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FLAGMAN KILLED AT ROCKINGHAM B. B. Thomas Fell ' From Freight Car While Setting Brakes K P. Thomas, a flagman for the Sea- ,:;i Air Line, well known in Raleigh, v:,s killed at Rockingham yesterday af-t(rn.--m by falling from the top of a freight car. The accident occurred about 5:20 o'oiook while the train a southbound f rf isht was moving at the. rate of about t-'ziit miles an hour. Thomas was at -hf time setting the hand-brake on top of the freight car, and his foot slipped in vin-h a way as to cause him to fall from th" car to the .ground, a distance of twenty feet or more. It could not be ' itflined last night what the character .- the injuries were which caused his .;. a:h. The air-brakes were not being v-s'.l on the train. The deceased was about 21 years of and his home was at ltamceur. lie ),:.! li. eu. in the employ of the company l.r quite a while. THE BOaFInF WHISKEY SEIZED Collector Duncan Notified of Haul Made by Deputy , Babbitt Collector Duncan, of the internal reve cue department, Fourth district, re-:..-vsl notice yes-terday that Deputy Col-ipi.-tor C. M. Babbitt has seized a thirty fo. t lrat on which was concealed live TM-kages of blockade whiskey. In con tortion with the notification the state ment was made hat the whiskey has We: shipped to Raleigh and the boat has heen locked in the New Bern docks. Mr. Duncan also thiukts there is no iluihi that the parties implicated in the" M n-kadiug have been arrested in this '.-.stance. Under the law the bloekaders '.,,.. both the whiskey and the boat on nhicli it was being transported. SORRELL-RAGSDALE A Pretty Home Wed ding Cere mony at Fuqua Srings Yesterday Dr. L. P. Sorrell of Flint and Mrs. Mary Kazsdale were happily married at 5:.o" o'clock yesterday afternoon at the. hrne of the bride's parents at Fuquay Springs. It was an elegant wedding t-ervk-e and was witnessed by many friends of both parties interested. Rev. j. M. Atkinson was the officiating minis ter. .Miss Mary Sorrell wa maid of ti ni ir and Mr. Luther C. Sorrell Served t the best man to the groom. The-groom and a party of friends from his home ami from here left Raleish 8 4 o'clock on a special train over the j U.i:-;l'1u& Cape Fear Railroad for i u q:.iy Springs, and the bridal party re-n.-::.d on the same train at 7 oclock last night. Dr. and Mrs. Sorrell and a party of .friends continuirg their journey t the groom's home at Flint, where an iafair was held. L'apt. J. J. Bernard, Mr. W. M. Ruse md Mr. E. A. Womble were among those v.h went from Raleigh to attend the wedding. FUNERAL OF MR. BETTS Held Yesterday Afternoon In Tabernacle Church Thf funeral services over the remains f iiTiesflay afternoon- at Rex Jlospitiil v".-iv held at 4:30 o'clock yesterday af ternoon at Tabernacle Baptist church. Every eat in the large auditorium was tilled, ants irg the great popularity Of the deceased. As the funeral cortege entered the church soft, muftied notes of the great 'Tgan tilled the auditorium and the choir sang "Hark, hark my soul angelic t-"i!s are swelling." Iiev. w. D. Hubbard, in a choking Vf'i'-e s-rd he felt 'more like taking a r!a- with the family of deceased than i iidiK:i:i- tUe services. He felt the l"ss of the hand-clasp of a brother. ' The Home. of the Soul" wa announced i'r.ii snug and Mr. Hubbard read several f df-iions from the liible. Mr. John T. I'nlii n ofi'ered prayer and the choir sung ".Shall we meet Beyond the Rivn-.