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G tzib oxcoisun . . . i I i ! I M II! i 1 i State Nets. In a drunken row near Spencer Thursday night oae negro thot and killed another. Both name were Hannah. It U claimed that the shooting waa accidental. r. Walter A. Murphey, of Sali- burr, has accepted the position of . d coaipany at Howards Siding. uui, i,imni of .. . . i rMi .rrofarv to the alumni oMnr, m frnm Pink Hill. frrral crptanr to the alumni oi University of North Carolina, and j The dead and injured were all on will assume the duties on March 1. j lfae eDgjne o. 4. and were employes , P ,,! 'o the lumber company. Arthur Davis, a negro of t ailing Jhe deaJ B F Harper. fire- Creek vicinity, has been placed j m pink H111 and C. H. Morton, jail at Kinston for the shooting of j NewporL a colored boy named Fields u is Harper, a saw fitter, and Wil claimed the shooting was accidental. troud BecXion hand are In r. I hospital here, and may recover. The uaraca-rflu-iuca vention is callea to meei u bury April 13!h to 15th. From 600 to 800 delegates are expected, and an interesting program is being pre pared. While out hunting one day last week a colored man named Risen, located a still in the vicinity of Bla denboro, which he reported to the sheriff, who proceeded to capture It at once. The mercantile store of C. E. Fes perman, in East Spencer, was brok en into and robbed by unknown par ties on the night of the 26th, and from one hundred to two hundred dolars worth of goods stolen. A colored man named J. B. Sweat, of near Lumberton, shot at his wife a few days ago and killed their In fant which was in her arms as she was running from him. This oc curred last Saturday morning. A very destructive fire visited Parkton, fourteen miles south of Fayetteville. a few nights ago, de stroying several stores and other property. It is reported that there was no insurance on any of the build ings. Mrs. Carolina Cates, a well-known lady of Durham, was found dead in her bed-room at her home one day last week. She had uspposedly died of heart failure and fallen into the grate. The discovery was made by her daughter. Robert Riggsbee, a lineman for the Durham Telephone Companq sup posedly touched a live wire on a pole on Mangum Street a few days ago, and fell twenty-three feet, strik ing his head on the pavement, kill ing him instantly. At Lenoir Saturday morning the home of Felix Haigler, colored, was burned, and two children, aged three and six years, perished also. The parents had left the house but a short time when the house was dis covered to be in flames. Considerable damage was done by storms in Union County last week. Property was damaged, also cattle and sheep were killed. Fire broke out during the storm, destroying a resi dence belonging to C. E. Houston. A mistrial was ,the result in the case of Mrs. C. L. Wyatt, of Salis bury, against the Salisbury-Spencer Street Railway, for $9,000 alleged damaged on account of the acciden tal killing of her husband last year. A new trial will be granted. Spencer suffered from a severe Btorm Thursday. Considerable dam age was done to property, houses being blown down, and also tele phone and telegraph lines being torn down. The wind In come instances reached a velocity of from 40 to 50 miles an hour. While Policeman J. J. James was chasing a colored man in Taylor's tobacco factory, in Winston-Salem, Friday, with a pistol in his hand, the Distol was aeeidentalv fir Art nd shot James Jones, another negro ' standing near. The wound, how ever, is not considered fatal. Mrs. Natalia Robertson, wife of Mr. T. H. Robertson, of Twin Falls, Idaho, while visiting her sisters In "Scotland Neck, was standing before the fire a few days ago when her clothing caught on fire and she was burned so seriously before help could be obtained that fears are felt for her life. Rufus Moore, a young man of vile, who had charge of the furnace for the Unagasta Manufacturing Co., went down to replenish his fires and put on his overalls which had be come saturated with gasoline In some way, and when the doors of the fur nace were opened, his clothing be came ignited, burning him to death before help could reach him. Democratic High Tariff Tax and No Protection. Clinton News Dispatch. The Democratic party claims to be against a high tariff, the tariff Is simply a tax paid to us by foreign ers, and Democrats are sheding lots of tears because the foreigners are paying us their dough. But the Democrats have put a high tariff on the lands and all other property the faremrs In North Carolina own, and still we don't hear 'em say a word about reducing the tariff that they put on our farming lands,, they are giving us a high tariff all right but they are not giving us any protection not even from the "blind tigers." i - FL1 Rail way Accident Two Meet Kl Baton. Feb. 27 Aj a resalt of a collision oa the Kl tit ton Carolina Hat 1 road last night, two are dead, two