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VOL. XXII. GOLDSBORO, C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER, 5, 1907. NO. 51
BIG NEWSPA
PERS BURNED.
TELEGRAPHSG
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The
Louisville Courier and Even
ing TIMES Lose Heavily.
flants Irreparably Damaged By
Midnight Blaze. Loss Two Hun
dred Thousand Dollars.
Special to the Akous.
Ixmisville, Ky., Aug. 30. The big
rolants of the Courier Journal and the
Evening Times of this city, suffered
almost irreparable damage by fire
shortly after midnight this morning.
The flames spread with unusual rap
idity and the third floor of the five
story structure fell, rendering the big
building utterly at the mercy of the
flames, with no possibility of removing ings to the extent of $100,000, besides
Hot From the Wires
World Over.
(Special to the Argus.)
Raleigh, Aug. 31. Judge Montgom
ery, E. J. Justice, Commissioner Mc
Neill and Secy. H.C.Brown, and others,
who have been in Washington for the
Southern rate hearing, returned to Ra
leigh today to spend Sunday.
New York, Aug. 31. Mr. Theodore
Cooper, consulting engineer in the con
struction of the great bridge over the
St. Lawrence river, states that if a lel-
egram which he sent had been received
and posted, the 'lives of the men who
were killed in the catastrophe wonld
have been saved. He ordered all work
men off of the bridge, but the telegram
was miscarried.
Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 29. A heavy
rain and wind storm today swept this
section, damaging the State fair build-
ENORMOUS
BRIDGE
COLLAPSES
Eighty-Four Lives Ate Lost and Millions of Dol
lars Sink In the Ruins of Structure.
property.
The fire started in the north end of
the building, at the top of the elevator
shaft, supposed to have been caused by
defective insulation of electric light
wires.
The loss is estimated at $200,000.
MORGAN NOT BROKE.
The Great Financier and Mul
timillionaire Makes Things
in Wall Street.
Lively
He Invests Thirty Millions in Metropoli
tan Bonds and Will Make Ryan and
Belmont Skidoo Under Re
organization. (By special wire to The Aeous.)
New York, Aug. 30. J. P. Morgan
fa as stepped into the arena as a new
traction kine. dethroning Ryan and
Belmont.
The great banker, according to the
reoort eurrent in the best circles of
Wall Street, has purchased $30,000,000
par of Metropolitan's bonds, and will
undertake the re-organization of the
local traction trust.
His purchase of bonds has relieved
at least one big banking house from
desperate trouble.
Morgan gets these bonds at 50 per
cent., which were originally issued in
exchange for Interborough Rapid
Transit stock at the rate of two for one,
and Morgan gets equivelant Interbo
rough Rapid Transit stocks at par.
It is now paying nine per cent, and
lis earning much more.
destroying much other property.
Knahespues' air ship and captive
balloon were destroyed by a live wire
being blown against them today.
Rochester, N. Y., Aug. 29. A fire
which started in the Cox Building this
morning, destroyed a number a build
ings and caused thousands of dollars
in loss.
Xenoria, Ont., Aug. 29 A prema
ture explosion of blasting powder to
day on Grand Trunk Pacific encamp
ment, at Canyon Lake, blew to pieces
Daniel Flynn and three assistants, the
latter being Italians.
Omaha, Neb., Aug. 31. Close per
sonal friends of W. J. Bryan here and
at Lincoln, brand as utterly false, the
story in a Philadelphia paper yester
day that Bryan would not be a candL
date for the presidentai nomination,
because leaders of the party do not
I want him to be nominated. Mr. Bryan
is in Iowa and cannot be reached.
New York, Aug. 31. Mrs. Stanford
White, who returned trom Europe to
day, denies emphatically the report
that she is to wed McKim. The rumor,
Catastrophe Occurred Just as the Build
ers Were Quitting Work For the Day:
Bridge was Building for Seven Years
and was to be Completed in 1909 at
a Cost of Ten Million Dollars.
(Special to The Argus.)
Quebec, Aug. 30. The great Quebec
bridge collapsed late yesterday after-
noon and now the vast mnls of steel
work lies a tangled wreck across the
St. Lawrence channel. A careful esti
mate places the loss of lite at eighty-
four. The bridge fell at exactly twenty-
three minutes to six o'clock, just as
many of the workmen were preparing
to leave. The accident was so terrible
n its effeetiveness that very little is
known as to the cause of the disaster,
The bridge was about a mile ana a
half in length and half of it, from the
south shore to mid-stream, crumbled
up and dropped into the water. Ninety
men were at work on this section of the
structure, and the whistle had just
blown at 5-30 for the men to quit work
for the day when there came a grind
ing sound from the bridge mid-stream.
The men turned to see what had hap
pened and an instant later the cry went
up: "The bridge is falling."
