VOL. I.
GREENSBORO, N. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER II, 1897
NO. 37.
Orders for the Following
Will be filled promptly
And with the best
The flarket affords:
Corn 10 cents dozen.
Tender snap beans, 10c peck.
Cabbage, 10 cents head.
Green peas , 5 cents quart.
Turnips, 20 cents peck.
Irish potatoes, 15 to 20c peck.
jSweet potatoes, 15c pk, 50c bu.
Onions, 25 cents peck.
Apples, 10, 15, 20 cents peck.
Pears (cooking) 25 cents peck.
Okra, 5 cents quart.
Tomatoes ,10 cents dozen.
TPumpkins, 5 to 50 cents.
Squash, 10 cents. .
Carrots, 5 cents dozen.
Parsley, 5 cents bunch.
Watermelons, cheap
Lemons, 20 cents dozen.
Bananas, 20 cents dozen.
HENRY HUNTER,
'Phone 41.
Collins' Corner.
Engraved Cards
And Invitations
We are prepared to
furnish samples arid
estimates on
Wedding Invitations,
Visiting Cards,
Letter Heads,
Fancy Seals
And Monograms
... for fine Stationery . .
.We invite you to
call and see sam
ples and obtain our
prices
Before placing your future orders.
W. B. Farrar & Son,
c jv-" ""f Jewelers.
Established 29 years.
Nice Lot of
MAGNUM BONUM
APPLES
For Tonight.
J. HENRY PHIPPS.
.100 Ashboro street.
'Phone 24
OneCenl a- Word
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Advertisements inserted in this column at
one cent per word for each insertion.
jEe THE MEN'S $5 PATENT
leather shoes J. M. Hendrix & Co.
are selling for $3.50. They are up to
date. t .
FTON TOBACCO BEATS
- ALL.
THEM
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A CARD TO MY FRIENDS AND
Patrons: Owing to the continued
illness of my wife I am forced to tem
porarily suspend my residence and
practice in1 the city of Greensboro and
will for a time reside with her at
Charlottesville, Va. Will return to
mv hrvmft and nractice as soon as my
wife's condition of health will justify
my doing so. xours very smcereiy,
J. Elmer Dellinger, M. D.
Greensboro, Sept. 5, e897.
JW. V AWT Eli., the great house
mover and raiser of Salem, is do
insr work in the city. If you have any
work in his line addresshim through the
postofflce. s4-lw
B
oarf, AND NICELY FURNISH-
oA wintns in urivate familv. $2.75
per week; room alone, $i per weeK;
t&11 Q11 itjad for vounsr married courle:
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location in good neighborhood; come
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quick. Address irt, xeiegram omce.
TnTT DRINK PLEASURE AND
health in our Star Pepsin Phos
phate, 5c. glass. Try it.
RICHARDSON FARISS,
s8-5t ( Prescriptionists.
wTrtf VOTT WANT A GOOD
piece of tobacco call for ynup
nwanAwn VTSTTTNG CARDS
and wedding invitations at low
prices. Samples an be seen uy vll-
injr. , JOS. J. DTUWJi)
Job Printer.
Odd Fellows Building. - :
CHUB TOBACCO For sale by How
ard Gardner, -druggist, corner op
posite postoffice. .1
THE ASSASSIN'S BALL FIRED
By ; the Hand That Had
Sworn to Protect Her,
A HUSBAND'S UNNATURAL DEED.
A Rockingham County Tragedy That
Has Thrown the Community
Into Consternation.
J. L. Barham. a farmer of Rnnkino"-
ham county, who sold tobacco today
at the Farmers' Warehouse, brings
the distressing newi of a horrible in
cident that occurred near Geneva,
Rockingham county, Thursday after-
UUUH.
It is a shocking story of a defense
less woman murdered by the hand of
her own husband he who swore to
protect her in sickness and in health.
The facts as related to us by Mr.
Barham are substantially these: Geo.
