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VOL. IX. N0.34. HEEL^TOP jL Items Gathered From All Sectiom of the State jr Railroad Laid by Night. r ..High Point, Special—Word from * "Troy tells of much exeitement in that hitherto quiet town. "the Dur ham and Charleston railroad, which has been in construction since the early sixties, took on new life Tues day night and put on an extra force -of several hundred men building its line of road alongside that of the Aberdeen & Asheboro, .on the latter's right-of-way, and when the people awoke Tuesday morning a new rail kroad had been born and was right up in town near the Aberdeen & Ashe dotto's Railroad station. This thoroughly aroused this road and by * j "10 o'clock this morning the road had .a train load of laborers on their way To Troy to tear up the tracks of the | Durham & Charleston road, which I had infringed on its right-of-way. Another special train soon left Bisooe ■with V ice President Page, of the Ab ' rdeen & Asheboro road, and John k It Tull, of .the Durham, & Charleston k road, was also rushed to the scene. A President Henry A. Page, of the Aberdeen & Asheboro road, is in di rect communication with Troy and interesting developments are awaited. Negro Boy Meets Horrible Death. Charlotte, Special.—Death in its most fearsome form befell Rex Mc- Cree, a colored boy #ibout 14 years of age, who works on Mr. Mot Bussell's farm. 0 miles north of the city Wed nesday afternoon. The boy had been k working in the field and had stalled home, riding his mule. At some point along the way, the animal became frightened, threw the boy, whose leg caught in a dangling trace chain. . a r d then nislied downtli® road in the direction of Mr. Russell's. "•Vhew the mule pulled up in the yard, the hoy was still hanging on, althoupli life was fast, ebbing away. He lived but a few minutes after the house was Fatal Accident in Dnrham. Durham, Special.—Clinton M. "Riggsbee, one of the linemen for In terstate Telephone and Telegraph """•■Company, is in the Watts hospital as the result of an accident that was most unusual and will probably be fatal in its results. Mr. Rig™sbe,e was riding on a wagon loaded with [ poles and with tools. Among the ! tools was a "digger's bur" and one •end of this dropped from the wagon, causing the end to catch in the earth and hold it more or less firm, while the other end came up and ' •caught Mr. Riggsbee. This bar of steel, about one inch in diameter entered the body of Mr. Rirgsbee about seven inches. The bar of steel ' • entered the lower stomach and came I near coming through .the walls of the stomach the print of the digger tmr being lost under the skin in his aide. Given Fifteen Years. Winston-Salem, Special.—Hardin Moore, colored, who fid instant *ly killed William Cnristopher, a young white farmer, nt Pine Hull on •Christmas Day last, will have to - serve a term of fifteen years in the State penitentiary for his crim-\ The •ease was disposed of in Stokes Su perior Court at Danbury Thursday afternoon, counsel for the defendant agreeing to a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree, which was accepted by the counsel for the State. The presiding judge then sentenced the negro to a term of fif teen years. Tbe case did not reach the jury. Verdict Set Aside. | Raleigh, Special.—On the ground that it was agp.inst the weight of the evidence and excessive, Judge Biggs has set aside the verdiet of $3,000 awarded Mrs. Virginia G. Eatman, for the death of her husband. The death was alleged to be due to negli gence on the part of the Southern and North Carolina Railroads. Cutting Affray in Winston-Salem. Winston-Salem, Special.—As a re p*- suit of a fight in a Greek restaurant here, Carlos Papas, a young Greek. •4* in a hospital with seven severe kni&g wounds and at the point of - The assault was made by Mack s Erwin, eolored, who is under ' .arrest. A irtiwd of negroes bec&me disorderly in the restaurant and the Greeks tbrew the-m out. This led to a fight and Papas, while acting as a peacemaker, was stabbed. The Greeks closed the restaurant out of ♦oorrow for Papas. ' __J ■ V. • ■ r." . ' . /-y" :v x w * _ ... . . ; • THE ENTERPRISE. Was Drowned in Georgia. Winston-Salem, Special.