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1 , if . VOL. LXXXni-NO. OUTLINES. n uprising against President Cas o was ' made by the people of the v-pnezuelan capital last Monday and a spirit of revolution existed, during which th'3 property of the President's henchman and his friends was wreck ed and several fatalities resulted : Mj-s. William H. Taft; wife of President-elect Taft, will spend a few, days this week at .Spray, N. C, where she will address a meeting of the-wonfen of North and South Carolina A horse race in New. Orleans yesterday tor the purpose of testing the Locke anti-racing law resulted in the arrest of several turfmen- Senator Lodge of the Senate Committee on Military affairs delivered a set speech on the Brownsvilte case yesterday The Russian Duma sends congratulations to the Representative Assemhlyof Turkey There was a heated dis cussion In the Senate yesterday over the President's language in "the secret service part of this annual message and a resolution referring ihe matter to a committee was adopted. The House devoted most of the day to the hill revising the penal laws The negro who assaulted Mrs. Moss in Stanly county was badly injured by frrT rescuers. One of the latter had a finger bitten off. Mrs. Moss is in serious condition Castro says he does not believe the reports of riot ing in Caracas The editor of the In dianapolis Siun replies to Roosevelt's denunciation There "was a popular up-rising In Caracas Monday which Is expected; to result in the deposition of Castro New York Markets: Money on call firm at 2 3-4 to 3 3-4 per cent, ruling Irate 3 1-2; closing bid 3, offered at ,3 1-4. Cotton quiet, middling uplands 9.10, middling gulf 9.35. Flour steady. Wheat steady, No. 2 red 1.07 5-8 to 1.08 5-8 elevator. Corn steady, No. 2 66 to arrive eleva tor. Oats quiet, mixed 55 to 55 1-2. Rosin steady. Turpentine quiet 4 1-2. An exchange remarks that the prin cipal business of the Ananias Club is the enlargement of its quarters. Marion and Lester Butler do not seem so anxious for speedy trials as they appeared to be at the time th'sy were bound over to court. Sensational murder trials are going oa in New York, Kentucky and Ten nessee this week, but there will hard ly be any hangings. We suppose Roosevelt will now write another private (?) letter to a friend and make reply to the editorial in tne New York .World of yesterday. Old Probs. tried mighty hard" to treat the Wilmingtonians to a severe storm about midnight Friday, but he made a failure of it. It looks like the Castro Government will suffer more from , its members at home than from the Dutch. The former are doing tha work for the latter. Don't you know there were hot times at the White House yesterday when the New York World's reply to Roosevelt was read fty that .gentle man. Already Democratic newspapers are discussing the next nominee of the party for President. We hope tbey will soon get tired of it and drop the subject. It is too soon to take it up. With Messrs. Pulitzer and Delavan Smith as Members of the Ananias Club it ought to issue a paper of its own. They could make it very inter esting as the organ of th3 clubs foun der. if Roosevelt keeps on he will con vince many people that there was scandal connected with the Panama canal purchase and that he is doing all he can to keep it from being ex posed. We hope the country has not to un der go thes (mortification of witnessing a personal controversy of words be tween its President and the editor of a newspaper in which, on one side at least unseemly language is tised. Schwab has not yet amade as big a pile out of the tariff-protected steel trust as has Carnegie; so. it is not surprising thathe does not agree with the latter on the question of tariff re duction on steel manufactures. The Washington post saysTa change f 108,500 votes in eight States would have given" Bryan the election. The act that thee was not such a change is about tha best of the many reasons that have been gfven for his defeat. If there is not ta word of truth In what the Indianapolis Sun and New York World say about it, why Is Roosevelt so . opposed to Cromwell, Robinson and others being given op portunity to go on the public records wth teir denials? Pelt slippers for ladles and gents at Peterson & Rulfs. -; thu-su-tu 64. WIL ME THE DAY IN RALEIGH Negroes ikorate Company For Social Moral Ad vancement o N Race. MILLION DOLLAR CQixUN MILL Corporation to Take Over and