North Carolina Newspapers

A WAIL OF DISTRESS COMES FROM STORM • RIDDEN TERRITORY Continued Rains Increase Suffer ing ot People on Mobile Bay. Over 500 are Homeless on Donphis Island with Scant Shelter. Appeal for Aid. Negroes Arrested while Looting Wrecked Houses. Creoles in Danger ot Starvation. Need Clothing. Men and Women Forced to Wear Coffee Sacks. Mobile, Ala., Oct. 1. —The heav> rain storm is greatly interfering with the railroad and telegraph companies. It is feared too, it will cause an in crease of suffering and some deaths along the coast of the south end of Mobile Bay. . Many people are homeless in tnat section and are living in the woods, with a scanty supply of provisions. On Dauphis Island there are 500 people homeless, with only three small buildings in which they can obtain shelter. Additional supplies . were sent to day. While there is suffering in Mobile proper, there is urgent need at man) points on the southern part of the bay, and assistance for these people will be gratefully received. Arrests were made at some of the lower coast resorts of negroes caught looting the wrecked houses and addi tional details of militia will be sent to Coden and other points nearby to protect the property. Word has been received that 20 or 30 Creoles on Mon Louis Island are destitute and in imminent danger of starvation. Next to food the great need is for clothing. Men and women in some places have been reduced to wearing coffee sacks. The suffering has been intense at Bayou, La Batre. Members of the relief committee re ported that they were followed through the street by little children who were crying and begging piteous ly for bread. Rain Works Havoc. The heavy rain continued through the day and caused great loss and dis comfort. By noon the total precipi tation was close to four inches. Streams of water are pouring into the city hospital. .The Federal building is drenched, and Mayor Lyons wore his hat in the office to keep off the water. Business men are almost in despair, many declaring that,a continuation ot rain would utterly destroy their goods. Much suffering is expected down the bay, where 2,000 people are home less and destitute. 1 4 Dead —Many Missing. New Orleans, La., October 1. —Four- teen dead and as many missing is the result of Thursday's hurricane in the vicinity of New Orleans. Twelve were drowned in the Mississippi Sound, two killed in interior towns of the Southern Mississippi and more than a dozen fishermen are reported missing In the delta region of the Mississippi river, south of the city. JILTED AND LANDED IN CELL. Cincinnati Man Charged With Rob bing Girl Who Refused Him. Cinnati, 0., Sept. 29. —William Keo ugh started out this morning with the intention of getting married. He got as far in this direction as Fifth t-treet and Central avenue. Events took a#turn, and the incidents that followed landed tbe luckless young nan in a cell at the Central police station. The first of the untoward events was the refusal of the bride-elect to proceed any further, because she had changed her mind and concluded not t.o marry. Arguments by the bride groom-elect were of no avail, and then, according to the young woman's fltory, he grabbed her purse and ran.] She screamed, and two police officers! pursued and captured him. At headquarters Keough was iden t:fied as a soldier of the Fourth Reg iment, who had trouble about some revolvers. Miss Parker said she decided not to marry the man because she be came possessed of a fear that all was not right. WOMAN SCALDED TO DEATH. Deluged With Boiling Catsup From a Broken Factory Pipe. Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 29. —Betty Honican, a young woman employed at the plant of the T. A. Snider Catsup Company, was fatally scalded this af ternoon with boiling catsup. While working at a table, an overhead pipe, used to carry the hot fluid ma£s from the large vats, burst, and she was de luged by the stream that issued forth. Its force was such that she was knock ed to the floor and saturated with the boiling compound before she could be rescued. The unfortunate young woman was taken to the city hospital, where it was stated she could only live a few hours. CASTOR IA POT Infants and Children. The Kind You Haw Always Bought ; Signature of f The Chew that's Sweet and Cleanl I No wohder SCHNAPPS is popular—if s the chewing | Mki tobacco that suits the man who chews to get enjoy-1 ment from the tobacco, instead of the mere habit of I JfesSf chewing and expectorating SCHNAPPS is made from choiue selections of the | well .matured, thoroughly cured Piedmont Ica£, 1 Wrnk with an aroma so delightful and appetizing that | it popularized the chewing of tobacco. There's 1 no other tobacco in the world that requires and I takes so little sweetening. ™ : f That's what makes the . difference between I IfMIIPIM SCHNAPPS and the-many excessively sweetened I ijniitations—rand it's such a difference that once a 1 chewer chews SCHNAPPS, he is never deceived 1 taSli with any imitation. wT /. '«*W '»*/•»*,• ** *« a _ B| The sweet, tasty and exhilarating quality of I SCHNAPPS tobacco has made the Reynolds factory 1 famous as the manufacturers of the best and mdst | popular brands of chewing tobacco, and as the largest I and t>est equipped flat plug factories in the world. 