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Cbe Cbatbam Recorb. RATES OF ADVERTISING; One Square, one insertion One Square, two Insertions.... 1.50 One Square, one month s.09 t For Larger Advertise ments Liberal Contracts XX Mi T fit EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. 11 11 RMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: 1.50 Per Year triCTLY IN ADVANCE By Scores in Litter Helplessness fATii AT SCHOOL HOUSE eir Egress Cut Off by the Fiery yiames That Rage Below Them, Ike Little 0nes Are Incinerated Wost Within Reach of Safety. 'Cleveland. O,, Special. Penned in tow hallways, jammed up against Drs that only opened inward, be een 1 0 0 and 170 children in" the ,arb of North Collinwood Wednes r were killed by fire, by smoke and ceath the grinding heels of their cie-stricken playmates. flhe awful tragedy occurred Wed Iday morning in the public school Korth u-ilmwood, 10 miles east of s:es of 0 and 15 Aears. The tool contained betAveen 310 and 325 foils, and of this entire number only tut eighty are known to have left i building unhurt. It will be sev- 1 days betore tne exact number killed is known as the ruins may il contain other bodies and the list fatalities may be increased by a ruber of deaths among the children fa are now- lying in the hospitals erir.g between life and death. Only One Firo Escapo. JThe sehoolhouse was of brick, two :ries and an attic in height. The mber of pupils Avas more tha nor- fcllv lanre. and the smaller children d been placed in the upper part the buildimr. There AAas but one e escape ana tnat Avas in tne rear the building. There were two urways. one leading to a door in lent, and the other to a door in the Both of these doors opened iTard. aiiu it is claimed tne rear or was locked a:; avc-11. When the flames were discoA'ered fpnr-nevs who tliroiifliAnt sppm have acted v. it h courage and self- ssession aim io nave struggled ne lly 1 .r the safety of their pu marshak'd the little ones into :amu "nre unit. winch tney naa en practiced. Fortunately the line of march in ' 1 T 1 1 1 t . A 1 . is exercise naa always led to tne out door and the children had not en trained to seek any other exit. re fire came- from a furnace situ- ed direct lv under this part of the ilding. When the children reached e foot of the stairs they found the tnes close upon them, and so sAvift rasa was made for the door that in in flUdre!l was "piled up against it. r rom at second none of those who were on arv -..-.vtin .vP t!io flrJ- flicr'nh nf airs had a chance for their lives. e children at the front of the stairs tempted to light their way back to e floor above, while those who weie Iming down shoved them mercilessly jack into the flames below. In an iu- aut there was a frightful panic with Fo hundred of the pupils fighting for err lives. Most of those who wero ded died here. The Greater part 1 tnose who escaped managed to back and reached the fire es Ft and the windows in the rear. Approximately 300 children attend ee school, which had nine rooma. pres of Freight Conductors Laid Off by Southern. Asheville, Special. On account of pease in business on the Asheville ient. ancashire cotton trade and among Je .engineers on the northeast coast. tices were posed threatening a Jout of 20,000 cotton operatives in e Come and Nelson districts, while e engineers Avho have been inA'olved ? the r,-r-fnt ship building strike 0n? the Tyne rejected by a large aJorit- the compromise effected with :e employers by DaA-id Lloyd-George riaent of the 1,',! irA Locomotive Explodes. Roberta. r, cQ,.;i T.na Vn to n train NT R1 SfViT, wilmav FPkded at Champion, two miles be-; Amy InU fw cere u ft -mA-A-o ! , -t x .nA tha Tndijm Ar- r,b'- Lngmeer Chapes O'Neill, rrorjriation bill raallv ;::J'3 I A Patent Off iPrnk-.,.J wv,. lowver and York h a trr: rr with patent frauds involving Mto7r:5 J. "tnatenti valued at $5,Q0Q,00U. VOL, XXX. PITTSBQRO. CHATHAM COUNTY N. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH LDREN DIE IN A FIRE chool Building Burns and Children Die Janitor Herter could remember lit tle of what happened after the fire started. "I was sweeping in the base ment," he said, "when I looked up and saw a wisp of smoke curling from beneath the front stairway. "I ran to the fire alarm and pulled the gong that sounded throughout the building. Then I ran first to the front and then to the rear doors. I can't remember what happened next, ex cept that I saw the flames shooting ail about and the children running "down through them screaming. Some fell at the rear entrance and others stum bled over them. I saw my little Helen among them. I tried to pull her out, but the flames drove me back. I had to leave my little child to die." Her ter was badly burned about the head. After the fire had nrflrtialW km. 5 city. At iu o ciocK ednesday ed itself out, the work of rescuing fat 165 corpses were m the morgue j the bodies was begun by firemen and ICollir-Swood, six children were still ; railroad employes from the T.ake (accounted for and all the hospitals . Shore shops. The railroad company li houses for two miles around con- turned over one of its buildings near Led number-, of children, some fa- : by to be used as a temnorarv morenie. Ily and many less seriously injur- ' and thither the . charred and broken ! little bodies were removed as fast as ill 01 tue victims Avere between they could be due from the ruins. They were placed to rows in the Lake Shore shop. Identifications were made only by means of clothing or trinkets. The fire had swept away nearly all resemblance to human fea tures. Distracted parents soon began to gather and the work of identify ing the blackened and mangled corp ses began. The grewsome task of takingout the blackened torsos and bits of human remains was one of horror. A line of rescurers was formed backed bjT half e dozen ambulances. As the bodies were untangled from the de bris the were passed along to -the stretchers and thence loaded in the unbalance. Mercifully covered with blankets ,lhe pitiful sights were veil ed frcm the crowd of curious. As fast as a load was obtained .it was diiven away to the improvised pjorguc, to be succeeded by another within a fchort time. , TeacherJCells Story. j "It" was awful. I can see the wee i things in my room holding out their tiny arras and crying to me to help them. Their voices are ringing in my ears yet, and I shall never forget them. When the alarm gong rang I started the pupils to marching from the building. When we started down the front stairs we were met by a sol id wall of flame and clouds of dense smoke. We retreated, and when we turned the children became panic stricken and I could not do anything Avith them. They became jammed in the narrow stairway and I knew that the only thing for me to do was to get around to the rear door if pos sible and help those who were near the entrance. When I got there, at- stent a tightly packed mass of ter climbing out of a Avindow I found the children so crowded in the nar row passageway that I could not pull even one of them out. Those behind pushed forward and as I stood there the little ones piled upon one anoth er. Those who could, stretched out their arms to me, and cried for me to help them. I tried with all my might to pull them out and stayed there until the flames drove me away." At midnight there were 165 bodies in the morgue of which 108 had been identified and 57 were still unknown. It is possible that other bodies may be found in the ruins, as at least 13 children are still missing and have not been heard from since the fire. .News of the Day.. Mme. Schumann-Heink, the opers sincer. tooK out ner naiuiau.aii"i papers and became an American citi vision of the Southern-it is learned Bishop W. W. Duncan, of the zen. ere that within a week 59 freight Methodist Episcopal church died ai factors have been laid off. It is Spartanburg, S. C. that not for years has business Secretary Root's report on the case a the division Wn slack as ' at nf Judete Wilfley is ready for trans mission to the President. nous Labor Troubles Threatened Hartje and His Cohorts Acquuieo. oi in England. i. Perjury. London.. By Cable. Serious labor f Pittsburg, Pa., Special. Au- oubles ,r,n inoA ir, ih 'ffustns Hartje, a millionaire; Jonn L.. Welshons, a hardAvare merchant, ana friend of Hartje and Clifford Hooe. the negro coachman, who have been on trial in criminal court charged Avith conspiracy to blacken the char acter of Mrs. Mary Scott Hartje. were all acquitted, binding instruc tions having been given the jury to find such a verdict and place the costs of the case upon the county. .News in Brief. t House the increase in pay of enlisted men was restored to the A Patent Office examiner, a Phila- ra. vi' Hy T , Were caided'on? if" ventor have been indicted charged BURIAL OF FIRE VICTIMS Mutterings Against tie Janitoi Conld Be 5eard on Every Side, Thi Grief-Crazed Parents Forgetting That the Janitor Himself Walked Behind a Hearse Containing Threi of His Loved Ones. Cleveland, O., Special. Collins wood Friday came to a full fealiza tion of her woe. Slowly and solemn. ly the processions of death began to . 