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Mo mm r VOL. AA, IV U. 07. I.UU Hfck YfcAl?, RE1D5VILLE, N.;C.,! DECEMBER 3 1. 1907 ISSUED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Don't Delay Order . Your Christmas Fiano Krom Stieft Today in m Manufacturer of the Artistic Stieff, Shaw and Stieff Self-Playing Pianos. Southern Ware room: 6 Weat Trade St, Cbarktte,N.C. -. O. H. WILMOTH MANAGER. WATCHES" AND icuci nv JUYV Uiltv I I have just received a supply of Elgin ami Wattham Watches and dust proof gold, filled and nickel cases. Alt sizes. Gent's vet chains," ladies guard and neck chains, rings, spectacles and eye glasses, etc. I am not giving goods away. Ev ery intelligent man and woman knows I cannot afford to pay for goods and tben give them away. .Neither have I any special goods at special prices. - Some things are dear at any price. ' But I bavn standard, guaranteed goods that I am selling just a little lower than the other fellow. Every thing guaranteed to be just as rep resented. It iU pay you to inves tigate for yourself if you anticipate purchasing anything n my line. The mofet difficult watch work solicited. . n 1 1 1J , THE WATCH MAW ARCHITECTS Rooms 13-J4 Tise Building, - Winstotf-Salem, N. C. ; H if '11 ii - Are You Boarding Because 9 You Cannot Afford to Furnish a Home ? v If you are, just come to us and let us show you how little it will take to fit out handsomely and cozily that home you would love to have. Then when you see how little it will take, an i that with what you save -kiif kr.at Ati mn asmn si tarn vaiis rKinrra vaii will thnnlf 11 a ffif I . asking you to come 'round will start you in and lurntan H tm ll e:vS lo ck to rf Hill Company, . PRESIDENT HIT NEVADA HARD Orderi Troops to Remain at Goldfleld if Lfglslatnre Is Convaned. ' SOVERNOR ISSUES THB CALL Washington, Dec. 30. In response to an almost pathetic appeal from the governor of Nevada. President Roose velt countermanded the order for the removal of the troops that are on duty at Goldfleld to prevent a strike rit, and directed that, in the event that the governor within five days calls a rneclal session of the legislature, the troops shall remain there for three veks. If the governor of Nevada de t Knes to call the legislature the troops will leave Goldfleld, and Nevada will have to work out its own salvation. : The case is one of the most peculiar In American history, and has a very serious side, for It directly affects the powers of the state and national ex ecutives in the use of federal troops to preserve order where there is no interstate or federal interest in dan . ' - :;'"vv Governor John Sparks, of Nevada, in his appeal to the president not to re move the troops from Goldfleld, de clares that he is not only powerless to control the situation, but that he has. good reason to believe that the legislature, if called into extra ses sion, will refuse to do anything In the interest of law and order. He bases this belief on the fact that the legis lature at its last session refused to allow the creation of a state constabu lary, and that the lower house adopt ed a resolution expressing sympathy with Haywood, Moyer and Pettlbone. He declares that the maintenance of fcrder at Goldfleld, where there are two armed and hostile camps of strength far beyond the powers of the civil of ficers to control, can only be assured by the indefinite retention there of troops of the United States. The president in hfs reply is sharp and short He says that it Is the busi ness of a state to keep order, and when it finds that it cannot keep or der, the legislature of a state may ask for the aid of the federal government; but only when the legislature of the state makes this request can it be complied- with. He berate the gov ernor Tor not doing his duty in calling the legislature, no matter what bis fears as to its action, and says that he will allow the federal troops to remain at Goldfleld for the next three weeks only upon condition that the governor call the legislature. Extra Session Called. Reno, Nev Dec. 30. A special ses sion of the Nevada legislature has been called by Governor John Sparks. The governor said the date of con vening the legislature will be Jan. 14. The call was made at the request' of President Roosevelt, whd has notified Nevada's governor that such action must be taken or the troops now sta tioned at Goldfleld will be removed. -v Notification of the decision to as semble the legislature has been trans mitted to Washington. County Com missioner Rosenthal, of Goldfleld, whose resignation has been requested by Governor Sparks, has refused to vacate his office. Tyler's Granddaughter Assaulted. Washington, Dec. 