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VOL. XXXIV.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, MAY 1. 1912
NO. 38.
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
FOR THE BUSY
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED
Complete Review of Happenings of
Greatest Interest From All
Parte of World.
Southern.
Traveling 150 miles in a motor
boat through the parishes of Rich
laud, East Carroll and Madison, Louis
iana, an Associated Press correspond
ent only sighted land twice after leav
ing Delhi. Twice the small open boat
came near being swamped by high
waves and unusually swift currents
sweeping across the thousands of
acres of open farm lands.
Torrential rains, accompanied by
high winds, ranging from 60 to 90
miles an hour, swept parts, of Alar
bania and almost all of Georgia. Seven
persons are known to have been kill
ed and scores injured. The damage
to live stock and other property is
reported severe. Streams are out of
their banks in south Georgia and in
maay places railroad schedules have
been disarranged. At Newborn, Ga.,
six persons were killed when a cy
clone swept that territory. At Brook
sid?, near Birmingham, Ala., a negro
was killed when a house fell in on
him. From Bowdon, Carroll county,
Georgia, come reports of twenty in
jured, several fatally, when their
homes were blown over their heads.
General.
Governor Herbert S. Hadley and his
friends swung the Missouri Republi
can convention for Colonel Roosevelt
after a 24-hour deadlock, in which the
Taft leaders were finally driven to
surrender. Eight delegates-a-tlarge to
the national Republican convention,
all Roosevelt men and all instructed
for him, were elected after two Taft
leaders had been elected and then
had resigned their places on the Mis
souri delegation when the convention
voted instructions for Roosevelt.
The army transport Buford left
San Francisco, Cal., for the west
coast of Mexico to pick up any
American refugees who may wish-to
leave the country. The Buford will
visit Topolobampo, Altata, Mazatlan,
all in the state of Sinaloa; San Bias,
Tepic, Manzanillo, in Colima and Aca
pulco, in Guerrere. The vessel is
sent at the request of the state de
partment after urgent requests from
many Americans stranded in the
Mexican states bordering the Pacific.
Military men and men prominent in
public and private life gathered in
New York City to pay final honors to
Mai. Gen. Frederick D. Grant, who
died there April 11. The funeral ex
ercises were deferred to await the ar
rival of the general's daughter, the
Princess Cantacuzne, from her home
in Russia. President Taft, Vice Pres
ident Sherman- and Gen. Leonard
Wood were perhaps the most distin
guished persons who came to New
York for the funeral.
The bodies of Col. John Jacob As
tor and Isidor Strauss, who lost their
lives in the Titanic disaster, have
bfvn recovered. There are forty-nine
additional iaentifications of forty-nine
of the heretofore unknown recovered
dead. This makes a total of 205
corpses picked up at sea near the
place where the Titanic went down.
Harold G. Lowe, fifth officer of the
3unken Titanic, told the senate inves
tigating committee his part in the
struggle of the survivors for life fol
lowing the Titanic catastrophe. His
testimony developed that, with a vol
unteer crew, he rescued four men
from the water, saved a sinking col
lapsible lifeboat, by towing it astern
of his, and took off twenty men and
one woman from the bottom of an
overturned boat. Every one of those
under his charge he landed safely on
the Carpathia.
Stories of inhuman cruelties and
barbaric tortures of the living, with
unspeakable desecration of the dead,
continued to became known here
when other' refugees, arriving from
Mexico on the steamer Texas, submit
ted to interviews. W. R. M. Lims,
an American attorney of Honolulu,
and J. Flexon, an American railroad
engineer, related such stories in Gal
veston, Texas. According to Mr. Lims,
thre are but few places in the en
tire republic of Mexico where Ameri
cans are safe.
According to a bulletin issued by
the state board of health hookworm
have been found in 18 per cent, of
tle specimens submitted to the state
laboratory in twenty counties in Ken
tucky. Narrowly escaping a disaster, the
steamship Iroquois came into port at
Charleston, S. C.
