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WASHINGTON NOTES An almost forgotten incident in which the present Secretary of War, James M. Dickinson, heroically resu cued James F. Joy, a Detroit lawyer, from the Detroit Hirer, fourteen years ago, was recalled Wednesday when a handsome solid gold medal suspended from a ribbon held in the beak of an American eagle, was pre sented to Mr. Dickinson on behalf of the United States Government. The medal, approved by President Taft before his departure on his trip and commemorating the courage of the War Secretary in saving the life of a fellowman, was presented by Assis tant Secretary of the Treasury Hilles. The board of directors of the Nat ional Georgraphic Society Friday held a special meeting to determine the attitude it should assume toward Dr. Frederick A. Cook upon the oc casion of his visit here next Sunday when he will deliver a lecture on his Arctic experiences. The decision was reached that Dr. Cook under the cir cumstances, could not be recognized in an official way. With considerable progress made in checking the ravages of the boll wevil in the South, the prospects for a large protection of cotton are un usually good,*^according to Prof. W. R. Beatty, assistant horticulturiest of the Department of Agriculture, who returned Wednesday from a tour of the Southern States. American manufacturers will be able to find a good market for their products in South Africa if they take the trouble to look over the field and send representatives there, according to Consul-General Julius Q. Lay, of Capetown. President Taft made the electrical connection Thursday that 6et the wa ter flowing through Qunnison Tun nel, near Montrose, Colorado, by which 140,000 acres of arid land is to be made productive. Washington will soon be in the full swing of governmental work under the direction of the heads of the de partments. Two members of the Pres ident % ' Cabinet—Secretary of the Navy and Secretary of Agri culture Wilson —are "sitting on the lid" of the government and two others—Attorney General Wicker sham and Secretary of Commerce and Labor Nagel—are also on hand. The crop reporting board of the bureau of statistics, Department of Agriculture, estimated the cotton crop on September 25 at 58.5 per cent of normal, compared with 611.7 August 25, and 69.7 September 25 last year. ' Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Reynolds will retire from his office on November 1, for a longer period than any of his predecessors for some regimes back. Mr. Reynolds has held that office, muoii«>f the time as act ing head of the department, but Wed nesday he will go away on vacation and when he returns at the end of the month he will devote himself to the work of the tariff board of which he is a member. "This is the home of the Ameri can flag which you carried to the North Pole,'' was the hearty expres sion given Dr. Frederick A. Cook by H. B. F. McFarland, president of the District board of commissioners, in officially welcoming the explorer at the municipal building Monday morn ing, in the presence of a crowd that taxed its capacity. Approval has been given by the navy department to the findings of the court-martial in the case of Frank R. Bitter, chief boatswain's mate, who, with four other enlisted men. were tried as the result of the cap sizing of the tug Nexinscott off Hali but Point, Mass., August 11th. Bitter was fourid guilty on the charge of inefficient performance of duty and was sentenced to six months confine ment and discharged from the navy. The relief work of the Mexican V flood victims is being continued un der the direction of American con suls, according to a dispatch received at the State Department Sunday from Consul General Hanna, at Mon terey. Frost has madf it appearance in all of the stricken districts and has injured the corn crops, which have been reduced fifty per cent by ♦ it, says the telegram, and many of the rural districts will need outrfdfe" assistance until new crops can be * raised. Anti-Batting Law Enforced. New York, Special.