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P f) The Most Popular Afternoon Taper -Tbe Visitor. 2 St. eve: in in a VISITOR ft o TO GET AH, THE LOCAL KEWSTAKE THE VISITOR. VOL XXXIII. RALEIGH, N. C, FRIDAY, MAY a, 1895. NO. U Oar ttock of crockery, giant and tinware ia always large and eomplete, and above 20 per eent. cheaper than anybody else. We Lata soma very nice new dinner net, tod they are rry rheap. W cannot bo undersold u any of then lines. Woolloott A Son. Saturday Special. Three lota jard-wide bleached liouirspun at special sale next Satur day. Nonpareil bleaching 6 1 2o. Uilt edge bleaching 6 l-3c Ate and a half CHOta a yard. Red Jacket bleach ing 3 1-2 - three and a half ceuts a yard uext Saturday at D.T.Swindell's. Store for Sale. With a clean aud complete stock, doing a good business; cheap rent. 1 need more room reason tor Belling. Apply to J. A. Speence, 118 Kant Martin Direct. ap29 fit The season has now reached the point that LIGHT UNDKRWKAR is a comfort aud luxury. Our stock of these goods watt 4iever larger, better or more varied. Ladies' Vesta 5c to 50c. 1 rices ou ail wooleu goods are push ing them out of the way. The low prices ou mourning and black goods make them especially active. Our 50 inch jet black Serge creates a ST1U. Nothing like it in Haleigh for the price. Going at f)0; a yard. READYMAMi SKIRTS. Lined and iuterliued, of the most fashionable fabrics. Prices 3.50, $5, $7.50 and $10. They bang beauti- . HER W 5 DORP is the greatest oyer iu the world of fast Black Hosiery. Uur stock is filled with this celebrated make. Prices all the way from 10 to 60c. 1EMT13 uRTotM UMTS. The pleasing IVatures highest in quality lowest iu price latest in style. Out ' Latest luubrellu tor suusume aud raiu at 50-, 75c aud jl. OUR SHid STOCK is a slice ntute iu itself, aud failure to please, tit and fully satisfy is the rarest thing Styles inviting, fresh, new and up-to-date. COTTON "GOODS AND SllUK LKATHHK ADVANUMi. We have already received notice of advauce in prices ou th above aud beg leave to state that We utter our entire stock at lowest prices that we have ever known and probably will ever know agaiu. C.A.SIIERW00D&C0. PLEASE ffiOTlE I We invite you to inspect our stock of Fancy And Staple Groceries. You may rely on anything you buy of us as we handta nothing but the BEST goods. We take pleasure in recommending our improved MliLROSH Hour winch is guaranteed to please the most Tas tidious. Our MEATS are carefully-cured and of tine tlavor. We boast of our ELGIN PRIZE CREAMERY BUTTER. It is sweet, pure and fresh. Selected "SILVER HACK" Macker el, Roe and New N. C. Herring. M0MAJA, (contains Mocha, Mari caibo aud Java), Cnose & Sant'ord's Blended Mocha and Java. Both of these coffees are very hue. Arbuckld, Levering's, etc. Our prices are as low as first class goods can be sold. Call and see for . yourself or telephone No. 125. Respectfully, Turner & Wvnne, al2 Cor. Halifax and Johnson sts. MILLS HANGED. EXECUTION TOOK PLACE BEFORE NOON TODAY. Hi Xek Was Xot Ilroken-The Hobo Cave Way Slightly. George Mill is dead. Justice baa been done . One of the worst crimes eer committed in Wake has been pun ished. Perhaps that punishment ia not complete, but it is partial at least. It ia not worth while to give, agiin the details of Mills' crime. Here Is the story In the briefest space. On the night of June 10 last Mills murdered his yonng niece, Iana Wiin berly, in deserted dwelling near Apex. He was arrested the next day, and swore some one concealed in the bouse killed her. He was brought here and jailed. Threats of lynching caused the Governor's Juard to be put on guard duty two nights. In September Mills was given a trial. lie confessed then that he had murdered his niece, but that her father, Jack Winiberly, had caused him to commit the crime. So Wint erly was immediately arrested. Mills vas convicted, sentenced to death and appealed to the supreme court. In January Wimberly was also tried for the murder. He escaped with a ver dict of not guilily. The supreme court iu March affirmed the seutence of the superior court. Governor Carr issued his death warrant and named today as the time of execution. Mills was 48 years of age. He was born and raised near Apex. His father and mother live near that place, but he had spent most of his time at the home of Jack Wimberly. In personal appearance a man could hardly be more repulsive. He was nearsighted His appearance made persons think him weak minded. The physicians who examined him after the petition for commutation of his sentence to life imprisonment all pronounced him entirely sne. LiUle else was talked about here today save the execution of Mills. The pressure of applications for tickets was great. Only 30 tickets of admis sion were issued, while deputy sheriff Walters said there were at least 1000 applicants. In front of the jail there were several hundred persons, not a few of them colored women, Cn houses near by there were other would-be spectators, while in rear of the enclosure containing the gallows