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A REPUBLICAN. NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF AMERICAN HOMES /JND AMERICAN INDUSTOIES
BURLINGTON. K C.
JANUARY n, 1911.
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\ Asbeviile Woman Has Uunswai Suit
! Asfaiast Southern,
Lifeless Forms of Wife, and Infant!
Son of Western Usiion Manage! At i
Raieifjh Found I« Bathroom.
Raleigh Jan. 6.—This coirimunity
was shocked beyond expression
this evening- by the distressing-
news that Mrs. Bannister, wifC'
of H. 0. Bannister manager of!
the local office of the Western •
Union TeJegruph Company, and
seventeen-month-old son were
asphyxiated this afternoon in ihe
bath room of their apartments.
•Mrs. Bannifiter prepared for a ^
Jt>ath using an in>)tantaneoiis gaa-{
heater Her child accompanied j
her. Later a servant heari ng the;
unusually long time investigated
and v/as horrified to find the life
less form of Mrs. Bannister on the
floor and that of the child across
a chair. Just how the accident
occured i? not known, but Mrs.
Bannister evidently burned on
the gas without properly lighting
the heater and v/as overcome by
the deadly fumes, the child suffer
ing the same horrible fate. The
servent braved the gas fumes
,and had the presence of mind to
'turn it off. Physicians were
summoned but life was extinct
in both mofh#'? and child when'
they arrived. Mr. Bannister who
is almost prostrated has been the
popular manager of the Western
Union’s local office four years,
coming' here from Richmond.
Five years ago he married Miss
Barbara Lifrageof Salters S. C.,
who, with th;dr only child met
such an untimely death.
Asheville, Jan. 5.—Because as
she alleges the Southern Rail way
company shipped the body of her
deceased mother from Asheville
to Marion by freight after the
plaintiff had bought double first
class transportation for the same,
Louisa Washburn asks $2,000
damage from the defendant
company.
In the complaint it is alleged
that about Novembers the plain
tiff bought a ticket for the trans
portation of her mother's body
and another ticket for herself
with the understanding that the
deceased was to be carried in the
baggage car of the train on which
the plaintiff was a passenger to
Marion. It is further alleged that
when she reached Marion the
body was not on the traitA and
that the agent there refused to
give in fonnation concerning it.
The complaint goes on to state
that later in the day the body
of the plaintiff's mother ariived
at Marion on a freight train, and
that the box containing the coffin
had been broken open. For con
sequent humiliation mental pain
and distress the plaintiff asks
damages in the sum of $2,000.
FUNERAL TRAIN WRECKED
Train Carrying Body of Mother of
President of Norfolk 8c Wes
tern Roati Wrecked Near
Keraiit, W. Va.
Roanoke, Va., Jan. 7.—The
special train of President L. E.
Johnson cf the Norfolk & West-
tern Railroad, w^hich left Roa
noke this morning at 9 o’clock
for Aurora 111., carrying the body
of President Johnson’s mother,
who died here yesterday, mem
bers of the family and friends,
was wrecked near Kermit, W. Va
a small station of the Norfolk &
Western, this aft-ernoon at 3;30
o*clock. The engine crashed in
to a rock that had rolled from a
hillside onto the track. The en
tire train, consisting of locomo”
tive, three private cars, and a
baggage car, was derailed but
none of the coaches turned over
and nobody on the train was in
jured. The engine is badly da
maged. The train was running
on a slow schedule when the ac
cident occured. A wrecking train
has bieen sent to the scene and
it is expected the track will be
cq>en before midnight.
mm JOE WITH
A COBNCOB PIPE
Hie Speaker Recalls the Days He
Smoked a Dhadeea.
WaiJhingtori, Jan. 5. ~ Uncle
Joe Cannon strolled around the
House; today xvith a corncob pipe
tightly held between his lips.
The pipe was presented by Champ
Clark, who comes from Pike
county Mo. As Uncle Joe is in
habit of smpkin)2 cigars, his ap
pearance with a “corncob’* excit-
^ more or less eomment by
friends. ‘
“Up to the time I was 30 yeaw
old I smoked a pipe,’" siaid Uncle
Joe. “Then I took to the cigar
liabit.”
