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Cite Cbatbam K.coro H. A. LON ECIT03 AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION S t SO Per Year STRICTLY IN ADVANC n Ay Ay Ay VOL, XX XII, PITTSBORO CHATHAM COUNTY. N. 0., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27. (909. NO. 11. Zbc Cbatbam Vcarib. RATES OF ADVERTISING; One Square, one lnertla..... One Square, two Instrtloaii.... One Square, one meatk. ....... af eaaaaanBuaeaB For Larger Advertise ments Liberal Contracts will be made. . DEATH RATEDECLINING So the Government Vital Statis tics Show. TUBERCULOSIS DECREASING Death Rate in 1908 Much Less Than in 1907 -Pellagra Increasing in the South. Washington, D. C The great fight against tuberculosis is being won, ac cording to Chief Statistician Cressy L Wil'our, of the division of vital sta tistics, United States Census Bureau. In a bulletin issued he says: A continued decline in the death ra e from it from year to year, may be expected." He says that the organization of many slate and local anti-tuberculosis societies since the international congress on tuberculosis in Washing ton in 190S has helped to check the uisc-sse. The total deaths from tu berculosis returned in 190S was 79, 259, exceeding those of any previous vep'r of registration, but the death rate rer 100,000 for 1908 is consider ably less than that for 1907. In all the tuberculosis showed a decline, ex cept in Colorado, Rhode Island and Vermont. Mr. Wilbur notes pellagra as a dis ease of increasing importance . with twenty-three deaths recorded in 1908. This doe? net include the bulk of pel legra deaths in the south, from which zo records are received. Among the rarer disease, smallpox caused ninety-two deaths; plague, five; yellow fever, two; leprosy, eleven and hy drophobia, eighty-two. POTASH MONOPOLY PLANNED. Germany Wants to Hold Up American Trade. Berlin. Germany. The completion ci contracts between the German pot ash mine? and American fertilizer companies at prices lower than those of the syrdicate Jias influenced the imperial ministry of the interior to prepare bills for submission to the richstag, with the object of creating a government control over the pot ash industry. The legislation propos ed would prevent the filling of Ameri can contracts at prices contracted by the Americans, who have placed or ders covering a greater part of their requirements up to 1917. If these measures should be adopt ed, America, which takes about sixty per cent of the potash exported, would be obliged to pay monopoly prices. The American interests here are concerned ever the situation, and probably will make representations concerning it to the -state department at Washintgon. SWALLOWED GOLD TOOTH. In Macon Woman Had Gold Crown Her Lungs a Year. Macon, Ga. In a violent coughing spell Mrs. Walter Garrity coughed a displaced gold crown from a tooth from its lodging in her lungs, where it had been a year and a day. She was desperately ill and SHIPPERS OPPOSE BATE INCRREASE Strong Resolutions Adopted at Their Meeting in Cincinnati. Cincinnati, Ohio. That any propos ed general advance in freight rates will disturb the existing business con ditions and that such an advance is not justified and will be vigorously contested by the leading shippers' or ganizations of the country, was the tenor of resolutions adopted at the meeting of representatives of ship pers and other commercial organiza tions from many points of the coun try held in this city. The day was devoted to a discussion of the freight situation and it was de termined to at once inaugurate a very strong movement in opposition to the contemplated advance in rates, a com mittee being created whose duty it shall be to propagate a campaign of education of the public on freight rates and to have all of the powers of the general conference in dealing wjth that subject. 10TT0N GINNEBS REPORT. o 5,320,C00 Bales Had Been Ginned to October 18. Memphis, Tenn. The report of J. A. Taylor, president of the National Ginners' Association, indicates that there has been ginned to October 18, 5,320,000 bales, which is nearly a mil lion bales less than was ginned in this period last year. The reprt says. As the heavy ginning of September was kept up the first week in Octber, the falling off has nearly,, all come in the last half of the latter month. The crop is 79.7 picked, compart?! with 54.5 last year at this time, and indicates almost a crop disaster, ex cept in Georgia and the Carolinas, where the crop is better, but not as good as expected a month ago. The yield is reported disappointing in all sections of the belt, probably, due to smallness of the bolls. Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas have the shortest crop ever grown, and will total a little over half of last year's crop, while Texas is not much better. 0 CLUES ATE CASTE LINES. Methodist Heme Mission Board Dis cusses Wcrk Among Operatives. Charlotte, N. C. The special con ference of the home mission board of the Methodist church, south, call ed to consider the relation of the church to the industrial problem, came to an end with the adoption of resolutions embodying suggestions as to the most advantageous steps to be taken in the conduct of work in mill settlements. The substance of the discussion was that caste lines in the church must be obliterated and that the churches in the cities having outlying mill settlements must contri bute to the work amongst cotton mill operatives. Statistics read in the conference show that there are in the south, S43 cotton mills, with 411,542 .mill people, and the eagerness of the mem bers of the conference to reach these people was manifest. WITHDRAWING BONDED WHISKEY. BONDS FOR WATERWAYS Preside it Taft Declares Hirmelf in Favor of Inland Waterways. WOULD SOLVERATE QUESTION Mr. Taft Declares Work on Improve ments Has Been Nothing More Than "a Procession of Jerks." Mere of It Being Used Than Ever Before. New York City According to the figures of the internal revenue com missioner, more whiskey is now being withdrawn from the bonded ware- physicians j houses throughout the country than had contemplated an operation. She ever before. The withdrawals from will recover, it is believed. bond last year totaled 134,901,408 gal- A year has passed since she was i ions, which was the heaviest on rec- in a dentist chair getting work done on her teth. A crown in her mouth slipped and she drew it into her lungs. She had several severe at- Corpus Christ!, Texas In an open address here berore ihe Interstate In land .Waterways league and the citi zens of Corpus ChiTsti, President Taft announced himself as strongly favor ing a permanent and practical sys tem of inland waterways as a means of control.ing railroad rates, and said that he favored the policy of issuing bonds for carrying out a practical sys tem of improvements. Up to tne present time, Mr. Taft declared, coneiey has provided for improvements in piece meal" fashion and the wcrk on improvement has been nothitgiacre than "a procession of jerks." Beioie any project is en tered upon, the president declared, it should be thoroughly considered, - in vestigated and reported upon by a board of engineers as to its feasibil ity and desirability. Once the improvement is declared desirable and tne communities which it is to servo can convince congress that their growth has been such as to justify tne expenditure of a large sum of money to take care of increas ing trade, bonds should be issued in order that the improvements may be carried into effect at once and the benefits of it bo quickly secured. The president took occasion to re fer to that in seme localities that there is a disposition to do injustice to the railroads and to drive the cor porations to a system of economy, which prevents the development of the country through which they pass. The president said it was often the case that the citizens of a county would go to any extent to get a railroad to come into the county, but ence tliere, no a friend of he railroad could anywhere be found, except perhaps the local counsel. The remark called out hearty laugh ter. The president turned serious again, however, and urged a "square deal" for the railroads, that they might not be deprived of reasonable profits through popular prejudice. NORTH EXCEEDS IN CHILD LABOR. More Children Employed in Massachu setts Than Any State Excpt N. C. Washington, D. C. Harsh criticism of legislative bodies was made at the convention of the United Textile Workers of America, when the ques tion of obtaining shorter working hours came up. Some of the delegates declared that an eight-hour day could be obtained only through the medium of strikes. Delegate Morgan of Patterson, N. J., said that members of the legisla ture, of his state were elected by cor rupt 'methods, and once in oflice, paid no heed to the appeals of laboring men. . Delegate Hall of Philadelphia took the position that all political parties were merely capitalistic organs. He advocated the formation of a work insmen's party. In this he was op posed by Delegate Thomas McMahon of Rhode Island, who insisted that la boring men in his state sell their votes themselves. This practice must be broken up, he contended, before the legislatures were reformed. He said that while a great furore was now being raised to abolish child labor in the south, there were more children