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PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. a, OCTOBER 4, 1911.
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MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED
Complete Review of Happenings of
Greatest Interest From All
Parts of World.
Southern.
The condition of cotton on an aver
ige date of September 22, as ascer
tained from the replies of 1,900 spe
cial correspondents of the Journal of
Commercial Buletiln, is 70.8 per cent,
aliainst 72.6 per cent, a month ago,
or a decline of 1.8 points for the pe
riod under review. Texas is conspic
nous as being the only state showing
an advance, gaining 4.2 points. All
Dther states lost from 1 to nearly 8
points. Insects are reported as in
juring cotton.
The convention of the Sea Island
Cotton Growers, scheduled to be held
at Valdosta, Ga., was indefinitely post
poned, owing to the absence of Air.
Charles S. Barrett, president of the
Farmers union. Delegates who had
gathered here reported that the en
tire crop of sea island cotton had
opened at once, and is nearly out of
the fields, although usually it is not
all gathered until after Christmas.
Italy has declared war on Turkey
It declared that the two countries
were in a state of war beginning at
half after two o'clock on the after-
coon of Friday, September 29.
Representaives of cotton buyers
and cctton exchanges of New Eng
land and the Southern and Southwest
era states, in conference in New
York, entered in a general discussion
as to the best methods of buying and
selling the staple. Methods of adjust
ing differences which may arise be
tween the Southern shippers and the
New England buyers are being consid
ered, and it was stated that as soon
as some definite understanding is
reached a statement would be issued
Forcing their way into the Desha
county jail at Dumas, Ark., between
fifty and one hundred men, members
of a mob, formed so quietly that the
authorities had not the slightest
warning, overpowered the deputies in
charge and took Charles Malpass, Sr.,
white, to a water tank and hanged
him. The mob then dispersed with
out demonstration. None of its mem
bers is known to the authorities, ac
cording to their "statement.
Approximately 2,000 clerks and
shopmen of the Illinois Central em
ployed south of the Ohio river are on
strike, the number being augmented
by the walkout of 490 shopmen at
New Orleans. This was in addition
to the 2S0 clerks who went out at
first. At Memphis all the clerks went
out and were followed by the shop
men, in all about 1,100 men striking
As a result of the decision of the
internal revenue department to en
force the law requiring duty on all
manufactured cigars, whether consum
ed in a factory or elsewhere, Tampa.
Florida, is again threatened with a
disastrous strike of its 15,000 cigar
makers. The effect of the decision of
the revenue department has been to
discontinue a practice in the Tampa
factories, which is as old as the clear
Havana cigar manufacturing business,
the giving of smokers to the work
men. L. W. Boykin and John Bell Towel!
former members of the state liquor
dispensary board; W. O. Tatum, for
mer commissioner of the dispensary;
K. A. Goodman, a liquor salesman, and
Dennis Weiskopf, a Cincinnati busi
ness man, were placed on trial at Co
lumbia, S. C, on a charge of conspir
ing to defraud the state. The case
is what is known as the dispensary
scandal, and has been on the docket
several years. It is alleged $22,000
graft was paid the defendants.
General.
Professor Wells of Mount Meigs,
Governor Dix of New York is ex
pected within a few days to pardon
Capt. Peter C. Hains, Jr., now serv
ing a sentence in Sing Sing prison
for the murder of William Annis on
the Bayside, L. I., Yacht club oat, in
August, 1908. A petition for his par
don signed by eleven of the twelve
men comprising the jury that convict
ed Captain Hains has been presented
to the governor and Col Asa Bird
Gardiner, in behalf of Peter Hains,
Sr., filed considerable new evidence
in the case with the governor.
The police of New York are search
ing for Irene Westley, a comely 17
J ear-old girl, who was kidnaped by
tour unidentified men, as she was re
turning home with James Kerns, an
3 i-year old neighbor.
