THE RAPE FIEND.
Pretty Young Mother Lying at the
point of Death. Dragged From
Her Screaming Ohidren.
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Goldsboro, N. - C, Aig. 23,
Mrs. J as, C. Smithy the white wo"
,,,,1 outraged and beaten yesterday
afternoon, at her home hear Seven
Springs, in in a very precaribusJ
condition. N
The negro brute, Thomas Jones,
ttlio committed the outrage, I am
advised at 8:30 this eveninjg, is lo
cated in a swamp.in the neighbor
hood and is thought will be captur
ed. The chances of escape are in
creased, however by the , dark
ness
As the neighborhood people are
justly aroused, and if
caught, a
speedy
fiend.
fate doubtles awaits the
v
As the facts developed the crime
becomes darker and darker, Mrs.
Smith is young and pretty. She
resides with her husband ona plan
tation cleared in every direction
save one. Here a pine thicket ap
proaches the home to within a hun
dred yards. From this-thicket the
negro approached the house. Mrs.
Smith was alone at the time. Jones
made an improper proposal to her,
saying that if she complied with his
demands he would not hurt her.
but if she refused he would . kill
her. "'
Mrs. Smith, indignantly refused)
and the villian' dragged her from
her home to the pine thicket and
there accomplished ; his purpose,
having beaten the poor woman al
most to death and quite beyond re
cognition. He left her he doubt--less
thought dead;; J ,
The negro Jones ; came to this
section trom Durham.- l,ast year
he worked in tobacco atl,a Grange;
This year he was employed on the
farm of the father of his poor inno
cent victim. . "
LATER.: -
Kinston, N. C Aug. 25! Tom
Jones, the rape fiend,?paid the pen
alty of his crime at ten o'clock this
morning. He was tied to aMog; rid
dled with bulets and buck shot and
left half dead by lynchers. . after
wards being finished by 'Citizens to
put him out of his misery! : .
Parties from Seven 'Springs; La
Grange and other places had been
scouring the .country from the mo
ment of his crime until apprised of
his capture. He hid all: Sunday on
a pocosin in the midst of , a dense
swamp, eight miles f rqm the scene
of his brutal crime. He emerged
soon after midnight and went to-
warus ienansvnis, uuL:.wi m uu
J Tr . ." M1 1 a. ..t 1
a bridge by a party from Duplin
county, Messrs, J. M. Rich. Frank
Simmons and John Marshall. They
ordered him to hold his hand up and
he submitted without any resist
ance. They locked . hiur in an out
house on James Maxwell-s farm
and he . was then taken to the" Smith
farm and identified by his victim.
He confessed and gaye u.V 4. ra
or stolenfrom Smith. . He. was
bound and locked in a tobacco barn
on the ; farm " of " Monroe Rich . to
wait the arrival of the sheriff . -
Later, ten men ; disv uised as - ne
groes, came out 'of the woods' with
guns' and axes and i demanded his
person; Officer Walker, .who was
in charge, resisted and was shot -in
the neck but not seriously. .The
: men battered down the door, . tcok
Jones, placed him on atram car and
run down, into the woods. . There i
he yv'as bound to a log and then
men stood off ' some . .distance, and
fired a' vblly , mostly of shot, into
his body wounding, but 'not killing
him.l -The men then withdrew and
afterwards sorne other citizens fired
a volly that ended his life. -
Mrs. Smith will live but is horri
bly disfigured, i Her right hand is
cut into. strips by the razor, Jones
stole from her riusband, hef" . eye
is gouged out her; jawbone smash
ed and splintered, her face terribly
lacerated , her. throat and breast dis -colored
from choking and beating.
Storms in the West; " -St.
Louis, Mo., Aug. 21. Re
ports this morning from Pana state
that a cloud burst last evening
caused over a quarter of a million
dollars' damage. It was the worst
storm seen in forty years. .ManyJ
bridges were washed out, and rail
.
way traffic is impeded. Several
churches in small villages were un
roofed. No fatalities are report"
ed. : ;' - - - .!
STORM . IN KANSAS.
Kansas City , Mo. , Aug. 12. A
severe wind storm swept the town
of IolaV Kansas at midnight. Thou
sands of dollars worth of damage
was done, to factories. Two coach
es were blown from the track while
standing in front of the depot and
the passenger ; but'sligh tly - in j ur
ed.-' - ; :-. ' ":- ' V V- -M A-
L Game Killed by Itail.
The hail storm last Thursday af
ternoon, which was general in the
county, seemed to have been fworse
in Crab Orchard township and - es
pecially in that section around Bur
dette? Mr. C. W. Hodges, a farmer
who lives in th at ! section, was in
the" city yesterday. Hes said that
his fields are in $ perfect stench'
caused by the decomposition of the
game" which was in the storm. ; He
said that all game, rabits, partrides,
etc. . which were not under holly,
cedar or other very dense cover
was killed. The fodder on his corn
was entirely destroyed and the cot
ton was left in bad condition. Dur
ing, thei storm he saw hailstones
larger than a hen egg.-7-Charlotte
Observer.
