!e cbatbam 'Record.
ttbe Cbatbam "Recort.
H A. LONDON
EDITOR AND PBOPRTETOR.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION:
Si. 50 Per Year
STRICTLY IN ADVANCE
PRE AT FORT WORTH
Destroys $5,000,000 Worth
of Property.
SIX LIVES WERE SACRIFICED
a
Tire Breaks Oat in Fashionable Resi
dence District, Gets Beyond Con
t?ol Within Fifteen Minutes
pjnamite Effective Assistance
is" Rushed From Neighboring
For? Worth, Tex., Special. Fan
ned by a stiff wind, a fire in the
south', m portion of this city Satur
day afternoon swept over an area of
ten Mocks in length and seven in
vidt'u. destroyed property roughly
estimated in value, to be in excess of
$,'),000.C00. and caused the death of
six persons.
The tire, which broke out in a fash
ionable resident district, was beyond
all control within 15 minutes after it
started, and was not checked until
dvnaniite was resorted to, four hours
later.
The spread of the flames was not
checked until they had eaten their
vav to the Texas & Pacific Railroad
resrvation on the east. On the south
the fire was checked at the Texas Pa
cific passenger station, this steel and
stone structure forming a bulwark
that saved the wholesale district of
the city, which at one time wasjin im
minent danger of destruction.
A patient whose identity has not
been learned, perished in "Walker's
Sanitarium and three men were elec
trocuted and their bodies burned to
cinders in the Sawyer, electric plant.
Herbert Stacy was fatally bvrned in
an endeavor to save his dwelling, and
a fireman, fell from a house top and
was killed.
It is estimated that 500 families
are homeless. Many of these have
gone to Dallas, where shelter has
been offered.
A party of small boys carelessly
handling cigraettcs is believed to
have been the cause of the fire.
SULLY'S FLAN.
Would Save Great Sums to Cotton
Farmers The Warehouse Plan
No Faith in it Say Augusta Cotton
Exchange Men.
Atlanta, Ha., Special. Daniel J.
Sully, the one-time great cotton bull
manipulator of New York was here
Friday and set forth a scheme by
which he claims .$ 150.000,000 to
$250,000,000 may be saved to the
raisers cf cotton in the South. -
He said. "A minimum fund of
$10,000,000, subscribed by the most
conservative financiers of the United
States, is available to be invested in
inch iron-clad securities as shall in
sure the ability and the responsibil
ity of the plan's promoters to redeem
their promises and obligations to the
lat detail.
'The people of the South will ba
given the first opportunity to invest
in this project, if, upon receiving it,
it commends itself to their judg
ment." The plan contemplates a chain of
warehouses across the South suffi
cient to hold one-third of the cotton
crop and thereby enable fanners to
store. their cotton and draw small
amounts upon it to enable them to
sell at will instead of by compulsion.
A Savannah special of Sunday
however, says the plan does not com
mend itself to the cotton factories
there. They claim that the scheme
is not practical or it would have been
Adopted already through the Far
ners' Union without the aid of Sully.
Lney claim that no improvement may
W expected from this source.
Silled in Duel With Offlsera,
Htg-erald, Ga., Speoial.Hobert
Gfesham was killed early Sunday
uyrning in a pistol duel with Chief
cr Ponce Brubokfiv and Patrolman
Jonnson. The man was being hunt
Jd ? the officers and fired upon them
worn a hiding place in a dark alley.
e officers jointly opened Are and
Oresham fell wjth four bullet
bounds.
ffcree-Ccraered Duel in Streets of
Georgia Town.
Haztdhmst, Ga., Special. Eugene
find J. L. Williams, brothers, were
"hot down on a street of this place
bv "V. T. Stowe-s, formerly of Con
yjrs, Ga.. J. T. Williams being proba
cy fatally hurt. The brothers are
fibers of the firm of Jarman &
"Jlnams. It was stated that Stow
ers Lad given this firm a eheck the
came would not honor; that Eugene
flemanded the money and a fight re-fulU:1-
J- L. Williams went to his
brother
s rescue, it is alleged, when
Covers drew his pistol.
Whole Jury Panel Unfit For Services
;-v Orleans, Special. In the
enoinal district court Thursday
Jige F. D. Chretien dismissed the
entire jury panel on motion of Dis-
"let A t tm-n air A x i J
nat the panel as a whole had shown
Si c nfit for service 5 that although
olJie presented clear cases
gainst a number of accused persons
ws unable to secure any convic
ts before the jurors. . ... ....