The men made a rush shoreward but
the distance was too great for them to
reach safety. The fallen section of the
bridge dragged others after. The snap
ping girders and cables boomed like a
she says, is absurd
bad light.
and places her in a
New York, Aug. 31. Charles "Ver-
rall, acting superintendent of the Me
tropolitan Museum of Art, shot and
killed a burglar today, alter the bur
glar had made two separate attempts
to smother Verrall's entire household
by turning on the gas, Verrall's baby
awoke and cried for milk, and its cries
awoke the family in time to save their
lives. Verrall was arraigned and dis
charged in iarlem Court. , tie was
complimented on his good marksman
ship.
ELECTION OF TEACHERS
OLNEY RETAINED.
.He will Represent Striking Tele
graphers in State and Federal
Courts.
(Special to the Argus.)
New York, Aug. 29 Announcement
is expected today from Boston that
. Richard Onley, former secretary of
State, has been engaged to carry the
fight of the striking telegraphers
. against Western Union and Postal in
to the state and federal courts.
At midnight last night, before leav
. in Boston for Norfolk, President
Gompers had a long conference with
Mr. Olney, but neither Oompers nor
' Olney would discuss the nature of their
plans.
UNCLE SAM AND
STANDARD UIL
" The Government's Case To Be Re
sumed Tuesday.
Special to The Argus.
New York, Aug. 30. Frank Kellogg,
. counsel tor the Inter-State Commission
in its investigation of the Standard Oil,
. Is busy making preparations for the
hearing of the suit of the Government
against this company, which will be re
sumed here next Tuesday.
Asked about the rumor that he is to
j succeed Attorney-General Bonaparte,
Mr. Kellogg said that there is no foun-
dation in fact for such a rumor.
For Schools of Wayne County for the
Term Beginning Nov. 4,1907.
The school committees of the differ
ent townships will elect teachers for
their schools on the following dates:
Fork township, Sept. 13. Apply to
J. W. Hose, Goldsboro, Route No. 1.
Brogden township, Sept. 18. Apply
to U. G. Moore, Genoa.
Grantham township, Sept. 21. Apply
to T. I. Sutton, Goldsboro, Route No. 4
Buck Swamp township, Sept. 28. Ap
ply to E. S. Dees, Pikevilie, Route No
2.
Saulston township, Sept. 30. Apply
to Elder J. F. Hill, LaGrange, Route
No. 2.
Great Swamp township, Oct. 5. Ap
ply to J. M. Holland, Pinkney.
Indian Spriags, Oct. 5. Apply to C
F. Herring, Seven Springs, Route No. 2,
Nahunta township, Oct. 14. Apply
to J. D. Davis, Fremont.
New Hope township, Oct. 14. Apply
to Robt. Ivey, LaGrange, Route No.
Pikevilie township, Oct. 19. Apply
to Alex- Taylor, Pikevilie, Route No.l
Stoney Creek township, Oct. 19. Ap
ply to M, T. Best, Goldsboro.
For further information address the
committees, or the county superintend'
ent of schools.
E. T. Atkinson,
Co. Supt. of Schools
Eighteen Hen Drown.
(By Special Wire to the Argus.)
Grovelines, France, Aug. 30. The
French schooner Violette, with eigh
teen men on board, sank in the Eng
lish Channel this morning.
None were saved. Details of the ac
cident are not obtainable.
craah of artillery. Terror lent fleet-
ness to the feet of the frightened work
men as they sped shoreward, but only
a few of them reached safety before the
last piece of iron work on the south
shore was dragged into the river.
Near the shore the wreckage of the
bridge did not go below the surface of
the water and eight workmen who re
mained above water were rescued and
taken to the hospital at Levis.
The steamer Glenmont had just
cleared the bridge when the fisst sec
tion fell. The water thrown up by the
debris went clear over the bridge of the
steamer. The captain at once lowered
boats. The small boats plied backward
and forward over the sunken wreckage
for half an hour, but there was no sign
of life. The twisted iron and steel had
its victims in a terrible death grip. A
few floating timbers and the broken
stands of the bridge toward the north
shore were the only signs that anything
unusual had happened. There was not
a ripple on the smooth surface of the
St. Lawrence as it swept along toward
the gulf.
All the men drowned were employes
of the Phoenixville Bridge Company
and sub-contractors of Quebec and
Montreal.
The Quebec bridge was begun about
seven years ago and it was to be fin
ished in 1909. . Subsidies had been
granted by the Federal and Provincial
governments and the city of Quebec
and the estimated cost of the work was
$10,000,000. The Phoenixville Bridge
Company, of Pennsylvania, had the
contract for the construction of the
bridge and were working from both
sides of the river.
GREATER GOLDSBORO
$300,000,000 Loon To Be
Asked For Waterways
Improvement.
he Industrial World Is Now Striving
to Secure at Great Cost of
Wealth and Labor What
Goldsboro By Fortu
itous Location Now
Has Close at
Hand.
