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A Home Newspaper Published in the, Interest of the People and for Honesty in Governmental Affairs
Vol. v. no. 48.
Salisbury, N. O., Tuesday. November 16th, 1909.
Wm, H. Stewart, Editor
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PAYS PENALTY FOR CRIME.
Will James, Slajor of Miss Annie Pelley,
is Swung Up to Public Arch.
Cairo, 111., Nov., 11. Will
James, the negro who murdered
Miss Annie Pelley, was killed here
tonight by a mob. James was
strung up to the pal lie arch, the
rope broke and at least five hun
dred shotu were poured into his
body. He made a partial confes
sion and implicated another ne
gro, Arthur Alexander, whom the
mob is now searching for.
James was lynched in the most
prominent square of the city, and
hanged to the arch at Eighth and
Commercial streets.
Women present were the first to
pull the rope. When it broke,
the frenzy of the mob was uncon
trollable and they fired a volley
into James' body, shcoting him
to pieces. The mob then dragged
the body over the streetB for more
than a mile, to Twenty-sixth snl
Elm streets, in an alley and burn
ed it where the murder was com
mitted. At least 10,0C(Tpeople witna.s
.ed the lynching.
James was found with Sheriff
Davis between Karnack, III., and
Belknap, by the Cairo crowd who
went up this afternoon. The
crowd overpowered t'u officers
and took the negro from them and
after a conference it was decided
to bring their prisoner back
this city and lynch him.
Sheriff Davis had been fleeing
the mob for 24 hours with the pris
oner. Driven from town to town
by menacing crowds, the sheriff
had taken to the woods with
James, but the persistent search
of the summary avengers proved
effective at last.
Fully a thousand persons went
out to find the negro, and when
the Dursuars arrived in Cairo with
their qaarry,'they were met
howling mob of 5,000 others
by a
Lent
on slaying the negro.
They marched the negro direct
to the public arch, sweeping the
street like a fljck of sheep might
tread a narrow lane. Many wom
en were in the crowd, anxioue to
help do the work.
Sheriff Davis, haviig been foil
ed in his attempt to hide the negro,
pleaded for the life of the prison
er, but without, avail. When
Cairo was reached, Sheriff Davis
was taken in charge by a part of
the m-jb, while the rest rushed the
negro rapidly to his funeral pyre
-The mob that chased the sheriff
aud the negro was so large that it
scoured the entire country from
Karnack to Vienna, III,, a distance
of about 16 miles.
When found bv the mob. the
negro was handcuffed between two
officers aud all three were 1 ying
on the bank of a creek. 'AU three
were eo weak from hunger, expos
ure and the lutile attempt to elude
the mob that they were not able
to luake much resistance.
Sheriff Davis tonight said that
ho deplored the lynching. He
had made every possible resistance
in his power, but the crowd was
so, large that he could do absolute
ly nothing.
He said that after taking Jamas
from Cairo he had to leave the
train at Dongola last night to
elude a mob waiting for him at a
town ahead. He made an effort
to get a rig at Dongola but found
it impossible, as the news had
spread over the country and every
one knowing the crime that the
negroes had committed, refused
to give assistance in eluding the
pursuers. They even refused food
in many cases,
At every point where he tried
to board a train he was blocked
by a mauacing crowd.
After a long, exhausting, food-
less walk, the sheriff ai.a bis de
puty had lain down with the p.is-
oner to rust. At dusk scouts of
the searchers found the three and
news was sent along the lino to
the scattered mob to board a Big
Four train at Belknap. This order
was obeyed and a numerous crowd
was on the train when i reached
here about 8 o'clock.
The negro was marched right
through the principal street to
the most public place unde the
city arch at Eighth, and Commer
cial streets.
While in custody of the mob
coming here the negro would not
talk about the crime, but wben he
stood under the arch he weakened
and confessed that ha slew Miss
Palley. He said that Arthur Al
exander was implicated in the
crime. ..