VOL. XXXI.
WAR INJONDURAS
Guatemala and Honduras Again at
the -Old Game of War Situation
Viewed With Alarm in Mexico
Presidents of Both Republics Ask
ing Explanations of Each Other.
Mexico City, Special. Private
telegraphic advices received here
Tuesday are to the effect that Guate
mala has concentrated a large portion
of her army on the Honduran fron
tier. The Honduran minister to Gua
temala demanded an explanation and
was told that President Cabrera de
sired to check the exiled Honduran
revolutionists from crossing the bor
ier and fomenting- an uprising
against General Davila, President of
Honduras. This concentration of
troops has not been confirmed from
other quarters. -
The situation in Central America is
regarded in Mexico City with pessim
ism in spite of various denials of
hostile intention. The latest reported
move on the part of Cabrera is
thought to have been taken to check
mate President Zelaya, of Nicaragua,
ind President Davilia, who are said
to contemplate a joint assault on
Guatemala.
Servia Accepts Note.
Belgrade, By Cable. The formula
agreed upon by the powers of Europe
ind Austria-Hungary for the settle
ment of the dispute between the dual
monarchy and Servia, was accepted
by the Servian government Tuesday.
The formula was presented to the
Austrian government to the following
effect :
"First, Servia declares that her
rights have not been violated by the
annexation by Austria-Hungary of
Bosnia and Herzegovina, and accept
the powers' decision to annul para
graph 25 of the Berlin treaty; second,
Servia will not protest against the an
nexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina;
third, Servia will maintain peaceful
relations with . Austria-Hungary;
fourth, Servia will return her military
forces to normal conditions by dis
?harging the reservists and volunteers
and she will not permit the formation
of irregular trcops or bands."
This note has been prepared at the
suggestion of the powers and will be
lent with the object of terminating
all misunderstandings between Austria-Hungary
and Servia.
Woman Prevents Lynching.
Chillicothe, Mo., Special. Lynch
ing of two men accused of shooting
and mortally wounding Marshal Cara
way at Jamesport Monday was pre
vented by Mrs. James Wood, the wife
if a farmer living near Jamesport.
The men had been wounded by a
posse of farmers.' A rope had been
procured and the farmers were string
ing up the prisoners in the yard of
the Wood home when Mrs. Wood
pleaded with the leader of the posse
to permit the law to take its course.
Her plea prevailed and the men were
taken to the jail at Gallitin, Mo.
Farmers have followed the third sus
pected man to the Grand river bot
toms, seven miles northwest of Chil
licothe. Makes Valuable Discovery.
Minneapolis, Minn., Special. Dean
George D. Frankforter, of the College
of Chemistry of the University of
Minnesota, says he has made a dis?
covery by which he claims that the
United States will produce a hundred
times as much wood pulp paper as
was believed possible. It is causing
interested discussion here. It is cer
tain that the discovery means that
every cord of fibre will yield $10 on
by-products alone, and that most of
the 60 pr cent of a tree now wasted
will be utilized,
Mexican Mine Disaster.
Eagle Pass, Tex., Special Thirty
eight Mexican miners are entombed in
the coal mine at Minor, Mexico,
operated by the Coahuila Mining
Company, as the result of an explo
sion caused frm fire damp. Up to
Tuesday none of the miners had been
rescued ' and it is probable all are
dead.
. Eight Balled by Explosion.
Chillicothe, O., Special. Eight
workmen were killed and eight others
were injured Tuesday by an explosion
of several hundred pounds of dyna
mite at Indian Creek, near here,
where the Norfolk & Western Rail
road is double tracking. A crew of
men was unloading a car of dyna
mite when it exploded. The dead in
clude Charles Buchanon. Columbus,
conductor in charge of the work
train; M. Jonathan Floyd, Pride, O.,
and John Hayes, Antonio, O.
' Hounds Track Murderer.
Thomasville, Ga., JJpecial. After a
week of "constant tracking with blood
hounds, Mink Morris, who shot Sher
iff William Langston, of Leon county,
Florida, to death, was captured at
Coolidge, near here and is now in jail
at this place. Rewards aggregating
1.10D were offered for the arrest. A
quick trial will be given the slayer.
