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VOL. 27. SMITHFIELD. N. C.. FRIDAY. MAY 29, 1908. NO. 12
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GREAT DAMAGE BY DALLAS FLOOD
Texas City Suffers Severely From High
est Water in Its History. Homes
of 4,000 Gone or Now
Under Water.
Dallas, Tex., May 25.?Four
lives are known to have been
lost, more than $ 1,000,000 worth
of property destroyed, 4,000
people made homeless and tele
graph and telephone wires west
and southwest from the city out
of commission are the result of
a record-breaking rise and over
flow of the Trinity River last
night and today, making the
greatest volume of water ever
known in this city.
The flood at nightfall passed
the record made by the rise in
1800?fifty-two feet?when busi
ness houses situated in what is
now a poorer residence sectiou of
Dallas were swamped. That
same section of the city to-night
is under several feet of water,
and thousands have lost their
household effects, while the resi
dence s<ction of North Dallas is;
cut off from the business part of
the city so far as street car lines
are concerned. Only one line is j
operating to a part of North
Dallas. The water-works plant
is out of commission and the
light plant is swamped.
To-night two companies of in
fantry and one of artillery are
patroling the streets, under the
direction of the polic", and none
is permitted to go on the streets
without permits from the au
thorities. This action was made
necessary by the crippling of the
water works and to prevent in
cendiary fires All objectionable
characters were given until sun
down to leave the city, and many
of these had to walk out There
is not a street light burning in
Dallas to-night. One hundred
special policemen were sworn in
to service for three days.
A feature of thrilling interest
happened this morning, when,
pressed on the north by the
weight of debris, and probabiv
undermined on the south by tde
whirling eddies of the main cur
rent of the Trinity River, the
trestling steel bridge of the
Texas and Pacific Railroad gave
way and ten men were thrown
into the water in full vie* of 20,
000 spectators that lined the
bank for a half miledown stream.
Seven of these men were rescued
at great hazard. The names of
the three men drowned are un
known and their bodies have not
been recovered at a late hour to
night. The other death occur
red about 4 o'clock this morn
ing, when an unknown man was
drowned. Street car service was
greatly hampered during the
day. Reports that many ue*
groes have been drowned cannot
be verified, as the utmost con
fusion prevails in that quarter
This morning Sheriff Led better,
of Dallas countyaccompanied
by a squadron of deputies,
Sressed into service the steamer
ellie Maurine and rescued over
200 people who were clinging to
the tops of their bouses and
perched in trees at points in
West Dallas and along the Eagle
Ford Road.
To-night service has been re
sumed on the Fort Worth Dallas
interurban line as far as Oak
Cliff, from which point passen-"
gers are conveyed to Dallas by
boat.
The gauge at 8 o'clock to
night shoved 52 4, and at that
time the river had begun to re
cede. Reports of rain later to
night, however, along the river
north of this city give rise to
fears that another rise will foi
low.
At a mass meeting held this
evening $65,000 was raised by
personal subscripti tn for the aid
of those made homeless.
A large number of Slavs, Hun
garians, Italians and other
aliens were invited to a hanging
at Pottsville, Pa., Tu-sdav in
the hope that their accounts of
the execution might act as a de
terrent from murder.
Sixty persons were killed and
one hundred persons injured in a
railway wreck in Belgium last
week.
MANY MADE HOMELESS.
Thousands of Acres Inundated and
Hundreds of Houses Submerged.
Oklahoma City, Okla, May
2o ?Seven persous are dead,
about 450 are homeless, thou
sands of acres of lowlands are
inundated, hundreds of houses
are washed away or damaged,
railroad and wagon bridges are
gone over a large area of the
southern part of the State, sev
eral railroad bridges are dam
aged and the tracks of nearly
eve/y railroad company operat
ing in the State are disarranged
to-night, es a result of hee.vy
rains and overflowed rivers The
dead are:
Wlliam M. Lindlay, Anar
darko; Tompkins Cheeke, Shaw
nee; W. B. Hallers, wife and child,
Frederick; negro drowned at
Uurthrie.
Unidentified man, found in
Cimmarron Itiver, near Guthrie.
Trains are delayed on all roads
and many are suspended. Crops
are damaged along the rivers.
More than 700 houses in West
Gurtbrie are submerged. The
flood fell to-day, but the bottoms
are still submerged and water
knee deep is running through the
streets. Hundreds are homeless
aud transportation from one
part of the town to another is
by means of boats.
The Parcels Post on The Rural Route.
