North Carolina Newspapers

THE ENTERPRISE Published Weekly. WILLIAMSTON, H. C. «r ' i ===== i Racing lutll IN m&d« to fit tbt vecaalon. Mark the returned vacationer. By Via tan ye ahall know him. Some people-to on plcnlca and oth er* get their ahower batha at home. Old General Humidity la once more In aupreme command of all the force*. Air pockets continue to cauae trou ble, but nobody ever trlea to pick them. The tide* ebb and flow In political battle*, but the fly seta swatted all Uie time. Another way to avoid aup*troke I* e to ilet somebody els* do the political wrangling. Alrahlp or aeroplane. They can both become engines of death when the unforeseen happena. 1 In Germany, too, the birth rate la declining. la the whole human race Volng co commit suicide? New Tork ha* again given evidence of Ita dislike of dead ones by avert ing the hear** driver*' strike. Not until hi* wlf* goee away on a , vacation doe* a man fully realise the 1 toy* of poker aa a summer sport Conflicting emotion* *way the girl who I* a delight to the eye In a bath ing ault but who freckle* In the *unl A historian claims that the liberty bell la a myth, but our English breth ren have reason to suspect otherwise. Perhaps If the weather bureau will take an Interlude In lta prediction of j showers, the perverse akles might fa vor ua. A London suffragette who donned male attire had her shins kicked by a mob. Even the hobble skirt ha* It* advantage*. A ault brought In 1826 has Juat been settled. There must have been eome of the law'* delay* In the good old time*, too. Why bother to water the plant* while wlfle 1* away? lt'a much easier to buy her a new set Juat before ahe !■ expected home. We are becoming a spry and sprlght ly people, science flnd*. A reflex, no doubt, of the agility acquired In dodg- i lng automobiles. One pleasurable form of summer va cation Is to spend two weeks on one of those scout cruisers now engaged ID | hunting Icebergs. A French town has proposed a grad uated tax on fat residents, those under . 135 pounds being tax free. The weight 1 of opinion Is against It. Is the large Increase In business shown by the Indianapolis postofflc* for the fiscal year evidence of the In duatry of Indiana's authors T An Austrian eount has gone Into bankruptcy with assets of |7.20. It looks as If some American heiresi might get a bargain there. When a small boy can go around all day attired In nothing but a cotton bathing suit the amenities of civilisa tion do not greatly bother him. Over In New York an alimony claim for $28,446 was sold at auction fot fIOO. This does not sound like a sporting proposition. It looks more Uke a donation. There are nearly 12,000 lawyers In active practice In New York city. Nc wonder some of the people there pre fer to settle their disputes on th« streets with revolvers. A Pennsylvania farmer says he has a flock of hens that can run th* mu sical scale, but what we want in oui hens is less artistic temperament and more egg laying ability. A New Jersey man has been fined for allowing mosquitoes to breed on hi* land. But how can a man dl*per*« a flock of Jersey skeeters unless hs be arm*d with a gatllng gun 7 A denlaen of a Detroit boarding houae demand* that his room rent bi returned because he has been forced to kill 28,000 bedbugs. if he doei not have a care he will be arrested foi banting without a license. Students of the University cago have been forbidden to uae tooth pick* In public, if thl* *ort of thlni keep* up, Chicago will aoon be de prlved of all lta dlatlngulahlng cbarao terlstlca. » It la said that girl acout* must lean to bake broad, waah and Iron, do slm pi* cooking, build a coal fire, dan sock* and take oar* of bablea. Bui what'* the UN? Olrla who can do at of those thing* don't h*v* to do an) scouting. People who complained of the heal during the past few day* should havi their attention and memory directed t the record* of a year ago. Having re called the temperature* of that tor / rid Interval they will be duly thank fal that they are alive thl* year. ijttlsnMti' T 1 nil ' iriTii "• *■■■**•»aitoar: S. MARINES ON NICARAGUA* SOIL WASHINGTON LANDS A FORCE TO PREVENT ANARCHY IN NICARAGUAN REPUBLIC. ORDER WILL BE RESTORED Th* Marin** Landed at Corinto and Were Hurried by Train to the Nicaraguan Capital. Washington.—American bluejackets and marine* were landed In Nlcara gua for protection of United States j citizens and their property. The ex ! pedltlon, part of the force of the gun boat Annapolis, under Lieut, James A. I Campbell, Jr., wan landed at Corinto I and transported by rail to Managua, American forces were landed only j after President Diaz had confessed the Inability of bis government to protect the American owned line from Corinto to Managua and the steam ers on Lake Managua. Some of the latter had been seized by the revo lutionist* under General Mena, depos ed minister of war. Mr. Weltzel de manded of Mena the return of ves > *els his men had taken and used as I warships In the attack upon Managua the capital. The American minister reported that foreigners