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i. it VCr Three Cents the Copy. INDEPENDENCE IN ALL THINGS. Subscription Price, $1.00 Per Year in Advance. VOL XII. COLUMBUS, N. C. r URSD AY, NOVEMBER 29, 1906. NO. 31. i Y Tito ill' r RECLUSE'S LIFE SECRET REVEALED BY DEATH justice Sawyer's Son Missing rorvy Years. MASSACHUSETTS LOVE STORY w. J. Smith, Bookseller of New Bed ford, ex-Lawyer and ex-Soldier, Lived Near Sweetheart Who Had Married. Bedford, Mass, The mysteri ous disappearance over forty years ago of George Yeaton Sawyer, Jr., soh. of the late Supreme Court Jus tice Sawyer, of Nashua, N. H., was solved by the death of William J. Smitb. a recluse, who kept a small bookstore i'n this city. Smith proved t0 lie the missing man, and an .unfor tunate love ffalr in early life is giv- as tut- miw3 ui ins lsuiciLiou irora his family. 1 ' Sawyer was -sixty-eight vein of age. - T'r.c secret of his identity was made kD'n by Roland . Ashley, caretaker of tli? building in which the old -man liad his rooms, to whom he had re veled it with his life story.. Sawyer while taking a vapor bath nas fatally burned by an explosion of an alcohol lamp and died, in the hospital. Ashley communicated with the dead man's sister, Mrs. Hubbard, of Xashur, who came, to this city zt once. She investigated his affairs, which were found to be in perfect onlor. and gave out facts regarding his life, announcing also that he had been a director in his own name in bank- in New York and Baltimore. It appears that he was worth many thousands of dollars, but he left no property in this city save a few books in his shop. Mrs. Hubbard took the body to Boston for cremation. George Yeaton Sawyer, Jr., was educated in the best preparatory schools of New Hampshire-and in an academy in New London. . From this school he entered Yale, and was graduated when he was twenty-one years old. After a short course in law he was admitted to the New Hampshire bar, where he practiced a fov. years. He gave up this profes sion to enter the Union Army dur ing tne civil war. immediately after the close of the war his family lost all track of him. It was report ed that he bad purchased a planta tion in Georgia and was living there. No trace of him , in that State could be found, however. I ; f ; He had been a resident of this city about five years., He had' conducted a small book store on one of the main streets, and was noted for his pecul iarities and reluctance to associate with any one. The love affair which is said to have caused his isolation from all his friends and acquaint? ances w as with a woman of this city, who is now married and has a large family. Sawyer came here to be near this first and only love. ( HIXA STOPS USE OF OPIUM. Opium Dens Closed -Persons Addict ed to the Drug to Be Registered. Pekin, China. Regulations issued for carrying into effect the anti-opium edict are more severe than any regulations ever previously issued in China and do honor to the official 'hose patriotism, supported by the influence of v :ceroy Yuan ShWKai, Prompted the issue of the edict. There are eleven regulations. It is provided not only that the cultiva tion' of the poppy," but also the use of opium,-must cease in ten years..,. No aew ground can be placed under cul- uvatiou and the ground now; under cultivation must be reduced one tenth annually u'ndpr npnaltv nf r.on- fiscation. All presons using opium must, be registered, and so must the amount consumed. Only a registered Person can buy opium. No one is permitted to begin the use of opium afti the issue of-the regulations. ; . I 1 1 II i Cl'RZO.VS INTEREST IN ESTATE. He Receives One-third of $1,730,000, Settled on His Wife. Chicago. Details of the marriaze settlement made in April, 1895, when I v.qv u . 