The attempt at hanging fol
lowed quickly ; the growling of the
mob, the grinding of the rope and
the struggles of the negro were
stopped a moment only by the
snapping of the rope. The 10,000
persons who had looked on and
danced in glee, shot forth armed
men almost magically and they
filled the negro with bullets.
Then, not satisfied with ven
geance, the mob dragged the body
to the place whore Miss Pelley's
body, bound, gagged and bruised,
had been found. A roaring fire
was built and the body was incin
erated.
James, who came from the
South, said Miss Pelley had been
assaulted and murdered after a
terrific tight. Sheriff Davis to-
uight sent to Springfield, for State
troopB.
Spingfield, 111., November 11.
Sheriff Frank E. Davis of Alexan
der county wired here to Governor
D-ineeu for assistance in quelling
disorder tonight after the rioting
at Cairo and the lynching there of
the negro James. Governor De
neen was in Chicago and could
not be reached immediately, but
Alexander waB declared to be the
dying confession of James.
In an effort to clear up the
murder of Miss Pelley the police
today searched the houses fre
quented by James and Alexander
for themissing money,3 haudbag
and Lracelet of the murdered girl.
They found nothing.
Blame for the riot is generally
ascribed to an inadequate police
force and the fact that many men
accused of felonies have been ac
quitted despite seemiugly strong
evidence against them.
Cairo, 111., Nov. 12 Henry
Salzner, white, a photographer
who killed his wife last July with
an axe, was taken from jail at
11:40 o'clock last nighht by a
mob and hanged to a telegraph
pole and his body was riddled
with bullets. This lynching fol
lowed closely on the lynching of
Will James, a negro who earlier
in the evening had been hanged
for the murder of Miss Annie
Pelley.
CAIRO IN HANDS OF TROOPS.
Cairo. 111., Nov. 12. With Ar
thur Alexander, the last of th)
persons arrested in connection
with theu, murder of Miss Annie
Pelley, safely out of town and the
Fourth Regiment of the Illinois
National Guard on guard in the
streets aud about the jail tonight,
the mob spirit that kept Cairo
ablaze with excitement for four
days was quelled.
No crowds were allowed to gatn
er at any place touignt ana every
known danger point was occupied
oy troops, uayonets neia sway
where twenty-four hours before
the rope, the torch and the pistol
had been in evidence,
Alexander, implicated in the
murder of Miss Peiley by the dy
ing statement of "Froggy" Jamns
one of the victims of last night's
inb, was sent to an unannounced
point nrth of Cairo . late today.
He was escorted from the jail to a
special train on the Illinois Cen-
trai Jtvaiiroau uy seven companies
T"V t
of militia, two of which guarded
the negro on the train during the
trip.
There were jeers for the militia
frv ra the small crowd that watch
ed the departurp.
I wo sets of fenrs were in ad
handcuffed and flanked by deputy
sheriffs, and two sets of fours fol
lowed. Three companies of bav-
onets cleared th street in advance
of the escort and a like number exp!am little Red Cross
followed in the rear, keeping back ChriBtmas stamp and its mission,
the crowds that augumented at ) exPlain fehe fi8ht against diseases,
every cross street of the half-mile i exPlaiu the warfare against con
march to the train. sumption and appaal to the peo-
. . ! pie to save themselves. We de-
ine display ot force was greater
than the Cairoites had anticipa
ted; and while there were mnr
murs all alone the lice of march
there was no effort to break the
line.
Sheriff Davis, who made stren
nous and repeated effortB for two
days to save James from lynching,
tonight said that disposition of
Alexander had bean left to State
officers. He began investigating
the riots of last night.
Coroner's verdicts today were
rendered on the two men lynched
-ast night, and in each case the
jury found that "he came .to hiB
death byinjuries a& the hands of
persons unknown to us."
Sheriff Davis, in an extended
interview today, told of recogniz
ing several members of the mob
which took James from his care
last night. No steps to bring
those implicated in the uprising
to trial have been made yet.
Mayor George Parsons today
said he was asleep last night and
heard no shot or other sound to
indicate tnat tne city oi wnicn ne
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is chief executive was in the grasp
of a lawless horde.
While conntv officers orevioasly
declared that the evidence against
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his guilt.
