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THE CHATHAM RECORD It A. LONDON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 Per Year Strictly in Advance life VOL: XXXIV. . PITTSBOKO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, SEPTEMBER 13, 1911. NO. 5. THE CHATHAM RECORD Rates of Advertising One Square, one insertion . One Square, two insertions One Square, one month $L0O sun $2 50 For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts will be made. BRIEF NEWS NOTES FOR THE BUSY II MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED Complete Review of Happenings of Greatest Interest .From AH Parts of World. Southern. There is no intention of abandoning the Key West, Fla., naval station, ac cording to high officers of the navy, Consequently, it is added, the navy department will not view with any favor any suggestion for the abolition of Key West barracks and Fort Tay lor, the army posts erected to pro tect the naval station in case of war. Brigadier General Mills, commanding the department of the gulf, has rec ommended to the war department the wiping out of thos eworks of defense. G. Grosvenor Dawe, director gen eral of the Southern Commercial con gress, with headquarters in Washing ton, met in New Orleans with the ex ecutive committee of the United Amer ica's 1913 celebration, discussing the plans by which the congress will in vite conventions to this city during vite conventions to that city during 1913, plans of entertainments, the erection of a mammoth auditorium by the city and to seek special rates from Central and South America to this city during the convention year. Senators Thomas S. Martin and Claude A. Swanson were renominated at the Virginia Demcoratic primaries for the long and short terms, respect ively in the United States senate win ning out by an overwhelming majority over Representatives William A. Jones and Carter Glass of the Insurg ent wing. The election brought to an end a bitter contest waged with equal vigor on both Jones and Glass as the so-called "anti-machine candi dates." This year's cotton crop will be sold for 14 cents during September and October and 15 cents thereafter. This was the agreement of the cotton grow ers of ' the South attending the Na tional Farmers' union made at Shaw nee, Okla. Little of the proceedings of the union was made public, al though aside from the price the farm ers ask for their cotton, good roads, parcels post and dabbling in cotton futures will be discussed by the con vention. The report of tho live stock commission urges diversified farming and stock raising. The congressional immigration committee recommends increasing the tax head, excluding il literate adults from America, and the fining of foreign steamers for bring ing to this country undesirables that could be rejected on the other side. "No American cotton crop ever grown has sold for as much as the one just marketed, the total value, including the seed, having been $1, 030,000,000." This remarkable state ment is contained in the detailed sta tistics of last season's cotton crop is sued by Col. Henry G. Hester, secreta ry of the New Orleans cotton ex change. With 1,700,000 bales less than contained in the bumper crop of 1908 9, the crop just marketed netted the South $254,000,000 more. Nails driven into pine trees "boxed" for turpentine is said to h the cause of the bloody feud between the Coo leys and the Gays in Santa Rosa coun ty, Florida, which has so far resulted in the death of three of the Cooleys. One of the members of the Cooley family leased turpentine timber to the Gays, and when the first nails were found one accused the other of doing the work. It is understood the nails were driven by children at play. Southern members of the American Bar association are threatening to se cede unless William H. Lewis, the negro United States district attorney at Boston, ceases to be a member of the organization. General. Yang-tse (China) river floods, which transformed hundreds of miles of the Yang-tse valley into an enor mous lake and caused a great loss of life, are gradualy subsiding. In addi tion to the heavy death list, many thousands of the natives have been made homeless and destitute. The rice crop in the provinces of Hapen and Hunan probably will be an average one. The rice crop in Nean-Hawoi is of an exceptionally poor quality. Alexander McLeod, 28 years old, of Winnipeg, Canada, a pupil of a Chi cago school of aviation, was probably fatally injured when he fell several hundred feet from an aeroplane at a practice field in West Pullman. James R. Keene, the financier, was successfully operated on for stomach trouble in London, England. After a ten-day sleep, from which physicians were unable to arouse her, Josephine Gerbel, known on the Amer ican stage as Genevieve De Forrest, died in Chicago, 111. For three years the singer