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Contort VOL. XX. Price 40 Cents a month. CONCORD, N. C THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1910. Single Copy 5 Cents. No. 112 GRANT LOSES HIS ,CASE. Jury Deliberates AH Night and Re turns a Verdict Against Him this Morning. After remaning out since yesterday .afternoon about four o'clock, the jury in the case ot il. L. Parks & 0., vs it. r. want returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff tliTs morning. JI. L. Parks & Co., White-'Morrison- Flowe Co. and Cannon & Fetzer Co, attached the property of Mr.' Grant when Hie moved from this city to An derson last year, for debt he and his family bad contracted during their residence in' this city. When the Arms "attempted to execute the at taehmeut papers Mr. Grant fought the case, claiming that the furniture belonged to his wife. The case lias been on trial for the past three days and there was large number pf witnesses called on to testify. Mrs. Grant was the prin eipal wildess in the case and spent several hours on the stand testifying as to how and Where she secured the furniture, she named over the ar ticles that belonged to her and in cluded practically everything of value tWat was seized. A piano and sewing machine were the most valuable ar tides attached but in their verdict the jury failed to award these to Mrs Grant, although they did give her a number of things which she claimed were hers and there was no evidence submitted contrary to her chum. The following is the issue the jury had to decide and answer: "Is the interpleader, Mrs. D. V. Grant, the owner of the property specified in her affidavit, or any part thereof: if so iwhat-partT" Answer: "Yes, the following: One box china, one center table, three rocking chairs, one extension tyible, thre boxes of bedding, I drugget, two bed springs, four straight chairs, one box of 'hats. ' The jury was hopelessly tied up all night, standing ten to two in favor of the plaintiff, but soon after court opened the two decided to agree with the others and the above verdict was greed npon. Judge Pell Issues Writ of Habeas Corpus. - Jndge" Geo. Pr-'PfcJl yesterday Is sued a writ of liiabeas corpus on W. R. Whisnant, the street car conductor of Charlotte who forcibly snatched his baby from the arms of its mother at the Southern KanVay station Mon day morning while the mother was awaiting the arrival of a train which was to take her and the child to Ox ford. It was made returnable be fore Judge Pell at Dallas, Gaston eonnty, Monday. At that time the "court will determine the proper per son to have the rearing of the child. Whisnant was aJso served with sum mons in divorce proceedings brought by Mrs. Whisnant. The Charlotte Observer says of this case: Public sentiment appears to be much with the pretty young mother in the easev Last Friday after a day of domestic 'strife, beginning with the locking out of Mrs. Whisnant and end ing with a furious struggle in which her husband attempted to tear it ouf of her arms, she had him arrested for disorderly conduct, but through a technicality the full evidence was not given and he was allowed to pay the costs. Then came the second chapter when, bluffing the depot po liceman with therclaim of official authority unsupported by any badge of office or of legal paper, he seized the child and bore it away in an auto mobile, leaving the mother to weep and wail over her unsupportable loss. It is said that bp took the child to . Clover, S. C, where he is from. He has returned to the city. Cruelty is charged as the ground for divorce. McNinch Nominated for Congress. Former Mayor Samuel S. McNinch of Charlotte was nominated for Con gress on the Republican ticket at the ninth district congressional conven tion held at Shelby yesterday. A resolution offered by C. F. Mc Kes8onendoreing President Taft was vigorously opposed by J, F. Newell who took the floor and made a stir ring speech against it, introducing A resolution to the effect that President Taft be not endorsed at all. He de clared that the Connor appointment was something 4hat iHe Republicans should. not. even give their tacit eon-j sent o. When , this motion of Mr." I Newell 'a, was put before the convene iion, all of the counties as they were called in alphabetical order Voted against it until Mecklenburg was reached when Mr. Newell arose and 'withdrew hia motion in deference to the manifest wish of the convention. The resolution with its endorsement of President Taft, Chairman Adams end. the rest, was . adopted unani mously. 