North Carolina Newspapers

THE NEWS HI miff Items off Interest Gsdiual By Wire and (Mm 'GLEANINGS FROM DAY IB BAY Un Hems Covering Events of Mai« or Leas latere* at Bona aad Abroad. The Chamber at Commerce of Petersburg have secured an option o» the Index-Appeal of that city and will buy the paper in order to boom the city. The two and one-half passenger *ate on all railroads in Vieginia ex cept the Norfolk and Western goes into effect April Ist. Mrs. Mary Farmer was electrocut ed at Auburn, N. Y., Monday morn ing for the most brutal murder of Mrs. Sarah Brannon, last April. William Brant Eyster, of McKee Rocks, Pennsylvania, is now of the opinion that he is the long lost Charlie Ross. He discovered that his foster parents, who are now dead, were not his real parenta. Charlie Ross was kidnapped 35 years ago. Four persons were killed and five fatally wounded near Pittsburg, Pa., last Saturday by a head-on collision. Ounjiro Aoki, a Japanese, and Miss Helen Gladys Emery, the daughter of Archdeacon Emery, of the Epis copal Diocese of California, were married at the Trinity Church, Seattle, last Saturday. They came (from California, where they could not be legally married. Three dry kilns just outside of Norfolk burned Wednesday, consum ing a fine lot of timber. The loss is estimated at s2o>ooo. An offer for Willie Wbitla to go on the vaudeville stage at SI,OOO a week has been received by his father, who merely remarked: *' They will have to go higher than that." Lawrence R. Boyle, who had been for 20 years the staff of the Boston GHobe, in a fit of despondency last Saturday night, shot and killed hi* irife and himself. The State of Georgia has aban doned the former method of leasing convicts from the penitentiary and •n order has been issued against putting chains on women convicted of misdemeanors. Dr. W. M. Ader, a North Caro linian was shot and mortally wound ed in the late Indian uprising in Oklahoma. The Southern Life Insurance Com pany of Fayetteville, N. C., which eame so near being wrecked by the Seminole disaster, has been absorbed by the Jefferson Life Insurance Com pany of Raleigh, and policyholders are thereby secured and the stock holders get about 90 per cent of orig inal investments. In Raleigh, N. C., the citizens Dem ocratic ticket won Tuesday in a very exciting municipal primary, carrying all before it but one alderman. At Cumberland, Maryland, last week, a woman dying of blood poison, in token of the intense love she bore for her nurse, requested a kiss. The nurse complied, hut caught the dis ease and died a few days later. The Confederate Veterans' Re union will be held this year at Mem phis from Jnne Bth to 10th. San Francisco is said to be put ting $12,000,000 annually into slot machines. The United States Commissioner at New York has decided that Jan Jan off Pouren was a revolutionist and is not to be extradited to Russia for crimes committed. A man said to have murdered a grirl in Indiana 32 years ago) was recently found living in Texas, mar ried and wealthy. Foreign Affairs. Six thousand persons were rend ered homeless, and 30,000 domestic animals were drowned by late heavy floods in Southern Russia. The French bark, Jules Henry blew up at Marseilles Thursday and 12 men were killed. It was a petroleum carrier and being inspected when it is believed the fumes of empty tanks caught from the inspectors light. The lost batch of 0. b. troops ien Cuba Wednesday noon to return to America, leaving the islanders again to govern themselves. Accused of embezzling upwards of $51,000 from the Russian Govern ment, a man believed to be Isaac Yakovlev Matsaenko was arrested in Philadelphia Tuesday night. Count Zeppelin and a small party ascended in his airship at Frieder ickshapen, Gennany, last week, and were caught in a hurricane. One motor refused to work and he could not safely land until he spent 11 honrs in the air. He then landed in M 35 mile gale. Washington News Notes. April Ist was the first check is sning day for President Taft and ss r 625.01 is the sum. President has approved The Baltimore Son's suggestion of a new system of accounting for the Govern ment departments. After' April Ist no opinm in any fontx whatever win be legally shipped into the United States except it be strictly for medical Dun>oses. GUIUY IN SECOND DEGREE Bad Gotten, Tim Holdarllold and B. A. Hopkins Convicted. Baleigh, Special.