had suffered from ulcer of the stomach. Roland G. Garros, the French avi ator, broke the world's record for al titude in an aeroplane at Parame, France. He ascended 4,250 meters (13,943 feet). Nine persons perished In a' fire which destroyed the Juneau hotel at Juneau, Alaska- Twelve Virginia farmers knelt fn the obscurity of the small jury room of hte Chesterfield, Va., courthouse, praying fervently that they might pass judgment aright on Henry Clay Beat tie, Jr., indicted for the murder of his wife. Grimly determined, they arose a moment later and silently, one by one, recorded a unanimous vote of "guilty." The court of appeals to be sure will be asked to grant a writ of error and a new trial. Young Beattie, cognizant of the legal weapons yet at his disposal, did not surrender. In stead, he consoled his t broken-down father, white-haired and wrinkled, and comforted him as he whispered, "I haven't lost yet, father." The spec ter of death, which utalked Milothian turnpike road on July 18, last, when the life of Mrs. Louise Owen Beattie was taken away with the single re port of a shotgun, stared hard at the young husband, ready to claim its vic tim by electrocution on Friday No vember 24 next, but the prisoner re turned the gaze unservingly and un afraid. ' In a stirring address delivered be fore the annual convention of the Farmers' union, in session at Shaw nee, Okla., President Charles S. Bar rett stressed the necessity of compe tent leadership for the success of the movement. "During the past year, and especially during the past sum mer, I have personally visited all the important state organization and all the state conventions. And I come to you with the message that the Farmers' union is stronger, better drilled in discipline, in finer financial condition and more inspired with stern enthusiasm of sacrice, of broth erly love and of co-operation than since that never-to-be forgotten day when Newt Gresham launched its first great principles," said President Barrett. Separate indictments accusing Na than Allen of Kenosha, Wis., and John R. Collins of Memphis, Tenn., reputed millionaires, of smuggling gems val ued at many thousands of dollars into the port of New York, were brought to light in the office of United States District Attorney Wise. The indict ments had lain on his desk, bearing the seal of the Federal grand jury, since August 29, when they were hand ed down. After members of the international committee representing unions involv government, although rarely resorted Central railroad company had refused to sanction a strike of the federated shop employees of the road,- action was deferred until members of the ex ecutive board of the International As sociation of Machinists can meet in this city. The international commit tees decided it would be unwise ,to grant the sanction of the international organizations. Another link in a great North and South highway, which, according to present plans, eventually will connect Galveston, Texas, and Winnipeg, Man., was covered when the county commis sioners of Sumner county, Kansas, es tablished as a county road the old Chisolm trail from Wellington to this city, a distance of twenty miles. The road already has been established across the state of Oklahoma from here to Red river. Although Dr. Belisario Porras, min ister of Panama to the United States, has been too busy to leave Washing ton, he was married last week at San Jose, Costa Rica, to a member of a prominent Costan Rican family, ac cording to mail advices received from Colon. The wedding was by proxy, perfectly legal, and sanctioned by the government,, although rarely resorted to in the Latin Americas. Senora Por ras will join her husband soon. Three are known to De aeaa ana as many more are thought to be be neath the wreckage of the Erie and Pittsburg passenger train that crash ed into a Lake Shore freight at Dock Junction, 'Pa. THE BUILDINGS ARE TO BE DOUBLED 4 SOMETHING OF THE GREAT IM PROVEMENTS AT THE CEN TRAL HOSPITAL. FOR INSANE OF THE STATE Secretary Olds Went Over Plant and Grounds and Reports Some of the Things Done by the Stats to Care For Patients. Raleigh. Secretary Olds of the chamber of Commerce, paid a visit Xo the Central Hospital for Insane and Epileptics, and found a great deal of work in progress that will interest the whole state. Wonderful improvements have been made, both as to buildings and grounds and in three years the number of buildings and of patients has doubled, he said. The gardens and the farm are mod els and so are the new barns and dairy. At the latter two reinforced concrete silos are under construc tion, each to hold about 150 tons. In the power house a new lighting plant is being installed at a cost of $6,500, for which the legislature provided. There are two new boilers, one of 125, the other of 85 horse power, this equipment being so