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gftatbam Kccorb- ha. LONDON 1 5 ttp AND PEOFRIETOa. RMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: est .50 Per Year fill fHf Ik wif few tfsV I QH:CTLY IN ADVANCE w uXDL. XX X T. PITTSBOHO. CHATHAM COUNTY. N. C.? WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1900. NO. 42. fce Cbatbam "Recc-rfc. RATES OF ADVERTISING: - Oae Square, one Icaertion $i. One Square, two insertions.... 1.5 One5quare, one month........ a. Of For Larger Advertise-J ments Liberal Contracts will be mads. TH STATE NEWS NOTES r c 1 J 1 O jl I r 1 n - !iirif, oi aisve in crwi wmcrea irom Here and There and 101a oricny xor Busy Keaders. St 3:1' uloJ to ' near ti:t at CX:U': JillO'.V'.i. fo:vr Ji'-i". c-aiv.o ti car !ei"r I;:e c; v. i : ? tt-: format:' : i::c:U The l llidi !' imiuue. Vb.v banner flVIlt -'T ::::n-!: r.t: fitiza:- vtosiobile Scout Car. ' ro. Special. The Atlanta . -utomobile scout ear ar L.onbovo Friday afternoon . stopped in front of Hotel : -.ail ding for a short time. York ilei-ald car is sehed- r the Atlanta Journal car Virginia-Carolina line, but what point is not yet : Atlanta car contains It left Atlanta at five r-c.-.'.ay afternoon at the :v 1 ho New York Herald's n. raid Square in New York. ;iio making a tour of the ;v;!::i the two eities, inve&ti , renditions relaiive to the ..'Lteiiiobile .road from New A: : ;-.!a. Several North Car . . working to have the roiiiiU uieir Territory, is being- made for speed ,- point of the trip, the being- to accumulate in regard to road improve . conduct a acmpaiu of v good roads. l:eni Atlanta ran from to Greensboro in thirty automobile with its large on each side stopped in t- Guilford it attracted :i and a large crowd of v. led around, viewing it interest. Making Money Cheeringly. :v::k: ; 'U. Special. Mr.' Joshua lives between two ana i.s east of Lumberton, has 3 it-li of strawberries that ; :!.e source of a nice little f -c the last two or three i ! i :-ks as though it will last ve i-i berries, but they Lur tkive a lit! has be, :; an for forr.e c.ilv o:u an- i s:i : r: variety and have been etiiiair : :' a uood price. Up until Vreuiu's-lay he had sold about 75 cnuts 110m wLich he realized $3 a i-ra:..' an..r ileducting shipping ex-r?a-'s. Mr. ihiriies thinks he will lvahe i beiries. wLu-h checiincl-. M fciVO' a-er.t. evor; Yo.. 3 UOiiiilU this one acre of s making monej' J. Thomas, , ex- savs that lie has re 1 leiu-rs in the last few :i men at Rieh 4:i:ur him to send them '-es' berries. There is having the variety. Gastonia Teachers fibnseTi Gastonia, Special. At" a meeting of the board of city school commis sioners Tuesday night the' faculty for the graded schools for the session of 1909-1910.was chosen. It is consti tuted as follows: Principal, J. B. "Warren, of Durham; Central school; Miss Carrie Glenn, Gastonia; Miss Williams, Panther Creek; Miss May Stuart, Carthage; Miss May With ers, Lillington ; Miss ' Florence Powe, Cheraw, S. C; Miss Frances Hill, Concord ; Miss Eunice Bryan, Rich' Square; Miss Eula Glenn, Gas tonia; Miss Ella Bradley, Gastonia; and Miss M innio Sparrow, of Union, this county; mill schools, Misres Janie Morris, Eunola Crawford, Pearl Gallant, EUa Lewis and Carrie Mor ris, all of Gastonia; Highlands grad ed school (colored) Rev. J. A. Rol lins, principal; Mamie Rhodes and Mary French, teachers. All of these were members of last year's faculty and a number of them have held po sitions as teachers in the city schoob for a number of 3-ears past. Salem Commencement Ends. Winston-Salem, Special. This waa the "crowning day" of the 107th an nual commencernent exercises of Salem Female College. The literary address was delivered by Dr. Neal L. Anderson, pastor of the First Presby terian Church. His subject was "The Fruits of Education." Other fea tures of commencement clay exercises included the presentation of a schol arship fund and other gifts to the College, awarding of diplomas to forty-three graduates in English, four in piano, three in expression, three in stenography, two in industrial de partment, two in plain sewing and one on the organ. Official announce ment was made that Dr. J. II. Clewell, for twenty-live years president of the College, had" resigned and in July would become president of the Mora vian Woman .'s College, at Bethlehem, Pa., he being succeeded