4" - . ' ' . ..; : : r . r rrrrT-.-'C ' ' -; The Southern - Baptist Contention which" convened last week in Baltimore,- ended Monday night, with .a great mass meeting to meet again at Jacksonville, Fla., next year. , . A CHANTICLEER PARTY. A Most Unique Function In Concord's SooiaTLife. "There is nothing new under the sun" is a proverb resting on the au thority of Solomon himself, but doubts of its reliability will suggest themselves now and then, and one of these times occurred vesterday when Mrs. M. L. Brown bade fifty of her friends to a soeial gathering at her hospitable lvome, the promised amuse ments being euchre and hearts-dice. At four o'clock the guests assembled and were ushered into a veritable bower oi roses roses, roses, every where, beginning with bunches of lovely crimson ramblers tied with red ribbon, for "the adornment of Ithe pleasure seekers, and when these were pinned in place the fair women scat tered to the tables furnished with score cards on which perched cunning, most natural looking, little roosters tiny chanticleers the first indication of the character of this novel enter tainment. There were eight tables and when the games were finished and the various scores counted the versa tile hostess was ready with another agreeable surprise eight prizes, one for the highest score at each table. The fortunate winners were Mesdames Chas. Harris, Gowan Dusenbery and Misses Grace Brown and Mabel Means at euchre and Miss Melissa Montgomery and Mesdames A. M. Brown, W. R. Haris and George Lore Brown, W. R. Harris and George Lore peared with an armful of China and in her own gracious way presented to each of the lucky eight a beautiful chanticleer plate, with an impromptu nonsense rhyme The highest score is on your card And so I give to you my dear A prize straight from my own barn yard, Accept this chanticleer. Then came the refreshments, dainty and delicious and here again Mrs, Brown's fertile fancy carried out her scheme of Chanticleer. Conspicuous on every plate was a chanticleer sand wich, with red body and yellow wings, looking ready to crow on the slightest provocation. As the time of separa tion came four other ladies were dis tinguished by a graceful attention from the hostess. To Mrs. B. T. Can non, the newest bride, she gave a lovely boouet of white maman cochet roses, while Mrs. ,Brevard Harris, whose presence after 'her long ab sence gave especial pleasure to many friends, and Mrs. Ed McDonald, Jr., were not less pleased to Tecaive ex quisite pink mamanjeochet roses and Mrs. Frank Rogers was nappy in pos session of the sweetest flowers of spring sweet peas. But none were envious because all had enjoyed "such a good time." EANNAPOLIS. Conviction of Dr. B. Clark Hyde. Baltimore Sun. The conviction of Dr. B. Clark Hyde of murder in the first degree ends one of the most remarkable mur der trails in legal records. Dr. Hyde is a proinent young physician of Kan sas city, who married the niece of Col. Thomas H. Swope, a citizen oi consid erable wealth. Dr. Hyde- attended Colonel Swope in his last illness, and it was charged that he caused Swope 's leath by administratenng strychnine and other' deadly drtfgs. Cononel Swope died October S, and in his will, made some time previously, left Dr. Hyde and his wife $100,000. This was only a small share of the $3,000,- 000 estate. Suspicion was aroused at the time on account of the suddenness of Cononel Swope 's death; but when in December an epidemic or typhoid fevpr broke out in his household, which seized eight persons and saused the death of Christian Swope, open oharges were made that Hyde had se cured typhoid cultures and inoculated the members of the family in order to put them out of the way and secure most of the large estate. The orosecution contended that tne nhvsieian had dealt out death on ev ery hand, Th attorneys set forth a case that pictured Hyde as the Borgia of his time. The testimony of same of the witnesses seemed almost incred ible. ,.. The jury deliberated three days, and at . the moment when a mistrial was expected its verdiet of murder in the first degree. : This was not the least unexpected feature of .a ease that has abounded in masteries and disclosures that read like a story of the prisoners of the Dark Ages. . At the chapel exercises at Trinity college Thursday morning Dr, Few announced. before