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Cf)t Cbatfjmn Ecroro, fifjc Chatham Becorb. ; H. A. LONDON, Editor and Proprietor, ritpc nc invcRTiciNn TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 Per Year. Strictly en Advance IKillL I for Violation of the Contract Labor Law SOUTHERN PEOPLE INTERESTED Civil Suit Against E. A. Smith and Sumner Sargent, of Charlotte, Be gins in Federal Court Plaintiff Asks $21,000 Damages for Alleged Violation of Alien Laws in Induc ing Immigration Improperly. Greensboro, Special. The ease in tlx- civil suit of the United States against Messrs. E. A. Smith and Sunnier B. Sargent, of Charlotte, in uhieli Samuel B. Powers and 20 oth er aliens are asking for $21,000 in 1-etialtie.s for an alleged violation" of the immigration laws, begin here be i'ovc Judge James E. Boyd. The jury was selected and complaint and answer were read and several - wit nesses examined. At the pace set the trial promises to continue for ten days of two weeks. There is one negro on the jury. His name is Alvus Gilmer, a darky it" the old school, with a broad face, larue lips, wide mouth and pleasant countenance. While Mr. Holton read his complaint Alvus took four naps. The warm roam got the best of him. His eyes and his corpulent body re pi'sed. The frequent slumbers of l i'ile Alvus did not come as a re sult of a lack of interest in the pro ceedings of the court, for everybody who observed him could see that he labored strenuously to keep awake. The drowsiness that falls on the country boy in church during a long sermon had fallen upon the fellow. Tho Allegation Stated. In his complaint Mr. Holton said this is a United States suit to re cover $21,000 in penalties from E. A. Smith. Sumner B. Sargent and E. ( Dewelle. The plaintiff charges that the de fendants brought Samuel B. Powers and 20 other aliens from England to Ellis Island, New York prepaying their way to have them work in the cotton mills. It is alleged that Powers was promised from $12 to $15 a week for himself, at the same sort cf work that he was doing in England and that his wife would be ::iven twice as much as she was then getting. Tt was expalained here by the attorneys for the defendants that T. M. Castello, who solicited these people in England, was the immi gration agent of North Carolina. Mr Tillett Submits Issues. Mr. Costello is not here to answer for himself. He h.as not .been teen in the State for some time. In dis cussing the issues in the case, Mr. Tillett said that the elements should be separated for the issues, He de dared that there should be more than 21 causes. Having explained his j osition on this point, Mr. Tillett read the following issues which he thought the ease should bo presented -- v "1. Did the defendants Smith and Sargent procure the, importation of Samuel Powers, the alien mentioned in the first cause of action, by reason of the offers, solicitations and prom ises made by the said Smith and Sar gent to and with the said alien, prior to the time of his importation as a!-' Isred in the complaint? '2. Did the defendants Smith and Sargent at the time of the said im portation of the said alien know that the offers promised and solicitations icentioned in the complaint had been made to and with the said alien ? '3. Was the said , alien imported by the defendants Smith and Sargent i do skilled labor ? "4, Could labor of ths kind which the said alien was imported to do have been found in this country un employed at the time of the impu tation of the said alien? ('3, Is the plaintiff entitled to re cover of the defendants Smith and Sargeant the penalty of $1,000 on ae hiuii of the unlawful importation of the said alien. Samuel Powers?" The taking of testimony was be am; and two or three witnesses were examined. Nothing but a rambling account of their manderings from plt-ce to place was elicited from them. No Conspiracy. The second day of the trial of Messrs-. Smith and Sargent at Greens boro, N. C, in the noted mill case was 'highly -favorable to the defen dants. i was claimed by the government that Costello, Smith and Sargent l"d formed a conspiracy to import Jtion mill operatives. Judge Boyd i id with the attorneys for the de fendants, who had declared that no (idence of an unlawful agreement had been produced and sut off the t Alimony of the. Drake girl. In de 'isring himsolf, Judge Boyd said: ''Governor Glenn, who signed Cos ifcllo's commission, is as guilty of onspiracy as' Smith and Sargent are if the contentions of the government are true." This was the blow that almost destroyed Messrs, Holton, Coble and Ccoiey, for it demoralized them. As the decision fell from the lips of Judge Boyd, the friends of the defendants heaved a sigh of re lief. The, decisive battle of the war scorns to have