The Greensboro patriot [September 7, 1904]

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THE REENSBORO PATRIOT
VOL. 83. GREENSBORO, N. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1904. NO. 36
^r w. J. RICHARDSON
OFFICE:
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pHYilCIANS atii SURGEONS
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In Greensboro and surround-
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STAMEY & BOYLES
SiCIANS AND SURGEONS
ii ssionnl services to the people
mil surrounding country.
Id |ma' Drtur Store.
>. >ni H blm street. PhoneSB.
ANOTHER JAIL DELIVERY FRUSTRATED.
Dr. J. E. WYCHE
DENTIST
: IN SAVINGS BANK BLDG.
:.-- ELM ST.. GREENSBORO. N. C.
Dr. M. F. FOX
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
_ IFORO COLLEGE, N. C.
jr. E. A. BURTON
DENTIST
OFFICE IN LASH BLDG.,
SOUTH ELM ST.
SLES Z V.T«VLOR. J. C SCALES
Scales, Taylor & Scales
ATTORNEYS
. COUNSELLORS AT LAW
GREEHSBORO. H. C.
iv as. Stephen A. Douglas.
DOUGLAS & DOUGLAS
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Greensboro Loan and Trnit Bldf.
C. G. WRIGHT
ATTORNEY AT LAW
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GREENSBORO, N. C.
THOMAS C. HOYLE
ATORNEY AT LAW
Square. GREEHSBORO, B. C.
Ifjvcn to collections. Loans
Robert C. Strudwick
.iRNEYmJ COUNSELLOR
AT LAW
irl Square. GREEHSBORO. H. C.
P. HOBGOOD, Jr.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
hi lluilMinir. Opposite
is*-, Greensboro, N. C.
MICHAEL SCHENCK
ATTORNEY
'•-' COUNSELLOR AT LAW
Square. Greensboro. N. C.
ino Tuning
rt w inisc work we guarantee
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RANCIS HANES
PHOTOGRAPHER
CLASS WORK ONLY.
McAdoo House.
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.\-.,-i- over
$500,000
'-•reensboro
nsurance Companies
• lasl eight rears,
>l>h >l (irecna ! ---in $4(1, in the
•"-mil-. When
for jour home
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'"Psen Schsnck, Agent
The best lantern on tlie market for
50 cents, at Gamble & Fulton's!
I lay wood Alderman, Jr., has gone
to Philadelphia to take a position with
the Western Electric Company.
Miss Blanche May it, in Baltimore
this week attending the Armstrong,
Cator & Company's millinery opening.
Mr. John L. Thacker has gone to
New York to purchase the fall stock of
Thacker & Brockniaun. He is accom-panied
by his wife.
The full board of county commis-sioners
was in session Monday and
Tuesday. Little other than ordinary
routine business was tranacted.
Bring us your produce. We pay
highest market prices for your chick-ens,
eggs, butter and everything of the
kind. GAMBLE & FULTON.
I
The dwelling house of the late Ar-thur
Jordan, on North (jreene street,!
was purchased at public sale Monday
by Mi. E. I). Steele, of High Point, for
$1,450.
Mr. Walter Bandy ami his sister,
Mrs. Will Can, are building a nice'
nine-room residence on West Gaston
street, opposite Mr. George Donuell's
home.
Ii is currently reported here that a
smooth gentleman who came here re-cently
unloaded about ten thousand
dollars" worth of worthless stock on a
bunch of Greensboro Investors.
FOR SAI.I:—A double-seated surrey,
made by one of the most reliable man-ufacturers,
and as good as new. will be
sold at about one-half the factory price.
Call at 130 Price street. Greensboro, -i
Mr. Henry Clay Curtis has bought,
the l>. K. Doggett property on West
l.ee street and will move there this
week from Spring Garden street,
where he has been living for several
mouths.
Mr. S. Glenn Brown, of this city,
was among the forty-six successful ap-plicants
for law license before the Su-preme
• OUrt last week. I >f the class of
fifty-three live were negroes, three of
whom passed.
Messrs. John It. and Marshall C.
.Stewart leave this evening for a trip to
St. Louis. They will stop over at |
Trenton, Tenu., on their return for a
visit with the latter's brother, Mr.
Chas. M. Stewart.
The Merchants Grocery Company
has purchased the Hunter Manufactur-ing
Company's big building on Bud-anan
street, and after making some
improvements in the structure will
move there next month.
