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State Nerts.
The Friends held their yearly meet
ing at Guilford College last week with
a good attendance. Ministers of that
faith from all parts of the world
attended the meeting.
Andy Albright, a farmer living
near Statesville, was attacked by yel
low Jackets while working alone in a
field a few days ago and and stung
until he was unconscious.
Charlotte doctors now have an
agreement by which thye will now
charge $2.50 for day calls and $5.00
for night calls. Double fees will also
be charged in cases of contagious dis
eases. Mrs. Mary E. Chappelle, last pen
sioner of the War of 1812 in North
Carolina, died In Charlotte a few days
ago at the age of seventy-nine years.
Her husband, Eli Chappelle, died sev
eral years ago at the age of 107.
Two Durham negroes broke Jail
Tuesday night, went out and got
drunk, but returned to the jail in
time for breakfast Wednesday morn
ing. No one knew they were out un
til they came back and asked to be
locked up again.
Negro boys entered the home of
Mr. R. O. Harrison, in Fayetteville
Sunday, and took all the 3ilverware,
china, and other valuable articles
they could get away with. The boys
were located and the goods found in
the house of a negro woman in a no
torious section of tho city.
Mrs. W. B. Pruett, of Charlotte, has
brought suit for $20,000 against the
Southern Power Company and the
Charlotte Gas Company for the death
of her husband, who was killed by
coming in contact with a live wire
in a new school building at Fairview,
July 22.
Mr. Harvey Barley, a Confederate
veteran of Mecklenburg County, was
found dead in his wagon in the road
last Saturday. He was haujing saw
dust and failed to return home when
expected, so a search was made for
him. Heart failure is supposed to be
the cause.
Deputy collectors and Revenue of
ficers captured a distillery in Alex
ander County last week and arrested
Ed. Lippard against whom there are
charges of illicit distilling and retail
ing. Two keys of brandy and about
three hundred gallons of pomace
were poured out.
A . movement is on foot to mark
the graves of three North Carolina
Governors Governor Abner Nash,
Governor Richard Dobbs Speight, Sr.,
and Governor Richard Bobbs Speight,
Jr., which are two and one-half miles
from New Bern on the banks of
Trent River.
As the jailer at Henderson, Vance
County, entered the jail with dinner
for the prisoners, one day last week,
he was overpowered by six prisoners,
one white man and five negroes, who
made their escape. The prisoners had
sawed their way, out of their cells,
and were in the corridor ready to sur
prise the jailer.
F. H. Schutters, thirty years of
age, and formerly a United States
.army, recruiting officer in Wilming
ton, who was sentenced to thirty
days in jail for violating his agree
.ment following a plea of nolo con
tendere in a case charging him with
the sale of whiskey, died in jail a few
days ago of delirium tremens.
, . Mrs. Pheope Tomberlin, an aged
lady living near Monroe, was found
unconscious in a fence corner near
her home a .few days ago. She ap
peared to have been terribly beaten,
and a tenant of Mr. A. C. Scott ' by
the name of Bob Moser, has been con
nected with the crime, having been
seen near the place where she was
found.
. ROBBERY' IN WEST DURHAM.
Rich 3Ilser Woman Robbed of $1,700
Son Knocked Senseless.
The Durham dispatch of recent
date says:
"A robbery of $1,700 in cash from
Mrs. Hawkins Hicks, a white woman
who lives near West Durham has
been reported to the county officers.
According to the reports some one
entered the home and took a trunk
containing her money from one of the
rooms. The robbers took it Into a
nearby field and got out all the valu
ables and the money.
"Mrs. Hicks is a very old woman,
half blind and half crazy. She was
known to havealot of money, and
was a miser. Her husband, who died
many years ago, left a farm near the
city which has become a very valu
able lot of land with the growth of
the city. She has recently sold off a
part of her land receiving $15,00 for
It. Her bank-book was found near
the trunk, and it showed a balance of
about $20,000. Tho robbers did not
attempt to bother this.
"She lives with her son, Jim Hicks,
in a ramshackle cottage, which is
very old, and easily entered by rob
bers. The son reported the robbery
to the officers that morning several
hours after It occurred, who said he
heard a noise in the house, and went
out to make an investigation. When
he went into the room in which he
heard the noise, the robbers knock
ed him senseless, and then carried
out their plans. Mrs. Hicks says she
did not know anything of the rob
bery until she got up."
