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sac cbatbam TRccorb. Zbc (tbatbam "Recc-rfc. L a. LONDON RATES OF ADVERTISING; EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. One Square, one Insertion $!. One Square two insertions.... a. 5 One Square, one month........ a. 09 fERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: 51.50 Per Year For Larger Advertise ments Liberal Contracts will be made. ICTLY IN ADVANCE VOL. XXX. PTTTSP,m?n r.TTATTTAM nniTMTV N P. WHTiOTcnAV T7T7Tt rr a t v oc mno kt on rAR ffL TOPICS r 9 ft Items Gathered from AH lava are Charged with Shocking 1 Crime. J Charlotte, Special A special from alarion, N. C, says: "Deputy Sheriff rox has just reached here with 14 Slav, who are charged with a shock w murder. Fifteen of these foreigu irs come to camp No. 5 on the South fc Western railroad a year ago and ave been at work there ever since. eeordiu-: to the officer's story the Lea ouarreled among themselves jTbursd.iy, the brunt 01 the war of fwords falling upon the member of the little ci lony who had been serving as ;ook. i he leli upon the uniortu aa'ue to that night and securing him 1 1 l... 1,1 LI j. Wlta VeL'i.- iiitr.y icu mm iu a spui ill the f 01 est a mile from the camp. There they bound the cook hand and foot and placing him in an upright . ' i il. . T l All 1 'position against tne ena 01 a nil, tne crowd sappea on a lew paces ana De oan si eating, using the cook as a "arset. The unfortunate man was riddled with bullets. After satisfy- 11.:.. 1, j in2j ineir luiist iui uiuuu me inuiuei- ers du? a shallow trench in the fill nd buried their victim. The hastily provided grave and the blood on the Ground led to the discovery of the rime by a foreman. The dead man was known to have had $100 in cash, but no money was found on him. Not one of the prisoners speaks English and though court is sonvened, the -rial can not be held until an inter preter is secured." The Birth of a New County. Sanford, Special. Pursuant to tho statute creating Lee county as amended by the special session of the General Assembly tho officers quaii- Ined and assumed charge of the coun ty affairs Monday. The board of com missioners was organized by electing J. J. Edwards, of Lemon Springs, chairman. Senator A. F. Seawell was choien county attorney and Dr. J. P. Monroe, health officer. No special exercises marked the event, but a considerable crowd from all parts of the county assembled at the Mc Keithen Building to be piesent at the birth of the new county, the State's ninetv-eisrth. The oaths were administered by W. S. Weatherspoon, Esq. The officers are as follows: T. M. Campbell, clerk of Superior Court; T. M. Cross, reg- ster of deeds; B. C. Pearce, treasur er; J. C Watson, sheriff; Dr. H. B. Hoyle. coroner; TV. T. Temple, sur veyor; J. J. Edwards, John R. Jones, J. Fletcher Jones, J. L. Godfrey, J. P. Womble. commissioners. Negro Flung Under Train. Salisbury, Special. Monday about 12:30 Will Carr, colored, who says he resides at 105 South . Craig street, this city, tried to board No. 33 as it was passing south under Fish er street bridge. The negro missod his jump and was flung under one of the coaches. Both feet were badly mangled and there appears little hope of savin? either of them. A large crowd gathered at the scene, but Carr was socn tarried to the baggage room where Dr. Whitehead saw him. The doctor ordered his immediate removal to the sanatorium. Postmaster at Newton. Newton. Special. After several months of waiting Dr. W. H. Ever- tardt received notification of the con firmation of his appointment as post master of Newton. He has been busy filling out his bond, whieh is signed by many 0f the leading Democrats of this place., thus testifying to the high esteem in which he is held by .tl parties. Pcstofaco is Broken Into. Salisbury, Special. The postoffice fit Granite Quarry was broken into Wednesday night and a quanity of stamps taken. Postmaster Brown has a mercantile establishment in con nection with the postoffice and a lot of cheap jewerly is missing. The safe ffas roikd to the lot in the rear of the store, but not opened. Suspic ion points to two strange negroes Much Valuable Property Lost. High Point, Special. In the burn of the Southern Car Company much valuable property in the way f patterns and blue prints were lost, the work of the past sixteen years, hile the company will get in shape to turn out work in the next month or so it will take several years to get back the patterns and other val uable