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VOL. XXJII. GASTONIA. N. C.t TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1«. 1QQ3. v _I
OIBL WANBBBS SHEETS
WITH A8TBAN8E BABY.
Brought to Now York ky Tele
gram-Intent lo Throat on Her
at Grand Caatral Statloa.
Ml* York Time*. Oct. Ml.
A well dressed, pretty girl,
eighteen years old, walked into
the Bast Thirty-fifth Street
Police Station last evening at
6 o'clock. She was carrying a
boy baby about six months old,
aud waa weeping bitterly. She
said that she did not know posi
tively whose child it was, and
asked Capt. Delaney to take
charge of the infant as she had
no money and no home in this
city.
The Captain, after much dffi
culty, succeeded in quieting the
hysterical girl, who said her
name was Marian Gray, and
that her home waa in Roxbury,
Moss. Early yesterday morning
•he received the following tele*
gram:
. Cap*SB Nrr.Tlrt It .CMC*. You: aUUr
The yonng girl took the first,
train and reached the Grand
Central Station at 10:30 o'clock.
As she stepped from the train
she was met by a woman who
■aid she was Mrs. Palmer, and
asked if she was Marian Gray.
When ahe replied in the affirma
tive, she alleges that the woman
literally threw the baby, which
■he waa carrying, iuto her arms,
and threw a milk bottle at her,
saying as she did so:
"This is your sister's child.
She has paid no board for it for
months, and I will not keep it
any longer."
Mrs. Palmer then turned away
and was lost to view in the
crowded station. The yonng
girl called after the woman ask
ing where her sister was. but re
ceived no response. Sbe sat
doom on one of the seats and
began to cry. A crowd quickly
gathered, and some one fug
gested that she take the infant
to the New York Foundling Asy
lum. The girl was without
money, so she walked to Fifty
seventh Street and Lexington
Avenue. There the authorities
refused to harbor the child, as
Misa Gray admitted that she
was not its mother. They ad
vised her to go to the Outdoor
Poor Department, at the foot of
East Twenty-sixth street. She
says that she walked down there
but that they refused to give her
shelter.
From there she wandered
through the streets aimlessly.
She was finally stopped by a
policeman to whom she told
part of the story, and he directed
her to go to the East Thirty
fifth Street Station.
Dr. McDonald examined the
infant and assisted to quiet the
girl. The baby was sent to
Bellevue Hospital, where it is
said the little fellow waa suffer
ing from a high fever brought
on by its privations.
Dr. McDonald was so touched
at the pitiful story told by the
young girl that he gave her $2
and tola her to go to St. Eliza
beth's Industrial Home, at 235
Bast Fourteenth Street. She
acted on his suggestion, but
found that the place was
crowded. Sbe was recom
mended to go to Mrs. Osborne's
at 143 West Fourteenth Street,
and she left the home saying
that she would tiy (here.
Miss Gray said that her rela
tives were comfortably situated
iu Roxbury, Mass. She did not
know whether her sister had a
baby or not, as she had not
beard from her for at least a
year. _
M0KT0A0E FtIMAIfY MILLIONS
Telepheaa Property aa Security
hr Brad Inac of 91M,M0,IM.
TlBlHnfTOM p«aL
The heaviest mortgage ever
placed on tie in tbe District Was
recorded yesterday afternoon in
the office of the recorder of deeds.
The International Telephone
Company of America fifed a
mortgage deed to secure tbe
Trust Company of the Republic
of New York in the inane of
bonds to the srnonnt of $100,•
000,000.
The mortgage includes all tbe
property owned by the telephone
company, some of which is loca
ted in this city. The bonds will
bear interest at 5 per cent and
will run for fifty yeats. i
The physicians of Monroe and
Union county are making it
warm for delinquents. They
havs fanned an association of
which every one in tbe connty
has become a member, and
made the rule, Iron clad, that
those who haven’t heretofore
paid their bills and now make
no arrioas effort to do ao, shall
be served by no physician in tbe
connty even tor the cash.
