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CONCORD, N. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCE 28,1900.
Single copy 5 cents.
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GOOD GOLD FROSPECTS.
,'C O Heiiig Locates the Yeju on His
- LauiVTo Play Here Saturday Prob-
ably Huntcmille Challenges Them
r Other Sews. .
. Written for Tho Standard.
. Mt. Pleasanl, March. 28 Mr.
W-D Anthonj is beautifying the
home of ReV. Paul Barringer
with tne paint brush. -
31 .John ."H T Fisher is very
low with consumption
Mr. Alonzo, Biatekwelder has
returned home, from a trip to
"Durham. ,
Miss Kate Coleman has moved
in Iiernew house on East mill
street.
Our team will try to arrange a
game of baseball with the Con-
cord High School next Saturday.
They also have a challenge from
Himtersville team to , play in
Concord at some early date.
Mr. C GHeilig,; since finding
the - rich gofd on his farm, 'has
had some prospecting done and
has.located the true vein. At a
depth of three feet the vein is
tefii inches! bound with slate. He
has a piece of ore weighing
. about 60 pounds which upon be
ing broken open exposed to view
about 20 pennyweights of pure
f?old. . -; ; U . -. ...
Mr. G R P Miller, a former
citizen of Mt. Pleasant, is here
looking after some new buildings
-which are .to go up this spring.
- He will probably move his f am
lly back here.
Good Concert Tonight. . . .
Let's all go to the concert- to
night. "We - should encourage
the United D. C. in their
praiseworthy Effort j to secure
ixmds.-J.or the soldier's home at
' Raleigh.'' Beside, the niusical
treat promises io be welj ;vw. o'rth
the cost. The New Bern Jour
.nal -says of ; its .performance
; there1. ; . 4 ... ;
"The program was an excel
lent one of eight numbers, which
was lengthened by several en
cored t!c' i,k i -", t -i
Miss JJelQXi,. Wrenn's first sa
lection) ppprano N sojo, ;."B6bo
linkj was so well rendered as' to
defnarid an Encore. Miss lVrenn
sang, in", part 'two, a selection
. frorn .Gounod? and ; the Tuzaht
. ' "Serenade, fhich-were splendidly
sun'gi iier entire singing was bf a J
highor4er.'-v-'' ? -' .
; Miss Fpsterpiaycd two. viQlin
. solos, Sarabande, by Bohn, and
the Serentidp . JBodine, which
, showed her playing ability, aj-
though t it is to beuestioned-jf
the two selections gave full dis
play to her. bgSt. work.
Mr. Stevens appeared to 'fine
advantage . in his piano solos,
and in the trios his violin pfay-
ing was very fine, 'his plain
is especially strong in expressive
phrasing.' . . .
Mr. Schloss is noVstranJ?er in
this city andj received a hearty
welcome. His encorehe Ioly
City, was beautifully played, as
V'
parts in the trios."
Mr. J R, Smith is spending
today here with his sister, Mrs.
M L Brown.
A SMALL WRECK.
One of the Wheels of a
Breaks . Doyn But No Damage
Scarcejy Done The Force Incread
at tW Depot--Local News.
Written For The'Standard.
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. China Grove, March 28: Ju1
nius IJospisnow clerking for the
firm of Holshousor,' Coriher &
Co.
- The dedication services wiR be
held at tho Presbyterian church
on Jhe second Sunday inApri.
The young people of China
Grove contemplate haying
drama some tim'e eoon, v
-. For. a long while there has'
been such an amount of business
at the depot that the agent, Mr.
J A Thorn, was not able tokeep
i t up scarcely. But the'eompahy
has sent an additional man here
now to assi.st, the agent during
the day. - Mr. - Hewitt is the
night operator.
' 4 A small wreck occurred here
Monday by one of the wheels of
affreight car breaking down,. It
happened just -before the' train
pulled into China Grove. They
managed to get . the car that
were broken on the sidetrack
and the damage was. small, k The
conductor of the. train got -a
slight bruise.
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The Will Edwards Case Argued Toei
?The case of tho State yfe Will
Edwards, the negro who stands
charged with the murder of
Policeman Kerns, was argued in
the supreme court at Raleigh
Tuesday by Attorney-General
Walser for the State and Col.: P
B Means for Edwardsi-No de
cision has yet been rendered
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He Still Hows-the riaee. ri
!Seyerai months agojwhen 'MrJ
John; Lady of the county ,wij( ap
pointed United, State C?mml$t
sfoner it was tboughii by very
ono::and; even :sg;. :iR!i4fi HW'
himself that Mr.-Lady ould be
tne onlyv comlmissioner and that
Mr JHUl would rieceite afjhbtitfe
tiat.he;jaa longer; heldlthe fioffice
but no paper to that effect has
ever come and Esq. Hill still
holds the'position as well as Mr
no. Lady. L "
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He Has an Automobile - Tv 1
Mr unas. mnaqrniejwnjc(I.nas
charge of tHe railroad tracks in
this divlsiqn, was hre Tuesday
Lwithrhis automobile. It"isthe
same as the railroad .velocipede
of former days with the -exception
that it is equipped Tith a
gasoline engihe, electricity tj)ing
used ta- ignite the gasoline.,! He
makes ' a speed of about vthirty
miles an hour and tinlike the
formefones he 'doesn't xert
himself in tholeast.
