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EDAILYISii 1 ELIZABETH CITY, N. C. SATURDAY. OCT. 1 4. 1905. VOL. o. Woman Not Dead , Gibbs At Large POLICE STEADILY SEARCHING FOR MAN WHO SHOT HIS WIFE BUT NO TRACE OF HIM YET FOUND WOMAN WILL NOT DIE OF WOUNDS, 8AYS DOCTOR. Regular P. 0. For Weeksville POSTMASTER GENERAL ISSUED ORDER IN LAST FEW DAYS CHANGING IT FROM MERE RU RAL STATION MR. C. C. MEADS APPOINTED POSTMASTER. Woodmen Will Attend Unveiling si wA-ls, ' " . . ,, - f t ft i;.t V. Sadie Glbbs, the negro woman who was shot four times by her enraged husband In a quarrel on the street Thursday night, is today said to bo 6low1y Improving, and the opinion of the attending physician la that she will recover. As stated before three of the wounds are not of a very seri ous nature, being mere flesh wounds, and the doctor is successfully coping with the effects of the ball that enter ed her breast. In case of her recovery, her assail ant will not be a murderer, but that fact will not cause the police to relax a particle In their efforts to apprehend him and the search already instigated is being fully and energetically main tained. The theory that Gibbs has not left the city, but is secreting himself in the ?ady harbor of one of his friend's nouses is adhered to and the search is conducted accordingly, but In a quiet and effective manner and It is safe to say the energy of the police under the experienced guidance of Chief Bell will suffice to rout him out and his quarters will soon be changed to the hotel de county. The surrounding cities and towns to which he would likely have flown, if he has left Elizabeth City, have been notified and the officers provided with descriptions of him, and his cap ture may result from this, but It is considered unlikely. The police here believe that even If he has left tbwn he will return, as the memorable Fate Williams did, and his eventual cap ture is confidently expressed. Good Basket-Ball At' The Y. M. C. A. The first backet-ball game of the season was played last night in the gymnasium of the Y. M. C. before a large number of spectators, who cheer ed vociferously when the team would make a score. It was not a regular championship game, but was one of the liveliest and most exciting ever seen in the "gym." The first team was composed of Morgan, Overman, Lamb, Harney, and Smith, and the second team of Winder, Banks, Fearing Weeks and Thompson. The second team won by the score of 24 to 18. Tbe score at the end of the first half stood 20 1-2 to 9, but in the second half the first team played fine ball and with a few moments to spare would have won, or it appeared that way. The game marked the opening of what will be a most important season In the basket-ball line and the regular championship games will follow In the near future. JUVENILE RECEPTION. Mr. Loutrell Glover entertained a few of his friends Friday night at a birthday party. Many games were played and other amusements enjoy ed, after which the guests were invit ed to the dining room, where a deli cious supper was waiting. Those present were: Misses Lizzie Cooper, Mary Mann, Jennie Smith, Hilda Walker, Ruth Glover, Katherine Walker, Mary -Holmes, Ella Sanders, Maggie Sand ers, Lena Hooper, Annie Weatherly, and Messrs. Claude Zlegler, Tommy Hughes, John Banks, Emmet Wynn, Willie Williams, Alson Seely and Wil liam Weatherly. THE ELK'S BIG SALE. The big sale at "The Elk" is the talk of the town. Thousands have attended this great sale during the past four days, and have gone away well pleased. The sale ends Saturday, October 21st They are receiving huge cases of new goods dally and will try to keep up the stock to the end of the sale. Never" in the history of merchan dizing has so much been offered for so little here, elsewhere or anywhere as is being offered at The Elk's great sale. Resulting from a strong movement which had been on foot slnco early In the spring, the Postmaster General at Washington within the last few days has issued un order for the establish ment of a regular postoffice at Weeks ville, one of the thriving little cities of this county, and at the same time Mr. Charles C. Meads, a prominent mnn of that town was chosen postmaster. The efforts to cause the establish ment were well defined, and had the support of the cltl.ens of Weeksville and the residents of the surrounding huge radius of country. The regular office as yet has not been established, but will be in the near future and many conveniences will be derived therefrom by the peo ple. One of the causes of delay Is the fact that the bond which Mr. Meads was required to give has tint yet been accepted. There is no doulrt as to its being accepted, and when it Is, the office will immediatcl.'rv:open. In former years Weeksville had n regular office, but when the mral free delivery was instituted in the county, it was changed to a station for the same and was governed by the office here. What effect this new regular office will have upon the rural delivery sys tem is not known, but it Is thought a few changes, of minor Importance, will necessarily be made. This is anV.her point gained in Weeksville's onward march to import ance, and its live, progressive people are on the alert for other desirable a-J-dltlons. ii ATE OYSTERS TO BEN EFIT FOOT-BALL TEAM. A most enjoyable event was given last evening at.. the A. C. I. building in the form of an oyster supper for the benefit of the A. C. I. football team. It was arranged by the young ladies of the school in appreciation of the efforts to be made by their "he- roes" on the gridiron this season und was a success in every particular. good crowd attending despite the oth er attractions of the evening. A neat sum was realized and will be used when uniforms and other par aphernalia for the team is purchased The A. C. I. is Bald to nave a strong team this year and will play the reg ular Elizabeth City team. TRUNK CLEW TO MURDER. Property of Kansas City Bride Slain Last Friday Located. Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 13. A clew In the mysterious murder of Mrs. Ella Christina Henson, whose body was found in the weeds in the southern part of the city on Sunday last, was discovered today in the finding of Mrs. Henson 's trunk at a boarding house in the downtown district. She was murdered on Friday night soon after she had married Charles Henson, who has since disappeared. v The woman's trunk found today bore evidence of having been robbed, It had beep taken to the boarding house on Thursday last, the day be fore the murder, by two men, one of whom had engaged a room for a week. Both of the men disappeared on the following day and no trace of them has been found. NO BATH FOR TWENTY YEARS, Complaint Against Husband in Iowa Wife's Bill for Divorce. Marshalltown, Iowa, Oct 13. Be cause, as the plaintiff alleges, her hus band has not bathed for twenty-two years, and, it is said, brags of the fact, Mrs. Phoebe Naumann, wife of a farmer,, today filed a petition for divorce. She asks the custody of seven minor children and $8,000 aili mony, or one-third of the defendant's property. Why suffer with tiredness, mean, cross feeling, no strength, no appe tite? Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea will make you well and keep you well 35 cents. Tea or Tablets, Standard Pharmacy. No. 1 lu the old days the highwa No. 2 Now he sits tn an easy chair Mr. You N Me falls over himself t Gattis-Kilgo Case Argued Raleigh, N. C. Oct. 13. Counsel are arguing before the Supreme Court the noted case of Gattis vs. Kilgo, in wh " the Rev. J. T. GaHis, sues President J. ('. Kilgo, of Trinity College, and 15. V. Duke for injury to his charac ter by reason of the publication of the proceedings of Trinity College some years ago. when President Kil go was acquitted of charges made by Judge-Walter Clark, Gattis and oth ers. The case is on appeal from an order of non-suit made at the last trial. Two former trials had result ed in verdicts of $20,000 and $15,000, new trials being obtained each time on appeal. The counsel in the argu ment have three hours on each side, in addition to the time taken in read ing the records, which are volumin ous. The principal arguments ar( made by eViovdrnor AyJcock, ex Judge R. W. Winston and James H. Pou, for Kilgo an 1 Duke; and W. A. Graham, C. B. Watson and Argo and Shaffer, for Gattis. REFUSED ROOM AT HOTEL. Westfield, N. J.. Man Brings Suit Against New Astor Manager for $10,000. New. York, Oct. 13. William S. Brown, of Wakefield, N. J., filed in the United States Circuit court hero to lay a suit for $10,000 damages against William C. Muschenheim, proprietor of the New Astor Hotel. Brown says that on the night of August 6 he. attended .the theater, in New York with his wife and was de layed so that he missed his last train home. He went to the hotel and ap- plied for a room, but it was refused to him. The hotel clerk, he says, intimated that Brown was with a lady not his lawful wife and refused him accommo dations in the presence of a number of guests in the hotel lobby in such a manner as to cause him $10,000 worth of damage to the feelings of his wife and himself. HERTFORD DIVINE WILL PREACH It is announced that the Rev. N. H. D. Wilson, the Methodist minister of Hertford, will occupy the pulpit of City Road church tomorrow both morning and night He is known as an able and eloquent man, and his congregations will be no doubt large. Rev. H. M. North, the regular pas tor, has been conducting a series of meetings in Hertford during the last week and will continue them a few days longer. At the other churches of the city the regular services will be conduct ed tomorrow, the regular ministers oc cupying the pulpits. The weather man says his part of it will be favorable and each church will bn filled. Mrs. J. J. Ferebee, of Shlloh, Is in tow a shopping today. yinan used to hunt for his victims. , calls his business "high finance," and o hand over the coin. World's Visible Cotton Supply New Orleans, Oct. 13. Secretary Hester's statement of the world's visi ble supply of cotton issued today shows the total visible to be 3,326,472, against 3,0!t0,704 last week and 2.41C-, 291 last year. Of this the total of American cotton is 2,589,572, against 2.351,704 last week and 1,917,291 last year. Of all other kinds, including Egypt, Brizal, India, etc., 737,000, against 739,000 last week and 499,000 last year. Of the world's visible sup ply of cotton there is now afloat and held in Great Britain and continental Europe 1,579,000, against 1,235,000 last year; in Egypt, 58,000, against 72,000 last year; in India, 433. OoO against 225,000 last year, and in the United States, 1.250,000, against 884.000 last yea.'