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OLD. MIA" STATE
JIEY7S AND GOSSIP
gossip or Tax coal strike.
Hartford Post: Ths eoal operators
are qualified to collaborate In tba prep
aration of a magazine article on "How
to Alienate Popular Sympathy." .
Hartford Poet: We take It that tba
ODD AKD UTEBESTIE5 B4PPEIK3S. combination Is ths ort of octopus
inai rreaiaenc jiaaiey wonld decline to
Elizabeth City, Oct. 8. Job A. H .men, IJCh'cgo Po"t:U Un,e 8ara nd Prer
pweldentot'the National Car Coupler Baer ahould atand op together It Je
Company,. of Chicago, waa In the city alto? th' tht f"1!'
today'ea route to Morehead City, where wooW ta Bhocked to email he la
hevl8itarelatlTB.-mthew he goee DycomparU,on- -
to Chatham eounty.the place of Ms blub. DarhamSuo: The Richmond papera
Mr.Hir.son left North Carolina forty- Ml s that that city is on the brink of a
four yara ago and wenii westHewas terrible calamity; That the street car
then a ; penniiesa yonth. Today he la wrvlca may be tied np j the city plunged
rated a millionaire and la prominent aa to0 darkneea and every manufacturing
the Inventor of a car coupler now In use Plan cloned unless the coal situation la
on twenty of America's leading railroada, relieved In five daya. , Fifteen car loads
Hie father, Joseph O.Blnaon, enperlnten- ol oit coaJ route to that city waa
dended ; the construction of what la confiscated by the Atlantio Coast Line. I
now known aa the Atlantic A North 1 1 'aid other roads may follow auit.
Carolina Ballroad.-Cbarlotte Observer. Tb tr,ke beginning to atrlkeua.
(lastonia Gasette. Sixteen dogs, aup-l ot. Jjouie Ulobe: The plan of construct
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SEYEilTY HILL!
STAIEIEKT BT FRIES CGTTC3
To Eliminate Ritas CompetUica,
Cale Better Coeds.
WlDBtoB-Saleiin,N.C., Oct. 9 During
the next few daya there will be a meeting
of a few businesa men In Greensboro, and
thia meeting may have an Important' In
fluence on cotton manufacturing in
this and other southern states. Mr.H.E.
Fries, who has been at work on the plan
tor eome time, gave out the following
statement this afternoon! -
"A great deal has been said about
mergers and ' trusts and their injurious
effects on the general welfare. These gen;
tlemen and companies they represent do
not expect to control cotton manufao-
poaed to have been mad were reported J M one of the world's fair buildings of , taring, nor oppress labor, nor enhance t
to have been kill in the South Point mc-1 coat naa oeen reconswerea. , instead ol Taiueaoeyona a reaaonaDie profit. They
tion last week, creating something of a I wing lump coal Klondike nuggeta will
aeneatlonbut doing no damage. Some 08 subsMtated. '
negroes, who .were picking cotton for Exchange: Coal and other fuel Is so
Mr. W. 0. Glover, brought a dog to the scarce In the City of Bocheeter. N. 1.,
field with them which showed symptoms that In some parte of the city the people
of hydrophobia. It waa disposed of. at I are palling up and burnlpg the wooden
once and the next day other dogs In the I sidewalks,
community acted strangely and sliteen
were killed. So far aa could be learned I : President BevtewtO. A. R.
no persons or cattle were attacked. Washington, D. C. Oct, 8. President
nooeeveic loaay reviewed tne urand
Me.eenger.-Th. bulientin of the State f m'J. Pftrad la , h,B carriage. He waa
board of health Issued today says there downstaira from hi. room on the
is amallpox In 19 counties, with two oor of t temporary Whit,
deaths InCraven, and one inCarteret; 20 " ld'e chair, and, amid
case.inFor.vth. 25 In Gaston. 11 In h"" ?f a large crowd waa placed
v u " ...J 11 i rains carnage, jn wnicn tbere was a
rrvi L i. t. na board to support his in tared leg. He
aa.JZ w i was accompanied by .Secretary Cortel
th.fliJL hW fmml a thA- .- you and Colonel Bingham, his mUItary
: many caaea in the east. .
A RewmrA of OO for Frank Winn.
