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ZEfte Chatham iftecoift H. A. LONDON EDITOR ATTD PEOPRIETOlt. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: 81-30 Per Year S f t 1 I I j A J rill I .A m. t I A MVvr fir STRICTLY IN ADVANCE i VOL. XXXIII. PITTSBORO. CHATHAM COUNTY: N. C, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17. 191C. NO. h $be Cbatbam fteeorb. RATES OF ADVERIISIIIG: One Square, oao inertion One Square, two' Inaertk ns. . . . Lff One Square, one month .. .f nannnnnt For Larger Advertise ments Liberal Contracts will bo mada. TAfT IS SGORED AS A MEDDLER Governor Patterson Issues Warm Statement to President. WOULD SPLIT SOLID SOUTH Patterson Says "Pernicicus intermeddling" cf President Talt Should Be Resented. Nashville, Tenn. As an outcome erf the -recent judicial election In Tennes see, in which the regular Democratic nominees, which he supported, were defeated by Independents, who had the active aid of the Republican or ganization, Gov. M. R. Patterson is sued a statement to the Democracy of Tennessee. In it he expresses a willingness to waive the Democratic nomination for a third term, which he has already received in a primary which he con trolled, and again test the question of a choice of the Democracy in any sort of a primary. Thus he would hope. he says, to save the state to Democ racy. He refers to "the pernicious inter meddling of a Republican President with the affairs of the Democratic party in our state," and says it should 1)0 resented. Deverly, Mass. President Taft and his political advisers believe, that the republican party has a good oppor tunity to carry Tennessee this fall and thus make a break in the "solid south." With this end in view, Mr. Taft invited a number of the party leaders in Tennessee to Beverly in or der to see if the Republicans cannot adjust their differences of the past, and go into the coming campaign in harmony. The Tennesseans came to lunch with the President. Among them were Representative Austin, Lea Brock, Newell Sanders and Judge G. M. Henderson. The Republican hope, as viewed from Beverly, is based en the split in the Democratic party and the recent overwhelming victory of the Indepen dent judicial ticket, which won by from 4,500 to 5,000 majority. In addi tion to a governor, there is to be elected this fall a legislature, which will name a successor to Senator Fra zier. - , COTTON STILL KING. Statistics Show But for Cotton the Nation Would Be Debtor. New York City. Cotton la still king, though statistics derived from strictly offlcial sources running back as far fis 1790, it is disclosed that the United States would today be a debtor instead of a creditor nation but for her exports of raw cotton. Upon our cotton w have actually depended to maintain our credit in the world of commerce. From 1790 up to June 30. 1909. the aggregate value of all exnorta from the United Staes was 147,999,224,405; during all his period of 119 years the total trade balance of the United States has been $6,436,114,566: the to tal value of raw cotton exported mean- wmle was $13,598,353,086 no account being made of the exports of manu factured cotton or of cotton seed prod ucts. In other words, if we had had no raw cotton to export, we would now. as a nation appear on the bal ance sheets of the world's commerce as a debtor to the extent of more than ?7,000,000,000. In presenting this brief compilation the Southern Commercial Congress says that its purpose is to lift cotton Its enemies, its cultured methods ana all subjects related to the great staple out of and above consideration as solely southern interests and to give it is natural and rightful place as a great national interest. GENERAL CROP CONDITIONS. Crop Conditions Throughout the Coun try Were Bad in July. Washington.. Crop growth through out the United Sates wa3 unfavorable during July, according to the bureau of statistics of the Department of Agriculture. The deterioration was about 4.2 per cent., as compared with an average decline cf 2.3 per cent, during July. The aggregate cf crop conditions on August 1 (100 representing the aver age on August 1 of the. past ten years) for the Southern states was as follows: Virginia 106, West Virginia 99, North Carolina 99, South Carolina 93, Georgia 95, Florida 94, Kentucky 93, Tennessee 104, Alabama 100, Missis sippi 103, Texas 106, Oklahoma 89, Arkansas 101. v United States May Bring Peace. Washington. General Sebastian Sa igas and Dr. Modesto Barrios, repre sentatives of the Madrize faction in Nicaragua, had an ' interview" at the state department . with Huntington Wilson, acting secretary of state, and presented a formal