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r Weather Today Pair Tuesday and i Wednesday; wind mostly northeast and light to fresh.: We a titer Today , Fair ' Tuesday", ami Wednesday ', winih f mostly northeast and lignt to ' J BAlkEIGH, K. C, TUESDAY MOBJONG, OCTOBEB 1, 1907. VOLUME LXXXIV NO. 119 PKICE 5 CENTS. Leads all I ilea ew 4. , . , ! ; -n; . .-..?., 3 i It 11 -.-.,'( i ' - - - a: i . I North Car Pailieilh'N - ' ! T 1 1 ! : 1 s'amid ClrcMlation ROOSEVELT AT J TOMB III CM! A Monument to William McKinley Dedicated PRESIDENT ORATOR TrtlMitr raid to Ills FredeceaMpr to Of nee A man Loved by the People as Few Others Have Been Hose In Spite of Circum stances. Canton, O., Sept. 30 A mamoleum containing: the bodies of President Wil liam McKinley was dedicated today with elaborate ceremonies. "President Roosevelt made the principal address, lie spoke as follows: The President Speaks. : We have gathered- together today f o pay our meed of respect and af fection" to !the -memory of, William McKinley. jwho as President won a place, in the hearts of the American people such as but three or four of all the Presidents of this country have ever won.M He was -of singular uprightness- and purity of i character, alike in public and in private life; a citlxen who loved peace he did his duty faithfully and well fory'- four years of w.ar-when the -honor of 'the nation, called him to arms. "; As Con- rrnmruUL an srovernor of hlsi State. and finally as President, herose to the, foremost tlce among: our Btatesr men. reaching: a position which' would satisfy the keenest ambition; but he never lost that simple and, thoughtful kindness toward every human being, great or small, lofty or humble, with whom be was , brought . in contact, which so endeared him to our people. He had to grapple with more serious and complex nroblems than any Pres ident since Lincoln, and yet. i while meeting every demand of statesman ship;.! continued to live a beautiful and touching ' family life, a life very healthy for this nation to, see lln Its foremost citizen: and now 'the woman who walked in the. shadow1 ever after his death, the wife to whom his loss .was a calamity more crushing than, it VrruM ."be to- anyother' la irttijuv befjng, lies beyfde' him here in the same se pulcher. . - , ; Appropriate Inscription, There is a singular appropriateness In the inscription on his monument. .m r. xrxeiyou. - wnose relations 4 wun him were of sucb close Intimacy gives me the-following Information about It: On the President's trip to the Pacific slope . In the spring of 1901 President Wheeler, of the University of California, conferred the degree of f'.T TV upon him in" words so well chosen that thev struck the fastidious taste of John Hay. then Secretary of State, who wrote and asked for a vopy of them from President Wheeler. On th receipt of this copy he pent the following letter to President McKin ley. a letter which now seems filled with a strange and unconscious; pres cience: Dear Mr. President: President Wheeler sent me the in closed at my request. Tou will have the words In more permanent shape. They seem to me remarkably well chosen, and stately and: dignified enough to serve Ions hence, please God as your epitaph. Tours, faithfully. JOHN HAY. University of California. "Office of th President. ' "By authority vested in me by the regents of the University of Califor nia. I confer the degree of Doctor o? upon William McKinley. Pres Mnt of the United States, a states man singularly gifted to unite the dis cordant forces of the government to v. ard Drorresslve and salutarv action. .1 magistrate whose poise of Judgment hss ben tested and vindicated in a succession of national emergencies; good citizen, brave soldier, wise ex ecutive, helper and leader of men. ex Mnilar to his people of tlie. virtues that build and conserve the State, so ciety, and the home. Berkeley, May 15. 1901." Great and 'Good Citizen. Tt wou'd be hard to imagine an epitaph which a good citizen Mould bi more anxious to deserve or one which would more happily describe the : qualities of that reat and good citizen whouc life we here commemo rate. He possessed to a very extraor dinary degree the gift of uniting dis cordant forces and securing from them a harmonious action which told for good government. From purposes not merely diverse, but bitterly con flicting, he was able to secur health ful action fpr the good of. the State. Tn both poise and iuJgment he rose Woi to the several emergencies he ;nl to meet as leader of the nation, '"id all men with, the root of true Krrtun in, them he grew to steadily HrRr stature under the stress of Ttpavy rt sponsib'litles. He was a