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S CAXJCAdAII. Pag Two. State WeH?5. AWFIX TRAGEDY AT SALISBURY Frank D. Chnm Kill Mhm Roaecbe and Thrn Suicide, Hi Body FalU fog ob thr Prtrte Body of Ilia Victim Ml Itoaerb IId Re fuwHl to Marry Oman. A special from SalUbary to Mon day's Chariott Observer says: "A tragedy when Frank D. Chunn sjnt a ball to-night sbortly after 9 o'clock through the heart of his Peter Houston, the oldest negro In the Lumberton section, died last Sat urday. He was 108 year of age, and had never been a hundred mile away from home. Mr. Philip Booe, a prominent to bacco man of Winston-Salem, bad a stroke of apoplexy Tuesday morning sweetheart. Miss Buraadette Roueche and died in a short time. He was 55 land then turning the pistol on aim years of age. Uelf sent a ball crashing through his ! brain. The Memorial Baptist Church, in j "The young couple had attended Greenville, has just installed a hand-j fervires at Sacred Heart Catholic rm nfnf-oreari. which possesion Church together and had returned 0u m-m mr w - was hastened by the assistance Genera! NeiPs. of Andrew Carnegie. Mrs. Sarah Norwood Ferguson, wife of Judjre G. S. Ferguson, of the Superior Court of North Carolina, died June Kith at her home in Way nesvill". Sh was sixty-thre years of age. Fran!: Mlxon. the seventeen-year-old son of Mr. E. F. Mixon, of Wash- ind were on the porch of the resi dence of an uncle of the dead girl where the shooting took place. "Charles Gable and Miss Hortense Roueche were with them at the time but had gone behind the house to a well to get water when a pistol shot was heard. Gable ran around to the porch and saw Chunn with the smok ing pistol in his. hand. On being asked what was the trouble Chunn pointed the pistol at Gable, told him ington, N. C, was drowned last Mon-Jto stand back and turned the weapon day while bathing in the Tar River, jon himself with the result as stated near the Washington and Vanderaore railroad bridge. The North Carolina State Nurses Association is in session In Charlotte this week. This Is its tenth annual session. Mis Constance E. Pfohl, of Winston, is president and Miss Mary Wyche, of Durham, first vice-president. "Miss Roueche died instantly Chunn lived a half an hour but never regained consciousness The shoot ing was done with a 38 caliber pis tol. A wound was found on the tem ple of the dead woman, and manyj are inclined to believe that she! struck before being fired upon. j "Miss Roueche was the daughter; of Mrs. Margaret Roueche and a ! niece of J. X. Roueche, one of the? An engine collided with some cars j proprietors of the Salisbury Post, j that were standing on the track near j She was only nineteen years old and! the logging camp or the Empire ! was sienograpner ror tne sansDury Nineteen persons were hurt nr teiiously when tn Central of Geor gia passenger tralm struck a Hn of freight cars on tb curve at Ertrette. Ga., June 14th. President Taft appointed Df rid F. Bailey to be Colector of Internal Revenue of the Sixth District of Vir ginia, at Abbingdon, Vs., to succeed L. P. Summers, Jane 12th. One person was killed and thou sands of dollars of damage done in Kansas City, Mo., last week by stoms. The wind retached a velocity of eighty miles an hour. The act of Congress appropriating $300,000, with which to equip the j army transports with life-boats and ' rafts, was signed June 14th by Presl ! dent Taft. An unknown negro farm hand who 6hot and seriously wounded Mr. E. C. Ritchie, a prominent farmer in Wilcox County, Ga., last Saturday, was captured a few hours later by a mob of citizens and hanged. j Mort S. Childers, of Smithville, Ga., charged with causing his wife's! SEABOARD 15 NEW HAXDS Xetr Syndicate Pay Ottr 1,000,000 tor 2IO Sbarts, or Majority of the Stock A New York dispatch dated Jons 13th says: "The syndicate composed of repre sentative of Blair & Company, Bank ers Trust Company, Chase National Bank. National City Bank. Guaranty Trust Company and the Continental Trust Company of Baltimore paid $8,025,000 for the 90.000 shares of preferred stock and 120.000 shares of common stock of the Seaboard Air r whitfe three were consumed la later. In . itlnr the organ Uatlon. It was taocaly to'.. w a this convention that the unit rule won rasUr ct tt :A was killed. To nominate repaired j thirty-iix ballots. Grrnat oegma wita 304 delegates and ended with !0'Cini w i th ; while Garfield had none oa tat nrst ballot sad 399 on the last- The next longest convention was that at Chi cago in 1SSS. wbea Harrison was nominated on the eighth ballot. This convention lasted six days. Harri son's second nominated came at Minneapolis In a four-day conven tion oa the first ballot. Lincoln was nominated the first j time on the third ballot and the sec- Line. Durchased from tne umoer-j A t! unAntmouslv. Grant was land corporation. The arrangement ruinated unanimously both In 1568 provides for the payment of $7,000.