are In the hospital here and apt eral other are luffering from minor Injuries. Engine N'oi 4 of the Itut ledge Lumber Company maihed head-on Into a train of box cars beias pulled by a locomotive of the rail- nn mile from Pink Hill illirH mn wtp. rushed to Kinston on a special, Harper and Morton dying en route. The dead fireman's brother, who was on the freight engine, found him Jammed against the fire-box of No. 4, penned in by wreckage, while steam from the boiler was pouring in on him. J. A. Harper, the injured saw fit ter, is the father of the dead man. Morton was Jammed between the en gine and the tender, right !eg crush ed to a pulp. Both Harper and Mor ton are married. The road out from Pink Hill ia not much more than a log road and is used by the Kinston Carolina Rail road for freighting as far as How ard's Siding. It is used jointly by the various lumber companies having camps in that section and their engines ply over the road without orders, each being required to "look-out for him self." It is Impossible at this time to attempt even to place responsibility for the accident. Ex-Iolice of Hamlet Selling Liquor. Hamlet, N. C, Feb. 26 The Ham let Messenger prints the following particulars of the sensational arrest of a former chief-of-police who was caught in the act of selling whiskey: Chlef-of-Police John Braswell, Special Officers of the Seaboard J. A. Pittman, and Mr. H. B. McGee, of Charlotte, caught ex-Chief-of-Police C. B. Wright selling liquor to Steve Probst in Boydtown, where Wright had gone in a buggy, carying a suit case containing fifty-one pint bottles filled with whiskey that was said to have been brought Irom Jacksonville that night by a dining-car porter on No. "84." The officers named above had con cealed themselves about 7 o'clock in a small out-house belonging to the dwelling occupied by Steve Probst. Wright drove up into the yard, tied his horse and proceeded to sell Probst five dollars' worth of whiskey. Probst asked If it was as good as that he brought Sunday night. Wright replied that it was the same. At this juncture the officers came out from their hiding place, Chief Broswell seizing Wright's sleeve, but Wright wrenched himself loose from his hold and dashed toward the creek, the chief following in hot pursuit for a distance of sixty yards or more, seconded by Officer Pittman, Mr. Mc Gee following closely after. Things were getting lively. As they approached the creek Wright plunged into a hole of water some ten or fifteen feet across and two or three feet deep. Chief Bras well went in right on top of Wright and when they came to the surface had his arm around Wright's neck and counted him his prisoner. Mr. Pittman arriving just at this time, rushed in and helped to lead the ex-chief out, taking him back by the house .searching and finding a lot of whiskey that Wright had sold Probst Sunday night, sixteen pints of which they brought away with them. Mr. Wright was then conducted to the city prison, while Mr. McGee looked after, the horse and buggy and the captured whiskey. Chief Braswell struck his knee against a cross-tie as he went into the hole on his Prisoner and bruised it severely. Wright remained in jail until about 4 o'clock the next day, not being able til lthat time to give the required bond, which was fixed at $250. After they had landed the ex chief safely in the city prison, it was necessary to send to his home and get a dry suit of clothes for him. The officers and prisoner suffered much with cold on account of get ting into the water." Wright was suspected of allowing blind tigers to exist when he was chief ,and evidence of this came out In court, especially in connection with the checks he had received from Andrew Mosteller, who was given a road sentence for seling liquor. Mr. D. B. Brown, who was night police under Wright and did some fine work, rounding up a number of "tigers,", was badly handicapped on account of the attitude Wright xnain ed. Mr. Brown proved to be a good officer and deserves much credit for his good service. GHOST FIGURES IN DIVORCE. Alan Asks Decree When Wife is Haunted by First Husband. Macon (Ga.) Dispatch in New York Tribune. A ghost figured in divorce proceed ings here recently, when George W. Mann told the court that his young wife was haunted by the shade of her former husband, to whom she made a promise that after his death she would never marry. She became so despondent from remorse, "Mann says, that he con sented to a separation, and they ap plied for divorce. He got a decree. General Netts. During 110, according to statis tics published recently, 56S Billion aires died In Franc. The 2 res in Houston, Texas, a few days ago amounted to a loss of t, 500,000 with insurance of $4,500. . . tlM-M ir, Senator Itced, of Missouri, Intro- ducd a resolution a lew aays ago ! for an Investigation of the election 1 of Senator Henry A. Dupont, of Dei I aware. Fire broke out in the mines at