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■i Rates to Suliscritiers $1.25 Sylvsn 'IL T f 1 V alley News Oniy Newspaper In per year You Can't Keep 'Down A Wdrking Town; Lets pull togetlier. Transytvania In Advance I J MINEE, Manager. BREVAKD, TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28.1908. VOL. XIII—NO- 0 County OVtH LflSI Fatal Accidents Near Berkeley, Cal., and In England. POWDER WORKS EXPLOSION Ten Tons of Dynamite Let Go Which Shook the Bay Region Around Berk eley Like an Earthquake—Flannes Followed Explosion. Berkeley, Cal., Feb. 21.—a force tliat shook the entire bay region like an earthquake, the packinghouse of the Hercules powder works at Pin ole, 14 miles north of here, blew’ up on Thursday and in the explosion four white men and twenty-four Chinamen Avere killed. Ten tons of dynamite went up in the terrific blast, shattering the sheds to dust and splinters. W. M. Stillwell, foreman of tnc i-flcking house, was blown to atoms- at his post of duty. Manuel ETnos, Joseph Grace and W. A. Rordriguez were the other white men killed. The twenty-eight dead included every man who was at w^ork in the packing house. Flames burst fortli In the ruins fol lowing the explosion, and threatened •the gelatine .house, where two scores of girls were at w’ork. A panic ensued, and many were cut by Hying glass and crushed and tram, pled iu the mad rush for the doors. Xcw'castle On-Tyne, Etigland. Feb. 21.—Fourteen miners lost their lives by an explosion in tne Glebebe pit in the village of Washineton Thursday night. There were fifteen men in the mine ut the time of the accident, and onlv one escaped. Shortly before the explosion occur red 500 miners ascended from the pit. MAY ACCEPT INVITATION. Non-Partisan Dinner To Be Given In Honor of Governor Johnson. St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 21.—Gover nor Johnson Thursday night sent his reply to Congressman F. C. Stevens, »t Washington, in answer to an In quiry whether the governor would ac cept an invitation to a complimentary non-partisan dinner in his honor to be given in Washington. Governor Johnson says that he knows of nothing that w’ould take him to Washington before May 14, when he v/ill attend the conference of gover nors called by President Roosevelt to discuss the conservation of the nat ural resources of the country. If iii the meantime he should find it neces sary to go to W^as’hington, he would be pleased to accept the invitation. ' FATAL MINE ACCIDENT. tal shortage of $252,OGG, was sentenc ed by Judge Bain to three years m the penitentiary and to pay a tine of 57.1Si. Ice Fell Down Shaft, Killing Two Man Outright. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Feb. 21.—While the miners were being lowered Into the Stanton mine of the Lehigh and Wilkestbarre Coal company Thursday a large quantity of ice in the shaft fell, striking the hood of the cage and 'de molishing it. Two of the men w'ere killed outright, one died on the way to a hospital and three others, it is believed, will die from their injuries. GAVE ELABORATE RECEPTION. American Minister at Madrid Enter, taled Spanish Grandees. Madrid, Feb. 21.—W. M. Collier, the American minister to Spain, gave a specially elaborate reception Thurs- nigh.. The American legation was sumptu ously decorated and the affair was at tended by the Spanish nobility, mem bers of the diplomatic corps, members of parliament, military officials and Spanish grandees. Department Changes. Washington, Feb. 21.—The post- nia&ter general has appointed Charles A. Conrard, of Kentucky, to be chief clerk of the postofRce department to succeed Merritt O. Chance, of Illinois, recently appointed auditor of the treasury department for the postoffice department. Robert H. Prender of the District of Columbia, has been appointed chief clerk of the office of the fourth assistant postmaster gen eral to sr.cceed Mr. Conrard Cashier Gets Three Years Norfolk, Va„ Feb. 21.