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T.EXOIR, 3ST.a, JULY 10, 1909.
NO. 73
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v State News Items.
Wake Superior Court is io ses
sion and there are Bine capital
cases on the criminal docket.
Col.'jalian S. Carr is threshing
his wheat on his Oceooeechee farm
and it is yielding ., an average.
of 40 bushel to the acre. He ex
pects" the crop to make about 5,000
bushels; ,
last week while playing around
an ."old rock crusher, a . thirteen
year oli boy fell from the fly wheel
of the old machine, down which he
had bees sliding, and fractured his
- skull and died io a few hoars.
Mr. Thai O, McMichaeJ, a well
known Lawyer of Charlotte was
found dead In his bed last Wed
neaday morning. He had recently
Recovered from an attack of pneu
monia and died of heart failure.
f A train on the Southern Railway.
Bear Brevard, jumped the frack
last Sunday and all the cars rolled
,down an embankment, but no one
one was Idljed though several per
sons were'injured.
Lin Durham a tew days ago a
au had seven cases against him
for selling ,liqaor and was found
guilty in each one of the seven
cases. The judge sent him to the
.Jroad for seven years. One jear or
every case. f .f
The famous "Blewitt Falls"
iwater power plant -was sold .' at
..Wades bo ro, last Wednesday under
order of court and bought by the
fcond holders for $1,000,000. It is
a valuable property and the im
provmente so for made are said to
have cost near t2.000.000.
Sam Gibson, a young colored
man, shot and instantly killed his
ywife last Monday night. He
claims that he thought his wife was
a burglar, as he did not know she
had been out of the house until she
was returning, when he fired on
her in the darknss with a shot
colored fireman named Ham
lln On the Southern Railway, be-
s
tween Charlotte and Taylorsville,
fell from the tendor of the locomo
tive one night lastweek and was so
badly injured that he died, in a few
hours. The engineer did not miss
the fireman for some ttime after the
accident, but when he was missed
the train was backed until the in
lured man was found unconscious
by the road side.
Strange Freak of Lightning in
Maryland Town.
Cumberland, Md
, Special.
Lightning struck
the house of
Johnson Collins, last Wednesday,
four miles east of Flintstohe, while
Mr. and Mrs. Collins, their six
children and Mrs. Johnson, a
peighbor, were iu the kitcheu.
.Jdrs. Collins was putting pies in
the bake oven. When Mr. Collins
recovered from the shock he found
.Jus wife and the youngest child in
Jhe arms standing under, a tree in
the yard. She could not tell how
she got there. One of her shoes
tfad bee&rtorq'fronf her foot and
thelflesh was scraped from heir
'ankle -.downward almost to the
bone. The roof was torn from the
fiMsepDS side,o( thejbuijding de
) molished, the stone chimmey shat-
teeed in pieces and dishes jin the
cupboard broken. '
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North WUkesboro in Uproar Over
Rmlatioas Made by Detective.
Afherllle Citlieo.
High Point, July 11. Detective
H. R Thompson, of the High'
Poiat detective agency, has return
ed from North Wilkesboro, where
he was the means of taming that
towa upside down. Ha went there
to work on blind tigers and in a
little over a week had, caused the
arrest of 23 men, many of them
prominent men in the town, includ
ing two magistrates. 8ome of the
men are wealthy and are raising a
racket.
Of coarse such a scoop as this
caused great excitement and for a
time the detective had to ''stand
pat." They talked of running him
oat of town, hone-whipping him
bat he went through without 'a
scratch. When the preliminary
trial was called the crowd was ao
dense that they had to adjourn to
the opera house. When detective
Thompson got on the stand the law
yers demanded that he be unarmed
but this could not be done as be
was an officer. Two warrants were
issued against him "to disarm him
of his weapons but without avail.
A special term of court has been
ordejed to try the case a id no
doubt Wilkesboro will have one of
the largest crowds in its history,
when court meets. i
The W. C. T. U and other citi
zens of the county are back of the
work and stack to the detective in
his work. Places raided were in
the business part of the town, In
places that were supposed to have
been respectable.
Detective Thompson will go back
there in a few days.
From Indiana.
For The News.
