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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1904-01-04
MAKES GOOD REPORT
Corporation Commission Gives OUT
Usual Statement.

Usual Statement.
The Corporation Commission this
evening gave out its report to Gov
ernor Aycock, for the present year.
The report says that during the year
there were 380,310 miles of main
line of railroad in operation.
The gross earnings were $780, 1881, $40;
operating expenses, $12,848,929, net in
come from operations, $7,539,O11; net
increase, $1,065,173 over last years
operations. The railroads employed
l5,205 persons and 100 persons were
killed in the movement of trains. or
these two were passengers and 80
employees; 4,93O,095 passengers were
transported; 335 complaints were
made to the commission, nearly all
Of which were disposed of.
North Carolina is the only State in
which railways are required to per-
NIT first and second class fares for
passengers, and the laws were so
amended as to require only one fare
that could certainly be made, lower
than the present first-class fare Of
3 IL cents. The average rate per pas
senger mile On the leading roads in the
State was about % cents. The num-
Der of banks has increased from 1856
to 1872. Four banks were put in re-
ceivers' hands.
EARNINGS AND EXPENSES.
The Corporation Commissions re-
port says the earnings Of railways dur
Ing the veal we're: Atlantic Coast
Line, $5,234,S69; Seaboard Air Line,
$5,721,713; Southern Railway, SO, 594,-
O53; miscellaneous roads, $1,337,3O5.
Total, $20,3S7,940 The capital stock
Of all the roads is $63, 39O,35O. Taxes
paid ere: Atlantic Coast Line, $219,-
1877; Seaboard Air Line, $127, $40;
Southern Railway, $27S,44G. Total,
s626,2S3, and by miscellaneous roads,
351,492, making a total of all roads,
s677,77 The number Of employees
is Atlantic Coast Line, 4,9O9; Seaboard
Air Line, 2,207; Southern Railway,
6,03S; miscellaneous roads, 3,O51. Val
uation for taxation is as follows: At
lantic Coast Line, $24, 454 OLA; Sea-
board Air Line, s12,5 500, 900; Southern
Railway, $26,310,5S9; miscellaneous
roads, $6,216,370; telegraph, telephone,
street railway and express companies,
s5,C61, O52. total, $74, 542, 026.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1904-01-04
The Best PuIlet.'

If Il pullet has been early and care
fully reared, it's most prolific season is
it's first winter. The second year, as a
whole, is quite as profitable, however,
because the fowl eats less than when
growing, and the first half of its first
year there are few or no eggs, while
laying is maintained all through it's
second yea1.-Professor Thomas Shaw.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1904-01-04
GLAMOUR.

: have read so long in the Book Of the
Brave,
hear the tramp of their feet
In the quiet village street.
catch the sound of an echo cheer,
Blown down the night wind, family
clear,
And the drums unfaltering beat.
i have read SO long in the Book of tn
Brave,
Their flags go streaming by,
Sharp comes the s%entrv's crv:
The shaded light of my study lamp
( Seems a low glimmer from some still
camp
Where the sleeping soldiers lie.
4 have read so long in the Book of the
l march where the heroes are;
On my breast l feel a scar.
turn to gaze on the rayless night;
The gloom is cleft by a b~eacon-light,
And behoid-the bivouac star!
-l.u.u Whedon Mitchell, in the Century.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1904-01-04
Attempt to Wreck Train.

Richmond, Va, Special.-An at
tempt was made Sunday night to
wreck d passenger train at the ore
pounding mill II miles west Of Taze-
well. A fshguard was laid on the
rails, and the forward truck Of the
engine was thrown from the track.
Fortunately it was running slowly.
While the damage was being repaired
investigation showed another fish
guard and a large rock On tue track
lust ahead.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1904-01-04
Sent to Reformatory,

Roanoke, Va, Special.-In the coun-
ty court at Tazewell Court House,
Leander Cruey and Estill Burgess, aged
respectively Is and Is years, were tried
on the charge of wrecking a Norfolk
& Western passenger train on the
Clinch valley division a week ago by
piling rocks and wood on the track,
and were sentenced to the State re-
formatory, where they are to stay I'M
til they are p years Of age. No one
was seriously hurt by the derailment
of the train.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1904-01-04
COnsiderate.

He was the most awkward dancer
at the SWEETEST ball Of the swell water
ing place, and she the most graceful.
After they had literally bumped their
remarked to a group of admirers that
she had danced since she was a little
tot.
Don't be discouraged" he answered
in a kindly tone, you'll get the knack
of it yet.'-Detroit Free Press.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1904-01-04
News of the Day.