Goldeboro, N. C. Oct. 8, The county
commissioners have offered a reward of
f ISO f.jr the capture of Frank Winn,
the negro accused of the murder of his
nephew, Charles Winn, who while out on
bond of $2,500 under habeas corpuB pro
ceeding fled the State. The governor has
aids. His earrings was guarded by a
platoon of mounted police, under com
mand of Major Sylvester, superintendent
of police, Aa the carriage appeared on
the avenue the president was greeted
with loud cheers. ' The president stopped
at the review Ing stand for a moment un
till the marshal of the parade nnd Raw
lins Post, of Minneapolis, the rlrht of the
line, had been passed, and then drove
. A. A ,, . , ..a
o expecv to eummiini ruinona pompeu- r
tion, to furnish employment to a large j
number of our population at fair and
just wages, and to famish to the public i
the very beat quality of goods trade may
demand. They are working along con
servative lines, and the consumption of
their plans will prove a blessing and not
a curse to the community in which they
d well and labor. ' "
, "The company that will be formed to
acquire certain properties will be known
as the, 'Southern Textile company.' Ac
cording to the plan nnder which they will
be operated, there appears the following
clause: No plant or business shall be
purchased, however, in the organisation
of the company except with' written
unanimous approval as to desirability
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ITEMS OF IOTEEEST TO EYEBTECDY
HERBERT
tmpucAU Minister
THE PATOS ISLAND "TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT."
- ThotJlh it ICdnalv IDMUI to 1m worth onm-relim. mnp. St S funt ihai ttia ! taUu.l
of Patoe. Br Trinidd, mj inTolre the Uuiod ttntem atad Eiigliind in Mrion. eomplit
tieni. ,. En gUnd has Mixed Patos,.wbkslt Vsmnuela claim, aa her own. Herbert W. Uo vh
and Vt. li, D. Uagsvd are reapeotirely the American and Biitwh repreaentativea iu
VenecueU. ; s . '
5 TRIED lO BAKE HI8 WIFE.
r.tt..mA 1 Kl .nr..il n1t.4 n..W. tn.l -
, . Tr" 7 . Y . down the avenue to Peace monument at
tal of POO offered for the capture of the foot of ; the capltol. The veterans
i( , Z 7 1 th" carriage aa the president drove
muru, LU. fjw, .uh. by and aaluttd him. There waa contln
win, n is unaeretooa go do me county
school land.
North Carolina Man Die of Morphine.
Norfolk, Va. Oct. 8.-J. Lee Martin, a
Seaboard Air Line clerk, died yesterday
morning from an overdose of moiphlne.
I uons cheering from the
I president drove along.
crowds as the
Miners Story Tet.
Washington, Oct. 9. The executive
council of the American Federation of
He had taken it to relieve a pain In bia Labor Is again In session todav. after Its
Dead. He was Dreaming neavuy. wneni adjournment over yesterday. President
found In his bed room, but died despite J Mitchell Is expejted to be in Washington
Heroic treatment, tie was years oia to attend the council meeting tomorrow
and bis body has been lorwarded to ton- and it is the general opinion among its
way, N. U nis former Home. members that the coal strike will be fully
A, C. L. Men Work Overtime. , discussed. Mr. Morrison, secretary ol
Wilmington, Oct. 8. Thejorce in the the American Federation of Labor, in
Coast Line machine shops at Florence is speaking of the situation, said this
working overtime in order to catch up morning: "I heartily "wish this strike
with the excess of work, which is largely as settled, but if the operators . are Of
In converting coal-burning locomotives the opinion that tbey can starve the
in to wood-burners. The scarcity of coal I miners into again going to work they
Is really becoming an Item with the rail- are greatly mistaken. The miners are In
roads. It is said that the Coast Line a condition now to hold out all through
has recently confiscated coal In transit the winter, and if necessary they will do
to Richmond to keep its trains in opera- it. This talk of a decrease in the contri
tion. . :; 1. -' . -;
A Suicide in Cleveland County, ,
Shelby, Oct. 8. Henry Campbell, who
lives near Lattlmore Station, eight miles
west of Shelby, committed suicide this
afternoon by shooting himself through
the heart with a pistol. Ilia health has
been bad and was aggravated by the
excessive use of tobacco, which made
him very nervous. lie was 50 years old,
and a farmer by occupation.
North Carolina at Christian Coference.