1 j 1 , - . wena ineir way toward the ceme xeries, bearing the battered and charred remains of some of tha Vmn. dred and sixty-seven children whose lives were snuffed out in Wednesday morning's catastrophe in the Lake view school. From 9 o'clock in the morning until dusk there was no cessation in the funeral corteges. Those who had no dead to mourn as a personal loss stood in the streets with bared heads as the grim proces sions passed. There was scarcely a dry eye in Collinwood. One of the sad funerals was that of the three children of Janitor Hirter, held joint ly with the services for three other little ones. Talk Against Janitor. Mutterings against the janitor could be heard about the village as grief-crazed parents sought an ob ject, upon which to wreak, vengeance, forgetting as they did that Hirter himself was walking with bowed head and broken-hearted behind the biers of three of his loved onea A detail' of police was placed about the Hir ter home when the hour of the fun eral came. Fully five hundred per sons had gathered, but when the cof fins were carried to the doorway the crowd spread and opened the way for them without protest or expres sion of hostility. Altogether there were 50 burials Friday and Saturday the grewsome task Avas repeated. Sunday will wit ness the last of the individual burials and on Monday the remains of all those who are yet unidentified will be laid to rest with one funeral. There are 28 of these bundles of flesh that await claimants. Stories of Herioism. Testimony describing the mad rush to death of the school children Avas given Friday at the continued session of the coroner's inquest. Stories of heroism on the part of the women teachers were recited. F. P. Whit ney, superintendent of the Collinwood schools, stated his belief to be that no fire department could have done any effective work after the fire had started. Two of the teachers told of their unavailing attempts to open one of the double doors at the rear which they said Avas locked. The in quest also developed the fact that, af ter the first crush at the door, it was beyond human possibility to aid or save those Avhom the tongues of fire were devouring in the charnel house. The inquest will be resumed Monday. In a statement Chief Wallace, of the Cleveland fire department, after an examination of the ruins, of the Collinwood school, said it was his op inion that the loss of life Avould not have been so great had there been no partitions at the sides of the storm doors at the rear entrance. Two feet eight inches had been taken off either side of the hall for the partitions. His examination developed that the doors opened outward. Chief Wallace doubtless will be a witness before the coroner. Cleveland Learns Lesson. Drastic steps were taken by the Cleveland school board to place all the Cleveland educational buildings in a condition that will preclude any loss of life from fires. Basements will be fireproof, wooden stairways replaced by iron and spiral fires es capes enclosed in towers installed. Inner doors in vestibules also will be removed. Another Priest Threatened. Providence, K. L, Special. The fate that overtook Father Leo Hem richs, of Denver, threatens Rev. J. H. Beland, pastor of Notre Dame French Catholic church of Central Falls. Letters have come to him con taining a notification that he will be killed at the altar. His friends ap pealed to the authorities when they learned of his danger. Big Horse Show in Texas. Fort Worth, Tex., Special Entries have closed for the horse show ex hibits at the National Feeders' and Breeders' Show, which will open next Wednesday in the great coliseum erected at a cost of $250,000. There are fifty-four different classes m the horse show lists and $3,000 will be awarded in premiums. A prize lis aggregating $20,000 is offered on the live stock which will be on exhibit. Governor Campbell will preside at the opening of the show on Wednesday morning and will deliver an address. Tha Snit Over Virginia's Debt. Washington, Special. The big suit between the States of Virginia and West Virginia over the claim of the former that the latter should share the latter's $33,000,000 