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Ja. LONDON jrlij rt-' a JMS GF SUBSCRIPTION: 51 50 Per Year STRICTLY IN ADVANCE VOL. XXXII. PITTSBORO. CHATHAM COUNTY. . C, WEDNESDAY, JULY 6. 1910. Zbe Cbatbam tfocorb. RATES OF ADVERTISIHG: One Square, oa Insertion One Square, two Insert too;!.... One Square, ese eaoatlu..... For Larger Advertise mcnts Liberal Contracts will be made. SKSUS SHOWS INCREASE 1 SO yTifSJPO PU LATI ON fcc&uing Missouri and Oklahoma Gain Is 21 Per Cent. 32,115,237 PEOPLE IN THE SOUTH Scutisr- Ccnercial Congress Makes Predic ted Basing Figures Up on Provisional Es timates of the Census Bureau. Washington. D. C. That tiie cen-c-ia of liH-' w ill show the southern ups, including Missouri and Okla-ioc--' t0 h?ve niade a gain in pop ulation of 21 per cent since 1900 is climate of the southern com "ercial congress. The congress es tTiiuue? that population to be 32,415,--'yi. The gain of other states of the union curing the same period is esti mated ty the congress to have been T :-. per cent. Tr.t nve states of the south "which cave r.ade the greatest gain in , pop ulation, according to the estimate, are Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Georgia nd Alabama. Oklahoma is sa!d to tave gained 1,250,000. The figures we:- cased "upon provisional esti mates of the census bureau. eeaTkills scores. Temperature of 105 Degrees Recorded in Several Northern Cities Chicago, III., Four deaths and rc:c that a score of prostrations from tea: occurred here. The temperature was i3 degrees. Pittsburg, Pa., Ninety-three de grees at the weather bureau on the top c: a skyscraper was the official temperature, with 101 registered on the streets. An abnormally high hu-T-;,:;rv r?'ispri intensA sr.ff erinsr and four deaths directly due to heat are -trcrted. Prostrations reported to taled more than a score. New York City There were many deaths from the heat in Greater New York, and countless prostrations. The maximum temperature was 86. Milwaukee, Wis. One dead and six jrostrated was the toll of the heat wave in Milwaukee. The maximum temperature was &2. Detroit, Mich One death and four prostrations resulted from the heat in Detroit. The weather bureaus re ported a temperature of 96 degrees, but the government thermometer in the street level Kiosk registered 105. Cincinnati, Ohio. Eleven prostra tions were reported here as a result cf a temperature of 93 degrees, ac companied by excessive humidity. Philadelphia, Pa. Six deaths were reported as due to the heat here. .Vinery degrees were registered. GRUESOME WARNING. Biocdy Human Ear Sent as Warning by Strikers Cleveland, Ohio. Wrapped around a tottle of alcohol in which lay a bloody human ear, Harry Coulby, president of the Pittsburge Steamship Company, received a letter here in. which he was threatened with nameless mutila tion and death if he refused to ac cede to the demands of the sailors who have been on strike for two years. Tae man to whom the ear belonged has already been identified as Edward Frazier, a non-union sailor who was assaulted in Buffalo, New York, re cently. After the assault his ear was severed from his head by his assail ants. The man was picked up several hours later by the police. He was in a dying condition from loss of blood. Across his chest there was pinned a sheet of paper on which was written "Don't te a scab;" . On receipt of the letter Mr. Coulby turned it, to gether with the bottle and its grue some contents, over to the federal authorities and a search was immed iately commenced through every port on the Great Lakes for the perpetra tors of the outrage. In the letter, which has been made public, it was explicitly stated that teh writers were the same men who had assaulted Frazier. NOlSEi WANTED. Omaha To Have Apartment House for Girls Only. Cmaha, Neb. Every time the sun rises he finds something new. Now women are to have bachelors' halls, just like men. Mrs. Perry 'Watson of New York will erect a building in Omaha sole ly to the housing of bachelor girls. -Men are to be denied the privilege of straying through its portals. Presuming men are betting that it v.iil not be long before the bachelor fcirls convert tome of these rooms into parlors to entertain somebody else's brothers who might later on ask them to display their culinary fcKiil in real kitchens. NEW RAILROAD PLANNED. Railroad May Be Built From Gainesville, Ga. U .Murphy, N. C Gainesville, Ga. Every . indication is that within a short time a party of northern and western capitalists will make large investments in tim ber in northeast Georgia, and per haps build a railroad- north from Gainesville to either