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PITTSBORO. CHATHAM COUNTY. N. C. THURSDAY. AUGUST 29. 1907. .NO. 3.
OF. tsn
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$ TAR HEEL TOPICS,
Items Gathered from All Sections of the State
FOUND WITH THROAT CUT.
Mangum Martin, Business Man of
Concord, Believed to Have Been
Murdered and a Pistol Placed in
His Hand Por Deception.
Concord, Special. A ghastly sight
was found Friday morning at 10:30
o'clock by Mary Stafford, a 12-year-old
negro girl, when she stumbled
over the dead body of Mangum Mar
tin, a well-known business men of
the western part of the city. Ilia
throat was cut and . four bullet
wounds were in his head. A pistoi
holding one cartridge with four
empty chambers was found lying
loosely in the left hand. He wras ly
ing on his back; his feet crossed with
his right hand on his right breast.
Martin left his store Thursday ev
ening about 8 o'clock, stating to a s,oa
that he would be back in a few min
utes, but did not return. Believing
that something had happened to their
father, his five sons began a search
for him, in connection with the police
authorities. The body was found
about 500 yards below the Southern
depot on the east side of the rail
road, within less than 300 feet of the
brick kilns at Brown's brick yard.
Mr. Martin left his place of business
vith' $400 on his person, more than
$100 being in gold eoin A small
pocket knife, a box of morphine tab
lets and 70 cents in money were
found on him when the examination
was made by Dr. Robert S. .Young
and Coroner George Richmond. It
is believed by a great many that
Martin was murdered for his. money,
and the pistol placed in his left
hand to make it appear that the man
committed suicide.
This is one of the most horrifying
crimes that has ever been committed
in this city, and the authorities are
already making efforts to ferret out
the mvsterv.
Slashed a Conductor.
Asheville, Special. Joseph TV.
Brunson, Jr., a railway conductor
running between Astieville and Col
umbia was badly gashed about the
head and face by a knife in the hands
of Ed Miller, a young white man of
this city. Brunson received five
gashes. He knocked Miller down and
took the knife from him. Miller was
arrested. The indications are that
Brunson will recover. The fight was
the result of an altercation, started
by Brunson asking why Miller did
not pay a debt he owned him, it is
said.
Big Industrial Corporation.
Asheville. Special. Tt was foamed
here on absolutely reliable inforam j
tion that a great commercial and in j
dustrial corporation is being formed .
in this section of North Carolina for '
the establishment and development i
of industrial enterprises. The capital
?toek of the corporation will be $5,
000,000. Of this amount more than
io and one-half million dollars have
already ben subscribed and it is be
lieved that the remainder of the five
million will be subscribed in six weeks
or two months.
Mother's Peculiar Death.
Asheville, Special. A sudden and
peculiar death occurred here Friday
afternoon. Mrs. Effie Ingle, while
attempting to administer a thrashing
to her 12-year-old son, was struck by
tlie boy, became overbalanced and,
falling to the floor, ruptured a valve
of the heart and died in a few sec
onds. I
! ' North State Notes.
State Treasurer Lacky says the cor
porations are paying the franchise
taxes very well. This is a dull month
in the treasury, as it is indeed in the
other State departments.
Governor Glenn offers a reward of
$50 for Andrew Jones who is charged
with shooting Charles Hojmes in
Hertford county July 23d dangerous
ly injuring him.
The premium list of the forty-seventh
annual State fair October 14th
to 19th is -issued. E. L. Daughtridge
is president of the North Carolina
Agricultural Society which holds
these fairs which rank among the
most successful in the entire South.
