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The News Printery U equipped to do your next order of job Printing promptly. Don't tend roar work oat of town we will do it to salt yoa. LET US COXVKICK YOU The Lenoir News. Is the very beet Advertising Slediaa), becoe it ia read by tbe Largest 'nmber of the people of Caldwell County. : ONLY SI.OO THE YEAR Trlc-a? H. c. iartest, Editor and Prop. published Tuesdays aid Fridays. price si.oo thk yeah. VOLUME XI. JLElSTOm, C, MAY 11, 1909. 1STQ.54. Havoc Wrought by Mad Do. Lexington Dispatch. The Dispatch's Friedburg cor respondent writes the following: Last Monday morning, the -6th, the cariosity ot many was some what stirred when the news be gan to spread that a mad dog had passed through the neighborhood of New Hope and Fredburg on the Forsyth and Davidson line, tirst in one county and then ia the other, doing probably the greatest damage ever done in the state by a mad dog to cattle aud stock of all kinds, biting and in several instances tearing animals, as in one case particularly where the cow lot look ed almost like a slaughter pen, the cows being so bloody and so frightened that several broke off their horns in the melee. The dog was a white bull dog and traveled over some 12 or 15 miles Sunday night, the 25th, doing damage all along the line, much of which has been discovered, and much more is being found out and will be discovered when the altott ed time for an innoculated animal to go mad expires. It is estimated that the farmers have lost $2,000. The greatest loss was sustained by Mr. Henry Johnson, as five of his due cattle were bitten, three ot the 25th. The dog that bit them was supposed to have been mad. If it is true that he knew this he should be made to pay for the damage caused by his dog, and if he isn't possessed of sufficient prop erty to make good the loss his f el ow citizens have sustained, he should be sent to the penitentiary nd made to work it out. That's ust what a few people like he is eed, to impress upon them that we have a law dealing with such matters. The dogs, a later report says, are being killed rapidly all through the sectiou traversed by the white bull dog on his journey of destruc tion. them being registered (Jueruseys. The dog speedily traveled from this farm for several miles, biting one or two animals at each place visited, until became to the home of Aim as Myers, where he bit six animals, badly tearing them about the head. Mr. Tom Padgett had three cows and one dog bitten. John Miller had several hogs bit ten, the ear of one boinsj; com pletely severed from its head. Messrs. Him Jones. John Ileich, Chas. Hanes ami John Fishel all had cows bitten, the exact number not beinK definitely known at this time. And last, but not least, Mr. C M. Deckle's two mules were at tacked, one of them a very valu able animal and the other being a rood one. though old. Mr. Deckel was aroused from sleep by consid erable noise about 4 o'clock Mon day morning. He didn t get up at once, but finally hearing a hen squawk, he went at once to the barn and found a doe tearing the hen to bits. The dog, seeing him, appeared frightened, and ran away, leaving the chicken. Mr. Decke turned his own dogs loose and just outside the lot one of them seized the bull dog by the throat and held on until he had him choked tQ death. If only this faithfu dog, old Nero, could have gotten a crin on the rabid beast before it had wrought such havoc! Think of the heavy loss our people have suffered on account of a worthless dog! So far as 1 am mlormed every animal attacked was bitten aboii the head, and it whs not just a mere snap and then away, but the rabid dog tore great gashes in its victims. Probably there are lots more that have not been discov ered that were only slightly nipped. The head of the dog was sent to Raleigh for examination, and th report was that it showed a malig nant case of rabies. Now surely the neighbors an friends who live on this route ca not be satisfied until they hav killed all their (logs. 1 he men named above have killed their dog: and are going to kill their valuable stock, and not wait for any further developments. Don't leave one of the "little pets," especially those known to have been bitten. It is reported that the dog be longed to a man at Lewisville, and that he knew the dog was bitten, for 21 days ago the dog aud a calf were attacked, and both went mad Here is the Mad dog Law. "If the owner of auy dog shall know, or have good reason to be- ieve, that his dog, or any dog be ongiug to any person nnder his control, has been bitten by a mad dog, and shall neglect or refuse mmediately to kill the same, he hall forfeit the sum of $50 to him who will sue therefor; and the off ender shall be liable to pay all damages which may be sustained by any oue, in his property or per son, by the bite of any such dog aud shall be guilty of a misdemea- and fined not more than fifty dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days." Many