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The News Printery l equipped ;to do toar next c rder ol Job PrlnUng promptly I)od teod your, work out, of town we will do It to lait you. LET V$ OONVTNC5 YOU v The Lenoir News. Ill tbe vtry beet Advtrtisioff iledlea, bMtuM it I rd by tbe Lnrt Siibtf o((b people of Caldwell Coaaty. - ; -021.Y tl.OO THE YJCAR J5 -. .: 4 H. C. MARTIN", EDITOR". ANI PROP. FUSUSHED TUESDAYS AID PRICE 81.00 THE YEAR. VOEtrtJE XTy ttu ' ; ' " ; JLESTOIR, 3ST. C., SEPTEMBER 211909. NO. 02 X .WOMFN FIGHT BATTLE. Desperate Conflict Lasts Over in Hour. Chicago, Sept. 16. Mrs. Julia Tripp, of Chicago, wife of a jewel ry manufacturer and Mrs. Jacob Silber, of New York, today are dead in a fashionable Hyde Park apartment luse, at Ffty Sixth streettod Prarie avenue, as the re salt of a pistol and knife duel last ing an hour, while crowds gather ed in the street, none daring to in terfere. Finally, when Mrs. Tripp fell dead with 15 bullets in her body, Mrs. Silber, who three times had re-loaded her revolver, fired two shots into her own body and drop ped to tne floor, dying shortly af terwards. The1 women were sisters in law and a strange jealousy , was the cause of the duel. When the police reached the scene they found that Mrs. Tripp lad been shot in the arms, legs, body and head, and that one but let had carried away a part of her right ear and the forefinger of her left hand was shot off. Her face scratched and her clothing torn in shreds. Daring the hour's battle the wo men wrecked the nine rooms in the Tripp flat. It was not until Mrs. Tripp was dead and Mrs. Silber was unconscious on the floor that a policeman appeared. Mrs. Tripp twice went out on the front porch and screamed for help. She was covered with blood and' had hard ly strength to stand. No one weut to her assistance and her sister in lawtach time dragged her back la po the flat. ' A strange jealousy is the ouly theory Advanced for the tragedy. Tripp said his sister-in-law-was jealous of his wife's attentions to himself. Mrs. Silber separated from her husband about six months A ago. She went to Europe with a " party of relatives and friends, and returned early last month. She had a fortune in her own right, but was without a bonfe. Mrs. Tripp suggested to her hnsband that the woman come to live with them, andshe accepted an invitation trom them- both Mrs. Silber had only been a day in the house when ishe first mani fested her jealousy, one cried in anger when she saw her brother kiss his wife. At first Mrs. Tripp was amused, refusing to take the woman's protests seriously. She continued to treat the' jealous oat bursts lightly, finding them a se ries of amusement, until Hist week when Mrs. Silber said she was de termined to put a stop to alt dis play of affection. Triofl Mtertered and told his sis ter staNrou1rttave to laive the home unless she became reasonable. He shared his wife suspicion that his sister was mentally unbalanced Two nhvsicians were to the house, ostensibly as guests, Out in reality to observe Mrs. Sil fer. They agreed $fp ,M lane and thought sM woold soon tale her jealous impulses. Other fellow's Wickedness. Waibaw Enterprise. , . , s , Not a few persons have lately been heard to express the opinion that the destructive drouths of this Summer" Wt 8be6rfipnhr tnunity on account of the wicked ness of the people, ; $hile we have some notions of our own on a isrortosition like that we shall not here attempt to scon) the 'Wea&of those who are inclined to tne view above stated. Suffice it to say ia this connection that in about nine cases oulef erefr Hi tie bellow who takes that view of it is ready to lay the whole blame otr the other Got a Deserved Tbrasbinr on Train. An unknown man, passenger on No. 11 Thursday morning, was soundly whipped by P. F. Bice, another passenger, beeiuseof the unknown's rough treatment of a defenseless woman, with a baby in arms, who had innocently seated herself in the unknown's place. Passengers stated that at Greens- oo ro a woman, wnose name was not learned, got oo the train, and cook seat wnere mere was a grip and some parcels. Doubtless, as is often the case, the ear was more or less crowded and every man per haps, was occupying a whole seat, iormen