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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-03-06

The greatest danger from colds and
LaGrippc is their resulting In rneu-
rnonia. II reasonable care is used,
howeve, and Chamberlains' Cough
Remedy taken, all danger will be avoid
ed. Among the tens OF thousands VIII @
have used this Remedy tor these dis
cases, we have We. to learn of a single
case having resulted in pneumonia,
which shows conclusiyely that is GER
ain preventive of that dangerous NAL
ady. 1t will cure cold or an attack
Of la grippe in less time than any 9TH
er treatment. 1t is peasant and safe
to take. For sale by E. T. Whitehead
e Co.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-03-06
Milk for Sale.

Would like regular customer for q
limited amount OF milk every day,
ghlc!, Will be delivered at customers
iln,ne,
MRS, E. E. billiard
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-03-06
Plant Bed on Nam Street.

On the site wnere were burned a few
weeks ago the Carolina Buggy shops
and the town market on Main street
Mr.. E. w. Hyman has sowed bed O!
tobacco seed.
Perhaps no other town in the State
ct as many inhabitants as Scotland
Neck, can boast plant bed 40 feet
square Oh Main street.
ANGER OF COLDS AND LA
GRIPPE.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-03-06
To The Public.
\ o SIC K II @ f S E S j..

1T is very Important to have your
Fiues made by an experienced
man. l have bad six years experience
in making them. Give me your order
and have your fues made correctly.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-03-06
House kIOyingii

\ N PREPA r ED to
move ANY SIZE wooden
building ANY REASON
ABLE, DISTANCE.
Prices according to size OF
building and distance to be
moved.
J. Il. lllls')rook, Jr.
Scotland Neck, n. c.
2-20-3m.
To The Public.
No SICK HCR SEES.
1t has been reported that we have
lost several horses ard mules with
CHAMBERS and that our stables are quar-
antned. Such is false, not word OF
truth in such reports. We haysn't a
sick horse Or mule among the large
numb Der we have on hand.
A. n. PRINCE & CO.,
Mar. ), 1902. Scotland Neck, n. c.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-03-06
Don't Forget

The Great Stationery Sale
1T +. T. Whitehead & Co. s
Drug Store.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-03-06

HAIL STORM Friday afternoon
persons who were caught in the storm
towards Roanoke river reported con
siderable hail.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1902-06-27
MENTALLY IRRESPONSIBLE.
Jane Tappan, the Massachusetts PoisoneA
Ordered Committed to the In
sane Asylum for Life.

Barnstable, Mass, June 24.-Miss
Jane Tappan, nurse, was found
mot guilty by reason of insanity" OF
the murder by poisoning of Mrs.
Mary Gibbs, of Cataumet, on August
II, 1901, before a special sitting of
the superior court here Monday. The
time occupied in the trial was scarce
~ six hours. When the government
presented its evidence a sensational
incident appeared in the testimony of
DR.. Henry X. Stedman. of Boston, an
alienist, who said that Jane Tappan
told him in the presence of other
medical experts that she had caused
the death of Mrs. Gibbs by giving her
a poisonous dose of atrophine and
morphine.
When the defense put its medical
experts on the witness stand the con-
tention of moral and mental ire
maintained.
Miss Tappan was ordered commit
ted to Taunton insane asylum for
life. She will be taken there to-day.
While Miss Tappan was tried on the
indictment charging the murder Of
Mrs. Gibbs, she was charged also by
the government with the deaths OF
Mr.. Alden Z. Davis and Mrs Gene
We've Gordon, at Cataumet. These
deaths occurred within a short time
of each other. In addition the deaths
of the following persons who were
nursed by Miss Tappan had been in
quired into:
Israel ID. Dunham, of Cambridge,
died May 2G, 1895, aged SO years.
Mrs. Durham, his wife, died Sep
tember Is, 1897
Mrs. Connors, died at Cambridge in
1900.
Mrs. Alden p Davis. died at Cam
bridge, July 4, 1901, aged 62 years.
Mrs. o. NJ. Brigham, of Lowell, died
August %, 1899, aged 90.
Florence n. Calkins, housckeeper
for Mrs. Brigham, died January IS,
1900.
Miss Edna Banister. of Tunbridge,
sister of Mrs. Brigham, died August
81, 1901.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1902-06-27
A San Francisco Tragedy of Several
Months Ago Appears About
to Be Unraveled.
ONE PARTICIPANT HAS CONFESSED.
He Processes to Have Letters From
Prominent Men in san Erancisco,
Who Were Interested In Keeping
Him Out of sight, but Who
Threw Him Down,