-Alex B Butt, cashier of the wrecked People’s Bank of Portsmouth, Va., Thursday Pleaded guilty on three of the twenty- two indictments against him, and af ter making restitution to the deposi tors to the extent of $37,000 on the to- Killed on a Trestle. Albany. Ga., Feb. 21. A white inr.n %rho was run down Wednesday night on the trestle leading to the At- L^nlic Coast Line bridge across the i*ilnt river here, whose identity T/as a matter of mystery until identi fied at last as Augustus Hurst, who was many years ago sheriff of Thom- Es county and a terror to d.esperat«‘ criminals $1DI,1II10J|RE LOSS SerioBS Blaze Occurred at New Orleans, La. ALONE WITH BUSINESS AREA THREATENED NEGRO CHOOTS CONSTABLE. Brunson Got Out of Buggy To Serve a Vvarrant When Negro Killed Him. Columbia, S. C., l<'eJ. 25.—Gagiand R. Brunson, a constable, was killed near Dillon, Marion county, by' a n;e- gro whom he was attempting to arrest. Constable Brunson hadi previously arrested a negro aixd was taidng him to DiLion 'in a bugigy, wiisn he saw a negro for wJiom he had a warrant driving toward 'him. The constable aligited to serve the warrant and as he did so, the negro Urcd taree shots into his body. Mr. Brunson then tura- ed and with the as.sistance of the ne gro whom- he was taJi.ing to Diuon goi. into h'is buggy, where -Le died on the way to town. Mr. Brunisou’s sm>er escaped. Great excitement pievai.s iu Dillon, as Mr. Brunson waS' very ana had' a large family connectx^n t^e:t. T.*ie governor 'Las cHeit-i a rewaia of $100 tor the capture of tl.e niuiu^eie. and this s>um has been injcreatca uy private subscription. I Julius WeiSB Buildings, Comrr.on and Varietiiss Streets, Were Gutted—Op..' cupied Ppincipally by Law and Rea; Estate Firms. New Orleans, La., Feb. 22.—Fire w'hich broke oiit here Saturday morn ing for a time seriously threatened a large part of the city’s business dis trict. The Julius Weis buildings, on Com mon and Varieties place, where the fire criginated, w^ere gutted and sever- al adjoining buildings were slightly damaged. The Weis buildings were occupied principally by lawyers itnd real efetate firms. The loss is estimated at $100,000. TOWN IS FIRE-SWEPT. ROBBERS CIND FAMILY. Father, Mother and Twx) Daughters Are Tied. Kansas City, Mo., i^'eb. 25.—Two robbers took possession of the hoa.e of Irwin Brooks, aged G5 jears, a farmer living in Wyandotte county, Kancas, whiie the members of the family were bo4ind and kept prisoners in bed. When Brooks resisted, the robbers shot ‘him in the hand. Tliey then tied his hands and feet and placed ■him in bed. Mrs. Brooks and two daughters, Eonma, aged 22, and Eva, a^sd 17, were similarly treated. The robbers ransacked the Louse ^ I'-ey prepared a meal and at© leisurely. They releas- girl for a time, while she quieted her baby, which be gan to cry. After the robbers left, tho girls succeeded in releasing themselves and their parents. RuEssllville, Ala., Is Visited by Sev«rc Conflagration—Loss $40,000. Birmingham, Ala., Fe#). 22.—Tiae entire eastside of the business section' I of Russellville, Ala., in the nortnwest portion of the state, was destroyed by lire at 1 o’clock Saturday morning. The bank building is the only build ing left standing. 1 The Commercial 'hotel, valued at I $G,000, the stores of Douglas, Wilson i and McIntosh, two barber shops and | ! the Clark building, went down in ash- i es The loss is estimated at $40,000, t with $10,000 insurance. Bevey> Days In Lighthousa V/,lh Dead Companion. ' Toledo, Ohio, Feb. 22.—Pleeic^ in ^ terror over long strctclos of tic^ v.!:- erous ice from the Toledo !:arbcr ilg. t ‘house, w’here for seven d^iys he hai been imprisoned with tho dead bccly of Captain Delos Hayden, Joe Ecri-cr reached the city Thursday night, tic brought the news of the death to , friendri and relatives, telHng cf the > nerve-racking vigil beside the cItI :g j man in the lonely lighthouse, and his still more terrifying experiencft whili w'atchlng over the dead body waiting for a turn in the weather which migni permit his escape over the ice. Hayden was conscious to tl~e last, and left a message for each of his rol- atives and friends. Ho died in his faithful companion’s arms. Berner placed the body In one of the lower rooms of the lighthouse and fcogan his wait for an opportunity to reach shore. Around the lighthouse the ice w^as firm under the snow, and when Berner started out early Wednesday afternoon he had strong hopes of reaching the shore in safety. Yet the trip wai e::. tremely perilous, he being not even equipped with a pike pole with whlcn to sound the ice. Many times he fell into air holes, going into water and frequently he es caped by the merest chancs FLORIDA DEMOCRATS. South Carolfniaa Pass:s Away After Shcrt Hliie ss. DIED AT WASHSNGTON CITY I SENATOR LATTIMER’S FUNERAL. I ' Delegations from Bath Hoi:cco of Con- gress Attended. i Greenville, S. C., Feb. 22.