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Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-05-06
KILLED IN REVOLVER FIGHT
Patrolman and Pickpocket Give Up
Lives in Logansport, Ind.

Logansport, Ind. "A patrolman,
Joseph Kroger, and a pickpocket
We're killed in a revolver fight follow
ing a performance of acircus. Charles
Pierce, of Scranton, Pa, was cap
tured by policemen who chased him
on a handcar several miles north of
this city. Pierce is charged with hav-
ing fired the shot that killed PATROL
man Kroger.
After the night performance OF the
circus two rufians, pistol in haid,
stood IN the Third street bridge and
robbed all the passersby, lining them
up against the rail of the bridge.
When Patrolman Krogcr ran up
one of the men shot him. AS he fell
he shot one of the robbers. Kroger
lived only a few minutes. The other
robber fed. The wounded robber
died in st. Joseph's Hospital. A
priest begged him to tell his name,
but the man shouted "You go to
hel1!" He fell back dead.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-05-06
Better Not Get
Dyspepsia
If you can help it. Kodol prevents Dyspepsia, by
effectually helping Nature to Relieve Indigestion
But don't trifle with Indigestion.

A great many people who have
trifed with indigestion. have been
sorry for it-when nervous or
chronic dyspepsia resulted, and
they have not been able to cure it.
Use Kodol and prevent having
Dyspepsia.
Everyone is subject to indiges-
ton. Stomach arrangement follows
stomach abuse, just as naturally
and just Is surely as a sound and
healthy stomach results upon the
taking Of Kodol.
When you experience sourness
Of stomach, belching Of gas and
nauseating fluid, bloated sensation,
gnawing pain IN the pit Of the
stomach, heart burn (so-called),
diarrhoea, headaches, dullness or
chronic tired feeling-you need Ko-
dol. And then the quicker you take
Kodol-the better. Eat what you
want, let Kodol digest it.
Ordinary pepsin dyspepsia tab.
let's" physics, etc, are not likely
to be Of much benefit to you. II
/ digestive ailments. Pepsin is only
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-05-06
JILTED MAN KILLS GIRL.

Miss Marden, Student at Smith Col
lege, Shot by Dartmouth Graduate.
Northampton, Mass.-Helen Aver
Marden, of ~Somerville, Mass, a senior
at Smith College and one of the most
popular young women of her class,
was shot on the college campus by
her rejected sutton, Porter MacDou-
gal Smith, a travelling salesman, of
Chicago, and a graduate of Dart
mouth.
She died four hours later in Dick
enson Hospital. After waiting just
long enough to be certain that he had
fatally shot her Smith turned his
smoking revolver upon himself and
pulled the trigger. Death came in
stantly to him.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-05-06
LATEST News
BY WIRE.
Manufacturer Killed by Lift.

Manufactures Killed by Lift.
Allentown, Pa. Silas A. Lentz'
one of the owners Of a shoe manufac-
turing company, was instantly kllleQ
IN the elevator shaft in his plant
Gates Endows Hospital.
Galveston, Texas.-John w. Gates
has provided an endowment OF $685.
600 for the maintenance OF a hospital
he erected at Port Arthur, Texas, IN
the memory of his mother recently
deceased. It is to be known. as the
Mary Gates Inf1rmary.
Fairbanks Nnys Pasadena Home.
Pasadena, Cal.-Charles w. Fair
banks, former Vice-President, con-
cluded through agents a deal for the
purchase of a 100000 residence In
Pasadena.
professor" Lawson Again Jailed.
Wilmington, Del. - Professor"
George H. Lawson, who has just
spent a year in jail for illegally prac-
ticing medicine, is in Jail here &C
cused of beating his bride, who Is
twenty-five years his senior. ..ts. )
49, A@2-@R >3SE.t E.~:.
No New Trial For Hargis. Nf@
Irvine, KY. - Beach Hargis, who
was convicted of the murder Of his
father, Judge James Hargis. was re-
fused a new trial. Judge Adams SEN
fenced him to life Imprisonment.
Taft on Battlefield.
Petersburg, Va.-President Taft's
plans for his visit to Petersburg on
May 10, when he will attend the ded-
ication of the $4,000 Pennsylvania
monument near Fort Malone, were
made known to the entertainment
committee here. A. p. Hill Camp.
Confederate Veterans, has been asked
to take part in the unwilling exer-
cises, and it is planned to have a mill.
| tary escort for the President.
!, Sugar Trust Pays. @@F"aa>"T.7
New York City.-The Sugar Trust
paid in at the Sub-Treasury $685.
1875, representing the balance of
! underpaid duties due the Government
and the $4,000 fine imposed for
using fraudulent scales in weighing
sugar imports. The total amount
] paid in for its delinquencies Is $2,.
1~35,486.82.
$50 Michigan Saloons Closed.
Detroit, Mich. At midnight 685
/ saloons and ten breweries in nineteen
counties Of Michigan which voted
dry at the last election closed their
doors. Thirty Of the eighty-three
counties in the State are now dry"
| Stocks have been closed out at re.
duced rates in many instances.
~.
Explosion Kills Four Workmen.
Tamaqua, Pa. - Four men were
killed and four were injured by an
explosion in the %glycerine packing
house Of the Potts Powder Company
at Reynolds, Pa, near here.
Tore Child's Ear OF.
Atlantic City, N. J.-Harry Klein,
five years old, did not move fast
enough from in front of a fruit store
to suit Marine Venareno, an Italian
who seized the child by the ear with
such force that the ear was torn from
the child's head. He was fined $40.
Theodore Minot Clark Dead.
Boston, Mass. - Theodore Mino1
Clark, one of the best known archi
tects in the country, died at his home
here after a brief illness, at the agt
of sixty-four years. He was in charge
of the department of architecture a
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
no1ogy.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-05-06
Vessels Lost OF Lakes.

