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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-09-25
FrightfuI and Tragic End of a
National Gathering of Me-
gro Baptists.
FIGHTING" UNDERSTOOD as "FIRg''
Audience Stampedes and the Result Is
Seventy-Eight Dead, as Many
Wounded.
Booker Washington and Other Prom
inent Colored Men to Have
Spoken at the Meeting
Washington Is
Cnhurt.

Birmingham, Ala, Sept. 20.-In an
awful crush of humanity caused by
q stampede in the Shiloh Negro Bap-
fist church, at Avenue G. and Eight
zenith street, last night seventy-eight
persons were killed and as many more
seriously injured. The occasion of the
meeting was the national convention
of Negro Baptists, a body represent
ing 100000 members, which meets
annually. and is attended by hundreds
of delegates and others, including some
of the most prominent negroes in the
country, such as Booker L. Washing
ton. of Tuskegee: W. III. Counsel, Of
Normal, Ala. and r. II. Wright, of
Savannah. Ga.
Dead Bodies E ere Everywhere.
The catastrophe occurred at 9 p.
m, just as Booker T. Washington had
ton. and for three hours the scenes
around the church were indescribable.
Dead bodies wer strewn in every di-
rectiOn. and the ambulance service of
the city was utterly incapacitated TO
move them until after 1 a. IN. DOz-
ems of dead bodies were arranged in
house of worship awaiting removal
to the various undertaking establish
ments. while more than a score were
laid out on the benches il e
Church Was Packed WI eorle.
The church is the larg, house of
worship for negroes in Birmingham,
and the pastor says there were at least
1000 persons in the edifice when the
CT 10
issued to allow no more to enter, but
the negroes forced their way inside
the building and were standing i'm ev-
cry aisle; even the entrance to the
church was literally packed.
Quarrel About Seat.
Just as Booker T. Washington con-
Guided his address Judge Ballou. Ne.
gro lawyer from Baltimore, engaged
in an alteration with the choir leader
concerning an unOccupied seat, and il
is said that blow was struck. Some
one i'm the choir cried They're fight
ing" Mistaking the word fighting
for fire" the. congregation rose en
masse and started for the door, One
of the ministers quickly mounted the
rostrum and admOnished the people to
keep quiet. He repeated the word
quiet several times, and motiOned
to his hearers to be seated. Again
the excited congregation mistOok the
word ''quiet" for fire and renewed
the struggle to reach the door, Men
and women crawled over benches
fought their way into the aisles. and
those who had fallen were trampled
upon like cattle.
Couldn't Stop the Stampede.
The ministers tried again and agair
to stop the stampede. but no power on
earth could stay the struggling. fight
ing, mass of humanity. The screams
of women and children added to the
horror Of the scene. and through mere
fright many persons tainted. and as
they fell to the floor were crushed Il
death
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-09-25

A lovely breakfast is quickly prepar-
ed from Mrs. Austin's famous Pancake
Flour.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-06-26
MORRIS AND HIS POETRY.
Charity and Children and Horatio
Think Good Man Has Gone
Wrong in Literary
Sense
Cor. Charlotte Observer, June %.

Cor. Charlotte Observer, June %.
The following is a clipping from
Charity and Children
tsWe have made the point more
than one time that our North Caro-
lima people, as a rule, do not seem to
have any genius for writing poetry.
But we doubt if in the whole Union
there are so many people. who try.
Again and again we have seen de-
1ightful writer's turn from prose to
poetry to their ruin. The latest eX-
ample is John r. Morris. His power
as a descriptive writer was hardly
equalled by another North Carroll
nian. He could make a column in a
morning newspaper fairly shine, but
in an evil hour he fell into the folly
of spinning rhymes, and his glory
has departed. He will come to his
own, no doubt, after awhile, but the
world is the loser while he is fooling
with poetry"
This so exactly voices the senti-
ment have heard expressed on all
sides and often, that / feel con-
strained to ask you to publish it,
with the hope that even yet John R.
may be reclaimed from the error of
his way. I have read everything he
has written, both in prose and rhyme,
for the past several years. read
his poetry simply because it bears his
imprimatur, for know in that ''sign
he has conquered" but alas and
alas it's all misfit. He may have
poetry within him but thus far it
has never crystalized with rhymic
utterances and bears the same rela-
tionship to true poetry that the ma
chine made article bears to that
made by hand. Prose is his king
dom. In it he is strong, unique, mas
terful in descriptive power, in satire,
in wit, swaying a State at will and
compelling the admiration of all.
Mr.. Editor, can nothing be done tc
keep his genius on the right track :
In that interest I offer this.
HORATIO.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-06-26
ANOTHER QUESTION.