the student body that Dr. Kilgo had been elected bishop and passed many broad compliments upon him and his career as president of Trinity college. He said that dur ing the last lo years be dm oone more for Trinity than any other man in bringing it out of the condition into which it had fallen, and made it one of the best known and most richly en dowed of southern colleges today.; ,. Now we've tad April showers,' let Miss May smile upon some flowers. - See The Times for Job Printing. . A Batch of News from Our Excellent Correspondent There. Mr. S. E. Sloan, the popular man ager of the mercantile business of the White-Morrison-Flowe Co., has beeh attending the bedside of his brother, Mr. J. C. Sloan, in Salisbury, who re ceived a stroke of paralysis last week and who ha9 been in a critical con dition but is slightly improved. Mr. James L. Moore, who has been attending schoool at Boiling Springs, returned home Saturday as the session of the school has closed. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Childers, of Gastonia, have moved back here and will live among us again. Mr. and Mrs. B. Lindsay returned home from Spartanburg, S. C, Friday, after a visit of several weeks, which was prolonged on account of Mr. Lind say having an attack of appendicitis, but he is much improved now. Rev. J. A. J. Farrington, of Con cord, preached a special sermon to the Odd Fellows in the Y. M. C. A hall Sunday evening. The Odd Fel lows, of Kannapolis, together with a number pi visiting brethren from Concord marched to the hall in a body, and a large audience of the pub lic in general was present and listen ed with interest to a very able ad dress from Psalm 133. A number of the young lady stu dents of Sunderland Hall were in Kanapolis Saturday flternoon, en joying themselves, with' Miss Mont gomery, of the Snuderland faculty, as their chaperon. Plans are on foot to build a Presby terian church here. The lot has been secured and a considerable part of the necessary funds is in sight and no doubt the church will be built be fore fall. Mr. C. E. Lowe's year old son has been very sick for several days. Mrs. C. C. Canupp, who moved here recently is very ill with chronic lung trouble. There are some fine gardens here and the owners have-a good reason to be proud of them. Mr. M. M. Ward is first with new Irish potatoes, as he had a mess of his raising Sunday. Michael Strogoff. This film adaptation of the famous Jules Verne story has evidently been' prepared with unusual care and at tention to detail by the Edison pro ducers. The scenes are especially elaborate and well done, even for this company, which has exceptional stu dio facility for scenic construction, The acting is dignified and on the wholo creditable, and the construc tion, though somewhat fragamentary, conveys the story with reasonable clearness, so that the film can be pro nounced a notable issue that will un doubtedly attract wide attention. The film story starts with Michael Strog off as the courier sent with the im portant message of warning to the brother of the Czar at Irkutsk. His meeting with Nodia is represented in the railway carriage on the way, when he earns her gratitude by defending her from insult. His meeting with his mother in the inn, when he denies her, but awakens the suspicion of the arter spies, is well carried out. Later, when the traitor Ogareff has him pursued and captured and the red hot sword applied to his eyes, the action lacks something in vivid quality. There is also absence of convincing expression when he secretly tells his mother that he is not really blind. These points, however, are not serious, the acting, while not great, being far from weak, and the story is properly carried for ward. From this on the action moves rapidly. Nodia guides the supposed blind man, now set at liberty as 'harm less, until he reaches the grand duke's quarters, where he kills Ogeroff, who has proceeded him as a ialse courier. At the Pastime tonight. LAST DAT OF THE MT. PLEASANT COMMENCEMENT. To- Mr. Shenk and Family Leave morrow. J. E. Shenk and family have Rev. been here for several days, and will leave tomorrow for their new home in Greensboro, where Mr. Shenk has ac cepted the pastorate of the Lutheran Mission church. They will occupy the nareonaee on South Ashe street. The Greensboro News says of Mr. Shenk and his work: The Rev. Mr. Shenk is one of the strongest preachers of the Lutheran denomination and the local