II
run cACCAai as
Srcrfe Nen?s.
Engineers are marreylng the line
of a proposed railroad between Salis
bury and Monroe.
The State reunion of Confederate
veterans will bo held at Wilmington,
August 2nd and 3rd.
The North Carolina Epworth
League Assembly will convene in
Hickory next Wednesday.
The North Carolina Medical So
ciety are holding their annual meet
ing in Charlotte this week.
The North Carolina Hankers Asso
ciation is holding its annual session
at Hendersonville this week.
near VrlfcUTllJe. this aeaaoa, was
arretted Friday on a capias from
Carteret County, whither ho was uk-j
en for trial in Superior Court this
week. Kuasell denies the charge;
against him.
General Ne&s.
IUSKED LIFE ITJIi WIFE.
MIKIMFKS
fiOV ATTE3IITS
CIDE.
SCI-
At Msskoge. Okl.. Friday tb;
thermometer reflsttred 10 la the1
shade.
Wilfred Jay, a macaxin editor.
; and Chas. J. Rots, an official photog-
Wa Ierondeni on Account of the rapher, were killed In an automobile
Death of Ills Sweetheart.
! Senator Lokc U- Glxt t Quart j
Ills UUhI la Effort fc Sat f Wlfr;
life 1
Washington. D. C Je& If. j
Ualted Stars Senator Luke Lrau of
Teca to ure the life of his
stricken wife, heroically sacrificed a
Quart of hit blood " at 5rgetowa
Hospital yesterday acd to-algst Mrs.
Farm Topics
accident at Westfury. N. Y., Satar:- ja's reeotery, hope of which had al
Washington. N. C. June IS. A
great deal of excitement was occa
sioned in the city this afternoon
about 4 o'clock, . when it became
day.
known that Charles' Ricks, the oldest Sute 57" JlV
son of Sheriff George E. Kicks, of number of years, died Sunday at his
most bees abasdosed practically
assured. The anxious youngest Sen
ator of the Nation lies near i& bed-
bis wife recuperating his
Hon. James Proctor Knott, a form
er Governor of Kentucky, and who tide of
strength.
Mrs. Lea's condition, serioea for
r i ?ii am l mi Mini lit r f x. k r a tti a v ? m in irt.kiK ' dfm n i 3 -t 7 ti
to commit suicide by cutting his , , v , BUCU aiier aQ rioa lc? Wj
throat with a razor. It seems that A memorial gateway in honor of before. Her strength, because of lack
ou- tt.Q fn nrt anrf rrrr d- JDn Howard Payne, the author of of blood, was gone and Titaiity was!
spondent over the death of his fiance.
which occurred at the Fowie Hospital
Mr. J. D. Jenkins, a merchant of lhjg m0rning after a very short ill
Mount Airy, committed suicide Friday negs fr0m appendicitis. Young
by taking an overdose of laudanum, was very devoted to the young
lady and her death was a great:
The Huntley-Hlll-Stockton Com-!ghock to him ad ne na(j been In a
....... ,,.,(ii.r. Hfi9lora nf V i nRf Oil , U .1 , - , . A Arxnln n
will erect a $40,000,addition to their da HIg mother had been at his bed-! disappeared from that city last wee, to have been very successful
"Home; Sweet Home." Was unveiled fast ebbing away. Senator Lea, up
a few days ago at Union College, on learning of her condition, de-
Schenectady, N. Y.. where Payne was manded that a transfusion operation
educated. , be performed and prepared at once
to submit to the ordeal. Attending
J. Wylie 'Smith, Secretary and physicians and surgeons made ar
Treasurer of the Commercial Loan j rangements immediately and the op-
.1 rr... rnmnnn t K 4lo711 fin - I A ... V. I -1 f ..n t - f
ClrieiaS Fmrmer Ira 10 nl
FertiliKT WiTlwm i
A pcUl from Slseihy jtwtef-,
4y Charlotte Observer sayt :
"Flte locals of the Farther C&too
of the county hate decided to build
a f emitter warou on the Sea
board IlaiUay to be used for the
storage and mixing of costsercial
fertiilxem next season. The building
will be 20 x 40 feet, two storle high.