representation, which, If accepted, in their opinion, would bring about a settlement of the troubles which have been seething in the Central American republic. That no arguments which they presented, however, have changed in the least the fixed policy, of this government in regard to the Nicaraguan situation was made absolutely plain at the department. Severe Shock Recorded. . Cleveland, Ohio. The seismograph at St. Ignatius observatory showed an earthquake probably 2,000 mile3 dis tant from "Cleveland, has occurred. The beginning of the vibrations was recorded at 10:36 a. m., and the end at. 11:01. The east-west wave mo tions were pronounced. Don Jaime issues Address. San Sebastian, Spain. Don Jaime, the Carllst- pretender to the throne, has issued a circular letter addressed to the leaders eff the Carlist3, in which he advises his followers to re sist with all their force the rising tide of radicalism, but not to have recourse to violence. The pretender says that, he does not propose to de part from pacific methods unless the existing regime is threatened. "If rev olution meanaces religious, family and property traditions of Catholic Spain," he adds, "I will do my duty." Killed Self by Starvation. Newark, -N. J. Miss Virginia Ward law, one of the mysterious sisters un der indictment for the murder of Mr3. Ocey W. M. Snead, the Bast Orange bathtub victim, died in. the house of daention here. Death - was due, in the opinion of physicians, to starva tion. The fate of the aged woman in this respect paralleled that of her alleged victim, for doctors who exam mod Ocey Snead before her death said her ailments were all due-to lack of nourishment. - Opinion is Miss Ward law deliberately starved herself. PRESIDENTIAL TIMBER. Senator Bailey Given Great Endorse, ment by Texas Democrats. Galveston,.,. Texas. United States Senator Joseph WT. Bailey was given a great demonstration by the State Democratic convention, which was in session here. The demonstration lasted for 41 minutes, and continued until he drove out to the gulf shore and addressed the shouting throng. It served to em- phasize the fact that the convention is most distinctive in its advocacy of Senator Bailey. The demonstration came when Hon. Clarence Ousley, temporary chairman, in his address, sounded the keynote, declaring that the convention should reaffirm the tariff plank of the state platform of 1S96, which was a decla ration in favor of a tarff for revenue. Mr. Ousley had previously said that Texas should send a message to the Democracy of the nation, and Senator Bailey said something of the sort when he addressed the convention. In the meantime, his friends in the con vention have been acclaiming him as the party's candidate for President in 1912. The tariff plank will go in this platform, with the idea that it will set a pace for the Democracy of. ether states and put Senator Bailey promi nently before the country as presiden tial timber. SENATOR HEYBUSN RAVES. Stopped Orchestra From Playing Dixie at Reception in Idaho. Seattle, Wash. Senator W. B. Hey burn of Idaho dislikes "Dixie." He created a sensation at Wallace, Idaho, stopping the orchestra while the mu sicians 'were playing the popular strains. Colonel Hamer had just finished his address, and the orchestra had started a medley of well-known airs. About the sixth number in the med ley was "Dixie." The senator leaped to his feet, strode across to the mu sicians and cried out: "This is a Re publican meeting; we want no such tunes here. - The amazed musicians stopped im mediately. The senator strode back to his seat. After a moment cf si lence Mayor Hanson arose and closed the meeting. Enlisted Strength of Army. Washington. During the present year the enlisted strength of the army has been flved approximately at 87, 000 men under the arrangement of the estimate of Mai.. Gen. Leonard Wood, chief of staff. General Wood's plan is is to use the army appropriation for soldiers and materials and make re ductions in other directions. The new chief of staff wants an army of fight ing men equipped for business. Pool Selling Ordered Stopped. Cleveland. Governor Harmon haj notified Sheriff Hirstius of Cuyahoga county to stop pool selling, which has teen going on at the Grand Circuit races at North Randall. Chase of 10,000 Miles. New York City. A 10,000-mile chase covering the entire country has ended with the arrest of J. Bayard Long worth, who claims to be a cousin of Congressman Nicholas Longworth, the son-in-law of Theodore Roosevelt. He was arrested at his handsome Brook lyn home on a warrant issued in De cember, 1908, accusing him of selling lots he did not own. Three months ago he wa3 