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THE MESSAGE Of (Mefflor McSweeney to tho 0i&« . ifil Awembly. THE BEST HE EVER ' t T •- V' K- WROTE. He Advaacce Pronontt«*(T Vlows an th«* Leadln* yitPBlIonn, Which Arc Likely to be IHacunn- ed thiH Herndon. (|ov. McSweeney’s McsnaKc was read before lx)th Houses -of the General Assembly on Tuesday, Jan 13." We have room only for a synopsis of the =fe To adopt i men pefcitata<re of hetuai value la, as be saja.r “a plain Tame 19) as oc omja, m plain Violation of the provisions of the constitution.” “It makes little difference tothe tas- paytr what the basis of valuation Ik so that all property is assessed in the same ratio of value, for a certain amount of money has to be raised to Only adhererto the position bs If a year a#o but emphasizes It. question, he says, must be met And solved, and “the sooner It I9 done 'thejess dlllicuK of solution It will be. We cannot longer avoid th responsibility. Tlmt Uie State hA* meet the expense^ of government, and *?h the rate is low, able document. He made a tuimbor of recommendations, follows: briefly stated as 1. A compliance, with the clear com nth mandate of the Constitution that “all taxes upon property, real and personal, shall be laid upon the actual value of the property toxed^notr-flO per cent of Its actual value, nor tiO per cent, nor yet 80 per cent, as is the case now in some parts of tho State; but upon the actual value. ' . i!., A pencral system of road im provement, to be paid fer by a property tax,-to'be levied on all taxable pro perty, whether situated in town or country. 3. The enactment of a compulsory education law. ? 4? State aid to the public schools and such an appropriation aS. wi 11 “bring up the nefleient schools to a minimum standard” the appropria tion not to b<‘ less than the aggregate amount appropriated for the support of the State.colleges. 5. The creation of County Hoards of Education and the emplyment of ex pert Superintendents of Education, in accordance with the recommendation of the*State Superintendent, so that a business In which tiie State Invests nearly a million dollars every year -shall riot 1*'without capable business supervision. , , «. The establishment of Home Schools for Girls and Farm Schools for Hoys in such counties as shall, by special-Act of the Legislature, vote upon themsc 1 ves a-tax pbi exceeding, two mills for the-—siipport of ‘stich schools. ' 7. The continued favor oflhe Gen eral Assembly towaWs " The several State colleges. ■ • 8. The passage of a law prohibiting the employment of children in the cot ton mills of the State. 9. The Building of a new house for the Governor, the present. Executive Mansion being utterly inadequate. 10., An increase in the number- of judical circuits in t he State, insteart „ of making any further^attempt to re lieve legal congestion by the expedient of ordering special Courts. 11. The imposition of a tax of 2 per cent on all outside insurance eofqy panies doing business in the State on the gross premiums collected in the State, instead of the tax now required of these companies; and the payment . by^each agent or representative of an insurance company soliciting insurance in the State of a small sum for a license to-do business. In 1901 these companies collected from the people .jgi-the State 12300,7Htt47,and paid back * In losses for the same tune il.,337, Hi. ~ The companies realised on business in this State $1,403,140 60. 12.. The cure of certain growing evils of the penskm system adopted by the State for the relief of old Con- federate soldicrs^Jjy liaving the execu tive officers of the CampsTof United Confederate Veterans in each county act as the county pension I ward, or having the survivors -to elect the members of the pension boards. Lasi year the State paid $200,000 toindigeht Confederate Veterans, four times the amount first appropriated for this - -..purpose three or four year ago, and t he Comptroller General reported that there are now 7,750 names on the pension rolls of the State, It Is a growing evil against which the Gover nor would have the Legislature pro vide. ! —- 13. Ample provision ftu Uiesupjxjrt of the State militia, upon the strength of which “rests at last t lie safety of If t he valuation Is big knd vice tersa? The inequality which now exists, however, makes the bur den bear unevenly, and the best plan is to require that the mandate of the oQhstitutlon be followed. If due coun ty te .assessed at 80 per cent, and an other at 50 pe ‘ cent, of actual value, one is paying too much or the other Is