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SBe gbatbam Recoto. H. A. LONDON EDIT OS AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: t .50 Per Year Ay. I -1 0 jroicmIN ADVANCE y VOL. XXXII, PITTSBORO. CHATHAM COUNTY. N. C WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29. 1909. NO. 7. Zbe Cbatbam "Record. RATES OF A0VERTIS1I16: One Square, oao Insertion...... One Square, two Insertions,... One Square, one moat!i a.oo For Larger Advertise ments Liberal Contracts will be made. Brilliant Banquet Given in Honor of North Pole Discoverer. PEARY IS OK NATIVE SOIL Dr. Cook in His Speech Mentioned Peary But Once and That as Pathfinder to the Pole. New York City. Cheered by a thousand men and women as he en tered the banquet hall on the arm of JUar Admiral Winfield Scott Schley, 1". S. X. (retired), Dr. Frederick A. Cook told his story before the most brilliant audience that he has address id since he left the country of Den mark. The banquet was given by the Arctic Club of America, of which Dr. Cook is a member, in recognition of his last poiar venture, which culmi nated in his announcement that he had reached the North Pole. While i here was no official report from ii:her state or nation, the assemblage was cosmopolitan and enthusiastic. Crowded in the great ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria, they toasted the Hrcoklyn explorer and listened attentive!- to his recital in the form an niter dinner address. Among those at the tables were ex jiorers, some of whom knew the dan- :s and suffering of the Arctic zone almost as well as Dr. Cook himself. :.K -i cf science were there also, but i ho explorer addressed himself pri r.arily to the great majority of his luaiers whose interest in polar con-cuc-st has but lately aroused the clasor cf tha world over the two re jcried achievements. The address was net teachnical. He expressed thanks for the honor accorded him. reviewed the history of man's en- ilcavor to attain the pole, paid trib t re to the loyalty cf John R. Brad ley, the man whose money enabled him to undertake the expedition, an swered briefly a, few charges that Lave been made against him, and re iterated that he unfurled the flag at the pole on April 21, 190S. Comman der Peary's name he did not mention, except at the end cf his speech, when he said: '"There is glory enough for cli." Then it was that Peary's name mingled with thoie of other explorers to whom he referred with reverence. Dr. Cook appealed to his hearers to accept his narrative of his journey to the pele, as he has seen fit to give It so far. "It Is as complete a3 the pre liminary reports cf Ejiy previous ex plorer," he said. "Heretofore such evidence has been taken with faith end the complete record was not e pected to appear for years." Portland, Me. Portland, the city cf ins adoption, laid full claim to Commander Robert E. Peary, and from the time cf the completion of his triumphal journey through Maine until a late hour, he was in the hands cf fellow-citizens, rtinferced by the ?ovcmor cf the state and the pres ident cf Eowdoin College, his alma mater. When Commander Peary and party arrived, the great assemblage, headed by Mayor Leightcn of this city, and the mayor cf South Portland gave the explorer a royal reception. Escorted by five companies of tho Maine r.aticnal guard, a band and a procession of citizens, burning red flre, the commander was taken in a car riage to the Auditorium, where ho was tendered a reception. After the cheering Commander Pea ry was banqueted by the cities of Portland raid South Portland. After expressing hia appreciation for the welccins given him, Commander Pea ry spoke cf the importance cf a dis covery that had been Bought three hundred years, end tha significance of having the stars and stripes the first flas to reach the top cf the the earth. New York City. Dr. Frederick A. Cook contemplates the bring cf a suli f sinst Commander Peary to recover damage for slander . and defamation. cccrd!r-3 to .friends of the Brooklyn explorer. Dr. Cook himself had noth. Jug to say regarding the proposed suit, wiit his secretary, Walter Lonsdale, f dmitted that the idea was seriously entertained by both Dr. Cook and Jchn P.. Bradley, Cook's backer. He eaid that aSdavits had already been prepaiod in case it was definitely de cided to bring the suit. Athens, Ga. Gcng.a played a part in the Peary discovery cf the North Pole. Amor. s those who went with Peary to ti c pole was Matthew Henson, col oral, and it develops that Matthew is a Gecrgia negro, having been bcin in Oglethorpe county, near Crawford. Several years ago he left Georgia and went to Washington, where he has since lived. a . - "attSoullinar Market and Savi It May Reach Twenty Cents. New