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Rates to Subscribers $1.25 per year In Advance You Can't Keep Dotvn ^Working Town; Lets pull together^ J. J. MINER, Manager. BREVABD, TEANSYLVANlI COUNTY. N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 3.1908. VOL. XIII-NO. 14 Only Newspaper TraosyM CODDly ^ HEFLllI U§ PISTOL Alabama Congnssmaa In Shoot* lag Affray at Washington. OCCURRED ON STREET CAR The Congretsman Remonstrated With Two Negroes Who Were Drinking In the Presence of Ladies, When He Wat Insulted^—difficulty Followed. 'Wfisliin«;to]i, Iteroh 48—Tlie Khoot* in§ of Loulfi L»undy, a n^rro, asBd, Thcwnaa McOreary, a wlilte man, on Friday niglit toy Con^escman J. Thom- ae Heflin, of Alabama, created a sen. eation In WasliingtCMi. Tlie negro received a dan-gerous 'wround in tlie neck and McCreary "waa sllglitly In jured in the leg. Mr. Heflin authorized bis colleague, Representattye Clayton, to prepare a statcaient, giving his version of the aifray, and in accordiance with this wish, 'Mr. Clayton iias given out tiie following: Clayton Tells of Shooting. "The facts, as I have gathered! tbem, are SiU'b«tantiaMy as follows: “Congreasman Ellerl)© and Heflin -were riding down Pennsylvania aven ue in the direction of the capitol about G:30 o’cloGk. Ellerbe observed before 'he left the car at the corner of Sixth street two negroes drinking whisky and cursing in the presence of a iady wlio sat on a seat with them. “Hefllh remon&trated' with tihe two negroes and told them to cease their cursing and stwearlng. After this oc_ curred, Representative Ellerbe got off th« car Ofn the west side of Sixth street to go to th« Metropolitan hotel, w'here he boarded, leaving no one on the car but Mr. Heflin, the lady and the two negroes. Scuffle Ensued. “Ellerbe did not anticipate any fur ther trouble. Juet as lie alig'nted from the car he was attracted by the noise of a ftctiifle between Mr. Heflin and the two negroea. He tieard one of the negroes use vile language to ward Mt. Heflin. Mr. Heflin was be. ing asaulted In the car wiaich >was just then crossing Sixth street. It stopped directly In front of the St. James ho tel, a run of a/bout 100 feet. “Mr. Heflin drew his revolver to defend himself, and struck one of liis assailants on tlie head. “One of the negroes made a motion as if to draw a weapon from his pock_ et and at that moment hoth rushed at Mr. Heflin. They struggled to the platform and the reipresentatlve forced both of them to the street. Negroes Used Vile Language. “Wihen off the car the two negroes renewed the vile oaths and tumed with evident Intention of renewing their attack. Mr. Heflin fired two shots with his revolver througli one of the car windows. He did not aim at either of the two negroes, but shot at the ground with the intention of dissuading t^em from continuing tiheir assault. One bullet glanced and struck Thomas McCreary In the leg. McCreary, accompanied by his wife, was about to board a car. Mrs. McCreary also heard the vile oaths of the two negroes.” Received Threatening Letters. 'Mr. Clayton exipliained that Mr, Heflin had recently secured permis sion to carry a revolver 'because of threatening letters he had received as a result of 'his activity toward getting a “jim crow" law passed in the Dis" trict of Coliimibla. Rctpresentative Heflin was arrested, hut later was released on $5,000 bail. Mr. Heflin represents the fifth Al abama diistrict, in whioh the Tuske- gee institute, of whicli Booker T. Was>hingto-n is at tlie head, is located. HEFUN 8PEAKS OF ftHOOTINO. Italy’s King Receives Morgan. Rome, March 28.—King Victor Emanuel Saturday received J. P. Morgan in private audience and con versed with 'nim on American affairs. The king manifested keen interest in the approaching presidential oampalgii in the United States. Lost an Arm in Cotton Gin.