North Carolina Newspapers

'I -1 " tfl FLOWERS COLLECTiOPL A Home Newspaper Published in the Interest of the People and for Honesty in Governmental Affairs. ' '. - : . ; Salisbury, N. C. Tuesday, March 23rd, 1909. VOL. V. NO. 14. Wm, H. Stewart, Editob. 1- h. : ; - STATESYiLLE AND IREDELL COUNTY. Ksri Yictias of tbs Cloer Brothers. New Yerters Charmed WiUi North Carolina '"' Oratsry. BUtVtTlUe Landmark. March lth. Qeorge Church, who has a posi Mcm at the plant of the States- ; Oil & Fertilizer Company ftQgjdeotally stepped into a seed eljrator at' the mill Friday and bis foot was badly- crushed . A 7 physician dressed the injury im mjediatf after the accident and it is not thought that it will re sult seriously. J.- M. Gabriel, who some weeks age underwent an operation for appendicitis at the Long sanatori qi- has abut recovered his length and Friday went to his home in .Catawba county. Mr. Ghfi&riel hadjbee . ut of the sana tcjrinm abput tn . weeks but kept iqpors until Friday. Tho number of the victims of the Cloer brothers, check flash etsV will probably never be fully tuwn, Ihe other day R. F. Bur . a-"n, cashier of a bank at Marion, uwas shown a photograph of Bob Cider and recognized him as the mn who passed a forged check on ;fiint. Mr. Barton did not state th amount o the check. There are doubtlesmany other victims ofthe Oloers who haven't made thi fact known. Telling it won't the money back and noue are anxious to admit we've bentaken in: . '. While J. J. Nicholson, of Beth- any township, was helping to ad just a disc harrow a few days ago, a piece of the machinery slipped anditruck him a terrible blow id the face. Mr. Nicholson wis in town Friday and his face plainly ahowed the marks of his encounter wiihthe harrow. Gen; J. F. Armfield returned Friday fiomNew York, wnere- -he was called as a character witness in the Lumsden tual. Gen. Arm field says the eloquence of Gov. Aycock, who appeared for Lums duu at the trial, attracted the at tention of the New Yorkers. Th district attorney, in clos ing for the prosecution, said the speech of the ex-governor was the most eloquent ever heard in that court room, and he warned the jury not to be moved by it. Thirteen cars of the eastbouod freight .train No. 74 were derailed and partially destroyed at a point pear Cojmelly Springs Friday moming, but all the train crew escape-injury. Three of the wrecked cars were loaded with live stock and a number of horses and cows were killed. The track was badly damaged and traffic was de layed several -hours. Passenger trains Ijot. $6 and 11 transferred passengers at the scene of wreck. Tfee wreck js supposed to have been caused either by the break- in 2 down of a heavy coal car or the breaking of a rail. Culprits Fearing Purnishment. It isf learned here that Judge Fereuson and Judge Ward have made au exchange of courts, and that Judge Ward will preside over the spring .term of the Superior court for trial of criminal cases, whiph cpnyenes here April 9th. Judge Ward created quite a stir here last fall in regard to the sen-r tepees of Gases of conviction for violations of the prohibition law, and it is predicted that there will be apother shake-up when he re tains, in April. The last Legisla tore amended the Ashville polioe court Jaw by giving Superior court concurrent jurisdiction with i, polioe court in whiskey casa, A no few persons herean -u' looking for grand jury indi . for liquor violations when c convenes. Asheville dispatch. Kills Would-Be-Slayer. A merciless murderer is Ap pendicitis with many victims. But Pr. ging's New Life Pills kill It by prevention. They gently stimulate stomach, liver and bowels, preventing that clvgging that invites appendicitis, curing Constipation, Billiousness, Chills, Malaria, Headache and Indiges tion. 25o at all Druggists. UARRllD IN 6AST0NIA. But the Hppi Couple Took no Friends Into Their Confidence. Dr. J. Tnoiaas Wright and Mrs. Lillian Frontis, both of this city, were married! in Gastoaia Febru i:6feh. Rev. W. H. Hardin of the Episcopal church officiating. For severalldays it has been ru mored that Df . Wright and Mrs . Frontis were jmarried, but the ru- mor could not ne vennea, as ir. Wright when Questioned by a Journal reporter denied its truth t -m. ... fulness. The rjUmorwAB, however, so persistent f tnat ine journal . .8.1 m i T ' i queried the iregister of deeds in both Mecklenburg and Gaston counties, the tumor having both as the i place I of' the ceremony. Yesterday a reply was received from the Gaston man to the effect that they had been marmd on the 26th of last month. f' A reporter called on Dr. Wright yesterday, shqwed him the tele gram and asked him for a state ment. He admitted that the in formation waj correct and ex plained that fpr reasons satis fac prikto bimselfjand wife they had endeavored to eep the marriage a secret for m time and conee quently had been denying the ru mor. .4 - " . Mrs. Wright, fwho was formerly Alias Lillian Pits, is well known in this city, having lived here practically all hfcr life. She has a large circle of friends and ac quaintaLces who will be interest