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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-27
INDIAN SCHOOLS TO COMPETE.
A Great Football Contest at the
Worlds Fair Stadium Today.
(By the Associated Press.

ST Louis, Mo, Nov. 25.-With the
arrival of the Carlisle Indian school
football team the unsettled question
relative to the great gridiron battle
at the Worlds Fair stadium tomor-
row between the eastern and western
indian schools were quickly disposed
Of, and all arrangements were COM
pleted tonight by the selection of
Billy Comet, of the University of Vir-
ginia, as referee and DR.. Stauffer. of
che University of Pennsylvania, as UNI
pire. Both teams are in fine condi-
ton and the coaches are each conf
dent.
The presence of President Roosevelt,
who, it is announced, will attend the
game, has added interest to the con-
test. and it is expected that fully ten
thousand persons will be present.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-27
DID THE BREECHEs HAVE WINGS
And How Did the Garments of the
Other Man Vanish and Reappear
Without Visible Agency?

This very peculiar story of the gar
ments of two hotel guests is told by
the Tarboro Southerner:
Two men, registering as w. NJ.
Baker and l.. Weinstein, were for a
time Thursday morning chattering
room had been entered at Hotel Far
rar and his watch and 800 in money
stolen; the other that his watch and
SIG in money Weer missing.
One of the servants at the hotel
when she came in the morning saw a
pair, of breaches lying in the street
near side entrance The attention
OF A. Turner, who has a butcher shop
opposite was called to the ciTcum-
stances. He took them to Proprietor
Wooten. They found in a pocket keys
with the name of Baker stamped
thereon.
They went up to Bakers room,
which was also occupied by Vein
stein.
Baker was found sitting in a chair.
To Mr.. WOoten'S inquiry if he had lost
anything, he replied in as unconcern-
Ell tone, that he couldn't find his
pants. The other man raised up and
looking around, said his clothes We're
gone.
They first said that they had locked
their door but later said that they re-
membered that they did not. The
window to their room opens over a
shed on a tin roof, on which there was
a heavy dew, but not the slightest
sign of a footprint was there.
Mr.. Turner says that the breaches
were thrown in the street after he
came down to the shop; and a man
servant at the hotel, who comes prob
ably an half an hour earlier than the
woman servant who found the gar
ment, says he did not see it, and that
he could not we'll have failed to have
seen it if it had been there.
These two men went to the hotel
about 1870 Wednesday night and
asked for a room.
The other guest were not disturb
ed.
subsequently the clothes of Vein
stein were found in the vacant space
in rear of the hotel.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-27
Atlanta to Greenville.
(By the Associated Press

Atlanta, Ca, Nov 25.-At a meet.
ing of the stockholders of the At
lanta and Carolina Railway Company
held here today, the organization OF
the company was perfected by the cleo
ton of officers and directors. The
company proposes to build an cleo
trio line from Atlanta to Greenville
5. c., which it is expected eventually
will give Atlanta direct line to the
Atlantic Seaboard The capital was
raised from $4,000 to $4,000, 900 and
means for the speedy beginning OF
active operations. John r. Hosch, OF
Hoschton, Ga, was elected president.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-27
]. MORGAN sMlTH ARRESTED.
Man Who is Said to Have Bought
Revolver That Killed Caesar Young.

Iby lne ASSOCldLeU TTeSS.J
New York, Nov. 25.-The World
will say tomorrow:
j. Morgan Smith, brother-in-law of
Nan Patterson, and the man who is
said to have purchased the revolver
with which aesar Young, the book
maker, was killed, was arrested yes
terday in West Nyack, N. Y, by De-
tective Sergeant Judge, of the central
Office staff. Smith is now believed
to be locked up in a cell in police
headquarters.
Smith is the witness for whom the
district attorney and the police have
been hunting ever since the criminal
authorities decided to prosecute Nan
Patterson on a charge of having muir
dered Caesar Young. Smith was
found boarding under a fictitious
name with a private family.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-27
STATE EDUCATORS
County Superintendent
Meet Wednesday.
A Large Attendance is Expected And
An Interesting Program Has Been
Prepared For the
Meeting.

