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@J)e jsmitbfifl& JleMii. price one dollar per tear. "TRDE TO OCRSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD." rinole copies eite cents. VOL. 24. SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1905. NO. 9 STATE NEWS NOTES. Items of Interest to North Carolinians Clipped and Culled from the State Papers. Siler City voted a special tax for schools Tuesday. Youngs villein Franklin county voted for a graded school Tues day. There are 55 children at the Methodist Orphanage at Ral eigh. The Wild Cats, the military company at Lexington, has dis banded. A. H. Boyden was elected mayor of Salisbury for the third time Tuesday. The town of Kinston voted bonds for a graded school at Tuesday's election. Gov. Glenn delivered the ad dress at the commencement ex ercises of the colored A. and M. College in Greensboro Thursday. Memorial Day is to be obser- j ved at Mooresville on the 10th and Major W. A. Graham, of Lincoln county, will deliver the address. In the baseball game at Wake| Forest Tuesday between Wake Forest and Trinity, the latter was the victor, the score stand ing 1 to 0. I)unn voted for a ten thousand j dollar bond issue Tuesday to discharge the iloating iudebt-1 ness and to improve the electric light plant. The .Southern Fducational Con ference adjourned in Columbia, S. C., Friday night; ex-,Goveruor C. B. Aycock, of North Carolina, was elected vice-president North Wilksboro elected a "dry" ticket Tuesday. This was ! considered a test vote and means that the town will vote out | saloons at the .July election. At Tuesday's election in Mor gauton the saloons defeated the dispensary by 148 majority. The dispensary seems to be los ing its erstwhile popularity. James I. Johnson, a leading temperance man who was nomi nated in the Democratic primary last week, was elected mayor of ( Raleigh Monday without op- j position. Greensboro Democrats have nominated T. J. Murphy for mayor. He was supported by the Law and Order League, which represents the prohibitionists in ! Greensboro. Last Tuesday Winston-Salem voted for a bond issue of $37,- S 500 to build an electric railway to High Point, a distance of 20 j miles. High Point has also[ raised .$37,500. Last week at Durham. Mrs John M. Sears gave birth to three daughters. Mother and babes are all getting on well. The babies weigh about three and a quarter pounds apiece. J. P. Horn, for 18 years sheriff of Fnion county, died suddenly Thursday night at his home in Union county, aged about 70 years. He was the father of B A. Horn, present sheriff of Union. P. B. Worley and his sons, Tom and Clem, charged with killing Ed. Watson, in Lenoir eount.v, n few days ago, had a preliminary hearing at Kinston Thursday. The elder Worley was discharged i and the hoys held without hail. They claim self-defence and ap plication will he made to have1 them released on bail. Dr. 1). K. Pearsons, of Chicago, who recently announced his pur pose to donate money to a num ber of small colleges, has given $135,000 to five Southern col leges, one of these being Guilford College, in Guilford county, this State, which gets $25,000. It is said that the condition of the gift is that each college must , raise $3 for every $1 cont ributed Mr. Andrew Carnegie recently agreed to give Guilford College $15,000 on condition that a similar amount he raised by friends of the college. At a meeting of Mecklenburg farmers in Charlotte Saturday, reports from all the townships of the county save four showed a reduction in cotton acreage of Sb't, per cent, and a reduction of 31 9-13 per cent, in the use of fertilizer. The Raleigh Clearing House Association h^d their first annual session Monday and the report of the Secretary showed that the clearings for the year ending April 11 aggregates $11,801,687 Joseph C. Brown was elected president, Col. C. E. Johnson, vice president; James C. Litch ford, treasurer and Walters Dur ham, secretary. It is estimated that the business of the Raleigh banks aggregates $100,000,000. Dr. Keller, the optician who is- ? sued whiskey prescriptions that got several Charlotte druggists in trouble, and who was held in , durance vile as a witness against the druggists, was called up in j Mecklenburg Superior Court last week and given two days to get out of town. He said he would go at once. That was all they could do with him. As he took no fees he could not be punished I for posing as a doctor when he j was not. Turlington's Pharmacy. From today the Sanitary Pharmacy is under new manage ment and ownership, and its name is changed to Turlington's Pharmacy. This change is due to the fact that Mr. Randall A. Turlington, a native of North Carolina, born in good old Johnston county after trying several northern ?cities has come back to North Carolina and will abide hereafter in Wilson. After looking over several other places he finds this community suits hten .and therefore he has purchased the Sanitary Pharmacy with a view to remaining permanently with us. Mr. Turlington is a druggist of wide experience and exceptional ability. He acquired his diploma in 1890 from the Maryland col lege of Pharmacy and since that; time has been