North Carolina Newspapers

c i - ..... . ' v v I- ' A Home Newspaper Published in the Interest of the Peoplaand for Honesty indGfovernmental Affairs. Vol. V. No. 4. Salisbury, N. O., Tuesday, Nqvember. 23rd, 1909. Wm, h. Stewart, Editor ir Hi ii f- .y AMERICANS EXECUTED IN NICARAGUA. Fife Hundred Alleged Smympatblzeis Wish Reyoiutionists Round Up And Shot, New Orleans, Nov. 13. A Pan ama cable states passengers from Nicaragua report a reign of terror in that oountry. Govereumeut troops are round ing up persons suspected of sym pathy with the revolutionists, executing them without trial. Five hundred were thus sum marily shot. Woman sympathizers of Revlu tionista were subjected to horrible indignities and outraged. Nicaraguan refugees declare it is time for civilized powers to intervene. Washington, Nov. 18. Two Americans, discovered in the revolutionary army in Nicaragua; have been captured and sentenced to death by President Zelaya. The state department advices indicate that the men were excus ed. Two American war vessels have been ordered to proceed with all haste to Nicarugua. The meeting between the new Nicaraguan miuister and Presi dent Talt has been indefinitely postponed, Prtsident Taft was so incensed when informed about the execu tion of two Americans with the revolutionists army in Nicaragua that he imnfediately announced that he would have no communi cation whatever with Isadoro Hazara, the new Nicaraguan min ister here. The names of the American Zalaya sentenced to death are Leonard Grace and Le roy Cannon. The cruiser Vicksburg was order ed to proceed hastily to Oorinto. The gunboat Des Moines will pro ceed to Port Limon to observe the situation by wireless to Washing ton. News of the caDture of the men came from the American consulate at Mauagua. It stated the cap ture was followed immediately by the death sentence. The consul appealed in vain to President Zalaya in behalf of the men. Zalaya replied, "Then sentence is final." Late advices to the state department are to the effect that the men were executed . Upon this infomation Secretary of State Knox asked Secretary of the Navy Newberry to order the Vicksburg to proceed to Corinto to protect Americans and Amer: can interests. The Des Moines is now at Colon, 150 miles from Port Limon. It will reach there iu ten hours. The Vicksburg is cruising on the Pacific coast and is scheduled to reach Corinto, a distance of 200 miles within 10 hours. Th'j execution of the men is be lieved to have taken place nearEi Costillo, in the immediate vicinity of Gretown. The brutality of the Nicaraguan government in ordering the execu tion of these Atmricaus, without trial, will likely result in this government taking drastic meas ures to repetition. Officials intimate President Zalaya will bo held strictly ac countable for his action. A Much Named Family. A colored woman of Concord, says The Times, Carrie Jane Pja, has had born to her 13 children, 8 of whom are dead. Tne names of tho five living ones aro: John Willie Wade Warren Part ite Pea. Jake Lawson Blackwelder E!- dridge Pea. Samuel Eldridge Lawyer Braw- ley Pea. General Washington Jim Jones Pea. Sarah Elizabeth Stephens John Hauna Pea. The only wonder is that auy of them are living with such names as these hung to them. Why gt np in the morning feel ing blue, Worry others and worry yoo ; Here s a secret Detween you and me, Better take Rocky Mountasn Tea. Cornelison & Cook, WHEN PRISONERS SHIYEREO. Dr. McCorkle of Iredell Amended the Law So as 10 Allow Fires In Jail. It was the old notion that any thing was too good for alleged or convicted criminals and the more severe the bodily torture the bet ter it waB for them . It was this condition which stirred the heart of John Howard till he aroused England and brought about the prison reforms which have beeD adopted in all civilized land?. Bat not until 1879 was a fire al lowed in the felon's cell of a North Carolina jail. A few weeks ag3 there died in Salisbury a lady, Mies Sallie Mc Corkle who was the oldest daugh ter of that chivalrous gentleman and brilliant lawyrr, the late Col. J. M. McCorkle of Salisbury. She was a lr.dy whose tender heart went out in sympathy to all who were in distress. In 1878 her uucle, the late Dr. J. R. McCorkle, represented Ire dell in the Legislature, and on a bittei cold December day went to Salisbury on his way to Ealeigh to attend the session of the Legis lature, and spent that night with his brother in Salisbury. Miss Sallie had that evening been to the jail to carry food to a sick prisoner and upon her return home said: ''Uncle John, yen can wll serve the poor and help less when you go to Raleigh by having the law repealed which prohibits fires in jails." He was surprised to know that such a law existed to so recent a date or that this good lady was instrumental in the enactment of a law for a more humane system of treatment for prisoners. This history should be preserved and her memory reyered