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Thursday, October 5, 1905. THE RALEIGH ENTERPRISE. 8 STATE NEWS. Work on a tin mill for treating tin ores from the mines at King's Mountain is in progress. Miss Clyde Brewer, of Nash County, used kerosene oil to kindle the fire. She died after some hours' of terrible suffering. In Guilford Superior Court a white man was convicted of stealing an umbrella from a negro and given four months on the roads. Charlotte is to have another cot ton mill. , The Calvin Manufactur ing Company are the incorporators and the capital is $300,000. Two insurance companies, with a capital of $100,000 each, have been organized in High Point, one to write life, the other fire insurance. Bishop A. Coke Smith, of the Southern Methodist Church, has lo cated in Asheville with his family. He was formerly a resident of Nor folk. The Carolina Paper Pulp factory which is being established in the old plate mill in James City, will be started in operation in about three weeks. Mr. J. C. Rosemond will put in a shuttleblock factory at Castalia in the near future. The product of the mill will be taken to Nashville by wagon. ' Masie Helms, of Union County, nine-years-old and weighing only sixty-three pounds, picked 201 pounds of cotton in one day a few days ago. Albemarle, Stanly County, has voted $25,000 of bonds for the con struction of the proposed South bound Railroad from Winston-Salem to Wadesboro. Mr. Baumgardner, an employee of the. Thornasville Spoke Works, while climbing over a saw Friday, fell on it. His hands were cut so badly that it was necesasry to amputate both, says the Thornasville Times. The man Lail, who abandoned his wife at Lenoir and married a young Mooresville woman, was arrested, tried and convicted in three daws. That is the kind of speedy justice that makes the law respected. Active steps are likely to be taken soon toward the construction of an electric line from Yanceyville to Danville, Va. A gentleman from Lynchburg is behind the movement, which already seems an assured fact. A bank has been established in. Jacksonville, N. C, and it will soon open its doors for business. There is already a bank at Richlands. This! makes two banks for Onslow Coun ty. That county is making progress - very; fast.'::- Fall string beans are being shipped from here now. Several small lots have been shipped already in the last few days, and yesterday upwards of one hundred baskets from F. L. Bray's Mile Farm, went off on the steamer New Berne, says the New Berne Journal. There are 4,258 Federal pension ers in North Carolina, who receiv ed $589,804 from the government last year. These figures are obtained from the annual report of the com missioner of pensions, which shows that the government spent $144,864, 694 for pensions last year. While all the members of his fam ily were away last Sunday thieves broke into the residence of R. - B. Register, who lives on A. G. Stroud's place, two and a half miles east of Greensboro. With a piece of iron they broke the lock, on the trunk and stole therefrom, between $300 and $500 in Confederate bills. Several pieces' of jewelry in the trunk were undisturbed and the only articles that have been missed are an old pocket knife and a bag of smoking tobacco. Chatham Record: There is quite a disparity in the size and weight of two scholars now attending the Pittsboro Academy. One is a ten-year-old girl, who weighs 101 pounds, and the other is a seventeen-year old boy, who weighs only forty-one pounds. 11. S. Jenkins, who was acting as railroad agent at Huntersville, was killed there last October in a rail road accident. Suit was brought against the railroad and the case has been compromised by the payment to Jenkin's widow of $5,500. The rail road company pays the costs. The Pioneer Manufacturing Com pany, organized a few weeks ago at Winston-Salem, will engage in the manufacture of ladies' muslin un derwear Friday. This is a new en terprise, the only one of the kind in the South. Employment will be given to about seventy-five opera tives. Mr. J. Elwood Cox, chairman of the board of trustees of Guilford Col lege, returned Saturday from the North, where he secured the $45,000 for the endowment fund for Guil ford College, making the necessary amount to secure Andrew Carnegie's gift of a like amount and the $25, 000 from Mr. Pearson, of Chicago. Judge