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VOL. 21. SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1903. NO. 51.
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TRAGEDY IN RALEIGH.
Ernest Haywood Killed Lud
low Skinner.
GREAT SENSATION CREATED.
Counsel for Haywood Issue State
ment Claiming Self-Defense for
the Prisoner ? Spread of
Scandal to be Hushed.
(Special to Wilmington Star.)
Raleigh, N. C., Feb. 21.?Ern
est Haywood, one of the best
known lawyers of Raleigh, shot
and instantly killed Ludlow Skin
ner, of the firm of Johnson,
Thompson & Co., cotton brokers,
this ajteruoon about -1 o'clock.
Both are of social and business
prominence. Haywood gavebim
self up after the shooting but re
fuses to make any statement, and
having waived examination was
committed to jail without bail.
The two men were seen at the
post-oftiee entrance in earnest
conversation a few minutes be
fore the shooting. Skinner had
turned away and was moving to
ward the street ten paces away
when Haywood fired the first j
shot. Skinner quickened his pace
as though trying to get away
when Haywood fired a second
shot within probably fifteen
seconds of the first, the ball
taking effect just back of the left
arm and penetrating the heart.
Raleigh never experienced so
severe a shock as the killing has
created, and the town is rift with
supposed explanations as to the
cause. It is conceded that com
plications between the families of
the two men are at the bottom
of it. It has been common report
going for some months that
Hay Wood and Mrs. Gertrude
Winder Tucker, widow of the late
m. It. Tucker and sister-in-law
of Skinner, were secretly married
in New York several months ago.
This he denied. Mrs. Tucker was
treated in a Baltimore hospital
recently and it is out of these
conditions that the shooting has
grown, though there can be 110
comprehensive statement of the
case until developed in the trial.
Dr. T. E. Skinuer, the venerable
retired pastor of the First Bap
tist church and father of the
murdered man, declared this
evening that Haywood had writ
ten an insulting letter to his son's
wife. Mrs. Skinner said, when
told that her fiusband was shot,
that she tried to keep hiin from
going down after dinner, and
telephoned to Johnson & Thomp
son's office for him to keep off the
street.
These statements, than which
there is nothing more definite,
now indicate that there was an
old and bitter score between the
two men to be settled.
The coroner held an inquest
and autopsy to-night, finding
that the deceased came to bis
death at the hands of Haywood.
Raleigh. N. C., Feb. 2B.?Coun
sel for Ernest Haywood, who
shot and killed Ludlow Skinner
Saturday evening, say that
habeas corpus proceedings will
be instituted in day or two, and
self defence will be proven. They
issued a statement this evening
in brief as follows:
"As counsel for Mr. Ernest Hay
wood, we think it proper that we
make this statement. The ac
counts of the unfortunate occur
rence of Saturday afternoon, are
incomplete aud inaccurate. Mr.
Haywood did not shoot from
behind, nor did he shoot an un
suspecting man. On thecontrary
there had been a personal alter
cation between him and the
deceased; begun by Mr. Skinner
and in which Mr. Skinner struck
Mr. Haywood first and knocked
him down. Both men then
reached for their pistols, and Mr.
Haywood fired first, not having
stricken a blow. These facts
will be proven by men of the
highest character, who were eye
witnesses. Among those who
saw the altercation is Hon. Robt.
N. Sims, and he saw Mr Skinner
strike Mr. Haywood. Mr. Hay
wood has made no statement to
his counsel or any other |>erson,
reflecting on the character of any
one; and he is in no way respon- {
sible for any scandals now being
reported or published."
?Mr. Suns, who is one of the
most prominent of the young
members of the Raleigh bar, said
to-night that he will testify that \
he was in front of the postoflice
and saw Ludlow Skinner in
conversation with Ernest Hay
wood; saw Skinner strike Hay-j
wood on the side of the bead, so |
that he fell either 011 the post
office steps or on the balustrade
of the steps.
