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The Burke County Hews, FRIDAY. J AX. 13, 18')'). Good morning hcen vaccinated ? II.iv e von the iirst paid Tun News? Who will be subscriber to Don't all speak at once. Governor Russell's message to the General Assembly is printed on our second pae. New K. of P. Officers. j Burke Lodre, No. 64, ! Knights of Pythias, held its I regular meeting last Monday; nijrlit, with work in the third! decree. New officers were j also installed as follows:! Chas. Lane, Chancellor Com-J mander: B. S. Gaither. Vice; Chancellor: T. G. Cobb, Prel- : ate; J. H. Wilson, Master of I Work: N. Lazarus, Master of; Finance; Isaac Lazarus, Mas- ; ter of Exchequer; Chas. L. Smith, Keeper of Records; and Seal; C. F. Brown, Mas ter at Arms; Chas. McNeely, j Inner Guard: C. Lannie The small pox scare has about abated. We hear noth ing more about quarantining Smith, Outer Guard. The the town. installation was conducted by The New.,' advertising District Deputy B. R. Payne, rates will be reasonable and This lode is now one of the vv, :,-,. r,,inr to trv to mrtke it most thriving K. of P. lodots in tne ruaie. n is consiauu adding new names to its roster. the best advertising medium in its field. Friend, do you wish The News success? If you do just sav how much by the amount accompanying your "best wises," etc. Mr. W. S. McRary has been at Bridewater for a lew days til is week making some repairs to the boiler at Mr. T. A. Seals' shiniWe mill. A Newspaper for Bakers mlle. j Mr. H. S. Pinkston, who w as ' .'employed as a printer on the; Herald for about- two years1 and more recently as publisher j of the Farmer's h riendat this ; place, will leave next week for ' T 1 1 i j i " ; i-inu'ersvi e To start, a news- Read Bill Arp's letter on I paper at that place. Mitchell third paje--on the way the county has been without a figure () appears in the now ; newspaper for some time and vear. lie savs it means some- ; man v or tne leaumir citizens thuiL'-. There is other inter- : of that countv have assu estiu talk in his two columns. ;Mr. Pinkston of a liberal pat- A LYNCHING IN HURPHY. GEO. MANEY HANGED BY A MOB MON DAY NIGHT. He Had Confessed Killixi; Shekkill ok Gra ham County -The Lynchers Fool, the Depu ty Sheriff. MURPHY, N. C, Jan. 10. (Special to Abbeville Citizen.) (ieorge Manev was lvnehed lat night about 1 o'clock. A crowd of unknown men came to town and represented that they had a horse theif, and Deputy Sheriff Axley opened the jail, when they took Maney out. He was hanged on Valley river bridge. Maney had ron tested to killing Sherrill, front Graham county, most hrutaly. Feeling was very high there against him. He was jailed here for sate keeping. The crime with which Manev was charged was the murder oi Thad Sherrill in (i rat. am county in the priug ot lfl'JN. It was said that this was one of the most cold blooded murdeTs ever known to the people of that section. Maney was taken to the .Murphy jail for sate keeping, and on the night of" November 19 escaped therefrom by tricking the janitor. Karly in December Maney returned to Murphy and gave himself up to Attorney Hen Posey, who turned him over to the authorities. Maney had had a dreadful experience while in hiding, having had little to eat, and one of his feet being badlv frostbitten. A New Telephone System FOR Mo KG ANTON. The Burke Telephone Com pany is the name of a concern which is now putting in a new telephone system in Morfan- STATK NEWS. The Democrat is a new paper at Hickory, W. C. Dowd, of the Char lotte News, editor and proprietor. The first Ustie appeared .Ian ."nb. Greensboro correspondence Char- Mr. Pinkston is a : jranton He I.m.I sick for some time with heart j trouble. The funeral services were held Monday ton. I he parties composing lotte Observer : Dr. .1. A.Cunningiiim, the C-' il !Ki:i V are citizens of ; a prominent minister of the Methodist r,.l i Marion and will in the near i ehurch, died Satui day night. a V, V : - 1 1.1' fl, 1 T.. .-.K,..4..., . . I r irT-i rn 1 ui . j use on (mc . loiiuei-i r :i. n: : A nrum i v Mii'v'orv. I lese K f M(lr,nntn stu-nt Hsf -w,m, u,an tu mLeuence,;; - - - - Sa isbury correspondence Char otte i ot .Mot o-.mton, spent last iron(i vli, ts qmi t n-tonnrin- towns are a'readv connected,.,, , 1 . , c ., . Simd-iv with fri.nU , , tfoou nanus anu a lip-top prin- 4.1 4. i Observer : Messrs. .John .S. Henderson hi.nda uith friends here. , ter an(1 has proven himself ; with other towns and we may ; T. H. Vanderf-.rd are organizing Me is now proprietor otashop. thorol ,,rhlv c;ipabie nf taking i expect ere lonr to he enabled ja rolllmIiy tor the purpose ,.f (luin-hlacksmithin-; andw)od ientire charre of a news r ! t) converse bv telephone with ; opiating an electric car line fr. work in Asheville and reports We i)espe for him success Marion A Jiev'0-e, llurnsville, Chestnut Hill to Sp.