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PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, NOVEMBER 8, 191,1.
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1V10ST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
WORLD'S.NEWS EPITOMIZED
Complete Review of Happenings Of
Greatest Interest From AM
Parts of World.
Southern.
Fortress avenue runs off of Buena
Bankers and cotton men. in New
York are skeptical as to the practica
bility of the plan approved by the re
cent conference of Southern govern
nors for handling the cotton crop with
the assistance of an unnamed foreign
syndicate. The plan is for the pur
chase of about two million bales of
the cotton crop and its warehousing
at central points for distribution when
cotton prices have been put back to
satisfactory levels. It is declared by
financial experts that if the scheme is
to follow the lines more or less suc
cessfully established by Brazil in
financing its surplus coffee crop, it
would be necessary for the foreign
bankers to have credit of the cotton
growing states behind their loan as
well as the cotton itself as collateral.
Urging the holding of every availa
ble bale of cotton until September 1,
1912, if necessary, for a price of 13
cents per pound and the reduction of
the acreage next year to not exceed
ing 60 per cent, of the areable lands
of the farmers, telegrams were dis
patchd from the office of E. J. Wat
son, president of the Southern Cotton
congress, to each commissioner of ag
riculture and each state president of
farmers' unions in the states through
out the cotton belt. The plans aim
to effect an immediate belt-wide re
tirement of cotton from the market
and follows an action taken by the
farmers' convention here last night.
That the price of cotton has at last
touched rock bottom, and will begin
rising again soon, is the opinion of
Gov. Hoke Smith, who has just . re
turned from a trip to New York after
attending the meeting of the board
of trustees of the Peabody fund. Ac
cording to the governor, the opinion
is gaining ground in northern and
eastern financial circles that there is
not going to be any more cotton on
the market until the price goes up,
and that Southern growers have de
termined to hold the staple until bet
ter prices prevail.
Seven masked men boarded the
Western express train on the Rock
Island railroad at Bridge Junction,
Ark., opposite Memphis, bound the
express messenger and blew up the
safe, taking $200,000 from the United
States Express company, admitted
that there was not less than half a
million dollars in the express safe on
the train shipped from Memphis banks
to smaller banks in Arkansas between
Memphis and Little Rock and New
port, Ark.
The farmers of the South must
withhold from the market every re
maining bale of the present season's
crop of cotton and follow this with a
concerted and binding arrangement tc
reduce next season's cotton acreage
at least 25 per cent, if they hope to re
store the South great level and re
trieve the losses sustained by reason
of the present low prices. This is
the plan which the conference of the
Southern governors adopted at its New
Orleans session to secure immediate
relief from the depression in the price
of the staple.
When final arrangements for the
state meeting of Alabama Confederate
veterans were concluded, announce
ment was made by Col. John B.
Fuller, chairman of the program com
mittee, that a feature of the conven
tion would be the unveiling of a
bronze memorial tablet commeorating
the secession of Alabama from the
Union. The ceremony will take place
in the rotunda of the capitol. The
tablet is the gift of the Ladies' Me
morial association.
General.
The report of the discovery of ex
tensive deposits of potash in America
has attracted general attention in
Germany and has been commented
upon bv all the papers. The Tageblatt
says that the discovery is the first-.
fruits of German's short-sighted pol
icy toward America, and says that it
will be equally easy for the United
States to manipulate its tariff so as
to exclude German fertilizers now
that a home supply is available.
Goats milk is the latest remedy for
the drink habit Dr. Adelaide Abbott
superintendent of the department ol
health and heredity of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, declares
that it is a specific.
Connecticut Democrats will present
Governor Baldwin for their party's
presidential nominee. .
Criticism of the activities of the Ro
man Catholic church in the United
States was made in a report adopted
by the fall council of the general con
ference committee of Seventh Day Ad
ventists in session at Washington,
D. C.
Airs. Lena Cohen, who was found
guilty in New .York of conspiracy to
ship girls for immoral purposes, was
sentenced to five years' imprisonment
in the woman's prison at Auburn,
X Y.
President Taft has designated
Thursday, November 30, as Thanks
Eiving day.
A package containing 143 counter
feited $10 bank notes was found bur
ied beneath a tree on an island in
Jackson Park, Chicago. The bills
were recovered after a confession
from Albert Leon. Leon was said to
be a Russian political refugee and
the head of a successful counterfeit
ing outfit. For months notes of this
denomination have been circulated in
the West. They were made in a log
cabin at Nootka Island, off the coast
of British Columbia.
