Statesville Record and Landmark from Statesville, North Carolina • 2

asm THU SBMI WEHKLY LANDMARK TUESDAY AUGUST 23 1903 I Tobacco Grower Adopt Plan vent the Trust to Circuit! IN THE STONY POINT COUNTRY PVllMSHSD TUESDAYS AND RIDAY'S August 25 1903 wo 1903 NEW APVRHT1KEMKNTH i Jewelry Silverware Cut Glass China Glad to have you call i SUBSCRIBE OR THE LANDMARK Day on That Will Be Enough I 1A a'A 1903 exist fight Rocky Mount Special 21st to Balelgh Post Between two and three thousand 12 90 12 SO 12 70 ii ton Now that Judge Allen and Solicit or Hammer are holding Davidson Su perior Court it will be interesting to sea what will happen to the gentle man who is operating a government distillery in Davidson county in defi ance of State law The distillery has been in operation in Davidson county for several weeks but the county cffi cisda took no action to stop it It is now reported that Dewey the festive New Borne cashier when ho fled frbm New Berne paused in Bal timore long enough to get from a bank there Just how he got it is not stated One opinion is that Dewey is in in Mex ico or somewhero elsr another is that be is hiding in eastern North Carolina hO 13 NEV A Cou A dispatch from Kansas City Mo says: Believing that he will not be able to be impartial in the second trial of Lulu Prince Kennedy for the murder of her husband which has been set for November 16 Judge John Wofford riday swore himself off the bench and named Judge Joshua Alexander of Gallatin to try the case At her first trial Mrs Kennedy was given 10 years in the peniten tiary She killed her husband Phil ip Kennedy agent for a local transportation company a month af ter their marriage because he refused to live with her The action was creditable to Judge Wofford Realizing that he was bias ed in the case he refused to hear it If every judge whose feelings were enlisted on one side or the other of a case coming before him for trial was to follow Judge Wofford's example there would be more instances of this kind Heroic reoiment lor Snake Bite Marion News Mr Cornelius Wheeler while his return one evening last week from town to bis home on Buck creek came in contact with a huge venomous snake of the mountain tribe which coiled around his lower limb and inflicted two severe gashes with its fangs while Mr Wheeler was trying to extricate the reptile from his leg One took effect in his right leg just below the knee and tbo other in his right hand He went immediately to the residence of "Aunt Jennie who has the reputation of removing all poison injected into the flesh by any poison snake and her application of treat ment seemed to have good effect though at several limes during the night those gathered around his bed side did not think be wonld live through the night After ho was bitten by The snake he says that he drank about a pint cf whiskey one half pint spirits of turpentine one quart of blackberry wine and ate two and one fourth plugs of the tobacco and within twen ty four hours he was able to sit up and he is still improving Unusual Methods of Suicide Persons bent on self destruction fre quenlly apparently seek the method that will inflict most suffering At Midland Pa riday Samuel Rosenberg 20 years old became dis traded because his uncle accused him of stealing $10 Ha saturated his clothes with kerosene and set them on fire and then attempted to jump from a window but was re strained He was so badly burned that he died In Chicago the same day Mrs Ma bel Leathy attempted suicide by sat urating her clothes with kerosene and then setting them on fire She is ex pected to die And this is told in a dispatch from Salt Lake City: "Andrew Adams a waiter who ou last Saturday mur derously assaulted and frightfully slashed Mrs Jennie Gerald with a razor and then cut several gashes iu his own throat in an effort to kill himself committed suicide at Holy Cross Hospital last night Ho evad ed his nurse and went into a bath 'room got into a tnb ard placing Noting the failure of Chief Justice Clark to list bis income for taxation this year the Raleigh is moved to observe: The people not only of this Com monwealth but towns cf others whete our learned Chief Justice has spoken during late years have been impressed with his earnest zeal fer nent tax dodgers of all degrees That be should fall into that same mud hole must have been because the lights were all out when bo went to give in By theway as the excess of salary as judge seems to be the basis of the income given in by the State judges they have given Judge Clark made a slight error even last year The salary and expense mon ey paid to our judges by the State amounts to $2750 per annum If all in excess of $1000 must be listed then $1750 rather than $1500 the amount listed hy those judges who made retnrn of this it should ap pear on the book Small matter but yet our judges of all others are great sticklers for Principle when that hair lifting old terror can be brought into the