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NORTH STATE HAPPENINGS H • \ , : . Otwrcivcet / Intinat Gliijiml From All Sectioua jf the Busy Tot Heel State STUDENT LOAN FUND. A Practical Method Adopted by the Management of the A. ft M. Col lege at Raleigh for the Assistance of Deserving Young Man in Ob tabling an Education. By means of a unique plan adopted hy the management of the Agricul tural and Mechanical College at Raleigh, a small fund of about $2,000 dollars has in the past seven years been the means of helping nearly a hundred boys and young men of this Btate to obtain a practical education in this institution. For the information of students desiring to avail themselves of such aid and persons in position to assist them in this way, we quote the fol lowing extracts from an appeal re cently issued by a committee of the college alumni association for an in crease in this fund: "Among thoso who anxiously desire to receive training at the Agricul tural and Mechanical College are large numbers of bright, ambitious and capable boys who are not able to pay their way in full through college, but who can save enough from their work to pay part of their expenses. These boys arc therefore cnt cfT from preparation fcr life by the lack of a few dollars. A limited number of boys do pay nearly all of their ex penses by work ut the College, but the amount of remunerative work at any institution is too small to help a tithe of those who sadly need to fit themselves for proper farming. President Hill rej >rts that ho re ceives 'scores and scores of pitiful letters for help from fawn lads whoso hearts are set on receiving an agri cultural education, but who cannot meet all of their expenses. These boys lack only opportunity to become large contributors to the wealth and hap piness of our State. "To he 1 p such hoys, the College started a few years ago a Loan Fund which now amount* to .y2,000. Small as this sum is, it has already helped eighty-eight boys through Cullege. These boys could never have received an education, but for this fund, which has been lent on an average of $43 per student. "The Loan F. tnl is managed in.tlu» way: Loans nro ir.ade only to poor boys of character. Each loan is se cured by a properly endorsed note, and bears (5 per cent, interest. As soon as a note is paid, the origin?.! amount with |K« interest is returned Jo the fund and at once goes to aid , ftiniie other worthy student. It is 1 •most gratifying to say that these' •notes are promptly paid, and that so 1 far not one cent of this money lias i Ibcen lorL ■"Sty*, as graduates of the Collese, I "with a full knowledge of how valu-i able its training was to us, we appeal to the farmers of our State to con-' tribute to this Loan Fund such sums a* thay »r« able. The State eaw give j no monev for this purpose. Each i dollar will aid somebody's boy to get] the special education for which he is' longing. Each dollar will grow year) by year from the interest and soon be helping several boys instead of one. We feel sure that when our farmere and business men know how much good this small fund is doing, and when they Realize how much more food a larger fund could do, they will gladly and generously aiid their contributions whether these contri butions be large or small. A. E. F.scoii, Waller Clark, Jr., and R. 11. Merritt, all of Raleigh, N. C., constitute the committee of, Alumni to whom remittances can be i made. I Gastonia's Elg Poultry Show. Gastonia, Special. —Arrangements have already begun for the next ex hibition of the Gastonia Poultry As sociation. At a recent meeting now officers were elected, dates claimed am! a judge appointed. Mr. J. W. Nolen was elected president, and Mr. S. S. Morris secretary. The dates are December 7th-!otb. ( Boy Kills His Brother. Hickory, Special.—Saturday after noon the twelve year old son of J. M. Allred, of Granite Falls, accident ly sbot and killed his brother, a boy of about eight years. The older boy had carried the gun into the yard to shoot at some sparrows and had it cocked when he attempted to lower the hammer of the gun. In some way the gun was discharged and the entire load passed through the neck of the younger boy, who was standing only a few feet away, al ~ moflt severing iris head from hia body. Committee Returns. .. Spencer, Special. —The committee representing the machinists and other labor organizations, which has been in Washington for the past week in conference with the Southern Rail jp|? way officials relative to the wage scale, have returned, but will givt out nothing for publication. It