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LOCAL NEWS IHFDRlfiF
TWO REVE1I0E OFFICERS SHOT
HORTH CAR0LI1IIA1I KILLED
HlDlGfUEIlTS ABB BXPECTED THEY BOOLD iffiiBECOGniZED
Af COiiFfeREHGE OF UEutRAK
HATTERS OF INTEREST to j?HB
BISADBRS OP THE "PATRIOT
FAR ANP NEAR, V
SlOUNTAIN BliOCKADERSt FIRE
TWO1 TAR HEEL, SOLDIERS SHOT
PXACED FOR RAILROAD
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TEACHERS WANT LAW . PASSED
WOMEN PEACTC ADVOCATES CAI
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tjPON DEPUTIES AFTER
StJCCESSFUIi RAID.
IN FIGHT WITH MEXICAN
TROOPERS FRIDAY.
CK IN SALISBURY LAST
GIVING THEM DIGNITY
OF A PROFESSION. .
ONPREE AmBIAKE :
PERSONAL APPEAli.
DNESDAY NIGHT.
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Blood Poison. Dr. W. J. M54dows
jS suffering from a severe case of
fclood poisoning in one of his hands
and is a patient at St. "Leo's hospital.
Two Sermons. -Rev. S. M. Rankin,
of this city, preached in the Jjafheran
thurch at Gibsonville yesterday
morning and at Whitsett Institute
last evening. -
Hackney-Vaughn. Mr. Daniel
Hackney and Miss Ella aiighn were
married Thursday afternoon at the
proximity Baptist parsonage. RevJ
r. R. Gordon was the officiating min
ister. Coming Home. Mr. J. A. David
son, who has been in a hospital in
Baltimore several weeks for treat
ment, continues to improve. He has
been walking around for the past
week and expects to return home in
a few days.
Negro Teachers Meet The colored
teachers of the county held a meet
ing Saturday in the court house an
nex. Reports submitted showed that
368 adult illiterates of the race are
enrolled in moonlight schools of the
county outside of Greensboro.
Federal Conrt. The December
term of United States District court
will convene here next Monday,
thought it is not expected tnat any
cases will be called before Tuesday.
The term will be one of the most im
portant held here in some time.
Correspondents The Patriot wants
an intelligent and reliable person in
every community in the territory
covered by the paper to serve us as
correspondent. If we haven't a good
correspondent in your neighborhood
and you are willing to take up the
work, let us hear from you.
Glass-Hooks Marriage. Mr. John
H. Glass, of this city, and Miss Daisy
Barnhardt Hooks, of Wadesboro,
were married Thursday evening at 7
o'clock. The ceremony took place at
the parsonage of the Asheboro Street
Friends church and was performed by
Rev. F. E. Smith, the pastor.
Barbecue and Hunt. A number of
Greensboro men were guests at a big
rabbit hunt and barbecue at Mr. J.
B. Cobb's place, on the High Point
road, Saturday. The occasion was a
most enjoyable one in every particu
lar. Deputy Sheriff John Weatherly
prepared and served the barbecue.
Takes New Work. Rev. D. C. Cox.
pastor of the Burlington Reformed
church, and who is weli known to
man v readers of The Patriot in Guil
ford and Alamance, ha3 accepted a
call to the pastorate of the Emman
uel charge, in Davidson county. The
work has three churches Zion, Cal
vary and Emmanuel. Mr Cox will
make his home in Thoma&ville.
Blue-Way. Mr. Jack Blue and
Miss Mamie Way, both of this city,
ere married in High Point Thursday
afternoon, the ceremony being per
formed by Rev. A. W. Claxon. The
bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
J. H. Way, who reside on West Lee
street. Mr. Blue is a native of Mas
sachusetts and has made his home in
this city for the past 18 months.
Improved Milk. Dr. W. A. Hor
naday, the meat and milk inspector,
Saturday filed with the city commis
sioners a report of an examination he
had just completed of the Greensboro
dairies. The report shows a steady
improvement in the quality of the
milk being sold in the city. The re
port covers 18 dairies selling sweet
milk and two that sell buttermilk.
Gen. Greene's Portrait. A splen
did portrait of Gen. Nathanael
Greene, painted by Miss Isabella
Greene, a descendant of the Revolu
tionary general, will be presented to
the Greensboro library in a few days.
fne portrait is now on display at the
Art Shop, and has been placed in a
splendid frame. General Greene was
the hero of the battle of Guilford
Court House and for him Greensboro
was named. The portrait was made
from what is considered an excellent
Picture of the general.
Resigns Pastorate. Rev. J. E.