ed to learn :'ofh'e marriage. - Dr. Wright 6a?me here from Sal isbury about six years ago . He is a writer of note, both . of litera ry and medical works, aod his pro- ductions iiave been published in magazines "and medical journals of national "reputation. He is a member of an old and well known Salisbury fami ly I Winston; Jour nal. New Tariff Bill. The middle of June is generally predicted to-day as the time when the Payne tariflf bill may reach President Taft foff his signature. Among Democrajts some of the cuts are so radical that they art, looking for a "joker" in the "bill, Among Republicans many expres sions of disapproval of the pro posed rate cuts jare heard and a flood of amendments are expected from this source.! The Ways aod Means committee met to-day to prepare a formal re port of the bill balck to the House. The general debate will begin Monday and progress depends largely upon thej attitude of. the Democrats. As fill, even Leader Champ Clark, were kept in com plete ignorance oi the bill before it was introduced! by Payne, their plan of campaign is not yet de termined. It willpkely take form in a minority report, setting forth the minority's objections to the bill. j The Ways andlVeans committee adopted Representative Payne's motion recommending the new i - tariff bill to-day! by a vote of 13 to 6. The Democrats Opposed it excepting Broussafd, of Louisiana, the new member of the committee who voted with the Republicans. The Democrats were given until Tuesday to preparf, a minority re port. Chairman Payne reported the tariff lill back to the House at 12 :02, with recommendation that it pa88.--Washingon dispatch. We learn that it is a settled fact that there will sdon be another cottvt dij.j omit $t -banais ny a at ,r. : ' mpany. The lumber for h . ... st ruction ol tenant houses i iug hauled and placed on the aude, and the grounds are be g cleared off for i the buildings. The mill will be erected about two hundred yards south from where the present mill now stands and will be on the eame side of the railroad. J. Jf you'd be drubbed a handsome girl, ... And win a hadsome Knight, The secret here I do impart, Take Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea, at night. Cfornelison .and Cook, LEX1N6T0N AND DAVIDSON COUNTY. Drink Causes More Murder. Complaint Road Conditions In Davidson. Lexington Dispatch. March 17th. Saturday morning between four and five o'clock the factory build ing formerly occupied by the Lex ington Metal Bed Company was burned. How the blaze started is unknown, because the place had, not been used for months, and no fire had been in it fora long time; but it seems pretty certain -that somebody set it going, either by design or accident . The roads are 'simply awful." Every farmer who can get to town theBe days tells the same" story of mud, mud, mud. During such seasons busipess is crippled, traffic almost suspended, money lost, time wasted. Every time a farmer comes in the office with mud all over his clothes and an exausted expression on his tace, telling about ho tt bad our highways are, we look at a picture on the wall a picture showing a team of two horses, hauling 12 bales of cotton to market over the roads in Meck lenburg. In Davidson at this time that load would require at least 12 horses and 12 wag- ons, and over someoi tneroaas we doubt if one horse could navigate with a single bale of cotton. It is learned that the J. W. Gregory who killed a man at Lan caster, S. C, on the ord of March, is the J. W. Gregory who former ly operated a marble yard and monument business in Lexington He married a Miss Hinkle, of this county, and is well-known in Lex ington.' The shooting resulted froma trivial matter, and probably would not have occurred had not Gregory been drinking. He shot the man five times, it is said, and his victim died shortly afterward. aerevwaa a . case in dhe . recent Iiavidson court "againsP Gregory, charging forgery, but it was nol. prossed with leave. Friday Rev. T. R. Taggart, the new pastor of the First Presby terian church, arrived from Norns own Pa., with Mrs. Taggart and their infant son, and were com fortably installed in the manse, which had been made ready by the ladies of the church who liberally "pounded" their minister before he came. Sunday the new pastor held his first services, morning and evening. The interior of the church had been greatly improved and was finished in every particu lar by the time Mr. Taggart arriv ed. The people of Lexington ex tend a warm welcome to this min ister and his family and trust that they will find our town a pleasant home. Hooper Convicted The jury in the I. L. Hooper house-burning case redered a ver diet of guilty to-day at 12 o'clock after deliberating two days. Im mediately Judge Peebles sentenced Hcoper to three years at hard la bor on the county chain gang The defendant's council made ap plication for a near trial, which was denied, whereup.n notice of an appeal was given, Hooper was released under a $2,000 bond. Thus closes one of the moBt sensational and most unusual trials ever neia nere, in wmcn a man and woman of respectability on Wnflina wr nharcrArf surance which as six times more than the value of the household goods. A man and woman, neigh bors, were star witnesses. Hooper and Mrs, Gray's husband were both traveling salesmen for A. B, Seely & Son, J. S. Seely, of the firm having married a sister of Mrs. Gray and Hooper's deceased wife Elizabeth City special to Charlotte Observer. It Saved His Leg. "AH thought J'd lose my leg," writesJ. A Sweneon, Watertown, Wis. "Ten years of eczema,- that la doctors coma not cure, had at last laid me up. Then Bucklen'B Arnica Salve oured it Bouud and won. xuiauiuie xux o&iu -Ej rup- tions, Eczema, Salt Rheum, Boils, Fever Sores, Burns, Scalds, Cuts and Piles. 