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dtate Library LARGEST CIRCULATION ANY PAI'KR i THE-.COUNTY. WE AiiE PREPARED TO DO CHROMATIC PRIMT1NQ IX COLORS. F1 S Hi 11 ST W4i "F: 25. HICKORY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 19, 1895. NUMBER 51 - r v. if -Rl . T I MURDER AND ROBBERY. For tlie Purpose of Robbery a Young Negro, Hampton, 3lurders The Night Watchman In the Depot At States ville. (JOT ONLY A flt ALL SUM, this Is Nt The First Time During Last Year That The Nijjht Watchman At Stati-.sviHe Mas Had A Call From A Night Robber. Th itiulit agent of the Southern Railway depot agents at States ville seems to be an extra hazardous posi tion. Some eight or ten months ago tli night clerk at the depot there was shot by a burglar robber, and last Thursday morning about 4 o'clock another one was shot and he died. At ;i:')-) n. in. the regular watchman went up town some distance from the depot to see a doctor and left a young man 2s yeai of age, Win. E. Nabors, to watch for him while he was gone. Shortly afterwards a young negro knocked at the door and wanted to get in to warm. Finally Nabors let him in. Nabors was standing in the telegraph office adjoining the "wait ing room."' Just as soon as the young negro Wesley or William Hampton got inside he drew his pistol and fired a ball through Nabors from the left breast straight through under the shoulder blade in the back. He grabbed the negro and had a tussle, the pistol fell ami the four other cartridges fell out of the chamber. Bat the negro got the pistol, and Nabors ran while the negro still tried to shoot him. He ran across the street to the Henry House and fell just as he had succeeded in awakening some of the people. When he was taken up, earned inside and doctors sent for. Dr. Henry F. Long responded" as quick as possible and was soon joined by Dr. Thos. E. An derson, They did all they could, but the young man died at 12 o'clock- Thursday. ; The negro must 'have had some con- ieuerates with him. All the cash ex cept some small change amounting to about $9.50 was taken out of the eash drawer the evening before, but the cash drawer was extricated from the desk, the money taken and the drawer was found that morning some distance up the railroad track. Nothing else was missed except the money. The dying man gave a description of the negro and there is no doubt but what he will be captured. Dr. John flacon McCorkle Dead. The Newton Enterprise thus speaks of the death of Dr. John Macon Mc Corkle, eldest son of Hon. M. L. and Mrs. M. J. McCorkle, who was bom February 17th. 1800, and died at his father's residence in Newton of con sumption at 3 o'clock, on the morning of Dec. 12th 1S95, aged 33 years, 10 months and 20 days. In 1S31 he grad uated at the Medical College in Phil adelphiaaud at once began the practice of medicine in that place, where he made himself dearly beloved by his tender kindness . and irentleness of heart. On December 3rd, 1800, he married Miss Matt, youngest daughter of the late Gen. Robert Ransom, who 'together aud with his aged parent-, three brothers and two sisters are left to mourn his early death. Dr. McCorkle joined the German Re formed Church when a young man and i life was that. of a lowly Christian. --. It was in watingon the wounded in that fatal Bostian wreck nearly five years ago that lie caught the disease from which he died. A devoted husband, a tender, lov mg son, an effect ionate brother, a Hind sympathizing friend. There re tew hearts in Ner. ton that do not feel a pang of sorrow at the news of Dr. ilfCorklessad death. His remains were laid to rest Fri day afternoon at 2 o'clock, the funeral ?miee being held at the Reformed church. lr. McCorkle was a very lovable muii. . A CHIEF JUSTICE SHOOTS HIS MAN. Chief Justice Snodgrass of Tennessee Shoots A Lawyer In Chattanooga John R. Beasley The Victim. , There is a big sensation not alone in Chattanooga, but also all over the State of Tennessee on account of Judge D. L. Snodgrass, the chief justice of the State Supreme court shooting lawyer John R, Beasley in the law office of Brown &: Spurlock in Chat tanooga last Monday just before noon. In the room were Mr. J. V. Williams, a young lawyer; and Miss Ruth Mil lington, Mr. Beasley was seated at a table. The chief justice noted the preasence of Mr. Beasley, who had written an article for the Times, in which the chief justice appeared in rather a bad light. "Beasley," said he "that article you wrote in the Times was a Tie. No, it isn't, judge, it is the truth," rejoined Mr. Beasley. The chief justice repeated his state ment and Mr. Beasley arose. There was a brief show of resentment on the part of Mr. Beasley, and the chief jus tice pulled his pistoL He pointed it toward Mr. Beasley and fired. At the first shot Miss Millington ran from the room. The second shot quickly fol lowed the first. Mr. Williams had beat a hasty retreat in the meantime. One of the shots struck Mr. Beasley. The people who had heard the shooting rushed in and prevented any further acts of hostility. After an examination into the merits of the case, Squire Co wart fixed the amount of the bond at $1,000. . It was promptly given.' The prominence of the parties increases the interest in the case. TAX ON STATE BANK NOTES. Georgia Legislature Opens the Way For a Test as to Constitutionality. