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Sfaie Netfs.
According to reporu received by
the Commissioner of Agriculture,
the fruit crop in North Carolina this
year will be a record-breaker.
A negro man at Burg&w on last
Moaday shot and killed his wife. His
name is unknown to date, but be
was captured after attemuting to
shoot an officer and is in jail.
The Methodist Church of Hender
eonvllle, N C, has been proffered
$1,000 for a pipe organ by Andrew
Carnegie, on the condition that the
church raise a similar amount.
The A. M. E. Zion General Confer
ence which met in Charlotte a few
days ago, voted down the resolution
to remove the ban from card-playing
and dancing among church members.
Burke, Catawba, and Caldwell
Counties have each appropriated
$200 for a hookworm campaign in
their respective counties. These cam
paigns are to last six weeks in each
county.
Mrs. Elizabeth Capps, an aged lady
of Vance Conuty, committed suicide
one day last week by Jumping in a
well. She was seventy-three years
of age and was almost helpless.
A negro boy in the vicinity of
Washington, in playing with a gun
one day last week, shot and killed
his little sister, aged six years. The
children were at play and found the
gun hidden.
In Greenville Tuesday morning two
workmen were caught under some
railing timbers at the plant of the
cooperage and Lumber Company and
one or tnem, William Farebee, color
ed, was killed.
Young Jones, a young man, driver
ior tne Wilson Lumber Company,
Greenville, was thrown from a heav
ily loaded wagon of lumber a few
days ago and injured so that he died
in a short while.
A terrific electrical storm passed
over a section of Surry County last
Saturday evening, killing two men,
Messrs Avery Cockeram and Wade
Whitaker and doing a great deal of
udinage to property.
Mr. Joshua Brown, of Kelford,
charged with the murder of Mr. Van
Parker, some time ago, was tried in
Bertie court last week and acquitted
by the unanimous vote of the jury as
acting In self-defense.
General Ne&s.
A severe cyclone passed over a por
tion of Randolph County a few days
ago doing considerable damage to
property. Trees were blown up and
houses were unroofed and out-houses
Ienre polished, but no damage was
done to life.
The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
?hmry,,aWarded the contract for
the building of a seven-story office
and passenger station at Wilming
nZSt aPProximately $300,000.
The building to be completed in about
twelve months.
In a storm which passed over the
Morganton section last Saturday the
palat al home of Capt. C. C. Bennett,
a retired army officer, was struck by
ightning and totally destroyed. The
loss will exceed $15,000. None of
the family were injured.
Two negroes, John Jones and Mack
Sanders, entered the Southern Rail
way office at Princeton one day last
week and carried away a United
States mail pouch, but were captured
the next day by Special Agent A. T
Koss and committed to jail.
nngr!!Sman Webb has introduced
a bill authorizing the Government to
expend $50,000 In the construction
KinrM af rm a point near
Kings Mountain and Grover to the
monument' erected by the RnvJ
ground011 KlDgS Mountain ttle-
KJng Frederick VIII., of Denmark,
died suddenly yesterday morning at
Hamburg.
The House of Congress has passed
a bill providing for the coinage of
three-cent and half-cent pieces.
Talledaga, Ala., was struck by a
cyclone Saturday night and .damage
was done to the amount of $165,000.
There was no loss of life, however.
E. E. Houser, a native of New
England is walking from his home to
Denver In pursuit of health. He
claims to have gained IS pounds In
twelve weeks.
A number of people were killed
and injured in St. Louis, Mo., one
day last week in a collision of fin au
tomobile with a Pacific Missouri
train at a crossing.
Mrs. Maria Morterello, of Tampa,
Fla., committed suicide over her
child's grave a few days ago. She
poured wood alcohol over her body
and set herself on fire.
The James Sanitarium, located at
Raleigh, Tenn., was burned May 14th
entailing a loss of about $125,000.
Sixty patients were asleep In the
building at the time, but all escaped.
Mrs. Mary Vlck and her son-in-law,
John Row, are held in jail with
out bail for the murder of Miss Mec
kle Story, an aged fortune-teller, at
Suffolk, Va. Both protested their Innocence.
Jonathan Hawkins, of Andrews,
South Carolina, committed suicide
one day last week, leaving a check to
pay his board and funeral expenses,
also requesting that none of his rela
tives be notified.