congrega tion is extremely fortunate in securing hk services at this time, wnen so many plans are being set on foot for Lutheran expansion, f ' The congregation Mas purcnaseo fine lot on South Ashe Street and con template the erection of a handsome rhnrch noon it in the near future. The church is occupying the Sunday school room of the Christian cnuron af present, and at 4 o'cioCK in wis building next Sunday the Rev. . Mr. Shenk iwHl preach his first sermon. . jv Tka trtmttman from Columbus who report the birth of 'his twenty-third child ought to be honored with mem bership on the Teddy home-coming re ception committee. -. Baccalaureate Sermon by Rev. R. L. Patterson Medals Awarded. The commencement exercises of the Institute and Seminary closed Wed nesday. There has been a large at tendance here this week than has been to any of the commencements hereto fore. The baccalaureate sermon was preached by Rev. R. L. Patterson, of Charlotte. He chose his subject from the nineteenth verse of the twentv- tsixth chapter of the Acts. Mr. Pat I terson treated his subject well, and all were profited by the excellent ser mon. Several hymns were sung by the Choir and audience. After the sermon Prof. J. H. C. Fisher presented a gold medal to Miss Grace Williams, a member of the sen ior class of the Seminary, she having received the highest grade in arith metic. Prof. G. F. McAllister then presented the debater's, declaimer's, orator's and scholarship, medals to the young men of the Institute who had won in the respective contests. Mr. Z. B. Trexler, of Gold Hill, won the scholarship medal. The diplomas were then presented to the graduating clashes of the two schools by Prof. Fisher and Prof. McAllister. Some announcements were made by Prof. McAUister, one to the effect that school would continue at the Insti tute another year, just as before, and probabily more than another year. The audience was then dismissed by the benediction. Nearly all the students of the two schools left for their homes in the afternoon, some few remaining until Thursday. The Institute and Semi nary have had a successful year, and it is evident that the next ses sion ill be more successful. F. Mt. Pleasant, May 19. And the Comet Ddni't Kill Us. There were many hundred comet searchers in the city last night, but the tail of Mr. Halley's comet, it seems, was not long enough to bridge the interval between the head and the earth, consequently it did not brush us and there was no meteonc shower. And the earth continues to do busi ness"at the old stand. There 'had been predicted by scientists metoric showers, electrical disturbances or au roral displays. The (heavens were very light, but it was due wholly to our ancient friend, the moon. Our people were greatly interested today in a large ring with rainbow hues, which appeared around the sun, and many eyes were turned on it. It is more than probable that the comet is re.sKnsibIe for it. "Lord" Unburied Five Years. Asheville Dispatch, 17th. Because the local undertakers who have possession of the body of the "Lord" Percival Shalto Douglas have refused to give her possession of it, Mrs. Watsou, who gives Hot Springs as her home, today engaged lawyers to brinsr suit to recover possession. I She claimed that she is a sister-in- law of the dead "nobleman." Lord Douglas is one of Asheville 's mysteries. He came here five years ago from Norfolk a very ill man and died shortly afterward. Immensely wealthy he appeared, but at his death nothing of value was found. He claimed to be a descendant from the historic Douglas family of Scotland. Diligent search was made, and all parts of the globe were searched for relatives of the alleged aristocrat, but in vain. Many have claimed the body, but proofs so far have been lacking. Perfectly dressed in a Prince Al bert suit and embalmed, the body lies in the local undertaking establish ment and is visited by thousands year ly from all parts of the globe. The undertakers have been offered fabu lous prices from Barnum and other circuses for the body, but the North Carolina lawmakers have decreed that corpses are not for sale in the Tar Heel State. Mrs. Watson means to press her suit, and was shocked on her arrival Work of the Court. The case of the Grensboro Boiler and Machine Co. vs. D. L. Carriker. e al, was taken up at the morning ses sion of court and up to the noon hour the case had not been completed. The company claims that Mr. Carriker purchased an engine and, boiler from ruein and nas not paid lor itaccord ing to the contract bewteen them. Mr. Carriker has a counter claim that the engine and boiler were not as good as the company represented them to he and declined to pay for them on this ground. It is hardly probable that this case will be concluded before court adjourns this afternoon. Southern Railway Schedule. Following schedule figures publish ed only as information and are not guaranteed. In effect May 15, 1910: 4:10 a. m., No. 8 Daily for Rich mond and all docaJ points. Connects at Greensboro for Winston-Salem and Raleigh, at Denville for Norfolk. 