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State Netfs, A half-grown chicken pecked its way into a watermelon in Jones County a few days ago and smother ed to death. Mr. Jesee Purser, of near Washing ton, was very painfully shot by a glancing buckshot one day last week while deer hunting. The Jury in the case of Frank Gladden, for the murder of Mn. Dix on, which was tried in Shelby Mon day, rendered a verdict of not guilty and he s acquitted. In New Hanover court last week, the jury in the case against Fannie Hefner, charged with the murder of Henry Jordan some weeks ago, failed to agree, and a mistrial was ordered. Jane Hurst, a white woman aged 75 years, threw herself in a well at her home in Wilmington, a few days ago. She committed suicide rather than go to a hospital for treatment. Mr. J. F. Cothran, a well-known lawyer of Durham, was found dead in bed in his room Monday morning. His death was due to paralysis of the heart. Lizzie Coleman, a colored woman of Asheville, was shot and killed by her husband last Sunday night. He surrendered to the police, but de clined to make a statement. While riding no a motorcycle, with a glentleman friend, on Sunday, July 30th, a. Miss Cook was so badly burn ed that she died from the effects within a few hours. Her dress caught fire from the machine. Preparations are being made for the installation of a gigantic electric plant at Hendersonville in the near future. The plant is to be 50,000 horsepower and to cost one and one half million dollars. Charles B. Almond, Jr., son of Dr. C. 13. Almond, of Winder, Ga., was drowned one day last week while bathing in the surf at Wrightsville Beach. He, with his mother, had been at the Beach for the past two months. A fire at High Point early Satur day morning, partially destroyed the plant of the Columbia Furniture Company. The loss is estimated at $50,000, mostly covered by insur ance. Joe Angel, who shot and killed Latta Banks, in Madison County, more than twelve years ago, went to Marshall a few days ago and surren dered to the police. He had been eluding the officers all these years. The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Com pany or vvinston win increase its cap ital stock from $7,525,00 Oto $10, 000,000, the amount authorized by the charter. The new stock will be sold at par to stockholders. J. M. Nolan. Register of Deeds for Haywood County, committed suicide at his home near Waynesville Sunday morning by shooting himself with a revolver. He had been defeated in the primary which had just been held, for renomination. J. C. L. HARRIS ERUPTS AGAIN. Doesn't Want Iiutler to Support Iloo Mrelt Hut When Did Harris fiet In? The Raieigh correspondent of the Charlotte Observer and Greensboro News reports J. C. L. Harris, of Ral eigh, as saying he doesn't want ex Senator Marion Butler taking a part in the Roosevelt movement, and wants something done to stop him. It is surprising that Loge has been quiet this long. There never was a political movement that Harris didn't try to burst up unless he.could head the band wagon, and If he headed it, the thing was sure to "bust." When Harris bad himself named as president of a Roosevelt movement in this county some months ago only four persons in the county would en list under him, though there were about 2,000 Roosevelt Republicans in the county. They had no confi dence in him as a political leader and would not follow his leadership. When he bolted the Republican con vention he called on all "Roosevelt Republicans" to follow him. A few- followed him, but most of them have General Ne&s. The local newspaper say the Pop? of Rome will receive a legacy of $228,000 from the estate of the late Cardinal Anthony Hubert Fischer, of Cologne. ! A motor boat on the Delaware RU-; er, near Burlington, N. J., capsized! and three men who were in the boat! were drowned. The boat was run! down by a freight steamer. John W. Herron, the father of Mrs. Taft, died at his home in Cincinnati. Ohio, Monday at the age of eighty- five. His death was not unexpected j by the President and Mrs. Taft, as he had been ill for some time. i A negro was lynched by a mobj near Han s station, Aia., Aionaay. The mob was In pursuit of another negro, who it is stated, assisted the one who was lynched in the murder of a wkite man named Tutt. George Ballew, who burned a hotel since lined up for Mr. Taft, which! and killed four people at South; Platte, Colorado, committed suicide last Monday after being pursued andj shot by a posse and brought to bay. showed they wre sailing under false cdlors at the time. After pawing up the earth for Roosevelt, and after getting seated in the State Conven tion on the grounds he and his bolters were for Roosevelt, then the next day in his bolting Congressional conven tion he refused to be instructed for Roosevelt and went to Chicago and got Mr. Duncan to have him seated then on the most