Newspapers / The Gastonia gazette. / Feb. 24, 1903, edition 1 / Page 1
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w. F. MAI SHALL, EflUr mmi Pfprirtw. DEVOTED TO THE PtOTECTION Of HONE AND ^P-"- ' —e^=====g5^^—n=-- L- ■' ' - -~**^T»^-»rtp=nMag=-:=Mpac=|=I—aiBaM^ VQL- nnr. qastonia, x. c.. Tuesday, febru BAIL IS DENIED TILLMAN. Slayer ol Qonialea Host Be an is is Prlsen iU Await Trial. WuMnctoa PoM Columbia, S. C., Feb. 19.— Chief Justice Pope has refused the application for bail of Jamca H. Tillman. It was the rule of the court, he said, io such cases to make no explanation of the reasonings governing the de cision. Murder was the taking of human life with malice afore thought. With the oath of office recent upon bis lips, he mnst do his duty and decline the appli cation without prejudice to the case of.the defendant. A multitude of affidavits cov ering the case was presented by the btate, and a Urge number in reply were read for the defen dant. The state presented a number of affidavits from Edge field people impeaching the tes timony of the affiant, Holtzbake, and also declaring that the affi ant, White, was a paralytic past fifty yean old, the result of pa ralysis being to weaken will power and moral nature The defense replied with affidavits sustaining the reputation of Holtzbake and the competency of White. PISTOL IX ms POCXKT. The State presented affidavits from Representative Lancaster, of Spartanburg, that he saw a pistol in Tillman's pocket on the day preceding the shooting', and another from a Columbia gunsmith that P. H. Dominick, of Newberry, previous to the shooting brought him a maga zine of a pistol and that he re paired it. E. J. Watson, oi the State, swore to a conversation with Tillmau last summer in which the latter requested him to tell Gonzales substantially that a continuance of the newspaper attacks would be at his peril. Watson declined to convey the message. O. D. Black, a rail road man, made affidavit that Tillman told him on a train and again in Augusta, that he was going to kill Gonzales, exhibit ing the magazine pistol. Robert Latham Mr. Gonzales’ stenographer, swore to a state ment of Mr. Gonzales, taken by him when he bad death in view, and relating the story of the shooting. Mr. Gonzales declar ed he bad sent Tillman no mes sage, and considered the matter ended. Several well known citizens of Colombia who saw the shoot ing testified that Gonzales made no threatening motion. W. R. Hall, of Camden, and M. C. Lo rick made affidavits corrobora ting the story told by Holtzbake and Tillman. AFFIDAVITS FOR DKPEKSX. The affidavits by the defense tended to show that Tillmau ac ted in self-defense, declaring that he had received messages and information that Editor Gonzales Intended to take the defandLant’s life. In his sworn declaration, Mr. Tillman stated that he had been repeatedly urged, and warned to watch out for his safety. He wished to avoid any altercation, his statement says, at he was about to retire from the office of lieutenant governor, his term expiring two days after the trag edy. Mr. Tillman was remov ing from his office his personal effects, including two revolvers. While carrying these up the street he met Mr. Gonzales, who, he stated, pushed his hand into bis pocket. Believing his life to he in danger, Tillman hur riedly said: "I got your mes sage," fired, firing, the affidavit declares, to save the defendant’s life. Tillman made another affida vit saying that Gonzales had bien persecuting him for ten years. He denied the story of a threat told by Watson and of other threats. In the argument the State pressed the point, among many others, that the language as to the white feather did not consti tute a threat whan coupled with the fact that at no time before had Mr. Gonzales employed any violence toward Tillmau. Me»«m imoriH. is&****" Senator Reinhardt's associstas had a rood joke on him the <*hnr dav when one of his local prohibition bills was read. It prohibited the manufacture and sale of spirltouy, "venomous” and malt lk|tior». The type writer mistook tba word vinous for venomous. We also get it straight from Raleigh that Senator Reinhardt la one of the moat pooular men in the Lagisla tore and that he is generally picked as the Democratic candi date next year for State Treas arer. North Carolin Mutual Aid and Home Protective Association, Organized in Gastonia and