The board of agriculture this year al
lows $750 for special premiums for
field ayd garden crops and 14 special
crops have been selected all staple
ones; in each case the first premium
is$25; the second $15 and the thirl
o. There will also be a set of valu
able premiums for truck crops. One
of the features of the fair will be the
speech by Williama Jennings Bryan
llmrsday, October 17th. -
Charters are granted to the Rock,
.ingham Motor Company, at Rock,
ingham, to own and opearte automo
biles ,repair the same, etc., $10,000
capital stock, W.N. Everett and oth
ers stockholders; the Lenoir Hard
ware & Furniture Co at Lenoir, to
3o a wholesale business, capital $125,
000 W. J. Lenoir and others stock
holders; the Wilson Marine Grocer"
Company, Wilmington, wholesale
grocers, canncrs, etc., capital $25,000.
Revenue Officer Shot.
North .Wilkesboro, Special. In a
raid up in the Reddies river- country
on the Wilkesboro and Jefferson turn
pike Revenue Officer John T. Shep
herd was hot and painfully though
not seriously wounded. Offiecr Shep
herd with several other officers, were
on their way , tp cut up a blockade
still which had been located not far
off the turnpike. Shepherd was in a
buggy some distance ahead of the
other officers and on arriving in the
neighborhood of the still, he stopped
to wait for them. He had got out o
the buggy and was sitting on. the
fence beside the road when two un
known men, led by a man named Mil
ler, came across the field and sud
denly fired at him twice with a shot
gun, knocking him from the fence,
several No. 6 shot struck him in the
head and others scattered all over his
body. His team, standing in the road
below, was either struck by some shot
or frightened by the noise and ran
off, tearing up the buggj7. Officer
Shepherd recovered himself in tim
to fire several times at his assailant
who were running back across the
field, but they escaped, and by the
time the other officers came up the
still and all fixtsrueerus en-ofifiKPa
still and all fixtures had been carried
away. Mr. Shepherd was brought
here his wounds were dressed and he
is now resting as comfostably as could
be expected. Miller and the men who
were with him when the shooting took
place have not yet been captured.
Herrmit's Hidden Money.
Asheville, Special. The executor
of the estate of the late William Job
Cleveland, the "hermit," of Swan
nanoa township near Asheville, who
committed suicide reecntly at the age
of SG years, has filed with the clerk
of the court an inventory of the es
tate. It is found that Cleveland left
nearly one thousand dollars, all of
which Avas found buried about tha
premises; also the farm in Swannanoa
and 879 shares of stock in concerns
and corporations in Georgia, Alaba
ma, New Jersey and North Dakota.
The par value of all the stock I ;
more than ten thousand dollars. Al
though it has not yet been determined
just what market value of the hold
ings will be. The old "hermit" live!
a beggarly life at his river home, sub
sisting for the most part on canned
goods. He was generally regarded
as nuecr and the finding of nearly one
thousand dollars' secreted on the pre
mises causes no surprise. It is be
lieved that there is still other money
hid about tbe place.
A Human Tigress.
New Bern, Special. News comes
from Jones Bay or Hobuckcn, Pamli
co county, of the brutal murder of
two little negro children, by an infur
ated woman. Saturday the two child
ren, whose names were not learned
were playing before the door of Bar
bara Tarum who lived near their own
when the woman came out and order
ed them to leave. The children didn'l
leave at once, which made the woman
mad, and she ran into the house and
caught up a gun and deliberately
shot them both down as they were
running away. One of the childre 1
lived about four hours after the
shooting and died. The other still
had life at last accounts but is not
expected to recover. The woman who
is a negro was soon arrested and car
ried t9 iBaj7boro where . she is now
lodged in jail.
Negro is Hanged for Criminal Assault
Asheville, . Special. James Rucker
' a negro, was hanged here in jail
( shortly after noon Wednesday. Ruek
' er Avas convicted of criminal assault
on his step-daughter. It is said thai
this is the first time in the history of
this State that a' negro has been hang-
ed for such a crime against one. of
I his own race. ! " ' ' " ,
Bar-Keeper. Uses Monkey Wrench
Asheville, Special A .nasty affray
occurred here when Wiley P. Black, a
local bar-keeper inflicted serious in
juries with a monkey wrench on one
J. C. Wallace, a well-known black
Smith of this city. Wallace was pret
ty badly beaten up. The trouble
grew out of a debt which it is allegcJ
Black owed Wallace. Wallace had
done some work, it is said, on one
of Black's carriages when the latter
sent for the vehicle and Wallace sent
back word that the money for the
repairs also be sent. The trouble re
sulted from this and a wordy battle.
