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WMi ir ,,'MiJmn. y VOLUME XXI-NUMBER 35 ttmmma f " LAURINBURG, N. C THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1913. $1.50 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE CAPTAIN BILLIE M'LAURIN FALLS UPON SLEEP One of the Bravest Men in Lee's Army " Passes- Prominent Cit izen of Scotland County Dies After an Illness of Four Months Was Prominent Mason, Large Property Owner and Prominent Confederate Veteran. 1,; 1, After an illness lasting about four months, Capt. William H. McLaurin, one of the county's most prominent and highly re spected citizens, died at' his home on Church street just after mid night Friday. Capt. McLaurin passed his 73d birthday the 6th day of last Feb ruary. and soon after this time the disease from which he died laid its hand upon him, and after that time his friends sadly watch ed him as he rapidly slipped away from them. Erect, strong, vigorous and active, and in a few short weeks stricken and weak ened, he was carried about by loving hands. Captain McLaurin was one of the most prominent of Laurin burg's citizens, his entire life having been spent here He was a brave and gallant officer in the Cbrifedrate army, and on many occasions so distinguished him self that he received the highest praise from his superiors for gal lant and meritorious service. Some of his comrades sr id that he was fond of fighting and never seemed so happy as when in the heat of battle. Since those mem orable days he has handsomely worn the garlands of a modest, unpretentious and unselfish citi zen, never asking public favor. fwas an able factor in bring ing abouT0iiite saprerfiJynoT, its resultant good government. At the battle of Spottaylvania Court House, May 12, 1864, a handful of Confederates, with Capt. McLaurin leading them, rushed into the deadly breach, turned the tide of battle and per haps saved the day. A Federal Colonel lay wounded upon the field and close by one of th Don federates. The Federal officer asked the Confederate boy laying near-by, who his leader was, and the reply came, "Captain Billie McLaurin, of the Eighteenth North Carolina Regiment, one of the bravest men in Lee's army," and in reciting the incident, the Federal officer says : "I was ful ly prepared to believe what he said." He was a congenial and friendly neighbor, kind of heart, and spent readily upon charity and its objects. His life was lean and pure. No one ever heard Captain Billie use an oath ; he never drank intoxicants or stained his mouth with tobacco indeed was his moral life a model one. The funeral was held at the home of the deceased Sunday af ternoon at 3 o'clock, and what was perhaps the largest crowd attending a funeral in Scotland county in many years gathered about the home to pay this last mark of love to this good citizen. The services were conducted by Rev. J. M. Rose, D. D., pastor of the Presbyterian church. The funeral finished, the body was taken in charge by the Masonic Order, of which the deceased was a prominent and loyal mem ber, and laid to rest in the city cemetery under a great bank of the most beautiful floral offer ings ever seen here. As the body was borne from the house, sixteen of his comrades who went through the trying days of the war with him formed a line on either side of the walk, and with uncovered and bowed heads watched the passing of an other of their small company to the grave. These were Messrs. Nathan Gibson, Neill McNair, N. R. McGeachy, J. F. McNair, L. D. McKinnon, S. W. Pate, T. B Russell, A. H. McLauchlin, W. R. McEachin, Capt. J. M. Wright, John Chance, Daniel McCormick, J. E. Hodges, Major T. J. Woot en, Jeptha Peele and Dougald Stewart. Under the care of their leader, Mrs. T. T. Covington, the Quakenbush Children's Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, attended the fune ral and marched to the cemetery in a body. One sister, Mrs. Howard Pe den, is the only surviving mem ber of the immediate family. COLUMN OF STATE NEWS Aged Woman Killed by Son-in-law. Wilson, Aug. 25. This com munity was shocked Sunday evening when telephonic infor mation was received of the murd er of Mrs. Jennie Vick, a woman about 60 years old, and the wife of Bryant Vick. The killing was done, it is alleged, by Red Jones, a son-in-law of Mrs. Vick and took place at the home of the Jones family near Sharpsburg, just over the county line in Edge combe county, about 3 o'clock Sunday morning. Mrs. Vick, who lives near Wil son with her husband, on the Anderson farm, went to Rocky Mount la3t Wednesday to visit a daughter. Mrs. Slater. Friday went to the home 6i tr Jones and Saturday drove to Rocky