1t is question Of taking the bull
by the horns sooner or later, and the
time has come when the Democrats
may as we'll plant themselves on a
firm platform or look for another
and third successive defeat from
the same course. With one foot on
the boat and the other on shore we've
got to do one thing or the other when
the boat is showed Off. And the
Democrats are now awake to the
fact that terra firma will be safer to
stand on than to go on drifting list
lessly in leaking craft.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-06-26
GOV. AYCOCK WELCOMES 5TH
GEORGIA REGIMENT.
In Cordial Letter to Passenger Agent
Christian

Governor Aycock has written the
following letter to Assistant General
Passenger Agent w. E. Christian,
of the S. A. L., in regard to the en-
campment of the Fifth Georgia regi-
ment at Wrightsville July 1927:
"My Dear Sir:-I am very glad
the Fifth Georgia regiment is COM
ing to North Carolina. I hope that
their stay may be very pleasant. If
we were holding an encampment
this year I should try to hold it at
the time and place so as. to let our
boys meet and know the Georgia
boys, but we do not holdan encamp-
ment this year. Please extend to
them cordial invitation from the
State of North Carolina to enter up
on her territory and possess the same.
Express to them my very best wish
es for a pleasant and profitable en-
campment. I shall be glad to do
anything in my power to make their
visit to us agreeable. You have but
to indicate what can be done in this
way to secure my cooperation. l
shall very gladly grant the required
permission upon the application
of the Governor of Georgia for their
entering into the State of North Car
olina. I am, with best wishes and
kindest regard to you personally,
very truly yours,
ECHAS. B. AYCOCK,
"GOvernOr of North Carolina. -
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-06-26
ADVERTISEMENT.
For Federal Building Site.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, }
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.

Washington, D. c., June 13, 1902.
Proposals will be received, to be
opened at 2 O'Clock p. M, July 16,
1902, for the sale to the United
States of a suitable site, centrally
and conveniently located, for the
Federal building to be erected in
Goldsboro, N. G.
A corner lot, approximating 130
by $50 feet, is required. Each pro-
posal must be accompanied by dia-
gram of the land, showing the widths
of adjacent streets and alleys, the
grades, and the character of founda-
tions obtainable, etc. Any improve
ments on the land must be removed
by the vendor within thirty days
after written notice, and the vendor
shall pay all llexpenses connected with
furnishing evidence of title and
deeds of conveyance. The right to
reject any proposal is reserved. Each
proposal must be sealed, marked
ssProposal for Federal building site
at Goldsboro, N. C.,' and mailed to
the
SECRETARY OE THE TREASURY,
SUPERVISING ARCHITECT),
Washington, D. G
III. A. TAYLOR,
Assistant Secretary.
| Tines Fri tiune17
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-06-26
GREENLEAF LETTER.
Happenings of the Past Week i'm
Our Nearby Community.

ARGUS BUREAU !
June 25, 1902.
Greenleaf, N. G.
The farmers and truckers are all
smiles since the rain.
DR.. Mathis, of Pikeville, paid us
a pleasant call Tuesday.
Miss Lille M. Deans is lending
her charms in Princeton this week.
Mr.. Fred Scott, of Duplin county,
is visiting his uncle, Mr.. J. J. Scott.
Mrs. L. E. Edgerton and daughter
visited Mr.. and Mrs. J. G.. Bardin
Tuesday.
Mr.. n. G. Massey, of Four Oaks,
visited his sister Mrs. r. E. Baker
at Forest Park last week.
Mrs. Laura Ford, who has been
visiting her brother Mr.. r. e. Bak-
er, returned to her home Tuesday.
Quite number of people in this
vicinity all took in the Sunday
school convention at Ebenezer Sum
day.
Mr.. Troy Smith was calling at
Mrs. Jennie Deans this week to the
delight of the many girls in that
vicinity
Miss Eva Paschall, ofStony Creek,
and Miss Nell Johnson, of your city,
were visiting the Misses Edgerton
Monday.
Mrs. G. Radford and daughter
Miss Addie Massey, of Smithfeld,
were visiting friends and relatives
here last week, returning home Mon
day.
The Tatorbug was up near Prince
ton Sunday, where he received some
slight injuries. He was trying to
lido the Major Jones up the June
apple tree," and in reaching around
from limb to limb trying to pluck
the incest apples for the pretty black
eyed girls, he accidentally lost his
footing and fell distance of twenty
feet to the rocks below. At this writ
ing he is improving.
| TAToR BUG.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-06-26
FOR REGISTER OF DEEDS.