paying too iittlc/of Its proportion of the State tax.” * All this should hardly need the say ing. There Is but one nominal objec tion 1 (^assessing property at its true value, and that l-i not-really an objec tion, but a recommendation. It is that the receipts from the 3 mill tax for public schools will J,mj largely In-^ creased thereby, We all know Uut our school system Is defective, that the.'schools need more money, that every community in the State which is resolved upon having good schools must now levy an extra tax, and that the ways and means of Improving our educational system form an engrossing subject of thought. The solution of the whole matter IfJ W obey'TTOdbn stitutlon in the matter of assessments of property and thereby iqgTease the general school fund. This would per mit nearly all special school taxes to be done away with and would provide for even tl»e roost tsiak ward oonnmwi- t ies a sufficiency of public Instruction. If it should prove that the constitu- tlorialTmlll tax provided utMjora full assessment a larger sum for the com mon schools titan was required it would h’ho difficult matter to amend the constitution so as to reduce that tax to 2 mills, the former figure. Brit meanwbye the Jeglslature, owes ft to its own pledge to obey the constitu tion, to the educational interests of the State and to equity between man and,man, county -and county, to pro vide for the assessment of property at its t rue value. v Tee total assessments for 1902 were, $195,531,001, being an increase during The year of $0,203,952. Realty Is re turned at $107,010,298 and personalty at $01,018,560, and railroad property is assessed At $27,508,203. it Is fair to as sume, what the census figures will show, that instead ,of less than $200,- evit which If 000,000 of property Smth Carolina has more than $400,000,000 subject to taxa-. AlTYB. Under the present system the tax-dodgers get the benefit of the dif- fererice, leaving honest citizens, will ing to-l»ear their share of the public ■burdens, witlrthe weight of taxation upon them.. The governor devotes several pages of his message to a consideration of £ -rrsmt' the question of road improvement, and u he advocates a property tax to furnish the means of systematically and per manently providing the State with ;ood highways. The plan at present ed in mi goo mHowed in most counties of tinkering on the roads Involves, fie rightly sms, mere waste of rnoney, “The chain- gang should be required to do perma nent road work,> starting from the county court houses as the gcographi- calxTiitre and building out in each the right to Interfere, no Jthoughtful citizen will question. No one can. suc cessfully controvert the position tliut this labor of Tong andconstatft hours Is Injurious totlie chlldrenand, there-) fore, affects the citizenship of, the future,' This being true, the Stale has the right to come In and say it Strati-Or sttfp ped. ” ‘ Looking atlt first from the purely commercial stand point, he shows that to meet the com petition of mher communities In niahufacturing we must have skjlled and Intelligent labor, which 1T oan only T* seemed in t be operatives of the future by education and preparation of the children of the preseat." Then, from the standpoint of humanity, he shows jt to be t he duty of the State to protect the children of lire mill com munities. It Is a fallacy, he argues, that a child labor law la an interfere ence with family government: “The child' is opt a'chattel or an accident, but It has rights In the divine plan which even che parent must :respect. Ills, here for a purpose, and. should have opportunity for the best^ossible training and education iq fit it, for the AecompTlShmeni oTthat purpose. Then toot: it is sometimes a question wither tin? State or the, corporation shall say what is to tie done with -the child, for many times the parent who lives In the mill community must Ire governed by whal the -mth company says, and cannot always send bis children- to scltool, even if he desires to do so, if the lalxrfTtH he 'f-llilfi TS needed In the mill.” After -presenting statistics showing the great and increasing evil of child labor in thefrputh. itfl contrast, with Its reduction in other sections, the governor Concludes: . - ~ The question must be met. -T4»«e Is only one way. to solve it, and that is 011 the side of right and Justice and humanity, The sooner it is dpnu the betTy>, for it can now be managed and a wise and Just bill be passed. If the matter is postponed from year to year we may regret it. j^yt “may” tmi. “shalLlL. This is the t