North Carolina Newspapers

t T HE DIES SISTER'S WISH. Trenton, K J." Ellis Harris, of Trenton, and his sister quar relled over the division of $500 left by their mother, who died re cently at "the age of 100 years. The sister! finally declared, "I wish you would drop dead!" Greatly excited, Harris fell to the floor un conscious and-expired in an ambulance called to remove him to a hospital. Heart failure superinduced by the quarrel was reported as the cause -of his death. Croiviiinshield Dead. Philadelphia.- Rear-Admiral A. S. Crowninshield, U. S..-N., retired, died in the Episcopal Hospital. Hia wife was athis bedside when he .died. Ad miral Crowninshield who was seventy-two 'years- old, had been In poor health fpr a year. . . . KeceireC as Catholics, ;,; " Philadelphia.- Seven ' Episcopal ministers who, left the church follow ing the adoption, of the open pulpit" anon were received fnto the Catholic Church here by. Archbishop Ryan, To Raise $500,000 For Missions. Pittsburg; r-At the closing -session of the Men's Jubilee Congress of the United Presbyterian Church foreign missionary work:was considered, and it was decided to "raise during the year 5500,000 for foreign missions. No Clinton Autopsy. Washington, , D. C. The published Teports that there was:an autopsy-on General Clinton's body before it left here and that his brain " was . found intact are untrue. General O'Reilly says that there was no autopsy. Some measurements of the bones were taken, and that was all. Bishop Washington Dies. Woodstock, Ont. The Rev. Charles A. Washington, of Windsor (colored). Bishop of the British Methodist Epis copal Church in Canada and Buffalo, died here. The Bishop was born in Pennsylvania sixty-one years ago. Dry Convention Hall at Denver. "Denver, Col. There shall be no liquor sold in the convention building In Denver during the National Demo cratic Convention,, the Committee on Arrangements decided. The nearest saloon is one block away. No "Merry Widows" in Yale Stands. New Haven, -Conn.; A petition will be made to Yale's baseball manage ment to keep Merry Widow hats out of the stands in the championship games. Liberian Envoys at Tuskegee. Tuskegee, Ala. Envoys of the Re public of Liberia, who came to the United States on a diplomatic and special mission, reached Tuskegee. The envoys are spending their, time in making notes, preparatory to in troducing practical methods .of edu cation into Liberia. More Gunness Bones Found. Laporte, Ind. Several hogs' wal lowing in the pond at the edge of a lot on the Gunness farm, near here, brought up the bone of a human arm. The finding of the bone has convinced Sheriff Smutzer that other bodies have been buried beneath the mud at the bottom of the pond. The entire shore will be gone over with long Takes. SjLW5" gY C ABLL CHURCH TREASURES STOLEN. London. Valuable ecclesiastical plate and other treasures have been stolen from the Cathedral of St. Etienne. The robbery is similar to the notorious thefts attributed to the Thomas brothers. The booty is roughtly estimated to be worth $25,000, apart from the historic value of the articles taken. It includes eleven pieces of famous Limoges enamel of the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries and several chalices. shipbuilding Strike Ends. London. A ballot of the men In volved in the shipbuilding strike was held, and resulted in favor of accept ing the terms offered by the employ ers. 1600 Metres in an Aeroplane. Ghent, Belgium. Henry Farman, the British aeronaut, made two flights of 1600 metres in his aeroplane. This is the greatest distance yet accomr plished in a straight line. - Sunstroke Kills Three Soldiers. Koenigsberg, Germany. Three ar tillerymen died here from the effects of sunstroke sustained while their battery was on a practice march through the country. Spy Executed by Revolutionaries. Geneva, Switzerland. r The police are investigating what appears to be the execution by the Russian revolu tionary committee of a man named Kaidoff , thought to have been a Rus sian Government syp. Naidoff was shot to death by a compatriot. Salvador Fears the Plague. San Salvador, Republic of Salvador. The Government has issued a decree that steamers from the south will not he allowed to enter port on account of the prevalence of bubonic plague in various southern