THE CAt7CASlA!t.
tThsreday, Js&sary 12,
State Netfs.
Mr. W. E. GriSn died Tuesday
morning In a Wilion sanitarium.
Three women made their escape
from the Wilton Jail Sunday night.
The Independent is the name of a
new paper now being - published in
Durham.
Her. If. H. Phelps, rector of Grace
Episcopal Church, at Weldon, died
Monday night, aged fifty-eight.
The Methodist parsonage at Tay
loraville was burned Monday morn
ing. Her. W. O. Davis loit hia li
brary in the fire.
Perry Hewitt, a well-known farm
er, who lived'six miles from Newton,
In Catawba County, dropped dead
Friday while cutltng wood in his
yard.
There are eighty-eight cases of
small-pox in Durham, and there are
said to be fifteen cases In Granville
County.
Bert a Green, the four-year-old
daughter of Mr. Charles Green, of
Durham, died Saturday afternoon
from burns received while playing
near a fire.
Mr. Allen J. Ruffln, of Hillsboro,
died Sunday night in a hospital in
Philadelphia. Mr. Ruffln was presi
dent of the Eno Cotton Mills at Hills
boro, and was for a time president
of the Carolina Trust Co., in Raleigh.
The Greensboro Telegram of Tues
day says: "Mrs. Hallie Winfree, of
Summerfield, met with a most hor
rible death Sunday morning when
seated by an open fireplace at home.
She, in some manner unaccounted
for, caught fire and burned to death.
She was eighty-three years of age,
and no one was in the room at the
time."
THRKE XEGRO CrnLDREX BCRX-
pArraU If mI Lcf t Them Locked to
Their Home-Mather Arrested.
FayelteYllle, X. C. Jan. 7, Three
small children of Arabclie Giirnore.
colored, were burned to death by fire
in the home of their parents on
Broad Street, in this city, last night.
The boue, which was in that section
of the city known as Campbell ton.
was found to be on fire about 11 J
o'clock, and when the firemen en
tered the house the bodies of the
three children were found, charred
with fiames.
The parents of. the little ones, who
were aged 2, 4 and 6 years old, had
left them In charge of an older boy,
with instructions that if they had not
returned at 10 o'clock he might leave
the children. If they were asleep,
which he did. The boy declares be
left no fire in the house and did not
lock the door, though an aged negro
man. living nearby, who discovered
the fiames, says the door was locked.
so as to compel him to break out a
window in an attempt to gain an en
trance to the building, which was pre
vented by the intense smoke. The
house was consumed.
General Neifs.
Fayetteville, N. C, Jan. 8. Ara
belle Gilmore, whose three children
were burned Friday night In a ten
ement in which she had left them
locked up, was arrested and jailed
today on a magistrate's warrant, that
charged criminal negligence and a
violation of a State statute.
DESPERATE PRISONER TAKEX
TO ASHEVILLE
R. P. Bryson, aged seventy years,
an employe of the Southern Railway
Company at Spencer was killed in
the shops there Friday afternoon by
the falling of three pairs of truck
wheels weighing more than a ton
He was struck squarely on the head
and died instantly, He was a Con
federate soldier and a local minister
in the Western North Carolina Con
ference.
Iter. George Cates, a revivalist,
was put off a Southern train near
Asheville last . Friday because he
would not pay cash fare. He offer
ed the conductor mileage, claiming
he did not have time to exchange it
for a ticket at Asheville, but the con
ductor claimed he could not accept
the mileage and had the preacher put
off the train. Rev. Cates claims he
received injuries when he was
shoved off the train and is now in a
hospital at Asheville.
Ilaywood County Farmer Killed by a
Vicious Hog.
