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i Year, In Advance. "FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH. 1 Slsfta Copy 8 Caa VOL. X.VIII. PLYMOUTH, , C FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1908. NO. 43. i 'it f TAR -HEEL TOPICS 1 Items Gathered from AH Sections of the State W A Good Showing Raleigh, Special. Assistant Labor Commissioner M. L. Shipman gave out some news regarding the miscel laneous factories in North Carolina which will appear in the annual re port later on. He says that 587 re turns vcre made, 46 more than last year, and thai the averages give a very accurate idea of the conditions prevailing thioughout the State. It is gratifying to note the remakabie progress North Carolina is making industrially. While the chief object 'j or these reports is to get the condi tions of wage-earnei's, yet the depart ment endeavors to -obtain also infor mation as will give the public a good idea of the number and class of fac tories now. in operation. The returns show an aggregate capital of $42, 085,790, by 523 of the 5S7 miscel laneous factories reported, 64 fail .ing tt report capital stock. The Old Fort Extract Work as usual merely its a branch of the United States Leather Company and represents i l .1? .lit r i f 4 nit oniy a part oi me tjl4D,j.u4:,uuu re ported by that corporation. Last year the aggregate capital stock re ported by 407 factories was $31,239, 510, exclusive of the Old Fort plant, so that tins year's increase is fjx0 o-tu,o. ui u.e ac oncs iqJ( u;(lersonville anJ Toxnwav while they bieam power, imi-j gasoline, y steam ana water, gas ana they show a total employment ot 119,836 horse-power. The number of persons dependent upon uiem livelihood is 92.0S1, which is lG.H.o more than reported last year. Six of them report eight hours as trie cm woric, seven report nine nours, ten hours, 48 eleven hours, 69 twelve hours. There is a decided tendency toward shorter hours.. Seventy-four ner cent report increased wages, 69 per cent pay weekly, 11 per cent monthly, It per cent semi-monthly. ! Ihey report WJl employes, agamsi ; . 22,433 last year, the increase being, S.&oJ. lhe highest wages a aay aiej $2.4, increase 18 cents over last, year. Lowest wages, 93 cents, in-1 crease 9 cents: Of the adult employes 4 per cent read and Avrite and 87 pefwni' are ennnren. rjigni.y-ouc per cent say that children under 14 should not work in factories; 7 per cent say they should and 12. per cent express no opinion; 82 per cent favor a compulsory school law; 9 per cent oppose it and 9 per cent fail to ans wer the question. Many Charters Issued. Raleigh, Special. The- following session here since Tuesday, adjourn new charters were issued: i C(j at 1 o'clock Thursday to meet Greensboro Wall Paper Company, eXt year at Spartanburg, S. C. The authorized capital, $7,000; paid in j visitors left for their respective $70. W. J. llolladay, A. C. Owen, 10mes Thursday. The closing session II. H. Holladay and W. J. Holladay, J opened at 9 o'clock and was -devoted Jr., incorporators. ' to a discussion of various matters Anna Cotton Mills, King's Moun- relating to the college work. At 11 tain, capital, $95,000 authorized; o'clock there was an interesting con $31,000 paid in; J. S. Mauney, F. Dil- test between the senior and junior ling and others, incorporators. I classes of the Salem Female College Greensboro Boiler and Machine jn a garne Gf basketball. A corcpli Company increases capital from $50,- rnentarv concert was given in the 000 to $200,000. Issus of $75,000 Alumnae Memorial Hajl to the dis cumulative preferred stock created, tinguished visitors. The programme Durham & Murphy Land Company, was jn keepimr with the institution's of Charlotte; capital, $50,000; J. A.j Durham, J. E. Murphy and J. U Murphy, incorporators. Spot Cash Store, Bessemer; capital ';-;25,000 authorized; $1,000 paid in; V$V. H. Harris, A. B. Kimball and oth ers, incorporators. Rebuilding at Cooleemee. Winctnn.S.nlpm. Special. A citi- zen from Cooleemee is authority for j the statement that the damage to the ; ftnr, mill at fVr.Wmpfi List week ' K . .. aggregated $150,000. lie says that about 100 men are at work replacing the burned building. The manage ment expects to resume operations in about GO days. Judges Exchange Courts. Raleigh, Special. An exchange of courts has been arranged with the Governor, whereby Judge Jones and Judge Webb exchange terms. Judge Jones will hold court in Guilford and Granville, April 13th and 27th, and Judge Webb will hold court in An son, Moore, Scotland and Chatham, April 13th, 20th, 27th and May 4th respective!'