111U1 . . vA .IA . J LiGlter, havft tippnnifi Irnnwn uiu (ronrp-o Citfrnr. marrlort TWrorV Ii the settlement Ladv Cnrznn re- eivca the income from $1,750,000 Rested in real estate and hnnfls W'on her death it was stipulated that T . l ne was snrvioi u Yiov 111101137111 UJrQ LUrZOn ncnoivo fiTio-trilrd t that a wmUUUlt x lie rtsiutiiuud nui e divided among the three children. me children are Mary Irene, ten SrS nlfl' rSrn Vilo ers old! Pvnthia m9r id Alexander, three years old. J'0ra Curzon. Rnbert T T.lnrnln. tli i'-j. uuiu uici lu (tuaugc le- Lord Curzoa will go to Wash- U1fet0n. and a sYinrt tlma tatar. -arlll ?ajl for Enzlar.rt CHIMPANZEE CATCHES FEVER. cvv loint in Mosquito Theory Made by Investigators. Uv hlu 3chol of Tropical Medicine, tw, 1 uas oeen in Brazil for nearly .W0 Vpara j incr , l"aiil"5 researcnes regara- n successfully proved, that , 'mpanzees can be infected with yel- Th Vfr by means t the mosquito. M tr; discovery is considered to be ine highest importance. MORE PAY FOR THOUSANDS Workmen For ;Steel and Cotton Industries Get Advances. Fall River Mill Owners Grant . crease Demanded and Avert Another Strike. In- Fall River.Mass. Thirty thousand mill operatives won their battle for an increase - of wages and will come under a scale giving them ten per. cent, more than the present rate. The advance prevented a strike, the work men having voted to stop work if the new schedule was not accepted. Mr. C.D. Borden, an independent cotton manufacturer, employing 5000 opera tives, took the lead, though no de mand had been made upon him. The new pay scale affects seventy corporations operating ninety-two mills, besides the Iron Works plant, i The Manufacturers' Association's "agreement to pay the increase is for l a period of six months, but provision is made for extending it. Probably other cotton mills in New ; England will follow this city's lead and thousands of outside mill hands ultimately will be benefited by the determined stand taken by the Fall River unions. .' Steel Trust liaises Wages. Pittsburg, Pa. The thousands o men employed by the Steel Trust will have their wages raised starting Jan uary 1, the increase to be based on the wages of common labor, which will be ten cents a day greater with the advent of the new year. Day and turn labor will have its pay adjusted in like ratioJ Notices to this effect will be posted at all plants Decem ber 1. DIAZ DEMANDS EXECUTIONS. Texas Refuses to Surrender Men Charged With the Oiminez Affair. Galveston, Texas. A special from Mexico City says that President Diaz has issued orders to Governor Car denas and other officials that the Ji minez outrage and revolutionary movement demands the execution of the leaders, and that their heads must , be produced or- there will be official changes. Governor Cardenas and other Mex ican officials have done everything possible to prove Gonzales and Mar quez and Castro, of El Mensajes, im plicated in the raids, but have failed, and Governor Lanham, of Texas, has refused to extradite them. They. have been rearrested by Federal offl cers and Texas now demands an ex planation. -. -ICE MEN IiAUGH WHEN FINED. Five of Philadelphia Trust Members Sentenced, the Others Let Off. Philadelphia. The trial of the Ice Trust and its fourteen members came to an abrupt close in Judge Wilson's court. Five of the defendants ac cused of having conspired to stifle competition and force up the price of ice to an almost prohibitive figure en tered a plea of non vult contendre, and each was fined 575 ana costs They laughed as the fines were im posed. Seven other defendants, upon whom a similar charge rested, were discharged at the instance of District Attorney Bell. The remaining two were allowed to depart, but with the threat of future prosecution hanging over their heads as a deterrent to ' any further effort to effect a combina- tion m restriction oi uauc. CANADA ENDS POSTAL PACT. Serves Notice to Stop Second-Class Mail Exchange. Washington, D. C. As the result of friction over publishers' privileges in the two countries, the Canadian Government has notified this Govern ment that the postal convention be tween the two countries will be ab rogated on May 7 next. The notice is accompanied by a statement that it is only in so far as it relates to second class matter that this action is de sired to extend and that by legisla tive or departmental action new regu lations are framed for the guidance of the United States Postoffice De partment regarding second-class mat ter,' Canada will be prepared to enter, upon negotiations for another con vention relating to this class of mat ter. ' '.ANOTHER BLOW TO OIL 'iitubx. Ohio Court Compels Pipe Line to Act as Common Carrier. 