Skinner snrang off several feet,
when Haywood recovered himself
and as he did so he fired at Skin
ner, who sprang away to the
street curb. Here he hesitated
for a moment with his face to- j
ward Haywood, who fired the
second shot, and Skinner, who
seemed to be turning when the
shot was fired, staggered into
the street and fell.
Coupsel say none of the scandal
to which reference has been made
in the reports will come up in the
hearing and the impression now
seems to be that self defence will
be established.
?Ino. 11. Winder, manager of
the Sunday Creek Coal Company,
of Ohio, arrived from Cincinnati
todayHe is a brother of Mrs.
W. It. Tucker, whose reletions to
Haywood brought about the
trouble with Skinner, and is also
a brother of Mrs. LudlowSkinner
and married a Miss Tucker,
sister in-law of the young widow,
Tucker. Winder, who as the
male representative of the family,
will direct the special prosecution
of Havwood, if there is any, says
he don't know what will be done
yet; that no counsel have been
engaged and he can't say what
will be done.
Every effort is b -ing made now
to stop the spread of scandal
which the killing has given rise
to, the great bulk of which is
pronounced really unfounded by
both sides.
General News Items.
Joseph Sabarice, the negro who
is said to be the sole survivor of
St, I'ierre, has arrived in New
York.
Andrew Carnegie has given
$100,000 to Western Reserve,
University to found a school for
librarians.
Two Itallian laborers werei
killed and two fatally injured on 1
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad I
near Connellsville, Pa., Monday, i
The Senate has confirmed the
nomination of Will am R. Day of
Ohio to be an associate justice of I
the supreme court in place of
Justice Shiras, retired.
The Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western report shows a
decrease in earnings of $2,108,
809, due to the coal strike.
Lehigh lost $ 1,010,170.
Earl \\ oods, a 1-1-year-old son
of a prominent farmer, of I ndiana,1
on Tuesday evening murdered
his father, shot and fatally
wounded his mother and sister
and then committed suicide.
The car sheds and sixty-seven
street cars of the St. Louis and
Suburban Railway Company at
Dehodiamont, Mo., were ' de
stroyed by fire Tuesday,entaling
a loss estimated at nearly $200 -
000.
Ten days ago Sterling Aiken, a
negro, shot and killed Welton
Thomas, a book-keeper, of
Weburm, Pa. Aiken escaped, but
the Weburm residents ordered all
the negroes in the town?about
twenty?to leave the neighbor
hood. Faili g to comply after
repeated requests, the' white
residents attacked the negroes'
shack with ropes and poles, and
pulled it down. The negroes then
took their belongings and board
ed a freight train for Vintondale.
Mysterious Circumstance.
One was pale and sallow and
the other fresh and rosy. Whence
the difference? She who is blush
ing with health uses Dr. Kings's
New Life Pills to maintain it. Bv
gently arousing thelasy organs
they conqtel good digestion and
head off constipation Try them.
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gists.
THE LEGISLATURE.
Proceedings of Monday, Tues.
day and Wednesday as
Reported in the Daily
Papers.
Raleigh, N. C., Feb. 23.-The
House of Representatives spent
about two hours in committee of
the whole to-day considering the
Revenue Bill. Section 4 regu
lating taxes on corporations was
adopted. Section 5, repealing all
laws exempting property from
tax except that owned by the
State, municipalities and church
es, was adopted. Sections 0, 7,
? and 9, prescribing the inherit
ance tax and regulations for its
payment by executors were
adopted.
Graham, of jGranville, intro
duced the present public school
law with some changes for enact
ment bv the,Legislature.
A bill was introduced to incor
porate the High Point Insurance
to. Robeson, to amend the
charter of tbe Carolina Fair Asso
ciation, and Kinsland to prevent
the sale of cigarettes and cigar
ette paper in .North Carolina.
rhe (Jode Commission bill, es
tablishing a commission to codi
fy the laws of the State, came up
as passed by the House and was
put through on second reading
after an effort by Senator Dur
ham to refer it to the Committee
on Appropriation.