The ministere des finances at Athens,
Greece, will receive proposals for fur
nishing a yearly supply of cigarette pa
per to the Government monopoly ad-
min%istration.
Physicians live longer than other
professional men, their average lease of
life being over so. Only 7 per cent die
CT tuberculosis, which shows that they
guard carefully against infection. Over
10 per cent die of nervous br( AkdoWn
Oh heart trouble.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1904-01-04
Current Events.

N. L. Penn, the last lineal descendant
of William Penn, is dead at Hartford,
says the Boston Globe. He was once
the leader in the most exclusive cir
cles in Philadelphia. He fell in love
and married. When a few years later
his wife and her baby died together the
world seemed to drop out from under
him and he lost all interest in it. His
body will be sem to Philadelphia for
burial. Thus ends the noble line OF
PennS.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1904-01-04
Steamer Blown Up.

Hamilton, Bermuda. By Cable.-The
steamer Gala, from Hamburg for Ha-
vana, has arrived here with the sur
Eiyors of the crew Of the Norwegian
bark Arpesia, Captain Jensen, from
New York, Dec. 9, for Cette. The Ar
pesia was blown up at sea by the ex-
plosion of her cargo of naphtha, and
eleven of her crew was killed. Seven
of the crew, who we're saved, were
landed here Monday night.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1904-01-04
= ~G-0-o-0-*3~

&o& HERE was a reception at
pn Y the hunting castle of the
. ~ @ Prince, the Chateau of
I ! E~riedberg.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-04-29
FELL FROM THE EADS BRIDGE
Workman Takes a Terrific Plunge
of Ninety Feet and Lives to
Tell the Tale.

st. Louis, April 23.-His own grit
and the heroic work of the crews of a
ferry boat and a tugboat saved the
life of Horace G. Wilson, bridge work
er, who, after falling 80 feet from
Eads bridge at 1880 o'clock Friday
morning, swan more thar a mile in
the cold current Of the Mississippi.
was picked up by two men in a skiff,
and again rescued, with his rescuers,
from the skiff, which was sinking, by
the crew of a tugboat.
Hundreds of persons saw the man
drop from the bride into the river,
sink far out of sight and come up
again; thousands, crowding to the rail-
ings of ferry boats and bridge, saw the
gallant fight for his life.
Wilson is now at the city hospital
with only a sprained thumb as an in
jury. He will be sent home Friday
afternoon,
The Tupelo journal., 1904-04-29
THE BLUEFIELDS INCIDENT
Passengers Arriving at New Orleans
Bring Details of Seizure of
British

New Orleans, April 23.-Passengers
arriving from Bluefields Friday brought
some details Of the seizure of the six
British schooners in that habOr as a
result of which Great Britain is to
lodge complaint with Nicaragua. The
captains of the schooners, when
caught, contended that they were
fishing in neutral waters; the Nicara-
guam commandant said they were con-
iscating turtles bred in Nicaraguan
waters. The net result of the dispute
vas the seizure of the schooners and
the Incarceration of their crews in the
Jail at Bluefields. The %schOonsrs are
lying in the harbor. The people OF
Bluefields generally support the COM
mandant in the seizures. The turtle
fisheries constitute an important item
of Nicaraguan commerce and are
jealousy guarded. There has long
been friction between the authorities
and the crews of foreign vessels, but
only now has Nicaragua determined
on drastic measures to enforce her
claims.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-04-29
PRACTICALLY A MIRACLE
Horace Wilson Falls Ninety Feet
Into the Mississippi River.
Rescued BY Two Men in n SkiH and
the Three Rescued BY n Tug
When Sinking.

st. Louis, April 23.-His own grit
a ferry boat and a tugboat saved the
life Of Horace G. Wilson, bridge work
er, who, after falling 80 feet from
Eads bridge swan more than a mile
in the cold current of the Mississippi,
was picked up by two men in a skif,
and again rescued, with his %rescuers,
from the skiff, which was sinking, by
the crew of a tugboat.
Hundreds of persons saw the man
drop from the bridge into the river,
sink far out of sight and come up
again; thousands, crowding to the rail-
ipgs of f%erryboats and bridge, saw the
gallant fight for his life.
Wilson is now at the city hospital
with only a sprained thumb as an in
jury. He will be sent home.
Wilson is 26 years old, and of mag
nifcent physique, with broad shoulders,
deep chest and muscles of steel.
DuIIuS Tic IcpdllS I'll lAC UiiuSC hS
has been employed as an iron worker,
his work taking him into the network
of Orders and cables under the floor
of the bridge near tie third pier, which
is some 200 feet from the east shore.
He had received orders from his
foreman and lowered himself to his
working place under the floor OF the
bridge, 80 feet above the water.
Wilson had been at work q few min
utes when he made a misstep on the
iron, covered as it vas by the falling
rain.
Charles White and Edward Stevens,
the two men who went to his rescue
in the skiff, are congratulating them
selves on their providential escape
from what seemed for a time a sure
case of drowning for all three.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-04-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