Peter Walker, a wealthy contrac
tor, of Los Angeles, Cal., was shot
and killed by Mrs. Anna Dewey, of
Haskell, Ohio, said to be a daughter
of a former Congressman. She then
committed suicide.
Three men were buried alive un
der an avalanche of dirt at Bristol,
Va., last week in an excavation made
in the building of the new court
house there and two of them died
before they could be disinterred.
Twenty acres of storage sheds at
the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
wharves at Norfolk, Va., were burned
Sunday last, becoming Ignited by a
lightning bolt. The loss is estimat
ed at $46,000, covered by insurance.
I.VSCItAXCE OS THE TITANIC
The Lloyds Iy Nearly Severn Million
Dollar to White Star Uncr
Other Feature In the Titanic Horror.
New York, May 11. A cable dis
patch from London to The New York
World says:
Liabilities totalling approximately
$6,875,000 were discharged to-day by
. . .t- rA ' fmnlnrM to Rrfire at P&rt Of the I'riuj
to more aiong. app wj - wmu. t - . . rs
was too dark and he has not yet' Seretuy. ZZ;. . V
found his way up so Emory 1 to- iQ Con a VfE'V V N
day in torment and seeking "lief. I ar proving the plan of the l " lr t AN !
An X-WJT wUI ta. w . M0l oa omy and efficiency : 4,
which will follow, ana ut. "-,, .11 r.Tmmnt employes at ' 't tv
will open up a path of egress for
Emory's unwelcome guest.
l'
to retire all Government employes at tranjported
equal to half salary. ith a maximum lo 7 '?
.limit of $600. Lnrf ? , t,
i nin nrnvM that mnloves: ?. .
, - 7 - - ' ' jAisanume the e
Khot Preacher and Stopped Serrtee.
An Atlanta, Ga., dispatch dated entering the service after adoption j jomcslIc
Lloyd's underwriters and marine in-? May lirtn says: oi ice superannuu weight from s ,5?
surance companies as a result of thej A fusilade of bulleU fired at ReT. ; mke annual contributions to pro- cordlcr lo t s
Tltalc dlMtr I William II. Holland, of the First vide a retirement fund. I .kiu .w. . Ui
The insurance on the hull amount-j Union Baptist Church, colored, last J The commission estimates that the' for a gImU "f 1
ed to $3,690,000. this risk beine held i night by Charles Leakes, an alleged plan would cost the Government .
is
tfit mmhr. thr- the congre- t??7.000 a rear durinc the next1 . 4 '
remainder was held by the White St&ri gatlon into a panic twenty years and that the saving amj on an Tli.
Line. The costliest item in the cargoj A bullet through the pastor's during the next sixteen years would j packa;e, 1 f-??.4
was a consignment of rubber worth I shoulder punctuated the sermon and equalize it. I ' ; w
$125,000. About $1,500,000 covers' was the signal for a stampede inj Present employes would be assess
the loss of personal effects belonging; which several men and women were ed not exceeding 8 per cent. The
to , passengers, shipment bonds also j injured. i Government would contribute for cm-
being Included in the latter sum. j Leakes, who escaped, is alleged to pioyess who are neartng seventy
Other features to-day In the mater ! have been angered by repeated visits years. Employes who leave the ser
of the Titanic horror were the return! of Holland to his home in an en- vice could withdraw their deposits to
of J. Bruce Ismay on the Adriatic ; deavor to bring him back to the fold, the retirement fund with interest at
and the startling development in the! At a hospital where the wounded 4 per cent. Washington Dispatch.
British Board of Trade inquiry to the preacher was taken, it is believed he
effect that all of the members of the! will recover.
Titanic crew did not act as true sea
men should in the matter of effecting
rescue. i
CONTESTS AT CHICAGO.
ny the parcels pot t0ls ruH
cannot the IntertV. V
Commission compel tt
panles to give the A I
try as low rate "
ers? 11
THE PEOILE TO Nm:
The Express Companies Discriminate HiH lrovlding for Ihrwt i
AgaJat Citizens of the United I Vem the uoe
States.
Washington. I), c . mt u .