30. While re turning from a visit to Louise home, where she went to make a call upon a dying aunt, Miss Letitia Tyler, a granddaughter of President Tyler, waa assaulted and robbed of her purso by an unknown man. Miss Tyler's aunt, who was Mrs. Letitia Sample, a niece of President Tyler, died Sun lay afternoon. Miss Tyler is sixty-five years old and a clerk on the navy de partment Her assailant was not ap prehended. Mrs. Semple, during Presi dent Tyler's incumbency, acted as the mistress of the White House. If good beef will please you you are a customer of ours for 1938-Cosmo Benson, city market. - You Feel That I your bouse complete. ' Greensboro, Norih CewroUnex. " , " CRUSHED TO DEATH One Killed and Nine Injured By 'Fall of Fals Work at Bridge. Philadelphia, Dtc. 23. One man waa killed and nine others were injured, two of them seriously, by the collapse here of a portion of false work supJ porting a new concrete bridge over Wissahlckon creek in the Northwest section of the city. Martin Simpson, aged thirty years, was crushed by the mass of timbers and false work ani Instantly killed. Bernard Mean, re ceived internal Injuries and both arms were crushed, one of them so badly that it had to be amputated, and Joseph Lnyton, was Injured about the spine and both of his hands were crushed. Seven other workmen wore cut and bruised by the falling fraxjS work. :: ... ; The bridge, which is the largest concrete structure in the country- and the only one of Its kind in the world has just betn completed. It is knowri as the Walnut Lane bridge, and wal built by the city at a cost of 1300,000. Workmen were removing false work from one of the spans, when the rest of the frame work under the spaa col lapsed. The frame work fell 140 feet upon the men from the highest point In the bridge. V OFF FOR RIO JANEIRO ' American Battleship Fleet Salle From Port ef Spain. Port of Spain, Trinidad. Dec. 30. The American battleship Beet weighed anchor Sunday afternoon and steamed for Rio Janeiro, Accompanying the fleet were the " supply ships Culgoa and Glacier. ' ' Long before the hour set a myriad of small' craft, chiefly launches and steam yachts, ' moved up and down along the lines of anchored warships, the merry parties aboard shouting farewells to the departing visitors. The fleet presented a magnificent ap pearance as it steamed out in font columns, with the supply ships trail ing, a distance of 400 yards separating one division from another. With the Connecticut in the lead, the battle ships headed for the Docaa and steam ed majestically through the Grand Boca and thenee along the nortaet coast of Trinidad. An average of from ten to eleven knots an hour will carry the fleet to the end ef the tee ond lap of the 14,000-mile Journey In about twelve days, and it was an nounced by Admiral Evans before his departure that he expected to reach Rio Janeiro Friday evening, Jan. 10. FAMILY BURNED TO DEATH Five Perished In Fire Which Destroy ed Their Home. . Boston, Dec. 28. Five persons were burned to death in a fire which de strayed the house of John Clark la Watertown, a suburb. Every membet of the Clark family perished in thi flames. The dead are: John Clark, his wife and their three children John, aged eleven; Philip, aged nine, and Dorria two years old. : The flames had made great headwaj when discovered by a neighbor. Th bouse was about two miles from the centre of the town, and when firemen arrived it had been burned almost tc the ground. The firemen were able te locate the bodies of the father and twe boys, but the mother and little girl were not found until the ruins of the house had cooled sufficiently to per mlt a more thorough search, ' Clark waa a salesman in a seed store on Fanueil square, Boston. The house was valued at 15000. Dragged By Runaway Horse. Washington, Dec 30. A horseback party of young folks had a thrilling experience in the outskirts of the city. The horse of one of the party took fright and bolted, starting a general stampede. Miss Elisabeth Rogers, daughter of R. H. Rogers, general counsel of the Isthmian canal commis sion, was painfully injured about the head, being dragged some distance be fore the horse she was riding waa stop ped by Charles Blrdsall, who saw the animal approaching at top speed with the young woman hanging from the saddle and screaming for help. Bird salt himself received severe contusions of the bead and body by being kicked by the horse. : , : Planned to Rob John D. New Tork, Dec. 23. The police took into custody Earnest Archer, who, they allege, has been scientifically robbing residences on .Fifth avenue by posina as an elevator Inspector. Archer waa arrested while In the