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GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of More of Less Interest Con densed Outside the State. Al! the members of the president'sl cabinet took the prescribed oath of office as the head of their respective departments on Tuesday. A complete nervous collapse by Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick brought the first day of her trial in Cleveland, Ohio, to an abrupt close on Monday afternoon. As the result of a vigorous fight made by the leading merchans, the city council of Wilmington. N. C.. has imposed a prohibitive tax of five hun dred dollars a month on all trading stamp companies. The special session of :he United States senate was opened on Monday by loud applause for Vice President Fairbanks when he appeared in tl. chamber to preside. He at once rap ocd the sente t rder. Mrs. Sallie M. Hanna, charged with poisoning the family of H amilt n Faukner In Lyncburg. Va.. on Feb rtarv ii. by which six person nearly lost their lives. wos indicted this i weey by the grand jury. Lillie Viar, her colored accomplice, was also in dicted and will be tried Friday. Bob Sutherland and Courtney Bak er, negroes, were hanged at Rome. Ga., on Tuesday for murder. Both negroes made lengthy speeches from the scaffold, admitting their guilt. Sutherland killed two negroes and wounded three others at a dance last Christmas; Baker killed his wife. The president has sent to the sen ate the nomination of Representative Alston G. Drayton to be United States judge for the northern district of West Virginia. succeeding the ven erable John J. Jackson. the oldest member of the federal judiciary. Judge Jackson was appointed by President Lincoln in 1862. The safe in the office of the Mc 'Aden cotton mills, at McAdenville, N. C., was opened and robbed of be tween Si.800 and $2,ooo and a nuin ber of valuable papers some time be tween the closing hour SaL, y night and the opening hour Monday morning. The safe was opened by; the combination, the work being plainly that of professionals. Fire was discovered in Madison Square Garden. New York. on Tues day night, a shor: time after the thousands who had been attending the Sportsmen's Show and the audi ence in the garden theatre had left the building. The damage done the building and exhibits is estimated at $13,0oo. The plant of the American Cereal company at Cedar Rapids. Ia., the largest of its kind in the world, com prising two entire blocks of brick and iron structures, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday night. The loss is esti mated at $1,500,000, with insura,ce es timated at nearly $I,ooo,ooo. It is feared several people lost their lives but this is not definitely known. The fire started in the.hull grinding room; of one of the elevators. In :he New Jersey house of repre sentatives on Tuesday a resolution' was introduced authorizing the gov' ernor to return a Confederate flag to the governor of North Carolina. captured by the Ninth New Jersey Volunteers at the battle of Newbern. The flag was presented to the Beau fort Plow Boys by the ladies of Beau fort. N. C. The presidlent has sent to the sen ate the appointment of Chas W. An derson of New York as internal reve nue collector for the dis:rict of New Y' rk to succeed Charles HI. Treat. who' has been appointed to succeed Ellis H1. Roberts, treasurer of the United States at WVashington. An dIerson is an inspector of racing un decr the New York state racing law. He studied law at one time but has ;nt been admitted to the bar. He is a negro. Overturning high in the air, on the Lake street elevated railroad in Chicago, on Tuesday, a passenger coach withgSo persons aboard narrow ly escaped being dashed to the gran-. ite pavement below. One woman was pinioned on the tracks within a few inches of the deadly electric third rail a though finally extricated alive, w atalv imjured. Forty other sengers were injured. )ut t (a serious ly. The upset was caused )y the car T missing a switch. The president sent a large num her of nominations to the senate on Monday. including all the menibers of the present cabinet except Post- ir master General Wynne. George B. 1 Cortelyou was nominated for that of fice. Robert J. Wynne was nomi nated for consul general at London 0 and Hunter Sharp. of North Carolina, as consul at Kobe. Japan. The am bassadors nominated were: Wlhite law Reid to Great Britian: Robert S. McCormick to. France: George V. L. Meyer to Russia: Edwin 11. Conger. r Alexico, and Henry White to Italy. A (uadruple murd-er has been com mit:ed at Whitlev, about twelve miles a lrt)lm,L Danville. Ark.. tile victims ben i th. wile and three cnildren of lames Inc. a farn r ,f that locailty. He ti w ilsspcte(ld -,f the crime, placed in Jail. liater cinfessing that he killed j his family because he could not: maKe a 1iving f r them. An a I. w;. u4 by the murderer. and the hcads of the victims were split -pen and crushed. showing that in each instance a heavy blow was truck. The four person.