The revolution in Fez, the Moroc
can capital, developed into a veritable
massacre. It is now known that fif
teen French officers and forty sol
diers were killed in the fighting with
mutinous Moorish soldiers, while 18
French citizens were masascred.
The Russian senate has decided
that Jews temporarily enrolled in the
artisans' guilds cannot take part in
a-iy guild elections, but the minister
jf commerce declined to agree to thif;
Hegal decision.
IN
Shipping men in New York express
keen interest as to how the immense
funds that have been subscribed in
England and America for the relief
of Titanic survivors will be distrib
uted. The total already raised in
London and New York is considera
bly in excess of a million dollars.
Some of the survivors in New York
have expressed apprehensions jthat
professional beggars will try to take
advantage of ehe sympathy aroused
by the Titanic disaster with a chance
of reaping a rich harvest.
When the White Star liner Olympic,
sister ship of the Titanic, was ready
to sail from Southampton, England,
for New York, 300 firemen and en
gine room workers quit the vessel,
declaring that the collapsible boats on
the Olympic were unseaworthy. The
Olympic is lying off Ryde, Isle of
Wight, with 1,400 passengers ahoard.
There were reports that some of the
passengers had refused to sail, but
for the present they all remain aboard
Over one hundred dead bodies of
the Titanic dead were seen afloat on
the water by the steamship Bremen,
which has just arrived in New York
from Bremen. From the bridge offi
cers of the ship saw over a hundred
bodies floating in the sea, a boat up
side down, together with a number
of small pieces of wood, steamer
chairs and other wreckage. In the
vicinity of the disaster was seen an
iceberg which answered the descrip
tion of the one the Titanic struck.
Smaller bergs were sighted the same
day, but at some distance farther from
where the Titanic sank.
Justin McCarthy, novelist and his
toriarand for many years a member
of the English parliament, died at
Folkestone, England. He had been
ill throughout the winter and spring.
His daughter had acted as his nurse,
and his friend3 had hoped that he
would live to see the fruition of home
rule. He was an ardent home ruler,
and for 25 years was a political writ
er for one of the London daily papers.
Forty-seven passengers, all but one
citizens of the United States, who ar
rived in Galveston, Texas, from Vera
Cruz on the steamer Texas, tell of
alleged torture and assassination of
the Americans in the republic. All
the refugees left their lands, homes,
furniture and everything they pos
sessed except enough money for pass
age and the clothes on their backs.
Among the entire number there are
only four or five trunks. M. H. Ish
tells of the murder of an American
citizen named Wait. John T. McGee,
a wealthy planter, who went to Mex
ico two years ago, returned to Amer
ica minus more than twenty thousand
dollars, and left behind cattle, land
and live stock. Mr. McGee tells of
cruelties practiced on an American
woman now in the hospital at Mexico
City.
Like the missing horseshoe nail that
cost a monarch his kingdom, the fail
ure to provide binocular or spy-glasses
for the lookout on the Titanic was
one of the contributing causes of that
ship's loss, and with it the loss of
more than sixteen hundred lives. Two
witnesses before the senate investi
gating committee agreed on this.
Death has finally claimed "Gerome,"
a legless and silent foreigner of mys
tery, who was found marooned on the
beach at Mink Cove, Nova Scotia, in
1863. During nearly a half century
the man had steadfastly refused to
divulge the secret of his identity, his
nationality or the reason of his aban
donment by a strange vessel. Declin
ing to talk, work or read or even look
at pictures, "Gerome' spent his last
days a ward of the government. Noth
ing could be extorted from him and
his silence never was broken.
How to defeat the proposed parcels
post, amend the laws relating to ex
emptions, bankruptcy and collections
and to be able to purchase commodi
ties from the manufacturers as cheap
ly as they are sold to mail order
houses so thai the retail merchant
can sell as cheaply as they, are some
of the problems before the National
Association of Retail Grocers in con
vention in Oklahoma City. The sum
of 25,000 is to be used in defraying
the expenses of the association dur
ing, the coming year.