York City. James A. Patten, wno cornered wheat market in Chi cago, is in in New York buying cot ton. Somebody asked Mr. Patten if he were selling the staple. "Selling cotton?" he repeated. "No. I am here in a big bull pool. We are buying cotton and we are buying it because we think it is bound to go up. There is a short crop and the demand is sure to be heavy. I think that cot ton is going to rise to 17 cents on this bulge. To tell the truth, I wouldn't be surprised if it were to go as high as 20 cents." Somebody reminded Mr. Patten that he went into the wheat market under similar circumstances. - "Yes. That's right," he said. Mr. Patten had reasons to back up his be lief that cotton is going to keep on rising. "The tariff on woolen goods is cer tainly bound to have a big effect on cotton," he said. "Men are going to use more cotton and for different ' pur poses. Automobile tires use up 350, 000 bales a year alone. "Cotton sells on' its merits and the annual consumption of cotton increas es just as the annual consumption of wheat - increases. People ar e getting ready to buy more clothes this year. They have more money to spend and the trade in cotton goods is bound to feel the general prosperity." FARMERS HAVE MUMfcY TO INVEST. Ready to Buy Railroad Securitiss if Federal Control Be Assured. Washington, D. C. As a result of his observations recently into the con ditions among the agricultural class es in the west, Secretary of Agricul ture Wilson is firmly convinced that federal control of railroad capitaliza tion would lead to large investments in railroad securities by American farmers. The secretary expressed the opin ion that if some government board or official had the right to pass on pro posed issues of railroad securities and say whether they represented actual property, it would give the farmers confidence in such securities, and they would buy them freely. Secretary Wilson said that the far mers were now buying automobiles to a Jarge extent, wheih indicated to him that there were not many oppor tunities for investment. The super vision of railroad securities by the government would, in his opinion, of fer -such opportunities, and the far mers would take advantage of them. GOODS KOADS IQMftNTIOff. Member Cecils Roads cf U. S. Are in Wretched Shape. Cleveiar.d, Chio. That the reads of the t'niud States are no better de "e;J;,:a ,h:;i they were 30 years ago, cor.. ;;: rir.q tlie advance by the coun try i:i population and wealth, was cyeiaied by Lgan Walter Pag3, the i-r a t.ae United States office of reads, at tb.3 National Gocd an; i-CC.;;., I'r iiVf nl:rn Vr-rr - - XX " . "V::Sal half tie s r.us are operating uru! .:r I'ia jticaily ti e same law as pre-Vd.-d i:i Eiiilai d when America wa3 a colci.y," -aid Mr. Page. fct- c fcio was selected as the next convtntka city, the convention to-be ae.u eenre t:o in October, 1910. ATTEMPTtD TRAIN RuBBERY. n i.. . ' - i-i.s Fire on Southern Express Messenger. "'Udi,nan, Ga. An attemnt was ace to hold up an eastbound Cen i papscnger train when some one trorn the roof cf the express car fired . --lossenger Feyers. The shots w iL veiy n9ar the head of the mes- ;:r;,:"r. v-'no returned the fire with hia iiif'. Die train was stopped at Gordon, .r,-, 1- am 5(3 a ma ran Into the wia was lostk GERMANS TO STUDY COTTON. Colonial Secretary Wants to Learn How to Grow Plant. Berlin, Germany. Barnhard Dern burg, secretary cf state for the col onies, sailed for New York to study cotton raising in the south. The co lonial office has been experimenting for eight years with cotton planting in German Togoland, Africa, employ ing educated negroes from the south. The exports cf raw cotton from To goland in 1907 amounted to 231,000 bales, and it is estimated that 285,000 bales were sent out in 1908. It would be a great service to the colonies as well as Germany to develop this cot ton production, thus releasing Germa ny from dependence on America. Two Dead in Auto Accident. Americus, Ga. In one of the most horrible automobile accidents ever happening in this section, John K. McClendon, one of the' most popular young men in Americus, and Miss Ella G. Burke, an Americus woman, were killed. The car was evidently going at a high rate of speed when jthe accident happened, as it ran off pf an embank rnent, turned turtle, caught flre and burned the occupanta. Bringing Bishop Ward's Body Home. Naehviile, Tenn. A cablegram re ceived here from Kobe, Japan, an nounced that the remains cf the late Bishop Seth Ward of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, who died in Kobe, will leave there on October 3, and will reach San Francisco about October 22. The remains will be in terred at Ifouston, Texas. ToKun Hrst Train. 