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ft.M a Year, In Advance. "FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH. " Single Copy f Cimts. VOL. XVIII. PLXMOUTH, N, C.. FEIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1908. NO. TA HEEL TO PIC& v- tcms Galhcrcc from AH Sections of the State J Tli Grape Black Rot. This disease prevails in all parts of North Carolina: In most sections of the State it is so bad that the grape ?rop is practically ruined "unless prop er measures be taken to prevent the disease. The Black rot is easily recognized from blackening, drying and final shriveling of the grapes in the clstcrs. Often all of them shrivel and dry in this way. Though the disease is sel dom, noticed until the grape in badly shrivelled, it may be seen earlier as a brownr black spot on the berry. Be fore its appearance upon the fruit at all it niaj' be found as brown spots, one-eighth to one-half an inch in dia meter, on. the leaves or twigs. Very close; examination of J t he . .'diseased spots on twigs, leaves, .0 fruit, re reals the. presence of very small pus tules in great numbers." - These pestules are the fruiting bod- s of the fungus which is the eause t the black rot, and from these pus tules issue, immense numbers of spores which serve to spread the disease. This disease can be prevented. If .you saw black rot on your grapes last year it; will almost certainly be there again 'this year unless you take steps to prevent it. Prevention is simple andsure. It consists in spraying your, vines with the Bordeaux mix ture, consisting of six pounds of blue-stones-four pounds of lime and fifty . gallons of water. The first applica tion, -Jailing the spores that are win teringspn the bark and trellis, should be rji&tfre before the buds open; the second -immediately before the blos soms -"appear; the third, just after Idossoms appear; the third, just after blosomfng; the' fourth and;fi'fth at in tervals of ten to fourteen days there after. The cost of six sprayings for an acre of grapes is .about fifteen dollars, including material . and labor. The grapes saved will in value far exceed this cost. Kow is the time of year to get your 3piy pump ready if you have one; to buy "one-if you need to; to prepare for the spraying needed during the coming spring. If you need further information re garding spraj'ing mixtures, how to prepare them, spraying pumps, where to buy them, and what crops and when to spray, write to the North CarolinaAgricultural Experiment Sta tion.' West Raleigh, N. C, for Bui. 193, "Spraying Mixtures and Machin ery, When and How to Spray." - The following Bulletins of interest to fruit growers may be secured upon application. Bulletin 182. Apples in North Carolina.-' Blletin 1S4. Garden and Orchard Fruits, their Culture and Marketing. Bulletin 1S5. Black... Rot ; of the Grcpe in North Carolina" '-and its Treatment. Bulletin ISC. Insect and Tungous Enemeies of the Peach, Plum, Cherry! Fis: and Persimmon. , - Bulletin 137. Grapes and Small Fruits. - F.L.STEVENS, . '. - Biologist. . Death of Mr. R. H. Jordan. ' Charioteer Bpecial.Mr. R. II. Jor dan, one of the best known druggists in North Carolina and one... of Cher lot te's most prominent citizens, died in his room at the Central Hotel here on Wednesday and was buried on Thursday afternoon. " 1 ' Removed For Saf e'Keeping. ) Asheville, Special. Sheriff Cole and Deputy Sheriff Sp.ringle, of Mad ison county, arrived here on train No. 12, bringingSvith them John Ran dolph, charged with the cruel murder of his wife several days ago. Ran. dall was brought here for safe-keep-i-ag. He is,' however, apparently in different to the crime charged against him and seems to have no fear. Big Cotton Spinners Meeting in June. Charlotte, Special. The meeting of the International Federation of Mast er Cotton Spinners and Manufactur- fl Vuuvu rrs will be held in Paris France, Juno Ij3 nui rr H T? Tanner, president of 1st. the American Cotton Manufacturers Association, will appoint the five dele gales from that body within a few la The last meeting ot the Inter nalional Federation was held 111 At lanta, Ga., last fall. It is likely that ouite a number of American spinner vul atton.l the forthcoming meeting, .o t.L. Ki:- f:-oa Charlotte. Sensational Developments. New Berne, Special. Seneational developments of the fire here Sunday morning, in which Williani O'Brien, an industrious colored man, met his death. It appears that nothing was suspected until O'Brien's body had been lowered m the grave and the last rites were in progress when Coroner Jones ordered the, body taken up and taken to an. undertaking establish ment, where a postmortem exainina tion was made. A coroner's jury was impanelled and that body in