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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-12

A BIG LAND SUIT.
Tract of $1,000 Acres in Tyrrsll County il
Involved

The case of Persons Hazells, Receivers
of the Bank of Commerce of Buffalo VS..
c. G. Bealng and others came up before
Judge Purnell yesterday in the United
State Circuit Court.
This was a suit in equity to foreclose
a certain mortgage held by the Bank of
Buffalo and to declare null and void GER
tain tax deeds acquired by Wirgman and
others-covering 9,4O0 acres, situate in
Tyrrell county-said bank alleging said
deeds were procured by conspiracy, etc,
IN that the defendants in the present
suit improperly induced the tax collector
to sell said bonds for taxes and thereby
purchased the same by collision.
The cause was set down for hearing
today by Judge Purnell, for the purpose
of deciding the relevancy of certain tes-
timony offered by the parties to said
suit as hearing on the questions above
stated. 1t was mass of testimony and
embraced about eight hundred typewrit-
ten pages.
BY agreement of counsel the cause was
continued until May 14th, 1902, when the
same will be argued upon the merits and
a final disposition made of all the ques
lions involved.
me attorneys III the case were Jas
E. Shepherd, of Raleigh; Norris Morey,
of Buffalo, N. Y, and W. d. Prnden. of
Edenton. N. c., for the plaintiffs, and F..
H. Busbee, of Raleigh and E. F. Aydlett,
Of Elizabeth City, for the defendants.
1t seems that the Bank of Commerce
of Buffalo held mortga ges for about $780,
600 on the tract of land in Tyrrell county.
After the bank came in possession of this
mortgage, it is alleged that Frank NJ.
Wirgman, Charles G. Bealing and others
entered into conspiracy and had the
land sold for taxes, and became purchas
ers thereof. One year subsequent there
10, the bank having failed to redeem the
land, Wirgman and Bealing procured
deed from the sheriff of Tyrrell county,
and claim the land under this title from
the sheriff. The bank claims that by
reason of those facts, they acquired no
legal title to said land, and asked that
the court as court Of equity decree
Wirgman and others trustees and holders
CT the legal title for the Bank of Buff
falo.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-12
SHED ROCKS AND BRICKS.
Case Of Assault With Deadly Weapons Yester
day, and One Drunken Negro

In the mayors court yesterday, I'd
Mangum, white, was held for court i'll a
bond of SIS for an attempt to assault
H. j. Bridgers with a stone about the
size OF mans head. Bridgers lodged
and saved himself and Mangum was re.
strained with difficulty, SO said witnesses
from second attack. Mangum's friends
stood for him.
Archie Caudle. for assaulting z. B. An
dreWs with piece of brick, was sent
on to court under a bond Of $50 which
was supplied. Both parties were white
Squire Yearly fined Sam Harris. q
negro, $500, for disorderly conduct. II
seems he made himself offensive in
Watts livery stable, on East Martin
street, and Mr.. Glen Evans ordered him
out. He cursed Mr.. Evans, who picked
up a chair and would have demolished
Harris but for bystanders who interfered
The Squire bound Mr.. Evans over to
court for assault with q deadly weapon,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-12
Five of Sheriff's Posse Killed.

Knoxville, Tenn, April 10.-Meagre de-
tails of bloody battle fought between
a sheriff's posse and outlaws in Scott
county, Va, this afternoon, reached
Knoxville tonight by long distance tele-
phone message from Jonesboro, Tenn.
Five men, all members of the sheriff s
posse, are reported to. have been killed,
two other persons wounded and Jim
Wright, who escaped from Hancock coun-
ty, Tenn, where he was wanted upon the
charge OF murder. was shot and cap
tured. Wright was under life sentence
in the penitentiary for murder and es-
capped from the State prison at Brushy
Mountain two years ago. He returned to
Hancock county recently and there de-
fed the officers, although there was a
reward of $500 for his arrest. Not long
after his return home Sheriff Lagere, of
Hancock county, was Shot from ambush
and killed. The crime was charged to
Jim Wright, John Templeton, another
murderer, and the latters brother The
motive of the alleged crime was said to
be that Lagere had killed the father of
the Templetons. Recently officers have
been planning to capture Wright in his
home, and he with John Templeton and
other associates crossed the State line
into Virginia. They have been in Scott
county about a month. Today the sheriff
organized a strong posse and attempted
to arrest the gang. The men had been
notified and a pitched battle resulted, in
which five of the ts1leriff's posse are
said to have been killed, and two deputy
sherifs, Joe Moss and Sam Wax, wound
ed. Wright was wounded and captured,
but the others who were with him es-
capped They are being pursued, but the
mountains of the county afford them
many chances OF escape.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-12
A. and Ii. College Boys in q. S. Navy

