North Carolina Newspapers

Cbatbam TRccorb. hTa. LONDON EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Si. 5 Per Year STRICTLY IN ADVANCE RTH STATE Occurrences of Interest Gleaned From All Sectious of the Busy TeLf Heel State Negro Bank for Durham. Durham, Special. Next Saturday the Mechanics and Farmers ' Bank, a negro banking house, will open its doors for business. This bank has a paid-in capital of $10,000 and all of the stock is owned by negroes. This be the third negro bank in North Carolina. R. B, Fitzgerald is presi dent : John Merrick, vioe president ; and W. G. Pearson, cashier. The bank is in a new building just, erect ed by the North Carolina Mutual and IVovident Association. It is elegant ly equipped with quartered oak and inarbio furniture. The vault is a very large one and strongly built. Next to the bank is a new negro drug store that was opened this week. This business has a paid-in caoital of 2.,"00 and an authorized capital of $10,000. Two registered pharmacists have the management of this busing.-. In this bunch of negro busi ness houses there is wrapped up more than -rlOO.000 and the business cov ers about a half block. The North Carolina Provident and Mutual Asso ciation, which is a negro insurance company, owns all the real estate and those who back the insurance com pany own controlling interest in the various business places there. It is claimed for the insurance company that it is the largest negro company in the world and during the nine years that it has been in business John Merrick, the founder and pre sident says that it has paid out more than a half million dollars in bene fits. "With a very small beginning it has now stretched out f.nd covers the States of North and South Carolina. Recently when a $10,000 bond was needed in South Carolina the com pany promptly deposited that amount in ca-h with the treasurer of South Carolina. Mr. E. P. Wharton Resigns. Greensboro. Special. Much inter est in business circles attaches to the resignation of Mr. E. P. Wharton as president of the Southern Life and Trust Company, a position he has occupied since the formation of the company. He retires in order to de vote his entire attention to the American Exchange Bank, of which he is president, and other business enterprises with which he is connect ed. Mr. A. W. McAlister, formerly vice president, becomes president of Southern Life and Trust Company. He is succeeded as vice president by Mr. A. M. Scales, who has purchased Mr. Wharton's interest in the corpo ration. The Southern Life and Trust Company conducts a life insurance and a trust business. Mr. McAlis ter will remain at the head of the life insurance branch and the trust de partment will continue under the con trol of Mr. Scales. Raid on Moonshine Plant. Durham, Special. Revenue officers have returned from- a raid that was a success in landing- a moonshine plant on one side of the town and in petting a prisoner on the other. The distillery captured was about nine miles southeast of Durham. It was found running in full blast and be ing looked after by two negroes. They made their escapes by running as soon as the officers came in sight. The officers then cut up the still and other fixtures, cut down some ten or twelve fermenters and poured out about GOO gallons of beer. The still was of 75-gallon capacity. Live Stock Killed by Lightning. Clavton. Snecinl "MV J Tt TTar- rison's barn was struck by lightning luonciay. it killed two mules, a horse, a cow, a dog and stunned a mule colt. Mr. Harris is a well known fanner living about two and a nait miles south of this place. Increase in Charters. Raleigh, Special. The fact that there is a notable increase in the Dumber of charters now being grant ed by the State shows that there is alreadv imnrm'Pinpnf in financial o.nrx- ditionS. rjnctrvn nnnntw will nnntinup lead the State in the number of s cotton mills, these amounting to almost 50, two new ones having been bartered this week. Buncombe Robbers' Bold. Asheville, Special. The Swanna na section of Buncombe county was thrown into a fever of excitement 'en it became known that three rob beries had occurred in that section, en miles from Asheville, during the nioht and early morning and that at one place, a home occupied by ffo ladies, Mrs. Jones and her cous- Miss Chandler, the ladies were at tacked by two negroes, a knife thrown we head of one lady and the oth- U Slid fllrmrn orvoinef 1 TV! Tl fpnCP Negro Laborers Strike. Llnf-f,ll,tr., O : 1 Tl, r-..1j- l0e sewerage svstPTn