Sljr wmittjfirlii Jlefali). price one dollar per tear. "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD.'' single copies three cents VOL. 21. SMITH FIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1902. NO. 2. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. Some Happenings of the Week Tersely Told. Many Items of Interest Concerning Tarheeldom Clipped and Culled From the State Press. Robeson county is arranging: to build a new and modern jail and it is said it will cost about $25,000. Senator Money of Mississippi lias accepted an invitation to deliver the commencement ad dress at Davidson College. Two boys, 12 or 15 years old. were drowned in Cumberland Mills pond, near Hope Mills last week by the capsizing of a boat. Lord and Lady Pauncefote, who have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. \V. Vanderbilt at Riltmore House, Asheville, re turned to Washington Saturday. Miss Helen Gould, of New York, has presented two handsome paintings by the famous artist,1 Lawrence Alma-Tadema, to the State Normal College at Greens boro. A negro woman died in Cum-1 berland county last week, aged 104 years, says the Fayetteville Observer. She was the mother of 25 children, 10 of whom are now living, the youngest being 58 years of age. ioni Johnson ana bum Ham mond, white men of White Plains, Surry county, got into a row last week, when Johnson struck Ham mond on the head with a club. The wound inflicted resulted in Hammond's death Johnson made his escape. The composite regiment to go to Charleston will have compa nies from Wilmington, Concord, Winston, Charlotte, Durham, Washington, Clinton, Edenton, Raleigu, Henderson, Oxford and Burlington. They will beaccom panied by a band from Asheville. North Carolina week at the Charleston exposition will be April 7th to 14th. Wednesday, 9th, will be Charlotte day. Thurday, 10th, editor's day and Friday, 11th, Wilmington day. Doubtless the Old North State will be well represented all through the week. The body of Emma Thomas, a dissolute white woman, was found floating in the river at Wilm'ng ton Sunday afternoon. The body, in the opinion of thecoroner, has been in the river a month. The woman disappeared from a disre putable locality about six weeks ago. The forty-second annual State I fair of North Carolina, will take place at Raleigh, October 27th to 31st next. Plans for improve ment now under way, and the fair of 15)02 will eclipse all ot hers. Write for advertising, and other privileges to Joseph E. Pogue, secretary, Raleigh, N. C. l>r. David T. Tayloe and his entire family, of Washington, N. C., have been poisoned by a negro employe, who put arsenic in the food to kill the nurse. Dr. Tay loe and one child are still in criti cal condition; the others are not so very ill The negro has made confession and has been jailed. A new city has been organized near Washington by local promo ters, called Pamlico City after the early Indian name. Lots and streets have been laid off and land is selling rapidly. The local ity is Wade s Point, near the month of Pamlico Hiver. It is said a handsome hotel will be built overlooking the sound. Governor Aycock has com , muted the death sentence of Andy Jackson of Lincoln county to life imprisenment at hard labor. During September term of Lin coln county court Jackson was convicted of burglary in the first degree nnd sentenced to be hanged. Then on February 24 a respite was granted by the governor to March 20th and now comes the commutation to im prisonment at hard labor for life in the State's prison. The special committee appoin ted by the Presbyterian Synod; to raise $300,000 for the twenti eth century educational fund, feel greatly encouraged. l)r. St agg has entered earnestly upon the work and has already succeeded in raising a considerable sum, something like $00,000. The State baseball league organization whs completed at a convention in Raleign and it was decided to open the season on May 5th and close on Labor Day. Officers: Perrin Dusbee, of Raleigh, president; C. L. j Stevens, of Newborn, vice presi dent; Murray Allen, of Raleigh, secretary and treasurer Dr. Palemon John, editor of The Carolinian, died at his home in Elizabeth City Tuesday night. He was born in Pennsyl vania in 1827, studied medicine and practiced his profession until he moved South on account of failing health. had published the Carolinian, a Republican pa-, per, at Elizabeth City since 18(51*. McXairand Woo ten, extensive general merchants and fertilizer dealers at Maxton, X. C., have filed a petition in voluntary bankruptcy in the United States court at Raleigh. The liabilities are $31,448,58, of which $21, 485.01 is in security claims. The assets are $31,081.08, of which amount $22,1*31.02 is in open store accounts. Work has started on the foun dation for the new dormitory at Trinity College, the gift of Mr. B. N. I)uke. It is proposed to rush this work so as to have the build ing ready for occupancy by the opening of the fall season. Work is also going forward very rapid lv on the library building, the gift of J. B. Duke