Pritchard set aside the ver dict of $27,500 given in the case of Thomason vs. Southern Railway and tried in the United States Circuit Court in Asheville. In this case, it will be recalled, Thomason, a boy, was on the turntable of the South ern at Old Fort, where he had no business, and was fearfully injured. Judge Purnell, of the United States District Court, has decided in the bankrupt case of D. A. Owens, of New Berne, that a bankrupt in one State cannot have a homestead allotted to him out of lands in another State. Owens scheduled in his assetsNa tract of land in Mary land and demanded a homestead out of it. Charlotte Chronicle : The Appa lachian Park movement is not a scheme for a pleasure garden in our mountains. It is an economic neces sity. It is necessary to the main tenance of the water supply in the rivers and to grow timber for future use. The timber which can be grown will far more than pay interest on the cost. Newton Enterprise: Mr. Sig, Ga briel, of Sherrill's Ford, was serious ly crippled by a falling tree Tues day morning. He was digging up a dead tree and, thinking it about ready to fall, went to move a cock of hay, and the tree fell on him. This was in the forenoon. Late in the afternoon he was found in an unconscious state. One arm 'was broken and the thigh and knee joints of one leg dislocated. ' The penitentiary directors met with the Governor and Council of : State Saturday evening and decid ed to complete the Wilkesboro and Jefferson turnpike to the top of the Blue Ridge. About a mile and a half remains to be done. The top of the mountain is about nine miles from Jefferson. If the latter place will pay for the work the road will be built there ; if not the convicts will be withdrawn. The grand jury of New Hanover Superior Court last week recom mended a severe reprimand for the superintendent of the convict camps, presented Foreman Hocutt, of the convict forces, for brutal treatment of convicts, and recommended the discharge of a guard for drunken ness. Complaints had been made of bad treatment of convicts and inves tigation showed there was consider able foundation for the complaint. Don't think your pastor an intel lectual machine. Garner Items. , Garner, N. C, Oct. 3. Correspondence of the Enterprise. Two cases before the mayor for disorderly conduct. Fined $5 and $7 each. Mr. G. S. Wilson and wife, of Smithfield, are spending a few days with Mr. A. J. Powell, near Garner. Mrs. Hawkins Britt, who has been seriously ill for several days, is im proving. Our town had another very nice1 store opened up last Saturday by Mr. Dexter Montague, a son of Mr. G. B. Montague: Wake Superior Court. The case of the four attendants, J. C. King, L. IT. High, J ack Peele and W. F. Durham, was continued until the January term. The grand jury returned a true bill against the defendants. Their bonds will con tinue at $1,000 each, for appearance. Frank Moore and Charles Burch, accused of the Standard Oil murder-arson and robbery, will not be tried until the January term. The case of I. W. Rogers for shooting Jno. Dockery will go over until the January term. SamueL Dupree, of Garner, who shot Constable Jones when the lat ter attempted to arrest him for keeping his store open on Sunday, came clear. The Judge held that Jones had no right to arrest Dupree without a warrant under the cir cumstances. Charlie Emmerson, colored, of Ra leigh, swindled an old colored man, Robert Stevenson, of Johnson Coun ty, out of $9.20 last year. Charlie goes to the roads eight months. About the same time Lonnie Rog ers, of Raleigh, stole a package con taining a suit of clothes from the Express Office. I le got six months. Phillip Thompson, a negro shop lifter, got eight months on the roads in one case. Two other cases stand against him and he may get another sentence when his time is up, "if he don't look out." Grover Coppedge, white, of Ra leigh, was accused of robbing II. W. Allen, of Youngsville, of a watch. The jury found him not guilty. T. J. Wheeler, of Marks Creek township, was fined $0.00 and costs for failing to work the road. Tie ap pealed to the Supreme Court and the constitutionality of the road law will be passed upon. John Dunn, colored, received a sentence of eight months for steal ing a hog from J ohn Smith. Dunn had nevor been in court but once be fore and that was for stealing a hog seventeen years