Blue Ridge, Ga.v or Murphy, N. C. For quite a year Congressman Thomas M. Bell has been quietly at work to interest some nortnern. and western friends in this section of the state, and he has at last perfected ar rangements for the coming of these men to go over the ground. and see for themselves the attraction offer ed in timber and railroad interests. Some time between July 15 alid August 1, a party consisting of Col onel J. A. Finch, pardon attorney in the department of justice in Washing ton; Congressman William E. Cox, of DuBois county, Indiana, and ) his brother-in-law, Honorable Albert Fenn, the latter named gentleman be ing a multi-millionaire, will arrive here, accompanied by W. A. Winburn, vice president of the Central of Geor gia railway, and make a trip of per sonal inspection through the counties north of Hall , including Lumpkin, White, Habersham,. Dawson, Rabun, Towns and Union. It is Lkely that other capitalists will accompany the above named gen tlemen on the trip. No section is so needful of a rail road to place this timber within reach of the market. The soil in this section is as fertile as can be found in the state, and great progress is already being made along agricultur al lines. To further the development and to make of the mountain coun ties a veritable "garden of Eden" a railroad only is needed. To interest these capitalists in this section means that northeast Georgia will rapidly forge to the very " fore most of Georgia counties. REPORT ON WHITE SLAVERY. Rockefeller Grand Jury Report Dis closes White Slave Conditions. New York City. Judge O'Sullivan filed and made public the long-delayed presentment of the special grand jury of which John D. Rockefel ler, Jr., was foreman, and which had been investigating white slave condi tions in this city since last January. The presentment declares that the jurors were unable to find the evi dence of any incorporated or other wise organized band of white slavers, and also cleared the New York In dependent Benevolent association, which was mentioned in connection with the existing conditions. Moving picture shows are severely censured and strong recommendations are made toward a more rigid enforce ment of the tenement house laws and tor special legislation to make the punishment of slavers more severe. A sensational part of the present ment is the declaration of the jurors that their investigations led them to believe that individual white slavery is on the increase, and recommends that additional legislation be enacted with the object of exterminating this form of vice. Suggestions are also made that laws be more rigidly enforced relating to the safe-guarding of children in reference to Raines law hotels. NOT TO HINDER RAILROADS. New Railroad Rate Law is Not to Be Used Arbitrarily. Beverly, Mai.3. President Taft had 2- long talk with Chairman Knapp of the interstate commerc ecommission, regarding the administration of the new railroad rate lav. At the conclus ion of the interview it was made Main that the added authority given to the commission by the new statute? net to be used arbitrarily or for the purpose of hindering the rail roads in the conduct of their legiti mate business. The power to suspend i-ew rates, probably the most direct weapon placed in the hands of tee commission, is to be used only in ex optional cases. BR. RICHARD J. NUNN DEAD. vas Ex-Co&fecierate and Prominent in Masonic Order. Savannah, Ga Dr. Richard Joseph Nuiin, an eminent physician, and one of the best known Masons in the world, died here at the age of 79. He returned from Europe in 1S76 to ght yellow fever at Savannah. He v'as a captain in the Confederate army (ommanding a Georgia battery. He is a thirty-third degree Mason, and nd a wide reputation in several of the branches of that order. L. & N. Buys Railroad. St. Louis, Mo. A deal by which the Louisville and Nashville railroad is to obtain control and practical own ership of the St. Louis Southeastern, known as the Cotton Belt, which has been pending for ninety days, and is expected to be consummated within the next thirty days, became known here. The control of the Cotton Belt, it is reported, will pass to the Louis ville and Nashville for a cash outlay of a little more than $1,500,000. By the acquisition the Louisville and Nashville will gain a short route to the west and southwest. South Faces Rail Fight. Washington, D. C. The contioversy between southeastern railroads and their conductors and trainmen re mains in an acute stage, and it can not be foretold whether or not the mediation negotiations no win prog ress will result in settlement, ment. Chairman Knapp