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AUGUST 24th. 19Z2 PICKETING RAILWAY SHOTS Night aad Day la . Mear, Aag 17.—Everything »u <loW» iImi Ui# picket lines innd' Railway i bo pa km to-: <toy, no »n<w hariaf tea reported, op to • e'ciock Hmva, grasps oi wttk aticks of a its* rsagtng above that of a walking antlmw their watching the aad all of the trataa that tot to flpiai ir Dmbfaau reported Friday morning ware that during tha »I|M a Mfro woman had triad to got through Into tha ahopa to aee her lad hjr tha pirkata, who, whan bar brother raiaad rarbal objections, fired j ahota which wara aald to have been far tha parpoaa of acartat hhi. Alaa. daring tha night, tha powder houae of tha raaipaay waa brokan Into and 100 dynamite rapa wara atolan, according to raporta made by South ern officiala. Approximately 160 man art aald to ba working in tha shops, nat com ing oat to aat or slaap. Officer* of tha Southern who ara alao at work (aside paaa tha picket linaa unmolest ed. It was statad. ' Tha pickets are organised into throa ahifta, aach shift being on tha Job for eight hours, the organisation I being like that of an army. Contradictory raporta on the scttvi tiaa of atrikers against the special cuarda coming In on a Tuesday night train and who paaaed on without gat ting off, ara made, Southern officials •aying that the guards ware scared by the threat of the atrikers. the oickets saying that only Jovial banter was indulged in. The report that 16 nag men were carried out Wednesday by the strik ers was denied, the statement baring baan made that they were paid that dar ani.aara Jhsatlafied i -A.4 „ , ■ • WTIWT xJWy TrTPITrQ, iiim |ni\run|f win or ConilllUfa, Respite the Injunction, bat not tn vio lation of the law, wan the statement this morning by R. B. Earnhardt, chairman of the strike committee. hla statement being hacked up by other members of the committee. A atmllar aUtement wma made by President J. M. Wilt, of the atate federation of labor, aa published in The Saliibary Poet of thi* after noon. "The picket lines will be main tained aa permitted by law, which is to the effect that peaceful persua-■ sion to prohibit men accepting posi tion* aa strikebreaker* is permissible." Mr. Ellis said. Not a firearm was in tight, bat practically every picket bad hla stick. Groups of varying sixes were around the fence at each opening. Covered hats or sheda had been erected at ths stations In which the men could seek rover from rain of sunshine. The half a hundred men at the Spencer station tonight around 8 and • o'clock presented a formidable ap pearance to the three Charlotte news paper men who had taken the street car to Spencer to look over the ground before catching the train to Charlotte, j arriving there nearly an hour before the belated train reached the station. Frequent picket* would paas by and look them over, then mumbled consultations would be bald, during wMch the newspaper men would re cftvt penetrating glances, Finally, one of the men, probably •elected for the purpose, piissed and ventured: "Hello stranger." to which the newspaper man responded with a greeting. "It your name Wilson?" the man aaked, and when assured that H was more Irish than that, explained that he knew a man by that name (lightly and that there was a resemblance. | Other attempts were nude to find out names and businesses, bat infor SMtion wis meted oat in small qudnti- j tie* and after several minutes of con versation. with others gathering. aropnd, the men naked if Om . two ether men nearby were friends An other man aaked: "Are they special officers, toot" Se was assured that neither was a special officer and then informed that all were at wipe per men, which explanation » sensed to he antisfae tory and as it was peeeed out among Dm ethers, who did net not look quite #0 fotVlitabto ifttf tfat This congregating in eiww* and earrylng stirks is looted open 1^; waasben of people as viola ting the lUrriaea and use think H wffi be the point on whkh the ordering of troop* to Spencer or not will kiif. Strikers explained that tW (tick* wm carried u a bluff, oh immi Mi« Chat they faared treahll from group* of n*groa*. a* th*y had boo* tnfoind that MffM had bought aH of Ik* ana* and ammunition avail ablr at th* atom TROOPS AT SPCNCEK Nmm Military U»«U of Ul Mm fTi«n< n»r^ Mil** From Salisbury, Aug. *0.