[MI OF GAS
RESULTS 111 DEATH
TO SJX_ PERSONS
Terrific Explosion of Illuminating l "
Gas in Subway of Rapid Tran
sit Company Results in Death
to Six Persons and Injury to a
Dozen or More. *
Damage to Property Amounts to
Thousands of Dollars. Explo
s'on Caused by Leak in City
Gas Main. Account ofthe Ter
rible Disaster.
Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 5. —The ter
rific explosion of illuminating gas in
the subway of the Philadelphia Rapid
Transit Company, under construction
at Sixth and Market streets, at seven
o'clock this morning, , resulted in the
death of six men and the injuring of
a dozen others, and caused thousands
of dollars worth of damage.
The explosion was caused by leak
in the city gas main, improperly re
paired last night. It is believed the
workman carrying lamps into the
great hole ignited the gas. Sixth and
Market is one of the busiest sections,
but fortunately there was'" little traf
fic there when the explosion occurred.
About a dozen workmen were gath
ered near the large derrick and about
five men are believed to have been in
the subway. The force of the explos
ion wrecked the subway for half a
block and all heavy timbering and
other structural working, including
tons of earth, fell into the excavation.
The heavy rain during the night had
slightly weakened the walls of the ex
cavation and added to the damage.
Just as the gas blew up a double-team
dirt cart was being driven directly
across the covered subway. The ve
hicle, horses and man were blown
high in the air and the horses and
cart fell into the hole. The driver
landed in the street only slightly
hurt.
Several workmen standing near the
derrick were blown across the street
aod either killed or injured, and a
number of pedestrians were hurt by
the falling glass and signs from the
tall business houses on both sides of
Market and Sixth streets.
Those portions of the subway not
covered with dirt burst into flames
and for a time no person dared ven
ture near the place for fear of further
explosions. Firemen were quickly on
the spot, but water was of little use,
owing to the fact that the flames were
shooting from dozens of gas pipes and
the largo gas main. The dirt was
then resorted to and in the course of
a few hours the flames were extin
guished.
From Fifth to Seventh street on
Market, and for half a square up Sixth
street, north and south, large plate
glass windows were broken and thous
ands of dollars worth of goods in the
show windows damaged.
Seven Were Killed.
One of the injured in the hospital
died, making seven dead.
HAD NARROW ESCAPE.
Mr. Rcseman Face to Face With Death
at His Saw Mill—A Little Child
Strayed.
Statesville, Oct. 5. Mr. U. I. Rose
man had a narrow escape from death
at hi 3 saw mill in Shiloli township
Wednesday. The rains had caused the
belts of the machinery to become slick
and Mr. Roseman was rubbing' them
off with a sack while the machinery
was in operation. The sack came in
contact with the machinery and the
force of the jerk caused Mr. Roseman
to fall on the belt, which hurled him
under the machinery and held him
there. The engine was immediately
stopped, but it was 15 or 20 minutes
before the machine could be taken
apart and Mr. Roseman rescued from
his perilous position.
Mr. Roseman received several se
vere cuts about the face and one arm
was badly cut and bruised. No bones
were broken and his condition is not
dangerous. This is Mr. Roseman's
second accident of the kind. Several
years ago ho was crippeld by being
caught in a saw mill.
Virginia, little daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Zeb Holcomb, wandered away
from her home on Davie avenue Wed
nesday and came up town. After she
had wandered about the streets for
some time, a gentleman who saw that
she was lost took her in his arms and
started out to find her parent. The
little tot is only about three years
old and a very attractive child, and be
fore the parents were found several
gentlemen in the city who have no
children had spoken for her, and insist
ed on taking her to their homes.
EFFECTS OF CUBAN TROUBLE.
Chicago, 111., Oct. s.—The first
effect of the troubles in Cuba on
commercial interests wan disclosed
when every independent cigar manu
facturer in the city received a cir
cular notifying him that the price of
cedar cigar boxea has been raised
tne dollar per hundred. The reason
given is the scarcity of lumber es
pecially cedar, the great bulk of
which is imported from Cuba.
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Signature of
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chewing and expectorating
SCHNAPPS is made from choice selections of the |
well matured, cured Piedmont leaf; I
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it popularized the chewing of tobacco. There's g
no other tobacco in the world that requires and |
talces so little
TiifiimnM
'sweetening.
