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FOR THE BUSY MAN
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OK
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 mystery of the disappearance
of Alfred Stiles, the Savannah negro
who was supposed to have been bat
tened in the hold of the steamer Pa
than just prior to the departure of
the boat for Liverpool, has been clear
ed up by the receipt of a telegram
sent by Stiles to Henry Bateman, col
ored, asking for $15 to get Stiles back
from Norfolk, Va. . The theory that
Stiles fell asleep after loading cotton
in the Pathan and was carried to sea
is borne out.
The Manufacturers' Record says a
$30,000,000 consolidation of iron and
steel and coal interests in Alabama,
of great magnitude and far reaching
importance," bringing into the devel
opment of that district great financial
forces, is now rapidly materializing
through plans which have been work
ed out for the final completion of the
merger of the Alabama Consolidated
Coal and Iron company, and the South
ern Iron and Steel company.
Following the granting of a re
straining order by Judge Sheppard at
Valdosta, Ga., in the Georgia and Flor
ida railroad case, conferences were
held at Douglas between citizens, of
ficials of the road and representatives
of the strikers. What the form of
arbitration will be is not now known
here, except that the president of the
road has wired General Manager Tur
ner to agree to arbitration under the
Erdman act. Information, though un
official, is to the effect that progress
has been made toward a satisfactory
settlement of the strike.
Suit for the recovery of $6,000,000
damages was filed in the United
States court at Jacksonville, Fla.,
against the Seaboard Air Line rail
way, the Knickerbocker Trust compa
ny of New York, Charles H. Keep,
Francis Henderson, R. V. Matthews,
C. W. Lucasand Frank Q. Brown of
New York, and H. Reiman Duval of
New Jersey, the plaintiffs in the suit
being the Florida Railway company,
of which Frank Drew of this city is
president. George M. Powell, a stock-
pany, instituted the suit by filing a
praecipe, conspiracy being charged to
the defendants.
The operation of trains on the
Georgia and Florida railway met with
the first material resistance from the
striking firemen and sympathizers at
Augusta, Ga., when two freight trains
were stopped by mobs and the train
crews overpowered. Four ' employees
of the company were seriously injur
ed, one of them sustaining a fractured
skull. A train leaving with supplies
for way stations between Augusta and
Douglas was stopped just outside the
city limits, on the belt line, and was
abandoned by the crew. The other
was a train of freight cars, being
transferred from the Augusta yards
to the Hamburg yard of the Southern
road, and was held up near Schultz'
Kill on the Carolina side of the river.
Four more state militia companies
and a troop of cavalry were ordered
to McComb City by Governor Noel
of Mississippi. They are companies
at acksonJ, Greenwood ,Macon and
Shubut and the cavalry troop at Ma
con. Probably the biggest demonstration
of working men that New Orleans
has witnessed in many years, was
held there when it is estimated that
six thousand men formed in line and
marched through the business sec
tion of the city to Elks Place, where
a mass meeting of laboring men was
held. The parade and mass meeting
were held as a protest against the
methods alleged to have been em
ployed in taking the McNamara bro
thers from Indianapolis to Los Angeles.
General.
Unrecognized by a single person In
the curious throng that rushed to his
air, Rear Admiral Winfield Scott
Schleq, U .S. N., retired, fell dead
in front of the Berkeley lyceum, on
West Forty-fourth street, . New York
City. The admiral's sudden death is
attributed to cerebral hemorrhage. Ad
miral Schley was born in Frederick
county, Marland, in 1839.
Aviator Dixon, who flew across the
Rocky mountains last week, fell from
a height of 100 feet at the interstate
fair grounds at Spokane, Wash., and
received injuries which caused his
death. 1
Mrs. Roosevelt is confined to her
house by injuries received when she
was thrown from her horse.