San Francisco, June 25.-A special
to the Examiner from Sedro, Wash,
says that n man confessing to be one
of Nora Fuller's murderers. has sur
rendered to the city marshal at that
place. He says he is John Bennett,
for whom the police have been
searching for several months. In an
interview at the Jail Bennett asserted
he would make a full confession,
which would implcate some of the
most prominent men in San Francis
so. He particularly mentioned a
prominent physician of San Fran
cisco. He acknowledged that he was
mixed up in the affair at first, but
asserts that he was not the real
murderer. He says he has been sup
piled with money to aid him in evad-
ing the officers until the last month,
when the financial supplies ceased
Bennett says Nora Fuller went with
him to the Sutter street house of her
own free will.
Il have letters in my pocket" says
Bennett. showing where the real cul-
prits have sent me money to keep
out of the way, but now that they
have neglected me, it gives me the
excuse to end the awful fear and sus-
pense to which | have been spbject-
ed
The alleged Bennett answers per-
fectly the description of the sup
posed murderers.
On receiving a description of the
prisoner from the city marshal at Sc
dro, Chief of Police Whitman said
he believed the man was an imposter
looking for notoriety or free trans
portation to San Francisco.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1902-06-27
THE ISTHMIAN CANAL.
Conference In Session-BeIfef that
Legislation VIII he Had he
fore Adjournment.

Washington, June 24.-The opening
conference on the isthmian canal bill
at two o'clock Monday led to active
comment on the outcome of this i'm
portant measure. Representative
Hepburn, the ranking house conferee,
notified his associates to be ready for
the meeting, but no exact plans were
discussed. There is no doubt that
the house conferees will, at the out
set, make strong insistence on the
Nicaragua route as provided by the
house bill. Messrs. Hepburn and
Dayey are earnestly in favor of the
Nicaragua route, and they undoubted-
ly will stand by the house bill as long
as there is any possibility of its Sc
lection. On the other hand, Mr..
Fletcher, of Minnesota, considers the
Panama route better than the Mica
ragua, although he thinks fuller in
vestigation might have shown the
Darien route better than either Of
the others. However, as the present
legislative issue appears to be con
fined to choice between Nicaragua
and Panama, Mr. Fletcher probably
will cast his influence for the latter.
The length of the contest will de-
pend, therefore, on the duration of
the insistence of Messrs. Hepburn
and Dayey for the Nicaragua route
and the attitude of the house in sup
porting such an insistence. There is
little Indication as to how long this
insistence will last, but statements
made by the house conferees lead to
the belief that the insistence will not
be carried to the point Of a perma
nent deadlock, defeating all canal leg
islatiOn at this session.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1902-06-27
A MODERN BORGIA.
Miss Jane Toppnn Confesses to Her
Counsel thnt She Murdered
Thirty-One People.

Boston, June 25.-Suspected of the
death of II persons, but indicted for
numbering only three, Miss Jane Top
pan, who was Monday declared in
sane, has confessed that she had
killed during her career as profess
siOnal nurse no less than 81 human
beings. This statement was made to
Judge Fred NJ. BiXby. senior counsel
at the trial at Barnstable Monday,
when Miss Toppan was found not
guilty by reason of insanity on the
charge of numbering Mrs. Mary ID.
Gibbs. Judge BiXby said also that
Miss Toppan had admitted that she
had set fires and committed other
serious acts. She said she could not
help committing the crimes. She
argued, moreover, that she was not
insane. She said she knew she was
doing wrong when she administered
poison to her victims, and she asked
Judge BiXby how, under such circum-
stances, she could be of unsound
mind.
Morphine was Miss Toppan's agen-
cy for producing death. Many of her
victims were unsuspecting and most
intimate friends; others were the pa
tients of reputable physicians who
employed her on account of her abil-
ity as nurse.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1902-06-27
BIG FIRE AT MADISON, ILL.
Half Block, Including business
Omces, Residences and Lumber
Yards, swept by Fire.

