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Watch Hickory Grow. The Hickory Land & Development Co., will help you get a home. Read the ads in The Democrat and fcuy from the up- tc-date merchants Established 1899 FIERCE BATTLE 111 BOWfIW CMITY JAIL Deputy McKenzie Attacked By Stal wart Negro—One Prisoner Es caped. Salisbury, Oct. 19. -There was aiail delivery in Salisbury to niiint, when young Deputy Sheriff James H. McKenzie, jr., had a desperate encounter in the corridor of the Rowan jail with Jim Perkins, a stalwart negro, who attacked the officer when he opened the door to lock up a prisoner. While the officer grap pled with the negro, several ef forts were made to wrench the gun""from the officer's hand. The en-ounter lasted several minutes and the two men fought des perately from one end of the covridor to the other. While the fight was in prog ress Shelly Hunt, held for sell in ■' cocaine, came out the cell dtnr, being called by Perkins and made a bold dash for liberty. Ptrkins was overpowered by D-'wutv McKenzie and driven b; ck in his cell. Hunt was fired upon as he left the lot but es caped. . Sheriff Mckenzie was absent at the time of the trouble search in? fur a white man wanted for a crime in Dav ie county, but was soon on the scene. He offers a reward of $25 for the capture of Hunt, who is 25 years old. In the fisrht with Perkins Deputy McKenzie lost a portion of a finger ana was somewhat used up. He is being heartily commended for his good work and bravery in successfully com bating with a powerfully built negro whom he landed in the cell. Small Cyclone Shakes a Section of Gastonia. Gastonia, Oct. 19—Shortly after 4 o'clock this afternoon a small cyclone swept a section of Gastonia a little east of the cen ter, doing considerable property damage but, so far as can be as certained, not injuring ary one. One or two houses were blown down, one two-story house is short the second story, and num bers of small outhouses, barns and chimneys were demolished. Several trees were twisted part ly down, several telephone poles were broken and some wires are down. The cyclone swept a path bout 200 feet wide and went out of town in a northeasterly direc tion. It lasted only a moment and those who saw it state that it was undoubtedly a genuine cyclone. 20 Soldiers Are Killed in Wreck. Meridian, Miss., Oct. 19. Twenty soldiers were killed and more than one hundred others in jured when a special troop train on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad plunged through a trestle near State Line, Miss., this afternoon The entire train fell a distance of 25 feet. The casualty list is that given in a report of the disaster by division Superintendent Pigford of the Mobile and Ohio The wreck was caused by the engine tender jumping the track about 200 feet from a trestle. The engine was not derailed and passed over the trestle safely. The tender broke loose from the engine; however, and plunged with the baggage car and three coaches to the ground 25 feet be low. Paint or Not. Is a horse worth more or less after feed? Hav and oats are high today; shall I wait today and feed him tomorrow ? Tnat's how men do about Painting their houses and barns and fences. Paint has been high for several years; and so they have waited. Paint is high ye*; are still waiting; thousands 'em are waiting for paint to fall. Ti.eir property drops a trifle a year and the next j b of paint creeps- up creeps-up creeps-up; Ml take more paint by a gallon a year; they don't save a cent, ?nd the property goes-on suffer 'ng. DEVOE adv 't F. B. Ingold sells it. A Marvelous Escape. ii \/r My little boy had a marvelous es cape," writes P. F. Bastiams of Prince Albert, Cape of Good Hope. "It oc curred in the middle of the night. He Sot a very severe attack of croup. As luck would have it, I had a large bot t| e of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in the house. After following the direc tions for an hour and twenty n»inuies was through cll danger." Sold by Vrrimes Drug Co. and Moser & Lutz. adv. Southern States Have Early Snow 1 Fall. i dir.oo X-scqn opns 2 V—The : earnest snowfall in the memory .. of oldest citizens was experienc ' i many Southern cities. I Preemptible flurries were report >ed in Atlanta, Birmingham, ;! Knoxville, Chatanooga, Nash | ville and Asheville. The first precipitation here observe 1 short'y after mid night. Flak h continued to fall at intervals until 7 o'clock this nuriung. In ail of the cities where the fall was reported the snow melted immediately on striking the ground. , The earliest previous snow | fall according to local records rc ■ cured on October 