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N Editor and Owner. The Burke County News The Morganton Herald Consolidated November 29, 1901. Subscription Price $1 Per Year in Advance. MORGANTON, N. C, JANUARY 6, 1916, NO. 33 mBB, fisH LINER PERSIA TORPEDOED AND SUNK 3ft McNeely,;of North Carolina, U. S. j,sul at Aden On Board vFate6 Ship MORGANTON MAY NOW HAVE FINE NEW HOTEL. ill On Board Are Re j to Have Been Lost L of Submarine Not L-The Rescued Carried iexandria. Dispatch, 2nd. British Hner Persia with 160 s and a crew of 250: to 300 !kv an unidentified suhma- T o'clock Thursday afternoon 1 Island of Crete, m ttte east .fiterranean. Messages re r0m various sources ay that all on board were lofet. Rob , McNeely of Monrde, N.. C., Nortn Carolinian who was en route to Aden to serve as Consul, has given an unusual notoriety to this latest sea tragedy which is regarded as fraught with the most serious possibilities. The fate of McNecly is " awaited anxiously, not only by large numbers of friends and relatives in North Carolina, but by the State Depart ment, although its action in the mat ter will be very largely determined bv whether or not American lives were placed in wanton jeopardy. Suf ficient information upon which to act may not.bep laced before the De- Four toats are F from the of car- Congress Reopens BR1TISH steamship Consul at Aden, aim -h&has escaped, his testimony will 0f Boston, were oi the Imjg arded as of utmost worth. . Mejfefily -was in a most optimistic .e Ppria( virtually V- i ttt.-i. Ul -li crew re Lascars tn have got away ,.ssel. each capabl 3 persons, but it is riot known ioats were lull. i rescued were pickedj up by a r bound for Alexandria, where ;ere expected today, j v I -pone first-class passengers and pd cabin passengers, including "children, boarded the Persia ;e left London December 18 At Marseilles the vessel 231 including -87 women I All children. A nurtioer oi tne ers embarking (at London anded at Gibraltar, Marseilles Halta. Howeveif unofficial (fan out by the peninsular & Line, owners of the Persia hat after deducting the pas- leaving the ship at various arts of call, about 160 were when the vessel was sunk. . Ms of the Peninsular & Orien- e say. they have received no concerning the sinking of the and do not know whether she bbay. ap ! warning. . are also unable to give any iion concerning American cit- 13 the Persia effort is being made by Con- bral Robert P. Skinner, at to get 'some information iibert Neyr McNeely, Ameri- ul at A'den and two other hs known to be on the pas- ist. One of the latter is be- phave di sembarked at Gibra- British Admiralty informed pner it had no information sard tof the fate of the indi- passengjers. Mr. Skinner sent pam xp the American Consu- Alexyandria requesting the to aSff Aitnin Vio -Tof o vf Prm ;SeeVlr and the other Ameri- MCubp1v CQilo1 -firnm 'Wotw ,jr England on November 27, Kfolland-American liner Ryn- frame-of miefore leaving Wash ington on the?&gers of submarines. He remarked that- if the ship he in tended going on should be attacked, he would not be left in the water if there was anything around to float on. He told the Observer correspond ent he did not expect any trouble and that he believed the greatest danger of such attacks had passed. - -He was happy over his appoint ment as consul and looked forward to seeing the life along the Mediter ranean and in the old countries. His appointment had come after a long wait. He passed his examination in the fall of 1904 with an excellent grade. There was no suitable vacan cy at that time and he continued -in his law practice. Assistance was given him by Sen ators Ovrman and Simmons and Representative Page in getting ad mission to the school and in receiv ing his appointment which was made October 18, 1915. McNeely is widely known in North Carolina, being a student at the Uni versity of North Carolina from 1905 until he received his license in 1907 to practice law. The next year he was chosen a member of the House of Representatives from Union coun ty and subsequently he was called upon to ebcome Senator representing Union, Stanly and Davidson counties. In college he was recognized for his love of oratory and for his stu dious habits. He is 32 years of age. A photograph of McNeely is ap pearing on the front pages of the lo cal papers. Real Proposition Submitted Stock Being Subscribed. Our fellow townsman Geo. A. Mil ler, representing Longest & Tessier, architects and contractors of Greens boro, who in turn represent New York bonding interests, has submitted to the citizens of Morganton a prop