The world-wide Baraca and Phila
thea societies have named Norfolk as
the convention city for June, 1912.
driving his 110-horse-power car,
Bob Burman established a new
World's record for twenty miles over
a circular dirt track at the fair
grounds in Detroit. His time was
17 : 7 2-5. The former record was
: !, held by Oldfield.
--nglish Home Secretary Churchill
fcns decided the Johnson-Wells fight
i illegal and unless the promoters
s: . utlon the match they will be ar-r-i
ned before a magistrate to pre
v t a treach , of the peace
Four hundred thousand citizens of
the Ottoman empire living in the
United States may be called upon to
furnish an army of fighting men to
take the field against the Italians, ac
cording to a declaration by Dgeial
Bey, the new Turkish consul general
in New York City. Dgeial Bey said
there were 50,000 Turkish subjects
living in New York City. "Do you
expect to call upon them to aid in
the war which Italy has declared?"
he was asked. "Such a call is possi
ble," he replied.
Wenceslao Franco, a wealthy resi
dent of Acala, a small town in the
state of Chiapas, Mexico, was cruci
fied by the rebellion Chamula Indians
when they sacked that place, accord
ing to telegrams received by El Im
parcial from Tuxela Gutierrez, the
state capital.
In the arrest at New Orleans of
Annie Crawford, an alleged drug fiend,
on the charge of poisoning her young
er sister, Elise, a pretty stenographer,
the police took their first step in an
avowed effort to feveal the woman as
a modern Lucretia Borgia. Three
other members of the Crawford fam
ily have died under mysterious cir
cumstances within the past fifteen
mo"nths and Annie Crawford is said
to have been the beneficiary named
in the insurance policies on the life
of each.
The prosecution of the so-called
trusts by the United States govern
ment and the present and probable
condition of business in general were
topics touched upon by Franklin W.
Hobbs of Brookline, Mass., president
of the National Association of Cotton
Manufacturers, when he opened the
semi-annual session of the association
at Manchester. Vt. "Conditions in
cotton manufacturing during the past
six months have been deplorable,"
said Mr. Hobbs, "but the outlook is
much brighter."
Mayor Shank of Indianapolis an
nounced that he was determined to
break the corner formed by commis
sion men on potatoes, which are sell
ing here at $1.60 per bushel, and for
that purpose he has brought in a car
load, which will be placed on the city
markets. He says the potatoes cost
69 cents a bushel in Michigan, and
will be sold here at the same price,
with the freight added. The commis
sion men are charged with represent
ing to growers that the market here
is glutted.
Another "white hope" went down
to defeat at Troy, N. Y., when "Cy
clone Larry" English, an ex-member
of the New York police force, dispos
ed of George Perry of Boston in six
rounds. The fight was a slugging
match from start to finish, and the
Boston man, who won a recent "white
hope" tournament in Ne wYork, was
badly beaten, being knocked down
eight times during the fight, which
the referee stopped in the sixth
round.
Senator John L. Bristow practically
served notice that, while he was par
ticipating freely and gladly in the
welcome to President Taft in Kansas,
there was to be no let-up in the fac
tional fight as soon as he left the bor
ders of the commonwealth.
As an outcome of the first state
wide primary in Massachusetts held,
Gov. Eugene M. Foss again will head
the Democratic ticket, and returns in
now indicate Lieut. Gov. Lewis A.
Frothingham will be his Republican
opponent in the November election
Both are from Boston. There was a
fairly good vote, although the total
fell short of that polled at the last
state election. Governor Foss had op
position from Thomas L. Hisgen.
President Taft got his first news
of the declaration of war by Italy
upon Turkey through the Associated
Press dispatches handed to him on
his train. He took the deepest inter
est in the news and asked for more.
No comment of any sort, howevor,
was obtainable.
