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f a Year, la Advance. "FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH. " SJagle Copy 5 Ccs&m, VOL. XIX. PLYMOUTH, N, C.C FRIDAY, JUNE 5, I08. 'NO.l. North Carolina Votes Out Liquor By a Majority of Over Forty Thousand BUT FEW WET COUNTIES Leader of the Prohibition Movement Issues Statement in Which he Sets Forth his Views on the Victory of the Prohibition Forces. Raleigh, Special. "Our majority is around 41000 and taking the State through and through "our ma jorities are better than our friends had hoped for", said Chairman John Oates, 0f the 'State Anti-Saloon Xeague to-night. He added: "Our league offered a banner to the county giving the largest majority. It goes to Buncombe, which gave 3,681. An other to the county casting the larg est percentage of its vote for prohi bition goes to Yancev, which voted 1,200 to 15. "Tiie people have spoken. This is , shown by the fact that nine of the ten congressional districts have given prohibition majorities, only the fourth of Raleigh districts being in the wet column. "One of our greatest triumphs is in Forsyth, Governor Glenn's home county, which was considered doubt ful. It gave 1,500 prohibition ma jority, a great compliment to the Governor, My own county, Cumber land, where there was a heavy fight, went dry by 500. "Another notable victory was at Salisbury, the anti-prohibition head quarters, which went dry by 126, the county going that way by 600. Tele grams of congratulations have come to "us from Virginia, saying that State Avould be the next to get in the prohibition column. "Our victory does not mean disso lution of the Anti-Saloon League. Headquarters will be moved to Fay etteville, and our organization will bo Itept up and be ready to go info bat tle at a moment.' notice." ,,The returns of the election "on yate prohibition as received at State "i w 'Hn headquarters places """ the '' l , jority for prohibition at 42,943, figures that are expected to vary but slightly from the official returns. The returns show that 77 counties gave majorities for prohibition and 21 against it. I Reports From Various Counties of the State. 1 1 The following reports have been I'j received from the various counties of j; the state on the prohibition election. If Maj. Maj County Dry Wet Alamance 1198 .... Alexander 50 .... Allegheny.. . . . .. 200 Anson .553 .... Ashe 600 .... Beaufort 550 . .... ' Bertie 200 Bladen. 050 .... Brunswick 200 .... Bun combe 3300 .... Burke.. . . . 400 Garrabns 118 .... Caldwell. .. 600 .... Camden ,95 . - Carteret 300 " 1 jCaswell.. ..' Catawba.. .. .. .. .. 300 .... Chatham 600 .... Cherokee.. .. 1250 .... Chowan 100 .... Clay 500 .... Cleveland 2088 Columbus 120 .... Craven 350 .... Montgomery's Dry Majority Small. Troy, Special. Montgomery coun ty gives a majority for prohibition of 140,, approximately. Three pre cincts are not heard from, -though these figures are practically correct. Troy township gave a majority of 211 for prohibition. Mount Gilead township voted wet by a majority of 15. Not a full vote was polled in the county. Richmond Dry. Rockingham, Special Latest re turns indicate Richmond county ma jority for prohibition will be over 275. . Bladen. j Elizabethtown, Special. Eight -'townships in Bladen give prohibition majorities as follows: Abotts, 27; Bladensboro, 101; Brown Marsh, 82; Elizabeth, 39; Hollow, 2S; Cbly, 0; White Oak, 206; Central, tied, voting 14 to 14. The other seven townships not heard from will probably give from 150 to 200 majority for prohibi tion is a conservative estimate, . Cumberland Currituck Dare.) .. , 540 250 300 400 450 400 a Davidson . . Davie.. .. Duplin . . . Durham. . . . Edgecomb Forsyt h . . Franklin. . Gaston.. .. Gates.. .. Graham.. , Granville . . Greene.. ., 700 175 1563 200 1413 200 13-1 250 400 1500 300 150 .2000 .1200 393 3.S4 1230 1000 Guilford .. .. Halifax .. .. Harnett. . . . Haywood .... Henderson.. , Hertford . . Hyde.. .. .. Iredell. . Jackson . . . . Johnston.. .. Jones Lenoir Lee Lincoln . . McDowell.. .. Macon Madison . . Martin , Mecklenburg. . Montgomery. . Moore Nash New Hanover Northampton. , Onslow.. .. Orange.. .. . Pamlico.. .'. Pasquotank . . Pender Perquimans. . Person Pitt 1500 125 630 500 900 800 600 1500 400 1S96 140 500 50 ISO 300 S82' 199 126 75 250 6 200 7,-:. 