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A Distinguished Party From the S'orth Greeted by Prominent Southerners SOME SPLENDID SPEECHES MADE Meeting at Columbia Opens With a Cordial Address of Welcome by Gov ernor Hey ward, Followed by the An nual Address of Mr. Robert C. Og den, President of the Conference. Columbia, S. C. Special. The Con ference for Education in the ,South opened its eighth annual session hero Wednesday, with a large attendance of leading educators from both North And South present. The Ogden tram, containing a party of ladies and gentlemen from New York, Boston, Washington and other Uoxthern cities, arrived at 3:10 p. m., and the visitors are beiug entertained in various homes in the citySo which they have been invited. The party numbers ninety-five, being educators literary men and women" and business men interested in education. They came in on a special of ten .Pullman cars, Chartered by Mr. Robert C. Og den, ot New York. The membersef- tlie party are his guests for a nineteen day trip to different points in South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. During their stay in Columb! ia, they as well as the many hundreds of other visitors, mainly from the Southern States, are guests of the city of Co lumbia. A party consisting of the may or of the city, the State Superintend ent of Education, Editor Gonzales, of The Columbia Statrt two professors of the South Carolina College and sever other prominent citizens of Columbia, tnet the party at Hamlet, N. C, and es corted it into the State. , Every train coming into the city brings from all parts of the South visitors to the conference.- The conference opened its first ses sion here with an address of welcome by Governor D. C. Hey ward. The Governor said in part: GOVERNOR HEYWARD'S SPEECH. "Today throughout the entire South the schoolhouse bell is ringing. It rings from the university on the hill and it ringg from the little school chouse by the roadside, and to yoa teachers who are present at this con ference from our sister States of the South and from every portion of our own State, -! wish to say that in wel coming you I must also congratulate you ipon- the great work you have done: I believe that you have ac complished more during the past forty years along educational lines than has eves been accomplished by any peo ple in the same length of time. No people have ever worked so well or under the same conditions, and in your work, you have been accorded loyal support by your people. In their days of poverty and in their days of prosperity the tax-payers of the South have shown , a willingness -and a de sire to tax themselves to support the schools, not only for their own children the white children of the South hut also for the children of anotder and dependent race. Though often misunderstood, they have never let their hearts fail them; they have never looked backward, but always "forward, and today we can see in university -and . in college, in graded school and in common school, in better teachers and longer terms, a happy and prosperous people aye, in smiling fields and grow ing cities, the result of their courage and determination. '"In welcoming yon to South Carolina I ' welcome you to a State which has always had a deep interest in the cause in which you are enlisted. With us, thefmodera schoolhouse stands beside the college of a century. From the earliest history of our State our peo ple have pf ized learning and cultiva tion. Before the Revolution, South Carolina sent her sons to Oxford and to Cambridge. Shortly after ther Revo lution we- begaii to build colleges and to establish public schools- The first library inAmerica to be supported in any degpee at' the public expense was that established In 'Charleston in 1689, IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION REA ' LIZED. "I am sure, however, it needs no ar gument to convince you that the impor tance of education in its highest sense has ever been realized by our 'people. The facts that I have just cited that before we had 'colleges of our own we sent our sons abroad, and the further fact that almost within sound of our voices stands South Carolina College over 100 years old these will show the sDirit that animated our ancestors. "As to what we are doing today for the sons and daughters of South Caro lina, I have but to point you to the number of colleges ot our State, and to our growing system of graded and public schools. The State supports Winthrop College for Women; and South Carolina College, the, Citadel and Clemson for young men, and also a State college for negroes. In addition to