zealously following his chosen profession. After leaving school he went to Wilmington, N. C., where he | clerked for if. L. Fentress, one year. From there he went to New York where he was pre scription clerk for two years with Frazer & Co., the largest pre scriptionists in the city. From thence to Baltimore where he was engaged in business success fully for six years, and from there here. Mr. Turlington is a brother of Dr. W. T. Turlington, of Fre mont, and Prof. Ira T. Turling ton, of Smithfield. We wish him every success and believe that he will attain it. His wife and two children will arrive on the loth.?Wilson j Times, May 1. Sole Survivor of War of 1812. New York, April 29.?Hiram Cronk, sole survivor of the war of 1812, who will celebrate the 105th anniversary of his birth at his home in Ava, Saturday, is re reported in very feeble health and hardly able to stand the ex citement in connection with the festivities planned for his birth day. Cronk has become totally blind within the last few months, and can converse only in whis pers. A delegation from the New Jersey branch of the society, of the war of IS 12 and many other representatives of the society are j expected to make a pilgrimagp' to Crank's home Saturday and all will sin ke hands with him if his condition permits. Cleared lor Action. When the body is cleared for action, bv l>r. King's New Life Fills, you can tell it by the bloom of health on the cheeks; the brightness of the eyes; the firm ness of the flesh and muscles; the buoyancy of the mind. Try them. At Hood llros drug store, 25c. At Albany, N. Y , Monday Miss Julia Craven shot and killed Franklin Havens, a prominent insurance man. GEN FITZHUGH LEE DEAD. General Lee Was Major General In the Confederate Army and Major General of Volun teers Durlnq War With Spain. Washington, April 28.?Gen eral Fitzhugh Lee, U.S. A. retired, and one of Virginia's foremost sons, died at the Providence Hospital here to-night from an attack of apoplexy which he suf fered early this morning on a train while en route from Hoston to Washington. After General Lee had been removed to the hospital this morning it was evident to the attending phy sicians that his case was a very serious one. Half an hour before death General Lee recognized his brother, Daniel Lee, who came into the room for a moment. A pathetic feature of the case is that although General Lee bad a family consisting of a wife and five children, none of them was with him at the time of his death. A widow and five children sur vive General Lee. Two of the boys are army officers and two of the girls are wives of army officers, while the remaining child is a young woman in her teens. The news of General Lee's ill ness was a severe shock to his numerous friends in Washington. This was evidenced by many inquiries Jmade at the hospital throughout the day and evening. General Lee's attack is attri buted largely to his activity in behalf of the military and naval j review which is to be held in the i vieinitv of Jamestown, Va. His! heart and soul has been in the j work and he labored zealously to make it a success. His visit to Iioston was in this connection, and he had appeared before the. Legislatures of New York,] Pennsylvania, Illinois and other i States in behalf of the expo ition project. Since he took up the work of j the -lapiestownexposition he had made 'his official residence in j Norfolk. However, his activities in connection with this work have given him very little time there. During the session of Congress just closed, the general spent a large part of his time in Washington in the interest of necessary legislation authorizing the exposition. General Lee long has been a prominent figure in Washington and he always was given a hearty reception wherever he went. Prior to the Civil War, at the beginning of which he re signed his commission in the United States Army, Geueral Lee saw considerable frontier duty in movements against the Indi ans. He was an expert cavalry officer and on one occasion, June 11), 1860, he was engaged in a hand-to-hand encounter with Comanche Indiands near camp Colorado, Texas. His services in the Confederate army as a major general are well known and during the interval between this year and his active work iu the Spanish-American war, Gen eral Lee filled a number of im portant positions including the governorship of Virginia, the presidency of the Pittsburg and Virginia railroad; collectorship of interval r< venue for thr Lynch-, burg district at d the con u! generalship a' Havana Fol-! lowing his honorable discharg from the v >iut ' 'er army on' March 2, 1601, General Lee was appointed to the regular army February 11, 1901, with the rank of brigadier general and with this rank he was retired in March following A Creeping Death. Blood poison creeps up to wards the heart, causing death. J. 10. Stearns, Bollel'laine, Minn., writes that a friend dreadfully in jured his hand, which swelled up like blood poisoning. Buckleu's Arnica Salve drew out the poison, healed the wound, and saved is life. Best in the world for burns and sores. 