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7- ^f-' •*' *>*f- v^ / »:,r •, • , V. '. 'i>-- ;-'v-; *f . ^ : ve liberal dis- :om and of the It $5.98; $5.00 led Saturdays. g Material in my ing in that line see OU MONEY. PATTERSON TICKET ^EETS WITH DEFEAT .V independent Democrats Win by 25,000 Majority. CONTEST WOARD-FOUGHT Patterson Forces Accede Defeat by the Majority Above .Named—Inde pendent Forces Represent Practi- cal!y the State-Wide Prohibition Ele ment of the Dennocratlc Party. The independent democrats in the -Tennessee primaries Thursday elected their judicial tickets in one of the most exciting and hard-fought politi cal contests ever known in the state, following are the successful tickets: Judges of the Supreme Court—East ern divisiom, John K. Shields; middle division, D. h. Lansden; western di- Tision, Matt M. Neil; state-at-large, W. D Beard, Grafton Green. Mrs. Sophia James Turner, tucky, farmer, bouncing boys. I ^ GOVERNOR PATTERSON. Judges of the Court of Civil Ap- peals—EastQTU division, H. Y. Hughes; middle division, Joseph C. Higgins, S. P. T^71son; state-at-large, Frank P. Hall, John M. Taylor. 25,000 Majority Against Patterson. The independent headquarters here claims that the majority will approxi mate 25,000 votes. The regular demo crats, whose ticket was defeated, claim these figures will be cut by 10,000 or 15,000 votes. The independent faction represents In a large measure the state-wide pro hibition element of the democratic! party, which has been vigorously op-1 posing Governor Patterson since his i memorable campaign with the late ex- SenatoT E. W. Carmack for the guber natorial nomination. Ended Bitter r*:;!ht. The election ended o bittor fight. IPatterson spoke in half counties of the state, and lesser I'^hts from! lioth sides stumped the villages from the Great Smokies vo the Mississippi. the attitude of the bulk of the ^’hite republican vote hung the issue. The negroes practically all went for the Patterson ticket. It is understood that in return for the assistnace lent by the Republicans In electing their judiciary ticket the' Independents will solidly support the | <‘aiKlidat9 nam^ by the Republicans for governor. Disastrous to Patterson. P^nemies of Governor Patterson <5lairn the result will have disastrous on his political future. He is a ^^ndiaate fof re-election to third blit as yet the opposition ha=? shown its hand as to what steps j ^i^-1 be taken in putting out a ticket' "Against him. ihe republican con'vention of the Eighth Congressional district, held In ecatiir, Ala., nominated George Mof- ^t as candidate for congress, to op pose Judge William Richardson, of untsviiie, democratic nominee. Bishop E. W. Lampton, .of t^e ‘^fxcan Methodist church, died at his ‘^‘6 in Petoskey, Mich. The funeral 11 be held in Greenville, Miss., ishop H. M. Turner, of Atlanta, of ficiating. More than 2,000 track laborers on Q Illinois Central railroad between in Cairo struck for a pay Cl ease of 25 cents a day. TBe men ^e been getting |1.25. f C: • • 1 Pi . ^•°wering Plants. ' oweriug plants should never be water. It chills the ' general The village of Ii*Ying NEWS on-the-Hudson, N. Y., is NOTES. increasingly puzzled over the strange disappearance of Mrs. John Burfit, 62 years old, and who, thorugh bedridden for years^ walked oiit of her home a week ago and was last seen dressed in a house gown and slippers in the railroad station at 'tar ry town. The woman had been long so crippled by rheumatism that she was often unable to set a foot on the flocrr and for' years had not left her house. Two officers and four seamen were seriously or fatally hurt when an ex plosion occurred upoA submarine boat A 1 at Portsmouth,' Eng. It was de clared that the vessel was irrepara bly damaged. A defective boiler tube was said to be the cause. Coming on top of the recent Russian French submarine disasters, the accident cre ated unusual excitement. A Beverly, Mass., dispatch says: President Taft has approved, without comment, an opinion by Attorney General Wickersham to the effect that there is no provision of law by which the statue of Gen, Robert E. Lee, in Confederate uniform, can be removed from Statuary hall In the capitol at Washington. J. Turner, wife of a Bell County, Ken- gave birth to three All are doing well. Four years ago Mrs. Turner gave birth to twin boys. Mr. Turner will write to Col. Roosevelt at once, asking him to suggest names tar the new arrivals. With the avowed purpose