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PUBLISHED EVERY KFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDRY, VOI V. NO. 88. K3NST0N, N. 0 SATUTtDAY, JULY 12, 1902. PEIOE TWO OENTa t T r OLD WORTH STATE IIEY7S ,A11D GOSSIP O AID GTERESTIH EAPFEHI-S. , " Ubtalu'a Deadly Work. Fayettevflle Obwmr; New reached bare this morning of ft terrible accident fcy llahtnlng near Alderman, in Gray's Creek township, . yssterday afternoon. Lightning struck the residence of Mr. Malcolm Caahwell, a well known farmer, killed hie eon, fifteen yeareof age, stunned eevend other memben of the family and entirely destroyed the house and Ita con tents. Winston-Salem, July 10 Lightning this evening set firs to and framed . two hundred bales of cotton belonging to F. and H. Fries. The house In : which the eotton was stored was also destroyed 'One of the men In hlaeffortstoextlngulsb the flames, was painfully Injured, a bale of eotton falling on him. " , - ,j - ' ; j - ' Tmltm ladaetnr of North Carolina. r-A.v.M in i The furniture . in- Green eboro Beeord; dustrylotbe state is increasing every year. A gentleman who has dealings with every furniture factory In the state, ays there are nJw fifty-four factories making chamber suits, chiffoniers, side - boards, etc., and there are sixty-one chair factories. As an Instance of the magnitude of tbs business he showed by actual S business transactions that - there are over f 400.000 worth of mir rors alone need In these factories - every monttu High Point Is the center of this Industry and is well named the "Grand Bapids" of the south. A Touch Guv Polled in. ; Winston Journal: Four tough look ing white tramps were arrested early yes terday by Deputy Cofer and taken to jail, on the double charge of assault and vag rancy. They are a badly crippled set, or at least claim to be crippled. A book with a number of cipher codes was found on a one legged man, who made an at- tempt to assault Mr. Phillips, In the lat- .v. mi,. .u. v. tor's bar room. The safe In the bar of Chermer and Phillips was opened with a code from the book. They will be pho--.torrc.rl.ed aiid their descriptions seat to officers all over the country. , A Beoord Breaktof Contert. Monroe. July 11. The Seventh Con sjressional convention breaks North Car1 1 olina's record. - At an early hour this morning 800 ballots have been taken with no brighter prospects of a nomlna- tlon .than when the first ballot was east, On the ;750th ballot, the vote stood: Page 64, Blair 61, Morrlsson 64, 1 Mclver 65, Pickens 48, Leak 58. Yadkin has paced back and forth" making slight changes In ths ballots. The vote Indi cates great stubborness, but the best of humor prevails. Later: rage was nomi nated on the 1208th ballot line Tomotoes. Stateeville Landmark: The tomato crop promises to be fine this year. Mrs. JL T, Carlton sent the Landmark one yesterday, of ths Ponderosa variety, whlch weighed a pound and three ounces. I These tomatoes grow in clusters, some-1 what like grapes, and ths vines have to be propped to hold their great weight. Eav. JJ. B.T.eaves, who Is also a success f J gardener, exhibited three large toma toes cf lie Ponderosa variety at ths Jjaniisaik ofT.ce yesterday. . They we'-lied sixteen, seventeen and eighteen ounces respectively. . ; . " The Fool That Bock the Boat AsaJa. Winston Sentinel: John tfyres, a well known man of about 25 years, accompa- Hied by three other young men, went out in uavis' mui pona, near tpeas' ferry, la Tadkin county on Friday evening and f J.1 out of the boat while Mr. Myres was rocLIcj it. ' Myre was drowned but the ctler men whose names could not be se cured, escaped. Myres' body was found Catarday morcing. All tie men were rnnk. Propoied Street Yair, Creensboro record: It Is learned that t'.e El'.s irlll L'kty pet on a street f!reoe t'me durin? E;jt:,lcr. Ch eers cf t' a lo 3 ae comrpor-Irj with TottcKk, t!.s f '."ious carr.iv&l man. lit-crcrtott' 9f" : . leaf 3t j '. '1 Ilr. T-oiioi. c r i .: i c.r. 1 ca V. i t . v- i t'.frc;-ttl7 t r w :iia i 'j w; c l la i ct'. rr ' .il- i c"7. A E-n Tor TLe Co r ' " J. 7 0. Very f 3 1',9 tit I: r 1. r e ' BHOBT BTATK 0TORIK9. King's Weekly: One of our leading ' business men who has traveled exten sively OTer Nash, Edgecombe and Wilson counties says that the crops eould not be better. . He thinks the yield will equal i the record breaking 1890 crop year.. , Winston Journal: Messrs. Church and Pegram of Wilkes county were In thsclty i yeetesday with two children who were bitten on the hand by a mad dog. Tbey will be taken to Mr.. W. M. Medear!, near Be lews Creek, and a mad tone ap plied. The children wars' bitten at Wllkesboro.