Detroit, Mich.-Three vessels lost,
n of Them with her crew of seven
men, and a fourth craft found floating
deserted on Lake Michigan, with the
fate of her crew unknown, is the sum-
mary of known disasters from storm
and ice on the Great Lakes. Scores
of vessels of various sizes are report
ed missing and u~naccounted for.
On the bleak and rocky shores of
Huron Island the schooner George
hester, of Detroit, was torn to pieces
by the furious gale that swept over
Lake Superior, and all of her crew OF
seven were lost.
On Lake Huron, dashed by the
same gale, the package freighter Rus
STA, of Port Huron, yielded to the
waves after her cargo had shifted
and went TO the bottom. The Rus
sia's crew of twenty-five men sue
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-05-06
BY CABLE.

Danish Prince Married.
Berlin.-Prince Harald of Dem
mark. third son of King Frederick.
married at the Gluecksburg Castle
Princess Helena Of Sonderburg.
Gluecksburg.
To Build Canadian Canal?
London. - Sir Robert William
Perks, who leaves here for Canada,
hopes to obtain the sanction of the
Dominion Government to the proposal
to start work this spring on the pro-
jected canal from the st. Lawrence
River to the Great Lakes.
Miss Vanguard a Bride.
Londonderry, daughter of the
late Frederick Marquard, Of New
York, was married in st. Peters
Church at Upper Bedding, Sussex, tt
J. Seymour Mellor.
French Student Jeers Judge.
Paris.-A Royalist student was
condemned to one years imprison-
ment for disorderly conduct. When
judgment was pronounced Hubert
cried at the Judge, THANK you; ]
prefer my place to yours"
New Swedish Foreign Minister.
Stockholm, Sweden.-Count Taube,
the Swedish Minister to Germany,
has been appointed Et!inister Of For
eign Affairs in succession to E. B.
Trolle. who will assume the Berlin
post.
Smallpox on Pulitzer Yacht.
Gibraltar.-W. r. Patterson was
landed here from the American yacht
Liberty suffering from smallpox and
conveyed to a hospital outside Of thu
town. The Liberty is owned by Jos,
eph Pulitzer, Of New York City.
New Russ Naval Attache.
st. Petersburg, Russia.-Comman
der Dmitri Vassilieff has been an
pointed as naval attache at Washing
ton to replace Commander Neboisine
French Toy Factories Burn.
Paris.-Several toy factories a
Montreuil-sous-Bois, near Paris, wer
destroyed by fire. Loss 100000.
Harper Sale Concluded.
London. - The concluding sale q
the Harper collection realized NOR
than $1,000.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-05-06
LoNGWoRTH EXPECTS AN HEIR.
He Has Leased a Cottage Near Taft's
Summer Home.

