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THE CACOASU3. (Thiarsdiy. January it. State Nes. I BUM) TKJKItH XKV KCIIKMK. Open ftolflr! fn Ikrod VmmI juh! SubfJtuf OirmJraJ KmhAlmt(ur Fluid Fund In Some Iktiir Two or Three1 IValh It"frrtc!. i General Ne&s. i rttfucifER was a iilockadru. The four-yearoJd child of Alex i Beasiey, colored, of Durham, wu burned to death in its home Sunday. -r wrjter ha heard of jotAh and , almost every other chemical being Some unknown parties entered the UMv, to (juut(. a?ltj cheapen the cost safe of J. T. Barbara, Esq , of Golds- of whiskey, hut the Heidsvllle ati boro, throwing papers everywhere. : thorUie have reported something but finding nothing of value to them. npw The Heldsvllle correspondent f Unnell ) of the Charlotte Observer sends that! Lonnle Milllcan. Jim Britt, andjpair tbe fajiOWjng account of po! Kick Joyner, the three negroe house-jonoas flaId, found In "bottled In burners, of LaGrange. were tried in?bond KOods which was drank with Kinaton a few days ago and sentenced; fataJ re9ults by some parties in that to terms of thirty years, respectively. ? town: In the State Prison. ! "Your correspondent was this week I shown an assortment of whiskey Two brothers. Frank and Jim Neal.j bottle which appear to have been of Pamlico County, lost their lives j tampered with. The bottles had con last Thursday morning, by the over-joined well-known brands of whiskey turning of boat, a small fishing ves-janu were "bottle in bond" goods, eel, en route to Norfolk with a load i some of the bottles had not been of fish- I opened, while the contents of others had been used. The unused bottles Mr. John J. Sheenan, of Wllming- j contained the usual government ion. oupennienaeni 01 i ransporta-1 Btamp. which had not been removed tion of the Tidewater Power Com-'but the examination revealed that pany, died suddenly of heart failure! the bottom of the bottles had been In a drug-store In Wilmington a fewlcutf a circje beins made and then days ago. j glued back. The Inference is, that tteprrentatJve McHenry. of Penn sylvania, has introduced a bill to make labor day a legal holiday. fk-waa Mletsirf Plradt Gttllty to ttiitj; Illicit WhiJtey 1 Mat Know It Was Any 1 1 Aim. Nashville, Teas.. Jan. 14. Rv, Joseph It. Smith, of Seanee, was broarht to Niihrlll f rwl ar aftr Report ar that Governor FosshEtaC over ywterday to on a rhlf- key. At the preliminary hearing Rev, J Mr. Smith pleaded guilty to the - navmg teen sound over ywterdj I will not commute the death sentence lte ApriS tena of federal Court of C V. T. Itlcnesoa. ilayer of Avisjcharge of moonshine i Three deaths and three new cases charge. of meningitis in twenty-four hours Rev. Mr. Smith has for several n reponea irom uai.aa Texas. ttonlb, the reRamr paftor of L 7 . 7.7 , loj three small churches near Sewanee. His "wild cat" still was located In the smoke-house a few yards from the .v. r,j Authorities and will . ton bale and to tfe nnlfnr?.. . be held at Kaoxvllfe until the arrival cotton within the hale, u u of a PitUhariE o25cer. I sought by the Derns:r;! H Rolia McCccaeil. of Chirac, who.cnltore -represents a local flrta In that city. ir. n, x. Galloway. Chtf ,4 aestioned la Mist Coe a dyias ftate- ? Rareau of Plant Industry .v meat as fceisg ret rotable for her ; iagtoa. says: v coalition, reached here to-day ana ; conferred "To bring about this nziio ith District Attorney a maUtr of sJttC4.. Uam A. 5UkeIey. I-ater. McCoanei CJt to geara!ly aJ.r. ... 4 went before the graad jury and tes- prwnl Ur ultra oa Affitrk" IA4 f Via Mltt'rtnt wrifh h d- i . ... . -1 epidemic is fairly under control Fifty passengers on Big Four train i parsonage and leas than a quarter of No. 1 from Detroit to Cincinnati. mreja mI!e from hia principal church. The reported to have been hurt in a wreel outfit destroyed by the oScers was on January l ith which occurred complete and nearly one hundred gal four miles south of Carey. Ohio. , Ions of and magb were fot usea oi a reianoa "-'ton is eiceMive. bat the ceased. There is no charge again coadjuon of the American McCoccelL . I bale Is largely responsible j-.. .MM ....j. " 1 jvmencaa cottoa planter a or tae Acaoemic uepanmeai oi m, ucaled up to the fact Pitts bur High School. Miss Coe. aged twenty-eight, had been Dr. Mc Farland's secretary. He Is about six ty years old and married. nitYA.V PKAItS WAIX STIUIKT. I The twenty-year-old daughter of Mr. George Baker, of Milbanks, was attacked with an epileptic nt a few nights ago and fell Into the fire, re ceiving