is said, however, that the employes will get all that they are asking of the company except the number of houn they are to be employed. SOUTH DAKOTA INQUIRES. e Paving the Way to Return the Money For Repudiated Bonds. B State Treasurer Lacy has received * a letter of much interest from Dome j Robertson, superintendent of the leg islative reference division of South Dakota. The letter is as follows: * "I am requested to inquire of you ® the present market value of the State s bonds given in aid of the western 1 North Carolina Railway, ten of which s wero presented to South Dakota. I There is, as you are perhaps aware, a movement in our Legislature to re * turn to your State the money received . from these bonds, and in the dia- I I cussion growing out of it the mem * I bers desire to know the present value '"'of the paper." * "This State paid South Dakota, for the ten bonds, $27,400, which is $2,704' each, including not only the face value and coupons, but com pound interest.. It compromised with _| Mr. Schaefer, of New York, for ' $215,000 for bonds he held, these be , ling valued at SBO2 each with no in herent. It is stated that of the $27,- 400 which went to South Dakota, the lawyers in ho case for that State, f Daniel L. Russell anl Marion Butler, j, probably got half. ~ t Henry Ewing Insane. Salisbury, Special.—The ca">e . against Henry Young, alias Henry Ewing, who attempted to criminally , I assault Mrs. .Tames R. Moss, at Moss 'I I Siding, in Stanley county, on Deccni- I her 15th, wns taken up in Rowan Superior Court, where the cose was moved, Wednesday morning, nad the j result was, after examining several witnesses and Dr. I. 11. Foust, that 'Judge Jones had the jury to decide Jas to Young's sanity and it W63 of | the opinion that the negro was in . sane and the court ordered him con- I fined in the criminal department for I the insane nt the penitentiary, and I should he ever recover, which is jdoubtful, he will he put on triai. It I was feared that he would be lynched iin Stanly, where he fought those >!who rescued the lady. J It Was Set on Fire. .| Rocky Mount, Special.—A fire that I was beyotyi a doubt of incendiary origin, was discovered in an unoecn ! pied residence here Saturday night 'about nine o'clock by.persons living I next door in time to prevent the de struction of the building. Saturday I night a few minutes before 9 o'clock, lit was noted by the occupant of the i house next door that someone was iin this house, which it was known I was unoccupied. Later it was seen | that one of the rooms of the house ! was in a blaze. When the cry of fire was mnJe several persons who were attracted by the alarm saw a person dee from the building. A well-directed bucket brigade put out j the fire. Line is Assured. ■High Point, Special.—At last it 1 roems that this city is to have an electric railwny ami interurban lines. Color & Company, who bought the in terests of Vanbrunt and his associ ates, had their counsel before the board Tuesday night and submitted a contract, which was unanimously indorsed. It. insurer, ears in this city within a year, and an interurban line lin operation in two years. It also fixes the price of travel. In connec tion, a gas plant will be installed, and the company agrees not to sell elec tric lights in competition with the city, which owns its own plant. Work on Line Be£un. i Salisbury, Special.—Work was bc . gun Monday on the new line of the . I Piedmont Street Railway, a newly ' organized corporation in this city, I which will extend from the central j part of the city to the Yadkin Valley ' | Fair Grounds, to East Spencer, and 1 ! to China Grovo. The first rails have ■ been laid and the line is to be in operation by May 1, of this year. Boy Meet 3 Awful Death. Goldsboro, Special.—One of the . most shocking accidents in the his - tory of Goldsboro befell Charlie r King, son of Horace E. King, super r intendent of the Southern Cotton j Seed Oil Mill, at this mill Monday .! nfternoon, when the boy fell into the large conveyor and was fearfully cut } before aid reached him. The first i nlarm that any_ of the employees I heard was the shrieks of the 4hd. o Joe Atkinson, rescued him. Everv s thing that the medical profession - could do was done. but death finally came about C o'clock. Mining Company Reorganized. e Salisbury, Special.