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published Every Tuesday Friday Price $100 Per Year 521). YEAR. Advertisers l.i This Paper Their Wares Before Severe! Thousand Fino Customers A0 s' sHT en PRICE $1.00 YEAR i iimnnn i The hparf Wo- 12. Kill lllllf ll IA. mifii i eV HORRIBLE WRECK ON THE SOUTHER 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 4 freight Den and and i SPECIAL FEATURES." caused the "wllc.n sEizun OF leaf; wunuuu UIIUIILIIU has not been ral and been hoo II 15 POSTPONED.

uvam Ul. Mrs. Manly E.ran.,4 State Lecturer Gravely Makes New, Turn In Fight Against KemarKable Declaration. Fast Passenger Train Dashed in the sleewr th 0I.tne wr and L8 Ume wreck who .1 1 Says Tobacco Trust Has Robbed Tobacco Farmers of North Carolina of into Heavy Freight On Siding Near Greensboro an Tobacco Trust. Shipment of Leaf Tobacco From Dur-ham to Great Britain Taken In Charge by Government Officials at Norfolk First.

Time- This Action Has Ever Been Taken, 148,000,000 In the tart Twenty. One Years Meeting Held In Ral Conference Is Not to be Held Thts Evening. Proposed. Meeting Between Governor And State's Counsel In Railway Rate Matter Is Deferred On Ac count of the Former Having So Much Other Business to Attend To, RALRIGH, ru. mors snl re-rumors here -today, ve-Rardlng the next conference between the Governor and, th Htut-'.

ana round eighMany Tobacco Gowers in At to GreenHoo.Uhr hrbaUrned tendance, FOUR DEAD: MANY INJURED tngineer Holton Dies. Raleiirh on ventorrtav iho loot WASHINGTON. Oct. under orders from Attorney General Bonaparte a shipment of leaf tobacco, valued at 7,000, consigned from Our- Among Those Seriously Mrs. Davis, of This City, a Bride of a Few Hours The Brake- thm stala Fair, was the meeting of -5Sf 'fif 'h-S" iooacco urowers'? Association and the address nf 0vOT the Southern Railway investlga- Who Left The Switch Ooen man Graveley -secretary and erani! lpntnrl The Western Sentinel hopes to begin shortly very interesting serial Btory, which will no doubt be a source of much to all who care for good literature, had been hoped to have the story in hand to begin in this Issue, but it has not yet arrived The International Sunday' School lesson will be found in Friadys issue.

To those in-terested in SundBy school work, this review will be verv helptul indeed. Mr. Z. T. Bynum, Supervisor of sales, has kindly consented to furnish The Western nel the market Quotations on loose leaf and such other mat-, ters that will be of Interest to the A semi-weekly review of the country produce market, with general prices prevailing, will be 'prepared by, the firm of H.

dealers in general merchandise, It is also the desire of the publishers to have a good live correspondent in every part of the Piedmont section whu will supply the news while it Is fresh, and to this end the publishers would be- pleased to get in correspondence with those, who kre willing to do this work. -v From time to time other special features will be added and Improvements made all tending to make The Western Sentinel the best semi-weekly publication in the State. er, a large number of tobacco grow. une oemg set ror night. The statement that a will be agreed on and the in uc tareiessness of the freight brakeman.

vestigation stopped is still current to- 'ornTer cferk or cout Hci Fled Horrible- Scnee Witness-ed Ar the Wreck Coroner Investigating. There was a horrible railway wreck about ten miles north of Greensboro shortly after ewelve' o'clock Friday uay. Mr cousin of cm were nere rrom all over the tobacco belt of the State to attend the meeting and to hear the address of Mr. Graveley. i In his address Mr.