been won; Mr. A. C. Hutchinson, being sworn, Kui-L: "I was secretary and treasur er of the Continental Mills last year. BEGINS VOL, XXIX, PJTTSBQRQ. CHATHAM T belonged to the Charlotte t0v;i Club, which met frequently at the Southern Manufacturers' Club. Smith and Sargent attended the meetings. They, with other members, discussed the scarcity and demoralization of cotton mill help. We talked about getting operatives. Mr. T. M. Cos tello said there were plenty, of people in England and Ireland who would like to come to this country. He de clared that the mill operatives were unemployed and that wages in the old country were low. - "We agreed that we would like to have the English people over here. TAR HEEL LAWMAKERS What Our State Lawmakers are Do ing Raleigh. The Anti-Trust Bill. On Thursday the anti-trust bill was a special order. Price of Rockingham led off in support of the committee bill and in opposition to Manning's substi tute. He made a terrific arraignment of the tobacco trust relating his own experience as a once prosperous to bacco dealer, farmer and manufact urer. Laughinghouse, who raid he had never madvi - a dollar except from farming and for the past fifteen years had not phtnted less th.an a hundred acres of tobacco and one year supported the Manning substi tute. He said no one hated a trust worse than he, but unless the tobacco trust could be curbed in Virginia and South Carolina, the only effect of the committee bill would be to drive the American Tobacco Company out of North Carolina, and literally destroy the tobacco agricultural and manu facturing industries. Avery, supporting the commitee hill, said if Durham and Winston were getting rich by harboring finan cial pirates and violating the laws at the expense of other towns and other businesses of the State, they ought not wish to continue in sueh career, or complain at being compelled to stop. Oppose Manning Bill. Justice said he thoroughly respect ed the position of Manning and had such high regard for his legal ability and civic integrity he had carefully and seriously studied his subtitute. hoping to be able to reconcile it with his sense of duty to the people and pledges made to them. But he could come to but one conclusion and that was, the Manning substitute would not accomplish the end sought. The Manning substitute was fin ally voted down without opposition and the committee bill with the agreed amendment passed its second reading, the vote being aj'es S3; noes 5 those so voting being Bailey, Grant, Pickett, Pugh, Republicans; Morgan, Democrat. The bill then passed its third reading and the House at 12 o'clock adjourned, Tho Governor's Message, Governor Glenn, in his message to the Legislature, says only seven more working days remain before the end of the session and a great deal yet remains to be done to keep the Demo cratic pledges to the people, the do minant party, through its platform, having promised unconditionally to do seven things: To give four months school term to all children; enlarge hospitals for the insane until all indigent insane are eared for; make substantial and ma terial reduction of passenger, freight and telephone rates; prevent unjust discrimination by railways against North Carolina towns in favor of other points with no greater natural advantages; enlarge the power of the corporation commission, to enablo it to remedy many existing evils, and lastly to restrict all inordinate and dangerous combinations and trusts and combines which illegally .and wrongfully oppress the people. The Governor congraulates the Legislature on the passage of the bill enlarging and supporting hospitals for the insane and upon the certainty of . the passage of the bill reducing passenger rates, which will give great relit f. He learns that bills to carry out other pledges are before the Leg ifiature and fejis lie would rot be disv charging his du'y if he did not again r;;k enactment of n 'tw s ibbiantially reducing freight rntea m:d righting any wrongs comraifed b telephone companies. He says while doing any thing possible to encourage all legiti mate enterprises, acts should be pass ed to prevent unlawful and unholy cc.iub.Hies which tend to destroy busi ness, r.ievenfc competition and redu:e prices. Corporations should be :n eonriiged, but wii3:i by combination or agreement they act illegally i'ney must be treated like oilier violators Oi the law. Great injury is inflicted upon jobbers, merchants and other bi-biuoss men of Nn-.h Carolina when they cannot get the same railway fa cilities given to other States , with no greater natural advantages than ours. Insurance companies should be re quired to invest or deposits a certain per cent, cf the amount cf their earn ings in North Carolina, and not allow ed to carry