REPUBLICAN SPEAKERS AT
ODDS ON TRUSTS.
Chairman Marris Trias ta ■ arias
Capias at Spaacb—Cangrsss*
man Sotrtbwicb Praclalaa tka
Party as tba Paa ta Trasta,
Altar Passat Rad Daiaadad
CaaMnaUsns.
M«« York TIom. Mh
There was obvious discomfort
revealed in the faces of Robert
C. Morris, Chairman of the New
York County Republican Com
mittee, and other prominent Re
publicans sitting on the stage of
Carnegie Hall at a Republican
mass meeting during a portiou
of the time Congressman South
wick of Albany was speaking.
J. SI oat Fassett, a previous
speaker, had defended tue trusts
of the country, but Mr. Sonth
wick proceeded on the tack that
the Republican Party was the
foe of trusts.
The speaker called attention
to the fact that President Roose
velt was seeking to enre the
trust evil through a Constitu
tional ameudment. He then
told of the passage of the Sher
man anti-trust law, and then in
most earnest manner continued
as follows:
"To-day Attorney General
Knox at Washington is prose
cuting great combinations oi
capital, yes, defying Wall Street;
defying Mr. Morgan, if you
please; prosecuting great com
binations of capital in Wall
Street controlling great railroads
in the Northwest, under a Re
publican anti-trust law."
This passage was taken down
by the official stenographers,
with the rest of the speech.
Immediately after the meeting
had adjourned, and, without
waiting for consultation, Mrr"
Morris inquired for the head
stenographer. Mr. Dillon, the
man m charge of the shorthand
corps, was pointed out, and Mr.
Morris called him aside and
whispered to him for a moment.
Then Mr. Dillon rushed to the
stenographer’s room and de
manded that all Congressman
Southwick’s speech be handed
to him st once. Mr. Dillon took
the page containing the refer
ence to Mr. Morgan and the
Northern Securities Company
suit, drew a pencil through them,
aud handed the page to a ste
nographer with this direction.
"Copy this page and leave
that passage out. Horry it up,
to we can give the correct copy
to the press,”
It *u represented to Mr.
Dillon later that some of the
reporters were in a burry, so he
altered another copy himself and
gave it to a reporter with this
remark:
"Of course a Congressman has
a right to revise bis own speech.”
Carnegie Hall was occupied by
about fifteen hundred people, of
whom about one-third were wo
men, for the mass meeting. The
hall was more than ordinarily
decorated with flags and bant
ing. __
Dreadful Downfall •( a Warn an
Frsm Drink.
Now York HewUUo Baltimore Son.
Pour years ago the pretty
bride of a handsome and wealthy
militia officer of high rank, in
nocent of the wickedness in the
world, surrounded by the scores
of friends of her youth, and the
pride of a father respected in
commerce and society, a
woman’s body to-day went under
the knife of a coroner's physi
cian, who determined that she
bad been so drank when she
died that she was easily over
come by escaping gas from jets
in ner room.
Buiibed by her husband, who
still supported her; abandoned
by friends and visited by the
dissolute creatures with whom
bet love for whiskey made her
i acquainted, sbe died la her
lonely home. Tbe body was stiff
when found, and there are indi
cations tbst sbe had been dead
at least two days.
In tbe flat where she lived the
neighbors had complained to the
landlord of her nightly orgies.
She was entering tbe house last
Wednesday and fell in the main
hall, so intoxicated she could go
no farther alone. The janitor
carried beT up to her flat and
threw her on a bed.
The landlord called last Pri
the dispossess notice.
The door was open, but there
was no response to his rapping,
and he tacked the notice on the
door. Por two days there was a
lapse and noone went neortheflat.
Then the woman who had jast
leased the flat went to see it.
The door was still open. The
gaa was burning in front of the
house. In a narrow ball leading
to the kitchen tbe half dressed
body of tb« outcast was found.