burns from which she died a -few hours later. J. M. Stickel, agent for a photo-1 graph enlarging establishment of Co-. lumbia after the Government gaugers had Five children, sisters, were burn ed to death in a fire which destroy el their home, at Motley. Minn., a few days ago. Their name was Carlyle. The mother and one daughter were saved. The "wild eating" parson was caught only after an all-night chase. ' He claims that he did not know it! was a violation of the law to make whiskey, but knew it was wrong to drink it. He also stated that he had never sold any of his whiskey, but and take considerable time no -' 7, do this that he caanot best possible prices for his pro4 loaf as the buyer must tear . M . . . W i nozen aoies la iao corer to z mine the quality of thep roduct In. "We are seekiag Information V r, . . . i had given some of it to a few of his Robbers entered the safe of Frank ; members for medicinal purposes. attery & Company, wholesale liq . stamped , the whiskey in the ware-uor dealers of New Orleans, a few; SPANISH CABIXKT QUITS JOB u. uiM.nenes. wuere u was j auu iuvh irom me saie .trusts, and back of the railroads bottled, the bottles were opened atjU.OOO Un cash and securities valued Resiation Due to Divergence f stands the Wall Street oligarchy, as in? mnium uy an eieciric neeaie, oriL ,v.u. William J. Ilrraa Kara That Che Greatmt Danger l That VI1 ' r!ous sources as to how our co:: Name the IemocrsHc bak- should b covered, the ch4ri:t. -and weight of the material tn ... I la this cover and the, kind aaj Street Will Nominee. v,uiuruuia, a. jn. la. - tow Kr nf t! Arti.r Hh ik tariff question is the one that is the'mjU net height of the whol''w.' v ..u . u.v "" bave been doin conslderabU aouoi u win occupy place in the campa . . " - . , quire wucu uik. that back of the tariff, back of thej .... w . . iit woen a uaio oi Amerifjia cc. marker ipy a prominent arnon?: OJher farmen! la trTi. ign. but the Demo-1 teach them wha. lo do but ,t ' ; lvnA,A Vi m fart some such implement, and a large part of the pure whiskey taken "from the bottleg, and chemicals substituted therefor. One bottle, from which only a part of its contents had hpn O -I J . i . home of a customer in Durham Tues- of embalming fluid. ue iieiivenng pic- , -The party who exhlbited the as-j a message. portment of bottles had some time to investigate the contents of a bottle' A bill has been introduced in the day, where tures Views With Their King. Edward N. Dennis, formerly o' The Spanish Cabinet, of which Jose Morehead City, and an employe of the ! Canalejas Y. Mendes was Premier, Western Union Telegraph Company I restened Sunday. The Cabinet resign for fifteen years, dropped dead in the j ed 88 the resuJt of a divergence of office at Richmond, Va.. a few nights ! views with King Alfonso as to the ad- ago, just as he was preparing to send - vlsaDI11t' or commuting the death sentence of one of the rioters, who murdered a judge and wounded sev- Mr. J. W. Fisher. a wen Known employe of the Southern Railway, at been consumed, the party drinking Legislature of Virginia to forbid the marriage of drunkards, drug fiends erai court officials in the town of Cullera, province of Valencia, last September. The general strike at opencer, siipea on tne ice on the ;itf dying a few hours ,ater of convul. , and diseased people. Another bill in- that time at Valencia and other pro Varna r noro fatv rfn'a n tm r. n ,i . ' . . . v.v. it, ' J auu "as sinns This hnnnonoH in tVso. UVnt run over by an engine. He lost an arm and a leg and his condition oth erwise is considered serious. and the gentleman, who made the In vestigations, found the bottle as above stated, and he concluded that . . 'the chemicals had been substituted a no water tanK, at the home of j for the ilquor after the Government , ,ja"gslon' at oiasDoro. ex-, gau?ers had stamped it. Coming to ploded last Sunday evening, killing Reidsville, he had cause to ifivesti the negro cook seriously injuring ! gate another case of a party who had two children of Mr. Langston, and ; been made helpless and critically ill completely wrecking the house. by the use 0f liquor, and he obtained , a number of bottles from which the Mrs. Kin Grimes, a High Point nflrtv hri wt, hrinin oD ,n troduced has for its purpose the pre- j vines involved a plot to assassinate vention of procreation by confirmed I General Weyler, and the King was compelled to suspend the constitu tional guarantees. .MESSAGE UNFIT FOR PRINT. lady, was very seriously, if not fatal- some which ad not been