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pe CDatPam rcecoro ALONDON EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: 51,50 Per Year m it iky s aB I P' J- m i. I J I 1 f 1 II - I i A VI 31 M O M 11 II H tl 1 I I 1 I I 5 1 I i TV': SlMCaT IN ADVANCE t" VOL. XX'XnT PITTSBORO. CHATHAM COUNTY. N. 0.. WEDNESDAY. .TrTLY 17. iflio CENSUS SHOWS AMAZING i hi4" Hr X H jHiftilil VI Bill. UVUIII AH scutnern States Show la crease In Population, : Iffl iOICE REPRESENTATION Tieooncous Advance Ii the South's Political f ewer Renews Demand for Limiting Southern Representation Washington, u. -c. lhe amazing growti alreau die 1!' Co:: liV". ; J h; tjini r N. ;:. - port, an n:: ; K:. . Ct pUk G.ci's - ; or. ' uon ia - t.Le va- title 'i'' tiio x in tue South and Southwest y is becoming the sensation of 1C constis. .i'l.-ie returns for 51 counties in ho v a population of 817,475 in a? compared with 552,906 Sn in of 46 per cent. . Rentage maintained through m:s v- ill mean a gain of l,4a3,- u ? m the state, or a total ,:i of almost 4,500,000. For iv-iu:ty the census bureau re- .-. copulation of 21,955 in 1910, : -c- of 110 per cent. , . nnty showed a 500 per cent . o.nd Tom Greene county ; . per cent. Without ex . :iic figures from Oklahoma, ;. Mississippi, Tennessee, ; :::a Alabama record startling iitseat basis of representa- i'Cioso, a member to every i the counties population, -. from only 41 counties en as. to another member of If the ratio of increase mod, Texas will have a del- resisting of 23. ovs from other parts of the i Southwest presage a like n poiiiical power and inipor- Ti:v South U(1v;t.c tan co Fc-r r.rl3 reason talk of renewing the Nortl. ::; inond for limiting South ern r. n ?. utation is becoming general. Gmm Y BARS MORMONS. Teutons Want None of tVe Religion cf '.hi Latter Day Saints. Berlin, Germany, All American Morn vu will be driven cut of Ger many : y order of the government. Of ficial cjau:;anc9 has tin ally been tak of tiu .uvmpt ot a number of Mor mons tj extend their propaganda in Gerro:u.y. and the police raided a . niffiiiig i::id by a number of the Lat-u-r iu;y Saints. The mission was in the kwit of the city and was being crgan:: d by 21 Mormons from Utah There vro a number of German wo men ia tlie meeting placo. All the men were- placed under arrest and the wemtn v.tie sent to their homes with a wanr.iag to let Mormonism alone and auc-iid to their households. The Mcnnon leader is -John Kay, of Salt Lake City, Utah. The' Mor een J.I :a were arraigned in the police i cart and were told that their doctrine v. ere cot wanted in Germa ny. They were ordered to leave the country forthwith. LONG LABOR WAR ENDS. Bucks Stove Company and Labor Union Sign - An Agreement Cincinnati, Ohio. A- peace pact of great importance to organized labor and to the country as well, was reach ed here between officers of the Amer ican Federation of Labor on "one side, and members of the Stove Founders National Defense Association on the other. The effect of the agreement is to end the bitter warfare between the Federation of Labor and the Bucks Stove and Range Company of St. Louis. The association and the stove com pany, through its representatives here announced their withdrawal from the prosecutions against President Gom- pers, vice "President John Mitchell and Secretary Morrison of the Amer ican Federation of Labor in the con tempt cases now pending against While the prosecutions hanerine over Messrs. Gompers, Mitchell and Morri son of the Federation of Labor have passed out of the hands of the stove company, which instituted them and are now pending in the United States supreme court at Washington, repre sentatives ot the stove company and of the National Defense Association, by the articles signed, agreed to with draw their attorneys from the case. Whether the appeal of the three men from jail sentences imposed UDon them for alleged violation o an in junction shall be, fought to a finish in the . supreme court is said to rest now with Attorney General Wicker- sham. The controversy between the Amer ican Federation of Labor and the Buck3 Stove Company began about two years ago, when the late James W. Van Cleve, president of the stove company, sought an injunction against Gompers and others from publishing his company as onthe "unfair list." Upon .an alleged violation of this injunction, jail sentences were pro nounced upon Gompers, Morrison and Mitchell. Mr. Van Cleve died some months ago, his death, it is said, heing in a measure due to worry over the long fight in the courts. The memoran dum accompanying the articles of agreement signed declare that the company was recently reorganized, with Lee Van Cleve as its head, and that those now in charge of it earnest ly desire entiro peace and accord with the labor organizations. NO. 50. Zhc dbatbam IRecorfc. RATES OF ADVERTISING; One Square, one lnertton......