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NOELL BROS., Proprietors. HOME FIRST: ABROAD NEXT. 8 t .00. Per Year in Advance. Tol. XV. ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA Wednesday Evening, November 9, 1898. No- 45. . WE PAY THE FREIGHT AND $15.95 IS r XL IT COSTS. suit, rocker divan, and I sofa, and . w o parlor chairs, Lijhly polished any, ana uphol stered invelour or inuc, uwsuca maaog tapestry, . largest size, and- suit able for any parlor . in the land, $15.95 -and freight paid f anywhere on earth. Such a bargain as this you have never seen before, no matter how old you are, ,and neverwill r again, , t It vou reach the century mark, ; which we nope you wiu. urther comment is unnecessary, except that if you want to know 160-page furniture catalogue, and if you want carpet at such prices as most dealers can't buy for, send for. our ten-color lithographed carpet books will teach vou something that you'll want o rememDer lor many a day. Kemember Christmas is Cnminc.'1 snrl crnciM Tiervnl rrivp. sensible gifts .which sensible people most ap- of all presents,' and our catalogues will suggest v j nuAi 13 ui, xvuurcss exactly as dciowj JULIUS HINBS & SON, ?i Dent.. QftQ . RAT.TTmnnn Mn OOOOOOOOOOOOTOOOOOOOOOOOO- City Directory. ATTORNEY - AT - LAW, ... . Roxboro, N. C Dr. E. J. Tucker, ' SURGEON - DENTIST, !:.' up stains us V. .J. Johnson & O new ImiffHiisr. .ViHoxboro, N. C . . . W. H, B. Newell, " Watchmaker and Jeweler, .-'. .Roxboro, N. ( E-.J TEAGUE, I D, f . " . Having located in Roxboro, offers hit professional ser vices in. the practice of medicine in all its branches, to the people of Kox boro and surrounding country. Spe cial attention griven the treatnjent of diseases of nose and throat. Offlce over Louis Goodfriend'p stQre. C. T. WILLSON & CO. General Insurance Agents,.. . -..Roxboro, N. (' r . Life, Fire.' Accident and Surety Bonds. Safest and most reliable Companies rep resented. Give us your business and we . wilt give you real protection J. S. MERRITT. WM. P. MERRITT ri0erritt & Rfterritt, Attorneys and Counselors at Law, .1 . ; Roxboro, NC.Y. . . ; .. ; I ' . - , - Practice in all the State and Federal Courts. Special attention given to. cases in Caswell, Durham Granville, and Orange counties- Office over Peoples1 Bank, Mr. v' xi t;hin". -a. f. kitchin. KITCHIN & KITCHIU, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ' ....Roxboro, N. C Practice wherever services are re quired. A j. . " ' - ' ' C.S. WINSTEAD W. T. BRaDSHER Winstead & Bradsher, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, . - . . . Roxboro, N. C. .... Special attention given to Federal practice, both in the ; State aud at Washington. Attend regularly the Courts of Person and Caswell. . All business intrusted to ; our care will receive prompt attention. BOONE BRYANT, " ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ... Durham, N. C.iT.. , Always attend thef Superior Court of 1 rson county,- aud will go there r jch other times as the business of nts demand. -, x " : HOTEL DOWDY,..'- 'c . Roxboro, N. C. RJHl DOWDY, Proprietor " ' :- The best Hotel on the border of N. C. or Va. ; Table sunnlied with ,. the best. Tour every want bp pplied it in thn TnwrT!iA Old M THE STATE White Men win By 30,000. Both Branches of The Legislature SEVEN CONGRESSMEN, ALL . j - Kitchin has a Walk Over. HiS Majority is 2300. BrooKs About The Democratic victory in North Carolina is most sweeping. The State Judicial ticket is Dem ocratic by 30,000. The Democrats have certainly elected every Congressman, except perhaps Linneyx in the Eighth and White in the second, It is almost certain that White is defeated, if Linney is electee! at all, it is by the skin of his teeth. All the Democratic candidates for Solicitor are elected. There are certainly more than 40 Democratic Senators elected, and about 100 members of the House. Nearly all the counties will be in Democratic hands on January 1st. ; After February every city aid town government will be controlled by white men. PERSON DEMOCRATIC. Everything Elected Except "Lois For Sheriff and v;ilson For Reg ister. . The following is the vc 3 for this County. ' ' :' FOR THE SENATE. A. A. Hicks 1629 J. A. Norwood 1478 J. Scott Norwood 26 FOR THE LEGISLATURE. C. A. Whitefield N. N. Tuck 1642 1489 FOR CLERK SUPERIOR COURT. "' D. W. Bradsher 1616 j. A. carver ipo FOR SHERIFF. Daniel Long J IV, Sims , 1544 1581 FOR REGISTER DEEDS. 