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IN PITTS CASE ajue THE Burke County Men Committed to Jail to Await Trial at Morganton on Murder Charge. Tf 77" x Morganton. The coroner's jury concluded its inquest in the Pitts-Hen- nesee case and rendered a verdict that Dr. E. A. Hennessee was shot to death by Garfield and Aaron Pitts. The jury was composed of C. T. ! Webb, J. F. Brittain, W. M. McDowell, j W. I. Walker, Fred Ross, Leith Gor- don and Coroner Dr. T. V. Goode. Be fore the time set for the preliminary , hearing all available seats and stand- J Ing room were taken and many stood outside unable to get near. When Solicitor Huffman called his j witness and announced readiness to . begin, the attorney for the Pitts boy.s j waived examination and submitted to j the defendants being bound to the March term of Burke superior court without bail. Therefore no evidence j was submitted. Judge Cline, of Hickory, who is , here, upon motion of Solicitor Huff- j man and agreement between the at torneys, the defendants ware commit- ' ted to the Funcrmbe county jail to be confined in separate cells, incor porating in th rnler fh:U t.h? defend ants would be allowed to be brought to Morganton twice for a period of several hours in order that their at torneys might consult them. Solicitor Huffman had 'asked that the men be transferred to another county for safe keeping, and they were accordingly taken to the Buncombe connty Jail. There is said to be strong feeling on both sides and it was fear ed that there might be an attempt at Jail delivery. The solicitor says he has obtained some damaging evidence against the Pitts boys, but he refuses to make public any of his evidence. He has let it be known, however, that he ha-3 nothing to implicate W. D. Pitts, fa ther of the two men under arrest. The Pitta-Hennessee fight, or rather battle, several years ago, was the most memorable affair of the sort in these parts within the memory of the pres ent generation, and its bloodiness is still a favorite subject of reminis cence. Gorman Pitts was killed and Gar field Pitts badly wounded. Dr. Hen nessee was to all appearances done for, shot and cut to pieces as he was. But he, Spartanly, allowed himself to be sewed together without anaesthet ics and surprised everybody by get ting well. He was tried and acquitted, his law yers being Gus Self and Mike White ner. After the trial he presented At torney Self with an automobile In token of his gratitude. He retained his stoical demeanor all through the harrowing court proceedings, and the only moments when the courtroom spectators saw his head bowed in grief was when word was brought to him that his little girl had juat died. He was allowed to attend the funeral un der guard. Jackson's Home Torn Down. Charlotte. The historic old house a tha roar rtf Mia C!-nnowjj!l hnfrol For years the residence of the late Mrs. ! Stonewall Jackson, and known as the old Stonewall Jackson home, has been , purchased by B. D. Springs and the house is being torn down. On the lot where stood the old houae will be erected a large building by the South ern Express company, it was learned. Mr. Springs will probably use part of the lumber of the house in erecting a handsome new home facing on King ston, in the rear of his home on South boulevard. The old Jackson house for years stood where the Stonewall hotel now stands. When the hotel was built, J about 10 years ago, the house was . moved southward and to the rear of the hotel. It was a large dwelling: and when erected was one of the handsomest homes in the city. The tearing down of the old home is con sidered as the passing of a landmark. Dixon Is Freed. Lumberton. "Not guilty." was the verdict rendered by the jury in the case of W. D. Dixon, tried for his life on the charge of killing Alfred Thom as. Indian, at Pembroke last Novem ber 10. The jury was out eight min utes. NORTH CAROLINA BRIEFS. That Henry M. London, chief deputy to Revenue Collector Bailey, Raleigh, will resign to take up his father's work as editor of the Chatham Rec ord, was the information received In Raleigh from Pittsboro. Several North Carolinians were on the Tuscania. No report a3 to their fate has been made. Three of them are: James Coborn Bigger, of New Bern; Milton Pittman. of Wilmington; and William C. Buhman, of Greens boro. Dr. Lemuel J. Johnson, of Middle sex, N. C. was indicted by the grand 1 Jury at Richmond for the murder of ; his bride, Mrs. Alice Knight Johnson, j last December. It 13 charged that , poison taken by Mrs. Johnson in the belief that it was an ordinary medical j preparation was administer by Dr, ' Johnson with criminal intent. Interned Germans numbering 420 from the Philippine Islands, via Char leston, arrived at Hot Springs, N. C, and were turned over to the federal Internment officers there. Wives and children of some of the Germans were sent to Ellis Island. N. T 1 Happy British Tommies on their way to the snow-covered trenches. - Riveting tne keel plates In one ui ship America is building in large numbers. .'1 Scene during the enforced registering of enemy aliens In Chicago. NEWS REVIEW OF THE PAST WEEK Sinking of Transport Tuscania Inspires Nation to Carry War On to Victory. LADS FACED DEATH BRAVELY America Ready With New Methods to Combat the Submarines Russian Bolsheviki Fighting All Their Neighbors President Wil son Asks Further Powers. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. The United States sustained its first severe blow in the war on Wednesday, when the transport Tuscania, carrying American troops to Europe, was tor pedoed off the north Irish coast and sank in two hours. At the time of writing the number of missing, pre sumably dead, is 101. Of these 57 were American officers and enlisted men, the others being members of the Brit ish crew. That the losses were so small was due to the excellent work of the convoying vessels and the time the Tuscania remained afloat. The fact that such disasters as this were expected in the process of trans porting hundreds of thousands of men to Europe does not lessen the shock to the nation or mitigate the anguish of the relatives of the victims. But those relatives have the great consola tion of" knowing that their boys met their fate bravely and calmly, as Amer ican soldiers should, and that they gave their lives for their country and for civilization as truly as if they had died on the fiel1 hattle' X?ost h" troopers were but partly trained mem bers of forestry and other contingents going over to work behind the lines, but when the first excitement of the explosion had passed these lads, like veteran soldiers, lined up on the deck and sang national airs while they wait ed their turns in lifeboats. The sinking of the Tuscania has served to weld the determination of the entire nation to see the war through to a victorious finish. It also has brought forth the information that the American navy, which so far has been fighting the U-boats with make shift devices, is now about ready to put Into operation new devices and methods that, it is confidently believed, will prove most effective in dealing with the murderous submarines. The movement of troops to the other side will not be checked In the slightest by the loss of this one transport. Says Secretary of the Navy Daniels : "Just as fast as our ships can carry men to Europe they will go, and just as fast as they are equipped they will he sent, and ships will carry them, and no man living will ever again see the day when our goods will be carried across the Atlantic except in ships flying the flag of the United States." m For a bunch that is determined to have peace, the bolsheviki of Russia are getting plenty of fighting these days. And according to reports, they are not getting the best of It. Under taking to coerce Finland into a revolu tion like their own in Russia, they and the Finnish Red guards have been de feated in long and bloody battles at Uleaborg and Tammerfers by the gov ernment forces commanded by General Mannerheim. known as the White guard. Uleaborg was the chief mili tary depot of the Russians in northern Finland, and both there and at Tam merfors the White guard captured con siderable stores of munitions and arms. So far Sweden has refused to permit supplies to be sent across the border to General Mannerheim. despite the demands of the Swedish press and peo ple. To the south the bolsheviki are fight ing both the Ukrainians and the Rou manians in Besarabia and apparently getting well whipped. In one fight the Roumanians captured and disarmed two entire divisions of Russians. In western Siberia General Kaledines was said to he working his way toward Omsk, while farther east another force of Cosraek was moving north from the Chinese border to take the railway. The Tartars oiupied Yulla. in the government of Taurlda, and were ad vancing to Sebastopol, the great naval buse on the Black sea. Adding to their own troubles, the bolsheviki decreed the separation of church and state and seized all church property for the people, which aroused the patriarch of Russia to excommuni cate some of them and to call for a holy war. An unconfirmed report said Polish troops had cav lured Mohliev, head quarters of the bolsheviki army, and had captured Commander In Chief Krylenko and his staff. A deadlock over the question of the Ukrnine put fin end, for the present at least, to the