. Windstorm at Davidson. Davidson, Special. An incident of ;.a considerable rain and windstorm ! ;li8re Thursday afternoon was the! blowing down of several, telegraph poles across the railroad track close to the Delburg Mill and not far from a sharp cure in the track. A force of workmen who had just "stopped off" at the mill building on account of the rain fortunately were able to clear the track just a few minutes before Engineer Fetner rounded tho cunf with train No. 27, thus pre yV. .jL.what might have caused a disagreeable accident to the train. Big Suita Against W. C. U. T. C. Durham, Special. Preliminary steps have been taken in two heavy damage suits to . be brought against the ' Western Union Telegraph Com pany, within a few days. The sum mons has issued and the complaints will Be field within a few days. Mr. Benjamin Lovenstein and Messrs. Manning & Foushee are bringing these suits for N. It. Sykes, of this city, and C. P. Cates, of Haw River. While the complaints have not been filed it is said that the suits, will probably be for $5,000 each, certain ly not less than $6,000 for the two litigations, which are brought on the same' action. These are mental anguish suits growing out of the fail ure of the company to deliver mes sages announcing sickness and death. Suit Against Southern. Wilmington, Special. Suit was in- stiuted in Superior Court here by r I alter R. Kingsbury and daughters, Misses Sallie and Lucile, against the Southern Railway, alleg ing $15,000 damages as the result of injuries they received August 14th, 1907, in the wreck of a passenger ; were in the mountains last summer. IIerbert McClammy, Esq., is a , H T. nmn , defective roadbed, rotten ties aud wournout rails and incompetency in the mana?ement of tho train , which wag wreckecl. . The (.ase will hfJ tried in tMg countv Toxaway Hotel Leased. Asheville, Special. Word was re reived from Atlanta to the effect that Lakp Toxawy had'" been ' leased by Trtw,r nnnv mvnpra nf ti,e gtri q famoug hotds in the Sap hh.e country to a corapany promot , . a Wood of Harvey & Wood company whose headquarters a . At1nfll n Tf :s sfnfPfi tlmt tfae Toxaway hotel AviU be opened for the season on June 11. The people connected with the new company are among the best known hotel people of New ( England, the Atlantic and Southern States. Educators of Women Adjourn. Winston-Salem, Special. The first annual meeting of the North and South Carolina Association of Col-lee-es for Women, which has been in reputation for high-class musical en- tertainments. Reunion Dats Changed. Winston-Salem, Special. At a special meeting of the Norfleet Camp of Confederate Veterans held last week it was decided to change the date of the annual reunion of the State camp from. August 19th, and i.,,... - i l i -mil il -JlHh to August lui ana ljtn, as me latter dates will be more suitable for the veterans of the State. Commit- tees from the Norfleet Camp and the board of . trade are now at work making arrangements for the gath ering, which is expected to number between 1,500 nnd 2,000 old soldiers. Good Work Dene. Raleigh, Special. Grand Senary Drewry, of the Grand Lo$& of Masons, says the singing cliss of the Oxford Orphan Asylum last year i raised over $9,000, and that this has j lejn one of the most remarkable 'features of this splendid institution. The class will make a tour of the State during the summer. Fayetteville to Vote Bonds. Fayetteville, Special. Fayette ville will shortly vote on the questior of issuing one hundred thousand dol lars of bonds for street paving. A meeting of citizens which was held last week requested the board of al dermen to call such an election, and that-body had already signified its readiness to do so whenever the cit izens made the request. The last Legislature passed an act authoriz ing the election. It will probably be held on May 4th, the date of the reg ular municipal election. The vole will likely be close, with probabili ties favoring the bond issue. mm A. Discharged Employe of Whito Oak Mills Sends an Infernal Machine to Mr. Cone But, Being Warned by an Employe, the Package is Not Open ed. Greensboro, Special. Hardin Ger many, a discharged employe of the White Oak. Cotton Mills, -was arrest sd .and committed to jail charged with sending through the mail an infernal machine addressed to Mr. Ceasar Cone, president of the Proximity and White Oak Mills. The evidence against I the prisoner is very strong, made so by the fact that he did his work in a bungling manner. Tke package was delivered to Mr. Cone Saturday morning, but the matter was kept quiet until sufficient evi dence to warrant an arrest had been secured. Within 35 minutes af ter being notified by telephone that the guilty man was located, Unit ad States Marshal Millikan had caus ed a warrant to be sworn out and hid committed Germany to jail. Tho suspected criminal wTas detained in the office of the Proximity Mills un til he could be placed under arrest byMarshall Millikan, who was carried to Proximity, a distance of two miles, by Mr. E. Colwell, Jr., in his auto mobile so uiekly as to violate the speed law several times over. But for the fact that he had re ceived a warning, doubtless Mr. Cone ivould lave opened the package and received serious injuries. Mr. Cone tvas engaged in conversation with three of his brothers, Messrs. Sol, Ju lius and Bernard Cone, at his home Thursday night about 10 o'clock when the doorbell rang. The ring was answered by Mr. Sol Cone, to whom was handed the note of warn ing. The messenger appeared to be intoxicated, and immediately after delivering the note walked rapidly away from the Cone residence.'' The note, which was written in a legible hand, on wrapping paper that had been taken from the company store it White Oak, read as follows: The Note. :Mr. Ceasar Cone, "Dear Sir: 'I pray that you will not treat this as you usually do anonymous letters, for believe me, it is to your interest. Your life is at t-take. I learned to-night that there luir been something mailed to' you that will explode when you open it. If you receive a package that' you are not expecting, for God's sake don't open it. I have very good reasons for not giving my name. Pleast don't treat this with contempt, hut be very careful. Do you want the man who sent it arrested ? 