THE MEBAN
ADER.
“AND RIGHT THE DAY MUST WIN, TO DOUBT WOULD BE DISLOYALTY, TO FALTER WOULD BE SIN.”
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MEBANE. N. C.. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 7 1911
NO 30
PERSONAL AND LOCAL BRIEFS
people who come and go
Itemi of interest Gathered by
Our Reuo^t^r
Large,Warehouse Destroy- ced.,r-arove N. C. Rfd, 1.
ed by Fire.
Misses Nettie Ray and Bessie
Shan'din spent Saturday and Sunday in
L'urham.
You will get a first rlass flour if you
huy Cook’s Delight, just the kind to
bake your cake with. See ad else
where.
Mrs. R. A. Cathron, sister of Mrs.
K H. Tyson, of Manning, South Caro-
lir>a is spending sonne time with her
t is ter hero.
Now is the time to tell to the people
of the best section of Alamance what
you wish of them. They are a splendid
class of well to do people
H. E. Wilkerson & Co. changes their
advertisement in this week's Leader,
and ask your attention to their mam-
iuoth stock just in. See ad. elsewhere.
The J, 0, U, A, M, has had plac^
at the front entrance of their lodge in
the Wilkinson building a nice street
l imp lettered. On the nights of meet
ing the lamp will be lighted,
Mr. J. S. Warren has sold his hand-
•ome brick store house cn Warehouse
Street. He had just completed the
t.uiluing when a gentleman from Vir-
Ifinia came along and offered him his
price.
If its furs you wish remember that
H. D'^rsett has on hand an elegant
supply, they are pretty and warm for
this weather. It is the womans store
that Mr. Dorsett keeps. Don’t forget
him when in Greensboro.
See “Rawls” big ad. in this week’s
Leader. They are offering a free trip
to Durham when you purchase from
them $12.50 worth of merchandise.
They carry a big stock and will treat
you right. Don’t forget “Rawls.”
We learn there came very near being
another wreck at Haw River Saturday
tvening when a West bound delayed
freight ran in to Haw River Station on
No. 22 East bound passenger train times,
just as the paeseger train was about
pulling out of Haw River station.
The attention of our readers is di
rected to the advertisement of the Me-
r ane Drug Co. who have in this issue a
liandsome displayed advertisement,
with an attractive cut of Santa-Clause
in a well loaded automobile. Don’t
forget the Mebane Drug Co. when
wantir.g any Christmas “Trix”
The large Morgan warehouse withi
prizeries ol British, American and Con- }
tental Tobacco Companies were burned
at Burlington, N. C. Monday morning,
entailirg an estimated loss of twenty
thousand dollars. The fire was in the
business section and as a precaution aid
was summoned from Greensboro the
fire department from there coming on
a special train. Before their arrival the
wind shifted and the blaze was under
control. The fire was caused by an oil
stove being turned over.
A amoking ruin estimated at about
$26,000 is the result of Monday’s fire at
Burlington. The large tobacco ware
house, in which E. L. Morgan, former
ly of Greensboro, did business; the
large tobacco storehouse of the Ameri-
canTobocco company's representative,
Mr, Lyon; three dwelling houses, and
a large barn are almost totally destroy
ed by fire, Both the «torehouse and
the warehouse and two of the dwelling
housf's were property of L. F. Fonville
of this city. They are valued at $7,000
Insurance to the amount of $3,700 cov
ers only half the loss. In the warehouse
Mr, Morgan had the floors covered with
tobacco. He is insured for $1,000, In
the storehouse, the American Tobacco
company had stack upon stack of
prize tobaccos some of the finest grade
It is reported that their loss is heaviest
by far, as the insurance recently held
upon the stores was cancelled two days
ago. The barn a»'d one dwelling house
burned was the property of H. G. Kime
We have been having some very cold
weather for the past few days.
Ml. Bill Stowers was strudk with
paralysis Saturday night. But we
hope he will soon recover*
Mrs. Garland Toler and children spent
last week with her father and mother
Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Breeze.
Mr. J. G. Berry and L. P. Tilley spent
Sunday in Hillsboro.
Misses Myrtle Ray and Velna Breeze
were the guests of Misses Maud and
Annie Breeze Sunday.
