North Carolina Newspapers

A I . 7 TZ - " . : : - -v- . 1 I lust love "Force IN DEEP WATER A Goldsboro Family Narrowly Escapes Drowning at Beaufort Beaufort; N. C, June 29. Special. Mr. Joseph and family, from Goldsboro, who are stopping at the, Mansion House, came near being drowned today on the Bird shoal, about a quarter mile from Beaufort. They were in bathing, when one of the party stepped in deep water and the other members of the family went to the child's rescue- Thy were soon all over 'their heads and in great danger of losing their lives, as none of them could swim. Palmer Davis, a colored boatman, went to save them, and he succeeded only by good judgment and heroic ef forts. They were all nearly exhausted, and Mr. Joseph was so overcome that he had to be laid on ' the shore until he recovered sufficiently to be taken to the hotel. The party consisted of Mr. and . Mrs. Joseph and their two chil dren. They are all right now. Mr. William Borden, from the Uni versity of Maryland, rendered efficient service in rescuing the imperilled bathers. " BIG BOX FACTORY New Enterprise at Winston Will Empl&y Three Hun dred IVIen Winston-Salem, N. C. June 29. Spe cial. The'Mengel Box Company of St. Louis and Louisville is to locate a plant here. The concern makes boxes for the leading ' tobacco factories in those two cities and at other western points. t comes to "Winston-Salem to bid, for" jhe . trade . of the south and west.; From what can be learned sweet gum will be used in making the boxes and 'will be brought to "Winston-Salem in logs. These will be shipped from various points in North Carolina and Virginia. The plant will be a very ex pensive one, the largest for making boxes anywhere In the south. About three hundred men will be given em ployment. ; WOMEN FOR MISSIONS - - Profitable Session of the Cpn- . ference at Shelby ". Shelby, N. C, June 29. Special. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Confer ence of western North Carolina ad journed thit afternoon, to meet next year in Monroe. AH of the officers were re-aleoted. Resolutions were adopted looking to the reopening of Greensboro Female College. Miss. Mary Pescud, missionary to Bra zil, and Miss Johnsy Sanders, misslon firy to China, addressed the conference last night. The delegation was the "argest in the history of the conference. Encouraging reports from all over the tonference were presented, showing narked progress. "There Were many In eresting addresses and discussions. The lelegates were charmed with their visit to Shelby. DEAD IN A DITCH Jake Screws Evidently Killed by a Loco motive Goldsboro, N. C, June 29.' Special. A lady living in the neighborhood of the county home, about four miles from this city, was walking along the rail road near the home yesterday morning when she discovered the lifeless re mains of Jake Screws, a white inmate of the home, lying in a ditch. Shere ported the fact to the superintendent of the home, who sent for the coroner. An investigation revealed the fact that Screws picked huckleberries Saturday morning and carried them Saturday afternoon to Pikeville, where he sold the berries. He bought whiskey with some of the money and started back horn. It is supposed that he got drunk 1 71 ' , Jim Dumps' grandchild, sly .little elf. Cried "Grandpa, on the lowest shelf please put the food 1 like the best, it with the rest. Force,'" she said to him. 3nny Jim. you snttu awi Tlio Rcady-to-Serro Cereal (H)T(&(B liKed aliKe by young anl old. She Likes It. - "I am a little girl seven years old. We use Force' for breakfast and like it. J.msib Margabet Richabdsoj.." and sat down on the end of the cross ties .and went to sleep. "When- found one leg and one" '.arm "were broken, which fact, when taken into consider ation with the position in which he was lying when found, is evidence that he was sitting on the end of a cross tie asleep. The first train to pass the scene after Screws left Pikeville Saturday afternoon was the train froni Norfolk due here at 9.20 that night. It is thought rather strange that some one' on the train which passed the scene about 7 o'clock yesterday morning did not see the remains. Screws had a wife who is also an inmate of the home. Driven te Desperation Living at an out-of-the-way place, remote from civilization, a family Is often driven to desperation In case of ; racuHlrcr in RnrnS. Cuts. Wounds,' Ulcers, etc. Lay in a supply, of Bucklen's Arnica Salve. L' s tne best on earth. 