here by the Rev. Howard' E. Ronthaler, for five years resident professor of the Mor avian Theological Seminary at Bethlehem. Killed in Drunken Brawl. Rocky Mount. Special. Murder ttitlx se'.saiiomil facts surrounding was that v. hi eh occurred near Bel lamy 31111. in Halifax countv, on the fain 01 r. II. Addock, Sunday. The sn-.'gt-.i i t-is in the case as learned ;a iiiis dry are as follows: Sunday : n:::- IF. Clark and Charlie Ihr.nicar.. two residents - cf the Kat!:! .i:..v.,I of Whitakers, in Nash cn:ivr y. v. r .t to the home of Levy j-hva !., after spending part of tl:e i::'.):!i;r,!.' there drinking and car-orf-r.g iau nigan drove off to ride v'i!li Mr:v Marriott and upon his re tinn t', !itf home Marriott became en rageu aihl beuah cursing Fiannigan. Aro'jr.ii:;;. to the facts learned, Flan 'T' :'. for the cursing for eev-r-rsi ini:-i, but when Marriott ad-di-o?S".l a, re:; ark to him that he must ie:V,f ii honse Fiannigan turned and a i v l ball into his body the jxul Mrii-umi' over his heart and kill-i-g hhu i:;;tautly.' V 1 HI vv oca Have light. mston-Salem. Sneeial. The Kayor ari! commissioners of Ker EC'iivjj't nod" a franehiro Wednes day al'.-';::. .J, for tJlc organization f'f the. ;: n-rs villa light and Im- l;:ovi';a -.'. r,. : 1 ompfiiiy which will es tl'ciric light plant in tbej sonshincr and Outlaw. onr.'ir. Snd!fi ftliawff .Qtnitb fin.-? Deputies Bush, Lingle and Clarke, captured Keith Pritehard, Caldwell's notoncus outlaw and blockader. A Jew faoiiths ago- Pritehard and two l)rotir?': hilled a mon named Honey- ties las Prif.-' ciut. v. ,, -as the prisoner of Deputies ('.ar!;1'M ird Sam Smith -and has wanted bv the officers, a reward of -$200 for Asfceville in Gala Attire. Ashville, Special. The work of stringing wires and' electric lights for the illumination of the town for the big T. P. A. convention is now about complete. Wires have been strung over the principal streets" with lights placed close. The Yance monument, 85 feet in height, has streamers of lights from the cop-stone to the four corners of Pack Park with a 100-watt light .on top of the monument. The city hall is well illuminated and deco rated. The business people of the town are decorating their store fronts and the town is fast' looking gay. Special trains and extra Pullmans with delegations from the cities ef the North will come Sunday - while the Texas and Western delegations will get in Monday morning, Booze Plant Captured. Rockingham, Special. Blockade stills have been faring rather badly for th& last few days in this comity, Sheriff M. L. Hinson and Deputy Sheriff C, C, Shores made a raid down on the State line Wednesday and brought in a 100-gallon still with all necessary fixtures except the furnace end worm tank. This raid was fol lowed bygone the next day up on Pee Dee river. The officers struck the right track without any trouble and soon found a red-hot ' furnace and seven barrels of beer, but the still had been taken away while its stom ach was still heaving. The beer was emptied into the branch for the "suckers" of Pee Deo and the bar rels and tubs were' cut into gtove- wocd. KEWSY GLEANINGS. IV. Sty i ini if! fton.i throi:- til (j v.-; OH"'-; She -. l.r.v so. Inuham Boy Uses Gun. Special. Charles S. Dor- jail on a charge of attorapt 1 H Mrs. J. T. Butler Saturday by firing twice at her n she door. The youngster is a ' ne of the proprietors of the y Hotel and Mrs. Butler is the ihe other. The trouble is not jfut it appears to have been ; oy the j'oung mail's rather messages to Mrs. Butler. vvs she opened her door and u at her twice, though the fel--y? he had no cause for doing Ex-Congressman Seth W. Cobb filed at St. Louis: No attempt was made to enforce the Blue Laws at Coney Island. The new British Dreadnoughts will have twelve-inch guns of increased power. " A memorial service for George Meredith was held at Westminster Abbey, London. - Impressive scenes were witnessed at the annual military mass at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Many police and Socialists were in jured In riots at the Cemetery of Pere Lachaise, at Paris. A. Z. Drew, former president of the defunct State Bank of Hamlin, Minn., was sentenced to two years in Still water Penitentiary. Park Commissioner Smith, of New York City, asked for more policemen to guard against the stealing of plants in the