News and Record from Greensboro, North Carolina • Page 3

000. 000. 000. 000. 000.

000. 000. 0 0 0 000 0 0 0 DAILY INDUSTRIAL NEWS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1906 8 MURDER SHOCKS DURHAM Killing of Mrs. H. Hodges by Her Husband Sunday Morning Arouses County.

CHILDREN WITNESSES OF THEIR FATHER'S CRIME Uzorcide Freely Admits Horrible Deed -As He is Taken to Jail Woman's Body is Carried Past Court House on Way to the Cemetery. Special to Daily Industrial News. Durham, N. Feb. crime that shocked the entire county was that of yesterday morning when J.

H. Hodges, of West Durham, dragged his sick wife from her bed and shot her to death. Hodges is a white man and a carpenter of some ability, having been foreman for of the contractors here. He had none trouble with his wife on numerous occasions and recently they separated and she began proceedings for divorce. His visit to the home of his wife at midnight Saturday was the first visit there in a week or more.

It was after one o'clock Sunday morning when the officers down street knew of the crime. At three, o'clock the prisoner was under arrest and taken to jail. He was arrested down street and says now that he was going to get some whiskey and then surrender when he was arrested. He at, once admitted the crime and says yet that he is not sorry for what he has done and that he is willing to pay the penalty. Doesn't Want to Get Out of It.

kept in prison, was to This morning, Hodges, who had been the county. jail. He waived examinahim in the jail Chief Woodall asked him tion. When the warrant was read to if he wanted to stand trial or waive examination. "I want to waive examination," he said.

"There is no use to stand trial. 1 cannot get out of this now and even if I could I do not want to do so." He then said that he realized the crime he had done and that he was not sorry. He then said that he; was willing for mything that is to follow. Just as the prisoner was taken from the city lockup to be carried into the jail the funeral procession of the murtered wife passed the front of the court house. Had the looked up he could have seen bearing the murderers body of the woman he murdered.

He was hurried into jail, not even going to the court room. Scene of the Crime. The crime was committed in the home of the murdered woman in West Durham. The couple: had separated when the divorce proceedings began, and since then the mother and her six chilIren have been living in the home. The father and husband has been boarding in another, part of town.

It eleven o'clock when Hodges the home of his wife. seabout No member of the family seems to know how he entered the house. The mother and her six children were sleeping in the same room. The oldest son says that when he awoke the father was in the room and Lalking to his wife. "I knew that you would kick me out when I deeded you this house and lot," he was heard to tell his wife.

Then there was a struggle. The husband began to drag his wife from her bed. The eldest son, Fred, who was in another bed went to the assistance of his mother. He grabbed the hand of his father in an effort to take the pistol from him. The boy was promptly knocked down.

"I did not want to kick you out," said his wife. "I want you to be good and do right. You can take back your house and lot," she said. The son rushed out to get help. "You take this," he heard his father say, as he was leaving the room.

Immediately there was a report of the pistol and the woman fell to the floor. Hodges immediately left the house and it was two and one-half or three hours later when he was captured. Attempted Suicide. According to the statement of Hodges made this morning he intended to kill himself. He says that after leaving the house he tried to shoot himself in the head but that the "darned pistol would not fire." He then lay down beside the railroad and left his pistol there, where it was found yesterday.

Ho said that hie intended to remain there until a passed and then would throw himself in front of the train. "I waited until I almost froze to death." he said, "and then I decided to go and get some whiskey and then sure was while going after this whiskey that he was captured by the officers. Was Twice Married. Hodges has been twice married. He was first married in Danville, and by that wife there were two children.

He then came to Durham and some $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science, has been able to cure in all its and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being constitutional disease, requires a constitutional centment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work.

The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list. of tesimonials. Address F. J.

CHENEY do, 0. Sold by all druggists. Take Ball's Family Pills for tion. RALEIGH MAN IN A DREAM SEES HOUSE BURN He Was Awakened by Yelling "Turnon the Water" -Governor Glenn Returns From Southern Pines Where He Was Guest of Honor at Reception. Special to Daily Industrial News.

Raleigh, N. Feb. A. Myatt, one of Raleigh's large property owners and most successful business men, recently had a' dream in which he saw flames roaring in a pantry, bursting out and consuming one of his houses. He began to call for the fire department, and when he yelled "Turn on the water" this awoke him.

Sunday night a tenemant house, No. 113 North Harrington street, owned by Myatt, was consumed by fire in exactly the manner the landlord had dreamed. This five-room house was occupied by Joe Perry, a colored man, and his family. They had all gone to church when the fire originated in the pantry, but for the efforts of the department the adjoining houses would have also have been burned. Quietly Married.