$i. One Square, two Insertions.... I. One Square, one month.. ...... For Lsrgcr Advertise ments Liberal Contracts will be made. 11 ARTILLERYMEN KILLED WHEN BIG GUN EXPLODED Disaster at Fort Monroe During Target Practice, OFFICERS DISPLAYED HEROISM The Wounded Forgot Their Hurts and Prevent ed Another Explosion Prominent Army Officers Were Present COTTON RUSHED TO N, Y. Big Shipments Are Made From Ware house:: in Columbus, Georgia. vCiurncus, ua. Two thousand bales ot cott have been rushed to New lone i y two warehouses in Columbus tins wevk. it is supposed the cotton was sent ty orcii-i- of brokers to help break the high price that has prevailed recently and eni.bl? the shorts to fill orders. The value cf the cotton sent from Columbus is said to be about $160,000 and -,vas divided between the Bradley Company and Blanchard and Hunter ENGLISH STRIKE SETTLED. 12,CC0 Employees cf English Railroad Return to Work. Newcastle, England, Traffic on the oruieciHitin railroad was resumed v":i of the settlement of the strike or t welve thousand employees. Estimates of the loss caused by the true- days' strike show that it Kid be enormous. Conservative figures fix the loss suffered by the cor Ponuiors employees and general trade TV eaches Badly Injured. Griffin, Ga One of the heaviest a?d v,ind torms of the year vis aed this section, doing tremendous damage to crops and fruit. Hundreds 0t crate.s of clbertas are on the ground, as the Fesult of the storm. . e Slower reports that every peach in h!S oixiiard was blown fq?m the r'3. Other growers report similar oareaoc. it is not known how many crates were destroyed, but it is a fact lh'- oroy is practically a loss. MASONIC LEADER DEAD. Rev. Dr. Rugg, Grand Mastar of the Knights Templar, Passes Away. Providence, R. I. Rev. Dr. Henry V. Rugg, grand master of the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar o'J the United States and grand master of Masons of Rhode Island, died at his, home here of a complication of diseases. He was born in Framiag ham, Mass., September 3, 1833. Cincinnati, Ohio. Colonel "William B. Melish, of this city, deputy grand master, who by the death of G?and Master Rugg becomes the official head of the Grand Encampment Knights Templar, issued the following announcement to the Templar order throughout the world: "In great sorrow I announce the death on July 21 at Providence, of the most eminent grand master of Knights Templar in the United States, Rev, and Sir Knight Henry Warrcn Rugg. His funeral services will be held in Providence, R. I., on Monday, July 25, at 2 o'clock p. m., under Ma sonic auspices. His last wishes were that his illness or death should make no change in the program of the trien nial conclave to be held at Chicago next month. "God buries his workmen, but He carries on His work. "WILLIAM BROMWELL MELISH, "Acting Grand Master." TAFT APPOINTS NEGRO. Whitfield McKinley Named Collector of Customs at Washington. Washington, D. C. Whitfield Mc Kinley. a negro real estate agent cf this city, has been appointed collector of customs here, the technical desig nation of the office being the port of Georgetown, D. C. News of McKinley's selection oy President Taft was received here from Secretary Norton at Beverly. It si stated that the appointment signi fies the recognition of negroes in im portant federal positions. McKinley came to Washington irom Charleston. S. C. in 1884, and has ta ken an active part in politics. He was Strong opposition to the appoint ment of a negro to the collectorship developed when it was reported here several weeks ago that a colored man mis-ht. set the place. The president nominated Sidney Bleber, a very well known politician, during the wintei', but the senate failed to confirm him and it became apparent that some oth er appointment would have to be made. Fortress Monroe, Va. Eleven men of the coast artillery are dead as the result of the blowing out of a breech block in one of the big guns while tne tort was engaged m target prac tice. A half dozen others are in the post hospital, one of them may die, The exact cause of the explosion is not yet definitely determined, although a board of inquiry was appointed immediately after the disaster by orders from the war department