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jrjK ffbatbainTRccortv A. LONDON EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. ILiU' v w -V 3i .50 Per Year STR3CTLY IN ADVANCE Fill it VOL. XXXI. PITTSBORO. CHATHAM COUNTY N. C, WEDNESDAY, JULY 21. I &09. NO. 49, ftbe , Cbfltbam 1?ccort RATES OF ADVERT1SIHG: One Square, one Insertion.'.,;. . j. One Square, two lnerflon......l.l r One Square, one month... .... oo , . For Larger Advertise j ments Liberal Contracts will be made. IT" k r i 'J 1 THREATENS VETO I Pvc J ?nlTeiis Republicans They hUui Revise Tariff Downward. HE WILL REDEEM PROMISES - Vh;a Tvenly-Thres Republican Repre sent lives Called on Preiidtfnt He Gave His Views on Tariff Question. V vhir.stcn, D. C. All doubt as to yh.-:o President Taft stands with re ca; I to the downward refision ot the laviif was swept away when a state n';. ..: was given out at the "white 1 ;u;: senilis forth in detail what ti-r y: of iuCRt tad to say to the 23 ic . i-l I:c"n members cf congress who ViHl to pretest against putting "raw jur.Kiial on the free list. T!.3 president declares that the re publican i cii iy is committed to a ,j -, aid revision; that he has never La i any ether idea of the ! Chicago rlafc-vns, and that he personally has p:c ..htd a downward revision to the ' i.iji statement is interpreted in vxirao quaiters here as a direct noti-lir.:ic-n to the conferees on the tariff 1:1 that if the measure they finally on does net constitute a ma ter::;! redaction in specific duties, the I resident will veto it. "';.; following official statement was iiv:A.: r.t the white house: Mr. Young cf Michigan opposed free r;t : Mr. Mondell opposed free coal cr Kvi-noeity with Canada and free liid-.'s. each on the ground that the rcii y would injure the interests in his state. The president replied that .c vcas net committed to the principle of free raw material, but that he was cc r.in itied to the principle of a down van revision cf the tariff, which he hail promised, and that he was obliged to leak at the matter not from the star. l; oiiit cf any particular district. In.; iicui the standpoint of the whole tour.try, and also from the standpoint cf ; of i onsibiiity for the entire repub lican laity. Kc- repeated the platform of the re publican party and said that he had always understood that it meant a dowiiwaid revision in many instances, though perhaps in some few instances an increase might-be needed; that he rc;;ejei.tcd this construction of the platform on what he understood to be the principle cf protection and its jus lificaelcn namely, that after an indus try v.-a s protected by a duty equal to the difference between the cost of pro de.erion abroad and the cost of produc tion iu tbis country, including a fair licfir io the manufacturer, the energy arc! enterprise of American business men ai:d capitalists, the effectiveness cf American labor and the ingenuity cf American inventors under the pul.-s cf competition behind the tariff wall, would reduce the cost of produc tion raid that, with the reduction and the ccst cf production, the tariff rate would become unnecessarily high and cugLt to be reduced. This was the normal operation of the tariff as claimed by the-defenders ri tire protective system not in every case, but as a general rule that cf course a revision cf the tariff could not te perfect, must have defects and inconsistencies, but insofar as his in fluence went, when called upon to act in connection with legislation, it would be thrown in tfte direction of peifomiing the promises of the party s he understood them, and that if iron ore and oil and coal and hides did pot need protection and the conditions were such as to enable the ore pro ducers and the oil producers and the coal producers and the produceis of hides to compete successfully without reduction of wages, with the produc ers from abroad, then they did not Tip:-; a duty and their articles should go on Vc.i free list. .Ho said that he felt that hl$ posi tion as ths titular head of the re publican party as his constituency, gave him a somewhat broader point cf view than that of a single member cf congress in respect to articles pro duced in bis district. He felt strongly the call of the country for a down ward revision within the limitations of the protective principle, and ho toped to be able to respond to that call as he heard it, as well as in the interests cf the party as of the coun ty. The president asserts for the first iipe his authority as the titular head cf his party. As such, he announces ps conviction that the party platform meant a levision downward and that otr.or interpretation can be placed Upuii ft, " " - r iht- president's statement was fnown to gen&tor Aldrich. He made Ho direct comment upon it, but said tiat the conferees had decided to let Mr. Taft deal with schedules on which "C-y could not agree, it being up to t-ic president to secure the votes nec essary to patj the measure in the xorm in which it would he presented ut of conference mmm OEFEATG. 