important day of the convention he stayed away from the convention hall and let his bolt ing alternate, Chas. D. WTildes, vote with the Taft forces. The Republicans of Wake County know of his treach ery and he can't fool them. The Republicans of the State know him also, and for this reason he was not invited to the Roosevelt meeting in Greensboro last month. Those men yaid they had enough of Loge Harris. Lodge has about run his route in pol itics, and no one now pays any atten- j tion to what he says. Abuse from a man of his ckeckered career will not hurt any one. NEW HANOVER CONVICT CAMP. Charles Heath, Grand Jury and Hoard of Health Re port Very Had Condition Judge Orders Prisoners Taken Away. Wilmington, Aug. 4 Representa tives of the County Board of Health havign visited the convict camp on the Federal Point Road and reported that conditions there were even worse than described in the grand jury's report, Judge Frank Carter, of Asheville, who presided over the term of Superior Court just closed, ordered that all the convicts be brought to the city and placed in jail and kept there until such time as the County Commissioners make better provision for the prisoners on the roads. The convicts were brought in this morning and placed in jail. It is claimed that the food is unwhole some and lacking in quantity, prison ers are required to sleep in sweaty garments in which they work in the day, that the sleeping quarters are overcrowded and that the general sanitary conditions at the camp are unhealthy. Herman Henry, the lightweight j pugilist of Chicago, has applied to) the superintendent of schools there J for a position as teacher. He is an alumnus of the Allentown, Pa., Institute. Four persons were killed by light-, ning at Fort Smith, Ark., last Friday, j and a fifth man was shocked so he ' was unable to make his escape from a burning building, fired by the light ning. The others had taken shel ter under a tree, which was struck. Prostrated with grief over the death of her granddaughter, Miss Dorcas I. Snodgrass, the nurse whose body was found in a creek near Cats kill, N. Y., some days ago, Mrs. Ar bella Snodgrass, of Martinsburg, W. Va., died at a hospital there a few days ago. Thomas L. Green, serving a term of six months in a workhouse for for gery in Atlanta, Ga., having heard that President Taft had pardoned a woman who had appealed to him in verse, appealed to Criminal Judge Taylor in verse a few days ago and has been pardoned. Federal authorities received infor mation some time ago that Sidna Al len and Wesley Edwards, the Vir ginia outlaws, had been seen in the vicinity of Seattle, Wash., but it is said that a thorough search has beeii made and no trace of them was found. Hail KHI in .MarjUnd to Drpth of Nearly SWtccn Inche. A special from Frederick, Mary land, to Friday's Baltimore Sun. says: "A terrific bail-storm passed over Mount Airy and portions of Fred erick. Carroll, and Howard Counties vftierdav afternoon, doing preat damage. Hail the size of pigeon egg j fell in great quantities and remained j on the ground in pile until melted j by the sun to-day. In place farmers will lose everything barring their wheat and potato crops. A tremen dous rain, which washed fields and roads, accompanied the storm. "Corn was cut to pieces and live stock in fields were Injured and many chickens killed. Trees were stripped of foliage and hundreds of bushels of fruit were lost. "In places branches of trees were cut off as with a knife and bark peal- ( ed in quantities and carried away by the wind. "The fall of hail was tke greatest in the memory of the oldest citizens. In places it covered the gTound to the depth of nearly sixteen inches. It is estimated that the storm was three miles wide and covered a strip of about fifteen miles. It passed over about 28,800 acres of growing crops, and is said to have done damage to the extent of fully $200,000." The Caucasian from now until November the loth for CENTS Thin will be one of the mot Inter-rating crapaijrn jrar. ,wr A h! nrmimfflt and The Canrjttlan will h m . t v ' ' Ja rt through the campaign. Including the election return, for C4jj CENTS Get up a club of four or more sabMribrrs right away j and thereby help us to help the cue we both advocate. ADDRESS THE CAUCASAItJ, RALEIGH, N. C. NEW YORK DEMOCRATS SPLIT. The Independence League Will Name State Ticket. New York, Aug. 2. The conven tion of the New York State Indepen dence League will be held here Octo ber 3rd. This was decided at a meet ing of the State committee of the League to-night. John J. Hopper, State Chairman, presided, and about one hundred Independents were pres ent. The only official business transact ed was the fixing of the time and place of the convention, at which a full state ticket will be put in the field. The talk among the members of the committee centered on what can didate the League would indorsee for