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EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION:
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STRICTLY IN ADVANCE
NORTH STATE HAPPENINGS
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Occurrences of Interest Gleaned From All Sectiou of the Busy
Tar Heel State
TOBACCO FARMERS IN CLOVER.
1H Crop this Year Is Very Gocd and
the Prices Exceptionally High
Great Breaks on Warehouse Floors
d Twin City.
Winston-Salem, Speeial. -Hundreds
cf farmers ; in tbif; schooner
' wagons, loaded to capacity, were in
the city last week, the tobacco ware
houses being filled long before day
light, so that hundreds of wagons
actually filled the streets in the vicin
ity for many blocks. It; looks cer
tain ti-.at the local market will see
record.- smashed this week.
Pricrs ruled high and firm, . the
ImviT- of the many firms showing
cinreuHPs to swell thevolume of big
Frocks that they have been already
buying". The leaf offered ranged from
ordinary to good, as a rule. The to
bacco hss been brought from several
adjoining counties besides Forsyth,
;r.:or.g them being Surry, Stokes,
!?nkir.sr'.:am and Yadkin.
The good tone at which the local"
rcan.ct n?.s held Since the season
started is making the farmers rush
their crops to the buyers as fast as
they en ii strip the weed. A tremen
cous crop is reported throughout this
eeeticn. yet many of the best-posted
men maintain that' good: prices will
prevail right along till next spring.
The panic did not effeet the con
sunprion cf tobacco, except to in
crease it. mamifacturers say, for a
rran Tray ceancmize on other things
but rot on the weed. In consequence,
the big manufacturers here are look
ing for the biggest sales, in their his
tory: in fact, they have been doing
a big business all along already.
Vn :a: ever hardship may' have been
felt from the panie, the tobacco farmer-
of this section are free of such.
They are in better condition; finan
cially, than ever, it is said by men-in
a position to know.
Verdict Per $20,000 Against A. C . I
Gcldsboro, Special. -In Superior
Court the jury returned a verdict for
$23,000 damages to John E. Walker,
cf Mount Olive, against the Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad for the loss of
both arms in an accident occurring
in the company's yards at Rocky
Mount. The amount sued for was
30.000. The plaintiff was represent
ed by Aycock & Daniels, W. T. Dortch
and J. D. Langston.
Durban Lady Found Dead in Bed.
Durham, Speeial. Mrs. Cornelia
Evans was found dead in bed at the
county home. The night watchman
built the fires as usual in the morning
and one of the inmates reported to
him the death of Mrs. Evans. Sne
had been entirely well all day and
death was unexpected. She had been
in the county home fourteen years
end never gave trouble though afflict
ed with a mental trouble. -
Robbed by Negro Youth.
Charlotte, Special. D. M. Beattie,
living twelve miles west of the city
v.as knocked down by a flfteen-year-c!d
colored boy, Jim Boulware, near
the Eattie home, Thursday afternoon
and robbed cf about twenty-five dol
lars. The negro was later arrested
in Charlotte. He is absolutely in
different about his apprehension and
wrdtg taking the money.
Looks Llko Patricide.
Kinstcn, Special. Thursday raoru
imr Abe Mason, a young negro man
while in a drunken condition slipped
up behind his aged father and struck
him a violent blow with a brick. The
eld man fell unconscious and has not
yet recovered sufficiently to give t.uy
recount cf the difficulty. Young
Mason was caught by the police.
Safe Carried Of and Blown Open.
Burlington, Special. Thieves en
tered the store of L. C. Crater, color
ed, in the suburbs of Burlington last
vcek and removed from the build
ing a small iron safe, taking it to a
neaiby field, where they knocked out
the bottom and escaped with the con
tents, which, acording to Crater's
statement, was $300.
Found Man's Bcdy.
Saturday night, while out 'possum
hunting near King Creek, Caldwell
county, a party of men found the
body Cf a man named Bunk Saunders,
who had been missing several days.