General Netfs.
EIGHT TO DIE IK CHAIR IX XEW
YORK IN WEEK.
Large Canal Contract Let in This
State.
A Salisbury, N. C, dispatch says:
"The large contract let in this part
of the State for a long while was giv
en yesterday for digging the big ca
rial at Whitney for a manufacturing
concern, which bought the hydro
electric plant some months ago. An
other big contract was let by the
same concern for completing the
mammoth stone dam on. the Yadkin
River, where the 45,000 horse-power
plant is being developed.
"It is stated the two contracts
amount to $750,000, and that it will
require nine months to do the work.
More than 700 men will be put to
work at once and the sinking of the
canal will be pushed. The work of
building the dam, as well as that of
running the canal, was started five
years ago by the Whitney Reduction
Company, which stranded in the pan
ic of 1907. Since that time work on
the big plant has been at a standstill."
Crimes Under Democratic Good Gov
ernment. The August term of Davidson
County Superior Court for the trial
of civil and criminal cases convenes
next Monday week, August 12th. The
docket includes two murder cases,
twenty-six blind tigers, twelve for as
sault with a deadly weapon, and sev
enteen for carrying concealed- weap
ons, besides a long array of assorted
crimes one hundred and twenty-one
cases in all Lexington Dispatch.
An Iredell Man Seventy Years Old
Marries by Mail.
Statesville, N. C, Aug. 10. H. T.
Johnson, a farmer, of Chambersburg
Township, who. has already lived his
allotted three-score and ten, was this
week married to a lady with whom he
was not personally acquainted until
the day before the marriage event.
Mr. Johnson had already been twice
married, and knowing the happiness
of married life, he decided to embark
for the third time. Through the
aid of a friend he got into communi
cation with Miss Sarah Jones, a
proof-reader on a newspaper at Cull
man, Ala. Both were inclined toward
matrimony, and the proposal and ac
ceptance were made by letter. By
agreement Miss Jones came tolredell
and the couple met at the home of a
friend, and after a day's personal ac
quaintance, they called Justice W. W.
Turner, of Statesville, to perform the
ceremony.
Body of Young Iredell Man Found.
Statesville, N. C, Aug. 12. The
dead body of Ebby Ritchie, who had
been missing since Saturday after
noon, August 3rd, was found in the
Catawba River yesterday about a
mile below where he is supposed to
have fallen into the water while suf
fering an attack of epilepsy.
Young Ritchie was making his
home with his brother-in-law and sis
ter in Catawba County. Saturday af
ternoon he went to the river to come
across into Iredell to see his father,
Mr. Thomas , Ritchie, but he failed
to show up at the home of his father
and search for him was made, with
the above Indicated result.
The Sugar Plum Between the Bull
Moose and the Professor.
Waynesvllle Enterprise.
From the way many Democratic
organs are knocking Theodore Roose
velt, It appeareth that the sugar
plumb Is between the Bull Moose and
Professor Wilson.
Commodore T. B. Garner, former
ly or tnis city out now editor or. a
weekly newspaper 1 n Wllliamston,
W. Va., announces his candidacy for
County Chairman, but says he will
accept anything. This Is an unusual
ly broad platform on which the Com
modore should win. Mount ' Airy
One Negro Kills Another.
Statesville, N. C, Aug. 12 States-
vllle's first homicide in years occur
red Saturday night when Will Mor
rison, a young negro eighteen years
old, shot and killed Len Houpe, an
other negro four years his senior,
The shooting occurred at the home of
Morrison's mother, several blocks
from the square, but the news of the
tragedy spread rapidly and within
MM. . . m . mb
mieen minutes several Officers ana a
large number of the curious were on
the scene. The murderer was found
in the house lying on a bed, while
his victim lay on the front porch
breathing his last. He died before
medical aid reached him, a bullet
having passed through his heart and
lung. Morrison was immediately tak
en to jail.
A corner's Inquest was held to-day
and Morrison was committed to jail
without ball to await trial.
Leader.
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Wilson Remedy.
Clinton News-Dispatch.
On, you Democratic farmers who
are hollering your throats sore for
Wilson. We know you are feeling
good since . the school teacher says
he wants the farmers to make more
per acre so they can sell their corn,
cotton and other farm products
cheaper and thereby reduce the "high
cost of living. . Now, you have it
straight from Wilson's own mouth.