plates which were destroyed. r- Briggs, the secretary and treas urer, said it was a big undertaking, but the difficulties would be sur mounted in time. Kingston State Bank to Become a National Institution. Kinston, Spacial. Monday after Doon a special meeting of stockhold ers of the Citizen's Bank was held. 4 dividend of 50 per cent. payable either in cash or stock, was declared. It was also decided to increase tho Pital stock of the bank from $50, 000 to $100,000 and convert it into a Rational bank. The First National Bank will be its name. Sections of the f Mr. Carr Is Continued. Raleigh, Special The executive committee of the board of agricul ture met at the Agricultural Depart ment to consider the matter of the secretaryship made vacant by the death of Thomas K. Bruner. Mr. Bruner has been absent abroad or sick since last June' and Mr. Elias Carr has been looking after his work. The executive committee considered the whole matter of how it was best to do this work which is so important and which, owing to Mr. Bruner 's ab sence and illness, could not, of course, receive his own attention. His desk and chair were draped in mourning. The committee adopted a resolution regarding its late secretary, in which, after setting forth its regrets at his death in the midst of his splendid work for the State, it says it desires to put on record its very high ap preciation of him as a lover of hia State and an unselfish worker in ad vancing the interests of North Car olina, and for his genial, obliging and generous companioship. The resolu tions also express sympathy with Mr. Bruner ' family. Medical Society Adjourns. Charlotte, Special. The sessions of the Tri-State Medical Society closed here on Thursday, the following offi cers being elected for the year : President Dr. Albert Anderson, Raleigh. First vice-president, Dr. R. C. Bry an, Richmond, Va. Second vice president, Dr. J. E. Stokes, Salisbury. Third vice president, Dr. W. P. Timmerman, Batesburg, S. C. Secretary-Treasurer Dr. J. How ell Way, Waynesville. New members of judicial council, Drs. E. G. Williams, Richmond : A. J. Crowell, Charlotte, and A. E. Baker, "il 1 a s iauriescun, o. j. The secretary reported that 57 new members had applied for member ; ship in the Tri-State Medical Society, j they being members of the affiliated ! State societies, and on motion thesti were received into tuu memDersnip in the Tri-Stato Society. Damage Suit Against Norfolk & Western. Winston-Salem, Special. R. F. Overby, of Stokes county, through his counsel, has instituted a $20,000 damage suit against the Norfolk & Western Railway. The complaint was filed in this county, but the counsel for the defendant company had the case removed to the United States Circuit Court of Greensboro. The plaintiff alleges that he sustain ed permanent injuries by being struck by a cross tie, hit by a box car of the defendant company while in the employ of the Pinnacle Coal and Coke Company in West Virginia, and injured so ' seriously that he has been disabled for his work as a miner and unfitted for any kind of manual labor. New School For Negroes. High. Point, Special. Rev. A. J. Tate, a colored minister of this city, who has been engaged in work among his race here for nine years, receiv ing the endorsement of white as well as colored people, has just complet ed a new school building, known as Fairview Institute. The building is ' of brick to the second story and will i furnish class rooms and rooms f 01 '' industrial work on the first floor, while j the second floor will be used for dor 'mitories, thus laying the foundation for a good work for the children ol his race. Violently Insane. Statesville, Special. Mr. Jonah Ryan, a farmer about 50 years old. is violently insane at his home in Olin township, and an1 effort will be made to get him into the State Hos pital at Morganton. Mr. Ryan's mind has been impaired for some 'time, but he did not "become violent I until a few days ago. He has been ja religious fanatic for some years. Smallpox in Iredell. Statesville, Special It has devel oped that there are a number of gen uine cases of smallpox in north Ire dell and portions of Wilkes and Yad kin counties." Dr. M. R. Adams, coun ty physician returned from that section, where he had been to meet the county physicians of Yadkin and Wilkes to examine some suspects. Ihe physicians found several cases which they pronounced smallpox. All these and others have been quarantined and disinfections are being used to pre vent the further