employed in Massachusetts than any state of the south, with the exception of North Carolina. FARMER'S FORTUNATE WIFE. Woman is Left $4,000,000 by a Former Sweetheart. Jonesbcro, Ark. Coming as a se quel of her girlhood days, Mrs. John D. El-win, wife of a Green county, farmer, will probably be put in pos session of an estate valued, it is es timated, at $4,000,000. R. E. McGoff, a Kentucky attorney, executor of the restate of a resident of that state whose name he will not disclose, is in Jonesboro securing proof a? to the identity of Mrs. Erwin. , Some years ago, it is asserted, Mrs. Erwin, then Mary Duval, met a young German, who told her of vast ances tral estates. The two became fast frier? ds, but because of parental ob jection the marriage which- he pro posed did not occur. Instead tho ycung woman became the wife of a farmer. Recently the man who first sought her hand died, naming in his will as his legatee his former sweet heart. That she can produce ample proof that she is the person is de clared by Mrs. Erwin. COTTON N0TJ00 HIGH Richard H. Edmonds Discusses the Cotton Situation. FOREIGN SPINNERS BUYING American Spinners are Played Foreign Buyers for Suckers," Says Mr, Edmonds. By LATE BEWSN0TE3w General. -T In a lecture Ibef ore . the Aero Clab of America Lyttleton Fox urges that the club take Immediate steps to SUCCESSFUL STATE FAIR. Movement to Erect New Buildings and Afford "More Accommodations. Raleigh, Special. There never was causa the enactment of laws defining as great satisfaction with a f a ir here Jt U J V. A. M -21 - .M . I iu (iguw ua privileges w persvma with thfi nne . ... . wno travel in balloons and aero planes. Mr. Fox fears that unlesg was a success in every way and this ord. and since then the withdrawals hf.vf- 1 ecu even heavier. The manufacture of distilled spiriir is still well below the high rute es- tacks, but improved each time until 1 tablished in 1907. when 168,573.913 the foreign matter was finally thrown i gallons were produced. Last year the j production was 128,634,025 gallons, and the production so far this year is said to be considerably heavier than that, but not as high as the record. U. D. C ELECT OFFICERS. Little Rock Gits Next Meeting of the Confederate Daughtsrs. Houston, Texas. With the selec tion of Little Rock, Ark., a3 the con vention city in 1910 and the election of 1 the general officers for the year, the sixteenth annual convention of the United Daughters of the Confed eracy adjourned sine die closing the sessions in Houston an hour before midnight. The following general of ficers were elected: President general, Mrs. Virginia McSherry of West Virginia; first vice president general, Mrs. L. C. Hall of Arlransas; second vice president gen eral, Mrs. M. E. Bryan gf Texas ; third vice president general, Mrs. Thomas T. Stevens of Georgia; re cording secretary general, Mrs. a. u. Cnjcago Department Stcre Employees Dowdell of Alabama; corresponding nsuet nre:? Rimnlv. Chicago, 111. Mrs. G. Hoinville has CAR SHORTAGE IN SOUTH. American Railways Make Statement cn Car Situation. Chicago, III. The American Rail ways' fortnightly statement made public here shows a shortage of 23, 431 cars in the east and south, and a surplus, of 35,977 in the west and northwest. The report adds: "There reems to be no doubt that the rail roads are carrying as much freight as they did, in October, 1907, and it is to be noted that the shortages are one-third of- what they were then, when there was no surplus at all. The surplus has been reduced 17,4111 in uie last two weeks. It is probable that we have reached or nearly reached a maximum shortage, although it is probable that the surplus will be fur ther reduced. If there is any serious shortage this fall, it will provably be upon the commercial roads. WILL CENSUR GIRLV lUSIUMES. off, AXTHRACNOSE DOES GREAT DAMAGE. Disease in Cotton is Spreading and is Costing Planters Millions. Columbia, S. C. In a report just made to Commissioner Watson, State Eotanist Earre declares that the dis ease of antlrracnose in cotton is cost ing the growers of the state probably ?o,tu0,000 yearly and the Georgia PATRICK 11. M'CARREN DEAD. Democratic Leader of Brooklyn Never Rallied After Operation. New York City. Patrick H. McCar ren, state senator and democratic i leader of Brooklyn, died at St. Cath- ULr!,rG,S:iy aSlCl IWrierineVi Hospital, Brooklyn, never hav- 000 each vear. According to Mr. I'arre, the disease is spreading. Its ! ing completely rallied from the ef- WDrt rmnifpctntintio havo fnllnwp1 I the use of imported seed, for which reason he urges that inspection of cot ton seed be provided for in the pro posed legislation to minimize pellagra by the