel to be erect ed at Ellerbee Springs, in this county. Work will be" commenced -right away. Experiments, which have been made there this summer have proven so wondeful in their results, that this place may get to he one of the greatest watering places of the eountfy. Flames Cause Death. Charlotte, Special. Ruth Gillespie, an 18-year-old colored girl, died at the home of her father, Tom Gillespie, who resides on Mrs.- Carrie McDon ald's place, four miles from town, as a result of hums received when a lamp exploded Monday night. The girl had tbe lamp in tor lap at the tlmfl it exploded end the oil fepitrnd over hi? filotliinfr, CBitug it to Mms BARRETT TO -LEAD Bay State Democrats Celd a Noisy Convention DELEGATE WAS HOWLED DOWN Was Determined to Read Sub-Platform Which He Said Was Written by W. J. Bryan Municipal Owner ship Endorsed. Boston, Mass., Special. Gen. Char les W. Uartlett of Boston was nomi nated by the Massachusetts Demo cracy for governor. There were no contests for any of the places on the ticket. The remainder of the ticket nominated was: Lieutenant governor Honrv AT wt.:.. t. , ,- -i. iiuhupj, irookiine; secre- iary ot state, Henry B. Little, New buryport; treasurer and receiver gen eral, Daniel J. Dohertv, Wesl field: auditor, P. J. Ashe. North Adams; at torney general, John T. Leahy, Bos ton. Up to the time that James E. Cot ter of Hyde Park arose to place be fore the convention the name of Gen. Barltlett as the gubernatorial candi date, it was believed that there wou'c, be .contest. Forme. Mayor John ii. 1. McNamee of Cambridge had announced "that he would stiuggle for the honor of leading the patty in the eomin? campaign ri o t he surprise of the convention', however. Mr. McNamee did not make anv con tset but seconded Gen. Bartlett 's nom ination. The platform adopted declares for a revision of the tariff and the free ad mission of coal, iron, lumber, hides, wood pulp and other materials; it commends the "diplomatic courage and sagacity" of President Roosevelt m aiding to end the war in the far cast; calls for State supervision of insurance companies and recommends municipal ownership of public utili ties. Nearly 10,000 Perished. Victoria, B. C, Special The steam er Tartar which arrived last week from the Orient, brought news from Shanghai that the loss of life anions the natives of the islands at the mouth of the Yangtse river as a result of th typhoon at the beginning of Sep tember was tremendous. The North China Daily News, of Shanghai, savs: "To the east of Tabagming, two is lands, one called Yawoshwa, the other Miilnouslia, distant about twenty miles from Woosubf, have suffered much from the typhoon, nearly all the inhabitants having been swept away. The islands have only been in habited for a short time, comparative ly speaking, as they are of recent for mation and are not much above high water mark. The Shanghai papers say that the damage to the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Japan by the typhoon will necessitates the expenditure of $100, 000 for repairs. During the storm the steamer Peechili, formerly the Rio Grande du Sol, foundered near the month of Yangtse. Her crew of 54 were saved by the German steamer Albega. Pay $2,500,000 for Mexico Mines. Mexico City, Special.- Messrs. Schully, Perry and Newell, American capitalists, have just acquired for the sum of $2,500,000 a group of mining claims situated in the State of Duran go. The first payment, .$1,400,000, has been placed with the National Bank of Mexico, and the balance will be paid periodically. This is the 'most important transaction that has been made in mining claims for several years. Negro Mob Lynches Negro. Bainbridge, Ga., Special. News has just reached Bainbridge of the lynch ing of a negro eight miles yvest of here, by a mob of his own race. The negro had criminally assaulted a ne gro girl and had attempted to assault another, who cut him in the breast. He yvas arrested by Deputies Ivey and Murkerson, who were bringing him to Bainbridge, yvhen they were stopped by a mob of negroes, yvbo said they must have the negro. Jhey got him and forced the deputies to go away on another road. The negro yvas strung up to a tree and riddled with bullets. None of the mob were apprehended. Eyaa to Build Vault io. Richmond Cathedral. Richmond, Special. It is under stood that Thomas F. Ryan, of New York and Virginia, is to have con structed in the half-million dollar ca thredal he has