Presidency. "There seems to be a division of opinion as to whether we should in dorse Governor Wilson or Mr. Roose velt," said Mr. Hoper. "Action will, of course, not be taken until after the State convention." See! c. c. Mcdonald Real Estate and Loan Office for STOCKS ANDI BONDS RALEIGH, N. C. He will buy, sell or lenal you money on Real Estate or other good Collateral. THOSE COLLEGE PROFESSORS. Harnett Republicans Instruct Roosevelt. for well known young man ot ureene uounty, was shot and seriously wounded by his brother a few days ago. The trouble grew out of the older brother's ask ing the younger one to assist him with some work. As a result of a row about sixteen miles from Goldsboro, Ben. F. Coley, a young white man of the Eureka neighborhood, was shot Sunday morn ing. It is alleged that Ernest Cook fired the shot and that his brother, Arthur Cook, was an accessory. Ern est has been arrested. It is also stated that they were all drunk from hard cider. John Burgess, a negro, who had re cently been discharged from Roanoke Rapids, Was found dead in the river near there. He had evidently been, shot and dragged there and thrown into the river. It is stated that he was murdered by two other negroes, who say the negro had been to their homes and committed forcible trespass. Littleton, N. C, Aug. C. The Har nett County Republican Convention met here yesterday and nominated a full county ticket as follows: For the Ilduse, V. P. Byrd; for Sheriff, A. F. Surles; Register of Deeds, J. A. McLeod; Treasurer, H N. Blizzell; Coroner, Dr. C. A. Young; Surveyor, Prof. N. E. Cox; Commis sioners, D. H. Senter, D. Turlintgon Duncan Darroch. F. M. P. MeLeod. and P. G. A. Tart. The convention by a unanimous rising vote passed a resolution say ing they did not recognize Taft as the nominee of the Republican party, and pledged their support to Roosevelt for President. The delegates to the State and Congressional Conventions were elect ed and instructed to vote for a known and outspoken Roosevelt man for State Chairman, and for Roosevelt electors and to vote in said conven tions to instruct the electors to sup port Roosevelt when elected. Postmaster At ATanceboro Empties Gun Into Ben R. Warren. New Bern, Aug. 4 Last night at 8 o'clock at Vanceboro, Ben. R. War ren, the liveryman, waashot by Post master J. F. Edwards. Only three of the bullets took effect and two of these merely pierced the skin, indi cating that the pistol which Edwards threw away after the shooting, was of a cheap quality. The third bul let, however, pierced Mr. Warren's right side and may prove of a very serious, possibly fatal nature. Warren was attended by Drs. H. Johnson and J. A. Druid and will probably be brought to the Stewart Sanitarium. I Edwards is under ar rest at Vanceboro. There has been bad feeling be tween the men for some time and it broke out afresh yesterday when the postmaster, so it is claimed, refused to send Warren his mall. Maryland Democrats Getting Cool To ward Wilson. Says the Baltimore American: "The ardor of Maryland Democrats over the nomination of Governor Wil son for President by the National Convention last week is beginning to cool. On second thought, they are beginning to realize there was too much Bryan in his administration ! n . t- l i c a iir. orya.ii ua. never ueen a lavoriie in Maryland on the three election days when he was voted for for Presi dent. In 1896 he lost the State by 33,000. Four years later the major ity was 18,000 against him. Four years ago he captured six of the eight electors. The two electors-at-large chosen were Republicans because they were first voted for. The six district electors would also have been Republicans but for the manipulation of the Wilson ballot law by the Demo cratic election supervisors. Another objection by Democratic manufacturers and by other Demo cratic friends of protection of Gover nor Wilson is his position on the ta riff. They fear that those views have a too free trade hue to meet their ap proval. Maryland organization Democrats are anxious to know where they will be "at" if Governor Wilson is elected President. They recall how vigor ously he has wielded the clug agains his party organization in New Jer sey." Xegro Runs Amuck. Kinseton, N. C, Aug. 6. Trouble loomed large in Georgetown, a sub urb of Kinston, when a negro gun man ran amuck in the midst of an ice cream festival, scattering the black merry-makers in the face of a fusillade of shots, all of 'which went wild. The shooting was the result of an altercation between Claude Red ding and Green Jenkins, which ended in the former drawing a revolver and opening fire on his opponent. Jen kins made a hurried exit from the building, as did the other negroes present, while Redding, shooting fast and blind from fury, hit nothing. A magistrate bound the gun fighter over to the Superior Court. Frank Gladden Freed From Charge of Murder. Shelby, N. C, Aug. 