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Oreeesboro Tele venue VOL. I. NO. 125. GREENSBORO, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1897. Price Two Cents Just Received gram. Genuine Florida Oranges, Extra Fancy Ripe Ba nanas, New Crop Mixed Nuts, p Florida Kid-Glove Tan gerines,!" :- n Cluster flalaga Grapes, Catawba Basket Grapes JjThese Goods are Fresh and of Extra Qualit. ANDREWS. The Leading Confectioner. Opposite K. of P. Building. mi A. r ( 1 -a IT r, 'Tis Useless TO Look Further When We Can Supply Your Wants . i In the Most Pleasing And "Dainty Novelties to Gladden the Heart and Cause the Wish Of Many Happy Returns of The Season. Your Presence is Requested by W B Farrar & Son Jewelers Established 1868. I Have Secured a First Class Cook, and am fullj prepared to serve the good people of Greensboro. Remember I only cater to the best trade. Central Cafe, E. n. GRADY, Manager. USE Tar Heel Cough Syrup and Stop That Cough. Trial Bottle Free, at Asheboro Slreet Pharmacy, Geo W Kestler & Son, Props W G Porter, Manager We Have Two Barrels HOMEMADE KRAUT AT 15 Cts. GALLON. Send us your Orders, for anything you want. We will fill it at the LOWEST PRICES. VUNCANON & CO., Reliable Grocers. South Elm St. 'Phone No. 2. When Out for Your Christmas Shopping call and examine our Holiday Goods We may aid you in settling the Gift Question. Gaston W. Ward Druggist. RUN OVER BY A TRAIN? Man Found by the Tracks Be yond the Coal Chute. TERRIBLE WOUNDS IN HIS HEAD He Was Found About Three O'Clock This MorningJ-Small Chance of Recovery. Acting- on a rumor a Telegram re porter rode out beyond the coal chutes, a half mile, this morning, where he found lying in the home of Albert Griffin one Henry Jackson, supposed to have been run over by a train some time during the early morning. He was lying on a pallet on the floor where he had been placed when found. About half past three this morning Andy Wyrick and John Duckworth, who work at Pomona Nurseries, were going home from the city when they found Jackson LYING BY THE TRACKS of the Southern, just in front of Grif fin's home. A gallon jug, nearly full of whiskey, was setting about six feet away. It was not overturned, but seemed to have been set down care fully. The Telegram reporter ex amined the gi'ound where Jackson was found. His head, as shown by the blood, hadlain squarely against the rail- and between the crossties. He had bled profusely after the accident. It is not known whether he was struck by a train coming into or going out of Greensboro, or, indeed, whether he was struck by a train at all. His face was turned toward the south when found and if stimck by a train it was probably ah incoming one. It is diffi cult to see, however, how he could have FALLEN NEAR i the track if-struck squarely. He was probably sitting down on or near the rail. The ground showed no evidences of a struggle having taken place and there was no bloodexcept where the bodyjhad lain. This showed clearly that he had -not moved after receiving the blow. HIS WOUNDS are horrible in appearance. One is on his forehead just-above the eye and is several inches long. The most serious one, however, is on the back of the head where the -skull is proba bly fractured. He had bled much after being placed on the pallet. The reporter saw him shortly before eleven o'clock and the blood had not been washed from his face and he had re ceived no medical attention whatever. He was . i BREATHING STERTOROUSLY and was unconscious. It was not known whether he had received any I injuries other than those on the head. Dr. Ledbetter, the county physician, i had been called to see him about 7 : o'clock this morning and after a cur sory examination had ordered him removed to the poor house, as Griffin declined to keep him. While the re porter was at the house a wagon came in which he was to be hauled. The re porter was asked about the matter and gave it as hisopijnthatif the attempt was made to move him he would die before the poor house . was reached. Thereupon his brother-in-law, Joe Barbee, declined to move him. There porter returned to the city and phoned Mr. Boren, president of the board of county commissioners, and also saw , Dr. Ledbetter, who went to dress his j wounds. He had been nine hours with- j out medical attention. Griffin told the reporter that he -would care for the man if the county would pay him for the trouble. This is the arrangement that will probably be made. The Telegram-had secured a surgeon to at tend Jackson at once, but after seeing the county physician, the mat ter was dropped. . Jackson has the appearance of being about 35 years of age. He has been twice married and HAS ONE CHILD, a little boy who lives with his grand mother at Hill Top, some five miles from Greensboro. His relatives are poor people and are not able to give him proper attention. Dr. Brooks .very generously offered to have the sufferer cared for at Astley-Cooper hospital for the bare expenses of the treatment. i JENNINGS' VERSION. William Jennings, who figured in the Ryan case, says that he was with Jackson last night and that both were drunk. He tried to persuade Jackson to accompany him toward Pomona, but the latter refused and setting his jug down stood still near the main track o? the Southern. He left Jackson standing and walked on about 100 yards when he met a train going toward Greensboro. This was about 11 o'clock and was the belated local passenger from the south. He did not see the train strike Jackson and did not see him again last night. WOUNDS -DRESSED. About two o'clock Drs. Ledbetter and Broadnax went out to dress Jack son's wounds. They claim in expla nation of the delay that the patient had not rallied sufficiently to stand the necessary operation. The chances of recovery for the patient are very small. " Masonic Officers Elected. At a regular communication .of Greensboro Lodge, No. 76, A. P. and A. M., the following officers were elected: Henry C. Berger, W. M.; J.W. Mil ler, S. W.; C. B. Bray, J. W.; H. H. Cartland, Jr.;W.T. Gay le, Secretary; Wm. G. Crutchfield, S. D.; Jos. J. Stone. J. D. ( Holiday