The five locals interested arv Zoar.
Pleasant Grove, Kllxabetb. How
Grove and Braver Dana. They will
give the county the privilege of us
ing the warehouse later if they care
to and Is the neaV future the farm
ers hope to enlarge it for the storage
of cotton. The building committee Is
Messrs. J. C. Beam. George, Allen.
Sylcanus Gardner, John Tucker and
J. E. Blanton.
AIUIKSTKI) OS SKIUOl'H CHAItGE.
building.
At Tarboro Saturday afternoon
Willie Jones, colored, shot Hillard
Foster through both arms. Jones
was placed in Jail.
' ! v w . ehAr4n In Vila QAAimta r ?
side all day, and happened to leave; 1 ' " 3 " L fet " ' "
the room for a few minutes. j $150,000.
Mr. James McCuler, a mend or
Stands Onleal Well.
Senator Lea withstood the opera
te Greenlwr Aiay Have to Fee
Several Ctuurge.
Caleb Hanes. awhite man from the
Ricks, coming In the meantime had'
gone up to his room to try and cheer!
him a little.
Finding the door locked he sus-i
The eighth annual convention of j picioned something wrong and im-
the North Carolina liuiiamg ana mediately called the family. Upon
Loan League was held in New Bernj forcjng the door they found Ricks
Tuesday and Wednesday. i lying on the bed with a deep gash cut
I in his throat and the bed covered
Guilford County Superior Court is inj witn blood. Almost every doctor in
session this week. Seventy new I town was summoned and arrived a
The Spanish Government indicated tion well, thaough it left bm so mountain section of the State, was ar
to ex-President Diaz that it did not I weakened that for hours he could not rested in Guilford County Saturday
desire him to establish his residence! stand alone, but his gratification over'on the charge of seduction, and may
cases have been added to the docket
since court opened Monday.
The Rockingham Post comes for
ward with the first cotton blooms of
the season in Richmond County
which was plucked on the 15th.
Mr. J. L. Scott, of Graham, died
a few days ago, aged seventy-nine.
Mr. Scott was a former member of
the State Senate from Alamance.
few minutes afterwards. Dr. John G.
Blount and Dr. J. L. Nicholson ar
rived first and sewed up the wound.
The anterior jugular vein had been
cut and the young man lost a great
deal of blood. The doctors hope that
he may recover, but his condition at
present is very precarious.
Young Ricks is about twenty-three
years of age, a young man of good
habits and has stood well in the community.
in Spain until popular feeling against; the revivifying effect it had upon his
him had subsided. This accounts for; wife was inexpressible. Surgeons as
his determination to go to Switzer-I sured him that without the sacrifice
Hand. which he made Mrs. Lea could have
. j lived but a few hours. Both are to-
A dispatch from Washington, D. night in Georgetown University Hos
C, says that Secretary of Commerce j pital.
and Labor Nagle has dismissed Jas. i It will be two or three days before
B. Duke, chief electrician, and de- , Mrs. Lea is altogether out of dan
moted and suspended half a dozen ! ger. At present her symptoms are
other employes of the Census Bureau j favorable, although she is still very
following an exoose of nierhtly nokeri weak. Senator Lea is confined to his
A bi nd horse, left standing un
v., v. i o L, mui in Mnnrp Wife of Life Convict Sues for Heavy
hitched near a saw mill in Moore t
County, walked into the saw and was j Homages.
cut to pieces. Statesville Landmark.- Asheville, N. C, June 17. Com-
; plaint has been filled here by Mrs.
The Mocksville Record says that j Texannah Pate, wife of John Pate,
fourteen cows belonging to H. C. j of Madison County, now serving a
Grubb were killed in an electrical I life sentence in the State Prison fori
Btorm near Mocksville- some days j murder, against Capt. S. C. Brink,
parties and book-making on the races
during the day at the office.