Thafs what makes the difference between |
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imitations—and it's such a difference that once a 1
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Mwith any imitation, 1
The sweet, tasty and exhilarating quaiiiy' of I
SCHNAPPS tobacco has made the Reynolds factory 1
molis ss the manufacturers of the best and most 1
popular brands of chewing tobacco, and as the largest |
and best equipped flat plug factories in the world |
They contain every modern appliance for producing |
k es * chewing tobadco, by clean, sanitary and 1
healthful processes. The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco |
Company is under the direction of the same men H
jO|p who have managed it since 1875, and who have j|
f- . Jflr made the chewing tobacco business a life-study. ?>.
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| OLD LANDMARK DESTROYED.
An Old Residence Removed —Senator
Overman to Speak.
Wadesboro, Oct., 5. —Another old
landmark has been taken from our
midst. The old Threadjill residence,
011 Green street, has been tern down
to make way for the Wadesboro Stock
Company sale stables. The old house
was filled with brick walls between
the studding. Most of the nails used
were wrought at home. The flooring
was made from the old sash saw that
was operated by waterpower, the circle
saw at that time not being in existence.
The framing was of hewn timber.
The parlor mantlspiece' was of hand
work and although very old presents
a handsome piece of work and would
be prized by a collector of curiosities.
Yesterday was a rusher as far as
the cotton trade was concerned. Over
200 bales were sold, the highest * price
being 10.32 1-2. Gins are running night
and day and there seems to be a fe
verish haste to market the crop. At
the close of the day the market showed
an upward tendency.
Miss Jane Lisles, aged 75 years, died
at the county home Sunday. The au
thorities sent the remains to the unfor
tunate's old home, Morven.
Senator Lee S. Overman will be
with us next Tuesday. The Senator
will be greeted by a host of his ad
mirers.
The sales of cotton in September
were 3,33G bales. The same number
of bales that were sold in September
cf last year.
Hon. J. Bryan Grimes will speak in
Lislesville Friday night October 12th.
We hope the Democrats of that section
will give the speaker a rousing time.
The railroad from Pee Dee to Bluitt
Falls is now in operation, which means
and early beginning of that important
work —the dam across the Pee Dee.
New Orleans Market.
New Orleans, La., Oct. 5. —Cotton ad
vanced sharply upon news of tornado
sharply upon the news of the tornado.
December closed at 11.01 went to 11.24,
January rose to 10.20 to the same price.
Later December fell to 10.92 and Jan
uary to 11.02.
SIGO Reward, SIGO.
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 list of testimonials.
Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Tol
edo ,0.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constip
ation.
19 Bodies Recovered.
Roanoke, Va., Oct. £>. —Up to 11 o'-
clock 10 bodies were recovered from
the West Fork mines at Pocahontas
and it is thought there are still 40 in
the mines. There is no evidence of
lire and the work of rescue is not re
arded. It will probably be two days
before all the bodies have been found.
Nothing to Fear.
..Mothers need have no hestitancy in
continuing to give Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy to their little onas, as
it contains absolutelyy nothing injuri
ous. This remedy is not enly perfect
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 reliad upon. For sale b'
Shuford Drug Co.
WAKE BOND ELECTIONS.
Will Vote $30,000 Bonds for Public Im
provements —Harris Coley Hurt —
Tom Ellis Gets 25 Years.
Raleigh, N. C.. Oct. 5. —The Wake
county commissioners have just issued
an order for an election to be held in
the county at the same time as the
general election in November on the
question of issuing $30,000 bonds for
public improvements and the estab
lishment of a road commission for
the county to have control of the gen
eral public road work now in the hands
of the county commissioners.
Harris Coley, the nine-year-old son
of William X. Coley, had a narrow
escape from death last night in falling
from a second story window. His
right arm was broken in two places,
his hip injured, face scarred and
a tooth knocked out.
Before adjourning Wake county Su
perior Court for the term this morning
Judge Webb sentenced Tom Ellis, col
ored, to twenty-five years in the pen
itentiary for entering the home of Mr.
and Mrs. T. E. Moore in this city three
weeks ago. His submission for ir the
second degree was accepted b\ the
Slate.
The Standard Gas & Electric Com
pany cf this city is expending $40,000
in improvements, including an alto
gether modern gas holder to cost $30,-
000.
Letter to J. D. Elliott.
Hickory, N. C.
Dear Sir: Our agent ought to sell
nine-tenths of the paint of his town
and region; no use to try for the other
tenth. The proportion of men, who
won't take good advice, and use the
least-gallons paint, is about one in
ton among even owners of houses and
stores and shops and barns and fences.
Cne man in ten will buy a gold brick
or green goods, if he has the money
and get a good chance.
Devoe at $1.75 a gallon is better than
gold; adulterated and short-measure
paints are green goods and gold bricks.