Asheville, N. C, Jan. 8. Before
aid could reach him, Arthur Justice,
thirty years old, a farmer ofthe
Pigeon River section, Haywood Coun
ty, bled to death this afternoon-after
being bitten by a large boar which he
had been feeding. The animal attack
ed Justice from behind, burying its
tusks in the flesh below the right
knee-joint and severing the main ar
tery. Justice managed to get out of
the pen, but sank to the ground a
short distance therefrom. He died
from loss of blood before the nearest
doctor, who lived two miles away,
could be summoned. The deceased is
survived by a wife and . two small
children. i
Killed a Friend Because He Would
Not Give Him a Drink.
Asheville, N. C, Jan. Jan. 7.
Handcuffed and bound with ropes, by
which he was dragged and pulled for
thirty miles over mountains from)
Burnsville, Yancey County, to Ashe-!
ville, Charles Murphy, charged with.
murder, was landed in the Buncombe
County jail for safety.
Murphy was a desperate prisoner.
As the roadway was too rough for a
vehicle. Sheriff Edwards and two dep
uties set out on foot with him. The
exceedingly cold weather added to
the hardships of the trip. Murphy
several times attempted to escape by
a dash down the steep mountain
The Wash i ngtoa-Alaska bask, at
Fair Lank, Alaska, has failed. The
bank had 11,000.040 on deposit.
A ion -of the late Stephen XL EI
kins, of West Virginia, will be ap
pointed to succeed bU father, until
the Legislature elects another Sen
ator. The Alabama Legislature met last
Tuesday and a dispatch from Mont
gomery says that an effort will be
made at this session to repeal the
State prohibition law.
While sitting at his desk In the
Young Men's Christian Association
at Spartanburg Tuesday afternoon
Walter Brooks Abbott, secretary of
the association, shot himself.
The American Sagar Refining
Company has deposited 1700,000 in
cash in the United States Treasury to
compromise Its civil liabilities in the
sugar drawback frauds at New York.
Forty persons were killed in a
mine disaster near Santander, in
Spain, Tuesday. Others were wound
ed and may die. Over one hundred
men were in the mine when the ac
cident happened.
Oscar Solomon Strauss, of New
York, former cabinet minister, and
for more than a year and a half
American Ambassador to Turkey, has
resigned his post at Constantinople.
His successor has not been named.
Diplomatic relations with Nicara
gua which were severed during the
closing days of the Zelaya regime,
will be resumed now that Pres. Taft
has sent to the Senate the nomination
of Elliott Northcutt, of Huntington,
W. Va., at present minister to Co
lombia, to be United States Minister
to Nicaragua. The President also
nominated H. Clay Howard of Paris,
Ky., to be Minister to Peru.
AnClEHT msTonv
j Ctac of the Oldest of tfcs Real
I Old Countries.
HOT ALL OF IT TRUE
IThe HUtoriaiis Do Not All Awc
However -CfcixK-e Are Kw Gom.
log Along, lint Were One la a
State The Home of Bit
ter Strife A Great Wall and Wliy
It Was Bail! A Ruler Who Made
Things Happen to Please AU Side.
The Country Holed by an Outsider.
(Correspondence of The Caucasian-Enterprise.)
aa felt ti clatsed laat eolm-'tiUa
SIM f people were &liS ia em day
is the city ov fekla. la addltiea
ssasy were killed la the eKtatry
About this date, 1st la the Six
teenth Cecttsry, the Kapror, Kaag
te. made as effort to atH th dif
ferent factions; cot esiy la C&lz
proper, bat ia Tartary. lie vittted
the eastern portion ov Tartary with
a! or his roart and seventy thorn
and soldiers- Hit Ix supposed that
the Emperor tUfd he coaM ecare
the Tartars by makia this great pa
rade. He continued thee visits cann
year, goia to different points la Tar
tary. The Emperor spoke or them as
"hunting trips and they were some
thin' great. Bat moil or the author
ities held l hut if he had bee a soldier
and had any sort or an army, evea
half ax Urge a these "Dunlin M
parties, he mite be whipped Tartary
to a finish. Ia 16S9 the line between
BilkfnarfllA V r t
... v., ?, i ; - - - - -
Hit ix sed that the ancient history or Russia and China wux established to
i.mna aaies naca three thousand lQe sausiacuon or doio vounuies.