TODAYS' PARDONS.
Governor Exercises Executive Prerogative
and Likewise Refuses to Exercise It.
(By Special Wire to the Argus.)
Raleigh, Aug. 30. His Excellency
Governor Glenn today pardoned one
Carroll Harris, convicted at Wilson
court in 1907, and sentenced to fifteen
years for manslaughter. The Governor
says he became satisfied that Harris
was the dupe of an older criminal, and,
that the judge who sentenced him now
says the length ot the sentence was excessive.
The Governor likewise pardoned J.
F. Barnes and James Williams, con
victed in Rowan county of highway
robbery in 1906, and given five years
on the roads. It turns out that the
prosecuting witness is himself a fugi
tive from justice and a bad man, and
there is little doubt that the defend
ants are innocent.
His Excellency refused pardons for
Mary and Hattie Lipp, of Ashe county
for keeping disorderly house; to Bob
Cables, of Forsythe, for larceny, and to
Madison Watt, of Guilford, for murder
in the second degree.
NEWS FORECAST OF
THE COMING WEEK.
MANSFIELD NO MORE.
Great Actor Falls On Sleep That Knows
No Awakening.
Special to The Argus.
New London, Conn., Aug. 30. Rich
ard Mansfield, the great actor, died to
day, at his summer home just outside
this city.
Although broken in health for many
months, so sudden an end was not ex
pected. Mr. Mansfield began to sink rapidly
last night, and early today passed
away, with his wife and his brother
Felix at his bedside.
He was the greatest living actor, and
his fame was world wide. He has no
immediate successor, and theater pat
rons everywhere twill sincerely mourn
his death.
No arrangements have yet been made
for the funeral but it will in all pro
bability be held from his New York
home, and the interment be made
there.
Happenings of Interest The World Over-
Gleaned Variously to Suit a Various-minded
Public.
(Special wire to the Argus.)
Washington, D. C, Aug. 31. The
day which Labor takes unto herself as
a national holiday also marks the end
of the vacatiou season and the resump
tion of activity after the usual dullness
of the dog-days. Though the President
will tarry at Oyster Bay a short time
longer the coming week will find the
most of his chief aides returning to
Washington prepared to work. Post
master General Meyer and Secretaries
Straus, Cortelyou and Bonaparte are
expected at their desks, and Secretary
Metcalf is to leave the Pacific coast
some time during the week on his re
turn to Washington. The condition of
the health of Secretary Root will force
him to remain away yet awhile; and
Secretary Taft will pass the greate
part of the week in Yellowstone Park
before resuming his westward journey
The first testimony in the Govern
ment's St. Louis suit to dissolve the
Standard Oil Company and kindred
conpanies, on the ground that they
constitute a trust, will betaken in New
York city next Tuesday.
Nebraska is to hold its first direct
primary election Tuesday. The offices
to be filled are those of judge of the Su
nreme Court, railway commissioner
and regents ot the State University.
Buffalo will dedicate a monument to
the late President McKlnley on Thurs
day and on the same day a bronze tab
let commemorating the signing of the
peace treaty between Russia and Japan
will be unyeiled at Portsmouth, N. H
September is a month of State fairs
and conventions. During the week th
annual State fairs will be in progress
in Michigan, Minnesota and Ohio. The
important conventions to be held dur
ing the week include those of the Na
tional Irrigation Congress at Sacra
mento, the Fraternal Order of Eagles
at the Jamestown Exposition, the Na
tional Association of Letter Carriers at
Canton, Ohio, the National Firemen
Association at Oklahoma City, and the
meeting of the executive committee of
the Southern Cotton Association
Jackson, Miss.
A member of the Astor family is
willing, strange to say, to beicontent to
govern the country four years. He is
willing to forego the privilege of own
ing it.
The New York Times picks Judge
Harmon as the Democratic candidate.
But the question is, will he retsore
harmony.
Apropos of what the Argus has had
already to say about Goldsboro's sup
erbly advantageous contiguity to the
sea and to the Atlantic's best harbor
at the Capes" we give our readers
the following extracts, in point, from
a page articls in this weeks' issue of the
Baltimore Manufacturers' Record,
written from New Orleans, which ex
plains itself the purpose for jwhich we
publish it:
New Orleans, La., August 23. A del
egation at least 100 stroDg will go from
New Orleans to attend the deep water
way convention at Memphis on October
4, while many towns in Louisiana and
Mississippi have announced intention
of sending smaller delegations. John
M. Parker, Louisiana member of the
board of governors of the Lakes to the
Gulf Deep Waterway Association, the
organization under whose auspices the
convention will be held, authorizes the
following statement as showing the at
tiude of the people of the lower Missis
sippi valley:
"Relatively, we are just as much in
terested in the improvement of the
Ohio, Missouri, Red, Arkansas, White
and Tennessee rivers as we are in the
digging of the Chicago ship canal to
connect the great lakes and the Missis
sippi river. Our idea is to work in the
interest ot the general plan to secure
internal waterway improvements on
the biggest practical scale. Once a deep
channel shall have been secured be
tween the lakes and the Mississippi
river an impetus will be given the gen
eral plan that will prove very difficult
to sidetrack in the event any enmity
should develep in Congress later on
The cheapest of freight transportttion
is that carried on by water. Our rivers
are public property. The Government
collects neither toll nor tax for the use
of them. Now we want the Govern
ment to improve these rivers in order
that we may transport our freight and
farm products in logical directions free
from the inconveniences, delays and
excessive costs imposed by a railroad
system which cannot keep pace with
the rapidly-increasing requirements o
commerce.