wbi"li bas been pressing rapidly, was partly : - L,, tl Lt?J VVIXCii auuub I c e?ro laborers struck or higher aSPs. fjuild & Co., of Chattanooga, re the contractors and .they say that ?yin? $1 a day and struck for $1.25. U1.v aboiir. sit- Vi5in rPTtiamed at "Ji'k. VOL. XXX. PITTSBQRQ. CHATHAM COUNTY. N. a, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST HAPPENINGS CRIME UNHINGED HIS MIND. Negro Committed to Cherokee County Jail as Insane Confesses Murder Done in Georgia 20 Years Ago. Murphy, Special. Robert Brown, colored, was confined in the county jail, because of an unbalanced mind. Brown claims that the cause of his becoming insane is that he has been worrying over a murder he committed ninteen or twenty years ago near Bold Springs, Ga. Brown says his right name is George Jones, and that he shot and killed with a shotgun a colored man at a dance, whose first name was Frank. He says he can't remember the other name. He says at the time of the killing Cross Mo Han was -sheriff. Application has been made for Brown to be admitted to the State Hospital for the Col ored Insane at Goldsboro. Two New Cotton Mills. The Mount Holly Cotton Mills, of Mount Holly, Gaston county, was in corporated to manufacture yarns, cloths and all kinds of textile fabrics, also to buy, sell and deal in wares and merchandise. The authorized capital stock of the companv is $100, 000, of which $50,000 has "been sub scribed by the incorporators, H. A. Rhyne, E. R. Canon and A. P. Rhine, all of Mount Holly. The Adams Cotton Mills, of Mount Holly, were incorporated to manu facture yarns, cloths, etc. The au thoized capital stock is $100,000 but the company may begin business when $40,000 has been subscribed. The incorporators are H. A. Rhyne, E. R. Cannon and A. P. Rhyne, all of Mount Holly. Contact Tor Dredging. Wilmington, Special. At the of fice of Capt. Earl I. Brown, U. S. A., in charge of the corps of engineers for this district, bids were opened for dredging the waterway from Pamlico sound to Beaufort inlet, the amount available for the work under the ap propriation being $358,000. The low est bidder was the Maryland Dredg ing and Contracting Company, of Baltimore, at 10 3-4 cents a cubic yard for the whole. There were eight other bidders, including P. Sanford Ross, Jersey City ; Atlantic Dredg ing Company, Philadelphia; Coast wise Dredging Company-, Baltimore; John. Anderson, Gulfport, Miss.; R. G. Ross, Jacksonville, Fla. ; Atlantic Gulf and Pacific Company, ,New York, and the North American Dredging Company, New York. There were two classes of the work, but the Baltimore company was the lowest on both and the local engineer will re commend that the award be to the Maryland people. North State Items. A charter goes to the Duke Whole sale Grocery Company, at Duke, Har nett county, T. H. Webb and other stockholders. ' Yet another charter goes to the War Eagle Hydraulic Mining Com pany, at Golden, Rutherford county. It is to mine and sell minerals, etc., and also manufacture chemicals, the capital stock being $200,000. the chief stockholders being T. C. Stone and E. W. Carpenter, of Greenville, S. C, and F. L. Plaissance, of Golden. The State has re-printed volumes 88, 92, 121 and 126 of the Supreme Court reports, all - these having been annotated by Chief Justice Walter Clark. Governor Glenn appoints Capt. W. I. Everett, of Richmond county, to be director of the State penitentiary7, m place of Mr. W. E. Crosland, who died a few days ago. The Governor reappoints the direc tors of . the North Carolina Railroad, these being as follows : , Hugh G. Chatham, W. H. Williams, W. C. Brown, T. H. Vanderford, J. W. Lam bert, A. J. Ruffin, S. C. Penn and L. Banks Holt. The Governor commissions C. D. Bradham, of Newbern, a member of the State board of pharmacy to serve for five years from April 28th last. State Board of Examiners. Raleigh, Special. The State Board of Examiners met in the office of the State Superintendent of Public In struction to pass upon the examina tion papers of applications for five year State teachers' certificates and for high school teachers' certificates. The examinations were held through out the State, July 9th and. 10th. The members of the Board of Examiners are: J. Y. Joyner, chairman exrofficio; A. J. Barwick, Raleigh, secretary; John W. Graham, Warrenton; W. W WnlW. Cbanfil Hill- F. L. Stevents, Raleigh, and Z. V. Judd, j Raleigh. Prisoners Escape From Jail. -Henderson, Special. At an early hour while Mr. A. B.' Falkner was in the upper apartments