25c. at a.l rM.ggists. GOVERNOR DECLINES Executive Business Prevents Him from Visiting .v Asheville '" ' ' Asheville, N. C. - June 29. Special. Only a mall number of delegates have thus far arrived to attend the Southern Educational and Music Teachers' Con vention. The i executive .committee of the first named body sent ,a supple mentary messageto the governor today urging his presence tomorrow,: but the governor insisted that it would be im- nnssihlf to leave the canitol at this i time. The committee, in one of its urgent messages, facetiously threatened to bring the chief executive here by virtue of an instanter capias. Commlt- tees were appointed this afternoon to meet the educators at the station morrow. BLEEDING TO DEATH Fatal Results From Apparent ly Trivial Causes Charlotte, N. C, June 29.-Special. Sam Mulwee, the fifteen year old Eon of Mr. John Mulwee of lower Steel Creek, is at the point of death as the result of a slight cut on one of his feet. Saturday young Mulwee was raising a window, the sa6h slipped from his hands and fell, shattering several of the panes. A piece of broken glass struck the boy on one of his feet, In- iflicimg a small cut. Immediately blood commenced ti flow copiously, and de spite the fa.ct that everything has been done to stop the. flow, the young man 2s slowly 'bleeding to death. A, strange fatality in connection with this family is that two have died as the result of what is considered" small operations. A grown son, a strong, healthy young man, had occasion to have one of his teeth pulled. As soon as the tootfh" was extracted, the blood commenced to flow and .all efforts to check it proved futile.' This deadly pe culiarity in this family was first no ticed more than 75 years ago, when one of the children of Mr. Wyatt, the older branch ,of the family, bled to death. The young man was at school and had occasion to sharpen a pencil. The knife slipped and a small gash on the knee resulted. Before medical aid could reach him the young man bled to death. In1 punishing the Wyatt. and Mulwee children " the parents " were ' always afraid to use a switch for fear the; skin might be broken: ; .? -: ( , , TTntof All Bxperlaies Can anything be worse than to feel that every T minute, wijl be your last? Such was, the eperience of Mrs. S. H. Newson,; ' Decatur, , Ala. "For three years,", she Writes, ,"I endured insuffer able pairi from' indigestion,' stomach and boweU troubles. Death seemed inevita ble when doctors and all remedies fail ed.'.:' At, length' j was induced fc "to try Electric Bitters and the result was mir aculous. " I improved at once and now I'm completely recovered." For liver, kidney, stomach and bowel troubles Electric Bitter3 is the only medicine. Only 50c. It's guaranteed bjr all druggists. CLOSE RAGE IN A STIFF REEZE Reliance Beats Both Old Boats ''3 by aYery Narrow Margin Newport, R. I., June 29. The Reli ance was tried today in a1" strong easter ly wind and a rough sea, just the con ditions that all enthusiasts wanted to see her race in, and while she defeated the Columbia and Constitution by a safe margin she did not do as well as her admirers expected she would. The course was fifteen miles to windward and return. She beat the Columbia four minutes , nine seconds elapsed time, and the Constitution 4 minutes fifty-eight seconds. It "was just the sort of day that the Columbia used to show her superiority over th'Consti tution two years ago, a strong breeze and a short tumbling sea.' 'and the old boat showed that she is still "-a, factor in the fight for the honor of -defending the America's cup. The Reliance has to allow the Columbia about three min utes, so she really won the race with a minute to spare.: ' r ' On the turn to windward tl'Colum bia did' her hest work. She stuck to the Reliance . from the start, and at the mark she was only one minute forty four Seconds behind. On the run home ( the Reliance's enormous spread of can-: vas did its work and she drew away from the Columbia and gained 2 mln-( utes 15 seconds. " '' .s - j The most surprising thlng''about the . . ' A , ' t- ' race was tne comparatively poor snow- . trig of the Constitution That ' boat crossed the line under the lee bow of the Reliance, but the new boat soon pulled clear off from her, and 22 miri- ntea aftpr the start the Constitution to-Jwas the last boat in the race The Co lumbia, on the beat to the outer mark, beat the-Constitution 1 minute 37 sec onds, but on the run home the Consti tution gained 4S seconds; so that over the whole