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Cbe cbatbam ccotb gbe Cbatbam "Rccorfe. RATES OF ADVERTISING: One Square' one Insertion...... $t.oo One Square, two Insertions.... 1.5 One Square., one month a. 09 H. A LONDON EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: SI -50 Per Year a ' For Larger Advertise ments Liberal Contracts will be made. STRICTLY IN ADVANCE VOL. XXlX . PITTSBORO. CHATHAM COUNTY. N. C, THURSDAY. AUGUST 15. 1907. NO. 1; 9 " on rm G TAR HEEL TOPICS Items Gathered From All farmers Alliance The annual meeting of the North Carolina Farmers' Alliance will be held at Hillsboro next Tuesday and Wednesday. Reports of officers will show a good year's work and pro gress along all lines. In a letter to the Progressive Farm er, referring to the approaching StaB meeting, Mr. George F. Parrott, of Kinston, president of the organiza tion says : : , "With 110 little pleasure we look forward to next Tuesday, August 13th, the annual meeting day for the State Alliance. We hope that every county in which there is an organiza tion will be fully represented and that each delegate will have something ta suggest for the good of the order and for the good of mankind. "Xo well informed man who has the proper regard for truth will de clare that the Alliance stands.for any thing other than for the scattering of peace and prosperity all over this land of ours. Our purpose is to build up, not to destroy; we antagonize poverty and strife among men; noth ing more. "Our meeting will be a very im portant one. We will probably dis cuss with a view to some action the buying of 'wrapping for our next -cotton crop; also the marketing of our cotton as well as the attitude of the American Tobacco Company toward cultivation of tobacco. "Let delegates at their leisure note just what suggestions they wish to offer, also any specific matter which they are instructed by their County Alliance to bring before the State meeting. "Again let me urge delegates to be on hand ,and should anything occur so that the principal cannot attend, then let your alternate know in time for him to report at headquarters at Hillsboro at 12:00 M. on August 13th." Broke Boys Head. Wadesboro, Special. Julius the 8-year-old son of Mi', and Mrs. L. J. Pinston, was kicked in the forehead by a horse Saturday afternoon. Th-3 ' little fellow in company with one of Mr. P. T. Rhyne 's sons was playing m tne lot near the horses when one of them suddenly became vicious and kicked the children. The other boy was hurt, but Julius received . very serious injuries. His nose was broken and his skull fractured by the blow. While he is in a very critical condi tion, unless some complications set in, he Avill recover. Dr. Bennett dressed his wounds. Pardons Granted and Refused. Raleigh, Special. Governor Glenn last week granted pardons of three who had made application and refus ed the application of six, among these six being two negroes who are under sentence of death. These negroes are Will Banks, . of Ashe county, and James Rucker, of Buncombe county and the date set for their hanging is the twentieth of Ausust Rucker 's crime was the atrocious one of rape upon nis six-year-old step-daughter, 1 while Banks had deliberately killed! another negro. The Governor sets out his reasons for the pardons grant ed and those refused. Street Rarlway Franchise. Salisbury, Special. The Board of Aldermen have granted a franchise to the Piedmont Carolina Railway Company, a Salisbury organization t operate a belt line railway starting at Newton Heights,in Soencer, thence through East Spencer and up Long street to Inniss street in this city, thence through Inniss street to the western outskirts of the city, termi nating at the new fair grounds. Will Double Population, Duke, Special It is said that the Dukes are to erect another mammoth jnill at this place, This place exclu sively a factory village, has now a population of about 3,000, the largest population of any town in Harnett county, and the new factory will al most double this population.. Bitten By a Copperhead. New Bern, Special. The three-year-old child, a little boy, of . Mr. Morrison Rowe, who lives nine miles from New Bern in the second town ship, was bitten by a snake Sunday morning. The snake was what is lo cally known as a copper head mocca sin, and is one of the most dreaded and poisonous reptiles in this section. Dr. Caton rendered medical aid, and the tender age of the child made the case very serious and its condition was considered critical at last ac counts , . New Court