Washington.
Partial home rule for Alaska, with
authority, vested in the legislature to
grant to women the right to vote,
was approved by the house when it
passed the bill for a local Alaskan
government. Woman's suffrage scor
ed its first victory in the house when
by a vote of 81 to 35 an amendment
was adopted assuring to the Alaskan
legislature the right "to modify' the
qualification of electors by extending
the elective franchise to women."
A feature which developed before
the senate investigating committee
into the Titanic disaster was that Of
ficer Lowe was compelled to swear at
J. Bruce Ismay, chief official of the
White Star line. Lowe said he shout
ed to Ismay: "Get to hell out of here
so I can work," while Lowe and oth
er officers were trying to lower a life
boat. Ismay was not trying to get
into the boat, but his actions were
confusing.
At the call of President Taft rep
resentatives of chambers of com
merce and boards of trade from ev
ery part of the United States and the
insular possessions gathered in Wash
ington to form a national chamber
of commerce to co operate with the
Federal government in promoting the
nation's business interests and solv
ing her economic problems. Seven
hundred and fifty delegates responded
to the president's call. Urging the
establishment of a permanent trade
body to help the government solve
problems of business, Secretary Na
gel was the chief speaker.
NEED OF BETTER
FARM 1CHINEBT
VALUABLE INFORMATION TO THE
PLANTERS BY STATE AGENT
HUDSON.
THE YIELD MUCH GREATER
Economy in Modern Implements
Brings Enlarged Returns to the Til
lers of the Soil. Explain Use of
Weeders and Harrows.
Charlotte. The value of farm im
pliments for cultivating crop3 at this
particular period of the year is strong
ly outlined in advices which have
been given the agents in charge oi
farm demonstration work in North
Carolina by C. R. Hudson, state
agent. Farmers who keep step with
the progress of the times and who
run their farms according to common
sense and scientific rules should be
interested in the following instruc
tions which Mr. Hudson gives:
"In addition to what has already
been said about the use of weeders
and harrows in pulverizing freshly
plowed soil to make a fine, mellow
seed bed, I desire to speak of their
efficiency and economy in the. early
cultivation of farm crops. At this busy
stage of farm work, any implement
that will help -to get over the fields
rapidly, and successfully do the work,
is considered a valuable addition to
the farm assets. This is especially
true where laborers are scarce and
high-priced, because very often a good
machine, a pair of horses and cap
able man to drive, will cultivate
from three to six times as much land
in a day as a man without such
Implements. Furthermore, cultivation
done just when it needs to be done is
worth several times as much as de
layed cultivation, so the matter is one
of rapidity, efficiency und finally, one
'of profit and success.
"In using weeder3 and harrows it is
not necessary to wait for the young
plants to show above ground before
running the implements. The condition
of the soil and "not the growth of
young plants should be the main
consideration. If conditions warrant
it, run the implements before the
planted seed germinate, and continue
for from three to five, times or until
the crop Is large enough to be in
jured by the process. Perhaps the
best advice to be given concerning
these implements is this: Get busy
with them early after rains.
Man Went In Court With Gun.
A white man was up in cou?t at
Greenville on the charge of selling
liquor. Just before the trial Sher
iff Dudley was given the hint that the
man had gone into court armed, and
had been heared to make threats. The
sheriff told this to Solicitor Abernathy
and Judge Justice and the latter in
structed the sheriff to keep close to
the man and watch him. While he
was on .the witness stand, Solicitor
Aberanthy asked him if he did not
have a gun 'in his pocket. It took
the defendant unawares, and when
the question was repeated, he admitt
ed having one. The sheriff promptly
took charge of the gun.
Bolt of Lightning Kills Boy.
Durham. News was received
at Durham that a young white boy,
Lonnie Baker, had been struck and
killed by a bolt of lightning at his
home in Holly Springs. The boy was
sitting by the fire-place when the
bolt came down the chimney, killing
him instantly.