consider ing the matter. The fact that the toan's skull was- fractured was the cause of the investigation, and other incidents tend to make officers suspic ious that the man met his death by foul play. It is intimated that 0 'Brien had a difficulty with a neigh bor shortly before the fire occurred. While that neighbor has not been ar rested, he is kept under surveilance by police until it can be settled to the satisfaction of the coroner and jury that the man came to death by acci dent. O'Brien was well known in the city and, had an excellent reputation. The " man under suspect is one of the most prosperous colored merchants in the city.. Coroner Makes Investigation. Newbcrn, Special. The death of William O'Brien, colored, in the ear ly morning fire Sunday, had so many suspicious things connected with it that the coroner summoned a jury and spent a part of three days in in vestigating tha affair. . From what can be learned it is very doubtful as to foul play, although there is a sus picion that such could have been the case. , . . 1 Coast Line Agrees. Raleigh, Special. Governor Glenn has received a very interesting and important letter from President Thomas M. Emerson, of the Atlantic Coast Line, dated at Wilmington: "I have received a copy of the act of the Legislature passed at the extra session covering the passenger rale matter. I note from the same that you were unable to carry out in full your recommendation as contained in your proposal, notably that pari which provided that the question of the reasonableness of the proposed rate be remanded to the corporation commission at the end of twelve months' trial. Nevertheless it is our intention to give our part' of the agreement the twelve months' trial, under the conditions as provided for in our letter of December 28th, 1907. I have furnished the counsel for the complaining . stockholders a copy of this letter. I do add that it is our intention to readjust inter-State rates effective if possibe on April 1st." To this Governor Glenn replied that he was gratified that tho Atlantic Coast Line would put the new rate in to effect - Charters Granted. Among the enw charters are th following: Observer Printing House, Char lotte ; -capital authorized, $25,000 to begin with, initial, stock, paid in, $6, 000. Incorporating stockholders, D. A. Tompkins,-20 shares; J. P. Cald well, 20 shares, B. R. Cates, 20 shares. Randleman Drug Company, P. A Hayes, J. H. Waller and others, in corporators. Initial capital, $1,950. Charters are granted the Crescent Hardware Company, at Greensboro, capital stock $50,000, and the R. W. Livermore general merchandise com-, pany, of Pates, Robinson county. $2,000. ' High Point's Bond Issue. High Point, Special. At a meeting of the board "of aldermen last weeh the papers' advertising High Point's bonds for sale were presented and accepted. The issue calls for $60,00( 5 per cent coupons, payable April 1st 190S. The issue of these bonds was by an act of the extra session of the legislature and is to pay off the float ing indebtedness of the city. The Wachovia Loan and Trust Com pany. Winston-Salem, Special. At 1 meeting of the directors of the Wa chovia Loan & Trust Company, held in this city. Mr. Westcott Robinson a prominent lawyer and citizen oi High Point, was elected a member ol the board of directors and also chair man of the board of managers of the High Point office. The company has branch banks at High Point, Salis bury, Spencer and Asheville. IN HONOR OF LINCOLN Birthday of Martyr President FSr.2y Observed MY TOED SPEAKERS HEARD A Former Officer in the Confederate Army Takes Part in the New York Ceremonies Hearst a Quest of Honor and a Principal Speaker Governor Hughes Makes Iwe Ad dresses. New York, Special. Tho 99th an niversary of Lincoln's birth was fit tingly observed by the members of the- Lincoln Fellowship, a recently organized association of admirersof tho martyr-President. Addresses were delieverd by several men of national reputation. Additional Lin coln meetings were held at night. The Lincoln Fellowship is designed to perpetuato Lincoln's memory and keep alive his principles and patrio tism. It is expected to become nat ional in its scope and character. A great celebration of the centennial of Lincon's birth will be held by the fellowship next year. One of the charter members is C. W. McLellan, a retired New York banker, who was an officer in the Confederate army. Others who joined are David II. Bates, Lincoln's telegrapher in the War Department; Major J. IB. Merwin, Middleford, Conn., who was Lincoln's confidential agnt and who says he dined with Lincoln in the White House on the day of the assassination and started for New York early that evening to present Lincoln's letter to