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3,1 1 11 n u i ni in i in mil t MACISON C0U3TY RXCOXD, T ' V . I I. Ill M vu T Gha Medium flXNCn E&OAD NEWS, Established Miy 16. 1907. :; T Throok which jrou reach ths J T i- j , "p peopie oi n&.aMon vounij. $ Consolidated, : : Not. 2nd, 1911 J M1111I1I11M ililMlllIlt f Advertising Rates on Application 4 ' - ' . . : : THE ONLY NEWSPAPER IN MADISON COUNTY. " " yOL.XIV MARSHALL, MADISON COUNTY, N. C, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1912. NO. 30. -p.. Madia) Ceunty. Bstabnshed ay tha Leglslatura Population, 20.122. County Seat, MarsbalL Mil feet abOYS MS leVeL M New ul modern Court House, cost $32,00040. K.w an it modern 111. OOlt $16,000. New and modem County Homo, cost 110.000.00. Officer. Hon. Jas. I Hyatt, Senator) District. BurnaTille. N. C. 13 Hon. J. C Ramsey, Representative Marshall. N. C. W. H. Henderson, Clehk Superior Court. Marshall. N. C . W. M. Buckner, Sheriff. Marshall, N. 0. ' James Smart. Register, of Deeds, Muahall. M. C. C r. Runnlon. Treasurer, Marshall N. O, H. f. No. I R. L. Tweed. Surveyor, White Rock, M ft Dr. J. H. Balrd. Coroner, Man Hill. N. C Mrs. Ells Henderson, Jailor, Mar ihalLN. & -John Honeyeutt, Janitor, Marshall, N. C. Dr. 0. N. Sprinkle, County Physician, Marshall N. C. James Haynie, SupL County Home, Marshall. N. C Home located about two miles south west ef MarsbalL Caurta. Criminal and Civil First Monday be- - for First Monday In March, com- mencinv mo. CItU 11th. Monday after First Mon day In March, commences May iflii - Criminal and Civil. First Monday after First Monday In Sept. Com naneaa Sent. 9th. 1912. Civil th Monday after First Mon day In September. Commenoes Octo or 14. 1912. BOARDS. r.nuntv Cammlaaloflora. " W. C. Sprinkle, Chairman, Marshall rl. C C F. Cassada, Member, Marshal! N. C R. F. D. No. t J Reubtn A. Tweed, Member, Btl lanral. N. O. - V : C a Masbbum. Att7, Marshall BoardTmeets first Monday In every month. ' ." . ' Road Commissioner. A. K. Bryan. Chairman, Marshall N . C.R.F. D. 2. J," A. Ramsey, Secretary. Mars Hill. N. G. R. F. D. 2. Sam Cox, Member, Mars Hill N. C R. F. D. No. 1. O. W. Wild. BIS Pine. N. C. Dudley Chlpley, Road Engineer, Marshall. N. C. George M. Prltchard, Atty., Marshall, N. C. : Hoard meets first Monday In Janu ary, April, July and Ootober each year. Board of Education. Jasper' Ebbs, Chairman, Spring Creek, N. a Thos. J. Murray, Member, Marshall, N. C, R. F. D. No. S. -. W. R. Sams, Marshall N. O, R. F n No. i. - ' rrot. H. v. Bucuner, oupu i Schools, Mars Hill N. C, R, V. D. '. No. 1 , ..'.-: Board Meets first Monday la Janu ary, April, July and October each year. Collegee and High 8ohools. Mars Hill College, Prof. R. U Moore, President, Mars Hill N. C. FaU Term begins August 17. 1911. Spring Term begins January 2. 1912. Spring Creek High School Prof, a C Brown, Prinolpal Spring Creek. N. C I Mo. School opened August - 1, 1911. ' Madison Seminary Hlch School. Prof 3. M. Weatherly. f ri" Mff "shall N. C R. F. D No. 11 Mo. School began October 2, ltll. Bell Institute. Miss Margaret E. Griffith, Prinolpal Walnut, N. C 8 Mo. School began September I, 19,11. , Marshall Academy. Prot R. O. Anders, Principal. 'Mars'haTl, N. C, f Mo, School began Sept 4, 1911. . Notary Publlos. J. C. Ramsey, Marshall N. C. Term spires Jan. 11, 1912. A. J. Roberts, Marshall N. C, R. T. D. No. 6, Term expires May 20, 1912. Jasper Ebbs, Spring Creek, N. C. Term expires August 10, 1912. C. C. Brown, Bluff, N. C. Term ex pires December 6, 1912. J. A. Leak, Revere, N. C. Term ex - pires. January IS, 191S. W.'T. Davis, Hot Springs. N. C. Term expires January 10, 1912. . ( J. H. Southworth. Stackhouse, N. C. Term expiree January II, 1912. N. W. Anderson, Paint Fork. N. C. Term expires February 6. 1911. J. H. Hunter. Marshall N. C, . T. D. No. 8.' Term expires April 1,19m . J. F. Tllson. Marshall N. C, R. F. D No. 1 Term expires April 2, 1912. ' C. J. Ebbs. Marshall N. a Term .expires April 21. 1918. , J. W. Nelson. Marshall N. C Term expires April 25, 1913. Roy L. Oudger, Marshall N. - C. Terra expires May 2, 1912. ' Gea M. Prltchard. Marshall N. C. 'Term expires May 21, 1912. , . Dudley Chlpley, Marshall N. C.: ,T"m expires July 29, 1912. ' ft. 6. Connor, Mars Hill. N. C. Term splrjs November 27. 