A REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBIJILDING OF AMERICAN HOMES AND AMERICAN INbUSTRIES;
VOL. III.
BURLINGTON. N. C, APRIL 26.191L
TO PUSH MOUNTAIN TO
SEACom oiniY
Raleigh, April 20.~0rg:ainiized
bv the election of H. B. Varner,
of Ijexington, as president, E. E.
Pritton, of Raleigh, as seeretary
and G. C. Royal, of Golosbos'o, as
treasurer, the central highway
trustees are ready to proceed with
pushing the building of a great
highway from Morehead City
thi ough Raleigh, Durham,
Greensboro, Salisbury^ and Ashe
ville to the Tennessee line. The
organization meeting was held
this morning in the commissioner
of agriculture’s offices with .13 of
the 19 trustees present in person
and two others by proxy. E. C.
Chambers, of Asheville, and W.
T. Morgan, of McDowell eonnty,
were absent, and Iredell and Ca
tawba counties provided proxies.
The meeting was a very enthusi-
asric one and a resoiation was
passed asking the state geologica
survey to locate this highway as
ioon as possible so the various
counties would know what roads
to begin to improve.
A central executive committee
was appointed as follows: H. B.
Varner, chairman; William Dunn,
of New Bern; Dr. J. M. Temple
ton, of Cary: R, B. Clark, of
Statesville;''^. T. Morgan, of Me
Dowell, and J. A. VVellons, of
Smithfield.
A resolution was passed after
some discussion empowering the
executive committee to proceed
with the detail work and to di
vide the trustees into sections;: al
so to receive any contributions
and forward same to the treasur
er. To provide funds for the pre
liminary work, a resolution \vas
passed asking the county commis
sioners of the counties through
which the road is to run to make
an appropriation of at k;ast $25
at once.
During the meeting it develop
ed there would be several con
tests for a route through the
counties. One of these is through
Orange and Alamance counties.
From Durham, some people want
the route to follow the Southern
railway to Hillsbo^'o and thence
on, while there is a strong senti
ment favoring the rxjute through
Chapel Hill and thene^i to Bur
lington. Whether it sliall go by
Statesville or Mooresville to New
ton is another pro^josition that,
of course, will have to be isettled.
The most benefit, of course,
v;ould come by both routes being
constructed and let the public
travel either it wished, Tl:^ con
test will insure the construction
of the road through those coun
ties.
Mr. Wellons announced that
Johnson county could builid its
part of the highway in 60 days.
Mr. \ amer advocated sand clay
roads in the east at a cost of
about S200 per mile.
iPUry KILLS MIN
FOII LITTLE CAUSE
Asheville, April 19. ~ Believing
■ hat a reward of $35, once offer-
the Governor of Georgia
^or tl ie capture of Thomas JJ.larsh-
an alleged escaped horse
^hief was outstanding, W, IL
Hyde, a deputy sheriff of Gni-
-’■iam county, today arrested and
•ater shot and killed the former
-^ear Bryson City, although it is
^aid Marsh burn was offering no
-epiance to the deputy.
^ I- is stated that Marshburn was
Paid:)ned by the Governor of
•jforgia after his escape, owing
j-o the fact that he (Marshburn)
'■as Huffering from tuberculosis. '
H hen Marshburn was arrested
-'jfiay by Hyde he was \\wking
a larnier's house. He asked
to change his clothing
■»' this was granted. Marsh-
tuok longer to effect the
than the deputy thought
and the latter went
dragging his prisoner
-dar.shburn hung back, de-
- that he would rather die
back to the Georgia
CITIZENS
The citizens of Burlington will meet in mass convention Friday Night at
8 o’clock in the Mayors office for the purpose of nominating a candidate fOr
Mayor for the coming municipal election, Let everybody Who is opposed
to dragging politics into our municipal affairs, and who believe from ^ie#-
ing the past administration of our affairs, that you can find better men whe^
you have all parties to select from, than when you hive to take what is cbn
tained in one party. Attend thisxonvention. Those who believethat all the
intelligence and all the financial judgment is vested in one party hut with
standing our deplorable condition have already spoken. If however you have
good reason to change your opinion you too are invited. Come and bring
your neighbors and lets reason togetfier, Remember the date and the placg.