Brains Kicked Out.
Lenoir, Special, Mr. James Hick
erson was seriously and most proba
bly fatally kicked by a mule late Fri
day evening near Patterson. The
mule kicked him on the head and
quite a little of the brain was knock
ed out. He is still living but uncon
scious. He has charge of twenty oc
more teams beloneing to J. M. Barn
hardt, which haul lumber.
HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS
List of Tiiose Recently Licensed By
the State Superintendent.
The State Superintendent of Pub
lic instruction announced the names
of those who have been issued certifi
cates as teachers in the new rural
high schools. These have qualified
themselves as principles of such
schools. One of the particular re
quirments for the latter position Ls
the knowledge of Latin and Greek
The list follows: C. B. Alexander,
Mattehws; Fred Archer, Chapel Hill;
B. W. Allen, Franklintonj W. II. Al
bright, Liberty .W. F, Alien, South
ern Pines; W. J. Beald, Pendleton;
W. T. R. Bell, RutherfordtoU; N. B.
Clayton, Chapel Hill; Miss Laura V.
Cox, Winterville; Frank Culbreathr
Fayetteville Mark B. Clegg, Crousc;
J. E. Crutchfieid, Lillington Miss
Emma Culbreath, Clinton J E P. Dix
on, Liberty; George C. Davidson,
Fayetteville j J. M. Downum, Gaston
ia; J. E. Br Davis, Pine Level; J. B.
Everett, Robertsonville ; H. W. Ear
ley, Aulander; B. L. Ellis, Clinton;
W. R. Freman, Dobson; G. M. Guth
rie, Englehardt; M. S. Giles, Fouta
Flora; R. C. Holton, Atlantic; L. L.
Hargrave, Lumber Bridge; Jackson
Hamilton, Marshville; George W
Holmes, Henderson; John L. Harris,
Lenoir; Holand Holton, Durham; L.
R. Hoffman, Lowel; Miss Pearl John
son, Pittsboro; T. H. King, LaGrangc;
Alexander II. Koonee, Roper; Miss
Meter S. Liles, T.arboro; S. T. Lilc.;,
Wiliamstoil ; S. x G. Lindsay, Dallas ;
Mh,s Elenor D. Mundy, Barboursville :
E. L. Middleton, Gary; M. F. Mc
Canness, Chapel Hill; II. C. Marshal,
Bryson City; Harlle McCall,- Flor
ence; K. H. Melntyre, Holly Springs;
Charles E. 'McCanness, Trinity ; Miss
Ada D. Michell, Lexington; Misj
Clara M. Pegg, Madison; Miss Mar
H. Phelps, Scotland Neck; Luther
B. Pendergrass, Durham; Miss Susan
B. Kenny, Raleigh ; E. M. Rawlins,
Raleigh; William Robinson, Wilming
ton ; II. E. Riggs, Dobson ; A. C. Sher
rill, Stanley; A. B. Staley, Pittsboro;
Preston Stamps, Parkton; J. I. Sing
letary, Blader.boro; M. Shepard, Or
rum; E. G. Settlemvre, Granite Falls;
W. B. Shinn, Ganite Quarry; B. I
Cary, Warsaw; James Templeton,
Carv, Warsaw: W. W. Woodhous.;.
Whiteoak; A. V. Wooseley, Pleasant
Garden; L. L. White, Jamestown; G.
B. -Wetmore, Woodleaf; E. L. Wag
oner, Whitehead ; A. P. Whizenhunt
memory.