inspection of grain. WOMEN ALLOWED TO VOTE. Suburb of Richmond, Va.f Extends Suffrage to Women, Richmond, Va. The people of Gin ter lark, the most fashionable and the wealthiest suburb of Richmond, have formally extended the suffrage to women. The governing body of the suburb adopted a constitution and by-laws, tne provision of which is that "all Kales and females, white and over 21 years of age, owning property and living in Ginter Park, shall vote. OR. CARLIiLE IS DEAD. Signer cf Secession and President Emeritus cf Wofford College. Spartanburg, S. C Dr. James H. Carlisle, the venerable president em eritus of Wofford college died at his home here. Dr. Carlisle was born at Wiunsboro, s. C, eighty-four- years o, his parents having come from County Antrim, Ireland. n 1S75 he was chosen president of nefferd college, and in this position continued until 1902, when he resign ed and became president emeritus. Di. Carlisle and Colonel Robert A. Thompson cf Walhalla, S C, were tae only surviving signers of the or dinance of secession which precipitat ed the war betweent the states TUniiH- h' i costumes cf feminine employees of o"ione cf the -largest State street de- secretary general, Miss Childress of. Louisiana: treasurer general, Mrs. C B. Tate of Virginia: reg Mrs. James B. Gantt cf son of Virginia; custodian of, cross cf tmcnt .toics . ,, t tt t- : - c . :iuuie oi i lie 1 custodian of flag, Mrs. F. A. Walk of - u ne keynole of tne or. Virginia. d is3Ud to tt girls. Now the sales- Honorary presidents Mrs J . mut ar ncatl attired in Tench of Florida, and Mrs. N. D. a black of wM,e sbirtwaist black Randolph of Virginia. Uv'rt hair dOEe natlv without arti- The Shiloh Monument Association , nnl2rtf ana minus all ew committee's report was read nation cf fashions. White cf Tennessea, which showed - . that over $20,000 tas been donated last year. Her edicts for the oung women were is- CONFEDERATE FLAG RETURNED. Captured From the Ram Albermarle ust As It Went Down. Richmond, Va. Dr. Thomas A. vvaireli, formerly of Company B, j mijaiiy B, Pennsylvania volun has presented to the confeder-2-te museum here a confederate flag teat was taken from the confederate frn Albemarle, which was sunk off ?l cp3t cf North Carolina, during "e civil war. it was removed from vessel just before the ship went fects of an operation for appendicitis which was performed on October 13. His death was not unexpected; in fact, the senator himself realized that his end was near. Would Ear Tobacco to Ministers. Savannah, Ga. The use of tobac co by ministers will be barred, if the wishes of the Woman's Board of Home Missions of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, are carried out by the general conference. Newsy Paragraphs. As a result of a feud between Ital ian families of New Orleans, Lewis Manacia, aged twelve years, is dead and his mother and two children are dying. They ate sugar sent them as a present. It was discovered that it was sent by enemies of the family. Rocky Boy and his band of Chip pewa Indians, numbering about one hundred and fifty braves, encamped near Birds Eye, Mont., probably will owe their rescue from death by star vation to the promptness of Indian office officials, who took speedy means, to relieve their desperate plight. The West Virginia synod of the Presbyterian Church in session at Elkins, W. Va., adopted a resolution protesting against the invitation ex tended to President Taft to address the laymens' missionary convention November 11. This action was tak en after a lengthy discussion, argu ments in favor of the resolutions be ing based upon the president's affilia tion with the Unitarian church. That San Francisco had made pre liminary plans to hold a world's fair in commemoration of the completion cf the- Panama canal was the state ment made in Seattle by Colonel J. A. Filcher, executive commissioner from California to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition. He said the United States government should furnish "a million or two to celebrate the event." snn Diecro. Cal.. also is mentioned as a possible site for a world's fair cel ebrating the completion or tne cauai, and it is understood that one or more southern citie3 bordering the gulf of Mexico have similar projects. INTERVENTION APPEALED FOR. Shippers Want Ports cf Nicaragua Re-opsned. New Orleans, La. New Orleans shippers and exporters are framing a petition addressed to the state de nartment. askin.ee that this govern- XT Lottery Gperaling in New Orleans. New Orleans, La. A lottery oper ating cn a scale as large as the no torious p:3lem which existed in New Oi leans up to 1S93 was discovered here. Three arrests were made, and warrants