years before Christ, which makes hit 1 I693 the Emperor cy China had an
older than the history ov most ov the attack or ferer. Missionaries sup
countries, even the ancient countries pMd him with medicines, somethln
in Europe. But hit ix awlso a fad not- la general use in Chlaa at that
that the so-called history ix about ax time. If at this date, and he got well,
poor a makeshift ax one could im- this account the Emperor allow-
nHna fnr mnh mr hit i. ..tt.i-1 w f h a mtcetrmH rtiA dJll GT
family history in the first place, but latitude durla hlx life time. But for
few believe evea half or the so-called tnaaj years afterward other rulers
hiatnrv taw t Via Phlnn -i- psva fhm hnt lit f Ia f hmm Por A
particular about tellln the truth, ax tlrn they were not allowed to live
a rule. Ax a matter ov fact some ov Chinese territory,
this so-called history really consists Early in the Seventeenth Century
in uninterestin predictions ax to tno Emperor ov China employed a
what will be rather than what Ix or I number ov missionaries to make a
what has bin. No two ov the histo- maP ov China. Hit wux a big Job.
rians agree about anything and hit Bat az tbe7 Put ,n tcn Tear
. . ... .... ... . . t Lit 1 A 1 & . 1- .t..
iz noi iiKeiy tnat either ov the his- wor uu u&eiy taai voey woncu
torians believed even half they wrote. In an u!y-6oin, style in order that
In olden times the Chines were in Pay oald last longer.
a savage state, and while they had The Emperor, Kang-hee. died In
chiefs, or rulers, they ruled by force 1722, aged 69. Historians claim that
and cruelty rather than by wisdom he had ruled wisely-and that be real-
and kindness.. Foo-hee lz thought to J dId mucn 10 Put China in better
hava hann Ka ,., l P.h SUA. OnA PTPUt WTltPT KATft that h A
u wv.'U vuo UiSt BUICt Clgll 111 I . o -
China. Some ov the Chinese histo- ruIed "with the tenderness of a par-
Ai aa
tBO'"cmi rect, tai&otav
MCOtaplUlittdL Somo tUtaj?j
the vUHort failed to bow or k-T
the prescaete f the Esapror - IWft
thai cacsd the Ch!&ee to loi,
dbfator epoa awl propciUott. sr
at a later dat the Dutch
tmbtasr ca a altailar mUion z j ,
Ix claimed that crowd osrJ;.
awl the rule asd rtraUticcj. :,
dowa oa their ae to t& E;?..?
Bat hit did co good to far ax
relations wtat, Tor the Chia
ed them cool enauff, which a
that the Chinese were sojru.
at forrigaerm.
China hex awlways coauinj
thieves and robbers, tos o
deperate men. They air n;
that art, though hardly to z
thing cite, which leads to n
that the art wux learned ar. -1 :
tlced la the very earliest &xj or
empire.
Ax ever,
ZEKE BILKING
" l- 7
side, but each time was thwarted by
the onlcers' vigilance.
Shortly before Christmas, Murphy
met a friend, John Simmons, on a
public highway and asked him for a
drink. Simmons refused and passed
on. He had ridden his mulo only a
few steps up the road when Murphy
shot him dead.
The natives were enraged, and to
prevent a lynching as well as .to pre
vent escape, Murphy wa.s brought
here. tv
XASHVILIiE STORE DYNAMITED.
Walls Were Damaged and Office Oat
Killed.