given to the Roman Catholic diocese of Richmond, and which is now nearing completion, a vault to be the place of sepulture for himself, Mrs. Ryan and the bishops of this diocese, to cost about $10,000. Lord Inverclyde Dead. Wemyss Bay, Scotland, By Cable. Lord Inverclyde, chairman of the Cix- 'i nard Steamship Company, died Sun day at Castle Wemyss, his residence here aged 44. He had been ill for a month yvith pleuro-pneumonia. Lord Inverclyde 's broth, James Cleland Bums, succeeds to the title. " 7 - Urges Fanners to Hold. Dallas, Tex., Special Col. E. S. Peters, vice-president of the Southern Cotton Association, has issued a let ter to farmers advising them to sell their cotton. This letter is expected to arouse criticism in the Southern Cotton Association as the officers of that organization, supported by the fanners,' union, have advised farmers to lioid their cotton for eleven eenU, Colonel Peters says It? believes tUnt cotton will not ga any lilgStr, and ho Dwdieti a blflf crop, ASHEBORO. N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER r 12, NEW INDUSTRY FOR SOUTH High Point is to Have an Organ Fac tory . High Point, N. C, Special. The latest acquisition to Hight Point's di versity of manufacturing interests is a factory to manufacture organs. Tbe gentleman promoting the enter prise met yvith some of the business men and the required capital stock yvas raised in a few minutes. The pro moter is a man of experience in the manufacture of organs and other mus ical instruments. It is learned that the capital stock yvil be $25,00 to be gin yvith. High Point can handle the product of such an industry as yvell as that of any other yvood yvorking plant, and as it is on a new line the people here yvill take a great interest in its development. Deputy Sheriff Bound Over. Dunn, Special. The anti-liquor and blind tiger movement in this communi ty has not in the least abated it is determined to suppress the lieiuor evil in all of its various forms. The tem perance forces in this vicinity are working yvith an unconquerable perse verance and iood results are follow ing. The Federal authorities have made this place headquarters appar ently for some time. They destroyed one. blockade or moonshine distillery outfit this yveek in Banner township, about four miles from Benson. The work was done by J. P. II. Adams and A. F. Suries. The operatives were not arrested but it is almost certain that they yvill be as their identity is established. L. M. Ryals, the deputy sheriff of Johnston, and yvbo resides at Benson, yvas bound over to the Fed eral court under a bond of $200 for selling yvithout license. Laying the Track. Durham, Special. The Durham and Southern yvill be running trains into Durham before the holidays are over, according to a statement made by Captain R. I. Cheatham, general man ager of the road. Captain Cheatham has just returned from a trip over the road. He said the work yvas pro gressing rapidly. The road bed has been graded and large forces of hands are noyv yvorking in laying the track. This road runs from here to Apex and yvill connect at Apex yvith the main line of the Seaboard and with the Cape Fear and Northern. The freight depot for this road yvill be. it is said, next to the court house. This proper ty has been purchased for that pur pose, but as yet there is no yvork on building. The road yvill enter Dur ham from East Durham over the right of way of the St aboard and the South ern roads. There is talk that for the present the freight depot of the Seaboard road yvill he used by the new road. Child's Sad Death. Warrenton, Special. The circum stances causing the death of the fly-ear old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Bagg, of Hawtree, are very sad. The child yvas on top of a wagon load of seed cotton with its father Monday evening, yvhen by a sudden jerk of the horses he was throyvn to the o round and one wheel passed over, his body, mashing it so badly that he nev er regained consciousness and died during the night. The little boy yvas an exceedingly bright child for his age and his sudden takimr ayvay from his loved one yvas a great shock. Dixon Gets $1,500 Damages. Asheville, Special.' In the Superior court the case of Anderson Dixon, ad ministrator, vs. tbe Southern Railway yvas decided ,the plaintiff being ayvard- cd $1,500 damages tor tue aeatn oi TTeyekiflb Dixon, yvbo yvas run over and kiled by a freight train near Black Mountain some time