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A REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF AMERICAN HOMES AND AMERICAN INDUSTRIES.
VOL, HI.
BURLINGTON. N. C, MARCH 15, 1911.
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RECIPRCCITY BILL RESUME OF THE NEW
WILL PASS SENATE
(lOR LAWS
Raleigbj MarclilO,—Outat the-
power lioUs^ ol the Agricultura!
and Mecanical College there is a
marvelous little engine being
demonstrated for the first time,
the invention of a well known
North Carolinian, Lafayette Holt,
of Barlington. It is compact and
■t>owerf ul to a degree. It has on
ly five moving parts, and is
scarcely one-fifth of the size of
the average engine of corres
ponding power. It is known as
the Hoi t rotary engine. There is
one lubricator for the entire ma
chine, and no dead cen e ‘; it is
dust proof and runs with one-
pound of steiim above norma]
atmosphere. It is capable of
compound cr direct drive, and is
pronounced at the college espe
cially adapted for rural work, in
cluding saw milis, road rollers,
traction engines, and general
barnyaid utility. It gives good
service setting at any angle, and
seems to operate with far jess
steam consumption tlian engines
generally put to this service.
John R. Hoffman, who is making
the demonstration in cooperation
with the college students is shar
ing with the inventor congratu
lations on the success of the de
monstration.
Washington, March ii.—Abso
lutely assured that the Canadian
reciprocity agreement will be
passed by the house, administra
tion leaders now in Washington
have turned their attention to the
situation in the Senate. Canvass
es made of the members of that
body discloses that a majority
favors and will vote to ratify the
trade agreement negotiated with
the dominion by President Taft.
The senate, as at present con
stituted, comprises fifty Repub
licans and forty Democrats. Of
the Republicans it is estimated
that at least 25 will vote _ for
Canadian reciprocity. Thirty-
five Democrats approve the agree
ment. This gives the instrument
60 votes a majority large enough
to pass it and to prevent the a-
doption of amendments that
would render the pact ineffective.
mm FROM A CAVE
TAFT NOW RESTiNli
IN CITY JF AUGUSTA
Augusta, Ga., March 11.—Pres
ident Taft reached Augusta early
today for a brief rest period be
fore returning to Washington on
the eve of the reassennbling of
Congi ess in extra sessibn April
4, Mrs Taft and Miss Helen will
join tlie President tomorrow.
Taft will play golf every morn
ing and afternoon. A private
telephone line has been set up di
rect from his room, to the White
House.
John D. Rockefeller is a fellow
guest with the President at the
hotel There is much specula
tion as to whether a golf mtvtch
can be arranged between them. '
%ll:REB UP
H81ETS mi RETUJiNS
tStatesville Landmark.
Miss Holman, the professional
nurse who spent several years in
Mitchell county and then told, ac
cording to newspaper reports,
wonderful stories in Philadelphia,
Pittsburg, Baltimore and other
places about ignorance and des
titution in Mitchell, to which re
ports and to criticism of Miss
Holman, much space was given
in the nev/spapers some weeks
ago, spent last Thursday night in
Sta,tesville, stopping at Hotel
Iredell.
Friday morning Miss Holman
visited the Sanatorium and other
places leaving on the westbound
train, presumably for old home
in Mitchell. Her presence in
Statesville w’’as known to but few
people until she was leaving. It
is understood that Miss Holman
made reference to the Mitchell
county affair and while she claim
ed, as was expected, that reports
of her statements were exagera
ted, she also contended that some
of the statements w’ere correct
and founded on fact.
Miss Holman will probably tell
the Mitchell county folks that
she didn’t say it.
WiiEfJ OF MAINE TO BE
LIFTED !N SIX WEEKS
Havana, March 13.-Work on
the cofferdam, by which the
United States government vvill
rais(j the battleship Maine in this
harbor, has progressed so favor-
ably, that the efigineers n.ovv say
that the hull of the ship will be
exposed to view in five or six
wee.ks.