Cadets III. E. Grimsley and j. S. Grier-
son, of the A. and NJ. College Mechani-
cal Engineering Course. have just pass
cd the required examination and have
received appointments as machinists in
the United States Navy. They have
been assigned to the United states ship
Franklin, now at Norfolk, Va.
Cadet c. w. Harrell, who has been
taking special course in the a. aud M.
machine shop, has gone to work With
the Pond Machine Works, Plainsfield,
New jersey.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-12
ION THE SLY"
Patients Drink Contrary to Doctors
Orders.

Orders.
Bad food habits hurt the habitue and
sometimes affect others. A mother was
in such a miserable condition from cof-
fee drinking that when her baby was
born-but let her tell her own tale.
Il steadily grew worse. When baby
was born it was a skeleton OF mere
bones, and SO weak and puny that its
little life soon flickered out. | had been
suffering for several years with stom-
ach trouble and nervous diseases. the
doctor said brought on by coffee
AT times 1 would swell up until 1
could hardly breathe, but poOhed when
the doctor told ME coffee was the cause
of it all. Why, 1 had used coffee for
years without seeing that it did me any
harm. so the silly idea of fogy doctor
was not going to make me give up my
favorite beverage and kept on using 1t
on the sly unknown to him. while he
gave me every sort of tonic and pills
to attempt to cure me and get my
nerves in a healthy condition.
After baby's death l was sick in bed
and the doctor insisted on keeping cof-
fee away from me. He put ME on Pos
tum Food Coffee and Grape Nuts. |
shall never forget how / relished the
first cup of fragrant, black Postum and
how good the Grape Nuts with cream
| tasted, and. as if by magic, / began to
sleep all night for the first time in
| months.
Slowly began to gain in strength and
flesh, and my mind began to clear up
My stomach gave me no pain, and the
doctor was greatly surprised at the
| change caused by the food and drink
and pleasantly named them the magic
nerve restorer,' for he saws they built
up my nerves and strength as nothing
else on earth could.
1T seems TO me I am twice as large
as l used to be, but it is good, healthy
tissue. / have been made a Well wo-
man by Postum Food Coffee ard Grape
Nuts" Name given by Postum Co.,
Battle Creek, Mich.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-12
An Ordeal by Water.

The mayor heard story of both
throwing and taking water yesterday.
IT seems that John Jones slid that Hat
tie Page threw water on the head of his
wife, whose room is below Hattie's.
John sprang calamity up the stairs to
the rescue. but his ardor was dampened
by bucket full upon the landing, and
teh order of his going down the steps
was soapsuds and water on the back
of his neck He also averred that Hat
tie was profane in the remarks she ad-
dressed to him. Bur Hattie went free,
after all.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-12
ANOTHER MURDER AT DETROIT.
Arrest of Victims Room Mate Said to be In
fatuated With His Wife.
(By the Associated Press. J


