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ockwell and authorized the .
an and the county attorney to
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1 Chicago. Jan. 6.—Evelyn Nesbit ,
j Thaw, who yesterday attempted i
| suicide by taking poison, tonight was
i described as not dying but "mighty
| close to it” in a statement by Dr.
lAmanti Rongetti, head of the hospi
i tal in .which she is a patient. The ;
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reduced to normal but that he was
dissatisfied with the rapid heart ,
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Will Electrocute Unruly r.lephant.
Little Rock. Jan. C.—" Tex." the
circus elephant that recently went
on a rampage near Augusta. Ark.,
•tore up crops and was sought
through the country side for several
days, is to bo electrocuted. This was ,
learned today when his owner. Wil
liam Newton, arrived here. “Tex,”
is about 100 years old and is reputed
, to have killed nine men in all.
| In China there is one native
j Christian to every 200 inhabitants.
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TODAY’S EVENTS
Thursday, January 7. 1926
Sixty-five years ago today the first
flag of the Confederacy was unfurled,
at the Mississippi secession conven
tion at Jackson.
Today has been fixed ns the date
for the convening of the new Parlia
ment of t’iie Dominion of Canada.
The third session of the sixteenth
legislature of the Province of Quebec
is scheduled to assemble today .
The President and Mrs. Coolidge
will hold a reception at the White
House this evening in honor of the
members of the judiciary.
Twenty thousand branches of the
national IV. C. T. U. will observe to
day as n day of prayer for "law ob-
I servance and law enforcement.”
A notable wedding in New York
today will be ttiat of Miss Consueio
Vanderbilt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
IV. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., nnd Earl E.
T. Smith.
Although Russian Ims officially
adopted the new calendar, the peas
ants nnd most of the religious people
will observe today ns Christmas, in
accordance with the old calendar.
Formation of a national shippers
advisory board to deal with car serv
ice problems, will be considered at
a joint conference of officials of all
the 12 regional advisory boards, and
railroad officials nnd executives of the
American Railway Association to be
held in Chicago today.
Looking at North Carolina From 1812.
Dr. Hugh Williamson, of the Hol
land Society of after a care
ful survey of the rivers rising jn the
mountains of western North Carolina,
wrote a history of the state in 1812.
Portitons of his remarkable predic
tions and forecasts concerning the fu
ture of North Carolina are contained
in the following extracts:
“Navjgable rivers are so numer
ous. . . .that vessels are tempted
to load in a hundred places and. . .
(this). . .hns prevented the com
merce of the state from being drawn
to a particular point. . . hence no
large city has ever risen nor is ever
likely to obtain celebrity in the state:
a eirmustance that is balanced by
some advantages. It retards the in
crease qf luxury and the rivalship in
folly. . . . There is not, as we
conceive, a state in the I/nion better
calculated. . . .as North Carolina
for increasing their wealth by exten
sive manufacturers; ... all the
necessary materials for manufacture
are found in the state and provisions
are remarkably cheap—people who
live in the middle and upper pact of
the state have a plentiful supply of
small streams, fit for mills and for
machinery of every kind. These
people can support their laborers at
a small expense. . ,”
Not contest with taking part in
the big championship meets, Olas
Thumberg, the great Finnish skater,
has mapped out a program which
will carry his flying feet through a
large part of the Eastern United
States and Canada during the next
two months.
Children Play Where Soldiers Trained
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Children of the Near Eaet Relief Orphanage at Alexandropol, Armenia, play gamea where the crack regb
nanta of the Czarie Army onoa drilled.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy applies to the Near Bast Orphans as well as to young Ameri
cans. Former barracks ere now orphanagep! Former drill grounds are now playgrounds. Instead of the of
fleers’ sharp commands and tramp, tramp, tramp of soldiers, the glad voices of romping children are heard
Food la a recurring ueed. Three times eadh day Near East Relief must feed 35,000 little mouths or nrovidf
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TWO BEING HELD FOR '
TRANSYLVANIA KILLING
Wife of Will Norris. Who W T as Mur
dered. and Lawrence Tritt Are in
Jail.
Asheville, Jan. o.—Thin, gaunt and
sullen, a one-armed man. some 32
years old. sits brooding in his cell
in the Transylvania county jail, while
across the hall in another cell n lank
woman/in her late thirties, with a
faded face, topped by a blendish bob.
moves restlessly about —such are the
principal two figures in the investi
gation of the murder which occurred
in Nort’h Brevard early last Sunday
when Lawrence Tritt shot Will Nor
ris to death. (
Tritt. who voluntarily surrendered
and confessed to the authorities im
mediately after his act, refuses to
talk about the matter or give a reason
for his act.
