THURSDAY, NOV. 30, 1905.
H. A. LONDON, Editor.
Today the people of the United
States are called upon to "gather
in their accustomed places of wor
ship and render thanks unto the
3Slost High God for His manifold
blessings during this year, and to
consecrate ourselves anew to a
life of industry and honor, and to
His servue "
How many will do this? How
Inany will attend "iheir accustom
ed places of worship"? If Thauks
giving Day could or would be
properly observed by everybody,
what a pleasing . spectacle would
be presented. It would be so ap
propriate if all the people of this
great and prosperous country
would feel the proper thanksgiv
ing spirit and observe today as it
should be!
' Surely no people in the world
ever had more cause for thanks
giving' than the people of the Uni
ted States, who are more peculiar
ly blessed than any others in any
other country, ancient or modem.
During the past year we have
been free from any devastating
war or widespread pestilence.
Bountiful crops and good prices
have rewarded the labors of the
husbandman. All lines of busi
ness and industrial development
have been successful and remuner
ative. Peace and plenty prevail
throughout all our beloved laud.
Every man is safe in the enjoy
ment of life, liberty and property
and in his pursuit of happiness.
For all these blessings weshould j
be dnlygrateful, and our grati
tude should be properly expressed
not merely by lip .service by
inere words but by our acts and
deeds. Let us today show our ap
preciation of and gratitude for the
blessings vouchsafed to us by trying-
to share those blessings with
others, who have been less fortu
nate. Two cases were decided by our
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kji.ii i e oupreiuf. wmrc jasi weeK in
regard to the sale of liquor.
One was in regard to the nura
ber of voters required to sign a
petition to call an election. This
case was from lialeigh where a
petition was alleged to have been
signed by the required one-third
of "registered voters." The Su
preme Court decided that the
words "registered voters" meant
that a man must not only be reg-
'j uuu uo t-uiineu io voie.
Therefore a man who had not paid
his poll cax; although he had reg
istered, is not a registered voter,
and hence cannot sign a petition
for hu election in which he could
not vote. This seems to be com
mon sense and eminently right
and proper.
T .e other case was from Char
lotte, which is a prohibition city.
In this case a man was indicted
for-selling whiskey. Another man
h id given him money to buy some
whiskey in Salisbury (where liqu
or is sold) and bring to him at
CWIotte. The court held this to
be a sale in Charlotte. This de
cision will interfere with the traf
fic of whiskey between wet and
dry towns.
At "the game of football, played
last Saturday between Harvard
aud Yale, there were 43,000 spec
tators, who paid $25 each for ad
mission to see it. Who ever heard
of so many persons paying that
much to attend an intellectual or
literary contest? .
On the same day three young
men were killed in football games
at other places, one in New York '
one m Indiana and one in Miss
ouri. A novel case was tried last. week
at Asheville. A man named Gilli-
janu Drought suit against the i
board of education of Buncombe'
enmity to admit his children to
"the white schools. TIipv lrl hppn
.xcladed because if. n.
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V T ? tiilidaud protlUced in the neighborhood of
cjutended that the ancestor, who 10,000,000 bales of cottoji, 2,708,--iiasi
alleged to have been a negro, 000,000 bushels of corn. G83.000,
was a Portugese, and the iunT so 000 bushels of wheat, 1)39,000,000
x a 1 y .bushels of oats, 30,000,000 bus-hels
of rye', 133,000,000 bushels of har
THAT was a notable trial in the-toes, 15,000,000 bushels of buck
Federal court at Greensboro, be- wheat, and 01,000,000 tons of hay.
lug
an indictmeut against the Old
Nick Williams Company and its
officers for defrauding the gov
ernment. The trial lasted five
weeks and ft, verdict of guilty was
tendered against he corporation
and of not guilty against the fit
the grossest- frauds, which
were connived at and participated
in by nearly every.. revenue officer
who had any connection with the
company's business.
American Investments li Mexico.
Americans have invested ap
proximately $500,000,000 in Mexi
co during the past twenty-rhe
years, a small amount in compari
son with the total wealth of the
country, but that $500,000,000 has
accomplished ' niore during that
time for the development of Mex
ico than all the rest of the capital
of the country.
