Price $4.00 Per Y3ar.
CONCORD, N. 0., THURSDAY", MARCH 2, 1899.
Single Copy 5 Cents
BIG FIRE IN CHARLOTTE.
WHERE
IS HE?
ihousanus oiisaies oi tonon tonsiimea Samuel PIcDaniel of Cannonville Left
Together With tne Old Freight Depot Home Over One Month Ago and NotH-
and Other -( Sheds-Almost EverythtP ing Has Been Heard of Him Since A
Icsurcd-No Cause Known for the Mysterious Case.
fire During court week in January.
j By telephone today (Thuisday) on the 25th day of that month
ve Ieainof a big fire which occur- according to his parents recollto-
ed in Charlotte about;6.30 o'clock tion?, Samuel McDaniel, the 16
in ihe morning. When the fire F! old boy of Mr. J H Mc-
was noticed it was in the midst Danel at Cannonville, after doing
Trxr nlrl AnHrm In nn BVBfai IMUB UDOUti U16 nOUSO
of
of the warehouses near the com-
his mother that it was time
told
he was going,
thought that it
His mother only
was a trip I he
ins.
oouu .u uaiuKo OHi,au, cuu- and father and some others were
suinine the old freight depot, going to take, and asked him to
wmenwasusea as a warenouse wajt until his lather came and
for cotton, also the cotton com- tbey could all go together. He
i press, which is valued at $50,000. would not wait though, but said
j iTbousauds ot bales of cotton tnat; tuey could come on later.
were burned, The number at ; The boy left; then and nothing
this time estimated at nearly klnce that time has ever been Carolina's .dispfjiniary tregediea.
nnn kio I heard of Samuel MoDamel.
Among the'losers are : Saunders Thinking that
: t. n i ?nn Vnnln,l,n,r. oo homo soon,
ham,150; Heath Brop, 1,700; Heath m eJ .n ,J .'l fe , .
' ' public about the matter, but as it
& Ried, 135; R A Lee, 75; J W uUu nvnr ' mftnfTl fl: n ' llA
I
Capt. Cbadwlcb Dead.
...
The Charlotte Observer informed
!- Ik
m this afternoon of the death of
Capt. H S Ohadwiok, of the Ohar
j j !
lotte Machine Co. Mr. Chadwick
died at an early hour this (Thnres
day) morning at the Palmer House
in Boston, Mass., he hating gone
there some time ago.
Mr. Cbadick was captain of
the Charlotte company in our Fint
regiment and resigned a short while
ago.
Another Dispensary Tragedy.
.1 i
Alex Cartlege was shot in Col am
bia. 8. C, Tuesday; night by a
young man Melze. Cartlege was a
dispensary constable and the shoot
ing grew out of that. Cartiege died
Wednesday. Metza gave himself
up and is in jail. What defense
will be j made for him is not yet
known ibut it adds another to South
the boy would
and (looking for
Bis Leg Brofcen.
Mr.
in the
it is now becoming a source
Miller, 70; J H Sloan 16. There let
were also smaller lots of collon of grief and anxiety on the part
owned by -persons whose names 0f the family, j
could not be obtained. j This boy, so his latner teJis us,
Quanties of, fertilizer, T?hicb had no roaming disposition and
had been stored away in the was not of a wild nature. Having
buildingte were also burned. had an attack of pneumonia once
The wind blew the flames dinctly ' leieQ ln n legs ana ne ai-
th nrinoi-l tatt oi the W'had a stiff wayJof walking.
Henry Fetrea, a young man
employ of Mr. J J Bar
inger, of No. 6, bud the misfortune
to get a leg brokta just above the
ankle this (Thursday; morning. It
On the wall in the house of Mr,
S J Harteell, of No. 1 township,
- -. s
will hang a memorial picture to the
i
memory of Emma HartselT, who
was murdered lastly ear, wording of
which is as follows!:
i
"Gone, but not forgotten. In lov-
ing remembrance oi my dear
daughter, Mary Emma Hartsell,
Was brutally murdered May 29 tb.
'98, aged JL2 yea?s, 8 months, 18
days. f
Weep not for her, who Is now at rest,
Where care and pain no more annoy.
Has reached the heaven of the blesk,
And realized immortal 30V.
Her spirit smiles" I from that bright
shore, . i
And softlj whispersk 'Weep no more.'
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Don't Forget Tbem.
Some time ago a libel law,
which met the approbation of all
newspapermen and was generally
admitted to be fair and lust, was
introduced in the Legislature and NJJ) NEW EFFECTS.
its passage urgeq. since tnen we
hava Vorrl nntViiriar of t.Vin mAOQtira I m
; , u? r r: r: : -wry apt? tfmpt-
His sleeping met . i. uuiiAivw -
new arrivals of
Silks for waists.
Beautiful col ops
teems
that he was driving a team
and suppose that
sleep of death,
are mighty popu
ticians during
and was sitting on the houUds of; generally
the wagon when the wheel dropped
into a deep rat and his Jpg was
caught with the above results.
la
when
The newspapers
ar with the poii- ing AND THE PRICE SO
campaign,
MODERATE.
but
the campaign
A Perpetual School.
The dailies, weeklies and month
lies of our country wield a wider
influence than the pulpit, and per-
ci
ty, mkirg it yerj d4Dgeroa8, but Do always earned his head down, , gohool fQr the
J I IaW mmlVr tA with Hid f Ana r
the flimea were at kit controlled
without any farther loeees. Almost
everything that burned was insured.
too, and walked with his
turned in.