ports. Eighty-five Suicides a Month. . St. Petersbur g. There has been an pi'deniic of suicides in St. Petersburg that has lasted for three months. The average number of deaths has been eighty-five a month, and the high rec ord for a single day was reached this week, when no fewer than eighteen persons killed themselves. . .Many of ' the cases are due to destitution, but despondency has been the prevailing cause. Oppose Anti-Anarchist Law. .Madrii-Senor Moret y Prender ga'st, who was formerly Premier, and other liberal and republican ; leaders, addressed a mass meeting, which was held in .the'; Princess Theatre, for the purpose of protesting against the; Govr eminent bill for the repression otter r or ism.. Peru Elect a President. Lima; Peru. Augusto B. Leguia has been elected President of the Re public yin succession of : Senor Jose Pardo; whose term expires September 24 next." - Prison For JJruce Witness. . 'London. Mrs. Margaret Hamil ton, who was one of the nrciSTTrtt nesses to the alleged identity of the Duke of Portland wlth T. C. Druce, was sentenced to eighteen, months penal servitude for 'perjury her ap peal having, been disallowed. . , Revolt in Samos. Constantinople. The inhabitants of the. Island of Samos, a Greek isl and off the west coast of Asia Minor, are in revolt against the Prince of Sa mOS, WHO IS LUG Vi U V trl IlUl U L tun JSl- and. Fighting has been going on at mos, who is the Governor of the is! Vathy, the capital. Burned to Death. Colchester, Conn.- F. rH. Talcott was burned to death in a fire which destroyed his livery stable Tornado Kills Family. . ' Wichita,. Kan. Peter ' Rudy, 4iis wife and two children were killed by a tornado which passed two" miles e of Alva, Okla. Drowned in Underground Stream. Joplin, Mo. George . P. Andrews, general manager of the Hero Mining Company, was drowned. In an. under ground stream when' a scow carrying State Representative James Roach and Cyrus W. Wyckoff, ground fore man of the Hero mine, capsized. Cannon Going Home, by Automobile. Washington, D. C. Speaker Can non is planning to return to his home in Illinois as soon as Congress ad journs, by automobile. West Virginia Favors Bryan. .Wheeling, W. Va. West Virginia Democrats held district conventions to select delegates to the convention' at Denver. At all the conventions William J. Bryan was indorsed. Wants 21,140 Harvesters. ; Topeka, Kan. T. B. Gerow, direc tor of the State Free Employment Bureau, estimated that 21,140 men from other States and 1975 teams will be necessary to harvest the crop In the wheat belt. To Leave All Troops in Cuba. Washington, D, C The announce ment was made at the War Depart ment that a decision had been reached not to withdraw any of the American troops from Cuba at the present time. Contests in Chicago Convention. Chicago. A tabulation of contests over credentials of delegates to the Republican National Convention made by Secretary Elmer Dover showed sixty-seven district contests, six State contests and a contest in Alaska. Opium Popular With Smart Set. San Francisco, Cal. According to Charles B. Whilden. secretary of the State Board of Pharmacy, opium smoking is increasing in this city and young men and women of the smart set form a not inconsiderable part of the growing army of smokers. Thomas F. Ryan a Delegate. Richmond, Va. Thomas F. Ryan, of New York, who retains a legal resi dence in this' State, was chosen by the people of Nelson County as one of the delegates to the State Democratic Convention. David Henderson Dead. Chicago. David Henderson, who built the Chicago Opera House and was the father of extravaganza in the West, died here, aged fifty-eight. The Mohmands Beaten. London. The outbreak among the Mohmand tribesmen in India is col lapsing. General Willcocks has -in flicted several sharp - defeats ' upon them and they are submitting uncon ditionally. Five Republics Court. Cartago, Costa Rica. The Central American Court of Justice held its opening session in this city. The day was observed as a national holiday throughout Costa Rica; Nicaragua, Salvador and Honduras. This court is an outcome of the Central Ameri can Peace Conference, held in Wash ington last year. France and Germany Agree. Berlin. A full understanding be tween France and Germany relative to Morocco was reached at a recent conference