One of the beet things that
could happen for the farmer and
his local merchant would be the
establishment of the proposed
special parcel post ou rural free
delivery routes. The extension
and cheapening of the parcel
carrying system of the postal
service has beeu opposed and
stoutly fought by the express
companies, aud it is but natural
that they should oppose it. The
Merchants' Associations have
also opposed it because of its
alleged tendency to place the lo
cal merchants at the mercy of
me big mail order houses. This
general extension of the parcel
post, however, appears to have
been put into its winding sheet,
for this session of Congress at
least.
liuc the express companies op
erate no transportation lines in
rural districts, and a special sys
tem allowing^tbe carrier to han
dle packages for the patrons
along his route at a low rate
should not arouse serious oppo
sition in any quarter, in fact
the Merchants' Associations are
supporting the measure known
as tbe Burnham Senate bill
which also has the endorsement
of Postmaster-General Meyer, j
and seems in a fair way to get |
through the present session of
Congress. The system proposed
will allow packages to be carried
on the rural routes at a rate va
rying from one cent for two oun
ces to twenty five cents for elev
eu pounds, wheu these packages
originate on the route, whereas,
the packages from the big city
mail order house would be limited
to four pounds in weight and
sixteen cents a pound postage.}
this measure would be of great
value to the 15,000,000 farm
people now served by the rural
mail routes, aud we hope to see
it pass as soon as possible.
As it is now, if the farmer
wants a pair of shoes, or a pack
age of coffee, or some medicine
for sick a,child sent by mail from
bis neighborhood store or from
tbe town where his mail route
begins, he must pay sixteen cents
a pound postage.? Progressive
Farmer.
The World's Best Climate.
is Dot entirely free from disease,
on the high elevations fevers
prevail, while on the lower lev
els malaria is encountered to a
greater or less extent, according
to altitude. To overcome climate
affections lassitude, malaria,
jaundice, biliousness, fever and
ague, and general debility, the
most effective remedy is Elec
tric Ritters, the great alterative
or blood purifier; the antidote
for every form of bodUy weak
ness, nervousness and insom
nia. Sold under guarantee at
Hood Bros, drug store. Price 50c
PROHIBITION SWEEPS THE STATE.
Seventy-Seven Counties Give Dry Ma
jority While the Whiskey Folks
Captured Only 21.
Below we give the vote as pub
liehed in yesterday's News and
Observer:
Dry VV et
County Majority Majority
Alamance 1,198
Alexander 30
Alleghany 500
Anson 450
Ashe 500
Beaufort 529
Bertie 130
Bladen 700
Bruuswick 200
Buncombe 3.081
Burke 400
Cabarrus 18
Caldwell 400
CamdeD 41
Carteret 350
Caswell 255
Catawba 814
Chatham 500
Cherokee 400
Chowan 134
Clay 400
Cleveland 1,908
Columbus 100
Craven 100
Cumberland 543
Currituck 255
Dare 400
Davidson 310
Davie 437
Duplin 350
imrnam OUT
Edgecombe 212
Forsyth 1,512
Franklin 18
Gaston 1,408 -
Gates 100
Graham 800
Granville 800
Greene 420
Guilford 1,700
Halifax 875
Harnett 125
Haywood 1,500
Henderson 1,200
Hertford 897
Hyde 420
Iredell 1,246
J ackson 900
Johnston 1,590
Jones 186
Lenoir ,. 555
Lee 512
Lincoln 800
Macon 700
Madison 1,600
Martiu 442
McDowell 800
Mecklenburg.. 1,896
Mitchell 1,200
Montgomery.. 100
Moore 500
Nash 43
New Hanover 161
Northampton 882
Onslow 400
Orange 199
Pamlico 100
Pasquotank... 24
Pender 181
Perquimans... 6 _..
rerson 150 1
Pitt 1.000
Polk 400
Randolph 1,500
Richmond.... 250 I
Robeson 2,000 ..
Rockingham.. 114 1
Rowan 800
Rutherford 1,176 .
Sampson ...... 650 .
Scotland 523
Stanly 166
Stokes 500
Surry 315 i
Swain 550 .
Transylvania.. 400 ,
Tyrrell 200
Union 1,098
Vance 375
Wake 700
Warren 280
Washington 68
Watauga 900
Wayne 100
Wilson 759
Wilkes 1,500
Yadkin 550
Yancey 1,210
Total 51,261 8,619
Net Dry Majority 42,642.
The following young ladies
have returned home from school:
Miss Martha Hudson, from
Salem College; Misses Ruth and i
Mildred Sanders and lone Ahell,
from Peace Institute, and Miss
Mary McCullers from Raptisti
University for Women. Si
General News.
