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THE Stare Netfs. Mr. Arthur Flick, a youn man of Craven County, while returning from a trilling match at a country school house a few night ago, was bit by a etray bullet and seriously injured. Revenue offers in company with Thursday several miles north of Hie Will Bryant, a negro, near Fayette- Yille killed Will Krans, another ne-! firt telegraph message from Itza' gro in be same section: last Satur- j beth City, dropped dead at his home 51' nLt wa bound over toUn Elizabeth City last Friday, lie Av nrvant was bouna March Superior Court witbing being allowed bail. A fire in Southport Monday morn ing destroyed three house, entailing a loss of about $5,000, partially cov ered by insurance. The origin of the fire is believed to have been caused V v t at Mr S. Johnson, deputy sheriff of of the law. which stirred the entire Cumberland County, was found dead city, and resulted in the calling of a In the road near Dundaroch last Sat- j mass meeting of the citizen to de urday. He was seen driving along jcide what must be done in the mat the road in a buggy about an hour be- ter. for his body was found. ; - - Davidson Ocmnty Iady Burned to a Thirty years in the penitentiary j was the sentence given the negro Eus- j tace Robertson, at Carthage a few days ago. for the murder of Francis j Ruggles. the young white man ai j Southern Pines Christmas nigni. Reports from Cherokee County show that there is more blockading in that county now than there has been in twenty years.. Revenue om cers destroyed another large distillery In the western end of the county last week. 21,000 acres of land in Macon County has been purchased by the government, and will be converted into the Appalachian forest reserve. It is understood that the price to be paid was $200,000. S The store and entire stock of Mr. j J. T. Ratledge, of Advance, Davie County, was burned last Tuesday, en tailing a loss of $4,000, with no in surance. The office of Dr. Watkins adjoining was also damaged about $1,000. The department store of Rosen- j bacher and Bro., Winston-Salem, lo cated at the corner of Fourth and Trade streets, was destroyed by fire one night last week, entailing a loss of about $35,000, partially covered by insurance. The Dallas cotton mill, with all its equipments was sold at public auc tion, In Gastonia one day last week. It was bid in by Mayor T. L. Craig at $37,500. Unless this bid is raised 10 per cent within thirty days superior will confirm the sale. A series of robberies and burgla - ries have been going on in Stanly County for the past few weeks, and as a result Bogan Tuttle and B. G. Fraley, two young white men, have been arrested, and they have impli cated several others Mr. George W. Smith, an employe in the Lenoir Manufacturing Com pany plant, Kinston, was trying to adjust a belt, when his clothing be came entangled in the shafting and he was thrown against the timbers, killing him instantly. Mr. A. Wiley Klutz, aged seventy eight years, was found dead at his home near Salisbury one day last week. He had been ill for some time and a member of his family entered j his room to administer medicine and i found him dead in bed. A. E. Burgess, who poisoned the stock of Mr. J. A. Whitaker, in Sur- ry County, and tried to poison the 1 family by putting Paris green in the spring, was convicted in Surry Supe rior Court a few days ago and sen tenced to six years on the roads. James Houchins, an employe in a tobacco warehouse in Winston-Salem, was instantly killed last Saturday by the breaking of a cord on the eleva tor, dropping eighty feet to the floor of a stone basement. He was moving tobacco from one floor to another. The United States Court of Appeals has reversed the District Court of the Western District of North Carolina in the case of G. H. Brown, collector of internal revenue, and the United States Fidelity and Guarantee Com pany vs. Glenn Williams and D. C. Foster. It is reported that Lacy D. HInes, who was supposed to have committed suicide last Sunday, by jumping into Yadkin River, was seen by ...a well known 'traveling man of Greensboro in a hotel in Atlanta, Ga., Monday. He was said to have been apparently in good mental condition. Police Officer Bursell, of Kinston, was shot and seriously wounded by Leslie Turnage, a white man whom he was trying to arrest Sunday after noon. Turnage had been placed un der bond for disorderly conduct and because of a repetition of thik con duct the officers were In search of him. Mlts Myrtle Arthur, a former! North Carolina girl, recently of Nor- folk, Va-, wis married a few days ago to Wong Pong, a wealthy Chin ese merchant with store in New York, Norfolk, and San Francisco. Drug-store liquor license ha re- Hv nn aboliahed