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" ft HE DAILY! nil-.-- CONOMI NO. 3. ELIZABETH CITY. N. C FRIDAY. OCT. 20. I'05. VOL. ft. Night Schools Pastor Of One Church 22 Years Husband Shoots ' Wife and Self Pres. Addresses Durham People Well Attendd t5 J 1 : w m REV. JOSIAH ELLIOTT. PASTOR OF HERTFORD BAPTIST CHURCH, WILL DELIVER FIRST SERMON OF 23RD SUCCESSIVE YEAR NEXT SUNDAY HE HAS CON VERTED AND BAPTIZED MANY. Kev. Josiah Elliott, one of the best known and most able ministers In this part of the State, Is Just entering his twenty-third year as pastor of the Hertford Baptist church. His twenty second year In thnt capacity ended dining the present week and next Sun day he will preach the first sermon In the twenty-third year. Twenty-two years ago he was or dained at the Chapel Hill church and at once accepted a call to the Hertford church. During his long ministry he has missed delivering his regular weekly sermons only a few times; with one or two probable exceptions he has converted and baptized more people than any minister In the dls trlet and married more couples, some of them being present members r church who were not born when he ac cepted the call thereto. His great goodness is a proverb among all who know him, and it has been many times said by numerous people that in their belief he is a Christian if there is one on earth. He has preached on numerous occa sions in this city, where he is well known. Boy Bigamist Wearing Stripes New Orleans, Oct. 19. The young est bigamist on record reached the Mississippi penitentiary today In the person of William Gray. Gray Is only "seventeen years of age and has been married more than a year, and leaves two wives and a baby In his home county of Tippah. He will not rejoin them until 1907. In the same gang was Gus Stack, also of Tippah county, eighteen years old, and sentenced to twelve years In the penitentiary for arson and rob bery, and Will Jones, of Marshall county, who, although only twenty one years of age, Is serving his second term In the penitentiary, this time for burglary. The three are said to con- : stitute the youngest penitentiary gang eve; known. Washington. Oct. 19. Harry J. Ev erett, a carpenter, thirty-four years old, In a jealous rage last night, shot his wife Margaret twice In the breast over the heart and once In the mouth and then committed suicide by shoot ing himself twice In the mouth. The tragedy occurred in the dark hallway of a house at 3042 H street northwest, where the woman had been rooming. Mrs. Everett died In the arms of Po liceman McDermott, in a patrol wag on, while being hurried to Georegtown Hospital, anJ her husband died an hour after being admitted there. The couple had been married abou. a year, and had not lived happily to gether. About four weeks ago the young wife deserted her husband, ind. It is said, made known her love fo;- a soldier stationed at Fort. Myer. Slu: said she engaged a room at the H street house In order to be near the fort. Everett traced her yesterday to the house, and after four attempts suc ceeded in gaining admittance, lying in wait for her in a dark corner. Found Lying in Each Others' Arms. "I have found you, and we are j'o Ing to go together." he exclaimed. He drew a 32-caIibre revolver and shot her down, and then turned the weapon upon himself. A few minutes later two policemen found the coupl3 gasping In agony, the woman lying on the floor on her back, and the man with his head on her breast and his arms partly around her shoulders. They were covered with blood. An empty revolver lay beside them. i Durham, X. ('.. Oct. 19. ITeMileni Roosevelt arrived here from Halelgh ill I LIU V, IV II,,.. Hln I ll.'.ill. ... though his train was scheduled to re main but live minutes, there was a largo crowd at the station to receive him. He made a brie J address from the rear platform of his car, and amid cheers the train pulled out for Greens boro, where It Is scheduled to arrive at 4 p. ni. The president has as his i guests during his tour through North Carolina, Lieutenant Governor Win ston, Senators Simmons and Overman and Col. A. H. Andrews, vice-president of the Southern railway. liLii'STRATED LIFE IN Sl'KANCE i ESTIMON". This gentle and timid reader, is only a snapshot on pay-day at one of our great insurance companies. Capt. Massey Uses Pistol On Desperate Convict LOCAL MATTERS BRIEFLY TOLD. "INTERMEDIATE BASKET-BALL1 TEAMS, The gymnasium classes for boys at the Y. M. C. A. have been divided Into Intermediates, boys from 14 to 16, and juniors on Wednesday and Saturdays have also been changed so that the Intermediates will meet Tuesdays and Thursdays, at 4:30 p. m.. and the junior on Wednesdays and Saturdays a usual. The Intermediates have organized