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It Seem? Like lears Ao.
Oui farmer; f fri6nd(.Mr."L
Itl Freeze, was.; her' Tuesday
pfeelling 'cottonJ He- wasr-,apry
much rem inJedi oi lla gubd old
Uhayswhen h received for
bale of cotton . $50.5, which
Lilt; Luuov lucv.oav iuub uaa uccu i
paid this year for any one bale of ,
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cotton. The weight of the bale
and the price were both high.
TIIETIUEF FOUND.
Flight CarFchieVIarrlSJVoks Upa Caseof Theft
. andFinds That theegro Is in Jail ou
Another Warrant. .
Three weeks'agc it was known
that some of the furniture and
carpets . of the Presbyterian!
manse ' had been removed .by
Some one and the matter wa&re-
pui luu. wviiiuL ua jtuiiuo udiuw. ivs conQuea xewis Jiarris, a
.The matter was looked into by negro who -assaulted Mijfs Mc
him and the furniture and thejuain yesterday. ; Undet' her
carpets have been fouid in-dif- tdirectioh the mob dragged Har
ferent houses-in New Town be-1 ria .fr0m the cell and led Kim
tween the Can non and Buffalo down the :street ; to & ubigi tree.
J2118 ,'. . I After he had confessed ' they
These people purchased t)ie hanged him, and-;! riddled his
furniture at verv low Drices but
did not harve any idea that there
ii was anything' wrong about the.
niatter as the negro delivered his
gooas,in.aay ume. , . .
. Tho nacro who!sold the croods
turns out1 to be7 Will P6Vell or"
Ben Tuma,-;as he goes by two
namesj and,
ago - on a ' warrant
charging'him with stealing a paif
of shoes. The furniture and(
carpets have 1 all been found'and-
will be placed back. i Among the
furniture that he sold was a nice
sofa and delivered it to the pur j
chaser 'in "day time. 7 H had of j
fered some more of the furhitiire
of ! the manse at a reduced rate.-
purchaser was -expecting to be
gro slipped ay ay from him. The
matter-win ctmie up m tne com
1P?.tmIr;;j'; " Mrl'OW Hbshamer. 'of
T- Sr:a .Foiltlen In tho Central Statesville,-is here today. . i i y
Office, "'"'"r I i'MessfsAte
MisRdsetHarris will begin atLinden,' of Charlotte, are bipre
the central telephone office next ; today., r..t -ryur-fiit v jsn .a;
;Mondayrto. assist ,Mjss Nannie
Archibald,,, who, has .at Present ;
been assisted by her sister, Miss
JL.MKD (UVUlUOlUi AUU ViUAV
be divided by the lady operators
ias they think best. ' ' ' ' e
Death ef Siss Xary Tro; ?luttif.
A private telegram received
here last evening announced th.e
deatlr inaltiQioro at. 7 :30 f p m. ,
of Mary Troy"Kluttz, the daugh
ter of Representative.. Kutti of
the seventh .congressional dis
trict, who , was operated upon
three) ifrfotar weeks ;ago tor?, ap
pecdieitis." It was at first thought
she would reqover, but contin
ued high temperature and pneumonia-
'supervened. , She "' was
raDOut'14 years old and a blight,
sweet girl The body will be
brought to Salisbury, arriving
there, "at 6:40 tomorrow morning.
The inother has been in Balti-
Imorfrprji yiafirst and" near her
davlghtr. Mr. Kluttz hasiv,9n4
hV attention to his congressional
.duties .each .da'y-tmt his spent his-1
nightsin Baltimore since theop
eration. Charlotte Observer of
28th.
The EUdn Times Changing Hands. , m
v -Editor Hubbard .has sold the
Elkin, Times to Re- tT E John
feon,'whb wiH. run it until April
lstijd then he will probably" be
associated mth. Mr. Utley, of
Dayidon county. ,poth the edi
tors jvill then bo BSptisti minis
ters. cfnd th&-future turn of the
paperBnot 'Jcnown whtherifr
will be secular or religious.