of New York. The building will also be read}7 by the opening of the new college year. Durham is now in the midst of an epidemic of crime which for boldness has never been equalled in the history of the town. The latest is a horse thieft on a promi nent street in broad daylight. Mr W. P. Clements hitched his horse and transacted some busi ness. When he went for his horse it was gone. Search was begun and the horse was recovered next morning, but the negro thief escaped. Governor Aycock and staff will leave Raleigh for th^ Charleston Exposition by special train via the Seaboard Air Line on Tues day morning. April 8th. The train willconsistof three Pullman cars and two or three day coaches, and will be run for tlm benefit of anyone wishing to visit the ex position during North Carolina week. The rate from Raleigh for the round trip is $.">.(>5, good for seven days. Governor Aycock has issued a proclamation offering a ieward of $200 for persons who are de stroying stock law fences between Bladen and Columbus counties. He has also offered fat) reward for the capture of Edgar Hicks, aims Mtiun, wrio in nisown nouse in this county killed John Hal loway, while thelatter, his guest, ?was sitting in front of a fire, asleep. Hicks killed him with two blows of an axe and then fled. A debate between representa tives of the University of North Carolina and Johns Hopkins University took place in Balti more Thursday night and North Carolina won. The question was "Modern trusts threaten the welfare of the American people." One of the North Carolina repre sentatives who won distinction in the debate was Mr. 11. B. Wil liams, a son of Editor F. M. Wil liams. of the Newton Enterprise. The Democratic county execu tive committee have requested the sheriff of Chatham county to let them look over his books of receipts in order that they may find out what white men in Chat ham have not paid theirpollt.ax. Their object was to have all such delinquents notified in person, so that they may pay their poll tax before May 1st and be able to register and vote. This request was refused by the fusion sheriff His action has created indigna tion among the white men of Chatham. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. Brief Summary of the Week's Happenings. Some of the Most Important News ot the World condensed tor the Readers of the Herald. The McKinley fund in Boston amounts to $3,800. A campaign against euchre has been started by ministers in Wheeling, W. Ya. Heirs of the late Senator James Fair will build a $2,000,000 hotel at San Francisco, Cal The Y. M. (1. A. building in Philadelphia has been sold to a hotel syndicate for $1,000,000. The steamer European cleared from New Orleans, La.,Saturday with 1150 horses for South Afri ca. The Fnited States in 1001, it is announced,prod need 8,713,302 gross tons of Bessemer steel in gots. Geronimo, the Indian chief who has been in prison 12 years, has petitioned the Government for his release. Kear-Admiral Winfield S. Schley was the guest of honor at a din ner given in Boston in honor of Evacuation Day. Ex-President Grover Cleveland quietly observed his sixty-fifth birthday at his houie in Prince ton, N. J., Tuesday. All the mills in Fall River, Mass., resumed Monday except the Sagamore, which labor trou bles are still unsettled. A convention of miners which has met at Shamokin, Pa., will decide the question of a proposed strike of 125,000 men. John YV. Gates in a New Y ork court has testified that he had .$1,000,000 in 1897 and increased it to $5,000,000 in one year. Another $1,500,000 in gold was deposited at the Sub-Treas urv in New York Saturday for transfer to San Francisco, Cal. The Louisville and Nashville Railroad has been indicted in Kentucky for charging less than the regular freight ratesongrain shipments. The Pittsburg grand jury has returned three true bills against Mrs. Catherine Soffel, charging her with aiding the Piddle broth ers to escape from prison. Denbigh Hall, at Rryn-Mawr College, which was burned Sun day night, is to be rebuilt at once. Girl students bad $25,000 of personal property burned. Seven members of the life-sav ing crew and five sailors were drowned off Monomoy Station, Mass., Monday, in the effort to rescue the YVardena'e crew. The Kentucky legislature has repealed the law which allowed women to vote for school trus tees in that State. The reason for the repeal was that negro women had held the balance of power in some of the towns and cities. A charter has been applied for at Atlanta for the Georgia Lum ber and Development Company, with a capital of $5,000,000. The applicants for the charter are Charles Berry. Michel Jacobs and Charles W. Phillips, all of New York. Mrs. Amelia Steele, 70 years old, has been granted a divorce at Hartford, Conn., from (leorge S. Steele, of Burnside. The hus band is only a few years her jun iors It I as stated that the old lady's sickly condition was due altogether to the husband's cru elty, upon which ground the de cree was granted. Rev. Rudolph Duenger. I>. It., the oldest minister of the Reform ed