their basket-ball teams. No. 1. Rollinson, captain, Cook, Pap pendick, Sheep, Wood. No. 2. Parker, captain; Cropsey, Lamb, Greenleaf, Spence. No. 3. Martin, captain; Aydlett, .Jewell, Grice, Cox. BRIDE ARRESTED ON HER WEDDING DAY. New York, Oct. 19. An alleged plot to thwart a marriage by having the bride placed under arrest as she and her prospective husband stood before the minister who was to perform tha ceremony is being discussed by friends of Miss Nora de Remer, ot Washington, N. J., who was wedded to Philip Russel Wolfe at the home of her parents yesterday. . Miss de Remer was arrested, but through the courtesy of Recorder J. R. LIndaberry the warrant was served In time to enable her to go to court and return without delaying the ceremony. The arrest followed a public "shak ing" imposed by her upon the youth ful daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Rush. Miss de Remer chastised the girl, it Is charged, because she made uncomplimentary references to Mr. Wolfe. Miss de Remer was accom - panted to the court room by her father And released under $100 ball. The mechanics, under the direction of Contractor Hayman, have now near: ly finished the work of repairing the big three master on which they have been working for several weeks, and she will soon see service again. Messrs. Quinn & Co. have now in stalled a full stock of furniture in their store room on Water street, and have energetically commenced the fight for a share of the trade. The owners are Kinston men and long ex perience has made them familiar with the furniture business. In ' Mayor Leigh's court it is now unusually dull, a trial of any nature being a rare occurrence. During the past month the violators of the ordin ances have let up almost entirely, or else the police fall to get wise, ant! Mayor Leigh walks to the municipal building mornings at 9 o'clock mostly for exercise. Hundreds of bales of cotton are now being hauled to this city each week from all parts of the section where cotton grows. It arrives by the boat load from the lower sounds counties and by the cart and wagon load from the other directions. Some of it is sold to the factory here, but the great er part is shipped. WELDON SUTTON WA ON HIM WITH HEAVY BOIE UPRAISED, BUT MASSEY COOLY SHOT BOTTLE TO FRAGMENTS PRISONER WAS BEAT INTO SUBMISSION. Squirrels Furnish? ing Royal Sport Local huntsmen are now finding roy al sport In hunting squirrels in tha woods of the section where they are found in large numbers. Some of the parties bring back as many as fifty as the result of a two day's hunt. On the twentieth of next month the game law for the county will be lifted and parjridge hunting will commence. The trap shooters who have broke many clay pigeons in the competitive shoot, will then see If they can hit "feathers" as well. Partridge shoot lng is permitted in several of the ad jacent counties earlier than in Pas quotank and the local shooters will open the season in Camden. Every year there are just a few who are over anxious to eat partridges and the game wardens areon the watch for them. Mrs. Geo. E. Stevenson, of Shaw boro, is among the shoppers today. Mr. Geo. Bright, of Parksvillc, is In the city today. , : Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea is positive, never nauseates or upsets the stomach. . Cleanses and purifies the entire system. . A $ret blessing to suffering humanity. 35 cents. Tea or Tablets. Standard Pharmacy. The discipline of the chain-gang anil Capt. Massey's nerve were given a se- .vereu.,sl .Wednesday.aud Thursday I when a negro named Weldon Sutton, known as the most desperate charatf ter in the section, rebelled and swore that there was not. a white man on earth who could make him work, which statement he followed by an attempt to overpower the guard. By a quick shot from the weapon of Capt. Massey the negro was foiled and he was later whipped into perfect sub mission. Capt. Massey said he believed that four or five of the negroes had plan ned to make a rush for freedom and that Sutton was to lead them, but he was handled in such a quick and deci sive manner that not another man moved outof position. Wednesday morning at the camp of the gang, just after they had finished breakfast,- the men- hai been ordered to get into the wagon which was to carry them down the road. Sutton said he would not go, and seizing a quart bottle of carbolic acid used at the camp for medicinal purpose!, was rushing on Capt Massey to beat him down. In a flash his pistol was in his hand and the bottle was shattered by a lightning shot even as it was raised to strike, and Sutton was wounded in RUSHING j the hand. A chain wa:; the;i placed .' i around his neck and another around ground. He was carrier. 