Award Contract For Railroad Work.
Lane Bros. Company, Altavista, Va.,
got the contract for the construction
work of building the Raleigh, Char
lotte & Southern Railway, on that
part of the road that has been locat
ed. Upwards of one thousand men
will be put to work on various sec
tion of the road forthwith. Also five
kundred mules and eight steam
shovels.
J. R. B. Carraway Has Been Pardoned
J. R. B. Carraway, who a few years
ago embezzled $13,000 while he was
employed as teller in the National
bank of Newbern, and who at the
April term, 1910, of the Federal
court in this city was sentenced to
serve five years in the federal prison
at Atlanta, returned home having
been pardoned. Carraway had rather a
spectacular career in this city. When
his shortage was discovered no one
could read the entries has had made.
His honesty was unquestioned before
the shortage was discovered. ,
Farming Operations Are Delayed.
Farming operations in Mecklenburg
are Imore delayed than they have
Deen in a long while, says the farm
ers, many of whom finding it too wet
to plow embraced the opportunity
to come to town. A prosperous farmer
from Crab Orchard township stated
that ordinarily he had practically
finished planting by the first of May.
This year, however, he not only has
not planted anything, except a few
garden seeds, but is not ready to do
any planting, the ground having been
too wet to allow much preparation.
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OPPORTUNITIES OF STATE
North Carolina Known As the Land
of Golden Opportunities. Many
Things it is Nofed For.
Charlotte. The 48,58 d square milea
comprising the . area of -the state of
North Carolina form a prosperous and
growing section ' of vast present
wealth and even greater possibilities
for the future. No region in all this
country is able to hold forth greater
or more varied opportunities along
so many lines as this old-established
commonwealth, familiarly called the
Old North State." .
North Carolina has rich soils, great
wealth of minerals, large resources of
timber, tremendous undeveloped water-power,
and a mild and healthful
climate, many and rapidly growing
cities, and a record for one of the
greates industrial advances witness
ad during the. past decade. Out of
a total area of over 30,000,00 acres,
chere were in 1910 about- 10,000,000
acres in improved farms, hardly 35
per cent of the entire area. Popula
tion, according to the last census, was
.2,206,287, giving a density of 45 per
sons to the square mile. North Car
olina has over 3,000,000 spindles in
textile mills, using nearly 350,000,
000 pounds of cotton annually, an an
nual lumber cut of nearly 2,250,000,
J00 feet; a corn production of over
t0,0t)0,000 bushels annually; an out
put of minearls reaching $2,000,000 in
value each year; a railroad mileage of
5,350; estimated value of all property,
$1,120,000,000, and an annual produc
tion of staple crops, exclusive of
truck, fruit and live-stock, reaching
to $110,000,000.
Like its neighbor, Virginia, the
state of North Carolina is divided
into the great sections; the coastal
plain, a wide and level stretch of
country, with light gray sandy soils,
extending back from the Atlantic to
the more elevated and rolling Pied
mont section, which occupies about
one-third of the entire area of the
state and is the foremost region in
agricultural and industrial develop
ment, and the mountain region, a
lofty and ragged stretch of country,
with peaks ranging up to 6,000 feet
and over in elevation.
North Carolina New Enterprises.
The following charters were issued.
Wadesboro Street Railway Company;
to manufacture street railway cars,
railroad, cars, automobiles, etc., to
manufacture power for lightning and
manufacturing purposes and to oper
ate street railways, etc.; authorized
capital $125,000, with $5,000 sub
scribed for by Charles E. Johnson,
Raleigh, and Jas. A. Hardison, Thos.
F. Jones, R. T. Bennet, Jr., H. W. Lit
tle, U. B. Blalock, F. M. Hightower,
Fred J. Cox, C. W. Thomas and R. B.
