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Cfie Cbati5am IRecorb. H. A. LONDON EDITC3 AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: 81.50 Per Year Cfrt II III E: 1 II I 1 II I I I I STRICTLY IN ADVANCE VOL, XXXII, PITTSBQRCK CHATHAM COUNTY N. Co WEDNESDAY AUGUST 25. 1909. NO. 2. D Zbe Cbatbam "Kecorfr. RATES OF ADVERTISING: Oae Square, on Insertion ...... 9 1. One Square, two Insertions.... One Square, one month s.oo For Larger Adtfe rtise ments Liberal Contracts will be mad a. REGORD COSTS 1 IRE Tnc Indianapolis Automobile Racing Brings Des truction And Sorrow-Frenzied Speed And Its Results. Indianapolis, Ind., Special. Three r..civ lives were sacrificed Saturday in the wail speed carnival which has in-uuurated the great Indianapolis iL'.uor speedway. One mechanician :.: two spectators paid the penalty , thiir lives to satisfy the extreme .'.sire i'or speed. The fatal accident v; iu when a National car, driven by (.'. ark's Meiz in the 300-mile, race, 1, sr a tire and crashed through a i;:ue into a group of spectators, y.uIhiu' death and destruction in tiv wake of its wild plunge. T'.c dead: Claude Kellum, of In !is. mechanician in the Nat :,.::;. Var: Ora Jolleffe, Trafalgar, : !.: an unidentified man. iVsules the three deaths, two s, i k is injuries resulted during the i ;. . Henry Tapking, of Indianap v as seriously injured in the fatal ui -k. sustaining a compound frac ture i !' his right arm, a broken nose .?: 1 several scalp wounds. Bruce K . i he driver of a Marmon car in ; same race, crashed into a post s ;; ! . ;v after the National .wreck and v:i- ' relly cut about the neck and . .. (ie second accident the of !: ' ,u-ouled to call off the 300-mile ir, kun the loading car a Jack-s.-:: v.-'.ih Lee Lynch at the wheel eve red 235 miles. Ralph de ; . iii a Fiat, was second and S;V :.-t in a Marmon was third. The e "1 he declared no contest and t!.-: ludianapolos motor speed- v ::v :rM-hv will be raced for again. , Bya strange freak of fortune Merz escaped from the terrible wreck with hardly a scratch. He fell under the ear when' it turned a somersault through the air and down into a gul ley near the side of the track. He was in imminent danger of being burned to death but by extraordinary luck he was able to shut off the en gine and thus save himself .from a horrible death. Kellum was hurled out of the car and landed in the gulley some dis tance from the twisted mass of steel and iron that once had been a speed machine. The three deaths raises the toll of the speedway to seven lives this week. "William A. Bourpue and his mechanician, Harry Holcombe, of the Knox racing team, were, killed in an accident in the 250-mile race Thurs day. Cliff Litteral, a Stoddard-Day-ton mechanician, was killed by being hit by a big racing machine while on the way out to the speedway. On Thursday Elmer Grampton, a 6-year-old boy, was killed by the automobile of Dr. Clark E. Day, of this city, while the latter was on his way to the speedway for the first day s race. A pall of grief hangs over the city and the more reckless automobilists drive more carefully through the streets than they did earlier in the week. The frightful penalty paid for a-few broken speed records is greater than was bargained when Indianapo lis threw down the gates of its "greatest speedway in the world." ' T.RCCPS f SRE ON STIKERS AT PITTSBURG KILLING THREE Over a score of persons received more or less serious injuries. The riot scene was practically indescrib able. Mounted State troopers gallop ed indiscriminately through the streets with riot maces drawn, crack ing the heads of all persons loitering in the vicinity of the mill. Deputy sheriffs and troopers broke in the doors of houses suspected of being the retreat of strikers, and whole sale arrests were made. From 9:30 to 11.30 scores of persons were ar rested and placed in box cars, as a jail, in the yards. During the early stages of the riot ing women were conspicuous. Soma of them were armed, others effective ly used clubs and stones. These women, all foreigners, insace with rage, were mainly responsible for in citing the men to extreme measures. At midnight quiet reigned in the strike zone. W, : ; -, 511 U" ViY!V TU- i dean re", ri .t i-0 tivoj,, "! . tiv.etn "i " . i : . ti'' (: v.