as a ruie nowadays, are hogs on trains, and will let a wo man or any number of them stand up till they fall down from ex haustion before they will offer to give up a seat or even divide seat. Women themselves are often guilty of the same breach of man ners. At any rate the woman took the seat. Presently its owner came in trom the smoker and told the wo man in very bad spirit that she had his place. Looking several daggeis at her he sat down in the seat ahead. In a short time he twisted around and scowled at her Meanwhile the little scene was be ng watched by other passengers, especially by the Mr. Rice mentiou ed and by a Mr. Ballard, who OO cupied the seat just behind the woman. Again in a few moments the man got up and facing the woman and the .baby, told her roughly that she had no right to his seat The woman began to weep. The tears brought Bice to his feet and he showed his utter distaste for the proceedings by knocking the un known passenger down and giving him what was no doubt the worst beating that worthy ever received in his life. After having punish ed him good and plenty, he pinned him to the floor until the conduc tor sent the man into the next car Meanwhile a dozen men whose veins had a gentleman's blood in 'em, stood by with itching palms, ready to lend a hand should Mr. Bice have need of aid, which he didn't at least not so as vou could tell it. Traveling on trains these days does not make for belief that our boasted Southern chivalry is epi demic. Everybody who travels at all has seen timid, frightened, ner vous women walk the length of t car, hunting or a seat, often carry ing a child, while several more tug at her skirts, and never a man off ers her a seat, although it may be that half the seats are occupied by 0X8 "tordof creatioo' brother to tieVr BflsWaWP women are ofteu worse than the men nnder snch circumstances, and can calm ly turn their heads from a poorer sister to the passing landscape with alFthe itdffllB'refice itfiginaWe.ln short people on trains have little or no politeness of regard for the fVijin Or rights of others and will do things then that thev would not be cau ht doing in their home towns;' - "r, Fined $500 For Selling Liquor. Salisbury, Sept. 16 In Rowan oonnty court heie yesterday, CM Bajley and Hornet R. Miller, each of whom formerly conducted large saloons in Salisbury prior to the mitted to the charge of retailiorfin sena4eiP By agreement with y 'ft ii 1- t , . ... . attorneys on ! eacre side a fine t o: $50tf and costs was imposed. Judge MiUef refused o rdijc the sen tence W two S-earS ' on 5 the county roads as imposed upon John if. Freeman for retailing. 1 Cocaine D:aler Fined. Corretpondenoe of the Obeerver. High Point, Sept. 15. Jn the recorder's court this morning a ne- gro by the name of Patterson was convicted for the illegal sale of oo- came and nnea Through bis at- torneys he appealed to the So peri or Court aud will likely be ar- rained for trial next week. This i man conducts a drug store in the negro section 01 uign foint and the police authorities are of the opi 'ion that he has furnished at least a portion of the supply of cd- eaine to the many negro fiends io this town. He stoutly protested his innocence and went to considerable expense employing attorneys, hav- ing here to defend him; Col. J.C.- L. Harris , of Raleigh, and Judge W.P.Bynum, of Greensboro. With them appeared Col . Wescott Rob- erson, of the local bar. Patterson is a licened druggist, i coming here from Raleigh where he was educated. "Doctor" Blue, for whom a warrant is outstanding for selling a deadly drug to a negro without a prescription and who has left for parts unknown, wasaclerk in Patterson's drug store. It is claimed by the police that Blue in- tended to sell the negro cocaine but made a mistake and deli vered ox- alic acid. This acid, thev charge, was afterwards given to the wifeof Ben Red win and was the immedi- ate cause of her death, shebeingiug the negro woman died so miserably here a few days ago. The outcome of Patterson's trial in the Superior Court will be watched with a great deal of interest, esrjeciallv amonr the druggists here and the members ' f I of his own race. Drastic Prohibiton Law. MODiie, Aia., sept. n--Ju a search warrant, sworn