—Th* blowing up of th* water Main at flpaacor. ■hooting whkh oworwd 1b th* vtcta ity this morning, th* burning of on* or mn boa ear* whil* th* watrr waa cut off, and th* apparently increasing tension, ranaad Col. Daa Scott today to consider th* adviaahllity of placing troop* on guard duty at th* shop* and at th* Sal la bury and 8poac*r atatioaa, it was reported, hot such action had not b**n taken tonight, and it waa to ported that decision had b*an reached to k**p th* sold lore at th* camp until tomorrow, at least, unleas further disorders ihould occur. The total number of men and offi cials camped at th* fair grounds a mile w*at of the courthouse and three miles from Speiper, is S2fi, according to Col. Don Soott, in command of the troop* Colonel Scott stated today that disorders of sufficient magnitude reported to Sheriff Krider himself or Governor Morrison would put the troops in action. Until there i» such report the men will be kept within the fair grounds enclosure (•oneral visiting by the public at the fair ground* was prohibited and will continue to be prohibited while the troops are than. liftC cars" 8lt8e* Itforth Cure Una Public Service company have been secured by the troops, and the can and their crew* are kept at th« fair ground* for use by the soldiers. To clear up repeated rumor* that a number of men were hurt in aklr raishes had been taken to the Saliabnry hoapital for treatment, two new* paper men viaited the hoapital thia afternoon and learned from the auper intendent that only one victim of the Spencer trouble had been treated there. Thia waa a negro named Har jrravp, who waa a hot in the hand aome riay* ago and waa brought there to have the bullet removed. He left the hoapital Saturday. Hla eaae waa riven publicity at the time It occurred. A necro locomotive fireman who waa passing nearby when a 12-Inch water main waa blown up at Spencer laat night had hia right eye Injured by aome flying subetsnce from the rxplosion, but he waa treated by rail road phyaiciana. One of the aoldier boya arriving laat night wan taken from the train in an unconscioua condition and after reaching the hoapital he regained mnaciouanp** and apparently got1 aver hia trouble, which seemed to have rome from an injury sometime ago. Many Salisbury people were awak ened at 4 o'clock thia morning by : much shooting in the direction of i Spencer. The shooting continued for' a half hour or more and occasioned much uneaitnaaa. No casualties have been reported and no one has volun teered any information aa to who was doing the ahooting. Sheriff Krider today declined to rive out any statement, leaving that for Colonel Scott. No arrests have t>een made today. Sack Armfield om Four Judg Greenaboro, Aug. 1(.—Four trans :ripta of judgments against J. L. Armfield, former preaident of the de funct Bank of Thomasvflle, were re vived today for services agalnat Armfield by the Ouilford county clerk >f court, bat he wma unable to serve them, the whereabouts of Arm field ■wing unknown to him. The four lodgments amount to 964422. They are an echo of the failure of the ■>ank and were eofied by T. J. Finch, receiver fee the bank, sent here by 8. I. Smith, dark of court of DavMaon MMMty. Armfield waa reported to have ca tered a aanitorium at Blekewed, Va., sftor hia acquittal on chargea ef ■laabatractiow of (M ef the bnk, tot It ta not known here where he la •ew, and aareiea ef the Jafgmials wfll bare to wait that knowledge STATE ROAD WORK MAT | CEASE Railway Strike Mali— it la» p«wM» to Gat Coal mmd Raleigh, Aug. H.—Opn toy an in plenty for use on tW North Carolina highway* were promised Chief b|i boot C. M. t'pham at tho >tau high way commission hi Washington yoe terday; hot tho Waahiagtoa p»i>l» could not guarantee engine* to tnf tho cargooo out. " Mr. Uphaai, Corporation Commis sioner A. i. Maxwell, and tho state furl romlttoo of which Mr. HttwoD la a membor sought relief to North Carolina highway construction. Tho sMotment ot coal by tho govoramont la exhausted before It gets down to highway construction. Bat tho coon inlssion la making an effort to have tho content plants kept in operation. The shotting down of these factories will bring stole highway work to an end and the cement makers cannot ran much longer. First and laat in the state two and a half million barrels will he nesdod. There is none made In North Carolina. But, sand cao he used and North Carolina has hilllons of pounds. Nevertheless, sidetracks are running over with the stuff and it cannot be moved Not far from Ra leigh is a sand mine which has re cently loaded SO earn. They are out there in the country and not an engine to drag them out. Such