this, each religious denomination supports one or more colleges which are doing excellent work. There are also many private colleges, several, of which are well endowed. Contributing to these is our system of graded and common schools. Our State constitu tion requires that the General Assem bly shall provide for a liberal system of free public schools for children be tween the ages of 6 and 20 years, and the constitution imposes an annual tax exceeding one-half of our entire State tax for general purposes. With us the fight to allow school districts to levy a special tax has already been won; It is incorporated in fee organic law of the State, and we are now extend ing the battle, lines to the various dis tricts, 400 of which have already exer- i cised this prerogative. New victories are constantly being gained along this line, and within the .next few years we . confidently hope to greatly enlarge our army of educational progress. "During the past year we built 175 school houses, and weimproved and equipped many more. iThese buildings ranged in costtfrom $300 to $40,000 apiece, and in tfhis equipment are in cluded 500 libraries. Two thousand and five hundred of our teachers last year attended sujmmer schools in order to better equip themselves for their i;reat workli It will require no prophet, nxy friends, to predict that, should we be again so fortunate within the next few years as to welcome you within the confines of this State, your eye3 will behold vast improvement in our educational and industrial affairs. "Pardon me for this apparent digres sion, which I hope will prove to you the interest we feel in you and in your work. Let me give you some added welcome to our State and to our cap-' ital city. In the name of the great jause which brings you here; In th lame of every school and college in ;he State; in the name of those high nterests which it is your mission to serve; in behalf of the people of our State, and especially in behalf of th eople of our capital city, I welcome rou, ladies anl gentlemen, to South Carolina." . At the Conclusion of the Governor's tddress of welcome, the annual ad lress of Mr. Robert C. Ogden, presi lent of the conference, was delivered. PRESIDENT OGDEN 'S ADDRESS In the opening Mr. Ogden spok'e at lome length of the objects and history f the conference. Although this con erence, he said, has no education body f authority, it yet has a very deep iommunity pf interest with the South !rn Educational Board, the General Sducation Board, and in a lesser de jree with the board of trustees of the Peabody fund, and the board of trus .ees of the Slater fund. These several oards are so thoroughly co-ordinated ind sympathetic that jevery facility ated by any is at the command of and the commonage of aim is so erfecVthat waste by duplication or jompetition is impossible. The work )f these boards and funds having been )riefly dealt with, the speaker spoke f what had been accomplished. It. is lie leadership of the child that we fol ow here, he said, inspiring this great jompany more than curiosity, possible mtertainment or spcial fellowship is .he interest of the child. And it was iust the preparation of this pervasive nfluence that awaited the advent of :he new movement for education which "mas unfolded in the triple alliance of :heconference and the .two boards. This movement came at the psycho logical moment. . Throughout this Southland, isolated and lonely,, many ible, thoughtful, well informed Und solitary souls were brooding over the needy conditions of certain localities with which experience has made them painfully familiar. And with the per ception of need was associated a con scious helplessness and vague, indef inite hopefulness, or was this condi tion of mind solely confined to the iso lated and obscure? Men of large pub lic affairs, women socially prominent, ware both equally anxious nd sadly doubtful. Here a voice had been raised, there a little local effort had Seen started, and beyond this the pro phets were beginning both persuasion and provision. Then followed the awakening of the earnest and anxious thinkers. A strength of association was promptly created. Symptoms of many sorts indicated the educational epiphany that has commanded the ad miration and respect of educators throughout the land, the encourage ment of progressive citizens, the in terest of statesmen. Certain facts may be brieflv outlined. PROGRESS OF LOCAL TAXATION. Local taxation for education has made great progress, notably in Ala bama; South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee. The constitution of the State of Georgia has been so