- ;; ' . : ;-v THE CHTJBCHX9. 8enrlces wfll bs held ta the following churches tomorrow, to which everybody Is invited: j. . Methodist Chorch. Services both morning and evening. Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. -Rpwortb League Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock, t . PreebrteriM Chmroh. fterrloee both morning and evening. Sunday school at :30 a. m. ;;i;J'VClurIttasi Chore. ''" , ml THJV Ul HI. OT. UUI VIUJ , mm VUV JW-- ' J"J & f T00" to d I Maaw Ottawa Masai snNtnh tKaaa tea tha san " , , " g'onday school at 9:30 a. m. Christian Endeavor Tuesday , at 8:30 IP111' 1 iptoeopal cam-en. vo enrrioefl HJiuorniw, Sunday school at 9:80 a. m. Free Wfll Baptist Church. Services both morning and evening. 8unday school at p. m; , Missionary Baptist Church. Srvioes both morning and evening. Sunday school at 9:80 a. m. . B Y. P. U. Monday night at 8:80. Cfcrtathui Sclenoe. Subject for tomorrow's Bible lesson: Life-Acts 10:34-43. - . : Preparing for the University. Several young men from. Klnston are preparing to go to the State university this fall. It Is a pity that more young men who ought to go off to college don't rttnafLat aeAnnrl n 4-a Ir a ailvanfoiM ."'. . , nnnnntt rr JZu this opportunity. Too many, people have the Idea that it costs too, much to go to the university, and that unless a mat can eport arm'nd ajittle be will not be in it.' There is no ,lntltnt Ion that Is more democrat .. Io fact there Is no college where a man Who works his way through is thought as much of aa at the University " of North Carolina. Toung men from all parte of the state today are forging their way through the chfcf educatiooal institution of the state and th re is no practical reason why some of Klnston's young men or some of tie young men In this county cannot do the same. ; . , ' Oalc Udga Xnstitata, This Institution starts on her second half century September 1st.. This school bad 259 boarding pupils last year, and claims to be the largest preparatory and fitting school In ths south for young men and boys. Young men, and parents with sons to educate, would do well to exam ine the beautiful catalogue before deoid- ag the matter of patronage the coming year. The school, while not of the cheap John variety, offers the best advantages at reasonable terms. Base Sail Notes. ' ; , Tarboro was shut out at TTCson yes terday and made only 2 hits. ' Wilson mads 5 runs and 6 hits. . : . ; t The new 4:clob stats league began Dneinens yeeteraay. ureensDoro won tw. from Durham. 3-9 and 5-t, and RaMgb beat New Bern 2-L Games at B tlelgh and Durham today. HEW AND OLD FRESEY TOLD Items of Interest (or Kale ind Fezi&Ia 'IlJll7 spaton presertTtTnTre- riew of the Argentine army are re ported to have stated that the erolu tions and appearance of . the troops were wo.rthy of : the best orgsjilzed armies of Europe. One of the most Important Industries attaching to the cheap power now' pro duced by Niagara Is the electrical tear ing apart of the molecule of common salt, resulting In the formation of caus tic soda and bleaching powder.; : Genuine diamonds varying In weight from one-half carat to a carat have been found In placer deposits on tribu taries of Golovlnr bay, forty miles east of Cape Nome. Miners found the dia monds while washing out gold.; Glasgow university -shows aa In crease of 193 students over last year. Edinburgh of 102, St Andrews of 20, while at Aberdeen there is a decrease of 10. Jt is impossible to make out yet what