North Carolina Newspapers

THE MONROE JOXJRK4 1, VOLUME X. NO 40 MONROE, N.O, TUESDAY DECEMBER 8 1904 One Dollar a Year HUNDREDS BURNED TO DEATH u:s. c::?R, A New Chicago Theatre Takes Fir and Nearly SU Hundred People PVrba Jore Burned to Death Some Suffocated and Many Trampled to Death in ibe Mad Rush-Dead Codfc Piled Ten Feet High at the Doora Fearf ul Scenes of Next Day. Chicago, Dee. 30 About 550 people were killed in about 10 min utes in the Iroquois Theatre, the newest and, a far as human power could nuke it, the safist theatre in t'hicaga Fjtimslrt of the dead and injured vary. The police account of the dead is MB. The estimate of the newspapers is 502. Besides this there are 55 paple missing at mid night, the majoriiy of whom are very probably among the dead in the jnitrpue and the various undertaking establishments. Ktghty-aix of the dead have been positively identified ami 92 others are known to be in jured. A few of the unfortunates were . burned to death by fire, many were mifhrated by gas, and scores were trampled to death in the panic that followed the mad plunge of the frightened audience for the exits. It will be tawy hours before the number of dead is accurately known and many days before all of them will be ideuliiied. There are bodies lying by the doens tonight in the undertaking rooms, in the police stations, and in the hospitals from which nearly everything that could reveal their identity to those who knew them best is gone. Their clothing is torn to rags or burned to finders and their aces have been .crushed into an unrecognizable pulp Ijy the heels of the crowd that tram pled them down as they tied for safety. The fire broke out during the second act "Mr. Blue Beard, Jr. which was the first dramatic produc tion presented in the theater since iU erection. The company, which was very large, escaped to the streets in safety, nearly all of thera, how ever, Wing compelled to flee into the snowy streets with no clothing tut Heir stags costumes. A few members of the company sustained minor injuries, but none was serious ly hurt i The accounts of the origin of the fire are conllicting, and Hone of them are certain, but the best reason given is that an electric wire near the low er parr of a piece of drop-scenery suddenly broke and was grounded. The fire spread rapidly toward the front of the stage, causing the mem ber of the chorus, who wcra then en gsged in the performance to flee o the wings with screams of terror. The fire in itself up to this time was not serious, and possibly could have been checked, had not the asbestos curtain failed to work. As soon as the fire was discovered, Eddie Foy, the chief comedian of the company, shouted to lower the curtain, and this was immediately done. It des cended bIkiuI half way, and then stuck. The fire thus as given practically a flue through which a litroniz draft was setting in. With a roar and a bound the flames shot through the opening, over tho heads of the people on tlie lirst floor ana reaching those in the first balcony. caueht them and burned them to death where they sat. Immediately following this rush of flames, there came an explosion, which lifted the entire roof of the theatre from its walls, shattering the great skylight into fragments. As soon as the flames fust appear ed, beyond the curtain, a man in the rear shouted "Fire! Fire!" and the entire audience rose as one person and made for the doors. It is boliev i ed the explosion was caused by the flames coming in contact with the gas reservoir of the theatre, causing them to burst. Will J. Davis, man ager of the theatre, faid, after the cataslronho. that if the people had remained in their seats and had not been excited by the cry of fire, not a sinclc life would have been lost. I seat, she Laving fallen over face I down. - 1 1. !. mmmt (Ka limn ttut TU Bait Fu SciltirM U k, harrowing in the ex- ia worw, mmj mm . treme. Bodies lav in every cooceiv- abU attitude, hair-naked, the look on their faces revealing some portion of agony which must have preceded their death. Then were scores and cores of people whose entire faces had been trampled completely off by the heels of those who rushed over them, and in one aisle the body of a atan