1913. , POST. George W. Gahagan Post, No, 28 O. A. R. " 1 S. M. DsTia, Commander. J. It r Vnrd, Adjutant ' i t! I i C t V fatnrdsy ' ' 1 r ' y it : UNCLE SAM IS HP EXTRAVAGANCE, WASTE AND POSSIBILITIES OF FRAUD ARE POINTED OUT. CRITICIZE PRESENT METHOD Recommended That Buildings Bs Standardized and Draughtsmen : Be Done Away With. , Washington. Severe criticism of government methods of erecting pub lic buildings Is contained In the re ports of the house committee on ex penditures In public buildings submit ted to the house. The committee points out extravagance and waste and possibilities of fraud In public expenditures after making It clear its Investigations were made with no de sire to discover any scandal In the publlo service. . The committee makes the recom mendation that "government buildings be standardised and endeavors to put out what It considers the folly of maintaining a big force of draughts men and architects to make plans or every building constructed by the gov ernment The report finds that since 1902, 721 buildings have been erected and that there are pending bills for 750 more at a proposed aggregate cost of 870,OOO,OOO. . "It this keeps up," the committee says, "there will be 1.520 public build ings Inside of fifteen years." The cost of maintenance alone will be $11,000,000 annually. The committee says the present system of awards Is bad and should be changed. It points to Instances where contractors have been the bene ficiaries of "extras and betterments." Without making any charges the com mittee says: "Under the present method of awarding contracts for the construc tion of publlo buildings there Is an open door tor the grossest kind of fraud." . T AGREE ON PARCELS POST Committee becldes on Modification of Zone System. Washington. The full details of the parcels post provision have final ly been agreed upon by the senate committee on postoffice and ; post- roads, settling this long and heated controversy over this subject. The compromise agreement Is based on the sone system, xne pian is a departure from the established sys tem of a uniform rate of. postage re gardless of distance traveled, for the rate is Increased as the distance the package must be transported Is In creased, The highest rate on domes tic parcels, however, will not exceed the international postal rate of 12 cents a pound or 81.32 for a 11-pound package which Is the limit Senators Bourne end Bristow agreed upon the post zones as fol lows: . ' First, length 60 miles, rate 5 cents for the first pound, 8 cents for each additional pound; second, length 150 miles, rate 6 cents and 4 cents; third, length 800 miles, rate 7 and 6 cents; fourth, length 600 miles, rate 8 and 6 cents; fifth, length 1,000 miles, rate and 7 cents; sixth, length 1,400 miles, rate 10 and 9 cents; seventh, length 1.800 miles, rate 11 and 10 cents; eighth, length over 1,800 miles, rate 12 cents per pound straight. Max imum packages, 11 pounds. Proposed six tones to range in length from 50 to 2,000 miles. Twenty Lives Lost in Cloudburst Reno, Nev. Twenty lives were lost In a cloudburst that wiped out the small town of Seven Troughs, Nev. From Lovelock. near . .Seven Troughs, came word that seven per sons are known to be dead, and that the hotel at Mazuma had been turn ed upside down by the rush of wa ters. Communication by wire was badly crippled, and the-roads were so furrowed that automobiles were oblig ed to make wide detours. ' A mile of track of the Nevada and California railroad, a branch of the Southern Pa cific, was washed out between MIno and Keeler. ' . v Floht Pictures Under Ban. Washington. Prise light moving pictures heesma a thing of the past In the United States when the house passed a senate bill orohlnltlng the transnortat'on of such moving pic ture films between the various states and territories or from foreign countries.- Hesvy fines for violation of the nroposed law are: fixed by the bill. Southern members of eoneress were especially Interested In the proposed law because of the race feeling stir red tin by the exhibition of the Jef fries-Johnson moving pictures t ' Peoers In C-al Deal Went Down. Pirtnhnr. When Charts M. Hays, president of the Grand Trunk rail road, perished In the Tltan'c disaster he took Into the sea with him signed contracts closinr a deal for 80.000 '.ami f mal In Relrannt countv. Ohio. The deal involved the payment of 810.000 000 to a syndicate of Pitts- burs; men who hold options on the property. The directors st!t!iorl7el Mr. Hsys to close the deal snl th Bp.pt--rr papers were itetipi. i sfe 00 , . . y- fAfVct when t!,e T"?n- MRS. CHARLES D. HILLES IT.