of the jail at tending to his usual duties, three prisoners, all colored, Thompson, Satterwhite and Christmas, occupy ing the extreme lower north cell, made good their escape through an aperture 11x16 inches into the corri dor, through the main door which pp ned into the yard and street. PROUD OF BLOODY ACT Sensational Shooting in Raleigh The -Murderer Flees But Is Run Down by Members of His Own Race and After a Trial Placed in Jail. . Raleigh, Special. The combination of a jealous negro, a gun and a dead woman was the sensation here Thurs day. At 12:30 o'clock Simon Love joy, very blaek and aged about 40, who has been a hard-working fellow and who for the past nine years has consorted with Annie Martin, a ne gresu aged 35, and who has a son about half her age, went to the wo man's house, quarreled with her about another lover and then shot her, using a repeating rifle, in which he had only one cartridge. The bul let took effect in her head, making a most horrible wound, and as' soon as he saw his victim dying the mur derer dashed out of the house and made a run for the country. George Lane, a well-known negro in east Ral eigh, saw Love joy running and heard the shot and he haised the hue and cry. He and other negroes pursued and the man was chased through a truck farm, where he threw away his gun, presently getting rid of his coat and he was next seen in the pond in the old granite quarry. The quarry vva:; s'urrounded. Love joy was in the water up to his neck.' He was forced to come out by his captors, who be sides Lane were Ernest Riddick, Alexander Atwater and William Wal ton, and those brought him in a hur ry to the court house, followed by a great number of other negroes, feel ing being pretty high against Love-joy- . . : On arrival at the court house the murderer was instantly taken before Justice Harry Roberts, who commit ted him Avithout bail and in a few minutes he was in jail. The police had been telephoned of the murder and that a man was making his Avay toward the northeastern part of the city, so they went out on East Mai-tin street. Meanwhile Lovejoy had been taken on South street, about a mile from the Capitol, after he had run several hundred yards. Lovejoy exults in his crime. He laughed and said he killed the woman and, was glad of it. When the sher iff told him to stop talking and that le did not know what he was saying, he replied that he had fed and cloth ed the woman and that she had wash ed and cooked for him but that a man had come between them and that he was entirely' willing to be hanged for his deed. Gale Hits Wrightsville. Wilmington, Special. The, popu lation of Wrightsville Beach, resident and transient, had a bad fright with the fuller development of the north east storm that swept the coast early Thursday morning. The wind blew a gale for most of the night, many de claring the velocity fully as high as when the railway trestle across the sound was swept away and much damage dene to property in Septem ber two years ago. The disarrange ment of light and power wires on the beah early in the night added to the general confusion there and no elec tric cars were operated across the sound after 11:45 p. m. In order to provided safely for all on the beach in case of an emergency, the Tide water Power Company, which owns the traction line to Wrightsville," chartered a three-ear steam train from the Atlantic Coast Line and this was operated continuously all night, connecting with the electric cars on "Wrightsville sound. There was considerable excitement Wednesday night and many people came up to .the city. The storm did not reach the height of its fury .however, until between 9 and 10 o 'clock Thursday morning, when the tide was piled high on the beach by the strong northeaster and the surf broke over the southern end of the beach. The trestle remained intact during it all, though the steam train operated acro?s it up to an early hour in the evening had to move with extreme caution.' Practically air the inhabitants of the beach were off by 10 o'clock Thursday morning and many , of the visitors are quar tered on the sound side of the beach and at the hotels in the city. Thurs day night there were only a few per sons on the beach and these may leave at any time on the train which is kept in waiting in case of an emer gency. It is believed, though that the worst of the storm, is over. Steps and board walks about some of the cottages . have been washed away and a small cottage on the extreme south ern end of the beach, occupied