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EOONOMI judicious tmmm Advertise In The ECONOMIST Beoauae the People Reed It THE WEATHER: fair tonight and cooler; Saturday, lair and cooler. Light west winds. y VOL. o. ELIZABETH CITY, N. C. SATURDAY. SEPT. 2. 1905. NO. 18 Bail Mondav Night Will Decide Aldermen Will be Asked, It is said, by ovqr 50U Voters to Call Another Election It it staled today that over 500 qualified voters bare signed the pe . tition to the aldermen asking them to call another election on the 11 quor question, several of the car riers giving out that since Wednes day they have secured from ten to tbirtv additional names. On last Monday it was said that the signers then numbered. 425 and it is calcula ted that since then at least seventy- five hive aflixed their signatures Yesterday the seven petitions were made one and it was otherwise pre pared for presentation to the alder men at their meeting Monday night. With the exception of additional signers the situation has not chang ed during the week. Both (elements apparently feel confident of victory and both are eager for the arrival 1 Jl . ! Ill wueu me lHHue ad siane win oe sei- 4l.l 1 t.A On Monday night when the ' ald ermen will be asked to grant an ele ction, the largest crowd that has ever been squeezed into the munici pal building will be present, for public interest is intense. The general belief is that the board will call an election, for more than enough names of qualified voters have been secured, the required number being one-third, and the vo tefs numbering 779. Thfi anti saloon nnnnln nlaim thai. many have signed the petitions to help secure the election in order to again vote against whiskey, but the other side claims that all who signed will vote for saloons and others be Youne Wife Commits Suicide M-s, Emma Bond Kills Herself From Temporary Insanity East Radford, Va Sept. 1. Mrs Emma Bond, wife of Mr. Pleasant Bond, a prominent mem ber of the Radford Wholesale Gro cery Company, is dead from a pis tol shot fired near her heart by her own hand, either accidentally or otherwise. Such was the verdict of the coroner's jury in the terrible t-agedy that startled Radford this morning. Mrs. Bond was wont to keep a pistol in her room, and it may have been an accident. It is generally believed however, to be a case of suicide, thought there was no cause for the 'deed. Mrs. Bond's married life was ideally beautiful and happy; her husband the kindest and best of men, and no trouble of any kind clouded their horizon. If suicide it was temporary insanity was the cause. She had not been wall for spveral wppIts n.nA romorlr. , - - irii i j wi ed to a neighbor that she feared she llilllilllS felt so badly. Mrs. Bond prepared breakfast this morning about 7 o'clock, and told her husband, who was in the kitchen, to put it on the DRANK ROUGH-ON-RATS; fc DIED IN GREAT AGONY Mrs. Blount, Aed 70, Committed Suicide Yesterday Afternoon At Her Home, The Blount Farm, Near This City. Child Heard Her Say "I Cannot Stand This Any Longer and I Will End it All" A few Hours LaterShe Was Dead. Mrs. Bettio Blount, aged 70) or acci- OLD ACQUAINTANCES HAVE THEIR LITTLE JOKE AGAIN The Coal Trust I dig up the coal and you dig up for the coal. Killed by Mafia table while she dressed her children Hilt in Which VictifTIS Were She went uptairs, and a few minu- Sleeping Was Blown Atoms by DynAmite to i sides. WHY DID IT WIN WORLD'S FAIR PRIZE? The entertainment given last euening in the Y. M. C. A. hal drew an audiance which almost equalled the seating capacity of the house. The attraction was series the Kinetoscope pictures, and while the thing had been seen thousand times before, it was rather enjoyed. The moving pictures showing a supposed likeness of the naval battle between Russia and Japan were a bit interesting, but the magic lantern numbers show ing "Shakespeare" and "Moonlight on the Hudson" wera of a very commonplace nature. The audiance did not expect to see much however and were not agreeably snppised to any extent. REFUSED DAMAGES; " USED KNIFE Newport News, Sept. 1 B. F. Megginson, superintendent of the Newport News and Old Point Rail way Company, was stabbed in the back and painfully injured today lnv H .TV. Kurl-head. a. North Hum. Hnian temporarily residing in Ham pton. Last mgni iiumneaa ran fiia IhataIa into it utrppfc - our t - corner. He claimed that the street car company should pay for repairs to bis wheel. Mr. Megginson re fused to comply with bis demand. Today Burkhead asked the sup erintendent to go to a repair chop to look at the wheel. Megginsoa went and a dispute ensued. Burk head drew a knife, but was preven ted from using it. - Later he went nut of the side door and coinc nn - j r to Megginson, stubbed him iu the bi4 . He jumped on his wheel to ehvjpe, but the wounded man seiz ea vQe bicycle and threw bis assail ant to the ground. Burkhead was placed in jail. Megginson is not dangerously injured. tes later a pistol shot rang through the house. Her husband found ber lying upon the floor in an unscious condition, the pistol clasped in her tiand. lier clothes were powder- Richmond, Va., Sept. 1. Delay burned, as it the pistol was fired at ed information from the Green close range. She lived bat a few brier Valley along the West