Beverly, Mass. - Representative
and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, for
merly Alice Roosevelt, have leased
a cottage here for the summer in an
~ticipation Of the arrival of an heir
in the near future. The cottage,
which is only a short distance from
Woodbury. Point, where President
Taft's family is expected to arrive
about June S, will be put in order
at once, and the Eongworths will
take possession as soon as the repairs
are completed.
The property is at Mingo Beach,
and is owned by Mr.. Longworth's
mother. Mrs. Roosevelt is expected
to visit her daughter during the sum-
mer.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-05-06
VOWS HE SHOT HIMSELF.
Man Dead-WOman Arrested Will
Taking an Ice Cream Soda.

Man Dead-WOman Arrested While
Taking an Ice Cream Soda.
Cleveland, Ohio.-With his wife
locked up on the charge of shooting
him, L.. H. Bingham, an automobile
machinist, vowed a few moments be-
fore his death in a hospital here that
he had shot himself.
A charge of murder has been made
against the woman.
The police say that Mrs. Bingham
called police headquarters by tele-
phone and informed them that she
had shot her husband. She was ar
rested a few minutes later while
seated with her three-year-old daugh-
ter in a drug store near the scene of
the shooting, partaking of an ice
cream soda.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-05-06

Foreign. Tariff Agreements to Cease.
The State Department at Washing
ton, D. c., gave formal notice OF it's
Intention to terminate special COM
merclal agreements negotiated with
foreign countries under the Dingley
tariff law.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-05-06
Lady Leigh is Dead.

Lady Leigh, wife of Francis Dud-
ley Leigh, third Baron Leigh, died Of
pneumonia at Stoneleigh Abbey, Ken
ilworth, England. She was Frances
Helene Beckwith, daughter Of N. M.
Beckwith, of New York.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-05-06
PRISON FOR JAMES H. HYDE.
One Months Sentence For Running
Into Paris Cab.

Paris, France. - James Hazen
Hyde, of New York City, former vice.
president of the Equitable Life Assur-
ance Society, and his chauffeur. Lad
vice, were condemned by default, Mr..
Hyde to one months Imprisonment
and a fine of 800 and Ladwice to a
months imprisonment and a fine of
$50.
They were charged with running
into a public taxicab last October and
injuring a passenger. The complain
ants charged that after the accident
Ladwice sped away.
Under a law passed last July flight
after al accident is a special offense.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-05-06
Boy, Thrilling Novels, Suicide

Boy, Thrilling Novels, Suicide.
Harry Hanoran, of Philadelphia,
Pa, fifteen, an i%nveterate reader of
thrilling novels, refused to go to bed
at midnight. saying he wanted. to fin
ish the book he was reading. Next
day he shot himself dead on the door
step of his home. 1t is supposed his
mind was affected by his reading.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-05-06
Boy Commits Suicide in Church.

Brooding over a quarrel with his
sweetheart, Alexander Jennings,
t%wenty-one years old, son of wealthy
parents, threw the congregation at a
crowded country church in Little
Hickman, KY, into a panic by firing
a bullet into his brain. Worshipers
fled from the church,
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-05-06

Largest Apple Grower Dead.
Foster Udell, of Brockport, n. T.,
Tor many years regarded as the larg-
est apple grower in the State and
widely known as IN authority on
fruit, is dead.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-05-06

Ex-COngressman Babcock Dead.
Ex-Congressman Joseph w. Bab-
cock, of Wisconsin, died at his home
in Washington, D. G..
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-05-06
Girl Decoyed From Home.

GITI FTOm Home.
Agatha Pickard, fifteen, decoyed to
Chinatown, New York City, from her
home in Dorchester, Mass, by a wom-
an, fell into the hands of cadets" in
stead of leading a life of luxury, as
she had been promised. She was res.
cued by police.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-05-06

New England Mills Thrive.
Mills throughout New England
plan new construction to cost in the
aggregate 100000
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-05-06

ing: "The large vote cast by the women establishes the fact hiatt they axe
a lively interest"
In Australia lei outnumber women. At the last federal elections ne
which W e have the returns $685. 35 mn voted and 431O3S women.
In New Zealendw when woman suffrage ws granted in 1893 the estimated
number of women in the colony wa 1895. OF these 1O9461 registered TO
n the number of women voting las Increased at ZACH tiennal p-
Elementary election. In 1898, 10000 women voted; in 1896. 10S 1888; in 1Sa
119 $3.50: il 1902, 138 1858; in 1905, 175O46.
Where women have only the school ballot their vote is SMALL as the vote
cf men is always small al elections where school officers only are to be
chosen. Wherever women a the u franchise they no backward
ness in using it,
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-05-06
ceededs lin putting over their small
boats and escaping.
storm Hits Philadelphia.