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. IS. The Geor gia Legislature has opened the way for a test to the constitutionality of the 10 per cent, tax on State bank notes. 4 The Calvin banking act, passed at a former session, has been amended so that within a s aort time some public spirited citizens of this State will es tablish a bank and issue notes for the express purpose of trying the State bank tax issue in the courts. This case will attract the attention of the whole country. Send us your names for sample cop ies of our Christmas issue of the Press and Carolinian. Sweeping: Reduction In Atlanta Exposition Rates via Southern Railway. The Southern Railway will sell, on December 19 to 23 inclusive, round triJ tickets from Washington to At lauta and return at rate of $8.75 for the round trip of 1,300 miles; good five days from date of sale. Rates from all other points in same proportion, which are the lowest rates ever offered for any similar occasion; affording a splendid opportunity to visit the Atlanta Expo sition, conceded to be second in impor tance only to the World's Fair. The Southern Railway is the only line operating solid vestibuled trains of Pullman ialaee cars and elegant first-class day coaches between New York, Washington and Atlanta with out change. Time, New York to At lanta, 24 hours; Washington to Atlan ta, 1$ 'lours. Three trains daily in each direction. Christmas Holiday parties now being organized. - Tickets good for ten (10) days from date of s le will also be sold Washing ton to Atlanta and return at rate of 514, December 19 to 20 inclusive, also on December 2S, 1M5, enabling a long er stay ht the Exposition if desired. Apply to any representative of that company for full information. Mr. C. T. Pi ton is manager of the State Hotel, at Denison, Texas, which the traveling men say i one of the best hotels in that' section. In steak ing of ' Chamberlain's .Colic. Cholt ra ami Diarrhoea. Remedy Major Pictoti savs: "I h ive usl it myself and in my family for several years, and 'take pleasure in saying that 1 consider it infallible cure for .diarrhoea ami dy enterr. I ahv.iys recommend tT. a? ! have "frequently administered it to i:iv guests in the hotel, am! in every en it has proven itself worthy of unquali fied endorsement. For sale by O. M. Rovster, Druggist. v For blank revipt looks call on ' Hickory Fructii Co., at I'rkss i i-nCAROUkIAX. 44-tf DIABOLICAL VANDALISM. j I The People of Morganton Are Incensed at a I Hizh-Handod Outrage Committed There Sunday Night. The good people, and others, of MoY gauton were treated, without the "treat," to a novel and.very extraordi nary sensation, as well to the senses and moral terptitude as to the olfac tories last Monday morning. It ap pears that sometime during Sunday night some person or persons without the fear of the devil or the love of the Lord entered the cellar of the lone though not lorne bar room in Morgan ton and proceeded with unction to bore auger holes in the heads aud knock out the heads of fifteen barrels containing some different brands and make of whiskies, and rum, gin, bran dy and port wine and claret wine, etc, and flooded the red clay floor of the cellar to the depth of nearly a foot with the conglomerate mixture which would beat a Chatham Artillery punch all hollow. The bar-room belongs to Mr. McNealy, of Charlotte, aud is "tended" by his two brothers. He was there last Friday, but returned the same day. Monday morning when his brothers found the store emitting a fragrant odor that could be sinelled across the street and they discovered that boards had been lifted from the air and light chamber in the rear of the store and that the lattice frame in the window casing below had been sawed aud an opening made through which the party committing the deed had crawled inside, they telegraphed Mr. McNealy in Charlotte, but it was only late up in the day they learned by wire that he was in Statesville. The loss is over one thousand dol lars. Only recently he had paid $1, 200 license to the city. There is much feeling about the mat ter in Morganton. All classes of peo ple deprecate the deed. PLOT TO KILL THEM. Deadly Infernal Machine; Sent tothe Chicago Millionaires Pullman and Armour. Chicago, Dec. 10. A bold conspir acy to assassinate George M. Pullman and Philip D. Armour has just come to light and every effort is being made to apprehend the perpetrators of the plot. This morning two packages were received at postal station L, of which Wm. H. Hanlon is superintend ent, directed to P. D. Armour and Geo. M. Pullman, respectively, and the packages were finally turned over to Postoffice Inspector Stuart for in spection. 