spread of the dis ease. Fatal Riot in Pennsylvania. Gonnellsville, Pen. SpeciaLIn 8 big riot at Dunbar, Pennsylvania, ;i,t. in which something like one hundred .and wor t par ticipated, two men -7-7- - death, a score bay injured, and a wagon load carried off by the police Ire in jail awaiting trial. They, are 'and the riot ongi- taSKS of boarding hous. keepers. FOR INDUSTRIAL PEACE President' Letter to Inter-State Commerce Commission Made Pub lic Serious Industrial Disputes in Prospect. Washington, Special. Serious in dustrial disputes in prospect were in the mind of President Roosevelt when he wrote a letter to the inter State commerce commission which was made public. He says that in formation has reached him, that on account of the enactment of drastie laws by Congress and by various State Legislatures, " it is regarded a3 necessary by railroad companies to reduce the pay of their employes. He points out that, under, the law, eith er party may demand the services of the chairman of the inter-State com merce committee, and of the Com missioner of Labor, as a board of conciliation. He suggests, therefore, that the inter-State commerce com mission wage conditions on various railroads as may relate, directly 0 indirectly to the possible impending controversy. Tho President's Letter. The full text of the President '? letter is as follows: "The White House, Washington, Feb. IS, 190S. To the inter-State commerce com mission: I am informed that a num ber of railroad companies have ser ved notice of a proposed reduction of wages on theii employes. One 0 them, the Louisville & Nashville, in announcing the reduction, states that "the drastic laws inimical to the in terests of the railroads that have in the past year or two been enacted by Congress and the State Legisla tures," are largely or chiefly respon sible for the conditions requiring re duction. Under such circumstances it is pos sible that the public may soon be confronted by serious industrial dis putes, and the law provides that in such cases either party may demand fhe services of your chairman and of the Commissioner of Labor as a board of mediation and conciliation. These reductions in wages may bo warranted, or they may not. As to this the public, which is a vitally in terested party, can form no judgment without a more complete knowledgo of the essential facts and real mer its of the case than it now has or than it can possibly obtain from tho special pleadings certain to be put forth by each side in case their dis pute should bring about serious in terruption to traffic. If the reduc tion in wages is due to natural caus es, the loss of business being such that the burden should . be and is equitably distributed between capi talist and wage workers, tho public should know it. If it is caused by legislation, the public and Congress should know it, and if it is caused by misconduct in the past financial or other operations of any railroad, then everybody should know it, es pecially if the excuse of unfriendly legislation is advanced as a method of covering up past business miscon duct by the railroad managers, or as justification for failure to treat fairly the wage earning employes of the company. Moreover, an industrial conflict be tween a failread corporation s l itj employes offers peculiar opportuni ties to any small number of evil disposed persons to destroy life and property and foment public disord er. Of course, if life, property and public order are endangered, prompt and drastic measures for their pro tection become the first plain duty. All other issues then becomo subor dinate to the preservation of the pub lic peace, and the real merits. of the original controversy are ncessarily lost from view. This vital considera tion should be ever kept in mind by all law-abiding and far-sighted mem bers of labor organizations. It is sincerely to be hoped, there fore, that any wage controversy that may arise between the railroads and their employes may find a peaceful solution through the methods of con ciliation and arbitration already pro vided by Congress, which have prov en so effective during the past year. To this end the commission should be in a position to have available for any board of conciliation or arbitra tion relevant data pertaining to such carriers as may become involved m industrial disputes. Should concila tion fail to effect a settlement and ar bitration be rejected, accurate infor mation should be availablo in order to develop a properly informed pub lic