North Carolina Newspapers

am YMr, la Adraaca. " FOR GOD, FOK COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH. ' VOL. XXII. PLYMOUTH, N, C FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1912 NO. 42. LABOR W Oil T INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD MAKE TROUBLE IN. WESTERN CITIES. ALL ORIENTALS ARE BARRED Union Men in- Pacific Coast Cities Demand the Recognition of Their Organization. San Francisco. With tbe events of the last week, the straggle between the employers of the Pacific coast and the Industrial Workers of the World has narrowed down to twq Is sues. - . - A manifesto Issued by the San Die go Free Speech League Is making tbe fight to spread the open shop propa ganda. The question of higher wages and shorter hours has been eliminated at least, temporarily, in the North west by the stand of the strikers on the sole issue of recognition of the industrial workers' organization. San Diego ha3 .been beset by the free speech agitators since January 1, and the announcement was made that an army numbering 10,000 industrial workers would mobilize at San Fran cisco, Sacramento and Stockton and march to the Southern city. San Diego special deputies and cit izens assert they will meet the re inforcements of " industrial workers, now headed souhtward, and will drive them back. ' The struggle in the Northwest cen ters around six thousand striking rail road laborers in British Columbia,and 14,000 sawmill workers in Southwest ern Washington. The first strike of the Industrial Workers of the World in British Columbia was called late in March, when the laborers on construe-, tion work on the Canadian Northern railroad quit. 1 J Premier Richard McBrlde refused to aid the employment of Orientals to take the place of the strikers. The Washington strike began March 15 with a strike of about 1,500 saw mill workers. Rioting began almost immediately and 150 men were arrest ed. The strike spread to Raymond, Aberdeen, Seattle and the Hump Tu lwips river district. At Grays Harbor the employers granted the demands of the strikers for a minimum wage of $2.25 a day. This brought the re ply that the workers would demand the recognition of their organization, regardless of any other grants made by the employers., MADERO RUINING MEXICO So Charge the Special Commissioners of Orozco. New York. The three special com missioners from General Orozco, lead er of the Mexican revolutionists, who arrived here to present to the Amer ican people the 'revolutionists' side of the present trouble in their coun try, in a long statement, given out by Manuel. La Lugan, head of the com mission, bitterly, assailed the admin istration of President Madero and de clared that his tactics in the govern ment of Mexico are slowly wrecking the nation. Madero is charged with violating every oath he made to the men that ? helped him to overthrow the reign of "Diaz. He is charged with misuse of government funds, with making it im possibleto walk the highways of Mex ico in safety, and with not protecting the interests of foreign business an the people of his own country. "The present revolution is not a new'one;" the statement says; "it is merely a continuance of the revolu tion which began when , the rule of President Diaz became unbearable. It is intended to carry out the reforms that it Was hoped would result in the success of the revolution a year 'ago, the failure of which is a sad disappointment to patriotic Mexicans, "Aladero, by what was "almost his first official act, violated the very thing we had wodv his use of the avmy he' not o; -wmiaawu u- .;?ress in)"' Vent any op fited the peo pppositionto ccomplished 1"" t Stolen. jntly with I into the ilson and Vate cor- ;nging to Wilson i regard ery will ait who d corre-appoint-i what vine me MISS JOSEPHINE NIC0LL xStUv '"V" - The critical Illness of Misa Nlcoll, daughter of De Lancey NicoM, the fa mous New York counsel, halted the trial of John F. Parsons and Washing ton B. Thomas, Indicted sugar trust officials. AMERICAN LEADS MEXICANS SOLDIER OF FORTUNE DIRECTS THE GUNS WHICH SHELL PAR RAL FOR