over nins million dollars annually out of the State. He re-, grets that the Legislature failed to amend criminal laws, but says it ia rmw too late for this. Regarding increase of salaries, ha J says the Legxslafeure snouici givo preference to employees anu cier as with the increased cost of living, hecannot see how they can do ef ficient work upon what they now re ceive. He asks the Legislature to vigorously push these matters,,' so We mav so before the neonle of the State and say we have kepk faith." . To Increase Salaries. Graham, by leave, introduced a bill amending the constitution by giving the members of the Legislature an annual salary of $500 and mileage at 1U cents per mile and allowing the presiding officers of the Senate and House $10 per day and mileage. If a special session shall be called memr bers.are to receive $100 additional. The Senate next took up the bill to fix the salaries of State officers and departmental employes' as a special order, the committee's substitute be ing the subject under discussion. Ay cock offered a substitute for the sub stitute. Aycock said there- was necessity for an increase of the salary of State officers and knowing there was great inequality in the salaries received by several of. them, he had begun early in the session to prepare a bill to equalize salaries. He thought the State ought to increase the bond of the State treasurer. He could not se why the secretary of State should receive $1,000 more than the Gover nor. He mentioned many other in equalities. He said the State was not paying, to its officers what they ought to receive. Stiff in the Knee Joint. The navy is not the only institu tion which has had trouble over an on-the-knee order, for kneeling as well as standing orders have been fertile of trouble in the House of Commons. The late Sir Reginald Palgrave states that the practice of ordering delin quents on tiheir knees was stopped by the obduracy of a Mr. Murray, in Feb ruary, 1750. Being ordered to kneel for the purpose of receiving the cen sure of the House for a breach of priv ilege, he refused to comply. His au dacity was voted a high contempt, and he was sent to Newgate, where he remained till set free by the pro rogation, four months afterward. But the victory was his, for no one ac cording to Palgrave, was ever after ward compelled to kneel at the Bar. Oldfield, however, records the follow ing among later instances: An elec tion for the city of Westminster took place in 1751, when Lord Trentiham was returned against Sir George Vandeport. Serious outrages having been committed by the mob, one of the ringleaders, Mr. Crowle, an at torney, was summoned before the Commons. The delinquent was com manded to kneel and was duly repri manded by the Speaker. On rising he wiped his kne;s, and said he had never been in so dirty a house be fore. Mail .Mall Gazette. It cannot be denied, observes the Baltimore Sun, that the, President is upon solid ground when he opposes any disposition of goverment coal lands which will enable corporations to use them for extortion and oppres sive charges for one of the prime ne cessaries of life, MORE BOXES OF GOLD ; And Many Greenbacks . 323 boxes of Gold and Greenbacks will be sent to persons who write the most interesting and truthful letters of experience on the following topics: 1. 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Every friend of Postum is urged to write and each letter will be held in high esteem by the company, as an evidence of such friendship, while the little boxes of gold and envelopes of money will reach many modest writers whose plain and sensible let ters contain the facts desired, al though the gender may have but small faith in winning at the time of writing. Talk this subject over with your friends aadee how many among you can win prizes. It is a good, honest competition and In the best kind of a cause, and costs the competitors ab solutely nothing. Address your letter to the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., Battle Creek, Mich., writing; your own Jiame and address COUNTY. N. C THURSDAY. MARCH 7, 1907. Ti! Fatal Ending of a Raid on a Blind Tiger MURDERER IS LANDED IN JAIL Desperado, Whom the Police. Weio Attempting to Arrest, Kills Two and Fatally Wounds a Third. Fayetteville, N. C., Sp3eial Satur day night at 7 o'clock, Chief of Po lice Chason and two policemen, Lock amy and Buckingham, while raiding a blind tiger, were, shot down -by a negro, Tom Walkeiv the proprietor" of the blind tiger. Policeman Lockamy was instantly killed, Chief of Police Chason was shot through the head and mortally wounded, and Policeman Bucking ham was shot in the shoulder and side. There are little hopes of his recovery. The negro has so far eluded cap ture. The murderer