— After two years of agitation against race track gambling in this State, marked by the passage of the draatic anti-betting m bill, generally referred to as the Hart- Agnew law, it remained for the Kings county (Brooklyn) grand jury to write a new ehapter in the erusadc Monday when there were handed up in court indictments against the two big Kings county Vac* tracks, three police officials, Ave private detectives and twenty-five bookmakers. /• - . ANYHOW, WE HAVE THE POLAR STAR —Cartoon by G. William*, in the Indianapolis News. NORTHCLIFFE TELLS WHYIT FEARS^WAR German Preparations of To-day Like Those Which Preceded the Confict With France —Britain Not Aroused Yet—Warn ings of Leaders Fail Folly to Awaken the People. Chicago. —ln an Interview pub lished here Lord Korthcllffe, manag ing owner of a London newspaper, de clares there la great danger of war between Germany and Great Britain. "The Americans are so busy," said Lord Northcllffe, "with the affairs of their ownglgantic continent that they have not the timo to devote to the study of European politics, which are more kaleidoscopic in their changes than are those of the United States. "There is an impression in this country that some hostility exists be tween the people of Great Britain and of united Germany. I know the Germans intimately. Prom childhood I have traveled extensively through out most of the German Stated. I have many German family connec tions, and I venture to say that out side the usual body of Anglophobia one meets In every country there la little hostility to the British on the part of the Germans. "And. on the other hand, there Is In England no dislike ,oX Germany. An. contraire. our statesmen are adapting German legislation to our needs, and If imitation be the sin cerest form of flattery the Germans must be well pleased with our pro posed reproduction of their working men's insurance, their labor bureku, and a great many other legislative Improvements that, it appears to me. would bo Just as vital to the United States as they seem to be to Great Britain. "Why, then, if so happy a state of affaire exists between the two na tions. should there be any section of people in England to suggest the nos slbility of war? Turn back to 1869. Was there any friction between France and Prussia? There wa3 no hostility on either side. But any reader of Bussche's Bismarck or stan dard authority on the great German Empire builder xrtjl. acknowledge there was Immense preparation on the part of Germany.—a prep&ratipn that was kept secret as far as possi ble, and which also, as far as possible. FRENCH JURY JUSTIFIES KILLING SUFFERING WIFE In f-rtr y From Asthma, Sh» Had Baqgerf Hep Husband to ~--va Hia Lava by Ending Har Ufa—Jml|a, Jury an-' Spectators In Teara at tha Reoital. I —"A man whose wife Is dying of an agonizing disease is justified in killing her to put an end to her suffer ing if she implores him to do so.* So a Jury, perhaps rather emo tional, decided in the Court of Assizes hare, and Baudln, who, at her prayer, shot and killed hla wife on January 31 last. Mme. Baudln had been afflicted with aathma for years. It gripned her throat. It was a weight on her lunga, It stopped her breath. She begged her husband to aid her by killing her quickly to rid her of the affection that waa alowly throttling her. t Baudln, a mechanic, thirty-nine years old, a rough and plain spoken man, sought to justify his aet with words as straightforward as they were made dramatic. Tears streamed from his eyes while he testified. The Jurors also wept, and the women in the courtroom were ■ami-hysterical. The presiding Judge, who disap proved of the jury's verdict, re marked : "For tbe moment the bandage on the eyea of Justice was a,handker chief." "My wife, whom I loved dearly, had suffered fearfully from asthma," Baudln testified. "She could not sleep. If she laid her head on the pillow she would cry: a I am choking! In ths name of tbe good God, end my misery! Let me die!' "On the night she—she died she waa suffering lntensaify," Baudln went on between sobs. "The mediefne she was taking was newly exhausted. * 'I will go and gtt you some more John Davidson's Body Taken Out Ten Miles From the Cornish Coast. London.