Chartered bv 7 the Present Legislature, is Now Receiving Applications for Life Insurance. .... Only 1200 persons can get into a Division. The Gaston Division Is expected to be full within a few weeks. All applicants must stand an APPROVED MEDICAL EXAMINATION. We Insure men and women under 55 years of age. Those who wish life Insurance AT COST should apply at once, while there is room. LIVE AGENTS WANTED. GEO., A. GRAY, President. This Feb. 13,1903. Wm. H. LEWIS, General Manager. | Buck *1 Item* From Catawba. N*wton EnttrpHsp A bill passed its third reading in the State Senate Monday to give Catawba county two addi tional county commissioners. Mr. Q. A. Setrer lias rented the Solomon Shrum storehouse, recently vacated by Mr. R. M. Warfick. About the first of April he and Mr. Curds, his son in-law, will open a furniture store. Mr. J. R. Gaither and Capt. Eli Fry have bought the plant of the Home Manufacturing Com fiany. They will continue the umber basinets and will proba bly begin manufacturing certain lines of furniture. Mr. P. O. Carpenter made an assignment Wednesday after noon to bis brother, Mr. D. J. Carpenter. The cause of the assignment, it ill bealtb. Mr. D. J. Carpenter informs us that the stock of goods will probably be disposed of by retail. Sheriff Killian left Monday morning for Raleigh to take Sam Wilson, a white man to the peni tentiary. He was sentenced to six years for stealing a horse. He is a Burke county man, who several weeks ago stole a hone from a Mr. Whitener. near Hick ory. There was a called meeting of the North Carolina Classia at thexeformed church in Newton Monday to confirm a call from the Conover charge to Key. Beck, and appoint a committee to con dnet the installation services. In the afternoon a Ministerial As sociation was organized, con sisting of the Reformed ministers of Catawba conuty. Stmt Lincoln Locals. Lincoln J normal, loth. Mr. J. F. Downum and family, who have been residents of Lin coin ton for the past several months, commenced moving to Mooresville Wednesday. The Baptist church at Cronye, which was nearly completed, was blown down by the wind Monday night. It is almost a complete wreck, and will have to be rebuilt. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar “Love anil Miss Bessie Abernetby, of Lin colnton, and Min Mamie Love and Mr. John Bryan, of Gasto nia, went to Henrietta Tuesday to be present at the Love-Haynes marriage. * Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Burgin entertained several friends last Tuesday, February 12tb, in cel ebration of the 35th year of their “«ri«d life. Those present to enjoy the occasion were Mr. and 55”' P*n»l«r, Mr. and “S: ju!ffiiSS! •“* Saturday, February 'l4, was the occasion of a delightful birthday dinner at the boms of Mr. Tom Cansler. This was tbe birthday of both Mrs. Tom Cansler and Mr. Cephas Quick el, the former being 24 and tbe latter M. For hfs age Mr. Ouickel is a wonderfully well preserved man. On this occa sion he rode horse-back to Mr. C a osier’s home several miles awey. He is the father of Mr. Lee Quickel, Mrs. 8. D. Burris, Mrs. George Cansler, and Mr. J. C. Qalckel, all of whom live In this county. ' Dr. W. P. Burbank made an unmcccatful attempt to commit suicide at Greensboro Sunday. VALDESC MILL FORECLOSED. Will Frafcably ha Csaaolidateri With tha Nawtaa MU1. N'ewfrtu RtttefDrlac. Mr. C. L. Turner on Monday •old the Valdesc Hosiery Mill at Valdese, Burke county, under a mortgage given to him to secure an account for yams, and Mr. D. J. Carpenter of Newton was the purchaser. Mr. Carpenter has not yet determined whether he will continue the business at that place er move the machinery to Newton. Mr. Carpenter is also consider' ing a proposition from two other hosiery mills to move their plants to Newton and combine their business with bis. If be decides to accept the proposition, the capacity of his present mill will be about doubled. Tjpe Newton hosiery mill has been phenotniually successful. It has grown from a small plant to be one of the largest in the State, and is one of Newton’s most important industries. Doubling the machinery would mean a doubling of operatives. This wonld be an important ac cession to Newton’a population and business. Southern Laying Da able Tract Baltimore New*. The Southern Railway Com pany will spend nearly two million dollars in improving Its line in Virginia, starting