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GASTONIA, N. C.s MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1^15.
NUMBEIl 49.
CLOVER SHUTS OFF
LIQUOR SUPPLY
JUDGE RICE DISCOVERS LAW
THAT PUTS GLOOM AMONNG
THE MORALLY STUNTED.
Those Calling for their “Booze” are
Informed That there is “Nothing
Doing” in the way of Securing the
“Conversation Water” at South
Carolina Town—Conditions Had
Become Very Obnoxious to Clover
and Surrounding Community, In
cluding Gastonia.
When the law prohibiting the ship
ping of whiskey into Gaston coiinty
went into effect it looked as if those
who had to have their “booze” wore up
against it. But soon some fellow with
a little more ingenuity than others
found that he could have his whisky
shijjped to Clover, S. C., and then go
down and get it. Others got onto
the scheme and as a consequence the
road from Gastonia to Clover has been
the busiest in the county. It had be
come very objectionable to the Clover
people and they passed an ordinance
that prevented the whiskey being
opened in the corporate limits. The
people along the road were complain
ing on account of the disorderly con
duct of the men going to and from
Clover.
The situation was reported to Judge
Rice, who was holding court in York
last week, and he said it could be
stopped and he resurrected a law that
did stop it. The wording of the law
we are not familiar with but it pro
vides that whiskey cannot be delivei -
ed to a non-resident. The first in
stallment that went down Saturday
morning were politely informed by of
ficers that if they took the whiskey
from the express office they would be
immediately arrested. They did not
get their liquor. They came back and
reported the occurrence, and it spread
like wildfire. The “regulars”.were ,up
against it; they knew not which way
to turn. There was nothing to do. The
“jitney” busses had time to spare
while on the previous Saturday they
hardly stopped to eat. -
This is going t»make a great dit-
ference in the attendance at the City
Court for a while at least. Recently
drunkenness has been on the increase
and it could be attributed to nothmg
else than the fact that this whiskey
was being brought in from i Clover.
It will also be a relief to the people
of Clover who have , long ago be-
fcome disgusted at the crowds run
ning into their town for whiskey.
One man from here went to Clover
Saturday and stated to the authori
ties that his home was in South Car
olina, and by doing that he secured
his whiskey and returned to the city.
That trick might be worked once or
twice, but it will not take long to
get onto that and some one is going
to get in trouble.
The law under which the Clover au
thorities are acting is a dispensaiy law
which makes it a crime to transport
whiskey across the line. Monroe Lock
hart, colored, went down and insisted
that he was from South Carolina. The
officers suspicioned him and told him
that they would gist him if they found
he was a resident of North Carolina.
He got the liquor and they arrested
him and now have him locked up. Two
men from this section were arrested at
Gaffney for the same offense and had
to put up bond for their appearance at
at court.
As a result of the shut down at
Clover there were only two cases be
fore the Recorder this morning and
they were traced to a man who works
here but claims that his father lives
just over the South Carolina line and
in this way he got his. There is some
doubt about just where the man lives
and whether or not he is in South
Carolina.
Judge Rice in speaking of this evil
to the grand jury last week said:
“It should be an easy matter to get
those North Carolina people who are
making Clover a dumping ground for
their liquor. The law on that point is
plain. It is only necessary for the
authorities to enforce thatHaw.”
He had hardly made the statement
until the Clover people applied to
him for relief, so utterly disgusted
were they with the conditions.
Conditions in South Carolina along
some lines must be just as they are
in this State. We quote f.-vther from
Judge Rice’s talk which -an be ap
plied to North Carolina:
“During the four years which
have been on the bench keeping my
eyes open in order to ascertain what
is needed to uphold the law and dis
cover the reason for so many killings
in this state, The number of killing
RED FLAG FLOATS AT
HILLSTORM’S FUNERAL.
No Other Funeral Like it Ever Held
in Chicago—Thefe Were No Pray=
ers—Coffin Borne by Anarchists,
Chicago, Nov. 25.—The funeral of
Joseph Hillstorm, I. W. W. member
exceuted by a firing squad in Utah
last week, was held here today and
the body was later cremated.
