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Q Price :$4.0Q-per year. CONCORD, N. CJ, TdONBAY. DECEMBER 17 1900. -Si-NGLi3 COPY 5 CENTS. TRACiJvDI ri'OX TRAGEDY. A NRROu ESCAPE. .BRITISH TROOPS WORSTED. Twq Negroes Jlurder, a Barber and are Young Lafly Saves Herself, and Stops Mobbed in Indiana, -YouMjf Man Loses Spinning: Frames. II. If !. t A 11.. U!Lin i .ins uu i fl.Su , Misg Fannic sprmkle had a A tnoo at KocKporu, inu., um narrow escape from a horrible up two negroes in the most em-,deatlj Friday afternoou at the .phatic form of mobocracy Sun- Sallsbin.y cotton raillS( and day night. The negroes had nothinff saved her but taain and waylaid a barber,. Hollis- Sim- almost superhuman strength, mons, Saturday night, and hadi M:ssRnr,nklft at wusual beaten him to death and robbed him of his money, about $40. They were put into jail, having blood on their clothes. A blood- work in the mill when her dress caught between the pulleys and spinning f tames. In an instant she braced herself againsii a hound's trail further confirmed and the desperation of the the suspicion.. About 1, 000 fren zied citizens broke the jail and took them out and 'hanged and riddled them with bullets. The situation gave her almost super human strength. By this . very act she saved her life, and at the same time stopped sixteen spin- pnuc.pui uuuu a ning frames and caused -one of implicated the other nnd also a the large beUg -n thQ mm tQ hotel porter, but the proprietor 'd Q . n nliUi 1 VI I T " TT I proveuium au anu. auu -Duj j . vidontial deliver- x him. While the negroes were beat ing Simmons some young men came to aid him but were driven off and Simmons was dead when they could get to him. One of the young men, Walter Evans, was greatly affected when he helped to getthe body of Sim mons homo and on -witnessing the lynching yet lost his mind and is a raving maniac. Mrs. Simmons is prostrate and is in a precarious condition. FIRE IN NORFOLK. "val Construction .Building Burns VlV.i Mauy .Valuable Contents. The olViee of the construction building at the navy yard at Norfolk was destroyed by fire Sunday evening about G o'clock. There wero many important pipers, models, plans and draw ' ings together with $100,000 worth of live oak timber consumed en tailing a loss of $200,000. ance from a horrible death Salisbury Truth- Index. MR. CIIAS. HOLT DEAD. TRAINING SHIP GOES DOWN. Storm Celebes tbc German Ship Gncise neau and Sends Her Down With 100 People. The German training ship Gneisensau was overcome in a storm at Malaga, C5 miles 'from Gibraltar on Sunday and it is believed that 100 or more per sons were drowned, including thn Can tain. Prominent Business Maa r&sscd Away Last! Afternoon. . Mr. Chas. T Holt, the only "sur viving son of the late Governor Thomas M Holt passed away at his home in Haw River yester day afternoon. Death came not unexpectedly, as his health had boon declinig for several months. Mr. Holt was in the prime of life, 42 years of ago. He was a most successful business man and up to the time of his death was the president of throe mills iho Gran "To, the Cora and the Thomas M Holt, Mr. Holt leaves a wiTo and one little daughter only 18 months old, be side three sisters.--Ua'oigh Times. Unexpected Defeat Ju t a Year After That of UulIeVs. ' Great Britain has been humil- I iated by a disaster to her arms; in Sduth Africa. The battle in Magaliesburg was just one year from Gen. Buller's defeat at Co lenso, and is more annoying even than that. The casualties reported by Lord Kitchener himself wore: Killed, 5 officers and 9 men; missing, 18 officers and 555 men. It indicates that the war may drag on for somo.timo and be costly and ruinous still. ! A FRESH LINE OF Nice Candies, ALSO NICE FRESH Summer Cheese AT S. J. EKVTN'S REMEMBER Mint, the Concord Stear L.uirli - Dyu Works tstill have the department of Cleiiflingr and Deicy, and is l-tic-rpre-' pa red than ever 3xi ih.'itfcine Our clean ing is done thoroughly hik! ue .DYE scientifically. OCIJ PRICES ARE 'AS FQTXOWS : Coat & Vest Clean et and rresid $ .75 Pair of I 'ants " .40 Of Whble Hint " 1.00 Aij Overcoat , " " r, tQ i.oo Ladies Skirts ' . " E0 to l.OO Suits Dyed and Pressed 2.50 Pants " "' 1.C0 Skirts " " .?S to 1.5ft Prices on any other articles not mention will be given upoa ap plication. Also remember that 25 per cent, discount is allowed on all Dye work. Give us a trial. s-ssss Concord Steal Lanniir.S D73 Worts, Oar Gold Supply. The largest stock of gold coin and bullion ever held in the