between the French Am bassador to Germany and the German Foreign Minister. Scotch Home Rule. London. Another of the pledges given by Winston Spencer Churchill In his recent electoral campaign in Dundee has borne quick fruit, and a home-rule-for-Scotland bill was intro duced in the House of Commons by Duncan Vernon Pirie, member for North. Aberdeen. Cholera in Philippines. Manila. Cholera has apparently taken a serious foothold in the prov ince of Pangasinan. Four cities, in cluding Dagupah, are infected, and the Bureau of Health is sending addi tional inspectors, planning to stamp out the disease. The family of the lightkeeper at Dagupan was infected, and five of its members died. Their condition was discovered through their Inability to extinguish the light in the day time. Irrigation For Cuba. Havana.' Governor Magoon has addressed a letter -to the Advisory Commission instructing, that ,body to frame an irrigation law, irrigation be lng.one of the greatest needs of. Cu ban agriculture. - Want Opium TExcluded From Hawaii. Honolulu. The Chinese: United So ciety and the Chinese Anti-Opium League have cabled 'Senator Joseph B. Foraker, of Ohio, urging the pas sage by Congress of the hill prohibit ing the 'importation 'of opium to the Hawaiian Islands. ' ,. 4 Fon Killed, Sixty; Hurt. ; ; Buenos Ayres. A, collision at rreCbBtween a train f the rural rallwayajt tne Lacroze -company and a tramcar of the same company in the outskirts of . this city. vThe tram--car, "In. which were "more than 100 passengers, was. completely destroyed. Four persons" were killed and sixtj injured, several, it is feared, mortally. Battleship's Bow Pierced. .St. Petersburg. The Russian bat. tleship Peter the Great, which ran on me luv&a ju iiic uuii r imauu, t . refloated without assistance, althougl the rocks in the Gulf of Finland, waj ' her bow was pierced SIXTIETH CONGRESS ENDS ITS FIRST SE Adjourns Quickly After Senate Passes: Currency Bilt , APPROPRIATIONS BREAK RECORD Billion Dollars Expended at This Ses sion Government Employers Liability Bill Put Through. President Pleased With Results. . measures w03t and lost by president: The President Obtained Emergency Currency . bill. Program of two battleships a year.,- Increased pay for . the army, navy, marine corps and revenue cutter service. Consular reorganization. Commission to Investigate cur rency laws. Preliminary investigation of the tariff by experts. Employers' liability. Child labor law. for District of Columbia and Territories. The -President -Lost Ocean Mail Subsidy. Anti-Injunction act. Amendments to Sherman Anti Trust law. Government liability. Continuance of Inland Water ways Commission. Physical valuation of railroads. Suspension of commodity clause of the Rate law. Appalachian Forest Reserve. Philippines tariff. 'Administration Brownsville bill. Ratification of Berlin Wireless Treaty. - Washington, D. C. The first ses sion of the Sixtieth Congress ad journed sine die at 11.50 o'clock p. m. amid roaring song in the House and with its customary solemnity in the Senate. As usual the House gal leries were crowded, many with "Mer ry Widow" hats apparently. President Roosevelt arrived at the Capitol at 9.05 o'clock to sign bills. He came in an open carriage and was in evening dress, with a white rose in his lapel. He was conducted to his room by Secretary Loeb, Sergeant-at-Arms Ransdell and two Secret Serv ice men. Secretaries Root, Cortel you and Garfield and First Assistant Postmaster-General Grandfield await ed him to advise on bills passed. One of the first measures signed was the Currency bill. This was done after the President had had a ten minute earnest talk with Senator Al drich. The committees of House and Sen ate called at 10 o'clock to inform the President that by joint resolution the Congress would adjourn at 11.50 p. m. and to ask if he had any further business to lay before the body. Mr. Roosevelt said no. The Government Liability bill was signed by the President and Vice President before- it was finally ap proved by the Senate in order to ex pedite business. The last bill signed was the Omnibus Territorial measure at 11 p. m. The President started for the White House at 11.03. He pock eted a bill to compensate inventors for inventions used by the Govern ment. That meant that it was ve toed. ; The