- Mr. Hubbard then spoke feelingly of If last lays of the deceased, taking as a l.asis the words of Christ: "Well !:,,,e, thou good and faithful servant. Miter rhou into the joys of thy Lord." IVdowiuz Mr. Hubbard. Mr. John T, T'ullin spoke briefly of the life and ih ath of the young man. Mis Hammond sang sweetly: "Some 'hue we'll understand" and the remains ""ere conveyed to Oak wood, where in" -t iht nt was made. A large number of ! Fellows attended In a body and . f"!lueted services at the grave. The pall-bearers were Messrs. Jas. I. .T-duisou. A. II. Mooneyham, .Trio. T. f'niin, Robert X. Simms, J. J. Bernard n-i Henry T. Hicks. THE CASINO GIRL 1 " A Triumph of Geo.W. Lederer 1 hat Has -Won Great Recognition the many triumphs that Geo. "W. '"deror has had in his Casino produc t"Hs of the past ten years, none has rv,n ;rreater recognition than the musi-'-)medy, "The Casino Gdrl," which has hpen secured as one of the leading Et;ra'-tions at the Academy of Mnsic r,fxt Saturday. After establishing a "r 1 of 400 performances in New .fi;'i And 300 nights in London, the P'-e was taken tto Philadelphia- and to i ' !:,'!. w here, in each , instance, it fras jeceived with immense favor, and now for the first time it is being taken on a toar of the principal cities cf this CKHidtry. The organization is under the personal direction of Mr. Samuel E. Rork, whose experience in handling musical taml coniic opera attractions assures a production of superior excel lence. Seats are now on sale. Lower floor $1.50 and $1.00; balcony 50 and 25 cents. A GREAT HIT LAST NIGHT AT ACADEMY The Romantic Revolutionary Story, Janice Meredith - A dramatic version of Paul Leicester Ford's romantic revolutionary story, "Janice Meredith," was given last night at the Academy of Music by a splendid company with Miss Mary Mannering as the leading lady. Miss Mannering is a beautiful and be witching woman and has withal a most charming stage presence. Robert Drouet as the leading man was good, and as Tabitha Drinker, a companion of Janice Meredith, Miss Amy Rlcard performed her part well. In fact. Miss Mannering was 'ably supported throughout the whole play. . j The play is a drama of revolutionary war times, and the love story running through it intensifies the thrilling scenes of carnage. There was a large audience present, and at the end of the third act, when Washington crossed the ice-clogged Delaware and surprised the British who were celebrating Christmas in drunken revelry, there were four or five successive curtain calls. i Janice Meredith is a clever drama, though perhaps not quite as strong as Nathan Hale. The work of the players last night, however, has hardly been ex-1 coeded nere this season. $2,509AWARDED ' MISS MATTIE BAKER For Injury Sustained in the Raleigh Cotton Mill The damage suit of Mattie Baker against the Raleigh Cotton Mill which as been before the Superior Court since Tuesday resulted in a verdict last night in favor of the plaint ff for $J,500. The case was subbornly fought on both side, every inch of ground being vigorously contested. Mr. W. C. Doug lass finished the speech to the jury yes terday morning which he began Wednes day afternoon. He wus followed by Mr. R. X. Simms. Both of these speakers wore for the plaintiff. Mr. Richard II. Battle then made a strong plea for the defendant company which lasted until the hour for adjournment for dinner. After dinner-Mr. S. G. Ryan addressed, the jury fr the plaintiff, speaking foe an hour and a half. The judge's charge was brief and about five o'clock the jury retired. About 10:30 last night they rendered their verdict as aiovc It was not positively stated last nisrht but it is likely the case will go to th? Supreme Court. DELEGATES RE- APPOINED Governor Aycock has reappointed the North Carolina delegates to the Good Roads Convention at Danville, which was to have been held during the week of February 20th, but was postponed on account of the cold weather which set in about the time the good roads trsin was due there from Raleigh. The date for the convention now is March 13 and 14. There are about forty dele gates from North Carolina, most of them from counties bordering on Vir ginia and contiguous to the Danville section. One of the Most Efficient Hon. James R. Young, head of the insurance d'epartment is making a praiseworthy record in his official ca pacity, lid was in Charlotte this week consulting -with cotton mill men in the organization of a mutual insurance company. The Charlotte News says of him: "Hon. .Tames R. Young, Insurance Commissioner of the State of North Carolina, is in the city today. Mr. Yoraig