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Che Cbatham K.cort H. A. LONDON ZUr AND FHOPFJSTOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: 51 .50 Per Year iW Itrvrlr lirviv STRICTLY IN ADVANCE VOL. XXSAI. PITTSBORO. CHATHAM COUNTY. N. C, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 12. ia.0. NO. 99 SPECIAL MESSAGE TO CONGRESS Zbe Cbatbam "Record. RATES OF ADVERTISH1G: One Square, one insertion $1. One Square, two Insertions.... 1. One Square, one moatli. ....... For Larger Advertise ments Liberal Contracts will be made. President Would Protect Corpor ations from State Interference. MODIFIES TRAFFIC IDEAS Taft Would Prevent National Combines Frcrn Acquiring Stock of Competitors Except by Consent. Washington, D. C. President Taft's special message, dealing with amend ments to the interstate commerce laws, locking to a more effective fed eral supervision of railroads, and con veying his recommendations for the passage of a federal incorporation act, was transmitted to congress and read in the house, the senate not be ing in session. The message followed closely the forecasts that have been made from time to time and in the suggestea legislation as to railroads, embodies ail of tlie suggestions tnat tne presi dent has macie from time to time in his speeches on the subject. Mr. Tait suggests no changes in the Sherman anti-trust law at this time. The anti-trust feature of the message deals soieiy with the sub ject of federal charters. The presi dent thinks that an opportunity should be given the big industrial combinations to bring tneir business once more mto the "zone of lawful ness'" by taking out a federal char ier under certain prescribed condi tions ben'cre it becomes necessary to proceed asainst every great corpora tion about which there is a breadtn cl suspicion. Duty r.nd Purpose. "It is the duty and tne purpose of the executive," say the message, to direct an investigation by the depart ment of justice througii the grand jury or otherwise into tne history, or ganization and purpose of all the in dustrial companies with respect to "rthic.i there is any reasonable ground for suspicion that, they have teen or ganised for a purpose and are con ducting business on a plan which is in violation of the anti-trust law." Such a wholesale investigation and possible prosecution, the president points out, '"would result in serious disturbances and produce a halt in our present prosperity that will cause suffering and strained circumstances among the innocent many for tne faults of the guilty few. "The question which 1 wish in this raessage to bring clearly to the con sideration and discussion of congress iz whether., in order to avoid such a rossible business danger, something cannot be done by whicn these busi ness combinations may bo offered a BAins, without great financial dis turbance, of changing the character, civilization and extent of their busi ness into one within the lines of i:;c law under federal control and supervision, securing compliance with the antit-rust statutes." Conditions Made. The conditions upon which federal charters rre to be eranted under tne president's recommendations axe these: The issue of stock to be an amount equal only to the cash paid in on the stock, or if stock be issued for property, then at a fair valuation, ascertained under approval and super vision of federal author:'.;.' after full and complete disclosure of all the facts appertaining to tLe value ct property and the interest in it of the persons to which tne stock is to be issued. Corporations takiiiK federal char ters are to be prc-it-ited from ac quiring and holding stock in other corporations, except lor special rea sons upon approval by the proper federal authorities. Full reports ol operations are to be. made to the department of comm-rc- and labor at regular intervals. The federal in corporation is to be, voluntary, but tuv president feels that most of the cor porations will be glad of the oppor tunity to reform their business mett Oils if given this opportunity. Other wise the department ot justice will investigate them. Nctnicg in the fed eral charters is to exempt any cor icration from prosecution for viola tions of the anti-trust lv In that portion of his message deal ing with changes of tne interstate commerce laws the president recom mends: Special Court. The establishment of a . United States court of commerce of rive ju(l;es to hear and determine appe-als from the interstate commerce commis sion, the only appeal from this court lying in