The only ground for holding
orders were immediately trane-
acted by the Lieutenant Governor
to have Company K, Fourth In-
fantrv. Illinois National Guard,
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stationed at Cairo, to resDond to
the orders of the sheriff.
Col R. J. Shand, of the adiutant
general's omce, was sent to uairo
SANITARY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28.
The Fight Agaiost Tuberculosis is Spread-
lnff Proinhorc iclrort tn Tako Hanrf
VSanitiry Sunday" is announc
ed by the tuberculosis and health
authorities for Sunday November
28th. Dr. Charles A. Julian, As-
sistant Secretary for tuberculosis
for the State Board of Health, has
issued the following open letter to
rf
North-Carolina :
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study and prevention ot tuber-
culosis in this btate. bcientists
uow believe tnat tne disease can
be checked, and not only checked
but "obliterated aud effaced from
t.hn ari.h if ft wftii organized at-
tempt is made in the direction of
assistance, and with keen sighted
educational measures and super-
vnion. But tne tact remains
that this battle against diseasf
must be perpetuated by the pe xhe special factor is undoubt
pie. Its success depends upon edly maize as an article of
the organization of a fighting
force in every community devo-
to ita "bject and inspired to a
constant and unabated activity.
Tuberculosis is a preventable dis
ease and must be prevented. Tu
berculosis kills more people and!
costs more money than aU othtr'
communicable diseases combined.
But it will take a combined effort
on tho Parfc of he eotire P60? to
prevent it. This campaign on tu-
bereulosis is clearing up the whole
local health situation.
We cannot get control of tuber
culosis without making it practi
callv impossible for any of the
filth or needless di ases to exist.
in getting rm or tnis disease we
will raise the whole standard of
living for the
average per pie .
The prevention
of the disease
rather than its cur-, the removal
of the causes and conditions con-
ductive to diseases is a primary
object of this effort. .
Wf, would like this information
-
to be broueht to the attention of
u c xt tu r i-
view of a request to make Sunday,
November 28th a sanitary Sab
bath On that day we hope that
every minister in the State will
- Preacb a
special health sermon,
I Bire the service of the minister for
- our first "Sanitary Sabbath."
DESCRIPTION AND HISTORYAJt rtLUbiM
Victims Somewhat Like Leprosi but Peel
off in Fall. First Discovered !!) Spiln,
Owing to the great intrest
being taken in the assertion
that pellagra is now rampant
throught America and the
continued diagnosis by many
physicians of numerous cases
of the disease in our midst,
we copy the following rather
extended but interesting de
scription and history of the
disease from the Encyclope
dia Britamica, Vol. XVIII:
"Pellagra (Ital. pelle agra,
smarting skin) is the:; name
given, from one of its symp
toms, to a peculiar disease, of
compartively modern origin,
occurring among the peasant
ry in Lombardy and -other
provinces of norhern Italy,
and in the Astunas (mai de
la rosa), Gascony, Roumania,
and Corfu. It is a progres
sive disease of nutrition tend-
iner towards nrofound oaraly-
tic and mental disorders, and
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h8 associated to a very signifi
cant extent, if not evenivari-
ablv. with a staDle diet of
damaged maize along with
tf t
other peculiarly wretcnea
aui-
la f ha npaTrlftn nt ITJ1IV. ITS
ta
nnAm nai(i. and underifed:
iastead of a diet suited to
their severe labour, their
sustenance consists largely of
the more' worthless kinds of
-
Indian corn of their bwn
arrowing, tlie nroduce of poor
ly - cultivated ground, sown
ww, uaivoBiou uwuio matui-
a certain proportion of good
maize-corn the millers, to
whom they are often in debt,
are more likely to grind the
worst samples for the pea-
Seilts OWU USe. 1 he IlOUr IS
either made into a kind of ter-
ridge the 4 'polenta" of- Iflyr
the "cruchade of Gascony, or
the "mamaliga" of Roumania
or it is made into loaves,
without yeast, baked hastily
on the surfaceonly or on one
side, and raw ard wet within,
large enough to last a week,
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ana . aP . lum , 80ur ,an.a
mouiav Deiore me weeK is
Oil t
"hntnft am isnnt amor-
bug miseria3 pnre and Bimple,
WontinD- snmft martt snftpfift
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Cause Will be at once appa-
rent when we consider that
the misery of living is as old
as tne numan race, wnereas
pellagra is a disease of the
last hundred years or so, and
that in Ireland, Russia, Up
per Silesia, Galicia, or other
headquarters ot the morbi
imiserisD, pellagra is unKnown.