osition for building a new hotel here which has met with , the approval of a committee of aTir citizens. Subscriptions to the amount of some ten or twelve thousand dollars to the stock of the proposed company were veiy quickly secured. It is ex pected that the taiar.co of the stock will be subscribed within the next two or three days. The proposition is about as follows: Mr. Miller rep resenting the interests above re ferred to proposes to furnish twenty thousand dollars of bond money; a lessee who will lease the hotel for ten ears at a rental of ten per cent, the hotel costing torty thousand dollars, twenty thousand dollars of which is to be subscribed locally. Mr. Miller's concern proposes to build and even furnish the hotel complete, at which time it will be turned over to the stockholders. The subscriptions are to be paid at intervals along during the process of building. It is proposed to have the hotel ready for occupancy within six months after the ground is broken. The whole matter representing the Morganton interest will be placed in the hands of a committee who will act for the stockholders. A site for the hotel will be chosen by the stockhold ers or their duly appointed committee after the twenty thousand dollars of stock money lias been subscribed. - De tails of the whole plan will be worked out to the satisfaction of both parties concerned and of course on a basis satisfactory to the lessee. IN MEDITERRANEAN. Little Accomplished First Day " Number of Bills Introduced Relating to War Attack On ne of the Largest Vessels Yet Mexican Policy Begun in Sen ate Wednesday Webb's Pro hibition Bill. Washington Dispatch, 4th. With the Senate in session hardly Sunk in That Quarter Over a Hundred Survivors and Few Lives Lost. The hotel building is toybe of abso lute fire proof construction containing not less than fifty rooms and with not less than half of them with bath Proper provision is also to be made to take care of the large tourist trade which is expected to come the way of Mor canton in the near future. Now let our citizens rise to the occasion. The Brookford cotton mill at Hick ory was sold yesterday and bought by A. D. Juliard & Co. of New York, the principal stockholders, for $302,450, the amount of the indebtedness. A baby boy, apparently but a few weeks old, was found on the steps of H. G. Lippard's home . at Woodleaf, Rowan county, Sunday night. No clue except a strange woman was seen in the neighborhood. . r London Dispatch,, 3rd. The British steamship Glengyle has 10 minutes and the House only a little been sunk. There are about one hun- more than two hours, Congress ac- dred survivors. complished comparatively little in its The Glengyle sailed from Shanghai first business day of the year today, for London November 25. She was and the expected attack' of the minor- last reported at Singapore on Decem- ity oh the Administration's foreign ber 6. Her route would take her thru Lawson and Thos. W. Davis policy did not develop. the kuez Canal and the Mediterran- Senator Fall, Republican, of New ean and it may be assumed that she Mexico, has ready a resolution call- was sunk in the Mediterranean, ing on. President Wilson to inform The Glengyle was one of the larg- he Senate to what Government it is est steamships . which have been sunk proposed to accredit Henry Pratcher since the activity of submarines in the M h divsion : struck Fletcher, Whose nomination as Am- meuitenaiieaii uecame piuiiuuiitcu. bassador to Mexico is.now before the Her gross tonnage was 9,395. She Senate. . ' was owned by the Glen Steamship This resolution will be introduced Line of Glasgow and was the largest omorrow and will very, probably be steamship of that line. made the vehicle of a general Repub- ine lengyie nas oeen m service ican attack, not on Mr. Fletcher, but only a comparatively short time, hav upon tne policy. Sne was &uu leet lon bZ leez Deam Among the hundreds of other bills and d4 leet deep, ner master was and discussions introduced in the captain weDsier. House todav were measures to extend the thanks of Congress to .Henrv GLEN ALPINE NEWS. Ford for his peace mission, to pre- The Wilmington Dispatch, after noon daily, has 'not ' passed into the hands of W. B. Cooper, as reported. It is taken over by a company com posed of James Owen Reilly, Wm. E. iwson and Thos. W. Davis. ) Engineer John J. Clark of Asheville was killed, Fireman C. Knox Christo pher of Asheville, was badly, injured and several passengers sustained mi nor injuries when train No. 17, on the a rock-slide near Barker's creek, about 52 miles from Asheville, Sunday