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MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED
Complete Review of Happenings of
Greatest Interest From All
Parts of World.
Southern.
For the first time in the history of
the New Orleans cotton exchange, the
last few days of trading have shown a
big clean-up on the bear side of the
market. Estimates of the profits vary,
but more than one prominent trader
says at least $2,500,000 was taken in,
very largely from bulls trading in the
New York exchange. The weekly
statement of the New Orleans clearing
house shows an increase in business
of $668,000.
A renewal of the heavy selling
movement in the cotton market seem
ed calculated to remove whatever
doubt may have existed following the
big decline that at last leading bull
interests, including Eugene Scales,
Colonel Thompson, the New Orleans
operators, and others who have fig
ured so prominently in the market
reports of the last two years as hav
ing taken fortunes out of cotton, had
largely thrown over their holdings.
Various estimates were" ventured as
to the probable losses of the bulls
and their friends, all of which ran
up into the millions. In spite of a
feeling that rallies were to be expect
ed after such drastic liquidation as
that of several days past, local senti
ment still seemed of a very bearish
average after the close of business
here, and there was talk in some quar
ters of 11 and even 10 cents cotton.
Through an arrangement perfected
between the United States weather
bureau and the Southern Bell Tele
phone company, more than 25,000
Southern farmers began receiving the
daily weather reports by telephone on
July 1.
To fight the threatened outbreak of
the Southern pine beetle, a bark bor
ing insect which caused enormous
damage to healthy living timber in
the Virginias in the early nineties,
and which has recently been reported
in different sections of the South, a
forest insect field station has been es
tablished in Spartanburg, S. C, by the
bureau of entomology of the United
States department of agriculture. Rec
ognizing the importance of concerted
action and that the danger is com
mon to all timber owners, the South
ern railway is endeavoring to call the
attention of timber owners through
out the South to the activity of the
bureau in this matter.
The tariff committee of the Ameri
can Cotton Manufacturers' association
representing a dozen Southern states,
held an all-day executive session in
Charlotte, N. C., framing the position
of the Southern textile manufacturers
on the proposed revision of the cotton
goods tariff. Briefly stated, the South
em manufacturers oppose any revis
ion of the cotton goods tariff at this
time, and their reasons are set forth
in a lengthy letter to congress.
The reign of prohibition in Mont
gomery county, Alabama, which has
been on in the city and county since
1909, was officially killed at a local
option election held when voters went
on record by a majority of more than
4 to 1 in favor of a reversion to the
"wet column." Results from the va
rious beats showed that more than
twenty-five hundred of the voters
were in sympathy with the manufac
ture and sale of intoxicating liquors,
as opposed to about six hundred
against it.
Russell county, Alabama, on the
Georgia border, opposite Columbus,
went wet by a large majority in the
recent election. (
General.
That there exists a gigantic, county
wide arson trust with headquarters in
Kansas City and representatives in
nearly all the large cities, the mem
bers of which make a business of set
ting fire to buildings to enable the
owners to collect insurance, was the
sensational charge made by State Fire
Marshal C. J. Doyle, in an address
delivered before the Chicago Associa
tion of Commerce. Members have
been found at work in Bloomington,
Springfield, 111.; Pittsburg, Cleveland,
New York, Buffalo, St. Louis, Chicago
and other cities.
The new treaty of commerce and
navigation between the United States
and Japan Is now in operation, replac
ing the old treaty negotiated during
Secretary of State Gresham's admin
istration. Ethel Barrymore, the acrtess, has
canceled her engagements In the
Northwest and left for New York.
Mail advices from Rivas, Nicara
gua, describe the capital, Managua, as
in a sttae of siege, the prisons filled
with political prisoners, loaded with
chains. Many of these are not charg
ed with specific offenses. They are
eaid to be unloyal.
The Russian foreign office confirm
ed the report that Baron Rosen would
not return to his post as Russian am
bassador at Washington. George Bak
fcemtieff is the nominee now in view
for the mission.
Reports were persistent in circula
tion in official Mexican circles that
President De La Barra is preparing to
tender his resignation to the govern
ment and retire. He is said to have
been moved to this determination by
the lawlessness prevailing throughout
the republic and by the failure of
Francisco I. Madero to quell the dis
orders. Complaints against existing freight
rates on watermolons and cantaloupes
shipped from Southern points to
Northern and Eastern destinations
weree made to the interstate com
merce commission by more than one
hundred commission merchants of
New York. Recently the railroads
made slight reductions in the rates on
melons, but refused to deliver them
in. .New York City, the deliveries, ac
cording to the tariffs, being made in
Jersey City.