Influence Mr. Carnegie's gift has bad on these numbers. ; : The views which Cecil Rhodes enter tained of death were extremely sim ple. The thought of it gave him little or no emotion. "When I am dead, he once said, "let there be no fuss. - Lay me in the grave, tread down the earth and pass on. I shall have done my work." The Wilson endowment fund of flOO.COO for Washington and Lee uni versity, Virginia, having been made up, Herbert Welsh of Philadelphia, who was largely Instrumental in raising It, now recommends that a fund of $500,000 be raised to endow a scientific and technical school to be associated with the university. Crematory companies would do well to note the statement of a chemist who has determined by painstaking analy sis that a human body of average size contains 3 pounds 13 ounces of calcium The current quotation of, calcium 1 $300 an ounce, which would give us each a value in the retort of $18,300, or one-fourth our weight in gold. Owing to the numerous losses of re? volvera and . small arms occurring In' the service Secretary .of War Ftoot dt recta that officers responsible for this property exercise greater care In pre venting such losses. They will beheld pecuniarily responsible for the same In all cases in which it cannot be shown clearly that every possible precaution was taken. Immense areas of cattle range have been destroyed by too much crowding and by ahecp.. Sheep in large bunches nip the grass so close and so cut Its sod with their hoofs that it dies. The railways of the northwest have com bined to find the grass most suitable for stock and to this end will divide 30,000 acres of land into thirty subdi visions,' each of which will be, planted With a different kind of grass. There are more Slavonic males under twenty-one years of age In New York city than of any other foreign people. They outnumber the Latins under, twenty-one by 11,000, the Germans by 12,000, the Britisl by 20.000 and the Scandinavians over twelvefold. The Slavonic men In New York city, over twenty-one exceed in number every other nationality of corresponding age except the Germans and Irish. Lord Ampthill, governor of Madras. India, who is a big man physically, was paid a somewhat left handed com pliment the other day by the good peo ple of a locality in southern "India which rejoices In the name of Kum- bakonam. At the railway station on his arrival a Jail made carpet was spread for him to alight upon which bore the figure of an elephant and un der It the legend "Good morning. Jum bo,' woven into the fabric r -.KA ... m m wm j . x .i til i ii i. a i i i f i I I ' 1 f I I. ! i I II t I MARK TWAIN'S OLD HOME FOR 8 ALE. Mark Twun's 'old horn la Hartford, tnr saia baeanw the famooa hmnoriat it to aim yua wwa iivuw i nawiaia aian Demoomtlo Bxeoutiva Oommlrtee). The county Democratic executive com mittee Is requested to meet in the grand jury room on next Saturday the 19th of July, f r the purpose of reorganizing and to fix the date of calling ths county con Taction to nominate county officers, etc A full attendance desired. , -, - , J. W. dRUHOEB, Ch'm. MERE MEN. Daniel 0. Reid, Wall street magnate, began life as a grocery boy. . General Sam, formerly, president of Haiti, has arrived in Paris to settle there permanently. Secretary of the Treasury Shaw as tonishes New Yorkers by the absence of red tape when he visits their city, 8. Joe Brown, a colored attorney of Dcs Moines, is the first; negro to secure a 'Master's degree from the University Andrew Carnegie has succeeded the late Dr. Thomas Dunn English as vice president or tne society or American Authors. ! - ; " Governor Miguel Antonio Otero of New Mexico was born In St Louis and received bis education at the old St Louis university. , , 1 ; , William C. Todd of Atkinson, N. B. was re-elected president of the New Hampshire Historical society at Its seventy-ninth annual meeting. Booker T. Washington has refused numerous offers of high pay to go on the lecture platform, preferring to de vote bis time exclusively, to the inter- eats of Tuskegee. 