I hereby announce myself a candi-
date for the Office of Register of
Deeds for Wayne county, subject to
endorsement by the Democratic Pri
maries or convention Of said county.
I wish TO thank those friends who
are interesting themselves in my be-
half, and will greatly appreciate the
support Of every voter, and will en-
deavor to lsove myself worthy o,
their confidence. Respectfully,
w. g. BRITT.
Goldsboro, N. c., May 10, 1902.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-06-26
Virulent Cancer Cured.

Startling proof of a wonderful adj
vance in medicine is given by drug
gist g. w. Roberts, of Elizabeth, W.
Va. An old man there had long
suffered with what good doctors pro-
nounced incurable cancer, They be-
lieved his case hopeless till he used
Electric Bitters and applied Bucklen's
Arnica Salve, which treatment COM
pletely cured him. When Electric
Bitters are used to expel bilious, kid
ney and microbe poisons at the same
time this salve exerts It's matchless
healing power, blood diseases, skin
eruptions, ulcers and sores vanish.
Bitters SOC, Salve 25c at J. III. Hill
& Sons.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-06-26
WILMINGTON EXCURSION

Look out for Hatch Bros. big an
nual and 5Sth excursion to the sea-
shore, for white people only. We
run only white excursions and every
car is strictly frst-class. Boating,s surf
bathing, fishing and sailing. We go
Friday, June 81; from Goldsboro to
Wilmington and Ocean View Beach
without change of cars, returning
the same day. The ladies and chill
dren always patronize Hatch Bros.
excursions, as good order is always
| maintained, and the welfare and
comfort of the passengers looked af-
ter; and so if you want a day off for
pleasure get aboard the Old Reliable
| Hatch Bros. Excursions PA r'it4 edfW
Fare for round trip, including the
Beach, all stations, Goldsboroto Rose
Hill, to Beach and return, ST.. 25; chill
dren under II years ofage 81. Tickets
will also be sold on train by, local
agents. Train will leave Goldsboro
at a m; Dudley 7:15; Mt Olive 7:3O;
Goshen Grove 1886; ] Faisan $40;
Bowden 7:44; Warsaw $40; Mag
nolia 500; Rose Hill $50; arrive at
Wilmington $3.50 m; ), arr1rci,y7 arrive u at the
Beach at 10 m. Returnpipgg, R'eetrulrrpippg, lea leaves
the Beach at p m; leave Leave Whining
ton at p m. 40, ......., rfg. .o-,,.
| HATCH, BROTHERS, ~
f,;o., Managers.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-06-26
SEA STREWN WITH BODIES.
Startling Sight Brought to View OF
the Crew of the Norwegian
Steamship Helga.

Norfolk, Va, June 22.-The con-
mander, Captain Braastad, and the
crew of the Norwegian steamship
Helga, now lying off Lambert's
Point, awaiting her turn at the pier,
where she will load coal for Colon,
Colombia, saw the sea covered with
the floating corpses of Martinquans
as the Helga approached ST. Pierre
recently on a voyage from Philadel-
phia. The first news of the catas-
trophe which cost 10000 men, wo-
men and children their lives reached
those aboard the Helga at daybreak
on the morning Of day the steam
er reached Martinique. When day
broke the mate descended to the cap
tain's cabin and told him that the
ship was sailing over sea strewn
with human bodies; that there was
an innumerable number of these
about the ship. Captain Braastad
said today that he told the mate he
was dreaming, but subsequently
went upon deck and learned that
the mates story was true. After
ward, rs the Helga approached ST.
Pierre, she met an immense tidal
wave, which was receding from the
shore. Had this been going instead
Captain Braastad said it would have
carried the Helga inland upon the
island, and she probably would never
have gotten afoat again. When the
ship came near st. Pierre it was seer
that the town was burning, so th'
Helga proceeded 60 Fort de France
Here she was besieged by thousands
of refugeeing islanders. She tool
As of these, all she could carry
aboard and landed them at por
where they found safety. Frencl
ships then in port took many thou
sands of the fugitives aboard an
saved them; Captain Braastad said
The Captain afterward took abor
a dozen photographs of the desolate
city and these are being develope
by a Norfolk photographer.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-06-26
They called her Dimples.