A lone bandit who attempted to
hold up the occupants of a Pullman
on eastbound Northwestern passenger
train No. 8, lies in Belleplain, Iowa,
hospital with a bullet wound in his
side. He gave his name to the po
lice as William Morris of Plainfield,
N. J. While the surprised passengers
were hurrying to comply with the
train robber's orders to surrender
their valuables, Arthur Morris, the
brakeman, slipped into the car and
got the drop on him.
The process of removing the watei
surrounding the wreck of the Maine
was practically completed when the
water level in the coffer dam had been
lowered 18 feet, leaving the wreck
surrounded by islets of mud, small
pools and sink holes of green slimy
water. hTe soundings show nowhere
a depth in excess of four feet.From
the appearance of the bottom of the
wreck it is evident that a tremendous
explosion occurred.
Twenty-one miners were kileld in
an explosion in the shaft of the Cas
cade Coal and Coke company's mine
at Sykesville. nine miles from Dubois,
Pa. All of the dead but three are for
eigners. The explosion was slight, as
evidenced by the small damage done
the mine, but the deadly afterdamp
is responsible for most of the deaths.
Neither mine officials nor mine in
spectors can assign any cause for the
explosion, as there are no survivors
from whom to gain an explanation,
but it is the general belie? that some
of the men drilled into a pocket of
gas.
Washington.
Mud-bespattered after a strenuous
trip from Washington by automobile
over flooded roads and swollen creeks,
President Taft faced an audience at
Manassas, Va., made up in part of vet
erans who wore the blue and the gray
within a few miles of the scene of
the first great conflict of the Civil war,
and was applauded and cheered when
he made a plea for international
peace. The president declared a gen
eral arbitration treaty bith with Great
Britain and with France probably
would be signed within the next ten
days. He added that he hoped within
the next few .days to announce that
the three other great powers would
enter into similar agreements with the
United States. Thin lines of veterans
of the blue and the gray, with halting
steps, slowly advanced, toward each
other and, meeting, clasped hands in
fraternal greeting on the historic bat
tlefield, where, fifty years ago, they
were engaged in the battle of Bull
Run, the first great conflict of the
Civil war.
Watermelons grow so large in Geor
gia nowadays that they are christened.
One weighing 62 pounds arrived at
the house office building in Washing
ton, D. C, from Gray county, Georgia,
consigned to Representative Rodden
berry of that state. It was placed on
exhibition at the entrance to the build
ing. Carved in the rind was "Hoke
Smith.' The melon, too large for
shipment in an ordinary barrel, came
carefully packed in a specially con
structed crate.
Attorney General Wickersham, be
fore the Minnesota Bar association, in
Duluth, took an advanced stand on the
further Federal regulations of corpo
rations and declared a government
commission to regulate great indus
trial organzations in the same way
that the interstate comerce commis
sion regulates railways, was certainly
most desirable. Mr. Wickersham's
speech was little short of being sensa
tional in many of its features.
The Civil war is receiving almost
as much attention in the senate these
days as though it were a present live
political issue. The senate again
turned its attention to that historic
struggle and afforded Mr. Heyburn
another opportunity to vent his spleen
on the South, its heroes and its mem
ories. The latter varied his usual
speech by roundly abusing the news
papers of the country. The discus
sion was precipitated by a bill of
Senator Williams of Mississippi to
appropriate $50,000 from the Federal
treasury toward the erection of a
monument costing $125,000 to the
men constituting the naval forces of
the Confederacy, who fought on the
Mississippi river.
President Simon of Haiti appears
doomed to follow President Diaz of
Mexico and to give way to another
Revolutionary government, according
to advices reaching Washington. In
the opinion of Captain Dismuke of the
gunboat Petrel, which is at Port-au-Prince
watching the operations of the
Revolutionists at Gonaives, the Revo
lutionists already practically are vic
torious and all of the towns of import
ance except the capital are in their
possession. Reports from Cape Hay
tien state that the reign of terror
there is still in full sway.
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P1TTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, R C, JULY 26, 1911.
THE COUNTY SEAT IS IN AVERY
NEWSPAPERS
SUED
F
OR DAMAGES
W. M. CARTER, DEFENDANT IN
THE WARE-KRAMER DAMAGE
SUIT, FILES COMPLAINT.
