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.C-t's v-ll v4v HA. LONDON EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. ?; XERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: S1 .50 Per Year STRSCTLYJDVANCE VOL, XXXII. PITTSBQRQ. CHATHAMCO UNTY. N. 0., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13. 1909. NO. 9. f-mnr ttbe Cbatbam "Recort. BATES OF ADVERTISII16: On Square one Insertion. $U One Square, two Insertions... One Square, one moatli. ....... For Larger Advcritlsc mcnts Liberal Contracts will be made. MILL OWNERS MEET Cotton Manufacturers Urge Cur tailing Agreement. Pi.parity Between Price of Staple and Cotton Goo.ds They Say, Preclude uccessful Operation of Mill. Charlotte, N. C That the preeent naritv between the price of cot Em" and cotton goods precludes the LiMlitv of the successful operation southern mills is the unanimous Virion of the board of governors of the ir.erican Cotton Manufacturers ,t0ciauon,which was in session here. Ppcchnions were adopted by the hnrd setting forth this fact and ap Zntitlne a committee of five to formu FVe a "curtailment agreement which ive-v mill in the south will be urged to "siTi The following prominent Lrufacturers were named as the prn'mitte-- L W. Parker, Greenville, Erwin, Durham. N. C; ?J 1' Tomukins, Charlotte, N. C; E Smvth, Greenville, S. C; T. H. Weenie. Pell City, Ala. Clrrloue was selected as the place w t 1910 meeting of the associa ftf0rQ vhich will be held the fourth TiUdav in .May. Atlanta, Richmond, it Leu1-5- Memphis and a half, dozen other ckies extended invitations. LY8B AND POLICE ARRESTED. Officials of lowa Town Held by the Government. Davenport, Iowa. Mayor O. L. In dedue of Marshalltown, Iowa, his rhiPf of rolice and the entire police jzje awll as Deputy Sheriff C. B .Vtiicu, were all indicted by a federal' si'ar.d jury for imprisoning for more t"-:-n twenty-four hours gov ernment agents who were seeking ev idence a-ainst Marshalltown saloons. Mavci "irxleclue and his officers are'eharrcf with throwing Everett E. Van Wert, a special officer of the United States Indian service, into jail at Jiarrhailtown and keeping him there rr-oiv than twenty-four hours. Van Wert l:ad been detailed to inves tigate alleged sales of liquor at Mar stailtown to Indians from the Tama reservation, some miles distant. He is said to have sent an Indian into Wenger's saloon to buy liquor in order to "obtain evidence. The Indian and Rev. Mr. Smith, a local minister, Tvere arrested and placed in jail with Van Wert. KISSES 'LEAD TP DIVORCE. Nebraska Woman Says Husband Was Too Affectionate. Trentcn. Neb. Mrs. Harriet Mc Grew insists that there is a limit to aS things, even to the kisses of her fcusband, John F. McGrew. As a re sult of bis exceeding the limit, she hes sought the divorce courts of Hitchcock county, w-here she has ap plied for a divorce, alleging that he has kissed and insisted upon kissing until the cruelty stage has been reached. In her petition Mrs. McGrew says that for six months she stood the kissing v.ithout a murmur, supposing that in time the practice would be dropped 10 a certain extent, but in stead of becoming less the kisses have become more frequent. She avers that while her husband has been spending -his time kissing, the weeds have grown higher than the wheat and the hay, and generally things Lave gone to the bad. TWO KILLEDJN DUEL Florida Men Settle Quarrel With Pistols. Jacksonville, Fla. In a pistol duel at Lake Butler, C. A. Rich and John Parker were both killed. Rich, who is a son of N. L. Rich, president of the Bradford County Bank, met Parker, who is a travel ing man out of Gainesville, in one of the Lake Butler drug stores, where they quarreled. Both left the store, but met at the railroad station later and commenced to fire at each other. Rich was instantly killed and Par ker received a bullet wound in the breast, which caused his death half an hour later' SEAL BASK MA! PAY DIVIDEND. Defunct Atlanta Bank Has Sold Val uable Cuban Lands. Atlanta, Ga. By the sale of $700, 000 of the -big tract of Cuban land owned jointly by the defunct Neal Bank of Atlanta and C. -T. Lad-son, $45,OfiO is added to the funds already to the credit of the depositors and makes of jle an immediate dividend i'0:;irnntplv fnnrtpen npr cent hetlior cr not such a dividend will ue pair; is wohlematical and some thing to bo determined later on. If kie plan cf the receiver to pay no dividend less than twenty per cent adnercd to. v0 dividend will be paid until more funds are available. 