used. Mak- criminals, idiots, and rapists. At the request of Senator Over man, the Secretary of War has order ed an Inspector to Bingham School, Asheville, to ascertain whether the school is sufficiently advanced in ' ,cHc me wi- a special rrom Columbia, S. C itB UA au army omcer as instructor. ; Saturday's Baltimore Sun says: tt , . ' "A committee of the House of Dr Harry Elgin Webster, of Ore-j Representatives this afternoon recom- euii, in., wuo coniessea to tne mur- South Carolina Legislature May Ex punge Governor Hlease's Message. heartless as a hand of pirates and as despotic as the Crar or the Sultan ever were. And that is why I am not willing that J. Pierpont Morgan pick out the Democratic candidate.' This was William Jennings Bryan's reply when asked to-night what he regarded as the principal issues in the approaching Presidential cam paign. Mr. Bryan declared that while the outlook for the Democraltc party was bright, still the Democrats should not be over-confldent, and a great deal depended on the action of Demo crats during the present session of Congress. Farm Topics to ly, injured a few days aero bv the ir,,. u ..- u ... . mended that portions of Governor u - A. , , : i cAamiuauuuB, ue iuuuu iuai tne uci ui jus wii last lan, wrin De sen-PRinaco bursting of the pipes and the explos-! bottles had Wn hn,nBr0H wuk ion of the range in her kitchen. Thej -.The matter has been explained to explosion was caused by the frozen , Uncle Sam's Revenue officers, who pipes. Capt. C. M. Faircloth, a prominent lawyer, of Clinton, N. C, narrowly escaped death a few days ago at the hands of a negro tenant and his wife. The negro, assisted by his wife, cut the, lawyer's throat, just missing the jugalar vein. Eugene Murphey, who shot D. M. Vernon, of Spray, last spring, has been Identified by a description sent out by local North Carolina author ities and located at Utlca, N. Y. He admitted shooting Vernon because he "killed his dog." The six-months-old child of Mr. O. T. Gilispie, of Statesville, was left in a carriage near the fire for a few moments one day last week, when the carriage was overturned in some way into the fire and the child was burned to death. Mr. Charles H. Jacobson, who lives near New Bern, glipped on the ice near the railroad track a few days 'ago and wai struck by the incoming eastbound train and received such in juries that he died soon after. He was about sixty-five years of age. Wheeler Godfrey, the sixteen-year-old son of Mr. George M. Godfrey, of the Waxhaw settlement, was acci dentally shot by his cousin, Willie .ezian, wnne out hunting a few days ago. The shot took effect in the young man's foot and it is feared will destroy the use of it. Mr. Norman Stockton, a well- known and popular young man of Winston-Salem, was assaulted and se riously cut by two negroes in his clothing store in that city a few days ago. wr. totocmon discovered the ? negroes in the act of stealing a suit or clothes and interfered, when heJ was attacked by them. News has reached this city of the death of Rev. W. G. Green, at Can ton, China, Sunday. Mr. Green was a Baptist missionary to China. He was a professor at Wake Forest Col lege prior to the time he entered the missionary field. He was a native of the western part of this State. He has two sons at Mars Hill College, and is also survived by his wife, who was . with him in China. have started an investigation." GLADDEN IS ACQUITTED. Two Negroes Held for Next Term of Court Ross Jo Die in Electric Chair February 16. Shelby, N. C, an. 13. Frank Gladden, the white man implicated by the confession of the negro John Ross, in the murder of Mr. and Mrs. John Dixon, prominent and wealthy people of this county, was acquitted by the jury to-day, the twelve men declining to accept the unsupported confession of the negro as evidence sufficient to convict. The other two negroes held as accessories of Ross' will be held until the next term of court. Ross was sentenced to die in the electric chair February 16th. tenced in s SDecial messnp-A rf vootar. the Ogle County Circuit dav e-ivimr ro w u vuuil uy juuge rarrana on January 22nd. It is srenerallv bplifvrt that Aged Lady Burned to Death Near Gibson ville. Miss Matilda Gerringer, an aged maiden lady of Gibsonville, eighteen miles east of Greensboro, met a trag ic death at her home Sunday after noon shortly before 1 o'clock when her clothing in some manner caught while she was seated before an open fire, and before help arrived, death had ensued. Miss Gerringer was about seventy years