House Plans. Salisbury, Special. A movement is on foot looking to the erection of a new court house for Rowan county to take the place of the old one which has been in constant use for nearly half a century. Plans for a hand some structure have been submitted to the County Commissioners, who are considering the expenditure of ?o0,000 to provide a suitable temple jusuce ior tfiis county. v. Sections of the State Awful Double Tragedy; Asheville, SpeciaL A terrible trA gedy was enacted here Wednesdajr morning shortly after 10 O'clock, when Robert ' Murdock; a. white man 45 years of age with a wife and sev eral children, shot to death Mrs; Laura Ray proprietress of the lf Suc cess Inn." a large boarding house of this city and then turned the weapon on himself and sent three bullets into his heart. The only motive that can be assigaed for the murderer's fearful act was a debt due him by Mrs. Ray and temporary insanity from the effects of drink. The double tragedy was committed in Mrs. Ray's" room in the Success Inn." Murdock fired eight shots in all, taking time after "send ing four bullets into Mrs. Ray to break the pistol, reload and fire four additional shots, three of which went into the madman 's own body. The wounds made by the three shots that Murdock fired at himself could almost be covered by a postage stamp Mrs. Ray was shot twice through the arm and three times through the body. The attending pkysiciai.? stated that Mrs. Murdock widow of the murderer and suicide was in a very serious condition as a result of shock incident to the horrible affair. Shot Wife in Cold Blood. Selma, Special. Ransom Godwin a well-to-do white farmer, 65 years old at his home five miles west of Kenly a small and remote place in Johnston County, shot and killed his wife without any real cause for the deed, so those who know the family say. She was his third wife he hav ing married her about four years ago. From the union two children survive their mother. Mrs. Godwin was 3-3 years of age. Shortly after the mar riage of the couple the husband began to drink and kept it up till his treat ment of his wife became extremely cruel. Tuesday night he came home drunk and beat Mrs. Godwin with a stick till she was nearly unconscious Wednesday night he came home again in the same condition. When 'he reached the house he called his wife to come to the door and just as she stepped into the light where he could get a plain view of her he shot her down in cold blood. Decide for Pilots. Wilmington, - Special. Judge J. Crawford Biggs, who presided at the late term of New Hanover Superior court, and who, the past week, heard the suit to test the constitutionality of the compulsory pilotage law, ap plying to the Cape Fear bar, which law was recently passed by the Gen eral Assembly after a fight on the floor of both houses, on Saturday ren dered bis decision, holding the law constitutional and valid This decis ion of course is in favor of the pilots and will be appealed to the Supreme jiourt of the State, and perhaps later to the Supreme Court of the United States. The findings of Judge Biggs are brief and are written after mature deliberation, knowing that in either event they would be reviewed by the highest court in the land. On every point the law is construed in favor of the pilots. ' : i -Money in Old Shoe. Salisbury, Special. While tearing down an old log house ron the iands recently purchased by Mr. L. Al Cline the St. Paul nefghborhood, three miles from this city, workmen found; $69 hid in a child's shoe underneath the large hearthstone. There were six ten dollar bills. How long the money had been there no one knows. The house is known to have been built more than sixty years ago. Charters Granted. The following charters have been issued: The First Congregational Church Company, at Mount Pleasant is also granted a charter, The F. W. Hunt Contracting Com pany, of Asheville. to do general con tracting "for railroad , construction, capital stock $20,000. " : r - ;. Ford and Johnson Company, High Point, furniture; authorized capital, $25,000, with $10,000 paid in; Steph en O'Donnell, Carl A. Cline, J. W. McDonald, incorporators. - .... Bridgeport Lumber Company, Cra ven , County, eapital $50,000 outhoriz ed, with $16,000 paid in; A. P. Bunt ing, H. M. Bunting and some Norfolk parties, incorporators. The Salisbury German. Coach-Hore Company to breed, buy and sell ive stock; capital stock $10,000; G. A. Fisher and others. . i ; ' Superintendent of County Schools Chosen. . Oxford, Special. At a meeting of the county