The funeral was unlike anything
ever held in Chicago before. Gathered
in the Westside auditorium were 3,000
persons, while other thousands were
Ui.able to gain entrance.
Incoming freight trains, factories,
lodging houses, the slums, and the
workingmen’s cottages contributed to
the crowd.
The red flag floated unmolested at
every turn. Draped around the plain
pine coflin of the man who was legally
shot to death by the Utah authorities
was-a red banner.
No creed or religion found a place
at the services. There were no pray
ers and no hymns, but there was a
mighty chorus of voices joining in
songs written by Hillstorm. Through
out the decendent was referred to
as “Joe Hill.”
On a banner above the coffin and
on the programs containing the songs
which were sung; was this inscrip
tion :
“In memoriam, Joe Hill. We never
forget. Murdered by the authorities
of the state of Utah, November 19,
1915.
William D. Haywood was chairman
of the meeting. He made a speech,
as did James Larkin, who led the last
dock workers’ strike in England. The
funeral oration was made by 0. N.
Hilton, the lawyer, who defended Hill
storm.
Eight men said to be anarchists
carried the coffin to the building. In
the procession one long formed be
hind it and marched to a station of
the elevated railroad. The tiip. to the-
cemetery was made in this way. Com^
paratively-few persona went;,to the
cemetery.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
WERE NEGLIGENT
Looking for Owner.
Wadesboro. Nov. 25.—A trunk con-
cai-e dUi T.\ H Clark, Thiij
taining 102 pints of liquor is in the
trunk was checked from Roanoke, Va.,
as baggage and came ov-er the Nor
folk & Western and Winston-Salem
Southbound. When it reached Wades-
boro, "Bennett Leak, local agent of the
Sbuthbound, became suspicious and
made some investigation which led
him to believe that the trunk contain
ed “joy water.”
When a drayman came down and
presented the check efforts were fnade
to locate the owner of the trunk, but
without success. After asking for in
structions from his superintendent,
Mr. Leak turned the trunk over to
Sheriff Clark, who will make efforts
to apprehend the sender and the one
for which it was intended.
in South Carolina during the past 15
or 20 years has been simply ap
ing. There i^ something radically
v/rong. You often hea rthe expres
sion, ‘there is no use going to court;
you can’t get justice,’ I don’t know
whether that is true in York county
or not but I will have a chance to
learn.
“The trouble is that the average
petit juror thinks he has a right to
acquit or convict a defendant as he
pleases, regardless of the law and the
evidence. Many of them honestly
think that. So far as I have seen,
York county jurors are not of that
kind. These cases here this week haee
been disposed of in accordance with
the law and the evidence. But in
some counties it seems that a defend
ant is acquitted or convicted as the
jurors please, regardless of the facts.
“As an illustration I ciie you a case
which came under my observation in
one of the lower counties of the state
several months ago. A man was on
trial for killing another. The undis
puted testimony was that the deceas
ed had been shot in the back four
times. The defendant had the g;all to
plead self-defense and was acquitted.
“How can we administer justice
when such things exist?” asked his
honor. “Can it be the fault of the
judge? No, because it is not for him
to say whether the defendant is guil
ty or not. Neither is it the fault of
the solicitor, because he does not pass
on the guilt or innocence of the party.
The petit juror alone are responsi
ble. They are the most powerful
factors in the judicial system of the
state. As I have pointed out in some
counties, the average petit juror be
lieves he has a right to settle a case
as he pleases regardless of evidence
If a solicitor or judge tried to do that
he would lose his job in 12 months.”
Short News Notes of Happenings in
Different Parts trf the World.
Prospects of settling out of court
all the cases of American meat pack
ers, involving cagoes valued at from
$15,000,000 to $20,000,000, pending be
fore prize courts, was discussed in
Washington this week. It is possible
the British goverment may look with
favor on a private and correct dispo
sition of the cases.