Norfolk, Va. Oct. 8. North Carolina ie
well represented at the Quadrennial Con
vention of the Christian church in the
Vt'.' 1 States ia session here. Except
la Vlr ;;'f,',i, North Carolina has the lar
"st dcV; , t:oa. It 'ranks with any in
pGllit Of '
Ia Favor of ti e
Durt-vn, C. C, t. S.-TLe ten thous-
id : :r t ' t c f T. F. Siuhb
f;."-.t t'.'J I
butlons for their support is ail false. 1
truth the collections are increasing."
In
Two Nerroe Lyncheff
7 Newbern, Tenn., Oct. 8. Carfleld Bur
ley and Curtis Brown, two negroes, were
hanged here tonlbt by a mob of 500
persons. Buriey on last Saturday shot
and killed a well-known yonng farmer
near Dyersburg. Flatt, the farmer, had
traded horees with the nesrro and later
Barley demanded that the trade be de
clared off. Flatt refused to accede to
this propoHltion and while on bis way
home was ehot down by Burley. A
popse bad been hunt!,- j for the mnrdered
and last night locate d Lira ia a negro
cabia at Euffman, Ark.
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New Bern Journal: The rare and suc-
nlent dish of baked wife was tried by s
nego In the vicinity of Five Points yes-
terday afternoon, and her screams and
resistance brought the timely help of
policeman Montagus .who was In the
neighborhood, or there might have been
a tragedy. He was In the act of thrust-
1 ng the woman into the oven. "' '
While up In that part of town Mr.
of purchase and as the propriety of price.: Montague heard tbs cries of a woman In
of the following named persons: Geo.A. distress and when the treuble was
Gray, 8. B. Tanner. John W. Fries, C. G. . located he secured 'the assistance pt m
Lttaand A. W. Btywood." - - j man to catch the offender. ' Upon the
The writer regrets to learn that Mr. j officer's entrance the man escaped by a
Gray Is not, able to wrv. . Tl vacancy door not civered bT, the assistant and
has been filled by Mr. T. W. Pratt, ; of had got quite a little lead on his pursuer.
Qnntsville, Ala. - . , , j , Mr, Montague followed him op Queen
" The options to b presented to the street to West street, along West to Cy.
commute will embrtii-e seventy milw, Jo- .treet,. thence to a small pond
cated in Virginia, North C irolia, South where he gave up, otilr after three shots
Carolina, ueorgta, A iaoMtii and Tonnes j from the oftVr's pistol, ,
spe. From thM riiille the isommittre ., The man was arrested and will be tried
will select the mow dsitjihle and ame today f r murderous assault. The stovs
will be paid for in caeb securities ot. the ' though small was hot and would have
burned the woman severely. Be Is a
CHURCH AND CLERGY.
Bishop Clark of Rhode Island, ninety
years old. Is the oldest bishop of An
glican communion in the world.
The Rev. Charles A. Trotman, pas
tor of the Church of the Redeemer,
6t Louis, is also a practicing physi
cian, having regular office hours dur
ing the week.
Rev. Wilson Carllle, the noted Lon
don minister, has Introduced moving
pictures Into bis church service and
furnishes all persons desiring It with
free cup of coffee as they leave the
church.
Mr, Tbornbury has resigned as a
clerk In the Rock Island railroad of
fices to become rector of Trinity Re
formed Episcopal ch urch in Chicago.
He fitted hiuiwlf for the ministry by
night study and for eleven years has
devoted bis spare time to bis ambition.
new company. The option provides that
the company can issue $7,000,000 In
common stock, 17,000,000 in preferred
stock and 16,000,000 In bonds. The
financial parties interested are repre
sented by a prominent trust company in
New York..
The controlling management of the
new "Southern Textile company" will be
southern manufacturers, who have for
years been Identified with Cotton manu
facturing In the southern states.
desperate negro and should be given a
heavy punishment for his fiendish action.
" f Democratic Canvass.
'.; The appointments for the Democratic
canvass jf Lenoir county are as follows
LaGrange, Oct. lltb, Hon. Cyrus B.
Watson.
K'nston 11th, at night, Hon. Cry us B.
Watson.
Sand Hill, 14th at Daughter's house
Kioston, litb, night.
Institute, 15tb.
Bouth West, 16th at Kelly's mill.
Vance, 17th, at Fairfield school Bouse
Kinston, 17th, night, Hon. Lee 8,
Overman. 1 ' !
LaGrange, 18th, Hon. LeeS.Orerman!
Contentnea Nock, 21sc, at ' Sharon
church. ' '.' - ;.
Neuse, 22nd, at Parrott's school house.