was found with not a vestige cf clothing, flesh or bone remaining 1UUIV 11 ,a RWOl t .111 . a mu V . v per portion of bis body had been cut into mince-meat and carried away by the feet of those who trampled him. A search was carefully made with a hope of finding bis head, but at a late hour tonight it bad not been discovered, and all that will tell his friends who he was is the color and appearance of the clothing un the lower limbs, and this is in such condition as. to be hardly recognizable. dj rvua. C-pf. Ohicain. Dec 31. Through the marble foyer of the Iroquois theater atn.M.C. lira. M. C. Cooper, of u Roys Aea my of Aria, Londoa, Eaglaad, Is wa aoabtodly on of ths graatast Irrlag eolplora. Boskla, U groat artist plseod Mrs. Cooper oao of lbs frost lory. Mra. Oooptr U an ardrat frlond there have been carried since five of Poruna and la letter datad Jsaoary ; o'clock yesterday evening the bodies auh.writtea rnm WuhiogtoB.Mjiths of 556 dead and nearly 300 injured following i M Uke pieseoro la rooonf spectators of yesterday's holiday niat Modlag Psruai for catarrh and la iK)Wn the white stairwavs grippe. I asviurtd for month and uwri1iM1, have home black- ened corpses and maimed figures, until the disaster has become a hor ror of horrors, a colossus among the world's holocousta. lu a scofe of after the bm of one bottla of FfruQS I am entirely well.-Mrs. M.C.Cooper, Dead for a free book oa eaUrrh ok- UUed" Health and Besot y This booh la written eepecteily for women, and will bo found to be of great value to every woman. Address Or. Hirtmu, Ool urn boi, Ohio. Horse Health! for putting In prime condition anv horse or mule the best of all remedies is AshcrafYs Condition Powders. These Powders are woa derfully effective because they cre ate anrietite. the dieestion Is made perfect, worms and parasites de stroyed, and the system cleansed f all otojs humors, tne row Hers fatten but never bloat. Ashcraft's Condition Powders are wrapped In doses. In fact, in their preparation the same ca.-e is used that a drucreist would exer cise in the filling of a physician's prescription. High grade and real merit is the first consideration. Ashcraft's Powders consist of mall doses, prepared from the nurest and highly concentrated In crredient. that have been found beneficial to horses and mules. Ashcraft's Condition Powders always high gradesro. not to be classed with the many wiuy, goou for-everything powders now on the market. . Ask for Ashcraft's, the kind put up In doses, and good for horses and mulet only. HTln trIM mnj UniH o Onfirttttoe Vowk oVn. I murt A-hrrft Ik lt ihe morket. I Uk rlMr mT"'li"J thrm to mr Mm ml cmHjmi.-U. CAHf- This is howevpr, contradicted by tl a statements of the firemen, who found numbers of people sitting in their seats, their faces directed toward the stage as if the performance were still goiug on. It was the opinion of the firemen that these people had been suffocated at once by the flow of gas which came from behind the asbestos curtain. As near as can be estimated at the present tune, about 1,300 people ere m luetlieatro. 1 nree nunurea of these were on the first floor, the balance being in the two upper bal conies and in the hallways back of them. The theatre is modeled after the Opera Comique, in Paris, and from the rear of each balcony there are three doors leading out to passage wavs toward the front of the theatre. Two of those doors are at the end of the balcony and one in the centre. The audience in its rush for the greater part, chose to flee to the left entrance, and to attempt to mako its way down the eastern stairway lead ing into the lobby of tne ineaire. Outside of the people burned ana sufTock!d by gas, it was in these two doorways on the first and second balconies that the greatest loss of life occurred. When the firemen entered, the dead were found stretch ed in a pile reaching from the neau of the stairway at least eigni leci from the door back to a point about five feet in the rear of the door. This mass of dead bodies in the cen tre of the doorway reached to within too feet af the lop passago wpy. All of the corpses at this point were wo men and children. The fight for life which must have taken place at these two points