Mount after his wife and they returned to sjend Sunday with Mrs. Jones, their daughter. Late Saturday night Mr. Jones while drinking attempted to force his wife to drink with him and in the discussion which fol lowed Mr. and Mrs. Vick took the side of their daughter. Dur ing the discussion Mrs. Jones se cured the whiskey bottle and em ptied it. This angered Jones. In the meantime Jones got busy with a barn of tobacco and the family retired. Mr. and Mrs. Vick were in a room alone. The report is that Jate in the night, about 3 o clock Jones went to the room occupied by Mr. and Mrs. vick ana attempted to en ter. Mrs. Vick held the dor, keeping Jones out. Jones fired through the door, the load of shot striking Mrs. Vick and kill ing her instantly. Jones was arrested and is jail at Tarboro, The body of Mrs. Vick was brought here on the midnight train last night and those who accompanied the re mains brought the story as told here. fnnf .' KtAon 11 . V WVVll ndfeet of measured. ol, die an live in Negro Lynched in Charlotte. Joe McNeely, the. cocaine crazed negro who shot and se riously wounded Policeman Wil son, of Charlotte, last week, was taken from the Good Samaritan Hospital in that city early Tues day morning by a mob of thirty five people, who wore handker chief macks, and dragged to the streets in front of the hospital and riddled with bullets. Two policemen who were guarding the negro, leveled their revolvers at the crowd, but were quickly over powered and disarmed. Judge Shaw, who is holding court in Charlotte, severely criti cised the officers of the law, and Mayor Eland has offered a re ward of $1,000 for the apprehen sion of the lynchers. This is the first lynching ever to occur in Mecklenburg county. Sbrt lieas cf Ksrtli Ciralisa News of General Sntsresl To Scotliad Countj la UUmti Form For Exchange . Rsiiirs Mkni fm Csn ttmportrlis The Troy Knitting Company is a new corporation. The corpora tion has a paid in capital of $25,000. A branch of the Just Freight Rate Association of North Caro lina was organized at Troy, Thursday. Congressman Godwin has sent for his winter duds. He says that he does not believe congress will adjourn before August 15, 1914. With his mind affected from Dellegra, from which he suffered, Sam Harris of Leaksville shot his wife and reloading his gun shot himself through the head Friday. Claud Blackwell, sentenced to 2 years for the murder of Dr. Fred Misenheimer of Charlotte about a year ago, has been re fused a pardon by Gov. Craig and must serve his sentence. Mr. Peter E. King, of Concord, a representative of the American Tobacco Co., in Turkey was mar ried August 3, to a Miss Asli, who is a member of a prominent Turkish family of Constantinople. Miss Ethel Bagley, sister-in-law of Secretary of the Navy Daniels, and for 15 years a derk in" the ifdvrnment sece-Jhas oeen appointed a. c ne twvy library at a sal depth oi men t nr latnomed. two tnons; its depth has been Fish, when put in th and it is said nothing its waters. W.. L. Dunn, a diiiiiiiy was iasi. wetf in the. Gaston count; t charge of robbing th ville cotton mill office ago and was sentern- eight years. The Wilmington police are vigi lant after blind tigers. Recently a cop saw a negro driving out with a coffin and s.u:necting that it was being use 1 smuggle booze in, institute search but found none of the A. Dr. Piatt W. Covington, of Wadesbory, formerly with the hookworm commission, has been appointed chief of the county health bureau. The duties of Dr. Covington will be to promote whole-time health organizations in every county in the State. Fred Miller, who came to Wil mington on a German ship and was found in an alley in the city in an unconscious condition, died in a local hospitr I a few days later from typhok: fever. Miller had no friends or money and was buried by strangers. A very fatal disease known as "milk sick" has broken out in Avery county. The disease is transmitted to pe rsons from cows through milk ?nd butter. The government ha. been asked to investigate the disease. It is supposed that the cows get the poison by licking some mineral in their efforts to get salt. A young farmer in Brunswick county mortgaged his farm to buy an automobile. Recently the mortgage was foreclosed and the farm sold. The young man started to the place of sale in the machine to save the farm. The machine broke down and when he reached the place of sale, he was so much delayed that the sale was over and the farm gone. COHDEHSEO HEWS FROM EVERYWHERE k Column cf the Week's Happenings TtaghDBt the World Told in Brief Salted fm Oar Contemporaries ' and Mti Down For Our Rsad- -ers. Free wool is the next fight ahead