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i as administrator
, C. Neill, deceased,
inia county, North
o notify all persons
gainst the estate of
exhibit them to the
•evard, N. C., on or
910, or this notice
bar of their recoy-
indebted to said
e make immediate
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tor of L. C. Neill.
909.
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yOLUME*^^
BREVASI),
.APRIL 1.1910.
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NUMBER*14
BT. AETM ACTIVE
Sicilian Volcano Dealing I^atb
and Destraction.
jjniRE COUNTRY DEVASTATED
Red Hot Stream of Lava Has Been
Belched From Crater, Pouring Over
the District Adjacent, With Deatr^C-
tion to Property and Loss of Life.
Catania, Sicily.—A red-hot river <0,
, .o 1900 feet wide and 24 feet liish,
sVept down the slopes of Mcrunt
Ltna destroying all life In Its path
,,d wrning the fertile country Into a
“L ot desolation. Fully 5.000 are
already homeless, their homes de
stroyed or menaced by the sweep of
the lava.
Villages Wiped Out.
In 24 hours it advanced six miles,
and a dorzen villages and settle
ments have been wiped out of exist
ence or abandoned and thousands of
acres of cultivated land turned Into
a smoking waste covered with the
moltefl mass that pours from a dozen
craters. , ^
Troops rushed to the threatened
towns to quell the panic and aid Jn
saving the helpless.
Reports received 'here state that
eight soldiers had been killed at San
Remo and Remazzi and that scores
of inhabitants were injured In those
towns when the lava reached them
after they had been bombarded by
rocks from the volcano. The villa^s
of Nidolo is buried under a mass of
lava. Borello, threatened with a slml
lar fate, has been evacuated. Casa
del Bosco has been wiped off the map.
Nicolisl, protected hy hills, is felt to
be safe and thousands of refugees
have concentrated there.
Smoke Pall Hangs Over Sicily,
k pall of smoke covers thfe eastem
Sicily and* extends far out^to
m. In the darkness the shooting
flames of the volcano, geysers of fire,
were visible plainly at noon for many
miJes.
In every town of Sicily religious pro
cessions were held and divine aid has
been implored.
WAS SPENCER
OffleePs Think So, and Have Arrested
Robert Smith on Suspicion.
Atlant«i.~^harged with the murder
of W. H, Spencer, an aged and well-
t^p faiTO«r‘1^ county, Bob-
0inlth, agi^^, a^me^t cutter of
Chattanooga, 't'ejm., was brought to
Atlanta and locked In the police sta
tion,^ following his arrest In Chlc^-
mauga, Ga;, Satitrday mornlnk. '
Sp€aicer, who was 65 years of age.
Is supposed to have been slaii> by
Smith somewhere between Smyrna,
Cobb county, and Atlanta, after tlie
night of Februar!^ 16, last, at which
time the two men were seen together;
Spencer for the last time.
Smith maintains silence and refuses
to give an^ account of hijjjjwlf
what became of the agn|d man after
leaving Smyrna. Witnesses have
been secured who saw the two .to
gether at* different places all along
he way from Chattanooga to Smyrna,
where the trail ends.
Smith was located after a tireless
search of many weeks conducted by
the four sons of Spencer. He was ar
rested at Chlokamauga by W. A, Ma-
theny, of Kensington, Ga., sworn In
as a deputy sheriff, and was brought
to Atlanta In company with Sheriff
R. S. Garmany, of ^alker,, county.
Matheny and the four sons, L. L., B.
R, R. L. and H. J, Spencer, all busi
ness men of Lafayette, Ga., ccrunty
site of Walker.
That Spencer was murdered after
leaving Smyrna there seems to be no
doubt In the minds of his family, as
he has not been seen or heard from
since the night of February '16. But
as to the whereabouts of his body
absolutely no clew : r s .: zn
obtained. The manrcr cl h'.s sla-'-i?
is equally mysterious. A theory has
been advanced that the body was
thrown Into the Chattahoochee river
near Smyrna.
The dlsappeiirance of Spencer has
been the sensation of Walker oounty
for weeks.
TRAPPED BY FIRE.
Twelve Persons Reported to Have
Lost Their Lives at Chicago^
Chicago.—Twelve persons- are re
POTted dead in a fire which attacked
the L Fish Furniture company build
ing at 1906-1908 Wabash avenue here.
