Mi™™ BU
Shuts the Doors Tight-Must Not Have It, Must
Not Advertise It, Must Not Rent Building
For Its Sale, Must Not Sell Newspaper
With A Liquor Advertisement In It.
Montgomery ,Ala., Special.—The
Senate measure is declared to be the
(Dost radical prohibition bill ever
drawn. It passed the house also on
Friday night by a vote of 45 to 31.
Declaring possession of liquors, ex
cept in residences, illegal, the bill
provides that such possession shnl' be
prima facie evidence that the liquors
are kept for sale; it prohibits news-.
. papers from advertising intoxicants,
prohibits such advertising on bill
boards and excludes dodgers or Oth
er printed matter advertising liquors
from the State. The possession of a
Federal license to sell intoxicats is
made prima facie, evidence of viola
tion of the law. When liquor is de
livered to any public place, the de
jj, livery is an evidence of sale.
Officers are given the right to
break open and raid any building in
which it is stif.pected liquors are
stoied.
If a drunken man injures another
in any way the person who sold the
liquor which produced the drunken
ness is liable for damages to the in
jured person.
Witnesses' in liquor cases are com
pelled to testify, or be guilty of con
tempt; servants may not be excused
from testifying against employers.
Sheriffs nmst publish monthly in
newspapers as well as bv placards, in
large black type the names of per
sons in their respee-tive counties who
possess United States internal reve
nue licenses.
Prohibited liquors are not to be
treated as personal property but ad
judged eoutriband, ami may be de
stroyed.
Every firm~or corporation applying
for a charter must sign a pledge not
to violate the prohibition law in anv
way. If the agreement is broken the
charter is declared forfeited..
1 "niler the Fuller bi]l solicitors mnv
COUNTRY NOW READY TO ADVANCE TO PROSPERITY
Baltimore, Special.—The tariff is
• behind us. In many respects it is
imperfect, hut the agitation is out
of the way and the American people
will now adjust themselves to condi
tions as they exist.
That we are entering upon a period
of vast business expansion seems to
be beyond question. Consider for
a moment the fundamental conditions
in the fundamental business —that of
agriculture. Unless present crop con
ditions materially change it is quite
probable that the total value of agri
cultural products for 1900 will aggre
gate $8,300,000,000 or in the neigh
borhood of $.">00,000,000 more than
the total .of 1008, which was nearly
$400,000,000 greater than the preced
ing year. The most remarkable fact
in our business history is this amaz
ing progress in agriculture. The farm
ers of this country are enjoying
greater prosperity than was ever
known before by the agricultural in
terests of this or auv other land.
The value of, farm products in 1880
3890 and 1900. and for each year
since 1905 have been as follows:
IKSO .. x $-.212,000,000
. .1880 '2,46(1,000.000
1900.. .. .. .. .. 4,T17,000.000
100") 0.41 .">,000.000
1 >()(> 0.794.000.000
190 7.412.000.000
190 7.800.000,1100
1909 (pstimatedl 8,.'100.000,000
In the ten years from 1880 to 1890
the increase in the value of farm pro
ducts was so trifliugly small that it
averaged only one per cent, a year, or
PROMINENT DURHAM WOMAN DIES OF PELLAGRA,
Durham, Special.—Mrs. D. 0. i
MitchdJ died Friday afternoon nt 5-
o'clock after an illness* of several
months with pe!hi»ra. From the first
her case was I lie most aggravated
that the physicians encountered. The
disease, which lias been largely eon
fined to another quarter of the town
as it has leen immemoriallv to the
simphr folks, found a shining mark
in one of the best women who ever
PRESIDENT MELLS RESIGNATION HAS BEEN ACCEPTED
Clemson College, Special. The
Clatneon board of trustees adjourned
Saturday morning.
A committee composed of Senator
Tillman, Col. Ainu Johnstone and
Hon. Riehard I. Manning; presented
to Dr. Mull the following:
"Fuller consideration of fhe envir
onment and a knowledge of your own
wishes have led us to arrange for the
severance of your connection with
the college. We desire to have ysu
continue in your oflice until such time
as we may be able to secure the ser
vices of your successor. Therefore,
ENGINEER. BUSH DIES FROM INJURIES OF WR.ECK
Atlanta, Ga., Special.—Passengers
who were on the Southern train
wrecked near Bristol, Va., Thursday
evening arrived here Friday night,
bringing details of the bravery of
Engineer Samuel Bush, of Knoxville,
, Tenn., who died Friday as a result of
hit injuries. He was lifted out upon
the ground. There was not a doctor
on the train. Bush asked for a last
look at hi* old engine, as hopeless a
■*«. . s-, .
begin prosecutions, and grand juries
must indict.