Miss Eunice Daniel and her mother
were the guests of Mr. Frank Breezes
people Sunday.
Misses Lois Nichols and Clarasse
Rimmer were the guest of Misses Mary
Sallie and Lena Breeze Sunday.
Mrs. Royster is visiting her sister,
Mrs. John Horton.
Miss Hazzie McKee was the guest of
Miss Vesta Breeze Sunday.
Mr. W. D. Long is visiting his broth
er Mr, Walter Long at Rocky Mount,
Misses Bessie Morgan and Lizzie
Daniel were the guest of Miss Lessie
Webster Saturday night and Sunday,
Mr* Onice Parish from Flat River is
visiting his Grandfather, Mr. Dock
Parrish, this week.
JAMES B. mRH
CONFESSES CRIME
THAT SENTTWENiy-
ONE TH DEATH.
•it.
In Danger of Book Trust.
Attorney-General S. Williams, of
Virf?inia, in a SDsech before the Virginia
Educational conference declared Virgin
ia is in dangrer of being crushed by the
book ti'ust. He declared the public is
being forced to pay 33 1-3 per cent too
much for books and if the st«*\te authori
ties will authorize him he will betrin suit
against all the book companies doing
business in this slate.
He advocated a fight on the book
trust and a single standard of books for
the public school system of the state.
Other speakers were State Superin
tendent of Public Instruction A G, Eg
gleston and A. J. McKelvay, The
latter deplored the employment of chil
dren in factories in Virgnia.
North Carohna does not mind the book
question. The poor children pays the
bill and some high up shares the divy.
Bingham School Notes. Mr.
Coon Deals
Talk.
in Plain
A delighful old-fashioned candy stew
was given the cadets on Saturday night, i President Charles L. Coon of t.h«
November 25, by Colonel and Mp North Carolina Teachers’ Assembly
Gray. A nu»^ber of friends were in- i ^ sensation Tniursday night
among the educational forces of th«
state at Raleigh with his annual ad-
vited, and everybody enjoyed the even
ing.
The boys and girls played “Going to
Jerusalem.” ‘ Clap in and Clap out,”
and “Fruit Basket,” until the candy
was done and the pulling afforded much
dress in which, as he expressed it#v he
undertook to “tell the truth” about
the educational situation in this stata.
“If we expect to endure honest criti-
When Bnms arrested the McNamaras
Gompers hollered out it was a cold trail
there was nothing in it, but it did not
atop Bums, he went untill he convin
ced them there was something in it.
When societies lecherous skunks are
hiding their mistresses in silks, it is
well enough to snarle there is nothing
in, but this is an age where the truth
is going to come, if it does hurt the
felings of the fellow who had rather
there was silence.
Just Received.
A nice line of rocking chairs and
diners suitable for Christmas trade.
Also a large lot of apples, oranges,
'^aisons, candies, etc. A full car load
of Piedmont flour a*^. low prices at the
Mebane Store Company.
Polly has come back to life
With best wishes to the Leader.
agam.
Acknowledges Blowing Up
Times Buildmg and Pleads
Quilty of Murder.
John M’Namara Blew Up The
Llewellyn Iron Works But Bro
ther Had No Hand In Times
Disaster—Day of Surprises.
James B. McNamara pleaded guilty
to murder in tho first degree in Judge
Walter BordwelPs court at Los Ange
les, Caf., Friday last. His brother
John J. McNamara, secretary of the
International Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers, entered a | The N®ws-Leader of Richmond, Va
plea of having dynamited the ^,Llewell-1 prints the outline of what is said to have
mernment. Each and every one voted . gjgjjj from within and without our pro
this informal entertainment a very f^ggjon^ then we need to be born agairf*
pleasant one. j and that speedily,” he oeciared. The
Miss Pearl Efland sang two beau i u , teachers and legislators of North Caro-
solos, Captain Spikcr rendered two ex- were represented as having put on
quisite violin solos. Colonel and Mrs | ^ multi-colored and unhar-
Gray played several enjoyable piano
duets and solos, and the music of the
BEATTIE TOLD DETAILS.
Richmond Paper Prmts
What is Said to be Full
fjonfession.
yn Iron Works in Los Angeles on
Christmas Day 1910.