ago. Two More Expelled. Raleish, Special. Two more Soph- mores at the Agricultural and Me chanical Colego here have been dis missed for hazing, making four since the term began. The tyvo noyv dis missed were implicated in the first, hazing as yvell as in the hazing of last yveek. Incorporations. The Middle Creek Lumber Com pany, of Franklin, Macon county yvith $100,000 authorized and $25,000 sub scribed capital stock yvas chartered. The incorporators are: W. C. Smith, Nathala; R. F. Branner, Otto; and F. S. Johnson, Franklin. The People's Supply Company of Wilmington, yvith $100,000 authorized and $4,000 paid m capital stock, yvas chartered. The object of the concern is to conduct a general mcreantide business. The incorporators are: W. B. Cooper, W. B. McClellan, I. W. Cooper and L. E. McClellan, all of Wilmington. News Notes. At Winston-Salem on Tuesday a' fine monument to the Confederate sol diers yvas unveiled yvith impressive ceremonies. The monument was erected by the Daughters of the Con federacy. A large crowd yvas present and splendid addresses were made. N. C. Long committed suicide on a Bay Line steamer on the yvay from Baltimore to Norfolk. The West Virginia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church met at Morgantown, W. Va. Judge Harrison at Winchester set tled the case of William R. Wilson and his yvife, who sued for the cus tody of their daughter, yvhom they had previously given in charge of Gus Orndprif, Congressman Swanson spoke at a Democratic rally at Stafford Court house. geetetary" IsHe M. HUM spota t & Keinibiicftft roer ting to Danville. NORTH STATE NEWS Occurrences of Interest in Various Parts of the State. Charlotte Cotton Morket. These figures represent prices to wagons: Good middling Strict middling. paid .9.90 .9.90 .9.90 .9.75 Middling , Middling , General Cotton Market. Houston, steady, middling. . . .10 3-16 .:io 3-16 Augusta, steady, middling. Memphis, steady, middling St. Louis, quiet, middling.. Louisville, firm, middling. . ,.10 10 10 Industrial Progress. In acordance yvith the long estab lished habit of the State Department of Agriculture, Imigration and Sta tistics, and annual bulletin has just been issued from the press which pre sents a list of the cotton, 'woolen and silk mills of the State, of miscellan eous establishments, by counties, in cluding fertilizer factories and oil mills, furniture, sash, door and blind, brooms, cotton gins, sayv and lumber chairs, plows, brick and tile, baskets, and crates, ice wagons and buggies, dairies, coffins, overalls and pants, bags shuttles, terra-cotta pipes, ma chine shop and foundry, mattresses, harness and various others; and a registry of improved cattle, hogs, hor ses, sheep and poultry. It has been difficult to obtain a complete list, and doubtless this one as presented is not perfect. Year by year the depart ment has sought to moke the list more and more complete, but some oyvners and manugers of the manu facturing plants are averse to or very sloyv in, giving the information asked for. They fail to recognize that the bulletin, going to many thousand read ers in the State and sought for by many enquirers from without the State, is offering free an excellent medium of advertising their business. Attempted Suicide. Wilmington, Special. J. O. Vaugh an, 45 years old, a traveling sales man -for a spool cotton company in New York, attempted suicide at his hotel here by cutting his throat yvith a razor. He wras found by one of the hotel attaches about 11 o'clock in a hallway, blood streaming from three ugly wounds in his throat. The act was evidently that of a madman, as half a dozen men yvec-r required to hold him on the bed until the hospital ambulance came. If he can be quiet ed his wounds yvill probably not be fatal. Vaughan has a family at Nor cross, Ga., and yvas yvell knoyvn in the South, New Hotel For Halifax. Halifax, Special Dr. II. B. Furgu &on has cleared the site for the new brick hotel, on the lot where the old Southern was burned some years ago. The hotel is badly needed and it will be a decided improvement. North State News. An accident occurred on the A. & N. C. road late Tuesday evening in which Conductor Bigford of a yvork train, got a sprained ankle, and a laborer was slightly hurt. The ac cident yvas the result of a log train running into the rear end of a yvork train. Ten or twelve log trueks were piled up, but were cleared away in time enough to let the No. 2 pass