debt advanc ed one stage when attorneys for West Virginia presented to the Su3 preme Court arguments for limitation of the powers of the master whom the court proposes to appoint to take testimony in the suit. Virginia wants tha master givsn a widt field. Late JVet&j? In 'Brief A MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST Seven of the Russian terrorists sen tenced to death for-plotting against a grand duke and other personages were hanged at St. Petersburg. The air pressure caused by an aval anche wrecked a temporary hotel in Switzerland, 13 persons being killed and 15 others hurt. The British campaign against the Zakakhels, a tribe of Afridis in Nor thern India, has ended Avith the com plete submission of the tribesmen. Eleven men of a French column were killed and 36 wounded in an all day fight with Madakra tribesmen in Morocco. While railroads must employ thous ands more telegraph operators to en force the nine-hour law, they intend to close hundjeds of small stations. The progress of the fleet gives im petus to the moA'ement to create the rank of Vice Admiral in the Navy. A. B. Butt, cashier of the wrecked People's Bank of Portsmouth, took a special train on his journey to serve five years in the Richmond peniten tiary. Norfolk police found a baby in a satchel and are looking for Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Davis, said to be its par ents. Dr. Eli Marsh Turner, former pres ident of West Virginia University, died a few hours after consenting to run for mayor of Morgantown. A hot fight is to be made over the New Jersey Local Option bill at Tren ton. Friends of Rear-Admiral Evans hope to greet him Avith a vice-admiral's commission Avherwhe reaches San Francisco More than 300 buildings were burn ed, Avith a loss of $600,000, at Tampa, Fla. One boy Avas killed and another badly injured in a collision of ice boats on the St. Laurence river. Among the clergymen mentioned as possible successors to the late Bishop Satterlee. of Washington, is Rev. Dr. Randolph II. McKim, who was for a time at a Baltimore church. W. B. Wood, an American magician and his daughter Bertha Avere drown ed by the sinking of a tug off Yuca tan recently. Andrew Hamilton, in charge of the legislative fund of the Equitable Life Assurance Society and other compan ies, Avas found dead at his home in Albany. Anonymous pamphlets scattered iD the streets of Teheran notified the Shah that there Avas no intention to kill him at the time the bombs Avere thrown. Thomas B. Wannamaker, son of John Wanamaker and proprietor of the Philadelphia North American, died in Paris. Mexican Ambassador. Creel 's bank was robbed of $500,000. Commander Sims, testifying before the Senate Naval Committee, declar ed the markmanship at Santiago to haATe been "disgraceful." The Supreme Court Avill hear Vir ginia rate test cases October 13. President Roosevelt praised Judge Wilfley, of Shanghai, but the House investigators will probe the charges against him. Six Taft delegates were selected in IvansaJ. Senator Smith of Michigan, accus ed Senator Aldrich of bolstering up prices of railroad bonds in his finan cial bill. The Interstate Commerce Commis sion decided to disregard petitions to delay enforcing the nine hour law. Mr. Hepburn introduced a bill pro viding a tax of 50 cents a hundred shares for stock sales. A bill making October 12 the an niversary of Columbus' discovery a holiday was offered in the House. The House defeated a bill for ex porting alien felons. Luther Combs was shot in the thigh by Clifton Sawyer, his 17-year-old stepson,, near Norfolk. The Senate will ask the President to Avithdraw the name of G. A. Por ter, a cousin of Mrs. Roosevelt, as United States marshal in Oklahoma. Ex-Judge F. M. Whitehurst died in Norflok. The Potomac River Oyster bill agreed on by Maryland and Virginia legislators, was passed by the Assem bly. Chief of Police Shippy, of Chicago, killed an anarchist Avho had stabbed him and shot his son and driver. Father Leo Heinrich, assassinated at the altar of St. Elizabeth. 