- V was ' ' This la a new photograph of Mrs. Shariee D. Hlllee, wife ef the presi dent's secretary and a popular woman In - Washington society. PRESCRIBE JWER RATES AS A RESULT OF A SEARCHING INQUIRY BY THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. Commission Thinks Conclusions Con stitute Step Toward Solving the Greateat American Problem. Washington. Sweeping reductions in express, rates averaging In general, approximately 16 per cent.; drastio re forms In regulations and practices, and comprehensive changes In the methods of operation, are prescribed in a report made publlo by the In' terstate commerce commission of Its Investigation Into the business of the thirteen great express companies of the United States. Dealing with the identity of Inter est between the various companies, the report finds that while these com. panlee are separate legal' entities, "it is of Interest to regard this fact by stock ownership and otherwise they are so interlaced, Intertwined and In terlocked that it Is with difficulty we can trace anv one of the greater com' panles as either wholly independent in its management .or the agency of a single railroad system. . So that while these companies operate separately and compete with each other for traf fic, the express business may be said to be almost a family affair. An in terestlng genealogical tree, In fact might be drawn showing a common ancestry in all of the larger compa nles. And while many names may be used to designate these compa nies, It is, within the fact to say that aside from the operations of the ml' nor and distinctively railroad express companies, the express business of the United States is managed by not more than three groups of Interests, M'COMBS NAMED CHAIRMAN Democratic Leaders Meet the Wishes of Governor Wilson. Chicago. William F. McCombs of New York, Governor Woodrow Wil son's choice, was elected chairman of the Democratic national committee, and was empowered to appoint a com' mittee of not fewer than nine mem- If tractive charge of the Dem- ocratlc presidential nominee's cam paign. Mr. McCombs also was authorised to select a national treasurer and such other officers as he may see fit in cluding possibly a vice chairman and, after consulting with Governor Wil son, to name the location of the head quarters. , Mr. McCombs said that he thought the principal headquarters would be In New York, : Mr. McCombs' -selection and the plan to appoint a campaign commit tee of nine, the majority of whom are to be members of the national committee, with Mr. McCombs chair man of the sub-committee, were or dered on resolutions offered by Com mitteeman Robert S. Hudspeth of New Jersey as representing the wish es of Governor Wilson. Bodies Recovered From Airship. Atlantic City. The bodies of Mel- vln Vaniman and Frederick Elmer, two of the five victims of the airship Akron which exploded while sailing over Brlgantine beach on July 2, have been recovered and brought to this city. With the finding of these bod ies all have now been recovered. El mer's body was found about four miles from the spot where the dirigible bal loon struck the water after exploding more than 500 feet In the air. Vani man s body was recovered by the beach patrol ; .. . .-.:,;.. 'Postal Records Broken. Washington. The largest three months' business in the history of the Postal service la shown by the latest financial statement of Auditor Krara of the postoffice department. Audited returns for the qusrter end ing with March reached 264,868.854.45, an Increase of $2,896,301.11 over the same period last year. Total expens- ..t.J A tCl S7S ? T rfalW sveraee of 2712,932.05. Expenses ex- 'fs!.i,3 revenues during this quarter, l I a net rre't of f"5,S."3.1 is - l r ' a f t r" - r-r." TJBTS CAMPAIGN T HITCHCOCK TELLS ABOUT a O. P. CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS OP YEAR 1904. SOME OF FUND NEVER USED No Contribution Was Received From CorporationMany Banks Gavs 85,000. Washington. Postmaster General Frank M. Hitchcock told the senate committee Investigating campaign contributions of 1904 and 1908 that the records of the