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BAPTISTS GO TO RALEIGH 111 1914 • . • '"i" » - r STATE CONVENTION PASBEB IN TO HIBTORV AFTER BUBY * BESBION. • , —A . •- : CARTER TO PREACH ANNUAL No Special Features or Speaker* But Thoroughly Imbued With Spirit All Work Together Aa One Man ®nd' Make Great Convention. Raleigh. Shelby. —The Baptist State Conven tion passed Into history, after select? lag Raleigh as the meeting place for # the convention of 1914, and naming Rev.»,E. T. Carter, D. D., of Newborn j to preach the annual sermon, with Rev. G. T. Lumpkin of Oxford as alter nate. i' i In a business sense, this Comen tlon- will be recorded as one of th«> best In years The delegates came .here to settle the "King's affair." No one speaker stands out as the feature of the, Convention as been the •custom, with the possible excep tion V)f Dc. J. H. Oembrell of Texas. :Bul without the aid of these greHt orators, the "ordinary" delegate# have entered into their Work with a heart and soul thoroughly Imbued with the spirit of the occasion and have worked together as one man. The Shelby Convention has missed the presence of the great leadeja like Dr. I R. J. WUltngham, Dr. S. J. l'orter and • others, who have in yeurs past sway ed tlie delegates with "their magnetic speaking powers, yet great "inside" work has been dohe. After the devotional services, Pres ident Durham called for t lie report ou Chawali College, a member of the church's correlated system of schools, which was a review of the past year's work; made by tlie board of trustees, which was rnail by Secretary Brewer In the absence of the committee chair man. Rev. W. C. Barrett, pastor of the First Baptist church of Gastonia, stirred matters up by protesting certain school reports and ordering them adopted without giving the mem bers of the Convention an opportunity or objecting to Unreport or any fea tures of It. should the occasion be- 7 me Necessary. "We must simplify this phase ofi our wirk,' and you just -as well get in your hajids. It must he done and I am going to keep after It tin-1 til something Is done along this line."' said Mr. liarrett. The matter wa\ l finally dropped without any action j after many expressions of similar I • opinions ,by other delegates, but Mr. Barrett served notice he will call it | up probably at the Italelgh Convention. ! After passing a resolution thanking, the people of Shelly for their hos pitality" during the kesslrins, singing of "Grtd Be With: You 'Till We Meet Again" and benediction, tlie Baptist. , State Convention' of 1913 was no * more,, , • Seaboard Doctors Next u at Goldsboro. Special fronj^Norfolk says the Sea board Medical' Society of Virginia, and North Carolina recently selected Goldsboro, N. C:, us its next place of meeting, and elected the following of ficers: President, Dr J It Barker, Goldsboto,. X. ('.; first vice president; Dr. U. K. Vandersllce, Phoebus, Va.;" second vice president. Dr. C. F. (Jrir tin, Wlnton, N. ('.; third vice presi • dent, Dr. I! K. Whitehead, Kempsville, •Va.; fourtli vice president, Dr. W. J. Harrell, Aulander, N T . C.; secretary, Dr. Clarence Porter • Jones, Newport News, Va.--:'- treasurer, Dr. George A. , CatolA, Newbern, N. C. ' 1 ' Refuses New York Requisition. A plea that Miss Annie Dave'a(jitep father In XeW'Yofk was attempting to force her to marry a man who had agreed to pay htm *4OO for compelling her to become hit) wife, and that she Induced Amen Hpwey, her real sweet heart* jo run "with 'and marry her, constrained Acting Governor Daughtrldge to reltiee to honor requl aition paperß from' Governor Glenn of New York for Howey. Governor Daughtrldge heard the case recently. '" . . Newbern Postoffice Affair. ~-The postoffice Inspector who came from Washington to Newbern to look Into the office there has reported. His report indicates Incompetent and In different service on the part of former Paatom aster J. S. Basnight. Four ministers of Newbern churches, speak ing as Democrats, have protested to the President against the removal of Representative Faison, who conducted the fight against Basnight, Is going after other Republicans In his di&trict. He may ask for the resigna tion ot the assistant postmaster. £ — T ■ * E. L. Mize Geta Pardon. .. Acting Governor Daughtrldge par doned Ernest L. Mize from the re mainder of