concur with resident American* in Managua that thl* ac tion upon the part of the American naval commander was the only move which could have prevented complete anarchy and the spread of disorder throughout Central America, The Annapolis Is a small gunboat and her complement Is only about 176 men so that Captain Terbune employed a much larger proportion j of his force In this Instance than usu j ally Is drafn from a ship's company for a landing party to operate as far from the vessel as is Managua from Corinto. The state department Is averse to Intervention In the factional quarrels lof the Central American republics, but It Is understood its position In this case is the constitutional guar antee must be respected and whoever seeks to administer the government of Nicaragua must base his title not upon force of arms alone, but upon the majority of the baiolts of the people, caßt without duress. NEGRO fo LYNCHED BY MOB | Th* Victim'* Brother I* Being Chased j and Will Likely Meet Same Fat*. Demopolis, Ala. —Sam Verge, a ne gro, was taken from officers near Hall's creek, Marengo county, near here, and riddled with bullets. His | brother, Richard, heavily armed, Is being sought by a posse and, if he Is I caught, the same fate probably will I be meted out to him. Vernon Tuft, a well-to-do- farmer, | was the employer of the negroeß, and had words with them about putting a team of horses out of the tain. Tutt j struck one of the negroes with hlB fist and the other got possession of a shotgun in Gundy's store and barrl eatled themselves after driving dandy and Tutt off. lAter Tutt returned and was shot and mortally wounded. Gandy gave the alrm. I . To Search for Snake*. New York.—Not In a decade or more have there been so many snakes In the southeastern part of New York ; state as at present, accord ng to re ports received by the New York Zoo | logical society. Because of this prev alence the society has placed In serv ice an automobile equipped with 500- ; candle power searchlight and will i hunt the snakes by night in several i suburban counties. The automobllS 1b equipped to carry several hundred snakes. New Kind of Whisky. Columbia, Mo. —A new kind of in j toxlcatlng liquor has . been discovered In Missouri. At the bottom of every , ! silo Is found a liquor produced by II the fermentation of the Bliage. It 1B j similar to ordinary corn whisky be j fore being distilled. While it Is not I expected to become fashionable at ! ! city bars, the liquor is pronounced ! ! good, considering its cost. I Only Chinese Birdman. San Francisco. —The only Chinese I aviator In the world, Tom Cunn, i made an aeroplane flight at Alameda j carrying Gen. Lau Tien Wei, formerly i :In command of the Manchurian army i ' of the Chinese republic, and now in this county to inspect the American aimy. The general was taken one 1 thousand feet up and carried through v i turns and dips In fearless fashion. I | When he set foot on earth he an » j nounced unqualifiedly that aviation > would be introduced into the Chinese army. 1 Witness Shot Dead. * Winona. Miss.—The finding of an 1 unbreeched shotgun, wrapped In a " sack, in a glnhouse, 200 yard* from 1 the home of Eugene Shewmake, at 5 Eupora, where Walter Permenter was shot to death, Inspires the peace offi cer* to hope that the assassin will be captured. This Is the first import ant clue unerathed in the last chap * ter of Winston's county'* bloody trag * edy. In which pretty Janle Sharp was ' killed. A reward of SI,OOO has been offered for the arrest of Permenter'a slayer HENRY L STIMSON wt WkJ:V Mr. Stlmson Is secretary of war In , Prealdent Tift'i cabinet. ;i— • I MRS. DAISY GRACE FREE - i MRS. GRACE WILL MAKE NO STATEMENT A 8 TO PROBABLE SUIT FOR DIVORCE. Women Preae Around Her Whan the Verdict |a Rendered, Congrat ulatlng Her. Atlanta.—"Not guilty." A startled cry fell from the quiver ing lips of Mra. Daisy Ulrlch Ople Qrace, when the Jury foreman pro npunced the verdict which forVer puts the woman beyond the pale of the law on the charge of shooting her hus band, "Gene" Grace, In their home. 28 West Eleventh street, last Mhrch The stirring climax of the trial crowded Itself upon the prisoner, her attorneys, the court and others. The wretched woman, pale and trembling, almost ran through the Btreeta from the car line to the court room, and when she sank, exhausted in her seat, her Hps were hard set and her flngertt beat the table like strokes of a trip hammer. Word was sent to the attorneys J after the Jury had retired that they j wanted further instructions from j Judge Roan and Ave minutes later it was announced by Deputy Lydell that the Jury was ready to give its verdict. Mrs. Grace was not in her seat when Judge Koan ascended the bench to receive the verdict, but ahe rushed in before the Jury came from tho ante chamber. "Gentlemen, have you reached a verdict?" came clearly from the ! bench. William A. Laird, the foreman, nod ded. The court room was hushed. It was possible for one to hear the heavy breathing of the crowd when Foreman Laird raised from his