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley of Washing
ton, D. C, chief of the Federal agri
cultural department of chemistry bu
reau and exonerated star .figure in
the so-called Wiley pure food contro
versy," told the National Conservation
congress, in session at Kansas City,
that the health of the nation was
worth $540,000,000,000. He made this
estimate on the basis of $600 per cap
ita average annual earnings of 45,000
wage-earning adults, each represent
ing a capital of $12,000 invested at 5
per cent.
Sensational charges that the so-
called lumber trust completely domi
nates the lumber trade of at least
twenty states by maintaining a spy
system, blacklists, divisions of
territory and other alleged illegal
methods conducted through a central
agency in Chicago, called the Lumber
Secretaries' Bureau of Information,
are made in an anti-trust suit filed in
the United States court at Denver,
Col., by the department of justice.
This is the government's fourth
move in a nation-wide fight against
the lumber "trust" in addition to the
criminal indictments already standing
against the' secretaries of fourteen
lumbermen's associations.
Ensign Charles E. Hovey, command
ing the little gunboat Pampanga, was
killed by hostile natives at the Yu-
cans islands, which form part of the
Philippine archipelago. Brief reports
reaching the navy ' department said
there had been an action between the
force from the gunboat Pampanga and
hostile Yucans on the Basilian islands
just south of the town Zamboango and
between Mindanao and tho Jolo
group. Several seamen were badly
wounded. It is thought in Washing
ton the party was attacked while on
a scouting expedition.
BIGKETT MAKES
GOOD
ARGUMEN
T
IN SUPPORT OF CONVICTION AND
DEATH SENTENCE OF L. M.
SAND LIN
IS TO BE ELECTROCUTED
Wife Had Left Him and When She
Would Not Return Sandlin Fired the
Fatal Shot. The Attorney General's
Argument is Given. "
Raleigh. Attorney General T. W.
..ickett made an especially notable
argument before the Supreme Cou.-t
in support of the conviction and death
sentence of L. M. Sandlirl of Wilming
ton for the killing of his wife. She
had been forced by Sandlin's cruelty
to leave him and take her children,
running a boarding bouse as a means
of support. Sandlin went to the
house, quarreled with and abused her
because she would not come back to
him and then fired three fatal shots
at her and slightly wounded himself
as a show of intent to suicide. The
attorney general in closing his
argument for upholding the convic
tion and sentence to electrocution,
said : "
"The record in this case registers
another victim to that dark spirit of
crime which is stalking through the
land and slaving our women or draw
ing them down to a ruin that is worse
than death. The supreme tragedy
of life is the immolation of woman.
With a heavy hand nature wrings
from her a high tax of blood and
tears. Have men become brutes
that know no pity? Is motherhood
no longer holy? Is our civilization to
go down a carnival of crime, where
women are butchered like sheep in
the shambles? Verily, I take no pleas
ure in the death of the wicked, but it
seems to me that to this man the
electric chair would hold the least of
horrors. As he sits in his lonely
cell can he banish the vision of the
woman who in the days of her youth
put her hand in his and, with a faith
that knew no fear, forsook all and
followed him? Can he ever forget
that momentous hour when this wo
man, with a smile of ineffable ten
derness, went down in the valley of
the shadow of death, in order that
his child might live? And then can
he for one second cease to hear her
screams of terror
ARE SETTLING WRECK SUITS
Law Offices of Durham Have Been
Crowded For Several Days Has
Something Like 75 Cases.
Durham. The law offices of the
city have been crowded several days
with the litigants in the Iiamiet
wreck cases, both claim agents of the
Seaboard and the plaintiffs being
present when settlements were to be
made.
The Seaboard had something like
75 cases on the docket of the Dur
ham county civil superior court. It
was the largest number resulting
from a wreck ever sent to the courts
here and every man at the bard had
one or more cases. Some ran as
high as forty.
The action of the road has been
in the main commendable. It has
offered generally equitable settle
ments, and it is recalled that it had
hundreds of claims to adjust. These
ranged in injuries from a scratched
hand to complete decapitation. Sev
eral of these cases were for deaths
and the road has compromised some
of them.