morning at 11.30 o'clock. The engine was turned completely over and the baggage car derailed, the other cars remaining on the - track. Engineer Clark was rnncVif-. nnrl pr the p.ncine. He had Administration's Mexican mg oeen omit at jNewcasue m iw. on the road about 25 vears and was a popular railroad man. Governor Craig will spend next week in western Carolina with Ashe ville as headquarters visiting and per sonally inspecting the work being vent clearance from American ports Correspondence of The News-Herald, done by the State convicts in highway of ships carrying both passengers and Christmas - and New Year have construction in cooperation with local munitions of war, to establish a Uni- nast and we are at the beerinninff of a authorities. These include especially ted States commission for enduring new era in our lives. -Resolutions those squads of convicts working on peace which might act as inrmedi- have been made and hope those that the Hickory . Nut Gap link of the tn nslr nA ro Charlotte-A sheville hiehway: - the President Wilson for names of dis- be kept. Our little town has been auiet Ridgecrest end ot the Asneviiie loval neutralized citizens referred to and nothing so far has occurred to Ridgecrest highway and the Madison I . .... . .. in the President's last message to mar our neace. School resumed work county highway construction, .cacn Congress and to investigate the rise today and all seemed resolved with of these has separate contracts with in gasoline prices. All were referred increased interest and zest to make tne btate under. legislative enactments td committees. The Administration the balance of the session the best in lor working convicts from the btate s m -w its history. Old "Uncle Anthony ijorpening," an old landmark of the colored race, was found dead in his home. "Uncle An rural credits bill was introduced to day in the House and will be intro duced in the Senate tomorrow. Webb Introduces Prohibition Bill. Washington Dispatch, 4th. Representative Webb today intro duced his resolution calling for Na prison, mere are aooui; iou convicts assigned to these three camps. Governor Craig issued a strong .i4...4. .Aln4-i.Tr 4-s fha fx! Art ri thony" was supposed to be at his death Carolina situation in the matter ' of he applicaion of the new freight tariffs from Virginia and North Car- Organization of Patton School Students. s on his way to take his first r Post. Mr. Skinner advised f or the East by the Dutch oattle young man already had Passage on the Persia. Persia is the latest of several ,5 to be sunk by submarines in r course to the Suez Canal k e ' .rom Malta. On De r: e French liner Ville de f3 -vas sent to the bottom off of Crete by a submarine Wording to British unofficial f uotijau uag. Wvices hAvP hoon roncUmA in Yo as t the date on which rsa sailed if rom London. some tiilrie in advance of -ertised datfe of sailing-, which inuary 15. ThP I t0 Malta ordinarily requires V1id Was kiH- n 1QOO -ot V .1 4Ulib ill J-UUU CU 1. She has (been in the Bom- 'lce since thlat time. a0Unt of the darker from es the Mpd 'n abandon p-h Kir fV,Q Tonan Jfamship 'ompany, which is ? its ' tamsTiines nrnmiH e f Go( i Hope. Insurance , vessels parsing through the or four times McNeely Not Among Survivors Last Seen Struggling in Water Af ter Liner Sank. Washington Dispatch, 2nd. Advices to the State department today from American Consul General at Alexandria, Egypt, indicate that Robert N. McNeely, American consul at Aden, Arabia, who was on the steamer Persia when she was sunk in the Mediterranean, was lost. He was last seen in the water after the Persia sank. Consul Garrels reports that Charles H. Grant, of Boston, an other American aboard the Persia, was saved. No submarine was seen by survivors, according to Garrels' report but no officer of the Persia saw the wake of the., torpedo which struck the ship. She sank in five minutes. Brief mi. 1 'iw.ro figuifc. ely Had' No Fear of Sub- ""-S3. frn porresp'ondence, 1st, to Observer. resnce on the torpedoed 'Per ert McNeely, the young Sketch of the Life of Robert Ney McNeely. Monroe Special, 1st, to Charlotte Ob server. " Robert Ney McNeely, United States Consul to Aden Arabia, was born No- Ivmber 11, 1883, in Jackson township, She! near the historic settlement of Wax- haw. His brithplace is near that of Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United States. Ney McNeely was the son of W. R McNeely, one of the county's prominent citizens He was the third son of a family of 11, 10 sons and one daughter. He entered the State University in 1905, a year in