Craier. a farmer livmer on what is
known as the Cornelius Williams
place, walked into the room where his
wife lay on a bed of sickness Thurs
day afternoon, picked up a revolver
and shot her as deliberately as if she
had been a beef. She was lying on
the bed with her face turned toward
the door and spoke to her husband as
lie. entered the room. His reply was a
ball from the revolver held in his
hand.
The ball entered the unfortunate wo
man's abdomen and caused excrutiat-
ing,paih. She suffered untold agony
until yesterday mornimr, when the
summons of death came as a great re
lief. ' '
No earthly "reason can be assigned
for this rash and unnatural deed, on
the- part of Craig, unless it be insanity,
and he has always appeared to be a
man of sound, mind. So far as is
known the relations between he and
his murdered wife have always been
pleasant, no family .disturbance of
ahyS kind having ever marred the
-peace of their home. ;
After " he had shot his wife Craig
seemed to ' lament the terrible affair
and attempted to take his own life, but
the pistol was taken from him by some
of the neighbors who had arrived. Af
ter this he procured a knife and at
tempted to qut his throat, but was
again thwarted, in his purpose.
The occurrence has naturally thrown
a pall over the entire community- and
the people are greatly excited over the
ghastly deed. Up to this morning
Craig had not been arrested; but was
held under surveilance by the neigh
bors. The only cause that can be assigned
for the rash deed is, that it was com
mitted in lit of insanity.
Mr. Craig is a man of about SOyears
of age, and is, in fairly good circum
stances. He is what is known among
the farmers as a "good liver," and
therefore the sad affair cannot be at
tributed to any business troubles.
He has several children, some of
whom are grown, one daughter being
married.
Mr. Craig formerly lived a few miles
north of Greensboro, from which place
he moved to Rockingham county sev
eral years ago.
Talked Wiih the 'Voice."
A Journal reporter, accompanied by
Chief Teague and a Sentinel man, call
ed upon the negro boy who claims to be
possessed of a "voice," yesterday af
ternoon. The boy, whose name is Geo.
Adams, is about 15 yeas old, and is a
full-blooded negro. He is accompan
ied by his father and another colored
man, whose name is Dixon, and they
all hail from Orangeburg, S. C.
The father says they first discovered
the voice over two years aero, during
a severe illness of the boy. When it
first appeared it told them it was a
spirit from Gloryland and was called
Josephine, and said it had come to
warn- people of the wrath to come.
The Journal reporter took his seat
near the boy and at once "Josephine"
began to converse with him. She told
the scribe his name, that he was a mar
ried man, but had no children, all of
which is true. She refused to say how
long he had been married, saying that
was an umimportant question. After
bidding the Journal man good day she
communed with the Sentinel reporter,
telling him a number of things about
himself, and failed only once to give
correct answers to all the questions
asked.
The presence Of the "voice" is rather
mystifying, but the truth about the
matter is, the boy is a born ventrilo
quist, and can so control his voice as
to make it appear to be in his stomach
in place of in his throat. There is no
movement of his lips, and nothing that
he does would indicate that he was do
ing the talking, but there is no other
solution of the "mystery," and this is
unquestionably the proper one. Win
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POINTS FROM HIGH POINT.
Personal and Local Affairs Briefly
Mentioned.
Telegram Bureau, )
High Point, N.C., Sept. 11, '97. f
Cards will be out -in a few days an
nouncing the marriage of Mr. J. J.
Turner, of Concord, and Miss Clyde
Henderson, of Mooresville.
Mr. Turner is well known here, hav
ing represented the Provident Savings
Life Insurance Company in this place
for several months.
There will be no services at the
churches of the city Sunday. This
was thought best by the pastors, so as
to give all an opportunity to attend
the meeting at the warehouse.
Mr. J. W. Sechrest has completed
the "little red school house" to be
used in the procession; next Friday.
The condition of Mrs. L. B. Horney
is improved. 4
Mr. C. C. McAlister, of Asheboro,
was registered at Jarrell's yesterday.
Mr. Edwin Walker, of Florida, is in
the city to-day on business
DIVINE SERVICES.
Where You Can Spend a Quiet Hour
Worshiping God.
METHODIST.