Lehigh. Okla., last Thursday and one hundred men were entombed, but most of them bad been rescued up to the last reports. Peter Serrier. a well-to-do farmer, living near Gallipolis, Ohio, was mur dered on the night of the 23rd, his home robbed and burned in an at tempt to cover the crime. The royal decree proclaiming the annexation of Tripolitina and Cyrin ica to Italy was presented by Prem ier Giolitti in the Chamber of Dep uties and Senate at Rome a few days ago. Samuel Miller, who was convicted of the murder of his wife, in Mem phis, Tenn., on Thanksgiving Day, 1902, and who escaped from jail In 1903, has been located and arrested at Oakland, California. Reports from El Paso, Texas, on the 26th, were that the Vasquitas army, commanded by Emilio Campa, was thought to be advancing on Ju arex, and United States Consul Ed wards notified all Americans to leave Juarex. Representative Levy, of New York, introduced a bill on the 22nd to em power the President to build four battleships annually, each to cost not less than $6,000,000 exclusive of armament. The bill would appro priate $20,000,000 to start the work. The grave of William Braswell, a Revolutionary soldier of Avery County, North Carolina, is to be marked by a headstone at the ex pense of the War Department, ac cording to reports received from the Quartermaster-General a few days ago. As many as twenty persons were killed and scores of others were in jured in a cyclone storm which swept through a strip of Louisiana and Mis sissippi last week. The property damage is reported to be half a mil lion dollars. Most of the deaths were confined to the negroes. A woman employed in the Brook lyn Nursery, New York, has con fessed to the killing of eight infants by placing oxalic acid in their milk. She said she did not intend killing the babies, but wanted to make them sick to get revenge on the nurses in the hospital who, she said, were her enemies. CHURCHYARD DESECRATIONS. Card Playing on Tombstones in Ire land Memorial of Hogarth. (London Dispatch to The New York Sun.) There is a churchyard in the bor ough of St. Marylebone, London, in which a tombstone is pointed out to visitors as the one on which Ho garth's "idle apprentice" threw dice. Attention has just been called to the fact that his practice of gambling on tombstones has come down to the present day in at least one graveyard in the United Kingdom. A lawsuit, just decided, has stopp ed the practice in the churchyard of Dungarvan, an Irish village, where some of the inhabitants were in the habti of playing cards on the slabs placed over grave and of dancing to the muic of an -accordeon. The rep resentative church body was the com plaint in the cae. It ought and ob tained an injunction against sixteen person, restraining them from tres passing upon the burial ground and premises adjacent to the Church of St. Mary. The master of rolls who heard the case, held that this privi lege was one of permission and not a right and that a churchyard was ded icated to the service of God and not to the recreation of man. - In the days before the Reforma tion, authorities say, the parish churchyard was ued a a public play ground. Games and revels were commonly held there on Sundays and holidays. At Whitsuntide there was a sort of church fair held in grave yards at which ale brewed by the church wardens was served, while dice throwing, card playing and bowls were permitted. ''Cock fight ing in churchyards did not cease un til the eighteenth century. There is a story told that a wealthy man In Hurstbourne Tarrant, a village of Hampshire, ordered that a flat tomb stone, large enough to enable the boys to play marble on it, hould he placed over his grave. Yes, There Are a Lot of Them Still Voting the Democratic Ticket. Fayetteville Index. Buying grass at a high price to feed high priced mules to kill cheap grass to raise cotton at a low price to pay for the grass bought at a hleh price -did you ever know of a manrj to be guilty of such business? BOtcaiT COFF1X A.VO FXCRK1) IlKAUOVi. Ifcen riSd to Pot Off Fteorrml for Awhile and Mrri UU Son Widow. A Harrisonburg. Va., dUpatch un dr date of February 20, says: "Six month ago Lvi Sager, of Mechaniciville, SO years old. gray- haired veteran of th Mexican ana Civil Wars, became despondent and began to prepare for the end. He had his grave dug, hU tombstone erected and his coffin made and put in his house ready for use. He pick- Ud out the minister for his last sad rite and selected his pall-bearers, (and marked the funeral hymn that I he loved best. "Early last Sunday morning the community was surprised when Mr. Sage r and his daughter-in-law, Mrs. (Diana Sager, 60 years old, were mar fried by Rev. W. C. Hoover, of Tim i berville. The bride was left a widow ! several years ago by the death of Mr. Sager's son. "The bridegroom is an old warrior, with long, flowing white locks, and was the sprightllest person at the wedding. His marriage