They called her Dimples.
That alone tells the story of pretty,
reckless, l1ght-hearted Sarah Law
renee, whose short young life was
ended on last Tuesday morning in a
grim and mysterious tragedy under
the blue waters of Tiana Bay.
They called her Dimples .Dimples
are the attributes of youth. Sorrow
dims them. Old age turns them in
to wrinkles, but her cheeks were
round and rosy and dimpled as a
child's.
They called her Dimples. Dimples
are the exclamation points of mirth
in woman's S face, and the sight man
ual of a gay and pleasure-loving
temperament.
They called her Dimples. Women
who think-who weigh their action
in balance-do not have dimples.
Thought draws long lines downward
on a woman's face, and makes it
grave and serious.
They called her Dimples. No wo-
man with dimples ever lived yet
who was not bit of a coquette.
When Cupid kisses a girl baby in
her cradle he leaves dimple where
his lips press, and it is little well
of love in which the hearts of men
drown themselves.
Even in her babyhood those about
her saw that the plain, practical,
prosaic, appellation of Sarah did not
suit the girl, and so they called her
Dimples, and in the end she follow
ed her name and her nature.
/ Perhaps, after all, such things are
KiSmet.
YOUNG FOR SUCH A ROMANCE.
! But it is strange romance in
! which this girl, barely seventeen
years old, is involved, and which
brought her to her death at an age
when most girls are still wearing
their hair in pigtails, and dreaming
of their first long frock. Poor little
Juliet, to have so soon made acquaint
ance with all the stormy passions o.
life!
It is not strange that such gir
as 'Dimples" Lawrence should have
been loved. Dimpled women art
made to be adored by men, but it is
curious chance of fate that the two
men who loved and fought over her
and who are involved in the TRACE
dy, should both have been married
men, bound by every tie of homo
and duty and law to other women
and that she knew it.
, Unfortunately, there is nothing
uncommon either in the fact that
girl should have been pleased AM
flattered by the attentions of marrie'
) men. There are women who boas
: of their conquests among benedicts
,, There are women who would no
,, steal pin from another woman, ye
, | who think it no harm to rob one {
l her husband, and who gloat owe
e the number of wives they can max
jealous, as cruelty and with as ur
holy glee as any Indian ever di
over the bloody scalps at his belt.
). Romance, too, to many girls nevt
wears so alluring ssguise as when
comes in the form of a married NAL
one who has a pathetic story of b.
ing married to woman who do
not understand him-Who finds h
ideal too late-and whose attention
L have all the sweet and fatal fascin
u ton of forbidden fruit.
SEVENTEEN rs NEVER WISE.
:. It is easy to see how an ignora
10 and unsophisticated young girl-al
D. seventeen is never wise-could fl
le in love with such a man, and Dill
D. pies Lawrence found her hero Of I
or nance In handsome, dashing Lot
Disbrow.
There seems little doubt the g
was infatuated with him. She 4
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-06-26
FOR REGISTER OF DEEDS

The undersigned hereby an
nounces himself a candidate for Reg
lister of Deeds for Wayne county,
subject to the action of the Demo
cratic nominating convention of the
county.
If nominated I shall, of course, be
elected, and shall at all times give
my undivided attention cheorfully
to the duties of the Office.
Respectfully.
JOHN B. HOOKS.
I'd dkw Fremont n. q.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-06-26