0. P. TEAM. Sccrs cf Famous Baseball Game 25 to 1G. i aSllin'tn-l r: n Wltfi "TTVr1 Jce ' Cannon locking .on and power- to cal ithe rcinoiity to order, or wtng in a special iuie shutting off upe l!-ts, ihe democrats of the house ' "I'i'creiv.aiives walloped all sorts aiul fcl.edt.les cut of the republi J:an,;i ct the American League Park, ilV-li the most famous ccngres io:,ai bacbf.li gr.ire on record by 'i-nvr tCr.10 C 26 to 16. The 1 y wauicd to make it 16 to 1, eparjiicair-s dcieated the prcy- rr.; bu n OKce again. -. - tin. i ; aizu tirst r.f . I. luo eiitia session. denioc! atic a ictory was the CENSUS PLACES FOB THE SOUTH. Republicans and Democrats to Share En umerators' Job. Washington, D. C President -Tafl discussed with his cabinet the distrl bution of census patronage in th south. The senators of several of th southern states recently have consult ed with the president on this subject and he has told them in a broad waj that his policy will be to name enu merators without regard to political affiliations, the desire being to get the best available men for these responsi ble and difficult positions. Republicans and democrats will share alike in the appointments throughout the south. Postmaster Gen eral Hitchcock likely wil be consult ed extensively in the filling of cen sus offices. Secretary Nagel of the department of commerce and labor, under whose jurisdiction the census office operate-3, also will carefully scru tinize the recommendations made by southern senators. HAY INCREASE FERTILIZER COST. Germany Threatens Big Tax on Pot ash Salts. Washington, D. C. Although south err senators were successful in induc ing the senate to place on the free list potash salts, an important ingre dient in the manufacture of fertilizers, the German government, which has a monopoly of the product, is consider ing the advisability cf placing an ex port tax of $20 a ten on the output. This information has greatly disturbed the fertilizer manufacturers in the south, who do not hesitate to assert that an export tax levied by the Ger man government would result in a decided increase in the cost of fertilizers- lo the farmers of the south. The Savannah fertilizer manufactur ers took the matter up with Repre sentative Edwards cf Georgia, whe registered a protest in letters to Sec retary of State Knox and Senator Al drich. Mr. Knox has forwarded ths copy cf Mr.- Edwards' letter of pro test to the American ambassador at Rerlin, and has also dispatched to him a personal communication urg ing that he use his efforts to dis suade the German government, il possible, from levying an export taa on potash salt. ? Secretary Knox is tailing a personal interest in the matter, and will use his best efforts to prevent the imposition of the tax in question, though he ap preciates the fact that the matter is one to be finally determined by the German government. PALTERS WILL MARRY. Inmates cf Georgia Poor Farm . Ar dently In Love. Waynesboro, Ga. A wedding will take place at the pauper farm soon. The happy couple have long passed the age of the billing and cooing dove stage of life, yet they are ardently in love. At the meeting cf the county com missioners they petitioned for permis sion to be allowed to wed. Mr. Smith is the name cf the groom and Mrs. Rush is the name cf ths "blushing"' bride. They are inmates cf the county poor farm, and are highly respected by their associates there Congratulations are being extended in advance of hot happy event. FIYE STOYY BUILDINGCOLLAPSES. Seven Men Were Killed and Twenty Six Others Seriously Injured. Philadelphia, Pa. In one cf th busiest sections of the city, and at a time wheu .thousands cf pedestrian? were passing, a five-story brick build ing, which was - being reconstructed, collapsed, burying er pinning beneatl the ruins thirty-two .persons, seven of whom are dead, ope missing, one fatally injured and twenty-four iUor or less seriously injured. Many instances of heroism wen witnessed. One man, whose: leg . wai broken, was . pinned beneath some tim bers. When firemen came withiB hailing distance, he asked that the attend the more seriously injured. " Five Erot&ers Marry Five Sisters. Columbus, Ky. A marriage ceremo ny in Kent county united five sisterj to five brothers. Misses Maude; Nel lie, Kate, Anne and Susie Mertlnwerq married to John, Dan, Hugh, Jack and Dick Johnson. Five sisters acted as bridesmaids, and five brothers of th bridegrooms acted as best men. It was proposed to follow the wedding with a hppeymoon for the