Vir- minutes. ginia border near Bartow Station, Mrs.Bond was formerly Miss tells of the killing of eight Italians Emma Nance, of Bedford, county, in a lumber camp by what is believ- bhe was a devoted wife aud mother, ed to have been the machinations and a beautiful Christian charac- of the dreaded Mafia. ter. I Ninn men &rA hnv warn f. imrt.pr. ed in a hut. Early in the night SEMI-MONTHLY two of the men left and soon there- TEMPERANCE MEETING, after a tremendous explosion was The regular Semi-Monthly Tern- heard- Where the hut had been perance meeting will be held in was a deeP noIe ln e ground the City Road Methodist Church while for hundreds of yards around Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. were dismembered limbs and frag- The principal speakers of the oc- ments cl flesn. casion will ba Rev. M. A. McCul- The trees far and near were bur' len of Wilmington, N. G. and Rev. dened with ghastly portions of Luther of Pearl St. Methodist humanity Church. BUSY SCENES ON PUBLIC BUILDING LOT Unly the body of the boy was intact. Theat was found intact ly ing in the Greenbrier nyer. The men who left the hut before the explosion have disappeared. They are thought to have been agents of the Mafia. The material for the public build-1 The Italians are in a state of the ing is now rapidly arriving and greatest terror and can only be in- each day shows a marked advance- Iduced to work while the camps are ment in the work. The derricks, I guarded by armed men composed of massive pieces of scant- Suicide Results From Elopement Girl Took Two Doses of Laudanum in Caroli1 Town, Death Causing Sen sation. ling, with the usual paraphenalia An Accomplished of ropes, ' blocks ard arms, have been placed on the grounds, and to ElOCUtiohlSt. operate them a large engine and Miss Bertie Tayloe, a graduate boiler htve been put in place. The I in the A. M. course and in Elocu- derricks will be used to lift the tion from the Virginia Istitute of arge blocks of granite, the steel I Bristol, Tenn. and who has taken a girdeis and other ponderous post graduate course in the Bap- weights. As stated before, the list Female University at Raleigh, foundation is now in readiness for will teach Elocution in the Atlantic the stone work, and the shipment Collegiate Institute this yeir. Mi:s of granite from Maine of which Tayloe receive I her instructions in notice has been received is being Elocution from graduate teachers awaited. ) from the celebrated Eme.son In the meaat;rae thousands of all School of Oratory and her last prades of brick are being hauled to teacher was c pupil of Miss Bloods, he lot, beside the other necessities J of Chicago.one of the most distin- and the old : Glcenleaf square prer-1 guished teachers of elocution in ents one of the I business scenes In I the United States. the city. The tram roacfl to the Suffolk and Carolina tracks, on Martin street. has been finished tion. Raleigh, Sept. 1. The town of Dunn has a sensation in which two men lrom South Carolina, "A. Hin son aud his partner, B. W. Floyd, and two young women, Rebecca Jackson, of South Carolina, and Emma Sellers, from this State, fig ured. i . a lew aays ago tue young men and young women came to Dunn and stopped at a boarding house, the men being picture dealers, who went to work in that section. The next day Miss Sellers took laudan um. A doctor saved her, but a lit tle laier she took a second dose and died in an hour. . Her brother was elegraphed for, and has taken her body to her home, at Whiteville, near the southern border of this State. Mirfs Jackson, who is from ' Dil lon, S. C, remainded, and when Hinson came in the next night he was arrested. It was demanded that there should be an immediate marriage, a messenger was sent on horseback to the county scat, twen ty miles away for a license, and at 1 o'clock in the morning a minister performed the ceremony. ' The f ath er of the ypun g women b as ar rived to take her and uer husband to Dillon. Floyd has not been seen since Miss Sellers took poison. It is be lieved that he has left this State. yearn, committed suicide yesterday I house alone during the day, could afternoon at her home, the Blount lot be found. An investigation farm, which is about four miles revealed her body in the well. The from town, and the details of the Freemans lived at Moatsvilln, near deplorable affair shocked the whole here. It is not known whether her city this morning. Aged and in- death was due to suicide firm and with some great mental dent. perturbation weighing upon her, at The woman had no known cause a time when she was the sole occu- to commit suicide, and the officers mnt of the house, she took the fat- who have made an investigrtion be- il doso of poison, and several neve they have a case of murder to hours later, after she had endured solve. It was known that eoncider- untold suffering, died in great an- able money was kept in the Free- guish. The rash deed was disoov- man house, and the crime may ered before sue expired and every- nave feen committed in the hope thing was done to Bave her, but she or obtaining this. Nothing, . bow- had made sure of death and the ever, was missing from the house. poison did its work. Mrs. Freeman was a sister of E. Shortly after three o'clock yes- H. Compton, clerk of