28,1910. This was the only other time snow was observed in October. Snow fell here Monday morn ing, the earliest on record for a number of years. The fall was! light and lasted for a few min- ' utes. +++++ + + + + ♦ * + LOCAL AND PERSONAL. * * + + + ++++ + 4 + + ++ + Mr. R. M, Bungarner had the misfortune to lose a SSO cow last Thursday. The cow fell into an old well at his cotton gin end while they were pulling her T>ut with a rope she was choked to death. Harvest Home services were held at St, Andrews Lutheran church Sunday night with ap propriate exercises by the chil dren. A Japanese Christmas tree was a feature of the ser vices. Small gifts for the little ! Japanese children were placed j on this tree and these will be j sent to missionaries in Japan for I distribution. The County Board of Educa tion has decided on November 10th as the date for the opening of the rural schools of the coun ty. This year our schools wil continue for a term of six months, and this date was set for the reason that a lat*>r (lute, as; some preferred, would run the! schools too far into the working j season in the spring. The Morganton Messenger ■ says that the l ist term of Com 11 for Burke county was a farce. 1 Only two cases were disposed of, * and Judge Webb was asked to j set aside the verdict in one of j these. The civil docket in Burke ; is congested and has been for j two years, and the Messenger says that whoever is responsible; for the cost of holding court without results remains a mys tery. The many friends of Mrs. John M. Sthephens of Hickory will be 1 glad to know that she has recov-: ered from a two week's indispos ition at the Presbyterian Hospi- j tal, Mrs. Stephens is spending! several days with Mrs. C. R. j Mayer at her home on West Sixth i Street. Little Miss Peggy Ste- > phens, who came with her moth j er to the city, has returned home accompanied by her grandmoth- j er, Mrs. Geo. H. King.—Char-j lotte Observer. Mr. Frank B. Gwin and his son, Crowson, celebrated their birthdays on October 14th, and also that of h?s mother, Mrs. J. D. Gwin, of Clover, S. C.„ who was Mr. Gwin's guest at that time. Mrs. Frank Gwin decid ed to celebrate the three birth days at one time and she certain ly made it a success. • The table simply groaned under the load of; good things she had for the feast-j All enjoyed it and had plenty ; left. Those present were, Mr. ( and Mrs. Lewis B. Gwin, Royi Gwin, Charles Gwin and Mary Belle Gwin, A number of hand some presents were received. " A bill was passed in the last session of the legislature allow ing the directors of the two; State institutions at Morganton: the right to permit a highway to go through the lands of these in stitutions. Under the old law the directors could not do this. There was some opposition to this bill by citizens of Morganton, who claimed that a highway would destroy the beauty of the grounds, and traffic would be a menance to the inmates. In the event of the directors and the road supervisors not agreeing on a route the G >vernor will be called to act arbiter. Chronic Dyspepsia. : The following unsolicited testimon • ial should certainly be sufficient to : give hope and courage to persons af ; flitted with chronic dyspepsia: I • have been a chronic dyspeptic for years, t and of all the medicine I have taken, . Chamberlain's Tablets have done me s more good than anything els 1 ;," says r W. G. Mattison, No. 7 Sherman St., | Hornellßville, N. Y. For sale by , I Grimes Drug Co. tod Moser & Lutz, HICKORY, N.C., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 23. 1913 THE ESST TO NAME 1 . NEXT GOVERNOR I ! Only Remote Possibility That He Might Come From Piedmont. | Charlotte Observer, i Speculative interest centers in j the gubernatorial situation in the ! State. Already the names of { four leading citizens have been mentioned for the honor and j there are several others "view i »ng the landscape o'er" before j they will allow their friends to , hazard the suggestion of their j possible candidacy. The name I of Mr. T. W. Bickett, the present | State Attorney General, has been j talked of for the past year or so { and also that of Mr. A. W. Mc- Lean of Lumberton, one of the foremost lawyers in the State. The friends of Mr. E. L-. Daught ririge of Edgecombe County, | have been active in his behalf i and lately the name of Mr. John L>. Bellamy of Wilmington, has loomed upon the political horizon. None of these gentlemen as yet have been willing to vouchsafe anything definite in the way of an admisson or denial of purpose in so far as the nomination is concerned but, in the estimation of well ported politicians, thev all