from Wash ington. The traffic haa now be come such that a double track, for a loug distance at least from Washington, is a necessity, and this work will be prosecuted with vigor this year. Statiou and yards will be enlarged, and gradually the whole line will be double tracked. The Southern reaches nearly all the important points in the South. The crops this year, especially cotton, have been profitable, and hauling of oil kinds has been good. All the Southern roads art making money. The travel to the winter resorts of Florida and clae where is heavy and the growers of early vegetables sup ply the roads with a good freight. Added to these is the preat movement in coal and iron, merchandise, lumber and other products from the rich States that lie south of Mary land. The South was never at any time In its history in a bet ter condition. Artichokes so tks Pans. Sco(lta4 M«k CmmmmwwMi. Mr. J. A. Stikelesther. of Olin, N. C., writes to the States ville Landmark some interesting items about a farmer of bis com munity who follows the intensive plan 0^ farming rather than the extensive. The farmer in ques tion bought one bushel of art! thockes lor $1.50 and planted them on one-tenth of an acre in his garden and made 100 bushels. Ou* bushel of the artichokes, says thy correspondent, is worth ••'«ncb as a bushel of potatoes, “d the farmer is feeding them to bis hogs and cows with great to show that intensive farming , pays better than extensive farm ing over broad acrea of poor land. This is a good season of the year hr fanners to study such matters. I%- IMMW b« Ml >« Ambassadorial Togftry. Richmond N'rvo-Lcodrr. Shades of Jefferson sud manes of Marcy, if ye are not beyond the hearing of the agonising cry of a tortured and humiliated Amcricau press, mate r i a 1 i s e . come forth and rebnke such ca pers as Ambassadors McCormick and Tower are cutting—with the assistance of foreign tailors*-and which are enough to make the angel of Republican simplicity dissolve iu tears. Ambassador McCormick has appeared at the court of the csar clad in toggery that a committee of experts would hsye been pus sled in deciding whether it was the regulation rig for a lackey or the ring master of a circus, and Ambassador Tower—he of the given name suggestive of the most halcyon days of tnediaevaJ imperialism—has made obeisance to the German kasier, in a uni form before which would have paled in ntter insignificance the most gorgeous ever donned by an ante-bellum American militia general at a spring muster.' At such exhibitions the journalistic gorge of this country has risen and the wall has gone np invok ing the spirits of Jefferson and Marcv to revisit this part of this mundane sphere and assume the solid flesh long enough for the corporal entity of the one to lead us back to-first principles and the pen of the other to indite a fac simile of his "blackcoat circular" in which, some of our represen tatives abroad bad disported themselves st the courts of effete monarchies bedecked and be dieened like drum major?, he or dered that they should do the undertaker act as to habiliment. We of course sympathize with contemporaries iu their distress over the violation of the Marry circular and the insult to the memory of Jefferson of which Ambassadors McCormick and Tower have been guilty. Tbeir defiance of the cardinal doctrine* of Republican simplicity issbock ing—positively shocking—and both should be severely repri manded, if not recalled. Other considerations apart they have, on the occasions of tbeir discard ing the prescribed funeral garb, failed to give this country the conspicuousness as a " world power* our recent strenu ositv entitles us to. For what could be more conspicnou*— though, may h spa ridiculously conspicuous—than a crow iu an array of birds of reaplendant and vari-colored plumage. Nothing we know of except a chief mar shal dressed iu his Sunday-go-to meeting soit, leading a military parade, and wedged in between a main body and a band, whose raiment would put to blush Jo seph’s coat. Yes, American indignation naturally, justifiably and patrioti cally target np at the thought of our Ambassadors at St. Peters burg and Berlin contributing to chromatic harmony and brillian cy of coart receptions, when they could have effected a startling contrast and infused into the scene the suggestion of woe and inonmleg. At the same tbne it is