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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-10-28
REPORTS TO SYNOD
Union Theological Semi
nary's Silent Appeal.
Barium Springs Orphanage Shows ole Fou
Room House Erected, two Otkes in
Cou7s. of Construction.

Especial to the News and Observer.)
Winston-Salem, N. c., Oct. o3.-Dr.
English, representing Union Theological
Seminary, delivered an address at this
mornings session of the North Carolina
Presbyterian Synod. He said that for
have been insufficient and inroads have
been made on the endowment fund.
There are tifty-three pupils in the semi
nary which is the smallest number for
seventeen years. All of the pupils are
college men and all but eight are COLLEGE
graduates.
DR.. Rumple chairman of the Board Of
Regents for the Barium Springs Or
~phanage, made a report. The moral of
the institution is high. Very nearly all
of the children are Christians. Their
health has been good. The farm products
account of a drought. Only fifty bushels
of wheat were harvested. Some inn
provements AVE been made. One house
of four rooms has been erected and two
others are in process Of erection. One
thousand and five hundred dollars is
needed to complete these buildings. The
receipts have been as follows: Albemarle
Presbytery, $3.50. %; Asheville Presby-
terry, $685. 5; Concord Presbytery, ST.
624. S2; Fayetteville Presbytery, $1,142.82;
Mecklenburg Presbytery, $1,251.7O;
Orange Presbytery, s1,372.5S IS; Whining
ton Prasbytery, $2S7.
A complimentary recital and reception
was rendered the members of the synod
at Salon Female Academy this after
noon.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-10-28
THE JEFFERSON MEMORIAL.

The Thomas Jefferson Memorial AsSo-
citation, organized to erect at the National
capital a suitable memorial to the au
thor of the Declaration of Independence
was wise in selecting Admiral Dewey as
president of the association. He Will &C
into history as the greatest man no"
living. 1t IS we'll that our foremost naval
hero should head the belated effort &c
do fitting honor to the first statesman
America has produced.
The executive committee Of the board
is composed of Andrew A. Lipscombe
of Virginia.: DR.. Ralph Wash, Of Wash
ington, d. c.: Edwin Warfeld, of Mary
land; Josephus Daniels, Of North Caro-
lima: F. P. Baker, of New Jersey; r. K
Kenney, of Delaware, and Horace 5
Cummings, of New Hampshire.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-10-28
STRIPES FOR WOODY
Sentenced to Ten Years, He
Cries Like a Baby.
The unknown Woman Beside Him Joins in His
Grief. Hawkins Sen on to Court Willis
out Bond.

Especial to the News and Obscrver.)
Greensboro, N. c., Oct. 24-This morn
ing j. w. Woody, the Virginian, in
dicted for crimina assault on a girl
under IA years of age, was arraigned
for his life. He plead guilty to the
second count in the bill of Indictment
for Wronging one under age, etc,
and the solicitor took a mol
pros on the first count, which was under
the act of 1901. After strong pleas for
their client from Col. j. A. Barringer
and Sam G.. Bradshaw, and a few words
in reply from the solicitor, Judge Nc
Neill sentenced Woody to ten years in
the penitentiary.
1t will be remembered that at the pre-
liminary examination, when the young
girl was on the witness stand. Woody
disguised everybody by his laughter.
Today he really overdid the weeping
act, for he was crying like a child while
his lawyers were pleading for him before
the judge, as was the unknown adv
by his side. When the sentence of tcn
years was pronounced, his head dropped
like a shot on the railing before him
and he blubbered like a porpoise.
Judge Mcneil said this case was
something like the Ripley case, taken
to the Supreme Court from Durham, on
a sentence of ten years by Judge Hoke
and the court held it not excessive under
the act.
Victor Barnes, the white man in iail
Tor assault on a seven-year-Old child
was convicted OF an attempt to commit
an assault, and has not yet been SEN
fenced.
Hankins, the man who tried to kin
MS wife and her protector Tuesday
hight, was tried before Mayor Osborn
yesterday and sent on to court without
bond. He will be tried tomorrow in Su-
perior Court for assault with intent to
XIII and not the capital crime of burg
larry. 1t is said today that his wife is
going Ito flicker" in her prosecution oa
him and the solicitor will have to denend
for his evidence before the Jury on ONT
side witness.
The early train coming from Raleigh
collided with a freight at Burlineton
TINS morning and was delayed two hours.
FROM all that can be learned. only the
engine of the freight and q few care
were damaged.
PlckpOckets worked in the immencn
crowd yesterday to the Queens taste
Among those who We're touched were
n. ). McDuffie, s24; Railroad Agent
Angel. $7O;, and other comnlaints arc
coming in all the way from s125 down ~
$l.25 (but all I had).
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-10-28
shot At HIS WIEE
And Dragged Yer Screamln,
Into the Street.
Brutal Deed Of Man Whose VIE If p-o
cause Of Cruelty. He Flies Parn-4
by Bullets.