for the arrests of thirty more ersens were issued. The headquarters of the lottery were maintained in the French quar- ment intervene in tne isiicaraguan rev-,. where ihe Louisiana lottery for olution for the purpose ot reopening: . flourished. The profits reached to trada uprising. Much of the south's InVRtt UCCeeilS HarrimaiL olution for the purpose of reopening j merl flourished. The profits reach the Atlantic ports of the Central j as hizh M ?50Q rer day accor(iing American republic, which were offi"!the captured crooks. trada to Central America is transact ed with the Nicaraguan Atlantic New York City Robert S. Lovett, ports and the closing of the ports was elected president of the Union 9 a . i ? :! ..... .11 ,1 4-n PimnnArl Into will seriously interfere with the bus iness of local shippers. Cable reports from Bluefields say that the Estrada uprising is gradually spreading throughout the republic, and that Zelaya can not hold out against the insurgents much longer. SPANISH CABINET RESIGN?. Spain Tranquil Under New Order cf uovsrnment. Madrid. Spain. Tho Spanish net, which wa.i formed January 15, 1907, under the premiership cf Anto nio 'Mauria, resigned as a result of the bitter attacks made against the government by the former premier, Moret yPrendergast.. The fall cf Premier Maura and the conservative cabinet has produced a feeling of relief and encourages hope that a period of internal tranquility has been ushered in. It i3 now an open secret that M. Maura's refusal to give King Alfonso an opportunity to pardon Ferrer is regretted by his majesty. Pacific railroad, -to succeed the late E. H. Marriman, at a meeting of the boaid cf directors. The executive committee was re-elected, with Judge Lovett as chairman, to which place he was elected as Mr. Harriman's successor a few weeks ago. New Orleans, La. Discussing the cotton situation, -Richard H. Ed monds, editor of The Manufacturers' Record, who is in the south making a study of crop prospects and probable consumption, . said : "The American spinners are being played for suckers by foreign spin ners, and they are being played with an energy that ought to satisfy the most enthusiastic fisherman. In oth er words,- foreign spinners are endeavoring.- jn every way possible to convince tfee spinners in this coun try and ail other people identified with the cotton trade that the price of the raw cotton i3 too high, and that the way to bring about a reduc tion is to shut down mills until cot ton declines to a point satisfactory to the buyer. "The American spinners are taking this talk of the foreign spinners seri ously, and while they are, to a large extent, as compared with previous years, keeping out of the market, for eign spinners are buying every bale of cotton they can get their hands on. The question of price does not seem to enter into their actual calcula tions, although they are struggling to impress upon American pinners the folly of buying- at present prices. "No one familiar with the shrewd ness and the knowledge of business conditions throuhgout the world of foreign spinners should be surprised at the game which they are playing. It has been played steadily for more than half a century, but there is room for surprise that American spinners should so readily fall into the trap. "As a matter of fact, the present price of cotton Is not unduly high. It is not in fact even at present figures yielding to the farmers the profit which should be won out of this, na ture's greatest monopoly. -Considering (he increased cost of production and the increased cost of living, it is doubtful whether 13-cent cotton is giv ing better net results to the producer than 8 or 9-cent cotton would have done seven or- eight years ago. To assume that the world will not con sume this entire crop, even if it sold at 15 cents a iound, is absurd to any man who is thoroughly familiar with the world's business conditions and who recognizes that, until an article reaches a practically prohibitory price, consumption is not materially lessened by what, under other condi tions, might have been regarded as a high price. "All mankind Is living on a higher plane. Wages in the Orient and in Europe, as well as in this country, have been steadily advancing for some years, with occasional brief pe riods of reaction, such as that follow ing the nanic of 1907. But, broadly speaking, there is a steady, world wide forward movement. "The iron producers, the growers of wheat and corn and other agricul tural products., and manufacturers of nearlv all lines are sharing ra mis increased activity and increased prof it to a greater: extent than the cot tnn growers of the south. If there had been no material