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- " V.. V1""' ... ' Bifgest Political Banquet Ever. Held ' Is United SUtM is Claim for Feast in Kansas City, Where Nehraskan . Will be Guest of Honor. Kansas City, Mo., Mareh 30. Wil- , :! ' t:- i ::. ri :ii..il. of - honor and .principal 1 speaker, to "'. night at what the promoters declare . will be TV tbe biggest pebucal ban- tT. quet ever beld in the United States." several otuer uemoerais oz national VJ prominence from other States will ; speak. Kansas City's big convention lhall, one" of the largest ia the coun v try. will be the scene ' of the great .. . anil AltAH 1 iCKi riaMUtPofQ Will . gather about " the ... tables. Arrangg- ; raents for the -event -, have been in ' ' charge of the Missouri Young Men's ," Democratic Club- and have been ear- ried to a successful completion. ; Tlie gpeeehes at the banquet : are - ... IV IfC niUXIg UMIUUHl Bliroa VAUIuaiYVIjr. It -is hoped that several great Demo ; , era t s, representing tbe party in near ly every section of the country can' And it convenient to" respond to ..toasts. It is proposed to make we- 'come in Kansas City Democrats from : ... all the surrounding States and the affair is expected to be. the most nn- ; portant political event in the West ... during the campaign. " Jt is not expected that" any Mis .'goutian will be given a place npon the programme. Missouri's 'place is . that of host, and every Democrat iri ... the ,$tato. big or little, is invited to ; come if he can beat the other fellow to a ticket. . i ' . ' On the platform will be a number . VJ, r ..ill I L1W1 v iwuiuviaM - aiviu. . m IIP soun,. Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and - Nebraska. Ail of the Democratic "Candidates for State offices are invit - . ed as. guests, but not to speak. The programme will be filled up with na . - tional figures 'and tbe numerous fa- tnoua men whichLthe. Missouri De- nacracy Jboasts will play the part of , , V Senator 8 tone. 'Governor' FoIS.be 'various 'candidates for the guberna i torial nomination," ' and t for other prates jro the State ticfceVsWaH in-J tttedj together with other" mettwho have beenkof party service. ONE KILLED IN COLLISION.- Essine Fails to - Reach SwRcl In .Time to Clear Track for Freight. , ; Middletown, N. 7., March 29. One man was killed, two- fatally injured. jnd two slightly injured in a collision ; lasb night between a light engine and a '.0 fjMkoYii trmn. Afff thfl Tfaltrll anil Hudson Railroad, at East Chester. - Orange eonnty. . . " .. , The dead man is Herman Wudke, of ' Warwick, a brakeraan. Tbe fatally injured are Engineer Herman de Bra - ker, of 'Qreyoourt, and Drakeman R.-J . C Budd, of Warwick. A Bremen and . telegraph s operator were slightly in jured. " r" : " " ' The "ligll? engine and the freight . . .i I! .t. 1 -JI A were running at nigu speeu, uu luni ' head-on in a deep cut.' . ' It is understood that the freight had the right of way to Greyeourt, but as is was behind time,' tbe engineer of tbe light engine thought, fie eouia . make the East Chester-switch ahead of it Tbe freight had just passed ., the' switeb when it met tbe light en gine. ' ' KE1DSVILLE MAN SHOT. While Visiting in Virginia a Cousin ' Accidentally Kills Him With a New Pistol - k Danville, Va, Mareh 30. Lalsey Perkins, a carpenter of Reidsville, N. C, Was accidentally ahot and" instant- ly killed at Schoolfleld late Saturday . night by his cousin, Charles Gauldin. Perkins was' on a visit to Mrs. Pomp Gauldin," mother of his slayer, ' and had just retanred home from cbureh. .He was standing !n an outhouse when Gauldin, who is only about 18 years of age, came up. Young Gauldin had just jtirehased a pistol and whik testing the weapon fired at the' out house, never dreaming any one was in it," The ball louge in the neck of Perkins, severing the jugularrein. A coroner's inquest exonerated him of blame. A " . The dead man was about 50 yean old and leaves a family. CLicajo's Chief of Police Goes to riorida. .. AsheWHe, March 30. Chief of Police Shipper, of Chicago, who was rwently attacked by aa anarchist at his home in Chipngo, receiving a wound as did alsW his son, passed tlmnjch A4sevi"e lat '- eveninf ea route to Flori.la, a here he is t&U$ j '-.r. 1 nn l. t'-.e k-r t t!