President, in conversing with several members, told them that he was very will satisfied with the ac complishments of the Congressional session. The great filibuster' against the adoption of the Aldrich-Vreeland cur rency makeshift came to an end just before 5 o'clock in the afternoon. The conference report was adopted, 43 to 22. Five Republicans, Borah, Bourne, Brown, Heyburn and La Fol lette, voted with seventeen Democrats to make the 22. No Democrat went on record for the bill. There was a dramatic finish to the theatrical filibuster. Senator Stone left the chamber while the blind Sen ator Gore was speaking. He had not returned when Gore finished, although he had expected to be back to take up the time-killing. Senator La Follette, who had been told that he might take eight hours rest and that the floor would be kept, had not returned. As Gore finished he turned his sightless eyes toward Stone's seat, ex pecting to hear him claim recognition. Instead, Vice-President Jb airDanits or dered a vote. Before any Senator could do anything the roll was being called. A TWO-BILLION-DOLLAR CONGRESS Washington, D. C. .The one that ended was the most expensive session of Congress in the history of the country, it means more than a two-billion-dollar Congress. The first session of the Fifty-ninth Congress appropriated $879,589,185. The present session exceeds that enor mous sum by approximately $144, 000,000. , Nearly 30,000 bills were introduced at this session, beating all previous records. In the Senate 7270 bills were presented, and in the House 22,266. About 200 public and 100 private acts have become laws at this session. The 100 private acts include about 4000 private claims. It is estimated thatl $1,000,0.00 has been saved in printing and other expenses bycol- lecting these measures into omnibus bills. coMMiSsion7on CURRENCY NAMED . Washington,, D. C The Vice-Pres ident announced Senators Aldrich, Allison, Burrows, Hale, Knox, Daniel, t Teller,? Money . and Bailey as members of ther Currency Commission ." The Speaker appointed as members of the- Commission on behalf .of the House: Vreeland, New York; Over street, Indiana rBurton, Ohio; Weeks Massachusetts; : Bonynge, Colorado; Smith. California, Republicans; Padgett, Tennessee; Burgess, Texas, and Pujo, Louisiana, Democrats: ; tr." i REStr Miss building. Epecling 3few Shops - at Omaha to Cost $2,000,000. Omaha, Neb. The Union Pacific Railroad will immediately resume the spending of money, and General Man aeer Mohler. - of that railroad, an nounced to the Omaha Commercial Club that Mr. Harriman had author ized him to proceed with the building of the company's new shops in Omaha, the -construction ' of which was halted when the financial dis LUi uauvo vciiiic uu laai iaii - aiic xa t shops .will Tequire the expenditure of turbance came on last fall. The new bout $2,000,000. CLOSING XSosing" at" CLapcf Hill v Maris v- the r End "of This Year Successful Year's Work. Chapel. Hill," Special. The com mencement exercises of the State University ..were marked By unusual finterest this year. Judge Pritchard addressed -tpe senior class on 'JThe Judiciary.' There were . fifty-seven graduates, representing many of, the most prominent -families in North Carolina and other States. President Oscar R. Rand, of Smithfield, who was ..recently" , awarded the - Cecil Rhodtes scholarship to Oxford Uni versity from North Carolina and who has 'been a leading spirit in his class for years, was in charge of the exer cises. Education and democracy, was the ' basic ' theme treated in his ad dress. The class history was read by J. A. Andrews of Chapel Hill. II. B. Gunterwas class prophet, J. W. Hester announced the class1 gift and M.L. Wright, of Greensboro, read the elass will. The exercises were of a ' very high order, reflecting the ex cellent work done by the University the past year. Young Man is Drowned. Greensboro, Special. Will Lyon, the 17-year-old son and only child of Mr. and Mrs. William S. Lyon, of this city, was drowned while swim ming in Lake Wilf ong, at Guilford Battle Ground, Saturday afternoon. The body was recovered after a search of about two hours. : Young Lyon was accompanied by two boy sompanions, the three riding out to the battle ground on their bicycles early in the afternoon. Soon after going into the' water