by the family of Mr. A. A. Nathan since the burning of the Oecan View Hotel was blown down. The damage will not exceed $500. The Tidewater Power Company announces that the regular schedule of electric cars along the en tire beach front will be resumed on regular schedule in a day or two. Train Killd Deaf Mute. Durham, Special. The late after noon train from Keysville, Va., on tLe Southern Railway, struck and killed Willie Pigford, a colored deaf mute, one hundred yards from the union passenger station here. The negro was walking on the parallel Seaboard track and stepped in front of the passenger train on the South ern. He. had been here less than a week and came from Warsaw. A mute with him had a narrow escape. 5 MAIL CLERKS HURT A Car on Fast Southern Train Goes Down Embankment CLOSE CALL FOR PASSENGERS Palatial New York and New Orleans limited Wrecked Near Bessemer City Sunday Night, Tender of En gine and Postal Car Rumbling Down 25-Foot Embankment. Charlotte, N. '" C, Special. The Southern's New York and New Or leans Limited solid Pullman train No. 38, which is due to arrive in Char lotte at 9:25 o'clock, en route north, was wrecked four miles this side of Kings Mountain and one mile below Bessemer City Sunday night at 8:25 o'clock. The tender and a postal mail c,ir left the tracks and were hurled down the embankment which at this point is at least 25 feet high. Five mail clerks were more or less badly injured. Their names follow: E. W. Hortt, of Atlanta, Ga., in jured about head aud body. Thomas McRae, of Atlanta, Ga., badly injured. C. L. Dean, of Atlanta, Ga., bruis ed. E. H. Dawson, of Atlanfn dr, l bruised. ' D. P. White, of Gainesville, Ga., bruised. All of these clerks were in the wrecked mail car, which was not only thrown down the embankment was considerably torn up by the im pact with the heavy tender. It is a marvel that any escaped with their lives. All were more or les badiv bruised, one or tAvo perhaps intern ally. The extent of their iijuries could not be ascertained definitely owing to the inability to get in com munication Avitii tho?e in charge at the scene of the Avreck. Two surge ons Avent doAv:i on a combination wrecking train which left the South ern yards here shortly after the neAvs of the accident was received. The engine did not lea-e the tracks nor did any of the sleepers. Six Killed, in a Riot Uniontown, Pa., Special. Six dead and 25 others severally injured, some of them fatally, are the result of a riot early Monday betAveen Italians and Slavs at Gates, on the H. C. Frick Coke Company plants, near Masontown. There have been fac tional differences between the tA'o races for a long time. Saturday was pay day and until after midnight a large quantity of intoxicants Avas con sumed. Jacob Furnace, leader of the Italian faction, went to the gate of the Slav boarding house and defied its 25 inmate?. Immediately Fur nace and Molauski, leader of the Slavs. Avere engaged in a fight. An tiilo Ronco, another Italian went to the assistance of the former and this was the signal for a general fight. ReA-oh-ers began to crack and Raneo fell dead, struck, it is said, by a misdirected shot fired by Furnace, to whose assistance he had gone. The injuries of the 25 men consist of bullet Avounds through the bodv, arms and legs. The' most sericfus wounds Avere received by the Italians. Young Couple Drowned in Lake. .JamestoAvn, N. Y., Special. Miss Elsie Green, of Savannah, Ga., and Porter Parish, of Memphis, - Tenn., Avere run doAvn in a skiff about 40 rods of the Chautauqua pier on Lake Chautauqua by the steamer Chado koin and both Avere drowned. , The bodies haA-e not been reeoA-ered. The captain of the steamer says none of the crew saAv the boat and the first they kneAv of the accident Avas Avhen tney neard the girl scream. Woman Shoots Husband Who Whip3 Her. Canonsburg, Pa., Special. While whipping his wife during a domestic quarrel early Sunday Frank Talmer was shot through the abdomen by Mrs. Talmer. He Avas taken to,, a hospital probably fatally injured, while the woman is at her home iji an unconscious condition from' her injuries. Four Negroes Strung Up. Russellville, Ky., Special. Four negroes were taken from jail here early Saturday and hanged to a tree pn the edge of town. The mob was composed of about fifty men and the 'people of the toAvn kneAv nothing of the affair until daylight revealed the four bodies dangling from a tree just outside Russellville on the Nashville pike. The following note was found pinned on one of