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State Netfs. Reports are that 26,060 rabbit and 15,003 partridge hare been hipped from Slier City, In Chatham County, eJnce the season opened in November. Four white men and eight negroe were sentence.! to four months on the county roads a few dayi ago in Eliz abeth City for violating the prohibi tion iawg. The four-year-old child of Her. C. W. Williams, of Rural Hall, Forsyth County, was burned to death a few days ago- The child caught on fire while alone in the room. Ed. Mills, a very bad negro of the Ashevillo section, resisted arrest a few days ago, after having escaued from the chain-gang of the county. and was shot to death by the deputy sheriff. , A bottle of whiskey in the pocket of a young man at Spencer, a few days ago, becoming too warm from the boat of the Are near which ho was sitting, exploded, saturating his clothing and burning him badly. John Stone, a young white man of 'High Point, was found with two sticks f dynamite on his person after threatening to blow up Kennedy's restaurant a few days ago, and waa fined $100 by the recorder in his court. In Vance Township, Lenoir Coun ty, a few days ago, a lot of drunken y negroes created a great deal of ex citement, and also did quite a little damage to property as a result. They pulled down telephone lines and com mitted numbers of depredations. The six-year-old daughter of Dr. and Mrs. G. A. Caton, of New Bern, was very badly, if not fatally burned a few days ago in playing with a box of matches. She struck one match and the entire box became ignited, setting her clothing afire. Reports from the local Revenue of fice at Asheville shows that sixty il licit distilleries have been seized in the State of Virginia, and two arrests and thirty prosecutions recommend ed, of these twenty of them are in North Carolina. Mrs. Thomas Robertson, of Twin Falls, Idaho, who is visiting her sis ters near Scotland Neck, was stand ing near the fire a few days ago and her clothing became ignited, burning her severely if not fatally. Mrs. George Dooly, of Charlotte, committed suicide at the State H. Hospital at Morganton Thursday af ternoon last by burning herself to death. She got hold of a box of matches and set her clothing afire. It is said that Mr. O. L. Flow bought the liquor for the Rev. R .L. Davis, which he exhibited in the Charlotte meeting a few weeks ago. It is also reported that he has disap peared, and Intimations are that he was hired to do so. Deputy Collector R. F. Henry and Deputy Marshall T. V. Slope located and destroyed two large Illicit distil leries Monday on Beaver Dam, in Cherokee County. These make four teen distilleries destroyed in this same community within thirty days. According to reports issued by Commissioner of Labor and Printing, M. L. Shipman, ( sixty-five knitting mills are reported during 1911 for North Carolina. Fifty-four of them show a capital stock of $3,043,125. General proficiency is reported im- f proved from forty-three. Joe Greer, the negro who shot and fatally wounded John Kerns, another negro, an employe of the R. J. Rey nolds Tobacco Company, late Satur day evening, was arrested at Walker . town Monday and carried back to Winston-Salem. Kerns died Monday. Lumberton Lady Orders ifer Own A fire at Fountain, N. C, destroy ed the town building and market, burning to death Mr. E. S. Nichols, a farmer, who was in town, and being under the influence of whiskey, was locked in a cell. . The general opin ion is that he had matches in his clothing and set fire to the building. Deputy Collector K. W. Merritt and J3eputy Marshall F. W. Knight cap tured a large still in Durham County a few days ago. E. A. Whitted was found together with another man, who escaped; Whitted was given a hearing before U. S. Commissioner ) Skinner, and gave bond for appear ance at next term of Federal Court. A Union County Mother Saw Child Born to Death. y . Waxhaw, February 12. The four-years-old son of Mr. and Mrs. San ford Powell, of the Tabesrnacle com munity, met a shocking death recent ly, being burned to death In a corn crip. He probably