—Mr. Lu ther B. Meyers, division salesman for the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Com pany, with headquarters at Macon, Go., was drowned in a lake near Ma con while he and three others were in swimming. It seems from the ad vices received here that Mr. Meyers went with a party of friends on a picnic expendition near Macon. About noon he and Mr. Robert Wil li ngham and two others, whose names were not secured, decided to go in swimming in a small lake near the picnie grounds. Soon after going into the water, Mr. Meyers complain ed of the water being too cold and said he m;ist get out, at the same time moving toward the bank. Mr. Wil lingham looked up and noticed that Mr. Meyers had gone under the wa ter. He hastened to the rescue of his friend, but was too late to bo of anv service. In attempting to rescue his friend, Mr. Willingham came near losing his own life and for some time it was feared that he would not re cover. A search for the body of Mr. Meyers was begun immediately and in about two hours it was brought to the surface. It was turned over to an undertaker and prepared fW burial. Orphanage Site Selected. Winston-Salem, Special.—The or phanage committee of the Western North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Church met here last week to select a site for the institution and to outline plans for the erection of the buildings at the earliest pos sible moment. The "George F. Dwire farm, just west of the city, contain ing 165' aws. was accepted over tlie Mickey and R. J. Reynolds farms, I which wqre considered. The price ' agred upon is SIOO an acre. The tract of land is a beautiful one and ' the selection is considered a good i one. The main building will cost bo tween $13,000 and $-'>.ooo. This and the superintendent's home will be erected first and other buildings will be nut up later. The members of the snecial committee here were Rev. Dr. 0. 11. Detwilder. of Greensboro, ex-offieio chairman J§. L. Rogers, of Franklin: J. A. fJlenn. of Charlotte; j Walter Thompson, of Concord. ' Hebrew Convention Adjourns. Wilmington, Special.— District. , Grand Lodge No. 5, Independent Or der B'Nal B'Rith adjourned its thir ty-fourth annual convention here last week to meet in Savvannab, Ga., the I third Monday in March, 1909, at which time the grand lodge will go :to Atlanta to attend the twentieth anniversary exercises of the Hebrew Orphans' Home there. Officers elect ed are: President, Henry S. Hut selor. Richmond, Ya.; first vice presi dent, Montague Triest. Charleston; second vice president. Leonard Haas, Atlanta. Oa.; secretary, Joseph L. Levy, Richmond, Ya.; tf?asurer, A. Goodman, Baltimore; Sergeant at arms, M. W. Jaeobi, Wilmington. A. & M. Commencement. Raleigh, Special.—lnvitations have been issued to the 10fh annual com mencement of the North Carolina College of Agriculture & Mechanical Arts May 24th to 27th. The bacca j laureate sermon will be orfeached by Rev. Dr. George W. McDaniel of Richmond. Va.; the alumni address will be delivered by Mr. A. E. Escott, jof the class of 190fi, and the annual address will be made bv Dr. Paul B. Barringer, of Blackslnirg, Va. ! Goldsboro School Bonds Purchased at 110. Goldsboro, Special.—At 12 o'clock ; Thursday scaled bids for the pur chase of the Goldsboro High School bonds ware opened. The bonds were for $20,000 and were for 20 years, bearing 6 per cent. They were award ed to Seosong & Mavor of Cincinnati, for ' fraction over 110. Incorporation. Raleigh, Special.—The Goose Grease Company, of Greensboro, with SIOO,- 000 total authorized and $5,000 sub scribed capital stock, was chartered last week. The incorporators are: LP. Rice. W. E. Land and B. H. Tiaaott."',^'* 1 •- - "* State Board of Examiners. Raleigh, Special.—The State Board of Examiners met in the office of the State Superintendent and graded the papers of the teachers wbo stood the examination in April for high school certificates. IWILLIAMSTON, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1908 WORK Of CHURCH WOMEN Methodist Home Mission Society in Session in Durham. Durham, Special.—The Woman's Home Mission Society of the North Carolina Conference, M. E. church held its seventeenth annual meeting in Main Street church in this city. The exercises opened Thursday even ing. Addresses of welcome were made by Rev. M. Bradshaw, in be half of Main Street church; by Prof. R. L. Flowers, in behalf of the Sunday school; by W. A. Bivins, in behalf of the Epworth League; and by Mrs. J. C. Angier, in behalf of Main Street Auxiliary. The re sponse to these addresses was made by Mrs. R. O. Burton, of Raleigh. The work of the Woman's Home Mission Society was then outlined by Mrs. W. H. Shaw, of Wilmington. Mrs. Shaw was, lor several yean, president of the Conference Society. She knows the work thoroughly and knows how to present it in a most in teresting way. The foundation, or cornerstone of this work is parson age building. The session was well attended and was one of much interest lo the de nomination represented. Young Rigsbee's Injuries Trovcd Fatd. Durham, Special.