Dr. Charles I). Mclver went to Ox-ford
this morning to make an address
in the afternoon at the formal opening
of the oxford Female Seminary, which
has just been rebuilt, having been de-stroyed
by lire last winter.
Any one wishing to exchange a good
large galvanized molasses boiler for a
good evaparator will address J. P.
Hoffman, Greensboro, N. C, R. K. I). 4
• i. Kvaperator will boil 60 gallons per
day and Is as gooil as new.
Your stock may be run down anil in
poor condition after a hard summer's
work. International Stock Food judi-ciously
used right now may be worth its
weight in gold to you. Talk to us
about it. TrCKER & ERWIN.
A good sized bunch of North Caro-lina
editors passed through the city
this week en route to New York to
participate in the editorial conference
which will be held tonight, to be fol-lowed
tomorrow by a trip up the Hud-:
son to Fsopus, the home of Judge Bar- j
ker. It will be one of the pleasautest
trips of the year for the protest).
Prof. H. B. Craven, who was a mem-ber
of the faculty of Greensboro Fe-male
College last year, was here yes-;
terday on his way to Wilson to become
principal of the graded school In that
place. He and his family have been
spending the summer at Black Moun-tain.
The latter are now visiting rel-atives
at Trinity, Randolph county.
The labor day celebration Monday
was a decided success, uotwithstaud- j
Ing the fact that rain fell Incessantly
all morning, cutting out many Inter-esting
features of the parade. Hon. 1!.
1!. Lacy, state treasurer, and Mr. W.
M. Tlgbe, of this city, made admirable
addresses to a large crowd at the court
house.
Application has been made at High
Point for a franchise for an inter-urban
traction company that proposes to
build an electric line connecting i
Greensboro, High Point, and Winston j
and some of the intervening smaller I
towns. Articles of incorporation are
now in the hands of the secretary of
state providing for a capital stock of
$600,000, of which $300,000 is already j
subscribed. 1
FATAL FALL FROM A TRAIN.
Jailor May Assaulted by Six Desperate
Prisoners Sunday Evening.
The presence of mind of Mr. J. G.
May, keeper of the county jail, pre-vented
the escape of six desperate long-term
prisoners Sunday evening. About
7 o'clock Mr. May started iuto the
lower corridor of the jail to make his
regular evening inspection and had
scarcely swung the big outer door half
open when he was seized by Charles
Donnell, Alouzo Collins, Will Murchi-
BOD and John Steel, all negroes, who
were awaiting transportation to Ral-eigh
the following morning to serve
long terms for burglary. Before Mr.
May could make any outcry he was
felled to the floor by a blow on the side")
of his head by one of the men, whom
it was difficult to identify in the semi-darkness,
and choked into uncon-sciousness.
Fortunately the key to the
outer door, which he held in his hand,
til underneath him unnoticed by any
one of the prisoners. Two white pris-oners,
C. C. Curtis anil Charles Ford,
also penitentiary prisoners, who were
lurking in the corridor, rushed with
the others to the outer door only to liud
it locked. In the meantime Mr. May's
little daughter, who happened to see 1
him start into the cell corridor as well
as the attack of the men, gave
an alarm, which was heard by
Mr. May's son Gannon and Mr. 1
Cox, a driver at the steamer headquar-ters
across the street. They ran over
to the jail, also finding the outer door
lucked, thus preventing them from
rendering any assistance w hatever.
Mr. May 011 recovering consciousness
was confronted with his own revolver
in the hands of Donnell, who demand-ed
the key to the outer door Mr. May
told the men he did nut have the key
and in fact diii nut know where it was
and parleyed with them until he saw
an opportunity to knock the weapon
from Dounell's hand to the floor. In
the scullle which ensued Mr. May se-cured
the weapon and tossed it out
through the grating of the window to
w here his son and Mr. Vox were stand- '
ing in helpless expectancy of seeing
him shot at any moment. Realizing
thai lhey were foiled in their elt'orts to
escape the men soon returned to their
cells. An examination of the jail '
showed that a bar from a sink in the
inner corridor had been used to prize a
heavy brass padlock from the door com-municating
with the main corridor.
Curtis, one of the white men, had se-cured
the bar and planned the escape.