board of education Tues day Mr. J. F- Webb was elected su perintendent of the county schools to succeed. Prof. Robert KittreIl. Mr. Webb graduated at the University of North Carolina and has held the po sition of principal of the Salisbury graded school and superintendent of Gibsonville graded school. SCHOOL APPROPRIATIONS New High School Law Going Into Force in the Several Counties. Raleighj Special. The State board of education has appropriated about $22,000 of the $45,000 set apart by the last Legislature for high schools in the various counties under the new system, now being inaugurated. The law gives $500 to a county with the one representative, $750 to one with two and $1,000 to one with three. Th.i apportionment is ,made by the board of the counties which have complied with the law and the requirements. The following counites each get ad allowance for one school : Alamance, Anderson,- Beaufort, Currituck, Du lin, Durham, Graaville, Jackson, Mc Dowell, Onslow, Person, Richmond, Scotland, Sampson, Surry, Swain, Un ion, Wilkes, Yadkin. The following get allowances for two schools: .Cho wan, Cabarrus, Catwba, Cleveland, Caldwell, Davie, Guilford, Harnett. Lincoln, Macon, Martin, Nash, Pender Pitt, Transylvania, Vance, Wan-en, Washington, Wilson. The following get three schools: Cumberland, For syth, Rockingham, Rowan and Gas ton. The counties of Robeson and Wake gets four each. Wake gets the largest allowance, $1,000. There were no applications from Mecklenburg and New Hanover. The State board of education grant 27 five-year certificates in various sections of the State and within the next few days will grant certificates to the teachers in the new high schools. A Timber Road. Raleigh, Special. rln an interview with Mr. William Moncure, so weTl known in railway circles and partic ularly for the last few -years as a builder of roads, he said that Henry E. Lichford, of Raleigh; John G. Shaw of Rockingham; D. E. Mclver and C. L. Chisholm of Sanford; him self and others are now arranging build the Bladen & Northern Railway from Stedman on the Atlantic Coast Line a distance of 20 miles. He says that it is to be a road to get at timber and that it will reach what is perhaps the finest body of standing pines now in North Carolina about 200,000,000 feet of which this company ownes 50,000,000. Much of it is long-leaf and considerable of it is short-leaf. The road is to be 20 miles long and work will be in progress within 60 days from this date. The road will be standard guage and will handle passenger:;. Finned Beneath Locomotive. New York, Special. Pinned be neath a locomotive, Charles S. Hud ley, a brakeman on the New York New Haven & Hartford Railroad suf fered the amputation of a leg before he could be extricated from under the engine, which had run over him in the railroad yards in the Bronx. The operation was performed by an ambulance surgeon without the use of anaesthetics and frequently Hudley gave suggestions to the surgeons dur ing the operation. It is said he may recover. Big Canning Output. Mount Airy, Spscial. Some 25 hands are now busy at the Mount Airy Canning Factory, putting up canned tomatoes. It is learned that at least 50,000 cans of tomatoes will be put up this season by this company This is a large out put for the first year, and serves to show what can be acompanied by the people of any North Carolina town if they but ex ert themselves a little. Bitten By a Spider. Greenville," Special. Bitten by large black spider early Friday morn ing Tilden Batson a laundryman of this city, was stricken terribly ill. Two physicians were summoned .be fore the man got relief from his suf ferings. " A New Industry. ' Greensboro, Special ,The Acme Match Company, with authorized "cap ital of $100,000 and $20,000 subscribe ed has been chartered o manufacture matches here. "A site for the factory has been selected near the eity limits and . work will begin within 30 dayo The incorporators are all from Winston-Salem and are J. Palmer, presi dent; Gus Palmer, vice president; L. A. Wade, secretary-treasurer. . Four Killed hy Train. Allenhurst, N. J., Special. Four persons employes of the Norwood House, were instantly killed when their carriage was run down by a Pennsylvania passenger flyer known as the Banker's Special, at the Cor lies Ave. - crossing here. There were Thomas Edwards, a driver and Lorec ta Gray, Jennie McDonald and Han nah Murphy, -waitresses. The Cor lies crossing is just south of the local station of the New York & Long Branch Railroad, and the station platform was