—The funeral of the late Senator Asbury Churchill L-atimer, wiio died In Wash ington Thursday, was held in the Methodist church at Belton, near here, Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Rev. R. L. Holdoyd,, paster of the deceas ed, officiating. The floral tribute.^ I were numerous, among the most con spicuous being the one sent by the immigration coHTmissioii, and the one sent by the guests' of the Congress no- tel. Washingyon. There were present funeral delega tions from congress and both houses of the South Carolina leg islature, besides representatives from various commercial organizations in I the state. $28,COO CONFLAGRATION. Lancaster, S. C., Suffers Severe Loss. Partly Insured. Lancaster, S. C., Feb. 25.—Fire at this place Saturday night, destroyed property wort'h a»oout $28,000, on which there is less than $13,000 insurance. Ab';ut ten ead: of mules and horses were consumed In the fire. T.*:!e losses and insurance are: G1 egorj'-Hood Live Stock company, $15,000; insurance $7,000. Methoi ist Eipis-copal church, bri'ck builddng, ?5,000, insoirance $1,500. Dr. J. s! Mac^ ey’s residence, $4,000, insurance $2,000. Other buMngs were dam aged to the extent of several thousand dollars. The town Is wi<;hout fire protection, and th-e flames were checked after hard work by bucket brigades. KILLEiD ON WAY TO CHURCH. REFORMS FOR MEXICO. Cre\\*B Was Accompanied by Two La dies When Shot Down. St. George, Ga., Feb. 25.—While on his way to church at Baxter, Fla., Dan Crew^s, accompanied' by 'his ncp'n- ew^s and two ladies, was shot by Jim Petty with a winches'ter rifle and in stantly killed, 10 miles' from 'here. From information it aeems the kill ing resulted from a row started sev eral weeks ago. Petty has not been apprehended as yet. Will Be Especially Made in Financial Questions. Mexico City, Feb. 22.—^Mcxico is on the eve of great financial reforms. Jose Yves Limantour, minister cf finance and public credit, has been in negotiation and in conference with the leading financial, commercial and banking men of the republic for sever al weeks. The result of these conferences has been declared in a circular which has just been issued >by the department of finance making an exposition of the aims and desires of the government and calling a conference of bankin.:j men in the near future to devise ways and means for the reform of the pub-' lie credit system. Boston Sculptress Dead. Boston, Feb., 22.—Miss Harriet Ho&msr, the sculptress, died Friday at her home in Watertow'n after an ill ness of three weeks. MIS'S Hosmer was born in Watertown in 1S30 and spent most of ter life in the art cen ters of Europe, returning to her old home a few years ago. Marble stat ues modeled by Mi&s Hosmer stand in many of the leading cities of Europe and the United States. Man Cleared of Killing Womsn. Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 22.—.John Dagman, accused of the murder of Maude Parsons, killed during an al leged lovers’ quarrel in a house in Birmingham, was acquitted. Cabinet Factory Burned. New York, Feb. 22.—The cabinet factory of Bd-ward B. Jordan and company, in Brooklyn, was totally de stroyed by fire Saturday, causing a loss of $100,000. Railroad Shops Closed. Scdalia, Feb. 22.—The Missouri Pacific shops here, employing seven hundred men, were closed Friday until March 2. Belmont’s Daughter Asphyxiated. New York, Feb. 22.—Mrs. William Prodfit Btirden, who was Natica Rives, daughter cf 0. h. P. Belmont and a society favorite In New York. Newport and Washington, was found dead in bed at her Fifth avenue home Friday. Death, the coroner decided, w'as accidental and dfue to gas pois oning. 'Mobile, Ala, Feb. 25.—'About 11 o’clock Saturday night H. L. RIloy, a street car conductor, s-hot and killed Heustis George, a w>hite man, who operates' a pool room at Plateau, on the Magazine Point car^ at the South ern railway crossing. George is claimed to have threatened the con ductor earlier in the night. George died insitantly. Mrs. Joseph Lock- ley, white, was woundedi by a stray bullet during the firing. Riley W3M arrested. Preoidentiaf Electors Will Be Ciectcd by Primary. Jacksonville, Fia. ; .