play And the Charlotte Uteerter ale re marks: The judge doubtless overlooked the matter owing to the pressure of du tics tn connection with bis position ae defender of the common people against monopolistic greed repre sented by "them railrude Undoubtedly this is the correct ex planation of his lapse His old friend in the mountain coves of Yancey should write him another Jettex and remind him of the matter a vuu vi rin tn irni i ir i i 1 1 i ii ii i ri ii i TXT I 9 XA7 a la rve i a i wu vutuoi va ini8 lurutuiu Maribel Dowd or MecRienourg water on full forco The second of the series of inter national yacht races between the Re liance (the American boat) and Shamrock III (the British boat) was sailed eff New York Saturday and tho American boat won by seven minutes and three seconds While other races are to be sailed the fact that the American boat has wen the first two means that she is the supe rior craft and will be the victor in the series of races The prize raced for is a cup Many years ago the international yacht races were estab lished They are conducted by sporting gentlemen who have an abundance of money and who build boats especially for racing purposes Many years ago the American sports captured the cup and ever since British sports have been trying to gain it and have failed Sir Thomas Lipton an Irish baronet is the own er of the Shamrock and he is now making his third trial to win the cup He has spent a pile of money in building boats and is such an all round "dead game that thou sands of Americans have sympa thized with him and hoped that he might win the race In fact the con tinuous winning of the cup by Amer ican boats has become monotonous The races demonstrate nothing ex cept that American boat builders are superior to the English in the con struction of swift craft At Pittsburg Pa riday the Whitney Reduction Company paid over to Oliver Company the sum of $36470 63 being the amount awarded Oivcr Company as the balance duo for building the Whitney railroad of sx and a half miles in length from New London Stanly county to the Narrows The claim of Oliver Company was for over $650)0 Tne referee was Mr Charles Churchill of Roanoke Va chief engineer of the Norfolk Western Railroad When an incest case was put on trial in Mecklenburg Superior Court Saturday Jndge Neal excluded all women and all boys under 16 from the court room He then said that while he could not compel others to leave ho would appreciate it if "all gentle except those connected with the case would leave the room and it is pleasant to note from the Char lotto papers that a majority of those in the court room left When such cases as these are on trial the judge ought to have the power to exclude all persons from the court room ex persons directly connected with the case It is very often that cases of this sort and others are made a sort of public exhibition in the court room These exhibitions are degrad iug and they create a disrespect for the Irjv and the courts Boys Rob an Old Citizen In Madson Comfy Asheville Gazette One of the most inexplicable crimes ever committed in Madison county perhaps was that on last Thursday when the house of a decrepit old man of 94 or 95 years was broken into and robbed by two or three boys in their teens two of thorn of well to do fam ilies About 9 Massey and Chester Ammons and (according to one account) Wade Ammons all of Madison entered the room in which Reuben Lisenboe one of the oldest inhabitants of the county was sleep ing and abstracted from the pockets of his pants money to the sum of $78 according to one account and of $90 according to another One informant had it that two of the boys Massey and Chester Ammons alone porpe trated the crime and another that Wade Ammons was with the party The Ammons boys are the sons of Bruce Ammons who is a highly respected and substantial citi zen of Madison It is said that tho entrance to the room was effected by raising one of the windows and that the offense is sufficient to warrant a charge of burglary in the first de gree a capital crime Massey has been arrested and is now in the Buncombe jail He is only 17 years of age He says he re mained outside while the others did the work It is said that Chester Ammons has beeu in Asheville since the robbery of aidermen of Greensboro was try ing to find some way to limit the blowing of engine whistles in Greens boro the Record observes: We are a queer whole country is the same way If a train runs over some one at a crossing and kills him the th st thing heard is that the engine did not blow If it does toot its little or big footer then howl Yes queer country a fact Mistake Id the Identity ot a Dead Ths Wrong Wlte Notilled Old ort Correspondence Asheville Gazette 20th Last Monday Whit Burgin got off the train at Greenlee six miles east of here supposing it was Old ort He walked up to Everman two miles and it being about dark he got in an empty box car to sleep Borne time during the