James B, McNamara’s confession
clears up absolutely the tragedy of the
explosion and fire which at 1:07 o’clock
on the morning of October 1, 1910
been a detailed and private confession
by Henry Clay Beattie Jr., for the
perusal of his family alone.
According to this alleged confession
Beattie decided two weeks before the
crime was committed to kill his wife.
Polly.
Tony Notes
cuttins and wood sawings are
go in this neighborhood these
wrecked the plant of the Los Angeles 1 The details of the murder coincide al
Times at First and Broadway and caus-! most precisely with the theory of the
ed the death of 21 persons, For 19 of [ case set out by the State at the trial.
these deaths, the McNamara brothers
were indicted and J, B. McNamara was
Don’t Forget It.
We need every dollar due us on sub-
st ription and beg that our subscribers
remit by mail, or pay up personally at
once. Just send us one dollar and we
will credit your account with it. If you
live near Mebane and can furnish us
: ome wood we would be glad to have it
The Home Furniiure Co.
Are offering some unusual attractive
bargains in fumitnre from now untill
Christmas, They have a full line of
druggets, rugs, carpets and matting
three piece suits, iron bedsteads, mat
tresses etc. Don’t fail to see them.
Jones-Thompson.
The following invitation has been re
eived at the Mebane Leader office:
Mr. John A, Thompson invites you to
be pretent at the nrJtrriage of his dau
ghter Mary Effie to Mr Cicero
F, Jones Wednesday December the
twentieth, nineteen hundred and eleven
at three o’clock Chestnut Ridge Me
thodist Protestant Church, Efland,
North Carolina,
Will Take It Up.
Because nothing is being done to re
move the railroad embankments on
either side of the Southern railway
track opposite the Mebane Bedding
Companys plant must not be taken
that the matter has been lost sight of,
for we have it on very good authority
that some high up officials will take the
Jnatter up at an early date.
As to the Confession.
The McNamarBs did not do their
helish work in their own interest and
for their own benefit as they saw it.
They were working for the cause, as
they thought of Oi^aniz#>d Labor, and
Organized Labor went immediately to
their defence under the leadership and
by direction of ics chief apostle, Sam
uel Gompers, who declared in his last
annual report that “a prominent mem
ber of union labor was selected, J J.
McNamara, and one at whom the fin
ger of suspicion had never before point
ed, whose life had been characterized
by an uprightness of purpose and loy
alty to the cause of labor and whose
activities in every walk had drawn to
him t ie commendation of his fellows.
To give the stage the proper setting
and Involve other trades than the iron
workers J. B. McNamara, the brother,
was selected for the sacrifice,” This
godly J. J. rfcNamara, the innocent
and upright member of union labor,
confessed on Friday that he was guilty
as charged in the indictment, and his
noble brother, als3 a representative of
union labor, who had been “selected
for the sacrifice.” confessed that he
had fired the bomb which killed twenty
one working men, some of them union
men. We do not think for a moment
that Organized Labor would sanction
the com mission of such cri
mes; but it cannot escape responsibili-
tp for the McNamaras, whose cause it
made its own misled, as we believe, by
the intemperate and brutal zeal of
Gompers and his associates in the con
trol of the most gigantic combination
in support of industrial tyranny the
world has ever known.—.Charlotte Ob
server. —
Feed
all the
days.
Mr. and Mrs. Dolph Fitzgerald ac
companied by her mother Mrs. John
Murphy visited Mr. and Mrs. John Barn
well Sunday,
Mrs. Will Walker and children ac
companied by Miss Bera Motley visited
at Dr. and Mrs, J. A. Pinnix Sunday
morning.
Misses Bera Motley and Hattie Wal
ker visited Miss Mary Miles Sunday
afternoon.
Mrs. I. W. Fitch is visiting her moth-
Mrs. Weldon Burch in Burlington this
week.
Mrs Tom Fitch and sister Miss Mary
visited Mr. Crocket Fitch at Mebane
one day last week. Miss Mary will
spend a few days in Mebane before she
returns home.
Mrs. T. E. Smith has been right sick
but hope she will soon be better.
Mr. and Mrs, L. B Fitch visited her
brother Mr. J, A. Batnwell Tunday.