25c at all Druggists. SORRY FOR RAILROADS. Road Gets Lots ot Abuse and a Little Sym pathy May be Appreciated. That was a fearful wreck occur ed on the Southern last Friday morning about 2 miles above Hildebrand. We went up "to see it. Language can hardly describe it. There were hundreds of peo ple there. So many that one could hardly see or learn anything for the multitude. You could hear everything and see most any- mug. Two wtuid see sne eame thing at the same time and both telt a different tale. There never has been any agreement as to how many oawrwere wrecked and how many were loaded with co,ws. Some said 13 cars, some said 14' and some said more. Some said there were 3 cars of cattle, others said 2. All agreed there was one ear load of bones, but to us, it looked like two. There were several car loads of coal, several with lumber, and one or two with furniture. All the norses and cows were not killed, but it is a wonder they were not all killed. Some were so badly hurt they had to be killed. Some, especially, the cows looked like they were uot hurt at all, but it is a wonder they were not all kill ed. Our Hickory people went un and bought the cattle and horses. No one did not seem to know whose stock it was. Anyway, the rail road company sold the n. We can t begin to describe now the stock was wedged in together. Some were still alive, and trying to eat grass. It was heart rend 4.1 1 ing. We feel sorry for therailroad company. Can't help it, The loss will be great. The company will have to pay big damages or fight it through the court. And we know what that means i Me i eg a ricK'r.rAtiQrai;' a'V big. corporation. Just as wen tell the truth about it. The comoauv will be treated as though it did it on purpose. Everybody knows that the company don't want wrecks. Hicory Mercury. Grew Tired Dodging Officers. W. E. Setzer, who has been dodging the officers since last sum mer to evade trial on charges of illicit distilling, walked into the court house Saturday, surrender ed to the officers and gave bond for his appearance at court. It is said that he has been hiding in Virginia. Last' summer Sheriff Summers found a blockade dis tilling outfit near Setzer's home m obiloh township, betzer was sus pected of operating the outfit and was subsequently arrested. He gave bond for his appearance at court and then disappeared. For a time it was believed that he was hiding nearby, but the officers could not locate mm. ne is a I -m t 1 TT well known larmer and nis case has attracted considerable atten tion ana comment. . infre was mi considerable surprise when he came in and surrendered. .5tates- ville special to Charlotte Obser ver. Avarice got Him In Trouble, Because neighbors of Burt Hol land, in a settlement in McDowell county saw smoke coming from his kitchen chimney night and daV. they gossiped that he must wife to cook. This talk reached United States revenue . omcers nere, ana tney raided the bouse. They found a barrrel of whiskey and flasks, but suspected nothing else until, in vestigating a concealed, opening in tho kitchen floor, they found a cavern containing a whiskey still. The smoke from the still passed up the chim-ey. Water was brought in by an underground pipe, while the refu.se passed into a sewer. The still-had run undetected un til the avarious Holland Was not satisfied to operate merely while meals would naturally be cooking, but kepfe t,he still going night and day. Asheville dispatch. The Watchman, $1.00 the year. ALBEMARLE AND STANLY COUNTY. Railroad Construction. Improvement in Freight Traffic. What Is a Dai's Work? Stanly Enterprise, March. 18th. The little son of Mrs. Baldwin is no better. He was carried to Salisbury, where he tvill undergo an, operation. He was accompa nied by Dr. T. A. Hathcock. Norwood correspondent, i The freight traffic is now on the mend after skipping us some few days. dipt. Lowder pulled in Friday night with 18 cars of mer chandise. Norwood eat. correspond- Miss Jennie Davis, of Hender sonville, and Miss Mabel Sbuman, of Salisbury, were guests of fors. D, C. Kluttz on Monday and Tues day. Mr. Coley, of Salisbury, an ex pert buggy trimmer, has accepted a position with the Stanly Carri age Company . There has been considerable sickness and suffering in our midst from severe colds, lagrippe, and touches otpneumonia, due, prob ably, to the changes in weather. "What constitutes a dav'a work?" We figure it