THE ENTERPRISE
Published Weekly.
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WILLIAMgTON, N. C.
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Few pessimists are able to shave
themselves, and even some optimists
talL
Mat to a breeze from the north or
east, one from the south or west Is
most acceptable.
. No. Rollo, the backbone of summer
has not been broken —merely a chill
running up Its spine.
Boae people who have never worked
la a harvest field wonder at the
scarcity of harvest hands.
Boneheads are people who go out In
launches without a sufficient supply of
P"" 1 ' 1 " to bring them back.
"Earthquakes," says a physician,
"are good for the liver." If you have
a weak liver, move to San Fran
risco.
Hammer throwing should be encour
aged In every town, athletics or not.
Throw It Into the river. Don't knock,
booA.
Ohio woman, ninety-one years old.
boasts that she never has been kissed,
but it sounds more like a confession
than a boast.
It la claimed that goat'* milk will
prolong Ufa, but to tba goat'a milk
tfri&kar, ltka the married man, Ufa
only aeema longer.
South American railway trains ar«
reported to be stuck In anowdrlfts.
Blip thla under the swoat-band of
Four hat and keep cool.
The society for the suppreßßlon of
nnnccesßary noises calls itself the
otologlcal congress. The very name
la an unnecessary noise.
One may hope that so many of
those new style nickels will bo Issued
that a nickel will always be handy
when the telephone is to be used.
We are informed that every time
we swat a fly we kill 100,000,000 bac
teria. Our notion of no Job on a hot
day 1B to count 100,000,000 bacteria.
A somnambulist In Pennsylvania
walked to work In his Bleep. This la
the first instance on record in which
a sleep walker ever did anything use
ful.
We have not noticed the boat rock
era this season particularly, but the
person who smokes cigarettes In bed
has begun to figure in the casualty
Usts.
Every time we attend a ball game
we are led to wonder how the man
ager holds his Job when there are BO
many superior baseball generals In
the bleachers.
A Des Moines choir loft Is to be
screened to hide the singers' ankles.
Mufflers might also be provided for
buntlngcase watch covers if the ser
mons run long.
A scientist tells us that a grass
hopper can jump 200 times its own
length, but it has nothing on the poli
tician when the time conies to Jump
on the band wagon.
A New Jersey woman, to get rid of
flics, got them drunk on whisky. She
Bays that she went on the principle
that a drunken fly was like a drunken
man—easy to handle.
Woman In New York was struck by
lightning nnd cured of her rheumatism,
but we do not expect to sec any rheu
matic sufferers going around with
lightning rods on their heads.
The small boy, now a big one, who
years ago was sternly reproved, if not
mere vigorously punished, for catching
flies In cliurch instead of listening to
the sermon is at last vindicated.
An exchange tells us that there Is a
fish In the vicinity of Hawaii known as
the humuhumumunukuapuaa. Compos
itors and proofreaders will be glad to
hear of the humuhumumunukuapuaa.
As it la& said that rats cannot be
kept from ports, and that they may in
troduce the plague, why do not the
vessels adopt the remedy of a police
force ot cats or rat terriers to catch
the rodents In the natural way?
When the king of Sweden com !
manded the presence at the royal
palace of the Indian athlete who won
the all-around athletic championship
at the Olympic games, the winnei t
refused to go. The situation is un
precedented, and the winner's basgg.
fulness has thrown the ro/al entour
age Into a near fit at the Idea of a
man's allowing bis own inclination!
to take the precedence of royal pleas
ure.
A Philadelphia man died while tell
ing a joke. When one reflects on the"
way some people do tell jokes, It
seems that the Interests of society at
large would be served If retribution
were to follow oftener.
A defaulting county treasurer In Illi
nois was paroled On condition he re
pay the money taken, in inatallmenta
the court giving him, at the Install
ment rate, over 160 years to pay the
total sum. If he does not pay it in the
given time probably the law wljl take
jtf, MN drastic measures with him.
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36 LIVES ARE LOSU
111 BIG FLOODS
DEATH AND DESTRUCTION AS
RESULT OF FLOODS IN PENN
SYLVANIA AND W. VA.