Four men were drowned la a mine
at Benton, Wis., a few days ago. They
were overcome by foul air and fell in-j
to the water.
Mrs. Maggie Norment baa been ap
pointed postmistress at Lumherton,
succeeding her husband. Dr. R. M.
Norment, who died a short time ago.
President Taft on last Saturday
sent to the Senate the nomination of
Cyrus G. Engle to the Collector of
Customs at Natchez, Miss.
A steamship worth $3,000,000 coal
laden, In Lake Michigan a few days
tago, after colliding with a steel steam
er also laden with ore, was sunk.
A bale of new crop cotton was re
ceived at Savannah, Ga., last week
from Dodge County, Ga., and sold at
aunction, bringing 30 1-2 cents a
pound.
Reports from the Department of
Agriculture In Washington are that
the crops in the South were injured
by the army worm during the month
of July to the extent of 8,000,000.
The body of Miss Sinnle Carlson,
a music teacher, of Denver, Colorado,!
was found not very far from her
home In the city a few days ago. She
had been criminally assaulted and
then murdered.
The biggest bull moose In the
world is said to be in the possession
of John F. Bible, of Hopkinsville, Ky.
It is a trophy of one of his hunts in
Michigan, and weighs 2,350 pounds
and stands 7 1-2 feet high.
Two train officers and a passenger
were killed by the derailing of an
inbound train on the Plymouth di
vision of the New York, New Haven
and Hartford Railroad, in Dorches
ter, Mass., August 8th.
One hundred and three miners
were killed in an explosion in a mine
at Gerthe, Germany, August 8th.
Many others were injured. It is
thought that a blast reached a big
pocket of gas causing the explosion.
Little Estelle Drake, the four-year-
old child who was hurt by an automo
bile, in the vicinity of Hendersonville
last week, died Tuesday as a result of
her injuries. The car was driven by
Marion Matthison, of Anderson, S. C.
In the district between Constanti
nople and Adrianople, Turkey, an
earthquake last week wrought, much
havoc to life and property. Whole
towns have been destroyed by fire
caused by earthquake, and two vil
lages were engulfed. .
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An engine on the Virginia and
Southwestern Railroad at. St. Charles,
Va., last week, turned turtle, ran
down an embankment, and killed the
engineer, Frank Xi. Barb, of Bristol,
Va., and Oscar L. Wagner, also of
Bristol, who is a weighmaster. The
fireman was also injured.
Col. Gibson Gray Corn well, a
prominent lawyer and society man of
West Chester, Pa., committed suicide
on the train a few nights ago on his
way from New York to his home town
to face charges of misappropriating
bonds belonging to a trust estate.
Eugene W. ChafinT a resident of
Arizona, was officially notified Satur
day of his nomination for the Presi
dency of the National Prohibiton par
ty. The ceremony took place In a
Methodist church, and Rev. Dr. Mead,
of New 'York, made the notification
speech.
Seven of Them Will Be Excreted at
Sing Sins Prison on Same Day.
New York, Aug. 10. A record for
wholesale official electrocution in
N'ev York State will hare been estab
lished next week when E. F. Davis, of
Corning. N. Y. the official execution
er, snuffs out the lives of eight mur
derers condemned to die by the New
York courts. Besides these men,
there are eighteen additional mur
derers now In the death cells of Sing
Sing, Auburn and Clinton prisons
who must shortly pay the death pen
alty unless new trials are ordered by
the highest court of the State.
The eight doomed men all are guil
ty of crimes which at the time of their
perpetration excited wide interest.
Five were implicated in the murder
of Mrs. Henry Hall at Yorktown,
Westchester County, on November 6,
1911. They are Italians, who, with
robbery in view, entered her home in
the absence of her husband. One
stabbed her to death as she was being,
held by the others. The sixth mem-j
ber of the gang, Santo Zanzo, already
has paid the death penalty, It having
been established that he. actually did
the stabbing. He was executed on
July 8th last.
The three men who complete the
list of doomed are: Joseph Ferrone,
also an Italian, who murdered his
wife In New York City on October
24th last by cutting her thoat; John
W. Collins, a negro, who on July 1,
1911, shot and killed Policeman
Thomas Lynch in New York, and
John Matuszewski, who shot Police
man Charles Schaeffer, of Buffalo,
on September 11th last.