Especial to the News AMI ors
Greensboro. y. G. oct.
Hankins is manager of a }surs
Salisbury. His wife left him las.
charging extreme cruelty. Two
ago she came here ana secure-
tion with Dick 5 steam laun4g.
on Gorrell street. SUNDAY r....
alleged Hankins came here ann -.-
ed to kill her, but she lif e--
Yesterday afternoon ne came aaa-
and after telling her he wo4ls t.r
so she ayers. she went Ia tbs
Of +. r. Miller, on South Green.
ager OF Dicks laundry. 10 sn.-a
night and get protection. Haakf-.
10 the house about ten o'ela@k
night. After being warned tx- N..e..
Ter to stay out OF his house. Ig.-.
secured a search warrant for HI.
and Constable Dave Scott a.rau..
the whole crowd To see Jusft.. u...
After hearing all sides he told rH.. go.
TO take the woman back where h.. @
her, saying that any further pr8....
would be had today. but Hank..-
hanging around Mil!er's house and a.
four o'clock this morning Mir. Miller
he was going TO make an enort q. t-..
in. and having no pistol or sun fl. %.
house he wen to the Guilfard AMI
cured one.
Meantime Hankins broke down
front door With q crash and
tcring the hall fired three shots into r..
ceiling, terrifying Mrs. Miller ans. A.
Hankins, who We're alone in the ra.-.
as Well as Mrs. Lea and her dasshr.m
who occupy the adjoining Residence. ~.
fact the whole street was in great .f.r.
but there was too much SHOOTING g..
venture out in the strect-besslna tM
shooting was over before any or ..
neighbors got out OF bed. though fa..
had been kept awake most of the n..r.
by the quarrelling. Then making his
way to the room whore Were Mrs HIM
kins and Mrs. Miller, he grabbed f.
wife and dragged her screaming out into
the street.
At this juncture Mr.. Miller return..
and rushed toward them. but just I.t.r.
he reached them Hankins, holI5ue t..
woman by one hand. shot squartN AL
her head, but she lodged and the .u-..-
sped by. Mr.. Miller then shot at Ham
kins and thinks he hit him. though II.
ran, shaking his head. Officers Jordan
and Patterson showed up almost Ill f..
same time and the first named uf..
several shots. Miller says he treI five
time in all, but Hankins kept ON run
ming up West Market and disapraar..
Search was made for him until after day.
light, but he was not found.
This is one Of the most high handed
outrages ever committed here. EaukIas
had said to Miller and his wife. "1HH
both die before morning. and it seems
he intended it.
Salisbury's chief of police 'phonet Obi.
morning that he thought HankIus was
in that place, but would know latter. IL
he can be located he will be brought
back.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-10-28
A NEGRO COMMITS SUICIDE
FOR LOVE OF HIS WHITE WIFE,
When She Discovered the Negroid Strain in
the Man Who had Deceived Her She
Left Him.
(By the Associated Prcss.)

Baltimore, Md, Oct. 24-Arthur
Spencer, recently sent to the Maryland
penitentiary for fifteen wears for burg
larry, and whose case excited general pub
lie interest on account of his being we'll
known throughout the country as a wild
animal trainer, committed suicide today
by hanging himself with a twisted bed
sheet suspended from the bars of his cell.
Just before his conviction, Spencer had
married a young woman in Cincinnati,
who discovered after his Incarceration
that he was not a white man, having a
light strain of negro blood in his veins,
whereupon she deserted him and re-
turned to her home in Cincinnati. Spencer
left a note addressed to the warden. say
ing he had killed himself because his
wife did not remain true to him.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-10-28
WOULD Do II AGAIN
Pritchard and the Bill 10 Help
Ex-ConfederateS.
He Says he Would Vote Against it Once forr
if it We're Only in his Power
TO do SO.