Judge Wilson at Spartanburg, held
the South Carolina gallon-a-mpnth law
unconstitutional in its application to
intra state shipments of liquor. The
trouble is in the title of the act and
is one that a legislative ainemdent
will cure readily. The law provides
that individuals may not receive more
chan a gallon of liquor a month.
Neutrality in the European con
flict as practiced by the United States
was approved by the American Feder
ation of Labor Convention, at San
Francisco. The shipment of munition
to belligerents was approved and the
efforts of the sympathizers of belli
gerents in this countrymen to use
workmen in behalf of, belligeren|s
was condemned.
The has been some agitation for the
change of locations of some of the
Federal Reserve Banks and the prob
able reduction of the number. The
Attorney General of the United States
was asked for advice and in his opinion
the Federal Reserve Board has no
power to reduce the number of banks
or to change their locations.
Rear Admiral William N. Little,
United States Navy, retired, has been
acquitted by the court martial before
which he was tried on the charge 5f
negligence of duty in connection with
his inspection of the submarine K-2,
but the findings of the court have not
met with the approval of Secre^ry of
the Navy Daniels. A new trial will
not be ordered however.
The; membership of the Methodist
church in the north now numbers ex
actly 4,033,123,' according to official
staticians. The net increase in mem
bership last year w*as 164,000. The
repoi-t shows that Methodism is losing
slowly in New England, holding its
rapid gaSs' i^j^hiladelphia,
Chicago, Omaha, and Mintteapolis.
Contracts involving the expenditure
of hatf a million dollars in-the "Yose-
mite National ,^rk fff new hotels,
transportation facilitiifcB and >camp
sites teave been signed 4Dy Secretary
Lane «f the Interior D«^rtmeat. The
concessions are-granted to ]p.uvate
concerns, but vail be iterated upon
completion next summer under strict
government supervision.
The American Federation of La
bor, after a contest waged on the floor
of the convention for four hours, re
fused by a close vote to indorse State
and Federal legislation providing for
an 8 hour day. President Samuel
Gompers ended the debate in an im
passioned speech in which he declared
the Socialist party was behind the
movement to force the Federation to
indorse the proposed legislation.
Execution at Beirut of 11 members
of an Egyptian secret society which
it is claimed had for its object the
creation of an independent Arabian
State under protectorate of Great
Britain, is announced in Washington
by the Turkish e^ibassy. The mem
bers of the society, the embassy al
leges, planned to assassinate high of
ficial, and many other prominent
people.
The conviction of Hans Schmidt
former New York Romish priest
charged with murdering Anna Au-
muller, was upheld by the Court of
Appeals of New York. Schmidt was
arrested September 15, 1913, and con
fessed to the police that he had killed
Miss,Aumuller, whose dismembered
body had been found in the North
river. After two trials he was con
victed. He then repudiated his con
fession and the case was appealed.
SHORT ITEMS OF STATE NEWS
BIG FIGHT WILL BE ON
“WOMAN AND WINE.”
— ! Any ihiiig and E->erything That'-i*l-
Congressman • E, Yates Webb Saysj News, Gathered and Put in Short
These Two Question \\ill Loom Big j S«i aa to be Easy
ill (the Coming Session of Congress. J Heading by Busy People.
Washington, Nov, 26,—Representa-j In Charlotte one day last v/eek a
tive Webb, who arrived here today, j turkey gobbler flew through a plate
says that the two bif/;est questions I glass window. The owner of the
Verdict Says That Flagman Clyde i to come before his committee when it j “b'rd” put up $40 to pay for the
Wilson wag Grossly Negligent and ^i^eets a week from Monday will be i smashed glass.
That Engijieer Tankersly and Fire- j woman suffrage and prohibition. Some Chas. McAfree, an employee of the
man Kdly Were Also to Blame foriWinor changes may be made in the Champion PUie Fiber Company at
the Accident . j Webb-Ckyton anti-trust laws, but thc; Canton, Haywood county, was fatally
ENGINEER TANKERSLY DID NOT
KNOW WHAT'THE SIGNAL
DISPLAYED MEANT.