10 the camp, his back bared am' one ! ?.'!? men vis orously applied ' i. Iedth"r strap. At each blow the iicit.o wnui.i cu .c tliem and tell them to kill iiiin. !l was evi dent he was no: being hurt much anil Capt. Massey examined his back and found the surface of the tough black skin perfectly unruffled. He then se cured a buggy trace wlrch he doubled and applied to the raving negro with great enercrv. When ftvr--blows-had been struck, each of which made a t ' " Winter, Sutton yelled he would sub mit, but he wits given a few more. He worked doggedly al! day, and yester day 'morning he was given another se- vere beating with the doubled trace. Now it is said lie is work'ng as will ingly as the other men. Capt. Massey knows well the des perate nature of Sutton and has de termined to tame him for at. least eight months, which is his sentence, and that he will succeed is not doubt ed. He treats the .men with kindness and great justice as long as they be have and work, but when they revolt In any way, he-simply administers a bit of force and they keep on work ing. His fairness has won nearly all of them, a good example of which Is the fact that one man's sentence ex pired several days ago,- but he has re fused to stop work. He has picked out several "trusted" men, who could escape at any time, but they have never yet made the attempt. If Sutton Is conquered It will be more than the Edgecomb county gang could do for him, for he simply walk ed away from that. Principal, features in the gple educational' condition of the city the two night schools, one at t M. C. A. and the other conducts Prof. R. U. Creecy at his school hi on Road street. The currlculun the first mentioned embraces alll commercial studies, with the ex tlon of banking and commercial i So Quickly is Tragedy Enacted That j whe thn) of ,he ,atter ,a com08( CAR DRIVES BONES INTO MAN'S HEART SCHOLARSHIP ROLL8 OF Y. M A. BUSINESS SCHOOL AND PR R. B. CREECY'S PRIVA SCHOOL STEADILY LENGTH ING BOTH ACCOMPLISHING GREAT WORK. Woman in Elevator Fails to See It. Now York. Oct. 19. Daniel Sweeney thirty-five, employed at the St. Hu bert, a fashionable apartment house at No. 122 West Fifty-seventh street, was crusneii to ueain uy ine iiubuchkci elevator of the house yesterday while attempting to fix the weights of the freight elevator, which occupies a twin shaft alongside of the passenger elevator shaft. So quickly was the tragedy enacted that a woman who was being shown apartments by Chief Clerk Marcotte, of the house, and who was in the pas senger elevator, did not know the ac cident had occurred. Sweeney, a new employe, was sent to relieve the regular freight elevator man, and was taking the baggage on the ear to the top floor, when the car stuck at the seventh floor. He reach ed from the freight car across the passenger car shaft and unlocked the seventh floor passenger shaft gate, and then went through the freight shaft gate and around to the passen ger shaft gate to adjust a wheel oper ating the weights of the freight car. As he reached across the passenger car shaft the passenger car started to descend from the eleventh floor."" Sweeney heard the car coming nnd sprang back; but the elevator struck him across the back, bore him to the edge of the floor In the gateway and, breaking his rlbs drove the bones into his heart. the regular common school studlet is Interesting to note that the s arship roll of each is being constn lengthened, which proves the or' tunltles thus offered the young v ing men are duly appreciated. scholarship of Prof. Creecy's s has nearly doubled itself within past few weeks, and although it t ed last year, It is larger now j ever Deiore. ri ne students are f the same careful attention end el i instruction the clay scholars rec' and the school Is accomplish!) great work. . . . am me classes or ine otner tsj are very encouraging, ana snort 1 typewriting, bookkeeping, telegr and all the others are being taug! a manner most competent. ' 1 Use Air Ships To Gather Corn There are now on exhibition a store of P. VV. Mellck, on Water s a couple of plants, which if sho' leaves, etc., would be mlstakei V bamboo trees, but which really corn stalks sent from the farm r Preston Swindell, In Hyde county' stalks are of the dwarf variety;! .i TRIUMPH ARCH FOR TOGO. Admiral and 3,000 of His Men Worship a Temple of Ise. Tokyo, Oct. 19. Admfral Togo is ex pected to arrive in Tokyo October 22. Extensive preparations are being made for his reception. ( A huge tri umphal arch is in the course of con struction before the Shimbashi rail road station. A dispatch from Yamada, Ise Prov ince, reports that Admiral Togo and the admirals under his command, with their staffs and 2,000 armed and 1,000 unarmed sailors and marines, proceed