Statesville Record and Landmark from Statesville, North Carolina • 2

THE SKMI WEHKLY LANDMARK TUESDAY JULY 22 1902 loads of July 22 1902 TUESDAY No course the millions additional by the rise above is a over The Price is A of 535870 45 Ki uk to be semi the vicinity of Saturday de of the estimated jS 'io 15'lfiW) is a PINO VI IVE ACES and the worst is to come The chief flood thus far is on the Durham Herald After it is all over it seems to bo the opinion that Greensboro has nothing to be ashamed of Also Two Candidates tor Congress Durham Herald With one representative on the Supreme Court bench and three can didates for the Senate Mecklenburg has no just cause for complaint NEW A DVRltTltiElIKN TN statesyiTle''' Twenty counties in Mississippi are suffering from the i fleets of a disas troiis drought and in over one half of this number the corn crop has been utterly ruined while cotton has been damaged from GO to 75 per cent In Tallehatchie county tho destruction of tho crops is particularly complete and forest flres aro raging Known That Many Will Not Vote for Clark Greensboro Record That there are many Democrats in the State who will not vote for Judge Clark is well known This is a right they have but under the circum stances they aro still good Demo crats Men have a right to their opinions and while the vote for bis nomination was practically' over whelming these men are honest in their opposition We take it that there were few participating in the convention who will fail to vote for him Outside however there are no doubt some who will not support him yet as for tho balance of the ticket they will vote and work for it A Badly ooled Citizen Durham Herald The gentleman who attempted to play to the gallery by denouncing Cleveland received the wrong sort of applause from another portion of the house s7wr8 29736 110000 1198 63 An Ass Who Got Bridled Bryant in Charlotte Observer If a man elects to make an ass hituself he may expect to be bridled Whan the blatant mouthed ninny from the Lord knows where sallied forth at Greensboro and made bis vile speech against Grover Cleveland and insulted men who were Demo crats before he was born he was driven from tho stage like a dog Ho was hooted at cursed and called ugly names Though he camo forth like a conquering hero ho retreated like the donkey that he made him self He cursed Marion Butler It was a case of the pot calling the kot tie black The cap that fits the one fits the other Tney belong in the same political category Nothing in tho world but unlimited conceit could have prompted that speech Had it not been for the calm dispassionate words of Kstehin the conven tion would have retaliated for tho foolish outburst of the smart young dtfatnei of the Sheriff know better next time ederal Pie lor the Brandy Gaugers and Gatherers of Cotton Statistics Collector Harkins has recommend ed the appointment of 25 brandy gaugers the following among others: Burke county el Bristol Cataw bi Miller Yadkin Vestal Davie Sheek Davidson Loftin Gaston Hoffman Anson Rowan Cabarrus and Stan ly Kestler Surry Brim and A Sparger Alleghany and AsheT Landreth Hen derson and Phipps Wilkes A Phillips and Nichols Cald well II Dnla Watauga Norris Alexander A Little Iredell A A Davidson Senator Pritchard has recommend ed tho appointment of a large num ber of persons whose duty it will be to gather cotton statistics during the ginning season for the National De partment of Agriculture ollowing are some of the appointments: Con cord Ed Kestler Statesville Leonard Troy Allen Jordan Hickory Totten Charlotte Pope Salisbury Thos Rice Albemarle A Mirks Winston Jas Mitchell What salary these persons get not stated number of exposition THE ADOPTION THE PLATORM The adoption of the platform at the Democratic State convention at Greensboro was by all accounts an interesting event While nobody had tho courage to propose the en dorsement of the Kansas City plat form Bryan and free silver byname the report of the majority of the committee which endorsed the principles of the party as expressed in the national platform endorse all of these by implication By common consent everybody admitted that Bryan free silver and the rest of it are dead dead and buried DkIi (minor Be Currl by local application as they canuut reach tho iLs ased portion of the oar There laonly one way toonre Ueatnose and that Is by constitu tional roniclIoB Deafness Is caused by an In ftanicil condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube When this tube gets Inflam ed you