The bill prohibits the soliciting of
orders for liquors for concerns out
-1 side the State; prohibits shipping li
quors from one place to another with
in the State; provides that all places
where liquor is stored, or from which
any prohibition violation is accom
-1 plished, may be declared a puolic
nuisance, and be closed by injunction,
liquors shall not be received for stor
age nor for sale; no person shall act
for a friend in procuring a sak; C.
0. I), shipments are prohibited.
Buildings must not be leased to
any one for the sale of intoxicants,
and in case such traffic is conducted,
the lease on the buildintr is forfeited.
Finally, all persons are prohibited
from using signs bearing the word
"saloon."
Violation of any one of the numer
ous provisions is declared a misde
meanor, punishable by lines ranging
from $oO to S2OO and bv six months'
hard labor.
When Mr. Fuller called up the bill
Friday he produced a number of
amendments adding about 2,000
words to the already voluminous doc
ument. He explained that he had ad
ded lo the prohibited advertisements
all pictures of bottles purporting to
contain liquor or of breweries or dis
tilleries.
Another amendmen was to allow
licensed physicians of towns where
there are no regularly licensed phar
macists to dispense alcohol for med
icinal purposes.
An important addition was made
to make it prima facie evidence of
guilt if liquors alleged 1-' have been
sold are of like color, odor oi taste
of prohibited liquors.
All of the amendments presented
by Mr. Fuller were adopted.
The chief fight was made on the
prohibition of newspapers from pub
lishing liquor advertising. This fea
ture was retained by a vote of 38 to
30. ■ . >■' .
i $250,000,000 for ten years, hardly
. one-half of what the increase in the
present year will be over last year.
In other \v/rcls, the increase in the
value of ft'rm products in one year
is now twice as great as the increase
in ten-years between 1880 and 1890.
Between 1890 and 1890 there was very
little progress," but then began a mar
velous advance which has continued
without abatement ever since, by
1900 the total value was $4,717,000,-
000. Since then the momentum has
continued until in the last three
years, estimating 1909, the aggregate
value of farm products is about $2.1,-
500,000,000. This is more than 20
times as much as the combined cap
ital of national hanks in the
United Slates.
To this wonderlful advance, this
amazing growth in wealth, is largely
due the quick, revival of business
from the panic of 1907. It was this
condition that saved us from a long
period of great industrial depression,
and it is this •fundamental condition
for marvellous development which as
sures an expansion of business much
greater than our country has yet
seen.
Present indications point to the
possibility of a crop of over 3,000,-
000.00!) bushels, possibly 500,000,000
"bushels more than last year. With
the high prices ruling for.wheat, corn
and cotton, abounding prosperity
seems to be assured. With the tnrifl
out of the way; with magnificent
crops, some harvested and some prac
tically assured,, the decks have been
p cleared for action. -
lived here, she is the wife of a large
property owner. One of the dreams
of ltr young life was her own pretty
home which began erection two
months airo. She watched it grow
daily until driven -to her bed. It is
one of the city's prettiest houses.
Mrs. Mitchell was 32 and a Georgian.
She came here last year from Tennes-'
see. She leaves a husband and sever
al children.
•we ask if it will be agreeable to you
to preside over the college during
the opening and until wo con till the
vacancy m the best possible man
ner."
Dr. Mell has consented in a letter
to them as follows:
"I am perfectly willing to remain
the office of president until Janu
ary 1, if necessary, in order that the
board may have the largest possiblo
time to find a suitable man. I desire
you to convey to them that I have a
warm attachment for the college and
that my friendship for the institution
remains unabated."
wreck as was its engineer. When
parties came to him with liquor tt
soothe him, he begged them to look
after the comfort of the passengers
Told that no passengers had been in
jured, he said: "That's good. But
before I take this whiskey, I want
you men to smell my breath and tes
tify that I had not been drinking
when this happened." Four of th
men smelled his breath and promised
to bear witness to his sobrietj
WOMEN'S MONUMENT
Design That is Pleasing to Commit
tee For Suitable Commemoration
of the Souths Heroic Womanhood
Daring the Oreat Civil War.