[ COAL T1 LIST AND COAL t AMINE
Evil Conditions That Sarround
(ha Mining, Traospartstisa and
Sal*.
PfciUdalskU tUcjxd |Dnj.
The danger to the public
interest arising from a single
ownership of the coal mines and
the coal-carrying transportation
companies of the State was not
forseen st the time charters for
many of the mining and carrying
companies were granted by the
legislature. Bnt to guard against
further improvident legislation
the constitution adopted in 1873
provided that no incorporated
company doing the bnsiness of a
common carrier shall directly or
indirectly, prosecute or engage
in mining or manufactnring ar
ticles for transportation over its
works; nor shall such company
directly or indirectly engage in
any other business than that of
common carriers.
The restriction did nut operate
to invalidate chatter rights ob
tained prior to the adoption of
the constitution of 1873, bat the
Reading, Lehigh Valley, and
other coal-carrying railways
have so far complied with tne
letter of the constitution as to
organize separate holding com
panies for their mining and
manufacturing operations under
liberal charters also antedating
the restrictive provision of the
constitution. As the railroad
companies own a controlling
share of the stock of the subsi
diary mining companies, it is
apparent that the evil of single
■practically tingle
ill exist.
ioua of ownership
t more intolerable
imrnt of a "com
eat” arrangement
le railway cora
snter the anthra
i and practically
! delivery of the
markets. There
d inviolable under
r the carrying and
mining companies as to rates of
carrying and prices of coel.
The strike of the anthracite
miners has emphasised all the
evil conditions that surround the
mining, transportation, and sale
of the product of the* mines. It
has been strongly urged that
Gov. Stone shall direct Attorney
General BIkin to institute pro
ceedings to annul the charters of
offending corporations who eith
er directly or indirectly violate
the letter of the constitution.
It is also urged with equal ve
hemence that the federal govern
ment shall proceed under the
provisions of the interstate com
merce act to attack the railway
combination which has sup
pressed competition and by its
complete control of transporta
tion established a coal trust.
No doubt it is well worth while
to bring action In the courts—
State and Federal—to determine
for all time whether the great
combination of corporations in
practical control of the coal
mines and the coal railroads en
joy a monopoly so well intrench
ed that it will withstand legal
assault. But such litigations
would last for years. Tberp is
no power of instant remedy
either in the band of the State
or the Federal authorities.
What the people want and
most have is coel. The miners’
union refuses to end the strike
by arbitration that does not in
volve a recognition of the union
and the consequent displacement
01 non-union labor, the opera
tor! offer to arbitrate with the
miners themselves, but refuse
arbitration that involves a further
recognition of the anion.
The immediate thing to do in
this emergent situation is to pro
tect the operators in their efforts
to produce coal. This is the
first and paramount duty of the
State.
If, with such protection, the
operators cannot secure the
necessary labor, they mast make
such terms as they can with the
strikers. They would do well to
offer an immediate advance of
wages. At all hasards a coal
famine mttst be averted and
peace restored with safety for
life and property. There is
nothing that can be done either in
the State or Pederal courts or
by the State legislature or Con
gress if called id extra session
that would insure immediate re
lief. Immediate relief ia the de
mand of the hour.
A Oeed Kama.
Christies IsaisWr.
Customer (to coal dealer:)
"Have you got any name for
those scales of yours?”
“1 never heard of scales hav
ing a uame."
’‘Well, you ought to call your
scales Ambush. You see, they
art always lying In weight.”
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POLITICS MitktCOAL mac.
Whal Will Happen U Os CeaJ
Pamlaa Csittnnes Unabated.
Bouaa Advertiser (Rep.)
Once more Penney Ivan ibis the
cynosure of political eyes
throughout the Union. There
is not, indeed, any question bow
tbe Keystone State will "go” in
the election neat month, or in
that of two yean hence. But
this year the State is in. a posi
tion to exert upon national is
sues an influence perhaps area
greater than in toe old days
which seem so near and yet so
far. Within that State is being
enacted a terrible drama, o f
which the people of all tbe
States arc eager spectators, and
in which many millions of peo
ple feel an interest which arises
from their wonder whether tbe
drams will prove for them a
tragedy.
