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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-09
NOTHING IN A NAME, Ell?
How About This Mastodo-W haiesco
EIephanto Mammoth Porker
Dubbed "Gov. Aycock."
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(Speclal TO News ana ODSeFVer.)
Selma, N. c., Jan. Sat the residence
OF Mr.. w. j. Thorn. five miles north of
Selma, may be seen Governor Aycock."
NJ. Thorn is Wilson county man, who
has recently moved to Johnston. Those
people down there and in many other
parts of the State. think our Charlie
the biggest man in North Carolina. And
Mr.. Thorn thinks he has the biggest hog
in North Carolina. / had heard of the
Governor out there and or Yesterday
evening Mrs. NJ. and myself rode out to
Fay our respects to the Governor"
From what we had heard we expected tc
see a big hog, but OH my / went pre-
pared to take some measurements and
here is the result as shown by tape
line. From end of tail to the mouth over
the back, nine feet, girth feet $ inches,
heighth feet 2 inches, around the jaws
feet 10 inches. across the face midway
between the eyes and end of nose 10
inches, from end of one ear to the other
held out straight from side of head =
feet inches. / could not get the meas
IRE around him the the long way between
the ears and legs, but believe it would
show 20 feet; age years and 2 months
old January 14th, 1904; Poland China and
Berkshire breed; cost at months old, So.
Mr. Thorn has been offered 500 cash fer
him as he stands; is estimated to weigh
gross from 1000 to 1900 pounds.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-09
DR.. C. W. BYRD OF BuIE's CREEK
A Man "a Years Old Enters School,
Fifty Counties Represented.

Buie's Creek, n. c., Jan. S.-Buie's
Creek has the best opening IN all its
successful openings, having registered
eighty-five new students since Christmas.
making three hundred and ninety-five
for the year, representing fifty counties
and six States. Large classes in elocu.
tion, music and business have been or
ganized. All classes now meet in the new
building and soon work on the Society
Hall will be resumed.
Several prominent speakers have " cen
engaged to lecture before the students this
sIring.
DR.. C. w Byrd, of Atlanta deliverc d
the first of the series on New Years
morning, and was a most inspiring ad
dress. DR.. Byrd used to teach en- these
grounds and the occasion put him at
his best. The address will long be re
ferred to here and will live forever in
many life.
A few years ago young man, seventeen
years old, came here from cotton mill.
He did not know all his letters. AT
the end OF two months and a half he
wrote letter home to his widowed moth
er. Today he is a useful citizen and a
loyal friend to Buie's Creek Academy.
This week a man, thirty-four years old
who, for twelve years has been a guard
al the State Farm, entered school, be
ginning in the first reader. He is dc.
termined, he says to get enough education
to attend to his own business. There is
pluck for you.
Seventeen years ago yesterday school
opened at Buie's Creek with sixteen
PUPILS Today there are present more
than sixteen to one. twenty-five new
desks have been put in this year and
twenty-five more have been ordered.
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|OH, THE PITY OF IT!
Rises From His Sick Bed
to Fight Fire.
Aged Veteran Climbs to His Roof, But
is Forced Back by the Flames,
Burned, Helpless, Losing
His All.
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tOPecldI 10 news ana ODSerV er.
Creek, N. c., Jan. S.-About noon the
residence of ]. j. Egerton, veteran of
the Civil War, four miles south of War
renton, caught on fire from the kitchen
stove pipe and was burned with almost its
entire contents. Mr.. Egerton, who is
nearly eighty, was the only man on the
place. his two sons being in Warrenton
The old man managed to place ladder
against the house, and mounting it spread
a wet blanket on the roof to check the
flames, which he then tried to extinguish
The flames, however, crept under the
blanket and burst out between him and
he ladder. This he had to pull over to one
side in order to reach it, and the top of
it being on fire before he reached the
ground, he escaped but with burned
hands, feet and neck
Mr.. Egerton, who is quite feeble, was
in bed when the fire broke out and lost
all his clothes except what he had on--a
shirt and pantaloons. His widowed
daughter, Mrs. Powell. who lived with
him, was not at home and not a single
article, including a small amount OF money,
was saved from her room. which was up
stairs. The old man is completely pros
trated There was no insurance.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-09
A COUGH
CONUNDRUM