good Ht!?pn and a brave soldier, a Chief Executive whose visdom entitled him to tho trut which he received TMrougnout th nation He was not ' nlv p leader of men but pre-eminently a helper of men; for cne of his most marked traits was the intensely ruman nuality of his wide and d-p synipsthv. Finally, he not merely preached, he was, that most valuable of all citizens In a dmorcarev like ouis. a man who in the highest lilaceS serv ed a an unconscious example to I ma peopie or tne virtues that build and conserve alike our public life, and the foundation of ell public life, the Intimate life of the home. ' Hrrmd Human Sympathy. Many leBons are taught us by his eareer, but none more valuable than the lesion of broad human sympathy for and among all of our citizens of all classes and creeds. No othee Pres tdent has ever more deserved fir have ni life work characterized In L'n-c-Mn m words as being carried on "with malice toward none, with charity to ward all." As a boy he worked' hard with hla hands; be entered the army as a private soldier; he knew poverty he earned hla own . livelihood; and by his own exertions he finally rose to the position of a man of moderate means. Not "merely was he in per sonal touch with farmer and town dweller, with ; capitalist and wage worker, but he felt an intimate un derstanding of each, and therefore an Intimate sympathy with each; and his consistent effort was to try to judge all by the same standard and to treat all with the name Justice. Arrogance toward the weak, and envious hatred of those well off. were equally abhor rent to his Just and gentle oul. Virtue to Re Emulated. Surely this attitude of his should be ! the attitude of all our people to day. It would be a cruel disaster to this country' to permit ourselves to" adopt an attitude of .hatred and envy toward success worthily Won, toward wealth honestly-acquired.. Let us in this respect pi by the example of the republics 01 -Jls Western Hemis phere to the south of us. Some of these republic have prospered great ly;' but there are certain ones that hate lagged far behind, that stili continue In a condition of material poverty, of social and political unrest and confusion. Without exception the republics of the former class are those In which bonest industry has been as sured of reward and protection; those where a cordial welcome has been extended to the kind of enterprise which benefits the whole country, while Incidentally, as Is right and proper, giving substantial rewards to those who manifest it. On the oth er band, the poor and backward re publics, the republics In which the lot of the average citizen s least desirable,- and the lot of the: laboring man worst of all, are precisely those re publics in ' which industry has been killed because wealth exposed Its owner to spoliation. To these com munities foreign capital now rarely comes, because it has been found that aa soon as capital is employed so as to give substantial remuneration to those supplying it. It xcites ignorant envy and -hostility, which result In such oppressive action, within or with .out'.the law, as sooner or later to woflc a Virtual confiscation. Every manifestation of feeling of this kind in bur civilization should be crushed at the outset by the weight of a sen sible public opinion. . War Upon Chicanery. From the standpoint of our mate ria? prosperity there is only one other thing, as Important as the discourage roent of a spirit of envy and hostility toward honest business men, toward holiest men of means: this is the dis couragement - of dishonest business men, the war upon the chicanery and wrongdoing which are peculiarly re pulsive, peculiarly noxious, when ex hibited, by; men who have-no excuse of want, of poverty, of Ignorance, for their crimes, i;-" Men," of - means. and above' Bil. tnen Sf grear-weaJth,- can exist in safety under the peaceful pro tection of 5 the State, only In orderly societies, where liberty manifests It self through' and under the law. It is these men who. more than- any. oth ers,: should. In the Interests of the class to which they belong, in the in terests of, 'their children and their children's children, seek In every way, but I especially In the conduct of their lives, to insist upon and to build up respect for the law. It may not be true from the standpoint of some par ticular Individual of this class, but in the ; long run It is pre-eminently true from the standpoint of the class as a whdle." no less than of the country as a whole, that It is a veritable calam ity to achieve a temporary triumph by violation or evasion of the law; and we are the best mends of the man of property, we show ourselves the I staunch