course the Columbia" beat the Constitution 49 . seconds. The race was a very fast one. "The Reliance made the thirty miles in 3 ; hours 9 minutes 53 seconds, averaging a fraction under .9 1-2 miles an hour. Turning to windward she averaged a little better than 8 miles an hour, and running !home her average was '11.7 miles an hour. HUGHES RECAPTURED Desprate Criminal Returned to Convict Camp Wilmington, N. C.,1 June 29. Special. J. P. Hughes, white, wvho, with twelve other prisoners, made a break from the convict camp at Castle Hayne, this county, in April, was captured and brought back to Wilmington today: Hughes is serving a four-years sen tence for bigamy. He and a negro were the only ones to escape. One was killed by the guards and others run down. He was arrested in Brunswick county. His captor will receive $50 reward of f ered for him by the county officials.' Hughes is a desperate man and is wanted in Anson and Columbus coun ties, having escaped from 'chain gangs1 in both places. Hughes was the man who planned the escape fro mthe Cas tle Hayne stockade and led the break. He was wounded by -a guard, but kept on through the swamp and finally got away. - , at Mach8n Indicted Again Washington, June 29. Additional In dictments were reported by the federal grand jury today against A. W. Ma ehen, charging hi rri' with accepting a bribe, and against Diller B. and .Sam uel Groff, trading as Groff Brothers, charging thjem with offering & Jarlbe. The new indictment contain Shelve counts. It was made necessary to in clude the additional evidence set forth in the indictment against Machen, the Groff s and the Lorenzes for conspiracy to defraud the government in connec tion with the letting of contracts for the purchase . of letter fasteners. This makes 12 indictments . in "ail ' against Machca. , MORNING POST: TUESDAY, 3 I93 ENGLAND HOOTS THE IDEA OF A COTTON TRUST Manchester, June 29. The report that a gigantic cotton tiic or had been formed caused excitement upon the exchange today. Merchants generally doubted the truth of the re port. Many declared that such a move was next to impossible. Mr. M. Acara, president of the Master Cotton Spin ners' Association, remarked that he re ceived such rumors from America with extreme reserve. Doubtless the- AmerL oana handipd millions In a wonderful manner, but he maintained that a strong federation would contend against most of the forces they had to face. He pointed out that some years ago the Master Cotton Spinners' Associa tion had broken a corner in Liverpool. He was convinced that no combination could manipulate the raw material so successfully as to compete with a com bination of the users of it. A conference of cotton merchants and spinners of Manchester, Liverpool, Bol ton, Oldham and other cotton centres was held at Bolton today, with' the ob ject of furthering the work of the Brit ish Cotton Growing Association. Sir Alfred Jones, president of the Liver pool chamber of commerce, and head cf the shipping firm of Elder, Demp ster & Company, said he believed that Africa could grow all the cotton that Lancashire needed. Mr. George Harwood, member of Par liament for Bolton, declared that under present conditions the Lancashire cot ton trade wras resting on a foundation or sand. SCANDALS GETTING CLOSE TO MADDEN Washington, June 29. Third Assist ant Postmaster General Madden re turned to Washington today from' his home in Detroit, where he recently made public an open letter to the post master general criticising the first and fourth assistants, which displeased Mr. Payne and created considerable fric tion in the department. Mr. Madden had a long conference with Mr. Payne i Second Aoeiial: SPECIAL, .oo ao PERRY & ROSENTHAL ANOTHCR rS.BCRWANtiii, i kvi nnthlnsr could learned as to what took place. The investigation into the J&s book contracts, which -was rtaken is mtiiiiusi over a month ago, is stm m Ps oUmont of-interest was in jected into this particular -phase-of the scandals toaay that a son of Win. H. Landvolgt ) super intendent of the classification piston and one of Mr. Madden's chier subor dinates, is employed by the General Manifold Company of Franklin. Pa or which Representative Sibley or Penn sylvania, !a member of the post office committee of the. House, is the largest stockholder, and which has the contract for furnishing the registry division, under the third assistant postmaster general, with the manifold book3 used in the service. It "was the publication of the fa,cts connected