by those who are so unfortunate as to be prisoners and all others who have hearts in sympathy with human sufferers. No doubt whon she Pa8ed into the J0 heard the commendation. "I was sick and in prison and ye visited me." She was a cultured gentlewoman and made this world a better one by passing through Jjit. North Carolina Christian Advocate, Hiram Elliott and Daniel Coble Sent to Jail Without Bail. Greensboro, N. J., Nov. 18. Justice Collins, after the conclu sion of evidence and argument of counsel committed Hiram Elliott and Daniel Coble to jail without bail for the alleged murder of Simson Cobla. Daniel Coble's cross-examination broke the old man all 60 pie ces and cinched a case against Elliott. Denying yesterday that shoes and overalls produced with siops on them were his, Cobie tma morning admitted they were, but said thy slops on them came from a mixture he daily prepared for hogs at home. Denying complicity in the mur der of his son, he frankly stated he knew who killed him and when pressed by the prosecution to name the man, under' strong ob ections from his and Elliott's counsel, was directed by the mag istrate to answer ai.d replied Hiram Elliott, sitting there did it." Beyond several witntsafis prov ing good character for Daniel Co ble, no other evidence was pres ented by the defense and argu ment followed. The theory of the defense is that Coble was killed at t e still by the principal state's witness who carried the bodv near El liott's houBe and threw it in the pulley to fix the crime on Elliott. c -m- m Kills Her Foe Of 20 Years. "The most merciless wiemy I had for 20 years," declares Mrs. James Duncan, of Hayuesville, Me., "waB Dyspepbia. I suffered intensely after eating or drinking ana couia scarcely sleep. After many remedies had failed and sev eral doctors gave me up, I tried Electric Bitters, which cured me completely. Now I can eat any thing. I am 70 years old and am overjoyed to get my health and strength back again." For Indi- gestiou, Loss of Appetite, Kidney Trouble, Lame Back, Female Complaints, it's unequaled. Onlv r- f Alt T rue at an aruggists. UST ORDEAL IN THE GREAT DISASTER. Willing ttf Die Id an Effort to Reach Three Hundred Entombed Men. Cherry, 111., Nov. 18. uWe are going down into that mine today. We will conquer it or it will con quer us. Unless we succeed will nevef come out alive," A cry of Cherry's desperate widows and orphans, "Open the shaft, open the shaft," brought this declaration from-State Min ing Inspector Taylor this morning, and their appeal will be heeded if human lives are sacrificed to reclaim to bereaved hundreds their mine entcmbed dead. With dawn th re has risen over the air shaft at St Paul's muie a heavy structure of wooden beams to support the I urden of grap pling tackle tto he lowered into the foreboding depths. Women many of them almost insane from tho grief that has consumed them for five days, reached the desolate scenes before sunrise. "They are going down to get the poor fellows today," they were told. "Oh, why don't they hurry," was the unanimous appeal. "TVhy don't they hurry before it is too late?" Under the direction of mining inspectors hazardous effort will be made to satisfy the frenzied cries of the bereaved woman, They will "hurry," braving dangers, dbadly poison9, noxiouB gases, explosions and the ever present probability of collapse of the fire charred galleries. Preliminary exploration " of experts showed encouraging con ditions. Experts determined to take advantage of low tempera ture at the bottom of the emer gency shaft. They decided to reinforce the airahaft by erecting a scaffold, attaching the hoisting apparatus and tdexptore as f at as hum an enduranoe permits. It is proposed to lower two men armored with oxygen helmets and penetrate the gallaries to vard the main shaft. If bodies are encountered they will be fastened to grappling tackle and raised. Investigation revealed less smoke and gas at the bottom of the Bhaft and decreased temper ature. Mining inspectors of many- states are on the scene and give the opinion that the fire is still raging; their conviction i9 that the mine mnat be sealed. Illinois inspectors, realizing thn fury that such an action would arouse among the afflicted citizens insisted that a laBt effort be made to reach the dead. ine temperature ot tne ms in shaft is now 109. "There s no halting now, said Inspector Taylor, preparing for the final ordeal of the great die- aster. We are going to fight that mine. If successful we will be able to recover the bodies, if not " Here the old man who has served his life time beneath the earth, waved his hand emphasiz ing the fate which might await him and his colleagues . W. H. Wetmore of Gresnsboro Dead. A Greensboro special o the Charlotte Obserber, says "W H. wetmore, ior a numoeroi years a well-known cifcizwn of Greeusboro, died at his home on Arlington street at an early hour Mouday morning, aeatn oeing aue to an attack of acute indigestion and heart trouble. He was in his U9al health when he retired Sun day night. 