MANY WERE PANIC-STRICKEN
Hundreds of Houses Toppled When
Struck by the Water.—Tranpor.
tatlon Stopped.
Pittsburg, Pa. —As a result of tor
rential rains throughout Pennsylva
nia and West Virginia, thirty-six are
dead and others missing. Added to
the list of fatalities are the foreign
ers at Colliers, W. Va., bringing the
list there up to eighteen; three at
Burgettstown, Pa., bringing the list
there up to four, and one at Wood
lawn, Pa., near'this city, in addition,
others are reported missing, but It Is
believed that the above will probably
cover the number who met death.
At all points the storm Is over. The
people in the various towns are at
tempting to take care of conditions
caused by the flood, but are making
little progress. Help Is on the way,
and has arrived at some points, but
the actual extent of the disaster can
not be estimated.
From reporta It la believed the mon
etary damage will reach cloße to sl,
600,000.
After twenty-four houra of exces
alvely hot weather, the atorm broke.
In addition to an extraordinary rain
fall, the electrical features were moat
spectacular. Within a ahort time the
water had washed away railroad
tracks In many placea and looaened
tons of earth which came tumbling
from Burroundlng hills, choking thor
oughfares,
in a number of western Pennsyl
vania towns, citizens became panic
stricken. At Newcastle, Pa., churches
were dismissed when it was an
nounced that a flood was headed for
the town.
At Ford City, Pa., a dozen houses
were washed from their foundations.
Lightning struck a Bcore ot houses,
while McQrahn, a suburb 1B under
from 3 to 5 feet of water.
A cloudburst devastated the valley
In which Colliers, W. Va., Is situated.
The entire valley was deluged, hous
es swept from foundations, railroad
tracks torn up for long stretches and
roads made impassable by landslides.
Colliers seemed to suffer the brunt of
the storm In West Virginia. Debris
floated down the creek, piling high at
Holllday's Cove, and a score of hous
es were washed away by the gorge.
CAUSED REIGN OF TERROR
Lon Callls Wounds Three Men and
Shoots at Two Women.
Memphis, Tenn. —Three men were
wounded, two women fired upon nar
rowly escaped, and the entire com
munity of Maßsey Station, near here,
was kept In a Btate of terror for
hours by Lon Callls, who ran amuck
with a shotgun. Posses are search
ing the countryside for the man. who
was, some time ago, liberated on ball
of $15,000 on a murder charge.
Callls drew a revolver. It Is charg
ed, but WHS overpowered by men In a
store nnd ejected after having been
disarmed. 11.s demonstration with the
pistol is said to have been without
apparent cause. he returned
with a shotgun, and those remaining
in the store barricaded themselvea.
Callis then went to a residence near
by, where he is sulil to have fired
through the windows at two women.
Firing the shotgun and reloading
at Intervals, the nmn created a Btate
bordering on panic among the inhab
itants. keeping sharp watch mean
time on the men hurdled In the store.
Editor of Judge Killed.
New York.—Carlton T. Garretson,
editor of Judge, died here from inju
ricß received when he was thrown
from his horse on May 10. Although
he had been paralyzed from his neck
down s nee the accident, he had fre
quently dictated material for his pub
lication. Prior to his connection with
Judge, Mr. Garretson was connected
with the editorial staff of Leslie's
Weekly and the New York Evening
Globe and had published small news
papers on the Pacific coast.
Will Demand Arbitration
London, England.—lt Is officially
announced that the British govern
ment will make a formal demand
upon the Oniteil States government
for arbitration of its claim that the
Panama canal toll act, passed recent*
ly by the United States congress, vlo
lates the Hay-Pauncefote treaty. Noth
ing definite Is known here beyond the
brief official announcement that th«
formal demand for arbitration would
be made, but It U believed Instruc
tion already are en route to the Brit
ish embassy at Washington
Shot Whlls Asleep.