“This reminds me,”added the
Speaker as he puffed away on
the “Missouri meerschaum,” of
the time when I used to sit with
the boys around the swimming
pond pulling away at an old
dhadeen.’ This doesn’t taste
as the old clay we had in those
days.”
Several of Uniele Joe’s friends
assured him, however, that the
aroma from the corncob was
much more pleasant than that
from the long black cigars he
smoices.
ALIfN J. eUFflN DEAD
He Was a Prominent Citizen of
Hillsboro and of the State.
The News and Observer of
yesterday contained the follow
ing account of the death of one
of the State’s best citizens, Mr.
..\llen J. Ruffin, of Hillsboro:
The many friends throughout
the State of Mr. Allen J. Ruffin,
of Hillsboro, will be deeply
grieved to learn of his death,
which occured at the Hospital of
the University of Pennsylvania,
in Pijiladelphia, at 11 o'clock
Sunday night.
Mr. Ruffin was a member of
one of the oldest and most promi
nent families of the State. He
was a son of the late Peter Brown
Ruffin and his wife, Mary Jones
Ruffin, a grandson of the late
Chief Justice Thomas Ruffin, and
a nephew of Judge Thomas Ruf
fin. He was in his fifty-fourth
year and married Miss Annie
Gray Nash, daughter of Mr. S.
S. Nash, of Tarboro.
Besides his wife and one son,
Mr. Peter Brown Ruffin, Mr.
Ruffin is survived by two broth
ers, Mr. Sterling Ruffin, agent
for the Norfolk and Western at
Petersburg, and Mr. J. R. Ruffin,
general freight agent for the
Norfolk and Western at Roanoke;
three sisters, Mrs. James Webb,
of Hillsboro; Mrs. John W. Har
rison, and Mrs. Charles L, Petti
grew, both of Atlanta.
As a business man of marked
ability and success, Mr. Ruffin
was known throughout the entire
State. At the time of his death
he was president of the Eno cot
ton mills at Hillsboro, and vice-
president of the Rocky Mount
Mills at Rocky Mount. He was
appointed by Governor Glenn and
Grovernor Kitchin as State direc
tor of the North Carolina railroad.
He was formerly the president
and a director of the Carolina
Trust Company of this city, also
a director of the Neuse River and
the Raleigh eotton mills.
The remains will arrive in Hills
boro this morning and the fu
neral will take place at 2:30 o’
clock this afternoon. To be
present at the funeral Mr. and
Mrs. Albert Cox left for Hills
boro yesterday afternoon, join
ing Mrs, Cox’s mother, Mrs. S.
S. Nash, of Tarboro, mother-in-
law of Mr. Riiffin. Col. Benehan
Cameron left for Hillsboro
yesterday morning, upon receipt
of a telegram announcing Mr.
Ruffin’s death.
West Virginia Senator Virtually
Starves In Midst Of Plenty,
Washington, -Ian. 5.—A sslow,
lingering death, practically of
starvation, v/as the fate of Sen
ator Stephen B. Elkins, wl o is
mourned today by Official Wash
ington.
.For months the Senator jrom
West Virginia had been fighting
in vain against starvation in the
midst of plenty. Nothing ihat
his immense wealth could pro 7ide
could nourish the massive fr;,ime
that gradually, under the rav: ,ges
of his ailment, fell away air lost
to a shadow. An odd sori of
blood poisoning was the appa rent
cause of the Senator’s condition.
A virulent germ in the blood pre
vented all food assimilation.
Every kind of nourishmmt,
brought near and far in an at
tempt to overcome the ailm jnt^
turned practically to poison in the
stomach of the statesman and
failed to benefit the thinrang
blood and emaciated body.
Senator Elkins’ first experience
with the fatal sickness folic ved
his arduous work on the railroad
bill in the Senate last winter.
He was hurried to his mag lifi-
cent home at Elkins, W. Ya.,
where family and surgeons ex
hausted every resource of wealth
and medicine in vain attempt) to
check the ravages of the illness.
The Senator’s strong constitu don
enabled him to rally several times
during the summer. On No\ emr
ber 9 he insisted on being broi ght
to Washington, although so v eak
that he had to be carried f:*om
the train to hisautomobile. His
family was induced to bulive
that he was improving until last
evening, when a sudden relapse
brought death in a few hturs,
death coming at midnight.