Operate Odell Mills Governor Refuses Clemency in Case of Negro to Hang Today. (Special Star Correspondence.) Raleigh, N. C, Dec. 16. The Bene volent Colored Brotherhood (Inc.) ihaving for its purpose the encourage ment of sobriety and morality among the negroes, received a charter today with principal office in Williamston. A. R. Rogers is one of the principal incorporators. The Richmond Insurance and Real ty Co., of Rockingham, Richmond county, is chartered with $10,000 capi tal by W. I. Everett and others. Oth er charters are to the Family Record Mutual Life Insurance Co., Rocky Mount, P. B. Davis principal incorpo rator; The Tar, Heel Mica Co.," Plum Tree, capital $10,000 by E. H. Patrick and others and The Peerless Grocery Co., High Point, capital $25,00a by C. C. Swain and others. The annual report of the Soldiers Home just received by Governor Glenn shows 196 old Confederates tcared for during the year; 29 died during the year and three were dis charged, tlhere being now on the rolla 134. The present appropriation for maintenance is $15,000 and the Leg islature to meet in January will be asked to increase this somewhat else some of the inmates will have to be discharged. Superintendent R. H. Brooks continues desperately ill. That North Carolina disposed of her property holdings at the Jamestown Exposition, including the splendid $25,000 State building, to better ad vantage than any other States in the Union that had Jamestown invest ments,, is the showing that the North Carolina Commission is to make in the report now itfjprocess of prepara-4 tion to- be presented to the General Assembly in January. The members of the Board of Di rectors of the penitentiary spent the day here going; over matters relative? to the bteiinial' rrport'ronT the insti tution for the approaching Legisla ture. The fiscal year only closed De cember 30th so that the report can not be .completed until then. The re port will, the directors say, show a very prosperous year in spite of the heavy losses sustained through the big freshets on the Halifax State farm. There are now about 700 con vfcts subject to the penitentiary au thorities, about 100 less than eight years ago when the present manage ment took charge, there being a gra dual falling off through the growth, of the system of counties retaining their convicts for county road and other work. Friday of -this week the executive committee of the State Pair willmeet here to receive the report of Secreta ry Joseph E. Pogue and other officers of the fair oh the results, financial and otherwise, of the recent fair held m October. Mr. Pogue says the fair has, as usual, netted good profits and that the showing will be in every way gratifying. There is a very general hope expressed that the iconfiict ' in fair dates for Raleigh and Greensbo ro can be eliminated and competition which this year cost both fairs thou sands of dollars, avoided in future. However, the State fair management insists that it will hp impossible for the State fair to surrender its fair dates which have been observed for nearly a half century. The question of whether. Sunday Schools . can , be construed to be for "divine worship" was presented! to the Supreme Court today in argument of State vs. Branner and Peck from Swain county in which Judge Peebles some time ago made the ruling that they were not and discharged the prisoners who had pleaded guilty of disturbing a Sunday School while in toxicated. Assistant Attorney. Gen eral Hayden Clement and J. W. Bai ley presented the argument for the State quoting freely from the Scrip tures to show that meetings for study of the Bible and religion are rightful ly included as "divine worship." On the other hand ex-Chief Justice James E. Shepherd presented the argument for the defendants and "in defense of the position taken by Judge Peebles, which was so sharply criticised by church workers "among -several de nominations of the State. The State Board of Education, the Secretary of State and many people the State over interested in v State swamp and other public lands are free to admit that this department' of the State's affairs iare in a bad tan gle out of which probably nothing short of decided legislative action and possibly considerable litigation of one sort or another will probably ever bring anything like order. The State 1 Board of Education has the title and sale of all puT)lio swamp lands for the State literary fund for the .public schools while the . State department, through the Secretary of " State has the issuing of grants for other public lands after formal entry Conflicting interests or purchasers and claimants and questions of , what are and what (Continued oil; Page 5.) :t S"GTOK, N. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1908. WHOLE NO. 12,868. THE ABATTOIR QUESTION ' County Sanitary Board and Committee From Board of Health in Session Yesterday Another Meeting With Dealers Tomorrow. At a special meeting of the County Sanitary Board with an advisory com- I Maitt'se from the Board o-HeaIth yes terday neon at the Court House, the temporary rules and regulations rec ommended at the meeting on Monday in regard to slaughter houses and the disposal of refuse from the city other than the ordinary street garbage were put in effect and it was decided to call another meeting of the full Coun ty Board of Health tomorrow at noon at which time the butchers will be present and confer with the board in regard to the establishment of "a cen tral slaughter house or abattoir. Present at the (meeting yesterday were Chairman McEachern and Com missioners Vollers, Robertson, Divine, Drs. R. H. Bellamy and E. J. Wood, of the Sanitary Board, and Drs. Bul luick, Harriss and Nesbitt, of theTcom mittee from tha Board of Health. The chairman stated the object of the meeting and. the work of the previous meetings was gone, over. The rule recommending that all carcases of dead animals shall be buried six feet under ground at a place to be desig nated by the County Commissioners or County Superintendent of Health was affirmed and ordered in effect from date and by a subsequent resolution the County Commissioners were re quested to set aside a remoteportron of the County Home tract for this pur pose and that they have the Skiperm tendent of the County Home to "cause such animals to be buried' when re quested upon payment of a fee of not exceeding $5 to cover cost of same, the fee to be in advance. Dr. Hassiss offered a resolution pro viding for the establishment of a cen tral slaughter house but after further discussion a substitute by Commis sioner Divine prevailed to the effect that all slaughter houses found in un sanitary condition be condemned and owners thereof be requested to con fer with the Board at noon on Friday for the purpose of considering the erection of a Prper .and sanitary meats, the dealers to be invited to at tend the meeting and advise with the authorities as to the best course to pursue. , V '-..V -The "clerk was directed to rifttif y the dealers of the time and place of the meeting and it is expected that some remedy for present conditions will be-provided at this time. Dr. T, B. Carroll, the city meat and -milk in spector, was present at the meeting yesterday and conferred with the Board and committee in their consid eration of the important question IN MARINE CIRCLES New Light House Inspector For This District Cutter On Cruise. The buoy tender Cypress with Com mander J. H. Helsington, recently ap pointed light house inspector for this district, arrived yesterday morning for the inspection of lights and buoys on the Cape Fear river and to see what improvements can be made for the aid of navigation. The Cypress proceeded in the afternoon to com plete the regular inspection trip. The revenue cutter iSeminole, com mencing her Winter cruise, cleared yesterday for a few days cruise up the coast to Lookout and a far north as Cape Hatteras. A small wreck off Lookout will be destroyed by the cut ter. ' The schooner William Thomas Moore, Captain Bell, arrived yester day from New York with cargo of 436 tons of osment to be discharged to the Seaboard Air Line for interior shipments. The schooner Millie R. Bohannan, Captain Little, cleared yes terday for Belfast, Ga.. to receive a cargo for northern markets. THE RED CROSS WORK Appeal in Behalf of Christmas Stamps Is Insistent Dealers. (From the Red Cross Society.) Drop one of your' luxuries each day until Christmas. One less cigar, drink (soft or otherwise), trolley ride, sugar from your coffee or anything that you may consider a luxury. The feeling of doing a good deed will more than compensate you for the sacrifice. Red Cross stamps one cent each, for sale at tall drug stores and book stores and the Woman's Exchange. Buy one, two or a hundred, as you are able and willing to help us. Others who have fallen.in line: J. H. Boatwright & Son, J. VanB. Metts, Elks' Club, L. Hanson, iSpirittine, Rog er Moore's Sons & Co., Carolina In surance Co., National Biscuit Com pany. On Two Serious Charges. Constable Savage yesterday arrest ed William Mclver and wife, Olive, on warrants sworn out on the affidavit of Mandy Brown, all colored, charging them with assault with serious injury and trespass. In default of security they were sent to Jail and will be tried in. Justice Furlong's "court today.The Brown woman claimed . that -tne ac cused came to her home" affer they had ;been asked to stay awajr and gave her severe Ibeating in which her hand was painfully hurt and she was otherwise injured. The parties held in? the case deny tne charges' ; ,X IN DISTRICT CODR Several Cases Disposed of Y terday and Others Continued For Circuit Court. ! TO BEGIN ON LAND HEARII Part of Fort Caswell Reservation Dispute and Will Consume Re, 0 mainder of Week Several J Sentences Imposed. With the continuance of four five .cases that could not be reac at this term, the District Court dcUhe et at the present term of Feddat Court ; here was cleared by adjovaJ ment late yesterday afternoon 8un. Judge Waddill, presiding, will beVing this morning the hearing of Cir$ent Court .matters, the first of whichS that of T. M. Thompson, Jr., and Cov ers against Maj. Harmon, comma, dant of the army post at Fort Caswf at the time of the institution of t suit, , and which Involves the title about 300 acres of the land of ttor Government reservation there. ho The latter case will be taken fst first" thing this morning md it X" likely that the remainder of the wee will be required to finish. The plai9. tiffs are represented by Messrs. Joft D. Bellamy & Son, E. K. Bryan aM C. Ed Tavlor. awhile the interests i the government will be looked aftfc by District Attorney Skinner and &ri sistant District Attorney Giles. ; large number of witnesses both i the .plaintiff and for the governing canje j up from Southport yesterdS afternoon and the government- quite a numberf others from. a C tance,- including Capt. R. P. JohnsA fofmetfy in charge of the Engine Corps here, and Engineer S. F. F bank, who ran out the lines betwc the property last and who brought by the government 11 miles from Honolulu to testify in m controversy. The cases of most interest yester day were those or Franklm ivey, a young white man of Raynham, Robe son county, charged with the larceny of postal funds, who was found not guilty an$ discharged: Willie Mac- RaevMof Scotland, . charged with ab stracting letter containing valuable enclosure, who entered ia plea of guilty was given one year in the At lanta prison; James Powell, Colum bus, abstracting letter, who was given one year in the reformatory at Wash ington, D. C, under the recent desig nation: D. B. Coleman, Columbus county, charged with abstracting let ters from postofflce, who pleaded guilty and was given one year in the Atlanta prison, and Nunnie Manning, of Robeson, who was given 90 days in jail for retailing after conviction by jury. Other cases were disposed of as follows: Alex Bullard, Cumberland, retailing, verdict guilty, judgment sus pended in consideration of defend ant's having been in jail several months; Laurence Harlee, retailing, 30 days in jail; Belen Sailers, Robe son, retailing, pleaded guilty, judg ment suspended; Martha Barfield, Ro beson, retailing, defendant pleads guilty, judgment suspended; Jule Be thea, Robeson, retailing, 30 days in jail; Mary Jane Locklear, Robeson, retailing, verdict guilty, prayer for judgment continued; Jennie Thomp son, Robeson, retailing, verdict not guilty. Col. Skinner was very busy during the day with the Fort Caswell suit land the prosecution of the docket largely devolved upon Assistant Dis trict Attorney Giles, who succeeded in getting many of the cases from the calendar. MARRIAGE LAST EVENING. Mtiss Lizzie Wyndham Become the Bride of Mr Dawson Barnes. A pretty marriage attended fcy a large concourse of friends was solem nized last evening at 8 o'clock at the home of the bride's sister, Mrs. Rosa Shew, on North Seventh street, the parties Toeing Miss Lizzie Wyndham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Wyndham, of Lenoir, . S. C, and Mr. Dawson W. Barnes, a well known young man of this city. The ceremo ny was performed by Rev. K. D. Holmes, pastor of Fifth Street Metho dist church, at the conclusion of which the young people were tender ed congratulations of their many ac quaintances. - The bride has made