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I TdUaSDAY ."AUG. 1.W07. BC A. LONDON, Editor. As predicted last week by The Becobd "peace prevails" and there will be no bloodshed or conflict of arms between the State and Federal authorities. A truce has been declared and a most serious situation is removed by an agree ment entered into between Gov. Glenn and the attorneys of the Southern Railway and the Atlan tic Cosst Line. By this agreement those two railroad companies are to obey the railroad rate law passed by the last Legislature until its con stitutionality is decided by the Supreme Court of the- United States On the 8th of this month those companies will begin sell- tickets at two and a quarter in cents a mile, and there will be no more prosecutions of them or their agents for having heretofore violated this law. The people of North Carolina and the railroad companies are to be congratulated upon this agree ment and compromise. If the law is finally decided to be constitu tional (as we think it will b ) -i 1 prosecutions and penalty s .i had been multiplied (as ttiey would have, been) against the rail road companies, they would have been bankrupted. By this agree ment the State gains (for awhile at least and we think permanently) the reduced rate and all that she has been contending Tor. Gov. Glenn deserves the thanks not only of the people of this State but of every State for his success in forcing the railroads in to this agreement, which is almost a complete surrender on their part By his vigorous action he has justly won a most enviable reputation throughout all the United States, and has received (as he deserves) the thanks and congratulations of the most dis tinguished men of both political parties in all parts of the Union. Sojpopular is he now that he may be the Democratic nominee for Vice-President next year. This attempt by Judge Pi it ch ard to annul an act of our Geu- r.tl Assembly without even a hearing has attracted much attention and aroused much interest all over the United States. His arbitrary ac tion is in striking contrast to that of several Federal judges in other States, who have refused to an nul a similar law iu so summary a manner. For instance, the Mis souri Legislature at its last Hus sion" passed a two-cent passenger rate law, and when tho railroads applied to the Federal Judge Mc pherson for an injunction he de clined to issue it. lie very sensi bly said, "The two cent law should be put into effect until it can be ascertained by actual experience whether two cjuts will be re munerative." All the States are deeply inter ested in the final decision of these North Carolina cases, and it is to be hoped that the Supreme Court of the United States will render a decision clearly defining the power of Federal judges in annul ling (even temporarily) the law of any State. The decision should be so plain that everybody can un derstand it, and thereby avoid any further conflict between the State and Federal courts. And we hope that the decision will be made by a unanimous vote of the court, and not by the vote of five to four which is too often the case in the decision of the most important suits. One reason why the Southern Bailway Company was anxious for a "cessation of hostilities" was the fear of the Governor calling an extra session of the Legisla ture. If that had been done there is no telling what our law-makers might have done detrimental to the Southern Bailway. They might have attempted to annul, or declare forfeited, the lease of the North Carolina railroad, and in several ways they might have giv en trouble to the Southern Bail way Company, and caused it to regret most deeply its attempt to annul their rate law. This attempt of Judge Priteh ard to annul an act of the Legis lature and to over-ride onr State courts may be an important ele ment in the next. Presidential campaign. It places President Roosevelt in aoaibarrassiug po- i 1 I ' sition. He has been insistent on the regulation of the railroads, and yet, when our Legislature passed a law to regulate the rail roads in this State, his appointee and mtimate friend (Pritehard) did all he could to annul that act In the next campaign it will be argued that a Republican Con -gress will cot reduce railroad rates and that IJepublicau judges will no't allow a State to reduce railroad rates within its own borders. The Acts of the last Legislature are at last published, or at least some copies of them are publish ed and have been sent to themem- fcbers of that body. It may be some time yet before copies are sent out to the magistrates, or are for sale. There is no excuse for so long a delay in the publication of the acts of every legislature. They ought to be published iu thirty days af ter the adjournment. .The acts thus far published are only the public laws, which are 1019 in number, exclusive of many resolutions, and make a volume of 1519 pages. The private laws, in corporating banks, railroads, etc., will be published in a separate volume. The people of North Carolina do not wish to be stirred up this ypar with an exciting campaign foi me Democratic nomination for Governor, and we are pleased that no one of Mr. Kitchin's competi ters has accepted his challenge for a joint canvass of the State. There is plenty of time yet, an j this being an "off-year" in politics our people would prefer not to be stirred up so long before the nom ination. Such a campaign in Geor gia is a sufficient warning to North Carolina Democrats. Afteu a long and sensational trial a verdict of not guilty was rendered in the case of