flye happy couples, to extend te St, Louis, but the lateness of the crops prevented the men members from leaving homj at tbls time. All are of Kentucky, : Go!, Pointer's Body Sen! Sooth - New York City. Th body of Cclo. nel Marcellus Pointer, the friend and aide de-camp of General Joseph Whee. ler, who died in a hotel on the Bow ery, was sent to Memphis, Tenn. fof burial, Philip Pointer of Como, iMss., the old soldier's brother, asked that the body be sent south. Submarine Sinks With 13 sailors. Cromer. England. The British sub marine designated as C-ll .was sunk by the cargo steamer Eddystone. Thir teen members of the vessel's crew went to the bottom with her, and enly three were saved. Lieutenants Brcdie and Watkins are among the survivors. Hot Sun Cooks Weevil Eggs. Baton Rouge, La. State Entomolo gist Newell gave cut a statement, in which he' declared that the hot, dry weather of the past two weeks had literally cooked weevil eggs in-cotton bolls and that the outlook for the crm cf cotton is much brighter in Louisiana. BONDS TO BE ISSUED President Taft to Ask Congress to Authorize Issue. CANAL COST $397,090,000 Bond Issue Is Based on Amount To Be Expended at Panama Treasury Will Be Reimbursed. Washington, D. C Congress will be asked, at the Instance of President Taft, to authorize the Issuance of bonds to the extent of the latest es timate of the coBt of the Panama Canal. This issue would be in lieu of that proposed in the rider to the Payne tariff bill (stricken out in the senate), authorizing the issuance of $40,000,000 in bonds to reimburse the general fund of the treasury for the purchase of the canal property. inis decision was reached at a luncheon conference at the white house in which President Taft, Sena tor Aldrich, Chairman - Payne of 'the house ways arid means committee, Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh ana Assistant Secretary Norton par ticipated. - The Goethals estimate of $397,000.- 0C0 as the cost of the canal complete was used as a basis for the proposed Dond issue. The secretary of the treasury would be empowered to issue the honds, as the 'money is needed, at interest not to exceed 3 per cent. Just now the secretary of the treasury is anxious to reimburse the working balance in the treasury, and out of the first issue of bonds this balance would receive the sum of $50,000,000, made up of the purchase price for the canal compa ny's property, and the $10,000,000 paid out of the general fund for the pur chase of the canal zone. 'The existing limit -for canal bonds is $130,000,00, of which $36,000,000 has been issued. 30,000 MEN OUT ON STRIKE. Labor Fights Capital in the Pittsburg District. Pittsburg, Pa. Twelve persons were injured when members of the Pennsylvania state constabulary and steel strikers clashed a number of times at the plant of the Pressed Steel Car Company, McKees ltocks Following the rioting and bloodshed the strikers congregated at the gates of the mill - and at intervals would bombard the works with bricks. The police only shot over the heads of the strikers. Between 25,000 and 30,000 workmen coal miners, tin and sheet plate workers and various steel crafts are out on strike throughout western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and West Virginia. A majority of the idle men are in the Pittsburg district. The situation between capital and labor in the Pittsburg district is unique, trailing as it does, - on the heels of an apparent wave of pros perity. Resumptions have been ordered in all trades, and men who have been without work for many months are being afforded employment. On the other hand Is the present unrest of the workmen. Solutions of the causes leading up to the strikes are varied. In several instances the men claim that their employers, taking advantage of their recent prolonged idleness, are offering them low , wages for their work. The officials assert that condi tions do not warrant higher remunera tion at this time, It is said that the tin plate workers' strike will affect plants in different portions of the country, adding from 5,000 to . 10.0QQ to the r&nks of the strikers, . POPULAR WOMAN JUDGE, When Marrying Couples She Omits the word "Obey." Beloit.' Kan.