5 Nat hville, Tenn. It is announced that the first passenger train over the Madisonvtile, Hartford and Western Railroad will run Into Madisonville on October 10th, by way of Hartford and Irvinston and then on to Louis ville, making a direct line to the me tropolis of the state. Newsy Paragraphs. A special dispatch received at Lon don, Englard, from Kiev, Russia, rays that anti-Jewish riots broke out in that city and that as a result twen ty persons have been killed and sev eral hundred injured. ? While Illuminating gas slowly as nhvxiated him. Salvatore Cerrano, a violinist, fiftv veais old of Chicago, calmly played Chopin's iunerai marcn until, overcome by the poisonous fumes, he died. He naa oiuneu i" ooo fwtnrps in order to commit sui- fc"-J " " " . " . , 1,.. V,r. c-ide His violin was iiea.ru uy roomers in the house, ana soon sulci the strains ceased, the smelL of gas caused an investigation. With a home-made wireless station that cofct.hira just $19 Earl Lamb, a seventeen-year-oid -Toledo, Ohio, boy, picked ud the station at Atlantic City, N J , and a few minutes later picked up the cruiser Oklahoma on the At lantic coast and the station at Cape Cod, Mass. The feat is resaiusu remarkable. Robert H. Hoe, aged seventy years, one Of the greatest developers of the printing press, and head cf R. Hoe & Co., printing- press manufacturers, ol New York and London died in Lon don, England, after a short illness. Robert Hoe, while still a young man, succeeded his father, Robert H. Hoe in the management of the .pnntmg nress factory established by his grandfather, Robert, and achieved fame as the greatest of a family that had brought the weciMical art of printing to its present state cf per fectloa. " J COMPOSER OF "DIXIE" Daniel Decatur Emmett to Be Memorialized. IENT TO BE ERECTED Committee of Well Known Southerners Will Meet in Nashville to Perfect Plans to Raise Funds. Nashville, Tenn. The long list of memorials which the south has erect ed, in the past, to her immortals will soon be augmented by a monument to the lamented Daniel Decatur Em mett, author of "Dixie." Thi3 memo rial has been considered and talked! of in the southern press, but the first actual move toward its consummation will come at a meeting to be held at Nashville between Colonel S. A. Cun ningham, editor cf the Confederate Veteran p Colonel Walker Kennedy, editor cf the Commercial-Appeal, Memphis, and Al G. Field. These three, for many years closely associat ed with the dead musician, have ap pointed themselves a committee" to look after tho collection of the memo rial fund and are confident that, with the necessary head organization to lead, the south will come- forward promptly and generously. As to the form cf the memorial, it is believed that the committee and those whom they call into consulta tion will favor a simple shaft of gran ite or marble and most appropriate of the unassuming personality of the bard it commemorates. Though many cities have asked the honor of the location of the memorial, Memphis being particularly aggressive in her demands for recognition, Rich mond, as capital of the Confederate States, has practically been chosen, and work on the monument will begin there" in the spring, it is believed. Georgia is particularly interested in anything that pertains to the memory of Dan Emmett. While he was born a northerner, his vocation as a travel ing minstrel and musician brought him largely through the south, where, in the early days of his talents, he was most appreciated. Georgia was afavorite spot and in his studies ot economic conditions thi3 state afford ed him aa ideal field of investigation, and it is believed by many that here be obtained the inspiration tr4-t begot Dixie. The poem was written and eet to music in the summer of 1859. In the fall of that year it was first presented for public approbation in the so-called modern minstrel organiaztion, ci which Emmett was the creator. This was in a northern city and the mew song gained popularity at once. A few years later it pervaded the south to such an extent that the land south of Mason and Dixon's line became symbolical in name with the title cf the song. The last appearance cf Emmett was in the winter of 1S96-7. While o; tour that season the aged minstrel celebrated his S4th natal anniversary at Dallas, Texas, and the Daughter? of the Confederacy there presented the old gentleman with a gold watch. In the spring he sickened and retired to his home in Mount Vernon, Ohio, lost to public attention, almost to pub lic memory until his death, which oc curred in July, 1904. FULLER BILL INOPERATIVE. Another Blow Given Alabama Prohibi tion Bill. Mobile, Ala. In the inferior crim inal court, Judge Jules A. Alford de clared section 24 of the celebrated Fuller