‘“l've got nothing to say now, only
you can get my side of the story in
the trial when the truth comes out."
was his only reply to repeated efforts
to draw from him '.lis version.
Both Tritt and Mrs. Norris, the
widow of the slain man. who is
charged with conspiracy in the crime,
are being held without bond.
It lias been indicated that Tritt’s
atorneys, William Breeze and Cole
man Galloway, of Brevard, will base
their defense on a plea of hereditary
insanity for his aunt is said to be an
inmate of the state insane asylum at
Morginton, and other members of his
family have suffered from mental
breakdowns. The father of the slain
man has employed Ralph Fisher, of
Brevard, to assist Solicitor Bless,
of Marion, in the prosecution.
Sirs. Norris with Jier two attractive
little daughters clinging to her dur
ing their brief visit to her cell, talked
freely but evasively about the affair.
She declared that Lawrence Tritt and
her husband were the best of friends
and disclaimed knowledge of any un
pleasant feeling having existed be
tween them prior to the hour of the
shooting.
“I only know that Lawrence and
Elzie Burns were fussing over a little
money matter and my husband tried
to quiet them down and took them
out into the other room,” Mrs, Morris
said. “This was about midnight
and they soon left. We went to bed
and my daughter and I were sleeping
in Lawrence's bed, thinking he would
not be back. About 3 o'clock in the
morning we heard him call from out
side the door and my husband told
him to come in and go to bed.
“Lawrence entered and asked him
if he was still mad,” to which he said
“no.” I told Lawrence to light the
lamp and then told my daughter that
we must get up and give him his
bed. I got up and was fiixing a fire
when my husband came in and stoop
ed down by the fireplace. Then I
heard a gunshot nnd my husband
fell over dead.”
“That is all I know about it. I did
not see lawrenee do it and did not
see him after it was done. I had
nothing to do with it.”
The 12-year-old’ daughter of the:
slain man, who was in Tritt’s bed 1
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with her mother at the time of his
return to the house, testified in the
preliminary trial that she was sitting
up in bed nnd saw Tritt, who had
<•< ncealed himself behind a curtain
which covered the entrance to the
kitchen before her father entered the
room. Then she saw Tritt aim from
behind Hie curtain and fire the shot
which ended her father’s life, she said.
The load entered his head back of
the ear and resulted in immediate
death . When, members of tlie sheriff's
force arrived an hour or so later, they
found the younger children of the
slain man cold and crying while they
wandered about the house.
Elzie Burns testified that Norris
had asked him to spend the night
with him pn the eve of the tragedy,
saying that Tritt nnd his wife “had
it in for him” (Norris) and were
“plotting to do something awful” to
him that night. Burns left, however,
fearing trouble. After shooting Nor
ris, Tritt visited the home of Burns,
according to Burns’ testimony, but
Burns’ father, fearing trouble, told
him that-his son was not at home.
A Brevard attorney who obtained
Tritt's release from the Henderson
county jail, where he was committed
about two months ago on a charge
of larceny, said he advised him at
that time to move away from Norris”
house, pointing out to him that there
would eventually be trouble between
him nnd Norris if he continued to
live there. Tritt refused, however.
Community gossip long has linked
the name of Mrs. Morris with that of
Tritt, it was learned today. Mrs.
Norris is a daughter of Elford Orr.
frho lives near Brevard, and has lived
n Transylvania county practically all
of his life.
Salisbury Will Have Hard Cage
Contest.
Salisbury, Jan. O.—A double head
er cage game will be played here
Friday night when the girls’ basket
ball team from the local high school
meets the lassies from Concord high
nnd the boys clash with the quintet
from Kannapolis high.
Both games are expected to be
splendid exhibitions of basketball
will doubtless be close and hard
' fought affairs. The teams are rivals
of long standing and a spirited con
test always result when they dash.
The double bill will mark the open
ing of the cage season for the local
high school.
The Salisbury Y. M. O. A. quintet,
1 winners of the five clashes tftis sea
son and losers of none; will tackle
1 the Concord “Y” again Friday night
; in Concord. The local have been
going like a streak this season and
took an early game from the Con
-1 cord cagers by a lopsided score. The
passing game, shooting and general
floorwork of the fast local quintet
has improved greatly in the past few
' games nnd Concord is expected to
have a tough affair on hand Friday
' night.