fund used In Pres ident Taft's election, as filed In Alba ny, N. Y., were absolutely correct and that he could not supplement these reports by testimony. . Mr. Hitchcock said the total col lected through various agencies of the committee In 1908 was 11,655,518.87. Of thla amount 2620,150 was collect ed In various states and bandied by the local state committees. The lat ter sum never was turned Into the treasury of the Republican national committee, although that committee kept account of it No contribution was received from a corporation, Mr. Hitchcock said, be cause congress had just passed a law prohibiting it. He told of the only contribution he could remember hav ing rejected. : It was offered by Gen. T. Coleman DuPont of Delaware, then a member of the Republican executive commit tee, actively assisting In the manage ment of the campaign and amounted to $20,000. "He turned It over to Treasurer George R. Sheldon," began Mr. Hitch cock. "When I learned of It I sent for Mr. DuPont and told him that 1 did not think we could accept It be cause the government had a civil suit against a corporation In which he was interested. I, instructed the treasurer to return it and he did so." Senator Paynter asked If this con tribution was not then given to some other fund. Mr. Hitchcock rrnllpjl. General Du Pont declared he felfh?aa not do ing his part and asked If he could not give the money In some way. Mr. Hitchcock said he had replied in the negative. , During the examination Mr. Hitch cock remembered that a number of banks clntrlbuted $5,000 each and that they might have been interested in corporations, but he thought at any rate that was a small contribu tion for them. , ' NEW SEAT IN THE CABINET Pass Bill Dividing Department of Com merce and Labor and Creating Labor Secretary. Washington. The house unanimous ly passed the Sulzer bill creating a department of labor. This bill creates the tenth seat in the president's cabinet It establishes the department of labor and changes the present department of commerce and labor to the department of com merce. A secretary of labor, three as sistant secretaries, a solicitor, a enter clerk, a disbursing clerk and other minor employees are provided. The commissioner general of immigration, the commissioner of labor and several other hlch officials now in the depart ment of commerce and labor are shift ed over to the new department The hill rives tha department of labor the right to collect and publish all statis tics relative to laoor ana autnorizes the secretary to call on any govern ment department for information. It also authorizes the secretary of inhnr to act as a mediator In ques tions nf lndustrla ldlsDute and to ap point commissioners of conciliation in labor disputes, thereby giving tne in fluence of the government toward in dustrial peace. "Texas'. Engineer le Dead. Atlanta. John W. Wade, Sr.. who became a resident of Atlanta when he brought here two of the first locomo tives ever used in this state, and who t nna tima was enelneer of the fam ous old "Texas," which played so dra matic a part in the Civil war, died here at the age of 88. - One Man Killed in Wreck. Bristol. Tenn. Bruce A. Hodges, a railway mall clerk, was instantly kill ed and several others seriously injur ed when the New York ana Mempnis train No. 25 was wrecked on the Southern railway five miles south of Bristol. The cause or tne wrecK is not known. The tender of his engine ift the rails on a reverse curve ana although the tender turned over. It did not go down the bank, while the moll car. combination baggage and colored car and two day coaches went down the 26-foot embankment ' Criminal Leaps From Train. Montgomery. Ala. Henry East a notorious White criminal who was serving eighteen months for burglary committed at Florence, Ala., escaped from a Louisville and Nashville train Cooper's Station while In charge ih. .tot a arnnt en rauta to the state penitentiary om the coal mines. The train was moving at a ra ,r1d rate of speed. Three months East jumped from a moving train ,hi'e bein taken from Elrm!nBhs.m 11,655,1 to v,ett!!rk, but was recaptured. $ are on t's traX PRESIDENT GOMEZ f I President Gomes of Cuba, who has a big job on his hands. COTfON DISPUTE SETTLED AGREEMENT REACHED BY 8HIP- PERS AND THE STEAMER LINES. Steamer Lines Rescind Ordsr Requir ing Cotton