We have invested $75,000,C00 in
Mexican mines, -and incidentally
have got the money back in pay
ment for mining machineiy sold
to the Mexicans, but we have
taught Mexicans modern miuing
methods, and have thereby in
creased the aggregate value of
Mexican mines probably a hund
red fold.
We have invested $25,000,000 in
agricultural enterprises in Mexico,
and during the same time we have
sold to Mexico about that much
agricultural machinery. We have
taught the Mexicans how to laim,
and have added to their potential
wealth in farming lands a hundred
times 25,000,000.
-We have invested a few millions
in Mexican banking enterprises,
and we have taught the Mexicans
banking and the use of banks.
We have built hydraulic power
plants and taught the Mexicans
how to utilize the euormous a
mount of energy which was going
to waste in their waterfalls by
transforming it into electrical en-
ergy. we are paving city streets
with asphalt, putting in sewer and
waterworks systems, electric-lighting
plants and street-car systems,
replacing cumbrous old buildings
with modern steel-frame struct
ures, changing the external ap
pearance of things generally. We
have invested in city real estate,
and are teaching the Mexicans
how to build a city. Witness the
remarkable change m the City of
Mexico in the past ten years.
From 'The Americanization of
Mexico," by lid ward M. Conley,
in the American Monthly lleview
of lleviews for December.
Desperate Convicts Killed.
Jefferson City, Mo., Nov. 24.
Eight or ten convicts at the State
penitentiary suddenly mutinied
this afternoon and shot Guards
Barney FJlis and Charles Clay,
killing them instantly. The sud
denness of the outbreak tempora
rily paralyzed the prison discip
line, and before any attempt to
subdue the convicts could be made
the mutineers had exploded dyna
mite under the prison gate lead
ing out into the public street.
Deputy Warden See fell, prob
ably mortally wouuded by a bul
let. Prison ollicials succeeded in
preventing the escape of all but
four of the convicts. These four
gained the street, sprang into a
passing wagon, knocked thedriver
from his seat, and then miracu
lously escaping a fusilade of bul
lets, lashed the horses into full
speed right through the residence
portion of Jefferson City.
Officers from the penitentiary,
armed with Winchester rifles, pur
sued, and at the edge of town over
took the escaping desperadoes. A
battle ensued and three of the con
victs were shot dead, the fourth
escaping into the heavily wooded
country. Posses formed immedi
ately and began a search through
the woods, determined to take the
convicts dead or alive.
Millionaire's Son Accidentally Shot.
Chicago, Nov. 27. Marshall
Field, Jr., died at 5 o'clock to
night at Mercj7 Hospital.
Mr. Field, who was the only
son of Marshall Field, the multi
millionaire of this city, was acci
dentally shot on the afternoon of
Wednesday, November 22nd. He
was examining a new revolver
which he had purchased, when it
was discharged, the bullet strik
ing him in the right side, perfo
rating the liver and spleen and in
juring the spinal cord. He. was
hurried to Mercy Hospital, where
an operation wras at once perform
ed and the bullet removed. The
physicians from the first enter
tained but slight hopes of ulti-
mate recovery, although tne pa
ieut f1' two days seemed to hold
his own. At i) o'cIock this morn
ing a decided change for the worse
took pi ace and Mi. Field grew
rapidly weaker until his death.
A Year ef Bountiful Crops.
From The Charlotte Observer.
Tlio nrpfipnt. vp;ir will nrobablv
go down in history as the most
productive in the country's his-
tory, at least so far as tne crops
produced from the soil are con
I rrl. I ri fwl SifofOQ 1-IVO
tley, 261,000,000 bushels of pota-
In connection with these fagmers
The Jiirmniirnam Age-iieraiu
notes that "the estimated value ot
the output of the farms this year
is $0,630,000,000, a gain of some
thinor over a billion dollars over
1904 the best previous year, in i
the history of American farms.",
Washington Letter. ...
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Washington, Nov. 23, 1905.