is a well-known and desparate character. With him at the time of the shouting was a white man, a stranger in the city, who has been apprehended and is now in the county jail. The wife of Walker has been locked up for safe keeping. He is a finger-cake mu latto, about 30 3'ears of age; five feet eight inches tall; weighs about ISO pounds, wears a light hat has a habit ually scowling face and would be rec ognized as a "bad negro" by any one. Intense Excitement. Intense excitement prevails throughout the city, the streets are thronged Avith an angry, Saturday night throng, searching parties are being organized and despatched to watch all country roads and to search all passing trains. The sher iff has wired Wilmington to send bloodhounds by a special train. The local company of militia is now un der arms and a $1,000 reward has been offered by the city and county for the bod' of Walker dead or alive. The arrest of Walker, the murder er, at Dunn Sunday night about mid night was affected by Howard Smith, D. K; Taylor and H. L. Lamb, ne groes of the posse who had gone up on train S2 of the Atlantic Coast Line in search of him. Walker had beat his way to Dunn on a freight train and bought there a ticket for Wash ington. Pie then boarded train S2 and Mr. Smith recognized him and covered him with a revolver. Walker had shaved off his mustache and had his face blacked. He was taken in charge by Sheriff Watson of this county, and Mr. J. B. Tillingham, of Fayetteville, and taken to Raleigh for safe keeping. Resolution on 1C07 Cotton Acreage. - The following resolution was pass ed by the great convention of tho Southern Cotton Association held in Birmingham. 4In view of the fact that a great many farmers have adopted tho in tensive system of farming, increas ing the yield per acre and new terri tory each year is being planted in cotton that heretofore has not grown cotton, thereby increasing the pro duction, therefore in order to main tain satisfactory and remunerative prices, we urge and recommend a full reduction of 10 per cent of cot ton aereage for the year 1907." "Wo further recommend that the acreage so reduced be planted in food crops," "We are sure that unless the farmers unitedly reduce their aere age of cotton that they will be con fronted at the end of fthe season with equally bad, if not worse condi tions than ' they were in 1004, when cotton went down tp 0 cents per pound, ''Respectfully submitted by the Committee on aereage,'' " F, Q, Hudaon, Chairman. W. S. Pharr, Secretary. The executive committee of North Carolina Division of the Southern Cotton Association earnestly solicit the aid of every farmer, merchant, banker and all men of the state, who are interested in maintaining a fair price for cotton, to use their influ ence to reduce the acreage for 1907 full 10 per cent from the acreage planted in 1906. We also call for help in our effort to produce on every farm in the state sufficient food and feed crops for the needs of man and beast on our farms. Respectfully, C. C. Moore, Pres. N. C. Div. C. S. A. Executive Committee: A. J. McKinnon, T. J. W. Broom, J. H. Curiie. Charlotte, N. C, Feb, 1st, 1907. Enraged Farmer Kills To Per son!. ' ' . Bloomington, 111., Special. Thom as Baldwin, a rich farmer and form er merchant or Colfax, 111., shot and killed Charles Kennedy and wife, and Mrs.. Sim Eisman, and daughter Cora. Baldwin wasarrested. Bald win, who is 6S -years old and a wid ower, is under bond -charged with criminal assault on Cora Ehmsn? who is but 14. years- of age, SHOO 16 OF OFFICERS I lump nnnntn nnniPTPn nubt mum a tratitu BY HARRIFnlAN SYNDICATE Most Amazing Jugglery of ions Ever Known. TOOK $23,724,000 IN 7 YEARS Validity of the Bonds May Be Ques tioned Laws of Illinois Hold That Fictitious Increases of Cap ital Stock Are Void. v HARRIMAN SYNDICATE'S PRO FITS IN ALTON DEAL. $32,000,000 takenat 65 and sold at about 90. $S, 000,000 30 per cent, dividend,. 6,669,000 $22,000,000 bonds tak en at about 60. sold at 80 4,400.000 r Sale of preferred from old to new company. 3,055,000 Sale of Springfield-Peo- ria branch line ..... . 