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A REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF AMERICAN HOMES AND AMERICAN INDUSTRIES.
VOL. IV.
BURLINGTON, R C, MAY 17} mih
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STANDARD OiLCOMDiNE
ORDERED TO DISSOLVE
Washington, May 15.—The
Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey and its nineteen subsidia^
ry corporations were declared to
day by the Supreme Court of the
United States to be a conspiracy
and combination in restraint of
trade. It also was held to be
monopolizing interstate com
merce in violation of the Sher
man anti-trust law. The disso
lution of the combination was or
dered to take place within six
months.
Thus ended the tremendous
struggle of years on the part of
the government to put down by
authority of law a combination
which it claimed was a menace
to the industrial and economic ad
vancement of the entire country.
At the same time the court in
terpreted the Shermar: anti-trust
law £0 as to limit its application
to acts of “undue” restraint of
trade and not “every" restraint
of trade. It was on this point
that the only discordant note was
heard in the court. Justice Har
lan dissented, claiming that cases
already decided by the court had
determined once for all, that the
word “undue" or “ahreasona-
ble" or similar words, were not
in the statute. He declared t’lat
the reasoning of the court in ar
riving at its findings was in effect
legislation which belonged in ev
ery instance to Congress and not
to the courts.
Ever since the decree in this
ease in the lower court, the Unit
ed Statts circuit court for the
eastern district of Missouri, was
announced, hope was expressed
by the “business world” that the
law’ would be modified so as not
to interfere with what was desig
nated as honest business. To
night that section of the opinion
calling’ for the use of the "'rule
of reason” in applying the law
is regarded in many quarters as
an answer to the prayer of the
“business world.”
The opinion of the court was
announced by Chief Justice
White. In printed form it con
tained more than twenty thou
sand words. For nearly an hour
the Chief Justice discussed the
case from the bench, going over
most of the points in the printed
opinion, but not once ref erring to
it in order to refresh his memory.
Before him sat a distinguished
audience of the most famous men
of the country. Senators and
Representatives left thoir res
pective chambers in the capitol
to listen to the epoch-making de
cision of the court.
WHO'S WHO, AND WHY
Mr. Editor:
Before we celebrate another
anniversary of our National In
dependence, the children, teach
ers and people of Alamance Coun
ty, will be committed to the care,
foresight, and wisdom of some
person as County Superintehdent
of Public Instruction, for the
next two j^ears, a leader who
will be instrumental in preserv
ing unto us and more perfectly
developing that freedom our
grizzly gray ancestors fought so
valiantly to secure and maintain.
The position to be fiilled by the
‘Jounty Board of Education, on
the first Mondoy in July, is of
greater importance and of more
vital interest to the correct life
of our future hope in boys and
girls, than the filling of any oth
er place m our county, and when
I make this sweeping statement,
I am not unmindful of the various
pastora.tes of our county, for this
leader is commended to rise
above sect, creed, doctrine and
Jenominational strife, and serve
all alike in preparing the boys
ind girls for the respective duties
of life.
Therefore, the anxious, and
alert thinkers of our county are
thinking daily on this supreme
(iuestion, supreme, because it is
a question that lifts itself iar a-
bove party affiliations and ties' of
psecial friendship, hence, the
nien who are leading the rank
and file of the great army of
modern civilization, are thinking
the modem educator in his true
HiGKED BY MULE AND IS
iN .PRECARiOUS CONDITION
Continued on peige four.
Little Carney McAdams, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Walter tMcAdams,
of Haw River, was brought into
the city ia*!t evening on the 10
o’clock traiin and carried to St.
Leo’s hospital, suffering with a
fractured skull. The little fellow,
who is only 4 yeare old, was kick
ed by a mule late yesterday after
noon. Mr. McAdams had been
out in the iield working and had
returned home for supper. When
he drove into the barnyard Mr.
McAdams took little Camey oiit
of the wa,gon and^set him on ia
bale of hay. When the niule
walked from the shafts he kick
ed the httle fellow in the head.
His skull was badly fractured.
