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Sije Smitljficlb Herald pbice one dollar feb tear "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD." single copies five cents. VOL.28. SMITH FIELD, X. 0., FRIDAY FEBRUARY 17, 1905. N0.50 EY-MAYOR McClJE HANGED Pays the Penalty of His Life for the Murder of His Wife. Made no Statement on the Gallows Confessed to His Ministers That He Slew His Wife, and He Alone Is Responsible for The Deed. Charlottesville, Ya , Feb. 10.? Ex-Mayor .1 allies Samuel McCue was hauled this morning in the city jail yard, for the murder of his wife. Mrs. Fannie Crawford McCue, on the night of the 4th of September last, at his home on Park Street. The prisoner walked to the gallows unaided in his shirt sleeves. He was accompa nied by his pastor, Rev. l)r. (i. L. i'etrie, of the Presbyterian Church, Sergeant Rogers, and two guards. The prisoner never spoke a word after ascending the gallows. He made the foregoing statement to his ministers, this morning, in his cell: "J. Samuel McCue stated this morning in our presence and re quested us to make it public, that he did not wish to leave this world with suspicion resting on any human being other than himself; that he aloue is respon sible for the deed, impelled to it by an evil power beyond his con trol and that be realized his sen tenet1 as just. "(Signed) GeorgeL. Petrie, Harry B. Lee, John B. Turpin." The body of McCue was carried by his friends to "Brookviile," Albemarle county, the old home stead, to be buried by the side of his father and mother. MeCue was a native of Albemarle coun ty, a well known young lawyer, and has been the mayor of Char lottesville for the last three terms. He married Miss Fannie Crawford, of the Valley of Vir ginia, nineteen years ago, and there were four children by the union: William, 18 years old; Samuel ().; Harry W., and Ruby, a beautiful girl of ten summers. BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CASE. Mrs. Fannie M. McCue, wife of J. Samuel MeCue, former mayor of Charlottesville, was murdered in their home in that city on Sunday evening, September 4th. McCue claimed that an intruder had entered their bedroom just after their return from church, and while they were preparing to retire. Later, the wife was found beat en and shot to death in the bath tub. McCue offered a liberal re ward. A coroner's jury immediately began an inquisition. Before it concluded its work McCue was arrested, charged with the mur der of his wife. The accused re tained brilliant counsel. He was mdicted at the September term of court, was arraigned and pleaded not guilty. i ne case was set for trial at the October term. (ireat difficulty was experienced in getting a jury, .lust 163 ve niremen frere summoned before twelve jurors were accepted. The cost for jurors and mileage was |1,865 on. Hearing of testimony was be gan October 25th. Instructions were offered and argued, the case elaborately argued and given to the jury before noon November 5th. lu less than thirty minutes the jury reporttd a verdict of guilty. Motion to set, aside the verdict was refused. An appeal was allowed the petition and re cord prepared and forwarded to the appellate court January .'Ird. 15)05. The court refused the writ of error. Subsequent ly counsel for McCue filed a supplementary petition, urging the importance of the is sue presented. The court, after due consideration, handed down an exhaustive written opinion, denying the writ atulemphatical ly declaring the verdict a just and a justifiable one. Since that time no further step has been taken until the an nouncement yesterday that Messrs Machen and Moncure, of Alexandria, had arrived in the city and were preparing to ap peal to the Supreme Court of the I*nitet] States for a writ of error Meanwhile the Governor was Hooded with letters and petitions urging clemency. ARCHER NEWS. Mr. A. F. Whitley is quite sick. We are glad to state that Mrs. E J. Eason, who has been quite sick, is improving. Mrs. Charles Ellis /and Miss Atrice Ellice recently visited the family of Mr. N. 15. Barnes. Misses Ava Wall, Ellie Whitley and Ada Hiuton, of Clayton, j were visitors in this section last week. Mr. John 11. Woodard, of Micro, is spending this