Philadelphia, Pa.-Sweeping across
the northern part of the city. a wind
storm of almost tornado violence un,
rooted houses, blew down trees ana
telegraph poles and did damage ina
will amount 10 thousands OF dollars.
The most serious damage was lone
In the neighborhood Of Twenty-fourtn
street and College avenue. Here nall
a score of homes were laid open 10
the elements. The roof OF one OF the
dormitory buildings of Girard Q
1ege was torn from its walls and three
tall light towers were demolished.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-05-06

President Castro Angry.
Ex-President Castro, landing In
France, rallied against the United
States for instigating his exclusion
from Venezuela.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-05-06

Stratton Home Gets So, O,OOO.
BY order of the County Court at
Colorado Springs, Col, the executors
of the estate of w. S. Stratton, the
wealthy mine owner, turned over &c.
100000 to the trustees of the Myrop
Stratton Home.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-05-06
Ono Hundred Dead in Three States.

One HuHUT6u I'O"0 :"
Memphis, Tenn. - Dispatches re-
ceived from Arkansas, Western Zen
nessee and Northern Mississippi bring
HE total number of killed by the
storm TO 100 and the injured to twice
that number.
The greatest number of dead q
injured is reported from Horn Lake
Miss. There eighteen bodies were
found. The injured are placed at
fifty. Caddox Gap, Ark, reports a
similar number of dead and many in
,iured. AT Faucettville. Tenn, the
death list is placed at fifteen and the
injured at fifty.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-05-06

a partial digester-and physics aro
not digesters at all. -
Kodol is a perfect digester. IL
you could see Kodol digesting every
particle Of food, of all kinds, IN .ne
glass test-tubes in our laboratories;
you would know this just as wen
as we do.
Nature and Kodol will always
cure a sick stomach-but in oroel
to be cured, the stomach must res
That is what Kodol does-rests inc
stomach, while the stomach ="
well. Just as simple as A, b, =.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-05-06

Bv Aiice Stone Blackwell

CORRESPONDENT of The Sun says: Women would nc
use the ballot if they had it"
The Colorado secretary of state, in a letter to MIR
Charles Park of Boston says that 80 per cent OF Coorao
women register, and about II percent vote.
The Wyoming secretary of state, in a letter to me, say
that 90 percent of the women of Wyoming vote.
In Idaho the chief justice and all the justices OF tn
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-05-06
.SUFFRAGETTES IN COMMONS.

the Police Cut the Chains.
London, England. = Four women
suffragists got into the outer lobby of
the House of Commons. They at
once fastened themselves by chains
to statues in the lobby.
The police, %profting by their pre-
vious experiences, are now provided
with metal cutting Implements, and
they quickly severed the chains and
expelled the four women from the
building.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-05-06
Our Guarantee

Go to your druggist today and getaa cha tbs
lar bottle. Then after you have useo o az
entire contents Of the bottle II you nv e
honestly say, that it has not lone you andd
good, return The bottle to the drugg!s los
he will refund your money w1tnout - -.
ton or delay. We will then pay the ara III
gist for the bottle. Don't hesltate, I'D "
druggists know that q guarantee rs civ o~,v
This oner applies to the large Dot.le hot.
and to but one in q family. Inc Larse fftv
cent bottle.
Kodol is prepared at the iaDorS
(toriesnf q. q. Dewitt & Co., Chicago.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-05-06

is one of the principal things by which man
distinguished from the brutes. It is used extensively b
man to conceal his sorrows.
The first laugh on record occurred in the Garden Q
Eden, when Eve got the laugh on Adam. Her example ha
been used ever since as a precedent by Ewes descendant
Laughter may be used to express feelings, or to hid
them. The derisive laugh is used in family quarrels, mel
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-05-06

rama, d III congress-: d nedry 1augn IS USED by good
fellows. It oftentimes balances the hearty cry INDUCED in by their wives.
The downtrodden under-classes, those who are below the poverty line
and the idle rich, rarely laugh. In the one case they have never learned
how; in the other they hav forgotten.
Babies cry long before they learn to laugh. They cry by instinct and
learn Il laugh only when their intenects come into play.
In many cases. laughter is caused by the sudden consciousness of ones
own sunerfodty. Silence usually follows thts-when realizes bis mis-
take.
Passing jests make u laugh; permanent jests make US smile.
A man with a true sense Of humor laughs not only at the misfotunes OF
others. but at his own-From Life.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-05-06
sN~~<~~n.
Inc Elements Of Fun
r1o" re 1~hoUn1nn's Standpoint Certain U,ou.
deJined Principles Must be RECOGNIZED
BY d