The State Association of County
superintendent will meet in Raleigh
on Wednesday and Thursday of next
week, the thirtieth of November, and
the FIRST OF December.
The meeting will be largely attend
ed as already over ninety of the
ninety-seven County Superintendent
of Schools have given notice &hat
they will be present. The meetings
will be held in the Hall of the House
of Representatives and the program
is as follows:
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-27
Three Sentenced to Hang.
(By the Associated Press- J

(By the Associated Press.)
Rome, Ga, Nov. 26.-Judge Henry
to-day sentenced three men to be
nanged-Jack Bone for killing z.
7. Hall, to be executed December 10:
Curtney Baker for killing his wife at
ave Springs, Bob Sutherland, for kill
ng three negroes at a dance, the lat
ter two negroes, to be executed De-
cember 20. Motions will be made for
Communication of sentences to life i'm
prisonment, but as all three went to
the Supreme Court. it is almost certain
that none will be granted.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-27
Prisoners from Harnett.

Sheriff S. A. Salmon and Deputy
c. H. Biggs, of Harnett. brough five
prisoners to the State Prison yester-
day. They are; Wiley Lucas and
Sidney Norris, both white for the
murder of H. B. Moore near Duke
each for twelve years; Alex McCor-
mick, a negro, for fifteen years for at
tempt to commit rape on a little ne
gro girl; Evander Smith, colored, and
Jim McDougald colored. both for
larceny.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-27

MILLINERY DEPARTMENT..
A lucky purchase of "a big bargain
in ready to wear hats. Misses and
Children's caps. We buy bargains
we sell bargains
CLOTHING DEPARTMENT.
How about another oyercoat for
yourself or that boy.
SHOE DEPARTMENT.
All kinds of shoes at right prices.
TRUNK DEPARTMENT.
Trunks. suit cases. bags.
UNDERWEAR DEPARTMENT.
Mems heavy heeced-Iined, IS and
43 cents. Boys heavy unon suits 40
and so cents. Misses union suits 20
cents. Ladies and Gents wool goods.
DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT.
Bed blankets 20 cents to $500.
Comforts SO cents to S1.10. Portieres
S1.45 to $500 pair. Table damasi<
% and so cents.
CLOAK DEPARTMENT.
Our prices are so right that we can't
keep in sizes
Childs' fur sets white rs cents.
Ladies' fur scarfs 20 cents up.
Ladies' knit bIouses SIS.
Fascinators and shawIs.
Guns--single. brcech loading, $3.
barrel breech loading. $3.50: air rifle
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-27
Donation to Monroe college.

Macon, Ca, Nov 25.-A special to
tine Telegraph from Columbus, Ga,
announces the donation by a south
Georgian of $4,000 to Monroe College,
the Baptist Female Institution Of the
State. The name of the giver has not
been reVea led.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-27
MUSICAL DEPARTMENT

Agent for Victor Talking Machine,
Records, etc.
Guitars, $2.45, $40, $500.
MandOlins, $3.50, $3.50, $500.
Violins, $40, $50.
Banjos, $1.45. $3.50. 1925. $500.
Auto HarDs, 3 Bar $500.
Auto HarDs, 5 Bar, $500.
Auto Hraps, 8 Bar, $500.
AccOrdeons, SIPS, $1.35. $3.50.
Music Racks, Strings, Repairs.
GLOVE DEPARTMENT.
Ladies' and gents wool and cotton.
STOVE DEPARTMENT.
Oil Heaters, $125, $f.95, 81 80.
Lamp Stoves. 40 cents round she.
Wood Heaters and cook stoves.
Coal CRATES and fire dogs.
CROCKERY DEPARTMENT.
CLOCK DEPARTMENT
LAMP DEPARTMENT..
HARNESS DEPARTMENT.
FURNITURE DEPARTMENT
PICTURE DEPARTMENT.
STATIONERY DEPARTMENT.
UMBRELLA DEPARTMENT.
GLASSWARE DEPARTMENT.
SHIRT DEPARTMENT..
JIEWFLRY DEPARTMENT..
HARDWARE DEPARTMENT.
NOTION DEPARTMENT.
10: % caIibre rifles. $3.50: doubie
]. So cents.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-27

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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-27
Programme.

First session, Wednesday, Novem-
Der so.
/. Report, IL a. m. to / p. m.
School Register.
Blank Reports.
Record Books of Committee, Coun-
ty superintendent and County Treas
urer
Rules and Regulations.
e6-Superintenden Tur-
lington, of Johnston; Massey of Dur
ham; Ragsdale, of Pitt; Hays, OF Will
son; Atkinson, of Wayne; Wright, of
Wilkes; Foust, of Guilford, and Me
bane, of Catawba
Second Observation-Disclosures and
Discussion of State Course of Study,
$3.50 p. m. to 4:3O p. m.
Third Observation-Disclosures 1870 p.
IN. to $50 D. m.
Nature Study and the Nature Study
Society, by DR.. r. l.. Stevens.
Cooperative Work of Southern
Education Board, DR.. Charles d.
McIver.
Changes in School Law: the sec
ond $10O 600.
Fourth Session-Thursday Decem-
erintendent Libraries, a. m. to II
Der /, 1904, 8 a. m. Rural and sup
a. m.
How to secure them.
How to preserve them.
How to increase their usefulness.
Discussion led by r. ID. w. Conner
and i. G. Brooks.
County Supervision, 10 a. m. 10 1
y. m.
Examination OF teachers.
Teachers Institutes and township
meetings.
Selection of teachers.
Visiting schools and course of study
~ A. a n
Local Taxation o. m. to p. m.
The Wiley Monument and North
Carolina Day, 4 .. m. to 4:30 D. IN.
Sixth Session-Organiza of Dis
trict Associations and General Bust
ness, 7.30 D. IN.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-01-05
The Strawberry Weevil.