Miss Mary Miles spent the afternoon
at Mrs. J. R. Baynes one day last week.
Mr. Sidney Stanfield who is in school
at Gilliams spent from Thanksgiving
until Sunday at home with his parents
Mr. and Mrs. J, B. Stanfield and sons
Clyde and Oscar visited at Mr. and Mrs.
A, W, Florance Sunday.
Messrs Jimmie Florance and Charlie
lii'itch have purcased a horse recently.
Miss Daisy Miles is spending some
time in Mebane with her sister Mrs.
Crochet Fitch,
Messrs Sidney and Charlie Stanfield
and Jimmie Florance visited at the
home of Mr. L. A. Miles Saturday night
also Mr, and Mrs. W. W. Miles.
Little Miss Evelyn Fitch of Mebahe
is visiting at Mr. Tom Fitch also Mr.
L, A, Miles,
Brown Eyes,
on trial specifically for the murder of the Midlothian turnpike.
Beattie induced his cousin Paul to buy
the gun and hide it behind a stump on
Charles J. Haggerty, a machinist
who^e body was found nearer than that
of any other to the spot where the dy
namite was supposed to have been
placed
He is said to have stated that he shot
his wife full in the face as she was
stepping from the automobile and that
she fell backward into the road. Beattie
denied that he first knocked her down.
Both men’s sentences were set for | a story which gave him “much annoy-
December 5, when it is supposed Dis-; ance, implying cowardice.” Beattie is
trict Attorney John D. Fredericks will j also said to have denied that he sat upon
sk for life imprisonment for James B his wife’s body during the wild drive to
McNamara, the confessed murderer, ] Richmond. H-e is said to have asserted
and probably 15 years for his brother, j that his marriage was comparatively
The men’s lives are considered saved. ; loveless and was forced upon him by his
The great contention that The Los An | father’s earnest wishes.
evening closed with choruses by the
cadets and faculty. '
The list of the girls and boys is as
follows; Miss Smythie Ham with Mr.
Seba Johnson, Miss Lois Ham with Mr.
Glenn Henkle, Miss Eunice Ham with
Mr. Jim Botts, Miss Ruby Saterfleld
with Mr. KeslerCobb, Miss Lilly Fowler
with Mr. Lea Cooper, Miss Tula Yar
borough with Mr. Frank Jones, Misa
Isabella Gray with Mr, George Slover,
Miss Maud Efland with Mr. George
Friese, Miss Pearl Efland with Major
Nalle, Messrs Nelson Jones, Willie Gray
Lang, John Gray Paul Knott Proctor,
Paul Philips, Hubbard Pennington,
Owen Reese, Battle Wall, Webster
Williams, Jim McGill, Henry McFadyen,
Pat Walker, Bingham Preston and
Herbert Gray and Captain Spiker.
Our football team has not been scored
against this year and Bingham claims
the Championship of the state The
last football ganre of the season was
played at High Point on November 30,
Thanksgiving day. It was a c ose game
but Bingham won with a score of five
to nothing. The team enjoyed the trip
very much, their only regret being that
they missed the big Thanksgiving Tur
key dinner at Bingham.
monious patch work as an education
al garment of diverse and discordant
elements. Some of the most glaring
patches were legislative or political ap
pointment of county school boards who
have power to select almost any sort
of person for county superintendents
and he undertakes to supervise some
th'ng about which he scarcely knows
the first principles and is totally un
fit for. There are two hundred dif
ferent standard? for entrance upon
teaching. A teacher thought to be
worthy of a monument in Durham may
be declared unfit to teach in Ashville;
teaching children may be considered a
private business in this state but doc
toring pigs and cows and horses is not
declared President Coon. The state
department of education rules that a
teacher can be required to teach sixty-
I five children before state aid can be in-
1 yoked in changing to a two-teacher
j school, and in over half the counties
I snch conditions exist. There is no effi
cient method of making new teachers
average salaries now are worth no
more to the teacher than ten years ago
conditions are a constant invitation for
the best teachers to leave the profes
sion.
geles Times was not dynamited is dead
beyond resurrection or argument.
To this opposing counsel gave the
same answeh
“He confessed becouse he was guil
ty and that’s all there is to it,” declar
ed District Attorney Fredericks.
