North Carolina Newspapers

THE EOHROE JODRMAL G. U. ft. r. BEASLEY. B LAS LEY lisnsbs. TsmsxUt. Ociofc-r II. 1904. To old men, the one from New England the other from the South, each representing the best ideals of his section, serving many years to gether but oo opposite sides in the Senate, have ended their journey almost together: Senator Hoar in his seventy-eighth year, preceding Gen eral Ransom but few day, also in his seTenty-eighth year. No doubt, as they were often far apart in their views, each seeing the right as it was given him to see, they each felt the other to be far w rong, perhaps unjust, unpatriotic. But who can doubt that, stripped of the inciden tals and the misjudgment of time and section, both loved the same thines truth ani right? "Boys, do right; God bless your mother." were the last words of General Ransom. Among the last public utterances of Senator Hoar, were these words: "If my life has been worth anything, it has been because I have insisted to the best of my ability that these three things love of God, love of oountry.and manhood are the essen tial things." Think of whizzing over ground at ninety miles an hour! The first big automobile race in America was run near New York Saturday. It was three-hundred-mile one, and was won by an American representing a French club. He ran the 300-mile track in a little over five hours. His speed often went as high as 90 miles an hour, faster than any train is ever run. Only one of the racers was killed. The race was run over pub lic roads, the course being in the shape of a triangle. The machine that won the race was a 90-horse power one. m m m The greatest North Carolinian that several generations have seen is dead The last link that strongly connected the present with the past has been broken in the death of Senator Ransom, and we shall not see his like strain. Gentle as a woman stately as the Caesars, wise but gen erous, suave but masterful, true and brave, the wealth of his endowments were so combined as to make a Saul whose height above his fellow men served most to draw them U him. Another one of those fearful rail road wrecks that are of daily occur rence, happened in Missouri yester day, killing 29 persons. This is t peaceful country, but the statistics tell us that already during this year there have been more people killed in railroad accidents in the United States than have been killed by all the fighting between the Japanese and Russians. counseled to husband their resources reer. His record as Coufrderate ! with the warning from a high gov ernmental official that the inroads upon her funds will be enormous As to Russia, U may be said that while she already owes a great deal of money. This, it would seem, counterbalances to some extent the elect of the Czar's larger domains in about the same ratio that the num ber of disloyal inhabitants makes up to Japan's inferiority in population. American interest is becoming more and more concerned in the mat ter of commerce because of the be lief that the continuance of the war will have a tendency to decrease the demand for cotton goods from this country. The reports of a naval battle off Port Arthur a few days ago were ap parently unfounded. GENERAL RANSO.1 DEAD, j A dispatch of yesterday from Muk den says that the Russians have at last taken the offensive, and that the Russian army is now moving on the Japanese, and that the latter have already lost important points. Though Uncle Henry, our candi date for vice president, has passed the four-score notch, he was able yes terday to begin a canvass of his two home States, Maryland and West Virginia. Good politicians believe that Judge Parker will certainly carry New York, and Chairman Taggart claims New Jersey, Connecticut, West Virginia and Indiana. This will be a plenty. The War. Caarlniie Olatrr. r. So far as the outside world is in formed, the events transpiring in Manchuria during the past week have not been of an important na ture. There have, it seems, been more or less serious