He had, according to the other prison- :
era who had taken no hand in the af-fair,
lirst failed to prize a bar from' a
window grating which bad been cut
half in two some months ago. It is to j
the credit of George Babcock, a white
prisoner, and Green McAdoo, the colo-1
red wife-murderer under sentence of
thirty years, that they remained in
ineir cells while liberty seemed al-most
within their reach, making no
attempt whatever to escape. Johnson
Stroud, colored, who is also held for
murder, and three white men awaiting
1: ml or serving light sentences, appar- :
ently had no hand in the affair. They
all refused to talk, however, until the
six men had been removed from the
jail the next morning. The problem
of holding prisoners after their arrest
naturally gives the county commis-sioners
anil sheriff much concern.
Only last week extensive repairs
were made in the jail, following the
escape of four youthful prisoners who
slipped through holes in'the bars made
some time before, and it seems that it
will eventually be necessary to have
the place under guard continually.
What was supposed to be one of the
strongest jail structures in the state
turns out to be less secure than the old
structure that it.superseded.
On their return from the Asheville
reunion Commander Whitted and Ad-jutant
Wood were enthusiastic in their
praise of the showing made by the!
members of Guilford camp in the pa-rade
of veterans. In addition to the]
honor of being the largest camp in the
line the old vets from here made de-1
cidedly the best showing and were
given i|uile an ovation when they ap-peared
with canes bearing handsome ,
little battle Hags. Of the 104 men
present 102 were in the parade, the on-,
ly exceptions being Messrs. J. W. Mc-1
Nairy and John W. W barton, of this
city, both of whom sacrificed a leg in I
the service. Guilford camp is to be,
congratulated on the admirable con-1
duct of its members while on the trip. ■
Young Georgia Soldier Meets Death in
the Railroad Yards Here Sunday.
The breaking of a coupling of an
extra northbound passenger train here
Sunday afternoon about three o'clock
caused the death of Private Frank H.
Lester, of Co. L, Fourth Georgia In-fantry.
The unfortunate young man
was standing on a platform of the
train, which was being shifted to the
pass track leading to Sergeant's foun-dry
to clear for No. 97, the fast mail,
when the coupling broke, the jar caus-ing
him to fall to the tracks, where he
was crushed by the front trucks of the
slowly moving car. From the hips
down he was terribly mangled, while
his head and face were badly cut and
bruised. The regimental surgeon who
attended him readily saw that his con-dition
was hopeless, but had him
transferred to the Greensboro hospital,
where death resulted in about an hour.
Mr. Lester was au excelleut young
man and stood high In the esteem of
his comrades, who were much affected
by his untimely death. He was a
member of a prominent Americus, Ga.,
family and is survived by his parents
and two brothers. He was a clerk in
one of the leading business houses of
AmeriCUS and a member in good stand-ing
of the Methodist church of that
place. Lieutenant A. Fort, Jr., and
Private C. A. Smith, of the Fourth In-fantry,
and Private T. B. Hhipp, of the
Hospital Corps, were detailed to escort
the remains home, and they left here
with the body at 7 o'clock that even-ing.
The train bearing the command
proceeded on its way toManassas, Va.,
after an hour's delay.
Geo. A. Harrington Acquitted.
After a spirited legal battleinvolving
some of the best talent of the Guilford
bar and occupying two days of thespe-cial
term of criminal court a jury of
(ieo. A. Harrington's peers declared
him not guilty of burglary and at-tempted
criminal assault on Mrs. Alice
V <:'rarter, of High Point, in May of
tiiis year. From a special venire of
one hundred men Messrs. R. M. (iret-ter,
X. T. Pegram, B. G. Chilcutt, J.
W. Webb, J. H. Clapp, I). F. Causey,
L. E. Howerton, W. II. Elliott, J. G.
Hackett, William Dennis. A.*!'. Wat-lington
and J. D. How man were se-lected
as jurymen. The evidence went
to show that some one entered the
100111 of Mrs. Charter on the night of
May 35, but the intruder was frighten-ed
away by her screams, she having
waked as the bed clothing was being
pulled away fiom her. She is confi-dent
her unwelcome visitor was Har-rington,,
although theie was no light
in the room other than that afforded
by the moon, which was shining in
through a portion of an open window.
The whole case seemed to hinge on the
mailer of identification, and thejury
evidently gave Harrington the beuelit
of the doubt.
Before the adjournment of court Sat-urday
heavy lines were imposed on
several keepers of disorderly houses
who had been convicted during the
term, and they were also ordered to
leave the state.
GREENSBORO TOBACCO MARKET.
('apt. W. it. Jenkins has finished
the macadam work on the road to Ala-mance
church and moved his outfit to
the Battle Ground road, locating the
crusher near Kirkpatrick's brickyard.