had some matches and set the shucks afire. ' No one was present but the mother, and when she discovered the fire, it had gained such headway that she was cut off, and could only stand by, helpless, and see her litle son burn to death. Colored )Un Vr&te to Dlb bj tin? lioadslde. liaac Parcel!, colored, was found dead yesterday morning on the road near his home at AtfordiviUe. He had been cooking for Mr. Wash Walker at a sawmill plant in Cum berland County. He waa oa his way bom Saturday night, having had to walk three miles, where be got off the train, and it is thought that he froze to death. Lumberton Robe-sonian. January Sal en of Leaf Tobacco. The sales of leaf tobacco on the several markets in North Carolina for the month of 'January amounted to 10,429,749 pounds, according to statistics gathered by the State De partment of Agriculture, as against 6,098,749 in January, 1911. Winston-Salem led the markets for the month of January; Mount Airy, Rocky Mount, Roxboro and Hender son came next in the order named. Casket. A special from Lumberton, Robe son County, to Sunday's Charlotte Observer, says: "Mrs. Eliza Bass of this place. f-who will be 79 years old In April, gave an order this week to have her burial casket made and delivered at her home. The wood used was of the richest yellow pine heart, the ex terior painted black and the interior lined and trimmed as she directed. The work has been done and she has the casket in her possession." Hill Brother Held on Charge of Shooting Their Father. A special from High Point, N. C, to yesterday's News and Observer says: "The Hill brothers, whose trial for the shooting of their father on the 3rd instant came off to-day in the Re corder's Court, were bound over to Superior Court under a bond of two thousand dollars each. In default of their bond, they were taken to Greensboro jail this evening by the local police." False Economy and Criminal Extrav agance. Asheville Citizen.. Those towns in North Carolina which have made repeated efforts to get new public buildings will be in terested to know that there will be no appropriations at this session of Congress, if indeed, there will be any within the next two years. The Sher wood pension bill, having demanded seventy millions of dollars for north ern pensions, left practically nothing for public buildings. Hence it may be argued that thcse who voted for the Sherwood pension bill knocked their own constituents out of prom ised public buildings for some time. Mr. Bryant Parker of Jones County Found Frozen to Death. A special from Kinston to Tues day's Charlotte Observer says: News was received in Kinston this morning of the death of Mr. Bryant Parker, of Jones County. While driv ing along the Trenton road Sunday morning Mr. Henry Gray, of Jones County, discovered the body of a man covered in snow by the roadside. After digging away the snow, he dis covered the body to be that of Mr. Bryant Parker, frozen stiff and life less. It is surmised that Mr. Parker started Saturday afternoon to walk from Trenton to his home, about nine miles away, and got caught in the se vere snowstorm which prevailed Sat urday night. Mr. Parker was about twenty-five years old and was not married. MOTHER AND BABY TO THE PEN. Woman Guilty of White Slave Traf fic Joins Her Husband Prominent Farmer Attempts Suicide. A special dispatch from Salisbury to Sunday's Greensboro News says: Charlie Bost, a prominent farmer, fifty years old, with a wife and ten children, living near Organ Church, Rowan County, attempted suicide, it is alleged, with a shotgun this morn ing. Mr. Bost had been bothered con siderably of late by relatives over some land and had been unable to sleep for three nights. This morn ing early he entered a small room at his home and in some way fired a gun. A part of the load entered his neck, producing wounds that, while painful, are not necessarily fatal. Baby to Prison1 With Mother. Sheriff McKenzie took Mrs. Charles Noel to the state prison, where she is to serve five years, the sentence im posed on her at the September Rowan court in the white slave case, moved here from Davidson county. Mrs. Noel's baby boy, born since her con viction, will remain with the mother in the penitentiary. Her husband is already there serving his fifteen year term for the same offense. Mrs.