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VOLUME V.
GASTONIA, N. C-, THURSDAY. NoVeMBER 25, lyl5.
NUMBER 43..
NO. 38 STRIKES
BATCH OF GENERAL NEWS.
j RESTAURANT KEEPER
! SENTENCED TO ROADS
' Gathered from Here and There for 1
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“FOOTBALL SPECIAL” ! the Benefit of Our Readers.
Gaorge W. Perkins, the national
chairman of the Progressive (Roose-
velt-Bull Mooose) party, says the
party will have a national ticket in
the field next year. |
The railroad section of Union
Springs, Ala., was sv/ept by a fire
early Saturday morning, causing
damage in excess of $100,000. Two; .,f
TWO KILLED AND MANY
JURED IN COLLISION IN
SALISBURY YARD.
Squire Henry C. Severs and Charles
Edwin Hall are Killed—Senator _0.
Max Gardner is Seriously Injured
as is Also Mr. Forest Estridge, of
..Shelby—No Reason Given for.the
Accideixt by the Railroad but nu
merous stories are Afloat.
.The .Southern railroad last nighf
suffered one of the most serious
wrecks it has had in some years when
No. 38 ran into the rear sleeper of
the. Carolina football special in the
Salisbury yards. Two men were kill
ed and twenty.-two injured. Mr. Hen
ry C. Severs, and Charles Edwin Hall*
of Charlotte, were killed, and among
the most seriously injured were Mr.
O. Max Gardner, of Shelby, who had
an ankle broken, back wi-enched and
bruised and cut about the body; Mr.'
Foster Estride, also of Shelby, who,
suffered broken ribs, and Mr. Harry
Tally, of Charlotte, who had an ear
cut off and other injuries.
The special was standing in the
yard and the flagman had not had
time to get back to flag 38 which was
Tounding a curve, and which was
■practically under control.
The engine' of No. 38 ploughed
ahout one-third through the car and
several of the passengers on that
train suffered minor bruises.
Judge Webb, Mr. Garaner’s father-
in-law, was in Charlotte at the time
and went to Salisbiiry by automobile.
All the injured were taken to the,
Whitehead-Stokes sanitor-ium where
their wounds were dre,ssed and those
able to do so returned to their homes.
Many on the special were s.o unnerved
that they gave up the trip. ,
There has been no statement given
out by the railroad as to 'Ihe cause of
the wreck and there will hardly be a
decision until an investigation
made. That part of the road'has the
electric signals' A. railroad man from'
Charlotte this morning said that he
.^ftd hearJBll^^les.abo?;it itf every
man trjs^-t'‘V6'-sSfus§ h%i'self."Engi
neer Timkei-^l^v'^aid^hat the specwl
dispIay#:n'B' 1 1 SH th¥ flag4inah
said it^(ii^i“*^iT^"'e«grfi-eer sMid he^V
runnin|;^nly“about IS mites‘an-hour
• while othU^'^claim he mus^hav^-bfeen
runing 25V0 1 gn into the coach
like he did.
There were several on the special
from Gastonia were' on the train but
jione were hurt.
D. L. Brown Convicted of Having in
His Possession too Much Whisky—^
Nino Cases Against Bank Cashier
Cc-ntinued—F. H. Hooper Convicted
Of Re\'.ain!ing and Larceny—-Nego
Kills Another Negro.
Salisbury, Nov. 22.—Superior Court
with Judge Lane pi’esidlng convened
here today and has already disposed
overal cases.
depots were burned, a warehouse and ' Staj-nes, the young white man
800 bales of cotton and other build-: with breaking in the locai
ings. j passenger station of the Southern and
... Myi-on T. Herrick, former Govern-] Ticket agent Kenneth
or of Ohio and former am.bassador of gj.QY/n when that young man discov-
E. LAROY GIVEN . ICASTONIA VVH.L HAVE
HEARING AT NEWTON, i CONFERENCE NEXT YEAR
Sl'EXCFR LUMBER CO.
LANDS BIG CONTRACT.