arranged that in case of a breakdown of one the other will be available. The lighting plant will furnish 2,500 lights for the buildings and grounds. Much work has been done in laying . out new roads through the extensive proper ty, mre than 1,200 acres in extent, of the Hospital, to the bringing up of the farm, and the advancement of the grounds. TWO ARE GRANTED PARDONS And Commutation to One Announced by Governor Kltchin He Gives His Reasons For Pardons. Washington. Comptroller of the Currency Mur ray will send in inspector, before long into Georgia and Tennessee to make inquiry, into the condition of state savings and private banks and trust companies. Some time ago the comp troller asked the banking officials of every state to furnish information relative to these banks, which are not under control of the Federal gov ernment. This information is desired for publication, in accordance with a plan adopted by the national mone tary commission. Many or tne siaxe banking officials complied witn tne re quest, but the banking superintend ents of Georgia and Tennessee only partially complied. There are no com plaints or charges against the banks. In accepting the statue of Gen. Von Steubent just presented to the Ger man nation by the United States, Em peror William delivered a speech re markable for its omission of all com ment upon peace or international ar bitration. This was more sirongiy marked because friendship between America and Germany was the key note of the speech of Congressman Richard Bartholdt, who made the pre sentation on behalf of the United States. The emperor gave hearty thanks for the monument. Congressman Charles D. Carter of Oklahoma was haled into polec court for, assaulting Samuel Gerber and Joseph Josephson, raincoat clerks, for alleged insults to Miss Italy Carter, the congressman's daughter, but the case was postponed. Two warrants chargin gassault were sworn out, and when the case was called by Judge Maloney in the United States branch of the police court Walter A. Johnson, Carter's lawyer, asked for a postpone ment. Mr. Carter will ask for a jury trial. He was in court, but "was not arraigned. , w . , He Gets, Pardon Number Two. JC. J. Arnette, of Sampson county, sent to the State's prison in 1903 for secret assault, was for the second time, granted a pardon, and on con ditions, as was the first. Arnette was first conditionally par doned by Governor Glenn, but he vio lated the pardon, being convicted of drunkenness .and disorderly conduct. Governor Kitchin revoked the first pardon, and Arnette has been in jail two months pending tne revocation. Beecause of this, that he is a cripple, and that there are many appeals for his pardon again. Governor Kitchin granted it, and sets out as the rea sons the following: "This party was pardoned by Gov ernor Glenn on condition that he re main of good behavior, sober and in dustrious. Having violated the con dition of his pardon by being fre quently drunk and of being convicted of drunkenness and disorderly con duct, I have felt it my duty to revoke said pardon, which has been done. In view of the fact that he has served over two months in jail pending said revocation, that he is a cripple, and the overwhelming 'sentiment of the community is against his being com pelled to undergo further punish ment, I hereby pardon prisoner but impose upon him the further condi tion that he remain sober, law abid ing and industrious. Blockaders in Hands of The Law. Chief United States Deputy Mar shal Bailey received a wire from Deputy Collector J. T. Sheppard of the arrest near Wilkesboro of Code Lane 'and Weelborn Nance, charged with having been two of the three blockaders . who waylaid United States officers about a month ago, seriously shooting and wounding Deputy Collector Henry and killing two horses of the official party. Re wards of $500 have been sent out. Worm Doing Much Damage to Cotton A bug or worm is doing much dam age to cotton in Kinston, and it is feared that serious results may fol low. The insect or worm bores into the stalk just at the root, travels downward, and out into the ground. Immediately the root dies and a plant wilts and dies . also. Mr. T. B. Brown says that fully one., acre of his 58-acre cotton field has been en tirely destroyed already. Raleigh One commutation and two pardons were granted by. Governor Kitchin, the commutation being on the sale of liquor, the pardons being in cases of burglary. They are: Preston (3. Cobb, of Gaston county, convicted at the February term, 1911, for the crime of selling liquor, and sentenced to twelve months on the roads. Sentence commuted to eight months, the reason for the commu tation assigned by Governor Kitchin being: . "Owing to the prisoner's former good character,, the solicitor recom mending clemency, and the facts set out in petition, I commute prisoner's sentence to