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THE CAUCASIAH. Page Two. w, w . . State Netfs. Ellis Ballard, of Madison County, died suddenly while walking on the streets In Asheville a few days ago. The one hundred and thirty-second anniversary of the battle of Kings Mountain will be celebrated at Kings Mountain Monday, October 7th. Sheriff D. C. Ragan, of Watauga County, died a few days ago after an Illness of a few weeks from typhoid fever. J. M. Harrell, an insurance man of High Point, mysteriously disap peared on September 5th and has not been heard from since. The contract for the State Nurses' Home at Black Mountain has been let at a cost of $3,500. Work is already progressing on the home. The Republicans and Progressives in the Seventh District have nominat ed Mr. R. Don Laws, editor of the Yellow Jacket, for Congress. Emmitt Johnson, a young man of Durham, was arrested Saturday charged with forging the name of the E. B. Lyon Motor Car Company to a $50 check. Ed. Atwater, a native of Orange County, committed suicide at Miami, Florida, a few days ago. His body was shipped to his old home in Or ange for burial. Mr. George Clark, a white man of Henderson, was run over and killed by a passenger train Sunday morn ing. Mr. Clark was deaf and did not hear the train approaching him. The Progressive Republicans of Cumberland County met in Fayette vtlle Saturday and perfected an or ganization. Carey Stroud, a young liveryman at Klnston, was found dead in his stables Thursday night. Heart fail ure, following alcoholic excess, was given as the cause of his death. The registration books for the fail election will open October 3rd and remain open until October 23. There Is no new registration. Only those who have become of age since the last election, or who have changed residence since the last election, will have to register. The Progressive party of Burke County held a convention Saturday and endorsed Colonel Roosevelt for President and named a county ticket. There were not enough of Taft men to hold a convention and the two or three in town were spectators at. the Progressive meeting. A train on the Coast Line was wrecked near Jacksonville Tuesday. The wreck occurred on a curve where the track was covered with water. Engineer Knight and his firemen jumped into deep water just before the engine turned over. Both were injured, but not seriously. No pas sengers were injured. J. M. Harrell, the insurance agent who so suddenly disappeared from High Point week before last, return ed Friday night as mysteriously as he left. He is reported as having said that he has no recollection of leaving High Point, nor of his desti nation, nor 'where he has been nor what doing. Chairman Walser Xames Secretary and Campaign Committee. Joseph Israel, of Hendersonville, Lexington, N. C, Sept. 20. State was shot Sunday night by Jule Col- j Chairman Zeb V. Walser, of the Pro lins and died Monday morning in anjgressive State Committee, by author Asheville hospital where he was tak-, jty of the Progressive State Commit en to undergo an operation. Collins jtee. and in conjunction with Iredell General Nen?s. was arrested. A special term of court for Hoke County has been ordered by the Gov ernor to try both criminal and civil cases, the term to begin December 9th and continue two weeks, with Judge C. C. Lyon presiding. Revenue officers made a raid on an Illicit distillery about five miles from Durham Sunday morning, capturing three white men, John and Luther Dollar and a man named Ferrall, a seventy-gallon still and a quantity of meal. The Ogburn-Hill Tobacco Company of Winston-Salem whose plant was recently destroyed by fire, will not resume business, as the same has been taken over by the R. J. Rey nolds Tobacco Company. It is un derstood that the consideration was $200,000. At Salisbury Monday night Clar ence Trollinger, a young white man, struck Charles Woodrum, also white, across the head with a water pitcher, fracturing the skull and making a wound which may prove fatal. The fight occurred in the Southern Hotel, near the station. Meares, Progressive candidate for Governor, has selected the following campaign committee: W. A. Guthrie, Durham; James N. Williamson, Jr., Burlington; Clyde Eby, New Bern; S. S. McNinch, Char lotte; Thos. E. Owen, Clinton; D. L. Gore, Wilmington; and J. J. Jenkins, Siler City. Prof. R. H. Beisecker, of Lexing ton, N. C, has been selected as secre tary, and along with the Chairman will conduct the campaign from this point. Lincoln County Boy Arrested in Con nection With Disappearance of Companion. A dispatch from Belmont, N. C, under date of September 20th, says: "John Rudisill, a young white man from the western part of Lincoln County, was committed to jail to-day in connection with the mysterious disappearance of Tom Bass, another white youth from the same neighbor hood. "The two lads left home together, three weeks ago, for parts unknown at the time. Later it was learned they went to Morganton. "Two weeks ago Rudisill returned, but persistently evaded inquiries as to the whereabouts of Bass, of whom t .T , nothing has been heard since he left, Mr. John W. Bolton, a prominent until vesterdav. whpn ir wns nllp attorney of Fayetteville, died sudden-j that RudisiU toM a companion tnat lv Trn v ni'Tlit TTo wnfco Vila urifa . . lie killed him and hid his body. ly Monday night. He woke his wife about midnight and complained of a severe headache. She doctored him for the headache which apparently gave relief, but when hiswife awoke Tuesday morning Mr. Bolton was dead. Marsh ville Home says: "Mrs. Wi-: ley, wife of