Norfolk, Va.—James A. White, a
private in Battery C. First battalion,
Virginia field artillery, Is in King's
Daughters' hospital, Portsmouth, with
a bullet wound In his head, received
while In camp with a platoon of ar
tillery- White was shot by one of
the outposts accidentally, It la assert
ed by the soldiers, who say that the
firing was done when intruders, ap
proaching , the picket line* In the
darkness, refused to stop at challenge.'
The sentry, who flred the shots, says
| he discharged his pistol In the air.
/ A. J. DREXEL BIDDLE
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A well known young citizen of Phil
adelphia who combines athletics with
religious work.
SEEK TROUBLE WITH 11. S.
ANTAGONISTIC FORCES IN CUBA
CAUSED ASSAULT ON CHARGE,
DECLARES RIVERO.
Publication of Llbolous Astl-Amsrlcsn
Artlplss Brought to Attontion of
Stat* Department.
Washington.—That Enrique Maza,
the reporter who attacked Hugh Gib
eon, American charge of the legation
In Havana, wag merely a tool in the
hands of Cuban plottera antagonistic
to the United States, and who would
like to get the Cuban government into
trouble with this country, waa the
opinion expressed here by Senor Mar
tln-Itlvero, the Cuban minister. He
was of the belief, he said, that Maza
had not attacked Mr. Gibson of his
own volition, but that he had been
urged on by others who had mad#
him think he had been insulted and
that he should seek revenge.
Under no circumstances, no matter
what his provocation may have been,
said the minister, was Maza justified
in the action he took. That justice
would be done In the case was tha
declaration of Senor Martin Rlvero.
The minister has notified hla gov
ernment of the demands of the United
States that the assailant be punished.
Aa soon as he had learned of the at
tack, the minister had "spontaneoualy
sent word to Cuba," he aaid, "that the
United States had laws rendering vir
tually immune from attack the p«r
aona of foreign representatives here,
and that on account of this reciproc
ity, the full vigor of the Cuban law
would be applied. In case a country
which doesn't protect Cuban represen
tatlvea,' 1 said the minister, "no fur
ther rights are extended to its diplo
mats than to any other foreigners."
He immediately called attention, he
said, to this clause in their laws.
Havana, Cuba. —In consequence of a
vigorous protest by Hugh Gibson, the
charge d'affaires of the American lega
tion here, against the release on triv
ial ball of Enrique Maza, the news
paper reporter who assaulted him,
Maza was arrested for the third time
by order of the audlencla court and
committed to Jail to await indictment.
Immediately after the re-arrest of
Maza, the squad of Becret service men
who had been detailed to wntch the
American legation and to attend Mr,
Gibson wherever he went, was re
lieved from duty,
Mr. Gibson's vigorous Insistence
that his assailant be prosecuted arous
ed a fresh storm of Indignation of the
press.
Mother and Six Children Cremated.,
Rutherford, N. J.—Mrs. Smlllo De-
Baro and six of her seven children,
ranging from five months to 12 years
of age, met death In a fire which de
stroyed their home. Deßaro, the hus
band and father, a'hd the seventh
child, a boy of IS, escaped by Jumping
from a second-story window. De-
Baro and his family made their home
on the second floor of a frame house.
Mrs. Deßaro and the six younger
children slept In a rear room and the
father and the oldest boy in the front.
Deßaro and the boy tried to rescue
the woman and children, but a wall of
Are checked them. With their night
clothing ablaze, they Jumped from the
window.
Boy Drops 2,000 Feet.
Fl'nt, Mich.—ln the presence of
hundreds of people, 14-year old Ches
ter Betts, son of Bart N. Betts of
Flint, was accidentally caught by the
guy-rope of a balloon and hurled
about two thousand feet in the air
before the rope untangled and hurled
him to his death. He crashed against
the roof of a barn, and was still alive
when spectators reached him, but he
soon expired. The tragedy occurred
at a county fair, and, when the bal
: loon and aeronaut shot upward*, many
people thought he was a dummy.
Robbed of $5,000 While Asleep.