have their ears to the ground for the purpose of discerning the trend of public sentiment. Thus for instance, if Mr, Bickett should find that he is developing sufficient strength in the various districts to justify the assump tion of a reasonable prospect of success, then at the proper time, he will doubtless make known his plans, outline his platform and undertake to formulate a definite candidacv. Likewise Mr, Mc- Lean and also Messrs. Daugbt ridge and Beliamy. There is such a lapse of time now between the present and the beginning of the campaign period that no one is willing to enter the lists. Such a course would be hazardous in , the extreme and it would futher more subject the person taking the step to a lot of unneccessary vork and the expenditure possi bly of a big sum of money. Cotton on Fire. Striking a match to smoke, the son ot Deputy Lorenzo Peel er set fire to seven bales of cot- ( ton shortly after noon Wednes ( day. The voung man was bring- ( ing the cotton to town to deliver , it and he was driving up La ( Fayette street when he struck a ( match which ignited the bale ( which he was sitting on. The j flames spread over the entire , load before he coule throw the , bales off the wagon. Being di- . rectiy in front of Dr. T. E. Mc ( Brayer's residence, the flames ( were kept under control for , aw hile until the fire wagon re- ' sponded with the fire hose. Had , the fire started out of town be- ( yond the reach of water the , seven bales may have been burn- , ed completely. With the water, . the total loss will be about one bale.—Cleveland Star, Cutting Affair at Brookford. Tom Cloninger, an employee of 1 the Brookford Mills, was severe- j lv cut across his left temple last j Friday by another employee of j the mill named Hefner. Clonin ger is employed as a foreman of . one of the departments of the mil! and Hefner was working 1 under him. Hefner got mad when Cloninger told him to do a certain piece of work, and made the assault. The knife wound was very painful, cutting several leaders in his face. Biggest September Sales on Record. On the tobacco markets of North Carolina 47,344,030 pounds of leaf tobacco was sold during September according to the report issued by the State De partment of Agriculture. This was the biggest sales ever re corded in North Carolina. Wilson leads in the number of pounds sold on one market and Kinston comes second. Avoid Sedative Cough Medi cines. If you want to contribute directly to the occurrence of capillary bronchitis and pneumonia use cough medicines that contain codine, morphine, heroin and other sedatives when you have a cough or coid. An expectoront like Chamberlain's Cough remedy is what is needed. That cleans out the cul ture beds or breeding places for the germs of pneumonia and other germ That is why pneumonia never results from a cold when Cham berlain's Cough Remedy is used. It has a world wide reputation for its cures. It contains no morphine or thoer sedative. For sale by Grimes Drug Co. & Moser & Lutz. adv. MARSHAL A. HUDSON SPEAKS IN HICKORY Mr. Marshall A. Hudson, of Syracuse, N. Y., founder of the World-wide Baraca and Phila thea Bible Classes, spoke here last Thursday night in the First Baptist Church, to a large and appreciative audience. Mr. Hudson was introduced by Rev. J. D. Harte, the pastor, in a few well chosen words. Mr. Hudson spoke chiefly of the events leading up to the staiting of these classes in his 1 church and of the | good they are accomplishing for j men and women. In October, 1890 Mr. Hudson went to his church one Sunday morning and on arriving there he found that the interior was in disorder by reason of the fact that painters and carpenters had been at work remodeling the church, and there would be no services that day. In those days the Sunday School was regarded as a place for children and scarcely any grown people ever thought of at tending. On this particular Sunday morning, there were eighteen young men standing on the out side of the church. Mr. Hudson approach el these and said, 'boys, let's go in, clean off some bench es, and have a Sunday School of our own." The boys readily as sented, and a class was organiz ed that morning, which was in reality the beginning of the Baraca movement Mr. Hudson's, talk was very entertaining and instructive throughout. He said in the course of his speech that North Carolina was ahead of the mother state in the number of Baraca and Philathea classes, she having something like 1300 classes, while New York can boast of only 1100. The classes in all parts of the United States now number near ly a million members and are steadily growing^ GOVERNOR LOCKE CRAIG WILL WORKJHE ROADS Raleigh, N, C., Oct. 18.