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State Metis r,. from ... .!.. ""- front of Prominent Southern States are In convention At Salisbury this week. Governor Kitchln delivered the opening, ad drei. Th three-year-old son of Mr. C alus Willis, of near Lurobcrton, fell Into a ditch near his home a few days ago and was drowned. him., Yforehii a colored man. of Wilmington. In drying to cross Huf-j falo Canal. In Pender County, a few ; days ago. fell In the canal tndw j drowned. Policeman Nelms, of Wilmington, who killed a negro last summer while the negro was resisting arrest, was ml tried In Superior court last weeK ana.oi Brnuitted an Mr. K. F:. Hilllard, former editor of' the Scotland Neck Common weath. died at his home at Scotland Neck, ; February 2nd, after an illness of sev- I R lLKKai, (IIARIKPTK & SOUTH eral weeks. KRN. A man who gave his name as Rol- j IUilnmd Promoters Meet in ILaleish, Una wa arrosted in Durham a few ! Organize and Klect Ofiicen. days ago charged with stealing a' horse and buggy rrom tne tramum hotel, in Franklinton. The new Coldsboro hospital will be open February 22. The hospital is ; thoroughly modern in every respect, and is a rbaritible institution for the needy sick of Wayne County. There was a substantial raise in tbo urice of cotton last week. On some ft! f the markets it reached 10 cents and at one market it is said to have sold as high as 10.2 5c. The biggest snow and blizzard of tho season is reported in the vicinity of Waynesville. Reports from the rural districts indicate drifts in some places sixteen feet deep. Reports are that New Bern will have the advantages of street cars within a short time. The Neuse- j Trent Traction Company state that they will have the system ready by May 1. A joint meeting of the Boards of Aldermen and school committeemen in Durham Tuesday arranged for the issuing of $50,000 in bonds for tho erection of a new school building in Durham. The Norfolk Southern Railroad has changed to the name of Raleigh, Charlotte and Southern Railroad. It Is nreDaring to build a line from Ra leigh to Concord, and then on to Charlotte. x A young son of Mr. Green Sides, of Stanly County, in chopping wood a few days ago, was struck on the head by a flying piece, inflicting a wound from which he died within a few hours. Revenue officers located and de stroyed an illicit distillery four miles south of Murphy Tuesday. The dis tillery was in full 'blast and was with in one hundred yards of a deputy sheriff's, residence. George Waggoner, a blockader, who was shot in Franklin countyr Virginia, last Wednesday by revenue officers, died in Martinsville, Va., Friday night of his wrounds. He was from North Carolina. Mr. Geo; W. Watts, the founder of th Watts Hospital in Durham, has recently increased the endowment fund of the hospital $100,000 in the form of an apartment house in Dur ham, the rentals of which are to- be used for the hospital. i Mr. Fred J. Aaron, of Mt. Olive, sued the Atlantic Coast Line rail way for personal injuries received in a derailment of a train near Whiteville, in 1908, and in the trial at Goldsboro a few days ago ob tained $20,000 damages. R. L. Southern, the employe of Spach Bros., of Winston-Salem, who stole several thousand, dollars from them by taking small amounts from their safe each night, was tried in the Superior Court Saturday and giv en two years in the penitentiary. Revenue collections for last month as reported from Collector Brown's office are as follows: Lists, $11,957! spirits, $286.55; cigars, $1,9.50; to bacco, $378,846.45; special tax $204 .44; total, $379,479.17, an injerease of $10,000 over the preceding month. The homeof Mr. L. C. Norris, of Rocky Mount, an old revolutionary - taveyn, which was occupied in 1774 by Lord Cornwallis while passing through the country enroute to Yorktown, was burned last Friday. The loss is estimated at about . $6,000. But for the timely .appearance of a policeman at a fire in Newbern Sunday morning which destroyed the Stewart building, on Middle street, Mr' H. J. Crumpler, city editor of the Newbern Journal, and his wife, who occupied apartments in the building, would have lost their lives. M1&S Elite UttUv the . York j ! tennis plaj r, was frilled ite Sat-1 S urday evening near Pineburat. N. C. j hy a train She wta trying to crow ) Th. countr commoner, of w... .rJ.r ihscriM). t(nan county have ordered the eree- f lion of a new courthouse at Sail- bury, to cost approximately $100.