It*i;s expected that it then will
be comparatively easy to ascer
tain the real cause of the explo
sion, which precipitated the war
with Spain, '
Harrisonburg, Va., March S.-
From the little village of Quicks-
burg, Shenandoah county, comes
an unusual story. A day or two
Mr. and Mrs. James Silvus and
Dick Fawley, tenants on the A.
C. Neff farm, mysteriously disap
peared. Twenty-four hours af
terwards, Emmett Tuckcr, Chas.
Emswiler and Len Williams, tak
ing a tue irom a missing lantern,
went into a big cave in the neigh
borhood in search of the party.
Far into the cave the three peo
pie were found, cold, hungry and
in despair.
They said that their lantern
had gone out and they had lost
their way, and becoming exhaust
ed, had sat down to await their
fate. The three boys led them
back to daylight and safety.
The cave is just across the val
ley from the famous Luray Cav
erns, and is one of the numerous
small caves in this section of the
state. The only access^ to this
is by means of a rope ladder. It
was by. accident that the boys
decided to make a search in the
cave for the missing people.
Jvlarch 9j ‘—The gener
al assem bly j ust ad j curbed confin
ed its liquor legislation to the pas
sage of a striiigent anti-near beer
act to be effective July 1 and an
act to prohibit clubs and associa
tions from purchasing, * handling
or dispensing liquors to members.
The near-beer act prohibits the
sale of near-beer, beerine and
malt or any intoxicant except that
sold by drug stores on prescrip-
ions and liquors kept by hospitals
and asylums for the of the
patients. North Carolina’s near
beer joints are to continue busi
ness, however, until July 1, their
present six months’ license terms
expiring at that time. The anti-
club liquor act is designed to meet
the defect in the State prohibi
tion law exposed by the ruling of
the supreme court some months
ago when the court held that,
there was no State law to ])re-
vent clubs from ordering hqisop
for club members keeping it in
common storage and serving it to
members and their friends on the
presentation of coupons, this ap
plying especially to beer. The
nev7 law is claimed to .cut the
personal liberties of citizens as
closely as it is possible to do in
such a statute. It leases the
members of reputable commer
cial and social clubs free to have
their liquors in personal lockers
This settlement of the contest
seems to give complete satisfac
tion to prohibition and anti pro
hibition leaders and to the peo
ple generally.
IT rniRSBiieG n
Petersburg, Va., March 9.—At
7:25 toiiight a trolley ear on the
Crater Line got beyond conrol of
Conductor Malbon Talley, who
was operating it, and crashing
dow*3i the steep incline on Main
street, Blandford, left the tracks
at the Wythe street curve and
turning over instantly killed
Isaiah Harrispn of Grove avenue,
who was waiting at the curve to
board the car for his home.
ThreiB women, who stood .near
Haijtison, were thrown up against
the corner building and seriously
crushed. Harrison’s skull was
mashed to a pulp betw'een the
troUey car and the stone curbing.
Dr. Lee attended the injured,
but said that he could only offi
ciate in his capacity as coroner
with regard to Kan ison. He or
dered the car crew arrested.
The injured woman and the on
ly passengers in the car, Mi^s
Griffith and Mr. Miller, were tak
en to the PetersDurg hospital,
where it is said their injuries are
not serious. .
At the time of the accident, the
motorman, George Sermods, was
in the car eating his supper. He
was cut about the head but not
seriously hurt.
NO KOBE ONE OOL- iWilNTS MPlES TO DO
GOlilNG IN nRCIi
Washington, lV|$irch 8- —The is
sue of oner-dollar greenbacks,
which was planiied by ithe Treas
ury Department several weeks
ago to meet the pres$ing demand
for small i bjlls, has been tenta-
tiyely ab^dpned; f
It was found tMt the conver
sion of the large outstah^ing sil
ver certificates ih to bne-dollarde-
nomiijEitiohs promises to meet the
demands for the present at least.
There are about $35,000,000 in
large denomination silyei* certifi
cates which will ;;retired and
one-dollar notes ^ill be issued in
There has been no one-
greenbacks sinc'e 1885. ThS an
nouncement of th6j intentipri tb
reissue the oldnote [cuusfed • wide
comment in bandihjt circles.