ime of all times lo diSpOse^ef the matter. Whoever id the legislature may advocate postponement will thereby put Ijimself in the position of opposing the reform and continuing ah neglected wilt grow to blighting proportions. The ease is clear, and so Is tho duty of the general assembly. Wo are Democrats and t he 1 >einooraf io party of the State has declared for. this reform. Let its rep resentatives in rfmegislature keep the party’s faith witlf the people and ful fill their own duty toward the future cit izenship of South Carolina. lib a brief discussion of the expe dieney of establishing a board of par dons, provision for which was -made in the constitution, but which has not l>een carried out by the legislature, Gov. McSweeney takes-occasion to de fend the liberality of his paifion jxriicy and to question the Cipedfeney of creating the hoard, .tX - I feo-ee-eom riiendtf j.lie- cj:ee i ■ ■ /■ ■ YI- ♦ ' i JjlOW UP FOR tHIlEOOlI) TXlil. i- \ ** cox, son of former sheriff Thomas pi Wilcox, of Pasquotank county, N. C., charged with and convicted of the murder of Ella Maud, or Nellie Crop- sey, of Elizabeth City, N. C., began at Hertford, Ferqulmas county Wed nesday. The trial was removed from Pasquotank on Recount of the feeling there against the defendant. It will be recalled t hat Wilcox was £ried and ‘CffrfVlcted at Elizabeth City last March. The case was appealed to the supreme court and a new granted. » The Charlotte Observer says the Wilcoi-.Cropsey oase Is wrapped in mystery. Because of the prominence and the standing of the families con- cejped and the veil of mystery that surrpunds it, the case has attracted at tention throughout the country. Thousands of people would be willing to give liberally of their means for the facts In the case. \ The case has been discussed jn almost every reading home In the State. Is Wilcox guilty or not? That Is the question. What will be the result of the scond . trial, time will tell. The first Jury brought in a verdict of guilty. The bill of Indictment against Wil cox reads: “The State of North Caro lina, Pasquotank County, Superior Court, March Term, 1902. The Jurors for the State under their oaths pres- direction permanent roads. If only a few miles are built each year It will beHb miich contributed to the general welfare. The State convicts could not lie put to better public- service, even if it necessitated selling some of the State farms. We can never have any permanent road work done until we change the present system and make provision to raise money by a property £e* r mnl make It niaridatomhat said money shall be put on'perm'irum Improvement, and also mq^ce -it man datory that the chaitwangs shall be put on the same ftork. This is Uie system which has been adopted with so-great aficcess in Richland county, id its festilts point the y and its reshlts ixjint the opportunity r' anditie duty oilhe general assembly. r» The governor’s, conclusions In this governor matter are tRose which reached years ago and has to t tone submitted to 4he Tite State from time constdcra- our structure of civil government. 14. The creation of the office of State Bacteriologist, sod hat the work of tl)e State Hoard of Health may be more effective And-the health of the people pfbtected anti promoted. —, Ja. Provision for the publication of the Invaluable historical records pf the State at. Columbia which are irqtees- sible in tliqlr present condition to those who would consult them.. 16. The establishmenl oFfpioireai> of immigration for the purprwe of keeping Uie. resource? oL, the State steadily and intelligently bofGre the In* vestment and homn-seeklng Workl. The above we take from The News an<2Courier, What follows below is Xfrom Thc state: census—figures that the Illiteracy of native whites over ten Tears of age Is 18.1 per cent,, and declares that.be cannot see how in the face of tills fact there can be opposition to compelling the attendance of children on _ the public schools,. “It is no 1 necessary,” he proceeds, “to wogry abowt the ne gro,. He is getting all the education which is provided now and could gel no more under compulsory attendance. What we slmuld be concerned about is thoseducatlon and the moral uplifting of our white hoys and girls. Ignorance is a menace and a burden to civil lilv erty and the good morals of the coun try. In addition to this, every boy—of glrl 1h this count ry has a right-to the opiKirtunlty to do somethlrig and to be something. ^Gucli a law cahoot inter fere with the rights of parents, be cause no parent has thor a slave out of4tl? off-spring