- So popular have be come the marriage ceremonies per formed by Probate Judge Mary Coop er, who i3 said to be the only woman probate judge in the United States, that it has become a -fad for young women to Insert the proviso . that Judge Cooper shall officiate at the weddings. Judge Cooper's popularity has come about through the omis-sion of the word "obey" when tying the Knot. - PRESIDENTS TO MEET, Taft and Diaz Wilt Talk Across the - Border Line, iVashington, D. C. Ambassador Peiabane of Mexico and Secretary of State Knox have arranged the final details for the meeting of President Taft and President Diaz this fall. The two presidents will meet at the center of the bridge between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, and it will have to be at the exact center of the Rio Grande, as neither president is supposed to be allowed to leave his country during his term of office. PERSIAN SHAH DETHRONED. Crown Prince Sultan Ahmed Mirza Will Rue Throuoh a Renent. roheran, 'Persia. Mohammed Al: ' ih t ersia, was dethroned and e crown prince, Sultan Ahmed Mir , ' ys Proclaimed shah by the na--j.iai assembly, composed of the -dujtehids and the leaders of -e national forces, in the presence f ttamense crowd in parliament. Aionammed Ali has taken refuge at "ussian legation at Zernade. The Jifc shah is yet in his minority. Supreme Court Place for Hughes Washington, D. C There is a very strong impression in New York and Vermont that President Taft wil! offer Governor Hughes the first vacancy that occurs in the United States su preme court. - The tender of the appointment is re garded as contingent jipon the coming of the vacancy at a time when the New York governor can accept it. Many friends of Governor Hughes do not think he would accept the appoint ment should it be offered. "DRYS" TO CONTEST ELECTION. Claim That 125 Votes Were Illegally Cast in the Bristol Election. Bristol, Va. On the ground that 125 votes cast in the local option elec tion held here, which resulted in a victory for the wets, by 32 majority, were illegal, the temperance leaders have decided to contest the election, and selected a committee to file suit attacking the legality of the recent election. , The majority of the 125 live in the Tennessee half of the city, and some of them own property but claim citi zenship in Virginia and voted there. The dry victory in Jtoanoke, Va., some weeks ago by a majority of 82 was set aside. The city is still wet. STATE SENATOR KILLED IN DUEL Oscar O. Bayles of Alabama Shot by David K. Smith. Mont" nery, Ala. State Senator Oscar C. Bayles was shot and killed by David K. Smith at Monroeville, their home, as a result of Bayles' ef forts to secure a pardon for Isaac and Jesse Shirley, who are serving terms for the killing of Jim Smith, a brother of the man . who . did the shooting. Bayles made sensational remarks to Smith while the hearing before the pardon board was -on.. MUCH MARRIED MAN. r As He Enters Penitentiary Bigamist Tells the Story of His Life. San Francisco, Cal. Christian C. Johnson sentenced in San Jose to serve seven years in the penitentiary for bigamy, i-s reported to have con fessed that he is the mysterious "John Madson," wanted in many parts of the country for matrimonial ventures and' systematic swindling of a number of women under promise of marriage. He declares that he has been married to so many women that he cannot count them off-hand. - "In 1906," he says, 'T quit my busi ness of buying horses, and from that day to this time I have been making my living by marrying and making love to women, getting their money, and then deserting them. " "I want to say that I married all of the women Just te-have-a gocd time. The doctors told me I did -. not have long .to .'live," and I should enjoy my self while I lived. I found pleasure in duping women and getting their money from them. I am not a hyp notist, but I only had to met a woman a few times and I knew just how to handle her. I have found that it did not pay to be soft and sweet with a woman. Treat her; a little harsh and be a little distant and she will come to you.", ! One of his most-amazing feats, ac cording to his own confesion, : was making love to .ten women at one time in Portland, Oregon. While he admits that he got money from most of them, and that his marriages were part of a get-rich-quick system, John son declares that in every instance he spent the money he received upon the victim herself. From most of the. women, Johnson says, he obtained money or jewelry or both. Johnson left in custody of a deputy sheriff for San Quentin prison, where he is to serve a seven-years' . sen tence. Of 18 women whom Johnson mar ried, according - to the confession, seven are from California, four from Missouri, two from Oregon, and one each from Kansas, Arkansas, Tennes see, Illinois and Massachusetts. The one from Teunesee was a Mrs. King, from Memphis; the one from Arkan sas, Mrs. Birdie King of Hot Springs.. PUBLICITY FOR TIBEECULOSIS FIGHT Bill Posters and Distributers Donate $1,200,000 in Advertising. Atlanta, Ga. The Bill Posters and Distributers of the United States and Canada, in session here, by unani mous action voted to give space and publicity for six months in the 3,400 towns and cities, in which they oper ate billboards, to the National Asso ciation