prohibition bill, which pre vents transportation cf liquors from one person to another, inoperative, and discharged Louis Eearly and Mat thew Cody, who were arrested here with wagons cn which were barrels Of whisky and beer, and which they claimed they bad obtained from a railroad depot. The above action is another knock out blow for the prohibitionists of the state, who by this section prevented liquor from coming into the state in any great quantities. It was the most powerful weapon that they had in the entire bill that created so much comment throughout the country. - U. S. TREASURER NAMED. Lee McCIIng of Tennesese Succeeds Charles H. Treat. Washington, D. C. Lee McClung, treasurer of the Yale University, has heen Bfifntpd as treasurer of the Uni ted States, to succeed Charles H. Mr.' Treat rendered his resignation, effective in mid-October, on account Of business matters. , Mr. McClung's home is in Knoxville, Tenn. He was previously connected with tho Southern Railway. Mr. McClung i3 a republican. NO TELEGRAPH MERGER. Clarence H. Ivlackay Says Competition Will Continue. ntw Vork Citv. N. Y. Clarence H. Mackay, who has just returned to New York from Europe, when asked about the truth of the leport which appeared in the press throughout the country a few week3 ago, to the ef fect that the Postal company had ab sorbed the West-em Union, said: -"Neither the Fostal Company nor the Mackay companies have entered into any arrangement with, or purchase, or lease, of the Western Union or the purchase of its stock, and neither the Postal Company nor the Mackay com panies contemplate doing so. Compe tition will continue." CRUSADE AGAINST CONSUMPBCN. $4,000,000 Appropriated During Past Year to Fight Tuberculosis. Washington, D.' C. Appropriations over $4,000,000 for the suppression of consumption have been made by 2o state legislatures in session during the past year, according to a statement is sued by the National Association for tfce"-Study and Prevention of -Tuberculosis. Since January 1, 1909. forty-three state and territorial legislatures have been in session. Of this number 28 have passed laws pertaining to tuber culosis; eight others have considered such legislation, and In only seven states no measures about consumption were presented. In all, 101 laws relat ing to the prevention or treatment of human tuberculosis were considered, a,nd out of this number sixty-four were passed. " r Of the sixty-four laws passed, four teen were in reference to building new state institutions. New state san atoria for tuberculosis will be built in Pennsylvania, Coanecticut, where three will be erected, Arkansas, Ore- sen, South Dakota, North Dakota and Florida. In New York," North Caro lina, Indiana, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine, appropriations have been made forenlargng sana toria, already being built or in opera tion There are now twenty-seven states where such institions have been established. Every, state east of the Mississippi; except Illinois, West Vir ginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, South Carolina and Mississippi, have pro vided hospitals for. tuberculosis pa tients. Five 6tates, Illinois, New- York, Ohio, Minnesota and Iowa, passed laws giving their county officers the power to erect tuberculosis sanatoria without resorting to a special vote. In Main, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Michigan, Iowa and Kan sas, laws providing for the strict re porting and registration of tuberculo sis were passed. Only five other states, including the District of Co lumbia, have such laws. The Na tional Association considers laws of this character as the first requisite in an organized movement against tu berculosis. Ten states have this year granted nearly $100,00 to be spent only for the education of the public about tu berculosis. In some states traveling exhibitions will be ueed, while in oth ers lectures and literature will be the chief means of education. The states making provisions of this sort are California, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Iowa, Minnesota, Porto Rico, Delaware and Texas. The statement of the National As sociation calls particular attention to one fact which shows the remarkable interest in antituberculosis work, evoked during the past year, namely, that fully one-third of the $4,000,000 appropriated this year is by special legislation and for new work. The last ccngress appropriated, in addi tion to this sum, nearly $1,000,000 for. the maitnenance of the three federal sanatoria in New Mexico and Colo rado. It Is estimated besides that the numerous county and municipal .ap propriations made or to be made for tuberculosis work for next year will aggregate at least $3,000,000, making the