1 - ' FIndlay, Ohio. Judge Silas E, ! Wurin of the Circuit Court, granted a writ of alternative mandamus i asainst the Buckeye ripe une com pany. The motion was commeuceu by Attorney-General Wade H. Ellis, who seeks to compel the pipe line company to transport oil for any pro ducer without discrimination. 1 The petition alleges that the Buck eye Pipe Line Company charges 20 cents a barrel for transportation, but that the Standard Oil Company, which controls it, pays nothing. The rate is fixed so high, it is alleged, to keep others than the Standard from seeking to use the lines. Sentenced For Life. For the murder of Miss Gerret Haast, to get her insurance, Garrett Van Wyk and his wife have been sen tenced at Wray, Col., to life Impris onment. ' rrn&. PAS .0. 7. eelo Pi TV f Iter WASHINGTON. The Republican membership ot Congress is 222, and the Democratic 164. . . The coast artillery is declared badly in need of officers and enlisted men. . . " ' $ . Charles D. Sailings, the Public Printer, has decided to demand a thorough investigation of his office by Congress. , , Secretary of War Taf t's office force is busy caring (or hundreds of postal cards and letters begging Mr. Taft to save Niagara. . The counterfeit $5 silver certin cat ft which made its appearance in Chicago has been discovered b the g, CI -. C .. l'. hnH KVI I ia nf the series of 1S99. and bears check I letter "A." Officers interested in the matter say that a vessel constructed in ac cordance with. the Department's de signs would give thenavy a more nowerful battleship than " any now afloat or building. -f-' VT .... . Tnn.tmont liae rTT- l pleted its review: of the accident! in Hampton Roads, v-hen the Old -Do- l minion liner Monroe ran into the bat- J tleship Virginia. The officers of , the pauiesnip are nem uiauieia. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. governor Magoon nas issueu a u- - - ' .Q nw,vMtnff' for tho annointment of a commission to pass upon the claims arising from losses sustained in the rebellion. Conservative Cubans declare if Americans prepare to withdraw from the island they will raise a revolt which will force the United States to continue in control. Frank P. Sargent, United States Commissioner of Immigration, sailed from San Francisco for Honolulu to nrranee for importation of Portu guese to develop Hawaii. The planters of Negros Island, P. I., are complaining of the ruinously low m-ices of sugar. -Some of the estates are on the verge of bankrupt cy and others are borrowing money at exorbitant rates of interest. The War Department has invited bids for a two million dollar four Der cent, bond issue of the city of Manila. -,. . 4- DOMESTIC. President Roosevelt was criticised in Afro-American churches for his dismissal of nesro soldiers of the Twenty-fifth United States Infantry. ' The body of James Wilson, a sign er of the Declaration of Independ- ence, whicn was Drougm. ironi orm . . . . A. D I. T . k Carolina, was , burled oesiae tnai 01 his wife in Christ churchyard, Phila- delphia. The Government transport Kana- wha has sailed from Newport1 News for Havana with 500 animals for the army In Cuba. ! For granting rebates of $26,000 to the American Sugar Refining Company the New! York Central Rail road was fined SI 1, 000. Returns of the recent election in dicate that the vo :ing strength of In dian Territory is 101,000 and of Ok lahoma 94,690. Enmity between the Campbell and Sullivan families! at .Taft, I. T., caused the slaying of George Sulli van and his son-in-law, Marion Camp bell, by a man named Campbell. The Norfolk branch of the Young Women's Christian Association will have a $10,000 building at the James town Exposition. The warehouse of the American Snuff Company, at Eddyville, Ky., has been wrecked, by dynamite, fol lowing warning -messages from the "Night Riders." The Mine Owners Association at Leadville, Col., will do away with the card system and run its mines on an open shop basis. The Interstate Commerce Commis- Lsion has unearthed a federal act which, it is assertea, may prevent the Union Pacific merger. . Pittsburg's reign of terror caused the mother of the late "Pittsburg Phil" Smith, the turr plunger who left her his millions, to elopo at the age of sixty-five; she being afraid to live alone after a second burglary. - i FOREIGN. Canadian immigration officials are making a vigorous campaign against undesirable incomers. .. Colonial patrols captured Ferreira, the leader