House to-day adoDW yJ
The New York Herald Is or the'. - ----- "w;.r
, lnc for an n m . n , rv . . .
opinion that the excessive charges of . . , 7 0 l-Ct
Obeying a wireless message from ; votice of Thirty-Three Contests Have Baltimore Sun.
me Aurmiic, tne wnue aiar Linei Already Been Filed With Kepub-'
agents at Queensiown to-day refused , lican xatlonai Committee. I
to allow newsDaDer men to nut off in !
tenders to meet the liner bearine the ! Chicago, 111., May 14. Notice of the express companies will force
much accused Ismay on his return i thirty-three contests has been filed Congress to give the people a par-
vovaee. with the Republican National Com- eels post. But in all instances the
Sir John Nutting, of Dublin, who'raIttee whIc WM open its permanent charges of the express companies are
was among the passengers, was not ! headquarters in the coliseum to-mor- not excessive. The express compa
so averge to talking. He expressed : row- nies follow the exaple of the United
the opinion that some American! From Florida to-day came notice states Postoffice in discriminating
newspapers had treated Ismay unfair- J tnat tne State's entire list of twelve against citizens of the United States
ly. j delegates would be contested by the in favor of the foreigners. If a pack-
A pathetic feature of the trip was ! Tart and tne Roosevelt forces. Other age is mailed in Europe, the United
the presence aboard of a Mrs. Dean, I contests reported to-day were from states postal service will carry it to
a survivor of the Titanic tragedy, ! tne IQurtn and seventh districts of any part Qf the United States much
with her two little children, one only I Mississippi and the fifth district of cheaper than the rate charged upon
about eight weeks old. A collection ; Louisiana. j a package mailed in the United States
amounting to $250 was raised for her j peculiar condition exists in the and directed to the same American
by various other passengers.' j fiftn Louisiana district. One delegate postoffice as the foreign package
.and his alternate were endorsed by, And BO tne express company dis-
Mvwm Uu luiiuw- criminates against citizens of the
era, dui mey spm on tne secona aeie-. United Sfates
gate and the second alternate ! In a revcent n ,n th f
Through misunderstan diner It. nr- . . ...
. " 77i , xtepreseniaiives Mr. suizer, or .New
York, said:
KILLED IN AIR CONTEST.
Mason and Fisher Killed at Brook-lands.
According to a special report by
the Department of Commerce and
Labor, West Virginia leads the world
in-the manufacture' of glass and also
the production of natural glass. This
State is second in the production of
coal. .
The hydrographic oflice at Wash
ington, D. C, has announced the
changing of the Trans-Atlantic steam
er lanes sixty miles southward. This
places the new lanes about 230 miles
south of the scene of the Titanic dis
aster. Ignited by a lightning bolt, twen
ty acres of storage sheds at the At
lantic Coast Line Railroad wharves
in Savannah, Ga., were swept by fire
Sunday entailing a loss of about
$460,000. One fireman was severely
injured. j
The Republican National Commit
tee met in Chicago, Thursday, June
6 th, to decide contests among dele
gates to the National Convention.
This gives twelve days to consider
contests before the Convention opens
June 18th.
E. B. Alford, who killed his wife
and mother-in-law three years ago.
was hanged last Friday at Macon,
Ga. He was so emaciated that he
had to be assisted to the gallows,
having suffered for, some time from
tuberculosis.
viously was announced at the commit
London, May 13. Victor Louis' tee headquarters here that a meet
Mason, an American Identified with ing of thfe sub-committee would be
extensive mining interests and at one j beld Thursday to make final plans for
time private secretary to the Ameri-, the convention. This meeting will be
can sectary of war, Gen. R. A. Alger, held May 18th.
and to his sucessor. Elihu Root, was!
killed to-day while making a flight at ! OFFICER KILLED.
Brooklands with the English aviator,!
E. V, Fisher. Fisher also was killed j Decoyed to Lonely Place and Mar
by being pitched out of the machine dered Murderers Were Caught,
when at a height of about 150 feet.i , , t fJ
Fisher was about to give an exhi-i Gainesville, Florida, May 12 Mar-
bition and picked Mr. Mason as a pas-1 sha11 C H" slauSnter na Deputy
senger from among the spectators. ! Sneriff Charles White, of 'Archer,
"It is a fact that today under the
English post-American Express ar
rangement parcels can now be sent
from any part of Great Britain to any
tutlon to permit the tn
ed States Senators by ::
the people. It already h. .
the Senate, and now ro.
The vote was prwd fc
fight, in which the Southera
Joined In common caus tmT
resolution. Led by llartlett, of W
Louisiana delegations fought :i
vent its passage because of u H
ate amendment giving the
Government supervision of
They based their opposition ot
danger of negro domiatUcs ii
amendment by Bartlett takisr
supervisory powers from the
Government was defeated. Tin
were no Republican votes aralti
resolution.