in vv ashington. The toll of deaths, it is believed, would have been larger had it not been for the heroism displayed, both by. the officers and men in the bat tery. The wounded forgot their hurts and aided the uninjured in stamp ing . out the burning powder that threatened the sacks in which the charge for the second shot had befl brought up. Colonel C. P. Townsley, comman dant of the fort, promptly ordered an investigation. While no decision has yet been reached, Colonel Townsley advanced his theory of the disaster. "It is evident," he said, "that the explosion occurred during the inser tion of the breech block into the breech of the gun, and before it had been rotated and locked in place The safety devices on the gun are intended to make a premature dis charge impossible. Just how they failed to operate probably will never be known to a certainty. Every mem ber of the detachment who could ex plain it was killed." Some of the leading officers of the army were present at the time of the explosion. The fatal accident occurred durin tagret practice at floating targets, which were built to the proportion or battleships. Washington, D. C. In the absence of any report from an official invest! gating board, officers o the coast aitillery can onl compare the ex plosion al Fortress Monroe to some similar ones which have occurred in the navy. The majority, however, appear to believe that the explosion was caused by carbon monoxide, a highly inflammable gas, which forms m the barrels of large guns and whica is expecially dangerous during rapid firing. The gun crew at Fortress Monroe was trying to make a rapid- hre record. A gun has been developed in the navy which automatically clears its barrel of carbon monoxide as the breech is opened. No such arrange ment was on tha coast defense guns at Fortress Monroe. Washington, D. C Although death had silenced one gun and 11 men who were killed by the ter rible explosion in the De Russy shore battery here during the target firing :upon the imaginary hostile fleet, which was passing up Hampton Roads to attack Washington, the battle con tinued until the enemy was sunk. Tk practice, which was the most exten sive ever attempted, was completer? with flattering success to the coast artillery corps. Within three minutes after the first gun had been fired the two cheese cloth targets, 30x60, representing the vitals of battleships and towed 6,000 yards away, were a sorry sight. ?0iC8d $450,000,000 Cotton Wairotc,-,, D. C Cotton, copper, "luiuir.uor.g wheat t.hese arti- -s in :;),. order namea formed the ost im; .;ru.nt articles exported from "It 1 h f' States " during the fiscal -car. TL.i value of the cotton ex I'OKeu v.-:i.s $450,00O,OCO, of the cop cd -"'5 "' ( ! J(t. and of the wheat 4i,- Texas Legislature Meets. cPUstii1-- Texas. The .third called iVr,10n (Jl' tho thirty-first Texas legis- wture v.-r.o i c . - 11 v ' i ; . : 1 1 eiH MM LUC cue )Z ! ;ty Gt' repealing the Are rating oi-oso of considering -the ad- of t tile enacted at the last session gislature. Sb. feeriff Kills Fiw MAcrrnft!. kilVi'01"' Miss Five negroes were ed ? vf"'1 two ot2iers mortally wound Tw R tIie seen, taking issue with enTty tihtTiff Sid Cauley, who was todv V''U!JS to take th8m int.cus-th- a niinor charge, advanced on a OiSic r with farming implements tcrrUr! 'ns and witn tne avowed in pV? of "cutting him down." K iiuwever, opened nre witn -.'Ji: (j pai uer rs and five of the attack-'i Wei'P Irillorl onI tVio romilin "cijnded. COUNTERFEIT $10 BILL. Spurious $10 Gold Certificate is in Circulation. Washington, D. C Discovery of the existence of a new counterfeit $10 gold certificate has been announced by John E. Wilkie, chief of the secret service division of the treasury de partment. The certificate is repre sented of the act of July 12, 1882, se ries of 1901, and bears the check let ter "D,55 plate No. 150 The note is from a photographic plate printed on bond paper' in which the coloring of the seal, series num bers and back appears to be a brownish-red water proof ink. The silk fiber is imitated by red and blue ink. marks, . Doctors Head Army. Washington, D. C. With the as sumption by Major General Leonard Wood of the duties of chief of staff of the army, two doctors now occupy the two most responsible positions in the army of the United States. The other doctor who has risen to such power in the army is Major General Ainsworth, adjutant general. - Census ol Oklahoma Cities. Washington, D. C. Muskogee, Okla., has 25.27S inhabitants, as compared with 14,418 in 1807; Tulsa, Okla., 