Rev. E. A. Wiley, fell dead at her home in Goose Creek Township last Tuesday, 10th, while she was calling up the cowrs. Mrs. Wiley was apparently in good health and had been busy with her house hold duties all the day of her death. She was about sixty-five years old and the wife of a well-known Metho dist minister." Mr. Louis Carr, of Asheville, has closed a contract with Mr. George W. Vanderbilt's manager for the timber stumpage of 8,000 acres of land, all but about 60,000 acres of the timber ed part of the estate. The price paid by Carr was given at between $750, 000 and $800,000. Carr has twenty years to remove the timber, which must be done without injury to the young growth. Bingham and Preston Gray, sons of Mr. Lewis Preston Gray, presi dent of Bingham School at Mebane, engaged in a quarrel a few days ago when Preston struck Bingham with an iron bar, fracturing his skull. An operation was performed and a small piece of the skull removed, and the unfortunate lad is expected to recov er. The sad incident was kept a se cret for several days. The Statesville Landmark says: "The Southern Aluminum Company, to manufacture in aluminum and its by-products and to operate in the State of North Carolina with princi pal office in New York City, has been incorporated at Albany t with a capi tal of $6,400,000, of which $4,000, 000 is to be 7 per cent cumulative preferred stock. ; The balance of the net profits is to to be divided equally between the preferred and 'the com mon stock. This is the company that has bought the Whitney plant on the "He asserts now that he knows the whereabouts of Bass and will have him come to light." Forsyth Farmer Shoots His Son. The Union Republican tells of a sad shooting affair in Forsyth Coun-j ty. The last issue of the Republican says: J. H. Smith, a- farmer, living some six or seven miles southeast of the city, near Beeson's Store, was arrest ed Saturday night for shooting his son Carl and was brought here and lodged In jail. ' The act was commit ted at Smith's home . According to the family, the father had no excuse for shooting the young man, but Smith told the officers that his son was attempting to shoot him. The father was drinking considerably and after the shooting left home, but was found at a neighbor's house about a mile distant. The shot took effect In the young man's arm and stomach. and it is not thought that the wound will prove fatal. Smith is a prosper ous farmer, .has a wife, and told the officers he had fourteen children Carl Smith is about eighteen years old, and Is said to be a peaceable young man. Two people were killed and sev eral injured In a Seaboard Air Line wTeck near Americas, Ga., Saturday. Hon. H. S. Money, former United States Senator from Mississippi, died a few days ago at his home at Biloxl aged seventy-four. Mrs. Helen Pierce Gray, special in vestigator of Indian affairs, was ar rested in Washington charged with concealing public records. Governor Ben. W. Hooper, Repub lican Governor of Tennessee, nas been endorsed by the independent Democrats for re-election. Mr. Eugene V. Debbs, the Socialist candidate for President, challenged President Taft to a joint debate, but Mr. Taft declined a joint dienssion. It is announced in Brussels that unless the Belgian Parliament grants women suffrage at the meeting in November, 500,000 Socialists will go on strike. Aviator Russel Blair, of Kansas Citv. while making an exhibition flight Friday in Shenandoah, Iowa, was killed in a fall from a height of thirty feet. The Secretary of State Philander C. Knox was the guest of honor at a dinner given in Yokahoma, Japan, Saturday night by the American col ony there. Beef cattle have been selling at the Chicago stock yards for eleven cents a pound on the hoof, and it is predicted the price will go to thir teen cents a pound before Christmas. President Taft has taken open is sue with Congress on the question of a Federal budget and has directed Government officials to make their estimates in conformity with the budget plan. The fortieth annual convention of the American Public Health Associa tion which was in session in Wash ington for three days the past week, adjourned to meet next in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Nathan Straus, who was chosen a Democratic Presidential elector at large by the New York State Commit tee at Syracuse last week, will not serve because his brother is a candi date for Governor on the Progressive ticket. Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson has made a demand on the Mexican Governor of the State of Tamauli pas, for the immediate release of W. C. Nichols, an American fruit grow er, who was unjustly imprisoned in Mexico. Rev. S. H. Green, a Methodist min ister of Monroe County, West "Vir ginia, was waylaid and beaten to death following a sermon he preach ed some days ago on dishonesty. He is survived by his wife and two small children. The treasury of Cuba is empty and . the Government is facing a serious situation. All the money has been spent on the sewerage and paving contract in Havana. The country is also in a political turmoil, and a Gomez for re-election as Governor, of the island. The election will bej held November 1st. Senator Cummins, of Iowa, will go to Europe after the election to study foreign methods of handling and coniroiing trusts ana Dig corpora tions. The Iowan is one of the lead ing authorities in the Senate on rail road regulation and will devote much of his time abroad to a study of Eu ropean government regulation of transportation lines. Statesville Landmark. President Taft has announced that he will