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VOL. IX. NO. 39.
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Price Five Cents,
SMOKE
DOOLEY's
BEST
5 Cent Cigar.
RELIABLE VALUE.
UNION MADE.
SPECIAL NOTICES
All advertisements under this bead 5
cents per line; no advertisement inserted
for less than 15 cents.
YOUR WIFE WON'T OBJECT TO
your smoking a Dooley's Best 5 Cent
Cigar.
LOST BLACK WATER SPANIEL
Long curly ears. Reward if left at
GUILFORD HOTEL. It
FOR RENT HANDSOME S-ROOM
residence on Summit avenue. City
water on premises. Bath room
range and other modern convenien
ces. Apply to Mrs. P. G. W., at 110
North Davie street. jl4-lwtf
FOR SALE CHEAP ONE GOOD
tool box with a good line of Carpen
ter's tools. GREENSBORO TABLE
COMPANY. jl4-3t
UPHOLSTERING AND REPAIRING
neatly and promptly done. Mattress
es renovated or refilled. Work guar
anteed. Best city references. J.
J. NICHOLS, 112 Lewis street, lm
CANVASSERS' WANTED IN EACH
locality for reputable book; former
experience unnecessary; liberal com
missions. Write at once for infor
mation and territory. PORTSMOUTH
SUBSCRIPTION BOOK AGENCY,
Kirn Building, Portsmouth, Va. jl36t
WE HAVE HAD EXTRAORDINARY
large sales of matting this season;
just can't get it here as fast as we
can sell it, but have just secured one
more very desirable lot to sell at 25
and 30 cents per yard. Also just
put on sale some beauties in Mo
quette rus,in the $1, ?2.25 and $3.50
sizes. TljACKER & BROCKMANN.
WE WONDER WHICH YOTJ WlLL
like the best the mantels or the
price, both are unusuaL' Almost
like government bonds, at half price.
Take a look at thenf, 'it Is a pleasure
to show them. M'CLA-MROCH BRO
THERS, the low priced mantel and
fire-place people. Phone 161.
FOR RENT OFFICE, 331 SOUTH
Elm street, now occupied by Greens
boro Loan and Turst Company. Oc
cupancy given about July 1. Apply
to L. RICHARDSON DRUG CO. lwtf
TURKISH BATHS MAY BE HAD
every Saturday afternoon or even
ing at 407 LIthia street. Price 50
cents. m23-tf
CALL PHONE 161 IF YrOUR LIGHTS
do not give good service, and we will
attend to your wants. Mantels of all
kinds from 5 cents each up. Genu
ine Welsbach, first quality complete
only $1. GATE CITY SUPPLY CO.
217 South Elm street. Phone 161.
MOSQUITO CANOPIES AND PORCH
Screens for sale cheap at M'DUF
FIE'S FURNITURE STORE.
AINTI
MALARIA
SURE CURE
AND PREVENT
ATIVE OF
GH I LLS
GUARANTEED.
50 CENTS A BOX.
Sykes Drug Co
Ward's Old Stand.
3
1SYKES
1 CAPSULES
3
2Z2f
right's
Epsom
Water
The strongest
Epsom Water
in America
Pleasant to the taste
Agreeable to the Stomach
J. A Summers,
Proprietor,
Mooresburg, Tenru
Howard Gardner,
Gity Agent
IE
GREEN SNAPS, 30 CENTS GALLON:
new potatoes 30 cents gallon at HI
ATT & LAMB'S, No. 512 South Elm.
Out of the Light.
Communicated.
Out of thel ight and into the gloom
We all may be ushered soon
Better to prepare at the dawn of life
Than to await the approach of eter
nal night.
Through death's shadow we are com
pelled to go
For the Great Creator has decreed it
so
Accept salvation as it offered to you.
Then you will fear no evil but walk
boldly thro'.
A soul that on Jesus doeth rely
Shall rise with rejoicing to meet
Him in the sky,
When beyond earth's attraction will be
happy and free,
As did the children of Israel when
they had grossed the Red Sea.
ByXvilliam H. T. Powell.
Presidential Love Affairs.
One married abroad.
One married a divorced;rwoman.
Cleveland was oldest married at
49.
Threet presidents were twice mar
ried. Four married clergymen's daugh
ters. Three became engaged while at
school.
Johnson was married at 18.
Mr?. Cleveland was the only White
Hous? bride.
Tyler s wife was 35 years younger
than himself.
Dolly Madison was the youngest
presidential wife.
The Automobile Line.
Merely to show what an unlikely
story the article published in the Wed
nesday morning papers concerning an
automobile line for Greensboro is, the
following facts are given. An auto
mobile sufficiently large to carry the
number of passengers mentioned, twenty-five,
would weigh several tons, and
about the time it got out on Walker
avenue in winter, it would be in mud
up to the hubs. In addition to this,
it i3 a fact that Edison's storage bat
tery has never been put on the mar
ket, and the likelihood is that it will
not be put there in the next year.
