North Carolina Newspapers

THE ENTERPRISE Weekly! WILLIAMBTON, H. C. Just now, home la u hot as you make It. Humanity haa been too much sub doed even to awat the fly. When aviator* atop flying circus faahlon they will atop dying. The aumrner girl wear* a heart on ber sleeve—but it'a not ber own. Still, for popularity tfce aummer re »ort proapectua gathers Orat place. A coat la aa superfluous in aummer aa a atraw hat would be in winter. If there la anything Jhat makes a man hot It la advioe am how to keep cool. Avocation la fleeting, but vacation money can It many point* and ■till win. What we need now Is a cruaade among mosqultoea for safe and aane vacationa. Like the filling of a landwlch. the occaalonal cool day la the moat ap preciated part. Icemen are nothing If not conals tent. The price of ice alwaya goes top with the mercury. Philadelphia will atart a war on moaqultoea—and they do dlaturb aleep. that'a a fact. The textile fabric men complain that the narrow skirt* are ruining them. So doe* father. Mexico la having earthquakea. It ought to be uaed to all aorta of dla turbances by thla time. A coat of tan la not alwaya the *lgn of a returning vaeatlonl»t; it may be the badge of the hayfleld. , Everybody Is giving hot-weather ad vice. The public la on the qui vlve to fee the one man who takea It. The theory that everybody la a bit off In hot weather 1* borne out by many eccentricities of the day. A prince who had been Jilted by an American helres* tried *ulclde and failed. Nothing remain* but to go to work. Official lnatructlons for keeping cool are doubtless the beat thing* possible IB the absence of the northeaat breeze. By tne simple expedient of keeping the thermometer In the Icebox you can rob the heated term of aoma of lta terror*. Now they *ay we ahould not make baby laugh In hot weather. It will be comparatively eaay to obey this In *tructlon. We have It from a chlropodlat that corn* cause crime, but even murder ii Justified when a *t ranger atepa on one * pet corn. Per«on* who de*lre a houseboat In which to spend the summer will be In terested In the new* that Haytl want* to aell lta navy. Autumn style* for men decree a waist line. Rut In aotne rases a sur veying expert will have to be em ployed to find it. Somebody has figured out that a pound of soap will make 25,344,000 bubbles. That man ought to make a good editor for the Congressional Rec ord. A scientist pronounce* excessive talking a disease, and this encourage* the hope that a cure for spellbinding will yet be discovered. An advance In the price of writing paper la reported, but the waatebaaket contributors of the average newspapet will find the price somehow. The moving picture men don't care whether there la a buffalo or a Goddess of Liberty on the 6-cent coin, ■o long a* they get the nickel. The report that the temperature in Yellowstone park the other morning wai 82 degrees Is considerable booat for the "aee America first" cruaade. Shad have returned to Maine riven after being away for 40 year*. If w« are not to have any aea serpents thii summer perhapa thla shad atory will aufflce. Now a Chicago chef aay* boiled beel i* a treat for all and the cheaper cuti aurpaaa the beat porterhouae. Thli last la carrying anthualaam beyond the limit A millionaire who paid $48,000 foi a pair of ancient andiron* aeema do termlned to have a hot old time, nc matter what it coata. Curtoetty la that paaalon with din resulta which we satisfy when we con snlt the thermometer to find out it li even hotter than we thought It waa. An American actor la to marry * French baroneas, and the nobility, al neb * reveraal of the usual order are aaklng fearfully if thla la the be planing of the end. ilMlf SLAUGHTERED BY MEXIG REBELS 'OVER 20 PASSENGERS AND 36 SOLD*ERS BUTCHERED BY A BAND OP ZAPATISTAS. WOUNDED ARE CREMATED Fingers of Man and Women Chopped Off to Secur* Rings—Bodlaa of Women Mutilated. Mexico City.—Thirty six aoldlera and more than twenty paaaengera were alaughtered by Zapatistas In a canyon, one kilometer north of Tlcu man, 110 milea southeast of Mexico ! City, when a passenger train, south- I bound from this city, waa attacked I from ambuah. Meager detaila indicate that the aavagery displayed waa not leaa, and perhapa greater, than that which characterised the maaaacre of troop* and paaaengera on a train between Cuernavaca and Mexico City on July 20. So far a* known only a part of the train crew escaped. The first story of the aaaault waa Bent to Mexico City by Conductor Marin and Collector Domlnguez, who, although wounded, had managed to make their way to Yautepec, 12 miles away. They were forced to Bteal through the Zapatista iinea. After the firing ceased the rebels swarmed down the hillside and aet lire to the j three cara composing the train. A few of the woumUd had crawled out j onto the right-of-way, thua escaping i the fate of those unable to leave the j car*. They were burned. According to report* received, the leader of the | rebels made absolutely no effort to restrain his men from acta of brutal- I lty greater than any that haa yet ! marked the campaign In the south. The wounded, pleading for their Uvea, j were struck down without pity, and even looting was held in abeyance un- I til the slaughter was complete. Not satisfied with robbing their vie j tlms In ordinary manner, the fingers of men and women were chopped off with machetes in order that the ringa they wore might be more quickly ae cured. Ornaments were torn from j the ears of the women and their bod j ie* weie otherwile mutilated. SEVEN DIE IN DEATH CHAIR Largeat Batch of Murderara to Die In Single Day. Oftsintng, N. Y.