opinion. I therefore ask you to make such investigation, both of your records and by any other means at your com mand as will enable you to furnish data concerning sch rondiuorjT ob taining on tht Louisville & Nashville and any other roads, as inay relate, directly or indirectly to the real mer its of the possibly impending contro versy THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Seaboard Cuts Salaries. Norfiolk, Va., Special. W. A. Gar rett, chief executive officer for the receivers ol the Seaboard . Air ..Lino Railway, issued the folipwing: "Ef fective February 1st, all official are working under a 10 per cent, cut Those getting between $3,000 and $5,000 per annum, inclusive, are working under an 8 per cent cut," I POLICE CHIEF KILLED fayetteville, IM. C, Witnesses Sunday Killing DEED OF A WANTON CRIMINAL For the Second Time Within a Year Fayetteville 's First Of need is Mur dered. Fayetteville, N.C., Special For the second time in a year Fayetteville 's chief of police has been murdered. James H. Benton, the head of the police department of the city wa3 shot about 1:30 o'clock Sunday after noon by Sam Murchison a negro 30 years old, and died at 2:45 o'clock, living little more than an hour. The murderer was captured a short time after the shooting occurred and i3 now safely lodged in jail here. The circumstances of the murder are aggrevated and without pallia tion. It seems that the murderer, Murchison, had trouble earlier in the day with John Raines, another ne gro, and Ida Moore, a negro woman, which resulted in his shooting Raines, inflicting a slight flesh Wound, and his threatening the life of the Moore woman. The woman, who lives in the neighborhood of Chief of" Police Benton's home, fled to the latter for protection, making an outcry as she ran. Chief Benton met her at his back door, and, hearing her com plaint, was starting out in search of Munchison when the latter appeared on the scene. He and Officer Ben ton exchanged a few words, when the negro suddenly drew a revolver and fired at Mr. Benton, inflicting a mortal wound just under the eye. Offieer Benton staggered and at tempted to make his way back into the house, but fell before he reached the door. Jack Crosswell, a lad, hearing the pistol shot, ran up at once and at tempted to arrest the murderer, but the latter snapped his pistol at the boy and broke away. Mr. J. B. Underwood next appeared and the negro fled, firing a wild shot at Mr. Underwood as he ran. Charles Ben ton, the 17-year-old son of the wounded man, ran to his father's as sistance as he fell and caught up the later 's revolver as it dropped from his belt. As the negro fled tho youth fired three shots after him, on: of them taking effect as developed after the capture was made. Officer Benton was carried into his resi dence, suffering great agony, and lingered for a little more than an hour, passing away about the time his murderer was being placed under arrest. News of the murder and the es cape of the murderer spread rapidly through the city, and excitement be came intense.. Sheriff Watson and his deputies and thirty police were at once at work endeavoring to track the fugitive, and hastily organ ized posses of citizens were speedily scouring the suburbs in the vicinity of the scene of the crime. The cap ture was accomplished by Mr. How ard Smith, who was immediately joined by Messrs. George McNeil, L, A. Williamson and A. S. Hall, and the prisoner was then turned over to Sheriff Watson and his deputies. Public feeling ran high but the sheriff with orders from Governoi Glenn to use the militia was enabled to protect the prisoner. Ten Killed in Panic at Teheran. Teheran, By Cable Ten persons were killed and a score or more wounded including several ecclesias tics j as a result of a panic in the main streets here Sunday during the passage of a religious procession Mu harram religious festival, held dur ing the first month of the Mohame dan year. - Priest Foully Murdered. Denver, Special Father Leo Hein richs was shot and killed Sunday by Alio Giuseppe, an avowed anarchist and priest-hater, while the priest was administering the sacrament at early mass in St. Elizabeth's Catholic chuch, Eleventh and Curtis streets. Kneeling at the altar rail, between two men, Giuseppe pressed the muz zle of a revolver against the body of the priest, after receiving from him the consecrated wafer, and shot- the priest through the heart. Exclaiming -Ut fWl. Mv God." Father Leo fell prone in front of the altar and died. I Bishop Satterlee Dead. Washington, Special.Rigbt Rev. Henry Yates Satterleef D. D., f 0 -rvocf. 