amended as to facilitate local taxation for schools. The increase of public appropriations Jboth through States and the local tax. for education, has aggregated many millions of dollars. New school houses by hundreds, per haps thousands, have replaced othera that were lacking in comfort, space and equipment. Hundreds of inade quate schools have been consolidated and transportation has been supplied to scholars that have been incommod 5d by the changed conditions. School terms have been greatly lengthened, the qualifications of teachers im proved, jand compensation increased to meet the longer term and better service. , Laws against nepotism in educatio: have been passed and thus a beginning has beenmade in the removal jot a corrupt anxl debasing influences upon education. This is an incident in the divorce of public education from poli tics an end most devoutly to be de sired. Perhaps the most encouraging single element of progress is found in the formation of local and State or ganizations of citizens and educators tor the promotion of public interest in education. In the cities of Virginia large audiences of the best people bave been assembled by the commis sion to wait upon the teachings of men whose souls are awake to the needs of the children and whose tongues have been touched with the holy fire from the altar of public ser vice. Such meetings have been held elsewhere with success and power. But Virginia's leadership is exception al in persistence and thoroughness. No doubtful curiosity of suspicion iurks in the background; no academic seclusion, no intellectual superiority, no cloistered exclusiveness now di vides higher from popular education in the South. Other prominent educators made splendid addresses. The meeting was an eminent success in every particu lar. X. Second Day's Session. X The second day's session of Mhe great educational conference was marked by exceptionally strong ad dresses by notable speakers. ' At the Superintendents' Conference the State Superintendents of the fol lowing States were present: South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Tennessee and Ar kansas. Each of these spoke on dif ferent phases of the recent progress of education in the Southern States, Columbia, S. C, Special. The Con ference for Education in the South closed its sessions here Friday, and the conference adjourned subject to the call of the executive committee. At the morning session of the confer ence, Mr. Robert C. Ogden, of New York, was unanimously chosen presi dent; Chas.U. Ay cock, former governor of North Carolina, was chosen vice- president. The. following executive committee was elected to serve the en suing year: S. C. Mitchell, Virginia; Sydney J. Bowie, Alabama; R. R. Cousins, Tex as; Clarence H. Poe, North Carolina; D. C. Caldwell, Louisiana; C. P. Gibson, Georgia; R. H. Jesse, Missouri; Dr. I. A. Jenkihs, Kentucky; S. A. Mynders, Tennessee; J. H. Hineman, Arkansas; D. B. Johnson, Soutlj Carolina. The other officers of the conference elected were: Secretary, B. J. Bald win, Alabama; treasurer, W. A. Blair, Winston-Salem, N. C The following resolution adopted by the Association of'Southern States Su perintendents of Education, at its meet ing on April 26, is given out for the first time: "Resolved that the Association of Southern State Superintendents ol Public Instruction, desires to express its appreciation of the valuable work of the Southern Educational Board, in co-operation with the educational au thorities of the States, and of the spirit in which the work has been done for the past three years; and also to express gratification at the provision for the continuance of this co-operative work." All the Southern States are represent ed except Tennessee, Mississippi and Virginia. Mr. Ogden, in a brief and expressive speech, then pronounced the conference adjourned TjO PENSION PROFESSORS. Munificient Gift of Andrew Carnegie For The Purpose of Assisting Needy Ex-Teachers. New York, Special. A gift of $10, D00.000 by Andrew Carnegie to provide annuities for college professors who are aot able to continue in active service, seas announced by Frank A. Vanderlip, vice president of the National City Bank, of New York. Professors in the United States, Canada and Newfound land will share in the distribution of the income of the fund. United States Steel Corporation. 