The deceased had, had a slight stroke
of paralysis- and partially recovered
and it is supposed he had another
attack while out walking alone in the
woods. He was about 45 years eld
end well to do farmer and a good
citizen. The coroner's jury re
turned a verdict to effect that the'de
ceased came to his death from npt
ural csusc-g,
Deed Bed? Feurd ia Ytri. -
Durham, Special. News reached
here cf the finding cf the dead body
cf Charles Latta in the . yard of
Stephens Faacette, who lives two
miles frcra Hiljsboro, Sunday morn
ing. The man was in Hillsboro Sat
urn ay and started home, his body be
mg found next morning. The
matter was investigated, but there
was no evidence of four play.
VOL. XXXI.
The Festivities Are Over.
Greensboro, Special. The Greens
boro centennial and home-coming fes
tivities are over they closed. Friday
night; Thus does Greensboro step
from one great event to another. The
week has been one of gayety, good
cheer and mirth. Saturday was a day
of politics. A large crowd gathered
here to see the leader of the Repub
lican forces and hear him speak.
For six days Sunday, Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday ' and
Friday the celebration of the one
hundredth anniversay of the birth of
the historic old town continued. For
more than a week the glad hand was
extended and the latch string left
hanging out, in easy reach of all who
would take it. Everywhere and all
the while it was "Howdy-do, we're
glad to see you. Make yourself at
home and stay as long as you like."
The crowds were large, sober and or
derly, but spirited and fatally bent
on taking chances chances on the
street cars, ehanees with the fakirs
and chances at the race track.
One accident a fearful one came
to mar the merriment of the occasion.
Thomas Dalton, the younger son 0?
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dalton, was dash
ed headforemost against a stone
curbing and perhaps fatally injured.
Young Dalton, just coming to man
hood, was a handsome, vivacious,
gallant boy, lovable, promising and
the darling of his parents.
Barring this sad accident all went
well. Two of the best parades and
one of the best fairs ever seen in the
State were given during the week.
Everything, even the elements, com
bined to make the days glorious.
There were receptions and receptions
but it-was almost impossible to get
about unless you happened to own
an automobile or a carriage. The
girls of the Greensboro Female Col
lege were at home for several hours
in their respective reception rooms
and the Merchants and Manufactur
ers' club played host. It was a gay
night socially. The men in silk hats
and dress suits and the ladies in even
ing gowns were flitting about until 1
o'clock. The marshals' ball, in
Neese Hall, closed the celebration.
The morning was devoted to the
City of Greensboro and the old vet
erans. Marchants' and manufactur
ers' floats and Confederate soldiers
formed a long and spectacular proces
sion and paraded through the streets.
Big Shipment of Tobacco From Surry
Elkin, Special. This has been the
greatest week for shipping tobacco
frcm this section ever known. Twenty-four
solid, carloads of leaf tobacco
have been shipped from here and
points this side of Donnaha to Win
ston this week. Monday there were
ninety-seven tierces weighing up
wards of 50,000 pounds packed and
shipped from this place. The crop
is unusually good this year and the
farmers are getting good prices.
Sheriff Howard Dead.
Oxford, Special. E. K. Howard,
sheriff of Granville county, died at
his home in Oxford Wednesday night.
He was buried at Elmwood cemetery
Oxford. He bad been in feeble health
for several months and his death was
not unexpected. He left a widow nnd
six children.
. Mother of Editor Stevens Dies.
Wilmington, Special. Mrs. E. E.
Stevens, mother of Editor C. L.
Stevens, of Newbern, died suddenly
at the family home at Southport,
aged 74 years. She is survived by
her husband, five sons and two
daughters.
North Carolina State Items.
A charter was issued to the Boniei
& Western Railroad Company, prin
cipal office Causey, Chatham county,
to extend fourteen miles through
Chatham and Randolph counties to
a point on Deep River. The capital
is $150,000 and the incorporators C.