Nashville, N. C, Jan. 9. Some
unknown person or persons placed
dynamite under the brick store of
N. B. Finch, at Spring Hope, early
Sunday morning. The explosion
Jesse Daws Kills Thad Bynum Near
Wilson.
t Wilson, N. C, Jan. 9. About 2
o'clock Saturday afternoon, in Edge
combe County (about 12 miles east
of Elm City), at Tom Norville's
store, Jesse Dawes shot to death
Thad Bynum, all because of a wom
an. Both parties are negroes, and
the shooting was done in self-defense,
Bynum having threatened to
kill Dawes on sight. The deed was
done with a shotgun and was wit
nessed by Mr. Jerome Bowen, a ru
ral letter carrier of Elm City, who
saw the shot fired and the victim
fall. Dawes made no attempt to es
cape, claiming that he had to shoot
or be shot.
rians claim that Foo-hee began bus
iness about 3,300 years before Christ;
others date him up to about 2,000
before Christ. So they air thirteen
ent and the firmness of a prince.'
Kang-hee wux the father ov thir
teen sons, and just before hix death
he named the fourth son to be hix
GLENN WILLI A3L4 CASK IN tU;r
His Finn Being Tried in Crmulvw
on Charge of Defrauding tho v.
efTtnteai
Groeasboro, K. C, Jan. 10. The
libel salt by the Government sc-'r.jt
D. C. Foster aad N. Glenn WUiu-i.
the Old Nick Williams Comp5y.
which was begun yesterday morcisc
In the United States Court, is drag
ging slowly, oaly two witnesses Ut.
tng taken the stand by the noon re
cess to-day. All of yesterday xttr
noon and half of this morning
taken in the examination of T. W.
Landreth, store-keeper at the Got
ernment distillery from November l.
1S05, to December 30, 1905. vhta
the whiskey selted by the Gorrra
ment was made. D. C. Foster, on
of the proprietors of the plant, it cot
present, having left the country to
unknown parts soon after 1905. los
ing N. Glenn Williams the only de
fendant present In court.
hundred years aDart on an imnortAnt successor. Hix name wux Young-
"scoop" like that. The Chinese em- tchlng, which signified "perpetual
pire suffered in the early days on ac- Peace." The new Emperor wux
count ov bloody revolutions; and a smart, a hard worker, and ruled the
people called Tartars gave them country pretty well for a Chinaman,
mucn trouoie ror a lone time. The ur Iaiucr lttlwr-
Chinese were never much az soldiers,
and are not now, so the Tartars did
not meet very effective opposition,
though the inhabitants ov China
But he couldn't
stand the sight ov a Christian and
soon had them awl driven out ov the
country. The natives who had em
braced Christianity were killed, some
Salisbury Man Found Dead in His
Room.
Salisbury, N. C, Jan. 9. C. A.
Frank, aged forty years, an employe
of the Antisceptic Laundry in Salis
bury, was found dead in his bed at
a Salisbury hotel early this "morning.
uau not ueen wen ior several
weeks and was but seldom seen awav
rrom his room, which he had forbid
, .v-i uc uau lut uiu
aroused most of the people of the den any one to enter, and -when he
town. The rear wall of the strvrft ! fdi r. j ,
town. The rear wall of the store
was blown up and windows in the
building of W. W. Richardson & Co.,
near by, were shaken out' A cat in
the Finch, store was killed. Nothing
was taken from the store.
There is no clue to the identity of
the criminals, and no motive has
been assigned other than that some
one wished to do Mr. Fnlch damage.
Several Fires at Fayetteville.
Fayetteville, N. C. Jan. 9. Three
fire alarms at different times to-day
called the firemen of Fayetteville to
fight, for the preservation of eight
buildings, seven dwellings and one
store. Five tenement houses and a
store on Ramsey Street were burning
at one time, one of the dwelling and
the store, the latter belonging to J.
D. Malloy, were saved, although sit
uated outside the city limits and be
yond the reach of hydrants. Other
alarms were for flames in the homes
of W. G. Hall and Capt. E. R. Mac
Kethan, on Maiden Lane.
Child Shot In the Stomach With An
Air Rifle..