—After being out all night the jury in the trial of three men for the murder of Dr. E. W. Smith, of Richmond, Va., Satur day morning brought in a verdict of mnrder in the second degree against Earl Cotten, Tim Holderfiold and E. A. Hopkins, otherwise known as "Red" Hopkins, young white men. With regard to Hopkins the jnry Judge Lyon, of the Supeaior Court, sentenced Cotten to 30 years in the penitentiary, the full limit, holding him as the leading spirit in tbe mur der. Holderfield, because he was in the employ of Cotten at his cafe, and because of testimony that he was of good character, .waa sentenced to only 10 years in the penitentiary. "Red" Hopkins was -sentenced to 2 years. Enterprise at a Crisis. Wadesboro, Special.—While noth ing authoritative on the subjeet can be obtained, there is every reason to believe that the unfortunate litiga tion in which the Rockingham Power Company has been involved for the past year will ultimately result in the sale of the Blewett Falls proper ty, and that, too, at no distant day. Factional fights have ltfng prevailed fa the company. Theae fights havo been between what are known as the North Carolina interests, headed by Hugh Mcßae ft Co., of Wilmington, and the Northern interests, with headquarters in New York and Bos ton. The warring factions have made leveral unsuccessful efforts to get to gether and this means that, unless they yet compromise their differences the great water power must inevi tably be sold under the hammer. Over a million and a half dollars have already been spent at the Falls, and it is said that it will take at least as much more to complete the development. Plant is Sold. Greensboro, Special.—Trustee in Bankruptcy of the Industrial News, Underwood, Saturday afternoon re ported to Referee in Bankruptcy Fer guson that he had effected a sale of the property to E. C. Duncan, for the amount of the mortgage, SB,OOO, and recommended that this price be ac cepted. Referee Ferguson made an order confirming the sale upon pay ment of the purchase money. Mr. Duncan's purpose in buying the In dustrial News is understood to be to resume the publication in Greens boro of a Republican State daily pa per. It is rumored that Z. P. Smith, of Raleigh, will be general manager of the business. Lenoir Hotel Gutted- Lenoir, Special.—The Hotel Arch er, F. V. Archer, owner and propri etor, was nearly destroyed by fire here Sunday morning. The fire com pany and citizens using the fine wator system just installed, by the two hours' heroic effort extinguished the flames and saved the walls and rooms of the building intact, but as a re sult of the fire and water together, the remains are almost worthless. The building was originally con structed for a sanitarium at a cost of $20,000. Rooms were finished in the finest woods procurable. The loss cannot be estimated, insurance ng,m Will Build Power Plant. Asheville, Special.—A franchise has been granted to George E. Lad shaw, Gabriel Cannon and A. L. White, all of Spartanburg, S. C., for the building and operation of a $250, 000 power plant nt Potts Shoals, on Green River, a point seven miles from Hendersonville. The officers of the company will be at Hendereon rille. Troopers From Washington. Charlptte, Special.—Through the efforts of Senators Simmons nnd Overman and Congressmen Webb and Morehead, the War Department of the United States government has agreed to send to Charlotte dur ing the 20th of May celebration troopers, flags and other accessories of the department which will aid ma terially in the grand event. Norfolk ft Western Trestle Destroy- Ed by Fire. Durham, Special.—The Norfolk & Western passenger train due here Monday night at 9:15 was annulled and will not be able to make the trip in several days. The trouble comes from the bridge over Staunton river, 35 miles this side of Lynch burg, five spans being bumed out and rendering the track on it unsafe for passage. The company made up a train from this point and sent it out there Monday night. For several days the passengers will be transfer red. Fire at Wilmington. Wilmington, Special^—One battery of three dry kilns of the Anglo Lum ber Company, jnst north of was destroyed- by fire of unknown origin early Saturday afternoon, en-1 tailing a loss of about SIO,OOO, cov- | ered by insurance. The local fire department did valiant service in con-«, fining the blase'to the kiln in which it originated, the fire having raged fanned by a west wind, for three hours. WASHINGTON