When is a cough more
than a coughe
When it's a settled cold.
When it hangs on in spite of
all you can do. Cough mix
lures won't cure it because
they are merely for a cough
and this is something more.
SCOTS Emulsion cures the
cough because it cures the
something more. 1t heals
and repairs the inf1amed
tissues where the cold has
taken root and prevents its
coming back.
Well send you sample free upon request.
SCOTT & BOVINE, 400 Pearl Street, New York.
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Capt. W. M. Goode Killed.
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- ~N~"o o4A OUSelNefl
Salisbury, N. c., Jan. S-.Tnformat;on
has been received here of the accidental
killing OF Capt. w NJ. Goode, which oc.
CURED in Lexington KY, on December
3rd Until about sixty days ago Mr.
Goode and his family had resided in snon
Ger, having moved to Lexington onlv
about two weeks before the accident At
the time of his death Capt. Goodc was
q railway yard conductor and was killed
while coupling cars. He was nat;yo
Virginian and the iutelment was ~ Dan.
vile, his former home. 1t is learned .tl,at
the deceased was a member of the Rrotb.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-09
Quiet But Satisfactory
Opens New Year.
EFFECT OF WAR TALK
1t Stimulates Grain and Provision
Markets, But Securities and Cot
ton are Depressed. Increase
Of Railway Earnings
Over Those of so.
(By the Associated Press.)

(By the Associated PresS.)
New York, Jan. S.-Bradstreet's tomo~
row will say:
THE New Year opens quietly but with
satisfactory features predominating. Cold,
stormy weather has retarded business
and TRANSPORTATION, but in some sec
tions has stimulated sales OF heavy goods,
shoes and rubbers at retail. Wholesale
business in seasonably quiet at leading
Eastern and Central Western markets,
hut it is worth noting that spring de-
mand and shipments have begun at the
Southwest. Collections show slight i'm
provement and money is easy, supplies
of that commodity being in better sup
ply than heretofore. Preparations for
spring are, going forward actively and
with a good show of conservative con.
fi6ence.
WAR talk has been a stimulus to many
markets. notably those for cereals aud
provisions, but securities and cotton have
been depressed thereby. Western and
Southern pillow manufacturers are buying
more freely, and interests catering 10
Southern trade have begun to run over
time to fill orders. based upon an ex-
pected enormous acreage in cotton the
coming spring. Cotton manufacturing
feels the effect of backwater demand and
unsettled raw material prices.
1.-THE final returns of 1903 are fully as
good as those foreshadowed in earlier
wekks December. 1903, railway earnings
indicate a seven per cent increase over
the excellent returns of 1902.
''Businss failures for the week end
ing January Z, number 262, against 336 in
the like week of 1907
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erhood of Railway Trainment, of this
Place. and that he carried $3.50 insurance
in that order and which will be paid to
his wife.
While coupling cars on the Yadzin
branch of the Southern Railway on yes
terday Mr.. Vance Lowder, one of the
crew. of a mixed train on that road, was
seriously hurt. He was struck in the
chest by large piece of lumber from
which he was unconscious for some time
He was improving at last report and it is
thought will recover
k Sinse Salisbury voted to allow distiller-
les within her borders the first to be To-
Gated is that of M. L. Bean. The building
has been erected and the machinery is be-
ing placed ready for early operations.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-09
Bought by the Bell Company.
Especial to News and observer.)

Salisbury, N c., Jan. S.-The Southern
Bell Telephone Company has purchased
the Salisbury and Spencer System, owned
by w. f. Snider and others. The deal
was closed today, the Bell Company be-
ing represented by H. E. w Palmer of
Atlanta The amount involved is said to
be about ten thousand dollars. The prop
erty was transferred today The two
systems will be enlarged and greatly inn
proved at once. Mr. E. c. Hines, manager
of the old systems will continue as man
ager for the Bell Company
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-09
Saved by the Knife. Burned to Death
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Especial to News and Observer
Winston Salem, n. c., Jan. S.--Dr. j. f.
Shaffner, Jr., prominent young physician
here was successfully operated on at the
hospital today for appendicitis, it was
performed by DR.. Stokes, of Salisbury.
Dr. Shaffner is resting easy tonight, and
it is believed he will recover.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-09
Little Girl Seriously Burned.
Especial to News and observer)

Especial to News and Observer
Wakefield, N. c.. Jan. S.-The four
ycar-old daughter of Mr. r. c. Guyton
of this place was - ther seriously burned
this afternoon. While standing near the
fire the flames caught her dress. The
mother extinguished the fire and saved
the child from being burned to death.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-09
Mrs. James MoseIy Dead.