CARTER CHARGES NONSUITED
Editoral in Asheville Citizen Copied in
Raleigh News and Observer Com
mented on Charges Against Carter
Amount Claimed $100,000 Each. .
Raleigh. It is learned that W. M.
Carter who was one of the defendants
in the $1,200,000 damage suit of
Ware-Kramer Company vs. American
Tobacco Company here, in which the
jury gave damages amounting to $70,
000, and in which the charges as to
Carter were nonsuited, has, since the
termination of the trial, filed his com
plaint in the suit for damages he in
stituted some time ago against The
Asheville Citizen and The Raleigh
News and Observer, the amount
claimed being $10,000 against each
newspaper. This suit was instituted
on the strength of an editorial in The
Citizen and copied by The News and
Observer, commenting on a news
story setting out the charges in the
Ware-Kramer suit as to Carter hav
ing, as an agent of the American To
bacco Company, procured a position
as salesman for Ware-Kramer Com
pany and set about to destroy the
trade of Ware-Kramer Company. In
the recent trial against the trust the
plaintiffs failed to sustain their
charges against Carter and it is on
the strength of this that he now un
dertakes to press his suit against the
newspapers, whose editorials were
based entirely on the question of
whether the allegations of Ware
Kramer Company were true. Both
defendant newspapers published the
progress of the trial and the nonsuit
ing of the case against Carter for
failure of Ware-Kramer Company to
sustain their charges.
Beginning of Good Roads.
One of the largest and most en
thusiastic good roads meetings ever
held in western North Carolina was
pulled off in Tayorsville. About three
thousand people were assembled to
meet the good roads train being
operated by the Southern Railway
and to talk good roads, especially a
highway from Statesville by Taylors
ville to Lenoir and on to connect with
the scenic highway now being built
along the crest of the Blue Ridge.
Delegations were here from Iredell
and Caldwell counties. A picnic din
ner was spread and, after all appe
tites were satisfied, the crowd assem
bled in the court house, where the
meeting was called to order by Mr.
J. H. Burke and addresses made by
Mr. L. E. Boykin of the United States
Good Roads Association, W. J. Hurl
burt of the land and industrial depart
ment of the Southern Railway, Col.
H. B. Varner of the North Carolina
Good Roads Commission, Messrs.
Caldwell Mills and French of Iredell
and Messrs. Newland and Nelson of
Caldwell.
After the addresses a resolution
was passed, unanimously asking the
county commissioners to appropriate
$50 a mile to help build the road
and a petition was heavily signed.
The meeting was enthusiastic from
start to finish and the people are
fully alive to the great importance
and benefit that the building of this
link will be to Alexander county. One
speaker said, "We have to build it
and we will build it. This will be the
beginning of good roads in Alexander
and the movement will be pushed
forward until we will stand as high
in that line as any county in the
state."
Ellerbe. The "Old Fair Ground"
has grown into a thriving town since
the Asheboro & Aberdeen Railway
was extended to this place a few
months ago. The road is a branch
from Candor, passing through a fine,
but undeveloped section of country,
which is now being opened up for
farming.
To Hold Farm Educational Meeting.
A farmers' educational meeting will
be held here Monday, July 31, and a
large number of planters and others
interested in better conditions on the
farm is expected in Elizabeth City
on that day. The meeting will be
held for the farmers of both Pas
quotank - and Camden counties and
will take place in the county court
house, two sessions, in the morning
and afternoon, to be held. Congress
man John H. Small is back of the
movement for better farm conditions
and will be present at the meeting.
Make Preparations For Reunion.
The Booster Club held a meeting for
the purpose of planning for the big
annual reunion of Confederate sol
diers Thursday, August 17. Various
committees were appointed. The re
union is the one big day in the Ca
tawba year that stands out above
every other occasion. From 5,000 to
10,000 people attend the exercises aud
the soldiers and their wives are guests
at a sumptuous banquet, provided by
the people of the town. Everything
Is decorated for the occasion on tli?E,t
day.
Commissioner M. L. Shipman Tells of
a Spirited Race in New County or
Location of County Seat.