17 KILLED JNTBAIS WRECK. wrk Train on the Santa Fe Collided With Freight Train. rJ0li'--:-' Kans- Seventeen persons ei'e ;::i. severely injured a cc!:;,;cn between a freight train no a construction train on the Atch-'- T v;. and Santa Fe Railroad u.ar hf.;-o. Among the dead are 11 Th Ten 1 v'T,.r'c train was backing into t'-p'c' ' " :: fifty Mexicans riding on ine 'if1 Ca: s" As tne train was round- ,P r"'; ' the northbound freight the r""- r;o m the height rai over trabi! Cars comprising the work 1,1; ?"''! :rnfJKt a score of men were EAKsT "NAMED FOR N. Y. MAYOR. Four Th : . Y '""" Aamirers of the New rork Editor Nominate Him. HearJ Ycik City .William Randolph tbis7i nce fIefeated for mayor of later f!VJy se B. McClellan, and for gov attd hy Charles F. Hughes Eated fHr,cr f tne state, was nomi f 4 0(?r ?layor at a mass meeting Union tI - his admirers at Cooper sPite hu 1. action w-as taken, de oumv au ritative statement pre date he would not be a candi- AHEBICAX NAVY DEFENDED. Admirals Dewey and Evans Say It Is Not a Bluff. Washington, D. C Defending - with characteristic vigor the American navy. Admiral George Dewey assert ed that not only is our navy not a "bluff," but that he is confident it would give a good account of itself should war ever come. The admiral s remarks were called forth by a statement attributed to for mer Representative Landis of India na, who, in a recent speech at Cin cinnati, Ohio, in advocating ship sub s.. is reported to have said that, "those Americans who are informed consider our navy a bluff." The expression was characterized by Admiral Dewey as an unfortunate oc currence. Admiral Dewey said that, of course, what Mr. Landis meant was that the navy would be comparatively useless In time of war without necessary auxiliaries drawn from the merchant marine.' "He," continued Admiral Dewey, "wants a subsidy for our ships of commerce and so do I." Washington, D. C. "I am in jsym pathy with every word the president has said as to the necessity for ship subsidy and with that movement as a whole, but I haven't any patience with that class of individuals who, in their advocacy of that program, try to belittle the American navy. That was the caustic comment made by Admiral "Fighting Bob" Evans re garding the speech at Cincinnati by former Representative Charles B. Lan dis, wherein the Indianian declared that "those Americans who are oin formed consider our navy a bluff," in the course of his plea for a mer chant marine from which oould be drawn the sailors for Uncle Sam's ships. "Mr. Landis," said the admiral grim ly, "makes the mistake of a lot of gentlemen of his profession that of talking of things about which he knows nothing. Of course we need a merchant marine, but this talk about the navy being a 'bluff' is all d d rot." , FIVE PERISH IN FIRE. Fire of Supposed Incendiary Origin .in Nashville, Tenn. Nashville, Tenn. The grocery store owned by J. A. Thuss at Eighth ave nue, North and Jefferson streets, was burned early and four persons per ished in the building and one subse quently in the city hospital. The fire is supposed to have been of incendiary origfn. It appears that the building was In full blaze before any of the family awoke and the destruction of the stairway cut off their escape. In dications are that the fire originated under the stairway. The smoke filled the upper floor and three of the vic tims died of suffocation. PS,090,000 GOOD LOADS BONDS. Eleven of the Southern States Are Are Constructing Highways. Asheville, N. C. In an address be fore the Southern Appalachian Good Roads Convention G. Grosvenor Dawe, managing director of the Southern Commercial Congress, announced that eleven Southern States had, since March, voted $17,956,000 in good road bonds. The states voting over $1, 000,000 were, in the order named, Tex as, Tennessee, G-eorgia, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Florida and Virginia. Aiiio Relay Race Ends. Seattle, Wash. The Philadelphia Press relay automobile run ended at the steps cf the Washington state building on the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition grounds, October 6, when H. J. Kingston and Lewis C. Straus, the couriers, formally delivered to President J. E. Childbourg of the ex position, Mayor John F. Milton of Seattle and Governor M. E. Hay greetings from President Taft and va rious governors and mayors. The first car left the city hall at Philadel phia at 12:30 p. m.. September 25. Nsw Directors for Seaboard Ry. New York City. The reorganiza tion committee of the Seaboard Air Line Railway at a meeting with the board of directors increased the di rectorate to nineteen