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The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1907-08-09

RAILROADS may be as contrary
as they possibly can be all the
time, but many citizens of Dur
ham are well aware of the fact
that the best way to deal with
them is by treaty and not through
the courts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Loven-
stein have returned from their
bridal trip. They have been out
of the city for ten days or more,
during which time they visited
the jamestown exposition and
other places in Virginia.
The ten-months-old child of
Mr.. and Mrs. G. E. Terrell died
Wednesday morning at the home
of It's parents on Middle street,
in East Durham. The remains
were taken to Orange :county
Thursday morning for interment.
Much damage was done around
Durham Tuesday afternoon by a
rain. hail and thunder storm.
Lightning struck several places,
but no human life was lost so far
as we have learned. The hail
did right much damage to grow
ing crops.
Luther G. Barbee, formerly of
this city, who for sometime did
stunts around theIRecorder shop,
who now makes his home in
Richmond, Va, is visiting home
folks in Durham. He came on
account of the illness of his
father, +. NJ. Barbee.
The colored firemen of the
State will meet In Durham next
week. After the business meet
ing Of the state organization foot
races, hand reel races and other
contests will take place. Mayor
Graham will deliver an address
Df welcome to the negro firemen
Df the state. |
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1907-08-09
news FROM our REGULAR CORRESPONDENTS
Items d Interest from Various Places as Viewed and Told
by Those on the FieId....Personas. l.
Msrvisvllie, Rsuis 2.

Am glad to see farmers look
ing so gay after having such O
fine rain as we did last Saturday.
Mr.. Duke is furnishing lumber
to build the new school house
near Mrs. Penny's. "~
We under stand that someone
borrowed several shocks Of jim
mie Fergusons' oats without per-
mission. Guess the fellow had
an old flop cared mule he wanted
to fatten.
Mrs. Felix o'Neal found a
snake in her bureau draw. She
was afraid Of the snake and sent
after her husband to kill it, and
while waiting for him she stood
in the door with a stick and
when the snake would poke his
head out of the drawer she would
motion at it and it would 60 back.
H. E. Martin had a barn rais-
ing last Friday afternoon, after
which we had a supper raising.
David King, of Raleigh, has
been visiting homefolks recently.
Mrs. 0zie Ferrell, and daugh-
ter, Ruby. Of Fayetteville, are
visiting the family Of w. H.
Martin. They will be in the
community for sometime.
T. A. 0'Neal gave the young
people a lemonade drinking Sat
urday night, and all seemed to
enjoy themselves.
Mr.. and Mrs. z. P. Ferrell are
both very feeble with neuralgia.
Misses Thompson, of Cary.
spent a few days last week in
this community attending the |
meetings at Andrews Chapel.
Calvin King has returned home
from Jamestown.
W. NJ. Ferrell had the misfor-
tune of breaking his little toe
one day last week. JEFF.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1907-08-09

News was received in the city
Tuesday from Caswell county of
the death of Mrs. M. B. Cobb.
She was the mother of Mrs. B.
c. Glass and ]. S. Cobb, of this
city. Deceased was rs years of
age and had been in declining
health for some time. The fun
eral and burial took place at the
old home place in Caswell county
Wednesday.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1907-08-09
Notice of Administration

Having quaiined as Administrator Of
Edward McAdams, late Of Durham
County, this Is to notify all persons In.
debtcd to his estate to make immediate
payment 10 the undersigned, and ali Der.
sons having claims against said estate
are notified to present the same to The
undersigned, on or before the 9th day Of
August, 1905, or this notice will bc plead
in bar Of their recovery.
This the 9th day Of August. 1907.
THE FIDELITY BANK.
Administrator Of Edward MrAdams,
deceased.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1907-08-09
PASSENGER AND FREIGHT COLLIDE.
Three Dead and a Number Injured
Fire Burns The Wreck,