assaults made on Port Arthur either during the past week are reported for the first time. It is now admitted by the Russians that the Japanese hare captured the fortifications controlling the water works, but the existance of a fresh water lake and a number of conden sers for utilizing sea water, it is con tended, minimizes the importance of this development Then is more or or less activity around Mukden, but bo promise that another general en casement is imminent ft seems to be accepted as a fact that Rossis really means to send her Baltic fleet to the far Last, and the Czar's government as well as Japan is taking measures pointing to the fact that the war has in reality only iust beffun. A dispatch from Mukden last night brought newt of the sppearant retire ment of the Japanese upon their positions about Li&o Yang, with the desire, probably of fighting a decis ive engagement near where the great battle of the war was recently fougnt. This nay be the intention of the Japanese, but in this connection it should be borne in mind that dis patches from Mukden are subject to strict censorinip by tne Kussians. The nae of hand grenades, an ex plosive botxb made of pyrolyxin, shows to what extent the fighting has ghM about Port Arthur. The Russians, it is said, rushed upon the , Jape: at night, throwing these bombs by head, with the result that terrif ic slaughter was inflicted. The ef fectiveness of this weapon is admit ted at Tokia Sin it his been practically ad mitted on all sides that the war is to go on indefinitely, the matter of fr Bancea is receiving considerable at tention. The Japanese have been; Died Suddenly at His Home in Northampton at One O'clock Saturday Morning. Chariot l Ohxmr. Sala . The greatest of North Carolin ians has auswered the final sum nious. At an early hour yesterday nioruing, Hou. Matthew Wbiuker Kausom died. It was on the seventy-eighth anuiversity of his birth, for he was born on the Sth of Octo- ber His heart failed hiui, as he well knew for many years it was likely to do a auy time. Ten years ago this mouth, at Statesville, ere he bad progressed ten minutes iu oue of his stately orations, before au iuspiriug audience, he paused. summoned t'rieuds to him, and was conveyed to a room in the court bouse. He recovered, iu toe course of days, but the physiciau who at teuded him said afterward that be was the victim of atigiua pectoris. soldier was most honorable, sua while afterward, as a United States Senator, high in the councils of his party at Washington and highly' influential in the great body to which be beloujred, he ever pie ferred to be addreawd as Gener al," tbiukiug the title that he bad woo in the Cou federate aruiy great er than that of "Senator." His appearauce upon the national the atre was an event. Handsome as Appollo, faultlessly attired, carry -iug the air of a soldier aud geutle luau, he rouiiuauded iuaiant atten tion, aud sustaiued worthily the promise of which hiseutrauce gavt boe. The first wH-h, iudeed the only set speech he ever made in the Senate, thrilled that body aud the country through iu remarkable eloquence aud power, aud a dra matic iuterest was added to it by the fact that at its roue lusiou he was borne, fuiuting. to a cloak room from the floor. It is not forgotton that in a ten minute speech he in duced the Senate to appropriate ten niilliou dollars for a light house on Hat (eras Shoals; but it w as not upon speech waking that be dej -ended for the accomplishment of his pnrpowa, but Umu his person-, al iutluence. "I look only to re-1 suits," he once said: aud he was the prince of diplomats. "He has more iurluence with a Kepublicau ! administration," said the late' Judge it K. Arm belt!, tlieu a uieiuter of the House, "than any 1 Republican." and under a IH-tno- cratic ad in I mstr.it ion he secured ueaiiy all, in ottievs and appropri ation, that be asked for. tie was suave, agreeable, always so much so that there were those who said he was not sincere. Hou. John S. Henderson, Kepreseututive iu t'ou- j