Mr. Winfield Scott Sherman, who has been residing here more than year, and Miss Emma Belle Darden, of this city, were quietly married a few days since and left Sunday for Florida where they will live. C. H. Garvin, who lives in North Person street, and is a freight conductor on the Seaboard Air Line, was hurt at Camden, S.

by being caught between two cars. He was brought here last night and placed in the Rex hospital. Geo. C. Upchurch, a son of the late W.

C. Upchurch, died here this morning. Dr. Peter E. Hines, the head of the Raleigh Academy of Medicine, city physician, and one of the most beloved twenty years ago was married to Miss Mattie High, daughter of James High.

By this union there have been eight children, six of these are living and were witnesses to the struggle when the mother was shot to death. The smaller of the children ran from the room, leaving the oldest son, who was knocked down. Some time ago Hodges and Mrs. Hodges began a series of difficulties. The property owned by Hodges, several houses lots, had been given to his wife.

Divorce, was talked and the property was divided, the understanding being that each should go their way and separate. The trouble was patched up and then another quarrel followed. Hodges was in court several times and then Mrs. Hodges instituted suit for divorce, this suit being now pending. A peace warrant was taken out and the husband live.

They lived apart and Saturday went another part of the city to night at midnight was the first she had seen of her husband in quite a while. Recently he has been sober and last week worked six days. G. S. Watts Dying.

Garrard S. Watts, father of George, W. Watts, of this city, was extremely and dangerously ill Baltimore today. He has been ill for sometime and today a telegram was received saying that his condition was such that he could 'not live long. In the police court this morning Jas.

Ray and Luther Ray, father and son, were sent to the grand jury on the charge of selling whiskey without license. Mrz. Nelson Smith died at her home in West Durham, yesterday. The funeral from the homie this morning took, and burial was McMannon's chapel, the Rev. J.

H. McCracken preaching the funeral sermon. HIGH POINT NEWS Whiskey Agent Must Stand TrialNegro Shot After Quarrel -Lebanon School Exercises. Special to Daily Industrial News. High Point, Feb.

June English. local agent in charge of the whiskey house here of a Virginia concern, was served with a warrant Saturday afternoon and made to give a $100 bond for his appearance at trial here Tuesday. This is the office opened here by another party from Virginia who left after a few days stay, placing Mr. English in charge. Saturday afternoon Howard Hargraves and Will Cassidy, both colored, became engaged in a quarrel and as the outcome of it Cassidy was peppered with shot from a gun in the hands of Hargraves, while running from his antagonist at a rapid rate.

The negro is not dangerously wounded. Hargraves is at large. The closing exercises of Lebanon school were held Saturday, attended by a large crowd. Dr. Whitsett, of Whitsett Institute, was the orator of the day.

Dr. T. F. Marr, pastor of Washington Street M. church, preached a special sermon to the firemen of the city yesterday.

His talk was a fine effort, full of meat and highly spoken of by those in attendance. Mrs. Blackwell, of Durham, president of the Woman's Missionary Union of Orange Presbytery, met with the ciety of the church here Saturday, From here she went to Lexington to meet with the church of that place. Pine Fibre Co. Elects Officers.

Special to Daily Industrial News. George, N. Feb. stockholders of the Pine Fibre Company, of this place, met recently and elected the following officers: President. John B.

of Woodland; secretary, Wm. F. Outland, of George; treasurer, Geo. H. Parker, of George; board of managers, Walter J.

Brown, William: F. Outland, and Alfred J. Outland, of. George; Albert Vann, of Rich Square, and John B. Griffin, of Woodland.

WINSTON'S FARMS PROVE SUCCESSFUL City Is Getting Excellent Crops From its More Than 600 Acres. NEW CHIMES READY FOR INSTALLATION Will 1 Be First of Their Kind Electrically Connected With Pipe Organ in the World -Woman Burned to Death Trying to Put Out Fire. Winston-Salem, N. Feb. municipality of Winston conducts a farm, big one at that, and is finding this venture quite a success financially.

In fact the city owns three farms, for there is a ten acre tract at the pest house, an eighty-five acre tract at the old water works plant at Belo's and a six hundred acre farm at the new water works. This is the crop gathered last year: Eighteen hundred bushels of corn, one barn of tobacco, 75 bushels of wheat. 60,000 pounds of hay, 60 bushels of oats. The 600 acre farm at the new water plant is only partly cultivated. This large tract is intended solely as a water shed and it was purchased a year or so ago upon recommendation of the city, is engineer forest and and health special board.

care Most be taken "to keep it in this condition. work on the farms. labor Mayor 0. B. Eaton superintends, the and gives the work his general supervision.