Wed nesday morning. The blame for the accident has not been placed yet. New Bern Journal. A Jacksonville special says: Mr. L. S. Covington, of Rockingham has or ganized a bank here yvith paid up cap ital of $10,000, the business people of the community being largely interest ed in the new enterprise. Mr. J. W. Burton yvas elected president; cx Sheriff Hargett, vice-president; the cashier's position being left open for the present. The bank yvill open for business as soon as the necessary fix tures and supplies can be obtained. At a meeting of the tobacco board of trade at Rocky Mount a committee yvas appointed to issue a circular to the ffect that while the burning of the Davis and Formers warehouses yvas a serious loss to the proprietors this fire did not affect the marketing of tobacco here to any extent, as there is abundant of floor space for all to bacco coming to this market. Mrs. J. A. Dunn having left her husband's home in Richmond county, and gone to Charlotte, bringing their children, Mr. Dunn followed, secured a yvrit of hebeas corpus from Judge Peebles and took the children back home with him. While it;' -ung in front of his train at Apex I i a switch, Mr. Sidney Young, a I ...oa'rd Air Line flagman stumbled and fell, and yvas run over by the freight train and very serious ly injured. . A charter is granted the bank of Jones County, at Trenton, capital stock $42,500. Thosmas D. Warren and others stockholders, to do a com mercial and savings hank busines. Insurance to the amount of $3Q, 000 was carried on the life of the late B. W. Canady, four $5,000 poli cies and one $10,000 policy. The death certificate was proved before Clerk Collins and forwarded to the several companies yvith which Mr. Canady was insured, for payment of tha insurance.-Kinston Free Press. Rev. A. R, Shaw accepts, the call to the Teftth Avenue Pre&bytemn fihufeh in Charlotte, He ia t ivm en ef the Stftfa and North Caroling U fifed ti film him toefc hmh 11)05. Notes of Southern Cotton Mills eafl Other Manufacturing Enterprises. Roanoke Rapids, N. C Further important developments of the yvater power properties yvill be undertaken by the Roanoke Rapids Poyver Co., of that city, in connection with plans for adding other manufacturing indus tries to those two established to have a capital with 50,000 spindles, and it has about closed a contract ensur ing the location of a large paper and pulp mill. The Roanoke Rapids Power Co. developed 5,000 horse-power in 1S93, and has increased its stock to $500,000 for the purpose of building a mill to be equipped and furnish ing power to manufactories, and plans to further utilize its water-power to the fullest extent. It is contemplat ed to construct a concrete dam en tirely across the Roanoke river and build an electric plant to transmit the power by electricity .the cost of this work to amount to 'about $400,000. The company's engineers are now at work on the plans and estimates. II, C. Cooper is general manager. Spartanburg, S. C The Beaumont Mfg. Co. yvill build the neyv but will at first install 4000 spindles mill for a capacity of 51S4 spindles, and power for the full capacity, con struction yvork to begin immediately under the supervision of J. E. Sirrine of Greeny ille, S. C. He has been en gaged as the engineer in charge of the improvements. This yvill be Beaumont Mill No. 3, its pi c duct to be white and colored carpet warps, twines rope, v.icking and other specialties; output proposed, 5,000 pounds daily. About 100 operatives yvill be employed in the mill. Beaumont Mills No. i and No. 2 yvill be the yarn mills, yvith a total of 9.S3S spindles; No. 3 is the yveave mill, having 9,792 spindles and 252 40-inch Draper looms. D. L. Jennings is treasurer of the company. Asheville, N. C A meeting of the stockholders of the Elk Mountain Cotton Mills Co. yvas held last yveek to consider adding a bleaehery to the company's plant. An affirmative de cision was made and the capital stock of the corporation yvill be increased from $150,000 to $200,000 in order to provide the required funds. A site has been obtained, and the construc tion work is expected to begin in the near futuie. There are 84 looms in the mill and their product is damask, bedspreads, etc., all of yvheh is now shipped to Lowell, Mass., for bleach ing. Electricity is the motive power of the mill, and a steam engine is kept ready for use if emergencies arise or if yvater is to be pumped in time of