aud while he might live for years; frrM fam the seventh district of he might die at auy uioiueut. To those who kuew that he hud a fa tal malady the iufi riuatiou of his death came as a great grief, but was not as a surprise. He was born in warren county and was graduated at the Univer sity, dividing the honors of his class with the late Geu. J. Jouuson Pettigrew. At the age of 26 he became Attorney General of the State but resighed this oflice to re sume his private practice. From this State, who went in with the first Cleveland administration, wheu the pressure for office was very great, said on oneoccasiou: "I have beard him talk to a thou-j sand men about olticett, and I never : kuew him to lie to one or evade one." Wollsville News. CorriMnlriiiv of Tti Journal. Fanners are very busy gathering their cotton. Thev say the cotton' 1358 to '00 he was a member of the crop is the best it has been in a long, Legislature, aud when the civil time. Rain is needed very badly in I war threatened, was made a peace 1 this part of the country to bring the commissioner from North Carolina turnips up. to the congress of the Southern! I'r. T. W. Red wine spent a few States at Moutgomery Ala., iu lwil days of last week with his son, Mr 1 But the war came aud be gave his K H Uedwnie or Jionroe. sword and services to the South. Miss Nmat lark of ncddington is I Euteriug the Confederate army as spending a week or so with her, lieuteuaut colonel, he found hiuiself mother. at the war's rlose a brigadier geu-1 Mr. t lark ( renshaw and family of eral. havine borne himself through Vann siient last Sunday with Mr. .1 ' it with the courage of a soldier and the skill of a commander. His meu were devoted to him and through all the mutations of later politics continued his uufalteriig t'rieuds. Iu 187;.', governor Vance having been, on account of his po-1 Honevcutt. Mrs. Julia Price visited in Monroe last week. Messrs. II II. and B U Clark of i Monroe visited their mother, Mrs. Fannie Clark, Sunday. Mr. John Colwell of Providence litical disabilities, deuied the seat scnt a few days at Mr. W. T. Slian- n the semite to which he hail been ! non s. elected, Gen. Rausom was chosen in bis stead, and was continued in that body by succeeding legislatur es until March 4, 18!)., when, after a service of 2:1 years, he was suc ceeded by Mr. Marion Butler, lie- fore the expiration of bis term us Senator he was appointed by Pres dent Cleveland United States minister to Mexico, which position he held for two years aud theu re signed retiring to his home ou the Roanoke, where, until his death, he pursued the peaceful avocation of a farmer, in which he prospered greatly, retrieving the fortune he bad lost in politics, adding largely to his landed estate, and becomiug the largest and most successful cot ton pluuter in North Carolina. These are bare details of a moot useful life, of a distinguished ca- Miss Stella Davis has returned from Mineral Springs, where she vis ited her sister, Mrs. Ma Howie. Miss M. Ciithertson left last Wed nesday to enter Greensboro Female College. Mr. Joe Ilartis has recently had a telephone put in his house. Mr. John II. lHcs now has charge of Mr. K. B. lied wine's plantation store. Buy the loy Ci-indstone suits double knee aud seut from The People's Pry Goods Co. Best ou the market. New kraut at 4 cents a pound. W. A. Stewart & Bro. We lire uiak ing a siecittlty of fine fruits, candies and vegetables. W. A. Stewart & Bro. W. S. BLAKENEY, President. A. M. STACK. W. C. WOLFE, ) Vice-President. Cashier S THE BANK of UNION MONROE, X. G This Bank has been operated In the Interest of the people at art as well as Its stockholders. Its officers have done their best to build up n on roe and the surrounding country. It pro vides every safeguard for the depositor and Is always liberal to the borrower. No reasonable person could be dissatisfied with Its methods. Remember what It has done for the people thus far and let everybody know that it will meet all legitimate competition In