* Gibsoa, Ga., March 28.—-News has just reached here by telephone tnat B. K, Parris, a large farmer residing five aii-les above here, got his arm cut off in the gin while ginnin'g cotton. He is reported as being in a djangerous condition. Force Greatly Reduced. New Haven, Conn., March 28.—^By the laying off of 106 men Saturday at the Spring street sihoips- of the Mew York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, the working force wa« re duced to about twenty-five, as against nearly 800 when the s3iop» ar© run ning full thanded. Popular Al«b«iti« Congresaman Has Sympathy of CoHtaou««. WfbsWnffton, Majxh 31.—Reipresen. tatire Thoana« Heflin, of Ala^bcuna, in a atatement Saturday re£:aTdteic Fri- da.y night’s ahooting alCray on Penn- sylvfuiia. avenue, saya: “I’m i^-d to s.ay I liaTO act yot reached the point wiiere I wiM «ee a neffro or a wliita m«ta aitiier, take a drink in tJie presesico of a takiy witib. out €»yix;«' •omethiac to blza. I did oojy wliat any other gentleman iriaeed in aimiilar circuanstancee wou^d have done.” In t^he ipoMoe eouit it asareed fi)«tweeTi Reipr&sentatiye Henry D. Otayton, of Alatoama, urtw «{»peared for Mr, HeOia, iA»slvteint"U. 8. attiMrney RaJtpih Given, t)iat'^tb<o'ca«« should cot ibe called until a future date. At tihe emergrenicy hor<pHal It is re ported that Louis Lundy, the aern) who 'W'ae ehot by Represeffitatlva Hef lin, 1b not seriously wound<ed, and will be dl9charg€*d la a day or two. That the p<>palar A^ba'nm re(pre_ sentatlve ha« the 8ymxyat<hy of M« dem. ocratlc colleagues in thl» affair, wotrid seem to *be efoundantly proven toy tie kind worda which greeted him when he arrived in the house Saturday. He tras sonxemhat paJer than usual, but asid«e from that evidence of the excite^ ment w'hlch he had undergone, seem ed to ibe untmKjihed by the afEalr In wihlch. he was a principajl. SEN. TILLMAN TO GO ABROAD. Hit Physicians Have Advised a Com plete Change aa Neeesaary. Trenton, 8. C., March 31.—While no alarm is felt, there Is ooneiderabls anxiety over the continued i'Hnesa of •Sefnator B. R. Tillman, and annoiiiice. ment is mad« tiiat his p1iy«ician«. Dr. Bahcock and Dr. Hunter, have advised a comipdete changre as a matter of cesslty. It develoiDs that Senato*- Tlllman’a condition demands absoloite rest and quiet, hence any idea he may have entertained of making another lecture tour after tli<e cIo«e of congree*, or later in the year, haa heen put asd'die. The senator and Mrs. Tillman are making arrangeme-nt-s to go abroaxl during' the late «prlng or early In the summer, 'and will .be away several months. Secty. Strauss Will Visit Columbus. Columbus, Ga., ^faroh 31—‘Hon. Oa_ car S. Strauss, eeoretary of commerce and labor of the United States, wVil arrive in Colum'bus, his former Giome, on A;pril 6, and will spend the after noon of that day and: aJso April 7 in this city. He wiW be acconn^anled by Mrs. Strauss. An Invitation was extended Mr. Strauss to visit his old home hy the Cohim.‘bus board of trade, the Young Men’s Christian association and the mayor of the city. He wiU come to Columfbua from Savanmah at which place he is to deliver an ad dress . May Build Draw Bridges. Augusta, Ga., Maroh 31.—Augusta may soon be forced to spend $'•00,000 in drawbridges on the two brid'g«e buIH by the city aicro£« the ©avannaih river. Tnere are four 'bridge® over the river, two of the city aaid two of the Southern railtway. iSeveral years a;ga the war departimeB't ordered draiwhridges to toe constructed. TSie city secured an exten^&ion of time for two years. That time is now uip, and the city is planmlntg to ask an other extension, birt there i.s an ele_ ment in Auigoi-sta Oippcs'ed to exten sion of time. Decision of Federal Judge. Montgomery, Ala., 'March 81.