Lyon was attack ed by cramp, slaking before his companions' could " reach"' him. The dead boy was a manly young fellow, of spotless character and pure' life, and had the confidence and esteem of all who knew him. He held a posi tion in the Commercial National Bank. Asheville Man Dies Suddenly. Asheville, Special. Asheville Was shocked to learn of the death Satur day morning a few minutes after 3 o'clock of Mr. W. A. Boyce, proprie tor of the W. A. Boyce hardware es tablishment of this city and one of the best known and most highly re spected citizens of the city. Mr. Boyce 's death occurred at his home on Haywood street after a few hours of acute illness. While he had been in bad health for the past several months and recently suffering fear fully with neuralgia, none of his friends or acquaintances thought for an instant that his illness was serious and the announcement of his death came as a distinct shock. Big Sum For a Patent. Lexington, Special. Mr. H. Cam Heitman, who recently invented and secured a patent on an automatic hanging arc light and took the matter up with the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, of Pittsburg, has been offered by the above company the sum of $125,000, he states for the right in the United States and Germany. The Wetsing- house Company writes Mr. Heitman that after testing: the arc light tor twenty-four hours they are ; satisfied it is the most perfect thing of the kind yet invented. The light with this arrangement only needs trimming ev ery three months. It holds sixteen carbons and has other attachments. Mr. Heitman wants not less than $200,000 for the patent. Been Collecting Too Much. Winston-Salem, Special. Forsyth is one of those counties that las been violating the poll tax law. For ears the sheriffs have been collect ing $3.30 on polls in Winson township and $2.70 in all townsnips outsicie oi the twin city. Salisbury Men Quarrel and Shoot on Street. Salisbury, Special. N. S. Freeman a coco cola dealer, of Salisbury, was fired upon on the street here by C. M. Bailey, a saloon-keeper, who claims he was assaulted by freeman. The eun was knocked out of Bailey's land and the men were soon separ ated. The shooting followed a quar rel. Boy Killed by Train. New Bern, Special. Willie Boy- efete, a white- boy, fourteen years old, was killed here while jumping on a string of moving cars in the Norfolk and Southern yards. . In some way he lost his grip and his clothes caught, dragging him along the cross- ties until he was dead, ine Doay nn ally fell away from the track, and was not mangled. His father, W. J. Boyetre, an employ of the Norfolk and Southern, was at worH in tne railroad shops only a short distance away from the place wjiere the acci dent happened. . Pardons Refused. Pardons are refused Sam Watson, Chatham ; Ed Causey, Guilford ; Nick Harper,; Halifax; W. J. ArcnDen, Beaufort; D. A. West, Buncombe; Champ B. Elliot, McDowell; Warren Perkins, Meclenbhrg; Francis Burris, 7 m 1 .1 3 1 Stanly; and C. A. fcincKiana, wnose county is not named. Perkins was convicted of murder in tne second degree two years ago and sentenced to twelve years in the penitentiary On "a Grave Chargl ' Salisbury'. Special. M.. F. Batch er, a well known Salisbury lawyer, was served wilh summons in arrest and bail proceedings in a civil action for damages in which W. A. Marks, of Albemarle, charges Mr. Hatcher with the seduction act under promise of snarriage of his daughter, Sallie Marks. The latter is about 17 years old. Mr. Hatcher promptly gave a five thousand bond and employed able -ounsel, who state that they will prove their client innocent. JAS. K. ONES DEAD Was Long a Prominent Figure in National Politics WAS BRYAN'S FIRST MANAGER Former United States Senator Barnes K. Jones Dies at His Home in Washington After a Brief Illness Was Member of the Senate from 1885 to 1903 and Was Prominent in the Councils of the Democratic Party. Washington, Special. : Former United States Senator James K. Jone?, of Arkansas , died at his resi dence here at 5:30 Monday afternoon after an illness of a few hours, aged 69. He was one of the leading Dem ocrats in the Senate from 1885 to 1903 and was one of the strongest supporters of 'William J. Bryan, hav ing, as chairman of the Democratic national committee, conducted the campaign of 