of the Boer raid from German, Southwest Africa into the northern part of Cape Colony, and all his followers. England is warned to take more interest in balloons as the war ships of the future in a lecture by Colonel J. D. Fullerton and comments by Sir Hiram Maxim. The Newfoundland Government, in disregard of the fisheries ; modus Vivendi, fined a skipper for violating the law regarding the shipping of colonial men on American vessels. The" English Nonconformists riaoH tiie Commons to reject all the amendments made by the Lords to the Education bill. Sir Edward Grey, British Secre tary of - State - for -Foreign - Affairs, said that If Belgium, aiu uu some action in regard to the Congo Free State. England wouia ao bo. t rPAPtlnnaries showed strong opposition to the announced Jewlsn reiorms;. - 'i m - ft Interest From Many Parts of the State MINOR MATTERS OF STATE NEWS Happenings of More or Less Import ance Told in Paragraphs Tke Cot ton Markets. Charlotte Cotton Market. These prices represent the prices quoted to wagons: . , in 10 aiigaiinjr. 10.50 Tinges and stains .9 1-2 to 10 General Cotton Market. Galveston steady . . ...... . .10 5-8 New Orleans steadv. . . . . . .10 5-S Mobile steady. . ........ ... .'10 1-4 Savannah, dull.. .. .. .. .-. ..10 3-4 pi, i -ft- in 1 o VUOIH - JIUII IXi M-LL .. .... ..J.I-L.. Norfolk quiet .. .. .. .. .... ..10 3-4 Daitunore nominal. . .. .. 1L New York quiet . .10.90 Philadelphia steady .11.15 Houston steadv...... .. .. ..TO 9-16 - rf ----- - -- Augusta steady., f. .. 10 7-S .11 111. till.' L'lV Llll . . . - . - . - - - 111 r W : - , - , L nanoxie jrroauce iYtarxex Chickens Spring. .12 to 25 .23 to 35 . t . 2o Hens Per head Ducks . ... . Eggs... Corn. ... 04 .72 to 75 Cotton seed. Oatt Sesd . . .... .. ..24 . . .55 to 57 1-2 Baltimore Prodnce Market. Baltimore, Nov.'.' 20. Flour quiet. unchanged. Wheat very dull ; spot contract 74 1-4 to 74 1-2; Southern by sample 08 to 67. Corn dull; spot old 49 1-4 to 49 1-2; new 48 1-4 to 48 1-2; new Southern white.com 41 3-4 to 48 1-2. v!'- Oats firmer; No. 2, mixed 3S 1-2. Bye firm; No. 2, Western 75 to 76. Butter firm and higher; fancy imi tation 23 to 24; fancy creamery 30 to 31; do late 20 to 21; store packed 18 to 20." - Ejrgs firm and higher 32c. Cheese active and unchanged, .13 5-8 to 14 1-S Dr. A. W. Fitts is Killed. Charlotte, Special. Dr. Alleu W. Fitts, a well-konwn Charlotte subur banite, was accidentally shot to death, rt mm 1111 LI 11 .XL k 1 1 1 II 1 I'll III I 1.11 t I I I. - -- - u .mo xvu w "uww sports, lett his home n?ar Myers' Park, and went to Sharon to hunt with Mr. P. C. Harkley, a youm? contry frined of his. On coming to a stream Mr. Harkey jumped across to the opposite side, but Dr. Fitts, not feeling" equal to the leap, handed" his companion the stock of his gun while he held on to the muzzle, and told him to. give him a lift. As tho butt of the gun, which was a hammer less breach-loader,' struck Mr. Hark ey 's hand a load was discharged, land-' ing in Dr. Fitts' abdomen. Mr. Hark ey saw Dr. Fitts look at the safetj spring on his gun, just before he hand ed it to him, and felt sure that he had fixed it. Dr. Fitts came here some years ago from Virginia. He was a man of fine character and was well liked. The Situation on the Murphy Branch. Asheville, Special. Official reports ot the trouble on the Murphy branch 01 the Asheville division of the Southern, between Asheville and Murphy, indicate that the damage to tracks and trestles is far greater than at first reported. It is officially re ported that there was a slide CO feet long and about 300 yards of earth east of mile post 114; that there are bents of five trestles between -mile posts 102 and. 105 and also that 31 feet of an embankment west of tres tle at 106 mile post is gone and that the embankment is still washing. The 106 mile post is near Andrews, west of Bryson City. The greater portion ot the trestle east of 113 mile post is also reported gone. This is at a point about 10 miles from Murphy. There have; been no trains on the Murphy branch except to Balsam since Sunday. : Trains were running between Ashe ville and Bryson City Wednesday ev ening. North State News Items. The State board of pharmacy grants licenses to the following: Miss Mabel Bernhill, - W. A. Brane, Jefferson