—In a sweeping decision making permanent the preliminary injunction decided last August, Judge T'acimas G. Jones, of the federal court of Atobama, midiJle district, declared that acts which souight to prevent the railroad* of the state from going Into the federal court were unconstitutional and* that the antl_raiLrc«ad acts of the Alabama legislature should <be susipended ipend- ing an Investlgjatlon of the comiplalnts of the railroads that the acts were con- flscatory. Alabama B. Y. P. U. to Meet. •Montgomery, Ala., March 21.— Many Im'portant matters wlW como up at the meeting of the state B. Y. P. U. at Troy on April 6-8. Among the speakers will be Dr. George T. Webb, of Chicago, and Dr. T. B. Ray, of Rlchmon-d. A numlber of Alabama men of note are also on the program. Foreign Official Silent. Berlin, March 30.—^The foreign of fice is practicajlly silemt as yet in re gard to Bmperor WHlIam’s mesisage to President Roosevelt In the matter of the appointment of Dr. David Jayne Hill to succeed Charlemagne Tower as Aanerican amibassador to Germany. of Sootherg Republic Ja^ red hy Seismic Wave. SHOCK LASTED .4 MINUTES 0 Four Pertont Ware Injured During I thiB 'Quake, One MorUUy-^l^reat j Damaga Was Done to Bultdlf>gf|||^ and ' Clocks Ware Stopped. \ Mexico City, March 27.—Meid<?o City experienced two severe aarth. QWblse jahooks Wednesday. ' TSia fei>t lAiock, ■which oocutr^ at 4:80 o’clock in the*1ifteriiooa, laatod 4 mlnutse aod IS aecouda, an4 little damaca- The s'eco&d shook, whl^ otenrred at 9:'l7 p. m'‘. was much more Severe. Four persons were injured duringr the quake, one of them mortally, and great damage was done to builidinsii* WalU were cracked and' «k>6ks aW over" the city were stopped. The the ater crowd® rushed to the streeUf. The pecgple are greatly aterrned over the repeated shocka. A nuniber of walls have fallen. For a short Unve tele graph conMnuni-cation waa interraptei. The shock was felt over an area of some 500 miles from north US' iotith, exjjending itself at Guianajuato on the north.' aiid Rincon Antonio bax the" TOuth. ' ’ ^ ' • CaMe San Francisco, the'niaiu thor. ouphfare of the city, *wjw cracked fii many pdaces for many bl'ocks. It Is feared here that the shocks will be rapeated, and. ferw are sleeping sound ly tonight.' It has 'been many years since successive shocks of any se verity have been felt 'here. All of the injured were Mexican workmen. The shock was gimilar to that felt in this city about a year ago, the os_ clHatlo»n« being of a long, »wayln« variety. At the nationai obaervatory it was stated that the neodile of the selsmeogr£4)'h traveled the entire dlih tance of the dial's. ^ ^ That the property loss wa** -not greater is dtie, aocordin'g to the sden. tisU, to the fact that Mexico City rests on the spongy bed of an ^old lake. Shock Fait at St. Thomas. St. Thomas, D. W. I., March 27. —A sharp earthquake shock occurred here Thursday afternoon and created muclh alarm. No damage, however, IS CO far reported. WOULD TURN STATE’S EVIDENCE. Fugitive from Justice Anxious to Re turn to San Francisco. Saai Francisco, March 27—The Call says that word has reaoned the of fice of ehlef of police that John * DaL •rsll Robertson, assistant secretaryviol the defunct California Safe Deposit and TniS’t company, was in.A New York and anxious to return to San J^'ranclsco and turn state’s evidence. Robertson wa« Indicted with J. Dal- lell Brown, Walter J. Bartnett and James Treadwell for emTieztiement. He escaiped from San Francisco as soon a® the crash came, and has been a fugitive for four months. Robertson Is penniless and broken in health. Through friends he has made what practically amounts to a complete confes'slon and hopes that he may be granted Immunity, for the testimony he is willing to give to the statements by Robertson directly in volve Brown, Bartnett and Treadwell. $300,000 FOR NEW ORLEANS. Government to Assist City in Levee Improvement. ' Washington, March 27.