NOTES Officials of the internal revenue burvau of the Treasury Department are of the opinion that the temper ance movement, which has taken sueh a strong bold of certain sections of the country, particularly in the South, has resulted in increasing the namber of violations of the internal revenue laws in the distillation of il licit whiskey. Recent reports indicate that is many Southern States, especially in Alabama, Georgia and North Caro lina there has been greater activity on the part of the lawless mountain element, who always have been than in many years. These three States now have laws prohibiting distilleries from operating within their borders. In Alabama the law went into effect on July 1, 1908; in Georgia on January 1, 1908; and in North Carolina January 1, 1909. Many legitimate distilleries have moved to Florida and other States where the inhibition does not exist. Whiskey being more difficult to ob tain in a legitimate way has greatly increased the profits of illicit distill ing, with the result that the activi ties of the internal revenue bureau at this time is largely directed to wards the mountain sections of these three States. • • • Eleven members were in their seats Saturday when the House of Representatives m4t to further con sider the Payne tariff bill. It was the smallest attendance of the special session and demonstrated the fact that interest in the debate had prac tically disappeared. Mr. Sparkman (Democratic), of Florida, opened the discussion by making an earnest pica for a restora tion of the Dingley rate on lumber and the imposition of a duty of 5 cents a pound on all cotton imported into the United States. The Philippine Islands were again heard from when Mr. Benita Legardo resident commissioner, spoke in op position to the proposed free trade between that possession and the United Statejj,. His views were prac tically alftig the lines of those ex pressed Friday by his colleague, Mr. Pablo Ocampo dc Leon. • • • South Carolina Wins Suit. The famous South Carolina dis pensary case, involving the disposi tion of about SOOO,OOO of dispensary funds held by the State dispensary commission, was decided in the Unit ed States Supreme Court Monday in favor of tho commission. The case was instituted by the Wilson Distilling Company and the Fleischmann Company in the United States Circuit Court for the district of South Carolina to collect debts contracted by the State in the pur chase of liquor in the State from 1892 to 1907 while the dispensary system was in vogue. The commission, consisting of W. J. Murray, John McSween and Avery Patton, was appointed in 1907, when the State resolved to go out of the liquor business. This commission was empowered by the Legislature to collect all moneys due the State and to pay all of its debts. - At the time the suits were institu ted about SBOO,OOO had been collect ed and there still was about SIOO,OOO due. Bills for something over SOOO,- 000 wore presented by liquor dealers and when the commission dedined to pay them as promptly as the credi tors considered it desirable they brought suits for their collection. The commissioners were charged with bad faith while they claimed the right of such delay as was neces sary for investigation and collection. That the tariff bill in its final form will provide for a permanent tariff board was confidently predicted Tues day hy 11. E. Miles, chairman of the executive committee of the committee of 100 appointed at the recent Indian apolic tariff convention to foster such a scheme. Mr. Miles announced that Senator Aldrich, chairman of the committee, has informed him that he favors some such arrangement, and added that "Senator Aldrich may be expected to distinguish himself by working out the problem." Senator Root, ac cording to Mr. Miles, has also declar ed himself in favor of the tariff board. "The mistakes in the present bill,'' said Mr. Miles, "some of great con sequence, some smal, and one whole schedule known to be radically wrong, with no chance of making it right in either house at this session— and the general need of world markets are" making the need of this tariff board clear to every one." The Tawney amendment to put lumber on the free list was defeated in the House Tuesday. The fixing of rates for the new tar iff bill was begun Tuesday by the Senate committee on finance. Night sessions will be held. It was agreed that no person shall be heard by the committee from : now on, except that limited time may be given to some Senators during the forenoon ses sions. F!RE AT PORT WORTH Destroys $5,000,000 Worth of Property. SIX LIVES WERE SACRIFICED Fire Breaks Out in Fashionable Resi dence District, Gets Beyond Con trol Within Fifteen Dynamite Effective Aasistanci la Rushed From Neighboring Towns. Fort Worth, Tex., Special.