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VOLUME X. LENOIR, N". C, OCTOBER 2, 1908. XO. 94.
TAR HEEL TOPICS
News Itemt From All Over
The SUte Briefly Noted.
There are said to be 600 brandy
distilleries in the state.
Col. H. C. Eccles, a well known
hotel man of Charlotte, is dead.
The sale of the Carolina Valley
Railroad has been postponed again
this time for sixty days.
Eev. Dr. C. M. Richardson, of
Statesville has been called to the
pastorate of the Presbyterian
church at Davidson.
Mr. Wese'ott Roberson, of High
Point, who has been touring
Europe with a party, arrived home
yesterday. He has been absent a
month or more.
Manager Collins, of the Char
lotte Baseball team, has signed the
following new players tor 15H)!: H.
M. Jackson, Hugh Warner, James
R. Riley and E. (i. Wooile.
The O. E. Stoner Clothing Co.,
of Asheville, has gone into the
hands of a receiver. The assets of
the company are estimated at 15,
000 and the liabilities at between
$15,000 and $'20,000.
Mr. Lon Blalock, a former resi
dent of Canton, but now a promi
nent contractor of Shreveport, La.,
who has been visiting in Haywood
county for several weeks, has re
turned to his home.
C. W. Sessoms, a white man who
is charged with attempting to crim
inally assault a blind white girl,
near Dunn, Harnett county, more
than a year ago, was arrested in
Sampson county last week.
A second night rider letter has
made its appearance, this time in
Gaston county. The sender of
these letters seem to lx the same
person and as the party has nut as
yet lieen located it is creating much
apprehension.
Rev. Chas. Fetter, an Episcopal
minister and a brother of the late
Hal. Fetter, of Statesville, died in
hospital in Charlotte Saturday af
ter a brief illness. His home was
at Wadesboro and the remains were
taken there for burial.
The shipment of rish from New
liern, Beaufort and Morehead City
has been very heavy for the past
week or so. For some days it has
required two extia express cars on
the morning train to take care of
the shipments.
Gov. Glenn last week granted
four pardons, most important be
ing the case of James Frady, con
victed at the April term of Bun
combe court of murder in the sec
ond decree and seutenced to two
years on the county roads. Frady
plead the unwritten law.
George Murphy, of Salisbury. N
C. who planned to rob the Bank
of Spencer had a preliminary heal
ing last week. His bond was fixed
at $1,000. Not being able to give
the bond h e w a s placed i n
jail. It is Raid the bank that he
had Dlanned to rob had about
$100,000 in it.
The High Point city fathers have
passed a special ordinance relating
to smallpox, diphtheria and scar
let fever, making it a penalty ior
failure to report such cases to the
health officer upon the part of phy
siclans ai)d those of the family
where such cases exist. Those ex
nosed in anv wav must also be
I v
quarantined for a given period
is about $1,700; no insurance. The
origin of the fire is nuknown, bat
Mr. Holey does not think it was
incendiary.
Some days ago Mrs. Adolphns
Page, who lived near Clement,
Sampson county, left home to fish
in South River, about a mile away.
She did uot return at night but her
husband, for some reason, was not
disturbed and two nights passed
before search was made. She was
found dead with her body partially
in the water. There was no evi
dence of foul play and it is suppos
ed she was drowned or died of
heart failjjre.
The Reflector tells of a balloon
ascension in Greenville last week
at which the ballon fell in the
street in front Capt. C. A. White's
residence and the parachute drop
ped in the rear of the same resi
dence. Ttye aeronout landed on a
picket fence and was seriously
hurt. Capt. White, who saw the
balloon fall in front of his house,
turned to watch the parachute,
tripped and fell, breaking his right
wrist, spraining his left wrist and
bruising his side.
B. F. Aycock Sues Editor Click.
Special to The Citiieu.
Raleigh, X. C, Sept. L'O. B. F.
Aycock, the democratic nomiuee
for corporation commissioner, and
a brother of ex Gov Aycock, is
today conferring with democratic
leaders, and while nothing is given
out by Mr. Aycock on the subject,
it is stated on good authority that
he is planning to bring atnnit the
arrest of Editor Click of the Hick
ory .uercury and nave rum carneu
to Wavne countv to answer the
harge of criminal libel in that he
made the charge in his paper this
week that Mr. Aycock was drunk
at the time he spoke in Hickory
recently. It is understood that
the papers will U; served tomor
row or Moudav.
Hackett and Cowles Debate.
The Raleigh News and Observer
says the cotton gin house of Mr
S. Haley, of House Creek town
ship, Wake county, wus biirnei
last Tuesday night with two gins
eight bales of cotton and the other
contents of the ty uilding. ' The loss
The joint debate U-tween Mr. K
.IIacketl, Democratic nominee
for ( "ongress of the eighth district,
and Mr. ( lias. II. Cowles, kepub
lican nominee for the same honor,
took place in the court house at I
faylorsvillc yesterday. Seated
and standing in the court house
were about 400 friends of the two
andidates and there were aliout
100 on the edges and the outside
who could not get in .
Both the speakers were given the
closest attention. There was no
boisterous rooting for either but
each was given liberal applause by
his friends. By arrangement and
agreement each speaker had an
hour for the opening speech and 15
minutes for a rejoinder, Mr.
Cowles leading off. He was intro
duced by Mr. O. F. Poole and Mr.
H. Burke introduced Mr. Hack
ett.