West Market. J. H. Weaver,
pastor. Preaching at 11 a. m. and
8 p. m. . by the pastor- Sunday School
9:20 a. m. P. P. Claxton, Superintend?
ent. Epworth League devotional ser
vices Monday evening at 8:20. Prayer
meeting Wednesday evening at 8:15.
All cordially invited to these services.
Centenary. Rev. J. E. Gay, pas
tor. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 8 p.
m.' by the pastor. Sunday School
at 3 p. m. B. E. Smithy Superintend
ent. All cordially invited to attend
these services.
METHODIST PROTETANT.
Grace. Rev. J. F. McCulloch, pas
tor. Preaching at 11 a. m. by the pas
tor and 8:15 p. m. by Rev. W. L. Gris
som. Sunday School 9:45 a. m. J. Nor
man Wills Superintendent. Junior
meeting at 4 p. m.
BAPTIST.
West Washington Street.- Rev.
Livingston Johnson, pastor. Preach
ing at ii a. m. ana at, e p. m.
by the . pastor. Morning subject:
,'The Greatest Poper in the Universe."
Evening. subject: "Drive out the Ca-
naanites." Sunday School at 9:30 a.
m. ii. .w. .tirooKs, supermienaeni.
Strangers always welcome.
Cherry Street. North Greens
boro. Rev. G. L. Merrill, nastor.
Preaching at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.
Sunday School at 9:30 a. m. W. F.
Clarida, superintendent.
PRESBYTERIAN.
Westminster Rev. S.O. Hall, pas
tor. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 8 p.
m. by the i pastor. Sunday School at
9:45 a. m. E. P. Wharton, Superin
tendent.
First. Dr. J. Henry and Rev. Eg
bert W. Smith, D. D., pastors. Preach
ing at 10:30 a. m. by Rev. Dr. J. Henry
Smith and at 8 p. m. by Rev. Dr Eg
bert W. Smith. Sunday School at
11:40 a. m. S. A. Kerr,' Super
intendent. Christian Endeavor meeting
at 7:15 p. m. Public invited. At night
Rev. E. W. Smith will preach the fourth
sermon of the series on "Character."
This Year's Pensions.
Washington, Sept. 9. The annual
report of the Auditor of the Interior
Department - shows that the " amount
paid for pensions during the last year
was $140,477,636. The payments on
pensions account for the fiscal year,
1896, was $138,722,127, and for the fis
cal yaar 1895, $140,558,641; 1894, $137,
119,551, and for 1893, $154,552,214.
The cost of the service last year was
$3.99 per 1,000. for 1896, $4.07; for
1895, $4.00; for 1894, $3.77; and for
1893, $3.35.
There are now 1,100 children in "at
tendance on the Charlotte graded
schools.
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TELEGRAPHICJpR TODAY
News Bulletins Packed
for Want of Space.
THE HAZELTON, PENN., HORROR.
Miners at Columbus Benham Must
Hang-Steamships Collider-Fire
in Paris Off for Cuba.
The miners in convention at Colum-
bns to-day rejected
the 65 cents per
ton offered by operators
Fraud is
charged in the vote. I
Benham, the wife poisoner, was re
fused a new trial, and will be hanged
the first week in November.
British Steamer Poliphetus, from
Yokohama to London, was damaged
in a collision, and
burned'.
27 of her crew
Ex-Senator White
confined at his home
tack of pleurisy.
of California, is
with a sudden at-
General Pondo writes from Madrid
to Cuban deputies and senators asking
them to fix the responsibility for the
present policy upon j.ts-promoters.
A schooner left Carrabelle this
morning at daybreak, carrying 30
Cubans, and arms for the insurgents.
It is thought a transfer will be made
at sea.
London bankers d4ny that the Bank
of England will agree to keep one-fifth
of its reserve in silver as reported.
Definite statement will be made at the
next meeting of directors.
A fire in the publication department
of the Hatchet, in Paris, did a damage
of a million francs tliis morning.
The Tramp of Troops at Hazelton.
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By Wire to Thk Telegram.