'hey proved to be infernal ma chines, which, had they reached their destination and been opened without suspicion by the men for whom' they were intended, would probably have blown them into enternity. The packages were taken up by the col lector, Philip Kirk wood, of station L. One of them he found on the mail box at Wabash avenue and Fourteenth street and the other at Wabash ave nue ami Twenty-first street. The second machine was laid on the box just as Kirkwood approached it to make his collection. He saw a man of rough appearance lay a package on the box and walk away. When he reached the mail box he found the package to be similar to the one he had picked up at Fourteenth street and addressed in the same handwrit ing. Each packjige weighed about twenty-four ounces and the poorly scrawled addresses were alone enough to attract the sittention of the carrier. Mr. Armour is now on his way -to Jacksonville, Fla., having left the city on Sunday. The dangerous character of the packages has btvn established with out a doubt. A trial test of their con tents was made and this proved that the prickagen contained an exp!oi'e. in subMamv akin to dynamite. Tt.E HLTMOlJlST CONFLRE.ME. t? ;rcw-r:J wr.-w-tnI Drep 1 On Thm At tlt.zab-th City . 'tr ?iv:i-e of the .Methdit de n ::i ri of Eastern North Carol ;r:;i :...?; -! :! !it week at Eh'zalfcrtli City. Lh.v Saturday President Cleve land nml party put in at Elizal-th City out of the rough weather which prevailed and the people and minis ters thought he would remain over Sunday, but he soon departed for Washington on a special train. T-lie conference a ijourned to meet at Kin ston next year." TWO Won EN BURNED TO DEATH. Went To The Distillery, Got Drunk. Lay Dwn Beide The Railrcad This Side of Morganton, Some Men Built m Fire And They Were Burned To Death. Morganton had a sensation Wednes day of last week seldom if ever equalled in all of its horror and re volting ess by the burning to death of two self abandoned women near the Southern Railway track two miles this side of Morganton the night be fore. Tuesday afternoon Allie Wells and Jennie Whitehead, two women of ill repute, left for a still house two miles east of Morganton, near the track ol the Southern .Railway. They had been to the still house, got their liquor and had started back to town, when Allie Wells became helplessly drunk and couldn't go any further. They stopped on the side of the railroad and were seen there at 5 o'clock in the evening by Section Master Gibson. He says he told them they had better not stay there as it was time for the passenger train. They cursed him, and he went on and left them. He says they were drinking. It is re ported that later in the evening, about dark, some men, who were passing, built the women a fire, and left them. The next time the women were seen was Wednesday morning at 7 o'clock, when Section Master Gibson was pass ing the same spot. He found the two women, both dead burned to death. They had evidently lain down by the fire, during the night, fell asleep and the fire popped out on them and set their clothes on fire. The Wells woman evidently couldn't move, as her body was found in a foot or two of the fire with her head in it. The Whitehead woman, being frightened bv the fire, ran off a few paces and was found where she had fallen in the bushes. The cloth ing was burnt entirely off the two bodies, leaving them perfectly nvde. Large patches of skiyi were burnt off the bodies, leaving them raw and bloody. The limbs were drawn and the faces distorted with pain. Death came in his most terrible form to these two unfortunates, and their last moments of consciousness must have been fraught with the horrors of the damned. Verily "the wages of sin is death." A more awful ending could not come to a mis-spent life. ROUTING GEN. COPP1NOER. American Protective Association Waging Vigorous Warfare. Washington", Dec. 15. The Ameri can Protective Association is engaged in vigorous warfare through petitions and otherwise, against the confirma tion of the nomination of Gen. J. J. Coppinger, to be brigadier-general. The petitions charge that Gen. Cop pinger's promotion is made over the heads of a score of