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- 4. III oHerence between the theatre and III hi. o,,a-
PARK Is 20 dinerence between the Sunday scbon au ment
U~r sunday scnool picnic. The people are the sane. ~ u I'M
environment are wholly different. 1t is harder ~ n spuN
"a picnic successful than successfully to conduct Quake make
OF the scnool; and 1t is harder to make a succoss 80 ~
--H amusement park than OF a theatre. There 1sn4 an w
= erence In this comparison with the Sunday school f~ - r @
amusement park doesn't attract people who are nter m ne
q the Sunday school, it isn't going to succeed. ""'esoeo
ru : IA o sy u tn beginning that ninetyhve percent of the amo....
PUBIC Is purea q good, nj 1t Is this public that 1t pays t. serve. This iMn
usta ene1a statement I always believed it. l have proved II hv c+rssn
~ TWENTY-FIVE maHon people who have visited Luna Park IL the nae.a eng s
haven't any use for the bad five percent. AS a Snowman "a - 1--WE 1--WE
them to come near my enterprises. -"nt
n aHusnet ~ million there are other essential elements besides p,;o+n
Is decency-tne absolutely necessary quality in every line Of the worlds.
nothing that pays SO well. When Coney island und ~
have q pretty bad reputation, there were good shows there, and clean hons
but the influence Of evil dives was dominant. The police couldnto r Of lon .
didn't check them. The Hoohgan was everywhere. It's different now Tha
clean, decent shows have driven the dives out Of business. Thev can. n~ o
the rents the good places easily afford.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-05-06

Sold BY W. a. HAYES, Druggist, Hillsboro, \. G.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-04-01

L. r. Burgess to Carlton Turner.
Lot in Pelahatchie :. =. :. $4,000
Joe Jones and Evaline Thames to
Carlton Turner. Lot in Pefa-
hatchie. :. . :. :. :. :. $4,000
G. A. Williams and Ina P. Williams
to j. w. Taylor. 80 acres in section
8 and 16, township 5, range g.,
East. 80. :. ;. 81 ZOO.
j. A. Spann Co. to John Fitzhughs
heirs 80 acres in section %, town
ship s. range 4 East. ;. ..$302.SOI
w. M. Kight to Mrs. w. M.Kight.
120 acres, section 81, township z,
range 5, and all personal property
now in litigation except two
Philip Didlake to S. S. Butler. Ger
tain land near Star, Miss. = $4,000
Philip Didlake to w. G. Worley.
Lots in Star. -.$lSU.OO
w. w. Goforth to WHY irwin. 40
acres section "a, township 6, range
4 East. 80 @41o'uo
r. e. and Louela Greenwood to
Mrs. M. A. Stevens. Interest in Ger
tain land. :. $6OU.0O
s. E. and w. wadden to L. S.
May and w. d. Ragland. 60 acres,
section 21, township 5, range 81, ,10O
w. D. Ragland to w. S. May. Lot
in Brandon. 941V.VV
w. E. Laird to Ira Fortner. 40
acres, section 20, township 3. range
2 East. :. :. :. $4,000
]. A. B. Shelley former known in
Mississippi as ]. A. Barker) to F. l..
Nelson. Quit claim to 80 acres, sec
tion 1S, township Z, ranges ;. $50
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-04-01

Col w. w. Robson received dis
patch this morning from Birmingham,
that his sister, Mrs. Annie Saphlra
Mott. nee Robson, widow of A. E.
Mott. died in that city yesterday at
8 o'clock D. M, and would be buried
there today at p. m She was
native of Brunswick county, N. c.,
and was rs years of age.
She was long member OF the
Methodist church and had the es-
TEEN of all who knew her.
She left one, son, Henry Mott, Oh
Birmingham, and 5 daughters, Mes
danes T. Barnard and Berry, OF Paris
Texas. Joe Reynolds. Sophy Morrow
and Dan Reynolds, of Birmingham
Col Robson has the sympathy o.
all in the loss of his sister.