—Seven murderera [ were electrocuted in Sing Sing prlaon. I This IB the largest number of crlmi- I nal* to suffer the death penalty by ' electricity on any one day since the electric chair wati adopted as a meth od of capital punishment. The alx : Italians and one negro executed went Ito their deaths quietly. The war den * work was accomplished within an hour and sixteen minutes. The condemned were put to death j In the following order/ John W. Collin*, Lorenzo L. Call, Salvatore Demarco, Fllepo Demarco, Angelo Gysto, Vlcenso Cona and Jo seph Ferrone. Prison guards expect- I ed that Ferrone might put up a fight [ on his way to the execution chamber, J but he walked meekly to the chair. Cona fainted as the strapa were be ing adjusted about the body. The cap was fixed quickly and the lethal current sent through his body. All the prisoners, with the excep tion of Collins, walked Into the death chamber protesting their Innocence. Collins came In smilingly and seem ingly happy. He did not deny his guilt. He prayed on his knees at the j chair for a minute before he was exe l cuted. Train Breaks Through Bridge. Seattle, Wash.—Five persons were killed and several injured when the westbound Olympian train of the j Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound I railroad broke through a bridge a | half mile west of Keechelus, 67 miles I east of Seattle. The train was a ' double-header. Engineers and Are- I men of both engines were killed. Mrs. Simon Jurlch of Seattle was killed. The railroad officials say no other I passenger was hurt. The train was 1 approaching the summit of the Cas cade mountains when the forward engine was derailed Bear Bothering Taft'a Son. Benton, Mont. —What to do with i the cub bear presented to Robert Taft, son of the president, by a Black i foot chief on his arrival In Glacter i National park, haa been solved. An > old bear, hearing the walla of the I cub, made her way Into the Taft camp on Red Eagle mountain and gnawed through the rope that tethered the I cub to a tree. Then ahe retreated i up the mountain side. Guides atarted i In pursuit, but young Taft shouted : i "It's probably her cub and there la no room in the white houae for a bear." ■ "Honor Squad" Make* Escape. ► Lima,. Ohio.—Thirteen Ohio penl c tentiary prisoners of the "honor squad," now here, escaped from the prison camp created a reign of ter ' roi before ten of them were captured. ' After escaping from the.prison camp 1 the men broke into saloons and seized liquor, which they drank until wild ly intoxicated. They fouhgt among " themselves and with citizens, who ' did not recognize them as convicts. The men recaptured were nearly all found sleeping off the effects of the whiskey. ALEXANDER MEIKLEJOHN Dr. Almmdtr Melklejohn, prtddtni eleot of Amlwftt oollege, Ilk* Dr. Hlb ben of Prlnotton, la In (kvor of a re turn to tho old 01000100 l curriculum whloh Ma boon largely replaced by tho oloetlvo ay atom. Ho wao born In England In 1572 and wao graduated from Brown unlvoralty In ISSS. SI no* 1897 he hae boon on tho fooulty of GOV. WILSON IS NOTIFIED IN STRIKING SPEECH WILSON AC CEPTS THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION. Qovornor Wilson's Speech of Aoocpt anca Waa Full of Trite Saylnge and Snappy Sentencss. Seagirt, N. J.—Wood row Wilson, governor of New Jersey, In the pres ence of several thousand friends and admirers from many state, accepted the Democratic nomination for presi dent of the United States. The speech of notification waa made by Senator-elect Ollle James of Ken tucky, head of the notification com mittee. In hla response, which waa a masterpiece of rhetoric and beautiful English and full of trite saylnga and anappy sentences, Governor Wilson attacked the tariff and truata and out lined the thlnga for which he, aa the standard-bearer of tbo party, atanda. He demanded an immediate reduction downward of the tariff and real regu latum of trusts. Governor Marshall of Indiana, the Democratic nominee for vice preai dent, waa present. Qovernor Wilaon aald, In part: "It requires self-restraint not to at tempt too much, and yet it would be cowardly to attempt too lltle. "There are two great thlnga to do. One la to aet up the rule of Justice and of right in such matters as - the tariff. The other la the taak of pro tecting our reaourcea. In