Maddened by his failure to bring
about a reconciliation with his 20-year-oid
wife, who had left him, Da
vid Kincaid, of Buffalo Gap, Va.,
dragged the woman into the street at
Saunton, Va., where he shot her dead.
Turning the revolver upon himself,
he committed suicide. The tragedy
was witnessed by Mrs. Kincaid's
mother, who had come from Buffalo
Gap with the husband to induce her
daughter to return home with Kin
caid. Statesville Landmark.
bed at the hospital, his vitality being
reduced by the tranfusion operation.
It is expected, however, that he will
be able to leave his room in a few
days.
After the operation Senator Lea
fell to the floor in a faint 'He was
immediately placed in bed, and to
night is making splendid recovery of
his strength.
SUFFRAGETTES IN PARADE.
Sixty Thousand Women Parade the
Streets of London.
ago.
A residence owned by Mr. Clarence
Edwards in Durham was destroyed
by fire Sunday afternoon. The resi
dence was set on fire by a stroke of
lightning.
At a meeting of the Cotton Manu
facturers' Association of North Caro
lina at Charlotte last week Mr. S. B.
Tanner of that city was elected pres
ident for the ensuing year.
Mrs. J. D. Meredith, of Taboro,
committed suicide a few days ago.
Her husband found her lifeless body
in a creek near the city. Mrs. Mere
dith had been in ill health for some
time.
Coon Pender, a farmer of Wilson
County, was shot and seriously
wounded by John Hogwood, another
well known farmer of. that county
Saturday night. Hogwood was ar
rested. Henry Marshburn, of Durham,
was run over and fatally injured by
a train at Greensboro last Friday.
He died Saturday afternoon and the
body was shipped to imrnam ior m-j
terment. J
Mr. Gill Bentley, a bachelor who
lived near Taylorsville, Alexander
County, was found dead beside a
creek near his home last Thursday
night. Mr. Bently had been dead
for several days.
J. H. Merritt, a life insurance man
of Greensboro, was arrested in Nash
County a few days ago on the charge
of appropriating some of the. com
pany's funds. Merritt says he has a
claim against the company.
John M.. Hopkins, of Durham, fell
from a scaffold while painting a
building in Norfolk, Va., and received
injuries that caused his death. Satur
day morning. The body was shipped
to Durham Sunday for interment. .
Two prisoners set fire to the Spen
cer jail a few days ago hoping there
by to gain their freedom, but, as
help was slow in arriving, the pris
oners decided it a safer proposition
to extinguish the fire themselves.
proprietor of the Cherokee Marble
Works, of Asheville, in a suit for
damages containing three counts.
Mrs. Pate demands $10,000 in one
count for slander and defamation of
character; $5,000 in another suit for
injury to character by an arrest and.
ioss of money, and $5,000 in the
third count for humiliation and mor
tification by reason of the throwing
of a pail of slop or vile, dirty water
on plaintiff by the defendant. It
! seems that Mrs. Pate and her two
I daughters, aged fifteen and seven
I teen years, live adjoining Captain
Brink's place of business and the
complaint alleges that Captain Brink
has adopted a wicked scheme to get
rid of them and injure them. Rela-
f tive to the throwing of a pail of slop,
Mrs. Pate alleges that Capt. Brink
waited for her and when she went
through a passage way toward her
house he poured the slop on her.
La Follette Boom is Launched.
Minneapolis, Minn., June lT.--The
Robert M. La Follette boom for
President was launched here to-night
at a mass meeting of the executive
committee of the Minnesota Progres
sive League. A resolution was adopt
ed endorsing him as the progressive
candidate and recommending the
resolution for favorable action to all
of the progressive organizations in
the State.
It is the opening gun in the fight
for a Republican delegation in Min
nesota in opposition to President
Taft.
Blasting Damaged "Lady's, Health to
the Extent of $2,500.