1,500,000 Bonus voted to Mr. Harriman for serv ices 100,000 Total in seven years (1899 to 1906) $23,724,000 New York City. When the Inter state Commerce Commission finished its inquiry into the affairs of the Union Pacific Railroad system there stood revealed the enormous financial power in the railroad world of E. H. Harriman, his autocratic domination over many great corporations and the most amazing jugglery of millions that the country has ever known. Starting in 1898 with the Union Pacific, then only emerging ' from bankruptcy, he has piled up issues of securities to hundreds of millions. But standing out clearly and con cretely above all the other operations in high finance is the astounding looting of the Chicago and Alton Rail road. It has not been possible, even with the probe of the Commission, to find the full extent of this profit. The ac countants of . the new management are struggliag over the books. But there has been shown that the Harri man syndicate by its operations has secured in profits from that unfortu nate company $23,724,000. How much more was made by operations as yet undivulged can only be sur mised. The outstanding securities and lia- bilities of the company were increased from $39,9S5,8S7 in 1899 to $122, 872,328 in 1906. During that time, according to Mr. Harriman's own tes timony, only $22,000,000 were ex pended in improvements and better ments. The investigators of the In terstate Commerce Commission figure the expenditure as $18,000,000, but allowing Mr. Harriman the benefit of the doubt,, the enormous sum of $61, 000,000 watered securities was poured into this once magnificent property. The Constitution and the statutes of Illinois were read out on the last day of the inquiry by Commissioner Harlan, son of Justice Harlan, of the United States Supreme Court. The company is incorporated under the laws of that State. Article 11 of the Constitution provides: '"No railroad corporation shall is- , ue any stocks or bond3 except for j money, labor or property actually re-1 ceived and applied to the purposes ! M . x, I ior wmcn eucn corporation was created, and all stock dividends and other fictitious Increase of the capital stock or indebtedness of any such cor poration shall be void." This law calls into serious question the validity of the bonds so freely put out by the company under the Harri man management. There are. two such issues, the first of $40,000,000. of which $32,000, OOOare outstanding, and the second of $22,000,000, all of which are in the hands of the public. The law of the State of New York was amended in 1900, through the influence of somebody, so that the bonds of the Chicago and Alton road were made legal for investment by savings banks. President Felton, of the Chicago and Alton, was a witness in the morn ing to verify a statement that the sum spent in improving the Chicago and Alton property did not exceed $19,000,000 Rince the reorganization of the company in 1899. This was placed in contrast with the testimony that the capitalization of the com pany had been increased from $39, 035,887 at the end of 1898 to more than $122,000,000 by the reorgani zation, HOW HILL. CROWD MADE 34.0fl0,000. Philadelphia. That James J, HM and his associate in the control of the Northern Pacific acquired a profit of S50 per cent, on a stock allotment at the reorganization of that railroad is one of the astounding statements made by those who are interested In demanding a probe of the Hill-Morgan financiering of the Northern Pa cific system. Hill and his crowd have been getting annual dividends amounting to fifty per cent on their investment of $4,000,000 made at the time of the reorganization. Story of Betrayal. . Mrs. Viola Bywaters told the story of her betrayal by William Bywaters at the trial of her brothers, James and Philipi Strother, at Culpsper, Va. Spring Lamb Scarce. Spring lamb is scarce and high, the hind quarter $5 and the fore quarter $3, Railroad Are JSeoaomiiJugi . ! Railroads generally are. econonils-! Jng on their expenditures, hut there is plenty of work that must be done to kfisp the 'forges and mills busy through the year. . . Farm Staples Steady. Farm staples are steady in price, liberal foreign purchases precluding any possibility of excessive stocks to be carried over frcm last year's large ( crops. NO, 30. ILLINOIS FARMER KILLS FOUR Shocking Murderous Frenzy of Thomas Baldwin,' of Colfax. One of the Old Aran's Victims "Was a Fourteen-Year-Old Niece Whom He Had Mistreated. Bloomington, 111. Enraged by Grand Jury proceeding's to punish him for mistreating his fourtcea-year-old niece, Thomas Baldwin, a wealthy farmer, sisty-eight years old, recently made a widower, began a campaign of veng eance, and when he concluded four persons had been mur dered, including the little girl. whom he had so outrageously wronged. . The child, Cora Eiseman, was his last victim and his murder of her was most cruel. Shi had just seen he mother shot to death and was striv ing to escape by crawling through n thorny hedge' when Baldwin ran up and shot her to death. Baldwin resides near Colfax and is one of the best known men in the county. He was one of the leading merchants of the town until he re tired to live on his farm. His large interests in various enterprises made him of importance commercially, and he was one of the most conspicuou.. church members in the place. Last October his wife died and he seemed to mourn her