Thursday, May 25, 1905.
THE RALEIGH ENTERPRISE.
Lightning struck a corn crib
owned by II. D. Pinkston at Wades
boro one night last week, causing a
fire that finally destroyed a large lot
of corn, fodder, etc., and 28 bales of
cotton. Loss, $1,500. ,
The grand lodge of the Knights of
Pvthias of North Carolina, will meet
in Charlotte, June 13, and continue
in session till Wadnesday. The euest
killed by lightning Saturday after- 0f honor will be Supreme Chancellor
Charles E. Shiveley, of Richmand,
STATE NEWS.
It is estimated that Mount Olive
will ship 60,000 barrels of potatoes
this summer.
Vance County has voted $20,000 of
bonds for an experiment in macadam
road building.
Steve Carson, colored, employed on
T il 1" 3l .
a iarm near .nuuierioruiuu, was
noon.
Revenue Officers Samuels and Has
tv were tried at Wilkesboro last week
for assaulting Editor Deal. Both
were bound to court.
The Main Street M. E. Church,
South, of Gastonia, has decided to
send a special missionary of its own
to some foreign field.
The name of the Howland Im
provement Company has been
changed to that of the Atlantic and
North Carolina Company.
Ind.
A committee of King's Daughters
met with the trustees of the Meck
lenburg reformatory Saturday morn
ing and discussed informally the es
tablishment of a house of correction
for youthful criminals in Mecklenburg.'
The United States Court of Ap
peals, which has been sitting in
Richmond, will hold a session in
Asheville. The court is held in Ashe
ville through the influence of Judge
The Newton Enterprise tells of Pritchard. who is a member of the
three sisters in Catawba County who court.
are the mothers of 50 children an
average of 16 2-3 to the woman.
A 10-year-old son of Lewis T
Adams, who lives near Pilot Moun
tain, was bitten by a snake a few
days ago and died four hours later.
An ostrich farm which has been
in operation near Asheville for some
time has been abandoned. The birds
were healthy, but few of the eggs
would hatch
A man named Warner, a farmer
about 50 years old, living in the To-
baccoville section of Forsyth Coun
ty, committed suicide Wednesday by
hanging himself.
The citizens of Selma voted out
thed ispensarv there last Monday by
a majority of eight votes. The fight
was warm and the anti-dispensary
folks did good work.
The local Salvation Army Post in
troduced the Wilmington public to
something new by holding a religious
service in front of a saloon at the in
vitation of the proprietor.
Miss Nora Lassiter, of Durham,
attempted suicide by jumping into
the reservoir at a cotton mill, but was
recued. Despondent. She had made
a similar attempt a year ago.
Albert McCoy, colored railroad
fireman, was killed in a collision be
tween a freight and passenger train
on the Atlantic and North Carolina
Railroad at Goldsboro Saturday
night.
Dr. W. J. Trent, of Earl, in walk
ing out of his door at home one
day last week, fell on a sharp stone
Charles E. Merrill, of Biltmore.
sustained injuries on the railroad
near Statesville last Saturday that
necessitated the' amputation of his
left leg. He was a brakeman on
freight train No. 30, and was 23
years of age.
The Secretary of State is sending
out to the registers of deeds and tax
listers the State over copies of the
revenue and machinery acts by the
last General Assembly for use by the
tax-listers in listing the taxes during
the month of June.
The South Atlantic Missionary
Conference was a great gathering of
Methodist people, and mission work
was the theme. A number of bishops
of the M. E. Church, South, promi
nent foreign mission workers, and
lay delegates were present.
Richard Lee, a negro driver of
Spencer, was killed between Salis-
burg and Spencer yesterday after
noon. The team was frightened by
an automobile. The driver was thrown
out with his head between the
spokes. His neck was broken.
The place near Asheville to which
Bill Nye, the humorist, gave the in
congruous name of Buck Shoals,
which was made famous up to the
time of his death several years ago
as his wild mountain home, was sold
Saturday to Mrs. Sophine Harrison
Eastman, of Chicago.
Mr. Robert Horton, who had his
skull fractured in a row at La-
Grange some time ago by being hit
on the head with a heavy piece of
It is announced that new military
companies have been accepted for
the North Carolina National Guard
at High Point and Louisburg subject
to satisfactory inspection by Inspec
tor General Bain. The High Point
company will be assigned to the First
and Louisburg to the Third regiment.
Mr. Henry Sigmon had the mis
fortune last Saturday to break his
collar bone. He was at the Newton
Roller Mill with his wagon and was
covering some wheat and flour to
keep it dry when he stumbled and
fell out of the wagon, striking on his
head and shoulder, says the Newton
News.
Dick Johnson, white, thirty-five
years old, a State prison convict, was
shot and killed by guards at a con
vict camp near Lillin'gton, Harnett
County, a few days aro. He was
serving a third term in prison, his
sentence being : fourteen years, for
forgery, and was shot while trying to
escape.
A special from Wadesboro to the
Charlotte Observer says that Con
stable Will Kirby arrested a negro
in Lanesboro Township, Anson Coun
ty, Sunday, and was walking beside
the prisoner when the negro raised
his gun, shot Kirby in the head and
made good his escape. The shot did
not pent crate the brain, and it is
thought that Kirby will recover.
Last Saturday afternoon, at Rich
ardson's store, in Iladley township,
two young white men, L. I). Petty
and John T. Odell, got into a quarrel
about a knife and an altercation fol
lowed, resulting in Petty receiving
two flesh wounds, one on the back of
the left shoulder, the other in the
left side. The wounds are not con
sidered serious, says the Pittsboro
Enterprise.