0; T. Willson H. J. Whitt 1 1533 1585 , JOR TREASURER. John O'Briant ' , C D. Neal - ? - " FOR CORONER. ; Dr. j: A. Wise . W. M. Clayton : FOR SURVEYOR. i ' 4. - , . - J. H. Howard ; ' -GW. Brienanan vv ; , ' " FOR COMMISSIONERS. W- A. Warren v , , ; W. I. Newton ; ' . ; W.'T..Noell :" 'X.V-f Buckley Walker " ;: - w-;:f i 1582 1547 1633 1509 1630 1431 1621 1601 11572 ;1534 DEMOCRATIC. . Democratic. THE JUDGES AND SOLICITORS. Defeats Merritt 2,000. W. A . Blalock L. H. Daniel FOR CONGRESS. W. W. Kitchin S. B. Adams , FOR SOLIOITqE. A. L. Brooks W D. Merritt " : ; STATE .TICKET. Democratic Judges. Republican Judges I486 1483 1640 1480 1525 1578 1600 1512 TERRIFIC GAS EXPLOSION, WRECKS tTHE OITOL BUILD IN G IN WASHINGTON. Late Yesterday Afternoon Great est Damage was Done to The Su- . - - - t preme Court Room and Records In Marshal's Office. . A despatch sent out from Wash ington last night says: At 5:23 o'clock a heavy explosion which was heard several blocks from the Capitol, took place, and imme diately afterwards'flames burst from the windows -Of the Congressional Law Liabrary in the basement and a few moments later from the supreme court room. . The supreme court room and the rooms immediately adjoining on Hhe main floor of the Capitol were totally wrecked by fire.- he money dam age is extensive, but far more than, that will be the loss to the Congress ional Law, library. - The Library was located directly, beneath the': su preme court rooiji. It contained 20,000 volumes, and its value was estimated at over $1,000,000. : A great many of the volumes were destroyed by fire or the flood of water poured into the Capitol. , I The fire is believed to have resul- ted from a gas explosion, caused . by a leakage of . the meter, right by the elevator shaft in. corridor leading to the law library from the rotunda. Assistant Engineer Prescot, : of the Senate, was'seen. iThere was a gas meter, he said, four feet in diameter, located below the supreme court chamber. Je said he had definitely ascertained that . it was the meter which had exploded.; ; Later News. ' WASHiNGTOir, Nov. 7. Assistant Architect of the Capitol Wood, af ter an inspection of the wrecked part of I I N. " II r Makes the food more delicious and wholesome ROYAL BAKING POWDER the Capitol, expressed v the opinion late this afternoon that the damage to the 'building could be repaired for $20,000. " t ; "It is by no means so serious as I first thought it was," said Mr. Wood, I fiad4;hat the foundations of the building were not , damaged ' in the least, and that the only injury to the structure by. the explosion was done to the arched floors. These were struck from beneath' and afforded the least resistance, gave way so readily that the foundation walls were not injured in any respect." Mr Wood believes the explosion was caused by gas, but says he has not yet been able,bn account of the" debris,-' to. make a sufficiently critical examination to place the exact spot at which the ignition occurred. Other architects who" have inspected Xhe scene of the catastrophe also attribute it to an explosion of gas but like Mr Wood "decline to, go into details in their theories. Some ex press the opinion that a broken main and a burning jet are responsible for the occurrence. - ... REMOVING THE RUBBISH. - The work of removing the rubbish caused by the explosion proceeded rapidly all day, 75 or 100 men being employed for this purpose. As soon as the refuse : is sufficienty cleared out the work of repairing the dam age will begin. Mr. Woods thinks that the Supreme Court room will beready for occupancy within two weeks. He says the damage was less than was thought and the opinion is' expressed that nothing more than the repairing of the walls, putting in new doors, new skylights and new upholstery will be necessary to ren der the chamber fit for service. The ceiling of this part of the building and some of the partitions are of Yood, and there is no doubt that very serious damage would haye resulted if the fire had once