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MARSHALL, N. C, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1907.
NO. 21.
ladison
County
Becord.
A Floating Distillery.
A resourceful distiller was the Con
naught man who prepared his mash
as he might legally do on ehore,
placed It on board a hooker fitted up
as a distillery, and then sailed ont
on the pathless Atlantic while the
-whiskey making was in progress.
Then he landed with the liquor.
After a 'long hunt a force of ipollcc
In curraiis, or canvas canoes, at
length laid the marine distiller aboard
and called upon him to surrender.
The answer was a shout of defiance
and a blandishing of oars which the
crew of potheen makers threatened
to run through the frail skins of the
carraghs. Only when the police of
ficer declared that he would not hes
itate to shoot did the outlaws sup
render at discretion.
D1RECTO RY
METHODIST OHUBOH
Rev. R. J. Parker Pastor,
Services every Sunday, mor
ning and night.
Sabbath School every Sun
day morning.
Prayer Meeting every Wed
nesday night.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Bit. CO. 0at,
Services e-Tery Sand t 11
a. m. and 7:89 p. m.
Sabbath Schdol at W ft. m.
Fraya? mefttinjc tyedMitof
n&t a 7:30.
BAPTIST OHtJBCH
filT. J. W. SUTTLB, . . . PastOI.
Servievi every Sunday at II
a. m. anil 7:30 p. m.
fthmtk SaMoaI e.t 10 a. m.
Prayer maatiag Tuesday era-
;atT:u.
MARSHALL A0A6IMT
llva Roes MoCoD,...PrIaipal
TOWN OPHOKR9
Roam N. Oatok, . . .. .
J. A. Oraiomilks, Chief Police.
LEWIS J. BALEY,
Attorney-At-Law.
MARSHALL, N. O.
Practice in all the State and
federal Courts, also in the Pen
ion Office and other Govern'
oaent Departments at Washing'
ton, D. 0.
CHAS. B. MASHBURN
ATTORNEY7AT-LAW
Marshall, N. O.
Wfll practice in all the State
and Federal Courts, also in all
Government Departments In
Washington. Especial atten
tion to collections.
ZACHARY & ROBERTS
ATTORNEYS- AT-L A W.
Marshall, N. O.
Practice in all the Courts of
the 15th Judicial District, and
in Supreme Court of North
Carolina.
J. H. HUNTER
Marshall, R. F. D. 8.
'h-t Practical Surveyor and No
tarjr Public. All work prompt-
' tj and accurately done.
idelity Lodge, No. 148.
Marshall,
H. G.
Meets every Thursday night,
U cordial welcome to all v&lft-
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X VAN DAVIS. C.C.
t II. HENDfcRSON,K.R. & S.
' JJLGndg er, w I. N.Ebbs,
kenevllle, N. C Uet Springs, N.C
GDDGER & EBBS,
" ITTOKNEIS IKS COUNSELLOBS "
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AT LAW.
C Will practice in all the
Certs pf the Mate.' - Collect
tis a specialty
NORTH STATE NEWS
Items of Interest Gleaned From
Various Sections
FROM MOUNTAIN TO SEASHORE
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Minor Occurrences of the Week of
Interest to Tar Heels Told in Para
graphs. Our State at Jamestown.
Raleigh, Special. Commissioner
General Pogue, of the North Carolina
Jamestown Exposition Commission,
was her6 last week. He says that he
finds that it requires constant atten
tion tokeep things on the move. The
management of the transportation de
partment has been simply chaotic and
he spoke of one car of show cases for
North Carolina which have been load
anil unloaded seven times. Then, too,
the official decorators and carpenters
have been outrageously behind with
their part of the work. He says that
if the freights had been delivered
within ten days after arrival at the
grounds and if the decorators and in
stalation -had -been completed by the
contract time, practically all of the
North Carolina exhibits would have
been ready on the opening day. No
less, than 180 of the North Carolina
cotton mills make exhibits and have
shown a very great degree of inter
est in having their department com
prehensive and it will illustrate all
the kinds of textile work done in the
State, some of which will be a sur
prise to North Carolinas and to the
general public. The furniture men
will have two exhibits and will show
splendidly what the State is doing in
this line, notably in the manufacture
of artistic furniture which will con
vince people that they need not send
to Grand Rapids or anywhere out of
the State to get beautiful designs and
excellent workmanship.