600 .1400 275 200 250 433 945 650 523 Polk Randolph.. .. Richmond . . . Robeson . . Rockingham. . Rowan . . . . Rutherford . . Sampson.. .. Scotland.. .. Stanly.. .. .. Stokes Surry Swain Transylvania 160 400 350 350 450 Tyrell.. Union . . Vance . . 200 '800 1500 515 1208 350 280 ' 58 600 500 715 1200 Wake.. . .. Warren Washington.. Watauga Wayne Wilkes Wilson Yadkin. Yancey. . The Bill in a Nutshell. State wide prohibition will go into effect January 1st next. The bill forbids the sale or manu facture of intoxicating liquors, and this means spirituous, vinous and malt liquors or intoxicating bitters, with in the State. Licensed drag stores will be per mitted to handle it and sell it upon the prescription of a regularly licens ed physician provided it is prescribed only for sickness. The place of delivery, as is the case now, is made the place of sale. Tlin nfficer of anv church, or any minister of the gospel is permitted to purchase wine for communion ser vices. Brunswick. Wilmington, Special Returns from Brunswick county indicate that prohibition carrie dby a small major ity. Township results are as follows: Southport, 69 majority; Northwest, 33 majority, and Town Creek, 31 ma jority, all for prihibition. Supply and Shallotte townships also give a majority for prohibition. The ma jority wil probably be 200. Polk. Tryon, May 26. Returns from the five precincts Tryon, Saluda, Colum Ihis, Mill Springs and Big Level, give the vote' as follows: Tryon, for 91; against 32; Columbus, for 51; agianst 2; Mill Springs, for 51; against 10; Saluda, for 23; against' 16; Big Lev el, for 3S; against 10; Pearidge, for 14; against 10. About a two-thirds vote was polled. No direct communi cation with Cooper's Gap and Green's Creek and vote not obtain able at this hour. The election was quiet, , , . THE UNIVERSITY CLOSING Closing at CLapcl EiU This Year Marks the End' of Successful Year's Work, s Chapel Hill, Special. The com mencement exercises of the State University were marked by unusual interest this year. Judge Pritchard addressed the senior class on "The Judiciary." There were fifty-seven graduates, representing many of the most prominent families in North Carolina and other States. President Oscar R. Rand, of Smithfield, who was recently awarded the Cecil Rhodes scholarship to Oxford Uni versity from North Carolina and who has been a leading spirit in his class for years, was in charge of the exer cises. Education and democracy, wa3 the basic theme treated in his ad dress. The class history was read by J. A. Andrews of Chapel Hill. H. B. Gunter was class prophet, J. W. Hester announced the class gift, and M. L. Wright, of Greensboro, read the class will. The exercises were of a very high order, reflecting the ex cellent work done by the University the past year. Young Man is Drowned. Greensboro, Special. Will Lyon, the 17-year-old son and only child of Mr. and Mrs. William S. Lyon, of this city, was drowned while swim ming in Lake Wilfong, at Guilford Battle Ground, Saturday afternoon. The body was recovered after a search of about two hours. Young Lyon was accompanied by to boy companions, the three riding out to the battle ground on their bicycles early in the afternoon. Soon after ?oing into the water Lyon was, attack ad by cramp, sinking before his eompanions could reach him. The iead boy was a manly young fellow, jf spotless character and pure life, and had the confidence and esteem of all who knew him. He held a posi tion in the Commercial National Bank. Asheville Man Dies Suddenly. Asheville, Special. Asheville wijs shocked to learn of the death Satur day morning a few minutes after 3 o'clock of Mr. W. A. Boyce, proprie tor of the W. A. Boyce hardware es tablishment of this city and one of the best known and most highly re spected citizens of the city. Mr, Boyce 's death occurred at his home on Haywood street after a few hours of acute illness. While he had been in bad health for the past several months and recently suffering fear fully with neuralgia, none of his friends or acquaintances thought for an instant that his illness was serious and the announcement of his death eame as a distinct shock. Bi Sum For a Patent. Lexine-ton. Special. Mr. II. Cam Heitman, who recently invented and secured a natent on an automatic haneine arc lieiht and took the matter up with the Westinghouse .Llectne and Manufacturing Company, or Pittsburer. has been offered Dy me above company the sum of $125,000, e states for the nsrbt in the United States and