members. Three directors, Thomas A. Ryan of New York, Major J. H. Dooley of Rich mond and William A. Garrett of Nor folk, were not re-elected. The fol lowing were elected to fill their places and the three positions created: L. F. Loree, John B. Ramsay, John Skel ten Williams, J. William Middendorf, Franklin C. Brown and Hennen Jen nings. Aged Woman Sees First Train. Asheville, N. C Mrs. A. M. Buck ner of the Big Ivy section, arrived in Asheville and saw, for the first time in her life, a street car and a rail road train. Mrs. Buckner, who has spent the seventy-five years of her life 25 miles from this city, is the mother of seventeen living children, and Is in full possession of her faculties. Banker Walsh Mas! Serve 5 Years. Chicago, 111. The United States cir cuit court of appeals handed down a decision, confirming the decree of the lower court sentencing John R.Walsh to the federal penitentiary at Fort Lsavenworth, Kans.. for five years, for misapplying the funds of his banks. He will appeal his case to the United States supreme court. Simday Cacsball illegal. Indianapolis, Ind. Judge Pritchard held as unconstitutional the law per mitting Sunday' baseball in his in structions prepared to be delivered to the jury in the Carr case, after the attorneys had completed their arguments. Prairie Fire Causes Great Damage. Calgary, Alberta, Canada. One of the worst prairie fires in the history of western Canada has been raging between here and Hutton for the past nine days, and already has licked up property valued at over $2,000,000. Detachments of mounted police are fighting the flames. The district which has suffered most by the fire was occupied by new settlers, who can ill afford the loss, the fire tak ing everything before it in a clean sweep, leaving nothing but ashes. NO JOINT MANEUVERS Regulars and Militia Will Camp Together Every Second Year. IS UNNECESSARY HARDSHIP Critics of the Racent Maneuvers Around Boston Claim That Guardsmen Had No Food for Over 24 Hours. Washington, D. C. Joint maneuv ers of the regular army and the na tional guard are a thing of the past; at leaat there will be ' no repetition of the recent Boston campaign, as long as the present directing forces in the war department are in control. Some valuable lessons were learned in that period of stress and privation; hut the cost in human suffering is held by the war department officials to have ben out of all proportion to the benefits derived. They are now convinced that all of the real utility 'that was taught to the militiamen oould just as well have been imparted through other means and without filling the hospi tal cots during the campaign. The general officers of the regular army and of the national guard, who jointly planned and participated in the Boston campaign Insist that it was a great success. Not so the of ficials of tie war department, who are now reckoning with the results. It is true that the militiamen got a taste of conditions as they may ex ist in actual warfare. But for the most part they returned to their homes a disheartened and discourag ed set of men. Critics of the maneuvers now de clare that the brunt of the suffering fell upon the private, who, It is claim ed, did not need that sort of instruc tion, while the officer could have re ceived it otherwise. They contend that company, regimental and battal ion drill in any of the usual yearly encampments of the national guard with the addition of a little system atic crosa country marching from time to time, will sufficiently instruct the private; while larger and more com plex information needed by the mili tia officers can be imparted through .officers' schools. Complaints from the guardsmen en gaged in the Boston maneuvers alleg ed bad food ; no' food at all for 24 hours at a time; lack of transporta tion; ill-fitting shoes and clothing un euited to the weather. For these things the staff officers of the guard, it is declared here, were largely to blame and systematic instruction by regular officers and practical observa tion of the manner in which they han dled their own men would have pre vented many lamentable faults. Taken as a whole, last summer's eampalgn is held to have taught some lessons almost worth the cost. For instance, it was shown conclusively that men of sedentary habits cannot safaly be called into open field service witkout gradually being inured into its hardships and that a week's en campment under wall tents in a care fully prepared camp does not fit the men for the hardships of a real field campaign. Nor can a drill once a week in a sheltered armory place