C. Burns, J. H. Dunlap, W. T. Brooks.
C. M. Andrews and others.
Japanses Helil Without BaiL
Charlotte, Special. Henry Yama
guchi, the Japanese acrobat and man
ager of Haw Bros, London show who
murdered a fellow countryman at
Newton, this State, confessed, his
crime to the authorities, declaring
that he killed Kitsuchi because the
latter had mistreated two litle Japan
ese girls connected with the shOw:
and for whose safety he was respon
sible. After shooting his victim five
times he beat his head into a jelly
with a stone. Following a preliminary
hearing Yamaguchi was held without
bond for the nest term of Catawba
superior court.
The Boykin-Townscnd Realty Co.
of Wilson, with $2,000 total author
ed and $2,000 J" subscribed capital
stock1, was chartered, the incorpdra
tors being D. S. Boykin, M. J. Boy
kin andR. Townsend, "of Wilson..
A charter was issued to the Louis
burg Hospital (inc.,) of. Louisburg,
with $25,000 authorized, and $3,500
subscribed capital stock. The incor
porators are: W. J. Pate, J. F. Me
Nair and K. A. Blue, of Louisburg.
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PITTSBORO..GHATHAM COUNTY. N. C., WEDNESDAY.' OCTOBER 21. 1908 NO. 11.
ROOSEVELT TO GO ABROAD
The London Times Learns That the
President Will Lecture at Oxford
and Receive a Degree After His
African Trip Will Also Visit
Paris.
London, By Cable-The Times is in
formed that President Roosevelt will
visit England after his African trip
early in 1910. He will deliver the
Romanes lecture at Oxford, and, on
the occasion of the university com
memoration, will receive the honorary
degree of D. C. L., wh'ich Oxford
already has bestowed upon Emperor
William.
According to The Times President
Roosevelt also will visit Paris and
deliver an address at the Sorboune.
Neither the dates nor the subjects of
the lectures are yet known.
. The Times further states that ac
cording to the present plans Mrs.
Roosevelt will join the President at
Khartoum on the journey north
ward. Alleged Lynchers Dismissed.
Washington, Special. On motion
of Solicitor General Hoyt the Su
preme Court of the United States
ordered the discharge from custody
of seventeen of the twenty-seven de
fendants in the proceeding charging
Sheriff James F. Shipp, of Hamil
ton county, Tennessee, and twenty-
six others with contempt of the Su
preme Court because of the lvnch-
ing in 1905 of a negro named Ed
Johnson after the court had taken
sognizance of his case. ' Most of the
dismissals were based on the failure
of. the testimony to identify the de
fendants with the crime. Following
are the names cf those who profit by
the court's order: Paul P1, T. B.
Taylor, William Beeler, John Jones,
Marion Perkins, C. A. Baker, Claude
Powell, Charles J. Powell, A. J. Cart
wright, R. F. Cartwright, John Var
nell, Joseph Clark, Fred Fraulcy,
Paul or "Sheenie" Warner, Alfred
Hammond, William Marquette and
George Brown. In the case of Pool
it was stated that he bad disappeared
from Chattanccga immediately after
the. lynching and had never since
been heard of. The court also order
ed the publication of the testimony
in the case taken by Commissioner
Maher.
Status of Foreign Missions. Shown
in American Board's Meeting.
New York. Special. Reading of
reports showing the work done at
home and abroad during the year
and thd appointment of committees
and nominations and business, took
up the first dav of the ninety-ninth
annual convention cf the American
board of commissioners for foreign
missions in Brooklyn.
Frank H. Wiggins, treasurer of the
board, submitted a report showing
the financial condition at the close of
the fiscal year. -The general mainte
nance of missions, it appears from
the report, involved an expenditure
of $SS1,254, or $2,075 more than
during the previous year. -
The income of the board during the
same period was $337,999. Mr. Wig
gins' figures showed that the indebt
edness was $79,891.
Decllres Call to .Washington.
Washington, Special. Giving as a
controlling reasons that his work in
Boston, Mass., is unfinished. Rev. Dr.
Alexander Mann, rectorof Trinity
Episcopal church, of that city, has de
clined the position of bishop of Wash
ington to succeed the late Rt. Rev.
Henry Y. Satterlee. . Dr. Mann's de
clination was communicated in a let
ter received from him. Another con
vention will be called to fill the a
canoy. f
Gets Life Sentence fcr Killing Wo
'. nan.