Devoe saves half, more or less, of
the labor and wages of painting; it is
all paint; full strength and full meas
ure. There is no other such paint
within ten per cent. Ten per cent of
labor and paint is worth saving; and
ten is the least. There are scores of
paints that throw away half of both
gallons and labor on Whitin, chin-clay,
ground stone, barytes, benzine, water —
all they are good for is to make gal
lons cf nothing and look like paint in
the can; more gallons to buy and more
gallons to pay for putting-on—gold
bricks and green goods. Here's how
they work.
Judge I D Fairchild owns two houses
exactly alkie in Luflcin, Texas. J H
Torrence painted both houses; one
Devoe, 15% gallons; the other with
another paint sold at same price; 25
gallons. That 25 gallons paint is weak
and 15 per cent whiting; that's why it
to 9% gallons more.
Yours truly
7 ' F W DEVOE &CO
New York
P. S. F B Ingold sells our paint.
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.
Both the Newark club of the East
ern league and the Scranton team 6f
the New York State league won in
games played recently with the New
York Giants.
Torments cf Tetter and Eczema Allay
ed. •
The intense itcning cnaraeteristic of
eczema, tetter and like skin diseases
is instantly allayed by applying Cham
-1 berlain's Salve and many severe cases
have been permanentlyy cured by its
! use. For sale by Shuford Ddug Co.
! Czenstochowa, Poland, Oct. 5.-*Tne
, Terrorists who were condemned to
j death by drumhead courtmartial was
| hanged. .
PREY'S
VERMIFUGE
i» 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, seud twentv-five cents in
stands to
S3, cSo S. FRET
Baltimore, Did. I
and a bottle will be mailed you.
DEATH OF MRS. J. L. LAKE.
Mrs. Lake, Wife of Professor J. L.
Lake of Wake Forest College, Died
Early This Morning.
Wake Forest, Oct. 5. —A great
ehcck to Wake Forest was the an
nouncement early this morning of
the death of Mrs. James L. Lake,
who died at 4 o'clock this morning.
She had been in good health till
about 10 o'clock last night when con
vulsions set in. She never regained
consciousness. The remains were
taken on this morning's train to
Upperville, Va., the home of Prof.
Lake, for interment.
Dr. Charles E. Brewer accompanied
Prof. Lake. Mrs. Lake was Miss
Lula Caldwell of Kentucky. Be
fides her husband she is survived by
five small children, a sister, Miss
Virginia Caldwell, and a mother, Mrs.
Caldwell, who was in Atlanta, Ga.,
on a visit at the time of her daugh
ter's death.
GOVERNOR AT NEWPORT NEWS.
Norfolk, Va., Oct. p. —Governor
Glenn and party en route from Ral
eigh to Newport News to the launch
ing of the battleship North Carolina
tomorrow, arrived this- morning and
after sightseeing- about Norfolk, pro
ceeded for the ship building across
Hampton Roads where they will be
entertained tonight at a banquet
given in their honor by the citizens
of Newport News.
Wounds, Bruises and Burns.
By applying an antiseptic dressing to
wounds, bruises, burns and like injur
ies before inflammation sets in, they
may bs 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 9f 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 Shuford Drug Co.
Honolulu, Oct. 6. —The army trans
port Sheridan has been floated.
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 nqt get welll at all. We got bot
tie of Cnamberlain'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.
Her story sometimes turns out to be
history.—The Bohemian for October.
KILLED WITH SHOVEL.
Farm Hand Killed by His Overseei
—ln Memory of Edenton Te;
Party. '
Raleigh, Oct. 5. —Chas. Layton, su
perintendent of the J. N. Holdinj
dairy farm, two miles from Raleigh
latally injured A. C. Mooneham, £
farm hand last evening by striking
him on the head with a shovel
There had been bad feeling betweer
the two men several hours and Lay
ton and two witnesses claim thai
Mooneham was advancing on hirr
with a stick when Layton dealt the
I'bw with the shovel which crushes
in his gkull. The injured Tnan was
I«ut in a wagon and driven to Re;s
Hospital here, but died on the roac
Layton surrendered himself to the
officers and was committed to jai
tonight without bail until the hearing
set for Friday at noon. Layton has
a wife but no children. Mooneharc
leaves a wife and four children.
The North Carolina Society Daugh
ters of the Revolution at a meeting
held in this city last evening adoptee
a design for an immense bronze tab
let to be erected by the society in
memory of the Edentcn Tea Party cl
Oct. 25, 1774, participated in by 51
ladies of that period to endorse
resolves of the Provincial deputies
not to drink any more tea or wear
any more British cioth. "The tablet
is to consist of a wreath of tea
branches in flower and pine cones.