Especial to News and Observer)
LAGRANGE, N. c., Jan. S.-Mrs. James
Measely was buried yesterday, aged about
60. Her death was unexpected, she hav
ing been taken sick only last Saturday.
She leaves husband and several sons
and daughters.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-09
INAUGURATION OF PARLoR AND
DINING CARS ON SEABOARD AIR
LINE TRAINS NOS. 81 AND &c.

Commencing on January 9Th. the Sea-
board Air Line Railway will inaugurate
daily Cafe Dining Cars on trains Nos.
81 and Sc, between Hamlet and Washing
ton and on January 18th they viii inaug-
urate Pullman Parlor Cars tri-weekly on
trains Nos. q and S. between Washing
ton, D. c., and Pinehurst.
For further information apply to
C. H. GATTIS. C. P. and t. A,
Raleigh, N. G.
z. P. SMITH, T. P. A., Raleigh, N. G.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-09

3S4 SIG; Mobile, 167, O6S; Savannah, $40, 2s4 !;
Charleston, 139,6O2; Wilmington, 293, 1856;
Norfolk, 351,S3S; Baltimore. 1864; New
York, 24.22& Goston. SAL; Newport
News, 2,761; Philadelphia. 4,s3S; Bruins
wick, $4,000; Pensacola, 1888; Port Ar
thur. 40,4e7; Port Townsend, q, 466; San
Francisco, 1882; Ell Paso. 400; Eagle Pass,
4,143; Laredo, 4,44O. Total, 5,45S,O26
bales
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NOTICE.

The Directors of the North Carolina
Railroad Company have declared an an
nual dividend on the capital stock of the
company OF per cent. payable semi
annually on the 1st of February and 1st
of August, 1904. The books of the COM
pany will be closed for the transfer of
stock from January 10th, to February
1st. 1904.
d. H. MCLEAN,
Secretary and Treasurer.
January 6. 1904. 1-8-t. d.
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COTTON RECEIPTS.

New York, Jan. S.-The following are
the total net receipts of cotton at all
ports since September LIST:
Galveston. 1,sS6,9o3: New Orleans, u
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-09
MOVEMENT OF COTTON.

New. York. Jan. s.-The following stats
tics on the movement of cotton for the
week ending Friday, January Sth, 1904,
were compiled in the New York Cotton
Exchange:
Weekly Movement.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-09
carolina Portland Cement Company, eh. g 6


Cement Lime and Building Material in the United States Lowest dshveS
Norfolk Charles
Savannah Jacksonville Pensacola
Atlanta
Write l - &.
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It's So Easy

To keep the stomach healthy, the Ape
tite good, the breath sweet and the bowels
omen. Just take a dose of Hostetter
Btters before meals and see for
1t is also a sure cure for Poor
dyspepsia, Indigestion, Heart
burn. Liver Complaints, Chills, Colds and
Malaria. Try a bottle today, also get a
copy of our 1904 Almanac from your
druggist 1t is free
HOSTETTER'S
STOMACH BITTERS.
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60 Corrected by Galveston minus cor
rection to date 46,520.
(@*) Corrected by Galveston minus cor
rection this week 2,674.
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Drought into sight thus
far for season. -. ....7 ,23S,S 1854 7,14S, 4S6
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-01-28
How to Keep Roads Good,

The question is not how to make
good roads, but how to keep good
roads. 1t is evident that the travel
and especially hauling, when roads are
soft from continued rains, or especial
ly when the frost is coming out, does
the greatest damage. The law pro-
hibits heavy hauling at such times, but
1t is not often enforced. Now the rem
edy | propose is for the law to encour-
age broad treads. If all two-horse
wagons had a tread of IL inches, and
SO arranged that the hind wheels would
not follow in the track of front wheels,
only lap one or two inches, they would
be like a roller, rolling A to 46 inches,
and buggies and carriages four to six
Inch treads. This would do away with
making channels in the road by con-
tinued travel in one place. Of course
this could not be brought about all al
once, but there should be a stringent
law against narrow treads when roads
are soft, and perhaps it would be well
at first to give a bounty for broad
treads. 1t would encourage the same,
which think solves the road problem.
Correspondence Indiana Farmer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-01-28
THE KING OF BELLS
One of the Sights Looked For by
Tourists in Moscow.
Its History Dates Rock to h Six.
teenth Century-Broken and Re-
cast a Number of Times
Weighs Az, 900 Pounds.