Horace Greely, containing the President's plans for digging the Panama Canal with two hundred thousand negro soldiers, with-"Ben" Butler as su pervisor; Charles A. Tinkler, clerk in the War Deparlment, and .General James Grant Wilson, who exhibited a ring containing strands of hair from the heads of Washington, Wel lington, Napeoleon, Alexander Ham ilton, Lincoln and Grant. Major Merwin had the original order writ ten and signed by Lincoln passing him through the army lines. The officers are: Major William Lambert, U. S. A. (retired) of Phil adelphia, who served under General Thomas iu the cival war, president; General James Grant Wilson, C. W. McLellan, Judd Stewart, New York; J. B. Oakleaf, of Moline, 111.; Alonzo Rothschild, East Roxboro, Mass., and General James Fish, of Minneapolis, vice-presidents; F. D. Tandy and Judd Stewart, New York, secretary and treasurer, respectively. Hearst at Lincoln Banquet. New York, Special William Ran dolph" Hearst, was the guest of honor and principal speaker at the second annual Lincoln dinner of the Inde pendent League at the Hotel Knick erbocker. John Temple Graves, the famous Southern editor, now on the editorial staff of The New York American, also delivered an address Other speakers were Frank P. Walsh, of Kansas City; Charles A. Walsh, of Iowa; Thomas L. Hisgen, of Mas sachusetts; Reuben Roble Lyon, of Bath, N. Y., and John T. McDonough, of Albany. Governor Hughes in New York. New York, Special. Governor Hughes, observed Lincoln's birthday as the guest of the Republican Club of New York and the Union League of Brooklyn. He expected to mako two addresses. Hoosier3 Honor Lincoln's Memory. Wabash, Ind., Special. Hundreds of prominent "Iloosiers are here for the annual celebration of the India na Lincoln League, , the greatest State organization in tho country formed to perpetuate the memory of Lincoln.' .Among the speakers are Vice President Fairbanks, Senator A. J. Beveridgc and Senator Jame3 A. Hemenway. Captain of General Slocum Convicted New York, Special. The convic tion of William II. Van Schaick, cap tain of th (incursion steamer General Slocum, which was burned on Juno 15th, 1D04, in East river, with a loss of over 1,000 lives, was af finned by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. Captain Van Schaick was convicted of r.eg'.evl of his duty as captain and was given a soatence of ten years in prison. Captain Van Schaick is 70 years old. He has been at liberty on bail and has been mar vicfl siuea tho conviction. A GREAT MOVfMENri Meeting to Promote Religious E&txsdon RECEIVED BY IKE FRE5IBENT A White House Reception to the Re ligious Educational Association Same of the Speakers and Their Subjects A Lincoln Memorial Ad dress by a RabbL Washington, Special. In the East room of the White House President Roosevelt received the delegation to tho fifth convention of the Religious Educational Association, and in a brief address highly praised their ef forts to inculcate religious and ethi cal ideals into the educational system of the country. He urged a union of patriotism and piety in the training of thr young. His speech was greet ed with applause by the hundreds ol distinguished clergymen, educators and college presidents and profess ors who attended the reception. The morning session of the conven tion was principally devoted to a re sume of the work of the association during the last year by General Sec retary Henry F. Cope, of Chicago, and Dean George Hodges of the Har vard Episcopal Theological School. Among those participating in the dis cussion that followed were President William H. P. Faunce, of Brown Uni versity, . President Samuel A. Elliot of the American Unitarian Associa tion, Secretary Frank Knight San ders of the Congregational Sunday School Society and President Charles Cuthbert Hall of Union Theological Seminary, New York. Department sessions will be held in the afternoon, following the White House reception. The theme for tho third general session at night will be: - "How Can the Moral and Re ligious Life of the Nation Be Made ilore Effective!" The speakers will include the Rev. Washington Glad den, of Columbus, O., President Rich ard Cecil Hughes, of Ripon College, Professor Rufus M. Jones, of Haver ford College, and Professor Georgo Albert Coe, of Northwestern Univer sity. A feature will be a Lincoln memorial address by Rabbi Moses J. Gries, of Cleveland, on "Lincoln's Contribution to the Moral Life of the Nation." Boiler Explodes; Seven Dead. Sunbury, Pa., Special. Seven men were killed and more than a dozen injured by the explosion of a boiler Monday in the rolling mill of Van Al len & Co., at Northumberland, two miles north of here The dead are: Grant Reeder, aged 40 years, married. Edward