The North Carolina building at the
Jamestown Exposition is to be turned
ove; by the contractor May 2oth. It
is nut known whether there will be
uny iemMiies of abdication or not.
The building complete and furnished
will cost something like $20,000.
Three rooms have heen furnished as
a private contribution a parlor, as
reception room and living room. Mrs.
George Vunderbilt furnished the re
ception room throughout all the ar
ticles in it being the products of the
Industrial School, at Biltmore. She
has at her own expense had this room
paneled in oak. She takes a great
deal of interest in the whole affair and
no room in any of the State buildings
will be more attractive than this one.
One of the best known furniture man
ufacturers in the State furnishes an
other room and it is hoped that other
manufacturers will follow their ex
ample and furnish other rooms, as
it gives public spirit and at the same
time ilustrate in the handsomest fash
ion what is being done in the Stale.
The North Carolina building will be
in charge of some specially appointed
persons or perswi all the time and
during North Carolina week, August
12th to 17th, Governor and Mrs. Glenn
will be in entire control of it, as the
commission will for that week turn
the building over to them. It is ex
pected that on Thursday of that week,
there will be a general reception on a
very large scale, as that will be
"North Carolina Day."
A Large Bequest for Guilford College
"High Poinf, N, C, Special. Mr J.
E. Cox, one of the trustees of Guil
ford College, has received the encour
aging news from Chicago that large
bequest has been left to said college
from the Fowle B. Hill estate. Mr.
Hill was related to James J. Hill, the
railway magnate, and has relatives in
North Carolina.
Norm State Notes.
A splendid monument to Cleveland
county s Lonieuerate soldiers was
unveiled on May 10th, Col. Locke
Craig was the brilliant orator of the
occasion.
State Veterinarian Butler, who
went (o Polk county to investigate the
alleged case of glanders, finds it was
not that disease but merely an abscess
of the tooth.
- John Bethel a notorious negro was
shot and killed while attemnting to
CSearje from tlift-' convict - rumn nf
Wake, county near -W ake- Forest. He
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o scumuiTu m iuur jtrs ior larceny.-
. He escaped from jail some
years ago, leading several other pris
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Insurance Commissioner Youngrules
that no life insurance romniinv rininir
business in North Carolina shall issue
any special or board contracts or sell
env stock in connection with its nnt.
icies. This is to prevent rebating and
is wienaea to piace au citizens of the
State noon the same basis as far n
life insurance contracts axe eon earn
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N3RTH CAROLINA CROPS
Condition of North Carolina Crops
for the Past Week as Given Out by
the . Department Conditions for
Week Ending Monday, May 13.
There was a deficiency of tempera
ture during the past week, very near
ly every day being partly cloudy. The
temperature averaged slightly below
normal, and the precipitation some
what above nonaal. The highest tem
peratures were1 generally recorded on
the 7th; from that date the weather
grew steadily cooler until the 12th
when the lowest temperatures oc
curred. No frosts were reported, but
the cool weather has been very un
favorable. Rain occurred generally
on the 8th and 9th, but local showers
occurred in some places, especially ii
the western district, vary nearly every
day from the 7th tp the 11th. Sevtye
thunderstorms occurred in the Cen
tral District on the 8th and 9th. While
the rainfall was not excessive, still the
previous rains were abundant, and
the continuation of the wet weather
gietly delayed farming operations.
A. H. Thiessen, Section Director.
Mrs. Patterson Suicides.
Salisbury, Special. Persons from
Mill Bridge told the pathetic story
of Mrs. Bina Patterson's suicide Fri
day eveging at her home ten miles
from Salisbury. The stories vary in
that some of them represented Mrs.