much to be feared that the chorus of conjuration of the shades of Jefferson tad the manes of Morey, to the contrary notwithstanding, mingled with the average American’s indigna tion, is a feeling that something U nibbling at bis riaiblea, as he content plates what a "gay* at a court function abroad mast be the American representative who adheres strictly to the man date in tlic Mercy ctrdhlar. Lev ity apart however, a most absurd ram pus is beiog kicked up about ton whole buu»e*i, and sedflf! that no compromise of principle IS involved in our representatives not doing violence to good taste —in their obeying dictates simi lar to dictates society imposes here—criticism aad ridicule of Ambassadors McCormick and Tower comes with very poor grace from our papers and peo ple, especially iu a view of the fact that In one way no people run more to ''fuss and feathers." Nrw York Hetmld. A man never aeem* to realise that it is the women who wean a No. 3A wbo cannot keep her ■hoe laces tied. The msn wbo will allow a woman to do the courting will allow her to do the supporting. Ambition should be called the yeast of life, and every child Uogbt how to use. the correct ■mount to obtain the desired effect. It is the engaged man who feela free to tell every girt that woman's proper sphere is mar riage. ’ Men avoid the fashionable summer resorts because it costs ao much to take chaperons about. What a shock it would be to some men if their offers of mar riage were accepted. • A* msn will laugh at a senti mental woman, yet sleep with her handkerchief under bis pillow.__ Wealed Something Light. Chief Justice Puller wea por ing over some volumes in a Washington book store when Cougressmen Littlefield and Landis entered. "Great law yer.” said one in snbdued tones. * Remarkable jurist," assented the other. Both agreed that the distinguished Chicago man eras doubtless examining some ran legal work and that perhaps un counted millions depended upon his search. Just then the Chief Justice beckoned to a salesman and said in mattar-of fact tones: " Pleaae wren me up this copy of Jeck and the Beanstalk,’ will IT*, two Co iTreassaen looked foolish as tb.v slipped out and bought something. WOOD'S Garden Seeds lu. !*fti “!a« SM," g*n-55€^S5i ■*»>•.«» •> a* in f 'A. TwiiMni 7»»r. c *.-'■**.•?'■< uad mwmI mktuit ) li.« 4‘Smm VM» ti->-n«ar> •■■ - - ■- ,¥ J. Wt, tu.i •• -!».a kHi tkl tfl •»** K"\V '< '*■****£* mU pt«0i U . J rko ^uMan fcftSr. on fa ijir. 4\ t* fxH of nod filial. urxt firoa ;.. -lh«l rd&Uo finfMMOu akoo; 1 wadi, M> tor Ino Kar uad \,uj-Ua. T. W, WOOD <8 8088, Sedtaud, kkkaoa|»7a. W kWo) iVra- ri^ialS"Omh. **' SnImcHW for Tn Qasstts. . We have feat received another eu lead of well HORSES AND MULES. We uow have a lot of Males and Hones that any ooe may select from, and gat salted. Ia all we have about seventy-five head la oar T Now Is the dme to come and boy a alee Male. We guarantee satisfaction when you boy from as. Oar terns aad prices an also made to smit yoa. Now is the tisac to cone aad hay a brand new Vehicle. Wc bow have the nicest lot that we have had ia oar repository for a long while.'.' CRAIG A WILSON. i 3j*£j •one rot a bats at meatly beboces fhcbs. While the holiday aeaaon is over, atm wc many long winter evenings in which soon sort of be found hi tbe shape of Indoor games and amusements has yet ham that is superior to the different stylos of gi handle. ' a—js—mmsua—a—uam—mrwPS——— STAR ARCHARENA BOARD NO. 1. This board is 24 inches square, has elegant rmifril harfaiol rim finished in imitation mahogany. Panel la of 3-ply_r^- yt- ' neer. light and strong and finished hi colon. Croklaole, C*roa». Flag, «< Nadoaa.and other garner 50 ia all, can be ployed noth* board. it m the best cheap csmhiaalioa based ever mads. Thu regular price is ft JO. bat for thirty days we «ftr thh handsome gaum board with .complete '.ftp* Aft tot-oob .* |2«99 STAB ARCHARENA BOARD NO. 2. niir.HT. 3,U.«H baa br.ntlfol nnvwtiy twNhn udbdfnbfau! latdy hi^h-frede (UK board. Complete whb or— far « IU**l«r price is $S JO. Owr price tor SO dayaieonly .* NO. 1 CROW COMBINATION BOARD. Tbl Wnfi*1 fr**< the (unei played oouTits fioe finiab, and maSSme It i»^»jncbe« aqaare and of the mm hi,* qludS^LSSlaS Cmmptof Mrtftt rad I—tract!— b—k Extra Ml of SB tmrii —g-. 38c. MARSHALL’S BOOK STORE, Miatcwan.* a a aiamu e
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