1896 and 1900. Since leaving the Senate in 1903 he has conducted a law practice in this city and has not actively engaged in poli tics. On Friday Senator Jones returned from a visit to his daughter, Mrs. Leonora Carrigan, in Arkansas, and Sunday night was apparently enjoy ing good health. Complaining slight ly Monday morning, he remained in bed and died that afternoon, the im mediate cause of death being heart failure. A native of Mississippi, where he was born in 1839, James Kimbrough Jones received a classical education and fought as a private soldier in the Confederate ranks throughout the Civil war. Becoming a resident of Dallas county, Arkansas, he lived on his plantation1 there until 1873, when he took up the practice of law. He was elected to the State Senate the same year, and became president of that body in 1877: Afterward he was elected to the Forty-seventh and the two succeeding Congresses, and in 1885 succeeded to the seat of James D. Walker in the United States Sen ate, where he served three terms, re tiring in 1903. Senator Jones was a delegate to the national Democratic convention 1896 which gave Mr. Bryan his first nomination and as chairman of the committee on resolutions he re ported the 16 to 1 platform. He was made chairman of the Democratic national committee after the conven tion and as such conducted both of the Bryan campaigns for the presi dency In the Senate Jones came xorwara rapiaiy - n i ' 1 1 J? 4-1, -w Iah ers oi ins panv mm years chairman of the Democratic national committee. He was a mem ber of the sub-committee on finance which reported ' the Wilson-Gorman tariff bill and was an earnest advo- cate of taritt revision aiuiouBii not an orator, Senator Jones was a forceful and lodcal speaker and was .... otten in debate. Senator Jones is survived by his wife and three emmren. mrs. im- gan of Arkansas; Miss Sue Jones and James K. Jones, Jr., of this city. Sen- ator Jones will be buried in this city ana many oi iu - Congress who have not yet left the city will remain to attend the lunerai. Coke Ovens Resume Work. Bristol, Va., Special. One thous and coke ovens of the Stonega Coal & Coke Company, in Wise county, Virginia, will be put into aperation this week, after being suspended sev eral weeks. Other industries in the coal fields are preparing to resume, most of them having been idle since I number and January. beveral thousand men will be put to work . against within - two weeks. juempnis, x. meeting of the State presidents ot the Farmers' Educational and uo-upera- tin pi r sessions wo tv,o -V ntnl acreasre of cotton planted May 30th was estimated at with 23.832,00 Oacres as compareu . a. 31,311,000 acres in 1907 government 5 v, -t: tH Th?, estimate is comput- wife and family living m South Caro- caLliJioity. ' ed from reports from all sections. More Votes For Hearst. wPW York. Special. The contents of 26 baUot boxes had been reeount- whPn the work of counting the ballots cast for W. R. Hearst and George B. McClellan, in the last may- oralty election ended for the day. J - The net result was a gam ot u ence of the court 10 boxes of ballots were counted, giving Mr. Hearts a gain of four votes for the day. More than 1,900 boxes remain to oe count- ed Last Day of Conference Baltimore, Special The Methodist Episcopal General Conference during the last day oi its session am thinira 1rat it will doubtless be much things, but it win u rUOf the Zo ha! been Zo do. Ot these, two rmetM1iM Sramnse the amusement q , , ter of -a nme .umi "iT Nth-er--W--perim fore the Conference for Discussion. a imjtiuciin Loss of life IttTexM Flood. ' Fort Worth, Tex. Special. A flood caused by terrific raius is. doing great damage here. The Trinity river naa overflown its banKs, ana eun ted along it are inundated. It is De- lieved that 12 persons have lost then 1 1 n w A lives Five thousand peopie are u lass here and at North Fort Worth Twenty-five hundred sheep are pen ned there drowned. The railroad ser- "HVmflrp.ns have ivice 13 paiaivi. -been rescued with boats. Items Gathered From Ad Big Storm in Buncombe. .. Asheville, Special fieports re ceived here are to the effect that one of the severest storms in the history of Buncombe county passed over the BemV Creek, Flat - Creek and Ivy sections of the county Wednesday, loing thousandsjf dollars' worth