- an(J 1572. a record which stands 000 cash, the balance to be paid! ajone Hayes was nomlnsted on the within a year with the privilege of j seventh ballot and Blaine on the renewal for another year. The syn- i fourtn McKInley was nominated at dicate, through majority holdings. Is st, Louis on the first ballot and re- now In absolute control of the prop erty." INVENTS GASOLINE PLOW. Rims of Wheels to Have Iron Feet in Lieu of the Hordes Feet- A St. Louis, Missouri, dispatch says: "W. S. Plummer, a mechanic of this city, is trying to organize a com pany to manufacture in St. Louis a motor machine he has invented and calls the iron horse. The machine death by poisoning some time ago, hoo Koon ttonittfA hv thA iurv at no it .o0'th0 fhiH tHa'lPlowed ground. The machine AiliCl lVUO( Via V " 1,1 v - - of Childers within the last eight months. Lumber Company of Goldsboro, caus ing damage and seriously injuring a negro boy, who was playing around the mill yard. A ten-year-old boy, of Lumberton, Charles Laughton, was playing i n the basement of the Dresdon Cotton Mills at tht place, managed to get his head caught in a rope which was nrciind a revolving shaft and his head was literally torn from his body. A cyglone, coming from the south west swept over the east end of Fay etteville last Friday doing consider able damage. Building were torn down and trees uprooted. The West Box Factory and A. J. Bullard's lum ber mill were partially wrecked. H. O. Massey, a Durham man who went to Florida a few years ago, and who was on the police force of St. Au gustine, Fla., shot himself through the temple while on duty last Friday. He was twenty-one years of age, and a son of Mr. Charles M. Massey, of Durham. No cause is assigned for the act. The eight-year-old son of Mr. Will Clodfelter, of Thomasville, was killed by a shifting freight train in front of the residence of Mr. J. C. Green, in Thomasville, Monday. It is said that the child was waiting for No. 7, northbound, and No. 36, southbound, to pass and did not hear the freight behind him. While in swimming in Tar River last Saturday, Roy Moore, the sixteen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Moore, was drowned. The young man was about middle way of the river floating on a pair of water wings, when they collapsed and he not being able to swim, drowned be fore help could reach him. Reality and Insurance Company and was well liked and popular in the city. Chunn was twenty-three years old and a boiler maker at Spencer. "Jealousy is supposed to be the cause of the affair. It is known that Miss Roueche refused to marry Chunn six months ago, although she still allowed him to pay her atten tion merely as a friend. What trans pired between them to-night will never be known. "Hundreds of people were on the streets at the time of the occurrence returning from church and the news Reports are that great havoc has been wrought along the coast of the Alaska peninsula by the eruption of the Katmai volcano. The greatest losses to live seem to have occurred j among the fishing villages at the foot of the volcano. Eugene H. Grace, who was so mys teriously shot at his home in Atlanta, Ga., last March, was operated on in i Newnan,Ga., a few days ago, and is j now expected to recover. His wife, I who wras charged with the shooting i is now at liberty on bond. ! Governor Hooper, of Tennessee, has ordered an investigation of the beating to death of a negro in a work-house, in Davidson County. snread like wild fire and rreaterl in tense excitement. On account of the ' Tennessee, by the county officers He also oraerea an investigation 01 tne prominence and the high standing of both parties, the affair is very much deplored." i ! is designed for special use in soft is driven by a gasoline engine, and Mr. Plummer says it will supplant the horse on small as well as large farms. "In the rims of the wheel are feet which are designed after the hoof of a horse. These feet remain even with the rim of the wheel until they almost reach the ground in a revolu tion of a wheel. When the hollow feet Is forced down by a cam, it presses the ground beneath it and then the machine rises on its toes and thereby can be forced along the softest of earth, Plummer asserts. The feet can be regulated to protrude any distance or remain within the rim of the wheel altogether. "The machine is designed to draw plows, harrows, corn disks, reaper, planter, mower, binder, rake and wagon. The lightest will weigh about 4,000 pounds. Plummer hopes to place them on the market for as lit tle as $500." The Same Old Democratic Tune. i Union Republican. In the Democratic State Conven tion at Raleigh the past week, while ex-Governor R. B. Glenn, State Chair man Eller, Hon. Lock Craig, and other leading lights were telling of the wonderful things done by the Democratic party, we failed to note any reference to the Democratic anti- treatment o fthe prisoners. M. M. Copenheager, a traveling man of Roanoke, Va., twenty-six years of age, was drowned at Island Park, a summer resort on the Hol ston River, near Bristol, Va., a few days ago. He got into the water and became exhausted and drawned be fore help could reach him. WILL PAY LAND DAMAGES. Rules That Uncle Owners in Missis- Court of Claims Sam Must Pay sippi Valley. A "Washington dispatch of Tuesday says : "Decisions said to control 116 suits nominated unanimously four years say: "The hratt 1! for the Us . Garrett Court? "j, ection. in Mwri;,',, "In the A!!,t,.t iorn In t3u ,. ground and n , The Tarn rrUrJ, especially ixrt ". oerr:e fca t., Th reco 1 til VII th.