- - a-;. Special. One State r and one deputy sheriff and k ivigners were shot and killed right in a wild riot at the . '! Steel Car plant in Schoen v hes? employes are now on . At least a score of persons -criously wounded, ten fatally. ting followed a day of quiet roke without warning. At mid die following partial list of ::".! injured was made up from s received from the morgue, ais and several plrysieians ' of- dead: John L. "Wilson, State r; Harry Exler, deputy sheriff; foreigners. ally injured: John C. Smith, trooper; Lucelian Jones, State r: seven foreigners. George and John O'Donnell, State rs, were seriously injured and i '-nan was shot in the neck. SEVEN CADETS DISMISSED AT WEST POINT FOR HAZING Point. N. T..- L1 U.'l HIV-; del-" , ' T! i'h i!, ; Y.7 t Y., Special. For : involved in the hazing of Ro- Sutton, a brother of Lieut. - N. Sutton, Jr., United States :;e corps, whose death at Anna two years ago has just been ti.ated. seven West Point ca- w. re dismissed from the United es Military Acedemy Thursday Sh eet ion of President Taft. e? en lets ordered to be dismissed f hn H. Booker, Jr., of West 1. Ga., first class; Richard "W. e r, Kansas City, " Mo., third : Earle W. Dunmore, Utica, N. hird class; Chauncey C. Devore, "Wheeling, "W. Ta., third class; Gor don Lefebvre, Richmond. Va., third class; Albert E. Crane, Hawarden, Iowa, third class; Jacob S. Fortner, Doton, Ala., third class. The action of President Taft and Secretary Dickinson in directing the dismissal of the cadets is accepted by the officers of the army and the civil officials of that department, as a clear indication of the purpose of the administration to fully support Col onel Scott, the superintendent of the United States Military Academy, in his effort to eradicate the practice of hazing in all its phases from student life at "the academy. GEORGIA WOMAN SHOOTS MAN WHOM SHE ADORED Augusta, Ga-., Special. In a fit of .leakmsy Thursday afternoon Elvia Tn-kl, a young white woman about 22 years of age, entered the office of the Central of Georgia freight depot and probably fatally shot Cashier D. f'-K-hard Wilson. i 'i he young woman claims that she ff,r the past seven years been mratuated with Watson, who is a vovmg man. She claims that he held f"it a ray of hope for her until a few (i-u-? ago, when he "threw her over." Watson was hurried to the city hos pital, where he was given surgical at tention, and the unfortunate girl put under arrest. When she was arrested she said: "I love the ground Dick walks up on, but I will not let him marry an other woman. I iope I have killed him." . She is being held without bail. Young Watson's condition is consid ered very critical by the hospital surgeons. ILLINOIS RIVER. STEAMER BURNS TO WATERS EDGE i'eoria, 111., Special. The steamer red Swain, Capt. Verne Swain, of the Peoria & LaSalle Packet Com pany,, with 25 passengers and 15 sail ors aboard, burned to the water's e.i-e Friday after the flaming craft 3 keen piloted into four feet of wa ttr a!i'1- tke occupants had ascaped to J'J'iik of the Illinois river, up which the steamer was bound when it caught fire. No lives were lost but Joseph Case rider, the engineer, was burned about the face and body and Charles Reich eberger, of Peoria, suffered a broken arm. The loss is $35,000. Several of the passengers lost their belong ings. : GEORGIA WOMAN MURDERED BY LOVE-SICK SWAIN th: n. a S!i Declaring l-f's, Ga., Special i;e had rather see her dead than to another, William McLeod, i'!i hand, Friday confessed to k ificketson that he murdered ":"k ;i;lllie fjraham, a wealthy and V-3:i" '' , 'llg woman whose body was t i'r 'i ' Ul a swamP near her home at Lokoshoro, Coffee county. '"inu into every detail, "his state 1;;('llt s that he left his work and v.cnt to the house before dinner. Not tVi'n' hvr le asked for Miss Mattie an t bring informed that she had ;'r'.1:' Iier field for a melon, he fol-Jv-o ;i id found her. Both started back towards the house side by side. Coming to a branch near the house he let her pre cede him. When at her back he caught her by the left arm and cut one side of her throat. She turned and looked him in the face and exclaimed : ' ' Lord have mercy S" the only words she ever spoke after the attack. Then, he finished cutting her throat and ' cut her in the side as she fell. While he loved her he had never told her and if she was now alive no motive could induce him to hsFrm her. His only fear is of being lynched. A COLLISION IN THE AIR. IS NARROWLY AVERTED menus, By Cable. The American aviator, Glenn II. Curtiss, at sundown a.hled a dramatic feature to the trial !