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VOL. in.
BURLINGTON, N. C, MAY 3,191L
NO. 51
GIRLS AND BOVS ElOPE
FROM lENN.; COUBE
mmt BiiwEnE fmnb
hhbereh hi he woobs
Bristol, Tenn., April 27‘—After
an exciting flight during which
they were persued by the police
and professors in an automobile,
two young women students from
Sullens College, the b'g Metho
dist female college in this city,
were this evening married to two
prep students of King College, a
Bristol Presbyterian male college,
at Church Hill, Hawkins county,
Tenn. They were Miss Annie
Hams of Florida and Miss Eula
Mae Gavin of Alabama, and were
married to Samuel Wood and
Kent Kane, respectively.
The elopers left here yesterday
in an automobile and had several
hours start of the officers and col
lege professors before it was dis
covered that the girls were miss
ing. Time was lost in telegraph
ing along'the railroad to officers
to have them stopped, as it was
not thought that they had gone
overland. When it was found in
what direction the fleeing couples
had gone, officers and the college
professors impressed an auto into
service and started in hot persuit,
only to arrive at Church Hill five
minutes after the couples had
been married by Rev. W. C.
Crockett.
The boys slipped the girls out
of the college a few evenings ago
and took an auto ride. They were
promptly expelled, but were be
ing held until their parents could
be heard from. Realiziner their
responsibility for the girls’ plight,
the boys arranged the double and
sensational elopement, and with
out being detected the four left
overland in an automobile.
The girls are 17 and 19 years
of age, respectively, and the boys
each about a year older. The
elopers have not yet returned. It
is said that the boys maj' be pros
ecuted.
Lakewood, N. J., April 28.—
Mrs. Charles Turner, a pretty
brunette of middle age, was found
murdered in the woods behind a
studio building on Fulton street
this afternoon. The woman’s
face had btjen beaten in by a big
club which lay nearby, stained
with blood.
The body was found by Arnold
Turner, a nephew, who was out
searching for his aunt, who had
been missing since Wednesday,*
when she left her home to deliver
some dress5s to women inmates
of a local sanitarium. Her hus
band, who is an employe on the
estate of George Gould, had hunt
ed in vain for her for two days.
Young Arnold came upon the
body lying in a pool of blood, in
dicating that she had been killed
where she was found. A negro
was arrested at Farmdale late
this afternoon on suspicion that
he knew something of the mur
der, but established a satisfactory
alibi and was released.
SIX SPANIARDS HILLED
BY MEXICAN REBELS
ENGiNER PINIONED UN
DER OVERTURN ENOINE
MYSTERIOUS WILD MAN
EAPTU8ED IN TEXAS
SMOKING CIGAKETTE IN BED
WOMAN SETS SELF li FiRE
Philadelphia, Pa., April 28.—
Indulgence in a cigarette as she
lay in bed early to day will cost
the life of Mrs* Catherine Hawk,
26 years old, a bride of less than
a year. She is dying in St Ag
nes hospital. The woman’s hus
band, traveling salesman is in
Baltimore, and has been sum
moned to her bedside.
Mrs. Elizabeth Goebel, who
rented a room in her South Ca
meo street house to the Hawks,
was arroused by the woman's
screams, and rushing into the
room, found her writhing on the
floor in pain, her night clothes in
flames. The bed had been con
verted into a funeral pyre from
which the shrieking woman had
hurled herself. Mrs. Hawks told
the police she was smoking a ci
garette in bed. She must have
fallen asleep, she said, and the
cig’arette set the bed afire...
