18 Aug 1903
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Newspaper
The Gastonia Gazette
Location
Gastonia, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1903
Page
1
Paragraphs from Lenoir News and Durham Herald describe sick poor in and near Lenoir needing essential aid and discuss public appeal for help and broader views on criminal punishment and imprisonment policy.
Gaston has declined to vote a bond issue for good roads. Mecklenburg sees an opportunity to attract trade by acting now before neighboring counties recognize the value of excellent roads. The editorial suggests leveraging the moment to retain trade for years.
The cool headed and conservative citizen of every class refuses to be a fanatic and trains himself to consider both sides of every proposition. His duty is to see that this balance as among the classes, parties and factions is maintained.
The Richmond News Leader cautions Southerners against boasting about regional progress, citing the convict lease system in Georgia and South Carolina as a long record of outrages. It notes a South Carolina railroad allegedly running through a hundred miles of graveyard where convicts died from cruelty, starvation, and harsh conditions in January and August.
The Richmond News Leader recalls the 1865 encounter on Fortress Monroe ramparts. It contrasts Jefferson Davis in frail custody with Nelson Miles, the Union general who ordered Davis shackled. The piece questions whether Miles faces retribution for past actions amid his later decline.
Mr. J. C. Workman reports his wife Carrie Workman has left home with Fred Barnes and Nannie Cato. He suspects Barnes and the Cato woman of improper influence, brings letters and a photo to police, and asks for help locating his wife and Barnes as the kids aged 2, 6, 9, and 11 remain.
The Massachusetts struck a rock off Egg Rock three miles southeast of Bar Harbor while fleet maneuvers preceded a Roosevelt viewing at Oyster Bay. 140 tons of water flooded forward compartments, but Captain Eaton said the ship faced no danger and divers checked the hull as escort ships aided.
In the Maxton wreck on Thursday night involving the Rutherfordton to Wilmington excursion train, five were killed Flagman L F Jones of Lumberton Tom Gardener of Stanley and Will Friday of Dallas and two injured Henry Friday of Iron Station and Newman Probst of Catawba.
An observed resident celebrates red headed people noting their energy nerves and temper. He jokes about red headed spouses and asserts no lazy red headed individuals exist, praising their lively influence on surrounding life.
Governor Aycock offers a two hundred dollar reward for the capture of Will Harris the Mecklenburg outlaw who escaped from the penitentiary last week. The proclamation declares the criminal may be taken dead or alive.
The New York Press discusses Lloyds Register data showing the United States as second globally in merchant shipping after Britain. It notes US tonnage totals, the shift from sail to steam, and Britain and dependencies controlling over half the world’s tonnage, with Norway surpassing France and Italy in maritime activity.
In McDowell Superior Court at Marion Judge Jong heard an unusual case, the duel indictment of James Fritz and Erastus Holderfield of Buck Creek. Fritz appeared. Holderfield was absent sick and capias issued. The fighting was a fist and skull clash with no weapons, a rare outcome judged as a dueling act. Fritz admitted the facts but a legal question remained on dueling guilt under the statute.
Kentucky distillers prepare to export 20,000 barrels of whiskey from the 1903 crop to Hamburg and Bremen for storage abroad. This marks the first large shipment of young Kentucky whiskey sent to Europe for maturation.
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