-i.cer. The capital a prosperous business. - his Ris famUy : Bakersviile, Hickory, Lenoir, is limited to 810,000 and it i .. il. -ir .'VWfmi in f-i.-f -ith ,.vprv ! bHieVed that thisatnount will be secured 1 he new preacher tor the; win remain in iuorjranton until ' . " M. K. Churc is Rev. H. S. K the A.M.K.Zion Church Rev. A. Mclver. Kev. J. S. Derrv h is been returned to the Mor rinton district by the V. X. C Conterence ot the A.M. 10. Church as presiding elder. ch at this place! spring before jfoinjr to Bakers- important town in . .N. C. Roberts and for ! ville. i P(,,es heinjr put i Hasn't "Materialized." j in a short while. t Harrv D. Watts, a prominent voting society man of Charlotte, was found dead Sunday morning. He wa. lying in and entirely new lines will be uuiil. xms ne mmciii '"j beneath Ane o!" the huge doom of the have a central station with ; i i the report that two voting j someone to make the exchange hou.-e. which is not quite completed, men by the name of Dobson, ! ;ind it is stated that we will ; His head was crushed and !-is back ; of Linville township, had small i have both dav and nirht ser-1 broken. He Lad evidently been dead ; pox, has proven to be a false vice. It is expected that the i several no,,r!- The door was in place. Mr. J. I). Wright and fami- one. Thev had been with a company will be readv for'1"11 Iml Vun- aml ",PP,wei1 time net ween in against tiie or-anton 1 nnrsdav of last U e learn that these Dobson The svstem w th the auto-' t.; ir , .uSu mntic exchange, which has Bryson City Democrat : J. P. De been in USc here for the past j HartVas before Commissioner Allison lv have taken tin their resi- man in McDowell countv who. ' Wn( h.Kin, in th rnnr,, (,f u,a !u r,n n.ol,lft Mmc ...., ...:., t ' k . . i k.i ;i, i .'" ! 2 o'clock and day, lie ra '"-" "i vuauiiiiuui, ie.i injr ; n as iiaimcu, ium siiuut po.. ;a montn OT IWO. week. Mr. Wright va en- boys, after hearing thnt there paired in the jew elry business ! was some complaint about here. We understand that their circulating amonjr the he will open a jewelrv store in Chattanoojra. Mr. K. F. (ioodson has sold his interest in the liverv busi ness to Mr. J. II. McXeelv. The trade was closed last Saturday. Mr. McXeelv now owns a half interest in the two stables heretofore run bv Messrs. Ward & (ioodson. Mr. L. A. Ward retains his half interest. Mrs. Charlie Parks and daughter Clara, of Manhattan, Kansas, are snendino- f.M- weeks with relativ friends, in Burke. M is a daughter of Mr. Henrv Kincaid. nt Tpper Creekand tiiis is her first visit to her old hone since she moved west Jl years ajo. eople. confined themselves at home to protect the neighbor hood from the sj)read'of the disease. Their small pox hasn't yet "materialized" and it is now nearly three weeks since they were "exposed to the disease." At last account thev were "living and doinr well." Two of the children of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Nichols were sent to the Ox ford Orphan Asylum last week. The one remaining, a little .7 -,,i i!"rl, will live with her rrand es and x r , w Jr. P .T-L- parents Mr. and Mrs. . h. rs. i arks r , three vear hasmSt triven entire satisfaction and is beinjrtaken out. Thursday on a charge of illicit distill ing. It appears that Pat has been util izing his wa.h pot and pmoke house for one- of Hill Nye's "labratorie." Mrs. Lynn, one of the oldest During the. progress of the trial Pat 'women in" the countv, her ajre -kel to be wom in hi own def.nsc !l)einr about ()3 veafs, died at a"'1 -lHlea on oath ,hfil hiii ma,,e a the home of her son, L. 1. ; run of.ome kirni of nml.c.nal compouud r , , , , . out ot punM. vmegar and varb tor Lvnn, last haturdav mornin"". ' ,: . . . im" . . t . : . -. medi-al purpoe, to which oath he i Ihe remains were intered at si,Mjei! ,lim,ei, H,.. p. Dellart, M. D ., ; Oak Hill church on Sunday. jthus precipitating uku the court a line We hope our friends at the ! lejrnl pit to decide as to whether M. different country postofiices i lK ift r "make drunk" or medical ...'it .,i .. u . . ..c u i doctor. The conmii..iouer bound him will send us the news oi their ; , w. . . . ... . . to t lie Ij. N. court where JmJge Kwart i neighborhood When any-! wi lMlve HI1 opporluniV to ra OM thinof general interest trans- ,hef,c mjC technicalities. pires write us a letter or drop; us a Mstal card. j tnllev. on lenoir street. Subscribe for The Mr. H. S. Pinkston is now Superintendent K. McK. j occupying a part of the Has Goodw in of the school for deaf ; kins house where Mr. Waits mutes at this place, says there S Williams iives, having moved News. 75 cents nor vear. 40 are now I'M) puoils and that as his familv the first of the week cents for six months. 25 cents sMn as the heating apparatus j from the Tate place on Hunt for three months. is in dace 80 more can le taken, j j inf creek.