for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, which, if paid for, at regular rates would cost the as sociation $1,200,000. That this action was -meant, and meant sincerely was evidenced by the amendment to the original resolution which changed the wording of it from the 'association hereby re quests" -to "the association hereby di rects" so that there will be no eva sion even if such .were desired at any point in the country. President Chennell, in speaking of the question, stated he believed that he could have the paper on which the advertisements were printed, fur nished by the paper mills free; the ink with which they are printed do nated free; and the railroads to haul them over the -country free. BANK OFFICER SHORT $100,000, Officer cf Hibernia Bank and Trust Co. cf New Orleans Arrested, New Orleans, La. Wyatt H. In gram, Jr., officer of the Hiberpia Bank and Trust Company of New Orleans, was arrested at his home her on the charge of being a defaulter and forg er. It is alleged that he Is between $75,000 and $100,000 short in his ac counts. The trust officer is said to have confessed to Vice President Pool of the Hibernia Bank that his defalcations would approximate J 100, 000. Ingram for a number of years has stood high in business and social circles of New Orleans. Not Encouraging for Prohibition. Atlanta, Ga. -Notwithstanding that in the state of Georgia- "near-beer" is the nearest approach to the exhil arating beverage that citizens of non prophibition states are sometimes wont to paitake of, the records of the Atlanta police department disclose that for the first six months of 190S there were 1&75 arrest3 in this city fcr drunkenness. This record is in excess of that of the first half of last year 1,123 and almost equals the rec ord for the first eix months of 1907 before prohibition was in force. Neway Paragraphs. ' What, is believed to be the highest price eyer paid in London England, for a domestic catnamely, $525- was given by Mrs. Lynas of Chicago for Rob Roy II, England's champion male chinchilla Persian cat, and the winner of numerous prizes. The ani mal will be sent to the United States on the next steamer, The greatest aeroplane flight on record waa completed at Etamps, France, by M. Bleriot, the noted French aeronaut, whose straighaway flight bf twenty-eight miles, complet ed in' fifty-six minutes, is the most marvelous ever " made in a heavier than air machine. The Wright broth ers have been in the air longer and have made flights which for distance exceed the Bleriot flight, but as they have always flown in a circle over a circumscribed field and never at tempted cross-country flight, M. Ble riot's journey is a world s record. It is officially reported in Canton, China, that one hundred and seventy four deaths from the bubonic plague and thirty-six deaths from cholera occurred there during the last two weeks. Hereafter no Sunday funerals will be held in Denver, Col., unless orders are issued by the board of" health making them necessary in particular cases. This was decided when an agreement was signed by forty-three ministers, twenty-one undertaking firms and the two principal cemeter ies of Denver. The British steamer Corinto arriv ed. In Mobile, Ala., from Neuva Ge rona, Isle ..of Pines, .bringing a cargo of 8,900 parrots, destined for Phila delphia and New York. This is the first cargo of its kind ever brought to Mobile. - . LATE NEWS NOTES.. General. Edward Payson Weston completed his 3,975-mile walk from New York when he arrived in - San Francisco. Weston is 75 years old. He left. New York March 17th to walk acros3 the continent in ifiO days, exclusive of Sundays. He arrived five day 3 be hind his schedule., - . Twelve more deaths due to tetanus as the result of the Fourth of July cel ebration, were reported throughout the country. This brings the total deaths due to observance of Independence Day from all causes up to 114. - News was received at Abbeville, La, that cattle are being killed by the dozens along the Bayou Chienne Au Tigre and Mulberry by mosquitoes. The ravages of the insect are de clared to. have been more intense this season than ever -before In the his tory of this section. - Baron Oskar Rothschild, the young est son Of Albert Rothschild, head of the Austrian hranch of the Rothschild hovase, died suddenly in Vienna, Aus tria. It is reported that he commit ted suicide because of an unfavorable love affair. Baron Oskar was twenty one years old. - Washington. " The old Anacostia bridge over which John Wilkes Booth' sped his horse to escape from an infuriated city the night he shot Lincoln, is to be torn down soon. It is over-half a century eld. The district commis sioners will receive proposals for the razing of the old landmark, a new ctructure connecting