on the tariff bill. Fifty Mexican bandits were put to death the past week for killing one German subject. Mayor Shank of Indianapolis, Ind. , is taking the stings of forty five bees as a treatment for rheu matism. A homina: pigeon belonging to 0. Anderson of Fort sWayne, Ind., recertlyflew one thousand miles in 26 hours and 30 minutes. H. E. Miller testified before the Senate Lobby Committee Friday that he paid former Rep resentative Jas. E. Watson $250 per week to work or a tariff board bill in congress in 1909. W. T. Jerome who prosecuted Harry, Thaw through two trials, has been retained to represent the satej of New York in the proceedings now being fought out to brg Thaw back to the United States. I I h po i ;3S Irish convicted urt on a years to serve Thego;ernment in buying ar mor pltej ha3 just closed a con tract &t price that shows a sav ing 6t4378,26; above former prices. Secretary Daniels says the difference infpriee is attrib i ted td the fac that there has 1 eeij ai agitatiorl t establish a Naval krmorplatte; factory While returning frorl Blowing LRocKt his hoft. MUCrpghan, 4ZfT. I I . , C3tx b ray Jo prominent If business maiPrwas killed. Mr Taylor was closed up in the auto and stopped on the track of the Carolina and Northwestern railway and was instantly killed when a train crashed into the machine. REPUBLICAN SENATOR WANTS TO CALL HUERTA'S CHALLENGE Senator Penrose Offers Resolution to Place $25,000,000 at the Dis posal of President Wilson Leader of Both Parties Scoff at the Idea That President Wilson is Without Sup port in Mexican Policy. Several hundred young women stenographers and clerks em ployed by a large manufacturing concern at New Brittain, Conn., a few days ago received, in their pay envelopes, polite notes warn ing them that the slit skirt, the hobble and diaphanous skirts will not be tolerated. Each girl is asked to appear for work in business-like and modest clothes. Three young men, all aged 19 years, were drowned at Folly Is land near Charleston Thursday. Ihe young men were in a small bateru, which was capsized by a gust of wind. The father of one of the young men saw the hap pening from the beach and went to their rescue in a gasoline yacht, but reached the place after the bodies had been swept out to sea. Alleging that money had been freely used to oust Sulzer as gov ernor of New York, Chas. F. Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall, Aaron J. Levy, leader of the democratic majority in the as sembly, and Senator Frawley, chairm in of the committee which investigated Gov. Sulzer's cam paign contributions, will prob ably be indicted. Andrew Hardwick, a negro, sentenced to 10 years for killing another negro at Yorkville, S. C, three years ago, is about to gain his freedom. Hardwick claimed that the negro was shot by another who used a larger calibre pistol than his. Afraid he would get a death sentence if tried, he plead guilty to man slaughter. It now develops after three years in the pen that Hard wick's claim was correct and two 38 bullets were found in his body, Another negro suspected at the fime of the killing has been ar rested, but later eecaped. Washington, Aug. 21. Ameri can troops for police duty in Mex ico for protection of foreign lives and property and an emergency appropriation of $25,000,000 to be expended under the direction of the President for that purpose were proposed in a resolution to day by Senator Penrose. He did not ask the Senate to pass his resolution today and it went over. A concerted effort on the part of Republicans and Democrats to support President Wilson in his Mexrcan policy and to carry to the world the definite idea that the President has the full support of the American people at once became apparent.' Introduction of the resolution was followed by a general de mand on the part of the Repub licans, seconded by Chairman Ba con, of the Foreign Relations Committee, for a cessation of all debate, and to support President Wilson. Emphatic and concerted decla rations from Senators of both parties of their confidence in the wisdom and good faith of the President were plainly an answer to reports from Mexico, that President Huertawas contending that President Wilson had a di vided Congress and a divided public opinion behind him. Senators Lodge, ' Sutherland, 4lKs2Ji---ia2i and pthei! Republicans joined in a de finite expression that the Senate should give the world no occasion to believe that President Wilson did not have the confidence and support of .leaders of both par ties. "Nothing that could have oc curred," said Senator Bacon, De mocrat, "could have given such emphatic denial to the construc tion some