Il
| A passenger and freight trair
on the Southern Railway met
near Auburn last Tuesday after.
noon and three dead, a number
wounded, with engines twisted
and box cars splintered was the
result. :,
The wreck was a head-on col
lision between No. 1876, west
bound, through freight, and was
due to the fact that the engineer
of the passenger train overlooked
his orders. The two trains had
orders to meet Auburn. It was
at a point a short distance east
of that place that the two trains
crashed together.
The dead are: W. C. Parker,
engineer of freight, of Spencer;
Simon Young, fireman of freight,
of Lexington; Jack Bethel, col
ored, fireman of No. 1876.
There Were thirty-five passen-
gers aboard the passenger
train, and of this number seven
teen received Injuries, none of
which are thought to be of a
serious nature. One passenger,
an eldery man, name unknown,
is thought to be the most serious
ly hurt. He received a bad cut
on the head. The physicians do
not think it will result fatally.
w. w. Rippey, engineer of the
passenger train, the one of whom
the blame for the wreck falls,
was badly bruised and shaken
up, but his injuries are thought
to be of a. minor nature. His
home is in Greensboro.
There were two from this city
in the wreck, Messrs. A. H.
Yearly and ]. J. Lindsey.
Neither of these were hurt.
They were in the rear car of the
passenger train. In this car
there were few that received
more than bruises. 1t was in |
the second-class car that the pas
sengers Jared worst. The car
was badly torn up.
To add horror to the scene, the
wrecked cars caught on fire from
the engines, and for awhile it |
was thought that every car in
both trains would be consumed.
Before the flames were checked
eleven freight cars, with their
were reduced to ashes.
The mail car of the passenger
train is thought to be destroyed.
The passengers, those not injur-
I'd, lent valuable aid to the crews
in putting out the fire. Had it
not been for the assistance given
BY them every car in the train
would have been destroyed.
Many thousands of dollars
worth of merchandise was in the
cars that were wrecked and
burned. The two locomotives
were badly damaged, and it
took sometime to clear away the
wreck. In the meantime the
xs,rsn A..m.wcwwl
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1907-08-09
SHORT LOCAL ITEMS.

The Durham firemen that at
tended the tournament at VIII
mington are expected home to
day. + ,~ =.
There were three runaways O
teams Thursday afternoon, bu
no damage to speak was the re
. suit.
Between three and four hun
dred people from Fayettevill,
were Durham visitors last Thurs
day, coming here on an excursion
from that place.
c. c. Curley is having erected
a nice home in West Durham
The house is two stories and is
located on the macadam road,
near the end of Main street.
When completed it will be one
of the handsomest in that com.
munity.
There was a hearing of the
three cases against Tom Linthi-
cum, who is charged with selling
whiskey without license. The
star witness, as usual was Tillett
Vaughan. Linthicum was bound
over in all three cases. His
bond being SIS in each.
F. R. Mangum is having built
a brick house on Orange street.
1t is learned that the building
will be used as a blacksmith
shop. The owner of the property
has under consideration the
building of one or two more
business places on this street.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. P. Gates left
Thursday morning for a visit to
relatives of Mrs. Gates in Wake
county. Mr.. Gates, who is one
of Durham's efficient policemen,
is off on his vacation and will
spend a part of his rest days in
the kcountry. He will be off
about ten days.
Mrs. J. T. Gates, who lives at
Gates postofficein Person county,
is reported to be quite i'll. The
news of her death would be no
surprise to her friends at any
time. A complication of diseases
and old age are the cause of her
being so near to deaths door.
She is about 7S years old.
A few days ago W. P. Glenn
ents purchased from B. w. Man
gum the piece of property locat-
ed on the corner OF Orange and
Parrish streets. The consider
alton being S2,25O. This is a
very valuable site. The new
owner will in the near future put
up some business houses on the
property.
Invitations have been issued to
the marriage of Miss Lula john
son, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. L. Johnson, to ]. Henry
Highsmith. The ceremony will
be performed in Main Street
Methodist church the 21st of
August. They will be at home
after the slst of August, Wake
Forest, N. C.
d. ]. McDuffie, will take
charge of the Durham Catering
company next Monday. He
comes here we'll recommend
ed. He has had ten years ex-
perience in the catering and
hotel business and knows his
business well. For the past year
he has been manager of the Pho
enix hotel, of Winston-Salem. |
He will no doubt make the com.
pany a good manager.
Tillett Vaughan has at last
landed in the county Jail, where
he will in all probability remain
until the next term of court. 1t
will be recalled that a few days
ago he ran away to keep from
appearing in some whiskey cases
hat he had reported. He was
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-09-10
There is a passage in Pliny that