Saenk yesterday resigned the pastor
ate of the First Lutheran church of
tkis city, feeling forced to take this
step on account of continued ill
health. He has been confined to his
home by illness for several weeks
and was unable to appear before his
congregation yesterday, sending hU
resignation by letter.' Mr. Shenk has
been pastor of the Lutheran congre
gation a little over five years, during
wnicn time. a handsome church has
oeen built and, the membership in-
Asheville, Nov. 26.- J. A. Gallo
way, deputy collector 01 internal
revenue, probably was shot fatally,
and Luther Owen was wounded
shortly after- midnight last night
wfien they were ambushed in Jack
son county, near Wolf mountain, af
ter & successful raid, in which two
illicit distilleries were destroyed.
The wounded men were brought to
Asheville today .and posses with
bloodhounds are seeking the moun
taineers Who did the shooting. They
are believed to have escaped toward
the South Carolina line.
Mr." Galloway and Mr.- Owen
started on the raid near Wol moun
tain the night before Thanksgiving
and succeeded in locating two illicit
stills. They destroyed the two moon
shine plants and were returning tow
ard the railroad on horseback when
some one fired from ambush with a
shotgiin. A large number of the
buckshot, with which the weapon
was loaded, struck Mr. Galloway and
a few struck Mr. Owen. One of the
shots penetrated Mr. Galloway's right
eye.
At the time of the shooting the
officers were eight miles north of
Lake Toxaway, the closest railroad
station, and Mr.- Galloway, despite
his injuries, was forced to make the
trip on horseback to this place. He
arived there this morning and im
mediately sent a wire asking for
help. In the meantime, he had se
cure medical attention at Lake Toxa
way arid was Iauer brought here,
where his condition is reported as
critfcal. ' '
Deputy Collector Cabe, Marshal
Gardner and a number of other offi
cers went at once to Toxaway and
struck out through the mountains to
aid-if possible in tire: capture of the
moonshiners. They were joined by
officers from Greenville, S. C, and
otner points along tne way ana a
brace of bloodhounds secured. They
formed posses and scattered in every
direction, it being reported that the
moonshiners had fled toward South
Carolina. Wolf mountain is far from
telephone or telegraph and no report
as to the success of the expedition
could be obtained tonight.
Automobile Accident Robert Bol
ton, an employe of the city, was run
over and painfully injured shortly be
fore midnight Friday night by a.n au
tomobile driven by W. J. Halladay.
The accident occurred atthe corner
of South Elm and East Washington
streets and is said to have been un
avoidable. The injured man was car
ried to his home near Guilford Battle
Ground Saturday.
Belgian Visitor Here. Rev. Dr.
Henri Anet, of Belgium, who is in
the United States as a special repre
sentative of the Protestant denomina
tions of Belgium and France, was a
visitor to Greensboro .Friday and Sat
urday. He is making a tour of the
country and attending the meetings
of many denominational bodies. He
talks Interestingly and pathetically
of the invasion of his native land.
Still Confined Here. Carl Pike,
the insane slayer of Thomas Paschall,
Still occupies a cell in the Guilford
jail and the county1 queers have no
idea how long he may remain on
their hands. There seems to be
hitch somewhere in the arrangements
to have him received into the crimi
nal insane department of the state
prison. The county attorney is in
vestigating the legal status of the
case. . .
Preachers Moving. Rev. W. p.
Goode, who was transferred from the
pastorate of Spring Garden Street
Methodist church, this city, to the
Thomasville station at the recent
session ; of the Western No&h Caro
lina Conference, will move his family
to Thomasville tomorrow. Rev. Z.
E. Barnhardt, the new pastor of
Spring Garden Street church, will
move to this city from Lenoir Wed
nesday or Thursday.
Blockade Still. Deputy Marshall
Kennett and Special Officer Johnson
drove into town Saturday afternoon
with a 25-gallon blockade still which
they had captured across the line in
Randolph county. 'The blockaders
were- Warned of the approach of the
officers in time to put 6ut:?the fire
and move the still to a place of supy
posed safety under 'a thick growth of
honeysuckle vines. The officers found
the still after a diligent search, iut
Two North Carolina soldiers-
Stephen Littles, of Fairmont, Robe
son county, and Herbert U. Gates, of
Swepsonville, Alamance county-
wer&shot Friday in a fight with Villa
troops on the Mexican border at No
gales, Arix. Littles, who was 23
years old and had been , in the army
nearly two years, was shot through
the head and died in a few hours.
