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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1909
Page
1
Seaboard Air Line schedules a local sleeper on the Wilmington Hamlet train leaving Wilmington at 3 am with occupancy allowed at 9 pm in Wilmington and 8 pm at Hamlet. Berths cost 1.50 dollars each direction, passengers may stay aboard in Wilmington until 8 am.
A Nash county man asserts he can worm dogs to prevent rabies by removing a worm under the tongue. He issues a written guarantee that the dog will never go mad and offers correspondence to interested clients.
Charlie Summers, a notorious figure from Sharpesburg township, was arrested at his home by Sheriff Deaton and Deputy Brown around sun-up Sunday. He was brought to Statesville and jailed, then released on $1,000 bond given by friends and relatives Monday afternoon.
Strawberry shipments Monday totaled 20 cars from the Chadbourn belt and two car loads from the Wilmington and Weldon sections. Excluded were large express shipments from the Wilmington and Weldon territory. Tuesday’s bearing of berries rose to 50 cars.
Governor Kitchin issued pardons on the 12th including Allen Gray of Pitt County a two year road sentence. Gray allegedly attempted to steal clothes at a store Saturday night and fled with several garments before being captured. Another item reports a plan by the Dukes to form a cotton mill trust in the South linking Southern Power Company control to mills. A fire in Monroe destroys the home of County Commissioner T. J. Gordon valued around 4000 dollars with insurance partial.
Carnie Pitt of Edgecombe County was held on three charges after last week's incidents. He faced carrying concealed weapons an assault on John Johnson and shooting at Tom Royster. Convicted on all counts, Pitt was sent to Edgecombe County court for trial.
Reports from Wilmington note 15 car loads of lettuce entering Philadelphia and New York markets on Saturday with prices from $1 to $1.25 per basket in Philadelphia and up to $1.75 for fancy stock in New York. Through freights carried five or six cars from Tuesday’s cuttings. In East Spencer Jim Keesler was shot near his home by Deputy Sheriff D L Beasley Sunday afternoon. Beasley surrendered and posted $500 bond.
Hartford report states Governor George L. Lilley died at the executive mansion after a long illness. He was forty nine and had just won a fervent campaign amid corruption claims over his election. Lilley previously served as Representative-at-Large in Congress and had leveled submarine industry charges that drew strong opposition.
Governor Augustus Willson of Kentucky pardons nine-year fugitives W. 8. Taylor and Charles Finley along with John Powers and others tied to the Goebel murder. Taylor and Finley fled to Indiana after Goebel’s death. none pardoned have been tried, and no requisitions were issued. The move closes a long, divisive chapter in Southern politics.
In Washington Georgetown Hospital former U S Senator William M Stewart of Nevada died after an operation aged eighty two. He served in the Senate for twenty eight years with a break from 1875 to 1887. In New York City Colonel Franklin Bartlett lawyer and commander with the Sun Printing and Publishing Association died at 26 West Twentieth Street of carcinoma of the liver. Born in 1847 in Worcester County Massachusetts. Also Peter F Collier publisher of Collier's Weekly died suddenly of apoplexy. He was born in County Carlow Ireland and founded Collier's Weekly. his son Robert J Collier is editor.
A violent tornado struck Cleveland Ohio at noon lasting about five minutes. It caused 6 to 20 deaths with at least 9 fatally injured and 50 or more seriously hurt. Storm toppled churches factories smokestacks and damaged property worth about 1 million dollars. Several named victims and injuries are listed with extensive structural damage across the city.
A wry note from the Chicago Tribune recounts Hannibal planning to move heavy equipment by elephant trunks as he prepared to cross the Alps and asks how to ferry the baggage. The joke underscores creative problem solving in historical legend.
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