Asheville, N. C, June 17. Phillip
S. Henry, owner of the palatial es
tate known as "Zelandia," on the
mountain east of the city, was again
loser in a damage suit in Superior
Court Friday when the jury, in the
$10,000 damage suit of Miss Fannie
Arthur vs. P. S. Henry, returned a
verdict, finding for the plaintiff and
awarding her $2,500 damages. This
is the second damage suit lost by Mr.
Henry during this term of court, the
first being won by Jotn P. Arthur,
brother of Miss Arthur, the damage
amounting to $1,000. Both suits
grew out of blasting on Mr. Henry's
property of the plaintiffs. It was al
leged during the trial that Miss Ar
thur, as a result of the blasting, was
seriously impaired in health.
Destructive Typhoon on Japanese
Coast.
Tokio, Japan, June 20. Scores of
lives were lost in a typhoon which
devastated the entire coast of Japan
to-day. Hundreds of fishing boats are
reported sunk and 123 fishermen are
known to have perished. Thousands
of houses were destroyed in the Yam
anashia prefecture.
London, June 19. Led by J'Gen
eral" Mrs. Drummond, astride a finerhim against men of the mill
also have to answer to other charges.
Sunday's Greensboro News glvea the
following account of the alleged
crinfes and of Hane's arrest:
"On a warrant charging seduction
with promise of marriage, but which
may be amended to a charge of rape,
Caleb Hanes, a young white man, was
yesterday afternoon near Brown Sum
mit arrested by Deputy Sheriffs J. H.
Shaw, George PCrutchfield and W.
J. Weatherly, of this city, and Mitch
ell, of Brown Summit. Hanes had
been eluding the law for two days,
but the officers were upon him be
fore he knew of their presence, and
he had no chance to offer resistance.
"Circumstances other than those
for which the warrant was Issued are
present, and If they are brought out
sufficiently strong they may serve to
bind tighter the toils of the law about
the young man. In connection with
his deed it is reported that he uttered
many threats, that he created in the
neighborhood much terror, that since
Friday night a saw-mill where, he was
employed burned down, and that
threats were made prior thereto by
charger, a colossal coronation pro
cession of suffragettes estimated at
from forty to sixty thousand women
marched through the streets of Lon
don Saturday night preparatory to
the meeting at Albert Hall. The pa
fade, which is said to have been the
greatest procession of women in sup
port of the suffrage movement the j Hanes got
world has ever seen, marched m a . coming to
five-mile formation from the Victoria
embankment which leads east from
Westminster bridge and proceeded
along the coronation route to Ken
sington. Militant and non-militant
suffragettes combined on this occa-
"The warrant charging seduction
with promise of marriage was issued
Friday by Justice J. Richard Moore,
of Brown Summit, and was sworn out
by members of the Faucette family,
whom the man disgraced, and- was
placed in the hands of Deputy Sheriff
Mitchell. Despite a steady chase
away, the deputy even
Greensboro to find him.
Failing to discover him here, he con
cluded that the man had left the
country.
"Without warning Hanes showed
up yesterday morning near the place
where he was wanted and went to
sion, all question of caste was put, the Faucette home, by whom the war
aside.
Every phase of social, professional
and industrial life was represented,
rant had been sworn out, and.made
threats to destroy them and their pos
sions. He then went away and they
Waynesville WiU Have a Postal Sav
ings Bank.
Washington, D. C, June 20. Fifty
additional postal savings banks were
announced to-day, including Little
Falls and Monticello, N. Y., Waynes
ville, N. C, Grove City, Jeannette
and New Brighton, Pa., and Phillips
burg, N. J. They will be ready for
deposits on July 5th.
among tne paraders oemg women or appealed to Deputy Mitchell. He im
title, prominent actresses and col- j mediately communicated with the
legians. Seven hundred women who : sheriff's office, stating that the man
had been imprisoned for the cause was in hidine nearbv.
formed a striking feature of the. pa-j "The four officers were proceeding
geant. They earned lances, with ban-' over a hill when they discovered
ners and tbe suffragettes colors. J Hanes in conversation with some men
There were many Americans in the' in a field near the edge of the woods.
ranks. Before he realized that he was cap-
Immense crowds viewed the page-jtured, and In half an hour after the
ant. Some jeering cries of "jail- i officers had left Greensboro in a well
birds" were heard as the "martyrs' driven automobile, the chains were
to the cause passed, but on the on him."
whole, their reception was not so an
tagonistic as on previous occasions.