Cates, who is 23 years lod and serv
ing his second term of enlistment,
was shot through the abdomen and
is not expected to live;
A third American soldier Arthur
L. Saupe, 19 years old, of Vernon,
Ind., was hot and wounded in the
right foot.
Five Mexicans, including a woman,
also were wounded. . Whether any
were killed was undetermined. A
Carranza courier, sent to apprise
Col. W. H. Sage, commanding the
American troops, of the routing of
the Villa forces, was shot off his
horse. He was brought to the Amer
ican side of the line.
The firing across the border be
gan shortly before noon, when Villa
troops who, with their chieftain, had
evacuated the town early in tjie day,
were hotly engaged by the Obregon
forces some 12 miles south of No-
gales, Sonora.
The Mexican town had been looted
and the shooting began early in the
day. A shower of bullets fell on
the American side. Throngs which
had gathered on the street leading
to Nogales, Sonora, and the thor
oughfare marking the international
boundary were hurried back by
United States soldiers.
Then a party of snipers opened
fire on the American town. Colonel
Sage had given orders that the
American, troops' should return anyl
tire tnat endangered American lives.
Infantrymen stationed near the line
opened on the snipers and a num
ber of Mexicans were seen to fall.
A detachment of Villa cavalry
then was seen dashing over the hills
southwest, of Nogales, Sonora. They
were shocking and dodging and seek
ing cover. 0 The American soldiers
replied to their fire, shooting delib
erately and apparently with sufficient
effect to halt the Mexicans.
The snipers posted in the looted
town gradually stopped firing.
It developed later that the shoot
ing across the border began when a
Villar soldier picked a quarrel with a
woman, on the main street of the
Mexican town. The woman tried to
take the soldier's rifle away from
him, but, eluding her, he turned and
fired into a crowd of American sol
diers stationed on the boundary line
50 yards away. A moment later bul
lets from the weapons of snipers be
gan to fly over the line.
The American infantrymen replied.
They were ordered, however, to en
danger no Mexican who was not ac
tually firing at them.
The population of the American
town watched the exchange from the
roofs of houses and from the hills
to the north of the town.
Ran Away From Home to Join Army.
Herbert L. Cates, one of the Amer
ican soldiers injured in the firing"
across the Mexican border Friday, is
a son of H. M. Cates, of Swepsonville.
He ran away from home and joined
the army in 1912, and when his term
of enlistment expired about two
months ago he re-enlisted. ,
A late report from Nogales, Axis.,
says the. condition of young Cates is
improved and ms recovery appears
probable.
Tobacco Prices Higher.
Farmers who have sold tobacco
on the Greensboro market during the
past, few days have been well pleased
with prices on all grades. Inquiry at
both the Farmers' and the Center
Brick warehouses Saturday after
noon elicited the information that
sales had been very satisfactory, and
farmers in The Patriot office during
the day made similar statements. ' It
is stated that tobacco Is selling high
er now than it has sold' at any time
Lsince 1913, when the crop was fine
and prices unusually high.
It is believed that more than lialf
the 'crop in this section has, been sold,
and should prices remain ; Bstwf ats-!
tory it is probable that yerr littletd
bacco will be left in the hands of th
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rpner's jury which investi-
e circumstances of the death
Severs and'C.E. Hall, both
of Charfottd, who lost their lives in
the .railroad wreck in Salisbury last
Wednsllay-night, returned a verdict
Saturday afternoon placing the blame
for the Occident on three employes of
the Southern Railway. The verdict
was. as llows:
"That-C. &. Hall and H. C. Severs
came to, their death by being killed in
a wreck on the Southern Railway in
the Salisbury yard on November 24,
1915, bjb second No. 32.
"Fir4t,r that Clyde Wilson, a flag
man, "vfas grossly negligent in- fail
ing tol display the proper signals to
protect?his train second No. 32,
against Strain No. 38.
"Second, thatf A. Tankersly, engi
neer oi, train No. 38, was negligent
in disregarding signals at block and
not bringing his train under control
as per rules of the railway company.
' "Third, that Arthur Kelly, fire
man, vas guilty of contributory neg
ligence in failing to observe and no
tify thi engineer of the displayed sig
nals orifxear of train second No.. 32."
TheRowan county grand jury will
be in session this week, and it is
probabe that the three men above
namedj-may be indicted for man
slaughter. The first witness was E. R.' Rector,
train dispatcher of the Charlotte di
vision, who testified as to the time
trains moved between Charlotte and
Salisbury the night of the wreck.