of damage to lands by 'washing and to crops. The storm was little short of a cloudburst. Reem's ereek went 18 inches higher than it had ever been blown to go before. The abutments it a new steel bridge across the creek were washed away, while a mill near Weaverville was damaged $20,000. The creek rose rapidly after Ahe storm had passed and as a result of this an old couple, Mr. and Mrs. Mc Canless, of Baker's Mill, came near losing their lives. Mr. and Mrs. Mc Canless went out to' view their gar den to see what damage had been lone when the waters rose and cut them off from their house. They were marooned on a strip of land scarcely six feet square, where they were forced to remain in water until near midnight. . Efforts to rescue them were futile. Had the creek risen much further they would prob ably have been drowned. Davidson Gets $100,000. The general education board en dowed by John D. Rockefeller, gave out for publication a resume of gifts made to colleges and institutions, and also announced the election to the Doard of President Charles W. Elliot, of Harvard, and Andrew Carnegie. The list of gifts was announced as follows: Davidson College, Davidson, N. C, $100,000; Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y. $50,000 Knox Col lege, Galesburg, 111., $50,000;; Wa bash College, Crawfordsville Ind.,. 50,000; Williamsburg Institute, Williamsburg, Ky., $50,000; Univer sity of Rochester, Rochester, N. Y., 30,000; Smith College, Northampton, Mass., $12,500; MacAlester College, St. Paul, Minn., $75,000; William Jewett College, Liberty, Mo., $125, )00; Western College for Women, Dxford, 0., $50,000; Harvard Univer sity, Cambridge," Mass. (for graduate school of business) $62,000; for far mers co-operative demonstration work in the Southern States, $80,000 ; for special high school agents in con aection with State universities in the Snnthpm States. R20.000: Hamnton nstitut H t' Va $ 10 00o ;Tu3- k Institute; Alabama, $10,000; - c.m;n)1TT. Atlanta. fi12.- 500; total $782,522. Three Interesting Opinions Ra.le Sp6CialrT ?r- ouun "V"1"". ? "F""- Friday. That of Commissioners of Pitt county against McDonald m- I it. 1 J : J ;L. T qui t n Eastern Training School at Green - vine, wmcn uav hag been done tQ thjJ trucking in. held valid. The buyer now wante. cannot be learned for a d adjudication so that the county can; , . , . exceed the limit of taxation to payjth CTaduatinff exercises for the city .. j, jourt declines to do as there was no such promise in the statute under which the people voted the bonds. In Holtwell against Borden, from Wayne, it is held that bonds issued to build a schoolhouse are not valid anlsss submitted to the vote of the; people In Victor against Louise Cotton Mills, from Mecklenburg, it is held to be ultra vires and without authori ty for a corporation to insure the lives of its officers out of the corpor ation's funds. .i u owiaua ouil vuu Wuv Ufu was that ot Adoipnus Ingram, wno was sentenced to the penitentiary for four , years, for bigamy, m eloping with and marrying: Ito Neal, a young I r-i-i-1 f oTYiTwalltriri -mhi la Vimrincr a lina. Rope Broke, .Elevator eu. Asheville, Special. An accident that may prove fatal befell Seeb ttrant at, tne Asnevme launary xn- day morning. Grant had gone to the third floor to make some repairs and was starting down the elevator when Vw.L-o a-nA tha elvornr with " jrX 7 'w. tmtv Grant was rendered unconsci- and remained in this condition for several hours. An examination established the tact tnat anere were six uwunu5. - j lungs and bladder. To Reduce The Cotton Crop. Charlotte, Special. Hundreds of acres' of cotton in Mecklenburg, Ca- k j Uncoln and oher J Darrus' .' . . , L hoinine counties are being and have been, cut out.by the members of the Farmers' Union in accordance with a general plan to reduce the acreage . thi heroic system 0f weeding out .1v' from whole fields " nn1 other nun iiiiLiiLiui: j u f-' " and planting: corn, peas farm products and grain in tne piace of cotton Farmer Finds English Coin. Clinton; Special.' Mr.. Murphy Smith, --a farmer of we county, was 'lauling straw on his place the othet day and found an'English penny with a head of George the Third on it. and Brittanki on the other side.. It is latcd 1775. The figures and letter- n? are auite plain, though the coin vas evidently lost during the Rcvolu- iouary war times. TOPICS 1 Sections of the State Y PlT0 Convicts Pardoned. Raleigh, Special.