Morris shot Sheriff Langston while
the-officer was trying to arrest mm,
(If. m
X. 7 I I II I II
PITTSBORO. CHATHAM COUNTY. N. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7.
II NEWS IN BRIEF
; - - i , .
Items of Interest Gathered By
Wire and Cable
GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAY
Live Items Covering Events of More
or Less Interest at Home and
Abroad,
The Chamber of Commerce of
Petersburg have secured an option
on the Index-Appeal of that city and
will buy the paper in order to boom
the city.
The two and one-half passenger
rate on all railroads in Virginia ex
cept the Norfolk and Western goes
into effect April 1st.
Mrs. Marj' Farmer was electrocut
ed at Auburn, N. Y., Monday morn
ing for the most brutal murder - of
Mrs. Sarah Brannon, last April.
William Brant Eyster, of McKee
Rocks Pennsylvania, is now of the
opinion that he is the long lost
Charlie Ross. He discovered that his
foster parents, who are now dead,
were not his real parents. Charlie
Ross was kidnapped 35 years ago.
Four persons were killed and five
fatally wounded near Pittsburg, Pa.,
last Saturday by a head-on collision.
Gunjiro Aoki, a Japanese, and Miss
Helen Gladys Emery, the daughter
of Archdeacon Emery, of the Epis--copal
Diocese of California, were
married at the Trinity Church,
Seattle, last Saturday. They came
from California, where they could
not be legally married.
Three dry kilns just outside of
Norfolk burned Wednesday, consum
ing a fine lot of timber. The loss
is estimated at $20,000.
- An offer for Willie Whitla tp go on
the vaudeville stage at $1,000 a week
has been received by his father, who
merely remarked: "They will have to
go higher than that."
Lawrence R. Boyle, who had been
for 20 years the staff cf the Boston
Gllobe, in a fit of despondency last
Saturday night, shot and killed his
wife and himself.
The State of Georgia has aban
doned the former method of leasing
convicts from the penitentiary and
an order has been issued against
putting chains on women convicted
of misdemeanors.
Dr. W. M. Ader, a North Caro
linian was shot and mortally wound
ed in the late Indian uprising in
Oklahoma.
The Southern Life Insurance Com
pany of Fayetteville, N. C, which
came so near being wrecked by the
Seminole disaster, has been absorbed
by the Jefferson Life Insurance Com
pany of Raleigh, and policyholders
are thereby secured and the stock
holders get about 90 per cent of orig
inal investments.
In Raleigh, N. C, the citizens Dem
ocratic ticket won Tuesday in a very
exciting municipal primary, carrying
all before it but one alderman.
At Cumberland, Maryland, last
week, a woman dying of blood poison,
in token of the intense love she bore
for her nurse, requested a kiss. The
nurse complied, but caught -the dis
ease and died a few days later.
The Confederate Veterans' Re
union will be held this 3ear at Mem'
phis from June 8th to 10th.
, San Francises is said to be put
ting $12,000,000 annually into slot
machines.
The United States Commissioner at
New York has decided that Jan Jan?
off Pouren was a revolutionist and is
not to be extradited to Russia fpr
crimes committed.
" A man said to have murdered a
girl in Indiana 32 years ago, wai
recently found living in Texas, mar
ried and wealthy.
Foreign Affairs.
Six thousand persons were rend
ered homeless, and 30,000 domestic
animals were drowned by late heavj
floods in Southern Russia.
The French bark, Jules Henry Me
up at Marseilles Thursday and IS
men were killed. It was a petroleum
carrier and being inspected when it
is believed the fumes of empty tanki
caught from the inspectors light.
The last batch of U. S. troops left
Cuba Wednesday noon to return to
America, leaving the islanders again
to govern themselves.
Accused of embezzling upwards of
$51,000 from the Russian Govern
ment, a man. believed to be Isaac
Yakovlev Mateaenko was-arrested in
Philadelphia Tuesday night.
Count Zeppelin and a small party
ascended in his airship at Frieder
ickshapen, Germany, last week, and
were caught in . a hurricane. One
motor refused to work and he could
not safely land until he spent 11
hours in the air. He then landed in
a 35 mile gale.
Washington News Notes.
April 1st was the first check is
suing. day for President Taft and $5,
625.01 is the sum. "
President Taft has approved The
Baltimore Sun's suggestion of a new
system of accounting for the Govern
ment departments.