out that it depends altogether on your occu pation. If you lay biick. eiaht hours ; if you keep house, sixteen hours ; if you preach the gospel, two hours; if you are porter in- a sleeping car, twenty hours ; if you 8ervethe government, one hour ; and if you are a newspaper man, twenty-four hours. Rumors are being renewed that the South Bound Railway will be gin immediately the work of con struction. It is generally under stood that Pennsylvania Railway interests are backing the scheme, and that the recent trip made over the right of way to secure facts to be submitted to the man .who, .'are backing the enterprise was success ful in showing that for local bussi ness the road would be a eood thiug. "Turn that wrapping paper the other side out," said a lady in a dry goods store this week as the clerk was putting up her purchase in a printed wrapping paper. " don't want to be a walking adver tisement to your store. I read the papers as all intelligent people ought to do, and I think in them is the place to advertise your busi ness. Instead of asking your cus tomers to carry your sign around with every purchase of goods, go and tell the people through the papers what you have to sell and how you sell it." The Law Constitutional. The Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia to-day decided the Ward law to be constitutional, the effect of which is that certain towns and cities, a majority of whose citizens voted "dry" must remain "dry," though the "wets" contended that mauy who voted dry voted illegally because they had not paid their poll tax. The decision is far-reaching in that it also involves the legality of bonds issued for road and other purposes in which also it was olaimed many of the voters had not paid their poll tax. Is was held that the qualifica tions prescribed by the constitu tion for voters apply to elections held for members of the Genera, Assembly, and all officers elective by the people and that this pro vision does not prevent the Kegis ture from prescribing the qualifi cations of an electorate to vote iu special eleotious for which the constitution dues not provide Richmond, Va., dispatch. A spring tonic that makes-rich, red blood. Brings strength, health and happiness to the whole family. Nothing equals Hollis er s rtocKy Mountain lea as a Spring regulator, nelisou and Cook. 35 cents. Cor Archie Beaver moved his family to Kannapolis, last week, where he has accepted a position in a cotton mill at that place. He formerly lived in Landis . Don't wait until your blood is impoverished and you are sick and ailing, but take Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea now; It will posi tively drive out all winter impuri ties. 85 cents, Tea or Tablets.' Cornelison and Cook. - DEMOCRATS KICK. of House Refuse to Accept Can non s committee Assignments. The first test of the sincerity of those Democrats who bound them selves in caucus not to accept any committee appointment unless ap proved by Mr. Clark, the minori ty leader, came when Speaker Cannon announced the nersnnnnl of. the committee on mileage in the House to-day as follows : Kennedy, of Iowa ; Lundin, of Illinois; Garner, of Pennsylvania; Lewis, of Georgia, and Denver, of Ohio. Mr. Bartlett, of Georgia, was promptly on his feet and called attention to tfae fact that Mr. Lew is was not now a member of the House. The Speaker acknowledged his mistake and named Mr. Bartlett. "I decline any such appoint ment." Mr. Bartlett hotly replied. The Speaker announced that fact to the House and said that without objection Mr. Bartlett would be excused, which was done; "The chair will name the gen tleman from Kentucky, Mr. James," said the Speaker, "And the gentleman from Ken tucky refuses to act.'1 Mr. James remarked with emphasis. The Speaker called a halt to these refusals by submitting the question to the House. He said it was for the House to determine whether or not a member shall be excused from acting and put the question to the House, with the' result that Mr. James was excused. The vote was viva voce and while it was unquesionably against excus ing Mr. James, the Speaker an nounced the opposite result and named Mr. Collier, of Mississ:ppi. As he was not heard to object the appointment will stand. Wash ington dispatch. RumorB are heard here that the work of construction will begin immediarely on the Southbound Railway from Winston-Salem to Wadesboro . Local capitalists who are interested in the road have but little to say except that they are satisfied that the road is certainly coming soon. The dis tance is only about 100 miles and the road will traverse a section which is considered to be the equal of any in the State . It is generally understood that Pennsylvania Railway interests are backing the enterpise and the purpose is to connect the Norfolk & Western with the Atlantic Coast Line and thus open a short line from West Virginia to Charleston and other southern points. If this plan should succeed the new road would be certainly the shortest line to the middle west and it would be a paying investment. The recent trip made over tfie right of