TLnt tlin friends of the Panama
canal are despondent over tne re-
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port of the board of consulting
engineers recommending a sea- lng with a part7 of friends irom
level canal instead of a lock canal S.Tn Francisco. The car was run
is putting the case as mildly as ' down a steep hill in Long Is
possible. The feeling almost a-j iau(i (jlty wiien a break in the
mounts to dismay and it is veiy. steering- sear caused the accident.
imouuis to uisiiiiy tiuKi ih
; possible that it will result in hang-
i ing up the project for a long peri-
A j- i i
odof wrangle and debate iu Con-
gress even it it does not ena oy a ( student and a brother of Mrs.
Congressional- investigation, the ( Harrison, were injured. Mr. Scott
abolition of the canal commission ( suffered a fractured rib and is in
and the turning over of the whoie I a serious condition, his wife was
work to the army. Indeed the . rendered unconscious- but later
latter course is freely discussed, revived. Mrs. Crocker was bruised,
If it is adopted it will be a high;and the chauffeur slightly hurt.
compliment to the armjT engineer
corps and the worst sort of a dig
for the high priced commission
that according to its own confes
sion has done almost nothing up
to date but spend money. The last
speeches of Secretary Taft and
Chairman- Shouts are veritable
apologies for the lack of progress
'made. The report of the consult
ing engineers intimates as plainly
as possible that , the commission
does not know its business-and
has been proceeding on the wrong
lines even as to the essentials of
work that it was thought a week
ago were fixed beyond per adven
ture whatever type of canal was
decided on.
The opponents of any canal, and
there aie many of them in Con
gress who are afraid to light the
project as a whole, have been fur
nished with just the sort of excuse
for delay that they wanted and
there will be a fresh canal debate
as soon as Congress can get around
to it. In the meantime there will
have to be an emergency appro
priation of from one to two mil
lion dollars for salaries above
passed before the holidays aud
probably $2G,000 appropriated out
of the Treasury to carry on the
work before the canal bonds can'
be sold and the-.money paid back, j
Allogenic! iiie uiiiiuuti is uuj-
thing but bright.
Aside froiri the canal fight the
President is attempting almost
the impossible in sticking to his
determination to force the Fsch
Towuseud rate bill through Con
gress. There was a meeting of
the Senate committee on inter
state commerce this week at which
it developed that five republicans
and one democrat were opposed
to the President's position- while
four democrats ami ihree lepubli
caus favored it. With this divis
ion on what ought not to be a
party measure but which undoubt
edly is, there is not much pins
pect of hartnoi.ii-us action when
the bill gets into the House,
One evidence of (Jncle Joe Can
non's ability as a political manag
er was shown this week in his an
nouncement as to committee plac
es for the minority. Tln-re are
seventy-four democrats going out
of the House this Congress, and
sixty-live of them wiii be re-plaed
!v retnibi leans. Now there was
much fear
more than
that there would be
a corresponding de-
crease of democratic appointees
on committee; but Speaker Can
non said "no." He went back to
the records of the fifty-second and
fifty-third Congress and found
from the broks that Speaker Crisp
when the republicans were much
in the minority had let out thirty
of them from committee appoint
ments; "but" said Uncle Joseph,
"I will tveat yon better than we
were treated. Prolmbly I won't
take fifteen committee, seats away
from you "altogether." Now that
was sheer politics. Speaker Can
non knows he can do as he wants
with the House as it is. He has
a big enough working majority to
do it. But there will be fifteen or
more democrats who will know
they are under deep personal ob
ligations to him and well, fifteen
of the opposition may come in
handy almost any time.
It is regretted that the promi
nence of the railroad rate bill must
seriously interfere with long need
ed legislation. There are ques
tions relating to Hawaii, to Alas
ka, to Porto liico, to the currency,
immigration, Chinese exclusion,
the public lands, the army can
teen, etc., to say nothing of the
tariff and reciprocity, which it
will be almo'st impossible for this
Congress, with its big tailroad
rate legislation program to enact.
In Hawaii, we collect- millions
of taxes, but we spend little in
improvincr the harbors aud defense
ofthe Islands. In applying our
rrgid Chinese exclusion rules, we
are standing in tlie way
nrosrress and' nrosneritv
of the
of the
Islands
C- 4 1
Alaska has grown to have a
large population and is as capable
of expansion and prosperity as
Sweden and Norway.' It is not
farther north than these countries
and its climate and resources are -
as salubrious and great.' !