Raleigh. Commissioner M. L. Ship
man, of the State Department of
Labor and Printing, who has just re
turned from Avery county, reports in
teresting times in that part of he
state. -
The people of the brand-new coun
ty of Avery are engaged, he says, in
a spirited contest over the location
of the county seat. Elk Park, the
temporary seat of the county govern
ment, is in the race, and so also are
Oldfield-to-Toe and Montezuma. The
election will take place early next
month. The strip of Watauga coun
ty which had the option of voting it
self into Avery county, has, it will be
remembered, recently voted to go in
with the new county. The former cit
izens of Watauga are of course inter
ested in the county seat question.
The commissioner says that in the
mountain resorts Asheville, Brevard,
Hendersonville, and other places
political questions are taking for the
time being a place of minor import
ance. The people are busy entertain
ing visitors, the present season being
a record-breaker at the mountain re
sorts.
Having Big Time at Camp Glenn.
Col. Wyatt L. McGhee, Commissary
General of the Encampment, was in
Raleigh on his way to Franklinton
to spend a few days. He says that
the soldiers in camp are drilling and
having splendid instruction in the
camp. Col. McGhee spoke in terms of
praise of Capt. Andrew Jackson
Dougherty, 30th U. S. Infantry, wno
has been detailed for this year for
service with the North Carolina
troops. He had service in the Philip
pines and in the Spanish-Americai
war. He is capable and has won the
regard of the officers and men. Ad
jutant General Leinster is trying out
the boys to select a winning team to
go to Camp Perry. He will select five
men from each regiment. He puts
every man on his merit and he will
select the finest shots. The contest
at Camp Perry is in August. "Our
Camp and range are appreciated
abroad. The 'Virginia Rifle team,
forty-six strong, is now at Camp Gleen
practicing so that their officers may
select their best men to go to Camp
Perry. I will return in a few days to
camp. The officers and men are do
ing their duty and enjoying the out-'
ing."
Home Made Wine and Cider.
In response to a suggestion about
the law governing the sale of home
made wine and cider- the following
quotation from the "near-beer" amend'
ment to Statewide prohibition law is
given. It seems that there is a good
deal of misunderstanding about the
law: ,'Provided further, that this act
shall not apply to the sale of domestic
wines when sold in quantity of not
less than two and one-half gallons in
sealed packages, or crated, on the
premises where manufactured, or to
the sale of cider in any quantity by
the manufacturer from fruits grown
on his land within the state of North
Carolina, or to the sale of wine V
any minister of religion or oher office
of a church when said wine is bought
for religious or sacramental pur
poses, or to the sale of flavoring ex
tracts or essences when sold as such,
or to the sale of medical preparaions
manufactured in accordance with for
mulas prescribed by the United States
pharamcopeia and National Formu
lary." The law goes on to define the
legal use of alcohol in medicinal pre
parations and carbonated drinks.
25 Cocaine Peddlers Convicted.
Three more negroes were sent to
work on the city streets for a term
of eight months for selling cocaine.
This makes 25 negroes who ha.ve been
convicted here in the past two weeks
for retailing the drug . About half
of these are women. The men are
working on the street chain gang and
the women are at the county work
house or reformatory. These, cocaine
retailers have been 'caught b"y means
of the assistance given the police by
a young man who has been wrecked
by use of the drug. He voluntarily
offered to aid the police in breaking
up the trade here and so far has
succeeded in furnishing irrefutable
evidence in each case.
Commissioners to Hold Meeting.
The state association of County
Commissioners of North Carolina will
hold its fourth annual convention at
Asheville, August 16. The indications
are that this will be the largest meet
ing ever held. , Practically all the
counties in North Carolina will be
represented. The state association
was organized at Morehead City in
August, 1908. It was authorized by
the Legislature at its session of 1909.
The associations second meeting was
neld at Wrightsville Beach August,
1909.
Traction Company Has Settled Suit.
After deliberating an hour, follow
ing a number of speeches, the com
missioners granted to the Traction
Company its request for franchise,
limiting its term of separate five cent
fare to five years. The Traction Com
pany announced its acceptance of the
amendment and will begin work im
mediately. Its purposes having the
cars running to the hospital within
ninety days. Thus ends the remark
able fight, which has been goin on
for some tin?.
DONG
GOOD
WORK
PHYSICIANS ARE MANIFESTING
INCREASED INTEREST IN
FIGHTING DISEASE.
LITERATURE ON THE DISEASE
Doctors Ask Aid of County Commis
sioners in Establishing Rural Free
Dispensaries For the Examination
and Treatment of the Disease.