Patterson as cutting her throat in a
room and dying quietly while the oth
ers declared she was in the yard and
after slashing her throat ran after her
children, whom Mr. Patterson had
told to give the alarm to the neigh
bors. Mrs. Patterson lived about lo
minutes after committing the deadly
deed. She was conscious a portion of
the time, although is appeared that
she was entirely deranged. Laboring
under the delusion that she had done
some great theological wrong, ahe
scrawled as she rapidly bled to dearp
these -words: "God revealed to m
er'
the day that I have overthrown the
kingdom of God." Mrs. Patterson
was Miss Bina Lingle, belonging tT
that brilliant Rowan t'amilv, whose
sons and daughters have iraortalizod
themselves. Pjju.-brothei;, Rv. Df.
Y"-ii;r l.i.ij;,'c', fit Atlanta, is one of
the South 's foremost ministers' and
her brother, Rev. W. II. Lingle, is a
missionary to China. Dr. Thomas
Lingle, is president of a Weste-n
university, Mrs. Patterson was in
her days of lucidity a delightfully
gifted and brilliant woman. It is be
lieved that Mrs. Patterson's tempora
ry insanity resulting from cumulative
sohows. Within tiio past yea she has
lest mother and sislei, Mrs. .1. A. Mc
C.i'jbiiis dying veiy recently.
Charles Ramsey Granted Bail.
Asheville. Special. Charles Ram
sey, the Madison county officer who,
on the night of Saturday, April '11.
shot and killed Claude Ball at a "box
supper" at Laurel Fork, Madison
county, has been released on $2,000
bond for appearance at the next term
of Superior Court or Madison county
for the trial of criminal cases. T-he
release of the alleged slayer of young
Ball was through habeas corpus pro
ceedings. The day aftef the killing
officer Ramsey was arrested and sub
sequently placed in jail. Recently at
torneys sought their client's release
and a writ of habeas corpus was is
sued. Considerable interest it is said,
will attach to the trial of Ramsey a',
the next term of court. Joe Ball, fa
ther of the slain man, is a very in
fluential citizen of Madison county,
where officer Ramsey is also well
known with a large family connection.
Charlotte to Gastonia.
Gastonia, Special. J From Gastonia
to Charlotte by electric railway that
is one of the posibilitieg of the next
year or two. Not only is it a posibil
ity, but the construction of such a line
seems highly probable. The basis for
this statement is the fact that a pro
posed route for such a line has been
surveyed. Mr. W. L. Law, chief en
gineer for the Four C's, and his corps
of a afsiifctant reached Gastonia Thurs
day afternoon, the terminal stake be
ing driven down about 6 o'ocloek
almost in front of the Falls House.
Mr. Law stated that the route as sur
veyed by him takes in Mount Holly,
McAdenville, Lowell and Gastonia,' the
length of the route being about 69
miles all told.
State News in Brief.
Dr. J. W. McNeill, of Fayetteville,
of the Bickett commission, will visit
colonies of epileptics in several States
North nnd West. A Special committee
composed of Dr. McNeill and the sup.
erintendents. of hospitals at Morgan
ton, Raleigh and Goldsboro, will care,
fully investigate and report on best
plans for handling epileptics.
-. AtLumberton on Friday a moun
ment'of imposing elegance was unveil
ed. ; This shaft was erected under the
aospiees of 'ie Daughters of the Con
federacy to the memory of the Con
federate soldiers of Robeson county.
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Late fletes
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MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST
Charles H. Moyer, president of the
Western Federation of Miners, who
is indicted for complicity in the mur
der of ex-Governor Steutienberg, of
Idaho, is said to have served a term
in Juliet Pentitentiary.
( apt. A. Krech, of the Hamburg
American liner Graf Waldersee, died
on the voyage to New York.
A shortage which may run up to
$100.0('0 has been discovered in the
Syracuse '(N. Y.) treasury.
The appellate divison of the New
Y'ork Supreme Court has affirmed the
sentance of one year in jail and a fine
of !f."00 gainst Lawyer Abraham II.
Hummel.