Opelika, Ala., Special. The jury
n the trial of Uhland Culpepper,
charged with the murder of Mary El
yin Hader, who was shot and killed
near.Phoenix City several weeks, ago,
by a bullet believed to have been in
tended for her father, returned a ver
dict of guilty. Clupepper was sen
tenced to. life imprisonment.
Wed at 102; Died at 110.
Seneca Falls. N. Y., Special. Mrs.
Charlotte Decker is dead here. ' She
was 110 years eld. Her father, God
frey Reals, was a volunteer in the
Colonial army and served until the
colonies were free. She remembered
the year1813, when no grain could
be raised and it was sold for $5 a
bushel. In June 1900, Mrs. Brainard
was married to Samuel Decker, her
third husband, the other two being
dead. He was then C2 and . Mrs.
Decker 102. She had ; but one child,
which died in infancy.
Bids for gms&ah City Bends
" Open&l
Savannah, Ga., Special. Bids were
opened for $2,610000 of city of Sa
vannah bond, be'a'ring interest . at
4 1-2 per cent, and maturing in 1930.
Thirty-four bidders subscribed for
$27,269,000 worth of bonds. The
award of the issues will be made this
week. The Mutual Life Insurance
Company of New York will probably
get $1,000,000 of the bend?,
Ay u
DEMOCRATIC FUNDS
Committee Publishes Amount
of Money Received
ALSO DISBURSEMENTS TO DATE
Official Exhibit of Funds Collected by
the Democratic National Campaign
Committee.
New York, Special. -The Demo
cratic national committee through
Treasurer Herman Ridder gave out
an extended statement of the contri
butions to the Democratic national
campaign fund up to and including
Uctober 9th, showing sums of and
over $100. The statement'also shows
receipts and disbursements as fol
lows: Received from contributors of $100
and over, $90,712.23.
Received from contributors under
$100, $115,355.22.
Amount left over .from Denver con
vention fund, $42,500.00.
Total, $248,567.55.
Amount disbursed, $225,962.33.
Balance on hand, $22,604.67.
The statement which is signed by
National Chairman Mack and Treas
urer Ridder says that 343 subscrib
ers gave $100 or more, and the smaller
sums were from 25 cents up. It
adds:
"The number of contributors to
the national campaign fund is esti
mated at about 50,000 people and
about $100,000 of the whole amount
contributed came from the Democrat
ic newspapers throughout the United
States".
t The Congressional Fund.
Chicago, Special. The Democratic
congressional campaign committee
made public the list of contributions
of $100 or over. They appregate
$1,744, while smaller contributions
bring the total up to approximately
$20,000. .
James Lloyd, chairman of the
congressional committee, states that
in order to complete the work the
committee is in urgent need of at
least $15,000. The announcement
continues:
"The Democratic national congres
sional committee received prior to
the Denver convention in contribu
tions of $100 and over, the sum of
$3,500. It has received in sums of
$100 and over in addition to the above
amount for which it makes specific
report on account of the action of
the Denver convention in regard to
the publicity of campaign funds, the
following amounts:
"Congressman R. C. Davey. Louis
iana, $100; D. E. Finley, South Caro
lina, $100; E. W. Saunders, Virginia,
$100; Morris Sheppard, Texas, $170;
Jack Beall, Texas, $100; J. G. Mc
Menry, Pennsylvania, $100 ; C. H.
Weisse, Wisconsin, $110; J. J. Rns
sell, Missouri, $218; Thomas Hack
ney, Missouri, $100; John M. Goode,
Texas, $100; D. W. Hamilton, Iowa,
$100; Champ Clark, Missouri, $220;
G. M. Hitchcock, Nebraska, $100; C.
V. Fornes, New York, $100; T. D.
Nichols, Pennsylvania $100; Henry
T. Rainey, Illinois, $100; Francis B.
Harrison, ,New York, -$200 ; Lincoln
Dixon, Indiana, $100 ; D. L. D. Gran
ger, Rhode Island, $100: H. D. Flood,
Virginia, $100; Rufus Hard v, Texas,
$100 ; United States ; Senator W. J.