in Greensboro.! iOnly two bad license to .ell liquor v. . ion prescription, and these !ourea .to cut out th builder oi me of the f.theS eirtu - j first telegraph line, and sender was vice-president of the Norfolk & Carolina Telephone & Telegraph Company in Elizabeth City. What haa been termed the l1 j yearg cid and unmarried. carriage of Justice in the trial of Ba- j ker Ryan for murder, in New Bern, j neceat floods in Portgual destroy last week, culminated on Sunday by . maQy vniages and portions of the clergy or me cuy oenouBuuB from the pulpit the administration Crisp. M T Kindley. who lived near Hannersville, Davidson County, was Durned to death a few days ago. She wag gubject to attacks of vertigo and while alone in the house, as the 'suit of an attack, fell in the fire. A j nelgnbor coming in found her lying! j Jn tQe Diazing fire, her head on the j j Dackiog and her arms burned off. ! Her husband, who was working in a field near the house, was hurriedly summoned and by prompt measures i saved the body from complete crema tion. Union Republican. SaJiipvon Has Oldest I Iain and Larg est Hog. Mr. A. J. Matthews was visiting , his friend and neighbor. Mr. John Carter, of Lisbon Township, recently and ne snowed nim a fine old ham which was thirteen years old last January and is in perfect condition. Mr. Carter does not only raise fine hams, but he knows how to keep them nice and sweet. Capt. J. L. Autry of this county killed the larg est hog in the State this winter (weighed 1,010 pounds), and Mr. Carter has the oldest ham in the State. Next. Clinto News-Dispatch. Farmers Behind in Robeson. Mr. E. Wheeler Stone, of McDon ald, who was in town the other day, told the Robesonian that he has seen farmers much farther along with their work the last of December than they are now, that there are tenant- ! less farms galore all over the county land that labor is so scarce that many large farmers are going to have to jlet much of their land lie idle for j lack of sufficient help. That would j seem to Indicate that there is going to be, perforce, a very material re duction in cotton acreage in Robeson County this year. Lumberton Robe sonian. Meeting of Colored Farmers in Greensboro. The farmers from all parts of the State who have been attending the third annual Farmers' Institute for the past week, left for their homes yesterday. They expressed their gratitude for the work the A. & M. College Is endeavoring to do in order to help the negro farmers through out the State by holding farmers in- stitutes in the various counties of the State during the summer months ; and a round-up institute for a week during the winter. Quite a number of farmers, both white and black- were Prsent and listened t0 the lecture with intense interest. The college is already preparing for a larger Farmers' Institute to be held next year. The summer school will begin on June 17 and continue, for four weeks. Some of the best teachers of the State will be on the staff o instruction . Greensboro News. Japan Interfering With Mission Work in Korea. Dr. Arthur J. Brown, of New York, President of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, has sent to President Taft charges recently re ceived from missionaries in Korea that Japan is making efforts to stamp out Christianity there by torturing converts, closing mission schools and interfering with the work of the American missionaries, of whom there are between three and four hundred in Korea, mostly under the Boards of Foreign Missions of the Methodist and Presbyterian Church es. An account of the situation giv en by a missionary j ust returned from Korea characterizes conditions there" as little short of barbarious. While there have as yet been record ed no cases of physical attacks on Americans, they are compelled to en dure constant interference with their work and every possible means are being employed to nullify their ef forts and discourage them so that they will give up In despair and re- turn to the United States, leaving j Korea to be dealt with by the Japan- ese. Statesville Landmark. General Netfs. Flfty-seten rebels are said to bar jbecn killed in a fight at Saa Pedro, near To rr eon. In North Mexico, Feb- t. . . j George S. Bernard. Confederate j deJ al bU horae tn Peter- years or age. , . . . ha restored eighty-one persons to i fiIm' ltf liberty during hi. first year In oflce.kouth of IS It is claim ed and liberty j xjete pardons included eleven mur den Edward A. Hanson, millionaire lumberman, died suddenly of heart trouble at his home In Franklin, La., : a fv rlars &fo. He was fiftr-three ; towns. The financial loss Is estimat ed at $10,000,000, and hundreds of people are reported destitute. Graham Gilmer, a British aviator, was Instantly killed by a fall with his aeroplane, London, February 17. He was traveling sixty miles an hour and fell from a height of 3 SO feet. The Japanese Trading Company, of Bombay, lost thirty thousand bale of cotton by a fire which broke out in one pf their warehouses Monday. re-iThe damage is estimated at $1,250. 