bare a rumbling sound or Imperfect hearing and when It is entirely closed deaf ness ts tho result and unloss tho Inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to a normal condition hearing will bo destroyed forever nlto eases out ot ten are caused by catarrh which Is nothing but an Inflamed con dition of the niucoua surfaces we will give one Hundred Do'lars for any case ot Deaf units (caused by catarrh tint can not bo cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure Bond tor ckculars tree JCHKNHY GO Toledo Hold by DrugglStt 7f amily rills are tho boat 7662 97 179729 69219 of the nyers Most or this loss is on discredited tfao Missouri side of the river between Passim? tho too warenouso was torn uu uy me a laige and re fotward guards of tho Silver Cres cent The river is rising all the and do not pre time six inches during tho day in Three atal Accidents Asheville Dispatch 17th The hospital here tonight scene of suffering and death Henry isher a native of Salisbury was run over by a train tonight and fa tally injured Ho was beating his way from Knoxville to Salisbury and as he tried to jump from the train in this city his foot was caught and his leg was drawn under the train and crushed It is not expected that ho will live through the night A young white man about 22 years old was run over by a train at letch ers today and is perhaps mortally hurt His name is not known and ho is still unconscious He is well dressed A uegro bad both legs cut off by a mowing machine at Weaverville eight miles from Asheville today and will probably die All three of the injured men are at the hospital isher has since died Tho others may recover We ask and tho way wo sell tho goods and the choice wo make in buy ing Our Closing Out CASH SALE still continues Call early Respectfully Poston Bros LTADlLITIS Capital Stock Patdin Undivided ronts (Net) Dosposlts subject to Check $3362627 Demand cortiiicatosorDe poslt Treasurer' Chocks Out standing Duo to Banks and Bankers Notes and Bills reellH countod ETotal 1 bor where tho wind spent its vio lence Of those who perished nine were drowned in the harbor from open boats ono was killed by a fall ing tree and ono by a live wire BUBbCBIBK OB THE LANDMARK REPORT TO THE North Carolina Corporation Commission OP THE CONDITION AT STATESVILLE 0 AT THE CLOSE BUSINESS July 16th 1902 BESOVBCEH Loans and discounts overdrafts North Carolina! per cont Bonds urniture and ixtures Due from Banks and Bankers Chocks and other cash Homs Gold and Silver Coin United States Legal Ten der Notos Total $112259 I 23 '21 1 73691X1 Granitehill Items Correspondence ot Tho Landmark Wheat threshing is about The crop is light Cotton and corn are needing rain badly Mrs Elmira Long and daughter Miss May spent veral days last week in Rowan Miss Juanita Mills of Statesville is visiting Mr Bob Mills Miss Laona Robinson of Lincoln ton is the guest of her sister Mrs annie Gabriel Miss Effie Smith who has been vis iting at Mr A returned to her home in Davie Saturday Misses Effie and Rettie Cloaninger and Minnie Brawley attended tho picnic at Linwood Saturday Tney report a nice time Mrs annie Cloaninger is very ill with typhoid fever Iler infant son is also critically ill Henrietta Granitebill NC July 21 1902 The State board of agriculture at its meeting last Week agreed to ap propriate $1500 for the State fair At the Jute meeting only $750 was appropriated and ihe vote to increase the appropiiatiou was a 5 to 5 Commissioner Patterson broke the tio by voting in favor of the increased appropriation The board also decid ed to establish two additional experi ment farms One of those is to be in the piedmont section either in Ire dell or Catawba counties it is said 1475070 $11023800 Pnzzlfi fOBWi Picture PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND RIDAYS CALDWELL CLARK PUBLISHIBS order A1UA JL 1UHIJ We always have plenty of good things for yon and you can easily find them if you go about it in tho right way Ojr roost interesting point is in matters of news About 2500 men employed in the building trades are on a strike at Jacksonville la John Mackay known as dne of the bonanza kings of California and Nevada died in London Sunday evening ire at Dallas Texas Sunday de stroyed a buildings The loss is estimated at AAA qjLVVjVW Cloudbursts in Binghampton stroved property value of $200000 our persons wore killed and two seriously injur ed The mine convention at Indinanapolis last week adjourned after declaring against a general strike providing for the raising of