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VOL. XIV. .YADKINVILLE, YADKIN COUNTY N. 0 . WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 14, 1907. NO.26. OK, FOR HER FATHER’S SIN. POINT OF HONOR; -sr^rcoo 10 I CHAPTER XVII. Continued. 'And on that day Matty Fcrgusson cried till she was simply sick and faint; ami for days, and for weeks afterward the girl wandered about hollow-eyed and white, along every nlloe and hill side where she had o;ice walked with Alexis; and when she began to lose her freckles and wear long dresses, and, In time, to go to balls and to be ad mired, she still clung to her first, and, as far as she was concerned, most pure romance of her life, and hold all men immeasurably inferior to that of that black-haired, taper-fingered, effeminate faced little Russian of her Baden days. And for him she had sljed tears, and of his white face and tapen-fingors, as compared with those of Mr. Mollun of Yatton, she had been thinking when Jane Grand came in, just now upon her dreams. And looking in Jane’s agi tated face the thought did cross her, and with something of pity, that la vieille fille had loved Gifford and might feel toward her ns she, Matty, used to feci toward the grandly-dressed ladies who smiled upon Alexis in the Baden gardens. ‘:What a fool lie is to marry me In stead of her,” thought Miss Fergusson. “She is of his age, and of his ways, and I—well, 1 am Matty Fergusson, and Mr. Moliun must learn to like Matty Fergusson when he is married to her!” Then aloud, and, for her, not un gontly, “Miss Grand, you were very kind to ask me here. Thank you for your good wishes and”—and positively Matty Fergusson was at a loss—“I hope you won't think I have been ungrateful for your kindness.” “How ungrateful, child?” “Miss Grand, I am going to marry Mr. Moliun.” Jane had known that very well all | the afternoon; yet when the news i came—put into words and spoken by j —itor-wt^eesser’-s palpable voice, not by r ,vn fears—the blow was hard! She walked without a word to the fire and stood opposite it for some seconds; then she turned around abruptly. “You love Gifford Mohun?” “I have accepted him. Oh, Miss Grand, of course I love him.” The girl’s eyes faltered down under the falsehood. “Be a good wife to him, Matty. lie needs good companionship, and—I do hope, yes, and I do ask God to bless you. and to make you happy!” And she stepped across and positively kissed Matty's cheek—immensely to that young woman’s surprise—and neither shed a tear, nor showed any | more signs of agitation than by her white and trembling lips, during the re mainder of that evening that they Spent in each other’s company. When night came, and she was alone, Jane took her wedding-ring from her neck, and then, with a dreary sense of newness, and of something clean gone out from her life, she held it be tween her hands and fell to wondering whetli; r she would ever wear it on her breast again or not? The ring had so become part of her life and of herself that it scorned to her as thou -;h no Matty Fergusson Gifford Mo- ,in even, had a right, to part her from it now. It was a memorial of her own youth and of her own darkened hopes, of her own pure and faithful love far more that it was a memorial of the man who had promised to take Malty Fergusson for his wife; and, after much of the fine casuistry which on every occasion so perplexed poor Jane's moral sense, and not a few tears, she decided at last that she might keep it and occasionally look at it, (juite guiltlessly, til! she died. “And wear it till their wedding day,” was her last thought, as she laid it in its usual resting place beside the little Biitle on her dressing table. “Wear it till their wedding day, then lay it aside with all ether things belonging to my youth, and only look at it at times, when life is very hard to hear, and it will do me good to bring back the years when I. too, had love and hope, and something in life worth living for, like other women!” And yet. when Jane Grand’s hot eyes at length found sleep that night, neither Maliy Fergusson nor Gifford Moliun, nor any other remembrance of her jeal ousy or of her new loss, shadowed her dreams. Sly1 slept with a child’s worn-out sleep tul morning and tlion, when the distant hells of the Chesterford church aroused her she knew that she had been walking in the fields as she had used to walk when she was a little child with Mr. Follett, also that in her sleep she had seen again the study window of the little vicarage shining bright and peaceful in the red March gunset. CHAPTER XVIII, The vicar’s sermon that Sunday bore marked internal evidence of having been freshly written. Jane Grand knew nothing at nil about good writing or good preaching, and was Indeed quite incapable of judging of the in trinsic merit of any piece of intellectual work whatsoever; but she knew that this sermon was not taken from that