eight months on condi tion that he remain of good behaviot and law abiding." Nathan Brodie, of Vance county, convicted at the September term, 1908, for the crime of burglary in the second degree, and' setenced to ten years in state's prison. Pardon ed conditionally, the reasons for par don assigned by Governor Kitchin being: "Both the trial judge and the so licitor recommend pardon on ground of the probable absence of a felonious intent in the offense charged, the prisoner being drunk at the time and probably getting into the wrong house .by mistake. A large number of the best citizens of the communi ty recommend pardon, and there is no protest. ' Prisoner's previous characters seems to have been good, and he has a good record since im prisonment. I thereby pardon pris oner cn condition that he remain law abiding, sober and of good be havior." James Lang, of Davie county, con victed at the spring term, 1908, for the crime of burglary, and sentenced to five years in the state's prison. Pardoned conditionally, the reasons for pardon assigned by Governor Kitchin being: . "If his conduct continues good, prisoner has only about five months more to serve. The prison physician is satisfied that he is slowly dying from disease, which he things Is ag gravated by his imprisonment, and which will be arrested or at least re tarded by his release. Application for clemency is made by the prison physician at the Halifax farm of his own accord. In view of the above facts and prisoner's advanced age, the judge and the United States post office inspector, whd was largely in strumental in his prosecution, rec ommend clemency." OAS ANOTHER KINK ANOTHER ELECTION FOR DR. J. J. L. M'CULLERS A8 HEALTH SUPERINTENDENT. THE' PENALTIES ARE FIXED . 1 County Board of Health Makes An other Move and Elects For Second Time Dr. McCullers County Com missioners Will Not Recognize Him. Raleigh. There was another kink put into the tangle having to -do wth a county superintendent of health in Wake county, for Dr. J. J. L. McCullers, once - elected to the po sition at a $2,500 salary, but who de clined on the fixing of his salary at l$600 by the County Commissioners, later appointed on a fee basis by Dr. W. S. Rankin, secretary of the state board of health, the appointment not recongnized by the county commis sioners, the. case now in court, was elected by the county board of health as county superintendent of health on a fee basis. This action was taken at a called meeting of the county board of health, present being Mayor Jas. I. Johnson, of Raleigh; Dr. G. M. Bell, of Wakefield; Dr. Henry McKee Tucker, of Raleigh; County Superin tendent of Schools Z. V. Judd. The chairman of the board of county health, who is also chairman of the county board of commissioners, and who had been notified of the meeting was not present as he was presiding at the meeting of the board of coun ty commissioners. On the vote in the matter and as to regulations adopted, Prof. Z. V. Judd's vote was the only one cast in opposition. In the election of Dr. McCullers his compensation was fixed on fees. The law provides that all expendi tures' shall be approved by the coun ty commissioners. The county com missioners declined to recognize Dr. McCullers as the county superin tendent of health, and have so in structed the various county institu tions, but a resolution was passed by the county board of health ordering that the county commissioners, the jailer and other officials be notified of the election and a penalty of $25 was Imposed on interference with the county superintendent of health in the discharge of his duties. North Carolina New Enterprises. Articles of incorporation were granted in the office of the secretary of state, the authorized capital stock being $3.55,000, with $70,700 paid in. The new enterprises are: Central Bank and Trust Company, of Greensboro; to conduct a com mercial and savings bank, fiduciary and surety business; authorized cap ital $250,000, with $50,000 paid in, by Lindsey Hopkins, J. E. Latham and W. G.,Balsley. , Lenoir Manufacturing Company, of Lenoir; to manufacture building ma terial, furniture, etc., authorized cap ital, $50,000 with $10,000 subscribed, by T. J. Lutz and M. L. Lutz of Hud son and C. P. Lutz of Lenoir. Wilmington Officers Exonerated. The case against Mayor Joseph D. Smith and Dr. Charles T. Nesbitt, city superintendent, pf health, ar rested some days ago on a charge of allowing and maintaining a nuisance in the form t of an obstructed sewer or drain, was dismissed in Justice Bornemann's court the magistrate holding that the nuisance, if any ever existed had-'Veen abated and that the prosecuting witness had asked that the action be dismissed. The trial occurred - several days ago, the magistrate reserving his decision. Holds An Enthusiastic Meeting. The Iredell County Live Stock . As sociation, a new