-e muls cut Waqes' - IN. NEW ENGLAND. Twenty Thousand Workers Have Thelr Earnings Bednced Ten Per Cenrtn Cotton Mills. x Lowell,- Mass Mareb 30, Twenty .thousand ; workers, men and women, arc affected by the 30 per cent reduc tion put kilo effect today . by tbe cotton mills of LowelL.. It is expect ed 'that similar' action will be taken by all tbe .cotton mills of New Eng- Isnd, unless conditions soon show decided improvement. ,'' ' The mills in Lowell are owned by the Apptetori, Boot, Lawrence, Mass achusetts,, Merimac, ; Hamilton" and Suffolk corporations. All manufac ture cloth except the Lawrence Man ufaeturing Company, which ..makes hosiery and underweat.''-- Manufacturers- give' as reason fo the change in'Wages the depression in the cloth market, tbe bigb cost of cotton and lower prices for goods. ljhey also say that the existing wage schedules are . the highesf paid since the civil war. Many of the mills will continue to curtail production until business improves. , . The cotton mills in New England number 340 out of 1,000 in the JTiit- ed States. Of course 300,000 cotton operatives in the country the New England mills . employ at the present time about 165,000, a slignt reduction from the number at work last year. Fall River has 30,000 operatives, Lowell ,20,000, -New Bedford 20,000, Manchester, N. H., 15,000; Rhode Island .20,000 and Lewiston, MeV 6, 500.- ANOTHEE FIBS AT NEWBEBN. The Ha off Ba-4nf and Bemnants of Scott's Stables Destroyed Several -Greka Have Narrow Escape. Newborn. . March 30. Fire thu morning at 3 o'clock" destroyed the building on Middle street owned by K. F. and Mrs,. M. M. Hanff and damaged what remained of Scott tables1 after 4hef Art of March 19th. rhree small stoves were in tbe Hauff Buil3tngnaV" "iHmiber of Greeks ilepfon the leeond "floor. " Several of the Greeks Jmo narrow escape and one in his hnrry to leave the building left behind $300: in Wis, which were burned. One of the large plate glasses In tbe front of the New- hern Banking and Trust Company, across the atreet was broken, by the heat from the flames. The fire j was in a congested district and the fire men did fine work In. saving the ad. joining property." Thev total loss is about $6,000 with insurance of about tlfiOO. I'r -" -' - ;;, . , MAD DOGS BUN AMX7CH . . ? "V . r ABOUND LANDIS Landis. March 30. There has been much of 4Tmad dog excitement around herethe past several days. -On the 20th of February a dog eame to the home of Mr. Jacob Sloop, 3 miles from here, and fought his dog, then to Henry- Weavers and then t J Lan-lts. The dog stayed around here all night and fought all the dogs ir. sigh-. The same dog bit Robert tVanford, a 16-year-old boy. Cranford was taken to Charlotte and the stone was applied and stuck -to the wounded boy for more than an hour. - This same dog after leaving Landis swept the coun try and bit dogs, hogs and ehickens and was finally killed at Coddle Creek. On March 20th the" hog belonging to If r. W. L. Carriker went mad and died short while. Mr. Weavers dog went mad also and ran at large, going to China Grove and finally returned home and bit Mr. and .Mrs. Weaver, though1 the akin was not broken on either. ' Thia dog was killed by a neighbor. Two dogs at Landis show ing signs of rabies were promptly killed. " -' , ' ' 1 The Edwards Stock Co. "The Senator's Daughter" which js been selected by Messrs. Boyle A Edwards as the opening bill of the Gdwsrds Stock Co. at the New Ope ra House, Thursday,, jo a very pleas- ng society drama in four acts. Tbe play has to do with Washington so- iiety and brings . out the trials end emptstions which eometimes confront jur lawmakers, as is the rule the pin ends happily and the Senators famil. is saved from disgrace by the always ready hero. The play ia filled with riramatie situations snd langh pro voking comedy. - This company bss bees very highly spoken of both by press snd public of some of tbe neighboring eities snd t is soured that they will be greeted y s krj-e smilenee at the initial per- DOTEBEST IN NEW , " . ,', " YORK PRIMARIES. 