Other bills passed were to
amend the charter of the Rank of
r ayetteville; to change time for
holding court in Brunswick; to
incorporate Ruie's Creek, Har
nett countv.
The House and Senate adjourn
ed in honor of Washington's
birthday.
In the Senate the bill to revise
the pilotage laws of the port of
Wilmington came up. Senator
Brown said he introduced this
bill by request, but did not con
sider it a local bill, in that it
affected all the people who ship,
ped from and to Wilmington, the
State's only seaport. Hethought,
it ought to pass. Senator Rell- j
amy made a speech against the
bill, saying enemies of the pilots
are the lumber trust and the Vir
ginia-Carolina Chemical Com
pany. The bill would ruin the
pilots and Wilmington. The bill
was deferred until Wednesday.
Raleigh, N. C., Feb. 24.?When
the Senate convened this morn
ing London introduced a joint
resolution reciting the fact, that
a deficit in the Treasury makes
it impossible for the State Super
intendent of Public Instruction
to give any assurance to countv
school authorities as to when, if
at all, this money will be avail-,
able, and that many schools must
soon close down if something
definite is not known.
The resolution then authorizes
the .Superintendent to notify the
county officers that the good
faith of theLegislatureis pledged
for the payment of the#100,000.
London asked that the resolu
tion be put on its immediate
passage, saying Gov. Aycock was
anxiour that this be done.
The opposition contended that
this would commit the Legisla
ture to a bond issue and insisted
that the resolution be leferred to
the Committee on Appropria
tions. r
The resolution was referred by
a good majority vote.
Henderson introduced a bill for
re-enacting the old school law
with some changes, the most
notable being that county school
boards be appointed by the
Legislature.
White introduced a bill to es
tablish a library and school
house fund.
The Senate voted down the
committee substitute to the Ix>n
don bill but took no action as to i
Pending amendments to the
W atts bill.
I he Senate at thenight session
passed the joint resolution intro
duced in the morning aud referred
to the Appropriation Committee, I
providing that the good faith of
the Legislature be pledged to the
payment of the second #100 000
for public schools. This prac
tically pledges the legislature to
a bond issue if it passes the
House.
The resolution, however, en
countered a snag in toe lower
branch of the Assembly, thesame
having been sent up immediately
at last night's se-sion. The House
refused by a vote of 38 to 34 to
put the resolution on its imme
diate passage and it was referred
to 1 he Committee onEdurcation.
In the House to-night the fol
lowing notable bills were passed:
An act to incorporare the City of
Washington, N. C.; to incorpo
rate the Winston-Salem South
bound Railway Company. A
great number of local bills were
passed.
Kaleigh, N. C., February 25.?
In the Senate today bills were in
troduced as follows:
To incorporate the Virginia,
Carolina and Southern Railway.
To empower the county com
missioners to exem pt Confederate
solders from peddlers tax.
To allow resident judge to give
clerks of court commission to
absent themselves from their
offices.
To establish a dispensary at
Albemarle.
To create the county of Over
man.
For the better protection of life
and property from injury by!
boilers managed by incompetent
persons.
Rills passed as follows:
To allow Hamlet to issue
bonds.
To provide for enlargement of
school libraries in rural districts.
To allow the incorporation of |
street railways under the general
law.
To allow the Corporation Com
mission to order the rebuilding
of depots destroyed by ffre.
To prevent the spread of small- j
pox and scarlet fever.
In the House bills were intro
duced as follows:
To prohibit hunting in Bladen |
without land owner's consent.
To incorporate the Roanoke!
Island Celebration Company.
To extend graded school terri
tory at Itockv Mount.
To establish new township in j
Nash and authorize Nash to levy
special tax.
To incorporate Frankfort, Pitt j
county.
The House in committee of the
whole further considered the
revenue bill.
The committee decided to j
favorably report the bill pro
viding that the State shall give
$50,000 in three years in aid of I
the great celebration of Roanoke,
Island, upon condition that
$250,000 is raised by other
means.
At the House night session,
Walters introduced a bill for
working public roads of Caswell
Catawba.