seat "Please read It," commanded the court. Mrs. Grace moved a trifle forward. She bit down heavily on her lips. Her face was livid, and her handß clutched nervously at the yellow telegram which had startled her Just a min ute before. "We, the Jury, find the defendant not guilty!" LIME BENEFITS THE SOIL Southern Railway laauea Booklet of Intereat to Southern Farmera. Washington. An Investigation made by President Flnley of the i Southern railway system has shown that experts in the chemistry of 80118 are unanimously of the opinion that lime In some form will benefit many of the soils of the Southeastern slates by correcting their acidity and improv ing their mechanical condition. President Finley has secured the 1 opinions of expertß throughout the i Southeastern states and also in the I Eastern and Middle Btates, in Home of which experiments with the use of lime have been carried on for a long series of years. These opinions have been published In an illustrated I folder, which is being widely tliatrlb ' uted among the farmers in the terri ' tory traversed by the lines of the i Southern railway system. Farmers and others Interested In t this subject may obtain copies of this I folder by addressing W. W. Finley, I pres'dent Southern Hallway company, Washington, D. C. Gunboat Ordered to Blueflelda. ' Washington.—Evidence of the grow • Ing anxiety of the administration. in 4 regard to the revolution In Nlcara t gua was shown when orders were IB i sued to the gunboat Tacoma at Guan » tanamo. Cuba, to proceed forthwith i to Blueflelda. She Is due to arrive s soon, and will try to communicate i with Managua, so Minister Weltzel • may keep the state department in • formed of developments. The gunboat i Annapolis, on the west coast has been » getting only fragmentary advices from -Managua. Palmer Bcales Mount Bsndford.' II New York.—The conquest of Mount • Sir Sandford, the highest peak in the t Selkirks, by Howard Palmer, secre s tary of the American Alpine club, is i- nounced In a message sent by Mr. II Palmer to the American Georgraphl t- cal society. The ascent of the moun »■ tain, which la 11,634 feet high, and [- 1b practically one continuous wall of • Ice, was made on June 24. No less n than eight separata attempts to scale • Sir Bandford have been made during the last half doien years. - - ~ :--.v^,r ( v-v-V- )& $250,000 WORTH JEWELRY STOLEN MOST BUCCEBBFUL -RAFFLES" ON RECORD IN HANDS OF CHICAGO POLICE. V ' ' STOLE ONLY FROM THE RICH He Watched Movements of Society Women In Order to Pull Off His Coups. Chicago, 111.—After twenty-four ' hours' work the police completed an inventory of the ait treasures, brlc a-brack, Jewelry, silver plate and oth er articles stolen by Jacob F. Guth rie, alleged society burglar and forg er, now under arrest, and announced that the goods recovered ar« estimat ed to be worth $250,000. After a partial examination of the barn and the room In a storage ware house which Guthrie used to hide a portion of the articles stolen, the po lice estimated the value at $150,000. This was nearly doubled when half a dozen additional trunks and chests tilled with Jewelry, laces and bric-a brac were discovered. Much of the stolen property was found In Guthrie's home, where he lived with his mother, | sister and brother, who is a Chicago policeman. More of the young man's history revealed that after graduating in a course In electrical engineering at a Chicago technical Institute he ob talned employment with an electric company. Later he was employed in the municipal laboratory. Subsequent ly he was appointed an Instructor in electrical engineering at one of the public high schools. Guthrie Is 26 years of age, six feet 1 In height and weighs 200 pounds. He Is poorly dressed, although when ar rested he had more than $16,000 de posited to his credit In Chicago banks. Chief of Detectives llalpln said: "Beyond a doubt Guthrie has ob tained the most valuable collection ' of stolen articles I ever saw In all !my connection with the Chicago po j lice departments. There 1b an end less list of all kind of Jewelry, silver j ware, brlc-a-brack and art treasures. There are diamonds, rubles, sapphires, emeralds and pearls worth thousands of dollars each. "All his burglaries were commit ted In the homes of the city's most wealthy citizens. He read the society 'column in the newspapers and when the noticed that some wealthy woman had left home for a few days he then would break Into the house and steal the most valuable articles he could find. "He has confessed to entering the homes of a score of wealthy persons. I have no Idea what percentage of the stolen goods we have recovered. He apparently kept all the things he stole which appealed to his artistic taste. But he must have disposed of a large quantity of the plunder." REBELS FLEEING TO BORDER Believed That the United Statea Will increase Patrol Along the Border. El Paso, Texas. —Movements of the Federal and rebel armies In the dis trict south of the border at this point, together with the yet uncompleted de aertlon of the American