The currency question has for
years been urgent and now in a
period of prosperity is the time t o j
settle it. A period of depression is
sure to come, sooner or" later,. and
.
then ihe currency question unset
tled will give us much trouble. !
We, like other countries, are
clamorous for Chinese trade, but
unlike other countries, we want
everything without giving any-!
thing. Our rigid Chinese exclu-)
sion laws have estranged the
Chinese .government and people
and we may expect a con iuuance
of the., boycott nukss we change
our policy.
i Killed By Automobile.'
New York, Nov. 25 Mrs. Fran -
cis Burton Harrison; wife of form -
T?.Qr.ia Ttnrtnn
TT w, v-rl- w:is killed
l y III v mnilll II I " i j IJ r .7 v
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j fodav bv the 4 overturning ot an
automobile in whicbshe was rid-
steering g
j jr m
1 Gf yan Yrn
r.
Mrs. .Laurence I., bcotr,
rant-isco. ana tjnanes x.
I Crocker, also of San Francisco, a
Mrs. Harrison's. neck was broken.
Mrs, Hanison was Miss Mary
Crocker, daughter of the late
Charles F. Crocker, of San Fran
cisco. She was one of three child
ren who divided -the fortune of
between $12,000,000 and $15,000,
000 left by her father. Her hus
band, Francis Burton Harrison, is
the sou of Mrs. Burton N. Harri
son, the novelist, a Tur Burton N.
Harrison, who was secretary to
President Jefferson Davis, of the
Southern Confederacy during the
Civil War. Mr. Scott" is the son of
the late Irving M; Scott, the San
Francisco shipbuilder.
Terrible Railroad Wreck.
Lincoln, Mass., Nov, 2G. The
most disastrous railroad wreck in
this State for mauy years occurred
at 8:15 o'clock to-night at Baker's
Bridge station, a mile and a half
west of Lincoln, on the main line
sf the Fitchburg division of the
Boston tt Maine liailroad. The
regular Sunday express, which
left Boston-at 7:15 o'clock for
Montreal via the Buthland sys
tem, crashed into the rear of a lo
cal train which started from Bos
ton at 7.15 for points on the main
line and Marlboro branch.
At least 15 persons were killed
outright, burned to death or suf
focated, and o0 more were serious
ly injured. Many passengers sus
tained minor cuts, bruises and
bii'iis The wreck was primarily
due to thick weather, which ap
parently obscured signals set by
the forward train, which, at the
time of the disaster, was standing
in front of Baker's Bridge station.
The Montreal train, drawn by two
locomotives ai.d consisting also of
nine cars, crashed into the rear
of the Marlboro branch local,
molishing tlie two rear cars.
de-
An CIJ
Man
Aluricrcd.
Oxford, Nov. 27. -Dr. S. I).
Hooth, was called m the conntiy
Saturday altcrr.oon, to make a
post mortem examination, the
body of Mr. James Beau-r havii g
been found in the woods near Be
rea. It was found that death had
been instantaneous from a gun
shot at the base of the brain. A
part oi the head was brought ly
Dr. Booth to Oxford, to be kej t
for examination, incase of the ai
rest of a suspi ions party. '1 he
party supecled is a young man,
whu has left for parts unknowr,
in a suspicions manner. There
was no eye-w itness to the deed,
but the feeling m the neighbor
hood is intense
(As the dead man
eeted and a Con-
was highly respected and a Con
ieueiaie soldier, aDout LU years oi
mr). fie was a tvulower ami leaves
no children. A search is bein.,' made
for the suspected man. lie was
seen with the deceased at Huffs
t . IT 1
Al.'ll l , 1 i
Known that Ue threatened the lile
of Ueuver.
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Rats Eat Puppy and Kitten.
From the Wriiiest) r Ic-nen,;or & Iatelll;jnoer.
ltecpiitly Ashe Xjoc-khart, son' of
Hon. Jas. A. Lock ha rf, came into
possession of a hound puppy and
a kitten, each of the animals beinj?
al out two months old. A few
nights ag-o the puppy became rest
less and commenced whiuiii"-,
whereupon Ashe took both the
puppy and the kitten to the bain
and made them a comfortable bed J
in a box and left them for the j
ni2fht. The next morning- when he j
Avent to look for his pets Ashe was
greatly snrprispd to find that rats
had almost devoured the puppy
and had eaten the kitten's head off
A Fatal Explosion.
