North Carolina Newspapers

E!k Chatham .Tfacorb, J&'l 1 . .. 1.1 .sjw-y- - H. A- LONDON EDITCS AND PEOPFwIETOR. X&mS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Si. 50 Per Year STRICTLY IN ADVANCE VOL. XXX II. PITTSBQRO. CHATHAM COUNTY. N. C WBDNESD AY, DECEMBER 15. 1909. NO. 18. Zbc Chatham "Record. RATES OF ADVERTiSIflB: One Square, one Insertion One Square, two insertions.... 1.5 One Square, one mootb. ....... For Larger Advertise ments Liberal Contracts will be made. PRICE OF COTTON SOARS Heavy Trading Follows Publica cation of Crop Report. ADVANCED $2.09 A BALE Both May and July Options Gained Ap proximately 42 Points July Sold at 15.74. New York City. Not since the Sul ly -coin of 1904 has the New York couoa exchange witnessed a more sensational scene or a more spectac uiar i,so in prices than occurred wiih ;:!iuounceiueiit of the government crop report. With the .galleries crowded with yiitors from me south, augmented by friends raid relatives 01 operators and !,., imerestea specunuib, mar- wt'vfinvod to a new. high record ior me season, with gains of more than a bale. Both the May and the july options touched the high mark of "iS.M', brl1 saming approximately 42 points. Bull brokers prevemea a more vio ".xivanre. as tney had distributed jieivy sellers' orders every o points up from 15.55 tor Aiay ana juiy. iney sold enormously, supplying the de mand of shorts and also the inrush of buying orders from Wall street, Chicago and soutnern operaiors ana the local and New England dry goods interests. Tne marKets continued in an excited state up 10 me ciose, wnu estimates that 5UU.UU0 Dates naa cnang ed hands in the last hour. May closed at ia.67. and July at 15.74. The Eews came from Washington that the government estimate was on.y io,uSS,000 bales, the smallest rro'a since 1903. Immediately there was a tremendous rush of buying or ders. Orders poured in from the world over, and prices jumped from 2ii to 30 points in the first transac tions. 1 act trn rips made iust before there- port was announced were on the ba- cic rr i tor May. ine next suites were made at 15.70, an advance of 51 n hni This was toiiowea oy tr mejidous trading both ways and by rapid fluctuations. A break to ls.bo fnii.iwpd then came the rise to 15.80. July cotton fluctuated along the same lines, while March reached 15.bU as its high point, and closed at lo.40. The government estimate is auoui wi win hales below the predictions ol the most saneuine of tne bulls" and the action of the market naturally folowed. Sixteen-cent cotton, so niucn talked about, was not realized, but the market came near it. it nmv remains to be determineu whether the federal estimators have mjj-jstimatpfl th vield. as nas hppn the case for the past ten years During that time the crop nas oeen linker-estimated eacn year ac irom 500,000 to 600,000 bales. n.vu nrleans. La. Following me posting of the cotton crop report es timate of 10,088,000 bales on the cot ton PYrhanee. the future market iook 3 inmn which ransred from 25 to 40 points. May cotton went to 16 cents, establishing a new nign recoru ior the season. The estimate was aDoui. 200.000 bales below the predictions or the most sanguine bulls. ' Antipinntitifr a hullisn estimate, the trade started tne market toward high ler levels several years ago, and tht THav ontion sold at lo.o4, tour points above the previous high price. Yet it was even then far below the level which had been accorded it, when it broke all records for the season Dy koine to ifi cents. A majority of tne Lwratnrs hail been trading on tne be- jlief ttat the estimate would be be tween 10,300,000 and 10,000,000 bales IwhPn nn Pstir.iaT.a of 10.088,000 was tut out. a small panic ensued, and Ine market went up with a jump. CALHOUN IS STATUARY HALL Statue of Statesman Rests on South Carolina Granite Pedestal. Washington, D. C With his hand bn the federal constitution, typifying, Sn a general way, the patriotic prin ciples of the constitution, state s ights and union, John C. Calhoun, he southern statesman of ante-bellum ays, was swung into line in the stat- ary hall of the capitol. His statue fcch rests upon a pedestal of boutti arolina granite, has iust come from toly and probably will be dedicEtteu any in January. LGXfi LUST POiTAL CARD. p.-d V.ai'.cd Fittsen Years AG Just Delivered. jailed fifteen years ago to W. -VI. prowaer, then state senator and ce- DVerf'd nnTir Lift Tnc;-o VV h Browder, who is not the man, ha.