BALLINGERS SUCCESSOR
FOLLOW ISS
TO NORTH CAROLINA
Norfolk, Va.j March 13.—Be
lieving they are on the trail of
Miss Dorothy Arnold, the missing
New York heiress, several North
ern detectives left Norfolk to
night for North Carolina.
Several days ago a young wo
man ansv/ering the description
of the missing heiress occupied
an entire section of a Pullman on
the Norfolk and Southern Rail
way. She was accompanied by
a maid, who transacted all busi
ness for herself and misstres!?..
Instead of buying a straight tick
et for one destination, the maid
was instructed to pay cash fares
at each station on the road. In
this way the mysterious passen
ger prevented any one from learn
ing her exact destination before
she reached it.
She left the train at Wilson, N.
C., but is believed to have made
connection there v»^ith the Coast
Line and gone farther South.
Employes of the railroad say that
tlie young woman wore a blue
dress, appeared to be in nervous
and excitable condition, refused
to talk, and left every thing for
her maid to arrange.
Base Ball Season Opens.
The base-1:all season opened
the past week with the Burling
ton team on Friday the boys
played the Hawfield team score
tie. On Saturday the Greensboro
High School team gavO; them a
round the score being four to six
in favor of the home team.
The boys have a number of
games planned for the future.
They are spending the beautiful
given
Caught After Sixteen Years.
After being at liberty for 16
years, T. B. Whitson, who on
February 27, 1895, escaped from
the state -prison at Raleigh, N.
C., where he Vv^as serving a sen
tence of 30 years for murder,
was arrested at Lexington, Ky.,
Thursday and was brought buck
to North Carolina to serve out
his term
Residing in Letcher county,
Kentuckj% as “Samuel Jones,'’
he has amassed a comfortable fo)--
tuTie. He was sentenced to death
March 19, 1893, for the murder
of C. C. -Byrd, at Bakersville, N.
C., but on a second trial he was
iO years’ imprisonment.
When arrested Whitson admit
ted his identity and decla,red he
was willing to return to NortPi
Carolina. Whitson said that for
ten years after he shot Byrd he
escaped prosecution, his trouble
having occurred 28 years ago.
He charges his arrest to an ene
my he made by assisting in the
release from an asylum of a man
with whom this enemy had had
trouble.
Whitson said that he wouid
make a plea for clemenc^on the
upright life he had live^ since
his escape.
Warden T. P. Sale, of the state
prison, Raleigh, received Thurs
day, notice of T. B. Whitson’s
arrest in Kentucky, and was re
quested to have issued the proper
papers for his extradition. One
of the prison authorities left for
Kentucky Friday. Whitson was
sentenced to be hanged in the
early part of 1893, but on March
17 of that year his sentence was
commuted by Governor Russell
to 80 years’ imprisonment. He
was then 33 years old and went
by the name of “Thomas” Whit
son. He escaped February 27,
1895, but the records do not
shov/ what means he employed.
On February 27 of this year,
just 16 years to the day after his
escape, Warded Sale received a
letter from the chief of the Lex
ington detective force to the ef
fect that WhitsOn was under sus
picion. Mr. Sale wired back that
from the prison records they had
the right man spotted.
Washington, March 9.—Walter
L. Fisher, of Chicago, the newly
appointed secretary of the Inte
rior, had an extended conference
with President Taft at the White
House today. Secretary Balling
er, who will turn the affairs of
his office over to Mr. Fisher next
Monday, was invited into the
conference.
The excitement in the Depart-
nient of the Interior incident to
the sudden resignation of' Mr.
Ballinger has subsided, and the
department again has resumed
its normal aspect. Secretary
Ballinger himself spent the day
in going over routine office mat
ters and in discussing public land
questions with Senators and Rep
resentatives.