INSURRECTOS. SamueryDrebin of Philadelphia, Com mands Artillery in Mexican Army. - - - Jiminez, Mexico. General Campa has reformed his insurrecto army and, according to "a courier, who arrived here" after being in the saddle a long while, has begun fc shell Parral, where General Villa, the victorious Federal leader, is entrenched. A dispatch from, General Fernan dez, one of the rebel leaders, said that the1 insurrectos has succeeded in sur rounding the city and cutting off the food supply. Troops under, General Salazar of the rebel forces destroyed portions of the national railway which runs into Parral, preventing armored troop trains from entering. The Fed eral, generals, Vila, DeSoto and Urbi na,f have defended the city with re sourcefulness and daring. They have turned the tallest of the adobe and stone buildings into blockhouses with artillery mounted on the roofs. The number of dead in the city from cannon and mortar shells is not known, but the rebel dead and wound ed in the fighting is 'said to be near ly four hundred. ' Samuel Drebin, a soldier of fortune, whose home , is in Philadelphia and who has fought in many revolutions, is in command of the rapid-fire bat tery in the rebel artillery and has established himself on Prieta Hill, ac cording to last reports sent. A number of women are fighting in the rebel ranks, although General Orozco has given orders that none of them be allowed on - the firing line. The majority of them are soldiers' wives. COTTON ACREAGE REDUCED Commissioners of South Place Reduc tion at 15 to 25 Per Cent. Columbia, S. C Commissioners of agriculture of" seven of the principal cotton states, making report to E. J. Watson, .president of the Southern Cotton Congress, placed the estimate of reduction of acreage at from 15 to 25 per cent. This reduction, in the opinion of Mr. Watson, has been brought about by the working of the Rock Hill plan and the wet season. ThA information was furnished a3 a result of letter sent out a week ago by Mr. Watson to all cotton states. Replies were received from Georgia. Alabama. North Carolina, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas and Tennessee. A similar condition, he says, exists in South Carolina. Socialists Lose In Milwaukee. Milwaukee, WTis. -With a flood of non-partisan ballots, Milwaukee vot ers swept from ofce the city's Social ist administration. Installed a non partisan mayor, board of aldermen and county board of supervisors and probably eliminated every national po litical party from participation la fu ture municipal elections in the state of Wisconsin, because, aa a result of the non-partisari victory la .. Milwau kee, the state legislature, soon to be convened, is expected to pass a non partisan cltyjtlon statute. ' , LEVEES BROKEN BY Mississippi r i fis REELFOOT LAKE EMBANKMENTS BREAK AND WATER COVERS 150 MILES OF COUNTRY, SITUATION IT VERY GRAVE Workers Battle Against Waves Until Collapse, and Then Are Forced to Flee for Their Lives. SUMMARY OF SITUATION. . ' r- . , Reelfoot Lake levee has col- lapsed. Flood water spreading over several counties in Ken- tucky and Tennessee. Estimated 150 square miles will be inun- dated. River distance affected, cen- tral district, 638 miles. Lies be- tween Columbus, Ky., and Vicks- burg,' Miss. River distance through which 4 strain is heaviest ever known, 318 miles. ILies between Colum- bus, Ky., and Helena, Ark. Crest of flood not in sight, ac- cording to official statements. Rise beginning to be felt as far south as Natchez. Miss. Farming land flooded, unpro- tected by levees, 300,000 acres. 4 Farm land endangered, submit to immediate overflow if levee break at important points, 900,- 000 acres. Damage already estimated, , 500,000. Lives endangered by maroon- ing of householders in central district, twenv. v Number so Ifar rescued from perilouplaeSa, 3,000 or more. Memphis, Tenn. With gne main levee gone, water lapping the crest of the embankments at half a dozen points and several breaks believed to be only the question of hours, Ma jor Clark S. Smith, Ujnited States en gineer directing the fight against the water's -encroachment, described the Mississippi river flood situation as grave. 