shortage in the yield of cotton compared with last yea?, there should have been, mere ly to keep pace with the advance in other things, a rise oi Zo to u per cent in the price of cotton over the average of the preceding crop. "The world s improved business conditions would have justified this. When we remember that whatever may be the actual final outcome it is an unquestionable fact that the crop will be very much less than last year, while the consumption will cer tainly be as large, it would seem that present prices have not yet reached a point of fairness to the grower. It is incumbent upon every business in terest in the south to recognize the situation and to unite to help the farmer in securing a price in keep ing with the present increasing pros perity in every other industry. Instead of seeking to depress the price of cot ton, the south should unite to seek to advance the price. At present ev ery man who is paying any serious attention to the talk of foreign spin ners is simply helping them to laugh up one sleeve,' while with the other hand they ar reaching behind--iiis back and gathering in every psssible bale cf cotton. " "Later on, when the foreign spin ners have secured the best of the crop and the American spinners un dertake to supply their own needs, they will wake up to the game that has besn played upon them." laws to the contrary are pa-ssed, prop, success means a great deal for Ral- cii-jr uffucia wuusb uuBr give lucm . . n - 0. , T .. , , possession of the air above property jC1S" and lor the btate. In all prob may prosecute air travelers for tres- J ability at the first meeting of the exe- various states condemn a certain ae- j erecting new buildings and of utiliz- rial stratum as a public highway and lake title to it. Two large 22,000-pound Rodman guns, relics of the confederacy, mounted at the abandoned Fort Hen ry, near Pass Christian,' Miss., will be blown up and shattered into port able sections with dynamite. They were recently sold to a St, Louis firm by the state of Mississippi and were to be exhibited as historical cu riosities. But the purchasers have found it Impossible to get the guns ing all the space within the grounds will be taken up. The State poultry farm occupies 14 acres of the grounds, having done this many years; first when it was -the experiment farm-of the A. & M.' College, under the iu pices of the State Department of ' riculture. It is found that there ftf much unused space in the ground which only needs improvement ttf make it all available. , A large' area. away from their mountings. The site 1 is required for the teams of the coun of the old fort has almost been buried under the accumulations '"of the past forty years Counterfeiters,- working almost in the shadow of the treasury, have in vaded certain districts of Washington with spurious coin. The counterfeits are of the 25 cent and 10 cent coin age, patterned after the issue of 1908, but, according to the secret service operatives, they are poor imitations. John L. Carlisle, a prominent farm er and politician of Marion county, Mississippi, is so strongly' impressed with the belief that he has found gold on his farm near Magnolia that he has tent a sack of the nuggets to tlje United States assay office at Wash ington for analysis. The nuggets were picked up in a cotton field on the Carlisle place, and the ground is thickly strewn with them. They appear to be a composition of sand and bright flecks resembling gold dust. The International Banking corpor ation, an American concern, which was the first to open a house in Pe kin, China, started a "branch in Han kow, with the object of increasing trade relations between the United States and the Far East. try. visitors who come to the" fair by thousands now. The vehicles and stock from the country tell the story of prosperity as plainly as do the pta pie themselves, for this is the fann ers ' year. Senator Johnson Hairnet! by Death. Fargo, N. D. United States Sena tor Mai tin II. Johnson of this state cabi-! died from an attack cf acute bright's disease at his hotel here. Senator Johnson was fifty-nine years old. In 1690 he was sent to congress, and was three times nominated. He was eight years in the lower house. DIVINE HEALER DEAD. Charles M. Schlatter Was Unable To Cure Himself. ..Hastings, Neb. Charles M. Schlat ter, who claimed to cure ills by di vine power, was found dead in a room at a local hotel. He was penni less, and unless relatives or, friends claim the bedv it will .be turned "over to a medical' college. Schlatter was widely known, having thousands of newspaper clippings discribing his it to various American cities. He died of old age. Ten Killed ia HIna