a sentence for selling whiskey. Mi/.e paid a $250 fine. and elected to be banished from the state rather than have a two-years sentence to the roads. He has lived In Danville Bince the sentence in-1912.;"He i«,in ~tb* last stages of tuberculosis now and Wante to die amopg his people in Dav idaon county. His wife and children are with him. In poverty, and the wife to anxious to Come back to her people In Davidson and bring her husband. , - V'• ' • ■ STATE HOSPITAL'S SEPORT Patients Now Cared For is .1,366; More Room is Needed Bays Ysarly » ' " Report. , Raleigh,—R. R. Clark of Statesville, who Is a member of the Board of Di rectors of the State Hospital at Mor gantoh and. secretarju. to the board, at tended the meeting of the Executive Committee at the hospital and the reg ular meeting of the board there re cently. With two there was a full attendance of the Hre«tt>>s. A. E. Tate of High Point was present »*L V at the meeting of the Executive Cotn-„ mlttee, but had to leave for Wash ington before' the -regular- hoard meet- . ing. Dr. L. N. Glpnn of Gastonia, re cently appointed as a member of the board to succeed Mr. J. W. Noell of Roxboro, wttp the only absentee. . Charles !. iftatlieson of Taylorsvllle, recently appointed to succeed J. G. Hall of Lenoir, deceased, took the oath of office. ~.." . The feature of the meeting was th& report of Sirpt. John McCanipbell for the year ending November 30. The report shows that the number of pa tients in the hospital at ning of the .year was 1,830, of-which 763 were women and £t>7 men. Dur ing the year there have beep admit ted to the institution ,91 mey anJ. 97 women, a total of 188; totaJ under treatment, 1,6.18; discharged op recov ered, 27 men and 25 Women; (discharg ed as improved, 17 men and lfe Women; j one man was discharged not ImpwwrfMl j and two men. were discharged us not insane, while "no)her wa's..transferred — '• Italelgh.' During llie, year pa tients died—3l men and women — leaking a total removal of 153, 79' men ) and 74 women. Remaining NoVertibeV j ."0, 1913, 579 men and 7bs wothen', a total of 1,3015. • • The death rate for the year was very small compared with similar in stitutions anil the _ .recovery rato, 'Vhich Is 27.fi per cent, based rtn the number of admissions, is a very fa vorable showing. The general health of the patients is good and no seri j otis accident has occurred during the year. The great demand for admission of patients to the hospital Is unabated, It having been necessary to deny the admission of 162 applicants during the year on account of a laclfof room. The Legislature appropriated $50,00(1 last winter for an additional build ing and ground has been broken for j the receiving building, for women - but | there Is delay in the \york. because | the money appropriated Is not avail able. '£|je . building Will hardly' be ready for occupancy before nerft sum- j mer. Tlin vacancies In the hospital ciuif I ed by death or discharge do not begin j to keep pnoe with the applications i for admission and the management of ' the hospital and the 'directors must > constantly hear distressing appeals' which they are powerless to heed be j cause of the lack of room. Buy 425,517 Acres Land. Spe lal Iron) Washington the 'National I'ori'st sl(>i>-rt»porti'd to Congress recently i that during.the pust fiscal year it had > approved for pun protection I of wnterslierfs of navigable streams un der the Appalachian projects, tracts | •iggCc-Aating 425,717 acr«>s This makes I the total area of lands approved by j the commission so far 713,415 acres, ! averaging in price $5.07 an acre. Payments of s72.'i,ti,s7 for '103,186 | acres were made during the year. The I amount required for thy remainder-of j the hinds approved for purchase is 1 approximately $2,894,857. The lauds I a quired and in process of aciiuisilinii j are In Mainff, '.\ew Nunipshlre, \'ir- | ginla, Tennessee, the CnrOlinas,' Geo gia and Maryland. ' •' ' •»: t' ' I J. R. Young Taf&s InsJrarrce. | JM New York Special says absolute and desi'Otic. strj^rvision of insurance cqjWPunles by tlie Various states, or "state insurance" pure and simple, wjjl ensue if mere state regulation fafls, declared James R. Young, of Raleigh, N. C., president of the Nation al Convention of Insurance Commis sioners, in an address here recently, Mr. -V oung -epoke before the annual meeting of the association of life In surauce presidents. 