S.'ali^bury,' Nov^ '"27.—Charging ; big fight will be centered around whis-
three railroad men with negligence : a^^d woman suffrage.
in . conjiection with the wreck:, the
jury of Cororner Summersett, of Row
an county today . investigating the
death of C. E. Hall'and H. C. Severs
of Charlotte, who were killed when
Southern train No. 38 struck the rear
Pullman of second section of No. 32,
the-football special, on the yards Wed
nesday night, late this afternoon re
turned the following verdict:
That C. E. Hall and H. ‘ C. Severs
came to their death by being killed in
a wreck oh the Southern Railway in
the Salisbury yard on November 24,
1915, on second 32.., . «•,« ,,,,
“First, That Clyde Wilson, a flag
man, was grossly negligent in fail
ing to display the proper signals to
protect his train, second No. 32 from
train No. 38.
“Second, that A. Tankersly, engi
neer on train No. 38, was negligent
in disregarding signals at block and
not bringing his train in under control
as per rules of the railway company.
“Third, that Arthur Kelley, fireman,
was guilty of contributory negligence
in failing t6 observe and notify the
engineer of the displayed signals-on
rear of train No. 32.’'
Engineer Tankersly of No. 38 stated
that he left Charlotte at 8:32, passed
China Grove at 9:24, one minute late.
As soon as he could get light after
the crash he saw that it was 9:38.
There is a down grade for two miles
and his- rate of speed befoi'e seeing
the signal light was 40 miles an hour,
this was reduced to 15 when passing
the signals and to eight or ten when
he saw the rear of the special train,
about 50- feet pKriid.
“I coiyid not stop in vong^-ii of my .
vision at that time,” he 5aid, “but
had ample time to stop at the cross
over where I expected to get the sig
nal. I saw the flagman at the same
time I saw the, rear :Of the special.”
Ask«d what, caused the ‘wreckj,
Tankersly replied that in his judg
ment it was. due . to , “improper flag-
ing.” A fusee in ; the. rear of the spe
cial would have been sufficient. This
was the first time he had ever caught
a train without a flag out. The sig
nals at this, place always show the
same—red above green—giving him
the right of way to the passenger
station -track and there was nothing
to indicate that there was a train on
the track. He had never seen a train
at that place. - The green signal gave
him the right of way to the passen-
track. If red only had been show-,
ing, he would have stopped. He did
not know until this, wreck that red
nd green only gave, him qualified
rights. If the cross-over switch had
not been shown, both lights would
have shown red, no train on the track
the lights would have been the same
as they. were.
Mr. Webb is chairman of the judi-
ciaiy committee and has been one of
the prohibitionist’s most loyal and
consistent supportei's. He voted
against woman suffrage when it last
came before the house and delivered
one of the :-;trongest speeches heard in
the lower branch of Congress giving
his reasons for opposing the amend
ment.
It is expected Mr. Webb will in
troduce a resolution in the house for
nation-wide prohibition. Mr. Webb
will hold a conference with a special
committee December 4, when the na
ture of the bill to be introduced will
be discussed.
There is little doubt that “John
Barleycorn” will be voted out of.
Washington by the Congress which
meets December 6, and there is a good
chajice that the nation-wide movement
will receive substantial support.
Mr. Webb came here from Salis-
injured in an accident at Canton and
died in an Asheville hospital. His
skull was fractured.
Alleginja,- • malicious prosecution,
suit for the recovery of $20,000 has
been instituted for the recovery of •
that amount from S. Stsrnberg by A.
J. Hur\’ai'‘l. The plaintifl’ was arrest
ed charyoil wth thefl and was ae-*
quit;e^,.
At ieidsville, Tuesday night Will
Davis, negro fired two shot at his
wife as she entered the railway sta
tion waiting room and killed her. In
attempting to arrest him Policeman
Sullivan shot him and probably the
wound will prove fatal.
