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THE SUN, RUTHERFORDTON, N, C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER i7, 192. EVEHTS OFTHE VJEEK NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE TOLD -I N A FEW LINES FOR YOUR ' CONVENIENCE. ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD A Condensed Record of Happening f Interest From All Part of the World. Tom Tankersley, a simple-minded fouth of 18 years, is locked up in the Fulton county Jail, having confessed to participating in wrecking the last week when two lives were lost. According to the boy's confession, he and two others are responsible for the wreck, and their .motive was to rob the train. Charley Tipton, a noted moonshin er of the north Georgia mountains, is dead. A coroner's jury has been un able to clear up the mystery of just - when and . by . whom he was killed." Tipton was famous for his exploits as a moonshiner. He had been frequent ly arrested for illicit distilling. His ; body was found by accident by some children on top of the mountain. The bank of Wesley, Ga. seven miles south of Swainsboro, was enter ed by burglars, the safe completely demolished and all the funds taken. A thousand dollars was secured. 'The sheriff and posse are on the scene, and have some clues. All trains are well guarded and every effort is be ing used to apprehend the yeggmen. The bank is protected by a burglary policy. : The dead bodies of Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Naftel of Woodlawn, a suburb of Birmingham, Ala., were found in the Woodlawn cemetery, a bullet through the .woman's temple and one in the brain of the man. A pistol . - j i 11. 1 A 11 .Was lOUIia 111 lue mail p UO.UU, oiiu on indications point to his having killed his wife and then himself. The cou ple left the home of Mrs. Naf tel's parents to go to a drug store. It Is believed the husband induced his wife to go to the cemetery, where the dou ble killing took place. The bodies were found by the sexton. ; As. a result of an investigation of the hookworm disease in the section around PinevilleKy., it is announced that 1,750 cases have been discov ered in Bell county alone in the last twenty-eight days. All cases discover ed are under treatment. Bulloch county, Georgia, had its first bank robbery when the Farmers' State hsans, at negisier, xu imies from Siatesboro, was entered by pro- a a A St ""I fesslons, who tooK away $yuu,--eav-;4ng about fifty dollars in gold and silver. It is said there were three men implicated in the robbery. : With fire rasins in holds Nos. 1 and 2 the British steamer Iran, cotton la ,'den, from Galveston to Bremen, put Into port at Newport News, Va., in distress. The fire was discovered two days out from Galveston and had .iifien "biirnine fiercely for five days. fWhon the ship arrived the crew wa3 nearly exhausted. Tne nre was saw . to be under control. The damaged -cotton will be discharged at Newport jNews in order that the amount of damage may be ascertained. 'I Two hundred Italians employed at Mathis Shoals in the construction of tne ueorgia rower coiuya.ujr uo dam across Tallulah river, after im bibing a little too much of the "over joyful," attacked a young man named Grover Shirley. They knocked him into the river, then fired several pistol shots at him. Shirley has not since been found. A difficulty growing out of the same transaction .was renew ed in which a dozen or more of the citizens of Rabun were accosted by the foreigners with rifles, pistols ana shotguns. They quickly retreated, tak ing shelter behind buildings, rocks and trees. . - Three hundred persons are suffer ing from Injuries and 45 mangled ood les are in the morgue as the result "of an explosion of dynamite in a store house, at-Tampico, - Mexico. Of the injured twenty will die. An investiga ,tion by the authorities led to the dis covery that the explosion occurred during a fire which had evidently ;been set by an incendiary. Many of the killed and injured were spectators attracted by the burning building. Sud denly as they pressed close there was a terrific detonation, which shook the earth and sent flying embers for many Vards through the "air.;- ; 1 Six persons are dead as the result 'of a collision between an automobile and a car on the Dallas-Fort Worth mteruTDan line, j.4 muc cibi vl vhi. :Worth, Texas. This is : the most se rious accident vin .some . time. ; Cleveland, Ohio, housewives hare started a boycott against the so-called milk trust. wilnm A. Pfeffler. first ' and only Populist senator from Kansas and the founder of the1- Populist party, died at the home of his daughter at Gre- nola, Kans. He was born in Pennsyl .vania in 1831, and was a very proxa inent national character. ; u Cant. Acton Shrontz of the Long mont high school football team, high school champions of America, died from a fractured skull while being tackled with the' West Denver high MhOOl.