Washington, Ga.—Local banks were
notified here that P. M. Laxton of
Charlotte, N. C., had been robbed of
$5,000 in cash and checks while
asleep In a Pullman car between At
lanta and Charlotte. Mr. Laxton is
vice president of a company which is
putting in a new' electric plant here
and the money was in part payment
by the city of Washington for that
work. Four thousand dollars of the
money waa in the shape of a cashier's
check and the rest in currency.
in MIERS
GET $4,000,000
THAT SUM ADDED ANNUALLY
TO THEIR BALARIES—SECOND
. ADVANCE IN FOUR YEARS.
30,000 WILL BE EFFECTED
Carriers on Standard Routes to Re
ceive $l,lOO a Year With Ineraass
for the Shorter Routes.
Washington.—Under authority con
ferred by the postofflce appropriation
bill, Postmaster General Hitchcock
increased the salaries of rural letter
carriers on standard routes from sl,-
000 to $l,lOO a year, thus affecting
30,000 men, with proportionate in
creases to carriers on shbrter routes.
The order will become effective Sep
tember 30.
This will mean an increased dis
bursement of $4,000,000 a year. It
!b the second salary advance for ru
ral carriers made in the last four
years. At the close of the last fiscal
year on June 30, there were 42,031
rural mail carriers, the aggregate pay
being $40,66,740. When the rural de
livery system was instituted 16 years
ago, 83 carriers were employed at an
annual cost of $14,840, the maximum
individual pay being S2OO a year.
The Increase provides rural car
riers adequate compensation for ad
ditional burdens to be imposed by
the parcels post system effective o»
January 1.
"The parcels poat ayatem on rural
niallroutes can be conducted practi
cally with no extra expensea to the
government, except the lncreaaed sal
ary allowance to carriers," said Mr.
Hitchcock. "In my Judgment thia ad
dltlonal cost will be more than offset
by an lncreaaed revenue, thua Insur
ing the maintenance and, from time
to time, the extenalon of the rural
delivery syetem at a self-suppotrlng
branch of the postal service."
Mr. Hitchcock has directed, also,
that rural mall carrlera, on the com
pletion of twelve months' service, be
granted fifteen days' leave with pay.
This will require the additional ex
penditure of fBO,OOO a year in the
payment of substitute carrlera.
800 U. S. MARINES SAIL
United States Hurrying Forces to tha
Disturbed Central American
Country,
Panama. —The United States cruis
er California has sailed for Nicara
gua with nearly 800 marines, who
were sent south from Philadelphia on
the transport Prairie to reinforce the
American contingent, which already
have been landed In the Central
American republic from the United
States warships.
Managua.—Americans and Europe
ans in the beleaguered capital are
saW, but nothing is known concern
ing the situation of those at Mata
galpn and other places, who have not
been heard from in ten days. At that
time all was reported well with them,
with the exception that one German
had been killed at Matagalpa.
The wife of the British consul gen
eral here, who Is marooned at Jlno
tega, northwest of Matagalpa, got a
letter through to her husband. It
was written a week ago, and said
she was well. Nothing has been
heard from several English women
at Mazaya since the trouble taarted.
Cottonwood Lost by White House.
Washington. —An historic Cotton
wood tree that had adorned the pres-
Ident's front yard—the north lawn of
the white house— since it was plant
ed in 1832 by President Andrew
Jackson and several of his cabinet of
ficers, was removed, having succumb
ed from unknown causes. It was pre
sented to President Jackson by the
Creek Indian Chief Alpataoa just be
fore signing the treaty by which the
Creek nation was removed from Flor
ida. An Indian prophecy connected
with the tree was that as long as it
should live Its shade would typify the
protection and good will which the
mysterious God of the Creek Indians
would spread upon the white govern
ment .
Boys Fight to Dsath.
Ch'cago.—An amazing story of a
deadly feud between two boys for the
love of a girl companion was told to
the police as providing the motive
for the murder of Solomon Qolep, 14
years of age, by Tony Bruno, 15 years
of age, in the presence of 1,500 chil
dren, at the McLaren playgrounds,
Lowell place and West Polk street.
Oolep was shot twice, one bullet en
tering the left side and the other the
eye. He died on the way to the hos
pital. Rose Marks Is said to have
been the girl for whom they fought.