Detroit Mich, April 10.-While the po-
lice were bending all efforts early today
toward running down the slayer of Miss
Jennett a second brutal murder was dis
covered.
The body of George Henry Haywood
was found lying in pool of blood on
the sidewalk on Amherst street near his
home early this morning, a deep cash
over the left eye from which the brains
oozed, telling the cause of death.
Haywood was head book keeper at the
Michigan Malleable Iron Works, and at
tended a dance last night.
AS her husband did not return during
the night, Mrs. Haywood was very much
alarmed, and arising early she sent her
oldest boy Earl, aged IL years, out to
see If he could find any trace of his
father. The little chap had gone but a
short distance from the house when he
discovered the lifeless remains of the
parent.
Detectives arrested William F. Jones
roomer in Heywood's house. The two
men are said to have quarrelled frequent
ly. About seventy-fve feet from where
the body was found a revolver lay in
the alley. The little Haywood boy
identified it as belonging to Jones, and
said he had seen it in his room There
was freshly discharged cartridge in
the revolver.
DR.. W. r. Baker, who examined Hey
woods body is of the opinion that the
wound was inflicted by a revolver held
at very close range. Jones is said to
have been infatuated to a marked de-
gree with Mrs. Haywood. so much so
that it had been neighborhood gossip
for some time.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-12
W|NSTON-SALEM DAY.
Enthusiasm Over Proposed
Observation-Disclosures Road
Conference Between the Charleston and Wins
ton-SaIem Chambers of Commerce.
Union Passenger Station,
Especial to News and Observer

Especial to News and Observer
Winston Salem, N. c., April n.-A
special from Charleston, S. c., says;
Winston Salem day was characterized by
a conference between the chambers OF
Commerce of Winston Salem and Char
lesion The meeting was largely at
tended and was. marked by great enthu-
siasm over the proposed Winston and
Wadesboro Railroad. The President OF
Charleston Chamber of Commerce well
coined the visitors and Col. G. E. Webb
of Winston, responded and introduced Mr..
j. B. Whitaker, who spoke of Winston
Salems interest in the road. Mayor
Prescott Robertson presented High
Points invitation to include that place
in the route. Speeches were also made
by Mayor Eaton, of Winston and Presi-
dent Rhett of the Winston Wadesboro
road. The latter expressed encourage
ment over the results of the meeting.
After adjournment lunch was served the
visitors by the Charleston Chamber.
The Southern and Norfolk and Western
Railways may give Winston Salem a
union passenger station. The matter is
now being seriously considered by the
officials of the two roads.
Messrs. w. A. Whitaker and L. Har-
vey have arranged to organize the hita-
kerr Harvey Tobacco Company. The two
gentlemen have been in the tobacco
manufacture business here for a number
of years. The company will be incOr-
porated, and it is understood that Mr.
Whitaker will be president, Mr. Harvey
vice president and general manager, and
Mr.. Thos. Rucker, who has been asso-
ciated with Mr.. Whitaker for a number
of years, secretary and treasurer.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-12
Aunt Jane" Dead.

The funeral of Jane Locklear. the old
and respected eolored woman who died
Thursday afternoon on East Lenor
street. will take place from st. Pauls
A NJ. E. church this morning at ten
o'clock.
Aunt Jane" as she was called, fol-
lowed the occupation Of nurse to the
sick and many are the people who owe
her thanks for the efficient service she
has rendered, them. She was about fifty
years of age and issspoken of as a good,
kind woman by all who knew her.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-12
Liquid Air.

Mr.. ]. S. Atkinson has just returned
from Chicago, where he made a contract
with liquid air company to tour this
and other Southern States next fall. Mr.
Atkinson last spring carried this COM
pany throughout the principal cities OF
Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, and
the visits were marked success. This
spring he will have the same company
in the main towns of New England and
now arranged for a visit to Raleigh and
other Southern cities in the fall. The
company is made up of some Of the
faculty of the University of Illinois.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-12
Will Speak in Roxboro.

MIR. ]. Y Joyner, State Superintendent
of Schools, will speak at Roxboro, Tues
day. April 18th, on public education.
Person county has the best country
school house building of any county in
North Carolina. Prof. Joyner will urge
the people of Roxboro, now that they
lead in good school houses, to vote a
local tax and improve their schools.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-12
Hurt at Caraleigh Works.

Beckwith Hilliard, a negro, working al
the Caraleigh Phosphate Works, was
hurt, but not seriously, yesterday morn
ing by coming in contact with some ma
chinery. He had cut on the arm, but
no other injuries. He was taken to Rex
Hospital, where the cut was sewed up.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-12
First Ripe Berries.