2">c at Hood Bros., drug store. GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Vice Admiral Rojestvensky's Heet in still hoveringoff Kauiranh Bay. Id a coal mine at Dubois, l'a., Thursday evening late, 12 men were killed by an explosion. The government crop bulletin reports the weather throughout the South is favorable for cotton planting. A dispatch from Waco, Tex., reports the discovery of a bug that is destroying the cotton boll weevil. Five masked bandits at 3 o'clock Tuesday morning blew open the safe and secured $5,000 ; to $10,000 from a bank in Giber-1 tsville, N. Y. The May day death roll at Warsaw in Russia totalled sixty two, including ten persons who died in the hospitals during the night. Probably two hundred were wounded. At the commencement exercises at Hampton Institute, Va., Tuesday Booker T. Washington eulogized lien. Fitzhugh Lee as a generous and sympathetic friend of the colored race. Hon. Craig Kent, former lieu tenant governor of Viiginia, ex member of the State legislature and a member of the secession convention in 1860, is dead at his country place in Wythe coun- j ty, aged 76 years. A reign of terror prevails at j Warsaw, Russian Poland, where on Mondav troops fired on parading workmen in the streets, killing or wounding more than 100, including women aud chil dren; the demonstrators and workmen responded with fire arms and bombs. President Roosevelt, who is still hunting in the wilds of Colo rado, w ill break camp May 8 and return to Washington a week sooner than he expected, his trip beiug shortened bv the pressure of government business. If it said the only stops he will make return trip wilPbe at Denver and Chicago. A dispatch from Austin,Texas, says the department of agricul-, ture of that State is advised that the boll weevil Has already ap-1 peared on the young cottonJ plants in Texas. It is feared j that the pest will cover a greater area of the cotton growing region and do more destruction to the crop this year than ever before. The Brazos river iu Texas is! flooding the bottom lands all along the valley from Uearn, i south of ilichmond and rising slowly at the latter place. The water is a foot and a half deep in the town of Columbia near the mouth, aud has spread over a considerable area of farm land. The damage is greatly lessened by the warning which enabled farmers to get their stock out, j but the loss to cotton and corn j will amount to many thousands I of dollars. A bust of General "Stonewall" ! Jackson, which has been in pos session of Colonel John A. Bruce, of Brookliue, for the past forty years, was last week sent South I from Boston to be placed in the! Confederate Museum at Rich-1 rnond, Ya. The bust formerly was the property of President Jefferson Davis, of t he Oonfeder- j ' In 1 S(>5 i? was presented to j M pr Oeneral Drulus, of Massa v'usetts, who handed it over to Colonel Bruce. The Confederate Memorinl Literary Society will have custody of the bust. New York, April 27.?A gift, of $1^0,000,000 by Andrew Carnegie to provide annuities for college i professors who are not able to continue in active service was announced today by Prank A. Vanderslip, vice president of the National City bank, of New York. Professors in the United States. Canada and Newfoundland will j share in the dC ribotion of the income of the tuud United States Steel t orporation 5 per cent first mortgage bonds for $10,000,000 have been transferred to a board of trustees and steps will be tak en to organize a corporation to receive the donation. COTTON CROP REPORT. The Final Figures Are 13,584,457 Rales. , Washington, April 28.?The Census Bureau to-day issued its hula report on the cotton crop grown in 1904. The crop, as returned by the ginners, inclu ding linters, is 13,584,457 bales of 500 pounds. It exceeds the 1903 crop by 3,491,386 bales, or 35.4 per cent. The largest crop prior to 1904 was in 1898, which, according to commercial returns was 11,235,000 bales Texas has held first rank as a cotton 8tate for twenty years. In 1904 it produced 3,134,672 bales. Georgia was second with 1,i>60,151 bales, passing Mis sissippi, which was second in 1903. Mississippi is third and Alabama fourth. J K Hollowell Goes to Tarboro. We regret exceedingly to lose Mr. J. K. Hollowell from our midst. After two and one half years conduct of the Sanitary pharmacy during which time he ; has not only won an enviable! reputation as a skilled, compe tent and careful druggist, but has eudeared himself to thehearts of our people, he goes to Tarboro where he has has accepted a posi tion in Mr. R. E. L. Cook's phar macy. Under the direction of Mr. Hol lowell the Sanitary l'harmacy has built up a splendid business. We are .quite sure Mr. Hollowell will do well in his new home in every way, for such as he quickly win friends and social success.? Wilson Times, May 1. Col. Oscar J Spears Dead. Dunn, N. C., April 21).?Colonel Oscar J. Spears of Eilliugton died yesterday at his home. After some days illness. He was one of tthe most prominent Republi cans in the state, having run several times in this district for Congress, and up until recently was assistant United States dis trict attorney. He had lots of friends in the state, was a good farmer and was a strong Metho dist. He leaves one brother and one sister. Mrs. Atkins and H. J. Spears, of the Rank of Uilling ton. The remains of General Fitz hugh I,et\ who died in Washing ton Friday morning left Wash ington Monday for Richmond, the Fpiscopal services for the burial of the dead having pre viously bfen conducted in the church of the Epiphany: profound honor was paid to the remains of the distinguished Confederate at the National capitol and an imposing military escort accom panied the remains to the train; the train arrived in Richmond Monday afternoon amid a great popular demonstration of respect and sorrow. Like Finding: Money. Hood Bros., the popular drug gists, are making an offer thut is just like finding money, for they are selliti s a regular ."