- Noel will try for a pardon soon. A case a litle out of the ordinary will be tried in Rowan's court next week, when J. B. Gray is arraigned for bigamy, although he has only one wife. One of his alleged wives died recently. The case against J. M. Gardner, of Landis, who, with his wife, was charged recently with abandoning four small children by a former mar riage, was continued today, ho hac ing shown that the four children Randolph county. General Netfs. In a wreck on the great Northern Oriental Limited at Do rem, near Dev. IV Lake, N. D. seven are known to be dead and a score injured. ' After occupying the throne of China for nearly three centuries, the Manchu dynasty, represented by Pa Vi, was abdicated February 13. Col. ... if. Stewart, a prominent J Confederate veteran and hero of the ball of the "Crater." died Friday night at his home in Portsmouth, I Va., aged 73 years. The President has given a reprieve of fifty-one days to Mattie Lomax, a j colored woman under death sentence ! In Washington, D. C, for the murder of her husband. ! Three railroad men were killed and i several injured when a passenger i train on the Norfolk and Western Road ran Into a freight at Dry Branch. Va., on Friday last. Former State Representative John G. Stevens, Confederate veteran, was killed by his automobile a few days ago. The car was left in high gear, and he attempted to crank It. An aerial cable across Platte River, in Wyoming, a few days ago, snapp ed, hurling a lot of workmen into the river. Five of them are dead as a re sult, and several others wounded. Deputy Warden E. D. Davis, of the State penitentiary of Nebraska, was stabbed six times by a negro convict last Sunday at the close of the morn ing service In the prison chapel. He will probably die. It is reported that Mr. LaFollette will withdraw from the candidacy for President very soon on account of the condition of his health. He was en dorsed a few days ago by the Repub licna League of Minnesota. Two men held up the proprietor of a saloon in New York, a few days ago, robbed the saloon, killed the owner, and wounded the bar-tender. They escaped with $39, which they took from the cash register. A fire in Washington, D. C, Tues day last destroyed an entire block of business houses in the down-town section and burned out the Wool worth and McCrorey stores, causing damages estimated at $100, OuO. Reports are that work on the Pan ama Canal progressed rapidly during the month of January. With one working day less, canal diggers exca vated 2,641,444 cubic yards in Janu ary as against 2,430,276 in Decem ber. Taft headquarters are to be opened in Washington soon and Representa tive William B. McKinley, of Illinois, Chairman of the Republican Congres sional Campaign Committee, will be in charge of the President's political interests. 0 A cat and fur company is said to be on the eve of formation in Cali fornia fo rthe purpose of raising cats and killing them for their fur. In addition to this, it is proposed to start a rat branch adjoining for the same purpose. An amendment of the civil service rules, recently made by the Presi dent relating to removals, insures civil service employes against dis criminations relative to religion or politics, and adds security against caprices. Miss Pauline Strickland, a young lady living in Vanderbilt, Ala., was shot and seriously wounded by a ne gro, who was found in her room a few days ago. She was awakened by him, and on screaming, the brute fired. It Is reported that Charles W. Morse,-the ex-convict banker, recent ly freed from the Federal Prison at Atlanta, Ga., on accoumt of his health, is very much improved, and will be taken by his wife to a health resort in Germany for treatment. A tight collar is said to have caused the death of William F. Dillon, in Norwood, Mass., a few days ago. A medical examiner said that the man apparently suffered from an attack of indigestion which