18,182, as compared with 7,293 m 1907, and Muskogee county, Oklahoma, 52,- 743, as compared with 37,467 m 1907. L. it N. Railway Raises Wages. Louisville, Ky. Four thousand Lou isville shop employees of the Louis ville and Nashville Railroad were giv en a surprise when they opened their pay envelopes and found therein an unsolicited increase of 6 per cent. Wellesfey President Resips. Boston, Mass. Miss Caroline Haz ard, for eleven years president- of Wellesley College, and one of the best known women educators in the coun try, resigned. Miss Hazard's admin istration had been, the longest in the history of the colleger The resigna tion, is due to poor health. Workmen's Compensation. Washington, D. C President Taft appointed W. G. Brown, president of the New York Central lines, and Dan iel L. Cease, editor of the Brother hood of Railway Trainmen's Journal, as members of the commission to look into the subject of workmen's compensation in personal injury cases. POLITICS IN TENNESSEE. Death Struggle Now on Between the Factions. Patterson Unopposed. Memphis, Tenn In every town and village, in every county in Ten nessee, from Jackson on the east boundary, to Shelby on the Mississip pi river, the state's serious political situation has aroused the most intense feeling. Regular democrats and in surgent democrats and republicans are lining up their forces for the struggle, which comes in August, when the state judiciary and county elections are held. v-- Up to the present time no candi date to oppose Governor Malcolm R. Patterson, either by the insurgent democrats or the republican forces, has been announced, nor is there any likely to be named by the latter party until after the August election.' In East Tennessee, the republican stronghold, there are several pros pective candidates, but none has been actually placed in the field. Governor Patterson is now devoting his campaign speeches primarily to the support of judiciary candidates nominated at the regular democratic primary held in June. The present judges are seeking re-election. Some have aligned themselves with the ad ministration forces while the others are supported by the insurgent demo crats ot the state. Three of the supreme court judges declined to enter the democratic pri mary, alleging that Governor Patter- i son and his administration had at tempted tcT coerce the judiciary. Their partisans called a convention and these three were renominated along with the two others. The two other justice entered into the primary and lined up with the administration par ty, thus securing renoniination. Three opposition candidates were named to run against the three so-called bolting justices. The same state of affairs exists in the contest for the judge ships of the court of civil appeals. Charles T. Cates, the state attor ney general, is nominally the cam paign manager for the insurgent fac tion. He has directed, in his speech es throughout the state, bitter attacks against Governor Patterson and his administration. The pardoning of Duncan Cooper, who had been con victed of the slaying cf tho late Unit ed States Senator E. W. Carmack, has been made an issue, in the present campaign. On the other hand Governor Patter son has denounced Attorney General Cates and has charged him with us ing his official position in the hand ling of private lawsuits before the supreme court. The attacks and coun ter attacks have been bitter, and tho feeling and tensity of the situation aro daily becoming more acute. The prohibition question, which waa the chief, and practically sole, issuo in the last gubernatorial contest, has apparently been lost sight of. TRANSPORTATION RULES. Important Rulings by Interstate Com merce Commission. Washington, D. C. A set of "ad ministrative rulings" was announced by the interstate commerce commis. sion, supplementary to all rulings made heretofore. All of the rulings laid down are important - to interstate carriers and some of them are of general public interest, as follows: An interstate excursion for jrtain commercial clubs, the members ot which are to be carried at . the ex-. pense of the railroad companies as their guests, cannot be sanctioned. Free transportation cannot be issued to employees of a bridge company, which makes annual reports to tire commission, but files no traffics and collects no charges from shippers or carriers. Free or reduced rates of transporta- tion may not lawfully be accorded to traveling secretaries of a Young Wom an's Christian Association. There is no warrant in law for ac cording free transportation of