'X' "U"- HI l ll t ' vft New York March ,30. New' York politicians, particularly the republi can leaders, are keenly interested in the presidential primaries to be held throughouUlhe State tomorrow.' At these primaries delegates1 .will be elected to the - eongresa ; .district conventions, each of which will elect two delegates and two alternates to the national convention. . ; There will also Deselected at these primaries delegates to assembly dis trict conventions, each of which will elect its quota of delegates to .the State convention to choose delegates- at-large to the national convention and also a new state committee. As will be' seen, the primaries will have an important bearing on the control of the republican state com' mittee. It hss been reported frequently of late that steps are under way to re tire Timothy L. Woodruff as chair man of the republican state com mittee and substitute a harmony can didate who is; neither an Odell or Roosevelt man.. Meanwhile Odell and his faction are working day and night on their plans to overthrow the Par sons-Roosevelt-Woodruff combination YOUNG- GIRL BURNED ' BY LAMP EXPLOSION, Winston-Salem, March 30. Jfiss Mollis Smith, daughter of Mr. M. D. smitn, a prominent business man here, was perhaps fatally burned last night at her home in Waughtown Miss Smith, who is 17 years old, was in the parlor.. and, in attempting to lower a hanging lamp -for the purpose of putting out the flame, tbe rod hold ina the lamp broke loose from the ceiling - falling upon the floor and causing an ' explosion.. Tbe carpet. nips and Hiss smith s dress were ig nited, while wrapped in flames, the young1ady rushed into an adjoining room and threw herself upon her (Other's' bed, Mrs. Smith, who whs asleep, was awakenedby Ler dangb tor's Mi-eams. - The .mother 's hands and- .one -loot Were badly burned in her effort to save her daughter. Gilmer, Miss Smith's 14-year-old brother, aso sus tained severe burns on his hands. . Miss Smith's elothing was" burned off. Three-fourths of her body is in blisters and, though she is conscious, the attending physicians sav thu chances are against ber recovery. BATE HEARING AT WINSTON. Winston-Salem N. C, March 30. In the bearing here today . before Special Examiner Henry' N.' 'Brown, of tbe Interstate Commerce Commis sion, witnesses were introduced by the board of trade and eity, showing discrimination by the Norfolk .& Western Railway in freight rates on coat from the Pocahontas fields to this eity. ' , : It was contended . that . such dis' criminations by increasing the cost of production is just to local manu facturers. , ' ' yt- Witnesses examined included whole sale and retail merchants and manu facturers,' and all of them while tating that Winston-Salem was mak ing rapid . progress, ' contended that this was in spite of the present freight rates, , ' Several Norfolk & Western officials are attending the hearing, which will probably not be concluded before to morrow. . 7 Manly and Hendrea represent tbe board of trade and Moore and Cocke tbe railway. 7 , Colonial Open Company. - The Raleigh- Evening Times of March 6tb baa tbe following; - "; :- The Colonial Opersr- Company, in tuneful "A Trip to India,'" was the offering at the Academy last night and made many friends on its initial bow. , ' ' " ' Miss Juanita Rush, the prima dona, aa AIti the Qaeen of Altera, possess-1 or of beautiful high soprano voice snd combined with beauty , of faee and figure captured her hearers. The Troeodero Quartette, a vaudeville top liner was compelled to respond to six neora, and is one of the best ever ieard here. . ." -, .. .-,. The ensembled chorus is tbe equal of many high price attractions wLich have been to Raleigh, and all to gether the east is a- most acceptable one. -.- . , " At Opera House," Concord, April L Kks Kat'.Wn f ciith en'prfaineJ y.'