official public expenditures in the United States for the wiping out of tuberculosis at least $8,000,000. Killed His Wife, Tbeo Himself. Greenville, S. C Whit Galloway, an operative in Woodside Mills, kill ed his wife and then turned the gun on himself. The shooting awakened their little girl, who rushed out calling for help, but when the villagers rushed in the remains of Galloway and his wife were lying cn the floor almost. cold Domestic trouble caused the trag edy, It is said. Galloway and his wife were both of come prominence in the section from which they moved to Greenville. Destitute People Will Be Saved, Washington, D. C Stranded at Nome, Alaska, one hundred American citizens will be brought back to Se attle, Wash., on a revepiue cutter. Telegraphic orders were sent by As sistant Secretary of the Treasury Hilles, directing the deputy collector of customs at Seward, Alaska, to have a revenue cutter proceed at once from Seward- to Nome, there to take on beard the tine hundred men and wom en who are destitute. Gold Dlcovered in Kcvlh Carolina. Charlotte, N. C. Placer deposits of gold which promise rich returns were discovered in Catawba county, near Hickory, this ctate. Hearing rumors that , gold was being dug up cn the place, the owners cf the farm made investigation, panning out the gravel cf a tiny stream which traverses the place. Twenty tiny nuggets of tne pure metal were found In a short time. . THEODORE P. SHOUTS SIET. Multi Millionaire Charged With Alien ating the Affections of - Mrs. Kipsh. New.. York City. Theodore, P. S'honts, former chairman of the isth mian canal commission, has been sued for $200,000 damages, by Fred erick Kips. New York manager for a Kentucky distillng company, whose wife's affections Mr. Shonts is charg ed with having alienated. Mr. Shonts declares that the suit is preposterous, and is due to a very strange case of mistaken identity. Check for Less Than $1 Legal, Washington, D. C. There Is no law which stops a man or woman from writing a cheque for less than a dol lar, despite reports to that effect, ac cording to the treasury department. A number of inquiries have reaciied the department regarding a statement that there was such a provision in the peoal cede about to go into effect. Cotton Off in Alabama. Montgomery, Ala Reports all show that the ccttca crop in this section cf the country is far-off. A.B. Bras-- &ell, a worker for the national de partment cf agriculture, says that there is a ccnd.tion of no better than .58, compared to .64 a month agor Will Complete Canal la 1915. Nashville. Tenn Colonel George W. Goethale, chairman of the Panama Canal Commission and engineer-in-charge, who is here with General Fred D. Grant as guests of Secretary of War Dickinson, in an interview, said that the entire work is progressing smoothly. He expects ships to be sailed through the canal by. 1915. The president, he says, desires that the work be completed by 1913, but Colo nel Goethals does not think it will be possible to do this. Loss of Life in Hurricane Great er Than First Reported. LOUISIANA "CROPS RUINED The Property Loss Throughout Louisiana and Mississippi Will Exceed $3,000,000. New Orleans, La. Those engaged In the work of rescue and repair, made necessary by the West Indian hurricane, which swept Louisiana and Mississippi have found their task a far more colossal cne thkn they ex pected. Practically all of the isolat ed country sections of the storm swept area have now been explored. A con servative estimate of the number of people who lost their lives, as a result of the hurricane, places the total num ber at one hundred and fifty. In spite of the work of the thou sands of men brought in by the rail road, telegraph and telephone compa nies, New Orleans and many other smaller cities in Louisiana and Mis sissippi are still seriously handicapped in the way of communication with the outside world. Many miles of track, trestles and bridges are yet to be re placed by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. Jackson, Miss. The Illinois Cen tral Railroad has a force of 400 men at work in the Louisiana swamps re placing several miles of track wash ed away during the hurricane. A report from the scene states that the bodies cf nine persons drowned during the dash of the tidewater through the swamp have been recov ered. Five of the victims were ne groes. The agent at a small station and his wife and children perished.