In Federal Court at Greensboro
last week Sid Allen, a prominent citi
zen of Carroll County, Virginia, was
sentenced to the serve two and one
half years in the Federal prison at
Atlanta for perjury, and to pay the
cost and a $500 fine: The case was
appealed.
Two slaters fell from the roof of
the Atlantic Coast Line depot at
Fayetteville Saturday, a distance of
twenty-five "feet. F. T. Harris was
very badly hurt, the scaffold falling
on him and the slate cutting a terri
ble gash across his" face. H. A. Tol
son was .qnly slightly hurt, as he
jumped and landed on" his hands and
knees. ; ,
Charged with larceny, Edward T.
Russell, -one of the three life-savers-
who have been doing duty at.Lumina,!
Wilbur Jones, Editor Trade Journal,
Dies Suddenly in Asheville.
Asmeville, N. C. June 16. Dele
gates to the annual conventionof the
North Carolina Retail Furniture Deal
ers' Association were shocked this
afternoon, when announcement was
made just before, adjournment was
made that death had claimed Wilbur
Jones, of High Point, editor of the
Southern Furniture Journal.
Mr Jones was here attending the
sessions. He was in good health
yesterday and went for a drive over
the Biltmore estate. This morning he
went for a stroll and when near the
Democrats Trying to Shift Their Re
sponsibility. Clinton News-Dispatch.
We have it on good authority that
Democrats in Cumberland County are
trying to make ignorant people be
lieve that the recent machinery act
which is doubling and thribling our
taxes is a Republican law, passed by
the Republicans' in the last Legisla-j
ture. It is so absurd that we don"t
feel that it is necessary for us to
deny it. The only stfange thing about
it is that there is any man in Cum
berland County, . white or black, ig
norant enought or fool enough to be
lieve it. There were not enough Re
publicans in the last Legislature to
demand a roll-call, and now Demo
crats are trying to pack off their
meanness on the Republicans. That's
meaner than stealing sheep.
Mission Hospital he collapsed,
died shortly after noon.
He
Baby Eats Strychnine Tablets and is
, Killed.
Wilmington, N. C, June 20.- Me
lissa, the nine-months-old infant of
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Walton, died Sun
day afternoon following the eating
of a box-of strychnine, quinine and
iron tablets. The child was left alone
in the room for a few moments and
got the box of medicine from the
lower . compartment of a washstand.
The death is peculiarly sad in that
her father is critically ill. It was to
minister to him that the mother left
the infant alone : for only , a Tew mo
ments.'
Georgia Legislature Will Fight Over
Senator and Liquor.
Atlanta, Ga., June 19. The forth
coming session of the Georgia Legis
lature, which will convene on Tues
day, June 27th, will have at least one
important task before it, and prob
ably one other. The first is the
election of a United States Senator to
succeed Joseph M. Terrell, who is
serving the unexpired term of the late
A. S. Clay by appointment of Gov
ernor Brown. The other is the mat
ter of liquor legislation of far
more interest to the people of the
State and of interest to the people
of other States contemplating prohi
bition fights.
Woman IJies on New York Streets of
Starvation.
New York, June 17. For the sec
ond tinfe collapsed to-day of starva
tion in the streets of New York. This
time the victim died. She said she
was Rose Dasso, aged 57, homeless
and friendless. She had slept in
doorways and parks for a year, she
told a policeman who knelt over her
just be fore life became extinct.