diet or as the staple diet: but
it is, on the other hand, per-
tectiy clear tnat tnere is
nothing in a maize diet itse1
to induce pellagra. Compar-
ed with the enormous extent extensor muscles and prepon
of the maize-zone both in the derant action of the flexors:
western and eastern hemis
pheres. the pellagra-area is a
mere spot on tne map; exclud-
ing .Corfu, it lies between the
parallels of 46 and 42 N. ; and
the exception of Corfu
is a
only
significant one. It is
since ioo tnat peiiagra nas
oecome endemic in tnat is-
land. Maize has always thri-
ven well there; but wine-
growing has displaced it to a
great extent, and the maize,
wnicn is mill largely in re
quest with the peasantry, is
no w mostly imported ; it is in
fnpf r.hififlv Roumanian maizfl
of an inferior kind, and all the
more deteriorated owing to
its long water-transit by way
of the Danube and Black Sea.
I A Z X. 1 t
gain in tne uanuDiau pro-
wicujdwvbdiuo ycaeau
ui. iictup vi vaiiitt, wuu tire
by no means well off, are free
from pellagra, notwithstand
ing their addiction to polenta,
having long ago learned the
art of husbandry from the
Saxon part of the population;
they allow the maize to ripen
to the utmost, and then let
it dry on the ground and
afterwards in barns, whereas
the Wallack peasantry of
Bounmania, who are, subject
to pellagra, gather the corn
before it is ripe, and shoot it
into pits where it becomes
musty. In other countries
where the conditions of cli
mate and soil iare somewhat
trying for maize, as in Bur
gundy, Franche Comte, and
the Bresse in France, and in
Mexico, the greatest care is
taken to dry the Indian corn
before it is stored; and it may
be said that wherever these
precautions are taken pellaga
does not follow. It has hap
pened on several occasions,
after a particularly bad
maize-harvest, that pellagra
has risen almost to an epid
mic. Again, its prevalence
within its actual endemic area
varies much from province to
province or from commune to
commune, being always last
where the maize-diet is sup
plemented by wheaten flour,
rice, beans, chestnuts, pota
toes, or fish.
Characters of the Disease.
The indications of pellagra
usually begin in the spring of
the year, declining towards
autumn, and recurring with
increasing intensity and per
manence in the spring sea
sons following. A peasant
who is acquiring the malady
feels unfit for work suffers
from headaches, giddiness.
singing in the ear3, a burning
of the skin, especially in the
hands and feet, and diarrhoea.
