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"P k roK : $4. City per year? UNCORD, N. U TUESDAY. AUG. G, 1902. SlNGLH COPY 5 CENTS : v n it J.J c I 1 - s 4P E(JKO fXNCHED. Jits Victim Will l'fobabiy Die -Confesses Ilk Awnil Crime. A Lagrange, JST. C, special "of the 25th to the Charlotte Obser ver says: " . . "Tom Jones, the negro who 'last week cruelly assaulted; Mrs. Smith neaf Seven Springs, was hanged and riddled with .bullets about 10 o'clock this morning by a crowd of eight or ten persons, who appeared to be negroes. "Last night between 10 o'clock and daylight, Jones was caught coming out of a pocosin, where he had been concealed, on the Kenansville roadf .about eight miles from Seven Springs. . He CONCQUD'S OAKMYAL WEEK. September litb to. 20th Shows lo be Clean and Moral Sojne Free Features. Concord is to have a gala or carnival week, embfacing the thjrd vfreek in, September. The contract was signed on the 25th by Mayor M Ft Stickley, and Messrs. W C Correll. J F Hurley and M U Caldwell on the part of our citizens and-by Mr. Jacob Edmonds on the part of the Cin cinati Carnival Company. It is expressly stipulated that there shall be no gambling con nected with it and that it shall be clean and moral. , The company bears all. ex penses and pays all damages FAST MAIL WRECKED. A Tramp Fatally and Othen Less Seri ous! Injured iu au.Accitlent on the S&uthern. Toccoa, Ga., Aug. 25. The fast mail on the Southern Rail way, south-bound, was waveked this" morning by an open switch, near "Harbin's, S. C. The entire train, except the sleepers, turn ed over, but none of the pas sengers were hurt. Engineer Henry FjusLa,. of Atlanta, was severely but not fatally injured, ' and d, tramp, who was stealing a ride, was fatally hurt, Slight injuries were sustained by Fire man .Chas. S Swan, of Atlanta, ! Mail Clerks N E Lowenthal, W When You Get ,B3ck ' 1 From Your Vacation You'll Probably be in Needn't New Shoes. A Dasrnal. of Toccoa: JR Anjrlin was captured by a posse from that may be done to the streets j Gr j- Three .uupiin county auu at once cuuUj iue eiauuu ui icuw, uuutus, fessed his crime. He was brought etc., but J it is to have the- excld before his victim, who identified sive right tb -all shows, , etc., him and showed the razor he during the time. . The company stole fro'm her house. He" was pays no privilege taxes-and.it, tVioti rrvn f? rmrl tn a ham ftv.nri ' fiVAS thft), town. rt,pn:;TlAr -rnfc f i which he was taken about lo'the proceeds from all- entrance ; - ''"!. ! switches near the scene of the wreck, were found to have; been tamperedwith, intentionally, it is believed.1 ' An- attempt ' is be ing made: to r capture the sup- o'clock this morning by eight or . fees to its exhibits and -enter-- Offeodeif Writes to Officer Bcv ten persons, who appeared to be tainments. The company will! Mr. J L Boger, Concord's effi negroes, hung to a tree and rid dled with bullets. Mrs. Smith, the yictim, is not expected, to live. One eye is. nearly out and her face terribly lacerated, and her jaw broken in several places. A later report says that the negro was not hanged but was carried to a tramway and riddled with bullets, but both affirm his death. Albert Dawson, also colored, is being hunted for a similar crime, committed Saturday night at Falling Creek, a station be tween LaGrange and Kinston, on the Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad. His victim is a colored girl." Another dispatch from Golds borosays Tom Jones, alias Frank Smith, was shot to death and that the jury of inquest justified the lynchiug.'saying that citizens woud have been recreant to duty to have acted otherwise. not pay the town aBy per cent cientand popular police officers on minor means of profit. j received a letter to-day from Al There are to be some free Colbert, colored at Lynchburg features, such' as Stanley, the say ing that if ho had a -warrant higher diver, jubilee singers, etc. for him he would not be able to serve it for he was going to, St. Louis and would not return to Concord, and to tell his mother that he is well. Al is a notorious bad character Meeting For Exchange May. A number of citizens mst in the parlor of the St. Cloud Mon-; day night in response to thd call with reference to exchange day..' Mr. J F Hurley was elected chairman and J D Barrier was made secretary. Mr. G W Fisher was asked to explain the object of the meet- and as long as he stays that far out west the officers will not try to capture him. Lunatic Steals n (jilrl. Macon, Ga., Aug. 