as one of the most efficient offi cers in .the .state government. He has made the insurance department one of the most profitable in the "state." . $ ; Twenty Per Cent Inadequate (Ixmisville Courier-Journal.) With 50 per cent, reduction in duties each wav, the United States would get practically aM Cuba's trade for com modities which we produce, estimated to be 88 per cent. of the whple, while at present we have only about 40 per cent. This would add $30,000,000 to oilr ex ports on the basis of last year's trade. But it would add a great deal more than this, because by a liberal trade arrange ment the purchasing power of Cuba would be enormously increased, enabling her to buy morev of the articles which we alreay sell her, wnne tne prererentiai tariff would admit many articles which are now bought in other countries. The proposition of the Ways and Means Com mittee, even if it does any good, is one calculated by its illiberally to keep down both the import and export trade of Cu ba. Had to mislead Him "It was a dhirty thrick annyhow," j growled .ur. Aiuicaney. -"Yhwat's thot?" asked Mr. O'Tunder. "Me b'y Terry is playin' th' dhrum in th'Sivintieth Rigimint Band, an th' bandmnsther knew ha wudden't play annT Gurman chunes, an' 'so 'he croshed ont th' toitle av 'Hh' Watch on th' Rhoine' an' all th' other Gurman wans an' marked thim as 'Th' Wearin' av th' (Jrane' an' sooch loike, an' Terry Played loike th' . divll all th' toime . Pr r-rince Hinry was here, mver know ia' but phwat he was handin' out; good, Oirish music. An now th' b'y has a brick in han an' ha-r-d wor-r-ds m his JaTbe and i tuntin' .th' bandmasther." 1 BURGOMASTER A MERRY JINGLE Is a Phenominally Financial and Artistic Musical Com edyHere Tues day Night That -merry jiimgle "The Burgomas ter," which, retunte to the Academy of Music next Tuesday might, ie without a doubt the most phenominally financial and artistic musical comedy triumph that has been m-esented hera in mmnv n day, and should be 'heralded as a mos-t welcome revelation to all admirers of wit, beauty and song. Its clean-cut wiit is still town talk; its many catch phrases are still the foundation of much local humor, and its unusually large chorus of youth and beauty, moderateiy speaking, lias been the most cheerful revelation welcomed to town for many a day. Its music is still as popular to day as when first heard here, and in fact is either whistled or sung every where you go, especially that catchy refrain "The Taleyof the Kangaroo." Many new specialties will be intro duced this time. -uracil new music, many new faces, and an entire new scenic Bmd costume outfit. In fact, this return engagement should prove as 'big' a boon to our amusement loving public as its initial appearance, and that was a little short of a positive ovation. Seats go on sale Saturday morning. Prices 50 to $1.50. ANCIENT CITY OF TUCSON . Town In Arizona with Many Peculiar Features (From Letter to Springfield Republican) Situated cm the nuain line of the Southern Pacific Railroad. 500 miles from. New York, Tucson is only ibout 73 miles from Old .Mexico. f which it was originally a part. Once the home of the Aztte, later of the Mexican- its population is now 25 per cmnt. Mexi can and 7" per cent. Yankee, the latter largely fro the Eastern States. Hav ing grown from 5,000 sulrs to a popu lation to 11.000 since 1805, it is now a hustlng1 little city, whre principal stores will compare .favorably with those of our beloved Springfield, and posessin;: the advantages of a citv government, municipal water-works, sewers, fin? deparrmen't, electric lights, street ?ars. city library, dr.ving park and street watering paid for by the city. HerejMve can see ancient adobe houses, side by a de with modern buildings of brick aal stone, though, one feature, which is shared by both Ancient nntl modern buildings, is that bo h are netr ly all i.uly one ?.tory in heiirht, withoat apjinrent reason therefor, as this rs not a locality - isited by earthquakes. How ever, the Tncsonian has no use for .?. flight of