In the center of this wreath w:li~ be a
huge tea pot. Near the top of the
pot will be an etching of the house
at Edenton on where the "tea party"
••vas held, about the center the names
of the fifty-two ladies who participat
ed will be inscribed. While at the
base will be the inscription of the
society and the date of erection.
The plan has been to place this
tablet in Edenton but inasmuch as
the location of the house is already
suitably marked in Edenton the
Daughters of the Revolution this
evening decided to place the bronze
tablet in Raleigh and a committee
was appointed to confer with the
North Carolina Historical Society
and others as to the most suitable
location. The general impression is
that it will be placed in capitol
square on a suitable granite base.
The tablet is to cost $450 and will
be paid for buy the society out of
the profits from the publication of
the North Carolina Booklet. The
October number of the Booklet is
just out and "a sketch of the burough
towns of North Carolina by Francis
Nash, sketch of "Governor Thomas
Burk," by *J. G. Roulac Hamilton;
"Colonial and Revolutionary Relics
in the Hall of History," by Col. F. A.
OJds, a sketch of the North Carolina,
Society Daughters of the Revolution |
tnd its objects, and biographical and i
genealogical sketches by Mrs. E. E.,
Moffitt. '
ANNUAL CONVENTION U. D. C.
Durham, Oct. 5. —The North Carolina
annual convention of the United
Daughters of Confederacy will be held
in Durham this month, from the 10th
to the 13th inclusive. The occasion
wil be a great event, and it is expect
ed that the city will be filled with vis
itors and delgates to the meetings.
The sessions will continue through
four days, and the meetings will be
conducted in the Conservatory of Mu
sic. This will be the largest assem
blage that has been held in Durham
for some time.
Mr. J. W. Hardin, an aged and prom
inent citizen of Graham died last night
at eight o'clock after an illness of
some time from a comnlication of dis
eases. He was well known in Dur
ham, where he is survived by a num
ber of relatives. The deceased was
seventy-three years of age and leaves
six sons and one daughter. The fune
ral services were conducted in Gra
ham this afternoon and the remains
interred at that place.
A petition to commute the sentence
of Freeman Jones, the desperate negro,
charged with burglary and attempted
assault, will be heard by Governor
Glenn at noon on October ,16th. He
was sentenced at the last term of the
Durham Superior court to be hanged
on November 2nd. His attorneys
will make an effort to have his sen
tance changed to life imprisonment.
A petition signed by several hundred
persons has been gotten up in behalf
of the prisoner. This petition was
dated to be heard on October 2nd, but
it was necessary for the Governor
to change the engagement on account
of other business.
Sick Headache Cured.
Sick headache is caused by derange
ment of the stomach and by indiges
tion. Chamberlain's Stomach aDd 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.
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A Busy KUdicina for Busy People.
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A specific C'T Constipation, livlijrestion, Ijive
ci:d Ktdaev Troubles, Pimples, Eczeini, puiv
JBlood, Baa Breath, Slusrirish Botvels, Headache
and liackaehe. It's Rocky Mountain Tea in tab
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When a Sore or Ulcer is slow in healing it is the best evidence of a dis
eased condition of the blood and a disordered system. They show that tiie
. bodily impurities, which should pass off through the natural channels of
j nature, are being retained in the system from some cause. The blood ab
sorbing the waste matters becomes steeped in poison which finds an outlet
through the Sore or Ulcer, keeping it _ . . _ .
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the blood constantly discharges its soro on my left .temple for years. It
n t ° , would itch, burn and bleed, and A eou»d
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dee~cr into the surrounding flesh and awhile it bega-nto discharge, and wLsu
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offensive in spite of all the sufferer never seen any sign of it sin ce.
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can do, until the entire, health is '
affected. Washes, salves, powders and such treatment are desirable for the
reason that they are cleansing and also help to relieve the pain, but they are
S _ ir _ in no way curative. The blood is filled with
poison, and until it is removed the-sore er t
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Martin's Drug. Store. Please keep your!
iamps clean. Rub them with soft arj
paper. When lamps are wanted in plac*
of old ones the latter must be returned
to the office.
For any trouble-notify the office so '
repairs may be made in due time. New |
wiring of stores and residences will be J
dor.o at erH of material and labor.
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4 Quarts Red Rock
1 Pound Sugar.
jr' 1 Pint Maraschino Cherries
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
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