was a sen sation and his friends declare that It will be many years before he will need the grave, the tombstones, the pall-bearers and the beautiful hymn he selected. "Six months ago Mr. Sager drove six miles to Newmarket and came home with his coffin in full view on top of his usual load of purchases. "The woman who changed Mr. Sager's plans is a dashing brunette of 60." SAFE CRACKERS IAXTEI AGAIN. Men Who Left an Unsavory Record in North and South Carolina Now Do ing Time in New York. Eight years ago four desperate safe crackers were capture'd a few miles north of Monroe after a battle be tween them and officers had taken place on the streets near the passen ger depot and in the fields and woods where they were captured. James Lang was the leader of the gang and Charles Rogers was another one of the four robbers captured. The safe crackers were tried in Greenville, S. C, for robbing the post-office there and were sentenced to terms of five years each in the Federal Prison in Atlanta, Ga. They served their sen tence, Lang having to spend several months more time In the Atlanta pris on than did the others on acccfunt of his obstinacy and violation of prison rules. It is said that Lang spent longer time In solitary confinement than has any other prisoner in that institution before he would promise to obey the rules. After Lang and Rogers had served their sentence in the Atlanta prison they were brought back to North Carolina and were tried in Mocksville for cracking a safe in that town just before they committed the post-office robbery in South Carolina. They were each sentenced to serve five years in the State prison, but after serving about two years in the North Carolina peni tentiary they wrere pardoned. Lang and Rogers went back to their form er criminal practices and on last Mon day were in Norwich, N. Y., sentenced to terms of nine years and six months each for burglary. Lang assumed the name of Petro Valensky and Rog ers Uie name of Charles Adams when they were arraigned in court in New York State. Their last crime was an attempted bank robbery. Monroe Enquirer. Farm Topics ORGANIZATIONS ON COTTON CULTURE. The Dreaded Boll Weevil is Being Checked. Washington, D. C, Feb. 28. President Finley. of the Southern Railway Company, speaking to-day of the first year's work of the Cot ton Culture Department maintained by the Southern Railway, the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, the Alabama Great Southern Railroad, and the Georgia Southern and Florida Rail way, said: "The primary purpose of the or ganization of the Cotton Culture De partment by the railway companies which contribute to its support was to co-operate with farmers along the lines of those companies in the ter ritory along the advanc eof the Mex ican cotton boll weevil fo rthe adop tion of those cultural methods rec oommended by the late Dr. S. A. Knapp, o fthe United States Agricul tural Department, for growing cotton under boll weevil conditions. Dr. Knapp also advised that it would be advantageous to adopt those methods Independently of the presence of the weevil. The results of the first year's work of our Cotton Culture Department have demonstrated the soundness of his advice in all re spects. "In a circular, under date of Feb ruary 12, 1912, prepared by Dr. W. D. Hunter, the boll weevil expert of the Bureau of Entomology, and issued by Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief of the Bureau, with the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture, It la pointed out that the weevils were less numerous In 1911, owing. to ad verse weather conditions, and that the insect was exterminated in an area covering about 23,000 square miles In the northwestern portion of Texas and the western portion of Oklahoma, where conditions ? were particularly unfavorable. Dr. Hun- ter thovs that, fiotwithrtaadiog lhee condition, tae ineci con dition, the lat continued to spread to the northward and east ward in Arkaaaa. Mlnlttlppl. and Alabama. He ay that the reduc tion In comber la iSU a due to a combination of climatic Innuencea which ci only be expected to recur at infrequent Interval, and that, with the return of favorable caon. the weevil will again multiply. He urge, therefore, that It I necessary for planter to continue their fight against the weevil according to the methods that have been recommend ed by the Agricultural Department. These are the method advtfed by the Southern Railway Cotton Culture Department. "It should be borne In mind that the cultural method recommended by the late Dr. Knapp and advUed by our Cotton Culture Department involve Intensive farming. This is important not only a to cotton, but also as to other crop, and e are urging farmer to produce all of the grains, fruits, vegetable, meat, dairy products, and poultry used on the farm so that they may not have to sell cotton regardless of market conditions in order to buy these things, but may