Stone, Missouri, $100; Henna nRid
der, New York, $250 ; W. G. Conrad,
Montana- $250 ; and 'Democratic na
tional committee, $3,000. There has
been $3,089 additional received from
individuals and committees for frank
able literature.
English Balloon May Be Winner.
- Berlin, By Cable. Seventeen of the
balloons which competed in the in
ternational race have landed. Four
are still missing and it is feared have
been driven seaward. The. English
Banshee landed farthest -from Berlin
going approximately three hundred
miles. She will be the winner unless
one of the missing balloons has gone
a further distance.
Gets 20 Years. For" Murder.
Reading, Pa., - Special. Abraham
Rosenthal, ef Philadelphia, who was
convicted a month ag of the murder
of Lewis B. Clawson, a wealthy shirt
manufacturer, was denied a new
trial .in court and sentenced to 20
years imprisonment. He . appeared
as if stunned for a time, but quickly
recovered his composure. Clawson,
who' was Rosenthal's brother-in-law,
was mureded in his office last Febru
ary. Rosenthal fled and was cap
tured in Oklahoma. Rosenthal is
about S9 yeara old.
IU Ferlii el Aeronauts.
- Berlin, By Cablc:--A report receiv
ed ftoraJHeiigoland says the .balloon
Castilla one"; pi the compefcUowf'in- the
ipteoatipnal race fell into the North
sea near lhat city' and both aeronauts
were rescued with difficulty. Four'
other balloons are still missing and
little doubt remains that they have
fallen either into the North Sea or the
Baltic, and that the aeronauts are
drowned.
TAFT IN THE SOUTH
Republican Nominee Makes a
Number of Speeches
MEETS A-CORDIAL" RECEPTION I
Eon. Willian H. Taft. Makes Poiittetf!
campaign in North Carolina- iO
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vlrginiaCrcetcd by Sthnsiaatts j
Ciwcii at StatesviUff, Salisbury,
Jjeslngton, Hish Point and Reidss
ville, Ending Southern Tour ta
Richmond.
Greensboro. N-C.. SDeeiall Hon!
William Howard Taft, ReDubiican.'!
candidater for President; elosed his:
dav" HN Cf here. Stur-.
day. Ho was . cordially received ac
all nninfa wk. .. i.:. .
speeches were attentively listened toi
by Republicans and Democrats. j
First Stop at Statcsville. )
Mr. Taft was up bright and early.
Saturday morning. His first speeck
was made at Statesvillo at 7:3(.
o'clock. ; Several hundred peopl.sJ
heard him there. Being presented bv-.
Mr. J. Elwcod Cox, he said:
3pwn.c auu 111;-. .
"Ladies and Gentleman; I am glad
to ccme into the State of North -ear-'
olina this beautiful October morn
ing and to receive this cordial reeep--tion.
Complaint is very often heard'.!
on the part of your people, that North;
Carolina is Eot given her part in the;
administration of the government..
She is. not. She has able men, but as.;
long as you are going to vote for the
Democratic ticket and the Republi
can party is in power, I don't se:
how these gentlemen who do the vot-j
ing can expsqt to share in the poweiJ
In other words, let tbem vote as they;
think and then we will wipe out sec
tional lines. It is a srreat Dleaiureh
for me to come here because T thinlr
i x itaiueiii mm ever came im
v t ; ,1 i. jL-i - .
North Carolina cn a campaign for
the presidency, and I am here for thtv
purpose of testifying to the South my
interest in that section, my earnest
desire to unite it with the North, air1
mv hope that the Republican party
will be built up in North Carolina, so.
that it may well have its full repre
sentation in the executive councils of!
the nation. I thank you for -your
kindness in coming here and I ap-;
preciate your Southern connrtesy;"
At Salisbury and Greensboro Mr.