For the lack of time The Land
mark cannot give in detail In to
day's paper the argumeut of the
gentlemen. Suffice it to say that
the friends of the two men have no
occasion to be ashamed of the ef
forts of their choice yesterday nor
need they fear any evil results of
a joint discussion conducted on as
high a plane as that of yesterday.
If there were those Who went to
hear the candidates Villify each
other they were disappointed.
Each spoke and contended for
what he and his party fctand for,
onljj, the public record of the can
didates being mentioned or attack
ed. Nothing but pleasant feeling
was apparent with the speakers
and among their friends, during
and after , the speaking Statesville
Landmark.
PURELY POLITICAL.
Senator Simmons and Hon. Locke
Craig will begin a tear of campaign
speech making on Oct. 7th and 12th
respectivejy.
The Democracy of Davie County
has nominated the following ticket:
House, M. j; Hendricks; Sheriff,
J. I). Peebles; Register, N. S.
Gaither.
Mr. D. A. Thomkins of Char
lotte in a interview with a repre
sentative of the Baltimore Sun an
nounces that he will support Taft
for President.
The Person County Republican
ticket has been named as follows:
House, W. H. Long; Sheriff, T. 1).
Winstead; Register, L. M. Clayton;
Treasurer, (). L. Sattertield.
The Davidson Democracy has
named a strong ticket as follows:
House, V. P. Mangum Turner;
Sheriff, John W. Lindsey; Register
S. L. Owen, in cumhent; Treasurer
E. A. Rothrock, incumlient.
Hon Thos. Settle has an appoint
ment to speak at North Wilkoslxjro
tomorrow and it is announced that
Col. John (i. Capers, I'nited States
Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
will be present and speak with him.
The Burke County Republicans
met last Saturday in Morganton
and nominated the following tick
et: For the House, Win. P. Hal-
lyberton; Sheriff, J. 1. Pitts; Reg
ister, Pink Cook; Treasurer, Fraz
ier Brittain.
The Hon. Nicholas Longworth,
who enjoys the distinction of being
the President's son in-law (if he
has any other distinction the coun
try has not found it out) has leen
renominated for Congress by the
Republicans of the first Ohio dis
trict. Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma,
as a consequence of the Hearst
charges, has resigned as treasurer
of the Democratic national cam
paign fund and Herman Ridder,
editor of the Staats -Zeitung, the
leading Gorman newspaper in the
I'nited States, has accepted the
position. Governor Haskell says
lie will sue Hearst.
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General News Notes.
Subscribe for the Xews, only 81
l'he ."4th annual convention of
the American Bankers' Association
met in Denver this week.
Wrapped in the tentacles of a
giant devil hsh, .Martin Lund, a
diver, fought lor his life in the
hold of a wrecked ship recently in
San Francisco bay.
Three men were killed at church
x i i t i i Li 1
near .leinco, ienn., nisi runuay
when a drunken man tired into the
worshipers as they were leaving
the church.
Mrs. Elsie Bracrc widow of the
late Major General Braxton Bragg,
of the Confederacy, who died a few
days ago, was buried Saturday in
"Confederate Rest," at Mobile,
Ala., beside the remains of her late
husband.
Since the beginning of the epi
demic there have been 15,083 cases
of Asiatic cholera reported in Rus
sia and 7.102 deaths. In St.
Petersburg alone, since the pres
ence of the disease was officially
admitted. September 8th, there
lmvo been 4.W31 cases and !,
deaths reported.
Postmaster General Mover has
issued an order directing all post
masters to unite with their loca
school authorities with the view of
adopting the most effective method
of instructing schoolchildren as to
the organization and operations of
the postal service, particularly the
proper addressing of ettcrs and
the importance of placing return
cards on envelopes. Postmasters
are also directed to arrange, if pos
sible, to deliver personal talks to
the pupils and give teachers ac
cess to the postal guide and the
postal laws and render them every
assistance in securing necessary information.
Whole Village Frozen Stiff.
Seattle, Wash., Sept. LM. All
the inhabitants of a village of Si-
licrian Eskimos were found frozen
stiff and evidentlv dead for a long
time on the Siberian coast lv a
party of Indians who went in a ca
noe last June to see their com i ades.
I'heir provisions exhausted, the
Eskimos had eaten tht walrus skin
covers from their houses and their
skin clothing.
This story is told by Rev. Ed
ward O. Campbell, in charge of
the Presbyterian mission station,
at St. Lawrence Island, near Nome
Alaska, in a letter received today
bv Rev. Wallace Lee, ol Seattle.
Congress On Moral Education.
London, Sept. -ML An interna
tional Congress of Moral Education
the first of its kind ever held, was
convened in London today and has
attracted a large number of dis
tinguished educators from all over
Europe, with a few from America.
It is the declaration of the mem
bers of the congress that the great
need of the public schools and uni
versities of all countries is a scien
tific and non-sectarian system of
ethical education.
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PRICE-CLINE HARNESS & TANNING COMPANY.
100 People Lost.
Seattle, Sept. 29. A cable dis
patch to the army signal corps re
ports the total loss of the bark Star
of Bengal off Coronation Island
One hundred and ten persons were
drowned and 27 saved. Nine of
the drowned were white.
When the maid dropped the best
china, John dropped a few re
marks and his wife, to complete
the catastrophe, dropped some
tears.
WHEN YOU WANT
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call on Hoffman's Market. The cattle arc carefully
selected by one who has been in the business for
years and knows a good thing when he has seen it.
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