1^'irst Assistant Sec]’etatary of
the Interior, Frank Pierce an
nounced today that as a"* matter
of courtesy to Walter L, Fisher,
successor to Secretary Ballinger,
he would tender his resignation
soon after the new appointee
takes charge of the affairs of the
Interior Department.
TELL TllR SECRET
Hopkinsville, Ky I, March 9.-
The proseeution in the trial of
Dr. D. A. Amos, alleged; leader
of the night riders,: charged with
participation in the raid on Hop
kins ville December 6, 1907, today
announced that confessibns of
number of night riders witnesses
are expected to be made durin g
the progress of , the trial.
The testimony of Milton Oliver,
confessed night nder yesterday
believed to haVe infltienced many
of the witnesses to break away
from the tliaii to which under
oath they are said to be bound to
secrecy. i
Card Of Tbaoks
We desire to extend our sincere
thanks to our ^neighbors and
friends for their kindness and
8UPEBINTENDENT OF SUN
DAY SCHOOL EIFTY YEARS
In the little town of LeaksviUe
lives a local preacher, Rev. D. E,
Field—familiary known as “Un
cle Dan Field”—who has a fine
record of faithfulness. If he
lives till next July he will be
eighty years old. He is superin
tendent of the Sundy School in
the Methodist church in that
town now and has been continu
ously without an internal for fif
ty years, and during that time
has been absent eleven times.
Two of the eleven, Sundays he
was absent, were the days on
which his last wife was taken
sick and buried. She had a
stroke of paralysis on one Sunday
and died the next. The other
nine Sundays absent were spent
in church v^ork.
REVENUE
BUSY WITH
KEPT
Chi^go, March 11. —The Rev.
John Thompson, pa^t^M? of the
Methodist" Church in Wheaton,
has started a lijin to induce
sweethearts to give jip ‘ ‘lobster
palaces, bring luncheis and do
their courting iii the church pews.
He will aUow young i^ople to
st$y laite, with a big rbbm and
jjiiano in part of the church and
one hundred pews in Ayliich they
can sit atii^eiir ease,
‘ ‘There is ^ no l>etter place in
the worp idr '^oung^ ^^rsons to
d0 their c^^^ in thaij a
churcb, ’ ^ said the ‘ *1 be-
'ieVe in inflated is,
the right kind of matchmaking.
hjn k that every church should
make^provision fortipnght young
men and good youn^ women to
meet, and should ai^nge mat
ters so that they coiu'd fall in
loye with each 6thei%
“This talk about dinners at
‘lobster palaces,’ expensive seati
at theatres and taxicab bills is a
mistake. A good girl, -who rea^
ly loves a man, does not want tsp
see him make a fool pi himself
when he is courting her any more
than she wants to see him do so-
after they are married.
ROSAHAYES
Asheville, March 13. —Revenue
Agent R. ,B. Sams hai been noti
fied of a successful raid made
by Deputy Collector Aarkins and
Nitzer near TryOn., when: an un
usually large stilla:iid its contents
were destroyed,; there bei n g
about 2,000 gallons of beer figur
ing in the ruins. This is the sec^
ond successful raid made in the
neighborhood in th3 last few days.
News was also" received of a
raid made in Burke county by
Deputy Marshal Roland arid Dep
uty Collector Harlans, when a
distillery viras capfcared, informa
tion has been received stating
that Deputy Collector Shepherd
destroyed three plants in Wilkes
county during: the past week,
which follows a successful raid
made in that county only a few
days ago, when other plants were
destroyed.
No arrests were made by the
officers, but in some cases it is
probable that prosecutions will
follow.
„ —- sympathy during
spring afternoons on the diamond land death of our
and are getting in fine shape for father,
the season. Mrs. Geo. A.
Passenger train No. 22 was
late four hours and ten minutes
Sunday evening due to a wreck
on the Asheville division. ..
the sickness
husband and
Clendenin and
Children
Do Your Eyes Trouble You.
If so, see Dr. N. Rosnstein, the
eye specialiet, of Durham, Tues
day March the 21st at Burlington
stopping at the Burlington Drug
Company, and Wednesday March
the 22nd at Mebane, at the White
house. He will fit your eyes
with lenses that will give
the best, satisfaction. Remem
ber your eyes are the best asset
you have. Be sure to give them
the best treatment to be secured.