Discipline ot the Insanity
Plea
The jury in the case of Bertram G.
Spencer, the Springfield burglar-mur
derer, disregarded the insanity plea in
finding him guilty. His outbursts of
calculated hysteria in the court-room
were wasted upon the hard-headed men
of Massachusetts in the box.
The insanity plea in murder defense
seems to be distinctly declining. It
showed at its worst in the Thaw case,
whose long-drawn-out hysteria shamed ! turned
American procedure before the world.
So good an authority as Dr. W illiam
A. Hammond, late Surgeon-General of
the United States Army, has held that
from the medical point of view the in
sanity plea should be barred, absolute
ly; perhaps a majority of murderer
are abnormal, but they aU know the
nature and the consequences of theirs
act.
Sale Made for Browning and
Further Facts About Beat
tie’s Confession.
When the final, fatal auto ride was
begun and that part of the turnpike
reached at which the crime was to be
cornmited, Beattie saw that the lamps
to his machine were extinguished ard
brought the car to a stop, the confes
sion goes on. Leaving the machine the
young husband advanced into the
underbrush by the side of the road to
the stump where the single-barrelled
gun v/as secreted.
On returning to the car he saw Mrs.
Beattie about to alight. She had one
foot in the a»'toraobile and another on
the running board. Her back was
^ turned to him. As he advanced upon
I her she turned her head and looked full
{ at him
j It was at this moment that he fired,
according to the confession. Her body
and fell upon its back in the
roadway, the head striking with some
violence. Beattie denied ^hat he struck
his wife with the gun before firing at
her.
Explains Grit in Hair.
He attributes the concussion at the
base of the skull to the fall of the body
from the car. It was in this manner
that grit and small particles of dirt
attached themselves to the hair. Beat
tie’s confession denied that he sat upon
any portion of the body while returning
with his dead wife through the night to
Engineers Qo Together at
Haw River Bridge.
Our thoroughly efficiont and very
popular Commandant, Major Nalie, who,
standing first in military tactics for the Fireman Joe Hawkins was fatally
four years of his course, and being injured and Engineer Morton Avery
Senior Captain at the V. M. I., graduat- seriously hurt Thursday afternoon,
ed there last year: received the honor when a freight engine pulling train No
of being elected Field Judge at the big 175 side wiped an engine on siding at
game between his Alma Mater and St. the east end of the Haw I’iver trestle
John’s College which was played Nov- the accident occurring at 2 o’clock,
ember 30, at Roanoke, Virginia. Him- Fireman Hawkins, a negro, with En-
self a football star, he served accept- gineer Avery, was taken to Greensboro
ably, enjoyed meeting his old school about 10 o’clock Hawkins dying at 10:45
mates, had a pleasant holiday and re- and before being carried to the hospital
turned Saturday morning in time to Mr. Avery was carried to his home
meet all of his classes. and suffered greatly. His
. ... A • /-I t physician gave out the statement that
In honor of Miss Ann.e Cooper of
Graham who was visiting Mibs Cappie
Craig, a yery pleasant evening was
spent last Saturday night at Oak Grove
by a number of friends. Many inter
esting games were played delicious
refreshments in the form of luscious
fruits being served meanwhiile. Those
present were: Miss Katharine White
with Mr. Lea Cooper, Miss Smythie
Ham with Mr. Craig, Miss Lois Ham
with Captain F. B. Spiker, Miss Eunice
Ham with Mr. Charlie Lasley, Miss
Tula Yarborough with Mr. Frank Jones,
Miss Isabella Gray with Mr. Nelson
Jones, Miss Sudie Cook with Mr, Jack
Thompson, Miss Clara Warren with Mr.
1 Glenn Scott and Messrs. Earl Shaw,
Frank Warren, Bingham Gray and
Spencer Watkins.
“The Bingham Bugle.”
Yes, Who Did It!
Ihe Minstrel Show.
California's Attorney-General holds
that under the common law the women
voters of that State cannot sit as ju
rors. Perhaps not; but wait till the
women legislators reach Sacramento!
The Attorney-General will not be able
I to recognize the common law after
i they get through with it.