Washington proper with the suburb of Anacostia having been completed. . " Upon request of the state depart msnt, "the navy department has dis patched the cruiser Tacoma from Guantanamo to Baranquilla, Colombia, tle hotbed of the present revolution in that country, to protect American life and property. Paxton Hibben, sec retary of the American legation at Bogota, Colombia, in dispaches to the state department says . that the Colombian government has closed the ports of Baranquilla and Sabanillla because they were in the hands of the rebels. Mr. Northcote has inform ed the department that foreigners have not been molelsted by. the revo lutionists and that Americans are not endangered. Only a reasonable charge may be made by a carrier for any interstate shipment of freight, even though the tariff has been filed with the inter state commerce commission covering ths shipment. This was the substance of a decision handed down ; by the commission. In addition (he commis sion exercised authority to determine the reasonableness of the charge made by the carrier in the case cf the Memphis freight bureau against the Kansas City Southern railway and ethers. - Ensign Hugh K. Aiken of the navy died aboard the armored cruiser North Carolina at Naples, Italy, from injuries resulting from a coal gas ex plosion. He was born in New Or leans in 1S84, and entered the naval service in 1902. Peter Mullan of Brooklyn, N. Y., also was injured slightly at the time of the explosion. Ensign Aiken was one of the best known members of the football team while at the naval academy. ' , Considerable alarm is felt in Wash ington by friends of Congressmen El terbe and Johnson of South Carolina, because of the fact that both of them are considered seriously ill. Mr. El lerbe has been a patient in Provi dence hospital for six weeks with a fractured leg, and he has, it is under stood, developed pneumonia. Because of the strict rules being observed at the hospital it is difficult to secure any particulars. Mr. Ellerbe s col leagues in congress are, however, con siderably worried over the fact that after apparently getting along nicely be should take this bad turn. Repre sentative Johnson was taken ill on the floor of the house and was assist ed by some of his friends and em ployes at the capltol. Like the case of Mr. Ellerbe it is almost impossi ble to secure details, but alarm is be ing felt oyer, his condition. Mrs. El lerbe is here, and members of Mr. Johnson's family have also arrived. Indications are that President Taft's announced iteneary for his southern and western trip this fall will he ex tended materially. The president did not include in the tentative list which was published where he expects to stop long -enough to make an address and hold a brief reception. ' Strong efforts will . be made by representa tives in congress and state officials to have the president stop for a few minutes at least at nearly all the towns of appreciable size through which his train will pass-in the day light hours. Already the president has been bombarded with such re questB. He has suggested to all of his callers and correspondents that tKey take the matter up with him la ter in the summer. It is more than likely that the president will have to follow the policy of his predecessors in chartering a special train. When the conferees on the tariff bill began work it was with the knowl edge that the amendments to the lum ber schedule, over which a contest was certain, would' be reached before adjournment. The house members were expected to make a strong fight for "dollar llumber," which was -defeated in the senate. . In assisting to lay the corner stone of a church in Washington which has as part of its equipment a gymnasium, ; a swimming pool, bowling alleys and club rooms, President Taft took oc casion to pay a tribute to the civil employe of the government who, be ing compelled to remain in Washing ton - while the president goes to the seashore and legislators seek their vacation carries on the work of the government. . - A misapprehension of the practice of the army and navy in regard to the burial of officers who commit suicide is given in official circles as answer to the report that unusual honors, were accorded Lieutenant James N. Sutton, United States marine corps, whose death at Annapolis in 1907 i3 said to be'under investigation a sec ond time. It is declared that a uni versal practice is to accord military honors to an officer who takes his own life, and in the case of Lieuten ant Sutton it is maintained that the authorities at Annapolis followed long established precedent.. , NORTH STATE HEWS NOTES Items of Siatc Iniercst Gathered from Here and There and Told Briefly for Busy Readers. Pellagra Causes State of Alarm. Durham, Special. Two