Woodlngton, 23rd, at Waller's school
house.'.. -. '".
Falling Creek, 2ith, at the station.
Trent, 25tb, ai Tull's mill.
Pink Hill, Nov. 1st, at Tyc I il's store,
Day speaking to beg'n at 1 o'clock;
nig'.-t at S o'clock. Come out and Lear
the coonty candidates and other distln-
guL'..!':JI sOtTu'3 dI.:.-u.--S t!:9 i -JC3.'
J. W. Grainger, Cnairman.
W. A. UiTCHELL, Sueretary.
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' ' Items About People
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PEN, CHISEL AND BRUSH.
, Mrs. N. B. Wooten and child went to
LaGrange this morning. .
Mrs. Seth West, of Dove"r, spent today
in Kinston. .. N . ,
Mr. W. u. Prldgen went to; Falling
Ciek today.
Miss Nannie Aldridge, who had been
visiting at Mr. J.F. : Davis', left for ber
home at Oriental this morning: ,
Mr. W D. Laltoque.sr., returned irom
Norfolk this morning. ' , . '
Mr; Everett Rouse returned from Ral
eigh yesterday afternoon. . ,
Rev. B. W. SpUIman came yesterday
from Macon, Ga. ''.""
Mrs. Stella Austin, of Terre Haute,
lad., came yesterday to visit her aunti
Mrs. G. E. Kornegay. ' . 1 , .
Miss Cle ramie Gladstone went to Green
ville this morning to visit her slater. v
Miss Ella Miller, who had been visiting
her sister at this place, -returned to her
home at II.---nil ton, this morniu.tr.
Mrs. J. J.l.,;;; rs, ilessrs. Harris, Carry
Stevenson and Frank Webb went to
Greenville th! morning. r A
Mr. J. W. Lynch returned from New
Yorkb tt' t.
Mr. J. II. Herbert returned from Rocky
'oUDtld: .t 1.' .t.
SI. II ' i Cray has returned from
- v 1 1", , where she bad been for
o e t .
A - A. a . 4 j.
Mrs. Archibald Little, the traveler
and author; will write a biography of
Li Hung Chung.
C. Rlcketts is an English painter who
is following the lend of Bocklln and
Frans Stuck In painting centaurs. lie
Indulges in Biblical as well as classical
subjects. -
Henri Gervex, the French artist has
been decorated by the shah of Persia
with the Order of the Lion and the
Sun. in recognition of his having paint
ed the ehab's favorite portrait in 1900.
Great is the Industry and fertile is
the Imagination of Guy Booth by, the
English novelist. In less than eight
years he has published some twenty-
six books, tbe majority of which have
achieved, more than ordinary success.
Mr. Boothby Is a South Australian by
birth and Is thirty-five years of age.
COLLEGE AND SCHOOL.
The United States has 10.000 school
teachers. . .
Albert von Kollker bag been pro
fessor of anatomy In the Culversity of
Wurzburg, Germany, for the last fifty
five years.
The cost of the State University of
Missouri for Its buildings, books and
sther equipments is 11,300,000. and the
endowment bearing Interest at the rate
Of 5 or 6 per cent Is $1,236,000.
Charles A. Woods of Marlon. S. CC
has been elected president of the South
Carolina college, at Columbia. , He is
a leading member of the South Caro
lina bar and Is now president of the
State Bar association. For many years
be was president of a banking institu
tion. He Is a trustee of Wofford and
Wlnthrop college.
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Carrying towns to Paris Is tbe latest
piece of Yankee bravado, Boston Jour
nal. :.::'.
The attempt to assimilate the militia
to tbe army would prosper If tbe states
were less stingy la appropriations.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Nat Herreshoff has before him the
dl.HcuIt task of planning a yacht to
outsail all the yachts that be has here
tofore planned to outsail all the yachts
everybody else has planned. Boston
Herald.
"e are the greatest and most ener
r ' - of rcople, but we are also the
Let wastcfnl of people. In getting
ot.t the lumber of our grea forests we
lave destroyed and wasted more than
we sawej and fitted for the market
r ;n Prar.cl.s-co CalL
Tl.a fjr.ltf J f tatcs Is now the fourth
i a tf t! tw o! ! J in f.-ttlnj atrenjt'j
ii f r. I:. !. France end
'-i 1 ' : is In this ord.-r. Tie
L '. i f tl.o cuuntry's position cor.i
, ! it t . r. Ivatice on.l not retrograde la
I r:':: In this I'sL 't. Ur i
Four million dollars Is the sum an
nually left In Paris by visiting Ameri
cans, according to a writer In tbe Petit
Parisian. . , -
It Is one of the duties of the Berlin
fire brigade to supply steel cylinders
containing oxygen for use In cases of
g pol8ontosjir?--r., '- '
: Billiards, as a game is decreasing In'
popularity in France,, where the num
ber of tables In use fell from 00.000 in
1880 to 80,000 last year.
