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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-12-23
DEATH OF MRS. LYDIA C. WILEY.
The Funeral Will Be Held at 1915 To-Day at
the Good Shepherd Church.

We regret to have to record the death
of this estimable lady. She was the wife
of Mr.. Phillip A. Wiley, who formerly
lived here and was chief clerk in the
State Treasury for awhile and afterwards
cashier of two of our leading banks. She
died Friday night at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Hutchings, in Durham,
where the family have lived since they
left Raleigh. They had many friends in
this city. Mrs. Wiley was the daughter
of Ichabod Wetmore, who was cashier
of a bank here when she was a child.
He afterwards moved to Fayetteville with
his family and died there. Her mother
was a sister of Hon. George E. Badger,
and she had much of his talent. Mrs.
Wiley had two older sisters, Mrs. Broad
foot and Mrs. Hinsdale, and three broth
ers, one who became an able lawyer in
Alabama and the other two Doctors of
Divinity n the Episcopal church who with
their parents constituted a very intellect
ua1 family in the generation now nearly
passed away. Only DR.. w. R. WetmOre,
of Lincolnton, survives. Mrs Wiley, be-
sides being a charming companion was
possessed Of remarkable musical talents
and a strikingly sweet voice. She was
a devout member Of the Episcopal church
and she and her husband were for sew
oral years valued members of the choir
of the Church of the Good Shepherd while
they lived in Raleigh.
The body, accompanied by members Of
the family, will be brought here this
morning for burial in lakewood cemetery.
| We are sorry TO learn that her husband
is sick in Washington City and cannot be
here.
The pall-bearers selected are expected
to be at the station at the arrival of the
1920 train this morning and will take
the body to the Church of the Good
Shepherd and the burial services will be
| held Immediately after the regular morn
ing services-about 1915 p. m.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-12-23
OURTOVER
Docket Cleared ForNeW Court
Beginning in February
An Opinion Has Been Rendered in Every Case
Which Came Before The Court Whose
Session Ended Yesterday.

The present Supreme Court Of North
Carolina closed its sessions yesterday and
the new justices will be sworn in on jan
uary 1st. The new court will convene the
first Monday in February and Will
then be composed of: Chief Justice Walter
Clark and Associate Justices w. a. Mont
gomery, R. NJ. Douglas, p. d. Walker and
II. G.. Connor.
The Justices whose terms have expired
are Chief Justice Furches and Justice
Chas. A. Cook. Associate Justice Clark
begins the next term as Chief Justice on
January list.
The court met yesterday morning at 9
and adjourned at 1912.
The opinions handed down yesterday
were as follows:
Henry VS.. Mccoy, from Macon, no err
ror.
Thomas VS.. Southern Railway Com
Iany, from Haywood, error.
Thrash VS.. Southern Railway Company,
from Cherokee, per %curiarl, affirmed.
Kiser VS.. Barytes Company, from Mad
ison, error.
Smith VS.. Railroad Company, from
Mecklenburg, petition to rehear dismiss
cd
Parker VS.. Railroad Company, from
Wayne. per curtain, affirmed.
Dargan VS.. Railroad, from Union, no
error.
Fitzgerald VS.. Furniture Company, from
Davidson, no error.
Lewis VS.. Steamship Company, from
CarterCt, affirmed.
Debnam VS.. Chitty, from HEREFORD, mod
flied and affirmed.
All the appeals were disposed of. No ad-
visari was taken. The new court will
m on the first Monday in Febru-
airy with a clean docket. In ~disposing of
all the cases the court has in all prob
ability done that which no other court in
the Union has done.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-12-23
FULL TEXT OF OPINION.

The opinion written by Attorney Gen
eral Gilmer is dated December .16, 1902,
and addressed to Chief Justice Furches,
reads as follows:
Il have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your favor of recent date in
which my opinion is asked upon a ques-
ton involving the liability of the of
the Associate Justices of the Supreme
Court of this State to taxation. In dis
charge Of the duty imposed upon me by
section 1863, subsection 4 of The Code. I
have the honor to submit the following:
The doctrine that the power to tax is
az essential element of government, and
that the Legislature, in it's exercise is
limited only by constitutional proViS-
ions, is elementary and Fundamental The
power to tax the salary of a State Of
ticer is admitted, unless there is some
provision in the organic law forbidding
it. Such a prohibition upon legislative
authority, if any exists, must appear, in
the Constitution of the State. Section
Is, Article 4 of that instrument is in
the following. words:
The General Assembly shall prescribe
and regulate the fees, salaries and emol-
uments of all officers provided for in
this article, u the salaries of the judges
shall not be diminished during their
continues in office" Section q of the
Constitution of 1176 provided that the
Governor, Justice of the Supreme
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-12-23
Accused Of La1ceny---They Proved an
Abb.