-1 000. The old court bouse Is to be us.d as a library. ! The Norfolk and Southern pa- snger and freight depot at Hertford and a box car loaded with mer- chandlse fth night shortly after midnight. The loss amounts to several thousand dol- jam, oui iu hi r'j uj u9uamvc A fire at St. Paula last Saturday 'night, destroyed Odum's milling and electric plant. The plant consisted M . . . 1 ... -n f 1 Iji i wo couoin 6 ' electric dynamo, and quite a lot of macninery. ine loss is eau- mated at $5,000 with insurance of about $1,000. A promoters of the Raleigh, Char-S jottw and Souhern Railway, met in Raleigh yesterday and organized by 'electing K. T. Umb. President: E. c i)uncan. First Vice-President;! F're(lerick Hoff Second Vice-Presi-I dent; Mathias Manly, Treasurer;; Morris Hawkins, Secretary; Nelson! W. Runnion, Assistant Secretary; Chadbourne & Shores, General Conn- . r , r. i 4v i - , Raleigh and South port. Aberdeen and ; j Asheboro and Durham and Southern The Xorfolk Southern will remain a separate diviscion as at present. And the officers elected yesterday are for the new branch of the road. Mr. John A. Mills and Mr. Henry Page remain with the new company. So One to Vote at the Election. The Sanford Express says that in a certain section of Harnett County citizens some weeks ago petitioned for an election on the stock law j question and was ordered and , registration books opened, as the law requires. But one man registered and when election day came even the lone man who had registered failed to show up at the polling place and there was not a vote cast for or against the proposition. Married in Jail Event Followed a Homicide. A special to the Charlotte Obser ver says that Clyde Chifton and pretty Beulah Stone were married in the county pail at Rockingham Monday afternoon. Chifton left next day to begin a 12-months sen tence on the roads of Columbus County, to which he was recently sentenced by Judge Whedbee for carrying a pistol after he had been tried and acquitted by a jury of a charge of mwiLering Sank Morse in September, 1911. Morse and Chilton were rivals for the hand of Beulah Stone, an 18-year-old Great Falls cotton mill operative, each having received as surance that led him to believe himself the favored one, upon the strength of which each had purchas ed a marriage license. On the night of the killing, Chilton and Beulah Stone were overtaken on the street by Morse, w;ho demanded that the girl go with him. She refused, Morse took hold of her and at the same time struck Chilton, who was remonstrating. Then Chilton shot and killed Morse. He was acquit ted on the plea of self-defense. Landmark. Hank of Jonesboro Goes Under. The Bank of Jonesboro, in Lee County, was ordered closed yesterday by the Corporation Commission on the report of Bank Examiner Brown, who, on Tuesday, made an examina tion and found the capital stock im paired. Mr. Brown is in charge of the bank and will continue until a re ceiver is named by the courts. - Bad loans are said to be responsible for the trouble. Secretary of Anti-Saloon League Sum moned as a Witness. In Charlotte last Sunday Rev. R. L. Davis, Secretary of the State Anti-Saloon League exhibited several bottles of whiskey which he said had been bought by parties in Charlotte. A summons was served on Mr. Davis by a city official and he was requested to give the names of the parties from whom the liquor was purchased. He named several of the drug-stores in Charlotte. Mill Men Hold Meeting at Gastonia - mid Organize. Hard yarn spinners from North and South Carolina, Georgia, Ala bama and other Southern States gathered at Gastonia, N. C, Tuesday to the number of seventy-five or more for the purpose of reorganizing the Hard Yarn Spinners Association of the South. About 600,000 spindles were represented. The delegates said they had a very satisfactory meeting but no definite information of any kind was given out. - ; t . THE CA Cb. blew., which had Urtrt hnnn hour -Fifty ror p.riibed In a storm, near Ishim Siberi a few days ago. i-orty- iays ago. rorcy-iour cur ( been dug out. The long Uskfof the ralain of the hiiihti Vir u com Dieted last! Friday, February 2. Throe bodies t were found in the vessel. ! Nine people were Injured, two fa tally, in a wreck of the Norfolk and Western, near Ford, twenty-five miles west of Petersburg. Va., Tuesday. Harvey Hurst and wife and a young lady who lived with them, were accidentally asphyxiated by gaa in their home at Delaware, Okla., Satur