1 ( T .
ir. aimer 110 ward, a pro;:-
citizen of Salemburg, Sampwa Ct.
ty, was killed last week by lU t
plosion of a team boiler at tb lrt
plant of his son, Mr. Frank Hoirl
They circled the track once, ,when,
eye-witnesses say, the machine, which
was a monoplane, made an abrupt
turn. It wavered a moment and then
fell straight to earth. The sudden
stoppage in the air threw Fisher
head-long from his seat. Mason was
pinned beneath the wreckage, which
caught fire, and he was badly burned
before extricated. Physicians say
both men die dalmost immediately.
It is surmised that some fault de
veloped in the engine of the aero
plane, which caused the accident, as
weather conditions were perfect. The
bodies were removed to a mortuary
to await an Inquest, which probably
will be held on Wednesday.
Fisher was regarded as a daring
aviator.
Victor Louis Manon resided in Pas
saic, N. J. He was born in Washing
ton in 1870. His wife was Miss Daisy
Comstock Simons, of Washington. He
was assistant secretary of the Repub
lican . National Committee in charge
of the eastern division, campaign of
1908.
A widow and three childhen sur
vive him.
A man believed to be R. L. Gray,
of Atlanta, Ga., committed suicide
in. Tampa, Florida, last Sunday by
swallowing carbolic acid. lt is aid
that he stopped at a local hotel and
rented a typewriter, then later Rnid
The Spencs Hotel at Fayetteville
one of the oldest buildings ,J
ville was burned early Friday morn
ing last The loss was estimated at
ttUOUl 53.000. Witt, I It, fr. 9A
about $2,500. There were about '
twenty persons in the building, and Tne win ot Major Archibald Butte,
several had narrow ' escapes, some victim of ' the Titanic disaster, was
jumping from the second story. filed in Washington last week. $ It
' contained a request that his body be
School Girl Put on Bridal Dress ln buried in Arlington Cemetery and
f Cemetery, Then EloDecL V be set aside for a monument.
. His body has not yet been recovered
miss Eula Pearson Cherry left the from the sea.
home of her parents at 1010 Green
street Thursday morning to eo to Th wtb cft..
her hair to " " New Bern "Flyer," was wreck-
She 1 iLra, oAh ed "'near Hickory Ground while en
. 1 rri1 ..t?er. !c?.00lmate. " Norfolk Sunday afternoon:
Twenty people were slightly hurt.
The wreck was caused by the rear
truck on the mail coach leaving the
rails. The track was torn up for a
hundred yards or more.
: :. -;A : :'
At Douglasville, Ga., a few days
ago, in a feud between two families,
two men were killed and another fa
tally wounded. Those killed were
William McCard and Grover. Cooper,
while Grady Cooper was fatally in
jured. -It is said that the feud has
existed between these families . for
years.
a short distance away and they went
iu eaar urove Cemetery.
In the city of the dead Miss Cher
ryi aided by her companions, put on
a long skirt and her hair was done
up in a manner befitting a girl in
tending matrimony. v About the time
Miss Cherry was ready to leave the
cemetery an automobile stopped at
the gate, the girl Jumped in and took
a seat by the lone passenger, John
Edmonds. The pair went to Moyock,
N. C, and were married. The bride
fs Just sixteen and her husband is
forty. . . ;
ONE TERM FOR PRESDDENT.
To Change Tenure of Oflice From
Four Years to Six Years.
Washington, May 13. The Sen
ate Judiciary Committee to-day de
cided to report favorably the Work's
resolution, restricting the Presiden
tial tenure of office to a single term
of six years. A-minority report, fa
voring a single term of four years,
also will be made from the commit
tee. The reports are expected in a
day or two.
The committee is practically unani
mous to make a President ineligible
for a second term, but four members
of the committee favor making the
single term four years instead of six.
' The House Committee on Judiciary
has pending a Joint resolution of the
same purport introduced by Repre
sentative Clayton, of Alabama, chair
man of that committee.
If Congress adopts the change, an
amendment to the Constitution will
have to be ratified by three-fourths
of the States.
Florida, were decoyed to a lonely spot
near here at 3 o'clock this morning
ad assassinated.