Six Person* Killed.
Green Bay, Wis. —One passenger
and five trainmen .were killed, two
other persons were seriously injured
and twenty-one were slightly hurt
when train No. 112, on the Lake
Shore division of the Chicago and
Northwestern railway, running thir
ty miles an hour, was derailed two
miles north At Lyndhurst, Wis., as
the result of a washout, caused by a
cloudburst. The locomotive mall car,
baggage car. smoker and coach left
the track and ell hut the day coach
'.urned ow. |
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GEORGE W. PERKINS
George W. Perkins Is trsssurer
tha Progressive Nstlonsl committee.
CANAL MS CO 10 HAGUE
GREAT BRITAIN HAS RENEWED
PROTEST AGAINST THE
MEABURE.
Unltod Statos la Informed That Great
Britain Will Appeal Mattar to
Tha Hague.
Washington.—Great Britain baa re
affirmed ita protest against the Pan
ama canal bill. In a note filed with
the atate department by A. Mitchell
Innes, charge of the British embassy.
It was stated that If a satisfactory
agreement could not be reached Great
Britain would appeal to The Hague
tribunal for arbitration.
The note submitted says Great Brit
ain will give careful consideration to
both the bill and the message Presi
dent Taft sent to congress relating to
discrimination in favor of American
coastwise shipping in the canal. If
after due consideration it Is found
that no satisfactory agreement can be
reached in the matter Great Britain
declares that it will be necesaary to
appeal to arbitration.
Mr. Innes was .instructed by hla
government to file the proteßt and. ha
sent It to the state department. It
atated merely that Great Britain atlll
stands in her previously explained at
titude In regard to the Panama bill.
The tone of the note makea It appear
that Great Britain believes It will be
necessary to submit the question to
arbitration.
Mr. Innes, who has been acting as
charge of the embassy during the ab
sence of Ambassador Bryce, came to
Washington recently from the Bum
mer headquarters of the British em-
bassy in Maine to remain during the
discussion in congress of the bill
One state department official de
clared he did not believe Great Brit
ain had a case to carry before The
Hague tribunal.
Ottawa, Ont. —Speaking on the Pan
ama canal question at a dinner to vis
itlng British officers and legislators.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier said he believed
British, Canadian and American di
plomacy would bring about an agree
ment satisfactory to all.
Point'ng to the fact that for more
than 100 years difference between
Canad aand the United States had
been settled without resort to arms,
I Sir Wilfrid declared that poor arbi
| tratlon was better than the most suc
cessful war.
Detectives Guard Rockefeller Horn*.
New York.—John D. Rockefeller,
Jr., in a statement regarding labor
troubles on his father's estate at Tar
rytown, made it that private
detectives had been called to delve
into the situation. A detective, with
a large force of deputies, has been
guarding Mr. Rockefeller's 1,000-acre
place for several weeks. About 200
men are employed on the estate, near
ly all foreigners. Mr. Rockefeller dls
cred.ted reports that it was a black
hand warfare.
Commission Rule Por New Orleana.
L New Orleana. —A commission form
> of government. Including the right of
i Initiative and referendum, waa adopt
s ed at the apecial election here by a
I vote of more than 10 to 1. The offl
i cial returns were 28,900 for and 2,119
- against. Both regular and reformera
, voted for the new ayitem of govesn
. ment. At the general election In No
- vember a constitutional amendment
> will be voted upon, the carrying of
- which will mean that the right of ro
» call will alao be made a feature of
. the commission form of government
General Booth la Burled,
r London, England.—Funeral services
> of the founder of the Salvation Army,
I Gen. William Booth, took place at the
II Olympia. In accordance with tradl
s tiona of the organisation they were
] without pomp or aymbola or mourn
■. lng, but were carried out with a mov
j ing fervor and impreßatveneaa. Thir
sty-four thousand persona participated
i in the functions. Nearly half of them
•, wore the coats and red Jersey* or bon
t nets with the red ribbon so familiar
\x on the streets of the cities of the
world where the army Is established
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! REGULARS SET
BARE PLURALITY ,
IN VERMONT ELECTION.—PRO-
GRESSIVE AND DEMOCRATIC
VOTE LARGE.