almost caught in St.s Louis and had been heard of, the police say, in Boston, Baltimore, Chicago ana Pittsburg. Virginia Town is Sinking. Staunton. Va. Federal aid has been asked by Staunton, following the open ing of a third giant hole in the nearc of the city, making three cave-in3 in all in 24 hours. Property worth thou sands of dollars has been destroyed, and it is feared the public" school and a fire house ,will go. - Many Cholera Deaths. St. Petersburg. From July 31 until August 6, 20.658 cases of cholera were repoi ted through Russia, with ; 8,679 deaths. v GAYNOR'S RECOVERY NOW SEEMS ASSURED Blood Poison Alone Menaces New York City's Mayor. GALLAGHER TALKS OF CM Gallagher Shows a Trace of Penitence for His Deed Says His "Wrongs" Overcame Him When Ee Saw Gaynor. " New York City. William J. Gay nor, mayor of New York City, lies in St. Mary's hospital with two seg ments of a split bullet fired by James F. Gallagher, who sought to assas sinate him, still buried ; in his neck and mouth, but he has shown not one alarming symptom. It is bej-ond human pwer to say whether he will recover, for not even the most renowned specialist can say whether blood poisoning will be the U. S. RUSHING TO RUIN. -r- J&f J 'v'..-V.-"v' Saddle - WILLIAM J. GAYNOR. The Assassin's Victim. aftermath, but s.3 yet the mayor'3 temperature has given no cause for alarm on this score. Every indication is that the wound is healing beautifully. The mayor chats pleasantly with those who are allowed to see him, and confidently predicts that he will be out in a few days. Although familiar with Gallagher's annoying letters and his persistent at tempts to obtain reinstatement as a night watchman in the dock depart ment, the mayor does not know that it was he who fired the shot. Aside from declaring that he should not have been fired upon for doing his duty, he has in no way criticised his assailant and mainaitsn a marked aversion to discussing the event.. Gallagher made his first frank talk concerning the crime. "While I will not say that I am sorry," he said, "I cow hope that the mayor will get well. But I wanted to teach high officials to regard the rights of subordinates. I consider that I had to shoot the mayor as a lesson to the country. I did what I did for personal principles and was not prompted by any anar chistic belief. - "I am sorry that Commissioner Ed wards was wounded, for I was aiming only at the mayor. But even the thought of killing him had not been long in my mind.. In fact, I reached no decision until I bought a newspa per. The paper said that Gaynor was going to sail for a vacation. That made me angry to think that, he should take a vacation in Europe while I did not even have a chance to work, much less get a vacation. So I hurried over the Twenty-third street ferry and inquired my way to the Kaiser Wilhelm. "My wrongs had proved more than I thought I could bear. Over and over I sized up my hard station in life and contrasted it with that of some other men of Mayor Gaynor, who had wronged me, in particular. At length I determined to seek re venge and I concluded it should be justly mine. "I had carried the gun for nine years. I feared the enemies I had made by writing letters when I was trying to reform the dock department." Cardinal Gibbons Moralizes cn the Danger o! Serl-indulgence. New York City. That the Ameri cans are closely approaching a repro duction of the age of extravagance and inordinate pleasure in Which the Romans lived just : before their city was destroyed,, is the belief of Cardi nal Gibbons. He made that plain in an interview. Cardinal Gibbons is spending a few weeks with Rev. James F. O'Hara of Sotuhhampton, L L "I think we are very closely ap proaching the age of extravagance and inordinate -pleasure enjoyed by Rome just before the -fall," said the cardi nal. "The cry is for more and more riches. The rich; man is greedy for more. He seems never to have enough to satisfy his desire. - It la the same with the well-to-do. The cry is the same everywhere. "Then there is the desire for inor dinate pleasures. We have many more channels of pleasure than were in the days of Augustus Caesar, yet there is the desire for new pleasures, and for greater enjoyment. - "I have been told that many people mortgage their homes to buy. auto mobiles. If we did not have the auto mobile, there would not be the desire to mortgage the home for this pur pose, and so each new pleasure brings its demand and its toll." When the cardinal was asked what he thought would be the result of tnw condition of extravagance, he replied: "I believe the gospel of Christ will save the situation. There was no Christ, you