is something that is simply beyond human power adequately to describe Only a faint idea of its horror could bo derived from the bodies as they lav. Women on ton of those masses of dead had been overtaken by ueam as they were crawling on hands and knees over the bodies of those wno bad died before. Others lay with arms outstretched in the direction toward which lay life and safety. holding in their hands the fragment of carmen ta. not their own. iney were evidently torn lrom otners whom they had endeavored to pull down and trample under foot as they madlv fought for their own lives. As the police and firemen removed layer after layer of dead in these doorways, the sight became too much even for them, hardened as they are to such harrowing scenes, to endure. The bodies were in such an inextri cable mass and so tichtly were they jammed between the sides of the door and the wans tnai n was im possible to lift them, one by one, and carry them out Tho only possible thins to do was to seize t lima or some others portion of the body and pull with mam strength. Men wort ed at the task with tears running down their cheeks, and the sobs of the rescuers could be heard even in the hall below where this awful scene was being enacted. A number of the men were compelled to aban- don their task and give it over to others whose nerves had not, as yet been shaken by the awful experience. As one bv one the bodies were drag end out of that water-soaked black ened mass of corpses, the spectacle became more and more hesrtrenaing. . There were women w hose clothing was torn completely from their bod ios above the waist, whose bosoms had been trampled into a pulp and whose faces were marred beyond all power of identification. Bodies lay in the first and second balconies in great numbers.' In some places they were piled up in the aisles three and four deep, where one had fallen and others tripped over the prostrate forms, and all had died where they lav evidently suffocated by the gas. Others were bent over backs of seats, where they had been thrown by the rush of people for the doors and killed with hardly a chance to rise from their seats. One man was found with his back bent nearly double, hit apinsl column having been fractured as he was thrown bee k ward. A woman Was found cut morgues the dead now lie in thick lines, so close to one another that they touch. On the sidewalk sur rounding the doors the frenzied crowds clamored from early morn until midnight for admittance. The streets everywhere were full of peo ple sorrowiug, silent and appalled. Scenes indescribable wer otw'Uid within the morgues and other cen ters of the carnival of death. Iden tifications are progressing with cruel slowness, and of the 55fi bodies only 200 liave been recognized. With the machinnfy pf the coroner's office clogging the work, pitiable delays have resulted, which adds Inesti mable weight to the misery of uncer tainty that is driving sufferers fran tic. Suggestions were made by the chief of police that the unknown dead be taken to the Coliseum and there arranged so fif.it there would be more facility for the work of in formation. The coroner lef used. All the time the few who could gain en trance to the morgues were tramp ling over bodies, creeping through the rows of the dead in the search for their friends. In the office of the chief of police and the city hall corridors adjoining there were packed a halt craze 1 throng waiting the news from the palaces of death. On a chair in the middle of the room the chief secre tary read from the police report the descriptions of the dead ae they were formulated at the morgue, aowanu then there was a shriek or a moan or woman pushed out with the knowl edge that in one of the black rows of the dead was the body of a loved one. To each of these was given a permit ir the inspection of the bodies, but the morgues were too small to admit a tenth of these who had orders from the chief. At one of the down town places a man on his hands and knees peered down into the features of the dead before him. When he came to the parched face of a six-year-old boy he fainted and fell across the bony Appalling Scenes. Daybreak disclosed appalling scenes, around the morgues and