Graveley made the remarkable statement that the tobacco trust had robbed the tobacco growers of North Carolina 1118. uiiui, ix. to tne British American i obacco of Great Britain, was today attached at Norfolk. The action was taken under the section of She man anti-trust law which authorizes the seizure and condemnation by th-s government of property of any trust while in interstate or foreign commerce. Although the tobacco trust Is Involved In this Instance, similai action will be taken against products of other trusts, against which a suit for dissolution la pending, TRADE BROADENS.

tnn.Qol Ul in- Many Visit Scene of wr.b wn.TisItelt.h ene of tie 000,000 in the last twenty-one years', and substantiate. Mi nt.i Later Governor Glenn announces this afternoon that the conference set' for tomorrow night with counsel for the State in the Southern Railway case will not He has called it off. He says he Is too busy at this time to attend such a conference. Asked when It would be held Govern-or Olenn' said he could not say Jut when but probably, after be catches up with some work that has gotten behind. 4T mn 'cotBruay- is a miracle that The "lv.lu? V616111 as: found iorntng, in which three persona were killed outright and many others injured some of them mortally.

The wreck was caused by No. 30 rtnaing into an open swith at Rudd Station, striking a freight The jay coach of the passenger. train was torn into splinters, and the passengers til more or less killed or Injured. Amone those seriously hurt WAS figures to the satisfacUon of his au-i dience. -v Mr.

Graveley was fittingly and Vp- propriately Introduced hy T. B. Parker. uorea yRra8 trom switch. It is nn Retail Distribution Is Reported Fa.

instead of having run away? the flag-man is lying crushed tv, vorable. btate Alliance. Mr. Parker spoke of NEW YORK, Oct 19-. R.

fl TVinn Railrold an- Company's weekly review of trade iub imporuuice or the tobacco crop in the industriSl life Alt,) AftMvftv nf ao not credit 'this lousy says: nm 10 the mall tele Mra Davla. who war marrlorl Z. the State, saying North Carolina Is the second largest producer of tobac Ketati trade broadens under the I viiiuUKll LI1H KPPnn1 stimulating influence of favorable oa.the afternoon previous to the literally packing-" seat, toXer from' wreck. She is the daughter of Mr. front to vnS co or au tne State.

anH tho i. JAIL DELIVERY IN GUILFORD. Three Negro Prisoners Made Their Escape Saturday Night GREENSBORO. Oct. li, Three ne-gro prisoners escaped from the county jail early Saturday night by sawlng put of their cells and then out of the Iron framing over a window.

They were Arch Williams. awaJHnir trial fnr rear. Those kill Ad wro nn rear. Tha- weataer ana collections also improve While reports are almost nm nlmniio and Mrs. Thomas Benton, of this citv Hro side where the wood work of the largest producer of bright tobaccos.

He said the crop of bright tobacco Her injuries consisted of a broken leg regarding the satisfactory volume of WCWOCUKHr RTfllnL" thorn srown in North Carolina Is greater id uiree piaces, a norrinie gash' on the head and one on the nock and er8n 6 Se car was 1Ueray of Ub side.taklnir windowa windows and all, mau war. or ail otner cnmhln retail aisinDution or seasonable goods, in other sections of commercial and IN THE FEDERAL COURT. ed. i i i other bruises about the WUJ. ntjr owyyiuK JUST, miir naofa innuBinai activty there Is some Ir He snoke of the hppl nitlnc nf thA assault with deadly weapon; Ernest Lineback, awaiting trial for larnenv th.M chTVnV On thought she will regularity, attributed in most oases to high rates for-money whioh in.

Aiuencan TODacoo ITnmnanv aa and It is recover. Perjury, Illicit Distilling And Mail Matter Ars the Offenses. Several cases were rflimnopt i shadow no bigger than a man's hand It required two houra. after the uuces conservatism in nrenarnHnna and Ernest 8ellers, who had been sentenced to two years for nnmWv tn it naa grown until it had become for the future. Leading cities at the the federal court nt firoonaiu, animals and who was aw.ikin thn west ana tsoutn find no- rentrlntlnn In great and powerful and had taken the tobacco croD from the erowera ujsne giae, just where the ripping oft of the other side stopped, was the seat where Mrs.

Davis, the bride of a few hours, sat Had It gone one seat farther, she, like Mrs. Thomas and Allen Bryant, would have been Rilled by the framework of the edge Of the telescoping car. wrecK to rescue Davis, who, It appears, was pinioned under a seat in one of the day coaches, whichvwas mutilated.1 Mr. Davis was thrown several feet, but escaned with supplementary orders at wholeanin suit of an appeal to the Supreme Court of Smithtown convicted of perjury, received two years in the penitentiary. Rankin Brewer, the man vhnm thn and jobbers report that new lines for iiJOKe or Mr.