In a great amphitheater formed by
the broad expanse of the Hudson riv
er, the towering shore of Manhattan,
the precipitous Palisades of New Jer
sey and a cloud-flecked sky, an awe
some marine spectacle was staged,
when Secretary Meyer of the navy in
spected the most opwerful fleet of
fighting ships ever assembled in
American waters. Ninety-nine in all,
they lay at anchor gay with colors,
in six great divisions, seven miles
in length. This line the secretary
passed.
With the suicide of Prince Chun,
the Chinese regent, hourly expected,
"in atonement to his ancestors for his
error of statesmanship;" with the
likelihood of the entire imperial army
of the North rising in mutiny against
the Manchu dynasty, following the
resignation of the cabinet, as an im
minent possibility and with the South
ern provinces menaced by a general
slaughter by the Manchu princes
threatening the lives of millions, Chi
na faced the direst period of her
crisis.
China's national assembly voiced
gratification over edicts issued by the
throne and expressed belief that the
situation in China would be improved
if the thron&'s promises were fulfilled.
However, it is doubtful if the edicts
will have the effect of halting the rev
olution. The edicts make a complete
capitualtion to the demands of the na
tional assembly and even go so far as
to offer extravagant praise to the reb
els for bringing - about the great re
forms which are promised.
Rev. Clarence V. T. Richeson, pas
tor of Immanuel Baptist church, Cam
bridge, Mass., was indicted on five
counts, charging murderin the first
degree by the Suffolk county grand
jury, for the alleged poisoning, on Oc
tober 14, of his former sweetheart,
Miss Avis W. Linnell of Hyannis,
Mass. The grand Jury reported their
finding to the superior criminal court
after hearing more than thirty wit
nesses during four days. It is under
stood that the jurors were unanimous
in adopting the indictment.
Mrs. Louise Vermilya of Chicago
was formally charged with murder of
Policeman Arthur Bissonette by poi
soning him with arsenic, following the
report of toxicologists who had exam
ined the viscera of the dead roomer at
the widow's home. Coroner Hoffman
announced that he will have exhum
ed the bodies of at least two of the
other eight persons who have died in
her home during the past eighteen
years. Mrs. Vermilya is critically ill
with pneumonia.
One brokerage firm suspended, and
another transferred for trades to
avoid going to the wall when the
heavy holders of wheat poured their
holdings into Chicago trade channels
to clear decks, in common belief for
the threatened inspection by Federal
authorities on a hunt for possible
wheat corners. The suspended firm,
a small one, was that of Sam Finney.
Bringle & Wing got under cover by
transfer of trades when the call for
margins went out.
The town of Thelma, 18 miles south
of San Antonio, Texas, was practically
destroyed and two persons were in
jured and damage the amount of which
has not been estimated was done to
crops by a tornado which swept the
country about Thelma, according to
news received here. According to re
ports of. the storm received, resi
dences, barns and other outhouses, the
small business structures and school
houses were wrecked, the debris being
scattered in the wake of the wind.
President Taft surprised a large
audience at a dinner in Chicago of the
Hamilton club by what most of his
hearers construed as an admission of
the possibility of Republican defeat
in the coming national election. He
was speaking to what had promised
to be an unusually enthusiastic audi
ence of Republicans. Those present
hastened to ascribe the president's
utterances to weariness after his long
tour of speechmaking and especially
after the three days' hard "campaign
in Chicago.
Washington.
President Taft got back to Wash
ington after an absence of over two
months. It was just 71 days ago that
thf special session of congress came
tn an end and that Mr. Taft left for
Beverly and the summer white house
by way of Rochester, N. Y., where
he attended the annual G. A. R. en
campment. In the time he has been
awav. the president has traveled,
counting side trips, almost fifteen
thousand miles, and has visited twen-
tv-ssiv states.
The proposed plan for reorganiza
tion of the tobacco trust submitted
by the American Tobacco company
and co-defendants to the government's
anti.tnist suit, was both praised and
.nnriTTined before the circuit court
judges of the United States for the
southern district oi -New ions. Attor
ney General Wickersham has filed the
(rnvprnment answer to the plan, coun
oi for the defendants pleaded with
the court to accept the dissolution
rirrmofinl. Independent manufacturers
and dealers and producers of tobacco
unanimously disapproved the plan.