-" :..-v'-h"j- '1 --'- A trust estimated at $2,000,000, cr ated by the will of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Set ence church," for -.. the . benefit of the denomination, -was declared void hj the Massachusetts ' supreme couit. The trust was to nave been adminis tjd by the- directors of tie mothor church In Boston, but" the court decid ed that the trust provisions were null. The town of Leon in Nicaragua has surrendered to the American forces. In their march upon Leon, the last stronghold of the rebels, the Ameri can forces, under Lieutenant Colonel Long, ousted a rebel mob at Chichi galpa, killing thirteen and wounding many more. Five Americans were slightly wounded. Chichigalpa is on the Nicaragua National railway, Aviation Week of Johannlsthal, Ger many, was concluded after two more deaths had been added to the long list of fatalities among European avi ators during the last two months. A monoplane driven by Ernest Alig and carrying a mechanician, suddenly fell from a height of 600 feet when a wing collapsed. The mechanician was thrown from the machine at a height of 450 feet and his body landed on the ground clear of the wreckage. Alig fell with the monoylane and was killed instantly. All records for milk and butter have been shattered by Creamello Vale, a Holstein cow owned by -Earl Upton of Brockton, Mass. The cow has given 26,930 pounds of milk with a monetary value of $1,300 since No vember 15, 1911. A general conflagration, in the Bal kans is expected. Montenegro's dec laration of war against Turkey , is re garded as the beginning. It is believ ed other units in the Balkan coalition will follow suit as soon as the mobi lization of their armies is complete Two hundred and fifty talesmen jam med the court room in New York City of Justice Goff in the criminal branch of the supreme court when Police Lieutenant Charles Becker was called to trial on the charge of murder in the first degree for insti gating the ' assassination of Herman Rosenthal, the gambler, who was shot to death last July. Enrique Maza, a Cuban newspaper man who recently assaulted Hugh S. Gibson, the American charge d'af faires in Havana, was sentenced to two years and a half in prison. This is not the extreme penalty under the Cuban law, but was considered by the court as a fair equivalent for . the same offense in the United States. Pages from the careers of the Mc Namaras and Ortie E. McManigal,,as leaders of the ''flying squadron of dy namiters,'' with conversations in which" they are said to have plotted to send McManigal to Panama to blow up the locks of the Panama canal, were read, by District Attorney C. W. Miller before the jury at the trial in Indianapolis, Ind., of the accused "dy namite . conspirators." The incident Im reference to Panama, -Mr. Miller said, occurred just "before the arrest of the Los Angeles dynamiters, when they were becoming desperate in their efforts to secure explosives without betraying their identities. Three men were killed in Green ville, Texas, in an attempt by the po lice to answer a telephone complaint that some one in the southern part of . Greenville -i was disturbing the peace. Assistant Chief of Police John L. Southall and Special Deputy Sheriff R. E. Shipp were both shot and kill ed by Slant Simmons, the man ac cused of "disturbing the peace." Sim mons refused to surrender and jump ed into a buggy, from which he kept up the running fire that killed the two officers. The other officers then kill ed Simmons. Nine young men lost their lives when an automobile in which they were joy riding crashed through the railing on , side of the new Thirty- third street Boulevard at Master street, Philadelphia, and fell into a coal yard 75 feet below. The machine. a big touring car, turned turtle in the descent and the occupants were found crushed and mangled in the hood of the machine. The body of the car was smashed to splinters. The heav ily loaded car swerved and crashed through the iron railing of the bridge. When those in the other - machines had made their way to the coal yard, only one occupant of the ill-fated car showed an sign of life and he died shortly after at the hospital. The oth ers were all pronounced dead when the institution ..was reached. Suit to test the right of the govern ment to enforce the Federal law of August 24, 1912 requiring newspapers and periodicals to pubish their circu lation figures twice a year and im posing other publicity requirements, was filed In the United States district court in New York City by the Jour nal of Commerce and Commercial Bul letin company, publishers of the Jour nal of Commerce. In its petition the complainant anunounces thatlt will not comply with the law, for the rea son given, and declares the defendants are' about to enforce the law by de nying the defendants the use of the mails. : ' " : , Froni a half dozen witnesses heard by the senate campaign expenditures committee drew a small amount of in formation . bearing on the campaign expenditures. Charles R. Crane of Chicago denied the statements of E. Bs-Hooker that he had given $70,000 each to Senator LaFollette-and Gov ernor Wilson and swore that his gifts to the LaFollette campaign totaled $26,684.40, and those to Governor Wil son's pre-convention campaign- $10, 000 John D. Archbold, president of the Standard Oil company, has been recalled,, and will testify again as to his contributions to the Republicans If yon hare young children yon. have perhaps noticed that disorders of . the stomach are their most common com plaint. To correct this yon will find Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tab lets excellent They are easy and pleas ant to take, and mild and gentle in ef fect. For sale by ail dealers. LAND OF THE LONG LEAF PINE Short Paragraphs of State News That Have Been Gotten Together With . Care By the Editor. Salisbury. The 13th district Odd Fellows, including tw.elve. lodges in Stanly, "Rowan, Davidson and Davie counties, held - a meeting at Lexing ton recently. ... Salisbury. The Rowan Democratic committee has opened headquarters in Salisbury and will wage a vigorous campaign. The candidates are now touring the county. Waxhaw. A freak, of nature is ob served in Waxhaw- these delightful October days a cherry tree in full bloom. Some; of the blossoms have dropped, leaving the young cherry. Huntersville. J. E. Honeycutt and William .M. Wilson representing the candidacy of Judge Clark and Wil liam M. Tye, one of Gov. Kitchin's staunch 'supporters, spoke at Hunters ville to a crowd numbering some, 250 people. Raleigh. During the month of Sep tember, just closed, there were sold on the Raleigh market only 1,678 bales of cotton compared with 3,300 sold during September, 1911. This Is taken to indicate that there is a very short crop in this territory this sea son. Raleigh. Governor Kitchin issued two pardons, the first to Jack Ham rick, retailer of Cleveland 'county, and to Will Cannon, convicted of mur der in the first degree from Cabarrus county. Both are conditional clemen cies i and .must be followed by good behavior" Salisbury. A plan is on foot to have built a central high school build ing as an addition to Salisbury's school facilities. The city is short on school room on account of the re cent unexpected - growth of the city and some of the rooms of the city schools are being taught in relay now. Salisbury. C M. Miller, county sur veyor, has been engaged to make a map of Rowan county which will show every road, the names of all land owners, all churches and school houses and all the natural resources of the county. A corner map of Sal isbury and Spencer will show avail able factory sites. Pinewood. The prices paid here so far this season for cotton have been in line with prices paid in larger towns. There are three regular buy ers here this season, besides several speculative buyers. Alvin Mims rep resents McCabe, Rogers & Co.; Ran som Richardson, Alex Sprunt & Sons, and W. G. Elwell, Levi Brothers of Sumter. - - - Saved By His Wife. She's a wise woman who knows just what to do when her husband's life is in danger, but Mrs R. J. Flint, Braintree, Vt., isof that kind. "She insisted on my using Dr. Ding's New Discovery," writes Mr. F. "for a dreadful cough. when I was so weak my friends all thought I had only a short time to live, and it completely cured me." A quick cure for coughs and colds, it's the most safe and reliable medicine for many throat and lung troubles grip, bronchi tis, croup, whooping cough, quinsy, ton silitis, hemorrhages. A trial will con vinceytra. 