Mitchell Still Confident.
Wilkesbarre, Pa.: Aug. 23.
President Mitchell arrived here
from -Chicago today. sN He fays , he
was not going to-New York to hold
a conference with any of the presi
dents Qf the coal carrying railroads.
So far as he knew, . the situation
was uncnaneea. . jluc iuiucib,
. M sust hYm now as
tne nrsr, aay xney wcuuuu on ..
. f 4 . 1 i1. Hte4- 4 M4n1a
4T am iust as conhdent as ever,
toov continued the chief officer f
rf .. ,
the striking army; Vthat we are go
jngtowin.7' v ;
- ' , Kinir Alfonso Mad., ; .
Madrid, Aug. 21.-Spain ,
agliast, over the latest reports-
is
of
trftordmarv r eccentncites
of Kins Alfonso,;; the , details of
which -are 1 gradually . becoming
knowririd cause fears that the ru
v?c tnental- aberration . are
truef during altourjof the provinces
which ended Monday; the King re
peatediy gave evidences of; a lack".
of mentaVbaiance. s-
.The Packard Piano is theroughly
ditistical in its every .detail. . .
PREDICTS CALAMITY.
He Says This Country Will, Pall
as
: " - Did Babylon.1 - -;
Like Barjylon of old, the United
States is destined to have its' . fall"
with, the Republican party, in ".the
role, of Belshazzar, the" responsible
factor in its undoing. This is the
pessimistic prediction, of :W. J. Bry
an, who warns government leaders
that there will be a. dismal awaken
ing if 'national policies are rushing
headlong into new -conditions and
are leading the country into untried
ed. paths. They are sure that " we
can maintain a republic here and at
the same time administer a colony
in the Orient. . They are sure they
can safely encburage the growth of
private monopolies, notwithstand
ing the Inevitable' tendency of .men
to use power for his. own unselfish
purposes..' They are allowing Uni
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lieu oLciieb juugesiu auuse inc writ
of injunction - when asked against
laboring men, while those who vio
late.the anti-trust laws go free;
blind to the fact' that such discrim-
all the speeches ever delivered by
Herr Most. " Lincoln , Neb. , Dis
patch. U "y 1 . . V
MR. SAGE ON TRUSTS.
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Aged Financier Declares Combina
tions a Menace to : Government.'
New . York; ? ' Aug. - 2 i;r--Russell
Sage, the aged financer, Jtoday dur
ing an interview, took direct issue
with J, Pierpont Morgan regar dinsr
the gigantic combinations and con
solidation of; great interests.
Mr. Morgan intimated ; that the
era of consolidations had just begun
and that ottier schemes were now
planning, :
Air. Sage said on this point: The
combination of all the great r indus
tries are a menace, to' government.
They are not only a menace but
are oppressors of the people. Should
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an era of combination ensue the
American people will pertainly re
volt against them and if they do
theret wilHbe financial ruin such as
has never been dreamed of in the
world? s. history. '
The Liquid Air Company
Bank-
J rupt.
A hearing, instituted, by District
Attorney Jerome, before J ustice Jn-
lius'M. Mayer, sitting as a , magis
ti ate, to determine the responsibility
for the collapse of the Tripler Liqaid
Air Company, and to disclose what
has become of several-hundred thou
sand dollars alleged to have been re
ceived1 by the: company for stock,
was begun this afternoon. The. hear
ing was.not public. : At its' close the
statement was made that' the only
witness examined was John M.
Hoen, one of the original promoters,
who told of the company's early-his
tory. An adjournment was taken
until October,-
, Senator John P. Jones, of Nevada
and ex-Senator Stephen , W; Dorsey
were,, respectively, president and
vice-president of the defunct com
pany. It was ,'declared . bankrupt
last November, with liabflitfes of
$350,000 and assets of $3,000.-, -Te
New York -Dispatch. v ;4
Isn't this the 'concern with which
exSenator Butler, of' North Caro-j
lira, 13 or has been conhectedNlt Jia3
been reported i n this h Stat - recen tly
that he has made a good large pile
ont of . "a . liquid' air concern. The
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Landmark.. . .
BRYAN
Makes the food I. more deiieiosis and whbSesome
ROYAL BAKING POWDER
PATTERSON WON
Nominated for Congress at Fay-
etteville. This Morning: at Six
O'clock. ,
Fayetteville', NC-i". Aug.' 21V
Precisely at six ;, forty five o'clock
this morning the convention, after
a tiresome though-anxious all night
session, nominated Hon. Gilbert B.
Patterson, of Robeson County, for
Congress. ; . 1 .
He was. given "on , the 310th bal-
lot 174 votes, thirteen over a ma
jority, which were obtained by ' a
combined attack against Congress-.
man Bellamy, Patterson, Hale and
Brown, with the first mentioned al-
ways leading. , - ' ' , . - -
Three hours, previous to this time
it was plain that Hale had decided
to drop out and that,4us support
ers were awaiting an advantage
ous opportunity to vote fori Patter
son. This .the Cumberland : dele
gation did when Columbus dropped
its candidate, Lion. J: A. k Brown,
and just about halved its fifty four
votes with iseliamy and v Patterson .