TO TRAIN FEEBLE
MINDED CHILDREN
STATE SCHOOL WILL TAKE UP
IMPORTANT WORK IN
NEAR FUTURE.
TO BE USEFUL CITIZENS
A Personal Study of the Defects of
Each Child Will Be Made Dr. Ira
M. Hardy Will Be the First Superintendent.
Raleigh. A special from , Washing
ton states that the state school for
the Feeble Minded, which was provid
ed for by an act of the Legislature
of 1911, and is to be located in Kin-
ston, will have the work of taking
and training children who are mental
ly deficient and delinquent and mak
ing of them useful people and citizens.
A personal study of the defects o!
each child will be made and such
treatment and work as is necessary
to cause the child's development into
a normal-minded man or woman wtll
be employed.
The selection of Dr. Ira M. Hardy
as the first superintendent of the
institution has met with univer
sal approbation here. Dr. Hardy is a
former Lenoir county boy, and a large
number of friends rejoice at his elec
tion. He it was who took the matter
of providing for the education by the
state at heart and presented it m such
a manner to the Legislature as to se
cure its establishment. It is indeed
fitting that he should be the first su
perintendent. Dr. Hardy's incumben
cy becomes effective December 1st.
A HUMAN INTEREST STORY
Denies Habeas Corpus Proceedings.
Denying the writ of habeas corpus
sought by H. T. Smith, Judge Car
ter, of the Superior Court, granted to
the mother, Mrs. Hilda Smith, the
custody of her five children, in cham
bers in Bayboro. Mrs. Smith left
her husband some time in August be
cause of alleged brutal and inhuman
treatment, and came to Kinston to
live with her father, Mr. G: W. Par
ker, who is foreman of the Xinston
Manufacturing Company. When she
left her husband Mrs. Smith brought
with her her five children, the oldest
of whom is some 13 years. Several
times since then the father has been
here, and endeavored to persuade the
children to accompany him to Bay
boro, but they would not go. Efforts
to persuade his wife to return home
with him proving futile, Smith then
sought to secure the children by ha
beas corpus proceedings.
First Semi-Annual Convention.
The first semi-annual district con
vention of the Woodmen of the
World, which met in Asheville with
Balsam Camp No. 1 came to a close
the members deciding to hold these
semi-annual meetings with the vari
ous camps of the district. The next
one is to be held at Brevard with
Balsam Camp -No. 116 the last Mon
day in ApriL This convention is
considered as very successful, there
having been a representative attend
ance of the district.
Raleigh To Retain Market.
Out of a total vote of only 720, Ral
eigh voted 445 for retaining the city
market at the present location and
remodelling the old Metropolitan hall,
the first floor of which the market
occupies, equipping it especially for
market purposes. There were 194
votes for sale of the building and
abolition of the market and only SI
for removal to the square just baclc
of the present market.
Well Known Farmer's Daughter Pro
tested Against Him Operating .
blockade Distillery.
Raleigh. In connection with tht
Moore county fair at Carthage there
comes a human interest story that
is vouched for in the amplest sort-of
way. The daughter of a well-known
farmer had for a long while protested
to him against his operating a block
ade distillery and the old man per
sisted. Revenue officers had never
"trapped" him, but the daughter,
who has developed into young woman
hood, lived in ' constant dread of an
invasion by officers of the law that
would send her father to prison and
bring disgrace on the, family. She
induced the whole family to make
plans for spending a day at the coun
ty fair at Carthage ad then sudden
ly persisted in excuses for not going
herself. She was left at home for the
day and stole down to the blockade
still and cut it up as completely . as
any revenue officer could do it, and
when the father and brothers came
from the lair and found their distil
lery wrecked, they were led to be
lieve that the revenue officers did it.
The officers, who have heard of the
affair, are seeking to keep the father
in ignorance of the part his daughter
had in the destruction of the plant
and she is understood to be striving
to keep members of her family' from
renewed violation of the revenue
laws.
Good Exhibit From North State.
An intensely interesting and edu
cational exhibit for the South Caro
lina Corn Exposition, to be held in
Columbia, S. C, in December, has
been " arranged by the Agricultural
and Mechanical College of North Car
olina, located at West Raleigh, ac
cording to the announcement of Mr.