organization recent ly ; launched held an enthusiastic meeting at the court , house. The time was ripe for this organization; In fact, the interest in live stock, which has recently sprung up made it an absolute necessity. The objects of the association are to protect and promote the live stock industry and to foster certain branches of animal husbandry, which are now woefully neglected. The members hope to en courage breeding of better animals. Will Soon Be Linked Together. It looks very much as if the Twin City and High Point will be linked together in a short time, by a well built macadamized highway, on which there has already been done considerable work by the counties of Guilford, Forsyth and Davidson. There still remains a stretch of .sev eral miles across the old plank road which has not yet been worked or macadamized. Neither of the above counties seem to feel that it is its duty to build this section of the high way. The citizens of Winston-Salem and High Point, in co-operation with farmers along the route and the Forsyth county commissioners, ai'e now working to make arrangements to have this work done. A number of leading citizens of the Twin City and of High Point are going to make private subscriptions to the t enter prise of from $100 to $250 each to push the work to completion. Big Step Forward Always a Topic. Iredell's big step forward in voting $400,000 in bonds for good roads is always a topic when ah Iredell man is within reach. It is the only coun ty, that has ever voted so large a bond issue for .road improvements. And so it was the. natural thing to ask Mr.' McLaughlin how it was that in Ire dell without any friction the $400,000 was voted. In reply Mr. McLaugh lin said: "The voting of the $400, 000 for good roads can be attributed to ' the fact that Iredell has the best country population of any county. Met With the Board of Health. The Board of County Commission ers met, Chairman D. T. Johnson pre siding. The first business before the board was the consideration of a motion that the treasurer borrow $5,000 for the county fund. The mo tion was passed with the ayes of Messrs. ' Chamblee, Franklin, John son, Lynn and Brewer. Mr. J. E. House appeared before the board in the interest of a bridge to be extend ed over Bryan Creek, Cedar ForK Township, on the Hillsboro road. The matter will be taken up. Hundreds Asking Better Service. Raleigh. Finding railroad connec tions at points on the Atlantic Coast Line and the Norfolk Southern such as to make what should be a one day's trip reach into two days, sev eral hundred people of Eastern North Carolina have petitioned to the North Carolina Corporation Commis sion for relief. The petition was filed with Jthe Corporation Commission by Col. J. Bryan Grimes, secretary of state, who is familiar with the con ditions of which complaint is made. The petition is that the Atlantic Coast Line and the Norfolk Southern make connection at Greenville morn ing and afternoon, with the Norfolk Southern trains into and out of Ral eigh; . and that there be connection made at Kinston by trains of the same roads in the afternoon. As it is now. the connection is broken at Greenville by a very 'few minutes.. Board of Equalization Meets. Raleig. Upon the adjournment of the meeting of the board of county commissioners the board of equaliza tion went into session at the call of the chairman. The following mem bers of the board were present: Messrs. Brewer, Chamblee, Farnklin, Johnson and Lynn and R. T. Gowan, county assessor. A special commit tee composed of Mr. R. T- Gowan and Mr. H. G. Holding, who were ap pointed to investigate the complaint of unequal assessments in Wake Forest township, recommended va rious changes in assessment in that township. The board adopted the report. The board also ordered sev erl other changes in the assessment of property in the city of Raleigh. Recorder Sticks It To Him. Reidsville. Willie Salmon, a well known negro of this place, was tried1 in. the recorder's court on the charge of retailing. The evidence against him was conclusive - and he was found guilty and fined $200 and costs. According to the evidence Willis car ried a half pint of whiskey to Mar tin Durham's residence and placed it on a table there, at the same time handing Durham 75 cents in change. Mrs. Zurham furnished the evidence. Salmon says he will pay the fine that was imposed. A Division of The Poll Tax. Raleigh. An agreed case will be submitted at the next civil term of Superior Court by Mr. B. C. Beck- with. County Attorney, and Mr. Percy J. Olive, attorney of the county board of education, a the question of the division of the poll tax funds of the county. The facts are admitted and only a question of law is involved. It is the contention of Mr. Beckydth that the county commissioners in apportioning $1,280 to the school fund acted in accordance with the iaw of the state. .