the United States supreme court. The commission is to be relieved of prosecuting cases in the courts, this duty being placed in the depart ment of justice. Pooling arrangements as to the rate to be allowed under direct su pervision of the commission. ihe chairman to be empowered to pass upon freight classifications. Ihe commission to be empowered to hold up new rates or classifications by railroads until an inquiry can be made as to their ' reasonableness, if found to be unreasonable, the com mission may forbid the increase. Shippers to be given the choice of. established routes on through freight. Prohibits Stock Buying. . From and after the passage of the amendments, it is -provided that no railroad shall acquire any stock or mte,t in a competing line, except that where a road already owns BO per cent or more of the stock of an other road, it may complete the pur chase of all the stock. Also in cases where one road is operating another under a lease of more, than 25 years' duration, it shall have a right to ac quire the demised road. Allowing this acquisition of stock does not exempt any road from prosecution under the anti-trust law. Stock must be issued at par value for money paid in or for properties or services, rates at full value, un der an inquiry by the federal author ity, who shall supervise all stoci d bond issues. HELPlMi THE FARMERS. In Experimentation Government Ex pends Annually ?18,000,OCO. New York City How gratifying it must be to the farmers through the country to know that the United States government is spending in the neighborhood of 18,000,000 every year on experimental work looking toward increasing the yield and ef ficiency of the farms of the .United States. This money is not expended in foolish experiments, but all investi gations are made under the personal supervision of experienced depart mental heads. Secretary Wilson is a practical man and requires results from all lines of investigation Recently a railroad official said the United States government could bet ter afford to invest the cost of one battleship in agricultural experiment al work than to spend it in increasing the navy. A first-class battleship costs about ?y,000,000. Secretary Wilson decided that a statement ought to be issued telling about the great work which his department is doing. Copies of the report can be had by applying to the department ot agriculture of Washington. This re port tells of an . instance where a farmer was raising only twenty bush els of potatoes to an aere, and who dissatisfied, appealed to the agricul tural department for assistance and advice. Both were given and now this farmer is raising fifty bushels ol potatoes to an acre where he former ly could only grow twenty. The de- j partment supplied him with seed and information how to plant the pota toes. This is only given as one ol many illustrations to prove the ef ficient wrork being done. ' SEEKING PARDON FUR MORSE. 1 ! President Taft Will Be Asked to Re lease Banker. Portland, Maine. A campaign to save Chas. W. Morse, the banker now serving 15 years in the Atlanta fed eral prison, was started here, and pe titions to President Taft asking for an unconditional pardon are being cir culated. Tiie petitions declare Morse has paid his debts, that popular de mands influenced his conviction, that he did no intentional wrong, and that his imprisonment while . contesting the case was penalty enough. Richmond, Va. Petitions for an absolute pardon for Charles W. Morse, the New York financier, now serving a sentence of fifteen years in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, for violation of the national banking laws, are being circulated by friends and kinsmen of Morse here. They wero sent by Mrs. Morse and Morse s secretary. Morse's grandmother was Miss Virginia Roberts of Chesterfield county. The petition states that Morse's violation of the law was tech "'cal only. Tali (iolng ta Alaska. Washington, D. C. President Taft is looking forward to a trip to Aiaj to itr hi the. cominir soring. He plans to go to the far northwestern territory immediately alter tne ad journment of congress and before go ing to Beverly for the late summer and fall. liegs Sell for $9. Chicago, III. The 9 hog arrived at the Union tSok Yards here. Ex cept for a short period in 1882 when swine sold at S.'