Meeting of Fruit Growers.
Wilmington, Special. The eleventh
annual meeting of the East Carolina
Truck and Fruit Growers Association
was held Wednesday afternoon and
was well attended. President Wm.
E. Springer presided and all the of
ficers were present except Vice Presi
dent J. A. Brown. The important
business transacted was providing
means for carrying on the work of
the association in view of the de
struction of the machinery for colect
ing the 1 cent per crate tax on ber
ries by Hepburn bill, and the fail
ure of the bill providing this machin
ery before the late sessiou of the
General Assembly.
Increasing Electric Power.
Mount Airy, Special. The city au
thorities arc increasing the elctric
power at Buck Shoal power plant by
putting in another big wheel. This
increase of power will be of great
benefit to the city as the lights are
not what the business men and resi
dents are paying for. But these diffi
culties will be out of the way soon
and the city will then be the best
lighted place in the western part of
the State.
New Enterprises.
Charters are granted the Bank of
Grover, Cleveland county, capital
stock $10,000 ; the Universal Wire
Box Company, Durham, $100,000,
C O. Ullman, of Chicago and others
stockholders; Eagle Rock Manufac
turing Company, at place of that
name,5 Wake count;$25,000 ; Carolina
Amusement Company, Bryson City,
to operate a skating rink, etc., $10
000. -
Items of State Interest.
There are 99 cases on the docket of
Durham County Superior Court for
violations of the prohibition law.
P. M. Brown, of Charlotte, has
bought the Raleigh Acadaemy of
Music, paying $36,000 for it.
Mooresville 's new three-story-public
school building was completed last
Aveek.
In a test case in Greensboro the S,
new laAv requiring thJ payment of
board bills was applied. Formerly
one could not force payment of a
board bill, but noAV colettion can be
made legally.
The corporation commission will
bear Friday the matter of a union
depot at Lincolntou, the Carolina an..
Northwestern and the Seaboard Air
Line being the railways interested.
The report of the State Labor Com
missioner for last year is bing issu
ed. While thelegislatui'e"Avas in ses
sion a summary of the more impor
tant features -of the report Avas made
for the use of members of that body
and this was quite Avidely circulated.
TO BE INVESTIGATED
-
Matter of Canal Appropriation
to Be Gone Over
CONGRESSMEN TO .VISIT CANAL
Committee Having in Charge the Sun
dry Civil Appropriations Expects
By Personal Inspection and a
Heart To Heart Conference With
Those in Charge of the Work .to Be
Able to See the Justness of the Ap
propriations Asked.
Washington, Special. The fxfimV
nation on the ground of the estimated
for the appropriations for Continu
ing work on the Panama canal sub
mitted by Secretaary Taft for" the fis
cal year i907 is to be made by mem
bers of the next Congress, who will
have in charge the preparation" of the
sundry civil bill, in which the appro
priation for the canal is incorporated j
The proposed visit is the outcome of
a suggestion from . Representative"
James A. Tawney, of Minnesota,
chairman of the appropriations com
jittee in the last Congress, who was
at the isthmus following adjournment
last March. He believes it will be t
the best interests of the. services a
well as to those directdhr and in
directly in charge of the administra
tion of the force at work jf the mem
bers of the appropriations commit
tee having in charge the preparation
of fthe sundry civil bill go to tha
isthmus with the estimates for the
next fiscal year and consider them
carefull' with the officials having su
pervision of expenditures for all
kinds of work being done. The sug
gestion has met with a hearty re
sponse from those identified with the
commission's work who believe that
a great deal of good will result frorl
a heart-to-heart talk between the
Congressmen, who prepare the aj
propriation and the officials who
spend it, and that it will clear away
in advance any misapprehension or
misunderstandings that may exist as
to the justness and propriety of al
lotting the money estimated to le
neeessaray for the year's work.