Bales to Bs Entire ly Covered. New York. A compromise was ef fected here between the steamship lines and the cotton shippers in the dispute over the refusal of the steam ship companies to Issue ocean bills of lading for cotton shipments after September 1 unless the railroads de livered the cotton thoroughly covered and entirely free from all evidence of damage. By the agreement reached the a ex cision of the steamship lines Is auto matically rescinded, and while the cotton bales need not be entirely cov ered, the steamship lines will assume no responsibility for damage result ing from imperfect covering. The demand of the steamship lines was virtually for better baling of cotton because of damage they were often forced to pay for cotton which they said was damaged before it was received for shipment The cotton shippers met this demand with the statement that It would be Impracti cable and unnecessary to cover the sides of bales. The subcommittee reported the fol lowing resolution, which was adopt ed at once: , "It Is mutually understood and agreed that the description of the condition of the cotton does not re late to Insufficiency of or the torn condition of covering nor to any dam age resulting therefrom and that no carrier shall be responsible for any damage not caused by Its s negli gence.", E. J. Glenny, president of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, who acted as chairman of the conference, said after the adoption of the resolution: "The action of the conference In adopting the resolution of the sub committee is a step in the right direc tion towards the better handling of cotton and I believe it is also a move ment In the proper direction towards securing the perfect methods of bal ing cotton." i CRAZY NEGRO RUNS AMUCK Took Refuge In House, But Was 8moked Out and 8hot to Death. Tampa, Fla. Bob Harris, a crazy negro, on a rampage here, killed three persons, wounded two others, one of whom was white, and himself was slain by policemen after a siege in which gasoline was used to burn blm out of a house. He was Insane from drugs. He first went to the house of a wom an and killed her and a man he found there. He then went to another house and fired on a woman with a baby. The former was slain. On his way out Stmpkins, who is expected to die, and a white policeman named Rlggs. Ha took refuee In the Slmpkins woman's house, where he lived, and barricaded the doors and windows. Belns Dlentlfullv supplied with car tridges he kept a large force of po liceman at bay, and was dislodged only after being smoked out of one room. The house was then set anre with gasoline. When he made a dash for liberty he was shot and killed. Gambler Rosenthal Murdered. Kaw York. Herman Rosenthal, the proprietor of a New York gambling house, whose sensational charges that tha nnllna were euilty of grafting and oppression were to be Investigated, was shot down and killed In front of the Hotel Metro pole by five men who escaned In a big gray automobile. Ro senthal was murdered only a few hours before he was to appear In the home of District Attorney Whitman in an attemnt to substantiate his charge that the police were grafting on .gambling houses. . Wild Buffalo Kills Aviator. o.ria rvn Hubert Latham, the Anglo-French aviator, was killed last w a wild buffalo while huntinc BUtUU VJ " " w in the French Congo. The governor general of Frencn-ttquaxonai Aii-ica, i taiorranMn tha news to the min ister of the colonies, says Latham was out with a number of natives In the forest when he shot and wound ed a buffalo.whlch immediately charg .4 kim anil fforeri and tramDled him to death. Latham's death occurred on the Cnart river near the uattr t-s g MORE ARRESTS II! ITHAL CASE THE POLICE HAUL IN PARTIES WHO MAY THROW LIGHT ON BECKER'S CONNECTION. THE OFFICERS ARE RETICENT Jack Sullivan Is Said to Have Been With "Bald Jack Rose" on the Night of the Murder. Becker Has Not Been Arrested. New York. Louis "Bridgle" Web ber, keeper of an up-town resort, and Sam Paul, bead of the "Sam Paul As sociation," at the outing of which threats were made to "get" Herman Rosenthal, the gambler, were arrested on the charge of suspicion of homi cide In connection with the killing o( Rosenthal Jack Sullivan, alleged go-between between Police Lieutenant Charles Becker and "Bald Jack" Rose, the lat ter already under