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VOL. XXXIV.
-PITTSBOrvO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, JUNE 5, 1912.
NO. 43.
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BRIEF HEWS BOTES
FOR TIE BUSY IN
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED
Complete Review of Happening ol
Createst Interest From All
Parts of World.
Southern.
An appeal from Plaucheville, La.
flood relief committee, asking for th
immediate dispatch of food supplies
field and garden seed for 60 families
in that section, has been received
in New Orleans by the local reliei
committee. The Plaucheville commit
tee request that conditions be inves
tigated without delay.
At a general meeting of the mem
bers of the Savannah (Ga.) cotton ex
change, the special committee ap
pointed to look into penalizations of
cotton at Bremen on appeals recom
mended that a special committee be
appointed to investigate conditions at
Bremen. The committee stressed the
fact that it was yet to be determined
whether, or not, any unfair or unjust
penalization had been exacted. The
Bremen cotton exchange urged that a
committee be sent over to investigate
for the local exchange.
Seven persons were killed , three
were probably fatally injured and a
score or more were less seriously hurt
when a tonado swept through the vil
lage of Skiatook, Oklahoma, IS miles
northwest of Tulsa, and the neighbor
ing farming lands and oil fields. The
property loss is estimated at $75,000.
The storm, which aproached from the
northwest, swept down the valley for
five miles and through a heavily
wooded forest before it struck the
town of Skiatook.
Stories of dire distress among 1,400
flood refugees in the vicinity of Jena,
La., in LaSalle parish, were received
by Dr. Oscar Dowling, president of
the Louisiana board of health. Doctor
Xewhauser said he had just complet
ed a trip of 25 miles up Black river
and that some J., 400 refugees were
clamoring for food and are in need
of medicines. Doctor Xewhauser
states that scattered about in the
swamps within a radius of nine miles
of Jena there were 950 negroes and
450 white people, among whom 120
tents had been distributed.
General.
Plutano, the last of the famous pair
of "wild men of Borneo," died at the
home of Mrs. H. A. Warner, in Wal
tham, Mass. Plutano is believed to
have been about 92 years old, and
with his brother, Waino, who died in
1905, had traveled all over the world.
Plutano and Waino wrere brought on
a ship to New York in the early fif
ties, and were said to have been cap
tured on the island of Borneo. Since
1S57 the "wild men" had been in the
care of Capt. Hansford A. Warner,
or one of his descendants. It was
found to be impossible to teach the
little men to speak English.
President Gomez of Cuba telegraph
ed General Monteagudo, the commander-in-chief
of the Cuban army, who
is at the scene of hostilities in the
province of Oriente, stating that the
general might permit American ma
rines to land on Cuban soil to guard
foreign property.
Three hundred operatives in the
mills of the American Woolen Mills
at Lawrence, Mass., joined the opera
tives of the carding and combing
rooms of the wool mill, who went on
strike because other operatives in
those rooms refused to become mem
bers of the Industrial Workers of
the World.
Speaker Clark carried Arizona in
the Democratic presidential primary
by a vote of at least three to one
over Governor Wilson.
Intimating that the revolutionaries
may be unable to restrain the popu
lace in its indignation when it real
izes the extent of the assistance be
ing given the Mexican government in
its fight against the rebels, General
Orozco and his fellow officers have
protested to Marion Letcher, consular
representative of the United States,
against the attitude of the American
government in permitting Mexican
authorities to recruit and equip sol
diers north of the international boun
dary. The protest has been ordered
published widely both in Spanish and
English. It is directed to Madero
and the "United States.
The right of the government to
bring proceedings to cancel a certifi
cate of citizenship on the ground that
it was illegally or fraudulently pro
cured was sustained by the United
States Supreme court.
About 2,000 garment workers em
ployed by a Chicago tailoring con
cern walked out on a strike.
Each member of the Irish-American
team which contested at the annual
games for the benefit of the Manhat
tan State Insane asylum in New
York is the proud possessor of a
check for one milion dollars signed
hy one of the inmates.
A disease thought to be either
smallpox or chickenpox has broken
out in the state hospital for the in
sane at Marion, Va. All the patients
and attendants have been vaccinated
and the hospital -quarantined.
President Taft has nominated Har
ry S. Edwards as postmaster at Ma
con, Ga.
Democratic voters of Riode Island
at the presidential preferential pri
mary, favored Champ Clark by a large
majority over Woodrow Wilson ai
Judson Harmon, the other ta aspi
rants. The vote was light.