.35 per hundredweignt the $9 ho;, lias not been seen here since the civil war. Intense cold impending and the hesitation of producers to market hogs are the primal causes of the advance. CHICAGO FOOD HiSH. Cold Weather Makes Living Expen sive in Chicago. Chicago, 111. if present climatic conditions continue and prices of food products make many more gains, tne Question of living in Chicago will be a problem to many. Following is a list of commodities tthich have been most affected by cold weather and resulting increases in costs: ork chops, per pound, IS to 20c. Spare ribs, per pound, 15c. Salt pork, per pound, 20 to '22c. Chickens, per pound, 20. to 22c. Kggs, per dO:en, 42 to 48c. Potatoes, per bushel, 80 to I'Oc. Oyster, per gallon, - $1.40 to ?1.G0. War army 10 tni-: r.n tm sacks. Uri.ts Request o. &3n Antonio, Texas. Hereafter ail Ppiics for the subsistence depart !Lr't of llle army, where sacks are J-sed for covering will be wrapped in T-on sacks on the inside; and, n J.'fJs.-:'.Ue, cotton sacks will be usee w outside covering. ine promulgation of this order by c''l.!'ur d&parlm.ont was made at the c:c:-ij(.n cl- Texas farmers, who eu" ;i delegation to , Washington. New Italian Ambassador. Eerne. The Marquis Cusani Con falicneri, who, for three years, has held the post of Italian minister J.Q Switzerland, has been notified of His appointment as ambassador to the United States in succession to Baron Mayer Das Blanches. Census Ruling. Washington, D. C. Census Director Durand has decided to . extend from January 25 to' January 31 the time in which persons desiring places as census enumerators may file their applications on blanks' furnished by the census supervisors. The test ol applicants will bo made on February 5, as previously announced. PINCHOT IS DISMISSED President Removes Head of the Forestry Service. TAFT'S PA1IFMEXHAUSTED Pinchot's Letter to Senator Dolliver Was More Than the President Could Stand. Washington, D. C Gifford Pinchot, chief forester and intimate friend ot Theodore Roosevelt, was dismissed I from the service of the United States by President Taft for insubordination. Associate Forester Overton W. Price and Assistant Law Officer Alexander C. Shaw, Pinchot's immediate assist ants In the forestry bureau, followed their chief out of the government employ. Thoroughly indignant over the ac tion of Mr. Pinchot in inducing Sena tor Dolliver to read a letter from him in the senate, President Taft would listen to no advice that the forester s violation of executive orders be over looked pending the inquiry soon to be undertaken by congress. He de clared the dignity of the office he hac been chosen by the people to fill was being attacked and he would be un faithful to his trust if he submitted longer. Mr. Taft undoubtedly realizes fully what the dismissal of Forcoter Pin chot means in a political way. Hc has been convinced for some time that the so-called "insurgents" and other critics of his administration had enlisted the services of Mr. Pinchot and practically were defying him to separate Mr. Pinchot from nis office. The latter s letter, without doubt, was written with the direct purpose ot "putting it squarely up to the president." The president sought to avoid the threatened war as long as ne could but declared that patience had ceased to be a virtue. In the house of representatives Speaker Cannon lost his first fight to the "insurgents," who. combining with the democrats caused to be adopted an amendment to the Bailin-ger-Pinchot inquiry resolution, so as to take from the speaker the power to appoint the house members of the joint special committee of investiga tion. The margin of victory was a narrow one of three votes, but the insurgents and democrats alike are jubilant. Att. Gen. Wickersham's Report. Washington, D. C The report of Attorney General Wickersham on his investigation or" the charges made by L. R. Glavis against Secretary or the Interior Ballinger was transmit ted to congress by President Taft. The report is a complete exoneration of Mr. Wickersham s fellow cabin member as to the charges from which the Ballinger Pinchot row started, but is chiefly remarkable for its treat ment of Glavis, who is flayed with a severity seldom equaled in public doc uments. ihe report also aims a shaft at Chief Forester Pinchot, the friend and appointee of Theodore Roosevelt, whose intervention in the affair is declared to nave been un necessary. $1,500,CCO,CCO Involved. I Glavis charged that Secretary Bal j linger aided the government's foes in the fight over the Cunningham Alas kan coal claims, which are generally believed to be desired by the Uug genheim interests. It has been estimated that $1,500,- 000,00 is involved by the precedent this case will