is the condi tion in which the state finds Haelf after it has been promised all the can that it may need. The construction work on hard stir face will be destroyed in another fortnight unless there is ^plief. On the sandclay roads the work goes on snd if the interruption is protracted, the state may find itself cogitating | on a concoction for keeping down the dust that gathers on tho soft surface roads. ~ Indeed, Chairman Frank Page said today that he is using In modified way h dust settling process which Is working well where tried. It is still j expensive snd costs about WOO a mile, i It Is a salt by-product which lays the dust and keeps It down a full year with two applications. The pro hibitive price stands in the way of general country use, and of course If the trains quit running this stuff could not be imported. Woman Editor Wins Loving Cap The Smithfieid Herald. edited by Mn. T. J. Lasr Ur, *ho took <*Harge upon the deal1, of her husband about J two years ago. w:ns the Savory lov-, ing cup thia year awarded by Walter; H. Savory, »f the MergentbaW r Uno type company for excellence of rypo-1 irraphy, make-op an«* general effec-1 tiveneaa of publication. Th» cup i* a beautiful loving cup about 28 inches high. Weekly and aemi-weekly paper* of the state contested for the hrnor. When it haa been won three c.Tweej. I tive year* by the aame patter it h? comea the property of that pap-r Since the first of May Mrs. Lssai-, •er haa had entire charge if the edi-1 tonal and new* end of the Herald Previous to that time ahe and J. M. Beaty. half owner of the paper, did' the editorial work. Through the ef-| fort* of Mrs. lassiter the Herald haa made Tine pragreas, as the winning of the Savory lovin«r cup for excellence of its make-up indicates. Union Farmer Trios Raising < Partridges Monroe, Auk. IS.—L. Z. Cox of Lanes Creek township has learned how long it takes partridges egga to hatch— just three weeks the same as hen eggs. Several weeks ago Mr. Cox | found a neat of nine oartridge sggs , and havng a bantam her a* home with heavy aittin? inclination*, he decided to try her on t) e partrtdjr* eggs. All ( nine of them hatched and Mr Cox and the bantam hen now have the finest brood of bird-chicks anybody ever J heard of. Seven out of the nine are ( a till living and are about three weeks old. Mr. Cox says they hare sprouted ' wing feathers, hot do net pretend to ! fly, being content to run around with | the mother and are aa gen ie as chicks. It is Mr. Cox's intention to pay especial attention to hie birds aad to ] raise a alee bunch af thaw next year. , It ia also hla tateotioa to teat their i willingness to eat hell weevils aad to < forever atop the saaUeiaray ever ! partridgea eating the peaky hi sects. ■" . ,n > liSI TWO mCKOCS SENTENCED TOME AntilMto «# Hn. KaklMi Must Pay SvprwM Cart hag*. N. C., Aug. 18.—After Mm ewt hth alMtoi the Jwy la the trial af ikm mm on ctkMCM imwtwf oat of Um otterk epon Mr. »nd Mrs. A. B. Ketehena. of Miassl, Ha., automobile tourist., near South rrn Ptnea. tea day* aft, rituraad a verdict of guflty aa to two of tka aa poM who vara tmaiediaUly aaateM •d to die In the electric rkalr on Sep Iwibw IB. John Lee, tka otkar m fro waa found guilty of oaerat aaaaalt, and waa given a Mitenaa of twelve jrran at hard labor. The nagius* sentenced to ka executed art Angus Murphy and Jai par Thomaa. Two thooaand i periston, including thr victim at the assault, looked on in silence a* ika jury returned ita ver diet. Murphy, tka older of tka prison - rra, krokr down and wept, and plead far marry as tka judgs paaaad lh« sentence of daath. Tkomaa maintain ed kia attitude of mdiffrrene«. Both pciaonan were returned to Um state prison at Raleigh on a special train tonight, guarded by detach menta of the Durham machine gnn company and the Raleigh service com pany. No suggestion af disorder at tended the second day of the trial. Trial of the two negroes began yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Ketrhen positively Identified Murphy a* her assailant and Thomaa as the negro who held a light while the aasault was consummated. Rvidence in the caae was submitted without srgument. The outstanding feature of tha evidence at the evening session was Mrs. Ketchen's positive identification Angus Murphy from Ms voice as the man who assaulted her. after hearing him testify In his behalf. A number of other witnesses were used in rebuttal by the state at tha p< citing Italian. AH w^j* corrobora tory except Fannie AcJcery, a colored woman, who testified to seeing the men in the neighborhood ofr the as nault on the evening the crime was •ommitted, snd the fireman on the Freight train, who teatified that he »»w the three men hoard the train while in motion at Southern Pines. The case was submitted without urgument. The testimony of John Lee, one if the negroes, featured in the morn ing session. I-ee identifying Angus Murphy, one of the defendants, it the man who attacked Mrs. Ketrhen, while Jasper Thomas, the other ne rro, stood hy with a flashlight !