's Catho lic church in Denver, was buried at' Patterson, N. J. The defense in the suit of Attoiv nev-General Jackson in New Yojk to dissolve the New York City Railway Company admitted that $4,500,000 entered as an asset was not a real asset. . The Ohio State Republican Conven tion is expected to be harmonious for, Taft . TWO LYNCHED IN GEORGIA Georgians Avenge the Murder of Mr, and Mrs. Warren Hart Lynching Party, Wearing Masks, Takes Pris oners From County Jail and After Hanging Them to a Tree, Burns Their Bodies. Hawkinsville, Ga., Special. Two negroes, Curry Robertson and John Henry, were lynched Thursday near here and their bodies burned. They were charged with the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Warren .Hart. One of the negroes confessed to the crime and said the motive was rob bery. Robertson and Henry were ar rested Wednesday following the dis covery of the body of Warren Hart. His wife was lying nearby in a dy ing condition. The murders took place near Frazier, the home f the Harts. Mr. Hart had been killed as the re sult of a blow on the head, appar ently made by an axe. Mrs. Hart was seriously beaten and was found un conscious. She died Wednesday night without having recovered conscious ness. Thursday the negroes were quietly taken from the county jail and car ried some distance from the town, where they were hanged to a tree. The lynching party consisted of a number of men who concealen their identity with masks. After the hang ing the bodies Avere cut down and in cinerated. After this the posse quiet ly dispersed. There is no announce ment in the district as a result of the lynching. The crime of which the negroes were accused was committed just at daylight Wednesday, when some one attacked Hart as he went from his house to feed his stock. His head was crushed. The murderers then went to the kitchen of the Hart home where Mrs. Hart was preparing breakfast and attacked her with an axe, leaving her for dead. Mrs. Hart was found on the floor Avith a fork in her hand and the breakfast which she had cooked burn ed to a crisp. She died late that night. The purpose of the asault is be lieved to have been robbery, as the Marts were knoAvn to haATe about $1, 000 in the house. . The murderers did not get the money. News of the mur der spread quickly through the sec tion, and in the vicinity of Empire, a village near the secene of the murder, there was the most intense excite ment. Over a thousand persons gathered, among them the friends of the aged couple, Avho imediately formed a posse, secured dogs and began a search. Within a short time two ne groes were arrested and brought here for safe keeping. During the night men gathered near the county jail, demanded Robertson and Henry and then took them to an isolated place near the scene of the double murder and lynched them. Mt. Hart and his wife Avere 65 years old. Bank- President Indicted. New Orleans, La., Special. Wil liam Adler, former president of the State National Bank of New Or leans, Avas indicted by the United States grand jury here charged with misapplying national bank funds and with other illegal transactions. There were 74 counts in the indict ment. Charges that dealings about which they should haA'e been inform ed were concealed from the board of directors and that false entries and misapplication and distriction of funds occurred reaching betwten $200,000 and $300,000 were made against Adler in the indictment. Louisiana Banker Threatened. Alexandria, La., Special Paul Lis so, president of the First National bank here announced the receipt of a letter demanding $5,000 from him at an appointed place and signed "The United Black Hand of Louisana." The letter threatens the life of Pres ident Lisso's daughter if he refuses payment. The police have begun an investigation. Attempt to Sell War Secrets. New York, Special. The Federal authorities of Brooklyn reluctantly admitted that the arrest of Heinrich Esser, on charges of attempting to sell United States Avar secrets to Ger many, is directly due to the German authorities. The latter notified the German consul in NeAv York, who in turn communicated with the police. Together with the tip came an assurr ance from Germany that under no cir cumstances would that government take advantage of such offers. Patents to Carolinians. Washington, Special. R. W. Bish op, patent atorney, reports the issue of the following patents- on the 3rd instant to residents of North and South Carolina: Log turner J. R. Meece, Rpieman; drive gear for en gines M. O. Carter and W. T. Davis, Travelers' Rest, S. C; sandpaper ma chine J. T. Brantley, Salisbury; brush handle J. H, Greene, High Point. - It. 1908. NO. 31. sf TA-R HEEL TOPICS S Items Gathered From State Farmers Union in April. Charlotte, Special. The North Carolina division of the Farmers ' Educational