Information has been received here from the manufacturers at Providence, R. that the chimes to be placed in the tower of Centenary M. E. church, this city, have been completed. Their cost is $2,500.

It is said that when these chimes are put up and electrically connected with the organ they will be the only chimes so arranged in the world. These fifteen chimes are not in the shape of ordinary bells. They are tubular, the longest being 9 1-2 feet, and they are as carefully tuned, grinding as pipe organs are tuned by lengthening and shortening the pipes. Local devotees of baseball are looking forward, be with played pleasure here to this the spring. college So far three games have been scheduled as follows: Trinity vs.

Clemson College, S. Guilford vs. Davidson; University of North Carolina vs. St. John's College, of Maryland.

The latter game probably will be played here Easter Monday. It is not known whether there will be any baseball here this summer. It is hardly probable that a state league will 1 be organized; but some are in favor of Winston putting out a good independent team and playing several weeks. Miss Sarah Bregham, of Grafton, spent yesterday and today in the city, the guest of Mrs. Lindsay Patterson.

Miss Bregham represents a society that is placing libraries throughout the south, at places where they are most needed. She will visit Rural Hall, Elkin. North Wilkesboro, and Kernersville before leaving this section. Messrs. W.

G. Cranford and C. W. Snyder have formed a partnership unthe firm name of Cranford and Synder. The new firm will conduct blacksmith and general repair on Church street.

In addition to the smithy and repair shop Cranford and Snyder will also manufacture business wagons, such as drays, delivery wagons, etc. Mrs. Sherman Hiatt was burned to death at her home a few miles east Mt. Airy a few days ago. It appears that her children were playing in the yard and started al fire.

Mrs. Hiatt was trying to put it out. when her dress g- nited and began to burn (rapidly. When she found that her dress was burning she ran as fast as she could and in a short time her clothes were in a solid flame. Her body was fearfully burned and nothing could be done to prolong life.

J. C. Buxton went to Lexington today to attend Davidson superior court. He represents the widow of R. O.

Puryear, an engineer for the Southern Railway, who was killed some time ago while running one of the Southern's fast trains. In looking out of his cab the engineer's head struck bridge post killing him instantly. Mrs. Purycar is suing the railroad company for Work on the new county home building is to be commenced in a few days. The material is being delivered for its construction.

When completed it will be the handsomest and' most modern county home in the state and will cost over $21,000. The Winston police committee will meet within the next few days and draft some recommendations for the aldermen to consider at the regular meeting Thursday night, when a police force and other officers will be elected. District Attorney Holton did not spend Sunday at home. Ile was in Greensboro Saturday, but returned to Asheville that night. The body of David Wooten, who died at Portsmouth, last Friday night, arrived here this afternoon.

It was sent to Mocksville, for interment. The body was accompanied by two relatives. A two- weeks' term of Forsyth superior court will convene March 12th. Judge Peebles will preside. There are a number of important civil cases to be tried, several of them being big damage suits.

Several, of the enterprising colored people of this city are arranging to extablish a state banking institution in Winston-Salem. Over $5.000 has been subscribed. The committee having the matter in charge is composed of S. G. Atkins, chairmau; Dr.

J. W. Jones, vicechairman; J. A. secretary, and F.

W. Kennedy, treasurer. Prof. Atkins says that the bank will not be tablished until all provisions of the state law are corunlied with. This means that subseriptions amounting to $25,000 will have to be taken and half that amount paid in before the stockI holders open for business.

No Friction No Wear Our: method of pressing shirts is so easy on the goods that they will wear for months longer than they do where other methods are used. No friction, no pulling, no stretching, nothing that will in any way injure the shirt. Every garment is laundered perfectly and shaped to fit. We would like to have every man in this city see what our "pressed" work is like. It is so good that we guarantec to please or return the money.

Greensboro Steam Laundry 111-113 1-2 W. Market St. Phone 72. AND FACTS 9-Dry Goods, Diamonds, Drugs, and Dish Pans--all jumbled together on One Counter under a Label would be about as get-at-able as filed in the Ordinary Way in the Ordinary Flat Loose-sheet File. and Vertical Filing keeps all your letters with one correspondent ENTIRELY SEPARATE from all other letters, and 80 closely indexed that you can pick out one folder without handling any others.

Wouldn't it be a good idea for us to mail you complete and Vertical Catalog, and a practical illustration of the System? 'Phone us. Don't be satisfied with the JUST AS GOOD. WHARTON BROS. Send Us Your Mail Orders. Geisha Skin Food FOR THE FORM AND COMPLEXION We have had such phenomenal success with our GEISHA SKIN FOOD that we want every lady to test its wonderful merits.