the bodies: "Let this be a Avarning to you niggers to let white people alone or you will go the same way. Hugh Rogers better shut up or quit." Lynched Negro's Victims Dies. Pensaeola, Fla., Special. Mrs. Lillian Dais, the victim of Shaw, the negro Avho Avas lynched Wednesday night, died Sunday night. The death of A. N. KnoAvles brings the total of dead up to four. Knowles, it is said, was one of the attacking party on the county jail and one of the first to be shot down by the deputies, the deadly fire from the Winchester rifles of the officers wounding him as well as many others. SHOT BY OFFICERS Fearful Tragedy Results From . Florida Lynching SEVERAL DEAD AND WOUNDED Negro Lynched, Two White Men Killed and Nine Wounded, Some Fatally, is the Sum Total of the Two Attacks by a Mob on the Jail. Pensaeola, Fla., Special. This city has quieted down somewhat after the excitement of Wednesday night. The fearful cost at which the negro, Lan 3er Shaw, was secured. and made to "answer the penalty of outraged peo ple, is greatly deplored and citizens are a unit in great sorroAv over the results, of the storming of the county jail. Mrs. Lillian Da'is, Shaw's victim, is in a. desperate condition and her life is despaired of. The wounded men in the night's battle are receiv ing every attention. The coroner's jury investigating the riot, found that Leander Shaw came to his death at the hands of men unknoAvn to them. The jury is also to investigate the death of Kellum, Avho Avas shot and killed in the scuf fle at the jail. Two men killed and nine Avounded, some of them fatallv. is ths of the clash betAveen the mob bent upon lynching Leander ShaAv, a ne gro, and the sheriff and his forces in Avhieh the mob finally OA-erpoAvered the authorities. y The lynching was carried out in the most prominent part of this eitv. Shaw assaulted Mrs. Lillian Davis, a highly-respected lady, near the city, during the absence of her husband, and after cutting her throat, almost from ear to ear, elubbed her OA'er the head Avith a revolveA-er, Avhieh he had taken from the house. During the afternoon Avhen it became known that the negro had been arrested crowds began forming upon the streets and early in the night theAv were rein forced bv lflrp-fi nnmb the country. The mob formed about 8 o'clock and made an attack on the countj' jail where the negro was con fined. The jail gate was broken down by the mob and the sheriff and his deputies opened fire. Three men dropped from the first volley of the sheriff's fire. Volley after volley was then fired by the, mob and the sheriff's force but the mob was repulsed. About midnight another attack was made, the mob haA-ing increased to one thousand men. The second at tack was successful for the. reason that it Avas made upon all sides of the jail. One party forced its way through the rear, overpoAvered the officers and secured the trembling ne gro. A noose was slipped about his neck and after being dragged for two blocks he Avas strung up to an elec tric light pole in the center of the park, where fully two thousand bul lets completely riddled his body. lhe dead are: Henry C Kellum, street car motor man. "Bud" Nichols, a planter. . The wounded are: Charlie Turner, probably fatally-, Joseph BreAvton, probably fatally; Jailor B. E. Eaton, probably fatally; "Bud" Knowles, probably fatally; Sheriff James C. Van Pelt, John Van Pelt, a brother; Fred Humphreys, W. P. Brownson, W. P. Bayliss. Probably a dozen or more others were slightly Avounded. The body of Shaw Avas cut down by orders of the authorities. The baby who was struck by the negro at the time he tried to kill the mother, it is said, will recover. News of the Day. G. Winthrop Sands, W. K. Vander bilt's stepson, Avas burned so badly under his automobile, near- Paris, that he died soon. v Portugal Republicans have intro duced an anti-clerical law. Acting Secretary Newberry re jected all bids for three new naval colliers, the Maryland Steel Com pany's bid being the lowest. A Turkish Parliment will meet November 17th. Aeronauts and scientists are form ing a national society of persons in terested in the navigation of the air. Samuel Gompers says the labor unions generally are indorsing his position in this campaign. The Virginia Corporation Com mission decided that express com panies must deliever liquors in "dry" territory if sold by retailers, but not if sold by. wholesalers. After becoming a union man and being under fire on a steamboat, William II. Taft left Cincinnati for Hot Springs, Va. Father Kills Children and Self. Providence, R." I. Special. Leonard Hendricks, aged 31, a' brewery work er, murdered his two' daughters, Anna, aged 5, and Lillian, aged 3, and took his own life with illuminating gas at his home. Hendricks was in sanely jealous of his wife and wuen the ' latter went for a visit, after he had objected to her going, became de spondent and planned the murder and suicide. mo 5. 