Wilmington, N. C., Jan. 7. Bernice
Casteen, the 4-year-old son of Jesse
Casteen, was seriously wounded to
. day by Frank Pinner, aged 13, the
son of J. M. Pinner. Tfce Pinner boy
had an air rifle, and he claims It was
accidentally discharged. The bullet
entered the stomach of the Casteen
child. The little fellow was carried
to a hospital and advices tonight are
to the effect that he has a very good
chance of recovery. The Pinner boy
is being held at the police station
until an investigation can be made.
.Asks $2,000 Damages Because Her
. aiother's Body Was Shipped by
, Freight.
Asheville, Jan. 6. Because, as
she alleges, the Southern Railway
company shipped the body of her
deceased mother from Asheville to
Marion 3 by freight," after the plain
tiff had ' bought double first-class
transportation for the same,' Louisa
Washburn asks $2,000 damages from
the defendant company.
Former Wake County Man Seriously
Injured in Durham.
Durham, N. C, Jan. 6. Phillip
Jones, a man of property and at one
time a Wake County Deputy, was
failed to respond to a call from the
milkman, an ofllcer was called and
the door broken open. The dead
man was found with one hand over
his heart, and had been dead for sev
eral hours.
Nine Persons Made Seriously HI
From Ptomaine Poinsoning.
Benson, Jan. 6. As the result of
ptomaine poinsoning, from eating
packed meat, nine men are seriously
sick tonight at the hotel here, five of
them being residents of Benson,
while four are traveling men.
Dr. -H. H. Utley was called to the
hotel for medical aid at 9:30, and is
perhaps fatally wounded to-day.
about three miles from Durham, there at this hour. With the excep
rttI man, whose
.rZ Z UV JUUU- condition is precarious, the others
son Johnson and Mr. Jones quar- rare reported better at midnight,
reled several days-ago over a settle- 6
ment and they renewed it to-day. It''.
seems that they had a dismito in atCabarrU3 County Mail Carrier Miss-
store, and that Johnson followed the
ex-sheriff, hitting him and knocking
mm unconscious. He was brought
ins From Home.
Concord, N. C, Jan. 10. Mr. W.
J. Moose, mail-carrier on Route No,
W - wA, AVW M VV A Y W
to Durham and put on an operating 2 from Mt. Pleasant, has been miss
table. Eleven broken portions in his lag since last Saturday, and abso-
skuii nave Deen removed. There is lately nothing has been heard from
small hope for him. Johnson fled him since that time. v Mr. Moose
and has not been heard from. The lives in ML Pleasant, an
victim is very popular in both Wake wife and four children. He is about
aaauurnam uounues, and his assail- tmrty-nve years of age. It is learn
ant is said to be of a fighting charac- ed that domestic troubles are the
ier, oui otnerwise or good reputa-. cause or Mr. Moose's departure.
probably numbered a thousand to one c&ses whole families, some ov them
ov tne Tartars. The outcome wuz prominent in me auairs ov me coun-
that China built a great wall twelve try were Put to death,
hundred miles in length along her In 1731 Pekin and nelghborin ter-
northern boundary to keep the Tar- ritory wuz visited with another ter-
tars on their own side. This proved riDle earthquake and more than 200,-
ciifRMont tny ma-ntr d.. 000 npnnlA air Raid to hpv hfn V -11v1
W I. UAWAU V . V i AAC4iJ IsdAVUXICD. XiUk X' '
the Tartars finally scaled the wall in tne city and In the locality. The
and subdued China durin the six- Emperor wuz saili In a boat on a
teenth century and placed one ov caaal that had bin constructed in the
their own crowd upon the Chinese Park near tn0 Palace an this probably
throne. The Tartar who got on the saved hlz life, for the Emperor's pal
Chinese pay roll az Emperor wuz ace wuz totally destroyed. The Em
peror caused large sums ov money to
be applied to the relief ov those
whose homes had been destroyed In
awl cases where there were sur-
Two Criminal Assaults Attempted in
Greensboro.