1 Henry H. Callen of Newark, N. J, has returned Tiome after spending fif teen years in South America, bringing, with bin) one of the finest collections of tropical butterflies ever collected by an individual. W. K. Vanderbilt will have to fore- go bis scheme to make an automobile traclvaround Success lake, on his new estate at Great Neck, on Long Island, because" the owner of a little strip of land refuses to sell. , James N. Rogers, prominent in Bap tist circles In Salinas, CaL, has, after, much study and correspondence with learned Moslems, embraced Mohamme danism. He says he expects nothing but ostracism as a consequence of bis change of faith. .'" ' Christian Smith, the oldest locomo tive engineer In the country, lives near Harpers Ferry. Md. " He ran the first engine on the Baltimore and Ohio rail road at a speed of from six to eight miles an hour, which was considered rapid for those days. FmLLS 0F FASHION. Blue and green combinations are be coming as fashionable as they were a year or so ago. . White watered silk is one of the fa vorite materials for bridal and recep tion dresses this season. White and gun metal, gray striped, dotted and checked silks are In great vogue both for gpwns, petticoats, blouses and dress trimmings. ' ' Trained net skirts over foundations of taffeta or satin, white, or black, with fiounces of chantilly, venise or other handsei e lace, are among the hand somest towns cf the season. ' . . Any' appearance of swathing the tbroat ia fulJs cf heavy silk, satin or velvet i.i row quite unfashionable, and Lere t' rmer i .1 fiat: ' r nail 3 w: sr- '. le ere L'li neckbands on wls tbey are of the Lghtest t C t;on. ia which ha lived for a quarter of a eentnry, H reaida U Sleep Hollow, naar Tairrtowa, wnurinn mmmnj tour iiiw. iPureiy Personal m , Items About People V- w Who Come and Go ' Rev, A. F. Letghton came this morn ing from Dover. , , , Mr. and Mrs. Horace West of Durham came yesterday. .Miss Myrtle Taylor returned from Wil son this morning. 1 Mr. B. E. DlUahunt returned yesterday from Rerkeiev. V. . !.."' ' ' Mr. J. H. Jordan returned yesterday from Seven Springs. Miss Daisy Oettinger went to Seven Springs this morning. Mr.' W. E. Parrott returned this morn- log from 8even Springs. ' ' , Mr. W. L. Gilbert of the New' Bern Journal was la Klnston today. ' 4, - . lt .. -Misses Hyacinth . Heath and Vienna Sutton left this morning to visit at Bay. borav - Miss Nancy Coward of Bed Springs earns yesterday, spent last night at Dr. H, D, Harper's sr., and wedt to Grifton this mornfng. - Little Misses Annie Ebron, LontM Nixon and Master Nixon Ebron left thin morning to visit In Gates county. Mr. ana Mrs. is. b. uarston leig tnm morning for Urbana, Va., to spend ten days' at Mr. Marston'a old home. . Mr. Asa Johnson, who bad been visit ing at Mr. J. W. Barren's, returned this morning to his home In Hamilton. " Dr. J. M. Ayer of New York, who spent ths night with Mr. J. F. Mswborne, left yesterday with Mr. Me wborne for More- head City. Mrs. H. J. Williams and sister, Miss Catherine Williams, of Kenansvllle, spent last night In Klnston and went to Ham ilton this morning. Baseball Meeting. ' Every person Interested In baseball fori Klnston during the remaining part tf I ddll summer Is asked to come, oat to the I mayor's office at 8:30 tonight The meeting will be short and there will be I no money asked for. The purpose of the meeting Is for the new league players I who have recently Joined our, team tot submit a clean business nroDOsition to I ourpeoDle to put Klnston before the reason ends at the vertax of the trlamrie leazue. As it is now Klnston is aboutto fall out of the league at ths time when we have the strongest team we have ever had. If this proposition however Is taken up with tonight you may mark it down Klnston Is sToing to the top. Now the only way for this to happen is for ourceorjletoehow some Interest, and I fheonlT way for this Interest to be .hntrn ta for each lover of our meat I - I national eport to be at tie mayor's office I ywwyuj o.w ""K"- . , I T,,PTTT irJ"'lTP rTTYrTyTTY I llMi IL&LI, UllLuylll In the heart of ralt!gh, within two I blocks of the churches, the governor's rn&ntfon, tbe Capitol, ant the l.hrarlee. ew f ',-!.; r -a and ontSt. Four build !es. TweEty-tbree oScers and teach ers (-its men saa uieeu women;. WeH ea'J TPd Chemical and Llologlcal Lf 1 rfttots. ilasic Fsou'ty of two men 1 f ' r women. Twelve c's-tinet ' i--.'