There were sixty-six cases ready
for court in October. It i3 uncer
tain how many-will be tied off, but
nearly all. The docket will be great
ly relieved now and there will hardly
be necessity now for asking for the
special term of court to try civil
cases. The October term will be
for two weeks.
Two Men Charged With Murder.
Gaston Smith and Al. Josen, two
young white men, were arrested at
Pomona Mills on a warrant charging
them with the murder of Lacy
Hackett on September 6. The boys
are in jail and a hearing will be held
before Justice D. H. Collins. Tha
warrant was sworn out by the father
of the deceased. On the date charged
in the warrant the three boys had
gone into the country near the Po
mona Mills and while strolling
around found a squirrel in a . tree.
One of the boys went home for a gun,
and returned with it, for the purpose
of killing the squirrel. When he reach
ed the plce the squirrel had gone.
The boys then started home, and on
their way back sat down together
near a bridge east of the mill. While
standing there", the gun, which was
in the hands of Smith, was discharg
ed, the entire load entering Hack
ett's head. Death resulted almost in
stantly. After the shooting the two
boys hurried to the mill village anl
told of the affair. They gave the mat
ter an appearance of an accident and
no inquest was held at the time. Since
then remarks made by the boys have
caused suspicion to fasten upon them.
Photographers Convention Opens.
The fourteenth annual convention
of the photographers' association of
Virginia and the Carolinas opened in
Asheville in the Swannanoa Berkeley
hotel with a hundred delegates pres
ent from three states, besides a
large number of representatives of
commercial houses from all over the
country. The convention was called
to order by President James A. Ward,
of Richmond. After the invocation,
Judge P. C. Cooke delivered an elo
quent address of welcome in behalf
of Mayor Rankin and the city. The
response was by Mr. Peterson of Spar
tanburg for the visiting delegates.
Letters of regret were read from
members who could not attend, and
Mr. Ward followed with the presi
dent's address which was full of
valuable suggestions for members and
the association about work. Two
other fine addresses were delivered,
C. O. Towles of Hammer Dry Plate
Company, on "Man Who Wins," H.
M. Fell of Eastman Company talked
interestingly on vital questions.
Will Complete Arrangements Soon.
"Early in October," is the time in
dicated by Mr. E. C. Duncan when
all arrangements will have been com
pleted .by him for the taking over of
the Raleigh & Charlotte Railroad
Company, the corporation that was
chartered several years ago for the
purpose of constructing a direct line
from Raleigh to Charlotte. This in
formation came in a letter addressed
to Mr. Lewis Hartsell, the energetic
secretary of the Concord Merchants'
Association, several days ago and was
in reply to a communication received
requesting the consideration of Con
cord's claims to be on the route. A
map of this road as projected appear
ed several weeks ago and . evoked
much comment throughout the sec
tion to be traversed.
Are To Begin Drainage Work.
Within the next few weeks actual
drainage work will have been begun
on the two principal creeks in Iredell
county and within two years hun
dreds of acres of the most fertile
bottom lands now almost unfit for
anything except to breed fever germs
will have been reclaimed by culti
vation ad the county's corn produc
tion will be enormously increased.
Charges of Superintendent.
At a meeting of the City Council,
Dr. Chas. T. Nesbitt, City Superinten
dent of Health, in an official report,
relative to a bill of Furlong & Com
pany, licensed scavengers, for $79 for
scavenging the sanitary cans for four
days from September 1st to 5th, in-"
elusive, charges that the company not
only demands of the city payment
for work which the citizens in several
instances have already paid, but that
the firm has collected payment from
many citizens for scavenger work
done by the city since September 5.
Judge Sentenced Brad Bagley.