Graveley as a man well versed in the Subject of tobacco from the time the seed is nlantod In tho Jailer Md' was looklns- for. and had j(-ci for nn nil niirht a few bruises. While bis injuries ar miring are wen received. In the textile Industries the event of the week was the cut in prices by uuicers arrested mot hot-bed until it reaches the consumer. watch when he t'nind tiial he did not hnirtn hla' In.

n. i i. i--- Ul r. uavis escaped with a few brtris- Mnt lint? ukk; gnnrn nf riroAnDKnH. M.tfi isiiuiiirn.

Mr, Graveley spoke with intense feeing and earnestness as one whose on the charge of mnninir on ini) iJ painful he fs able; to walk, -i Others Injured. Engineer Charles Holton, of No; 34 badiy scalded, but it 1b believed vuicuKv nouse. i nere was no evidence of weakness In cotton goods prior to that reduction, which in some ana was awe to be down town yesterday. There were all sorts of rumors current yesterday about Mrs. Da- eonvicted and got fifteen monthr very soul wag alive with the subject J.

of his address, He said in the opening 1L the penitentiary of his have tor ru: stiidiert thp U1 ror runhlna-an mat win He is in the hos nues amounted to 20 per cent, and Eastern jobbers did not follow the pital nerc. subject of tobacco so long and so hard "i distillery received a sentenoa wuig aeaov sne has one leg broken in three places, her head, throat and face cut by the glass in the window. She had her head out of the Saturday a prisoner was let out on hail. He let it be known that some of the prisoners in the second storr were laying plans to escape. Sheriff Jones and Jailer May were notified and these officials began at once to lay their plans, but the information reached them too late.

GREENSBORO, Oct Sellers.one of the three nrinnr ne year and one day the At- lie others who sustained hntv wemorn rroaucers in New jigland are all sold so far ahead that that I may have to look for another for my wife says I am going 1C1UKH "for III A 1Yt rtra I lir.o ui juries, are as roiiows; The case of W. W. Mver. TXcZZZIi mere is no occasion for concessions, yet the tone of the entire Industry is county, charged with misplacing a reg I M. Shelton, Danville.

A. Cregg, Portsmouth. John Llneberry, Randolph county. R. W.

Dunaway. Kernernvlllp imcMje, containing about 151 was given to the Jury today Uv mrniuw, ana tne outside of the coach yesterday morning -was streaked with blood thai trickled down the side of the car underneath the window while she was being extricated. -Sticking in a piece of splintered timter near her seat was found yesterday mornlnir vu tne suojecx and She will not live with a crazy man." This remark brought applause from the audience, as did several of his dry statements through the course of his remarks. POURED OIL ON FIRE. BRYAN NOT IN FIGHT.

p.8t1mas.t.er JWyersvllle at the escaped from the Gugford Jail Saturday night, was caught in Danvillo, yesterday. Th ntnnap. A man from Canada whose name Will. Neither indorse JTammsny. Nor 4)eeo notifiwi of the Jail and not learned.

ro nave misplaced package. "He has instituted' suit in tSWeUw court against the vhhvh rarson-nearts Ticket. NEW- YORK, not. John Ferrill, Danville. 0.

Wemnle. Danviltp iv iuuk out ror me tnree men. When Sellars SAW an Officer rnmlno- Iihdii "ta report that a long fiat pin. it was covered with blood. A paper napkin was fluttering from the window, stuck to the car with blood.

She had Drohnhiv firon Brooklyn Woman and One Son May m. Bryan's-visit, to New York City next Monday, according to rwnwu-rti n. 7. ma money. Myers J.

D. Kitchln, Clay county. him he ran and was fired upon, the ball taklnr effect In nna'nf hi wib or i nir injuries. NEW YORK. Oct 19.