night be got np and went to the railroad and it is sup posed he sat down on the end of a cross tie and was knocked off by a passing train and killed His grip was found on the right hand side of the cross tie he was sitting on and his walking stick on the left The body was carried to Old ort and was first recognized as that of Lyttle of Gastonia The friends and relatives of Lyttle bought a coffin and a burial suit for the corpse and telegraphed his wife that her bus band was killed But after the blood was washed from the face it was found to be the body of Whit Bur gin of Rutherford county which fact was telegraphed to his wife at her home and Mrs Lyttle was in formed by wire of the mistake But gin was about 40 years old and was raised on Crooked creek in McDow ell county He was much intoxicat cd when he got off the train and told some parties that bis name was Bur gin and others that it was Lyttle The remains were carried to his old home in McDowell county for burial Eighteen persons competed for the eight scholarships vacant Mis rances Dixon made the highest av erage on examination The scholar ships pay $100 a year and traveling expenses He clenched tho faucet between his teeth and held oi until unconscious He died wuhin a few minutes It is believed that Mrs Gerald will SEPTEMBER ist there will not be much Of the best left for you Is catching the intelligent Those that need anything are the ones that are buying because they can see it is too good over the eastern tobacco growing I counties to attend an important meeting to consider ways and means 1 to remedy the existing low prices of 1 leaf tobacco Col John Cunning bam of Person county presided and members of the (State press together with Parker of Hillsboro were secretaries After several hours of speech making a committee appoint ed to report plans to remedy the evil complained of made its report em bodiod in a set of resolutions provid ing for the establishment of local stock companies to buy store and manufacture tobacco while it is be low the cost of production The con vention adopted the re port The plan adopted provides that the corporation to be organized may buy sell handle and in any manner deal in and with leaf tobacco and manu factored tobacco to manufacture to bacco into plug twist cigars ciga rettes cheroots smoking tobacco and any and all other forms To op etate warehouses upon commission or otherwise also prize houses stem meries and any aud all other houses incident or necessary to carry on a general tobacco business armers may take stock in warehouses and factories by putting in tobacco as capital instead of cash The meeting was an enthusiastic 1 one aud it is believed that a good start has been made toward the es tablishment of independent factories The plans outlined and adopted are merely the foundation upon which the independent structure is to be builded by the planting of facto ries and placing buyers in all the markets of the State and when you wish to offer a gift you should give something up to date in design and handsome in workmanship I have many lovely things in STATE OS' onto CITV TOLEDO I Lvcar COI'XTY I rank wiEvsr makes oath tvit senior partner ot tlir Urm ot Co itolna tjnelnoss tn the Cur of Tl ty and Slate aforesaid and that said lll pay the cum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS fo each and every case ot Catarrh that cannot be cured by tho use ot JI Al b's Catahbh Oikk RANK 1 I'll ENEY Sworn to before ms snd subscribed In my presence this th day December A I) IbHl A GLEASON I I Sdtury Public Pt I I THE success we have had the past few days continues till i hAL Hall's Catarrh Cute Is taken lu'ernally and acts on tho blood and nincons eur faces of the eyetem send tor tMliiionlalH free CHENEY CO Toledo bold by Druggists 75c Hall's amily ills are the best Both are good Our goods you Our prices will profit you All summer goods going now at and below cost We mean exactly that Must have room for our large line of fall goods a pleasure to sell our line of Shoes because they please people Big meetings of farmers and others were held Saturday at New Berne Wilsou and other towns in eastern North Carolina the object being to organize and adopt plans that will remedy the depression in the price of leaf tobacco A meeting was held at Rocky Mount riday at which representatives were present from all over the eastern tobacco belt and a plan was adopted which it is hoped will remedy the situation A sum mary of these plans is printed else where The Landmark hopes the tobacco growers will be able to cir cumvent the trust that the agitation will result to their benefit and not solely to the benefit of designing political demagogues as has so of ten been the case in the past Branches of tho Protective Association an organization promot ed by Col Jahn Cunningham of Person county and Secretary of State Bryan Grimes are being or ganized throughout eastern North Carolina and the Alliance