After April 1st no opium in any
fnrm whatever can be lesrallv shipped
into the United States except it be
strictly for medicaj purposes,
Q
FIRE ATNEWBERN
Conflagration Destroys $1,000 Worth
cf Property.
3 Newbem, Special. Fire Saturday
morning at 2:30 threatened for a time
the block on the corner of Middle and
Pollock streets, and gutted the
Hughes Building, a double story brick
building, occupied by the Delmonico
Cafe and the George B. Waters cigar
and stationery store. 'Soon after the
firemen reached the fire an explosion
took place in the Waters store and
one of the colored helpers in the fire
department" was badly cut-by flying
glass, i The loss is about $4,000 with
$1,200 insurance. Mr. Waters, it is
stated, had $1,300 insurance and
stock of about $2,500.
... Probing Deforestation.
Winston-Salem, Special. Reid
Wlhitford, of the United States engi
neering department, has been in this
section several days to ascertain by
consultation vith well informed citi
zens, as well as by personal investi
gations and examinations, the approx
imate amount of deforestation which
has taken place in Wilkes and ad
joining counties during the last 20
years; this is with the view of deter
mining how this clearing of land has
influenced the water levels in the
Yadkin river, causing disastrous
floods, and at other times unusuaKand
long periods of low water; or, if de
forestation has not caused these con
ditions, to find out what has. The
government seeks by some mean to
prevent such disastrous overflows of
the Yadkin as are how almost yearly
The New Building at the University.
The site for the new building of
the university for which the legis
lature donated the necessary sum
last session was decided on by the
trustees at their last meeting and
will be the corner of Bull and Pen
dleton streets, facing towards the
handsome building just being com
pleted. This is a most suitable place, it is
stated, as the new elass room build
ing which is about completed occu
pies the opposite site on the" corner of
Bull and Green streets. This will
also be in keeping with the plans
laid out for the gradual enlargement
of the university and the science
building will be a fitting structure
to stand on this corner.
Dr. Smith Has Accepted.
Chapel Hill, Special. Dr. Charlea
Alphonso Smith, of the department of
English, has accepted the call to the
University of Virginia. The chair is
that of English, not Teutonic langu
gages. Negotiations have been under
way for a year. Dr. James A. Harri
son having urged the appointment of
Dr. Smith as soon as the former
thought of retiring. "I have given
the matter most careful considera
tion," said Dr. Smith. "Nothing can
change my love for the University of
North Carolina or my native State,
but the call to the University of Vir
ginia is a call to a wider field of ser
vice. Bridge Falls; Killing Elder.
Winston-Salam, Special. One span
of the approach to the bridge over the
Yadkin river at the east end of North
Wilkesboro fell in while Elder J.
Frank Hutelu uson, a Primitive Bap
tist preacher, was crossing, dropping
him, his buggy and two mules into
the river twenty feet below. Elder
Hutchenson was fatally injured, livr
ing only thirty minutes, . the buggy
demolished and the mules badly cTip
pled. The bridge had. been condemn
ed and -closed up, but the public in
sisted on tearing down the obstruc
tion and using it,
President Taft t-o Visit Charlotte.
A committeo of prominent citizens
of Charlotte and Mecklenburg coun
ty, NV C, waited on President Taft
last Wednesday and secured hit
promise to at'nd the celebration of
the Declaration of Independence in
Charlotte on ine 20th of May, 1909.
Singularly enough, , however, the
President says he never heard of
that histonc event before.
$18,000 Fire at Salisbury.
Salisbury, Special. With a loss of
the Kincaid Veneer Plant in this city
the Kincaid Veneir Plant in this city
was destroyed Saturday morning by
fire, which is said to have originated
from a spark from a passing train.
The blaze was discovered by a night
watchman but had gotten beyond con
trol. The plant had been idle for
some months and was in the hands of
receivers ,advertised for sale in April.
The receivers held $6,500 insurance.
Durham Boy Sent to Reformatory.
Durham, Special. Hobson Martin,
the son of a very good father in this
city, was Saturday morning ordered
sent to the Jackson Training School
by the recorder on account of the
theft of a purse and a small amount
of money. The young fellow has not
been regarded as an incorrigible but
has borne a rather good reputation
for a kid. He is the first to go fyom
this place to the reformatory, . .
WASHINGTON NOTES
J Use Stamped Envelopes.
- A special effort is being made by
the PostofBce Department to -increase
the use of stamped envelopes instead
of those whichjhave to have a stamp
affixed.