Germany. The Wetsing- iouse Company writes Mr. Heitman that after testing the arc light for wentv-four hours they are satisned it is the most perfect thing of the kind yet invented. The light with this arrangement only needs trimming ev ery three months. It holds sixteen carbons and has other attachments. Mr. Heitman wants not less than $200,000 for the patent. Been Collecting Too Much. Winston-Salem. Special Forsyth 5 nne of those counties that has been violating the poll tax law. For years the sheriffs haVe been collect ing .3.30 on uolls in Winson township and $2.70 in. all townships outside of the twin city. Salisbury Men Quarrel and Shoot on Street. Salisbury, Special. N. S. Freeman a coco cola dealer, of Salisbury, was fired upon on the street here by C. M. Bailey, a saloon-keeper, who claims he was assaulted by Freeman. The gun was knocked out of Bailey's hand and the men were soon separ ated. The shooting followed a quar rel. Boy Killed by Train. New Bern, Special. Willie Boy ette, a white boy, fourteen years old, was killed here while jumping on a string of moving cars in the Norfolk and Southern yards. In some way he lost his grip and his clothes onnrrht. drac-srine him alonir the cross- lies until he was dead. The body fin ally fell away from the tracK, anu .vas not mangled. His father, W. J. Boyette, an employ of the Norfolk and Southern, was at work in the railroad shops only a short distaneo away from the place where the acci dent happened. JAS. K, JONES DEAD Was Long a Prominent Figure in National Politics WAS BRYAN'S FIRST MANAGER Former United States Senator James K. Jones Dies at His Home in Washington After a Brief Hlness Was Member of the Senate from 1885 to 1903 and Was Prominent in the Councils of the Democratic Party. Washington, Special. Former United States Senator James K. Jones, of Arkansas, died at his resi dence here at 5:30 Monday afternoon after an illness of a few hours, aged 69. He was one of the leading Dem ocrats in the Senate from 1885 to 1903 and was one of the strongest supporters of William J. Bryan, hav ing, as chairman of the Democratic national committee, conducted the campaign of 1896 and 1900. Since leaving the Senate in 1903 he has conducted a laAv practice in this city and has not actively engaged in poli tics. On Friday Senator Jones returned from a visit to his daughter, Mrs. Leonora Carrigan, in Arkansas, and Sunday night was apparently enjoy ing good health. Complaining slight ly Monday morning, he remained in bed and died that afternoon, the im mediate cause of death being heart failure. A native of Mississippi, where he was born in 1839, James Kimbrough Jones received a classical education and fought as a private soldier in the Confederate ranks throughout the Civil war. Becoming a resident of Dallas county, Arkansas, he lived on his plantation there until IS 1 3, when he took up the practice of law. He was elected to the Sta;e Senate the same year and became president of that body in 1877. Afterward he was elected to the Forty-seventh and the two succeeding Congresses, and in 1S85 succeeded to the seat of James D. Walker in the United States Sen ate, where he served three terms, re tiring in 1903. Senator Jones was a delegate to the national Democratic convention in 1896 which gave Mr. Bryan his first nomination and as chairman of the committee on resolutions he re ported the 16 to 1 platform. He was made chairman of the Democratic national committee after the conven tion and as such conducted both of the Bryan campaigns for the presi dency. In the Senate Jones came forward rapidly as one of the lead ers of his party and was for several year chairman of the Democratic national committee. He was a mem ber of the sub-committee on finance which reported the Wilson-Gorman tariff bill and was an earnest advo cate of tariff revision. Although not an orator, Senator Jones was a forceful and logical speaker and was often in debate. Senator Jones is survived by his wife and three children, Mrs. Carri iran of Arkansas; Miss Sue Jones and James K. Jones, Jr., of this city. Sen ator Jones will be buried in mis eii.y and many of his former colleagues in Congress who have not yet left the city will remain to attend the funeral. Coke Ovens Resume Work. Bristol. Va.. Special One thous and coke ovens of the Stonega Coal Coke Company, in Wise county. Virginia, will be put into aperation this week, after being suspended