'Mr. W etmore was a' Out 55 years old and is survived by a widow and several children. He was engaged for a number of years in the work of an expert account ant of the Dixie Fire Insurance Company. He as a member of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church." Mr Wetmore was originally from Rowan county, was a son of the late Rev. Geo. B. Wetmore, . 1 , ....... : wno so long and taittully served the Episcopal congregation in! western Rowan, the father of Miss quent carriers of tuberculosis. Annie Wetmore. who has taught I j severarterms in the Salisbury ! According to testimony recently Graded School, and is a brother' 8iven before the P081 Commis of Geo. Wetmore, of Woodleaf, ' sioner of the British Empire, tnis county. TUBERCULOSIS NOTES. Some Very Interesting Points , Concerning the Reapers Most Popular Weapon. In Germany there are publio sanatoria for adult consumptives with 10,539 beds, bedsides 36 pri vate sanatoria with 2,175 beds. In 18 sanatoria for children with tuberculosis there are 837 beds, a total of less than 13,000 beds. In the United States fhere are over 300 sanitaria with of er 15,000 beds, showing that this cpuntry is in the lead in the AutiTuber:u lasis war. France hasi only 12 sanatoria for adult consumptives, with a total capacity olpM8 beds. All of these institutions fare pri vate except the sanatorium at Aeincourt. t.v'.;. The United government operates' three tuberculosis eanitpriums' one for soldiers and officers of the regular army at Fort Bayard, N. M. ; one for seamen iu .he mer chant marine, and othorj, employ id iu coast Bervico of thf , govern ment, not in the navy ati'Las Ani mas, Col. The first hospital is conducted by the department of War; the second by the United States Public Health arid Marine H spital Service, and fhe latter by the Navy Department On the basis of 150,001) deaths yearly from tuberculosis, in the United States the National Asso ciation fvr the Studyaud Pre vention of Tuberculosis -computes that there are 684 934 persons con staLtly sick with this disease. Allowing only $500 as the "average eirmugs of the workingman who dies, the annual loss to the coun try from the ranks of labor alone, is o?er $114,000,000 eaoh year. Prof. Karl Pearson's theory that the first-born children of a marriage are more likely to fall victims to consumption! than the latter-born offspring has been freshly tested by -Pro. Vander Valden of raukftray'materi al furnished by Prof. Riffell of ivarisrune, wno snows irom an investigation of 2,500 families the fourth, fifth and sixth child ren are more liable to die of tub erculosis, than are the first, second and third . That poverty is a frnn to con suniptkn is demonstrated by some recent German statistics, which show that of 10,000 well-to-do DersouF. 40 annually dip of con sumption ; of tne small number only moderatelv well-to-do, 66; of the sam- number really poor, 77; and of paupers, 97. Accord ing to John Burns the famous English iabor leader, 90 per cent. of the coi sumptives in London receive chariatable relief in their homes. According to United States Con sular reportr, tho tuberculosis death rate is twice as large in Syria and Turkey as it is in the United States, There is only one special hospital for this disease in the entire Ottoman Emp:re. National Anti-Tuberculosis As sociations have recently been formed in Russia and Greec.; Similar prganizations are now in existance in the United States, England, Germauy, Sweden, Swit yeiland, Hungary, Italy and France. Dr, Beitil'on,the eminent French vital statistician, has shown that tuberculosis is twice as preva lent among the retail liquor deal ers of France as among other shop keepers. He attributes it to the fact that the alcohol which they handle and use all dav lone weak ens their bodins and thus renders them more susceptible to the dis cf ease germ. Statistics publshed by the Ln parial Gazette show that iu recent years there has been a steady decrease in the number of deaths inr Garmany frm tuberculosis, land especially from tabdrculosis Df the lungs. In Urban centers th death rate 100,000 fell t , nnn a . - ' . irom zzo' in 1Wd 10 irro awuo. Letters and mail-bags are f re- during the last 20 years, 80 per DEATH OF J. R.LITTLETON. Passes Away at his Home in New London, After an Illness of Several Weeks. New London4 N. O., Nov. 16 Sad, in one way, as the death of the soldier of the legion was ,that of Jame R.. Littleton, of this place, Wednesday morning. Mr. Littleton lived a more or less lonely lite, with his daughter Miss EHza. Old-age crept upon the fine old Southern gentleman, whitening his head and carving wrinkles in his brow. Themore's the pity about all of this, for no heart ever overflowed more cop iously with the milk of human Puluuo" - was a great reser- voir of human affection and love, always ready to be lavished, and