—Gov ernor Locke Craig has announ ced his intention of donning overalls, and doing personal work on the roads, either at Raleigh or Asheville, on the two days designated by him as good roads 1 days—November 5 and 6. Many ! inquiries have been, received at the executive mansion regarding the governor's intentions in re- gard to this work, and the gov ernor has answered by stating that he has already secured over alls and other suitable parapher nalia and will do two good days' work. Governor Craig is confi- ' dent that the people throughout the state will turn out for road work on these two days, and that a splendid showing will be made. Where Roman Catholicism Is a Menace. Under our American constitu tion the Roman Catholic has just as much ri£ht and ' freedom in this country as any other reli gionist whatsoever. His doc trines may be antagonized with all energy, but he has a right to hold them and to proclaim them. This we freely concede and con tend for under our cherished doc trine of religious liberty. At the i same time, we also contend for absolute separation of church and State as provided in our Fed- , jeral Constitution. And it is just here that the real menace in Ro man Catholicism appears. The evident thirst for political power on the part of the Church of Rome is glaringly inconsistent with our free American institu tions. If Rome were to recede from her ambition and again be come -a temporal power, she would take her legitimate place alongside other religious deno minations at work in their re spective spheres for the common good,—Biblical Recorder, > The Family Co ugh Medicine In every home there should be a bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery, ready for intermediate use when any member of the familv contracts a cold or a cough. Prompt use will stop the spread of sickness. S. A. Stid, of Mason, Mich., writes: "My whole fam ily depends upon Dr. King's New Dis covery as the best cough and cold medicine in the world, 'iwo 50c. bot ties cured me of pneumonia." Thou sands of other families have been equally benefited and depend entirely upon Dr. King's New Discovery to ; cure their coughs, colds, thioat and t lung troubles. Every dose helps. : Price, 50c. and SI.OO. All druggists. H. E. Bucklen & Co. Philadelphia or St. louii. adv. DBIS OF AiEIiCA OH TO MILITANT r Mrs. Pankhurst Will be Admitted t« ; Fiil her Lecture Engagements. America's doors were openet 1 Monday to Mrs, Emmeline Pank hurst and during tile ftw weeks covered by her lecture engage ments the British militant suf fragist leader is free to ;o wherf she will in the United St-ites. Ar order releasing the much discuss ed visitor from detention at Elli. Island. New York, and revok i ing the deportation ordor of the ! special inquiry board, was is i sued after President Wilson ha conferred with Secretary Wilsor. of the Department of Labor, ano a formal hearing before Im migration Commissioner Cami netti on Mrs. Pankhurst's ap peal had been concluded. Secretary Wilson announced that he and the Presii ent had agreed that Mrs. Pi nkhursi should be admitted "on her own recognizance" with the under standing that she would report when she had fulfilled her lec ture engagements. Beth the President and the Secretary agreed wrh Commissioner Cam inetti in the opinion that there was an element of doubt as to whether the acts for which Mrs, Pankhurst has been convicted in England constituted moral turp itude or were political in charac ter. South Fork Items. For The Democrat. There seems to be no import ant news afbat in this neck of the woods. Everybody has gotten down to hard work on the farm since the pretty days have come, preparing land for another crop. Some are sowing wheat and oats, while others are digging pota- i toes. Tne yieid is not ve"ry good, owing to the drought. They realizes about .$15.00 at the oyster supper at Oak Grove schoolhouse last Saturday even- j ing. Though it was threatening ; rain a pretty good crowd was present. Mrs. R. A. Yoder and Mrs. J. A- You -.t went, to Daniel's church neighborhood last Saturday, and! returned by the home of G. M. i Yoder and spent the night with! Mrs. F. M. Yoder. Will He ton has taken his fam-1 ily to Indiana, where he is at j work. Rev. W. C. Wessinger preach- i ed to a full house on the first j Sunday in October at Grace i church. Laban Yoder from Tavlorsville came to the dedication of the Yoder Memorial Science Hall at Lenoir College, and spent a fort night with his many relatives 1 here in this county. In 1910 when E. M. Yoder was H digging his potatoes he found a | new potato in two