peace negotiations at Brest -Li tovsk. The Germans, it was said, then demanded their terms be ac cepted at once, threatening otherwise to march on Petrograd. The Russian soldiers' council at Moscow called on the government to form a volunteer socialist army and continue resistance. Meanwhile economic and food condi tions in Tetrograd and other parts of Russia are growing steadily worse. s It Is quite evident that Trolzky has been counting on a real revolution of the workers of Germany, and it is equally evident that no such revolution is forthcoming In the near future. The widespread strikes which were hailed with joy by the foolishly optimistic were quickly crushed by the military power of the government, many of the lenders forced into the army and the rank and file of the workers driven back to their labor. In this internal struggle the German autocracy seem ingly did not yield a single point to the democracy, though some effect of the strikes may appear in the future. The radical leaders in the empire are not hacking water, any more than are their autocratic opponents, and the situation there Is still critical. isa A a substitute for the war cabinet and munitions directorate bills which he so firmly opposes. President Wil son on Wednesday had introduced in the senate by Senator Overman a bill designed to do away with bureaucratic Inefficiency and to give the chief exec utive vast powers. It was drafted for Mr. Wilson by the attorney general and authorizes the president during the war to distribute, co-ordinate, con solidate and otherwise reorganize any and all existing administrative func tions and agencies and create such new agencies as he deems necessary for the conduct of the war. He is also authorized to transfer appropriations from one department, bureau or coin mission to any other agency he may designate. Those who support the measure say it properly confers on the president, as commander in chief of the nation's armed forces, whatever power he deems necessary to perform his task with efficiency. Other congressmen declared the bill actually creates a mil itary dictatorship. There doesn't seem to be much difference between these two views. IB Ships, rhips and more ships, is still the cry of the United States and the entente allies, and all are agreed that ultimate victory hangs largely on the ability of America to turn out the re quired amount of tonnage to transport its troops and the Immense quantities of food and munitions necessary. The present lack is not shipyards and ma terial, but labor. Already the govern ment is operating great yards on both coasts, and others are being rapidly completed, but even those now In op eration are working but one shift of men where three should be worked. The appeal for laborers In the yards Is urgent and should meet with ample response, not only for patriotic rea sons, hut for selfish reasons, too, for the pay assured is large. The United States now has in all' services about 4.000.000 tons of shipping, approxi mately one-fourth of which is engaged In bringing in materials that have been considered industrial essentials. The government is considering a plan to make a f0 per cent reduction In imports by eliminating articles that are not es sential to the winning of the war. This would help some, and of course the allies can supply a certain amount of tonnage, but there will still be left a wide discrepancy between the availa ble amount of shipping and the amount we must have in order that Secretary Baker's promise of half a million men tn Europe by spring and a milllou and a half more this year may be realized. Mr. Baker was sharply challenged In regard to that forecast, and admitted that it might not be exact. On the other hand. Rear Admiral Harris of the naval bureau of yards and docks, was-rather optimistic concerning the shipbuilding progress, stating that un der favorable conditions the govern ment would complete this year Its orig inal program of 8,000,000 tons of con struction. Chairman Flood of the house foreign affairs committee also added a cheerful note when he said the United States "will furnish more men and more money for the war in a far shorter time than has been the fondest hope of our own people or the nations with which we are associated." Hi Directly connected with the question of ocean transportation is the propo sition' of the British government that 150 battalions of Americans be trained in English camps so they can be hur- ; ried to the front in Flanders and to j the sector held by General Pershing. I This would serve to relieve the exist ing congestion at the French ports where Americans now are debarked. This and similar plans are still under