After midnight last night physi
cians were still working to re
lieve him, but it was stated that
his chances for recovery were
not good.—Greensboro Daily
News, 13th.
SELL BOOZE WHILE
GOVERNOR SPEttS
Statesville, May 12.—D. W.
Boyer, of Eufola, and Count
Hicks (>f Greensboro, white men,
were tried before Justice King
Wednesday for retailing. Boyer
gave $200 bond for his appear
ance in court, but Hicks could
not give bond and went to jail.
The two men came to Statesville
from Eufola Wednesday morn
ing and received four gallons of
booze from the express office.
They then went off in a wagon
and poured the liquor oul into
quart and pint bottles, returning
to a vacant lot near the county
jail with the bottles of booze in
the wagon covered with a quilt.
And while the Governor deliver
ed a Memorial day speech only
a few paces away, and within
view of the jail and courthouse,
the tv.’o men are alleged to have
disposed of several bottles of the
booze.
NEGROES BEAT ANO
SLASH A WHITE KAN
Dispatches from Washington
indicate that the Senate is going
toget busy this week. To good
to be true.
There are indications that Sen
ator LaFolkitte will be among
those present at the next Repuo-
lican National Convention.
SECRETARY OF WAR
THROWS UP HIS JOB
Washington, May 12.-' Secreta
ry of War Dickerson resigned at
8 o’clock tonight and President
Taft immediately appointed; Hen
ry L. StimSon, of N^rw York^ Re
publican candidate for governor
last November, in his place.
Secretary Dickerson issued a
statement tonight to the effect
that his private interests de
manded his retirement from the
cabinet at this time. He is in
terested, in the Bon Air Goal
company, of Tennessee, which is
now in financial difficulties, and
he desires to give his entire at
tention to it. . ■
New York, May 12.—Henry L.
Stimsom was at his country home
near Huntington, Long Island,
when informed of his appoint
ment tonight.
“I am very much gratified at
this mark of confidence displayed
in me by President Taft. The
office is a great one, inyolvirig
much hard work of importance
to the whole country. 1 cannot
tell now within a week of when
1 will be prepared to assume the
duties of the office. The offer
came to me unexpectedly and I
must arrange my private affairs
befcxa leaving for Washigton.
Mr. Stimson declined to dis
cuss the policies that he would
be expected to pursue in respect
to Mexico. He will see President
Taft in this city next Sunday.
Asheville, May 11.—What may
prove to be a fatal fight occurred
last Tuesday night just off South
Main street, when J. H. Stillwell,
a white man and railroad employe
of Old Fort, was knocked in the
head and on the back with rocks,
and later seriously, if not fatally,
cut with knives. Buddie White
sides and Ed Proctor, two ne
groes, are now in jail, charged
with the assault.
Stillwell cursed Whitesides
while he was in a “soft drink”
establishment. Later in the night
he started do^vn South Main
street and went into a vacant lot
a few yards from the street,
when Whitesides and Proctor
made their appearance Proctor
knocked Stillwell down with a
rock and Whitesides jumped on
the fallen man and cut him across
the abdomen and other places
about the body and left him to die.
Mr. Stillwell managed to crawl
to a yard nesarby and some one
passing heard his groans. He
was bleeding and exhausted.
The police were notified and three
men went on the case. One at-,
tended the wounded man while
the others v?ent in search of the
negroes. Stillwell was taken to
the hospital, where it was found
that he was almost disembowell
ed.
Whitesides was arrested a few
hours after the cutting and Proc
tor was arrested next morning.
It is thought that the police have
sufficient evidence to convict the
negroes. There is a chance that
Stillwell may recover. Stillwdl's
pistol was found on Proctor when
he was arrested. He had taken
it from the wounded man.
MINISTERIAL STUDENT
SUIQKS AT MARS HILL
Asheville, ^ay 13.—Af>.er bor-
rowine: a shot gun from raerchanjt
at MaLrs Hill, Archie Linley, 24
years of age, of Anderson, S. C.,
went to his room and blew out
his brains at 2.30 o’clock this af
ternoon. Linley arrived at Mars
Hill, 18 miles from this oity, this
morning and told various people
there that he had come to spend
the summer. He engaged a room
at the residence of Mrs. Kate
Woodrow, who was shopping in
the town at the time of the trag
edy.