wherever that order is still in ence is also taking a band in ing the trust Lord Salisbury former premier of Great Britain died Saturday at his home at Hatfield county of Herts England Robert Arthur Talbot GascoyneCeeil third Marquis of Salis bury was 'born at Hatfield in 1830 and was educated at Eton and Ox ford Ho entered the British Parlia ment in 1853 asa member from Stam ford and in 1866 was appointed Sec retary of State for India He subse quently resigned this office but was elevated to tho House of Lords on the death of his father in 1868 and was again appointed to the secreta ryship for India in the Disraeli gov ernment in 1874 On the death of Disraeli Salisbury became the recog nized leader of the Conservative par ty and he became premier ou the fall of the Gladstone ministry in 1885 Gladstone was again restored to power but a few months later was again succeeded by Salisbury In 1392 Salisbury retired from office but4 was again recalled in 1895 and re mained in office until about two years ago when bo retired on ac count of advancing years and failing health While he was never so prom inent as Gladstone and was not so great a man ho was undoubtedly a man ot very great ability Good Seaaons and air Crop Re vival Hurt by a An An clent Reunion Etc Correspondence ot The Landmark After a siege of cloudy showery i weather we are having a few dry days This section has for several weeks been favored with plenty of rain and while the rainfall has been abundant it has fallen with such reg ularity as not to be excessive Corn and cotton are making a favorable appearance Early corn is practical ly made armers have had an un usually favorable time for breaking fallow land They complain that land dries out faster than it did a quarter of a century ago and causes may exist which make their theory plausible Year by year the country has become more barren of timber and as a result evaporation takes place more rapidly consequently more rain is required The farmer has at last realized that there is a day for him and all he now needs is to judiciously bend his energies and his future reward is assured While other avocations have been reaching out and constantly extending their limits the farmer can now come in for a full share of tho seemingly uni versal prosperity Notwithstanding short crops the recent years there is no complaint of hard times among us which might naturally be expect ed These misfortunes seem to have been forgotten and the people are moving on apparently at ease Rev incher pastor of Sto ny Point circuit closed a meeting at Stony Point Wednesday night last 1 which had been in progress tor some ten days He was assisted by Rev of Stony Point and Rev Penland of Clarksbury circuit Considerable interest was manifested iu the meeting and sever i al young people joined the church Rev Scroggs presiding elder of the Greensbro district with his venerable father visited the meeting one day and preached an able ser mon much to the delight of bis old friends Mr Hunter a young man living near has about recov ered from a serious accident which befell him some days ago One eve ning while the east bound train was nearing the depot at be was walking near tho railroad track and by some means got into a collision with the rear coach by which he was knocked down and fatal results nar rowly averted His injuries were about his head and the most serious was a contusion on the chin Mr Hunter seems to be unfortunate along the line of accidents Some time ago be lost the sight of one eye Some days ago Miss Beulah Beck ham daughter of Mr and Mrs A Beckham found a terrapin near their home which has traveled the earth for many years On its shell were distinctly visible the initials of her two brothers and The former has been in Texas for twenty years and the latter died in August 1899 It is a little strange that Miss Beckham had the grit to pick it np The fex Confederate soldiers of Alexander county held I heir reunion today and I learn that a large crowd was present A movement was matte to perpetuate the organization and a delegate was appointed in each town ship to gather the names of his com rades Mr Beckham is the delegate in township Mr Lentz has moved his cot ton gin machinery to Statesville and I learn that Mr Miller will erect a ginning outfit at the old stand of Lentz Bros White Patterson have completed a gio house at Little mayor of Gaffney accompanied by a daughter and son after visiting his aunt Mrs Me Lelland near for a few days left Monday evening for their home Mr II Lentz came up today from Mooresville where he had been looking after the interests ot the new road construction The marriageof Mr Alexander and Miss Brown which notice appeared in your paper of the 21st inst took place in the eastern part of jnst across the line in Iredell The ceremony was performed by Rev incher and I Laro that the groom is a kinsman of Mr incher The couple remained with the latter until Thursday The