Greensboro, K. C, Jan. 9. An un
known young man yesterday after
noon, about 4.30 o'clock. In a most
despicable manner attempted a crim
inal assault on the little six-year-old
girl of Charles E. McLean, a promi
nent lawyer of this city, near her
home, north of this city. The man
was thwarted In his attempt after
the little girl had been subjected to
Indecencies, and before he could bo
captured he made his escape into
nearby woods and has not yet been
captured, though parties have been
out searching the country for him.
This was tho second attempted as
sault of like nature on the peaceful
afternoon of Sunday, the other little
girl being the daughter of Deputy
marshal J. M. Bailey, on whom the
attempted assault was , made two
hours sooner than the last, and sup
posedly by the same man.
smart an' he made thinge happen
just az China wanted them to hap-
pen; mixed up with the people a
Eudu deal, and nrpttv Rnhn hex wn
rite in the swim. He made but few vivors
tion.
Wilson Cotton Mill in Hands of a
Receiver.
' Three Die in a Georgia DueL
Abbeville, 6a., Jan. 10. -Knives,
pistols and shot-guns were used in a
Wilson, Jan. 6. The Wilson cot- terrible fiKht at Wilson' mm a
ton mills have gone into receiver- miles from here, this morning.' As
ship and W. M. Firmer was appoint- a result, Matthew Wilson, James
?u receiver, me capital stock of the,Aon and Noah White are dead and
mms is 575,000, and the assets are
as follows: Real estate, $45,000, and
machinery, etc., $75,000. The debts
amounted to $50,000. The present
stockholders will probably, buy in the
property when sold and reorganize
and enlarge the plant.
Goldsboro Schools Closed on Account
of Measles and Whooping Cough.
Goldsboro. N. fi.. Jan 7 A
meeting of the board of trustees of :
the city schools this afternoon, the
board suspended school for ten days
on account of an epedemic of measles
which Is raging throughout tho city,
together with the whooping cough.
Perry Wilson is seriously wounded.
Texas Woman Near Death
Wills Point. Texas. In a lettor
from Wills Point, Mrs. Victoria Stal-
lings says : "I was afflicted with wo
manly trouble, had a dreadful cough,
and suffered awful pains. I certainly
would have died, if I had not been
relieved by taking Cardui. Now I
am stronger and in better health than
I ever was in my life. I can't say
uau eaougn ior tnis great medicine."
Do you need relief? Cardui will help
you. Try it for your womanly trou
bles, its age is its guarantee. It
cures.
changes in the form ov tjovernment,
respected their opinions and supur
s'iiiois and wu.5 an awl-round poll
tician every time tre roll wuz called.
Bur the idea o? a nation ov thrco
hundred mllllom ov people yieldin
to an inferior gmg on placln one ov
tbem on its thronn wuz sn absurd
pTyposition and shows that Cii'na
needed somethi'" at that time and
needed hit very badly. But the
Tartar ruler wuz smart ennuff to
place hiz own countrymen in the
army an' that lz the rule yet.
About eight years after the new
Emperor wuz seated, a Tartar sea
captain, probably a pirate, attacked
the city ov Nankin, China, and mite
hev captured hit but for the fact that
hlz sailors had been spendln' some
days in feastln' an drinkin'. The
Chinese ruler took advantage or that
and made an attack, and defeated the
Tartar fleet, capturin 4,000 prison
ers. He ordered that their noses and
ears be cut off, which wuz done. This
did not cause the death ov any ov
them, probably; but hit wuz one ov
the greatest acts ov cruelty, consider-
in' the number ov victims, ever re
corded. But this did not satisfy the
Tartar who ruled China, for he soon
J ordered that the prisoners be put to
death, and this wuz done. But the
pirate leader and a portion or hiz
gang escaped and took charge ov
the island called Formosa, then oc
cupied by Dutch traders. The peo
ple resisted for several months, hut
lack or provisions forced them to
surrender.