Twelve banking institutions of New
York City, it was learned, have sig
nified their willingness to send noti
fications to the central bureau for reg
istration of cotton bills of lading
when requested to do so by the ship
per. ;
Vv'ithin a week Mexicans may have
acquired a belief as to the identiy of
their new vice president, but not even
-iadero can be certain ,who his lieu
tenant is to be until the third week in
October at the earliest.
William J. Bryan, in an address at
Kansas City, said that he was not a
candidate for president.
Mrs. Charles W. Morse visited the
United States circuit court in . New
York to ask Judge Lacombes' advice
In the matter of preparing another
pardon . petition for her husbaad, a
prisoner in the Federal penitentiary
at Atlanta, Ga. She stated that she
would at once set to work on such a
petition asking for Morse's freedom.
and would present it to President
Taf t. A - few days ago Morse with
drew his petition for a pardon and re
ceived from President Taft permis
sion to renew it at some future time.
jonn u. Kocnereiier is naving a
private telegraph wire extended to
his home in Tarry town, N. Y., and
will have an operator installed at the
terminus of the line in his residence.
It is said that Mr. Rockefeller's first
order on returning her for the winter
was for the private wire. In all the
years he has lived in Tarrytown he
never has had a private wire before.
and the innovation has started end
less gossip. One suggestion current
is that Mr. Rockefeller is assuming
active charge of business affairs
again.
The situation at Black River" Falls,
Wis., the precipitous little city of 2,-
000 population, swept by a flood when
waters of Black river, swollen by re
cent rains, washed through the em
bankment of the La Cross Water Pow
er company's dams at Hatfield, is
worse by far than was even feared
when the deluge burst upon the unfor
tunate town. It is impossible to as
certain the loss of life. It is believed
the casualty list will be heavy. Half
of the business section was destroy
ed, together with a part of the resl
dence district, and it is alleged by the
residents who have taken refuge on
high lands that the city will be wiped
off the map.
True brotherhood, militant opti
mism, broader tolerance and work
genuinely co-operative are the needs
of Christian leaders in facing modern
criticism and social unrest, declared
the Rev. Henry Height of London,
president of the British Wesleyan
conference at the opening of the
fourth ecumenical or world's Meth
odist conference in Toronto, Ontario.
Doctor Height had taken as his text
the words, "The harvest truly i3 plen
teous, but the laborers are few."
Capt. Peter C. Hams, Jr., who kill
ed William E. Annis in August, 1908,
received his pardon and left Sing Sing
prison a free man. He was serving
an indeterminate sentence of. eight
to ten years. Hains' attorney declar
ed at the trial that Hains had been
frenzied by stories of relations be
tween Annis and Mrs. Hains. He
got a divorce from his wife last Au
gust. -
With "the arrival of Governor Har
mon of Ohio at St, Louis actual
work was begun on the appeal to
be taken by the governors' commit
tee in the United States Supreme
court against the decision of United
bolder in the Florida Railway com- Ch.cuit e Sanborn the
Minnesota rail rate case. Governor
Harmon joined Governor Herbert S.
Hadley of Missouri and the two went
to the law office of United States Dis
trict Attorney Houtz. Later, Gover
nor Aldrich of Nebraska, the third
member of the committee, arrived.
Bullets of solid gold were used by
Yaqui Indians in fighting against Por
forio Diaz in the recent Mexican rev
olution, according to passengers ar
riving in San Francisco, on the
steamer Curacas, from Mexican ports.
In Mazatlan hospitals, where many
wounded were operated on, discovery
of the golden pellets, it was said, was
an ordinary occurrence, although few
patients had received enough of them
to pay the doctors' bills.
Washington.
The legal contest before the Su
preme court of the United States over
the question of whether a corner of
the cotton market is a' violation of
the Sherman anti-trust law, began
when Solicitor General Lehman filed
a brief contending that the law so
applies. The point arose from the
appeal of the government from the
action of the New York Federal court
In quashing certain counts of an in
dictment against James. A. Patton,
Eugene G. Scales, Frank B. Hayne
and William P. Brown.