Returns from about twenty coun
ties in Minnesota where conventions
were held show that a large number
of uninstructed delegations were
elected to the state convention at Du
luth. This was true, even where del
egates selected at the caucuses had
been instructed. The returns indi
cate, however, that a larger number
of delegates were instructed for Wil
son than for the other candidates. In
several counties William J, Bryan was
named as first choice and in others
as second choice. Champ Clark will
make a good showing in the conven
tion. With the pronouncing of the bene
diction by the venerable Bishop Hen
ry W. Warren, the general coher
ence of the Methodist Episcopal
church closed in Minneapolis, Minn.
The conference approved the amend
ment to the constitution of the "bish
op of races" clause. The clause was
favored by the Episcopacy committee
and, after a lengthy debate, partici
pated in principally by the negro del
egates of the South, was adopted 520
to 45.
Theodore Roosevelt's clean sweep
of the New Jersey primaries was em
phasized when late returns gave him
small but substantial pluralities in the
few districts about which the figures
left any doubt and increased his lead
elsewhere in the state. Governor Wil
son carried all but two of the 12 con
gressional districts and gained 24 of
the 28 delegates, including the dele-gates-at-large.
His opponents aban
doned hope that they carried the
eighth district, where the vote was
close, but wThich Governor Wilson won
by a liberal majority apparently.
Jewelry valued at $12,000 stolen
from the Monument Beach summer
homes of George P. Gradener and
James Jackson of Boston and Fred
F. Field of Brockton, Mass., has been
found by a workman in Boston, Mass.
While digging a post hole on an es
tate at Monument Beach the work
man's ; shovel uncovered a large pail
containing the plunder. The robbery
occurred last September, and it is
thought it was the plan of the thief
to leave the jewelry buried until he
had a favorable opportunity to sell it.
John D. Rockefeller, retired head
of the dissolved Standard Oil Com
pany, was placed on the witness
stand to tell whether he believed the
company had been really dissojved.
Washington.
Attorney General Wickersham has
authorized a Federal grand jury in
quiry at San Diego, Cal., into the ac
tivities of the Industrial Workers of
the World. This action is in response
to the appeal from the city authori
ties, who charge that the industrial
workers have offended Federal laws
by seditious activity, and also by vio
lation of American neutrality in con
nection with statements regarding
Mexico. The United States attorney
at Los Angeles has been given au
thority to lay the matter before the
grand jury at San Diego.
The senate passed unanimously the
bill appropriating $150,000 for the
government's participation in the
peace jubilee at Gettysburg in 1913
on the occasion of the fiftieth anni
versary of the battle. At a joint meet
ing of the Pennsylvania Gettysburg
celebration commission and the repre
sentatives of the states, it was de
cided to abandon for the present the
movement for an appropriation of
$500,000 or more for the erection up
on the battlefield of a peace memo
rial. Blame for the Titanic disaster is
chargeable directly to the failure of
the dead Captain Smith to heed re
peated warning of icebergs ahead, but
responsibility for unnecessary loss of
life must be shared by Captain Lord,
of the steamship Calif orniau, through
his disregard of distress signals. This
is the finding of the senate commit
tee which investigated the sinking of
the Titanic, as prepared in a compre
henisve speech delivered by William
Alden Smith of Michigan, chairman
of the committee. Senator Smith de
clared that responsibility also rests
upon the British board of trade, "to
whose laxity of regulation and hasty
inspection the world is largely in
debted for the awful fatality." In
denouncing Captain Lord of theCali
fornian, the senator said the Titanic's
distress signals were plainly seen
from the deck of his vessel a short
distance away.
The house passed the naval appro
priation bill without providing for any
new battleships. In the final hours
of consideration, however, a radical
amendment was added by which gov
ernment contracts in the future must
be filled under the eight-hour law.
The proviso applies not alone to naval
contracts, but to all work that hereaf
ter may be done for the government.
The bill carries approrimately $119,
000,000. The adoption of the eight
hour amendment followed a lengthy
debate.
The addition of water to canned
products will be considered adultera
tion in future, except in those cases
where a certain amount of water is
required for the proper proportion or
for the sterilization of the product,
according to a pure-food decision
signed by Secretary Wilson of the de
partment of agriculture. ' "The can
in canned food products serves not
only as a container but also as an
index of the quantity of food there,"
the decision says. "It should be as
full of food as is practicable for
packing and processing without in
juring the quality.