At the same time a red rash
appears on the skin, of the
nature of erysipelas, the red
or livid spots being tense and
painful, especially where they
are directly exposed to th 3
sun. About July or August
of the first season these
symptoms disappear, the spots
on the skin remaining rough
and dry. The spring attack
of the year following will
probably be more severe and
more lively to leave traces
behind it; with each succes
sive year the patient becomes
more like a mummy, his skin
shrivelled and sallow, or even
tjlack at certain spots, as in
Addison s disease, his angles
protruding, his muscles wast
ed, his movements slow and
languid, and his sensibility
diminished. Meanwhile there
are more special symptoms
relating to the nervous sys
tem, including drooping of
the eyelid, dilation of the
pupil, and other disorders of
vision, together with symp
toms relating to the digestive
system, such as a red and dry
tongue, a barning fueling in
the mouth, pain on swallow
ing, and diarrhoea. Peasants
with this progressive malady
upon them come to the towns
spring alter spring seeking
relief at the various hospitals,
and under a good regimen
and a permanently improved
diet the malady is often
checked. But after a certain
stage the disease is confirmed
in a profound disorganization
of the nervous system; spasms
of the limbs begin to occur,
and contractures of the joints
from partial paralysis of the
melancholy, imbecility, and a
strong suicidal tendency are
common accompaniments. A
large number of pellagrous
peasants end their days in
lunatic asylums in a state ot
drivelling wretchedness or
ravinsr maaness many more
drag out a miseraoie exis-
tence in the communes where
their working years had been
spent, sometimes receiving
the communal relief to which
the law entitles them; while
the cases that are reckoned
curable are in Italy received
into the various endowed
hospitals, of which there area
large number. Cases that are
rapidly fatal end in delirium
or a state of typhoid stupor;
the more protracted cases are
cut off at last by rapid wast
ing, colliquative and ill-
smelling sweats, profuse
diarrhesa, and dropsy. After
death a variety of textural
changes are found, which
may be referred in general
to trophic disorders, or dis
orders of tissue nutritition;
in a considerable number
the kidneys are in the con
tracted state correspond
ing to the clinical con
dition of Blight's disease
without albuminuria; an
other condition often remark
MURDER IN GUILFORD.
Father Charged With Killing Son With the
Assistance ui oioiner-in-Law.
A special from Greensboro, to
the Charlotte Observer, dated
November 11th. gives the follow-
w i
ing account of a serious crime
committed in Guilford county:
Simpson H. Coble, the Greene
township farmer who was found
lying in a gully near the roadside
mortally wounded yesterday, died
this morning at his home 18 miles
south of this citv. His father,
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Dan "Foot" Coble, and his bro-
ther-in-law, Hiram Elliott, are in
Guilford county jail charged with
he murder. A third prisoner is
H. M. Holt, who was operating a
blockade distillery in the neigh
borhood near the scene of the
crime.
The father and the brother-in-law
of the dead man were arrested
this morning by Deputy Sheriffs
John Weatherly and George
Crutchfield, who went to Greene
township last night immediately
upon the receipt of information
of the crime.
Holt, who came to
Ureensboro in company witn a
neighbor to notify tne officers of
the murderous assault on Simpson
Coble, was arrested this morning
by Deputy Sheriff Shaw upon re-
ceipt of a telephone communica
tion that his blockade distillery
had been captured by Deputies
Weathorly and Shaw, Holt was in
the sheriff's office when the arrest
was made and did not appear to
be surprised when he found him
self in custody.
From all accounts available the
murder of Simpson Coble was one
ot the foulest crimes that has
stained the reoord of Guilford
county, rivaling the brutal
murder ot the aged Miss Lydia
Newman, in Sumner townsnip, a
few months ago.
For several years a bitter and
relentless feud has existed between
Simson Coble on one side and his
aged father, Dan "Foot" Coble,
and his brother-in-law, Hiram
Elliott, on the other. The three
men were at Holt's distillery
Tnesdav afternoon and xenewed
the quarrel, and the presumption
is that they engaged in a fight af
ter leaving the plac9. In all p' -
bability the details of the tragedy
will never be known, as the mur
dered man was unable to make a
statement before his death,
although he tried several times to
talk.
The body of Coble was discov
ered yesterday lying in a gully
about ten feet deep, near the road,
and there was evidenca that a des
perate straggle had taken place .
It is believed that the fight took
place early Tuesday night and
that the wounded man was thrown
into the gully, his assailants evi
dently believing hjm dead. He
had received a tern no blow on
the head that crushed his skull
and his right eye was knocked out.
He lay in a pool of blood and was
unconscious when found, The
scene of the crime is in the south
eastern part of the cou ity, near
the Randolph county line.
The murdered man was alout
40 vears o'd and is survived by a
widow and six children
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A Scalded Boy's Shrieks
horrified his grandmother, Mrs
Maria Taylor, of Nebo, Ky., who
writes that, when all thought he
would die, Bucklen's Arnica Salve
wholly cured him. Id fallible for
Burns, Scalds, Cut3, Corns,
Wounds, Bruises. Cures Fe' er
Sores, Boils, Skin Eruptions,
Chilblains, Chapped Hands. Soon
routs Piles, 25c at all druggists.
ed is thinning of the muscular
coats of the intestine; depos
its of pigment in the internal
organs are also characteristic,
just as the discoloration of
the skin is during life.