remember, to save Rome. I hope the people will see their folly and realize the true situation. The spirit of self-denial, unselfishness and love, the principles of Christ's teach ings, will be practiced by the people then more largely, and will save us where Rome could not be saved. "This great desire for riches is mak ing people very selfish," he went on. "I do not speak cf individuals, for we have many generous ones among the rich, but I wish that more of them would - be a little les3 selfish and a little more considerate of the unfor tunate." The cardinal spoke of the great ex travagance of women and added that the women of Rome were very extrav agant, too. FROM COUNTY TO COUNTY North Carolina News Prepared and Published For the Quick Perusal of Our Patrons. Newton Man Charged With Burning. Tihere has been considerable ex citement in Newton over the arrest of Jcihn H. Raeke, charged with at-, tempt to burn the ware-house to the Newton 'hosiery mill last November. Haeke was an employe in-'the mill and after it closed he moved to Char lotte. . Raeke had made a confession in which he states he was hired to burn the warehouse. Thus warehouse is the center one of a group of wooden buildings con stituting the hosiery mill, offices, ete. About midnight one 'November night in 1909 persons living in the neigh borhood were awakened by- some thing like an explosion and foun-i flames bursting from, the front win dows of the warehouse. The fire company extinguished the flames without much damage and the owner collected -his insurance. Insairalnea Commissioner is pro secuting the case. NORTH CAROLINA EYENTS Life in the -Land of the Long Leaf Pine Colored Odd Fellows. At Elizabeth City the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of North Carolina, colored, elected the following officers: Grand Master J. B. Catus, Winton. Deputy Grand Master G. C. Cald well, Gasitonia. - Grand Secretary W. H. Ingram, Durham.- . Grand Treasurer M. Watts, cf Raleigh. ' Endowment Secretary P.-A. Rich- ! ardson, Nashville. A big public parade and grand reception brought the Grand Lodge to a close. Delegates to Irrigation Congress. ' The Governor has appointed, to represent North Carolina at the, 18th National Irrigation Congress, to be held in Pueblo, Olorado, Sept. 25 to 30, the following delegates: Mr. R. L. Knowles, Hertford ; W. A. Mauney, King's Mountain; Dr. J. H. Pratt, Chapel Hill; H. A. London, Jr., Pit'tsboro; Mr. J. M. Pruden, Jr., Edeniton; Dr. R. W. Haywood, Gee ens boro; Mr. J. B. Sherrill, Concord; Mr. Frank D. Hackeifct, N. Wulfeesboro; Mr. W. II. Phillips, Lexington; -Mr. J. P. FnizzeUe, Stoow Hill; H. E. Fries, Winston-Salem ; W. S. Cobb, Lumber Bridge; Henry Perry, "Hen derson; W. M. Boone, Louisburg; A. L. Starr, Mooresville; S. Otho Hold ing,. Wake Forest; J. A. Noell, Rox boro; R. H, Hai crier, Haynesville, No. 2; A. S. McNeill, Gibson; E.- A. Hamrick, Ellenboro; R. L. HauJT man, Morgan ton; A. Hall Johnson, Marion. URGE COTTON CEO? -IS NEEDED BY Wt Manufacturers Say Big Crop Would Not Lower Price. MILLS ARE FORCED TO CURTAIL L Gcod Supply of ' Raw Cctton Tals Teat Would Go Far Toward Equalizing tie' Cost of Raw Material Republican ITominees. Supreme Court Chief Justice J T. Hicks, of Vance. I Associate Justices E. W. Timber- : lake, of Wake, and Harry Skinner. ! ot m-t. j . Corporation Comirnission James II. White, of Madison, G. M. Hoover, ! of Davidson. AN EDUCATIONAL ASSET. Specializing in a High Class Techni cal School. The South is fast approaching the top notch in educational development. .We are beginning to awaken to the fact that right here in our own South land, opportunities are opening up for our young men never before heard of. We have an institution here in our own South which the entire country is sitting up and taking notice of. This is the Georgia School of Technology. Nowhere else has the South such a valuable asset in the educational line, or a place that affords greater advan tages, than this wonderful school at Atlanta, Ga. - With an appropriation of ?100,OOO.CO additional, by next year new struc tures will have been erected, thus in creasing the capacity for the techni cal development of the New South's future engineers. A remarkable feature - about this school is that the demand for the graduates far exceeds the supply. A lucrative position awaits every grad uate, no matter from which depart ment he comes. It is not surprising that accommodations are hardly avail able each term for all the young men who wish to "enroll. Porto Rico's Population. Washington. The population of the islands of Porto Rico is 1,118,012, as shown by the complete returns of the recent census. . This