this we face questions of conservation and devel opment. "The tariff queatlon aa dealt with In our times has not been bualneßs. It has been politics. "The working people of America are, of course, the backbone of the nation. No law that aafeguards life, that makes their houra of labor ra tional and tolerable, can properly be regarded as class legislation. "We are not the owners of the Phil-* Ippine Islands; we hold them In truat for the people who live in them. "We have been a apendthrift na tion and muat now husband what we have left. We must develop, as well aa preserve our water powers and muat add great waterways to the transportation facilltlea of the na tion. "We must speak not to catch votea, but to satisfy the thought and con science of a people deeply stirred by the convention that they have come to a critical turning point in their moral and political development. "There la another duty which the Democratic party haa shown itself great enough and cloae enough to the people to perceive, the duty of the government to ahare in promoting ag ricultural, Industrial, vocational edu cation in evsry way possible within its constitutional powers. Defiant Answer to 1 Washington.—By a vote of 44 to 11, the senate refused to strike from the Panama canal bill the provision exempting American ahipß from pay ment of tolla for paaaage through the Panama canal. The defeat of the Bur ton amendment to atrike out the dls -1 crimination In favor of American > ships was the senate'a defiant an -1 swer to the protest of the British ' government against the legislation. It waa this clause of the bill which > led Great Britain to aend a formal protest to the state department Turks Mutiny; Revolution On. Salonika, European Turkey.—Tho r Turkish gendarmes In the garrison at » Okhrida, Albania, mutinied and their * commander, General Djemalrey, de • clared war in the name of the Young ? Turks against the present govern -1 ment. The commandant gave notice - that would lead an army against I Constantinople, and Issued a procla > matlon calling upon all loyal Young '• Turks to join his standard. The rob -1 els will attempt to force the abdlea- B tlon of the present sultan, who took tho throne when Young Turks rose. Id PLOPLE DEAD AND 6,000 INJUREO DEATH ROLL OF THE EARTH QUAKE IN TURKEY IS CON STANTLY GROWING, HOSPITALS ARE CROWDED Towns Completely Destroyed and Fires Are Reported From Many Cities. Constantinople, Turkey.—The inter ruption of telegraphic communication makes it very difficult to obtain ac curate details of the disastrous seis mic disturbance which occorred on both sides of the Dardanelles. No accurate figures of the number of victims can be tabulated, though some estimates place the death list st 1,000 and the injured from 5,000 to 6,000. In the town of Bhary-Koy, which was completely destroyed, sixty per sons were killed and 160 Injured. Fires are reported from many cities in which numerous buildings were destroyed. Fissures opened to a length of about a mile along the river at Lule- Burgas, 40 miles southeast of Adri anople, and from these apertures hot sand, foam and sulphurous va pors were emitted. Everywhere in the stricken cone there is terrible want and diatress. Appeals for doctors and help are con stantly being received at the capital, and the government is doing its ut most to satisfy them. The hospitals here are crowded with injured per sons. The vali of Adrlanople reported to Consatntlnople the loss of life there wss small. The quake, however, se riously damaged the public buildings of the city. DEADLY BOX SENT TO GIRL I Startling Dlscloaurea About the Ex plosion st High Point. Greensboro, N. C. —Startling die closeures followed a rigid investiga tion Into the cause and circumstances of the explosion of an infernal ma chine in the High Point office of the Southern Express company, and from which Manager W. M. Busbee is in a critical condition and hla caahter, Al ton Morton, Is suffering from seri ous burns. The Investigation was under the direction of United States District At torney A. E. Holton and Police Chief Ridge, and from revelations made by a High Point aoclety girl it Is admit ted by Chief Ridge that his men are searching for a young Thomasvllle buslnesß man of prominent social connections. Until an arreat Is made officials de cline to real any names, though they stated that it had been poaltively as certained that the package conceal ing the deadly machine waa Intended for a High Point girl of prominent family rather than for Poatmaster Charles Hoover of Thomasvllle. It la atated that the package waa entered at the Thomaaville office on the morning of December 2 last, and that through a mistake in billing it waß way-billed to Charles Hoover, at High Point. The original shipping tag, however, bore the name and addreaa of a High Point girl. Expressmen made unaatiafactory inquiry, the young woman declaring that It could hardly have been meant tor het Damaged Nebraska Reachos Port