her home with her sister in Wilmington for the past two or three years, and (her fine traits of character have won for her many friends. The popular groom is a well known young business man and holds a position with the Angola Lumber Company. They will reside in this city. Associated Charities. The entertainment scheduled for the week of Jan. 4th, for the benefit of the Associated Charities promises to be a success The advance sale of tickets has begun and these can be exchanged at Plummer's two days be fore the performance for Preserved seats. ' V - Patent leather pumps for. Xmas fes uvmes at Peterson & nuns. ; : ' ' ;v " - , thu-sp-tu eve' ydufSlflQPSS or selecft , for Hamburger Bros &Ca " BifeTSi Ffi 1 V.'-.t-SKn I I irk! ft i i -LfeamJMr mm lbs i-.rHr ii&mn una mm mm , too i ol C.B4Hatters as might properly come te IfiO IO lO OOUIBpe the Board. Under the head of lw matter, the Mayor handed to the dec 13 tf Died m Raleigh YesttWay After Long Illness Remains Here xi The death of Miss Florence L. Al derman, a daughter of the late I. T. Alderman, and who formerly resided in this city, which occurred In Raleigh yesterday morning at 7:30 o'clock,' will be learned of by her sjnany friehds here with Sincere regret.-.-iShei has been in declining health for several , months and during the past few weeks her condition had reached such an acute stage that little hope was held out for her recovery. For a number of years she lived with her brother, Mr. J. T. Alderman in Wilmington, and later when his family moved to Raleigh, she accompanied them. The deceased was about 44 years old; a most estimable lady and herd in high regard by her many acquain tance. Accompanied by Mr. X T. Alderman, a brother of the deceased, the remains arrived here last night from Raleigh at 8:15 o'clock and were conveyed to Grace Methodist church, from which the funeral will be held this morning at 11 o'clock, conducted by jfche pastor, Rev. T. A. Smoot. Besides the mem ber of the Immediate family, there are surviving a number of relatives in this city. The remains will be in terred in Oakdale cemetery. IN THE MAYOR'S CORT Soldier Pleaced Under Bond For Using Pistol Other pases. A case, of some consequence at the session of the police court yesterday was that of John Dew, a soldier of Fort Caswell, who, it will ba recalled, was arrested for disorderly conduct by Officer W- RAppleberry on Mon day night in a disreputable section of the city, and a charge for assault with a pistol later preferred against him. The prosecuting witness was Geo. A. Meville, who swore at the trial that Dew drew a pistol on him and proba bly would have shot had he not grab bed the weapon out of his hand. An other witness was C. WJ- Brown, who stated to the court that he saw the pistol in Dew's hand. The defendant was placed under a $50 bond an in de fault of same weiit to jail. Barbara Dunn, the white woman. who was arrested on, complaint of a young man name Nelms, alleging that she was conducting: a disorderly house, was tried and the case dismiss ed for lack of evidence. Appealed to Higher Court. Following a decision in favor of the plaintiff in a civil action institut ed by the Tidewater Power Company against Gaston D. Phares to recover $39.44, alleged to be due on fixtures, the' latter through his attorneys, Mes srs. Meares & Ruark, yesterday gave notice of appeal from the judgment of the justice's court. The case was set for trial on December 12th in Jus tice Bornemann's court and the de fendant failing to appear, a transcript of the judgment was filed with the clerk of the Superior Court. Expression League Tonight. The entertainment to be given at the Y. M. C.A.. tills -evening by the Expression League promises to be quite . enjoyable for ,U who attend. The affair will be given promptly ' at 8:15 o'clock, and generous division of the proceeds fwill be given to' the T. M. C A. to assist with its laudable work in this 1 community.: ; : .C?. :.. " Tafc m ACTION BY BOARD ydra-Headed Monster "Water Works" Wins in Unequal Fi$hWith Aldermen. HE MEETING LAST NIGHT djourned to Wait oh Consummation of Bond Sale After Lengthy Dis cussionMr. W. E. Perdew Elected on Commission. After prancing up and down the Hftll some "several" times last night Board of Aldermen at its special ssion lasting nearly three hours; journed without taking any action tever in regard to the waterworks estion. The only thing accomplish Id during the long, tedious three