the undergraduate department and a second in the Law School, obtaining his license in 1907. Mr. McNeely was in the Legislature in 1909 and he went tov&eJState Senate in 1915. ' He is a nephew of Rev. Georce Belk, the noted Presbyterian evangelist. Robert Ney McNeely practiced law six years in Monroe . after . leaving the State University and built, up an extensive practice. He rose rapidly in public favor and in 1908 was elec ted to. represent . this -county in the Legislature of 1909. In 1915 he went to the State Senate. He was appoint ed Consul October 18 last and assign ed to Aden. For several years there has been some talk of having a re-union of those who attended school under Rev. R. L. Patton during the many years of his teaching. Last Saturday night a number of his old students met in the Town Hall and organized with A. C. Kerley as temporary president and Miss Beatrice Cobb as temporary secretary. The first Monday of next August will be forty years from the day Mr. Patton opened his first school at Table -Rock. During his life he taught at Table Rock, the Globe, Booneville, Amherst, Glen Alpine M. F. and Morganton. All those who went to school to him at either place will be invited to attend a re-union which will be held in Morganton on the first Monday of next August. During these many years a large number of boys and girls from va rious sections of the State were his pupils "and it is desired that each one who sees this article send his name and address, and the names and ad dresses of all others whom he might know, to the president or secretary. So far as possible letters will be sent out later to every old student whose name and address can be found. It is hoped that hundreds will be able to attend this re-union and spend pleasant day and nignt. A program will be arranged that should be inter esting to all of them. The president has appointed the fol lowing committee to aid in working up the meeting: Rev. Hight C. Moore editor of the Biblican Recorder, Lu ther S. Cannon, Chief Clerk, Pension Bureau, Washington, D. C, A. T. Al len, superintendent of the Salisbury city schools, and at present vice-president of the North Carolina Teachers' Association, Frank Edmonson, Coun ty Superintendent of Schools, Avery county, Mrs. R. L. Moore, wife of President Moore of Mars Hill College, Mars Hill, N. C, and Mrs. W. H. Reddish, wife of Rev. Mr. Reddish, of the First Baptist church, Wades boro, N. C. in his 107th year. He was a familiar figurein our town, harmless, inoffen tional prohibition, and the act marked lsive d tilILe darky, and well liked olma points or origin into Southeast- formally the beginning of the fight W nis wmte ioiks. . ern territory, effective January 1st by around this subiect before Coneress. CaPt- John Leonard, of the South- d f inter-State Commerce With the introduction of a bill for pro- ern railway, has bought the Ed Sig, CommiSsibh over the protest of- the hibition in the District of Columbia is mon Property nere ano win maite im- North Carolina Corporation Commis expected to come immediate interest, provements. sion in which he declares that North since discussion of such a proposal ev. Mr. onerman, a native Aavent Carolina snippers are "getting : it in has created a concern in manv auar- preacner, lost nis nquse oy nre last th k m arid cominr and that ters of . the Capital, the groups which niSht- Mrs. Sherman, his wife, heard unpreCedented activity -and develop gather at lunch times, being engaged a Parrot screaming and it .awoke her ment leave not the ieast bit of excuse earnest r-nn si deration of what thev in time to get nersen ana ivir. oner- f increased freight rates at this " 1 x. HC OT A IJ I . ... our richts" in such matters. man qui. mrs. oaerumu uu t BrtVC time such as the new schedules are ' 1 . 1 il 1 ' M 1 IK . C tne . parrot put iauea as tne nre wa& f d to contain. The Governor, main J. J 1 rpl .....t .nc . ..... . . gYS KAISER HAS wu. .auvaiitcu. xiic panw " 00 tains that the iyi4 depression nas PAATPFP fll? THPHAT , W r. ? passed and that the business of the LAINCfcK Ut ltlKUAl. burned. The house and contents is nms has so increased that there an entire loss. Mr. bnerman lived on :c nn wnrmnt for the increase in erm Paris Newspaper, Despite De- what is known as the Lucy Happold freight rates. The rates also discrim- 1 11 TT TkT T . I 1 1 I U..1.4. i- . . . niais, Claims ne rso monger piace near nere, waving uuugui " mate against North Carolina points Can Speak. Paris Dispatch, 4th. The Martin affirms, notwithstand ing denials, that the German emperor is suffering from cancer of the throat1 and is no longer able to speak. "In February, 1911," according to New Jailer. the Martin, "the doctors were consid ering whether it was necessary to re- , ,1 i- fro,-,, jailer ior uie ruris.e turnip jan, at stay the progress of the disease. The , A j 4.1. 