—The recently recovered body of the poet John Davidson was buried at sea ten miles off the Cornish village of Mousehole. The body was conveyed from shore in a ship's lifeboat. John Davidson, a poet whose work though highly esteemed by A few cul tivated persons failed of general ap preciation and so of a paying market, disappeared from his home on March 23, and a document that he left indicated that he intended auldde. ia being kept secret by Germany to day. "As to that which la transpiring In the German ahlpbuildlng yards, we more or less know that by 1912 Ger many, In ships of the super-Dread nought class, will be the equal of England. "If we were In your position, able to grow our own food on our own acres. It would matter little to UB If we had merely an ornamental navy. But how few Americans realize that our food Is brought to us from Aus tralia. Canada, much of It from the city of Chicago, and your Western wheat fields, from the Argentine Re public—nearly all of It from over the sea. "We have the official figures of the German naval program up to 1912, which are serious enough, but we know that these figures are Just as Inaccurate as were the" figures made public by Germany prior to the Fran co-Prussian war of 1871. "America is a nation of ontlmlsts •—England a nation of pessimist*. "America should pioduce great art ists, great musicians, great statesmen —you have the material. "Theodore Roosevelt ia one of the few men tit this or any age great enough to Bay what he thinks. Eu rope has no one like him. "John D. Rockefeller could make rn better use of his vast wealth than the founding or jour wonderful uni versity. You should appreciate your rich men—men like J. Plerpont Mor gan—for the wise uae of their mill ions. "YOU really are a marvelous peo ple," he exclaimed, "marvelous for your copservatlsm. You talk about the income tax as though It was something: new and daring. Why, we had our discussion of the Income tat in the time of Queen Elisabeth. "The American press Is a g-eat educational force It exerts untold for-thq uplifting of the public. It la the function of a paper to edu cate." medicine,' I said. " 'No.' she said, 'buy no more med iclne. You know we nre poor. I a gone. Medicine will do me no p ,aJ. I suffer! Oh, how I suffer: " 'But pay no mor» for m>dlclne. I I'avn Qost you too much money al ready. " 'lf you love jne. put me out of my misery. Prove your love and let rae leave you. Kill me! If you v/ora a determined man you would not see I me suffer as I do.' "I waa maddened by the sight of her agony," Baudln endtd. "I seized a revolver with which I intended to defend our home; I shot her In the head; she died Instantly. "I determined then to kill myself, but I thought of my sirter, the only other being who depends on me. I went to see my sister. Fbe wept, but told me I should surrender myself to the police, which I did at once." When Baudln flnlsh-xl his testi mony, given with unaffe-t'-d emotion, all In the court were In tears. Following him. Dr. T)um, a dls tlnguiahed attentat, testlOer' that Bau dln la perfectly sane. B it, said Dupre, he was Incited to h '» fatal act by the atronger will of his wife. Pity for her, directed by her will, led him to shoot her. As Baudln left the courtroom a free man the crowd applauded him. The question whethar It Is morally justifiable to end tbe suffering of those who are bound to die of a mor. »-! disaase has been discuased In this country. Of course it was decided that such an act, whether Inspired by lovo or pity. Is murder. Depth of 200 Feet. Qulncy, Mass.—With one excep tion, the fleet of six submarine boats constructed by iho Electric Boat Com pany for the Government have com pleted all tests and will be turned over to the naval officials In the Charlestown Navy Tard. As g class, the submarines broke all records for submergence, reaching a depth of 200 feet. The Snapper, at Provlncetown, was in the course of her twenty-four hoar teat, this being tbe only per tormcnce lacking in the fleet figures. CHARGED WITH SEDUCTION young Married Man in Trouble with Former Lover. Rocky Mount, Special.—Held upon a charge of seduction under promise of marriage, Mr. L. D. Pullen, a young man of this city and employee of the Atlantic Coast Line was plac ed under a thousand dollar bond for bis appearance in Concord at the next term of court to answer the charge. Tho warrant was sworn out by a Miss Smith, of Concord, and four of the most prominent lawyers there I have been retained by her. The war ! rant upon which the young man was arrested was received by Sheriff C. L. Johnston on Tuesday and the young man was arrested and placed under a thousand dollar bond, which be gave. The alleged facts in tho case are that Miss Smith visited hero about ten or twelve mouths ago and that under a promise of marriage he se duced her. During the time interven ing anil after her return to Concord the young man has married a young lady ot this city, the time of the mar riage being about the time ap|)ointod for the marriage to the Concord young woman. That the ease will be hard fought from a legal standpoint is evidenced by the tact that the young man has retained Messrs. Bunn & Spruill, of this city, with probabilities of other counf-1, while the young woman has retained four of the leading lawyers of Concord. The date for the hear ing of the ease has not yet been set. To Extend Railroad. Washington, Special.