19. veaTs Drotestant -Hoisco,- tal bishop of Washington, died at .his- residence hre-oayaruay. ae years old. Although threateaed with the grip Bishop Satterlee officiated at services last Sunday morning. Shortly afterward his condition be came acute arid a physician was calU ed in death quickly following. I THE DOINGSOF CONGRESS Doings of Out National Law-Maken Day by Day. Fowler Financial BilL The principles of the Fowler finan cial bill were defended by former Secretary of the Treasury Lyman J. Gage, Charles A. Conant, of New York, and Prof." Joseph French Johnson, of the New York Univer sity, before the House committee on banking and currency. Secretary Gage said that we had reached the most important period In the financial history of the coun try for the past 40 or 50 years and that the solution of the problem de pended largely upon the men making ap the banking and currency com mittee. It was early impressed upon him, eaid Mr. Gage, that a credit currency Issued on proper assets, received and exchanged, containing only the amounts of credit, was an effective, useful and economic agency in the Industrial progress of the people and was the best system of banking. Mr. Gage said he thought the financial system ought to be revised from the very beginning. -He re garded the Fowler bill as a compre hensive measure which in contrast to the one offered in the Senate has reached the fundamentals. Continuing, Mr. Gage said "I- have no sympathy at all with the Aldrich bill. I do not think it is eurative of our evils. At best it is a patch or a panacea which may once in 10 years be availed of, when the country is in a condition of intense panic or when many of the evils of e panic are deevlopmg and it may not be effective then. In the mean time, if adopted, it will probably put us to sleep. It is a gentle narcotio that wooes us in false repose from which w-e will suffer many a night mare and from which we will awak en at least in truble and real agony." As a banker, he said, he would ask to come under the provisions of the Fowler bill and would look with dread and apprehension if the Aid rich bill should become a law. National Bank Failures. In response to a Senate resolution introduced by Mr. Tillman, Secretary Cortelyou sent to the Senate a re port showing that 306 national banks ; were placed in charge of receivers between January 1st, 1893, and Jan uary 31st, 1908. The aggregate cap ital of these banks was $48,736,520. Exclusive of the banks which have failed since October 31st, 1907, the dividends paid on claims proved amounted to $65,469,012,: the offsets allowed and settled amounted to $11,789,982, while theloans paid and other disbursements amounted to $25,171,166, making $102,439,160 which was paid to creditors. Ihera was returned to shareholders in cash and other assets $7,052,329. Assess ments made on shareholders amount ed to $24,397,240 of which $12,098, 323 was collected. The Cotton Tax May Be Refunded. Washinsrton. Special. Southern congressmen have begun a concerted movement to procure legislation to re fund the sixty-eight million dollars of cotton tax collected during the civil war, alleged to have been ille gally collected. The bill decided on at the conference provides for pay ment from the national treasury di rect to holders of cotton tax certifi cates without any court of claim ad judication. Steed on Chalngang. Anderson, Special. C. A. Steed, the divorce swindler who. was con victed in Magistrate Wilson's court on Fridav, went to the county chain- gang Wednesday morning to com mence his sentence of 90 days. He was unable to raise the $300 to covet' the fines. Allen Parker Pardoned. Chattanooga, Special. President Roosevelt has pardoned Allan Parkei of this city, who was convicted in tne federal court in Nashville two years &aro and sentenced to serve five years in the federal prison at Atlanta, charged with misuse 01 tunds 01 a bank at Tullahoma, Tenn. Parker was prosecuted by a Baltimore bond ing company, but every dollar used by him was made up. The Gold Standard. Washington, Special. Chairman Fowler, of the House committee on banking and currency, declared that the establishment of the gold stan dard should be put into practical ef fect by making gold coins the basis of all reserves. He says the charac ter of the currecy legislation this sea son will determine the financial plank to be adopted by the Republican con