Gillian anderson and Cornelia Dunn,
a colored man and woman, appeared be
fore Mayor Powell yesterday morning on
the charge Of the larceny OF $40 from one
William Otney, also co1ored. Otney
sWore that he dropped twenty dollars
out of his pocket and tina Cornelia
picked it up and gave it to Gillian. who
was going to undertake the spending
thereof. However, he could not only OBJ
tain no evidence that would
the accused, but neither could he prove
that he had ever had twenty dollars at
one time in his life. So the defendants
were discharged and Otney told that if
he would go back home and nave another
dream he might find his money.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-12-23

Mr.. w. A. Sfmpkins, who lives near
Ralelgh, last week killed five hogs, whose
combined weight, when dressed for the
market, was 1,477 pounds. Their average
weight was very nearly three hundred
pounds apiece, which is unusual for as
many as five raised in one pen.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-12-23
The HOLIDAY TRADF
HAS BEEN HUMPING
Wholesale Business is Now
Quieting Down,
FUTURE Is BRIGHT
New Lines of Trade Will Show Gains Over 'sa.
and Therefore Over any Preceding
Year---Some Drawbacks are
Noted.
(By the Associated Pl.ss.I

- -,
New York, Dec. 19.-Bradst....
morrow VIII say:
"Wholesalc trade is QIicti0e down
the stock taking period approaohe. m
activity is noted by iobbers i'm forward
ing supplies of goods needed To rs.a1.a
stocks of retailers. depleted 10y #.ar
conceded to be the most actgy. In|la.
trade on record. Cold weather Es..
and West has helped safes OF f.r- Ut.#
clothing and slaighs, and further ...#
lated general retail buying. HolllaF fE
ing, it is noted, is for a rather mora ..
p~ensive grade Of goods than or.u.H
experienced. There are, Of course. -9
drawbacks, such as unsettled weather
bad roads at the South, the coal aH..
age at the East. and th. ronlIugaa"
the railway congestion at the W.
fccting the movement of coke. tI'mn
coal and general freight, but tta.n FL
whole, The mercantile commuo.'H t
templates the approach Of tho on' O.. II.
year with complacency and s.'.....
Knowing, as it does, that most l' .
trade will show gains over I'..
therefore, over any preceding year.
feeling is that the year has been Fl 9
one, while the dne wheat crop n#"
and the volume Of orders already t.
for next year gives promise %.
good conditions. Even the E."..
that some manufacturing plan.
like many domestic consumers. a."
coal and are contemplating "
earlier han usual holiday shut
fails to call up the pcssImi.'" |.
noted earlier in the year, Whom '
shortage was more talked about
Business failures for th" wreck
Der 225, as against 262 last year
COMPARATIVE COTTON STA1E8a<.
New York, Dee. 19.-For tn.
ending Friday, December ID, -"-
receipts at all United States ports ..
week, 1853, 16S; Net receipts ai All
States ports same week last year.
total receipts since September ISL @+
423; total receipts TO same "a'
year, 4,27O,931; exports for 10"
202, 902; exports for same week -a.
15o, $40; total exports since -".l'"
3,C31 Alb; total exports same dale
year, 3,109, 945; stock at all JH.'.'
ports, LOGO, 1893; stock at III.
States ports same time last year. .
stock at all interior towns.
stock at all interior towns z
last year, 1924; stock Of -....
1900; stock at Liverpool s
last year, 628, 000; stock OF #
afoat for Great Britain. -I"".
American afioat for Great Ir.....
time last year, 353, 900.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-12-23
Our Xmas Present 10 l0l'

A dainty Dolly and Handh'. ..I .n.
enough for anybody, price 10 ..II p
4ac. postpaid. Only one oil ,.r. -
this price to same person. .a Ho.
at holiday prices. Menc'n
Exchange. Box So, FL Paso, le~'-.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-12-23

ries. because the power 10 tax is to d.
minish. or it may be, to destroy"
Very respectfully,
ROBT. D. GILMER,
Attorney General.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-12-23
Living