ortorob i^iis chlldof tlie right to make a useful ittfzeu ortp have the hpportanlty to ilve/a useful arid happy fire. We levy a tax and enforce the collection.of it The last annual message of Gov. .ne- wge 0 of S( JUfiJS of South Caro lina which presents many points of gratification and owm»uragenfent. Tlie State, lie says, ” has en joyed am er&of material prosperity'whieli is unprece dented;” “iiety enterprises axe being projected and the building of cotton mills goes constantly on: business of every character has been exceptional ly prosperous; -peace and good order prevail, and progress-has heen made along educational lines.” The only conspicuous causp Tor dissatisfaction is the Inability of the Stale to meet dur ing the year the obligations it had in curred. As to.tills the Governor sayS: — TheGert-rrmt nm 1 (he State treas urer were forced th .borrow the ftlTT amount of the, $300,000 authorized by the last lpgisiattnT7~~TlTis was mariv necessary bj- iheTadl that MncJast ap propriation act carried w ith it .inure than the revenue from the levy for State purposes would realize. I t is not good business judgment;for the State to borrow money to mefet current ex penses. Knowing Uie total assessed property of the Slate, the levy should be sufflciently iarge to meet the appro priations. Or if it is desired to fix (meaning, wc judge, to maintain at the present rate) the levy the appro priation bill should be kept within the amount such levy will realize. You should so regulate the t vyo that theGtate wiHnot herompelled to tiof- row money for current expenses and be Jo reed to pay interest charges. Which is sound adykje, obviously de- iioii ' manded by the occasion.' The gover nor goes on to make a goijd argument In favor of such .a measure as Tne State has for years advocated, to wit, the Assessment of property atdu act ual value as required tty the constltu ton ffnhpri stitution?” He shows by illustration that a great variance exists between the tax burdens laid on different coun- ttes, the basis for taxation in some be- 80 per oent. of actual value and ki tog 80 | Others tion of the law-making body. Compulsory education is championed by Gov. McSweeney. He shows from *00 public education; then why not en- BjLnoE loihe.;%4,tcndancoso444at-aH-the-ciiild- ren may*receive the benefit# and Ijaye the mooey put to the best possible ui md for the greatest nossihlc good to I he greatest.nrimber? - in this matter de- t he greatest number?’’ L also the position of the governor Is tlyit of The State; (ximpulsory at tendance on the public schools would greatly* enlarge the benefits of the -schools to white children while not materially increasing the already great. attendance pf negrapupils. With tfip constitutional school tax... lev red on- property at its actual value there, would Ire an abundance of money to maintain the schools hjne montlis in the yejar and thus a TawTb compel at-. tenaarioe would have its fuil and sired effect, -For thqr improvemout of the com- raon'kchooUr Gov. McSweeney, in ad dition to the three mill constitutional tax for school purposes, ,asks a legisla tive appropriation equaling the aggre gate appropriations Tor lhe State col leges. He also says that It would he “in the interest of economy to expend $F,ogda yegr in each county to insure the proper supervision and direction of ail the money that Is now being ex pended in schools.” He endorses the plan of the State superlntendehtr of education of home schools for girls and farm schools for boys in the several counties and urges leyiaiat iaa- upon itself a tux not exceeding two mills for such school*. AH these and other improve ments, as we have Intimated, would result without further legislative en- actroenfc/rQm Uie assessment of prop erty in South* Carolina at its actual value in monfey^ - - i« A paragraph in Uie nje$*age is de voted to each of the State Institutions It is estimated that the damagt by RBH Jorest fires In-Washington and Oregon “W liy not follow,, asks the gov- of higher learning, and as to each the the past summer and fall amounts to - “the plain language of tlie opn- nearW $13 0^^ This areat loss . . , M- „—„—— bis administration. On the subject of child labor, one of the most important to come before tbe general assembly at this session, new executive tnaiisiou on grou owned by l he Soul h Carolina college and suggests a joint legislatives yom- mittce to investigate the matter and report a plan, Tlie demand for extra court# ih vari ous counties causes the governor to suggest an. increase in t he number of circuits.