. m ,vm w
fe Fooled the Surjreons.
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Periormett; Dut; ne -onreo mmse u inin
Bucklen's Armca Salve, the best in the
woM, - SureBt pile cure on earth 0nly
25c. a box at Fetzer's drug store.
I w I , .K. HbUUW 7, jam M Jl mm j f v w
one-jLWeet: JeffersoQ,. Ohio? after suffer'-. : (Ipnt-rrln Hnmr dditiDJis-.
is 1 eighteen months from rectal fistula, he t ' -
YOUSG LADY HEADED THE MOB .
Lea'ds to Jail and Hangs th'e Brute That
. Assaulted Her.
A Belair, Md. dispjatch, of the
27thsays: '' ' ' ' :' ;; .''."''
,fLas! night, with her disheveled
hair filing andVith a pistol, in
her righfc hand, Miss Annid Mc
Ilwaine led mobt of 200 men in
an attack upon the jail in which
attack on the .jail several shots
-were fired ftn.;'wft rTrifln wnrrf
mounded by the sheriff's;. shots."
.Dr. J.JL For Serionglj I1L'
Staunton. V?, of the th says
ih&t the Rer., JtB Fox, Ph. D.,
the pastor of the - Lutheran
church therein hafs i been seriously
. Tirtl,rtri. . c.rt,r.1-
gV Pnla ' for tBeval
day. On the day (previous ho
had had; a4 nking spell, t when
his life was despaired of,'bufat
the th3ie 0f .-writing i he- was re-
, - Porttfd somewha t better. .
1 PERSONAL POINTERS.
r. iiMr. Jno. lVrcDowell went to
Durham rihst) ;morntag;,on. ,a
v0-oe , , , , . .
Mr. D F Cannott'returned
from, Salisbury this - morning
where he went on account of the
sickness of ijiis little daughter.
She is better. t .
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r v yuu-Atteb Ww. .it ' via:
Kcmkcr - Woolwlne Co.'i
f Celebrated , Chocolates,
aad the finest line of Pay Ooqda orer
brqught to the city. '
:). -. t.b Uif.Si,' ' ''"
.. j California Oranges,
arid a &! assortment of Stick Caadj
. .S. J. Ervin's:
'Phono
Keceivea
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'? . . .v -shens selecting her.
Furniture and Mouse furnishing, at r
a , BELL, HARRIS &COv
Where she has a choice in .
. , i . .... Room Sets from $10.00 tcf $15Q, 00.
Dining Room Sets, Tables, (ht '- s,
Sideboards ;fromO $10.00 to $7: 00.
Hat Jlacks from 10 cents to $25.00.
1 Parlor Furniture from $117.00 to 00.00.
. Ward Robes, Roll Top, "Flat and Ladies'
. pesks from $4.50 to 30.00. .
.You choice from the following list of the
V rA n
do the rest.
Bell,
Residence Phone . . . . 90l
Mi. w . f wrs fz.
I IV.Illll ailU. J. 1 W I. L4X L. X XUllJUtll VUillV Uliu K - TW " .
. Our Hot Drinks are still in
1 uiasc, atia tuey .are rureiy
1 1 fi$ eleRant. We aro also j repared
i , to serve ,
i gW'"' .'.'.
! Cold Drinks, :
i'-A" .. ' fees, Etc.
y SpeciHl ente:!fiinment fbr-th
ladies their popular rort.
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K.Thone 37.'
; Copcord Drug Co;
rifYy11''5' know what
;t V Sample Shoes
are?, Tlijey j are shoes that
the manufacturer makes to
sell the . merchant from.
They, are made witli a great'
deal,; of care, and from the'
Yery.npick' of ,,-the leath.er.
We i-nave' i just landed a
reatt quantity of .. ;, . f .
; Mda's Samples,";
the imajority,-of twhich are
the celebrated make of Geo;
Snow, Boston, Mass. He
is known as oner of the best
manufacturers -of Men's .
Eine . Shoes v in the - whole
easLivThey are in all toes., '
congress and lace. The.
price i will, be i-he smallest
consideration :we never do
things by ihalves. ir i v .
Fine-haTid-se.wed $3,0Q and
$3.50 shoes'will 'go for
' All'of the $2.50 kind for
The $2.25 and $2.00. ones atr
c" : r $1.50. '
1 'There.is (jio-c trash jn the
lot, . everything r is -find
goods; 'Tno sale w.ill "com
mence Thursday mbrning at
9 Q'ClOCK. f;j V ,
;L; Partefi Co.
Kill
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That dost her ' sheep, . says let . them
alone -they . will come home, while
most Uelobratea Uook btoves on tno rnaKov
Harris & Co;
Store 'Phone . . . . 12 j
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