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Thursday, June 27, 1907. THE RALEIGH ENTERPRISE. S STATE NEWS. The Clayton Telephone Company has now in use fifty telephones and is installing new ones. Edgar Crosby, eleven years old, was drowned Friday in a pond at Cliff side Mill in Rutherford County. He accidentally fell in the pond. The contract for the new Y. M. C. A. Building at Winston, to cost $40,000, was awarded Saturday to the Fogle Bros. Co., of that city. Hydrophobia has broken out among the cattle of the Hanners ville section in Davidson County and a large number has had to be killed. A hail storm extending over a sec tion of more than twenty miles across the entire eastern section of Union County, Monday afternoon -did great damage to crops. Stock to the amount of $2,550 has been subscribed to the States ville Air Line Railroad in Statesville. With this amount the preliminary survey is assured. Mr. Elias Carr, of Edgecombe County son of the late Gov. Elias Carr, has been appointed chief clerk to the Commissioner of Agriculture to succeed Mr. W. A. Graham, Jr., resigned. Frank Jenkins, a blacksmith, of Wilson, was probably fatally stabbed Saturday night by Fred Hyman, an other negro. Jenkins was quarreling with another man, when Hyman stab bed him in the back. The dead body of Oscar Reams, with two bullets in it, was found in the woods east of High Point Mon day evening. It is the opinion that Kearns, who is colored, was killed in a gambling row. Prof. F. M. Harper, a native of this State, formerly of Kinston, and a graduate of the University, has been elected superintendent of the Raleigh graded schools to succeed Prof. E. P. Moses, resigned. The barn of County Commissioner Albert Wharton, near Clemmons ville, Forsyth County, was struck by lightning Sunday afternoon and burned, with seven horses and a lot of farm machinery and feed. Salisbury had a fight Saturday morning that beats the band. Three couples fought, all strangers in town. One had no legs, one had no feet and the third was minus an eye and an arm. All were put in the lock-up. Hereafter drug stores in Durham will sell only drugs on Sunday. No drinks, cigars, cigarettes: nothing but drugs on the prescription of a physician. This is a municipal or dinance and a violation means a fine of $25. The Methodist Orphanage located near Raleigh, reports 115 children present, with room for about 150. From the beginning this excellent in stitution has made steady progress, and won friends for itself among the churches. Policeman Johnston, of Charlotte, shot and seriously if not fatally wounded Jim Crawford, colored, in Charlotte Sunday morning while he was trying to arrest Crawford for alleged criminal assault on a seven-year-old negro girl. The report of the death of Mrs. Grindstaff , who was injured in the wreck on the Murphy branch of the Southern last week, was an error. She was so seriously hurt that one limb had to be amputated, but her recovery is hoped for. The entire plant of the Mount Olive Tribune Publishing Company, Including their newspaper and Job presses, together with a large stock of material and the entire office equipment was destroyed by fire about two o'clock Wednesday night. Origin of the fire is unknown. Par tially covered by insurance. The thirteen-year-old son of D. P. Biles, of Stanly County, has been missing from home for a week. The parents have made every effort to locate the boy, but to no avail. It Is believed that he was taken from home by a designing enemy of the family. Reports generally agree that the wheat crop in this section will be the best for years. A gentleman who sells harvesting machinery and whose business it is to keep posted on the crop, says it will be the best in five years, says the Statesville Landmark. People who have court costs tied up should not lose heart. The Mon roe Journal records that the former Clerk of Superior Court of Union County, who retired from office near seventeen years ago, received fees a few days ago that had been due for twenty years. The Whitney Company, which is developing water power on the Yad kin, announces that after January 1, 1908, it will furnish electric pow er at reasonable rates to any factory within forty miles of its plant. Al ready 40 per cent of the available plant has been contracted for. The case of G. M. Patterson, of Mooresville, who was arrested for a murder committed In 1898 in South Carolina, was heard before Judge Moore in Asheville, and Patterson was released, it being shown plainly that he was not Upchurch, the mur derer, and that the arrest was due to mistaken identity. Friday afternon a buggy driven by Misses Maud and Annie Landreth, daughters of Mr, C. E. Landreth, of Greensboro, was run into by a run away team belonging to Mr. Hester, of that city. The buggy was com pletely demolished and Miss Maud Landreth sustained some painful though not serious wounds. Frank May, a well-known young man of Greensboro, made an unsuc cessful attempt to end his life Tues day afternoon by drinking the con tents of two two-ounce bottles of laudanum. Only the timely arrival of Dr. J. W. Tankersly, who was hastily summoned, prevented the ac complishment of his