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A Home Newspaper Published in the Interest of the People and for Honesty in Governmental Affairs.
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Vol. VI. No. 8.
Salisbury, N. 0., Wednesday. February 9th, 1910.
Wr4 H . Stewart, Editor
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II 0AUA6ES FOR UANUFAOTURER.
Tw Hundred irs -ftnd Guilty if Coosylr-
ici aud Sentenced to Piy Damages.
Hartford, Conn., Feb. 4 "1
is a new declaration of indepen
dence is what Attorney Daniel
Davenport calls the verdict of
$222,000 rendered to-day in the
United States court by the jury iu
the suit of D. E. L?ewe, of Din
bury against 200 hat makers of
this State for alleged conspiracy.
After having been out over two
hours the jury ordered actual
damages of 174,000 to the plain
tiff, but as the suit was brought
under the Sherman anti-trust
law triple damages can be recov
ered. The action grevi outof the boy
cott instituted against the plain
tiff's goods following a strike of
its workmnit in th'j summer lof
1902.
There was a remarkable scene
in c urt wheu the verdict was an
nounced. The defendants in at
tendance were stunned for a tier
andjthHQ stood in groups and de
jectedly discussed the blow.
. It is estimated that the cits iu
the cas wi'l amount to at uas.
$10,000 and thfe, withthe coan
sel fe 8, may iring th biilHgi;it
thVfUiit d iH.HtT8 "lof N -rfh
America to fully a quarter of a
million dollars . Th verdict iu
the case is said to be the m .,st ijri
portant of its kind ever reudert'd
in this country.
The plaintiff, D. E. Loewa, id
that it he had not won ht waid
lyixe badtu go out of t busings
ticaHy" instructed the jury
briug in a verdict for the plaintiff.
He said the only question fot
them to decide was one for dm
ags, and these were to be based
upon the losses sustained by ths
plaintiff between July 1902, and
September, 1908, the period dur
ing which the boycott against ths
Loewe factory was maintained,
Albill of exceptions will be flWd
by the defense and the case will
be carried to the Federal court of
appeals and the Uuited States Su
preme Court. The suit, which
was for $240,000 J-damagfts, has
been on trial for eleven weeks. It
was instituted by the anti-boycott
society through Mr. Loewe, but it
is understood trie damages award
ed are ogo to the Dan bury Hat
Makers.
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Babies Thart Plans of Trustees.
St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 6. Babies
are arriving so fast in the homes
of heirs of the late William A.
Hargadine, one of the millionaire
founders of the Hargadine- McKit
trick Dry Goods -Company, that
lawyers are wondering whether
the estate ever will be settled.
Several-hundred thousand dol
lars worth of real estate is being
held in trust to be turned iuto
cash for the beneficiaries. But
babies have persistently interpos
ed legal obstacles.
These cherubs have not only de
fied the courts and lawyers, by
their advent, but thev have
thwarted the plans of the trustee,
who has bean striving for three
years to get a court settlement.
Each time a petition has been filed
however, the announcement of a
birth in the family has called all
legal process to a halt, for under
the law no estate can be settled
without the appearance of every
heir.
Bowels clogged, sick headache,
io fun is it? Why not have that
happy face, red cheeks that come
wHh good digestion, Hoi lister's
Rocky Mountain Tea makes the
bowels work regular, natural.
makes you feel like new . Take
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SMALLPOX AT TB6UASVILLE OBPSiiRIIE.
Flfliia easts tf thi Ltatksoma Bfseasi
Slil tl KtTS'BtIB DlSClWia.
Thomasville. Feb. 6 It will
be a source of deep sorrow through
out Nofth Carolina to know that
there are to-day fifteen cases of
smallpox at the Thomasville Bap
tist Orphanage'. The fact was
discovered a few days ago by Dr.
Julian, the orphanage physieian,
and the diieait has spread to some
extent. Miss Olive, one ofthe
teachers, also has it,aloug "with
fourteen of the orphans.
As to the origin of smallpox in
the orphanage, it is stated by au
thority, that cannot be boubted
that several Bryant ohillren,
whose mother lives in Thomas
ville, were permitted to visit thair
mother during Christmas holidays
and spout several days rvnni&g
around the neighboring children.
It happened that they came iu
contact with a cousin. Irving
Bryant, who had been away fro
norm for a year or two, but hec
returned to his father, bringing
ith him inlhis'system the germs
of smallpox, which began to break
'utypry soou thereafter. Cer-
tainlynothing of tbislwas !jknown
by I the orphanage tmanagersj when
kho. Bryant childrfucamejback t-
ihe orphanagif rom theirvisit iu
wn.