Atlanta, Ga., Special.—Befitting in
nobility of conception and beauty of
execution the subject it is to com
memorate, the design for the monu
ment to women of the "Lost Cause"
has been completed. It is the work of
a Dixie girl, Miss Belle Kinney, of
Nashville, Tenn., and has been ac
cepted by several States. It is prob
able that all the States which left
the Union in the civil war will adopt
the design and that replicas of the
monument will be placed in the Cap
itols of each.
The design for the proposed monu
ment is very beautiful and elevating.
The central figure, of heroic size, i.s
the goddess of fame. At her right,
the resting figure, delicately featur
ed, beautiful, but an expression of
exquisite sadness, represents the self
sacrificing Southern woman of w;ir
time. Fame is represented as placinu'
a wreath upon the Southern woman's
head, while she supports, at her left,
a dying and emaciated Confederate
soldier, to whom the Southern woman
is extending in death, the palm of
victory.
A year of more ago the Daughters
of the Confederacy and the Sons of
Confederacy decided upon the erec
tion of these monuments in every
State capital in I»ixie. The work was
to have been done by an Italian
sculptor. When his design was sub
mitted at the late Confederate reun
ion in Memphis, it raised n storm of
protest. The artist had pictured tin*
Southern woman as a militant nml
amazonian figure, carrying in one
hand a sword and in the other the
banner of the Lost Cause. This con
ception was so foreign to the gentle,
suffering and patient woman of the
Southland as those who loved her had
known her, that the design was re
jected by an overwhelming vote. Tin*
angered nrlist declined to submit an
other and Miss Kinney was appealed
to. Tennessee has appropriated
000 through the Daughters and Sons
of the Confederacy for a bronze cast
of the design. ■-
GREAT ELECTRIC STORM.
Reports Gathered Indicate Most Un
usual Violence of Electric Comma
tion Sunday Night.
Reports joining in from various
points tell of a most terrific electric
storm Sunday night. Old veterans
at Charlotte, N. C., declare it seennu
a repetition of the battle of Gettys
burg as the "booming, piercing and
crashing bolts played a game of vio
lence and the hky was incandescent
with flashes.
Shelby, N, C. —The home »f Mr.
Harvey Jetton was struck five times
in the, electric storm Sunday night.
Once it struck a window demolishing
the sash and setting on fire a bed
by it in which two of Jiis children
slept. One was shocked 'for a short
time. 0 While he was extinguishing
the fire a similiar stroke up stairs
demolished another window near his
son'B bed. „
Spartanburg:, S. C, —The storm
Sunday night was (lie worst in many
yearn. For one hour there was not
a miiyite when there was not a flash
of liirhtiiiiyr. The house of A. L.
Sit ton was struck and Mr. Sitton
badlv shocked.
Spartanburg, S. o. Fireman
Mooney, of the Southern Haihvay,
was struck by lightning Monday
afternoon at Spartanburg Junction
while in the act of filling the water
tank of his engine with water, A
terrific storm was raging and as he
stepped on the tender of his nmjta®
to open the tank a bolt of lightning
knocked him senseless. At first it
was thought he had been killed. He
is still in an unconscious condition,
but is able to move and make his
wants known.
Yuma, Ariz.—Great damage was
done Monday by a heavy rainstorm.
For three hours water ft 11 in tor
rents. covering the streets a foot
deep. Streets and "alleys in t lie- lower
portion of town were raging streams.
Adobe houses crumbled and families
were compelled to move out. Rail
road tracks on both sides of the town
were washed out.
Davidson, N. CA-A very much de
sired rain visited all this section of
country Sunday night just as people
were returning from church. But
while bringing blessing and gladness
to the farmers it meant death to one
young fellow, a Mr. Weatherland by
name, living on the Hager place just
beyond Beat tie 'a Ford, lie was kill
ed between 9 and 10 o'clock by a
stroke of lightning, the thunderstorm
in that section being quite severe.
Mr. Weatherland , had just closed
down a window and was standing in
the door when instantly killed. Mr.
Weatherland was about 25 years old
and hiarried.
Charjeston, S. C.—A severe thund
er-storm visited Charleston Monday
afternoon, doing no material damage
in the city itself, so far as has been
reported, but blowing down all the
teleghaph and telephone wires lead
ing into the city, so that for several
hours Monday the city was prac
tically isolated from the outside
world. The Western Union Jbas
established a temporary office four
miles from the city.