'Very respectfully yours, "WHITE OAK EMPLOYE." Across the face of the envelope in written: "Important. Ihis letter or its contents must reach Mr. Cone be fore he receives his mail. Mr. Ceasar Cone, home. His life depends upon it." The machine consisted of a narrow box, loaded with powder, shot, etc., with matches fixed to fire the powder. It was a clumsy affair but would iloubtless explode with terrific force upon being opened. Death of A. & M. Student. Winston-Salem, Special. Mr. Er nest Hines, a student of the A. & M. College at Raleigh, who was taken with a sevei'e attack of appendicitis a few days ago, died in a hospital t Raleigh at 10:30 o'clock Saturday night. Mr. Hines was a son of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Hines, of Old Town, who have been at his bedside ever since he was taken ill. The remains arrived here Sundav evening on the 7:30 o'clock train and werc taken to the home of the parents at Old held from the residence at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon and the interment will follow in the Moravian grave yard at Old Town. Mr. Hines was a most excellent young man. He was held in the highest esteem and had manv friends wherever he was known. Movement For Another Bank For Wilmington. Wilmington, Spesial. W. B. Coop er, a leading wholesale grocer and business man, announces definitely that ho is at the head of a movement for the organization o fanother nat ional and savings bank here with $100,000 capital, half of which has already been subscribed. Negro Woman Falls Down Embank ment and is Killed, Wilmington, Special. Twelve miles down the river Sunday morning at the foot of a steep delivity over looking the stream near the high-tide mark, the body of an old colored wo man was found, her neck broken. She visited in the neighborhood and started home and is supposed to have lost her way and toppled over the embankment into the river. Her lK-'ck'was broken by the fall. A coro ner's inquest was held, death being assigned as resulting from an accident. SENT-INFERNAL M IPRITCtlARD UPHELD Supreme Court Renders Tar Reaching Opinion ENDS QUESTION OF JURISDICTION Supreme Court of the United States Adds Another to the Series of Not able Decisions During Present Term of Court by Refusing to Grant to Attorney, General Young, of Minnesota, a Writ of Habeas Corpus Releasing Him From Pen alty Imposed by United States Cir cuit Court and Affirming the De cision of Judge Pritchard Dis charging Ticket Agent Wood. Washington, Special. wLn refus ing to grant to Attorney General Young, of Minnesota, a writ of habeas corpus releasing him from the penalty imposed by the United States Circuit Court for the district of Minnesota on the charge of contempt of court in instituting a proceeding in a State court for the enforcement of the railroad rate. law after tho Federal court had prohibited such a course, and in affirming the decision of Judge Pritchard, of the United I States Circuit Court for the western district of North Carolina, discharg ing from imprisonment James II. Wood, a ticket agent of the Southern Railway at Asheville. after he had been sentenced by the Asheville po lice court to. serve a term on the rock pile on the charge of collecting for a ticket on that road a greater price than was permitted by the State railroad law, ' the Supreme Court of the United States added an other to the series of decisions which have rendered notable the present term of that court. In both cases the right of th States to fix rates for railroad trans portation was the issue, and bot involved conflicts between the Feder al and the State courts The deci ions in each case was opposed both to the States and to their courts The opinion of the court in both cases, was announced bv Justice Packham, nnd with the exception of Justice Harlan all the other members of the court stood behind him in the announcement of the court's finding. Justice Harlan read a dissenting opinion in the Young case in which he took the view that the suit was practically a proceeding against the State and therefore not permissible under the eleventh amendment to the constitution. He therefore charac terized the opinion as era-making in the history of the court, and said it had the effect of closing the courts of a State against the State itself, and predicts that the result would be disastrous. Justice Peckham's Opinion, Justice