THE LEGISLATURE ELECTS
The Early Returns Indicate That the
Ueual Republican Majority Has Been
Swept Away.—Progressive Leaders
Greatly Pleased With the Result
White River Junction, Vt. —The
strength of the new Progressive party
in ita first line-up against the older
parties and the disappearance of the
Republican majority for the first time
in ten years and the first time In the
history of the state on a presidential
year, were the eatetandlng feature* of
the state election In Vermont,
It was apparent early that there
had been no election by the people,
although a sufficient number of Re
publican representatives are, success
ful to seem to ensure the choice of
Allen M. Fletcher of Cavandish by the
Legislature.
For many years political students
have pointed out that any decrease
In the Republican majority In Ver
mont in September below normal of
26,000 has been followed almoet in
variably by the party defeat in the
presidential light In November. These
majorities which have averaged cloae
to 30,000 in all the state elections in
Vermont in presidential years since
1892 were represented by a bare plu
rality.
The Republican loss apparently
went In a great degree to the Progres
sives and to a somewhat lesser ex
tent to the Democrats.
The falling off in the Republican
vote began with the first return while
the Progressives gained all along the
line In some cases carrying towns
which had heretofore been regarded as
strongly Republican.
Progressive leaders were greatly
plesaed with the reeult. It was point
ed out that the party had gone into
the fight with an organisation that
was new to politics and was forced
to make up with notable orators what
it lacked in party management, with
Colonel Roosevelt leading the charge.
The Democratic managers also deri*-
ed satisfaction from the early returns
showing as they did decided gains
over two and four years ago. They
also pointed out that these gains
would be made despite the claims of
the Progressive speakers that the lat
ter party would recruit some of its
strength from Democrats.
Rebels Threaten Cananea.
Csnanea, - Mexico —Rebels dashed
into the Cananea district, cut all the
wires between here and Naco, and
burned three railroad bridges. When
the news reached Cananea 200 men
left to engage the rebels, reported as
numbering about 125 mounted men.
Later the force of volunteers to de
fend Cananea In the event of an at
tack by the rebels was Increased to
1,200.
Two Men Shot During Election.
New Orleans. —TWb men were shot,
one fatally, as the result of a fight,
immediately after the opening of the
polls for the parochial election here.
Ralph Bonee, reformer, shot in the
stomach, will die. Paul Rivard, Jani
tor of the new court house, a "regu
lar," shot in the groin—is not badly
hurt. Harry Plttingill, a foreman of
the sewerage and water board, a
"regular" did the shooting.
120,000,000 Disease Germs In Bottle.
Binghampton, NT. Y. —A bottle con
taining 120,000,000 disease germs,
enough to infect an entire city is
awaiting a claimant at the police star
tion here. It was loßt from a train,
probably an express car. The bottle
was being shipped from the New' Je
rsey state laboratory, probably for ex
perimental purposes in some other
laboratory. It was found lying near
the track by Patrolman McGinnis.
Convicts Try to Seale Prison Wall.
Jackson, Miss. —Unruly convicts in
the Michigan state prison went on a
rampage and before they were cowed
by Jackson militiamen, special depu
ties snd guards, they had destroyed
considerable, property and It is said
two or three escaped. The rioting
began when leaders of the unruly
prisoners liberated 75 men from the
bull pens. These scrambled for the
walls, setting fire to buildings as they
dashed for liberty. Guards broke up
the mob before It hsd effected com
petent organisation.
The Condition of the Cotton Crop.
Washington.—The condition of the
growing cotton crop of the United
States on August 26 was 74.8 per cent,
of a normal, compared with 76.5 per
cent., on July this yesr, 73.2 per cent,
on August 25 last year, 72.1 per cent,
in 1910, and 73.6 per cent, the aver
age of the past ten years on Augnst
26 This estimate was announced by
the Crop Reporting Board of the
'United States department of agricul
ture from the reports of the corre
spondents snd agents of the bureau of
itatistlca.
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