people of this section will take a day off this week the coming ri day to attend the annual reunion and singing at Stony Point Mr Sloan of Statesville who is engaged in the sale of farming machinery has been at for several days in the interest cf his business Mr White returned some days ago from a business trip to Bal timore Dr Arch Campbell cf Statesville was in this section today Mr Hallyburton is preparing to erect a handsome dwelling on his place near The train pulled in Wednesday without giving any signals It was overlcaded and only brought a part of the cars having left the passenger coaches and passengers near Iredell It sidetracked and the engine return ed for tho passengers After closing the meeting mention ed Mr incher accompanied Rev Mr Penland to bis home at Harmony and is assisting him in a meeting bis circuit Rev Mr York will fill the appointments cf Mr incher while he is absent A valuable cow was killed by light ning in township a few days ago Mr II Beckham of Statesville came up today on a visit to his home folks Stony Point Aug fis A JOY I MATTERS NEWS Ricketts editor of the Mem phis Scimitar died suddenly in Chi cage Saturday where he whs under going medical treatment He was a native of Louisana was 40 years old aud was a well known newspaper man Details concerning the organiza tion of the United Lsad Company which has been under way several months have been announced The company will have a capital stock of $27000000 Of this $12 000000 will be in bonds and the remainder in common stock The 119th anniversary of the or ganization of tho State of ranklin was celebrated at Jonesboro Tenn Sunday The attendance from the soven counties of Tennessee and North Carolina forming the State was large Speakers of note were present from ail over the country This is the first public observance of the kind Gus Atkins alias Ous Murray JobniAtkins arid John Rice wanted in Madison county for the murder of James Rice were arrested at Thacker Mingo county Va Siturday by three officers from Welch John Alkios resisted arrest and attempted to shoot Chief ot' Po lice Day aud was shot in the hip by that officer i Secretary of War Root sailed Sat i urday from New York for Liverpool He goes to England to act with Sena tor Lodge and former Senator Tur ner of Washington as the United States representatives in the Alaskan boundary dispute Before sailing the Secretary declared that he would ac cording to hie present plans get out of the cabinet about the middle of the winter A dispatch from Louisville says: After buing divorced 41 years Hen ry Melville of Illinois and Mrs Margaret Brown of Louisville Ky wore remarried last Tuesdiy night by the Rev Lloyd and in a few days will leave for Mr Illinois farm He is now 74 and his bride for tho second time is 76 It was through the sons of Mrs Brown that the reunion of the old people was effected One man was scalded to death four others were severely burned by escaping stoam and six trick ponies were killed in the wreck of a circus train at Brunswick Mo Sunday The engine and car containing the men aud ponies were a total wreck and the escaping steam scalded five of the men who ware asleep in bunks over the ponies Oue man had his eyes burned out and inhaled the steam causing his death Two children were killed in Puila delphia Saturday by inhaling illumi nating gas and three other people aro in a hospital in a serious condition The dead children are Clara and Bertha Rodera Their mother aud two other children are in a darger ous condition Mrs Rodera later said she bud attempted to murder her children and commit suicide be cause her busband a textile worker is on a strike and the family was des tituto walk of rkai entatk BY VIRTUE ot tho powers cnntalnod In a mortgage deo I executed by Alfred Bailey and wife Mariah Bailey to the underelgned I will sell to tho highest bidder at public outcry tor cash at the court house door in Statesville on SATURDAY 20 11)02 at 12 o'eloctc the following real estate In tbo city ot Statesville and bounded as follows to wlt: Beginning at the Miller corner on Davie avenue Statesville ami running them with said auenue HID feet thence north 10: feet to a stone in eald Alfred Bailey lot lhenen 1CM feet to line thence with tne Rut ami Miller lines 100 feet to tbo beginning contain ing 100 square feet more or less HOOPK II McLaughlin Mortgagee Aug 25 1903 jyj OR TGAGE MALE RUL ESTATE BY VIRTUE ot the powers contained In a mortgage dfted executed by Mary Poston to the undersigned I will sell at publle auction to the highest bidder for cash at tho court house door In Statesville on MATUKDAY HKPTEJIHEll £11 11)02 at 12 the one half undivided Inter est In a lot of land described ami bounded as follows to wlt: Beginning at a post on the south side ot Da vie avenue In tne city of Statesville Mur corner thence 8 153 feet to a post corner ot Murphy and Dr Hill lots thence lut feet to a post In Dr line and Alllson'4 corner thence