STATE GOUNGIL OF
FARMERS
UNON
TOOK IMPORTANT STEP FOR
WARD IN EDUCATIONAL PART
OF THE WORK.
TO HAVE EDUCATIONAL AGENT
This Agent Will Devote His Entire
Time to This Work Importance
Union Will. Attach to Rural Educa
tion In the Future.
Raleigh. At a meeting of the state
council of the Farmers' Union in this
city Friday, the 17th of this month,
the state council took an important
step forward in the educational part
of ts work. This was the decision to
appoint an educational agent for the
state and also educational agents for
the various counties and local unions
of each county. This state agent will
devote his entire time to the work.
His function will be to look after the
educational part of the union's work
just as the business agents looks after
the busines interests of the union.
Hitherto the state union has not had
an educational agent and the fact that
such an office is to be created is highly
significant of the importance the un
ion will hereafter attach to rural edu
cation. The name of the organization,
and Educational Union signify that
the matter of rural education is one of
its leading interests, and the action of
the state council of North Carolina in
appointing a state agent of education
indicates the paramount interest of
the union in this matter.
The National Farmers' Co-operative
and Educational Union has an educa
tional agent in the person of Mr. C. C.
Wright, of Wilkes county, who has al
ready organized the work in several
states and the action of the state coun
cil at Raleigh on the 17th was in keep
ing with the national plan for enlarged
interest in and attention to education
al work in the rural districts. The plan
of appointing an agent instead of a
committee to look after this feature of
the union's work is the one also ap
proved by the national council of the
union, it having been found more sat
isfactory in every way.
Senatorial Districts Committee.
The executive committee of this
Senatorial District met for the pur
pose of deciding on the time and
place of holding the convention to se
lect candidates for the next state
senate. It was decided to hold this
convention in New Bern. This will be
convenient for the delegates from all
the counties in this district, as New
Bern is centrally located. The date
of the convention is to be Friday, June
14th. There are four candidates in
the field: Mr. A. D. Ward, of New
Bern; Mr. Leslie Davis, of Beaufort;
Mr. Tom Whitaker, and Mr. Albrit
ton, of Greene county.
A New List of Election Judges.
For the first time in the last thirty
years almost a new list of judges of
elections and poll holders had to be
named in place of those appointed
by the Wake County Election Board.
In exact figures thirty-six Democrats
and seventeen Republicans had to be
re-named. At an adjourned meeting of
the eelction board at Raleigh in the
office of Mr. W. H. Pace it was point
ed out that since the appointment of
election judges and pollholders last
Monday a large number of these same
officers of election were candidates
for precinct committeemen, executive
committeemen and delegates to the
county convention.
Hit Negro on Head With Hammer.
Struck in the head with a hammer
by the engineer of the steam roller
used on the streets of Wilmington,
after he had hit the foreman of the
force, T. E. Koonce, with a shovel and
was lashing him with a whip, R. Cos
by, colored, lies in the hospital in a
precarious condition. H. E. Beane,
the engineer, who hit him, is held at
the police station but is not locked
up.
Trucking Activities in This Section.
This section of Eastern Carolina is,
at this time, in the midst of trucking
activity and the trains and boats op
erating to and from Elizabeth City
are being taxed to take care of the
business. Peas and beans continue to
go forward to the markets in large
quantities and irsh potatoes are be
ing rushed to the market as fast as
they can be handled. As usual, Cur
rituck county is leading "in the early
shipments, and every day steamers ar
riving from Currituck point are carry
ing immense cargoes of the product.
Turned Into Automobile Highway.
The old roadbed of the Aberdeen
& Ashboro Railroad from Troy to Bis
coe wil soon be turned into an automo
bile highway. The citizens of Biscoe
and Troy are putting the road , into
shape, and the county is fixing the
bridge at Little river. The railroad
bridge is being used. As it is some
fifty feet high and nearly 700 feet
long it will be a most remarkable
bridge for a dirt road. It will be used
principally for automobiles. There are
8 machines already in Troy and an
order for a carload has been placed.
STATE PRESS ASSOCIATION
Is To Be Held at the Atlantic Hotel,
Morehead City, July 23, 24 and
25, 1912.
Raleigh. The meeting of the
North Carolina Press Association
will be held at the Atlantic Hotel in
Morehead City on Tuesday, Wednes
day and Thursday, July 23, 24 and 25,
1912. A rate of $2 per day has been
secured at the hotel.