is a gain of 164, 769, or 17.3 per cent., as compared with the census of 1S99. San Juan is shown to be the largest town in the island, its popualtion being 48,716. Ponce comes next with 35,027. San Juan made a gain in the eleven yeara of 16,668, or 52 per cent, and Ponce a gain of 7,075. Texas Ticket. Galveston, Texas. After endorsing United States Senator Joseph W. Bai ley for the Democratic nomination far President in 1912 and nominating a full state ticket, headed by Oscar B. Colquitt for governor and A. B. Da vidson for, lieutenant governor, the Democratic slate convention adjourn ed. Both Colquitt and Davidson are anti-prohibitionists, notwithstanding the fact that the party in the recent primary declared in favor of the sub mission of a prohibition amendment to the people. , Masons Take Important Step. Chicago. The resolution adopted establishing a concordat between the Knights Templars governing bedies is said by Masons to be the most im portant action in many years. The concordat establishes amicable' rela tions between the Knights of England, Ireland, .Scotland, Canada and the United States. "All the Templars of the world are affiliated with the gov erning bodies of one or other of the nations, and this legislation pratcicai nations, and this legislation practical-whole. Reduced Cotton Seed Rates. Washington. Material reductions are made in the freight rates on cot ton seed from joints on the Central of Georgia " railroad and Jacksonville, Fla.,-by order of the interstate com merce commission in a decision hand ed down in the case of the Florida Cotton Oil company against the Cen tral of Georgia Railway company. The order becomes effective on October 1, 1910, and remains in effect for at least two years. Socialist Ticket in Gaston. Handbills have been distributed in Gastonia announcing that -all the So cialists in Gaston county are called to meet in convention in the court house at Dallas Saturday, August 20, for the. purpose of nominating a sen atorial and legislative ticket. Allison's Death Set for Feb. 24. The greatest crowd, according to public opinion, that ever jammed and ; packed and elbowed its way into the '. county court house of Buncombe was L ... v ii l v iivn tr uuc vuuiitii paocvu the death sentence upon James B. Allison, convicted of murder in the first degree for the killing on July 5th. of Floyd MeGee. Allison, who maintained a cailm de meanor throughout the trial and sen tence, is now wild, cursing the maai he killed, and saying he would like to be out for .a "while with a rifla to show Asheville what a rough time is. Allison will not appeal his 'case. His only hope of escaping the electric chair is a commutation of his sen tence by the Governor. . Children Killed in Sight of Mother. Sunday morning Vada Cook . and J Hazel Myers, two little girls between 8 -and 10 .years old, were killed about five miles north of Thomasville by northbound passenger train No. 44. The two girls accompanied by their mothers had gotten off train No. 11 from High Point at Lake. As they were coming up the track they met a freight train going south and get ting out of the way of the - freight train got in the way of train 44 go ing north. The two little girls w-cre &truck in the back of the head and their ski-alls were crushed, killing them instantly, the mothers barely escaping death by being only a little further away from the track. An Unnatural Father. Thomas Jarvis, a young Davie county farmer, was killed in a hor rible manner by his father, William Jarvis, near Advance. ' It appears that the father, and son got into a dispute, when the former drew his knife and cut the latter across the abdomen from hip to hip, after which the father stamped the son until his bowels protruded. .The son died and, the father escaped. A Rowdy Mixed Excursion. A smraM sized riot, in which pistols and bottles were freely used, too?r place Thursday night an Southamp ton county, Virginia, on a mixed ex cursion train returning from Norfolk to Greensboro. The trouble started .when a whita man went back into .the negro coach and 'bought a bottle of liquor. One of the negroes jerked the bottle oat of his pocket and a big fight ensued. Ted Stanley, white, of Guilford" Col lege, was shot in his right breast and seriously hurt. Robert Jones, a youth 16 years of age of Greensboro, was severely beaten over the head by the negroes with a bottle. They are at the hospital at Dan ville, and four- negroes are in jail, having been arrested, when the train (arrived at Danville. SevcraJ North Carolina officers who were on tlue train made no arrests. Dr. Delegates to Whateveriti3. Among the list of 112 physicians from all parts of the state commit sioned ilo represent North Carolina at the fifteenth annual international congress on Hygiene and Demography alt Washington, D. C, 'September 20 to Oetober 1, are E. C. Register, F. O. Hawley and J. P. Monroe, of Charlotte; W. II. Mclv-enzie and II. F. Nathan, of Salisbury and T. E. McBrayer, Sh-eilby. Hookworm at High Point. Capt. E. P. Carpenter, of the High Point Rifles, has received the health report of his compaaiy in which il etia.'tes that fourteen of. Ms men are affected with the hookworm disease. The names are given and it is sug gested that they receive treatment at ones from their respective family physicians.