V/as Fined $100 in the Co!inty Court j Adjourns Monday Aftcrnc^on—“Cksin" So’ls ta the C’imftt Co»
and Took an Appeal Giving .S300I ilours Marked by Ncsr*rj?hl Oi»
Bond 1 Cl* His Appesranx;-* ei Sa*: C'sfp.rstlcs hut is Nipped in tho
perior Ccurt. \ JJud—Appsintments ara Read.
Dr. T,. £. Laroy, of this cH>'. re«| e, Nov. 22 —Tha Wsfttej-n
fciinied t^. Newton Tuead^^y and otood ■ North Ctu'olina Conference oP.
cr.'al 0x1. a charge cl practicing meii-; .viethodist Episcopal Church, Sou;h,
(?ine •'without license. He was arro^jt- j .'tdjourned this afternoon to meet ne;t
ed in.Catawba county some v.'eeks ago with the church at Gastonia. A num-1 lumber to be used in the erection ft?
and the trial set for the 23i‘d. A di-;- bei' of items of impr-';*'ance and a | n^w m'll at that place.'
patch from Nev/ton ^.0 the Charlolte .^iocd of routine biisinesK crowded the | I'hi 4 is an extra large tivdef and
Observer, iinler da.c* (»i’ November .;‘iosing hours; but the l)i.-diop.-begar*.'il^e ktoal company is to be cengf^t-
at P.e]mont l,?,O0.0(l0 Teet of
bsr be in fht 0C
Th^ S^pffneor CompHrtV
city has contracted with th?
mP.x ?^plnning Mill Co., of Belmrntj
to furnish them with 1,300,00 feet oC
the United States to P'rance, was
one of the principal orators Satar-
lay at. the laying of the corner stone
of the McKinley Birthplace Memo
rial at Miles, 0., the birthplace of the
late President McKinley.
_Qn-the -.ground that the question of
national defense is' n/ a partisan or
party ' question, President Wilson has
ask^ Senator Gallagher and Repre-
senative Mann, Republican leaders of
the Senate and the House, respective
ly, to confer with him on legisltion
for national defense.
The funeral of Jos. Hillstrom, ex
ecuted for murder at Salt Lake City,
Utah, held in Salt Lake Sunday was
made the.cccasion tor the denuncia
tion of law and order by the lawless
element. One speaker declared that
che auchorities of the State “would
ered' him in the office, was found
guilty of breaking in the station and-
plead* guilty to forging names with
fictitious title to the mileage books
he attempted to use after the rob
bery. Sentence has not been passsd.
Starnes is also to answer to the
charge of assaulting Mr. Brown,
D. L. Brown, a well-known restau
rant keeper of the city, was before
the court on several cases appealed
from the lower court. There were
eight cases against him and his
clerks mostly for handling whiskey
and pleas of guilty were entered in
all of them. The judgment of the
lower court was affirmed in all cases.
This means a sentence of 15 months
and the payment of several hundred
dollars in fines and costs. Three of
the case grew out of the incident of
oon have cause to remember the day v/ild ride in an auto filled with
they took' Hillstrom out and shot several nights ago.
.him.”
Porter Charlton, the American, who
,rece"htly^ ..was tried at Como, Italy on,
a' charge of murdering his wife and
who .„>yas found guilty and sentenced
to; six years and eight months im
prisonment, was released Sunday.
The .time- that he had been in prison
.prior to the sentence was counted part
of his, term and he served ttt a few
Weeks,.after his con-victio.n^,-...;
ydnclentf, Morcei, aged .;^p, p^'om
F. H. Hooper, formerly a meat
market proprietor, plead guilty to
selling whiskey and the larceny of a
cow and Judge Lane has the matter
of sentence under advisement. In the
cow case two of Mi’* Hooper’s em
ployes have already done time, hav
ing been tried while Hooper was out
of town.
J. T. Willia,mson, formerly cashier
of a Cleveland bank, was in court to
answer to nine charges including’em-
:3rd aaya:
“T. E, Leroy, of Gastonia, was con
victed cf practicing medicine v/ithout
:cenf50' m' this county today, after a
long hearing in the county court, and
was fined $100 and costs. He ap
pealed and gave bond in the sum of
?300 for -his appearance at Superior
Court. Dr. J. E. Moore, indicted for
practicing here without having reg
istered for. Catawba county, was ac-
,ted. He works with Leroy, but
hords' a State license.