—Clifton NT. Rigs bee, the young white man who was fearfully hurt a £c\v days ago by get ting an inch bar of iron thrust through his body, died Sunday after noon ar Watts' Hospital. Young Rigsbee was 23 years of age and left a wife and one child, a father and several brothers and sistew. He was one of the chief linemen for the in ter-State Telephone Company and was on the tool wagon when a dig ging bar, an inch in diameter and eight feet long, dropped, one end fur ward, while the wagon was moving. This shoved the steel bar into Rigs bee's body, the bar entering in the small of the buck ai.d going almost through him. He and tlie tutiti with him at the time made several efforts before he could get the liar from his body. Pfotn the very first lie was in a serious condition and But small hopes were ever entertained for his rovcrery.- ' / Prompt Work Saves Town. Burlington,, Special.—What *»rom ised-to be one of the most disi Ct rous tires in the history of the city was by the prompt work of the firemen and a favorable calm averted Sun day night only after the destrue tion of W. A. Loy's livery stable with two horses and about nil his vehicles, anl two blaeksmith shops adjoining Some of the horses which were got out were badly burned. The lire started about 9 o'clock, but the origin is not known. None of the losers carried insurance, the rate on ac count of the proximity of threo oth er stnbles being almost prohibitive. For several minutes after the llremen arrived on (he seene the water pres sure was very weak and it seemed im possible to save any of the buildings near, which include three other sta bles, the Ward Hotel and several dwellings. Default of SI,OOO Bend. * Wilson, Special.—There was a large crowd hi Wilson in nntieipa fion of being present at the prelimi nary examination, which was schedul ed to have come off before 'Squire W. R. Wood at 10:.'10. Messrs. Woodward and Hasscll luivo been re tained by defendant, while Mr. W. A. Finch will assist Solicitor Dan iels in the prosecution The attor neys held a conference, and those appearing for defense waived exami nation—only Mrs. Wells being ex amined. On default of a one thous and dollar bond, the fellow was com mitted lo all. He is the negro who a week ego attempted the life of Mrs. IM'otrt Wells, in Old Fields township. Railroad Question Settled. Troy, Special.— l -The railroad ques tion i.l Troy between the D. a nil C. and A. and A. was finally settled to the satisfaction of all parties con cerned. Officials and attorneys on each side met here and held a ron ferenee and loft over the I). : and C. rails on the A. and A.'s motor car for tSar, N. C-, where these two com panies connect; Memorial Exercises ct Durham. Durham, Special.—Memorial Day exercises were held Sunday after noon, the veterans, Daughters of the Confederacy and others going to Maplewood Cemefery and decorating the graves of tbe dead soldiers who now rest in that burying ground, forito « lsrgft niirnhpi- Kent—nut to jitieiiu- the impressive exercises-'held in honor of the dead heroes. Mr. W. J. Brogden, of this city, was the speaker for the occasion. Taps were sounded by one of the veterans. There was a fine musical programme, thisbeing by a picked number of THE BLUE JND GRAY Meet at Salisbury, N. G, and Unveil Monument TO MEMORY OF MAINE'S DEAD Beautiful Monument of Gray Granite Dedicated to the Heroes Who Gave Up Their Liv«s For the Union in Salisbury Prison. Salisbury, N. C., Special.—With elaborate ceremony, marked by a dig nity and solemnity befitting the oc casion, the State of Maine, through her official representatives, unveiled a stately shaft to tbe memory of the 203 who died in Salisbury prison during the Civil war. Throughout tho exercises there was a tender note of sympathy for the heroic dead who lie in the trenches ■jf this beautiful city of the dead, and •very speaki'r voiced in words in spired by deep-founded patriotism tribute as clyquent as if it had been delivered upon those who fell in the thickest of the fray. That they had sacrificed their lives in prison was but the fortune of war, and their sac rfice was as glorious, for "Thcr fittest plaee where man can die Is where he dies for man." Full five thousand people, most of them men ajul women who had been true to the Confederacy, looked upon the exercises and entered into the spirit of a momentous occasion—ap plauding earnestly and sincerely this tribute of a great State to the men who died that the Union might live. Crowded into Hie speakers' stand were the ir. n and women who bad traveled so Car to do honor to their countrymen; flecking the hillsides in every direction, as far ns the eye could renclw were sympathetic thous ands who joined heart and soul