- had ben 6 slai. as they slept. F Mrs. Isaac Abrams was bea:en to death and Mrs. Sadie Chatham. her d daughter, was fatally injured in Chester, Pa., on Monday, by the 0 younger woman's husband, John L. Chatham, a prominent druggist, who afterwards attempted to kill his one- a ear-old child and then shot himself in the head wi:h a revolver, dying lat er at a hospital. The wveapon used . upon the wife and mother-in-law it c was a hammer. The child was iot seriously hurt. There are rumors to the effect that Chatham and his wife a b did not live happily, but these cannot c be- verified. b b Miss Maggie Looney, of Thomas vile Ga.. and Otto McElroy and Reese Boyd. of Sanford. Fla.. were dro wned while boating on Lake Mon roe. near Sanford, on Sunday night.. George B. Cortelyou on Tuesday took the (,ath as postmaster general. aind at once assumed the duties of his S o)ffice. lie announced that in a few days he will retire from the chairman ship of the republican national com mittee. He will be succeeded by Vice Chairman Henry S. New. of Indiana polis. Frank H. Hitchcock. of Mas-V sachusetts, will be appointed first as- - sistant postmaster general. Rev. Benjamin WV. Ashley, a minis ter of the Christian church, -residing ~ near Newport, Tenn., has been given A sentence of 15 months in the peni :entiary for violating the pension aws. In investigating his case a >ension examiner discovered that he evas a bigamist. After Ashley had een placed on the pension rolls a iorth Carolina woman, claiming to e his wife, made application for a livision of the pension. Ashley swore :hat was not his legal wife, btt :hat his wife was a Tennessee wo nan. It developed that Ashley mar ried his first wife in 1865 and had nev er obtained a diverce, but had aban loned her 30 years ago, marrying a B econd time after going to Tennessee o reside. F r NOT1 the temporary imp! mercury, opiates, alc< tary relief from sharp searching cleansing of the every vestige of the disease, CURES RI We know that it should the most scientific manner, eannot harm, but build up it does cure because hundre< that it has CURED AFTER AL Free smmgle bottle from. BOBBIT1 YOUR DRUC~..ST SI Sol by Gilder. Weeks & H qJONAZITE IN GREENVILLE. races of Gold Found in Every Sample-New York Con cern Secures Options. . Greenville. March 8.-Monazite in rge quanities has been discovered the creeks and branches around C ennerman in Grove township, and mns of the mineral are being taken ut and tested. in The analyses by reliable mineral- T gists show a very large per cent. tire monazite in the samples sent for nalytical purposes. and a trace of Old is found in every sample. G BE A New York concern has secured ights from most of the land owners if i this neighborhood to mine theI l iineral wherever traces are found, nd the land owners get $15 a ton a: .r the crude ore when taken from-le .e mine. This royalty is paid fort :ti i i unmined ;re. and it will thus be c r en the land xwner where any quan- n y is secured iS extremely fortunate. ;01 he is put t- n expense whatever. d nd the mineral is found only in ranches and marshes where the land d unfit for cultivation. Among the land owners where the ineral is found are : P. D. Huff, W. 1. Lennerman. T. M. Griffin, Jnc. iddle and Jas. M. Alexander. On Ir. Alexander's plantation more ian 50 tons of crude ore has been ug, and he has an Eldorado if the re continues to be found. The land owners in the locality are ery enthusiastic over their good luck nd there is no doubt that their for- S ines are already made. Monazite is worth in a refined state bout $i.ooo a ton, and is largely used f 1 the manufacture of arc lights in :>mbination with carbon for wicks. The branches of Reedy Fork creek re all rich in the mineral, and it has een discovered in branches of Rocky reek in the Standing Spring neigh- F orhood. Fly, Flee, Flaw, Flue. fly and a flee in a flue Were imprisoned. Now what could they do? 4 Said the fly: "Let us flee!" -Let us fly," said the flea- F o they flew through a flaw in the flue. hen the Bundle Comes Back /TH EVERY PIECE, PURE, WEET, SPOTLESS, WHITE, ELL WASHED, NICELY TARCHED, NEATLY IRONED ND NOTHING TORN. You Are Well Pleased. THAT'S JUST THE KIND OF !ORK~ MNewberry Steam Laundry Co. Turns Out.4 CAN'T WE CALL FOR YOUR UNDLE AND DELIVER IT REE. TO STAY CURED. I ovement resulting from dangerous 1 ,hol, or potash ; not the momen pai given by liniments; but a blood that clears the system ofc and absolutely IEUMATISM. tc cure because it is compounded in of purely vegetable drugs thatt he entire system. We knew that is of those cured have written us L OTHERS FAILED. ' CIECAL CO.. BALTIMORE. :LLS RNEUMACIDE. unter. lewberry Agents PACIFIC I -ife InsuranC( OF CALIFORNIA (LIFE, ACCIDENT ommenced Business N It is not the largest---uot the oldest but, I ation the S MRGEST Life Insurance Co surance it is n:t ESTIMATES (Guesses) 1 Our S WRIT an the guarantees of any other company I ose of any other old line coGRESa' Iui PLAIEST terms and FPIUREFS -V UARANTEES: Cash Loans---Paid up Insi xred--Extended Insurar.ce--Cash surrende Cash Dividends--Grace in payiug premiur desired, ALSO: 1M-MEDIATE payment ight to change beneficiary, AND IS: IN( NLI 4ITED as to residence and travel. lt gives the LARGEST amount of protee ad defends BOTH the Insured and the Bei rery element of SECURITY---A PLAIN p It sells a deferred dividend Contract, whi ie policy holder $5.00 a week, on each thot Lused by accident or d!seaxe; and in additO sured become permanently disabled from < ied--The insured QUITS PAYING PRET the policy in tex equal annual installmen Itonal Cost. 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In taking life hat e people want but GUARAN ['EN in the policy are GREATER. ho' the costs are no greater than TT02>T in the policy it trance---Additions to the sum in r Values, AND PROVIDES: Year as--Installment plans of settlement, of claims---Right of restoration ,ONTESTABLE after ONE year ;ion that the Awoney will buy---Arms iificiary at ALL points---Possesses olicy EASILY understood. ch, at a small additional cost, gives sand of insurance, for lost time ), the contract provides that if the lisease or accident the policy is ma HIUMS and will receive the amount ts. And All This Without Ad our policies, call on or write, giving ORRIS, SALE! oods damaged by the nd Window Shades. o be sold at a sacri :>air of Shoes, take a i buy. You can get a a very little money. nt. reduction on all n any way. )OTEN. atterns Price. 4 AND SEE >ping tour come here first. * necessary steps and much u want then look elsewhere. Swe do wish you to see our .be to your advantage in >re the final rush begins. 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