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VOLUME X. ; ' LEISTOIR, 1ST. C, AUGUST 7, 1908.
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Wilkes
Shocking Trajedy In
- , County.
Charlotte Chronicle.
Winston-8alem, Ang. 3. Miss
Mary Ball, a Bchool teacher and a
popular young lady of Wilkes Co.
was shot and mortally wounded
last night by D. F. Tharpe, a
young man who had become in
fatuated with her. the bullet took
effect an inch above the heart. The
attending physician says that Miss
Ball cannot live through the day.
The declined to allow Tharpe to
accompany her to church last night,
and it is alleged that he told Miss
Ball that he would kill her if she
did not marry him before another
day.
A brother of the young lady ac
companied her to the services, and
as they were leaving the house of
worrship, Tharpe appeared aid
fired a pistol twice at Miss Ball.
One shot took effect and the other
going wild as a result of the young
lady striking the weapon with her
hand. Miss Ball's brother grap
pled with Tharpe and held him un
til friends came to his assistance.
Tharpe was badly intoxicated at
the time of the assault. This morn
iug he and his friends areendeavinr-
ing to put up the plea that he shot
during a fit of insanity.
' Tharpe is a son of Henry Tharpe,
one of Wilkes county's best known
citizens.
Enormous Damage.
Antioch, Cal., July 2C Early
thia morning JJOO feet of the San
Joaquin Eiver levee gave way and
Jersey Island, comprising 4,000
acres of celery, wan flooded. The
property lose is estimated at
15,000,000.
Killed His Father.
At a small mill village called cot
ton, near Hope Mills, Thomas Bid
die, aged 18 years, shot and killed
his father, James A.Biddle, shoot
ing him four tfmes. Young Biddle
was placed in jail at Fayettville
and here is what he says about the
sad attain
"I went home at a quarter of 8
o'clock last nightj and found my
mother and two sisters, Nellie and
Bessie greatly excited. My moth
er told me my father was drunk
again and had just beaten and
choked her and had left the house
a few minutes before saying that
he was going to th4 stable, a livery
Btable, owned by Hector Porter!
and my father, at which I worked, '
aud get a pistol, return and kill
the whole family and himself.
Mother told me to run as fast as I
could to the stable and get the pis
tol before father got there. When
I got to he stable, father was sit
ting on a pile of lumber in front of
the building and on the same pile
of lumber at some little distance off
sat my brother, Walter, aged 12
years, and Wesley Cain, Lon Low
ry and Tom Starling, all young
men. I went up to Hector Porter's
room on the second floor of the
stable, got the pistol out of his bu
reau drawer and came down.
As I passed my father, who
was sitting on the pile of lumber, he
told me to throw away the cigar
ette I had in my month and to get
a pipe and smoke it. I told him
tnat a cigarette would uo me no
more harm than a pipe. He re
1. .1 Al i 1 11 A
pueu inai ne qiu not want any
more of my damn sass and that he
would mash my month. By this
time I was between the pile of lum
ber and the fence, and my father
reached down and grabbed a large
board. As he raised to strike me
I was hemmed in and could not
get out of his reach and I drew the
pistol and fired. I don't know
how many times I fired. As I was
so excited aud frightened. I lan
away and went to Officer McLean's
house and gave myself up:"
The board with which the father
was attempting to strike his son is
in posession of the sheriff. It is
an inch and a half thick, eight
inches wide and three fe)t long.
Biddle lived in Faeyttville for more
than twelve years as engineer in
the Lakeview Cotton Mills. His
body was brought there today on
the way to Jonesboro for burial.
Another Typhoon Threatening . !
Hong Kong, July 31. Another!
typhoon is reported moving toward
Hong Kong and the inhabitants
at preparing for the worst. One
of the worst storms in years has
devastated a large amount of ter
ritory. The typhoon which has
just passed raged all day and forty
junks are ashore at the port.
The city of Canton is the heav
iest sufferer, hundreds of junks be
ing destroyed! The mortality on
Pearl river is fully ten thonsand.
The numerous floating bodies men
ace the public health. Wires are
all down and details are coming in
slowly.
What He Lacked.
Baltimore American.
"That young doctor is a queer
contradiction." "In what wayl"
"He has an exceedingly good tem
per and yet he is lacking in patients."
Child's Head Cracks' Open And
Death Follows.
tfewtand Observer.
High Point, N. C, July 25.
One of the most peculiar cases on
record developed here this week
and which caused the death of the
two year-old girl of Mr. Jones Grif
fith. For some time the child has
suffered with complications of dis
eases and recently its stomach be
gan to swell until it assumed enor
mous proportions, and strangest of
all, three large cracks appeared on
the child's head, through which
the pulsyting of the brain could
be seen. The attending physician
had never had or seen a case like
it, and the physicians that saw the
child were Ibaffied. The parents,
after the child's death, were asked
to let the physicians perform an
autopsy, but they would not con
sent to it. The remains of the lit
tle one were carried to Pinnacle,
this State, for interment.
This peculiar case calls to mind
the aged lady with horns growing
out from her head and who has
visited High Point on several oc
casions. Her name is Hlghtower
and she is seventy or more years of
age. Two large horns, very much
resembling those of a ram, pro-'
trude from the head and causes
Mrs. Hightower, so she says ex
treme pain at times. She says that
when the horns began to appear
that her head almost split with
pain.
The people ot Boone and the
generous guests withiu onr borders
did the right thing again Monday
night when they delivered pro
visions so the amount of about 112
00 to the widow Blair who is sick
and nnable to provide for a large
family oi children. Watauga
Democrat.
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