home of Colonel William Berbour. In his pooketa the police assert, were found blue prints showing outlines of elevator construc tion in the homes of John D. Rocke feller, John Jacob Astor and other well known financiers. "Human Skeleton" Found Dead. Providence, R, I., Dec. 30. Charles H. Perry, who travelled with several of the larger r circuses for sixteen years, figuring as : "The Skeleton Man," was found dead in a but In tht outskirts of this city, where he had lately led a hermit's life. Death wa due to natural causes. Although he was six feet one lnchln height, he weighed only eighty pounds, v . XaploslorUo-rl It-CeaC Wooster, O., Dec. 28. Rev. William H. Hubbel, mayor-elect of Dayton, O . was the victim of a peculiar exploalor at the home of his sister here. He hr no matches or explosives, but whllr in conversation the explosion sud denly occurred In his coat, which, with Mt rest, blazed and wa ruined. The minister was unhurt. He thinks the explosive was sewed In his coatllnlng. WAS STUNNED ; AND DROWNED Autopsy Rsmls' Grewsomo Stotj of Murder Mystery. WOMAN'S - B0DT IDENTIFIED Newark, N. J, Doc. 30. Stunned by blows on the head and then thrunt headforemost into a pool of water was the manner of death of the woman whose nude body as found on the Hackensack Meadows, In the town of Harrison, last Thursday. ' This grew some story was told at the autopsy which left no doubt aa to the details of the murderous work. The body Is be lieved to be that of Agnes O'Keefe, a domestic, who had been employed by several families in Orange. The autopsy war'made by Dr. C, H. Bchultze, of New fork, with the as slstance and authorization of the cor oner and county physicians. At Its conclusion, the lungs and intestines were removed to a laboratory for mi croscopic examInatloa.x : . The physicians found that the wom an had been struck twice on the back of the head with suck force as to ren der her unconscious and that while in this state, and still brettnlng, she was pitched head foremost Into the pool where she was drowned. The water at the spot was shallow,, and the head struck the bottom; with sufficient violence to roll the water, so that her dying gaeps drew into the lungs bits of ashes and "cinders. There were two abrasions t4he base of the brain, be hind the right ear. s After inflicting these, the physicians determined, the murderer ' slit the woman's clothing from the neck, down. This feat was skilfully one, for though the cutting was made with hardly more than a single movement of a keen-edged wea pon, that stroke made Its way through every thickness of clothing, and at no time did the point of the knife enter the body. That the weapon waa not used to aid the murde is believed to be due to the hope of the assassin that the case might be mistaken for one of suicide. The shoes and stockings were pulled off with, brutal haste and then, seized by the feft,: the woman was stood fairly on her head In. the water and so held until, -.he was dead The organs indicated thatthe woman had used alcoholic stimulants, but that he had not done so to excess. The detectives are hard at work tracing the life of Agnes O'Keefe, and by this means hope to arrest the mur derer. AshviHe Dry To-morrow The saloons in A simile will close per manently to-marrow night and the proli i.ionijti the of the city are happy. Incentally the fiancal statement by the city authorities ia the best that has ben made in years notwitbestanding the fact that the city this month does not recieve the semi-annual saloon li cense tax m ney of about $11.00". Evenln theabcanseof this nnney the city will be at le to meet its semi annual intrett to-ma rw without borrowing a cent Heretofore it has been neces sary for the city to borrow on the first of every year about $6,000 to S300 Great quadities of "whiskey have gone out of Ashville during the, past few days. It is understood that no email amount of this stuff I a gene on tie Murphy diuision. A railroad man from section to-day said that for ten years he had never seen aa much' whiskey sent out the Murphy way as duing the hoi iday season. At kast one of the Ashe ville saloons will be moved to Middles boro, Ky., and also one of the local dis tilleries. Two of the salcon proprietors are selling their, goeds at auction wl ila others ray that all unsold goods will be returned. " Ho disposition has yet been made so far as known of any of the places now occupied by saloons '"Miss Violette Lewis has gone to Mt Airy to visit her parenta. , . Little Nellie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Morrison, is critically ill with scarlet fever. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Link have returned to Durham after a few days visit to tl family of H. E. Link. . We handle cattle by the drove, we stall feed everything we kill. It ia the best-Cosmo Benson, city market Mr. Roy Meador, of Madison, spent Saturday and Sunday here the guest of his thter, Mrs. H. L. Morrison, Jr. Just received another drove of fine, fat, stall feed, cattle from across the mountains. If you enpy good beef try Benson's stall, City Markt Da you know that the only drug- store here with two registered druggists to full your prescriptions and drug wants ia Fetter & "Tucker," theDependab e Druggists. ; From the number of fine cattle we hive killed it seems that we have pleas e I the people; we have aimed to havo the best tho market affords. Try us for 1908 If you enjoy nice beef from a clean stalLCogmo-Bensooy-City Mk'U . A Didceroas Deadlock that sometimes terminates fatally Is the stoppage of liver and bowel functions. To quickly end thU condition without disagreeable sensations. Dr, King s New Life Pills should always be your remedy. Guaranteed absolutely satis f ictory in every case or money back at Allen i drug store. .oc. PREDICTS DI3ASTER3 ! fork, Pa, Prophet Says World Will End In 1503. - York, Ps. Dec, 27. Lee J. Spangler, the prophet makes the following pre dictions for 1908: .. The end of the world, in tie end of the month of December, on a Sunday. Nineteen hundred and eight will be a year of trouble, such as was never known before, . Nation shall 'rise sgninst nation. There shall be famines and pesti lences and earthquakes. Rivers will dry up. - The fish of the sea will die. The. sea will boll up with a great noise. Islands will pass away. The city of Boston will sink. New Tork will go up In smoke. People will flee to the mountains, The banks will keep on falling. This annot be stopped. Roosevelt wlU. get rid of all his money. ' The treasury will go dry. . People will carry their money In their sockets and hide it in their houses, Families will steal it from one an other. This is the gold that la piled up for the last days. This gold will rust in your pockets. It will give you more trouble than good. Labor organizations will come under one head and rule the land. This coming summer and fall the elect, the saints, will be gathered to gether. ,. BOY 6HOT ITALIAN Foreigner Assaulted Lads With Razor and la Killed. - Philadelphia, Dec. 30. An unknown Italian was shot and instantly killed under exciting circumstances in West Philadelphia by Joseph Casartano, aged sixteen, years, who alleges that the dead man had held up and assault ed him and Joseph Benone, aged fifteen years, v The boys say the unknown stopped them on an open lot, where the shooting occurred. The man was threatening In his manner, the boys say, and when they attemped to pass on he drew a razor and slashed Cas artano : on the shoulder. The latter fled and the Italian attacked Denone, cutting, him on the forehead. Casart ano, .then turned and drawing a re volver shot his assailant through the heart . The. shooting; attracted the attention of the. members of. a political club, a short distance away, and thp, member gave chase to the boys who fled across the open country toward the river. They were captured after a run of more than a mile. ' BATTLE WITH KNIVES Three Men Killed and the . Fourth Badly Slashed. Charlotte, N. C., Dec. 30. A special from Morganton says news has been received from Collettsyille, Caldwell county, ten miles from Lenoir, of a fatal light between four mountaineers, two brothers named Clark and the brothers Rader. Knives were the weapons used and the men fought for an hour without interference, with the result that both of the Clark's and one of the Rader brothers were killed and the other Rader badly slashed. Moon shine liquor is said to have inspired the battle. . ' MITCHELL'S SUCCESSOR T. L. Lewis Elected President of Mine r Workers' Union. Wheeling, W. Va., Dec, 28. Officials of the Fifth Ohio sub-district of United Mine Workers of America have receiv ed returns from a majority, of districts in the United States and with the ex ception of a few districts in the anthra cite regions of Pennsylvania, Vice President T. L. Lewis has received a majority votes for national president of the United Mine Workers to succeed John Mitchell. Lewis is a resident of Bridgeport, O. Three Italian Boys Drowned. Eastcn, Pa., Dec. 30. Three Italian boys were drowned In a pond near Bangor! The lads had been Bkatlng, when the ice, under the weight of a large crowd of . merrymakers, gave way.The drowned boys wereilPhllllp Bigltoni, aged fourteen years; .'Angfl.1 Talmeirl, a?rd sixteen years, and Pe ter Falcoul, aged 17 years. The-bodies were recovered. Note In Bottle Tells of Shipwreck. Atlantic City, N. J., Dec. 23. The government coast life guards are In vestlgatln; the story of a shipwreck conveyed to them by a note in a bot tle whioh was picked up here. The message, written on a torn scrap of paper, is addressed to 130 North Fifth street, Boston, and reads: "Steamer 3lnking. Good-bye all." The gucrds have notified Boston. 