Treatment. There is hard
ly any dDubt as to the remedy
for pellagra, just as tnere is
hardly any doubt as to its
cause. The question is main
ly one of the social condition
of the peasantry, of their food
and wages; it is partly, also,
a question of growing Indian
corn on a soil or in a climate
SUIT TO REGAIN HICKORY PAPER.
Case has Been la Progress at Newton
court House all Week,
A auit for the possession of the
Hickory Democrat is due to come
to an t xr a
nofftuu superior
court this morning. W. C. Dowd
of this city, is still at Nflvtnn
where he has been all week f.
tendine the trial to rfloain nnUU.
sion of the Democrat which ha
fctirted some years aeo He in.
troduced evidence to show that
tha
r' "I B-xowmmwu uog, guuu
Will flh1 avarvthini Kalnnn.
he having established the paper,
sending Mr. Holbrook, who now
claims to own the paper, to
Hickory as his agent to manage
the business at a salaiy agreed
upon. ,
For a number of yean the en
tire printing of the Democrat was
done in The Charlotte News offioe.
Later the Piedmont Press was
bought by the Democrat by Mr.
Dowd and part of the printing
done in Charlotte and Dart in
Hickorv. Evidence was in trod no-
ed by him Q ghow he chftrg
ed the Hickory Democrat a cer
tain amount every month for print
ing the paper and that he had
also charged the paper for job
type, white paper and other items,
and that he paid Mr. Holbrook
by the month for hiB work. The
presses, type and other added
equipment of the Democrat were
bought out of the earnings of the
Hickory office.
Mr. Holbrook, it appears, from
reports in the Catawba county
papers, claimB that he went to
Hickory, started the Democrat,
and paid monthly for the print
ing until from the profits of the
paper he bought the press, and
that he is the owner of the paper.
Against this evidence ia strong
documentary evidence submitted
by Mr. Dowd in the shape of ac
counts and statements rendered
by Mr, Holbrook in regard to his
salary, the amount of receipts and
expenditures! the condition of the
business, and the like, Buoh as
any agent would render to his em
ployer. One letter told Mr. Dowd
of the amount of money he had
used from the earnings as his sal
ary. Mr. Dowd learned some time
ago with great surprise of the sale
of an interest in the Democrat by
Mr. Holbrook without consulting
him and this led to his suit to
regain possession. There have
been two, postponements of the
case heretofore at the instance of
the defence. Charlotte News,
Nov.-11th.
Forced Into Exile.
Wm. Upchurch of Glen Oak,
Okla, wai an exile from home.
Mountain air, he thought, would
cure a irightim mng-racaing
cough that had defied all remediei
for two years. After six months
he returned, death dogging his
steps. "Then I began to use Dr.
King's New Discovery," he writes,
'and after taking six bottles I am
as wen as ever." it saves thou
sands yearly from desperate lung
diseases. Infallible for Coughs
and Colds, it dispels Hoarseness
and Sore Throat. Cures Grip.
Bronchitis . Hemorrhages, Asth
ma, Croup, Whooping Cough. 50c
and $1.00, trial bottle free, guar
anteed by all druggists.
where it will not mature un
less with high farming.
There is nothing in the re-
sources ot medicine proper to
cure this disease; as the
cause is, so must the remedy
be.
Apfikities of Pellagra, The
disease has the general characters
of a tropho-neurosis. The early
involvement of certain areas of
the skin, especially in exposed
places such as the hands and feet,
suggests leprosy; as in that
disease, there is first hyperesthe
sia and then loss of sensibility,
sometimes a thickening of the
surface and disoolorations ; and,
although in pellagra the onset
eac.i successive spring and the
subsidence towards autumn are
distinctive, yet in leprosy also the
cutaneous disorder is apt to come
(continued on page 2.)