What we want now is the man.
. NO. 50
BristoK Va.» April
:he purpc^e of the nej^
fami
WARD MASS
The citizens of the first and fourth wards will hold mass conventions for
the purpose of nominating aldermen for the ensuing two years at the follow
times and places.
FIRST WARD. MAYORS Office Friday Night 8 p. m.
FOURTH WARD. LAYTONS Store Thursday Night 8 p. m.
Let everybody who feels an interest in the future welfare of the city be pre
sent at these meetings. No up town or down town clique, no cut and dried
program. You wont have to ask what is going^to be done, or take Orders
from some paity boss, but you will have an equal chance in helpiiig to de.
cide what is best for the town and the tax payers. Do not get the dates mix
ed or listen to Aose who may try to deceive you in regard to the real pur
pose of these meetings but come and help shape your own city affajrs.
snea
MALCOLM ARNOLD ATTEMPTS
SniE W DURHAM HOTEL
TEST ON DEAD BODY
MAY FREE PATRICK
Durham, ApriI22.—In the pres
ence of the ghi he loved, Mal
colm B. Arnold of Norfolk this
afternoon-placed a revolver to his
breast and fired when the mother
of the young woman ordered her
daughter to leave his cmipany.'
Young Arnold, now in the em
ploy of the National Real Estate
Exchange of Norfolk, when he
formerly resided here was em^
ployed with the Coca Cola Comr-
pany, met the young woman and
fell in love with her. In town on
business, this afternoon he called
upon her at the Church Street
Hotel. He was in the parlor with
her when her mother saw the
pair and ordered the -daughter to
quit the r oom
As she turned to obey, Arnold
fired once and fell tiirough the
door into the hallway., face down.
The ball missed his h^rt one
inch and penetrated his lungs.
He was removed to Watts Hos
pital, where physidans say he
has a slight chance of recovery.
In tlie hospital he piteously
begged friends to kill him, saying
that he had no desire to live.
“God knows I loved the girl,”
he said, “better than life,* better
than anything else in this world.
I tried to treat her right, but she
had a heairt of stone* . That’s the
reason I did it.”
Albany, N, Y., April 19.—By
means of a demonstration made
j today on a body that had been
I embalmed for a year, members of
j the New York State Embalmers
j Association claim they have prov-
jed that evidence offered in de-
I fense of Albert T. Patrick, now
serving a life sentence in Sing
I Sing for the murder of William
Marsh Rice, was correct It was
the contention of the prosecution
that the. congested appearance of
Rice’s lungs was due to chloro
form, and not to the injection of
embalming fluid, as claimed by
Patrick’s experts.
Dr. C. F. Moadinger, Jr,, of
Brooklyn, made the demonstra
tion today on a body that had
been embalmed last year at Syra
cuse and at its conclusion declar
ed that the fluid injected in the
right branchi^ jieachei and dif
fused in the tissiie of the lungs a
thing v/hich he said experts for
the Patrick prosecution insisted
was impossible* It is understood
that the results of the tests will
be laid before Governor Dix,
OFFICIAL MUST GO TO
THE PENITENTIARY
CHA80ED ADMISSION TO A
LYNCHING IN KENTUCKY
altv)'
tirtl': I
Hwi' ;'’’^6feupon it is alleged,
-'w -j’f'w his pistol and shot
r,
n through the heart.
Saturday at Coble’s
Louisville, Ky., April 21.—
Kentucky established a riew re
cord in lynchings today, when a
mob in Livermore took M, Porter,
a negro, w ho had killed a white
man, from jail, hanged him on
the stage of the 1(^1 opera house
and charged admission for per
sons to enter and shoot at the
body hanging above the foot
lights.