. 1 It 'university stu'tTts TIUELY TOPICS.: M1V1T1-1 T wnw imi ..'IMblti'lUSATm Siort Local Stories', Editorial IToJes. "V1 X. The man who know s the . bast is , the on that talks tl not. ' , -t. -v We generally ask iivlr 'that It ' may confirm our own options.- The less advice you nave to give the more listeners yon will have. I j Sympathy for a luau after be is dead la a twin brother of inoclery. .' - . 1 . :U. ' . ....,, . ' The success of many great men, le doe to their use of otbr ma's brains. , ' 1 ... x"-t e ; Never forget that aa ounce of silence Is better than a pound of explaratlon. ' Some of the most disgraceful acts era performed by the most graceful sinn r. '.".: , A--- f rL-.a a.L A : . I anju auuia. uiat kli uruer W OS CoulMU t Is necessary to step on other peopfc-'s foes. There la mors money to be made by humoring people than by Instructing Itnem. , 'J . : , " Always look on the bright ride, but I walk on on the shady side at this season i of the year. There are many more fools than sages the tbere toon I - - J We live in an age of facts: - not fiction. I for every effect U assigned some simple natural cause. ' - Wl en you bear a 'speaker exclaim "J want to say," abut you ears and avoid a rata man's opinion. , Men walk In their sleep who - can't 3o anything but sit on a bench and 'talk politics while awake. -":.. . It Is generally the man who la striving" to do right who Is amased at the oppor tunities to do wrong. , . a . i ' Men would be very wis if they could oaly learn as much as their boys think they could teach them. ' ' Mi i 1 .. . i .-... Hereafter the man who says that he doeaa't i want go to Europe until he I has been all over his own country will have to spend a pile going to Porto Rico na anotner pus going to fuha and an. other on Manila before be can dream of dating his letters Paris and London. Timely Topics urges all the baseball I enthusiasts to be at the mayor's office I at 8:80 this evening. : The players bavi I a very easy proposition to. make which will afford Klnston first-lass baseball for the remainder of the season at a mln- lmum cost No money will be asked for but Timely Topics believes In advertls- lug the town and The Free Press will bead m subscription list with f 25 for that purpose. A good team Is a good ad. A minister In a Southern city having delivered a diatribe against the "untruth- ,Isl . a . ea in aa i Pws wis eaiior oi a leaa- big paper sent a reporter to take down bis sermon Just as he delivered It, without M alteration of any kind. Since the publication oi tnat sermon tne minister' reputation for scholarship has declined fully fifty per cent and he don't want reporters to "report tiunjrs as tney act- W ' ! more. parucuiariy . a . a. m wnen ns is concernea. f A Geatle UIbC In our style of climate, with Its sudden chanps of temperature, r!n, wind and irjrj8UDe often lntermlr ' i In a 'r' day. It Is no wor.ler tt our cL!12-. i friends and relatives are so frei'i'-' 7 taken from us by rvctl col 'a, If,.. deaths result icjr d nct'y lroia t'.'s cJr . A bottle of BoecLee's (jerninn f . r- i about your home for Imu.e'j.atd r a w. i Erevent erlous g'cknes, a Lir-a d xtor'e ill, and perhaps death, ty t a cs of three or fonr dones. lor cur' Ctj- libs and tro f r two sea : s cf tbo i- t s r ,V.:r3 or . 1 for t'. ? I'C; 't umrt:.-n, i.emorrns,'ns, 1 : . , f 'T. - a Co--s. Croup, or e-y t cf t'.a 'i Lr-' 5 or Lur.-.a, l.a !-: p'y v.-r ' :'-!, es yorrr ' ' I t j. t f : ' t . ' J. . . ? f i ,v i" 'ts enrea lor ry 1, l.y t), matrr.i . ' i l'! 1 " eccrs., lncluj- Ir 1 1C7..') 1 ' r f ion. . .cr 1. . r: 1 tM, R.T.VAN.N,n';h,N.C j r 1 rr: .ood. 1 v r t 1 Cv ' I it ; 9. ?rec!;J Ala.: 3s.
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