Have it in for Greensboro.
The Winston people seem to have it
in fcr Greensboro. Only a few days
ago a report was sent out from there
that ?.n automobile line was to be es
tablished here, and yesterday an ac
court of Dr. E. W. Smith's marrying
a sixteen-year-old runaway girl was
printed. The automobile line is a fake,
and Dr. Smith says he doesn't marry
sixteen-year-old runaway girls.
ourt AdJourn8'
Court adiourned this afternoon and
J Judge Council will probably leave for
his home tonight. 'ne aujumuiucui
is ecv soon because of the death of
Sudge Council's father-in-law.
TUT
DEATH 111 A MULBERRY TREE.
LIVE WIRE ENDS CHILDREN'S PLAT
WITH TRAGEDY.
Charles P. Musson, Eleven Years Old, In
stantly Killed by Electric Railway Feed
Wire.
In the presence of his little sister.
Charles P. Munson, the eleven-year-old
son of Poynton W. Musson, a- letter
carrier, living at 3401N street north
west, was electrocuted while picking
mulberries about 10:45 o'clock yester
day morning, near the home of his
grandfather, Mr. C. E. Cornwell, at
Harlem, west of Georgetown. There
was a family reunion in progress at
the grandfather's house, and young
Musson accompanied his moth , fath
er, and other relatives to the place
early in the day. With his sister Ma
bel, eight years old, the lad went to
the mulberry tree soon after they ar
rived at Harlem and the little girl was
on the ground picking up the mulber
ries thrown by her brother when the
accident occurred.
Harlem is on the line of the Great
Falls Electric Railroad, a short dis
tance west of the Foxhall road. The
wire which carried the deadly current
passes through the upper branches
of the large mulberry tree. It is a
"feed wire" and heavily charged, so as
to supply current at various points
along the railway, which does a large
excursion business at this season of
the year. Until yesterday little or no
attention was paid to the wire which
is supposed to be insulated and would
not be noticed under ordinary circum
stances. The tree must have been
swayed by the wind, and the branches
rubbing against the wire removed the
insulation.
Young Musson probably came in
contact with the bare copper of the
cable at one of these worn points and
the entire voltage passed through his
body, producing instant death. He
did not utter a sound. The boy had
just thrown a number of mulberries
to the ground and his sister was gath
ering them. All at once she noticed
that no berries fell, and, glancing up
ward, she saw the rigid form of he.
brother caught in several limbs. He
did not move. She called several times,
but received no response. She thought
he was trying to tease her and climbed
upon the fence to touch his foot. She
then noticed a long scar on her broth
er's forehead, and, without knowing
exactly what had happened, ran to the,
house to notify the family.
Mrs. E. B. Douglas, an aunt; Frank
Calvin, of Catletts, Va., and Mr. Dyer,
the latter two being painters employe!
in the neighborhood, ran to the tree
and lifted the body of the lad to the
ground. Life was then extinct. Oth
er members of the family continued the
feast, which was being served in honor
of the twenty-first birthday of one of
Mr. Cornwell's sons, and gathered
around the still form. The mother
at first thought her son had only suf
fered a sun stroke, and was about to
apply water to revive him, when she
o-pened his little hand and saw two
deep wounds extending to the bon.
The imprint of the wire was easily seen
on the boy's hand and forehead.
From the position of his body when
found it appears that his head touched
the wire first, and that he received the
wound on the right hand while trying
to extricate himself.
Sergt. Hess was notified and sent a
message to the coroner, who permit
ted the body to be removed to the city
by Undertaker Wise. The remains
are now at the home of the parents of
the deceased. An inquest will be held
at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning at the
Seventh precinct police station. The
funeral will take place at Oak Hill
Cemetery at 2 o'clock tomorrow after
noon and services will probably be
held in the cemetery chapel. The boy
attended the third grade at Addison
School, and was an exceedingly bright
little fellow. His father has been a
letter carrier about thirteen years. Ma
ny neighbors and friends called at the
O street house last night and expressed
sympathy with the parents, who were
prostrated by the tragedy.
During the afternoon employes of
the railroad company visited the scene
of the accident and rewrapped the fa
tal wire. Coroner Nevitt started aa
investigation, which was still under
way last night. He visited Harlem
and studied the situation of the trea
and its relative location to the wire3
and tracks of the railway.
THE COIIVEIITIOH ADJOURNS.
MR. W. A. HEMPHJLL IS ELECTED
PRESIDENT.
A Committee Will Investigate the Nic
araguan Canal and Report to the Next
Meeting, Which Will Be Convened in
Memphis.
By Wire to The Telegram.
Philadelphia, Pa., June 14. The
Southern Industrial Convention ad
journed this afternoon after electing
W. A. Memphill president, vice Hard
grove resigned. Senator Morgan, of
Alabama, was made chairman of . a
committee of senators of each South
ern state to investigate the Nicara
guan Canal and report to the next meet
ing at Memphis in December. The
tariff revision will be investigated.