beau which furnished the ordinary cut and dried theological meat of the peck plo of Chesterford, and she felt that her spirit answered and her heart ex panded ns she looked up in the vicar's face and listened to the vicar’s voice. Probably she was the only person in the church who understood Mr. Follott that day. Miss Fergusson, on principle, never listened to sermons, and occupied the time on the present occasion in planning her wedding outfit and calcu lating on the probable sum for which her relatives might safely battle in the way of settlements. Gifford Mohun, buried In the red curtained sanctuary of the Yatton pew, was. by turns, won dering how the deuce he would get through his first meeting with Jane and asking himself In what fit of utter idiocy lie had ever been led In to prom ise marriage to Matty. For the rest— tlie farmers, as usual,were comfortably nodding In their places, the elder plow men in deep sleep, with their beads burled over their arms; the younger ones staring aloft, with the sort of ex pression one might imagine in very stupefied young gorillas, at the knot of smartly dressed girls who formed the village choir in the gallery; the school children alternating between vertigo and resonant blows from the prayer book of the ancient women who pre sided over the Chesterford Sunday school. All the Chesterford St. Mary's con gregation at its ordinary (for I leave unmentloued the few female orthodox censors, who, of course, found hidden footprints ef the Reast—Broad Church —In every one «f Mr. Follett’s sen tences), all except Jane. She knew the vicar’s meaning well. She knew every fajlatest shade of that gray atmosphere through which to-day ho bid them look at the picture of life. She knew every note throughout that minor key in which lie spoke of the insufficiency and hollowness of hunujjj, affection and de sire. She could imagine—and here, where the vicar’s words waxed faint, h r heart carried then, out with ex ceeding strength—how great shall bo tlie rapture of looking on n picture no earthly mists ran obscure and listening to a Voice in whoso tones there shall be no more dissonance throughout all eternity. The lingering remembrance of Hint sermon strengthened her wonderfully throughout the interview which took place in tlie course of the afternoon between Gifford and herself. Miss For go sson had the grace to leave the room when she heard his ring at the bell, and so, alone and face to face, tlie two old lovers first met under the new as pect in which from this time hence forth they would have to regard each other. Gifford was excessively agitated, much more so than Miss Grand, and for some moments after lie took her outstretched hand in his ho was liter ally, and without affectation, too much moved to speak. “I was a brute. Jane!’’ be stammered | out at last. “I lost myself altogether, and spoke to you like a cursed brute, as [ was. yesterday! Can you ever forgive me for wliat I have said, or—or forget It?” “Gifford, T felt then ns if I would like to die. V felt more cruelly wounded than I ever did before, oven in all my hittor experience. But now—Gifford. T not only forgive you from my heart, but I feel it was well that you spoke to me of my birth as you did. Well, and, in the end, kindest to me.” “Kindest to you, Jane!”—and as her hand drew back, and her steady eyes rested on h%, Gifford felt with a spasm of jealous pain that she had al ready ceased to worship him. “Best for you that I should insult you. after ill our long years of friendship? That is the crudest reproach that you could have devised for my punishment!” But no tone of his could soften Miss Grand into agitation now. Her heart, that had been as wax to every unrea sonable wish, or word, or look of Gif ford Moliun’s, was shut, dose and cold, against tliis really natural and neither ungenerous nor unrngneu remorse or Matty Fergusson’s lover. “That blow from you was a hard onf>. P.lfford, but it prepared me. I bettor bore what was to come to me after ward when I once felt that you did not —no. that in all your life you had never really loved me!” “A harsh judgment. .Tone, for a few words of hasty passion!” “But still, harsh or not, the judgment that will always be mine.” and .fhne turned from him almost coldly. “My eyes are opened at last, and if I could I would not go back to my former blindness, Gifford. You will be happier far with Matty Fergusson than you would ever have been with me.” “You speak bitterly. Jane, but you don’t mean what you say, no. by-! you can't, you don’t mean it! If I had married you when I was a lad, ns I ought to have done, I should be a dif ferent man to what I am now. You know that ns well as I do; and you know, too, that I did love you better than I’ve ever loved any one else—bet ter than T ever shall love any woman on earth. If you hadn’t been so cold and sanctified, you would have warmed to me. anti have let