a fund with which to aid the striking anthracite miners and issuing an ap peal to the American people for sup port A dispatch from Portsmouth says that a 19 foot whale boat containing 16 waiters and waitresses employed at the Oceanic House Isle or auoais wno naa gone out iu me The Domocratic convention of tho bay Thursday afternoon on a pleas 1 iath congressional district meets at uro trip was capsized during a sud Morganton today Tilore ar6 mny dan squall and 1 cup candidates and the contest may bo were drowned The other two were protracted Webb( of Cleveland rescued by fishermen seems to be the leading candidate Joshua Anderson was taken from A di tch from Hamburg says jail at Owensboro Ky early I nday 155 as W0r0 tfa nwAtuil mnn ovin wuiuiuK mj a tiuuu sinking ot a steamer in the kibe riv hanged to the crossbeam of the cty Qr yesterday ffiorning scales Thursday night Anderson went to tho homo of his wife three I Col Paul Meansis a canddato miles from town called her out and Domocratic nomination for shot her three times instantly killing tbo Ctate Senate in Cabarrus her Tne man and his wife had been The separated tor several weeKs oiiiua and ever is a bottle of ghove's taste A dispatch from New Orleans says cess chill tonic nissimpiy iron andquin ine In a tasteless form No curo no pay the largest sale of cotton from a sin prtcoeoc gle plantation was made there Satur day when 4900 bales belonging to produce market John Willis of the Panther Burn The following are the prevailing prices paid plantation on Deer creek in the YaHon the local market for produce zoo valley was sold to Wood onions ooc per bushel of Liverpool The bales were all ex oom so to ssc per bushel tra large averaging 920 pounds thus Irish potatoes 90c per bushel equalling nearly 10000 bales The Ducks 12 to 15c each cotton bad been stored for three Chickens (hous) 7c per pound years Wdlis was holding for a high chickens (frying) Sc per pound er price Ho hud been offered Hi Eggs to 8c por dozen cents and finally got 9 losing about Quinoas it) to 12c each $90000 by holding it too long vinegar 15X to isc per gallon Home made ipolassos 3oc per gallon No Place lor the Budding Orator Creamery butter 15c por pound Greensboro Record Table butter 12X to 13c por pound It is becoming more patent at ev Dried apples 3 to ic per pound ery Democratic State convention Dried peaches 5c per pound that the delegates have had a surfeit bi vrrios 5c per pound of the professional speaker and will Bye 75c per have no more of it The fellow with Oats 50 to roc per bushel the touguoJ a name given by Lard 11 to 12c por pound a well known Methodist preacher for Hams hc per pound a sermon already prepared for any shoulders 12c por pound old had as well quit Two sides 12c per pound years ago at Raleigh speakers were smtevtiio cotton Market howled down but this year it was statksvillk No July 22 1202 much more pronounced To read the "9 proceedingsone would think it is a sxtoa creat discourtesy but to be present it Tinges and suuiis ex to7x ilarket steady ir vv OYArl nULYUthinfrl 10 Id I I IO 1L1 UQIU QtUVA CrUlJlLUWg considered the delegates cancot be blamed They come to transact busi ness net to hoar long winded eulo gies of this or that candidate for an effico Over half tho time is taken ud with speeches and the custom has grown until it is somewhat of a nui Offer low prices on urniture sauce When au important subject Rocking and Dining Chairs is up however and information is ftnd a kjndg Tabeg Watch wanted if they are worthy are always heard with patience this space tor prices Call and P(i0 ns before you buy News ol Scott's Community Yours truV Correspondence ot The Landmark StalKville UoHtaisft Co vllio1 Of (Lcro idAHoo nMTZ MANAGER )t VIU uapuj tu 11VU MiV of lhe father by Rev Brown The bridal party returned the same afternoon to the bride 1 residence near Charlotte They were detained a short time by a refreshing shower of rain Miss Lessio McLaughlin has re turned to her home near Newell Mr Josephus Overcash who had been at the State Hospital at Mor ganton for treatment has come home greatly improved and ready to attend to his business affairs Clark Pressly and family of Mammoth Springs Ark are visiting their kindred and friends at Rev Kennedy preached at the Morrison school house yesterday to an appreciative audience Refreshing showers are in now and we are thankful July 21 1902 STATE NEWS The Waynesville Courier changed from a wpekly to weekly paper Last Saturday four car men women and children left Winston