Wherever applied it is instantly absorbed through the pores of the skin, and its wonderful nutrition feeds the wasting tissues. GEISHA SKIN FOOD is positively the only, preparation known that will round out hollows in the neck, and produce FIRM, AND HEALTHY FLESH on thin arms and hands. FOR DEVELOPING THE BUST or breasts, shrunken from nursing, it acts like magic, one application often showing a remarkable provement. Its effect is lasting--It works wonders with a poor complexion, and adds beauty to a good one. Sent to any address, postage prepaid, in plain sealed wrapper upon receipt of 50 cents.

FREE! FREE! FREE! In order that every lady should test the merit of our wonderful SKIN FOOD, we will, upon Te cepit of 10 cents (to cover cost of postage) send a SAMPLE BOX of our GEISHA SKIN FOOD, and our book, "WOMAN'S BEAUTY," showing full directions for massaging and developing the bust. Address GEISHA MANUFACTURING CO. 1197 Broadway, Brooklyn, N.Y. Guilford Benbow Hotels. 12 COBB FRY, Props.

GREENSBORO, N. C. NOTICE I am now located in Danville, where I can supply my friends customers with the best grade of Corn Whiskey. All orders left with my agent, E. L.

Sykes, 101 1-2 corner East Market and Elm Streets, up stairs, room No. 2, will have prompt attention. D. A. OAKLEY Formerly with King and Oakley, of Greensboro.

THE Peele School of Commerce and English OPENED JANUARY 3d This echool is perfectly reliable, makes no misrepresentations as to time required, and is educational. Full graduates from all departments find employment with responsible firms. Mr. Peele declares unat he receives from one to five applications per day, and that graduates who derstand both shorthand and accounting commence work at salaries ranging from $40 to $65 Per Month doctors in the state, is ill at his home on New Bern avenue. The Evangelical Alliance of ministers and Christian laymen, organized here last week, held its second meeting this morning for the purpose of perfecting plans for the ten days visit of Rev.

Samuel Chadwick, D. of Leeds, England, to this city, March 20 to 29. He will come here from Dayton, 0., after having already visited Atlanta, Ga. Governor Glenn Returns. Governor Glenn returned this morning from Southern Pines, where he was the guest of honor at the "Blue and the Gray" reception Saturday night at Piney Woods Inn and left on the next train for Dallas, where he will deliver an address before the Farmers' Association of Gaston county.

For the past two or three weeks the Tabernacle Baptist Sunday school has been conducting a campaign for new scholars with a marked degree of success, their effort being to get in five hundred new members by April 1. A charter was issued this morning for the English McLarty Company, of Charlotte, with $10,000 capital for dealing in physicians' and hospital supplies of drugs, wholesale and retail. Another charter is to be the Southern Timber Company, of Asheboro, capital $100,000 by C. C. and T.

G. McAlister and E. P. Wharton. In the federal court today Judge Thomas R.

Purnell issued a restraining order against certain parties trespassing upon the lands sold under order of the court in the East Coast Cedar Company case, which went to the supreme court of the United States and was affirmed there. ELON COLLEGE NEWS Special to Daily Industrial News. Elon College, Feb. Moffitt announces that a scholarship in the law department of Washington Lee University is offered to any graduate of this institution and Chicago University offers a scholarship in any department to Elon graduates. President Moffitt and J.

A. Vaughan will go as delegates to Nashville, representatives of the national Y. M. C. A.

Prof. Blair, of Guilford College, chairman the commission on peace arbitration of the Friend's church, leetured in the college chapel recently. March 9th is the time fixed for the annual entertainment of the Psiphelian Society. The young ladies of this society always give a splendid eveing. The annual debate between the Clio and Philologian Societies will be held in the chapel Friday before Easter Sunday.

Query: "Resolved, That centrali. zation of population in the cities hindera national advancement." The affirmative will be represented by G. O. Lankford, and J. Kernodle, N.

C. of the Phi Society; the negative by S. G. Rollings, Virginia, and A. L.

Lincoln of the Clio The Ladies' Aid Society of the Christian church in this place gave a "white sale" Saturday evening. In connection with this two amateur plays were given by the young people of the village, assisted by Miss Regina Williamson, of Beunet's Creek, after which refreshments were served. The net proceeda were about $85. The general convention of the Christian church. south.

will meet about March 1st, at the Main Street Christian church, Burlington, N. C. The Rev. P'. F.

Fleming. M. is pastor. The Rev. W.