Taft said in part:
"It is a great pleasure to come in
to North Carolina. I have studied
the statistics of North Carolina and:
her marvelous growth with intense
interest. I know a good many of
jcur North Carolinians, and every
time a man from North Carolina le'amw
into my office in Washington when t
was Secretary of War, he had not
been there more than five minutes be-
fore he put his hand in his pocket,
pulled put a paper and began to read:
atid what he read was the statistic
of the growth cf business of North
Carolina, go that it impressed itself
upon me. For instance, your factory
products in 1900 were $85,000,000. Iuj
five years they had increased, in -1905,
to $152,000,000. In' 1905 you"" had
employed 36.000 persons in ;Tour cot-
ton mills. Your cotton manufactures
had increased from $9,000,000 in 139ft
to $2S,000,000 in 1900, to $47,000,00ft
in 1905; also that you are second icy
rank of manufacture of tobacco; you
are third in the rank of manufaetur-v
ers of lumber and timber products,!
iou make m one of your cities in tlua
State nearly as much as they make
in Grand Rapids, Mich., in furniture.
I am giving j-ou these figures merely
to point out that unless we continue
to have a protective tariff, most of
these industries will be destroyed and
the wealth that you have accumu
lated has been accumulated by reason,
of the policy insisted upon by the Re
publican party in respect to the tar
lilr. And J'et how many electoral,
votes have you cast in North Carolina
for the Republican party? Soinppody
racy have a better memory than X
have, but I don't recall a single one.
I ask you, my frieds, whether them;
i3 ay reason under the existing cir-
cumstances why, if you believe- i
Republican policies, you ought no' to
vote the Republican ticket? You have
a Slate ticket and a. congressional
ticket that is unexceptional. I am
tot going to speak about the national
ticket because l nave a personal re
lation to it. But the national ticket
is a Republican ticket and pledged
to carry out Republican policies- I
submit to these who have stood in
I he Democratic party in North Caro
lina that there is absolutely no rea
pon now whv if they favor Republi
can policies in the nation they should
not vote as they think. Now it is a
great pleasure and honor to me to be
the first Republican candidate for the
presidency who has come to North
Carolina in a campaign for that great
effice. , I have come here because I
deeply sympathize with the South. I
am anxious that it should take its
place at the council board of tho' na
tion. I cm anxious that you. should
sscrsiss the isfiuence through your
abid fine! great Ken, c wbcia you kve
mauy,iri the same way that Ohio and
Indiana and New York and Massa
chusetts do. But,- my dear friends,
if you are going simply from historic
tradition to keep voting tho- Pamo-
exajc ticket "because you think that
your fathers voted that way, then you
are bound to stay on the outside and
look in at others enjoying the power
in the executive councils of the na
tion. It is not possible otherwise.
V
'Unman nature and party politics are
such as to make that necessary, and
I appreciate the homogeniety of the
.Southern people. I know their fam
ily tradition. I know their conser-
i'"varism', and their adherence to soine
l, thing just out of respect, to their an-
ccjsiyjf uui un me oiner nana mey
are enterprising, progressive, cour
ageous people in everything but pol
itics, and 1 think it is time that they
began in politics to show the same cn-
lerPnse tnat.tney do m manuraqtur-
ing iurmture ana 'in reRcnmg out o
develop the enormous wealth of North
Carolina.
Southern Acroplaaiat Falls With Ma
chine, But Escapes Injur?.
Chattanooga, Tcnn., Special. In an
attempt at flight in an aeroplane Fri-
9 day - M- Mallory, of this city, the
inventor, fell fifty feet with his ma-
B chine ,but escaped with a few slight
fcl.uises. Mallory 's aeroplane" was
rt ,, , , ,
B partially wrecked. The inventor an-
p A il. i l,
uounced that he would rebuild his
machine and try it again. This is
the first attempt at aerial flight in the
South.
The Power of a Rockefeller.
Utica, N. Y., Special. The Post
master General has just issued an
order putting out of existence the
Derring postoffice and turning the
business of the office over to the post
master at Bay Pond, seven miles
distant. This is an office on the
private property of William Rocke
feller, who objected to having people
cross his grounds to get to the office.
The people are very indignant at the
closing of their office at the behjst
of Rockefeller and are getting up
petUions of protest.