Explosion " Hartshorne, Ckla. Tea men are dead, two are injured and one is miss ing as a result cf an explosion in mina No. 10 of the Rock Island Coal Mining company. The men are be lieved to fcvi gone beyond a "dead line"' with lighted lamps in entering the mine, the lamps igniting the gas. MORGAN NOT RELEASED BY BRIBERY. Confederate Burrowed Way Out of Federal Prison. Frankfort, Ky Charlton Morgan, a brother of the celebrated Confederate general, John H. Morgan, emphatical ly denies the story sent out from To ledo, Ohio, that the release of his brother and other captured Confeder ates was secured from the peniten tiary at Columbus through bribery of soldier guards by two southern women who paid $30,000 to the guards. Charlton Morgan was in prison with him in Columbus. He says he is thoroughly familiar with all details nf ihf escapade, and that the party L burrof ed out of their cells as history has it. Refused To Fay Cent tinea Dead. Salt Lake City ,Utah. "I have paid rent all my life; I mean to quit when I die," declared Warren Foster, in a letter expressing his last wish. "For the final disposition of my eld body," says the letter, "my first wish is that it be , cremated. If inconven ient or expensive, then lay me away in what is known as the 'Potters Field.' But in no event, under . any condition, am I to be buried in a cemetery where they buy and sell lots or charge a rental cf any kinJ Washington. When President Taft returns from his western trip he will find awaiting him in the white house a big barrel of sauerkraut which represents his winning at the Elks' fair held at San dusky, Ohio, last winter. The pres ident was presented the winning tick et by W. H Reinhart, head of the Perry centennial commission, while the latter was in Washington. The barrel was packed with twenty-two gallons of fresh briny food and tx pressed to Washington. Record target practice" scores of the vessels of the American navy for 1909 made public at the navy depart ment show that the Washington is a winner of the .battleship class, the Charleston a winner in the cruiser class, the Wilmington a winner in the gunboat class, the Tingey the win ner in vessels competitiifg for the tor pedo trophy- The use of the words "so help mo God" at the end of oaths may be prohibited in the courts of tho Dis trict of Columbia if congress passes a law which is now being drafted by the commissioners of the District of Columbia.' The bill under considera tion is similar to one enacted by the Maryland legislature, and leaders of the bench and bar in Washington are being consulted as to the desirability of recommending its enactment by congress. A pew in the fashionable St. John's Episcopal church n Washington, the property of the late Dr. Robert Rey burn, was put up at auction. As there were ' no biddara the pew probably will be scld at private sale. Last May a pew in the same church brought brought $3,000. This is not the only high price paid for a pew in St. John's "in 1S1C, when the edifice was built, the pews sold for $100 each, but at that time the church or ganization received the money and not a pew holder, as now fs the case. A few years ago Representative George M. Huff of Pennsylvania pur chased from an estate a pew directly in the rear of what is known as the "presidential pew," paying $2,750 Uncle Sam grew financially fat off industrious inventors last, year, the records showing thatljeyenues in fees from this source were sufficient to pay $1,887,443, the expenses of the United States patent office, and leave a surplus of $88,476. This fact, which is emphasized in the annual report of Edward B Moore, commissioner cf patents, has made the basis for im portant recommendations urging new laws by congress which will effectual ly expediate methods for issuing pat ents. ' Improvements in the methods of sustaining the army while traveling by rail have made the lot of the pri vate soldier much more comfortable than formerly. This is shown in tto annual report cf Commissary General Henry G. Sharpe. The report eaya the operations of the kitchen tourist car, the detachment mess car and the portable gas cooker, which he says have been thoroughly tried out are found satisfactory. They have revolutionized, he eays, the old sys tem of providing for subsistence of traveling troops. The report shows that it cost the cemmisary depart ment $333,822 mere to keep the army of Cuban pacification in the island than it would have cost to take care of the soldiers in this country. The father cf Knud Resmussen has received a letter from his son, who lived for many years among the Es kimos and speaks the language per fectly. In the letter M. Rasmussen says he will arrive