Only two of a score of witnesses
were examined. It is the intention
of the State to make a separate case
out of each instance in which Leroy
is alleged to have practiced medicine
n Catawba, and indict him on prob
ably .20 Or 2b counts in Superior
Court. Among the visiting physi
cians interested in the case was Dr,
Hubert A. Royster, of Raielgh, sec-
etary to the .State Medical Board.
“Nnmerous people attended the
trial, many of whom thirdc much of
the Gustcnla physicans and ascribe
to them considerable skill in treating
cases of illness. Some of them are
even pretty warm because Leroy was
indicted and accuse the regular phy
sicians of prejudice against him be
cause he delivers the goods, say;
they.”
ii^nt' in., Italian .affairs m ;^^«w:X)re- ^ {^^^^^lement, ' misappropriation and
leans for ni^ny years and^^h^d, of alleged crimes, h^t the cases
'numerous organi^^ati^ns of-his-ipoun-1 continued on account of Jllness:
try, was assassinated Friday morn-1 family of Mr. Williamson’s at-
ing near his home jn the Italian quar-j
^ policsj^i-e woi;!^ s
ing on the tn^ y that the i t;,ig eity "has just contri.cted with th
was the result oi a Black Hand plot,, ^Aluminum Company to fur-
th’e Black, Hand bei^ an orginization i 1,000 mattresses for use at the
Among the parpdse of-j at Badin.
murder. ! There is rejoicing among the con-
The New York Courts hye aecjded;^^,^^^^^^^ Methodist
that mercantile agency—Duiin and | tj,g appointment of the
Bradstreet—are responsible "for iffl-j North Carolina Conference
proper ratings. In the case at issue j j^eir
Mr. Gardner Resting Well at Nine
O’clock this Morning.
The' many friends of Senator 0.
Max Gardner irf this city were very
much concerned regarding his condi
tion. The following message was re
ceived at 9:30 in reply to one sent by
the GastoniaiV to the Salisbury Post
“Mr. Gardner was reported at 9
A. M., to be resting well and the phy
sicians state that his injuries are not
thought to be of a serious nature.”
'' SAI/KBURY POST.
business house obtained credit on
rating ^iven by mercantile agencies.
The bill was not paid and it was
found that the rating was exces
sive. On the ground that the rating
misled the seller, the courts held
that the mercantile agencies were
respoijsible for the bill.
The 30 clerks and carriers who
threw up jobs at the Fairmont, W.
Va., postoffice because the assistant
postmaster was dismissed were in
formed by Assistant Postmaster Gen
More Co'iton Ginned This Year in Gas-
■*ton County Than'Last.
The'report of Corton Statistician W.
E. Johnson brings tSe surprising in
formation that/there has been ginned
in Gaston county just 309 more bales
of cotton this. year than last in the
same length'of time. Up to November
14th last'year there had been ginned
5,414 bales, "whife up to that date .this
year 6,719' iiave- been ginned. Tnis
would'indicate a larger crop this year,
though it must be taken into consider
ation that the weather has been unus-
ually'-ifavorable for getting out the
crop, and that last year the crop v/as
cut very short on account of the hail.
pastor. And this rejoicing is shared
by the citizens generally, especially
those who remember Doctor Marr as
pastor of this church some years ago
He served for four years, being mov
ed by the time limit.
Will Mills, a young negro man was
shot and instantly killed by Ira Clark,
another negro Sunday morning at 1
o’clock. The shooting occurred at a
restaufftnt in East Spencer and was
the result of a quarrel over a trivial
matter. Coroner Summersett con
eral Koper that their reignations i inquest and Clark, who ad
would not be accepted, and that they | killing was held for cour'
were charged with conspiracy. It is ■ Clark has a brother on
understood dismissals will j (.haingang now for cutting anothei
Meantime some of the striker have
been forced to go back to work to help
ut the new men put on.
Secretary of Agriculture Houston
and Gov, Dunne of lillinois, are among
'-.he officials named as defendants in
a suit for $100,000 filed by Grace G.
Durand and Scott S. Durand, whose
'lord of valuable Guernseys were sus-
'ected of having mouth and foot dis-
'.ase. The cattle were shot by State
officials in spite of a civil action en
joining them from killing the herd
which Mrs. Durand asserted
free from the disease.