W. Staley. D. Suffolk, is president and Prof. P.

J. Kernodle, M. Elon College, is secretary. This convention is composed of delegates from all the conferences of the Christian church, south, not made up of representatives from churches. Prominent men from the north and west will be present.

CAROLINA GETS STAR FOOTBALL COACH Chapel Hill, Feb. The efforts of the athletic advisory committee to secure a good coach for next season's football team, met with splendid suecess. They have closed a contract with Willis S. Kienholz, whose record as a coach is a brilliant one. Carolina secured him in spite of the efforts of several western colleges.

Mr. Kienholz is a graduate of the University of Minnesota, 1901, where he played four on the 'varsity football team, at the position of half and quarter. His record is quite brilliant, he being chosen quarter 011 the Western Eleven in 1901. football, Mr. Kienholz is a track and basket ball man, being a member of the Minnesota basket ball team which defeated Yale, Columbia, and Harvard.

In 1902 he assisted Coach Williams at Minnesota in the development of that great team. he coached Lombard College, where his team won the championship of the Illinois In 1904, Mr. Kienholz came to the A. M. College, where he revolutionized athletics, being largely instrumental in placing that institution where it stauds today in football.

Charlotte Cotton Market. Special to Daily Industrial News. Charlotte, N. C. Feb.

26 -Today's cotton market: Good middling 3-4; striet 10 3-4; middling 10 3-4: good middling tinged 10 3-4; stains 9 and 9 3-8. BEATS THE MUSIC CURE. "To keep the body in tune," writes Mrs. Mary Brown, 20 Lafayette Place, Poughkeepsie, N. "I take Dr.

King's New Life Pills. They are the most reliable and pleasant laxative I have found." Best for the Stomach, Liver and Bowels. Guaranteed by all druggists. 25c. KURTZMAN PIANOS E.

M. ANDREWS. MUTUAL BENEFIT IS BEST. Greensboro Boiler and Machine Company. These are two handsome machines we have just installed, one for bending sheet iron up to one half inch thick, the for punching and shearing same.

You are invited to visit us and inspect them. We solicit making your smoke stacks and repairing your old boilers. Any class of machinery made or furnished in the power or iron working line, Boilers and Engines specialty. Phone Lucky No. 7.

DOESCA CH Office and Machine Shop: Jackson Street Railroad Crossing, near Coal Chute. HELMS' CROUPALINE AN EXTERNAL REMEDY For croup, colds and whooping cough in children- Colds, Soreness in Chest, chest with CROUPALINE, saturate the flannel cloth a and apply to Colds in Head, in adulthen When you or your child have cold, rub the chest close up to neck, and you will get almost instant relief. You will find it beneficial in pneumonia by rubbing chest and applying flannel saturated with CROUPALINE to same. Physicians Prescribe it and get the best of results. Don't take any substitutes, as they are not as good.

Sold by, all drug. gists. 25 CENTS A 2-OZ. BOX. J.

D. HELMS, Manufacturing Chemist, 310 S. Elm Opp. MeAdoo House, Greensboro. N.

C. GOOD COALS SELL WELL! That's one of the rewards of the dealer who keeps them. That's why we have been busy moving orders. We don't say they are best because we sell them--we sell them because, after years of experience we found them to be best, and we do not claim one whit more for them than do our patrons. Pay you to try a ton.

You'll buy other tons later. THE GREENSBORO ICE COAL CO. Every Household Every Factory Every Store Every Stable Every School Every Fire Dep't is a Prospective Customer for MINIMAX YOU CAN HAVE EXCLUSIVE TERRITORY COVERING YOUR COUNTY And Earn $25.00 a Week Write for Agency Terms MINIMAX CO. 24-26 E. 21st Street New York City Central Carolina Construction Co (Incorporated) Estimates given and contracts taken for all classes of buildings.

Capital stock, $10,000 City National Bank Butiding Grensbora N. C. DR DRAUGHON'S Business Colleges RALEIGH, COLUMBIA, KNOXVILLE ATLANTA AND NASHVILLE. 26 Colleges in 15 States. POSITIONS secured or money refunded.

Also teach BY MAIL. Catalogue will convince you that Draughton's is the BEST. Cali or send for it. AGENTS WANTED in Every Town COLUMBIA STEAM LAUNDRY 116 Fayette Street GREENSBORO, N. C.

The McAdoo Greensboro, N. C. Remodeled and newly furnished throughout. Open for business Feb. 10th, 06.

Electric Elevator. Steam Heat. Sample Rooms. Rooms with Baths. Telephone in every room.

Complete in all appointments. The McAdoo M. W. STERNE, Prop. NEWS ADS---GOOD INVESTMENTS.