fire. Charlotte, N. C The Magnolia Mill, yvhich is located on South Gra-hi-.ni street, is one of the most success ful of the many manufacturing en terprises of this city. This mill yvas instituted isonie seven years ago, and since its beginning has always paid handsome dividends. Time and again, the equipment lias been increased to meet the demands of the trade. The business of the plant has reached such proportions that Air. A. C. Summer ville, t!it proprietor of the company has decided to add 2090 spindles to the present equipment of 40,000, thus making the total number of machines available 6,000 devoted exclusively to the manufacture of hosiery yarns Workmen are now engaged in the con struction of additional quarters, and as soon as the new machinery arrives yvhich yvill be within the next few weeks, the operation of the complete equipment yvill be begun. The new plant yvill be finished by the middle of November. The Magnolia mill is capitalized at $40,000. " Textiles Notes. Over $250,000 has been subscribed for the new cotton mill yvhich is to be built at La Grange, Ga. The Fayetteville Mill Co. of Fay etteville, Tetin., has been incorporated with capital stock of $110,000, for manufacturing cotton goods, by Messrs. II. K. Holraan, A. M. Mc Laughlin, J. II. Rees, J. II. Harms and C. T. Harms. Talladega, Ala. The new machin ery of the Chinnabee Cotton Mills will consist of 1,500 spindles and the necessary preparatory machinery. About $20,000 will be the cost of the additional equipment. The company has been operating 3,500 ring spindles and manufacturing yarns. It is locat ed at Talladega, Ala. Messrs. L. W. Brown and Charles C. Vaughn of Winston, N. C, and Albert M. Brown of St. Louis, Mo., have in corporated the Pioneer Manufactur ing Co., with capital stock of $25,000 for textile manufacturing.. Arrangements seem about complet ed for building a cotton waste mill here. A stock company will be or ganized yvith capital of $200,000 to own and operate the plant. Mr. John B. Cleveland of Spartanburg is in terested in this enterprise, and it is' understood that the Hoffman-Corr Manufacturing Co. of Philadelphia, Pa., and Peter H. Corr, a cotton man ufacturer of Taunton, Mass., yvill be the principal investors in the capi tal stock. There is no doubt but that the Cal vine Manufacturing Company, char tered in Raleigh last yveek, yvith Messrs. E. A. Smith, A. H Washburn and T. Q. Cox am stockholders and with an authorized capital of $300,000 wil.' taka over the Orient plant in its entirety. The new concern is to as sume all of the obligations of the eld, take control of all its assets, re orMniss the entire outfit, find, in had, outline ft new polisy rhicb., it ti believed will plftw iks plsnl fia ft ritO.UIXENT PEOPLE, Mary Twain will be seventy on No vember 30. It was denied that the health of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was falling. Aguiualdo, the former chief of th Filipinos, has settled down as a farmer Bishop Potter told Diocesan Conven tion Sunday paseBall is pagan in orlgli and tendency Funds for a memorial to the lat Mayor Collins, of- Boston, have reached ?ll,2tX. Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M, Shaw yvill leave the Cabinet Frebruary 1, 1900. . . London's Corporation has resolved tf confer the freedonnof the city ou Gen eral Booth. The German Emperor spends much of his evenings at home In reading aloud to the Empress. Mr. Bonaparte, Secretary of ihu Navy, agrees yvith Admiral Dewey on the necessity for big ships. Emperor William has again posed foi a set of official portraits of himself, this time in full regimentals. President Roosevelt is the most pop ular of any foreigner among the French people, especially the Parisians. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Presi dent of Columbia University, declined to serve as an Equitable director. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Bryan, accom panied by their son and daughter, Will iam and Grace, have started on their tour of the world. Baron Kosen, Kussian Ambassador to the United States, is endeavoring ta secure the line Washington mansion of the late L. Z. Leiter as headquarters for the Embassy. Armed with cameras and note books, many German tailors visited Marien bad during the recent sojourn there of the King of England, who Is still re garded all over Europe as the arbiter of rueifs fashions. NEWSY GLEANINGS. A trolley bell curfew Is in effect at Winsted, Conn. The United States sends thirty-eight Rhodes students to Oxford this year. Attorney-General Ellis, of Ohio, says he intends to investigate the Harvester Trust. The Governor of Nebraska has tossed his railway passes into the waste basket. Tunnels for crossing are to be buill at some of the busiest street corners in Berlin. Germans, will build larger battle ships than any now in commission In the imperial navy. The penalty in Germany for adulter ating food is six months in prison and a fine of 1D00 marks. England's treaty with Japan has had the effect of drawing Russia and Ger many closer together. The New York City birth rate has in creased since President Roosevelt's an ti-race suicide utterance. After forty -one years' service on the Liverpool police force Chief Detective- Inspector Strettell has retired. A guard of the "West Virginia peniten tiary escorted his former sweetheart to prison for murdering her husband. According to the Health Depart ment's report the death rate in New l'ork City during the last year was the lowest since 1798. It was charged that nearly every Brooklyn injunction restraining raids on alleged poolrooms has been obtained on perjured testimony. Because of the disorganized condi tion of the city hospital system New York City must build tents and pa vilions for poor patients. "Punch," for twenty-seven years a faithful and proud horse of the New York rolice Department, was about to be sold, when he was rescued and pen sioned. . LABOR WORLD. "Organized labor is planning again, to have a Chicago bank. Labor disputes in Canada last year involved a loss of 1,450,000 working days. The quarterly New York State labor bulletin shows much improvement in trade conditions. Orders for 100,000 tons of shipping have been placed with Clyde builders at London, England. There are now affiliated with the American Federation of Labor 116 in ternational trades unions. Butte, Mont., is rightly called the Gibraltar of trade unionism. Every conceivable occupation is organized. Farmers of the Northwest are to form a union and become affiliated yvith the general Federation of Labor. Clerks in Belgian railway offices es teem themselves lucky if after long service their annual salary amounts to ?G00. Carroll D. Wright, Commissioner of Labor, said, at Atlantic City, N. J., that he did not expect a .strike of coal min ers next spring. The campaign of the International Typographical Union for an eight-hour workday in book and job offices has re ceived the hearty support of the Amer ican Federation of Labor. Depression in the upholstering and tapestry manufacturing industry, at Philadelphia, has resulted in the clos ing of four large mills and a fifth will probably shut down within a few months. New York is having a building "boom. There aren't enough men in. town to do the work, and many architects fair ly groan when they see new custom ers come in to ask for plans and speci fications." The International Miners' Associa tion whose membership includes min ing men from all over the great South west, has been reorganized. Copperhead Around His Neck. Monday evening James A. Allen, who lives in Annandale, went into his haymow to get a bundle of hay for his horse. When he picked the hay up he pressed it against the mow to get a better grip on it, and as he did so no ticed what he thought was a strap fall against his neck with a very cold feel ing. Just then he reached the light, and to his horror found that it was not a strap, but a live copperhead snake that had been caressing his juglar. A copper is a very quick reptile, but In this instance Allen landed before his snakeship could strike, Just what happened Mr. Allen ean't relate, but the snake Is dead, and died so suddenly that Allen's reeolleetlons of the windup are very hazy an4 con fused, Mr. Allen tays b has had enough eeppe t beut his Reel! t fll f? Utm f&r ft mi ot 6U llfto NO. 20. COTTON CROP REPORT : p Recent Enormous Consumption of the Southern Mills REPORT ISSUED FOR A FULL YEAR First Census Bureau Bulletin On the Subject Shows An Aggregate of 14, 456.994 Bales, of Which 61 Per Cent. Consumed At Home, Leaving a Surplus of 9 Per Cent. Washington," Special. The census Bureau issued "a bulletin showing the production and distribution of the cot ton of the United States available between September 1, 1904, and Sep tember 1, 1905, te e 14,455,994 bales. Of this 61 per cent, was exported, 30 per cent, yvas used in domestic