Dr. Julian, with General Mau-
agnr M.L. Kesler, are widu awaks,
swelljas all who areiuiiautbori-
ty at the.'orphanage,- and doiug
their utmostto arrest'the'epidem
icin its march, j.but lo !oi.e can
now foresee! .the end or ., measure
The doctor says that que little
boy has tlrnady passed the point
f even possible recovery.
All the teachers, mstrons and
children, numbering four hundrtd
and thirty in all, have bsen vac
cinated, but many of these bad
been exposed before tbVir vacci
nation.
Don't live a single hoar of yoar
life without doing exaotlf what
is to be aone in n, ana going
straight through it from begining
to end . Work, play, st4y, what
ever it is, take hold at onee and
finish it up squarely ; then to th
next thing, without letting any
moments drop between. It u
vtondeful to tee how many hours
these prompt people contrive to
make of a day; it is as if they
picked up moments thai the
dwardlers loet. And if ever yoa
find -yourself where you have so
many things pressing upon you
hardly know how to begin, let me
tell you a secret : Take bold cf
the first oue that comes to nana
and yon will find th rgt all fall
into filf, and follow after, like a
company of wellddlled s Idiere;
and th ugh w rk may be hard to
meet when it charges in a ?qud,
it if easily vanquished if you can
bring it into line. You may have
often seen the anecdote of the
man who was asked how he had
accomplished so much in his life.
"My father taught me," was tne
reply, "when I had anything to
do, to go and do it. There is the
ieoret the magic word, nowr
The Lutheran.
Saved From Awful Peril.
1 1 never felt so near my grave,'
writes Lewis Chamblin, of Man
Chester. Ohio. k. a. jno. s. "as
when a frightful cough and lung
trouble nulled me sdown to 115
pounds in spite of many remedies
and the best doctors. And that
I am alive to-day is due solely to
Dr. King's New Discovery, which
completely cured me. Wow
weigh 160 pouuds and can work
hard. It also cured my four
children of croup." Infalliable
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most certain remedy for LaGrippe
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THREE MEN EMBEZZLED.
Trttsarar if Big Fur Tills ef Alaist
rriilisili Lietiig of Bill's Trsisnrj.
Cineiuati, O., Feb. 8. A chain
tf embszslements involving three
mtn. exttuding over many years
and finally culmenating in the
almost wholesale looting of the
Big Four Railroad treasury, was
the story told by Charles L. War
riuer, defaulting local treasurer
of the road, in .his testimony,- to
day in the trial of Mrs. Jeanette
Ford for blackmail.
Warriuer represented himself
as a man pouring out . gold with
both hands and in ever increasing
amounts to kep sealed the mouth
of the woman ho through her
infatuation for one of, the accused
smoezzlers, E. S. Cooke, had
learned the secret. Frank Corn
stock, Warriner's predecessor as
ioeal treasurer, was declared to be
the third man.
Calmiy and iu unruffled tones
Warringer told hias incredible
tory. When the court adjourn
ed Warriner's examination was
co&cluded.
According to the witness, when
he anamed office as local treas
urer iu 1902 he foand that Cooke
was short iu his accounts $24,000.
H also learned that his predeces
sor Comstock was short $10,500.
He himislf was a defaulter and to
prevent his crime from being dis
covered he engaged to conceal the
two former officials .
In the story of the gigantic
theft there is one question which
has never been definitely answer
ed and the attorneys for the. dt-
e us .to-day made .another futile
effort to obtain its eolation.
What became of the $641,000
which Varriner confessed to have
stolen?"
The witness declared that he
had paid approximately $165,000
in blackmail and that $32,000
had been stolen by others than
aiauelf . The remainder of $442,-
000, is explained by him as having
been lost iu speculation.
Although he knew exactly the
amount embizzled and the ap
proximate amount of "hush
money " paid, to all questions at.
to his investments he replies that
he could not remember how much
&oney he had put into any partic
ular enterprise.
One of the most startling devel
opments in the case came at the
afternoon session of the couit
when Warriuer, under rigid ques
tioning, admitted that he had
handled funds placed with him
for the payment of rebates ; that
he paid out comparatively large
stuns in rebates and that tht sim
ple auditiug of his accounts at
any time would have discovered
his shortage to the company.
After testifying that Auditor
A. Heywitt had checked ov;r
his ac? unts Warriuer wa asked
by Attorney 1 horud ykiT" of the
defense.
"Then how did it come that ha
never discovered this great short
age of yours?" ,
'That's for Hewitt to explain,"
was the complacent answer of the
witness.
Chicago, Feb. 8. "I believe
Warriuer must have been out of
his mind when he said that I had
received more than'llOO.OOO from
him not to expose his shcrtage,"
said E. S. Cooke. "I never knew
that Warriuer, was short until
reaa aoout it in ne newepapers.