of trie interstate commerce commission and Dr. Chas. P. Neill, commissioner of labor, the mediators under the Erdman act, are endeavoring to bring the railroads and their employees together. Conservation Congress to Meek St. Paul, Minn. Thomas Shipp of Washington, secretary of the National Conservation association, telegraphed that tae dates of the national conser vation congress had been fixed for September 6, 7, 8 and 9, and that Col onel Roosevelt would, be in attendance September 6. Beei Prices Drop. Chicago, ' III. Retail beef prices dropped sharply following the whole sale price reduction. Quotations re vealed that sirloin steak which had been selling for IS 1-2 cents per pound, could be had for 16 1-2 cents. Porterhouse that sold for 22 cents, was quoted at 20 cents. : ':f Blackmailer Sentenced; New York City. Louis Levine, head of the so-called "Arsenic Club," which exacted blackmail by poisoning horses, was sentenced in Brooklyn to not "more than fifteen years and not less than seven years in the state prison. Five others are under indict-' ment. Georgia Boy Drowned. Annapclic, Md The bodies of Mrs. Marie Eowers and Midshipmen G. E. Thomas and S. S. Nason, who were drowned while bathing in the Severn river, were recovered. Mrs. i Bowers could swim but few strokes Nason was a poor swimmer, but Thomas could swim well. So it is presumed that the latter met his end trying to save the other two. The body of Mrs. Marie Bowers was found standing erect. Thomas' home was at Union Point, Ga. COUNTRY IS THREATENED BY UNPUNISHED CRIME U. S. Judge Holt Makes Bold Statements in Speech. 109,000 KILLERS ARE UNPUNISHED Judge Holt Says Most of the Unhanged Mur derers Live In the Southern States, and Enemies o! Society Should Be Punished. Milwaukee, Wis. "An habitual in corrigible enemy of society should be solemnly- adjudged to be put to death." Judge George C. Holt of the United States district court of New York made this statement before the Wis consin State Bar Association. He spoke on "The Extent of Unpunished Crime in This Country and the Rem edies for It" The jurist said the tendency to mob violence and the extent of unpunish ed crime were the greatest menace to American society. Three hundred thousand people have taken part in lynchings in this country in the last forty years, ac cording to the judge's statements, and every one of them, he said, was guilty of murder if they had acted willfully, yet not a person has ever been con victed of murder for taking part in a lynching. He estimated that there were 100,000 unhanged murderers of this type, most of whom live in the southern states. He said that in the southern states, where night riders regulate tobacco cultivation by force, a condition of anarchy prevails. He deplored the number of black hand murders and the number of peo ple killed annually by fast automobile drivers, and the weakness of the courts and the police to punish the guilty. CHOLERA IN RUSSIA. Great Territory Is in Grasp of Ter rible Cholera Epidemic. Odessa, Russia. With between five and six thousand persons already stricken, 40 per cent of the cases proving fatal and the scourge sweep ing over the land like wildfire, south ern Russia is confronted with a chol era plague that rivals in horror the frightful visitations that periodically declimated Europe centuries ago. Physicians themselves are in pan ic. Overwhelmed with the calte upon them, hundreds have succumbed to overwork and disease itself in the cit ies in the southern district. Frost alone can save the country from semi depopulation as the result of deaths and exodus from fright, declare the health authorities, and frost under normal conditions is months away. General demoralization makes accu rate statistics as to the spread of the disease impossible. About one thousand eight hundred fresh cases were reported last week and these, the authorities declare, can be but a fraction of the real total. Death carts are used to take the victims from the homes as soon as notice of death is received and the burials are rush ed through with practically no cere mony. In several cities where the deaths are most numerous burials are in great trenches like those provided for victims of battle fields. The government is doing all in its power to check the disease, but so far all efforts have been futile and the rate of increase is growing great er day by day. TO RAISE THE MAINE. CHARGES AGAINST PEART. Cook's Companion Had to Give Troph ies for Passage Home. Berlin, Germany. The suit of Dr. Frederick A. Cook's "polar" com panion, Rudolph Francke, against Commander Robert E. Peary, in which Francke alleges that