Greensboro, April 29.—While
speeding along the Atlantic and
Yadkin track, four miles South of
Greensboro, this afterno6n at 4
o’clock, a freight engine over
turned and pinioned under it En
gineer R. B. Feirell of this city,
breaking both his ams and one
leg and otherwise badly injuring
and bruising him. For three
hours the injured man lay crush
ed under the engine, though he
never lost consciousness and was
able to direct the men in the work
of digging him from under the
engine and Temoving him to the
waiting train, which brought hii®
to Greensbaro. Upon reaching
Greensboro after dark,the wound
ed man was carried to St. Leo’s
hospital, where he was attended
by surgeons, the broken bones set
and his other injuries attended,
The physifclans express the ot)in-
ion that Mr. Ferrell will recover.
The engine of the Sanford and
Mount Airy passenger train had
stalled at Climax and a call was
made on Greensboro for an engine
to help move the train. The en
gine was obtained and Conductor
Steve Crews and Engineer Fer
rell put in charge with C. N.
Conrad as fireman. The engine
had tiothing but a tender attach
ed and was moving away from
town at a good rate of speed.
Neas Vandalia, for some unac
countable reason, the engine over
turned and fell on it§ right side.
Conductor Crews escaped unin
jured and Fireman Conrad only
received a slight bruise on one
hand.
Mexico City, April 26.—Six
Spaniards were shot and killed
Monday at the Haciend A tencigo.
in the State Puebla, by a small
band of rebels, following their
refusal to contribute .5,000 pesos
to the insurgent cauise. Atencigo
is the hacienda where the rebels
some days ago, secured a quanti
ty of rifles, considerable ammuni
tion and 25,000 pesos. On ac
count of that loss the owner of
the hacienda, Angel Dia;'. Rubin,
a Spaiard, announced his inten
tion of demanding an indemnity.
The band of rebels on Monday
entered a house where nine em
ployes were assembled, Thereb'
els demanded money and werdre-
fused. They then attacked the
Spaniards with machetes and
drove them from the house, cry
ing out, “Run for We are going
to shoot you.” As they, ran six
of the Spaniards dropped with
bullets in their bodies. The rea
son assigned by the rebels
for the onslaught is that
a Spaniard gave information of
their whereabouts to the author
ities which had been pressing
them. The news of the shooting
was received here this vnorning
and immediately>the Sparish min
ister called at the Foreig^n office.
UNCLE SAIM BOESN^I LIKE
VICE-PHESIDENTOFIREXIH)
TRAIN WRECKED AND ELEVEN
PEOPLE BURNED IN. RUINS
Houston, Tex., April 26.-Re
ports have been received from
Marlin, Tex., of the capture of a
“wild man," who has been ter
rorizing that -vicinity for several
months.^ The capture was made
by Sheriff Poole, who is at a loss
to kpow what to do with his
charge, irom whom he could se
cure no information.
For several months a mysteri-
cus person had been reported to
tlje officers. ' The inf onrj.ation de
scribed him as the prover bial wild
man of the circus, but i;horough
search was uriavailing. It was
thought that the stery was only
an illusion, the reports, heiretb-
fore commg from negrces.
Recently the sheriff ^\^as noti
fied by white persons of the cer
tainty of the existence of the
“wild man.'* The intruder vis
ited a farm House and compelled
two little girls to\;ook seme food
for him, but he offered no vio
lence. He disappeiired ttiat day,
but officers discovered a cave
'^hich had the appearance bf hu
man habitation. Ashes, bones,
leaves and straw were found
scattered about, the later for bed
ding.
The officers lay in wait and
that night captured the man as
he entered his cave. His cloth
ing was torn into tatters, his per
son neglected and his hair ten
inches long, han^i:ig beslow his
shoulders, while his beard indica
ted a growth of indefinite period.
He offered no resistance and was
taken to jail. Nothing i« known
of him he refuses to talk and the
officers are at a loss to determine
his disposal.