—Senator Nelson was authorized by the commit tee on commerce to report favora-bly a bill malting available for levee work on the Mistslsslppl river In front of the city of New Orleans, $300,000 of the appropriation for the work between Cairo, 111., and the head of the sev eral passes. The city of (New Orleans Is carry^ ing on levee improvement work t*iat will cost between three and four mil lion dollars, but it has no authority to constntct work in the bed of the Mis- sisslpipi necessary to protect the lev ees. 'This part of the work will be done toy the government. A delega tion from Now Orleans appeared be fore the commlsision in support of the bilL*^ Dropped Dead on Train. Jacksonville. Fla., Maroh 31.-—<5. E. Niles, a prominemt banker of Fin ley, Ohio, dtroipped dead on an Atlan tic Coast line train aibout 6 o’olook Saturday night just before rea»hlng this city. -Mr. iNlles, accomipanled toy his wife and faanily, were enroute to their home after a pleasant stay at varioufi Florida resorts. BEAL ROOSEVELT. . / Rapresantative Thinks “Big Stick** Wlakftng^Tbv Miieli Power. Washin^tt, MarcSi 27~^Miwp»^a1iattifcl of iftrcasm maei. iaveetiva ware aioQ:ed> ai President Roosevelt in the house of refrresentatives Thursday. In one of thft mo«t sttittailng arraignments of a put^c officier ever heard in that olMtmher, Mr. Bea/ll, of Texas, oharged the preeldent with having been guilty of a dlsguesting usuriMition of power, not on*!y tov»'ard the national legisla ture, but the judiciary as well. Con- Cresa ha^ ha said, abdicated to him ita poiwer, an4 the judiciary of the country feit the effect of his influ ence. C5od and tha future .alone lonow, he declared^ Just what niche he to occupy in the tomiple of his country. ' Mr. Beall credited the president with having a^tpolnted three Judges o< the soipreme court of the United States and a majority of the U<nlt«d States circuit and district judges. “Dwuwinig their source of authority from him.” he declared, ’and holding their coDunlsalons from him, he stands in a pofiition to wieM a powerful In- fhienca upon them, though they ar^ tha representatives of a <distinct de^ partment of the government.” The president, he charged, was not content with the exercise of the sDive power exercised by Washin^tcn, Jef- fereon, Jackson, Lincoln, Grant and McKinley, but in his overpowering am'bition reaches out with eager hand and exercises 'ixjwers hot'dream^ of 6y thiem. '- SHERIFF STOPPED MEETIN<S. Because of Inflammatory Article In a Negro Paper at Montgomery. Montgomery, Ala, Maroh 27.—'Be cause of infiamflnatory matter in a lo_ cal negro paper, the Colored Aliabam- 'ian, Sheriff Horace Hood has with drawn permission for a meeting of ne, 'groes in the court house at which pro- iest was to be made on the attitude of the administration at Washington on the race. This meeting had been callcKl by Bishop Aistork and a num ber of others in what h'as heen tak_ «n to he an anti-Taft movement in the state. Sheriff Hood, addressing the editor of the paper, says*: “In view of your editorial, whioh is calculated to arouse racial prejudice, I creating a condition that bodes- no good but mu'oh harm to both races, especially to the negro, wiho must be the greatest sufferer in any conflict aroused by foolish and un'wlse leaders and agitators, I withd'reuw my cons«nt for a ipolitlcal meeting to be held in the county court houee. As custo dian of the court house, the property of the taxpayers of the county, I can not give my consent for its use to men who write incendiary articles and make Incendiary seeches, cal'oulated to stir up atrlfe and distur'b that har_ tnony aai-d good feeling that; exists now and is so desiraible between the whites and blacks of this city and this county.” ALLIGATOR STARVmG ITSELF. Big Reptile at Bronx Zoo Refuses to Eat Anything. New York, March 27.