.'t a rim ' r r-f t t ' ' 1 :,' . " AT RANDOM. It is said by the old people that during the dark of the March moon is the best itime for general bouse cleaning, v Dnrinf" the warm spring like days , many homes have been ren ovated from garret to cellar, and while the busy housewife moves the potted plants from- the green house to the front and has arranged for the vines and -other porch - decorations, the utility man or gardener has raked the lawn, weeded the. grass and per formed other stunts in his efforts to assist nature. 'The pieturesqnentss of many lawns in-out-; eity delight the eye and impresses those of un trained but artistic pfoHnatiws. The time is also -at band for the early gardeners to, be out digging and transplanting NW is th ti:ne when fences sDbuld be- built and the ehick ens crapped, v It is strikinily pecul:ar that your neighbors chioktns will never cause you t; anxiety nntil yo! plant a little patch 'for home eon- suirption. We have recently learned of the old and reliable remedy the sprinkling of salty ; dough in spot where you think - . VOnr neig!ibor 'a chickens will scratch. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Put them up now. Ever since the passing of the once famous hoop skirts .Until recently, ladies have worn trailing skirts. Cus tom has brought about the short skirt idea or fad, causing various comment but the style is . both practical and economic. A . lady who wear 3 long skirts and has occasion to visit the postoffice and various mercantile es lahlishtuenta. of -the city invariably swishes- ii along! trailing in linseed oil and dust. ? Many beautiful and costly garment an soiled in thi way, .a. Many tiny feet that had been bared with the approach of spring felt the keen cut of ,the' cold air yesterday and this morn. " BAND CONCERT. Forest Hill -Band to 4)its Open Air Concert in Court House Lawn Fri day Night The Forest Hill band has arranged to, give one of their delightful open- air-eoncerta- on the court house lawn Fndajr night, to which-the public is soost' cordially invited. A programme of selection will be rendered aa fol lows:' March The Gallant Seventh by Brockensbire. j.i Peice Characteristic A.Day in tbe Cottonfkld-mith A ZuWin. ' Walts Duet Magit-JElKa Brooks. Our Nation Medley of National Airs Mockie Beyer. : - Something Doings-Medley Over ture F Beyer.- j-v, - March Massa's in De- Cold, Cold Ground Al Boyes. -.... p' m. . R. S. SGARBORO, -. 1 ... Director. AT CANNON FETTER'S. Millinery Exhibition Attracted Great Numbers of Ladies Today Pattern Hats and Artistic Designs Pleasing. The millinery department at the Cannon ft Fetaer Company 'a store today- baa been tbe ueeea for the ladies of the eity and county, tbe ' spring opening having been launched. There is a splondid array of beautiful crea tions in headgear, sod the pattern hats of really true merits adorn many stands. ' Tbe ladies were pleased with the exhibition.' Everything ' in the way of hats and plumage was there. The opening days will continue through tomorrow, when an opportun ity will be given all those who failed to visit the store today to see and make their selections for tbe season now npon us. VESSEL IS BLOWN UP. Thirteen of Crew KQed In Accident ! la Norway Fort. Christiana, Mareh 29. The cargo of naptha on the ihip Ingewood, ly ing off Mandal, the southernmost town of Norway, exploded today. The ves sel was destroyed and thirteen of her crew killed. Of these eleven were either British or Americana. The Maritime register reports no vessel of the name of Ingewood. It oes leport a Norwegian bark named Inglewood, Capt Svenson, which tsil- from New York February 17 for Stockholm and which passed Frawle roint Ifareh 10. Ma Vtl lies on the emirse of all vessels bound from the tsrd to tolb ' .. ' ATTACKED BY INSANE HAN. FayetUTille's Chief of Folic Badly Hurt by a Raving Lunatic In High- mitk Hospital' Fayetteville, Mareh 30. Chief of Police John McD. Monaghan was to day attacked by a - patient of the Highsmith Hospital, i. & Dawson, who had apparently become suddenly insane, and was painfully injured. ' Captain Monaghan had been called to the hopital in connection with an other patient and entered Dawson 's room, when the attack was made as soon as he opened the door. Dawson sprang upon him and struck him with a heavy box, inflicting a severe wound upon Monakhan's. 