An effort to secure higher prices for
cotton by an improvement in the
methods of handling, grading and
marketing the crop is to be made by
the government this year in co-oper-tion
with prominent cotton growers.
The plan is designed to bring to the
cotton raisers the full benefit of the
increase in value that can be secured
by a careful grading of the crop to
correspond with the new government
standards. These standards are rec
ognized official standards of the trade.
On the witness stand before the
senatorial investigation committee,
sitting at Milwaukee, Wis., for three
hours to answer charges that bribery
and corrupt use . of money had con
tributed to his election, United States
Senator Isaac Stephenson testified
that, although he spent $107,793 in
his campaign, he had little knowledge
as to just where the money went; he
stated it was not used in violation
of the law. Senator Stephenson said
he cautioned his managers to keep
within the law. -.-.-..
'Transportation of United States
mail across the continent by aero
plane, over an officially designated
route by a special mail messenger
appointed by Postmaster General
Hitchcock, is a test that will be un
dertaken. Earl L. Ovington, who was
designated by Mr. Hitchcock to carry
mail over a short route, between Nas
sau and Brooklyn, is completing prep
arations for the long trip from New
York to Los Angeles in his airship.
Postmaster General Hitchcock issued
an order authorizing Owington to act
as a mail carrier. y
LEIGH IS FOR
NEW RAILROAD
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TRANSACTIONS FOR THE ROAD
WERE COMPLETED AT A RE
CENT MEETING. .
WILL TAKE THREE YEARS
Will Cost Between $7,000,000 and $10,
000,000 The Road Will be 144 Miles
in Length Men Who Were Present
at The Meeting.
Raleigh. Raleigh is deeply inter
ested in the proposed construction of
the Raleigh, Charlotte and Southern
Railroad, and in the result of the
meeting of the original incorporators
just . held in Greensboro, when there
occurred the final transactions for the
turning over the franchise, which wis
granted by the last legislature, t.-
Mr. E. C. Dnucan, of this city. It is
understood that Mr. Duncan and his
associates expect to get busy in mak
ing preparations for the construction
cf the road, which will be 144 miles
in length, running from Raleigh to
Charlotte, via Pittsboro, Asheboro and
Albemarle and through a section
which is not at present traversed ay
a direct line from Raleigh. It is
known that Mr. Duncan has recently
made trips to New York, and it is
supposed that his visits to the me
tropolis have been to some extent in
connection with his plans for the road.
It is estimated that this railroad
will cost all things considered, . be
tween $7,000,000 and $10,000,000 and
that from one to three years will be
required for its construction. The
road will tap the old C. F. and Y. V.
at Eiler City and will run through a
manufacturing section cf the state.
Present at the Greensboro meeting
were: Secretary E. T. Corwith and
C. G. Creighton, representing the
Greater Charlotte Club; Maj. H. A.
London, representing Pittsboro; D. P..
McCrary and D. P. Morris, represent
ing Asheboro; A. C. Honeycutt, of
Albemarle. With. Mr. Duncan was
Ernest Haywood, of Raleigh, his at
torney. The franchise for the road was pro
cured originally by the following
gentlemen: J. S. Efird, W. L. Mann,
A. C. Heath, S. H. Hearne, R. L. Smith,
A. L. Cornell and R. L. Brown, of Al
bemarle; D. A. Tompkins, of Char
lotte; Arthur H. London, T. M. Bland,
Fred C. Williams, Leon T. Lane, Ben
nett Noah and H, M. London, of Pitts
boro; W. C. Hammer, J. D. Ross, Mar
vin Kearnes, M. W. Parrish and D.
R. Cox, of Asheboro, and W. I. Lee, of
Staunton, Va. Those present at the
meeting were Messrs. Mann, Arthur
H. London, Ross, Hearne, Kearns,
Smith, Lane, Cornell, Noah, Brown,
Cox and H. M. London. The others
were represented by proxy.
Body Found Floating in Water.