which was lavished upon friends, and many of them; but those of closer tie were few, and he was the "last leaf upon the tree.' The end came to this choice spirit at his home here. His daughters, Mrs. John Johnson, of Kannapolis, N. C and Miss Eli za, his only uimarried daughter who lived with him, were at Ins side when he breathed bis last. Neither of his brothers or his on- y Bister, were with him whon the end came. Thns Hnc. t.rocQri ww www vAMgwaj play upon the stage of every, life far more really than one cn the stage of ,df ama. Mr. Littleton, died Wednesday morning at 1 o'clock. He waB born near Palestine, Stanly coun ty, on October 5th, 1835. He has two brothers and one sister living : Robert Littleton, of Salisbury, Westlty Littleton, of near the old homestead, and Mrs. Martha Dry, HiB preparatory Rdnp.atirm waft received in public schools. He was at one time a Baptist minis ter, and his life was one of faith ful service. He was llwavs zetufy to do his duty, always ready to do a charitable act. He worked faithfully in the fold of the Su preme Father, and was loved by all with whom he came in contact, He was well known in all parts of the oounty. He had been in feeble health for several months and his death was unexpected. His remains were interred in the New London Cemetery Wed nesday, at 4 o'clock, Rev . J, D. Rankin performing the ceremony. cent, of the deaths among letter sorters had been due to consump tion, contracted by the men after thy bad entered the Bervice. For 1,000 active troops iu the armies of the great world powers, the following figues show the per centage of cases of pulmonary tuberculosis: United State', 4.72; Great Brittain and colonies, 2.4 ; France, 5.3; Germany, 1.5; Aus tria, 1.0; and Russia, 2.7. The percentage in the general popula tion is much larger. Improper breathing is a frequent cause of consumption . A large majority of people are too lazy or too ignorant to breathe deep, and hence the lungs are developed only to part of their capacity and thus arlord fertile field for the growth of the tuberculosis germ. The death rate from tuberculo bis among the Chinese residents of the Uuited States is 658 .5 and am ng the Japanese 239 per 100, 000 living, white population of the country the rate is 178. According to teets made recent ly on 729 chidron from the tene ment h iuse section of New York city, 28 per cent, showed signs of tuberculosis either of the joints, glands or lungs. In the prison of Bengal, India, tuberculosis kills about two pris oners in every one hundred. Consumption is a common disease among plants and flowers, being most frequent in hcuffe plants. Tuberculosis among the insane is very prevalent. The lowest estimates show that 5 percent, of all the inmates of hospitals for the insane in the United StateB 1 at 1 nave tuuercuiosis. wnue in some cases the rate is over 20 per cent. EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF RAILROADS, j Corn Rotting in the East, People Starving in the West influenced Legislators. The first railroad to be charter ed in the State of Noh Carolina was to run South from Petersburg, Va., to Weldon, N. C. In 1833 what was afterwards known as the Wilmington & Weldon was char tered. This road, started by the faith of a few at first meanit to Connect Wilmington and Raleigh, and bore the Barnes of the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad names of those two cities. It was, however, changed to form a J junction at Weldon with another road, to the Weldcn &Petersburg Railroad . The state, first and last, put six hundred thousaud I dollars' into the stock of this road. This road wasfiniehed in 1840. Its total length was one hundred and forty-six miles. At that time, this was one of the longest roads in America and rfftfl flAirl fn ho loncror than any in Europe. The Raleigh & Gaston was the next railroad of importance to be chartered. The State became responsible for eight hundred thousand dollars of the bonds of this road. When it was finished inMfh a. crroat RAlobra. tiSn was hllWirRaleigb, and the entire State lned m tho nririmW . j . - --j- a Also' during these periods the Sea beard & Roanoke Railroad was built, also it ran from Portsmouth Va., to Weldon N, C. The railroads so far built were all in the eastern portion of the State. The need of a road towerd the mountains was strikingly shown by a failure of the crops in the western counties. Owing to this failure, even the necessities of life became dear in that section, oorn rose from fifty cents to a dollar and a -half a bushel, and yet at the sarjjje, time corn in the east ern counties was rotting in the fields for lack of a market, and ffiirtr 'WfeHfrrg iised toen r ich 4be ground. The condition of the roads in 1848 was, however snob as to discourage further expense, Governor Graham thought them "the worst in the Union." Stock holders and State were alike un easy. The Seaboard & Roanoke Railroad was lifeless. The Ral- oitrVi Ar