5 per cent, first mortgage bonds for $10,000,000 have been transferred to a board of trus tees, and steps will be taken at once to organize a corporation- to receive the donation. Dr. Pritchett, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Techno logy, and Mr. Vanderlip have been se lected by Mr. Carnegie to obtain data Dn the subject, to be presented at the first meeting of the board of trustees, which will take place on November 15th. The bonds have a par value of $11,000,000 and will produce an annual income of $500,000. The corporation which is being formed will be styled "the Carnegie Foundation." Mr. Carnegie's secretary has sent a letter to the press, giving the forego ing information and inclosing a letter Crom Mr. Carnegie, dated April 18th, which says, in part: "I have reached the conclusion that the least rewarded of - all professions is that of the teacher in our higher edu cational institutions. New Lork city generously, and very wisely, provides retiring pensions for teachers in her public schools and also for her police men. Very few, indeed, Of our col; leges are able to do so. The conse quences are grievous. Able men hesi tate to adopt teaching as a career, and many old professors, whose places should be occupied by younger men, cannot be retired." ' Mr. Carnegie says that the fund will apply to universities, colleges and technical schools "without regard to race, sex, creed or color;" bu not to institutions (Supported by State or colonial governments. Another class excluded is sectarian institutions. "On ly such as are under control of a sect, or require trustees, or a majority there of, or officers, faculty or students to belong to any specified sect, or which impose any theological test, are to be excluded." Mr. Carnegie specifies the duties of the trustees, .and concludes with the hope that "this fund may do much for the cause of higher education and to Remove a source of deep and con stant anxiety to the poorest paid, and yet one of; the highest, of all profes sions." Among those named as trustees are Presidents Edwin B. Craighead, of Tu lane, and George H. Denny, of Wash ington and Lee. EXPLOSION KILLS SIXTEEN. Every Man in the Mine at the Time Lost His Life Except One, and He Will Die. Du Bois, Pa., Special. Sixteen men were killed and one will die as the re sultof an explosion at the Eleanora shaft, near Big Run, Friday night The mine is owned by tbe Rochester and Pittsburg Coal and Iron Co. The night shift was small or there would have been more fatalities. Every man who was in the mine at the time of the explosion, except one, was kill ed. Three bodies have been recover ed. The men were English speaking and resided at Eleanora, a small min ing village two miles from the shaft. Great College For Tennessee. Columbia, Special. Wyckliffe Rose, dean of the Peabody college at Nash ville, made the announcement here that the $800,000 required of Tennessee, had been raised to match the $1,000,000 the Peabody board -voted on the 24th ol last January for the establishment ol a teachers' cqllege at Nashville, on the condition that Tennessee raise $800,000 Of this amount $250,000 comes from the State and $50,000 from Davidson coun ty, the home of the proposed college, -which will be the largest teachers school in the South. In addition to the $1,800,000 thus available for the institution, J. P. Morgan has made an offer of 4250.000. provided' a similar amount io raised. Peonage Case Dismissed. Jacksonville, Fla., Special. Judge Locke, of the Federal Court, isueTan order sustaining a demurrer to an indictment against John W. Bennet and Richard Bennet, of Bradford coun ty, who were indicted on the charge of holding Maggie Williams in peonage July-1, 1903. All parties are white, and the Bennets prominent citizens. Judge -Locke's order virtually dismisses the case. This is the only case of alleged peonage ever brought in Florida. SPECIAL IS WRECKED Ogden Party Thoroughly Shaken Up in Fatal Collision THE LIST OF DEAD AND WOUNDED Rounding a Curve in the Yard Limits of the Southern Railway at Green ville, S. C, the Train Bearing the President of the Conference for Edu cation and His 100 Guests Crushes' Into the Rear of a Freight. Greesnvile, S. C, Spoeial. While rounding a curve jn the yard limits of. the Southern railway at Greenville, and running at an estimated speed of 50 miles an hour, the special Pullman train bearing Robert C. Ogden and 100 members of the Southern Conference for Education, crashed into the ' rear end of a freight at 7:55 oclock this morning, killing four persons and in juring a score of others. None of Mr. Ogden's guests were killed. The dead are: Charles M. "Cope, white, brakeman of the special, Columbia, S. 