terours was the regretful acceptance ot cSie resiSnation.of Col- Walker Taylor looV3 member of the Water and Sew J rage Commission and the unanimous H lection of Mr. William E. Perdew to kgjucceed hrim. troll The latter action was taken by the oardi before any other matters were f Aken up. The Board was slow in a; contmblmg the -A-ldernien conferring me with another and with various Sjtizens In attendance upon the meet XmS' - 'All were in their places at 8:1& - clock; when the Board was called to i der : by Mayor Springer, who stated fat the call was for the purpose ot ' ; faring a report from the Water r - )rks Committee and for such other 'jferk a communication from Col. Tayv . wnion was reaa ana in wnioa ne ated that for business reasons and t having the time to devote to the rk, he would have tb tender Siis ignation as a member of the body. e Mayor stated that the resignation been handed him several days o and it was unnecessary for him say that he had exhausted every; means to get Col. Taylor to withdraw iW, at the same time paying him a high. tribute as a man eminently fit ted,, for high public service. .Mr. French added his testimony to Col. Taylor's splendid qualifications for the position and with other members regretted his action. The resignation as accepted with manifest, regfet and nominations were declared in " or der for his successor. Mr. Northrop placed in nomination Mr. Perdew, seconded by Mr. Rathjen. Alderman King placed in nomination Capt. Prea ton Cumming, explaining the desira bility of having a man who could de vote a large portion of his time to the duties of the office, but the nomina tion failed of a second and Mr. Per dew's election was unanimous. Alderman Bolles read from the ev ening paper a lengthy statement or the negotiations of the committee for the purchase of the water plant and disclaimed any authority as a member of the committee of having given out the information, stating that 5ie thought such matters should first be. brought before the Board of Aider men. Among other thing an Invita tion to taxpayers had been issued to be present at the meeting and while he was not averse to the invitation, he desired his icolleagues to know that he had not taken that responsibility upon himself. Mr. Wood, of the committee, Inter rupted several times and after Mr. Bolles had concluded, stated that he was responsible for the giving out of the statement; he thought it was in justice to the public to give them all information possible as to what was going on. Mr. French agreed with Mr. Wood, stating that he thought the more publicity given the negotiations, the better. After this "incident", there was a call for the report of the committee es to the negotiations for the pur chase of the Clarendon plant. Chair man Wood stated that the committee had decided to make p.o report but to come before the full Board with all the information in hand and leave It to the entire body to decide the mat ter. He handed to the ifrlerk a propo sition from the company to sell for $155,000, of which amount $75,000 . should be in cash, the city to assume the bonded indebtedness of $80,000 on the plant, which is to be delivered free of all Incumbrances on Jan. 1st., offering to submit to disinterested ar bitration, if this price was not satis factory. The offer was accompanied by a detailed statement of the earn ings of the company during the past year, which showed an Increase of something like $4,000 and an increas ed patronage over the year previous After the reading of the offer and statement of earnings, Mr. Wood stat ed that'he thought the proposition should be looked more carefully into, as he had been informed much of the pipe had corroded under earth and was not capable of carrying full ca pacity as when at first; laid. He was , wholly at sea in view of that develop- ment and wanted light on the propo sition. Mr. King wanted to know where Mr. Wood got Ms informationr about the corrosion , of the pipe and Mr. Wood stated that it came from. . the Coast Line, which had occasion to take some of it up not long ago.' It was up to the, Board to take the in formation 'and Investigate for itself (Ocnfhracfl oa fsisrUi -j&ssLJ ' 4 tE r -1. ' - fS '; - 1 . . .,!,: . ' -Wv: A . ' . m:: V. r - t rf ty 7- ,v ; ' f . ..'.' - 0 ' ;'!-. I f v'x - . - S.T . ' ' ; V" ' . - .5 A-:' .-. .."i i.-. '.''-' .tki "ft,-.--! i ,1 y-yy- y- '1 r. !-.v ,
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