week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs J. It. Wall. Miss Jennie Chamblee, of Nash county is visiting her sister, Miss Kuth Chacnblee, who is teaching uear here. Mr. Yick Whitley happened to the bad luck to cut his toes off his right foot last week. It is feared his foot will have to be j amputated. We are sorry to learn of the | death of Mrs. Edna McLamb, j which occurred at her home near Benson last week. She was the sister of Mr. William Stancil of this section. Last Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at the home of the bride's brother, Mr. \V. J. Hiss tt, Mr. Samuel Suggs and Miss Cleo Taylor were married. The ceremony was performed by Kev. William Everett, of Clayton. The at tendants were Luther M Lames | and Miss Florence Kitchin, W. Lester Standi and Miss Caseie Murphy. After the ceremony the happv couple returned to the groom's home at Clayton. Feb. 13th. S. L. VV. KENLY NEWS. Mr. J. M. Beaty, of The Smith eield Hebald, was on our streets I Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. C. L). Alford, of | Lucama, spent several days here visiting relatives. MissJanie McNeal spent sev-j j eral days this week in Benson : with her sister, Mrs. W.J. Hooks. J We are sorry to note that Mrs. ? R. T. Reufrow is still very sick. | | We hope for her a speedy recov ery. Mr. E. R. Wooten, of Rocky | Mount, Division Superintendent , of the A C. L. R. It, made a busi ! uess trip here Friday. | Miss Maggie Whitley has re signed as music teacher in Kenly i Academy and will teach a class in Selma this spring. She return eJ to Selma Tuesday. We are glad to say that M r. W. T. Bailey's little daughter, Adna Lee, who was so severely burned last week by falling in the tir4,is rapidly improving and will soon be well. Misses Daisy Osborne and An nie Strickland, teachers in the Lucarua High School, and little Miss Fva Lucas spent Saturday and Sunday here visiting at the home of Mr. J. G. High. Mr. and Mrs, Millard Hales, from near Archer Lodge, spent Saturday and Sunday with Mrs. Hales' mother, Mrs. W.T. Bailey, who has been very sick, but glad to say is much better now. Feb. loth. Iticx. Fraud Exposed. A few counterfeiters have lately been making and trying to sell imitations of Hr. King's New Dis covery for Consumption,Coughs, and Colds, and other medicines, thereby defrauding the public. This is to warn you to beware of such people, who seek to profit, through stealing trie reputation of remedies which have been suc cessfully curing disease, for over | .'Jo years. A sure protection, to | you, is our name on the wrapper. ! Look for it, on all Dr. King's, or Bucklen's remedies, as all others are mereimitations. H.E. DUCK LION & CO., Chicago, IN., aud Windsor, Canada. ?Mrs. Susan Williams, who has been spending sometime here with her sister, Mrs. It. H. Mc Guire, returned to her home in Oxford Tuesday. Mrs. McGuire accompanied her. GENERAL NEWS NOTES. .lack London, the author of "TheCall of the Wild, haw been nominated for Mayor of Oak land, California, by the Socialist party. Chicago, Feb. 13th.?Twenty, four families were made homeless by a fire which destroyed the four-story flat building at 160 Webster Avenue, entailing a loss of $100,000. There was a panic among the occupants of the building, but all escaped. "Atlanta suffered greatly from the blizzard last week. The city was 70 hours without telegraph communication with the out side world. The telegraph com panies' losses are enormous, the Postal Company claiming alone to have sustained more than $50,000 damage by the storm The members of the President's cabinet have all tendered their resignations and on the 0th of March all will be nominated for reappointment, with the excep tion of Mr. Wynne, who is to be appointed consul general at Lon don. Mr. Cortelyou will be nomi nated on March 6th for Post master General. Chicago, 111 . Feb. l-tth ?Fire broke out in the Hotel Brevot at 2:30 this morning and the build ing was gutted by 7:30. The loss is a quartet of a million. Three hundred guests narrowly escaped, but all are believed to be safely removed. Five firemen were in jured. The thermometer was 20 below zero last night. Mobile, Ala., Feb. 13th.?Fire which destroyed the battle House, Mobile's historic