'C. John Little, W. W. Cummings and J. F. Hayne, negro employes on the dining car St. James. The injured are: Prof. Henry W. Farnham, Yale Uni versity, arm broken and cut on head, and Mrs. Henry W. Farnham, badly bruised about head and arms. St. Clair McKelway, editor of The Brooklyn Eagle, bruised on back and shoulder. Dr. Julius D. Dreher, former presi dent of Roanoke college, cut on the head. Robert M. Ogden, secretary to Pres ident Ogden, cut on hand and head bruised. Mrs. J. G. Thorpe, Cambridge, Mass., cut and bruised on head; Bishop W. N. McVickar, of Provi dence, R. I., bruised. James Hunter, engineer on special, leg and arm broken. Walter Kershaw, electrician on, spec ial, ear and head cut. Conductor Edward Acker, bruised. John F. McCoy, agent Pennsylvania railroad, gash on head. R.t Shull, negro cook on St. James, cut on arm. George Williams, j waiter on diner Waldorf, bruised. Ogdom Calls For Inquiry. The Greenville wifeck will be inves tigated as is shown! by the following: "Hon. D. C. Heyward, Columbia, S. C; Would respectfully suggest the extreme use of the executive power as may exist by the coroner's jury or railroad commission for investigation of criminal negligence, Jocal and man agement, that caused wreck of my train. Four hands I killed and others injured, also Prof, and Mrs. Farnham. My impression is that the case is a bad one and needs drastic treatment. "ROBT. C. OGDEN." Governor Heyward replied as fol lows: "Robert C. Ogden, Greenville, S. C: have referred your telegram to the railroad commission, who will imme diately investigate wreck. Coroner's inquest will be held by county author ities." Making Investigation. Greenville, Special. Prof. Farnar, of Yale University, and Mrs. Farnar, who were injured in the wreck of the Ogden special, are both resting easily in a sanitarium here. It has not been decided when they will be able to trav el, but the attending physicians say not before Tuesday. Electrician Ker shaw, also injured in the wreck and detained here, is doing well. Assistant General Superintendent H. Baker and Division Superintendent McManus, of the Southern, are here, and an investigation of the cause of the accident is being held behind closed doors. St. Paul Globe Suspends. St. Paul, Special. The St. Paul Globe, after Sunday's edition, will sus pend business. The Globe was the only Democratic morning daily in Minnesota, and it was the recognized organ of its party both in State and in municipal affairs. The reason an nounced by the paper for its suspen sion was that, in spite of its large circulation, it was hot properly patron ized by advertisers. , Sixteen Killed in Texas Storm. Laredo, Tex., May 1. Later deatils from the tornado., wnicn strucic this city Friday evening indicate that firs rennrfs in cirrnlatirvn here wfirp hv nn' means exaggerated, either as to the number of lives lost or the financial damage resulting. Scores of people were injured, and are being attended by the various physicians. It will be impossible to state- tha number of the injured, but t is not belived that may deaths will result from injuries. ' The number killed is sixteen in this city. Sentence Commuted. ; St. Petersburg," By Cable. An im perial rescript summons Count Voron-tzoff-Dashkoff, viceroy in the Caucas us, to the council of the empire and appoints him a member of the council of ministers, and charges Baron Nolde, Secretary of State, to represent the viceroy in the council's declarations. A rescript commutes the sentences Of the officers concerned in the incident of the firing during the ceremony of-J the blrssing of the waters of the Nevo. KILLED flIS WIFE White Man in Winston-Salem Commits Deliberate Murder. Winston-Salem, Special. J. W. Ham mond, a white man, shot and mortally grounded his wife in East Winston Sat irday night. She died at 1.30 o'clock Sunday afternoon. The husband is in fail. For some months Hammond and wife had not lived together, and it is said he approached her Saturday night to effect a reconciliation. Mrs. Ham mond was going to the home of Mrs. Zimmerman on Fifth street, when she was accosted by Hammond, who, after i few words, threatened to shoot her. Several men, who were standing near, saw a revolver in Hammond's hand, md rushed to the woman's assistance. Before they could overpower him, he lad fired at the woman, the ball tak ing effect just above the right hip. The wounded woman was at once taken to the hospital and given medical atten tion. The officers arrested Hammond shortly after the shooting. He offered io resistance. A short time ago Ham mond was tried before Magistrate Bes sent on two warrants sworn out by ais wife, one a peace warrant and the ather for an assault withdeadly weap Dn. On the latter charge Hammond was bound over to the Superior Court in a bond of $50, which was furnished by