be able to market their crop when there is an economic demand for It." Green Manuring No. 1G. We desire to state by way of ex planation that our time has been so closely occupied with work in the office that we have been compelled to make a break in the series of fifty articles on green manuring that we set out to write. We have, at last, resumed this line of work, however, and hope to continue the articles each week till they are completed. We want to take this occasion to thank those farmers and editors who have written us appreciative letters concerning the discussions and have ! asked us to continue them along this all-important line of soil improve ment. Some farmers have asked us whether rape is a good green ma nuring crop. The seed of this crop are not raised on the farm in this country and are so expensive that we have not advised the use of this plant as a green manure. We usual ly think of rape as a pig, lamb, or chicken feed for the fall, winter and spring and hardly think it a wise practice to plow so good, and so ex pensive a crop Into the ground for manurial purposes. However, for the information of those farmers who desire to know Its value we ap pend the following table which shows rape to ran khlgh as a green manuring crop. It is about as rich in fertilizer elements as rye, and in view of the fact, that a great deal heavier tonnage can be grown to the WliM . Mx Mt'l VH S m business or social life depends almost entirely upon health. Would you dominate instead of walking in the nick? As Whitman says ? how 11 oultd scrve t0 tee eyes, blood, complexion clean and sweet, to have such a body and soul that when ycu enter a crowd an atmosphere of desire and command enters with you and every oae is impressed with your personality?" How to Havo Eyes, Blood and Comploxion Clean and Sweet BRIEF GTATEMEflTS Milam has given me a great appetite and cleared and softened my &kuu ILW.Lay. don. Spray. N. C tlGwni restoJredmy8iht Jmo en tirely. I was nearly blind when I started J?- W. E Griggs secy, and TrSS. Westbrooka Berator 6 Danville. Va Milan cured me of eczema after I had jufiered with ft 26yers and dSSSid ?l reu. C H. William CiUeH. Pbady & . Troyyf11 l0r Poston,731PauersonA- WHY HOT LOOK, FEEL and BE at Your Dst? Ask your druggist for six botttts of Af,! . i.t , money back y for good blodd u y IFlffstt lDwnim(0j o Spipunne WMte (Goods Colored Linen,J Percales, Gingham, Pop lins, Galiteas, Crash Suitings, Long Cloth Cam brics, Nainsook and Shirting Madras. HALF PniCE SALE. All single and odd Curtains will be sold at half the original price. IHIlUMTEKoEAMlD) COMP'Y VHaU Hhs Hones Devoted to Sbcco. acr. It loportant as sure taad out vtrr Br-., H It ta like! that t J u,- read tbe articles ht leave and pise straw tst.-, lot dcrlcc the 1st fn tx to be used as hir -,. a? . Did you ever question th . this apparently orti,, ? I came to know its rri decided to Include ti these material la it r".- ble: ' u v Following u th ut fertilUer vslui of tam., n nure compared with it ..V4 manure: 1 - 4 I limp lff-s ofc ...... mtavrt ifrh 4 ,4 llorw muf rrti , UmmutUl frtWUr ; : lt , ' t '" Aren't you urprU4 t . ft. . mon oak leaves earn in c x - 4 trogen as half a ton of : merclal fertilibcr? And n than twice a much phot; V;-."!" and almost as much potjui. of fresh horse or cow tir now see that we were ai:;t ' nure ot manure whrn . material as bedding. Of course we all ko plant food element of k J, green raw manuring crcr 4r available to the crop til! tUy i" undergone decay In tb ou MH process generally goe oa r; enough during the iprtn tj mer month, and we do not Ui C wait long for return froo bors. Next we expect to !-M handling of green nianurw, production of the dIrrEt crops. J. L. nUKtfK&j N. C. Department fo ARriccitt Some Garden Stsff. For smooth, large Irish po-.au plow out a broad, deep furrow. wheat straw In, put your or fertilizer and potato oa u and then cover. If It rli ct, after the planting, thst will aiU i crop if you do not plow too an dtoo close to let air in to dry iu straw. Try It. For fine, large tomatoo. ta u heap o fthem, run your row L:ri and south one row better ifcfr the row will get the early norsiii sun an dthe early evening shad, w from 1:30 to 2 o'clock on. A p'ut fence shade is best, no roots to tnr from the tomato plants. Never work garden or any trj while the dew Is on or when the is hot. From 3 o'clock till rjr down is the time, and workM ct? then, th ecrop will be much t-t:r especially is the weather Is hot id dry. Hickory Mercury. FROM RELIABLE PEOPLE) I hare suffered all my life with mr rr Stnce taking Milam I can read ery fe print and do embroidery work at nurr without glass. Mua Kate Mebane. R F. D. No. 2. Blanche. N. C. 1 suffered with a dreadful skin djea irorn which I could get no relief untJI tned Milam. This is the first spring m summer I h- muwH in three retrw if nt bcZT a "V
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