There never was, in all tbe
history of this country, an in
stance before wherein inch stu
pendous consequences depended
upon what was done or left un
done in a single State of tbe
Union. South Carolina, in the
winter of 1859-*00, did not oc
cupy a position fraught with
weal or woe to the sisterhood of
States; for Sooth Carolina was
merely tbe first to do wfaat other
States did, and would have done
in any event.
Pennsylvania » relation to the
Republican party la peculiar.
Of the great State* it* adherence
to the party baa been more
nearly and overwhelmingly uni
form than any other. The pro
tective policy is so bound up
with Pennsylvania industries
and interests of all kinds that
even the tery few Democrats
who have gone to Congress from
that State aiuce the civil war
have been obiged by their con
stituents to promise to stand by
the policy of protection. CH
that curious fact, S. J. Randall,
at one time actually the Demo
cratic leader in the National
House of Representatives, was
an example. Speaker Hender
son is not a more outspoken
protectionist than Speaker Ran
dall was.
Now, nothing it more certain
in this world than that if the
coal famine continnea unabated,
with the increasing horrors
which are sure to come while
the strike lasts, great multitudes
of voters throughout the country
will believe, or half believe, the
Democratic newspapers and
stump-speakers, who will tell
them that this is what the Re
publican policy of protection
means. To half believe it will
have just the tame effect on the
voting as to believe it folly.
Kings Mountain lima.
Xlaci MtxraUln Mm. 1M.
T. W. Kendrick has purchased
from J. A. Simms the house and
lot formerly owned by R. M.
Currie.
The carpenters are now busy
remodeling and enlarging the
residence of H. P. Allison on
Railroad avenue.
J. Calvin Harmon, son of R. S.
Hannon, of the Rlbethel Section,
left last Friday for Abbeville,
S. C., to teach an eight months'
school.
J. M. Helton and family, who
have been living at this place for
a number of years, moved Tues
day to Gastonia where Mr. Hel
ton has accepted a position in a
cotton milt.
Bessie Hawkins was tried
Monday morning before R. H.
Garrett, Esq., ofGaston county,
on the charge of forcible tres
pass. She was found guilty and
bound over to court in a bond of
$100 which she fsiled to give and
was sent to Dallss jail to await
court. She also implicated sev
eral boys who have departed for
parts unknown.
Mr. and Mrs. Rufui Patterson,
who live near Patterson Grove
chnrch, have broken up house
keeping and will in the future
live witu their children. They
are now with Mr. and Mrs. P. 3.
Baker of this place. Having
been an industrious and worthy
couple and having reached a
good old age--Mr. Patterson be
fog 86 and Mra. Patterson 80—
they deserve a rest in their de
clining years. Mrs. Patterson,
we are informed, has pieced 69
quilts and presented them to her
children and grand-children.
'Lost *r Stolen.
K.w Ynrtr Titatna.
Philadelphia has lost its boun
dary line and a State commis
sion is looking for it. With the
company aheTa keeping of late
Philadelphia ought to know
enough to nail down her bound
ary line or else take it in nights.
Subscribe for Thk Gaskttx.
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York Cennty km.
»«A*llh Hawlitr. 11th
The time for paying town
taxes commences on October 15,
•ad the 20 per cent penalty
attaches on November 15.
Tbe Southern Railway is now
operating through freight trains
from Charleston over tbe
Camden and Illarion division.
Of coarse it is only a guess;
but some of the farmers are
estimating that more than •
third of the cotton crop of this
section has been pot oo market.
Cotton scctna to nave been mov
ing quit freely this year.
_ Mr. Preston Goforth, of
Bethany, lost n dry kiln, to
gcther with 3,000 feet of lumber,
by fire, last Thursday afternoon.