old and lived alone in a cottage across the road from her sister, Mrs. John Boone. It Is supposed that while seated before the fire a live spark fell on her cotton dress. Death of Mrs. J. E. Person, at Fre mont Member of Very Prominent Family. Goldsboro, N. C, Jan. 15. The death of Mrs. Millie Coley Person, wife of Dr. J. E. Person, of this county, occurred this morning at their home in Fremont. She was widely connected with the oldest fam ilies of Eastern North Carolina. The funeral will be heldfrom the home to-morrow at noon and the interment will v be made at the old Fort, home stead near Pikeville, ' Tliat Democratic Harmony. The Lincoln Times. The Progressive Democrats met in Ohio last week and knocked Governor Harmon right and left; Col. Harvey, the discoverer of Presidential in Woodrow Wilson, has thrown him overboard and is in league with the steel barens of Wall Street in an ef fort to put a crimp in Wilson's boom; Northera Demosrats swear .Under wood is a fraud and Bryan has gone so far as to brand him as a traitor, and the South is up in arms against Champ Clark because -he voted for the $75,000,000 pension steal. That is the situation in the Democratic party to-day, yet the Democratic press says there is harmony in the ranks. From the Democratic standpoint per haps that is the way it looks. Any condition better than actual knocking down and dragging out seems like harmony to them. Education and . Republicanism Go Hand-in-Hand. Clinton News-Dispatch. When there was not a half-dozen decent school-houses in Samnson the sentenced will be life imprison ment. A man in Hammond, Ind., began a hundred day jail sentence a- few days ago for whipping his sixteen-year-old wife. He told the trial judge that he was under the impres sion that this was a free country and he could spank his wife if he wanted to. Charles W. Morse, the noted con vict banker, who was transferred to Fort McPherson from the Federal Prison, at Atlanta, Ga., on account of his physical condition, has now been transferred to the Army General Hos pital at Hot Springs, Ark. His con dition is very critical. The State Department at Washing ton, has become sufficiently alarmed at the spread of the revolution in Ecuador, that a first-class battleship has been sent to help the Yorktown in protecting American interests. Reports are that there are threatened revolts In Brazil also. Charges that the Postofflce Depart ment officials illegally Expended $1, 000,000 in payments to railroads for railway cars that did not come up to the legal standard were made be fore the House Committee Tuesday, on reform in the Civil Service, by Erben A. Walters, of Denver. Alfred Mosely, the English philan thropist is trying to arrange with im migration officials a plan to bring the 3,000 poverty-stricken residents of St Helena to California. Since the withdraw of the British military sta tion some years ago, fthe residents have had a hard struggle for existence. a libel act and attacking South Caro lina newspapers, be expunged from the record of the. House as. unfit for publication. "The committee suggested publi cation of portions of the message, but as to the rest of the message, it says: " 'The balance of such message is a mere disquisition on the iniquities of the press as viewed by the Gover nor, and the style and language in which the same is couched is, such that self-respect forbid that a dlgni fied legislative body should permit it to become part of the record of its acts, and we recommend that the same be expunged from the record." "A vote maye be taken to-mor row." FOR UNIFORMITY' IN COTTON. Department of Agriculture Wants to Standarize the Cotton Dale and to Have the Cotton Within the Rale Uniform. Information which will lead to the standardization of the American cot ton reached a foreign buyer could be sure without t.i the cover to look inside, the that ton was of a fixed quality and ler-r.s our troubles in this direction be about at an end. Colliaiior : cotton farming, that Is gettine A the farmers in a certain section plant the same kind of cotton a-j then to make it together It one of iu ways in which we hop gradually ?o secure the desired uniformity hirh will mean to our Southern farn fully $25,000,000 more a year . their product than they now secure " .Much Late Cotton Was Damagrd. Farmers In the city yesterday. i2 numbers far out of proportion to the usual Saturay array, report that except in scattered instances, the cotton crop has been harv?:ri There has been an unusual atno;nt of what is known as "cracked