deeply. His 1 1 1 -tlo niece, Cora Eissman, lived with her mother and sister about, three miles northeast of Arrcwsmitr. "ten miles from Baldwin's home. He went there a week after his wife's death and persuaded Mrs. Simeon Eiseman to let Cora live with him, r,ayjig h would take the best ol care of hrr and provide liberally for her in his will. Soon after the girl became an inmate of his home he mistreated l.fir on a lonely country road between Col fax and Arrowsmith. The girl told her mother, and Mrt. Eiseman, being averse to the notoriety which would attend prosecution, refrained ficm making formal complaint. Baldwin in the meantime gave her '$600 in set tlement. Baldwin then, supposed the matte: had been finally disposed of, but tho news of his .offense was carried to State's Attorney W. R. Bach, and he propmtly submitted the case to too Grand Jury and Baldwin was indicted. On being arrested Baldwin vowed vengeance upon everybody connected with thye proceedings to punish him. Nevertheless he was released on $1000 bond. During the morning Baldwin took a revolver, a supply of cartridges and a quart bottle of whisky and drove to Arrowsmith. He first went to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ken nedy, friends of the Eisemans, v. horn he suspected of , giving the faces to the State's Attorney, and shot them both dead. Then he re-entered his buggy and drove to the Eiseman home. Mrs. Eiseman saw him coming and, fear ing him, called Cora and the other children Into the house and locked the door. Presently, however, ehe opened the door and tried to anollify Baldwin,. but his answer was to fire two bullets into her breast, killing her instantly, Cora and the other children started to run, Baldwin paid ho attention to the others, but with curses fol lowed the little girl whom he had wronged. She had reached a '-.edge and was crawling through to reach some neighbors when he readied her. He shot her dead while she was beg ging for mercy. Baldwin then hunted up a deputy sheriff at Arrowsmith and surren dered. "RECEIVER FOR MRS. EDDY. Relatives Sue to Have 1-Icr Declared Incompetent. Concord, N. H. Application was made in the Superior Court of Merri mac County for an accounting of the financial affairs of Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, the founder of the Christian Science movement and pas tor emeritus of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston. The application. wa3 in the form of a bill in equity and the petitioners were George W, Glover, a son of Mrs. Eddy by her first husband, whose residence is given at Deadwood, S. D.f his daughter, Mias Mary Baker Glover, and George W, Baker, of Ban eor, Me., Mrs, Eddy's only surviving nephew, a sou ol the late George Sul livan Baker, BUfWETX PIES IX ALBANY. Jew York Assemblyman 111 Less Than a Week With Pneumonia. Albany, N. Y. Jean La Rue Bur nett, member of the Assembly from Ontario County, dlsd at the Ten Eyck Hotel after an illness of less than a week, of pneumonia. : As the news of Mr. Burnett's death was announced word was received here that a son was born to Mrs. Bur nett at Canandaigua. Assemblyman Burnett was one of the best known, as well as one of the most popular members of the Legis lature. Ha was the third member of the Assembly to die this session. King Opens Xew "Old Bailey.' The new $1,500,000 Central Crim- 5 Inal Court l-iouse, nuin on iub c.te the historic Newgate Prison, in Lon don, commonly known as the O'.d Bailey, was opened by King Edward. It was a semi-state affair and-there was much ceremony. Amazing Railroad Mismanagement. C. W. .Billiard, Controller of tha Chicago and Altoc, told the Intsv stats Commerca Commission, la Jsew York City, that th Harriman man agement had mortgaged a brancn line and sold the bonds before con struction was b9guu. American Securities Attacked. An attack on American railway se curities was made in the German Reichstag by & ft-es conservative member, . . uniiiv ui nvibiu 1 viiiuf One tqntr, on Insertion 11.00 v One square, two insertion 1.60 On square, one month 51.50 For Larger Advertise ments Liberal Con tracts will be made. DEATH RATEAND DISEASE Tuberculosis and Pneumonia at Top of List of Fatal Afflictions. Army of Cancer Victims jG rowing Disease Takes Seventh Place in . United States Mortality Table. Washington, D. C. Out of only two-fifths of the population of the United States more than half a million lives were offered up in 1905 as a sacrifice to disease. Startling as this death rate may seem it was less than that for the preceding" year, but. was in excess of the number of deaths registered for any other year. The death rate from nephritis and Bright's disease, apoplexy, cancer, diabetes and appendicitis is increas ing while that from old age, bron