The body of Kitty Gilbert, a girl
about twenty years old, living in the
cotton mill section of Spray, was
found floating in the main canal, just
in front of the Spray Mercantile Com
pany building of this place. Life was
extinct when the body was discovered.
No signs of violence were found on
the body and it i3 thought to be a
simple case of accidental drowning. It
is reported the girl was subject'to fits
of some nature and it is thought that
in crossing the canal on a footway
.she was seized with a fit and fell in
to the water.
Twelve Months For Retailing Liquor.
Judge Ture sentenced John Fogle
man, a well known young white man
of Greensboro to twelve- months on
the roads for retailing liquor. Fbgle
man's attorneys gave notice of appeal
to the superior court and the defend
ant was admitted to bail in. the sum
of $750. His bond was signed by Mr.
Shaffer, who is connected . with the
owners of the whiskey house that
Fogleman was alleged to represent.
The evidence was that Fogleman had
been doing a considerable whiskey
business. During the month of Sep
tember 14 gallons of wihskey .-were
shipped to his address.
GIVEN EXECUTIVE CLEMEMCY
Four Pardons and One Commutation
Issued By Governor on Condition
of Good Behavior.
Raleigh. In a batch, of four pard-
ons and one commutation issued , by
Governor Kitchin is! one for Luke
Hammonds serving two years in the
penitentiary from Forsyth county for
robbery. He has served from March,
1910. The sentence had been impos
ed by the recorder on the representa
tion -that Hammond had a crminal rec
ord, but later inspections of the dock
ets of Winston-Salem . and county
court3 showed no case against him
Another man sentenced for the same
crime asserts , that Hammonds had
nothing to do with the crime. The so
licitor recommends the pardon,' which
is granted on condition of good be
havior. . '.:
; Charles Pruett. serving six months
on the roads from Burke county fot
false pretense, is pardoned because
the solicitor and other prosecutors
now agree that the wrong man was
convicted. In fact, it is shown that
cn the night that the crime was com
mitted Pruett was in Rutherford
county sick. He is again sick no v,
having been taken from Buncombe
county roads back to Burke county
on this account. '
James McKinney sentenced from
Mitchell county to ten years for sec
ond degree murder is commuted to
five years at the request of the trial
judge because it has developed since
the sentence that there was a physi
cian unable to attend the trial who
would have testified that the de
ceased asked that the prisoner .be not
prosecuted as he had thrown three
rocks at him before the prisoner cut
him, inflicting the fatal wound.
The other pardon is for Will Red
fearth, serving 21 years from Anson
county for,second degree murder. He
has served 13 years, was defended by
inexperienced lawyers who had little
time to prepare their case and since
this trial there has developed im
portant evidence to corroborate the
plea of self-defence. This pardon is
asked by both the trial judge and the
solicitor.
Tried For Robbing Trunks.
At the opening session of superior
court the case of the state vs. John
Casey and W .C. Cooper of Goldsboro,
charged with robbing trunks of pas
sengers while they were in the em
ploy of tho Norfolk Southern Rail
way company was called. Both of the
young men plead guilty and asked the
mercy of the court. A large number
of witnesses from all over the state
were in attendance prepared to give
their testimony and several of them
were allowed to testify. There was
much sympathy expressed for Cooper.
His young wife, a very attractive lit
tle lady and her father were in the
court room and they received the sym
pathy of all present. Casey's gray
haired father was also present and
made a pathetic plea to the judge to
free his erring boy. In summing up
the case Judge Carter stated that he
was deeply touched by the pleas of
the relatives of the defendants and
wished that he could conscientiously
let them go free, but this he could not
do. Both of the defendants were
sentenced to a term of 6 months each
in the Craven county jail.
Old Soldiers Hold Their Reunion.
The old soldiers of Macon county,
held their annual reunion in the town
of Franklin and the crowd was one
of the largest in the history of the
town. Hon. Chas. B. Aycock was the
speaker of the occasion,, and he - de
livered himself in his old time form.