. Made Big Sum On Cotton Leak New York, Oct. 13. The profits of the alleged conspirators in the opera tions based on the recent leak in the government cotton crop reports are placed at approximately $200,000, ac cording to an indictment presented in court today on the arraignment be fore United States Commissioner Ridgeway of Frederick A. Peckham and Moses Haas. According to charges made In this Hndlctment Edwin S. Holmes, Jr., as sociate statistician of the Department of Agriculture, received $65,017. The indictment which was found by a grand jury in Washington on Octo ber 3d, is against S. Holmes, Jr., and L. C. Van Riper, as well as against Haas and Peckham and charges all four collectively with having conspir ed to defraud by procuring advance information from Holmes concerning the government cotton crop report. It sets forth in full many copfs of tele grams and also of checks which pass ed the accused, tending to show that a conspiracy existed. " One of the checks, dated December 12, 1904, drawn on the Second Nation al Bank of Hoboken, and signed by Lewis C. Van Riper, calls for the pay ment of $24,250 to M. Haas, of which sum, it Is alleged, Haas paid Holes $14,250 in cash. Many other minor checks for sums ranging from $100 to $500 are set forth in the indictment In addition to another check signed by Van Riper and payable to Haas on the same bank for $38,292, dated De cember 31, 1904. Of this sumrit Is claimed, Holmes got $10,7G7. Counsel for the defense today mov ed for the discharge of the prisoners on the ground that the charges as al leged did not constitute an offense against the government The hearing on the motion was -adjourned until Oc tober 21st. Bail was fixed at $10,000 IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIES WILL BE CONDUCTED BY MAGNOLIA CAMP AT PORTSMOUTH IN ME MORIAM TO DECEASED MEM BERSABOUT FORTY LOCAL WOODMEN WILL ATTEND. The local order of Woodmen of the World as received the following In vitation: "Your camp Is cordially in vited to attend the unveiling ceremo nies of Magnolia Camp, No. 4 W. O. W.. at Portsmouth, Va., on Sunday af ternoon, October 15, at 3 o'clock in Oak Grove Cemetery, Portsmouth." The monuments to be unveiled are those to Jesse W. Bell. James II. Hun ter, Nathaniel J. Stephenson and Ber nard Stehl, who were four of the most prominent members of the order in Virginia. The ceremonies will be com posed of beautiful and Impressive feat ures and many lodges will be repre sented among the crowds that will at tend. The invitation to the local camp will meet with a full response, and tomorrow morning a!out 40 members, and a few others will meet at the Norfolk and Southern depot at 8:30 o'clock to take the train to Norfolk. THE ADVENT OF UP-TO-DATE RANtiES. A visit to the store of D. M. Jones Co., hardware dealers, of this city I yesterday, was conclusive evidence as 1 to the prosperity of our people. Not 1 long since, this store held a several day's display of fine cooking ranges demonstrating them by cooking in the store, These cooking ranges are a class of goods that could not be sold to but few of our people hertofore. They are now so reduced In price and our people are in so much better cir cumstances that this .class of goods are going in the homes of a great many of our people. Since house la borers are getting to be such an ob ject these cooking machines are great enconomizers and labor savers. We would suggest to Dennis the next dem onstration lie has. to get out his moth er's old big chimney with its pot tram mels, dinner pot, skellet, spider, creep er and such and get the old time black "mammy" to do the cooking and have this as a contrast to his now tip-to date ranges. A Y. M. C. A. TORROW. Rev. N. H. D. Wilson, a graduate oi Vanderliilt University. Nashville Tenn, and who was actively engager in Y. M. C. A. work among the stu dents while in college, will speak ft men at the Y. M. C. A. tomorrow af ternoon at three-thirty o'clock. Rev. Wilson is a very forcible speak er and no doubt will be heard by p large crowd. Prof. Scarborough, of the Albemarle High School, will speak to the boys at 2 o'clock. These meetings are grow ing in interest and the work that the boys are doing Is very commendable. DEATH OF MISS PATTIE RUSSELL Miss Pattie Russell, long a resident of this town and greatly beloved by all classes of our citizens for her amla bility, charity and good works, de parted this life in Denver, Colorado, on Thursday, aged about 70 years. She wa a good woman, in the high est and purest sense of that blessed attribute. She was kind, unselfish, and dutiful in all the relations of life. Literally, she loved herself last and was happiest when promoting the hap- plness of others. It Is no idle compliment to the departed to say that her quiet and un ostentatious life was a model for Im itation, for It was useful as unselfish. As the news of her death passes through her old home there will be one universal expression of sympathy and sorrow. She was of the communion of the Protestant Episcopal church, and through her long life of holiness shf "walked with God" and was His faith ful follower and servant Don't let the children suffer. If the; are fretful, peevish and cross, givi them Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea The best baby tonic known. Sstrengll and health follow its use. 35 cente Standard Pharmacy. t T -
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