me love you again ■when I came back liere, broken and miserable, a year ago, and I should have you by my side in Yatton now, and have something to look forward to, by-! and some chance of happiness In my life, instead of being entangled —cursed fool that I ami into this idiotic engagement with Matty Fergusson, d—n her!” Gifford flung himself down sullenly in the arm chair beside the fire, and something very like tears gathered in his eyes. Regarded from my own point of view, this was just the one occasion in Mr. Mohun’s life when he appeared to the least advantage. Elis passion was that of a child allowed to have his own way, and then enraged because his own way has not made him happy. Still it was a natural passion—an im pulse in the direction of gcrotTT^Tvhig token, by its very weakness, that, taken early intp cunning hands, some thing quite different to what he now was might have been fashioned out of Gifford Mohun’s vacillating and un stable moral character. But Miss Grand always took the ideal, not the rational view, of every subject that was presented to her consideration (she was also looking at the conduct of Miss Fergusson’s afliauced husband); and it really and truly seemed to her that Gifford Mohunhnd never appeared in Mien u wi'iiK. ami uespicamc guiso as now. As throughout, she had loved him unwisely; so in this last revulsion of feeling she judged him without equity. Having chosen Matty for his wife, lie ought, she averred, to hold by Matty in all things. What did it avail ]iow to make lament over his past inconstancy? How could lie tell that lie would have been different if he had married her in his youth? A man's strength should he in himself, not de pendent upon tlie outward circum stances of his life. It was well, very well, for Mr. Mohun that he was to fall for the rest of ills days into inch hands ns Matty Fergusson's! He would not layk counsel, he would not liavi to complain of hesitation or over-sanctity with Matty for his wife! I have heard that staves, when set free, become cruel slaveholders; I know that gentlewomen, who have sub mitted to, and rather courted, tiie heel of tlie oppressor for years, are. wliefi tiie tardy hour of insurrection comes, pitiless in their turn. The recollection of all her deserted youth, of her wasted hopes, her recent, her still throbbing love for him. swelled at Miss Grand's heart, and stdehd It against this ipan who—now that he had positively given her up—would, if he could, have talked covert sentiment to her still! And so her voice whs steady, her eyes were tearless, every nerve in lmr face was unmoved, as she pronounced the fol lowing de profundls over tlie passion that had been the very food of her life during tlie last half-score of years: “The past is dead and gone, Gifford. Let it remain so. We cam never bring it back, and if we could I don’t think we should do wisely to alter all that is gone before. You would not have boon happy if you had been married to me. Your sense of the stain of my birth, and of what the world thinks of such a stain, would have weighed heavier than all the poor love and faithfulness that I should have brought to you. If you had loved me very fervently, you know, you would have taken me as I was—ns I would have taken you, what ever ill fortune had chanced to come upon you. But you did not; and lack ing such love, you would have had no strength to support you under the dis grace of having me for your wife. I lave loved you. I think, as much as any human being can love another! Yes, I don’t ftiind saying it now that all is Aver between ns forever. During those seven years after you left me I just spent my life in «. o long, miserable thought of you. Gifford—of you and of tlie cause that had broken off our mar riage. You say I have been sanctified and cold since you came back to Yat ton. Do you know that every day till tlie last week I looked for your coming iust as I did when I was a girl?—that I would have given up my life still to have been of the least use or happiness to you? Well, you don’t know all this, but 1 will tell it you now. I tell it vou, and I also say—well for me that the past is unchangeable, and that I am free again. Gifford, I hope you will be happy with Matty Fergusson, and I hope while you live you will count me as yonr friend.” It was the longest speech Jane Grand’s lips ever put together—the longest, and certainly the crudest. Gif ford Mohun got quite white as he lis tened to her. Could this be Jane!