German. The Crocail Club will open holiday festivities with one of its always en joyable germans at Bogart's Hall this evening. The Greensboro Orchestra, composed of some of the best young musical talent of the town, will fur nish the music. Reidsvllle Trips It. Special to The Telegram. Reidsville, Dec. 24. The young peo ple of this city are preparing for a swell german tonight. Arrangements have been made to secure music from Danville, and besides the local danc ers there will be a number of guests here from other towns. War in Egypt. By Cable to Thu Telegram. Cairo, Dec. 24. The dervishes have left Shendy and Metemeh and are marching against the Anglo-Egyptian forces. Berber is their objective point. .Him a : r v. 3 'MM;- - ( CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENTS. At West Market, Westminster and Centenary. The annual Christmas holiday en tertainments were held last night at West Market and Centenary, Metho dist, and Westminster, Presbyterian. As usual these entertainments were largely attended, the churches being packed. At West Market both the main auditorium and the Sunday School room were required to accom modate the crowd. There were songs, recitations, etc., by the children, and all were given a present by Santa Claus, who was on hand to the delight of the little folks. Italy Takes a Hand. By Cable to Tub Telegram. Rome, Dec. 24. The Cabinet today decided to send squadron war ships to Chinese waters. To Cure a Cold in One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab lets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure, 25c. WORKMEN BLOWN TO ATOMS Explosion Follows Explosion in Gas Works. NUMBER KILLED STILL UNKNOWN Buildings Wrecked For Blocks Around Ruins Being Searched For Missing Workmen. By Wire To The Telegram. Jersey City, Dec. 24. Explosion followed explosion at the works of the Acetylene Gas Company where one hundred persons were employed at 9:30 this morning. The manufacturers of the gas have been making some ex periments, during one of which one of the immense tanks exploded, 'destroy ing part of the buildings and setting off explosions of the other tanks. Workmen were blown in all directions and many were injured. The shock was felt . throughout . the city. . The volunteer corps is searching for the missing workmen unaccounted for. Many of the buildings in the vicinity were wrecked. All the police could do was to keep back the crowds among whom were ( the wives of the workmen. Among j those in the building at the time of the explosion were Max Grim, Fred Burr, , Fritz Epzal, Charles White, Engineer Foller. Grim was blowii through a window and his mangled body was picked up several hundred feet away. Foller who was also killed, was found in the ruins. All the rest were seri ously injured. The number of miss ing is unknown. The Cake Walk. One of the features of the Carnival next week will be a cake walk. Mrs. Allen and Mrs. Osborn have this in charge, which is a guarantee that it will be something good. They will be assisted by some of our popular young people who know how to entertain, whether on the stage or in the parlor it's all one and the same. Don't miss this new and novel feature. It's worth the money. PERSONNEL OP THE ORCHESTRA. i j The following compose the Brock- mann orchestra: -: Director Chas. J. Brockmann. j Violin Miss Elsie Weatherly, Z.V. Taylor, W. M. Ridenhour, Mr. Law- son, Frank Woodroffe, M. B. Shrier. Viola Bob Glenn, Jr. f j Viblincello Appleton Staples. Double Bass Ney,Forbis. Clarinet Norman Staples, Richard Crawford. Oboe J. M. Rosenblatt. -Bassoon Frank Boyles. Flute E. S. Willis. Cornet A. H. Alderman, Claude Elam. Horn J. H. Wheeler, M. S. Sher wood. J Trombone J. M. Reece. Actor Terrlss' Will. By Cable to The Telegram. London, Dec. 24. It is estimated in the probate papers filed today that Actor Terriss was worth nearly 50,000. Nine Men Drowned. By Cable to The Telegram. London, Dec. 24 A boat containing nine stevedores, while proceeding to a steamer in the Thames today, cap sized and the men were drowned. To Cure a Cold in One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab lets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. 25c. copYKieMr no? CHRISTflAS ADVICE may be wasted, as it is only the wise that profit by other people's experien. but we will give it for what it is worth. You will get more real satisfaction, comfort and wear out of one suit of custom tailor-made clothing than you wlH out of twenty ready-made suits. Why not? What is a tailor for ? To fit every curve, rem-' edy every defect of figure, have your collar lay just so, and give you the style of a gentle man. We do it every time. B. L. RUBEN, Merchant Tailor, 118 South Elm Street-Benbow Building. Will Be Absent Christmas Week. I shall be out of the 'city from De cember 2oth to Januarv 3rd. T XT 7 ill i-r -TV tT --ARrtJ-v lin 4- 4-lA Z T. 4. of the 24th of Pecember, and will open ' it airain Mondav morm" no-. .TannaVv 3rd. " . - " J. T. JOHNSON, The Eye Specialist, M. P. Publishing House 302i South Elm Street OFFICE HOURS:. .8:30 a m to 12:30 tn.; 2:00 to 530 p. m. facts Worth Studying. If the Southern Stock-Mutual pays no larger . dividends than the 20 per cent, now paid, and the business in creases during the next seven years in the same ratio it has increased during the last three years, the actual saving for the ten years to policy-holders in North and South Carolina will be $194,822.00, and to the policy-holders in Greensboro alone, $26,237.00. Be sides this the Company's assets (rein surance reserve and surplus) repre sented by still larger figures will be kept at home and invested in the state. What better investment can the public make than by upholding an institu tion tike this r WHARTON & Mc A LISTER. AGENTS. Teller Hand Made 25 in a Box For $1.00. Howard Gardner, Druggist. Corner Opposite i-ost .Office. Holiday Goods. 1 have just opened a pretty line of holiday goods please call. Nothing better for chapped hands than Marshmallow Txtion. tlolton's Drug Store, McAdoo House Building,
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