Medley. Hood Brothers company, of
Southport, Brunswick county; general
merchandise; authorized capital, $25,
000, with $10,000 subscribed for by
Rev. R. C. Hood, of Greensboro, and
J. E. Hood and S. B. Northrop, of
Southport. Sanford Commercial Club,
of Sanford, to operate and conduct a
social and. literary club; the corpora
tion has no capital stock and the in
corporators are E. A. Griffin, S. M.
Jones, S. V. Scott, W. A. Monroe and
K .R. Hoyle.
For Distilling in Polk County.
United States Deputy Marshal
Grant arrived at Henderson ville from
Polk county with Bynum Conner, Dave
Foster and Jack Foster and placed
them in jail awaiting an instanter ca
pias from District Attorney Holton,
whom the deputy marshal wired.
These men with three others were
recently given a preliminary hearing
here before Commissioner Valentine
on the charge of distilling in Polk
county and were bound over to the
last Federal court at Charlotte.
Not in Race for State Treasurership.
Capt. S. A. Ashe is in Raleigh from
Wsahington and put an end to the
reports current that be intended to
get in the race for the state treasu
rership against the present state
treasurer, B. R. Lacy. He says many
friends have been Urging him to run,
but he will not make the race. He
further states that he is deeply inter
ested in the re-election of Mr. Simmons
as United States Senator and fears
if he gets int the campaign now for
a state office tha? he might endanger
the success of Senator Simmons.
Bound Over For House Burning.
Dave, Tom and Duff Jackson, color
ed brothers of Polk county, at a pre
liminary hearing before Justice of
the Peace J. D. Dermid, of Henderson
ville .were bound over to superior
court on the charge of burning or hav
ing knowledge of the burning of a
dwelling house near Saluda, twelve
miles from here, in January, 1911.
The house was the property of Due
Jackson, who at the time of the fire
lived in Charlotte. It was . insured
for $400 and was covered by a mort
gage for $200.
Statue of Dr. Mclver Unveiled Soon.
The heroic size bronze statue of Dr.
Charles D. Mclver in Captital square
will be unveiled Wednesday, May 15.
The principal address will be by Dr.
C. Alphonso Smith, University of Vir
ginia. There will also be an address
by President J. I. Foust of the State
Normal and Industrial College, found
ed by Dr. Mclver. President Henry
Jerome Stockard of Peace Institute
will prepare and read a special poem
for the occasion. The statue will be'
presented to the state by Dr. Joyner
is chairman of the committee.
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INCREASED YIELDS
FARM DEMONSTRATION WORK
HAS PRODUCED SOME FINE
RESULTS IN THIS STATE.
THE YEAR'S WORK DONE
The Figures From State Agricultural
Agent Hudson Showing the Good
Affect on the Cotton and Corn
Crops of North Carolina.
Charlotte. That farm demonstra
tion methods produced an average
of 84 per cent in the yield of cotton
during the past year above the state
average i3 one of a number of signif
icant statements given in a report is
sued by C. R. Hudson, North Carolina
agent. The similar demonstration in
the case of corn produced an average
increase in yields amounting to 131
per cent above the state average. In
dollars and cents, Mr. Hudson says,
that with only the two crops of cot
ton and corn, demonstration methods
brought to the farmers of North Caro
lina $175,756 or more than 500 per
cent on the money invested in the
work. Other prominent facts as. given
by Mr. Hudson should prove of inter
est to the farmers.
"We have just completed our rec
ords for 1911. We find that our aver
age yield of corn per acre was only
a fraction of a bushel less than for
1910,' although a severe drought
through the central part of the state
reduced the yields very materially.
Our average yields of cotton was 259
pounds per acre more than for 1910.
'"The bureau of statitsics in its pre
liminary estimate, December 11, 1911,
gives the average yield of seed cotton
for North Carolina in 1911 as 861
pounds per acre from .J.,553,338 acres,
and of corn as 18.4 bushels er acre
from 2,700,000 acres."
Merging Machines Being Used.