23. With a ing. He said it was to appoint drawn pistol in hand, James I suitable committees for the neces-iTindall sn-id to b; an escaped 'elr Economical IIe?tiuff Devise. are displaying a neat but simple little heating devise in the "court house lot that is a very economic equipment and places within reach of moderata livers about all that is eti joyed by thbse who can have the genuine furnace. It is a systeinofpipes fitted into a fire place, making a complete sary arrangements and adver- lunatic from the sanitarium at tising the gala period called Ex-'Milledgeville, entered the homo change Day, or by whatever of L A Roach in Wilkinson coun name might be chosen, the ob- 'ty and carried off Agnes Roach, ject being to serve the public a fifteen-year-old girl1 The kid with a convenient time and way napping was accomplished while to sell what was not needed by . roach was absent from home, owners to those iu want of the1 At last accounts Tindall had not same, to rent, exchange andjreturnod. Ho drove off with the transact all business desired by 'girl, goiti' in the direction of busjness men and' for a 5ocial Macon. Messrs. Smoak and Faushce gathering to the socially inclined. He fafvored the postponement of More of ihe Sham Warfare. Nqw the game of war is to be e a sham attack on the entrance to Long Island sound. The opera tions are to include the placing thought it practical and mow f du yyrpoe, antl every thing as in war. Observations the day till Thursday, the 16th , . betWGen the army and lh. day. of October. He thought the nayy The laUer js tQ mako fl propos?d carnival week unfaror-! , orvi Qitanh. n tha 0tra fr, propos able to the exchange day feature. Others took a contrary view and Let us remind you a grain that we have -studied the shoe question. We have studied the wants and needs of our customers, and we have gptten together as strong, a line of Shoes as you will find anywhere. Fit Well. Look Well. Wear Well. We buy shoes with these three essential points always in our mind and a trial will convinceiyou that we are entitled to our claim. ' .. Headquarters for Fine Shoes. Our Four Leaders: Jas. Mean's Shoes for Mn, Vici, Velour, Box Calft all !styles, flrice ' 2.50 W. Ii: Dduglas' Union Made Shoes, none better, ' v Vici, Pat. Vici,' . 3.00 and 3.50 Geo. O; Snow Shoe's, Vici, Velour,,! Box Calf . and. guaranteed Pat Leathers, 2.50 to 4. 00 Packard Fields Correct Shape," Vici, Box ' Calf; Pat-Vici and guaranteed Pat. Colt, 3.50 o . 60O Are you. hard to fit ? Have you a very, low instep ? Have you a broad foot ? We are prepared to fit the most peculiar feet in easy comfortable Shoes. . If you wear Parks and Co. s Shoes stop at any time and get them shined free. (7, 37 FURN j y For tliis season of the year our trade never was bet ter. 1 he reason is very plain. Concord is on a boom and the dear people must have Furniture, and if you wil gin; us just a minute by the watch we will convince you that we are equal to the demand. Car lots for spot cash is our way of buying. A liv ing profit our way of selling. No trouble to trade come and see. Bell & Harris Furniture Gomp j . promising of success durincar nival week. grate throughwhich hot water I To this end, on motion to this can be sent to the other, rooms (effect, the chairman appointed of the house, thus healing all; Messrs. H L Parks, J E Smoot the rooms with the fuel used to and J D Barrier a committee to heat one room. Mr. Smoak is confer and co-operate with the a Wilkes county man and this is' citizens' committee to mature his own invention which he used plans for the exchange feature in his own home last winter. It during carnival week. The meet seems to be one of the inventions ing then adjourned. that will be of very material ben-' On Sunday next,- August Blbt, etit to the public. iRev, Geo. HCox,' D. D., of Or ! gan chnrcrx, will preacn a special Subscribe for the Standard sermon to young men. will be taken and decisions wil be made "Recording Jp certain rules to show whether the at. tacking force vduld prdbably ha ye been successful or unsuc 5 in one of our handsome White iron Beds,, on one of our comfortable BEP SPRINGS and you'll feel Refreshed and rad for a hard days work Vicious Crimtl!j a &sro. La Grange, N. C, 4U Albert Dawson, a colored mgji, working for DempeytlLVood at Palling Creek, committed an as sault on a colored girl-near a ff tobacco pack house Saturday evening, be has fled. Complete Stock of Bed Room Furniture.
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