President Tafr. accompanied
by Captain Buti, his military
aide, called to-day at the Ellins
residence to extend his coiidol-
ences to the family. All day long
Senators, Representatives and
officials in every branch of the
government called at the Elkins
home.
Plans were under consideration
to-day for the holding of a “Sen
ate funeral,” in which case Sen
ator Elkins’ body would be mken
to the Senate chamber for
services.
DRUNKEN MAN ON ENGINE
FLAYS SMASH AT OAN'IILLE
Agent Kills Himself.
Wilmington, N. C., Jan. 4.—
M. E. Beaver, 18 years old, a-
gent of the Raleigh and Charles
ton railroad at Marietta, N. C.,
committed'suicide early today by
taking carbolic acid and then
shooting himself. Disappoint
ment in a love affair is ascribed
as the cause.. The body was
shipped to Maiden. N. C.. the
home of the young man’s father
a Baptist minister of that place.
Danville, Va., Jan. 9.—A wild
engine started in motion vn the
Southern railway yards Saturday
night by a drunken man crashed
into two other locomotives stand
ing on the tracks and caused a
wreck in which R. F. Rovdette,
a conductor on the Richmond and
Danville division, was seriously,
if not fatally, hurt.
Conductx>rRowlette was asleep
in a caboose attached to a n en
gine waiting to go on his usual
run, when John J. Frederick, a
young white man and sfc’anger
here, boarded the locomotive and
opened wide the throttle. After
crossing the railroad bridtjeover
Dan river Fredrick reversed the
engine and then jumped. The
caboose collided with another
engine in the yards and com
pletely wrecked it. The runa
way engine then struck a third
locomotive standing on th 2 tuni-
table. The three locomotives,
all badly damaged, were found
piled up together.
Mr. Rowlette was. found un
conscious beneath the wrecked
caboose.
Frederick was arrested short
ly after the wreck and today
stated that he was drunk and ir
responsible when the det d was
committed. He was fomerly a
railroad fireman. Frederi ;k says
his home is in Wilmington, N. C.
Virginia Nanson, 13 years old,
of Howland, Me., made by hand
in 60 days a worsted quilt con
taining 1,^9 pieces, eaca piece
cros^s-stitched v/ith siltcateen.
While making* the quilt she was
attending school and recdved a
mark 6i perfect attendance for
the iall term of 14 weekt.
Visiteti Jail and Left Tools Whereby
Prisoners Effected Their Escape.
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 6.—Three
soldiers stationed at fort McPher
son, who visited the Fulton coun
ty jail last Sunday, left the saws
with which John Withrow, con
victed wife murderer, and four
companions sawed their way out
Monday night, according to
Wihtrow. The saws, he said to
day, were given to Harry Ijang-
don, the only one of the jail-
breakers who has not been re
captured.
According to the prisoners,
I^ngdon, under the alias of
Glenn, deserted from the army
^nd a number of men who served
in his old company are now sta
tioned at Fort McPherson. They
learned of Langdon’s presence
in the jail and sought permission
lo inspect the jail on Sunday,
when they left the saws.
A. R. Knox, tie New Orleans
man known as the “drug store’-’
bandt, one of the recaptured
prisoners, today mutined and at
tacked three jailers with a piece
of water pipe which he had
wrenched loose from the floor
of his celJ. H e was badly beaten
iDef ore being su bdued. The break
in the pipe flooded the entire
east wing of the jail.
CONCOHDJAN SKIPS
Prominent Politician and City Of
ficial Clears For Usluiowii Paris.
Concord, Jan. 9.—Leaving be
hind him a bankrupt business
and a family John L. Miller a
prominent merchant and politi
cian has disappeared completely,
leaving no trail except fora tele
gram received by his wife from
New Orleans with the statement
that he was leaving for the west
an^d would never return. His 17-
year old son Lester is with him.
Miller left here several days ago
with the statement that he was
going to Newberry S. C. to place
his son in college. There was no
suspicion of business entagle-
ments until his telegram today
led to an investigation bringing
about the disclosure?. Miller was
chairman of the Democratic ex
ecutive committee chief of the
fire department and assignee for
several bankrupt concerns in
which he has made no accconting.