- We bave the same number now as in 1*7U, he say*, when thiTpbp- uiation was but half its present figure, and there were only 31 count ics in comparison wiTTTil Hi 1903 He concurs In the' recommendation ||| r general that In stead of the present system of licens ing nisuranee eumnani^sHi tax of 2 pel cent, on the gross premiums collected lie bnpo*ed. Other recoinrnendat ioris t>y the—comptroller general are ap proved. In tlie matter of pensions Gov. Me Sweeney declares that “Ht-ts rIOT TRe purpose of our pension laws to pen- skm all who were deserving Confed erate, sgildlers, 1ml only those who are needy.” ’ “\\ r e started with an appnv priatlon of kiiUioo. 14c last year It had reached. $2oo,o<K>. That there are many on tlie county mltVwfKJ’ do not need the Assistance of the State Isa mat ter wrikdey attracting tlie noPlee of many Confederate soldiers themselves^ and this fact is In violation of Uie in tention for which our |>ei«ion laws were enacted.” He righTTy places the the county boards,-which often argue thm as Uie money Is already appro- prlared "tbe more they can get for their cdPhflles the better, and thus put on the tolls those who, though they come w ithlridhe strict letter of the law, under IrS intention should not be there.” Tlicre are now 1,750 , peaslorikTiron tlie rolls./Tlie governor, suggests a ehangem the (^institution of tlqe county boards and ebiidrUTles wit+i the statement that vndle no Confederate soldier should lie ptbmit- Sriiffer fordack of the necessaHes Of life it Ibf tulentAm ©f thX law to give bounty to those who do mot. need assistance, however deserv ing they may be.” In tills position, alnjfov- McSweeney is in hue “ ag 1 he Snrte, _-W».liclifvo-tliAt--a proper disjHwition ofthe pension fund would save #100,OUO a year to the. State wlth- OitF ^t'piivmg any veteraa victim of the-war of the'money lie needs for his support. , ! . r,’ \ The wdric ptibe various departments anlTpiTlilic cnarttalile and'icorreCtlonal irisUtutions is briefly considered by the governor, his remarks, however, calling for no special comment. The most important of his further Yecom- ni'endatioiis is that a depaffment , of immigration be established. This Is and lias long beep oqe of the State’s most serious needs, and it is to be hoped that the general assembly will take Aumc act ion t o promote the gom- tng'lo Seutii Caroiina of. desirajdu im migrants. Konrteen VicUms. A terrific explosion oeeurretkAt the HamiTton Powder company’s Depar^ ture Hay, H.. C., Wednesday morning. George SimonettL-dames Fulforte and ten Cjitpamen were killed. Only one body. Hurt of a Chinaman^ was recovered. Others were absolutely blown tdTragmeirts, The gun cotton storage house exploded first, the con cussion exploding the geligimite in the drying house 400 feet away, whgfSJ tb have occurred. The ground was excavated to a depth u# sik feet where the‘bulldihgs stood. The building? were blown into irindllng wood and scattered with fragments Of human flesh over scvercal acres. \ ■ oeni. oi aciuai value aud Hi general assemoiy ai im* session, little as 50 per cent, or leas, j Go*- McSweeney, we are glad to find, nearly $13,000,0d0. This great loss IS not merely a commercial loss of timber, but a loss to the nation as well, and special effort should be tqadc to prevent further devastation of this kind. 1 * THE WI1C0X TRIAL. A Review of a Host Interesting and Peeullar Oaaer, t: A Great Many People Are of tbe Upiaion That tbe Defea- ?u v dant Mardered Mine Nellie Cropeej. The second trial of James K. WH, your back to tbe court bouse of - the county, croee Tiber and Herrington creeks and go out River view avenue, along ttti river, toward tbe southern boundary of the courity, you wtH pat the Cropaey home. As the crow flies it is about a half-mile frogl the court house, butaa tlfe road, iwlnds 1$ ia more than a mile. The pouse faces the read and the river, and ' to get to tbe river from the front steps you must cross the road, which is about yards from the house! JL little to he rignt of the Cropsey house, and 185 yards from the steps, and about yards from the water, tbs body of the girl was found. It was not in the main channel of the river, but in a sidepocket of water. The counsel for tbe State in the case contend that Wilcox struck Nellie Cropsey on the head with some blut instrument, car ried her to the place where her body was found and dropped her into tbe water in an unconscious condition. The defence held that the State did not prove that the gt*l was killed at 7 4 -v-- - ^ ^ . The crest rheumatic remedy not only euro form