The principal address at the meet
ing will be made by Mr. Don. C. Seitz,
of the New York World. This alone
wil make the- meeting well worth at
tending. Other addresses will be made
or papers read by not more than
four members of the association on
practical topics. The memoirs will be
read as follows:
J. P. Caldwell R. R. Clark.
H. C. Dockery R. M. Phillips.
Dr. P. R. Law H. A. Banks.
The program is now being defi
nitely arranged, and will be complet
ed in a few days. The first session
will be held on Tuesday night. All
railroads in the state will make the
usual exchange of transportation for
advertising to each member and one
dependent member of the family of
each.
On Friday the editorial party will
be taken to Cape Lookout and the
proposed Harbor of Refuge. On Satur
day morning they will be taken from
Morehead City to New Bern by way
of the Inland Waterway Croal, leav
ing Morehead about 10 a. m., and
reaching New Bern in time to take
the afternoon trains to all parts of
the state. A special car will be ar
ranged from Charlotte through to
Morehead City, to leave Charlotte on
train No. 44 at 6 a. m. , leaving Salis
bury at 7:45, Greensboro at 9:40,
Raleigh at 12:30 and reaching Golds
boro at 2:30 p. m., and Morehead City
at 7:30 p. m., Tuesday, July 23.
The membership of the Press As
sociation now numbers about 150. The
editors and publishers of nearly all
the leading publications in the state
are members of the association.
Conditions of Banks of The State.
The business of the state banks
in North Carolina shows an increase
since the last report of nearly eight
millions of dollars, this in the past
year. At the close of business on
March 30, 1911, the resources were
reported as $63,594,450.08- and on
April 18, 1912 the resources were re
ported as $71,331,067.80, the increase
being $8,004,492.06. The loans and dis
counts are reported at $49,919,463.21
in 1912 as against $44,887,159.75, an
increase of $5,032,303.46. The capital
stock paid in has increased from $9,
200,757.78 to $9,419,7S8.89, an increase
of $219,031.11. The deposits of all
kinds show an increase of $6,274,718,
35, the deposits of all kinds in 1911
having been $46,881,945.62 and in 1912
these had increased to $53,156,663.97.
In savings deposits the increase was
$1,518,440.70, this from $7,885743.49
1911 to $9,404,184,19 in 1912. The de
posits subject to check showed an
increase of $2,390,764.25. (
No Strings to State Delegates.
It is conceded here that the county
conventions held throughout the state
by the North Carolina Democracy
clearly demonstrated the fact that
there will be no strings tied to the
North Carolina delegates to the nat
ional convention at Baltimore. While
honors seem closely divided between
Woodrow Wilson and Oscar Under
wood", the impression is strong and
growing among party leaders here that
Wilson will not get the nomination,
that Underwood has only a bare
chance for it and that from a national
viewpoint it is looking every day like
William Jennings Bryan may be called
into the running.
Crop Outlook in Caldwell County.
The crop outlook in Caldwell county
this year does not appear to be quite
so good as it did the same time
last year. The heavy rains that have
visited this section during the past
month did much .damage to both up
lands and the bottoms. Along the larg
er streams in this section the bottom
land was badly washed, many acres of
corn that had been planted, much of
which was up and ready for plowing
the first time, suffered to a great ex
tent. The wheat crop in the county ia
conceded to be up to the average.
Soon to Start New Steel Bridge. "
The big concrete pier and abutt
ments for the Statesville-Buffalo
Shoals Bridge have been completed,
practically all the steel for the massive
structure has been hauled from the
railroad to the bridge site and within
a few days work on the bridge proper
will be under way. The builders say
they can put the steel together within
30 days. This bridge will span the
Catawba river at Buffalo Shoals on
the line of the state Central Highway
and will connect the counties of Ire
dell and Catawba.
Man Killed by a Shifting Engine.
Frank Wall, a carpenter, original
ly from Randolph county, but for six
months a resident of High Point, and
employed by the Southern Chair Com
pany was killed by a Southern shift
ing engine just west of the station. He
was struck on the head, knocked tdown
and his left arm cut off. He was at
tended by Dr. D. A. Stanton, and taken
to the High Point Hospital, where he
died in half an hour. He was identi
fied after the accident by a last year
Randolph county tax receipt found in
his rocket.