crowded with summer visitors, who witnessed the accident. News of the Day. Senator Beveridge was married to Miss Katherine Eddy in Berlin. The Moorish troops at Casablanca have been disarmed and quiet hao been restored. - - - . . - A powerful cruiser fleet of three squadrons is already being organized in the Pacific. ; " Miss" Hay Bushnell 27 years old. of Winchester, Va., was killed in an au tomobile accident near Berryville,. POSTAL'S MEN QUIT Telegraphers in Chicago Walk Out By Hundreds BUSINESS SERIOUSLY CRIPPLED Resolution Adopted in Meeting of Strikers That Every " Operator in the City Holding a Card Shall, be Calied Out Postal Men Demand 25 Pef Cent Increase, 8-Hour Day and Recognition t,? Union , With Ulti mate Aim of Aiding Western Union Strikers; Chicago, Hi., Special The 500 op erators of the Postal Telegraph Com pany struck Friday night at 6 o 'dock. This, with the 1,100 men out from the offices of the Western Union throughout the city, makes 1,600 men now on strike in Chicago. At a meeting of the operators held in the afternoon a resolution was unanimously passed declaring that every operator in the city having a union card should be called out. ' A short time after the meeting had dissolved demands were presented to the officials of the Postal company asking for an increase of 25 per cent in wages, an 8-hour day and recognition of the union. If these were not passed upon the strike was to follow. It was the general feeling among the operators that the de mands could not be granted at once and the move was evidently intended to bring about the strike at the pres ent time in order to aid the West ern Union men if the demands were not granted. Under the working of the order all the operators working for brokers and commission houses will be called out in the morning and business generally will be badly handicapped. It was said by some of the opera tors who were present in the meeting that the intention of the union wa.? to cripple the telegraph facilitites of Chicago in every direction, and to do it so completely that public senti ment would be brought to bear heavi ly on the two telegraph companies, and in this manner force a settlement between them and the operators." The strike at the Chicago office of the Postal company was attended by no sijrn of disorder. When a whistle was blown, the operators rose from their keys with a cheer and talked out.. There was not the slightest evidence of ill-feeling on either sid The men after reaching the street gave . repeated cheers and then dis persed. The strike throughout the day has been marked by absence of trouble of any, kind." Chief of Police Ship py informed the leaders in. the after noon that he would not allow any picketing or violence, and he was in formed that none was intended, and that every effort would be made to keep the- men peaceable. The general situation throughout the West became more serious, as I the day lengthened. When the strike of the Postal em ployes, Chicago is left with about 33 commercial telegraphers, who are en deavoring to transmit the business of both telegraph companies, whereas under normal conditions f "" 1 .500 men are necessary to do the work it; Chicago, ' Other Western Union offices which became involved in the trouble to gether with the number of men who quit work are : , Salt Lake City, 36 7 Helena, 40; Kansas City, 330; Dallas, 105; Fort Worth, Tex., 40 ; Colorado Springs 10; Denver, S3; New Orleans, 60. Dr. J. F. Eusor Dead. Columbia, S. C, Special. Dr. J Ft Ensor, for the past ten years post master at Columbia, superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane during reconstruction, former ehief surveyor of the port of Charleston and for several years deputy collec tor of internal revenue, died at his home here Friday afternoon in his 72d year. He was a native of Mary land and served six years-in the Fed eral army in the war between the States as surgeon. He came here ii 1868 and served as medical purvey or for the Freedman's bureau in this State. . Georgia Capitalist Dead in Hotel. Atlanta, . Ga., Special. Halcombe Bacon, of Albany, Ga., aged 35, capi talist and prominent business man, was found dead at the Aragori Hotel here and on a table at his bedside were bottles partly filled, labelled chloral hydrate, bromide and bromi dia. Appearances indicate that he had . been dead manyhours. The re sult of the inquest has not been an nounced. Four Dead; Three -Badly Hurt. Dalton, Ga., Specal. Four persons are dead ""and three seriously injured as the result of a head-on