—With Walter r George Newman, a well known flnaa- II New York, as president, and [. a working capital of $200,000 avail e able, the Uion Copper Mines, of Qold e Hill, Rowan county, have been re s organized and operations resumed on 11 a large scale. Mr. Newman was prcs e ident of the mine company ten years I ago, but it passed into other hands J and was sold at auction last week. TARIFF CONVENTION OPEN Non-Partisian Board Urged—Pint Session of the National Tariff Com mlssicn Ocnvcnes In Indianapolis For a Discussion of Ways and Means For Improving the Tariff System. Indianapolis, lnd., Special.—Men of opposing political parties and whose views on the construction of a tariff differed as widely as the tenets of their parties, sat side by side as delegates and joined in tumultuous applause Tuesday as speaker after speaker in the first national tariff commission convention vigorously de nounced (he present tariff and the method of its construction. That the present tariff system has been outgrown and that the United States lingers decades behind the scientific methods of European coun tries was repeated almost as often as a new speaker addressed the dele gates. That the prompt establish ment of a non-partisan tariff com mission was the only remedy for present conditions was repeated as often. J. W. Vnn Cleave, of St. Louis, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, who was made the permanent chairman of the gather ing, aroused the first enthusiasm %/ asserting that the tariff must be tak en out of partisian polities, and Con-' pressman Fowler, of New Jersey, who is sponser of the Beveridge commis sion bill now before Congress, caus ed a demonstration when he asserted tha the tariff must cease to be the football of political parties. Former Governor Guild, of Massa chusetts; Senator Brown, of Ne braska, and Congressman Hansdell, of Louisiana, gave (.lit; varying view points of their sections. Henry R. Towne questioned vigor ously (he ability of the members of the ways aiul means committee to deal intelligently with the tariff. 11. E. Miles, as a manufacturer, coincid ed with Mr. Towne, MEXICAN THEATRE BURNS. Moving Picture Machine Starts Fire in Crowded Theatre at Aeapuleo, Mc"l3o, nrd Between 250 and 300 Fccpic Lcec Ihdr Jives. Mexico C'itv", Special.—-Between 2i>o and .'(00 people were burned to death and many were injured in a 11 ro which destroyed the Floi'es Tlieatre in the City of Aeapuleo Sunday night. Tito news of the disaster reached this city Monday afternoon, telegraphic com munication with Aeapuleo having been destroyed owing to the fact thai the telcgrpah ollice adjoining the. theatre was burned.and all wires put out of commission. The floor of the theatre was a wooden affair and over one thousand peyple crowded into it. One of Iho numbers of the pro gramme consisted of a series of mov ing pictures. While the operator was ex hi hi tiiig; these, a tllm caught tire and a hlnzo was quickly communicated to some bunting which had been used for decorative pin poses. Jn-au in credibly short time Hie flames spread lo all parts of the structure. There wei'n hut tihrea m\now exits, uud the panic-stricken audience rushed to these, many falling and being crush ed, their bodies choking the way of escape to others. It was impossible to rescue thtiso imprisoned who were literally roasted alive, as the tire burned with little smoke and few were suffocated. Monday pitiful scenes of grief were enacted in the streets of the lit- 1 tie west coest port. Men, women and children are wandering: from place lo place, bunting relatives or friends. In some instances entire families were wiped out of existence. The munici pal authorities caused laige trenches io be dug and into these the remains of the dead were laid. Mr. Knox Will be Premier. Washington, Special.—ln the opin ion of President-elect Taft, Philan der C. Knox is now legally eligible to receive the appointment of Secretary of State. That he will be the pre mier in the Taft Cabinet was again positively stated by Mr. Taft Tues day night at the White House, the statement being made after two con ferences Tuesdav between the Presi dent-elect and Mr. Knox. 200 Miners Entombed in British Mint Newcastle. Knglaud, By Cable. —A terrible disaster has occurred at West Stanley, a small mining town 12 miles distant, iii which, it is fear ed, 180 lives have eeen lost. There were two explosions at 4 o'clock Tuesdav afternoon in the West Stan lev colliery, which employs 40ft men. Nearly 200 of them were in the pit at the. time, and up to a late hour Tuesday night none of them had como to the surface. Rnppines have been heard, and it is supposed that these are from rome of the miners who escaped death from the explo sion and the fire which followed it. Attempt to Segregate Jap Srhojl Children Fails. Saeremento, Cal., Special.