His creditors will receive practi
cally nothing.
The two largest democratic daili
es in the state failed to publish
this news item, just why we can
not understand unless there is ap
understanding not to publish any
thing of this kind t^t will in
anyway reflect upon a party
member, but they should be will
ing to give the news, no party
can be held responsible for the
acts of their individual members.
All fairminded people will not
consider it a reflection, those
that are not fair it matters what
they think, the point we are
making is that had this man been
a republican the papers in ques
tion would have carried the item
in large headlines with a lavish
use of poke berry juice, and held
it up as another instance of
republican corruption and incap
acity for good government
FALLING MASS OF IBON
Rev. R. P. Bryson, Aged Miitister
Employed in Southern Spencer
Shops Meets Horrible Death.
Sp6ncer, Jan. 6.—Rev. K. P.
Bryson of Spencer met instant!
death in the Southern Rai 1 way ;
shops here th/s afternoon by be
ing crushed under three pairs of
engine truck wheels and axles,
which were being lifted by a
huge,crane. Rev. Mr, Bryson v/fio
has not been in the active nimis-
terial work for ,the past year vvras
employed as a machinist in the
shops and was att5ndihg to his
usual duties when the tragic
accident occurred. The crane
bearing the ton or more of truck
wheels suspended by a chain was
passing over his head and the
chain suddenly broke, precipitat
ing the mass of iron down upon
the head of Mr, Bry^ion who was
caught at an unguarded moment
and he never knew what killed
him.
The scene was witaessed b:-" a
number of employes who „rush^d
to the side of the dead man.
standing only a few feet* away
was a son, Mr. V. H. Bryson, a
machinist who had been a bosom
coinpanion of his for years owing
to the fact that he was the only
child and following the same
trade. The son had stepped away
from his post of duty for some
needed tool when the accident
happened or would have been in
arm’s length of his father at the
time.
The remains were taken in
charge promply by an undertaker
and prepared for burial. The in
terment will take place at Lowell
near Charlotte where the family
at one time resided.
Sotn^ Pbii^fed^ iiii'
prov^ TralB Accoi^^
Between Greeosboro and
WHITE MAN GUILTY OF
MURDEBJF A NEGRO
Eoa]?oke, Va. Jan.5th,—In the
Circuit-court at Salem this county
this evening a jury in the uase of
James H. Body charged with
killing James Mack a negro r^
turned a verdict of involuntary
man slaughter and fixed Boby rs
punishment at three years in. the
penitentiary. Body claimed self-
defense. A naotion will be made
for a new trial.
Mihvaukee within a few days
will have its first female “police
man, ” the new Socialist pjan for
protecting the woman workers of
the city. Miss Edna Finch, k
trained nurse stood the highest
in a competive examination, and
is expected to be appointed.
SOLD BEHSELF FOR HUSBANIT
Woman Tells Court Pitifbl Story
of Her Sacrjftce. \
Philadelphia, Jan. 9.—Mrs.
Louisa. Cahn, for several years a
meinberof one of the Presby
terian churches here, acknowled^
ed in the police court yesterday
that she had pla^d the “scarlet
letter” upon her bosom in order
that she might support her hus
band, who is in the last stages j
of tuberculosis, and her two ‘
small children.
When she was arraigned before
Magistrate Scott, Policeman
Ribel, one of the members of the
local “vice squad,” gave the
woman one of the hardetiit repu
tations possible. She was asked
CO refut-e this testimony, and
said:
“Until seven months ago I
was a good church member.
Then my husband was taken sick
and the physicians said he had
quick consumption. I applied to
my church friends to find me a
position, and they 8,11 said they
would do their best, I waited !
for weeks. I answered all ad
vertisements in the local news
papers. I did evferything, but
without avail. As the only solu
tion to the problem of living, I
sold my virtue, I did it because |
I wanted my husband^ with his j
children. I knew he did not have {
long to Uve and I was satisfied
to go to hell if I could naake his j
last moments comfortable.”