est upholders of the rights of property, when we set our faces like i flint against those offenders who do wrong" In order to acquire great wealth as a help to wrongdoing. , Wrongdoing Is confined to no class. Good and evil are to be found among both .rich and poor, and In drawing the Mine among our feliows we mu3t draw It on conduct and not on worldly possessions. In the obstract most of u 1111 admit this, in the concrete we 'pan act upon such doctrine orWy If we really have knowledge of and sympathy with one another, if both the,; wage-worker and the capitalist are .able to enter each into the other's life, to meet him so as to get into genuine sympathy with him. most of the misunderstanding between them will; disappear and its place will be taken by a Judgment broader, Juster. more kindly, and more generous; for each will find in the other the same essential human attributes that exist in himself. It was President McKin ley'd' peculiar glory .that In actual practice he realized this as It is given to but few men to realize it: that his broad and deep sympathies made him feel a genuine sense of oneness with ell his fellow-Americans. whatever their station or work in life, so that to his soul they were all joined with him In a great brotherly democracw of the spirit. It Is not given to many of us in our lives actually to realize this attitude to the extent that he did; but we can at least have it before us as the goal of our endeavor, sind by o doing we shall pay honor better than In any other way to the memory of the dead President whose services In life we this day commcmor&te. srmtY COUNTY PIPPINS. A Wagon ijoart That Weiglicd Over a Pound a Piccv. ( Special to News and Observer.) lit. Airy. Sept. 30. Mr. P. D. Muse, apple dealer of this city, bought a load of pippin a-Dles the other day. of twenty busbels. that breaks the record. The apples weighed over an average of one pound each. One pound apples, as a rule, are a Scarce article, and the reader can imagine that the load presented a pretty sight. The dealer got the lot ar 85 cents per bushel. Death of Rev. C. F. C stereos. Concord. N. C. Sept. 30. Rev. C. F. Castevens, pastor of the charge embracing Smith's Chapel and Mount Mitchell churches, died at his home at Glass last Saturday of typhoid fever. He had been lingering between life and death , for several days, and the announcement of his death was not a surprise to members of his congre gation and his numerous acquaint ances. throughout the oounty. Rev. Castevens was a native of Yadkin county. He leaves a wife and several children. HOW! A KICKER WAS C!VERTEr Is Bound to Bo Straight Democrat in Spite of Himself HIS TALE OF WOE A "Conservative Democrat Who Spite of Himself, Says Here after nc Will Be a "Stralsiil Old D- Pool North Carolina ltadical By AXDKEW JOYNEH. i Greensboro, N. C, Sept. 29 The fol lowing hard luck story, a facetiously sad gentlemaji from another city, was telling a group of sympathetic friends at the Southern Railway passenger station this morning. The sad story speaks for itself and anv effort to embellish or elaborate upon it, by even a practiced news writer would detraex from its pathos. The strange part of it is. this correspondent was first attracted to the group by loud and robustious laughter, and was call ed over by the dignified trio. "Tell that story to Joyner, remark ed one of the gentlemen, "he has a strain of sadness in all his writings and sayings, and sad as your story is, he'll be bound to laugh." "Thus requested, the gentleman re peated his pathetic tale. Here it is: "I was telling about my condition or situation being unfortunate and d disagreeable. I've always been a kind of a Democrat that seems to me new has' been against most every thing our state. Dencratic. officers were for. It was first sound money or for Cleveland against the world and for the devil against Bryan. Then when the rads and pops took posses sion of the State and there were no Democratic State officers to growl with I got red hot for anybody that could beat the d- scound s and was happy to feel at home among all the : boys of my Democratic faith, without regard to former isms. But as soon !as wa got on top of the scurvey crew; following the 'lead of my set, we industrtal ' feltowsr ybur know. I began to feel ortchey again, and sorter sorry for the under dogs and felt Ian inclination to bust up something, an antt podal feeling from the anarchists who simply want to tear things down. f "Of course to bust up you've got to plant. ' So 1 thought with my set that after the niggers were out of the way it was a fine chance to inau gurate a conservative Democratic party- We were getting on swim mingly