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A REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBliLDING OF AMERICAN HOMES AND AMERICAN INDUSTRIES. ^
VOL. in.
BURLINGTON, N. C.. APRIL 19,19l\L
NO. 49
There will be
of Burlington
yors
8p. m. at the
First Ward
Second
Third Ward GradedSchool
Fourth Ward Laytons Store
The purpose of these meetings is to nominate two Aldermen for each ward upon a nonpartisan Citizens ticket
Ifor the comming Municipal Election, let all citizens who have the future welfare of the city of BurUngton at heart
jattend these meetings. No politics. No clique, No cut and dried programe. A free for all for those who want
[to better present conditions, and take the necessary steps to prevent them from gettingworse, Come yourself and
bring all your neighbors. Meetings will be held rain or shine, let nothing keep you away. Remember the time
ind the places. Pay no attention to what you hear regarding these meetings, but come see, and act for yourself
iOTTONMILlPROMOlR
;NBS LIFE WITH A OUN
Lynchburg, Va., A|>ril 13. —A.
IC. Hutchinson, pre«'ident aiad
[treasurer of the Aita Vista Cot-
Iion Mills, in course of erection at
Alta Vista, twenty-five miles
south of this city, yesterday shot
himself through the right temple,
the bullet passing through his
Ihead. He died instantly.
Persons who heard the shot
hushed to Hutcherson’s office.
[They found the body upon the
jfioor, Mood flowing from the
IwounJ. Near by in a pool of
[blood was the revolver from
Iv.hich the shot had been fired.
[The coroner’s jury fiailed to find
la motive for the act, but brought
|in a verdict of suicide
The funds of the Alta Vista
[Company were exhausted last
[winter and construction work
^sased in December. It is under
stood, however, that Hutchinson
ihad sold sufficient stock to carry
■the work to completion, and that
pork was to have been resumed
J)hortly.
Hutchinson formerly lived in
j’harlotte, N. C., and the body
F-as last night sent to that city
?or burial.
ENLISTED MEN TO GET
PAY FOR BEING REAM
Dn ALAMANGE MAN
ES IN WEST DURHAM
Raleigh, April 13.—Adjutant-
General E, L. Leinster, of the
North Carolina National guard, is
just back from Washington,
where he attended joint session
of the executive committee of the
National Guard association and
the adjutant generals of the
states for the consideration of a
variety of matters pertaining to
the guard, and is enthusiastic ov-
ef th^e spirit of co-operation that
is evident between the officials of
the guard in the states and the
war rdepartment. He believes
that very soon now there will be
enacted tlie law providing part
pay for th;e enlisted men of the
guard to some what compensate
them for thcf^ir “readiness ser
vice.’’ Thi- pay vrill, he thinks,
bri'Bg with it the requirement
that when war breaks out every
enlisted man in the guard at the
time will be obligated to serve
twc years from that time without
regard for the time of his enlist
ed service in the guard. General
Leinster approves this change in
the law on the ground that the
government is entitled to this
protection in retention of men
trained for the service at the ex
pen sie of the government.
I At one o’clock this morning
■here parsed away at his home
P West Durham Mr. L. T. Rip-
|y, a -well-known Confederate
Jtteran. Mr. Rippy had been ill
F iHore than a year with
pright’s disease. He was aged
IJ years. He was a native of
pmance county, coming here
fine years ago.
I Surviving is his wife and four
Ijldren, Mrs. J. A. Perry, of
Nth Lowell; Mrs. W, C. War-
of Durham; Mr. L. Otto Rip-
of this city, and Mr. D. 0.
FPpy. Thex’e is also one broth-
f surviving, Mr. G. L. Rippy, of
f^rnance county.
I *he funeral services will be
f1 Friday afternoon at 3 o, clock
[«i_s late home on Year by ave-
llf in Vv'est Durham. Interment
„' be made at Maplewood cem-
F;ry.
military boys are in Ral -
F ior a few days this week.