-'. 1 FROM THE TAR HEEL STATE Some General News of State-Wide In terest That Has - Been Gotten ' Together For the People. Raleigh. The North Carolina Cor oration Commission issued a notice calling for a statement of state banks at the close of business on the first of September. Dunn. The Dunn road district ha been without a supervisor since the first of September. Capt. Cole re signed. Mr. M. H. -Bryson, Wake county, has been elected as his suc cessor and will reach here in a day or two. Capt. Cole made a good road man, and made great improvements in the roads while supervisor. " Winston-Salem. The Winston-Salem board of trade has resumed activities after a sort of holiday during the sum mer, which, however, was not entirely a period of rest for this very active organization. A new tobacco experi mental farm is a pet project which has come to the front recently and the board will push it to fruition. Randleman. At a special meeting of the board of aldermen in the may or's office, J. M. Daniel was elected police chief to succeed O. C. Redding, who . recently resigned. Mr. Daniel is a citizen of Randleman and has had quite a deal of experience, hav ing formerly served" as a deputy of ficer on the local police force. Shelby. Friends have suggested the name of Mr. H. T. Hudson of this place to the Corporation Commission, asking that he be appointed as assis tant state bank examiner to succeed Mr. Charles Brown, assistant examiner who was elected examiner to succeed Mr. J. Kemp Doughton, resigned. Nu merous letters have gone in from friends unsolicited and it looks now as if his chances for appointment are very favorable. Concord. Superintendent A. S. Webb reports that he has everything in readiness for the opening of the city schools. At a meeting of the school board it was decided to add another grade, making eleven in all. The change will be gradually brought about by dividing what has hereto fore been known as "A" and "B" sec tions of the seventh grade. Raleigh. Raleigh has a large and better representation at Wake' For est College this year than ever be fore. Something like eighteen Ral eigh men are registered there, with probably others to go later. Among those who will attend that school this year are Messrs. Hubert Wyatt, Frank Smethrust, Henry and Wil liam Fawcette, Needham Broughton, Jack Cates, Phil Utley, M. Billings, Amzie Ellington, Victor Champion and George Bagwell. Greensboro. In the United States circuit court here a suit has been in stituted by the Imeprlal Company of Norfolk, Va., against the Rowan Phos phate Company. A bill in equity has been filed by the plaintiff in which it is alleged that the complainant is a creditor of the defendant in the sum of $12,000; that the defendant owes about $60,000 and has assets to the amount of only about $40,000. Judge Boyd ordered a subpeona for the de fendant to be issued and the same is returnable before him at Salisbury the first Monday in October. Washington. The tobacco season for this town and county opened in this city at the local warehouse. The opening day proved a great success, there being between ten and fifteen thousand pounds of tobacco on the floor at the first break. The tobacco was of very good quality and brought from $15 to $18 per hundred. Six buyers were present on' the opening day, including a number of inde pendent buyers. A large number of farmers from all over the county were present. Asheville. Arrengements are about complete for the annual meeting here, September 19-21, of the postmasters of North Carolina. It is expected that there will.be approximately 400 post masters of the state in attendance, in cluding first, second, third and fourth class postmasters. The Postoffice De partment has granted a leave of ab sence to all postmasters in the 'state desiring to attend the convention and already many have signified their In tention of taking advantage of the leave of absence to "rub elbows' with their co-workers in the Old North State for a few days. Oxford. At a meeting of the board of town commissioners a franchise was granted the North State Hydro Electric Co., as asked for by them. Messrs. Chas. T. Johnson and C. B. Edwards, of Raleigh, and Mr. Zolll coffer, of Henderson, were here in the interest of the company. Louisburg. Mistaking formaldehyde for some other drug, Mr. B. B. Mas senburg of this city drank a sufficient quantity of that poisonous fluid to cause hi3 death five minutes later. His mistake was discovered immediately and every medical attention was ren dered, but to no avail. Fayetteville. The whereabouts of Samuel Hurley, the young farmer who disappeared mysteriously from 71st township, are still unknown and no clues have turned up. Steps are being taken for a state-wide search. Wilmington. Carefully 'working an old petition so as to retain all of Its