We got the full benefit of Inde
pendence day this year from Jujy
3 to 6. Everything passed off
pleasantly. Only one mau lost his
life during the celebration, caused
by the premature explosion of a
cracker. Another lost a thirty
thousand dollar factory caused by
a little balloou settling down upon
it.- Otherwise it was a glorious
foarth. Last Friday, July 2, we
had a splendid view of Capt.
Burubaugh's famous racing bal
loon "Hoosier," which passed ovar
us about ten o'clock in the morn
ing going in a Southeasterly di
rection. It hovered near us for
awhile coming directly over our
home. It had left Indianapolis
Tuesday and had been up ever
since. The Captain was accompa
nied on this trip by two other men
who carry with them a printing
press with which they will print a
a little paper while on this trip.
This is the same balloon that won
the famous race a few weeks ago
from Indianapolis, landing in Ten
nessee. The Pilot could be seen
calmly looking down upon us from
iiis-basket. .There seems to be no
question now about aerial " naviga
tion since the last trial of the aero
plane. b$ the Wright Bros at Fort
My.61 f,Va., " They demonstrated
one thing thai has been a question
with us so long and that was a de
sceut for, repairs v.hen the, motor
failed to work.
We notice lately that an invent
or has offered an airship to our gov
em men t that will carry two hun
dred passengers. As for us, we
prefer to walk.
Some of the old timers near Fort
Myer, object to the airships passing
over their farms for fear they
might "drop and spile their corn
ortobaccer." This Is going to be
a difficult problem, securing and
surveying an overhead right of
way.
I will close for this time.
Respectfully,
J, A. Downh.
New Albany, Ind.
Mississippi Rher Flooding the
Country.
St. Louis, Mo., July 13 The
violent storm that devastated the
upper Mississippi valley late yes
terday moved eastward and threat
eoed to do damageinthe Allegheny
region today. It has left in its
path enormous damage to crops
and buildings in several states.
Hundreds are homeless, and a num
ber of deaths were caused by the
storm in various places.
The Mississippi river, driven
over the levees at exposed points,
has inaadated many thousands of
acres. The Missouri river is still
rising rapidly end the -devastation
by floods ajongjts banks is extend
ing. In dozens of banner whaet
counties the standing wheat has
been raxed by the violent ' winds.
Where a hamper crop was expect
ed and almost ready to be harvest
ed, the wheat has been wholly de
stroyed. Great apprehension is
felt at St. Louis, where the flood
of the Missouri river is due to
reach its height today. Great dam
age has already been done up river
n the Manas and Cygnes valleys.
As the flood moves down it is ex
pec ted to cause a 34 foot stage of
water at St. Louis.
The corn crop in Missouri and
Oklahoma is subject to great ap
prehension. The corn in Okla
homa is enfeebled by two weeks'
severe drouth preceding the storm.
Better Let the Heathen Perish.
"For ways that are dark and for
tricks that are vain the heathen
Chinee is peculiar." That remark
has been emphasized since the mur
der of Elsie Seigel by a Chinaman
who was her Sunday School pupil
He became infatuaied with ber, he
became jealous and she paid the pen
alty of her folly. This should forj
ever put an- end to the practice of
having attractive young women
nnk;- II,. ((hnnliAn OhinoA "
Better let the heathen perish than
to put our girls in jeopardy.
"Knowing the Chinese character
as I do, in the face of the awful
murder of a mission worker in
New York Citv, I would not allow
a daughter of mine or any woman,
young or old, to teach in any Chi
nese mission in the United States,"
So spoke Bishop E. H. Moore,
who spent years in China for the
M. E. Church in addressing the
Epworth League Convention at
Steuben ville last week. He said:
"Let the work be undone forever
rather than the women attempt to
do it," and the whole country will
say' 'amen." The Elsie Seigel
case is not the only one, as the fol
lowing telegram printed last week
shows:
"Pittsburg, Pa. July 7. Sarah
Crew, 17 years old a teacher in one
of the Chinese Sunday Schools
here, today was seut to the House
of the Good Shepherd, where she
will be held as a witness to appear
against Lee Fulk, dive-keeper, and
her Sunday School pupil, in whose
dive she was arresed last Saturday
"This morning she retusid to
testify against Fulk, who is charged
with a serious crime, declaring she
liked him better than any other
man she knew and that if he were
found caressing her, it was her
fault and not his.