—Fan ned by a stiff wind, a fire in the southern portion of this city Satur- day afternoon swept over an area of ten blocks in length and seven in width, destroyed property roughly estimated in value to be in excess of $8,000,000, and caused the death of ■ix persona. The flre, which broke out in a fash ionable resident district, was beyond all control within 15 minutes after it ■tarted, and was not checked until dynamite "was resorted to, four hours later. The spread of the flames was not checked until they had eaten their way to the Texas & Pacific Railroad mrvation on the east. On the south the Hre was checked at the Texas Pa cific passenger station, this steel and ■tone structure forming a bulwark that saved the wholesale district of the city, which at one time was in im minent danger of destruction. A patient whose identity haa not been learned, perished in Walkers Sanitarium and three men were elec trocuted and their bodies burned to cinders in the Sawyer electric plant. Herbert Stacy was fatally burned in an endeavor to save his dwelling, and a fireman fell from a house top and was killed. . It is estimated that 500 families are homeless. Many of these have gone to Dallas, where shelter has been offered. A party of small boys carelessly handling cigraettes is believed to have been the cause of the fire. SULLY'S PLAN, Would Save Great Sums to Cotton Farmers—Tho Warehouse Plan No Faith in it Say Augusta Cotton Exchange Men. Atlanta, Oa., Special.—Daniel J. Sully, the one-time preat Cotton bull manipulator of New York was here Friday ond set forth a scheme by which he claims $lf)0,000,000 to $250,000,000 may be saved to the raisers of cotton in the South. Ei said, "A minimum fund of $10,ti(i0,000, subscribed by the most conservative financiers of the United States, is available to be invested in such iron-clad securities as shall in sure the ability and the responsibil ity of the plan's promoters lo redeem their promises and obligations to the lust detail. "The people of the South will he given the first opportunity to invest in this project, if, upon receiving it, it commends itself to their judg ment." The plan contemplates a chain of warehouses across the South suffi cient to hold one-third of the cotton crop and thereby enable farmers to store their cotton and draw small amounts upon it to enable them to sell at will instead of by compulsion. A Savannah special of Sunday however, says the plan does not com mend itself to the cotton factories there. They claim that the scheme is not prnctical or it would have been adopted already through the Far mers' Union without the aid of Sully. They claim that no improvement may br expected from this source. Killed in Duel With Officers Fitzgerald, Oa., Special.—Robert Grcsham was killed early Sunday morning in a pistol duel with Chief of Police Brubaker and Patrolman Johnson. The man was being hunt ed by the officers and fired upon them from a hiding pluce in u dark alley. The officers jointly opened fire and On-sham f«ll with four bullet wound* Three-Cornered Duel in Street* of Georgia Town. Hazelburst, Oa.,' Special.—Eugene and J. L. Williams, brothers, were ■hut down on a street of this place by V. T. Stowere, formerly of Con fers, Oa., J. T. Williams being proba bly fatally hurt. The brothers are members of the firm of Jarman A Williams. It was stated that Stow ere had given this firm a check the bank would not honor; that Eugene demanded the money and a fight re sulted. J. L. Williams went to his brother's rescue, it is alleged, when Slower* diew Lis pistol. Whole Jury Panel Unfit For Services New Orleans, Special.—ln the criminal district court Thursday Judge F. D. Chretien dismissed the entire jury pauei on motion of Dis irTet Attorney Adams, who" charged that the panel as a whole had shown itself unfit for service; that although the State presented clear cases against a number of accused persons it was unable to secure any convic tions before the jurors. ,' NO TRACE OF YEGGMEN Fleeing Safe Cracker Succeeds la Eluding Buncombe Officers—Track ed to the Madison County Line- Asheville, N. C., Special.