parks. Clifford W, Hartridse made affi davit that he spent $40,000. to head off the publication of scandalous stories about Harry K. Thaw. Police Captain Walsh and forty policemen broke up a meeting of An archists at which Emma" Goldman had . started to spealv, in New York City. Postal authorities discovered that European lotteries were using new mail order methods to catch the dol lars of New York's downtown dis trict. . .. President Taft is gathering ex haustive tariff data of his own, to be in position critically to examine the Tariff, bill when it reaches him for approval or rejection. When arrested for speeding in New York Citj Charles L. Force, a Wall Street broker, admitted that it was his car, driven by William Dar ragh, which ran down and killed Ingvaard Trimble on March 2.1, TORNADO IN A TEXAS 101 ! . Hundreds Saved by Taking Refuge in Stcrm Cellars. DEATH AND RUIN IN ITS PATH Thirty-Two Persons Killed Outright and Perhaps Fifty More Fatally Wounded Nearly Fifty Houses Entirely Demolished lightning Causes a Fire That Sweeps Away a Business Block. FIREMEN STRIKE SETTLED. Shocked by Lightning. '.ton. Knpial ThirinJ ater- hail and electric storm Thursday jUnnoon Henry Beck was struck J' huhtnino; at his home. '.Beck Avas ''ttn,- on the front porch. He was shocked, perhaps fatally. The J'!!t struck the chimney. Others in y. lsty were slightly shocked. jjrr' Beck, a sister-in-law of f;',V v. ,ock, who lives next door, had '"'u just a short time prior to the StOi'IU. Saved Grace of Governor. " Winston-Selem, Special. Sheriff Zigiar W2S having the scaffold erect ed when a message came from Raleigh Wedenesday afternoon saying Gov ernor Kitchin had commuted the death sentence of Charles Fodrell to life imprisonment. Fodrell -was to have been executed in jail here Fri day for killing his wife. Eighteen Solid Cars cf Elankets. Elkin, Special. The Chatham Manufacturing Company Friday shipped IS Fclid cars of blankets to different places in the United States, about half of them going to Chicago and St. Louis, from which points they will be distributed to different cities on the Pacific slope. The other half goes to Baltimore,-'.Philadelphia nnd New York. Each car contained 1,100 pairs of -blanket s, which nrade a grand total of 19,800 pairs Of 39, 600 single blankets. At $4 a pair, which is rather under the average, it amounts to $79,200 for this one ship merit. Not to be Fooled. With. Wilson, Special. Sheriff Sharp re ceived' a phone call Tuesday night from Elm City stating that a white tramp, weighing about 175 pounds, heavy mustache, several days' growth of beard, entered the home of E. O. McGowan and demanded money of one of the ladies of the house. She promptly threw a gun in his face, when he took fiisht, coming in the direction 2 Wilsoa Exact Terms of Settlement Have Not Been Disclosed, But It is Said That the Conditions Are Eminently Satisfactory to the Georgia Rail road and to the Firemen. Atlanta, Ca., Special. The strike of the firemen on the Georgia Rail road was officially declared off at 2 p. m. Satnrda.y. An hour and a half later the first train after the resump tion of service was sent out of Au gusta with a negro fireman in the cab. The terras of the settlement were not officially given out, but it was learned that they are substantially as follows : The men to return -to work under conditions existing at the time the All negro firemen at the terminal stations will be dispensed with. All discharged Brotherhood fire men will be reinstated. Three other points are yet to be decided, as follows: First, whether negro firemen shall be eliminated from the road. Second, if not eliminated, what per centage of negroes there shall be. Seniority of negro firemen over white, firemen. These other questions are to be dis cussed and if they are not adjusted, they will be settled by arbitration un der the Ardman act. The strike commenced May 17 and lasted 13 days. It was caused by the attempt of the company to put ne gx'o firemen on the best runs in the place of white firemen, who were giv en inferior runs or made subd. The men presented a new agreement to General Manager Scott, demanding that he recognize the seniority: ot white firemen over blacks and tKtt practically do away with the negro M the cabs. Scott refused, claiming that he had no authority to sign-eueh an agreement. The men r-4ooked- in