Teddy Unblock, who is hailed as
the coming British flyweight cham
■ j pion. is only 17. yet be has had 120
fights, all of which he has woo.
FIRST LOVE AFFAIRS 1
of prince “Dawv” m
Prince of Wales Has Lost His Heart |
to Two Women. But Has No Wife. 1
London, January 7.—The visit of |
Princess Astrid, of Sweden, to Lon- |
don has renewed speculation as to 9
the matrimonial intentions of the jjj
Prince of Wales who. although now fl
many years older -than either his m
father or his grandfather when they H
married, shows no inclination to take M
a mate and settle down to t'ae serious I
job of being heir to the British throne.
Many time during the past decade
Duine Rumor has chosen a bride for
the Prince, only to see her plans fade
awny into thin air. The persistence
of his Royal Highness in clinging to
bachelorhood has led many to believe
thnt he never has had a love affair,
while others cherish the idea thnt a
disappointment in love has caused
him to fight shy of the altar.
Intimate friends of the Prince scoff fl
at both of these theories. Few man- fl
age to pass through early manhood M
without falling in love, and the Prince 1
of Wales is no exception to the rule, n
but there is no evidence to support a
the belief thnt he is suffering from |
a broken heart.
Before he had reached his 19th |
birthday, the Prince had already lost f
his heart to two women. One was A
old enough to be his mother, and, j
moreover, was already married, while I
the other was so far below him in |
social status that there could be no
question of a match. In the first
case the Prince’s family ridiculed all
the romance out of the attachments; ■
in the second King George and the f
Prince's tutor rushed him away from |
the young girl who had charmed him.
Although many years have passed,
the Prince’s first affair of the heart is
still the subject of some jesting among
his relatives, much to his annoyance.
It happened in 1912, when the Prince
in his eighteenth year. At that
time It was customary for the royal
children, when they were at Bucking
ham Palace at the same time that
their grandmother, Queen Alexandra,
was in residence at Marlborough
House, to pay her regular visits; but j
it became noticeable that the Prince
of Wales went to Marlborough House
almost every day, and that his Royal
Highness usually elected to go by him
self. Now Queen Alexandra was very
fond of her grandchildren and they
of her, but Her Majesty knew the
world, and her knowledge told her that
the frequent visits of her grandson
were prompted by some reason other
than a special desire for her company.
For a little while Queen Alexandra
was puzzled to know what the reason
could be. She discussed the problem
with Miss Knollys, her private secre
tary, but neither of them could ar-!
rive at a satisfactory answer. Then
one afternoon both ladies made a dis
covery which greatly diverted them
—a photograph of "Lady Dalkeith was
found to be missing from Queen Alex
andra’s writing table. Miss Knollys
declared that she had seen the Prince |
with it in his hand, and then the E
Queen and her old friend looked at j
each other in amazed silence for some |
seconds. j
“Why, it must be ‘lizz’ that Ed- m
ward comes to see —poor-dear boy; I |
never would have’ guessed it,” sud- i
denly exclaimed her Majesty. Lady
Dalkeith was old enough to be the
Prince of Wales’ mother, but she was
still one of the most beautiful women
in England, and it was by no means
remarkable that a boy of eighteen ]
should fall in love with her. The at- |
tachment of the Prince, it is unneces- '
sary to state, was wholly unknown to ]
the object of his affections. i
Much abashed over the discovery
of his romance, the young Prince hied
himself to Balmoral, the royal resi
dence in Scotland, and it was there
that his second “romance” developed. I
Returning one day from the hunt he 1
met the pretty young daughter of a
'squire and immediately lost his heart, i
This time the romance was nipped in
the bud by King George, who imme- J
diately sent for his eldest son and i
read him a severe lecture on his duty ]
to the state.
The island of Yap, which has suf
fertd from a severe storm, is by far
the most important cable station in
thS Pacific. It has a branch of the !
American Pacific cable to the
Philippines, and has branch lines
radiating to Japan, to Shanghai and 8
to the Dutch East Indies.
In the early days the French ,
sometimes began the year with
Christmas, Dectmber 25th, and some
times with Easter, which, being a X
movable feast, led to much confusion. Q
Jn 1564, King Charles IX. decreed fi
ttat the year should begin January jX
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