vention at Chicago in June, and his recommendation "will make the party's attitude now and in 1906 consistent. Bound Over in Four Cases. Fayetteville, Special. John Down ing, a Fayetteville butcher, who has been arsaigned in the Circuit Court a - number of times, charged with the illicit sale of liquor, has been indict ed in four- cases by the present grand jury. Downing has been indicted in three cases with ordering liquor for minors, and in one case for selling liquor. He was bound Over to the June term of the court under a $1, 000 bond. GILLETTE MUST- DIE Supreme Court Affirms Decis ion of Lower Tribunal NO GROUNDS FOR A NEW TRIAL New York Court of Appeals, After : Considering Argument Pro and Con in the Case of the Man Who Mur dered Grace Brown, Decides That There Are No Extenuating Circum stances, and the Sentence of the Lower Court Is Affirmed. Albany, N. Y., Special. The Court of Appeals decided that Chester Gil lette, - of Cortland, must die in the electric chair for. the murder of his sweetheart, Grace (or "Billy") Brown, of South Otselic, Chenango county,' at Big Moose Lake, in the Adirondacks, on July 11th, 1906, The court affirms the judgment of conviction of murder in the first de gree and .the sentence of death, rendered at the extraordinary term of the Supreme Court in Herkimec county. Gillette is now in a death cell at Auburn. The court will soon fix a new date for his execution. The opinion of the court reviews the story of the case and holds that while the conviction was upon cir cumstantial evidence the counsel for the prosecution made through in vestigation and produced evidence established the fact that the death of Miss Brown was due -to a crime and not an accident. Grace Brown's Letters. Taking up the matter of the ad missibility of the pathetic letters of Grace Brown to the defendant the court says: "Aside from the permitted pur pose of showing the relations and thoughts of the decedent towards the defendant, we can think of no effect which the letters would have been apt to have with the jury, so far as the latter could be controlled by any ruling of the court, except to tend to establish a motive for -the commission by defendant of the crime which is charged against him. But, as we have seen, they might j have been admitted with- entire pro- J priety for this very purpose, and I therefore if the jury considered them upon that branch of the people 's I case, it did no more than the court should have authorized and directed them to do." The unanimous opinion of the court, written by Judge Hiscock, riddles Gillette's story of the tragedy, to the effect that Grace Brown volun tarily jumped from the boat and was drowned. Judge Hiscock ascribes "impressive unnaturalness" to the principal features of Gillett's talc. He alludes to several points which still further impeach its truthfulness and declared that "in addition to these deficiencies and improbabilities in his evidence, there are repeated contradictions by a large number of witnesses who apparently had no interest in telling anything but the truth." . Cold in New York. New York, Special. A blizzard, re ported to be the worst in years, and which is raging fiercely, struck New York. The storm started shortly be fore daylight and four inches of snow has fallen in as many hours without any sign of abatement. Traf fic is greatly impeded, all incoming trains are late, and the swirling flakes blind the pilots of the harbor and river crafts, greatly hampering their vision and making it extremely dan gerous for these craft to make their slips. Much Suffering in Chicago. Chicago, Special. With nine to ten inches of snow on the level and drifta in many places as high as six feet, more snow falling and a stiff gale blowing, Chicago is facing the worst winter in many years. Reports of great suffering are received from all police precincts, where the destitute are seeking refuge from the storm. All trains are being delayed from half an hour to several hours. Turkish Troops Cross Boundary. St. Petersburg, By Cable. News that Ali Khan's Kurdish forces have crossed the Turko-Persian boundary into the Persian province of Zerbai- jan is considered here as re-opening the boundary disputebetween the Sultan on one side and the Czar and Shah on the other under graver cir cumstances than ever. Tho Russian government is giving the situation serious consideration and a prompt movement of the Czar's troop3 against Tarkev is not an impossi bility. - Oklahoma Swept by Blizzard. St. Louis, Special