Of particular impoi-tance is the
proposed visit regarded at the present
time when the question is now -before
the President whether the commission
can lawfully expend during the pres
ent fiscal year any more money than
was specifically appropriated, Colonel
Goethals having reported to the au
thorities in Washington that the work
has progressed so rapidly Jhata it will
be in the interest of true economy to
exceed that amount to the extent of
$3,000,000 and by reason of which he
thinks a year's time will be saved in
the completion of the great waterway.
Officials here think Congress may, as
a result of the observations of the
members of the appropriations' com
mittee who go to the isthmus, see fit
to provide legislation under which
work may proceed - regardless of the
appropriations, if this authority does
not already exist. The commiee
will leave New York November 5th
and return to Washington in time for
the opening of Congress in December.
Material for Manufacture of Dyna
mite in Tailor's Possession.
Worchester, Miss, Special. The
police of this city upon receipt of a
telegram from Chief Inspector Mc
Caff erty, of New York, searched the
premises of Sarias Restigian a tailoi
here and seized a case of material
used in the manufacture of dynamite.
Restigian is a friend of. Father Mar-
toogessian tho was arrested in New
York some ime ego in connection
with an Arreoruan murder. Resti
gian toldnihe police that the box was
sent to him by some unknown person
in New.York a long t'o ago.
$
Drivers of Meat Strike.
New York, Special. No meat has
been delivered since midnight by the
jobberst to the retail butchers in the
city, owing to a strike or drivers,
which took . place Friday afternoon
The men demanded higher wages and
less hours. The meat men say there
will be a' famine, in New York within
twenty-four hours unless the ' strike
is settled. -'
Attempt to Blow Up Train.
Cripple Creek,. Col., Special. An
attempt was made to blow up the in
coming short line passenger train
with dynamite at St. Petersdome,
midAvay betAveen Cripple Creek and
Colorado Springs. Every window in
the last car was broken and M. J.
McCarthy, of Tctor, deputy State
mine inspector had bis hand cut. A
number of women fainted. A similar
attempt was made to blow up the
same train at Duffield. The dynamit
ers escaped. ,
Interest on New York Bond Raised
Half a Cent.
New York, Special Owing to the
present stringency in the money mar
ket the City of New York was obliged
to raise the rate of interest on bonds
it now has for sale from 4 to 4 1-2
per cent. The mayor issued an, order
to the heads of all city departments
to limit the expenditures of (their
departments to the lowest possible
point consistent with efficient admin
istration. .
A VIGOROUS SPEECH i
President Roosevelt Orator at
Laying of Cornerstone
OF A MONUMENT TO PURITANS
Addresses 10,000 People at Pfovince
town, Eass., On Matters of Nation
al Importance The Occasion the
Laying of the Corner Stone of the
Pilgrims' Memorial Monument
Advocates a National Incorporation
Law. .-
' Provincetown, Mass., Special The
laying of the cornerstone of the Cape
Cod Pilgrims memorial monument
here Thursday gave President Roose
velt his first opportunity of the sum
mer to break silence upon public
questions and the forty-minute
speech Avhich he delivered from a
platform on top of ToAvn Hill was
one ofv igor and directness upon
matters of national importance. The
feature of his address was his advo
cacy of a national incorporation . hiw
and his stand in relation to violators
of the laAA', especially corporations.
With emphasis he declared that thi
administration Avould not waver in
its determination "to punish cer
tain malefactors of great wealth.' '
Continuing, he said :
"There will be no change in. the
policy we have steadily pursued; no
let up in the effort to secure the hon
est observance of the laAv, for I re
gard this contest as one to determioie
who shall rule this government the
representatives or a feAV ruthless and
determined men whose wealth makes
them particularly formidable because
they hide behind the breastworks of
corporate organizations." The Presi
dent declared that j;he government
would undertake no action of a vin
dictive type, and above all no action
which would inflict great or un
merited suffering- upon innocent
stockholders and upon the public as
a whole. He said that the govern
ment's policy in its ultimate analysis
meant . ' ' a healthy ' jind prosperous
transportation of the business activi
ties of honest business men and hon
est corporations. " .