I thought following Mclaurin's lead for: Simon Pure Industrial or Commercial Democracy, when Roose velt, like; a d-- fool sat Booker Washington down to his dinner table and away went all the hopes we had of being able to eliminate the nigger from Southern people's thoughts so long as there was a grain of chance of having1 social equality forced upon us by a Republican Chief Executive, and then you remember McLaurln busted from too much commercial Democracy being spilled in Wall street. I thought I was cured, but along about two years I had a peri odical breaking out. At the great seat of Independence, Charlotte, there was another organization of conser vative Industrial pure-in-hcart. Dem ocratic organization plans, planned to beat Bryan, Walter Clark and all these wild eyedradical fellows .not forgetting Congressman Kltchln who played the devil thrusting Bryan-on us tt the State Democratic Convention on top of Ciark. "Well, the way we got cleaned up In that campaign is ancient history and I would be ashamed to refer to it but for Its necessary connection with the sequel. That experience should have been enough but some how it wasn't for any of us, who seem congenitally h bent for political menigitis. We staid quiet though for a long: time for us until last winter when the Legislature met we had the chance of our lives and made good time organizing a new conservative force. Everything was working smoothly except our press bureau at Raleigh and Charlotte. They got sorter mixed and we had to send two specially -bright young men from Charlotte down to Raleigh to get things running right. But this got all to skelter when Rev. Durham, Simpson, Red Buck and Company sot off to rank and h broke loose again over our devoted heads. But this storm paseed over and we had Horter got everything humming smooth again, giving the radicals down the country and getting our organization on the track, when the Southern Rail way and Judge Pritchard knocked us higher than we ever had been before. . ; After that blew over and we had taken up the let us have peace slogan and were getting the drop on the bellgerant radicals and the thing wag getting right for a new launching,; we gained sense by expe rience and instead of starting our new organization from Raleigh to Charlotte, we went where so many other things are now going to Greens boro and got Col. Al Falrbrother to do the christening act this time, and started anew our conservative Dem ocratic organization composed of bus iness men and industrial captains. We knew Col. Falrbrother was an old hand at starting antl things against powers that be. just for the ,fun of getting hot stuph, and that he would'nt care how hackneyed it was Just so It : was capable of taking on another lurid eart. And besides we knew that j the Associated Press would spread it jail over the land for the Industrial i News . which preaches in dustrial Republicanism day In and day out and tends to the Associated Press would have carefully condensed pre news so as to spring it contemporane news so as to spring it cotemporane ously upon a waiting world. And It sprung all right Great editors In New S7a Charlotte and I Richmond n. remington talked about it, r-vST yivlnr it publicity while aonar- r frowning upon it. But things C&3 Jh'J reirtlna' nil rtflrht. .-e Were atraln V ,ling! the radicals and crying peace. c5 nservatlsm, industrial freedom from ollticiahs, etc., and - were getting along fine, when here comes' that earned Southern Railway and Stan dard Oil exposures all at once, one of our most conservative letaiers, cap tain of ! industry and the 3ead horso newspaper got placed under a cloud and we jthought we had had troubles, knew we had smelt h -ljbefore but now we; have' been actually living oft the hot; sulphuric stuff for a. week. I had been suspiclonlng for a long time that all was not in oiut set. but I never; dreamed ony one; would be so green as- to be caught with the goodst I'd never have believed it pos sible except for this actual proven fatt. and noir I am under the humiliating necessity of ' turning my back upbn Tor j my old anti-feeling and associates and begin life anew trying to be a straight m J old d j phdol North Carolina ra'di ' cal organization Democrat. It's 1 f sf howling, shame to have to3 do it, hut 1 what else can a full blooded mkn j knowing all about politics do hkit i that?" ! - i - " i- i Milliner Goes Into Bailkruplcy.: This morning Col. J. A. iBarrlnger. a$s attoj-ney, ; filed a voluntary peti tion In bankruptcy before Judge Boyd for Mrsi Rosa Hamner Carter, dealer Irt millinery. ; notions, etc. Liabilities stated at $5,182.96, assets! at $5,900. It being shown that