NEWS OF THE STATE.
to read the appclhtementa in suf-.
fieient time to relieve- the fears of
fhe members about missing their
trains.,
There was almost I. fight on cigar
ettes in the last moment of the con
ference. There would have been a
real one if the committee had not
nipped it in the bud by executing
a skillful retreat. That committee
had brought in a report that dusted
the coat-tails of the Demon Rum in
most throughgoing and satisfactory
fashion, but just as t;hat report was
on the point of adoption Rev. T. J.
Ogburn, pastor of Mt. Zion church
at Cornelius and a minister of the
old school, got up and forked his
feet. It is easy enou.gh to jrivc
v.dtisky Hail Columbia in a Methodist
ccnferer '.-e, sa'.d he, fur everybody is
down on whisky. But he believed
:hat thanks to the _ growing temper-
ment sentiment in. North Cari'ina
the damage done by whisky Inus been
reduced until it is now below that
done by the cigarette. He was in
favor of denouncing whisky all rights
but he; also favore‘d taking a pass
ing shot at the coffin tacks while they-
were there.
He found plenty of support and the
committee ,rather than defend its po
sition; by-la debate that threatened
to consume too many precious min
ulat^d on landing it in the fsc® o?'
strong Gcmpetition. The csftah vaiu?
of this order runs around $35,00a.
The firm is now making arrangements *
with the different mills in this section
of the Carolinas to furnish this lumr
ber wh.ch will all be delivered di
rect from the mill to the factory
yard. The largest part of this Inhi-
ber is to be handled over the ne'»-
spur track of the P^ & N. as the mill
is to be built on this road.
This deal will bring Gastonia
before all the lumber dealers in
this section for while*the lumber is
'-.o be delivered- on the ground all bus
iness will be. conducted through the
iiome officc here.
HEAO-ON COLLISION ON.
CENTRAL OF GEOUGIA.
N'early a Score Killed and More Xh&n
Thirty arc Injured-r-rWreek Dae to
Misunderstanding of Orders.
Columbus, Ga., Nov. 22.—The bodies
of six persons had been recovered to
night, 12 othei-s were missing and
more than 30 injured as & residt of
a head-on collision six miles weat of
here late -today between Central cf
Georgia passenger train No. 2 and a ■
specia Itrain of 28 cars carrying the
Con T. Kennedy Carnival company. It
was feared that the bodies' of soma
. , , . , . of The missing might be under the
i overturned cars oi the show train.
Deaths, Accidents. Trials and Other ™ M company’.
“Since the laws.,cf North Caioil,^a
prohibit the sale of cigaret|e;3- to.
Doings in the Old NorthStaie^
Mr. Henry Holman Friday
night at his home at Mockgville, aged
75 years. . .
Five of the fifteen convicts who re-
^tly escaped from the Buncom.^p,
-the .job
negro to death.
There are three homicide cases on
the docket of the Superior court. All
defendants are negroes, one of them
BOLD ATTEMPT TO ko:?
BANK AT DOVER.
Two Unknown White Men Charter
Car at Kinston for Purpose—Pat
rons of Bank,Frustrate Plan.
Kinston, Nov. 22.—Two unknown
white men, both about 45 years old,
chartered an automobile here today,
drove nine miles to Dover and un
masked, held up the cashier in the
bank there. He was about to deliver
Jumps into Well
.. Greenvile, N. C., Nov. 23. News
On--account of this being Thanks-1 of the supposed money in his charge when patrons
giving Day we are issuing the paper j Mrs. John Whitleld of Mar-j entered the bank, and the men who
several hours earlier in order to give j County. Her body was found in covering him with a revolver fled
the foi^ce a half holiday.
Read the ad of the J. M. Belk Co.
They are offering some attractive bar
gains cn the fourth page.
The police officers were called to
Hanpy Hill yesterday afternoon to ar
rest a negro. He was.having fits. It
wa.^ reported that-he had hydrophobia
but he. seems to be all right this
morning. It seems that he is sub
ject to fits.
Congressman R. N. Page spent the
day in Monroe * asterday. , He is see
ing his friends and is wanting to
know how they stand on the question
of the pfoposed increase in appro-
: priations for the Army and Navy.