the body of an ex-employee of the carrier who resigned from the service some time prior to his death. ISER IS SENT TO GUARD AMERICAN CONSUL United States Official Is to Peril U Nicaragua. . BITTER FEELINGJGAIN8T I). S. Nicaraguan Newspaper, in Editorial, Advises Silling of Americans and the Boycott of American Goods. Washington, D. C. Fear exists that Edwin W. Trimmer, United States consul at Csipe Graeias, Nicaragua, may be assaulted or possibly even as sassinated, wherefore it has been de cided to send the cruiser Tacoma to the port to Investigate and if condi tions seem to demand it to land ma rines to protect American lives and property. This was the report made at the state department by Thomas P. Moffatt. United States consul at Bluefields. It was because of the' continual abuse of the governor and other of ficials of the Madriz government at Cape Graeias, he declares, that the fear arose for the safety of the Amer ican consul here. An article published in La Nacion, an official Madriz organ published at Managua, indicates the feeling in Nicaragua against Americans. In part it reads as follows: "We Nicaraguans have some limit ed means to w hich we may resort a.s a final recourse if it comes to the point that the Yankee tries to exe cute his threat. Let us lay hands on all the North Americans residing in Nicaragua,, and let us say to Mr. Taft: "For each shot you hurl against us, a head of one of your countrymen shall roll on the ground.' "Another of the means to which we may resort in revenge for so great an injury, and for this I do not believe we are less able than the Young Turks, let us organize in the form of a powerful coalition of active propa ganda, to the end that in all the Latin-American countries no goods shan be purchased from the United States; making our people understand that in this is the most efficacious methods cf combating the common enemy of our race, so proud on account of its pow er; so insolent on account of its pride and so detestable on account of its insolence." Washington, D. C Crossing diplo matic swords with Norway, the state department, replying to protests from New Orleans commercial interests, against Norwegian recognition of the Blueflelds, Nicaragua, blockade, de clared Blueflelds to be an open port. Norway, it was said, was misinformed cf conditions there. Norway's "misunderstanding" was laid by the state department to Mi chael J. Clancy, consular representa tive of Norway, at Blueflelds, and vice consul of the United States at the same port. Acting Secretary of State Wilson announced that Clancy's resig nation as vice consul had been accept ed, his service in the dual capacity be ing against the law. PHONES ON SOUTHERN FARMS Nineteen Cities Eelped Build Rural Lines Last Year. Atlanta, Ga. In the last year nine teen cities in the south, through their chambers of commerce or through some organization of the merchants and business men, have taken practi cal steps to induce farmers to build telephone lines and connect with their towns, - Funds have-been raised to assist the farmer in a financial way and, ac cording to Progress, the result has been even more successful and grat ifying than was expected. Farmers in Georgia and Alabama are now selling thei cotton and other produce by telephone at higher prices than they formerly obtained jwhen they first drove to town and ran the risk of finding conditions" unfavorable. The plan under which farmers se cure universal telephone service and connection with the comprehensive Bell system contemplates that a group of farmers band together in a co-operative organization, build the line and purchase the equipment. This requires a small cash expendi ture, but the farmers own the tele phones, wires and other material. The line is connected with the Bell system, a flat charge being made for service. This monthly charge is very low and when divided among- the farmers on the line is seldom more than 50 cents a month. The fact that all the telephones are on the line is an advantage rather than an objec tion in rural districts. It enables a farmer in an emergency to call every one of his neighbors to his assistance without loss of time. EGYPT'S COTTON CROP. Egyptian Planters Have Had Very Bad Weather. Atlanta, Ga. Henry S. Reed is in receipt of a letter from Apost G. Bai on, a planter and buyer of Egyptian cotton of Abou-Kebir, Egypt, which gives a clear insight to the cotton situation in that country. Judging from the letter, Egyptian farmers con tend with many difficulties similar to those of southern planters the worm, bad