State Entomologist Franklin Sherman is max
mo special inquiries as to the strawberry weevil,
which during some years past has done great
damage along the line of the Wilmington & We'll
lor Railway between Goldsboro and Wilmington.
IN the counties of Wayne, Fender, Duplin and
New Hanover. Reports which Mr.. Sherman has
received show that the loss ranges from one-ffth
# a crop to an entire crop in some cases. The
ueeviI does all its damage in the spring, by cut
ing of the blooms. The best remedy is to plant
varieties Of berries which do not produce pollen.
The Duff variety appears to be the best, as it pro-
drcc~ no pollen. The Mckinley, Lady Thompson
ami Excelsior do produce pollen. Mr.. Sherman
IS now issuing a circular letter asking for the
most complete Information on this subiect.-Ra-
leigh Cor. Charlotte Observer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-01-05
The Child Labor Law Goes Into Effect.

The child labor law passed by the last Legisla-
rure went into effect January 1st. Following are
its provisions:
+ shall be unlawful for any child under the age
# = wears to work in any factory or manufac-
turing establishment within the State. Sixty-six
hours shall constitute a weeks work. and no per-
son under Is years of age shall be employed in
Any factory or manufacturing establishment
LONGER than sc hours per week. All parents upon
airing children to work in said factories or man
utacturing establishments shall present each
establishment with a written statement of the age
+ said children; any such parents who shall mis-
stare the age of any child shall be guilty Of a
mi~ionoanor. Any mill owner, superintendent
or manager who shall employ any such children
IT violate any Of the above provisions shall be
guilty of a misdcmeanor.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-01-05
THE CHICAGO DISASTER.

Une OF the 0L DISASTROUS TueS II AucIICau 0ASIVAy
Brings Z. tn to Nearly 600 People-Ihe Story in
Brief.
Chicago, Dec. 3O-About FIVE hundred and fifty
people were killed in ten minutes this afternoon
during a fire in the ~Iroquois Theatre, the newest,
the largest, and as far as human power could
make it, the safest theatre in Chicago.
a few of these people we're burned to death by
fire, many we're sufocated by gas, and scores were
trampled to death in the panic that followed the
mad plunge of the frightened audience for the
exits. 1t will be many hours before the number
of dead is accurately known and many days be-
fore all of them will be identified. There are
bodies lying by the dozens tonight in the under
taking rooms, in the police stations, and in the
hospitals from which nearly everything that could
reveal their identity to those who knew them best
is gone.
In the aisles and near the exits the dead are
found in inextricable heaps many feet deep, their
hands clutching fragments of garments torn from
others in the agonizing STRUGGLE. their faces often
crushed into pulp beneath trampling heels, their
bodies broken in the terrific crush, burned, torn,
suffocated, dying in a nightmare of panic-horror.
The blackened bodies which choked the aisles
and s~tairvays, the lines of policemen and fremen
carrying limp forms from the building, the over
taxed hospitals. the rows of dead and dying in the
surrounding buildings which were thrown open to
the sufferers. tell briefly the tale. Only a few of
the heart-rending incidents will ever be known.
The first seconds of the rush for life among those
in the audience were quiet, say those who live
to tell the tale. 1t was but a moment until the
stairwavs leading from the balcony were a mass
of STRUGGLING humanity, fighting to get out. Those
in the van. unable to keep their footing, fell over
their footing, fell h%eadlong. Those behind fell
over their PROSTATE forms, crushing and sufocat-
ing them. The scene was then a veritable bedlam.
Women and children were in the majority in the
fighting crowd, and their shrieks mingled with the
groans of the dying and prayers of duplication.
In the last hope born of desperation, scores
climbed to the railing and leaped to the pit of the
theatre, many feet below. Their mangled bodies
were found long afterward when the smoke had
cleared away and the fremen could grope their
way with lanterns into the gruesome house of
death.
on record. In the great Chicago fire October,
1871, only two hundred lives were lost. Among
theatre fires, only the Ring Theatre disaster in
December, 1881. ranks with this one. The fire
at the Paris Charity Bazaar, or the Grande Ba-
zaar de Charitie, in May, 1897, one of the most
horrible of fires, III recent years, swept away 131
lives. At the Ring Theatre fire in Vienna eight
hundred lives were lost.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-01-05
Our Advertisers.