SNAPPY AND BRIEF
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Items Gathered and Told While
You Hold Your Breath.
SOME EVERYDAY HAPPENINGS
Lively and Crirp as They Are Oar
nered From the Fields- of Actios
at Home and Abroad. _
Peter Leibauch, of Pittsburg, sup
posed to be demented, has been dis
covered to be the possessor pf a for
tune, which he hid about his house
and lived in the greatest poverty.
Trunks full of coin, stockings full of
bills, washboilers full of nickels,
dimes and pennies, at
SIOO,OOO, were loaded into a patrol
wagon and taken to the Farmers' De
posit Bank by the police.
Henry Roberts was president of the
Y. M. C. A. of Bristol, Va. He be
lieved high license the best solution
of the liquor question and voted
against prohibition. He was asked
to resign and has conformed to the
request. * » /
The -Dan River Power and Manu
facturing Co., and the Riverside Cot
ton Mills have combined, making one
of the biggest cotton mill corpora
tions in the world, having a capital
of $7,000,000 with a surplus of near
ly $1,000,000;
Hal H. Haynes, a stock farmer of
Bristol, Va., is confident that he lms
discovered the cause of blind stag
gers in horses and cattle. It is a
growth called water hemlock. It is
fatal to man and beast.
It is now a fact that Dr. Mell will
leave Clemson College. His resigna
tion has btm accepted by the board.
He will remain till the end of the
year till a successor can be secured.
A rain and hailstorm Friday did
great damage to crops about Dan
bury, N. C.
The Cuban MinifAer had a confer
ence at Beverly Sunday with Presi
dent Taft'on the critical situation in
the island.
The late tariff bill putting S2O. a
ton on zinc ore, it is said, will cut off
this trade with the United States by
Mexico. Hertofore about 150,000
tons per year have come in from
there.
The Bell Telephone Company has
won its fight before the Corporation
Commission to arise r.ftes in Ashe
ville and Wilmington making them
equal to the rates in Charlotte and
some other cities in the State.
l.ueindn Davis, a colored woman of
Louisville, Ky., ate live watermellons,
winning,a contest, hut dying from the
effects last week.
While a man was telling him of the
sudden death of a mutual friend,
Captain John D. Seawell, general
foreman of the Tnman yards at At
lanta, Ga., Saturday dropped uncon
scious in the street without a - word of
warning and died almost instantly.
All of Spain's warships have been
ordered to Melilla to support General
Marina.
Land frauds against the Govern
ment amounting to $20,000,©09 are j
said to have been discovered in
Alaska. f
Not a mfmbe.r of the President's
cabinet i.4- now in Washington.
China has recalled Dr. \en Wel
ching, secretary of legation at Wash
ington. ns well as Minister Wu.
The town of Wir.ijate, N. C., is to
have a bank soon.
The city government of Savannah
has gotten behind a popular move
ment looking to an international ex
position to be held in Savannah in
1015 to celebrate the opening'of the
Panama canal and to combine with
that a Southern commercial exposi
tion.
The provisional administration com
mittee of the island of Crete took the
oath of aHegience to Greece Monday.
This complicates the situation with
Turkey.
When President Taft goes to Chi
cago on September 16. it is planned
to empty the public schools in his
honor and line the boulevards along
which the President will be taken in
an automobile with '280.000 children.
Each group of children will be allow
ed to welcome the President in its
chosen way. such as flag salutes, pat
riotic songs or cheering. Each pupil
will carry an American flag.
President Taft has issued an order
taking the census out of politics.
The X-iav as a cure for some cases
of leprosy has been demonstrated by
the American health authorities in
the Philippines, according to Dr. Vic
tor G. Heizer, chief quarantine officer
in the islands. He says the X-ray is
suitable only for specialv selected
cases, and is valuable only in the
early stages.
Sam Ray and Clarence McCants
were killed, and Jeff McCants was
seriously injured in an electric storm
that passed over parts of Georgia and
Tennessee Monday. Four others
were less seriAusly injured.
Secretary of the Treasury Mac-
Veagli is working on a scheme to re
form the world's money.
The Cunard Line steamer Lucania
was almost burned to the hull by a
fire that broke out Saturday night.
She was submerged at Liverpool Sun
day night. i :
Surgeon-General Wyman has a
staff of doctors investigating pella r
gra. the Italian disease, which causes
insanity, and which has recently been
found in America.
The medical board o£ Virginia on
Monday created 118 new doctors
within the State.