—The ef forts of deputy sheriffs pjid a posse of citizens Monday night to capture Garner Moore, alias "Tennessee Dutch," the yeggman parner of Bar ton, who was captured near Ashe ville Monday .evening, proved futile. The yeggman who escaped from Greenville, S. C., Sunday night, were heading for Knoxvillc, when in ter cepted and Barton caught. Moore, after taking Officer Roger's pistol, escaped and while officers followed almost to the Madison county line, no C'-ace of the man~fcould be found. Sheriff' Hunter said that he had sent telephone and telegraph messages all along the line and that he hoped that the man would be taken. Barton iB in jail here. He was (*>- verely injured in his fight with Of ficer Rogers and several boys and young men who aided the officer, Barton has two had Scalp wounds made by rocks and also a serious in jury to the back. When Rarton was overpowered he had a bottle of nitro glycerine, and somehow managed to get the bottle out of hiH pocket and raised his arm in an effort to dash it to the ground, at the time sayinp that he would kill himself and the crowd. Before the bottle could be hurled to the ground, however, the desperate man's arm was caught, and the bot tle wrenched loose. It was then thrown into the river. GIVES STANDARD S SIDE John G. Milburn Reviews the Early History of tho Standard Oil Cor poration From the Viewpoint of the Defense—Claims That the Cor poration Has Done Much For American Industries. St. Louis, Mo., Special.—John Q. Milburn, of Now York, the Standard Oil Company's chief counsel of re cord, late Tuesday began the presen tation of the defendant's side of the ensr in the government's suit to dis solve the Standard Oil Company, of New Jersey, for allowed violations of the Sherman act, now before the United States Circuit Court. Although Mr. Milburn addressed the court only 40 minutes, he found time in that brief period to tell much of the early history of the Standard Oil corporation from the viewpoint of the defense. Tin l two principal points made up to the closing hour by Mr. Milburn were that the corporation had done much for American industries and that the oil business of the early days was of a nondescript type. , "Wherever," said he, "the foot of civilized man had trod; wherever the hoof (if the camel had made its im print upon the sands of the desert, or wherever an artificial light is burned, anil wherever flics the flag of any nation, there will be found the prod uct of Standard Oil. the product of America and Americans." The Federal attorney,. Mr. wwlvtffWT 'Tns op"ii 11 ]>• address for the government shortly after noon, and then C. M. Morrison, forme fly I nited States atorney in Chicago and now Mr. Kellogg's chief associate, finished the government's opening argument by a discission of the al leged unfair competition, scoring the Standard Oil Company for its al iened secret gathering op reports, showing the business of competitors, and charging it further with main taining a secret "spy system. Many Hurt in Tornado Marion, 111., Special.-—Many per sons were hurt and considerable property was damaged bv a tornado which struck this city and vicinitv Ttteday. The storm came from the Southwest and was preceded and fol lowed by heavy rains. The monetary loss is $150,000. The Marion State »nd Trust Rank and a number of offices were partly blown down. Lee's Farewell Augusta, Oa., Special.—The Beech Island Farmers' Club Sunday gave over to Dr. T. E. Oetcl, of Augusta, for safety deposit purposes, the orig- draft of Lee's farewell to his soldiers at Appomattox. The address has been photographed and will be carefully protected. The flub has possessed the k address for some time President Taft and Postamster Hitchcock were guests of the club in January, and inspected the document. The club is an organization just across the river from Augusta in Sooth Carolina. - —, » Prohibiten Law is Valid. Montgomery, Ala., Special—The Supreme Court has declared the State prohibition law valid, all the judge*? concurring in -the opinion. This is the second time the court has upheld the State-wide act of the past Lcpriglature. It was attacked on sev eral constitutional grounds. The Ala bama State-wide prohibition law went into effect January T. It is un derstood now that the law officers will enforce the act. RAILWAY fINISHa Virgira&n Road Connects Now. folk and