Dr, Rosenstein will help your
eyes, don’t fail to see him.
Mrs. Lewis Strauss of Greens
boro is spending this week the
guest of Miss Mary Cates.
The annual meeting of the jomt,
consistory of the Burlingtor^
Charge of the Reformed Churchl
will be held in the Reformed
Church in Burlington at 1 p., m.
next Saturday, March 18. ' "
on
R. f. B.m i.
Miss Minnie Montgomery who
has been teaching at Gibson ville
in the High School; is at home
sick. Hope she will soon recover.
Miss Maude Isley who has been
teaching at Leachey’s in the
eastern part of the i state return
ed home last week her-school be^
ingout. ^
A. E. Reitzel of Greensboro
spent Sunday the :5th at home
with his mother, al^o Dr. L. G.
Coble of Greensbord §pent Sun
day the 5th with his parents
RM. '■ ■■ ■■
G. L. Graves left some
ago for S. C. where he will work
for several months taking orders
for trees a^d etc.
. Mrs. Geoi^e Hanner and Mrs.
W. M. Hanrier and children visit
ed Mrs. Reitzel of Hartshorn
last Sunday.
Miss Eliisabeth Homewood who
is teaching at Liberty spent Sat
urday and Sunday at home also
during heK stay at home she had
the following as !i*er guest Prof.
Yowder aud. ..Ruth Folger
of Liberiy, iLiby, Arehabal
Cook and Curry Brj^an of Burling
ton, and Miss iBiS; Reitzel of
Hartshorn. This w^ a
crqwdand no doubt had a grand
time., -s.
Wilmiiigtoh, N._ C., —
After a sensational tnal in the
Superior Court at Whi^ville, N.
C. i the jury late today after only
brief dejiberation retumied a ver
dict 6f not guilty as to Mrs. Rosa
Hayes, charged With' the killing
Of Robert^ M. y: Floydv a medical
student ofS. C., on
the night of Febiniary 4th, and
as to her husblindV NeilV^^^l^
Hayes, charged v^ith bdng aa
accessory before the.; facL
Lloyd Hayes^ younger brother o£
Neill H^yes» also charged witk,
being an accessory, was discharg
ed earlier in the week on a npUe
prosse. Mrs. Hayes admitted
the killing pi Floyd but pleaded
that she shot in defense of her
honor. ■
L
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LOSES
March 13*-
nve-^y
Cincinnati, Ohio,
After seeing her five-year-olA
daughter Esther hit by an auto
mobile yesterday, Mrs. May Hoff-
man picked up the mangle^, body
and ran with it four bloc^'to the
city hospital. Then wlim in
formed that the child was deaH
she Went Yiolently insane.
A riot wias averted by the ar
rival of the police following the
accidenti The little girl wa»;
playing in the street, when the
machine owned by Mr. W. A.
Leach, of Norwood, Ohio, raa
over her. The car was occupied
by Mrs. Leach, a daughter and
her maid. A number of men at
tacked the ear after the chiid’-s
body had been pulled from un
der it.'
KINfi’S MNTAIN WOMAN
BY UOIITNINfi
'■ivi
Gastonia, March 13.—Duringa
severe electrical storm at King'i
Mountain about 1:30 O’clock thif
afternoon, a Mrs. Gordon living
at the Cora mill was struck by
lightning and instantly killed
She had just opened a door
look out when the stroke came.
Her daughter* Mrs, Wallace, whs
was standing near by was very
severely shocked and is in a se-
rious condition. The house was
badly damaged.
The storm here was pr©t%
heavy but no serious dam^e mm
done, s^yeral small trees were
blown down, but no one was in
jured. :
- a
Misfi^ Myrtle-Crabtree Miss
Phillipi and Hbrnbuckle,
Belton and friends were
guest of Mr. and Mrs R. L
M^ham Sunday.,
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