Church in the Crated States, died Sunday night at Ashland, Pa., aged 04. His health has been failing for some time and while lying in bed early Sunday morning he was seized with a paralytic stroke, which resulted in his death. He was ordained in 1 88 i. I The position of Commissioner (ieneral of Immigration has beeu tendered by the President to Frank 1*. Sargent, chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire men, to succeed T. V. Powderly, the present incumbent. Larry McKee, a messenger in employ of the Adams Express Company at Mattoon, 111., is missing, and a package contain ing $80,000 it is said has also disappeared. The package was sent from Brazil, ind., to St. Louis in McKee's charge. William A Eddy, a weather observer of Bayonne, X. J., re ported that a slight earthquake was noticeable in Bayonne early Saturday. The vibrations were recovered on his seismographs, but were only slightly percepti ble to residents. The tremor was the fourth this month. Mrs. M. C. S. Noble, wifeof Prof. Noble of the chair of pedagogy in the State University, died in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Balti more. Md., Thursday night. Mrs. Noble had been in failing health sincelastsummer, when an opera-1 tion was performed, and she was recently taken to Johns Hopkins for treatment. Her remains were taken to Wilmington, her old home, for burial. Her husband and two children survive. Returns at Indianapolis, Ind.. from Saturday's Republican pri maries show that Newton Booth Tarkington, author of "The Gentleman from Indiana" and "Monsieur Beaucaire," has re ceived the highest vote of any candidate for the Legislature, al though there were 14 candidates and seven to be chosen. Every precinct shows that he ran from one to three votes ahead of the other candidates. His total vote will exceed that of the man re ceiving the next highest by near ly <>00. .J Some Interesting School Statistics. Some very interesting school statistics were figured up yester day in the office of the Superin tendent of Public Instruction. They show the great improve ment that was wrought in the public school system for 1900 to 1901. The number of white districts in 1901 was 5,483, and colored 2,559. This was a gain of (51 white and 71 colored districts. There were 5,411 white schools ? taught in 1901, as against 5 047 in 1900, a gain of 3G4; and 2,418 colored schools taught in 1901, as against 2,344 in 1900, a gain of 74, making a total increase of j 438. The to'al number of schools taught in 1901 was 7,829. The number of white districts having no school in 1901 was, only 72. In 1900 this number | was 379. There were 141 colored districts without a school in 1901; the corresponding number in 1900 was 144. This shows a tremendous gain in the white schools. There were in 1901 29 Croatan school districts in Robeson county and two in Scotland county. Of these 29 schools were taught.?Raleigh News and Observer, 11th. To Cure a Cold in One Dav Take Laxative Broino Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. K. W. drove's signature is on each box. 25 cents. The total value of merchan dise imported into the Philip pines during the eight months ended August 31, 1001, was $10,018,596, against $14,580, 457 for the same period of 1000, and t lie total value of merchan-1 dise exported during those eight months was $10,03o,405,against $15,028,015 for the same period of 1000. Surgeon's knife Not Needed. Surgery is no longer necessary to cure piles. Be Witt's Witcn Ha/el Salve cures such eases at once, removing the necessity for dangerous, painful and expensive operations, For scalds, cuts, burns, wounds, bruises, sores and skin diseases it is unequalled, Beware of counterfeits Hare A Son, J. It. Ledbetter, Hood Bros.. Benson Drug Co. NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS. Items of Interest from Wash ington City. Some ot the Week's Happenings in anil out of the Halls ot Congress. KeuresentDive Otey,of Virgina, j Monday introduced a bill appro priating $100,OOO,OOO uk a "good roads fund" to improve the highways of the country. The senate passed the ship subsidy hill of Monday by a vote 42 to.11. Six republicans voted against it, and Senator McLaurin, of South Carolina, voted for it. It is said General Miles' plan for pacifying t lie Filipinos con templated sending a party of Cubans and I'orto Hicunstothe archipelago to tell how they are faring. ITrig.