Nearly live miles of macadam were
laid on the Alamance road, which, in
addition to the two miles previously
laid, give the people of southeastern
Guilford the advantage of a seven-mile
haul over a first-class road. The road-way
is thirty feet wide, with a ten-foot
strip of macadam along the upperside.
The Battle Ground road will lie thirty-six
feet wide, w ith a twelve-foot strip
of macadam in the center, thus giving
room for a good dirt road on either side.
What little grading is necessary on this
road will be done by the macadamis-ing
force. The state convicts at work
grading the road east are making good
headway and will probably finish
within the next mouth.
Special Notice.
I wish to close up my business at
Stokesdale by the Hist day of Novem-her.
All persons indebted to me are
requested to make settlement on or be-fore
that date.
3-i-it. J. J. HILTON, M. D.
Several hundred people, including
the city authorities, witnessed a test of
the new LaFrauce lire engine at the
city hall Monday evening. Mr. Asa
LaFrauce, who sold and tested the old
engine here twenty years ago. was
again in charge of the test Monday,
handling the engine with the greatest
ease and efficiency. Various tests of
the capacity of the engine were made
ami it measured up to expectations in
every way. The old engine will be
scut back to the factory soon ami thor-oughly
overhauled. It will be kept hi
reserve at the steamer headquarters
and will yet perform many years of
good service.
Fou SALE—A storehouse in a thriv-ing
school village. Address, G. W.
Duveupoit, Waittc'.t, N. U.
MARKET KKPORT.
The receipts on our market for the
past week have been the largest for
any week during the new crop. Prim-ings
are coming in from all sections
and we are having good sales almost
every day, and while they are not very
desirable, yet they are good euough to
command good prices und farmers are
highly pleased with their sales. Our
market is quite anxious for this class
of tobacco, and all our buyers are buy-ing
them freely, which keeps the price
fully up to the high water mark, and
farmers in this section are beginning
to find it out. We shall be pleased to
have your primings as long as you
have them, and this market will also
be very active on all tobacco through-out
the entire season. We want your
tobacco this year, and we feel that if
you will give u- a trial we will have no
trouble in pleasing you.
F. B. Sheppard, B. S. Madden, J. C.
Ingle and J. X. Lowe were among our
good Alamance frieuds who were here
during the past week with primings.
W. T. Jessup, of Hamburg, was here
last week with printings and well
pleased. He is a fisherman as well as a
farmer and it always makes the writer
fish hungry to call a Jessup's name.
Lev] Walker, one of Guilford's best
farmers and a brother of our beloved
townsman Jno. M. Walker, was here
with primings last week and will be
back-in a few days with another load.
S. T. Price, E. C. Friddle. .I.e. Frid-dle.
Lee Angel, W. II. Daniel. J. J.
Leslie and a lot more ofourgood Bock-iiighiim
friends were here during the
past week with primings and were
well pleased with sales.
J. 1!. Simpson, Thos. Roberts, Mack
Simpson, P. H. Simpson, Joe Mitchell,
John R. Simpson, K. II. Price and G.
H. Price were among our good Rock-ingham
friends that were here with
primings during the past week. They
made very satisfactory sales.
J. L. Turner, B. W. Johnston, H. <;.
Moore, J. R. Burnley, S. 15. Hutchins,
J. H. Pegram, T. J. Styers, Mrs. W. 11.
Holt, J. W. Pope and J. W. Paisley
were some of Guilford's most promi-nent
farmers who made satisfactory
sales of primings on this market last
week.
C. A. Christopher, G. C. Craig, C.
Clapp, J. H. Clapp, W. H. Brookbank,
Henry Beese, W. B. Anthony, J. W.
Underwood, W. L. Miles, H. D. Hel-ium,
L. E. Montgomery, J. E. Black-burn
and L. A. Walker were here with
primings the past week and made
very satisfactory sales.
Stoi■! Walt! Listen!
A new linn wishes au introduction
to the citizens of Greensboro and vicin-ity
wild a special live days sale of $30,-
(HNi worth of dry goods well worthy
of your attention. Messrs. Caumtday
& llinkle having purchased the large
wholesale stock oftbeHague-McCorkle
Dry Goods Company, consisting of dry-goods,
notions, hats, caps and furnish-ing
goods, for less than the wholesale
cost, will place same on sale
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TH,
at !l o'clock sharp, rain or shine, at 328
South Elm street, opposite the Odell
Hardware Company. Remember the
date, Thursday, Sept. 8th, at 828 South
Elm street.