KUMAN FLESH BEING SOLD
IN THE ME DISTRICT
Seattle, Wash., April 14.—Hu
man flesh is being sold in Man
churia, where the plague contin
ues to abate,, according to advices
brought here today by the Jap
anese steamship Kamakura,
which departed from Yokohoma
on March 28,
Kumataoo Hishara, in charge
of the. crematorium in Kudzuybu,
was arrested March 23, charged
with selling human flesh. Ac
cording to the Kokumin and oth
er Tokio papers, a search result
ed in finding a large quantity of
human flesh either toasted or
salted and ten human tongues
preser ved in pots.
Lawlessless continues in Man-
jhuria. Six Japanese were kill-
^d recently on the Chinese East
ern railway.
Whil e a paity of Russian sold
iers were proceeding along" the
border near Harbin they were
fired at by 200 Chinese troops.
The Russians fled.
TENNESSEE MAN AT
HIS OWN FUNERAL
Bristol, Tenn., April 13.—In
the midst of a solemn burial ser
vice, w^en members of the fami
ly were seeing lowered into the
grave what they believed to he
the body of their husband and
father, J?mes Swecker, the man
supposed to be dead suddenly ap
peared upon the scene to the ut
ter amazement of the funeral
party. This happened Wednes
day in the village of Timber
Ridge, near Greenville, Tenn.
Swecker is a veteran of the.
Civil War, and a somewhat ec
centric character. Last fall he
announced himself as a candidate
for Congress in the First Tennes
see district, canvassing every
county. He disappeared from
his home a few days ago.
The body of a man answering
Swecker’s description was found
by Southern Railway employes.
Death resulted either from mur
der or from being struck by a
train.
In a pocKet of the dead man
were found papers containing the
name of Swecker, and this, to
gether with marked resemblances
led to a positive identification.
The coffin was raised from the
grave and further examination
leads to the conclusion that the
body is that of a man named Mel-
lengore, who recently disappear
ed from his home at Morristown,
^enn.
PRESIdTnTMAWoTnT AN
OTHER DEMOCRATIC JUDGE
AT CHAPEL
HllL PROVES FATAL
Chapel Hill, April 11.—Henry
Jones, who was shot by Ernest
Ray last Thursday afternoon dur
ing an affray, died last night at
his home at Venable, near Chap
el Hill.
The coroner’s inquest, held this
afternoon, found that Jones came
to his death at the hands of Ern
est Ray. Ray was carried to the
county jail at Hillsboro last night.
JANE’S SLAYER IS
RELEASED ON BAIL
Washington, April 13.—Presi
dent Taft is seriously considering
the appointment of another Dem
ocrat to the tJnited States dis
trict bench to succeed William H.
Brawley of South Carolina, who
has indicated his intention to re
tire. Several Democrats have
been mentioned to the President
for this judgeship and today he
talked with former Governor
Martin F. Ansel of South Caroli
na and Representative Aiken of
that State about the appointment.
The Presidhnt has disregarded
party lines in. his selection of
judges and it is believed that he
may do so in ihis case although
he is under stood not to have de
cided definitely upon a successor
to Judge Brawley.
Durham, N. C., April 13.-“Be
fore Jm^ge Daniels this morning
at Roxboro, habeas corpus pre-
ceedings secured the release of
Ernest Ray, charged with the
killing of Henry Jones, last week
at Chapel Hill. The coroner’s
evidence was submitted to the
Judge and from this he made up
his mind. AH the evidence show
ed aggression upon the part of
Jones and there is testimony that
he had a weapon, though did not
display it. Solicitor Gattis call
ed for $10,000 bond, and Ray’s
attorneys wanted $5,000. The
judge split the difference.
JUDGE BOVD ORDERS RE-
LEASE OF A S. C. NEGRO
Greensboro, April 13.—Judge
Boyd today ordered the sheriff of
Forsyth county to release from
custody John Crocket, the, negro
wjio was arrested in Winston-Sa
lem on March ^ for an offense
alleged to have been committed
at Lancaster, S. C. Judge Boyd
found that the South Carolina
proceeding was one to enforce a
debt and under the rules relating
to interstate extraditon the de
fendant could not be carried to
South Carolina to stand trial.
The matter came before Judge
Boyd on a habeas corpus proceed
ing instituted by defendant’s
attorney, ex-Judge E. B. Jones.