'You get Huyler^s fresh at all times
at Adams Drug Store.
well about 9 or 10 o’clock Monday
morning.
Mrs. Whitfield attended church at
Robersonvlllc,' about two miles from
her home Sunday night. Next morn-,
ing she prepared breakfast, \‘ot the
children off to school, milked the cows
and did other things about the house.
A little after 10 o'clock her body
was found in a well at a tenant s
place. Her hat and coat were found
at the well as if she had taken them
off before jumping in. She was found
head downwards in the water. The
well was small and tiled. No reason
has been assigned for the deed.
the automobile outside, in which
his confederate was waiting having
the muzzle cf a revolver against the
negro chauffffeur's head. The men
secured nothing. The attempt wa^
made, shortly after noon.
Claud Nunn, the chauffeur, drove
the men at fast speed to a point three
miles this side of Dover, where they
left the car and fled into the thick
woods. Officers are searching for
them. Nunn was informed of the
purpose en route and made to remove
the license number. He was threat
ened with death if he tried to escape.
aptured or have rei
volyntarily. ^
William Dudley Hicks, who is
charged with having a wife at Char
lotte and a wife and child at Greens
boro, v/as arrested at Griffin, Ga.,
last week and brought to Charlotte
to answer to a charge of bigamy,
Governor and Mrs. Craig left Ral-
3igh yesterday evening for Washing
ton and will go from: there to New’
'fork for the Army and Navy football
?ame to be.played Saturday.. Their
son is a member of the navy team
The Newcon News says there are
iix express offices in Catawba county
nd that some of the thirsty who are
,iot content with two quarts a month
jatronize more than one office. Two
quarts a month at each office would
nean twelve quarts a month.
Charlie Biers, a, young negro who
was charged with entering the home
of Mr. Milas Poole,, at Davidson was
tried for burglai'y in Mecklenburg'
Superior Court last ^reek and a misr I
trial resulted. .The jury stood six.
for conviction and six for acc/ittal.
Announcement is made of the enr
jagement of Miss Mattie Ham and
state Senator John A. McRae, both
i Charlotte. Miss Ham was for-
nerly stenographer in the law office
jf Stewart & McRae. She studied
aw and was licensed to practice law
iast spring.
The Roanoke - Chowan Times of
^ich Square, Northampton county,
reptrts that S. J. Cherry engineer on
a log train, saw wild turkeys by ^
the roadside as his train came along,'
and having a gun in his cab he open- j
ed fire and killed two fine young gob- *
biers without stopping his train. 1
In New Hanover Superior Court j
William Merrick, an aged negro, j
begged Judge Daniels' to let him pay i
the death penalty for his son, Thomas j
Merrick, 18 years old, who was con
victed of first degree murder- for the
slaying of T. B. Hudson, a popular
young white man. February 10 was
named as the date of the execution.
minors "under 17 years of ag^, and'
tlv use of cigarette^-ii dgc^ved by
rnedical experts tc bb iiyurious^'and!
detrimental the the entire ph:^;ica^
mentali’^tid .spiritual being, aj^—
thcrmcre. as tne church stantio as the
;he guar.iian of the welfare of the
youth:
‘Therefore, we as a conference put.
ourselves on record as opposing, abso
lutely SE-S and, use of cigarettes and
insist that the officers enforce the
lav/s of the state with reference to
this mam:moth evil, and that we
strongly urge upon ouj' people that
they abstain from the use of cigar-
ettes-.”-
The report of the board of educa
fcion included a new idea to Methodism
at least North Carolina Methodism,
in its recommendation that so far
and othes still are burning tonight.
Two of' the cars containing trained
animals were said to have been de-
,stroyed, killing many of the animals;
The collision occurred on a .straight,
“ i......-J..^ TCT.v
\ being en route: from Birmingham to,
Macon and the show.^pecial ftom At
lanta to Phoenix City,-Ala. No offi
cial statement has been made- tonight
as to the cause of the - wreck,
among, the railroad men it was eaid to
have been 4ue to misunderstanding of
orders on the part of the j>assenger
train.