hills, whose i j vines did not exceed two feet in 1 length. He kept them from the' others, and each spring he has i bedded them out and planted j them, and this fall he realized about 100 bushels from this vari ety. It is a kind of vineless po tato, that grows in bunches, and is yellow, with an excellent fla vor. It is to the advantage of the farmer to raise this potato, as the vines will not be in the way when plowing them. Lee Ramseur has made a new potato house. Sam. O. Yoder is engaged in the egg and chicken business, he ships a load every week. COL. Southern Girls Will Visit Washing ton. Fifteen girls, one from each of fifteen southern states, will visit Washington, probably on De cember 11, as a reward for their success in being awarded first place in the girl's canning club state contests, the department of agriculture has announced. Women agents of the canning clubs will assemble here at the same time and will act as chap erones for tne girls. The department estimates that 25,000 girls have been enrolled in tie canning clubs of the South ern States this year. How much a man is like his shoes; For instance, both a sole may lose; Both have been tanned; both are made tight By cobblers, both get left and right; Both need a mate to be complete; And both were made to go on feet. With shoes the last is first; with man The first shall be last; and when The shoes wear out they're mended new; When men wear out they're- men dead, too. They both need heeling, oft are sold, And both in time turn all to mold. ' They both are trod upon, and both I Will tread on others, nothing loth. Both have their ties, and both incline, When polished, in the world to sine. * They both peg out. And would you r choose , To be a man or be his shoes? Democrat and Press, Consolidated 1905 Zeppelin Craft Explodes in Iviid Air Killing 26 Men. Berlin, Oct. 17. —The newes and largest of the wai airships, the "LII," was de itroyed in midair by an exph sior at 10:15 o'clock this morning. Ai out one of the 27 military met m board, including the entire admiralty trial board, were kill ad. The disaster occured just above the main street of the city ol Johannisthal while the big dirigi ble, 500 feet long, was making z. trial trip preliminary to its ac ceptance as flagship of Ihe new German aerial navy. The shat tered hulk of the airship, a mass of blazing canvas and crumpled aluminum, dropped 900 feet into the publi: highway, Hundreds of people, who had been watching the flight from parks and housetops, rushed to the scene. There was nothing to be done except to take out the dead bodies of the victims of the disaster from the mass of twistea wreckage. Lieut. Baron von Blul of the Kron Augusta Grenadier Guards, who was making the trip as a guest, was the only survivor o the wreck. He was badly injur-1 ed and his condition is critical. Aiany of the bodies were so burn ed and mangled as to be unrecog nizable. Secret Smoking Was Cause of Ships! Fire. Havre, France, Oct. 16. —If the stories told by some of the forty- i two survivors of the Volturno, who reached this pert this morn ing aboard the Touraine, may be 1 believed, four points stand out in 1 the tragedy: That the fire was due to illicit smoking on the part of immi- j grants. That the Volturno's life-saving j equipment was in bad shape. That the crew was not compe tent to handle the life-saving equipment. That the crew and some of the petty officere were far quicker to | look out for themselves than . they were to take care of the passengers. . The only intelligent stories oi the disaster were told by a Ger- j man sailor, Hans Magnus, whose ; passport gives the name of Mag- j i nowski, who has been in the em- i ploy of the Uranium line for two years, and a steerage passenger j named Frederick Badtke, a 23- t year old German, who claims the ( credit for having discovered the i ( fire. Polk Miller Dead. i ] Mr. Polk Miller, who is pleas-1! antly remembered here by man> j s of our people, died suddenly at j 1 his home in Richmond, Va., , Monday night, Mr. Miller, wai ! t a confederate soldier and has. spent more than 30 years of the latter part of Jiis liteTii traveling over the Southern States in com- I pany with "Col." Tom Booker, giving entertainments depicting the ante-bellum days of the South. The "darkey quartette," ' which accompanied them has be- 1 came famous for their songs. J i i During the electric and rain storm here early Sunday morning lightning struck the residences of Mr. Frank Houck and Mrs. Taylor, doing considerable dam age. No one was nurt. All daj Sunday the Southern Public Utii itief Company had men at work repairing the damage done by the storm. Nearly all the lights of the city were put of commis sion, but the damage was small, the chief trouble being burnt out fuses. The Telephone Com pany also suffered considerable damage. "Why, Tommy," exclaimed the Sunday school teacher, "don't you say your prayers every night before you go to bed?" "Not any more," replied Tom my; "I uster when I slept in s foldin' bed, though."