—Keepers at the Bronx zoo are puzzled over the (prcTolem of Mcse, the twelve foot alli gator, who has refusiod to east any thing for four months, and is slowly starving to death. Formerly the alligator was kept in an enclosure with twelve or fourteen crocodiles. His habit of frequently growing angry and attacking his com panions led to his Isolation four months ago. From that day his self- impoEed fast dates. The keepers attributed his refusal to eat to {jeevlshness and kept by him-eolf and have been hoping that the fit would wear off. To date It has failed to leave him, and the headkeep- er has called a consoiltation of animal experts to discuss the case and &ee if anything can be d-one to save the big reptile. ^ Summons Not Properly Served. New York, March 27.—Regarding the litigation by 'whiah James F. Hannlgan h<rped to collect $2,000 from the Due Je Chalnes for clothes sup plied him In London and Paris, City Court Justice Conian has decided that the s-ummons in the suit had not been properly served. The process serv er said he had giver it to the duke, but the latter declared in^ an affidavit that the summons had been served on his cousin, Baron Louis de COnde, in mistake. Tihe duke is now in Eu rope. E j Tillman Must Take Long Rest. I Augusta, Ga.^ March 27.—Advices from Bdg-^eld Indicate that U. S. Senator Ben Tillman will not be able to return to W'ashington djurlng this session because of illne»s. His phy- eicians have ordered a long rest. Mmft Assss^^it» Adjt fieo. Balkc^ Weils. EXPLOSIVE UNDER HIS BED GrneraJ Welle Wa* Asleep at the Time and Miraculously Escaped Death.— Once Took, Prominent Part In Sup. preeaion of Labor Troubles. TeC'luride, Goto., March 28.—For mer Adjutant General Bul'keley W^tLs narrowly escaped death or serious in jury at fits home here^ aarly Satur day from a weil^lanned effort to as. saminate him with dynamite. Despite precautions againat stnh an attempt, such as patrols and- arcllghts ii2)out the hoiuse, a stick of dynamite of a prepared 'bomb was placed un der or near General Well’s bed. General Wells was sleeping as was his habit, on an outer porch of the house, and he was hurled with the debris many feet from the wrecked house. ’The side of the house was tom completely out, hardly a stick of the bed remained, and fragments of wood- enware scattered over the neighibor_ bood. Though badly shaken up and bruised to some extent, General Wella is said to have escaped without injury. General Wells took a leading part in the suppression of labor trotfble^ in this state in 1904-05, aind was prom^ inently identified with the proseoutlon of officers- of the Western Federation of Miners at Boise City on the charge of complicity in the assassination of former Governor Steunenberg. He had been active also in securing the extradition from Idaho of Steve Ad ams, to be tried here on charges of murder in conaiectlon with the mi ners strike in 1904. CAREijESS WITH HIS CASH. Lawyer Left $12,000 Lying on Court Room Table—Recovera It. New York, March 28—Twelve thou- «and dollars wraipped in a neat little pareei lay for over an 'hour on tine counsel table In part V of the su preme court Friday, and no one knew anything about it. That is probably why Lawyer Framcls J. Wellman re covered it. He had been argyulng a case before Jnsitlce Gerard When the midday re cess was taken. 'The lawyer hurried out to luncheon, leaving the parcel of money on the table. Half an hour later he ran into the court breathless ly. There, lying on the tahle, he found his money as he had left It. He would not ssay why he had so much money with him. TOLEDO LUMBERMEN’S CASE. Circuit Court Has Affirmed Decision of the Lower Court. Toledo, O., March 28.