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o iThurmdar, NoTer Page Two. CAUCASIAN. General Netfs. Congress day. will convene next Mon- Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor, is se riously ill. The estate of Joseph Pulitzer, late proprietor of the New York World and the St. Louis Post Dispatch, is valued at $18,525,116. Mrs. Laura Appold, of Washing ton, D. C, is suing for a divorce. She says her husband beats her daily af ter the family prayers. Five thousand steel workers are idle at Brad dock and five thousand at Homestead, Pa., as a result of the en gineers' and firemen's strike. The Progressive National Commit tee filed a statement Monday showing that contributions to the Roosevelt campaign amounted to $688,809. The Union Sulphur Works of New York were swept by fire Monday morning and eight persons are be lieved to have perished in the flames. The Farmers' Manufacturing Com pany's plant at Norfolk, Va., one of the largest makers of barrels in the South, was practically destroyed by fire. Fifty women and children were trampled to death in a moving picture theatre in Bilboa, Spain, Sunday af ternoon when one of the picture films caught fire. Secretary Wilson's annual report shows that during the last year the Department of Agriculture at Wash ington has mailed 34,000,000 pieces of mail to farmers. The American Federation of La bor Saturday decided to call on af State Netfs. There was & light fall of mow in Asherille last Sunday. The Census Bureau states cotton President Taft has informed the ginned prior to November 14th j Atlanta, Ga., Chamber of Commerce amounted to 10,291,431 bales. North I that engagements will prevent hia Carolina's ginning is 627,045. (presence at tie Panama Canal Coa- ference, to be held in Atlanta Decern- Sixty barrels of whiskey and sixty j ber 10 and 11. barrels of beer consigned to Tulsa, j Okla., as car-load of bran were seized j Thirty-two prisoners, several of a few days ago at Kansas City, Mo.. I whom were serving life terms for by officers of the Department of Jus- j murder, were released from the State tice. I penitentiary and the county jails in ! South Carolina Tuesday by order of Widespread agitation against the j Governor Cole L. Blease. Three pris white slave evil in England has re- oners were granted full pardons and suited in the introduction of a bill (the remainder were paroled. Into Parliament to, check the traffic j by enacting a law providing for flog- The press was scored by President rine the offenders. i Madero of Mexico a few days ago as ; being largely responsible for the llU,dIed early Thurgda7 morning of dla- A Washington, D. C. dispatch says j of Mexico. It created disrespect for betes He had engaged ln tne forty-one thousand eight hundred ; autnoruy, ne saiu, ana encouraged through the Government s enemies. He de clared that a new law was necessary to curb and punish offenders. Fire in the Bellevue Cotton Mill at Hillsboro last week caused a loss of $8,000, which was covered by Insurance. The Annual Conference of the M. E. Church, South, for Eastern North j Carolina is in session in Fayettevllle j this week. Mr. John McDufSe, of Fayettevllle, gobbling turkeys passed Washington Saturday on a "Thanks giving Special" from East Tennessee points and were bound for Baltimore and New York. An addition of $2,000,000 to the insurance business for years. a number of Mrs. John Layman, aged forty, and her three boys, aged one, two, and three, respectively, were burned to death Tuesday in a fire that destroy ed their farm home in Warwick County, Virginia. Several others were injured severely. Oscar King Davis, former Wash ington correspondent, who was iden tified with Colonel Roosevelt's cam paign, will have charge of the new permanent headquarters of the Pro gressive party to be opened in Wash ington at the beginning of the new year. Two plants of the Corn Products Company, owned and controlled by Standard Oil interests, were destroy ed by an explosion and fire Monday. One was in Brooklyn, N. Y., and one in Waukan, 111., but the blasts that j counterfeits are a ten dollar Na wrecked them came within a single tional bank note on the First Nation- The W. T. McCoy Furniture Com pany, of Charlotte, suffered a heavy Iors hv flr TnMrtav. Thfl damAFA to endowment fund of the Carnegie 8tock and buIlding !s estimated at Foundation for the Advancement of s J4 000 Teacning was announced Dy Andrew Carnegie at a meeting of the trustees of his foundation in New York. The endowment now stands at $14,000, 000, with a $1,000,000 surplus. Fire, the