My record is clean, I was chief
clerk under Warriuer and my
books snow tnat 1 do not owe
Big Four Railroad a dollar."
the
People easily constipated dread
the winter Nothing but hard
course meals. ' No fruits, no vge
tables to keep the stomach active
Your best relief, your greatest
friend now is,, Hollister's Rocky
Mountain Tea, the world's; tonic
physic. Do it to-night. Cornell
son & Cook.
STATE NEWS.
Items of lalerest Gathered from thi East
rrWiters to IHs Wiatin Hills.
The FetiruaTy criminal session
of Mecklenburg court which con
venes Moonday, the I4tb, promises
es to he interesting and it would
surprising if it should wade
through what is mapped out.
The docket includes six murder
cases the defendents being Will
and Ijenry Hartis, Felix Wett
holm, Mike Murphy, Ed Cox, all
white, -and Cobb Withers, color
ed? L .1- .
The State Agricultural Depart
ment issues it first oil bulletin
with a preface by Manlius Orr,
assistant chemist The bulletin
is interesting because it was pre
pared by State Oil Chemist Wil
liam A. Syme three days before
his death. The bulletin contains
his picture and a tribute to him,
prepared by Commissioner Gra
ham. , 'i
Smallpox has been discovered
among the colored tenants on the
plantation of Mrs. M. J. Wallace
near Sardis station, Mecklenburg
C6uity, aud it develops th it the
malady has been raging in one
family, for a month without de
tection on tbe part of the laLd
owners and within a hundred feat
of Mn, Wallace's residence.
Tom Browning is in jail and
Charles Young in Lincoln hospi
tal, in Durham, as the result of
fight Thursday afternoon in
which .Browning, a white man,
stuck a pitchfork into the negro s
eye a dil destroyed -it. The men
"disrated oyer the trivial matter
of a haif day's work and Brown
ing says the negro advanced upon
him with a rock. The white man
threw the fork hard into the face
of the negro and in drawing it out
the eye was almost removed from
the socket. The negro cried and
prayed pitioutly as. he was being
akea to the hospital. After a
obss -3 all over town, Browning a
y-u ulster of criminal tendency
aud cf some record, was caught.
The High Point Enterprise is
in receipt of a dispatch from New
York City whioh states that Mrs.
Mary Brokaw was last Wednesday
granted a separation from her
husband, W. Gould Brokaw and
alimony in the sum of $15,000 a
year by the Supreme Court at
Miueola, L. I, A newspaper re
porter tried to get in communica
tion with Mr. Brokaw at "Fair
view Lodge," at High Point, but
was told by one of the attendants
that both Mr. Biokaw and hie
private secretary, Mr Byford,
were absent for. a few days. It
was atated; that Mr. Byford was
in New York City, but it could
not be learned where Mr. Brokaw
was It was alao stated that no
one at "Faifview Lodge" could
give aqy information relative to
Mr. Brokw:s attitude on the de-
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eisioh of the court or what his in
tentions were as to taking an ap
peal.
Henry E. Fries returned Thurs
day from New York where he at
tended a meeting of the Southern
Educational Board, of which he
is a member. MrFries has pre
pared a report which he will sub
mit at once to the financial board
of Salem Academy and College of
Winston-Salem, relative to the
$75,000 endowment of the college
by the Rockefeller fund of the
General Education Board, in ad
dition to a $15,000 gift from An
drew Carnegie. The Rockefeller
fund appropriation is conditioned
upon $225,000 being .raised out
side. Mr, Fries states that Mr
Carnegie's gift and donations
from others have brought the
matter to a status where -only
about $80,000 remains to be rais
ed forthe college, in order to se
cure a total of $300,000 perman
ent endowment fund.
GENERAL NEWS.
Items of Interest From all Ofer! Gathered
for our Readers.
After a short but torrid open
hearing, replete with personal dis
putes and acriminious-utterances,
followed by an executive session
of an hour, also filled with dissen
sion, the House committee on
merchant marine and fisheries,
Thursday by a vote of 10 to 7 vot
ed to reportj.vfavorably to the
House the administration bill on
chip subsidy, as introduced by
Representative Humphrey Of
Washington.
Whether Col. Duntan B. and
Robin Cooper must serve 20 years
for thi slaying of former United
States Senator E. W. Carmack,
or. whether they Will get a new
trial, now rests with the five
stately and dignified justices of
the Supreme Court of the State
of Tennessee. The arguments in
the motion for a rehearing were
concluded Thursday and thejques-
tion rests .with the court. After
that then is but one hope for the
Coopers in case of anfadverse de
cision, Governor M. R 'Patterson,
who is their close friend.