-' -
The first Emperor ruled for seven
teen years and then died or grief
on account ov the death ov hiz favor
ite queen. He wuz succeeded by a
son, then hut eight years old. He
wuz aided in rulin by a number ov
guardians. They did some wise things
and much that wuz unwise. One
edict required awl the inhabitants
livin on the sea-coast to move three
leagues inland. Az many ov those
who f lived near the seashore lived
principally by fishin they were ruin
ed. The reason for awl this wuz that
they believed that hit wuz unwise to
hev any dealin' with foreigners, no
matter where they came from.
At a later date the Tartars
the Chinese much trouble and one
Emperor iz, sed to hev committed sui
cide to avoid fallin Into the hands ov
this people. About this time one ov
the terriblo earthquakes common in
that portion ov the world, visited de
struction, upon, a portion ov China,
After the death ov Young-tchlng,
hiz son, Klen-long occupied the
throne. He iz sed to hev bin a
mild and benevolent man. Durin
hiz administration a TaTtar leader by
the name ov Amour-sana, tried tc
create trouble. The Chinese defeated
him and he wuz compelled to take
( refuge in Russia, where he lived for
some years. When he died the Em
peror ov China claimed hiz body, but
the Russian government declined tr
allow it to be removed az hit wui
then customary to offer various in
dignities to the bodies ov any dead
person who had offended the Chi
nese government at any time and
who had escaped punishment In Ufev
by fleeln to any other country, pro
vided, ov course, tho body could be
secured.
About the year 1770 nearly one
million Chinese people who had lived
In Russian territory again became
residents ov Chinese territory. This
pleased the Chinese ruler very much J
and he caused the erection ov a great
monument to commemorate the evenL
About the same time he caused a
large number or government officials
who had been guilty ov embezzling
public funds to be punished, and, at
the same time, the taxes naid br th
poorer classes were greatly reduced.
This caused him to grow in popular
ity very fast But this state ov af
fairs did not last long. The next
year a number ov insurgents began to:
cause trouble In a portion ov the
country and soon raised an arm r ov
about 1 0 0,0 0 0 men. The Chinese
ruler sent small detachments ov sol-,
diers to put down the rebels and theV :
were soon cut to pieces, which en-1
conraged the rebels and enabled them I
to get control ov much ov th
try. They even reached the center ov!
ine empire, destroying many towns
and cities. But the government tmmw
finally defeated the rebels, killed and !
captured most ov them. The Em
peror then issued an order that re-
suited in the total destruction nr!
every person livin' In the rebel ter--
ritory over -fifteen years or age and
that awl persons under fifteen be sold
Into slavery among the Mohametan
trines, and the order wuz carried on 1 1
An area ov country more than one 1
hundred leagues square wuz : thn:
converted into an uninhabited desert
and , more than one thousand towns
and villages were destroyed.
In 1783 an embassy wuz sent to
China hy Great Britain. The object
wuz to obtain better trade relations
with that country. The visitors were
Plant of Bryant Lumber Company at
Wilson Destroyed by Fire.
Wilson, N. C, Jan. 9. Saturday
night at about 11:15 o'clock lire
broke out in the saw-mill plant of
the Bryant Lumber Company, Just
on the outside of the corporate limits
of the northwestern section of Wil
son.
The fire alarms were promptly
sounded and the firemen were quick
to respond, but before they reached
the scene of conflagration everything
was ablaze aad was soon reduced to
ashes.
The firemen were handicapped as
there was no hydrant in the vicinity,
in consequence of which no stream
waa turned on, but every man of
them white and black did valiant
work in saving the dry kiln and
about three thousand dollars worth
of lumber which was on the yard
near where the fire was the hottest
The entire planing mill power
plant and lumber sheds are now a
smouldering mass of ruins.
Xumber of Bales of Cotton Ginned
to January 1st, 11,087,442.
Washington, D. C, Jan. 10.The
census cotton report shows 11,087,
442 bales, counting round as half
bales ginned from the growth of 1910
to January 1, compared vith 9,647,
327, from growth of 1909; 12,265,
298 from that of 1908. The per cent
of the last two crops ginned to Janu
ary 1st is 95.8 for 1909; 95.3 for
1908.
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