Bruce, L. C. Cannon, J. W. Coppedge, A. Y. Deitz, C. P. Greyer, D. M. Gur ley, W. A. Hall, G. VW. Hill, Regi nald Hamlet, L. M. King, A. W. Mar tin, Edwin Nowell, G. C. Robinson, B. W. Tart, H. E. Thrower and J. R. Trotter. ' ' : The Secretary of State is indexing the charters granted this year. The number will be nearly 150 more than that during the previous 12 months. The fiscal year ends Nov. 30th. .! -. - - f 80DY0F WILSON EXHUMED With Simple and Dignified Ceremon ies Remains of One of the Signers of tho Declaration of Independence Are Exhumed and Sent to Philadel phia. Edenton, N. C, Special. The body of James Wilson, of Pennsyl vania, -.who with 55 other ; American patriots signed the Declaration of Independence, was on Tuesday disin terred from its long resting place here, and sent to Philadelphia where en Thursday next, it wui De oepoeiv ed in Christ Church Burial ground, alongside those of his , wife, almost in the shadqw of Independence Hall. The disinterment was conducted with elaborate eeremonial, in the pres ence of a number; of distinguished citizens of Pennsylvania and North Carolina. The ceremonies at Edenton opened with th reading of Burton Alvah Konkle,v of Pennsylvania, represent ing the Historical Society ot, Pennsyl vania and the James Wilson' Memori al association, of the original parch ment request for the disinterment and removal of the Wilson body to Pennsylvania for final burial. . Chief Justice Walter Clark, of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, of ficially representing the Governor of North Carolina, and J. O. Wood, pres ent owner of- the Hays plantation, from which the body was disinterred, made an address, delivering the body to the care of Major General Gobin, ex-commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, who appeared as the personal representative of the Gov ernor of Pennsylvania; L. H. Alex ander, representing the St. Andrews Society' of Philadelphia, and Burton Alvah Konkle. The address of Chief Justice Clark was followed by brief remarks by General Gobin 6n behalf of .Governor Pennypacker, of Pennsylvania, and the unveiling and dedication by Gen. eral Gobin of a cenotaph by those to whom the body had been 'delivered for reburial in Philadelphia. Maxton Gets the College. The Methodist school for eastern Caroling is to be located at Maxton. The committee of nine appointed by the-presiding elders of the Wilming ton, Rockingham and Fayetteville districts so decided on Tuesday. Max ton donates a site worth $2,500 and $15,000 cash, Fayetteville, Red Springs, Sanford and Hamlet, also bidders, sent large delegations and liberal offers, Two Men Killed in Wreck. Asheville, Special. The third sec tion of freight train No. 32, eastbound was derailed Tuesday night about one mile west of Old Fort. Conductor Wolfe and Brakeman West were kill ed, and Engineer Doherty was seri ously injured. Fifteen cars were badly smashed and the track torn up for a consider able distance. The train got beyond control and for ten miles it rushed down the steep mountain sploes. The speed had grown to seventy miles an hour before the final curve which brought the, disaster was reached. North State Brevities. The Anson Real Estate and In surance Company, at Wadesboro, was chartered by the State with a capi ttal stock of $50,000. On Tuesday night the spoke and handle factory belonging to Vicory and others, situated below east Dur ham was entirely destroyed by fire. The loss is about $6,000 witht $2,000 insurance. The , corpora tion commission reduces freight rate on apples, cabbage and various vegetables from points on the Southtern Railway in this State. This will' give rate ,25 per cent low er than now. The order is effectiva Dec. 1. The Norfolk & Western Railroad bridge connecting Morehead City and Beaufort, ic completed and on Wed nesday the first car with passengers arrived in Beaufort. The car was oc cupied by President F. S. Cannon, his family and a few invited friends. During: the year there have been 22 deaths at the Soldier's Home at Raleigh or. about one-sixth of , the number of inmates. , Thirty-seven applications, one from a woman, for license as pharmacists, have been filed before State board at Raleigh. Two are colored. On Tuesday the car of the United States fish commission was in Raleigh and brought