- us of the aeroplane entered for h;;;' .'"n tests - of aviation week by K' it telly guiding his machine above 'i.ioaifjr aeroplane and averting a (( lis on in the air that seemed im- rinoj it. J iic ioat was accomplished when the first time in history three heavier-than-air. craft were manoeu vring at the same time. All were flying rapidly when suddenly Curtiss saw M. Dumanset, in an Antoinette monoplane approaching at right an gles and on the same level with him. As quick as" a flash Curtiss realized the danger and elevating his planes, his machine instantly shot upward and soared safely 'over the French man. fewb-H.-.. -. ..:. RIOT IN HUNTERSYILLE Neighbors Engage in Deadly Combat Over Killing of a Dog. HuntersviUe, N. C,, Special. As the -result of one of the fiercest free-for-all fights that ever occurred in Hie history of Mecklenburg county, Reece Hucks, a well-to-do young far mer residing near Croft, in Mallard Creek township, lies dead at St. Pe ter's Hospital, this city; two other men carry pistol shot wounds more or less serious and three others, all sub stantial iarmers of the county, are in jeopardy of the law for having en dulged in & row "which tesembles in many particulars an old Kentucky fued. The riot occurred in Hunters viUe, in the main street of the town, just in front of the postoffice, and was witnessed by an immense throne. Dusk was falling, and so serious was the fight and so swiftly did the par- ucipants wnm irom side to side that no concerted or effective effort conld be made to part them. It blew up iiKe a storm at sea and was raging m all its fury in a few seconds. The principals, aside from the dead men, were Lester Hucks, brother of Reece Hucks, shot across the back; Mack Cox, shot in the arm; Ed Cox, cut and otherwise badly battered and bruised; Charlie Cox and Gilreath and Batte Davis, cut and injured in more or less serious fashion. The shooting was all done by Ed Cox, Reece Hucks being wounded three times, once in the abdomen, a second time in the arm and a third in the left chest near the heart. The Hucks brothers and the Coxes are neighbors, residing about a mile and a half distant in Mallard Creek township, not far from the postoffice of Croft. For the past year or more there has been bad blood between them, so much so that mutual friends feared trouble should they meet. Heretofore they have kept apart and so mischief has been averted. Satur day they all went to the farmers' in stitute at HuntersviUe, and it was about dark, just as the last visitors were leaving the town, that trouble began. Batte Davis, a friend of the Hucks brothers, met Charles Cox in front of the postoffice and asked him whether or not he had killed a dog last sum mer and thrown the dead body in his yard. To this rather direct query Cox responded that he had and had no apologies to make for it. The fight began on the instant, Charles Cox's brother, Mack Cax and his nephew, Ed Cox, standing to one side. According to the statements of eye-witnesses, Cox was getting the better of the fight when the Hucks brothers appeared on the scene. The minute they saw the trouble and ob served the way the fight was going, they undertook to interfere. The moment Reece Hucks stepped up, Ed Cox advanced to meet him. They clinched at once and began pummel ing one another's faces. Reece Hucks is reputed to have cut Ed Cox and then Ed Cox is said to have broken away and jerked out the pis tol which he had in his pocket. The first shot is said t have struck in the abdomen and the second on his arm. The third, which gave the fatal wound, was in the left chest, close to the heart. Hucks fell when he re ceived the third shot but recovered and regained his feet, grabbing a chair and hitting Cox over the head. He then fell on the sidewalk to rise no more. Cox, when he saw that Lester Hucks and his uncle, Mack Cox, were fighting nip-and-tuck near by, shot several times in their direc tion, one bullet grazing Hucks across the back and a second striking Cox on the arm. Gilreath Davis, who was standing near and who was also more or less involved in the