day night. The Atlanta Georgian, an after noon paper of Atlanta, haa been sold, and purchased by William Randolph Hearst. The paper was established six years ago. Near Greenville, S. C, a few days ago, Mr. H. N. Pruner, was found dead near the belt line car. It is thought that he had fallen asleep on the track while enroute home. Philadelphia suffered a million dollar fire a few days ago. Three large factory buildings in the block bounded by Wood, Vine, Eight and Franklin streets were destroyed Myron T. Herrick, former Gov ernor of Ohio, will be appointed am bassador to France to succeed Robert Bacon, who recently resigned to be come a fellow in the Harvard cor poration. A family of four in Laurence, Mass., were found murdered in their tenement in the Foreign quarter of that city February 3rd. No less tnan w wounds were found on the four bodies. I "A race war is imminent in Fulton The great Niagara ice bridge, which ) county, according to Governor Mc has choked the channel, between the j creary's advices from authorities cataract and upper arch bridge for th Th tronbla starts in t.h t- the past three weeks, gave way a few days ago, drowning three people who were on the bridge. John Etherington, a lad of 13 years of age, of Norfolk, Va., in try ing to board a Norfolk and Western coal train in Norfolk a few days ago, lost his footing, fell between the wheels, and was decapitated. A submarine boat of the navy of Great Britain sank Friday, at the en trance to Spithead, with a loss of fourteen lives four officers and ten members of the crew. The disaster was caused by a collision with a gun boat. Gen. Plaza, the Ecuadorean com mander who recently defeated the revolutionists at Guayquill, has been stricken with yellow fever, and is dangerously ill, accdrding to re- i ports coming to the State Depart ment. Philip R. Yow, of Atlanta, Ga., shot and instantly killed C. C. Cad die, a detective, in a local hotel in Knoxville, Tenn., February 2, then Immediately committed suicide. Yow was the son of a prominent busi ness man of Atlanta. Chas. WT. Morse, the New, York banker recently given his freedom, is said to be able to travel and will leave within a few days for New York. His condition has been grad ually improving ever since his re lease from Ft. McPherson Hospital. Reports from the Internal Revenue service of the Treasury Department reveals an increase in the moonshine business. During the fiscal year end ing June 30, last. Revenue officers seized and destroyed 2,471 distill eries, made 529 arrests and captured 92,444 gallons of spirits, the total value of which was$313488.76. The increase over the preceding year in illicit distilleries was 560. A band of robbers held up a west bound train near Hurlburt, -Arkansas Wednesday morning and secured a great deal of plunder. The mail car was ransacked, but the passen gers on the train were undisturbed. The gang was composed of seven masked men. Money consigned to a bank in Oklahoma estimated between $60,000 and $70000 is reported to have been taken by the robbers. FLORDIA ENDORSES MR. TAFT. Will Send FuU Delegation for Mr. Taft to National Convention. An Associated Press dispatch sent out from Jacksonville, Florida, last night says: "Florida will send a full delegation instructed for Taft to the Republican National Convention at Chicago, ac cording to advices received 'to-day from Palatka, where the State Con vention was held yesteday (Tuesday). The statement that the convention was split and that two delegations, one Instructed for Taft and the oth er for Roosevelt, had been selected. rCASf AX. w denied. Tee Independent eon- Imtloa. It Is ftaSd. rma cx4ic up f I dlJ tifti have I tote is the regular coavenUca. ".Urnon, d enmror Taf. w Strons r.lu-l iwii , Uons endorsing the Taft admlnlatra- Jtlon ami naming hini aa the prty opL,ilUo' adopt- " " 1 HrorsU Will Have SpiHted Oonvr ! tiou. "Atlanta. Gi.. Feb. . Fulton County will send two delegation, one instructed for President Tft and the other for Hoosevelt, to the Stale Re- publican Convention, which meets here next week, aa a result of a coun ty primary held to-day. Support ers of the President announced to- nizht their tide had won. while the - Hoosevelt supporters also claimed vic tory. The Republican committee of Glynn County at Brunswick to-day adopted resolutions endorsing Presi dent Taft for renomination. A lively fignt is expected at the State convention over the question of the instruction of delegates