- h,,;. cord sinrr tt. rfyi whether in business or social life depends almost cntirr!v t-v Would you dominate instead of walking in the ruck? As Wh.tsj "Do you not see how it would serve to have eyes, bloud. corrp.exna 0-3 and sweet to have such a body and soul that when ycu cr.trr a cr an atmosphere cf desire 2nd command enters with you and every j impressed with your personality?" How to Have Eyes, Blood and Complexion Clean 2nd Sweet BRIEF STATEMENTS PROM RELIABLE PCOPLC. cleared and softened my kin. H. W. Luy- Milam has g5ven me a creat appetite ?nd don. Spray, N. C. Milam has restored my sieht a 1 mort en tirely. I was nearly blind whe.t I started its use. W. E. Griggs, Secy, and Trea. Westbrooks Elevator Co.. Danville, Va. Milan cured me of eczema after I had suffered with it 26 years and despaired of relief. C. H. Williams, salesman for I hire filtered a!l my l:fr rhm-n S.r.cc tA!;:n Milam ! en m4 -t- Jj::r.t n.d go embroKirry t.ft withom iclabses. Mis Kasr .VrUM L F. O. No 2. r.nche. N c I suftt-rtd v..h a d.rAc'U tm from w!nch I co-J.d to srii tried Milam. Thi3 i the f.rv k"4 vi summer I have er.)oyl n three jn-x Miss Winr.if rea Totcn, 2 IVrrrvtAw. Roanoke, Va. Cluett, Peabody & Co.. Troy, N. Y. WHY NOT LOOK, FEEL and BE at Your Best? Ask your druggist for six bottles of Milam cn our liber ul iiuiranxr- money back if$wt benefited. 1 fry. foa 0000 BLOOD L I involving 200 plantation, worth sev- ! eral million dollars, in the flood sec A rain and wind storm in Ohio ! tion of the Missippi River valley be June 16th caused three deaths and : tween Xew Orleans and Cairo, Ills., rendered thousands of people home-were announced to-dav bv the court trust law that remains a dead letter i less and resulted in damages estimat-; of ciaims, mainly in favor of thtfj ea at more than a million dollars, j land owners on the question of gov At Zanesville -the steeple of St. ! ernment liability for damages accru Thomas Catholic Church was crash-: ing from levee construction work, ed through the roof as the morning : For seventeen vears the controversv services were being held, killing the j has been waged before this court, priest and two other persons. - j involving the legal liability of the : Federal Government for having con structed and completed the levee on the statute books; the increase in taxation to pay for this Democratic good (?) government; the failure to increase the public school terms; a mention of that disgraceful law pass ed by a Democratic Legislature to consign the body of all dead paupers unable to be given a decent burial to some medical institution pickling vat; the increased indebtedness of the State, bond and otherwise, and many other things, wherein the Dem ocratic State administration failed to measure up to what It boastfully promised and claimed and which stand undisputed against the stew FLOOD SITUATION IS SERIOUS. President Taft Has Asked Congress to Appropriate $125,000 to Protect Valley in California. A Washington, D. C, dispatch dat ed June 14th says: "In a special message President ardship of the Democratic party, Taft today asked Congress to appro- ONE KILLED BY EXPLOSION. which has controlled the affairs in this State for over a quarter of a century. Several More Injured at a Lumber Camp. Kinston, N. C, June 19. One man was killed and several injured when a boiler at the logging camp of the Goldsboro Lumber Company, near Pleasant Hill, Joues County, explod ed. The boiler was used in the op eration of a skidder, and the man in charge of it, whose name is not known, was killed outright. None of the injured are seriously wounded. E. M. Jarman, who was riding on a cultivator in a nearby field, was knocked off the machine by a piece of timber. The shock of the explos ion was terrific. The disaster broke up the canvass of a delegation of lo cal politicians who were in the vicin ity of the mill, and Mark Haskins, a Bulletless Gun Invented. The bulletless gun has at last made its appearance. ItMs a German in vention, and, instead of bullets, it shoots gas which temporarily blinds priate $125,000 to protect the Im perial Valley of California against emergencies of floods from the Colo rado River while negotiations for the protection of that territory are pend ing with Mexico." Reaches Highest Point in History. Needles, Cal., June 14. The Colo- and chokes the victim. The cartridge ! fad. RTer reached the hisnest point system along both sides of the Mis sissippi River by confining the flood waters in a narrower channel and placing plantation