1 ' % - Seek Postoffice at China Grave. Svecial from Washington says: If the people of Rowan. Cabarrus and Meiklenburg counties hear an unufcua! sound any time within the next few weeks they • need not become fiflght ened. for It will be nothing more nor less than the roar of battle at China Grove where H. G. Peeler. G. G. Black welder and P. A. Sloop have locked horns over'the postoffice, which will soon be elevated to the presidential class. Clarence G. Heilig and Jno B. McAlister are running nip and tuck fo rthe, Mount Pleasant Epstoffice. Hammer Has Been Battered. A Washington report says: The monkey wrench that Henry A. Page threw in WC. Hammer's running gear Is Still there, and it will require a good ,16ng pull to get it out. Senator Overman will get it out, for he has the ability to do it, but the scars it made will be there until Mr. Hammer goes out. The attorney general does not think that Mr. Hammer should be die trlct attorney. He has practically said as much to Senator Simmons and Overman, who say Mr. Hammer will be appointed. > THE ENTERPRISE, WILUAMBTON, NORTH CAROLINA. REBELS DEFEATED BY GUNBOAT Fll i / #'». ' * . HUERTA'B LITTLE WARSHIPS WITH MACHINE GUNS MOW ED DOWN REBELS. MANY BODIES LEFT ON FIELD Wh.ftn Rebels * Retreated They Took Twenty-five Locomotive* and Hundred* of Care. Mexico City.—The rebels failed In their & Hack on Tulrt pTco nnd~ have" Withdrawn some distance from the city. Messages reaching here fully corrob orate the war office report of the reb el'defeat ,an a result of a heavy and sustained bombardment by two fed oral gunboats and Held artillery. They do not, however, bear out the Idea of a rout. . • In possession of the railroad yards .throughout the battle, the rebels, when they wered riven off, remained sufficiently cool In the face of the furious fire to tak« away with tlieu. every locomotive and most of the roll lng stock. According to the. federal report KOO rebels were killed before they could> get out of rangeftyahd this proba'bb • would mean many other hundreds wounded and left behind. u It Is regarded here as probable ths.t (he relief of Tampico is only tempo • rtfry and that before many days (lie rebels will resume the attack in gn at er numbers, although the three days' 'battle has materially ,cut down their 'supply of ammunition, Reports that reached here do not Indicate that the property loss as a result of the fight ing has been large. Whether the -rebels,/ under General Mlanco now at Victoria decide to-re new the attack upin Tampico or direct their efforts against Monterey, they will ba able to move men and war material much more expeditiously in the next venture, since "as a result of the engagements about Tampico they now have in their possession 23 loco motives and several hundred cars, many of them loaded with construc tion material and other supplies. FREE FOOD SWELL IMPORTS Removal of Tariff Has Opened New Supplies of Foodstuff*. Washington.—Foodstuffs coming In free of duty under the new tariff bill are swelling the total of imports Into the United States. Increase in ex ports and decrease in imports for the first four mouths, of the present lin eal year, as compared with the same period last year, was shown in statis tics made public by the department of commerce. Kxports this year have amounted to ss:is.y!l4,Bs:?, against $771,041,792. for the' Unit four months last year. The Imports ,figures were $580,677,1)62 against $(!2ti,2:50,987. "There can be no Ihferenhe drawn, from these hni'd facts," said SecrGta- ' ry Redtleld, "that is not both encour aging and complimentary to Ameri can industrty. The flooding of our markets with alleged cheap wares of Europe I*! s not happened. On tffe oth er hand, the growth of exports is both surprising and eueouraglhg. Do tails df' importation of foodstuffs on which the removed or re dueed-by tariff.law. "It Is of course ijnich too soon to i state any definite results under the |:nfcw revenue laws,'! continued the sec 1 rftary, "yet It will bo well to open j nt'w supplies of food, that unquentlon aply, has been f» result. I 1 "fif 1 cattle, which now enter free of : duty, the nuSnber imported in Octo i ber wrts 130,639 agaUuU 27,696 itt Oc- Ktiiber, 1912; of aheep, the num j her was 26,0:15, against 3,466. Of I fhesh beef the imports during Octo ber were 5;677,4til pounds, "Of corn, which enters free of duty under the new law, the Importations In October, 1913, were 475, 250 bush' els, against 226,471 in October last year. Fish .shows material Increase In Importations. . Onlonp, on which the rate of duty was reduced one-half, show importations of 120,48? bushel* in October, 1913, against bush els in October, 1912." f Kills Mother About His Coffee. Donaldsonville, La.