- I an owner. Vv . M. Erowder or 2-esseci, has claimed it. Where the was al these ysars is ,a mys eiy to the pcstolTice authorities. ZELAYA READY TO QUIT. Says Nicareguan Administration Has Been Unjustly Condemned. Managua, Nicaragua. "The United States unjustly condemns my admin istration," said President Zelaya in an interview with a staff correspond ent of the Associated Press. "I pio posed to Secretary of State Knox that he submit the case to the investiga tion of a committee of his own choos ing, agreeing to surrender my rights to the presidency if the charges, in hsi letter to lsidoro Hezera, tormer Nicaragua minister to the ynited States, were sustained. Secretary Knox has not replied. "Defenseless against the hostility of a powerful nation, I must submit, al though 1 have been condemned un heard. "The hostility of the United States' continued President Zelaya, "is due to the machinations of Senor Cabrera, president of Guatemala, whom I re fusiSd, in 1S06, to join in an offensive and defensive alliance of Central America against Mexico and thereby thwarted his efforts to establish a virtual dictatorship in Central Ameri ca. Since then Cabrera has pursued me with relentless enmity, poisoning the public mind against me. "While I am ready to surrender the presidency," continued President Zt laya, "I cannot do it precipitately, as it would result in uprisings by sev eral factions, each or whicu is eager to secure power. "I am in negotiation with the rev olutionists to secure ; their endorse ment to a successor who will be ac ceptable to all parties, and nave sub mitted, the name of Jose Madriz, judge of the Cartage court." RED CROSS STAMPS TKOUBLESQHE. Thousands of People Seem to Think They Are Postage Stamps. Washington, D. C. Thousand's of letters bearing the Red Cross stamps are being sent to the dead letter' of fice or held at postoffices lor postage Not ivithstanding the plain instructions issued in connection with the sale of Red Cross stamps, quite a number of letters are being mailed bearing these stamps in lieu of regular postage. Red Cross stamps are not postage stamps and letters or others mailable matter, , bearing these stamps alone must be treated as unpaid matter. The addressee is notined to remit postage, and if it be not received, the letter or other mail matter, is sent to the dead letter office. Matter bearing Red Cross stamps is not admitted to the mails of Great Britain, even though the regular post age is attached and is admitted to the German mails only when the Red Cross stamps are attached to the back of the letter or parcel. Prominent among those who so dec orate their Christmas mail is the president. - All the white house mail carries the Red Cross stamps. TRY TO DISCREDIT COOK Affidavits Presented to Show That Polefinder Is a Faker. COOK'S RECORDS WERE FIXED According to New York Times, Dr. Cook Paid $4,000 for Records to Fool the University of Copenhagen. New York City. The Times prints sworn affidavits, signed by August V. Loose, a pilot and navigator, and Geo. H. Dr-kle, an insurance broker, thac Dr. Cook promised them $4,000 for their aid in preparing the polar rec ords of his journey, which are now in the hands of the University of Copenhagen. The , Times also reproduces what purports to be the fac-simile of a penciled memorandum directing the preparation of observations all the way from Svardevaag to the pole. They freely acknowledge that their motive In making these affidavits is the alleged failure to pay them the full sums said to have been promised. The Times further adds tnat it is Impossible as yet to say that the ob servaiions calculated . by Captain Loose and which he alleges he sup plied to Dr. Cook, are those actually delivered by his secretary, Mr. Lon3 dale, to the University of Ponpnna- gen. ' To establish this Doint it would be necessary to compare Captain lAJosea narrative wita the report re ceived by the university. Copenhagen, Denmark. Dr. Freder ick A. Cook's data relating to his arc tic expedition and alleged discovers' of the north pole, arrived here. Wal ter Lonnsdale, who brought the data from .New York, deposited the docu ments in- the Danish Agricultural "bank, where they will remain until the uiivfirsity is prepared to review i. ft 's. mem. A PERSISTENT lA.NDluATE. Man Will Run for Congress Every 2 Years Till Elected. Danville, Ky. Fontaine Fox Bab bitt, known as the "Cicero of the Mountains," announced his candidacy for congress in a unique message, in which he said: "I can wait a long time yet, but I shall certainly run ever two years un til I am elected. I ran 10 years for representative and got stronger and it took more money and a better man to beat me until I went