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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-12-23

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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-12-23
TOTAL MOVEMENT OF

The following statistics on +
ment of cotton for the Wef e..
cember 10. 1902. wero comn-..
New York Cotton Exchango
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-12-23

Brought into sight for
the week -. J..
Total crop movement
Port receipts . ffo.
Overland to Mills and
Canada -. ..
Southern mill taklng5
(estimatcd). 80
Stock at interior towns
in excess of Septem-
Der 1St.. .... 90.
Brought into sight thus
far for season OIL.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-12-23

Port receipts. .. -'-,-
Overland to mills and
Canada. .. -. o.
Southern mill taking
(estimated). -. -. s.
Gain of stock at interior
IOWnS... -. -.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1902-12-31
Stole Northport Smelter Gold.

Rossland, B. C.-Peter Swanson a
saloonkeeper from Northport, Wash,
was arrested here on the charge OF
having stolen goods in his possession
His arrest is the outcome of a cam
paign against a ring of thieves who
have been stealing matte from the
Northport smelter for some time. The
matte is valued at from $3.50 to $1,000
per pound, and it is an easy matter
for men about the works to put a
pound or two in their pockets. This
has been done and the swag traded
at saloons about Northport until the
practice became notorious.
Swanson's place was a well known
fence for stolen matte, and when Swan
son came to Rossland he had about
100 pounds of the stuff, valued at $1,000
in his possession. John S. Ingram
chief of police, made the arrest, and
Swanson was promptly arrained on q
charge of having stolen goods in his
possession. He pleaded guilty to the
charge. The maximum penalty is Ia
years Imprisonment. He implicated
others.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1902-12-31
Foolish Women.

Portland, Ore.-Complaint has been
filed in the district attorneys Office
charging A. b. Amandus, a clairvoyant
with the larceny of $102S from a Mrs
Moore and another woman living al
Mona Villa, suburb. The women had
office, and he had gained their conf.
dence. He asked the women to bring
him $500, telling them he would
charm the currency and that it would
be transferred into a box of gold of
fabulous value.
The women finally raised S102S In
currency, which they gave to the clair.
voyant. He placed it in an envelope,
sealed it and handed an envelope back
to them. He told them to bury the
money and not to dig it up until De-
cember 20. They hurried away to their
home and buried the envelope, accord.
ing to instructions. On December %
they dug up the treasure, expecting
to find huge box Of gold. Their dis.
appointment was keen when they
found nothing but the envelope which
had been buried. With trembling
hands they opened the envelope and
found bunch of newspaper clip
pings in place of their $1028. Com
plaint was made to the district at.
torney and detectives were sent to ar.
rest the clairvoyant, but no trace of
him can be found.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1902-12-31
B|NGER HERMANN RESIGNS
GIVES UP OFFICE OF LAND COM
MISSIONER FEB. FIRST.
He Was Lax in His Methods-Charqe
Against Two of His Subordinate Of
ficials-His Successor Will Be w. A.
Richards, His First Assistant
Hitchcock and Hermann at Outs.

Washington.--Bin Hermann
commissioner of the general land of
| flee, has resigned and will be succeed.
ed by William A. Richards, now the
assistant commissioner of the general
land Office. The change will take eff
feet February /, said Commissioner
Hermann.
Mr.. Hermann's resignation was re.
quested about two weeks ago by the
secretary of the interior and was i'm
mediately presented. Charges have
been preferred against two Of the sub
ordinate officials of the land Office in
volving alleged Irregularities and they
have been given a specific time in
which to make answer.
The two officials are Harry King and
Fred Metzger, assistant chief of the
draughtsmen's division of the govern
ment land office. The former is charg-
ed with neglect of duty and the latter
with mismanagement and unsatisfac-
tory administration of his duties.
tory administration of his duties. Mr..
Metzger was formerly from Kansas
and was once chief clerk of the gen
eral land office.
The relations between Secretary
Hitchcock and Commissioner Her.
mann have been strained for a long
time.
Land Commissioner Hermann's lax
ness in enforcing the land laws has
brought the latter's resignation about.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1902-12-31
German Government Silent.

