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llonroe. Sept 27.—Yesterday morn-
>-* Recorder Stevens disposed of two
?* of assault with a deadly weap-
lo-wit, baseball tats, which cases
•the result of an attempt on the
OL rertain dusky citizens of
' - reek township to organize a
' ami The evidence given by
’’’? drama Us personae of the tragedy
ed that a congregation of about
’■^enty colored citizens of musical
^f^’.encieg had met In Jerusalem
Kiool house, and had effected a bus-
organization by placing Eustace
“ironounced "Useless”—Williams in
'■ c hair, Willie Chamber* at the
"^rltln dest” to keep the minutes
o| the meeting, and unanimously
Mark Moser, and aristocratic
E^atto. captain of the floor to keep
■ These elections w’ere held
• ?r I'ncle Daniel Presson had open-
the mppting with prayer, and all
joined in singing a hymn. After
preliminary discussion of the
of inptniments, Uncle Daniel
*' • was recognized that he might
« thp meeting “some good advice
j' f'-;' (Sf^ntleman had give fro or-
»s:zin;; the hand.” While Uncle
wa.- holding forth Rob Cuth-
; -on ■ rotsed him on the flo’ and
. '"rru; !. I ihb” to tell Useless, the
-dins oflfirer, that he hgd gotten
of instruments just like
one r .‘Ipss had received. Uncle
"*niel va? provoked at this breach
P8rliijmf‘ntary rule on the part of
Cuthl'Prtson, and was just re-
^ in? his remarks, when his neph-
f * r’ressen. shouted, “Talk on,
fianl, talk on I” “Then,” ac-
; ' i-' '0 Tncle Daniel’s testimony,
flo' raptain. Mack Moser, he
‘ manded for order and sot up all
(i. yn/’
i “fore T'ncle Dan’l could regain his
r ■ rr Cuthbertson had been
_'^snized by the chair, and Robert
j °^^ded to Insist that his catalogue
in truth and in fact resemble
. ® of the chairman, when,
^ tne horror of all present Jess
nephew of Uncle Dan'l,
aiy and profanely chaltenged Rob-
• Veracity. Robert replied that
that
r.' another, and, (using
r. yiJ^orous epithet.) “You’re
’’‘bat I have said.” Jess
M, ^he dor—to light a clgar-
tta V ‘ . '‘id—but when next seen,
^ bearing down on Robert with a
t“ Ki struck the speaker
r ,. 'before the floor captain
t rr of bl8 weapon, and
• noil rHjoied supreme. Tn« Hoor
. !’ 'in. having secured the bet,- t6pk
^ position near the door and
sr.. ' inrf'd that there must be order,
' ir,, u would be order. This
®*iown by the captain of the
8i Alfred
up to thi time. Had
fr, ‘l«l«tly in his place. Al-
and.cat^taf
tfc Informed 1dm: that
• ^uldnt 40 a uvitif he-
w’ould, that there were some persons
who might be scared, but that he,
Alfred, was a bad man. At the same
time Alfred reached for his coat,
which had been lying on the floor
beside him, and, reaching in the
pocket thereof, advanced on the floor
captain in a threatening manner,
breathing curses. The doughty “Cap
tain to Keep Order” said at the trial
that he believed that his time had
come, for Alfred Simpson was a bad
nigger and always toted a pistol, and
said that he struck at Alfred with the
bat, believing at the time he struck
that he was In danger of his life. The
blow went wide of its mark, for Al
fred ducked nimbly. All this time
Secretary Willie Chahbers, an edu
cated negro youth of nervous temper
ament, had .watched the disorder in
a palsy of fear. When, however, he
saw the mighty Alf and the floor
captain about to engage in deadly
combat, he could stand the sight no
longer, 'and, seizing the lamp and
emitting a loud g^creech, he jumped
from the school house window and
fled. The darkness terrorized all the
prospective musicians, and it is said
that the Jerusalem school house fair
ly vomited negroes from its doors
and windows.
The above state of facts was de
veloped In the trial of the cases of
State vs. Mack Moser, charged with
assault with a deadly weapon, and
State vs. Jess Pressen, charged with
the same offence. After hearing the
evidence the recorder imposed a fine
of ten dollars and the costs on Jess,
and, giving Mack’s efforts to keep, or
der full credit, dismissed him on pay
ment of costs. ^
ATTACKS SOn^Ol. PRINCIPAL
A severe attack on school principal,
Chas. B. Allen, of Sylvania, Ga., is
thus told by him. “For mwe than
three years,” he writes, “I suffered in
describable torture from rheumatism,
liver and stomach trouble and diseased
kidneys. All remedies failed till I used
Electric Bitters, but fbur bottles of
this wonderful remedy cured me com
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WHERE 18 MISS RUSSE?
By Associated Press.