William D. Haywood, the secretary aud teeasurer of the Western Federa tion of Miners, who was on trial for the murder of Gov, Stueneu bunr, of Idaho. While it is gene rally thought that he is guilty, yet it could not be fully proved. Fatal Fire in New York. New York, July 20. EL lot-en bodies, most of them charied .uui mutilated beyond recognition, al ready have been carried from the ruius of the six story tenement at No. 222 Christie street, which was burned in the earlT hours of this morning. It is feared that other bodies are in the ruins, and fire men are continuing their search. The hie is believed to have been of incendiary origin. Scores of persons were burned and injured, thirty of them seri ously, many ol whom will die. Most of the de; d as well as the injured were women and children, who were panic-stricken and rush ed about blindly until the flames reached them. " The tenement has long bsen known as "the Three deuces" and has beu the very hot bed of Itali an murdeiers. Black Hand trage dies wt re tif ten traced to plottings in the h-.use and the place had a criminal record not equalled by any other house in New York. The house is believed to have been tired by the bursting of a bomb placed by a member of the Black Hand. There was a terrible explosion at the outset, which caused a panic and made the ten ants of the house early victims for the flames, which spread with mysterious rapidity. The fire was one of the worst the New Ycrk fire department has battled with in years. Many dar ing rescues were made. Crowds of frenzied teuauts choked the tire escapes and fought madly with each other. Several were pushed off the ladders by fear-maddened men, aud they fell to death in the streets. Some of the bodies re covered irom the rums are mere bits of chaired flesh and bones. In one room the firemen found the body of a woman, whose arms clasped a child a year and a half old. Beside her was the body of an infant to whom birth had been give i during the fire. Preacher Dying in Pulpit. Knoxville, Tenn., July 28. Rev. W. F. Smith, a Presbyterian minister of this county, was strick en with apoplexy in the pulpit of the Presbyterian church at Madi sonville this morning.- He was dwelling on the uncertainty of life iu his sermon and had just uttered these words: "It may be the last time I will ever speak to you," when he began to totter. Friends rushed to the pulpit andaught him. He died tonight, ltev. Mr. Smith was 65 years old and a past grand master of the Masonic grand lodge in Tennessee. Somebody has defined a Re publican as "one who believes in the greatest good to the smallest number." Nothing could be more exact. Washington Letter. From Our Regular Correspondent. Washington, July 25, 1907. The dull, hot season is upon us. The capital cicy has long been de serted by the legislative, executive aud jadieial branches of the gov ernment. Not a cabinet ofiicetoie mains, and the chiefs of divisions and many subordinates are away on summer vacation. -Much im provement is going on in Wash ington rendered possible by re cent appropriations. Five massive white marble government build ings are nearing completion. The new union railroad station, which except in height, is bigger than the Capitol of the United States, will be finished in a few months. Pennsylvania avenue is being ele vated and resurfaced. The park, which thirty years ago was 'a swamp reaching from the Poto mac almost to the WhiteHouse and covering nearly four hundred acres, has now been filled in and is laid out in wide gravel boule vards, walks and soft driveways for equestrians. It is interspersed with lakelets, trees aud lawns. No other city is better endowed with park area, and Washington prom ises to be in time one of the world's most beautiful cities. It looks as though the industri al arbitration commission estab lished bjT the President with the money from the Nobel Peace Prize might have a fine chance to get to work iu the northwest. The strike that has broken out in the Lake Superior iron region is more in teresting to the Federal govern ment than anything in that line since the famous hard coal strike of three years ago. The men in the Mesaba ore fields have been very contented for a number of years past. They are an immense body, mostly foreigners or of for eign extraction, and on them de pends in a large measure the suc cess of the iron and steel industry of the country. It is claimed by the residents of Minnesota that these workmen have been influenc ed by professional strike organ izers aud that many men who were satisfied and would have preferred to stay at work have been driven out by threats of violence. This is a bad enough situation, buc it is further claimed, and it is believed with truth, that the or ganizers have Leeu the agents of the Western Federation of Miners. The Federation of Miners has been tri'iug for years to break into the Superior field aud has never been sucessful, principally becausethe employers treated their men de cently and did not encourage the brand of unionism that has made the Coeur d'Alei.e aud Cripple Creek notorious. However, the Federation has now gotten a foot hold in Minnesota and the present strike is the first result. It is a serious thing from a national standpoint, because if the fields are tied up for any length of time it -v ill cripple the iron and steel industry on which so much of the material prosperity of the country depends. The United States Steel Corporation which is the practical owner of these immense iron fields, has announced its intention ol fighting the strike to a fluish and