Brad Bradley, the convicted mur
derer of Chief of Police White, was
sentenced to be electrocuted Novem
ber 17 by Judge Cook. In a few
words. Judge Cook told Bagley that a
jury cf his countrymen had found
him guilty of murder in the first de
gree a ad he must forfeit his life in
accordance with the law. Bagley
stood and heard the sentence with
out any show of emotion. Only when
the jury announced the verdict has
Bagley shown any feeling and no
confession has escaped his lips.
Supreme Court Affirms Judgment.
The case of Bailey vs. Matthews
from Nash county, decided by the
Supreme Court is - rather unusual.
The opinion is written by Justice
Walker, in which the judgment Is af
firmed. It seems that there were sev
eral candidates for the postmaster
ship at Spring , Hope. The former
postmaster, W. S. Bailey brings this
suit against his wife, his step-daughter,
the present postmaster, and oth
ers for conspiring to make and mak
ing certain fraudulent, libelous and
slanderous statements about him to
prevent his re-appointment as post
master at Spring Hope. The plaintiff,
under the provisions of Section 865 of
the Revisal, requested the Clerk of
the Court for an order for the exami
nation of his step-daughter that he
might ascertain facts necessary to be
known for the purpose of preparing
and filing his complaint.
Aslieville. Judge Cook has recently
emphasized the importance of enforc
ing the law applying to the sale of
ciagrettes to minor. (
To Be Admitted to State Hospital.
Joe Ikeland, an insane Syrian, is
in the Wake county jail and the coun
ty authorities have asked that he be
admitted into the state hospital for
the insane. Ikeland was several years
ago sentenced to serve two years on
the roads for trying to shoot his sis
ter. He later went crazy and was
placed in the Wake county jail where
he has been for several months. He
will not wear any clothes, but tears
them off as fast they are put on him.
He sleeps on the floor. Authorities
want him admitted to the hospital.
Charged With Highway Robbery.
Jake Austin and Frank . Johnson,
two escaped convicts were up before
'Squire Humphrey, charged with high
way robbery. During their liberty
they waylaid Mr. John A. Matthews
and robbed him of $40, a coat and a
mileage book. The above offense oc
curred at Whitley's a flag station on
the Southern railroad. Mr. Matthews
stated that after he had been relieved
of all valuables that the highwaymen
cared to take they" then forced him to
run down the railway track while
they made their escape.
NORTH STATE LEADS
REGAINED THE FIRST PLACE IN
1910 IN THE PRODUCTION
OF GOLD.
PRODUCTION IS ON INCREASE
There Are Twenty-Three Placer Mines
in Operation and Thirteen Deep
Mines Notable Production of Sil
ver Was From Copper Mines.
Raleigh. A special from Washing'
ton states that North Carolina re
gained first place among the eastern
states "in : 1910 in the production of
gold, according to a report just issued
by the United States! geological sur-
vey. According to the report 3,291.68
ounces of gold, valued at $68,043,
were produced during the year 1910,
an increase over 1909 of 1,345.55 fine
ounces, valued at $27,815.
The yield of silver, recovered in
refining the gold and copper, was
9,053 fine ounces, valued at $4,888, an
increase of 8,544 ounces, valued at
$4,629.
The copper production in the state
shows a decrease of 83,998 pounds.
The total value of gold, silver and
copper produced in North Carolina
in 1910 was $90,778, an increase over
the corresponding value for 1909 of
$21,103.
During last year, the report says
there were 23 placer mines in opera
tion and 13 deep mines. The deei
mines produced 14,914 short tons of
ore, of which 12,693 were gold quartz
ores, with an average total recovered
value in gold and silver of $4.42 a
ton; 2,221 tons were copper ores with
an average preciouo metal value of
$2.51 a ton, and yielding 63.2 pounds
of copper a ton. The placers, of
North Carolina yielded 497.34 fine
ounces of gold and 43 fine ounces of
silver; the siliceous ores produced
2,745.77 fine ounces of gold and 456
fine ounces of silver; and the copper
ores yielded 48.57 Announces of gold
and 8,554 'fine ounces of silver. It
will be seen therefore that the nota
ble production of silver was from
copper mines.