The . wprst storm of the winter is raging ia Mis souri and adjoining States. Snow fell jn .several places to' a depth of four teen 'inches, accompanied by a fierce wind. OHaJboma is being swept by a blizzard. Railroad traffie is much de layed. Snow has fallen in Arkansas for eighteen hours. The temperature is rapidly falling. Many trains arft tailed. i Late flrebvr I In Brief 1 MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST Big Fire at Lancaster. Lancaster, S. C, Special. Firo which broke out in the livery stable of the Gregory-Hood Live Stock Com pany at 8 o'clock Saturday night wip ed out a large portion of the town and threatened to burn the whole place, there being no water supply here with which to check the con flagration. The Rock Hill fire depart ment was wired for and held itself in readiness to come but there was no use, without a water supply. The following are the losses : Gregory-Hood Company, $15,000 with $7,000 insurance. Methodist church, $5,000 with $1, 500 insurance. Dr. J. F. Maekey's residence, $4, 000 with $2,000 insurance. The J. F. Mackey Company's fur niture warehouse, $4,000 with $2,000 insurance. - Old Ledger office, $500, no insur ance. , - James Farmer Shot Down. - Columbia, S. C, Special. Another dispensary tragedy occurred in Co lumbia Saturday morning when Wade Hampton Sellers, known locally as "the booze king of Gervais street," the "king of blind tigers," etc., shot and killed Dispensary Constable Ja. Farmer, a former policeman. The shooting occurred at Sellers' place, when Mr. Fanner, accompanied by Detective W. S. Ogg, applied for en trance armed with a search warrant. Being denied entrance they forced the door. Sellers shot once with 3. sawed-off 41-calibre Winchester rifle, which it has been his custom to car ry about with him in his buggy and jumped behind his door. By Wire and Cable. The race question bobbed up in the national house Saturday. Six people were killed at a grada crossing Sunday at Spring Valley, New York. Crosby S- Noyes, editr-in-ehief of the Washington Evening Star, died in California on Saturday. Mrs. Dora McDonald was acquitted in Chicago of the charge of murder ing Walter Cuerin. The indictments against the Bridge Trust were declared defective by the Supreme Court of Ohio. The woman who accused Caruson of annoying her was fined for being drunk and disorderly. The four cruisers in advance of Admiral Evans' fleet arrived at San Francisco. In a riot of unemployed foreigners in Phaladelphia 20 persons were in jured, some by shots. - Midshipman Victor N. Metcalf, son of the Secretary of the Navy, has re signed from the naval service. . Major Chittenden, U. S. A., and his brother, C. C. Chittenden, 'are ac cused in a land fraud suit at Seattle. Turkey has withdrawn troops from Persia territory and adopted a more conciliatory attitude toward Russia. Western railroad managers repeal ed their declaration that wages will be cut and blame the president for his letter. Germany has effected a strategic move in Persia in securing an appro priation for a German school in Te heran. The Republican primaries in Ohio for delegates to the State convention resulted in an overwhelming victory for Taft. A special from Starke, Fla., says Mann Robihson shot and killed his father-in-law, J. L. Wynn, at Simp son City Sunday during a difficulty between them. A coroner's jury un der Judge D. K. Lee found the shoot ing to have been in self-defense. While on his way to church at Baxter, Fla., Dan Crews, accompanied by his nephew and two ladies, was shot by James Petty with a rifle and instantly killed Sunday morning. The campaign for the nomination for governor of North Carolina wa! formally opened at Wadesboro, An son county, Saturday, Locke Craig and W. W. Kitcliin speaking on tho issues. A letter was read from Ash ley Home also a candidate, declaring his candidacy, but stating that h was not a public speaker, but a busi ness man. Rev. L. W. Crawford, D. D., a prominent member of the Western North Carolina conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, and a very able minister, died at Ashevillc Saturday. A man wanted in Germany ou a charge of arson was arrested in Phila delphia after a chase of 10 years: which led three times around the earth.. , Dean Rogers, of the Yale Law Scbool, warned against Federalism is an address bafora the students of Kentucky University. ; The case of Raymond Hitchcock, the comedian, who is accused by sev eral young girls, has been set for Feb ruary 24.