Mr. J. F. Miller has sold the Hick
ory Times-Mercury to John 0. Berk
ley, a newspaper man of Waterloo,
la, The Times-Mercury is Republican
in politics and it is announced that
the new editor will continue it as
a Republican .paper.
Roy Story, about .17 years of age,
was killed Saturday about' 4 miles
bury. He was on the special train | from Blowing Rock by a companion,
from Charlotte that was wrecked by
No. 38 Wednesday, night. Along with
liun4reds of others he was en route,
to Richmond to witness the Virginia
Carolina football game. Mr. Webb
himself barely escaped serious injury.
'He had just moved /rom the end of
the car where Ed Hall and Captain
Severs were killed, when the crash
AMERICAN
TROOPS
SLAY MEXICANS.
Soldiers Crossing Into the United
States Find a Warm Recepl’-on and
Return Leaving Several of Their
^ jies .Dead—Situa-is A,'*'">n
Grave ^
Nogales, Arip., Nov. 25.—Fifty-
eight Mexican soldiers, crossing into
tne United Stal^^ ■ at; Harrison’s
ranch, .east of h.^-e, ,;.fired.- pn six
American trooper|.;of the tenth cav
alry today. Twen.l^y-five -other troop-'
ors-of.:tiie tenth cavalry, who were on
reserve.post, opened fire on the Mex-
•j»Jans, 'Idling' a; number, aecording
to reports ,and bringing one wound
ed prisoner into camp.
Sentiment among Villa adherents
was apparently growing against
Americans today. The military au
thorities on this side of the boundary
were unusually vigilant.
Vicente Terrapas, a civil official of
Nogales, Sonora, was executed today
by order of General Acosta, for hav
ing exceeded his authority in order
ing the death of a Mexican who par-
ticipatd in the riots in the Mexican
town last night.
Acting Gj/. Carlos Randall said
ioday he had telegraphed to Wash
ington that the rioting was caused by
rumors thiat General Obregon had
been allowed to advance on Mexican
Nogales over American territory.
Auto Accident at Wilmington.
Wilmington, Nov, 26.—Dr. J. H.
Dreher, of this city, was caught on
the railroad track near the city, yes
terday in his automobile between the
arms used to stop vehicles from goirtg
acripss while trains are nearby and
one -of th^, arms struck one of the
occupants k the car, injuring her
slightly and he lost control of the
machine plunging into the car of J.
D. Brown, who was cc>iing from the
opposite direction and both automo
biles were badly damaged. Miss Lena
Schulken was thrown out of the car
Arch Helms, Charged with the Mur
der of Henry Shoe, Acquitted.
Albemarle, Nov. 27.—After delib
erating for several hours the jury in
ihe case against Arch Helms, charg
ed with the murder of Henry Shoe,
at sunset this afternoon filed into
the court room and rendered a ver
dict of not guilty. Judge Carter at
once ordered Helms into the custody
of the sheriff until he gives a bond
in the sum of $2,000 to appear and
answer to the charge of manufactur
ing and selling intoxicating liquors
contrary to the law.
Helms was exceedingly nervous
while awaiting the foreman’s state
ment.
Rioting ait GreenHille Cottoii Mill;
. Three Stabbed.
Greenville, S. C., Nov. 27.—In riot
ing which occurred at the opening of
the Judson Cotton Mill here today,
David Frieze, a striking operative,
was probably fatally stabbed and two
strike breakers, Gordon Brown and
J. M. Humphries, severely cut. Brown
and Humphries with two other strike
breakers are under arrest.
Strikers said that the fight strated
when the strike-breakers, who jeered
by the impact and Mrs. Alice Schul- j v i-i. • 4-
kL was struck on the head by the them, became enraged when the str.k-
car. Both women had to be taken to ers asked sheriff’s deputies for pro-
the hospital for treatment.
tection. Strike-breakers asserted
they they were attacked on their way
Thomas Watson on Trial Charged
With Sending Obscene Literature
Thr.*ugh the Mail.