1 The Reelfoot Lake levee, west of Hickman, Ky., was the flrstof the main embankments to go. . Golden lake, 50 miles north of Mem phis, and the levee on the Arkansas side, eight miles below this city, are regarded as in Imminent dangeiv At both points sandbags have been piled on the surface of the revetments to a height of one and a half feet, and the water is washing over. At Mund City, Ark., and at Holy Bush also the levees threaten to cave. . , . Pitiful cases of destitution have been relieved in various parts of the, wide stretches of country embraced in the central section of the valley. Hickman, Ky., houses about 3,500 ref ugees, partly in tents, and these in clude some 2,000 or more employees of factories living in 900 or more houses flooded in ; Hickman. Colum bus, Ky., New Madrid, Mo.; Dorena, Mo., are the towns seriously affected by the invading waters. Thousands of . town people have sought higher ground. Hundreds of head of live stock have perished, wnue many times the number were taken to points of afety before the rise. F0SS QUITS THE RACE Governor of Massachusetts Orders His Name Taken From Ballots. nAatnn fifiv. Eugene N. Foss with drew his name from the presidential i 1 IT - T n 1-f preference primary uwwu m . .. ..Annmnanvinir th a withdrawal, he ICl ttWVUifcuj - ' asked that delegate candidates pledg- . ( . LAMAlA'Aa r. ... ed to nim consiaer lueuiecnes ap un pledged, x ' In explanation or nis acuon, uov ha had learned reore- C 1 lkJ l 4.vwj - sentatives of one or more of the avow ed candidates for president were pre paring to withdraw their names out of courtesy 1p him. He asks that those representatives be urged to permit the names of their candidates to remain, as if only one name apyeareu uu t,r,n TL-nnUi he eiven for an expres- sion of popular preference, which would defeat tno purpose oi u viei erential primary. Virginia Outlaws Refused Food. Hillsville, Va. According to "Sug Smith, who Uvea over Mount ; Airy way, toward the Carolina line, Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards, the two courthouse assassins, came to his cab in and begged for food. Allen came to his door, he said, and Edwards stood guard. Allen declared neither had taken food that day. They got none from Smith. The posses are posting copies ot Governor Mann's proclamation, calling upon all citizens to withhold ail frora th fiili'.ve out- BENJAMIN TILLMAN. V , LM - " Mr. Tillman is senator from South Carolina and one of the Democratic leaders in the upper house. AVIATOR RODGERS KILLED FIRST AVIATOR TO CROSS AMERI CAN CONTINENT IS KILLED AT LONG' BEACH, CAL. , Biplane Began Frightful Descent and Crashed Against Surf, Rodgers Being Mangled in Wreck. . Long Beach, Cal. Calbraith P. Rod gers, the first man 4o cross the Amer ican continent In an aeroplane, was killed here almost instantly when bis biplane, in which he had been soar ing dyer the ocean, fell from a height of 200 feet and buried him in the wreck. His neck was broken and his body badly mashed by the engine of his machine. He lived but a few mo ments.' ,,T Rodgers, for a week past, had been making daily flights here and had taken up with him many passengers, both men and women. He started from his usual place and soared out over the ocean, crossing the pier and then turned and dipped close to & roller coaster in a beach amusement park. .'t . , Seeing a flock of gulls disporting themselves among the great shoal of sardines just over the breakers, Rodg ers again turned and dived down into them scattering the. sea fowl in all. directions. ' Highly elated with the outcome of his dive, "Rodgers then flew farther out to sea, all the "time 'gradually ris ing until he had reached a height of about 200 feet. -' .' Making a short turn, he started at full speed for the pier, then suddenly dipped hi3 planes and his machine be gan a frightful descent. Rodgers was seen by hundreds of persons on the pier to relax his hold on the levers and then seemingly realizing that he was in danger, he made strenuous ef forts to