to build a railroad from Scranton, Miss., to Birmingham, Ala., the Birmingham, Demopolis & Scranton Railroad Com pany was incorporated by the secre tary of state of Alabama. Its capital is nominal, the promoters being for the mofst part citizens of Demopolis, Ala. It is announced that the Merchants’ Barge Line, which wil operate a line of boa.ts on the Alabama river be tween Montgomery and Mobile, v/ill begin ^service the first week in Sep tember. The steamer Liberty and three 500-ton barges have been pur chased. The Bear Tooth national forest in Montana has been opened to the graz ing of 17,000 additional head of sheep. The original limit was 24,000 head and was taken in response to an appeal of the stock men that the government throw open the reserve to their herds on account of drouth conditions. A dispatch from Paris, France, says that for the second time the wite of a peasant at Guillena, Seville, Has given l^rth to triplets. The woman has been married six years and has had twelve children—^triplets twice, twins once and four others. Cheered by an audience of progress ive republicans as the “people’s can- tiidate for governor of Ohio,” James R. Garfield, at Cleveland, O., opened the fight to place Ohio in the insur gent column. In a two hours’ speech, in which he avowed himself an "in surgent” and eulogized the section of congress which is known by that name, the former secretary of the in terior set jEorth the platform upon which the “progressive” republicans of Ohio will enter the fall campaign. Mr. and Mrs. T. Barberi, of Pensa cola, Fla., received from Governor Gilchrist a handsome spoon bearing the seal of the state of Florida. Mar ried. 19 years ago, the wife, now only 87 years old, Mr. and Mrs. Barben are the parents of 13 children. Six of the children are twins. Governor Gilchrist suggested that the legisla ture pass an act allowing the parents a pension. Four hundred thousand spectators witnessed at New York the most spectacular pier fire since the Ho boken disaster ten years ago, in which 150 lives were lost. As far as can be ascertained, two men perished during today’s confiagraticm. The monetary loss will run between $750,000 and $1,000,000. Pier 14 of the Metropoli tan steamship line on the Hudson river at the foot of Fulton street, was piractically destroyed. The structure cost $300,000. The American consul, Thomas P. Moffatt, has issued instructions to the American naval commanders at Blue- flelds to observe the strictest pre cautions that no personal communica tion be held with Bluefields Bluff, on account of the grave fears that yel low fever Is prevalent there. The bluff is held by.the Madriz forces, and numerous deaths have recently oc curred among the Medriz soldiers. That Atlanta will be the meeting place of the Southern Commerical Congress when it convenes in the fall is now absolutely assured. The or ganization is composed of the most prominent business men in the south, and as the ccmvention will bring to gether several hundred of these pro- gnressive men. It will be one of the most important of NOTES FROM Complaint has been NATION'S filed with the ,i^ter- CAPITAL state commerce com mission by the Natioi^al^ League of Commission Merchai;^ts..^9ain8t freight rate charges by the Atlantic Coast Line railroad and its affiliated lines on car and less than car lot ship ments from Charleston, S. C., and surrounding points to Buffalo, N. Y., and Pittsburg, Pa. The commission merchants charge that the present rates are unreasonable and discrimi natory. . The big abattcrir, the boiler house and the power plant of the Columbia Cotton Oil and Provision Corporation, one of the largest and most important industries in the vicinity of Washing ton, -near Arlington, Va., were de stroyed by fire. Loss estimated at $20P;000, covered by an insurance of about $100,000. v The fire was caused by an explosion in the abattoir. A Washington dispatch says owing to the fact that letters mailed by Mrs. Frances F. Cleveland, widow of the late President CUveland, have been charged with postage due at the postoffice to which they were aa- dressed, the postmaster general has issued an order calling attention of postmasters to the bill passed at the last session of congress whereby Mrs. Cleveland’s letters, as well as those of Mrs. Mary Lord Harrison, widow of the late President Harrison, are en titled to transmission free of charge. Word reaches Macon, Ga., from Douglas that, in a quarrel over the killing