The rail manufacturers ami the rail
roads me to name a commission which
will determine whether the quality of
rails needs improving.
It is said that the railroads will
spend $1,000,000,000 during the next
year for improvments.
In the Southern Wyoming moun
tains it has been snowing for 24 days
and the temperature has been below
zero all the time .
Friction attributed to too much
mother-in law has broken out in tho
family of Frank Jay Gould.
The May music festival at Y'o.-k,
Pa., is declared to have been a big suc
cess. A son and heir to (he throne was
born to the King and tueen of Spain.
Americans accuse the Guatemalan
Government of perpetrating un
speakable outrages.
Earthquake shocks were fell in Aus
tria-Hungary and at Irkutsk. Sibera.
The Czar has signed the $:t,000,000
famine relief appropriation.
Paris critics are at war over Rich
ard Straiiss' musical drama, "Sa
lome. "
A reception by the President, din
ners by Secretary Taft, Secretary
Hoot and Postmaster-General Meyer
were among the events given in Wash
ington in honor of the Italian and
Japanese visitors.
Edward B. Moore, of Michigan, was
appointed United S.lates Commissiou
er of Patents.
Mr. Roosevelt called off the Cabinet
meeting in order to take a ride in the
woods, where photographers took his
picture jumping fences and ditches.
The presentation of the memorial
gates at Jamestown Island by the Co
lonial Dames of America took place at
Jamestown.
In an address before the Negro Bap
tist Convention at Staunton, President
K. H. Bowling said any preacher who
had two living wives is unfit to preach
the Gospel.
A cable from Naples says: Enor
mous clouds of ashes appeared from
the sea, darkened the sky and fell
on the town. Considerable apprehen
sion was felt when it was realized that
the clouds were ashes and cinders
from Mounts Etna and Stromboli.
A similiar phenomenon was noticed
along the southern coast and caused
panics in several places.
A snecial from Bristol, Tenn., says:
Felix Kidd, 28 years of age, was shot
and tilled at Alta Pass, N. C, Sunday
afternoon. No details ean be learned.
William Quinn, ehief of police of
Greenville, Miss., committed suicide
in the presence of his daughter, Mrs.
Houston, who tried in vain to take
the pistol with which he killed him
self away from him. Quinn, it is as
serted, had been drinking heavily.
Jud Rook and Jno. Rook, aged 9 and
11 yea;- respectively, were killed by
a train on the Ocilla & Yaldosta Rail
road Sunday afternoon. The boys
were driving in a wagon .
Franc H. Jones, the defaulting
assistant teller of the Charlotte, N.
C, National Bank, returned to the
city and .surrendered himself to the
authorities. He was held for federal
court on a bond of $10,000.
Thirty-one people were killed and
manjL more.-fatally., wonnded in the
wreck of a special train in California.
Two Italian women were killed with
a razor in-New- York and the husbaud
of one a barber is accused of the
crime.
Charles Young, the 14-year-old son
of Charles Young,of Berkeley Springs
W. Va., was struck and , instantly
killed by Baltimore and Ohio express
No. 6 about two miles west of Han
cock Thursday. The boy was walking
on the track and did not hear the ap
proach of the train. -
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Madison County Dispensary
Man-hall, N. C.
Frank Emmett. on trial for con
spiracy against the Government, in
Pittsburg, told how defective boiler
tubes were palmed off on the Navy
Department.
Jamestown Exposition directors
completed satisfactory arrangements
for borrowing $400,00(1 for the Expo
sition. George Grant Mason. "Silent"
Smith's principal heir, who is said :o
resemble the latter, will move to New
York and "reft."
Affidavits were filed in the Eddy
suit intending to support George Glov
er's couteueions.
Efforts to make peace between the
railways and strikers in San Francis
co were begun by Mayor Schmitz.
Monroe County West Virginia, con-
templates the issuance of .$100,000
bonds for the building of macada
mized roads.
Ambassador Bryce poke on Mon
day at the Jamestown Exposition to
an immense crowd of people.
Strong Sentenced to Three Years.