caused a slight swelling of the neck and his collar choked him to death. John Early, the supposed leper, who has been sent from place to place in trying to determine whether or not he has leprosy, has been locat ed at Summltt, near Tacoma, Wash ington, and has been fenced in on an acre of land. His wife and three small children are with him. Sherwood Bill Reported Unfavorably by Committee. By a vote of 8 to 4, the Senate Committee on Pensions defeated a motion to favorably report the Sher wood "Dollar-a-Day Pension Bill and adopted the substitute of Senator Smoot (Republican, of Utah). The Smoot measure increases the. annual pension roll $24,000,040. This is less than half tho amount called for in the Sherwood hill. : TUj of -UstabW Harrr L t VlrsttOa. beMoffu ioitrguw. Savannas. Ga,. res. l. ice f iirtssrr hero and father or uea. uoo ert EL Lee, the Confederate chieftain, will be removed, after lying nearly cue fCumWrland Island to Lexington, a.. the old tome of the Lee family, where ft win he relnterred In the Lee tomb. At thr? time of his death, la lSU.i "UghthorseM Harry Lee wai ca a lit to General Nathaniel Greene, at his homestead on Cumberland Island. I t-v nAJnr-fim Atviiru nt ihm ntiffh- I w w-. v v.. -. iter or tte American Keroinuon wui I co-operate with the citltens of Lex - lington in the reinterment- ; SAys tAFT HAS GOOD MAJOUITl. fOut of 1,070 Vote at Chicago Pre--j ident Sow Sure of 20 Vote More Ttian lie Needs. Sunday's New York American, a Democratic paper, contained a long ' special from Washington on the Pres ldentiai suuaiion. ine Amencsa corresponaent say. mat out o ina 1.076 votes aicnicago rresiaem now haa 558. or 20 more than ne needs. Congressman McKinley. who will manage Mr. Taffs campaign, and Mr. Chas. D. Hllles. Secretary to the President, summed up the situation a few days ago, and Mr. McKinley rave out a statement to the effect ithat 780 delegates out of tho 1.076 will be for President Taft. or 240 votes more than necessary for a choice. The Republicans held a pri- mary m wasnington Saturday ana se- lected two "Taft delegates" to the National Convention. The Presi dent's friends claim Mr. LaFollette! will be out of the race before the National Convention Is held. Arizona Completes the List of States. Washington, D. C, Feb. 14. As the White House clocks were strik ing ten President Taft signed the proclamation admitting Arizona into the Union. He used a gold pen which will be given to Postmaster General Hitchcock. 'There you are," said the President, as he signed the last document. In singing the proclamation ad mitting Arizona, the President add ed the forty-eighth State to the flag and brought within the sisterhood of States the last bit of territory with in the confines of continental United States. To perpetuate the scene for future Arizonians, the moving picture man Invaded the White"House for the first time. The President's . office was filled with the new State's officers, govern ment officials and others interested. Thousands of Fish Die in a Boiling Sea. A dispatch from Galveston, Texas, says that the oil steamship Lucken bach and other ships report having run into a hot water sea in the Gulf of Mexico, 220 miles southeast of the Louisiana coast, February 8th. Thousands of dead fish led to an investigation, and the sailors were surprised to find the water hot, with a rough sea running. The tempera ture of the water varied from almost boiling to lukewarm, and covered an area more than half a mile long. Seamen say they never experienced such phenomena in the gulf, and at tribute it to some subterranean ex plosion or discharge from the bottom of the sea. Neglecting Common Schools Shame fully. Dallas Advocate. The campaign f or the common schools has more in it for the people ; of North Carolina than the tariff, the trust, the pension, Mr. Taft, Mr. Wil son, Mr. Harmon, Mr. Harvey, and all the rest. We are neglecting the common schools shamefully, and we ought to do something worthy of the State and of the children with good blood in their veins who are growing up in ignorance. Let every man who loves the State push this great work along. Apportionment of School Fund. The State Board of Education has apportioned the special State appro priation of $100,00 to those coun ties requiring aid from the State to help give them a four months' school term. The counties securing aid and the amounts they receive are as fol lows: Alexander, $3,108.18; Alle ghany, $4,603.62; Ashe, $3,079.50 Avery, $2,897.48; Bladen, $1,531 Brunswick, $697.74; Burke. $1,422. 