—Boston Globe. The North Carolina Conference of the Tennessee Synod of the Lutheran church will hold their next convention at Salem church, near Claremont November 5-7. Daniel, son of Mr. and Mrs Geo. F. Bost, has been very sick for two weeKs, but is slowly im2 proving. They Make You Feel Good. The pleasant purgative effect pro duced by Chamberlain's Tablets and the healthy condition of body and mind which they create make one feel joy - 11 ful. For sale by Grimes Drug Co. and i Moser & Lutz. , adv. SOLLnI IS REMOVED FROM OFFICE Govern-r of New York is Found Guiky in Three cf the Articles of Imper.cbinent at Final Session Albany, N. Y., Oct. 17.- Wil iam Sulzsr no longer is Governor )t the state of New York. A few minutes before noon to day the high court of impeach nent by a of 43 to 12, re moved hiai from office. Senator Wende and Judge Cullen excus -3d themselves from voting. The /ote on the proposition of dis qualifying Sulzer from ever again holding a place of honor or trust in the State was voted down unanimously with the ex ception that Judge Cullen again excused himself from recording Mis vote. Prior to the vote on his dis qualification and removal the rour la-1 articles of the impeach ment charges, five, six, seven and eight, were unanimously voted out. The court was in session little more than an hour. It was of ficially r ejourned a minute after 12 o'clock. • Martin H. Glynn of Albany, acting Governor, became Gov ernor. Robert F. Wagner of New York, majority leader of the S'3: ate, became Lieutenant Govern r. A record of the decision of the court was fiied with the Secre tary of State, thus complying with f\h the legal requirements to remove the Governor. A pale, thin man satin the ex ecutive mansion today awaiting impatiently a vote of the high court of impeachment which would strip from him the robes of his office as Governor of the State of New York and make him William Sulzer, private citi zen. "Some later." H. E. C. Bryant, Washington correspondent of the Charlotte Observer, in writing to that paper Inst week says: "Ghaiies E. Robinson, of Lin colnton sent to President Wilson, vvith 1> compliments, today a large sweet potato. "Mr. Robin son sent the potato by parcel post and would have added a 'possum if 'possums had been ripe. '"The letter, accompanying the potato, reminded the President that President Cleveland was charged with reducing the price of cotton to 5 cents and adds: 'Now we have 14-cent cotton, plenty of big potatoes, and 'pos sums SOG.I to be ready. Wonder if they will give you credit for prosperity?' The potato will be sliced and baked for Sunday. It weighs ne irly seven pounds." Negro Convicted of the Murder of Mrs. Seitz. Severn! months ago we pub lished a.i account of the murder of Mrs. J. M. Seitz in Angleton, Texas. In the trial that follow ed Joe Duri'ee, a negro, was con victed of the crime and sen tenced to death. The sensation al trial was brief and a surpris ing web of evidence was offered by the state, against the negro, but no direct proof could be found against him. Still, there was no doubt, from the evidence introduced, as to his guilt. Mr. Seitz, the husband of the murdered woman, was formerly a Catawba citizen, but moved to Texas a number of years ago, where he married. He came home proudly and an nounced that he had insured his life in h:r favor for $20,000. , "You are so kind and thought ful, dearest," she said, sweetly. "I'll never say another word against you getting a motor cycle."—Philadelphia Ledger. Briggs—"Thank goodness the opera season will soon open." Gr .ggs—"Didn't know you ever attended." Briggs—"l don't; but my wife and daughter do, and that gives me a chance to slip out to the club for a quiet game."—Boston Transcript. Eczema and Itching Cured. The soothing, healing medication in Di. Hobson's Eczema Ointment pene trates every tiny pore of the skin, clears it of all impurities —stops itching in stantly. Dr. Hobson's Eczema Oint i ment is guaranteed to speedily heal eczema, rashes, ringworm, tetter and other unslightly eruptions. Eczema Ointment is a doctor s prescription, not an experment. All druggists or by . mail, 50c. Pfeiffer Chemical Co., I Philadelphiaand St. Louis. adv. I adv. I Whan you know an item of news , call 37..