-1 Governor Glenn' Friday granted five pardons and re fused ten applications. , Pardons are granted to the follow ing: Amzie Helms, Mecklenburg ' coun ty, sentenced to 12 months on the road for manslaughter. Helms was a youth of fine character' and the mother of the girl whom he killed joins in the request for pardon. ,: Joseph Dauley, Bertie county, 2 years for carnal knowledge of a child. The Governor believes on testimony that the man is innocent. C. W. Hyams, Mecklenburg county,1 12 months for larceny. Hyams was once a professor in the A. and M. Col lege in Raleigh, and took books from lawyers. Many persons have asked the Governor to give the man anoth er chance. Jack Palmer, Wilson county, for storebreaking, sentenced to three years. The man has constimtibn and will die if kept in jail, and is too weak to work. George Rhyne, Gaston county, six months for larceny. The pardons refused were as fol lows: Sam "Watson, Chatham county, murder in second degree, sentenced for 25 years. Ed. Causey, Guilford, larceny, two years. ' W. J. Archbell, Beaufort county, six months for assault with deadly weapon. Warren Perkins, Mecklenburg, murder in second degress. 12 years. Pure Food Law Effective July 1. Raleigh, Special. Mr. Allen, head of the pure food section of the Agri cultural Department, says that on the 1st of July the law becomes ef fective -whick forbids the use of any preservatives in foods. This vril be strictly enforced and the sale of all such food will be prohibited. Many manufacturers of foods who had said they could not put tfp and ship them I unless preservatives were used are now sending them out pure and in proper shape. Mr. Allen, says the law is sweeping. The department has usuallv depended on publicity, which 15 reaiiy more powenui, ne uuhkk, 11 . 1 1 A 1 1 I lMn arrests ana wonaenui improve- ent has been made m the foods on saic ill Lino uiatc. Bad Storm at Newbern. Newbern, Special. The worst storm in several 'years has raged here all day. Four inches of rain fell, the d has been- blowing a gale all day and th tide is higher than in the nr . . the city electric plant has been out of ; how much dam. school were postponed until Monday, Receiver For Printing Company Ask ed For. Winstom-Salem, Special. The reg ular two weeks' term of Forsyth Su- jperior Court adjourned late Friday afternoon. Major J. E. Alexander, at torney for Bradley Reese Company, made application for a receiver for the King Printing Company, of this city, Friday afternoon. The motion was continued until June 15th, when the matter will probably be heard be fore Judge Jones. Items! of State News. The State Agricultural Department asked its fifteen hundred correspond ents for information as to the acre. asre of crops May 20th, compared with last year's acreage, whicch is put down as 100, and the reports show the acreage of cotton this year is 97, corn 100, tobacco 102, pea nuts 101. The North Carolina National Guard. Raleigh, Special. Adjutant Gen eral T. R. Robertson has issued com missions to the following officers oi Company G, Second Infantry, North Carolina National Guard, at Wash ington; Captain O. B. Wynne; First Lieutenant, J. F. Ross; Second Lieu tenant, R. B. Cowell. General Rob ertson has accepted the resignation of Z. L Walser, First Lieutenant Company A, Third Infantry, Lexing ton, and W. 0. Brown, Second Lieu tenant Company L Third Infantry, Greensboro. North f Carolina Flags. Raleigh, Special. Adjutant Gen eral T. R. Robertson has received in telligence from New Jersey that two or three North Carolina battle flags used during the civil war and in the possession of that State will soon be. returned to North Carolina, general Robertson would like to get in com munication with the" rightful owner of a Bible found at Fort Fisher, bear ing in it the name of 'W. H. Hinton, Company I, 30th North Carolina." Lonisbnrg Mattress Factory Burned. Louisburg, Special. Fire Thurs day morning about 8 o'clock destroy- ' ed the Louisburg Mattress Factory, leaving only the shell of the two-story brick building. The loss is about $390, fully' covered by insurance. Th fire havj ht the Hp. , story among shucks near th. shredding machinery.