gotten a head way here. r As it adjoins the dome there has been some f speculation as to what effect it would have had up on that structure. . : , f None of the very- valuable books in tKe law library, was injnred. -The only damage that cannot: be made good was done in;lhe file room of the Supreme Court in the base ment, where were stored all the of -ficial records and. original f copies of opinions from the foundation of the Government.. - All - these opinions have been printed, but the original manuscripts were .highly valued. . t VALUABLE HANUSCRiPS, LOST. ;': if;t:-"v';4fi;i'''''''' v-'S4y;isr:',iiv'i'.' fiki:--:-'y"i'- '7,il'r':"ci.yy- This room was "almost over ' the scene of the explosion, . and ; it . was one of the first compartments of the Capitol to be attacked. The ; docn ments here were stored away- in : an orderly manner in wooden cases, and none of them had any, other v protec tion, except the records of the court from 1792 to 1832, weich ; were en cased in'tin boxes. .The flames . ap- pear to have .completely enveloped this roomV but they were only suffi ciently intente to badly charr all the wood work and many of the docu ments.; ' Comparatively ' few of the CO., NEW YORK. papers were' absolutely ' destroyed " but those which; suffered this fate were among the most -valuable in the room. -They included the original opinions of the court in . the early days of the ; Eepublic and among them were many-,-. manuscripts : pre bare I in the handwriting of the jurists of the days of Washington, Jefferson and Adams. There wre j m the list naany opinions in . manu-" . Samuel Chase, Bush rod Washington anal others of the justices of the per-'., iod between 1790 and 1830 and there fore.prized as relics of the early days of the court. ,V These papers were- stored under tnt, arcn or tne room and sem"to have been completely consumed. v Outhe other hand! the .. otficial records of the court's pro-; ceedings covering"" the same periods aUCOiA IU LlOt UCCU U1COW v v vi. call VI probably in good condition. . These . were encased tu tin boxes arid these in turn placed within wooden cases. MAm WALL UNINJURED : Many of the more modern docu-" ments, including letters and opinions of recent date ; were also so : badly burned that it will be impossible to res tore them, but none ' of these apoears to have 'suffered s uch coin-"" plete demolition ( as -befell the early opinions No documents : affecting the present docket of the court were injured. The fire at one 'time threat ened to invade the Senate document room, reaching to within four or five feet of it. a report was current during tne morning that the west central wall of the Capitol was cracked" as' a result of the explosion. Architect - Wood mad a careful examination and located-the : crack Jwhich 'had- aroused suspicions. It proved however, to be in the outer, or veneer wau, anu uol iu, tue tsu xuuu iuuuui ; tion wall on the west side. This main ;wall has stood over 100 years, and is still in fairlv good ; condition When additions were made, a veneer wall, about ten inches thick, was added outside. : The explosion . last. night blew out a heavy stone door rrame m tne outer, wan, auu iui iu turn loosened several stones rn the veneer wall. Mr. -Wood satisfied himself that the main wall hadr not beendistrubed,, . , Narrow Escape. ThankfaL words written by Mrs. Ada E. Hart, of Groton, S. D. "Was taken with a bad cold which settled oii my lungs ; cough set in and finally terminated in consumption. Doctors gave me up. saying that I could not live but a snort time, l gave my sen ud to my Savior, determined that if I could not stay' with my friends on earth, I would meet my, absent, ones above. My husband was advised to get Dr. : Kings New Discovery for Conflumption.'.Coughs and : Colds. ;I gave it a trial, took in all eight bot ties, , It has cured me, and thank God I am saved and now a well and healthy woman " Trial bottles free at J. De Morris? Drug Store. Reg? ular size 50c and $1.00. Guaranteed or price refunded. ; ; - . ; 'Don't fail to call and ; examine 'or write me if you need a ', sewing- ma chineat ,$19.00 fully - guaranteed for 15 years. ' - J; DC MRRI3.
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