1 They contain every modern appliance for producing | the best chewing tobacco, by clean, sanitary and 1 healthful processes. The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco 1 " Company is under the direction of the same men 1 |Dlp who have managed it since 1875, and who have 1 1 made the chewing tobacco business a life-study. 1 IL J. REY^O^COJC&^^ ROCK HILL SCHOOLS. Growing Larger Every Year —Home From Abroad—Personal and So- i cial. v Rock Hill. S. C., Oct. I.—The Misses Shersefee from Charleston are visit ing at Capt. W. L. Roddey's. They use to live here, but they have been away seven years. They were surprised at the rapid growth of Rock Hill, so many pretty new homes and the business like appearance of everything. Mrs. Dupree of Davidson is visiting her daughter Mrs. W. L. Lingle on E. Main street. Miss Maggie Anderson entertained the D. A. R.'s last Saturday evening. It was the first meeting since spring, as the club suspended for the summer. ■ It was a meeting of much interest, j All the D. A. R. s of the city were | present. Mrs. A. R. Smith gave a very delight- j ful lunch last Friday in honor of Mrs. Frances Jones of Charleston, who is ! the Regent of the Rebecca North Chapter of Charleston. 1 Mrs. Jones gave a beautiful talk on her work in the chapter,, which was much enjoyed by the ladies. Quite a number of our young men left last week for Columbia where they will enter the University of South Carolina. f Rock Hill is congratulating herself 'on her beautiful new shoe store kept by T. A. Moore and Herbert Diehl. She was sadly in need of just such a store. Donnelly & Hatfield minstrels are to appear here this week. They are said to be fine. It is seldom that he have anything good here in that lir.o, that when we do, the people turn mt in large numhbers. The public schools in Rock Hill are Slowing larger every year. This year there are 700 children attending the public schools. The schools here can Doast of as good a system of grad ed schools and well managed as any other towns in the state. In addition to these 700 there will perhaps be 50 or 75 boys in the Catawba Male Academy. Then the State institution, grand old Winthrop, with liei>soo students, quite a number of them inside in Rock Hill. Mrs. Clareuce Brattm of Palistine, Texas, is in the city for a short visit to her sister Mrs. H. M. Saudifer. Mrs. Brattm's many friends here are glad to welcome her again. She was for merly Mrs. Laura Seay Watts. ! SIOO Reward, SIOO. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a con stitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, directly upon the blood and mucus surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the. founda tion of the disease, and giving the pati ent strength by building up the consti tutional and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative power that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it. fails to cure. Send for lif.t of testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Tol edo ,0. Sold by all Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constip ation. When a bachelor wants to make a married man angry all he has to do is whistle the wedding march. Nothing to Fear. ..Mothers need have no hestitancy in continuing to give Chamberlain's Ccugh Remedy to their little ones, as it contains absolutelyy nothing injuri ous. 1 his remedy is not only perfect- I lyy safe to give small children, but; is a medicine of great worth and merit. It has a world wide reputation for its cures of coughs, colds and croup and can always be relied upon. For sale b' Shuford Drug Co. ■ J .-''-'- i. ■' » KISS THE POPE'S HAND. Pope Receives 50 Saliors from Ameri can Warships With Cordiality. Rome, Italy, September 2S. —The Pope received HO sailors from the American warships now at Naples. The Pope gave each of the men his hand to kiss and delivered a short ad dress urging the sailors to be loyal to their religion and country. The Pon tiff bestowed the apostolic benediction on the saliors and caused each to be presented with a souvenir medal. The Pope was heartily cheered by. the vis itors. Reach an Agreement. Ncrfolk, Sept. 2S. —The officials ot the Seaboard Air Line announce that a satisfactory settlement has been leached but the actual increase of wages will not be known until a computation had been made under the agreement for "two miles" over the increase. The conductors seem entirely satisfied. Superintendent Hix said he had heard of no demands for increased wages by either train men or carmen. Off for Target Grounds. Bv Associated Press. Oyster Bay, Sept. 28. —The Presi dent left on the Mayflower at 11 this morning for Provincetown. He will reach the target grounds tomor row morning and spend six hours on the battleship Missouri, witnessing the training exercises and target practice of the North Atlantic fleet. TOTAL DAMAGE $200,000. of Cleveland News Ruined. Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 28 ••-The fire which followed the destroy ed the building occupied by the Pitts burg Plate Glass Company. Water ruined the press room of the Cleve land News. The total damage is $200,000. Letter to Thcs. Marlow. Dear Sir: We shall feel oblighed if you write us how you came-out on your first few jobs Devoe, as to gallons ex pected and-used. Take Job A. You made your price, expecting to use 25 gallons Devoe, and used 15. Job B. You expected to use 15 and used 10. And tell us what paint you had used before.. Of course, you judge Devoe by what/ you have used before. Here's how a few came-out. M A Thomas, painter, Lynchburg, Va writes: My first job with Devoe, I esti mated 37 gallons; it took 25. Since then I have used nothing else. C B Edwards', Raleigh, N C, had used 30 gallons paste paint on his house, and bought 30 gallons Devoe; A E Glenn, his painter, said it wouldn't be enough. Had 36 gallons left. Mayor W W Carroll, Florida, writes: Painter estimated 35 gallons for my house; took 20 gallons Devoe. Gilmore & Davis Co, contractors and painters, Tallahassee, Florida, say 2 gallons Devoe «spreads as far as 3 of any other painl they know, and covers better. S A Bullard, painter, Sanford, Flor ida, estimated 50 grallons for Odd Fel lows and Masonic Halls; they took 29 Devoe. Jones & Rogers, Merkel, Texas, esti mated 10 gallons Devoe for Mr Pratt's house and bought 5 gallons for first coat; it painted two coats. Erb-Sprjngall Co, Saa Antoajo, Tex as. paintey two houses same size for D J Woodward, of lead-and-oil, the ether Devoe. Devoe cost Sl2 less for paint a*d labor. Tom Masey's painter, Walnut Springs, Texas, estimated for his house 10 gallons Devoe; he had 4 left. You see how it goes..., Even the bes: painters can t guess little enough ai first. Yours truly e a.derh@2xkbflas,d(:e k'.nßc P F W DEVOE & CO. P. S. F B Ingold sells our paint. FRET'S VERMIFUGE N 1» the same good, old-fashioned medicine that has saved the lives of little children for the past 60 years. It is a medicine made to cure. It has never been known to faiL If your child is sick get a bottle of FREY'S VERMIFUGE A FINE TONIC FOR CHILDREN Do not take a substitute. If your druggist does not keep it, send twenty-five cents in stamps to S3. S. FRET Baltimore, Hd. and a bottle will be mailed you. INVADER SPLITTING ZION. I ——— New Prophet Wins 300 Dowie Follow ers and Alarms Voliva. Chicago, Sept. 28. —A new leader has arisen in Zion City. He is Chis. F. Parham. evangelist of the Apostolic Faith, -which has 5,000 followers in Kansas and California. He lias won several hundred Zion followers. General Overseer Voliva has held a special meeting to see if prompt measures cannot be taken against the proselyter. "You must choose either me or this intruder, who has stolen into our church," said Voliva. Meanwhile, at the home of John Clarr, nearby, 300 followers of Dowie were shouting allegiance to Parham. The latter has won A. F. Lee, general ecclesiastical secretary of the church. PREST. SEES TARGET PRACTICE. President Aboard Mayflower Joined Battleships of North Atlantic Squad ron. Barnstable, Mass., Sept. 29. —The Mayflower, with the President aboard joined the six battleships of the North Atlantic squadron at 8 o'clock this morning and preparation was at once begun for target practice. 25 Persons Dead. Pensacola, Fla., September 29.-25 persons are dead as the result of the storm. Pensacola. Sept. 29. —Fort Mcßae is wiped out. The naval station is great ly damaged. Number of lives lost. Several naval vessels were sunk. Nine teen foreign vessels are on the beach. One liundred other crafts are wrecked. Wounds, Bruises and Burns. By applying an antiseptic dressing to 1 wounds, bruises, burns and like injur ies before inflammation sets in, they may be healed without maturation and in about one-third the time required by the old treatment. This is the great est discovery and triumph of modern surgery. Chamberlain's Pain Balm acts on this same principle. It is an antiseptic and when applied to such in juries, causes them to heal very quick ly. It also any danger of blood poison ing. Keep a bottle of blood poisoning. Keep a bottle of Pain Balm in your home and it will save you time and money, not to mention the inconveni ence and suffering such injuries entail. For sale by Shufcrd Drug Co. The