Washington^ April 28. —The re
ported declaration of Ramon Cor
ral, vice-president of Mexico, that
Americans were fomenting trou
ble in his country iri order to force
intervention, has encountered the
disfavor of the United States
government. The state depart
ment has called the riiatter to the
attention of Mexico in order to
establish offieia,lly whether the
interview with the vice-president
in which the statements excepted
to are said to have been made,
was authentic, as published in
Mexico City. The question will
be taken up by Arabiassadior Wil-
spn, at Mexico City, to whom the
department telegraphed late to
day a copy of an official states
nierit which it had issued une-
quivocably dlsapprovmg the al
leged utterances. The statement
expresses the confident bfelief of
the department that the Mexican
foreign office will promptly “re
pudiate and prevent the promul
gation of any such statements,
calculated so seriously to disturb
the mutual confidence and friend-
ly good uhderstanding between
the two peoples. ”
AT nonf MUM N c
TO RECOVER BIBLE HE
LOST ON BAniEEIELO
Raleigh, April 27.—Adjutant
General Leinster, of th3 North
Carolina National Guard, receiv
ed an appeal yesterday from
Charles E. LaGrand, of Salem,
Mass., askinghis aid in locating
the ov/ner of a pocket Bible that
is in his possession that was pick
ed up on the Civil War ba ttlefield
around Newberne at that time
and bears the inscriptior;. ‘^Lt.
C. A. Boon, Company D. 35th,
North Carolina Infantry, Dec.,
'01; presented by Mrs. C. K,
Caldwell. ” Now it develops that
Lieutenant Boon is still living at
Eion College, being a retired
Christian minister. A son. Dr.
. H. Boon, is a well known
physician of Durham. Lieuten
ant Boon was qnite a young man
the army and is a native of
Chatham county. There will
doubtless be speedy steps taken
place the lost Bible in the
l^rtnds of this veteran Find the
fitory of its loss will yo awalted
'^'-'ith interest.
. The girl in w'hite is our unfail-
sign of the arrival of spring.
BOLD NEORO WBGUR
CAUGHT AT ASHEVILLE
Asheville, April 21.-Tip-toe
ing in bare feet into the residence
of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Gwenby
at No. 88 Chestnut street, a ne
gro, alleged to be Daniel Moody,
was discovered by Mr. Owenby
shortly after 2 o’clock this morn
ing as the negro poked his head
into the sleeping apartm«*nt of
Mr. and Mrs Owenby on the sec
ond floor of the residence. Mr,
Owenby jumped out of bed and
chased the negro downstairs, In
the descent the negro fell iii
turning an an^le of the stairv/ay
and skinned his face.
He made his getaway through
the front door, but was arrested
this morning by Police Captain
Lominac and Patrolman Fred
Jones. It was a bold burglary
and in ,the event the crime is fas
tened on the negro under arrest
he will likely meet death in the
electric chair. -
A ticket bought in 1882 from
the Central Pacific Railway was
presented to Conductor M^tin
O’Neil last week by aged woman
who boarded a Southern Pacific
train at Oaksdale, Cal. ^ The con
ductor accepted the ticket
the old wdman rode to Stockdale.
Easton, Pa., April 29.'—Three
persons lost their lives, eight are
missing and believed to be dead
and half a hundred others were
injured this afternoon at Mar-
l^;\?S„"t;k‘‘kS\gJ'LONGWOHTB MAY SUCCEED
school teachers and friends Irom
Utica and Syracuse, N. Y., and
vicinity to Washington for a
week’s outing.
The train was one furnished the
teachers by the Delaware Lacka
wanna and Western Railroad and
the accident occurred while it was
traveling at a high rate of speed
over a stretch or track cohtrotled
by the Pennsylvania Kaiirontl.
The locomotive jumped thetrac^,,
the cars followed, toppled over
and were set on fire by exploding
oil, the wrecken cars having sido-
swiped an oil tank along Liie
track when they left the rails.
The entire train was quickly
enveloped in flames and c('mplete-
ly consumed by the fire. The
eight missing persons, "S^even of
whpm were women and , lived in
Utica, are believed to have Been
turaed to death in the wreckabe.