CaM in Court Two Years Over a Dog Worth $1.00. A Dewey, Pa., dispatch says: After litigation that has been fought in the Delaware county courts nearly two years, at an expense of several hundred dollars, Harry Tyler has been awarded possession of a 'collie dog, which had been claimed by Emma Schriner. Tyler testified that he owned the puppy, which wandered away one day to the store of Richard Purdy, whose attendant, when closing time came, gave the dog away to a little boy, who subsequently sold it to Mrs. Schriner for $1. Learning where his dog was, Tyler made a de mand for it, but Mrs. Schriner, be lieving that the little animal was hers by right of purchase, refused to give it up. A lawr suit followed. A Race War in Kentucky. A dispatch from Frankfort, Ky., under date of February 6th, says: ton growing sections between the whites and negroes. Notices were posted warning the negroes to leave the county. Two white men were killed recently. Several have been arrested. X Government-Owned Alaska. Railroad in ( Baltimore Evening Sun.) President Taft's recommendation that the Government buy and extend the Alaska Central Railway will not surprise those who are familiar with the situation of affairs in that terri tory. The trouble with the existing laws regarding the development of coal lands there laws as yet unre pealed, but held up by Executive or der is .that they do not permit indi viduals to take up claims large enough to justify mining of the coal, while at the same time they prohibit agreements in advance between the individual settlers such as would allow profitable mining. The pro posed leasing laws, while guarantee ing a fair return to the Government for the valuable coal rights, do not promise the tremendous profits which a syndicate of the Morgan Guggenheim type usually demands. Such syndicates ask a monopoly or nothing. A railroad, of course, is necessary to get the coal to tide water, and if private enterprise won't build it the Government must. The experiment might be Interest ing for the light It would throw on the value of Government ownership in this country. MR. DUKE WILL RESIGN. President American Tobacco Com pany Will Go to England as Presi dent of the British-American Com pany. New York, Feb. 7, James B.-Duke very shortly will resign from the pres idency of the American Tobacco Com rvnn v to become chairman nf tho. RHt. ish-American Tobacco Company, Lim-! ited, with Its chief office in London, it was announced late today at the American Tobacco Company offices. He will be succeeded as president of the American Tobacco Company by Percival S. Hill, long a vice-president. Two Children Burned to Death. Helen, the six-year-old daughter of Dr. and Mrs. G. A. Caton, of New Bern; was seriously, if not fatally, burned to-day (Thursday). Her cloth ing caught from a lighted match. The four-jear-old child of Rev. and Mrs. C. W. Williams, of Rural Hall, Forsyth County, was burned to death to-day. The child was alone In the room when its clothing supposed ly caught from a spark from the fire place. , Negro Lynched by Members of His Own Race. Homer Stewart, a negro, was lynch ed by members ot his own race at Cedar Crossing, Ga., Tuesday. Stev. art Is alleged to'have killed anothe negro and fatally wounded two ott era at a negro festival. UCiYK- CORK CtXB. If ' . k. Lnitcl State Tie The ownnru v v-i1a- Partial lUt-c prti offered ttUr: cr nrlt OI Free State prite ofsfm trio io " Inston. D. C: To be awartseo io boy miking the Urgest yield t th least cost per bushel. " S'irin eb iltrlet for bt tixes la eaco " , trt at least cox Third ,.: Fourth l0 . Fm dn. Carrituck. I"'0 ,Bon. "cond D..tr..t: Count." of O-J. ampton on. and Warren. Counties of PUt Third District: Tnolr. Craven. Greene. Wayne. Jones. Cartaret, Onslow. Duplin, Pender. u District: Counties of .r. ni- Durham. Frank- vance. . rtot lln. Nash. Johnston. Wake. Chat- Fifth District: Counties of Per son. Orange. Caswell. Alamance. Rockingham. Guilford. Randolph. Stokes. Davidson. Sixth District: Counties of New n.nnvpr. Brunswick Columbus. Ttobepon. Cunioer- inml Harnett. Hoke. Seventh District: Counties of Scot land. Moore. Richmond. Montgom ery, Anson. Stanley. Union, Cabarrus. Mecklenburg. Eighth District: Counties ot hur ry, Alleghaney, Wilkes. Alexander. Ashe, Watauga, Caldwell, Burke, McDowell. Mitchell. Yancey, Avery. Ninth District: Counties of Yad kin, Davie, Rowan, Iredell, Catawba. Lincoln. Rutherford, Polk. Tenth District: Counties of Madi son, Buncombe, Henderson, Tran sylvania, Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Swain, Graham, Clay, Cherokee. Rules. 