It is Reported that tho money
taken in a1; the door went to tl?e
family of the white man the ne
gro had killed. Those" who
bought orchestra seats had the
privilege of emptying their six-
shooters at the swaying form
above them, but gallery occu
pants were limited to one shot.
The whole town is reported still
in possession of the mob.
DISCOVER THE SECRET OF
ESCAPE AFTER 48 YEARS
Columbus, Ohio, April 19.—
That GeneralJohn H, Morgan, a
Confederate leader, who escaped
from the Ohio penitentiary De
cember 17, 1863, together with
five of his staff, walked out of
the penitentiary through the
froiit gate instead of crawling
through a tunnel dug with spoons,
was the belief reached by prison
officers today.
After 48 years of searching,
the supposed Morgan tunnel was
uncovered today by prisoners ex
cavating for new cells blocks.
Contrary to history, it was found
not to have been a tunnel dug by
the six men with spoons, but an
air chamber excavated when the
buildings were erected. It ex
tended from the main building
to the old chapel. It did not lead,
outside the walls.
Mrs. Jno. Fonville of R. No. 2
s seriously ill and hardly es:pect-
ed to ieeover.
Washington. April 20.—After
a legal battle lasting nearly four
years, Franklin, P. Mays, former
district attorney at Portland Ore
gon, convicted with ‘fornier Sen
ator Mitchell'’ and Binger Her
mann of gigantic land frauds,
lost his fight today when his ap
plication for pardon was refused
by President Taft Mays was
sentenced to serve four months
in jail and to pay a $10,000 fine.
Since his conviction, which was
in 1907, he has been out on bond,
but it was announced at the de
partment of justice today that he
will now be incarcerated immedi
ately.
REVENUE OF WHS KEn
Busy NOW INCAWNA
Raleigh, Aprir 21:—Deputy
Collector Adams, of the internal
revenue service, says he has av
eraged seizing three blockade
stills per week for several weeks
now and that the indications are
that he will maintain some such
a record for some time to come
from the way information is com
ing in as to material to y^rork on.
He says blockading has for a long
while been confied to some re
mote and more inaccessible sec
tions, but that it is spreading in
to all parts of the State now with
remarkable rapidity. He be
lieves blockading has multiplied
several times of late and that it
is getting at the same time to be
imore and more difficult to get up
' with the blockaders actually'at
work. They dodge al)out and
have friends on the alert so that
by the time officers get in their
' vicinity the still disappears ahd
evidence as to the identity of the
blockaders is h^d to obtain. He
says the officers, however, keep
hammering at the situation and
he believes they will be able be-
jfore a great while to cope more
: fully with the situation,
Miss Queen Ingle left Tuesday
morning for Durham where she
will spend a few days attending
the State Council meeting of the
Daughters of Liberty.
EXPRESS CAR IS
DFCASH
New York, April 20. —The New
Jersey police are. searching today
for clues to the identity of the
princfpals in an express ear rob
bery which resulted last night in
the loss of over $1,000 iii cash
and the di^ppearantce of about
$5,000 in valuables. Car inspec
tors at the Weehawken temiina
of the West Shore railroad discov
ered, shortly before midnight,
that an Adams ExpreM car which
had just come in over the Onta
rio and Western railroad* hac
been rifled by thieves.
The car was filled with tranks,
suit cases and small express bun
dles. The door stood open. Ev
ery trunk had been emptied. The
thieves did their work thorough
ly, for not a cent of cash in any
of the trunks or packages was
left. Every valuable article was
taken. A steel express box
which belonged to the express
company, containing over ;fl, 000
was taken.
The car passed through SMli^
van and Oiaige counties, New
York, on its way to Ne\v York.
Messages have been sent out over
the wires to all points through
which the car passed, asking the
police to be on the lookout for
robbers. The offiieialsof the rail
road company think the robbery
occurred somewhere near Mid
dletown, N. Y.
)utchered the whole family >f
John Marshall in BriBtol late la^t
night was assault upon their
young daughter develop^ to^.