—An un availing attempt was made Tuesday in the loWer house of the Legislature to accomplish by amendment to a school hill the segregation of Jap anese pupils in the public selwols. Its intent was to do what was sought to be done by Assemblvmen Johnson's measure that recently caused Presi dent Roosevelt to address the Cali fornia Legislature. WITHN. (^LAWMAKERS Doings off tk State Legislature Con dsn—rt liter—ltems fron Day to Day. Two messages from the Governoi were laid before the Senate. One rec ommended the payment of tbe $5,7(K claim of the estate of the late Davie L. Swain against the State Univer sity. And the other nrged au amend ment to the 1907 anti-trust aet such as would fulfil tbe party pledge ir tbe Democratic platform in this re gard. Tbe following bills passed final j reading: Renew the charter of the Edge- 1 combe Railroad Co. i Add the State Superintendent oij Public Instruction to the board oi trustees of the University of North j Carolina. Relating to the time for computa tion and settlement of the State debt, extending the time to July, 1910. In the House the special order for the day, the Harshaw bill for the election of the eoanty boards of edu- j cation by the vote of the people in the several eonnties, together with several other bills cf like nature for individual conn ties, iitdndmg Chero kee, was laid before tbe House. Considerable discussion followed. The Governor's message as. to anti trust legislation was read and refer red to the jndieiary committee No. 2. At the night aewion many biUs of local natnre passed their second read ing. Tbe following were of gencraj interest: Empower board of medical exam iners to (mint limited license to cer tain physician* to practice in desig nated territory. For separation of white and color ed priaonera ia the State penitentiary ronviet camps and jail* during eating and —tleeping —hour*.— hy committee so that they shall not be shackled together. This is the bill of Mr. Morton, of New Hanover, and he explained that only four counties now do not separate the races and the bill was introduced to remove all doubt as to the law. A committee amend ment makes a cloth or canvass parti tion sufficient in temporary struc t tires. The fllowinpr new bills were intro duced in the Senate Thursday. Klliott: Amend charter of Far mers' Mutual Fire Insurance Associa tion of North Carolina. Pockery: Calling a constitutional convention to be held the first Thurs day in June, 1011. Rockery and Elliott: Amend the constitution of North Carolina toy providing for quadrennial instead of biennial election*. Blow: Provide for registration and identification of automobiles on the highway* of North Carolina. A number of local bills passed th'jir third reading. In the Houae the following bills of general interest were offered: McWilliams: Authorize the State i-oard of cdneation to unit® with cer tain land-owner* to drain Mattamus keet inke and adjacent swamp lands. Oordon: Establish card index sys tem for grants and change method of (iling warrants, plats and surveys in the office of the Secretary of State. Powd: Amend Sec. 2301. Revival, so tliat in ease a county bids in land at sale for taxes the county shall bu responsible for the State taxes. Powd: Reflate practice of archi tecture and create board of examiner* and for licenses. Morton: Pension disabled Confed erate veterans. (Additonal pensions to those badlv ni**blcd, irrespective of classes and prcperty). Doughton: Authorize issue of State bonds to pay c,!I outstanding State bonds falling due July Ist, 1910. ff. >.340,000). Oiaham: Amend Chap. 074, Laws of 1907, by establishing fifth grade for pensioners and making eligible to pensions all persons of color who served the Confederate government. Graham: Authorize State geolo gist to co-operate with the geological survey and make a map of every county in the State. Many bills of local interest passed their third leading. The following new bills were in troduced in the Senate Friday: Barringer: Encourage agricul ture and home industry. Pbarr: Amend 1199, Revisal, rela tive to appointment of receivers of corporations. Dockery (by request^: Requiring the nse of electric headlights on cer tain locomotive engines. Senator Manning presented a reso lution that when the Senate adjourn it do so in honor of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, this being nis birthday. This resolution was pnt upon its immediate passage. The following bills, passed final reading: Make every vessel or boat in home ports subject to liens. Repeal the law relative to the