After hearing the story as told
by the woman, Magistrate Scott
ordered that the police depart
ment investigate her story. De
tectives were put on the case and
within an hour it had been estab
lished that she was telling the
truth. Magistrate Scott and the
court attaches then made up a
purse for the woman. ^
Recommeads Ko-Pres-KihKake,
Dixie Mills,
Burlington, No. Carolina.
Gentlemen:—
I bought some of the jK^^-Pres-
.Ko-Kake from you and will ^y 1
have tried it and ain well pleased.
My cow eat it from the start
and has gained at least 11-2 lbs.
of butter per week and the milk
and butter is of better quality.
She is only a young cow, about
31-2 years old.
Respectfully,
Murphy Jenkins.
NOTICE.—If you Dealer does
not have Ko-IVes-K(^Kake call
Phone 106.
To the Editor.—Please Iall6w
me space«iii your valuabie J?ai) t
for the following- remarks whick
are uttered hot wholly iroiii t
selfish motive, but because huiid*
reds and thousands of othcbt uvt
equally affected. ;>
We pewle lining and traieii ij;,
between Greensboro and BiUei;^
are being put to ^treroely it
disadvantage anF^tJ^uble jde.iiy
by reason of the ebnneclicins at
GreesboroijfFor instance cd^mi.
in from the South on train Na 12
or 38, arriving at Greei}sb*>/o
about 10 p.m., we have to
there until 12:45 night) and thca
be up ones to tiiree or four jiiooi'jg
longer getting to our hornets
tween Raleigh and GreehSkbroor
staying over at Greensboro until.
9;40 the next mofining and the;e-
by mining a days^work. ;
I am sure I do not wish |to as
sume to dictate to the Soulther*
Railway as to how they shall rufi
the road^for two reasons, Ist, 1
feel incompetent to do so^ and
secondly I have no desire to do
so. But there are fwggeBtiorjs
coming from the public^^^itans
to me that they could
some consideration to. We omA
have a -train, Say a
freight train leaving Greensboro
about lOU^S p. m, going:as far ai
Raleigh and then again there
ought to be a passenger train
leaving Greensboro about 7;45 &
m, just after the arrival atjSreenB
of train No 8 from the
11 and 37 from the Nq]^, ' V* e
could then ^et from GreeusW'o
in the mormng get down RsiU
eigh or Goldsboro in a reasenably
good time. But as it isa flftB^n hak
got to be up all night, which as
a considerable wear and to
the physical man, especially
■wh^e
three thousand mile^ a monit^^fev
I have.to dp all durijag the wa
ter and spring and chiefly over
the Southern Rail vmy at
It seems to that the - patron
age j^iven to the railrc^dii alenr
this linefrdmGolddboroto ^
boro is entitled to better services
I was on the train several tinies:
during; the holidays made moiSe
than a thousand mileisi during
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this period and actually saw wo
men and children standing
and actually had to stand up
self mile after mile. Now this is
inconvenience is not very pleas
ant, in view of the fact that we
are called.on to pay pur full fare
and to receive about the same
accommodations that the South
ern Railway accords a carload M
beef cattle when they are haii^
ing them.
I shall be glad to heat fvoo.
others equally interested in tkifi
matter and will be ^ad if you
will use your good influetuae to
assist us in obtaining one or both
of these trains.
W. C. THUBSTOIL
FIRED BIIUIT AT Wfffs
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^iladelphia» Jan.
zied because his wife was about
to separate from him, Willian
Adams, aged 40 years, today fir
ed a bullet into ]k^r le^tixpeistantli
then killed himsif with a shot fai
the biain; According to
bors Adams and his wile
had frequent quarrels in their
home in Olney, a iSuburb. They
agreed to separatee and Mm
Adams was preparing t()^ leave
home today when Adams retar*
nedi apparently ih agood httmor.
The couple went together to a
back room of the house ao4 -a
moment later the two shoite;^were
herd. Mira, Adama is in a criti
cal condition.
Moonsbine Qotfit €a : Hsv
> Pittojbwo.
Pittsboroj Jan. 5,—Another
tlockade still pt|^bout 65 gallo*
capacity was captured to^f by
Deputy Sheriff J. T. Wright a-
bout 2 lr2 »niles west of PittHbor^
and was broMht to town; and
turned over Wthe county Icom-
misfsioners, Avho ordered it cut
up. No arreets were made.
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