discussion. Although General Maurice, director of military operations, says the allies are still numerically superior on the west front and have no fear of the re sults of the expected German drive there, Great Britain and France are j urging America to get as many men as possible into the fighting lines. The German concentration movement has been going on steadily and the German press says all Is ready to strike the blow whenever Hlndenburg says the word, and that the greatest battle of the war is about to begin. Hlndenburg himself gave the world a laugh the other day when he told a group of editors that he would be in Paris by next April 1. IBB During the week the Germans at tacked the. French rather strongly in the Aisne and Verdun regions but were utterly repulsed. All along the west front the activity of the aerial forces reached a high pitch, and the artillery fighting was continuous. The American expeditionary force, whose sector has been revealed as lying east of St. Mihiel and north of Nancy, was subjected to every form of attack the enemy could devise, and stood It all well, replying vigorously and effective- ly. There Is no lingering doubt as to how well and bravely Pershing's boys j will fUht. The vcurnte fire of their batteries Is especially noteworthy. r?a There has been little change In the situation in Italy, the Invaders having lost ground If anything. The Italian aviators did excellent work In bombing the enemy's rear lines and munition stations, while the Boche airmen de voted their efforts mainly, and charac teristically, to attacks on Venice, Trev iso, Padua and Mestre, where the greatest damage they could do was to women and children, hospitals and architectural treasures. 11 Uncle Sam Is putting the clamps on the enemies within his borders In n way that probably will check their ne farious operations. In New York Franz von Rintelen and six of his fel low conspirators were found guilty and given the maximum sentence. The en forced registration of all enemy alien was begun throughout the country, The government's determination to keep out spies and epidemic-causing germs sent by the Germans was ex emplified in the minute examination given the passengers and cargo of a Dutch steamship that arrived at New York. Of necessity most of the secret service work of the government re mains secret, but its increasing effec tiveness becomes apparent. Milder weather and the earnest ef forts of the men -who run the railways served to relieve, the coal famine to a considerable extent, though fuel condi tions are very bad, especially in the Atlantic coast states. The federal fuel administration took over the control of fuel oil. Food Administrator Hoover placed more stringent restrictions on the use of wheat and meat throughout the country, and ordered all public eating houses to observe a two-ounce ration of wheat bread. The people are urged to make larger use of potatoes In or der to save wheat, the crop of the tu ber being the biggest the country ever had. SKIMMED MILK FOR CALVES Since Most of Fat Has Been Removed in C-eam Carbohydrates Needed to Make It Balanced. Skimmed milk is a little richer In protein than wholenillk, but lower In carbohydrates. Since most of the fat has been removed in the cream the skimmed milk will need carbohydrates to make it a balanced ration for calves. A good plan is to replace a portion of the whole milk with skimmed milk, gradually increase the skimmed milk with some form of carbohydrates till all of the whole milk is replaced by skimmed milk. Fine ground meal is one of the best carbohydrate supple ments to be fed with skimmed milk. Some feeders cook the meal, stir It in the skimmed milk and feed It to the calf. After the calf hi two weeks old it will oat fine grotmd meal and if fed small quantities will assimilate it. Linseed meal is also used. Care should be taken In feeding calves. They should be taught to drink from the pail as soon as pos sible. Nothing but clean vessels should be used and the milk should be clean and warm. CLEAN UTENSILS ARE URGED High Grade of Milk Cannot Be Ob tained If Pails and Cans Are Not Thoroughly Washed. (By E. H. FARRINGTON, Wisconsin Af j rlcultural College.) i All efforts to supply the consumers ; with sweet, clean milk are useless If ' the milk palls, the cans, and other I utensils are not thoroughly washed and scalded before milk Is poured Into j them. Milk sours so quickly and It Is so difficult to remove the sour odor from the utensils that these should be washed Immediately after they are used. (1) Milk palls and cans should be mooth, with ail cracks and seams Separator in Clean Room. flushed with solder. Seamless pail3 and cans have been placed on the