About 40 employes escaped. A girl
who jumped from a third story win
dow died at a hospital.
The dead were trapped, It Is said,
on the fourth, fifth and sixth floor
when an explosion of benzine on the
fourth floor wrapped the building In
flames.
Ladders were raised to the sixth
floor, the topmost one, in a desperate
effort to rescue any persons who
niight be alive there.
The fire is said to have started from
an explosion of benzine in the repair
rooms on the fourth floor, possibly
from a carelessly dropped match. Two
cabinet makers, who were at work In
the repair room, were among those
'Who escaped slightly burned) When
a- great sheet of flame shot across the
floor they were knocked dorwUi but
almost stifled they managed to crawl
to the front stairway, whence they
®ade their way to the street below.
The fire, they said, was preceded by
^ explosion which s^ook the building.
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GIRL PROVED HEROINE.
A 15-Year^ld Girl Snatches Baby
From In Front of Engine.
Palrmount, Ind.—^Running Into the
face of death. Nettle Caskej^, 15 years
old, snathced her 3-year-old niece,
Martelle Caskey, from in front of a
locomotive on the Pennsylvania rallr
road. Both children rolled dorwn the
track bank as the train dashed by.
Nettie had seen the baby trotting
toward the approaching train, and
pursued her almost to the oncoming
engines' pilot before she caught her
In her arms and leaped aside.
Bngineer George Jardine was so
shocked that he could ijot ccfntlnue his
run farther than this city.
Plans to Oa$t C^non From tbe
Speaitci^.
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TO REFORM Tffi HOUSE RULES
It Is Said War Cannonism Is
to Go On to thw extent Uiti-
mately Dethronlng*^SIpeakei^ Cannon.
Hinds Possible Suocetsor,
;■ • s • i »
Wa^lngton.—of the Insur
gent republlci^^,rf^the house, who
voted to .^^,0|iinon in
the chal^ are^ honw/’
according to' tepfo^"; In circulation
about the capitaL ^ese advices are
said to be not at all reassuring.
Following close upon this informa
tion came a statemeiit from several
that the war aglnist ^*Cannonism” is
to go on to the Extent of ultimately
causing dethronement of Speaker Can
non, the election of his successor and
the complete, reformation of the rules
of the house.
Eliminatloj^ qf/Cannon.
The overthrow of ;?fiie speaker and
the taking away fii>m the speakership
of all power to Hxfl^nce legislation
,^dQly are aimed
k proposition to] fjBmove Speaker
Cannon by means of a combkied vote
of democrats and Inst^rgents and sub
stitute In his place Asher C. Hinds, the
parliamentarian of the hQuse, is one
of the plans which several Insurgents
are advocating. The Idea of placing
In the speaker’s chair a pure parlia
mentarian, not a member of the house,
who would be entirely uninfluenced by
c6n^ld«5ratlons of partisan advantage,
was* pointed out-..by Representative
Poindexter, of Washington, and others
as the logical and proper course. Un
der the constitution the ^house^ may
choose a speak€M^Is not a-mem
ber-of the-
There Must 6e Other Reform*.
Representative Poindexter, who Is
one of the prominent members of the
insurgent body, said:
“This initial reform which we have
accomplished must be followed by oth
ers. The whole trouble In which the
house finds Itself Is caused by the
joining Off the power of the speaker
with that of the leader of the major
ity. The Bngllsh plan of having an
expert parliamentarian Instead of
politician as a presiding officer is the
only correct one. As long as we se
lect a party leader as speaker just so
long will we have partisan and unfair
rulings from the chair.”
found that he lived In three separate
apartments In six months. His plan
wus to write letters to business
schools, sajdng ^that he wanted ^ a
Stenographer and to send a girl to lils
address. ■ We-are abscrlutejy^ sure, that
he had accomplices In theC dreadful
business.”
TRAGEdv IN DODGE COUNTY.
Neighbors Fall Out and Fatal Shoot-
Ing Was the Result.