The Icnown ,dea>d and injured ex*
cept for trainme^n, v^e persons trav
eling with the -carnixc^ company. It
v/as said that: none except trainmen
v.^ere hurt on the passenger train,
which suffered little damage to its
eavy coaches.
as possible rural churches be here-1
after located adjacent to the rura
schools and that the parsonage be
located near the teachers’ houses in
,he rural districts. Sectarianism in
Kansas City.
A. Kennedy, sha^vman.
Three unidentified showman whose
bodies were badly burned.
the public schools was denounced and
:he Gary plan of religious education
v/lieraby each church cares for its! Convicts Leased to Com-
wn was recommended for adoption.
The educational statistics showed
school property worth, with end^iW-
ments, more than $3,300,000 and a
stiident enrollment of 1,84.'5—the
largest in history. These figures in
clude 'Trinity College, but no other
school outside the western conference.
Following are the appointments for
J. R. Scroggs, presiding elder.
Bslmont Staticn, A. P. Ratlidge.
Belvvood, J. F. Moser, L. E. Stacy
and H. G. Stamey, supernumeary.
Besserier City, W. B. Shinn.
Cherryville, 0. C. Fortunberry, J.
F. Harrelson, junior preacher.
Crouse, P. W. Cook.
Gas:c,i:ia:
Main Street, H. H. Jordan.
Dallas-Orzark, W. A. Jenkins.
pany for Work at Badin,
Raleigh, -Nov. 23;—The State ia
ready to delivc-r to the Alutbiniam
Company of America the first squad
)f che 300 convicts to be put to work
.ipon the great development scheme
lear old Whitney, now Badin.
Some of these m/i ai*e among the
lot which Senator Hugh Chatham vol
untarily returned to the state .sev
eral weeks ago. That Winston-Salem
gentleman came down here and said
that while his railroad would like to
lave the men indefinitely, he realized
iie had a disproportionate share of
:he state’s workers and that he want
ed to see somebody else get the bene
fit of their work. They have not been
returned but will be allowed to eoi»e
I here when the call is made. With them
West End-Franklin Avenue • ^ it is quite likely that Badin will get
Wellman. ‘ 3Q0.
Kings Mcunta.n-El Bethel, E. 0. j Supei-intendent Mann cannot begin'
i with the 300, of course, but will send
'about 100 in the batch. These
Huyler’s is “the candy with a repu-
tation” and it is for sale by Adams
Drug Store.
You can always count on a cordial
welcome when you carry a box of
Huyler’s with you. Get it at Adams
Drugstore. .;
G. L. Henderson, Young Man of Ashe
ville, is Killed.
Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 22.—A man
giving his name as G. L. Henderson,
of Asheville, N. C., was fatally wound
ed and his companion, Pliillips, less
seriously hurt during a, pistol battle
^vith detectives here early today when,
according to the police, the two men , Brwon.
were surprised while atympting '/
\”ob a safe in a grocery store
Cole.
Lincobiton Station, Z. Paris.
Lincomton Circuit, N. M. Modlin.
Lowell-Bethsheba, T. A.:,Plyler.
Lowesville, J. A. Sharp.
McAdensville, G. A B Holderby.
Mount Holly, T. J. Houck.
Pclkville, J. P. Davis.
Rock Spring, James H. Green.
Shelby Central, W. E. Abernetfcy.
Shelby Circuit,. A. J. Murrus.
South Fork, J. H. Robertson.
Stanly-Iron Station, N. C. Williams.'
General Evangelist, D. H. Comann. j
Candler; School Theo'logy, D, W.;
will draw $1.50 and $1.75 daily, the
old contract underjwhich they worked;.
When* Senator Chatham, returns his
worksr another hundred W’ill be added
The Elkin and Alleghany camn wirt
retain a number of workers and witl
be kept at norma.1-camp during the
winter. The resumption of work at
Badin is said to be contemplated upon
a large enough scale to complete the
NOTICE!
WORTMAN, THE JEWELEH
,EAD GASTONIAN ADS—IT PAYS
Nothing pleases her like a box of; Has moved from N. .^alla Str^ te
, , , , J. I, 4. ii. ! Airhne Street. Go Frankiui StTMt
Huylers candy—always fresh at the [ Loray, then north one block «id
Adams Drug Store. I you ^iu Mm,