the Circuit of terday, Mr. Walter Gilbert, a white Barbour County, W. Va., at Phi- man employed on the farm, chanced lppi. to be near the house and heard ind is in opera- Miss Tayloe is an accomplished teacher and the students who take work under her, will be fortunate in having so accomplished an in structor. High in Air, Aeronant Was Blown To Pieces. Greenville, O., Sept. 1. Aero naut Baldwin, of Losantiville, Ind., was to-day blown to shreds as his balloon was floating high in the air. He was giving at the county fair, an exhibition of the use of dyna mite from a balloon for war pui poses. He had three sticks 'of the explosive with him. When he had reached a height of 2.000 feet the dynamite accidentally exploded, and balloon and man were literally lorn to fragments. Baldwin's wife was one of the several thousand persons who saw the accident. - Mrs. Blount vomiting. He hurried to her room and asked if she was sick, Mrs. Blount, then being hor ribly contorted by the dose she had taken," replying weakly that she drank rough-on-rats. Rushing to the vard Mr. Gilbert secured the horse ank buggy and drove furious ly to town and summoned Dr. W. Lumsden, the physician not waiting to eret his own team but returning in the buggy w'vh Gilbert. When he entered the sick rooom Mrs. Blount was conscious fering greatly. The doctor asked her what she had taken, and she replied, "a little whiskey but when asked what else, she replied, ough-on-rats. " The docter worked rapidly, but the deadly poison had advanced too far in its effects to be checked by science, and suffer ing intense agony, but never losing ljtQ their consciousness untu tne last iew minutes, she passed away. That she had been brooding darklypver troublo of some nature is accepted by her people. Little Ruth tGil liert. who had slept in the same room with her for the last two yer.rs, yesterday morning heard ber ay, juBt after she had trose, "I cannot stand this any longer and will end it all'! The child, how- m 1 r every, never areatnea ior an insiani that she was planning self-destruc tion and had soon forgotten the words, which, if they bad keen heard by an older person, probably would have prevented the act. Never by word or deed, had Mrs, Blount intimated her intention to any of her people They knew that she had been worrying over something for sometime Preparations For Heavy Fall Trade. The mercantile establishments of the city are now preparing for the reception of heavy shipments of goods with which their stocks will be replenished for, the fall and winter trade. Some have already received large quantities of goods but the heavier shipments are yet tocorne. The evidences are that thev aro nil p and suf- : . : ; A 76 . s waue- ii, in siaiea mat the farmers will realize handsome profits from their. cotton crops and it is predicted that the fishing industry, carried on so extensively in the lower sounds country, will be successful this fall, both of which will tend to .huicubu general prosperity, and to supply the farmers and . fishermen necessities, the merchants are making preparations. but never imagined that the depression was so serious. Mrs. Blount is survived by sev eral children, among tham being Mr. Thomas B. Blount, who lives on West Fearing street, a number of grand-children and some distant relatives. The funeral arrange ments at this time have not been made but it Is thought the ceremony will be conducted from the home tomorrow and the remines inter red in the family buryingground. Mrs. Blount was known and deeply loved by many in this city and her death is causing profound sorrow.... :L :. Found Body In Well. Grafton, W. ' Va., Sept. 1. When members oi the family re turned home yesterday evening, Mrs. Alfred Freemam, aged sixty one years, who had been at the Mr. George Twiddy, Jr. - return ed yesterday from Baltimore where he had an operation performed on his knee. He has not yet recover ed the use of the injured member and has to use crutches. Report of the Condition of OF Savings Bank and Trust Co. at Elizabeth City, in the state of North Carolina, at the close of business, August 25th, 1905. BKSOURCK8. Loans and discounts 568.811 88 Overdrafts, unsecured 1 g os- All other Stocks, Bonds aud t Mortgages 5 95C 00 Premium on Bonds Furniture and Fixtures. . Demand Loans Due from Banks and Bankers fash Items Cold Coin Silver coin, including all minor coin currency National bank notes and other U. S. notes Accrued Interest receivable. . 27 50 2,165 00 17,37? C3 9,874 14 534 88 105 00 - 831 94 859 00 1,211 26 Total..... ...... $106,747 82 LIABILITIES. Capital Stock paid in 825,000 00 Undivided profits, less current expenses and taxes Daid.. 9.261 85 Dividends unpaid OOO Time Certificates of Depof.it. 6,480 19 ueposits subject Ut check 72.627 88 Cashier's checks outstanding , 19 00 Accrued interest due deposit ors 350 00 Total $106,747 92 State of North Carolina, 1 . County of Pasquotank, J I, Geo. B. Pendleton, cashier of the alxve named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. Oko. 11. Pesdlkton, Cashier. Sulwcribed and sworn to before me. th;i 1st day of September, 1905. w. w. Griffw, Notary Public. Correct Attest: E. F. Atdi.itt, 1 Gbo. K. Bright, Directors. J. B. Floba, )
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