st. Louisans awoke, on the morning
of the goth, to find the ground covered
with a heavy wet snow, which was
still falling, driven by u northeast
wind. The Oldest inhabitant could not
| recollect such a storm as late in the
spring.
Viceroy A1exieff, on the 22d, sent the
following to the car: Il respectfully
report to your majesty that to-day,
during the placing Of mines by some
steam launches, Lieut.. Pell and 20 men
were killed through a mines explod-
ing under the stern of one of the
launches"
Galveston, Tex, experienced the
heaviest rain storm in its history on
the 22d. Within three hours 9.29 inches
of water fell, flooding many stores and
houses. In some portions of the city
the water was five feet deep.
Rev. Elisha Baugh, of the M. e.
church, who was elected mayor Of
Brookport, H., last spring, has been
tried by the district conference, found
guilty and expelled for unchristian
conduct in having, in his official ca
pacity, signed licenses granted to sa-
looms. He will appeal to the annual
conference.
Japan was one of the first nations
to signify her intention of participa-
ton in the st. Louis Worlds fair. Her
exhibit is of the first rank in size,
scope, cost and space covered. The
Japanese commission staff and work.
men was the first large Worlds fair
force to arrive in st. Louis. Her ex-
hibits were among the first to reach
the city in entirety, and she is the
first nation to complete an exhibit Sec
ton.
Executive officers of the western
roads met in Chicago, on the 10Th, in
an effort to settle both the sugar and
the grain rate wars, but were unable
to reach an agreement.
Fire swept through a section of To-
ronto (Ont.) wholesale district, on
the 10Th, causing a loss which will
reach up into the millions. The fire
started in a factory in Wellington
SIIGCJ. Ill lcSS lAdA Oh AOui tnO oAAC
had spread from building to building
on both sides of the street, until the
whole block was a mass Of flames.
Chief of Police Hays, Of Kansas City,
has announced that no more boxing
contests would be permitted in that
city, because of the brutality of the
bouts.
A dispatch via London, on the goth,
said that the Japanese had effected a
landing on the Lao Tung peninsula.
and that a battle was being fought In
the environs of Port Arthur.
Harold Stephenson, 81 years old, said
10 be a son of Kate Claxton. the actress,
shot and killed himself, on the 21st,
in his lodgings in Fourth avenue, New
York
The Tupelo journal., 1904-04-29

Miss M. Cartledge gives some
helpful advice to young girls.
Her letter is but one of thou
sands which prove that nothing
is so helpful to young girls who
are just arriving at the period of
womanhood as Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound.
"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM:-I cannot
praise Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound too highly, for it
is the only medicine / ever tried which
cured me. l suffered much from my
first menstrual period, I felt so weak
and dizzy at times l could not pursue
my studies with the usual interest.
My thoughts became sluggish, l had
headaches, backaches and sinking
spells, also pains in the back and lower
limbs. In fact, 1 was sick all over.
FINALLY, after many other remedies
had been tried. we were advised to get
Lydia e. Pinkham'S Vegetable
Compound, and l am pleased to say
that after taking it only two weeks, a
wonderful change for the better took
place, and in a short time l was in
perfect health. l felt buoyant, full of
life, and found all work a pastime. 1
am indeed glad to tell my experience
with Lydia f.. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound, for it made a diff
ferent girl of me. Yours very truly,
Miss M. CARTRIDGE, 533 Whitehall St.,
Atlanta, Ga."-s5o0o forfeit if original of
above letter proving genuineness cannot be produced.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-04-29
BITTER ATTACK ON
PRES. ROOSEVELT
Congressman Kitchin, of North Caro-
lima Makes Sensational Speech.
ASSAILS GENERAL GR0SVEN0R
Declares the President Insulted h
People Of the South In One of
His PublicatiOns-Gen. GrOsve-
NOR Makes Answer.