pull the nose of his machine Into a level position. Failing in this he managed to turn his craft further in shore and an in stant later the craft crashed into the edge of the surf, not 500 feet from the spot where, on December 10, last, he had finished his ocean-to-ocean flight. Many men rushed to his aid. Ernest Scott and James Goodwin, life, guards, were the first to reach him. They said Rodgers head was hanging over one wing of the ma chine, the heavy engine was on his back and his feet werev drawn up' nearly doubling over his shoulders. Blood was flowing from his mouth. Rodgers was lifted from the wreck and hurried to the bath house hospi tal. He died on the way. Mrs. McRee Is Free. Opeloueas, La.--Mrs. Zee Runge Mc Ree, who shot her young friend, Al lan Garland, to death in her home here September 21 last, was acquitted by a jury of the charge of manslaugh ter. Holding her golden-haired lit tle daughter, "allera, in her arms, and with tears streaming down her cheek, Mrs.' McRee arose as soon as the foreman, had announced the ver dict and thank?d the jury. All smiles and all tears, njisband and wife em- i i K. uract?u. Tariff Revision by Tariff Beard. WashinKton.-FrTesident Taft, in an isioif by address to th members of the Ameri can Cotton Manufacturers' Associa tion, renewed his plea for revision of the tariff jinly by a tarlif board that I scientiflc 'lines. Sanitary impro ments In Southern cotton mills c stltnte cn of the most Impoi'i changes in cotton mill construct according to T. K. Sirrine of C ville, S. C. Healthful working j ters a' f Mkiv.i; thq place of u:.h;' ful sf ' -l..z. hv said. E INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE DEMONSTRATION WORK ING DONE. BE- W0RK OUTLINED BY MR. MOSS Finest Grades of Tobacco Cannot be Grown Successfully on Rich Soil. Experiment Station in This County i3 Located Near Oxford. Raleigh. A special from Oxford states that an interview with E. C. Moss, assistant in the Federal tobacco experiment work, brought out some in teresting facts about the demonstra tion work, in Granville county. This experiment station is located about two rliiles west of Oxford and Is now entering upon the second year of its operation. It is conducted jointly by the North Carolina Department of Ag riculture and the United States De partment of Agriculture. There are two similar stations in the state, one in Rockinbgham and the other in Pitt county. The purpose of this work is out lined by Mr. Moss. It is a well-established fact that the finest grades of tobacco can not be grown success fully on rich .soil. 1 Wherever this is attempted -the quality becomes im paired, . This : necessarily holds the yield down to a very low average in pounds. As an illustration no suc cessful farmer will attempt to . raise a fine grade of tobacco after a crop of cowpeas or clover. The excessive amount of nitrogen produces a coarse plant that sells at a very low price on the market. . This Granville sta tion therefore, has for its. distinctive purpose the discovery through experi ments of a way to increase the yield without affecting the quality of the tobacco. - . f The procedure is going forward along three distinct lines: fertilizer experiments, crop rotations, and va riety tests. In the fertilizer tests trie different sources of nitrogen, pho3 phocir acid and potash are being test-1 ed out separately in order to find those that will give the largest yield without lowering the quality. Was Saved From Electric Chair. After being first sentenced to death and then, after a new' trial was pro cured by appeal to the Supreme Court and consigned to the penitentiary for seventeen years -Charles Murphy -' of Yancey county began serving his sen tence, being committed by Sheriff Ed wards of Yancey county. He killed Jahn Simmons because Simmons would not give him some whiskey when he stopped him in the public, road anl asked for it. ' On the second trial, evidence of irresponsibility of Murphy through the effects of epileptic fits was injected into the evidence and submitted to the jury thereby saving Murphy from the electric, chair. Commence