"Great pressure has been brought
to bear upon the police to give ap
the crusade for fear they will en
tangle well known families.
"Lillian Rayt another of the
youthful teachers, today refused to
give op teaching "until after her
Chinaman had given her the brace
let he had promised her."
If preachers and lay workers can
not attract Chinamen to Sunday
School, let them remain in the
heathen faith.
Escapes With Door Receipts.
We don't know that Greensboro
has any more easy marks than any
other town of 42,000 population
more or less but the "gate city"
is a fertile field for the sharper.
The latest operator there was a cit
izen who gave the name of Heber
McDonald. He drifted into Greens
boro a few weeks ago and presently
decided to put in bis spare time
promoting an Inter-State Fiddlers'
meet. The contest was pulled off
with Bob Taylor, of Tennessee, as
a star, and seems to have been a
s access. Bills were met and every
body satisfied. Thereupon Mr.
McDonald decided, while he had
his hand in, to promote another!
contest and bands from all about!
were invited to come to Greensbo
ro and toot for prizes. Bands not
a few responded and tooted wjth a
vim, and a great crowd attended
and applauded. The prizes were
duly awarded and the promoter no
tilled the band men that the prize
money would be paid at his hotel
next morning. One band manager
who was suspicious called the same
night and demanded his prize
money, which was paid. Those
who called next day found McDon
ald absent. He had departed with
the gate receipts and since has
kept under cover. The only peo
ple who are not complaing is the
band man who collected his prize
before the appointed hour, and the
hotel man who made himself safe
by acting as gate keeper for the pro
moter until he had enongh cash to
liquidate the latter 's hotel bill at
Greensboro and also a bill for a
b rot her hotel keeper at Durham,
wnere the promoter had recently
visited and overlooked paying his
hotel bill when he departed.
Landmark.
Good Roads.
There is a great deal being said
abont good roads, but not too
much, and whenever we hear of a
piece of road that has stood the test
this summer it is worth while to
mention it, and if so be we conld
go and see it. - We are told that
that there is a piece of public road
in John's river township that has
not been out of order this summer
and that it is now as it has been all
spring and summer, dry and
smooth. We are also informed
that the overseer with all his road
hands puts in his six days work
every year and at regular times
The brush on the sides are kept
trimmed off so the sunshine can get
to the road . Mud holes and gullies
are kept tilled with loose stones
from the fields. Water trenches
are kept open, and in this way the
road is kept in fine coadition, not
withstanding there is a lot of trav
el on it. This may look like a small
matter, bnt with the condition our
roads have been in for the last six
or eight months, it is worth think
ing about. We are further inform
ed that there are sections of roads in
this connty, and the roads in these
sections are not good roads either,
that have had no work doue on
them for the last twelve months,
That perhaps accounts for a great
deal of the bad roads we have not
only in this county but elsewhere.
Life 100,000 lean Ago.
Scientists have found in a cave inj
Switierland bone of men, who lived
100,000 yeare ago, when life was in
constant danger from wild beasts. '
To-day the danger, as showu by A
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Aeroplane Record Broken To-day
Etamps, ranee, July 13. The
greatest aeroplane flight on record
was completed this afternoon by
M. Blerriot, a noted French aeron
aat, makipg 28 straigh away miles
in 5G minutes.
The Wright brothers have been
in the air longer and hare flown a
greater.'distanoe bat never attempt
ed a cross country fight like Ber
riot to-day.
Berriot plans to soon cross the
English channel for a 5,000 pound
prize.
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Chopped to Death.
Raleigh, July 12.-Joe Pulley
was chopped to death with an axe
while he lay sleepling in his home
near" Selma early to-day. Pulley's
12-year-old step-daughter, Marie
Pulley, is charged with the killing.
Pulley's threat that he would whip
the girl and drive her from home
ia understood to have furnished a
motive for the killing.
Pulley lived several hours after
his skull had been crashed in sev
eral places.
Tortured On a Horse.
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