pow ers of the building committee in the erection of the girls' dormitory of Cnllowbce lligh Silicol. i Exempt railway mail clerics and rural free delivery carriers from jury doty in North Carolina. Amended by Senator Peele to include railroad en gineers and conductors in active ser vice. To strengthen the constitutionality of the set for the separation of the races on street cars. Require all gates on public roads to be automatic to facilitate travel. The Barringer bill for the elimina- Hon of the rale for mileage books t* be presented to ticket agents instead of conductors made special order for nexiWednesday. fn the House the following bills were introduced: Cotten: Provide for the settlement of titles to ljuid in North Carolina and institue he Torrens system. Poole: Prevent forfeiture of lifa policies without notice. Smith, of Harnett: Amend 2672. Revisal, as to penalties on railroads for failure lo deliver freight in reas onable time; amend 2634, relating tc failure of payment of penalties, pre vent persons from walking on rail road tracks, repeal 2631, relating t-i penalties for failure to receive freight , The sepcial order bill, the Fish Bill consumed much time for consideration *.n dthe House adjourned at 2:30 till 3 p. m., when it passed a number of bills on their second readings. In the Senate Saturday new bill* were in part as follows: Spence: Protect holders of aceident insurance policies. The Manning bill to authorize tht> issuance of refunding bonds for the the State bonds that fall due in 1910. aggregating upwards of three million dollars passed second reading, being a roll-call bill. Bills passed final reading were: Amend the charter of the Virginia- Carolina Southern Railroad Com pany. Amend Sec. 1112, Revisal, relating* fo the power of corporations, giving them an insurablo interest in the life of officers and employes or agents in cnscs where a financial loss would be suffered by their death. I Amend act of 1905 and authorize the settlement of the remaining five outstanding bonds of the South I)a --kota class for the construction of the Western North Carolina Kailrad. House bill relative to the property of insane people discharged from in-~ sane asylums and providing that a certificate of recovery by the superin tendent duly recorded in the county shall restore such persons to rights of property. A number of bills were introduced Saturday in the House of local na ture. A goodly number also passed their third reading. Among them was, Committee substitute for Senate bill to provide for inspection of gas, electric and wntcr meters in towns adopting the law. Jii the Senate Monday the follow ing new bills were introduced: Barringer: Provide for the pun ishment of safe-crackers. Wray: Require the board of edu cation to furnish text-books for in digent public school children. Barringer: Relating to the com pensation of solicitors. Dockery: Resolution revising the payment of the expense's of the joint committee on the deaf and dumb in visiting the State School at Morgan ton. Authorize three millions State bonds for refunding the State bonds fulling due in 1010. Senate resolution to pay the ex penses of the sub-committee in visit ing the State School for the Deaf and Dumb. The following pnssed final reading: The substitute HU for amending Sec. 3057, Revival, imposing a tax of $(54 on mineral water companies do ing business State with a grad uated scale of taxes. Scott (by request): Regulate mili tary affairs. ~ In the House on Monday new biils were as follows: Morton: Relative to the sale of non-intoxicating beverages, allowing the sale of those having not more than 2 per cent alcohol. Barnes, of Hertford: Enlarge and rem odd the State-house and issue bonds iiv the sum of $500,000 to pay the same. Ilageman: Provide for the main tenance and enlargement of Appala chian Training School. Linnev: Require the State board of education to furnish necessary books to indigent children. Graham: Establish State drug commission and prevent the sale of adulterated drugs. • Koonce: Increase the annaul ap propriation for Confederate pensions from $400,000 to $500,000. A number passed final reading, be ing of local or private interest. One of the most interesting fea tures of the Senate Tuesday was a preamble and resolution by Senator j Barringer looking to the removal of the State capital from Raleigh to Greensboro. Senators, as a rale, seemed to take the proposition anything but serious ly, and there were amendments from Senators from various quarters of the State to have their respective* towns designated as the