he was compelled by Peary to relinquish cer tain prizes of the hunt before Peary would take him home, was begun. Francke demands $10,000 as the val ue cf the trophies he alleges he was compelled to leave behind. Commander Peary's lawyers set up a general denial as a defense and questioned the jurisdiction of the court, saying that Peary had consent ed to be represented that there might be no misconstruction of his absence. After the opening argu ments court adjourned to consider the question of jurisdiction. Francke's attorneys went over the whole story of the Cook expedition's outfitting and the return of Francke. They asserted that among the troph ies Francke was forced to give up in order to go home in Peary's relief ship Eric was a pair of narwhal tusks which Peary subsequently presented to Colonel Roosevelt, and some blue fox skins which Mrs. Peary afterward gave to President and Mrs. Taft. NEW TRIAL DENIED HYDE. Kansas City Doctors' Sentence Stands, Decides Judge. Kansas City, Mo Dr. B. C. Hyde, convicted on May 16 last, of poisoning Colonel Thomas H. Swope, the mil lionaire philanthropist, was denied a new trial by Judge Ralph S. Latshaw. Colonel Swope, who died last Octo ber, left an estate valued at more than $3,000,000. Dr. Hyde was tried on the specific charge of murdering Colonel Swope by the administration of poison while attending him as a physician. There are ten other indictments against the prisoner, charging him with killing and attempting to kill various members of the Swope family. Rate Reductions Ordered. Washington, D. C. Decisions were handed down by the interstate com merce commission country-wide in im portance. They affect freight rates both class and commodity on all trans-continental lines operating be tween the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Extensive reductions were ordered. The decisions are of what popularly are known as the Pacific coast cases. The cases were heard last autumn by the commission and have been under consideration ever since. Army Engineers Are Not Sure That Battleship Can Be Raised. Washington, D. C. Of course the army engineers will do their best to carry out the wishes of congress, twice expressed, that an effort shall be made to raise the wreck of the battleship Maine from the bottom of Havana harbor, where it lies inbedd ed in twenty-seven feet of slime and ooze. But the engineers are franK to confess they do not know the ex tent of the task before them and be lieve the $300,000 appropriation . will not be sufficient. So their' present idea is to use as much money as may be necessary to make a thorough ex amination of the wreck and the sur rounding bottom of the harbor. The only known method of raising a ship in the condition of the Maine is to surround her with a coffer-dam, from which the water can be pumped, allowing the hull to be drained and the holes in the bottom closed. En gineering history fails to disclose a coffer-dam of the mammoth propor tions that would be required to en close the Maine, for it must be as long as a' city block and as high as a five or six story building from the bottom of the timbers to the top. Its cost would probably exceed the total appropriation. So what the engineers probably will do is to make a thorough preliminary investigation. This will cost a good deal of money and occupy much time. In fact it is reasonably certain that congress will again be in session be fore the results are known and engin eers can tell just how much money it win cost to raise the ship. AEROPLANE NO GOOD IN WAR. Bomb Dropping Experiment Not Sat isfactory to Curtiss. Hammcndsport, N. Y. That the aeroplane in its present state of de velopment is far from being a satis fatcory engine of war is the conclus ion of Glenn H. Curtiss, as a result of the experiments in mimic bomb throwing which he has been conduct ing over Lake Keuka. The tests thus far, he says, have demonstrated two important points: , First, that no aeroplane can be made into an efficient war machine unless it is fitted for carrying two per sons, one to act as pilot and attend to the motor and the other to act as gunner. Second, that the dropping of projec tiles is a waste of ammunition with out a gun which can be aimed right from overhead and can carry its mis sile to the target. . Rear Admiral Kimball's comment on the tests is as follows: "These are the aeroplane's present defects for war purposes: "Lack of ability to operate in av erage weather at sea; signaling ap proach by noise made by motor and propeller; impossibility of controlling neights and speeds so as to predict approximate ranges; difficulty of hit ting