A " decree recently promulgated by
the government of Costa Rica estab
lishes chemical laboratories in tbe cus
tom bouses of the republic,. .-'..
Nearly 8,000 motor cars are now In
use in Paris and the ; neighborhood,
3,800 of tbe cars having A registered
speed of over eighteen miles an boor. '
.A tomb of lapis lazuli has been dis
covered among several others south of
the great pyramid of Glzen. , There
were many sarcophagi and Inscriptions
found likewise.
Spitsbergen belongs to no country, ,
and since the cessation of whaling it Is
deserted even In summer. : There are
deposits of coal and phosphates, but It
does not pay to work them. ;
Boats Instead of wagons are used by
the rural free delivery carrier at New
Suffolk, - N. Y. r The route there lies
along the shores of a protected bsy,
and Id ordinary weatber be can sail
over his course more easily than he
can go in a wagon. .
Less than 10 per cent of Manitoba's
land bas been taken up. The neighbor
ing territory of Asslnlbola bas nearly
00.000.000 acres, mostly ;- suitable for
wheat propagation. Alberta, near the
Rockies. Is 500 by 300 miles In extent
and Saskatchewan is another empire
in area.
Platinum bas long been mined in the
Bimilkameen. about ISO miles east of
Vancouver, a a It is said that China
men have been earning living wages
for the past fifteen years by recover
ing platinum from the placer deposits
of the Tulameeo river and also of
Granite creek. ; v..;;,;---.' . -V;.:.:.-
.. It la reported that an oil spring of
good quality bas been discovered in -the
southeiietern district of South Aus
tralia. j.. The spring Is near the lukes
which exist at the mouth of the Mur
ray river. In the vicinity of the little
town of Ben Ingle, ou the eastern shore
of Lake Albert i-.Vi ;:n
For playing "heads and tails" for
stakes of a farthing an apprentice
named Paul Rledel has been sentenced '
to banishment from Austria, Accord
Ing to the Austrian criminal law. tbe
nnlform punishment for all games of
chance, including the game "beads and
tails." is banishment ,
The Assouan dam on the Nile Itself
Is one of the greatest engineering
works In existence. " It Is no less than
one and a quarter miles in length, and
it Is pierced by ISO sluice gates 27 feet
In height and 7 feet, in width, by
means of which the regulation of the
waters will be secured.
An Atlanta (Ga.) .bank bas opened a
department exclusively for its women
clients, The paying teller Is a woman,
who pays all checks presented to her
in brand new currency. .Depositors in
the women's department are furnished
with dainty combination check and
pass books bound in Russian leather.
The disciplinary council of tbe Mu
nich bar has just had brought before It
a barrister charged with the high
crime and misdemeanor of taking part
in amateur theatricals. Tbe Impugned '
lawyer pleadedthat he had charged no
fees, but tbe bar council declined to
admit v that this want of prudence
purged the offense and imposed a fine,
together with a sharp reprimand. '
:' That a powerful alarm like a fog
siren can be sounded without being'
heard la shown by the Investigations
of E. P. Edwards on tbe English coast
according to London. Invention. At a
distance of a mile from the siren the .'
sound began to die away, and between
two and three miles it was entirely In
audible. This mysterious "silent isone
constantly changed in extent and posl
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Census returns give 5.354 children
under sixteen years of age who are em
ployed In making shirts for men in the
United States. More than 3,000 of
these are employed In factories. There
are 1,145 employed In making women's
skirts and similar garments. Nearly
8,000 are in the stocking factories and
over 0,000 in the miscellaneous employ
ments connected with the production
of ready made attire.
The oldest living pioneer of Oregon
IS William Abemethy of Dora, Coos
county. He Is an Illinoisan. His fami
ly left Illinois In 1SC3. traveled by wag
on and canalhoat to New York, thence
sailed ar-:n 1 the Horn. Thnre
ro fan I ran. :- tl:en, ro V r
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