stairs, ami two-sorv buildings of any kird are very few, -while I thi'ik there are none- more than two stories. Having fairly gocl records back to 1804 and traditional and corroborative material t "dence piinting to a sett1 ment centuries before "that time, this city claims to be the oldest in an f the States or territories which make np the United States of America, si claim, however, which is disputed by Sau a Fe, a few huntdred miles, to the no -L-east. The name Tucson mean bla.k water, taken from the armeiranee of n spring by the foothills of the Tucson Mountains, which wan once the .e wnter supply of the little settlement. Tucson lies at an elevnt'O of 2 4u0 feet, an 1 !s almost entirely s rroun.1 1 by mountains. The Tucson Mountains are on west, the Santa Reta to . i south, the Catnlina eastwa-i- and the San Navier to the north. The heus?s, being Onlv one story, shelter onlc oi.i family ea.Mi, and t.hir is the l iggest citv on the ground of any of 11,(0Q iwpu!a t ion. that I know of. Very many of tiie comparatively modern houses are bi;,t of abode, e-speciaelly those t-t the ; wefll-to-do Mexican, -and the inter r of many of these ancient-look. rtr hous1 is a revelntion. Fine modern plumbing, gas, electric lighting and luxurious fnrnrshhigs mnke beautiful homes in side theo wall made of mud bloc'cs and plarteied outside with more mud. Just a wir da's to what adobe :s. From where in this valley a few feet be'aw the surface is taken a so'l which is mixed with the straw refuse from rhc stables, and iiressed rnf blocks ibout 1- inches long, 10 inches wide and 4 indie's thick. These .ire dried in the sun for about tl ree weeks, when tl.ey are ready-to use in laying, up the w.il!!? of an adobe house. Be-ins laid double the walls are 20 inches o: more thrvk. The mortar used in con struction ;s more of Ihe same mad. These wa'ls are carried up about K feet and a nearly flat roof ,)f more ni'id is laid on stick's or boards, tightly placed together two or tlitee feet below the top of the walls, through which ar3 made openings o allow th rain o run through lo the outside. The outer and inner su;fic-s o the walls are then plasterel with more mud, and the whole structure soon dries in this cli mate to be nearly as hard as our brie':, and makes -a cool house in enirune and a warm cr c in winter. Regarlir. the dryness of 'he climuce. let me. say that one cannot "'ragine it; J it roust "0 experienced. Our pine lum ber is unfit for building purposes her?, as it would dry and shrl lk tremend ously in the dry season, and then swell and burst its fastenings when the. sum mer ram, come m. Surface water courses rre very few in this conn1'. One strecch of the old road lending from Yrau to the gold fields. 00 miles in length, has mo water the whole length, and more than 400 graves gold vec-kers are to be counted along this strwh. where they died of thii Other travelers have pla.-ed wn-ill stones the form of a cross to m-i'K their last resting places. No team.-; ter or bicyclist, much less the foit traveler, vould vewture on a 20-m;ie trip even, without his large canteen cl Avater. Th; draymen, who haul me.--chandise to the mines, all have sma'l barrels of. water attached to the sid i of the wagon, for a supply en route tor man i d beat. Thjough the Indian -with ' "blanke st rapped to his back, the Mexican wih knife at his belt, and the eowb v mounted en his pony, bridle in one hand, Hnat in the other, and a brace of heavy s:'i.