George W. Stevenson, secretary and
general manager of the fifth Nation
al Corn Exposition, to be held in Co
lumbia. S. C, in 1913. Mr. Steven
son has consented to aid in getting
the South Carolina Corn Exposition
well under way, and has just return
ed from Raleigh. The exhibit will
demonstrate graphically the results
cf the experiment station at the
North Carolina institution in the
growing of corn, cotton and other
standard plants. Experts in charge
will explain to visitors anything that
may seem puzzling, - Mr. N. A. G.
Smith, of the Federal department at
Columbia, S. C, is now arranging a
strong programme. A special day
will be set apart for a discussion of
:otton growing, another for drainage
discussion and other features of agri
cultural work. It is announced that
Mr. W. A. Young, vice-president of
the National Corn Exposition, and
well known throughout Illinois and
the West as. the "corn man," will be
one of the judges in the sweepstakes
award.
Make Gratifying Showing.
The bank clearings for October, as
shown by a statement issued by the
secretary of the clearing house "as
sociation, Mr. Thomas E. Cooper,
makes a gratifying showing, although
usually slow this fall. The clearings
for October amounted to $3,887,528.85
against $3,765,988.90 for October o
last year, a gain over the same pe
riod of last, year of $121,529.95.
To Consolidate Twin Cities.
A plan for the long-talked-of con
solidation of Winston and Salem has
been undertaken by the committee
from the board of trade in a specific
manner looking to an actual munici
pal joining of the twin cities, which
are now physically separated by only
a street. Figures have been prepared
as a basis to work on, showing the
taxable values, products, tax rates
and so on of each municipality. Two
plans for consolidation will be con
sidered, an act of the General Assem-'
bly of 1911.
T. F. Wilkerson Is Convicted.
T. F. Wilkerson, manager of a Dur
ham moving piature establishment,
was convicted on the charge of ex
hibiting improper pictures. He" re
cently exhibited a set of films pur
porting to portray events In the lif
of Beulah Bmford, the 17-year-old
"girl in the case" in the Beattie mur
der trial in Richmond. Judge "Sykes
in the police court declined to Tia.ve
the pictures introduced as evidence
by the defense, holding that the girl's
life history could hold no good or
moral lessen.
Fourth and Last Conference of Year.
The fourth and last quarterly con
ference for this year was held in the
Spencer Methodist church with the
presiding elder, Rev. Dr. J. C. Rowe,
presiding. The report of the pastor,
Rev. R. D. Sherrill, showed marked
progress for the year just closing.
The church now has a membership
cf 370, with 30 accessions from the
Sunday school this year, total acces
sions reaching 60. The enrolment in
the Sunday school is 195. Moneys col
lected for various causes: Orphanage,
$470; woman's foreign missionary so
ciety. $240: by Golden Links, $110;
by Light Bearers, $20; bay ladies' aid
society, $90. The total -collections
for all purposes to date is $3,405, and
this will be increased, it is said, by
the opening of conference to J.bOU.
Davidson Farmers To Get Prizes.
There will be a meeting of the Dav
idson County Agricultural Association
in the court house in a few days. By
that time every report from the con
test, acres , must be in and the win
ners will pick their prizes.. As an
nounced some time ago,' the man
making the largest yield of corn on
one acre will have the fir st chance
at the prize list, the second man will,
have second choice, and sO on down
until the list is exhausted. The win
ners of the township prizes will also
be determined at this time.
Latham Company Incorporated.
The J. E. Latham Company of this
city has been incorporated to take
over the cotton business of Mr. J. E.
Latham, who has been established
here for a number oi years, ine or
fleers have not been elected but they
will be chosen from those heretofore
in business with Mr. Latham. The
incorporators are J. E. Latham, C.
W. Bradshaw and W. Z. Brown. Both
Mr. Bradshaw and Mr. Brown have
been associated with Mr. Latham for
some time and are competent cotton
men.
Three Generations of Twins.
Three generations of twins, one
pair of which was born on separate
days, is a strange fact that has been
discovered in the birth of twin
boys, weighing 6 and 8 pounds, re
spectively, to Alderman and Mrs. Z
J. Thompson of Shelby. Mr. Thomp
son's mother is a twin, he is a twin
of Dr. C. A. Thompson and now twins
have been born to him. A strange
thing about the birth of Mr. Z. J.