The deceased was a ministerial
student, and it is thought that his
mind'had been affected by close
study. He is survived by a moth
er, a sister and two brothers, one
of whom is Dr. William Linley,
now in the Philippine Isands.
ROCKY MOUNT DURGLAR
BOUND OVER TO COURT
Rocky JMount, May 11. - A con
viction for first degree burglary
and probably an electrocution
may result from a hearing in Re
corder’s court and from the evi
dence brought out this morning
when a negco, who gave his name
to the court as J. B. Little, was
bound over to Nash criminal court
for the charge of forcing' an en
trance to the home of Mrs Bessie
Proctor of the extreme end of
South Church street and stealing
therefrom a quantity of wearing
apparel, a pistol, some money and
a watch. The robbery occurred
on Sunday night and it appeared
from the evidence that the negro
went into the house and took
possession of things, sacking the
house arid taking for his own use
what he desired. A party, who
returned to the house, upon the
discovery that the house had been
entered, there having* been no
one in the house at the time the
negro broke in, was fire d upon by
the negro with the pistol that
was stolen.
The negro was takeiv last night
by the police officers find; at the
time of his arrest he had in his
possession a quantity o £ the goods
stolen, the pistol, w{ itch and a
part of the money, and this prop
erty was identified in eourt this
morning by the losers of the
property. The negro seems to
care little what the judgment of
the court is, and it is kno wn that
he has several times nerved road
sentences with the Rocky Mount
road, district and other road
forces in this section of the State.
T1 FORTUNE miER
Wte TBE WOMEN
Boston, May 11.—Prof. James
G. R^fem, a palmist and for
tune teller, whom is alleged to
have swindled scores of women
throughout the country out of
lar^e sums of money, was arrest
ed m New York today for the
Boston police. He is under in
dictment for the alleged swiind-
lingof Anna S. Taylor, in May
1909.
He had a palmistry office at 88
Boilston street and he used to en
ter a trance and advise his women
clients in their loye and business
affairs. He is said to have desig-
nated| a certain hour of the night
for his clients to dream of him,
when he would be in a trance a,hd
advise them as to their affairs.
According to the police he is al
so accused of being a “switch”
man. He would ind[uce women
to place their money in bags and
then he would switch the bags.
He is wanted in a number' of
western cities on this charge.
STATF OFHCERS ARE
NOT DOING THEIR BUT V
Washington, D. C.., May 13.—
Moonshining is flourishing to a
greater extent in North Carolina
than in most any other State in
the Union, ^according to Commis
sioner of Internal Revenue Royal
E. Cabell, whe is a Virginian.
In a letter to a North Carolina
Congressman, who was seeking
information, the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue said:
“It is a matter of common
knowledge that illicit manufact-
ur«^and sale of distilled spirits is
distressingly prevalent through-,
out the greater portion of the
State of N orth Carolina. The in
ternal revenue force is not very
large in numbers. We have the
largest force of officers assigned
in the Asheville district than is
appointed in any district in the
United States, and the records
will show that a ' surprisingly
large number of illicit plants are
captured every year.
The records, of course, would
show that there are also many
men captured ^d tried, with not
a few convictions. Were our rev
enue force ten times as large as
it is, however, it would be impos
sible to entirely break tip the
practice complained of.
‘ ‘I am informed that the State
laws of Noth Carolina are very
drastic relative to the manufact
ure and sale of distilled spirits,
but it appears that State officers
do very little to prevent or pun
ish for the violations of this law,
though I suspect that there are
one hundred State officers to ev
ery one internal revenue officer. ”
MRS. TAFT IS III
INlWyilRKaTY
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New York, May 14. —Miss fiel-
en Taft was called from Bryn
Mawr this afternoon to be with
her mother. The two Taft boys,
Charles, who is at Watertown,
Conn., and Robert, who is at
Harvard, were notified tonight of
their mother’s illness, but were
not asked to come to New York. .