J. A. Manning, another deputy,
feigned death, and escaped after be
ing wounded. He shot one of the
murderers, capturing him and his
three sons, who now are in Jail.
Shortly after midnight Marshal
Slaughter received a message that
there was trouble on the outskirts of
the town. .With Deputies White and
Manning he started for the scene.
Everything apparently was quiet,
and they lay in wait.
Shortly after 2 o'clock the officers
started to reconnoiter, and were
greeted by a volley of shots.
Marshal Slaughter and Deputy
White fell at the first fire, both be
ing dead when aid arrived.
Manning also fell with a wound in
his abdomen. He feigned death, and
as the negroes started off, shot Cain
Perry, one of the negroes, and at the
point of his pistol held up the three
sons, who are alleged to have been
implicated in the shopping.
All four of the negroes were land
ed in Jail, and violence is feared.
The assassination of the two offi
cers followed the killing of Ben
Stokes, a notorious :: blind tiger"!
operator, by Marshal Slaughter, sev
eral months ago. Slaughter was
forced to shoot in self-defense.
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read the
labels
Negro Swallowed Frog But Doesn't
Like the Diet. "
Port Deposit, Md., May 10 -A bull
frog of the rapid growth variety,
while yet quite young, wandered in
to the drinking cup of Emory Wal
lace one night a couple of weeks
ago.
Emory is an estimable negro, but;
with his race characteristic he drank
with his whole face open. " The frog
went into the openng and finding
the going good he went down. At
first the frog was a model of good be
havior; but as his strength came he
resented the confinement of his new
home, and being crowded he began
Resources and Opportunities of the
Southeastern States. '
Washington, D. C, May 13.
Never before has there been such
widespread interest in the Southeast
ern States as is now being mnaifest
ed through the North and West. The
resources and opportunities of the en
tire section are better known than
ever before and the agents of the
Land and Industrial Department of
the Southern Railway Company are
meeting with encouraging success in
the solicitation of farm settlers and
the establishment of new industries
The growing interest of people of
other sections in the advantage of
the Southeastern States is summed
up in the following paragraph from
a recent report of the Western agent
of the Southern Railway Land and
Industrial Department:
"The work of this office reveals
the continued and growing Interest
on the part of residents of the North
and West In the Southeast, and its
opportunities in agriculture and the
various lines of business, and our
territory was never before so well
and favorably known in the sections
in which we are soliciting new' busi-"
ness, or had as active inquiry con-
CernAU resource advantages and
possibilities. We are anticipating
an active spring and summer busi-
1 Read the Labels. The pure f oriel and druir law
was designed for the protection of all, but it only
protects those who read labels.
The law prevents false claims on the labels not
m the advertising. The law makes the label tell if
the medicine contains alcohol. Not so in die adver
tisement. Read tiie Label
The law specifies a list of such drugs as are considered dangeroui
unless prescribed by a physician, such as opium morphine, cocaine,
acetanehd. canabis indica, chloral, arsenic, strychnine, etc, inJ
makes the LABEL tell if any of them are contained in the medicine
The advertising does not have to. Therefore when buying medicine
Read the Label t
next time you are inclined to buy a tonic or
. . ... remedy for any of the ills that come fro-
impure, Impoverished or acid blood, aslc your druggist to let yvu read tU
label on a bottle of MILAM. This preparation haVno rival. If roo laipect
any other preparation of being in its class, Read the Label. Look for a pur
antee of benefit Look for ALCOHOL and other dangerous and kbit
formiag ingredients. Any' preparation can claim what we claim ia th&
advertising: NONE CAN on their labels.
READ THE LABELS!
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for EQOO BLOOD
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ness.'
He Was "In."
Glbbs: "I called yesterday to bor
row $10 bnt you wern't in "
oiuua; "xes, i was, I
$10." Exchange.
was in
When in Doubt
Purchase your musical instrument of a house
like-ours, that have made good every promise
for twenty-five years.
Every piano marked at a price that is fair to the
buyer and seller alike and guaranteed to be ex
ceptional value for the price charged.
No better instuments ctn be obtained from any
other source for lesmuney. Give us an oppoi-
wnity to prove ou claim, is all we ask.
Don't be bamboozled into- buvinc a cheao unre
liable piano!
YOU TAKE NO RISK HERE !
BAERnSLL & TBIOEflAS
'.fcalcfoh,; Nojit, Carolina.