The universal verdict of the farm
ers of Anson is that never before at
this season of the year have crops
been so grassy and farm work of
everv description -so backward. A
very large number of farmers did not
finish planting cotton seed before
the rains set in, some of them not
having seeded more than half the
acreage thev intended putting in,
says the Wadesboro Messenger.
Crop Conditions.
The continued rains since early in
May interf erred with the late plant
ing of cotton and other things, and
the hot weather was very favorable
for the growth of grass and weeds.
Extra hands are scarce and many
feared that crops would be swamped
before they could be cleaned. But
good progress has been made and
many farms are now in fair condi
tion. The cool weather this week has
been favorable for hard work and
plows, harrows and hoes have brought
about a great change. By Saturday
nine-tenths of the farmers will be out
of the grass, or so near that they can
see the finish. The grass is small,
and if our farmers follow up the ad
vance made this week and the weath
er continues favorable, the fields will
bo in prime condition bv the first of
June.
New Franchise.
Yesterday the Board of Aldermen
granted a new franchise for the Ra
leigh Electric Company, and that
company agrees to build at least two
miles of track additional within a
year, the new line to reach the Union
Station and other sections.
The Raleigh-Durham Passenger
and Power Company may or may not
build, but it has given the old electric
company something to think about,
and it has gotten a move on itself
lately." ..
Mr.
At Fuquay Springs.
Thomas Kyte has erected an
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ice cream pavinion at jcuquay
Springs, and has put in a fountain.
He is now prepared to serve ice
cream, cold drinks and similar re
freshments near the sprinr and this
will be appreciated by the excursion
ists and other visitors there during
the hot season.
which inflicted a painful wound on scantling, and who has been in the
Emergency Hospital m Goldsboro
since that time is recovering, says
the Fremont Courier.
Mr. N. S. Perkins, of Pikeville,
was here Saturday, and in reply to a
question he said that the new hotel
which he is building at that place
will be opened in about two months.
Pipe has already been laid to bring
water from the mineral springs to
week, in addition to his usual supply the hotel, says the remont courier.
of various concoctions, he drank T, , etnri;no.
revelation was made during the meet
ing of the Board of Audit and Fin
ance that the prevalence of small-
the side of his face, says the Shelby
Aurora.
II. Clay Grubb, of Davidson Coun-
tv. who for ten days has been on
trial for killing his brother-m-law,
O. L. Davis, last October, was ac
nuitted in Rowan Superior Court
Saturday.
Will Douglas, colored barber of
On stoma, was a dope fiend. Last
Buggies Smashed.
Saturday night at 7.30 a section
of the storage loft over Woodall's
stable on Morgan Street gave way
and a large quantity of baled hay
that had iust been placed in the loft,
tumbled down, smashing twenty-five
buggies to kindling wood. Part of
the buggies belonged to the stable
and part to private individuals. The
building is owned by Mr. II. A
TERRIFIC RACE WITH DEATH,
"Death was fast approaching,"
writes Ralph F. Fernandez, of Tam
pa, Fla., describing his fearful race
with death, "as a result of liver trou
ble and heart disease, which had
robbed me of sleep and of all inter
est in life. I had tried many differ
ent doctors and several medicines,
but got no benefit, until I began to
use Electric Bitters. So wonderful
was their effect, that in three days I
felt like a new man, and to-day l am
cured of all my troubles." Guaran
teed at all druggists; price 50 cents.
The Route to Baltimore.
Go to Norfolk by rail, then get
aboard one of the palatial steamers
Bland. The total damage will amount I operated bv the Baltimore Steam
to nearly $3,000.
quantities of bay rum, and that was
the last of him.
Mr. O. F. Crowson, editor of the
Burlington News, and a son of Mr. pox at Wilmington during the past
H. II. Crowson, of Statesville, ha3 winter months has cost the city some
been elected secretary and treasurer thing like $5,000, and by the time all
of Burlington by the board of alder
men of that town.
Marion Democrat : A petition m
favor of Mr. Wagner, of Statesville,
for appointment as internal revenue
collector for the western district, was
circulated in Marion this week and
received numerous signatures.
A prominent farmer, of Lodo,
Mecklenburg County, Mr. George
Hearn. was killed by lightning Fri
day while picking cherries. A nephew,
Neeley Hearn, was with him, and was
rendered unconscious for several
hours.
bills are in, the figures are expected
to reach another decimal point.
The Greensboro Record says if Mr.
John W. Cook has a field full of
strawberries as large as a sample he
left hero today he will find himself
in the same fix as Carter with his
oats, who, after cutting them, found
he did not have enough room to stack
them in the field from which they
were cut. The sample is three and a
half by two inches and an inch thick.
How it tastes could be told better if
there was one more so that they
could be put into a short cake.
Louisburg Has Another Fire.
The stores owned bv C. T. Stokes
and W. II. and E. W. Ferguson at
Louisburg, were burned Monday
morning about 4 o'clock. It is sur
mised that rats started the fire by
gnawing matches. The loss is about
$10,000, fairly well covered by in
surance.
Louisburg has had several fires in
the past few years.' some of them
large ones, but the town still goes
forward.
Packet Company. Boats leave Nor
folk daily, except Sunday, at 6.30
p. m., arrive at Baltimore at 7
next morning. Safe and pleasant
trip. The boats have all the conveni
ences of a modern hotel.
The Fisher cigars are rapidly be
coming popular.
Norfolk Bicycles, $19.00. At Brock-well's.
Smoke Fisher's
Union made.
Kismet cigar.
who Not Get the Best Groceries?
When you can get them just as cheap of
No. 9, E. Hargett Street.