establish, and the case i. itself. Charges Sensational. The Glavis charges were the most sensational in the shower of accusa tions that nas marked the Ballinger- Pinchot controversy. Glavis wa3 tor merly inspector of the general land office, and chief of the field division. He had in charge the investigation o the Cunningham affair. He was re moved some time ago by Secretar Ballinger. Glavis charged, officially and in in formal statements and writings, that certain influences were at work in an attempt to rush the hearing of th Cunningham claims case, before the government was ready to adequately defend its side. Pinchot Answers Wickersham. Washington, D. C. The Ballinger Pinchot controversy was made doubly Intense by the reading in the senate of a letter addressed by Mr. Pinchot to Senator Dolliver, in which the course was adopted oy L. B. Glavis, with the assistance of Messrs. Pric'o and Shaw, of the bureau of forestry, was warmly approved, in this com munication the chief forester not only upheld the criticism of Secretary Bal linger, but suggested that the presi dent himself had been mistaken in the facts when he removed from the public service Mr. Glavis. In the senate Mr. Pinchot's letter caused a genuine sensation. TO STOP TOBACCO WAR. Night Riders to Feel The Hands of Gov ernment. ' Washington, D. C The govern ment is preparing 'to go after the night riders in the tobacco district of Kentucky and Tennesese by begin ning proceedings against the Burley Tobacco Society. . Convinced that the society is a com bination and a conspiracy in restraint of trade under the Sherman anti-trust law, the department of justice is in vestigating its operations on that ground. Agents have recently been sent to the tobacco-growing regions for the purpose of making inquiry concerning the methods of tne association, ana they have reached the conclusion that the organization is connected witn the depredations of the night riders, who recently have created so much disturbance in tnat section. The Burley Society is a strong or ganization, composed largely of farm ers, and it is believed tnat when ta ken, the government's action will cre ate a sensation. The company, tne members of the society charge, sys tematically depressed tne niarnet for Kentucky and Tennessee tobacco, and kept prices down to tne lowest point. Further justification for the creation of the -society is set forth in the statement tnat the so-called tobacco trust has driven down its price ou raw tobacco, while making no reduc tions in the finished products soid by it and manufactured from the Ken tucky and Tennesee leaf. Lexington, Ky. President Clarence Lebus of tne Burley Tobacco Soci ety refused to discuss the report from Washington that the federal govern ment would prosecute the organiza tion of the toDacco growers as a trust. Other omcials of the society declared tney had nothing to fear from a non-partisan investigation, if conducted on judicial lines. SENSATIONAL ATTACK bN HUGHES. New York Governor Styled Friend of Wail Street. Albany, N. Y. Senator Grady made a sensational attack on Governor Hughes :n the senate following the reading of the governor's message. It was the governor's proposal to penal ize the practice of bookmaking that aroused the ire of the senate minority leader to the point of attack. He de clared that while the governor attack ed the horse owner, the bookmaker and the man placing his bet on a horse race, he had never dared to attack the most monstrous gambling institution there is in the v.-orld, the New York stock exchange, and to the end of his career he will never have the courae to attack it. COTTON PRICE RISES Attempt to Break the Market Proved Disastrous. KILLING THE BOLL WEEVIL Bears Claim That Unprecedented Frost and Cold in South Means Large Crop. Pensions Fcr .gad U. S. CierKs. Washington, D. C. Efforts are to be made by congress to pass a law providing compulsory retirement and permitting a pension for superannuat ed eovernment employees. Secretary MacVeagh has instructed Herbert D. Brown of his department to draw up a olan. The secretary is understood to have the support of President Taft. Mr. Brown's tentative plan, it is said. rnn templates a pension fund that wiii be provided entirely by the working clerks. WOMAN BALKED LYNCHERS. Mrs. Andell Drove Mob Away From Victim. Kenosha, Wis. Mrs. Andell, wife of a boarding house keeper at .Twin Lakes, armed with a shotgun, is re ported to have cowed a mob of men and to have cut the rope with which Sam Roberts, a cook at the