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PRONOUNCED WEAKNESS SHOWN
BY THE CHIEF SPECULATIVE
MARKET8.
INDUSTRIAL SHARES DROP
Cotton Lost Nearly Two Cent* and
Wheat Reacted Approximately
Four Cents. *
New York. ? With' production still
holding at high levels, itnerest in
financial and business circles center
ed during the past week in the rather
pronounced weakness shown by the
chief speculative markets.
The average of industrial shares
listed on the New York stock ex
change declined four points., cotton
lost nearly two cents and wheat react.
?d approximately four cents. Among
other commodities which show a ten
dency to decline were copper, lead,
rubber and sugar. Meanwhile publica
tions of the prices indicates compiled
by Dun and Bradstreet brought out
the point that the movement was a
continuation of the heavier tendency
in prices which became evident ic
April.
Diverse explanations were offered
for the declines and various interpre
tations were placed on their signifi
cance. In some quarters it was held
that the reactions were a natural ac
companiment of the slackening of the
buying movements which have been
so strongly maintained during the ear
ly spring. . According to this view
business seldom continues in a steady
stream, but comes rather in waves
One such wave admittedly has?ended
and a new one would not be expected
to start immediately. Those who ex
plain the situation in this fashion alsc
point out that the season of the yeai
is at hand at which buying naturally
would slacken.
Another group of observers main
tain, however, that other forces ar<
at work. They' point to what they de
scribe and claim that the output ol
labor is now diminishing. Productior
costs they aver are being inflated
In spite of this view conditions ir
the cotton industry are cited. Manu
facturers are reported to* have acquir
ed substantial stocks of cotton at the
30-cent level in addition they have
since be enforced to increase wages
Jobbers and retailers meanwhile, ar?
not confident of their ability to com
mand higher prices and their buyinp
has fallen off. Under these circum
stances the manufacturers are reduc
ing their rate of operation and are
buying less cotton which naturally af
fects the price of comomdity. With
the latter some three of four cents be
low the price at which manufacturer?
are carrying their inventories the
question of profits, is of course, very
much to the fore.
Sioux Nation Wants Big Sum.
Washington. ? A gavel in the hands
of a judge has been substituted for a
tomahawk in the hands of a brave by
the great Sioux nation in its fight to
recover about $750,000,000 from the
federal government as payment with
interest for lands and property taken
from them by the pale-face years ago.
Of this total demand more than half
billion dollars represents Interest.
The suit of the Sioux,, said to in
volve the largest sum ever sought
through judicial action, will be filed
in the United States court of claims,
counsel announced and will specify
40 spearate counts.
The claim dates ..back to the days
of the gold rush in the Black Hills
of South Dakota, the Deadwood coach,
Sitting Bull. General Custer, the Little
Big Horn, Old Fort Laramie, Wound
* ed Knee, Red Cloud, Spotted Tail,
Chief Gaul, the White River train, and
other historic persons and points pf
interest.
The Sioux contended that the Unit
ed States has left undone many things
provided for in the treaties of 1851
and 1868, that millions of acres of
their tribal lands were taken from
them, their game slaughtered and their
ponies and tepees seized and their
funds spent improperly by the gov
ernment. They demand $156,000,000
and interest for the "Black Hills and
surrounding territory, charging that
the United States, aware o fthat area's
wealth In gold, connived in its sizure
by armed force in 1S74 and 1875.
Killed By Heavily Charged Wire.
Raleigh. ? Ben Ellis. 9-year-old son
! of W. J. Ellis was instantly killed
when' he touched ? a heavily charged
electric power line at the State school
for the blind that h2d been broken by
blasting operations at the school.
Greatest Women Named.
Washington? Here are the 12 great
est living American women in the
opinion of a special committee of the
National League of Women Voters,
which was appointed to select such a
list Jane Addams. philanthropist; Ce
cilia Beaux, painter; Carrie Chapman
Catt, politics; Anna Botsfbrd Corn
stock, natural history; Minnie Mad
dern Fisk. stage; Louise Homer, mu
sic; Julit Lathrop, child welfare; Flor
ence Sabin, anatomy; M. Carry Thom
as, education; Martha Van Ressellaer.
home economics.
CONDENSED NEWS FROM
THE OLD NORTH STATE
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SHORT NOT IS OF' INTEREST TO
CAROLINIANS.