near the theater. Crazed men and women all night had haunted the Kandolrhi I'reet entrance to the playhouse with J the nope born ot dmprraiion mat they might find those for whose re turn others knew there was no hope. At Ralslon's morgue in Adams street the seenea of anguish were indescri bable. Weakened by their ghastly all-night vigil, SHI wet-ping pe'H'k stood wearily in front of the dr, too tired to continue their clamor for entrant. As the morning wore on the crowd became greater and plead ed more insUtantlv for admittance Men clutched at the sleeves of stolid policemen and begged that they might be allowed to go in. One woman dropped to her knees and craw led after the sergeant w ho had turned away to avoid her entreaties. Others walked up and down in the street, wailing and moaning in their agony. The strain on the nerve of the police became unbearable, and at 7:30 o'clock the officer in charge i'f the detail of twenty demanded addi tional men. fifteen patrolmen were sent to him, and with their arrival the others dropped baet to rest. In side the moigim silent men wern passing among the thkk nw of dead, seeking to identify them and to tabulate description of those iixm whose belies no identifying mark could be found. At the other morgues conditions were equally cruel. The crowds beat against the police guards, muttering futle excuses to be allowed to enter. They were pushed back again, dazed ann dperate. Many of those who watclied Ihe sufferers d'tdared that often the police wero unnecessarily harsh and unfeeling in their treat ment of the people. In the second gallery, seen by the light of a fireman's lantern, two rigid figures sat erect in the east side of the front row. The horror ltxk was on their f;ice. lint they had not moved. Ttm inaii's arm t;itreu,M in front of the woman, us If ho had prevented her from raising and join ing in the rush for the door. Charred opera glasses were in her burned hands. These were the last bodies to be taken from the tneatrc. At ilo lop of l)e marble, staircases the polloe seat-ehed smutig tliu frag ments left lu the struggle forartlclen to assist in the identification of the disfigured bodies at the morgues. A child's toy watch, the crystal still unbroken, was picked up and a French heel from a woman's boot. A glove was found with the lingers torn out. Mixed with particles of Pro liant glass from tlmelianiluhcrs weio rings, buttons - and fragments of scorched clothing. J'olico Inspector Campbell of the north division found six watches near the top of the stair case. The hands of all of them pointed to ten minutes before four lock. Immediately after the fire ghoul ish thieves reaped a harvest. They succeeded in passing the fire lines by shamming grief ond telling the whee they wished to search for the bodies of relatives. Insido the thea tre the flairs were strewn with pur ses, watches and pieces of jewelry hkh the people either had lost or thrown away in the wild scramble for their lives.- The ghouls plun dered the purses and stuffed their pockets with tho jewels. They snatched rings from chaired fingers, in some instances breaking off the fingers. They tore eardrops from the ears of patrician women and filched watches from their pockets. Price 25c, package Sold by fcttgittil Drug Company i nearly in half by the back of the, ?m When the butter won't 9 . come put a penny in me churn," is an old time dairy proverb. It often seems to work though no one has ever told why. When mothers are worried because the children do not train streneth and flesh we say eive them Scott's EmuV sion, It is like the penny in the milk because it works ana because there is something astonishing about it. Scott's Emulsion is simply a milk of pure cod liver oil with some hypophosphites especially prepared for delicate stomachs. Children take to it naturally because they like the taste and the remedy takes just as naturally to the children be cause it is so perfectly adapted to their wants. For all weak and pale and thin children Scott's Emulsion is the most satisfactory treat ment Wa will tend 7ii Um penny, h., aampls Ire. tmm llul Ilk ikM EaMkM ym kaf. 5C0TT ft BOWNE, Cbtmktt, 409 Peart St, N. Y. aeSijeiarnWa ! S J I Wood'sSeeds. TeeDty-Sr