arrest was taken in custody as a material witness. The arrests were the result of the activities of Deputy Police Commis sioner Dougherty who has assumed active charge of the police hunt for the murderers of Rosenthal. More arrests are expected at any moment, the commissioner asserted but as to the nature of these arrests he would say nothing. When plied with questions as to the 'real significance of the last ar rest the 'commissioner was reticent This much he said definitely: "Webber and Paul are not charged with being in the 'murder car' at the time the fatal shots were fired, nor are the men who actually did the shooting, in custody; the arrests do not clear up the case, by a jug full, although the police have made ma terial progress in solving the prob lem which has busied the police de partment and the district attorney's office for a week." Whether the evidence that has been obtained -leads toward 'Lieutenant Becker, charged by Rosenthal with exacting tribute from New York gamblers. Commissioner Dougherty declined flatly to discuss. Several Hurt In Auto Wreck. New York. Five persons were in jured, two so seriously they may die, when an automobile speeding fifty miles an hour at Cedarhurst Long Island, with three men and two women passengers, struck square against a tree, turning turtle and flattened In a wreck. All the occupants were hurled to the ground. One of the most seriously Injured Is an unidenti fied woman, about 24 years of age, who was richly attired and wore dia monds of a value estimated at $2,500 or more. Her skull and Jaw were fractured, and she is believed to be internally injured. None of the oth ers would .reveal her name. Five Italians Killed on 8hlp; New York. Details of the accident reported by wireless on the Italian steamship Principe dl Plemonte, lu which five of the crew were killed, were learned when the vessel arrlv ed here from Naples. A branch steam pipe burst, filling the fire room and engine room on the port side with a great volume of steam. Five men were rescued from the scalding steam and carried to the ship's hospital. Although every attention was given them, they were so badly injured that they died within an hour. No Hope For Japan's Emperor. Toklo. A day of suspense closed with a bulletin from the Imperial bed side that practicaiy excluded hope for the recovery of Mutsuhlto, Em peror of Japan. The four physicians in consultation at the palace announc ed that his majesty's symptoms were discouraging. The Emperor had been unable to sleep and was delir ious. His heart action was weak, his pulse 82 and his respiration 34. The Emperor's subjects and foreigners who have lived under his rule are united in their anxiety. People Filched of Many Millions. Washington. One hundred and twenty million dollars was filched from the! American peoDle durinar tha last fiscal year by swindlers who operated largely through the TJnited states mails, according to a renort to Postmaster General Hitchcock. Of those who are alleged to have oper ated the fraudulent schemes, 1,06a were arrested by postoffice inspectors. They included persons in all walk. of life, merchants and mechanics, poiiucians ana professional men, paupers and millionaires. Midshipman From Texas Killed. Minneapolis. Minn. William r. Bullock of Corslcana, Tex, a midship man of six weeks standing at the na val academy, was killed by falling from the top of the mainmast nf th "Hartford" to the deck, a distance of aooui a nnnared feet. His neck was brlken.and he died Instantly. Bui lock had Just accomplished a feat which tradition demands of a new midshipman, the climbing of the mainmast of the "Hartford" mil the transfixing of his cap on the spike waicu saoms tne top. NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA Short Paragraphs of Bute News That Have Been Gotten Together With Care By the Editor. Washington, D. C Lexington was designated a postal savings deposi tory of the second class, the designa tion to become effective August 15. Ralelgh If 'the statement of J. B. Umphrles, a young white man of Eagle Rock, Is true,' one of the bold est robberies ever committed In this section occurred when Umphrles was held up at the point of a pistol and relieved of $27 In cash. Monroe. The county Republican convention met here, elected J. J. Par- , ker chairman of the convention, Hen ry Baucom