seat of the Str.te government. Senator Dofckery wanted Rockingham; Means. Con cord; Fry. Asbeville; Klutts, Salis bury; Bassett, Rocky Mount, and there were others. The following new bills were offer ed: Doughton: Amend the Revisal re lating to weights and measures. Blow: Provide special tax for maintenance of four months' school in vCvery school district in the State. On motion of Senator Orroond the vote by which the bill for the bet terment of rural free delivery ser vice had passed earlier in the day was reconsidered. The bill by Senator Kluttz to pro vide fire escapes and protect human life came up as speeiai order r and »V . y passed its final reading after a num ber of minor amendments. The following bills were mtroduc ed out of order: Means: Prohibit the sale of liquor* in Cabarrus county except in medical dispensary-. Long, of Person: Amend 4789, Re- j I visal, in regard to securities deposit ed with the Insurance Commissioner. In the House Mr. Morton of New Hanover raised a sensation under the ' personal privilege rufe. A number of bills consumed the day. The House was in session three hours Tuesday night, and after pass ing n great untrber of roll-call bills on second reading and on final read ing, many important 'oral and pri vate bills, adjourned to 1G:30 Wed nesday morning. • Representative Taylor's joint ref lation is one of far-reaching import, calling on Congress to make suitable appropriation for deepening the Wil mington and Snuthport channels, and constructing the necessary canal* across Florida for a short route to 'lie Gulf of Mexico and the Panama canal in carrying out the scheme of tl;y .transcontinental railway for a port of entry south of Hatteras, and esepcially with the idea of meeting the great commercial opportunities of the South to be afforded by the opening of the Panama ecnal. Thirty Dead in Collision of Steamers. Algiers. By Cable.—An unknown jailing vessel rammed the Belgian > . iteair.cr Australia during n storm February 12th near Alboran island, n the Mediterranean, one hundred miles from Gibraltar, l'r'h vessels foundered. The total of life was thirty, fourteen men from the sailing ressel and sixteen from the Australia. Ten members of the crew of the Aus- Iralia who had put oft from tint *tenmer in a small hont were picked up hv thp Oormnn steamer Liberia tnd brought in here May Send War Vessel to Liberia. Washington, Special.—Th« State Department is considering the ques tion of dispatching an American war vessel to Liberia where alarm is felt for the safety of British and French citzens employed in the customs ser vice ijf the republic. Already the British government has dispatched a war vessel to Monrovia and also a company of soldiers. The present sit uation, according to official advices, may result in the passing of its 40.000 miles o? territory iulo alien hands. First Day of Cooper Trial. Nashville, Term., Special.!— Filled with dramatic incidents and marked by scenes that bordered on the sensa tional, the ti.-st lav of the actual trial ** of the Cooper-Sha'p case closed Tuts'lav night with both sides claim ing to be well satisfied with the pro cress mru'e. Whether *ol. Duncpr B. Croper. Robin J. Cbop?r and John P. Sharpe kill ed former Ed ward W. Cnrmack in srl f-defpnse nr as a rpsult of a conspiracy is the great ir.s"e ,Vi " GROUNDS FOR COMPLAINT. "Any complaints, corporal?" said, the colonel, making one morning a personal Inspection. "Yes, sir. Taste that, sir," said the corporal promptly. The colonel put the liquid to his lips. "Why," he said, "that's tls bebt__. soup I ever tasted!" "Yes, sir," said the corporal, "and the cook wants to call It coffee!"— Argonaut Does N Color Ayer's Hair Vigor, as now made from our new improved formula, does not stain or color the hair even to the slightest degree. Gray hair, white hair, j blonde hair is not made • shade darker. But It certainly does stop falling hair. No question about that. /I | Show It to your l±H er S ssy.-ss Indeed, we believe It wilt stop every cue ot falling hair ufllesc there is tome very unusual complication, something greatly " affecting the general health. Then you should consult your physician. Also ask him about the new Ayer's Hair Vigor. V Tado by th# J. O. Ay«r 0«., Lowell, M—, 1 1 QHINO i Laxative Fruit Syrup Plaaaant to tak« The new laxative. Does — j not gripe or nauseate. Cures stomach and liver ' troubles and chronic con- ; . stipation by restoring the natural action of the stom • ach, liver and bowels. 1 i Bafuaa aubatttutM. Prtoa BOa. MM
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