in with a majority. Like old Antheas, anybody could throw him the first fall, but every time he touched the ground he arose stronger until he burst the gizzard out of his antagonist." Wds BELWili 0 XilAS PaRCELS. "ot to Ee Opened Until Christmas" uniy en the First Class Mattsr. -1 by the Clf.smrip-itinn rnmmittftp 3 postorlice dinar intent that the not to be opened until Christ- r40 Gay." or similar- inopintinn m:u Written r.nlv (.n snr-h nnrfpla f'S PsSc at first class rates. The Images tii at arc maiied at thiru or four class rates may tear nrnie ir,: eriItion, provided that it. Printed ov :t;-iiTc,l n-n them WVir.li rfd cJiiiiiunicaticn from the 'f tiiv addressee, thus inakirs " -'-ts:' K .:i..;ect to first class rate. 258 Years Prison Sentence. Mobile. Ala. Ninetv-nine year sen- tenpes each were imDOSed on Ran- son DeLoach and Walter Scott, con victed of robbine citizens here last summer. They had already been sent up for thirty-five and twenty-nve vears resDectively. and they now are under sentence to one hundred ami thirty-four and one hundred and twpntv.fmir vears. a total of two hun dred and fifty-eight years behind walls. When sentence had been pass ed they went back to the cells singing. 76,272 Voted Against Prohibition. Montacmery. Ala. The vote on the nronr.sed Drohibition amendment to the state constitution taken November 5q and counted by the secretary ot state and private secretary to the gov ernnr. shows that 9.093 votes were cast for it, 76,272 against it, the to tal being 123,365, the majority in the negative 27,179. Money L'emocratic Leader. Washington, D. C. In caucus the democrats elected Senator H. D. Money of Mississippi as minority lead er of the senate to succeed Senator Culberson of Texas. Senator Culber son resigned cn account of ill health. 3 AiT HARBORS G0fI3RE33. 5l"t;ons Adopted and Officers Were; Warh;.4 Elected. cl congress from L.ou: ' ''.ctJ president of the io ;md Harbors Con- :hL resolutions the coa- feir t ior a new aeuaii- bro " 1:10 treatment of waterways un iuaons for the Rneedv romnl3- rlructioterway pro3ects now ullcleir Eattlesliips CoIl:d3. Washington, D. C The battleships Georgia and Nebraska collided while engaged in tactical exercises of the Virginia capes. The effects of the col lision were not serious, and the two ships were able to return to Hamp ton Roads. Rivets in the two vessels were .strained. . CftaltanGoga in Scutiism Lssgac. Ciiattancogs, Tcnn. President O. 13. Andrews of tho Chattanooga Baseball Club received, the Southern" .League franchise purchased rrom Little Rock. Tho iranchiso includes the piayers' contracts. This transaction winds up the deal, and Chattanooga is now a lr ember cf the Southern League To Teach Women To Sew. Washington, D. C "There is just as much need that a woman should bo taught how to Cook and sew, make her ov.rn hats and darn her husbands ! socks, if she has a husband, or ex- j pects to get one, as tnere is to teacn a man how to farm," said Senator Smoot. He then announced that he would Introduce a bill making appropria tions of $10,000 each to agricultural colleges, which funds are to . be used in teaching domestic science. ENliLAfiiU rAbtS IttlalS. Bitter Struggle begins in Referendum on British Budget. London, .England. upland toUay stands face to iace wiui the gravest political crisis in its history since 1832, as a result of the rejection of the budget by tne house cf lords, but the outcome of the present one prom ises to have more far-reaching ef fects than its predecessor. In that year the struggle between the two bodies of the .English parlia ment arose over the reforvi bill, which, the lords rejected. New elec tions followed, together with the for mation of a new cabinet, but the struggle still continued, resulting in the second resignation of the minis try. A new cabinet was again formed and with the threat of increasing the numbers In the cabinet, the lords were frightened into withdrawing ter of 1832 received the royal assent In the minds of well-informed statesmen, however, the action of the house of lords in the present crisis has sounded their death knell as a law-making body, and the ultimate result will mean, it is believed, the elimination of that body from parlia ment at least in its present form. In all quarters, the present crisis is regarded as the gravest that the nation has faced in a century,' and one that is likely to result in a radi cal change in the ( British constitu tion. TOBACCO CROP SOLD. Immense Sum Paid Tobacco Pool for Crop. Lexington, Ky. It was announced at the headquarters of the Burley To that, a syndicate of New York capitalists had made an offer for the izu,uuu,uuu yuuuus w tobacco in the pool of 1909. Henderson, Ky. The balance of the 1909 crop of dark tobacco consisting of a million or more pounds was sold by the Stemming Association to vv. G. Head & Son at 7 cents average. This completes the sale of the 23.