^eb; 22.—There will be no democratic* convention in Florida. A primary election wull be held May 29, at which delegates to the Denver convention will be chosen, can didates making individual announce ment. At the same time candidates will be nominated for presidential elec tor, United States senator, congress- m.en from the three districts and the state and county offices. The Taft factfon of republicans lias already selected delegates to the Chi cago convention, with the exception of the third congressional district, in which the convention lias not yet been called. Anti-Taft rei>u,blicans have selected delegates fr^m the state at large, but delegates frcum the congressional dis tricts have not yet been named. Socialists and prohibitionists have not yet anr -unced tlie date of their conventions'. CANNOT SHIP TO DRY TOWNS. So Rules Judgs Richardson, of Ala bama—Roads Await Decision. Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 22. —iRail- road officers are worked up over the charge of Judge J. C. Richardson, of a neighboring circuit, that any ship ment of liquors from outside as well as in the state, are violations of the antishipping act, which provides against taking intoxicants from a sell ing territory into dry sections. It had been thought tliat it could not be made to apply to interstate ship ments, but this judge says it can, on the ground that every state may pro vide its own police protection. This will affect ^any cities near the date line if held to be good, those places having saloons set up to ship to the dry territor' in Alabama and Georgia. Many roads have stopped movements of liquors awaiting decision. VETERAN EDITOR DIES. Crosby S, Noyes Lays Aside Pen Af ter Long Service. Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 22.—Cros by S. Noyes, editor of the Washing ton E^-^ening Star, died shortly after 3:30 p m. Friday at the Hotel Ray mond, Pasadena, where he had been ill for some time. Mr. Noyes, who was surrounded by the members of his family at the time of his death, retained his faculties to the last. Mr. Crosby Stuart Noyes was 83 years of age, and no less than sixty years of his manhood had been spent in the newspaper business. Released on $10,000 Bond. Pensacola, Fla., Feb. 22.—George C. Scudamore, former cashier of the Pensacola Bank and Trust company, who is charged w'ith embezzling $40,- 000 of the bank’s funds and who was recently adjudged insane by a lunacy commission, has been released from custody of the siheriff, his friends giv ing bond in the sum of $10,000 for liis appearance at the next term of court, to be tried upon the charge of embezzlement and fcrgery, provided he is then sane. Montgomery, Ala.., Feb. 20.—Pres ident A. G. Forbes, of the State Fair association, says that good progress is being made for tlie fair this fall. The diebts are being arranged and the work of getting buildings in shape will soon beigln. Secretary Tait is just now in the east looking after the ra cing events. Senator Latimer Was Taken III Only a Few Days Ago and Was Operated or» for Appendicitis—Family Present When End Came. W'ashington, Feb. 20.—Senator An bury C. Latimer, of South Carolina, died at Providence hospital at 9:15 a. m. Thursday of peritonitis. Senator Latimer had been at ’ the hospital since Sunday last, when he un>derwent an operation for appendi citis. It was then discovered that he was suffering with a far more seri ous aliment. The bowels had be come twisted and his condition was foun'd to be such that surgeons held out little hope for his recovery. He ral. lied, however, and his progress was satisfactory until 7 o’clock Wednesday evening, when steadily he began to grow worse. At midnight it appeared that recovery w'as Impossible. The members of the senator’s fam ily were with Mm when he died, hav ing been Informed that there was little hope that he wouM survive the night. Colonel Ransdell, sergeant-at-arms of the senate, at once made arrange- cjents for the £:eBaoval of the body to the ;JLatimer h'Qp?