Especial to News and Obaeryer3
Durham, n. c.. Oct. Ex-senator J"t.r
c. Pritchard spoke in the court hoH
tonigh. to a large audience. IL #1s #
troduced by DR.. +. A. Yates. The @@-a-
tor pleaded in an earnest manner for RI"
doctrines Of Republicanism. caprl#I..
along national lines. He e|HtoIirl i"-
high tariff tax on mica. lumber, Rice. '.
The Democratic State administrative.
was charged with extravaganza. iir
hat he tried to get Mr.. Craig 10 o'.
to Durham but he would not so so. l..
hearers were advised to vote the Keep"
lican ticket, vote against Kitchln, "hr.-
er they did against him or not.
"Joe Daniels" said the speaker.
l was a cancer doctor. | am not
actly that, but if twelve and a hall 0.
cent were involved would it be ".s. .
cut away the other eighty-seFen aA-
halt per cent?"
The Senator took a turn al III
creasing Of Governor Aycock's salaI.
establishment of new judicial dla.i.
the attempt to impeach the Juds
borrowing of two hundred Thousand .
lars to help meet the State s#
lures.
In referring to the fact that ha
against a bill to help the ContedrI4'
dlers, the Senator said he voted
1t and would do SO again if II ""IE +"
power. He referred to General
benevolence to the Confederate So.
and that Locke Craig got on MS
and rode over Western Carolina
elect Simmons. The speaker .
that here would be a million ~A
dollars deficiency when the Leg
meets.
Senator Pritonard's speech wa ,
line with others he has "1-'
throughout the State.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-10-28
THE STATE FAIR OF 1862 THE
FIFrIETH ANNIVERSARY,

The first State Fair was held in Raj
and honorable institution, and next year
Will celebrate it's fiftieth anniversary in
fitting style.
Everything is in readiness for the
State Fair which opens on Tuesday. With
good weather-such as has blessed the
State during the past week-the State
Fair of 1902 will surpass all it's prede-
cessors. If Old Probabilities are on it's
side, the excellent preparations made will
make a new era in the history OF the as
ISOLATION. The exhibits will be more
before, the amusements of an unobjec-
ionable character will appeal more to
the love of pleasure in young and old,
the great yearly reunion of friends will
be on a larger scale than at any pre-
yious time, and the social pleasures will
be in keeping with the spirit OF the oc-
casion.
The State Fair is the time set apart
for more than q quarter of a century for
the people of various sections of the
State to meet at the State Capital, ex-
change greetings, compare notes of prog
rcss and improvement, and give one week
to social pleasures. In the agricultural
districts this has been the best year in
many. The crops have been good and
1ricpS fair The noOn1p arc in ~ honny
frame of mind, thankful for good har-
vests and hopeful about the future. They
Will gladly turn their faces toward Raj
eigh on Tuesday to see in the halls and
OF the grounds exhibits of the progress
enterprise, and thrift of the common
wealth to learn from the success O.
others, and to have their patriotism re.
newed and strengthened.
The news comes that everybody an(
his wife are coming to the State Fail
which opens on Tuesday. The officer:
have worked with intelligent zeal t.
make it worthy Of the State. 1t will b,
clean and free from objection in ever,
feature. There will be ample accommo
dations for all. The hotels and boardin,
houses are prepared to handle more PEG
pie than heretofore, and an Information
Bureau, with headquarters in the mayor
office, Will secure room and board 70
all who wish accommodation at privat
residences at reasonable rates.
Last year there was not adequate ac
commodation for the great crowd. Thi
year the private citizens will be ready t
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-10-28
Hesters Cotton Section.
(Ry the Associated PreSS.)

New Orleans, Oct. 24.-Secretary Hes
ter's statement of the worlds visible sup
ply of cotton issued today, shows the
total visible to be 9, 466, sol, against o.
3O4 AIS last week and 2,46S, 1853 last year.
?, 1923 sol. against 1863 1S last week, and
2, 043, $50 last year, and of all other kinds,
including Egypt, Brazil, India, etc, 443.-
900, against AL 900 last week, and 425, 900
last year. Of the worlds visible supply
Great Britain and continental Europe
l, ISL, 900, against 1854, 900 last year; in
Egypt "a, 900. against sc, 900 last year; in
India 1872, 900, against 1862, 900 last year,
and in the United States 1,O44 900, against
J. 26, 900 last year.
Secretary Testers weekly New Orleans
Cotton Exchange statement issued today
shows for the twenty-four days of Oc-
tober decrease under last year of 100, 900
and a decrease under the same period
year before last of 232. 600.
For the twenty-four days Of the sea-
son that have elapsed the aggregate is
ahead Of the same days of last year
428, 900, and ahead of the same days year
before last 1873 .0G0.
The amount brought into sight during
the past week has been 446, 1928, against
56S, 496 for the same seven days last year.
4S5, 620 year before last.
Including stocks left over at ports and
interior towns from the last crop. and
the number of bales brought into sight
thus far, for the new crop, the supply to
date is 2, 1854 ,S36, against 1851, 459 for the
| same period last year.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-10-28
Frank Expelled From the Association
(By the Associated PresS)