- nnn nrrn nmmrift of the 1909 crOD Of pooled tobacco in the counties of Webster, Henderson, uuiuu, iitteu den and Hopkins. MARATHON WALTTsTOPPED. 53 Dancing Couples Are Forced to Stop by Police. Butte, Montana. After dancing con tinuously for fourteen hours and for ty-one minutes without' nourishment of any kind, three of the 53 couples in a "Marathon" waltz contest were stopped by officers. Six of the girl contestants had been taken to a hos pital, one suffering from a ruptured blood vessel, and another having been stricken with muscular trouble. Some of- the other girls were exhausted. The surviving' couples will be awarded prizes. These are gold watch es for the men and diamond rings for the girls. NO POLITICS IN CENSUS, That Fact Will Ee impressed on Offi cials by Director Durand. Washington, D. C. For the purpose of impressing upon the 330 census supervisors President Taft's desire for a non-political, accurate and eco nomical csnsus, Director Durand has arranged icr a series of conferences with them. The first, for- the super visors in eastern states, including Vir ginia and North Carolina, will bo held in this city. Conferences also wil be held at Chicago, December 13, at Cincinnati December ,15, at New Orleans, De cember 17 and 18, and at Atlanta, December 20, at which the cupcrvis- ALABAMA mU IMTiXiCATED. The Rev. J. T. Wlanc.ium Admits the Charge ts -Conference. Montgomery,' Ala. Tho suspension cf Rev. J. T. Man chum, v.-ho confess ed to drunkenness, was the sensation of 1ie Methodist conference at Ope lika. 'His suspension will run three months, from December 9, after whicn he wif be reinstated. Prior to this action he had teen suspended for some weeks by action of a pastors' committee of th 2 Alabama Methodist conference. j V FINANCIAL RESOURCES OF U. S. Monetary Commission Is Preparing an Exhaustive Report. Washington, D. C. The monetary commission, of which Senator Aldrich otRhode Island is chairman, is pre pai$ng an exhaustive report of its in vestigations into the financial re sources of the country. Its compila tion is. designed to show the exact condition of banks , at the close of business on April 28, 1909. Practically every incorporated bank in the country furnished the commis sion a report for its investigation and a large number of private institutions also provide data. The compilation comprises the most complete and com prehensive information relating to banks in th'e United States ever print ed. The banks reporting incluae 6, 839 national banks, 11,319 state banks, 1,703 mutual and stock savings,. 1,497 private banks and 1,0.79 loan and trust companies. The total resources of all these institutions are more than 21 .billions of dollars. A brief analysis of the resources and liabilities shows loans of $11,373, 000,000; investments in bonds, etc., $4,614,000,000; due from banks, $2, 562.000,000; cash on hand, . including $509,000,000 in gold coin and certifi cates amounting to $1,452,000,000; capital, $1,800,000,000; surplus and profits, $1,835,000,000; due to banks, $2,4S4,000,000; deposits $14,106,000, 000, including , government deposits and other liabilities of $870,000,000. Of the deposits $6,956,000,000 are savings deDosits. Sl.2L2.ooO.OoO are on time and $625,000,000 consist of de mand certificates. The total deposits in these banks on or about June 30, 1909, were $13, 595,000,000 credited to over 25,000,000 depositors, ranging from $1 upward. Nearly fifteen million depooitors held savings 6r time accounts, 'liie aver age rate of interest paid on bav.s accounts is 3.55 per cent and 3.10 on oilier savings accounts. Over 40 per cent of the banks pay no interest on ordinary deposits. The number of banks has more tnan dou bled since 190t D. A. R. TREASURY ROBBED. Woman's Peculations Discovered by Postofhce Inspectors. Washington, D. C. Defalcations amounting to several thousand col lars from the Daughters of the Amer ican Revolution by a clerk employed in the national headquarters of the society here, were made known. The officers of the society have decided not to prosecute the woman who con fessed to the peculations, which cover a period of at least three years. She, however, was dismissed. Postoflice inspectors, by keeping watch on the society