vain for some official who -had - auth ority, and failing to find one,;5truck. General Manager Scott retaliated by practically annulling all trains and thus tying up traffic. . - After a few days the situation be came grave in some communities. Food supplies ran low and no new stocks could be secured. The new necessaries of life were hauled in wagons and automobiles. No mails were sent or received and even funerals were prevented. Henry H. Rogers' Will. New York, Special. The will of the late Henry H. Rogers was admit ted to probate here Friday. Prac tically the entire estate, A-alued, ac cording to Wall street estimates, at between $50,000,000 and $75,000,009, will ultimately be divided among the four children and their heirs. Half of the- equal shares into which the residuary of the estate is divided will oe given to the for-r when they reach the age of, forty w :ns, AUTOMOBILE SPEEDWAY PLANNED. Movement Launched at Atlanta to Build $225,000 Track. Atlanta, , Ga. An automobile race track, to "cost $225,000, was project ed here at a gathering of wealthy men. Over 880,000 towards the track was subscribed, and it was announc ed that an option has been secured on 260 acre3 of land for a site' for the .speedway, which is to .be two miles around. It is planned to complete the track by next November in time for racing in connection with the Nation al Automobile Show to be neld here The figures for Great Britain's drink bill far 1908 show a remarkable fall ing off. Previous years have seen a decrease, hut the present diminution amounts to nearly $30,000,000, ana leads the London Times to . declare that "it must inevitably be recognis ed that the nation is steadily becoa ing more temperate by its own free cbolce." - PRICE OF FLOUR SOARS Advance of Two Dollars a Bar rel In Two Months. SPECULATION IS THE CAUSE Price of a 24 Pound Sack Leap Tnm Seventy-Five Cents to the High Mark of One Dollar. Bronwood, Tex., Speeial. A tor nado of great fury struck the little village of Zephyr, in the eastern por tion of Brown county at 1 o'clock Sunday morning and left a path of death and destruction seldom paral leled. The death list has reached a toal of 32 aud'the number of serious ly and fatally wounded will reach 50. A score are more or less injured. The storm formed half a mile southwest of Zephyr and swept down upon the village, cutting a wide swath directly through the residence and business district. Nearly 50 houses were entirely de molished. Lightning struck a lumber yard and started a conflagration which destrojed one entire business block. No effort was made to fight the fire as the care of the dead and wounded victims demanded all attention. Hundreds of persons directly in the storm's path saved themselves by tak ing refuge m storm cellars. More than a dozen bodies were hor ribly mutilated. County Clerk Thad Cabler, his wife and two children, who had gone to Zephyr to spend thenight were killed. Ine big stone school building and two churches were swept from the face of the earth. By daylight 1G surgeons were working on the wounded. Brownwood hurried her second re lief train at noon Sunday loaded with provisions, clothing and necessary ar ticles and forty nurses. Sunday night three rersons were still unaccounted for. Two children were found dead late Sunday after noon, two miles out from the town, having been blown that distance. The storm was three hundred yards wide and swept the earth for only a short distance, probably less than a mile. Its fury is considered the most trrific of any tornado ever experi enced in this section. The hillsides at Zephyr were cover ed with debris of all kinds and bodies of dead animals and human beings. The ruins were dimly lighted by. the burning buildings and the cries of the wounded rose above the sound of the elements which threatened a second storm. A hog roaming through the debris-strewn streets Avas killed while attempting to devour the body of an infant. Bodies were found twisted about trees and in every conceivable shape. People .walked the streets al most naked, crying for their loved ones. Residences which , escaped the storm, were turned into hospitals where were carried the bodies of the dead and wounded. One storm house collapsed on a family of nine without serious injury to any. Brownwood, With splnedid organ ized releif work, has the situaiton well