way for the purpose of gathering facts to be submitted to the men who are backing the en terpise was successful in showing that for local business the road would be a good thins. Wades boro N. C. dispatch. An Old Relic Unearthed. Harry Wakeland, the young son of Prof. C, R. Wakeland, of this place, a day or two ago unearthed in plowing, an ancient spear head, evidently of the pattern used by the soldiers of the sixteenth cen tury, particulary the Spanish, French and Italian, havinsr the small hook in use at that period. The whole head iB 12 inches lone o Professor Wakeland is of the opinion that the spear is a relic of some sixteenth centurv exnlora- tion, eitntr or tne Frencn or i A. i 1 J it -- Spanish, advancing the theory "that either Vrrazzani, the ex plorer (employed by the French), or De Ayllen, the Spanish slave trader; pirate and buccanee, not only lost this reclic but the sol dier who carried it. in battle with the Indians." He points out that these explorers penetrated this re gion about 1524 and 1520 respect ively, verrazzani in his report exhibiting the good judgment to describe it as "an earthly Para dise. lnererorj it would not seem implorable that this old re lie might be a trace of one or the other expedition. Fayettvillel Taka Hall's FamUFPillt for special to Charlotte Observer. i , Says Sooth Must Oeaamd Control of Deo ocratic Party. Declaring that ' 'the South must quit her cowardice or split at once, ' Julian Harris, editor of Uncle Remus's-The Hbme'Mag azine, in an editorial entitled 'Shall the Solid South be feat tered?" printed in the March uiumber of the Magazine, makes some startling declarations con cerning the political situation in the South. In part, he says : "As long as the South remains solidly Democratic under preraat -conditions she will be hopeless and helpless. She gave to the resent Democratic presidential nominee all but a thimblefull of electorial votes, yet she had no voice in making the nomination: ami if the election of the nominee had follow3d she would have been not one wnit better off, save tor an isolated office or two. "Why? Because the Democrats outside the South believe that the negro scarecrow will keep the South solidly Democratic, They have heard for years that the South would 'vote for a yellow dog' if the party nominated one. Therefore the Northern and "West ern Democrats write the platform, name thenominees and in their hearts for they do not .understand " how the negro question nas solifled ' the South despise the SduthS- timidity and complacence. It is because the South has always been solid and Democraticnthat it has ' no power with the Democratic; party, and it is for the same rea--jjon that the Republican party bas11 heretofore slipped in no planks thit might palliate the Southern ers. The "Solid South' is no longer a power, it is a phras6 that is the signal for laughter. "Democracy ! What do the or ganized DemAtr of-fTammany pare sense? For . national . politics Tammanv wouldn't lift a finger, if New York City might be carried in local politics by knifing the national nominee, i "But the South is seeing and understanding. There are two ways open for her, now tha-the1 negro vote is for a few years put out of danger "One is to demand control of the national Democratic party, and the convention, and' then- if the demand is refused, take cob" trol and nominate its own man out of the South and begin a figh from the start, and to the finish. "The other course is to break the 'Solid South.' "If by any chance this should occur next election, and Georgia? tihoulJ be the state that breaks away, it would be sure to mean a cabinet officer from this state, doubtless one or more Repubfdarr Southern Republican Con-' gressmen, "In the South no man but a- staunch Southerner could be elect-, ed even as a Renublfcan nor would the Republicans appoint any other kind. Then the SdtrtiJ will have representation in the party councils of the Republican party, and what her represents tives say will be heeded not.only because doubtful states are not easily to be diregarded, but equal- y necause tne republican party in De nearing the South's story m a Boutnerrt - Kentiblidan1. the negro who waits fora fed eravannomtmnt will f.nm withge.' " ft Deafness Cannot he Cured by local applications; as ther can. not reaeh the-diseased portion of kuo Bar, xuere is only one way -to cure deafness, and that's by the constitutional' remedies nf-i ' ness is caused bv an inftametf nrti dition of the mucous lining ef th justacnian rube.WVhen this tuba is inflamed you have a rumbling sound, or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed", Deaf neBs is the result, and nntosY-tfa in flam matio n can be taken outsnd this tube restored to-its-normal condition, hearing-will be de stroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, wbicti is nothing but anihfttfMed 'bnr. dition of the mucous surfaces; - We will give One HnndredtDol lars for any case of Deaf aesa (caused by,catarrh)ItbHcann6i be cured by Hall's Catarrh' Cure Send for circulars freri " F. J. CHENEY &30l. ToledoyCX pationf 77 - J V . L 4-