In furtherance of this endeavor A.
L. Lawshe, Third Assistant Postmas
ter General,, has issued a highly or
nate circular describing and illustrat
ing the different sizes and colors of
the envelopes the government has
on sale. This has been distributed
by the letter carriers who, forgetting
for the moment the length of their
routes and the weight of their sdeks
of mail, have for the most part, en
tered' into enthusiastic details as to
the cheapness and convenience and
altogether desirableness of this class
of postoffice wares.
"Everyone who uses government
stamped envelopes is aiding the Post
office -Department in improving the
service," is what Lawshe 's circular
says, and, in addition, it enumerates
several advantages . which are to be
obtained from their use. -
For instance,, it points-out that
stamps may be easily lost, misappro
priated, or may become useless by
sticking together. Also a stamp may
drop off in the mail, and then there
is the time consumed in affixing the
stamp as an item of consideration.
All of these dfficulties, the circular
says, are overcome by using the
stamped envelopes.
Then when a purchaser is willing
to buy as many as 500 stamped en
velopes at a time, the government
will print his name and address in
the upper left hand corner without
any extra charge. The advantage of
this is that such envelopes do not
find their wav to the dead letter of
fice. If the address cannot be found
the letter is returned without extra
postage to the sender. 1 Such enve
lopes, if misdirected, are redeemable
at the Postoffice from original pur
chasers only at full stamp value.
This is not true of adhesive stamps.
The Postoffice Department sells
the envelopes in various sizes, colors,
and Qualities, but the most usual size
can be obtained for about eight for a1
cent, stamp value extra. Thus eight
two-cent envelopes would cost about
seventeen cents. One can get them
in white, amber, blue, buff or ma
nila. Officials of the internal revenue
bureau of the Treasury Department
are of the opinion that th temper
ance nvvement, which has taken
such a strong hold of certain sections
of the country, particularly in the
South, has resulted in increasing the
number of violations of the internal
revenue laws in the distillation of il-;
licit whiskey.
Recent reports indicate that in
many Southern" States, especially in
Alabama, Georgia and North Caro
lina there has been greater activity
on the part of the lawless mountain
element, who always have been
troublesome to the revenue agents,
than in many years. These three
States now have laws prohibiting
distilleries from operating .within
their borders. In Alabama the law
went into effect on July 1, 1903; in
Georgia on January 1, 1903; and in
North Carolina January 1, 1909.
Many legitimate distilleries have
moved to Florida and other States
where the inhibition does not exist.
Whiskey being more difficult to ob
tain in a legitimate way has greatly
increased the profits of illicit distill
ing, with the result that the activi
ties of the internal revenue bureau
at this time is largely directed to
wards the mountain sectipns pf these
t)iree States,
Eleven members were in their
seats Saturday when the House of
Representatives met to further con
sider the Payne tariff bill. It was
the smallest attendance of the special
session and demonstrated the fact,
that interest in the debate had prac
tically disappeared.
Mr. Sparkmau (Democratic), of
Florida, opened the discussion by
making an earnest plea for a restora
tion of the Dingley " rate on lumber
and the imposition of a duty of 5
cents a pound on all cotton imported
into the United States.
The Philippine Islands Avere again
heard from when Mr. Benita Legardo
resident commissioner, spoke in op
position to the proposed free trade
between that possession and the
United States. His views were prac
tically along the lines of those ex
pressed Friday by his colleague, Mr.
Pablo Ocampo de Leon.
-".
In view of the diminishing ..supply
of pulp-making woods and the conse
quent increase in the - cost of paper,
the serious problem wnicn awaits so
lution is, whence will come our fu
ture paper supply? Interest: in the
matter lies in the fact that every
body uses paper and it is presented
in its serious aspect when one consid
ers that the destruction of our pulp
making woods goes on at a termen
dous rate.
Experts declare that there are not
enough spruce forests standing in the
United States to furnish a future
constant supply of wood pulp for
making paper under tbe present
1909.
NO. 34.
aaethods Of forest conservatism and
waste.
The experiments thus far have had
to do principally with such plants as
corn stalks, cotton stalks, flax, sugar,
bagasse, tule, rice, straw, okra and
several other things. While these ex
periments have not progressed far
enough to warrant definite conclu
sions as to whether any of them can
De manuiacturea on a paying com
mercial scale, it is asserted that corn
stalks offer the mostr' promising out
look. A very much finer paper can
be made from corn stalks than from
the wood pulp.
