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Wiyt j$mitljfidd lieratk PRICE ONE DOLLAR PER TEAR. "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD "? ? ? ? - ' SINGLE COPIES FIVE CENTB. VOL- 23' SMITHFIELD, N. C.. FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1904. NO 3 STATE NEWS NOTES. Short Items of Interest Clip ped and Culled From Our Exchanges. Three white women in iail at Asheville for being drunk, set tire to the jail, but escaped with little injury. The jury at Charlotte, gave the executor of Andrew C. Orr, who was killed on the Southern last spring, a verdict for ?1;>,0(H). The Statesville cotton mills have cut off the night force, due to the high price of cotton, it is said. The cut throws 12."> opera tives out of employment. W. H.Spruut, of Wilmington, has made an unconditional gift of ?10,000 to the James Walker Memorial Hospital in that city for additional buildings. The investigation of the At lantic and North Carolina Rail way by the governor and the board of internal improvements and experts begins next week. Mark Morgan, oj; Scotland county, has given ?7,000 to the Southern Presbyterian College and Conservatory of Music at Red Springs, Robeson county. The Carolina Distilling Com pany has begun business at Hamlet with a daily output of 300 gallons a day. The capacity of the concern is 1.200 gallons daily. An internal revenue stamp office is to be established at Marion. The salary If ill be light ??300 per anuni-hut there will doubtless be many applicants for the job. D. Franco, an Italian, fell 400 feet at the Cumnock coal mine, where he attempted to jump from a cage to a lauding, missed and tell. His head, arm and leg were torn off. The will of Mrs. Samantha Wilson, late of Asheville which was probated Monday, cuts off her ouly daughter with "?1 to buy a calico dress." The estate was valuable. Chas. Hanes, a colored truck man at the depot in Salisbury, dropped dead Thursday morn ing while at work. Excessive cigarette smoking Is believed to have caused death. At Elizabeth City last week Garry Stanly was convicted of seducing Miss Jessie Copper smith under promiseof marriage. Judge Hoke sentenced Stanly to the penitentiary for 18 months. A charter has been granted to the Oxford Seminary Construc tion Comprny, capital stock ?.">0,000, F. P. Hobgood and about forty other Oxford men beuing the stockholders. The company will build a school to replace Oxford Female Seminary, lately burned, nnd will thorough ly equip it. The Messenger says that Mrs. Elizabeth Finer, TOyearsold and infirm, who was run over' by a street car in Wilmington recently, both her legs crushed off, her hip broken and other injuries inflicted, has recovered sufficient ly to leave the hospital. Her recovery astonished the physi cians and indeed everybody who knew of her case. An attempt was made to bur- j glarize the Rank of Itandleman Thursday night. Theouterdoors of the safe were blown away but j the inner door resisted the efforts of the burglars. A negro passed the bank while the robbers were ( at work. He was bound, gagged and held until the burglars, failing to get into the safe, de parted, when they turned the negro loose. Richard and Bamupl Stanull, who recently sho; and killed W. T. Harrison on the line between Wilson and Greene counties, were before Judge Moore at Wilson Saturday on a write of habeas corpus and were released on a bond of ?2,000 each. The Stan-1 cills claim self defense. There be ing two of them they both can't claim to be crazy and self-de-fence is the only plea left. STATFOEMOCRATICLONVENTION This Body Will Meet In tireensbore June 23rd, to Nominate Candidates. The meeting of the Democrat ic State Executive Committee held in the hall of the House of i Representatives last night was largely attended, and was mark ed by a spirit of harmony and j good feeling that presages a united partv and a glorious vic tory in November. It was decided "to hold the State Convention in (ireensboro on the 20 rd,1 of .June, Raleigh having gracefully withdrawn, some of its best friends on the committee having advised it to do so with the almost positive certainty that two years hence the convention will return to its home ill the capital city to cease its wandering. A new departure?and a very important one?was made which will necessitate a two days' ses sion of the State convention. Heretofore it has been the habit to nominate the candidates first and to adopt a platform after wards. The result has been an all night session of the conven tion, with no time given to the proper consideration of the reso lutions and platform. Under the new order of business, the first day will take up with the organi zation, hearing speeches, adop-^ tion of the platform and the | election of delegates to the I National convention. Of course if this business is concluded early on the niggt of the first day, the ! convention could proceed to the : nomination of the State ticket, : but experience has shown that it takes time to prepare a platform, j and it is almost certain that the platform will not be considered! until the night session of the I first day. That will throw the nomination over