The finding of charred bones led
the railroad wrecking crews to
the conclusion that they are dead.
GIVES THE HINmEI
A SOUNB THIASHING
Miss Edna Graves Entertaiued.
Miss Edna Graves delightfully
entertained a number ’of her
friends Friday night at the home
of her parents on Front Street.
Amusing games were played and
delightful refreshments fierved.
Those present were Misses Mabel
Elhs, Sue Mebane* Nonie Moore,
Lizzie and Julia Fogleraan and
Blanche Story. Messrs Summie
and Charles Sharpe, Edgar and
Ernest Holt, Harry Hedgepeth,
Bob Lincoln, Henry F'kjming,
Vitus Holt and Geo. Isley.
Washington, April 20.—Al
though President Taft has not de
cide definitely on a successor to
Ambassador Hill at Berlin, one
name tjjiat he is expected to con
sider is that of Representative
Longworth, of Ohio. It; is un
derstood that Mr. Longworth is
willing to enter the diplomatic
service, having spent all the time
in politics that he desires. Eloth
lie and Mrs. Longworth, who was
Miss Alice Roosevelt, are intimate
friends of the president.
One objection that raight be
made to Mr. Longworth’s ap
pointment to so important a post
is that be is inexperienced in
diplomatic affairs. If he is not
sent to Berlin the probabilities
are that he will get seme other
post that is considered less im
portant.
Tackey Pairty.
The Womans Guild of the Epis
copal Church will have a “Tackey
Party” at the Brick Warehouse
Friday night May 12th. Admis
sion to all 25 cents. Ice cream
and cake served free. Four pri
zes given for the man. woman,
boy, and girl wearing the tackiest
costume, to be decided by five
selected judges. Everybody in
vited to come in costumes in 1:ime
for the grand entre at 8:30.
Meat 10c at Coble’s Grocery.
Burlington’s New Mayor.
J. H. Freeland, Independent, electe^d Mayor
over W.K.Holt.D0 mocfat.
Suffolk, Va., April 28.-Claim
ing that undue influence was ex
ercise over his steprmother, Mrs.
John M. Gay, bjr Rev Mr. Bray,
of Windsor, Va. , which causea
her to give him money and jewels,
-John Letcher Gay, a wholesale
lumber dealer, of Suffolk, Wei
nesday gave the clergyman a
merciless thrashing and then or
dered him to leave town within
twenty-J^ftur hours.
T^he minister has been conduct
ing services at Wihdsoi;^ his fol
lowers beiiig called “The Sahcti-
Ified Band. ” Mrs. Gay.Vaccord-
ing to her s6n, rave tlie |nmister
a watch formerly the property of
her husband, and the ; preacher
sold it in a Suffolk shpp.:^
Mrs. Gay had a long distance
message from Windsor this even
ing saying Bray had left there,
but whether permanently or not
could not be learned.
Wilmington, April 27,^The
Pullman car “Yucc^” attached
to the Palmetto Limited, nortK-
bound Atlantic Coast Line train,
was lt)umed at an early hour this
morning at the depot at Rocky
Mount and M. J. Probstein, a
ti^velii^ salesnaan of New York,
was suffocated, while Fia^^nan J.
C. Russ and Mail IVansfer Clerk
W: F. Ireland were badly burn
ed in assistmg in getting the pas-
^ngers from the car.
The fire started from a leaking
gas tank, being ignited from a
lantern carried by a biakeman.
The alarm was at once given
within the car and the sleeping
passengers hurried out. It wa«
^thought that every one had got
out safely, but when firemen
went into the car to extinguish
the flames Probstein was foun4
a,nd several firemen were over
come in endeavoring to get MrR
out. When removed he ww
breathing, but died a few min
utes lateri although medical at«
tention was at hand. Probstein
was 30 years old and traveled for
M. Finkelstein & Son, New York,
Ten passengers were asleep in
the car, among the number being
three women and one ^rl. Only
a part of their belongings wem
saved.