rren prartirej ex pvnence, and ihe fart that eedo the lariret buMoree ia SmU in thv ruttrra htait-a, enat-lre at lu supply every rruimurot la 6ARQEN AND FARM SEEDS to the wtj ht-t e.Ivant!t bulb ryanle tjiWtly eoj price. Truckert and Farmers mpilrino- Wive quantttlte tif Sveiln sn rrupin (a write for sm-il prior. If toii hare not rivnl eoprof tUiOli-s FKKI) HOOk fur in -I, erriu.rrlt. There Is aot another publication aaywhere that approaches It la the ncful and practical Inlornutioa that It rtvee to Southera tanncra aad gardeners. WaaS'a S4 9mmk to aalM Ine Wnwta-aayi T.W. Wood & Sons, Seedsmen, lltMOII, VIMIIIa. St. Peter and the Broker. This is eoine tho rounds, says the Kcw York Press. A broker from the financial vortex sought admission at the ppsrly gnws. ' ho are vou ,' said M, JVter, "I'm a Wall street broker," "What do you want ?" "I want to cet in." "What have you tlone that entitles you to admission f " ell, I saw a decrepit woman on Broadway the otlu r day and gave her two cents. "(labriel, is that on the records?' "Yes, St. Peter ; it's marked down to his credit," "What else have you done?" "Well, I crossed the Brooklyn bridge the other night and met a newsboy half frozen to death and gave him one cent." "liabriel, is that on tne recorus r "Yes, St. Peter." "What else have you done ?" "Well, I can't recollect anything else just now." "Gabriel, what do you limiK we ouirht to do with this fellow ?" Oh, give him back his three cent and tell nun to go to hell. Yours for the Asking. Oaah ala Uairttr. The Monro. Journal hasn't come to this ollice in two months. It is heieby warned, if it is still alive, to nut Tho Gazette on its exchange list for lH, or else enter our suoscnp tk-n and render bill for same. STATE OK OHIO, Citt or Toledo, Lccai Covktv. Frank 1. Clianev main oath that he it senior partner of Ihe Arm of K. I Cheney & Co., doing busiuesi in the City of Toledo, Comity sod Stile aforesaid, and that said firm will pay (be sum of One Hundred Dollars fur each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall Calan h Cure. Fiamk J. Lhne. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 61 li day of De cember, A. D. 1 886, fti.Ai.1 A. V. Glsasom, Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken intern ally, and sets directly on the blood and mucous sui faces of the system Send for testimonials, free. F.J. CHENEY & CO. Toledo, Ohio, Sold by droggist, 75o. Hall i family pills art the best Rebellious Negro In fectric Chair, Au'urn, Y V-, l)liatrli, $k. Frank Whiu, a negro, wa put In di-iith in th t'Mrie rlmlr at the State prison here today for the mtrr der of !coi'ge Clare, a farmer of Scrilia, Oswego county, by shooting. Six contacts, each of 1,710 volts, 7J ameres, were appliinl before White wax pronounced dead. After the fourth contact a strange gurgling in his throat made (lie pliy-sjciitn- kU-p ln k and liornitcd ihr spectator. The contact wan quickly repeated, but still the stethoscopes recorded rardiao actiun and two more contacts were given. Imring the second contact the head electrode Hushed brilliantly and there was an lor i burning hair. 1 lie execu tioner said it was (lie sHiigt l!'.' iukiIi tho idei-trodo. Ho adjusted it mom tightly before tho next shock. Among thi iso who nindea test with the atctlirscope was Dr. L'. B. Stein f Buffalo, and he reported that the heart had not ceased to beat. When ho had resumed his seat in the front row and t)0 fifth contar.t )iad l'n turned on, hi) suddenly pitched for ward and fell to the lloor in a swam. He was picked up by three keepers and carried from the death chamber, but soon revived. Slate Klivtrician Davis, in charge of the execution, explained the gurg ling in hitc s throat by saying that he held his hreiitli (orafw 'moments before the lira! contact and it was simply the air escaping from his lungs. Ho Uivlured that W lute was practically dead after the first con tact. White, who was about twenty-five jvars of age, was employed by Clare on tho hitter's farm. On Septemlier 15, l'JOl, White enticed the farmer into a corn field on a pretext that the cows were in the corn, and while Claie's hark was turned the negro liiliheratelv tired several bullets into is body until he fell