weather, low prices when there is cotton to sell and high prices when it is no longer in the producer's pos-sess-ion. Indications are tfiat the Egyptian cotton crop will be about the same as that of last yea-r, which was considerably smaller than usual, because of the worm and cold weath er, and that this season tho crop wiA be later than usual.. BLACK ROOT APPEARS. Alabama Cotton Crop is in Very Bad Condition. Montgomery, Ala The reports to the commissioner of agriculture are discouraging as regards the cotton crop. Grass is getting a start as a result of the recent rams, and tne plant is being stunted anew with the continued over-supply of moisture. "Black root is making its way in the south Alabama sections and the lower leaves are falling off in this part of the state. In fact, it is stated there is hardly any show now for the stalk to re cover from the bad mhuences it has had to meet and bring in anything like an average crop. . . WOMAN LOST AT SEA. Mrs. Marion Mayo, of Augusta, Disap pears From Steamer. New York City. When the steam ship City of Columbus arrived from Savannah, Ga., it was discovered that Mrs. Marion Mayo, 55 years old, a wealthy resident-of Augusta, Ga., was missing. It is believed that she ac cidentally fell overboard. prl t.h e boat at ba- vannah. She attended, the burial ot f a negro cook at sea Tuesday, bmce then nothing has been seen of her. Guaranteed Cotton Bills. Londsn,' England, At a meeting of the bankers of London a resolution was adopted and cabled to the lead ing American bankers to the effect that beginning in November Ameri can cotton bills of lading stall be negotiable only when they are guar anteed by an American banking insti tution. The committee made its in vestigation as a" result of the discov ery at Liverpool last April of irregu larities in the bills of lading on Ameri can cotton. THROWN OFF BRAGCS TOWER From Monument U. S. Detective is . Thrown to Death Chattanooga, Tenn. D. S. Leonard, said to be a United . States detective and a local carpenter named Sams engaged in a desperate fight at -the top of Bragg's tower, and Leonard was thrown to the ground, being kill ed almost instantly. Brass's tower is situated on one of the highest elevation on Missionary WASHINGTON'S TEETH. First President's Teeth to Be Shown at Dentists' Convention. Cleveland, Ohio. Georga Washing ton's teeth will form a part of the ex hibit of oral hygiene, which is to be a feature of the convention of the National Association of Dental Sur geons at Denverv The teeth are now here in the offices of Dr. W. G. Eber sole, chairmaa of the committee on oral hygiene. The teeth are false and were worn by the "father of the country" at his first and second inaug urations. The teeth are of ivory,, at tached to plates of gold with a ce ment of German silver. Gold springs and hinges complete the combination. The contrivance was one of the first outfits of false teeth ever turned out in this country. Washington's descen dants kept the teeth until some years ago, when they turned them over to the care of the Baltimore college of dentistry. . Rhode Island's Population. Washington, D. C The census re turns show for Rhode Island a pop ulation of 542,674 an increase of 26.G per cent, as compared with 428,556 in 1900. - Gratifying as is the increase in the population of Rhode Island, the little commonwealth will be. disappointed Washington News. The department of commerce and labor reports that the tradey of the United States with its noncontiguous colonies or territories during the fis cal year just ended amounted to about $119,000,000 which is contrasted with the $35,000,000 total in ls97. The larg est gain was in the Philippine trade, where the tariff law extended the privilege of some free interchange. Two important crop reports will be issued by the crop reporting board of the department of agriculture dur ing the ner.t month. Tne first will be that showing the condition of the cot ton crop on July 25. This report will be issued Tuesday, August 2. The other, to be issued Monday, August 8, AvilKbe b. summary of the condtions of the principal crops on August 1. Building operations in one hundred and twenty-eight cities of the United States during the calendar year 1909, represented experditures close to a billion dollars or to be exact, ac cording to statistics compiled by the United States Geological survey, $930,520,713. That result is taken to be one of the principal indications that during1909 the country recover ed from the financial panic of 1907 and 1908 for the- building record