the? stock j of goods would, greatly deterioate (in value unless,- disposed of , promptly, Judge Boyd named1 Mr, Thomas Socic well as ; receiver, .pending a meeting of creditors for the election; of a trus tee. Mr. Sotfkwell gave a $3,0.00 bond atid took charge of the business. f I Cannot Secure ir. !i ; The Pomona ' Terra Cotta Works now has on! hand about seventy-five car-loads of ts manufactured product and cannot. et cars to ship it. Mr. W. C. Boreri stated that unless cars are furnished at an early? date, the compani will have to shutidown tn--til the yardsijare cleared, if this lias to be done, t will mean the loss of employment and,. consequent wages for support of 100 s men, many of them h$ving families dependent upon them.' ir j ' I - Mr. O. C- Wysong, chairman -of" the Committee 01 Transportation of the Greensboro Chamber of fommerpe. has returned, from Washington, where he called upon II. B. Spencer, of the fCoutbern Railway Company. His ,gi tervlewi withMr. Spencer was not en tirely satisfactory in regard to mak ing this city ; a terminal I point for trainmen. Mr. Spencer told Mr. Wy song that it: la not the intention fof the company to make any ichange fin the terminal j of the .company on the Washington-Atlanta runs, I and that eveu If such a change wfreito be th trlhnrierf-:f v ' -Tr-'Tfa-g--'f " j Scrap Over Chickens, i f There was, a . very strenuous ofd time fight here; this morning between two highly esteemed Confederate vet erans f-Caot. iJohn Rankin and Major N. W.i Allen4 ;The two were neigh bors for sffrftei months, Mdjor Allen renting adjoining lot to j the one owned! by Cpt. Rankin ion Ashe street.! Major Allen had rented, ah- other place and was moving this ; momiqg wnen 1 apiam nankin went over and informed the Major that several chickens which were in the coop to be inoved were his. Major Allen denied this, declaring that lit would take law to get them from him. This raised Captain Rankin's Ire. So he told the Major he d rather fight lit out, than go. to law over three chick ens. The tvo went at it. and were having a first-class knock? and bite and scrateh and gouge fight; when tho ladies of the community 5 gave the alarm.' It took three male passers-by to separate the contestants, Both men were very bfoody, their faces looking like the hen's had had' a 'scratchlp bee on them and t!ere are knots On their foreheads as big as hen eggs. - ' h i CATHOLIC OlUItni DEDICATED Hlsliop Haiti and Sevoral Clergymen Offitiit In the Ceremonies. I (Special to News and Observer.)! High Point, N. C. Sept; 30. The dedication 'of St. Edward Catholic church took place yesterday mornihg at 10?30 o'clock. Bishop Haid, of Belmont. N C, conducted tho ser vices assisted by Father "Dentin, pf Wilmington, Nt C, Fathen Edward. Richmond. Va,. Father ' Vincent, Greenboro, N. C, and Father Greg ory, of Salisbury. N. C. Mass follow ed the dedication. Father Gregory of ficiatlng. The sermon wast delivered by Blshor Haid, Matters Tom Brad ley and Torn Vobrink, of Salisbury, served. The : Grensboro choir con sisting r.T Isses Mamie and "Lucy Taylor. Miss Duffy, and Messrs. Duffy and To bin. was conducted by Mrs, Taylor. Other guests from Greens boro. Salisbury-, Randleman and Gran ite Quarry wer present. Mrs. E. C. McCarthy served dinner. The after noon Services took place at 3:30 p. nl. Rev. Alexander Gait, of St, Mary's Episcopal church, left today for Rich mond, to attend the Triennial General Convention of the Protestant Episco pal church. I It will be of interest to : his many friends to know' that Mr. J. EHvood Cox, president of the Comercial Na tional: Bank, of this city, was elected vice-president for North Carolina at the recent meeting of the; American Bankers at Atlantic City. J The condition of Rev. O, 1. Poy ers. of the F1rt' Baptist church,1 who has heen confined to his room for several days; Is Improved today. ; i GOING OCT WITH HARK. Head of Department Ilei4gn Frobt I lie KxpxMduon Management. Norfolk. Va.. Sept. 30 Authentic reports tonight disclosed that a num ber of heads of departments will re sign with director General Barr, of the Jamestown -Exposition. John A. Wakefield, chief of concessions and A C. Sherwood, chief of admissions, an nounce their resignation. ?it is re ported that ; W. M. Dlxon, assistant Director-General, and S. W. Bowles, director of publicity, have reslgrted. THE WEATHER! ' . ? i. Fair Tuesday and Wednesday; winds mostly northeast and light to fresh. j Maximum temperature. It degrees; minimum temperature. .50 degree; total precipitation for 24 hours ending S p. m., ,0 Inches. . . j, ! t j ! Big Lav Suit About a Small Matter ! WILL BUY EVERY BALE Durliam Hosiery Mill initlic Market for all Locally Produced Cotton. : .Judge Council Suffering Front a General Break Down ! s in His Health. ; ! 