At one" point President RooseAelt
departed for a moment from his ad
dress as originally prepared to re
mark: "All that I have said as to desir
able and undesirable citizens z-eiaains
tnie."
Ten thousand persons were crowd
ed into the little town and at least
one-thirTt of them heard the PresJ
dent's remarks. At the conclusion of
the programme President Roosevelt
was driven to the wharf where he
boarded the Mayflower, which sailed
at 4 o'clock on the return to Oyster
Bay. t
Among other striking - utterances
of the President were the following:
"We have traveled far since his
day. That liberty of conscience
which he demanded, for himself, we
now realize must be as freely accord
ed to others as it is resolutely insist
ed upon for ourselves. The splendid
qualities which he left to his children,
we other Americans who are not of
Puritan blood also claim as our heri
tage. You sons of the Puritans, and
we, who are descended from races
whom the Puritans would have deem
ed alien we are all Americans to
gether. We all feel the same pride
in the genesis, in the history, of our
people; and therefore this shrine. pf
Puritanism is one at which we all
gather to pay homage, no matter
from what country our ancestors
sprang.
"We have gained some things that
the Puritan had not we of this gen
eration, we of the twentieth century,
here in. this great republic; but wa
are also in danger of losing certain
things .which the Puritan had aud
which we can by no manner of means
afford to lose. We have gained a jov
which it is a good thing for everj
people to have and to develop. Let u
see to it that we do not lose Avhat is
more important still ; that we do not
lose the Puritan's iron sense of duty,
his unbending, unflinching will to do
the right as it was giren him to see
the right.' It is a good thing that life
should gain in sweetness, but" . onl.,
provided that it does not lose in
strength. Ease and rest and pleasure
are good things, but only if they
come as the reAvard of work well
done, of a good fight well won, of
strong effort resolutely made and
crowned by high achievement. The
life of mere pleasure, of mere effort
less ease, is as ignoble for a nation as
for an individual.
."The Puritan owned his extraor
dinary success in subduing this con
tinent and making it the foundation
for a social life of ordered liberty
primarily to the" fact that he combin
ed in a very remarkable degress both
of individual self-help, and the power
of acting in pombination with his fel
lows; and that furthermore bo joined
to a high heart that shrewd eommov
sense which eaves a man from tht
besetting sins. of the visionary and
the doctrinaire. He was stout heart
ed and hard headed. He had loftA
purposes, but be had practical good
sense, too. ' He could hold his own
in the rough workaday world without
clamorous insistance upon being help
ed "by others, and yet he could .com
bine with others' whenever it became
necessary to do a job which could not
be as well done by any one man indi
vidually. " '
'.'These were the qualities which" Cu
abled him to do his work, and they
are the very qualities which we must
show in doing our work toniay.
There is ho Use in our coming here te
pay homage to the men who founded
this nation unless we first of all come
in the spirit of trying to do our work
to-day as they did their work in the
yesterdays that have vanished. The
problems shift from generation to
generation, but the spirit in which
they must be approached, if the are
to be successfully solved, remains ev
er, the same." : .
The President sftoke of the trusts,
i lie- unsafe accumulations of wealth,
and he risrht and the wrong way of
curbing their power. He also spoke ;
of needed legislation and thp duties
of the hour, laying stress upon the
duty oil being safo and conservative
in all things. In closing he saia :
"But while we can accomplish
something by legislation, legislation
can never be more than a part, and
often no more than a small part, in
the general scheme of moral progress ;
and crude or vindictive legislation
may at any time bring' such progress
to a halt. Certain socialistic leaders
propose to redistribute the world's
goods by refusing to thrift and energy
and industry their proper superior
ity over folly and idleness and sullen
envy. Such legislation would mere
ly, in the words of the president of
Columbia University, "wreck the
world's efficiency for the purpose of
redistributing the world's discon
ten. ' ' We should all of us Avork heart
and soul for the real and permanent
betterment which will lift, our demo
cratic civilization to a higher level
of safety and usefulness. Such bet
terment can come only by the slow,
steady growth of the spirit which
metes a generous, but not a sentimen
tal, justice to each man on his merits
as a man, and which recognizes the
fact that the highest and deepest
happiness for the individual lies not
in selfishness but in service."