Milan, has r.eac^ed here
of a deplorable tragedy enacted in
Dodge county, about three miles from
this place, at an early- hour Saturday
night. - Two neighbors, Rufe* Miller
/and Ed Hart, became Involved in a
difficulty in the early pa^ 9f th5 tiay,
which, it was thought, had been ami
cably adjusted. It seems, however,
that Miller continued/to brood over
his flincled wrongs and mounting his
biule eame to Milan and secured a
box of cartridges for hCs Winchester
and returned and opened fire on Hart,
killing him Instantly ^nd fatally
•wounding Mrs. Miller later in the
night.
Miller was arrested and carried to
Eastman and placed in jail.
STATEWIDE CAMPAIGN.
iinois Prohibitionists Preparing to
Make Vigorous Fight.
Chicago.—The eliminating of the
J^et and dry question from the ballots
^ the election of April 5 through the
action of the election commissioners
n nullifying the 74,000-name petition,
instead of deterring the prohibition
ists has precipitated a statewide cam-
Having failed to bring the
<luestion to an issue in Chicago this
Spring, the Illinois prohibition execu-
committee began the circulation
J ^ petition to bring the question be
legislature next fall,
oon • petition will require 150,*
®^patures of qualified voters, and
^ ibiticfn, to be successful, must re-
^ Vote of two-thirds of the legls
ceive
Utu
re.
Married By Telephone.
Birmingham, Ala.—Marriage by
means of the long-distance telephone
is an innovation reported in a special
from Bowden, Ga., Jim McClung and
Miss Matta Rice being the principals.
It was a Gretna Green affair and
when the young people arr-ved at
Bowden they called up Judge Barron
at Carrollton. The ceremopy was
read by the judge to a phone operator,
who "repeated it to the bride • and
bridegroom. They in turn answered
the questions to the operator, who
passed them on to the judge.
Town Suffers From Fire.
Welsh, La.—Practically the entire
business sectiorn of Welsh was wiped
out by fire. Thirty buildings were de
stroyed, entailing a loss of $200,000,
with little insurance. The fire origi
nated through some uJikaown cause
In the Signal hotel, and quickly spread
to other adjacent frame buildings.
LURED TO HER DEATH.
FEDERAL HEALTH LAW.
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SOUTHEHN RAILWAY COMPANY^
' Operating the Transylvania Railroad.
Efifective 12K)1 a. m., Sunday, Sept 26, *09m
Tlme!Table No. 6
Eastern Standard Time
STATIONS
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Road to Spend $1,000,000.
Louisville, Ky.—More than a mil
lion dollars, It is learned, will be ex
pended in the next few months by the
Louisville and Na'shvllle Railrorad
Company In adding to its present
equipment of locomotives and freight
cars and the erection of a new freight
depot and office building at Paris, Ky.
State’s First Electrocution,
Raleigh, N. C.—IjJ Walter Morrison,
a negro, ww electrocuted at the state
penitentiary here for the crime of as
sault .this is the first execution in
this state under the new law, which
provides that all executions shall be
at the penitentiary and by electrocu
tion.
Little Girl Graduate Meets Cruel Fate
In New York.
New York.—The body of Ruth
Wheeler, the little grirl graduate who
was lured from her widowed mother
on Thursday last by a decoy offer o
employment, was found huddled in a
gunny sack on a fire escape outside
the apartments of Albert Wolter, the
man charged with her abduction.
She had been strangled with a short
end of three-eighths rope, hacked with
a knife, burned almost beyond recog
nition and thrust carelessly out oil
doors like so much j'ubbish.
Identification was possible by^
shreds of clothing, and fragment§ of
**jewelry, but there was abundant evi
dence of how the murder had been
done^ Around the neck were the
charred fibers of manilla burnt into
the flesh. The apartment reeked Tidth
the odor of kerosene. There were oil
stains in front of the newly painted
llreboard that hid an open grate.
FuHy dressed, the girl's clothing and
liair had been saturated with kero-
sene« the fireboard had been removed
and the body thrust up the chimney,
standing. Wh«n the match was touch
ed to her. She burned like a torch.
The victim was only 15 years'^pld,
the youngest of three sisters who
were earning their crwn living. Ruth
had Just graduated from a buslne
college and had been* looking for em
ployment.
The fearful crime set the police at
work with the result that Albert
Wolter, who came to this country re
cently from (Germany, has been arrest
ed on the^fiupposition that he is re
sponsible-for the d>eath of the girl.