Gaffaer t& C Lr
We Uh a U c0;
!ratfcl!iag t; i
1
isuertu. It i 4
and h IM pl.hf 4
istmity. It ;r
of very lesder c,jr i
thing ib&i t?i c3?-i
taker oagti to co-t.;,
an end. It Mne-:cc.:!;
It teerly a ri4r--1
curiotlty. !x;kie ; ,
to th deeae4 t- 1 1 -around
the enure.. J
of our loted osr. '.I 4
presence of deals, r.,- .
good deeds done is L .
icifff the ap;artcr c: -that
death ha fc
mercy. Death u a
we are going on a hr.s j ,
cot make our adieu
crowd; we ouKfct no
to bid our 4d a Utt c i
curloua eje faltrn ..:, t..r
we ought not to W c., : ,
in mo now oi numr:. , .
pie e never iseak t t ,
claim on us or oar u
each other in thir ,f
the remain?, and ther.
and gossip over hv.
failed to see. We t!;-i0 t. 4
jority of the peopk ; X
ful scenes as much a ,
more than glad to a.-. th,.:a nt
but are afraid to break . k- .
But It is a duty the rale:!, r
dertaker owe to thmi h- 4i
long-suffering public to ; u: u
the exhibition, and they Ztiu
public only too glad kU i
them with a beany anion
k- .
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St. Louis Has a Million Dollar Fire.
St. Louis, Mo., June 15. Fire in
the lumber mill quarter of St. Louis
to-night destroyed $1,000,000 worth
of property, including five factories
that covered four blocks, and drove
hundreds of persons from their homes
jln a panic. '
HiEE TO YQIM.1Y SISTER &SSttJSSS?
The "Hedgerow! Watching the
"Woodrow."
Union Republican.
One of the preliminaries in the
Democratic Presidential contest will
be between Woodrow Wilson and
Hedgerow Bryan.
5 HELPLESS AS A BABY.
- Valley Heights, Va. Mrs. Jennie
B. Kirby, in a letter from this place,
says: "I was sick In bed for nine
months, with womanly troubles. . I
was so weak and helpless, at times
ifggg 4pjr
I Un & Wntnan
knowwoman'i suffering.
orit the help of doctor. Men nwf rnadMt
women', suffering WbaXS
ow that mjS-!
Iwaat toaeBdyoai ewaWih. w. tt..
arriT. RZLZZl fvii! Quickly and
will not lntlre with yonr wbrk oTScoilSJ0 a
iiffr If you wlah, and, I will send you th trLta,iEi: ZJZLZ? tell me how toc
w aow ner can miIt mM
I couldn't raise my head off the PiH'lEiSan
low. I commenced to take Cardui, bomT firery womanahMid iiTSSJntSe
and I saw it was helnincr me at enn ; mnat hare an operation.
" ffn -
xowf i can WOrK an day." As a ton- rimple home treatment which apeedily ail eff,tif ' VB0OM ! Catrt, I wlU explain a
ic, for weak women, nothing has been or imir nruaiion youn IUuph ii-S
KU mnj aui4rr mum uua cam
BBons.Tunmp ana roboss. Jest
Mruuu&. - mimnrua, JUtt may not an f hlw nWrr . t . . ,
found, for fifty years, that would
take the place of Cardui.- Try a bot
tle to-day. It will surely do ron
j good. ' ' f
i naiatal really can ah wr-.rjir"' wno now ana win eiadly
V not see this oSr 7sT "meni u yours, also '
Couth Oond, ind.f u.ca.
CHICAGO MERCHANT
HAKES STATEBBff,
After Spending Thousands of Dcua
and Consulting the Most Esixts
Physicians, He Was Despertu.
CHICAGO, !LLS.-Mr. J. a
Becker, of 1 34 Van Burn St., t
well-known wholesale dry goodt
dealer, states as follows:
l have had catarrh for mort
than thirty years. Have tried
everything on earth and iptrt
thousands of dollars for other
medicines and with physiciant,
without getting any lasting re
lief, and can say to you that I
have found Peruna the only rem.
edy that has cured me per.
manently.
Peruna has also cured mf
wife of catarrh. She always keeps
it in the house for an attack of
cold, which it invariably curei in
a very short time."
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