rot ton" this year, owing to the fact that many fields were planted so late that the bolls did not mature fully anl open until overtaken by frost. Th;s eft a condition that damaged th? fiber and so greatly reduced it va'.uf hat many farmers did not go to the expense of having it picked. Chir- otte Observer. Strength Birmingham, Ala., suffered from a disastrous fire on the morning of Jan uary 14th. The Bell Telephone Com pany's building and that of the Cable Piano Company were destroyed, en tailing a loss of from $250,000 to $300,000. One man was killed dur ing the fire by being struck by an automobile. i TENNESSEE PREACHER IN TROU- The Dlan Of Senator Onrman i BLE. Representative Falson, that the gov- General Ruyes' Properties Sold at Auction While He Lay in Prison. A special from San Antonio, Tex., under date of January 15th, says: "When the auctioneer's garel fell over the last of the household effects in the public sale at No. 701 San Pe dro Avenue to-day, another scene of the pathetic drama In which General Bernardo Reyes played the leading role was brought to a close. While the former master of the household lay In prison in the land he had hop ed to rule, souvenir hunters eagerly snatched up articles of property that have but little intrinsic value. Mexicans were conspicuously absent from the sale. "The sale took place in the dining- room, society women formed a large part or the personnel of the crowd." Twins Wed Twins and Twins Born to Parents of Bridegrooms. A dispatch from Wichita, Kansas, says: "Twin brothers married twins sis ters at Longdale, Okla., yesterday, and a few; hours after the double! wedding twin boys were born to the parents of the bridegrooms. "Wilfred and Vivian Wilson mar ried Martha and Mary Schaefer . "Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Wilson, pa rents or the babies, are admirers of j Theodore Roosevelt and say they i hope to have the former President! select names for the boys." SIFor The Pull The race is to the strong swept back bv th "r you Ieel yourself being You can buy strength Read these extract fmm t e ... . . " w u sraunwe rrom those who did : Iff (Mm) WIIV . Ortim Duriiu v. rj-i .v7?1 iim. w. K. onlr few bottiea of ii . VLw" H-T better mVrw.i11 tront.P mad It pound, on 1 It bottle ofKil-H 1$ J KIT. bottlM Nor. M E. Wlin grVorfork tZ BfCtood Cor bottle of JtUtMB iLnd i J L.A ? "7 fourth ca ftt aiui .m.iWnT. a In to yvara. thank to --rv- . alter using ra uioilOB. II. Mi bottle I find wTt md fMttn v hatter ! hi - - - . Or MrtMi ... j w gnrvTma y"Qboidtk guaranteed ftmmb. ernment purchase the summit of Mt. Mitchell, in North Carolina, as a part w vo Appaiacman orest reserve. Rev. Dr. McFariand Charged With Committing Two Criminal Opera tions -Indicted by Grand Jury and nas been approved by Forrester 1 1Lacea Lnder Arrest. , Graves. Elisha Mftnhn fr- .nm , mw . UU Lli tllo nrirtiintotv. i . -.u-uiuiu 10 uitiuu, is uuriea on the mountain. A bill has been Introduced In the County and a large, per cent of her GeneraTAenTbT "o TvxZZ people con not read and write, Ing for a rsfon T fi! 1 thX "cfnnerr I?em-If State-wide prohibition. If enact in-the State, but since ed. 25 ner ront nf cratic county there Is a nice school building on al most every hill and the people are be coming educated, this county has changed and is now the "banner" Be-publican-ounty in the State. "Who says that education is not the stuff." ed, 25 per cent of the electorate vote can automatically require the Gover nor to order an electron to deterbine whether or not liquor shall be sold in Virginia. This measure prohibits the sale of Intoxicants in drug-stores on a physician's prescription. An Associated Press dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa., under date of January; lbtn, says: "An indictment was returned by tne grand jury late to-day against the Rev. Dr. W. D. McFariand, min ister and educator, of Cedar Creek, Greene County, Tenn., formerly of tnis city, charging him with a felony j in committing two operations upon auss fciaie Dodds Coe, his former sec retary,! which resulted In her death last Friday in a local hospital. According to a report here to-night I Rev. McFariand has been arrested byi to flJJJSfS I leUSe n,y one bas b" returned nfad liln? ' NeW ,upp,Jr ,ust iD- If Tou are do- The arrival nf t - Corsets outs n h IvTV 01 mw Gtove-Fitticg 50 cent SUZl Ti ? "er tte best 150. M 52w v f "t-Eteed rmt-proof. The famous Nemo Corset wfll te found bere alv. " ...... MV pany
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