Concessions by both the United
States and Germany have avertad
a threatened tariff war. . Nego
tiations have been concludedjbe
tween the two countries, hich
settle the question of minimum
and maximum rates with the ex
ception of the cattle ,and drened
meat issue which was eliminated
from the present negotiations and
which will be pursued hereafter
in separate diplomatic represent
tion. The result of the negotia
tion! agreed to Thursday is to ex
change American minimum rates
for the entire and unqualified
minimum list, of Germany. The
result is considered just and ad
vantageous to both countries.
Mrs. E. J Love, a wealthy
Philadelphia woman, died on
train No. 87 at Greenville, S. C,
Thursday. She was en route
South for her health, accompan
ied bp her young daughter.
Baltimore, Feb. 8. Leaving
behind him two rather rambling
and incoherent letters, Elijah
Baba Badal, a Periion, 81 years
old, a student at the University
of Maryland School of Medicine,
Baltimore, Thursday afternoon
shot and instantly killed Mm
Marie Lewseu, 24 years old, of
Portland, Me,, a student of denis-
try at the same institution and
then shot himself, dying shortly
afterwards. The letters, which
were enclosed in an envelope ad
dressed to the suicide's brother,
told of Badal s love for Miss Lew
sen and his belief that ehe recip
rocated it fully until her mind
was poisoned against the Persian
by a boardiug house mistress who
came botween tnem tne letters
state. '
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The readers of this paper will
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all its stages, and that is Catarrh.
Hail's Catarrh Cure is the onlv
positive cure now known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh be
iug a constitutional disease, re
quires a constitutional treatment.
Hall s Catarrh Cure is taken in
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blood and mucous surfaces of the
system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease, and
giving the patent strenth by buil
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The proprietors have so much
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Take Hall's Family Pills for
constipation.
The South pole is to be sought
by a British expedition, to be
known as the 'Scott Expedition,
to which the government will con
tribute -$100,000. Captain Scott
commanded the British expedition
of 1900-1904, in which extensive
explorations were made. British
evplorers have done most of the
work in the ap arc tic, often using
New Zealand as a base, The Scott
expedition will sail from New
England in July, and force its
way to the farthest point which
can be reached by ship next win
ter, which will be the antarctic
summer, and then proceed over
the land of the antaretio conti
nent toward the pole. With the
experience of Lieutenant Shackle
ton, who went within a huudred
miles of it, this expedition may
be expected to succeed.
Louis Paulhan, the French av
iator, made three short flights
Sunday in a Farman biplane at
the New Orleans city nark race
track before 80,000 spectators.
He ascended to a maximum
height of 800 feet and circled sev
eral times about the course, re
maining in the air 12 minutes
during his longest flight. The as
cents were without unusual fea
tures, Heedless of the warning of a
foreman in charge of excavation
operations along the line of the
private motor road from Kelvin
to the Ray copper mines, near
Phoenix, Ariz,, the motorman of
a gasoline car containing six pas
sengers ran his car close to a
sputtering fuse of a heavy charge
ot dynamite Qunday and the car
ana its seven occunants vera
blown to atoms.
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Work is progressing satisfaotorP
y at the Norfolk navy yard on
the scout cruisers Birmingham
and Salem, now receiving exten
sion masts for long distance wire-
ess telegraphy exper i m e n t a 1
work, for which the two .scouts
are to proceed first to the coast of
South America and thence
to the west coast of Africa.
The wireless improvements be
ing installed aboard the two crjiifO
ers are intended to insure uninter-
rupted'eommunication from ? the
ships to Brant Rock, Mass,, at a
distance of 8,000 miles, while off
he South american coast to which
the ships will first , proceed they
will be only 2.0Q0 miles distant
rom Brant Rook. The maximum
8,000 miles; will be .attempted
off the African coast .
At Huntington, Va., an honest
policeman on his rounds through
a dark alley early Sunday stum
bled over the half-conscious form
of a man with f 3,000 in real mon
ey bulging from his inside coat
pocket. The officer took $50 of
it but only after protest as a re
ward when the man explained at
police headquarters that he was
George Smith, a farmer, of St.
Albans, who had sold his place
Saturday and was out to. cele
brate. He did not know how he
came to be sleeping in an alley.
A Qead AdTertjser.
"It don't pay to advertise only
during Christmas time," said j a
dead one yesterday. That is the
reason so many tlerks are idle.
The merchant who only advertises
during Christmas time will Al
ways be a dead one" and pro
gressive people will pass his store
ana leave aim . ana nis vcierx8 1X0
their peaceful slumber.
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doctors or for medicines, to cure
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