and Co-Operative Union of America will be organized it Charlotte on April 1st and 2d. Mr. G. W. Fant, State organizer, who has been in the city several days perfect ing plans for the big meeting, has is sued a call to all of the county un ions to name delegates for the big convention. Mr. C. W. Barrett, of Georgia, national president of the or ganization, will be present and make an address. The basis of representa tion will be one delegate t every 100 members or majority fraction and one delegate at large from each coun ty. This means. that Charlotte will have the pleasure of entertaining a vast host of farmers on this occas ion. The union in North Carolina has groAvn very rapidly during the past few months, some of the counties hav ing little less than 1,000 members. Union county is 810 strong and Mecklenburg has 500. There are 5,500 members of the union in North Carolina, 50 more than the number required for forming a State organi zation. Mr. Fant has also extended an invitation to all State officers of the Farmers' Alliance to attend the meeting next month. It is likely that the two organizations will be mirged. Tho place of meeting has not yet been decided upon. Grenesboro Bank Liquidates. Greensboro, Special. The officers of the City National Bank has de cided to place tie institution in vol untary liquidation, owing to the con tinued financial depression and in ability to collect outstanding notes. National Examiner Hull Avill take charge of the bank Saturday. Nego tiations are in progress with one of the strongest banks in Greensboro to take over the collateral of the bank and assume the payment of all de posits, and this will be done as soon as the consent of th,e stockholders and the Comptroller of the Currency is sectored. EAery depositor will be paid in full. The bank has $255,058 in deposits and $405,663 in bills receiv able. Tho City National is an old in stitution and has been an important factor in the business life of Greens boro. Many of the city's most prom inent business men are connected with ft. The directors are: W. S. Thompson, president; W. C. Bain, C. H. Dorset t, J. A. Hoskins, M. W. Thompson, J. Van Lindley, Lee II. Battle and G. A. Grimsley.' No Location Decided On. Hickory, Special. The committee consisting of Rev. Dr. G. H. Detwiler, of Greensboro ;J. A. Glenn, Charlotte ; Rev. N. R. Richardson, of Hickory; Rev. Frank Siler, of Charlotte j J. L. Nelson, of Lenoir; S. L. Rodgers, of Raleigh, and C. H. Ireland, of Greens boro, appointed by the Western North Carolina Conference to select a suitable place on which to build an orphanage, met here last Thursday. The committee, which convened at 2:30 o'clock p. m., at the Methodist ehurch, adjourned for some future date ior a final decision. The sub committee, consisting of J. L. Nelson, J. A. Glenn and G. F. Ivey, on prop erties and subscription was containu ed and instructed to visit the various sites as soon as practicable. Hick ory, Lincolnton and Rutherfordton are all making vigorous efforts to se cure the location of the orphanage. Winston's New Drug Firm. Winston-Salem, Special. The ar ticles of incorporation of the Winston Drug Company Avere forwarded to the Secretary of State at Raleigh Thurs day morning. The incorporators are Messrs. J. P. Lawson, T. L. Farrow, Jr., and L. E. Fishel. The object of the coneern is to manufacture drugs and sell at wholesale. Dr. Kilgo at Winston-Salem. Winston-Salem, Special. Governor R. B. Glenn and Dr. J. C. Kilgore, president of Trinity College, have ac cepted invitations to address the For syth County Teachers' Association here Saturday. The faculty of the graded school the Salem Academy and Salem Boys' School have been invited to hear these two distinguish ed speakers. Dr. Kilgore will go from here to Walkertown' Avhere he Ayill Breach on Sunday morning occupying the pulpit of Love's M. E. church. The Hearing on Discrimination. : Raleigh, Special. Chairman Mc Neill and Clerk Brown of the State corporation commission, left Thurs day afternoon for Wahington to cha fer with the inter-State commerce commission relative to the time of hearing by the latter of the suit a-ainst the Norfolk & Western for discriminating against North Carolina in freight rates. It is still hoped that the hearing will be held in Raleigh. will be made. All Sections, of the State Train Robbery. Elizabeth City, Special. The first news of a train robbery which oc curred February 