Bought His Own Liquor.
Concord. Several months ago
Sheriff Honeycutt seized 62 1-2 gal
lons of liquor and 50 dozen bottles
of beer while it was en route from
Kannapolis to Concord on the Kan
napolis road. A. Hatke, a liquor
drummer from Richmond, claimed the
fluids and made an effort to recover
it but the court decided against him.
An order was made by the county
commissioners allowing the chairman
of the board to dispose of all liquor
seized by the county officers. Sev
eral days ago Hatke made an offer
of $100 for the stuff which the chair
man accepted and he closed the deal,
buying back his own liquor. He is
having it shipped away.
Additional Reports Have Come In.
Asheville. Additional reports con
cerning the killing of a white man in
Yancey county a few days ago, are
to the effect that the dead man was
Robert McKay, who had gone to Yan
cey county in the interest of a rail
road in Tennessee. The officers are
looking for three Petersons, as stated
two of them brothers and their
nephew. The cause of the shooting is
bp id to have been on account of some
trouble the Petersons had with a ne
gro who had been hired by McKay.
In Hearty Accord With Proposition.
Asheville. The baseball fans of
this city seem to be in hearty accord
with the proposition which has been
launched to form a state league for
the 1912 season, to include only
North Carolina towns, with the pos
sibility of a berth in that league. The
managers of the North Carolina clubs
in the Carolina Association strongly
favor such a move, having found the
situation in that league practically
the samp as the Asheville club found
it this year in the Appalachian Lea
gue, that the foreign teams do not
support a team as they do, and as a
result cannot make a success of the
venture financially. v
Farmers Are Anxious For School. . .
Belmont. The advocates for the
farm-life school from Gaston county
are busily engaged this week in can
vassing the county for signers to a pe
tition asking that the county commis
sioners call an election to ascertain
the will of the people in regard to the
matter. This eastern section of the
county is being well covered by Mr.
W. W. Faires, president of the Gas
ton County Farmers' Union, and his
lieutenants. The petitions are being
signed freely, showing the farmers are
anxious fcr the school.
Developed An Acute Condition.
Raleigh. The strenuous fight be
tween the Wake county commission
ers and the Wake county board cf
health over the question of county
superintendent of health developed an
acute condition when the sheriff, the
jailer, and the superintendents of a
number of the institutions refused to
admit Dr. J. J. L. McCullers, declared
by the board of health to be the su
perintendent, for inspection purposes,
and the board of health declared each
of these officials liable to prosecution
fcr misdemeanor.
NEWS OF TAR HEEL STATE
A Column of News That Has Been
Collected With Much Care From
All Over the State.
Concord. Miss Rose Hartis and
Mrs. D. B. Morrison have been elect
ed delegates to the meeting of the
Daughters of the Confederacy which
meets in Winston-Salem next month.
Winston-Salem. The meeting at
Danbury was a big success. The
crowd was enthusiastic. Mr. Justice,
of Greensboro, and Mr. Comer, of
Danville, Va., made fine speeches.
Hickory. The officers and directors
of the Catawba Fair Association held
a meeting to outline the work of
preparation lor what bids fair to be
the best street fair Hickory has ever
had.
Wilmington. The case against J.
C. Hollly, formerly proprietor of the
Rock Springs Hotel, and ex-preacher,
for the murder of his ward, Edward
Cromwell, will hardly be tried at this
term of court.
Lexington. Things are getting in
fine shape for the second annual Dav
idson county fair and home-coming
week, which is to be i celebrated this
year, November 8, 9, 10. The cash
premiums now in sight will reach
$500, including the $250 which the
state board of agriculture will appro
priate. Fayetteville. From the time that
the hookworm dispensaries were
opened in Cumberland county, sev
eral weeks ago, up to a few days ago,
1,688 cases had been treated. Dr. B.