ago. Charles Person, colored, plead guilty to slapping his wife twice though he denied assaulting her!. The judge tried to patch up their family differences and let him off upon payment of costs. Richard Ford, a Lumber ton dar key, admitted breaking into a box car and went to the roads for eight months. At a colored dance in Oberlin, Isaac Taylor used his knife on Simp son Riddick. Jr. The judge' prom ised to let the boy go upon payment of $20 and costs. . . Henry Amos, for carrying a pis tol, was given four months on the roads. The case against Lucy Jones for retailing liquor was continued until January. John Layton, a white boy, assaulted Melvin Strother with a rock. He was discharged upon pay ment of costs. The case of Ed. Cooper, colored hack driver, to test the city ordi nance forbidding hacks on the streets after 9 p. m., except when ordered for a specific purpose, was decided against the city as an "unreasonable law." It is said that the Aldermen will repeal the law to-morrow night. A dray driver who had driven fas ter than a walk on a paved street got out of it by declaring and proving that he checked up the horse as soon as he could after the hftrse began to trot. A case that attracted some atfen tion came from the country. Two sisters had decided to marry two brothers elope with them. Two desperate rivals for the affections of the girls tried to prevent the elope ment, even going so far, it is alleg ed, as to use a whip and pistol in an effort to break up the double mar riage. But love found a way. and the defeated lovesick swains are in court, under a peace bond. new Cure for cancer. All surface cancers are now known to be curable, by Bud-leu's Arnica Salve. Jas. Walters, of Duffield, Va., writes: "I had a cancer on my lip for years, that seemed incurable, till Bucklen's Arnica Salve healed it, and now it is perfectly well." Guaran teed cure for cuts and burns. 25c. at all Druggists. SPECIAL RATES TO RALEIGH Via Seaboard on Account North Caro lina State Fair, October 16-21, 1905. The Seaboard announces they will sell excursion tickets from all points within the State of North Carolina, including Norfolk, Portsmouth, Richmond, Petersburg, Suffolk, Franklin and intermediate points in the State of Virginia, account of the State Fair, October lGth-21st, for one first-class limited fare for round trip, plus fifty cents for one admis sion to the fair grounds minimum rate, including admission coupon, $1.00.) The rate from the principal points will be as follows : Portsmouth, Va. . .... ... .$5.95 Norfolk, Va. ........ ... . . 5.95 Suffolk, Va. . . .... ... . . . 5.45 Franklin, Va. ............ 4.95 Lewiston, N. C. v.. .. .. . . 4.45 Rich Squaree, N. C. . . , . .". 4.45 Richmond, Va. .". . . . .... . 5.30 Petersburg, Va. ......... . 4.70 Weldon, N. C. ........... 3.60 Oxford, N. C. ....... ... . . . 2.40 Henderson, N. C. . .". . . . .1.95 Sanford, N. C. . . . . , . . . . . . 1.85 Hamlet, N. C. . . . .. . . . . .. . 3.00 Maxton, N. C. . . . . . .. . . . . . 4.35 Lumberton, N. C. . . . . . .... 4.35 Wilmington, N. C. ........ 4.80 Monroe, N. C. . . . ...... ... 5.85 Charlotte, N. C. .......... 6.15 Lincolnton, N. C. .... .... . 6.90 Rutherfordton, N. C. ... . . 6.45 Hickory, N. C. . .... ... ... 6.90 Lenoir, N. C. . ........... 7.40 For military companies and brass bands in uniform, twenty or more on one ticket the following rates will apply for round trip: Portsmouth, Va. . . . .. . . . . .$3.55 Warren Plains, N. C. . .... . 1.25 Henderson, N. O. ....... . .90 Oxford, N. C. ... ......... 1.20 ' Louisburg, N. C. . . ...... . .75 Franklinton, N. C. . ..... . .55 Sanford, N. C. . . . . . . . . ... .85 Maxton, N. C. . .......... . 2.10 Wilmington, N. C. . ...... 2.65 Charlotte, N. C. . ...... .. . 3.50 Shelby, N. C 4.55 The rates for military companies do not include admisson to the the Fair Grounds. Tickets will be sold October 13th to 20th, inclusive, and for trains arriving at Raleigh fore noon of the 21st, final limit of tick ets October 23rd. The Seaboard will arrange to op erate special trains from Weldon, Oxford, Louisburg, Hamlet and in termediate points to Raleigh on Wed nesday and Thursday, October 18th and 19th. For further information apply to nearest ticket agent, or address, C. II. GATTIS, ' Traveling Passenger Agent, Raleigh, N. C.
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