Peckham's opinion as out lined is m part as follows: "The court has decided: That bv reason of the enormous penalties provided in the rate laws, by way of fines against the companies, and im prisonment of their agents and em ployes, the companies were in effect prevented from ever questioning the validity of those laws, as the risk of confiscation of property and impris onment of agents in case the com panics failed in their defense was too much to undertake in order to obtain a judicial decision of t he question of such validity. "Such laws are therefore hold un constitutional as they prevented the companies from resorting to the courts, and therefore deprived them of the equal protection of the laws. "The question of the sufficiencv of the rates to enable the company to obtain some return to its stockhold ers for their investment, has for many years been held to be one for the courts to decide, as it would be a violation of the constitution of the United States to fix rates so low as to be confiscatory if enforced. "The laws providing rates for transportation of passengers and freight in the two cases under con sideration have been held by the courts below to be so low as to be substantially confiscatory, and should therefore not be enforced until after further triaK The courts had juris diction to make such an order." Justice Harland's Opinion. "Neither the words nor the policy of the eleventh amendment will un der our former decisions, justify any order of a Federal court, the neces sary effect of which will be to ex clude a State from its own courts. Such an order attended by such re sults cannot I submit, be sustained consistently with the powers which the States, according to the uniform declarations of this court, posses under the constitution. I am justified bv what this court has therefore de clared, in now saving that the wise men who framed tho constitution and who caused the adoption of the eleventh amendment would have boon startled by the suggestion that a State of the Union can be provnf by an order of a subordinate Fed eral court from being represented bv its Attorney General in a suit brought by the State in one of its own courts, and that such an order would be inconsistent with the dig nity of the States as involved in their constitutional immunity from the ju dicial process of the Federal court (except in the limited cases in which they may constitutionally be mads parties in this court) and would be attended by most pernicious results." Japanese Steamers Collide and Man; Passengers Drown. Tokio, By Cable. The Mutsu Ma- ru, an 800-ton coasting steamer be longing to the Yuzen Kaisha line, was sunk in a collision with the Hideyoshi Maru, 696 tons, at 2:30 Monday morning two miles off Todo Hokoe, near Hakodate. The captain of the Mutsu Maru, a majority oi her 244 passengers and 43 of the crew perished. The Hideyoshi Maru and another steamer rescued the sur vivors. Endorse Speaker Cannon. Litchfield, 111., Special. Republi cans of the Twenty-first Congression al district met in convention here, endorsed Speaker Joseph G. Cannon for the presidency and elected two delegates and two alternates to the national convention at Chicago. As this is the State capital district, the action of the convention is looked upon as significant. The State con vention will be held in a week. $75,000 Fire at Norfolk. Norfolk, Special. Early Sunday fire broke out in the wholesale gro cery hrm oi tiie lour Company, wrecking the establishment, guttiny the clothing store of Sake & Co., and damaging the exchange of the South cm States Telephone, and stocks ol E. II. Meeks & Co., electricians, and L. P. Roberts & Co., grocers. Loss Prisoner Burned to Death in His Cell Little Falls, N. Y., Special Light, ing his pipe in his cell in the village jail, John Dohorty, of Middleville, who was locked up Saturday night accidentally set fire to the mattress of his bed and before help could help reach him he was burned to death. Doherty frantically tried to escapf the flames, but the cell door barred the way. He was 65 years old. Legal Execution in Georgia. La Grange, Ga., Special. Ingram Canady, a negro assaillant, was hang ed in the jail yard Friday at 1:16 o'clock. Canady was convicted of criminally assaulting Mrs. Roxie Jones at the last November term of Troup Superior Court. The crime was committed on September 23rd at the home of Mrs. Jones, near West Point, Troup county. The evidence shows that Canady entered the home of Mrs. Jones by breaking in the house. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Uourke Cockran was dropped from all Tammany Hall committees. New Zealand and Tasmania hope to toe the American battleship fleet. Japan will enforce regulations re- iricting the importation of arms into China. The Japanese Government has de cided to establish a tobacco monopoly in Korea. Japan is considering a proposition to lease her railways to a foreign syndicate. China will pay an indemnity to Japan and retain the arms seized on board the Tatsu. No member of the Cabinet, will at tend the Republican National Conven tion as a delegate. The Chilean section of the trans- andine tunnel on the Arica and La Paz Railway haa been opened. The Russian Minister of Justice has asked the Duma to vote $1,000,- 00 0 to enlarge the overcrowded prisons. The news that the American Ijattle- ship fleet would visit Australia was received with rejoicing at Sydney and Melbourne. New York City is suffering from recurrent waves of scarlet fever and measles, and all th? contagious dis ease hospitals are filled. The return of the American battle ship fleet by way of Suez is regarded in Russia as definitely ending the rumors of serious trouble in the Far East. Secretary Taft, speaking in Michi gan, advocated greater railway regu lation to prevent Government owner ship and the increased centralization of power it would entail. Testifying for the Government, a one time employe of the Standard Oil Company declared that th com pany paid resrularly for in formation Mil BRYAN M Florida's Junior Scdator D After Short Illness YOUNGEST MEMBER OF SENR Elected Less Than Three Months A to Succeed the Late Senator Mn lory as Florida's Representative the Upper House of Congress. Washington, Special. UnitA States Senator William James Bry.t of Florida, died at Providence He pital at 8:30 o'clock Sunday mor ing of typhoid fever. It was only T3 days since he took his seat as the sai cessor of the late Senator Stephef R. Mallory, who died December 23t , and 3 days of that time was spent il his fight against disease. Several times during Mr. Brayn's illness hi', friends despaired of his recovery, bul as late as Saturday night the reporj was given out th'at his condition hat taken a turn for the better. His death, therefore, came as a surprise! and a distinct shock. In physique Mr. Bryan was unfit J ted to withstand a protracted feverj He was slight of build and of ner-t yous. temperament. He came to Wash- ingtori "-'(early in January from the ! warm, climate of Florida and from j the day of his arrival was far f rom 1 well. Finally he was compelled to I give up and was taken to Provi. t dence 'Hospital. During the last few Li uays ot his illness he was attended s by specialists, from Johns Honkins f University Hospital, Baltimore. , Jn Mr. Bryan the Senate loses the 5 seventh member by death since the adjournment of, the Fifty-ninth Con- 5 gress on March 4th. a vear a-o. 1 They were the two late Senators frc-m ' Alabama, Mr. Morgan and Mr. Pet-. ' tus; Mr. Mallory, i of Florida: Mr. Latimer of South Carolina; Mr. Proc tor of Vermont ; Mr. Whyte, of Mary land, and Mr. Bryan. Curiouslv enough the last two were the oldest and the youngest members of the body. Mr. Whyte was 84 years old and Mr. Bryn less than 32. hough Mr. Bryan was in th Senate too short a time to impress ; his individuality on legislation, or to ' take a prominent part in the eonsid- eration of matters in committee, it is conceded that he would have be come a forceful part of the minority. Mr. Bryan was born in Orange county, Florida, October 10th, 1876. He attended the public schools of bis State and Emory College, Georgia, graduating from the latter institu-' tion in 1S9G. Three years later he was graduated from Washington and Lee University and in 1899 began the practice of law in Jacksonville, Fla. Until a short time before his appoint ment to succeed Mr. Mallory in tha Senate he had served as solicitor of the Duval County Criminal Court. He was married to Miss Janet Allen, of Lexington, Va. Mr. Littlefield Resigns. Rockland, Me., Special. A sensa tion was . caused in political circles here by the receipt by Governor Wii 'iam T. Cobb of a letter from Con gressman Charles E. Littlefield, ten dering his resignation as a member, of Congress, to take effect on Sep tember 30lh next. In the same mail was a communication to the chair man of the second district Republican congressional committee from Mr. Littlefield, in which the latter gave as the icason for his resignation his de sire tr. resume his law practice, which in a large degree, he has been com pelled to abandon because of his eon-t-res.-ional duties. The resignation came as a great surprise to Governor Cobb, and to the surprise of the Con- -grosman's friends in this district and was received with much regret. Pirates Surrender French VesseL Las Palmas, Canary Islands, By Cable. The French fishing vessel Ba Ieiue, which was captured recently by Moors near Cape Juby, and to rescue which the French cruiser Cassard was ordered to the coast of Morocco, has been hirned over to the Cassard, together with the members of the crew without ransom. All Quiet in HaytL Port au Prince, By Cable Presi dent lod Alexis in an interview at the palace, declared t that conditions in the republic were absolutely tran quil, lie said that be did not ques lion bis ability to preserve order and protect interests here. Should the powers, however, decide to keep the warships in tins harbor he would not object, h it he added that there was no necjfesity for such a thing; there was :io possibility for such a popular (break against the fjreigc
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