He was in great trim and from the
time he lifted his voice to speak un
til he- had concluded he carried the
crowd with him.
Verdict of First Degree Murder.
Ending a chapter of the most bru
tal display of passion and revenge, a
verdict of guilty of murder in the first
degree was sentenced by the jury in
the case of the state against Taylor
Love for the shooting and killing of
Fred Morehead, both negroes , last
May. It will be remembered . that
Morehead was shot as he was, leav
ing the house of a woman and the
whole side of his head was blown off,
resulting in almost instant death.
Norris Sentenced to Twenty Years. .
E. J. Norris was sentenced to 20
years in the penitentiary for the mur
der of J. B. Bissett on August 12. The
verdict of second degree murder with
a recommendation for mercy was re
turned in passing sentence. Judge
Peebles said there should have been a
first degree verdict in view of the
evidence. The defense has made, an
appeal to the supreme court for a
new trial on the ground that the judge
erred in charging that anything short
of first degree murder could be found
in this case.
Hookworm Campaign Continues.
Dr John A. Ferrell, in charge of
the Isforth Carolina campaign against
the hookworm disease, announces that
Bladen and Harnett counties have
just made the appropriations neces
sary for the establishment of the free
state and county dispensaries in these
counties for the usual period of worK.
Dr. Ferrel now has five physicians
pushing this campaign which is just
rounded up in Northampton, Cumber
land, Onslow and Wayne counties and
will be started in others, in the near
tuture. " tv
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Gastonia. Receipts at the local
platform this season through Septem
ber 30, arounted to 729 bales.
Officers Let Woman Have Liquor.
It transpired , that the whiskey
seized at Waynesville was sent here
by a man who has figured in the
courts very extensively in Asheville
and was claimed by the proprietress
of a prominent hotel who said itwas
the property of some twenty or more
gentlemen guests that she expected
to register at her house during - the
fair. As there is no search and seizure
law here and the lady was quite per
sistent about having the liquor for her
guests, the officers of the law let her
have it.
Cleveland Farmers To Hold Cotton.
Cleveland county farmers are hold
ing their cotton for better prices.
Very few bales are being sold and
these go on the market by people"
who are unable to hold and whose
creditors are pushing for settlement.
The Farmers' Union is 1,400 strong
in the county and every union man
has pledged himself to hold his sta
ple. Mr. R. M. Gidney, one of the
leaders of the union, has been ap
pointed to make a campaign for the
Union in the interest cf the holding
movement.
AFTER THE TIGERS
5 RAND JURY INVESTIGATION WAS
THE PRELIMINARY STEP IN
THE FIGHT.
WILL BE AN INVINCIBLE CASE
The Grand Jury Has Before it Much
Evidence of the Receipt of Large
Quantities of Liquor by the Tran
sportation Companies.
Wilmington. The magnitude of th
searching investigation into the alleg
ed violations of the prihibition law
by thj& grand jury is just beginning
to be fully realized by the people gen
erally andJeach day it becomes more
apparent that it was but the prelimi
nary step toward ridding the town of
a large portion of its "blind tigers,"
especially those which are so open in
their operations.
Already several attorneys have
been engaged to appear for the
prosecution, and it is said that others
will appear at the trial. For a few
days there existed in the minds of
some a doubt as to. the strength of
the cases against the 62 alleged vio
lators of the law who have been
Indicted, but this has practically been
dispelled and nearly all concede that
if the state is able to prove what it
is reported can be shown then an
invincible case can be made out
against the defendants.
The grand jury had before it evi
dence of the receipts of large quan
tities of whiskey by the transporta
tion companies and also that those
indicted have United States liquor
license, it is said. Independent of
the fact that each defendant has a
United States liquor license he has
to file an affidavit with the govern
ment that he intends to engage in
the retail liquor business. A recent
United States law requires all liquors
to be consigned to actual persons and
to have the contents marked on the
package. The prosecutions in these
cases takes the position, it is said,
chat It is an easy matter to produce
the affidavits and also the books of
the transportation companies, show
ing enormous deliveries of liquors.