This is no fake, but a straight bona
fide sale, as these goods weie bought
at much less than their real value and
is good clean stock in every respect.
This sale will give the people oi Cen-tral
North Carolina a rare chance lo
buy their fall and winter dry goods,
1 notions, hats, caps and furnishing
'goods at less than wholesale cost.
1 Everything must go. No goods held
back. So first come, first served. We
are here to stay and every line of goods
that we handle will be replenished and
sold as close as any merchant in the
city for cash. One visit will make a
customer of you. Satisfaction guaran-teed
to all. Any goods bought of us
j not perfectly satisfactory and an repre-sented,
money will be cheerfully re-funded.
This is the first sale of this kind and'
magnitude that has ever been offered
in this city. Just think of it. £30.000
worth of nice choice stock to be sold at
less than the wholesale cost of goods.
No middle men—bought straight from
lirst bands, and anyone that knows
the Hague-McCorkleCompany knows
that I hey were shrewd, close buyers,
and all this stock was bought in large
quantities and at close figures to sell
again to merchants—not at retail. So
therefore you should avail yourself of
this golden opportunity to inspect this
stock and convince yourself that we
are actually saving you money, and
you can liud out very readily by pric-ing
same quality of goods at any store
in Greensboro. You are cordially in-vited
to come and Inspect this stock.
A share of your patronage is solicited.
Respectfully,
C'ASSAOAY & HlNilLE.
The
Strength
of a Bank
Is represented by its capital, surplus
and careful management.
The Southern
Loan and Trust Company
Was organized in 1S90, but has been
doing a Banking business only about
three years. During this time its
growth has been rapid but healthful,
and today it is In the front of Banking
institutions in Guilford county.
Statement below shows grew th since
February 1st, 1S99, to April 9th, 1W«:
■^KMS!?..^".^ $ 44,372.95
Viifi."!1.™?1™.^ 66,227.55
X^™??'™™: 103,<89.13
Capital and surplus Feb. 00 CA1 AT
1st, 1903 lZ7,3'tO.'t(
°B?4*?..»™?^ 155,236.42
°81S!S.TS?.^ 166,696.66
^;..ass?".*!""!..'!!h: 570,689.76
E. P. WllARTON, A. W. McAl.ISTKR
President. Vice Pres.
R. G. VAUGHN, DAVID WHITE,
Treasurer. Secretary.
A Randolph man named Bobbins,
who came here Monday to make some
purchases, was found unconscious in
the Southern Railway yards several
hundred yards east of the depot yester-day
morning about two o'clock, his
jaw having been broken and numerous
other injuries indicted in a manner
that is yet unexplained. One theory
is that he was struck by a train and
another is that he was beaten and
robbed of several dollars, his assailants
leaving him by the track in order to
avert suspicion. Dr. Broadnax,* the
railroad surgeon at this point, dressed
the man's wounds and he was later
sent to the Greensboro hospital.
Rev. T. J. Ogburn, secretary of the
foreign missionary board of the Meth-odist
Protestant church, has found it
' necessary to change his residence from
Greensboro to Sheradeuville, Pa., and
will leave in a few weeks. He will
take only his wife and the younger
members of his family. His older
daughters, Misses l-.llen and Cary, who
are teachers, will remain in North Car-olina.
His son Herbert, who has been
with the Odell Company here for two
years, will resume his studies at Oak
Ridge Institute, and another sou,
Thomas, will return to the A. A M.
College, at Raleigh.
Six more prisoners were sent to the
county road* Monday, after failing to
'raise lines imposed in Superior court
; last week. The city contributed sev-eral
good hands to the road force dur-ing
the week, also.
City National Bank
Greensboro, N. C.
CAPITAL, - - - $100,000
SURPLUS AND PROFITS, 16,000
United Stales Depository.
UKKICEKS.
; w. s. Thomson, J. Van Lindley,
President. Vice President.
U e II. Hank-. Cashier.
IHUFX'TOKS.
w. S, Thomson,
C. II. Dorsett,
W.C. Bain,
J. A. Moslems.
J. Allen Holt,
E. J. Stafford.
Win, ('umiuinftfs,
J. Van Lindley,
J.C. Bishop,
J. A. Davidson.
We extend to depositors every facility con
sistent with prudent banking.
Interest paid on time certificates of dcposl
WAITS OTC.V-L TO SCt U3.