-shaoters 'at his hips, are ro bo seen oi. the streets any day, the c' is very order ly , and only the police man, and. he in citizen's clothes, is neei- ed to kee.t the peace. Tho "Liesral len dr," thy finest gamMmg house In Arv Korra, is ideated on Main strae", a.nd. al though I pass it man times each dav, I have yet to see anything lb at woiid . lead m to think it other than a clubhouse, or possibly an opera house of inroad ?np architectural design. ; Did you ever see a "burro?" little an imals about the size of a Shetland pony. They work equally well driven in pairs to a wagon or loaded high on their backs with wood or the camp outfit of some wandering Mexican. A sort of saw buck frame is first placed on their back when loading with wood, and then the sticks put between the X's and lashed fast. The Mexican here, as well as wherever he may roam, is not much on work. He will loaf about the piaza in the sun, as his desire for activity is al ways expressed in the word "manana." meaning tomorrow. He never does to day what can be put off till tomorrow, though his wife and children are living on the bare ground that serves for a floor in his adobe but, shivering through the cold of the night, and basking in the warmth of the day's sun outside the door, living on beans in winter and mel ons in summer. Speaking of beans reminds me that I shipped to our nine the other day one ton of beans costing $70, for the use of our forty miners, who will not work unless we provide them beans three times a day. This little city has a very large trade from the surrounding coun try. Miners and others come in with his wagons, load up, and return, so the trade of this place is phenomenal for its size. One department store does nearly two millions a year business. Goods are very high-priced, due to exorbitant freight charges. We bought ten car loads of coke for our smelter in St. Louis a" few days ago, costing there about $700. and at Tucson $2,000. and at $S per ton for hauling to the mines, (JO miles away, the total cost laid down at the mine will be about $4,2000. Board here is from $10 to $20 per week, but. even grocers' clerks get $75 to $100 per month wages. Nothing but gold and silver is used, no pennies are used, and nothing whatever is sold for less than 5 cents. ACADEMY OF MUSIC SATURDAY, MARCH 8TH Direct from London. George W. Lederer' s Great Musical Extravaganza The One Positive Theatrical Triumph of Two; Continents The Casino Girl Written by Harry B. Smith and Ludwig Englanger. 400 Performances at the Casino, New York. 300 Jtfights at the Shaftes "burg, London. Seats now on sale. Trices: Balcany, 2.1 and 50c. Lower floor, 7uc, $1.00 and $i..-o. RALEIGH Ilf WORKS cooper bros. Proprietors. Raleigh. N C. MONUMENTS Write for catalogue. We pay the freight. CROSS fe L mm LANDRETfTS SEEDS. We are sole Agents for Landreth's Seeds in Raleigh. Our assortment has heen cho Uen to suit North Carolina soil and climate. t ur bulk seeds are II some; not higher than JXing Quality ?" Wt H, KING DRUG )obbin At Tucker's iStore. The very Newest vSpring' Effects. A Grand Exposition of Fascinating Interest to every woman. The high class character of the attractions, the very low prices and the great varieties to choose from are all important considerations to every woman. We are now ready with the best and most stylish stuffs commended by fashion for this season. Silks, Dress Goods, Black Goods, Wash Fabrics, White Goods, Embroideries, Laces, Dress Trimmings, &c. Early purchases are advised. Dobbin &l Rerrall. JUST ARRIVED, UPCHURCH & o I DO YOU USE 1 NORTH STATE I If not, we ask you toive it a trial - . Every sack is guaranteed, so you risk nothing by trying it. FARINA MILLING UN SPRING STYLE DUNLRP HATS. OPEN IN(3 DAY TCBRUAPY & LINEMAN GO t CO. Raleigh, N. C, We have purchased from James Cnn ningham, Sons & Co., the famous car riage and hearse builders of Rochester, N. Y., a nice Berlin coach, which we Lave added to our Livery, and are pre pared to give our patrons better service than ever. Oar city has long been in need of a first-class coach of this kind, and we are prepared to serve our pat rons in the best (New York) style. This coach can be had only by tho best people cf our city, and is the latest fad for wedding parties, etc. We also can fur nish anything in our line, day or night, by calling Bell and Interstate 'P . one 81 at our No. I stable, and Raleigh and Interstate 'Phone at our No. 2 stable. HOLDER - SallsbnrrVt 'PIIOXES 1 Morsan 379. o CO., Raleigh, N. C. lower in price than others". Why not get II JUL W. W 6 EH AN. CO 27
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