Berlin.-'The German government IL
completely silent as to when the block
ade will be raised, or whether it will
be raised at all, until every question
concerning arbitration is settled. The
acceptation of arbitration after the
blockade was declared is not received
with popular favor in Germany.
General Won Boguslawski, one Of the
foremost military writer's, contributes
to the Rundsohau his views upon the
Monroe doctrine. He says the with
drawal Of the blockade at this stage
would show singular weakness. He
quotes the late Prince Bismarcks ex-
preston that the Monroe doctrine was
"a great piece of impudence."
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1902-12-31
Suicide Epidemic In New York City.

New York, Dec. 30.-Nine persons
met violent deaths in Greater New
York Sunday. Four were clear cases
of suicide and the others resulted from
variety of causes.
Mrs. Hugh Mooney drank carbolic
acid and died before a physician could
attend her. Her husband said she had
tried IL times before to commit sui
eide.
Mrs. Mary Clarke, aged 45, wife OF
the chief officer of the steamer Beverly
died from the result of gas poisoning
self administered.
George Simon, 46, and Jacob
Schwartz, 35 years of age, died after
drinking carbolic acid.
Mary Stack, aged "a, of Dhitinsville
Mass, was found dead in a hotel. Es
Gaping gas is given as the cause. An
unidentified man was found in her
room unconscious.
Mary Series, aged 38, drank wood
alcohol and died in a hospital
Henry Bunkey, aged 27. was found
on the sidewalk with a fractured skull
and died later.
Two men are dead as the result of
falls, one in the IQwer house OF
street railway company and the 9th
er in a lodging house.
An IS year old girl unsuccessfully
attempted suicide by swallowing car
bolic acid and a woman. 32 years old
hanged herself in o. police station, but
was cut down in tine to save her life
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1902-12-31
Fitz Smashed Mr.. Ball.

Anaconda, Mont.-With a LETT arm
hook Robert FitZsimmons noored his
former manager, Clark Ball. In the lob
by of the Thornton hotel few min
utes after o'clock In the morning.
The blow struck Ball suarely on the
point Of the jaw and he was knocked
against a corner OF the desk at the end
OF the counter. His head came in viO-
lent contact with sharp corner and
a laceration resulted. In another frac-
ton Of second Ball was PROSTATE
and out. He was revived In few sec
onds and his bleeding head bathed.
He was not seriously injured and was
apparently as well as ever within 10
minutes after the blow was struck.
The trouble was precipitated by the
fact that Ball has severed his connec-
tlon with the Jeffrles- s-Fitzsimmons
combination and signed a contract
with Jack Munroe whereby the local
miner, who had stood before Jeffries
for four rounds n week ago Saturday
night, IS to be the star attraction of an
athletic show managed by the former
manager OF "Lanky Bob" When the
men met tonight there was some
wrangling and Ball called Fitzsimmons
a liar. Then the blow was struck.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1902-12-31
LYNCHED WOMAN AND MAN.
South Carolina Mob Had No Regard
For Sex.

TUT oCSs
Greenwood, s. CIV. G. Jay, a prom
inent young farmer of the Troy sec
tion of this county, was murdered in
his own yard by negro, Oliver
Weideman, or Weideman's wife, both
of whom lived on the place, and few
hours, afterward both of the negroes
were lynched by Jays infuriated neigh.
bors.
Mr.. Jay, on returning home, heard
Weideman abusing and fighting his
CWeideman's) wife. He went to the
cabin and ordered the negro to be
quiet. Immediately afterward, Mrs.
Jay heard the report of a gun and saw
the two negroes running away. Call.
ing her husband she received no re-
ply, and on looking around the yard
found him dead in a pool of blood.
The alarm was quickly given and
parties were soon securing the coun.
try in pursuit of the negroes. They
were captured, and before the coro-
ners jury both acknowledged the deed
The man, however, said the woman did
1t, and the woman accused the man.
While in the custody of constable
on the way to the jail, they were stop
ped at the Winterseat bridge by Il
crowd of infuriated friends and neigh
bors Of Jay and both were lynched,
each accusing the other of the crime
The lynching took place about mid
night.
Jay was a prominent Mason, hold
ing high Office in the grand lodge of
South Carolina.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1902-12-31
OREGON NOTES.