Rockport, Mass. —The battleship Nebraska arrived here, after having been damaged slightly by running on an uncharted shoal near Point Judith. The Nebraska will go to Boston to dry dock for a thorough examination. The battleship went on the shoal on even keel, and scraped over several rocks. One bottom plate waa started > a few Inches, and a compartment waa ■ leaking allghtly after the accident, but an examination by divers dlsclos i ed that the damage was slight. The Missouri accompanied the Nebraska to this harbor. Although the place where the Nebraska struck is not shown on recent charts, it was Indi cated o nothers as far back as 1839. Later the mark was believed to be a mistake, and taken off the new charts. Uncle, Sam as Pled Piper. Washington.—The government Is to become a modern competitor of the Pied Piper of Hamlin aa an extermi nator of rata. But the magic of the Pled Piper Bute la to be displaced by the most Improved, modern, double action, steel-jawed rat trap that the American inventive genius can fur nish. Through Surgeon General Blue of the public health and marine hos pital service, the government has ask ed for demonstrations of rat traps. I The government wants traps to ex terminate rodents which carry plague. Ho Gives Away *687,500. > Chicago.—Julius Rosenwald of Chi t oago made birthday gifts amounting r to $687,500. This is hla fiftieth aa - nlveraary. Charity and education re [ celved the entire sum. Mr. Rosen • wald, who Is a leading merchant, dl > vlded the total Into parts. Half a mil t lion dollars was split evenly by him ,- between the University of Chicago ; and the Associated Jewish Cbarltiel - bore. Among the other contribution* r one was unique, $60,000 to endow a t country clnb "which will furnish a oomfort resort for week-ends." \ m ,*\ ■' , L\ - & rv * SIGNORA MOSCHIN! Signers Moeehlnl, formerly Olga Lulu Davis of Brownsville, Tex., now tho wife of a very wealthy member of the Italian chamber of depwtlee, hss won her ore so sett for judicial Sep aration with damagoe and alimony. Her huoband had aued to have tho marriage annulled. PANAMA CANALBILL PASSED RAILROAD-OWNED VESSELS PRO HIBITING FROM USING WATERWAY. Provision for Free Tolls, Which Was Fought In the Sonata, la Endoraod. Waahington.—The Panama canal bill, when It paaaed the senate, con tained provlaions which amend the Sherman antl-truat law and the law creating the interatate commerce commerce commiaslon, and is beyond . all odda the moat Important piece of legislation which haa paaaed either house this session. Briefly, the bill lodges in the hands of the Interstate commerce commis sion the right to say when the own ership and control by railroads of steamships with which they might compete Is detrimental to the public? Interest and muat cease. It forbids railroad owned ahipa to uae the ca nal. It cloaea the canal to ahipa owned by corporationa who violate the Sherman antl-truat law. Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia of fered the amendment limiting the railroad legislation to the exclusion of railroad owned ships from the ca nal. This was carried a vote of 49 to 18, and the aenators who though j the canal bill should not be the In strument of separating rallroada from their ateamahlp lines if they did not ! use the Panama canal at all thought they had won their .fight. Their sat lafactlon was jarred ath the end of the day, however, when Senator Bourne obtained the adoption of an amendment giving the Interatate com merce commlaaion authority to com pel a railroad to dlveat Itself of the ownership of a steamship line If the ownership waa found detrimental to ths public Interest through the sup pression of competition. 400 KILLED BY EXPLOSION Powder Msgszlne Attached to White House of Haiti Lats Go at Port-au-Prince. Port-au-Prince, Haiti.—The national palace was blown up by a powder ex pision and burned to the ground and the preßldent of the republic of Hai ti, Gen. Clncinnatus Leconte, killed. Members of his family, who were awakened by the terrific shock, found themselves almost surrounded by the fiamea, but managed to make their way to aafety. Many palace attendants were killed and It is estimated that the caaualty liat will reach 400 peraons killed or Injured. The body of Prealdent Leconte waa found on the Iron bed on which he alept. The authorities are making arrangements for a national funeral. The cause of the explosion of the powder magazine la not known. At a joint meeting of the chamber and senate General Tancrede Augus ts, senator and ex-mlniater of public worka, was named aa president % ■■ Ml II J ' I i ■ Half Million Dollara Washed. Washington.—More than a half million dollars of old paper money washed and ironed to the criapneaa of new In the Federal government's currency laundry. will be placed in circulation. This lot will represent Uncle Sam's first job as a laundry man. For weeks the treasury de partment haa been cleaning and re viving dirty 'old notes by the wash ing machine perfected in the bureau of engraving and printing. Secretary MacVeagh stamped the venture a success. South Raveagsd by Army Worms. Washington.