hotel, Commercial Hotel, and several adjoining buildings, was got un der control at daylight to-day. The total loss is about$400,000. No loss of life, but FireChief Price and Fireman McMahan were in jured by falling bricks. St. Petersburg, Feb. 11th.? Official returns for the first year of the war, not including Port Arthur, show that 130,439 offi cers and men passed through the hospitals going north The fig ures, it seems, show 77,000 re turned to duty. These figures do not include the number killed on the field of battle. The showing is considered remarkably good. A ndrew Carnegie has announced at New York that he would go to Cleveland to testify against Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick, who is under arrest in that city charged with obtaining large sums of money on alleged securities bearing Mr Carnegie's name. It is alleged that the signatures were forged vi r. Carnegie's announcement was made after a subpcena ordering him to appear in court at Cleve land on March the (ith had been served. Tokio, Feb. 11th ?The Jap anese capt ured an eminence south of Chaugchia on Thursday morn ing, February 9th, driving off companies of Russian infantry The Russians have continued shelling Field Marshal O.yama's center and left since Thursday last. The Russian dead who were buried after the battle of Heit outai total lei two thousand. The Japanese on that occasion captured two thousand rifles. Madrid, Feb. 13th.?Iving Al fonso is proving most intractable in the matter of. marrying the i daughter of the Duke of Cou naught, or any other ladv select ed fur him ns consort- He and the Queen mother, it is under stood, freqently have heated ar guments on f he matter. He de Clares that he is not ready to marry before he is twenty years old, while members of the court are arguing that an early mar riage is necessary to maintain the dynasty. Ajronlzlne Burns are instantly relieved, and per fectly healed, by Hucklen's Arnica Salve. C. Rivenbark, Jr., of Nor folk, Va., writes: "I burnt my knee dreadfully; that it blistered all over. Hucklen's Arnica Salv< stopped the pain, and healed it without a scar." Also heal* all wounds and sores. 25c. at li ood Bros., druggists. / Henry Toler Dead. J list as we go to press we learn that Mr. Henry Toler, one of the County Commissioners, died yes terday morning. No particulars. | CLAYTON NOTES. Mr. JO. L. Hinton is having thej old Cable house remodelled. Mr. Jesse J. lOllis spent several days in Greensboro last week, j Mr. Thad liinnaut, of near) Wendell, was in our town Wed nesday. Messrs. Oscar and Hezekiah | Jones spent a delightful evening iu the Mount \loriah section Sunday. We iearn with pleasure that our esteemed townsman, Mr. J. J. Ferrell, is steadily improving in health. Mr. Walter Barham, formerly of this place iu the livery business and now near Archer, was here Wednesday. Mr. It. H. (lower, our popular representative in the General ! Assembly, spent Saturday and Sunday at home. Mr. and Mrs John Hales, of Oneals township, spent Saturday and Sunday with their daugh ter, Mrs. Bud Bissett. Mr. Marshall Holland returned Monday from Four Oaks where he has been to attend the funeral of his sister, Mrs. Johnson. Mr. C. M. Bray,of tne Factory Hill, has left his wife and two weeks-old child. His whereabouts at present are unknown here. Mr. C. W. Carter, local secre tary of the anti-saloon leauge, weut to Selma Monday to con rer with the other members of the county league iu reference to asking temperance legislation. Mr. and Mrs. John S. Barnes are attending the Barnes-Bag well marriage at the home of j Mr. Barnes' mother. The con tracting parties are Miss Jennie Barnes and Mr. J. J Bagwell The literary class of Clayton High School are preparing to give us one of the greatest enter tainmunts of the season on Washington's birthday, Febru ary 22nd. Admission 15 and 25 cents Mrs. C. W. Carter gave a most elegant Valentine party Tuesday evening. The program in part was as follows: Recitation by Mrs. Will H. McCullers, music by Mrs. McCullers, song by Miss Lessie Ellis, music by Miss Claudia Mitchell, song by Miss jCleve Barnes, refreshments by j the charming hostess, then a short tete-a tete. All present ex ; pressed themselves as highly