't 3 (Special to News and "Observer.) Durham, N. C, Sept., 30. Superior Court convened this morning, for a twi weeks term, Judge tV. R. Ailen presiding in the place of Judge Coun cil,; who is on the sick list. The. court is for two weeks and for the trial of civl cases only. The first work of the court today was to grind out. . in qujck succession, three of the five di vorce cases set for the first day of the court. Two of these Sver; white. Fos ter: against Foster, and Curtis against Curtis and one war colored,: Xing against ing. 1 Then the court took up the; case of George W. Cook, against Joe Vickers and others, this consum ing the remainder of the day and all other cases had to go over. The two rertiainding divorce cases set for to day and not ; tried were -as follows: Gibson against Gibson and Morgan against Morgan. Ther are eight or tenj divorce cases set for the term of court. ... . -. ; The cases of Cook against Vickers and others, while a small tnattefr ln-ltsj nature is one of the hardest fought cases on the docket in recent years. While all that is involved is the openr ing of .a cart way so as to give Mr. Cook a nearer approach to his home, stili it has already been, to the Su pretne Ccurt on two .occasions and will certainly go back & .third time, as the case will be appealed regardless of who wins the suit. The case be gari whet Mr. Cook made application to s the board of county commissioners to lay off a cart way, this having in realty been open for several years but wal sclo&ed by Mr. Vickers. The cart way was ordered opened! and Vickers weat into the courts in a.fight that i wfthy-f4rreatr-- property r value. Thfre -art. six lawyers in. the i case, Messrs. Winston and Bryant appear ing! fot Cook and Messrs. Outhrie & Guthrie and Bramham &Brawley ap pearing for Vickers. The costs In the caff?, when finally I settled, will be equal to the price of a small planta tion. - - i Judge Council's Hhiesw. . Regarding the " condition of Judge Council, who has been ill for some time and on account of which; Judge Alien "Wa appointed to hold the pres- eoS sessicr of court, i;ierK or tjourv R. Green receivod a . letter from Mrs. Council this morning saying that heri husband did not .improve and that he would not be able to. be here either week of the court. 'If 1 understood that Judge Council is suffering, from a general break down of- his health and, mav be confined at . home for ?nnie timo. F0UK : . Hamlet Bound Over to Court, Charles Hamlet, the -young roan who shot and wounded Bill Walker, a njegro, while on duty as watchman at the Golden Belt Manufacturing Company, in Edgemont,.. some days agrti was given a preliminary hearing this morning. Mayor Graham trying the? case. Hamlet admitted that he did! the shooting and his bond was fixed at $100 for his appearance be fore the Superior court. vHamlet told the! same ftory that he told the Jmorn ing'of the shooting. He saw some per son! entering the property of the com pany early in the morning, about 4 o'clock. He called to the person to stop and as that was not done he called to him again and then fired. It developed that he had; shot and badly wounded Billi Walker. 5 who worked for the company, and was on his; way to his work to clean up the mill. Mr. Hamlet said that oh two occasions he had been tired at by parties who were on the property and this time he took no chances. ' The ball entered the thigh and. passed Into the! abdomen of Walker and at one time it was feared the shot would be fatal, but Walker was able to cojue to court this morning. lleI In a Clialr, D. F. Vickers, a well-known eltl ron ; who lived In Patterson township, noti far from the city, died sudden. y yesterday. HO was sitting' In a chair at th6 time death struck; him. Heart dropsy is said to have been the onuse of his death. Mr. Vickers was . 64 yeats of age and had been In i poor heajth for several months, but was able to get about the house and visit neighbors' up to Saturday. . Saturday night he was up and1 down, being un ablQ to breathe properly and at?f'?5 o'clock yesterday mornin?" was sitting In a chair. He t;13 ;a colored jnan, win) was attending hlrh. t haui him a drink of water and : a moment .later he afell over dead He left a ;w?fe, from whom he had le4n div rce-l, and; one son. The burial; to k Jlace this; afternoon at 4 o'Cntek. Stole Money and Acknowlcdgcil -; It. Ilenry Baker, a white man who says he l hails from Michigan, was before Justice. Owens this morning on the charge of stealing $3.00 fronv a young fellow named Arthur Coudh; From the i