for Ohio Tho cornerstone of the new court house at Wilkesboro was laid Thurs day with Masonic ceremonies At Goldsboro Saturday evening John A Parker cut the throat of his brother Bill it is thought fatally The celebration of the anni versary of Christ Episcopal church near Cleveland took place Thurs day The Kenilworth Inn property in Asheville is to ba sold to satisfy a mortgage of $75000 held by tho Gi rard Trust Company of Philadel phia Thos Toon aged 32 son of the late Superintendent of Public In struction Toon died of heart disease at his home in Atlanta riday night He was found dead in bed The Unterprixe says that Rev 1 O'Neill of Enfield has accpted the call to the pastorate of the Baptist church at Mooresville and will begin work there the third Sunday in Au gust Stephen Venable a prominent cit izen of Surry county died suddenly riday morning aged about bj years He had been sheriff and county com missioner and had represented his county in the Legislature The Governor has granted a sec ond respite to Richard Blaton the negro under sentence of death fjr rape committed in Rowan county 1 The first respite ended today and the second is until August 12 At Henderson Saturday the little 2 year old son of Mr Henry Davis strayed from home was struck by the engine of a Seaboard Air Line freight train and sustained injuries which it is thought are fatal Greenville Reflector says a heavy hail storm which fortunately cover ed but a small area literally destroy ed the crops on a number of farms in Pitt county last week The sta bles on Sheriff farm wore demolished a mule killed and a horse injured A fire at Durham early yesterday morning destroyed the Roanoke Inn a 20 room building the Edwards boarding house 15 rooms a three story tobacco prize house and three residences The loss is estimated at $25000 at least The fire originated in the Roanoke Inn In Beaver Dam township in the extreme southeastern part of Cum berland county and over into the neighboring county of Bladen woods fires believed to have started from lightning have swept over a large area of valuable timber land besides burning several houses Charles Latta the cotton mer chant of Raleigh who was injured about a week ago being struck by a trolley car on lower Broad way in Now York city is reported as out of danger His skull was not fractured but ho sustained concus sion of tho brain and his loft side is paralyzed Mrs Tate widow of the late Col 8 McD Tate of Morganton died Thursday morning in Johns Hopkins hospital Baltimore from the effects of a surgical operation The remains 1 were taken to Morganton for inter ment Six children survive and two of these a son and a daughter were with their mother when she died The dead body of an unknown man believed to be an Italian tramp was found in the woods near Brown Summit Guilford county Saturday The man had been seen in that vicin ity on Wednesday previous and is supposed to have died a natural death His body was mutilated by vultures and no inquest was held The North Wilkesboro Hustler says that Mr A Spainhour got his left hand caught in the machinery of his pin factory at Wilkesboro ou the 11 th with the result that tho middle finger was torn off The same paper also says that John Porter au opera tive at the pin factory of the Absher Co got bis hand caught in the machinery Thursday afternoon and so badly crushed that it had to be amputated ire at Gold Hili Sunday destroyed the company building of the Gold Hill Copper Company of which Mr Newman is president Mr New man and a party of guests were din ing in the building at the time Tne Giro was caused by a child playing with matches in a store room in the building which was filled with excel sior and the blaze immediately spread The loss is estimated at $5000 or $0000 The Greenville WcMy says that a child of Mr and Mrs A Rollins of Pitt county died on Sunday 13th Mrs Rillins was sick at the time and when tho little ono was buried Mon day she asked that the casket bo brought to the bedside This was done and the mother raised up aud looked on her dead face Tho body was then taken to the cemetrry but before the burial was over the mother had followed tho lit tle one into the groat beyond The Newton Enterprise says that at the recent term of Catawba Superior Court tho case of Howard against tho Southern Railroad for $20000 damage for the loss of his leg by being knocked from the car step of a train by a pile of wood that had boon plac ed near the track camo to an abrupt close when Judge Starbuck inform ed tho