the future. Patronize It with your account and thus show your sympathy for a progressive and obliging Institution. It Is your friend and it Is here to stay. Paint is to a Building what ctefciaf t Mr. It is Jo m hnpoftaot. You amid taks at Mack can ia stkctias; tnt paiM M cloth your any at jam So ia m Uctia( is aiattnal to clodu your fnoa. Punt pic m tat avildiag . Paiat gin betuty to tht building, k aba add) ss nw atUiag er natiag vsm f s building. The Sherwih-Williavs Paiht h aa lor aaJadaf fettdlnp. tlliMi Isw-ptkid stint, but k k can barn Dm Stat. It is mad of tht pore saatwials fast swaf tat ioafM. Ttw fatan in bright tad atari OLD IV Monroe Hardware Co. Randolph Bedfearn, Manager, ciurtotie' Fastest Gro.lna Store -THE- Bee Hive No Store has ever come to the front so rapidly as this one, selling high-class goods. Buy inj: and selling for Sm4 (tab having the Ready Cawh to plank down tor Bankrupt St"ek, lUilnatd Wreck (ioods, ete., we are always in initiii to tell you saute giiod at very wiH'k Ioaer i'riivs than her ktorea; miuirtiiiiea half; some times two thirds or Hirer lurtlin. but always a great deal Irtts thau el-a here. We j;u.irautee the price of evrry artit-le e sell you to be lower thau vinie ran be bought for elsewhere, and e b;rk our guarauN-e ailh the ".M.inev lin k" if not sutixfactory iu every way as to Trice aud Quality. What fairer cau we offer? The Largest and Most Varied Stocks New Fall Goods Ever Brought Together in one Charlotte Store. We want aud appreciate your trade, and we are after it w ith tioods aud Trirea that leave the atorra ruu by the old time methods out of the game. You can't afford to miss seeing values like these: STANIURIX'ALICOKS, alolutcly tut colors, the same other more are selling at .1 rents. :t) rents. (i(HH Ol'TINli, nier coloix, good llcecr; same, and lots of it not so good as this. W-uij: sold el.se here at reuta. Our Spot tVsh I'rioe, .'tj rents. (XVTTOX FI.XNXKU good Hecce, TJ cent Rrade, 5 rent. FIXK HK.VVY Ol'TlMJS. iu nd solid colors; no better to lie bad at ID rents. Our price "i cent LHJUT (X)LOi;KlMl'TIStiS, the heavy weight, nice checks, stripes, ete.; selling regularly at ll'jc. ; here It) rents. Ladies' Ready-made Skirts. Fine Sample Skirts going at B.irg:iiu Trices. Fiue Walking Skills, ni.nle of good heuvy goods, nicely nutde up, HSc. Misses Skirts, tine wool goods, all sues, ! rents. Very Fine Skirts samples of Skirts worth l.tK and more the verv best styles of making; going now at t4!t. RKI Wt H L FLANNEL ! ents. White Wool Flannel ! cents. GOOD S1IF.KTINC, Hi inches wide, .1 rents. School Imv Jeans 10 cents. The Heaviest and liest All-Wool Jeans, worth ;( aud itSrts., going here at cents. IIICKOKV SlllUTINli. the gsid heavy oue, Blue and Brown Stripes, 7J rents. Tsble till Until, all colors, yard uud quarter wide, lUc. Wool Dress Goods, From the Railroad Wreck. Big lot till kinds New 1 tress Good all brand new. They were on the way from the iimmil'.ictiirers to the Southern mer chants for this season's selling. No out of date goods iu it. We have divided them in two lots goods worth to 40 rts. lit IS rents. The better goods worth tiO and t5 cents, going fur .'tit rents Ladies' New Fall Cloaks. The finest slock New Stylish Cloaks ever shnwu iu Char lotte. Ijnlie.V nice (.'oats, all si.es ami colon, f l.iis. Fine stvlisli Coats, maileof the finest cloak goods, iu Blacks, Browns, Blues, etc., the most foshionuble sty Us, wor'h "i.lK) aud more, .!n. Men's Clothing. We are having a Creat Sale of the L'0,000 stock "White Seal" Suits mid Overcoats. All line goods, tailor tuade. The "While Seal" Clothes are woi Id renowned for Artistic Work manship and Correct Fining. Only the very best materials are used in the " bite Seal ' brand, f id and f 15 Overcoats going ut l.".00 and tl7.fr. t Jii Overcoats unit a strong line at f jt going here now at l.'