Washington, April 23.-In the house,
on Friday, President Roosevelt was
assaulted bitterly by Claude Kitchin, OF
North Carolina, who included in his
castigation Gen. Grosvenor, whom he
charged with having Inundated Theo-
dore Roosevelt, the vice-presidential
candidate, whom, in a recent speech in
the house, he had glorifed as the
worthy successor OF Mr.. Mckinley.
Mr.. Kitchin likened President Roose-
welt in this connection to the ant hill
in taking the place of the mountain,
the OWLS screech in taking the place Of
the tombs symphonies, and to the min
now in taking the place of the whale.
He declared that the president had in
suited the people of the south by say
ing in one of his publications that
throughout southern character there
ran a streak of brutal barbarism.
He openly charged the president
with being the advocate of lynch law,
and quoted from one Of the presidents
pOOh W SuSLdlu Ills dSDOl aoA III hAo
opinion the president, who, he said,
while governor of New York, had
styled the members of congress as a
herd of cattle, was unfit to hold Office
and a dangerous man
Gen. GresvenOr Replies.
Gen. Grosvenor admitted that four
years ago he opposed the nomination
of Mr.. Roosevelt for vice-president,
but said Mr.. Roosevelt, during the cam
paign, had conducted himself in a dig
nified manner, and had won the conf
dence and esteem Of the people by his
acts from the time he was elected to
preside over the senate, and that he
reached the supreme heights when he
declared at Buffalo that he would carry
out the policies of Mckinley. Since
then the president had grown to be
n of the great men of the country.
The president, he said, was o dam
gerous to the democratic party than
any other man to-day. The democrats
in New York, he said, had launched a
candidate for president, who did not
know whether he stood on his head or
his heels.
Preceding this episode, the house de-
bated the bill to create a commission
to investigate the merchant marine,
but took no action on it.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-04-29
NOT MUCH OF A SUCCESS
One of the Steamship Lines Pur-
chased by PierpOnt Morgan
lakes First Report.

Liverpool, April 23.-Frederick Ley
land & Co., Qtd.), the first British
line purchased by ]. Pierpont Morgan
when forming the shipping combine,
have issued a report for the Is months
ending with December. The directors
say hat ever after drawing $1,347,5 500
from the reserve, it is only possible to
pay the preferred dividend for six
months. This withdrawal reduces
the reserve to 1925, 000.
The directors attribute this result
to the epidemic of foot and mouth dis
ease in New England last year, stop
ping shipments of livestock therefrom,
and to the inadeQuacy of Atlantic
freights.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-04-29
UNCLE SAM GETS THE TITLE
French Company to Ratffy Title to
Panama Canal at IA Meeting
in Paris.

Paris, April eft is announced that
the contract by which the ownership
of the Panama canal passes to the
United States is signed, sealed, deliv-
cred and completed. The title to the
canal route is now vested in the gov
eminent of the United States.
The document by which this trans
action is consummated bears the sig
natures of President 30 and Director
Richman, of the Panama Canal Co..
who signed for the company as its
responsible officers. The transfer is
complete and without reservation, and
the United States secures a perfect
title.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-04-29
SHOT WIFE, KILLED SELF.
Tragedy Following Years of Study
and Devotion to Bugs By a
St. Louis Man.

st. Louis, April 23.-Mentally unbal-
anced from years of study and devo-
ton to bugs, Oswald Deutscher shot
his wife in the head and blew out his
own brains with the same revolver.
The tragedy occurred late Thursday
night at Deutscher's home. DeutscheI
was As years old and his wife 80.
Ludwig Giesecke. the woman's
brother, who had gone out to buy a
lunch, returned to their rooms to find
Deutscher's body IN the floor and his
wife sitting in a chair across the
He shot me-" cried the woman to
her brother, and spoke no more, for
the bullet had gone through her mouth
from jaw to jaw, and her vocal Or
gans were rendered useless. She may
recover.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-04-29
RANK ROSE SHOT TO DEATH
Brutality Murdered His Wife on
Last Christmas Day.
COnfesses to Having Followed q
Career of Crime During II
Past Fourteen Years.