Miss, Bettie Lyde May of the
State Normal spent Easter at
home. Her brother Wallis re
turned with her, and is visiting
his uncle this week. i
DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO
Kansas City, Mo.; April 13.^
Twenty-four* personis are known
to be dead and several are report
ed missing today asf a result of a
tornado w hich swfept over west
ern Missouri, Kansas and Okla
homa yesterday. Reports are
pming iin hourly of damage done
in cities and in the country and it
is estima ted that the tdtal loss to
property \ni1[ exceed $1,000,000. '
In Big H^eart, Oklahoma, eight
persons Avere killed.
Four perished at Meeker, Okla.
Three were killed at, Hiawatha,
Kansas.
Two \^:ere killed at Chicotah,
Oklahoma; two at Dawrence,
Kansas, jarid two in Powhatan.
In Whiting, Kansas, Manville,
Kansas, arid Germantown, Kan
sas, one jperson was killed.
More thjin 100 persons were in
jured and nearly all telephone
and telegraph lines in the terri
tory are down.
Another tornado was reported
from La\^^rence, Kansas, before
the wires went down.
The wind wrecked houses and
barns and tore a strip nearly 100
yards wide through some por
tions of its coure.
ANOfHER BATCH'oF STATE
MILITiAOFnCERS TO FRONT
Washington, April 14. True to
its promise of permitting as many
as possible of the militia officers
to play at ihe game of war now
in progress at San Antonio, Tex
as, and^n Diego, Cal., the war
department today designated the
number of officers from each
state who will compose the sec
ond detail of militiamen with the
regula?s for instruction puiposes.
These, national gu^d officers
will go to the southern camps on
April 25 for a stoyof two weeks,
relieving the first detail sent
southward early in the month.
Two hundred and one militia of
ficers will gp to San Antonio and
35 to San Diego, collected from
the variou s states and territories.
Southerii states will be r^pre-
seiited at San Antonio as iollowfi:
Alabama, 6; Arkans^, 3; Plbr-
ida,;3;;,Georgia, 5; Kentucky^; 4;
Louisiana, 4; Mississippi, 3; North
Carolina, 5 ; Oklahorifm; 2; South
Carolina, 3;Tennesseee, 3; Texas,
6; Virginia, 4; and West Virgin-
a, 2.
COMPLETES BIG CONTRACT
Mebane, N. C., April 15.-^
There Was shipped today, the M
of Ninety four cars of iblid
hogany furniture foi? the War
Department from The Wiiite Fur
niture Company. This furniture
went to every State in the United
States and Hawaii, Porto Rico,
and Phillipihes; to the Homes of
the Army Officers and was aU
solid Mahogany throughout aod
of high class. The Government
Inspector, Capt C. L. Johnson
who has been detailed on this job
since July, left tonight for Phila^
delphik,
Col.,- Baker Deputy Quarter^
master General of the Uni^
States Arniy and in charge of th«
Philadelphia Depot has advised
the shippers that he has not re
ceived a single complaint of ,any
kind whatever and your -corres
pondent has been advised that
this is the only furniture contract
of which this could be truly said.
Such an accomplishment by
Southern capital and Southern
labor should show to the world
that the South can make good
furniture along with the best in
the world.
When one considers the magni
tude of such a contract and of se
high a grade of furniture; that
some of the ears of rough
lumber cost as much as $3,850. W;
that the contract was completed
on the date agi*eed without the
rejection of a single piece and
without a single complaint theugih
subjected to rigid inspection at
destination as well; he can ap
preciate the efficiency of such a
great Southern Establishment.
Deaths.
Herman Andrews, son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. A. Andrews of Os-
sipee, died Sunday April l6th, at
St. Leo's Hospital Greensboro
where he was carried for treat
ment. His death was caused Ixy
an after attact of measles. He
was eight y^rs an^d ten .month*
old. Fun^ml and burial services
conducted by B«v , J: W. Hcdt alt \
New Providence. •
Mr. A. P. Cates of near
ange Grove!died Wednesday mor
ning April 12th, after an attact
of only three days with pneumo
nia. Mr. Cates was 76 yeaxs of
agef and is the father bf Mr, Wal
ter and Mrs. B. J. Cat^ of
dty^ Burial at Cane Creek
Church.
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