st. Louis, June Madison, ILL.,,
had $4,000 fire Monday night which
covered space of half block and
was thought at one time to threaten
the big plant of the Madison car
works. The fire was discovered in
the stable back of the Star brewery
depot, and quickly communicated
with the depot itself. a horse valued
at 5000 was burned to death in the
stable, and two others were serious
ly injured. The beer depot was to-
tally destroyed, the loss on the build
ing and contents being So 900.
The two-story frame residence of
Mayor Patrick Coyle was next in the
path of the flames, and was partially
destroyed, the loss being estimated
at 81 900 on the building and 81 900 on
the contents.
The lumber yard and Office Of the
Coudy Bros. Lumber CO., across the
alley, was attacked, and $1,000 worth
of lumber destroyed. The loss on the
office building, two-story frame
structure. will reach $4,000. The
brick office building east of the lum-
ber yard, owned and occupied by A.
G. Shelton, was burned. the loss be-
ing estimated at $4,000. The last
building destroyed was two-story
frame residence belonging to Fred
Pearce, which was unoccupied. The
loss on this building was So 500.
The insurance on the burned build
ings win about cover one-haIf of the
loss.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1902-06-27

At a recent meeting of the state
railway assessment board it was voted
to assess the railway, telegraph and
express companies in the state for
taxation on the same basis used last
year when the total assessment valua-
tion was s2S.29S,O31. OF the total
last year the Gould system lines in
this state were assessed S11,349,354,
the Cotton Belt s4.127,132 and the
Choctaw S2.689, 40. Increased mile
age will increase this years grand to-
tai of assessed valuation to about
$29 100000 The rate of assessment
per mile is: Cotton Belt. $500;
Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf. $500;
Kansas City Southern, $500; Frisco,
$4,000; Iron Mountain (new line)
$4,000; Kansas City, Fort Scott &
Memphis. 100000
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1902-06-27
ON THE WOODED PLATEAU.
Reproductions of Historic Buildings
to Have Woodland Setting at
the Worlds Fair.

st. Louis, June 25.-Monticello, the
home of Thomas Jefferson the Ca
bido at New Orleans, where the
transfer of the Louisiana territory
was made; Burns cottage and Stir
ling castle, Beauvoir, the home of
Jefferson Davis, and the Temple of
Fraternity, will all be erected in the
forest of the wooded plateau at the
Worlds fair.
Not tree will be cut from the
rustic surroundings of these historic
structures as they will be reproduced.
Woodland pathways will wind from
one place of interest to another scene
of memory-evoking enchantment.
This is the dictum of Director of
Works Taylor, and to insure per-
feet yernal setting for these pleasing
features of the exposition, he has or
dered that the railways which will
enter that part of the site from the
south shall be carried on high trestles
over the trees.
All of the upper wooded plateau,
except that portion occupied by the
government building and Art palace,
will be kept in it's natural state, pre-
serving the gigantic trees and the
present contour of the ground. The
little rivulets which drain this dis
trict will be preserved. Only where
exposition roadways cross will
bridges be constructed and slight
grading done
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1902-06-27
DANGER OF COAL FAMINE.
Fears of General Suspension of
Work I'm Indiana Coal Fields
Railroads Conhscate Coal.

Tcrre Haute. Ind. June 24.-The
railroad companies are apprehensive
of general suspension of work by
the coal miners and operators in all
parts of the Indiana field. There is
complaint that the railroad com
panies have been confiscating coal for
the last two weeks Word has been
received at the state headquarters of
the mine workers here that practical
Is the same conditions prevail in
Illinois. Unless the railroad com
panies move and unload the cars now
standing on their sidings and furnish
more cars, the condition in Indiana
will practically amount 10 tie-up
within the next two weeks. The men
will have to quit work, as the op-
orators will be unable to ship any
coal.
The railroads. it is understood, con-
fiscate the coal on the broad ground
that they have to have it to furnish
power to carry the United States
mails and to move passengers and
freight.
They represent further, it is said,
that unless they confiscated coal for
their own use they would be unable
to move any coal for the operators.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1902-06-27
LIEUT.. GOV. LEE ANNOYED.
Tie Claims That His Speech Introducing
VIM. }. Bryan at Msryviile, NO.,
Was GarbIed.