Is Not Dead But Sleeping.
Wilmington. Bearing out the con
tention of quite a number of people
that the recall movement, started
some weeks ago ostensibly because of
dissatisfaction over the sanitary tin
can, was not ' dead but sleepeth, was
a meeting of the steering committee
of this movement in the office of the
leader, K. C. Sidbury, Esq. It was de
cided to hold another mass-meeting
in the court house at which time it
will be definitely determined as to
when the recall petition is to be pre
sented to the council. Arrangements
will also be made at this meeting for
financing a campaign against the
present administration.
Election Has Been Postponed.
Fayetteville. Owing to a dispute
over the boundary line between Cum
berland and Harnett counties the
Good Roads election to have been
held in Cumberland county on No
vember 6th, has been postponed un
til some time in the spring of 1912,
by the county commissioners at the
request of, the Cumberland county
Good Roads Association, so the result
of the election will be free from any
possible complication arising from
the boundary dispute. The Legisla
ture of 1911 passed an act transfer
ring a portion of Black River town
ship from Cumberland to Harnett
county, but certain residents of this
section donot wish to be made a part
of Harnett and have started suit.
Is On First Class Fire Basis.
Durham. The city is on a first class
fire basis by action of the police and
fire commission, the commissioner
recommending the expenditure of
about $17,000 which gives the city the
best fire rate to be obtained. Since
the paid fire company was instituted
and better fire-fighting apparatus was
given, a greatly reduced rate has been
possible and there have been no de
structive fires within the fire district
proper.
Address Members of Farmers' Union.
Gastonia. Mr. R. M. Gidney, presi
dent of the Cleveland County Farm
ers' Union addressed the members of
the Gaston County Farmers' Union
at the court house on the subject of
holding cotton for a higher price. Mr.
Gidney came to Gastonia as the ac
credited representative of the Nation
al Farmers' Union, which is encour
aging, by lectures and otherwise, the
important cotton-holding movement.
There were present a goodly number
of farmers, and they . heard with in
terest what Mr. Gidney had to say
Secured Interesting Publications.
Dunn. Congressman Godwin has
secured a limited number of interest
ing publications issued by the differ
ent departments at Washington and
will distribute them among his
friends. He is sending bulletins on
the selection of seed corn to the farm
ers; to the doctors he is sending bul
letins on the hookworm, control of
typhoid by vaccination, etc.; to the
lawyers he will send copies of the
famous Supreme Court decisions in
the American Tobacco Company and
Standard Oil cases.
FROM THE TAR HEEL STATE
Short Paragraphs of . General News
. That Have Been Gotten From Over ,
The Old North State.
Charlotte. Charlotte has been offi
cially designated as night control
for the Glidden tour for October 194
the tour leaving New York on the
14th. ' , ' ' ; '
Murphy. J. T. Tate, who August
29 shot and killed Bob Thompson here,
was brought in by Sheriff Crawford
of McAUster, Oklahoma. Tate had
wired the Bank of Murphy for money,
and Sheriff Dickey, through this bank,
ascertained Tate's , whereabouts and
"wired Sheriff Crawford to apprehend
him, with above results. ,
. Troy. A twenty thousand dollar
bond issue was urged for the purpose
of erecting a modern school building
for Troy graded school. A high school
department will be established. The
state board of education having au
thorized an appropriation of $500 for
this purpose. Robert ' E. Ransom is
principal of the Troy graded school.
Durham. The Durham and , South
Carolina Railroad Company, running
from Durham to Bonsall, the extreme
edge of Wake, awarded the contract
for an extension of twelve or more
miles to Kipling where it joins the
Raleigh and, Southport and enters In
to direct connection with the Atlantic
Coast Line.