An tlonal committeemen with ihn It with her from- supper as a bridal The wound is not regarded as dangerous. souvenir. oi pounn? on in a stove today Mrs. Phoebe Goldston, of Brooklyn, and has talked recently, will have no political significance, either as to his own future In the Democratic party or as r- u. Aioore, Charlotte.

Samuel A. Kindley, Gastonla. Mn George S. Wells. C.

M. Clayton, Danville. Joe Sledge, Danville. First Reoort of Wreck. A deputy sheriff wont tn Getting Out the Injured, nix ui ner eleven cnildren were badly last night and brought Sellears back Those who aided in removing" th 'wi Biiairs.

Any eirnrr it uu.iucu. uoiustem a son aged twenty-Aye, are likely to Injured give harrowincr accounts nf said, to induce Mr. Bryan to indorse acter 6e" lur nJury to his char- 8IXTEEN TUNNELS, One Is 1-6 Mile Long Twenty Miles Cover Rout Fur Miles By Air Line. and Western now being the Blue 10 18 tannels, within UtaJfe 01 less than 20 miles by rait. -The rallmrl i meir experiences.

It was ow. work. tue lammany ticket or to oppose the Fridays Greensboro. Telegram rtbort nf top Tu.nb me, me lauer irom innanng flames. An explosion follower) Mr.

ant in to ureensDoro. Nothing has been heard from Line- berry and the other two who escaped with Sellars. TERRIFIC STORMS." mi-Hons-nearst ticket will fall. Mr. Brysn Is well avir.

av thno JUSt as BOOn HH tho noa nf stein's attempt to light the fire with keresine, setting the woman's clothing The seats and shattered wood work could not be moved roughly and hurriedly as this would have added to the suffering of the injured. So the With whom the Nnhraalran ham tolb Nek reached the city Superintendent apman went on a nnv.ini of the strong sentiment against his auie. raaea wiin ingnt she ran through the house, setting fire to cur ar.i seats had to in several Instances, tnira nomination and th nnininn i fc taking with him Mors Michaux and Wllann i. tains ana oeas. The children were engineers are now at nrk me aoutn tnat it would mean the almost certain defeat of hie nartw Mr nurnea in attempting to aid their These Have Been Doing Enormous Damage Throughout France, Spain, Italy and Great Britain.

PARIS. Oct. 18. Terfinn sawed off piece by piece. Mrs.

Davis was suffering fearfully. She begged the rescuing party to kill 2 inn rcCd, nly thoso who were ridlnS motner. Bryan, it Is related, has recently writ one-ntm or a mile in length, which Is located on th- a 3 were severely maed or killed mH her, Once she asked one who had an axe to kill her with that. Another main line of the new road, near Tnptt.A wvoc "tic ca- ieu a letter to a personal friend, In which he recounts the opposition to Kldge. N.

Thnro me rums and Dlaced torrential downpours of rain, hrgh" wind and floods are prevailing to an extraordinary extent mm in iu and 1900 by many of the ue fullman cars and hurried back GEN. BOOTH BETTER. However, Will Be a Fortnight Before He Can Leave His Bed. had a saw and the tortured woman is said to have begged him to saw her head off. Conductor Thomas likewise zo mlea due only four miles In a rnfirht Una icaumg Liemocrats or tne country, and says that he is sravelv rlehHtino- with France, Spain, Italy and Great Britain.

The storms hsve nernme on' oummit avenue crossing where wltfl an the available plead with the rescuers kill him himself the advisability of again de-l nans rnn pnnvhi general that an accurate estimate of the loss of life Is Impossible. Tn the tnered Doctors cianng nimseir to be a candidate. He knew his wife was aead and helplessly pinioned, with one free hand he CHICAGO, Oct 21. General William Booth, commander of the Salvation Army, is much Improved today but it will be fortnight before he cai leave his bed. .1 vi me roaa, just where the surveyors laid off the route as it emerges from the Blue Ridge the road to considered at eon nf aggregate It has been heavy and the Emir racnuuns, uL been vlti 'iVhere to minister to; ints of Hip mrrai.in.

could touch the lifeless form of Mrs. INDECENT POST CARDS. ii wat enormous, The Eng. I llsh and continental maara anA Thomas. He four K--r'" Brakeman No; Found.

enslneerlng skill, and its 1pm "uu'Ka were removed i laid British Channel are strewn with wrecks. WOULD BRYAN ACCEPTf on the ground and an mi. whmPhGV.0n.fm..Mar,n to Blue Ridge The direct' cause of the wreck may never be known. The positive facts rtaker W.1H Anthony Comstock Aids Authorities In Philadelphia In Warfare, PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 18.