—Because his aged mother did not respond prompt ly to his request for a cup of coffee, Paul Falcon arose from the supper table, went into the next room and shot her'through the head. MTB. Fal con died almost instantly. The fam 'ily reside on St. Emma plantation, several miles from this place. Fal con's half brother, Joha Ragas, had returned from work and asked tor a changfe of clothes. She was comply ing with Rangas' request when she was shot down, Great Britain Fears Rebellibn in India London. —The llritisb and Indian governments are seriously concerned, over recent occurrences in south Af rica arising out of what the East" In dians consider discriminatory legisla tion against them. An effort Is be ing made to minimize the serousness of the situation which was accompa nied byua general strike of thousands of East Indians In Nataland riots in which several were killed. The gov ernment's influence has been suffi cient to Induce the press of the coun try to print only favorable news. ONE REASON FOR LATE XMAS SHOPPING MEXICAN ELECTIONS VOID HUERTA CONGRESS CALLS NEW ELECTIONS FOR NEXT JULY. Unless the Rebels Throw Him Out, the Dictator Will Remain ■ in Power. Mexico City. The Mexican con gress nullified the recent presidential elections New elections are called for next. July. Congress, according to this action, expects General lluerta to remain In the presldjlpcy for at least seven the pretfKTency for at least seven months more; and If the time neces sary for the selection and Installation of his successor Is taken Into con sideration, It will he well towards the end of September, next year, before he yields his power to another. In voting that the recent presiden tial election was null, the deputies decided to fix the first Sunday In July. 15)14, as the date for .the new election. They also confirmed the po sition of General lluerta as provision al president until then. The action of the deputies was ac companied by no debate. The commlt toij'M report was approved without a dissenting vote as rapidly as the arti cles could be read. The measures' taken also provide for the eleetifcn of a new congress since the one elected to take the. place of flint dissolved by lluerta is to serve out an unexpired term which Should terminate September 15. Although there were no dissenting votes In the cfiamher on. the commit tee report, it was noted that the Catholic deputies absented themselves from the session. "DRYS" STORM THE CAPITOL Mighty Prohibition Demonstration in ) Washington. j> Washington. Prohibition forces from all over the country gather ed In Washington for a dem onstration before the national capital. More than two thousand men and women, representing the Anti-Saloon .League of America and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, march ed In separate bodies to the capitol, bearing petitions demanding that na tional prohibition be effected by con stitutional amendment. Disagreement as to the part each orgnnlsiatlon should play In the pre sentation of the petitions threatened were to cause a sprit, In the temper ance forces, but all differences were smoothed out. As a result, the mlttee of one thousand men, repre senting the Anti-Saloon League forces, were received at the capitol first, af ter which they withdrew and the wom en made their plea. Federal Ownership of Wire Lines. Washington.—Legislation prelimi nary to government ownership of tele graph and long distance telephone lines, or both, may be introduced in the annual postoffice appropriation bill soon to be reported tot he house. Representative Moon of Tennessee and Postmaster General Burlesou have been conferring on the subject, and they are expected to reach a final agreement as to the form the pro posed legislation should take. Exper iments in the ownership of railway mail cars have been provided for. To Btop "Pistol Toting." Washington.