1908 NO. 52. DOWN TO BUSINESS Chairman Mack Appoints the Campaign Committees TO MANAGE FOR DEMOCRATS Democratic National Chairman ' Ap points His Assistants, Preparatory to the Beginning of the Actual Work of the Campaign. Bualo, N. Y., Special. Norman E. Mack, chairman of , the Democratic national Committee, appointed com mittees to serre during the campaign. The members .of the labor committee are all members of the national. He will announce next week the commit tees on finance, press and speakers.' The appointment of a sub-committee for Eastern and NeAv York headquar ters Avill be 4 taken up upon the re turn of Chairman Mack to Chicago in f about a Aveek. The committees named are: Executive committee: Norman E. Mack, chairman, NeAv York ; P. L. Hall, vice chairman, Nebraska; Urey Woodson, Kentucky; Martin j. Wade, - Iowa; Josephus Daniels, North Carolina ; '.. Thomas Taggart, Indiana; John TV McGraw, West Virginia; George W. Green, Rhode Island; R. M. Johnson, Texas; Clark Howell, Georgia; T. E. Ryan, Wis consin; J. F. C. Talbott, Maryland; John'W." Tomlinson, Alabama; John E. Osborne, YvTyoming; James S. Kerr, Pennsylvania; F. B. Lynch, Minnesota; Edwin O. Wood, Michi gan; Nathan Cole, Jr., California; Robert Ewing, Louisiana; J. Harvey Garber, Ohio. Advisory Committee. Advisory committee : DaATid B. Francis, chairman, Missouri; J. G, Johr-son, secretary, Kansas; Alton B. Parker, New York; John Sharp Wil liams, Mississippi; Governor John A. Johnson, Minnesota; Senator C. A. Culberson, Texas; Senator John W. Daniel, Virginia; Senator Isadore Rayrier, Maryland; Governor George Chamberlain, Oregon; Hoke Smith, Georgia; John E. Lamb, Indiana; M. E. Ingalls, Ohio; Josiah Quincey, Massachusetts; George Earhart, New York ; Irving L. Handy, DelaAvare ; Archibald McNeil, Connecticut ; James K. McGuire, New York? J. K. O'Donness, Illinois; James E. Camp bell, Ohio. Labor committee: Martin J. Wade, chairman, Iowa ; Roger C. Sullivan, Illinois; T. E. Ryan, Wisconsin; Rob ert S. Hudspeth, New Jersey; W. A. RothAvell, Missouri; E. S. Johnson. South Dakota; Edwin A. New man, District of Columbia. Campaign text book committee : John E. Lamb, chairman, Indiana; Josephus Daniels, North Carolina; Richard' E. Metcalfe, Nebraska. , Negro's Home Blown Up. . Ensley, Ala., Special. The last mine outrage to occur was the blow ing up of the house of George Banks, a colored non-union miner. His Avife and children were thrown from the beds and the house ruined. Banks is a prosperous and respected negro. A number of prominent citizens held an impromptu indignation meeting and threatened lo make union min ers 'acate their houses here. Martial law seems imminent. Blown up by Buttermilk. Mason City, la., Special. That buttermilk is capable of becoming as dangerous a beverage as cocktails was proven here when a barrel of the former liquid exploded. A negro sit ting on the barrel was hurled a dozen feet through the air by the force of the explosion, but escaped without serious injury. Condition of Cotton Crop. Washington, Special. According to a special crop report issued at noon by the Department " of Agricul ture, the condition of cotton on Julj 2th was 83.0. per cent, of normal, as compared with . 81.2 on June 2th, 1908; 85.0 on July 25th, 1907; 82.9 on July 25th, 1906; and 81.4 average of condition on July 25th, of past ten years. Savannah's First Bale of Cotton.- Savannah, Ga., Special. The first bale of "factors cotton," or that received in the ordinary course of business for this season, was bought Thursday at the Savannah exchange by Murray M. Stewart for the Bryan Democratic Club. It was .immediately compressed, placarded and shipped to Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tam many Hall, New York. The placard announces that it is the first bale and concludes "As .surely as cotton is king, Bryan will be elected Presi dent.'