Salt Lake City, Utah, April 3d.
Frank Rose, the wife murderer, was
shot to death in the yard of the state
penitentiary here at 10:09 a. m. Death
was instantaneous. four bullets lodging
in or very close to his heart.
Rose was strapped to the same lit
tie wooden chair in which Peter Nor
Jensen met his fate a few months ago.
Five prison guards, concealed behind a
heavy blue curtain in the doorway Of
the blacksmith shop, across the area,
formed the executing squad. One OF
the rifles held a blank cartridge.
Rose went to his death chair with
the same c~oolnness that had marked
his conduct since he surrendered to
the police.
A Peculiarly AtrOciOus Crime.
Roses crime was peculiarly atrocious
and cold-blooded in that it almost re-
suited in the death of his t~wO-year-old
son from starvation and cold. Rose,
who claimed that his wife was init
mate with other men, shot her on
| Christmas day while she was lying in
bed. He sat and talked with her until
she died of the wound, and then went
away, leaving the boy in bed with his
dead mother and soaked In her blood.
Rose says he returned four times
within the next few days to feed the
child, climbing through a window and
over the dead body of his wife in order
to get into the house. At the end of
that time he went to police headquar-
tiers and gave himself up, stating that
he had shot his wife.
Rose never expressed any sorrow for
his deed, and asserted a firm belief that
it all was predestined.
Confessed to n Career of Crime.
Rose confessed to other murders,
said to number no less than ten. He
declared he had spent the last IA years
in committing successive crimes, vary
ing from robbery to murder. Robbery
was his first crime, according to his
story. From hat he launched into
murders of every description, and re-
lated instances where he had killed
ulen lot u lllllc ulOucy. HNoSe ucCldi Gu
he had committed a murder in San
Francisco, where he quarreled with a
companion who was working with him
on the Santa Fee terminals, across the
bay from the city. The mans body
was found in the bay, and Rose says
he murdered him.
One Murder In st. Louis.
In st. Louis, according to Roses con-
fession, he was guilty of a number of
crimes, including murder. There is
some doubt at the ~penitentiary about
the truth of Roses confession, but he
has furnished names and dates and
other details to such a degree hat his
story has gained general credence with
the prison officials.
Rose said that in 1892 he was a
member of the Dalton gang in Okla
homa for a time, and took part in the
robbery and murder of a number OF
boomers" After leaving the Daltons
he continued his operations as a mem
Der of the Starr gang. Rose said he
served two years in the state prison
at Jefferson City, Mo, for larceny and
embeZZlement.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-04-29
LARGEST HOSPITAL IN WORLD
Plan for the New Bellevue Hospital
in New York are Made
Public.

New York, April 23.-The plans for
the new Bellevue hospital were made
public Friday. They provide for the
largest hospital in the world. 1t will
extend from Tw~enty-sixth to Twenty
ninth street and from First avenue tc
East River.
1t will take ten years to finish the
structure, which will cost $12, 900 900.
1t is to be constructed of brick and
stone, will be fireproof, and will &C.
commodate $500 patients. The largest
hospital in the world now is at Ham
burg, which houses LOO patients.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-04-29
A Peculiar Case,

Bridgeport, Ala, April 25th.-A re.
markable case and one which has puzzled
a great many people is reported here.
1t is the case of a lady who evidently
came very nearly having paralysis. Her
name is Mrs. Martha Glasscock, and she
tells the following interesting story
Il was afflicted with a tingling sensation
in my flesh and burning in the soles OF
my feet and at times [ would be chilly
and my feet and legs would feel as If
they had gone to sleep. L suffered in
this way for over six years. | was very
much run down, and did not seem able
to get anything that would do me good,
until / commenced a treatment of a new
remedy called Dodd's Kidney Pills.
"In a short time every symptom of my
old trouble was gone and | was feeling
better and stronger than L had for years.
/ gained ten pounds in weight in three
months. | can eat heartily and | don't
look like the same person. | feel that l
owe my life to Dodd's Kidney Pills. /
wish / could tell every sick woman what
they nave done for me-"
The Tupelo journal., 1904-04-29
WANTED FOR GRAND LARCENY
John j. HeaIy, Arrested in Chicago,
ant in New York For
Larceny of $500.

New York, April 23.-John j. Healy,
who was arrested in Chicago, at the
request of the New York police, is
wanted in this city for the alleged
larceny of $S,239 on September 81,
1902, from the Central Alaskan Elk
ploration Co. Anticipating efforts to
fight extradition, the officers here have
wired full information regarding the
case to Chicago and also have sent
certified copies of the papers in the
case.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-04-29
500 Miners Will Strike.

Brazil, Ind, April 23.-The ultima
tum given by the operators a few days
ago to the miners of the eighth dis
trict to renew last years scale was
turned down by the miners, and the
strike of 800 men will follow. The
miners committee has met the opera
tors and notified them Of the vote.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-04-29
Fund to Be Discussed.

Washington, April 23.-The popular
fund for the benefit of the survivors
and the dependent relatives of the vic
tins of the Missouri disaster will be
disbursed by the naval aid society,
and organization especially equipped
for such service. The money now in
hand amounts to about $4,400.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-04-29
Convicted of Assault.

Carbonate, ILL.,, April 23.-Thomas
Vaughan, the mulatto charged with as
sault on Miss Eva Kavanaugh, a school
teacher of this city and formerly a res
ident of st. Louis, was convicted In
the circuit court and given an indeter-
inmate sentence.