Reforms in Cotton Futures.
New Orleans La., Special. With
instructions to make reforms in the
cotton futures contract of the New
Orleans cotton exchange, a committee
was appointed b ymembers of the
exchange. The committee will confer
with farmers, brokers and cotton
spinners throughout the South and!
will also investigate the action of
directors of the exchange in elimi
nating stained cotton below middling
as tenderable grades on future con
tracts. NOTES 1T.OM ACUOSS UK AS. ,
China is buying lumbt from Brit
ish Columbia.
New Zealand is a good market for
timber and lumber. .
Chile should be avoided by emi
grants, warns the UritisH Consul
General.
Japan has arranged to build in her
own yards two battleships of 2S,00!)
tons each.
Brazil ia borrowing $10,000,000 -
In Paris for railway purposes at five
per cent, interest and a faca discount
of 6i per cent.
Oil discoveries In Orange River
Colony, South Africa. sem import
tant. A broad oil bgU Etretches
across tha colony.
Newfoundland'. fishery ntloolc
this season is unfavorable, A nuni
ber of rchooners bava returned be
cause of poor fishing,
Italy during the nert sixteen years
will spend $107,000,000 to construct
992 miles of new reads as well as to
improve existing reads.
There is a great demand in China
for lead. it is used in several
Chinese manufactures, but chiefly
for lining tea chests for export,
Great Britain imports oyer S33,
000,000 worth of egss a year from
Russia, Donm&rlr, German', Bel
glum, Canada, and the United Slates.
The railways of Great Britain have
$5,300,277,968 paid up capital, Their
net earnings Ja 1907 amounted to
$218,379,821 cut ot $331,404,673
gross earnings.
New Zealand's postal money order,
postal savings and telegraph business
i3 increasing fast; 6,750,000 more
letters in-1907 than in 1908s parcels
post increased by J, 250.000; $13,
040,000 dsposits in postal savings
banks in three mnnthss money orders
increased by $510,000,' 1,736,000
telegram sent in three months, a4
increase of 13,000,
Tricks cf the Parte Beggar
This city is the happy hunting
ground of the beggar, and especially
at the New Year. He stops you at
every corner of the street; he tries
to hand you out of your carriage tha
moment you step before shop or res
taurant. -It is partly the influence ol
the season, but it is an evil that 13 al
ways with us more or less. Some
have quite ingenious tricks to tempt
the pity of the passer by.
One lady, who is well known, de
clares every evening at the Gara St.
Lazare to any sympathetic looking
stranger that She is a governess, and
has lost her" purse-, and would the kind
gentleman lend her . thirty centimes.
"And be pleased to give me . your
card," she adds, "so that I may re
turn the money." The ruse generally
succeeds, but the mendicant has never
been known to take the omnibus, ex
cept at the close of a profitable eve.
nlng, when ih has probably victim
led a dozen gocd natured persens
Another wemaa who plies her s1bj?iv
it industry fa the Place de la Con
cofdi, addreiieji htrielf excluslvaly
fa he? ewa M. Ai ft result, iba eh
talis fti ffiush m five cr ten Ime
rtim J.Jilly matrons who afe touched
by r etcry.
At the New Year the usual crop A'
beggars is so Immensely increased
that one supposes thlt the' compara
tively well o2 must descend into tt-
street to try their luck. No doubt it
s a "metier" that has 4ta fascination'
specially If it be but temporary.-
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DROPS INTO OCEAN
American Balloon With Jwq
Aeronauts f a'Js
RESCUED BY GERMAN STEAM B
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Balloon, 65. Louis, Collapses' and. Falls
...I&ta North gca. .Ihirty JslUes from
: LandSnyeJopsJ in the rojda ol
the Bacn, Two Ken are fcessueq
With Great Difficulty.
'Berlin, By Cable. The . St. Louiaj
one of the three American balloon
to start in the international race, fell
into-the North Sea Tuesday night, be
tween Heligoland and Wilbeimshav
en, thirty miles from the shore. Th
St. Louis was piloted by E. II. Ar
ncld, who, with his assistant, XL. J,
Hewat, was rescued by a German
steamship passing at the time. .