W. Page treated 122 cases in Fay
etteville in one day. This makes a
total of 1,810 cases treated in Cum
berland county during four weeks.
Belmont Work on the new Meth
odist church building is progressing
rapidly. Mr. Robert Rankin of Mount
Holly is the contractor in charge of
the work. He is already on the job
with a good force of workmen. The
building when completed will be a
handsome brick structure, artistic
and commodious. Heretofore, Bel
mont Methodists have not had their
own church building.
Washington. The following pat
ents were issued to North Carolin
ians by the United States patent of
fice: Cisco R. Taxler of Winston-Salem,
assignor to the American Trac
tion Company, New York, traction
wheel; William C. Brlggs of Winston
Salem, assignor to the Carolina Band
ing Machine Company, machine for
applying bands, labels or wrappers to
cigars or other articles.
cgdF-vHM5'sBe etaoin taoin nononon
Wilmington. The grand jury got
busy and brought in indictments
against eight women of the under
world for keeping disorderly houses.
It is reported that the grand jury will
inquire into the alleged open and
flagrant violations of the prohibition
law. Several members of the grand
jury are reported to have United
States license to sell whiskey.
Gastonia. After having been held
up for several weeks because of dif
ficulty in perfecting arrangements for
building a viaduct under the South
ern's track near the Avon mill in Gas
tonia, the grading force of Messrs.
Stewart & Jones, contractors for
grading the roadbed of the Piedmont
and Northern Railway Company be
tween Gastonia and Charlotte, have
resumed work on east Franklin Ave
nue and are rapidly pushing their
way through the town.
Raleigh. Adjutant General R. L.
Leinster of the North Carolina Na
tional Guard announced the advance
ment of Dr. Francis J. Cleminger
from captain to major in the medical
corps; Dr. Claude L. Pridgen, Kin
ston, from captain to major in the
medical corps; Dr. W. C. Horton,
Raleigh, from lieutenant to captain in
the medical corps; and Dr. R. A.
Campbell appointed first' lieutenant In
the medical corps.
Raleigh. State Insurance Commis
sioner James R. Young was at High
Point to prosecute C. C. Whitehead
for representing the Standard Home
Company of Birmingham, Ala., an un
licensed benefit association that
claims to be not subject to the North
Carolina license laws and has been
sending representatives into the state
now and again without it having been
possible until now to arrest one of
them. Commissioner Young secured
a sentence of 9 months on the roads
for Whitehead, who was convicted in
the Recorder's court at High Point.
Winston-Salem. Forsyth county is
now making a splendid roadway up
to the Davidson county line and Guil
ford has already built a splendid high
way from High Point to Davidson
line, there remaining only a stretch
of three and a half miles to link up
the two systems.
Mooresville. While it was a fact
that many farmers were uneasy as
to the amount of roughness they
would make on their farms this year,
the problem has about solved itself
since the recent rains. Crab grass
has never been known to grow so
fast
Raleigh. It was announced by
Manager A. T. Bowler, -of the A. &
M. football team that the only open
date on the schedule, October 14, has
been closed with the Virginia Mili
tary Institute, the game to be played
in Lexington, Va.
Newton. For some time past the
Holy Rollers," as they are called,
have been operating in the eastern
part of the county, and there has been
no little interest in their doings.
Strange stories are told of the com
plete mastery which the pecvuliar
doctrine obtains over the minds of
converts.
VICTIMS OF FLOOD
ARE LESS THAN 500
CONSTABULARY AND HEALTH DE
PARTMENT HAVE THE SITUA
TION IN HAND.
VALLEY IS A CHARNEL HOUSE
The Property Loss From Flood and
Fire is Estimated to be Around Six
Million Dollars Many Stories of
Thrilling Rescues.