Macon, Ga., Special. After delib
erating 21 hours, the jury in ,t lie case
of L. D. Strong, charged with the
murder of Henry Smith returned a
verdict of guilty of manslaughter and
Strong was sentenced to three years
imprisonment. Notice of appeal was
filed. Strong shot and killed Smith,
it is alleged, because of Smith's un
wai rantable conduct toward Strong's
sister.
, More Than 300 Men Desert.
Hamilton, Bermuda, By Cable.
The British eraser squadron comand
ed by 'Rear Admiral Neville, which
arrived at Bermuda from Hampton
Roads, reports that wholesale deser
tions from the British ships occurred
while they were in American waters.
It is estimated that over 300 men, in
cluding many chief petty officers, de
serted. For the apprehension of a
vhief yoeman of signals, a reward of
$500 is offered.
Charged With Criminal Neglect.
Philadelphia, Special. On the
charge of criminal neglect which re
sulted in the death of his 1-year-old
child, George Osbom, of this city, a
faith cure adherent, was sent to pris
on by the coroner to await the act
ion of the grand jury. Rev. Robert
N. Bauck, pastor of a branch of a
Christian Catholic church, founded
by Dr. Dowie, of which Osborn is a
member, admitted on the stand that
he instructed his flock to rely entire
ly on prayer in cases of sickness.:, r
CAUSE -OF THE FAILURE.
. To what dtd' the critics attribute
the failure of Ms' last opera." , '
;"The music wasn't reminiscent aad
U the jokes, were new." MUwauke
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tint Bank. The
JfEWST GLEANINGS.
The South is predicting fifteen t
eighteen cent cotton.
General Joseph K. Hudson died at
his home in Topeka, Kan.
Prince Fushlml arrived in London
and. had an audience with King Ed
ward. About 10,000 persons took part in
a Moyer-Haywood-Pettibone parade
in Boston.
William T. Stead outlined a plan
for an endless chain of peacemakers
throughout the world.
Two Japanese cruisers and one
Chilean cruiser joined the fleet of
warships in Hampton Roads.
The Southern Pacific Railroad
Company cancelled its traffic agree
ment with the San Pedro line.
Americans are flocking to London
both from the United States and from
Europe on their return from foreign
tours.
The Turkish Government conceded
all the American demands, chief of
which was that concerning the treat
ment of sohools.
Conservative interests in France
are troubled over the spread of so
cialism and the Cabinet's attitude to
ward the labor unions.
It was said that there were 10,000
professional criminals in New York
City, and-that the police and courts
were unable to contend with them.
Bishop Burgess in a sermon at St.
George's Church, Hempstead, N. Y.,
put the blame for Rector Cooke's
elopement on the laxity of the times.
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion, acting under the new law, or
dered ' a reduction in the United
States Express Company's rates on
cut flowers. .
Southern business mea-returned to
New Orleans from a trip to Panama,
where, they say, the Government rep
resentatives agreed to purchase more
supplies from the Southern States.
Schooner Moo e Towed to Port Badly
Injured.
Norfolk, Ya., Special The three
masted schooner William Thomas
Moore was towed into Norfolk after
a collision off Hog Island with the
Cuban steamer Bayamo which struck
the Moore with great force, taking otf
the schooner's bowsprit and badly
damaging her bow. The Moore was
bound from Charleston, S. C, for New
York, lumber laden and the Bayamo
wa's bound from New York to Cuba.
Instead of increasing the rates the
telegraph companies should reduce)
them. They would gain such a volume
of new business that they would more
than make up the dtfferenceTTC should
be the settled policy, maintain the '
WasMngton Star, of these corpora
tions to attract business; to tramthe1-
people to use the wire more, tre- .
fluently, o inylte them by the offer ,
of low tolls and good service to tran
sact more of their hnsiness by tele
graph than . before. , . The telephone -companies
have learned : the . lesson
of profitable rate reduction, and it l
a - strange spectacle now to find the
telegraph corporations ' pursuing the
Hazardous course of Inviting regula
tive legislation by their defiance of. -the
spirtt of the times, , - '
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