Kieps, aged 38, married. William Brouse, aged 40, married. Samuel Sarvis, aged 46, married. Du val Clark, aged 43, married. John Scholvin, aged 50, married. Thomas Jones, aged 65, married. Cannot Find Missing Steamer. Norfolk, Va., Special. The United States revenue cutter Onondaga re turned to port Monday after an un succsccful search at sea for the miss ing steamer Blufields . bound from Jacksonville to Philadelphia. News in Brief. President Roosevelt asked the Sen ate to act quickly in regard to nec essary changes in the tariff on Ger man imports. An uproar in the Reichstag follow ed Chancellor von Buelow's refusal to reply to a Socialist interpellation on the Prussian suffrage. Horses' Kick Causer. Paralysis. Lead, S. D., Special From the kick of a horse sustained a week ago, Geo. W. Glover, son of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, Christian Science leader, is suffering from paralysis of the right leg. The horse's kick re-opened an old gunshot wound suffered in tho leg during "tho civil war. Appropriation Eill in Eouce. Consideration of the legislative, ex ccutivo end judicial appropriation bill, no of the great supply measures of tho government, was begun in the House Wednesday. Mr. Bingham, of Pennsylvania, explained the details oi the measure. He too!; occasion, how ever, to remind ti c House of the wr.n-ins jJven by M. Tawney thai unless appropriations vcre kept down 'tho country would face a largo defi cit. Consideration of the bill had not hecn concluded when tho IIouso adjj'ii T.C:1 28 ARE BURIED ALIVE While At Work Winers Quickly Entombed HEROIC RESCRE WORK BEGUN Breaking Dam Sends Flood of Mud TJpoa Miners Engaged in Mid Vall7 Colliery, Near Mount Car rael, pa PottsvilU, Pa., Special. Twenty eight miners were imprisoned in the Mid-Valfey Colliery near Mount Car rael Monday morning by the breaking of a dam of water which had formed in a drift whieh caused a rush of mud into a gangway where the men were at work. All day long a party of rescuers endeavored to reach tho entombed men and shortly after 6 o'clock they were given encourage ment by sounds of digging from tha inside. Later a shot was also heard, indicating that the men were at work to effect their own rescue and also giving assurance that the air is good. Among the men entombed aro a number of experienced miners and it is believed that it will be possible to effect the rescue of all the men unless some of them should have met death by bng smothered in the rush of mud when tho dam broke. Behind a Sea of Mud. Seven of the number are Ameri cans. The men have been employed in No. 4 drift of the east side gang way driving a heading to the sur face. The heavy rains and thaw of the last few days had caused a great dam of Water to accumulate in No. 90 breast of No. 4 drift and the pressure became so heavy that it finally broke through and a great sea of mud flowed into tho Gangway whero tho men were at work. It filled it for a distance of about S50 feet and it will be necessaiy to dig through this great barrier of mud to get at the workmen from this direc tion. Three different rescuing par ties have been put to work in an en-, deavor to release tho entombed men. One force is digging away the great bank of mud which fills the gang way. Another gang is engaged in driving a heading from an adjoining sranjrway, while a third force has been put to work at the point where the entombed men were to have driven the heading to the surface from the gangway in which they aro now imprisoned. It is believed that the last named gang will be the firs'; to reach the entombed men and it is hoped to be able to get them out or give them food and drink by Tuesday morning. Work of Rescue. The work of rescue is under the direction of Mine Inspector James A. O'Donnell, of the fourteenth district, assisted by Inspector B. I. Evans, of the fifteenth district. O'Donnell has a force of 100 men working under him and they are taking turns in regular relays of two hours' work and four hours' resi. The noise of men working with picks inside gave the rescuers great encouragement and it is believed that the majority of the men entombed , are alive, although it is scarcely possible that all of them were fortu nate enough to have escaped the great rush of mud when the dam broke. Great crowds of people have gatehered around the mouth of tho slope and have announced their in tention of remaining during the en tire night. They include the fami lies of entombed men. Michigan Central Train Wrecked. Buffalo. N. Y., Special. Five per sons were injured, one probably fa tally, when a Michigan Central pas senger train, running 25 miles an lour, crashed into and telescoped a New York Central yard engine at Black Rock. James Barry, of