A bill to amend the public I
school law regarding the election
of county boards of education,
passed final reading.
Bills passed as follows:
To incorporate the Raleigh
Trust Safe and Deposit Com-1
pany.
Favoring the passage of the
Appalachian Park bill by Con
gress.
Begarding the election of Uni
ted States Senators by direct j
vote of the people.
Our Honor Roll.
Since our last report the fol
lowing subscribers having paid
for The Herald a year ahead,
are placed on our honor roll and
given a Turner's North Carolina [
Almanac:
W. B. Penny. Clayton.
R. I). Daughtry, Pine Level.
A. A. Blackman, Gift.
R. 1. Ogburn, Stephenson.
M. Harris, Clayton.
E. L. Hinton, Clayton.
G. S. Wilson, Smithfield.
A. J. Worley, Princeton.
S. W. Morris, Harpers.
J. R. Marler, Four Oaks.
Bradley Johnson, Emporia,Va.
H. Fitzgerald, Micro.
Troy Eld ridge, Rome.
Jno. W. Johnson Smithfield.
8. C. Higgms, Smithfield.
E. Real, Four Oaks.
R. U. Ba-bour, Ezra.
The President has nominated
Geo. W. Robbins for postmaster
at Rooky Mount, N. C.
STATE NEWS.
nm.nt" of Edgecombe1'
county, committed suicide last
week by drinking laudanum. He
was a farmer 48 years of age.
*loVmil'bJ,.rs *T, voted to iHSU?
f 10 ,000 of bonds for a light plant
but by a majority of six rejected '
a bond issue for waterworks.
Kev.l)r.H.W. Battle, of Peters- ,
ouig la., has accepted the call
to the pastorate of the First
baptist church of Greensboro.
President Itemsen, of Johns 1
Hopkins I niversity, Baltimore, 1
will deliver the annual address at
i avidson commencement next
June.
Miss Minnie Wolfe, of Monroe '
has engaged in the fire insurance
business and is probably the only
female tire insurance agent in the
?State. i
A colored woman whose name
i dohnsor and a little ,
child were burned to death at
Nashville, Nash county last week. .
the woman wus about 44) or 50
years old and was paralyzed.
Henry Young, who killed J. H
>Vllliamson in a bar loom at
Hamlet, N. C., Saturday night,
was captured at Monroe, Tues
day night by the chief of police
there, who will receive #400 re
ward.
I here is talk in Robeson county
of an effort to move the county
seat from Luinberton to Pem
broke, a small station at the!
junction of the Atlantic Coast
Cine and Seaboard Air Liner
Railroads.
Sandy Stevenson, charged with
the killing of John Miller, was
convicted of murderinthe second
degree in Forsyth Superior Court
last week. Judge Shaw gave him
?50 years in the penitentiary, the
lull limit of the law.
Mr. J. Robert Jordan, well
known as former State lecture
of the knights of Pythias, died 1
in Asheville Saturday. His re
mains were taken to Peoria, 111.
Mr Jordan was married in Ashe
v;l-e a little more than two years
ago and his wife survives.
W- -A. Phillips, administrator ,
of A. It. Carrick, has brought suit
at Lexington against the South
ern Railway for $20,000 dam
ages. Mr. Carrick, who was em
ployed by the Southern as a
breakeman, was recently killed in
an accident on the Western road.
Arthur L. Rishop, charged with
the murder of Thomas Wilson in
Charlotte last October, and who
was last week convicted of man
slaughter, has been sentenced to
serve five years in the peniten
tiary at hard labor. Bishop
was a travelling salesman from
Petersburg, Na.
The town of Trenton, Jones!
county, one of the oldest towns
in theState, was partly destroyed
by fire Saturday night. The'fire
started from a defective fine in a
grocery store and eight stores
and their contents were burned
The loss is estimated at $20,000
with $3,000 insurance.