—An amendment to the Federal constitution to permit con gress and the states to regulate the practice of "pistol toting," was offer ed in ' the house by Representative Frank Park of Georgia. Judge Park predicted that tfie amendment Would receive the overwhelmingtipproval of congress and the stated. He said his experience on the bench had convinc ed him that the evil of pistol toting was directly responsible for a large percentage of the homical records of the United States, .A 1 \ ■ '- ■■ GARRISON FORK(M!LIIiA IN ANNUAL REPORT WAR SECRE TARY FAVORS RESERVE SYSTEM. Proper Organization Necessary for! " .United States Recognition and Dependence. Washington.—Secretary Garrison's first annual report to the president, as head of the war department, makes no jCet'ommendatloiiH for the generally ex-, pected rearrangement of army posts to distribute troops in mobile utiits. The secretary says that other things of immediate importance, "particular ly an adequate supply of field artillo-' ry," will postpone his recommenda tions to congress, but in the meantime the troops will be garrisoned in as practical a manner for mobilization as Is possible. Mr. Garrison discusses the militia at some length. He, says, in part t "Tile national importance-of a re serve system for the organized militia cang.ot~.be questioned, r The minimum strength at which militia organiza tions are maintained in time of peace will render necessary a great and im mediate Increase in a national emerg ency, and this fact demands the pres ence of a system of reserves ' from which trained men may be secured for this increase. Without some such sys tem, not only will- such Increase be rendered exceedingly difficult, but even when accomplished the efficlen-, cy of the organizations will have been reducrd to a minimum by the intro duction of an untrained element dou ble in number tlie trained personnel. PLANNING TO CURB TRUSTS Scope of Anti-Combine Legislation' D efined at Conference. Washington.—The scope of Presi dent Wilson's program of anti trust legislation became fairly well defined at t'he end of a conference at the white house between the president and six Democratic members of the house Judiciary committee, that is to undertake the preparation of the ad ministration bills. The measures to be advanced for action at this session will aim at the following results: Definition of the „varlous forms of monopoly and restraint of trade which, would be "conclusively deemed" un reasonable and hi violation of law. Placing upon the defendant the bur den of proof to show that thereis-mv "unreasonable" restraint of trade. / Prohibition of interlocking directo rates between large corporations. Establishment of an interstate trade commlssslon to exercise regulatory powers, make original investigations and aid the courts In carrying out de crees of dissolution of trusts. Possible for Man to Earn Million. New York.—Secretary of State Wil liam J. Bryan. In speaking before the clerical conference, of the New York Federation of Churches on the subject of "Fundamentals," declared It to be his belief that "it Is possible for a man really to earn $30,000 a year for a life time of 33 1-3 years, or a million dollars in a lifetime." Secretary Bry an made this declaration in discussing irian's relation to the society about him, which, he said, was one of the three things fundamental in human life. / Stops as Dividend Payer. New York. —After an unbroken rec ord of forty years as a dividend pay er, the New York, New Haven and ; Hartford Railroad company finally has been forced to the necessity of sus pending further disbursements on its 157,000,000 of stock. This decision ■vas reached after a protracted" 4 meet ing of the directors. It Is estimated tftat nto less 'than- $40,000,000 of New Haven stojk and bonds, as well as se curities of affiliated companies and real estate are held by savings banks. 13,671,000 BALES IS CROP ESTIMATE ' V ' *IRBT EBTIMATZ OF COTTONi CROP MADE BY U. 8. GOVERNMENT. COMPARISONS ARE MADE This Year's Crop Will Probab'y B« the Most Valuable Ever Krjown in the Country. Washington.