headquarters' of fice from a building across the street, detected the woman throwing away an envelope, accused her of having taken money therefrom,- and brought her to confess her fault. The suspl. cions of officers of the society were aroused by complaints received, al though they said it was evident that many complaints had been intercept, ed and destroyed by the woman. What has become of the money, ia a matter which is puzzling the so. ciety's officers. The woman who con fessed the embezzlement was possess, ed of an income sufficient to make her independent, it is said, aside from an ample salary she drew from the office. She lived quietly and without any outward display of even such lux ury as she could afford with her sal ary and Income. LAKE STEAMER BURNS Freighter Clarion Was Destroyed In Lake Erie. CREW ARE ADRIFT IN BOAT Three Steamers Missing and a Number of Men Were Drowned as Result of Fierce Gale on the Great Lakes. GOVERNMENT CHEATED FOR YEARS. Underweighing Sugar Seems to Be an Ancient Art. New York City. Underweighing su gar and cheating the government out of duty is not a new art, according to the testimony introduced in the case of six former employees of the sugar refining company. James Con ly, a former customs weigher, test!, fled that although he had apprised his superiors of the existence of fraud more than ten years ago, nothing was done to punish the guilty persons. , Bailey's Comet Can Be Seen. Washington, D. C. Announcement was made at the United States naval observatory, that Halley's famous comet, which is approaching the earth with terrific rapidity, can now be seen with ordinary telescopes. It bears directly southwest from Wash ington. The comet will not be visi ble to the naked eye until the first week in March. Newsy Paragraphs. The scout cruiser Salem, which. with the Cruiser Birmingham, U equipped with the most elaborate wireless outfit ever placed aboard an American war vessel, sailed from Boston, Mass., on a cruise through tropical seas and Arctic ice floes for a thorough test ,of wireless telegra phy under all conditions. The Bir mingham is expected to follow soon. The Illinois association opposed to woman suffrage, of which Mrs. C. R. Corbin is president, has issued a bul letin with its caption, "The Campaign Noise." "In some " states, including Illinois," it reads, "the property rights of women are actually supe rior to those of men. Women all over the country are asking with some ap prehension, Is the twentieth century to be an epoch of demoralized man and denatured women? When the suf fragettes forsake sound argument and betake themselves to a campaign , of spectacular demonstration, do they not lay themselves open to the charge of being allied with the elements of decadence and misrule, rather than those of good sense and sound government." Professor Percival' Lowell of the Flag Staff (Ariz.) Observatory, says that the two new canals on Mary were first observed on September 29 and 30, and are now the most con spicuous canals in the part of the planet where they are located. As seen through the big telescope; they are fine, perfectly regular lines and were never seen before. -This is shown by photos taken In former years. These two canals are not sim ply due to seasonable manifestations, as is the case with- some of the Mai- tion canals, ' Cleveland, Ohio. Information re ceived here stated that the vessel that burned .off Southeast shoal in Lake Erie was the freighter Clarion of the Anchor Line. The first mate and one of the crew perished, while the captain and eleven of the crew are adrift somewhere on the lake iu a steel lifeboat. They have not been heard from since leaving the ship. One of the victims froze to death and another was drowned. Six men were taken off the burning boat by the steamer L. C. Hanna, bound for Buffalo. It is feared that some of the thirteen men adrift in the , liteooai will succumb to the cold. The survivors on the Hanna were brought here. According to their story all attempted to leave the Clar ion as soon as they realized she could not be saved. Captain E. J. Bell ot Ogdensburg, N. Y., and 12 other mem bers of the crew took to the lifeboat. They left without food and shelter, it is feared that they may starve, freeze to death or drown. , The mate was frozen to death, hav ing been overcome by smoke and ex posed to the weather too long before being discovered. An effort was made by the survivors to enter another life boat, but it eluded them. One sailor fell overboard and was drowned in his efforts to save the lifeboat. The six remaining men were