TAR HEEL CHRONICLES
'
Happenings And Doings Cleaned From All Parts
-Of The Old North State.
Fires Upon Wife's Lover.
Statesville, Special.—The arrest in
Statesville Wednesday afternoon of
Mr. Robert Miller, of Shiloh town
ship, on a warrant charging him
| with shooting at Mr. Raymond Wil
! son, of Sbiloh township, resulted in
bringing to the ears of the officers a
story of a rather sensational shooting
affray in Shiloh Monday. On being
taken before Justice J. A. King, Mil-1
ler at first proposed to give bond for
his appearance at a preliminary hear
ing at a future date, but decided to
waive examination and give bond for
his appearance at Superior Court.
Bond in the sum of SIOO was requir
ed. Both Miller and Wilson live in
the same neighborhood in Shiloh and
each of them has a wife and four
children. The shooting affray took
place near their homes Monday and
was the result of alleged misconduct
between Wilson and Miller's wife.
According to Miller's story the first
shots were fired at Wilson with a
shotgun in a field where Miller found
Wilson in company with his wife, but
the distance between the two men
was such that the shot from the gun
failed to reach Wilson. Wilson left
the field in great haste and went to
his home where, it is alleged by Wil
son. Miller shot at him with a pistol
a time or two, but the balls went wild
of their mark. Miller admits that he
fired at Wilson five or six times in
all. It is alleged that when Miller
caine upon his wife and Wilson in
the field that he not only fired at Wil
son but assaulted his wife and slap
ped her down. The woman rfwore out
a warrant for her husband before
Justice Fulbright j_of Shiloh, v .charg
ing him with striking her, but with
drew the warrant before it was serv
ed. The warrant on which Miller
was arrested was sworn out bv Wil
son. It is understood that Miller has;
employed counsel with a view to
bringing suit for divorce from his
wife.
Teach ers in the Front.
Winston-Salem, Special.—Frof. M.
C. S. Noble, of the University, who is
conducting the Forsyth Teachers' In
stitute. in his opening address Mon
day stirred his hearers with these
sentiments: "Our profession, is get
ling hold of the world. There was a
time when people put men to teach
ing who could not do anything else.
If they could not , practice law or
medicine, they were put to teaching.
The teacher now is the representative
man of the South. Thev are becom
ing to be ajj effixli'e force in any
community. There was a lime when
it was thought any building was good
enough for a school, hut now the
nicest building in any community is
the school buildiliPeople are get
ting it into their heads that children
should be well taught by good teach
ers and well paid teachers in good
buildings. This is a good sign. North
Carolina is waking up and forging to
the front. The movement is coming
slowly, but is gaining power,every
year."
Burglars at Fayetteville.
Fayetteville, Special.—Wednesday
night bnrsrlnrs entered the store of
Ernest Sikefl, in Camnbellton. blew
open the safe and got $360 cash, some
deeds and other papers. Nitro-glvcfr
ine was inserted in two holes drilled
in the safe door, one at the top. thr
other near the combination, and the
door was blown off its hinges. The
papers were found scattered about in
the grass some distance from the
store. The noise of the explosion was
deadened by sarfcs of flour piled
against the safe. No clue has yet
been found, but the police have_£omc
slight threads which they hope may
lead up to something.
Lunitic Eggs a Train.
Raleigh, Special.—As the South
ern west-bound train was passing the
grounds of the State Hospital for the
Insane hero Wednesday afternoon,
one of a group of patients near the
railroad threw an egg at a passenger
coach, which struck a young woman
student of the Kings Business College
on the breast. The egg broke and
spattered in every direction.
1
Forbids Spitting on Durham Paving
' Durham, Special.—The board of
health has placed the ban upon care
less spitting and after the Ist of Sep
tember there will be a fine against
any man who does the saliva act up
on any paved street. The regulations
of the commission provide further
against spitting in any public build
ing or upon any pavement adjacent
to that building. This sweeping or
der has wot been previously made. It
will apply to many streets in Durham
instead of one naw, Main, and will
cover every building instead of inst
tutions like street ears.
? Collins Fast Bc-covering.
Asheville, Special.—A report from
the Mission Hospital Thursday even
ing was to the effect that Paul C.
Collins, of Hillsboro, who was shot
by Constable F. C. Watkins at Black
Mountain last Saturday, was stead
ily improving and was able to sit up
in bed and to take food. It is said
that when the trial of Watkins comes
off the testimony of the negro wit
nesses will be greatly weakened.