ice-cutting camp, had been swung to a raft er in an ice house. She cut down the man just in time to save niru from strangulation, according to the details of the attempted lynching. Roberts, it is reported, was the victim of a fierce controversy between union and non-union ice cutters at Twin Lakes, which resulted in the discharge of a number of union men. "WOMAN RAFFLES" RELEASED. Wife of Millionaire, Convicted of Bur glary, Out of Jail. Chicago, III. Mrs. Evelyn Romadka known in Milwaukee where she was prominent in society as the "'Woman Raffles," and wife of a millionaire Milwaukee manufacturer, was parol ed from the penitentiary at Joliet. The release was a surprise, which was kept .ccret. She was convicted two years TH of stealing ?1,000 worth of jewelry Irom Mrs. Clarence HI. Beck of this city. She expects to be come a nurse. GOhDON TAKES OATH. Micsissippiian Sworn in as United States Senator. Washington, D. C. Occasionally nodding his head in acknowledgement of the admonitions of loyalty to th United States, contained in the oath of office administered to all senators, Colonel James Gordon, ex-confederate leader, who was appointed by Gov ernor Noel as the successor to Sena tor McLaurin of Mississippi, was made a member of the United States senate. to mi mm pole. England P--tises $100,000 of the ?2Cy,000 Needed. Lpndon, tngiand. ine Scott ex pedition in 'search of the South Pole, is now assured, the government hav ing' promised $100,(J0O toward the 52oO,oOO which is the estimated ex pense. . The expedition will set forth in July. Tne activity among the Amer ican arctic explorers proved a con vincing factor w-hich determined the government to assist. Snorter Hours in Cotton Mills. Boston, Mass. Several hundred thousand operatives in mills of Mas sachusetts and Rhode Island are now working on a shorter schedule of hours, in consequence of the new tif-ty-eight-hour laws passed by the two state legislatures becoming effective. While the new statute applies only to women and minors, the manufactur ers find it impossible to separate the departments so that the men can work longer than the women and children. Newsy Paragraphs. Edwad Payson Watson, the veter an pedestrian, announced thsf. he will make- one more transcontinental walk, and that he will go from ocean to ocean, this time within 100 days. Watson will start from Los Angeles at 4 o'clock p. m. February 1, and will be due in 'New York May 28. His hike from New York to San Francisco erly last summer took one hundred and five days, but on that journey he encountered unfa- forable weather. Declaring that he cannot afford "iZ meet every man or woman who de sired to have a public discussion" with him on the subject, Thomas hi. Watson, several times thef populist nominee for president of the United States, in a letter to Atlanta church men declines to accept their chal lenge to meet William T. Ellis, a Philadelphia newspaper man, in joint debate on the subject of foreign mis sions. Mr. Watson, however, says that he will be glad to meet William Jennings Bryan and debate the ques tion with him. In the letter Mr. Wat son declares that his position on the subject is misunderstood. That he is not opposed to the principle of for eign missions in its entirety, but is opposed to the present methods Professor Hergezell, aviator and friend of Zeppelin, who was sent by Emperor William to Jamaica to study trade winds and the temperature ef altitudes in unci near the tropics, re ports that at an altitude of tea thous sand meters he found the air of tne tropics colder than that of the Arc tic regions at the same height. Of nine balloons sent up with instru ments for these tests, four were lost in the Carrifcbean sea. " The professor intimated that, he would make an air test for an expedition to the nortn pole two yeara hence. New York City. The recovery in the cotton market became almost as excited and sensational as the break earlier in the week. Reports of very , strong southern spoc maritets seemed to convince the traders that the collapse in futures had been chiefly the result of specu lative conditions, and claims that the spinners were in the market on the decline tended to restore bullish con fidence. March contracts spld at 15.70 and May at 15.95, representing a recovery of over ?3.25 a bale. New York City. "Cotton has de clined in the last few days," said a large cotton trader here, "because we believe Jack Frost has been and is fighting on the side of a great yield of cotton from the southern states next summer." That