most important events in the average man's life are his birth and death. ) An Awful Cough Cured. "Two years ago our little girl had a touch of pneumonia, which left her with an awful cough. She had spells of coughing, just like one with the whooping cough and some thought she would not get welll at all. We got bo.' tie of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, which acted like a charm. She stop ped coughing and got stout and fat," writes Mrs. Ora Bussard, Brubaker, 111. This remedy is for sale by Shuford Drug Co. - - • DISASTER WROUGHT BY BIG GULF STORM New Orleans, Sept. 29. —The ac counts of the magnitude of Thurs day's storm in Mississippi became more serious as the interrupted tele graphic communication with that State is resumed in every direction. Town after town in the interior wired here that buildings were blown down, lives endangered and the crops blown flat in the fields. , Simultaneously there arrived the enumeration of an almost unbroken line of wreckage of shipping on the Gulf Coast in the direction of Mo bile. Steamers coming up the Mississippi report great quantities of wreckage, but no Joss of life. Disastrous Cyclone Washington, Sept. 29. —The navy aepartment has received the follow ing from the commandant at >the i J ensacola navy yard, dated Thurs day: "A destructive cyclone occurred list • night. The sea covered the r.avy yard. The damage afloat and ashore is great, 'iwo hundred refu gees are at the hospital." Terrific Storm. The military secretary received a telegram from Fort Morgan, Mobile Lsrbor, dated yesterday, saying: "This post was swept by a terrific storm, the entire post having been under water. Every building is seri ously damaged, some destroyed com pletely, including the pumping sta tion which furrtishgd the water sup ply, the ordnance" store house, quar termaster store house, two primary stations with instruments, quarter master's dock and the main water No casualties are so far as lnown." Three Were Drowned. Horn Island light house on the Mississippi sound was swept in the sea. Keeper Capt. Johnson, his wife and daughter being drowned. The schooner Daisy was wrecked on Horn Island and one of the crew was lost Capt. Barker and three others were rescued. ] Condition in Mobile. '■ i Mobile, Sept. 29.—Business has par- i tially resumed. The city authorities ' are clearing the streets as rapidly as possible. Street cars are expected to 1 resume service Sunday night. 3 The telegraph companies are still out of business, the wires being down J in every direction. At Coden, Ala., c only one house is left in the little town The Mobile and Ohio are main- j taining a partial service, buti has no • wires nearer than Whitaker, seven 5 miles out. Great Damage to Cotton. * Hattiesburg, Miss., suffered $300,- 000 from the wind and water. Brookhaven reports that an engine and caboose, the latter carrying a theatrical troupe, ran into a washout on the Mississippi Central Railroad near town. The engine and tender dropped into a hole made by the washout and five trainmen were in jured, three perhaps fatally. Many Mississippi reports express apprehension about the rural negro population, saying their little cabins have been blown down by scores. All reports agree that the damage to the cotton crop will be 20 to 25 per cent, the most serious result of the storm in Mississippi. J AN UNUSUAL OPERATION. Piecte of Wood Removed From the Cheek Bone After 15 Years. 1 Ashevllle. Sept. 28.—An operation of an unusual nature was performed yes- 1 terday at Clarance Barker Memorial Hospital, Biltmore. Porter A. Webb, assistant baggae master of the South ern Railway here, fell down a flight of stairs when he was a child and the cheek bone at a point directly under the eye struck on the steps. A deep gash was the result, and when the wound healed it left a large scar. About live vears later the scar was torn open in an accilent at Weaver ville. It 'soon healed, but from that time a small lump was felt under the lower eyelid. Recently it began to be painful, and (lie lump got larger so that Mr. Webb went to the hospital where it was found that a small chip of wood was lying against the cheek bone. This was removed and looked, like a green piece freshly cut from a tree. It was, as a matter of fact, at least five, and possibly fifteen years since the piece entered the cbeek. Sick Headache Cured. Sick headache is caused by derange ment of the stomach and bv indiges tion. Chamberlain's Stomach and Liv er Tablets correct these disorders and effect a cure.» By taking these tablets as soon as the first indication of the disease appears, the attack may be warded off. For sale by Shuford Drug Co. Missiouri Lawyers Meet. St. Joseph, Mo., September 28. — Not ed lawyers and jurists from every sec tion of the state are gathering here for the annual meeting of the Missouri Bar Association, which will be in ses sion two days. The feature of the opening day was the annual address of the president. R. F. Walker of St. Louis. Eugene Ware of Topeka, deliv ers the annual address before the association and another eminent jurist on the programme for an address is Judge Wiley of the United States court in China, who is to discuss the administration of justice in the Phil ippines. CHILDREN CRY FO FLETCHE R'S CASTOR St. Louis, Sept. 29.