—liis Tane, who. through good and evil re port, through inconstancy, through de sertion, had over been so utterly and without a struggle his slave? “You love some one else, Jane, or you would never cast mo off like this. I know you tco well to think you would lie so hitter with me—even after all my brutal conduct to you yesterday—if I was first with you still as I used to be!” Intensely mean and selfish minds do accasionnily show keenest insight In [heir judgment upon noble natures. Till Gifford spoke out his singularly coarse view of the ease a suspicion of lier own capability of change had never crossed Jane’s thoughts. But as lie spoke a ray of light dawned upon lier mind: and (bitterly confirming Mn liun in his suspicions! a blush, guiltily rlcep as she had ever Mushed in her roung days for him, rose into her cheeks and brow, and neck. Phe knew that another voice than Gifford’s had Haunted her for months past; she knew by wlint standard she had mentally measured Gifford in his frequent short comings; she knew what feeling had made her linger shyly In the sunset by the vicarage gate. “You are very wrong to speak so, Gifford;” but she said this with falter ing lips and downcast eyes. “You know that what withheld you will also withhold any honorable man from wishing to make me his wife. You know that your lies are tlie only ones tiiat have ever spoken to me of love." “Anfl you will never listen to love from tiny other, Jane?” She stood silent and confused, her face l>|rshing still like a girl’s, her frail linnds clasped with the n^vous gesture so familiar to Gifford In the old days of her youthful love for him. He felt at this moment how fair, how excellent the woman was whom he had lost; ho felt—and Matty’s foot was al ready oO the stair—that he Would soon er marrj Jane, with all her inheritance, at this moment, than that any other man thin himself should have the chance of possession^ her. “Jane!’ starting to her side, "say only oneword. Say that you love me better than any one else still, and I'll brealp^&sJiflr engagement ^with such peorfe as the FergussonsJ-and I'll But Jane shrank away from his clasp, and her face flushed deeper and deeper. "Don’t say these things, Gifford, they pain me dreadfully. The time Is past when you could have made this sacri fice with honor. Yes, the time is past!” “Say only what I ask you, Jane! Say only you don’t love any one but me, and leave the future in my hands-” “I cannot say What you wish, Gif ford. All is over between us, nnd—and I don’t'think you have any right to ask me such a question now.” And Miss Matty Fergusson entered tile room. CHAPTER XIX. Repentance at the eleventh hour, however commendable as an abstract virtue, is one that avails men little in the majority of their practical, earthly concerns. When the train is once fnixv ly laid, some chance hand is generally ready to apply the match, whatever the tardy vacillation of him who origin ally projected the mine. Gifford Mo hun might remember all the grace, and fondness, and long suffering of Jane Grand now—might feel sharpest regret at having lost her—might feel that to cal! her his wife would be to insure the abiding happiness of his life. But, in a moment of mingled pique and vanity, Gifford Mouun had given liis word to marry Miss Matty Fergusson—and Hiss Matty Fergusson was not a young person to allow so very large a prize as the possessor of Yatton to escape from her not. The tender love scene on poor Jane’s little lawn took place on Saturday. Monday’s post brought letters from Fergusson mere. She prayed that the man who had been fortunate enough to win her Matty's love might prove worthy of her. STm eared not for the wevdly possessions of Mr. Molmn; she time*or <;■ hjm but as of her departed M ii'Yflfs friend, of her little Matty’s future husband, and she longed to pr< ss his hand in hers, and express to him the fervent outpourings of a mother’s heart. N. B. from Miss Fail—“And mamma thinks it would be a good thing for you to get home as soon as possible, be cause Cousin Hartley is bore now, and he would manage with Mr. M. about settlements, etc. You can easily con trive to make him escort you on the journey, and once here, mamma will undertake the rest.” In accordance with which excellent diplomacy Miss Matty was seized with girlish longings to be under her dear mamma’s roof at once. She was sure she had already troubled Miss Grand a great deal more than she ought to have done; but hoped, some day, to have It in her power to ask her to come and visit her in her own house, and—and (looking up under her long eyelashes at Gifford) how much she would like him to see mamma and Fanny, if only for a day, and did Miss Grand think there would be any harm in Mr. Mohun’s es corting her back to Cheltenham? Of course Miss Grand thought there would be no harm in the world; and of course Matty’s lover had to express his desire of renewing his acquaintance with his future wife's family. The truth was. that having got so hopeless ly far, Moliun felt he would rather hasten on than retard the inevitable fate into which he had been entagled; also that it irked him horribly at every hour of the day to have Jane’s quiet eyes upon him during his courtship of Matty Fergusson. For Jane, she sim ply longed for the hour when Matty’s voluble tones