there were at least 500 of the curious Now none of those in front could do more than see Mills pass from the doorway of the jail to the enclosure, while those in rear could see nothing but could hear a little. Mills was sleepless last night. It was not until 5 o'clock this morning that he dropped into slumber. So said deputy sheriff R. H. Brooks, the death-watch. Mills ate sparingly. He partook of some nice fruits Dughi sent him. He prayed much of the time, and his use of words was good He talked very little. He awoke at 7:30. He was after this very tearful and it required an effort for him to talk with out crying. Amanda Dunston sent him a carefully prepared breakfast, His appetite was fairly good. At 9:30 a new suit of clothes was given him in which he attired himself. As early as 0:30 the gazing throng began to orowd the corridor of the courthouse leading past the sheriff's office to the rear entrance in front of the jail. Just in rear of the court house ropes had been stretched from the corners of the building to opposite corner of the jail f ence.so as to kerp an open passageway to the jail. Police officers Beasley, Upchurch and Jones were stationed there to keep the crowd away from the ropes. The im Baxter if BEST RESERVE CA N CORN, the finest oorn on the market. Has been sold to the best trade in Raleigh for the past three years. I have reduoed this corn to 1 E OexL-bs Can the price geneMl. kedfor,lnferior grades. Try a can. CT-ESSEI Gk BALL. T&LBPHONB77. tSL patient crowd kept walking op and ova the courthouse passage, not nowing at what hour the execution would occor, and now and then a per son woold enter me sneria omce io ry to get a ticket of admittance, so great was the curiesity of some. Several extra deputy sheriffs came p at 10:15 and were put on duty br- ween the jail and the courthouse, to eep back the crowd. At 10:15 Rev. Levi Branson went to sheriff Page's Ifice, where he awaited the arrival of the other ministers, who with buu were to attend to condemned man. In the meantime the crowd with tickets began to gather at the rear door of the courthouse, while others were in the sheriff's olBce, urgently ap plying for tickets, only to be told that the entire number of tickets had already been given out. At 11 o'clock Rev. N. B. Cobb, Rev. Levi Branson, Father Marion and the reporters were admitted to the jail by sheriff Page and deputy Brooks. Just as they were entering Rev. D. H. Tuttle came up and apologized to sheriff Page for being a little late, as he had under stood 11 o'clock was the hour he was o be present, instead of 10 at th sheriff reminded him he bad told him yesterday. On entering the jail Mills was found itting in a chair in the east corridor Sheriff Page asked him how he felt. and he replied : "1 feel as well as could be expected." Rev. Mr. Tuttle then said : "I am glad you feel as well as you do." Mills expressed to lev. Mr. Tuttle his faith in God and in His savin? power. wins was dressed in a very becoming square cut ack suit of black material, a black triped negligee shirt with a black bow. His boots were polished and be had been shaved. He looked quite neat as he sat in the split-bottomed chair with his hands folded in his lap; n fact, very much better than he had ever looked during either his own trial or that of Wimberly. Rev. Mr. Tuttle said, "George, there is this consolation for you; the Savior died like you under the sentence of being a criminal and His death has been vindicated." Then he read from the 32nd Psaloi, stand ing in front of the condemned man, with the solemn stillness of death around on all the crowd, and several prisoners looking down from their cells on the upper tier of cells. It was a very impressive scene. He re minded George how he bad said he trusted in the Lord. Mills said: "Yes, the Lord prompted me to tell it all." Then Rev. Mr. Tuttle read from the 8th chapter of Rcniaus and the 32 1, 33d and 34th verses of the 8th chap ter of Matthew, at the conclusion of which he asked the assemblage to join him in singing, which Rev. Drs Branson and Cobb did. They sang the hymn "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound," during which Mills made an eflort to sing but could only follow them with his lips He made no pre ceptible sound, and while they were singing his eyes quivered very ..much. Then Rev. Mr. Tuttle, placing his hand on Mills' shoulder, knelt and offered a prayer, fo'lowed by Revs. Cobb and Branson. Mills while they were praying covered his eyes with his hands and quivered, as if it was an ettort to control his emotions. Deputy Brooks read the death war. rant, signed by Gov. Carr. appoint ing May 3rd betweeu the hours of 10 a. m. and 2. p. m., as the time for Mills' execution, after a new trial had been refused by the su preme court. Darius the reading Mills acted in his iin i i I ojiit-1 manner. Sheriff Page said : -George, we have come to perform the ducy the law pre scribes." Deputies Walters and R"b ert Page escorted Mills from the jail and at 11 22 they walked upon the scaffold and