- Mobile, Ala. News received here from Biloxi, Miss., is to the effect that 600 people are homeless at Bayou La Mannere, near the mouth of the Mis sissippi river, and two lives were lost. Water rose 8 feet in the houses, car rying every structure away. People Eaved their lives by taking to boats and going up the Mississippi river. At this place 1S2 head of stock perished. Tho schooner Eva"Foster lies on the bed of the Louisville and Nash ville Railroad track near Pearl river, nef ugees are coming into Biloxi with tales of hardships and battle with death, in which death the odds. Three persons were drown at Bay St. Louis. Parts of the big Perries Oyster facto ry at Bay St. Loui3 have been blown away. Twenty-nine vessels were com pletely wrecked ' against the Bay St. Louis bridge. Baton Rouge, La. Traces of the hurricane are fast being removed in the capital city cf Louisiana. Large forces of carpenters and laborers are repairing the damage to storehouses and dwellings and removing trees, wires, poles "and rubbish from the streets. The havoc done by the storm here was large. One woman, a negro, ost her life, and the damage to prop erty is conservatively estimated at ever half a million dollars. Gangs of workmen are hurrying the repairs on the state house. The dome and other portions of the capitolwere damaged to the extent of $25,000, The general property loss will amount to $150,000, and the, barges of coal, owned by the Monongahela Coal Company, which were sunk, are valued at $600, 000. The damage along the river i-ant and to shipping of all kinds is esti mated at ?20,000, One item cf dam age in the capitol-building which has not been included ln the estimate of loss is the damage done to the rec ords, all of wheih were more or less damaged, some being practically de stroyed, They represent years of la bor and those destroyed can hardly be replaced. News of fifteen additional deaths along the waterways between Morgan City, La., and the gulf and on the, adjacent coast have been received. Nearly all of these were fishermen caught In small crafts by the storm. One of the striking Incidents of the relief work along the coast was the rescue of a family in a small boat in which a babay had been born but an hour before the relief steamer arrived. Jackson, Miss. Latest advices" from the Mississippi gulf coast show that the estimate of property damage from the storm is piling up heavily as later reports are received. It is estimated that the damage to the pe can crop alone, which is one of the great industries cf that section, will amount to $250,000. Mobile, Ala. The bodies of nine victims of the hurricane have been washed ashore at Gulfport, Miss. They are supposed to have been fishermen who were lost in the marshes. The damage to the Dukote and Lopez can ning plants is estimated at $50,000. OBJECTED TO POET'S BURIAL. Fulfillment of Poet's Instructions Nearly Caused a Riot. London, England. Fulfillment of the extraordinary instructions left by John Davidson, the famous poet, that he should be buried in the sea off Cornwell coast, nearly caused a riot among the simple fisher folic at Mouse hole, where he had lived. They made objection to this form of burial, espe cially as the coffin was to be cast into the sea without any service. No beat could be secured at Mousehole to take the body cut to sea, so it was removed to Penzance, whence the coffin, in a lifeboat, was towed ten miles out and a clergymen read the service before it was committed to the deep. $24,000,003 GIVEN UNIVERSITY. Enormous Sum Has Been Contributed by John - D. Rockefeller. Chicago, 111. John D. Rockefeller has contributed $24,000,000 to the Uni versity cf Chicago since its founda tion, according to a statement in the annual register of the university, is sued by the University of Chicago Press. Mr. Rockefeller's original sub scription of $600,000 came in May, 18S.9, and he has been constantly in creasing that sum and adding to the endowment fundt LATE NEWS NOTES. General. According to Joseph Hummill, ft wealthy miner who has just returned from Fairbanks, Alaska, the gold out put of the Tenana valley this year will be more than $12,000 and would have gone as high as $15,000,000 had weather conditions been favorable. By piecing out and studying disin terred relics and fragmentary tradi tions of the Pueblo Indians, Profes sor Edgar L. Hewitt, president of the School of American Archeology, who has spent the last two years exva vating near Santa Fe, New Mexico, believes he has obtained clues through which scientists will ulti mately clear the mysteries of the de serted cliff dwellings. The battleship Kearsarge, which a trifle over nine years ago was , re garded as the foremost war ship in the navy, has been ordered out of commission at League Island navy yard, and will be towed into the re serve basin and placed at anchorage beside the cruiser Brooklyn and some other antiquated war ships long . out of service. According to a plan map ped out by the government, the en tire superstructure ef the battleship from the water