counsel for Howard that bo would charge the jury that Howa was not entitled to damage on ac count of bis own negligence Rec oid to this effect was entered acd appeal taken to the Supormo Court At Wilmington last week a sharper who gave tho name of Rand and represented himself as a railroad contractor played the merchants like a flute He bought goods by the car load and paid for them iu worth less checks He was found out be fore the goods were shipped as ho ordered but some of the merchants were ao pleased with hia big orders that they made him presents of silk umbrellas and the like and gave him cash on checks These aro now mourning Wilmington seems to be a good field for this sort of game It hac boon worked there quite ofteu Hr Kluttz Gets the Promise of An Inspec Osborne Taken to To BeTrled for ree Delivery for Statesville Wife Aurder There Salisbury Special to Charlotte Obserrer Chag Osborne alias Cbas It is learned from Representative Hiatt who is believed to have killed I Kluttz that while in Washington on bjs W1fe in Norfolk Va recently has Tuesday last he secured a positive been identified as Chas Hiatt der for tho establishment of city free wanted at Stillwater Oklahoma for delivery for Statesville effective Do two murders and has been taken comber 1st the earliest practicable there for trial date under the rogula Hiatt alias Osborne is a native of tions Mr Kluttz had hoped to get Kansas He was at Oklahoma when it September 1st when the service the Territory was opened for settle goes into operation in Salisbury but ment and in a dispute about a land had an adverse report of a special in claim he and two other men killed a spectqr made last spring to over man He was indicted for this and come Towns and cities having 10 bja wife who know of the facts was 000 population or $10000 annual pos a fitness against him Ono night she tai receipts are not absolutely en was shot through the head and killed titled to free delivery as its estab Her husband claimed that the shoot lishment rests in the discretion of the jug Was accidental He was to be department officials Mr Kluttz tried for both murders but escaped hopes that the next Congress will ex and a reward of $450 was offered for tend this law so as to make it apply him to places of five thousand population few years ago Hiatt turned up at or five thousand dollars postal re Marion under the name of Osborne ceipts The conditions which make 1 and married there He lived there 1 the establishment of the service in for two years aud later liyed at Win Statesville before December 1st itn ston and then at Norfolk Atthelat practicable are the necessity of lay 1 ter place a few woehs ago his wife ing out street routes which has not Was shot through the head and killed yet been done owing to the original Her husband claimed that it was a unfavorable report which Mr Kluttz case of suicide but the public is now 1 has just succeeded in overcoming satisfied that it was a case of murder and the slowness with which the civil and that Hiatt is the worst villian un service commission acts in holding hung Tho news of the Norfolk af the examinations for the positions of fajr ied to his arrest and identifica carriers tion for the Oklahoma murders and Mr Kluttz also secured positive notwithstanding it is believed that he assurance that a special agent to in could have been convicted of the speet rural free delivery routes would murder of his last wife in Norfolk be sent to his district August 15th the authorities allowed him to be tak When the tremendous growth of this en to Oklahoma for trial service is considered together with number of persons now living in the fact that there are only about GO Statesville lived in Marion while of those special agents for tho whole Hiatt was there They say he was a country with 397 Representatives mysterious man that nobody know and 90 Senators clamoring for their any thing of his past career and those services it will be seen how difficult who know him generally belieye him it is to secure one or to keep him for capable of committing tho crimes any length of time Mr Kluttz has with which he is charged so far secured the establishment of 2S rural free delivery routes for his A Big Moonshine Distillery Captured One of district a greater number than in the operators Chased by a BuU any other in the State and has 57 ap The Durham Herald tells of tho plications now pending The total capture of a big moonshine plant in number of routes in operation in tho Durham county last week It was State