charmed by the generous and courteous hospitality of the s genial host and charming hostess. The "Sock" party at the Bap j list parsonage last Friday night scored a success financially us I vyell as socially. The net pro ceeds were in the neighborhood of $35 00, in fact something I o*'er that figure. The first on the | progrum were the littlefolks who I 1 i *. U . - IX S * i--- /? ? ?? ? i iititi iue nuui iium ~t tu u, i^verj i little heart was gluddeued by the good thiuus which had been pre pared for them. Next came the married folks from 0 to 8. They were charmed by the gracious re ception given them. Last but not least, came the young folks. No paius bad been spared in making this one of the most enjoyable events of the season. Taking it all together, this was one of the most unique social events ever gotten up here, and all who at tended extend to the I'hilathea ClasN hearty approbation of their mode of entertainment. Feb. 15th. Yblik. Grave Trouble Foreseen. It needs but little foresight, to tell, that when your stomach and liver are badly affected, grave ; trouble is ahead, unless you take the proper medicine lor your dis ease, as Mrs. .John A. Young, of IClay, N. Y., did. She save: "I , had neuralgia of tbp liver and , stomach, my heart ? a* weaken**!, and I could not .at. I was very bad for a l.?mr time, but in Elee tric Kilters. 1 found just what 1 > needed, for they quickly relieved and cured me." Best' medicine I for weak women. Sold under I guarantee by Hood Bros., drug gists, at 50c. a bottle. BENSON NOTES. Miss Id i Adams, of Raleigh, is visiting Mrs I>r Moore this week. Mr. Lonuie Adatnn is having a uice dwelling erected on Main Street. Miss Meta Harper, of Dunn, visited relatives and friends in; Benson recently. Dr. \V. II. Rowland lias gone to Luraberton, where he will spend some time. Mr. W. H. Croon, of Pitt Coun ty, has recentb moved to Benson and will make this place his home for some time. Messrs. Arthur Oneal & Bro. have purchased the grocery busi ness of Mr. M. H. Langdon and will continue the business at the same stand. We wish the new firm much success. We learn that Dr. Justice, of Kenly, w ill locate here soon for the practice of medicine. We heartily welcome Dr. Justice to our town and predict for him much success. Rev. J. W. Suttle filled his regu lar appointment at the Baptist church here last Sunday morning and night preaching each time one of the most able sermons we have ever heard. Messrs. Finch andTant, of near Spring Hope, have opened a large store of general merchandise on Main Street. They are inen of business talent and we predict for them much success. Rev. I). F. Putnam preached two most interesting and impres sive sermons at the Baptist church Sunday morning and nighc of last fifth Sunday, which were greatly enjoyed by all pres i ent. Mr. J. E. Stewart has sold his mercantile business to Messrs. 11. J. Smith & Son, who will con tinue to run the business at the same stand on Main Street. Mr. John Smith is manager of the business and asks his friends to give him a call. We are pained to note the very sad death of Mrs. Willis Johnson which occurred last Saturday morning. Mrs. Johnson was a very good woman and will be greatly missed by her many rela tives and friends. We extend our heartfelt sympathy to the be reaved family. There is a nn ve on foot by the fraternal orders of this place to erect a large building here to be used as a lodge room bv the Ma sons, Knights of Pythias, and Jr. (). U. A. M.and alsotobeused as a business building. We think rhis a very good movement and . hope the matter will continue and be made a success, as a . building of this kind is greatly needed here. ^he Anti-Saloon League of this place held its last regular meet ing Thursday night, February i)th, at the baptist church. After a large crowd had assembled and the regular order of business was disposed of, Prof. Allen, principal of the Benson Graded School, gave a very interesting lecture on the physiological effect of al cohol on the human system. Next on program was a temper ance recitation by Miss Lottie Link which was well rendered. Much interest was manifested and we think much good is being ; accomplished by the Anti-Saloon League at this place. The next meeting will be held at the Free Will baptist church on Thursday nig.it, February 23rd. Solon. Peking, Feb. 13th.?An Eng lishman, who juHt returned from la three-day's visit in Mukden, reports the predominant feeling among Russians, both civilian and military, to be discourage ment. Everybody ?