Snuff For a Billion Sneezes.
Providence, R. I., Special. With
one of the most unusual charters ir
local coastwise history, the three
masted schooner Denna Briggs sails
for Philadelphia. The schooner foi
the next six months will carry snufi
between Norfolk and Philadelphia
the charter calling for 200 tons or
each trip. Tobacconists estimak
that each pound of snuff is good foi
2,016 sneezes, and that on every trip
the Briggs will have between hei
decks more than one billion sneezes
Dr. Jones Slain by Hill Men.
Manilla, Special, A telegran
from the constabulary at Echague re
ports that the body of Dr. Wm
Jones, the noted anthropologist of
the Columbian Musium at Chicago
who was murdered by tribesmen, was
taken to that place by friendly Hon
gots. The murder was committe
about fifty miles south of Eehague
where Dr. lanes was engaged ir
studying the wild hill tribes, livinj
among tnem for the purpose of pre
paring an exhaustive report of thej;
customs and traditions.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Mr. Roosevelt gave his African
freight a characteristic touch by hav
ing all his boxes painted red.
Thomas F. Ryan has practicallj
Succeeded in bis efforts to rid himsell
of his enormous corporate burden.
Thomas F. Ryan has practically
succeeded In his efforts to rid himsell
of his enormous corporate burden.
Secretary cf State, Philander Chase
Knox, was first a printer and then he
studied law, coming to the bar In
1S75.
C. K. G. Billings, or New York
City, has arranged to send his trotting
horses to Europe for exhibition pur
poses. Prince Henry of Prussia delivered
a lecture, Illustrated with moving
pictures, on his voyage in the Zeppe
lin airship.
Professor Hanns Oertel has beer,
chosen Yale University delegate to
the 500th anniversary of the Univer
sity of Leipsic.
Raisuli, who became famous as a
bandit, has been appointed Governor
Of the Province of Djebala by the Sul
tan of Morocco.
Colonel Peter F. Ross, of Waco,
who was twice shot as he was at the
head of the Sixth Texas Regiment at
Corinth, Miss., died in Houston. Tex.
Secretary "of War, J. M. Dickinson,
is a Tennessee lawyer who has served
on the supreme bench of his State.
He served one year in the Confeder
ate army.
W. C. Brown, the president of the
New York Central Railroad, began
his railroad career as a wood corder
on a Milwaukee and St. Paul locomo
tive, in 1869, when sixteen years old.
King Alfonso Is, perhaps, the
youngest monarch who was ever se
lected to arhltrate on an international
dispute, which In the present case la
the dlfferenee between England and
Germany with regard to the Walfisch
Bay territory.
r NEWSY GLEANINGS.
The great strike In France was
called off.
Demand for leather of ail kinds ig
increasing rapidly in Japan, also cot
tonseed oil and condensed milk,
It France adopts the proposed new
tariff textiles will pay a duty of from
forty to 140 per cent, ad valorem,
The Czar of Russia surprised dip
lomats by zoine outside their circle
in appointing a new Ambassador to
Rome,
In 1908 the Metropolitan (London)
TMntrirt Railway carried fil.000.00o
passengers, the largest number ol
any year yet.
Foreign business firms in China in
ereased by 758 in isot, ur wis num.
ber 677 are Japanese, forty uermans
and thirty Spanish,
Sneaker Cannon took a firm fltaad
against those members who absent
themselves from tneir auues ai me
House without provocation.
The sale of the Pennsylvania Club
fcrnnht to lleht the fact that "mil
Daly, generally believed to have died
vears ago. was living in West End,
N. J. -
Electric tramway competition re
duced the suburban traffic around
London of the Great Eastern Railway
by 3,292,817 passengers in the last
half of 1908.
Japan is a market for machinery
and tools used In mining, shipbuild
ing and repairing, sugar refining, rice
cleaning, cement making and spin
ning and weaving.
Charles J. Glidderi announced that
the Aerial Navigation Company of
Massachusetts has leased several par
cels of ground in and near Boston
for airship stations, which are now
being built. The line will begin to
run, commercially, on May 1.
Woufd Pension Cfty Employes.