chitis, convulsions, peritonitis and scarlet fever is decreasing. " , The greatest death rate recorded for any one disease in 1905 was that from pulmonarytuberculosis, amount ing to 56,770, while pneumonia fol lows closely with a death rate of 39, 068, exclusive of broncho-pneumonia. The much dreaded cancer shows a steadily growing death rate, the figures being 24,330. The above are the more interesting facts brought out in a report issued by the Census Bureau, giving the sta tistics of mortality for 1905. The statistics in this report are restricted to' States in which the laws requiring the registration of -deaths have been accepted as giving practically com plete mortality returns and to cities in non-registration States in which ' satisfactory returns are required by the local authorities. This registration area in 1903 con sisted of ten registration States, the District of Columbia and 123 regis tration cities in non-registration States. The ten registration States were Connecticut, Indiana, Maine. Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hamp shire. New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont. Tbe population of the entire area in 1900 was 30. 765,618, representing 40.5 per cent, of the total population of the United States. - The total number of deaths report ed from the various kinds of diseases in 1Q05 aggregated 545,533, and those for the preceding year amount ed to 551,354. On a percentage ba sis the death rate was in 1905 16.2 in each 1000 of population. The fol lowing figures show the death rates per 1000 of the reguistration States for 1905: Connecticut, 16.5; District of Co lumbia, 20.5; Indiana, 12.8; Maine, 16.2; Massachusetts, 16.8; Michigan, 13.5; Nfw Hamshipre, 17; New Jer sey, 15.S; New York. 17; Rhode Isl and. 17.1, and Vermont, 17. The causes, with their rates, to which twenty or more deaths per 100,000 of population were attributed in 1905, ranked, according to num ber of deaths per 100,000, are as fol lows: Tuberculosis of lungs, 168.2; pneumonia, 150.1; heart disease, 132.5; diarrheoa and enteritis, 116.7; nephritis and Bright's disease, 114.3; apopleiy, 72.2; cancer, 72.1; acciden tal traumatisms, 42.1; old age, 36.4; meningitis, 34.5; bronchitis, 33.5; premature birth, 32.9; congenital de bility, 31.5; typhoid fever, 28.1, and diphtheria and croup, 23.8. Cancer ranks seventh among the various causes of death. Of the 24, 330 deaths from this disease, 9189 were of males, while 15,141 were of females.- LONGFELLOW HONORED. Celebrations of the Poet's Birthday in Maine and Boston. Boston, Mass, The love in which Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is held was given expression throughout New England by exercises commemorating the 100th anniversary of the poet's birth. In Maine, where the poet was born, and in Massachusetts, where he spent many of the most important years of his literary life, the principal public observances were held, but there was scarcely a public school or literary society in this section which did not devote some time to his mem ory. ' The most important features of the celebration were in Cambridge, Mass., at Sanders Theatre, when Bliss Perry, editor of the Atlantic Monthly; Presi dent 'Charles W. Eliot, of Harvard University; Colonel Thomas Went worth Higglnson; Professor Charles Eliot Norton, of Harvard, and others, took part, HARRWJAN ATTACKS FISH, Say He "Looked Upon Illinois Cen tral as His Personal Property.'1 New York City. Overshadowing nil developments having any direct bearing upon the subject-matter of its inquiry Into the management oi me Harriman railroad empire, the Inter state Commerce Commission listened to a bitter personal attack upon Stuy vesant Fish, former president of the Illinois Central Railroad, by Edward H. Harriman, once Mr. Fish's closest business associate, but now his foe. Mr. Harriman charged Mr. Fish with having deposited half a million dollars of the railroad funds with tho then shaky and now defunct Trust Company of the Republic, of which he was a director, and asserted that Mr. Fish had beeu forced by the Illi nois Central directors to withdraw the money. ' "Ho looked upon the Illinois Cen tral as his own personal property," said Mr. Harriman, rnniila Slain by Robbers. Joseph Billet, a .wealthy French man, and his wife were both found dead at Colfax, La. Billefs body, with the head almost cut off, was found in the house, while his wife's body lay on the front lawn with sev eral bullet wounds visible. It is be lieved that robbers killed both, as $15,000 is missing from the house. Russians Fight Chinese Bandits. Russians near Harbin are engaged in fighting Chinese oannus, . 1 1 j
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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