—The circuit court Saturday morning affirmed the decision of the lower court In the cases of the twenty prominent lumber men of Toledo, who last July were sen tenced to the workhouse for six months under the Valentine anti-trust laiw. The suipreme court has decided In the ice trust case that the lm,prison- ment must be in the county jail In stead of the workhouse. The lum bermen were sent to the lofwer court for re-sentence. The lumbermen com/pri«e wealthy and leading citizens of Toledo. King Re.Elected PresidentT,P.A. Atlanta, March 28—Cary'J. King, oi Rome, Ga., was re-elected president of the Georgia division of the Travel ers’ Protective association Friday af ternoon, this being the first time in tihe history of this organization that a president has ever been re-elected J. H. Andrews, of Atlanta, w'as made secretary-treasurer for another term. T'he state headquarters remain in At lanta, and the general opinion of those present was tihat Athens should g^t the next convention. Rubid Won Grand steepiecnase. Liverpool, March 28.—The grand national steeple chase of 3,000 sover eigns Including a trophy valued at 125 sovereigns, on the grand' national course, distance about four miles and 85G 3'aTds, was won Friday by Major F. Dougias-Pennant’s Rubio. William Cooper’s Mattie Magregor was second and P. Whitaker’s, The Laiwyer III. finished third. Twenty-four horses ran. Preparing for Coming Strike. Leavenworth, Kans., March 28 Mine operators are preparing for the coming strike of the coal miners. All of the mine mules are 'being offered for sale, apparently anticipation of a long contest. TRANSYLVMIIA LOOK No. l43,K.ofk Meets Ttrasday ereniiM 8.30., Castle Hall, Fra^ ternity building. A hearty welcome for ▼isitors at all timet. T. W. WHITMIRE, C. C, ,4 ProfeswMud Cards. W. B. DUCKW<».-rH. ATTpRNEY-AT-LAW. ' Booms 1 and 2, Pickelsimer BuildJnif. GASH <Sk GALLOWAY LAVrVERS. « Will practice in all the courte. Rooms 9 and 10, McMinn Block. D. L. ENGUSH LAWYER Rooms 11 and 12 McMinn Block, BREVARD. N. C THOMAS A. AILEN, Ju DENTIST. (Bailey'Block.;)^ HENDERSONVILLE, - - N.C. A beautiful gold crown for $4.00 and up. Plates of all kind at reasonable prices. All work guaranteed; satisfaction or no pay. Teeth extracted Without pain. Will be glad to have you call and inspect my offices, work and prices. The JEthelwold Brevard’s New Hotel—Modern Ap pointments—Open all the year ^e patronage of the traveling public as well as summer tourists id solicited. Opp. Court House, Brevard, N.C. JRrl-P-A-N-S Tabules Doctors find A good prescriptibn For mankind The 5-cent packet is enough lor usual oocasfoos. The family bottle (60 cents) containea suppSy for a year. All drugsrists sell them. H. 6. BAILEY, C. L CORRECT surveys;made Maps, Plots and Profiles Plotted Only the finest adjusted instm- ments used. Absolute actjuracy. P. O. Brevard, N. C. THE REV. IRL R. HICiCS Almanac and Magazine Should be in every home in the land. His weather predic tions can behad only in his own publications. No other publisher is permitted to print them in any form, either witii or without credit. His 1908 Almanae ex* cels all former editions in beauty smd value, and sells for 35 cents, postpud- His monthly magazine, Word anu Works, contains his weather fore* casts for each month, together with a vast amount of the best family reading and costs 81. a year, one almanae with each subscription. Every earthquake and serious storm for 20 yeara has been predicted by Prof. EUcks. 7oo cannot afford to be without tiaese pi^ ^■cations. Address all ocdersto SYLVAN VALLEY NEWS, BREVARD UNIVERSin COLLEe£ OF MEDICINE 8TUAHT McGUIRE, M. D , PurcsierNT. This College conforms to the Standfirds fixed by law for Medical Education. Send ior Bulletin No. 11, which tells about it. I Three tree catalogues—SttecHy Depsrtmcai,, WIEDICIIIE - DEMTISTBY- PHARMACyI Chamberlain’s Never fails. Bayitnow. It juay^'ve
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