in hand. Zeppelin's Great Feat. TWlin. Bv CflblA Count Znrft. IM, wh03G remarkable performances in nis urge airsuip nrougnt unuounueu honors to (he inventor Sundayaccom plished the most striking feat in his career. He guided his Zeppelin 11 from Freidricbshafen to Bitterfield. a distance of more than 456 miles with out janding. The journey lasted near ly 2g- hours and so far as known hun day?jilit Count Zeppelin was still in the'afr, on the" return journey to Fiv:drichshafpi-i. He has beaten all records for'dirigible balloons. Wind and Eelectrical Stcrm. Bilosi, Miss., Special. A severe wind and electrical storm struek this section, early Monday evening and grave fear is entertained for the safe ty of small craft and their occupants in Gulf waters near here. The city's electric lighting system was put out of commission. Atlanta, . Ga. The price of flour has gone sky high and may still go higher. The high price cf flour is now a very serious question among those who have to purchase food products, and that means everybody. To show the tremendous and almost staggering advance in the price of flour it is only necessary to state that in January of this year, only four months ago, flour in Atlanta was sell ing at 3.60 a barrel, and now the price is $7.60, and the very ' lowest price is $7.40, when bought in five barrel lots. That means an increase of $2 a barrel or a little over 35 per cent. Officials of a large milling company in this city state that this advance L the price of flour ia due to the con dition of the wheat market. Yhether this condition is the result of the re cent speculations in wheat cannot be stated, but it probably has much to do with it. The advance in the price of wheat, states the milling company, has caused .the advance in the price of flour. Flour has advanced in price in all cities, throughout the country, and hi Louisville, where there are some of the biggest mills, the price is even hia-her than it is in Atlanta. . Bringing the question more closely down to the consumer, the price of a 24-pound rack cf flour has risen on an average from 75 cents to $1. A few years ago 24 pounds of flour, which is now selling for $1, was worth only cents. About twelve years Ego the same flour sold for 58 cents In other words, a family that uses 24 pounds of flour a week Is now pry- ing out about $25 a year more than it used to pay for this one commodity alone. There seems no probability cf any decrease in the price of flour for some time to come. DRUNKARDS PAINTED BLACK. Novel Scheme Introduced to Scare the Tipplers in Connecticut. Greenwich, Conn. Worshippers of Bacchus, in the village of Coscob and vicinity, have lately become terror ized -by what is raid to be a myste rious clan, which is working in the interests of temperance in a most nov el fashion. During the last month, nearly every tippler in the place has come" to grief. The - latest case cf misfortune happened -when Special Officer Jones took into custody a very black man. The prisoner tried to tell his trouble to the policeman, but was hustled into a cell. When the jailer aroused the man by calling: "Come out here," a tor rent of profanity issued from the cell and, upon examination, the ..keeper found that the inmate wa a white man, but that a coat of stove black ing had been applied to him while he lay in an alcoholic stupor. ; WRECKER ARRESTED. Tampered With Switches Becauss He Was Transferred. Mansfield, La. John Moseley, a sec tion foreman on the Texas and Pa cine Railroad, was arrested cn the charge cf having caused several wrecks on that road. Thres train men have lost their lives In these wrecks, which have occurred periodi cally for a year. Moseley was transferred about eight months ago, and another foreman was placed in charge of the Grand Cane section. The officers allege that Moseley tampered with switches, and did other mischief in an effort to re flect upon the section work of his suc cessor. - '. . .'