the guardsmen on a footing with the reg ular soldiers. The guardsman has still to learn how to take care of his health; to pitch his own tent and cook his own meafcs; to find shelter in action, even at the expense of apt itude in marching movements and finesse in the manual of arms. JOINT MANEUVERS DEFENDED BY WOOD New York City. The critics of the joint maneuvers of the regular army and the national guard, who have been predicting that the Boston cam paign of the past summer will be the last of such joint operations be cause of hardships and suffering of the militiamen was all out of propor tion to the lessons learned, were an swered . by Major General Leonard Wood, commanding the department of the east. General Wood said: "It is not true to say that the hard ships were all out of proportion to the lessons learned. In the first place, there were no hardships. No complaint has come from the men or oflicers. There were possibly 5 per cent of the militiamen - dissatisfied wtlh the maneuvers, and they were the proportion which would prefer life in a camp. "On the other : hand, the lessons learned were invaluable. One of them is that we haven't enough regulars or militiamen ready for mobilization to defend a city against such an attack as was made again&t Boston. The other is that it builds up the spirit of co-operation between the regular army and the national guard. "The total cost of the whole cam paign, with all its incidental expenses, has been under $100,000." ENFORCES BEER TAX Tennessee Dealers Are Liable for $1f 500 Per Year. Nashville, Tenn. It has .been offi cially decided that near beer dealers here are liable for a tax of $1,500 per year each, the state, the county and the city each getting $500. Pursuant to instructions received from James R. Jetton of Murfreesbo ro, state revenue agent for middle Tennessee, County Clerk P. A. Shel ton will commence the collection of a state and county tax of $1,000 per year from proprietors cf stores where are sold near beer, beerette, neubru, etc. There is now due from .each deal er payments for two quarters, or six months. SUNDAY STUDY BARRED. Students to Do Their Work in Six Days. . Austin, Texas. In his addresses to the freshman class, Dean W. J. Bat tle of 'the academic department of the University of Texas outlined as a pol icy of the university that no student should study on Sunday that there are 'six, days in the week for U?e work of the university and that Sunday should be used entirely as a day of rest. This plan is satisfactory to the student body. COMER CRITICISES JONES. Governor of Alabama Has No Confidence in Integrity of Jones. ' Montgomery, Ala. Governor R. B. Comer, in an Interview for the press, frankly states that he has no confi dence in Thomas G. Jones, judge of the federal court, for the middle and northern districts of Alabama, and makes a fierce attack on the integrity of the jurist in answer to an interview given out by Judge Jones attacking the governor some weeks ago. . The trouble dates back two years, to the time when Judge Jones enjoin ed the rate laws made by the legisla ture, and the threats that were then made that no attention would be giv en to the rulings. At that time Governor Comer went to Washington to get President Roose velt' to take a -hand against the rul ings of Judge Jones, but was told, he says, that the president could.; do nothing, this being a matter or the courts, but the president did tell him, he said, that if Jones sent any state officer to jail for contempt of court, appeal might be taken to him, inti mating that he would help in this way. "I have criticised Judge Jones, Gov ernor Comer says, "and have stated that on account of his environment he was not fitted to sit upon the rate cases in Alabama." , WANT NATIONAL BUEEAD Cf HEALTH. President Taft Will Make Recommen dation to Congres. Washington, D. C. President Taft will recommend to the next session of congress the. establishment of a na tional bureau of health to be under the supervision v of the federal govern ment and to comprise all the various government agencies which are now in existence for the preservation of public health. The idea is to consol idate under one head all the present bureaus, and this would take in the inspection bureau of immigration san itation now conducted by the war de partment, pure food inspection at pres ent carried on by the department of agriculture, and the quarantine work of the public health and marine hos pital service, which is under the ju risdiction of the treasury department. ANNIVERSARY OF FAMOUS BATTLE. Monument Erected on King's Moun tain Battlefield by Government. Charlotte, N. C. 