for 1906 was beaten ten per cent ' The interstate commerce commit tee decided that rates on-yellow pine lumber and products in Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri and other southern states to points reached by the lines of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Roilroad company, the Union Pacific Railroad company, and affiliated lines, in western Nebraska, are unreasonable. The commission has prescribed reasonable rates for the future. President Taft and his administra tion were severely arraigned by the negro clergy of Washington at a meet ing of the Independent league. They charged President Taft with estab lishing the most pernicious precedent that ever excited race hatred and with selling out the negrp's rights for a mess of ,'"possum." They declared the appointment of negroes to high federal places was only a modest way of buying them and keeping down agi tation against the republicans. Out of a total of one hundred per sons designated by the state depart ment officials to appear before them to stand examinations for consular ships, only eighty-two had answered the summons up to June 30 and of this number the south showed the lar ger percentage of applications in thirty-seven from that section of the country beiDg represented. An impet us in the south of federal patronage is noted, it is stated. A preliminary summary of the twenty-second annual statistical report of the interstate commerce commission was issued covering the fiscal year ended June 30, 1909. It shows that there was a total single track railway mileage in the "United States of 236, 68 miles, an increase over the pre vious year of 3,215 miles. Morethan one hundred miles increase is indi cated in the state of Arkansas, Mis- FROM COUNTY TO COUNTY- North Carolina News Prepared and Published For the Quick Perusal ot Our Patrons. , in onv atnhiHnn RhA mav havfi PTltPV- tained to add to her representation in , sissippi, Texas, Virginia and several OtuerS. I lie WJiai uuiuubj ui cmpiujo congress. The increase amounted to more than 118,000, but this figure , is not sufficiently -large to insure an addi tional representative. Catholic Women Meet. Cleveland, Ohio. More than 1,000 delegates, representing 125,000 Cath olic women in all parts of this coun try, assembled, in St. John's Cathedral J.o attend high mass, which formally opened the national triennial conven tion of the Ladies' Catholic Benevo lent Association. 41 New Southern Banks. Atlanta, Ga. Forty-one new banks; with a total capital of $2,612,000, be gan business or completed organiza- J tion in the south - during the month of June. Ten new banks, with a cap ital of $S25,0i30, began business or completed organization in the state of Georgia. Lynching Was Costly. Newark, Ohio. George Bohon, the president cf the Mercer National Bank at Harrousburg, Ky., and ad ministrator of the estate of Carl Eth rington, the anti-saloon league detec tive . lynched here on July 8, made formal demand on. the Licking county authorities for the $5,000 damages au thorized by the state to be paid by the county to the estate of persons lynched. Bohon stated that he would Ridge and rises nearly 200 feet above J bring suit for $40,000 damages against the ground. - the former sheriff. - . ' on the payrolls of the steam railroads of the country was 1,502,823, an in crease of 66,548 over the previous year. The par value of railroad prop erty was $17,487,868,935. One hundred thousand dollars a j-ear will be raised by Washington la bor unions to fight the open shop in this city. Plans have been formulat ed to start the movement . among the eighty local unions having a member ship of thirty-five thousand men. Ten thousand dollars has already been pledged and in addition a levy of 25 cents a month will be assessed against each member. - Another period of watching impor tations from South American coun tries to prevent the introduction of the foot and mouth disease has been inaugurated by the departments of agriculture and treasury. Wool, hair, straw, hay and ether feedstuffs known to carry the germs of this disease are being released to the importer. Nearly twenty-five thousand oJL the immigrants who arrived at United States ports during the fiscal year ended June 30 last, were denied ad mission by" immigration officials and were compelled to return to the coun tries from which they came. Various reasons were, assigned for refusing to allow them to remain here, including those of physical defects and the prob ability of their becoming public charg es. The fiscal year, 1910,. was