Thompson, one of Shelby's "leading
citizens, is that he was born on on 2
day an 3 his brother on another
DISMISSED THE CASE
THROW OUT THE INJUNCTION
PROCEEDING OF DOCTOR
J. L. L. McCULLERS.
CAUSE OF THE DISMISSAL
This Turn of the Case Was on Con
tention of County Attorney Beck
with That Injunction Should Name
the Commissioners Individually.
Raleigh. Judge R. B. Peebles di&
missed the injunction proceedings of
Dr. J. L. L. McCullers against the
Wake county commissioners, seeking
to 'compel the commissioners to
recognize hi3 appointment as county
superintendent of health by Dr.
Rankin, secretary of the state board
of health and the county board of
health.
This turn in the case was on the
contention of County Attorney B. C.
Beckwith that the injunction should
name the individual members of tne
board of commissioners, whereas the
commissioners as a board were
named as defendants. The proceed
ings will be received with this defect
cured. The desire is to get a test
case up to the Supreme Court so that
the right cf the secretary of the statf
board to step into the breach such
as this in Wake and decree just what
the power of the state board as re
lated to the counties of the state in
such matters is.
Cases Supreme Court Disposed Of.
The North Carolina Supreme Court
disposed of fifteen case on appeal.
The list follows: Russ vs. Harper,
New Hanover, no error; Currle vs.
Seaboard Air Line Railway, Bladen,
new trial; State vs. Jim Leak .Rich
mond county, no error; Wilkes vs.
Miller,. Union affirmed; Richardson
vs. Edwards, Union, no error; Currie
and McQueen vs. Seaboard Air .uine
Railway, Moore, no error; AuslTn vs.
Lewis, Union, action dismissed; Dor
sett vs. Atlantic Coact Line Railway,
Lee, no error: Sinclair vs. Teal, An
son, reversed; State vs. Rochelle,
Durham, no error; Kime vs. South
ern Railway, Alamance, new trial;
Acme Cement Plaster Company vs.
Wood Fiber Company, Guilford, no
error; Warren vs. A. Y. Railway,
Guilford, appeal dismissed; Starr vs
Bell Telephone Company, Guilford,
no error; Standard Mirror Company
vs. Casualty Company, Guilford, ap
peal dismissed.
Much Interest Shown Toward Report
Winston-Salem. More than ordi
nary interest is felt towards the re
port of the standing committee oi
nrnnnspn Randolnh & Cumberland
" .
Railroad, to extend from fCameron,
or some nearby point on the Seaboard
Air Line Railroad, to Winston-Sa
lem, by way of High Point and from
Winston-Salem to Yadkin county. At
the meeting it was voted upon wheth
er the board should tack an at
tempt to call an election in Winston
township for the purpose of voting
on a $200,000 bond issue, or some
other amount, to aid in building the
road.
Mr. E. J. Justice Has Returned.
Greensboro. Mr. E. J. Justice, whe
went to New York to appear in the
United States court on behalf of the
tobacco growers of North Carolina
in the case against the American To
bacco Company has returned. Mr
Justice stated it was doubtful if the
court woul announce its decision as
to plan of dissolution proposed bj
the trust, for several days. He said
Mr. Wickersham's suggestions were
good but he did not believe they wen
far enough.
Arranging To Operate Gold Mines
Concord. Arrangements are being
made to again operate the Pioneei
Mills gold mines. The mines are
owned by McCullough & Co. of New
York and were at one time operated
extensively. The men are now at
work opening up the old tunnels and
drives and in a short time a pump
and other mining machinery will be
put into operation.
Accept Bid For State Building.
Raleigh. After spending an after
noon and evening opening and con
sidering the bids for the erection, of
the fire proof state building, the state
building commission announced that
the bid of the John T. Wilson Com
pany of Richmond, Va., nad been ac
cepted. This bid was $197,000, the
building to be four stories, the wans
of Indiana limestone reinforced with
inner walls of brick and with rein
forced concrete floors and the whole
structure to be of fireproof construe
:ion.
Rivalry Between Two Dredges.
Statesville. Doubtless when the
Fourth Creek dredge begins work il
earnest there will be a rivalry be
tween it and the Third creek dredge
and probably both will do quicker
and better work. The Third creek
dredge has made rapid progress since
it began work. 'Fourth creek will
be dredged for a distance of fifteen
miles from the Duie place to the
Rowan line. As by contract the work
will be completed by January, 1513.