"The Memphis convention, wkich
will be attended by President Roose
velt, the Inland Waterway Commis
sion, some 20 State Governors and
about 3000 delegates, will decide upon
a definite policy and a definite plan ot
action."
"Pittsburg will ship her coal, iron
and steel products down an improved
Ohio to tidewater in the Gulf, and Kan
sas beef will find easy steamboat trans
nortation to its world markets. Boat
lines will pick up. Arkansas cotton
lrom points now inaccessible.
"The relative maximum efficiency of
railroad transportation has, in the
opinion of careful students of the situ
ation, been reached, and railroad engi
neers now claim that more than $5
000,000,000 in cash would be required
to give the railroads the facilities
needed to handle in an efficient man
ner the nation's increasing commerce
Three hundred million dollars spent
on waterway improvement in the Mis
sissippi valley would permanently re
lieve the congestion in some 40 of the
richest and most prosperous States in
the Union, and at the same time open
new channels of trade to an extent not
dreamed of.
'The total cost of the waterway im
provements, aocorling to the j-.
formed authorities, will be only '! jt-r
cent, of the a.uount required to m ike
the now urgently needed railroad im
provements. We are going to ask the
Government for the ti per cent., with
the hope of minimizing the demands
the railroads are making and will
have to make, in case the 5,000,000,
000 are expended by them, from the
public in the shape of transportation
profits for interest and dividend pur
poses.
'In either case the public pays the
piper. If we improve our waterways,
and the Government issues a loan of
$300,000,000 for that purpose, the pub
lic, through the Washington Treasury,
will pay, say, 3 per cent, interest an
nually, amounting to $9,000,000.
Should we not relieve the situation by
waterway improvement, and the rail
roads come to the rescue by spending
5,000,000,000, the people will pay into
the pockets of the bondholders annual
interest of, say, 5 per cent., amounting:
to 3250,000,000, or a yearly sum almost
equal to the total amount needed for
waterway improvement, besides other
huge amounts required for sinking
funds, maintenance, speculation, etc.
'Broadly speaking, this is the big
issue involved. We are going to Mem
phis in October for the purpose of
talking these matters over and map
ping out a plan of action to put the
$300,000,000 project into practical
shape.
Scrofula
Few are entirely free from it.
It may develop so slowly as to cause
little if any disturbance daring the whole
period of childhood.
It may then produce dyspepsia, ca
tarrh, and marked tendency to con'
sumption, before causing eruptions
sores or swellings.
To get entirely rid of it take the great
blood-purifier,
Hood's Sarsaparilla
In usual liquid form or in chocolated tablets
known as Sarsatabs. 100 doses $1.
BEE'S LAXATIVE HONEY and TAR
RELIEVES COUGHS AND COL.OA
BRYAN OUT OF IT.
He Will Neither Seek Nor Accept the
Nomination for President.
(Special to the Argus,)
Philadelphia, Aug. 29. The Record
says today, that Win. J. Bryan will not
be a candidate for the presidency.
This information comes direct from
the distinguished Nebraskan himself,
says the Record, to a well known Democrat.
Though the people may want him, he
will not seek nor accept the nomina
tion.
This is his final decision after mature
consideration.
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INSTANT RELIEF AND
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"I had been troubled more or less
for five years with eczema, but no
seriously until two
years ago. Then my
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open, hard scabs
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face, and at such,
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than I can explain.
'I had employed sev
eral doctors, but re
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than six months and have used Cuti
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case was complete, and the cost was
nothing conapared with the doctors
bills. The Cuticura Remedies are a
godsend to any one. John B. Moore.
Chester, Vt., Jan. 6 and March 6, 1907.'
DANDRUFF
Lasted Twenty Years, Cured by
Cuticura Remedies.
For twenty years I had dandruff of
the worst kind. I had tried doctors and
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it. I saw Cuticura Remedies advertised
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The first treatment stopped my head
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vent and two boxes of Cuticura Oint
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now I am completely cured. A. A.
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Dec. 24, 1906."
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