5. At 9:45 to night the jury in the case of Frank Gladden, charged with the murder of Mrs. Dixon, returned a verdict of not guilty. The jury on the first ballot stood ten for acquittal and two for conviction. , . William L. Wilson's Tariff Law Came Xear Ruining the Country, and the Votes Will Now Shy at Wilson the Second. Rochester Post-Express. William L. Wilson, the author of the infamous rWilson law of twenty years ago, was a college professor and' was born in Virginia. Woodrow Wilson is a college professor and was1 born in Virginia. To those who re member the lean and hungry years when the Wilson law was in force, the coincidence of name, 'birthplace, profession, and political principle has a, sinister aspect. He (Dr. Wilson) denounced organ ized labor in the most vicious manner and declared in substance that he preferred a Chinese coolie to an American trade union man, because the coolie was more industrious and law-abiding and willing to work for lesss. He inveighed bitterly against our Eastern Europe immigrants as sordid people of the meaner sort; and Greeks and Poles, Slaves and Italians will justifiably wonder what views he holds to-day. The Roman Catholic Church will also find some passages in his writings that call for considerable explaining, and though he is an incomparable artist in the line of disavowing and dissembling and can execute a pirouette as deftly as any public man of our times, he is likely to have full need of all his mental agility to this end. Repub licans need not be desnondpnr that Taft is criticised with more or less justice for several things. There are more rods in pickle for the Princeton demagogue than ever he dreamed of before he enters politics; and his sor row's crown of sorrow is likely to be that his own words corinute his new pretentions, and if a pleonastic ex pression may be pardoned that he has talked two much with his mouth. THE BEST PIANOS PAENELL & THOMAS' Umrivaledl HMsplay in no other Salesroom in this State will you find such a variety of standard instruments displayed sice by side. Every intended purchaser is invited to visit cur silesroDTi if o ly for the purpose of comparison. Ask Mr. Thomas to show you the merits of the Hanry F. Miller, Kra jkauer Bros.; Lauter Go.; Shon inger and other Pianos. A full line of Victor and Golumbia Talking Machines and Records always in stock. Darnell Sk Thomas RA EIGH,3 N. C. THIS ADVERTISEMENT will be found in your favorite agricul tural paper this month. We reproduce it herr to tell vou that we have Menz "Ease' and American Boy" shoes. Read It and the letters also. Murder and Suicide. Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 4. W. E. Lati mer, aged forty, to-day shot and kill ed a woman known as Emma Can trell, aged twenty-six, and then sho himself, from the effects of which h died an hour later at a local hospital The shooting took place in a house on Decatur Street. Latimer is said to have gone to the house and asked for him wife. The Cantrell woman was summoned and the two engaged in a quarrel, ending in the shooting. At the inquest this afternoon another woman, claiming to he Mrs. Latimer, appeared and identified the pistol' used as belonging to her husband. Democratic House Passes Cotton Ta riff Revision Bill. Washington, D. C, August 2. The House to-day passed, 156 to 72, the cotton tariff revision bill which the Democratic majority claims will re duce the duties on cotton and cotton manufactures by approximately 21 per cent. The measure is identical to that vetoed last year by President Taft on the ground that it was not based on official Information. Some House members expressed the belief that the Senate would pass It and put the legislation up to the President again. Xorth Carolina Murderer Conscience Stricken Surrenders in California. fLos Angeles, Cal.f Aug. 3. A man giving his name as C. S. Snipes, of Burke County, North Carolina, sur rendered to the police to-day, saying he was wanted in Burke County for the murder, of John Britton, Septem ber 10, 1901. Snipes told. the police his conscience hurt him and that he was tired dodging the officers. He is being held pending a ninvestiga tion. - Mr. Simmons' heroic work on the tariff bills, about which we have heard to much, has resulted In the passage of two Republican tariff measures by the Senate. Durham Herald. But just think how the Democrats did talk about Gaynor as a candidate for the Presidency, and now it has developed that he is not fit to be mayor of New York. It seems that the Democratic party does make an awful mess in selecting candidates anyway. Clinton News-Dlspacth. Jf.fJT EASE" 8HOE8 PIT LIKE A GLOVE. YouH also find them the tnott comfortable every -day shoes you ever walked in. And after you have worb tht.ro. several months youH say there isn't a shoe that s built any better, stronger or wear longer. 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