when working at a height great enough to give the aeroplane a fight ing chance of reaching effective range." Cotton Mills Close. Spartanburg, S. C The great cur tailment movement among the mills of the Piedmont section has begun. Mills in Notrh Carolina, South Caro lina and Georgia have closed down until the morning of the 12th. Out of 3,000,000 spindles 2,750,000 liave signified that they would join in the curtailment, which twill include at least a month in all during the sum mer. The movement means a cutting off of from 1,000,000 to 2,000,00 pieces of cloth or l-12tii of the output. Lorimer Juryman Alleges Slander Chicago, III Charles M.Hspare, one of the jurors who held out for ac quittal of Lee O'Neil Browne, the leg islator charged with bribery, filed the papers in a suit for $50,000 against States Attorney Wayman. The sum named is sought as damages for al leged slander and libel. Wyman is said to have accused Spare of "hang ing"' the jury. Floods In Kentucky. Salyersville, Ky Four bodies were taken from the swollen waters of the Licking river and fearing that great damage has been done and that more lives have been lost as a result of a cloudburst near the headwaters of the stream, rescuing patries have left here for the mountain regions to the east. It is known that twenty-six houses were washed away. Carmen Peach Crop a Failure. Dalton, Ga The first and only car of the early Carmen peaches left here the crop being practically a failure in this section. Aside from this full car enough express shipments to make up another car have been sent from this point. The Carmen crop here came nearer being a failure than it has in years. Pullman Rates Attacked. Washintgon. D. C. An attack wras made upon Pullman company charges for upper berths by the state of Ok lahoma. "In a petition filed with the interstate commerce commission vby the attorney general of Okianoma, di rected against the Pullman company and railroads operating on the west ern and southwestern territories, it is alleged that making the same charge for an upper berth as for a lower is unjust and discriminatory. The re ductions sought in the charge for up per berths vary from 25 per cent to 33 per cent in the rate from points in Oklahoma to points in Illinois, Mis souri, Kansas, Texas, Arkansas and to Memphis, Tenn. Senator Daniel Is Dead. Lynchburg, Va John W. Daniel, senior senator from Virginia and for more than 30 years Virginia's favor ite son, died at the Lynchburg sani tarium. John W. Daniel was elected to the United States senate to succeed Gen eral Mahone for the term beginning March 4, 18S7, and was serving his fourth term at the time of his death. He was a gallant confederate soldier. He was born at Lynchburg, Septem ber 6, 1842. COTTON AND OKRA CROSSED HAKE LONG STAPLE PLANT V Mississippian Working Wonders With the Cotton Plant. WONDERFUL CORN EXPERIMENTS Eastin C Jones of Hinds County, Mississippi, Is Performing Marvelous Feats With Cotton and Corn. 1 Jackson, Miss. California has her Burbank, the man who startled" the world by cross-breeding and develop ing fruits and flowers, but Hinds coun ty has her Jones,, the man who is de veloping cotton and performing mar velous feats with corn. Taking a common variety of corn fourteen years ago, when corn culture was practically unknown in this sec tion, Mr. Jones has crossed and de veloped it till he now produces more corn, to the acre in Hinds county, three miles from Jackson, than any farmer in the world. He makes his corn produce six to fourteen ears to the stalk, and the yield is at the rate of from one hundred and fifty to two hundred bushels an acre. This has been done on ordinary Mississippi land, without using more than the usual quantity of fertilizer, Not only is the yield large, but the weight -of the grain, after it is shelled, is far above the average, showing the corn is not only well fruited, but fully developed. In addition to performing wonder ful feats in the way of corn culture, Mr. Jones, by cross-breeding okra with short staple cotton, has produc ed a long staple of finest texture and endurance. His achievement with both corn and cotton are attracting a great deal of attention. He has been taking off all prizes at the Mis sissippi state fair since it was organ ized with his corn. This year Mr. Jones expects to add one more ear to the stalk in his corn field! He has added an ear every year for fourteen years, and believes he will increase the yield this year again. DENOUNCES AUTOMOBILES. Philadelphia Judge Calls Reckless Auto Driving Public Scandal. Philadelphia, Pa. "The fact that the running x of automobiles regard less of