—The American cottoa crop for the season of 1913-14 will amount to bales of 500- pounds (not intruding linters), 'ac cording to the ftrst estimate made by the government this year ft)rough th»- crop reporting board, bureau of sta tistics, department of agriculture, and announced. This compares with 13y 703,421 bales of 500 pounds, exclusive of linters, produced last year, when the total crop inclusive of linters was 14,313,000 bales of 500 pounds; 15.- 692,701 bales in 1911, which, inelud- Ing linters, amounted to 16,250.276 bales; ll.fiov.r.y) bales In 1910, which, including lintern, amounted to l2 r 005.688 bales; 10,004.949 bales in 190&, which, Including Hilars, amounted -to 13,587,306 bales, and \L107.179 t>al«e In 1907, which, including amounted to 11,375,461 baHs. The average of the crops of 1907-11 was 12.331,047 bales, exclusive of linters. A crop of 6,542.850,000 pounds of coiton, not Including; lii.i.ers, wan pro duced in the United Stales during 1913-14, the department of a.?ricul tare announced. Tills fs the third in [size, that of 1911, which amounte? 10 7,459,940,000 pounds, being t)je reoor»» and that of last year, w:ieh 8.551.T10,- 000 pounds were grown, beinu second. This year's crop probably will be the moat valuable ever grown in the Unit ed States. At the average farm value of cotton on November 1", which was 13 cents a pound, it is worth $850,- 570,500 for the lint alone. To this about $125,000,000 probably will bo added by value of the seed and lin ters. The previous most valuable crop was that of 1910, which .was val ued at $820,320,000 and with seed and lint at $863,180,000. - A ■ TAFT BACKS UP WILSON Former President Say» Monroe Do©- trine Must Be Upheld. v New York, —"We are international trustees of (he prosperity we have and the power we enjoy, and we are in duty bound to use them is both -oivil and proper to help our neighbors," declared former President William H. Taft in a lecture before the New JTfirk i'eace Society on the Monroe doctrine, which, he held. Should he continued in full force, des pite the hostility to its expressed in some quarters. | "We cannot be too careful to avoid' forcing our own ideas of government on peoples, wlio, though favoring pop ular government, have such different ideas ajj to what constitutes It/ Ho alluded to criticism of the appli cation of the Tloctr|ne as leading to "intermeddling by our government in the politics of the smaller countries like San Domingo and the central American republics," and that we are exercising a protectorate of a direct character over some of them. "What we are doiiy? with respect to them," he continued, "is in tl\e interest of civilization, and we ought to do it to aid our neighboring governments, whether the Monroe doctrine prevails or met." Florence, Italy.—"Mona-Lise," Leo nardo I)a Vinci's great paintiug,. which was stolen from the Louvre, in Paris, more than two years ago, nas been found. It is now in the of the Italian authorities and wils be returned to France. "Mona-Lisa," or "La Joconde," as it is more popularly Jytpwn, the most celebrated portrait of a woman ever painted, has bf-en the object of exhaustive search ih all quarters of the globe. The mystery of its abstractfon from the Louvre, it* great intrinsic value and the strange fascination of the smile of the wom an it portrayed—Lisa Del Oiocond«— have combined to keep ali7e interest in its recovery. Defender's Kiel Laid at Bristol. Bristol, R. I.—Disregarding the old time Bailors' superstition attaching Of luck to Friday, the builders of the- Vanderbllt syndicate yacht, which l» to be a candidate for -the defense ©t the America's tup, cast her keel on that day. A little ceremony added in terest to the casing of the keel when Miss Agnes Herreshoff, daughter of the designer, tossed into the melted metal several bright new pennies. The coins had been given her for the purpose byXJorpelius Vanderbllt and other members of the syndicate. Admiral Stops Fight. Mexico City.—Rear Admiral Fletch er, commander of the American naiat forces in Mexican waters, ordered fh? rebels and. federals fighting Tam rt co to cease firing, threatening to o;**jt up on them with the guns .of the gun boat Wheeling if his order was not obeyed. Both sides complied with the order. This information is contained in a dispatch received by Sir Lionet. Carden, the British minister, front Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Crad ock, of the British cruiser Berwint which Is lying off Tampico. ■ 'V •
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