Austin, Pa. The curtain of night,
which was rung down on the Austin
flood scarcely before its victims had
all been claimed and its surviving
spectators fully realize how great a
tragedy the elements of water and ftro
had enacted in the natural ampitheater
of the Allegheny mountains here, was
lifted by dawn revealing a " ghastly
scene of death and devastation.
Austin, itself a busy mill town of
three thousand people, many of whom
were enjoying the fine autumn, is
only a ghost of a wn now. Torn to
pieces by water ant eaten by fire, tho
wet and charred remnants of its build
ings, believed to hold the remains of
three hundred or more persons, were
strewn along the valley edge, piled in
rows where the main street business
section was or swept in scattered
masses far down the ravine.
Spectators, many of whom barely
escaped being victims of the disaster,
and hundreds of persons from sur
rounding towns, looked down from tho
steep hillsides on Austin and Costello
through a veil of fog to see the wreck
age here of some four hundred houses,
a score of business blocks, threa
churches and several ' large lumber
mills, and three miles further down
the river at Costello the ruins ot
more than fifty buildings. The flood
did not spend its force until it raced
for more than ten miles from the
reservoir. Wharton, still farther on,
suffered somewhat, but is practically
intact. The loss of life at Costello,
where the residents had more warn
ing, is believed to be but three.
The property loss in the valley Is
estimated at upwards of $6,000,000.
Rapid Temperature Changes.
Washington. Rapid temperature
changes will be recorded in northern
United States and moderate tempera
tures in the South and on the Pacific
coast, announced the weather bureau's
weekly bulletin. The week's precipi
tation will be above normal except
on the Gulf and the South Atlantic
coasts. The bulletin makes this fore
cast: Unsettled weather and general
rain the first part of the week east of
the Rocky mountains; crossing the
Rockies then the Central valley and
then the Eastern states. This distur
bance followed lower temperature
probably attended by frosts In the
Northwest and Northern states
Eight Children Burned to Death.
Indiana, Pa. Eight children of Mr.
and Mrs. Wliliam Dias of Heshbon,
near here, ranging in age from 13
years to 3 months, were burned to
death when fire destroyed the family
home. The parents, after discover
ing the flames, left the children in
their beds and went to the first floor
where they made an attempt to extin
guish the fire. The blaze spread rap
idly, however, and they were unable
to rescue the little ones.
America is Neutral.
Washington. The American decla
ration of neutrality in the Italian-Turi-ish
war only awaits the Presidents
formal approval. Without his per
sonal signature the State Department
cannot issue the proclamation, which,
however, is expected to be promulgat
ed. The proclamation is ready for Is
sue as soon as approved, Acting Sec
retary of State A dee, having prepared
it at the first intimation of hostilities.
Fowler Gets Cold Feet.
Emigrant Gap, Cal. Aviator Robert
G. Fowler abandoned his trans-contin-tal
flight because his engine will not
carry him over the Sierras as it will
not "bite" the thin air.
Breaks Down For First Time.
New Orleans. Miss Annie Craw
ford, charged with murdering her sis- '
ter Elise a week ago by. administering
morphine, showed the first break In
the self-possession rigidly maintained
since her arrest by prolonged out
bursts of weeping. Clinging to tho
iron bars of a window in her ward
and with her head bowed on her arm
the prisoner was found by Mrs. Octa
via Kennerly, the matron who tried to
comfort her. Almost, immediately the
prisoner would recover her self- pos
session. v
The Italians Shell Towns.
Constantinople. It is officially con
firmed that the Italian squadron has
bombarded Prevesa, but the landing
of Italian forces therr denied. It is
announced from Pan; '.v. that two Ital
ian warships bombardel the port of
Reschadie and the torpedo boats ly
ing in that harbor, one of which was
damaged .and landing its crew. Tho
Italian ships entered the port and
shelled the town, several houses being
struck. After taking soundings they
left, and later entered port Musto.
taking the captain of the port prisoner.