- The report comes from Dr. E. B. Glenn of Asheville. wlv was the surgeon in charge of the First Regiment at Chicamauga last month. ' , China Wants More Time. Washington. Owing to the fact Lihat China has asked for more time in which to prepare for the meeting of the international opium congress, which" was to have been held at The Hague beginning September 15, the meeting has been postponed. May Die from Mosquito Bite. Estherwood, La. Mrs. L. Simon, rs siding near here, is in a serious con dition as a result of a mosquito bite. Bitten on the head, erysipelas follow ed and her recovery is doubtful. Aldrich Will Quit. V Boston. Details of the conference at Warwick, R. I., on Sunday ln3t, at tended by Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, Senator W. Murray Crane of Massa chusetts and Secretary to the Presi dent Norton, became known in higher political circles here. It is - said that Senator Aldrich definitely told his callers that stories to the effect that he had reconsidered his determina tion not to run again for the senate are entirely without foundation. The senator said he had made all of his plans to retire from public service Talk: of 90-Mile Ride Te:t. There is talk among the officers of the North Carolina national guard of getting up a ninety-mile practice ride to be pulled oft some time in October, probably. The idea is for the ride to . start from Raleigh and circle around so as to take in' sach points as Louisburg, Franklinton, Hender son and Durham, with a stop-over at each, place. Incidentally there will be entertainments of one sort or an other at each place, such as barbe cues and the like that give promise of special enjoyment to counteract the strain of the practice ride.. Extraordinary Cabbage Snake. While Mrs. E. K. Huff, of Kerners ville, was cutting up a cabbage (grown in her garden) she noticed something "moving, through it." Carefully cutting it apart she found it to be a genuine "cabbage snake," being perfectly while, about the size of number 50 sowing thread, its head looked like a "fly speck," its length being something like eighteen to twenty-four inches, being removed from the cabbage and placed in a boit'tle of waiter its movements of "head, body, and tail" were identical of any other of the "snake tribe." It will be preserved in water as long as it "will live, and then be placed in -adcoibol. ; New Orleans. Wnile the high price of cotton this season, due to the ac tual scarcity of that staple, has been a boon to Southern producers, whose yield was so materially curtailed by the combination of unfavorable weath er and insect damages during the last growing season, it has been some thing of ,a blow to the cotton manufac turing industry. While the price of cotton cloth has advanced materially, It has hardly kept pace with the riso in. the raw material, and, even if it had, the supply of raw material avail able would not have permitted the op eration of all the mills on full tim While curtailment has been notice able all over the world, it has teen more marked among American mills than elsewhere. Establishments, both North and South, have been forced to curtail production, some stopping but a few days a week, others run ning alternate weeks, and still others closing down altogether, leaving the number of mills running full time re duced to comparatively moderate pro portions. Mills have remained run ning at least on short time wherever possible, owing to the loss that en tire stoppage entails, as fixed charges go on whether the plant -bo run or not, and when Idle there is no source of income wherewith to meet the charges. As a result of short time and cur tailment among American mills many operatives have been thrown out of employment. In the big manufactur ing centers of New England this con dition of things is beginning to be severely felt, and in many portions of the South labor is also suffering. The only prospect of relief lies in tha hope of a good' cotton crop thl3 sea son. A good supply of