purpose. On Sunday afternoon, lightning set fire to the steeple of the First Meth odist Church at Statesville, doing damage to the amount of $2,000. It was about twenty minutes after the stroke before any fire was seen. The fire company did most excellent work in saving the main part of the build-, ing. W. L. Smith and W. L. Berry, railroad contractors, who are build ing a road from a point in Georgia into Macon County, were tried in the Federal Court at Charlotte last week on the charge of peonage working a lot of negroes and keeping them restrained against their will, and cruelly treating them. There were many charges of cruelty, but the jury acquitted the defendants. In Warren County Superior Court this week Jim Harris, who some time ago killed Henry Dickson, was ac quitted. Harris, who it seems is pe culiar had been made the butt of jokes and ridicule. Dickson espe cially tormented him. At the time of the homicide Harris resented the teasing of Dickson and the latter abused and threatened him. Harris got a gun and when Dickson started to attack him he killed him. The famous Ballou iron mines of Ashe County, which have been so prominent in the public eye since the will of Napoleon B. Ballou was broken In 1899, and upon which the Pennsylvania Steel Company recently spent $46,000 in investigations, have been sold to the Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke Company, who operate about a dozen furnaces along the line of the Norfolk & Western Railway, The building used by the medical department of . the State University as a storage house for bodies for dis secting purposes, was burned Thurs day night. The loss is estimated at $1,000, with $400 insurance. Eleven bodies stored in an iron vat in the building were saved but some skele tons were burned. North Wilkesboro Hustler: Jeff. Horton, who is charged with robbing the Jefferson mail, was arrested at his home in the Blue Ridge Wednes day and placed in jail after a pre liminary hearing before Commission er Dula. Horton claims that he was held up by two men and the pouch robbed by them. Rev. Byron Clark, now pastor of the Presbyterian Church at It, Washington, Md., has been called to the pastorate of the First Presby terian Church at Salisbury. Mr. Clark, who is a native of this State, was recently called to the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church of Concord, and it is understood he has declined that call. Ten nurses of the Wilson Sanato rium have gone out on a strike. All kinds of reasons are assigned. On June 11th the head nurse went to her home to spend her annual vaca tion. While there the institution wrote to her and asked for her resig nation. She acknowledged receipt of the letter stating that she would soon return to Wilson for a settlement. She returned Saturday, and the set tlement was amicably made yester day morning, a check being drawn in her favor up to July 1st. Five of the other nurses expressed them selves saying if the head nurse left they would follow, and they did do( so at once. Renew Promptly. We often meet subscribers whose subscriptions have expired and who say that they wanted the paper on, didn't want to miss a copy, but neg lected to renew; "didn't come to town," etc. They show their faith by renewing. But they could often j avoid missing several issues of the paper by using the U. S. mails, which were invented for just such purposes. If it Is icecream in fancy shapes and of the finest quality that you need Dughi manufactures It. The Raleigh Enterprise and the New York AVorld, thrice-a-week edi tion, for only $1.60 a whole year. Think of it! The Raleigh Enterprise and the American Farmer both one yoar fcr only $1.00. Here's Good Advice. O. S. Woolever, one of the best known merchants of Le Raysville, N, Y., says: "If you are ever troubled with piles, apply Bucklen's Arnica Salve. It cured me of them for good 20 years ago." Cures every sore, wound, burn, or abrasion. 25c. at all Drug stores. E. B. EVANS & SONS, NO. 8 EAST DAVIE ST., RALEIGH, PLUMBERS. Gas and Bteam Fitting, and Gen eral Hepair Work. First-class work at moderate p; Ices. One of the most remarkable facts connected i ith the . . Great Artistic Stieff Piano is that out of the thousands of good, cheap and indifferet.t pianos so d here and there, it is always noticeable that families of refinement, culture and mu sical taste invariably purchase the "Artistic Stietf." The great and best equipped colleges 'of the country use the AUTISTIC aTIKFP on ac count of its beautiful singing tone and wonderful dur bi ity Write for special price list and descriptive booklet. Glias. M. Stieii. 66 Oranby St., Norfolk, Va. GEO. S. NUSSEAR, Manager. BIG JUNE CLEARANCE SALE From Monday, June 1 7th to Saturday, June 22nd we will have a Big Bargain Clearance Sale. Wonderful cuts have been made in the price of Oxford Ties, Long Gloves, Percals, Bleaching, Madras, Hats, Underwear, Towels, Sheets, Lawns, Laces and Embroideries, Shirt Waists, Oil Cloth, Quilts and many other lines. :: Remember the sale only lasts from Monday, June 17th to Saturday night, June 22nd. UALTER UOOLLCOTT, 12 EAST MARTIN STREET.
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