was the explanation given of the recent pounding of the cottdn market by a prominent dealer noted for his long vision and clear head. '1 lie theory was discussed on the floor of the exchange and in brokers' of fices and a surprising percentage of well-informed and conservative trad ers hold that it explained the violent fluctuations of the last forty-eight hotys. Talks with a number of reputable and level-headed traders developed an extremely picturesque and unique sto ry in this direction. They point out that nature has both plowed and fertilized the soil of the cotton belt through the two recent un precedented freezes. The first freeze, in December, was unusually early, and made the ground solid for a depth of several inches, and, in the thaw, kneaded and manipulated and ventilated and pulverized it as it has not been in years. Hardly had the first freeze worn off before the present one set in. It has duplicated the process, creasing and wrinkling and furrowing and 'spading" the earth .with a thorough ness not even approached by human means. As a result, the soil of the cotton belt has been revitalized in a manner not approximated since the civil war, and the traders here expect a big yield next summer. Another factor tney reckon is the choking off of the boll weevil, at least minimizing his ravages as well as the destruction or . lessening of other crop pests. They argue, therefore, that nature is working at both ends, and that an enormous crop will not have to deal with the hosts of insect enemies, for which allowance had to be made in tne past. The bear dealers are principally afarid the southern farmers will learn these facts and do some "discount ing'' on their own hook. The bulls, on the other hand, are sending out private letters to their southern connections, urging them to stress these facts upon farmers and farmers' organizations, to the end of holding down the acreage and di versifying, that the blessings, and not the misfortunes, of Jack Frost may be realized. Spinners from America and Europe have been buying heavily, attracted by the slightly lower price, thus prov ing that they realize prices are on a permanently high level, and that the best they can do is to temporally de press the market by speculative flurries. NORLH CAROLINA FUNDS - . Committee Appointed by Legislature Makes Its Report. Raleigh, Special. The committee appointed by the legislature to in spect the books of the State Auditor reports everything in fine shape- and that for the year ended December 1, last, the receipts of the educa tional f und' were $78,602, and dis-' bursements $68,299. There was a year ago the 1st of last December a balance of the general fund of $508,435, and the receipts up to the 1st of last December were $3,139, 9G7. Heavy appropriations by the last Legislature cut down the bal ance so that after the disbursements amounting to $3,594,548, the balance on hand December 1 was only $52, 195. Among the chief disburse ments were the following: Repaying $250,000 borrowed for use of the State hospital commission for the erection of buildings, etc.; $05,000 to the deaf mute school at Morganton; $80,0GO for the schools for blind and deafmutes at Raleigh; $115,000 for the hospital at Raleigh; $175,000 for that at Morganton; $80,000 for that at Goldsboro; $88,000 for the Agri- eultrure and" Mechanical College; $101,000 for the university; $101, 000 for the Normal and' industrial College For Women; $15,000 for the negro A. and M: College; $14,000 for the Appalachian training school at Boone; $14,000 fcr that at Cul lowhee; $63,000 to the Eastern train ing school at Greenville; $20,000 for the Stonewall Jackson training school for boys; $22,500 for the san 'iirium for tuberculous patients; $15,000 for the orphanages at Qx ford; $20,000 for the negro normal school. Other features of the disburse ments were $300,000 tor interest charges, including 6 per cent bonds, 4 per cent bonds and penitentiary : farm and debt bonds (of these bonds the State buying m during the year $ 110,000 of debt bonds and $61,000 of farm bonds) ; national guard $27,- '000; for totally disabled soldiers, if 13,00; dangerous insane, $5,000; in-' isurance on State property, $10,000; 1 public printing, '$41000; for the (Legislature, $75,000; for salaries of judges and solicitors, $90,000; high schools in country districts, $50,000; ipublie printing, $41,000; public schools and rural libraries for the same, $200,000. j Then as to the various depart- ments of the government there was ' paid out these