A man named Owenby, who was
arrested in Swain county, charged
with stealing cattle and carriet
to Asheville for safe-keeping
escaped from jail Sunday night'
W hen the jailor went to give
Owenby his supper the man
made a dash for liberty. After
getting out of his cell Owenby
jumped through a glass door
and made for the woods, carrying
the door with him.
Tragedy Averted.
''Just in the nick of time our
little boy was saved" writes Mrs
W. Watkins of Pleasant City
Ohio. "Pneumonia had plaved
sad havoc with him and a te'rri
ble cough set in besides. Doctors
treated him, but he grew worse
every day. At length we tried
Or. King's New Discovery for
Consumption, and our darling
was saved. He's now sound, and
well Everybody ought to know,
it s the only sure cure for Toughs,
Cold and all Lung diseases
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Druggists. Price 50c and $1.00."
Trial Bottles free.
WATTS BILL PASSED HOUSE.
Pinal Reading In the House?The
Vote Was 48 to 33.
Raleigh, N. C., Feb. 20.?The
House of Representatives spent
tiiree hours on the Watts bill to
day trying to reach a vote on
the third reading, but adjourned
by limitation at the conclusion
of the roll-cal. ballot on the last
amendment offered, which was a
provision by King designed to
prevent the shipment of packages
of liquor by express companies,
etc., into prohibited teritory,
making the place of delivery the
place of sale.
The Hght was a stubborn one,
opponents of the bill being in
favor of the amendment. The
roll-call showed a majority of
three for the amendment, but
sufficient votes were changed at
the earnest solicitation of Watts
to defeat it before the vote was
announced. Other amendments
voted down were to exempt
certain counties from the oper
ation of the bill.
In the House to-night the
Watts bill passed final reading,
the vote being 48 to 40. Much
time was consumed with roll call
ballots and argumentsonamend
ments exempting various coun
ties. The roll calls were by
insistence of Morton, of New
Hanover, who has led the fight
against the bill. Thirty amend
ments of this kind were offered
and it required from 8 to 11:30
o'clock to vote them down and
get to the first vote.
The Senate devoted sometime
to the discussion of the London
bill and substitute, no votebe:ng
reached. Senators White and
Lamb advocated the bill stroug
Iv. Norris spoke for the substi
tute and Justice for the London
bill, provided the sixth section,
regulating the method of procur
ing license in towns where saloons
are allowed, was modified. The
section provides that one third
of the voters must sign a petition
for the saloon.
A joint resolution was intro
duced in the Senate by Godwin,
at the request of the New York
American, providing that ippli
cation be made to Congress under
Article 5 of the U.S. Constitution,
for a constitutional convention
to amend the Constitution by
making Senators elective in the
several States by a direct vote of
the people. It provides that the
Secretary of State ask the co
operation of the Legislatures of
other States.
The committee appointed to
investigate complaints of the bad
condition of the convict camp at
Dover reported that they found
thequautity of food suffiicient,
but lacking in variety. The bed
ding was filthy and unfit for use;
but they did not find Superinten
dent Mann in any way blamable
for the poor condition.
The Child Labor bill, in the
Senate, was passed on third read
ing,with an amendment by
Drown, that the clause requiring
that 66 hours constit ute a week's
work, apply only to persons
under 18 years of age.
The committee on Insane
Asylums to-day completed the
appropriation from these insti
tutions. The amount asked for
was $78(1,199.95, while the
amount appropriated is $541,
26(1,95, which represents a scale
do n of $244,833. The amounts
apportioned are: Morganton
Asylum, $257,000; Raleigh
Asylum, $163,100; Goldsboro
Asylum (colored), $107,766,95;
Dangerous Insaue in the State
prison, $13,500. Total, $541,
266,9b. Ths bill making the
appropriation was introduced in
the House by Stevenson.
Eighty-four new bills were
introduced in the Seuate and
House, but nearly all were of a
local character.?Wilmington
Star.
If the mothers would use An
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would wear a smile in place of
coughing the r little lungs out.
It is pitiful to see the children
congh so much when they could
be cure<' by a 25 cent bottle of
this medicine. Pleasant to take.
At Hood Bros. Drug Store.