Mills took scat in the middle, with the ministers sithug back against the wall, while sheriff Page and deputies Walters, Brooks and Robert Page were standing near. The scaffold was 10 by 15 in size and about 8 feet from the ground, while the gal lows beam with the noose dangling from it was over the trap. The trap was fastened at the back with hinges, while the front was supported by an inch plank, so arranged that it could be thrown out of position by pulling back a wooden lever. Rev. Mr. Tut tie shook hands with Mills and for the sheriff Pag said: "Georg-, ha you anything to say ?" He replied : Well, I thought I would and shall I stand np ?" He then stood up and aid: 'Ithauk God, my Creator, whom 1 shall stand before, to have brought me to confess my sins, aud I believe He has forgiven all of my sins, and I have forgiven all of my enemies." Then he talked about God and Jesus, and thanked God that Jesus had died for L i iu. He admonished his auditors that while God had forgiven him some people bad refused to sign a petit inu to rhe governor asking that he I al lowed to spend tbe remainder of his life in punisbmeut. and he said." How stands the case witb you." If you do not forgive others you will not be for given yourselves at the judgment day." Deputy Brooks said good by- as Mills sat down; thy shook hands aud then Mills asked to he allowed to pray. In It's prayer he expressed faith in God, asked Him to be mercif ul to sheriff Page and his deputies, prayed for his pareuts and brothers aud sis ters, asked for forgiveness of his ene mies aud to help them forsake their sins, and finally asked to be saved through Jesus Christ Sheriff Page said good bye, and deputies Robert Page and Brooks bound Mills' bauds behind him aud nest bound his feet, then deputy Brooks placed the noose around his neck. Mills said to deputy Page, as he began to slip the black cap over his head, "Here, 1 tell you now, what you do I want you to do it quick." The black cap was tied on and 11:40 sheriff Page pulled the lever and Mills' riody fell through the trap and dangled in the air. Then the physi cians walked up to examine him and the entire crowd of forty people gath ered around the body. The rope was tied in four strands around, the gallows and one broke when t':' body fell aud Mills' feet were in two inches of touching the ground when the body was taken down. This was one of those unavoidable accidents liable to occur at any time and no blame at all can be imputed to sheriff Page or any of his deputies. In the fall the noose slipped and the knot was just behind the head, instead of beneath the left ear, and some doubt was expressed as to whether the neck was broken, and physicians said the fall did not break it. At different times the physi cians examined the body and at 11:51 uudertaker Brown brought in an imi tation rosewood coffin, lined with white cam'irie. At 11:59 the physicians said there was a slight muscular movement and at 12:01 Drs. J. R. Rogers of this city and A. T. Cotton of Morrisville .pro nounced Mills dead. Then the body was cut down, placed in the colli u, the bonds removed from the arms and legs nd the coffin lid fastened down. The coffin was carried out of the jail yard and placed in the hearse. The Mills family had arranged with undertaker Brown to carry the body through the country. Drs. Cotton and Rogers were inter viewed and say Mills was strangled to death. They say it required 18 min utes for him to die, though they do not think he suffered any pain, after the first shock. His neck was not broken. ELLINGTON WINS. JUDGE STARBUCK DECIDES IN HIS FAVCR. Stanford AppciiNto the Siiprt'ine Court Kllinton (Jive Itonil. The jury which in the superior court last evening took the case of Stanford vs. Ellington, on the one issue offset, namely "Did Stanford before the be ginning of the act of the legislature demand from Ellington possession of the office of state librarian?" The jury failed to agree. It stood 7 for Ellington, 5 for Stanford. The judge this morning at 10 o'clock recalled the jury, refused to submit the issue. and discharged the .ry. Judge Starbuck then took np the following issues and rendered his de cision in a few minutes: Second, "Did Stanford execute and tender bis bond and offer to qualify as state librarian before the governor and did the latter refuse to qualify him?" Yes, by consent. Third, "Is Ellington in possession of the office?" Yes, by consent. Fourth, "Was Stanford legally elected by the legislature on the 13th of Mar h?" No. Fifth, "Does Ellington unlawfully hold over and refuse to surrender the office?" No. Stanford at once took an appeal to tbe supreme court, and Ellington gave a $500 bond, to cover the emoluments of the office, pending a decision Stanford appears to think the case will be heard by the supreme court at the present term, bnt as to this no one can say positively. Ellington't, couusel will do all possible to expe diate a hearing. Ellington received many congratulations on the result of the case Airil Weather. The meteorological