secretary, and adopted a platform for use in the coming cam paign. The convention then adjourned to meet August 10. Wilson. Near Elm City, B. J. Sharp had the misfortune to lose a valuable barn of tobacco by fire. All of the men residing in the neighborhood were at the polls, and before assist ance could arrive the "weed" and barn bad gone up in smoke. Pittsboro. The Chatham county teachers' institute for white teachers Is being conducted in the graded school auditorium by Prof. R. W. Al len of Sanford, assisted by Mrs D. L. Ellis of Biltmore. The attendance Is unusually large, there being between ' 50 and 60 white teachers and over 30 colored teachers. , Raleigh. Notice of the commuting -' of the sentence of William Munn, of Cumberland county, who has been In prison since August 1903, and of the pardon of Frail Durham, who In the fall of 1905 was sentenced to fourteen - years In the state's prison fof murder in the second degree, waa madeujrab Ho by Gov. Kltchtn. Raleigh. There hak been an els change of courts between Judge M. i, H. Justice, who will conduct the , Union county court, beginning August 18th, for two weeks, and Judge R. B. Peebles, who will preside at Louis burg, Franklin county, for one week beginning August 19th, and at Nash ville, Nash county, for the week be ginning August 26th., Roxboro. The town having recent ly sold an Issue of bonds amounting to. $22,500 for street Improvement Is having its "main street graded and paved with bituminous macadam, ce ment curb and gutter and cement sidewalks. The sidewalks are laid at the expense of the property owners while the town pays for the road way and curb and gutter. Raleigh. There have been 353 new automobiles licensed by the secretary of state for North Carolina owners during the first 15 days of July, the value of the machines licensed each day of the half month averaging over $20,000 per day. This record Is twice that of the record of the half of July, 1911, and Is far ahead of all previous records in the state. t ' ". Charlotte. Are the Piedmont ft Northern Lines, the great system of trolley roads which the Duke Interests are holding throughout Piedmont Car olina with Charlotte the center to be the nucleus of a still greater system that will be extended north Into Vir ginia and south into Georgia, some what after the fashion of the great trolley systems of the Middle West? Raleigh Judge Ferguson In supe rior court dismissed the case of W. E. Stinson in his suit against the Wake county commissioners in which Stln- .. son was suing for $800, salary which he claimed to be due because '.the commissioners removed him he alleg ed without cause and elected his suc cessor as supervisor of roads. . San son's counsel gave notice of an ap peal to the supreme court.- . ' . Raleigh. The people ; of Raleigh , are anticipating with particular pleas ure a lecture that is to be delivered here by Dr. David Starr Jordan' of Leland Stanford University, Cali fornia. He comes In the interest of the great world peace crusade that Is under way. . i State8ville. Nearly . every farmer who comes to town has something to say about crop conditions. ' The con tlnued showers throughout this sec tion are having a fine effect on corn, the principal crop, and It is the opin ion that this year's "bumper" crop Will surpass all former "bumpers." ; Statesvllle. The Iredell Blues, the local military company, consisting of 8 officers and 45 men left for More head City, where they will go Into camp with other companies at Fort , Glenn. The company is E, First North Carolina Regiment national guard. '.":-" Charlotte. Charlotte Improvement bonds In the sum of $665,000 have been bought at premium by a local banking concern within the past year and now this company gives notice that It will be prepared to take over a fresh Issue on the first of August, paying contract price. . Charlotte. Charlotte Is In the ter ror of an epidemic of housebreakings, no less than a dosen having occurred In different parts of the city within the past week. One house was hon ored with three separate visits by the thieves. .."-' Charlotte. The North Carolina Lu theran Sunday school workers are ., preparing for "their annual s! - r Institute. These assemblies havi , very pleasant and prof !;d ' c and the one to be h'-'i t; ,i r Ises to be no ee i t wt:i be kr-M 1 1 I r.t