Raleigh. The physicians of the
State are manifesting increased in
terest in the crusade against- hook
worm disease. Two-thirds of them
have supplied information concerning
the prevalence of the disease in their
practice and one-half of them have
used the state laboratory' of hy
giene to have examinations made and
practically an equal number have
treated anywhere from one to sev
eral hundred cases.
So keenly are they alive in some
counties that they are constantly dis
tributing literature about the disease
and its prevention where it will do
good. Many have appeared before
the county boards, of commissioners
to secure aid in the establishment
of the rural free dspensaries for the
examination and treatment of the
disease.
Dr. Wickliffe Rose, administrative
secretary of the hookworm commis
sion, who visited the state medical
society -at its recent meeting in Char
lotte, spoke in the highest terms of
the unusually high type of men who
constituted the assemblage. When
the physicians of the state'are seen
and known, one will expeet and re
ceive their untiring and unsefish sup
port in every movement for the up
lift of the people.
Governor Speaks at Lockly.
Roxboro. -About one thousand peo
ple attended a Masonic picnic at
Lochly. Sixty gallons of delicious
Brunswick stew was consumed, ' be
sides a great layout of picnic viands
prepared by the Masonic housekeep
ers. The stew was made by Mr. C.
H. Hunter, who is master of the Rox
boro lodge, a leading grocer, all-round
good fellow and champion stewmaker
A collection was taken for the Oxford
Orphanage and a substantial sum was
raised.
After the dinner Gov. W. W. Kitch
in was introduced and made a Ma
sonic speech. The governor was at
home with his own people, who not
only honor him but love him, and
he made such a speech as he could
make to no other audience. Palitics
was not mentioned but the purposes
and principles of Masonry were dis
cussed in an entertaining and master
ful way. A strong" plea was made for
truth, honor, integrity and right liv
ing. There was applause throughout
the speech, but the attention of every
one was on the words of the speaker.
The expressed opinion of all who
heard it was that is was a great
speech by a great and good man.
Governor Kitchin leaves here more
strongly entrenched' in the good-will
and love of the people of Person
county than ever.
Large Crowd Attended Conference.
Waxhaw. Wax haw is entertaining
the forty-sixth session of the Char
lotte district conference. An unusual
ly large number of ministers, lay
men and visitors are in attendance.
This beautiful town of only a thou
sand population is superbly entertain
ing the conference. The people of
all denominations vie with each other
In kindness, and large congregations
attend the services. Rev. J. R.
Scroggs, the presiding elder, is in the
chair and Rev. C. F. Sherrill is at the
secretary's table. Rev. J. E Weaver
of Monroe Station and Rev. A. W.
Plyler of. Trinity church, Charlotte,
preached. The- laymen's meetings
were addressed by Rev. C. F. Reid,
secretary of the laymen's movement
of Southern Methodism, Rev. H. K.
Boyer, cqnference missionary secre
tary, and Mr. E. A. Cole, the lay
men's leader for the Charlotte dis
trict. Rev. W. C. Good eloquently
spoke of the need and advisability
of the Charlotte district raising a loan
fund to help educate worthy students.
To Employ One Thousand Men.
Asheville. The Champion Lumber
Company, of Canton and Cresmont,
the $5,000,00 corporation which took
over or was consolidated with' the
Champion Fibre Company, is adver
tising for one"thousand men for work
on railroad grades, hand saw mills,
and in lumber generally. It is stated
here that the company already has
four hundred men at work and that
immense improvements are in pros
pect, including the building of thirty
eight miles of road in Canton, and
the completion of the road.
Preacher and Near-Beer Man in Fight.
New Bern. As a climax to a war
waged against saloons in New Bern
by Rev. A. C. Shuler, the former At
lanta minister, Mr. Shuler. was 'at
tacked in the streets of New Bern
by Baker Brown, a near-beer dealer
up to July 1st, and preacher and
saloonis't engaged in a fist fight. Al
though Brown is the heavier of the
two men and is regarded, It is said,
as invincible as a scrapper, Mr. Shuler
according to reports, won the decision,.
almost administering a "knockout."
When the fight was stopped.
NO. 50.
THE CHATHAM RECORD
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FROM THE OLD NR0TH STATE
Many News Notes That Have Been
Gotten Together For the People
of the Tar Heel State.