should cease to ring in her ears, and the little cottage should have gone back to its accustomed quiet, and she herself, should hnve time to breathe and thi nk over the strange new emotions which during the last few days had never ceased to throng her heart. But i i deep earnest or in light est jest, in simple country cottages cr in Belgravia, when is anything dimly approximating to truth told in such mat ters as marriage or giving in marriage? If the most cynical minded man living had witnessed the farewell that took place between Miss Grand and the lov ers, he would, I think, have guessed little of the different positions in which these three persons really stood to each other, with so florid a decoration of good wishes from Jane, so much of hand-pressing and kissing and tear shedding from Matty, so much rather over-acted high spirits from Mr. Mo ll un, was that departure overlaid. (To be continued.) Not Whito Mules. W. F. George, of Gunn City, was in Holden Saturday. It is said Mr. George has the largest span of mules on earth, tncy weighing over 4000 pounds. The mules were raised on Mr. George's farm and he may exhibit them here during the big sale.—Holden (Mo.) Progress. Knonnous Prices. The sale at Stone, Staffordshire, Eng land, of rare duplicate orchids selected from the Walton Grange collection re sulted in some enormous prices being realized. In the case of two orchids the figures were 270 guineas apiece, and others realized as much as 240 guineas and 200 guineas " WILLIAMS A WINNER But It Required Official Count to Settle Mississippi Primary VARDAMAN ACCEPTS RESULT State Executive Committee Meets a% Jackson and Declares Result of United States Senatorial .Contest, iMends of .Vardaman. Seconding Motion to Declare Williams Nomi nee After Short Caucus Between Two Factions. Jackson, Miss., Special.—The Dem ocratic State executive committee met at noon Thursday and declared Con gressman John Shaip Williams the party nominee for the United States Senate. The canvass of the returns showed a majority of (Ms votes for Williams the totals being as follows: Williams 59,4110; Vardaman 58,843. There will be no contest over the result. Alter a short caucus between the two factions it was finally agreed to accept the semi-official returns as furnished Secretary of State Power from the various counties and which show that Mr. Williams has a ma jority of (i48 votes. This motion to declare Mr. Williams the nominee was seconded by the friends of Governor Vardaman. The committee then formally declared Mr. Williams nom inated as United States Senator. This is considered the tinal settlement of the celebrated.contest. Governor Vardaman conceded the nomination of Mr. Williams by sen ! the following note to the committee: “The Democratic party, through its executive committee, has declared Mr. Williams the nominee and I ac cept the arbitration of that tribirm1 without a tinge of resentment or re gret for anything done or said by my friends for me during the campaign. “I am for the nominee and hope that he Avill make the people of Mis sissippi a great. United States Sena tor. 1 have made the campaign upon living important and pertinent princi ples and while 1 have lost the nomi nation, I am thoroughly convince 1 that the large majority of the white members of this State agree with my views upon public questions, and I shall continue to fight for those prin- | eiplcs as earnestly in the future as I have in the past. “No man was ever blessed by more loyal and more faithful hands than those who favored my fortunes in this contest. I want them to feel us I do, that we have not been de feated, but that the victory is only postponed for a season. 1 have been a candidate several times in my life, and lost the tight, but never have I felt the sting of defeat, and I am not defeated today. ” All Memphis Will March. Memphis, Special.—The Executive Committee of the Lakes to the Gulf Deep Waterways Association, local branch, held a meeting last week and appointed chairmen for the various committees to take charge of the big convention. One of the chief features of the convention will be the mam moth parade which will take place on the day the President and the Gov ernors arrive. Gen. George W. Gor don, a Confederate General and mem ber of Congress from this district, will be chairman of this committee. 1 he parade will he led by mounte ! police officers, followed by Company A and other Confederate companies, members of the United Commercial Travelers from several States, mem bers ol the Lakes to the Gulf Deep Waterways Association, and chair men of committees in carriages, prominent business men and club members and companies of the State militia. Tt is planned by those inter ested to make the parade one of the features of the big convention. Priest Kiils Hotel Man. Pittsburg, Special.