parties in Stokes . county. The peace warrant was dismissed. Ham mond is employed by J. R. Watson, a. iunk dealer in East Winston. He ac cuses the wife pf infidelity, and gives this as his reason for shooting her. Convicted of Incendiarism. Greensboro, Special. At a hearing oefore 'Squire Collins Saturday after noon T. B. Farrington, his soft Bailie Farrington, and Fred Ozment, charged with incendiarism, were bound over to Superior Court, which convenes May 3th. . Bonds in the sum of $1,000 each were required of the defendants for their apeparance. The barn of Mr. Isaac J. Stanley, who lives in Summer township, was burned last Sunday night. Bottles that con tained kerosene and other evidences of incendiarism were found about the Barn and building. Mr. Stanley had only a short time before purchased some dynamite, which he stored in the barn. This exploded as the barn burn ed and awoke the sleeping family. The barn and other outbuildings were burn ed. There were a number of circum stances which pointed to the defend ants as being the incendiaries. Mr. Stanley, the owner of the burned barns, and other good citizens hed re ported Farrington and other men of that section to the authorities for re tail, and on the -morning of hrdluuuhr tail, and on tbe morning before the fire Mr. Stanley had gone with a revenue collector to Farrington's house in search of whiskey, and Farrington told Mr. Stanley he would punish him for what he had ddhe. There were other circumstances that pointed to the de fendants. Three mules of the same de scription as those owned by Farri ton and ridden by three men of about the same size as the defendants were seen to pass rapidly from the direc tion of the barn in the night, just be fore the fire was discovered. Ozment, one of the defendants on trial, admit ted that a button produced by the State was owned by him. The button was found in a ditch at the rear of the barn, near tracks that led from the barn. Asheville Gets Conference. It is announced that Asheville has been selected for the annual gather ing of tlie Southern Student Confer ence, composed of delegates from Young Men's Christian Associations at the colleges and universities of the South. The Young Women's Christian Association will hold its conference at Asheville. June 10 to 19. Among the prominent speakers who will be heard at the'Y. M. C. A. conference will be John R. Mott, president of the World's Federation of Students; Robert E. Speer, Harlan P. Beach, T. B. Penfield, Hans P. Anderson, of New York; O. E. Brown, of Vanderbilt university; A. J. Elliott, of Brooklyn; A. L. Phil lips, of Richmond, Va.; W. M. Lan drum, of Nashville, Tenn.; J. Willis Baer, of New York; and W. B. Pettus, of Columbia university. W. B. Weath erford, student secretary for the South, will direct the work of the confer ence. Schwab Has Contract. Berlin, By Cable. Chas. M. Schwab, of New York, who is on his way from St. Petersburg to Luxemburg, to visit the iron works, and who. then.ee will return home, stopped over in Berlin for a day. In Schwab said it true th had made a contract the Russian government for warshi but .that he considered it would be him to talk about it. improper ior North State News. Henrietta, Special. Delegates fr the- various churches intheSandy R Association will meet at the wign Shoals church, near Henrietta, next Tuesday nd Wednesdayto consider propositions and locations onerea anu decide upon the location for the donom rnational high school, soon to be es tablished by the Baptist Church, some where within !he bounds of the Sandy RuV Association. Th4 canvassing com mittee, consisting of Rev. Z. D. Har rill Vnf Ellenboro: R. A. Hedgepeth, of TTrrpfct Hitvr P. M. (rOOae, or Moores- boro;T. C. C. Hams, or mcksvine, " ' - . TT! ! 111. and n. L. I Dowell, Of Henrietta, wmr were appointed several weeks ago to canvasfe the churches in the interest .of the school, have finished their work, A special meeting of the press as sociations, of North Carolina and Vir ginia will be held in this city m July, accordingjto information received here Sometime ago President Varner, of the Carolina association, invited the Vir ginia editors to come to North Caro lina this year, and the invitation was quickly seconded by a number of the leading papers of this State. The sug gestion struck a responsive chord in thereasts of the Virginia brethren of the press, &n interview wasViuite QR-rr PX NORTH SFATE NEWS Many Newsy .Items Gathered From all Sections. CHARLOTTE COTTON MARKET. These figures represent priees paid to wagons: Strict good middling ........I 7 1-4 Gtood middling J 7 1-4 Strict middling . 