collision be tween a southbound local fright and an extra freight train on : the Western & Atlantic Railroad, one mile north of this place at 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon, GREAT STRIKE SPREADING Officers of Telegraphers' Union Are. Planning to Carry Strike to All Farts of United States and Canada Some 4,000 Men Are Now Out in 50 Cities From Ohio to California Chicago, Special. With some 4, 000 telegraphers on strike in about 50 cities from Ohio to California, and encouraged by their success in hamp ering telegraph facilities of both com mercial telegraph companies in Chic ago, where all but leased wire men are out, officers of the Commercial Telegraphers ' Union are planning to carry the strike to all parts of the United States and Canada. Instructions were telegraphed by National Secretary Russell to union telegraphers in New York and other cities, where they are still at work, to "save their money and await or ders." A telegram was sent to President Small, of the Telegraphers' Union who is in San Francisco, urging him to take the first train to Chicago to look after the situation as it is the an nounced intention of the men to en gineer the strike from Chicago. : The telegraph companies are pre paring to meet the issue, and declare that they will fight to a finish. They declare they have been temporizing with the union for months and that they will hold no further negotiations with the representatives of the men on strike. Cots have been installed in the buildings of both companies in Chicago for the accommodation of strike-breakers and other prepara tions for a biter struggle are making. Cities Affected by Strike. According to information received in Chicago' Saturday night the points already affected outside of Chicago and the total of strikers are: Chicago Western Union 1,150 ; Postal, 500. Houston Western Union, 30; Post al . Kansas City Western Union, 330; Postal, 70. Topeka Western Union, 8; Post al, 5. ' Oklahoma 'City Western Union, 10; Postal, 10.- Puebk) Western Union, 8; Postal, New Orleans Western Union, 100; Postal, 60. Nashville Western Union, 7C; Postal, . Memphis Western Union, 60; Postal, 50. Dallas Western Union, 105; Post al, 40. Meridian Western Union, 10; Postal,- .' Jackson, Miss. Western Union, 15 Postal,; Minneapolis Western Union, 60; Postal, . - -Milwaukee Western Union, 30; Postal, 15. s St. Louis Western Union, 300; Postal, 100. Helena, Mont. Western Union, 40; Postal, . Colorado Springs Western Union, 10; Postal,. Denver -Western Union, 75; Post tal, Fort Worth, Tex. Western Union, 40; Postal, . El Paso Wrestern Union, 35; Post al, . St. Paul Western Union, 100 j Postal, . Los Angeles Western. Union, 50; Postal,. ' Fargo Western Union, 10; Postal, Omaha Western Union, 60; Post al, 25. , Sioux Citv Western Union, 25 : Postal, . Knoxville western Union, 55 ; Postal, . - Birminp-ham Western Union, 35; Postal, 65. Jackson, Miss. Western Union, r Postal, 5. Augusta Western Union, ; Post al, 25. "We are filling vacancies as rapidly as possible, ' ' said T. P. Cook, general superintendent of the Western Union and we are in better position than we expected to he. We will not deal with any representatives of the strik ers, as this company only treats with its own employes. When the men quit work, they ceased to be employes of the Western Union and our relations with them are at an end. There will be no union recognition." "Will you let President Gompers of the American Federation of La bor, should he come to Chicago and offer his services ? " Mr. Cook was' asked. "We will not," was the emphatic answer. , - W. I. Capen, superintendent of the Postal Telegraph Company in Chic ago, said his company was making better progress than he had antici pated. - "A number of our employes have already returned to work," he de clared and others have signified their intention of returning." National Secretary Russell, of the Telegraphers ' Union, said : "We are highly pleased with the situation, and no matter what sort of assertions the telegraph officers may make, the fact remains, they are not doing any business. They have a few chiefs and inexperienced telegraphers at work, but as far as the company's being able to handle : the public business" is concerned, they are merely trying to mislead the pub lic. - We know for an actual fact in Chicago there are not 50 operatois who are working for the commercial companies, where under normal con ditions the number amounts to 1550. We are in this fight to stay, and w. jnust have recognition, or our union