New York, Sept. 26—
thorlties are today trying to find Miss
Madeline Russe, private secretary to
Jared Flagg, “the 52 per cent prom
broker” who with several of his asso
ciates in hto stock brokerage firm,
were released on ball yesterday. ^
The canssfki ^ "BSEEoti tirrottga st
the time of the rade on the Flagg wn-
cern she promised to appear when
wanted. ^ , ,
The Russe girl Is said to h^e had an
important position with the Fl®88
and to have bought and sold stocks
for their account. •
New Orleans, Sept
Louisiana—Tonight and Thursday
generally fair except showew on the
coast tonight or Thursday; llRht east
A^kansai and Oklahoma—Tonight
and Thursday fair. .
East Texaa—^Tonight and Thursday
feneraUy fair except ahowers on the
coast tonight or Thursday; light east
to south ii^da.
West. 1?«caa->-Toolglit t*d Thur»
dff' g«net«ll7'
The Statesville
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News Depaiiment
Special to The News.
Statesville, Sept. 27.—Dr. C. W.
East, who has been located in States
ville about tw^o years, having come
here from Illinois, has decided to
locate at East Point, Long Island,
near New York city, and will leave
with his family within a short time
for his new location. The change is
made in order that a littlec hild of
Dr. anod Mrs, East, which is in a
helpless condition, may be treated by
a specialist in New York.
Mr. J. H. Coffey passed through
Statesville last evening en route to
his home In Gastonia from Olin
township, w;here he had been at the
bedside of his mother, Mrs. Irvin
Coffey, of Morganton, who is ill at the
home of her son, Mr. W. H. Coffey.
The fact that the county has voted
$40,000 for road improvement; that
the Statesville Air Line Railroad,
which will connect Statesville with
Yadkin and Surry counties is now be
ing built across the northern section
of the county, and the further fact
that drainage work will be in progress
on two of the creeks of the county
within 60 days, ^ is attracting the in
vestor and the home seeker to Ire
dell.
The town was shocked this morn
ing by the news of the sudden death
of Mrs. Lottie Gray, wife of Mr.
P. C. Gray, which occurred this morn
ing at her home on Front street, and
much sympathy is expressed for the
bereaved husband in the great sor
row of his life. Her death is peculiarr
ly sad. The remains, accompanied by
a large funeral party, left on the
1*20 train today for Rock Hill, the
former home of the deceased, where
the interment will take place.
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Laymen Meet To
Talk of Mis'itons
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Dinnet Given at Hanna Hall
Last Evening btf the Execu
tive Commission of 100 Re
present the City—Address.
Eight hundred dollars, and renewed
interest were pledged for Charlotte
to the Laymen’s Missionary Movement
of North Carolina, at a banquet ten
dered by the Charlotte committee of
one hundred to members of the state
and national executive committees of
the organizations last evening in
Hanna Hall of the Charlotte Y. M.
C. A.
This action means In effect that
the Laymen’s Missionary Movement
in North Carolina which has been
working on a temporary organization
financed by six Greensboro citizens
will go forward i with new life.
With the exhaustion of the tempor
ary funds provided by the Greensboro
people and the resignation of John
McEachern, the state secretary
of the movement who is going into
the foreign mission field, Chas H.
Pratt, representing the general nation
al committee, and prominent members
of the movement in the state, are en
deavoring to secure the necessary
funds to carry on the work. Charlotte
was looked to to say whether the work
should go on. If Charlotte would give
$800 of the $2,500 necessary to procure
a state secretary and pay incidental
expenses, then Durham, Winston, and
possibly Raleigh would be looked to
for the ballance.
At first Charlotte was asked for
$600 but this amount was enthusiasti
cally overtepped. Secretary McEach
ern told of the success which had
attended his brief efforts, and stated
that he had a dozen letters from towns^
and cities in the state begging him to
come to them and show them how to
take up the work. Every speaker told
a story of the interest and accomplish
ment which had followed the move-
naent in the places where it had
b'eeb. tried.
The Dinner.
The dinner was opened with prayer
by Rev. Dr. R. L. Patterson. Mr, M. B.
Spier, secretary of the local committee
of one hundred, presided. In Introduc
tion he said:
“The 20th century has made of the
world one brotherhood; and it .is in
line with that thought that men have
come from other cities to tell us how
they have carried on the great work
of the Ijaymen’s Missionary Move
ment.”
Rev. L. B. Pagett, pastor of the First
Baptist church.of North Wllkesboro,
and previously for several years a mis
sionary in South America, told some of
the things the Laymen’s movement
has meant to the Baptists in North
Carolina. He emphasized the interde
nominational character of the move
ment, and spoke briefly also of the
success which it had had in Wilkes-
boro.