4-- c wv,Qv,Q v,l which time he and his family moved raised the question as to whether the A , , , . 1 to the lail. Former Jailer W. T. Aus- emperor would oe aoie to speaK 111. - ... . , such an operation was performed. in favor of Virginia cities. some few years ago. Mr. Sherman is a good citizen and this loss will be seriously felt by him. So far as is other Big Land Deals. Known mere was no insurance. - , JAP. Glen Alpine N. C, Jan. 4,-1916. Beginning with January 1st Mr. W. B. Faulkner assumed the duties - of tin and Mrs. Austin who have been living at the jail since the new build ing was erected, are now visiting rel atives and friends before going to Hartsville, S. C, where they will The leading specialists of every cap ital in Europe were consulted. It was learned that an eminent surgeon of . ' . , , . . make their home temporarily, and a breathing tube opened into the trachea, restored the power of speech to cancerous patients who had under gone total ablation of the affected or- Mr. H. M. Conley has sold his farm in Linville township to the Western Carolina Power Co. for $10,500, and Mr. I. N. McCall disposes of his two arms in that township to the same company for $14,000. Others selling their farms in Lin ville: Mrs. Mary Jarrett, $4,000; Charlie Gibbs, $7,500; A. H. Giles, $12,000; A. H. Conley, $10,000; E. P. Conley, $8,000. . Other big deals in Linville are ex pected within the next few days. Fight Pellegra in South At Once Washington Dispatch, 4th. Pellagra has become such a menace intthe South that Secretary McAdoo Mrs. Carl Larsen and little son, Carl, Jr.j accompanied by Master Junius Wall, returned December 22 to their home in Hoboken, N. J., after having spent several months with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Wall.. gans. "Thi?" doctor, whose name the Mar tin withholds for reasons of profess- t d asked congress for a rush ap ional etiquette, was asked to go to ri tion of gioo.OOO for sanitation Berlin by the German . ambassador. and heaith work in the South. Typhoid He was offered 100,400 f ranees and all f ever was jnciuded in the request. his expenses and was requested to bring with him a patient who had n.fh nf Mr T p Johnson. been fitted with the apparatus, so that the emperor himself might see if he Mr. T. P. Johnson, a prominent cit w&s able to speak. izen of northeastern Burke, died at "Meanwhile, as a result of a minor his home on Dec. 22nd, and was onefation with a bistoury and a few buried at Little Johns church on the r - . I , -r i ni f l-s nnsnlnte rest, the emoeror's zard. Mr. oonnson was x years ui condition improved as is often the age and leaves a widow and five chil i T,io disuse the nrocress of dren. He was a brother of Mr. Stan- vao in w - " x - I xvhich is implacable but slow. It is hope Johnson, of Morganton n n r liber oneraton of this kind which has iust been performed. But it is Miss Carrie Goforth, of Lenoir only palliative. The German emperor Miss Eloise Sparger, of MU Airy, and must either make up his mind to com- Miss Nancy Stacy, of Troy, were the plete removal of ' the larynx or be guests, during, the holidays of Miss .h'flhv "the growth. , Sadie Patton. Miss Patton enter- "This explains why the emporor tained in their honor Friday night a ent neither to-:Warsaw, Constantin- large numoer oi tne young peupie v w ople nor Brussels.' Morganton. Pretty Calendars. The News-Herald is indebted to the First National Bank of Morganton the Bank of Morganton, Dr. W. A. Leslie, Clinchfield Coal Co., Alpha Photo Engraving Co., Bingham Bros;, roller makers, and the Mutual Benev olent Association of Durham for pret ty calendars; of 1916. They are all in deed works or art. Miss Margaret Newland and her guest during the holidays, Miss Lessie Lemons,' of San Angelo, Texas, have returned to Salem Academy to school. While here Miss Lemons was the recipient of much social attention. One of the most elaborate of the af fairs given in her. honor was a dance last Wednesday night by Mrs. Eck Abernethy. Mrs. Joe Simpson and children, of Tuxedo, spent Christmas with Mrs. Simpson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Ward. They were accompanied home by Miss Lula Ward,' for a few days' Miss Julia Albea, of Efland, is vis iting Miss Lillie Morris.
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