United States is now accumulated in the Treasury and its branches. The total has been rising steadly during the whole of the present year, and is how 174,108,366, or about $76,000,000 greater than at the close of 1899. . The gold supply of the country on the last day of 1896 was esti mated at $692, 947, 212. The esti mated amount Nov. 1, 1900, was $1,080,027,107. The Treasury offi- (cialsare confident that the round sum of $475,000,000 in Treasury The Rov E. L. Folk, who has; old will'soou bo attained, and been pastor of the Lutheran that even $500, 0C 0,000 ifc not bo church at Mt. Jackson, Bethel 'yond reasonae expectation. andCrtss Roads- for the past I Financial andOom mercialWorld. ten years, on Sunday iast pre-' ."777. 7 J , . . . 1 . Masonic notice. sentoa rus rosiirnaiion 10 , tno council of the Mt. Jackson cqn- gregotion Takofl the Winston Charge. Cat Made S7 Revolutions a Minute ft.r Two and a Halt Hours. A Maltese cat jumped into a largo flywheel of the Plymouth Refrigerator Company's engine yesterday afternoon. As the en gineer could not very well, stop iud shut olf lights to release the animal, he waited until the usual timo of shutting down. On stop ping the engine ho found the cat alive and clinging to the fly wheel. The wheel is 12 feet in diameter and makes 87 revolu tions a miuuto. Consequently, during two and one half hours the cat covered a distance of about 120 miles. The 'cat lives, and with the exception of lame ness appears none the worse for the experience. Sheboygan, Wis., Dispatch. .' '-'..v . .. ""VfS " cr er c? pr r' rr its I 6sf 4 jJ u0 j 'WW -i? vi?C WWV:,- Xi: .... mm a Ul BARGAINS ! HERE ARE STRIKING HANDKERCHIEF BARGAINS.. Ills Schedule. Being require to give a sched ule of his personal property, a colored citizen in the rural dis trict furnished the following: One wife en 2 bale or cotton. Ono mule blin' in the, off eye en do boy whut plows him. One2-room house wid a shingle roof en a morgage on it. Ono yaller dog, hard of hearin' wid his tail cut off. Ono eaten table, en mighty little ter pufe on it: Two chairs wid seven legs en a half. Ono brass watch that runs on de installment plan. Atlanta Constitution. a a 3 Today lias beon a ood Hand kerchief day tor us and there jl are hundreds here yut. 'Tis the finest fa assortment of hand ffa kerchiefs we've ever w fl fa there is more duali -I trt&MAVS&f M & ty for tlie price. I fa . They are so well jSfefeg ttjl - 0 ft a a a a a fa made, and every little detail that makes hnnd VT- jfc chief goodness correct is to be found in them. jfc From now until Christmas day all 25c. han(!!::;r chiefs go Five for i.oo and we will venture that j you will find a greater variety, and we know Hef- ter quality, here than elsewhere. You can well '..i' (('lit 11 1 l ,, . ..,. aiioru to ouy nanivercnieis now lor luture needs. a a lO, 15 c&ji.cl fS cents. fa ' L possibly the biggest h fered by any house. andkerchief valuch a a a a 6 a " a 3Dox3rtixxoix"t Store. a s ever ot- .- fa fa U& J0 JV '. which was reluct n Special communication ; ' y-' Stokes Lod w No. 32, A. F. Wy a. M., Monday evening, accepted. '1 i-overnd gontl?- Do"fn!)or 1 7th, t 7:20 o"clock t-"! oy.'-n4o loatc fo? prt'i Carolina errly in January, i'jl), Our Church Pap-r. The Rev. called to V ins'' o r. Folic has been th-l chaigej. fall attendance. Vvr. Reece Johxson, Sec. Dec. 15, liJOO. comes but once a year and if you don't get your share it shall not bo our fault. We propose to take Stock Decemoer 2Gth, rain shine, sick or well, and in order to make stock taking as liht as possible we will make you PRICES on all kinds of Furniture, even a Y 5tar Leader Cook Stove, During the past year nineteen million articles were handled in the registered mail by thousands of employes in the postal service and only eighty seven were lost by carelessness, accident or dis- honesty. During the samo'per iod $1,577,500,0000 in Govern-, ment money ws transmitted through tho regular mails and ! not a dollar was lost. These two I facts Speak trumpet-tongucd for; , , , ! , . n ., L 1 do, wo think we uave the hr.si in the w the honesty and effitiency of tho ( 1 1 J -1 GOODS tfcat are arrivingdailv issws and Qbsorvar. and if you want a JE'HJJBJ:. -T niid of ceu re veu I ' .1 ! u . - to ci cci'tain look , can sonplr-h n, ' generally sue- ers are experts in Very often church choir sing i games of We arc yours, wishing 1o 1 e you.' c:..iii;i, too. Orange Observer, cbauts. -Orange Observer,
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