It also clesurly developed that
the hegroihtended to murder thi^
other |h^e tnembers of the fairi-
ily before attacHinir the young
woinan and that he thought he
lad accomplished this when he
turned upon Mref. Pritchard^ the
daught^, and sl^M her vicious-
y. The negro ip stvll at large,
MarshaU-s th^t was cut while
he slept. He sprang onto the
floor aftesr his wlndp^ had beea^
completely severed ^d jgyappled
with thenegiw. His wife thought
he was having a nightmare and
sprang ;pnto the floor and caught
her husband. The negro then
grabbed Mrs. Marshall, who i*
past 60, and almost cut her head
from her body. He then turned
upon the old man and slashed
him into complete insensibilkyi
Leaving them for ■>dead, he went
to an adjoining room and slashed
the throat of a seven-year-old
adopted boy. Finishing this, he
went for Mrs Pritchard, who had
barricaded,herself behind a door.
She fought like a tiger, but wa»
fearfully slashed about the armf
and hands.
The screams frpim the .boy and
Mrs. Marshall caused the negro
to leave the young woman And
run to each, cutting each of them
se’^erely i gfdi. The noise liid
aroused the neighborhood, «o the
negro left Three or four oann- "
utt s later and before any ne'igfc^
bors entered, the negro returned
and cut each of the tiiree vvorst
wounded sevipral times and had
another battle wito ^^e youn
woman, still bamcad^ behiiaa
the door, Jlse noise of pe^on«
approaching cauised the negro tc*
fiee at this juncture,.
Mr. and Mrs.. Mai«hall maj'
both die, though tlie. jugular ai',
tery of neither was cut
Posses have scou^ the ^sur
rounding country in every direct
tion today and there is the great
est excitement ■ V
The negro population has dos
ed like an oyster, A report that
the guilty negro, whose'descrip
tion the police have, was caught
at Johnson City, led a niob of a
thousand to meet the next incom
ing train froin that direction, but
there was no prisoner aboard,.
CmiDREN BURNED TO
FIVE
DEATH IN
DENTIST CANNOT WRITE
PKESCRIPTiOis FOR BOOZE
Greensboro, April 19.—In rul
ing that J. 0. Roach, a prominent
dentist of Madison, N. C., was
guilty of a violation of the State
prohibition laws, recorder Hast
ings of the City Court of Wins
ton-Salem, today held that a den
tist was neither a practicing phy
sician nor a surgeon and there
fore not eligible to write prescrip
tions for whisKey. A fine of
and costs was imj^ed.
'Under the prohibition laws of
North Carolina the sale of whis
key is placed entirely in the liands
of physicians and today's ruling
stops denty*ts from enjoying a
privilege that has until rioW been
practiced without question.
5 gallijns oil 50c Colile^’s (jrr«ic#y,^
Wilmington, April >21.
mation has just been received
here of the burning to death of
five negroeSi the children M
ben Brown, a tenant on the fann
of H. C. Bridger, of Bladen boro,
Bladen county, Tuesday night
Four of the children were be
tween the ages of two and five
years, and one girl of twenty,
A negro man who occupied the
same houst? barely escaj^d by
jumping through \ a window.
When the fi re was discovered the
house was in a mass of flames.
It is supposed that the fire origi
nated from the explosion of &
lamp. The parents of the child
ren were away from home.
CHOWAN COUNTV CITIZEN
Edenton, N. C., April 20.—W.
W. Savage, about 70 yeaws old,
from Savage, a siding of the Nc*^
folk Southern Railr^, Suffolk
division, dropped dead here aif
about four o^cloek today, at the.
passenger station.
Mr. Savage was a man of some
prominjpnce in ,tius section, a Ma
son and an Odd Fellow’ Hie hai
bought ten thousand herrings
from Mr. E. C, White but a few
niinutejs before his death. He
died between the fish house and
the train he was making for to
return home. His remains were
taken in ch&rge bjr tfee fraterni
ties and (jarried to Ziegler^s un
dertaking establishment
Coble's Groc!^ fojp 4)airgainSvr