crushing the Federation in this part of the country once for all. A prolonged strike in this region would be a national calamity aud it is possible that the arbitration commission iu Washington, which has so far not taken part iu a single labor dispute, will feel moved to assert itself and see what can be done. There havo been complaints re cently from all over the country as to the quality of postcards anil stamped envelopes furnished by the government. The government is lavish in stationery of all sorts for its own uses. Such stationer is either bought in the open mar ket this is done iu only a few cases or else is secured either under advertised bids or "invita tion bids" which is a very nice simple scheme for keeping a con tract just where the government agent wants it. But the postcards and envelopes aie furnished by contract and bought and printed by a private firm up in New Eng land. The quality of the envel opes has usually been satisfactory but the postcards never very good, have been getting steadily worse of late years. The contract is to be gone over by the Postmaster General who will see if something cannot be done to raise the quali ty of the postcards, aud it is thought that the envelopes will be improved at the same time. It is understood that this is the last year the contract for postcards and envelopes will be put out, as there is a chance to have the work done just as well and cheaper at the Bureau of Printing. Engraving ami Hunting a Fake Preacher. Frankiln Press. C. C. Sextou, town marshal of Clayton, Ga., passed through I'raukliii last week on the trail of a fake Holiness preacher, by the name of J. G. Edwards, who has lately been operating in Rabun county. He is wanted for forging a check, and absconding with a horse, buggy and the sixteen -year old daughter of a citizen of that county. Marshal Sexton returned Saturday, having traced Edwards as far as Saluda, N. C, where all ti ace of him was lost. Gov. Glenn Congratulated. Raleigh Correspondence Charlotte Observer, aUlU. Congratulatory telegrams from all parts of North Carolina aud from other States are pouring in on Governor Glenn by leasou of Ida great victory iu the railway rate case. He said tonight: "1 think the reason why the railways backed down is that they were thoroughly satisfied after examin ing the law that a Federal court in an equity suit against the cor poration commission could not enjoin a State court or its officers for enforcing a law which went in to effect by virtue of its own force which was being openly violated; and they knew whether that ha beas corpus would not lie to take a State prisoner from a State court having jurisdiction." The Governor has been invited by the Brooklyn Democratic Club to speak in that city August 29th. He says it is his intention to ac cept and to give the people aud the press of New York and Brook lyn North Carolina's version of this rata conflict between the rail ways aud the people, which he declares, has been so much per verted and distorted by the rail way versions of the matter. The Brooklyn Club in its invitation assures him an audience of at least 10,000. Last Mia Killed. From the New York World. The last man to fall in the Civil War was a Union soldier. John Jefferson Williams, from Jav county, Iudiaua, a member of (Join pan" 13, ot the lhirty-tourtn Indiana liegiment. The fight in which he was killed occurred at Palmetto Kauch, lexas, May 13, 18G5, more than a month after Lee's surrender. The word to lay down arms had not reached Texas at that time, and an engagement took place between a small force of Union troons and a detachment of Confederate calvalry. Williams was the only man killed. The peopleof Alleghany county are jubilant over the propect of there being a railroad constructed from Elkiu to Snurta. About 100 convicts will begin grading tho road in a short time. SUMMER TOURIST RATES! The Southern Liailwav auuoun ces'Sale of Summer Excursion Tickets to following points at rates named from lialcigh, N. J.: Ashevilie, N. C lo.9o Morehead City, N. ( 0 70 WrigidsvilleN. .; 7.30 lieaiifort, N. C (5 9 ) Chase City, Va . . 4.X Rural Hall, N. C. . Waynesviih', N. C L ike Toxawav, N. C. WashiM-loll, 1). c 13 iltimore, Md Atlantic City, N.J... Asbnry I'.n k.N. J New York, N. Y W'atkins (J!ei!, N. Y Glenn Sin -ii'jy, S. C Johnson ' it y, T mi Sewanee, IV:i t Tale SiitiL,v!. Ten 11 . , Tie'so li ! (s will lie Hold r, 7f 1 2 00 m 2.1, i:j 25 ; 2.'J 4.-, 21 C5 '22 25 i 28 20 j 1125; 10 90 21 -ij ' 1 5.10 , ih.ilvi II!) 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Trvon 7.50 7.75 Hendersonville Brevard 8 45 Lake Toxaway 9-10 Hot Springs t.to Chase City, Va 3.40 Clarksville, Va...... 2.95 These tickets will be sold to and including Saturday, August 31st, 1907, for all Saturday trains and Sunday morning trains, good returning leaing destination not later than Mondav following date of sale, except tickets to Chase City, Va., Clarksville, Va.. More- head City, N. C., and Beautort, JN. C, will be sold Saturdays only, and tickets to Blowing Uock, Wil mington, Rural Hall, Beaufort and Morehead City will be limited re turning Tuesday following date of sale. T. E.' GREEN, C. T. A. Raleigh, N. C. A Cold Highwayman. Ukiah. Cal.. Julv 29. A lone highwayman, in the space of half an hour yesteiday robbed two stages containing forty-five- peo- pie and also two Height wagons. First he held up the stage at Witter Springs ami the passeng ers were lined up along the roau and relieved ot their jewelry, moue and other valuables. 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