—More than 18.000,000 damage was done to crops In ths south last month by the army worms, according to unofficial estimates of the department of agriculture. Wheth er the season's second brood of ths insects, appearing in South Carolina Alabama, Georgia and other atates. will increase this loss Is of ranch concern to government experts. All the moans at the department's die posal are being used to meet ths , emergency. There are army womi at some places half a foot deep. WOOL BILL PASSED OVER TUFTS VETO TWENTY REPUBLICANS IN HOUSE VOTE WITH DEMOCRATIC MEMBER*. >, 6. 0. P. LEADERS WERE HOT ' Great Joy Among Majority Members at Overturning President's Bull* headed neee.—Plrst Tariff Measure Paaaad Ovar Executive's Veto. Washington.—By the narrow mar gin of five votes, the Hoose passed the wool tariff revision bill ovar Pres ident Taft's veto. The veto, IT4 to SO, was made possible only by the de fection of twenty-one Republicans who voted with the Democrats. The an nouncement of Democratic success created a wild scene in the House and amid grant confusion the Republican leaders protected that Speaner Clark must count as voting ten members who answered "present" to thoir names, a ruling which would have de feated the Democratic program over coming the five-vote margin and making impoeaible the recording of the necessary two-thirds vote of tho House. This the Speaker declined to do. While Democratic and Progressive leaders of the Senate do not believe> the wool bill can be paased in that body over the Preaident'a veto, they will continue the demand for action j on the cotton tariff measure. The vote on the wool bill enme as n surprise to the Republican leaders ,of the House. Winn they discovered > that detraction from their ranks was to be expected it waa too late to pre vent It As a result the following i Republicans went over to the Demo cratic camp and with their votes made victory possible for the majority: Representative Aklns, New York; Anderson, Davla, Lindberg, Steenor son and Sevena, Minneota; Anthony, Rees and Young, Kanaaa; Cooper and Morse, Wisconsin; Haugen and Woods, Iowa; Helgeson, North Da kota; Kent, California; Lafferty, Ore gon; LaPollette and Warburton, Washington; Norrls and Sloan, Ne braska. Not in the memory of the oldest member of the House has a tariff measure ever been passed over the ; President's veto by the lower branch of Congress. Neither Speaker Clark 1 nor Majority Leader Underwood could i recollect such an occurrence. Is Germany After Cotton Crop? Philadelphia.—"lf Germany or Gef* man bankers finance the American cotton crop to the extent of 1300,003,- 000 or any serious approximate of that aum 15-cent cotton is inevitable," sal 1 George H. McFadden, Jr., the "cotton king." "Several more or less suc cessful attempts have been made ft> corner cotton," he continued, "and at least one of them led the speculators into the Federyd courts, and all of them caused greater or less trouble to mill owners, who are the legitimate consumers of the raw product, and to all these who deal In the manufactur ed staple. Train Hits Automobile Three Killed. Columbus, O.—Prank L. Irwin of Columbus, chief engineer of the Rale ton Steel Car Cbmpany; C. C. Bean camp, formerly of Detroit, a car in spector, and Benjamin F. Klee, a clerk, believed to be from New Orleans, were instantly killed and their bodies fright fully mangled when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by n fast Pennsylvania paasenger train near this city. Bsnklng Interests to Aid Whitmsn. New York.—Powerful banking Inter ests, acting through the New York clearing house committee, came to the aid of District Attorney Whitman in his efforts to lay bare the alleged cor rupt alliance between the police and the gambling fraternity, founded on graft and blackmail. Another Aviator Killed. Saliabury, England. One of the most experienced of English airmen, R. C. Penwlck, waa killed while par ticipating in the military aviation speed tests on Salisbury plain. He was flying over the aviation field In his biplane at an altitude of 300 feet when the machine suddenly turned turtle and dashed to the ground. It la believed a gush of wind struck the machine under one wing for It turned completely over and dropped like n atone. The biplane was smasted. Penwlck's death waa Instantaneous. Pall to Plnd Bullet In E. H. Grace. Atlanta, Da —Eugene H. Grace un derwent an unsuccessful operation to locate the bullet which he/charges his wife, Daley Opie Grace, sent Into his body last March. In the opinion of his physicians he will be paralysed for the rest of his life, which they think will not be longer than four months, Grace spent more than four hours under tho knife, 'the surgeons cut throe inches np and down the apine, and, guided by X-ray photo graphs, hunted the bullet. It was no where to b« found.