-Gen. Frederick Funston visited the White Honse and War Department Saturday. It is probable lie will not return to the Philippines unless he wishes to do so. The Lower House of Congress Friday passed a resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to loan tents for the Confederate veterans' reunion at Dallas, Tex as, April 22d. Representative Hill, of Con necticut, Las introduced a bill for the coinage of the silver bullion in the Treasury purchased under the Act of July )+, 181)2, into subsidiary silver coin. The War Department has abandoned hope of ever again hearing from Second Lieutenant Paul D. Stockly, Twenty-first In fantry, who disappeared in the Philippines a year ago. The Republican members of the House Committee on Rules have decided to report favorably a resolution providing for the appointment of a committee of Id to investigate the suffrage question in several States. Capt. Benjamin F. Tilley, for mer Governor of the Island of Tutuila, Samoan group, will be appointed captain of the Mare Island Navy Yard. Rear-Admiral Louis Kempff is expected to be made commandant of the same yard. Prominent members of the Democratic Congressional Com mittee, which is to meet on the night of March 21) for the purpose of electing a chairman, have not yet lost all hope of inducing Sen ator elect Arthur P. Gorman, of Maryland, to accept the post. Senator Penrose, chairman of the Committee 011 Immigration, has submitted a report on the Chinese Lxclusion bill. He says that the sentiment of the Amer ican people is crystallized against the admission of Chinese labor to compete with the workingmen of the I'nited States. It is announced that Frank P. Sargent, Grand Master of the Brotherhood of Locomotive I'icemen, lias oeen ottered trie Commissioner-Generalship of Im migration to succeed T, V. Pow derly, who, it is alleged, has not been in entire harmony with other treasury officials. It was officially announced at the Census Bureau Monday morn ing that on March 31 another wholesale reduction of the force will be made, and the gloom in the Bureau was profound. The Census Office force now comprises about 2200 men and women, having been reduced from 3<>00. The nomination by the Presi dent of Arent S. Crowinshield to be a Hear Admiral has been an nounced. The confirmation of this nomination will give an op portunity for a revival of the Sampson - Schley controversy. The friends of Admiral Schley held Crowinshield responsible for most of his trouble. Those Sen ators representing the Adminis tion will do all possible to secure the quiet and speedy confirma tion of Crowinshield, so as to em phasize the President's declara tion that the entire Sampson Schlev controversy is forever ended. BENSON BUDGET. 11 ill street extension is now open. Mrs. J. Ij. Hall is visiting in Buie's Creek section. Mrs. .1. \V. Wliittenton is visi ting in Anson county. Will Grimes and Gaston Lee are congratulating each other. Benson will he a "dry town" hereafter, that is, so far as ditch ing will dry it. Cavenaugb & Benson will build a large frame store house oppo site Seth Allen & Bro. Mr. .1 F. I'. Stewart will buy eggs and sell groceries for J. R. Woodall this season. Many residences are going up in the Ryals Addition, and that will soon be the fashionable part of our city. Mrs. Godwin, mother of Mrs. L. U. Creech, died Friday. She was very old and has been feeble for a long time. Bob Smith is pushing his tele phone in many directions, and soon the neighbors will converse with each other from their fire sides. Kev. P. I>. Woodall, of Rocky Mount, is here to attend themar riage of his brother, F. L. Wood all, to Miss Hettie Sanderford, of near Clayton. The people either have faith, are adventurous or don't expect to pay their debts next fall, for they are hauling fertilizers just like they did last spring. Photographer Hamilton, of South Carolina, has erected his gallery near Mrs. Broughton's millinery store, and promisesnot to make you look uglier than you are. Benson is to have a Sash and Blind Factory. We trust this is the begining of what will make our town one of the "hives of in dustry" that make our county prosperous. Ira Creech, son of J. Willis Creech, and Charles Barber, son of Perrin Barber, after staying in the railroad office here six months passed creditable exami nations at Wilmington and both have been assigned to duty. PER LIN A NOIES. Master Walter King was a visi tor in Wake Saturday and Sun day. Mr. C. H. King attended ser vices at Sandy Grove Church Sunday. Messrs. Junie Johnson Jand T. A. Watkins spent Sunday in Benson. Mr. G. L. Stephenson, of Har nett, was 11 the neighborhood Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Stephenson visited relatives in Wake Satur day and Sunday. Mr. Jas. W. Stephenson re turned home from llarnett Sat urday from a visit to his sister, Mrs. A. L). Coats. Mr. J. L. Johnson, Photo grapher. is now doing work on a large seule, giving much pleasure to his many patrons. Miss Lou Young is home from teaching school in Lunar. Her friends are glad to learu that she taught a successful school from beginning to end. Misses Florence and Bertha Johnson, two of Benson'scharni ing young ladies, are guests this week at the home of their uncle, Mr. \V. T. Johnson. Seemingly there will be more of "the golden weed" planted in this section than formerly, this year, for the general topfeof con versation is "tobacco. We learned recently that .\|r. Dallie Johnson, formerly of this section, but now of SmithHcld, has been called to Williamston to do some carpenter's \ irk. His many friends wish him -ac cess. ? Jack and (It i*r. Car of Hour just received at Boyett Bros. iV (Sodwin's.

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