—Tony Faust, one of the most widely known restaurant men in the United States, died at Wies baden at the. age of 70. OASTORIA. Beara the /} Tto Kind Yoii Have Alway" Bought nHPi mil 1 pASTORIA yyw^»irg j m M For Infants and Children CASTO ifWI Ttie Kind You Have RpSgydM Always Bought A\£getable PreparationforAs- |fifl 0 similating ttieFood andßegula- B ' m ting the Stomachs andßowels of ■ jjggjtg jjja # a „ —tTTI Signature Promotes Digestion, Cheerfu- ■ / |/ lip nessandßestCoritains neither S A f wL jf •1^ Opium,Morphme norMineraL J9 01 #l\ IK# HOT IVAR C OTIC* ■ fiWlr J&dpe afOhlLrSAKUELPtTGHER jjfl 11/\" Ifamphut Seed'" , 3 Alf ■ - 4lx. Senna * I iffl _ /txtuiu.uu- I « - m. I_ r If\ ijr» in wht».w- I I 11 \J I / i Hop A perfect Remedy for Constipb* ?B | lj A' UvC fion, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea: HI ly Worms .Convulsions, Feverish-, jfl t wg P Atf A. |n nessand LOSSOFSLEEP. « LOL UVUI facsimile Signature op H Thirty Years . J C ASTORIA TW WWWW M»WW. NOW »OW OITV. Grover Personal News. Grover, September 29. —Mrs. J. C. Keeter who has been in town about a month, visiting her sons D. J. Keeter and T. L. Keeter, has gone to Salis bury on a short visit. Mrs. and Mrs. A. J. Goforth of Blacksburg, were in town shopping yesterday. Miss Ethel Keeter came home this afternoon to spend Sturday and Sun day with her parents. Mr. Ed Hardin and his bride came in this morning from Washington. They will be in town several days vis iting relatives. Mr. G. P. Turner returned today from Richmond, where he spent a few days on business. The skating was opened up last evening in the vacant cotton ware house of Mr. B. T. Turner. So far the Doctor has nt»t- been summonsed. Torments of Tetter and Eczema Allay- The intense Itcninrr characteristic of eczema, tetter and like skin diseases is instantly allayed by applying Cham berlain's Salve and many severe cases have been permanently cured ,by its use. For sale by Shuford Ddug Co. Bachelors in England. Under our present system our men emigrate, but leave our delicately nur tured women »at home. Families of grown-up, unmarried daughter?, dis contented and restless are far too numerous among us, and all the while, in far-off places of the empire, there are men by the thousands hungering for the sight of an English lass. tVe do not exaggerate. The flag of Brit ain in too many parts of the earth is flying over a generation of bachelors. It makes no difference how long you have been sick, if you are troubled with indigestion, constipation, liver and kidney troubles, Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea will make yoyu well. 35 cents. E. B. Mnzies. ill Mill itary Surgeons Meet. Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 11. —The asso • ciation of Military Surgeons of the ; United States began its fifteenth an nual-convention in Buffalo today and ' will remain in session until the en.l , of the week. The -medical depart ; ments of the army and navy of the ' United States and of the national , guard of the different States are \ represented at the gathering, which will be devoted to the reading of , papers and the discussion of sub jects relating to recent progress and ! improvements in military surgery, hy gienic aeld hospital service, etc. Those men who ride on the water wagon get some awful jolts J ' * j»«p CURE LUMPS I I Urnimmmy I L_ /VOMSlififiPTlON Price S lf(]R 8 OUGHSar.d 50c&$1.00«| g • Free Trial. | a Surest and Quickest Cure for all g JTHBOAT and LTJNG TitOUB- g a LES, or MONEY BACK. g ELECTRIC LIGHT \ The office of the company is und r Martin's Drug Store. Please keep your lamps clean. Rub tbem with soft arj ■ paper. When lamps are wanted in plact of old ones the latter mu3t be returned to the office. For any trouble notify the office so repairs may be made in due tine. New wiring of stores and residences will bp dona at of material and labor. Red Rock Fruit Punch r 6 Lemons i r ' » 8 Oranges r - • : .v.. • , 1 Pineapple 4 Quarts Red Rock / _ 1 Pound Sugar. 'J 1 Pint Maraschino Cherries r Crush Oranges and Lemons, chop Pineapple fine, cover with Sugar, allow to stand three hours, press out the juice and add to this juice the pint of Cherries and plenty of cracked ice. Just before serving add the four quarts of Red Rock. •; This amount will serve twenty-five guests. Hickory Bettings Work. \ y Bottlers of J High-Grade Soda Water in all Stan dard Flavors.