The new, nominee., made- a fine
speech of acceptance.
This signature is on every box of the genuine
Laxative-BrompsQuinine Tablets ;
the remedy that cures a cold in ona day
Souvenier. Gold Dollars to be c'olri-
ed. . .
TMe gold dollar, which passed out
of circulation' some- years; ago be
cau se the govern men t su spend ed the
coinage of this diminutive - piece, of
metal, is. to be " temporarily - rein tro
d need in 1904. An employe of ; the
bureau of engraving and printing is
drawing a design, bv direstion of
Secretary Shaw, for, a special 'sod
venir pne dollar gold. piece; in . cele
bration of the Louisiana Purchase
exposition to be held at St. IJoni8.,,
'Two issues of the coin will, be
made. One will bear unon its
face
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portrait of William; McKinley ' and
the other that of Thomas Jefferson.
The words ?' Louisiana Purchase Ex
position, ' vwith the dates "1803 and
1903 will appear on the reverse side;
On the-reverse side will be engraved
an appropriate design, i
After you've seen a Packard you
won tsbuy any other.' '
HOE
Not talk, but. facts. -r Facts that -are worth ;your
consideration. , If we can only get you to ex
amine our stock it will not be necessary to talk
much."J?he goods and the prices will do that. Tie
say it without hesitation or. fear iof successful
contradiction, for it is a fact, that our lair ; sfock
of shoes and prices will not be matched in Eox,
boro. . . : ; -
We have iust received V big
pother good shoes direct from the factory arid are expecting
I another lot every day, then in a short time those celebrat-:-
ed best on earth Ziegler's will bellxereiWill give you extra
close price if you want only one pair and still better if you
; take several. . vv l: . '
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NEW fORK. - " -
Littleton Female College; Littleton,
N, : C.,' an : advrtisement of, " which r
appears elsewhere, ia-one of the, best" ' 5
located .schools in the south. ,Jt is , - .
immediately on the Seaboard Air Line-
railroad? betweenLtaleigh;" arid Wel
don.N. C, in the mfdst of 'a region ; ;
of noted ymineral'SpringSj Where peo- :
pie go every-yearl in quest of health
ah(J where the pure, water," . braeeing ; .
atmosphere-andfsplendid clinrate eas-v
lly make it one ;of the most desirable
piuca i.ui a iemaie AJUiiege tu ue iuuuu
anywhere.- The 'Vew, building now :
about completed is a very handsome
i 1 I 1 " . .- 14 1 V.. . f ' t :
structure ana presenta an imposing- -appearance
from the-railroad - which -
forms the Northern boundary of the' -
' 1 1 H q Roof PioonyiTHrtTi fV-ki.-a TVTci iaifa ' .
Chills and Fever is a bottle V of-' 'V
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic.: 'It is,
simply iron and quinine in a tasteless -form.
No care no, pa vV Price 50b.- :, 7
John S.-Wise, formerlyof ptVirV
gioiai but now of New; iYork; and' ;
the negrq9Sof iVjrginii haeinaug- ,
br)ng trouble m the Commonwealth
of Virginia.-; -1 r. v " C l . j
; An address. violent and -inflatna-. v
? -..- , - 'f ' '-.'.-
tory in character, has, been issued by '
a convention ct,t negroes in: Eich .
mond. and learned counsel hss ; been ;
employed to test the. constitutionality
off the new suffrage amendment in r
Virginia. vv John. Wise, "Esq., who . .
has beiBn retained as counsel for - the, V
u a L3r4 i u r i i i r 11 vrt m t r Trio - r ri u irriiuu ...
that "the courts will hold Jhat the -new
Constitution ofVirginMa';i8.vhot,,;V?::
has never- been, and cannot be r the -law
of Virginia,' and" he adds': ; "Ic
will be held a nullity, arid all efforts
tn f.rpaf. it as valid or hindinc -. ririon -
the riftonle of Vframia will ; be held '..
void. . -;;- . ; " : ' ZK ' ' ;1 1 1 5 c
-v Judge. SehenckDead;.
''Greensboro; N. C. Aug. 26. r After,
years, of ill' health - and a- year of
complete incapacity to take part in.
I the affairs of; life ex-judge -David;
t ' 4 -i 1 - . --i -i
OcnencK aiea at ms resiaence nere.;
on Kdgewofth7- street at ; 6 o clock.
His death had beenvhourl expected ,
for the past two days. . . :: 1
While stealing a ride on top of a
coach in an excursion train from At
lanta to -Wilmington, Tan unknown
negro pitched o headlong " to the
grtund, breaking bis neck arid dy
ing instantly. The accident occur
ed near Monroe. v , . .. .
shipment bC"Dixie :- Girl, and
FAGTS
s.