'King's Mountain Day," the anniversary of the battle of King's Mountain, S. C", in which 900 brave "mountain men" won a vic tory over the British forces, num bering 1,200, on October 7, 1780, dur ing the struggle of the United Colo nies for their independence froni Great Britain, was fittingly commem orated in both South Carolina ana Tennessee. On the battlefield a monument which has been erected by the United States govei anient at a cost of $30,000, was dedicated with appropriate ceremo nies. At Fort Watauga, near Johnson City, Tenn., the point from which the men under Campbell, Shelby and Sevier started for King's Mountain, the Daughters of the American Rev olution dedicated ' a monument. TENANTS WITH CHILDREN BARRED. Race Suicide Landlords May Have to Let Children in Apartments. Chicago, 111. Race suicide land lords in Chicago must submit to a test in the courts of a new state law, which became effective July , last, forbidding them to refuse to rent apartments to families with children. R. P. Longenecker, a tenant, re fused renewal of a lease of an apart ment because a child had been born to him therein, brought suit against the landlord under the new statute, demanding that the landlord be forc ed to renew him the lease. JUSTICE HGODY ILl. He May Never Sit Again on Supreme Court Bench. Washington. D. C. Associate Jus tice William H. Moody of the supreme court of the United States may never sit on that bench again. Information received by' friends in this city in dicates that his condition as he lies in his home at Haverhill, Mass., is desperate. T. W. Leary Heads Southern Express. New York City. T. W. Leary of Atlanta, Ga., former first vice presi dent of the Southern Express Compa ny, was elected president of the com pany at a meeting of the directors nere. Newsy Paragraphs. When seen at Nashville, Tenn., re garding a special dispatch from Wash intgon published in New York to the effect that he was contemplating re signing from the cabinet because of illness in his family and the recent death of his daughter-in-law, Secreta ry of War J. M. Dickinson said: "I am not contemplating resigning from the cabinet." The international balloon race for the Gordon Bennett cup was won by Edgar W. Mix, the American aero naut of Columbus, Ohio, who will take the cup to the United States. Mr. Mix started from Zurich, Ger many, and landed north of Warsaw, in Poland Russia. He won with plen ty of time to spare from Alfred Le Blanc, the French pilot, his compan ion in the St. Louis race of 1907, who came down at Kubin, Hungary. Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, Command er Peary's meteorologist in 1893-9-1 and leader of the Baldwin-Zeigler expedition of 1901-02, announced that he intsnded to try to reach the north pole by drifting with the ice across the North Polar sea. He expects to be prepared for a stay cf four years. Two weeks of mimic warfare, par ticipated in .by the companies of the coast artillery stationed at Fort Bar rancas, Pickens and McRae, com menced at Pensacola, Fla., when four companies went across the bay to defend Fort Pickens from attacks from the other forts. About one thousand men will take part in the maneuvers cf the regular troops oi the gulf coast. One of the features of the work this year will be a night attack on the fort by vessels coming ia" from the gulf, a number of armj vessels and tugs participating in the attack. GOOD ROADS CONGRESS Southern Appalachian Associa tion Meets in Asheville. PERMANENT ORGANIZATION To Devise Ways and Means of Building 500 Miles ot Good Roads in the Appalachian Mountains. Asheville, N. C. "There Is no mag ical way of getting good roads and the people must go down in their pockets and bear the expenses if they want them," said Governor Kitchln of North Carolina, in welcoming the delegates to the Southern. Appalachian Good Road-s' Congress, in session here. Governor Kitchln added that the question of good roads was not a new one: that the Romans had built good roads roads that has lasted more than 1,000 years. He said that the Romans appreciated the value of good highways, not only for purposes of war, but for the development of commerce. Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt of North Carolina, was elected permanent chairman of the congress, and E. J. Watson of South Carolina was chosen secretary. Dr. Pratt, in opening the congress, stated that the purpose of the gathering was to devise ways and means for building 500 miles of good roads in the Appalachian mountains, with connecting links leading to South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia. There were about ' 175 deelgates from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia pres ent. The work Georgia has done and is now doing in the interest of . good roads was outlined to the convention by W. S. McCallie, state geologist. He briefly outlined tbe history of the movement in his state, telling how it began with colonization, when all roads led out from Savannah, and has continued to grow until the pres ent. He spoke of the outlook at pres ent as being very bright, especially In those counties where convict la bor Is used, which are building an aggregate of 12 miles of good roads every day. But the real problem, he said, is in the eleven mountain counties which have done but little, and where the taxable property is small compared with the mileage of roads. Links of the proposed system to the Piedmont section of Georgia will pas's through this section and great stimulate in terest. NEW SICKNESS DISCOVERED. "Creeping Eruption" Puzzle to Flor ida Doctors. Pensacola, Fla. A new disease In the south known as "creeping erup tion," has been discovered by Cap tain F. H. Gosman,. post surgeon of the artillery corps stationed at Fort Barrancas. The victims are two ar tillerymen, who were recently at tacked by the disease and after in effectual treatment by an assistant surgeon, they were turned over to Captain Gosman. This is said to be the . first case of the kind In the south and the fourth case known in the United States. According to Captain Gosman, the disease is caused by the lodgment of the eggs of a horse fly, and, while not necessarily fatal, causes great discomfort and when net properly treated and the patient is allowed to scratch, becomes very aggravating. Photographs have been taken and will be forwarded with a full report of the cases to the department at Washington. TO FIGHT NEAR BEER. Georgia W. C. T. U. Will Begin to Wage War at Once. Macon- Ga. A fight is to be aimed at near beer by the members of the Women's " Christian Temperance Un ion of Georgia. It 1b said that the state body now In session in Macon strongly desires to have a committee appointed to take care of legislation that will mean the abolishment of the sale of near beer. The fact. that no change in the prohibition law for the next two years will not prevent the fight commencing at once. BABIES FOR AMALGAMATION. California Doctor to Test Theory for Protection of Perfect Race. Long Beach, Cal. Pursuing a theory of amalgamation for . the production of a perfect race, Dr. Maschutz has assembled orphan babies of various nationalities and color to rear and at tempt the achievement of the ideal human. He now has American ba bies, little Mexicans, Portuguese, Jap anese and Indians. These he will train mentally, morally and physical ly and then try his theory of intermarriage. CHILE PEPPER CROP RUINED. Frost in Mexico Causes Great Loss to the Farmers. Mexico City, Mexico. News of the absolute loss cf the Chile pepper crop of .Mexico was received by the Cam ara Agrisola, cf this city, as the last and one of the most diastrous blows dealt the farming industry cf the country by the cold wave that spread a sheet of frost from Chihuahua to the hot country. Not a shoot of chile is left in ths big producing states. The states of Puebla, Zacatecas, Aguas Calientes and Guanajuto are the principal producers of Mexican chile. The product is marketed all around the world and forms the chief source cf income for many farmars. LIBERAL MINISTER C3DAINED. Rev. Archibald Black Refused to Ac cept All of Book of Genesis. New York City. The ordination cf the Rev." Archibald Black, accused of extreme liberalism, was formally ap proved at the meeting of the New fork presbytery. Last June his orthodoxy was ques tioned because he refused to accept iterally some portions of the Book Df Genesis, among them, it was said at the time, the story of Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden. SHOWMAN BEATEN AND ROBBED On Main Street, in the Heart1 oi Washington, Unknown Highway man Crashes C. R. Shafer's Skull Washington,- N. C, Special. One of the boldest and most daring as saults and robberies that has ever taken place in this city was commit ted on Saturday night on east Main street when Mr. C. R. Shafer, owner of several of the Barkoot carnical shows, which have been exhibiting in this city for the past week, was way laid on his way to his boarding house by a thug, who coming up behind struck him a powerful blow over the right eye with an old gun barrel, fell ing him