origin unknown, destroy edxthe Union Envelope plant at Rich mond, Va., Saturday. The damage exceeds seventy-five thousand dol lars. An electric meter blew out, ex ploding a motor and firing the paper stock. Twenty-five girls, working up stairs, fied down the fire-escapes, but lost all their belongings in the cloak room. Three new counterfeit notes have been unearthed by the United States Secret Service, and Chief Wilkie has issued a warning to the public. The hour. A primary is to be held at Marion, Ky., January 18th to determine the community choice among several as- filiated unions to render financial aid Prantf forJe Postmastership. Sen to the defendants in the "dynamite conspiracy" trial at Indianapolis. The official estimate of the dead in the hurricane and tidal wave which swept the western coast of Jamaica a few days ago places the number of dead at more than one hundred. The American Woman's Suffirage Association in session at Philadelphia Monday re-elected practically all of the present officers and adopted reso lutions favoring a non-partisan organization. Three subsidiary lines of the New York Central system and a Chicago coal corporation were indicted Satur day by the Federal grand jury in Chi cago, charged with giving and receiv ing rebates. The Gondorf gang of wire-tappers and other swindlers of their kind in New York have fleeced persons out of over $750,000 during the year, according to persons in touch with the situation. Senator Isador Raynor, senior Unit ed States Senator from Maryland, died early Monday morning at his apartment in Washington. Senator Raynor had been in falling health for several months. An explosion which wrecked the dry starch plant of the Corn Products Company at Waukegan, 111., Monday, killed between three and twelve workmen and severely injured twenty-seven others. Richard Sparks, a negro, was shot and killed at Peak, S. C, Friday by ator-elect Ollie James, whose home is there, agreed to endorse the candi date receiving the greatest number of votes. al Bank of Ashley, Pa.; a ten-dollar gold certificate and a twenty-dollar gold certificate. The men arrested on five indict ments returned by the Federal grand jury at Cincinnati and alleged by Government officials to be members of a "get-rich-quick" ring of oper ators that ogtained from five hundred to one and a half million dollars from A rule comDelline all the elemen- ! the public, will face the Federal tary and high schools of Greater New j Courts in the February term. York to establish savings banks for j the pupils will go into effect next j The old wooden frigate Indepen week if the Board of Education ac- j dence relic of the Mexican and Civil cepts the report on this subject of I Wars, and for many years a receiving the joint committee on finance and j ship at the Mare Island, Cal.. Navy elementary schools. Yard, has been stricken from the list of naval vessels. Built in Boston in The issue of peace and war in Eu-1837, she formerly carried a corn rope hangs on a slender thread andlplement of 129 officers and men. The hostilities are likely to break out be- J vessel has been replaced by the cru tween some of the powers at any iser Cleveland. time. The peace envoys of Turkey and Balkan allies met Monday, but I After many Cabinet sessions at U 1 3 1 11 il uaa iiul ueeii icarueu wueiuer an armistice was arranged. That more than 1,000 persons are killed at grade crossings and over 5,000 trespassers on railroad proper ty lose their lives annually, was the statement of John A. Jones, railway commissioner of Maine, before the National Association of Railway Com missioners at Washington. Ortie E. McManigal testified at the dynamitic trial that he was commis sioned . to destroy the Los Angeles Times' auxiliary plant, the second ex plosion being planned to avert sus picion from McNamara, but the build ing was too well guarded, and he blew up a steel plant instead. Dragged from her horse, her head and legs cut off and the body cut in two by persons as yet unidentified, was the fate of seventeen-year-old Mary Barnham, the daughter of a prominent farmer residing near a posse of men. Sparks and another Pleasant Ridge, Ark., whose dismem negro had robbed a magistrate of $20 and escaped with the magistrate's horse and buggy. The Interstate Commerce Commis sion has begun an investigation in Washington into the rates and prac tices of express companies relating to the transportation of bread and bakery products. With the hard coal receipts in Bos ton for the month of October, 25,000 tons less than the supply