Will Be No Tariff Revision.
Washington, D. C, Special. -There
will be no- revision of tariff in the
next Congress, said Chairman Payne
of the Ways and Means Committee
of the House." "In my opinion, there
is a tacit agreement among the. Re
publicans that it Avould be unwise to
agitate revision on the eve of a presi
dential election, I don't anticipate
any depression in the industries of
our country and I am certainly not
at all Worried by the so-called finan
cial panic."
On Track Drunk; Is Killed.
Kinston. Soecial. Eastbound pas
senger tarin No. 4 on the Norfolk &
Southern ran over and killed a white
man named Lof tin Barfield Friday
afternoon shortly after leaving La
Grange. Barfield 's . home is at Le
noir Institute, this county. He was
drunk and sitting on the track. His
neek Avas broken and one lew cut olf.
He Avas brought to this city and turn
ed oAerto undertakers. The remains
Avill be sent to his family at Lenoir
Institute for burial.
NEWSV GLKANINGS.
Englaud Is "pageant mad."
Pittsburg now claims a population
Of 600,000;--:.....
London is full of Americans unable
to obtain passage home in overcrowd
ed liners.
The French Government absolutely
opposes the sending of a large army
to Morocco.
Five cases of bubonic plague, four
of which were fatal, were reported at
San Francisco.
Experts on animal life gathered
for the international zoological con
gress in Boston.
Americans touring in Europe find
it cheaper to rent automobiles abroad
than to take their own.
The first conviction under the Mis-
Kouri eight-hour telegraphic law was
round against the Burlington roarl.
Secretary Taft says the efficient
administration of the law is the most
important problem before the Amer
ican people.
Advices received in Washington,
D. C, showed that Russia is chang
ing her military base in Siberia from
Harbin to Irkutsk.
King Leopold has objected to the
selection of .members of the Belgian
Parliament to discuss with Congo
delegates the treaty of transfer.
The International Socialist Con
gress opened in Stuttgart, more than
900 delegates, representing twenty-
five nationalities, being present.
Henry C. Ide. former Governor of
the Philippines, expressed the opinion
in an interview that the newly elected
Assembly for the islands would prove
a success. .
Advices from St; Petersburg say
that the rush of immigrants to Sibe
ria is so great that all the available
homestead lots have been exhausted
and the authorities are unable to dis
tribute recent arrivals.
CONGRATULATIONS MADE EASY.
It is said that in. the late '70s and
early '80s, when the late Lord Fal
mouth's colors were well nigh invinc
ible on the turf, Lord Rosebery had
a hundred forms printed, beginning,
"My dear Falmouth, allow me once
again to congratulate you on the buc
ceea cf your horse 7- In another
classic race," etc. He used to fill In
these printed forms with the animal's
name and that of the race.
After Lord Rosebery's Kermesse had
beaten Lord Falmouth's own filly in
the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster,
Lord' Falmouth retaliated and Bent
one cf tnese forms back again with
"Rosebery" substituted for "Fal
mouth." and Kermesse for the horse
that had been forwarded t him.
B&ily's Magazine,
FATAL MISTAKE
Revenue Officers Shoot Each
Other for Blockaders
FOUR WOUNDED: ONE MAY DIE
Three Others Wounded in Unfortun
ate Encounter Near Chapel Hill
Each Party Mistook the Other for
Blockaders and Got v Busy With
Winchesters Deputy Collector
"Jordan pf Raleigh, Deperately
Wounded. .