Headed by Anthony Comstock, of New Yom, the United States postal lnsper- Report That He Will Issue an Open bJle.8 1. establishment ascertained, so far are that C. GIVE8 UP THE i ii ho "mlr, a lew weekj, will be followed, It is sald, by the to Maf.nnD i train" Service connection can be the head brakeman on i-euer in November. ST. LOUIS, Oct.

21. Tho iastu- T. nw- vas a CL8'fehL t0 beholi the torn and wi in conjunction with the local Seml-WeeWy Tar Heel, RepubllcarT' freight train No. 38, is charged with leaving open, the switch, and that the ment is mado here today that Brvan police have started a crusade In this ted 168 out on the on)y nmck sheet city against, postcard dealers who llu ujB oputnern railway WILLIAM 0 will," during the month of November, issue an open, letter stating that he will accept the nominations for presi nave oeen circulating obscene and li cl inem. r'st as fa.K.

i oDjectionabie postcards. Several arrests were made tonight dent against if is tendered to him. ILVev tho i. ai liases couia Zlli th.e opltel they collision between the passenger train and the freight resulted. Leonard disappeared Immediately after the accident and has not put In an appearance.

He is twenty-two years old and Is given the reputation of a careful and trustworthy trainman. His home is at Lexington. wemwspaper at Greensboro, 8us- GREENSBORO. Oct 21. In accordance witn a resolution adopted at the last meeting of the stockholders, the publication of the Semi-Weekly Tar Heel, edited by John Crouch, will sua-pend publication at once.

The plant will disposed of to the best i The paper was started about wn anu warrants nave oeen issued for Younger Rockefeller Knew Very Little When Put on the Witness Stand Today In Goverment Case For Disso- them iV lne car8 8ome ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE. number of other offenders. In one rlita "uu Broanmg witn 8nd 6the almost Place tne authorities seized 4,000 which were circulated or diniavd etanaaro oil Compa- Shock Recorded On Seismograph at ttbiiJ" nnd. some df either In violation of the postal regula weainer Bureau Last Night The discovery was made after the Oct G. th unconscious.

At- tions or state law, WASHINGTON. Oct 21 -it was an-1 treasurer of the Standard car, Tans btLi Kne through accident that the lock on the switch-lever had been left on the ground. The years ago by Spencer Blackburn as' a weekly, Is said that It has always been a losing nronosition. nounced today that another earth ut orK, and assistant treasurer of tho 1 TWO NEW CHARTERS. most reasonable surmise is that Leon- hu thy found that in Jersey, was a witness in the WfP talrilM 4 1 quake of considerable Intensity was recorded on the seismograph at the weather bureau, beginning at 11 ard had fallen asleep while awaiting Are Issued Today For Business Con menfs dissolution suit today.

His an WILL NOT SEEK OFFICE. ally iTi' vu" wvgv mu the arrival of the passenger train, and that on being awakened by the cems by Secretary of State. o'clock last, night and lasting two werp Tn Iran rtn hours. Governor Hughes 8ays He'll Do Not! noise of Its approach he hurriedly RALEIGH, Oct 2L Among the threw the switch ooen. thinking he 1L new cnarters Issued today are: was indeed pitiful and ere He did not know anything about the Manhattan Oil Company except what he read in ps- asked if he knew anyth ng about the General Industrial Development samp n.

ASKS FOR DISMISSAL. nB io eet Preeidentlal Nomina. tion. V- NEW YORK. CH-L was closing it.

The statement was the "orVD1 at the Uo; DOdlPB were ems Lumber Company, Concord, 150,000, J. M. Sills, E. W. Honeycutt, John A.