raw cotton would do a good deal toward equaliz ing the cost of the raw material and the manufactured product and enable the mills to resume full time. A large crop, on the other hand, holds out not the smallest prospect of what might be called low prices, aa with the re-establishment of anything like a reasonable parity between raw cotton and manufactured cloths the demand from the mills for cotton would readily absorb the largest yield that the South could possibly produce. It would take a succeslon of big cropa ot bring prices down to anywhere near a basis that would be unprofita ble to the producers, hence the lat ter have nothing to fear but a crop failure, which, while it might bring big profits to a few, would be disas trous to the great majority. Circus Will Get $5,000 at Fair. The Sate Fair management is ex asperated to discover that the coun ty authorities 'have issued license to Ring-ling Bros. ' circus to show in Raleigh Thursday of .fair weak. S-sc-reitary Pogue declares this will re duce tfair receipts several thousand dollars, circus last year- having eat fair receipts $5,000. That Wreck in Raleigh. The Corporation Commission have examined a number cf witnesses to get at the cause and fix ths respon sibility for the collision in the union station yards at Raleigh in, which Seaboard Air Line northbound pas senger, train No. 84 crashed into the rear car of a negro excursion tram that had just pulled in at 1:30 Fri day morning from a moonlight ex cursion to Durham, two excursionists being killed and 14 others injured. Did Knockout Drops Kill Boy? The most important development Thursday in connection with the in quiry by a coroner's jury into the circumstances of the death of Ed ward Cromwell, who lost his life in the Rock Springs Hotel fire Tuesday night at Wilmington, was the discov ery by Dr. C D. Beil, coroner, that L. B. Sasser, a druggist, sold to J. C. Holly, proprietor of the hotel, 16 ounces of patent drops, containing laudanum, etc., about about 10 oclock Tuesday night, and the subsequent finding by the physician of a bottle in the hotel with less than a tea spoonful of the drag in it. ALDRICH WRITES CARD. Rhode Island Senator Defends the Tariff Bill. Washington. Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island, enumerating the counts under which he was indict ed by Senator Joseph L. Bristow of Kansas, in recent campaign speeches, dealing with the tariff on rubber, in a letter made public, denies all the charges in their entirety. Incidentally he paya his respects in caustic language to Senator Bristow, and what he terms "a little Group of men" which entertain opinions sim ilar to those of the Kansan. The letter is addressed to Hon. Wil liam B. McKinley of Illinois, chair man of the Republican congressional committee, and wa3 sent to the head quarters of the committee in this city. Referring to the charges made by Senator Bristow a3 "absurd misstate ments," Senator Aldrich' said the per sistent reiteration . of them impelled him to make a full statement. At the outset of hia long letter the senator divided the speeches by Mr.. Bristow into five parts, each of which con tained a specific charge. He then dealth with them In orderr Southsrn M. cf W. to Charlotte. The Southern is to move its de partment cf maintenance of way from. Gcluml-iia, S. C, to Charlotte. A survey- is being made between Graham and Poplar streets, in the northern part of the city, with a j view of extending; the tracks, and of the erection of a building in that sec tion. T'he rr.ovdng cf this department of the Sojbbsnni to . Charlotte means , the "bringing of 100 men, who will nave pomes in tne city. Rebelled at Mayor's Orders. ..Columbus, Ohio. Thirty-five out ol 140 members cf the night Columbua police force rebelled when called upon by -Mayor Marshall to board street cars In an effort to protect non-union carmen and to catch persons who have been attacking cars nightly with stones, bricks and bullets. The mu tineers, Mayor Marshall says, will be . dismissed from the department, Included in the thirty-five who refus ed to board the cars are some oi the oldest and brave jt men on the force. . Ill-Gottcn Gains Recovered. Memphis, Tenn. Disclosures of a most sensational nature involving high former officials of the Illinois Cen tral railroad in the conspiracy by which the Memphis Car company is alleged to have defrauded the rail road of hundreds cf thousands of dol lars were made when a decree was entered in Chancellor Heiskell's court. By this decree every dollar's worth of property in the Memphis Car com pany's plant and a sum in cash will be turned ever to the Illinois Central railroad.