Emporium, Pa., Nov. 27. Au i
explosion in the mixiug houseaud j
in one of the packing houses at
the Keyston powder works to-day
destroyed the entire works, kill
ing nine men aud injuring several
others
All -records -for football brntali- I
ty were smashed during the sea- I
sou just closing.'. Nineteen lives.;
were sacrificed, exceeding by eight
the black record of l'J03, while the
number of casualties greatly snr-
passed that of any previous year.
.
Thfi jnr in the case of Senator
-d... . i rr - i ,i ...:k
n il i n m n; n i: in i omi u i i
representing the ltialto Securities '
Company at Washington while.
Senator, has tendered a verdict of
guilty on all the counts in ; the
indictment.
When you want a pleasant physic
try Chamberlain. s Storraulr and
Liver Tablets. They are easy to
take and produce, no griping or
ther unpleasant effect. Bold by
G. H, Pi.ki lgtOD.
Jini, oaiurniy monmiir, and it is,.;h. v
I Murdered Wife And Children.
1 Independence. Iowa, Nov. 2
; Mrs. AVm. McWilliams and her
five children, ranjrms? from three
.-w j t . '
to eighteen veais old, were
slain
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I .. l ii. Iwima ilou n n i flicv
.Oil men laim in'iuo iuuj u
husband and father was. arrested
in Independence tonight, charged
with killing the members of his
family. He declared himself to be
innocent. ..."
Each person had been killed
with a hammer blow on the head.
Mrs. Mc Williams was atrociously
beaten, and a few knife thrusts
had been inflicted on the crushed
body. -
In Mrs. Mc Williams rigid arms
lay the corpse of the. three-year-old
babysits hood, coat and mit
tens on and a piece of buttered
bread in one hand. The baby had
been killed by one blow of a ham
mer on the head.
The other children lay about the
house, dressed in working clothes.
It is thought that the "mother and
baby were killed first and that
t hen the children had been called
into the house one at a time and
struck dead with the hammer.
There was little evidence of a
struggle.
The noted Gattis-Kilgo suit
Was finally disposed of last week"
by the Supreme Court affirming
its dismissal by the superior eourt
The Supreme ourt was evenly
divided, and when such happens
the judgment of the superior court
is affirmed. Two of the judges
held one wav and two held the
other way, and Chief Justice Clark
did not take part in the trial.
A site near Morehead City has
been selected for the permanent
encampment of the State Guard.
wfl! save the dyspeptic from rz&r.y
davs of misery, and c cable hlni to cat
whatever he wishes. Tbey prevsct
S!CK HEADACHE,
cnuse the food to i:sste!ls?e tr.& nocr
Ish the body, give keen appetite,
DEVELOP FLESH
and sc!!J muscle.
cected. .
fake Mi) Substitute.
" lVc prom i tly ouvjUj l
and Foreipn
A
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ViTpetive Knndsiv. October 8th.
jtj,e SEAHOAUD extended the
h..rfc.r.r.nMiAf Ijo.fjL Slt-poer oner
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ja!ii OM trains No. 38 and Jso. 41,
:tjiroUri, tn r,irminirham. Tins
,Tjvps (oul,le d;:ily service from
pf)i,,ts )n beahoanl to and from
. I5irmi n-liam, makiiisr connections
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from Memphis' at:d
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points West, also for points in
Alabama ar.d Mississippi.
Forfurther information, address
C. H. GATTIS,
Traveling Passenger Agent,
lialeigh, K. 0.
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SANFORD
COTTON MiLLS q
STORE
SANFORD, N. C.
Is the place to buy the
Bhrtl Gooas at LOvvEl
puce.
FULL FALL and WINTER k
::1UCK IN ail LiiNi:b:: 2?
v Come and see for your
self. thankful for the Chat-,
ham trade heretolore receiv
ed we solicit a continuance
or the sanie.
A
our
warm welcome to all
Chatham customers S.
whether you buy or not.
Sanford
Cotton Mills
Store.
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