C. O. Ottenburg, signal and elec
trical maintainer of the Charlotte di
vision 4 testified that he made week-
y and daily inspections of block sig
nals; that. pn: the day. of the wreck
the s!ftTcimder:d
all right and the signal arms in cor
rect position when he arrived just af
ter the wreck. There were two sig
nal arms on this particular post and
they were set: the red above and the
green below, indicating obstructed
track and the mainline switch open
eading to the passenger station; the
engineer seeing this should proceed
cautiously as under obstructed block.
The signal was 603 feet from the
wreck.
Engineer Tankersly, of No. 3 8, stat
ed that he left Charlotte at 8.32, pass
ed China Greve at 9.24, one minute
late. As soon as he could get light
after the crash he saw it was 9.38.
There is a down grade for two miles
and his rate of speed before seeing
the signal light was 40 miles an hour,
Vhis was reduced to 15 when passing
the signals and to eight or 10 when
he saw the rear of the special train,
about 50 feet ahead.
"I could not stop in length of vis
ion at that time," he said, "but had
ample time to stop at the cross
over where I expected to get the sig
nal. I saw the flagman at the same
time T saw the rear of the special."
Asked what caused the wreck,
Tankersly replied that in his judg
ment it was due to "improper flag
ging." A fusee on the rear ' of - the
train would have been sufficient.
This was the first time he ever caught
a train without a flag out.
Arthur Kelly, negro fireman on 38,
said the train was running six or
eight miles an hour when the crash
came. He and the engineer saw the
train ahead at the same time.
Conductor Laird, of second No. 32,
said his train stopped at 9.29 or 9.30
just south of the cross-over switch
and had been standing there six or
seven minutes. His flagman was 300
or' 4 00 feet from the rear of the train
when the crash came, the conductor
was standing just opposite his rear
car. He had gone to tne rear ana
found that the flagman had not gone
back, he testified, and told him to go
onH tfin lotm. fia1 RtflrtArf when No.
38 came in view at a rate of speed
'UWVW UW
which Laird estimates at 25 ' or 30
miles and had slowed down to 18"
when it hit the special..
He testified to the death of Messrs.
Hall and Severs as a result of the
collision. His train was fully, equip
ped, he statedwith torpedoes and
lanterns and. the flagmen could have
gone to a safe position on the straight
track, if he had gone at once and not
waited till the conductor sent him.
. In Conductor Laird's opinion, had
the flagman - gone, back and. ., given
regular, signals, or had the engineer
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The North Carolina Teachers ajb
sembly, which met in Raleigh last
week, adjourned Friday evening af
ter electing the following officers for
the ensuing year: R. H. Wright, of
the Eastern Carolina Training School,
president; A. T. Allen, superintend
eht of the Salisbury graded schools,
Vice president; E. E. Sams, of the
state department of education, secre
tary. President Foust, of the State Nor
mal and Industrial College, submit
ted the report of the committee on
resolutions, which was adopted. The
resolutions expressed the usual
thanks to those contributing to the
success of the assembly; pledged
support to the efforts of the state de
partment of , education for- better
teacher training and certification and
urged the legislative committee to
aid in every way possible in securing
such legislation from . the next gen
eral assembly; commended the ef
fort that the teachers of the state
are making for the furtherance of
the campaign for the elimination or
adult illiteracy in the state; express
ed appreciation for the rural school
demonstration work that was provid
ed for this assembly and expressed
the hope that the system be extend
ed to as many other branches of the
assembly work as may be practic-'
able; commended the work of Super
intendent C. L. Coon, of Wilson, in
preparation of his "Documentary His
tory of Secondary Education, cover
ing the educational work of the state:
from 1790 to 1840, a substantial
groundwork for future historians;
joined with the Federation of Wo
men's . Clubs and the state historical
commission in approving tne pro
posed tercentennial association and
proposing, ahakespeire day , in the
of J. Y. JOynef as state superintend
ent of public instruction; expressed
deep regret at the death of former
Governor Jarvis and appreciation
for his great constructive work for
education.
At the request of the retiring pres
ident, Miss Graham, Superintendent
Joyner told of the futile effort at the
last legislature to get through the bill
to professionalize the teachers by un
iform certification and predicted that
the bill or one just as effective will
pass the next legislature. He said
the bill last session pased the sen
ate by a vote of 2 to 1 and that, it
was killed in the last hours of the
house by application of "gag rule"
when very few of the members had
any conception of what the bill real
ly was. He said the teacherswill be
heard from next time completely in
support of the bill.
PROPERTY VALUATION IN
GREENSBORO AND COUNTY.
Figures that have been just com
piled show that the total assessed
valuation of all property in Greens
boro for taxation reaches the com
fortable sum of $12,100,000. This
is ah increase of $1,600,000 over the
valuation of last year, the greater
part of the increase being due to the
quadrennial assessment of real . es
tate. The showing is a most encour
aging one in every respect.