There is passage in Pliny that is
usually cited as evidence that some
thing akin to spectacles must have
been in use at least in his time. He
relates that the Emperor Nero used
a precious stone which he calls
''smaradgus," generally translated
emerald" through which he was ac-
icustomed to gaze on the gladiatorial
combats; or rather this is what he
seems to say There is, however
little doubt that Dr. Magnus, the
latest author to examine the passage
critically, is right in holding that it
means no more than that the emperor
was in the habit of gazing upon an
emerald which he used to carry with
him for the purpose of resting his
eyes when they became tired looking
dpon shows that were interesting to
him. This view is rendered the more
probable from the belief of antiquity
that green has restful effect upon the
eyesight.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-09-10
NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS
Shot wife. Girl and Self.

Robert Gravatt, one of the pioneer
merchants of Asbury Park, committed
suicide by shooting himself in the
head after attempting to murder his
wife and twelve-year-old daughter,
Molly. The Gravatts manage the
New jersey House, at Pennsylvania
avenue and Mount Carmel way. Gra-
watt rushed into the dining room and
began firing revolver at his wife.
The first shot entered Mrs. Gravatt's
hip and the second lodged in her leg.
The daughter sought to defend her
mother and received bullss in the
groin. Gravatt then shot himself and
died instantly. AS he fell to the fisor
loaded revolver dropped from his
hip pocket. Mrs. Gravatt and her
daughter are seriously wounded.
Molly made a statement, in which
she said that her father and mother
quarreled in the dining room just be-
fore the shooting about a threatened
action for separation or divorce on
her husbands part.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-09-10

While the English Liberal party -
preparing for long struggle to curb
the power of the House of Lords and
prevent it from blocking reforms,
notes the New York American, the
people of Australia are showing a
strong determination to abolish alto
gether the upper houses in their legis-
lative bodies. The upper house, in
this stage of the worlds progress,
is an anomaly everywhere and doubt
less doomed to extinction. The
curious thing is that it should have
lasted so long and that the people
of the Antipodes should be the first
to declare plainly how absurd and
harmful it is. The original reason
for the existence of an upper house
was that it might provide check
on the will of the people that con-
stituted the government
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-09-10
CHAPTER XIV.
Willie's Will.