Work on Norfolk-Southern Surveyors have commenced , work on a direct line for the Norfolk' South ern railroad from Mount G Head ; tc Charlotte. This is a new route -from the cne surveyed recently by way of Albemarle, Mount Pleasant and Con cord and is said to be about 10 mile's shorter. Great difficulty wa3 experi enced in getting from Mount Gilead and Troy across the Yadkin valley in to Albemarle by reason of some heavy construction. In fact the report comes that! it was necessary to deflect the linei about six miles to get through at aji. . A Deal in Pasquotank Dirt. A deal In rasquotanic dirt or consid j erable interest has been consummate! here when a deed transferring 2.5? acres of timber land in Newland to cliis frnm C. I, Hinntnn ami VirntT son$ of the late John Louis I nofcd for his eccentricity, and r to ithe, Foreman-Bladen Lumbe par.y of Elizabeth City was In the office of the register the consideration being, $2 lard contains some fi'..if ber. To Operate Au J. If. Lehm? recently acr f thousand New Yor' 0 CO BEAUFORT SCHOOL MATTERS Recent Meeting of County Association of School Committeemen and . What Was Done. ' WashingSiKi. The Heaufort County ; Association' of School Committeemen " recffntlv held a meetine in the court' house here. The' association was or- ganizedJast fall by Superintendent W. L. Vaughan ftnd' Prof.;L." C. Brogdon, " and at that time it was decided to hold two meetings during' the school "yir for the discussion.offs'uch schoolques- , tion3 as might be of interest 'to the county at large. , . . ' The meeting was called 'to order by', the president, B. p.. Rowe.- Roll call'- oy me secretary, buperinceuaeui. . v . L. Vsughan, showed, good number of the districts repreted.'.J, ''1?$. : ; . Mr. . Kowe, 'Who ,1s a , tarmeriroij ' j the Small schopl (district ?and 'himself a committeeman, and one of the . most entnusias.tic,tScnoo4 men inline county, . made some Jopehig remarks, telling the Dumoae of tbe.meetinK and tbe 3 t. ! . J. i. X . - .At " , T dutj.es arrd he hoped c,,this. assocl8o. :, will arouse them to a greater etffqrk0! perform their; duties. - HeteTijpnasIjiea - the ;need of .better schools in tlte.'coun- try oistnctr, ana ionger terws.'fiaus giving the country child ah .qual ad vantage with the. cityjChildV TJl: fu ture of the county an d"" state jests, up- ' n on tne snouiaers oume rajnere sum mothers and teachers "!'qf tnis.igen'era- necessarily, live ajjiHc, 'and-'mea r$ mustlear& If theywold give -their. , :C childrenad vantages they muist pay or' ( ITT. I Jl - J 1 l. rla...-foV hetfr.' attMidanice: f and iSaJd" n men win hoc nave lueir cbihucu , I m mm - " . should h forced t6 dona bt thfe'liw.". J- . North Carolina Staei.Fal'r.l '1 '" Col. Joseph" E'.! Ppgue,- secrets ry'ffrt the North ' Carolina Stated PairA'says i the circuit organization off the 'cbajn and South Carolina' is well adjosti v n train after threatpned dlsruDtion that. grew out of a misunderstanding of U S".it.. C.,l, Ylnnli'mi falm'n'a T to. their dates. Jn the final1 adjustment the North Carolina State- Fair regains- its original dates.-- He.says tnefoutioos -is for an eminently sucqesSfu fair' this fall. ..The executive (Committee' i's" de termined to put the present buildiga and . equipment .in the r beat ! of condl-.. ; tion for the. fair. TTherV is. stijl a .por v . . slbility, too, that public-spirited itfiti- zehs mav come fo the atd.of the fair vestment for themseivesiby floating a.. . bended, debt that wUl'.eaable the di-; reetprs' to efect 'another modrcB fire proof building. " .'? 'I North' Carolina New. Enterprises. - Charters are issued ' far" Carolina Amusement & Investment. Co. OS Ashe yille capita.1 $20,00 authorized and $1,200 subscribed,? Trfhcetoa iCotton Mill Company, , S;alisbUpy'.capitfil,-'-, 00ft ".by M. L.' Ja.cksbnjVrr 'Mr'" Gilbert F. Ha'nipfary; the" !b- 1 : f-.r tal $25,000 by G. ,S.V,4 Call and John T. -FI? ern Drainage Comp, capital $50,000 by.', C. W. Hodge a.n0 drainage and eur Polk county War capital $25;PO0, F. FoeteTanj towns wit" MercantilJ capital m Myer & f Gypsies A'p pass eng edj 7