anybody's rights has become a public scandal, is due to the su pineness of the people in not rising up and demanding that one class of people shall not have practically the exclusive use of the streets and roads of our city," declared Judge Bregy, in discharging the June grand jury in the criminal court. "There are, of course," continued the court, "plenty of people who run their motor cars in a reasonable way, but ther eare also two other classes. "We have, first, a class of drivers who are utterly lawless and drunken, and who regard no one's right. "The other class, equally dangerous, is the young immature drivers of both sexes, who have not the judg ment to appreciate the responsibility that goes with the running of an en gine on the public streets for, after all, that is all that an automobile is; it is an engine, locomotive running on the city streets and country road. "To my mind, the reports which we see in the newspapers of hun dreds of millions of dollars being spent for automobiles is an indica tion of a wild extravagance which goes far beyond what people can af ford, and before long will bear its fruits of failure, foreclosed mortgages and crime." VALUE OF GOOD ROADS. rhe Cost of Moving Farm Produce Reduced By Good Highways. Culpepper, Va-A splendid object esson in the value of good roads was 5iven and the advantageous use that tnay be made of the motor truck, supplementing the transportation fa iilities offered by the railroads to the great benefit of farmers and owners f industrial plants and mines, not located directly on rail lines, has been demonstrated in a striking man aer by the movement of a car of coal from the tracks of the Southern rail way at this point to Sperry ville, a dis tance of twenty miles, a three-ton mo tor truck being used. The eighteen ton3 of coal were hauled to the tan-, aery in two and a half days, six crips being made. In the past it has taken a good six mule team two weeks to accomplish the same work. The road over which the hauling was done is a good hard road, but leads Into i mountainous country and has many !ong and heavy grades. The experi ment was msde by the C. C. Smoot Sons Company, which operates a 'tan nery at Sperryville. So satisfactory were the results that the . company has purchased a truck and will here after us 3 it in transferring coal and hides to the tannery and its . products to the market. The saving of time and labor in this case shows what can be done to reduce the cost of moving farm, mineral and industrial produce to rail or water lines for shipment, to mar ket. Statistics show that while freight rates are lower in America than in any other country, the Amer ican farmer loses the advantage that this should give him over his Euro pean competitor chiefly through the high cost of transporting his products from the farm to the railroad. Re ports by United States consuls from twenty-three points in Europe show that the average cost of carrying a ton over a mile of dirt road is between ten and twelve cents. In the United States the average cost is 25 cents. It has been stated that it costs as much to haul a bushel of grain five miles to a railroad in Illinois as it then costs to send it one thousand one hundred miles over the railroad to Buffalo. In the tobacco region of West Virginia it costs five times as much to deliver that product over eight miles of mud road as it then costs to send it more than four hun dred miles to Richmond. ' These in stances were given by Honorable Thomas M. Bell, representative of the Ninth Georgia district, before con gress, urging federal aid for good roads. Others as striking could be given from all parts of the south. "An improved wagon road from a farm to a market or shipping point is equivalent to moving the farm near er the market or shipping point," said President Finley of the Southern rail way in addressing the Mississippi So- r ciety of Washington City. In this ad- dress Mr. Finley urged that every possible means be taken to rid . the farmers of the south of this "bad roads tax." The successful use of the motor truck by the Smoot tannery can doubtless be duplicated in many parts of the south at the present time, and the rapid increase in the mileage of good roads in the near future as the result of the great movement now attracting so much attention, will pos sibly soon bring the day when the farmer or manufacturer, remote from the railroad, can use this method to effect a great reduction in the cost of moving his product to market. CONGRESS SPENT FREELY. Over a Billion Dollars Spent by Con gress at This Session. Washington, D. C. The appropri ations made by the