shortly issue an executive or der placing all fourth-class postmas ters in the clasJiSed service. President Taft urged a National Bureau of Health in a welcoming ad dress to the International Hygienic Congress In Washington Monday. Oscar Straus, the Progressive can didate for Governor of New York, may also be nominated by the Repub licans when their State Convention is held next month. Chas. D. IIUlls, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, held another meeting of the committee in New York a few days ago and drop ped five more names from the com mittee who had gone over to Mr. Roosevelt. New York financiers are forming a $50,000,000 tobacco company. Daniel G. Ried, president of the Chi cago, Rock Island and Padfie Rail road, is at the head of the organiza tion. Their plan is to buy up inde pendent tobacco factories. While trying a shit in the court at Chattanooga, Tenn., Thursday, Rob ert E. Pritchard was stricken with an attack of acute Indigestion and died a few minutes after being re moved from the court-room. He was a native of Warren County, North Carolina, and moved to Chattanooga in 1887. Dr. Paul Walden, of Riga, Russia, presUent-elect of the Ninth Interna tional Congress of Applied Chemis try, predicted at Chicago Tuesday that the next great feat in chemistry would be making eggs from the air. He further predicted that a variety of nitrogenous foods would be made from the air some day. One enterprising newspaper man has figured it out that when the lat est million barrels of cement pur chased have been used in construc tion work on the Panama Canal, the quantity of cement employed in the building of the big ditch will have reached a total of 220,000,000 pounds. The cost of this item of construction reaches $6,500,000. A press dispatch from Jasper, Ga., under date of September 20th, says: "Charged with having shot and killed Malt Hughes from ambush and hav ing brained Hughes' baby while the child was in the arms of Mrs. Hughes, Jasper and Ves Painter were brought here and placed in Jail to-day. Re venge for alleged information given the authorities by Hughes regarding illegal distilling is believed by the police to have been responsible for the crime." A Louisville and Nashville train was robbed between Pensacola, Fla., and Flomaton, Ala., Wednesday. It is reported that $70,000 was stolen from the express packages sent from Pensacola banks to Flomaton for payment of the employes of the Louisville and Nashville in that dis trict. Later, the money was found at the back door of the bank and a bank cleric admitted he stole the money but returned it when he feared being caught. He had substituted plain pa per for the money in package ship ped to railroad. The Cattfftiaa from now onUl Xoiembrr ht lOth jf.T 2 CENT TbU vi ill be one of the mot lnlerrtlf- camral tv, forr of this r or era men t and The CancaUn mm l . through the campaign, loci a ding the election rvumv f CENTS Get up a club of four or more sabscrlbm right awr vad thereby help as to help the csmse we both advocat. ADDRESS THE CAUCASAIH, RALEIGH, N. c. CROSS & LINEHAN CO. "23 Years Raleigh's Leading Clothiers," FALL-WINTER STYLES READY. Our Store is full to the brim with Clothing and Furnish-" for gentlemen, their sons and little brothers. We invite vr inspection. WE ARE SHOWING THELARGEST ASSORTMENT OF JOHN B. STETSON HATS EVER SHOWN IN RALEIGH. MAIL ORDERS RECEIVE PROMPT ATTEST10S. Oliver Larden Admits Killing Ben Vann Claims Self-Defense. Elizabeth City N. C, Sept. 23. That he killed Oliver Layden in self- defense during a quarrel over the ad justment of a debt, was the assertion made by the defendant, Ben Vann, testifying In his own behalf this morning. Vann related a coherent story of the circumstances leading up to and attending the killing. Glorious News comes from Dr. J. T. Curtiss, Dwight, Kan. He writes: "I not only have cured bad cases of eczema in my pa tients with Electric Bitters, but also cured myself by them of the same disease. I feel sure they will benefit any case of eczema." This shows what thousands have proved, that Electric Bitters is a most effective blood purifier. Its an excellent rem edy for evzema, tetter, salt rheum, ulcers, boils and running sores. It stimulates liver, kidneys and bowels, expels poisons, helps digestion, builds up the strength. Price 50 cents. Satisfaction guaranteed by all druggists. BUY TIM mm TMMD amm piano It will pay you to buy the very best you can afford. Our line of pianos is composed of leaders of the various grades, and you can get more piano value here than elsewhere for the same money. Permit us to demonstrate this fact to yon. Catalog for the asking. PAMNELL & THOMAS RALEIGH, IM. C. TIIIS ADVERTISEMENT will be found in your favorite agricul tural paper this month. We reproduce it here to tell you that we have Menz "Ease ana American Bov" shoes. Read it and these I letters also IS The case was in the hands of the jury at this writing. Simmons' Old Tricks Will Not Work. Union Republican. ", Senator Simmons might call out his 'red-shirt brigade" to aid him in his Senatorial fight, but his old hob by of "firing the masses with nigger" is a dead issue in this day and generation. rrri IflD We Are Very Busy Opening lots Of New Goods Never Shown In This Gfy Before Will take pleasure in showing you a complete line of Woolen Goods, Silks, White Goods and Linens, Towels, Corsets, Hosiery and Gloves, in fact all that you would find in a store carrying Dry Goods, Notions and Shoes. 4 . .Epmiler-ISamdl Comm'y C C. Phone 274, linleigh Phone 54. 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