to the second day, and guarantee that all the important business will betraus-1 acted by delegates who are not, worn out by loss of sleep. The delegates who believe in giving ! ample time to the important work will hail with pleasure this change. There was no friction, no disa greement, no discord in the meet ing. Reports from all sections of the State show the party to ! , lie in splendid shape, enjoying ? the confidence of the voters to a j | degree hitherto unknown in tae history of North Carolina.? News and Observer March 18. Lost His Life for Two Cents. "Anybody give me two cents j and they may hit me as hard as they can," was the playful chal lenge which cost Bud Merritt, a thirteen-year-old colored boy,, his life while playing with a num ber of companions at Eleventh and Chestnut streets this after noon. The challenge was accepted by Charles Henry Brinkley, another colored boy of about his own age. The Merritt boy straightened up, expanding hfs chest and the blow was delivered from Brinkley's first in the breast. Merritt took the pennies, and remarked, "that's 2 cents easy made." In a moment he threw i up his hands and fell over dead. Brinkley's father gave him to the poliece authorities, but later upon investigation of the coro ners, he was released, the killing having resulted accidentally.? Wilmington Special, 20th, to Charlotte Observer. More Riots. Disturbances of strikers arej not nearly as grave as an indi vidual disorder of the system. Overwork, loss of sleep, nervous tension will be followed by utter collapse, unless a reliable remedy isimmediately employed. There s j1 nothing so efficient to cure i disorders of the Eiveror Kidneys i as Electric Bitters. It's aj won- i derful tonic, and effective nervine 11 and the greatest all around medicine for run down systems. It dispels Nerveousness, Rheuma tism and Neuralgia and expels i Malaria germs. Only 50c, and i satisfaction guaranteed by Hood i Bros., Druggists. i R. B.GLENN FOR GOVERNOR. A Man ot the People and tor the People, with the Courage ol his own Convictions. To the Democrats ofNorthCaro l>na: , ..i The Democrats ot r orsytu County ask you, in your next Convention, to nominate It. B. Glenn, Esq., for Governor. In support of this request, we respectfully call attention to the following reasons: 1. lie stands upon the broad plateau of middle life in the full ness of matured faculties. He is a gi od lawyer, a strong thinker, an able campaigner, a sound statesman, a man of the people and for the people, with the courage of his convictious. 2. He is a man who loves his party with his whole heart, who loves it most when in the right, but right or wrong, weak or strong, in prosperity or in ad versity, he is a lo\al, true, stead fast Democrat. Since manhood he has been a party worker, commencing in I87(i, and taking part in every campaign from that day to this. He has always placed himself in the hands of the State Executive Committee aud the campaign managers of his own County, going cheerfully at his own ex pense, wterever and ^ whenever sent, and in the dark day of the State's oppression was ever in the thickest of the fray, fighting to rid the people of Negro Domi nation and Radical Misrule. Surely the people will uot tor get his campaign with Marion Rutler, the "Constitutional Amendment," his more than one hundred speeches for W hite Supremacv aud Good Govern ment in 1900, and his untiring efforts in every campaign for his party's success. 4-. Being now under 50 years of age, he has no war record,but at South Mountain his father gave his life for the "Lost Cause, which cause has always been dear to his son, as has been every other interest of the State. .I. He has not yet been honored with an office directly from the people of the State, and would deeply appreciate an honor which carries with it the stamp of ap proval, recognition and confi dence of his fellow citizeus. Democrats, t his man lias labor ed for your success for twenty eight years?on the hustings, in i the councils of the party, at the voting precinct on the day of election, never studying his own ease, but only asking where he was needed, he has given himself to the people. Now he asks to be Governor. Will not those : who have enjoyed the fruits of the victories he has helped wjii. and the people whose interests he has defended aud upheld, rally to his support aud nominate him'' Without seeking to detract one iota from the claims of the good men and ti ue who are his competitors, we urge upou you the name of R. B. Glenn. (Signed) M. D. BAILFA. Ch'n County Dem. Ex. Com. Judge Purnell is reported as being very indignant at what he claims was the deception prac ticed on him in the Atlantic and North Carolina receivership case. The Asheville Gazette-News thinks if his honor "had asked a few leading questions when he heard the application for the receivership he could have found out for himself how the land lay." The Landmark was going to say about that very same thing. We can't conceive that a judge is compelled to grant such an ap propriation, aud if Judge I'ur ne'.l had given this matter the consideration its importance deserved, he might have had bis