sessions of con gress just closed amounted to $1,027, 133,446, according to an official an nouncement made by the house ap propriations committee. Separate statements were made by Representative Tawney, republican, and Representative Livingston . of Georgia, ranking democratic member of the committee, analyzing the fig ures from the standpoints of the two parties. Mr. Tawney contended that a reduction of $28,529,821 over the last session of the sixtieth congress had been achieved. The democratic view was that "again the high water mark of a bil lion dollars of expenditures is pass ed," that including the authorized reclamation issue, rivers and harbors obligations, public buildings authoriz, ed, light houses, etc., the total direct and indirect appropriations for the past session reached $1,096,952,051, increasing the previous regular ses sion appropriations by $15,207,909. Taft at Beverley. Beverly, rived at From the mobile to panied by Butt, and Notron. about the tial train Mass. President Taft ar- his summer home here. station he went by auto his cottage. He was accom his aide, Captain Archibald his secretary, Charles D. Only a few persons were station when the presiden pulled in Liquor For Bowling Green. ' Bowling Green, Ky. In a hotly con tested election the city of Bowling Green gave a majority of eighty-seven in favor of a return to licensed sale of liquors. Three years ago the city went dry by two hundred and twenty, eight votes. Lorimer Jury Disagreed. Chicago, III. The judy in Judge McSurely's division of the criminal court that heard the case against Lee O'Neil Browne, Illinois legislative mi nority leader, charged with bribing Representative Charles A. White, to vote for William oLrimer for United States senator, disagreed and voted no verdict." State's Attorney WTayman declared to reporters that the Browne case of fered the most flagrant case of jury fixing he had ever known. FROM C0DNTO0 .COUNH North Carolina News : Prepared anj PnMiifced For tie i Quick Perusal ci Our Patrons. Washington News. Exports of manufacturers in May were larger than in any earliier month in the history of the expert trade of the United States, the total value of exports for the month aggre gating $71,000,000. Exports of manu factures for eleven months ending with May, aggregated $99,000,000, in dicating that June, will bring the rec ord for the fiscal year 1910 above that of any other preceding year. Imports to Japan from America and Europe in the first three montns of the year 1910 showed a marked de cline over the corresponding periods in 1908 and 1909, according to figures in possession of the department of commerce and labor. In the same pe riod Japan's imports from Asia and Oceania increased. Japan's American imports fell from $14,750,000 in the first three months of 1908 to $7,000, 000 in the same period of this year; those from Europe fell from $25,500, 000 in the first quarter of 190S to $16, 250,000 in 1910. Japan's imports from Asia and Oceania, on the other hand, increased from $28,000,000 in the 1908 period to $33,000,000 in the 1910 period. The falling off in Amer ican imports is reported to be largely due to the "cotton situation," Japan buying freely of American cotton when prices are low, but when prices are high, as has been the case in the last year or two, Japan turns to oth er ports of the world for cotton. Specials from the wheat-growing country to the west show that the crop scare, so far as it relates to a possible grain shortage, is wholly un founded. Glenndive, Mont., reports that two well-known business men in vestigated the fields within a radius of twenty-five miles of that place and found them in the best condition. Watertown, S. D.; Wappeton, N. D., and Fergus Falls, Minn., report re cent rainfalls. Hot air in the halls of congress, always a jocular theme, is to be cam paigned against as the result of an offcial report of public health service experts. A report laid before the house in its closing hours recommend ed that the ventilation system be im proved. Any idea that the Philippines are unhealthful as an abiding place for Americans would seem to be dissi pated by the statement issued from the bureau of insular affairs that the death rate among the more than eight thousand government employes in the islands for the quarter ending March 31 was only 6.9 per one thousand per annum. These employes, of which three thousand seven hundred are Americans, include all of the officials and employes of the insular, prcvin-J cial and municipal governments andj the police and fire department Col McLean on Fraudulent Bonds. The North Carolina Bar Associa