for the same period last year, that city, according to local dealers, faces the greatest coal, famine in years. France has notified the Turkish Government she would hold Turkey responsible for any violence against Christian and asked the Ottoman Government to adopt rigid measures to prevent any outbreaks. Sldna Allen, leader of the Hills ville outlaw clan, was Saturday found guilty of murder In the second degree and his punishment fixed at fifteen years in the State penitentiary. He will be tried on another indictment. Gideon C. Bantz, assistant treas urer of the United States, resigned Saturday at the request of Secretary MacVeagh. This is the third official in the Treasury Department to resign within the past few months on ac count of friction. The bodies of 200 persons killed ln the earthquake in Mexico a few days. ago have been recovered from the ruins of the little town of Acambay In the northern part of the State of Mexico. News from other towns and Tillages report loss of several lives. bered body was found near her home Saturday. Pick-pockets posing as delegates to the North Georgia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at Carrollton, Georgia, robbed sev eral ministers attending the Confer ence. Dr. J. Magath. of Oxford, a missionary to the Hebrews, was re lieved of a wallet containing $20, and several other thefts have been report ed. ' Will Thomas, a negro accused of killing Spurgeon Johnson, a white farmer, near Newberry, S. C, several weeks ago, was lynched by a mob of masked men near that place Friday night. The negro was being taken to jail by a constable when captured by the mob. He was chained to a tree and his body riddled with bul lets. Montana has adopted the Initiative referendum measure providing for party nominations for State offices by direct vote and limiting the cam paign expenditures of candidates to 15 per cent of the office salary for year. The measure also provides for the direct election of United States Senators and for a Presidential primary. The Board of Health at Hampton, va., Tuesday, closed the public schools, moving picture shows and other public places, and Issued an or der that no Sunday-schools be opened Sunday. The order Is effective until December 4th, and came as a result of the prevalence of diphtheria and scarlet fever. The drastic action re sulted from a failure to obey quaran tine rules. Washington it was decided to appor tion equally among all the States, the five hundred thousand dollars Con gress appropriated for improving roads. The amounts will be alloted among the States on a basis of ten thousand dollars to each State that agrees to spend twenty thousand of its own funds. Discharge of a flagman because he sent in a bill to the Georgia Railroad for 50 cents for two lunches, which he testified were necessary to make him a meal, instead of 25 cents for one, was one of the two indictments that recenlty caused the employes of that system to strike, and cost the State, the railroad and the employes combined a total of $350,000, accord ing to testimony in the arbitration hearing at Atlanta, Ga., Saturday. Two suffragettes In London were sentenced a few days ago to long terms of Imprisonments for window smashing. Isabella Irving was sent up for six months and Ethel Slade for four months on the charge of damag ing shop windows In Bond and Oxford Streets on November 6, when they participated in a raid with other wo men as a protest against the rejec tion by the House of Commons of an amendment providing for woman suf frage in the Home Rule bill for Ire land. J. A. Wayland, founder and owner of the "Appeal to Reason," a Social ist weekly newspaper published at Girard, Kansas, shot and killed him self in his home a few days ago. Mr Wayland was to have appeared in the Federal Court in Fort Scott, Kansas, the day of his death, to answer to a Government charge against the ed Itors and the owners of the "Appeal to Reason." of circulating through the malls defamatory matter concern ing an official of the Federal prison at Leavenworth. Judge McCall in the Federal Court at Memphis, Tenn., Saturday sen tenced D. C. Wynne, former president of the All Night and Day Bank at Lit tle Rock, Ark.; E. L. Hendrey, form er president of a similar Institution in Memphis; J. H. Brooks, Memphis lumberman and former director of the Memphis Bank, and Abner Davis, former president of the All Night and Day Bank of Oklahoma City, to five years in the Federal prison and fined them each $2,000. The sentence was based on two counts In the Indict ment charging them