The great battleship Michigan
was launched at Camden, N. J.
Tuesday.
Evelyn Thaw has withdrawn
her suit for the annulment of her
marriage to llarry K. Thaw.
The anthracite mine operators
are to give full employment to
140,000 men and store 10,000,
000 tons of coal against a pos
sible strike next April.
Congress has appropriated so
niucti money this session that
Representative tlamliu says, if
put iuto gold, it would make 1,
Sol tons ana require nearly 25,
000 men to carry it.
The Senate has rejected the
nomination of three meii as
postmasters in Texas and Geor
gia who were appointed to take
the places of women. Senators
Clay and Culbertsou made the
lignt.
The three year old daughter
of William Starliper, a farmer,
near Meyers burg, Maryland, was
stung to deatu Saturday by
noney bees. ine child's body
began to swell at once and in an
nour sne was dead.
Tne tlouse of Representatives
has appropriated $110,000 to
enable tUe Secretary of Agricul
ture to co operate with Stales in
tne conservation of forests ana
provides for a commission to in
vestigaie tne wtiole question.
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ouuauu s new transcontinental
rauwuy from lUanctou uu the
Atlantic to Prince Rupert on the
Pacific, a distance of rather more
than 3,000 miles, is fully under
way and is to be completed by
December 1, 1911, at a cost of
^200,000,000.
During the present session of
Congress a total of 3,794 special
pension bills have been enacted
into law. This is the record ses
sion of all Congresses in this re
spect. Of this number of pension i
bills, 1,064 were Senate bills and
the rest originated in the House.
The grand jury at LaPorte
has found seven true bills of mur- (
der against Ray Lamphere in
the llunness farm murders and (
one for accessory. In order to
find the latter it retuuerd a true
bill agaiust Mrs. Uuuness,
though officially declared to be
dead, for murder in the first de
gree in that case.
The House has passed the i
Campaign Contribution Publici
ty Hill, with an amendment cut i
ting down representation in Con- '
gress in those States which have >
adopted disfranchise amend- '
ments to their constitutions.
There was a ,lively discusssion i
on the amendment, engaged in
chiefly by Southern Democrats, i
From reports now in the pos- '
session of C. M. Day, president of
the Denver Convention League,
it is evident that more than 100
000 visitors will attend the na
tional Democratic Convention in
July. Eleven hundred reserva- 1
tions have already been made
trom New York aione, and the
Empire State's delegation will
probably number 2,500.
With little discussion and less :
publicity, the Senate at this ses- j
sion places its approval on thir- ,
tyseven treaties?more in num- ,
ber than had been ratified during
the twenty years preceding. ,
Twelve nations have agreed by
treaty with the United States to
arbitrate future disputes, which (
is taken to mean that the world
has now been established on the
plane of arbitration.
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It Reached the Spot.
Mr. E. Humphrey, who owns
a large general store at Omega,
O., and is president of the Ad
ams County Telephone Co., as
well as the Home Telephone Co.,
of Pike County, O , says of Dr.
King's New Discoveey: "It
saved my life once. At least I
think it did. It seemed to reacn
the spot?the very seat of my
cougn?when everything else
failed." Dr. King's New Dis
covery not only reaches the
cough spot; it heals the sore ,
spots and the weaK spots in the
throat, lungs and chest. Sold 1
under guarantee at Hood Bros
drugstore. 5oc. and fl.OO. Tri
al bottle free.
JOHNSTON COUNTY GOES WET.
Whiskey Crowd Wins by Tremendous
Majority. Total Vote Cast 4884.
Below is the official vote of
Johnston County In the electiou
held Tuesday:
Townships Dky Wet
Upper Clayton 108 50
Lower Clayton 108 114
Cleveland 20 InO
Pleasant Grove 9 234
Klevation 57 245 j
If an tier 10'.) 332
Meado w 32 253
Bentonsville 70 80
Ingrams 97 277
Boon Hill 139 356
Beulah 101 330 j
Oneals 71 248
Wilders 30 171 '
Wilson's Mills 78 231
Seltna 214 101
Pine Level 04 100?
Smithtield 208 199
Total 1047 3237
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Vote for prohibition 1047
Vote against prohibition 3237
Majority against " 1590.
Chairman Oates Makes Statement.
"Our majority ia around 42,
000 and taking the State
through and through our ma
jorities are better than our
frieuds had hoped for," said
C lainnan John Oates, of the
S ate Anti-Saloon League Wed
nesday night. He added: "Our
league offered a banner to the
county giving the largest ma
jority. it goea to Buncombe,
which gave 3,081. Another to
tie county casting the largest
percentage of ita vote for prohi
bition goea to Yancey, which
v >ted 1,200 to 15.