<> >ke of me early occupation ( f the city by the .Tnpaufse as a foregone con clusion. I he visitor formed the opinion that the discouragement vuiong military men was intensi fied by the fact that (>en. Kuro patkin has his headquarters in a train, as if ready at any time to retreat northward, and by the fact that extensive preparations are being made at Tie Pass to give battle to the Japanese, which implies a previous Russian I defeat at Mukden. SELMA NEWS. Mrs. Railey KUie went to Ral eigh Tuesday. Mr. Alex Green left Tuesday for Greensboro. Robert Millard Nowell, Esq., bus bought a tine horse. Mr. N. E. Edgerton went to Raleigh Wednesday morning. Mrs. Alex Martin, of Summer ville, S. (!., is visiting her mother, Mrs. J. W. Yick. Mr. R. P..Jones,superintendent of the Navassa Chemical Works, went to Raleigh Sunday. Mrs. Cooper, of Krankliuton. arrived last Wednesday to ac cept a position in the gradtd schools. Miss l'auline Hood left last Sunday to teach at the Hamil ton school house about three miles from Princeton. Mrs. W. H. Call has been elect ed Music teacher in the Seltna Graded School to fill the posi tion made vacant by the death of Miss Lois Pass. Miss Rena Edgarton, who is nrtw teaching at the Capps school house, spent Saturday and Sunday with her brother. Mr. N. E. Edgerton. The Southern has put new coaches on its passenger trains on this division, which is a great improvement and adds much to the comfort of the travelling public. Our new mail carrier, Mr. W. G. Britt, was right badly hurt Tuesday morning while carrying the mail to the depot. He caught his foot under a wire which had both ends frozen in the ground and fell heavily forward on hie face, cutting and bruising his ' face and nose. He is still at work but looks badly. Another "old vet" has left us. bast Saturday morning about half past six "Uncle Simon" j Brown answered the last roll I call and passed over the river. "Uncle Simon." as he was called by all, lost a leg in Virginia and was a good and true soldier. He was a good farmer and his word was his bond. He was always a good Democrat and took a great interest in the affairs of his party. A good man has left us. He left a wife and one son to mourn I their loss. He was buried at his home place about four miles from Selma Sunday afternoon. Feb. 16. Sexex. The Ward Bill Passes Senate. Raleigh, X. C., Feb 11th.?The Senate opened at 10:30 A. M.. to-day with prayer by Dr. A. H. Moment. The only feature of in terest in the proceeding of the day was passage of the Ward Li buor Bill on its third reading. When it cauie up, several amend ments were offered, tending to modify the law, but the Senate was not inclined to hear them and they were lost by larger majori ties than by which the bill passed tirst and second readings yester day. One amendment, however, was passed, making it clear that the bill is not intended to change or modify the present Watts law When the bill came np on its third reading Senator Stubbs sent an amepdment that this act should not apply to towns where liquor is now manufactured in accordance with the Watts act It was defeated 5) to 1H. Senator Zollicoffer sent an amendment that this act should not in any way be construed to repeal or modify the Watts act. It was accepted. Senator Williams rh dared that the Democratic party in the next campaign would have to jro , down in defeat or not put forth ? as candidates the men respon sible for tins legislation. Senator Filer sent an amend ment that the net should Dot 90 j iuto effect until July 1st, lOOO It was defeated. The bill then passed its third seadinir and will now go to the House ? V\ ton Star. New York. Feb 11th? Frank Hill, a sailor on the steamer Orizaba, w..s removed as a sus picious case to the Swinburne island quarantine on the arrival of the steamer yesterday from Colon. The man was said to be | Buffering from yellow fever. ,
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