Means of rapid communication have
of recent years removed much of the
charm and mystery that for centuries
hung over Russia and especially Mos
cow, with it's quaint architecture. Half
a century ago it vas thought that to
see Moscow was to see the last corner
of the world, but to-day this city of the
north is on the itinery of every globe
trotting tourist, and for those not so
fortunate as to have visited this an
cient seat of Muscovite rule, the mod
ern book and magazine writers have
offered SO many descriptions as to tear
from it every remaining vestage of
mystery, though not Of its charm. One
of the first object the tourist in Mos
COW seeks for is the Great Bell, famed
in legend and history.
On a granite pedestal at the foot OF
the belfry tower of Ivan the Great, in
the Kremlin, stands the Tsar Kolokol,
the King of Bells. In the sixteenth
century the art of casting bells was
brought to perfection in Russia, and
Olearius, secretary to a Dutch embassy,
to Moscow in 1886, asserts that a great
bell was cast in the reign of Boris God
unof. During a fire in the reign OF
Alexis this bell fell to the ground and
was broken. In 1854 it was recast and
weighed 2S8, 900 pounds. In 1874 it was
suspended from a wooden beam at the
foot of the tower, from whence it fell
on June 10, 1706, during a fire. Its
fragments lay on the ground until the
reign of the Empress Anne, by whose
orders it was again recast in 1888 by
the bellfounder Ivan Matorine. Owing
to the falling Of some heavy rafters
during yet another fire in 1887, the hell
fell a height Of Is feet, buried itself in
the ground, and a piece was knocked
out of its side. According to some &C.
counts, this was owing to an Imperfect
ton in the metal, caused by jewels and
into the liquid metal by the ladies OF
Moscow. During the reign of Nicholas
l., in the year 1889. the architect of st
Isaac's cathedral at st. Petersburg, M
de Montferrand, took upon himself the
difficult task of raising the bell, ant
completed the operation with much
skill. Its weight at present is 444, 00(
pounds, its height from the top of the
ball and cross placed upon it by the or.
der of the Emperor Nicholas l. is *
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-01-28

to be sterilized before being offered for
sale, but even should that desirable con-
ditioR of affairs be reached, it will still
be obligatory upon the milkman to see
that no opportunity is afforded for the
contact of the lacteal fluid with con-
taminated atmosphere in the stable.
Probably the best way in which this can
be accomplished is by the aid of the
pneumatic milking machine here illus
trated. 1t is so arranged as to not only
milk the cows automatically, but also
tncloses the milk in an air-tight re-
ceptacle as long as it is in the prox-
unity of the animal. This is accom-
plished by a reservoir suspended over
head and connected with the teat cups
by a short section of hose. By means
of a vacuum created in the pipe to
which the reservoir is attached the milk
is drawn from the teats and deposited
in the receptacle, whence it can be re-
moved to the creamery for further
treatment before being placed on sale.
louisville Courier-Journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-01-28
merely came to accumulate enough to
go back to the girl left behind.

merely came to accumulate enough to
go back to the girl left behind.
Formerly our immigration problem
had to do with the Germans and the
Irish; now it is with a very different
proposition, the Italian, the Jew and
the Slav. But as most of our immi-
grants are of the peasant class, country
folk, we do not have to encounter q
people given over to city vices; rather
simple folk not hardened, eager to learn
and willing to work, and of the strictest
economy. That they may send money
to the over-taxed kin at home, they will
live on nothing; sleep three in a bed,
subsist ON the poor Italian food. That
is, those born in the old country will do
this; the second generation has a differ
ent standard of living, has been greatly
influenced by the American atmosphere
in which it has spent all its days, by the
American public school.
The authors of "Italy To-Day" say
the italian immigrant is handicapped
in the United States, where his poverty
and illiteracy are against him in the
fierce competition with immigrants of a
better class, the German, for instance.
Perhaps so per cent. of the Italian men
here rank as unskilled laborers, al
though in their W country they were
counted artisans or farmers. Next in
number to the day laborers come those
engaged in the fruit business, and the
occupation of street musician continues
popular with them.
KATIJrpIN popr
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-01-28
MURDER REMAINS UHSOLVtD
Authorities at Bedford, Ind, Have
Made Many Arrests.
All Sorts of Rumors Are AfOnt and
the People of the TOwn Are
Much Excited.