coloniea in the trouble zone, occupies the Inter est of officers of the United States troops engaged in patrolling the bor der at this point. A party of thirty men from Colonta, Diaz, to the west of the Casas Gran des district, arrived at Hachlta, N. M., according to advices received at Bliss, and the colonies are expected to reach the border. The Americans from the latter settlements are re ported to have been unsuccessful In reaching the Federal army, engaged in a series of skirmishes with the rebels about Casas Grandes, and have attempted the hard overland trip. —report has readied the United States secret service that General Sal azar, with 1,000 rebels, has evacuated Casas Grandes with the two groups of Federals, greatly outnumbering the rebel forces, in pursuit. According to this Information Sala zar Is headed for the border, moving due north. Dog Finds Murdered Girl. Washington, Pa.—After a search of 24 hours the. body of Cella Funka, au 18-year-old Austrian girl, who had been missing from her home at Mani fold, three miles northeast of here, > was found near Washington by a i Newfoundland dog, which had been her pet for years. August Funka, fa ther of the girl, was led to a clump of trees by the animal, and there dls i covered his child. She had been chok i ed to death. On her throat were the prints of fingers. Britons Held for Spying. Berlin, Germany.—The Lokal Anzel ger publishes a Kiel dispatch saying ' that five Englishmen, whose names have not been made public, have been i arrested at Eckenforde, in Schleswlg . Holsteln, on the charge of espionage. ■ They appeared oft the coast in a - yacht and two of them went ashore. I It Is alleged that they were making I photographs when they were arrested, i The police confiscated plates which i they found on the yacht and which, j whan developed, proved to be p ctures of the Holsteln coast. ... \ WILLIAM M. BULLITT | ■ m Ik William Marshall Bullitt of Louis ville has been appointed aollcltor gen eral of the United Statea to auooeed Frederick W. Lehman" St. Louis. MEXICAN HANG AMERICANS BODIES OF THE VICTIMS WERE FOUND NEAR CANANEA, 80NORA. Madero Says the Americans Were Hanged by Rebels In Order to Cause Intervention. Mexico City.—Two Americans were banged near Cananea, Sonora. Their bodlea were found and the Incident reported to President Madero by the governor of Sonora. The governor has ordered an Investigation. He be lieves the two men were executed by j rebels In order to precipitate Amerl- | can Intervention. The victims have not been Identified. Juarez, Mexico. —General Pascual ( Orozco, commander-ln chief of the j Mexican rebels, declared he did not recognize the United States govern ment. He made the remark to Thom as Edwards, American consul here, who called at the rebel leader's quar ters to deliver a message from Secre tary Knox. The message, belated through diplo matic channels, was regarding the treatment of the American aettlers in northern Mexico by the rebels, grow ing out of the disarming of the Mor moncolonlsts, General Orozco told Consul Ed wards he did not receive the Ameri can as a representative of the United States, which government, Orozco said, he did not recognize. However, he was glad to sep Mr. Edwards, he said, and to receive him as an Amer ican citizen. Orozco accepted the message from the American consul without further comment. ' • HE HID FOR TEN YEARS Clyde 81ms of Chsrlotte, Ga., la Found by Dstectives in Bt. Louis. St Louis, Mo.—Clyde Marcellus j Sims, 42 years old, who disappeared j from his home in Georgia ten years ago and has been hiding under the j name of C- E. Van Wormer, was found , in St. LOUIB, and, after close question | ing by detectives, admitted his iden- ! tltj. His wife, who has been seeking him for a long time and who for years, mourned him as dead, is in the city, j and a reconciliation took place be tween them in the office of Chief of j Detectives Allender. Sims was found through detectives employed by an In j surance company, which had been sued for a $5,000 policy on his life, under the legal presumption that one who Is missing for seven years is dead. Sims, or Van Wormer. as he has been know here, was taken to police headquarters by Detectives McLaugh lin and Boyle. Fell Out of Sleeping Car. Springfield, Mass. —The body of Cur t's Nichols, a traveling salesman, who occujpied a berth In a sleeper on the Chicago express, which left Spring field .was found In a gully adjoining the tracks west of hero "Blue Tad" System Opposed. Washington.