July 1st 1902 was 161 with one of 12o gallons capacity and 3000 407 applications pending a'lons bTj 32 f8rmenters loO gallons of low wines were de The Mad'isotTposbnaster Hit tor $200 stroyed with the plant which was charlotte Observer nth well equipped Whentheofficersap Mr Pope came in last night proached tho distillery nine men from Martinsville Va where he had were there hard at work but they been to attend the trial of the Com scattered in every direction and none monwoalth of Virginia against of them were captured One of tho Lewis the Madison (N C) post men had a close call but not from master who upon a historic occa the officers and the Herald thus tells sion pulled a gun on Mr Pope and about it: made him surrender a couple of notes One of the men made quick work in which he had given to the aforesaid getting over a fence and he went Pope as campaign material Observer across a pasture in a dead run In readers are familiar with the details that pasture was a bull that from ap of the hold up Suits and rumors of pearances seemed to be iu league suits followed and the first to come with the officers When tho man to a head was that in Martinsville crossed over tho fence the animal 1 yesterday Tho charge brought by looked on for a moment and then 1 the Commonwealth against the post with lowered head joined in the master was robbery When the case chase rom that time until the op came up yesterday there was a move posite side of the field was reached it ment started for a compromise and was a race for life Glancing back the attorney finally over his shoulder and seeing the mad agreed to a submission to a plea of animal in pursuit the moonshiner in guilty of assault Postmaster newts creasca nis speeu 11 uunwip was thereupon fined $50 and costs increased aud the race became one of Tho bill outside of fees interest to tho officers who wore and incidentals will amount to $200 compelled to watch the outcome of The notes which the postmaster took tho second race before proceeding to away from Mr Pope were for $80 destroy the still inally the man Although it was known that Mr reached the opposite side of the field Pope wanted to have Lewis sent to and cleared the fenee disappearing the penitentiary he had no com in the woods beyond mnntc tn mfikn richt nn thfi Ollt I come Of the trial The civil suits ArmlleldAppredatMJiJlSupport and growing out of the rucus are to fol The followiag card 8ppearcd in the Sstnr day: I desire to express through theme dium of the State press my grateful thanks for the loyal support given me by friends from all sections of the State No man had more loyal and zealous friends and tho large vote I received in the State convention is the result of their efforts rather than any merit of my own It was a con test between gentlemen conducted upon a high plane Tho fight was a fair aud open one and I most cheer fully acquiesce in the result If it were necessary I could bear testimo ny to tho splendid abilities and high character of my successful opponent Hon Platt Walker Tho whole ticket nominated at Greensboro will have no more cordial supporter than myself (Signed)' Chas Armfield Statesville July 18 6364927 1999193 $1 10238 STATE NORTH CAROLINA CorNTY or InrpvLU bo I Ausley Treasurer ot iho Ktntosviuo Loan nnd Trust Company 10 solemnly swear that the abovo sUU mout Is true to lhe best ot my knowledge and belief AUSLEY Treasurer Sworn to and subscribed before me this the lh day ot July 1902 11 HOMANN Notary Public cob ter a ttost turn mt U'lENE MORRISON HILL July 22 1902 Directors A GREAT LOOD IN THE MISSISSIPPI The Best Crops In Years An Immense Loss on the Missouri Side Keokuk la Dispatch 20th Exploration of tho flooded districts of tho Mississippi river from Keokuk south shows conditions beyond the appreciation or realization of any of those of long experience with the ather of Waters in its most destruc tive mood The situation is grow ing worse hourly and a great confla gration in a great city would not be more rapidly destructive of values There is absolutely not the slightest chance of stopping this most costly flood in the history of the great river above St Louis A correspondent of the Associated Press went over the worst damaged area iu the steam 01 Silver Crescent and found every where the greatest crops ever known under water deep enough to float a steamboat People at the river cities give account of losses aggregating many millions of dollars Hundreds of farmers rich 10 days ago are But the majority insisted that unless penniless