Making Ready For the Tar HMI
Vets.
Charlotte, Special.—The formal
program for the State Reunion of
Confederate Veterans has been re
ceived from Adjutant General 11. A.
London by the local committee who
sent the tentative document to Major
London for his approval.
In the program are announced ad
dresses by several of the State* most
distinguished men, including Chief
Justice Clark and General Julian S.
Carr. The program covers two days.
At the first meeting Wednesday
morning after addresses by Mayor
Hawkins, Col. E, A. Osborne and a
response by General J. S. Carr, of .
Durham, there will be an address by
Chief Justice Walter Clark and an
other by ex-Governor Jarvis and
other speakers.
The Program.
In the afternoon there will be a
special program presented by ths
United Daughters of the Confederacy
and the Children of the Confederacy,
after which the Veterans will elect
officers and transact other routine
business of the annual business ses
sion while the day will close with an
entertainment by the United Daugh
ters of the Confederacy in honor of
the visiting veterans, on Wednesday
the 25th.
The detailed program follows:
10:30 a. m. Opening meeting.
Prayer bv Chaplain D. Betts.
Addresses of welcome by Mayor
Hawinks and Col. E. A. Osborne.
Response by General J. S. Carr.
Addresses by Chief Justice Walter
Clark, ex-Governor Jarvis, and other
distinguished veterans. »
Recess.
Afternoon Session.
Recitation by Mecklenburg Camp
mascot. Miss Ruth Tuber Porter.
Recitation, "Lee to the Rear," by
Miss Bessie Burkheimer.
Introduction of Mrs. Burkheimer
by General Carr.
Election of division and brigade
commanders.
Miscellaneous business.
Evening 8 p. m.
Eentertainment by the United
Daughters of the Confederacy.
Thursday, August 26.
9:30 a. m. Parade of veterans.
11:30 to 12:40. Reception to veter
ans by Mrs. Burkheimer.
1:30 p. m. Barbecue.
Question of Fire Ecape.
Raleigh, Special.—The Mayor of a
progressive Western Carolina town
has taken up with the State Depart
ment of Insurance the question of
whether or not he «">hould require the
county commissioners, who have just
completed a fine new jail in the town,
to put up fire-escapes, in a movement
he has under way to see to it that
the requirements of the new fire
escape law are fully complied with
in his town.
It was to Deputy Commissioner
Scott that the question was put, and
he advised the Mayor that the fire
escapes would hardly be of any ser
vice. since the inmates of the jail
were supposed to be locked in their
cells, and the windows to be securely
barred, so that no one could pass out
that way.
Captured a Bnrglar.
Fayetteville, Special. Jordan
Lcavy, living in the outskirts of this
city, on returning home from church
Sunday afternoon surprised a burg
lar in his house and captured him'.
The prisoner, who gave his name as
John Johnson, of South Carolina, of
fered Levy a poeketbook which he
had taken from a trunk if he wonld
free him. Levy accepted the pum
but delivered the burglar to Sheriff
Watson. He was bound over to court
being sent to jail in default of bond.
Bit By Venomous Cpider.
High Point, Special.—Dr. W. J.
McAnally, of this city, lies quite ill
on account of a b»te from a poisonous
spider in a very particular place, Drs.
Turner and Jones of this city, and
Dr. McGhee. of Reidsville, are attend
ing him. The poison wrecked his
nervous system and he cannot stand
the least noise. The danger point
has not passed, but phvsicians think
he will get through all right now.
Durham Tobacco Season Opens.
Durham, Special.—Notice of the
opening of the tobacco season has ,
been sent the leaf houses here and
some of the weed is on the way for
the factories of the American To
bacco Company, the Imperial and
Walker's Durham. The primings of
a few days ago were the first to be
sold from the native fields, but there
is no real Durham tobacco ready. Re
ports from the farmers indicate a
good crop. The building of a road
from Durham to Roxboro brought 2,-
000,000 pounds here that had never
come before and it averaged 14 cents.
Craven County Gin Destroyed by
Fire.
Washington, Special.—News reach
ed this city Tuesday of the burning
of the cotton gin and saw mill belong
ing to Mr. Fred Wolfenden, of Choc
owinity township, about three miles
from this city, Tuesday afternoon.
The fire started in the rear of the gin
house and when first discovered had
made considerable headway. The
plant was valued at between (2,000
and $3,000 with no insurance,
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