Washington. Messrs. Davis. &
Davis, Washington patent attorneys,
report the grant to a citizen of North
Carolina, of the following patent:
W. E. Morton, Shelby, comber and
.stop-motion therefor.
Henderson. One of the largest
manufacturing enterprises that has
been launched in Henderson for some
time is the automobile manufacturing
'company. It is understood the capital
stock will not be less than $75,000 to
start with and more than half has
already been subscribed. Mr. R. J.
Corbitt, president of the Henderson
Buggy and Surry companies, is at the
head of the new company.
Method. The Carolina Power and
Light Company is actively at work
building airline electric transmission
lines to convey electric currents to
Henderson, Oxford, Goldsboro and oth
er places. The sub-station is at
Method. The power to be used will
come into the substation from Blew
itt's Falls, 100 miles distant. Towers
are now being erected between Blew-
Itt's Falls and Method.
Raleigh. McKlnnon Williams, serv
ing 6 months in Harnett county for
abandonment, is pardoned by Gover
nor Kitchin in order that he may go
to a "hospital to have an eye removed
and save the other one. He is to give
$500 bond for good behavior and as a
guarantee that he will contribute as
much as $10 a month toward the sup
port of his wife, the payments to be
gin six months hence.
Fayetteville. Company F, Second
Regiment, - North Carolina national
guard, under command of Capt. Paul
Watson, left here for Morehead City
to enter encampment with their regi
ment, going via Raleigh. Dr. J. V.
McGougan of the medical orps of the
Second Regiment, accompanied the
troop. Company L, Lumber Bridge,
passed through this city en route to
encampment.
Hendersonville. Over $100,000 will
be spent in the development of Sugar
Loaf mountain as an automobile club
exclusively by the new owners of the
property, the negotiations for the sale
of which were closed. W. A. Smith
has sold Sugar Loaf mountain to
Florida capitalists, among whom is
W. M. Stinson, president of the Jack
sonville Automobile Club and of the
Florida Good Roads Association.
Henderson. A warrant has been is
sued for W. J. Jarnnagin charging him
with having procured a. marriage li
cense for James Knignt, agea i years,
and Nellie Kelley, aged 13 years. The
facts, coming to the knowledge of the
girl's father, he took steps to prevent
it by the arrest of Jarnnagin. Record
or Powell gave him the full extent
of the law by sending him to the
roads 30 days, and fining him $50.
Knight having to pay half of the costs.
Hickory. The board of directors of
the chamber of commerce, at a meet
ing, decided to raise a guarantee fund
of $200,050 to capitalize any legitimate
manufacturing industry adopted to
this city. The subscribers to this
guarantee fund will be incorporated
with officers and board of directors.
The chamber of commerce will act as
a medium to connect local capital
with competent, practical men.
Raleigh. Since 1740 Old Banks
chapel has been a place of worship
by two Christian denominations. The
present congregation has recently
erected a new modern church at the
cost of $3,500. On the fifth Sunday
in July, Rev. W. H. Moore, its form
er pastor, will preach the 'dedicatory
sermon. The Church, of- England own
ed the old chapel, but during the rev
olutionary war the rectors abandoned
it and its members became Methodists
and that denomination since has ever
possessed the property.
Asheville. Miss Dora Revis, Misa
Lourietta Hall and a small chila of
Vsheville were victims of a serious,
if not fatal runaway accident while
out driving. It seems that they were
going over a paved street, when one
of the wheels of the buggy came off
and the horse ran. All three occu
pants were thrown to the pavement
and against, the curbing. Miss Revis
and the child escaped with slight
bruises. Miss Hall, however, is in a
critical condition. Both hips were
broken and she was otherwise in
jured. Newton. In making his first ex
periment in farming with dynamite,
Mr.' Rufus Reitzel met with an ex
perience that will cause him to stand
afar off when he makes another blast.
He put a stick and a half of the ex
plosive in a stump and went off to a
point he considered far enough, a full
city block at least, and when the
charge exploded, a chunk of wood
came hurling through space like a
bullet, and the farmer, seeing it
a-coming, tried to dodge, but says he
only succeeded ingetting squarely in
its right of way, for it hit him on
the chest and arm.
Raleigh. The drought played havoc
with this year's dewberry crop. Last
year the crop was injured by an ex
cess of wet weather during the grow
ing season. This year the unprece
dented drought and hot weather re
duced the crop one-half to two-thirds,
the quality suffering somewhat, too.