et rheumatism, but make* radical cure* of every £ Contagious Blood Poison, Scrofula, Sores, Boils, Catarrh, nd all diseases arising from impurities In the ; Met Endorsed by physicians and prominent people every- —re. • where after thorough trial. DOfcS NOT INJURE THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS. Gentlemen I t*k* pleoture tn hearing te •* ronr ^ Rh •cm ao is a" TwobotU** oared be of aajr beneBt to you In edrerttalnc your n Ralbmb, a. CL b^arln* testimony to the eurettve Bruporiuf ' my son of a had oaee. If tiua wlu all. ^ m ■y > V«a In adrertlalnf your merltorloua remedy, you eon uae It. Tours truly, W. H. HAND, Steward State Blind rueNtuMwi. James Wilcox is a small, well-built man, about 30 years of age. He Is not a prepossessing looking man.—His records has been that of a model young man,.4iit no one had charged him triatH tb &ny crimTnal act up to the time of the death of Miss Cropsey. The people who know him and have known him since his childhood believe that he is guilty. Four out,of every five perjons believe him to be guilty. His old school mates, his associates In the citv Are department and bis boon companions frankly admit that he Is capable of oommitting such a crime as be Is accused of. They say that he ^was always cruel and selfish. But none of these things were proven on tho witness stand. He did not testify In his own behalf. * „ . A Feat in State Printing. All Druggist*, fi.oo; Bobbitt Chemical Co., •r prepaid on receipt of price. ■' - , ■ . Baltimore, fid. TAYLORS 1 Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum & Mullein Cures Coughs, Colds, Whooping Cough, LaGrippe am all Throat and Lung Troubles. MADE of Ppre SWEET GUM, MULLEIN & HONEY. Your Druggist soils it 25 <k 60. FERTILIZERS! ■ ent James Wilcox, late of the said busy for some time. The following county -and*State on.the 20th day of November, 1901, with force and arms tetlie county of Pasquotank, In said State, feloniously, wilfully, ^nd with malice aforesaid, did- kill and murder Ella M. Cropsey, against the statute In such cases made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the State." ' » The facts in the case as brought out -in-evidence during the first trial are about as follows: Mr. James Wilcox, the defendant In the case, went to the home of W. II.' Cropsey, father of the dead girl, on the night of Novem ber 20th, 1901, to call on Miss Nellie, In whom he had been paying consldef- bffy iitleotJoil for several years. Whetnie’arrlved at the Cropsey home, say about 8. o’clock, the finally was in the sitting room. Young Roy Crawford was there calling on Miss Ollie Cropsey, a sister of Miss Nellie. Soon aRer 9 o'clock all'the mem bers of t he "household except Miss Ollie, Nellie and Carrie Cropsey, a cousin from New York, who was visiting there at the time, fetiredand left the young people alone.—Therefore the party In the room was coin posed of the following named: Wilcox- and Misse? Carrie, Nellie and Ollie Crop- sey. Later, after having maoe two or three attempts tu excUse herself, Miss Carrie went to her room. This left Wilcox, Crawford and' the two sisters In the room. It was said that Wilcox and Crawford were at outs with each other at the time. They did uot speak- whan - they came to- gether. At 11 ofclock sharp, Wilcox, The.Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier says: The Legisla tors found their desks laden with pub lic documents to-day. A new record had bees made In public printing and the law-makers are supplied with enough reading matter to keep them Fertilizers! :V.- V Wilcox & Gibbs reports of State officers were deliver ed: Penslsn report of Comptroller General; insurance report of Comp- t roller-General; report of Superinten dent of Education; report of the com mission on the South Carolina West Indian Expedition; report of phosphate inspector; pardons and commutations; report of State Treasurer; code com missioner’s report; railroad commis sioners’ report; lighting commission’s report; reports of the State-geologist, (two.) Perhaps the document of greatest importance to the law makers laid on their -desks was a pamphlet of about eighty pages, be ing advancesheets of tbe Comptroller General's report, containing tbe State estimates, the county estimates, : tbe tax levy and the receipts and expendi tures. * The pamphlet bore this en dorsement: “With the compliments of State Company, State printers.” The coibplet#> rfcport of the troller General would have been on the desk of members on the first day pf the session if the Compttollef had been able to