—A large del egation of prominent citizens of Washington, Hath, Hunters, Mrid.te, Belhavrij and other points on the casi Bide of Pamlico river met in the county court house here at 12 o'eli»k | Monday morning for the puqioso of considering the proposition of the Governor and Council of State in re gard to the proponed extension of the Mattamskce) railroad from Belhuven to this city. The meeting was large ly attended, and much enthusiasm was expressed. Maps of the proposed route were exhibited and the entire course tit' the road gone over by Cap tain George J. Studdert. He sug gested that citizens of Washington secure rights of way from this city to Batli, and tho citizens of Bath the rights df way to Belhaven, S. C., Burgaw read and explained the reso lution passed by. the Council of State requiring citizens along the proposed route tn secure rights of Way. Short talks were made after which various committees were appointed to work in connection with the charmber „ of commerce of this city securing righth of way for the new road. Washing ton citizens are determined to exert every effort to securing extension of the road to this city, as it means much to her commercial and indus trial interests. Left Baby on the Train. Rocky Mount, Special.—A eas« at evident abandonment and a most un motherly act was that commit teed oil train No. .'II between Richmond and this city- Saturday afternoon. A young white woman neatly dressed I t aided the southbound Atlantic Coast Line train ot .Richmond and it ! was noted that she carried a bundle in her arms. She made the trip to Jarretts, Va., and attracted no notice and it was here that she left the train, to it is believed. Slnrtly after the train had left Jarretts the flagman discovered u baby hut a few months old in th'i car. and the matter was at once re pntf 'd to the conductor. The con ductor left the little one in charge of the station master at Emporia and wired to Jarretts to detain the wo man could she be found. To Restore Street Railway. Fayetteville, Special.—As collateral $7.">,000 has been raised on bonds of the Fayetteville Consolidated Power & Street Railway Co., which was some months ago placed in the hands of a receiver by Judge Lyon, ond as this amount is more than sufficient to liquidate all indebtedness application will be at once made to Judge Lyon to restore the company to its proper basis. State D. A. R.'s Meet. Charlotte, Special.—Encompassed by an inspiring assemblage of Ameri can flags reinforced by long stream ers of white and blue bunting in graceful loops punctuated by the clusters of the national emblems, the ninth annual congress of the national society, Daughters of the American Revolution, in North Carolina, was culled to order at 10:30 Tuesday morning in the assembly hall of the Felwyi) hotel. The dcliverv of a num ber of brief but delightful addresses and the rending of a number of in teresting official reports occupied the first day. Hail Strikes Murphy. Murphy, Special.— &t 5 p. m. Tuesday the most' terrific hail and windstorm occurred here that has ever been witnessed in this part of the Country. Hail fell for thirty min utes larger than quail eggs and was from three to six inches deep on the ground. The cloud came up from the northwest. There was considerable damage to telephone wires and shade trees about town, and the country not beard from. MONUMENT UNVEILED , FATAL MIKE EXPLOSION Franklin County Honors Memory of Her Confederate Veterans. Franklin, Special—The Confeder ate monument here was dedicated Thursday with imposing ceremonies. The monument itself is a thing of beauty. Standing twenty-five feet above the base, in the southwestern part of the court square, it is a fitting tnpjgßial to the brave spns of Macon I'onnty who fought in the great con flict between tho north and the south. It is built of finest Georgia marble and crowned with a conventional statue representing the typical Con federate soldier. The statue is Car rara marble and was made in Italy. On a separate stone is inscribed the name of each of the seven companies that went forth to the war from Macon county. Another stone bears the inscription, "In Memory of the Sons of Mneon County Who Served in tho Confederate Army During the War, period 1801-05.'