fray, was hurt and so also Batte Davis, who was one of the principals in the first row. Ed Cox has been arrested and jailed. UNIFORMITY IN DEACONESSES' DRESS. Rule is Laid Down by the Methodist Episcopal Board. Cincinnati, Ohio. Just what rule must be laid down to establish uni formity in the costumes of deacon- nesses is the question that has been puzzling the general deaconness board of the Methodist Episcopal Church of America for many years. The costume which will be approved will be a black dress with white col lar and cuffs and a -small black bon net with white tie strings. FORTUNE IN A TRUNK Louisville Men Had $1,000,000 in Bogus Mexican Money GIGANTIC SWINDLING SCHEME Dreams of Wealth Which Dazzled John and Marion Roberts Rudely Shattered. . Ducks Keep Streets Clean. Bellefontaine, Ohio. The white wings of the town of Lakeview, near here, are literally white, wings now. They are ducks. Recently the financ es of the village fell to such a low ebb that it was impossible to longer employ a street sweeper, so his serv ices were dispensed with. Lean duck3 were bought and turned loose in the streets. They start in to eat the waste from the streets at one end of town and eat to the other end when they 'are turned backward Wellmaa Flies For North Pole. Paris, France. According to a tel egram received from the captain of the Italian steamer, Thalia, now at Hammerfest, Norway, Walter Well man left Spitsbergen August 16 in his dirigible balloon, bound for the north pole. He had favorable wind when the start was made. Steamer Burned to Water's Edge. Peoria, 111. The "steamer Fred Swain of the Peoria and La Sail Packet Company, with twenty-five pas sengers and fifteen sailors aboard, burned to the water, after the flaming craft had been piloted into four feet of water and the occupants had es caped to the ibank of the Illinois river. Louisville. Kr. Dreams of wealth which reflected their sraudv hues from a brass-bound trunk containing a mil lion dollars in counterfeit Mexican pesos, were shattered for John C. and Marion Roberts here when Deputy United states Marshal William Blay des arrested John Roberts in Shel by county with -the money in his pos session. Since the hour of the arrest there has been unravelled in the custom house of Louisville and in central rvn- lice station a tale of attempted finan cial buccaneering that puts into shad ow some ot tfie boldest exploits In the history of counterfeiting. The scheme, as explained to the brokers, contemplated no less than a counterfeit corporation with counter feit stock certificates, its business to be done with counterfeit money. Though all plans and collateral were to be false, Marion Roberts told the brokers that the money he "made" Mexican or American as desired was flawlessly accurate and could not be detected. He proposed, according to them, to counterfeit stock certificates of corporations as solid as the Penn sylvania and Louisville & Nashville Railroads and the Louisville Railway Company. He proposed that they buy real stock with fake money and give counterfeit stock certificates in any exchange they might make. It was through Marion Roberts that the counterfeiters Marion Roberts, some days ago, ap- proacnea J. M. Fetter & Co., Louis ville brokers, and made the proposi tion that they dispose of counterfeit Mexican pesos at a high commission. The brokers notified Chief of Police J. H. Haagor, who, at once, enlisted the secret service men and the trap to catch- Marion Roberts was laid. "When Marshal Blaydes confronted John Roberts in the hamlet in Shelby county, the chief counterfeiter admit ted he was behind the plan to dispose of the imitation pesos through the Louisville brokers. He showed Blaj des a brass bound trunk of the sort es pecially constructed to figure in ro mances, and this was filled with $1, OOO.oOO in the crisp Mexican notes. RobertsFaid he would have -been in Mexico witn the trunk a week ago had he not been awaiting the arrival of a perforating machine and a device for numbering the bills. John Roberts, sitting in the office of the secret service bureau here, very coolly said he would plead guilty at the October term of the federal court, and seemed philosophic about spend ing a majority of his years in tho United States prison in Atlanta, Ga. He had played a bold game and failed. He said