17, reached hvn Thursday when Special Deteete Stevens arrived in the city. As the through freight train of the Norfolk & Southern was passing Northwest, Va., four men got aboard and con-, cealed themselves somewhere under the cars. When tha train was speed ing along at a rapid rate throusji the woods, the men broke into' one of the box cars and threw out everything that they thought would be useful to them. After throwing out about all they could conveniently handle they jumpea on ana went DacJc and gatner ed up the plunder from the side of the tracks and carried it away. The robbery was not discovered until the train reached Norfolk, when the prop er authorities were notified. Fot special reasons the affair was not giv en to the public. Special Detective Stevens, assisted by Hugh Rob erts, was engaged to take charge of the case. Since then the detectives have been busy following up different clues and now have four men under arrest whom they think are the guilty parties. A Tragedy Near Wilson. Wilson, Special. Wednesday night at his home a few miles from Wilson Cad Page, a white farmer, was shot and killed by his 15-year-old son. Ernest. The elder Page had been drinking for two days and was abus ing his wife and threatening to kill her, advancing with a pistol in one hand and a knife in the other. His son, seeing this, picked up a shot gun and fired, killing his father. The coroner's inquest is noAv being held. Young Page did not attempt to escape and Avill doubtless be justified by the jury. Will LeAvis, the white farmer who, while drunk last week knocked his wife in the head Avith an axe, kilL ing her, died in jail here. Heart fail ure caused his death. A Contractor Charged With Con tempt. Asheville, Special. Judge Pritch ard will hear an interesting matter here Wednesday Avhen J. D. Elliott, oi Hickory, is eited to appear and show cause why he should not be attached for .contempt of court for interfering Avith the management of the Seaboard Air Line, now under control of re ceivers. It is said that Mr. Elliott had a contract for building th freight terminals of the S. A. L. at Jaekson'ille ; that the company owed him about $83,000 and that after the road Avent into the hands of a receiv er it was agreed that he should have $12,500 to complete the contract. It is alleged that he now claims posses sion of the property and refuses to deliver it into the custody of the re ceivers. . Mid-Year Mission Meeting. Salisbury, Special. The Executive Committee of the Foreign Mission Board of the Western North Carolina Conference met in Salisbury and ar ranged for a mid-year meeting in the interest of missions to be held at Marion, in Western North Carolina, April 7th to 9th. Rev. W. R. Ware, of Gastonia, is president of the board ans? Rev. J. E. Gay, of Lincolnton, is treasurer. A strong program is being arranged for the occasion when it is expected that one of the returned missionary secretaries and a number of other able speakers will be present. The cause of missions has advanced rapidly in the conference during the past year. ' r. I Chief of Police Elected. Fayetteville, Special. Mr. John MeD. Monaghan, who was appointed acting chief of police following the murder of Chief Benton on the 23d ult., has been elected permanently to the position by the board of alder-, men. Mr. Monaghan is a very cour ageous man of high character, and will doubtless prove an acceptable head to the police department. Hunting Season Closed. Raleigh, Special State Game War den John R. Unchurch stated that the game season, under the general law, had closed, and he desired to call special attention to sections 3480 and 3431 of the ReA'isal making it a mis demeanor tj hut-t on the lands of an other without consent of owner and written permission, and he said that he will pay special attention to this law and prosecute all persons ascer tained to have violated these sections. He asks that information of the in fractions of the law be reported to him. High Point's Newest Bank. High Point, Special. The Home Banking Company was formally or sanized here with the election of of ficer a-' as follows: President, T. F. Wrenn; cashier, Rev. G. F. Kirby; directors, George A. Matron, J. C. Walch, T. F. Wrenn, .N. Welboro, W. P. Ra?an, G. F. Kirby, W. T. Kirkman. Dr. J. R. Reitzel, George T, Penny, M. J. Wrenn, Dr. H. C. Pitta and W. G. Shipman. -t a Kuauna ;wai
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