Augusta, Ga., Nov. 25.—Thomas F'
Watson, once populist party candi
date for the presidency, and well
known editor and author, is expected
to go trial here tomorrow in federal
court on a"charge of sending obscene
literature through the United States
mails.
The -indictment in four courts
based upon a serial published in Wat
son’s Jeffersonian Magazine entitled
“The Roman Catholic Hierarchy, the
Deadliest Menace to Our Liberties
.and. Our. Civilization.”
Thi§ is the second time Watson has
faced trial on the same charge and
because of the same article. At the
first trial Judge Rufus Foster, quash
ed the indictment on the ground that
the entire article should have ap
peared in the indictment rather than
excerpts, The populist then declared
that portions of what was objected to
were extracts from a Catholic books
on theology.
The matter was brought to the at
tention of the next federal grand jury { possibly Reuben Ford,
and a new indictment returned. j brought back to Newton
i Judge W., W. Lambden of the
Southern district of Georgit will pre
side, at the trial.
another youth of about the same
ivge. They were drinking freely and
handling firearms carelessly. The
coroner’s jury found that the shoot
ing was accidental.
The engagement of Bishop Thomas
C. D^rst of the Eastern Carolina di
ocese of the Protestant Episcopal
Church and Miss Lauriston Hardin
is announced. The mariage will tako
place in the' spring. The bride-to-be
is a member of one of the most prom
inent families of Wilmington.
Julius Heller, a Jew and a mer
chant of Raleigh, was found dead in
bed Monday morning. He was un
married and about 60 years old. He
ago 'he came to RaleigiF'a. peddler.
He left an estate valued at $50,000.
Insurance losses on the News and
Observer fire in. Raleigh have been
adjusted. The N«ws and Observer.:
Company is allowed $15,000 on the
building wltich is valued at $20,000,-
and $44,000 ' on the equipment, which
'vvas'valued at $85,000. Thlfe figures
a net loss of 46,000.'
J. M. Johnston^ of Willard,, Pender
county, got his hand caught in a cot-
ton gin and hand and arm were so
badly mangled that the arm was am
putated just below the elbow. In the
days of hand-fed cotton gins accidents
of this kind were numerous. With
the modern gin there is not so much •
danger. .
Of the 47 applicants who took the
examination before the State Board
of Pharmacy only 18 passed. Among
those.who passed were Harry H. Al
len of Shelby, E»rl L. Canton, of
Charlotte, R. N. Mann of High Point,
Robert S. Daily of Reidsville, and
Harry L. Riddle of Morganton.
Mr. H. C. Martin, of Lenoir, former
editor of the Lenoir News, is en
deavoring to organize an expedition
to discover the source of the myster
ious light that has been mystifying
the inhabitEints of Burke County for
some years. Mr. Martin called a
meeting at Lenoir Saturday afternoon
to organize the expedition.
Man and Wife in Court for Imprison
ing Daughter.
Easccn, Md., Nov. 26.—Frank Mar
shall and his wife today were bound
over to the county grand jury on
charges connected with the alleged
imprisonment for 12 years in their
home, of Marshall’s • daughter, Grace,
now 28 years old. Marshall was
charged with assault wit’ intent to
commit murder and Mrs. Marshall
with assault.
Bond of $2,500 each was furnished
•by a delegation of St. Michaels resi
dents.
Automob?
READ GA^NIAN ABS-^IT 3»A7S' to work.
Mr. Ernest Warren has returned to
school at Chapel Hill.
ife Turns Turtle Near New
ton. Several Hurt.
Newton, Nov. 25.—An automobile
carrying six young people from Lin-
colnton turned over three miles south
of Newton this afternoon and every
member of the party was more or
less hurt, none seriously excej)ting
who was
and given
medical attentnion.
Burgin Goodson and Misses Perry
Hallman, Mattie Goodson, Ellen Good
son and Ethel Hines, the last of Spar
tanburg, were carried back to Lin-
colnton. •