Raleigh. Governor W. W. Kitchin
honored 'a requisition from the gover
nor of South Carolina for J. E.
Crouch, a white man who is wanted in
WJlliamsburg county, S. C, for
"breach of trust with fradulent in
tent." Crouch is at present under ar
rest in Charlotte.
SENATE PASSED
CANADIAN BILL
ADOPTED RECIPROCITY MEASURE
BY GOOD VOTE AWAITS PRES
IDENT'S SIGNATURE.
DEMOCRATS RESPONSIBLE
Of the Fifty-Three Votes That Were
Cast For the President's Pet Meas
ure Thirty-Two Were Cast by the
Democratic Senators.
Washington. The reciprocal trad
agreement between the United State
and Canada, embodied in the recipro
city bill that proved a storm center la
two sessions of Congress, passed the
Senate without amendment by a vote
of 53 to 17. A majority of Republi
cans voted against it. Of the 53 vote
for it 32 were Democratic and 21 Re
publicans; of the 27 against, 24 were
Republicans and 3 Democrats.
This action settled the whole Cana
dian reciprocity question so far as
Congress is concerned, and save for
executive approval and the Canadian.
Parliament's ratification, made the
pact the law of the land.
Congressional practice will delay
the affixing of the President's slgnar
ture until the House Is again in ses
sions The reciprocity bill, having or
iginated in the House, must be return
ed there for engrossment and for the
signature of Speaker Clark while the
House is sitting.
The Candian Parliament has not
yet acted on the agreement. With,
one exception the provisions of the bill
as passed by Congress will not be
come effective until the President is
sues a proclamation that Canada has
ratified the pact The exception to
this procedure is the paper and pulp
section of the bill, which it ' is an
nounced will become immediately ef
fective when the President signs the
law.
Morse Appeals From Decision.
New Orleans. Charles W. Morse
has appealed to the United States
circuit court from the recent decision,
of Judge William T. Newman of At
lanta, when he was denied a habeas
corpus writ to secure his freedom
from the Atlanta prison, where he is
serving a 15-year sentence for viola
tion of the national banking laws.
The papers in the case were received
by the clerk of the circuit court here
and will be formally filed.
Morse contended that the court
should fix his status as a prisoner un
der a 10-year sentence or under a
15-year sentence in order that he
might be enabled to determine how
much time he would get off for good
behavior and when a parole might
be applied for. He also contended
that the Atlanta prison was for the
detention of prisoners at hard labor,
Cholera Has Reached Boston.
Boston. Asiatic cholera has reach
ed Boston and caused one death while
two foreign sailors who are believed
to have brought the dread disease
here, after being taken ill, disappear
ed and their whereabouts is unknown,
according to a statement given out
officially by Chairman Durgin of the
Boston board of health. The cholera
victim was Mrs. Tamassino Mastro
denico, who died at the detention hos
pital on Gallups Island. The children
of Mrs. Mastrodenico are under obser
vation at the quarantine station and
the board has already begun the work
of examining the many persons who
may have come into contact with the
dead woman.
To Prepare Revision of Equiy Laws.
New Orleans. A committee com
posed of prominent Southern attor
neys was appointed by the United
States court of appeals to undertake
aTevislon of the equity laws for the
purpose of preventing unreasonable
delay in equity litigation, unreasonable
costs and to simplify as much as
possible the present mode of practice
in equity courts. The naming of this
committee is in compliance with a cir
cular letter issued by the Supreme
Court of the United States.
Mass of Bones Found on the Maine.
Havana. A mass of bones, suppos
ed to represent six or seven members
of the crew of the battleship Maine,
were found beneath the wreckage on
the central superstructure near the
inverted conning tower. The bones
bore evidence of fire. Still other
bones are in sight and, they will prob
ably be taken out in a day or so. The
total bodies thus far recovered is now
placed at eleven. The bones recover
ed are believed to be those of men
sleeping on the starboard main deck,
the night of the disaster.
To Speak Before Good Road Meeting.
Washington. Senator Simmons has
been Invited to deliver an address be
fore the National Good Roads Asso
ciation at its meeting in Chicago the
latter part of September and has
promised to accept if his engagements
at that time will permit. In extend
ing the Invitation President Arthur
C. Jackson of the association said the
association desired 5,000 copies of
Senator Simmons speech on Federal
aid to good roads to distribute in con
nection with its campaign for im
proved highways.
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