and homeless Careful es they wereendorsed Republicans would timates gathered from the statements Tx of best informed people indicate the ridicule Democrats by charging them losgupto today ig about 5G)000000 with having run away from their with every prospect of two or three nAtinnal nlatfnrm Or answer to this is that the party not yet reaching the lower stretches I 4 nf nn aI thm 1 noc io nr which ties itself to dead and discarded issues is in a much Knoknk and Hannibal more ridiculous position than if it water lapped lumber yards of Keo had the courage to admit that kuk tho mouth of tho Des Moines riv ao tor all accounts the majority of the cou gland djUa eovored with farms vention was primarily in favor of which are now under raging tor tho minority report which favored routs turning our faces to the rising sun Alexandria was protected to the by endorsing tho pnn broaking whjch would gead foQr eiples of and letting it feet of water all over the town go at that But the magnificent ap Gregory is submerged except tho peal of Congressman Kitchin white church in which service was 3 1 I va held today the congregation from saved the day for the maj tbe county roacbiDg the church by port which was adopted by the close tbe rairoad track which is still 5 vote of 535 to 690 and thus the con above the flood in a waste of waters vention beat about bush by indirect miles wide Other towns and cities ly hanging on to a thing which its the islands are beyond the dan 7 ger lino champions admitted is done for Immense fields are seen in a great But nevertheless tho whole matter jae wjtb tbo sboro visible only with a is very encouraging to the conserva glass where the high bluffsbound the five Democracv who have never tak bottoms Islands dotting the river at its normal stage have disappeared en any stock in the Kansas City pla escept £or tbe topg oj trees or fringe form Six years ago he who raised bigh sbore riH0Wg slightly pro his voice in a Democratic convention truding like a circular coral reef in opposition to free silver etc Occasionally a house on piles or stilts would have been hooted Two years generally only roofs rise to mark the center of farms ot corn ago it was strong because Bryan was Qa thQ edgQ of tho llooded river( corn tho candidate Now there are none gradually rises on a slope tassels who do it reverence and the conven tops ears and stalks appearing in tion at Greensboro is evidence that order In the middle of the present C( river the tracks of the St Louis Ke some Democrats in the State who lknk Nortbwestera Kailroad nor have endured long and suffered much mally oa tho Missouri shore are now aro being vindicated a few inches above the water and un additional evidence is needed it der it in some stretches Shore is given in the crushing of the speak for pilots are standing in the midst of a waste ot waters where er who assailed Cleveland In the stoatuboatg cau tnn over thempalmy Populist days of :9 Demo The river is 5 to 10 miles wide andcratic politicians thought the way to I a great lake 70 miles long is added hold the Populists in the party was t0 nJaP iA All this territory was practically to eurso Cleveland with more vio nnrnJa lence than any Populist could This to make 75 to 100 bush availed nothing so far as the Popu ele to the acre Previous estimates lists wero concerned and it was a of tbe loss have been greatly inereas mightv strain on the Cleveland Dem Gd tb much greater than ever before tell ocrats About all the Democratic ama that were good politicians of prominence in the for ioq bushels to the acre before the State have learned that this is no flood The loss is total Experience longer tbe popular thing to do but a bas shown that if water stays 48 hours oven four inches under the few undoilingsdon tknow any better I kUlg CQrn aad ev0ry stalk The thing called Ward from the re wet by wav08 perishes from rotting mote east was one of these but he roots knows better now Tho denuncia The height of the flood is indicated by an incident at La Grange lhe tion which he received was some warehoase wa8 wou back thing fierce but it was deserved and £rom tb0 rver bauk and stands high carries a lesson with it Hereafter A strong current and a gale caused Hincfi wKn hqnnpn tn Ha in the I the uilot to make an imperfect land L4 BJ "MV UU 4 I A majority will have better sense than ing and the cornice of the roof of I Um rpnvnhniicn yvih Inrn nrr hv tho to needlessly insult spcctable minority nUUU Vi tullUUl OuU UV UUV IXLUU) old muuta ui nu tend to endorse all