might as well go out of business." The developments Sunday in the great strike of the . telegraphers weve not such -as to; - warrant optimism Practically all union .commercial op'eri1 ators are now out, and all the large cities are crippled. The special wire men and the press "operators are pre paring to join in 5 the walkout, and the tie up will likely be complete. Nothing seems to' point to any settle neut. ' -..i -1 1 ; Bomb Labratory in School. , 4 Moscow, By Cable. The police searched the imperial technical school and discovered the central revolution ary . laborattiy for manufacturing bombs of a new pattern and tremen dous explosive powder, regular sup plies of which were being shipped to various interior- points. The police seized a number of bombs, : 600 tim-3 fuse appliances, and some forbidden literature 'and arrested twenty maie nd female students of the schools. ' Liner City of Panama- Sinks the Steamer Alliance. Portland, Ore., Special. The Port land & San Francisco liner City of Panama enroute from Portland s with a full list of passengers, collided with ind sank the steamer Alliance from Joos bay, for Portland, with passen gers and freight. The c"olllision 6c urred in a fog near the mouth of the Villiamette river. The passengers of 'ie Alliance were brought to Port - nd. . . NEWSY GLEAMINGS. Estimates of damage caused by the cyclone at Kurrachl, India, are between $3,000,000 and $6,000,000. Canadian Government experts es timate that $64,000,000 worth of gold remains in the districts of the Yukon. , High Point, N. J., voted down Mr. Andrew Carnegie's proposition to give that town $15,000 for a public library. The farmers of the Southwest are making a strenuous, effort this year to combine in a demand for higher prices for their cotton. Cases of death from hunger are so common in New York City that only those attended by peculiar circum stances receive mention. . Julius Leek, a, New York City po liceman, swam two miles through the waters of Hell Gate, towing a boat which contained three men. The American ' delegates' were praised. at The Hague Peace Confer ence for taking the initiative in what was considered the first real work for peace. According to an expert, the State of Pennsylvania was charged $1,500, 000 too much for $2,000,000 worth of metal furnishings for the Capitol building. Ex-Judge Roger A. Pryor pointed out the possible public danger that lies in the present system empower ing a president to fill the Federal courts with his own judges. Judge Pryor contended that judges should be elected. Saying she wanted to see how it would seem to watch the blood stop in the ends of her fingers and the nails turn blue, Carrie Mattison, . a farmer's daughter, took strychnine and died within an hour in Sioux City, Iowa. - American tourists fill the hotels of Paris to overflowing. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Secretary Root is said to be the most Inaccessible man in Washing ton. Ferdinand of Bulgaria is the only sovereign in Europe who speaks Tide, dish. .. . . .-; The oldest member of the Institute of France is M. Rousse, who is in his ninety-first year. , ' Secretary Taft says that he is an ticipating with much pleasure his vis it to the Philippines. . : , Abbe Currant, in ! Paris, has hit upon the scheme of giving a lottery ticket to every person who attends mass, good for a drawing of provi sions. The King of Siam is a practical ex emplar of neptoism. His one broth er and twenty half-brothers fill all the important administrative and' ex. ecutive posts in the government. Nearly all the sovereigns of Eu rope have essayed painting as an amusement, and King Edward ot England and the Kaiser have been more than ordinarily successful with the brush. King Carlos of Portgu gal, however, is by universal consent the ablest artist among crowned heads. ' , 1 The statue of Parnell, .the Irish leader, has arrived at Liverpool from Rome; where It was cast from the model executed by Mr. Augustus St. Gaudens, H. F. R. A., the distin guished Irish-American sculptor, t be erected in Dublin's principal thor oughfare, O'Connell street better known as Sackville street. - Augustus St. Gaudens, noted sculp tor, who died in his home in Corn ish, N. H.i was born in Dublin, Ire land, March 1, 1848. He was brought to America by his parents when he wa3 only six weeks old, and aftei' a r..v ivwiiffoi-PTit education In - the primary schools of New York he was apprenticed to a cameo cutter at the age of thirteen. r - - IT TASTES JUST THE SAME. "You say you were in the saloon at the time of the assault referred to in the complaint?" asked the lawyer. "I was sir?' - : : "Did. , you take cognizance of v the barkeeper at the time?" "I don't know what he call it, but I took what the rest did." Lippincott's Magazine. - ft NAVAL MONSTER England Building Largest War Vessel Ever Planned UNITED STATES TO BETTER THAT Washington Naval Circles Excited Over Report That Keel is About " to be Laid Down New Ship to Be of No Less Than 30,000 Tons Dis- ' placement, and Design is Believed to. Include Many Novelties, Includ ing , Assembling of Three Guns in - Each Turret. 