features, even preserving. its phrase ology, and adding to the already Jong list one other "ground" which is the chief concern right now, a docu ment was sent forth from the law of fice of K. C. Sldbury for the names of those who would recall the city ccr.:missicners. . , WILL WAIT ON THE SUPREME GOUR I THE NEW ANTI-TRUST CASES ARE TO GIVE THE TRIBUNAL A CHANCE. TO INTERPRET CLOUDY LAW The "Hard Coal" and the "Cotton Corner Problems" Are Both Very Unique and Knotty To Show How the Law Should be Enforced. - Washington. More light on thei plication of the Sherman anti-trust law to the business of the day Is ex pected from the Supreme Court of thai United States shortly after the open ing oi its session next month. Sev eral "anti-trust cases" advanced for early consideration by the tribunal are being relied upon to give tho court greater opportunity than that afforded in the recent Standard oil and tobacco decisions to interpret the law and to impress upon the country how the court proposes v the law should be enforced. It is planned by the court, in tho first month of its session to hear ar guments in the so-called "hard coal, case' the "cotton corner case" and the "St. Louis bridge case." Possibly; later In the session the court may consider, the so-called "turpentine trust case." Each Involves knotty problems growing out of attempts o the government to punish alleged vio lations of the Sherman anti-trust law. With .the exception of the so-called, "turpentine case," the government has been defeated in the lower court and has appealed to the Supreme Court to uphold its interpretation, of the law. The "hard coal case" constitutes a government attack on the principal anthracite coal-carrying railroads and coal-owning companies in Pennsyl vinia. It is claimed that since 1895 these companies have been parties to a combination and conspiracy with the general object of ending competi tion among themselves in the trans portation and sale of anthracite coal and of preventing the sale of the in dependent output in competition with, their own, designing hereby to secure to themselves a virtual monopoly. Be sides this, general conspiracy, not only forming a part of the' general conspiracy but occupying an indepen dent existence, have been charged by the government. Woman Was Brutally Assaulted. Fort Worth, Tex. Mrs. Brown, wife of George Brown, a wealthy farmer living 7 miles southwest of Brown wood, was brutally assaulted and mortally wounded while asleep on her bed on the front porch of her home. The assassin used an iron bar in hia attack upon Mrs. Brown. Her skull was crushed. The husband, a man of middle age, has been arrested and is being held pending the death of the woman and the coroner's verdict. Ac cording to Brown's statement he and his wife were asleep on the porch and he awakened suddenly to see a mam standing over Mrs. Brown and strik ing her on the head with an iron club. He said the intruder then struck at him and he dodged and ran to the door for his gun Youngest Grandmother on Record. Atlanta, Ga. A grandmother of two children at the age of 29 and of three at 30' years, is the record of Mrs. E W. Bender of this city. It is claimed that Mrs. Bender is the youngest grandmother on record and her case one of the most remarkable outside of tropical countries. - Mrs. Bender, who is 31 years old, was born in 18SO in South Carolina. She was married to E. W. Moore at Columbia,. S. C, in' 1892. She was only 13 years and 3 months old when her first child was b'orn. This child, a daughter, was married in 1909 to Edward Sin clair and in January, 1910, gave birth to twins, the mother being barely 15 and the grandmother not yet 30. In January of this year, Mrs. Bender's daughter gave birth to another child, making the third grandchild. Airman Carries Post Bag. London. Gustav Hamel left the Hendon aviation field for Windsor with the first aerial post bag. Thou sands cheered him while the band played the national anthem. Unfa vorable weather delayed the start. The mail bag contained missives for all the crowned heads of Europe, a present of a packet of cigarettes for King George from the manufacturers communications addressed by the premier to the various cabinet min isters and foreign ambassadors, colon ial ministers and London editors. Two Cars Start on Glidden Tour. New York. From the national headquarters of the automobile asso ciation of America, two Flanders cars started on the pathfinding trip of the 1911 Glidden tour, from New York tor Jacksonville, Fla. A. L. Westgard is the pathfinder. His trip will cover 1,400 miles. The pathfinders routs runs through Staunton and Roanoke, Va., WinstonSalem and Charlotte, N.. C, Anderson, S. C Altnata, Macon and Savannah, ' Ga., thence to Jack sonville. There are many prizes of offered for this tour. t
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