at a - single blow, and "very nearly killing him. When found both pockets of the man had been rifled and between $75 and $100 had been stolen. The pa tient regained consciousness Satur day morning, and gave a partial de scription of his assailant. There are slight hopes for the recovery of the injured man. Nine Bitten By Rabid Dog. Raleigh, Special. Saturday there was a regular influx of people bitten by mad dogs. Mr. J. C. page came in with his six children, Kathleen, May, Annie, Jane, John and Henry, from Pender county. All of these were bit ten by a little puppy, a shepherd dog. The same dog bit a yearling heifer and a little calf, both of which were killed Saturday. Another patient is a 3-year-old daughter of Sidney W. Burton of Reidsyille, and another James Womack of Rockingham coun ty, 3-year-old, bitten by a pug dog. Yet another is M. B. Baldwin of Scotland county, who was in his yard, a neighbor and a little child being with him. While loading his wagon with cotton, a dog ran in, open mouthed, at the child, whose father kicked the dog away, the animal im mediately biting Baldwin on the leg. He seized the dog and choked it to death. The people now under treat ment, as well as those who have been under it, are cr3ring death to the dogs, and one man said he intended to use poison -?eely on his premises. Statesville Revenue. Statesville, Special. Cashier Rob erts, of the revenue office of Collec tor Geo. H. Brown reports collec tions as follows for last month: Lists $788.68; spirits $280.28; cigars $48.00; tobacco $243,749.64; special tax $478. 88; total $245,345.48. v Compared with the collections for September, 1908, the collections last month show a decrease- of $165.84. The collections on spirits in Septem ber of last year were $51,144.39; to bacco $192,899.04. Compared with these figures the collections on spirits last month show a loss of $50,864.11. but the loss is almost entirely covered by the gain of $50,850.60 on tobacco, and the decrease in the total collec "ms is therefore small. Receives Gift From Carnegie. Greensboro, Special. A check foi $25,000 has just been received by tht president of the Greensboro Female College from Andrew Carnegie, this being the amount offered conditional ly to the College by Mr. Carnegie two years ago. The conditions have been complied with, and this check foi $25,000 completes the $100,000 en dowment fund. The conditions im posed by Mr. Carnegie that he would give $25,000 after the friends of the College had raised $75,000 was ar incentive and enabled the College tc raise this fund within the period ol two years. Accidentally Shot While Chasing a Chicken. Fayetteville, Special. Moses Mc Lean Saturday acidentally shot and dangerously wounded his sister, Ha gar McLean, while attempting tc shoot a wild chicken which the woman was assisting him to round up. A clump of weeds hid his sister from McLean's sight when he fired. Plenty of Partridges This Season. Raleigh, Sportsmen will be inter ested in the information that there are far more partridges this yeai than there were in 1908, in fact, it is said that over a large area of the State there are ten where there was only one last year. The terrible rains of 1908 drowned vast numbers of the birds. In the early part of last sea son nearly all the birds killed by hunters were old ones. Bold Robbery at Washington. Washington, Special. One of the boldest and most daring robberies ever perpetrated in this city took place in broad daylight Thursday af ternoon when the office of . Mr. W. Mayo, a justice of peace, on Market street, was entered, his safe broken into and something over $100 in cash taken. It seems that Mr. Mayo had gone out of his office for a few min utes and on his return he found the drawer to his safe open and the money missing. The police are at work on the case, but as yet there is no clue to the guilty parties. Seven White Caps are Convicted. Raleigh, Special. After being out all Wednesday afternoon and over night the jury in the "white cap" case frcm Mark's Creek townshir. brought in a verdict of guilty against all seven defendants. The verdict took the" defendants and their counsel completely by surprise, and a demand made by counsel that a poll of the iurv be taken. Every juryman re sponded "guilty." No appeal was taken. CURTAILMENT IS NECESSARY, Cotton Too High or Goods Too Low tc Encourage Manufacture. . Boston, Mass., Special. A gigan tic movement, born of unrest of long standing, is in progress throughout the leading cotton textile districts of the world, looking towards a general curtailment of production