Mexican officials appear to have put upon conditions here, as the patriotic utterances that have been made today on each side of this chamber. I am will ing this debate should go to the world as an answer to those suggestions." SENATOR PENROSE WOULD PRO VIDE $25,000,000. Washington, Aug. 21. Senator Penrose today introduced a reso lution requiring President Wilson to take the necessary steps to place United States troops in Mexico to protect American lives and property, such a step to be decreed by the Senate in no way an unfriendly act toward Mexico. Senator Penrose also intro duced an amendment to the de ficiency appropriation bill for an appropriation of $25,000,000 to be expended as the President might direct for the protection of the lives of Americans in Mexico. He made no effort to secure im mediate action upon his resolu tion, and, at the suggestion of Senator LaFollette, it went over a day. The amendment for the emer gency appropriation, Senator Pen rose explained, was similar to a provision in an appropriation act just prior to the Spanish Ameri can war. He asked that the amendment lie on the table in the Senate until the deficiency appropriation bill comes from the House. "The administration has asked for $100,000 to take Americans out of Mexico," said Senator Penrose after announcing he would not discuss his resolution. "I think they have a right to be m Mexico, i tmnk they nave a right to be there under our treat ies and under international law. We have no right to attempt to break up their homes and occu pations. Rather than appropri ate this pittance of $100,000 to make this wholesale removal I would appropriate this $25,000, 000 to keep them where they are and to protect them." The Penrose resolution draws attention to the Monroe doctrine, and to the possibility that con tinued destruction of property in Mexico would "involve interna tional complications and inter vention by European nations." The resolution specifically de clared that "it is not the policy of the government of the United States to recognize or assist any faction or factions in the repub lic of Mexico," and proposed : "That the President of the United States be required to take such steps as are necessary to place a sufficient number of United States troops, as a con stabulary, in the Republic of Mexico, wherever and at such points as in his opinion they may be needed, properly to police and protect citizens of the United States and their property ; and it is hereby declared that such employment of United States troops for the protection of the lives and property of American citizens is not made with anym- tent inat sucn poncing ana pro tection shall be construed as an act of hostility or unfriendliness toward the Mexican nation." Senator Penrose said that in a day or two he would "make a few remarks" on the approoria tion amendment and his resolu tion. "I do not want to stir this matter up unduly," said Senator Penrose. ' 'There is hardly a day that I am not appealed to by peo ple from my State urging action to furnish protection to Ameri cans in Mexico. It is not a sen timent. It is a condition." Senator Nelson declared it seemed unwise "at this juncture to agitate the question." "Such agitation, " said he, "is an embarrassment to the Presi dent, who is doing everything he can to bring about peace. This resolution should go to the com mittee on foreign relations and not be used here to exploit speeches of an embarrassing character to the administration. Let me cite a bit of history that a few of us well remember. We were very glad during the dark days of the civil war that no for- eign government intervened in our trouble. We were threaten ed time and again with inter vention from Germany, France and England. "We agitate intervention, and intervention means war. We should do everything we can to avoid war and give Mexico the same chance we asked for and were given in the civil war. Senator Penrose replied that political intervention was not contemplated, and that what American citizens demanded was police protection in Mexico, par ticularly along the border,, such as had been offered in Nicara gua and other central American countries for twenty-five years past. He declared that he was not urging war or intervention. "The idea of annexation of any territory is too absurd to be entertained by any intelligent man," declared the Pennsylvania senator, in conclusion. Senator Smoot declared that while 5,000. citizens of Utah had been driven out of Mexico, yet he would deplore American inter vention. Senator Bacon and other sena tors spoke in a similar vein.
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