Hazelton, Pa., Sept. II. The state
militia, every man with a loaded rifle
and a gleaming bayonet, ready for
any sort of work they may be called
upon to do, are on guard today at the
little mining village of Latimer and
about all the surrounding mines'.
The Ninth regiment of Wilkesbarre
arrived early this morning and it is
expected that the rest of the third
brigade, numbering in all about twenty-five
hundred men, will be in posses
sion of this city1 and the neighboring
mining villages this afternoon.
The brigade is commanded by Gen.
Gobin, who was recently elected com
mander-in-chief of the Grand Army of
the Republic. The .action of the Gov
ernor in ordering out troops is in re
sponse to a telegram
citizens of Hazelton.
of citizens, who are
connected with the
from the leading
A mass meeting
not in any way
coal trade, was
held last night and passed resolutions
strongly denouncing the shooting of
miners and protesting against sending
troops to the grounds. The meeting
further declared that! the troops are
not needed and demanded that the
sheriff and deputies who shot the
miners be prosecuted.
Indignation is at fever heat and the
sheriff's lame explanation of the trag
edy is everywhere received - with ex
pressions of incredulity aud disgust.
The official report of the affair gives
nineteen killed and forty-one wounded.
Eleven were instantly killed, four died
during the night, and four this morn
ing. ' j
Yesterday's Ball Games.
Washington 9, Cleveland 4.
Brooklyn 11, Cincinnati 5.
Boston 10, St. Louis 9.
Philadelphia 6, Chicago 8.
New York 2, Pittsburg 2.
Baltimore , Louisville 5.
STANDING OP THE CLUBS.
Clubs. Won. Lost. P. C.
Baltimore . 80 . 33 .708
Boston 82 35 .701
New .York..... 75 40 .652.
Cincinnati 65 48 .575
Cleveland 57 59 . .491
Washington... 53 61 .465
Chicago,.. 53 64 .453
Brooklyn..... 52 65 ' ?444
Philadelphia . . 51 66 .436
Pittsburg...... 49 65 - .430
Louisville..... 49 68 .419
St. Louis . 27 89 .233
HAS THE RIGHT NAflE.
The New York World's Agent Behind
the Bars. : ' '
. Some days ago a . fellow bearing the
rather strange cognomen of Jason C.
Boozer struck town.
He represented
himself as being the authorized agent
of the New York Wor
d, and seeming-
ly was in a position td
offer some rare
bargains to prospective dealers in the
aDove named journal
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He offered to
sell 100 copies of the World for $1.25,:
which is cheaper than ihey cah be pur
chased in New York.
He seemed to have a. special fond
ness for "coffin varnish," as will be
shown later on in this
story. Yeste.r-
day evening just before 7 o'clock this
same "boozy" Boozer sauntered into
The Telegram officd . and tried to
tempt the conscientious city editor and
the sober foreman with some of his
"booze," of which he had a bottle
about half full.
But to go back ti the beginning.
About three nights ago a five gallon
keg of wine was stolen from the South
ern's transfer depot. Yesterday it was
found .hidden by the side of J. L. King
& Co.'s tobacco factory, and suspicion
was aroused against Boozer. The po
lice kept quiet and this morning suc
ceeded in working up enough evidence
to arrest the suspected! thief. Officers
Scott and Jeffries madi the arrest, and
Boozer is now in the "cooler" awaiting
his trial before the mayor-
It can also be proven that he carried
a concealed weapon, and it is more than
probable that two cases will be made
out against him.
Meeting of Sunday School Workers.
There will be a meeting of Sunday
School Workers at West Market
Street M. E. church Siinday, Sept. 12,
Sut 4 p. m., to consider holding a coun
ty convention this fall. '
J. R. Mendenhall,
Pres. County Convention.
THE MARKETS.
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Closing Quotations by Private Wire
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Mess.H.W.Silsby& Co., commission
brokers, furnish us with the following
closing quotations of the New York
Stock exchange and theiChicago Board
of Trade: . ;
The following are the closing quota-
of the New York Stock
Exchange:
New York, Sept
11, 1897.
American tobacco.