skillful, brave and gallant officers and assert that he has become an American- citizen only within the last three years. They further say: "He is the Irish Roman Catholic viliintr urhn with othern left Ir- ! land to go and fight for Pope Pius IX ' against the freedom and unity of Italy and who, for pretended gallantry, was created a Chevalier of St. Michael and made honorary aid de ciiup to Pope Pius IX." The ietitions are in printed form aud all ft forth the same facts and i arguments. The l ouii nation is now t i-efore the committee on military af fairs anil has not vet been conhidered by the committee. J2 BucksbM in flit ISrrt. Frank Wtl-ou. i-oiim-d, j5iot au kilN-d Ixmis Ha is. a white man of Hamlet, at that pl.u-e. lat Monday VTlViv. Th doctor io attendance found bucknhot had entered his leli breast. The above i taken from the Rock ingham Southern Ii.dex. Mr. Harris wju n brother of Mr. H. T. Harri-, of Hickory, am the ia;r of "Jeiiks" Harris who works ou the Pr:- ami Oajiolim o", Mr. Harri was buried in Statesville. lum former home Christmas Etotertaiamet. -A cantata will le rendered at the Ojera Houe by the Hickory .Baptist Sunday ScJiool on the night of Dee. 25th. A good time may be expected by those who attend. Admission parquet 15c; gallery 10c HAPPIEST HAN IN TOWN. Jm?s White. ex-Coavict, Goes Back to Take L'p the Thread of Life Wnero tt Laid It ' Down. The happiest man in Raleigh was at the Union depot yesterday. . He was not a bank president or a millionaire. And a few hours before he had worn the stries of a convict. But there he stood a free man, and breathing the free air of God's earth. and smiling with the face of a joy he could not utter. Seme five months ago James White was sent to the State prison from Cald well county. He was sentenced to five years at hard labor. Manslaughter the jury had pro nounced his crime. He pleaded self- defense, and said the negro he shot dead had tried to kill him, and he fired to save his own life. White had been deputy sheriff of the county, aud was well thought of by his neighbors. Governor Carr investigated theaf. fair aud granted White his jiardon. And yesterday White walked out of the prison walls, a free man. "No man can tell how I feel," ho said to some who hail known him. "You don't know what it is to be free uutil you have had your freedom taken away from you." He went back last night to hfs home in Caldwell county, near Lenoir. And there he takes up the thread of life where he laid it down. News and Observer, 12th. Christmas Service at the Reformed Church. The Reformed church of this city will observe Christinas in elaborate style. The service will be held at 6 o'clock in the morning. Everybody invited. The pastor. Rev. J. L. Mur phy, has prepared the following order of service to be used on the occasion: PROGRAMME. I. , 1. Christmas Anthem. 2. Invocation, 3. Hymn 61. 4. Scripture Lesson Matt. 1 :18-2-i. 5. Gloria Patri and Creed. C. Prayer. 7. Christmas Canticle 7GC. 8. Hymn 09. 9. Recitation. 10. Hymn C09, by children. II. 1. Hymn 700. 2. Wonderful Prophecies. 3. Solo. 4. Recitation. 5. Music Violin. G. Recitation. 7. Address. 8. Christmas Offerings. 9. Hymn. 10. Doxology and Benediction. stockholders Meeting The annual meeting of the stock holders of the First National Bank of Hickory, N. C, will be held at office over Bank on Tuesday, Jan. 14, lKHJ, at 4 p. in. K. C. Mkxziks, Dec 13. Cajshier. Truo An 4 False Reports About Caba. It is announced with certainty that General Martinez Campos has re signed as the Spanish Captain General of Caba, The Cuban Janta in the United States have issued a statement show ing the falsehood of the telegraphic reports eminating through Sjwinish sources about the true condition of affairs in Cuba. They fay all tele grams from Calia are censorized by the Spanish authorities in Cuba, and therefore are not to be relied upon. Hickory Ixx Arrivals, Dec 17th IbW. ;au"l Neurnaii if and child, Buf falo N. Y: E. M. Ah!ey, and G. W. F. liarp-r. L-ioir N. C; A. D. McNair, t'atisvilL, N. Y; William Begg, At lanta. Ga ; B. J. Bate. Lincoln ton, N. C; ti. T. G:n., N. Y.; T. L. Golf. V.; S. Sheltoo. E. Hening Smith, U. E. B.-uee, Myron Marsh, EUiott Dunn, I-oulsville Ky.; A. G. Craig. P. i 7Jm mw man. Charlotte, N. C; M. V. JUoe, N. C Kope Elias, and IE IL Hagner, N, Y.; Darid T. Smiuioi... ('h r-hmV.t. O ; George S. Seaman. N. Y.; J. A. "Porter, Ah ville. N. C: I W. Saunders, Wil Iiausiort. Pa.; Jnsrph Barrett, N. Y.: F. I- Walton. Morganton. N. C; IL F. Trevellick, -Gorton Minetrel. Mis Helen Culver an old maid has given one million dollar to the Chlca- go Fiiier'ity. This secures two niil- I lion niont? fruai John D. Rockefeller. i -
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