—Ludwiz Sczc giel, said to be an unattached Polish priest, of Chicago, walked into a South Side hotel at 1111 Carson street and without warning, it is said whip ped- out a 38-calibre revolver and open ed tire upon the two proprietors, twin brothers named Steven and Andrew Starzynski. .Steven died within an hour and Andrew may not recover. The cause of the shooting is unknown. Big Fire in Baltimore. Baltimore, Special.—Fire Thursday destroyed the gigantic grain elevator of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway, with a loss to the building alone of $175,000. No estimate of the loss t> the contents of the building is yet ob tainable. Many firemen had narrow escapes, l ater tire started in the big stables of the Baltimore Transfer Company, spreading to the chair fac tory of Heehinger Brothers. The flames spread rapidly and it is feared both building's have been entirely con sumed. True Bill Against Kline. Beaufort, N. (\, Special.—Soon aft er the opening of Federal Court Judge Purnell announced that the foreman of the grand jury had re turned a true bill of indictment for peonage against E. A. Kline. Attor ney Clark, for defense, stated that he understood the bill contained 9ft counts. Counsel for the defense ask ed the privilege of examining the bill to embh thorn to prepare their de fense. POSTAL’S IN QUIT Telegraphers in Chicago Walk Out By hundreds BUSINESS SERIOUSLY CRIPPLED Resolution Adopted in Meeting of Strikers That Every Operator in the City Holding a Card Shall be Called Out—Postal Men Demand 25 Per Cent Increase, 8-Hour Day and Recognition of Union With Ulti mate Aim of Aiding Western Union Strikers. Chicago, 111., Special.—The 500 op erators of the Postal Telegraph Com pany struck Friday night at 0 o’clock. This, with the 1,100 men out from the offices of the Western Union throughout the city, makes 1,600 men now on strike in Chicago. At a meeting of the operators held in the afternoon a resolution was unanimously passed declaring that every operator in the city having a union card should be called out. A short time after the meeting hurl dissolved demands were presented to the officials of the Postal company asking for an increase of 25 per cent in wages, an 8-hour (Jay and recognition of the union. If these were not passed upon the strike was to follow. It was the general feeling among the operators that the de mands could not be granted at once and the move was evidently intended to bring about the strike at the pres ent lime in order to aid the West ern Union men if the demands were not granted. Under the working of the order all the operators* working for brokers and commission houses will be called out in the morning and business generally will be badly handicapped. It was said by some of the opera tors who were present in the meeting that the intention of the union was to cripple the telegraph facilitites of Chicago in every direction, and to do it so completely that public senti ment would he brought to bear heavi ly on the two telegraph companies, and in this manner force a settlement between them and the operators. The strike at the Chicago office of the Postal company was attended by no sign of disorder. When a whistle was blown, the operators rose from their keys with a cheer and walked out.. There was not the slightest evidence of ill-feeling on either side. The men after reaching the street gave repeated cheers and then dis persed. The strike throughout the day has been marked by absence of trouble of any kind. Chief of Police Ship py informed the leaders in the after noon that lie would not allow any picketing or violence, and he was in formed that none was intended, and that every effort would be made to keep the men peaceable. The general situation throughout the West became more serious as the day lengthened. When the strike of the Postal em ployes, Chicago is left with about 35 commercial telegraphers, who are on deavoring to transmit the business ot both telegraph companies, whereas under normal conditions fnlhr 1.500 men are necessary to do the work n. Chicago. Other Western Union offices which became involved in the trouble to gether with the number of men who quit work are: Salt Lake City, 30; Helena, 40: Kansas City. 330; Dallas, 105; Fort Worth, Tex., 40; Colorado Springs, 10; Denver, S3; New Orleans, 00. Four Dead; Three Badly Hurt. Dalton, Ga., Specal.—Four persons are dead and three seriously injured as the result of a head-on collision be tween a southbound local fright and an extra freight train on the Western & Atlantic Railroad, one mile north of this place at 5 o’clock Thursday afternoon. Dr J. F. Ensor Dead. Columbu, S. Special.—Dr. J. F. Ensor, for the past ten years post master at Columbia, superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane during reconstruction, former chief surveyor of the port of Charleston and for several years deputy collec tor of internal revenue, died at his home here Friday afternoon in hi 72d year. He was a native of Mary land and served six years in the Fed eral army in the war between the States as surgeon. He came here i', 1868 and served as medical purvey or for the Freedman’s bureau in this State. Georgia Capitalist Dead in Hotel. Atlanta, Ga., Special.