he would have been rich be yond his dreams had it succeeded. Now he was poor and in the hands of the sternest law on earth, but he laid rather flattering unction to his soul that the scheme had been daring and romantic. CADETS ARE DISMISSED. Seven Cadets Are Expelled From West Point. West Point, N. Y. For being in volved in the hazing of Rolando Sut ton, a brother of Lieutenant James N. Sutton, Jr., United States marine corps, whose death at Annapolis two years ago, has just been investigated, seven- West Point cadets were dis. missed from the United States Mili tary academy by direction of Presi dent Taft. The cadets ordered to be dismissed are John H. Booker, Jr., of West Point, Ga., first class; Richard W. Hocker, of Kansas City, Mo., third class; Earle W. Dunmore, of Utica, N. Y., third class; Chauncey C. De vore, of Wheeling, W. Va., third class; Gordon Lefebvre, of Richmond, Va., third class; Albert E. Crane, of Ha warden, Jowa, third- class, and Jacob S. Fortner, of Dothan, Ala., third class. SOUTH CAROLINA LIQUOR ELECTION. Fifteen Counties Vote "Dry;" Six Vote for Dispensary. Charleston, S. C. Complete unof ficial returns from all the South Car olina counties, in which liquor elec tions were held, show that the prohi bitionists carried fifteen counties. The county dispensary system won in Aiken, Beaufort, Charrleston, Flor ence, Georgetown and Richland coun ties. A contest in Richland county is considered likely. CORPORATIONS TO FIGHT. Prtdent Taft Says That the Tax Wfll Hae to Stand. BSverty, Mass, Reports-, which are reaching Beverly daily ffoni Washing ton and New York, that the constitu tionality of the new corporation tax is to bo tested just as soon as an effort is made to collect it, have not disturbed President Taft. The pres ident declared that they all were an ticipated. Mr. Taft, himself a lawyer of some eminence and father of the corpora tion tax idea, is thoroughly convinc ed that -the tax will stand any test that may be applied to it. Attorney General Wickersham, a corporation lawyer of note, and Senator Root col laborated on the corporation tax pro vision of the tariff bill and the meas ure as enacted, they believe, will sur vive any attempt to nullify it. P0ST0FF1CES TO ECONOMIZE. Frank H. Hitchcock akes Announce ment at Meetings of Postmasters. Toledo, Ohio. Addressing the con vention of the National Association of First Class Postmasters, Postmaster General Frank H. Hitchcock made public announcement of a policy of strict economy throughout the depart ment, with which he requested the postmasters to comply. "You are aware,'.', he said, "that the president has requested each member of his cabinet to curtail the expendi tures of his department. The national expenses have increased with great rapidity, and we are confronted with the situation which requires careful attention to prevent them from out stripping the revenues. This requires rigid economy." The convention hy a risisg vote pledged support to the policy of econ omy. . SUTTON HILLED HIMSELF. So Declares, the Naval Court of Inquiry. Washington, D. C. "Lieutenant Sutton is directly and solely respon sible for his own death, which was self-inflicted, either intentional, or in an effort to shoot one of the persons restraining him, and his death was not caused by any other injury what ever." This is the verdict of the naval ecurt of inquiry, which for some weeks has had under investigation the cause of the death at Annapolis Naval Academy in October, 1907, of Second Lieutenant James N. Sutton of tho United States marine eorps, which verdict has been, approved by the judge advocate general of the navy, and by Beekman Winthrop, as sistant and acting secretary of the navy. ONE PATH IN THREE YEARS. It Took Three Men to Scrub Dirt Off Chicago Man. Chicago, 111. Leo Urbansky , 33 years old, who, according to the po lice, was the dirtiest prisoner ever housed at Harrison street, was given a bath, the first in three years. He was so weak after the experience that he had to be carried from the cell room on a stretcher, placed in a patrol . wagon and taken to a railroad depot to be taken back to the Ches ter prison for violation of his patrol. It took three 'trusties" at tne station more than an hour to' wash the dirt from the man's body, legs and arms. Common floor scrub brushes were used by the "trusties." TAFT A CANDIDATE IN 1912. Movements on Political Chess Board Establish Fact. Washington, D. C President Taft will be a candidate to succeed him self in 1912. While this does not come from the president himself, cer tain movements on the political chess board clearly established this fact, Those close to the administration are at work now building a machine that will control the next republican national convention. Postmaster General Frank Hitch cock will be in command. CODE MESSAGE RATES INCREASED. Announcement is Made by the West ern Union and Postal. Chicago, 111. An increase of rates on code messages was announced by the Western Union and Postal Tele graph Companies. The new schedule goes into effect September 1. General use of the code system, the compa nies argue, has had a tendency . to complicate traffic. By the terms of the dictum, cipher messages will be charged at the rate of five letters to the word, instead of ten letters, unless the tele&ram is built of words which appears in the dictionary. Domestic messages only are affected by the new rule, cable ciphers escaping the increase. TELEGRAPHONE IN USE. Conversation Can Be Held Over' Wire Carrying Telegraph Message. New Orleans, La. The first of a se ries of "telegraphones" was installed by the Louisiana Railway and Navi gation company at Alexandria, being the first of its kind in the state of Louisiana. Through this system a wire can be used simultaneously for telegraph and telephone purposes, allowing one to hold conversation over a wire at the same time that a telegraph mes sage is being, transmitted. Newsy Paragraphs. Fifteen skeletons, lying together in a position such as to Indicate hasty burial, and three English copper eolns -bearing the date 1729, found with the skeletons during the exca vation for the United States Medical School hospital, near Washington, bring to light, -it is believed, some Indian or piratical tragedy of early American days. History sheds no ray on the case. The statement of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad for the fiscal year ending June 30 shows that the gross earnings for the year were $45,425,- 891.45, as against $44,620,281.16 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908. The operating expenses for the last fiscal year were $29,627,499.48, as compared with $33,694,967.17 for the previous fiscal year, leaving net in crease of earnings over the last fis cal year of $4,873,077.98. The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Deshon died at Frankfort, Ky., but it lived long enough to save for Mrs." Deshon and Mrs. Clark, nieces of the late James A. Holt, $100,000, which otherwise would have gone to a Jeffersonville Masonic lodge. The infant was called the . $100,000 baby." Alonzo Hardin was killed with a hoe , near Charlotte, N. C, by Mary Bennett, a mountain amazon. The trouble grew out of a case in court in which Hardin testified. The missing seaman of the wreck ed schooner Arlington, was picked up ten miles off Atlantic Highlands, by the fishing schooner Irene and Mary, after having drifted without food, drink or sleep for twenty-seven hours on a, crazy raft of lashed spars. In a fit of jealousy Elvira Todd, a young white woman, about 22 years of age, entered the office of the Cen tral of Georgia freight depot at Au gusta, Ga., and probably fatally shot Cashier D. Richard Watson. Pickens Wells, one of the most fa mous barbecue 'cooks in the south, dropped dead at Augusta, Ga., while preparing a cue. Pickens prepared the famous C. S. Bohler barbecue at which President Taft was the honor guest some time ago. White men in Augusta are raising a fund to erect a monument to him as a tribute to his fidelity and high character. NORTH STATE NEWS NOTES Items of State Interest Gathered rem Here and There and Told Briefly for Busy Readers. Negro Firemen at Newbern. Newbern, Special. Colored fire men from twenty-six cities of the State met in their twentieth annual convention of the North Carolina State Volunteer Fire Association in the court house in this city. In wel coming them in behalf of the city, M. H. Alien paid a high tribute to this organization for its record. When he said ' ' The bravest firemen that I have ever known. was a colored man; when he dies the good citizens of Kinston will erect a monument in honor of