A Concord-Sallsbuty Wedding.
The Salisbury Sun says : J
At the residence ot and by the
Onc a nenibor ofCompanj L.
Mr. P W Hedrick, the young
man whom it seems shot MrJ A D
i ' : ' I i
Shuping in Salisbury some nights
ot
are informed.
preps is a cchoorwe all attend every
day in the week from the i time we
learn I to read to the end of our
lives Outlook.
is over they are jforgotten. States
villa Landmark. ,
For frost bites, burns, indolent jres,
eczema, skin disease, and especially
Pile?. DeWitt's Vitch Hazel Salve
stands fir&t and best. Tjook out for dis
honest people who try to "imitate dan,
counterfeit it. ' It's their endorsement
of a good article, j Worthless goods are
not imitated. Get DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Balve. j Bj Gibson.
Its worth
WHILE TO
T T
I
SEE THESE
(SPECIALTIES
PERSONAL POINTERS.
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undersigned on the evening of sp ws nnmvixj uicmwCi ; here today.
Mr. M L Pvitch, of Saliibury, is
ville
Feb. 2Sth, Mr. Harvey Barrage, Company j, we
of Concord, and Miss Emma He (spent several days here be-
Chanin.Jof Salisbury married. fore the company left and Mayor
Immediately after the ceremony Crowell tendered him a place j at
they were driven to the depot to hi3 house while waiting for the
take the . southbound train ' to C(impany to go to Raleigh. He
..- 1 1 1 1 1 1
Uoncord, tnenome 01 tne oriae ;discharged from the company f the Cannbn & FetZ8r Co.
?room. ; . H on account of his bad health.
Lovers seldom appear
over to
Dr. R 'J Caldwell, of
is here today.
Mrs. H L Parks wen
Charlotte this morning.
Mr, Will Stuart left last night
for New York to purchase goods
Moores
more
beautiful and bright, than whenl rorjthe conredorato Vetrans
listening to their marriage rite.
S. J. M. Brown.
Slate Sunday School Convention.
The next Annual State Sunday
School Convention is called to
1 Mrs. Baxter Parks went to Al
bemarle this! morning to visit her
I 1 1 1 , nrl -r in ni
Senator Tillman eecured the aaugnter, mh. luarauan vmi.
passage of a resolution Wednes- -Mrs. S J Lowe and two chil
day authorizing the Secretary of dren arrived! here this morning to
m .11 .1 annnn inH uav vvuu atxic. hv
mittee of thei United Confederate Bingham- j
Mr. Walter Green,
rr
; T ir Veterans 10,000 cots, 10,000 mat- TMr wa?ier V ?
meet 0n the 14th to 16th, inclu- i i boro, returned to his home last
.. -.oon r.. tresses and 2,000 tents, for, the . fL. m.
reunion in Charleston in May
sive, of March, 1899, in the First
Presbyterian church, at Salis-
.bury, N. 0. The citizens of Salis- xn Army bhi passed
bury are making epecial arrang-
nipht after i dome BOme work on
-O ; ! w
yards here, i
ii.- f ,. . i
Mr. M J Oorl returned home
The House on Wednesday from Richmond, Va., this moming,
iftsscd the Armv Re-organization where he went to probably pur
ah Ajj: Uxu a uL nA u nnnar.AQRirv obase some horses. He did not pur-
UOlCgailUH Ul vibi lux.es. . n.i i udid" i uiu nixu, uao mauo i uul.Uv-, j
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in
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.re ane t4
Hood's Sai
True Blood
111
PAIU
thou
sane
OUR LOSS YOUR
We had ten
worth !of Furniture more
damaded on the night
1 6thl
n
i
f
GAiN.l
dollars
less
of the
or
mm , l . . - - . ! rhftHfi finT however, as tne Dnce
gates contemplating being thereby for tUo 1 resident to . call 8eem8 extremely high at I
... 1 .1 .I'll Hi 4 1 I - I I I
present, will please sena tneir an extra session. ye uuuwdiuu
give yolunteers their
to re-
of
this
he bill to
time.
option to return home or
ma
r1 i
am in ine Berviue.
namca at once to T R Garner,
; (
Chairman of the Reception Com
mute, so that homes may -be the
more readily provided. !l
TUo Reception Committe will
meet all trains and conduct
visitors to their homes. Let
each one interested in Sunday
School work throughout the
State do what he can to meike
this the. most pleasant and profit- hipHuk i Better
able meeting- held sorfar m thle Rudyard Kipling's condition
ninson to L.lve, But ln Prison, j
Gov. Russell has commuted the
sentence of Jasper Hinson, of
jMecklenburg, who killed j Jim
'Oranford, tb life imprisonment
instead of execution.
State. Fraternally,
W. L. Kluttz, Ch'm.
A. L. Smoot, Sec.
Green Mountain
rtaple Syrup.
If you need anything in
Onr line NOW is the time.
In the next 60 days we will make hun
dreds of people happy. ;
IF 0U DOM'T T TO buy m
HAD BETTER STAY AWAY
has very much improved and
symptoms are 4ute fayorable,
though he is not considered out
Quart Bottles at 30 cents.
Pint Bottles at 20 cents.
Sweet Pickles per Bottle
I i 10 cents.'
Canned Kornlet at 20 cents
i' ! per can. i
Ervin & Morrison
When
i
tou can
I
'BELL'H
you hear
mwm
't help buying.
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Committee of Invitation.
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