forced to re main on the Clarion until" picked up by the steamer L. C. Hanna ana brought here. The cause of the lire is not known. Buffalo, N. Y. It is now "believed that eight lives were lost when the freighter W. C- Richardson foundered near here. -Five of the crew were re ported drowned and later it was learn ed that three more are either dead or adrift in Lake Erie In a yawL Detroit, Mich. All hope that the car ferry Marquett and Bessemer No. 2 outlived the wintry gale which has made of Lake Erie a watery grave yard during the last seventy-two hours, has been practically abandoned at the head offices at Walkersville, Ont., of the Marquette and Bessemer Docks and Navigation Company, own ers of the ill-fated vessel. It is be lieved that Captain R. R. McLeod of Conneaut, Ohio, and his crew of 31 men have gone down to death with the big steamer. TROUBLE OVER ILL'S STATU E. Northern Orders Do Not Want Gen. Lee in Hall of Fame. Washington, D. C. As a part of the fight being made against the accept ance by the government of the statue of Robert E. Lee as a permanent ad dition to the Hall of fame in tne capitol building, the vice president laid before the senate a resolution adopted by the Michigan Commandery of the Loyal Legion on November . This resolution characterizes as an insult to the nation the suggestion that if the state of General Lee, in a confederate uniform, be rejected by congress, Virginia will withdraw the bronze statue of George Washington, which accompanies it. LATE MS NOTES. General. Myra McHenry, who has frequent ly been arrested for chopping up sa loons with her hatchet, has left Wich ita, Kan., for Washington, D. . C. where she says she will keep tab on congress this winter. When the city officials of Wichita learned that she wanted to go east they took up a col lection to defray her expenses. What is believed to have been the first presidential mansion in the Unit ed States is being torn down in New York city to make way for a struc ture paying larger revenues. It was known as the old Van Altren house, and stood under one of the immense arches of the Brooklyn bridge on Cherry Hill. It was to thi3 house that PrPSirfOTtt WflohUortnn ff.noil J after taking the. oath of office, and tnere ne resided from April 23, 1789, to February 23, 1790. The final appraisal of the estate of the late E. H. Harriman fixes the to tal at $149,000,000. His widow, there fore, becomes the richest woman in the World. Professor Robert J. Sprague of tho University of Maine in an address before the Women's Literary union, said; "Divorce is not an evil. It is rather a patent medicine, taken to relieve the ills of the family. The only remedy lor divorce will be found in a co-operative working by the fam ily and in a spiritual rather than an economic upiom. The zenith of indi vidualism has been reached. Woman has become a household pet. Man builds her an elegant home and puts her in it. From then on man and woman cease to be partners. ' The North Carolina board of agri culture has passed a regulation hav ing for its purpose tne . keeping oZ the boll weevil oat of this s:aie. The regulation fornius the importation ol cotton seed, cotton seed nulls, looso cotton in any shape and baieu cgtton unless compressed from Arkansas. Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi and Ala bama. Completed statistics of the football season closed on Thanksgiving day give a total of thirty-three ueatns and two hundred and sixteen seriously in jured as the frightful result. Of the killed, twenty-one were high school boys and nine college men. Of the injured one hundred and seventy-one wrere college men and forty school boys. In consequence, university and preparatory school authorities have launched a new movement ior re form in the rules of the. game. uncle m a iio ii i - Corporations Should be Forced to Report. CARRIES NATION WRECKS BAR. Temperance Reformer Again in Trouble in Washington. Washington, D. C Carry Nation succeeded in again getting into the limelight when she entered the bar at the union railroad station, and with a hatchet destroyed all the li quor bottles and expensive paintings in sight. Amid much excitement and after a struggle with the barkeepers and two brawny policemen, she was arrested and taken to the police sta tion, and locked up. liEORGlA MAN BREAKS FAST. Rome Manufacturer Seeks to Stay Dread Disease. Rome, Ga After fasting for twenty-eight days, declaring all the time that he would not allow a morsel of food to" pass his lips, William Tippin, a wealthy manufacturer of Roine, has begun to eat again. He