Following the President’s ar
rival here at 10;20.o’clock tonight
he was driven directly to his
brother’s home. Soon thereafter
it was announced that Mrs. Taft
was much improved and that the
President would return to Wash-
ingtpn at 10 o’clock tomorrow
morning.
The President looked somewhat
tired and careworn from his hur
ried trip to Harrisburg and anx
iety over the illness of his wife.
He found Ml'S. Taft better than
he left her this morning, but con
fined to her bed as she had been
all day, with Miss Taft and Mrs.
Henry W. Taft doing what they
could to make her comfortable.
-m « —
A Washington correspondent
hears that Hearst will be a presi
dential candidate and then again
hears that he Will not. Probably
both rumors a^e w^ell founded.
HENDERSON COUNTY FEARS
DESTRUn BY VOLCANO
/'Henderson vilie. May 13.—Is
Henderson County arid a great
part of westeni North Carolina
to be utterly destroyed by the
aroused fury of a slumbering vol
cano? V
In 1878, with terriffic rumbl
ings and distinct quaking of the
solid earth. Shaking Bald Moun
tain split wide, a dense and evil
smoke belched fr^ a black and
bottomless a,byss, which threat
ened to vomit death and destruc^
tion upon a smiling countryside,
and for mUes around the turbu
lent giant there wias no sleep pr
safety that night.
During the night of March 28
Henderson county was terror
stricken from one end to the oth
er by a series of dreadful rumbl
ings, unlike any thunder, or ex
plosion, or blast ever heard, in
this world. The earth trembled,
people tumbled from peaceful
homes and feeling the very
^ound insecure benefiLth their
feet, dazed by the awful detona
tions soundihg * like some mon-
strovas game of bowls played by
the gods with the roof of the sky'
as their allf^y, they were terror-
stricken and sleepless for many
weary hours. ■ '
This convulsiph of Dame Na
ture was heardv and felt from
Asheville aliuost to Spartanburg,,
and no explanation of its cause
has yet been made. True, some
one started the ‘ Caeser’s Head
has fallen’ ’ yarn on its forty-sev-
enth annual trip through th^ col
umns of a cr^ulous press, but
within the usual time it was re
called, carefully wrapped in moth
bails and iiow sleeps calmly in the
cedar chest awaiting its next
journey. , .
On the Saturday follQwing the
earthquake, if it was an earth
quake, JultlgeC. M, Pace, clerk
of the superior court bi Hender
son county, accompanied by two
other reputably: citizens, was re
turning from Saluda, driving
through the country. When on
the summit of the highest moun
tain across which their road led,
they felt the earth tremble and
heard, thrice repeated, a dull,
rpmbling roar, in all respects
similar, they agreed, to that
heard on the memorably night of
March 28.
And now for the final ^nd con
clusive evidence that impel many
old people here, recalling their
awe-inspiring experience with
Shaking Bald mountain away
back yonder in 1878,» to believe
that Henderson county, while en
joying a fancied security on the
roof of the world, is r€ al y rest>
ing upon a slumbering volcano.
Rumors there are, as yet un
substantiated, but coming appar
ently from reliable sources, that
a thin column Of smoke is now
ascending from that dreadful
abyss in Shaking Bald^ that
strange mu ttetings are heard
'within its infprnal depths, and
of a feeling of terror amongst the
people living within its shadow.
If the tales told be true, then
it is poiSsible the rumblings and
tremblings of that black night of,
March 28 were Shaking Bald’s
forewarnings of some dreadful
eruption soon to blot out all life
within its grasp. For what has
been may occur again. The old
fellow was angry in 1878, evi
dently again in 1911, and there is
always the danger that this time
he may not restrain his fury, biit
casting aside ali bounds, blot out
a world.