him." In responding to the address F. F. Chambers," vice president, said: "We deeply appreciate what the good white people of this State are doing for our uplift. This organization is not for fishes and loaves, but it is our highest aim in life to rescue the perishing, save property and deport ourselves like men.'' In the after naSA and evening sessions much busi ness was dispatched. By unanimous vote the association meets next year at Winston-Salem. With 25 companies in line, consist ing of nearly 500 men attired in nob by and varied uniforms, beautifully decorated floats, colored girls singing national anthems, reels, hook and lad ders of various companies, Wednes day's -parade was spectacular. The firement were lustily cheered by thou sands of citizens. In the hook and ladder race, the team from Rocky Mount won first prize in its run of 31 seconds against 34 seconds made by the Concord team. In the grab hook and ladder race the team from Co cord made the run in 33 sesonds against 35 4-5 seconds made by Rocky Mount. In an exhibition race New bern 's hose and wagon team made the run in 33 2-5 seconds. In the grab reel race Thursday the team from Fayetteville won first prize. In tho reel race Fayetteville landed cst prize, The Wilson team won the foot &ce. The white citizens of Newbern donated hundreds of dollars for the entertainment of the visiting firemen. All Dogs to Be Kept Up. Greensboro, Special. Chief of Po lice Neely Wednesday received a no tice from the State Chemist that the examination of the head of the dog sent there Tuesday revealed an un questionable and virulent case of rabies. Upon receipt of this informa tion a special session of the Board of Aldermen was called and an ordin ance was adopted requiring all dogs to be kept muzzled and confined for thirty days, with death as the penalty for all dogs found at large -and un muzzled within the city limits during this period. The chief of police was also authorized to issue notice to all whose dogs are known to have been bitten by the rabid dog to at one kill the same, this being a provision of a State law. The dog had a wide range before being killed, and is said to have bitten at least fifty more dogs. Several-of those bitten were very valuable and much beloved bird dogs belonging to prominent sports-ment. Gets Five Years, Charlotte, Special. A sentence of five years in the penitentiary was im posed on C. L. Medlin, charged with horsa theft, Wednesday. The horse belonging to F. M. Hinson, of Clear Creek township. Mr. L. L. Smith had swapped for the horse after it was stolen, giving Medlin $38 extra. This amount was found on the man when he was arrested and the court made an order instructing the chief of po lice to turn the money over to Mr. Smith, who, of course, gave up the horse. This was the second- sentence of the sort for horse thievery this week. Hamlet Man Shoots Brother, Mistak ing Him For a Burglar. Hamlet, Special Chub Henderson, of this place, was shot and seriously injured by his brother, John, here Monday night. . Chub had been out rather late and it seems that John was not looking for him to come in at the time and mistook him for a burglar. The bullet entered his thigh. inflicting a very painful wound. Court House Site Chosen. Gastonia, Special. The board late Tuesday afternoon purchased for $10,000 the lot on South street, own ed by Mrs. Ei. C. Wilson. It has a frontage of 133 feet and is 250 feet deep. The jail will be built on this lot also, in the rear of the court house. There was quite a diversity of opinion as to the best place to lo cate the buildings. Ganstonia will, before long, have septic tank at the outlet of its sewerage mains on the town's farm some distance south of town. Deserter Arrested at Statesville. - Statesville, Special. James J. Ilutchens, son of Mr. T. M. Hutchens, of the Elmwood community, was ar rested on . the streets of Statesville Monday by Chief of Police Conner as a deserter from the United States army, and was taken to Norfolk Tues day by Mr. Conner to be turned over to the proper authorities at the army post there. Mr. Conner will receive a reward of $50 for capturing the deserter, Sheriff Watson Adds to Hia Collec tion of Illicit Stills. , Fayetteville, Special. Sheriff N. A. Watson, of Cumberland county, assisted by Deputy J. C. Culbreth captured