><) cent bot tle of Dr. Howard's celebrated specific for the cure of constipa tion and dyspepsia at half-price. I n addition to this large discount they agree to return the money to any purchaser whom the specific does not cure. It is quite unusual to be able to buy fifty-cent pieces for a quarter, but that is what this of fer really means, for it is only recently, through the solicitation of Druggists flood Bros, that this medicine could be bought for less than fifty cents, they urged the proprietors to allow them to sell it at this reduced price for a little while, agreeing to sell a cer tain amount. The result has jus tified t. eir good judgment, for the sale has been something re markable. Any one who suffers with head ache, dyspepsia, dizziness, sour stomach, specks before the eyes, or any liver trouble, should take advantage of this opportunity, for Dr. Howard's specific willcure all these troubles. But. if by any chance it should not. Hood Rtvs. will return your money. SCORES OF INJURED. Street Fights In Chigaco Fierce and Frequent Chicago. May 2.?Fighting in the streets today, growing out of the teamsters' strike, was even more tierce and savage than that of yesterday. The strikers and their sympathizers attacked the non-union meu at every oppor tunity, assailiug them with bricks, stones, clubs, knives, and any and every offensive weapon upon which they could la.f their hands. The fighting occurred in the heart of the business section of the city, men being shot down within 200 feet of the retail store of Marshal Field & Co., clubbed nearly to death at the corner of the Auditorium Hotel in plain view of hundreds of ladies, who were compelled to run from the mob to save their own lives. In many instances men walking along the streets who had no active connection whatever with the strike, were assaulted by hoodlums, who beat them first and later accused them of being strikebreakers. As far as known but one man was killed during the day. The list of injured is much greater than that which it is possible to obtain. In many cases the non union men swung theirclubs with great effect, knocking men from their wagons headlong into the street; in other instances, when assailed bv mobs they fired point blank into the crowds and it is difficult to see how the members of the mob could escape many broken heads or how all the bul lets tired during the day should have gone wild. A Mistrial in Nan Patterson Case. New York. May 4.?Having failed to reaeh a verdict and de claring that they were hopesly disagreed, the jury in the Nan Patterson case was, formally dis charged at 2:20 o'clock this morning. It is understood that the ma jority of the jury was for acquit tal, but in what proportion they stood cannot be ascertained. Miss Patterson collapsed on the jury's announcement and fainted dead away. She was assisted frpm the court by one of her counsel and several gourt atten dants afad revived in an ante room. Slight Wreck at Sharon. Wilson, N. C., May 2.?A slight wreck occurred at Sharon, a side track about a quarter of a mile from Contentnea. No. 209, a southbound freight train was on the siding at Sharon and No. 47, the special train that makes con nection with the Southern at Stlma, was coming at about forty miles an hour when the operator at Contentnea signaled the engineer of the freight to come to the station for water; and the engineer started out of the siding. After he had pulled out he looked back and saw the train coming and reversed the engine, but he was too late and had to jump. The engineer on 47 reversed his engine and jumped also. l'he engine struck the other train under the truck of the first car and turned the engine, tender and car over. Traffic was stopped for about two aud a half hours. Engineer L. 1). Bullock on the passeuger train had bis face slightly scratched aud 1*ft leg sprained In jumping. No one else was ii jured. Terrific Race With Death. "Death wan fast approaching," writes Ilaiph F. Fernandez, of Tampa, Fin., describing his fear ful race with death, "as a result of liver trouble and heart din ease, which had robbed me of sleep and all interest in life. I had tried many different doctors and several medicines, but got no benefit, until 1 began to use Electric Hitters. So wonderful was their effect, that in three days 1 felt like a new man. and today I em cured of all my troubles.'' liuaranteed at Hood Hros., drug store; price "Ot.
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