Bummary for Raleigh for April shows that the mean temperature was 58 degrees, , The highest temperature was 85 degrees on the 22d, the lowest 33 degrees on the 4th. The greatest daily range of temperature was 3C degrees on the 5tb ; the least daily range 3 degrees on the 17th. The mean temperature for April for nine years is 59 degrees The prevailing direction of the wind was north, and its highest velocity was 30 miles, on the 22 1. The total rainfall was 7.95 inches. The nam ber of days on which .01 inoh or more of precipitation fell was 17. The average rainfall for April for nine years is 3 27 inches. The total excess during the month was 5.40 inches The total excess since January 1st is 9.06 inches. There was frost (light) on the 4th, 5th, 15th and 19th. There were thunderstorms on the 13th, 14th, 22J, 26th and 27th. Student' Volunteer Movement. Mr. H. W. Lure of Chicago, travel ing secretary of the students' volun teer movement for foreign missions, H in the city, visitiug me colleges, ne visited Peace institute yesterday and will probably make a visit to St.Mary's this evening. Mr. Luce is very much interested in this student volunteer movement. He speaks at the Y. M.C. A. this afternoon at 6 o'clock. The public is invited. Mr. Luce is viBit- itig all the colleges in the south and southwest. While in the city he is the guest of of the A. and M. college. He leaves for Wake Forest college to morrow at 12 o'clock, where he will meet Mr. Brockman, who is in the same work. The Weather For Tomorrow. For North Carolina : Fair in west ern portion, raiu today and tonight in eastern portion, showers on coast 8at' urday. Local forecast for Raleigh and vr cinity: lfair, warmer. Local data for 24 hours ending at 8 a. m. today: Maximum temperaturr 55; minimum temperature 52; rainfall 0 03. ' We are dispensing all kinds of sher bets and cold drinks. Our chocolate is "just lovely." Hicku & RooBBa, Prescription Druggists I!kAiTiFiI. Shown in our south show window Lj&ks Like OA Eiamine the new designs In Celery Stands, Wa'er Bottles, Toothpicks, Syrup Pitchers, Berry Bowls, lee Cream Tray. Pitchers, Cu wards, V iuendis. Tumblers, Sherbets, Nonpareil Bleached Sheet . C;'ing';'.;0:V: At special sale Saturday next at 5e a yard. Full yard wide; free from starch; heavy weight, smooth finish and soft and the price next Saturday will be 5o a yard, at Swindell s. THOS.IL BRIGGS & SONS, RALEIGH, N. C. ' wwe&iA 2"? 4 IJMniaairTjg:: a i-i fflia? ? Li hi 'JismgS viz. Zi IwraanjuMMi Q If p flSW 5?- SElfjfM si? I&SMLpsjs 1 1 ; g - :A Gkreatj Sale OF ZEIGLt'R BROS. Ull'VOXFOM iat 81.50 'CHOICE.' We have just concluded a trade with Messrs. Zeigler Bros, for 660 prs f Ladies' Oxfords, vici kid, pat. tip, liz-s running frooi 1 to 9 and widths i, C, D and K. This lot of Oxfords were made for other people in another t-.v.vu and were manufactured to sell at ?2 and $'2.f0 per pair. By taking the lot we were made a price, so we could sell to our custom ers at $1.50. Every pair is a new one and made up for this spring's trade;. Every one stylish and in perfect order. They came to us at a price and we let them go to you at a price unpre cedented in the shoe business. These are on a special table in the regular shoe department. Rubber Shoes le a Pair. To every one who buys at my store next Wednesday two dollars and sev enty-five cents worth of goods we will sell a pair of rubber shoes for one cent. (Bleached and brown cottons excepted.) Next Wednesday, May 8th, at D. T. Swindell's ladies' and misses rubber shoes one cent a pair. Send your orders today and tomor row to Dughi for ice cream Sunday. . Fancy duck, suitable for dresses and shirt waists.at 8 l-2o. Black and fancy crepons 15c, at I. Rosenthal's. first time he was .visibly affected and I Dughi' 8. I l - it ,' Bananas only 15 cents a dozen at Thomas & Maxwell has just received a large lot of pine fiber mattresses for people suffering with bronchical lung troubles. - N. 0. corned herrings by the barrel A Fourth Less Than Cost. "All men's clothing will be sold in suits for one fourth less than actual cost of same. And we have a beauti ful assortment of men's summer suits and a very large stock to select from. We will not have a clothing depart ment when we move to Norfolk and shall uot carry any clothing from here if our low urices will ell it. For in stance a suit thai sold for $15 cost $10 and we now sell at $7.50. So you see this is just half the retiil price and one-fourth less thin cost, at u. Swindell's. T at D. Bell & Co's. market. Stall No. 12 city Why not save a dollar or two by buying your millinery at Woollcott's. We have the very Utest. things out. We have just received today the pret tiest lot of nice sailors ever seen in the city, and we don't ask the earth for them. Anything in the way of a nice trimmed jat, ltowers, (for we have a splended line) feathers, jets or ribbons you will always And at our place. All we ask is that you, come and look over the stock. Woolloott & Son. Ladies and misses Oxford ties atSOc and up. I. Rosenthal, 4 I