1. All members must be under 18 yrs. of age August 1, 1912. 2. Each boy must plant one acre of corn, (4,840 sq. yds.), doing all the work himself, except small boys may hire their land broken. 3. No member must use more than $1 worth of commercial fer tilizer. 4. Each member must keep a rec ord of his work, amount of manure and fertilizer used and make out a report on the special blang which will be furnished him. Milam is guaranteed under the pore food and drugs law to con tain no opium, morphine, strych nine, mercury, potash or other dangerous' or habit forming drugs. Thus you take no chances with yotlrheaJtb when you take MilamNv 7iJ, I will always take pleasure In recom mending Milam for uric Arid tmuhl C T. Barksdale. former U.S. Postmaster. Danville. Va. For nearly eight years I suffered with rheumatism at times unable to walk. I am taking Milam with great benefit. as I am now able to walk and suffer no pain. Mrs. Ira R. Pre&ton, Abingdon. Va. Rheumatism affected my heart until I could not lie down without such pain that 1 could hardly bear it Milam has made me feel like a new woman. Mrs. J. p. Brown, 635 N. 8th SL, Richmond, Va. For 18 years I was confined to my bed the greater part of the time with rheuma tism. Milam has been a Godsend to me. I now walk about my farm the swell in g has left my limbs and joints reduced to Chocowimty. N. 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C. rtlrxxrj In an effort to eacourar crease poultry raisin ia tb the Southern Railway C-; throurh its Lnd aad lasttru part meat, ha tsaaed a iolUt wide distribution callinc fo the superior adrinurts in the States traversed by tu for the profitable develops. tf this Industry. The big borne demand for pc products with prices hither tUj other markets, and the tdeal Uons prevailing In the Sou raising chicks at low con art t, of the good arguments toni the folder. It is a fact that et Southern city of any !xe ;r. annually thousands of dollar C!?U of eggs and chickens. Epra nj k, erage throughout the year at Ug five cents more per down tU the North. The Southern po-.'.irv man has a market near hi plant n does not have to consider lur. i.;., and uncertain markets. For the small poultry ra:s- r :; ia satisfied to make a Ihir.g ct .3 . t 11.. I .11 II 4 business with his profit, tie is JL - . A 1 . I a;! a; cosi oi a pouiiry piani in U;e v east should not run ot i:a according to an estimate pivi a la !i. folder. Many prosperous Sout. poultrytncn began as low as lm first capital. Several a?res of i land, small laying house and ru Is about all necessary for iocV,rj raising on a small scale In the So.-.i-east, and such a plant will n&h t healthful, pleasant living for tt family and under intelligent ment will in a few years rsult iz i large industry. The Southern Railway Compisy. is very much Interested in the S velopment of the poultry Industry, u it is in other industries and actiri tles of the people served by it. iti Land and Industrial Agent M. V, Richards at Washington, and Wec ern Agent Charles S. Chase. Cleri cal Bldg., St. Louis, are prepared u give all possible assistance witto;: charge to prospective polutrymea de siring to locate In the Southeast. You take no chances with your money either, for if you bur a course of tlx bottles and are not benefitted you can get your money back for the asking. No dispute no argument-you are the judge. I have been a great sufferer with rheumatism and far uvml vr tin able to attend to my duties continu ously. Si bottles of Milam made a r e man of me. Claude Curling. M$ C Main SL, Norfolk. Va. I spent over 13.000 for rheumadsm with no benefit whatever until I tried Milam. It has dona all you claim for it in rr.r case. L H. Wade, corner Church and Lee St.. Norfolk. Va. For a long-standing and aggravated case of rheumatism I am glad to say I re ceived more benefit from the use of Milam than all the other treatment extending over a period of ten years. C P. Banrer. with W. M. Hitter Lumber Ck. Hunting ton. W. Va. Since taking e bottles of Milam my rheu matism is entirely gone, my complexion and apoetit improved I wouldn't take ISO for the good it has dona me. A- Mc enae, vznvuxe, Va. CO., Inc., Danville, Va. Suitings, Long Cloth Cam- Curtains will be sold'at zB'"''' BcioZcd to S fccea I l II N
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