ed today to the Temple of Ise to wor ship, making a most impressive sight. Stricken. Blind But Was Ignorant Of It WIFE GOT CALLER TO BEAT HIM, REPLY TO HER SUIT. New York, Oct. ft. "My wife had several failings, chiefly a tendency to fall in love (With every gentleman I took to my-home, .an uncontrollable desire to throw. at me household arti cles, the heavjerthe better, nd a pre ference for the strongest intoxicating liquors. She onee got one of her call ern to beat me." "Thomas Jenks, .member of the An- sonia Clock Company, said this yester day in the Supreme Court, said this yesterday in the Supreme, Court Brooklyn, in answer to the motion of his wife, Mary J. Jenks, for $20 a week alimony and $500 counsel fee, pending the trial of her action for separation. Mrs. Jenks. charged her husband with having continually beaten her an used violent language from the day of their marriage in Stratfordshlre, Eng land, August 7, 1885, to August 10, last when she said, she was in such fear for her life that she was forced to leave him. and go to her summer home In Sullivan fcounty. ' Mr.. Jenks made a general denial, a'nd said that Mrs. Jenks had done a'l in her power to "drive him to an ear ly grave." . i Jenks is fifty-three and his wife 4 ty-eigtrt ' year3 old. Six years ago, Jenksfsald,' he purchased a house in Flatbush and deeded 't to his wife, a "fatal error." he deelired. He said he introduced her to a few friends, and j other eye , that she at once bes-sn receiving pres- j She had partly recovered from the ents, letters and money from all of effects of this second attack when one Binghamton, Oct. 19. The peculiar misfortune of Mrs. Sarah Hartwell, of Edwards street, has aroused the sym pathy of her friends. Indirectly as a result of a shock at the ac dental death of her grand niece, Mrs. Hart well Is now totally blind. About a year ago she suffered from a slight stroke of paralysis which re suited In the loss of the sight of one of her eyes. Aside from that she had al most recovered from the effects of that Illness until she v heard Laura Hard had been killed by a Dayton & Hamilton train at Coblesklll. She wa so overcome she Suffered a second paralytic stroke, which affected her is, in Hyde, and are only fifteer; tall. Some of the full size would been sent If there had been ro the boat for them. Someone tf stand the stalks up in the sto the walls were not high enou, several feet. J A question was asked as to ho ears from the stalks were gat and Mr. Mellck said the farmen there are provided with air ship leave was asked to differ with h another who said only balloonj used, especially when the fod, stripped. The stalks were not i. ed, but are just plain, Hyde c corn, in a field of which small could grow unobserved. , J To the people of Pasquotank, J the whole corn plant goes int and fodder, the stalks are wot' and some of the normal size ) create more attention than "drawfc" have. WANTED TO KILL ATTORNEY JEF, them. Once, he said, he found her enter taining one of these friends in the kitchen, and ursed the visitor to beat her husband, which was' done.' .lonk's says he bore the marks of the attack for several weeks. The husband also said that In Au gust she sold his house and told him to go to a hospital or some other Insti tution for life. Justice Maddox reserv ed decision. morning she awoke and thought it must be late, but it was so dark she decided that it must be extremely cloudy and ra'nlng. She arose and struck a match to see what time It was. ror some reason the match did not appe.nfr to burn, but she continued to hold it until it burned he finger. Then she discovered the match had been lighted, but that she was totally blind and could not see the burning match or the bright daylight. Intoxicated Man Said That Pros' Had Not Paid Him for Testlrr j New York, Oct. 19. An atte.'i batter down the oor of the o ' District Attorney W. T. Jero made today by Jacob Meyer, w he wanted to kill Mr. Jerome. i attacked the door before the; attorney's arrival and was C the police trying to get thrc panels and shouting that Mrj ' had failed to pay him sufflck for his services as a witnes? "red light" investlgatiops a fev' Pgo. .- When Meyer was arrested : of morphine and a hypodermic were found in his possession. lice recognized him as a man ' tilled for the prosecution agp' spector Gross. Captain Herlii Wardman Reagan In the "re ' district disclosures by Mr. Jero was arraigned in the police con charge of intoxication and d! conduct and was sentenced months' imprisonment on Bl;' island. ' It fille the arteries with blood. Makes new flesh an.' men and women. That's wl ter'sRocky Mountain Tea w,. cents, Tea or Tablets. Stau V macy.
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