7 1-4 Middling ' 7 1-8 Tinges 6 td 6 3-4 Stains 5.00 to 6.00 GENERAL COTTON MARKET. . - Middling. Galveston, quiet .7 3-8 New Orleans, firm ... 7 3-16 Mobile, steady 7 1-8 Savannah, steady '. 7 1-8 Charleston, quiet 7 Norfolk, steady 7 3-8 Baltimore, nominal 7 1-2 New York uiet 7.55 Philadelphia, steady 7.80 Houston, steady 7 1-4 Augusta, steady 7 5-16 Memphis, steady, 7 3-8 St. Louis, quiet ....- 7 7-8 Louisville, firm 7 5-8 NEW CHARTERS. Two tobacco - companies were char tered, one being the Marion TObacco Manufacturing Company, of Pilot Mountain, capital $15,000, by Messrs. R. N. Marion and others, and the other the Golden Leaf Tobacco Warehouse Company, of Apex, Wake county, capi tal $20,000 authorized, and $500 sub scribed, by W. H. Howard, L. S. and P. J. Oliver, J. M. Rogers and others. Other charters were to J. S. Hall Com pany, undertakers, of Durham, capital &7.500, by J. S. Hall, W. A. Wilson, and G. V. Wynne; Hot Springs Manufac turing Company, capital $12,000, by J. Harrison and others, to mine barytes and other minerals and establish elec tric light plants; the Clymer Machine Company , of Greensboro, $10,000, to es tablish machine shops, L. M. Clymer, P. R. Lamb, W. S. Jobe and E. F. Grann. Charged With Barn Burning. Greensboro, Special. Early Thurs day morning three men were arrested in Sumner township on the charge of of firing the barn of Mr. Isaac H. Stan ley, of that township. The names of the arrested men are: T. B. Farring ton, Botie Farrington and Fred Oz ment, all of whom are white and are known to have been among those who engaged in retailing in that section. The hearing was set for 3 o'clock Fri day before 'Squire Collins, but was con tinued until Saturday morning at 10 o'clock. The arrests were made by Sheriff Jordan, assisted by Assistant State Fire Insurance Commissioner Scott and Sergeant Neeley. The offi cers left here this morning at 2 o'clock, made the arrests unit rAturnwl tn tha pSfo at noon. It is charged that the parties became incensed at Mr. Stan ley for reporting them for retailing and blockading. All three men were under bond at the time of the arrest r retailing. They are now in jail pending the hearing Saturday. The evidence against them is said to be very strong. They are charged with goingto the house Sunday night, set ting thVlarge feed barn of Mr. Stan ley's, worth several thousand dollars, and two other buildings, on fire. The family were awakened by an explosion of dynamite, which was in the barn. Lutheran Conference. Lincolnton, Special. The North Carolina Conference of the Evangeli cal Lutheran Tennessee Synod met with Emmanuel congregation, Lin colnton, Thursday at 11 a. m. "The op ening sermon was preached by Rev. R. A. Yoder, D. of Hickory, from Luke 15:4. The conference was then formally opened, and there was found to be a good attendance of ministers and laymen. A paper on "Confession and Abso lution" was read by Rev. W. A. Dea ton, of Dallas, which was freely dis cussed by the conference. Tho presi dent appointed the regular commit tees. It was decided that the next meeting of conference be held with Christ Church, Stanley Creek, Rev. W. A. Deaton, pastor, beginning at 10 a. m. on Thursday before the fifth Sun uay xn jui;. North State News. The Anti-Saloon League of Durham has started a daily paper called The Voter. Two days' shipments of strawberries om eastern uaroana amounted to nearly $200,000. Judge Moore, in the Superior Court, after hearing T. M. Argo, counsel for the plaintiff, made an order setting the noted Gattis vs. Kilgo damage suit for its third trial Wednesday of next week. In Wake Superior Court Thursday e trial of Pegram vs. the Seaboard v AifLine, for $25,000 damages for the burnmg . to death of Jno. M. Wilson, bookkeejter in the Hamlet cotton com press, in October, 1904, was commenc ed, ind it is expected will require five das to complete it. The Seaboard has already won suits in which damages were claimed for the burning of the ice plant and for quantities of cotton that were burned at the same 'time. The lc0ntention inu these suitS is that the fi started f Tom SDarks thrown by a woodburning engine. A The situation in the Balkan states, where nationalities and races other than Turkish are clashing, is causing some alarm. The new system of financial reform in Macedonia is said to be working satisfactory. Advices from Venezuela indicate that President Castro has mollified, at least temporarily, all foreign claim ants. Premier Rouvier, of France, says he is ready to receive any proposition Germany make care to make on tb Moroccan question.
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