out by Sher- rif Dragon, the home of Charles Nelson, at No. 5 Conti street, was invaded by five deputy sherriffi and searched for liquors, despibs the protests of the family. Nelson formerly kept a saloon at No. 8 Conti street, and now conducts a soft drink establishment here. This is the first instance in this city of the invasion of the home Of a citizen under the provisions of the drastic "Fuller Law. "The deputies," said Mrs. Nel son, "turned beds upside down, ransacked bureau drawers, writing desks, sideboards, etc. iually they went into my daughters' rooms and demanded that the trunks be open- ed. 31 y husband told them they would have to brake them open. I finally unlocked the trunks and the girls had to take their cloth ing out of the trunks while the dep uties standing over them. The only Iduor round was a nan-pint in a sideboard drawer. The officers car ried that away with them. Auto Transfer Co., Start Machine Monday. Beginning with Monday, the 12th, the Auto Transfer Co., of Wilkesboro, inaugurated a regular schedule between Wilkesboro and Taylorsvllle. An auto car with a capacity of four people and light baggage will be operated daily, leaving North Wilkesboro early enough to make 9 o'clock train at this place, and returning will leave Taylorsviue immediately after the noon train arrives. ' The trip1 can be made in about two hours.' l nis route Buortens tne distance fro,rii Uorth' Wilkesboro to Char lottfl 74 mllee: North Wilkesboro to States Ville tl mileS and the trip from 'Notttt TWfllesDoro o. notlrsJ and to 8tatesville8 hours, and it will be a ereat convenience to per Sons wishing to make, the trip and we . aooer it will be patronited to BUCh aft extent that H Will nothaVe to De taken on. ' Sample Railroad Suit. A great case was being tried in Graham court yesterday before Judge Biggs and a jury. Three men are suing the Southern Bail- way for failure to let them off a train at Reidsville. The evidence showed that the train made the usu al stop; that a woman and child, if not others, alighted, yet when some distance out trom fieidvuie some one pulled the bell cord and the train stopped. The conducvor found that one of the three men did the work and asked what was the trouble. They said they want ed to be put off at Reidsville. He tried to reason with them but to no avail. He wrote them a pass from the next station back, but they tore it up and demanded that he run the train back to Reids ville. This he declined to do, hence the suit. This is quite the worst ever. By stopping the train the men made themselves liable to indictment; suppose another train uad been following! It is easy to see what would have happeued Had the conductor run his train back to Reidsville e would have done so at the risk of the lives of his passengers and had anyone Inn hurt the conductor would have been almost lvnched. Looks like the case should be thrown out of court. Maybe it was Flock of Geese Drunk. Twenty geese owned by a neigh bor of Mr. C. M. Vaiistory on the corner of North Elm and Church .i . . j m j P "an ursuay anu Kept me wuoie neigauoruouu awake with their wild cacklings, fights, flying coatests and other all night orgies. Mrs. Vanstory had squeezed a large quantity of grapes out of which she had made grape add (not wine) and the neighbors ho owded the geese told her to throw the refuse hulls, seed and pulp, which had fermented, into the goose lot. The geese apparent ly enjoyed them, helping them selves all the afternoon, with the result that th -y got biling drunk, i and cavorted around all night, not even pretending to go to sleep, but intent on keeping everybody in the neighborhood awake. All efforts to make them behave themselves only added fuel to the flames of their riotious revelry. It was such a plum sight, the whole police force went around to see it, soon finding they were unequal to the task of quieting the disturbance Mr. Vanstorv was so tickled at the sight, after his anger at not being able to sleep had subsided, that he called up several friends oa the 'phone, who came around and were shocked at such carrying on in sober prohibition Greensboro The geese never sobered up unti daylight, and yesterday they would K0.1 F nuns, mat speaics wen ior goose. Andrew