a "mil lion immigrants year," the first for several years, the total number ad mitted being 1,041,570. Mastodon Skeletons. In charge of State curator 'II. II. Brimley, Avho will have them on ex hibition in the museum shortly, aro parts of two giant mastodon skele tons, which were dug up in the east ern part of the State at Maysyille and Jacksonville. In both cases parties were digging "ditches, when they . dis covered the bones. In order to secure the part of the skeleton in Jones county (Mayesville) it was necessary to dig for ten feet and only a skull, a set of teeth and the tusks were un earthed. At Jacksonville the skeleton was discovered by a drummer, who report ed it to the curator. Mr. Thomas Ad dicks was immediately sent to inves-- tigate and found that the skeleton was buried in the bed of a strenu With a great deal of difficulty a part of itvwas unearthed. To accomplish the task it became necessary to divert the waters cf the stream and to build several dams, and even then there was greaat difficulty, as the water rose ropidly, the location being very low. It is supposed that mastodons were once common throughout the country that now composes the eastern part of I'orth Carolina. They are supposed to have existed 50,000 to 300,000 years ago and were somewhat larger than the average African elephant. Receiver For Electric Line. Mr. Charlie A. Scott, a prominent banker of Graham, was Saturday ap pointed by Judge J. Crawford Bi2g3 receiver for the Burgrahaw Interur- ,ban Company. The petition va3 made by the holders of the bonds, the Inter state Construction Company of Rich mond, Va., and the North State .Realty Company, of Burlington. The receivership proceedings were brought on by the great number of suits against general and petty contractors who got behind in their payments for labor and material. ! The company was chartered to con struct an electric line from Bui ling ton to Haw River via Graham, and after grading the track the entire dis--tance, placing the ties and laying the track as far as Graham work was jstopped last October. Since then nothing has been done toward com pleting the line. A prominent officer jof the company stated that he believ ed the company through the receiver ship would be enabled to go ahead land complete the line. The power plant, located between Burlington and Graham, is about seventy-five per cent completed and it is believed that work will soon be renewed upon tho line and the power plant and rush ed to completion. A Jewell Lost and Recovered. . The romance of Miss Rena G. Jew ell of Charlotte, and Arthur D. Thom as of Washington, who eloped last Friday night from Washington, D. C.,. and were married early Saturday morning at Rockville, Md., has been shattered. After the refairn of the young couple Saturday with the an nouncement of, their hasty marriage, Miss Jewell's mother and Washing ton relatives took the , young bride from her husband and Sunday she was was taken to her home in Char lotte. Thoma's appeal for the parental blessing were unavailing. What fur ther action the family of the young woman will take in the matter was not announced, the mother of the bride wishing to consult her hus band. The couple had riot known each other but 24 hours. 135th Annual Meeting. The last Sunday in this Month will be a great day at Rocky River Baptist Church, Anson county. From the sur ou ding count'ej aad from South Carolina will gather the peo ple who are looking forward now to the annual "July meting" which has been held at this point for 134 pears with hardly a break. , A Strange Looking Bird. Mr. John McDowell has on exhib ition at his store at Morganton a cur iosity in the shape of a young rain erow.. It is snow white and has pink eyes or in other words is a full fledged abino. Thestrange bird was captured near town a few days ago. Second Hosiery Mill for Hickory. -Hickory is to have a second knit ting mill. A charter has been isssued The capital stock is $25,000." Hickery already has one hosiery mill, the Hickory hosiery mill, which has had a very successful career under the management cf Mr. Cline. Good Thing for Other Towns. Since Mr. C. B. Sikes, special of ficer for the humane association, be gan his duties of office about ten days ago, at Charlotte, he has frmnd live cases of cruelty and brought the offenders into the recorder's court. In every case there wa3 a conviction and the members of the association which was recently organized for the prevention cf cruelty to e-hildrpn and animals, are highly gratified with the success it is meeting.