with using the malls In a conspiracy to defraud In connection with the failure of their banks. The shorter ballot Is gaining In fa vor, but more citizens with longer memories Is what is really needed. Washington Herald. The colored Baptist church of East Spencer was burned a few days ago and there is suspicion that the fire was the result of a row in the congre gation. Samuel Pierce, employed by the Southern Chair Company of High j Point, was caught under a falling elevator in the company's factory a few days ago and crushed to death. Sam Morgan, of Concord, was shot i and probably fatally wounded Satur- j day morning by Manly Morris while j the latter was firing at Bob Arm strong. Morris made his escape. George Pollock, superintendent of arm Valley plantation at Falling Creek, Lenoir County, was horribly burned by fire which destroyed the big ginneries on the place Friday. The roller mills at Goldston, Chat ham County, owned by the Goldston Milling Company, was burned a few days ago. The loss is estimated at $10,000 or more, with only $5,500 insurance. A pay train on the Atlantic Coast ine ran into the end of a freight in Bertie County Wednesday night killing the porter and fireman on the extra and injuring Engineer Weath ers of the same train. Peter Jones, an old colored man, was killed in Hamlet and two negroes are in jail to answer a charge of mur der. The old man sold a bale of cot ton, got drunk, and displayed consid erable money. It is believed he was murdered and robbed. A convention in the interest of the fish Industry of Eastern Carolina will be held at Washington, this State, December 4th, and recommendations will be made to the Legislature in re gard to fish legislation. A large barn and stables belonging o Judge A. W. Graham, of Oxford, were burned early Saturday morning. Two mules, a horse and valuable cows perished in the flames. The fire is thought to be of inclndary origin. The Union Republican says it Is reliably informed that one of the manufacturing plants of Winston Salem has a weekly pay-roll of $34,- 000. This does not include office force, heads of departments, travel ing men, etc. E. M. Howell was struck by a freight train at Rocky Mount Thurs day night receiving injuries that caused his death Friday night. His remains were taken to his home at Margarettsville, Northampton Coun ty, for burial. Chief of Police Kennedy, of Ashe- boro, Saturday arrested John Tanner and Myrtle Tanner on a charge of forgery and check flashing. They were bound over to Superior Court. They claim to hail from Greensboro. I I Before the grand jury adjourn ed for the November term of Rowan County Superior Court, sixteen true; bills had been returned against the larger clubs of the county. These cases will come up at the February term of Rowan Superior Court before Judge Whedbee. Mrs. A. B. Cox, of Sanford, Lee County, was seriously and probably fatally burned Monday morning. When her screams had summoned as sistance, she was enveloped in flames and her hair was burned off and arms and body badly burned before the flames were extinguished. The Union Republican says at El kln the past week, Mrs. Isom Burch ett, aged about eighty years, was burned to death. She went out into the yard and gathered an apron full of chips to replenish the fire. While placing the fuel on the fire her cloth ing became Ignited and she was fatal ly burned. An aged husband sur vives. Miss Ella Wheeler was arraigned in federal court at Ashevllle Saturday on the charge of tampering with a letter and she was. required to fur nish bond ln the sum of $250 for her appearance at the preliminary hear ing which was set for Friday after noon. The arrest was made by pos tal authorities who had been work ing on the case. . John Z. Brooks, prominent cltlxea of Lnolr County, died at his bora In Grlftoa of blood poftoninic. which waj cached in an unntual manner. A small bone of an opossum lodged ln Brooks tyitem while be was partak ing of a tneal and remained tome time. The blood poisoning followed soon after its removal, earning hit death. What is said to be the biggest dam age suit ever instituted in Fortyth County has been brought by Kerner Brothers, of Kernersville, proprietors of the American Hosiery Mills, against the Southern Railway for $95,950. The complaint alleges that the Hosiery Mills was burned by a fire caused by a spark from an engine of the Southern. Wiley P. Black, of Ashevllle. who has served two years or more on the Buncombe County roads for oiling whiskey and who, while serving a term was pardoned by Gov. Kitchln on account of 111 health, the pardon being revoked when Black was arrest ed and convicted on a new charge of retailing, was sentenced to the roads Friday for four years on two charges of selling whiskey, receiving two years in each case. Black appealed to the Superior Court and was released under a bond of $3,000. r? .