The lumber was being dried foe
the Presbytenal school building
that is to be erected soon.
The thirty-fourth annual
session of the York Baptist
Association will meet with Flint
Hill Baptist church in Port Mill
township on next Thursday,
October 10, and continue in
•esaton until the Sunday follow
ing.
Mr. W. S. WUkeraon has
made nearly *,000 gallons of
molasses np to date and is still
making. A dealer visited him
recently and offered to take 10,.
000 gallons, or as much less or
more as he cared to furnish,
at 30 cents per gallon, free
on board the can at Hickory
Grove; but he did not trade.
'Mie ladies of the Floral
society are working indaalriona
ly on the details of the ap
proaching competition, and are
meeting with considerable en
courage meut. They have infor
mation of many ebmee flower* in
different parts of the county, and
the assembling of the choicest
of these in a single display, will
be worth a long trip to the more
enthusiastic growers.
The last meeting of Presbytery
at Beeraheba, previous to the
meeting of this week, was
held twenty-two years ago, and
of all the ministers and elders
5resent at the meeting this week,
:ev. W. W. Ratchford is the
only one who was present at the
meeting twenty-two years ago.
Although quite an old man now,
Mr. Ratchford still enjoys good
health and has lota of vim an
energy.
The protracted service com
menced in Trinity church
Wednesday afternoon according
to announcement, the pastor,
Rev. A. N. Brunson, being as
sisted by Rev. H. P. CbreiU
berg, of Gastonia. Dr. Chreiti
beig is an able preacher and the
interest that was aroused by his
first sermon has been increasing
steadily. Services are being
held each day at 4 p. m. and
7:30 p. m.
The county board- of com
missioners is after the railroads,
trying to make them fix up their
grade crossings. While many of
these crossings sze arranged as
they should be, others are unsafe.
Tbe regulation manner of con
structing an ordinary crossing,
calls for planking on either side
of tbe rails, almost flash with
tbe tops. Under soch an ar
rangement a wagon can pass over
without a severe jar. la toe
case of msny of the crossings,
however, there is nothing out
naked rails, which are not oven
protected by a reasonable amount
of ballast._
To Incorporate Antioch.
CotaabU Stats. SO.
Yesterday a moat unique ap
plication for a charter was filed
in tte office of tbe Secre
tary of State and the charter will
be issued. It la for the Antioch
Baptist church to be established
at Antioch, in Cherokee county,
one and a half miles south of
Groveft N. C. The purpose of
the corporation is thus set forth:
"To promote and extend the
gospel and religion of the Lord,
Jesus Christ, and to prevent the
making and selling of liquors
wit hin tbe lawful limit prescribed
by law.” J. R. Dickson and
others ara the corporators.
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LADIES* COATS
Ib oar varied line of coat* for Indies, Miuu. mod CbUdrea will b«
fouod a tare combination of atyl*. elegance, and rnailrwt We ia
vite your ioapectloa of oar varied atock.
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JAMES F. YEAGER.
LADIES* FURNISHINGS A SPECIALTY.
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More Good News.
_
We have just received
car-load of nice Tennessee Kor
•es and Males; among them ate
some extra fine big mules weigh
iag 1100 poends aad upward*;
also tome nice, MW, work
hones, single driving horse* aad
toddlers. Come aad see our
big lot of toock, we have snore
than fifty head to show yon aad
they wffl be sold at price* to
salt the Hnsas. If yon want a
good horse or mule be atssc to
call aad see'usat once aad oblige
CRAIG ft WILSON.
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BIG VALUES
MEN’S SUITS AND OVERCOATS
PALL AND WINTER. 1902-1903.
A* mo»1 we hive *et the trade a talking about the treat vetoes which
we are ottenut la swita and overcoats. The Mm is complete to every de
Ea^T^wwftSvsa, g'jx*em:e£~
buk'kI, ROMAN, the Clothier.