« also testified that Angus Mur phy forced Mrs. Ketrhen at the point >f a pistol to go Into tha tent la which the Ketchens were ramping For the night, and torn over to the tegroes their valuables, as detailed >n the stand yesterday by Mrs. rvncnen. The wi tries* claimed that he had left Murphy and Thomas when the shoot ng of Ketchen occurred, but return Hi to the scenc in time to aee Murphy ittack hi* victim. He declared that le begged Murphy to desist, and that he latter threatened to shoot htm. lie alao testified that he did not have my hand in the affair other than aa • spectator, and dan lad going into Jie tent with Murphy and Ikomai 'Te admitted xccompanying the other KMrroe* when they left the acene. Both defendants' went upon the itand and denied any knowledge of he rrime. Both claim to have been vorking In Durham and to have en rained at Raleigh on the fast freight in which they were later arrested at therdeen. Their explanation of how hey came to be in poaaesaion of the ratrh belonging to Mrs. Ketchen, ind the pocketbook and pistol klenti ied by Mr*. Ketchen aa the property if her and her husband, was that they tad purchaaed thaaa articles fro* wo strange negroes at either Camer m or Vaaa, they were uncertain which, vhile their train was on a sidetrack o allow another train to pass. This testimony was pretty wall lunctored by the testimony of Cap. ain Baucom. conductor on the fisight rain, who asaerted that the train in luestioa waa a through freight and •nly stopped at A pec, Moneure and Ian ford 1st ween Raleigh aad Aber deen. Diaerders " the bawa!s' Mi asatha, and to order to j»mteet vecr latf aad tenlly against a saddsai ittaek. gat a Wotti» of Chamberlain's ■olie and Diarrhoea Remedy It can REV. TOM P. JIMISON ASSAULTED Saltatory. Aug SI.-Ail tb. •puiw of tnwfi whkfc «tn her* Saturday by life |teeae >ltuatton that barf linliH ta nth the strike ef l.TM ta the lyNMr a hops at tka ItvlWn railway, •t Spencer and Salisbury mart on tba occaaion of mm! threat ened diatarbanca at Coaat Una a hops ia ww raad to • auaa iaatt»ig of atrilcers Mid strike ■ympathtser* by Mayor Wada V Bowmaa today. Tba military authorities to "dtoperae all lanre hnwfbl tocathar for tba pa ryeas of over-awing and intimidating. by a dta play of numbers, tboaa wbo desire to gr> to work." Five full companies and a part of the Durham machtne can company ara guarding tba Spencer shops and tha railroad paiswiger station at that plate, while two fall companies and the Durham machine run company were on guard duty in and around the Sal ia bury postoffice, having been placed there tonight by request of Postmaster A. H. Boyden because of the rrowinr tension that developed following the attack made today upon Rev Tom P. Jimison. Methodist preacher, who has been very active in the fight of the atrikers. He was knocked down on the street here by John Sloop, a clerk in the Salisbury postoffice, and the two came to grip* on the ground before they were separated. Following this incident crowds gathered about the postoffice and open threats of lynching were heard, the declaration being made, according to PoatmaaUr Bojnden and others, that Sloop would he lynched, "troops or no troopa." Sloop made no state ment of his reason for the attack ex cept that he aaw Rev. Mr. Jimison go into a store and get out an army mess knife and that the minister had abused enough people already. Mr. Jimison has made a number of speeches in behalf of the striker* and ha* denounced Sheriff Krider for his activities. Late tonight crowd* had ceased to approach the Salisbury postoffice. having been prohibited by the soldiers from aaaembling there, and quiet pre vailed in Spencer, • though group* of citiien* and hundreds of strikers stood about in groups obeervtng the spectacle of troopa on guard for fh* first time in the history of the Spen cer (hope. . A rnntinmknt rtf ptw-rtiita fnr tk* worker* in the shop*, arrived to l niirht and entered thr shop* without molestation. There