lands between the improved levee system and the low water banks of the river, now in the adopted channel and thus destroy ing these lands. BEEF TRUST AVILL DISSOLVE. used contains several ingredients, which, when exploded, combine to form a vapor of a. peculiar character. The gun itself differs very little in appearance and mechanism from the ordinary double-action revolver. Union Republican. Negress Dies at LaGrange at Age of 126. Tuesday's News and Observer has the following: "Arnica Hardv. colored, rlipri candidate for sheriff, is said to have LaGrange of old age. The venerable been injured but is not verified. woman was born during -President Washington's administration, and 124 NEW DOCTORS. was 126 years old, it is said. Rec- ords in the possession of L. Hardy, Thirty of the Applicants Before of tne eH known family of that State- Board "Failed." in its history to-day and for a nun dred miles north and soujh of Nee dles the flood situation was grave. The Government dyke on the Ari zona side of.the river opposite this city crumbled and the waters poured into the low-lands near Fort Majave. Four houses were swept into the stream with the last break. Consid erable alarm was felt here. Irish Suffragettes Smash Windows and Are Arrested. name, in the western part of the county, are authority for the figures. 'Aunt' Arnica had lived in Moseley Hall and Institute Townships practi cally all her life, and was one of the most ni rt 11 rn 110 and t - State Board of Medical Examiners charactV"ortV; oj- last week are happy they are pass- ed. Thirty of the number who ap peared failed to pass. Hendersonville, N. C, June 17. The agony is over and to-night one hundred and twenty-four of the can didates who were examined by the Authorities Believe They Have An- other of the Allen Gang. Lexington, N. C, June 14. Hills ville, Va., authorities to-night tele graphed Chief-of-Police Pettit of Clay City for a photograph of the man "arrested yesterday believed to be Wesley Edwards, the Virginia outlaw. The photograph has been sent to the Carroll County, Virginia, sheriff, and Chief Pettit still express es himself as being positive he has the right man. Democrats May Knock Whole Plat form in Head by a Hand-Bill. Durham Herald. While the State platform sound; all right,4 they may supplement it by a- circular which will whole thing in the head knock the A severe storm passed over the Greensboro and Guilford College sec tion Tuesday afternoon, doing con siderable damage to fruit trees and small houses. Between 200 and 300 telephones were grounded in Greensboro. Dublin, June 13. The Irish suf ragettes, emulating the English sis ters, began a window smashing cam paign to-day, but clashed with the authorities. The women made at tacks on most of the public build ings. Eight, armed with bags of stones, were arrested. The suffra gettes shattered forty-two windows of the Customs House, post-office, police and military barracks. May Publish Cotton Statistics Monthly. A Washington dispatch of June 15 says: "The Senate to-day passed the House bill directing the Census Bu reau to collect, and publish certain cotton statistics in addition to those already required by law. It calls for publication monthly of a report Informs Government Officials That it Will Voluntarily Dissolve Au gust 1. A Washington dispatch dated June 17th says: ' Attorney-General Wickersham was advised to-day that the National Packiag Company would be volun tarily dissolved by the beef packers by August 1. In view of this action, Mr. Wickersham announced that the Government would hold in abeyance the civil suit which it proposed to bring against the company to compel its disintegration. Mr. Wickersham was notified of the "beef trust's" Intention to dis solve by James A. Fowler, assistant to the Attorney-General, who reach ed Washington to-day from Chicago, where he conferred with United States Attorney Wilkerson. This move follows several Govern mental attacks upon the "trust." 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The Blaine convention of 1884 and the Taft convention of 1908, both -at Chicago, continued four days. In the latter case work might have been I completed in three days, but it was showing, the quantity of cotton con sumed in manufacturing establish- j desired to live the hotels and mer- ments, the quantity of baled cotton on hend. the number of active con suming cotton spindles and statistics chants of the convention city as large a return as possible for their hospi tality. The Garfield convention at of cotton imported and exported with j Chicago in 180 w3s" the longest on country of origin." , record. It was in session seven days, DO YOU WANT A BARGAIN Work has begun on second floor of our store buil Soon work will begin on our first or store floor. We must make more empty shelves to make rc fo. the workmen. Now, if you want a bargain in GOODS, you had better try us at once. This seK must be done within the next thirty days. 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