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fSlTHE GASTONIA HTwiei i ViiktllJOi YiirS _ __. Published Twice a Week Tuesday* and W. r. MAI SHALL. E41fr aai Pf—rtrtf. _DEVOTED ^0 THE PiOTECTIQW OF "HOME AMP THE VOL. XXIII. GASTONIA, N. C.t TUESDAY, AUGUST IQ. 1003. AUTOMOBILE VICTIMS. Mr. and Mr*. Fair Instantly Killed by their Machine — Accident One tn Bursting of a Tire—San •I the Lata Sanatar Fair and an Heir ta tba Orest Estate. Evreux, France, Ann. 14.— Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Fair, Amer icans, who were related to Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., (Miss Virginia Pair,) were returning to Fans from Trouville to-day when their automobile swerved and crashed into a tree 15 miles from here. Both were killed. The chauffeur became insane aa a consequence of the shock. mt. ana inrs. rair aau uccu staying at Trouville during rac ing week. They had a very fast forty-five horse power automo bile, which attracted consider able attention, and with which they were highly pleased. Mr. Fair had been from Trouville to Paris and back again in one day on the machine. The bodies of Mr. aud Mrs, Fair were taken to the Chateau Buissondu Mai. The fatal accident to Mr. and Fair, occured at the village of Saint Aguiliu. Mr. Fair himself was driving his automobile at a high rate of speed when one of the pneumatic tires burst. The machine swerved and collided with a tree with a terrible crash and was overturned. Mr. and Mrs. Fair were killed outright and their chaffeur was badly in jured. The Fairs have been living lately at Paris at the Hotel Rit*, and kept theiT apartments there while they were staying at Trouville. This morning Mr. Fair seat a dispatch from Trou ville to the management of the hotel saying he and his wife would arrive there thia evening. Mrs. Wm. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., who was Mr. Fair's sister, re turned from Trouville Sunday and sailed for New York yester day on the North German Lloyd steamship Kron Prim Wilhelm. The heavy machine slid from the right side of the road for about sixty yards. It then dashed up an emb&nkmeut, turned a complete summersault and ran into a big elm tree in front of the gate of tlie chateau. The ma chine was practically wrecked, the front axle was broken and other parts of the machine were mashed, including the steering geer. When the auto turned over the wife of the gate keeper says she saw Mr. and Mrs. Fair thrown high in the air and fall with a heavy thud to the ground. The chaffeur who was sitting be hind the Fairs, was precipated into a ditch. He - staggered to his feet calling for help. The gate-keeper’s wife rushed to his assistance and aided him in ex tricating Mr. and Mrs. Fair, who were buried beneath the wrecked machine and in the last throes of death. Both bad sustained ghastly injuries and were almost unrecognizable. Mr. Fair’s head had been crushed in, while his wife’s sknli was split. The chaffeur was terribly affected at the calamity and seemed bereft of his senses. He threw himself into a ditch on the opposite side of the road and rolled about cry ing, "My poor masters I" M. Borson, owner of the Chateau Buission du Mai, was summoned and after advising the local authorities of the accident he ordered the bodies sent to the gate-keeper’s lodge. Here they now lie on mattresses and flow ers have been strewn over them. i i . — i .hi In the room are three wax tapers burning ditnly. Tbe accident was evidently due to the bursting of a tire. At tbe time it occurred the automo bile, which was capable of run ning 74 miles an hour was going at the rate Y>f 62 miles an hour. The local police authorities hold in their possession and have sealed np a valise belonging to the Fairs, which contains jewel ry, two letters of credit, s French bank note worth $200 and some gold coins. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Fair, left San Francisco in the latter part of May last for a trip to Europe. Chas. Fair was the son of and was one of tbc heirs to the im mense estate of tbe late Senator Fair. It is peculiar that the son of the late John VV. Mackay,' one of Senator Fair’s partners, was also killed near Paris a few years ago, by being thrown from nis horse. Chas. Fair has been enthu siastic about automobiles ever since the machines came into use abroad. He was one of the first to bring automobiles to this coast and |he owned three or four of them- He had what was perhaps the largest and swiftest auto in California. It was a huge French racing machine, and capable, it is said, of going at (be speed of 70 miles an hour. It bad a 40 horse-power engine. He im ported it from France and with it imported a chaffeur. Chas. Fair was the third of the fonr children of the late Mr. and Mrs. James G. Fair. Teresa, who is now the wife of Hermann Oelrichs, is tbe eldest of the < heirs. Then came James, who died about 10 years ago. Chas. was tbc third and the youngest was Virginia, the wife of W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr. Iu the spring of 1894 Chas. Fair married Miss Mande Nelson. T amen tine a lamed? for Snake i Bite. Uaetatfr. 8. C . Lrdgrr A sou of Mr. J. J. Reeves was recently bitten by a garter snake. Mr. Reeves at once bound a cord about bis arm above the bite and held the mouth of a bottle, which contained several spoonfuls of turpentine, to the place. As soon as the pain from the bite ceased the bottle was removed and no further trouble was experienced. Mr. Reeves says this is a sure remedy for any kind of a snake's bite ami should be remembered by every one. _ King’s fscover? Complete. London, Aug, 14.—The Brit ish Medical Journal says the king's recovery is complete. The coronation ceremony aud the reviews of the colonial and Indian troops have not been detrimental to his health. The I remnant of the wonnd is infin itesimal and the healing is prac tically completed. There is no truth whatever in the rumors which have been current that any second opera tion is contemplated. Fa vara the Scheme. Wuhinctm Stir "Mike,” said Plodding Pete, "I’m goin’ to join one one of dese forestry associations." "What's dem?" inquired Mean dering Mike. , "Dey’re to preveut dc destruc tion of de forests. An’ It jtfs' happened to hit me dat if peo ple conld be stopped from cuttm’ down trees, dey’re wouldn’t be po more wood to split.” WILCOX IS vicious. Alleged Horlmr Attacks tki Jailor With a Kalla—Throat*** Viaitara With Baar Bottle. XHutotX ClU Tax Had. "Jim” Wilcox, the alleged murderer of kill Maud Cropsey, has uiadc an enemy of one of his beat friends. Since Wilcox's imprisonment, Mr. B. A. New bern, the jailer, has spared no effort to make prison life comfor table for the doomed man. He has never refused to grant the slightest request of the prisoner ana many tunes a day tne kind hearted jailer has walked to and fro on errands for the hated of men. Saturday afternoon Wilcox expressed a wish for tome matches. Mr. Newbem, or "Bonney” as he is better known, went over to his house and, pro curing a box of matches, re turned to the jail. Wilcox is in an upper cell. "Bonney” drew himself up by tbe bars and ex tended tbe matches to the pris oner. Instead of expressing a word of thanks Jim Wilcox reached for a knife and aimed a vicious blow at the outstretched hand inflicting au ugly wound upon one of the jailer’s fingers. Mr. Newbem dropped to the floor and demauded an explana tion. The prisoner assumed a murderous attitude and threat ened worse were tbe opportunity presented. Ht also expressed regret that he did not succeed in inflicting s more serious wound. Inside the prison walls an angry arguineut ensued between the keeper and his charge. Mr. Newbem’s reply was in part: "Jim Wilcox, I have treated you as a friend. 1 have never once refused to gTant yon anything within iny power, while the hands of every man in the county has been tnraed against you. Now that you have acted as you have I shall treat you just os I do the other prisonns and when you hang I want to be the man to pull the rope.” Wilcox’s reply was a sneer. This is not the first time since his imprisonment that Wilcox has displayed his murderous character. Once Mr. Robert Mitchell, a prominent citiseu of Camden, 'Tilted the jail and being curious sought the cell of the alleged murderer. Wilcox met him at the bon witn a beer bottle and demanded: "What in the h—1 do you want here ?’’ Mr. Mitchell, expecting the beer bottle, beat a hasty retTcat. In Camden lie told the story and ti}e people of that county were highly indignant. Later: Since the attack upon a visitor to the jail. Mr. John Sykes was in jail one day this week and Wilcox mode threats similiar to those above and then attempted attacking Mr. Sykes with the beer bottle. ALL IN VUN, SAYS WILCOX. lUltlKh Km It Observer. Elisabeth City, N. C., Aug. 15.—In an interview with Wilcox this morning in reference to his attsck upon his jailer, Wilcox said: ’rIf 'Bonney* Newbem told that I made any malicious attack upon him, he lied. I have always treated him white. I have leaned him hnoney at times to the amount of $1.05. I have made him a present of two dresses for his baby and when ever I bad anything to drink he was always given a generous share. I often have mends to bring me liquor and then 1 often acncf out and buy it myself. ‘Bonney’ will go oot and ‘swipe’ tho eggs ana I’ll fix np tbe toddy. I’ve got a fork here that I use to beat It np with. " ‘Bonney’ Newbern'a favo rite expression is: ‘Cat a hog.’ One day I said something to him, jokingly, and he said: Cat s bog. I told him that as be looked to be on the hog, 1 guess I’d cut him. I raked at him with the fork; it was all in fnn. Many times since then be told me to 'ent a hog,’ and I’d rake at him with the fork. What he said was merely a joke. I took it as inch and iny actions were in the same way, and he always interpreted them as sneb. Wc have been playing with each other, like that, every since I have been here. "Saturday ‘Bonney* was in here and I asked him to get papa to send me some matches. He did not do that, hut he went over to his boose and brought them. Instead of handing them to me as he should he crawled up to the bars and began to nose into my dinner. I asked him, ‘don’t it suit you?’ and he replied: ‘It’s all right, bat—.’ A few other remarks passed and then he said, ‘cut a hog.’ I chipped at him with my xnife and barely cut the skin od his finger. He crawled down and made all kinds of threats, and even attempted to get a gun. That's the thing inst like it happened. If you don’t be lieve me ask any of these other fellows in here.” Nr. Mekhi Rheda* Dead. Lincoln Journal. Mr. Melchi Rhodes, an aged and highly respected citizen of the county, died at hia home near Salem Church Friday night at 11 o'clock. He had been in poor health since last fall, when he became afflicted with dropsy. This and heart trouble canned his death. Deceased was originally from Gaston county wltcrc he was bom iu 1872. After the Civil War he cauie to this county. Caleb Rhodes, who died in 1896, was his only brother. Besides the immediate family, three sis ters, Mrs. Eli Pasour, Mrs. K. W. Thompson, both of Dallas, and Mrs. Jacob Carpenter, of Gastonia, survive. In 1855 he was married to Caroline Killian, who died the 24th day of April, 1901.. By this union there were two sons, O. P.Rhodes, of Dallas, and B. R. Rhodes, and one daughter, Miss Cecelia Rhodes. The funeral services were held at Salem Church, of which he was a consistent member, at 12 o’clock Sunday morning. He was a quiet and peaceful man and well thought of by all his neighbors. Just before his death, he expressed a willing ness to die, end was fully pre pared for the end. Immediately after the funeral, the interment took place at Salem Graveyard where he was laid to rest beside bis wife. The sympathies of the com munity are extended to the family of this good man. New York city has a school budget of nearly $20,000,000 this year—a larger sum than is ex pended for purposes of education by any other city in the world and very much larger than ia'ex pended by many countries. NEWS ITEMS. McGovern and Corbett* will fight before the Southern Ath letic Club iu