New York, Oct. 24-The delegates to
tho arnual meeting of the National AS
ISOLATION Of Professional Baseball
Leagues adopted a resolution today ex-
polling Charles Frank, member of the
Memphis club, from the National Asso-
citation. 1t was further resolved that
j. H. st. Vrain, the manager of the
Tacoma club, for his action in refusing
to abide by the mandates of the Ma
tional Board and in permitting himself
to be used by Charles Frank. be pen
allied in the sum Of 800 and stand sus-
pended until the fine is paid. A teIe-
gram was sent to the officials of the
Memphis club informing them that if
they did not expel Manager Charles
Frank from the club, the protection
granted to the club under the national
agreement would be withdrawn oy the
association.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-10-28
HIS BLACK HANDS
UPON HER THROAT
Heaven Sends Help to a
Struggling Woman
ATTACKED IN HER HOME
Honor and Life AssaiIed. Saved as by a Mira
Gle. The Negro Takes to Flight.
Searching Parties Securing
the Woods,
(snecial to News and Observer

fSDpclal TO News anu oDoti NtiJ
Goldsboro, n. c., Oct. 22.-Sheriff
Scott received a telephone message from
Princeton tonight stating that a young
white woman had been outraged by a
negro man and asking that blood hounds
be sent at once. Deputy Sheriff Henry
Grady left at I o'clock with dogs for the
scene of the crime.
A later phone message brings the in
formation that the lady is the wife of
Mr.. Hymbrick Johnson, Jr, and that she
lives on the public road about one mile
and a quarter from Princeton.
The brute who attempted the crime is
q strange negro who had been working
in the neighborIloOd for about three
months. His first name is John. He
went to the home of the lady this after
noon While her husband was off at work.
and while there was no one in the house
with her but her ten months old baby.
The negro made improper proposals.
which were resented. and he then re-
sorted to force. In the scuffle he had
torn the lady's clothes from her body
and had dragged her into the yard, where
he had begun to choke her, when Mr..
John Daniel Edwards came dow the
road with a team and q load Of wood.
The negro broke and ran across the field
to the woods, and has not been seen since.
When Mr.. Edward came up to the
house he learned the particulars of the
assault from Mrs. Johnson. Mr.. edwards
went on to town., where he told the news,
Searching parties were soon organized
and the woods are being hunted every
where for the brute who, if he is caught,
will have swift and terrible punishment
meeted out to him.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-10-28
Coroners Inquest Over Mrs Dennis
nv the Associated Press.)

washington. d. c.. Oct. PA coroner 5
inouest was begun here today over the
remainsI of Mrs. Ada Gilbert Dennis. the
fashionable dress-maker. who died Wed
nesdav as the result of the murderous
assault committed on her ten months ago.
One of the imnortant Witnesses. Richard
Cole q colored porter, who attended TO
some of Mrs. Dennis financial ranSa
tons and was acquainted with most OF
her callers was absent on account OF
illness. On account of the revival OF
talk regarding the possible connection
between the tragedy and the subsequent
suicide of Samuel J. Presley, a printer.
two of the ~latter's brothers from New
Orleans. were in attendance today.
Nine witnesses in all were amir
today, but there was not one word spoken
that threw any light on the mystery.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-10-28
Iron Workers Strike off.
(By the Associated Press

Reading, Pa, Oct. 24-The striking
iron-workers at the Reading plant of the
American Iron and Steel Company, who
are embers of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation, met here today and officially de-
clared at an end the strike which started
Nay 1t, last. They believe that in this
way some of the men will be enabled
TO secure their old positions as they are
needed. and that the colored iron-workers
brought here from Virginia will grad
ually leave until all the former hands are
re-emplOyed.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-10-28
Hot Politics in San Juan.
(By the Associated Press.)