to tho ground ead. ltobbery was the motive for the crime. White kept his watchers in great suspense during his last days in the corridor for the condemned by his violent attempts to sham insanity. He ran amuck in the narrow contines f his cell on the day before Christ mas, smashing everything breakage, and was onlv subdued after the prison hose had been turned on him for a quarter of an hour- lot' cared nothing for religion and neith- r friend nor relative inquired for him during his two years' confine ment, ! Ta Have a Chair of Poultry. at Loalx,k-l IfeaMiriM. Ilow to raise chickens will be taught at the C Diversity of Missouri The currs have decided to i.flt r a full course in tultry raising. . short course was offered last year, but this year the study is to be put on an equal plane with the studies in Ihe other departments, and full in struvtioiis in tlie breeding and haud- , ling of domestic fowls, and the pr -duction of eggs ill lip given. The rcas4iS for extending the course is due t-i the increasing iin- portamt' of Ihe poultry industry and me rcmaiKaiiio iniere.t manuestfU at the university last year, when the study was first iiitnxlu-ed. The rec ords show that it proved to be the most popular course ever offered at Missouri I'niversity. It proe.l so interesting that a number of the pro fessors enrolled themselves as stu dents and ententl the poultry de triment. The higltest gradej ij tif class were n ade by wi inemtx-i j of the faculty, Another ti un for the extension of the course is that the poultry busi ness has become one of the leading industries in Missouri, the annual Income from the same now U'ing estimated ut over iIO,HKI. Domestic Troubles. It is exceptional to find a family where there are no domestic rup tures occasionally, but the.se can lie lessened by having r. King' New Ijife Pills around. Much trouble ihey save by their great work lu stomach and liver troubles. They not only relieve you, but cure. 2.V., at English Drug Co. Texan Would Take No Chances. Waxhinirtnn I'tt. Rep rosen tat ive Bob Henry of Texas tells the following story, ''WoiU came one day to a man who lives down in my part of Texas that his mother-in-law had died in St. Louis. The first telegram was followed by another one, which read: " 'Shall we bur)' or cremate?' "The Texas man wired back ; " 'Both ; Inke no ehaiice.' " Cured After Suffering Ten Years. B. F. Hare, Siipt. Miami Cycle & Mfg. Co , Middletowu, O., suffered for ten years with dyspepsia. He spent hun dreds of dollars for medicine and with doctors without receiving any perma nent benefit. He ssys, "One night while feeling exceptionally bad I was about Iq throw down the evening pa per when 1 saw an item in Ihe paper regarding the merits of Kodol Dyspep sia Cure. concluded to try it and while I hsd no faith in it I felt better after the second dose. After using two bottles 1 sin stronger snd better than 1 have been in years, aud 1 rec ommend Kodol Dyspepsia Cure to my friends and acquaintances suffering from stomach trouble." SolJ by Eng lish Drug Co. and S. J. Welsh. A Very Close Call. "I stuck to my c. gino, although every Joint ached and every norve was racked with pain," writes l W. Bellamy, a locomotive flremsn, of Biirlineton. Iowa. "I was weak and pale, without any appetite and all run down. As I was aliont to (rive nn. Iirot a bottle of Klectric Bitters, and after taking it. I felt as well as I ever did in my lift Weak, sickly, run down people always pain new life, strength and rigor from nheir use. 1 ry them. Satisfaction Guaranteed by The Kuglish Drug Co. - Can't Down an Irishman. An Irishman at P ereeton was going down the street oil St. Pat rick s day, In the morning, snout inir vociferously i "Hurrah for owld Ireland," An Kngllshmau came along meeting him and said in contempt "Hurrah for hell!" "That's right." said the former, "you hurrah for your country and I'll hurrah for mine." EffcU of High Prices In nisslsslppl. The prevailing high prices of cot ton has greatly aggravated lair conditions in Mississippi, says a dis patch, which have hcix'tofore been in very unsatisfactory glial on ac count of the ditliculty in inducing the negro to work in the potion fields and his decided preference for