People injured by Fall. Seattle, Wash., May 7. Shortly after midnight last night nearly 200 people were injured, many fatally, when the iron guard rail in the balcony of the National Guard Armory gave way. There was an exciting track race in the pit below and the spectators had crowded to the rail, It gave way and some 300 people were thrown into the pit, 16 feet below. They landed in a tangled mass of suffering moaning humanity. Many arms and legs were broken and several skulls fractured and many of the victims suffered seri ous iuternal injuries. There was a wild pnaic inside and as soon as the news became known thousands more people tried to crowd into the building, it taking all the police in the city to hold them back. The Armory had just been fin ished and the accident is charged to faulty construction. Serious Shooting Affray. Special to The Observer. Rockingham, N. C, May 5. The closing exercises of Roberdel ligh School, at Rolwdel Mills No. 1, ended Saturday night with a general shooting affray, mean iquor being the cause of it all. Will Maner walked up to a drink stand, where Mack Ellerle was taking a cold drink, and cursed him with the vilest oaths at his command. Ellerbe reseuted the insult and was getting the better ot a fist fight, when Maner pulled his pistol. Ellerbe immediately i ought his shooting iron into play, and as a result of bad marksman ship the two combatants were slightly wounded and three by standers seriously wounded. ( What was the cause of the trouble mentioned alwvef Liquor! the cause of nine-tenths of the shooting and killing in this country. ) There is nothing more divine in this world than simple humanity. Heaven always gets your picture just when you are not posing. IT Tricks Played By Storm. Atlanta, Ga., Thestorra played many fantastic tricks. It hurled James Jackson, an aged man of Montgomery county, 20 yards from his ruined house, snapping his neck, and he was found dead to day. It ripped 20 church steeples from their belfries, stood them in the earth and then hurled them in to treetops. It tore up the battle field of Franklin, Tenn., like the cannon balls did in the civil war. After scattering all the benches in the grandstand at Latonio race track, Ky., it whirled a fence scantling through the front window of George Tibbett's house, into a pile of dishes and through the kitchen wall into the yard. At Decher, Tenn., a man and child were buried under the roof of their home, torn off the gale. The storm crossed the Miss ssippi river many times in its wild career through Dixie, and at times tore patches a mile wide over country an'd town, later narrowing to a lH?lt the width of a city street. Found Tusk of Mastodon. Pittsburg, Pa., May 5 The tusk of a mastodon has been found on the banks of the Allegheny River nar Claremont by men working for John Clouse, a contractor. It is in a perfect state of preservation . It measures nine feet, four inches root to tip. It is five feet, seven and a half inches long and weighs 297 pounds. Love is always a poor thing so long as it tries to have itself. Last Saturday evening as one of the logging trains of the Ritter Lumber Company was coming down a steep grade, on one of the company's logging roads, the engineer lost control of the train, and it ran away and five cars with the engine jumped the track and were wrecked. Nine woodmen were right badly injured, one a man named Bentley, having his jaw bone broken in two places and he sustained other injuries. He was taken by special train to Hickory Sunday, aud then to Statesville for treatment. The others are being cared for at Mor timer. It is remarkable that a number of persons were not killed, for there were 25 or HO workmen on the train returning, from their weeks work i- the woods, when the wreck occurred, and how they all escaped instant death is al most miraculous. The five carloads of logs were piled on the engine and each other in a way that would seem to make the escape of any one impossible. The engineer and fireman jumped and saved themselves before the wreck occurred. Lexington Hotel Burned. Special to The Observer. Lexington, May 3. The March, Lexington's finest and best known hotel, was destroyed by fire this morning at 1 o'clock. The guests were quickly aroused as soon as the fire was discovered aud all made their escape without injury. At this early hour the loss is not known, but it is learned that there is insurance to the amount of $10,000. Met Horrible Death. Ashland, Ore., May 4 Walter Torrey, a saw mill employee oper ating the saw in a local mill, notic ed that the huge steel blade had leeome loosened. Refore he could tighten the lolts it had broken loose. Torry jumped for safety, the saw spinning over the ground. Thirty feet from the rack it over took Torrey, severing ids rig lit leg, intJictiiH' n terrible wound in his tack and lacerating his entire trunk- Within a short time he bled to death. 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