000. Three trainmen were burned to death in a freight wreck near Yar mouth, Me., last week. Two ireignt trains collided, igniting the wreck- age, roasting the men beneath the locomotives. J. Lawrence Odom, convicted mur derer of killing Charles Gollang, Joseph Stokes and David Garman, in Alabama, March, 1910, was hanged Monday, February 19. He was a wealthy man. Senator Overman has offered an amendment to the immigration law, which would meal the collecting of $10 from every immigrant entering this country. The present law pro- vides a fee of $4. It Is said that there are fifteen graduates of colleges and universities in the penitentiary in the State of Washington, and some of them are to be appointed teachers in a night school for the convicts. The Governor of California, who has been an ardent admirer and sup porter of La Follette, has issued a statement that in his opinion Theo dore Roosevelt would be the next Re publican nominee for President. Half a million gallons of lubricat ing oils were destroyed by flames in the Atlantic Refining Company at Point Breeze, a southern section of Philadelphia, a few days ago. The loss amounted to about $80,000. The Pensylvania passenger train ; which ran into' a work train at Dan- j ville, Ind., Saturday and killed four I , . . . . . . , men and injured twelve, has so af-j . , . . 4. . i fected the engineer by the accident i that fears are felt in regard to his I . . mma. The corner-stone for the movement to bp prprtpri'in tnpmnrv nf the mpn who ,ogt their liveg in the destruc. tion of the Maine in Havana harbor, was laid in New York last Thursday. It is expected that the monument will , be completed by next fall. The mon ument is to be fifty-seven feet high. Reports from Washington are that the tariff boards report on the cotton schedule will be submitted to the President next weeK. Numerous tables of statistics have been complet ed and the board is now preparing summarips shnwlnp th t ifforonpa in the cost of cotton articleg ,Q " h country and abroad. Farmer Called Twice a Week But Took Thirty Years to Propose. (Noblesville (Ind.) Dispatch to New York Tribune.) Following a courtship of thirty years, during which time the bride groom called on the bride twice a week, with the exception of one month, when he had typhoid fever,. James B. Sturdevant at last "popped the question to Miss Anna Earle, and they were married in this city yester day. The bridegroom is forty-three and the bride thirty-six. They have been lovers since they were in school to gether. Sturdevant is a farmer. Rold Robberies in New York City in Broad Daylight. A New York dispatch under date of February 16 says: "The series of recent highway rob beries in crowded New York streets of which yesterday's "Wild West" hold-up of a taxi cab and the robbery of two bank messengers of $25,000 in cash, was the-most sensational in years, was followed to-day and to night by another hold-up almost as spectacular. In the lost of these, re corded tO-nlEht. GeorirA TTnrffi dealer In diamonds, with offices In the Maiden Tjitia i.w i-- was robbed of a w.u.t . w vwuuuuiug 1 10,000 worth f diamond fcy two sea who jaaped from a laxicoh at Thirty-fifth Street aai Fifth Avease. florth vas beaten on the head by one of the men, white the other anachei the wallet from his inside coal pock et. The men then Jumped back into the uuieab. which disappeared in the mae o Fifth Avenue traSc. Horth, ! tl,owlcs ""S . reported nu lot at me e Bronx In broad daylight, when Wll- business aria, wan vwccu rob bed of $340, hi firm" pay-roll, which he W2 brlneinc from a bank. The robbery took place in a vacant lot and Doughtery' assailant escaped. TO VOTE A 45-FOOT IlALLOTT. Ctiief of Tammany Hall Caught in 111 Own Trap. A New York dispatch, under date of February 13th, says: "Charles F. Murphy ha the big gest job on his hands since the tim he tried to elect William F. Sheehai Senator and failed. The Tamman; chieftain is up against the big ballot which the new primary law imposes and he has called the Tammany gen eral committee together to find a way out for him. "The ballot In the Twenty-third As sembly district, if the law Is carrie out. and there seems no way of gel tin garound it, will be forty-five fee long. Ballot boxes the size of Saratoga trunk will have to be bull to receive thera." - SAYS THE SVGA It TRUST EXJST i The Committee Expresses Belief Tha the Monopoly Keeps Up Prices. A Washington dispatch under dat of February 17 says: "The Hardwick 'sugar trust' inve: tigating committee, after man weeks' hearing, reported to th House that a 'sugar trust' exists. Tr report is signed by all the membe? of the committee. Democrats and R- j publicans alike. The report makf j no recommendations about how tJr , alleged tnist and those responsib" ; for it shall De dealt withf 8Ug&estlD I that tnis phase of the situation is or j to be worke(1 ont hv th atnnHin committee of the House. Relative to the effect of the con bine on sugar's cost to the consun er, the committee expressed the be lief that the monpoly keeps up price The original promoters of the 'suga trust' are condemned, but nlnetee thousand present owners of stock c the American Sugar Refining Coir pany, are described as 'innocent pui chasers, of profitable stock. Th committee charges that since the ot ganization of the company in 189 it has repeatedly violated the Shei man law. Twenty-one violations ar enunmerated. With its stronges competitors the committee finds th 'sugar trust is in a condition of arm ed neutrality with Arbuckle Bros." DAIRYING IN THE SOUTH. Something of the Possibilities of th Industry in This Section. ,r v,. V n t. u ashington, D. C, February 16. ...p. annX L , The South offers over $100,000,00' . . . jnnnf fn tnt Y 4 iuvaic in luai OCVUWU itUU BUUU1 til 1 j. , , . aemana ior meats. i ne south con sumes more meat per capita than an other section of the country. FIft Southern cities are offering over $22, 000,000 yearly to dairymen who wll supply their demand for dairy prod ucts." These startling statements arc made in an unusually attractive booklet devoted to stock raising Ir the Southeast which has just beer !SSUe? b.t?et"thern Sys icuj iuj uisinuuuuu aiuuug StOCKmei and farmers of the West and North west in an effort to induce them tc move into this region and take ur the raising of cattle, horses, mules sheep and hogs, thereby enrichinf themselves and keeping in the South the vast sums now being paid other sections for meat and dairy prod ucts. Attention is also given to, the great opprtunities fr prfit In raising pultry- So important to the interests of the people- of the South does the Southern Railway feel the live stick and dairy industry, that in additlor to advertising to the outside world the great field open for profltable de velopment in this direction, it Is now operating a "Dairy Instruction Car'! over its lines in the States served by it for the purpose of giving all pos sible information to the people at home about raising live stock and the production of milk, cream and but ter. The booklet Is filled with Illustra tions of stock, forage crops, ideal dairies and uasture lands, and live reading matter telling of the excep tional advantages awaiting the prac tical dairyman and stockman in the Southeast. The wide circulation which this booklet will bo given by the Southern Railway and affiliated lines should prove an effective boost for the Industry in the South. Jndge Pitney for Supreme Bench. President Taft Monday sent to the Senate the nomination of Chancellor M ah Ion Pitney; of New Jersey, to be an Associate. Justice of the United States Supreme Court to succeed the late" Justice Harlan. ifrtW- Family Will No Ck InrJta th hattfa of 11 f aad. t,T? aace Uw-a II Wsj Ilaard. A special from Washington Tae- day says: . ,k rf t !.. -Death by the hand of tht law voids all life Inauranc policies of th. 4t..t n.A Cnftfm Piiiirt ao held today in the fight of the children f. vf-n. mror of Charlotte James S. McCoe. mayor of Charlotte vill 3 for . Va.. who was executed for the- rder of hU wife in 10S. A Policy ' J V - 1S,000 was carried by McCue ,a;f; W to ' L . . , , , age our own affairs, hrvt. , ance Company of Wisconsin." J, , . v n w j fore tb world take ui t Worn.. Hop, to Mr the IVrUdrnl ' ,ot our in IIt. our lmporu to th. justifies, ? Washington Dispatch. Feb. 13. j if y0u demand of jour u,;-. A conscience-stricken woman of tive, for instance, that h- Whitefiat. Texas, hs sent to PreaKih recU. or trtmmicr tU nw dent Taft a dollar bill, because a few Cotton Exchange, and he ; ' year ago she successfully used ll.OOur Ud eet the chimin u worth of canceled postage stamp. She down, weed In your fi!i refer to the Biblical injunction to a ftw raior-backs rootlnc W-V? make restitution four-fold and adds jgn-t pt to get busy acd ci. that she will send the other $3.00 la- orders. ter. She also wrote that she hoped, ,f yoa Ipect to meet the President in heaven. : Unon oS5cUU or tht some Union enterprise, a. t. Why Jin. Had o 3Uny WiJtor. jfmlUaf hand-shaking. Uby-k (From the Vale Cor. of the Bakers- brother. Just because be u vllle Kronicle.) - i things, rather than for thi f4r. Jim "Hartley is wishing the train he h" Proved himaelf raoj would