at Copenhagen from Greenland on- November 1, bringing conclusive evidence ' of Dr. Cook against Commander Peary. Joseph C. S. Blackburn, governor of the canal zone, who is in Washing ton for a few days, says the canal Southern Power Company Reaches Hickory. Hickory, Special. Mr. C. C. Moore has been in the county for some weeks in the interest of the Southerrt Power Company, has completer! the work of securing the right-of-way for the transmission line from Newton to Hickory. The property-owners on the line are much pleased with the business-like manner in which Mr. More dealt with them. He is regarded as a very fair and impartial adjustet'of right-of-way matters. . The station which the power company is building is almost ready for the installation of the electrical apparatus to be used for delivering the current to the Brook ford and Ivey cotton mills and to the Hickory Lighting Company. Several carloads of poles, copper wire, insula tors and other materials have arrived and are being unloaded. Norfolk & Western Work Train De stroyed by Fire. ' Mayodan, Special. A most unusu al fire . occurred here Wednesday night, three cars of a work train own ed by the Norfolk & Western Railway being consumed. The train was on a siding near the station and the fire which was discovered about Id o'clock, originated in the commissary car. Its origin is unknown. The railway station in Mayordau is situat ed at the foot of a small mountain of steep bluff on the ast side, the same being covered at this time with bril- liant autumn foilage, and the glare tt the fire against the side of this mown tain afforded a rare and remarkabh spectacle. Run Down By Train. Durham, Special. Cyrus Parham, an old man of 73, was killed Friday morning about G:40 by an eastbound freight on the Southern main line The old man, who was soon to havo been sent to the county home, was without relatives of any kind to care for him ami had been long- afflicted with Bright's disease and could not have lived more than thirty days, the physicians say. He was deaf in ad dition to destitution and it is suppos ed that he was straggling about tho railway when he stepped upon the track. The train was not running rapidly, but the engineer did not sif him in time to stop his train. Barn Burned by Lightning. Salisbury, Special A rather severe storm passed over the city Saturday afternoon during which lightning set fire to the big barn and stable on the farm of Mr. T. A. Coughenour, at the eld Fraley race track, near the city, the bolt striking a large tree a few feet off and running to the barn. Tragedy in Southbound Railroad . Camp. Winston-Salem, Special. Follow ing a quarrel early Saturday evening at construction camp No. 1 on the; new Southbound Railroad, Frauk Wilson was shot and killed by Joe Cotton. Both were members of the construction force. Following the shooting Cotton drew his wages and disappeared. SYRIANS NOT "WHITE PERSONS." Wisconsin Court Rules That They Are Not Entitled to Vote. LaCrosse, Wiss. Under a ruling re ceived here from R. S. Coleman, the chief examiner cf the census bureau at Washington, one hundred Syrian voters in LaCrosse will lose their cit izenship, while hundreds of others all tho northwest will be affected. The ruling, in eSect, 1.3 that Syrians, j will certainly foe completed by the hoim of Asiatic ortsrin. are nox i latter part oi ivia, which is uuuui "white persons" wilfcitt the meaning two yearB less than the engineer a J between them, of the law. 'estimates. Flagman Horribly Mangled. Wilmington, Special. Raymond Ellis, 20 years of ajc, son of Alder man and Mayor Pro Tern Ellis of this city, was fatally injured Friday after-, noon at 5 o'clock at Ilallsboro, near Chadbourn, while coupling cars on o-Wilmington-bound freight train of which he was flagman, having recent ly left the general ofllcc3 of the com pany to learn the transportation end of tks business. He was fearfully mangled in the stomach and one la? was wit off. He lived until shortly before 8 o'clock as the special train bringing him to the city was nearin . the depot here High Point Printer Killed. Greensboro, Special. James Ward, a printer employed by the Kerr Print ing Company of High Point, while as- sisting in unloading an imposing stone from a car, was crushed to death by the stone falling upon biro. The horses attached to a wagon upon -which the stone was to be placed, sud denly moved forward, as the stone was midway between the car and tho . 1 hM A . I wagon, causing tne ueavy ium w
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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Oct. 27, 1909, edition 1
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