. : $5,000,000 RAILROAD EXTENSION. Carolina, Clinchfieid and Ohio to Build to Kentucky, Bristol, TennIt is learned that the contract has Just 'been let for the extension of the Carolina, Cllncbfield and Ohio Railroad, the new trunk line from the southwest Virginia coal fields, to the south Atlantic seaboard, from Dante, Va., its present terminus, westward to Elkhorn City, Ky., on the Phesaneake and Ohio. The extension will cost in the neighborhood of $5, 000,000 and the work will be prose cuted as rapidly as possible. It will necessitate the driving of a tunnel through the Big Sandy Ridge in west ern Kentucky at a cost of over $500,-000. MONEY FOR SOUTHERN SCHOOLS. Ganer&l Educational Beard Announces ' Number of Appropriations. New York City. A number of ap propriations were announced by the general education board, among them several of $200,000 or more. In-1907 John-D. Rockefeller gave the general education board an endowment of $32, 000,000. A list of appropriations an nounced follows; University of Vermont, Burlington, $100,000; Johns Hopkins university, Baltimore, $250,000: Randolph-Macon Women's college, Lynchbuhg, $75,000; for agricultural demonstration work in the southern, states, $102,000 ; for professors of secondary education in the state universities t)f the southern states, $23,750; Hampton Normal and Agricultural institute, Hampton, Va., $10,00(5; Tuskegee Normal and indus trial institute, Tuskegee, Ala., $10, 000; Calhoun colored school, Calhoun, Ala., (to complete - industrial build ings), $2,265; Hamlm university, St. Paul, $75,000; Bryn Mawr college, Bryn Mawr, Pa., - $250,C00; University of Wooster, Wooster, O., $150,000; Hendrix college, Conway, Ark., $75, 000; Davidson college, Davidson, N. C, $75,000; University of Virginia, Char lotesville, W. Va., $50,000; Agnes Scott college, Decatur, Ga., ?100,000; Washing en university, St. Louis, $200,000; Kowayiga institute, Koway iga, Ala., $5,000; Spellman seminary, Atlanta, $10,000. At the last meeting Dr. E. C. Sage was elected assistant secretary of the board and E. L. Myers assistant secretary-treasurer. EARTHQUAKE IN ILLINOIS. Some Damage in Chicago - House is Damaged in Joliet. Chicago, 111. An earthquake, tho genuineness cf which was testifled by thousands all over Chicago and north-, ern Illinois, struck Chicago, there be ing from one to three distinct tremors felt throughout the entire city. The shock was felt as far south as Mendota and Aurora, and it is believ ed that it traveled north, ending in Lake . Michigan oventually, after it had traveled along the shore, into Waukegan and many other northern towns. In some parts of Chicago the shock was so pronounced that chandeliei-s were knocked down, furniture jostled about in houses and street lamps wrecked. In Joliet and Aurora chimneys were wrecked, frame houses slipped from their foundations and large cracks rent the asphalt pavements. In Aferora two fires were started, but were soon extinguished. Milwaukee, Wis. Earthquake chocks are reported from half a doz en cities in southern Wisconsin. At Janesville the shock was suf ficient to throw dishes off tables and crack plaster on the walls. Belcit felt the quake also, and it was only a little less severe at Ra cine and Kenosha. The telephone company reports that practically every' place in the southern part of Wisconsin felt the snock. NEW CHURCHES FOR TENNESSEE. $100,000 to Be Spent by Northern Presbyterians in State. Denver, Colo. ."Let Rockefeller alone go into your own pockets for college endowments," was the advice of Dr. J. C. Steffen of Dubuque, Iowa, in an address before the general as sembly of the Presbyterian Church. It was decided that $100,000 would be -spent in the erection of churches in the synod of Tennessee, to re place those taken from the churca by the decision of-the supreme court of that state, which held the union of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America and the Cumberland Presbyterian Church illegal. Uprising in Peru. Lima, Peru, By Cable. A rising of political factions occurred here at 4:30 Saturday afternoon with the ob ject of overthrowing the government of President Leguia. An attack was made upon the palace and firing was heard in all parts of the city. It is reported that many are 'dead and wounded. Adherents of Augusto I)n rand, who was concerned in the revo lution at Chosica; near Lima, in May, 1908, and of Isais Perola, also a no torious .agitator, made an assault up on the palace and seized President Leguia. The army, however, remain ed loyal and came to his support. Labor Leaders Convicted. Chicago, Special. After 46 hours of almost constant wrangling, the jury in the case of M. B. Madden, M J. Boyle and F. A. Pounchot, labor leaders, Saturday brought in a verdict of