in fbfs tribute to the brave; who realiz ed that "No more shall the war cry sever ' Or the winding rivers he red." And over yonder, hard by the trenches stood the "thin gray line," with te.ir-dimmed eyes, It wits n scene never to be forgot ten by those privileged to witness it. Never was this hallowed spot more beautiful with its carpet of green, shaded hy the sorrowful willows, dot ted wit I its thousands of head-stones, mute tribute to those wrapped in eternal slumber, for here— On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glorv guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead. The f mal ceremnnie« of the dnv begin with tLie parade to the Nation al Cenniory, which formed in front of the l.inpire Hotel and under corn maud of Adjutnnt General T. R. Rob ertson proceeded through the princi pal strc's of the eit.v and thence to. the cem l 'erv. The parade was 1 lead ed by tli" Forst Hill Rand Qiid the Rowan Rifles, and then came a de taehme-it of Confederate veterans on foot am! the ladies and gentlemen of the Maine partv and the speakers of the day i" carriages. The visitors and the State officials occupied seats in the band stand and when the exercises began at 2 o'clock there was not standing room as far as the rv • could see from this post of vnntage. Hon. Thomas O. Lihby. State councillor, acted as master of ceremonies and, following a prayer bv Hon W. Scott Libby, introduced Secretary of State J. Bryan Grimes, who was present as the personal rep resentative of Governor OJcnu. Secretary Grimes apologized for , the absence of tbe Governor' stating that imroriant engagements kept him awav. Then, in an address of consid erable length he extended the greet ings of the State, of North Carolina to the visitors from the Pine Tree' StafT In"happy contrnst was the response on behalf of the State of Maine by Hon. Thurston S. Burns, of West brook, Me., and this felicitous strain, spoken with an earnestness and en thusiasm that betrayed the sincerity underlying it, was re-echoed and em phasized by Mayor Boyden, in ex tending a welcome to the City of Sal isbury and in the response by Hon. Lcroy F. Pike, of Cornish, Me. Mayoi Boyden never made a happier speech in his hfo and it was applauded to the echo. He voiced the welcome nil Salisbury and all North Carolina. The occasion was one long to be re membered, ami will be largely helpful in cementing the friendship between the North and the South. CHILD LABOR EVIL Discussed in Connection With Compulsory Education MANY FORCEFUL OPINIONS GIVEN Three Speakers From the Bonth Champion the Cause of Compulsory Education and Attack the Employ ment of Children in the Cotton Mills. Richmond, Va., Special.—Dealing with the world wide topio of children, their education, their training and the evil of driving them under steam pressure at the wheel when their frail limbs and bodies were too weak to stand the terrible punishment and strain, tho general session of the na tional conference of charities and cor rection at St. Paul's church arous ed the public to the importance of more adequate laws to protect them from the evils of factory work. Three speakers, natives and residents of the South, first championed the cause of compulsory education, and then at tacked the employment of children in cotton mils, where they helped to give leisure and comfort to lazy and worthless fathers. The broad state ment was made that illiteracy would disappear from the South if these young people could be- dragged from spindle ami loom and turned over to the tender care of teachers. Dr. A. J. McKelway, of Atlanta, assistant secretary of the national child labor committee, who discussed "Child Labor and Citizenship," de clared that there was a time when a declaration of independence was nec essary, but that the day had come wheti a declaration of dependence by the children of Anierjca was needed. v Prof. VV. 11. Hand, of the sily of South Carolina, and Miss Jeati Gordon* factory inspector of New Orleans, pointed out the imperative demand for compulsory education, while Miss Jane Addaius, of Hull house, Chicago, urged a modification of the school by which the child should be taught to donynatc his ma chine of labor and impressed with the relation of his studies to the work which he would later perform. The interdependence of the varying themes was so clearly impressed upon the audience that there was a touch of human interest throughout the appeal and with more definite un derstanding of .conditions as they exist today. Though deploring the child labor evil, there was a tone of optimism in the addresses, for it was shown that good and substantial re sults had been accomplished by the enactment of laws to limit the age at which the young might be employed in factory ami mine. Confederate Memorial Day. Charlotte, C., Special.