San Juan, Porto Rico, Oct. PA
state of political excitement here yes
terday ended at midnight with the shoot
ing Of two Republicans. The wounded
men will recOVer
On Thursday the editor of the News
was arrested on the complaint of the
mayor, amid a great demonstration, on
the charge of libel in publishing the text
of the citizens petition presented to the
Governor asking that the mayor be
prosecuted for destroying the municipal
records. Many of the signers of the
petition, numbering 200, AVE been
threatened in dodgers and letters.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-10-28
SENTENCED
To HANG.
The Negro Who Assaulted
Mrs. Julia Brown on
September 27.
Especial to News and Observer

Lincolnton, ". c., Oct. Ell
lott, the negro who raped Mrs. Julia
Brown. in this county, On September -.
vas convicted today and sentenced by
Judge Winston to hang on the 25th day
OF November.
Elliott was tried at a special term or
court. ordered by Governor Aycock. He
sought to prove an alibi but failed.
The crime for which he was convicted
was a most brutal one. On the night OF
September the 21th he entered the home
of Caleb Brown. felled him with a stick.
dragged his wife from the room and IN
another apartment accomplished his bru-
tai purpose.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-10-28
Prospect Of Agreement
(By the Associated Pres

(By the Associated Press
HaZleton, Pa, Oct. 24-Iht
officers of the United Mine NoFN''
committees REPRESENTING the efhF-'t. .
the Markle, Coke and A. Pdi1t'
~lieries, where no resumption ha7 .
taken place on account of the frI'7-
the men to comply with certain coA1' .
imposed by their employers, are ''
tonight trying to adjust the conn.,.
tiOns that have arisen with go'i f
poets of an early settlement.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-10-28

entertain all who come il the hotels am
boarding houses are full. Let every
body come,
Raleigh is in gala attire, It's MONIES
are already filling with guests, all It's
latch strings are on the outside, and q
hearty welcome awaits the twenty thous-
and people who are expected here this
week.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-10-28
TRUE BILL FOR RAPE.
Venire Of Fifty Men Summoned From Which
} to Draw Jury to try Woody.

Especial to the News and Observer)
Greensboro, N. c., Oct. 23.-Today in
the Superior court the grand jury re-
turned a true bill against j. w. Woody
for rape. Friday was set for the trial
OF the case. A venire Of fifty men on
which to draw for jurymen needed to try
the case is being summoned. Woody
will be defended by G.. S. Bradshaw. and
possibly also by Col. j. A. B~arringer.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-10-28
Evans on Trial for Murder.
(By the Associated pro>

Co1- I6SS.J
oU,o1iola' ;. e, Oct. 24-The trial o,
1 Hvans Tor the murder of Captain
. grimm began here today afte,
o.uI oo~n'inuances The killing oc.
TTuiou carry last year in Evans room
ueienoant claims that Griffin shot
Ainisei1 while handling a pistol.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-10-28

On account of visitors arriving for
Fair Week Dughi's Restaurant will be
open Sunday all day, and don't ask
what he has, but order what you want.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-10-28

- apt to make a young man hot
"ne" ms rival casts him in the shade
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-10-28

Most men mistake slight applause for
an encore.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-09

minister to the United States, augurs
well for the negotiation. The cues
ton of sovereignty over the zone Of
the canal is regarded as decided, and
there only remains a difference as
to the remuneration. Colombia has
so far demanded an annual rental of
more than 100000 in excess of that
the United States is prepared to pay.
THE OMNIBUS STATEHOOD BILL
The bill providing for the admis-
sion of Oklahoma, New Mexico and
Arizona to Statehood promises to
precipitate a most interesting fight
in the Senate. The New England
Senators are all opposed to the ad-
mission of any of the territories,
many are opposed to the admission
of any but Oklahoma and still other
Republicans-the friends of the bill
claim to. the number of ffteen-are
pledged to vote for it. Senators
Quay and Elkins will lead the fight
for the measure and the Democrats
are said to be unanimously in favor
of it. The opponents of admission
say that doubtless Mr.. Roosevelt will
carry the States for his party by rea-
son of his personal popularity, but
after him there will come a deluge
of Democratic votes from that Sec
ton. A. B. M.
Washington, D. c., Dec. 6, 1902.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-09

Jones, of the Federal Court of the
Middle District of Alabama, for a
mandamus to compel the registrar
to put his name on the poll list.
Judge Jones refused to grant the
mandamus upon the ground that he
had no jurisdiction in the case, but,
in order that no time might be lost,
he certified the case direct to the
Supreme Court instead of sending
it up in the ordinary and more
roundabout way through the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals.
The fate of the constitutional
amendment in North Carolina, as
well as of the new constitutions of
other of the Southern States, hangs
on this decision.