st. Louis, June 24.-Lieut. Gov.
John A. Lee, upon whom the duty
fell of introducing William j. Bryan
to his audience at Maryville, Mo-, re-
Gently takes exception to the report
of his remarks sent out to the press
and wishes to be set right before the
people of Missouri.
Il did not place him alongside the
Messiah" says the lieutenant gov
ernor. Il carefully wrote out my
speech beforehand and delivered it
verbatim. The exact language was
this:
1T is somewhat presumptuous for
man of my limited acquaintance
ship to assume to introduce to the
people one whose name has became
the common property and pride of
the world
THE Bible says that when God
made man He made him after His
own likeness. There are great
many people in this country, millions
of them, who think that when God
made William J. Bryan, and nodded
the qualities of his mind and heart,
He did so with great care, and that
He made him not only after His own
likeness but after His own heart-a
man as nearly perfect as a human
being can be.
"Some people who have not seen
him, who do not know him, are filed
Wit ,, 1.r At h, Att ,f thcH
magnetic and attractive influence ex-
erted by William j. Bryan with the
people. / have seen great multitudes
of people waiting by the roadside for
hours for touch of his hand or the
sunshine of his smile. Women and
men, cripplcs, the blind, the rich, the
poor, waiting, waiting for the joy
and encouragement of his greeting.
What is the secret of this great
popularity which great rulers, men
high in the affairs of state, can envy
him? The secret is his truth, his sin
cerity, his honesty, his courage, his
patience, his gentleness, his forti-
tude, his superiority to temptation,
his steadfastness in the great work
which God has intrusted to him as
| the advocate of the welfare of the
plain people.
| at is because he is to-day the
greatest, the truest and bravest
teacher of the principles taught by
his glorious master, the Redeemer,
that the people believe in him.
Ellis subject tonight is: Con
quering Nations" / do not introduce
him; | merely present to you Will
lam J. Bryan, who is, in my opinion,
| to-day the highest and truest type of
| American citizenship"
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1902-06-27
arkansas STATE NEWS.
Prom nent Young White Man Shot
and Killed By Negro in
Desha County.
DEMAND ADOPTION OF MORE LIBERAL LAW
Hon. X. Is. Macon Nominated for Con-
gress From the First Dist'ict - New
Faculty Selected for state University-
Big Batch Convicts Escape.


James Cross a young white man,
was murdered by Martin Nash, a negro.
at Pendleton, Desha county. The
killing was witnessed by Col Cross,
father of the murdered man, and a
younger brother. The weapon used
was a shotgun, and both barrels were
discharged Col. Cross and his two
sons went to the steamboat landing to
see Mrs. Cross safely aboard steam
er. Mrs. Cross had gone on the boat
and the trip up the river had been
resumed by the steamer when the trag-
edy occurred Col. Cross had observed
the negro Nash. armed with a shot
gun, standing around the landing.
When the party started to return 10
the Cross home Col. Cross said to the
negro. What are you doing here on
my premises with a shotgun" The
negro made no verbal reply He
turned and fired upon James Cross,
with the result mentioned Young
Cross fell dead. The negro then took
to fight, but Col Cross and Clay
Cross opened fire on him with their
revolvers and it is thought they
wounded him in the leg, but he eluded
them and making his way to Arkansas
City, surrendered. Col. Cross did not
know until the smoke of battle had
killed. He assumed that the negro
was firing at him and did not intend
to kill anyone but him.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1902-06-27

l. Ker, young man about 20
years Of age. was found dead in his
room at Little Rock. A box filled
with cotton saturated with chloroform
which lay beside his head told the
manner of his death. Ker went to his
room. stating that he was feeling bad.
and left word that he was not to be
disturbed. Becoming uneasy his land
lord forced an entrance to his room
and found that he had been dead sew
eral hours. He left no message tell
ing why he took his life, but it is be-
lieved disappointment in love affair
prompted the act.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1902-06-27


At meeting of the board of trus-
tees of the State University. held at
Fayetteville last week, the following
faculty was selected: Harrison Ran
dolph of Virginia. president A. E
Menke, chemistry; J. c. Futrall, an
cient languages; G. w. Drake. mathe
matics j. j. Knoch, civil engineering
w. n. Gladson, electrical engineering
A. II. Perdue, geology; II. NJ. Willis
economies w. S. Johnson. pedagogics;
F. w Pickle. biology; J. H. Reynolds
history; j. w. Keykendall. prepara
tory department.; Mrs. Neil Carothers,
librarian; j. w. Carr, English and
modern languages; Mrs Jennie Bow
man, elocution.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1902-06-27

A bunch of convicts escaped last
week from the convict camp at Eng
land They were Fayette Rogers,
colored, Columbia county, Is years,
assault to kill and aiding escape, com
mitted October 10, 1900; Rufus Hard
ridge. colored, alias Joe Demond, alias
Joe Smith Pulaski county. 16 years,
burglary and larceny, received De
cember 3, 1895; Sam Swim, alias Lee
Smith, white, Jackson county, II years
murder, received August 4, 1895, +. f
Miller, white, Benton county l year
grand larceny. received April 8, 1902
Herbert Lane. white, Sebastian county,
l year, robbery. received March 10,
1902; Wallace Cook, colored, assault
to kill, received March y. 1902.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1902-06-27
Pleads For His Wife.