*' The entire monument was erected nt a cost of «icr>o. . Bad Tire at Newton. Newton, Special.—Friday night in the burning of the warehouse of the Newton hosiery mill, occurred tho most disastrous lire in this place since the destruction of Ryne Bros.' dri goods and Yoder's hardwore stores in October, 1903. Just what was the origin of the fire it seems impossible to gather, nor has anyone been able to suggest a cause. The warehouse was a wooden building 50 by 80 feet, sit uated in the center of a cluster of oth er wooden buildings forming the hos iery mill property. In the back part of building was piled tier upon tier and box upon boxes of the mill'» cheaper grades of work, while ail the front half was filled with bighei grade, gnn ranged goods. It was here lhat the (Ire seems to have started, for all these goods are a t'-tal loss. Tho entire building presentj a charred the rafters and all wood work looking as if it might crumble at any moment and the floor in many places is burned through. The build ing, which is a total loss, was unin sured, while the stock destroyed was worth between $15,000 and SIB,OOO and war only half covered by insur ance. Wilkes County Fair. Wilkesboro, Special.—The Wilkes County Fair has been a grand success. People from all parts of the State have been here. The people of the thirteen surrounding counties have at tended in large numbers. The best of order has prevailed. Hon. W. C. Newland, ofCaldwell, was unable tc be present to open tho fair Wednes day, and Mr. T. B. Finley, president of the association, made a tiunely ad dress. Hon. W. A. Graham, Commis sioner of Agriculture, of Raleigh, de livered a splendid address. The tgri cultural exhibits are excellent and a pleasant surprife to every body, while •he live stock almost equaled them. The racs were excellent with the best horses of die State. A black hcrse. *>wn n d by The Auction Realty Company, broke his record in an exhibition heat Wednesday after noon. The feature Thursday nf'• r noon was a race between Gales Me lane, trotting, and a gray pacer, both horses being of consu 1 . rable note. Heavy Sale of T}bacco. Witiston-Salcm, Speeyjl.—During tho first nine months of/this year the tohaeco manufacturers here have shipped 32,539.102 pounds of the weed to all parts of the world. This is an increase of A,622,200 over same period last year,* Buys Salisbury Printery. Salisbury, Special.—Mr. Harry P. Dcaton, formerly city editor of The Concord Tribune, has purchased tlx outfit of the Barker Printery in thin city and was Friday moving it to Concord where he will conduct a job printing plant, having given up his vork on The Tribune. 1 Fonnd Dead on the Street. Wilkesboro, Special.—W. G. Me- Neal, a prosperous rn reliant and farmer of Wilkes countv, was found dead on the street in North Wilkes boro at 3 o'clock Thursday mombg. He went tlvre Wednesday to attend the (m»««tv' '■•ir. Foul play is sus pected, and the town and county of ficials are investigating. Winston-Salem Pan or Inventor of Typewriter Attachment. Winston-Snlitm, Special.—Rev. Dr. Neal L. Anderson, ti c able and belov ed pnstor of tie First Presbyterian church, is the inventor of the Ander son carriage return attachment for fvpewri'ers, which the Underwood Typewriter Company of New York is manufacturing and Falling. The de vice automatically shifts the carriage of a typewriter, saving time and en ergy, nad exciting much favorable comment from experts when shown at the New York business show recently. Dr. Anderson is an extraordinarily able mechanician. ) r Arrested For Stealing Pistol Goldaboro, Special.—After reading the adventures of "Nick Carter" and how he finally succeeded in landing "Bloody Pete" in jail after a long chase around the world, "Cat" Snipes, a youth of this itv was Sat urday arrested and lodged in jail on charge of stealing a pistol for the pur pose of holding up some one and re lieving them of their v<ialliS and then see if he could hat'e bettor suc cess than "IMcody IV.-." At Least 1 hirtv Lives Lost— More Than Fifty Men Entombed, Only Twenty-Five of Whom Have Been Rescued. Nanuimo, B. C., Special.