guilty,, fining each of the defend ants $500. Madden is the so-called labor "Czar" of Chicago. The men were broughilo trial on an indict ment, charging that they eonspired to extort $1,000 and did extort that sum, from Emil Klicka, STATE'S ACTION CONDEMNED. Presbyterians Lock Horns With State of Tennesee. Denver, Colo. The church locked horns with the state when the gen eral assembly, of the Presbyterian Church, in effect, condemned the ac tion of the state courts of Tennessee in setting aside the union of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America with the Cumber land Presibyterian Church. The assembly's criticism of the courts, which was unsparing, was based on the report of the commit tee on church co-operation. The re port rebukes the Tennessee courts for presuming to pass judgment on church matters. FORTIFY PANAMA CANAL Batteries Costing Approximately $7,000,000 to Be Built PROTEtTTloSPACIFiC SIDE To Be Given More Attention Than the Atlantic Secretary Dickinson Ex pects Canal to Open in 1915. MONUMENT AT KENNESAW MOUNTAIN. Shaft to Be Erected at $20,000 Cost in Memory of Illinois Troops. Springfield, 111. In the senate Sen ator Hearn, an ex-cenfederate soldier, made a speech advocating the appro priation of $20,000 for a monument at the battle ground of Kennesaw moun tain near Marietta, Georgia, in com memoration of the charge of the third brigade, second division, fourtee&th army corps, Army of the Cumberland. The bill was' passed by a "vote of 40 to 0. Policemen Save Lives. Boston, Mass. Women and children fled -over roof tops . and crawled along fire--escapes, six stories above the ground, in a fire panic in a big tene ment building. Over twenty-flve per Eons were saved from death by police men, who risked their own lives in the work of rescue. Newsy Paragraphs. Congressman William Lorimer broke the long and bitter deadlock that has existed in the Illinois gen eral assembly for fi United States Sen ator by defeating A. J. Hopkins. Con gressman Lorimmer won with one hundred and three votes on the nine-i ty-ftfth ballot. Fifty women strike-breakers, taken from Manhattan to West Orange, N. J., by. agents of hat manufacturers in the latter place, were mobbed on their arrival 'by five hundred men and women sympathizers of the strikers. A number of persons were bruised, or slightly cut. The carriages provided by the manufacturers were demolish ed. - i Flying through space in advance of a thunder storm, the balloon Mas sachusetts, with William J. VanSleet as pilot, landed in a field in Munson, Mass. The balloon was caught in a whirl and seemed to spin around, while the car swung from side to side at an angle of forty-five degrees. As the balloon was released from this eddy it was caught by swift wind cur rents and swept across the Connect icut river. One cf the passengers, watch in hand, figured that the bal loon traveled five mile3 in four minutes. " In a violent tempest which raged off the coast of Spain over sixty ves sels of the fishing fleet foundered and it is estimated that not less than one hundred fishermen were drowned. A fall of only a foot and a half caused by slipping resulted in the death of. Ignatz Sigeritz, 68 years old, of New York city. He was a giant in strength and had often boasted to his friends of his great vitality, but h.s skull was fractured by the short fall. Theodore Wolski saved the lives of his seven small children by throwing them from a second-story window of his -.burning home in Detroit, Mich. The father first had thrown a mat tress out ofthe window and the. chil dren alighted safely on it .', Washington, D. C Fortifications to cost approximately $7,000,000 are to be built to defend the Panama canal. In the twenty days Secretary of War" Dickinson spent in looking over the tround, he and Major General J. Franklin Bell, chief of staff, went into the matter carefully. The significant feature cf their tentative decision i3 that the most powerful and elaborate batteries are to be planted to as to repel attacks from thePacinc ocean. There are to be three batteries on the, Pacific ride.