several thousand black bass to be used in stocking ponds and streams in that section of the State, one of these being j a jpond recently established by a club composed of a number of prominent men near Mil burne on the Neuse rikrer, and some of the fish going to a ppnd on the es tate of Dr. . R. Rogers, between MU- 1 burne and Raleigh. DS, BRET QlSfflffl Quits His Church on Account of Heresy Trial STILL CLAIMS DEEP REVERENCE Refuses to Make Cowardly Retraction of Belief Which Induced Church to Terminate Hte Ministry In . Letter to Bishoy Walker He Says, "I am. Certain That You Will Be Glad to Acknowledge That I am Hot Com palled to Thia Action by Anything That Reflects Upon My Moral In . tegrity or Calls in ' Question My Faithfulness as a Pastor.' - Rochester, N. Y., Special. Bow ing to the will of the Church, but refusing to make a "cowardly retrac tion " of the belief which induced the Church to terminate his ministry, the Rev. Algernon S. Crapsey, rector of St. Andrews chureh, of Rochester, N. Y., renounced his ministry in the Protestant Episcopal Church . in a letter, to Pishop VYra. David Walker of the. Western Diocese of New York. In this letter the Rev. Mr. Crapsey, . re-aliimcd his belief that the "no tion of the origin of Jesus, that a son of man born without a human father, is without confirmation in history." He also asserts that "When I say of Jesus that he ascended to heaven, I do not mean and cannot mean that with his physical body of flesh, blood and bones, he floated into spa ee and has for. two thousand vears been ex isting somewhere in the sky, in that very physical body of flesh, blood aud bones. Such an existence would seem to me not glorious, but horrible.' r '.-. Declaring that he is about to car ry the case to the free intelligence and enlightened conscience of1 the world,' he counsels "Then hundreds of clergy and thousands of laymen in the Protestant Episcopal Churchy who have reached the same conclu sion" as he has, not to be dismayed and to 4tay where they are. ; . "I appeal," he .says, "from thoso in placqs of authority in the Church itself, to the great body of people.' He asserted that he does not blame his judges and though he bows to" their will and feels that it is final for' him, he says, i I am equally certain thai it is not final for the Church. When the great tribunal of fre thought has decided ; this contention, the men who administer the Church on earth will conform to this deci sion. Barricaded in a Mine; ' Linton, Ind., Special. W. A. Wat--son, a merchant of Midland, Ind., is dying, at a hospital, and Louis Shuley, an eged miner, who shot him is at bay in the Tower Hill mine at Mid land.- The shooting was the result of a trival puarrel during a game of cards. After shooting Watson,, Shuley went" to the home of his sister-in-law and forced her 4 to give him $5. Shuley then entered" the mine, . 200 feet deep, armed with a shot gun and plenty of ammunition. A party is guarding them ine. , Killed in Dispute Over Board Bill. Knoxville, . Tenn., Special. John Upton was shot and ihstafntly killed near Cumberland Gcp,HTenn., by' James Herrell. The two men had a dispute over a board'bilI which Herrell owed him. : Heyrell claims that Upton was holding him by the throat and threatening to kill him when he pulled his pistol and fired. The ball pierced Upton's heart. Her rell was jailed at Tazeweif, failing to give a five thousand dollar bond. - : Catholic Bishop Dead in Bed. ' Posn, Prussian Poland, By Cable. Manager Stabledeki, Roman Catho lic archbishop of Poseny who recently had been active in combatting . thet German government's order, to teach the children of Poland religion in the German tongue, was found dead in a chair in his study here. ' His death was caused by heart disease. - Virginia Supreme Court Declares 2 Cent Rata Illegal. 5 Richmond, Va., Special. In the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals Judge Cardwell handed down a de cision alTirming the decision of the State corporation commission, declar ing "the two-cent passenger rate act passed by the Virginia Legislatura contrary to the Fourt-fnth Amend ment of the Constitution of tha Unit ed States. The cas?e was a test one involving the requirements that the railroads place on sale 500-mile 2 cent rate books. H 1 'f 1 !! f . i