MILLION DOLLAR FIRE.
Wet Baden Spring Hotel Goes
up in Smoke.
By Wire to The Telegram.
Chicago, June 14. A long distance
telephone message from French Lick
Springs, Indiana, says: West Baden
Baden Mineral Springs hotel near here,
was destroyed by fire this morning at
1 o'clock. The guests of the hotel are
r.ow streaming into this place in their
night clothes, having walked here in
tare feet. When the fire got foothold
it spread like a powder flash. Every
thing was destroyed. The guests could
not save even their clothing. Th;
scene was one of wildest excitement.
Women rushed to the balconies which
surrounded the hotel on all sides and
jumped to the ground. Those who oc
cupied inside rooms rushed down
stairs. Many were trampled under foot
cr almost choked by the smoke, and
many tainted in the excitement.
The hotel contained 700 rooms. Near
ly all the leading fighters trained there.
No lives were lost, though many had
narrow escapes. The owners had just
refused a million dollars for the ho
tel.
OUR NEW POSSESSIONS.
Great Work for the Preacher
and the Teacher in These
Islands
Nashville American.
There are in Porto Rico, Hawaii,anu
the Philippines a total of about $7,
000,000 Catholics. There are over 10,
000,000 Catholics in the United States.
The Total number of Catholics under
the' Amercian flag is in the neighbor
hool of l$,W0,000--more 4han :twice
the membership of any other church.
There are about 1,500,000- Catholics in
Cuba. The Catholic Church in Cuba,
Porto Rico, and the Philippines is a
very different thing from what it is in
this country. There the policy of the
priesthood has been set to keep the
people in ignorance. With a large
per cent of the population the church is
not popular and its influence is not
strong. The cause of this seems to
be the conduct of the Spanish priest
hood, who ruled through fear and ig
norance. The Catholic religion is per
haps best adapted to the Filipino and
the Cuban, and that religion, in any
event, will always be strong among
them. But there is also opportunity,
an inviting field, for Protestant work
ers in those islands. Under the chan
ged conditions Protestantism, which
never had a foohold before, which was
not even heard of, will find plenty of
material to work on. The Catholic
church will also be improved; there
will be higher order of priesthood; it
it to be hoped, and a disposition to edu
cate and enlighten the natives. The
schoolmaster will strengthen Chris
tianity in those islands, and this gov
ernment will see to it that th school
master is provided. Those island have
been under Spanish and Catholic con
trol for over three centuries, and be
hold their condition! They will ad
vance and improve more in a decade
of American rule than they did in the
centuries of jtheir previous history.
There is a great work in those isands.
Patience is unraveled hope.
Even a small barber can be called
a strapping fellow.
You can't always tell just what
bound to happen to a fool till some
thing else does.
Probably the greatest pleasure most
of the women will get in tfeaven -will
b& hanging over the walls watching
jtb,e men in the other j?lace rubber.
: Opportune
I Bargains.
This sea
of the year ladies buy
more Corsets than at any
other time. We offer
you the opportunity of
buying a new Corset at
Half Price. About
250 of the following
well known makes : R.
& G., Dr. Warner's and
Thompson's Glove Fit
ting, now on sale at our
store and remember we
are selling them at half
price.
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These Corsets will not be
sgnt out on trial, but
exchanged or monev re
funded if not satisfac
tory. In Luck.
Scotland received ten millions
from her illustrious son, Car
negie. We would like to be able,
to do as much for the people of
this town; since it is impossible
we can do the next best thing by
giving values no better than the
best, but better than the rest.
We have some special values we
&re offering in Soaps.
FARISvS
r u g Store.
Harvard Student Killed at a
Fire.
Cambridge, Mass., June 1. H. S.
Bigelow, of Buffalo, a freshman at Har
vard, was . instantly killed by a chemi
cal engine of the Cambridge fire de
partment tonight. A fire was found
among a pile of boards near the Har
ard architectural building by one of
the Harvard professors. An alarm
was sent in, but before the firemen re
sponded Profs. Hollis and the students
had put out the fire.
The alarm caused the undergradua
tes to assemble, and as the firemen
drove up there was much jeering. The
chemical engine was very late, and the
crowd hooted the men. The accident
is described differently, the firemen,
claiming that the horses on the engine
became frightened at the howling
crowd and dashed forward, scattering;
the crowd. The students claim that;
the driver, John Dowlis, deliberately
drove his engine into the crowd of
students. Bigelow was caught under
the wheels, and other students were
knocked down, but only one had any
injury to speak of. As soon as th9
students realized what had happened
they made a wild demonstration. But
cool heads maintained control and the
firemen were allowed to return to their
stations.
mutual Life Takes Female
Risks
New York, June 12. For some time
past the Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany of New York has been making: no
distinction between male and female
risks. It now insures women whose
applications show them to be desirable
risks on exactly the same, terms as men
More than that, hereafter the sexes
3re to etand on an equality in getting
employment in all ; the offices of the
company.
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