affirmed that this would not happen until God spoke to him and gave him an appe tite, but unknown to him, his family put the aToumen from eggs in the water he drank. When he learned of this deception he declared it was no use to keep on fasting, and began to eat. He is gaining strength, and his physicians hope for his recovery, though he is suffering from tuberculosis. SPONGE IN W0MAN8 BODY. After Operation Surgeons Sewed a Sponge in Woman. Milwaukee, Wis. After suffering four years with a surgeon's sponge sewed up in her body, Mrs. John H. Fertig of this city died. Four years ago Mrs. Fertig was operated upon for a tumor. The physicians forgot to remove a sponge from the wound. Another operation, performed in an effort to find the sponge, failed. One year later portions of the sponge worked out through Mrs.' Fer tig's side. A third operation located the sponge, 'which was found hard ened and imbedded in the woman's abdomen. This operation was fatal. i WOMEN WANT RECOGNITION. No' Uniform Divorce Measure Become Law Until Women Can Vote. - Cincinnati, Ohio. Club women of Cincinnati at a mass meetin'g called upon President Taft to give equal recognition to women as men in the congress on divorce. In a resolution addressed to the president, which was adopted, it was demanded that "no uniform divorce measure shall become a law until wenen can vote for the legislators who are to enact the same." Washington. The marking of the graves of the Confederate dead who died in north ern prisons probably will occupy all of next year, and Secretary of War Dickinson has asked for an exten sion of time for performing this work after-February 26, when the leg islative authority will expire. Gener al. William C. Oates is the commis sioner charged with the duty of marking these graves and Secretary Dickinson says that while General Oates has been dilligently at work. it is still incomplete. He thinks, however, that it can be finished with in the next calendar year. The government of Honduras, ap prehending an armed invasion, has proclaimed martial law throughout the republic. This information reach ed the state department but no indi cation was given as to the source frooi which the invasion was expect ed. The president was called upon by the senate to furnish it information concerning action taken under the treaty of March 1, 1905, for the sup pression of the "white slave" trade. President Taft's speech, delivered at Winona, Minn., during his recent tour, in which he sustained the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill, will be pre sented as a senate document. An or der to this effect' was given by the senatei . The "Thomson meteorite," which fell in McDuffie county, Georgia, near ly twenty years ago, has been receiv ed by the Smithsonian Institution in this city through the courtesy of George H. Plant of Macon,' Ga. A gun is' being designed in the army arsenal for the purpose of shooting drigible balloons and aero planes. The chief of the ordnance in his annual report to the secretary of war submitted outlines of some of the difficulties which the gun must over come. "Dirigible balloons and aero planes move rapidly, change direc tions quickly, alter their elevations at will and are removed from any objects that assist aiming," points out the ordinance chief. Tired of having American naval officers take a back seat at foreign funerals, weddings and other gather ings with an international tinge to them, Rear Admiral Potter, aid of personnel to the secretary of the navy, wants congress to revive the rank of vice admiral. j . ' The rank of rear admiral has been conferred upon A. C. Dillingham and Hugh Osterhaus by the navy depart ment. Rear Admiral Osterhaus has been assigned to the command of the Fourth division of the Atlantic bat tleship fleet. " Merchandise not : exceeding , $10. in value and meeting the postal regula tions as to weight, may now be sent through the mails to and from the ( islands. Heretofore all merchandise had to go by express or freight. Mail order houses of thi3 country and relatives and friends of Philippine employes successfully . peti tioned the treasury department for the waiver of the order denying Phil ippine merchandise the mailing priv ilege. With the message off his hands. President Taft is now attempting to decide that momentous question which has Den before, the American people for "y'ars and y'ars and y'ars" "What is whiskey?" The president was busy with this spirited subject before he tackeled the message. When he came down to the actual work of preparing his first state doc