are several hund ] red worker* in the shops now, while ' I.TOO are on strike. It wan reported tmm Rev. Mr. jJimison's home in Spencer tonight | that he had some temperature and {was not resting well, suffering some i what from bruises in his encounter | with Sloop. Col. Don Scott tonight at 7 o'clock : ' established headquarters at the Unit <>d States poatoffice in Salisbury and threw out tmopa around this build- { ing that isolated the building for tile' night. In and about and surround ing the building are the companies from Charlotte and Burlington and half of the Durham machine gun com pany, with a machine gun command ing the entrance to the office. This action was taken upon request of Col. A. H. Boy den. postmaster, who had information that attempts would be made on the life of John Sloop, a clerk in the office, who attacked Rev. Tom P. Jimiaon, striker** friend and, counselor today. Mr. Sloop la on duty at the office tonigfct. Also at T o'clock Colonel Scott dis patched the Concord and Winston companies of infantry and troop* of unmounted cavalry from Hickory and Mncobiton, and half of the Durham machine gun company under Majar Bowman to Spencer. Th*y hare in struct to na t# keep order, whatever K take*. Picketing is to be allowed but R will be nIh the mac* throe his shine guns that are being placed on advantageous ground. ate* that their right's woold to |l» iMtai CiIimI Seott ilw kM I .«mf»i»iM« with nlliil officiate at of the ritjr at tto what! rvfiytKIng to tto i aa to II i lit Thla mo—lug Governor Morrta proclamation and orders to tto la ww read to tto man by Major I Action and interest in tto situation shifted today (mi 8y to Salisbury when a personal cuity on Main atraat attracted tion of a larfe crowd and brought oa a ten*e period that paaeed, to aw, without caaoalties. Rev Tom P. Jimiaon, pastor of Central Methodist church, Speoaar, and rounaalor and friend of tto itrflt in* shopmen, waa attacked by John Sloop, a clerk in tto IliliabMj paat office. knocked or Jerked to tto rroand and pommeled considerably before cries of tto minuter attracted policemen and citiaens who polled the man off of him. Tto preacher suffered bruises on the face and back of the head, an abrasion on the foreheaj and other alirht injuries. Mr. Sloop, who was uninjured, was chanted within af fray and allowed to go under a $50 bond. Although there was consider able feeling on the part of tto strik er* and other friends of the preacher against him. Mr. Sloop want on duty at his regular time In the afternoon. Mr. Jimiaon addressed tto crowd that assembled and aakrd his friends to go about their buainaas in a quiet way. that he was going to continue to walk the streets as he had been doing and aa to had a right to do and for them to do likewise. He than wmA home. Mr. Sloop was taken into tto munity building and later to courthouse before going to his Mr. Jimiaon stated to hia that he did not know who hit him, that he did not know Mr. Sloop and had never talked with him. Mr. Sloop did not make a statement for publica tion bat to frienda he said that to had seen Mr. Jimiaon go in a store and purchase a knofe and put it In his pocket. He thought Mr. Jimison had abused enough people already and that he wanted to see to it that further abuae was dlaeantinoed. Mount Airy Poet Office Lead* In Sal* of Treasury Certificate* K. The Mount Airy pout office was first among second clti« post office* of North Carol inn and finit a.none nil second cIskh post offices in the Fifth Federal Reserve District in the sale of treasury savings certificates for Mr, having disposed at {15300 worth of these certificates during the month, according to a report just re- \ ceived by postmaster Geo. K. Snow j from Howard T. Cree, director of Government Savings Organisation, Richmond. Va. More treasury savings certificates H were purchased in July than in say month of ths year, the sales for the entire district amounting to IMM7I, maturity value, distributed as fal lows: Weat Virginia 1217,470; Vlr rinia I141JK; South Carolina $07. S75; District of Columbia North Carolina »7»,17»; Maryland WMO. In addition there was seU through the Federal Ksssrrs Bank at Richmond and ths Trsaaary Booth at Washington I1M.15S, making a Mai >f $Mtjm. In July'lMT. the Trsaa ary Department will pay back to the KoUsrs of these ..lUfUf in tMs Postmaster few la engaged hi a rery active campaign this Math ts Inrruass aaisa ever test aesth. He
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