Our readers will find the advertisers in The
Progressive Farmer perfectly reliable and
straightforward in all their dealings. It is our
standing rule to reject all ads, no matter how
much money is offered, whose reliability we have
any reason to doubt. When in need of any sup
plies for farm or household, consult our columns,
and when writing advertisers, do not fail to state
where the ad was seen.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-01-05
If You Get Two Papers This Week.

If you get two copies of this number of The
Progressive Farmer, one is intended for you to
pass on to some friend who ought to be a sub
scriber. Get him to give YOU a dollar for a years
subscription, and we will move up the date on
your label three months,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-01-05

Following is the National Department of Agri-
cultures report on North Carolina tobacco:
Average of all reports received indicate that
about So per cent of the crop had been marketed
prior to December 20. The average price per
bound is 90 to 40 per cent lower than was re-
ceived for similar grades in 1902. The quality of
the cured leaf is greatly inferior to that of the
1902 crop.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-01-05
GENERAL NEWS.
The Lesser Events of Last Week.

puU14C IL = anama.
Admiral Schley, in Cincinnati, received a letter
warming him of a supposed plot to kill him.
The situation in the Far East gives great con-
Germ; Japan is making preparations for the worst.
jamestown Exposition managers have secured
$76O,OOO subscriptions of the 81 100000 stock re-
CURED.
Cotton reached the highest price in twenty
years in the New York and New Orleans ex-
changes.
Japan is negotiating for the purchase of two
Argentine w~arships, and war with Russia seems
imminent
Strong influences were reported to be behind the
defense of Senator @. H. Dietrich, charged with
bribery in Nebraska.
The supporters of Joseph Chamberlain won the
election for the House of Commons in the Ludlow
division of Shropshire.
Diplomatic pressure will be brought to bear by
several European powers to prevent war between
Colombia and the United States.
The summing up of the results of the terrible
wreck on the B.. & o. Railroad shows a total dead
list of sixty-four and nine injured.
The reduction in wages at the mills of the
Pennsylvania Steel Company at Steelton, Pa. it
was stated, would average 20 per cent.
The Democratic National Committee will meet
in Washington ON January y, to fix the time and
place of holding the National Convention next
year.
1t is said some of the younger members of the
Mormon church are interesting themselves in be-
half of the opponents of Senator Reed Smoot, of
Utah.
War between Japan and Russia is regarded as
almost certain, but no developments are expected
until Russia's reply to Japan's request for recon
sideration is received.
General Reyes will return to Colombia and as
sumo personal command of the army; he has
cabled his government that war on Panama means
war with the United States.
A dispatch from Toxic to the Daily Mail
says that the Japanese government will intro
duce in the diet next month a bill creating a to-
bacco monopoly somewhat similar to the govern
ment monopoly in France.
The Colombian representatives in Washington
have not received a reply from Secretary Hay,
but are making all arrangements to close the lega-
ton in Washington and return home. Uncle Sam
does not expect serious trouble.
At a meeting of the directors of the Seaboard
Air Line, J. Shelton Williams resigned the Office
of president of the company and Nice-President
Barr was elected president and general manager.
Mr.. Williams was elected chairman of the board
of directors.
The tallest BUILDINGS on earth is to be erected
in lower Broadway, if the present plans are car
ried cut. With five stories below the street level,
forty stories high from the entrance to the top
floor, and surmounted by a sixty-foot tower, the
gigantic new building will have a total height of
615 feet.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-01-05
Three Generous Offers to the Public Schools.