—Tbiry lives are known to have been lost in an explosion that entombed more than 50 men in the Extension mine of the Wellington Colliery Company here Tuesday. Twenty-five of the imprisoned men were rescued, but the rapidly spreading fire prevented the rescuers from completing their work. Eight bodies were recovered and the workers late Tuesday night were making every effort to force further entrance into the two levels affected by the explosion in an effort to save any who may be living and to recover the bodies of the dead before they are consumed. The fire was constantly gaining headway Tuesday night and while it continues there is little hops of the rescuers being able to reach the im prisond men. All the men rescued were badly injured. The men employed in the collieries on Vancouver island are of the bet ter class of British miners, are will paid and have comfortable homes. The Wellington Colliery Company which owns the Extension mine is eontrolld by British Columbia capi talists, Lieut. Gov. James Dunsmuir being; the head of tfce corporation. CREW OF SCHOONER RELEASED Had Been Held in Mexican Prison Sines September 4—Schooner Held cn Charge of Poaching, Pensacola, Fin., Special.—After be ing held in a Mexican prison at Pro gresco since September 4 and for the first seven days not allowed to even communicate with the American con sulate, ('apt. Joe Scll'ase and seven nv'n of the" fishing schooner Caldwell H. Colt of this port were released Tuesday, according to a telegram re ceived by the owners of the vessel from the American consul. At the same time a letter reached here from Progreso from th captain who states that he is not allowed to communicate with the American consul nor will the officials tell him why he has been arrested. The Mexicans have refused to give up the schooner, having lodged a for mal complaint against her of poach ing. The master of the schooner claims that he was caught in the gulf storm of nearly three wcks ago and so badly damaged that ha went into l'rogreso for repairs, lint was seized immediately. BLUN'S PROTEST REFERRED. Appraiser at Philadelphia Will In vestigate Classification in Tariff Law of Gum Rosin. Washington, Special.—A protest of Henrv Blun, .Jr., of Savannah. Ga., to the Treasury Department that wrong classification in the tariff law was admitting gum rosin from abroad free of duty to tlv serious loss of the southern trade has been referred to the appraiser at I'lriiadelphiu for decision. The appraiser will have to deal with a shipment from abroad and whatever he recommends in the mat ter will be approved by the Treasury Department. Mr. Plan was at the department Tuesday and conferred with Acting Secretary Reynolds and the matter was later put up to the Philadelphia appraiser for investiga tion and cWision. Under paragraph 20 of the new tariff law gum rosin, natural -and tin eomponded but advanced in value or condition by any process of treat ment beyond that necessary to the proper packing of drugs and the pre vention of decay or deterioration pending manufacture, is taxed one fourth of one cent a pound and in addition ten per cent ad valorem. Wabh Must Serve Sentence. Chicago, Special.-»-John R. Walsh, convicted of misapplication of the funds of the Chicago National Bank, must serve the sentence of 5 years, imprisonment imposed upon him by the trial jury save in the event that the supreme court upsets the aflir/na tion of tlie verdict of guilty handed down by the United States circuit court of appeals here Tuesday. Judge Fite places Stegall s Successor Under Bond. Atlanta, Ga., Speeih . —Following close upon his action in the Stegall case, which 'fretfulfed in a spirited clash between the Stnte and Federal courts, Judge A. W. Fite has placed B. P. Thompson, Stegall's successor as' government. storekeeper and gauger, under bond of s.'loo to appear at the next term of the Dade county court and testify in the prosecution of the Curetou distillery at Rising Fawn. Judge Fite himself is now under su' p'-ona to a>m"ar in the United States court 1> r • on Thursday and testify in the Stejall habeas cor pus proceedings. - Report of Bahs Ginned. Washington, Special.—There had been ginned to September 25 counting round as fyalf bales. 2,502,888 bales compared with 2,590.639 for 1908 These are the figures given in a report of the censiis bureau, issued last week. The round bales included this veai were 48,176. corrpar?d ■"•itli 57.107 for 1908. TIIH Sea I«h>vl cot'on re ported for*l9o9 with 11,457 for 1909. «
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