^ at Belton, S. C. Senator Tillman arnounccd the deatK of his colleague when the sen ate convened Thursday, after which the senate Immediately adjourned. A committee of the senate will be ap pointed by the vice president to ac company the body to South Carolina. BOLD DIAMOND ROBBERY. TRANSYLVANIA LODGE No. 143, K. of P. Meets Tuesday evening 8.30., Castle Hall, Fra ternity building. A hearty welcome fo* visitors at all times. T. W. WHITMIRE, C. C. Professional Cords. In Croad Daylight Men Take Tray of Valuable Jewels. New Orleans, Feb. 20.—A $15,000 robbery in broad daylight in the heart of New Orleans, v/ith hundreds of persons passing at the time, w'as per petrated here Wednesday afternoon at the jewelry store of M. Waldi.orn & Co., Conti and Royal streets. Two men drove up in front of tne store in a buggy. One of them alight ed and smashed one of the large plate glass window’s in the front of the es tablishment. He quickly seized two trays filled with diamonds, and jump ing back into the buggy, was driven off. A large crowd started in pur suit, but men, buggy and horse wer(* soon lost to sight in a cloud of dust in the old French quarters. The proprietors of the jewelry stort> saj’’ the trays contained 112 diamond rings, w'nose value was between $15,- 000 and $20,000. W. B. DUCKWOKTH, TTO R N EY-AT-L A W. (»oms I and 2, Pickelsimer Building. GASH GALLOWAY LAWYERS. Will practice in all the courts, fiooms 9 and 10, McMinn Block. D. L. ENGLISH , LAWYER Kooms 11 and 12 McMinn Block, BREVARD, N. C THOMAS^ A. ALLEN, Jr., DENTIST. (Bailey Bloclc.) HENDERSONVILLE, - N. C A beautiful gold crown for $4.<K and up. Plates of all kind at reasonablt prices. All work guaranteed; satisfacti<» or -lo pay. Teeth extracted without pain. Will be j?lau to have you call and inspect noy oflBces, work and prices FATAL END TO FEUD Kills His Neighbor and Then Surren ders to Officers of Law. Knoxville, Tenn., Feb. 20.—A spec- cial to the Sentinel from Sergent, Ky., saj-s: At Stew^art’s Branch, a few miles west of here in Knott county, “Lid ’ Stewart sihot and killed William Stam per, his near neighbor. The killing was the result of a feud of several year’s standing. Stewart then walked three miles to an officer to give himself up. He will be given an examining trial on Friday. SHOT WIFE; THEN SUICIDES. Tragedy at Supper Table of Wealthy Colorado Farmer. Hotchkiss, Colo., Fel). 22.—^Insane with rage because she objected to him scolding one of their children, M. U. Stoneburner, aged forty-one, a prom inent and wealthy farmer, living near this city, Friday night s-hot and fatal ly wounded his wife and then placed the still smoking revolver against his breast and committed suicide before his six children seated around the sup per table. Furnace Resumes Operations. Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 20.—With the blowing in of the iron furnace at Holt, Ala., Wednesday, four foundry ironimakers have resumed operations since Jan. 1. The total in the state In operation is sixteen, of which nine are in Jefferson county. Iron sales con tinue to be chiefly in small lots. The reorganization committee of the South ern Steel company will meet in New York about March 1, when plans wil be announced for putting the numer ous plants of this company into oper ation- Montgomery, Ala, Peb. 25—Qorer- nor Comer has been invited to a con ference of govemora with Pre*id«nt R'Oo&eveH at the White House on May 14. Conservation of tlie natural re sources of the sftates 1* to be tAken The ^thelwold Brevard’s New Hotel—Modern Ap pointments—Open all the year Che patronage of the travelin«jr publi< is well as summer tourists id solicited Opp. Court House, Brevard, N.C. R-I-P-A-N-S Tabules Doctors find A good prescription For mankind i'h« 5-cent packei is einn.Kh lor usual occae^on? rbe famiiy b<>ttle (60 ce ts) contains a supply '•'r n vear. All drugKlst- s*-li them. H. 6. BAILEY, G. E. CORRECT SURVEYS MADE Maps, Plots and Profiles Plotted Only the finest adjusted irstrn- ments used. Absolute acvjuracy. P. O. Brevard, N. C. THE REV. IRL R. HiCKS Almanac and Magazine Should be in every home in the land. His weather predic tions can behad only in his own publica ti on s. No other publisher is permitted to print them in any form, either with or without credit. His 1908 Almanac ex cels all former editions in beauty and value, and sells for 35 cents, postpaid. 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