sums, in round num jbers: Auditor's department, $6,700; j Insurance, $9.500 ; Treasurer, $9, 300 ; librarian, $3,000 ; geologist, $13, 1 750 ; State Department, $10,000; his torical commission, $5,000; Corpora j tion Commission, $20,000 ; Executive 1 department, $6,900 ; Department of I Labor, $4,150. Such an expenditure 1 as $18,000 for reprinting old Su s preme Court reports need not be mciuueu, ass ims is a revenue pro ducer, the volumes being sold at a profit. POSTAL REVENUES GROW Pirst Assistant Postmaster Gexural Deals in Facts and Figures Washington, Special. As a busi ness institution tne Postoffice De partment, next to the United States Treasury, is the greatest in the government. According to fignres submitted by Charles P. Gradfield, First Assistant Postmaster General, for the fiscal yea rended June 30, 1909, made public in his annual re port, the gross revenue of the pos tal service I'eached the enormous total of $203,562,383, an increase of $12,083,720, or 6.31 per cent, over the preceding year. Theer were 7,202 presidential postoffices on July 1, 1909. Of this number 398 were first class, an increase of 14; 1,707 weer second class, an increase of 112; and 5,C97 weer third class, an in crease of 230. The total increase in the number of presidential offices was 356. There were 1,444 post offices established during the year and 2,004 were discontinued, leaving a total of 60,144 postoffices in oper ation on June 30, 1909. During the year 1,626 postmasters weer appoint ed at presidential. offices. At fourth class offices 9,1 51 postmasters weer appointed. The report recommends an amend metn to the law whereby fourth class offices may be advanced when the receipts of the office qualfy it; vages of the clerical and carrier force should be increased in first and second class offices. Nearly half the offices of presidential class are housed in leased quarters. Petitions For Morse Pardon. Portland, Me., Special. Peti- tions addressed to Prseident Taft asking for thfl absolute pardon of Charles W. Morse are m circulation heic. The peti- tions set forth that he did no intentional wrong, that he has " repaid his debts; that his jury was largely influenced by popu-, lar clamor and that, even though guilty, Mores has paid the pen- " alty by his imprisonment while awaiting the outcome of the case. DENIES CHARGE OF MADRIZ. PREDICTS BREAU REVOLUTION. Alabama Preacher Says Pfrople Will Fight the Rich Men. Anniston, Ala. "The revolution of the twentieth century will be one of bread," said Dr. J. W. Stagg, presi dent of the Alabama Presbyterian College and renowned scholar. "Dur ing the French revolution the people cried for bread, and the king answer ed: 'Let them eat grass,' and later grass was stuffed down the throat of his skeleton. "Rockefeller, Morgan and others of the same ilk, make virtually the same answer to the cries of the unemployed today, 'ine average man to capital, but 100 per cent, is too much, and the people will rebel. The bread cry, nrhiih n fw vfiars aero, was the Dlain- tlve appeal, is growing into a serious j rumble, and unless tne impending death struggle is solved oy an exo dus from city to country. 1 fear a revolution within the next few years." iBig Traction Company For Charlotte Charlotte, Special. A domestica tion cetrificate has been issued to the Charlotte Traction Co. W. S. Lee is president. It was chartered in 1908 in New Jersey, with $300,' D00 capital authorized, to operate street ears and general electric pur poses. Also a charter is' granted a Giastonia company to operate street ;ars. The Gastonia company is now it work on the line between there and Mt. Holly. TruckeM Getting Ready. Elizabeth City, Special. The im aiensity of the trucking interest in ibis section was given great empha sis here when one farmer in Curri tuck county, bought, two miles of ;otton sheeting for plant bed cov r. The truckers are now busy pre paring for the coming season.' Zelaya Defends Self in Case of Groce and Cannon. Mexico City, Special. As justifi cation of his refusal to pardon Can on and Groce and in support of a denial which he made last Saturday of irregularity, Jose Santos Zelaya exhibited for the first time telegrams which he claimed to have received from the American victims of Nica ragua's martial law. Zlaya uttered his denial in reply to charges made by President Mad riz of Nicaragua, that the executions of Groce and Cannon were illegal and that the United States govern ment was justified in its resentment over this action. Agree on