"Municinal Affairs" was the sub-
I ject of an address by Mayor Hibbard
of Boston before tne rrospeci union
at Cambridge recently. One of the
features of the address was tBe state
ment that next year Mr. Hibbard will
flak the legislature to pass a bill pro
viding for the pensioning of all em
ployes who have wornea lr
city 25 years or more.
the
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STOP AT GIBRALTAR
Mr, Roosevelt Spends Several
Hours There
WOULD NOT BE PHOTOGRAPHED.
The ex-President Steps Off For .a
Short Visit Is Attended by the
American Consul and Governor
General of Gibraltar Steamer
Sails For Naples at 12:20 O'clock
'-Tells of the Alleged Assauli,-
Gibraltar, By Cable. The steamer
Hamburg with Theodore Roosevelt
and the members of his party on
board, came to Gibraltar a few minu
tes before 9 Friday morning. Mr.
Roosevelt came ashore with Richard
L. Sprague, the American consul,
and an aide-de-camp- of General Sir
Frederick Foresticr-Walker, Gover
nor of Gibraltar,
Accompanied by the Governor, an
aide, and Mr. Sprague, Mr. Roosevelt
drove in the Governor's carriage out
along the North front and up to the
limit of British territory.
With Mr. Sprague Mr. Roosevelt
then visited the Mediterranean Club,
where his name was entered on the
visitors' book.
Mr. Sprague and Mr. Roosevelt
then drove back to the pier, whence
Mr. Roosevelt went off to the Ham
burg shortly after half-past eleven.
The dock was crowded with people,
who gave Mr. Roosevelt an enthu-r
siastic farewell. The Hamburg sailed
for Naples at 12:20 o'clock.
"Mr. Roosevelt refuesd to be photo
graphed and declined every request
for an interview.
Wednesday night at a dance on the
Hamburg, Mr. Roosevelt danced with
Miss Ruth Draper. Before Avithdraw
ing for the night Mr. Roosevelt ap
peared in the smoking room and chat
ted with the passengers for twenty
minutes.
When asked direetly concerning the'
rumor that an attack had been made
upon him during the voyage, Mr.
Roosevelt said thai the only basis for '
it was an "idiotic, excitable Italian"
used angry expressions to him while
he was on the bridge of the vessel
talking to the Captain. He said this
man made no attempt upon him what
ever and that he was promptly remov
ed and confined below the remainder
of the voyage.
As to Child Labor.
New Orleans, Special. The South
ern child labor conference at its ses
sion here adopted resolutions embody
ing a number of important recommen
dations for legislation on the subject
of child labor in the South.
The folloAving are the recommenda
tions in substance,:
The employment in factories of no
child under the age of 14 years.
. The employment in a mine or quar
ry of no child under the age of 16
years.
The employment of no child under
the age of 16 years in any gainful
occupation except agricultural and
domestic service unless such child
can read and write simple sentences
in the English language.
That no boy under the age of lfl
nor girl under the age of IS years,
except in agricultural . or omestie
service, be employed between the
hours of 7 p. m. and 6 a. m.
An eight-hour day law for children
under 16 years of age and for all wo
men. Employment under the certificate
plan.
The employment by the State of
proper officials for the inspection of
all mines and-factories with the pow
er to prosecute violations.
Thorough sanitary and safety regu
lations. Making the conference a perman
ent organization.
In connection with the recommen
dation for employment under the cer
tificate system, the provisions of the
Kentucky law are indorsed.
At the morning session of the con
ference Oliver R, Lovejoy of New
York, general secretary of the Nat
ionai Labor committee, made an ad
drees stating that the South wants
capital, but that capital must conform
to reasonable statutes for the guard
ing of the welfare of children.
Three Negroes Murdered.
Elizabeth City, Special. Ons of
the bloodiest brawls that has ever
been known in this section occurred
Thursday night at Columbia, Tyrrell
county, in which three negroes were
killed and one terribly wounded.
Nothing was known of the trouble
until Friday morning when a white
man passing heard someone say,
"Don't cut me any more." Upon
investigation dead negroes with blood
still flowing, razors and guns were
found on the ground, presenting- a"
horrible spectacle.
Adams-Butler Suit.
Greensboro, Special. Friday's pro
ceedings in the Adams-Butler libel
suit were rather dull and listless, the
greater part of the time being con
sumed in reading a number of depos
itions made by persons in Oklahoma
and Washington, the object being to
attempt to justify the publication by
the defendants of articles in The
Raleigh Caucasian reflecting on the
personal and official integrity of
J Judge Adams,