The pullman / destroyed was
what is Icnovra is tlie Floarenoe-
Richmond c^. Probstein was a
passenger from Charleston td
Richmond and boarded the pull
man at Florence. The injured
men Were carried to the hospital
at Rocky Mount.
New York. April 27.—IM
Jicob Frdbstein, a bride of four
months, was just about to start
South today to nieet hef husband
in Richmpnid, Ya,* toitnprrow
when she was hbtlfi^^, b^ Me-
plione ths^t he hail been killed.
She left tonight with her fatb-er
and brother-in-lav/ to bring thf*
body home.
fiiSili
OTHER PROrERn BIIRNEI
NEGLECTED TO TAKE OUT
UCENSE TO HANDLE UpyOR
Raleigh, April 29.—A sensation
was created here today when rev
enue officers seized four barrels
of bottled yirhiskey in the news
stand refreshment store ef W. G.
Poland in the Academy of Music
building. Poland came here from
Atlanta and purchased the place.
He told the officers he had just put
off negligently taking out a gov
ernment license to handle liquors,
but* he dees hot explain what he
contempkted doing about the
State prohibition lav?^. That there
was a consignment of three car
loads of whiskey brought to Ral
eigh Friday, is the p^itive dec
laration of parties; to government
officials today. Edward Denton,
for many years a leading saloon
keeper here, is the bondsman for
Poland. ’
XUSBING VOUNG WOHAN
IB NEW yflBK cnv
Concord, April 27.—This mOTH^
ing about 3 o’clock the large new
barn of C. R. Montgomery, situa
ted op his farm in No. 2 town
ship, about five miles from this
city, was, destroyed by fire.
There Were five muleS burned to
death, worth in the aggregate
about $1,000, A lot of eorn and
roughness, three tons of fertilizer
and oth^r property was also con*
sumed. There was $590 insur
ance on the ^ barm and contents,
and the loss fe probably three
times that iianount. No clue as
to the cfitijtin of the fire hai
been found.
St; Paul, Minn., April 2f7.'-'A
special car to the Chicagod, Mil
waukee and St. Paul road with
Miss Helen Daly, daughter of the
late Marcus Day. “The Copper
King,” of AnacondaJ Mopt., on
board passed through St. Paul to-
day, rushing the young woman to
New "licork City, where an oplira-
tion will be perfomied: which it
is hoped will result in saving her
life. ' '■■‘I
The utmost secrecy Is main-r
tained as to the nature of the
young woman’s aijment, but it is
known that she is in a dangerous
condition. Two physicians and
several nurses are on the traini
we’d
If we were Miss. _
be ashamed of purselves lor
ting winter linger there so long.
m IAN OVER SOI
New York, April 29.—Glusepp
Bougroct, an Italian cigarmak^,
who saw his three-year-old boy
trampled fatally beneath, tlw
hoofs of truck horses tonight,
took siummary vengeance upo|t
the driver, William^rugman,'by
pouring four bullets from a xe-
volver into his body. The driver
fell dead from his seat almost in*
to the arms of a policeman, and
a mob ef ^000 perisons bent upou
punishing hinr: at first * stool
aighast at the shooting, then set
furiously upon the sldyer. Re
serves rescued him uhoooscioui
and he was^takeh to a hc4Bpitai
then lodged itfjailon a chaii:e Of ^
murder. The child dieillateto^
Trotinweod Mill Sol8,
The property of the TrolinwocSI
Manufacturing Company^ ibank-
rupt, Of Haw River was sdld last
Monday, on the premises-to Capt
J, W^ Frye of Greensboro for
$28,000.00 The property sold
consisted of 3,000 >i)indles, 14ft
looms, brick,^ton mill, 16 dwell
ings, 50 acres of land, store hou^
efec. The sale is r Jiowev.at'
for advanoe bid and .is suhjeel ito
court confimation.