attitude of Baker It seems that he wanted to get a Job on the county road force. When charged witttfthe crime he told the court: "Yes, - I sto! $5.00 frpm htm. He had the moiiey, I needed it and took it from his pocket." He then told! that hewas from Michigan, was away from home and'; had to have money; he had been at ?ork for Couch and ftfter'steajing the jmoney he went to one of the mills here in town and was at work when te officer arrested him. He went to Jail jn default of ball and will appear before the next grand Jury. Mr. J. M. Davis, who has been agegt for the Southern Express Company, In this city for quite a while, left this afternoon for Danville, where he will take charge of the office of the com pany as agent. He . Is succeeded here by a Mr. Stoneman, who came from Atlanta. ,1- ': i Sidney Craig, a farmer In Patterison township, died this morning at three o'clock. He was about C 5 years of age and 'had been In declining- health . for several months. His death was ex pected. He left a wife, his second one, and three sons. The funeral will take place at O'Kelly "a chapel, near Chatham county line tomorrow after noon at two o'clock. : t: . The Durham Hosiery Mill Is having erected a storage warehouse, ' 9 8 by 100. feet. This will soon be complet ed. Recently there was talk that lo cally raised cotton would not be pur chased by some of the cotton mills and this caused Mr. J. S. Carr. Jr. president of the Hosiery i'Mlll, to an nounce that if necessary he would buy ever bale of cotton offered for sale her,f, would pay the market price and! store it away. He then gave an order for this additional storage house, th is now being built and will soon be completed. DIVISIONS ABOLJSHED. MoorcsvUle and Chattanooga. Discon- uuuea fTom xius Date. 1 - -. Chattanooga, Tenn.; Sept. SO.r The Chattanooga division of the Southern Railway will be abolished on October 1st and the lines made a- part of the Atlanta, Knoxvllle divisions, as they were previous to last January. The Mooresville, N. C, division of the northern district will also be dlsoon tlnued on the same date and) the lines composing it win be merged with the Winston-Salem division. As a result of these changes F. P. Pelter. superln tendent of the - Chattanooga division. will return to the Nashville division, and Supt. E. Mi Newell, of the Moores- ville division, is to be transferred to the Rock Hill, S. iC- division, suc ceeding W. W. Duell, who has -been appointed superintendent, of terminals at Atlanta. - . . . Two Runaway Couples. Wilson, N, C, Sept., 30. Yesterday aiarnoon Mr. John O. Lewis, a dodu- la clerk In the Rocky Mount post ome, called on Miss Madeline Dixon, the accomplished daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Dixon. In Elm City. Osten sibly they, went for a walk, -but not re turning at the proper time the par ents became alarmed. ' Later a 'phone message was received that they were married in Rocky Mount. - . ' Mr. Linney Davis and Hiss Zilphla Holland, of Black Creek,- were quietly married by 'Squire - J. H. Thompson last evening, : greatly to the su prise of their numerous friends. - U rs. Horner, Daughter of Dr Isaac Emerson, Files Papers and Names 1 Co-Respondent Atlanta, Sept. 30. Mrs. ,T. Mitchell Horner, well-known among' her, friends as Mrs. Jack: Horner, a daughter pt Dr. Isaac. Emerson of Baltimore -of bromo seltzer, fame, today ;" filed suit for total divorce against her husband, basing the suit upon the single , alle gation of Infidelity, The only co-respondent called by, name Is a notor ious woman of this city. , Mr. and Mrs. Horner were married In Baltimore In 1896 and moved to At lanta In 1899. Mrs.. Horner complains in her petition of a number of . acts , of infidelity on the part of her husband, which, she says, began in 1904. She alleged that her husband? spent -a large part of his time- from 1904 to 1907 "with one Marie Laws. and other women, adding that the. defendant gave money to said Marie. Laws, paid her bills, and spent much of his. time at her house. , ;.;-r;:-r;; Mrs.' Horner -left her husband on May 16,. and has not lived with him since. Mrs. Horner ajjaches a sched ule of her property, which, consists of 75 . shares of stock In the Emerson Drug Company, of Baltimore, and - a $60,000 home on Peachtreet road in Atlanta. - --.'.-.p -:-.