6 :46 a. m., No. 44. Daily for Wash ington and points North. Connects at Salisbury for Asheville, Chattanoo ga and Memphis. Pullman and day coaches Atlanta to Washington. Pull man coach between Atlanta and Raleigh. 6:20 a. m., No. 45 Daily for Char lotte and all local points. 10:10 a. m.,.No. 11 Daily for At lanta and local points. 11:05 a. m- No. 36 Daily for Washington and New York. Pullman sleepers New Orleans to New York; day coach New Orleans to New York. Washington and all points north. 12:03 . in.. No. 30. Daily for Washington and New York. 3 0 p. m., No. 7. Daily for Char lotte and local stations. 3:40 p. m., No. 46. Daily for Greensboro and local points. 6:43 p. m., No. 12 Daily for Ricbr mond and all local points. Connects at Salisbury for Asheville, Ohattanoo ga and Memphis. Sleeper, Charlotte to Richmond and Salisbury to Nor folk. 6 350 p. of., No. 35 Daily to Nor- lanta and points South. Sleepers to New Orleans and Birmingham and day coaches Washington to New Or leans. - B. L. Vernon, D. P. A, Charlotte, N. 0 H. P. Cary, O. P. A, Washington, D.O nere " 1 rr..-y her alleged rrm.... buried. oe that ill un- Over 10,000 Democrats Hold Meeting. Pursuant to call signed by over ten thousand Democrats, one of the lar gest mass conventions ever held in Tennessee assembled at noon in Nash ville Wednesday for the purpose of taking such action as they deem prop er to uphold and sustain the action of those candidates for judges of the Supreme Court and Court of Civil Appeals who have been taking the stand for an untrammeled, indepen dent judiciary in Tennessee, a judi ciary free from partisan, factional entanglements and who have an nounced their candidacy before the whole people of the State in the regu lar judicial election in August. The land and industrial department of the Southern railway has just is sued the company's annual directory of textile mills along the Southern railway and Mobile and Ohio railroad. The directory makes a book .of 32 pages, and gives the names and ca pacity of all mills located in the cities and towns through iwhich the lines run, the character of output and the kind of power used. ' The infant of Mr. Cleve Bowers, of No. 10 township, died last Saturday night. NOTIONS The store that carries everything In Notions. Our Stock is always complete, and New Things are continually coming in every day. If we haven't what you want we will get It. 'Phone n6. Novelties in Jewelry Belt and Collar Pins 15, 25 and 50c All kinds of Little Fancy Pins. The new silver coin Purse with long chains for chil dren and ladies, priced 25 and 50c New Embroidery Linen Collarr in new designs, sizes 12 to 14 25c Linen Collars at 10 and 15c Ask to see the pretty Jabots 25c up The Newest in Hosiery. Plain black and colors in Ladies' Gauze Hose and medium weights, priced . 15, 25 and 50c Black and Tan Drop-stitch Hose 25 and 50c Infants' Sox, all colors and sizes. Art embroidery cotton and silk carried in all colors and sizes. Short an 1 long Groves 50c and $2.00 New Wash Belting 10-15-25c New boys' Belts, black, red and white 5, 10. and 25c Buttons and small ware Notions galore. CORSETS We carry all sizes, all styles, in the best corsets made 29c, 50c, $1.00 up to $3.00 Muslin Underwear Galore The best values you can find in Drawers, Skirts, Gowns, Combination Suits and Corset Covers very economically priced. Gauze Vests 5, 10, 15, 25c H. L. PARKS & CO. ThG Cabarrus Savings Bank la has grown steadily since organized in 1897. ., r , ;:sv. The rerised State Bank law makes its Stockholders liable, thl' ame at a National Bank. , " , ' , ' It desires the Accounts of Farmers, Merchants, Firms and Individuals. . ' ' ! It pays 4per cent interest on Time Certificates of Deposit. - It cordially umtes your account to-day. ; " -
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