sev eral weeks. Other industries in the coal fields are preparing to resume, moat of them havinsr been idle since December and January. Several thousand men will be put to worlc ajrainst within two weeks. Acreage of Cotton Planted MMTmhis. Tenn.. Special. At a meeting nf the State -presidents of the Farmers' Educational and Co-Opera tive Union, who began their sessions er t.ViA total acreage of cotton planted May 30th was estimated at 28332,00 Oaeres as compared with 31,311,000 acres in 1907 (government estimate). This estimate is comput ed from reports from all sections. More Votes For Hearst. New York, Special. The contents f 26 ballot boxes had been recount ed when the work of counting the ballots cast for W. R. Hearst and George B. McClellan, in the last may oralty election ended for the day. The net result was a gain of 8!) vote for Mr. Hearst. In the pres ence of the court 10 boxes of ballots were counted, giving Mr. Hearts a gain of four votes for the day. More than 1,900 boxes remain to be count ed. . 1- TASK heL TOTICSr (V ft. Hems Gathered From Big Storm in Buncombe. Asheville, Special Reports re ceived here are to the effect that one of the severest storms in the history of Buncombe county passed over the Reem's Creek, Flat Creek and Ivy sections of the county Wednesday, doing thousands of dollars' worth of damage to lands by washing and to crops. The storm was little short of a cloudburst. Reem's creek went 18 inches higher than it had ever been known to go before. The abutments of a new steel bridge across the creek were washed away, while a lnftl near Weaverville was damaged $20,000. The creek rose rapidly after the storm had passed and as a result of this an old couple, Mr. and Mrs. Mc- Canless, of Baker's Mill, came near losing their lives. Mr. and Mrs. Mc Canless went out to view their gar den to see what damage had been done when the waters rose and cut them off from their house. They were marooned on a strip of land scarcely six feet square, where they were forced to remain in water until near midnight. Efforts to rescue them were futile. Had the creek risen much further they would prob ably have been drowned. Davidson Gets $100,000. The general education board en dowed by John D. Rockefeller, gave out for publication a resume of gifts made to colleges and institutions, and also announced the election to the board of President Charles W. Elliot, of Harvard, and Andrew Carnegie. The list of gifts was announced as follows: Davidson College, Davidson, N. C, $100,000; Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y., $50,000 Knox Col lege, Galesburg, 111., $50,000;; Wa bash College, Crawfordsville Ind., $50,000; Williamsburg Institute, Williamsburg, Ky., '$50,000 ; Univer sity of Rochester, Rochester, N. Y., $30,000; Smith College, Northampton, Mass., $12,500; MacAlester College, St. Paul, Minn., $75,000 ; William Jewett College, Liberty, Mo., $125,- j nnn- "WWem flnlWf. far Wnmpn ; Oxford, O., $50,000; Harvard Univer sity, Cambridge, Mass. (for graduate school of business) $62,000; for far mers co-operative demonstration work in the Southern States, $80,000; for special high school agents in con- riection with State universities in the Southern States. $20,000: Hamnton i Institute, Hampton, Va., $10,000 ;Tus- L-... TtiBfJfntK AinhAma. m nnn; Spellman Seminary, Atlanta, $12,- , r-"i t 500; total $782,522. Three Interesting Opinions. Raleigh, Special. The Supreme v -j rru e r e Friday. That of Commissioners of Pift L, o;cf 4n. . i i. v i a f u-,been blown down in the streets and volves the bonds issued for the ., . , . , . , , . . -v . m o v i t. n , the city electric plant has been out o ville, which have heretofore been I adjudication so that the county can I exceed the limit of taxation to pay . . , , . . rpU- i the principal and interest. This the Tjj- court declines to do as there was no such promise in the statute under i.:-v l. .foj fu i V 11 lull uic pcupic v uitu lUt UUIIU, In Holtwell against Borden, from Wavne. it is held that bonds issued rv to build a schoolhouse are not valid unlees submitted to the vote of the people In Victor against Louise Cotton Mills, from Mecklenburg, it is held to be ultra vires and without authori ty for a corporation to insure the ifes of its officers out of the corpor ation 's funds. Four Years in Penitentiary. Favetteville. SDecial. The Com- berland Superior Court convened here last week. The