Joyner ureensbo ro correspondence. Admiral Schley is quoted as saying; "I like Dr. Cook's at titude immensely in this unfortun ate, unnecessary and unwise con troversy. He certainly has been dignified and manly in the standee has taken in this matter." Just as Schley was in a previous no table controversy, and Cook has the sympathy of the country just as Schley had in bis hour of trial. Chronicle. Takeeareof your etomaeh. Let I Kodol dlgeat all the food you eat, for that Is, what Kodol - doe. Every tablespoonful of Kodol digests Sli nounde of food. Trv it todav. it ii I guaranteed to relieve you or your Uonev back. Sold bv J. E. Shell. Lenoir Drug Co., and Granite Falls l Dins Co. "You Know How the Sitting Room Is Furnished- send out a rocker that will harmonize with the 1 est of the room.'' Many an order like that comes in over the 'phone from old patrons who have full faith in the integrity and good judgement of this store. We'd rather have that feeling of confi dence on the part of one thousand customers than to have ten thousand customers enter the store as they do most stores with the uneasy feeling that they might get tricked before they got out. ' What we say we do." Good Oak Harness Leather measured by price never was and never can be made cheap. The cost of bark labor and time necessary to properly tan and finish, forbids it. 1j Its value must be measured by the service ob tained, aud this is the poirt at which all true economy asserts itself. "WHEN IN DOUBT, BUY OF PRICE!" .1 Ffteen Million Dollars. Richmond Time Dispatch. "Does all this good roads talk amount to anythingt" is the ques tion sometimes asked. The best answer is that more than $15,000, 000 in the form of special bond is sues in the Southern States, has been voted in the last five months for the attainment of good roads. A record has been kept at the headquarters of the Southern Com mercial Congress, in Washington, of the practical results that have followed in the wake of the good roads agitation. G. Grosvenor Dawe, managing direc or of the congress, has received a mass of au thentic official data, on the basis of which he says: "If money .talks, then the South is vociferous in favor of rural bet terment through better roads. Be tween March 1 and today the bond issues voted upon before August SI, added to appropriations made outside of regular road taxes in re gions where bond issues are not to be considered, amount to $15, 878,500. "It would not be fair to the indi vidua! States to show by exact fig ures how the total is arrived at, as there is in some of these States a keen interest in good roads, joined to a desire not to saddle the coun ty Wth'aebt:; But, It is fair to state that the leaders in the bond issues which voted for road better J mentare io order named Texas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Florida and North Carolina. The States bther than Texas and Tennessee that show the greatest 9 number of counties voting for road bonds are Virginia and North Caro Una. In Virginia a most interest ing co-operative effort is being made. It has a name almost long enough to swamp it but the intent is there, and it will do good the Augusta, Nelson and Albemarle Counties Co operative Roadway Improvement Association." Has to Haul Water. Waihaw Enterprise. During the past week the Sea board Air Line has been operating a water train between Monroe and Osceola. This train consists of several big oil tanks on flat cars and makes from four to six trips daily. The railroad's water supply at Monree is practially exhausted on account of the continuous drouth and it is necessary to sup ply the numerous big locomotives coming in and out of that place with water from Oseola. At first they would hitch half a dozen or more engines together and. run them down and back in one train filling the tenders at the Oseola tank. This made a magnificent sight for the boys,. Bui later the water train wa put on. The big steam pump at Oseola is operated day and night.. But ''they say" the stream of water in twelve Mile creea.is now --no Digger loan bigger man's leg and threatening to dry arely. up entire It's the man who has nothing to do that doesn't have time to do anything else. fellow's wickedness. . . ... f . 3, ' .