fl-ant.nn wna nftarlv df-ari. T i t uj Its engines were fit only for the repair bhops ; its few passenger coaches looked almost like lumber wrecks ; its road-bed was utterly wretched. Its trains took an entire day to j !t the eighty miles between Gaston and Raleigh. The Wilmington & Weldon was in somewhat better plight. After heated speeches in the Legislature, a bill for the North Carolina Railroad was passed. This bill however, would have failed but for the vote of the Sneaker. In 1856 trains wore L running from Goldsboro to Char lotte and latsr cn this road be came leased to the Southern Rail vi ay for ninety-nine years. Sea board & Roanoke and Raleigh & Rnknokfi and Raleierh & Gaston railroads are now a part of the Seaboard Air Line Railwav. and the Weldon & Petersburg Rail road and the Wilmington & Wei don Railroad are a part of the main line of the Atlantic Coast Railroad. S. W. Clark. Mr. Clark's father served thirty years with the Seaboard & Roan oke Railroad, the prototype of the preseut Seaboard Air L'.ne Railroad. Charlotte Observer Forced Info Exile. Wm. Upchurch of Gle.i Ouk, Okla, was an exile from home. Mountain. air, he thought, would cure a frightful lung racking cough that had defied all remedies for two years. After six months he returned, death digging his steps. "Then 1 begau to use Dr. King's New Discovery," he writes, "and after taking six bottles I am as wellas ever." Ii 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. BELL COMPANY BUYS WESTERN UNION. Officers of Bell Company Regard the Step as One of Economy Solely. Boston, Nov. 16. A long stride toward the complete control by oae corporation of all wire com munication in the United States was made today in the acquisition the American Telephone & Tele graph Co. of the control of the Western Union Telegraph Com pany. In order to make the absorption uuuipiobu, iuH incorporation or a .l.t. it., r . - rnew - billion dollar company, it is Bif wiU necessary to include tne 9a,mtm of bonds and- 8took of tne American Telephone company, knon as the Bell corn- Pany and tte outstanding $125,- "yuuguuct bonds and Btocb of the Western Union. The accquisition of the neces sary stocktand voting right of the Western Union by the Bell com pany nas been in progress for about six months. The work has n conducted quietly and only a BULuuiem amount to insure con trol, said to be 51 per cent, was taken over. The officers of the Bell company regard the step as one of economy solely. They point out that ever ince the en f ftCt0r m hnman lif e. h" had a had to compete with the telegraph. Lines have been paralleled and there has been an immense amount of. duplication. The officersof the telephone com pany believe that the merger will I aa-rra "Roll 7K W rVTV 7" B" t.u.vw.vw in new con struction while it will also enable the utilization at the same time of wires for both telegraphing and telephoning. The history of the Western Union dates back to before the oilvil war but the Bell company is of compartively recent origin.. Both oompanies pursued the "wuvi m nupgiuiug omauci companies, xne smaii companies acqlairerl by the "Western "Union ' have been lest in oblivion. Some of the associated corporations engaged in the telephone business, the majority cf whose stock rest in the treasury of the parent con cern are: New York Telephone Company, $50,000,000; New England Tele- phone & Telegraph Co., $81,700,- J 000; Bell Telephone of Pennsyl vania, $81,13,000; New York & New Jersey Telephone Co., $25,- 400,000; Southern Bell Telephone Company, $21,400,000; Cumber land Telephone & Telepgraph Co., $18,000,000; Chicago Telephone Company, $175,000,000; Western Telephone & Telegraph Co , $16,- 000,000; Bell Telephone Company of Canada, $12,500,000, The telephone system annually transmits 5,956,800,000 messages while the Western Union handles 68,053,000. The telephone system has 8,098,679 miles of wire and Western Union 1,382,509. The total property value of the tele phone company is $545,045,600 and that of the Western Union $124,086,920. Next Eclipse of the Moon. The total eclipse of the moon, which will take place on the 27th instant, will occur at an hour very inconvenient for persons wishing to observe the phenomenon many news paper men excepted. The Newbern Journal gives this advance data of the occur rence : ' 'The moon will enter the earth's penumbra at 1:12 a. m., eastern standard time, and will first reach the full shadow of the earth at 2:11 a. m. At 3:14 a. m., she will disappear completely in it and will not begin to emerge until 4:37 a. m. This is an unusually long duration due to the fact that the moon will go almost centrally through the earth's shadow, which itself will be larger than usu al, the moon being near the earth. At 5:38 a. m. the moon will finally leave the shadow and at 6:38 will get clear of penumbra and the eclipse will be over." Which means that the earth will this time make almost a centre-shot at the moon.