Raleigh. State Pure Food Chemist
Allen is close behind a number of
dairymen and creamery operators in
Catawba, Lincoln, Cleveland and pos
sibly Gaston counties on the alleged
charge of adulterating butter by the
use of "merging machines" with which
they mix equal parts of butter and
milk, making a product of nothing
like the value of pure butter which
hasn't near the food value or the
keeping quality of butter.. The mixed
product, which the producer- are sell
ing as standard butter is (really an
oleomargarine product and is subject
to a $600 manufacturer's annual tax
and a revenue tax of 10 cents per
pound on the product.
Child Labor in North' Carolina.
Raleigh. The North Carolina child
labor committee was in session here
discussing details of the policy the
commitee will pursue during the im
pending campaign as best calculated
to have impressed upon legislators
who will constitute the next General
Assembly. The committee claims
there is room for further changes in
the child labor laws of the state.
f These include that the age limit be
raised to 14 years, that no children
under 16 be permitted to work at
night and that there be established
a system of factory inspectors under
the State Department pf Labor.
Statesville. Announcement is
made that construction work on the
Statesville gas plant will be resumed
at once and will be pushed to com
pletion as rapidly as possible. The
.building is about completed on the
outside already and has been stand
ing in that condition for several
months.
State S. S. Convention Adjourned.
Asheville. The nineteenth annual
session of the North Carolina Sunday
School Association adjourned to meet
next year at Greensboro, after elect
ing following officers: Judge J. C.
Pritchard, Ashoyille, president; R. B.
Glenn, Winston-Salem; C. W. Tilett,
Charlotte; Alexander Sprunt, Wil
mington, vice presidents. The elec
tion of general secretary and treas
urer and fixing the time for the next
convention was left to the executive
committee.
A Big Blind Tiger Raid in Durham.
Durham. One of the biggest blind
tiger raids in the history of Durham
"was pulled off when two deputy sher
iffs armed with a search warrant
raided the premises of Sidna Forsyth.
The officers found six barrels of corn
whiskey, twenty-five half-pints of
corn whiskey and eleven half gallon
bottles of rye whiskey ,two blxrels
of mixed brands and seven barrels
of beer. Forsythe is in jail, and-the
sheriff has the goods on hand, but
just what will be done with it has not
been decided.
Catawba County is Waking Up.
Newton. Old Catawba county is
waking up in more ways than one. In
addition to the two townships that
have just voted on $100,000 worth of
bonds for. good roads, the people are
looking to better sanitary conditions.
For the first time in history the
graded school here got forty-six boys
and girls to take an active part in
"Clean-up day." The idea had been
pushed for more than a week by the
teachers and forty-five prizes were
secured, ranging from $2 down to a
cool-drink check.
LAND OF THE LONG LEAF PINE
The Latest News of General Interest
Collected From Many Towns and
Counties of the State.
Salisbury: A committee of oae
hundred led by the pastors and a
number of leading workers in Salis
bury will take a religious census of
this city and vicinity.
Dunn. Fayette ville Presbytery ad
journed, having held its 198th ses
sion, to meet again at St. Paul's next
fall. There were in attendance a
larga number of delegates and preach
ers. Col. E. F. McRae was elected
moderator.
Lincolnton. The Unterrified Dem
ocrats of the Ninth Congressional
District will assemble at Lincolnton
May 9th (Thursday) to nominate a
candidate for Congress. This was the
decision of the district committee
which met here for this purpose.
Ramsuer. The address on "Ideal
Citizenship" delivered at the close of
the Ramsuer graded school by Chief
Justice Walter Clark, was heard by
a large audience and thoroughly ap
preciated. The honored guest was
given a cordial welcome by our peo
ple. His address was deep and schol
arly, yet couched in simple language
that made its clearness remarkable.