line up i3 to be re moved and the battleship remodelled. The discovery of a baby lying dead beside the railway near Niagara Falls with the word "Authers" on a ticket pasted on its back, led to the arrest of Mrs. Maud Turner of Toronto. On tario, to whom had been given $100 to adopt the child a few days ago. The arrest and the publicity attached to it brought a' score of letters to the ietective department from people whose children she adopted, who fear theirs also may have been kill ed. When Mrs. Turner was. arrested she had another child with her. The police obtained information pointing to the belief that this woman had adopted scores of babies for a consid eration, and killed them. Another feature was added to the already long list of vicissitudes of the will of the late Charles T. Yer kers of Chicago when it became known that after bequeathing about $15,000 of an estate estimated at one time at $16,000,000 to his servants, he took back the gift by means of a codicil prepared in London shortly before Mr. Yerkes' death. It has been in the hands of counsel for tho estate ever since. What is probably a record number of children in one family was disclos ed through the receipt of a birth cer tificate at the Michigan secretary cf ptate's office, showing that Joseph Ta tro, fifty-eight years old, living in Bay county, Michigan, is the father pf twenty children and the step-father pf twelve others, making a total of thirty-two children in the family. At the time of his marriage to Hattls Chabineau, Tatro had fifteen children pf his own, while she had twelve. Since then, they have added five more io the list. The father is a native cf Michigan. An expedition into the - haunts of Filipino head "bunters, including those of the Moros, who killed Dr. William F. Jone3, of the Field Muse um of Natural History, will be un dertaken in a few weeks by F. C. Cole of the same institution. He will be accompanied by Mrs, Cole dur ing the entire journey. V ill ir. Consul General Hanna, at Monter ey, has been authorized to draw on the department of state for $1,000 (or the relief of the flood sufferers in Mexico. The money has been procur $d by the American National Red Cross. This is the third remittance to Mr, Hanna and makes the total turn $5,000. The days of the 13-cent postage ptamp are numbered. Instead of this denomination, by some supposed to bo Unlucky , the postofflcQ department will issue a 12-cent stamp, Acting postmaster General Stewart has re quested the secretary of the treasury to have the new stamp printed at tha bureau of engraving and printing, The 13-cent stamp was devised to cover the cost of the 8-cent registry fee and the government international postage rate. The 15-cent stamp will serve this purpose when the registry Is Increased on November 1. The pro posed 12-cent stamp will cover the cost of the new 10-cent registry fee and the 2 cents for the United States and England and Germany. In Its campaign to prevent tho use of the United States mails in connec tion with the new National lottery cf Cuba, the postofflce department has been made to understand that the Cuban authorities will not redeem any tickets sent through the United States mails, even though they bear the lucky number. This safeguard, however, will not .be the sole "precau tion against the use of mails in this wayr All inquiries made by persons in the United States to officials of the Cuban governmnte are to be turned over to the postofflce inspectors. Oklahoma Indians, numbering six teen thousand, have prepared a poti tion which has been sent to Wash ington officers of the Indian Piotec live league, in which they describe in vicious terms their treatment by the state and county officers. The peti tion will be brought before congress. The revenues of the government from internal commerce are gaining steadily. Since the close of the fiscal year cn June 30, the total receipts ircm internal revenue have been $56, S92,ei9, an increase cf $2,171,524 over the coi responding period of 1S0S. The total receipts from internal revenue during September up to and including Manaay were $14,8i7,534, an increase of $598,4S7 over the same period id September, 1908. American corn is used more extcn sively than that of any other country In the manufacture of Scutch whis key when the price is . reasonable. Consul J. M. McCunn of Oinr.giw, Scotland, received a comniunicAtioja from the most extensive users of American corn in Scotland in whictt they estimate the total consumption of corn used in their country in tha f manuiaciure ui wmsucj'-iu uo uu V "330,000 quarts of four hundred and eighty pounds eacn, ' but not aa or this comes wholly from the North American continent TAR HEEL CHRONICLES News . Notes Gathered From All -Parts of the Old North Stats. The Invitation Extended. " j Charlotte, Special.. The interde- , nominational committee appointed to secure for Charlotte the Laymen's Missionary Convention for the State of North Carolina met at the Younjj ' Men's Christian Association Monday night and decided to tender an enthu siastic invitation tor the great gather ing. It was reported that the requir ed $1,500 necessary to secure the con-; vention had Been pledged by the var ious churches. An executive commit tee was appointed to arrange all de tails and do such preliminary work as is deemed necessary, consisting of Messrs. S. S '. McNineh, - chairman; Howard A. Banks, secretary; R. II. Pea6ley, representing the Episcopal ians; J. A. Durham, the Baptists; J. II. Ross, the Associate Reformed Presbyterians; J. D. Barrier, the Lutherans ;-DrJ A. J. Crowell, tho Presbyterians, and Mr. J. B. Ivcy the directors of the Y. M. C. A. Innocent Man a Victim. Lenoir, Special. Charlie Pender grass, a young man of the Valmead suburb, was probably fatally cut there Sunday night by Joe Helmsman em ploye of the Moore cotton mill. A boy named Keller knocked at Helms' door, saying that he wanted . to talk with Helms' girl. As there had been some trouble before, Helms' wife or dered the caller away, and as he was leaving the house he fell over a stump and was overtaken by Helms with a knife. Mrs. Helms cried out not to hurt, the boy, as he was not the one. Simultaneously Pendergrass was pass ing and Helms turned on him with the knife, disemboweling him by a wound 12 inches long. Helms is in jail here awaiting the outcome. Pen dergrass was an innocent passerby and great indignation has been arous ed over the matter. African Cure Tor Pellegra. Durham, Special. J. S. Orcorde Terry, a native African, graduate of Cambridge, Eng., and medical mis sionary studying here, declares in a" newspaper article that the natives of Africa cure S3 per cent of pellagra by herbivorous treatment, and he gives the formula. The doctors have taken his suggestion and are working upon some of the Durham cases to see what efficiency there i3 in the remedy, i'er ry sajrs the doctors cure C5 p?r cent of the-African cases, while the natives have still better luck. The African says he has followed the best British doctors into the afflicted homes in his country and that they have not re gerded the disease as one of great danger. 'Can't Collect Damages. Raleigh, Special. A unique legal point has been decided by the Su .preme Court in the case of Godette vs. Gaskill from Craven county. Mr, Jesse P. Godette brought suit against S. B. Gaskill for damages, alleging that in a former suit by Mr. Godette against one Bowen, S. B. Gaskill had been & witness for Bowen and because of his false testimony, Mr. Godetto had lost his suit. He therefore brought suit against Gaskill to make him paj what he had failed -to recover in hiq suit against Bowen. . Tho trial judgre held that.JGodette was not entitled to any damages against Gaskill and or dered a judgment of ""non-suit. , Thu court held that Gaskill could be pros ecuted for perjury only. A Case of Pellagra in Buncombe. Asheville, Special. What is re garded by the medical profession as a well-defined case of pellagra has been found at Gorman's Bridge near this city. The patient is William Sharpe, an old man who lives the life of a hermit. A local physician stated that the case was unmistakable. . Ninth Death Prom Pellagra. Charlotte, Special The ninth death from pellagra since the prevalence of the disease in this community was an nounced, occurred Thursday, the vic tim being Ella Bo3'co, colored. The woman was 20 years old. All the car dinal symptoms noted in previous cases were present. There are now six cases under treatment in Charlotte. Tower Gives Way Two Linemen Hurt. Lexington, Special. While string-, ing' wires on the Southern Power Company's tower Monday afternoon a support gave way under two men and they fell to the ground. Lineman Osby, of Harrisburg, sustained a frac ture of the wrist and was otherwise, hurt ; Lineman P. A. Daily, of Col umbia, was slightly hurt but malked to the camp. Osby wa3 brought here. His hurts are not considered danger ous. The men belong to Fisbers' gang of workmen. Guard Cobb Indicted For the Murder cf Turner. Greensboro, Special. The Guilford countygrand jury in session hero Tuesday brought in an indictment for murder against the convict guard, T. F. Coble, for the killing of the. negro Will Turner, about two weeks ago. Turner belonged to one of the road forces and Avas killed after trying to make his escape. Coble ran away and has not yet been captured.
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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