Buf falo, engineer of the yard engine, who sustained a fractured skull, and internal injuries, probably will die. Attempt to Wreck Train Frustrated. Americus, Ga., Special. An at tempt was made here to wret'k tho northbound Central train. A cross tie was placed in Muckalee creek trestle at the end of a sharp curve. Tho train had slowed down and tho engine struck the tie at reduced speed, without being derailed. The chief of police went with a posse to the scene and arrested John Hod ges, a discharged section hand, lloa ges denied placing ttic tie but is sa.d to have admitted he knew it wa- there befcre tho cugiro f'vne': it. Late JVekztj In 'Brief MINOR H4TTERS OF INTEREST Prosperity's Livo Corpse. Unless some apparently trust worthy indications are misleading be yond belief retail trade in the coun try at large for tne approachiag spring will measure well up to the high average of recent years. From the New York Times we learn that over 3,000 ont-of-town merchants and other buyers, ehiefly from the West, have poured into the metropo lis, surprising and delighting New York merchants. On Monday last, the New York Merchants' Associa tion's first registration day for the spring trade, 419 buyers, or the next largest number on record for such a date, inscribed their names at asso ciation headquarters. The second day s registration left no record un broken. All the hotels that cater t , the ont-of-town buyers were over run. "The buyers and ont-of-town merchants,7', says The Times' story. "swarmed about the hotel corridors last night, telling their New York friends that the business outlook waa brighter than it bad ever been be fore. Many who wtnf to the theater ,in the evening spent intermission time presdicting a great era of pros perity for the country." Though some of the errntryrs great indus tries are in a very unsatisfactory con dition for the time being, the facts just narrated certainly do not indi cate general hard times, either pres ent or prospective. Prosperity ha received some hard and temporarily crippling blows, btrt it is far from dead yet. Charlotte, N. C, Observer of Feb. l(k Pittsburg Flood-Swept. Pittsburg, Pa., Special. Spread ing ruin and disaster in its path, the annual flood of tho rivers and small streams of this section holds Pitts burg in its grasps At 10 o'clock the water had reached a stage of 26 feet and was rising a. half foot an hour. The weather bnreau predicts 30 feet and possibly a foot higher when tha crest of the flood arrives. While tho weather conditions are much colder and snow flurries are experi enced at intervals the changed con ditions will have absolutely, no ef fect on the high water. At tho headwaters the rivers continue to rise and scores of cities and towns in western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohia and West Virginia are partially in undated. In the Pittsburg distriel alone the damage, it is expected, will amount to several million dollars. T. K. Bruner Dead. Raleigh, N. C, Special. Hon. T. K. Bruner, who for 21 years has served the State as Secretary of Ag riculture, died here Sunday morning. The entire "State will mourn his loss. He was 52 years of age and wa3 born in Salisbury, tne son of J. J. Bruner, his mother's maiden name be ing Kincaid, and she being also a native of the good County of Rowan. His father was for many years editor and publisher of The Carolina Watch man, of Salisbury, a power in the newspaper world of its day, and T. K. Bruner was for some time asso ciated with him on that paper. II was devoted to the study of miner alogy and became an expert. Yellow Tever at Galveston. Galveston, Tex., Special. On tha steamer Crispin, which arrived in the roads from Para, Brazil, three miles out from Galveston, Sunday there were two cases of yellow fever. The two men affected are Third Engineer Davis and Third Officer Pritchard. By Wire and Cable. The B. & O. Railway will test tha nine-hour law, orders to that effect having been issued. Jim Smith, the notorious moon shiner, of Surry county, North Caro lina, for whose arrest $1,000 reward had been offered by tho government has been jailed at Winaton-Salcm, N. C. Cashier Locked in Vault. Hickory, N. C. Special. What was equal to a Western scene was the bold robbery of the bank at Granite Falls, a town of several hundred in habitants, on the C. & N. W. Rail way, about six miles from IUekory atG o'clock Saturday night, when Cashier W. G. Whisnant was held up at the point of guns by threa masked bandits, who took from tho cashier's desk $2,700, after wUe' locking him in tho vault and making good their escape, fc'o far it is not known from whence they caino or whither they went, but they yerj
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