The channel will be 16 to 32 feet
wide and 9 feet deep.
ROM ALL OVER THE STATE
A Column of Short Paragraphs of
General News Collected by the
Editor With Great Care.
Charlotte. Charlotte is in the
midst of an Industrial growth and ac
tivity which is without a parallel In
recent years.
Gastonia. Gastonia Lodge, No. 53,
Knights of Pythias, observed orphans'
home night Monday night with a spec
ial program.
Statesville. With eight big forces
at work on the roads in the county it
may truly be said that road work
has begun in earnest in Iredell.
Raleigh. Rev. Livingston Johnson
has returned to North Carolina from
Nashville, Tenn., where he attended
a meeting of the Home Mission Board
of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Fayetteville. Township Constable
A. J. Pate has been officially vindi
cated, and absolved of all blame in
connection with the shooting of J.
R. Chason .
Waynesville. The outlook for a
continued increase In the growth ad
culture of apples in North Carolina
is excellent and much has already
been accomplished in this line.
Lexington. In spite of the dis
agreeable weather a large number
of teachers met here and organized a
Teachers' Assocaition for 1911-1912.
Prof. P. S. Vann was elected chairman.
Watauga Robert South, who spent
a part of a week gathering apples at
his old home at Tracy says that some
were so unusually large that thirty
filled a bushel measure. How is that
for apples, anyway?
Clayton. Clayton is installing a
first class system of waterworks.
sewer3 and electric lighting, which
has already been planned and laid out
by Mr. Gilbert C. White.
Durham. Manager R. L. Lindsey
of the Durham Traction Company has
closed a deal with the Franklin train
ing ship football eleven whereby they
come to Durham to play Wake For
est Thanksgiving Day.
Statesville. The farmers in this
section are very busy gathering corn,
sowing wheat and picking cotton.
There will doubtless be a large acre
age sown in wheat this year. Since
cotton is so low very few farmers
are selling now.
Spray. The postoffice at Leaks-
ville was entered and robbed by some
party or parties. About $300 in cash
and $600 worth of stamps were taken,
besides some jewelry and other items
of value belonging to the postmistress
Mrs. J. D. Martin.
Thomasville. The bird law expires
in this county on the 16th of Novem
ber and already Northern sportsmen
are beginning to arrive for the season
-it is reported that there are more
birds than ever known before in this
section on account of the dry summer.
Washington. Messrs. Davis & Da
vis, Washington patent attorneys, re
port the grant to citizens of North
Carolina of the following patents: R.
L. Jobson, Kinston.hot-bearing alarm;
J. W. Moore ( Raeford, vegetable
slicer.
Tryon. Prof. J. F. Lide one of the
teachers in the Spartan high school
at Landrum, S. C, has been called
to the pastorate of the Baptist church
cf this place, to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Rev. Mr.
Posey some time ago.
Wilmington. John Wilins, aged 34,
of Washington, N. C, engineer of the
Norfolk & Southern railway, was
crushed to death near Roper, N. C,
when the switch engine which he
was driving turned turtle, throwing
him out of the cab window and under
the engine. Spreading of rails is said
to have caused the accident.
Winston-Salem The receipts of the
internal revenue office for October
for the sale of tobacco stamps aggre
gated $367,711.26 which means that
the local tobacco manufacturers ship
ped 4,596,390 pounds of manufactured
tobacco for that month. This Is an-
crease over the same month of last
year of almost 2,000,000 pounds.
Tryon. Plans are under way to
build a new Episcopal church at this
place, a legacy of $7,000 having been
left Mr. Embry for this purpose. It
is planned to build the church on the
same spot where the present church
stands. The church will be construct
ed of brick.
Raleigh. The state agricultural de
partment is at present taking great
interest in the subject of apple-growing
and already a number of large or
chards are being carefully cultivated
and cared for, and their owners are
finding a ready market and fair prof
its on their Investment.
Waynesville Little Eugene Apple-
gate, the 4-year-old child that was so
badly burned a few days ago in a fire
aere: died. It will be remembered
that the child set the home on fire
while playing with, matches and him
self was rescued in an unconscious
condition by Mr. Theodore McCracken.
Scotland Neck. The fost interest
ing event to the people of this town
and community for many months was
the opening of the graded school in
the new school building. The ses
sions opened two months later than
usual because the new school build'
ing was not ready for use.