76; Caldwell, $1,384; Camden. $1,- 316.32; Carteret. 13027; Caswell 2,900; Catawba, 1,750; Chatham $1,280.21; Cherokee. $1,352; Cho wan, $600; Clay. $544.32 Columbus. $1,717.54; Currituck, $2,060.28; Dare, $3,154.24; Franklin, $2,570; Gates, $300; Graham, $461.11: Gran ville, $1,013.50; Henderson, $1,279.- 11- Hyde. $2,473.97; Jackson. $3. 402.95; Lee, $394.51; Jones. $1,239. 04; Lincoln. $1,721.57; Macon, $1.- 099; Madison. $1,839.17; McDowell. $591; Mitchell. $1,508.50; Montgom ery, $750.46; Northampton. $1,060, 50; Onslow. $1,924.40; Orange, $1, 432.50; Pamlico, $3,178.79; Person, $821.15; Polk, $726.51; Randolph. $1,175; Stanly, $614.21; Stokes. $1. 54662; Transylvania,: $492.92; Warren, $777.65; Watauga. $1,398. 39;j Wilkes, $4,734.74; Yadkin. $1, 40917; Yancey, $2,749.60. Total, $86,042.22. , to; Do Ton belike la c.Ktst tor letter? i Joa a government ta pahlle roads? mnr which yon to fof lhe coo4 0f your country? . Tt, i The tning to oo is TetA:aaS show him that yoa rr wmicg to tack him up in tuch A (OQ(rmS!&n can fight twice as nartj WBen he knows that he has the . . t 1kTtA cnnrrt of his constltu t ... .... v your repreuvi e mm lf fQl (her(k to do your vui. s Vcver n-sitate to let him know wiu OQ all public matters. m Write your Congreiaman! Farm Topics APPIJ; GItOWIXCi IX GKOHUIA. Finest YaricUm Arc tiitmn in i Mountainous cuoiv. rnrn!a fi. February S. That ' ' . ... w mowing apples to be "und anyw here obtain in the highlands of the south- east is shown in a statement recent- U ado by Dr George T Powell, o the Agricultural Experts Station of Nw York, one of the world a most eminent horticultural autnoiitles as just maae an examinaion oi a number of large tracts of land in north Georgia lying along the lines vl,k"v " Habersham and Rabun Counties, - 1 which he said: "The conditions necessary for the successful culture of the apple must (naturally be found In hilly or some- what mountainous sections, and merchant. In dressing tb hi hence the territory over which the darkey had got his water too to. zl finest apples those possessing the 0f course, the .kin turned tj finest quality may be grown, is low. When the hog was dlUfr u somewhat limited. Northeast Geor- the merchant, tho latter mild i n, gia has th ese conditions in a most iarWey: unusual degree. 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" Tocates in North Carol:- M.f year ago. A Foal try IUInt Who (From the Lenoir NVM Mr. 1. T. Smith it t r., . County farmer who ; 4- J,!t' and knows what thine vh; hz . where the profit corr. f, ,4 rurtcd last year with the ?rom hem be oM ? M for $$$.20 aruj $n o chickens, total $100 11 fs chickens and two hoc. ir... r rr! v,l iu for this h,.r. , v e Ived $. I fo th, feeding both $66 o. ThU u k nice profit o ' $,S.S0. ani h, tUln more chicken, than u KXrH h. J.ougia ue no n.a JuW (From lhe MooreiTllu Kot:, SVeral weks ato a ci-js 1 Mo0resvllle wa. confined to h , w un jaunaice. Having : of IrOL,nd nog lhal wag rrady km and dress his hogshlp. Tl key carried out his intructiosi t i delivered the flno porker n aers. 1 seed it turn yellow hn I took it outen de water. Dit ifce de matter wid de man what It to, and de hog done ketchoj it, too" The story of the darkey was btUi. cd and the meat was turned bacr u the owner. 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Every nrina 1 wru.i hni t ri'.j- frti x ' H til thi it ' j cannot ;.-; A ie ft rvt tyrvr-A Ig inthrreyar. 'A - 11. il m 9 wuninar awiui eruption urn i saw Muam advertised. I canit Aluam enough, as this ts the and wmmfrl have enkyed in Miss Winnifred Posten, 731 Patterson Avenue. Roanoke, Va. C
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