One of toe detectives investigating
the case is quoted as saying:
*Tt is pretty evident-that Wolter
maintained an agency for luring girls
to his axMBFtments. We have already
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Senator Owens, of Oklahoma, Pleads
For Enactment of.Such a Law.
Washington.—Senator Owens, of Ok-
lahoma^ delivered a' speech in the sen
ate In advocacy of his bill favoring a
department of public health. He said
in part:
‘'“The people of the United States
sufCer a loss of over GOO,OCO 11 res per
annum. This terrible loss mi^ht be
prevented by reasonable safeguard-
under the co-operation of the Federal
and state authorities.' "Measuring the
money value of an American citizen
at ^',700, this preventable loss by
death Is one thousand mllions of dol
lars ann^aUy,^,r _ ^ * V
“Ther^ are 3,000,000 persons In^ the
United States on the sick list from
preventable causes of whom 1,000,000
are In the working period of life;
about three-quarters of million act
ual workers losing on an average of
$700 per annum, an approximate loss
from illness of $500,000,000, and add*
ing a reasonable allowance for medi
cine, medical attention, special food
and care, a like sum ^of $500,000,000,
these losses would make another thou
sand million dollars of preventable
loss. A department of^ public health
is absolutely essential in order to deal
with this matter and with similar
questions, with the full power and dig
nity of this government in order to
faithfully and honorably comply with
the state and international sanitary
obligations of the United States.”
Stop on fiiigoal. “s” Reg;nlar stop.
For tickets and full Information apply to
E. W. CARTER, Ag»t
J.H. WOOD, Dist. Pass. Ag’t, Asheville, N. 0.
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County Govemmentt. -
Representative—G. W. Wilson.;
Clerk Superior Court—T. T. Loftis. ‘
Sheriff and Tax Collector—C. C. Kilpat^
rick.
Treasurer—^Z. W. NichoUs. / ,
Register of Deeds—B. A Gillespie.
Coroner—Dr. W. J. Wallis.
Surveyor—A. L. Hardin.
Commissioners—M. Henry, Ch*n; G..
T. Lydajr; W. E. Gallowayt
Superintendent of Schools—T. C. Hen
derson.
Physician—^Dr. Goode Cheatham. •
^ Attorney—R L. Gash.
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Town Govenunentf.
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Mayor—W. E. Breese, jr.
Bovd of Aldetmen—T. H. ^Shipiiian. i.
Vane, E. W. C^er.
Marshal—^J.,A. Galloway.
Clerk and Tax Collector—T., H. GallcK
way. ♦
Treasurer—^T. H. Shipman.
Health Officer—^Dr. C. W. Hunt.
Attorney—W. W. Zachary.
Regular meetings—First Mond'ay night
in each month.
ENDURANCE CONTEST.
Of
Status of the Carmen’s Strike
Philadelphia, Pa. -
Phlladelphla.—With the abandon
ment of the gtate-wlde strike policy
by the State Federation of Labor and
the returning of 'men to wcn-k, break
ing the sympathetic strike, the battle
between the carmen and the Transit
company has settled down into k ques
tion of endurance.
While mediation has been halted by
the firm stand of the union officials for
further concessions^ advocates of an
early settlement Tiave by no, means
given up hcfpe that an agreement will
be reached-
Professional Cards.
R. 1j. OASH.
LAWYER
11 and 12 McMinn Budding;
Notary Public. .
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MAY ADJOURN JUNE 15.
National Congress Will Probably Com
plete Work by Thatf,.Date. ,3
Washington.—It Is believed by sonie
congn^essmen 'that congress will be
ready to adjourn within the. next ten
weeks, but a look at the house calen
dar "and a review of committee work
makes It clear that this Is improbable
If the president insists- on carrying
out his legislative program. '* Speaker
Cannon said that he did dot look for
adjournment much before June 15^
Tragedy Over Trivial Dispute.
New Orleans.—Angered as the re
sult of a trivial dispute with his son-
in-law*, Alfred F. Mitchell, aged 50,
shot and fatally wounded his wife,
Mrs. Lucy A. MitcteUj seriously
wounded his fourteen-irear-old dau^v
ter, Laura M. Mitchell, and his sif^
year-old son, Hugh C. Mitchell, • and
then killed himself at his residence at
Bruxel, near Gentilly. v /
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McMinb Block BREVARD. N. C.
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