Charlotte. While playing around
the swollen waters' of little Sugar
creek at its intersection with East
First street, LeRoy Mitchell, a negro
boy ,aged 10 years, fell into the water
and was drowned. The creek is
bridged at this point by two pine
poles covered by boards. Several
boys, attracted by the unusual size of
the stream, had gathered about it
when the accident occurred.
Raleigh. Gov. Kitchin offers a re
ward of $200 for George Buchanan,
wanted in Avery county for the al
leged murder of Joseph W. Stafford,
at Hicks store, April 6. Citizens have
raised a reward of $50, in addition
to that offered by the state. Quite, a
party of men, mostly from Cranberry,
were at the store, drinking, when the
killing occured.
Asheville. The principal action
taken by the convention of the North
Carolina Sunday School Association
was the raising of about $2,500 at the
night session, which is to be used in
furthering the work during the next
year. This was contributed by .the
local organizations, many of them
giving substantial amounts.
Shelby. A lady in the person ol
Miss Selma Webb is now temporary
superintendent of the Shelby graded
schools. It is rather unsual that a
woman Is put at the head of such
an important institution, where near
ly. 600 students are enrolled. She
was placed in this position because
of the illness of Superintendent R.
T. Howerton, Jr., who underwent an
operation in a Spartanburg hospital
for appendicitis.
Charlotte. The approach of hot
weather, the harbinger of the fly sea
son, will be marked by the sounding
of the tocsins of war to be waged on
this death-dealing pest, the musca do
mestica, in every city of consequence
throughout the United States. Last
year in Charlotte an effort was made
by the Woman's Club, chiefly by
means of a campaign of education, to
arouse public opinion to a realization
of the importance of swatting the fly
on any and all occasions. '
Salisbury. There was a meeting of
the executive committee of the Sails
bury Fourth of July Celebration As
sociation is determined to make the
Fourth celebration of 3912 eclipse all
former events, and for several years
past some exceedingly creditable cele
brations have been staged here. As
has already been announced the ad
dress on that occasion is to be deliv
ered by Col. Robert E. Lee of Wash
ington City, grandson of the famous
Confederate commander.
Washington. The Southern Rail
way Company is now receiving pro
posals from contractors for the con
struction of a much-needed passenger
station at Hickory, work on which will
commence as soon as contract has
been awarded. The station will be
of brick with tile roof, the dimen
sions of the building being 30 feet, 2
inches in width and 132 feet long.
Included in the improvement will be
the work of grading, drainage, ma
cadam driveway, and concrete and
chert platforms.
Raleigh. One of the most inter
esting cases heard by the Supreme
Court recently was that of Cecil Wilk
erson against Oscar Wilkerson, of
Durham, in which Mr. Oscar Wilker
son was convicted of malicious pros
ecution. The Supreme Court sent it
back for a new trial.
Cooleemee. It is announced that
the Baraca-Philathea convention for
Davie county will be held at Mocks
ville, May 4-5. Among those who will
be present and make addresses are
Miss Flossie Byrd of Greensboro,
state secretary, and A. B. Saleeby of
Salisbury. '
Charlotte. The main line of the
Southern Railway north of Charlotte,
with the exception of a 4-mile stretch
in Cabarrus county near Rocky river,
has all been double tracked and ef
fort is now being directed toward the
double tracking of the line out of
Atlanta 48 miles to Gainesville.
Salisbury. Rowan county has two
candidates for delegate to the na
tional Democratic convention from
the eighth congressional district.
Besides Chairman Hayden Clement,
of the Democratic congressional exec
utive committee, Whitehead Klutzz is
also seeking tnis honor.
FORTY-ONE LIVES
UfinHlDH
HEAVY WIND -AND RAIN SWEEPS.
THROUGH STATES OF OKLA
HOMA AND TEXAS.
STREAMS ARE ON RAMPAGE
he List of injured Totals More Than,
a Hundred, With the Central Part
of the States Demoralized Partial
List of Dead.