Arnold and Hewat wero enveloped
in tfie folds of. the balloon when Tea
cued. They would have been forced
under water in a short time. The
rescue was effected with the greatest
difficulty.
The aeronauts did . not know that
they were ow.r sea until they heard
the sound of the waves, the waters
being " obscured by a thick fog that
hung at a low level. A rapid fall in
temperature eaused a shrinkage of
the balloon envelope and - it began
gradually to descend. Alarmed, th
aeronauts began throwing out every
thing ia the balloon to lighten it, but
continued to sink and finally struck
the water with a splash. The men
telegrsphcd the-race committee that
they were safe and uninjured.
This is the second sensational aoci
dent cf American entrants. Shoitly
after the start Augustus Post and
A..H. Forbes fell four thousand feet,
having a miraculous escape from
death.
CROP CONDITIONS.
Washington, Special. The corn
crop condition on October 1st was 77.3
per cent, spring wheat quality 83.1
per cent, total production of spring
wheat was indicated as 233,090,000,
the yield per aero averaging 13.2
bushels, combined production spring
and winter "wheat indicated as about
059,030,000 bushels of 89.4 per cent,
quality eud the oat crop quality was
81.3 per cent, the production being
789,161,000 bushels with yield per
acre averaging 24.9 bushels according
to the Department of Agriculture
crop report issued Wednesday.
The corn condition is against a ten
year average on October 1st of 79.7,
The average yield of spring wheat if
against a six-year average of 85.9,
The final estimate of average yield of
oats per acre is asrainst a ten-vea
! average of 29,ff and quality 88,1 for
ten vears.
The decline in. condition
of corn
during September was about two per
cent, as compared with an averaga
decline the past ten years of 1.6 per
cent. In Southern corn States the
condition on October 1st and ten-yea?
overage, respect pi vely, of corn foJ
lows j
Texas 83 and 73; Georgia 84 and
82 Kentucky 75 and 83 Tennessea
83 and 80; Alabama 83 and 80; North
Carolina 82 and 82; Arkansas 79 and
77; Mississippi 81 and 78,
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Opening of State Fair,
Raleigh, N. C, Special.The forty,
eighth North Carolina State faif
opened at neon Tuesday with an ad
dress by State Auditor B. F. Dixon,
The crowds were unusually large tor
the ODening day, and he exhibits and
special features were of an except
tionally high oredr. Dr. Dixon's ad
dress was characteristically pleasing
and appropriate. He termed the faif
one of the greatest educational in
stitutions of the State, which was "an
object lesson of industrial progress
Jn line with the great work done a
the Agricultural and Mechanical CoU
lege and the State Normal and In
dustrial College, at Greensboro,
Virginia's First Electrocution.
Richmond, Va., SpecialThe elec
trie chair was the substitute hanging
at the execution Tuesday of Henry
i Smith, a negro rapist, who was elec
trocuted at 7:30 Tuesday morning.
The law forbids the publication of
details. The prisoner died in thirty
seconds. He was convicted of an un
speakable crime.
Hunters Find Man's Dead Body.
Lenoir, N. C, Special. While out
'possum hunting in King's Creek
township, this county, a party of men
and boys came up on the dead body
of a man Saturday night, which prov
ed to be that of one Bunk Sanders,
who lived in the neighborhood. Fo
several days the man had been miss
ing, but no one thought he had died.
He was a pretty well-to-do farmer
a good citizen, and for many years
had been a magistrate in that com?
rnnnity. The deceased was about 4q
years of cge. The eoroner'g jury
returned a verdict to the effect iha
ho died from natural causes.
Ex-
Danville, Va., Special. A report
received late Tuesday night from.
Mayo, a watering station about tmm-ty-five
mileji from Danville, says thatt
a local freight engine on the Southern
Railway exploded killing the engines
and injuring the fireman and several!
of the crew. A special train carry
ing surgeons left the city for the
scene and the injured will be brought
to this city. J