.oo. t)vereoats mid Suits worth I " and tIS, now f 10. Fine Tailored Suits, of the very finest material used iu Suits, worth f."J..Vl to f.'W.tMi, now J.flO to tlXWK Popular Priced Clothing. The givatest linen popular priced Suits ever shown. Men's all -wool Suits nice new patterns and colors, well made never sold elsewhere fur less than r.()0, here frMtS. Men's whole Suits as iow as fl.!IS. Boy's Suits, all colors and siz.es up to 1 1 and 15 years, 49 and ! cents. Men's and Boys' fine Sample Huts, all siz.es aud shitpes, 35 to 4! cents. New Fall Millinery. The Millinery Opening This Week. : W 5 W VT VJ aft". .4 ai.A ...CLOTHING... Q) 1)1 I PANIS. In M m m m m . a Come one mid all and see the new Fall and Winter The swellest Huts ever shown in Charlotte are here. Styles. For One Cent: 1 Taper Gold Eyed Needles 1 Key Chain and King 1 long Corset Lac '1 hmmiIs Basting Thread 2 yards Daisy Ribbon, any color 1 good Carpenter's Pencil 1 box Slate Pencils 2 Coarse CoiuIm 2 Pencil Kissers 7 Ten Stuffs 2 Balls White Thread 2 docen Buttous 40 Hair Tins 15 Slate Pencils Pen Points 2 cards Hooks and F.vee 1 spool Turkey Red Thread 14 Safety Pius 3 pairs Shoe Lure 24 sheets Note Paier 3 Thimbles 1 Handkerchief 2 Fine Combs 1 box good Tacks 2 Mirrors 1 full box Mourning Pins 3 papers Needles 2 boxes Blacking 0 Lamp Wicks 6 Hat Pins 1 ltox Black Tins 1 Crochet Needle 1 paper Fall Tins 1 roll White Tspe 1 roll Black Tspe 2 Battenhiirg Rings 1 yard Buttenburg Braid 1 Belt Tin 1 Black Beauty Tin 3 packs Wire Hair Pius, 13 to park 1 Horn Hair Tin 1 Alumuiuiu Hair Pin 2 halls Black Sewing Thread 1 box Writing Paper and Envelopes to match 1 Tablet 1 Note Book 2 Memorandum Books 2 Lead Pencils 1 good Pencil, rubber in end 1 Wood enroxed Slate Pencil 1 yard Hat Elastic 1 box Invisible Hair Pins 1 box Colored Crayon 6 Bone Collar Buttons 1 nice White Tie 1 good Brass Collar Button, for bark or front 1 Linen Collar 6 Black Collar Buttons Everything iu Plain Figures, and ONE PRICE to AIL Mail orders receive prompt on? careful attention. ..THE.. BEEHIVE, Q The Big Store, Corner Trade and College Stroets, CHARLOTTE. N. C. Men, listen ! W are handling High Standard Clothing, made by the relebrated Herman Krat zeifeteiu, in the college and military cuts. If you need a suit and intend buying, it will pay you to come and inspect this first-class line before buy ing elsewhere. We consider our $7.50, $10.00, $12.50 and 15.00 suits the best for the money it is ajssib!e for you to buy in North Carolina. Boys' Suits Now, boys, we simply mean business when we ssy that our suits, made by Mrs. Jane Hopkins, are the best in Monroe and for lit and wear can not be duplicated in the State. We have this line from the very cheapest to the very best all-wind Thibet and unfinished worsteds. Boys, ask to be shown this line, and it will give us great pleasure to wait on you. Is 6 m m m We were never in all j5r of our successful ca- , t r reer better prepared than now to v give you son:e rare bargains in PA this line. We have some specials bought in a job $4.50 and $5.00. Pants sale price $3.00. Boys' and Youths' Pants We have on hand a nice line of our ssecial brand, the Mrs. Jane Hopkins' goods. They are made up in the very best manner possi ble (or tbrm to W mule. Size j't to 17't. Kirat lot of jo foiea chnp at twic. the pricv k. ajc. Strcooil lot of jo down, talc price 50c. ThirJ lot 15 Qoicn, cheap at I ou, go for 7jc. OVERCOATS Men's and Youths' It would be a treat for you to fiance through our complete line of Overcoats in fancies, black and greys; styles full-backs, strap backs, ulsters and plain. Prices from the very cheapest to the very best the market affords. Some thing to fit and suit the most fas tidious. For anything you need in Cloth ing or other goods, first come to Belk Brothers and be convinced that we are the Cheapest Store on Earth ! BELK BROTHERS. Wholesale and Retail. Cheapest Store on Earth ! m -larAiIaa Mr. (S. Z. French, the Republican politician who was driven out of Wil mington in died in Maine yes terday. There it niurc catsrrh iu this lec tion of the country than all other dis ease put together, and until the latt few yean i