50 cts. and $1.00. Guaran teed by all druggists. NOTICE OF SUMMONS. North Carolina, - In the Superior Rutherford County. J Court. Florence C. Harris and husband J. O. L Harris and Venitia Blanche Lee vs. D. N." Hitchcock and Lizzie Hitch cock and Rntherfordion Land & In dustrial Company. To D. N. Hitchcack and wife Lizzie Hitchcock and the Rutherford ton Land & Industrial Company, the. de fendants above named : Yon will take notice that an action entitled as above has been commenced in the Superior Court of Rutherford county to foreclose a, mortgage upon real estate situate in Rutherfordton township, Rutherford county, North Carolina, and you will further take no tice that you are required to appear at the next term of the Superior Court of Rutherford county to be held on the eighth Monday after the first Monday in September, 1912, which will be the 28th day of October,' 1913, at the court house of said county in Rutherfordton. N. C, and answer or demn to the com plaint in said action, ' or the plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief de manded in eaid complaint. This the 28th day of September, 1912 . M, O. D1CKERSON, Clerk of the Superior Court. Solomon Gallert, Attorney. If it's a surface to be painted, enameled, stained, varnished or fin ished in any way, there's an Acme Quality Kind to fit the purpose. KILLths COUCH and CURE ths LUNCO WITH rto03ioH)ucjy PRICE l-llil fr uuunu tae a tun OLDO TfW BoWe Fe A3 ALL THROAT AKD LOSS TROUBLES OTJABAIJTEISD SATISFACTORY OH ZXONEY EEFVBBED. Dr. B Strong ReasoES for' Fall Paimttg 1. The wood is thoroughly dry. Summers sun has removed all moisture . 2. Paint penetrates deeper into dry wood. - 3 The deeper it goes the better it holds, 3. Fall weather is warm, dry and dependable. Little danger of cold damp, rainy days, which endanger the durability of the paint, 4 .-Wet weather decays and de stroys unprotected surfaces. Lack of paint means unsightly and less valuable property, - 5. Fall painting keeps out winter moisture. The greatest enemy to the life and beauty of all structures. Ask us about ACME. QUALITT HOUSE PAINT. It insures the greatest protection and beauty, at the least cost per year of 'Service.' Questions cheerfully answered. , Twitty Drug Company Rutherfordton, N. C. CASTOR I A Tor Infants and Children Its KfcJ Yea E:t3 Lfcfcji C:tt - Bears the 3natar0of NOTICE OP SALE OF LiAND Notice is hereby given that the tin dersitrned, by virtne of the powers con ferred upon him by a decree made in that certain special proceeding pending before the clerk of the Superior Court of Rutherford county entitled J. O. Xed better et al. vs. Laura Whiteside et al. , will sell at the court house door in Ruth erfordton, N. O., on Monday, October 28th, 1912, -at 1 o'clock, p. m. , the following tract or parcel of land, to-wit: That tract of land in Chimney Rock township known as a part of the Jones place on Little Cane creek, beginning at a R. O. , Jones' corner, and running thence north 88 west 42 poles to a chestnut, thence south 18 west 10 poles to a S. O., thence south 24 west 36 poles to a pine, thence south 1 east 16 poles to a S. O., thence south 20)4 east 19 poles to a W. O., thence south 40 east 17 poles to a stake, thence south 85) east 14 poles to a stake, thence north 7$ eas 34 poles to a stake, thence north west 0 poles to the beginning, containing 31) acres. Said sale will be made for partition, and the terms will be cash upon confirma of sale. This October 1st, 1912. , R. S. EAVES, Commissioner. Who are the Money Makers You will say the bi rich "men whose homes are known to everybody, Not so. Many large enter prises are financed by the sav ings of clerks, work people the masses who deposit part of " their income in savings banks. Little7" savings reach large aggregates wonderfully fast Little extravagances - multi ply into large losses. The Citizens' Bank Rutherfordton, N.C. H. L. CARPENTER, Pres.? J. C. CO WEN, Vice-Pres. A. L. GRAYSON, Cashier. v ' R. E. KERR. Asst. Cashier. lIEirSIQBDEirEZIHS A Shear for Every Purpo se for Clean Edged Accurate Work eeiv utter d i q H 1 and Shears Blades meet true from heel to point. - Good Service Guaran teed or money back. "SNIPS AT THB T1P" We have just received a full and complete line of these goods, consisting of Knives, Razors, Carving Sets, Etc. Miller Hardware Co. JUST OPENED UR V " We wish to notify our former friends and patrons that' we, - have again opened up our Cotton Gin at the Powers Shop and would be glad to have your business. We guarantee to give yon satisfaction and the very best service. Hightest prices paid for cotton and seed. - - . - -.. Hamrick Gining Co. o o o o o o 4 o o o o o T. LONGiSBCO. Eastman Kodaks : and Supples Gents' Furnishings Rutherfordton, N. C.
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