"Aghevllle ? The western North Car
olina Log Rolling Association has
concluded its 21st semi-annual con
vention at Brevard after voting to
meet next at Waynesville.
Marshville.? Thieves entered the
grocery store of Little brothers here
and stole the safe from the room,
took it into a back lot and hammered
the door open, securing about $135
in cash. Several checks in the draw
er were not bothered.
Greensboro. ? An. investigation of
the Guilford convict system is sched
uled to be made by the county Wel
fare board, and has the endorsement
of J. A. (Rankin, chairman of the
country board of commissioners.
Asheville.? The Sutherland Con
struction Company, of St. Louis, w^s
awarded the general contract, for the
erection of the George Vanderkilt Ho
tel, at a meeting of the building com
mittee members with a bid of approx
imately $600,000.
Newton. ? Mayor Sid J. Smyre is
boasting of being the premier tomato
grower this* year. He picked ripe to
matoes -in his garden Saturday. 4 The
plants were grown in pots in his
basement during the winter and set
out in the open with the coming of
the first warm days. The young fruit
kept right on growing and are now
ripening.
Ashevile. ? A marker placed on the
courthouse green in memory of CoL
Edward Buncombe, fof whom this
county was named, will be unveiled
May 19 with appropriate ceremonies
in charge of the Edward Buncombe'
chapter of the Daughters of the
American Revolution.
Greensboro ? David Faulkner, aged
105, died at the Guilford county
home, his death due to the infimatieS
of old age. He was born in Frank
lin county. 10 m^es from Louisburg
in 1818 and spent a considerable part
of his life in Franklin, later moving
to Randolph county.
Durham1 ? Plans whereby Durham
will get a new $1,038,000 hotel, a
new municipal building and a large
addition to the city high school build
ing were 3et under way here when a
committee representing the aldermen
made public a report on the proposed
improvement.
Burlington.? Burlington is still in
the midst of an epidemic of' measles.
For several weeks the disease has
been prevalent among the school
children and many grown people have
been attacked by the malady. For
the past week about one-fourth the
enrollment of the city graded schools
has been absent on account of the
epidemic which is widespread in the
city.
Asheville.? The official christening
bt the new automobile bus line be
tween Asheville and Charlotte was
marked by a visit to Asheville by
Secretary Clarence O. Kuester. of the
Charlotte Chamber of Commerce;
Colonel Wade H. Harris and other
Charlotte residents, who were met
half way and welcomed to Asheville
by a party headed by Mayor Elect
John H. Cathey.
Wake Forest ?That a college with
out a freshman class is as singular
as an army without anyv second lieu
tenants is one of the common re
marks heard on the campus of Wake
Forest College. Such, however, was
made a reality when President Ward,
of the student body, in chapel an
nounced to the freshman class that
beginning with the first of May, their
freshness would be taken for sopho
morical privileges, and that the wear
ing of freshman caps was at an end.
Wallace. ? Strawberry growers of
Wallace section are receiving record
prices for their fruits, prices being
from $12 to $15 per crate.
Kinston ? Fire which destroyed one
or more buildings on .the farm of
David Stroud, near Pink Hill, was
believed to have been of incendiary
origin, according to reports to the
sheriff's office.
St. Paul. ? An alligator about nine
feet in length was found in a pond
about one and one-half miles from
St. Pauls, by Ruffian Powers and Al
bert Inman, who were fishing at the
old Opie Odom mill.
Greensboro. ? The board of exam
iner! for trained nurses will hold
their examinations in Raleigh May
24, 25, 26. Nurses desiring license
will aply to Mrs. Dorothy Hayden,
Greensboro, and have all blanks in
by May 15.
Cerro G<Jrdo. ? The effect of a labor
shortage is felt in many industries in
western t Columbus county at this
time. Much negro labor having left
the county for higher wages in the
North having crippled many indus
tries from a labor standpoint.
Monroe. ? An anonymous letter re
ceived by Sheriff Fowler led to the
arrest 1 of Walter Morgan, ttvtng on
Drake Starnes* pla<|p in Buford town
ship, on a charge of terrorizing his
family and of having ruined his own
daughter. Morgan admitted his guilt
?and was placed in jail to await his
vrial before the recorder.
Greensboro. ? The mercantile estab
lishment of the J. ST. Knight ' Com
panyoof Stokesdale, Guilford county,
was burglarized, the robbers getting
about $2,000 worth of loot in the
shape of silk sbirts, silk dress good!
and shoes.
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