HISTORIC Mitl BURNS NEAR
SPENCER l^EAVY LOSS
Spencer, May 11.—Old Saint
John’s mill, one^ of the oldest
grist mills in the South, situated
on the Yadkin river two miles
east of Spencetj was burned to
night, entailing a loss of about
$12,000. With the'' five story
building erected 100 years ago
was burned $1,000 Worth of mod
ern machinery. The plant, be
longed to H. Clay Grub, a wealthy
business man of Davidson coun
ty. The flames w^re decidedly
spectac\ilar, and snot lOO feet
skywards. The building was sit
uated on the histonc spot where
General Green met Cornwallis in
a skirmish ^wo days before the
battle of Guilford Court Housei
The origin of the fire is unknown.
GETS INSPIRATION FROM RE-
CENT DESPERATE BLUNDER
Durham, May 13.—Malcolm R
Arnold, thie young man irhose
sensational attempt at self-des-
tructicih three weeks ago is re
called in many places, tc^ay left
the hospital and went ^ oo a
trip greatly improved, Ip fiae
spirits anddetermihed th^t a sin
gle blunder should not hifder his
future success in life.
Hi^ changed appearance made
his friends feel good. He ap
pears to have no hack oji ^ceotint
of the recent desperatic^ and it
is altogether like) V that the affair
will resolve itseif into -good for
him. He is an excellent youtig
fellow at his best and 'Appears tf
have ho feeling against japy man.
He never did have, for^hat mat
ter, and he looks upi^lthe aiEair
with the girl as triviaiity in
light of logic and aftei^houjg^
Young Arnold is well^
and has excellent relatives he»e
and in Norfolk. Heyrep»eftent«
a Norfolk rekl es%te bu^nese
and did a gcK)d wiark' for thait
company while here.
for
been per-
What will they do
ment in the Gould
all the members h
manently married
Democratic S^n^tors are {fan
ning to upset Bi^iey of Teiii^
This is cruel. if tiiej f
noy him resign
ble thought. \
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Raleigh, May 12.—In the pre
sence of a crowd numbering 6^
pemle, iand including a number
of Spring Hope people, Normatt
Lewis, the negro who on Septem
ber 18, 1910, murdered Chief of
Police Stallings, of Spring Hope,
was electrocuted this morning at
the penitentia^. The spectators
included J. S. Stallings, a broth
er of the deceased, and Solicitor
R. A. P. Cooley, who pi’osecutdl
Lewis. There was one negi^ *
present. Lewis was a smsul,
light complected ne^o and was
dressed this morning in a new
checkered coat, dark trouse«t
and in -stocking feet. He was ^
brought into the execution cham
ber promptly at 10;3l o’clock;
glanced about the room, and was
seated in the chair. As the straps '•
were fastened about him, and the :;
last earthly vision shut from hit ,'
eyes, he exclaimed in muffled ’
tones* “0 Lord, have mercy.”:;
At 10.33 o’clock the 1,W volti -
were turned on by Warden -
the body squirined and twisi^l
as usual when the powerful yoJt»
age passed through. The second
current was shot through the
body at 10.35 o’clock, a5d four
minutes later he w^s pronounce#
dead and the body removed to the
table. The body was taken t© jam
undertaking establishment asaml
has not been claimed. The
electrocution passed off smoothly
Those who kept the nigM watch
last night say they hea^ Ixewit
praying and reading part otf
night. In going to his death this
morning he carried in his left
hand a small volume, the gcfflpeS
of St John.
He left nothing for public con
sumption after his death, except
expressing tO ' his spiritual ad- \
visers a regret for the crime and
belief that he would be saved.
It was on the night of Septem
ber 19 that Chief Stallings went
to Lewis’ house, haying a warrent
charging him with illicit distilliiif
He called to Lewis to come to the
door and Lewis replied that
would as soon aS he put his shoet>
on, and when the officer insisted
he was in a hurry, Lewis order
ed his wife to blow out the light
and picked up a shotgun, powed
the contents into the officer.
Stallings died in a Richmond hos
pital, where he was taken, ani
Lewis was identified at Hender
son by a man who, after reading
a description of him, noticed the
thumb of a negro cut off. He
was placed under arrest and con
victed at the November term ot
Nash county court Upon ap*-'
peal of the Supreme court tfee
j udgemon t of the lower court
was affirmed.
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