The Fender Chronicle acknowledges
the receipt of the first strawberries of
the season. grown by Capt. A. Robinson,
OF Long Creek. 1t is enough to make
the mouth of Raleigh editor water to
read such items.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-12
PIcKPocETs GET IN THEIR WORK.

Writing from Charleston to the Green
vile Reflector, Editor Whchard says:
"T. M. Hooker, one of the Greenville
representatives, was touched" on the
train enroute here last night, a slick
pickpocket getting his diamond shirt
stud. A. Ward, of Bethel, was also re-
lieyed of his pocket book and railroad
ticket. AS the editors do not wear dia-
monds and are not burdened with cash,
they do not offer an inviting field to the
slick fingered crowd"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-12

Everybody should send me their orders
for fresh fish. Roe Shad, 50c.; Buck
Shad, 30c.; Shad Roe. 20c.; Herring, 10c
All Fish cheap. Only try me. w. d.
King, 160 East Martin.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-12

State Geologist Kerr estimated the
horse power of North Carolina at three
million horse power.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-12
Captain Neal Passes Away

(By the Associated Press)
Atlanta, Ga, April 11.-Captain I. b
Neal, president of the new Loan anc
Banking Company, died today
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-05-22
Il NEST OF.VOLCANOES.

The Minneapolis Journal of last Sat-
urday contained an article on the vol,
canoes of Central America, in which it
gave a portion. of a speech delivered
by the late Senator Davis ten years
ago in opposition to the Nicaraguan
canal bill. What Senator Davis said
at that~time has been substantiated by
subsequent events. The senator spoke
of the presence Of an island in lake
Nicaragua which lake would form a
portion of the Nicaraguan canal. On
this island which is near the western
exit of the proposed canal from the
lake, are two volcanoes. One of these
was in state Of eruption in 1888.
Prof. Israel c. Russell, who occupies
the chair of geology in the university
of Michigan, inhis work on VOLCANOES
of North America gives list of the,
active and recently extinct volcanoes
of Central America, in which he finds
that Nicaragua has seventeen, of which
twelve are active or quiescent; San
Salvador, Immediately north, eleven,
OF which eight Or active or. quiescent
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-05-22
Cement Cross Walks.

The council is figuring on contract
with the Plymouth Paving Co., for the
construction of the six cement cross
walks mentioned last week. 1t is said
that walks of this character are in use
in Candy, Brainerd and many other
places in the State, and at Elk River
some concrete crossings have been put
in and have been thoroughly tested
and pronounced strong and. durable.
The price the Plymouth Paving Co.
asks is 10 cents a square foot, and the
concrete walks are to be six inches in
thickness, and the village must furnish
its own cobble stones. The party who
is putting down some concrete walks at
Elk River agrees to put down concrete
crossings here nine inches thick at the
price of III cents per square foot, and
lays the cement on cinder foundation,
the village to furnish the cinders. It
would seem that the Elk River man
has made the better -offer.> II:
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-05-22
Gun Gets Boy into Trouble.

Henry Hanson, the son of well-to-
do farmer who lives near the brick
yards, has been charged in Justice
Bouck's =. court with having used a
gun with intent to do bodily harm,
and the'young lad caused a lot of fun
during the hearing in court. The boy
got in fight with lad at the: brick
yards and not relishing the whipping
that was administered to him, it is said
that he took a gun and secreted him
self under freight car to watch for
the Reem lad. Some friends of the lat
ter saw the Hanson boy and they went
to ascertain what he was up to. 1t
is claimed that the boy got under the,
car and with big single-barrel shot
gun poking out between the car wheels
was waiting to charge the enemy.
The father of the Hanson boy is willing,
to furnish peace bonds for his; boy,
The case was adjourned TO next Friday.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-05-22
THE farm LAND MOVEMENT.