Geo. Barrow. a former citizen of
Little Rock, now serving time in New
York for the kidnapping of Marion
Clark. has written a long letter TO
Mayor Hook, of Goschen, entreating
him to exert all possible influence to
wife, who is serving a sentence in
Auburn prison for the same crime.
Barrow declares he forced his wife
to commit che crime. which he plan
ned for the purpose of covering the
New York police department with rid
icuie and ignominy and that he did
not desire a ransom.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1902-06-27

AZ TO Road Duty.

Attorney General Murphy holds that
the road improvement acts of 1899 and
1901 neither modify nor repeal the
act of 1879. under which cities and
towns are empowered to require by
ordinance all male persons between
the ages of IS and As years, residing
within the corporate limits, to work
upon the streets and alleys therein as
many as ten days a year. Col Muir
ply has addressed the following on
the subject to City Attorney r. E. L..
johnson. of Paragould:
Under the act of March 20. 1879.
cities and towns are empowered to re.
quire by ordinance all male persons
between the ages of IS and As wears.
residing within the corporate limits.
to work upon the streets and alleys
therein, as many as ten days in each
year, and to prescribe the terms upon
which they may have exemption there.
from. This means that they may fix
the price to be paid in lieu of each
days work and leave the party liable
to the duty to do the work or pay the
money as he sees At. The acts Of
1899 and 1901 relating to the working
of roads neither modify nor repeal this
act. Streets and alleys are under the
government of the cities and towns in
which they are. Road overseers have
nothing to do with the keeping UP of
the streets and alleys in cities and
towns. The law for the working of
county roads and the law governing
streets and alleys in cities and towns
and separate and Independent systems.
The ordinances of cities and towns pass
ed under the act of 1879 are the law
with respect to the working and main
tanning the streets and alleys, wher-
ever such ordinances exist and are
binding. AS before stated, the road
law since passed by the legislature
has reference to county roads, not to
streets and alleys in cities and towns"
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1902-06-27
BRIEF MENTION.

A damaging hail storm fell in Gar.
land county June 20.
Ray Nash. one of the oldest resi-.
dents of Miller county. is dead.
Rev. r. S. Deener. under Indictment
at Batesville for alleged forgeries com.
mitted ten years ago, has been releas-
ed on $4,000 bond,
The Hope Compress Company has
been sold to the ST. Louis Warehouse
and Compress Company for s25. 200
cash.
Ned Taylor. an old colored citizen
of Malvern. was arrested on an indict-
ment returned ten years ago charging
him with Illegal voting.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1902-06-27

An associated Press dispatch from
Washington says: Senator James X.
Jones will be selected as one OF the
seven commissioners who are to SUI
perintend the work of constructing the
isthmian canal, if authorized by con.
gress. MIR Jones voted for the Pan
anna route and was therefore entirely
friendly in his attitude toward those
who advocated the Spooner substitute.
Ii is calculated that it will require
fifteen years time to complete the con
struction OF the canal.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1902-06-27
Prof. Corbin ia Out.

Prof. j G. Fisher has been select.
ed to succeed Prof. j. c. Corbin as
principal of the Branch Normal Col
lege (colored) at Pine Bluff Prof.
Corbin has been at the head of the
Branch Normal college for the past
twenty-six years. during which time
he has been a conspicuous figure in
colored educational circles in the
south. hIs successor is a graduate Of
Booker Washington's Tuskegee school.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1902-06-27
Delegates Named.

Gov. JEFF Davis has appointed the
following delegates to the Internation-
al Mining Congress- which convenes
in Butte. Mont. September l o Sto-
fer. Bonneville; Claude P. Spriggs,
Ashdown: w. A. Webber. Maryhatti-
ana; Jerry South. Mountain Home !;
Frank Pace. Harrison: Charles Floyd.
Yellville: John Aday. Marshall; Jerry
Scanlan. Bee Branch, w. G. Vincen-
heller, Fayetteville: John P. Logan.
Sloan Springs; Squire Austin. GRAY
ette.