1 Washington, Special. Naval cir jles are agitated over a report which reaches Washington that the British idmiralty is about to lay down the fceei for a giant ship that will be 50 per cent greater in tonnage than the redoubtable ' ' Dreadnought. " It i lifficult' to secure ' any information respecting the plans for this ship, an.! t is said that the British govern-. nent s agian proceeding, as it did in the case of the Dreadnought, to build the vessel behind closed gates. Even tually, of course, the man character istics of war vessels built under these 3ohditions become known, but the British government feels that it Is amply ' repaid for the trouble it take? to build the ship secretly, by the fact that the British navy is thereby kept at least two years ahead of any other navy in point of design, a most valuable consideration ia these days, when a battleship is fre quently obsolete 'in the course of five years after going into commission. It is understood that the new ship is to be of no less than 30,000 ton? displacement, against 20,000 tons of the Dreadnought, but aside from the mere matter of superior size, the de sign is believed to include many nov elties some based on the experience of the Dreadnought. Such a one, for instance, is understood to be the con templated assembling of three guns in each turret, so that if the new shii: is equalled with the -six turrets, sha will carry no less than 18 guns in . her main battery. The calibre of tha guns, however, will, it is believed, re main at 12 inches, the present stand ard. i The report of the British plan has caused some of the bolder designers to proceed to greater length and to propose the laying down of a battle- -ship of 40,000 tons displacement, placing the American navy clearly in the lead. Naval designers are be lieved' to be willing to undertake the construction of' such a ship. It wouid cost no- less than $20100,000, but in view of the predaminanco it would give to America as a naval power it is ararued by the advocates of tue proposition that such a ship would be an economical investment by tend ing to ensure peace. 100 Additional Union Mechanics Join . Building Trades Strike. ; Washington, Special. Acting on orders 'from" the executive officers of their unions 100 more union mechan ics joined the building trades strike here Saturday. According to the la bor leaders every building' under con struction, where non-union mechanics were ' employed, is now tied up and nearly 300 men have quit work. The employers' association cliams that that it has been able to fill the places of all the strikers with the exception of bricklayers. The union men de clare that the strike will be extended next Monday. Lumber Company to Build Railroad. Mount Sterling, ' Ky Special, - Clearfield Lumber Company, qf Clear, field, ( Pa., closed a deal for 30,00Q acres of Walnut, oak and poplar tim ber lands in Morgan county for $100. 000. It is announced that the com--pany will extend a line of railroad 18 miles up Rush branch and will spend $1,000,000 in approvements. Officers Raid Counterfieter's Den. Uniontown, Pa., Special. In a raid on an alleged counterfeiter's den at Smithfield, several men were arrested a large number of moulds captured and a big quantity of spurious coins found concealed about the place. The men were all foreigners. It is claim ed that the' plant has been in opera tion several weeks, as the neighbo bee non a still hunt for the counter feit money. The authorities have been on a still hunt fo rthe counter feiters for some time and believe ail implicated have been captured. Martin Al Knapp Weds Miss Nellie Maynard Gardner. New York, Special. Martin A. Knapp, chairman of the inter-State commerce commission and Mrs. Nel lie Maynard Gardner, daughter of the late George L. Maynard, of Syracuse, were married at the Hotel Manhatttn, in this city in the presence of a few family friends by Bishop Edward C, Andrews,' of the Methodist Church, ,-ff r I