with Bald Allison's lino 110 feet to a stake corner thenee with bls line N' 259 feet to a post on Davie avenue corner thence with said avenue 8 l2 feet to the beginning containing onohalf acre more or less 8 LAWRENOE McLaughlin Mortgagee Aug 25 1903 PRODUCE MARKET The following are the prevailing prices paid on tne local market tor produce Clay peas 5(ta per bushel Corn 75c per bushel Irish potatoes 60c per i Ducks 20c each Chickens (hens) 7c per pound Chickens (roosters) 3c per pound Spring Chickens (young) He psr poued Eggs 12c per dozen Guineas 15c each Vinegar 15X to 16c per gallot Home made molasses 30c pergallon Table butter 15c per pound Dried apples 3 to 4c per pound Dried poaches Cc per pound Dried blackberries 6c per pound Wheat 9Cc per bushel Rye 65c per bushel Hams 14c per pound Shoulders 10Xc per pound Bides 10Xe per pound Mtntesvllle Cation dlnrket STATKSVILLk NU AllgUSt25 Quotations for new cotton strict good middling Good Middling strict Middling Middling Stains ii' 1 I TiTiririTi mu U' ii ri 1 1 1 irviiri OALDWLL CLARE mBLISHXUS TUESDAY An Opportunity To save money to let go by Now friends think wc are trying to alarm you but if you wait very long you will not be in it Bristol Tharpe Co Adc 25 1903 201 STATE NEWS A dispensary has benn established at alkland in Pitt county 'McD Whitson a prominentffarmers gathered here today from all lawyer of Asneville died rnday i night of disease aged 37 i Hon A Gndger United States consul general at Panama is at his home iu Ysheville on a visit The I Shore Distilling Compa ny at Shore Yadkin county has been chartered with a capital of $50 000 John lowers a farmer of Wilson county about 30 years old is in jail charged with criminally assaulting his 9 year old daughter Dan Teachy with the murder of Bob Rivenbark in Duplin county last March and who escaped from Duplin jail last April surren dered to the sheriff last week and is again in jail The saloon of A Jackson in Salisbury was seized Saturday night by revenue officers who found a lot of blockade liquor being moved into place Jackson was ar rested and gave bond Wm Reedy white was couvicted of incest in Mecklenburg Superior Court Saturday and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary The girl in the case his daughter is 15 years old Reedy was first charged with criminal assault but this charge was withdrawn Thos Gardner an Englishman arrested at Washington (N C) Saturday for violating a local ordi nance bv peddling goods without Ii cense refused to pay a fine and went to jail He wired the British vice 1 consul at Wilmington and proposes to test the ordinance in the courts i Superintendent Goodwin of the school for deaf mutes at Morganton says that the applications are so numerous as to be more than can be accommodated The number of applicants for admission to the school for the blind at Raleigh is also much larger than ever before Carson King a white man about 35 years old fell from his wag on in Concord Saturday morning aud died in a few minutes His skull was crushed by the fall King was a farmer aud lived near Concord He was diunk and his fall resulted from his condition He was married and a wife survives Some time ago Geo Mills superin tendent of sewerage construction in Charlotto viciously assaulted an old man named Moyle Mills was fined $25 Moyle was a Confederate vet eran and now the local camp of vet erans in Charlotte has passed reso lutions demanding that Mills be dis charged from the employ of the city The incinerated remains of Mrs Christina Graham 25 years ago a resident of Salisbury were deposited Thursday afternoon in a small grave in the Lutheran cemetery in Salis bury inclosed in an urn about a foot high Mrs Graham who was living in St Louis with her family died six months ago afid her body was cremated The remains were brought to Salisbury for interment by ter re quest New Berne Journal A colored man was soen cleaning and casing some kind of skins at the Market dock Upon inquiry the reporter was informed that they were eel skins and that the curing of them was quite a small industry The skins after being carefully cured are eagerly bought up by the colored i people who wear them on their limbs bracelet like as a charm against various disorders i West of Greensboro was ar rested in Notfolk Va last week at the instance of a grocery company who claimed that be owed them and was an absconding debtor The charge wouldn't stick and West was released Now be says he will sue the grocery company for false arrest But the question is did Mr West owe the money! If he does be ought to pay it and he deserves no sympa thy for public humiliation The following have been appointed to scholarships from this State at the Peabody Notmal College at Nash ville Tenn: Misses rances Dixon and Emma Dixon of Cleveland Co lumbus Andrews and Walter Moore of Caldwell Annie Paddi son of Pender: Ethel Wood of Cra ven: ft ZS 5k Pleasure and Profit i Cost Sale hat See The.