A DISASTROUS FIRE
SALISBURY POST BURNED DOWN
AND MERONEY'S THEATRE
ALSO WENT.
LOSS IS FIFTY THOUSAND
Origin Is Believed to Have Been Rats
Salisbury's Volunteer Fire Depart
ment Lost Much Time Getting To
gether and Fire Gained Headway.
Salisbury. Fire totally wrecked the
Meroney Theatre building and the Sal
isbury Evening Post outfit, together
with the J. B. Doub job printing es
tablishment, likewise greatly damag
ing a meat market and some contigu
ous places of business. .
The fire broke out at four o'clock
and as Salisbury has only a volunteer
department which lives well scattered
over the city ,the blaze had gained
great headway before it was reached.
The men were powerless against it.
The interior filled with paper and in
flammable stuff, burned like hay and
the old building, with its great win
dows and dry interior timbers had a
fire too hot for fighting comfort.
The loss has been placed above
$50,000 with much less than that in
surance. The greatest damage is
to H. Clay Grubb, owner of the old
theatre as well as the new one, which
bear3 the name of Meroney. The de
stroyed building was erected in the
year 1893 by Dr. J. Leroy Meroney,
who had all of the theatricals in it
until he opened his handsome new
one to the public in 1905. This one
was sold to Mr. Grubb.
Along with the destruction of the
building and the newspaper plant
went the cable which connects with
North Main street and Spencer. By
that misfortune more than nine hun
dred instruments are out of commis
sion and communication over the city
and outside is hard. From what can
be gathered, the Post will be rebuilt
upon a larger scope, putting in new
linotypes and a new press. It has
long contemplated this change and it
is made necessary now. It had one
machine and a small press.
It is learned here that the papei
will issue in some form Monday,
though it will be crippled for many
weeks. The publishers were J. X.
Roueche and C. N. Brown, who havf
been partners many years.
State Firemen's Association.
Spencer. The North Carolina Fire
men's Association meets at Fayettte
ville July 23 to 25 inclusive, and the
Spencer fire department will be rep
resented by a full deelgation of rail
road men. J. D. McNeill, former may
or of Fayetteville, is president; R. C.
Taylor, of Winston-Salem, treasurer,
and John W. Miller, of Concord, secre
tary of the state organization. Prizes
will be offered this year on the same
basis as formerly. President McNeill
announces for the information of the
firemen of the state that hydrants with
six threads to the inch and 80 pounds
of water will be located on the left,
side of the track.
Construction of Road Has Setback.
Raleigh. The construction work oi
the Elkin & Alleghany Railroad had
g. considerable setback through one oi
the heaviest rainfalls that the Elkin
Roaring Gap section of Western Caro
lina ever experienced. The new road
bed was terribly washed in many
places and the one big trestle, the one
just out from Elkin, was completely
swept away. The train service that
has been put on between Elkin and
Norman's had to be annulled for four
days.
Mecklenburg Farmers' Union.
Charlotte. The monthly meeting of
the Mecklenburg Farmers' Union will
be held with the Carmel local in Sha
ron township on June 17. The meet
ings have heretofore been held on the
first Saturday of each month, but it
was recently decided to hold them on
the first Friday of the month, for the
reason that, since a great many farm
ers come to the city regularly every
Saturday, the attendance at the union
meetings are not as largely attended
as is desirable.
Martin New President of Davidson.
Davidson. Dr. W. J. Martin of
the chair of chemistry was on the
first ballot elected president of Da
vidson College to succeed Dr. Henry
Louis Smith who goes next month to
the presidency of Washington and
Lee. Dr. Martin was elected over a
number of competitors for the honor,
many of whom brought the highest
endorsements of their fitness for the
place. Dr. Martin's election is the nat
ural recognition of his conspicuous
ly successful work as a professor in
the college.
North Carolina , New- Enterprises. .
Raleigh. The following charters
yere granted Ghent Land Company,
Ghent, Craven county, with an au
thorized capital of $125,000, with $400
paid in by Fritz Sitterding, Richmond,
Va.; J. W. Brown, Jr., Norfolk, and
E. C. Armstrong and C. J. Mc
Carthy, New Bern. New Bern-Ghent
Street Railway Company, to operate
a street railway from New Bern to
Ghent. The authorized capital is
$125,000, with $300 paid in by Fritz
Sitterding. J. W. Brown, Jr., and E,
C. Armstrong.
NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA
Short Paragraphs of State News That
Have Been Gotten Together With
Care By the Editor.