Bedford, Ind, Jan. 25.--The mystic
rious murder of Miss Sarah Schafer
remains u%nsolved, and few develop
ments have aided in establishing any
clew. A well-known young man Of
this city, who is a member of the
senior class at the state university at
Bloomington was closeted Sunday aft
ernoon with Detective Hathing and
other officers. He explained his
whereabouts on the night of the MUIR
der. The reason for the investiga-
ton, it is alleged, was a story told by
Miss Schafer's roommate and corrob-
man was requested on one occasion
to leave Miss Schafer's room because
of Objectionable conduct.
A telephone message was received
Sunday by the officials from a woman
in Louisville, the purport of which was
that if they would see her she would
"give them information concerning the
murder of Sarah Catherine Schafer."
Marshal Russell and Sheriff Smith left
for Louisville. An effort was made
to conceal their movements.
The police and detectives, together
with Mayor Smith and Prosecutor
Stephenson, are of the belief that they
have the murderer of Miss Sarah
Schafer in the person of a man ar
rested at Crothersville, whose clothes
r spotted with blood. His face
bears numerous scratches, and upon
the back of his head are several
wounds inflicted with some frail In
strument, probably an umbrella. In
his pocket was a letter so old that it
is hardly legible, but on the back is
a picture resembling those published
of Miss Schafer.
The gave his name as Fred Bran
ham. He was arrested after attempt
ing to hold up a saloon-keeper at
Crothersville. Branham asserts that
his home is Columbus, Ind, but he
says he has not been in Indianapolis
for several years.
At least twenty-five unimportant
witnesses and suspicious characters
| have been examined and discharged
r by the board of inquiry.
Rumors of all sorts are af1oat, and
the people of the town are much ex-
cited. Quarrymen have f1ocked into
town in crowds, and it is believed that
Ii the murderer is arrested he will be
lynched.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-01-28
CORN AND COB MEAL.
A Combination Which Is Held in High
Favor by Progressive Western
Dairymen.

Cobs are too valuable for the dairy
man to throw away or burn. They
may not possess much nutriment, but
1t has been demonstrated quite CON
clusively that they have a feeding val
ue not much less than the corn that
grew upon them, provided they are
ground with the corn. A certain weight
of corn and cob meal is equal in feed
ing value to a like weight of pure ground
corn. This result doubtless arises from
the more digestible form given to the
corn meal by the presence of the ground
cobs, One of the largest cattle feeding
companies in Nebraska buys all the
cobs it can get, which grinds with the
shelled cor it has been compelled to
buy. 1t raises corr and buys what it
can unshelled, but has still to resort to
outside purchases. Our readers should
remember this. 1t is one strong argu-
ment in favor of grinding the corn rath-
er than feeding it in any other way; for
only by grinding can the cob be rem
dered available. The chemist cannot
find the value in the cob that the COW
can, but it is there. We have paid too
little attention to the mechanical form
In which our dairy feeds are given. The
COW has a stomach differing very much
from that of many other of our farm
animals, and concentrated foods are not
handled in it to good Neutrality-suspicious..
ers' Review.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-01-28
sunny ITALY.
The Glass of Immigrants That
Land Is Sending Us.
As a Class They Do Not Take Kindly
t. Agricultural Pursuits, But
Flock TO the Cities and Con-
struction CaBps.

During 1903 Italy sent to u shores
more immigrants than any other nation.
In what portions of our country do the
son and daughters of that sunny land
settle, how do they earn their daily
bread, and what sort of folk are they,
anyway?
New York and Pennsylvania prove
specially attractive states. In these two
dwell half the whole number of Italians
seeking livelihood here. New Jersey
stands next, then come Massachusetts,,
Illinois, California, Connecticut and
Louisiana. But they are found in almost
every state of the union, in numbers
ranging from the % enumerated in Okla
homa Census of 1900 to the 1S2,24S of
New York. At first thought one might
suppose our semitropical sections would
prove most inviting to the exiles from
Italy, but figures do not bear this out.
Louisiana has 1000 Italians; Illinois,
over 5000; California, %, 900, to Penn
s%ylvania's $4,000; in Florida there are
about 1900; in Ohio, over 1000; in Ala
bama. something like 900; in Colorado