Newton. The cotton leaf caterpil
lar, of which we have written, has"
appeared, it would seem from reports,
in all parts of the county. Never be
fore has anything like this been seen
in the county, worms eat the leaves
off the plants, leaving only the ribs.
Of course they do not damage now,
but suppos'e they should break out
early in the season next year?
Gastonia. Saturday, November 11,
is the date fixed by the board of
county commissioners for an election
on the farm-life school proposition, an
order calling said election having
been passed at the regular monthly
meeting of the board. The ijuestion
involves the levying of a special tax
for this purpose of 2 1-2 cents on the
$100 worth of property and 7 1-2 cents
on the poll.
Henderson. The tobacco ware
houses of Henderson are having good
sales, though our tobacco is a little
late in being cured. Yet sales have
continued good and prices high for all
grades of tobacco. Larger sales ex
pected now on the market. But less
tobacco planted this year, around here
on account of early droughts and
scarcity of plants, the plant-beds be
ing injured.
Lexington. Fred Ritchie, a lineman
In the employ, of the Southern Power
Company, was electrocuted while
strapped to a pole thirty feet from
the ground. He was one of a force
that has been working around Lex
ington for several weeks and' when the
accident occurred he was helping to
make some changes in" the line at the
Wenonah cotton mill in the southern
end of the city.
Washington. Patents were issued
to the following North . Carolinians :
Elizabeth P. White, Salisbury, scrub
apron; Wallace B. Millner and J. M.
Cobb, Reidsville, wrench; William D.
Lemons, Shelby, combined seed plant
er and fertlizer distributor; F. W.
Bost and B. Gohel, China Grove, electrically-operated
annunciator; John C.
Brann, Hamptonville, tobacco caser.
Ashevrlle. Revenue Agent Sams
has recently received the reports of
several seizures of illicit distilleries
from the officers in the field. Deputy
Collector Harkins captured a block
ading outfit in Henderson county near
Tuxedo. It is reported to be a 100
gallon steam outfit. He made no ar
rests. A report was received from
Deputy Collector Hendricks of the
capture of an illicit distillery in Pat
rick county, Virginia, near Smithtown,
and two arrests were made.
Elizabeth City.- The contract for
the erection of a handsome high
school building at South Mills, the
leading village of Camden county, has
been awarded. The new building will
be a two-story structure of brick and
will be modern in every particular
for a building of its size and the con
veniences afforded in the town. It
will cost about $10,000. The state is
sues bonds for one-half this, amount,
while the patrons of the South Mills
school district have issued bond3 for
the remainder. ' )
Charlotte. The cotton worm, army
worm, dry year caterpillar, or what
ever the insect may be called, has at
tacked the Mecklenburg cotton fields,
and among the farmers there is no
little apprehension being felt as the
rapid destruction being worked by the
lately arrived pest.
Dunn. The Sampson county ' au
thorities were In town last week con
ferring with the commissioners of the
Dunn road district as to building a
sand clay road from Dunn to Clinton
and Newton Grove. It is understood
that this road will be built in the near
future by 'the convict forct
Raleigh. Governor Kitchin honor
ed a requistion from the governor of
South Carolina for David Ephralm,
wanted in Fairfield county, S. C, on
the charge of a murderous assault
upon Kate Emerson.
- Salisbury. The "Robert F. Hoke
Chapter of the Daughters ot the Con
federacy has elected the following
delegates: Mrs. William H. Over
man, to the general convention, which
meets in Richmond, Va., November 7
to 11; Mrs. Edwin Overman and Miss
Mary Henderson to the state conven
tion at Winston-Salem October 25 to
27.
TO ADOPT ENGLISH
NAVY YARD SYSTEM
SECRETARY MEYER ADOPTS PLAN
IN USE BY VICKERS AS THE
ONE BEST SUITED.
WILL BE GRADUALLY FELT
The New System Will Provide For
the Centralization of Work Says
There Will Not be'. Any Change In
Organization of Yards.