work in tho towns, or still stronger ten- ncy to loaf about tho streets. Since cotton started on an upward course tho negroes as a rule refuse to accept employment as pickers un less they are paid wages proportion ate with the advance of the market, and in many communities it is im possible to get them to work for any price, as the large majority of them ait) well supplied with tunus, par ticularly the class owning small farms or working crops on the share system. Saved from Terrible Death. The family of Mrs, M. L. Bobitt of Bergertou, Tenn., saw her dying and were powerless to save her. Tho most skillful physicans and every remedy used, failed, while consumption was slowly but sure ly taking her life. In this terrible hour Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption turned despair in to joy, The lirst bottle brought immediate relief and its continued use completely cured her. It'ft the most certain cure in the world for all throat aud lung troubles. (iuaranteed Bottles 50c and $1.00. Trial Bottles Free at English Drug Co' s. BLANK BOOKS. Steort the new yer rioht, with a set of Hoffman Flixt Opening Blank Books. All Kinds and Ruling. Prices Right. 'Ihe W. J. Rudg'e Co. Books, Stationery, Jewelry. It I ooooooooeoeeoccoo Perh&ips You did not get as i present that nice piece of furniture you have been wanting so long. ; We have it for you. Come and pick it out. T. P. DILLON Furniture Dealer and Funeral Director. Store Phone 7; Residence Phone 84. x Established 1873 Incorporated l0l Carolina Marble and Granite Company. Hair Falls "I tried Aver'i Heir Vigor to stop my hsir from fsllin. One half s bottle cured ret." J. C. Baxter, BrsiJvood, III. Aycr's Hair Vigor is certainly the most eco nomical preparation of its kind on the market. A little of it goes a long way. It doesn't take much of it to stop falling of the hair, make the hair grow, and restore color to gray hair. ! 9S MC. AnSrarjMl. If tt Srnl eliH "pi'T ye, ein4 on. 4'Tiar .ml w. iH cxr1-. vneftlmul. Ita H .ltd it. Iht mm. nf worn mill KTT off). Ad'lrvw. t. c. AVa co., iwu, ium. Our business has been more than satishctory since opening in Monroe, and we now have on hand as nice a stock as can be found. at any yard in the State. We have just received some new and specially handsome designs, and we invite the inspection of all persons needing anything in our line. No grave, however humble, should be allowed to go unmarked. We can make a job to suit the price you are able to pay. Call for designs and prices. Carolina Marble and Granite Co., Came 4,000 Miles Only to Find Her Lover Dead. MrKreapnrt, r.. Dttrh,tTlh. After a journey of nearly 4, (XX) miles, which was to have had its ter initiation at the nuptial altar, Miss Ullian Uenncttof ednesbury, hne- land, today sbxxl in the presence of i the remains of her betmthed, Am- bnisc (iood, who was killed in the wreck of the Duquesne limited last Wednesday evening The scene in the little darkened parlor of the home of Thomas R. Good, a brother of Ambrose, was pathetic. Just across the street from the home of Thomas Good stands the cottage which JItss Bennett's intend ed husband had purchased and fur nished lor her. Tomorrow, whan was to have been the last before the wedding, will witness the funeral. Wonderful Nerva Is displayed by many a man en during pains of accidental, rata, wounds, bruises, burns, scalds, sore feet or stiff joints. Bat there's no need for it. Bucklen'i Arnica Salve will kilt the pain and cure the trouble. U s the beat salve on earth for piles, too. 25 cents, at English Drag Co. Monroe Furniture Co.'a store is packed and jammed with bargains for YOU. J. E. EFIRD, Manager. MONROE, N. C. Yards at Statesville, Salisbury, North Wilkesboro, and Monroe. IFF FBI! BIG CLEARANCE SALE of Fancy Vases, Cake Plates, China Dinner Stts, Fancy dold Plated Clocks, Mirrors, Sliver Handled Umbrellas, Cut Glass, Silverware, Etc. All Fancy Goods in my store I am offering now at ONE-THIRD less than marked price. No better oppor tunitv ever offered vou to purchase such goods, and a wis buver will rraso the barealn qukkly. Remember this is strictly cash sale: no (roods will be charged at the reduced prica. W. E. LINEBAOK, The Jeweler, Monroe, N. C.