deaths from Pellagra and two well-defined cases of the- disease which has al most become critical with the medi cal fraternity, have been reported by the . doctors here, and certain por tions of the population are alarmed. TmVhuman ill is not new enough to be a sensational thing ucr VI ?r.cr.K to preserve it from faddism. Exag gerated stories of the deaths in Hay ti, the colored settlement of Durham, have caused a number of families to discontinue the use of corn-bread as a family dish and some bf the very best people here are exceedingly alarmed. The physicians have not yet taken it so seriously but they are worried nevertheless. Pellatrra has had but little explanatory litera ture. The throrips that. it. flops .inl doesn't find its causation iu rcaize, or Indian corn, are typical of divid ed doctors and when they fall out, sometimes the patient fares but ill. So far as can be learned by your .correspondent, there is nothing ap proaching an epidemic and the two white cases of the disease appear to be improving, though one . is a very ill woman. While pellagra isn't new in North Carolina, . there have been but few cases west cf this place. Wilmington and contiguous territory have suffered a number but the fa talities haven't been so great. The disease has' been likened unto leprosy but there are plenty of doctors to combat that theory. The charging up of the deadly disease to maize arises out of a theory that this corn as a consistent diet lacks the living prop erties that it ought' to possess and that from that very insufficiency comes the skin disease and leprosy appearance of the person eating. There have been" some physicians in consultation, with the local doctors and they have discussed the situa tion. While it has worried them, the fact that pellagra is not a con tagious disease -has had a tendency to keep the few unfortunates from publicity rather than otherwise. One of the colored women died yesterday and ihe other last week. The resi dents of Hayti have suffered some alarm and they have eschewed corn bread until there is assurance that it is wholesome. Electric Department. Spencer, Special. Few people have an idea of the immense propor tions of the electric department of the Southern Railway shops at. Spen cer, where hundreds of machines of various kinds are driven by the elec tric motor. . The department, which is ably managed by Mr. W. S. Sweet as chief electrician, is producing more than 600 horse power with 03 motors ranging from three to seventy-five horse power in size. More than 1,500 incandescent lights and 22G ire lamps ae maintained, r So well managed is this department .that only four men, two electricians and two helpers are employed tplCkeep the tvhole plant in operation. It is sig nificant that not one minute's delay fcas been caused in five years except on the occasion of the powder maga zine explosion last year when the Jynamos were badly damaged, but were started again in three hours. Of the more than 200 locomotives in the service at Spencer, 67 are .equip ped with electric lights. All of the dining cars, fourteen in number, on the main line of the Southern, are equipped throughout with electricity, It is said that the electric plant at Spencer equals in proportions the entire plant of a city the " size of Charlotte, Aaheville, or Wilmington. Wants $23,000 Bend Issua. .Washington, Special.- A : petition baa been circulated among a larne number of our citkens during the past few days asking that the Leg islature grant this city the privilegs of another bond issue of $25,(100 -f&v street improvements. The petition has been signed by a large number of citizens. Durham's Whistling Tiger Run In. Durham, Special. Two new cases were-found against Walter Hobbs, the great blind tiger of North Dur ham, Saturday afternoon and the de termination to take out a writ of habeas corpus before Judge Manning was abandoned. Hobbs is the whistling- cripple whose strange rendition of ' The ; Mocking Bird" was his signal for a purchaser: He had done the thins well many times, but was landed at last. The bond of $1,000 stands and as much monye as he has made at the business, he cannot raise the required amount. - .