of a mule, Jesse Lott, of Willacoochee, shot and killed Jimmie Stephens in a gun fight, in which it is said Lott’s brother took part. Lott’s friends have sent in word to the sheriff’s office at Douglas that he will give himself up as sooia as he can get there, claiming self-defense. Jcrseph Sheffield Van Buren, of North Carolina, died aboard tBe steamer Prinz Bitel Friederich, while en route to Naples, Italy, from Egypt. Mr. Van Buren was 55 years of age and had lived in Hong Kong for the last 30 years, being engaged as a merchant and for several years as the general agent for the Great Northern Steamship company. Up to ten days ago the roll of avi ators killed since SeptemNjr 17, 1908, .stood at ten. On July 3, Charles Wachter fell to his death at Rheims, France. Tuesday tl&e'tehgjlsh sports man, Charles Stewart Rolls, die^ be neath the wreckage of his aeroplane. Wednesday Erbloeh and his crew o? four were dashed to pieces. Pelagra has claimed ITs first vic tim in the state of Rhode Island in the death* of William Riley, aged 55, an Inmate of the state almsSouse. AFFAIRS IN W. Frank “Jack” WORLD OF Horner, widely known SPORTS in baseball circles, died at New Orleans at a local hotel as a result of an accident in the baths of the hotel. En;^ering the baths with friends shortly before # a. m., Horner slipped on a marble step and fell to the fioor, fracturing his skull. He never regained consciousness. He was on his way to San Antonio, trav eling in the interest of the Detroit baseball club, for which he served as a scout in hunting for promising young players in the south. He wa^ a very popular sporting man in the south. •If your liver is sluggish and out of tone, and you feei duU> biiioup* constipated, take a dose of Chamber lain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets tonight before retiring and you will feel all right in the morning. Sold by all dealers. The re-nomination Congressman Charles A. Crow, stand-patter, by the rej)ublicans of the fourteenth Missouri district, was assured by late returns. David W. Hill, insurgent candidate, admits his defeat. Mrs. George Duggar, wife of a well known man of Oakdale, Tenn., ^ died of pellagra. She had been ill for five weeks. No other cases of palagra are reported from that section. _ Room 9, McMinn Biulding, Brevard, N. C. FIRE LIFE ACCIDENT CASUALTY EMPLOYERS LIABttJTY PLATE GLASS LIVE STOCK nsurance First the fire. Then the smoke» No insurance. Then you're broke; • Rates are high! It may be true. But not so high Or dry as you. The Best Hour of Life is when you do some great deed or discover some wonderful fact. This hour came to J. R. Pitt, of Rocky Mount N. C. when he was suffering intensely, as he sajs, “from the worst cold I ever had, I then proved to my satisfaction, what a wonderful cold and cough cure Dr. King’s New Discovery is. For after taking one bottle I was entirely cured. You canH say anything too good of a medicine like that/’ Its the surest and best reiiie<iy for all diseased luT^gs, hemorhages, lagrippe, asthma, hay fever—any throat or lung trou ble. 50c. $1.00. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by A,lIi8on & Macfie* Insure with Homefolks The Very Best Insurance of All Kinds * The Very Strongest GDmpanies The Very Lowest Rates Losses Settled Promptly We can protect every insurable building in Transyl vania County. Tlien wby send Your Business to Asbeville? See Us. Phone Us. Write Us BEGIM MOW TO Put up Fruit for Winter Let us sell you Preserving Powders and Fruit Jar Rubbers J. B, PICKELSIMER, Ph, G. Druggist and Pharmacist Phone 85 -Everything Best in Drugs Brevard, C, I^TGHT OVER WOOD SHINGtES mmm mam. in .SHINGLES' can be laid without fuss or bother right over the old wood shingles, changins: the top of your building: instantly from a fire catcher to A FIREPROOF ROOF that will last as long as the building itself and never needs repairs. For further detailed information, prices, etc., apply to For Sale by MILLER SUPPLY COMPANY, BREVARD, N. C. OF A- WHITE STAR BUGGY Stamps it as a superior vehicle to the most casual ob server, Closer inspeclioa confirms impression made from seeing one glide by, that they are not only good to look upon but are as .*-ound as a dollar all the way through. If you are about to buy a ^viggy you will make a good investment if yoabuya WHITE STAR. 'Pfi GATALOQ AND OTHEI inFOBMATiON ON lEQ^ST. ATLANTA BU6BY CO., - ATUNTA, 6A. 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