tion held not only an .interesting and profitable meeting v at, Wrightsville Beach, but there, vcs something ol the sensational in it. Hhi was caus ed by the address delivered by CoL N. A. McLean, of LumBerton, "whft took for his topic, much' to the sur prise of the members, the" ' Old North Carolina Bond Question4."" Further ta their surprise Colonel McLean dealt with the matter with gloves off, con tending that the State should neve have fought the South Dakota case, but should have recognized the jus-1 tice of the claim and should have, ia aii nonor, paid tnese. bnas without the slightest hesitancy or question. Touching the carpet-bag bonds, issued during the times of corruption, justj after the war, he contended that the) legislators, although rascals and cor-j ruptionists, were agents of the State,! and consequently if people innocent-, ly purchased the bonds, North Caro-j lina is bound in law, to pay them, and that the State should meet these obligations, even' if her citizens have; to be taxed treble what they are now faxed. . i His speech created quite sensa tion and was instantly 'sharply replied to by Cameron Morrison, of Char lotte, who was a memberof the .North, Carolina Legislature in 1901. He bitterly attacked the position taken by Colonel McLean. i i Young Girl Dead and Another in Serious Condition As a Result of Illegal Operation. Bessie Thomasson of Statesville died at the home or Dr. V. L. v estal, at High Point, on account of an il legal operation which had been per formed by. Dr. W. L. Vestal last Thursday night. The police were notified about the condition of the young girl just a short time before she died and when they arrived at the home of Dr. Vestal they not only found the one who is now dead, but al found an other young girl who gave her name as May Owen, from Lin wood, and who was in a serious condition. She had also gone through the . same operation. Sunday afternoon a coroner's in quest was held by Coroner .W. "W. Wood, of Greensboro. The verdict of the jury was as follows: "The deceased came to her death by the unlawful act of one Dr. W. L. "Vestal and that Levey Maynard and Mrs. W. L. Vestal were accessories to the same." Vestal and his wife have been lodged in the Greensboro jail. He is almost a physical wreck, caused from the use of deadly drugs. Maynard will be arrested. He is a widower with two children. It is not reported who caused the visit of May Owen. Thomas Settle Gets Good Job. Thomas Settledof" Asheville, has been appointed" by Attorney General Wickersham 'to -assist Assistant At torney General Lloyd in the conduct of customs cases. His headquarters' will be at New York and his salary will be $5,000 a year. Thirty Years for 70-Year-Cld PoweEL The acceptance of a verdict of roun der in the second degree on the part of the defense and agreement by the State to the imposing of a sentence? of 30 years in the State penitentiary for the defendant brought to an un expected close at Warrenton, the case of the State of North Carolina against E. E. Powell for the killing: of Chief of Police Charles W. Dunn of Scotland Neck en March 4 last. Maj. James Wilson Passes. Maj. James Wilson, who built the Western North Carolina railroad through the Blue Ridge mountains, which at the time was conceded to be the most wonderful piece of en gineering in America, died at Char lotte Saturdaj-, at the acre of 84. The greatest part of his life was spent with this railroad and for many years he was its president, rising from the position of civil engineer. , Durham Dotor Cures Pellagra. Mrs. Baxley, of Hllsboro, was car ried to the Watts hospital at Durham, about the first week in April, suffer ing from the dread disease pellagra.. Her case is said to be the very worst ever sent there, but notwithstanding her serious illness she has been dis charged from the hospital as cured. Dr. Joseph Graham, who has made a special study of the disease since its appearance in Durham, and in the South, undertook the case and with the above result. The cure is re garded as wonderful. Hitherto pel lagra has been considered a fatal dis ease and the recovery of Mrs. Baxley is considered marvelous. J. 0. U. A. II. Opposed to Orphanage. Reports to State Secretary Vance, of Winston-Salem, show tliat the pro position to take ton thousand dollars from the treasury of the State Coun cil Junior Order United American Mechanics and purchase a site for the establishment' of a junior order orphanage! was voted down by a ma jority of the subordinate councils, the vote being 182 for and 209 against. The subordinate councils voted to change the tirr.e of Stata council ' meetings.