kill a few more sheep so as a Kod business man and a rooj Vvt to enable him to make enough ocks er of mn dicC tn, to last the balance of the winter. hare of Personal responsibility. m J. A. Hartley had twenty-five vis-'00 haT no rthl t ; itors Sunday. Good crowd for such thing hit the ceiling. Or if yoz ,r a cold day. jInt olhe hallelujah-lick at a rr...u land promt to support almo; ut It Pays to Advertise. A man advertised humming birds, neednt come around with h, dwarfed variety, in a newipaper and ; cal crUIclgm that iheTf sold seventy-two dozen yellow-jackets Uhnff n a farmer,. organltat-oi'-at $1.50 per pair. Of course every-and tnat you.re not body got stung, but it show that it : money'g worth, pays to advertise, doesn't It? Albe-. . . . marie Chronicle. Farm Tomes PRESIDENT BARRETT TALKS, j rells Members of Farmer' Union They Must Help to Work Out Their Own .Salvation. ?o the Officers and Members of the! Farmers' Union: ' Did you ever hear the good old ex - orters and revivalists tell you that ou must work out your own salva- ion- Well, the same principle applies to' uccessful farming, and to the sue- ess of farmers organizations in se- uring the reforms for which they re contending by legislation, and nth their own ranks. There's no such thing as enlisting Clergy and Religious Press Endorse FUK UU The following ministers of the gospel have used MILAM with benefic al results, and believe it to be a valuable remedy, author ize the publication of their endorsement: . Rev. J. Cleveland Hall, Rector Church cf Ephiphany. Danville. Va. eV & hr McNair, Pastor Presbyterian Church,: Charlotte C H, Va. X' iY Roty' Secretary Board cf Foreign Missions, Vx Confererxc E. Church South, Norfolk, Va. Rev. Nathan Maynard, Returned Missionary from Jcpan. Roanoke. Va RcT: U C' Puthlt. VdhaIIa, a C, State Evangelist iorWesIeyan Metho dist Conference cf N. C . Rev. J C Holland. Pastor Keen St. Baptist Church. Danville, Va. Rev. H. D. Guarrant, Methodist Minister, Danville Vi. "The Methodist endorses Milam. . The MethoJirt h?. never taken ary stock in. or pinned its f.:h to. patent mc-djeaves. Indeed, many of t'..cm z re fakes of the high est order. Revenue for no real benefit has been the policy cf the proraotors of there cure alls. There haa been introduced in DanviLe recen'Jy a nrdicine that, if the tes timony cf some our be it citizens can be ac credited, has real merit. It is knrn zs the Milam cure. The effect of thi medicine upon crr,e of those who have been induced to try it has been marvelous a a restorer cf health. The company who manufactures this remedy that has such a trcm-ndmis scJe is com posed of re-.fler-en cf the Lif hct socil ard moral standing la DanviJe, We fel that ia lISuyGbotthrTrtTla money back if ASK YOUR DRUGGIST OR WRITE The Alilarn Medicine Co. w DANVILLE. VA. ' ' ' SpirSimcgj WDnntte Colored Linen, Percales, Gingham, Pop lins, GaUteas, Crash Suitings, Long Cloth Cam brics, Nainsook and Shirting Madras! HALF PDICE SALe) All single and odd half the original price. nH th- Uozz j tahsUtat. If you da. hat to be satisfied wit tloss, or wake up oa f find that the sahssltut u f ..-.: ; , "- , Mtte world had aCa t - orM b4 "a - - ? deal jold enterprise suggested, an j tLrt n Jhome and forget all about it. n i jur air juti a tc miar.r I the need of exerting personal !;... sibilifTj if you succeed in your oil affairs, and if you would h tS.4 organization achieve the end f0 wliich It was founded. It is remember them at the beninnlns; u' the New Year. CHARLES S. BAUKKTT Union City, Georgia. Some Sauer Kraut. j air. ueorge ii. mair. or wttaun, lis perhaps the champion kraut ml- 'er of the State. He raifes an areru of 30,000 pounds of cabbage to tit acre and the bulk of hli lmiser crop he converts into kraut, lit packs the kraut in barrels that holdi about 400 pounds and sells much of his product to the State Hotpiul v. Morganton, where It brings tbr cents a pound. It Is said one barr? a day Is required to supply the lai- tution. Lenoir News. EUciaz the advert is"tnent cf this mediae eioreour readers we are rendering ih yjee that will prove a blessing to suSen! humanity. This conrnenldation is written without f or reward uonthe testimony of tboe hsve been benefited by the use cf lie MILAM rerocdyv The Baptfct endorses Milan. MXJam is the name of a great rrecV-' now being- manufactured in Danvii'e. ar.d from the testsnomals of snme of our t-: citizens we can safe'r rrcor?wnd it t- v. friends who are eufferk:ic suh rsy cf i- " diseases a proposes to cure. The nx-R the head cf the .company mjtr.ufactu" : this medicine can be relied on. Rev. J. f I t-cks. in the Baptist Union. not benefited. Curtains will be sold at BcvcCsdfo Stcco. n tas a
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