? . Railroad Fined for Failure to Provide Proper Jim Crow Cars. Baton Rouge, La., Special. A $2, 000 fine was imposed on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad by District Judge Brunot, for failure to provide negro "passengers accom modations as good as those furnish ed white people. The matter was carried to cour by the State rail; road commission to sustain its rul ing that equal accommodations must be furnished both Jxet Ay Zbe (Ebatbam iRccort). RATES OF ADVERTISING: One Square, one Insertion. ;....$!. o One Square, two Insertions.... 1.5 One Square, one month........ a.09 For Larger Advertise ments Liberal Contracts will be made. Lute JVet&r In 'Brief 4 it MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST . . Thieves robbed a safe in Norfolk of $4,5000. Germans have organized an "Air Navy" League. Twenty-five men were downed in an Alpine tunnel. A balloon made a trip from Balti more to Hagerstown. .. President Fallieres was received afc Reval by Czar Nicholas. Troops were called out to quell rioting strikers in Bombay. The body of Bishop Henry CL Potter av&s taken to New York. William J. Bryan Avent to Omaha, where he joined another order. . King EdAvard welcomed . the Uni versal Peace Congress in London. West Virginia Democrats loudly cheered the name of Henry G. Davis. . William F. Walker, Avho absconded from NeAv Brittian, Conn., was taken back. Railway officials report many signs of business improA-ement in the South." ' The" murder of Baby Vaughn, at the City Home in Richmond, is still a mystery. Psideni Roosevelt took his first hofse back ride since going to Saga more Hill. Three person3 Avere drowned near Pittsburg crossing the MonOngahela in a launch. The German car in the Ncav York to Paris race arrived at- Berlin and left for Paris. - ' , ' Jacob II. Schiff made an appeal for public Avorks for the benefit of the unemployed. Clayton Sailing was shot dead through a window in a house near Gate City, Va. Hisgen and Graves herd the presi dential ticket of the nsv7 Indepen dence party. The Prince of Wales ., and Vice President Fairbanks attended a great review at Quebec. William J. Bryan will give out a statement in ansAver to Taft's speech of acceptance. A republican uprising in Lisbon was nipped in the bud by the Por tugese government. William H. Taft spent most of " the day with Ohio joliticians" figuring on how to treat Foraker. ' There is a plan on foot to combine 1 the Scandinavian and Russian steam ship lines to America. Lieutenant Oswalt, of the TAventy ninth Infantry, was electrocuted at Manila in a bathtub. Miss Amanda Morse, who was shot down on Campostella bridge, Norfolk, on Thursday night is dead. Democrats of the First West Vir ginia district may name Mr. Clarence W. Watson for Congress. The Richmond grand jury will in vestigate the murder of Baby Vau ghn at the City Home. The eight West Point cadets sus pended for hazing made a personal appeal to Secretary of War Wright. President Davila, of Honduras, has virtually expelled the American and other foreign Consuls from Ceiba. The Prince of Wales boarded the warship Indomitable preparatory to sailing from Quebec for England. A charter was granted the Roanoke Traction and Light Company by the Virginia Corporation Commission. . "Tad" -Smith, a negro identi fied by a white girl as her assailant, Avas burned by a mob in Texas. The trade mark and ' copyright treaty between America and Japan was passed by the privy council. The President called Secretary Wright to Oyster Bay to take up the case of the eight West Point hazers. Governor Hughes, of New York. announced his Avillingness to accept a re-nomination if the party : wants him. ' k William J. Bryan in an interview charges that Mr. Taft is not satisfied with the work of the Chicago plat for makers, and is making his platform to suit himself. ' The committee in charge has formu lated a plan to reorganize and re finance the former Morse ship com bine. The Sultan of Turkey proclaimed a constitution, driven to do so by the spread of the Young Turk move ment. William H. Taft was formally no tified at Cincinnati of his nomination ' as Republican candidate for Pres dent. The national committee of the In dependence party elected William R. Hearst as chairman, C. F. S. Neal, of Indiana,, and M. W. Howard, of Alabama, vice chairmen and Charles A. Walsh, of Iowa, secretary. Odell and Woodruff, New York Re publican leaders, have buried the hatchet, at least until after the elec tion. Indications are that Louis Bennett, of Weston, will be nominated for -Governor of West Virginia by the Democrats. President Roosevelt declined to comment on the remarks of "Judge Grosscup regarding the President's criticism of his court in the Stand ard Oil case. . I :