Rev. Dr. H. K. Boyer, Methodist pas
tor in Statesvill, N. C., declared that
the greatest spiritual development
the church has ever seen will come
as » result of this movement. He held
that the county conyention Is more
practical and feasible method of ac
complishing things in the state. He
told how, in Statesville, where the
county convention has been held and
the “every member” canvats inaugu
rated, the increase in assesment for
missions by the Presbterian church
had been 2,700 per cent and in the
case of the Methodists, 400 per cent.
“But we must keep our feet on the
ground and be sane,” he insisted.
Rev. Dr. E. C. Crouk, of Columbia,
S. C., speaking for the Lutheran
church, stated that 27 churches in
which literature of the movement had
been distributed, have In the last six
months showed an advance in contri
butions of one-half the total of what
461 churches in which they were in
cluded had paid the year before.
Dr. W. J. Martin of Davidson Col
lege, said that the movement had
brought the Presbyterian church al
most to the point where it has revo
lutionized the system of the benevo
lent finances.
Mr. Chas. H. Pratt, of New York,
said that God seemed to choose South
ern cities to support his great works.
“The follow up idea which keeps the
movement from being a farce, origi
nated in the South. The Divine mark
On the movement seems to be that
many of the best men who have en
gaged in the work are going into the
foreign fleW.”
, Mr. G. H. Miles, of Greensboro, told
how the Greensboro churches had paid
$8,000 increase the fir^t year, as re
sult of $1,500 invested by the churches
a year before in the movement.
The dinner was served in two
courses, and covers were laid for
seventy guests. Thirty-eight men at
tended. The hall was quietly decorated,
and the tables arranged in rectangular
shape. ,
Guests.
The out of town guests were: Dr.
W. J. Martin, Davidson College; Dr.
E. C. Cronk, Columbia, S. C.; ftjr. G.
H. Miles, Greensboro, N. C.; Dr. H.
K. Boyer, Statesville, N. C.; Rev. L. B.
Padgett, North 'Wllkesboro, N. C.; Mr.
Chas. H. Pratt, New York; Mr. John
McEachern, Greensboro, N C.; Tl^e
Charlotte men attending were:
G. C. Huntington, E. R. Rufty, J. A.
Durham, J. E. Murphy, T. F. Costnei*,
M. D.; W. F. Harding, J. H. Ross, W.
F. Dowd, C. E. Mason, R. L. AVom-
mack, Robert Glasgow, M. B. Speir,
M. E, Trotter, Holmes Blair, R. H.
Lafferty, M. D.; E. R. Smith, A. J.
Crowell, M. D.; W. M. Wilcox, jr.,
E. Price, F. C. Abbott, K. R. Trotter,
J. B. Ross, P. S. Gilchrist, W. H. Wade,
H. N. Wolfe, Rev. R. L. Patterson, E.
C. Frank, E. A. Cole, R. M. Ransom,
H. M. Rose, D. L. Probert.
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THE THRILLING
HUNT FOB NEGRO
Special to The News.
Wilmington, Sept. 27.—After a pe
riod of thrilling escapes from police
oflicers, trying suspenses, hunger and
thirst, lasting for six days, Solomon
Davis, colored, a fugitive murderer,
was at the point of a gun made to
-row ashore from mid-stream on the
Wapcamaw river Sunday morning
and submit to arrest. Davis, bicker
ing with his paramour in this city,
was enraged because of Will Stevens,
another negro, trying to make peace
between the two. Beginning to shoot,
he flred several times at Stevens, one
taking effect in his head, killing him
instantly, another hit the woman and
inflicted a severe wound in her arm.
Police oflScers arrived in a few min
utes only to find the slayer had
escaped. The subsequent story of the
relentless hounding of the police
reads like an extravagant work of
fiction. The negro was not known to
the officers who liad to work under
the heavy handicap occasioned by
this fact. The frightened negro found
every means of egress from the city
closed to hi’n, and he was forced to
roam from place to place in an ef
fort to save his life. He was on the
point of making his way to South
Carolina by a water route that would
completely cover his escape, when he
was finally brought firmly within the
clutches of the law.
Atlanta Votes on ,
Commission Form
By Associated Press.
Atlanta, Sept. 27.—This city is vot
ing today on a proposition looking to*
ward commission form of government.
The abolishment of the present scheme
of city; administration is provided In
a new charter, which also provides
for a board of five commissioners
headed by a mayor and a council of
ten men—one from each ward—elec
ted at large. At present Atlanta is
governed by a mayor, numerous boarda
and a board of aldermen.
The campaign has been spirited in
the past week, a strong opposition
having developed, and today persons
close to city affairs will not make a
prediction as to the outcome of the,
election. There has been some betting,
opponents of the commission form of-i
fering two to one that It will be de
feated.
The polls opened at 7 o’clock and;
will remain open until 7 o’clock this
afternoon. Atlanta is one of the coun
try’s larges^' cities to vote on such
a change. |
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