lit of indignation beforehand and saved the sorry spectacle he now presents when he is whining about being taken in.?States ville Landmark. Oscar Spears, assistant district attorney for the eastern district of North Carolina, is to be re-1 moved from office and the usual scramble for his job has begun. GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Some of the Week's Events Scissored and Condensed from the Press. Grover Cleveland celebrated hie 07th birthda.y laet Friday Flood and lire caueed more ttiau #250,000 damage in Beloit, Wis., Tueeday, ineide of 12; houre.. Five hundred bindery girls in Chicago, 111., weut on strike Tuee day for a 10 per cent, wage in crease. Eight pereons were injured, three probably fatally, Tuesday at Houston, Tex., by the coi- 1 lapse of a brick building. The Rubber Trust has an nounced an increase of 7 per cent, on all kinds of footwear to take effect immediately, Steps were taken Tuesday to dissolve the Northern Securities ' Company and return the stock held by the merger Company. Governor Warfield, of Mary land, has signed the bill appro- i priating $250,000 for the relief of the Baltimore fire sufferers. i Senator J. R. Burton has been ( placed on trial at St. Louis for ( accepting a fee to use his influence with the Postottice Department. Cumberland County Pennsyl- < vania, feeds tramps iu its jail at Carlisle at 9 cents a day; self-re specting criminals at 25 cents a < day. The Republicans of the eigh teenth Illinois district have nomi- 1 uated Hon. Jos, G. Cannon for Congress for the seventeenth 1 time. The .Missouri Republican State convention, at Kansas City, has indorsed Iioosi velt for President and Cyrus P. Wallbridge for Vice President. The Pacific Steel Company, with #100,000,000 capital, of which #50,000,000 preferred has i been issued, hds been chartered at San Diego, Cal. In a fight late on Saturday night between whites and ne groes, at Bassemer, Ala., one man was killed and two men and a white woman were wounded. Former Congressman George Fred Williams, of Massachusetts, has announced his intention to support and work for the nomi tiou of W. R. Hearst for Presi dent. i The German bark Mona col lided with the English ship Lady 1 Cairns off Dublin Bay Sunday morning. The Lady Cairns sank in a few minutes. Her crew of i 22 were drowned. George Landis, the richest . policeman in Philadelphia, was overtaken by death on a trolley car Sunday. He was worth about #30.000 and had been on , the force 15 years. Representative Thompson, of the fifth Alabama district, died . in Washington Sunday of pneu- ] monia. Mr. Thompson was -14 i vears old and was serving his < second term in the House. His i remains were taken to Tuskegee, i Ala., for interment. A dispatch from Seoul, Korea, ' says that on last Wednesday, ! Kith, 13 accomplices in the ) murder of the queen in 1895 were executed by strangling in the ] city prison. Twenty-two high- i wayrnen were similarly executed at the same time. 1 Henry Williams, the negro who brutally maltreated Mrs. Shields and her little daughter in Roa- | noke, Va., on the 30th of Jan- < uary, was hanged at Roanoke ( Friday. He confessed that he f had committed a number of as- | saults on women but had always ( escaped. f A mob stormed the jail at I Cleveland, Miss., Friday night ( and secured Fayette Sawyer and i Burke Harris, negroes charged \ with the murder of a negro nor-11 ter on a passenger train. The ( negroes were taken to the scene c of the killing and hanged from a 1 railroad bridge. (j LIKELY to KEEP MANCHURIA. ? But Russia Must Not Seize Any ' More of China, Thinks Mr. Hay. Washington, March 20.?The . most, interesting phase of the far has tern situation us de veloped by the diplomatic-events , of the past week is theunniistak- . able, though indefinite, move on the part of the powers in the di rection of mediation. A tacit I understanding was long since reached between the powers that i it would be unwise to allow Rus sia and .Japan to tight out the ? war to a finish. All of these powers realize that ! t rie war must continue until one . side or the other shows unmis tukable signs of weakness. i !le.Sne ?rreat obJ'ect of the ! nited States in its interest in \ the affairs of the Far Fast is to prevent at all hazards the ' dismemberment of the Chinese , Lrnpire. It is realized by the ?tate Department that it mav now be impossible to save Man churia; but Secretary of State ' John Hay has determined?and he is receiving the unqualified 11 support of the President-that neither Russia nor Japan shall , seize any other part of China fe.ar 18 felt of Japan in this i connection, as the integrity of Lhina appears to be as strono-lv lavored by the Japanese as it is ' by Secretary Hay. This inter- 1 est, which the entire world now ' understands and respects, as 1 well as the recently acquired commercial priviledges of the I nited States in the Far East, , will afford the United States ex- 1 cuse for participating in offers of ! mediation when the proper time arrives. ( ! * THE JAPS STRIKE AGAIN. |, Another Heavy Bombardment of Port Arthur Begun. 