Seven of these men are in Sing
Sing, and, according to officials of the
State prison department, little more
than an hour will be necessary to
execute them. They probably will be
killed on Monday.
PRESIDENT OF HATI KILLED.
Several Others Lose Their Lives
When National Palace is Blown
Up.
Port Au Prince, Hatl, Aug. 8. The
National Palace was blown up by a
powder explosion and burned to the
ground to-day and the President of
the Republic of Haiti, General Clncin-
natus Leconte, perished. Members
of his family, who were awakened by
the terrific shock, found themselves
almost surrounded by flames, but
managed to make their way to safety.
The first .explosion was followed by
others when the fire reached the
cellars of the palace where a great
quantity of ammunition was stored.
So great was the force of the explos
ion that a number of small cannon,
fragments of iron and shells were
blown for great distances In all direc
tions. Many palace attendants were
killed, and it Is estimated that the
casuallty list will reach four hundred
persons killed or injured.
Panic Prevails.
For a time a great panic prevailed,
and the military authorities took
charge of the situation. The explo
sions occurred shortly after 5 o'clock
in the morning and within an hour,
when the fire, which was confined to
the palace, was extinguished, the
structure wasa mass of ruins from
which it will be impossible to recover
the body of the President.
The cause of the explosion of the
powder magazine has not been ascer
tained. At a joint meeting of the Chamber
and Senate this afternoon, General'
Tancrede Aiiguste, Senator and ex-
Minister of Public Works, was named I
as President. . i
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Bernard Murray son of a former
fire commissioner of Hartford, Conn.,
has confessed to the firing of thirty
hotels within the last four months in
Connecticut and Western Massachu
setts. He Is twenty-four years old,
and says he could not resist the im
pulse to do it, although he realized
the consequences.
The Panama Canal administration
bill, providing, free passage to Amer
ican ships, prohibiting railroad own
ed vessels from using the waterway,
and authorizing the establishment of
a one-man government when the ca
nal was completed, was passed by the
Senate last Friday night.
WASHING THE OLD BILLS.
Uncle Sam Starts Up Laundry Busi
ness in Treasury Department.
More than a half a million dollars
of old paper money, washed and iron
ed to the crispness ot new In the Fed
eral Government's currency laundryt
will be placed In circulation to-morrow.
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This lot will represent Uncle Sam's
first job as a laundryman. For weeks
the Treasury Department has been
cleaning and reviving dirty old notes
by the washing machine perfected In
the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing. Secretary MacVeagh to-day
stamped the venture a success and
the. laundry will be run in full swing
from now on.
All unclean bills which are not
practically worn out will be washed,
ironed and redistributed. The first
Bubonic ' plague, which has four batch f notf 8ent to 8Qb-
tlmes swept the world, again threat- tfe?f!f d pald oa to banks in
ens the United States, from South li1"7681-
America. It is said to be raging ' The Treasury Department has or-
along the west coast of that conti- ttr? more machines
nent. Surgeon General Rupert Blue in f eT m onths 11 f "Petted
l in charge of a campaign against 'Z'1'Z.i 7"!!!?f
ment expects to save hundreds of
thousand of dollars annually.
the spread of the disease, and every
precaution possible is being taken.
The Senate accepted last week the
conference report " on the legislative,
executive and judicial appropriations
bill, abolishing the Comerce Court,
but retains the judges for service In
other Federal Circuits until the end
of their terms, and fixes seven years
as the length of service for govern
ment employes within the District of
Columbia. This seven year feature
has aroused much disapproval among
the Government employes in Wash
ington, which means that every seven
years Government clerks in the class
ified service must seek re-appointment."
Seventeen Workmen Burned in Coke
Oven Explosion.
Birmingham, Ala,, Aug. 10. An
explosion of , gas at the by-product
coke ovens of the Tennessee Coal,
Iron and Railroad Company at Corey,
near here to-day, while a change was
being made in one of the big mains,
resulted in seventeen workmen, in
cluding assistant superintendents and
foreing, being seriously hurned. Dr.
H. R. Deholl, assistant superinten
dent, and one of the best known Ma
sons of Birmingham district, Is burn
ed about the face and arms.
The Caucasian from now until November ae loth
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