- Lying "off the mouth of the canal are fifteen islands, and thre selected for the fortifications are be tween 10 and 15 mile3 off shore. They are Flamento, Culebra and Naos Isl ands. On the coast Lno at each side of the canal raouth there will be bat teries also situated at Ancon and San Juan. The estimated cast of these fortifications without equipment will be $3,500,000. Six miles up the canal from the Pa cific Ocean there is to be a secondary battery. This will command the prin cipal lock at Pedro Miguel and the es timated cost will be $500,000. At Cu lebia, about the middle of the ditch, a military post will be constructed at a cost of . $250,000. s On the Atlantic side the defenses will be much more simple. A range of hills run down to the sea, command ing the entrance to -the canal. Upon them at El Bocca point, modern bat teries will be constructed at a cot ef $2,500,000. It Is planned to mcur) in these fortifications more than 60 of the highest power disappearing gups. None of these will be less than 13 inch. caJiber and they will run as high as 16 inches in themain batter ies. The secondary batteries will bo of lower caliber, but they will be more numerous. Mr. Dickinson la the newest con vert to the lock type of canal across the isthmus. He was formerly an advocate cf the sea level type, but admits now that his earlier convic tion was wrong. It developed that the Panama rail road will practically be abandoned when the canal is completed. Almosi all its traffic consists of freight car ried between Panama and Colon for trans-shipment and when thi3 traffic is taken through tho canal in ships, the road may be transformed Into an electric line for carrying cf pas-sen-gers and light freight. Secretary Dickinson expects that the canal will .be open for freight traffic by January 1, 1915. COTTON MANUFACTURERS MEET. L. V. Parker cf Greenville, S. C, ia Chosen President. Richmond, Va. The convention of the American Cotton Manufacturers was brought to a close with the elec tion of the following officers: Presi dent, L. W. Parker, Greenville, S. C; vice president, C K. Oliver, Bal timore; secretary-treasurer, C. B. Bry. ant, who has held that office sincq 1901. To supply the six vacancies on the board of governors, due to terms o incumbents expiring, the following were chosen: W, A, Erwln, Durham, N. C.; W. H. Karris, Pawtucket. R. I.j C. D. Tuller, Atlanta, Ga.; C. H, Moody, Huntsville, Ala..; Ridley Wr.tts, New York, and T. P, Tyson, Knoxi ville, Tenn. .Resolutions were adopted, Indorsing tho Overman senate bill, placing a tax of $12 a head on all Immigrant) to this country; commending the Idea of a national highway from Washing ton to Atlanta, Ga., and favoring the appointment of a committee to inquire Into and report on the best method cf ginning and baling cotton. The re ports of the secretary and treasurer fchowed the association to be in goo I condition, with 3 new members ad' mitt'.d sin'.-fi the last onei:!ion. LAWFUL TO CURSE IN WISCONSIN, Governor Holds Person May Cursfl Under Certain Circurrstinses. Madison, Wis. Tho lnalienabla right of a citizen of Wisconsin to use profanity under sufficient provocation, is not to be abrogated by the legisla ture with the consent of Governor Davidson. Believing, &3 he dees, the governor vetoed the bill prohibiting swearing 'in any public place, under a penalty of a $25 fine or thirty days in jail. Assemblyman Hull, author of the bill, will try to pass it over the veto. c WILL CONVERT CHINA. Salvation Army to Invade the Celes tial Empire. New York City. Colonel Edward K. If ,glns of London Introduced by Miss Booth as the represeutative of General Booth,, made the announce ment at the convention of the Salva tion Army that the Army had decid ed to convert China. The work, he said, was well under way, money having been provided and officers se lected. The first headquarters of the Army will be located at Chefoo. Colo nel Higgins also announced that Gen eral Booth, commander-in-chief of the Salvation Army, would visit the Uni ted States this fall to personally con duct a congress cf exhortation. CHAS. E. DAVIS E0UN3 GUILTY. Rome, Georgia, Attorney Gets Fifteen Months In Federal Prison. Rome, Ga. Charles E. Davis, the Rome attorney on trial for two days In the United States court, charged with using the mails for fraudulent purposes, was found guilty. Judge Newman sentenced him to 13 months in the Atlanta federal prison and a fine of $500. Motion for new trial was filed immediately. Davis' scheme was to forge' Atlanta clearing house certificates. . . ...
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