market. (2) When washing tinware, first rinse off the film of milk on the sur face 'with cold water, then wash thor oughly with warm water and cleaning soda, using n brush, and finally rinse with scalding hot water and place in fhe sun or some place free from dust to dry. (3) After scalding, do not wipe milk t!nvare with a cloth, but let the rins ing water be so hot that there is no further need of drying. CHAPPED TEATS ARE VEXING Where Cows Wade Around in Muddy Yards and Pastures, Teats Often Get Wet and Cold. Sore teats of any kind are very un pleasant, both to the cow and the milker. A cow having sore teats of any kind does not stand still during milking. She keeps moving about and even kicking. During spring chapped teats are common. The cows wude around in muddy yards and even in ponds in the pasture, the teats get wet and cold, and if no special attention Is given to the cows, the teats frequently become very sore. HIGH-PRICED FEED ANNOYING Dairyman Depending on Profit From Cows for Living Must Know Just What He Is Doing. Now that the cost of cow feed Is soaring skyhlgh and the dairyman Is depending on the profit from his cows for his living it is a self-evident fact that he must know what he is think ing about. One thing Is certain, the poor feeder to the poor cow is not in the race and the sooner he gets out the better, even if he must hire out to work for the man who knows how to do his own thinking. RETAIN BULL UNTIL TESTED Not Good Policy to Sell to Butcher After Two Years' Service May Prove to Be Valuable. After a young or untried bull has been used two years he should not be sold to the butcher, because he may prove to be a bull of exceptional worth when his daughters freshen. Such a bull often can be lent or leased to a man with a grade herd for a couple of years until some of his heifers freshen. In this way he always Is subject to recall In case he proves especially ral uable. WASH THE KIDNEYS! All the- blood in the body passes thru the kidneys every few minutes. This is why the kidneys play such an important role in health or disease. By some mys terious process the kidney selects what ought to come - out of the blood and takes it out. If the kidneys are not good-workmen and become congested poisons accumulate and we suffer from backache, headache, lumbago, rheu matism or gout. The urine is often" cloudy, full of sediment ; channels often pet sore and sloop is disturbed at night. So it is that Dr. Pierce, of the Invalids Hotel and Surgical Institute in Buffalo. N.Y., advises "Washing the Kidneys," by drinking six to eight glasses of water between meals and then If you want to take a harmless medicine that will clear the channels and cure the annoy ing symptoms, go to your druggist and pet Anurlc (double strength), for 60c. This "Anuric." which Is so manv times more potent than lithla will drive out the uric ncid poisons and bathe the kid neys and channels In a soothing liquid. If you desire, write for free medical advice and send sample of water for free examination. Experience has taught Doctor Pierce that "Anurlc" Is a most powerful ngent in dissolving uric ncid. as hot water melts sugar. Send Dr. Pierce 10c for trial package. DRIVE MALARIA OUT OF THE SYSTEM A GOOD TONIC AND APPETIZER BousandGinsl w hCuticura Soap and Ointment 25ceach Everywhere W. N. U., CHARLOTTE, NO. 7-1918. HAD KEEN EYE TO BUSINESS Good Reason Why Young Man Did Not Desire House as Gift From His Father-in-Law. Johu I). Rockefeller, Jr., at the Y. M. C. A. camp in New Jersey, where he lias been doing volunteer war work, told a story about a mean young man. "This mean young man." he said, "married a girl of wealthy parentage, and the young couple began their wed ded life in n house belonging to the bride's in t her. "Not long ago. while we were dis cussing market conditions together. I asked the young man if it was true that his father-in-law had made him a present of the house he lived in. "'It's a very generous thing, if so?' I added. "'Well, it ain't so.' said the young nin. 'That is, it ain't exactly so. He olTered me the house, ut I wouldn't accept It.' "'Why not?' said I. "He winked solemnly. "The house is suie to be willed to me when my father-in-law dies,' he said, 'and meanwhile I'm living in it rent free, while the old man pays the taxes. " t7 There are n lot of worse things than , a wet day in a dry town. -A Never try to feed a healthy credit on promissory notea. raur comfortable healthy well-to-do peighbor uses IMSTAIW POSTUM instead of coffee. Ever ask him the m reason? Might be worth while-especiaHy if you are one of those with whom coffee doesiitagree There's a Reasoa"
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