only case or interest was that of Adolphus Ingram, who as sentenced to the penitentiary for four years, for bigamy, in eloping with and marrying Ito Neal, a young irl of Cambellton. while havinsr a wife and family living in South Caro- na. Hope Broke, Elevator FelL Asheville, Special. An accident that m3y prove fatal x befell Seeb Grant at the Asheville laundry Fri day morning. Grant had gone to the third floor to make some repairs and was starting down the elevator when a rope broke and the elevator with its human freight crashed to the bot tom. Grant was rendered unconsci ous and remained in this condition for several hours. An examination established the fact that there were six broken ribs and a rupture of the lungs and bladder. . All Sections of the Sate Five Convicts Pardoned. Raleigh, Special Governor Glen Friday granted five pardons and re fused ten applications. Pardons are granted to the follow-. Amzie Helms, Mecklenburg- eaun ty, sentenced to 12 months oa thw road for manslaughter. Helms was s youth of fine character and the mother of the girl whom he killed joins in the request for pardon. Joseph Dauley, Bertie county, 2 years for carnal knowledge of a ehild. The Governor believes on testimony that the man is innocent. C. W. Hyams, Meeklenbunr countv. 12 months for larceny. Hyams wad once a professor in the A. and M. Coi- lege in Raleigh, and took books from lawyers. Many persons have asked the Governor to give the man. anotlt- er chance. Jack Palmer, Wilson eounty, fae storebreaking, sentenced to threa years. The man has consumtion and will die if kept in jail, and is toa weak to work. George Rhyne, Gaston eonnty, si months for larceny. The pardons refused were as fel lows: Sam Watson, Chatham county, murder in second degree, sentenced for 25 years. Ed. Causey, Guilford, larceny, twa years. W. J. Archbell, Beaufort county, six months for assault with deadlj weapon. Warren Perkins, Meeklenbar, murder in second degress.' 12 years. Pure Pood Law Effective July I. Raleigh, Special. Mj Allen, head of the pure food section of the Agri cultural Department, says that oa the 1st of July the law becomes ef fective which forbids the use of any. preservatives in foods. This will be , ttly enforced and the sale of all ucn luoa W1U De proniDiiea. jiaanr manufacturers of foods who had said they could not put up and ship then . unless preservatives were used are now sending them out pure and is proper shape. Mr. Allen says the law 1S sweeping. The department na usually depended on publicity, whieh ls realIy more powerful, he Uunks than arrests and wonerfol improve- ment.has een mad in tk foods oa sale in tnis Estate. BatJ Storm at Newborn. Newbern, Special. The worst storm in several years has raged her all day. Four inches of rain fell, the wind has been blowing a gale all day and the tide is higher than la. the , . . Pas Jear or two. Many trees have acrute tut uo y. ju&i nuw muca uut age has been done to the fcrnekinjj in- : -ii j t i i ,v i v oroc r t? a ntr riA laomAf tw n nil . . - , , -4. the graduating exercises for the eim ' , , b . , t., .school were postponed until Monday. if - a , v Receiver For Printing Company Ast- . x wJnstnm-S.alpm RrJinl Tfc r : i 1. n x- e Midi lv T rrjv.i icim XJX i' uiaj iu kit r-m,rt nqinm lt, -fiWa.- aftrnoon Majar j. E. Alexander, at- torney for Bradley Reese Company made application for a receiver fo the King Printing Company, of this city, Friday afternoon. The motion was continued until June 15tlv, whea the matter will probably be heard be fore Judge Jones. Items of State News. The State Agricultural Pepartineat asked its fifteen hundred correspond ents for information as to the acre age of crops May 20th, eompared jwith last year's acreage, whiccb. ia put down as 100, and the reports. show the acreage of cotton thsi. year is 97, corn 100, tobacco 102, peat "nuts 101. The North Carolina National Guard. Raleigh, Special. Adjutant Gen eral T. R. Robertson has issued eorat missions to the following officers ot Company G, Seeond Infantry, North Carolina National Guard, at Wash ington; Captain O. B. Wynne; First Lieutenant, J. F. Ross; Second Lien tenant, R. B. Cowell. General Rob ertson has aocepted the resignation of Z. I. Walser, First Lieutenant Company A, Third Infantry, Lexing ton, and W. O. Brown, Second Lieti tenant Company L, Thinl Infantry, Greensboro, ,
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