Louisville, Ky., on September the 15tb. The Concord Tribune says s nugget of gold weighing a quarter of a pound was found one day last week at the Meadow Creek mine. Fire on last Thursday night destroyed Dorset & Brindle’s livery stabled, the First Metho dist church, two tenement houses three barns and a number of oat buildings. In the livery stables were confined thirty-five bones and of this number twenty-four were burned to death. A con servative estimate of She proper ty destroyed Is $20,000, and there was lew that $4,000 insurance. Of the 24 horses burned, 16 be longed to Docsett & Brlndle and 8 to private individuals.—Lex ington Dispatch. An exposition conducted en tirely by negroes was opened in Chicago-on the 14th and will continue 30 days. Bxbibhs of various kinds of work done by colored people from the rime the first American slave was put to work in rice and cotton fields to the present day are on exhibi tion. President Roosevelt pressed the button to open the show, and 5,000 were in attendance. The profits of the enterprise will go to the endowment fund of the Home for Aged and Infirm Col ored People, located in Chicago. The Concord Tribune says during the storm Wednesday night while the rain was pour ing down in torrents the fire bell rang and it waa discovered that the office of the Western Union Telegraph Company had caught from lightning. Messrs. Jno. and Rich mono Reed dis covered the fire and notified Mr. McConnell over the telephone and when he arrived the three quickly extinguished the* flames. No damage was done to the building scarcely. All comma nication was cut off except the Charlotte line. The Central Methodist church was also strack, a hole being knocked in the tower and several brick beiug knocked out of the tower window. The lightning also entered on the electric light wire and burned out every light in the building. Thursday night in Greensboro John W. Roberts, of Richmond, manager of the Richmond Supply Company, fell from the ceiling to the basement of a five story building—a distance of sixty feet, and sustained no serious injury. A special says: Mr. Roberts owes his escape from death to an unusual fact. A spiral stairs is being built aud every floor or joist has flooring near by, the partial flooring if ternating on each aide or the stair shaft. Mr. Roberts is very fat, weighing 250 pouads. When be struck the first floor on the right he bounded and struck on the left floor below, then bounced to the right floor below, etc., and bounding right each time aud thus breaking his fall, the fortunate fact of i superabundance of fat protect ing his bones and giving elasticity to his body to proven' its missing the alternate floor and going crashing down to in' evitable destruction. Subscribe for Tag Gazrttx fe.sJ?eerHATs. s--ta in!? ^'^oifrTT' L^!"4*'»Sl?„'°r *“ tte AUGUST : S4S,000 worth of Furniture, Carpets, etc. offered during this month AT SPECIAL SALE PRICES. This sale Is far the purpose of reducing our large stock and to Increase cash sales daring this month. This la the graad opportunity to furnish your house haadsosMly from the finest stock In the South at a saving of i to 1 leaa than other dealers* prices. It will pay you to come hundreds of eriles to take advantage of Htlv great reduction sale. WE OFFER EVERYTHING IN THE FURNITURE LINE WITHOUT RESERVE. ssmaaaasaasaxas *aKa la Makagaay. BIMaaya Ma»la. Oak aak Birch. Parlar MU. a> atylaa ang yrlcaa. Dlalag Man MU af tka latest gaalgaa. Hall FbmIMm n a* «w«a aag gragaa. Library ParaltaM ta plssaa srsryaaa. Offlca FaraRara af alt graBaa aag gaaartptlaaa. ErarytWag la Cargata, Mattlaga. Raga. Cartalaa. Parttaraa, (Ufa PMlawa. Whtgaw Bkagaa aag Draaarlaa. Tall at Wars, Langa. »Uraa, Orstaa, TMaa, Maatala aag Wall Pagar. 8 aesaxMe1 «: j: ^jssrrr^crc^'sa sjc K£VK ZIS£T“*-«•—•••—•—«t«—«>«—»r——**-*>«*•M i ... ___ ANDREWS FURNITURE AND WSIC — 1-T"|U" I 'rr-mmmm CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA. - Largest Dealers In the State. Furniture, Carpets, Pianos and Organs.
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