the twenty-ninth illicit whiskey still taken during his admin istration. The still was found on a branch near Carver's Creek, 11 miles from Fayetteville. The outfit, which wai the twenty-sixth copper still cap tured by Sheriff Watson, was nearly new and very complete. It had been torn from the brick furnace and hid den in the bushes. No one was found near it. Meets Death on Trestle. - Marion, Special. While crossing the trestle of the Carolina, Clinch field & Ohio Railroad at North Folk, seven miles from here, Mrs. Fred Barnes age about 40 years, was struck Monday by a train and receiv ed injuries from which she died a short time afterwards. There was a negro man and a negro woman just behind her. The man and woman jumped and neither was seriously in jured. It is said they were not aware of the approach of the train until it was too late to escape. Barntiin & Bailey's Circus Will Elude Portion of Winston's Tas. Winston-Salem, Special. By the simple expedient of securing grounds just outside of the city limits, the Barnum & Biley circus, which is booked here in October, will escapa paying the $500 license tax placed on circuses by the Winston board of al dermen. Moreover, the show folks have chosen an exceptionally good site (the fair grounds) just at tha end of the Liberty car line, where the ball park now is. They pay $150 rent for one day. The license tax of $150 for a parade wil be paid. At Greensboro Next Time. Asheville, Special. Tho Launder ers' Association of the Carolinas held an interesting session at the Battery Park Hotel Tuesday, heard the read ing and discussion of three interest ing papers, selected Greensboro as the next place of meeting and voted to extend to the Virginia and West Virginia Associations and the execu tive committee of the Georgia Asso ciation an invitation to meet with them there next February. The con vention finished its business and ad journed the same day. Editor King Again Forced to Take a Rest. Durham, Special. Editor Joe H. King has gone to his old home in Kinston to rest his eyes. Mr. King had returned to the tripod, but could not see, for all that, and the best that he could do was to puncture life every day as he sees it through ti lergnette of the smart paragraph. He has been his paper's proofreader, telegraph editor, Jiead-line writer partly and general foreman for somo time. He is missed from the office since he can do none of these things now. Pr, Battle Operated, on Without Ane ethetics. Greensboro, Special. -Dr. J. T. J. Battle, was operated on for appendi citis last week at St. Leo's Hospital. He was not seriously sick with the disease, in fact was not so sick but that he could go out to the hospital driving his automobile. He was not placed under the influence of an anes thetic and although local anesthetics were applied the pain was severe, though he stood it well, preserving his composure throughout. He is get ting along nicely. v,i Club Organizer Fined $75. Winston-Salem, Special. M. E. Sameth, organizer of the Colonial So cial and Atheletic Club, which was disbanded here a few days ago, after and existence of several weeks, was on Tuesday fined $75 and costs in tho recorder's court on' a charge of sell ing intoxicating liquors, judgment being suspended on payment of the costs in another case, and a third be ing continued. Convicts Wanted For the Statesville Air Jane Railroad. Statesville, Special. A large dele gation of prominent citizens of Statesville were in Raleigh Monday to appear before the Council of State and urge that State convicts be fur nished for work ou the Statesville Air Line Railroad, provision having been made for the State to furnish convicts when the road was chartered years ago. It is the purpose to build the new railroad as far as Boonville, Yadkin county. Gay Time at Nag's Head. Elizabeth City, Special. This was a big week at Nag's Head, north eastern Carolina's famous summer resort, and many visitors, in addition to the large number of regular cot tager's, were here. The naval re serves, under - Captain Winfield Worth, were camping at Nag's Head and Thursday give some exhibition drills and taget practices. The LeRoy Steamboat Company ran an excur sion to tlie seaside o that day. .
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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