Arbitration. Chicago, Special. Members of the switchment's union representing the western railroads have agreed with the general managers' association to submit their requests for advanced wages, and change in hours to arbi tration under the Erdman law. The switchmen asked for arbitration. Will Meet June 15th. ' Wilmington, Special. The North Carolina Medical Socity meets at Wrightsville Beach, June 15th. Notorious Blockador Captured. Raleigh, Special. Eban Cagle, the most notorious blockader in this State, has been captured in Mont gomery county. He has for many pears defied the authorities. CONGRESSMAN PRISES DEAD. Georgia Congressman Dies Suddenly of Apoplexy. i Dawson, Ga. Congressman James M. Griggs died suddenly in bed, while apparently convalescing from a sup posed slight attack , of heart trouble. James Mathews Griggs was born at LaGrange, Ga., on March 29, 1861, and was educated in the common schools of Georgia and at the Pea body College at Nashville, Tenn., from which institution he was graduated in May, 1881. After graduation he studied law. He was elected to con gress in 1S96 and has been serving continually since that time. There was no more popular member of the house than Judge Griggs. PANAMA CANAL WORK PRAISED. Senators Say System of Administra tion is Excellent. Washington, ' D. C " Construction work on the Panama canal is not only proceeding splendidly, but the system of administration is excellent, in spite of the criticism directed to it. This is the consensus of opinion of the senatorial committee which re turned to Washington, after a visit of inspection to the canal. In the party were Senators Oliver, Penrose, Car ter, Dixon, Heyburn and Clark. Rural Letter Carriers. Charlotte, Special. The N. C. Rural Letter Carriers' Association iolds its annual meeting this year, July 4-5, at Raleigh. Meeting With Success. Fayetteville, Special. Capt. J. D. McNeill, president of the North Car jlina Firemen's Association, is meet ing with much success in organizing 1 fire insurance company, the con trolling stock to be held by members sf the North Carolina Firemen's Asociation. Five Burn to Death in House. Burnside, Ky., Special. Mrs. Martha Corder, her daughter, Mrs. James Kidd, and three small chil dren were burned to death in a fire which destroyed Kidd's house at Plavens, Wayne county. Two Yeggmen Are Killed. , Tallahassee, Fla., Special. In a struggle with two safe blowers, Paul Sauls, 17 years old, son of J. M. Sauls, the night "watchman at the postoffice building, shot arid killed them both in the basement of the building. The boy was only slightly wounded. The two cracksmen were White. Plot on Zelaya's Life. Mexico City, Special. Jose Santos Zelaya has been warned by officials here that the police authorities are in receipt of secret information that two Salvadoreans and an American are in Mexico City and are only awaiting a favorable opportunity to take his life. Heavy Cost of Canal. New York, Special. "I believe it will cost $500,000,000 to complete the Panama Canal and that will amount to $5.00 a head for every man, wo man and child in the United States," said Mr. Langley, of -Kentucky, , re turning from the Isthmus. Coal Rates deduced. Raleigh, cpccial. An order of the Corporation Commission, effective at ance, reduces freight rates on car load shipments of coal with the State 33 1-4 per cent. Tar Drippings. ' The sales of leaf tobacco on the Gcors of the Wilson warehouses for the month of December were 968, 282 pounds, which brought $181, D23.62, or an average of $9.19 per hundred pounds.'' The total sales for the season, to date amount to 15,332,718 pounds, which brought the enormous sum of $1,303,143.50. The North Carolina State Beard Df Examiners in Optometry will meet in Raleigh, Wednesday, Jan uary 19th. Lad Coughs and Cure Himself of Ap pendicitis in Nick of Time. Pittsburg, Special. Surgeons at Kittanning, Pa., had placed Norman Barnett, the little son of George Barnett, on the operating table to ent out his appendix, but just as the' knife was ready the lad was seized with a fit of coughing which cured him. He emitted a needle, which is believed to have caused his illness. Students Have Hookworm. New Orleans, Special. Consterna tion prevails among the 100 or more students of Tulane College following the examination of every student for hookworm. It is announced that more than a third of the juior class were found to be infected with the parasite. Practically all the stu dents said to be thus afflicted are ap parently robust specimens of manhood.