-v ...... t . . Drain. cgro. a i- . u Jail charged with !l Grov BapUil cisarxh 'v,,. Ut cer last vk. aad ;"v firing to other Ihm-Y, town. "u Mr. Wtley J. Kajos f burg, committed a:ctt """ drinking wood alcohol H.4, , 7 ill from plUra for . bad grown deroC!t;!, 4r . poison during th fr wife was ab&t from th 1 "(. - .V . A general 10 per cent advance In furniture from manufacturer to deal er will be a result of conference held in High Point Friday by about one hundred representatives of furniture manufacturing plants in the South ern, Northern, New England and Mid dle Western States, according to a statement given out after a five-hour executive session. Representatives of both the Southern Furniture Manu facturers and American Furniture Manufacturers Association were present. A barn containing 1 : Icorn. a lot of fartr-ir etc.. wa destroyed by trr IV Vt'" the Gritaesiand plantation x Secretary of State J. Hry4a ;..'! 7 and Colonel Alston Grtr . "jj County. The low Is j" -:; with little insurance. T.u of the largest barns la i:A-rr Carolina. A. Knight, employed in em shops at Spencer, cp-rv. !on at Salisbury Friday ntu j effects of white swelhcp was amputated at the knc Sja-'! thlzing with him In hi UJ ;VV ; m . I leuow-woricmen in Sprccrr t a purse of $6 and prnnt ti family to help bear the exjr.i dent to the operation. Fearing the introduction of u tato wart disease into this Su, .V? North Carolina State Dvparto--. j Agriculture has recently isM; lt dor prohibiting the import;?1,,):, of tatoes for seeding iur;. Newfoundland, Knglan.l. ( ,.-,:lt . Ireland, Wales. Gennar.). A -.-. -Hungary. It is clalm i th- j ease is contagious, ami t!m :.:: , ! taken to prevent itn pn-al i- i t State. For 25 Years We have been selling pianos to the most cultured class of people in this section, and we have sold several thousand of them, why not follow their example and purchase where you can obtain the BEST for the LEAST MONEY? RALEIGH isj. c. WHEN YOU READ THIS ADVERTISEMENT in your agricultural paper this month, remember that we have the agency for Menz "Ease" and "American Boy" shoes. THESE LETTERS prove they axe worth investigating. on YOUR FEET WILL BE COMFORTABLE in apairof Menx"EAe". YouH also find after several znonthu'every-day service, that a bet ter shoe cant be put together. And if you hive Z ? JD experience as thousands 01 men who have worn them the past 12 years, they'll muuey uu your every-cay saoe bUla. , Sendfcr Catalog Ho. 12 Describes the Menz "Ease" from to 1 8 inch heights; also the" America -u shoe made espeo- AZl tally for the red- , blooded, out door boy. Find ttlWIIMI Mens "Lase" on 'sole and yellow label, and you will know that the uroer leather la Umi 'Ease" Special Elk. The only upper leather webareuctlfAriivMn. Best leather tanned tar every-dsv service. Tmih raw hide. Soft as a rlnv an will alwsvs ratals its n(Hni if properly cared for. ASK FOR CATALOO M 19 w v A have a dealer near you. If we have, will refer yOU tO CiHU If DAL w Fan (ntnwnr. th. 'direct to you from the faetorv. tmiir mh I prices, delivery prepaid. - iHtniUs Shot Co., Makwa. Detroit. Bleb. "I bought a pair of your Meni t. and after 5 months trial they aw ; as they were the day I bought thr". , recommend them to.any farrwr w Wi good heavy work-shoe that . v, service and solid comfort." c Onrsrr' I 6 C- I ever bought that wore long ry 1 , haIf-o!HL I have had tbm U.:--'--. and the tops are as uood th-v JULIAN - "Since wearing Men 'Ea' a disgust for any other. 5 C BEN T W- -I have a pair of your Mu '' o they have pven me entire f-f1'" -recommend them as a x-Jl R' -I have worn a pair of tr"JJat I and fend them to H everwore. I am burin jNCt Tronteaao ; -The Mens 'Ease' shoes I have worn cotutanUy. P all kinds of farm work. Thry ' -Da-comfortable and I frri perftjy a methemto the eTMCOX. -y.',,-, vrn 'Ease shoe mo, comfortable hoe I .-TdsWOR' nev. acts hard or su3. J.W.Ai SrvnaS; -The Menz -Ease shoes are O. are my favorite shoes. Z BOSSt- certsto iSSth fifSLaad "AMERICAN BOY- shoe, arc not guaranteed to tSev 'wf" ? to these letters are only ofld pair. www wwn wrui conatoeruis tna next tuna you om - - MoipltDoiPtt iRotsoinittllrttal 129 FAYETTEVIILE, STREET
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