-—Sunday | being Confederate Memorial day throughout the South,... the occasion was observed by decoral iiigl he graves in the cemetery and by' appropiiate exercises fitting to the day. From all Southern centers of population came reports of befitting ceremonies in honor of both Confederate and Fed eral dead. Monument to Pocahontas. Washington, Special A monument to Pocahontas is to be erected at Jamestown, Ya,,. according to a bill reported from the committee merce by Senator Daniel and passed hv the Senate. The measure appro priates $")0,000 for the memorial pro vided an equal amount is supplied by the Pocahontas Memorial -Associa tion. The monument is to comme morate the first permanent settle ment of English speaking people in the Western hemisphere llirouirh the intervention of the Indian maid. Big Fire in Detroit. Detroit, Mich., Special.— Fire Sun day damaged the three upper floors of the six-story department, store of Goldberg Bros., on Woodward avenue causing a loss of $ 1 '>o,ooo, on which there was $100,00') insurance. The lower floors, which, were not burned, were flooded with water, causing heavy damage there. Life Had Lost its Charm*. , Richmond, Special.—Justus Flav el Wright Gatch, a salesman for the American Seating Company, of Chi cago, committed suicide in his apart-, ments on West Franklin street, as a refinlt. of despondency due to business reverses. The man, who was 53 years of age, fired a bullet into his own temple while sitting upright in a chair with a blanket wrapped around him. -Theriiflrhvis body of the man Was discovered by his young daught er Ida, who heard the report of the revplver. V - . Sl.OOa Year in Advance MAN-A-LIN MAN-A-LIN Is An Excellent Remedy for Constipation. There are many ailments directly dependent upon con stipation, such as biliousness, discolored and pimpled skin, inactive liver, dyspepsia, over worked kidneys and headache. Remove constipation and all of these ailments dis appear. MAN-A-LIN cart be relied upon to produce a gentle action of the bowels, making pills and drastic cathartics entirely un necessary. A dose or two of Man-a-lln Is advisable In slight febrile attacks, la grippe, colds and Influenza. ~ '■ NEWSY GLEANINGS. Illinois Democrats Instructed for Bryan. Secretary Taft. will take a threa weeks' trip to Panama. A Norwegian motor exposition is to be held this coming summer at Trondhjem. John D. Rockefeller. Jr., told hla Bible class that wealthy men wera not to be envied. Nicaragua negotiated In London for a loan of £1,000,000, to be used In railroad development. A bill Introduced at Tokio to quad ruple the Import 'July on crude petro leum has aroused strong opposition. Suit for nearly two millions was entered against H. H. Rogers, G. A. TJurt and A. C. Bedford by a Virgin ian. Senator Bulk Hey, of Connecticut, defended the negro soldiers dis missed on account of the Hrownsville affray. Senator Borah snoke on the Brownsville affair, at Washington. D. C.. asserting the guilt of the negro soldiers. The Russian Government ordered fivo warshlrts. enh to'be liirjrer than the Dreadnought, from ClyJe ship builders. Reoresentatives of Germany, Great Britain. Franco, Denmark. Holland and Sw'eden signed tho North Sea and Baltic treaties at Berlin. Tho Sunreme Court of Massachu setts decided that the Independence League is not one of the two leading political parties of the State. The Reichstag, by a vote of 200 to 179, decided that the German lan guage must he used at public meet ings in all parts of the empire. Kingdon Gould, son of George J. Gould, who as a freshman repelled a hazing party with a pistol, will leave Columbia University without obtain ing a degree. Soldier Burglars Arrested. Tampa, Fla., Special. Privates George Roberts and Jospeh Henrv, of the 11th company coast artillery, stationed at Fort Dade, were brotiphfc to this city and lodged in jail. The men broke into the postofliee and post exchange at the fort and took the cash register and contents and numecous other articles, then escaped in a boat belonging to the govern ment. They were run down and ar retted near B radon town. Tank Steamer Still on Sandbar. New York, Sepcial.—The tank steamer Washtenaw was still upon the sandbar off Monmouth, N. J., where she struck during a fog Fri day, though efforts to free her were continued. There was a fresh breew» in the northwest and a moderate sea during the night. The vessel appear ed to bo in no immediate danger aiht v the crew remained on board.
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