Weeks elapsed before the secluded
home which jeanette had found for
her mistress received any visitor. Sc
curity from the pursuit of her hus-
band was the one aspiration of her
soul, and while that remained in
doubt she was unable to enjoy the
full fruition of her freedom. The
quiet of the place and its environ
ments, the scents and sounds of
spring, the marked improvement
which the change had already eff
fected in little Willie, filled her with
joy and thankfulness; but from this
new found happiness, the sense of its
transient characteristic possibility
of some misfortune Detailing her
worse than all that she had hereto
fore endured-was never absent.
Jeanette could not be persuaded to
speak further of the peril which had
hung over little Willie; but although
her ignorance Of business affairs pre-
vented her from understanding how
her darling's death could have bene-
fited any human creature. Sophy
knew that her child had been in dan
ger, and from the hands that nature
itself should have taught to defend
her.
Everything, however - including
murder-comes out at last, and Mrs.
johnson, under which name jean
nette continued to conceal her iden-
tity, received one morning a startling
piece of intelligence through the but
terman. He did not tell it to her
with his own iips-the news was too
stale for that--but brought it by ac-
cident, in print, wrapped roun6 a
parcel of the "best Dorset" 1t is =
method by which imaginative litera-
| ture, alas! is often conveyed; but
| this was matter of fact. There had
been a time when Jeanette would
have gone straight to her mistress
and discoursed of the sensational in
cident with Infinite gusto; but the
poor waiting maid had lost her nerve,
she had no longer any confidence in
her own judgment; and so far from
rejoicing, as of yore, in handling the
ribbons of an intrigue, could hardly
| drive a gig as a free agent. She did.
however, take certain steps, the re-
suit of which was that two ladies'
the older in deep mourning. the
| younger in that attire which the
milliners describe as one Of "miti-
gated grief presented themselves
the next morning at the cottage. At
the sight of the former, sNphy ut
tered piteous cry. and ran into her
| stretched out arms.
my darling, murmured Aunt
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-09-10
SPOILED THE DAYS SPORT.
Western Hunt Followed a Coyote,
Which Chinanan Killed.

Western Hunt Followed a Coyote,
Which Chinaman Killed.
Foxes are few at Burlingame, a
fashionable resort in California, and
following dead aniseed bag on live
horses has become rather tame sport;
SO when the word was whispered re-
Gently that live coyote (price $S.50)
had been secured, there was great
JOY. much brushing of pink coats and
vigorous polishing of horns.
The chase came near being a fail
ure on account of the coyotes ignor-
ance of his duties. Instead of run
ming, he sat still and looked friendly
and puzzled.
Noises Of various kinds were made,
and when the coyote at last decided
to move he proved himself descend
ant of the animal Mark Twain made
famous. When he had good start
the hunt followed.
The chase was hard and the tri-
umph stolen. The coyote, thoroughly
enjoying the sport, was peacefully
Looping across the San Mateo land
scape. in advance of the hounds,
where he was seen by a Chinese cook
There is Chinese superstition
that the flesh of wild animals makes
one brave, SO this cook obtained a
gun and slew the beast just as the
hunters were becoming excited over
who would be in at the death"
They were all there, and their
wrath was such that the Chinese felt
the need of a courage-inspiring coy
ote steak at once.-Argonaut.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-09-10
secured places elsewhere and are
leaving daily for their new homes.

secured places elsewhere and are
leaving daily for their new homes.
John Carter, one of the Oldest resi-
dents of Mount Holly, died at his
home there aged ninety-one years.
DR.. William E. Johnson, for many
years a practicing physician at Key
port, died at his home in Ontario,
Canada. He left Keyport about two
years ago.
John Winters, fifty-five years of
and instantly killed by Lackawanna
drill engine at Washington.
The hay crop in South Jersey is the
greatest in years. Rudolph Anson,
near Deerfield turnpike, gathered
seventy-nine tons from fifteen acres
in two cuttings.
From one vine W. L. Yerkes, who
lives near Tuckahoe, picked thirty
fine ripe tomatoes and left sixty
three to ripen. SIe also picked a
peach nine inches in circumference.
Stubbing his toe on low step,
William H. Riker plunged head first
through large plate glass window
at the Bonton millinery store in High
street, Burlington, and escaped with
few cuts.
Large focks of reedbirds are arriv-
ing on the meadows south of Millville
and the cunning season promises to
be good. Railbirds are reported as
scarce.
The lamp at the mouth Of Salem
Creek has been condemned by Cap
tain j. Neal, of the United States En-
gineers' Department, and new one
will soon be erected.
Ernest Wolf, of Pleasantville, said
he paid $1,000 for an interest in a
wine business which was Jersey rasp-
berry juice.
Rev. John E. Cation, of st. Mary's
Catholic Church, Salem, who has been
i'll with pleurisy. has recovered.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-09-10