-- Mills. Will Close Down.' Concord, Special. Owing to the high price of cotton and the accumu lation of goods the Carmon mills here and at Kannapolis, the Patter son mills at China Grove and Kan napolis, the Gibson, the Franklin, Cabarrus Cotton Mills, Wiscassett at Albemarle, Kestler, at Salisbury, and the Tuscarora at Mt. Pleasant will close down for two weeks. This includes all the Gannon string of managed mills. - Rapid Progress. " "" ; , Raleigh, Special. A striking ex- - position of North Carolina's rapid ' j progress in development of pablic ed- -ncation is given in the annual report -of Secretary C. IL Mebane,-of the1'' Education Campaign Committee, just ; ; romvleted. It shows a school fundi for the year of $3,294,231, a gairj.cf : $431,013 over the year previous, raised by local taxation, $350,739, v gain of $104,607; bonds issued ; in local iax districts, $308,532, a gain . of $05,008. The report declares that ' all records were broken during thev" ninety days of" March, April and ? May in the matter of carrying local . -f , tax districts in that 132 were car- t ried. within that time, giving a" total -of 152 carried during the year in v forty-four counties. There are 900 loral tax districts iu the State at this.iimc, distributed one each in six ' counties, two to five each in thirty- three, six to ten each " in - sixteen; eleven to fifteen each in eleven, eigh- . teen to forty-seven each in fourteen, counties. There are four counties having no local tax districts. - Secretary Mebane 's report shows that duriu the- year thirty-eight speakers were sent into various parts of the State to fill seventy-five- ap pointments in the furtherance of the committee campaign. Ths campaign committee to which this report is ' made comprises H. E. Fries, Winston Salem;" ex-Governor Charles B. Ay cock; ex-Governor R. B. Glenn and Hon. J. Y. Joyner, State Superinten- dent of Public Instruction. The re- ' port calls special attention to the fact that one whole county in the State voted a special tax for im-' provemcnt of schools, that being. New Hanover. No other county has yet . adopted a special tax for the entire county. . ' The Deserted Baby. 'Asheville, Special. The mystery surrounding the leaving, of a child here with a colored "nurse by a wo-' man who left the city has been par tially cleared. Upon investigaticn it is learned that the womau's name is Ella Gibbs, whose home is near Ma rion. Fcr the past two months she has teen employed at the home of Mr. Alex Porter, where she was dis charged, owing ' to her strange ac tions. The woman is "now at her home near Marion, but no effort will Le made to have her brought back, as the opinion prevails that the child it better off without its mother. The child is at present at the home of Mr. A. L. Garren, where it will re main until a home is selected. There are many applicants to adopt the child. Mistook Wife For Burglar. Concord, Special. Sam Gibson, ' young negro, and a good farm hand, living on the plantation of Mr. Wil liam II.'Bost in No. 10 township, shot and killed his wife about 1 o'clock Monday morning, thinking the wo m&u was some one coming into his room for the purpose of robbery or something else. His wife had gotten out of ,bed. and went to the door, but as the; " doer was so fastened that she could not get out, she then went to a win dow, and was in the act of re-enter ing the house when Oibson awakened and took deliberate aim with his shot which proved almost instant death? to the woman. . He was not held for the crime, . m . .. . Peculiar and Primitive. - Fayetteville, Special. Sheriff .N. II. Watson, of Cumberland r.unty, has just captured his twenty-f. irtb. ' illicit whiskey still at the head of Beaver Creek Pond. The outfit was a peculiar one, composed of an iron pet, wooden cap and gas plpe. Ther$ was no one near it when captured, ;.; Albeniarls te Vets en Bond laeu. . . Albcrmarb, Special. The citizen! 1 cf Albemaria will veto on an lisuti o tonda July 27 fcr lights, water, seW er&ge, school and. street improve ments and judging from the. registra tion the bond issue will carry by decided majority. This will be, ft great step forward as these thing! are needed and the town has no bond ed indebtedness of any consequence, ' Asheville Lineman Electrocuted. . Asheville, Special. -W. A. Leonard -a lineman in the employ of the s Weaver Power . Company, who came , here With his invalid wife some months ago from Columbus, Ohio, was electrocuted late Wednesday af ternoon while at Avork on a pole on the Biltrcore line of the power com pany. Just how Leonard came in onta't with". the live wire carrying. S3vera) thousand vclts of electricity " is not know. He was on the- pole working away when . suddenly, he touched the wire in some manner and. death was almost instantaneous. Chopped to Death With Axe. Raleigh, Special. Joe Pulley was chopped to death with an axe while he lay sleeping in his home near Selma early Monday. Pulley's 12-year-old step-daughter, Marie Pulley, is charged with the killing. Pulley's threat that he would whip the girl and drive her from home is under stood to have furnished a motive for the killing. Pulley lived several hours ' after his skull had been crushed in several places. -
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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