with the con m,. hpuvpcn the government and tne General Manifold Company that arous ed Mr. Madden's ire, and was respon sible for his letter to Postmaster Gen eral Payne, which practically asserted that either the .first or the( fourth as sistant had furnished the. newspapers with "malicious and cruel misinforma tion." - ' . . Inspectors are now at Franklin, where the General Manifold Company has its headquarters and shops, making a thorough investigation. When it, be came known today that a prominent of ficial under Madden had a son in the employ of the manifold company, an official of the department remarked: "I am very sorry to say it but this looks like another Metcalf case. Mr. Metcalf was recently summarily dis missed for endeavoring to divert a con tract for manufacturing order blanks. ELEVATOR FELL AND MANY HURT Pittsburg, Pa., June 29. Twenty three persons, crowded on an elevator in the establishment of H. J. Heinz & Co., Allegheny, were precipitated from the fifth. floor about 2:30 this afternoon. Sixteen were injured seriously. The St. George cadets of the Bohemia Catholic society, who are in the city, went to the establishment this after noon upon the invitation of Mr. Heinz. There was a large attendance of vis itors in consequence. Several hundred of cadets were in the building at the time and they rescued the Injured, among whom were half a dozen women. Tlonday and Tuesday Only ! AT V Come Early ! $2.98! SUIT This time we begin where we left off last week. Suits from $15 to $7.50 are included in this week's Special. Beginning tomorrow morning, until S aturday night, July 4th. you can tak choice of all MEN'S SUITS that were $15 for $12; $13.50 and $12.50 for $10: $11 and $10 for $7.75; $8 and $7.50 for $5.75. ALL YOUTH'S SUITS (long pants), 14 to 20 years, that were $15 for $12: $12.50 for $9.75; $10 for $7.75; $7.50 for $5.75. - ; The reason for these Reductions xe that we -carry no goods over from bn season to another. We prefer sacrificing to carrying over T : This includes every Spring Suit - (exc ept the blvre and black Serges), an' as, Bortment that is unequaled for style and. value, and that strr.ds to show th9 most liberal. policy in the retail clothi rig business. LIGHT WEIGHT SUITS;. Tour wants in this line are best sup plied here. Coats and Pants in flannels, wool, crashes and serges-$5, $7.50. $10, $12 and $15. White Vsts. Serge Coats White Duck Coats. White Duck ,Trousv rs. Alpaca Coats. Featherweight Seree Coats, or most any kind of airy lightw eights you can think of, at our usual popular low prices. Come and see our 1 ne no charge to see them. 1 THE KNOW WHAT YOU WANT Most Atrocious Crime Com mitted by an Italian Buffalo, June 29. Harry B years old, of 1161 Michigan street, u-a, found murdered in his parlor today. He had been shot twice through tha breast and (his head was almost cut oft by a razor. The body w-as found by' Bender's wife who was hanging out clothes when the crime w-as eonirmttei, she says. She called a policeman an 1 told him that the murderer was Nelson- Boaggirjo who was visiting with tiis parents in the house next do-r. When the officer went to arrest Bong, gino, the Italian said: "I know what you want. I'm accused of murder, but I did not do it." The police allege to have evident that Boaggino was attentive to Mrs, Bender and that he planned the rnur. der. After shooting Bender he Is sup. posed to have removed his coat and vest, and then cut his victim's throat, holding 'the "body over a dishpan U catch' the blood. LAST STRONGHOLD Venezuelan Force Gone tr ' Dislodge .Rebels Caracas, June 29. Vlee President Go mez embarked today at La Guayra win 3,500 men to attack Ciudad Bolivar, the only city still in the power of the revo lutionists, where there are 2,500 men commanded by General Rolando. An other government column of 1,200 men, commanded by General Aranjo, will meet General Gomez at Barrancas, and the joint forces will attack Ciudad in front and rear. - This is the first tlma in Venezuelan military annals that such -a number of troops has been trans ported. 4 Corbett Bests Brisgs Boston, June 29. Young . Cbrhett, champion feather-weight of the .world, " bested Jimmy Brlggs of Chelsea, Mas., champion feather-weight. .of New-. Eng land, in ten rounds at the Criterion Athletic Club tonight. Over 3,000 per sons witnessed the bout, thp maloritV of whom were supporters of Brigps an(-; maim.cBi.eu umi ui9awu,a j. mc de cision.. . Oxfords. SALE SPECIAL! ONE-PRICE CLOTHIER- -mm.,- "