There was given at the Graded
School Auditorium laFt Friday night,
an entertainment of decided merit. It
wa» exclusively by home tallent. A
real minstrel show. Mr. Sam C. Thom
pson and Earl Shaw were the end men,
Hugh Smith was the enterlocter, The
ininst*el was composed of Glen Scott,
Pdrcy Amick,* Marion Nicholson, Billy
Patten, Norwood Harris, Mason Me
bane, Henry Johnston, Ernest Thorn j
ton, Glenn Satterffeld, Jack Thompson
Claude Christopher and Frank Warren
There was songs, sermons, jokes stump
speeches and local hits of tremsndous-
force.
It is said the boys did splendid, ex
hibiting tallent of a high order. Glenn
Scott was a whole show within himself
i'l fj.ct there was a number of ?eal
good characters. There was a good
size audience to witness the entertain
ment.
List ot Letters
Remaining unclaimed at this office
for the week ending Dec. 2nd 1911.
1 Letter for James Chavis
Mr. Elda Carter.
Mr. George Grant
Mrs. Sallie Holt,
Joe Hayes.
J. B. Martin.
Mrs. I. T. Murrie,
Henry Murphy.
P. B. Oliver.
N. H. Sykes.
1 Post-Cord for Mr. G. E. Walker.
These letters will be sent to the
Dead Letter Office Dec. 16th 1911, if
not called for before.
In calling for the above please say
“Advertised” giving date of ad. list.
Respectfully,
S. Arthur White, P.*M.
In the last six years there have been
in the United States 113 dynamite out
rages at buildings and other structures
and already this year there have been
11 such outrages. These outrages have
all been committed since August 10,
1905, when the International A^isocia-
tion of Bridge and Structural Iron
workers declared a strike against the
American Bridge Company. It has
been charged, and is believed by many
that these outrages have been commit
ted by those who are allied with Or
ganized Labor. This may be a base
slander—there are so many miserable
wretches who would seek to do injury
at the expense of Organized Labor; but
how does it happen that Organized
Labor, with its immense influence, Iws
never, so far as we know, offered its
services to the agents of the Law for
the suppression and punishment of the
guilty? How does it happen that in
the case of the McNamaras it set itself
behind them not for the punishment of
their crimes but for their deliverance
and all in the name of Organized Lalwr
Why has it not helped instead of Jiin-
dered the free course of justice?
lotte Observer.
^Char
The Negro in The North
01? John Brown’s soul must be hav
ing a rather uncomfortable time these
days. A Federal Judge holding court
in Kansas City has decided that a ne
gro travelling on a ticket banning in
a State where there is no Jim Crow
law must change to the car set ap^
for his race when he enters a State in
which there is such a law.—Chorlotte
#bi«ryer.
Pinnix.
t
j
Pounds.
Price,
Total. 
185
1475
2729. t
166
2300
3818. t
92
4000
3680 i
196
1900
3724.
100
1550
1350,
50
9.00
4.50.
789
157.51.-
Sale Made for G. R. Graham.
Pounds.
Price.
Total.
255
1500
3825.
228 ’
2600
5928.
96
4200
4032.
152
2700
4104.
300
1600
4800.
106
10.00
1060.
1137
237.49.
^le Made for Fuller and Graham
Pounds.
Price.
Total.
62
875
5.43.
134
1050
14,07.
95
1600
15.20.
94
2000
18,80.
36
4500
16.20.
40
4000
1600.
106
2200
2332.
190
1600
3040.
75
1000
750.
832
1467927
Sale Made for R.
C. Dickey.
Pounds.
Price.
Total.
74
1000
740-
226
1700
3842.
55
2250
1237.
15
3500
525.
50
2900
1350.
392
1660
64.68,
212
11.00
23,32.
Beattie also states in his confession
lat the newspaper accounts of the
•agedy, while essentially accurate in
le more important facts, did him a
reat injustice with regard to details,
[e is said to have stated that to some
xtent his marriage with Miss Owen
ras forced upon him, although he does
ot use this circumstance as any ex-
HELD ON MURDER 6HAR6E.
Alamance Man Dies
Wounds and Conklin
in Jail,
ot
is
Retail Grocers.