The assessed valuation of Greens
boro property now is about equal to
the valuation for the entire county
12 years ago. The increase in both
city and county since that time has
been almost phenomenal. When the
work of computing the tax books is
completed it is believed the total val
uation for the county this year will be
about $32,500,000, an increase of
over $2,000,000 over last year.
Tne valuation of property in
Greensboro is nearly 40 per cent of
the total valuation In the county.
I A. 1 MAt , . .
u tro woum nave pre-
vented the wreck.
Injured Improving.
Those who were - injured in the
wreck are, improving and some of
them have left the Salisbury hospital
to which. they were removed imme
diately after the accident. O Max
Gardner, of . Shelby, and C. H. Tally
Of Charlotte, the. two most seriously
injured,: have been in a critical con
dition, but' a report, from the hospi
tal last night. stated that ;both. are
thought to have a good chance of re-
Efforts to wiu President .Wilson's
support for a conference of neutrals
ttf initiate peace-proposals in Europe
reached a climax Friday, whenMme.
Rosika Schwimmer, of Hungary, and
Mrs. Ethel Snowden, wife of a mem--ber
of the British Parliament, -called
at the White House with a personal
appeal and word that they had defi
nite information thai, the . f majority
of the belligerent nations would not
turn deaf ears to suggestions from
a neutral gathering. The ladies talk--
ed "with the president for more than
an hour and went away much pleased
over their reception,! though the pres
ident had made no promises. '
About 400 peace "advocates, " fresh ;
from a mass-meeting at a Washing
ton theater, accompanied the presi
dent's callers to the White House, ap
plauding them as they entered and
left the executive offices.
The president was urged to initiate
a peace conference, or at least to sig
nify that he would appoiut adelegate
from the : United States if another
neutral nation called one.. He was
told that women peace advocates .who
have visited every' belligerent; and
neutral nation? in. Europe believe from
talks with officials abroad, that prac
tical results would follow; He also
was informed ; that Henry Ford, the
Detroit manufacturer, had in, his possession-statements,
some of - them
signed from officials in. some of the
principal countries on -both sides of
tne European conflict, to the general
effect that they would interpose no
objection to the calling of a confer
ence of neutrals to make peaco pro
posals. Mme. Schwimmer, who saw the
president several months ago on .the"
same' subject and who was not opti
mistic then, , said, af ter t leaving the .
wfag'rRMsb7' ihat -shItefdfe
president was deeply impressed -with
the information laid before him--
The president made no definite
promise, she added, but I thins you
will hear something from the White
House before long."
At the White House it was said
that there would be no statement re
garding the call. Up to this time the
position of the president has been
that he has heard nothing from Eu
rope- which leads him to believe that
the time is opportune for him to take
any step.
Resolutions Adopted.
At the mass-meeting held prior to
the call, at the White House resolu
tions were adopted urging the presi
dent to call upon -neutral nations to"
appoint representatives to attend a
conference "for constant mediation.
without armistice and dedicated to
finding a just settlement of this con
flict."
The lesolutions recited that the
International Congress of Women at
The Hague "ascertained i:. from the
governments of the belligerent na
tions of Europe that they would have
no objections to the calling of a con
ference of the -neutral nations of the
world looking to the possible termi
nation of the war." It was added
that the belligerent nations seemed
unable themselves to take the .initia
tive for peace.
Mme. Schwimmer presented these
resolutions to the president and told
him that the common: people. of ajl
the . nations at war - wanted peace.
Mme. Schwimmer was - one of the
women who visited officials of bel-'
ligerent and neutral nations several
months ago with Miss Jane Addams,
of Chicago, and other representatives
of the International Congress of
Women. - ... ,
Addresses were made at the meet
ing by, Mme. Schwimmer, Mrs. Snow
den, Mrs.. Louis 'Post, .wife of the as-
sistant secretary of labor, Henry
Ford, and other peace advocates;-
Mrs; Snowden -declared: that the
censorship abroad was preventing the
people in this country fronVkiiowing
of the widespread demand for" peace-
She told of two recent addresses in
the house' of lords in London on
peace, which she said' the censor had
not allowed to be published.'
ienry virora s c aaaress was very
brief.. VOutt of the trenches Jbjr Christ-,
mas and never .back again .is.injmbt'-'
to," he-said, and; sat. dowiu. w 'J.
1 Infi the camptdg : whJhf hsAbeen
carried; '. 'on for; peace thpusands tf .
teiegrams'have been received"' at ths
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