iuppoaed to t in iucur ahle. For 1 great oiany yean Uocturi pronounced it local diteasa aud pre scribed local reniediea, aoj by cou atantly failing to curs with local treat ment, pronounced it incurable. Science has pronuuoced catarrh to beacunnti tutional diaeane snd therefore require! constitutional treatment. Hall's Ca tarrh Cure, manufactured by K. J. Cheuey & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only conatiluliunal cure on the market. It is taken internally iu doses from 10 drops to s teanpoonful. It acts directly ou the blood and mucous surfsces ut the system. They offer tne hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials Address: F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by druggists, 75c. Tske Hall's Family Pills for conMi patiou, If you want a rarjet of any kind, see our samples, Monroe Furniture Co, Sewing niHchiueH, best and cheap est, at the Monroe Furniture to.' store. If you want a bargain iu ahoes see Collins x Bigger. Speelal run on eofl'ee for the neit 10 days, at W. A. Stewart & Bro a, Fresh strained honey at l'.'J rents, at . A. Stewart & liro s. Wiley's flue rand ies daily, always fresh, at W. A. Stewart & Bros'. Buy your cheese from Stewart's. Always fresh and clear, cut by our new pateut proeetsi uo waste, no hard surfaces. Notice. Nittlr It bf wlif slvn to all wba It aiM inm-ni, thai Nalhtn A. HtiiwiM ntra and la)m elalai Ut th followlne tt-Mrltd plf,1 or tvirri ,n tana in numni Miwninip, 1 nna i-ouniy. n i. , inr mriv winR vw-ani anil un Aburotirlatnt iantl. and aulijH-l loriilrr.vll 011 thr walrm of Kli-har,l,in errk. adjoining Ihe land of M m. lllr YounalilmMt. Aaron i'toh and nttirin, ooitialntna- fjr animation an M-r mow or mi. mit lain ttmr of nrutra lr, 14. i. t HTKSART, Knlrj Takrr. rjlO show you our pretty line of Seasonable Furniture will be a pleas ure, not only to us, but to YOU. Then you might see something that would just SUIT you. Of course you need some new pieces. Respectfully, T. P. DILLON. Founded 1842. ..STIEFF PIANOS.. "Sing Their Own Praise." Endorsement flven this Instrument by the President of a Noted North Carolina College. (Copy of original letter.) Air. ('has. M. Stud, Charlotte, N. C, March 11, I'M. Baltimore, Md. iVar Sir: We have been usinfl the Stirff upright pianos exclusivclly in the Music Conservatory of Klizabeth College for the past seven years. The pianos have given entire satisfaction both to teachers and students. (lur niusieians prefer the Slieff piano, and for this reason 1 have no dis position to admit any other nmke of piano into the Conservatory. Our business relations with your firm have been both pleasant and sat isfactory We have in use seventeen Stiel! pianos. Very truly yours, C1IAKI.K8 B. KINO, President Klizabeth College. Stieff,- Manufacturer of Pianos with a Sweet Tone, Baltimore, Md. SOUTH KRX WAKK1MKJMS: 211 213 N. TryonSt, Charlotte, N. C. C, H. WILMOTH, Mgr. To the Public: WE ARE THE LEADERS j In the Vehicle and Harness Business in t T a-. . uuiuu uuu ourrounuing uouniies. j If style, fiulsh, honest material and workmanship, fair deal ing, aud a warrant that is good for something means anything to you, yon are the man we waut to see. It's a well known fact that we sell the best Runabouts, Phaetons, Surreys, Traps, Bikes and Bugles of endless varieties tbat can be fonnd anywhere. Our buggy X trade baa been enormous the past year and we eipect to be able Z increase our trade eoutiuually in the future by increasing our already big stock. If you waut to trade your old buggies for new ones, be sure to a come to see us, Don't forget us when yon waut a fancy turnout for city or t mutry drive. Phoue 95. I X country C.C. arid V. D. KE When You A ifThink ing of i t Painting Your House m " wih w att w ucv wioi)ium miv svrow a 4 why, come to ns and let os give yon a short talk about HAR X K1SOA H TOWN AND COUNTRY READY MIXED PAINT. Remember, Town and Con u try is the Paint Uncle Bam uses on J the White House. For sale by ' , , S. J. WELSH, Druggist.