A strong protest against the estab
lishment of parcels post on rural free
delivery routes was made by John A,
Green, of Cleveland Ohio, secretary of
the National Association of Retail
Groceries, to the Senate Committee
on Postoffiees last week.
He said it would cause serious injury
to retail groceries in small towns and
would not benefit anybody. Mr, Green
said that he had knowledge that all
the retail grocers were absolutely op
posed to parcels post.
1024
154.94.
Will be no Let-up.
The investigation of the Federal
government into the dynamiting cases
covers a much wider scope than the
case at Los Angeles, said United States
District Attorney Charles W. Miller
tonight. The pleas of the McNamara
brothers will have no effect of inter
ruption of the government’s investiga
tion.
The protected wool-growers are ga
thering about Mr. Taft just as if they
expected to write still another Presi
dential message.
Special, C, M. Crumpton, the young
man of Ossipee cotton mills, Alamance
county, who was carried to St, T^eo’s
hospital Greensboro five weeks ago
suffering from gunshot wounds in his
body and snine, died at midnight Thurs
day night. He made a brave fight
against great odds for life, but lost.
Abe Conklin, the man who did the
shooting, was arrested in Norfolk soon
after the affair and is in jail in Alaman
ce couuty. He will now have to an
swer a charge of murder.
The two men told different stories of
the shooting. Crumpton said that he
and Conklin, together with some other
men, had gone ’possum hunting. While
out he and Conklin had some words,
whereupon Conklin left the party and
went back to the mills. Later in the
night as he was returning from the
hunt he was fired upon from ambush by
Conklin. The charge of the gun took
effect in his back, injuring his spine
and paralyzing the lower part of his
body.
Conklin admits shooting the deceas
ed but says that it was in a card game
that the difficulty arose, and that he
shot Crumpton after the latter had
struck him. This story is not corro
borated by any members of the hunt
ing party. When Conklin was brought
from Virginia he was carried to the
hospital and Crumpton then said “That
IS the man who shot me,” Conklin |
then entered a vigorous denial of the,
shooting, but before that had even de
nied that his name was Conklin.
any
injuries.
The accident caused great inconven
ience and delay in traffic, passenger
train No, 22, going east, and and train
No. 139, coming west, being forced to
transfer passeneers, baggage and mail
at Haw-River, No. 22 backing into
Greensboro and No. 139 going back
to Goldsboro,
The Greensboro News says:
Aside from the fatality and incon
venience to the traveling public, the
most significant feature of the wreck
was the evidence on the part of th«
officials that the Southern railway, in
so far as this division is concerned, is
drifting back into the antiquated and
monopolistic belief that in running and
operating a railroad ‘ ’The people be
damned” Wild rumors were on the
streets immediately after the accident
which, as stated, occurred at 2 o’clock
yesterday afternoon. Efforts to gain
details from local officials, in most in
stances, were met with rebuffs and
suggestions to wait awhile. At 10:30
o’clock last night a request for details
of the accident was turned off coldly
by employes who heretofore have been
supplying details of accidents.
The Death Penalty.
The sentimentalists who are seeking
the sibolition of capital punishment
bottom their contention on the query,
“What right has the State to take hu
man life?’' And they propound it as
triumf hantly as though no answer
could be found. But the Danville Reg
ister replies in a single sentence that
puts the interrogators on the defensive
“Just the same right,” says our con
temporary, “as it has to imprison a
convict for life.”
There is the philosophy ot the whole
matter; the right and duty of society
to protect its members by primitive
and deterrant examples against crime
and caiminals dangerous to their peace.
Life is no more the natural prerogative
of the individual than is personal liber
ty, and that the law should claim the
one as forfeit by the murderer or rav-
isher is no more a violation of the nat
ural right than is the immurement of
a convict in a prison ceil, or his assign
ment to labor on the public roads,
jjeny the right of the State in the one
instance and you have surrendered it
in the other.—Va, Pilot,
Crushed ground com into feed, 20cis
per 100 lb cash or its equivolent in sound
grain.
Ceek Milling Ce.
Judge Gary and Attorney Wicker-
shati both want the trusts curbed, but
in different ways. As it happeni, the
courts will decide between these twe
eminent reformers, while Judge Gary
tarries on the work of an uplifter.