"The people havespoken This
ia ahowu by the fact that nine of
the ten congressional districts
have given prohibition majori
ties, only the fourth, or Raleigh
district being in the wet column.
"?'ne of our greatest triumphs
ia in Forsyth, Governor Glenn's
home county, which was con
sidered doubtful It gave 1,500
prohibition majority, a great |
compliment to the Governor.
My own county Cumberland, |
where there was a heavy fight, j
went dry by 500.
"Auother notable victory was j
at Salisbury, the anti prohibi- [
tion headquarters, which went]
dry by 126, the county going j
that way by 600. Telegrams of |
congratulations have come to
us from Virginia, saying thatj
State will be the next to get iu
the prohibition column.
"Our victory does not mean
dissolution of the Anti.Saloou
League. Headquarters will be
moved to Fayetteville, and our
organization will be kept up and
be ready to go into battle at a
moment's notice."
SINCERE THANKS
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Mrs. M. A Drake, Utica, N.
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Mrs. Bertha Weekly, Picas
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Hyomei will cure Catarrh
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Coughs or Colds and Hood Bros.
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pleasant remedy, and give re
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Extra bottles for subsequent
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SO J A BEANS
For sale at Hood's Drug Store.
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Clayton News.
Miss Ella Gulley, of Goldsboro,
is visiting relatives here.
VVe are glad to report our peo
ple in a good state of health.
Donald Gulley, Esq., went to
Smithfield on legal business
Monday.
Mr. S. M. Finch spent Saturday
afternoon and Sunday in Wilson
visiting relatives.
Messrs. Norman Cable and
Vaden McCullers are at home
from Wake Forest college.
Messrs. T. M. Argo and J. H.
Fou, of Raleigh, and E. S. Abell, 1
of Smithtield, spent Wednesday
here.
i
Have you been to see Mr.
Gower's new town yet? If you
haven't, you ought to?and buy
a lot also.
Mr. Joe. B. Smich is having
erected on his lot near Mr. Oscar i
Smith's residence, a handsome 1
two story dwelling.
We are listening every morning
for the Liberty Cotton Mills to
announce the beginuiug of the
manufacture of yarns.
Mr. Oscar Creech who recently
graduated from Wake Forest
college, has accepted a position
as principal of the school at
Castalia, Nash County.
The prohibition majority,
while being far smaller than our
townspeople anticipated, is, how
ever, gratifying in face of the fact
that Johnston as a whole voted
wet. The people in town voted
almost solidly for prohibition.
The panic racket has just about
stopped around here. The farm
j ers are bringing in cotton and
getting around twelve cents for
it therefore the word panic has
lost its significance. As long as
cotton fetches this kind of a price
we are all right, panic or no
panic.
TheClayton building and Loan
Association is getting in fine
trim. Applications for several
nice loaus are under considera
tion now and will soon be com
pleted. The association has the
money and will fix the fellows so
they can own their own homes
and stop paying rent.
We inadvertently omitted from
our report of the commencement
exerciees of Clayton High School,
a very interesting and instruc
tive address by Clarence H. Poe,
Esq., editor of the Progressive
Farmer, which was delivered on
Tuesday. We certainly could
not have intentionally failed to
mention such a speech.
Clayton, May 27. Yelir.
Archer Items.
We are glad to note that Miss
Lena Barnes will soon be out
again.
Mr. M. R. Wall, o! Clayton,
was shaking hands with friends
here Sunday.
The many friends of Mrs. Jane
, Boyett will regret to learn of her
; serious illness.
We are sorry to learn of the ill
ness of Mrs. Sam Wall. Hope
1 she will soon recover.
Mr. E. L. Hinton and Miss Gen
orra Wall were theguests of Miss
Wall's parents here Sunday.
Medlin's Lumber Boys will
play Wendell on the latter's dia
mond next Saturday after
noon.
Mr O.G. Barnes,postmaster at
Archer, is out attending to his
duties again to the delight of his
; many friends.
Barne's X Roads played Med
lin's Lumber Boys last Saturday
afternoon on Medlin's grounds.
The score was 5 to 12 in favor
of the Lumber Boys.
The Masons of Archer Lodge
couducted the funeral service of
| Mr. Henry Narron at Antioch
church last Sunday afternoon.
Mr Narron died in Richmond,
V ?, Saturday morning of blood
p ?ison His relatives here have
the sympathy of the enti^g ?com
munity. ... v
May 26, 1008.