1 < London. March 22.?A dis patch to Reutar's Telegram ( Company from St. Petersburg ; says: * "Japanese torpedo boats ap- ' peared off of Port Arthur at i midnight of the night of March | -1 and 22, and the shore batter- I les and guardships shelled them I for 20 minutes. < "The Japanese retreated, but . reappeared fourhoursiater, when I they met with thesame reception ; ,,er ugaiu retired. ' i "At 6 A. M. a Japanese squad- i ron of two divisions, composed . ot lour and 11 ships and accom panied by eight torpedo boats , appeared, and the Russian squad- , ron sailed out from the outer roadstead to meet them. No further details regarding f the action are available. At !i A. M. the Japanese bat t eships, having fired several allots at Liaotisbin and shelter ed behind the promontory, be *an a bombardment of Port Ar thur." j I n the Federal Court at Helena, Ark., last week, three white-cap- i pers were convicted of u con spiracy to intimidate negro t workmen at a saw mill and sen- i tenced to the penitentiary. Ap peal to the Supreme Court of the t I nited States was taken, the i purpose being to test the con stitutionality of the fourteenth i imendment to the constitution. I I he claim is made that under i ihis statute the negro is granted i protection in the Federal 1 courts that is not given to white l nen. Tragedy Averted. "Just in the neck of time our 1 i ttle boy was saved" writes Mrs. ' . *V,^lns ?' Pleasant City, ' >hio. I neumonia had played 1 ?ad havock with him and a tern ile cough set in besides. Doctors t created him, but he grew worse ^ svery day At length we tried ? dr. King s New Discovery for ' consumption, and our durling f was saved. He's now sound, and well. Everybody ought to < enow, it s the only sure cure for ^ coughs, Colds and all Lung ? liseases. Guaranteed by Hood ' mo/,' Price 50c and < fl.00. Trial bottle free. SULLY'S QUICK RISE TO POWER. Wade Millions In a Few Months Only 43 Years Old. Iitiniel.I. Sully's rise to fame and fortune wan phenomenal. He was born in Providence, R 1., in L861, and in now just pant hin 'orty-third birthday. He wan ?ducated in the public schools of Providence and was graduated it the Free Academy of Norwich, 'oun. In 1888 be married Ming Emma Frances Thompson, the only laughter of Col. David M. Thompson, general manager of he cotton mills of Charles knight, the largest manufac :urer of cotton goods in the vorld. It wan this connection >y marriage that brought about Sully's interest in cotton and lie cotton market. He has three :hildren. Sully traveled in the South for ;wo years as the agent of his ather-in-luw's firm, and in that irne gained a remarkably com plete and intimate knowledge of :ottou. When he returned he altered the office of a cotton proker in Boston, where he itudied the market end of the :otton business. After four years u Boston he entered the office of F. W. Reynolds, of Providence, is a subordinate employe. In a rery few months he became a partner, lie enlarged the trade pf the firm and brought into the American market the hitherto ittle known Egyptian cotton ?rop. Then he went into the bull cam paign on a big scale. Six months lfter his adveut in New York his vealth was written in two figures pf millions. His profits were estimated at f7,000,000, and Dhe market value of tfn> cotton irop had increased $130,000, )00. Not content with his leader ihip in cotton, Mr. Sully bought i seat on the Coffee and the Stock Exchange- and was count jd among their most daring pperators. He has been cou ipicious in the present bull mo ve nent in coffee, which sold above I cents for December delivery, :he highest price in four years, ast week. In fact, Mr. Sully has peen an all-around bull and a peliever in still higher prices. Mr. Sully, like his associates in the lotton campaign, began his ausiness career with hard knocks md very little money. He is vithout ostentation or personal ranity and confines his aggres iiveness to the pit. The noted speculator dresses n keeping with his persoual iharacteristics? in quiet grays pf conservative, though modish, ?ut. In general appearance be exemplifies the expression "dean ;ut."?Baltimore Bun. SELMA NEWS. Robert M. Nowell has sold his louse to Mr. A. V. Driver. Mess. Eli Scarborough and Veedhaiu Medliu.of wake county, vere here Wednesday. Mr. Victor Barnes, manager for he Standard Oil Co. here, has noved his family to town. Mr. W. B. Roberts has moved ;o R. L. Ray's place on the cor ler of Noble and Sharp streets. Dr. J. A. (Iriffin, of Clayton, vas in town Tuesday. Eoomis tas a broad smile on now. It is i boy. Messrs. Stallings and Fuller lave moved their livery business xp the new stables, recently built py Mr. A. D.Atkinson,onRaiford itreet. Cards are out announcing the narriage of Miss Aldonia Hood :o Mr. Allison V. Driver it the Baptist church here Wed nesday, April Gth. Mr. Geo. W. Evans has re :urued from Richmond Va., where le took a course in booking, and s again in the bank, where be nil be pleased to see his many riends. Mr. R. L. Ray has moved to he Whitley place with his family. That valuable plantation was illoted to Mrs. Ray in the divis on of the lands of the late T. T. diver. Sk.nx.
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