.-. ........ 83i
Atch., Top. & Santa
Fe 35i
B. and O
C. and O
.... 25
Chic, Bur
and Quincy 101
Chic.XLas
... 105i
Del., Lack, and Western
Delaware and Hudson.
Am. spirits . ,
Dist'r and cattle feed. .
Erie
General Electric
38i
97i
61i
111
39i
128
Jersey Central
Louisville and Nashvi
le.
Lake Shore
Manhattan Elevated . . .
Missouri and Pacific. . . ,
Northwestern
Northern Pacific Pr.
National Lead
New York Central
1121
27t
96
37t
ion
155
34i
Pacific Mail
Reading :. .
Rock Island
Southern Railway.....
Southern Railway Pr.
St. Paul... .........
Sugar Trust....
Tenn. Coal & Iron.
Texas Pacific r
U. S. Leather Preferred 71
Western Union Tel.
96i
231
Wabash Preferred..
The following are the closing quota
tions of the Chicago Board of Trade
Chicago, Sept. 11, 1897.
Wheat, Dec
95i
964
95
31i
304
35i
19
21
231
820
820
827
425
437
445
520
522
477
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May.. . .
Corn, Dec
Sept
Oct.
" May....
Oats, Sept
" Dec
" May
Pork, Sept.
" Oct
" Dec
Lard, Sept. . . . . .....
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Ribs, Sept. . . . .
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Cotton, Bept. . . . . t . .
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" Feb.
. .698
...681
...675
...676
,..681
Puts, 941. Calls, 9-fl
Curb,
I LL PRICES,. ANP. STYLES. OJT.
Standard Sewing. Machines at ,
tf. ; VWIngate BROS,
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IRLS WANTED AT JSJNrxuxwi
Mill.- Apply, at once. ..,. si.u
B. L.-RUBEN,
The Artistic
Has on hand a full line of
Imported Woolens
Of all the latest styles prevailing for
this season. The public will do well to
call and examine my goods before plac
ing orders elsewhere. Remember that
I guarantee everything
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First-class - -At
very low prices.
Cleaning, Repairing and Dyeing
. Done at short notice. .
B.L.RUBEN.
Merchant TAiiios.
116 South Elm St Benbow Bl'dg.
Supply
fountain Syringes,
Atomizers, Etc.,
Just Received.
HOWARD GARDNER'S
Corner Opposite jost. Office.
Bristles in Your Teeth
Are Unpleasant and
Dangerous to Throats.
Buy our warranted 25, 35 and 50-cent
Tooth Brushes, without fear of shed
ding. , :. . ' . . ..
Our supply " .
Hair, Nail and Cloth Brushes
Is now complete.
Bring your prescriptions for careful
filling.
Richardson & Fariss.
. Prescriptionists.
22 Ward's
Store
Where you will find a
fulljine of Drugs and
Druggists Sundries.
Also a line of fine
Cigars, Smoking and
Chewing Tobacco.
All the Cold Soda Drinks.
You Can Buy
Two pounds of Arbuckle's, Levering
or Lyon Coffee for 25 cents. We -will
also sell for a few days two
pounds of Princess Coffee for
25 cents and give you a nice
Tea or Table Spoon
. With each pound. Try Old 400 '
Moca and Java at 30c pound.
Nothing1 better sold. Give
us your orders for any
thing you may want in
Groceries and Produce.
We will treat you right
VUNCANON & CO
Reliable Grocers.
528 South Elm St. - 'Phone No. 2.
DO NOT TRIFLE
... With, Your Eyes .
And do not let any one
else do it for. you. If
they fail you in any way,
consult at onee a
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Competent
And Reliable
Specialist.
J. T. Johnson, the
Greensboro Eye Specialist
Is always at his iost, and
will be glad to give, you .
any information needed. -
K. of P. Building, 225 S. Elm St.
Examination Free.
Satisfaction Guaranteed.
OFFICE HOURS: 8:00 a m to 12:30
m.; 2:00 to o-00 p. m.
w. b.; beach am;
Architect and Builder,
..Plans and Specifications
- Furnished on Application.
Office : Odd Fellows' Building, up stairs. . .
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