Washington Casting aside all sclen
tiflc systems of navy yard manage
ment advocated in this country, be
cause he believes they involved too
much detail and required serious
changes in the civil rules of employ
ment, Secretary of the rlavy .Meyer
will import from England the system
of management in use by Vickers,
Limited at the Barrow-in-Furness ship
engine and ordinance works. This In
substance, was officially announced at
the Navy Department. The secretary
studied this system duringhis recent
inspection of European naval works.
The Norfolk navy yard will be the
first to feel the change, which will be
felt in the other yards gradually.
Naval Constructor Evans, who has
been sent to Norfolk to carry out in
structions for improvements in the
issue and care of tools, the handling
of material estimating on work, re
pair .methods, and bringing about
uniform methods in all the shops, will
inaugurate parts of the system, it ia
expected.
In effect, the new system will pro
vide for the centralization of work,
and allows the commandant of a yard,
to know Just what is being done on &
particular job without having to seek
the information from others having
the work under their charge. .
Secretary Meyer states that with,
the inauguration of the new 'system he
has not in contemplation any changes
in organization In the yards.
That the system may be thoroughly
instituted Captains A. B. Willetts and
E. Theiss, United States navy, have
been sent to England to study the de
tails of the Vickers. system. These of
ficers will be gone about a month and
following their return, it is believed
the work of establishing the new sys
tem willbe begun in earnest.
. Government Urges Vaccination.
Washington. The prevalence o
typhoid fever in practically ever sec
tion of the United States has inspired
the public health and marine hospital
service to press publicly its belief la
the artificial immunity, with certain
limitations, afforded by anti-typhoid
vaccination, already compulsory in tha
American army for soldiers under 45
years of age. In a report Just issued
the public health service reproduces
the summary of the findings of a com
mission of the Academy of Medicine of
Paris which investigated the subject.
"Anti-typhoid vaccination," the French
commission declares, "does not accom
plish the complete disappearance of
this infectious disease in the com
munities where it is practiced, , but it
diminishes very notably its frequence.
A Georgia Train Wrecked.
Buchanan, Ga. One man was killed,
two fatally . injured and about a score
more badly shaken up when the Cen
tral of Georgia passenger train was
wrecked 3 miles south of here. The
wreck was caused by a spike being
driven between the rails presumably
by wreckers. The dead: Engineer
Samuel Ayers, Cedartown, Ga, Fatally
injured: Littleton, conductor.
Will . Solomon, fireman. Engineer
Ayers stuck to his post and was buried
under the locomotive with his fire
man. The latter was extricated barely
alive, but Ayers was crushed and
scalded to death.
Target Rifle Claims a Victim.
Gloversville, N.-Y. Hit by a bullet
from a target rifle in the hands of his
playmate, Ralph Spencer, 15 years old,
died at -his home in North Broad
albin, near here, and James Knight,
his playmate, also 15, is under arrest.
Will Try to Adjust Strike.
Nashville, Tenn. Complying with
the request of the Business Men's
Club of Memphis and the merchants
exchange of Jackson, Governor Hoop
er appointed a committee to act with
a like committee appointed by Gover
nor Noel of Mississippi, for the pur
pose of rendering assistance in the ad
justment of the Illinois Central strika.
The committee is as follows: C. P. J.
Mooney of The Memphis Appeal; W.
M .Clemens of The ' Memphis News
Scimitar and I. B. Tigret, a prominent
banker of Jackson
Battleship Rams Car Barge.
Norfolk, Va. An unkonwn battle
ship, believed to have heen the New
Jersey, collided with n mr barge own
ed by the New Yorl:. Philadelphia -&
Norfolk, Railroad near Thimble light.
The battleship was in route to Hamp
ton Roads in a dense fog and rain
storm. Guns on the battleship struck
a freight car on the barge and spilled
some of its contents. The warship
swept her searchlights in all directions
after the collision and seeing the barge
was uninjured, proceeded to Hampton.
Roads. No one was injured.