the things done tbo immense area of square mfles at the Greensboro convention in the ThQ flood thu8 fftr ig oa the main iis work commands our appro Missouri side from Keokuk to Louis bation and support Tho sentiments iana with Cauton and West Quincy expressed aud the attitude shown as centers of the country hurl worst there gives hope for the future of Do P8 tbo Illiaofjarsido Xl uous levoes for 40 miles trom War mocracy in North Carolina Weaie tQ Qjincy above water which getting back to the old to safe thus far are safe but farmers are and like St Paul when he afraid ot crevasses from musk rat camo in sight of the Three Taverns holes and every rod of the redoubt is watched day and night The break wo thankJjodmMakewurage jug tboso ioveo8 would flood many square miles in Illinois and destroy Ruv 57 Grissom a well known I 000000 to $3000000 worth of Methodist minister and missionary! cortli The levees below Quincy are secretary of tbe Western North Caro in the same situation except that lina Conference in a setmon at they are lower and less firm Opposite Quincy iu Missouri is still Monroe a few days ago said: I gpecjal If preaching would have saved the tioa which is appalling North 12 world it would have been saved long Inj0g (0 jja Grange and south to ago idea of preaching was Holton largo prairies are well under personal and individual work that reaching from tho Illinois all bad this work to do and that all (0 Missouri bluffs at luast wero to bring others If oOO thru 1(J mile(h Levees hastily thrown tians would each this year bring an ftrounj farms are disappearing in a other individual to Christ and this fiorcQ current rushing from above 1000 would next year bring another tbrongh the draw of tbo Burlington 1000 aud the 2000 would bring one bridgni carrying everything before it (iach the third year and this were jOne prairie 10 miles square is kept up every year tho whole world deBerfcd) the population having tied would bo saved to Christ in 12 years tQ Quiacy and tbc buff3 oa the Mis Whereupon tho Monroe Journal du gonri side from which they watch tho murs and says it doesn't believe the complete destruction world cau be saved by any endless I S(orm Bul(lmore Caue( (lie 1)eath chain letter system which reminds iiiven People I Baltimore Dispatch 20th one cf cherry tree methods I A fierce tornado characterized by Ex Judge Spencer Adams of ft windstorm of extraordinary veloc A 1 ity thunder vivid lightning and a Greensboro who was recently hevyiaiDgad(ieDlyburgtupoOBsl pointod Chief Justice of some sort of timoro at 130 in today coming a court in tbo Indian Territory has from the southwest with tho net ro some patronage at his disposal The suit that elevon persons lost then i i lives hundreds of houses were un DOSl jOU Mile IV 13 nUILU I a i I 1 i roofed trees in the public parks and 500 aud while tbe public 1 streets were torn up by tho roots know the nature of the job its duties many buildings damaged and several or requirements already twelve people injured The storm exhausted North Carolina lawyers hare applied itB fury thtn tuinnte9 damage done in tho business portion to Judge Adams for an appointment £bo wag oom porn ti vely slight Snch is tho mania for offieeholding I being confined to the blowing down of signs and injuries to roofs It was At Murphysboro Ill early riday jQ the residence portions of the city morning Mrs Geo Joubert shot her along the rivt front and in the bar husband and brother In law mistak ing them for burglars They returned home intoxicated and finding the house looked started to breakdown the door The woman fired through the door with her revolver North Carolinian Killed In a Riot In Tennes ee Knoxville Toun Dispatch Charles Barger of Murphy passed through this city tonight wiih the body of bis brother John who met death in a riot at Chicago Tenn a place of about 500 people located in Cumberlaud county Tbe Cnicago Tentiessee Land and Coal Company announced that they would not allow negroes to work in tho mines John Barger talked to Bradshaw superintendent of the company on behalf cf the ne groes They quarreled and Barger killed Bradshaw Barger was felled by a blow from a pick axe iu an un known hand aud died almost instantly Jim Rice and Isaac Wright both colored wore killed and others wounded in a general fight which re sulted from the false belie! that the negroes were about to cause trouble TO CUHK A COLD JNONK DAY Tako Laxative Drorno cjulnlne Tablets Ml druggists rotund the money fails to cure signature is on each box i.