-rr -. Mr. and Mrs. Horner were for some years socially . prominent In Atlanta. Mr. Horner recently filed suit In Balti more for $10,000 against Dr. and Mrs. Emerson as damages upon - the ground . - that they . had; been Instru mental in alienating his wife's affec Mr. O. Gravely, Secretary and Treasurer of the North Carolina Tobacco Growers Association, and CoL J. S. Cunningham, will speak at the State Fair, at 12 o'clock, on Friday, October the ICth. The President of the Tobacco Growers Association will caU a meeting of the State Tobacco Association, at Raleigh on this !;datei';":T-lifclGravely;'is one of tho leading tobacconists in the State, and is a Very per suasive and magnetic speaker. Col. Cunningham, of Person County, is too well known to require an introduction. Due announcement of the cenven tion will be made at a later date. SUIDG COAST LII! Damages Asked for Death r , of Conductor Court at Lumberton WOl Be'IIeM In Tobacco Warehouse WTiilo the New Court Houso Is Beins ' - Erected. (Special to News and Observer. . ; Wilmington, N. G, Sept. 30. Actwt weeks term of New Hanover Superior Court for the trial of civil actions con vened thts morning with Judge J. Crawford Biggs presiding. The first case called was that of J. M. Branch, administrator of the estate of his son, W.'H. Branch, against the AUamio Coast Line, for $25,000 damage.?. Young- Branch was conductor of a material train in Florida two years ago and while coupling cars was caught between the bumpers and crushed to death. The case has been hanging fire for several terms but wa-s peremptorily set aside for today and the. hearing was taken up first thing this morning. The docket for the present term is pretty full end th entire, two weeks will "be tafcen up with, the trial of only a partial num ber of the cases set down for thj term. - Brunswick Superior Court ha ad journed at Southport and Jude JZ. I. Jones, of Winston, who has been pre siding there left this morning- for Lumberton to bold a two week- to-c lal term for Robeson county. The'oli court house- at Lumberton , haa been torn away to make place for th handsome new structure thai will built there and the court will be hell tn the large tobacco warehouse near the depot. - The B. F. Smith On struction Company has the contract for. building the court house at Lumberton.- , . The third cargo of cotton for for eign export from Wilmington V-'-i season , went forward on the Brifl-li tramp steamer Mariner early ye-tT-day morning. It consisted of 9,563 bales and Is consigned by Alexander Sprunt & Son to parties in Bremen, Germany.. The exports for the month of September have been about 3 5, on a bales already. Comparatively little cotton Is shipped coastwise from Wilmington.- The receipts here thus far have been lars-elv from South rnm. Una-and Georgia points. The Wilmington, public school? pjpened this morning' wiCi a larm increased attendance over last year, when the ' record of children in the schools here exceeded that of nry In, the State, according to ' Vuy--r' -tendent John J.' -Blair. The enroll ment thia year is exnerpr! tr y. -t u above 3,000. Teachers are all in thVir fIaces and the machinery of the iera scaj-tea ir wen this morning. ; MED rXLTTIXiri' NEXT. The Bl Attraction at Ue Academy ;f , ? . . Music Wednesday Xiht. ;Bed- Feather." which will be seer- at. the Academy of Music .WednerIa v mgnt, uctober 2nd, Is a reversion to straight comic opera, the music "by Reginald De Koven. book bv Charles Klein, author of David Belaco's suc cess. "The Music Master" and "Thf Lion and the Mouse." and the lyric by Charles Emerson Cook. The story Is Interesting and the thread of tho plot is more closely, followed than ka been usual of late. - There are at least a dozen musical numbers, all pleasing and .many of. them up to the very best work that D Koven has ever done, possibly with the Intention of surpassing his notable RODla Hood" music, Mr. De Koven was most ambitious in bis writing: for the "Red Feather" score and the re sult Is a glorious offering of solos, duets, madrigals, - marches; choruses and ensembles. j In staging the1 opera,, the Ziesrfol t Opera Company spared no expensa in giving the piece the richest of mour.f ings that could be secured.. For th- prima donna role. Manager Joseph M G sites has engaged Miss Cheri d : Simpson, a singer of recogiiized ab'I!- ty, who Is an artist of altogether different-calibre from the usual run oC comic onera stars. She has a splendl.l voice and a charming stage presence. Is a clever acrtesa arod is a very wel come addition to the all to short li t of capable singers in light opera. In the company, which Is one of . th larcrest on tour.-there are a number of well known comedians and a larpe and well schooled chorus. A feature of the local presentation will be the augmented orchestra. ; Tir( has hen n. reneral advance In-wages at. Hope-Mills of from ton to ' fifteen per cent. - -j.ms euet-is m waces of TT00O people. Raeford Facta and Figures. Li uJ I 1
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