Oxford. The Democratic county
ionvention of Granville county in
structed solidly for Woodrow Wilson
for president.
Elkins. The fruit crop in this sec
tions shows prospects of being the
largest in years. The cherry trees
are so heavily loaded with fruit that
the limbs are breaking down with
their own weight.
Troy. A little negro, boy eight
years old got hold of a pistol and
placing it at the back of his three-year-old
brother pulled .the trigger.
The ball went entirely through the
body of the boy, and he will die.
Ashevillej The Buncombe county
Democratic convention was held here
and the candidates for the various
county offices who received the high
est number of votes in the primaries
i week ago were ratified.
Webster. Locke Craig was unani
mously endorsed by rising vote. All
stats officers without opposition en
dorsed. Underwood two-thirds, Wil
son one-third. County vote delegates
uninstructed as to others.
Winstonj-Salem. After deliberating
for fifteen hours the jury brought in
a, verdict of murder in the second de
gree against Tom Burris, a negro," who
shot down and killed Hardie Brandon,
colored, two months ago.
Jefferson. Those who have visited
Jefferson will doubtless remember
that through the center of the main
street of the town there is a row oi
cherry trees and when the season
"hits" with this delicious fruit, cher
ries are free to any and every one
that will take the time to gather them
Asheville. After mature considera
tion of the matter the board of educa
tion of this county has decided that
the people are not sufficiently interest
ed in the proposition to vote a special
school tax of 30 cents on the $10C
for the whole county at this time:
consequently the board will not now
ask the county commissioners to call
the election.
Durham. R. Tonkle and his broth
er, A. Tonkle, two merchants of this
city, were arrested on the charge oi
using the United States mail with in
tent to defraud a jobbing house in
Baltimore. They were arrested aftei
an investigation of Postal Inspectoi
W. F. Chester, and Commissionei
Skinner put them upder a bond oi
$300 each for their appearance at the
preliminary hearing June 11.
Fayetteville. John Davis, Temple
Rayner and John Rayner, three' white
men, have been placed in jail here
in connection with the death of Neil
Smith who was found unconscious
near the home of K. Rayner in Seven
ty-First township. The finding of the
coroner's jury has not been made pub
lie. It was presented to the grand
jury of the superior court now in ses
sion here.
Kinston. According to belated re
ports received here, Ernest and Tobe
Duggin, two negro boys aged sixteen
and seven years, were struck and in
stantly killed by lightning near Little
field, Pitt county. The boys, who hac"
been working a field, fled from the
approaching storm, and were about tc
enter their home when they were
stricken, both by the same bolt, in
their tracks.
Washington A telegram was re
ceived from C. A. Flinn, secretary ol
the chamber of commerce, who has
been attending the meeting of the
board of education of the NortherE
branch of the Methodist church which
has been in session at Nashville foi
the past few days stating that the
board had accepted Washington's
proposition and would locate the
Methodist College in this city.
Rocky Mount. For the first time
In the history of the Rocky Mount
graded schools, there will be no com
mencement at the end of this season
on account of the addition of anothei
grade, which will make eleven grades
Boone. Watauga county conven
tion was presided over by Capt. Lov
ill. Delegates to state conventior
were instructed to vote solidly foi
Locke Craig forgovernor; Walter E
Daniel for lieutenant-governor; Geo
P. Pell for corporation commissioner
A large majority favored Underwood
and so the delegates were instructed
for him.
Washington. In the Democratic
county convention for Beaufort coun
ty all candidates for state offices no
contested were endorsed and those
contested were endorsed for nomina
tions as per vote of the legalized pri
mary held.
Guilford College. With seventy-fiv
glorious years of history, marked witt
one continuous line of successful ses
sions, Guilford College celebrated it
anniversary with a gathering of hosts
of former students, interested patrons
friends from many states and leading
educators representing various educa
tional institutions.
Tryon. Tryon Hosiery Company
was recently placed in the hands o1
a receiver, S. M. Robinson of LoweL
having been appointed to take charge
of the property. The mill is capital
ized at $100,000, with liabilities
amounting to about $85,000.
Chapel Hill. It is gratifying to the
medical department of the University
to note that with each passing yeai
the number of medical Students, whe
received their first two years' training
here succeeded in winning importanl
appointments. It speaks a great deal
for the efficiency of our medical de
partment.