'Phone Message Kills Him. Mascoutah, III.,, Dec. 30. George Bickhaupt, a farmer, sixty-five years old, dropped dead when told by tele phone that hie sister, Mrs. Ida Schallcr, hsd been murdered. The report of her death wns erroneous, she having drop ped dead of heart disease. Convicted of Forgery. Mays Landing, N. J., Doc. 28. Jchn Andrews, former chief clerk in the comptroller's office in Athntlc City, was found guilty pn charges of for 6tyB,iftnfj ''HibnHi'imciiti '0f,-,ju w& s gregatlns about J24.000. The Jury was out only ten minutes. He Blew Out the Gas. Harrisburg, Pa., Dec. 30. Joseph Fllson, aged twenty-four years, of Blr rolngham, Pa., who was here vlsltinj a cousin, when he retired blew put th gas. He was found dead from auffoca tion la the corning. I HKhr (ill Ffi IN itiiava tiiuuui lift I CAMDEN CRASH Pennsylvania Trains Collide Trestle Work. OB SX0KDTO CAR TELESCOPED Camden, N. J., Dec. 28. Three per cons were killed and a score more or lass seriously injured in a collision on the new elevated line of the Pennsyl vania railroad system, when a fam berton accommodation train crashed into the rear of an Atlantic City' ex press. ' i The dead are: Thomas L, Webster, of Merctiantville, N. J.; C. T. Sont gen, of Stanwood, N. J., and James J. Dabarino, of Mount Holly, N. J. Those killed and Injured were in the smoking car of the accommodation train, next to the locomotive. No one on the Atlantic City train was in jured, nor were the firemen or engi neers of either train hurt The ma jority of the passengers had left tho Atlantic City train when the crash occurred. - . There was a dense fog at the time, which is supposed to have caused tho accident The Atlantic City train was stationary, having been stopped Just outside the trainshed. For some rea son as yet undetermined the Pember ton accommodation bore down upon it the Impact driving the tender of tho accommodation train locomotive under the smoker behind it, in which nearly every passenger was injured to some extent. Just who is at fault has not been decided. The Atlantic City train usually slows up at the point where the accident occurred, but all trains were delayed by the fog, while outgo lag trains waited for scheduled boats that were delayed on the river. The rear of the, Atlantic City train caught fire and the fire department and all the police reserves of the city were called out. . The firemen, train hands and the police worked energeti cally to get the dead and injured from the wreck. v Among the Injured are: James Clark, Merchantville, N. J., general contusions; CbarleB Stewart, Mer chantville, N. J., ankle broken eye cut; William H. Mason, fifty-three yecra Old,' Mount Holly, bruised back and leg; F. H. Smith, Brooklyn, shock; Paul Smith, six years old, Merchant ville, contusiona; J. K. MendenhalL Lumbertcn, Nv J broken arm and dis located hip;-W. C. Dlx, Merchantville, struck on nose by flying timber; Paul Picot, Merchantville, badly bruised; C. H. Brown, Moorestown, Internal in' Juries; W. B. Abbey, Mount Holly, slight Injuries; A. H. Mulford. Mer chantville, tendon of leg Injured; H. L Cooper, Mount Holly, leg and back injured; I. D. Roberts, Moorestown, slight injuries: William H. Dobbins, Mount Holly, cut in face, injured in breast; S. L. Tage, Moorestown, both legs broken; John T, Sleater, Mer- chantTille, slight Injuries; J. S. Slater, Merchantville, slight injuries; Howard Street. Merchantville, contusions; Harry D. Snyder, Merchantville, lacer ated chest: Carl Prlggett, Merchant ville, lacerations; Mrs. Mary Dold, At lantic City, bruised head; D. M. Kle man. Sharon Hill, Pa., contusions; Walter Townsond, Atlantic City, lac erations. DEADLY FLOBERT RIFLE Eight-Year-Old Boy Accidentally Shot and Killed His Mother. Stroudsbtirg, Pa., Dec. 30. Mrs. George Hoenshllt, of Scranton, was accidentally shot an'd killed here by her eight-year-old son Lewis. Mrs. Hoenshllt, who was visiting her father, Samuel Edlnger, was talking to a friend over the telephone when her son, who had previously been shooting at mark with a fiobert rifle, came into the room and pointing the gun at her pulled the trigger. A bullet struck Mrs, Hoenshllt in a vital spot and she lived but a short time. The boy thought the gun was empty. 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