North Carolina does not stand
alone, exclaims Town Topics. Thirty
five States-practicall the entire
Union-have INDUCED in railroad
legislation this year. Twenty-one
States have dealt with passenger
rates. The two-cent rate is already
ordered in Arkansas, Indiana, Illinois,
Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Penn
sylyania, Wisconsin, Ohio, West vir-
ginia, Kansas, Maryland and Missis-
sippi (for mileage books) and Okla
homa, and is authorized in Georgia
and North Dakota. Eleven States
have created Railroad Commissions.
Suits have been brought to test the
constitutionanty of most of this State
legislation, but our railroad managers
are among the shrewdest and wisest
of business men, and will not oppose
too strenuously what seems to be a
unanimous sentiment in favor of
cheaper fares. They have accepted
the reduced rate laws in Arkansas,
Ohio tsince 1900 and Wisconsin,
and are giving them a fair trial
everywhere. But the lesson is that
the States are not going to rellnquish
their control Of the railroads.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-09-10
OLD BELIEF IS REVIVED.
Wearing of Amulets Now in Vogue
Among the Rich.

Amulets are much in favor TT the
present moment, and the wearers of
them are by no means only of the
feminine community. They are worn
in all manner of quaint designs. Each
precious stone is supposed to contain
some property peculiar to itself, and it
is needless to say that one of the
most sought after is that which is said
to ward off appendicitis.
1t seems hardly credible that people
OF common sense should believe in
such things. but true it is that the
amulet is at present much in vogue
and apart from their superstitions, il
is one of the daintiest presents imag
Unable. The emerald is credited with
host of good influences. the cryso
lite is cure for insomnia, the onys
produces peaceful existence. But the
luckiest amulet of all is that contain
ing turquoise, whether by reason OF
its true blue" color or not it is hare
to say, There is an old proverb which
states that "he who possesses a tur
quoise will never lack friend" Ger
tainly, from time immemorial, the tur
quoise has never ceased to be regard
ed as n lucky stone.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-09-10
A remarkable project for munich

A remarkable project for munich
pal improvement is reported from
Berlin The plan is to widen by
twenty feet the narrowest part of the
,well-known Friedrichstrasse second
only to Unter den Linden, and to re-
place the present insignificant shops
and houses by magnificent galleries
and hotels, and the like, making the
street one of the worlds finest thor
oughfares. This Of itself does not
carry vivid impression, but when it
is added that the scheme involves an
outlay of $S7,500,000 the scale of
the projected improvement is indi-
Gated
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-09-10

AS a result of Fond Du LacS
unique ordinance. requiring that the
portraits of habitual drunlsards shall
be posted in all the saloons of the
Wisconsin city, with notice to the
saloonkeepers to sell them no liquor
under penalty OF losing their licenses,
the galaxy of celebrities is growing
large. The Common Council ordered
F. Asimont posted. while Mat Dengel
made the unusual request that his
own photograph be included IN the
list, on the ground that this was the
only way he could get sobered up and
return to a decent life The only
photograph to adorn the saloon gall
1ery previously was that of Mat
Fargo, substantial property owner
and taxpayer.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-09-10
The Last One.

The Bishop of Worcester was once
travelling through Banbury by rail,
and wishing to try their celebrated
cakes, summoned boy and asked
him to procure him one. Learning
that the price was threepence, the
bishop gave the lad sixpence, telling
him, "And with the other threepence
buy a cake for yourself" The lad
shortly returned, complacently
munching his cake, and handing
threepence back to the bishop, ex-
claimed: There was only one left,
governor. "-Harperss Weekly.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-09-10

"A pretty story is told of a freight
car laid up for repairs in which a
mother bird built her nest and
hatched her young, and then, by or
der of the manager of the road, was
sidetracked to await the pleasure of
the mother bird and her young. And
yet, on that same road, perhaps it
happened that animals were kept
without food or water thirty-six hours
because it was a little cheaper to
transport them in that way.