Sheriff Story is making war on PRO
fessional" jurors at Portland.
Minnie Ensminger, who was shot by
Pies Armstrong at the home Of her
brother in law near Haines Christmas
morning is dead.
At Pendleton, Clarence Hale, a
young man, fired four shots at himself
recently, three of them taking effect
in his left breast.
Joseph Guglielmo, a saloonkeeper al
Portland was stabbed to death by an
unknown Italian, who escaped. Gug
lielmo had elected his assailant who
had stolen bottle Of whisky.
George Carter shot and killed his
wife and then himself at Eu
gene recently. The woman died in
stantly, but Carter lived for half ar
hour or more. Jealousy was undoubt
edly the cause.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1902-12-31
Terrible Wreck Near London, Ont.

London. Ont.-A train wreck bring.
ing death to over two score of persons
and terrible pain and suffering to about
40 more, occurred at 1910 o'clock at
night at Wanstead, Canada, a station
on the Sarnia branch of the Grand
Trunk, forty miles from this city. when
.he Pacific express. flying westward at
the rate of so miles an hour and crowd
ed to its capacity with passengers re-
turning to their homes from holiday
visits, crashed into an east bound
freight.
The latest estimate Of the fatal
ties is 80 killed and 35 more injured
The darkness Of the night and the
raging of blizzard added horrors to
the wreck. Fortunately the entire hor.
ror was averted. A fire broke out
In the day coach, but was soon smoth
cred with snow and coats which were
thrown on 1t before It gained any head
way.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1902-12-31
WORLDS \ EMS SUMMARY
cULlED FROM ASSOCIATED
PRESS DISPATCHES.
a Review Of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-Natlonai
Historical, Political and Personal
Events TerseIy Expourded.

Hadda Mullah. who caused so many
outbreaks on the northwest frontier
of India, died recently.
Rev. n. b. Naylor of Armstrong,
Mo-, performed marriage ceremony
recently by which five couples were
united.
General Leonard Wood has accept.
ed an invitation of the Kansas Day
club to respond to toast at their ban
probably be present.
| The total number of students in
attendance at Cornell University to
date is 296S, a gain of 176 over last
year.
Count Tolstol has sent a personal
appeal to the press asking the papers
in view of his advanced age and ill
ness, not to publish any further re-
ports of his condition, as they cause
| him pain.
1t is reported on good authority
! that Archduke Ferdinand and the
crown princess of Saxony and their
companions propose going to the
United States, there being little prob
ability of their finding congeniaI
homes in Europe.
AT Los Angeles, Cal, Mrs. Jessie
Benton Fremont, widow of General
Fremont, died recently, aged rs years.
According to the Railroad Gazette,
railroad building in the United States
during 1902, aggregated 6026 miles, a
total not exceeded in any year since
1888. Second track, sidings and cleo
trio lines are not included. Oklahoma
leads with 507 miles of new line; Texas
comes next with 496 miles; Arkansas
is third with 371 miles and Indian Ter
ritory fourth with 1863 miles.
Signor Mascagni, the Italian COM
poser, who abandoned his American
trip while playing in Chicago has been
placed under arrest on charge of en-
ger, Richard Heard.
Max Hayes, a prominent socialist
and labor leader, has sent long let
ter to David NJ. Perry, president of
the National Manufacturers associa-
ton at Indianapolis, challenging him
to debate the relative rights Of labor
and capital. The place of meeting
and date is the privilege of Mr.. Parry.
Papers found among the effects of
George Pleydell. who was frozen to
death at Duluth, Mimi, recently, al
most within reach of his own doorway.
Indicate that he was the son Of Major
Thomas Pleydell of Acton, Middlesex.
England, formerly Of the royal army.
and man OF wealth.
President Dryden Of the Prudential
Life Insurance company Of America
has issued a statement announcing
that the plan proposed for the merger
Of the Prudential company and the
Fidelity Trust company of Newark
has been abandoned.
Mrs. Mary Hartweel Catherwood,
the well known authoress. died at her
residence in Chicago recently Of can
Ger.
Fire In the center of the business
district of San Pedro, Cal, destroyed
about $4,000 worth of property re-
Gently. One half of the most promi
nent business blocks of the city S3s
| burned out. Two lives we're sacrificed,
r. w. Smith. a laborer, and FindeGen,
q retired sea captain.
Dan Mcleod won the championship
Of catch as catch can wrestling and
the $500 end of a $4,000 purse in Me-
chanics' hall at Worcester, Mass. be-
fore 100 people recently by. getting
the better of Tom jenkins.