'temple. The men then grappled and a fierce struggl ensued, during which Dwson Sprain wounded tbe officer by a vicious kick in the latter 's fare.' The insane man was finally overpowered and remand ed to jail and application will be made for his admission to the asy lum. The police chief's injuries are not considered dangerous. Chester Gillette Meets His Death. Auburn, N, Y., March 30. Chester E. Gillette today paid the full penal ty of the brutal, murder of Grace Brown. He went to his death in the electric chair at Auburn prison with -ut a sign of weakness and with the same lack of 'emotion which has characterized him from the day he was arrested charged with the crime. Gillette' appeared to have been fully- reconciled to his fate and in a state ment given out by his spiritusl ad visers immediately after the execu tion it h indicated that he had made a eonfesuon of his euilt.': This state ment was signed Jy the Rev. Henry Mcllvary, of Little Falls, and the Rev. Cordcllo Herrick, the prison chaplain. It was as follows: 'Because our relationship with Chester Gillette was privileged we do not deem it wise to make a detail ed statement, and simply wish to say that no legal mistake was mSde in his electrocution." - . -sx FOB ATTORNEY GENERAL It is understood that yi all proba bility Mr. E. R. Preston, of Charlotte, prominent young attorney who rep- reeented his county in the House of Representatives, will be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for tht position of Attorney General. He is a man of high character and one who has many friends. News and Observ- . Registration Books. tf The registration books for the ap- proaching election on prohibition to be held in May, -lened at tbe usual places in the various precincts on Thursday, the 23rd of April, twen ty days preceding the day of closing. There will not be a new registra tion, but all those desiring to vote in the coming election who have moved from the precinct in whieh they last vote, and those who have become of age, will be required to put their names down. The Ladies Aid and Missionary So- ety of the Reformed church, will meet with MjkJ. O. Moose on East Street' Wednesday, April 1st, 1908, at 0 dock - fitT THE HABIT" Unless a man has his heart In the work he is doing, whether it is shoveling on the street or working at the head of a million dollar corporation, he will not succeed. "Buok" Duke, President of the Ameri can Tobacco Company, declares that unless a man's whole soul is in his work he had better quit and so at something else. Besides, loyalty is another ab solute requirement for success. No man can do his employer justice unless he believes in him and stands ready to do his best for his interests. His mind should be free from finan cial worry. lie shoulLput a part cf his earnings reu!ir!y in a buHJlc and loan associa tion. LocLs are cptn for sub scription to 21 series. c: f We Announce , " OUR, Spring' arid Summer Showing OF Quite the smartest and most refined display of men's -early spring shoes and oxfords to be found "in the city.' Our older patrons are familiar, with the thorough goodness and character of "jr. f Shoes. And we assure the newer' ones who select this most excellent make that complete satisfaction awaits them. There is no better or more select line of men's footwear made. ilSL Parks Co: ( Department Store. Refrigerator Time 1 11 1 " rwrmtammamm. Men s Oxfordo Made on the newest lasts," for street and dress wear. All sites, all widths. - - . "Si.. 'c ' v . te . . J . . .,... "'. . 1. Ilettleton C5 OO. C5.50. r If you haven't a refriger ator or want a new one it ' will be to your interest to see us. Bright warm weath er will invite us to spend a large portion of our time on . our porches. We Jiave put in stock comfortable porch Rockers and Chairs, roo Hammocks and other summer necessi ties. Of course we expect s you to look at them and in-, vite you to do so. ' c II n e e 1 a n i'. 1 s -1
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