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W ME
TO GERMAN FLEET
PRESIDENT TAFT WILL EXTEND
GREETINGS FOR U. S. AT
HAMPTON ROADS.
WILL EXCHANGE SALUTES
The Officers and Men of the American
Warships Will Be Hosts to the Vis
iting -Seamen To Dine at White
House.
Washington. The German naval
iivision, which is in American waters
io return the visit to Kiel a year ago
af the first division of United States
Atlantic fleet will be formally wel
comed at Hampton Roads by Presi
dent Taft in behalf of the government
and people of the United States. Mr.
Taft and his party left Washington
Dn board the Mayflower. With the
President are:
Mrs. Taft, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth,
Sr., of Cincinnati; Miss Mabel Board
man, Count Von Bernstorff, the Ger
man ambassador and the Secretary of
the Navy. Also on board the May
flower as aides to the President are
Admiral Charles J. Badger, U. S. N.;
Maj. T. L. Rhoades, U. S. N., and
Lieut. John W. Timmons, U. S. A.
While the Secretary of the Navy has
as his aides, Capt. Templin M. Potts,
U. S. N., and Lieut. Commander L. C.
Palmer, U. S. N.
When the Mayflower steams into
Hampton Roads a presidential salute
of twenty-one guns will be fired by
both the German and American war
ships. The salute having been re
turned by the Mayflower, President
Taft will then go aboard the Moltke
to formally welcome the visiting sail
ors. The return call will be made by
the German officers and the presiden
tial party later in the day will start
back to Washington.
The officers and men of the Ameri
can warships will be hosts at Hamp
ton Roads to the officers and men of
the visiting men of war. The German
officers will leave for Washington on
a specially chartered steamer. Upon
their arrival here official visits will be
exchanged and will be followed by a
luncheon at the German embassy to
whici a hundred guests have been in
vited. The officers also will call on
President and Mrs. Taft and will be
their dinner guests.
Refugees From Mexico Landed.
San Francisco. Back from her re
lief trip from the west Mexican coast,
the army transport Buford landed 16C
refugees. A committee of citizens
was at the wharf to care for the
strangers. W. S. Hunt, manager of a
plantation of ten thousand acres in
the Culiacan valley, said the rebels
hold everything from the California
boundary to Guatemala except the
garrisons at Guayamas, Matatlan,
Acapula and Salina Cru&.
Disastrous Fire at Lauderdale.
Fort Lauderdale, Ha. Fire which
swept the business section of this
place resulted in damage estimated at
$200,000. Greater damage only was
prevented by the use of dynamite in
destroying buildings in the path ol
the flames. Fire apparatus from
Miami and Palm Beach were hurried
here in response to appeals for aid,
but reached the scene too late to ren
der service. A partial report of the:
loss follows: Wheeler Mercantile
Company $10,0I00; Stranahan & Con
$65,000; Everglades Grocery Company
$15,000.
A Report on Cotton Conditions.
New York. The condition of cotton
on an average date of May 23-24, ac
cording to 1,977 replies of special cor
respondents of The Journal of Com
merce and Commercial Bulletin was
76.9 per cent compared with 83.8 pei
cent a year ago at this time, 80.2 in
1910, 82.1 in 1909, 79 in 1908 and 68
in 1907. This is 6.9 points below last
year, which was the highest condition
for June in 10 years, and 7.9- points
better than in 1907, when similar con
ditions existed as now.
Adds Opium Den to Appointments.
San Franciscp. Among other ap
pointments for the comfort of passen
gers of the Pacific mail liner Siberia
is an opium room In which Chinese
smoke. So testified Charles B. Ken
ney, lately third officer of the vessel,
in a hearing before Francis Krull,
United States commissioner. Kenney
was caught with opium on his person.
The opium room is marked "hospital,"
Kenney swore, but on board ship il
was commonly called "the opium den"
and so far as he knew only opium
smokers used it.
Guilty of Second Degree Murder.
Wytheville, . Va. After deliberating
two hours and a half the jury in th
case of Claude Swanson Allen found
the young man guilty of murder in the
second degree for the killing of Judge
Thornton L. Massie, and recommend
ed that his punishment be fixed at IS
years in the state penitentiary at
Richmond. Sentence was suspended
in order that the prisoner may testfy
in the other cases growing out of the
shooting up of Carroll county court
on March 14 last, when the five per
sons met their deaths.