Greensboro, N. C, Special. Twoi
raiding parties composed of revenue
officers and poesemen, neither know
ing that the other party was compos
ed of their friends, met while search
ing for an illicit distillery near
Chapel Hill at 2 o'clock Friday morn- .
ing and as a result of their mistake
engaged in a miniature "battle, in
which four were seriously injured .
two probably fatally. The two who
are in the most serious coriflition are
Deputy Marshal Jordan and Posse
man Banks, Deputy Collector Hend
ricks who was in charge of one party
was shot in the hip. He was brought
here Friday evening. The name of
the other man injured was not ob
tained. Two raiding parties, one from Ra
leigh and the other from Durham,
having received information that au .
illicit distillery was in operation
about five miles from Chapel Hill, in
Orange county, started out and reach
ed the distillery at almost the same
time. The party first arriving was
busy cutting up the still when the
other party- arrived. The party in
the still was taken by "surprise and
the officers opened fire on the others,
thinking that they were the moon
shiners Avho had been operating the
illicit distillery.
There were just three men in each
party, and all began shooting. Four
of the six men were struck by one or
more of the many shots that were ex-
changed. After the firing had ceased
the men found to their surprise that
no moonshiners were near and that
they had been fighting their friends.
The Avounded ones Avere removed to
a farm house and physicians called
in from Chapel Hill and Durham.
Neither party knew that the other
Avas out, but were aAvare that moon
shiners in that part of the country
had given the officers much trouble.
They were not surpised Avhen they
Avere fired upon and both . sides felt
sufe that they were fighting the hardy
men of the country.
Additional Details Reported Prom
Durham.
Durham, N. C, Special. At at late
hour Friday night all the men wound
ed in the raid of a still near Chapei
Hill were doing well and are expect
ed to recover. The wounded are as
follows:
Robert Hendricks, of Greensboro,
deputy collector, Avounded in hip,
this being a flesh wound and not
serious. "
J. B. Jordan, of Tlaryj r -deputy, mar-
shfll. wounded thrnunyh side of stom
A
ach and in the hip. His wounds seri- C
ous but not thought fatal.
. T. E. Rigsbee, this city, posseman,
shot through arm, not serious.
John R. Banks, Raleigh, posseman.
bone in leg below knee crushed by
bullet nad it may be necessary to
amputate leg. That has not yet been
decided.
The only two of the six officers
who escaped without being Avounded
are D. C Downing, deputy collector,
of Raleigh, and A. L. Pendergrass.
posseman of this city.
Will Demand the Books. '"
New York, Special. Defined by
the officials of the Iuterborough Met
ropolitan Company, William M. Ir
vins inquisitor for tbe Public Service
Committee will appeal to the courts
for ' an order requiring the corpora
tion to submit its books for examina
tion Attorney CraA'ath for the Bel-
mont-Ryan concern says the Inter
borough is not a railway but is a
holding company, and that the com
mittee has no light to demand the
books. Irvins admits that the failure
to get the books hampers him in his
efforts to get the investigation tho
concern's condition.
British Steamer Glenway Rammed.
Norfolk, Va., Special. The Mer
chants & Miners' Transportation
Company's steamer Lexington, bound
from Norfolk for Savannah, Ga., ram
med the British steamer Glenway
while the latter was lying off the
Lamberts Point cod piers awaiting
a berth to take bunker coal. Tbo
Lexington apparently uninjured pro
ceeded. The Glenwev's port bow was
injured.
Five Men Entombed.
WilkesbarrePa., Special. Five
men were entombed by a fall of rock
in No. 14 tunnel of the mine at Port
Blancard, near here, operated by the
Erie Coal Company- Michael Naugh
ten, one of the men caught in the fall
after several hours effort, crawled
from under the debris badly injured.
He reported that four other men were
caught in the fall.
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