con- Sumption, leaving a surplus of nine per cent. The domestic consumption includes 36,770 bales destroyed by fire. The exportation amounted to 8,- 834,929 bales, the domestic consump tion 4,315,756 and the surplus 1,305, 309. Of the total 13,693,279 bales were included in the crop of 1904 and the remainder in that of 1905. Of the quantity consumed in the LTnited States, 2,138,829 bales were used in Northern and 2,140,151 in Soutrehn mills. BANNER EXPORT YEAR. In addition to the totals given 124,- 469 bales of foreign cotton were im ported iuto the United States during the year. The exportation for the year covered exceeded that of any previous 12 months by 1,144,452 bales and they exceeded the average for the past ten years by 2,313,948 bales. New Orleans, yvith a total of 2,463,421 bales, held first rank as an exporting point, but was close pressed by Gal veston with 2,388,318 bales. Savan nah, Ga., with 1,290,989 bales held third place. The value of the total xport was $404,209,293. The export of raw cotton was dis tributed in bales as folloyvs: To United Kingdom, 4,043,999; Belgium, 161,151; France, 857,103; Germany, 2,115,672; Italy, 536,929; Russia, 125, 463: Spain, 2S9,688; other European countries, 172,112; Japan, 324,668; British North America, 12o,407 ; Mexi co, 73,276; all other countries 9461. SOUTH 'S HUNGRY SPINDLES. The total number of nroduciner spindles in the United States is re norted at. 24.077.524 of which 8.211.- 734 were in the South and 15,865,790 in the North. Nntwithstandmg the t. ilifferpncfi in the number ot sninfllcs of th two sections tha con sumption of cotton is practically the same. The annual consumption or pnifon ner sniiiflle in the Northern mills is 67 pounds, compared yvith 124 pounds m the houth. the dilterence in the per spindle consumption indi cates that the Northern mins are spinning yarns of very much greater fineness than those turned out Dy ine Southern mills. The large output of the Southern mills this season has been mainly of heavy fabrics to sup ply a greatlv increased demand from China and the Orient. The renort shoyvs that in 2.) years the production of the United States has increased from 5,755,359 to 13,- 693,279 bales, and that the total con sumption of cotton in this country has increased from 1,671,383 to 4,378,- 928 bales. Within the last nve years tliA Antlon-coiisumimr establishments of the Southern States have increased their consumption from 1,483,711 to 9140.151 bales. During these five years the Northern cotton-consuming establishments have actuany uecreaa- ed their consumption by lb,aop Dales, hv these mills being en gaged during this period in replacing old machinery oy more moaeiu. Pat Crowe's Confession. Butte. Mont., Spscial Pat Crowe has admitted that he was in Omaha six weeks ago and engaged in a pistol duel with the police, during which an officer yvas shot. He says the police fired 16 shots at him before he replied and that he opened fire to save his own life. He said his sole object in coming here was to surrender believ ; ih'ut he had better give himself up at" a distance from home, so that in yielding to extradition he might maice terms favorable to himself with the Nebraska authorities. Killing at Hot Springs, Ark. Hot' Springs, Ark., Special. Dr. G. H. Alexander was shot and killed at 7 o'clock Monday night near his home by Merch Jamison. Dr. Alexander and his daughter. Nora, yvere going home when they met Jamison, yvbo bean shooting. After he had shot Alexander he " fled. The shooting is said to have been the culmination of family troubles. Dr.' Alexander-formerly resided at Hope, Ark. -. -. Loss of $75,000,000. 0 "1 Liverpool, Eng., By Cable. The Post says that the destruction to oil properties at Baku, Russia, amounts to $75,000,000. The Russian govern ment, it is intimated, denies its lia bility to the property oyvners, but has hinted that it is willing to issue a loan for the purpose of making good the losses. It is anticipated that an at tempt to float such a loan in London will meet yvith faiiure.. Collision on Pennsylvania. Millersville, Pa., Special. Three men were killed, one man was injured and a eardload of race horses were either kiled or so badly hurt that they had to be shot as the result of a col lision at tha junction of tbe Lykens Valley branch of tho Pennsylvania wUrfina. ft QtttfWf N Wtttb e . ' V.' -T
The Randolph Bulletin (Asheboro, N.C.)
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