—The senate gave Its approval to the abolition of the "blue tag" system or fast freight branch of the Becond class mail service Inaug urated by Poetmaßter General Hitch cock, agreeing to second class pro visions of the postoffice appropriation bill, requiring transportstion of peri odical In mall cars. Senator Swan son led an unsuccessful fight to give publishers the option of having their publications go by mail or fast freight, declaring that the postoffice bill as presented was unfair First Bala Bold. Savananh, Ga. —In front of the Sa vannah cotton exchange, the first bale of cotton for the new season of 1912- 13 was sold at auction. The staple brought 81 1-$ cents, a new record for the first bale for many years. The bale was received by express from A P. Petway of Eastman. It graded middling and weighed 850 pounds. Th« bale will be expressed to New York at once. The first bale of eot -1 ton -was received last year on July 26 and sold tor tf 1-8 cents a pound. WORK OF TEACHERS HAVE MADE MUCH PROGRESS AT THE TRAINING BCHOOL FOR YEAR. SOME INTERESTING DATA —* —• Regarding the Work of the Past Year of Eut Carolina Collage at Green ville.—Elated Over the Sueceaa of the Summer School. Greenville. —Those who take pride In the career and progress of East Carolina Teachers' Training School will be interested In some points from the session just closed. With thia purpose in view a visit waa made to the school to get some data on the work of the past year. It waa found that the enrollment of the regular term had reached 235 and of the summer term 359, making a total enrollment for the year of 594. In addition to these, there were 266 more applicants for admission that the school could not accommodate. Through the kindess of the people of Greenville in opening their homes to students about one hundred of these excess applicants found places to board outside of the school and thus were enabled to take advantage of the course, but this still left 166 who could not be admitted throuugh lack of accommodation. Fully a month before the summer term began the applications had reached the capacity of the school, and from then on letters had to be sent advising that there was no more room. Could all who applied for ad mission to this term have been taken i the enrollment would have reached ; 760, not to mention others who would have applied but for the information i being sent out that the capacity of the school had been filled. The at j tendance this year was much larger than last year, and more than twice | as many teachers remained through to the end--of the term than remain ed last year, the number standing the final examination being 163. Another remarkable thing about the summer term this year is the earnestness with which the teachers took up and pursued their work. Even with so large attendance, necessitat ing much work In registering they were ready to take up the regular class duties on the .seoond day. Sickness Among Cattle Not Berlous. Henderson vllle. —Stockralsers and cattle owners of Henderson county and other sections of Western North Car olina will be glad to learn that after an investigation of the trouble that has caused considerable alarm, State Veterinarian W .0. Chrlsman an nounced that the sickness among cat ' tie is not by any means serious. Af- I ter reports had been received from ■ various parts of the county to the ef fect that cattle were sick and dying : In'some Instances, Dr. Chrlsman was wired and urged to come and investi gate the trouble at once. Premium List of State Fair. Raleigh.—The premium list for the fifty-second great state fair has been | issued, the largest prizes yet given i being shown In the catalogue. Hon. ! E. F. Mcßae, of Maxton, Is president. of the association; Joseph E. Pogue, ! of Raleigh, secretary and Sanford L. Rotter, of Raleigh, treasurer. Their report for the 1911 exhibition shows i up well, one reform, the abolition of the complimentary and half tickets having shown an Increase of $1,485 in money. Improvements In Echoola. Hendersonville. —Many of the lead ing public schools In Henderson coun ty will be seated with modern desks : at an early date, about 100 desks having been ordered at a cost of ap proximately $276. Prof. W. S. Shit- I tie, superintendent of the county schools, announces that desks have been ordered for schools as designar ted below: Fore Horse Shoe, 25; Reese school, 20; high school depart- - ment of Mills River Academy, 12: Middle Fork school, district No. 2. Edneyvlllf township, 26; Cedar Springs school 15. 1 James McCullsn Has Besn Captured. Clinton. —James McCullen, charged with the murder of Jonah Simmons, reported from here several days ago,. ; was Raptured near Newton Grove by ; a posse of citlsens and brought her* and lodxed in ]ail with his father, W. R. McCullen. who is charged with being present aiding and abetting at the time the fatal shot was fired. It is said that Simmons was on the front. ; porch of his own house when shot by some one standing in the yard. Mrs. Simmons testified that it was the-. McCumn's. Grand Jury Established Record. ' Wilmington. The present grand Jury, which has been In session near ly two weeks has established a record for activity for this county and pos sibly for the state. About 275 indict ments have been brought at this term of court and §bout K0 of these were returned In one day. The indict ments are tor violations of the prohi bition law, nuisance, the latter In cluding various particulars, disorder . ly houses, frequenters of such places, ; owners and agents of houses of 111- Caaie, knowing than to be such, etc..