ument of great importance he quit wondering about "What is whiskey" and devoted his time to other thing3. Now, however, Mr. Taft has again taken up the whiskey question. SECRETARY NAGAL'S REPORT. A Federal System of Statutory Pub licity, the Secretary Beliaves, ia the Prime Need -. i! Washington, Special. Legislation to create a department of the govern ment which would do for the whole eountry what the bureau of corpora tions has been doins; in specific in stances, and compel complete pub licity in the management of inter state corporations, is one of the leading recommendations contained in the annual report of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor made public Sunday. Newer, and tighter laws to stamp out the white slave trade, which the secretary says is an or ganized and extensive business,' is the other. The secretary recommends tlvi fur ther development of the bureau of corporations. At the end of this fis cal year, the department still has on hand investigations of the lum ber and steel industries, the Inter national Harvester Company, concen tration of waterpower ownership, transportation by water in the United Stares. It Avas still continuing its investigations of the tobacco indus try, the operation of eotton exchanges and State systems of corporote tax ation. On the subject of government con trol of the fiscal and industrial forces, Secretary Nagel says some terse things and makes some import ant recommendations. The prime need cf two things is emphasized. First, re liable information upon which the government may take legislative and administrative action and second, re liable information in a concise and available form to serve for the basis, of public opinion. The first step to be taken he says is an advanee to ward a complete system for obtaining; and making public this information. The bureau of corporations has de monstrated the value of this beyond doubt, in the limited way which its force and money available would al-law. NINE FROZEN TO DEATH. Fish Boat Commodore Perry Picks. Up Yawl Containing Nina Dead, and Frozen Bodies of the Crew ot the Bessemer and Maranstta Terry No. 2, Which Left Port Tuasday Morning. Erie, Pa., , Special. With her flag at half-mast the State fiisherses boat Commodore commanding, brought to this port late Sunday the dead and frozen bodies of nine of the crew of the Bessemer and Marquette Ferry No. 2, which left Coueaut, O., Tuesday mcruing, carving 32 men arid which probably foundered ia the middle of Lake Erie. For the past 48 hours the Commo dore Perry has been scouring the wa ters of eastern Lake Erie for tho traces of the car ferry but until a tiny ten-man yawl was slighted 13 miles off this port at 11 o'clock Sun day had almost given up hope of be ing able to ever tell a portion of the story of the fate of the big ear ferry. As the Perry came abreast of the drifting and half water-logged yawl the men gathered at the side of the fish boat, saw that they had arived too late. The nine occupants of the boat, which was marked ' Bessemer and Marquette No. 4," were frozen stiff in death. Taking the yawl in tow the Perry made all steam for this port. Eilis Pleads Guilty. Little Ruck, 'Ark., Special. W. V Ellis of Pine Bluff, Arl:., whose trial on a charge of murder in connection with the killing of N. P. Willis of In dianapolis, Ind., resulted in a mis trial, late Saturday afternoon enter ed a plea of guilty of voluntary man slaughter, appealing to the mercy of the court for a minimum prison term. The case was reopened before Judge Lea in circuit court at the instance of the attorneys for Ellis Suss Father-in-Law For $50,030. Charlotte, N. C, Special. Sum monses have been issued by Mr. E. TV Stencrson against his father-in-law, a weathey citizen of Baltimore, Mti, and it fs understood that in the civil suit which will follow in the courts of Mecklenburg the plaintiff will seek damges in the sum of $50,000, alleg ing the alienation of his wife's af fections, she being a daughter of the defendant, Mr. Stenersou has employ ed Mr. T. C. Guthrie, and is deter mined to have his case properly presented to the courts. Sets His Sister on Fire. Luray, Special. Miss Lillie Goehe-. nour, 17-year-old daughter of Mr. Daniel Coehenour, of this county, was horribly burned all over her body Tuesday morning The Gochenour fanv'ly arose early and the young girl was assisting h?r mother in the" preparation of the morning meal. A little brother play fully remarked: "I'll burn you up," and, suiting the action to the word, applied a lighted match to tho lower part of her clothes