get ther necessary re turns from all U]e c(HintTes~^ “ Grows More HcHouS. The small pox situation in the up country has reached -an interesting, not to say an acute stage. Dr. Evans hA9 received notice from the governor of the existence of the pest at a num- who had appeared restless and moody, (luting the evening, rose from his seat, saying: “I must go home; my mflffner will Be uneasy a&uUme if 1 stay blit ^uarantine^tt^s-thought that most after this hour.” This was said in a jocular way. Continuing, Wilcox said. “Miss Nellie, I would like to see you in..the hall.” rolled a cigarette and went but, followed by the girl. After that moment Nellie Cropsey was never seen again by any one save Wilcox. Her dead body was found floating, just beneath the sur face of the water of Pasquotank river, on the morning of the 27th day of December. r'"'-”" - ” - ’Thirty minutes after Wilcox and Nellie left the room Miss Ollie'hade Crawford good-night, saw him to the door and went up-Stairs to her room, thinking that her sister had gone finding .Jier going the rounds this .year is serious enough to alarm any body, even the most skeptical oLthose vmo have been ridiculing the anxiety of the State Board in the past. In Virginia and further north it is prov ing very serlpusrerFlorence Times. A M urderous Scoundrel. A dispatch from Lancaster says Mr. Wesley Hunter’s fourteen-year-old son, who lives acroes the ltmr uhead of her; hut not there she concluded that she and Wil cox,' who had been having-losers’ quarrels, had made up, crossed the harKJnto the pajrlor fi till tho«£ However, after tfceir a slionnap. arid waE rd the clock strike 12, ister arid gavd tne alarm. missed her Soon the wholP family was up and searching everywhere for the lost girl*' But their efforts were in vain. No trace of the girl could be found. A boy 11 o'clock Mr. Cropsey went across towrFu> the Wilcox home and told Mrs. Wilcox, mother of the defen- dantr that Nellie..had disappeared and asked to see James. Mrs. Wilcox went alone to James’ room and soon returned to say that he declared that he knew nothing of- the girl, that he had returned to her an umbrella-and a picture she had gi ven- hinf, and the front porch, of her home,.crying. riot get out uf bed, and seemed indifferent. ’ At the- trial be fore the mayor of the town he said that he turned over after his mother left the room and was Asleep in two minutes. After visiting the Wilcox home Mr. Cropsey reported the case to the police department. Chief Dawson went to Wilcox’s room during the ear-- ly hoiir$ of the morning and, asked him to accompany him to the Crop- Hev fftSjdenae. -WRcox rnwlnd miti hf ) bed, put on his working clothes and went- t His room was never searched until the dead body of tbe girl was und?37 days later. Itls not kftdwn hether his visiting suit was wet or not. ALthe Cropsey home he declared that he knew nothing of Nellie’s whereabouts, -’--j *.i In order to understand tbe evidence that will pe'lglven in the trial one must fix the location of the Cropsey bouse, relative to the town and the Pasquotank river, in his mind. It is prespersons little city of 8,000 inhabi tants, situated on the banks of tbs Fasquotanlq rivsr. If yon will turn ially along the Savannah River. The pest has appeared again In the cotton mill dlstricte.. One report received Friday told of 25cases Within a radius of two miles in Eauren.s county. The situation is so grave that the board of health is considering the matter of from across the source bf the diseAse comes river, and iUis that source_tbat will be quarantined first if the quarantine is thought aovisable. The small-pox that has been in CheSF terfield Courity, was the victim of brutal attack by a Lancaster County negro. Mack Blakeney. last Friday. The boy was attacked by the negro near the terfield County, and was witnessed by home from school. Blakeney RtABbed"tHe boy in a knlre and wounds hfc said to be fatal. Every effort is now being made to catch the who Is thought to be hldlrigln negro, ^ _ this coutfty. Sheriff Hunter left Lan caster Thursday morning 'to Join fh the chase and he has with him the county’s bloodhounds. It goes with out saying that Sheriff Hunter will leave no stqne unturned in his efforts to capture the bloodthirsty negro. Killed by a Fall. Pate Mcyeps/'a young white man, switchman on the Seaboard Air Line, was Instantly killed Wednesday morn- Ing by a fall from the Seaboard tres- herjcanlng against one drtlie posts to at the comer of Rice and Lincoln 1 streets In Columbia. 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