Decimaler, WV«- BIG CELEBRATION THE SEQUEL The Great and Splendid Entu prim • Financed by H. H. Sogera Qlnbi an Aupicions Send-Off. Norfolk, Va., Special—The opwi^ of the Virginian Railway, extendiag from Sewell's Point, Norfolk, Deepwater, W. Va., on the Kanawha river, a distance of 446 mMea, took place last Friday with A moat aoapia- table by the presence of H. H. Rav en, who built the "Virginian" at • cost of about $40,000,000; Saniwfl Clements (Mark Twain), and riferar al prominent New York financien interested with Mr. Rogers in the un dertaking. The celebration festivities began with the arrival early in the day of 625 people from along the line of tk» new system, on a special train of IS coaches and two Pullman care. The day was filled with events off interest, the programme of enter tainment for the visitors including an inspection of the Norfolk the new Virginian coal piers at Ba well's Point, the largest in the woiM with n dumping capacity into aldp bottoms of 36,000 tons per day, anA finally, a public reception to 11c. Rogers and his guests. Mr. Korean was the guest of honor at a S2O-per plate banquet Saturday night. The Virginian Railway, beguo in March, 1902, was completed Febra ruary 17, 1909. More than one mil lion acres of coal lands in West Vir ginia have been made accessible by ifc and road has opened up a coun try never before enjoying railway facilities. Fact« About New Railway. Built by Henry H. Rogers at a cost of $40,000,000. Extends from Sewalls Point, tide water, Virginia to Deepwnter, Weat Virginia, a distance of 446 miles. Work of construction started March, 1902, and the road was com pleted February 17, 1909. Sewells Point coal pier is the cst one in the world and has a damp ing capacity of 36,000 tons a day. Section traversed by the road oaa of the richest and most productive iai the East. With ft whoop and a hurrah, tba echo of which sounded along tha lino from Norfolk to Deepwnter, in the rugged mountains of West Vir ginia, 442 miles west, Henry HL Rogers' Virginian railway was ef (lcially proclaimed completed and\ ready business Friday . Mr. Rogers, the president of the road, ns well us the man who fur nished most of the money nnil in spired the building of the rnal\ waa here 'to make the announcement.. With him were his friend, Mark Twain, to see that all went well; his son, Henry 11. Rodgers, Jr., and his son-in-law, Urban 11. Broughtaa. Here as guests of the city and the- Virginian Railway, were 700 busi ness men from along the fine of tit* Virginian, and minirlint: wilPi tfyppp-, "wnr r Itrr eTt uteris (I I' Norfolk. ' course, the center of attraction ww in Mr. Rogers, and then everybody wanted to see Mark Twain. The celebration eame to a close Saturday .n it-lit with an elaborate S3O a plate banquet, given in honor tif 11. H. Rogers, at the Montic*«© Hotel by the business men of Nor folk. Among the speakers at tbo evening were If. If. Rogers, VT Jf. White, president of 'he Richmond Frederii ksburg and Potouae Rail' way, who ncled ira--'leastei : ['res ident \\ . \\ . I ;•:11• . cf !he Southern Railway; (boru'c \V. Stevens. of the Ohes'npeake and Ohio; AM'red. P. Thom, general counsel of the Soutb ern Railway; Governor 'Claude A. Swanson, of Virginin; W. R. Maya, of Norfolk, and Samuel 1,. Clemens, (Mark Twain.) The feiUpres of the evening were the hriefi4>cech by Mi - . Rogers and a humoiphi talk delivered by Mr. Clemens.' Shortly after Mr. Ropers had an nounced that the road was complet ed and ready for business, the f!rvt steame. 1 , the M. C. Holm, Captain Hagelberg, arrived at the great coal pier of the road at Sewells Point f«r coal for her bunkers. Four hundrod tons were put aboard of her by means of the loading apparatus in us at the pier in three-quarters «*f an hour. This is probably a recnwl for bunkering ships 011 the AUantitu seaboard, The steamer Everett ar rived at the pier Saturday for « cargo (if 7,500 tons of coal for Mos lem.—Mr. Rogers and many otbe*® watched the dumping of this coal. . When tjbose here from along t!w line of the Virginian arrived aboard' two trains at .S;.'{o o'clock Pricfny morning they were conducted by va rious committers to hotelsand cafes for breakfast. . Then they were taken on an excursion about the harbor,- an oyster roast being served aboard tfee steamer used. A buffet supper wan served at the Business Men's Asso ciation early rn the evening and after that everybody went to the tbeati*.