Wilson. A Woman's Temperance
Union has been formed in Wilson
and the first meeting was held last
week in which much interest was
manifested by the noble women of
our town, and a burning zeal was en
kindled for the glorious cause In
which they ae engaged.
TURKEY DEMANDS INTERVEN
TION OF UNITED STATES
IN TRIPOLI.
Are Violating All Rules of Warfare by
Their Inhuman Acts. Secretary
Knox is Expected to Act Promptly
in the Matter.
UNCLE SAM HAS
BEEN GALLED
TALIAN TROOPS BARBAROUS
Washington. The so-called "bar
barities" in Tripoli have been brought
tc the attention of the American gov
ernment lu such form that declara
tion of the position c f the state de- -
partment in the maner now is ex
pected. The subject was broached
first in the course of a verbal state
ment by the Turkish ambassador tt
Acting Secretary Adec and later In.
the shape of a letter.
In eacn cnee the embassador, wb
declare! bo was acting by express
cabled instructions from the govern
ment, Ascribed in Cetnil the acts at
tribute! to these Italian troops and
protected in the name of humanity
against the alleged barbarities inflict
ed upon the helpless women and chil
dren and non-combatants by the infur
iated Italian soldiery.
By orders given the ambassador
appealing to the United States to ex
ert itself to put a stop to practices
that, he declared, were in plain viola
tion of the rules of warfare and in
contravention of The Hague conven-
tion to which the United States and
Italy are parites. Acting Secretary
Adee promised to submit the protest
to Secretary Knox, who at present is.
absent from Washington.
The ambassador's note was based
upon a cablegram from the Turkish.
minister of foreign afiairs, in which.
were recited the alleged "wholesale
execution of a great number of inhabi
tants of Tripoli, perpetrated daily by
the Italian military authorities.
Supplementing this cablegram cams
another from the Turkish office later
which also was transmitted to the
State Department.. This is regarded
as of great importance because it for
mally demands intervention by the
United States.
Guarded to Prevent 'Suicide.
Chicago. Mrs. Louise Vermilya, ac
cused of the murder by poisoning of
Policeman Bissonette and under in
vestigation in connection with the
successive deaths of eight other per
sons, was pronounced probably re
covering after the attempt to end her
life by poison. Eneregtic methods to
counteract the effects of arsenic which
Mrs. Vermilya cunningly contrived to
mingle with her food in the presence
of her guards, probably will be suc
cessful,, her physicians say. Since
the attempt at suicide Mrs. Vermilya
has not been out cf sight of one or
more of the guards and every article
she touches is first examined, either
by a detctive or a trained nurse.
Labor Leaders Gathering.
Atlanta,, Ga. Labor leaders from
all over the United States already are
assembling in Atlanta for the thir
teenth annual convention of the Am
erican Federation of Labor, which.
opens its sessions here. The atten
dance is expected to be the largest la
the history of the organization. The
entertainment of to federation has
been undertaken wholly by the mem
bers of the local labor unions. While
the convention proper does not or
ganize until November 13.
Fowler Wrecks His Machine.
El Paso, Tex. Robert G. Fowler,
the aviator, arrived here by train, un
hurt, after an accident which com
pelled him to leave his biplane about
one mile from Mastondon, N. M., 14
miles west of El Paso. Fowler had
made 200 miles since leaving Douglas.
Ariz., when one of the sparkers on his
engine failed to work and compelled
him to descend. He struck the earth;
with some force but his machine was
not badly damaged.
Trans-Mississippi Congress.
Kansas City, Mo. The Trans-Mississippi
Commercial Congress will
ocen here November 14 for a four-day
session and with! the members of the
national rivers and harbors commit
tee and over one hundred congress
men present,, Inland waterways ' im
provement will receive greater atten
tion than it ever has had. Currency
reform, the parcels post and other
questions of national interest will be
fought out. Gov. Judson Harmon of
Ohio and Speaker Champ Clark, will
lave places in the progrem.
The Rebels Are in Control.
Shanghai. The first night after the
capitulation of the city to the revolu
tionists passed uneventfully. Perfect
order was maintained in Shanghai and
the outlying districts which consti
tutes a remarkable frjutre of Jhe gov
ernment. LI Ping-Shu is the respon
sible head of the new administration
in the native city and suburbs and Is
now engaged in completing his organ
ization. He informed the correspon
dent that he recognized only the "re
public of Han" and would guarantee
order '