Creech. trrt made at the scene of the wreck that a man was seen running away from the Hegeman Cases Argued Before New Hughea tonight made a declaration nt his attitude toward the Dresldentii.i Mailable nlaeea th wreck immediately after it occurred. of London, which pur-f chased the YorK Supreme Me hart never w. i. Hose.

R. T. Bennett. H. Manhattan.

He ho eoine in an easterly direction. An NEW YORK, OcL 21. Claiming out won in look tin iMoiuiuui Allen and others. from 7 i ano jnrs. fe ere married nomination, when In the course of nn 4 address at a dinner given ni his hoi or by the the Republican Club he said: that John it.

Hegeman, president of other report is that Leonard remained around the immediate neighborhood appearing on the books of the' South. the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. for nearly two hours, but neither or hen n.L J-' having I don't seek an nuhlirt nffli pany Is in no way responsible for any false entries on the books of the com .1 ai. i niinfw wna-t on 7hZL 7 lnston-Salera and onh tour. Mr.

Davis ride hurt himself, but uncnntrrr SerJously hurt and niir.haoi 7. these reports could be confirmed. The Offlclalsjbf the Southern are endeavor National Committee Meets December have not sought, nor shall I seek, dl- rectly or Indirectly, to Influent the and 7 to Decide on Time and All OI ing to locate Leonard In order to oo-tain his version of the causes leading NEGRO BURGLAR KILLED. FPltai; 0-M taken pany and that no money was ever lost by policyholder of the company, former Judse O'Brien today argued in the supreme court for. dismissal of seven indictments charging forgery and three charging perjury, against lace.

WASHINGTON, Oct. selection or the vote of sny delegate -to any convention, and with reference to the action of any delegate to any convention there will be no up to the wreck. RpDort Denied. Had Entered a House In the City of turneJGrrlac cra8h "came the turned over k- New, of the Republican national com GREENSBORO. Oct 21.

The ro- mittee, today Issued a call for the com NASHVILLE. Tenn riot V. Hegeman. tion or thought of Influence, protect or reprisal in the executive chamber," be to tE denolIshed. The mittee to meet In Wo oh It.

port in circulation to the effect that the body of Brakeman Leonard, who Is charged wtih being responsible for ainThlsfL.Y" ber and 7 to decide nnon the time of her parents lu Winston-Salem in about two weeks. WILL WELCOME PRESIDENT and place lor holding the convention. giant negro burglar was killed todav liS attempt to murder Charles E. J. 8chott in the latter's bore.

The Schotts were awakened by the ne- ThC1WL1l! the window They grabbed rifles but before the Fto; ana gome kllled-H car ome of the passengers I lSLe.85a"1 onhurt, Tho peo- the fatal wreck at Kuda last iniirs-day night, was found under the wrecked passenger engine, is false. Th rallmad ncnnle say the wreckage Another Victim Dies. Mr. John Llneberry. of Randleman.

Fire In Cotton Warehouse. There was a eonfturratlnn" 'in (ho another victim of Thursday night's ucgiu snot aeaa nn had car were only slightly last night wreck, died at 11 a. m. Sunday. one of the family with a hatchet It 7 OI tn Bouthslde cotton mills Sunday, A clored man dls- The remains wese sent to Randlemanl Is feared he may die.

John Sharps. Williams Goes Td Vicks-- burg For That WASHINGTON, Oct 1. John Sharps WUIiams left here last night for where on Momlsy be formally welcome President Roosevelt and party to that city. Williams said be expected to be re-elected leader of the Democratic minority In the House. Fie and or.

PP'6 from wvcrcau in There were 96 has been cleared and that nothing has been heard from Leonard since Thursday night. All of the Injured at St. Leos hospital continue to Improve. It is quite likely that Mrs. Davis' condition wi I oermit her being moved to the hom? eltv points north yesterday aiternoon ior Duriai.

tnis mnkes a total of 5 deaths resulting from the wreck. Mr. Llneberry was a passenger on No. 31. rinri -i' wwre ner attending Herman Fletcher went to Charlot'e yesterdsy to visit relatives.

He will return tonight cotton in the warehouse and about 64 ot them were damaged. The rlre gotten under. control by automatic sprinklers. on LWpre Verv anxious but the ticket agent.

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