The State Superintendent Of Public ~Instruc-
ton has received the following encouraging letter
from Mr.. \. c. Shuford. the President and Treas
uror Of Startown Nursery Company, at Newton,
NC:
Dear Strive have watched closely the work
Won ar" doing to better the public schools and ad-
vance the cause of education in North Carolina.
We feel a deep interest in this matter, and be-
Loving, as we do, that local taxation is the one
thing ncedful to supplement the public schools,
Ne desire to make the following proposition, with
The hope that it will not only encourage communi-
tics whore a tax is voted for, but aid in %cultivat-
me a love of the beautiful.
"Bnginning with the year 1904, we offer SIS
worth Of ornamental trees. shrubbery, etc, or any
class Of nursery stock desired, to every commun-
ny or school where the people vote a tax upon
themselves to supplement the public fund. We
offer also $40 worth as above stated to every
graded school established in the country"
THE GRIMES HISTORICAL CHART PRIZE.
CoI. J. Bryan Grimes has offered a prize worth
twenty-five dollars TO the child under eighteen
wears Of age in the public schools of the State
"h" makes the clearest, simplest diagram, show
mo IN chart form the formation with date) OF
m" counties of the State; size of chart to be
a."ar 10x12 or 12x15. inches.
THE CUNNINGHAM PRIZE.
Han. John s. Cunningham. of Person County,
.' rS for the best essay on Public Education IN
North Carolina. by any County Superintendent
IN -an State, a Gold Medal valued at 1926 Further
INF. rmation concerning these prizes will be fur
"~""d by the State Superintendent upon appll-
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-01-05
THE CUNNINGHAM PRIZE.

looks are the best things well used; abused
among the w~orst.-Emerson.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1904-12-09
John II. GarmOn.

The many friends in this ci ity
If Col. John II. Garmon We're
srlevPd TO learn of his death on
rnesday night al his home near
Palmo to. This sad intelligence
did not come altogether as sur
prise, as 1t had been generally
known for many weeks tina, he had
been seriously i'll of complies
ton of diseases. He was over
eighty years old aud had been en-
feebled for a long time and his
friends had fur months been fear
ing that the worst W. Md come to
him. He was buried at Palmetto
on Thursday, S b inst, Rev j. L.
Cunningham officiati Y Col Gar
mon bad for over half a century
been prominent actor in the af
fairs of his county and his neigh
b,rhpod He Was jealous mem.
Der of the Methodist church aud
was leading official IN the church
at Palmetto He was always at
HI, post and was a faithful aud
conscientious christian worker
He was good neighbor, a staunch
friend aud sterling citizpn. He
observed the rules of his church
scrupulously and performed all his
duties as man and citizen faith
fully and we'll.
Col Garmon was veteran of
the confederate war having been
a member OF the 2nd Missi-sippt
cavalry in which regiment he rose
to be lieutenant. He w,s a brave
and loyal soldier and remained
steadfast and true to his caus. un.
til the end He Was the father OF
M~ssrs Robert and Thomas Gar.
mon, leading citizens of the coun-
ty. tie was a popular man and
his death will bs greatly deplored
by the entire county. His strick-
en- sons and other relatives are re.
celvlng the sad sympathy of all In
which the Journal sincerely Joins.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1904-12-09
A Hunting Party.

Mr.. w. S, Thompson the gen.
eral agent of the Mobile & Ohio
railroad had the pleasant duty of
entertaining party If Mobile aud
New Orleans gentlemen on pleas.
ure bent. The party was brought
here Monday morning on Col.
Russell's Especial car which was
placed at their services by the
wholesouled Vice President Of the
.'Old Reliable" Bird hunting
was INDUCED for several dave, a
number Of our fine quail being
bagged each day. The party con-
sisted If j. b. Witherspoon,
wholesale sugar dealer, New Or
leans, G. H. Ellis, General Mana
ger United Fruit Co, New Or
leans, Mr.. Ewing, Wholesale Hard.
ware, New Orleans. N, NJ Leach,
G4ueral Agent, Mobile & Ohio,
New Orleans, j. s. aylor, Gener.
al Agent, Mobile & Ohio, Mobile.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1904-12-09
Christmas Excursion Rates Via the
Frisco System

Round trip tickets n rate Of Que
fair and a third from and between
all stations east Of Mi slsslppl
River and south OF the Ohio and
Potomac, will b. sold Dec % "A,
25, 81 and jan. ], all good TO return
uhtl Jan 4, 1905, inclusive.
S.,EJIAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR
STUDEN rs AND TEACHERS
Upon presentation and surrender
of certificates, stating that they are
bonaflde pupils Or teachers, Signed
by Superlndents, Principals or
Presidents of their schools, teach
ers aud studont- will be sold rom l
trip tickets between points and At
rate named above, Dee 17th o "a,
inclusive. These tickets being e 'od
to return until Jan s, 1905.
Foi rates, schedules, berth re
servatio us, ecl, apply to W Y. Ne
CLAIM, agent
Cheap Rate Via Frisco special
on way Colanist rate to ali poluts
in Indian Territory and Oklahoma
located in direct lines December
18th aud 9th for $ll.65 also to
points in Texas for $l3 Is