Oklahoma City, Okla. Approxi
mately forty-one lives were lost in the
storm which swept northward from
Childress, Texas, into Oklahoma and
over a portion of the southwestern
and central part of this state, accord
ing to reliable reports. There are re
ports of other fatalities, but these can
not be verified. The list of injured
totals more than one hundred. Fully
twenty towns were embraced in the
storm-swept area.
Up to the last report no word had
come from the town of Eldorado, War
ren, Martha and Blair, all four of
which were reported to have suffered
severely.
The heavy wind was accompanied
by a terriflic downpour of rain and
in many instances hail.
The fall of rain amounted to from
one to five inches. As a result all ol
the smaller streams In western Okla
homa are on a rampage.
Elk Creek, west of Hobart, is ovet
a mile wide, owing to its branches
having joined together.
A farmer's, family of four, living
west of Hobart, names unknown, are
said to have been killed. All rural
telephone lines are down.
All of central Oklahoma seems de
moralized and it will be several days
before anything like an accurate es
timate pf the property loss or list oi
dead and injured can be secured.
, A call for aid was sent out by town
officials of Lugert, who say there are
thirty destitute families there.
Foss, Okla., 10 persons reported kill
ed; 25 or 30 injured; town badlj
torn up.
Butler, Okla., 9 persons killed,
many injured; several buildings blown
down.
Sentinel, Okla., 2 persons reported
killed; 50 houses blown down. ;
Hobart, Okla., country west of thit
point visited by terrific winds. Twa
known dead, 4 others reported dead,
several injured; great damage to prop
erty. Lugert, Okla., 2 killed, 5 fatally in
jured and score less seriously hurt;
one store building left standing.
Men Have a Pitched Battle.
Gainesville, Ga., One man is ra
ported killed and a half dozen othen
were wounded, several seriously, as I
result of a pitched battle between
rival construction crews, engaged on
the Gainesville & Northern Railway,
near here, Sheriff Crow and a poss
visited the scene of the conflict and
arrested ten of the participants, in
eluding three of the wounded. Ao
cording to eye-witnesses, the battU
raged for more than an hour, pistols;
shotguns and rifles being used on bot
sides.
Disastrous Fire at Knoxville.
Knoxville, Tenn. Three lives wsi
lost and a half-dozen people seriouslj
injured here when a three-story apart
ment house on West Church avenu
was gutted by fire. vThe dead: Mra
Edward Locke, aged 43, burned to
death; J. D. Raht, aged 51, coal open
ator, burned to death; Mrs. John Lis.
ter, aged 51, died at hospital from in.
juries received in jumping from third
story window.
Mackay-Bennett Identifies More.
New York. The steamer Minia
which has taken the place of thfl
steamer Mackay-Bennett in searching
for bodies of victims of the Titanic
disaster, has recovered a few bodies,
but it was impossible to continue th
search on account of stormy weather,
according to messages received at th
White Star Line ofBces via Caper
down, N. S., wireless station.
Transport Goes as Relief Ship.
San Francisco, Ca. The transport
Buford, under orders to sail as a re
lief ship for Americans in distress
on the west coast of Mexico, receiv
ed supplementary orders to sail. She
carries forty enlisted men as a guard.
It is understood that the Buford will
put in at San Diego for a convoy. Al-.
though no official confirmation of thia j
could be had, it is supported by a dis-;.
patch from San Diego stating thai!
two of the torpedo boat destroyers,,
in port there, would sail under sealed '!
orders within twenty-four hours.
.
Instantly Killed by Automobile'.
Albany, N. Y. Hinsdill Parsons,,
aged 48, of Schenectady, vice presi-'
dent and general manager of the Gen-?
eral Electric Company, was instantlyj
killed at Clinton Heights, 3 miles east!
of Albany, when one of the rear tires'"
of his automobile blew out, causing.
car landed on Mr. Parwas head
crushing his skull and causing instant
death. The chauffeur, T. J. Nicholson,
was seriously injured and Benjamin
H. Weisbrod, Mr. Parson's secretary,
escaped uninjured.