The present high prices of land in
comparison with the prices of few
years ago, and the activity in farm
land movement, has caused many to
ask, lis the movement a normal and
healthy one?" There are always the
timid and pessimistic ones during the
'eras of great prosperity, and while it
is well enough to be cautious and con-
sentative, this is a poor time for the
slow and doubling man who fears the
present farm land movement has
reached its zenith. There are other
people to follow, and the great world
does not intend to stop still and not
grow. These are the times when it
requires men with great scope of &C.
ton and a breadth of mind to compre-
bend the reason and the meaning of
present conditions. Jas. J. Hill in an
interview in the Commercial West
voices the spirit of progress and con-
hdence.~~ He says:
THE population of the United States
is increasing at the rate of 1900 daily.
We are growing at the rate of nearly
l,5OO, 900 a year. We have doubled in
every thirty or forty years of our his
tory Inside OF fifty years we will have
$50, 900, 000. Where are they going?
Are we sending them away? Are they
emigrating to other lands? No; we
are taking care of them at home.
Where is this extra million-and-a-half
year going? Where else but into
the new lands of the west, and into the
northwest'above all? Where else are
cheap lands, fertile soil, healthful
climate, transportation facilities to
good markets, and conditions favor
able to human energy and enterprise
so abundant and ready to hand as right
here in, the northwest? Z.
rs there anything of a boom char
acter about such condition as this?
Not bit. 1t is not only normal and
natural, it is necessary, it is compelled.
What else can this population do,
where else can: they 60? The cities
cannot absorb the 5o,0oo,oO0 increase
of the next thirty years. The bulk Of
the population must be engaged in.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-05-22

DIR. OHAGE has resigned as health
commissioner of St. Paul: After he
gave to the city the Harriet island
baths the city proceeded to cut it off
with spur tracks, and surround it with
pickle factories and other CONNER
cial enterprises which the doctor did
not like, and resigned from his posi-
ton. The doctor had a hard row to
hoe against the spirit of commercial
ism that is abroad in the land and takes
precedence over all other matters that
concern the public.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-05-22

productive occupations They must be
at work providing that great and fun
damental necessity of mankind every
where food for subsistence. The great
absorbing industry, the most import
ant from a practical material stand
point, is the production Of food, and
food comes from the soil. The cities
flourish and prosper and our civiliza-
ton is enduring only when the vast
majority Of the people is on the soil,
toiling BY sweat Of the brow to pro-
duce food, on the one hand, and the
raw materials for manufacture, trade
and transportation on the other.
The bulk of this 100000 human
increase must go to the soil, and
they pour into the northwest as natur-
ally as water. flows down hill. This
population movement into the north
west is as normal and natural as the
fact that water seeks level.
I'VE have the resources. Why, look
at it; the little town of Princeton up
here in the woods marketed a million
bushels of potatoes last year" ~
Mr.. Hill says the present farm land
movement lis simply one of those
natural population movements which
have. characterized the race from the
earliest recorded time. The move
ment into the northwest is in accord
with the general law. It is normal
and substantial fact.''
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-05-22

The Sank Rapids Sentinel of last
week contained an editorial on The
End OF the World" The editorial
was inspired by the news of the extinc-
ton OF the city of St. Pierre BY the
eruption of Mount Pelee. After de-
scribing the alarming symptoms the
Sentinel says: 'But we are not living
awake nights for fear that the end of
the world is near at hand through a
mixing up of the waters of the Allan
tic and the great fires beneath, because
we believe in great overruling power,
or board of CONTROL as it we're, that
organized the universal machine for a.
much longer run than has thus far
been made; otherwise we might be
alarmed at the demonstrations that are
now shocking the world.'' Neverthe-
less the Sentinel admits ''that is diff
fcult to avoid a skeptical feeling as it
thinks OF the manner in which so many
thousands of human beings are wiped
out OF existence by what is termed the
forces OF nature, between which and
Providence, is supposed to be close
relationship" The awful demonstra-
lions of the tremendous forces of ma
ture will serve as more than sensa-
tlonal news for sensational people.
They excite awe-and fear which begets
SOBER thought and reflection, as we'll
as makes the people of the world as
DR.. Mabie says more brotherly and
considerable. Man has partial domin-
ion over the earth and for short dis
lance inside thereof, but further he
knoWeth not. .s.-...,>s... =, ,, -. .,