with them. It is so much more |
agreeable to indulge than to deny |
that most parents give in to their |
children without a struggle. 1t takes |
courage, it takes determination, it |
takes grit to combat young persons |
eager desires, and intense longing,
and so mothers let their daughters
go to places of which they do notap-
prove, and associate with people
they suspect of being wrong, simply
because they have not strength
enough to assert their authority and
maintain it, even though they know
it is for the girls good.
Another lesson parents should
learn from this sad affair is the folly,
to quote the old proverb, of locking
the stable after the horse has been
stolen. 1t is a strange fact, but is
fact, that most parents never seem to
realize that their boys and girls will
fall in love until the deed is accom-
plished. They will let an undesira-
BILE young man-worthless, dissi-
their house for years, and then some
fine morning when they find that he
and their beloved Maud are engaged
to be married they are horror stricken
and wonder how it happened.
There is no other such match
maker as propinquity, and any
mother is criminally careless if she
lets man visit her daughter whom
she would not be willing for her to
marry.
Disbrow-a married man, as all
knew, and one who had left his wife
had been the constant companion
of pretty 'Dimples" Lawrence, and
it was only recently, when it was
forever too late, when the girls
heart had been given to him and her
fate sealed, that her mother began
protesting against his visiting her
daughter.
There are many 'fDimples" Law
rences at the various seashore and
mountain resorts-just as pretty, just
as foolish, just as young and inexpe-
rienced and fun-loving. What are
their motherss going to do with
them? Are they going to let them
go off on moonlight rides with men
of whom they know nothing? Are
they going to let them go off on ex.
cursions without chaperons? Are
they going to let them accept invi
tations to midnight suppers where
champagne flows like water?
All of us, Summer after Summer
have seen girls do things like these
and asked, ''Where are their moth
ers?" and sometimes, when the littl'
futtering moth burned her wings a
the candle of dissipation and folly
we have wept over tragedies yer.
like that of ''Dimples'' Lawrence.
!, If this tragedy rouses other moth
ers to sense of their daughters
dangers and their own responsibility
; to guard the jewel intrusted to them
, pretty little "Dimples" Lawrenc
, will not have died in vain.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-06-26
Coronation Postponed.
Special to The Argus !

Special to The Argus ]
LONDON, June "a, 1902.
The Coronation has been indefi-
nitely postponed on account of the
serious illness of King Edward.
A successful operation was per-
formed on King Edward at noon to-
day. He is suffering with perry
tiphlitis.
London, June 25.
King Edward was operated upon
successfully for appendicitis yester.
day morning. He spent comfort
able night and is resting easy this
morning.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-06-26

BEES WAX WANTED-The hiah.
sut meFket price paid for Bses Waz
d Joseph 0dwards. 1mjune1a
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1902-06-03
THE REDOUBT AFLAME
A NORTHERN Vol. .CANO
In Eruption on the Same Day That
Mont Pelee Broke Loose.

Seattle, June 2.-Pas. myers eratl
Cook Inlet, who arrived by the Chico.
confirm previous rUmors of another
eruption of Redou5t volcano, situated
on the west side. about forty miles
northwest of IIiEmna- Among them
was y. c. Losey, of Taconla, who has
been in tn eempioy of the Trans Alasfl3
company, who saw the present erup-
ton lie sailed from Hanna on the
morning of the Sth o. May, at which
point only a heavy sToke was to be
seen in the direction of the Redou1r,
by which they knew the volcano was III
eruption again. Precipitous mount li1s
shut of the view until the Chico had
gone twenty miles or so on the trip up
the inlet, when the SHOW became thrill
ing.
Dense black clOwds covered the entire
region. spreading entirely o"er COOK
inlet. which is upwards Of forty miles
across. At times the smoke directly
over the volcano region was lightened
to dark gray, but no fame was seen
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1902-06-03
BAKERS EHj0IHED
FROM PICKETING

Kansas City, June 2.-The striking
union bakers today We're enjoincd ~
Judge John f. Phillips, of the United
States circuit court, VINO issued tenn
poEary order restraining them from
patrc!l!ng iii front OF the Grand Ave
nue. Bakery company, or otherwise in
teslering with the employees OF that
concern The action grows out of
lockout cf union bakers by six ieaIing
firms. members OF The Masters associ-
at:on. because tao union bakers de-
nandei that the drivers OF bakery va
Gons b allowed t. organize union.
The strikers annoyed the bakers.
The bakers appealed in vain to the
nciiCe, and in order to place its case
within the jurisdiction of the federal
court they recantly reincorporated I.I-
de- the laws of colorado. This made
it noa-resi1ant.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1902-06-03
4 FRISCO YOUTH
SHOWS IN ENGLAND
McFadden Put the English Bantam
Weight Out in Fifth Round.

London, June 2.-Kid McF'adden OF
San Francisco knocked out Jem VIII
liams OF London ct the National Sport
ing club tonight in Il fight for the ban
tam weight championship OF the xorld
and {. purse of 1850. This fight was
the sharpest five round contest which
has been seen in London for long
time. 4 big crowd attended. including
Ten Sharkey, Gus Ruhlin. Joe Walcott.
and either participants in the pugilistic
tournament to be held here in connec-
tiCn with the coronation festivities
McFadden could not get down TO
weight and was allowed to go
on at one hundred and twenty
pounds. He forced the fighting from
the start and proved 10 be the stronger.
Williams, however. was very clever,
and had the better of the third round.
But the end came suddenly at the close
Of the fifth, when McFadGen landed
half hook on the Englishmans jaw