during the remaining months of this year an( rh 1910. The principal reasons ad. vanced for the movement . are the gradual increase in the cost of raw" material and the failure of the dry goods markets to respond in a way which would assure continued profit to manufacturers during the next twelve months. In Lancashire the yarn spinners have been running their mills on short time for two months, and recently many other English mill owners voted to shut down two days each week un til November 8. On September 15 the Arkwright Club, of Moston, representing 14,000, 000 out of 17,000,000 spindles in New England, sent out to all the cotton mills in this district, which is second in the industry to Lancashire, forms of an agreement for signatures for a curtailment. The investigations of the executive committee of this club convinced it that no difficulty would be experienced in securing the signa- ture representing seven million spindles. CURTISS PLEASES ST. LOUIS. Makes Spectacular Flight Against Adverse Circumstances. St. Louis, Special. Under the arch of a brilliant rainbow, Glenn H. Cur tiss thrilled thousands of rain-soaked spectators here late Saturday by an aeroplane flight of more than a mile over the tree tops of Forest park . Curtiss was in the air one minute and forty-nine seconds, and in that brief time he covered close to nine furloughs. At first rising to a height of forty feet he dipped, then rose gracefully over the tree tops as he turned in a great arc and came bacfc" to the starting point. The landing was on rough, soggy ground, but it was so skillfully executed that no jar was noticeable. Curtiss literally risked his neck and his machine in the flight. Previous trials had shown that the aviation field under the shadow of Art hill, in Forst park, was too carmped for se curing manipulation of the delicately poised aeroplanes. A group of trees 50 yards from the starting point was an obstacle which George Osmont, operator of the Curzon-Farman bi plane had tried in vain to overcome during the week and was the indirect cause of his accident Friday. But Curtiss, flying in the face of a fitful breeze, the remains of a gusty wind that had raged all day, rose over the tree tops, arid although his bi plane tipped as he turned, he calmly righted it. The exercises in connec tion with centennial week closed Saturday. Asylum Building Burns. Cleveland, O.; Special. Fire de stroyed the men's convalescent cot tage of the Cleveland State hospital for the insane at Newburg, a suburb of Cleveland, Saturday night. Fifty insane invalids, awakened from their sleep by the flames, fled to the street in paroxysms of fright, or, huddled in corners, resisted the urging of atten dants who besought them to leave. A hasty roll call when the building was evacuated showed that all had escap ed. The fire broke out beneath the roof of the building. It spread rap-' idly and in a few moments after its discovery the entire building appear ed to be in flames. Efforts of the fire men were hampered by the necessity of caring for the escape of the pa tients and the upper portion of the building was completely gutted be fore the fire was brought under con trol. The structure is regarded as a total wreck. Freight Collides Wtih Passenger. Troy, Tex., Special. Running at a high rate of speed, Missouri, Kansas & Texas passenger train No. 3 col lided head-on with a fast freight train on a curve near Troy late Sunday afternoon. Three of the crew of the passenger train were injured, but the passengers escaped unhurt. The de livery of a wrong order by a tele graph operator is said to have caused the collision. Will Test Corporation Tax. Cincinnati, O., Special. P. D. Gold of Raleigh, N. C, was Saturday elect ed a member of the executive com mittee of the American Life Insur ance Association, which closed its three-day convention here. The meet ing adopted resolutions declaring that the convention would contest tho constutionality of the corporation tax in the courts, that a tax over one per cent is confiscating for insurance com panies, and that all States should have the same tax on insurancs business. Wright Breaks Record Again. College Park, Mr., Special. After breaking the world's record for flight over a closed circuit, a kilometer in distance, Wilbur Wright Saturday predicted that he could attain a speed cf GO to 70 miles an hour in an aero plane racer. He had just tern through the air in the frovernment aeroplane i at a rate of approximately 46 milts Ian hour, making a new record o oV 3-5 seconds for 500 meters aud rfr turn, including turn. ... - ' -