—Haleombe Bacon, of Albany, Ga., aged 3o, capi talist and prominent business man, was found dead at the Aragon Hotel here and on a table at his bedside were bottles partly filled, labelled chloral hydrate, bromide and bromi dlia. Appearances indicate that he had been dead many hours. The re sult of the inquest has not been an nounced. ;; MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST II A strike of sailing-ship masters is on in Australia. There was a new explosion in th* Hartje divorce case. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw declared she had foresaken the stage. Russian troops killed 30 persons in Russian Poland strike riots. The Georgia Legislature passed the Hardman Prohibition bill. A section of the Erie canal gave way, causing heavy loss. Earle Irven of Indianapolis rescued four persons at Colon and was drown Mrs. Eddy’s witnesses in the Chris tian Science leader’s suit ref lined to testify. < ► < > ed. Two strangling cases, with women as the vicitims are puzzling the New York police. The Richmond grand jury reported that it could not find any ice trust in that city. Senator Pettus of Alabama was buried at Selma with distinguished honors. Mrs. Youtsey contradicted her hus band's confession in the Caleb Pow ers case. Acrimonious arguments were made in the matter of taking depositions ui the Eddy case. The Culgoa is to be fitted up as a repair ship for the battleship licet on its voyage to the Pacific. Rev. Levor Maroogessian, the Ar menian priest concerned in the re cent New York agitation was arrested The Virginia rate matter has been settled by compromise until the high er court can decide the issues involv ed. The crime Avave in New York city grows in magnitude and the whole city is alarmed at the numerous mur ders being committed. The candidacy of Seeretaiy Taft was indorsed by the Ohio Republican State Committee, despite Senator Fornkcr’s protest. After a stirring speech by Mr. Choate delegates at The Hague said the Peace Conference had just begun, so far as results were concerned. The Charlotte, N. C., board of aldermen has determined not to ie peal the ordinance against Sunday selling of soft drinks, in cream and cigars. In riots in Seoul a large number of Koreans were killed bv Japs. Three Korean delegates to The Hague came to New York to appeal to America to save their country from Japan. Army investigators are said to have exonorated Lieut.-Col. William J. Tucker of the charges brought against him by his wife, who was Miss “Dolly” Logan. Government attorneys state that the disolution of the Dupont com pany, of Delaware, will not affect the suit against the Powder Trust. Mr. A. Capreton Braxton, presi dent of the Virginia Bar Association, is out for Senator John W. Daniel for the Democratic Presidential noini naton. The trial by special court- martial of Chaplain Harry W. Jones, United States Navy, upon charges of scanda lous conduct, was begun at the Nor folk Navy Yard. John D. Archbold, vice president of the Standard Oil Company, made a statement Monday in which he de clared that the company was not giv en an opportunity to he heard or to submit data in the preparation of the report prepared by Commissioner of Corporations Herbert Knox Smith, and made public. Primary election returns indicate that Charles T. Lassiter was nominat ed for the Virginia Senate for Dis trict 29. Stephens S. Walsh, a New York po liceman, was dismissed foi alleged cowardice and ejected from the office in which his trial was held. Four indictments have been found against Rev. Levant Martorgessian, the Armenian priest, under arrest in the New York conspiracy cases. Attorney-General Bonaparte is ex pected to appear personally in the suits against the Dupont Powder Trust. L. Ii. Harviman, in the face of a heavy decline, declared stocks would soon go up again. The plant of the York Felt and Paper Company at York, Pa., wa* burned, with $100,000 loss. Capt. G. W. Kirkman was denied his petition for release from the Fed eral prison at Fort Leavenworth. Six hundred striking miners i i Hebbing, Mich., were turned back from a march intended to intimidate nonunion men. A rate war from Chicago to New York is expected after passenger agents refused to attend a confer ence. The Interstate Commerce Commit sion decides that in the equitable distribution of cars to coal miners private cars must be considered as part of the quota. Admiral Evans conferred with na val officials regarding the autumn maneuver program and the trip of the fleet to the Pacific.
The Yadkin Ripple (Yadkinville, N.C.)
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